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Our colonial homes (1894)

Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Lee and Shepard · leaf 63

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strategic 5° OCR COLONIAL HOMES value to the besiegers of Boston. It was then that over the roads justdescribed the army of General Thomas silently wended its way onone stinging night of March, 1775, to seize those heights; and thestartled inmates of our old mansion here saw filing by them… … BIRTHPLACE OF EDWARD EVERETT. From time to time a figure that sat its horse like a statue passed upand down the moving column in silence ; but the soldiers all knew thatstatuesque form, and that where he was all was well. But, as Mr. Dickens used to remark, in his inimitable satire uponwriters of…

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