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In Massachusetts, in November 1772, Samuel Adams and Dr. Joseph Warren formed a committee in response to the Gaspée Affair and in relation to the recent British decision to have the salaries of the royal governor and judges be paid by the Crown rather than the colonial assembly, which removed the colony of its means of controlling public officials.
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But, in spite of this, I, at present a man 31 years of age and a College Professor, have been recalled `` by direction of the President '' to report on November 25th to Fort Devens, Massachusetts, for another twelve months of Active Duty as an Sp 4 ( the equivalent of a PFC ).
A large number of indoor rowing competitions are held all over the world, including the indoor rowing world championships ( also known as CRASH-B Sprints ) held in Boston, Massachusetts, United States in February and the British Indoor Rowing Championships held in Birmingham, England in November ; both are rowed on Concept2s.
* November 1 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School ( which later merges with Boston University School of Medicine ), opens.
* November 9 – Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street ( the 2-day disaster destroys about of the city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US $ 60 million in damage ).
* November 26 – A 2-day blizzard known as the Portland Gale piles snow in Boston, Massachusetts, and severely impacts the Massachusetts fishing industry and several coastal New England towns.
* November 27 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.
* November 6 – James Bowdoin, American Governor of Massachusetts ( b. 1726 )
* November 8 – Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mount Holyoke College, is founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
* November 18 – An earthquake occurs in the vicinity of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, causing extensive damage.
* November 4 – Massachusetts enacts the death penalty for having a rebellious child.
On November 30, 1774, King George III opened Parliament with a speech condemning Massachusetts and the Suffolk Resolves.
* November 27 – A fire in Boston, Massachusetts, burns all of the warehouses, 80 houses, and all of the ships in the dockyards.
* November 19 – Roger Conant Massachusetts governor, founder of Salem, Massachusetts ( b. 1592 )
* November 16 – A prison is founded on Nantucket Island in the English colony of Massachusetts.
In November 2008, Massachusetts held a vote to ban greyhound racing, which passed 56 % to 44 %.
In November 1637, the General Court of Massachusetts disarmed, disenfranchised, and forced into exile the Antinomians, the followers of Anne Hutchinson.
Rockwell died November 8, 1978, of emphysema at age 84 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Lynn Margulis ( born Lynn Alexander ) ( March 5, 1938 – November 22, 2011 ) was an American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Margulis died on November 22, 2011 at home in Amherst, Massachusetts, five days after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke.
Hoffman was born November 30, 1936 in Worcester, Massachusetts to John Hoffman and Florence Schamberg, both of Jewish descent.
*" With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988 " by Mark W. Eichin and Jon A. Rochlis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology dated February 9, 1989 We present the chronology of events as seen by our team at MIT ...
The New England Whalers were established in November 1971 when the WHA awarded a franchise to begin play in Boston, Massachusetts.
The earliest known proposal for the modern revival of " Ms ." as a title appeared in The Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts on November 10, 1901:
Massachusetts and 1772
Gerry was from an early time a vocal opponent of Parliamentary efforts to tax the colonies after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, and won election to General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( its legislative assembly ) in May 1772.
* February 3 – Benjamin Williams Crowninshield, Congressman from Massachusetts secretary of U. S. Navy ( b. 1772 )
* Samuel Clesson Allen, ( 1772 – 1842 ), United States Congressman from Massachusetts, Congregationalist minister
In 1772, he married Abigail Gilbert, with whom he settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
** Thomas Boylston Adams ( 1772 – 1832 ), Massachusetts legislator and judge ; youngest son of John
He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied at the Boston Latin School before he entered Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1772.
James became interested in the late 1840s in former members of Brook Farm, the experiment in communal living at West Roxbury, Massachusetts that lasted from 1841 to 1847, and in Fourierism, the school of utopian socialism that grew out of the thought of French social philosopher Charles Fourier ( 1772 – 1837 ) and which was a major influence in the last several years of Brook Farm.
* Nathan Webb, ( 1705 – 1772 ), pastored the first new Congregational Church in Massachusetts started during the Great Awakening period for over 41 years
( 1769 ) and an A. M. ( 1772 ), and taught school for several years in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with his former classmate Alexander Scammel.
Samuel Clesson Allen ( January 5, 1772 – February 8, 1842 ) was a U. S. politician from Massachusetts during the first third of the 19th century.
In March 1772, he wrote to Massachusetts leader Samuel Adams, suggesting a congress of the colonies: " I take the liberty to propose for your consideration ", he wrote, " whether it would not be advisable in the present critical situation to revive an institution which formerly had a very salutary effect – I mean an annual meeting of commissioners from the colonies to consult on their general welfare.
Tudor received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1769, studied law in the office of John Adams was admitted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony Bar, July 27, 1772, and became outstanding in his profession.
* Samuel Sewall ( congressman ) ( 1772 ), U. S. Congressman, Chief Justice of Massachusetts
* Brown, Richard D. Revolutionary politics in Massachusetts: the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the towns, 1772 – 1774.
Massachusetts and Samuel
Cleveland was among the leaders in early support, but Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Allen G. Thurman of Ohio, Samuel Freeman Miller of Iowa, and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts also had considerable followings, along with various favorite sons.
* 1904 Samuel Prescott describes the bactericide effects Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT )
* 1613 – The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
Samuel Gorton purchased the Native American lands at Shawomet in 1642, precipitating a military dispute with the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
After attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Samuel Morse went on to Yale College to receive instruction in the subjects of religious philosophy, mathematics and science of horses.
* 1722 – Samuel Adams, American politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1803 )
He left, by a second wife Joan Fletcher, two sons and a daughter, who emigrated to Massachusetts in 1637 ; the sons later returned to England ; his daughter Ruth married in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Edmund Angier, and their son Samuel Angier later married in 1680 Hannah Oakes, the daughter of Urian Oakes.
* January 12 – Samuel Shute, Governor of Massachusetts Bay ( d. 1742 )
* June 20 – Samuel Zoll, Massachusetts jurist ( d. 2011 )
* February 11 – Samuel Adams's circular letter is issued by the Massachusetts House of Representatives and sent to the other Thirteen Colonies.
Other notable delegates included Samuel Adams from Massachusetts Bay, and Joseph Galloway and John Dickinson from Pennsylvania.
* September 1 – September 2 – While Wampanoags and Nipmucks attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, Captain Samuel Moseley commands Massachusetts troops in an attack on the Pennacook tribe.
His father, Samuel Parsons Mulliken, was a professor of organic chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
* Samuel Adams, Governor of Massachusetts
Curry was born on September 12, 1900, in Millis, Massachusetts, to Samuel Silas Curry and Anna Baright Curry, who ran a school for elocution.
Massachusetts Solicitor General Samuel Quincy and private attorney Robert Treat Paine, hired by the town of Boston, handled the prosecution.
Samuel Pierpont Langley ( August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts – February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina ) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation.
It was named New Salem Parish, in honor of Colonel Samuel Browne, the largest landowner at the time, who was from Salem, Massachusetts.
The southeast portion of Lovell ( which would become Sweden ) was first settled in 1794 by Colonel Samuel Nevers from Burlington, Massachusetts.
Beginning on August 9, 1717, Massachusetts Governor Samuel Shute conducted a two day conference on Arrowsic with delegates of various tribes, who arrived in a flotilla of canoes and encamped on Lee Island opposite the town.
* History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 1 ( A-H ), Volume 2 ( L-W ) compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879 and 1880.
* History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, compiled by Samuel Adams Drake, published 1879.
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