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  • Squantum, to the very lowest Point of the Peninsula, next to

    John Adams diary 8, 5 June - 30 December 1762 1961

  • "Suffering speed laws of Squantum, but she can travel!" exclaimed Dick

    The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Richard Bonner

  • Plant at Squantum, that miraculous marsh which was drained with such expedition that just twelve months from the day ground was broken for its foundation, it launched its first ship, and less than two years after completed its entire contract.

    The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

  • Island, N.Y., had about 100, and Squantum, Mass., which was abandoned in the fall of 1917, had about 150 men.

    Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

  • -- The tri-state race was the feature event of the Harvard Aviation Society meet held at Squantum, Mass.,

    Flying Machines: Construction and Operation 1912

  • Squantum Sugar -- a variety in great favor with the Squantum Club, and used by them in their famous clam-bakes.

    The Home Acre Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Greig's home in Squantum is less than 100 yards from my mother's front yard,'' McIntyre said.

    Boston.com Top Stories 2011

  • 'Want to ruin your granny,' says I (for it raised my dander to hear the critter talk such nonsense); I did hear of one chap, 'says I,' that sot fire to his own house once, up to Squantum, but the cunnin 'rascal insured it first; now how can your great folks ruin the country without ruinin' themselves, unless they have insured the Province?

    The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • I did hear of one chap, says I, that sot fire to his own house once, up to Squantum, but the cunnin rascal insured it first; now how can your great folks ruin the country without ruinin themselves, unless they have insured the Province?

    The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • Beale asks ten thousand Dollars for his New House and farm - and the same for Squantum.

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 10 December 1794 1794

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