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Video 1940 Vintage Newburyport Massachusetts Film
Sharing Port Media Video---A short film of footage of Newburyport, Massachusetts from the 1940s that was assembled in the 1980s. Often...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Aug 14, 20211 min read
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Photo: Four Quaker women of the Locke, Crosby, Marchant and Coe families
Photograph shows four young women dressed in traditional Quaker attire, including bonnets, and posed on a ladder likely in the...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 131 min read
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PDF Captain Jeremiah O’Brien: Maine Mariner
Jeremiah O'Brien in the Unity captures HM Cutter Margaretta. Photo from U.S. Naval Institute Photo Archive featured in " Captain Jeremiah...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Mar 131 min read
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It Happened on St. Valentine’s Day: Birthday of Ferris Wheel Inventor
Photo: the original Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, 1893. Credit: The New York Times photo archive;...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 171 min read
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America's First Recorded Quaker Communities
PDF America's First Recorded Quaker Communities Kenneth L. Carroll Quaker History, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 41-53
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 171 min read
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Quaker Sarah Logan Fisher 1751-1796 Diary and History Pennsylvania
From Volume 1 Page 1 of Diary Read online https://therevolutionarycity.org/islandora/fisher-sarah-logan-diary-volume-1 Sarah Logan Fisher...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Feb 12 min read
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The Irish Quaker Community at Camden South Carolina
Photo Credit Campden Historical Site http://historiccamdencounty.com/index.shtml PDF Carroll, Kenneth L. “The Irish Quaker Community at...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jan 191 min read
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PDF Some History of the First Parish and Historical Sites in Norwell Massachusetts
Photograph from "Norwell" James Pierotti you can order book at Amazon 275th anniversary of First Parish Church, Unitarian in Norwell...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Jan 191 min read
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PDF Better Than The Poorhouse? The Origins Of Mothers’ Aid In Maine
PDF Rebecca White University of Maine---Volume 51, Number 1 (2017) Women's History Winter 2016-17
Melissa Davenport Berry
Dec 29, 20241 min read
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Caring for the Sick Poor: The State Almshouse at Bridgewater Massachusetts 1854-1887
A 19th-century lithograph of the State Alms House, Bridgewater, Mass. During the 1840s, Dr. Lucille O'Connell Professor of History at...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Dec 19, 20241 min read
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Historical Sites Rehoboth Massachusetts Guide PDF
Photo of Anawan Farm from the cover. PDF File compiled by Rehoboth Historical Commission --In Memoriam, E. Otis Dyer Jr (1960-2016).
Melissa Davenport Berry
Nov 29, 20241 min read
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PDF Report on the Archeology of the Allerton-Prence-Cushman Site Kingston Massachusetts
Photo Credit: Massachusetts Historical Society from 1972 a discovery was made by Dr. James Deetz  of Plymouth, a professor of archaeology...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Nov 25, 20241 min read
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Sharon Massachusetts Home Guard Photograph 1918
Photo ID Caption Reads: 'I never saw my grandfather or my great uncle until the picture of the Sharon Militia 1918 was shown to me by...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Nov 17, 20241 min read
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A Lecture by Thomas Merritt Pittman on John Porter and the Cary Rebellion and a Video
"Cary's Rebellion" is a 10 minute documentary created to compete at the 2017 National History Day Competition. Created by Spencer...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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The Pilgrim Memorial Monument Provincetown Massachusetts Laying of the Cornerstone Booklet
PDF Booklet Listing Officers, the Committee Members, & Exercises Tuesday August 20, 1907 Credit: Provincetown History Preservation Project...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Nov 8, 20241 min read
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Patriot to Passenger Bridge Project List
A list Revolutionary War soldiers who descend from Mayflower Passengers PDF compiled by Muriel Cushing, Elder Historian of General...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Nov 4, 20241 min read
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Records of the court of assistants of the colony of the Massachusetts Bay 1630-1692 Volume 01 and 02
PDF File Vol 1 PDF File Vol 2
Melissa Davenport Berry
Oct 10, 20241 min read
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A History of Faulkner Family and Hospital
History, Genealogy, and Photographs of the Faulkner Family. PDF File By Cara Marcus Director of Library Services Brigham and Women’s...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Oct 8, 20241 min read
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Genealogical notes of Barnstable families: being a reprint of the Amos Otis papers, originally published in the Barnstable Patriot
Link to read on line archives.org Read article from Amos Otis Papers Donated to Nickerson Archives From the newspaper archives Amos Otis...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Sep 7, 20241 min read
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The Tercentenary Dedicatory Volume of the Tupper Family Association of America and History
Image Credit: Friends of the Sandwich Town Archives Link to "The tercentenary dedicatory volume of the Tupper family association of...
Melissa Davenport Berry
Sep 1, 20241 min read
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