All posts tagged "Puritan"
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7.9K5ConnecticutWilliam 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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19.2K10MassachusettsHow the Slave Trade Took Root in New England
On Feb. 28, 1638, the slave trade probably began in New England when a ship arrived in Massachusetts Bay from the West...
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5.7K1New 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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20.1K3Arts and LeisureSeven Colonial New England Games
The Puritans were never known for their lighthearted play, and the Puritan leadership viewed colonial New England games with disgust. In the early...
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12.6K3MassachusettsMen in Drag: The Hasty Pudding Theatricals
Some of New England’s most distinguished statesmen and jurists kept a part of their past quiet later in their careers. They had...
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6.2K2MassachusettsCotton Mather Braces for the 1713 Measles Epidemic in New England
In early fall of 1713, reports began making the rounds that measles was spreading in New England. Puritan minister Cotton Mather first...
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