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Title: Collection of papers prepared and read before the Worcester Society of Antiquity
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925 Worcester Society of Antiquity
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Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ows and high water. Occa-sions were not infrequent when snow-shoes were substitutedfor horses by those who carried the mail. In 1704, the eastern post left Boston for Piscataquaevery Monday night at seven oclock. Letters must bein the office by six oclock. The mail from Piscataquareached Boston every Saturday. The western post leftBoston during December, January and February, fort-nightly on Tuesday at noon, and came in fortnightly everySaturday at noon. Thomas Battis was killed July 29,1704,while riding the western post at a point east of Hadleyon his return trip. This same year Lewis Bane was post-rider from York, Maine, to Berwick, and asked the GeneralCourt to pay him for service and a saddle. In 1719,William Brooker is recorded as the postmaster in Boston,and in 1727, Henry Marshall was occupying that positionand had then been filling the office for the space of twoyears. At the death of Thomas Neale, which occurred priorto the year 1700, it was found that his estate was indebted
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ON MAIN ROAD BETWEEN BEDFORD AND BILLERICA. 65 to Andrew Hamilton for the sum of 1100£, the amountthe latter had expended in excess of the receipts, in main-taining the post department in the American Colonies.Neales estate being insolvent, Hamilton took an assign-ment of the charter rights to conduct the post businesswhich he had instituted in America. As we have stated,Hamilton died in 1703, and his widow continued to conductthe business. In the year 1706, the English governmentpaid the widow Hamilton 1664£ and assumed the owner-ship of the department, appointing John Hamilton (a sonof Andrew), deputy-postmaster for the American Colonies.He resigned the office in 1722. The next person as yet found associated with the officeis Alexander Spotswood, who served from 1730 to 1739,and possibly until his death in 1740. He was an ableman, and a popular governor of Virginia. In 1753, one of Americas most notable men, whoseservice for his country and for the world will never beforgotten so

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