Word: arbella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family's history, the number that keeps cropping up is 355, not 350. While Harvard University may be commemorating its 1636 founding date, the Saltonstalls can look back five years earlier to find their American roots. It was in 1631 that Sir Richard Saltonstall's boat, the Arbella, came to the Charles River bearing Thomas' ancestors, and spawning an 11-generation Harvard tradition of staid Brahmins and liberal activists alike...