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Illness and Disease, Medicine, Religion December 8, 2020 December 3, 2020

Yellow Fever and Church Attendance

by Brian Patrick O'Malley

John Adams was certain he made a mistake by going to church. Philadelphia’s yellow fever outbreak only ended in November 1793. On Sunday, December…

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Critical Thinking, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Primary Sources, Religion August 6, 2019 August 4, 2019

Jacob Duché: Mixing Religion and Politics During the Revolution

by Richard J. Werther

In a country in which one of the main constitutional principles is separation of church and state, it is counter-intuitive to find that there…

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1. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

That was a joke about the attorneys (the grin text was not picked up when the comment posted).
2. Phil Weaver Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Thanks Mark, likewise. Thanks also for the correction. I love working with original documents, but transcriptions can sometimes be difficult. Many of the pension application files are actually harder to…
3. Mark Sternberg Caleb Brewster’s Spy Boat Boys

Nice article, Phil, and great to meet you at Fort Lee. Just a minor correction - it's Zachariah "Hawkins," not "Newkirk."