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Sarah Winslow Deming journal, 1775

Sarah Winslow Deming journal, 1775

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    19 cm x 15.5 cm

    On deposit from the Historic Winslow House Association, Marshfield, Mass.
    Reproduced with permission.


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    [ This description is from the project: Siege of Boston ]

    Within this 12-page letter written in the form of journal entries from 15-26 April 1775 Sarah Winslow Deming transmits news of Lexington and Concord and the first few days of the Siege including the unpleasant conditions in the town until her difficult departure from Boston on 20 April 1775. Deming, the wife of Captain John Deming, describes various locations in Boston: Charlestown Ferry, Bartons Point, Boston Common, Boston Neck, as well as outside of the town in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury Hill, Dedham, Attleborough, and Providence.