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    The William C. Nell House, now a private residence, was a boarding home located in 3 Smith Court in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Boston, Massachusetts...
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    long-time mistress of King Charles II of England (c. April 1668 – 6 February 1685). Called "pretty, witty Nell" by Pepys, she has been regarded as a living...
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    Nell Gwynn House is a ten-storey residential building in Sloane Avenue, Chelsea, London, designed in the Art Deco style by G. Kay Green. Completed in 1937...
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    William Cooper Nell (December 16, 1816 – May 25, 1874) was an American abolitionist, journalist, publisher, author, and civil servant of Boston, Massachusetts...
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    lead a commission for the preservation of deer in the area. Historian William C. Nell reported an 1860 letter from a Natick resident, also printed in an...
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    Lewis Herndon, called "Nell," was born in the town of Culpeper Court House, Virginia on August 30, 1837, the daughter of William Lewis Herndon and Frances...
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    Prince Hall (c. 1735/8 – December 7 1807) was an American abolitionist and leader in the free black community in Boston. He founded Prince Hall Freemasonry...
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  • Black Americans of achievement. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55546-588-9. William H. Upton, Negro Masonry, (New York: AMS Press, 1975)...
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  • Trotman, C. James (2002). Multiculturalism: Roots and Realities. Indiana University Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-253-21487-4. Davis, William Thomas (1895)...
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    for two years and left due to poor treatment. Burns was next leased by William Brent. Brent was the husband of a rich young woman, and lived off her wealth...
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    societies for African American women, were named after her. Her Joy Street house in Beacon Hill is a stop on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. In 1831,...
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    Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only...
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  • Maria W. Stewart (category Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.))
    the African Meeting House ("Paul's Church"). After this, she moved to New York City, then to Baltimore, and finally Washington, D.C., where she worked...
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    Pinckney Street – Resident P.P.F. Degrand 3 Smith Court – residence of William Cooper Nell, African American abolitionist, author and historian Tremont Street...
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  • Cornwells Heights-Eddington, Pennsylvania William C. Nell House – Boston, Massachusetts Harriet Beecher Stowe House – Brunswick, Maine Liberty Farm – Worcester...
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    1858 Volume XXVIII No. 11 [2nd page] Cols 3. Accessed June 14, 2019 Nell, William C. (1885). The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution. Robert F...
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    notable residents of 3 Smith Court are William Cooper Nell and James Scott, both involved in the abolitionist cause. Nell was an author and considered one of...
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    Shadrach Minkins (c. 1814 – December 13, 1875) was an African-American fugitive slave from Virginia who escaped in 1850 and reached Boston. He also used...
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  • African-American abolitionist view, with the 1829 Appeal of David Walker. William Cooper Nell quoted Easton at length in 1859 on the constitutional point, while...
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    Latimer was born in Norfolk, Virginia. His father, Samuel Mitchell Latimer (c.1797-1875), was of a white, slave owning household, of Elizabeth City, Virginia...
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    The elected officers were Thomas Dalton (abolitionist), President William Cooper Nell, Vice President James George Barbadoes, Secretary. One of their most...
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    also within the Boston African American National Historic Site. William Cooper Nell Boston African American National Historic Site: Abiel Smith School...
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    Street. John Adams' Boston house and his law practice was on this street. During the bull dozing of Scolley Square, his house was not saved. Detail of 1775...
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    1855. R.F. Wallcut. 1856. John T. Hilton; William Cooper Nell; Charles Wesley Slack; Wendell Phillips; William Lloyd Garrison; Charles Lenox Remond (1856)...
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  • Cambridge School Committee. William and Fred opened a successful dry-cleaning and dyeing business in Lowell. In 1874, William married Isabell Delaney of...
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  • major political issue in Massachusetts. With Joshua Bowen Smith and William Cooper Nell, he was prominent in the movement to desegregate the Boston public...
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    destruction of slavery." The elected officers were Thomas Dalton, President; William G. Nell, Vice President; and James G. Barbadoes, Secretary. Other association...
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    War and opened a law office with two other African American attorneys, William Whipper and Robert Elliott. Their firm, Whipper, Elliott, and Allen, is...
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    rich color ... of the negro". Rock's polished speeches were printed in William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator as well as in general newspapers, promoting...
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    William Craft during their stay in Boston. On February 15, 1851, Smith was one of the activists who helped free Shadrach Minkins from the court house...
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