All posts tagged "diary"
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6.9KArts and LeisureBanbury Cake, the Puritans’ Favorite Treat
On Dec. 24, 1706, Judge Samuel Sewall brought a Banbury cake to a sick friend in Boston. Sewall, best known as one...
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11.2KMassachusettsJohn Quincy Adams’ Bad Boy Brother Charles
John Quincy Adams’ diary must have been irresistible reading for his bad boy brother Charles. John Quincy started his diary at the...
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8.0K1Science and NatureFighting for Independence During a Smallpox Epidemic: Lake Champlain in 1776
Throughout the first six months of 1776, the soldiers of the American Northern Army in Canada fought against two deadly enemies: smallpox...
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12.1KConnecticutA Daughter of the Puritans Leads a Life of Secret Terror
A daughter of the Puritans led two lives. One, a happy ordinary life of a New England girl filled with school, friends,...
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11.9KMassachusettsSeven Fun Continental Army Facts
Certain Continental Army facts are implanted in the minds of U.S. schoolchildren at a young age: How patriot farmers dropped their plows...
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11.1K1MassachusettsThe Great Puritan Periwig Controversy
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
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