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MATHER BYLES, THE WITTY LOYALIST EVEN THE PATRIOTS LIKED Boston’s Rev. Mather Byles was a Loyalist through and through. His loyalty to England never wavered throughout the American Revolution. What set him apart from others, however, and what may explain his ability to remain in Boston unmolested until his death in 1788, was his wit. Mather Byles , a Harvard-educated clergyman born in 1706, SAMUEL WHITTEMORE, THE OLDEST, BRAVEST AND MAYBE CRAZIESTSEE MORE ON NEWENGLANDHISTORICALSOCIETY.COM BABE RUTH THROWS A PIANO INTO A POND: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE Babe Ruth once got drunk while in Sudbury, Mass., and threw a piano into Willis Pond to show off his strength. That, at least, is one legend. The other is that Babe and his friends pushed the piano down a hill onto the ice for a party. The Babe’s wife played the pianowhile everyone
SILVER ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED AT WHEELER-THOREAU SHANTY SITESEE MORE ON NEWENGLANDHISTORICALSOCIETY.COM LOIS LONG, THE FLAPPER WHO ROARED WITH THE 20S THE SIEGE OF SCARBOROUGH AND MAINE’S LONG WAR The Siege of Scarborough and Maine’s Long War. In 1676, the colonial settlers in Scarborough, Maine, had abandoned the town after fierce fighting with a small army of Indians. That set the stage for the siege of Scarborough the following year. King Philip’s War had been raging since 1675, and in Maine — the war’s northern theater THE GREAT THROAT DISTEMPER OF 1735 THE GREAT SOUTH END GROUNDS FIRE OF 1894 The Boston Beaneaters were playing the Baltimore Orioles at the South End Grounds on May 15, 1894, when a fan lit a cigar in the right field bleachers and dropped the match through a crack. That was the version of the story accepted by most. Another version blamed ‘some small Roxbury boys’ who ‘set themselves up HOW SCOTTISH POWS WERE SOLD AS SLAVE LABOR IN NEW ENGLAND As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s as temporary slaves to work in iron mills, saw mills and farms.. The Great Migration of Puritans had ended, and the colonists badly needed workers. Across the sea, Oliver Cromwell’s new government had the costly and vexing task of managing thousands of Scottish POWs. HOW THE NEW ENGLAND PLANTERS SETTLED NOVA SCOTIA IN 1760 In October of 1758, Britain’s royal governor Charles Lawrence for Nova Scotia made an exciting offer to the New England Planters: they could have land for free if they cultivated it. ‘New England Planters’ was an Elizabethan term for the American colonists, and it came to describe the group of farmers who couldn’t refuseLawrence’s
MATHER BYLES, THE WITTY LOYALIST EVEN THE PATRIOTS LIKED Boston’s Rev. Mather Byles was a Loyalist through and through. His loyalty to England never wavered throughout the American Revolution. What set him apart from others, however, and what may explain his ability to remain in Boston unmolested until his death in 1788, was his wit. Mather Byles , a Harvard-educated clergyman born in 1706, SAMUEL WHITTEMORE, THE OLDEST, BRAVEST AND MAYBE CRAZIESTSEE MORE ON NEWENGLANDHISTORICALSOCIETY.COM BABE RUTH THROWS A PIANO INTO A POND: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE Babe Ruth once got drunk while in Sudbury, Mass., and threw a piano into Willis Pond to show off his strength. That, at least, is one legend. The other is that Babe and his friends pushed the piano down a hill onto the ice for a party. The Babe’s wife played the pianowhile everyone
NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY New From New England Historical Society. Read It Today! Latest. 12.2K. The Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857. 2.5K. The Christmas Blizzard of 1909: ‘The Sea Never Gives Up The Living’. 3.7K. THE PENNY POSTCARD BORN IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. The first penny postcard in the United States was printed in 1873 by a Springfield envelope company that later patented a toilet paper holder. The U.S. Congress on June 8, 1872 authorized the so-called ‘penny postcard, which had postage pre-attached and could only be sold by the U.S. Postal Department. Postmaster General John Creswell awarded the printing contract to HOW THE GREEK IMMIGRANTS CAME TO NEW ENGLAND How the Greek Immigrants Came to New England. In 1860, U.S. Census takers recorded 328 Greek immigrants living in America. Among them were 40 young men and boys. They arrived after the Greek War of Independence, which had left them orphaned. Michael Dukakis, son ofGreek immigrants.
MARY BLISS PARSONS, THE WITCH OF NORTHAMPTON Mary Bliss Parsons. Mary Bliss was born in England in about 1627, most likely in Painswick Parish, Gloucestershire. She came to Mount Wollaston (now a part of Quincy) in the Massachusetts Bay Colony around 1635 at the age of about eight. She sailed with her parents and four elder step-brothers. FOUR RICE BOYS CAPTURED BY INDIANS IN 1704; THREE RICE On a hot August day in 1704, the Rice boys were working with their fathers to spread flax in a field in what is now Westborough, Mass. Suddenly a party of about 10 Indians rushed down from the wooded hill nearby and seized five of the Rice boys. The Indians bashed 5-year-old Nahor Rice’s brains HOW PTOWN GOT SO GAY, GAY, GAY How Ptown Got So Gay, Gay, Gay. Ptown, as so many know it, was once a shabby old seaport that had fallen on hard times. Yankees lived on one side of town, Portuguese on the other. When the railroad came, it put the Portuguese on the wrong side of the tracks. The railroad, though, brought tourists to enjoy Provincetown’s wide, sandy beaches. MAY ALCOTT, FOREVER SHADOWED BY OLDER SISTER LOUISA May Alcott. Abigail May Alcott was born July 26, 1840 into the eccentric – today we might say ‘progressive’ — Alcott family. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a hopelessly improvident romantic, passionate about social justice and education. Her mother, Abigail, kept the family financially afloat while advocating women’s rights.She was
SAMUEL WHITTEMORE, THE OLDEST, BRAVEST AND MAYBE CRAZIEST Samuel Whittemore. Samuel Whittemore was born on July 27, 1696 in Charlestown, Mass., to Samuel Whittemore and Hannah Rix. He had some education, married twice, had a daughter and farmed land in Menotomy, then part of Cambridge, now Arlington. ANDREW WYETH’S FIRST DATE WITH CHRISTINA OLSON AND HER Andrew Wyeth met his future wife and Christina Olson, the subject of his most famous painting, on the same day – his 22nd birthday. Christina Olson was born on May 3, 1893 and as a child contracted a disease that curbed her mobility — probably Charcot-Marie-ToothDisease. Her
MARY PATTEN, 19 AND PREGNANT, TAKES COMMAND OF A CLIPPER Mary Patten never set out to be a sea captain, but that’s what she became in 1856. She had married Joshua Patten, a sea captain, in 1853 at the age of 16. He was 25, and worked ferrying cargo and passengers from New York to Boston. In 1854, when the captain of the clipper ship NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETYABOUT USSTATESTOPICSJOIN FOR FREEMAINEMASSACHUSETTS New From New England Historical Society. Read It Today! Latest. 12.2K. The Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857. 2.5K. The Christmas Blizzard of 1909: ‘The Sea Never Gives Up The Living’. 3.7K. SILVER ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED AT WHEELER-THOREAU SHANTY SITESEE MORE ON NEWENGLANDHISTORICALSOCIETY.COM THE RED PAINT PEOPLE OF MAINE Before the first colonists and explorers came to New England, before even the American Indian tribes lived here, there were the Red Paint People of Maine. We know very little about them, but they did exist in Maine some 2000 to 6000 years ago. And we know they HOW SCOTTISH POWS WERE SOLD AS SLAVE LABOR IN NEW ENGLAND As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s as temporary slaves to work in iron mills, saw mills and farms.. The Great Migration of Puritans had ended, and the colonists badly needed workers. Across the sea, Oliver Cromwell’s new government had the costly and vexing task of managing thousands of Scottish POWs. HOW THE NEW ENGLAND PLANTERS SETTLED NOVA SCOTIA IN 1760EARLY NEW ENGLAND SETTLERSNEW ENGLAND SETTLERSEARLY SETTLERS IN NEW ENGLANDFIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND In October of 1758, Britain’s royal governor Charles Lawrence for Nova Scotia made an exciting offer to the New England Planters: they could have land for free if they cultivated it. ‘New England Planters’ was an Elizabethan term for the American colonists, and it came to describe the group of farmers who couldn’t refuseLawrence’s
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF CAPE COD'S DAVID BACON MATHER BYLES, THE WITTY LOYALIST EVEN THE PATRIOTS LIKEDPATRIOT AND LOYALIST FACTSREVOLUTIONARY WAR LOYALISTS AND PATRIOTS Boston’s Rev. Mather Byles was a Loyalist through and through. His loyalty to England never wavered throughout the American Revolution. What set him apart from others, however, and what may explain his ability to remain in Boston unmolested until his death in 1788, was his wit. Mather Byles , a Harvard-educated clergyman born in 1706, THE 1673 MURDER OF REBECCA CORNELL AND THE ‘GOOD FIRESEE MORE ON NEWENGLANDHISTORICALSOCIETY.COM ANDREW WYETH’S FIRST DATE WITH CHRISTINA OLSON AND HER Andrew Wyeth met his future wife and Christina Olson, the subject of his most famous painting, on the same day – his 22nd birthday. Christina Olson was born on May 3, 1893 and as a child contracted a disease that curbed her mobility — probably Charcot-Marie-ToothDisease. Her
NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETYABOUT USSTATESTOPICSJOIN FOR FREEMAINEMASSACHUSETTS New From New England Historical Society. Read It Today! Latest. 12.2K. The Cold Storm and Great Freeze of 1857. 2.5K. The Christmas Blizzard of 1909: ‘The Sea Never Gives Up The Living’. 3.7K. SILVER ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED AT WHEELER-THOREAU SHANTY SITESEE MORE ON NEWENGLANDHISTORICALSOCIETY.COM THE RED PAINT PEOPLE OF MAINE Before the first colonists and explorers came to New England, before even the American Indian tribes lived here, there were the Red Paint People of Maine. We know very little about them, but they did exist in Maine some 2000 to 6000 years ago. And we know they HOW SCOTTISH POWS WERE SOLD AS SLAVE LABOR IN NEW ENGLAND As many as 400 Scottish POWS captured in the Battles of Worcester and Dunbar were shipped to New England in the 1650s as temporary slaves to work in iron mills, saw mills and farms.. The Great Migration of Puritans had ended, and the colonists badly needed workers. Across the sea, Oliver Cromwell’s new government had the costly and vexing task of managing thousands of Scottish POWs. HOW THE NEW ENGLAND PLANTERS SETTLED NOVA SCOTIA IN 1760EARLY NEW ENGLAND SETTLERSNEW ENGLAND SETTLERSEARLY SETTLERS IN NEW ENGLANDFIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND In October of 1758, Britain’s royal governor Charles Lawrence for Nova Scotia made an exciting offer to the New England Planters: they could have land for free if they cultivated it. ‘New England Planters’ was an Elizabethan term for the American colonists, and it came to describe the group of farmers who couldn’t refuseLawrence’s
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF CAPE COD'S DAVID BACON MATHER BYLES, THE WITTY LOYALIST EVEN THE PATRIOTS LIKEDPATRIOT AND LOYALIST FACTSREVOLUTIONARY WAR LOYALISTS AND PATRIOTS Boston’s Rev. Mather Byles was a Loyalist through and through. His loyalty to England never wavered throughout the American Revolution. What set him apart from others, however, and what may explain his ability to remain in Boston unmolested until his death in 1788, was his wit. Mather Byles , a Harvard-educated clergyman born in 1706, THE 1673 MURDER OF REBECCA CORNELL AND THE ‘GOOD FIRESEE MORE ON NEWENGLANDHISTORICALSOCIETY.COM ANDREW WYETH’S FIRST DATE WITH CHRISTINA OLSON AND HER Andrew Wyeth met his future wife and Christina Olson, the subject of his most famous painting, on the same day – his 22nd birthday. Christina Olson was born on May 3, 1893 and as a child contracted a disease that curbed her mobility — probably Charcot-Marie-ToothDisease. Her
WHEN FEARS OF PREMATURE BURIAL STALKED THE LAND JOIN THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY New England Historical Society. P.O. Box 141. Stonington, ME 94681. About Us; Home; States. Connecticut; Maine; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; Rhode Island THE LITTLE CANADAS OF NEW ENGLAND Dozens of Little Canadas have contributed a significant but often ignored part of the character and history of New England since the 19th century. They’ve given us magnificent churches, Catholic hospitals and sports heroes like Springfield’s Leo Durocher and Woonsocket’s Nap LaJoie. They’ve produced writers like Annie Proulx, who comes from Norwich, Conn., and chefs SIX ABANDONED PLACES What is so appealing about abandoned places? Cyberspace abounds with photos, videos and bloggers waxing elegiac about abandoned old mills, mansions and malls. Tim Edensor, a geography professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, studies why people like abandoned places. He called them ‘marginal spaces filled with old and obscure objects,’ where people can see and feel THE PENNY POSTCARD BORN IN SPRINGFIELD, MASS. The first penny postcard in the United States was printed in 1873 by a Springfield envelope company that later patented a toilet paper holder. The U.S. Congress on June 8, 1872 authorized the so-called ‘penny postcard, which had postage pre-attached and could only be sold by the U.S. Postal Department. Postmaster General John Creswell awarded the printing contract to SIX 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 mysterious stone structures. In the 1930s, someone estimated that New England had 250,000 miles of stone walls. In the following decades came inventories of the region’s stone structures, which somebelieved to be
THE SIEGE OF SCARBOROUGH AND MAINE’S LONG WAR In 1676, the colonial settlers in Scarborough, Maine, had abandoned the town after fierce fighting with a small army of Indians. That set the stage for the siege of Scarborough the following year. King Philip’s War had been raging since 1675, and in Maine — the war’s northern theater — the fighting was on a THE GREAT THROAT DISTEMPER OF 1735 In 1735, a young child in Kingston, N.H., came down with a cold and all of New England would get sick. The Great Throat Distemper of 1735 to 1740 was one of the greatest epidemics ever to terrify New England. The disease, which modern physicians recognize as diphtheria, firstshowed up
HOW PTOWN GOT SO GAY, GAY, GAY How Ptown Got So Gay, Gay, Gay. Ptown, as so many know it, was once a shabby old seaport that had fallen on hard times. Yankees lived on one side of town, Portuguese on the other. When the railroad came, it put the Portuguese on the wrong side of the tracks. The railroad, though, brought tourists to enjoy Provincetown’s wide, sandy beaches. THE HEROIC RESCUE OF THE PENDLETON CREW, 1952 The Pendleton had 32 surviving crewmen.The CG-36500 was designed to carry 12.. The Pendleton crewmen began climbing down the ladder. One by one they either crashed on the bow of the CG-36500 or fell in to the sea, where the crew fished them out. The wind tossed the ladder to and fro, flinging the Pendleton crewmen away from the ship and then slamming them into it. MAY ALCOTT, FOREVER SHADOWED BY OLDER SISTER LOUISA May Alcott. Abigail May Alcott was born July 26, 1840 into the eccentric – today we might say ‘progressive’ — Alcott family. Her father, Bronson Alcott, was a hopelessly improvident romantic, passionate about social justice and education. Her mother, Abigail, kept the family financially afloat while advocating women’s rights.She was
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