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... London and Paris . Coming to reside in Boston , he became an importer of drugs and med- icines , of which he had in his warehouse a large and valuable collection , acquiring great wealth . It was affirmed that the strong Tory ...
... London and Paris . Coming to reside in Boston , he became an importer of drugs and med- icines , of which he had in his warehouse a large and valuable collection , acquiring great wealth . It was affirmed that the strong Tory ...
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... London , to bring grain to Boston from Virginia , " the ship that bringeth it wch is the Africa whereof Capt Cley borne is commander . He & the m'chants that set him out offer us to bring what corne we will for fish . " Certain ...
... London , to bring grain to Boston from Virginia , " the ship that bringeth it wch is the Africa whereof Capt Cley borne is commander . He & the m'chants that set him out offer us to bring what corne we will for fish . " Certain ...
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... London or New England shipp whereof Capt Rich Thurston was comand ' , and with a goode quantitye of English goods came to New England . And thence with M ' Cuttin into Seuerne , & returned to New England with Jn ° Bennett vnto Boston in ...
... London or New England shipp whereof Capt Rich Thurston was comand ' , and with a goode quantitye of English goods came to New England . And thence with M ' Cuttin into Seuerne , & returned to New England with Jn ° Bennett vnto Boston in ...
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... London for fourteen months . The portrait purports to have been painted by Copley in the Tower , during this imprisonment , in 1781. It had been sent to this country by the executors of the late Henry Stevens ; and it has , I trust ...
... London for fourteen months . The portrait purports to have been painted by Copley in the Tower , during this imprisonment , in 1781. It had been sent to this country by the executors of the late Henry Stevens ; and it has , I trust ...
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... London , when he , who was peculiarly its founder , had collected only twenty or thirty portraits . There are now many hundreds , I had almost said thousands , in the galleries at Kensington ; and the whole history of England since the ...
... London , when he , who was peculiarly its founder , had collected only twenty or thirty portraits . There are now many hundreds , I had almost said thousands , in the galleries at Kensington ; and the whole history of England since the ...
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