All posts tagged "Saugus"
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8.3K1ConnecticutWhen John Winthrop Jr. Doctored the Connecticut Colony. For Free.
Though he wasn’t even a doctor, John Winthrop Jr. diagnosed and medicated hundreds of New Englanders in the latter part of the...
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8.3K3ConnecticutHow the Puritans Raised New England Living Standards to the World’s Highest
New England living standards were higher than anyplace else in the world during much of the 17th and 18th centuries. By 1700,...
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70.5K19MassachusettsHow Scottish POWS Were Sold as Slave Labor in New England
As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s...
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10.6K3Arts and LeisureSix Colonial Homes by Wallace Nutting
Wallace Nutting was a dyspeptic minister so overwhelmed by urban life and modern values that he led countless Americans into a nostalgic...
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11.4K10MassachusettsLady Deborah Moody, A Dangerous Woman, Comes to New England
In 1654, when New York governor Peter Stuyvesant needed help collecting taxes, he turned to Deborah Moody. The career of the Salem,...
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8.8K2MassachusettsThe Legend of Dungeon Rock and the Pirate Treasure It Holds
Like many New England folk tales, dates and specifics are sketchy. But the story of Dungeon Rock begins before the 1638 earthquake...
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12.3K4Arts and LeisureThe Liberated Wife Who Really Was Wonder Woman
Elizabeth Holloway Marston was one-half of the inspiration for Wonder Woman, the superheroine who first appeared in comic books the month Pearl...
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12.2K13ConnecticutBlack Kings and Governors of New England
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors. They were elected on ‘Negroes Hallowday’...
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