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| | Common-place: Object Lessons: "Nearest a Kin to Fisher" |
 | | But in Dedham, Massachusetts, in the late 1740s, tavern owner, almanac writer, physician, and common lawyer Nathaniel Ames used his sign to skewer five of the province's most powerful politicians: the justices sitting on the Superior Court of Judicature, Massachusetts' highest court of law. |
 | | His move to Dedham brought Ames closer to the intellectual ferment of Boston and Cambridge, but it also, ultimately, brought him an economically and politically strategic position as a tavern keeper. |
 | | This image, based on the memory of Dedham's oldest inhabitant in 1891, was drawn by Annie Richards Fisher Thayer (from Samuel Briggs, ed., The Essays, Humor, and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, 1891). |
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