The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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... Boston went into mourning for William Shirley , the most popular of Massachusetts ' royal governors . Dead less than a decade , Johnson and Shirley already seemed of another age , their heirs fled , their estates confiscated , their ...
... Boston went into mourning for William Shirley , the most popular of Massachusetts ' royal governors . Dead less than a decade , Johnson and Shirley already seemed of another age , their heirs fled , their estates confiscated , their ...
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... Boston . Young Adams had farmed , he had gone to Harvard , he had graduated and taught school in Worcester , and aft- erward he had turned to the study of law . In 1758 , at the age of twenty - three , he was admitted to the Boston bar ...
... Boston . Young Adams had farmed , he had gone to Harvard , he had graduated and taught school in Worcester , and aft- erward he had turned to the study of law . In 1758 , at the age of twenty - three , he was admitted to the Boston bar ...
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... Boston mob in 1834. But it should be pointed out that at the same time many of Boston's best families sent daughters to the Ursuline school . After the famine such intermingling between Cath- olics and Protestants would no longer be ...
... Boston mob in 1834. But it should be pointed out that at the same time many of Boston's best families sent daughters to the Ursuline school . After the famine such intermingling between Cath- olics and Protestants would no longer be ...
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