All posts tagged "Winthrop"
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6.6K3Massachusetts‘Sour Ale in Summer’ – The Puritan Beliefs of Charles Chauncy
In the early 1600s, the Anglican Church was under criticism from all manner of dissenters offering a wide variety of opinions on...
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10.2K1MassachusettsLucy Downing, Puritan Wife and Harvard Founder
In the spring of 1636, Lucy Downing wrote a letter from England to her older brother, John Winthrop, six years after he...
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13.5K2New England PlacesSix Loyalist Houses
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
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73.5K10ConnecticutSix Mysterious Stone Structures of New England
Everyone knows that stone walls cover the New England landscape like honeycombs. But far fewer people know about the region’s hundreds of...
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63.7K5MassachusettsPuritan Easter, or The Devil’s Holiday
John Winthrop famously wrote in his journal that the Arbella departed for the New World on Easter Monday – March 29, 1630....
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19.4K9Business and LaborSix Irish Landmarks in New England
Irish landmarks commemorate the history of Irish immigrants in places you might not expect throughout New England. There’s more to Irish-American history...
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