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One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.

~Alice Morse Earle

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Nationality: American

Type: Historian

Born: April 27th, 1851

Died: February 16th, 1911

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