All posts tagged "Saugus"
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12.2K1ConnecticutWhen 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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10.7K3ConnecticutHow 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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86.7K19MassachusettsHow 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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12.8K4Arts 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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15.8K10MassachusettsLady 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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13.7K2MassachusettsThe 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 most certainly begins before the...
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