All posts tagged "Samuel Sewall"
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17.8KConnecticutThe 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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5.4KMassachusettsThe Great Puritan Periwig Controversy
Cotton Mather and Samuel Sewall were close and lifelong friends. They moved in the same Boston social circles, shared companions, dined together and...
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4.4KMassachusettsBostonians Practice Their Tea Party on Andrew Belcher
Sixty-three years before the Boston Tea Party, outraged men launched a nighttime attack on a ship belonging to Andrew Belcher in Boston...
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5.7KCrime and ScandalPersonal Ads and Swiping Right in 1680: Five Colonial Courtship Customs
The course of true love is never smooth, and in colonial New England young couples had many courtship customs to contend with....
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22.1K4MassachusettsHow The Old Deluder Satan Act Made Sure Puritan Children Got Educated
In 1675, William Scant of Braintree, Mass., came before the court for breaking a law called the Old Deluder Satan Act: He had...
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11.7K2New England PlacesSix Loyalist Houses
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
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45.2K5MassachusettsPuritan Easter, or The Devil’s Holiday
John Winthrop famously wrote in this journal that the Arbella departed for the New World on Easter Monday – March 29, 1630....
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34.5K5Arts and LeisureThe Crucible, or How Arthur Miller Got the Salem Witch Trials Wrong
Arthur Miller ostensibly wrote his classic drama The Crucible about the Salem witch trials of 1692, but he aimed it at Sen. Joseph...
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8.8K7MassachusettsIn 1685 Massachusetts Legalized Christmas to Samuel Sewall’s Dismay
In 1685, a tolerant wind blew briefly through England when James II ascended to the throne. He ordered greater freedom for Roman...
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14.9K9Arts and LeisureThe Salem Witch Trials, or Still Raking It In After All These Years
People still can’t seem to get enough of the Salem witch trials, which remain a mainstay of popular culture 326 years after...
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