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  • Apr 15 1742

    Enslaved man named Boston is granted a divorce from his wife.

    April 15, 1742

    The divorce is granted after the man charges that his wife was unfaithful to him and bore a white man’s […]

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  • Apr 15 1805

    Last person is ordered to stand in the town’s pillory.

    April 15, 1805

    John Nichols becomes the last man to stand in the town’s pillory on today’s State Street (then King Street). Convicted […]

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  • Motley (John Lothrop) is born in Dorchester.

    April 15, 1814

    John Lothrop Motley graduates from Harvard College, studies in Germany, then traveled throughout Europe before returning to Boston. He marries […]

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  • Apr 15 1833

    Charles Kemble and Fanny Kemble make their Boston debuts.

    April 15, 1833

    (& 4/16) Charles appears in Hamlet and his daughter in Fazio, or the Italian Wife, on consecutive nights at the […]

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  • James (Henry) is born in New York City.

    April 15, 1843

    The son of Henry and Mary (Walsh) James and brother of William James, Henry James is educated privately, mostly in […]

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