Massachusetts

Samuel Adams was an American Patriot. He was born in Boston, at September 27th 1722. Adams was one of 12 children born to Samuel and Mary (Fifield) Adams. Only 3 of the children survived, Mary, Samuel and Joseph. He was born into a wealthy, religious family that was involved in politics. Samuel’s father wanted him to become a clergyman, but Adams had an interest in law. Adams got his Masters Degree in Arts to practice law at Hardford University, but his mother did not approve. When the British…

roots to some of the earliest English settlers in America. They trace back to William Goodridge who was born in England and had children born in Massachusetts Bay in 1639. We will pick up the Goodridge story with Benjamin Franklin Goodridge’s parents, Oliver and Elizabeth, parents of five children. Elizabeth was born April 14, 1752 in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and died at of the young age of 46 from breast cancer on November 25, 1798. Her ephitaph reads: Here rests a woman, good without…

The Massachusetts and Virginia Colonies had many similarities, but often times we get the question concerning which colony benefited the United States better from an historical formation. The one who “created the corporate trading and colonizing company” (Cheyney 148) or the one who seeked “purity” (Cheyney 148). You begin to compare the two colonies. Taking everything into deeper thinking. Out of the two original colonies which one had a greater impact on the world? Jamestown and Plymouth…

Both Virginia and Massachusetts founded a little more than two decades apart have one in the south, and one in the north have different types of methods onto why and how they settled in the Americas as of two of the thirteen colonies to first come into the new world. Virginia, being a colony for economic growth, differs from Massachusetts which was settled purely for the sake of religion. Two colonies derived from Europe, but having very different colonies with few similarities. By analyzing…

punishments and death for some men, women, and children. The Salem Witch Trials are known as a dark time in history. The Salem Witch Trials are “a series of witchcraft cases brought before local magistrates in the colony of Salem, Massachusetts, 1692” (History of Massachusetts-The Salem Witch Trials). The Salem Witch Trials began in February 1692 and concluded in May 1693 (Salem Witch Trials). They took place in the small village of Salem…

people accused of witch hunt and is persecuted when found. And this all started because Salem witch trails was a series of hearings and prosecutions of people of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and may 1693. Feel surprised about this topic cause I never knew…

the end of 1630, more than one thousand colonists had arrived in Massachusetts. John Winthrop became the leader of the small, yet growing community and he began to govern the royal colony. A hater of democracy, “Winthrop prized stability and order” (Tindall and Shi 72). John Winthrop enforced religious orthodoxy and justified the many persecutions of dissenters and heretics. Winthrop maintained a strict civil order in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Over the next ten years, more than twenty…

The name “Puritan” originally was an affront given to the group of people who desired to “purify” the Church of England by traditional Anglicans. The Puritans criticized the Church of England and did not agree with their beliefs and practices. At first, the Puritans did not wish to separate from the church they only desired to transform it. After their failed attempts of trying to recruit the assistance of the archbishop and writing a letter to Parliament, they decided their only option was to…

are categorized as publishers from the transcendentalism era. Both authors had extraordinary passion for living a life of simplicity and harmony, but what did this really mean and how did they achieve this? Both Ralph and Henry were born in Massachusetts, Emerson in 1803 and Thoreau in 1817. They both attended Harvard University, and abandoned their careers to pursue a lifestyle of transcendentalism. What this looked like was a life of simplicity and connecting your inner soul. Both authors…

John Adams was born, October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts and also had two siblings, Peter Adams and Elihu Adams. John Adams grew up in a religious home with his father serving as a church deacon. He attended a private school in Braintree and he would eventually graduate from Harvard, at age 20, and receive a B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) and M.A. (Master of Arts). He married Abigail Smith on October 25, 1764 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. John Adams had been married to her for 54 years and…