In 1721, the Connecticut General Assembly ordered Jeremiah Fitch to begin paying rent to John Clark for land he lived on near...
In Connecticut they called it ‘Storm Larry.’ But to anyone old enough to remember, the words ‘1978 blizzard’ conjure up some very...
There was no shortage of illness in colonial New England and no shortage of colonial remedies. Our forebears left records of suffering...
In 1634, John Endecott and Roger Williams agreed on one thing. The first Massachusetts flag had to be changed. Endecott, of Salem,...
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...
The American Revolution was on in 1780, but that didn’t stop Harvard professor Samuel Williams from venturing behind British lines in Maine...