All posts tagged "Weymouth Mass."
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4.4KMassachusettsMyles 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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30.1K3bostonThe 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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13.1K1Crime and ScandalThe Merry Widow Murder of 1936
On October 5, 1936, police got a call to the waterfront at Boston’s Logan Airport. Two men had found a bag in...
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9.1K10Crime 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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5.3K5MassachusettsMaria 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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2.2K1members onlyCelia Thaxter Is Vexed at Her Ignorance, May 1, 1890
The 19th-century writer Celia Thaxter was so outraged by the slaughter of birds for ladies’ hats that in 1886 she became the...
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