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At the Magistrate's Discretion: Sexual Crime and New England Law 1636-1718 Early American Courts
Image from "Puritan Laws on Sexual Misconduct--Intimacy " without lycence" - 1633-86." Barbara W, Sardudy Recently I have published some...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 25, 20211 min read


John Greenleaf Whittier: Abram Morrison An Irish Quaker Walks Po Hill Amesbury
Came across this piece published in Boston Globe by Willard DeLue on John Greenleaf Whittier's character Abram Morrison, an Irish Quaker...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 25, 20211 min read


William Penn Quaker and Pioneer Article
PDF File Article by Elmo Scott Watson
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 17, 20211 min read


Photo and 1902 Fire New Clip Westbury Quaker Meeting house Long Island New York
Image from Filmore Museum article "Quakers on Long Island." Jacqueline Overton and Phoebe Dodge. New York History, April 1940, Vol. 21,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 13, 20211 min read


Carriage Industry History Amesbury Massachusetts
From my Article published in Newburyport Daily News March 2015 NOTE: Images and PDF Files Follow Article Amesbury, Massachusetts...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 12, 20215 min read


Photos: Esther Wayland Bennett and Augustus Henry Fiske Wedding 1907
Wedding photo of Augustus Henry Fiske (1880-1943) son of Andrew Fiske and Gertrude Hubbard Horsford--12th generation descendant of Quaker...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 10, 20211 min read


New Bedford Quaker Mayor Abraham Hathaway Howland
Abraham Hathaway Howland (1802-1807) son of Weston Howland and Abigail Hathaway. He married Mehitable Earle “Hetty” Russell. Abraham...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 10, 20211 min read


Remembering Korean War Hero Joseph R. Ouellette of Lowell Massachusetts
Joseph R. Ouellette (1930-1950) son of was a soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He posthumously received the Medal...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 10, 20211 min read


Photos: Marine Society Members Newburyport Massachusetts 1905
L-R Oliver O. Jones, William H Bayley, John N Prichard, Issac N. Colby, J. P. Spaulding. Rear Row-John T. Howard, Joseph A. Jarvis,...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 7, 20211 min read


Quaker Meeting House Wales Old Structure near Original Bryn Mawr Farm with Pennsylvania connection
Tyddyn y Garreg Friends' Meeting House, Tabor, Dolgellau The Quakers established this meeting house and burial ground in 1792. By 1845, ...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 6, 20211 min read


Photo: Samuel Woods Luitwieler Civil War Soldier and his Diary Account
Samuel Woods Luitwieler (1847-1931) born in New York son of Jacob Gerardus Luitwieler and Matilda Sarah Woods of Ireland. He married...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 6, 20217 min read


Francis Danforth Marston John Greenleaf Whittier’s True Barefoot Boy
John Greenleaf Whittier’s “The Barefoot Boy” is a celebrated poem. Blessings on thee, little man, Barefoot boy, with cheek of tan! With...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 6, 20212 min read


Genealogy Discoveries: Thurlow and Allied Lines of Newbury Massachusetts
Recently I published a story on Thurlow family and allied lines Genealogy Discoveries: Lost Babes of Essex County, MA and Part 2 I am...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Apr 6, 20211 min read


Civil War Manuscripts
Image of Joseph Hooker, and David D. Porter reproduced from a photograph album in the James Wadsworth family papers. Full PDF Library...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 29, 20211 min read


The Daguerreian Society Talk Series “Horology in Photography” by Bob Frishman April 10th 2021
Since the earliest days of photography, clocks and watches have appeared in images for many reasons. Sometimes, as in 700 years of...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 29, 20212 min read


Joseph Short Cabinetmaker Newburyport, Massachusetts Research Files
Newburyport cabinetmaker, Joseph Short (1771-1819) is the best-known member of this 18th- and early 19th-century family of woodworkers....
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 27, 20211 min read


Photo George C. Adams, Charles F. Adams, Mary O. Adams, and Mary Adams, at Beverly Farms
From Massachusetts Historical Society Collection Portrait and Landscape Photographs, 1883 Mary Hooper Adams Collection. This collection...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 27, 20211 min read


Quaker persecutions in Massachusetts from 1656 to 1661
Mary Dyer being led to the gallows in Boston, 1660. A work by Josephine Ruth Minehan 1934 Boston University PDF
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 22, 20211 min read


Shades and Shadow-Pictures: American Portrait Silhouettes
Example of a cut-out silhouette. Samuel Metford (United States, 1810-1890), Thomas Goddard (1765-1858). Cut-out full-figure...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 22, 20211 min read


Photo: Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth Daughters of the American Revolution in Windsor 1903
Members of Windsor’s Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth DAR chapter pose on the front porch of the Oliver Ellsworth Homestead on the occasion of...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 22, 20211 min read
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