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Show Revolutionary Patriot. James Lovell, a distinguished patriot pa-triot of the Revolution, died 100 years ago in the town of Windham, Me. Mr. Lovell was born in Boston in 1737 and graduated from Harvard college at the age of nineteen. He delivered, April 2, 1771, the oration before the town authoritiee on the Boston massacre. mas-sacre. Because of his display of patriotism pa-triotism he was imprisoned by General Gen-eral Gage immediately after the battle of Bunker Hill. Subsequently he was conveyed to Halifax with the British army, and remained in confinement until exchanged for Governor Skene in the latter part of 1776. From 1776 until 1782 Mr. Lovell was a member of the Continental congress. In later life he filled a number of public of-. of-. flees in Boston. |