All posts tagged "death"
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49.3KCrime and ScandalThe Mayflower Love Children: Elinor, Jasper, Richard and Mary More
For centuries, historians thought the four young More children who arrived on the Mayflower were homeless orphans. Not until 1959 did a...
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12.1K4MassachusettsJohn Quincy Adams Grieves for His Mother, Abigail Adams
On Nov. 1, 1818, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams, 51, was dreading news about his mother, Abigail Adams, even as...
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7.8K19MassachusettsJudge Samuel Sewall Survives the 1721 Boston Smallpox Epidemic
On April 14, 1721, Judge Samuel Sewall was handed a letter from a Capt. Tuthill, informing him that the ship Swan Anna...
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