English colonist William Vassall (1592–1656) is remembered both for promoting religious freedom in New England and commencing his family's ownership of...
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William John Christopher Vassall (20 September 1924 – 18 November 1996) was a British civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union, allegedly under pressure...
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Sexpionage (section William Vassall – Soviet Union)
Harrison, British ambassador; U.S. Army Major James R. Holbrook; William John Vassall, a homosexual British navy clerk; British MP Anthony Courtney; The...
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Vassalboro, Maine (section William Vassall)
William Vassall. William Vassall was born in 1715 on his family's Jamaican sugar plantation. Slavery had formed an "integral part" of the Vassalls' fortune...
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Vassall may refer to: Vassall (ward), a ward in the London Borough of Lambeth Vassall Tribunal, a public enquiry undertaken to investigate John Vassall's...
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Resolved White," Pilgrim Hall Museum. For Judith Vassall White see Robert C. Anderson, et al., “William Vassall,” The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to...
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Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician...
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Peacefield (section Vassall era)
British Slavery, University College London. Vassall was grandson of William Vassall, patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founder of the family's...
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accompanied his parents, Pilgrims William and Susanna White, on the journey. He married Judith Vassall, daughter of William Vassall, a founder of the Massachusetts...
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since. Within King's Chapel is a monument to Samuel Vassall, brother of the colonist William Vassall, a patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and an...
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with William White who became Edward Winslow's step-sons: Resolved White – born ca. 1615. Married 1640 (1) Judith Vassall, daughter of William Vassall, and...
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leaders in the historic 1645 dispute with liberal religious leader William Vassall. During his long life involved in public service, he served on the...
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daughters William Coddington, a Governor of Rhode Island Colony and his wife William Pynchon and his wife and three daughters William Vassall, for whom...
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his brother Resolved and their wives Sarah and Judith, daughter of William Vassall, as well as others prominent in early Plymouth Colony. Nathaniel was...
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with William White who became Edward Winslow's step-sons: Resolved White – born c. 1615. Married 1640 (1) Judith Vassall, daughter of William Vassall, and...
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Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site (redirect from Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House)
House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site (also known as the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House and, until December 2010, Longfellow National...
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Samuel Vassall (1586–1667) was an English merchant, politician, and slave trader who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1648. Vassall was the majority...
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Lurline Vassall of Brooklyn, was denied entry to the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing because of her race. Lurline's father William Vassall launched...
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Dudley William Vassall Nicholas West Isaac Johnson John Humphrey Thomas Sharp Increase Nowell John Winthrop William Pynchon Kellam Browne William Colbron...
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Revolutionary War. Sedgwick and Russell met when he represented her uncle, William Vassall, in an equity case he brought against the state of Massachusetts to...
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Henry Vassall (22 October 1860 – 5 January 1926) was an English rugby union player, writer, and master of Repton School, Derbyshire. He was best known...
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mid-1635 Vassall returned to Massachusetts with his family on the ship Blessing. Vassall's daughter Judith married Resolved White who was William's eldest...
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colonial council asking for religious tolerance. It was the work of William Vassall, who was also supposedly behind a similar petition that was introduced...
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Elizabeth Vassall Oliver and her brother John Vassall II were great-great-grandchildren of William Vassall, patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Harvard...
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Agamenticus (later York) by May 1642 when Gov. Gorges received a letter from William Vassall of Scituate, apparently explaining that members of Hull's Yarmouth...
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Spencer Walpole; Documents in the Boston Athenæum; More Letters of William Vassall; The Early History of Kansas; Silhouette of President Willard; Anecdote...
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21 June 2016. John Child and William Vassall, New-England’s Jonas cast up at London (1647), Ed. W.T.R. Marvin. William Parsons Lunt, 1869. Maverick in...
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excellent critical reviews, both in America and in Britain, where Henry Vassall-Fox and Robert Southey expressed their admiration of the work. It was also...
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dry run for the Orlando Furioso translation, and was prompted by Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland. Thoughts and Recollections by One of the Last Century...
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Tam Galbraith (section Vassall affair)
connection to the Soviet spy John Vassall, a former Admiralty employee, after letters from Galbraith were found in Vassall's possession. It was thought odd...
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