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      Historical ArchaeologyMaterial Culture StudiesArchaeology of HuntingNew England Archaeology
In the Shadow of Salem: The Andover Witch Hunt of 1692. By Richard Hite. Yardley, PA: Westholme, 2018. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 49.2 (2019) 249-50.
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      American HistoryEarly Modern HistoryMagicSalem Witchcraft Trials
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Based on the historical maps and documents, archaeologists should have found some trace of the Henry Sampson House, if those traces still existed at the site after all of the years of occupation, building, and rebuilding at the site. We... more
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      ArchaeologyHistorical Archaeology17th & 18th Century New England HistoryLOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY PLYMOUTH COLONY AND ENVIRONS
Nations like narratives, lose their origins in the myth of time and only fully realize their horizons in the mind's eye. Such an image of the nation-or narration-might seem impossibly romantic and excessively metaphorical, but it is from... more
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      Native American Studies17th Century & Early Modern PhilosophyColonial AmericaCalvinism
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      Native American StudiesIndigenous StudiesPottery (Archaeology)Northeastern North America (Archaeology)
The Venture Smith homestead is an important eighteenth-century rural black archaeological site with a remarkable level of integrity, associated with a person significant to American history. Born about 1729, Broteer Furro was an African... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesHistorical AnthropologyHistorical ArchaeologyLandscape Archaeology
The Abenaki and French attack on Oyster River Plantation (Durham, NH) was a climactic point in King William's War (1688-1697) in New England. Long portrayed as a unspeakable act of horror carried out by "half-starved savages," the attack... more
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      17th & 18th Century New England HistoryFrench and Indian War-America 1700-177517th century New England
Plimoth Plantation is a living history museum located in Plymouth, Massachusetts, that portrays the early seventeenth-century lifeways of English Puritans and their Wampanoag counterparts through interactive encounters. The museum’s... more
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      American HistoryNative American StudiesAnthropologyMuseum Studies
The definition of "theocracy" has perplexed scholars for many centuries. Some argue that theocracy exists only when religious leaders are also the actual, official political leaders and, as such, impose their particular theological views... more
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      American HistoryPolitical PhilosophyPolitical TheoryEarly Modern History
This paper presents an analysis of Native American identity and social networking within the central Connecticut region during the seventeenth century. This analysis is founded largely upon a regional collection of Native-Puritan land... more
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      EthnohistoryNative American Studies17th & 18th Century New England History
On September 21, 1638, the Mohegans, the Narragansetts, and the English colonists on the Connecticut River reached an agreement at Hartford to settle their affairs following the Pequot War. The original copy of the treaty having been... more
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      HistoryAmerican HistoryNative American StudiesAmerican Studies
Accessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1941, an early eighteenth-century sleeved waistcoat of silk and metallic damask and brocaded satin is a rare survivor. In cut and construction, this visually striking garment trimmed with... more
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      American HistoryEconomic HistoryHistory of DressTextiles
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      Colonial AmericaAmerican and Native American HistoryMassachusetts History17th & 18th Century New England History
When Johan Maurits of Nassau, Governor-General of Dutch Brazil (1630-54), sent out expeditions against the maroons of Palmares, he was informed by his intelligence officers that the inhabitants followed the “Portuguese religion,” that... more
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A total of 52 square meters were excavated by volunteers supervised by the author. Excavations uncovered evidence for four phases of activity at the site: Native American occupation up to 6,000 years old; 17th century occupation by the... more
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      Archaeology17th & 18th Century New England HistoryLOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY PLYMOUTH COLONY AND ENVIRONS17th century New England
This report analyzes the archaeologically derived artifactual and architectural data gathered by Roland Robbins during his 1960 excavation at the John Alden site in Duxbury, Massachusetts and their subsequent interpretation by Mitch... more
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The blast furnace and its spread from Namur to northern France, England and North America, 1450-1650; a technological, political and genealogical investigation.
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The house at 1 Thomas Street is situated on the western slope of a hillside leading from Allerton Street towards Murdock Pond. An article was published in the Harlow Family Notes issue No. 4, an informal publication of the Harlow Family... more
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      Historical ArchaeologyVernacular ArchitectureColonial Plymouth17th & 18th Century New England History
The Salem witch trials have fascinated historians since the eighteenth century, but as Mary Beth Norton aptly states there is still “much of the complicated Salem story [that] remains untold.” Previous scholarship has failed tell fully... more
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      Salem Witchcraft Trials17th & 18th Century New England HistorySalem, Massachusetts History
Starting in 1755, the French-speaking colonists of Atlantic Canada (known as the Acadians) were deported by the British. The expulsion was desired by the American colonists in New England but was opposed by the government back in England.... more
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This article examines the voyage of the first 'American' transatlantic slave ship, which left Boston in 1644 and took on captives at Portudal in modern-day Senegal. Although John Winthrop recorded that the slavers massacred a large number... more
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      History of SlaverySlave TradePuritansNew England (History)
The Pilgrim Avenue/ Cooke Memorial park property is the location of a suspected unmarked burial ground in Fairhaven. The park is located at the corner of Pilgrim Avenue and Cherry Street. Local tradition has maintained, since the late... more
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      ArchaeologyHistorical Archaeology17th & 18th Century New England HistoryPilgrims of Plymouth
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      17th & 18th Century New England HistoryNative American EnslavementColonial U.S., Public History .African Chattel Enslavement
Makers Unknown: Material Objects and the Enslaved examines material culture to understand the ways in which the institution of racial slavery shaped the daily lives of all Rhode Islanders. Typically, historic archives preserve the objects... more
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Pp. 83-88 [+ cumulative bibliography] in: "The Impact of New Netherlands upon the Colonial Long Island Basin. Report of a Yale-Smithsonian Seminar held at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, May 3-5, 1990." = = = = = = = This paper... more
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Christianity is often portrayed as a negative influence on traditional indigenous community life. This was not always the case, particularly in New England, as a number of researchers have verified. Ongoing research into tribal histories... more
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      Native American ReligionsNative American StudiesHistory of ChristianityReligious Conversion
This book is about Roger Williams (ca. 1603-83), who was banished from the colony of Massachusetts Bay for advocating freedom of conscience, separation of church and state, Native American rights, and related matters. He founded the town... more
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Four sources of data were reviewed to determine some potential sites where 17th century homesites may be located. Starting with Henry Fish's 1924 work Duxbury, Massachusetts Ancient and Modern, a list of 80 potential 17th century... more
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      ArchaeologyHistorical ArchaeologyNew England (History)17th & 18th Century New England History
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Tom R. Chambers created this photo album of Descendants of many of the First Settlers of Rhode Island to pay tribute to the trials and tribulations that their Ancestors were subjected to during the early to middle 1600s. It offers a... more
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This volume contains Roger Williams's famous work "The Bloudy Tenent, of Persecution, for cause of Conscience, discussed, in a Conference betweene Truth and Peace" (1644).
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      American HistoryPolitical PhilosophyTheologyPolitical Theory
This is a review of the definitive edition of the correspondence of Roger Williams (ca. 1603-1683).  The review was originally published on April 26, 2014.  A typographical error was corrected on December 27, 2014.
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This report uses historical documents and town histories to reconstruct the layout and extent of the original Pilgrim village in Plymouth and assesses the archaeological potential of various possible house locations. It also examines the... more
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      ArchaeologyNew England (History)17th & 18th Century New England HistoryLOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY PLYMOUTH COLONY AND ENVIRONS
Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America. By Michael P. Winship. Yale University Press, 2018. xiv + 351 pages. $28.00 (hardcover or e-book). Philipp Reisner Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfaa009,... more
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A preliminary article reporting the history, archaeology, GIS mapping, and geophysical survey research into the circa 1638 to 1820 Field - Bickford Garrison complex in Durham, New Hampshire. Site function as a farm, tavern, ferry... more
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Citizens of the Commonwealth were given a rare opportunity to witness the investigation of part of Boston's earliest colonial past during the city's "Big Dig"/ Central Artery Project in 1985, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony's "Great... more
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This paper explores the socio cultural response of the Schaghticoke Indians of Northwestern Connecticut to European contact. The aboriginal territory of the Schaghticoke Tribe encompassed portions of the Housatonic watershed, including... more
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This paper was written by UVM Emeritus Professor Z. Philip Ambrose, with whose blessing I am making it available on this platform. Ambrose, Z. P., “The Curriculum—I: From Traditional to Modern”, in Daniels, R. V. (ed.), The University of... more
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      New England (History)American Puritanism17th & 18th Century New England HistoryPuritanism
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      Colonial AmericaNew England (History)Rhode Island HistoryRoger Williams