Letter to the Roxbury School Committee

Author: Joseph Warren Date: December 1761 Source: full text in Life and Times of Joseph Warren, 1865, p. 2. Richard Frothingham wrote that this letter was then in the possession of Roxbury Latin School. “To the gentlemen intrusted with the care of the school in Roxbury: Boston, December, 1761. Gentlemen, – You may remember that […]

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Juvenile Poem

Date: circa 1750 – 1755 “Wine will make us Red as Roses & our sorrows Quite forgett come let us Fudell all our Noses and Drink our Selves Til out of Debt” Source: Flyleaf inscription and signature in Massachusetts Historical Society’s copy of: Bailey, N. (Nathan). English and Latine Exercises for School-Boys, Fifth edition, Boston: […]

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John Adams to Abigail Smith

Date: April 13, 1764 My dearest We arrived at Captn. Cunninghams, about Twelve O’Clock and sent our Compliments to Dr. Perkins. The Courrier returned with Answer that the Dr. was determined to inoculate no more without a Preparation preevious to Inoculation. That We should have written to him and have received Directions from him, and […]

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