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It’s a Hot Day — Don’t Drink the Water!
Posted on December 22, 2011 by James RileyEditor’s Note: perhaps a student of medicine might tell us what was happening in the late New England summer of 1771. We’re thinking the water is getting a bum rap. Re-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette August 16, 1771 Boston, August 8, 1771: The extreme heat has continued longer this season than has ever […]
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Colony News August 9, 1771
Posted on December 21, 2011 by James RileyRe-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, August 9, 1771 Those Pesky Frontiersmen The War against the Regulators (rebels) of North Carolina, and the disputes between Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers and Connecticut Men on the frontier, prompted one Philadelphia writer to observe this about the people of frontier Colonial America: “..it is our opinion of folks in […]
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Coaching A Little Sympathy
Posted on December 20, 2011 by James RileyDid I Mention the Mail? And the Newspapers? And the Snow? And how little profit I make on the Deal? You have to love John Stavers, the keeper of the Earl of Halifax tavern in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. For many years, if his advertisement (below) is to be believed, he maintained a stage […]
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Putrid Fever Takes 150 in One Town
Posted on December 20, 2011 by James RileyRe-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, July 12, 1771 Duxboro’, July 5, 1771: A very malignant putrid fever has, for some time past, much prevailed in this town; about 150 persons, chiefly children, having had it in the course of a few months; to a considerable proportion of whom it has proved fatal. More especially […]
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Colonial Shark Attack
Posted on December 19, 2011 by James RileyReprinted from the New Hampshire Gazette, July 12, 1771 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, July 12, 1771: We hear from Damariscotta (Maine), that about three weeks ago, three men being in a canoe, fishing, about half a mile from the shore, a large shark came along side, and after going several times round the canoe, came up […]
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1777 Wisdom: Lower Taxes, Increase Wealth
Posted on December 16, 2011 by James RileyIn September of 1777, the gentleman at the right, François, Marquis de Barbé-Marbois was traveling from Boston to Philadelphia, as secretary of the French legation to the newly born United States. On the 6th of the month, some 22 miles outside of Boston, he had this to say about the inhabitants of New England: No […]
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Twenty Stripes is Kind Treatment
Posted on December 13, 2011 by James RileyRe-printed from the New Hampshire Gazette, July 26, 1771 Boston, July 22: We are informed from the county of Hampshire, that on Saturday the 13th, the famous Joseph Holmes of Hatfield (who has been a frequent visitor at the courts of assize in that county, and has as often broke Goal (jail)) was detected at […]
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High Treason
Posted on December 12, 2011 by James Riley“…Benjamin Merrill, be carried to the place from whence you came, that you be drawn from thence to the place of execution, where you are to be hanged by the neck; that you be cut down while you are yet alive…” Without dispute, the greatest news story of 1771 in the American Colonies would have […]
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Island at War II
Posted on December 9, 2011 by James RileyWell, shoot. The next four episodes of Island at War, though very good, seem to err in the Desperate Hausfraus direction. Sleeping with the enemy, of course, is a dramatic staple. It’s the very stuff of espionage films and there can’t be anything more poignant than losing in battle and knowing the enemy has taken […]
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