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Westford 250 – Once Known: Slavery in Westford with Leslie Howard

Westford Historical Society & Museum 2 Boston Road, Westford, MA, United States

Slavery in Westford?! It may be surprising, but there were at least 24 confirmed enslaved individuals in the town of Westford from 1730 to 1780. There is little in the historical record of these individuals and their lives, however some information has been compiled in an attempt to present what their life may have been […]

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Westford 250 – The Solemn League and Covenant and Westford’s Response to the 1774 Intolerable Acts

Westford Historical Society & Museum 2 Boston Road, Westford, MA, United States

In the spring and summer of 1774, news had reached Boston that Britain’s Parliament had invoked several measures in retaliation for the Destruction of the Tea in Boston Harbor, known as the “Intolerable Acts”. Samuel Adams and the Boston committee of correspondence developed a non-importation pledge known as the “Solemn League and Covenant”. The Covenant […]