All posts tagged "Connectictut"

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  How the Great Colchester Molasses Shortage Nearly Ruined Thanksgiving

  Molasses played such a starring role in the colonial New England Thanksgiving that a shortage of it in 1705 forced Colchester, Conn.,...

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  Manasseh Cutler, Ipswich Minister Who Set Off the Great Westward Migration

  Manasseh Cutler, a Congregationalist minister, in 1788 left his home in Ipswich, Mass., to help build the first permanent settlement in the...