All posts tagged "tavern"

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  Arts and Leisure

  Richard 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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  Massachusetts

  Mary 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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  New Hampshire

  The 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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  Massachusetts

  Stephen 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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  Connecticut

  The 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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  Arts and Leisure

  Madame 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...