Samuel Maverick, as his name suggests, didn’t like to go along with the crowd. The Puritan crowd, that is. He came to...
In 1735, a young child in Kingston, N.H., came down with a cold and all of New England would get sick. The...
On August 14, 1768, the Daughters of Liberty cheered from windows as the Sons of Liberty paraded through Boston to commemorate their...
Northern New Englanders ran for cover in late October as the 1727 earthquake, more powerful than any they had experienced, shook the...
Margaret Brown of County Cork in Ireland had a fierce beauty and a temper to match. She crossed from Ireland in 1723...
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...