All posts tagged "Massachusetts Bay Colony"
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6.1K1Business and LaborHigley Copper Coins: Connecticut’s Rare, Exciting and Historic Penny
According to the legend of the Higley copper, a Connecticut doctor with a powerful thirst and a copper mine minted the colony’s...
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5.2KMassachusettsThe 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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10.9K2ConnecticutIn 1640, More Puritans Left New England Than Arrived
The year 1620 is well known as the date the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, but 1640 is less well-known as the year...
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7.1K1MassachusettsThe Puritans Blame Provoking Evils for King Philip’s War
Increase Mather could see King Philip’s War coming from his pulpit. All around him he saw sinful activity: periwigs, high prices, tippling...
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6.6K9Crime and ScandalNathaniel 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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6.8K5ConnecticutWilliam Pynchon Leaves Connecticut in 1637 and Takes a City With Him
Springfield, Mass., and the rest of Western Massachusetts, might well belong to Connecticut today if William Pynchon had not decided to leave...
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5.2KBusiness and LaborJoseph Dudley and the Private Bank That Sank Him
Money in the 1600s was a volatile topic in the colonies. In a financial crisis, a currency shortage would freeze up the...
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25.5K10MassachusettsMary Webster, the Witch of Hadley, Survives a Hanging
A Massachusetts jury acquitted Mary Webster of witchcraft in 1683, but her Hadley neighbors still thought her a witch – especially since...
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7.4K14Rhode IslandOld Roger Williams Tries To Stop King Philip’s War
On March 29, 1676, old Roger Williams was one of 30 men who remained in the town of Providence. Most of the...
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4.0K1MaineSamuel Williams Watches an Eclipse From Behind British Lines in 1780
The American Revolution was on in 1780, but that didn’t stop Harvard professor Samuel Williams from venturing behind British lines in Maine...
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