All posts tagged "Weymouth Mass."
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8.9KMassachusettsMyles Standish and the Lost Colony of Massachusetts
In March 1623, leaders of the struggling Plymouth Plantation dispatched their paid military leader Myles Standish to a coastal settlement 25 miles...
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32.6K3bostonThe Hope and Despair of Acadian Exiles, 1755-1766
In the winter of 1755, two Marshfield, Mass., selectmen knocked on the door of the Michel family, seven Acadian exiles. They brought...
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15.5K1Crime and ScandalThe Merry Widow Murder of 1936
On Oct. 5, 1936, Boston police got a call to the waterfront at Jeffery Field, now Logan Airport. Two men had found...
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4.4Kmembers onlyWhen Daniel Webster Freed the Slaves
Daniel Webster was one of those politicians who embraced the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which allowed for the return of escaped...
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11.3K10Crime and ScandalRufus Choate Wins Trial of the Century With Sleepwalking Defense
Rufus Choate first used the sleepwalking defense successfully in a sensational 19th-century trial for a man accused of murdering a prostitute. A...
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6.4K5MassachusettsMaria Chapman and Her Sisters Fight With Fairs Against Slavery
When an angry mob of 5,000 ‘gentleman’ in 1835 surrounded the building where Maria Chapman and 45 members of the Boston Female...
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