All posts tagged "Braintree Mass."
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16.5KMassachusettsAbigail Adams Attacked Thomas Jefferson As No One Else Dared To Do
In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
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16.9K2Crime and ScandalRoyall Tyler, the Man Nabby Adams Wanted To Marry
John Adams’ daughter in 1785 dumped the charming rake Royall Tyler to marry a dashing military hero. She may well have regretted...
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11.6K5MassachusettsYoung John Adams Struggles With School, Vexes His Parents
Young John Adams frustrated his pious father and vexed his hot-tempered mother with his dislike of school and love of the outdoors....
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17.8K3ConnecticutThe 1965 Drought, New England’s Worst Ever
It will probably be several centuries before the Northeast United States again suffers anything like the 1965 drought. It was the driest...
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30.0K11frontAbigail Adams Vents to Mercy Otis Warren About John
In the spring of 1776, Mercy Otis Warren received a letter from her good friend Abigail Adams complaining about her husband John....
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7.1K12MassachusettsWhen John Adams Fled Philadelphia in the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
In the early hours of Sept. 19, 1777, James Lovell woke John Adams from his bed in Philadelphia. He told Adams the...
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