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Tag Archives: poverty

A Scene Such as I Never Before Witnessed (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)

1835: GUEST ARTIST “E.J.P.” (of Sandwich, NH) details Larkin’s adventure in a House of Death …

Posted byMarek6 August, 20135 November, 2013Posted in1830s, death, guest artist, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family LettersTags:death, Larkin Weed, New Hampton, Phebe Weed, poverty, sandwichLeave a comment on A Scene Such as I Never Before Witnessed (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)

Paying the Doctor (Nelson, c. 1750)

Nelson’s own Ezra Carter accepts a rather unusual means of payment…

Posted byMarek5 August, 201226 September, 2012Posted in1750s, colonial, medicine, Nelson, SOURCE=HSCCTags:cats, doctor, health, kittens, medicine, povertyLeave a comment on Paying the Doctor (Nelson, c. 1750)

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