All posts tagged "smallpox"
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1.9KMaineSeven Fun Facts About Taxes
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun -- well,...
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3.4K1ConnecticutHorror Stories About Revolutionary Prisoners Inflame the Colonies
Late in 1776, the British army released thousands of revolutionary prisoners incarcerated in New York. Their condition – starving, diseased, near death...
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3.4KConnecticutWhen John Winthrop Jr. Doctored the Connecticut Colony. For Free.
Though he wasn’t even a doctor, John Winthrop Jr. diagnosed and medicated hundreds of New Englanders in the latter part of the...
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5.7KPolitics and MilitaryThe Oldest Newspaper in Each New England State
Those quarrelsome publishers just love to argue over the honor of being the oldest newspaper in the United States. But which one...
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2.9KMassachusettsCotton Mather Braces for the 1713 Measles Epidemic in New England
In early fall of 1713, reports began making the rounds that measles was spreading in New England. Puritan minister Cotton Mather first...
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4.2K5VermontSusannah Johnson, Indian Captive, Gives Birth in the Wild and Commemorates the Spot 45 Years Later
In August 1754, Susannah Johnson gave birth to a daughter in the Vermont wilderness during a forced march by her Indian captors....
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15.9K6MassachusettsExactly How New England’s Indian Population Was Nearly Wiped Out
Even before European colonists nearly wiped out the Indian population in New England, war and disease had already begun their dirty work....
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5.4K2Rhode 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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3.5K1MassachusettsYankee Troubadour Jonathan Plummer – The First Massachusetts Poet Laureate
There has never been an official Massachusetts poet laureate, but there certainly was an unofficial one. Jonathan Plummer of Newburyport, while not...
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9.4K2Today's History Highlights ArchiveSix Loyalist Houses
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...