All posts tagged "Winthrop"
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10.1K1Arts and LeisureEleonora Sears, Brahmin Bad Girl on the Tennis Courts (and Polo Field and Squash Court…)
Eleonora Sears pioneered women’s sports in the way only a Boston blueblood could. When she took up long-distance walking from Boston to...
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5.4KConnecticutNew England Colonists Thunderstruck by the Lightning Storms of 1768
Terrific lightning storms unsettled New England colonists during the summer of 1768, when rising tensions with Great Britain led to conflict and...
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40.1K29MassachusettsHow the Scots-Irish Came to America (And What They Brought With Them)
In the summer of 1718, five ships of Scots-Irish immigrants from Ulster arrived in Boston to an uncertain welcome. The Puritan leaders...
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26.8K7Crime and ScandalMary Latham Marries an Older Man – And Regrets It
Around 1643, Mary Latham fell in love with a boy who rejected her. About 17 years old and impetuous, Mary Latham decided...
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45.5K87MassachusettsThe Great Migration of Picky Puritans, 1620-40
When the Pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation in 1620, they began what was called the Great Migration – great not because of...
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8.5K14Crime and ScandalSir Christopher Gardiner – The Knight Who Fled Boston in Fear of His Wife
When John Winthrop and other members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony first settled in Boston in 1630, they soon discovered in the...
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