All posts tagged "Plymouth Mass."
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18.9KConnecticutThe History of Epidemics in New England
The history of epidemics in New England teaches us that they arrive with terrifying swiftness. They also don’t get less lethal with...
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14.3K9ConnecticutBlack Sheep: The Rev. John Cotton Jr. Story
Is black sheep a fair description of Rev. John Cotton Jr.? His father, after all, condoned casting Anne Hutchinson out of the...
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14.0K8ConnecticutThe First Town Meeting Still Going in Six States
Town Meeting dates to the European settlement of New England, and it persists today in town halls, schools and auditoriums. Not to...
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9.0K4ConnecticutThe Six Oldest Courthouses in New England
Some of the oldest courthouses in New England have had revolutionaries argue cases in them. Patriots, heroes and traitors walked within their...
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19.4K8bostonThe 21 New England Colonial and State Capitals
New England cities and towns used to vie for colonial and state capitals the way they now court sports stadiums, with the...
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19.1K9frontAbigail Adams Vents to Mercy Otis Warren About John
In the spring of 1776, Mercy Otis Warren received a letter from her good friend Abigail Adams complaining about her husband John....
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9.6K15MassachusettsMad Jack Oldham Starts the Pequot War
War between the early English colonists of New England and the Native Americans already here was perhaps unavoidable, though it wasn’t the...
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23.5K4ConnecticutThe Story of How Hebrew Almost Became the Official U.S. Language
Just after the American Revolution, an English essayist named William Gifford reported that some Americans planned to substitute Hebrew as the official language...
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23.9K7ConnecticutThe Puritan Divorce Allows Escape From the Chain of Matrimony
When Elizabeth Luxford found out her husband James already had a wife, she went straight to the Court of Assistants in Massachusetts...
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7.4K1MassachusettsTiny Militia Captures Crew of Huge British Warship HMS Somerset
In one of the most remarkable engagements of the American Revolution, the tiny militia of Truro captured more than 400 sailors and...
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