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English: A woodcut of Dr. Samuel Adams, the future British Loyalist and American Revolutionary War military leader of Adams' Rangers, who was publicly humiliated in 1774 by being tied to a chair and hung from the sign of the Catamount Tavern in Arlington, New Hampshire Grants, in present-day Vermont, for falling out of favor with his enemies, the Green Mountain Boys, over land dealings in early Vermont.
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Source From a woodcut print in Zadock Thompson's 1842 book, Civil History of Vermont
Author
Zadock Thompson  (1796–1856) wikidata:Q8064169
 
Zadock Thompson
Alternative names
Zodock Thompson; Z.Thomps.
Description American historian, naturalist, ichthyologist and botanist
Date of birth/death 23 May 1796 Edit this at Wikidata 19 January 1856 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bridgewater Edit this at Wikidata Burlington Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q8064169

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Woodcut of Dr. Samuel Adams, the future British Loyalist and American Revolutionary War military leader, who was publicly humiliated in 1774 by being tied to a chair and hung from the sign of the Catamount Tavern in Arlington, New Hampshire Grants

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current22:06, 8 September 2016Thumbnail for version as of 22:06, 8 September 2016203 × 248 (91 KB)Chitt66From a woodcut print in Zadock Thompson's 1842 book, Civil History of Vermont

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