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Article: Anna's journal.(12-year-old Anna Winslow began keeping a journal in 1771)
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- April 1, 1998
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In 1771, the snow was up to people's waists on some of the streets of Boston. Sometimes the walking was so slippery and the air so cold that 12-year-old Anna Winslow wasn't allowed to go to school. She had come to Boston to board with her aunt and be a student. Her family was still in Nova Scotia where her father was working for the British Army.
In a few years, the Boston Tea Party and then the Battle of Bunker Hill would happen. Anna was at the place where the American Revolution was beginning. Many of her girlfriends' parents were friendly with patriots like John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. Some of the Sons of Liberty, who had planned the Boston ...
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