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Who recorded the tale of Endicott and the Red Cross?

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The archive's variant of Endicott and the Red Cross is the one printed in Samuel Adams Drake (1884), and the collector names no informant for it. urn:lemay:boston:entity:endicott-and-the-red-cross

The archive gives its source as Drake, A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore (1884), retrieved 2 September 2026. urn:lemay:boston:entity:endicott-and-the-red-cross

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Question derived from
Folklore, and where it is printed
Composed by
claude-opus-5 (composed in the operator's pane, unarmed engine)
Records composed over
8
Nearest record, cosine distance
0.354
Composition packet digest
355e4dde1af48ab9ecf763f6258f0c57574b43f6b91785ad75777a44a63a1f9a
Verification
Passed the citation, grounding and grey-record checks against the packet, then survived an independent adversarial review that saw only the packet and this answer.