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Boston and Its Environs, 1775

Boston and Its Environs, 1775

 

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A Plan of the Town of Boston, 1775

A Plan of the Town of Boston, 1775
by Lieut. Page of His Majesty's Corps of Engineers

 

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A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs, 1777

A Plan of Boston in New England with its Environs, 1777
surveyed and drawn by Henry Pelham (1748/49—1806)

Print. Engraved by Henry Jukes and published in London. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA. Full…

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Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense (1775), urging the colonies to declare their independence, found 150,000 purchasers in a population of less than 3 million — the equivalent today of a sale of 14 million.

— Richard Brookhiser
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003)