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Curiosities of history : Boston, September seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. Wheildon
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UMass.427 W57
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheildon, William W. (William Willder), 1805-1892.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Boston (Mass.)--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- x, 13-141 p. : map, folded facsim. ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Lee and Shepard ; New York : C.T. Dillingham, 1880.
- Contents:
- Topography of Boston
- The public ferries
- The Boston cornfields
- Puritan government
- Narragansett Indians
- Names of places, streets, & c
- Persecutions of the Quakers
- First newspaper in America
- Curious Boston lectures
- Remarkable proclamations. 1774-5
- Popular Puritan literature
- Revolutionary proclamations
- Curiosities of the market.
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