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‘Sense Being Preferable to Sound’

By Jon Hersey

May 02, 2019
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In February 1778, some farmers living about thirty miles southwest of Boston petitioned the Massachusetts state legislature to be incorporated as a new town. They had chosen the name “Exeter,” but apparently they arrived at the Dedham courthouse at about the same time as did some incredible news from France: The famous printer, writer, inventor, and pat…

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