This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Exciting Stories and Observations From a Colonial Page
A mixed page features an A D story of a traveler trapped by a lion and a life lesson about prudence, plus essays on watches, insolvency, old schoolmasters, and reflections on art, glass, and color in ancient and modern times. The piece includes moralizing notes on commerce, agriculture, and virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Itavid
Moffat
Fabors
Boston
Custom House
Ming
Long Wharf
Union Bank
Massachusette Bank
Dearborn
Tigly
Pliny
Pompeii
Centra Ameriga
Museum of
Florence
Egypt
Wendell Phillips