All posts tagged "Newcomb Tavern"

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  Bathsheba Spooner, Hanged for Murder—Or For Her Loyalist Father?

  In March of 1778, a traveler brought strange news to Sandwich, Mass., about an unnatural murder in Brookfield. A woman had hired...

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  Sandwich, Mass., in 1774 – Setting the Battle Lines for Revolution

  To get an idea of how intense the feuding between the British loyalists and the Colonial rebels was in 1774 in New...