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“Boston lay in shambles. During the winter months, shivering redcoats had chopped down trees in the Common and ripped apart old buildings for firewood. The Flucker mansion had been looted. Other homes and shops were abandoned, crumbling, ruinous reminders of Boston's pre-Revolutionary splendor.”

American Revolution Boston History Redcoats

Book:Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

Source: Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”

Source: The Constant Outsider: Memoirs of a South Boston Mechanic