All posts tagged "governor"
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16.6K14MaineThe Portland Rum Riot of 1855 Ends a Teetotaler’s Career
The Portland Rum Riot erupted on June 2, 1855, when the city’s Irish working-class residents found out something about their teetotaling, saloon-raiding...
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13.9K25MassachusettsJFK Born In Brookline, May 29, 1917
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy came into the world, his family was not yet wealthy and glamorous, and it hadn’t yet been plagued...
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22.9K18Crime and ScandalThe Deadly Rules of Massachusetts’ Court of Oyer and Terminer
On May 27, 1692, Massachusetts’ newly minted governor William Phips established the most famous court of oyer and terminer ever. Authorities establish...
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5.5K2MassachusettsThomas Hutchinson Tries To Get His Son a Job
Massachusetts’ former colonial Gov. Thomas Hutchinson lived in unhappy exile in England while the American Revolution raged in his native land. He’d...
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18.6K15MassachusettsThe Great Boston Revolt of 1689
Colonists in Boston revolted against a hated English governor 86 years and one day before the the world heard the shot in...
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21.2K10New HampshireThe New Hampshire Pine Tree Riot of 1772
New Hampshire’s oppressive pine tree laws sparked a little-known colonial uprising in 1772 called the Pine Tree Riot. An early test of British...
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