All posts tagged "Sandwich Mass."
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3.8KCrime and ScandalBathsheba 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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32.7K4MassachusettsThomas Prince, New England’s First History Nut
Perhaps Thomas Prince can be forgiven for taking eight years to write about the first decade of New England’s history, since he...
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10.5K1MassachusettsTiny Militia Captures Crew of Huge British Warship HMS Somerset
In one of the most remarkable engagements of the American Revolution, the tiny militia of Truro captured more than 400 sailors and...
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18.4K26Arts and LeisureEpitaphs Tell Tales in New England’s Graveyards
Inscribed in stone in hundreds of old New England graveyards are the sometimes sad, sometimes funny epitaphs describing how people lived and...
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89.3K30MassachusettsThe Heroic Rescue of the Pendleton Crew, 1952
On Feb. 18, 1952, four men risked their lives in a howling nor’easter off Cape Cod to save 32 mariners on the shipwrecked...
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6.1K2Business and LaborPeleg Nye, The Jonah of Cape Cod
Peleg Nye in 1864 had the bad luck to encounter a whale that decided to have him as a snack. As the...
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