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On this day a young war hero was born in Becket,Massachusetts
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When Joseph was born in the middle of the war he was not the safest kid in the world but he made his life work.
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Joseph was 4 years old
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The stamp act was passed in 1765
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The Townshend Act was passed
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word of the boston tea party reached joseph
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In 1774 the first continental congress met
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Joseph remembers the town bells ringing
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the war was cloose
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the British came to seize hidden weapons
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the declaration of independence was read to the troops
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there were so many american soldiers dead they stopped counting for months