All posts tagged "Beverly"
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5.0K2MassachusettsApril 27, 1788: John Quincy Adams Goes to Meeting
On April 27, 1788, John Quincy Adams was a 21-year-old Harvard graduate studying law with Theophilus Parsons in Newburyport, Mass. He’d returned home from...
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7.5K8Business and LaborLucy Larcom Goes From Old New England to the New Lowell Mills
Lucy Larcom went to work as a Lowell mill girl at 11 years old to help support her family. The job was...
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17.5K16MassachusettsThe Red, Black and White Men of Glover’s Regiment Take Washington Across the Delaware
John Glover’s Regiment of Marbleheaders accomplished an amazing feat on the night of Dec. 25, 1776. They ferried 2,400 men, plus horses and artillery,...
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34.4K45frontWe Won’t Go Until We Get Some: New England Colonial Christmas Traditions
Just how rowdy was a New England colonial Christmas? It depended on who was celebrating. But it bore little resemblance to Christmas...
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