Bathsheba Ruggles

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Law, Loyalists, People September 20, 2018 September 20, 2018

The Most Extraordinary Murder

by Chaim M. Rosenberg

On July 2, 1778, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hanged Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner and Continental soldier Ezra Ross, together with British soldiers Sgt. James Buchanan…

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Food & Lifestyle November 11, 2013 August 28, 2016

Top 10 Marriages Gone Bad

by Don N. Hagist

Every now and then I meet someone who thinks that people “back then” were all highly religious and led straight-laced, pious lives. Those people…

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