Join us for a festive tea party featuring sweet and savory treats! These refreshments will be accompanied by a talk featuring original Colonial and Revolutionary-era documents from the Boxford Historic Document Center collection.
Document Center archivist Robin Siegel will be using a collection of original 18th century town of Boxford documents to examine some of the earliest laws that governed Massachusetts and how these developed into the Massachusetts Constitution, which played an important role in early American efforts to abolish slavery, and eventually served as the model for the US Constitution. We will also be presenting a number of interesting documents in our collection that give us a glimpse into the lives of some Boxford residents who participated in the Revolutionary War.