All posts tagged "Berwick Maine"
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94.2K19MassachusettsHow Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England
As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s...
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20.3K8ConnecticutThe First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States
Town Meeting dates to the European settlement of New England, and it persists today in town halls, schools and auditoriums. Not to...
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14.5K5New HampshireMargery Brown and Owen O’Sullivan – An Unlikely Love Story
Margaret Brown of County Cork in Ireland had a fierce beauty and a temper to match. She crossed from Ireland in 1723...
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15.9K5Business and LaborSecrets to a Long Life From Holders of The Boston Post Cane
When the Town of Westmoreland, N.H., gave its Boston Post Cane to 113-year-old Mary Ray in 2008, she was believed to be...
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5.8K4MassachusettsJohn Sullivan: Too Busy Fighting the Revolution
When the New Hampshire Committee of Safety instructed Gen. John Sullivan to meet with a Capt. Hobb, Sullivan put him off for a week....
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