Reminiscences, ca. 1866.

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Reminiscences, ca. 1866.

Recollections of stories about 18th century Boston as told to him by his mother and his uncle, Thomas Wallcut. The vol. contains brief anecdotes on a variety of topics, including slavery, Phillis Wheatley, the Boston Tea Party, and the evacuation of Boston Harbor by the British.

1 v. in a case.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7268600

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Wallcut, Thomas, 1758-1840

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Thomas Wallcut (1758-1840), son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Marshall Wallcut, was educated to become an Indian missionary at the Indian Charity School in Hanover, N.H. In 1774, he passed the exams for Dartmouth College, but instead went to live with the St. Francis Indians near Montreal. During the Revolution, he worked in hospitals at Albany and Boston. Wallcut was devoted to antiquarian research and the collecting of books and pamphlets. He was one of the ten original members of the Massachusett...

Stratford, Charles James, 1795-

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