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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Associates", Social Science History, Volume 28, Number 3, pp. 383–385. William H. Upton, Negro Masonry, (New York: AMS Press, 1975). Prince Hall Masonry...
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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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  • Nell Carter (born Nell Ruth Hardy; September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American actress and singer. Carter began her career in 1970, singing...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Maria W. Stewart (category Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Washington, D.C.))
    Intelligence Society in April 1832. Although her speeches were controversial William Lloyd Garrison, a friend and the central figure of the abolitionist movement...
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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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  • actuated by the principles of equity and juſtice, we cannot but expect your houſe will again take our deplorable caſe into ſerious consideration, and give...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    William H. Simpson (c.1818 – 1872) was an African American artist and civil right activist in the 19th century, known for his portraits. William Simpson...
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    The elected officers were Thomas Dalton (abolitionist), President William Guion 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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    the First African Baptist Church, currently known as the African Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts. He later helped found the Abyssinian Baptist Church...
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    Leonard Grimes (category People from Washington, D.C.)
    Wesley, Dorothy Porter; Uzelac, Constance Porter, eds. (2002). William Cooper Nell, nineteenth-century African American abolitionist, historian, integrationist:...
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    of the Boston Female Anti Slavery Society, 1836; p. 73 Stevens, Elizabeth C. Elizabeth Buffum Chace and Lillie Chace Wyman: A Century of Abolitionist...
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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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