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Book Without Marks and Dexter’s Life in Boston Record
The fragment recalls a curious tale of traps and wolves, a note on a rough, punctuationally challenged book by Timothy Dexter. It also records Dexter’s birth February 22 1747 at Makden Maas and his 1806 death in Boston, noting his self written Pickle for the Knowing Ones and a punctuated endpiece inviting readers to pepper the text.
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Timothy Dexter
Makden
Maas
Dexter
Boston Record