Rowley, Massachusetts, "Mr. Ezechi Rogers Plantation," 1639-1850
Author : Amos Everett Jewett
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Rowley (Mass. : Town)
ISBN :
Author : Amos Everett Jewett
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,4 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Rowley (Mass. : Town)
ISBN :
Author : Kyle F. Zelner
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0814797342
While it lasted only sixteen months, King Philip’s War (1675-1676) was arguably one of the most significant of the colonial wars that wracked early America. As the first major military crisis to directly strike one of the Empire’s most important possessions: the Massachusetts Bay Colony, King Philip’s War marked the first time that Massachusetts had to mobilize mass numbers of ordinary, local men to fight. In this exhaustive social history and community study of Essex County, Massachusetts’s militia, Kyle F. Zelner boldly challenges traditional interpretations of who was called to serve during this period. Drawing on muster and pay lists as well as countless historical records, Zelner demonstrates that Essex County’s more upstanding citizens were often spared from impressments, while the “rabble” — criminals, drunkards, the poor— were forced to join active fighting units, with town militia committees selecting soldiers who would be least missed should they die in action. Enhanced by illustrations and maps, A Rabble in Arms shows that, despite heroic illusions of a universal military obligation, town fathers, to damaging effects, often placed local and personal interests above colonial military concerns.
Author : Rowley (Mass. : Town)
Publisher :
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1928
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Scott McDermott
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1785274740
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 examines the ideology that English Puritans developed to justify migration: their migration from England to New England, migrations from one town to another within New England, and, often, their repatriation to the mother country. Puritan leaders believed firmly that nations, colonies, and towns were all “bodies politic,” that is, living and organic social bodies. However, if a social body became distempered because of scarce resources or political or religious discord, it became necessary to create a new social body from the old in order to restore balance and harmony. The new social body was articulated through the social ritual of land distribution according to Aristotelian “distributive justice.” The book will trace this process at work in the founding of Ipswich and its satellite town in Massachusetts.
Author : Philip Graystone
Publisher : Young Writers
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Mary Elaine Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780971791015
Author : Edward J. Des Jardins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738510736
As one of the earliest settlements in America, Rowley was founded by Rev. Ezekiel Rogers in 1639. Few towns as small in population have given more to the nation than Rowley, with so many firsts making up its history-from the great Puritan migration voyage across the sea that Rogers shared with the nation's first printing press to Lorenzo Bradstreet's invention of the Bradstreet Sleeper, which later evolved into the Pullman sleeping car. Rowley has much to offer: scenes of the village, and the historic town common, or the "Training Place," where Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec encamped in 1775, the picturesque Glen Mills area with its 1642 stone arch bridge, and the site of the first fulling mill in the colonies (1642-1643), which manufactured the first cloth made in the Western world. The book displays images of country stores, wagon peddlers, and early gristmills and sawmills. It also shows shoe manufacturing, boatbuilding (at its peak in 1900), farming, and salt marsh haying. It truly brings to life another era in American history.
Author : Mary E. Gage
Publisher : Powwow River Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 17,43 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0981614175
Across Massachusetts, roadsides are dotted with small stone markers giving the mileage to major cities. These ancient road signs called milestones aided travelers during the 1700’s and 1800’s as our road signs today do with their mileage and destination information. Although, these old milestones no longer serve a useful purpose in our modern age of highways, they continue to fascinate us. This fascination has led to the preservation by local communities of at least 129 milestones in Massachusetts and a number of milestones in New Hampshire. Milestones were for the most part commissioned by private citizens and made by local or itinerant stone carvers. With the exception of the turnpike milestones, no two milestones are alike. There are differences in the type of stone chosen, the wording, and the lettering styles of individual carvers. These differences give the milestones personality and character. This sense of character is one of the endearing aspects of these humble road signs that continues to draw us to them. Although some of the milestones like those around Boston and those along the famous Upper Post Road are well known, many are not. The authors have spent a number of years combing through old books and newspapers and traveling through the state in search of these local historical treasures. This book draws together all of their research in an effort to provide a comprehensive inventory of Massachusetts milestones. In addition, it includes milestones the authors have found in their travels through southeastern New Hampshire.
Author : Christopher J. Lenney
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 9781584654636
A startlingly original synthesis of keen observation and interpretive skill that will transform one s understanding of New England s man-made landscape"
Author : Douglas L. Winiarski
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1469628279
This sweeping history of popular religion in eighteenth-century New England examines the experiences of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. Drawing on an unprecedented quantity of letters, diaries, and testimonies, Douglas Winiarski recovers the pervasive and vigorous lay piety of the early eighteenth century. George Whitefield's preaching tour of 1740 called into question the fundamental assumptions of this thriving religious culture. Incited by Whitefield and fascinated by miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit--visions, bodily fits, and sudden conversions--countless New Englanders broke ranks with family, neighbors, and ministers who dismissed their religious experiences as delusive enthusiasm. These new converts, the progenitors of today's evangelical movement, bitterly assaulted the Congregational establishment. The 1740s and 1750s were the dark night of the New England soul, as men and women groped toward a restructured religious order. Conflict transformed inclusive parishes into exclusive networks of combative spiritual seekers. Then as now, evangelicalism emboldened ordinary people to question traditional authorities. Their challenge shattered whole communities.