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Samuel Smedley and Prize Division
This portrait by William Lee is based off the only known image of Samuel Smedley: an ivory miniature, one-inch long, said to have been painted while he was in Holland. Smedley’s second command of a...
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The Whale-boat Men of Long Island Sound
Example of whaleboats in a 1690 painting by Abraham Storck. Source: Stichting Rijksmuseum het Zuiderzeemuseum When the Continental Congress first commissioned the use of private ships and boats of war...
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The Incredibly Convoluted History of Westmoreland County, Connecticut
In 1662, Charles II, the restored monarch of Great Britain, issued a charter for the founding of Connecticut. The colony’s borders were delineated as spreading from Narragansett Bay in the east to the...
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