All posts tagged "migration"
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17.7K4MassachusettsJudith Coffin, Mother and Grandmother 177 Times Over
Were Mother’s Day celebrated in 17th century Massachusetts the way it’s celebrated today, Judith Coffin would have had quite a party. When she...
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8.5K3MassachusettsHannah Ropes Spends 6 Months in Kansas With Loaded Pistols and Bowie Knife
On Sept. 11, 1855, Hannah Ropes, a 46-year-old single parent, stepped onto a train in Boston and headed to the ‘Far-Off Land’...
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47.2K87MassachusettsThe Great Migration of Picky Puritans, 1620-40
When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of...
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17.1K14MassachusettsRemembering the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635
The Great Colonial Hurricane, possibly the strongest storm in New England’s history, struck on Aug. 25, 1635. The Rev. Richard Mather and...
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21.3K9MassachusettsJune 14, 1630: The Arbella Comes to Anchor in Salem Harbor
The Massachusetts Bay Colony got its start on June 14, 1630, when the Arbella came to anchor in Salem Harbor after a...
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18.2K21MassachusettsBefore the Famine Ships, The Irish Made Their Mark in New England
When the Irish famine ships arrived in Boston in the 1840s, tens if not hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Ireland already...
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