All posts tagged "protests"
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10.3KPolitics and MilitaryThe Providence Tea Party: On Dry Land, in Daylight and Thrown By Women
Rhode Island patriots had no more love for tea than did their allies in Boston, and on March 2, 1775, they threw...
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14.2K5ConnecticutWilliam Pynchon Leaves Connecticut in 1637 and Takes Springfield 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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9.1K1ConnecticutThe Land Rush that Started the Hartford Riot of 1722
In 1721, the Connecticut General Assembly ordered Jeremiah Fitch to begin paying rent to John Clark for land he lived on near...
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10.1K1New HampshireIn 1662 Robert Pike Halts a Quaker Persecution in Massachusetts
In 1662 three English Quakers arrived in Dover, N.H. It didn’t take long before the Puritan townspeople spoke up about the newcomers....
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41.7K1MassachusettsThe 18 Patriots Condemned to Death – Who Wouldn’t Die
Shortly before the American Revolution broke out, an item appeared in a Boston newspaper identifying 18 patriots condemned to death. On Sept....
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19.2KConnecticutIn 1674 the Connecticut Rogerenes Test the Limits of Religious Freedom
The Rogerenes were an unusual group of religious dissenters formed in New London, Conn., in the late 1600s. They took their name...
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