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Massachusetts Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/20b5babc-bc16-4047-b100-510c66873f25/1637_Canonicus.jpg Blog - their marks - Make it stand out This March 24, 1637 deed signed by Canonicus describes land on the island of “Acquidneck” and north to “Kitackamuckqutt.” The islands of Aquidneck, and the areas of Kickemuit and “the grass upon the rivers and coves about Kitackamuckqutt” and to Paupausquatch were exchanged for “40 fathom of white beads” plus ten coats and twenty hoes. Narragansett inhabitants of the island were then told to “remove themselves” before the next winter. Massachusetts State Archives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/5b2de48f-548e-4462-96a8-95568c071820/1642_Miantonomo.jpg Blog - their marks - Make it stand out Indian deed signed in 1642 by Miantonomo in Warwick, Rhode Island. 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This portrait, long thought to be of Niantic leader Ninigret II, portrays Robin Cassacinamon, an important Pequot leader. Native American Sachem, accession number 48.246, courtesy of RISD/public domain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/3bd2b547-a2b8-4648-81a8-5c48d875a0b1/South_County_Life_in_the_Days_of_the_Narragansett_Planters_%28mural_study%2C_Wakefield%2C_Rhode_Island_Post_Office%29_SAAM-1962.8.5_1.jpg Blog - “Knowing the full picture can’t help but change who we think we are” - Make it stand out WPA artist Earnest Hamlin Baker, "South County Life in the Days of the Narragansett Planters," Wakefield, Rhode Island, post office in ca.1939/40. Smithsonian American Art Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/01c6f18e-7244-4b11-9f2b-5051bc9c952c/115.+Captured+witch+BL.jpg Blog - “Knowing the full picture can’t help but change who we think we are” - Make it stand out Twenty people were executed, with five more dying in jail, in the Salem witch trials. The majority of them women, their convictions relied on “spectral evidence” - signs of invisible imps or witches’ malevolent acts. But as Keri Willis wrote, “accusation does not equal guilt,” a fact recognised by the Massachusetts colonial government and at least one judge, Samuel Sewell, who apologised in front of his congregation. Image: Ralph Gardiner, From Englands grievance discovered (London: For R. Ibbitson and P. Stent, 1655). British Library archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/0f17806e-faab-4456-ae19-aa5ad6705c23/title+page+Model+Charitie+NYHS.png Blog - “Knowing the full picture can’t help but change who we think we are” - Make it stand out On the eve of the Puritan departure from Southampton, John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, preached a vision of a community knit together “as one man.” They would be bound “in brotherly affection, we must delight in each other, make others’ conditions our own, rejoice together, labour together, suffer together, always having before our eyes… our community… keep[ing] the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.” Image: title page of a manuscript of his sermon, mistakenly noting that it was written on the ship Arbella. 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His 1621 treaty with the Plymouth colonists paved the way for decades of peace. The peace was broken by King Philip’s War, Native people’s attempt to protect their land, hunting grounds, homes and livelihoods. Image: Greg Kullberg, Wikicommons https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/jh4y1cbfesvk2237aq0ancyeedyk9k-73ne3-wkt3h monthly 0.5 2025-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/edb708ac-03e7-4997-a6f7-7bc1b113a629/1024px-Loring_Parsonage%2C_Sudbury_MA.jpg Blog - enslavement in the puritan village - Make it stand out Image The parsonage of the Rev. Israel Loring, minister of Sudbury, whose words best give a human face the people he enslaved and whom others enslaved. Today it is the home of the Sudbury Historical Society. 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Wellcome Library no. 26811i https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/60521449-7e06-41d1-8d70-6ade9a8a5057/32.+Witches+devils+dancing+Wellcome.jpg Blog - the world of john winthrop - Make it stand out Witches and demons dance in this English woodcut, 1720. Wellcome Library no. 44116i https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/33d8fe5f-f05b-4532-8a6b-7a0ad16b8b2d/30.+St+Botolphs+altar+Dorfman.jpg Blog - the world of john winthrop - Make it stand out The altar at St. Botolph’s in Boston, Lincolnshire, a puritan stronghold. Credit: David Dorfman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1127f4a5-86ff-4c06-b88b-10652c81466a/52.+Boston+coat+of+arms+plaque.jpg Blog - the world of john winthrop - Make it stand out The coat of arms of Boston, Lincolnshire, a source of puritan immigration. Credit: wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/bcc8d47c-5d7b-4ea4-9b48-b27931d644f2/37.++Groton+church+Bremer.jpg Blog - the world of john winthrop - Make it stand out The church at Groton, Suffolk, where John Winthrop was raised. Credit: Francis J. Bremer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/e8e31e84-422c-4156-a31f-33bf28a4e600/39.+Tomb+Adam+Winthrop+Bremer.jpg Blog - the world of john winthrop - Make it stand out The tomb of Adam Winthrop, John Winthrop’s father, outside the chanel of Groton church. The inscription specifies that he was “patron to this church after the Reformation,” as well as a parent of the future governor of Massachusetts. Credit: Francis J. Bremer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/97731b1f-76a7-4f29-a2a9-6925f95564af/title+page+Model+Charitie+NYHS.jpg Blog - the world of john winthrop - Make it stand out The title page of the sermon given by John Winthrop, mostly likely not given on board the ship Arbella, but at the Church of the Holy Rood, Southampton, on the eve of the June 1630 puritan departure across the Atlantic. Credit: New York Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/c569488c-81eb-4991-8e0d-4c13ba1ad1f6/29.+John+Cottons+pulpit+Dorfman.jpg Blog - the world of john winthrop - Make it stand out The pulpit of the Rev. John Cotton, who initially supported Anne Hutchinson’s gatherings to discuss the gospel. 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Treatise? or not by Winthrop at all? - Make it stand out John Winthrop, the “brave leader and famous” governor, elected in England in 1629, before the puritans departed for New England, to head the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Image: Wikicommons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/f3c1e0ba-16ab-4417-bf39-47a856f77d23/Holy+Rood+Southampton+Frank+Bremer.jpg Blog - Sermon? Treatise? or not by Winthrop at all? - Make it stand out The Southampton church where the puritans are likely to have heard Winthrop preach his Model of Christian Charity. Image: Barbara Bremer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/9a2077d6-7418-4ff0-94bf-9ccd28558a00/Winthrop+plaque+Boston.jpg Blog - Sermon? Treatise? or not by Winthrop at all? - Make it stand out This image of John Winthrop appears on a Boston, Massachusetts, plaque erected by the city on its 300th anniversary. It reads: “Near this site was the first house in Boston of John Winthrop, born 1588, died 1649. Governor of Massachusetts for twelve years. First elected October 20, 1629. Brought the charter from England June 12, 1630.” https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/mcc8fwmndntnml9kl2dn48kt59bs3n-ysgwz-wbmxa monthly 0.5 2023-08-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/7993edcf-bc5b-42c4-a61d-2a1a4a0ec84d/SC1+45X+MA+v30+p1_JPG.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out The deed of sale of land at Mystic by the Squaw Sachem of the Pawtucket to Jotham Gibbons, July 1, 1639. One of many original sources documenting the troubled relationship between Puritan colonists and Native people at the Massachusetts Archives - in this case, a deed marking the ongoing loss of Indigenous land. Source: Massachusetts Archives Collection, v. 30 p. 1. SC1/series 45X. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/429779b2-4521-4732-8022-0a9373f420f8/SC1+45X+MA+v40+p+621_jpg.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out The cost of witchcraft: a record of expenses for the accused imprisoned during their trials for witchcraft in Salem, 1692. Sarah Good was given two blankets; Rebecca Nurse’s imprisonment cost 17 shillings and sixpence. Other expenses included locks and shackles. There was also a record of expenses for Tituba, the enslaved woman whose accusations in Salem Village sparked the witchcraft hysteria. Source: Massachusetts Archives Collection, v. 40 p. 621. SC1/series 45X. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/3565333f-4c09-4ab3-bd59-77239e2d3eca/SC7+207+Acts+1692-3+ch40+Witchcraft_jpg.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits, passed by the Massachusetts General Court in the wake of the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. Despite its ominous overtones, this law was actually a step back from the extreme hysteria of the witchcraft trials. It banned the use of “spectral evidence” - the principle under which the majority of the accused had been convicted and executed - which had broken the legal tradition of the Massachusetts Bay Colony that a minimum of two witnesses were required for conviction. Instead, the introduction of “spectral evidence” had allowed testimony from a single individual and then, in court, that person’s claim of invisible forces as a second witness. Source: Engrossed Acts, 1692-3 c. 40. SC7/series 207. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/9bfa8e20-4523-46ec-8841-13ae606ff439/SC1+45X+MA+v60+p290_jpg.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out This document records the remarkable case of the Rainbow, in which Massachusetts rejected the enslavement of an African man and ordered him returned to Africa. Slavery had been legalized by the 1641 Body of Liberties, following the Puritan interpretation of the Bible. But the law explicitly excluded people seized fraudulently. After the Rainbow made its first voyage to Guinea for slaves 1644/45, it was ordered in Boston to return an enslaved African man to the Guinea Coast because, the document tells us, he was “seized violently on a Sunday.” Agreement between Robert Shopton, Miles Causon and James Smith, bound on a voyage to Guinea for slaves, February 13, 1644/5 and order for Mr. Williams to send back a negro fraudulently taken and brought from Guinea by Captain Smith, October 14, 1645. Source: Massachusetts Archives Collection, v. 60 pp. 290-291. SC1/series 45X. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/b7db372b-078c-46ae-85a0-2086330709db/SC1+45X+MA+v61+p430_jpg.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out Bill of lading for the ship Friendship, bound for Barbados, 1693. Although Massachusetts was not deeply involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 17th century, it had close trading ties to the slave islands of the Caribbean. This bill of lading lists cargo bound for Barbados which included a “large horse” with “two little snipps off each ear.” Horses were used to power machinery and to help overseers maintain control, not to ease the workload for enslaved people in the fields. On return voyages ships often carried Africans to be sold in Massachusetts. Source: Massachusetts Archives Collection, SCI 45X MA vol. 61 p. 430. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/c5289c24-4d29-461a-9af8-4e25c6160cb5/SC1+45X+MA+v30+p1_JPG.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out Deed of the sale of land, Mystic, Massachusetts, 1643. After the death of her husband Nanepashemet, sachem of the Pawtucket Confederation, the Squaw Sachem wielded considerable influence. When it became apparent that Native people were losing much of their lands, she was involved in several sales, perhaps making the best deals possible under the circumstances. This deed contains her mark and that of her second husband, Webcowites, as well as the names of John Winthrop and John Endicott. Source: Massachusetts Archives Collection, v. 30 p. 1. SC1/series 45X. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/2681e517-8514-4871-8e06-82ce4782c574/SC1+45x+MA+v30+p21_jpg.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out Petition of John Eliot for land in Dedham, 1641. The Rev. John Eliot, known in the Puritan community as the “apostle to the Indians,” received land from Dedham to establish the “Praying Indian” town of Natick. In this petition, he unsuccessfully requested additional land in Dedham, Massachusetts. While sincere in his religious convictions, Eliot is often criticized today for suppressing Native culture. During King Philip’s War, "Praying Indians” from Natick and other Eliot-founded communities were rounded up and sent to Deer Island, where hundreds perished of the cold, malnutrition and illness. Source: Massachusetts Archive Collection, SCI 45x Massachusetts Archives, vol. 30 p. 21. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/10b606d1-3303-41d7-84fc-17b697afe4fb/SC1+45X+MA+v47p6_jpg.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out In a town built of wood, such as Boston, fire was a constant threat. This 1646 order from John Winthrop, then governor, forbid smoking in designated areas that included most of central Boston. Of note here is the distinctive and elegant signature of Edward Rawson, secretary of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Rawson’s daughter was victimized by a man claiming to be a member of a prominent English family. After marriage and a voyage to England, Rebecca Rawson discovered that her husband had abandoned her and stolen valuable dowry items. During her return voyage to America several years later, her ship landed in Jamaica, where she died in an earthquake. Source: Massachusetts Archives Collection, SCI 45X MA vol. 47 p. 6. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/3d277511-d030-4b09-b423-acd03f777847/SC1+45X+MA+v70+p407_jpg.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out Historians of 17th-century New England society such as David Hackett Fischer tell us that the Puritans discouraged excessive drinking but often indulged after a funeral. This list of food and drink for the funeral of Nathaniel Holmes in 1699 bears out his view. As you can see, the purchases included 32 gallons of wine, two barrels of “Strong beer.” Mourning gloves were also purchased - like the alcohol, all “bourne by the publick charge.” Nathaniel Holmes was killed when a cannon exploded on Castle Island. Source: Massachusetts Archives Collection, SCI 45X MA, vol. 70 p. 407. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/82242a03-1c15-4fd3-99f9-4a28a4f0daaa/SC7+207+Acts+1694-5+ch5_jpg.jpg Blog - Behind the scenes at the museum - Make it stand out The “scarlet letter” law passed in 1694 which inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, read by generations of students. The law made it mandatory to wear a large letter “A” if convicted of adultery. Source: Massachusetts Archives Collection, SC7 207 Acts 1694-5 ch. 5. Massachusetts Archives, Boston, Massachusetts https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/mcc8fwmndntnml9kl2dn48kt59bs3n-ysgwz-wbmxa-kwzkh monthly 0.5 2023-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/b82b6444-b8a8-45ed-829d-a8934fa99ba1/Massasoit+Monument+at+Sunset+2.jpg Blog - RESCUING HISTORY AT SOWAMS - Make it stand out “While memories of this land spark the fires of his spirit, let the smoke rise in prayerful respect to Wampanoag Massasoit”: a rare monument to Indigenous leadership and peacemaking in early New England. Image: Dave Weed/Sowams Heritage Area Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/70272b54-6acf-42e9-97f2-8a04751b030e/Seat+of+Metacom.jpg Blog - RESCUING HISTORY AT SOWAMS - Make it stand out The Seat of Metacom in Bristol, RI, is where the Pokanokets have held their important ceremonies for the past 8,000 years. The quartz mountain top was visible to all who approached from Mt. Hope Bay. Image: Dave Weed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/ace0c30f-fc09-4e5e-add5-0c7091e0095d/start+of+KPW+baptist+church.jpg Blog - RESCUING HISTORY AT SOWAMS - Make it stand out The little known marker on the site where King Philip’s War first broke out - an effort by Tribes united by Metacom to push back against the loss of land, livelihood and lives to European settlement. It became the bloodiest war, per capita, in American history. Metacom and his fighters came close to victory, but were defeated. Metacom was decapitated, his head placed on a pike outside Plymouth. Image: Dave Weed https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/0381e274-7c2d-4e63-9bb3-38456e15306d/Pokanoket+heritage+Day2023.jpg Blog - RESCUING HISTORY AT SOWAMS - Make it stand out A flier for Pokanoket Heritage Day, August 6, 2023, at Burr’s Hill Park, Warren, Rhode Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/14c8868e-3cbc-4c1d-8120-29f39f165041/SowamsOutlineMapWithSomerset.jpg Blog - RESCUING HISTORY AT SOWAMS - Make it stand out A map of the richly historical Sowams area, with the 53 sites identified by the Sowams Heritage Area project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/74609b05-e67e-4b2b-b0a8-bb5579b90fcf/Roger+Williams+park+Dave+Weed.jpg Blog - RESCUING HISTORY AT SOWAMS - Make it stand out Roger Williams National Memorial in downtown Providence, RI, interprets Roger Williams’ life story and his contribution to New England history. It’s open Wednesday through Sunday and provides free guided tours at 9:30am and 1:30pm. Image: Dave Weed https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/mcc8fwmndntnml9kl2dn48kt59bs3n-ysgwz monthly 0.5 2023-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/f7f5978f-0d80-4a96-aa97-78e3b73b819f/32.+Witches+devils+dancing+Wellcome.jpg Blog - “She-Preachers” and Female teachers in puritan new england - Make it stand out Good wife or witch? The choices for 17th century women were few, as those writing history saw it. Witches dancing in a circle with demons, in a 1720 woodcut. Credit: Wellcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/d117f96b-7d49-47a7-9dd6-1af4985777e5/1495_pollard_trans_work_lg.jpg Blog - “She-Preachers” and Female teachers in puritan new england - Make it stand out Image: Ann Pollard, age 100 at the time this portrait was painted, claimed to have arrived in Massachusetts with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630. Like other Puritan women, she would have been literate and able to read her Bible. Credit: Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/8cfe5fa9-325b-4bb1-b1dc-c585d2970f61/41.+Margaret+Winthrop+letter+Bremer.jpg Blog - “She-Preachers” and Female teachers in puritan new england - Make it stand out John and Margaret Winthrop’s letters to each other testify to a deep mutual respect, even as Margaret signed herself “a faythful and obedient wife.” Credit: Francis J. Bremer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/ca518ac8-0289-4212-bbc2-d570bc95c48d/Elizabeth+Phillips+midwife+stone+Phipps.jpg Blog - “She-Preachers” and Female teachers in puritan new england - Make it stand out The gravestone of Elizabeth Phillips, midwife in Charlestown, Massachusetts, provides a rare example of a woman’s profession being noted publicly. Phipps Burial Ground. Credit: Sarah Stewart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/a7343d65-e2d6-4af4-88f7-e58f4634d54b/Stokes+Jane+Holmes.jpg Blog - “She-Preachers” and Female teachers in puritan new england - Make it stand out Image: Notes made by the Rev Thomas Shepard, Congregational minister in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from Jane Holmes’ relation of faith. Credit: Thomas Shepard’s confessions, Mss 553, R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/mcc8fwmndntnml9kl2dn48kt59bs3n monthly 0.5 2023-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/8fb76570-aef4-40e1-9e25-f8bc05a3b0ab/Matthews+landscape+3.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Nipmuc and Pocumtuck homelands. Overlooking the Connecticut/Kwinitekw River from Mount Sugarloaf, also known as Wequamps, 2020. ©Sandra Matthews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/a9fcba5c-4860-4943-bb11-736289122a79/Matthews+stone+monument+p58.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Nipmuc homelands. Indigenous ceremonial stones on state forest land. ©Sandra Matthews 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/9a8a3e51-5ef8-484b-ad0d-74e3d87f6500/Matthews+17th+c+cave+p59.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Nipmuc homelands. Entrance to a spherical chamber, built between 1300 and 1600 C.E., Upton. ©Sandra Matthews 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/cf00eac0-0ced-4acb-bc0c-32d2828af136/Matthews+Mashpee+wetu+p101.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Wampanoag homelands. A traditional wetu on the grounds of the Mashpee Wampanoag Indian Museum. ©Sandra Matthews 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/3437b249-823c-4c41-8b78-07f26202b5fa/Matthews+wetu+p4.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Pentucket/Pawtucket homelands. A traditional wetu, constructed for educational purposes. ©Sandra Matthews 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/d1a4a23f-b0e3-4e34-9522-a5449406395c/Matthews+Newbury+sign+p21.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Pentucket/Pawtucket homelands. The sign reads: “Newbury. Indian region called Quascacunquen. Settled 1635 under leadership of the Puritan clergyman Thomas Parker.” ©Sandra Matthews 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/c190082b-91b2-4233-8aa2-e31110a94f9b/Matthews+Hatfield+p45a.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Nipmuc and Pocumtuck homelands. Hatfield, also known as Capawonk. ©Sandra Matthews 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/63534590-0891-4c1e-9b52-a81a95360c92/Matthews+updated+Hatfield+p45b.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Nipmuc/Pocumtuck homelands. Hatfield/Capawonk. ©Sandra Matthews 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/047aa0f2-f6ec-4309-bc36-af553ca52136/Matthews+17th+c+bldg+p27.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Pentucket/Pawtucket homelands. Ladder house, ca. 1677, Rowley. ©Sandra Matthews 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/52896321-37b9-4579-95ab-203d5bd7275d/Matthews+small+large+house+p43.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Nipmuc and Pocumtuck homelands. Northampton, also known as Nonotuck, 2016. ©Sandra Matthews https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/65abfd52-8c14-4efa-a15c-786c2a971ded/Matthews+p88.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Agawam/Pentucket/Pawtucket homelands, Hamilton. The text on the marker is concealed under a plastic cover for reasons that are not explained. ©Sandra Matthews 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/b4bc262c-9426-46bd-ba49-eb7b83bcc912/Matthews+Boston+distance+p88.jpg Blog - occupying massachusetts - Make it stand out On Massachusett and Wampanoag homelands. View from the Great Blue Hill Observation Tower, Milton. The name “Massachusetts” refers to the Great Blue Hill, in Algonquian languages. Great Blue Hill is now located within the Blue Hills Reservation on state land. ©Sandra Matthews 2021 https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/eleven-names monthly 0.5 2024-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/f7f77016-d36e-4f92-a8ee-15e874980334/Joseph+Dudley+Enslaved+Indians+Vital+Roxbury.jpg Blog - Pulling the thread of slavery - Make it stand out The Eleven Names project challenges the anonymity of people such as “a girl of Mr Dudly,” the future Massachusetts Bay Colony governor’s enslaved Native young woman. She was 18 years and 2 months old old when she died - an event recorded without her name. Image: Roxbury MA: Vital records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Vol. 2. Salem, Mass.: The Essex institute, 1925. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015037392159?urlappend=%3Bseq=734%3Bownerid=13510798889957638-902 https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/who-owns-history monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/4a8e7c1f-3356-4b9d-8775-18dae70096ee/Old+Indian+House+Door.jpg Blog - WHO OWNS HISTORY? - Make it stand out For more than a century, John Sheldon’s door stood for the courage of English settlers resisting a savage attack in 1704 - an attack which became emblematic throughout the English colony for the savagery of Native people and the valour of colonists. Today, in the Memorial Hall Museum, this same door helps us to question our understanding of the past. 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It’s not always comfortable, but it certainly is exciting. https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/wvwzwstwqtfow1lhlymh7i1urcspr6 monthly 0.5 2022-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/4eb77f5f-feec-4f82-9727-cbc0873b54ca/Brooklyn_Museum_-_The_Peaceable_Kingdom_-_Edward_Hicks_-_overall.jpeg Blog - Turkey and pertatoes - The origins of 17th century Massachusetts foods - Make it stand out Cattle and horses (but not lions) were among the unfamiliar animals that arrived with the colonists and disrupted the landscape and Native livelihoods, as this 19th century painting might help us imagine. Image: Edward Hicks, “The Peaceable Kingdom,” Brooklyn Museum. Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/f7925208-285b-49e5-b200-3058638daa45/Admiralty+Court+dinner+invoice+1675+Mass+Archives.jpg Blog - Turkey and pertatoes - The origins of 17th century Massachusetts foods - Make it stand out An invoice for a 1675 Admiralty Court dinner held in Boston, Massachusetts, with a menu of both imported and native foods, wine and turkey, “pertatoes” and veal. Image: Massachusetts Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/81f1d4bf-1a49-4e1f-aa90-4b6de7d09f83/Interior_of_a_London_Coffee-house%2C_17th_century.jpeg Blog - Turkey and pertatoes - The origins of 17th century Massachusetts foods - Make it stand out A 17th-century London coffeehouse. Coffee, tea and chocolate were also sold in Boston, Massachusetts. Image: Wikimedia Commons. https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/juww10izhlxqjxmll0galw1om4iaq0 monthly 0.5 2022-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/9a0e3a78-2612-47a7-b6d2-7eaa2763dc5e/George+M.+Lori+pic1.jpg Blog - three women of hassanemesit - Make it stand out The record of the moment when Nipmuc George Muckamaug became a full member of the Hassanamesit congregational church in 1738. Image: Hassanamisco church book, 1731-1774, Church of Christ in Grafton, Mass. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/26101f6e-387f-4bd7-a5f9-4bd3cb976d75/Deborah+Abraham+record.jpg Blog - three women of hassanemesit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/e4bee6b3-8a08-4d4a-91bc-5625aaf4b2f2/Abigail+marriage+Lori+pic2.jpg Blog - three women of hassanemesit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/d3e9c1ef-0707-4e9d-b8a1-8297b6593c30/Esther+and+Sharp+record.png Blog - three women of hassanemesit - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/deer monthly 0.5 2022-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616267777527-AUBKCL14VPPP4L3YF7FC/55.%25252B%25252BDeer%25252BIsland%25252Bms%25252Bca%25252B1700.jpg Blog - From paradise to prison A c.1700 survey of Deer Island, possibly part of an attempt by the town of Boston to settle its claims to Native lands. Image courtesy of Boston Rare Maps, Southampton, MA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616777198873-DUVO3N5EY5X258MDO6J2/72.%2B%2BSachem%2Bportrait%2BRISDM.jpg Blog - From paradise to prison The land was a paradise…. The portrait of an unnamed Native American sachem, painted in European style c.1700. Image: RISD Museum, Providence RI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616775870880-RE9EY0PDZXAVOV4XQ6YH/21.%2BEliot%2Bbible%2Btitle%2Bpage.jpg Blog - From paradise to prison The Eliot Bible, the first book to be published in America, in 1663. The Rev. John Eliot translated the Bible into Massachuset so that he could evangelize and convert Native people. Ironically, it was later used to help recover the Algonquian language. https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/thepox monthly 0.5 2021-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616554846873-5FXOC55A1PFEXQ2W1KQK/Screen+Shot+2021-03-12+at+9.10.12+PM.png Blog - ANTI-VAXXERs and the smallpox debate of 1721 Anti-vaxxers in every age: An artist’s satirical portrayal of Edward Jenner’s patients turning into cows after being administered a smallpox vaccine derived from cow-pox. 18th-century etching by J. Gillray. Image: Wellcome Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616773863153-RAVJ5QB2EWGAAEVKL8X5/64.%2B%2Bheadstone%2BStewart.jpg Blog - ANTI-VAXXERs and the smallpox debate of 1721 Smallpox recurred regularly throughout New England, devastating families and, especially, Native American communities. Photo: Sarah Stewart https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/ofblood monthly 0.5 2023-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616119236928-WP2W4JB861H3JA94FCJN/92846577.jpg Blog - Of One Blood? Cotton Mather’s Christian Slavery For Cotton Mather, slave owners undertook “the noblest Work” in converting enslaved Africans to Christianity. Credit: Wiki Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616774235280-BM9XY0CRQCQYM79CVOO2/51.%2B%2BCotton%2BMather%2BNPG%2BUS.jpg Blog - Of One Blood? Cotton Mather’s Christian Slavery Are they of one Blood with us? Cotton Mather’s portrait, reproduced c.1860, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/5myths monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616013016213-8VN0L6RB38FYKHDIYK5S/6.+man+with+scythe+with+winged+creatures+WELLCOME.jpg Blog - THE PURITANS: 5 MYTHS Woodcut from c.1700-1720, England. Image: Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616130821518-DVLSY9I5PLNXOMA3AW0L/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-03-18%252Bat%252B10.11.32%252BPM.jpg Blog - THE PURITANS: 5 MYTHS European fear of witches was widespread, as illustrated by the cover of an English civil-war era pamphlet, A Most Certain Strange and True Discovery of a VVitch, 1643. Image: Thomason Collection, British Library https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/bremer monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616264754319-7DE3B9JD62VNLS0QQ3SC/Screen+Shot+2021-03-20+at+11.25.31+AM.png Blog - The quest for a godly kingdom John Winthrop’s home and church in Groton, Suffolk. Thousands of English Puritans left their homes to establish a godly community. Photo: John Morrison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616774838675-CYS5881F4B9B7BJXG124/37.%2B%2BGroton%2Bchurch%2BBremer.jpg Blog - The quest for a godly kingdom As darkness closed on the godly kingdom, Puritans considered emigration. Photo: Francis J. Bremer https://historicbostons.org/blog-1/blog-post-three-cj767 monthly 0.5 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1592335363634-OHD49KNICKT66HR0VGZR/Wellcome+Hermes+marriage.jpg Blog - “Love was their banqueting house, love was their wine” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1615611100802-6NHT6BP7ISLDFZCMW7H6/23.%252Bwoodcut%252Bwitchcraft%252BWellcome.jpg Blog - “Love was their banqueting house, love was their wine” - caption, caption, caption Puritan marriage manuals stressed the importance of strong partnerships. English woodcut, early 18th century. 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Photo: David Dorfman https://historicbostons.org/privacy daily 0.75 2021-04-05 https://historicbostons.org/who-we-are-1 daily 0.75 2021-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616201844245-M5KRTQ3CWV5N7MO2QS2O/11.%25252BSeller%25252Bmap%25252BNE%25252BLeventhal.jpg Who we are (Copy) Conflict increasingly marked relations between colonists expanding their holdings and Native peoples who saw their lands, hunting grounds, and fishing ponds disappear. War engraved itself into English consciousness and even their maps. Image: Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center https://historicbostons.org/home-1 daily 0.75 2021-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617771853537-57I63RRWIN8A0DU2VYW5/55.%252B%252BDeer%252BIsland%252Bms%252Bca%252B1700.jpg Home (Copy) A survey map of Deer Island, c.1700, possibly undertaken as Boston finalized its claim to what had been Native land. 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Join our discussion to explore, though Josselin’s own words, a life in the 17th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1614059481714-OEDGBPHILAMI17VAQI2Z/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-02-02%2Bat%2B9.22.41%2BPM.jpg Home (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617137875554-VHZEIM0F5LT4TAEDK579/92846577.jpg Home (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617771909576-LMP8GK630X5DIYGNJSB0/7.%2BLex%2Bgravestone2.jpg Home (Copy) https://historicbostons.org/style-guide daily 0.75 2022-08-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617771853537-57I63RRWIN8A0DU2VYW5/55.%252B%252BDeer%252BIsland%252Bms%252Bca%252B1700.jpg STYLE GUIDE! Caption (Paragraph 3) Image size 5 x 4 ratio A survey map of Deer Island, c.1700, possibly undertaken as Boston finalized its claim to what had been Native land. Photo: Boston Rare Maps, Southampton, MA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1614059481714-OEDGBPHILAMI17VAQI2Z/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-02-02%2Bat%2B9.22.41%2BPM.jpg STYLE GUIDE! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617137875554-VHZEIM0F5LT4TAEDK579/92846577.jpg STYLE GUIDE! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617771909576-LMP8GK630X5DIYGNJSB0/7.%2BLex%2Bgravestone2.jpg STYLE GUIDE! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617771957585-ZQEYDNIBY55PBED0FAUJ/50.%252B%252BEarls%252BColne%252Bchurch%252BExploring%252BBuilding%252BHistory.jpg STYLE GUIDE! - EVENT HEADER (HEADING 2) DISCUSSION (Paragraph 2, bold) Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 7:00-8:30 PM (Paragraph 2) (paragraph 2) English Puritan minister Ralph Josselin recorded his life in rural Essex in a diary covering 60 years. He wrote of his fear of the plague as it spread from London towards his small village; his anxiety for his children’s health; his pastoral care for his congregation; his elation when parliamentary forces triumphed in a civil war battle. Join our discussion to explore, though Josselin’s own words, a life in the 17th century. https://historicbostons.org/our-aims-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1614312528209-NAAJYZJFRMCOGAPPTALA/22.%2B%2BMap%2BKing%2BPhilips%2BWar%2BLeventhal.jpg Our Aims (Copy) - Who we are If you’re curious about how Massachusetts fits into the Protestant Reformation, puzzled by New England’s paradoxical reliance on the slave economy and site of the first printed American anti-slavery tract, or simply want to know how ordinary people of the 17th century loved, worked, worshiped, and died, then the Partnership of Historic Bostons is the place for you. The Partnership of Historic Bostons was founded in 1999 as a partnership between people in Boston, Massachusetts, and Boston, Lincolnshire in England, to highlight the often forgotten history of the two Bostons. We aimed to fill the large gap in historical memory for the period between the founding of colonial Boston in 1630, and the Revolution 150 years later. We still do. But where we once focused primarily on Puritans, we now examine their impact, and the lives of the many and varied peoples who together made up a diverse early Massachusetts. As a public-history society, the Partnership of Historic Bostons offers lectures by scholars and experts (these days, via Zoom), open discussions of primary documents, special events, walking tours (Covid-19 permitting), and a fall lecture series. Our aim is to help you explore the fascinating, multifaceted, and multiracial history of Boston and New England through public history programs – and to challenge the myths that have grown up since the city’s inception. As an all-volunteer 501(c)3 non-profit, we rely on people like you for donations, ideas, and enthusiasm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1614312593777-2E8E0H1X17PEZ17G52XX/33.%2B%2BShip%2Band%2Bsea%2Bdevil%2BWelcome.jpg Our Aims (Copy) - Our commitment The Puritans who arrived in Massachusetts in 1630 established a society more equal, with a broader franchise and greater distribution of wealth, than any other springing from Europe. They founded institutions that help define American democracy today: free education, literacy for all, the makings of representative government, the first American bill of rights guaranteeing jury trials and the right of free speech. But for whom was Boston’s founding a new beginning? For the Puritans, it offered the promise of a godly community in which they could worship as they wished. For others, 1630 marked a very different beginning. For Native Americans, it was the start of a decades-long process that began with coexistence and cooperation, but ended in warfare, death from epidemics, loss of land and forests, and dispossession. For the handful of Africans who arrived in 1638 – as recorded by governor John Winthrop – it was the start of New England slavery, as well as of a small, free black community. Quakers, servants, sailors, Baptists, Scottish prisoners-of-war: all experienced the beginning of Boston differently. The Partnership of Historic Bostons tells the story of these varied beginnings. One story cannot be told without the others. https://historicbostons.org/history-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1615595067351-2TNU2K4XFHS9UZPJB8Y0/30.+St+Botolphs+altar+Dorfman.jpg Who we are (Copy) (Copy) The altar in St. Botolph’s church in Boston, Lincolnshire. Photo: David Dorfman https://historicbostons.org/ourboard-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://historicbostons.org/see-for-yourself-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616773487727-V4WSAZPLP5B18ET1C72W/73.%252B%252BEntering%252BBoston%252Bsign%252BMorrison.jpg See for yourself (Copy) History of four centuries ago in an hour and a half: welcome to Boston. Photo: John Morrison https://historicbostons.org/learn-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616119667813-FMSV2QPHKJMYKTQKM8AY/1.alchemist%2B.jpg Learn more (Copy) Prescriptions of the past: from our 2017 lecture series on medicine and mortality. Image: Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1616120353694-W13IAU9LETGEOL59F2FG/Screen+Shot+2021-03-18+at+7.18.50+PM.png Learn more (Copy) “Trimountaine shalbe called Boston.” Window tracery from Boston, Lincolnshire, in Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts. Photo: John Morrison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617138341399-G8HUTDUNETNT7CVTVFL1/20d.%2BJenner%2Bseries-%2BImagination%2BWellcome.jpg Learn more (Copy) 17th century engraving depicting the figure of “Fancie,” or imagination, by an unknown artist. Image: Wellcome Collection https://historicbostons.org/donate-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1615961140753-KKMIMO3M5IQP497QO5QY/33.++Ship+and+sea+devil+Welcome.jpg Donate (Copy) A devil confronts a ship at sea in this early English woodcut. Image: Wellcome Collection https://historicbostons.org/contact-us-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://historicbostons.org/discuss-1-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1614414186081-7MBL72Z3DZED75G0Q4PO/20b.+Jenner+series-+memory+Wellcome.jpg Discuss (Copy) One of a series of engravings on “The foure faculties of the minde,” 17th century England. Image: Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617592590489-QUNMA5NOBKN3SLHCWRUY/12.%252BBlankaart%252BWellcome.jpg Discuss (Copy) Illustration from an advice book on childhood illnesses. Image: Wellcome Collection https://historicbostons.org/engage-1-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1617772416141-117ZCCOSJ9ZA4KK704KE/32.%25252BWitches%25252Bdevils%25252Bdancing%25252BWellcome.jpg Engage (Copy) All together now… witches and devils in a 1720 English woodcut. Image: Wellcome Collection https://historicbostons.org/privacy-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-05 https://historicbostons.org/resources-1 daily 0.75 2021-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1615599628693-ZWQDUMEGA5DXVJ3WUK24/Screen%252BShot%252B2021-03-12%252Bat%252B5.28.11%252BPM.jpg Resource links (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ee50a51b94ec512cf4ba470/1592328298796-OVEFG0R6939W1RMIXYPG/medical%252Btext-cover%252Bphoto.jpg Resource links (Copy) From caudle to cauterie, a glance at English 17th century medical texts might leave you puzzled. 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