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Seventeenth Week - Wednesday's "Medfield Historical Minute"

A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.

Declaration  of Independence
Declaration of Independence

A Medfield Historical Minute...

This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis. A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.

In May, 1776 town meeting voted to instruct our representative to the General Court to vote for the “support of the Continental Congress in a declaration of independence” and that “no African or other person be held in slavery during life.”

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