All posts tagged "ministers"
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1.3KMassachusettsNathaniel Eaton, the Sadistic Puritan Who Made Harvard Disappear for a Year
Harvard University got off to a rough start in 1638, when Nathaniel Eaton and his wife led such a reign of terror...
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1.5KConnecticutEquity, Maine Meets the New England Divorce Reform League
The New England Divorce Reform League sprang up in the late 1800s in response to a divorce crisis in the country. The...
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5273ConnecticutRiver Gods of the Connecticut River Valley Create A World of Their Own
During the 150 years before the American Revolution, a series of aristocrats known as the River Gods ruled the Connecticut River Valley....
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7444MassachusettsHow the Slave Trade Took Root in New England
On Feb. 28, 1638, the slave trade probably began in New England when a ship arrived in Massachusetts Bay from the West...
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770MassachusettsThe 1755 Earthquake Shakes Up John Adams and All of New England
The great 1755 earthquake was part of a series of earthquakes (probably related to each other) that wracked both sides of the...
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2401MassachusettsThe Mysterious Rev. Josiah Baxter Murdered in Boston in 1673
In 1673 word reached England that the Rev. Josiah Baxter had been ruthlessly murdered in Boston. Baxter was an Anglican minister who...
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4952Arts and LeisureOld New England Holidays We No Longer Celebrate
Early New Englanders, influenced by the Puritans, were reluctant celebrants for most holidays. Religious festivals, they felt, were un-Christian and pagan. Yet...
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830Rhode IslandObadiah Holmes, The Baptist Martyr The Puritans Should Have Left Alone
The Puritan leaders of Massachusetts viewed Obadiah Holmes as a loathsome Baptist, and they ordered him whipped 30 times in public. In...
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5992Rhode IslandJames DeWolf, the RI Senator Who Murdered a Slave and Got Away With It
James DeWolf died the second richest man in America after accumulating a fortune from buying, selling and – in one case –...
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1.3K2MassachusettsHow The Old Deluder Satan Act Made Sure Puritan Children Got Educated
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., was brought before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act:...