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BOSTON
Poet’s Corner Acrostic Rebus: Solution
Britain; Oak; Soldiers; Tories; Owl; Nobody = BOSTON
Author/Artist:
Publisher: Isaiah Thomas, The Massachusetts Spy
Date: May 23, 1771
Description: p. 43
Language: English [Boston]
Repository: Massachusetts Spy, vol. I, no. 12, 23 May 1771, p. 48. Readex: America’s Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/doc
Tags: 18th-century, acrostic, American, Boston, Colonial America, newspaper, Phillis Wheatley Peters, verbal
See Poet’s Corner Acrostic Rebus. For more information, see Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753–84) and “Acrostic Rebuses” of the 1770s.