Colonial New England Curiosities

Author : Robert A. Geake
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625851727

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Colonial New England Curiosities by Robert A. Geake Pdf

“The author of seven previous history books draws a portrait of the hardships and mysteries that were a part of the early settlers’ everyday lives” (CoastalMags.com). The New World was full of unusual occurrences and strange trials for the early colonists of New England. Devastating plagues, violent conflicts with Native Americans, and freak weather ravaged whole communities. When settlers saw an array of colors dancing through the night sky, they thought the Northern Lights were a sign that their end was near. Violators of public drunkenness were forced to wear large, red embroidered “D’s” around their necks for a year under the strict laws of the colonies. Through the letters, diaries, and journals of influential figures of the time, historian Robert A. Geake uncovers the oddities and wonders that amazed New England’s pioneers. Includes photos!

Author : Robert A. Geake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1626196427

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Colonial New England Curiosities by Robert A. Geake Pdf

The New World was full of unusual occurrences and strange trials for the early colonists of New England. Devastating plagues, violent conflicts with Native Americans and freak weather ravaged whole communities. When settlers saw an array of colors dancing through the night sky, they thought the Northern Lights were a sign that their end was near. Violators of public drunkenness were forced to wear large, red embroidered "D's" around their necks for a year under the strict laws of the colonies. Through the letters, diaries and journals of influential figures of the time, historian Robert A. Geake uncovers the oddities and wonders that amazed New England's pioneers.

Author : Robert A. Geake
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439678466

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Death in Early New England by Robert A. Geake Pdf

Death in early New England came early and often during those harsh first decades of settlement. Epidemics, hunger, accidents and childbirth contributed to a heavy toll in New England. Disease in some cases erased entire families, and almost always affected the majority of individuals in the communities. For most families, death was still a private affair. Traditions brought over with European customs and others that were strictly American were eventually interwoven, and these ceremonies, tokens and portraits of remembrance became part of these rites and rituals of mourning. Other forms of remembrance were carved into stone with heart-wrung epitaphs, the cause of death and brief biographies. Burial sites themselves evolved from family plots and church graveyards to public, garden-like cemeteries. Historian Robert A. Geake explores the development of rites and rituals of death in this New World.

Author : Robert A. Geake
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467142601

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New England Citizen Soldiers of the Revolutionary War: Minutemen and Mariners by Robert A. Geake Pdf

Many of the leaders and heroes of the Revolutionary War are well known to most Americans. Lesser known are those unsung heroes or citizen soldiers who first enlisted with local militias before being assigned to units of the Continental Line and sent away to fight in states and regions far removed from their homes and families. In New England, these also included men of the sea who signed aboard privateers or became part of the Mariner brigades that became indispensable in navigating waterways and ferrying troops into position. It is also the larger story of their struggle to maintain their loyalty to their home states, property and family. Author and historian Robert Geake uncovers the untold story of ordinary citizens who became united in the cause for freedom.

Author : Sarah Rivett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838709

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The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England by Sarah Rivett Pdf

The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular, they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the center of the Salem witch trials, Native American converts, and dying women as a source of material insight into the divine. Conversions and deathbed speeches were thus scrutinized for evidence of grace in a way that bridged the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible, the worldly and the divine. In this way, the "science of the soul" was as much a part of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophy as it was part of post-Reformation theology. Rivett's account restores the unity of religion and science in the early modern world and highlights the role and importance of both to transatlantic circuits of knowledge formation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112112386500

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Reading Lists on Colonial New England by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Scott Parrish
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838891

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American Curiosity by Susan Scott Parrish Pdf

Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.

Author : Bruce Gellerman,Erik Sherman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461747222

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Massachusetts Curiosities by Bruce Gellerman,Erik Sherman Pdf

Discover more than 200 of the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bay State has to offer in this completely revised and updated edition.

Author : Walter W. Woodward
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807895931

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Prospero's America by Walter W. Woodward Pdf

In Prospero's America, Walter W. Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., one of English colonization's early giants. Winthrop participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten Christ's Second Coming. Woodward demonstrates the influence of Winthrop and his philosophy on New England's cultural formation: its settlement, economy, religious toleration, Indian relations, medical practice, witchcraft prosecution, and imperial diplomacy. Prospero's America reconceptualizes the significance of early modern science in shaping New England hand in hand with Puritanism and politics.

Author : Lonely Planet,Gregor Clark,Carolyn Bain,Mara Vorhees,Benedict Walker
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787010208

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Lonely Planet New England by Lonely Planet,Gregor Clark,Carolyn Bain,Mara Vorhees,Benedict Walker Pdf

Lonely Planet New England is the most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Swim, fish or surf the 5000-mile coastline, devour pancakes drenched in maple syrup, or walk in the footsteps of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau; all with your trusted travel companion.

Author : Jere R. Daniell
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611688788

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Colonial New Hampshire by Jere R. Daniell Pdf

In his full-scale history of New Hampshire from the Algonkin people to the coming of the American Revolution, the historian Jere R. Daniell discusses the Indian population, the development of community life, the founding of New Hampshire as a royal colony, the political adjustments that existence as a separate colony necessitated, the nature of New HampshireÕs social institutions, and many other subjects. His epilogue links colonial New Hampshire to subsequent developments in the state. This volume will interest historians of colonial New England and New Hampshire.

Author : United States. War Department. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : MINN:319510017926775

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Three Finding Lists Issued by the War Department Library. 1. Serial Publications. 2. Principal Reference Works. 3. Important Accessions. 1898-1903 by United States. War Department. Library Pdf

Contains three finding lists put out by the U.S. War Department Library for locating and identifying resources in their library.

Author : United States. War Dept. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Book selection
ISBN : NYPL:33433087631895

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Three Finding Lists Issued by the War Department Library by United States. War Dept. Library Pdf

Author : Robert Blair St. George
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807864715

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Conversing by Signs by Robert Blair St. George Pdf

The people of colonial New England lived in a densely metaphoric landscape--a world where familiars invaded bodies without warning, witches passed with ease through locked doors, and houses blew down in gusts of angry, providential wind. Meaning, Robert St. George argues, was layered, often indirect, and inextricably intertwined with memory, apprehension, and imagination. By exploring the linkages between such cultural expressions as seventeenth-century farmsteads, witchcraft narratives, eighteenth-century crowd violence, and popular portraits of New England Federalists, St. George demonstrates that in early New England, things mattered as much as words in the shaping of metaphor. These forms of cultural representation--architecture and gravestones, metaphysical poetry and sermons, popular religion and labor politics--are connected through what St. George calls a 'poetics of implication.' Words, objects, and actions, referentially interdependent, demonstrate the continued resilience and power of seventeenth-century popular culture throughout the eighteenth century. Illuminating their interconnectedness, St. George calls into question the actual impact of the so-called Enlightenment, suggesting just how long a shadow the colonial climate of fear and inner instability cast over the warm glow of the early national period.

Author : Salem Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNKKXU

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Bulletin of the Salem Public Library by Salem Public Library Pdf