Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
In 1673 word reached England that the Rev. Josiah Baxter had been ruthlessly murdered in Boston. Baxter was an Anglican minister who...
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...
John Winthrop famously wrote in his journal that the Arbella departed for the New World on Easter Monday – March 29, 1630....
In 1685, a tolerant wind blew briefly through England when James II ascended to the throne. He ordered greater freedom for Roman...