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Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy

Fitchburg Public Library 166 Boulder Drive, Suite 108, Fitchburg, MA, United States

What possessed a woman from the elite of eighteenth-century New England society to conspire with American and British soldiers to murder her husband at the midpoint of the American Revolution? The story of Bathsheba Spooner has alternately fascinated and baffled residents of Worcester County for centuries. Beyond Central Massachusetts, the tale is largely unknown. Many, when […]

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