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4.7K1The Land Rush that Started the Hartford Riot of 1722
In 1721, the Connecticut General Assembly ordered Jeremiah Fitch to begin paying rent to John Clark for land he lived on near...
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The Prickly Case of The Barbed-Wire King vs. Doc Wilson
One day in 1889, the President of the Blackstone National Bank in Uxbridge, Mass. was surprised when Doc Wilson strolled into the...
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7.3KRosewater, Bezoar Stone and Unicorn Horn: Seven Colonial Remedies
There was no shortage of illness in colonial New England and no shortage of colonial remedies. Our forebears left records of suffering...
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15.2K9The Many Mansions of Edward Searles
In 1921, coroners had Edward Searles body exhumed months after his death. Their conclusion, after examination, was that he had not been...
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10.6K1The China Trader Who Built the Lyman Estate
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
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