All posts tagged "tavern"
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12.4KArts and LeisureRichard Potter, Celebrity Black Magician of the 19th Century
Richard Potter, the son of a former slave, won fame and fortune with a bag of magic tricks and a voice that...
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7.5KMassachusettsMary Bliss Parsons, the Witch of Northampton
The year 1656 wasn’t the first time Mary Bliss Parsons of Northampton was accused of witchcraft. Nineteen years later, in 1675, she...
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9.5K3New HampshireThe Stone-Throwing Devil of New Castle, N.H.
During the summer of 1682, a stone-throwing devil persecuted a Quaker tavern owner named George Walton in what is now New Castle,...
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30.5K10MassachusettsStephen Hopkins, Jamestown Settler, Mayflower Pilgrim – and Shakespeare Character?
Stephen Hopkins settled both Jamestown and Plymouth, and many believe Shakespeare based a character on him. Though he wasn’t among the first...
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10.3KConnecticutThe Confessions of Moses Paul
These are the established facts about why Connecticut executed Moses Paul: On the night of December 7, 1771, Paul visited David Clark’s...
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8.7K7Arts and LeisureMadame Knight Observes the Manners and Customs of Connecticut Colony, 1704
Sarah Kemble Knight, known as Madame Knight, made a long and hard journey from Boston to New Haven in 1704. Along the...
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