What was nineteenth-century New England farmlife like?

Went to Connecticut in early August. I had a packed agenda including a presentation at the historic Samuel Huntington Homestead Museum...

I am happy and honored to be speaking at the Samuel Huntington Homestead Museum on Saturday, August 3rd at 1P.M.: 36 Huntington Road,...

"Norwich" was the traditional land inhabited by Eastern North American indigenous groups, including the Mohegan tribe. They struck a deal...

There is one Black woman, in the mid-eighteenth century Huntington-family orbit, who had children and contributed greatly to Huntington...

I still continue to slowly wade my way through my book. Have had an extremely busy year of shoulder surgery, travel, and family...

Recently I had the chance to go down to Connecticut to do some more research at the newly-re-branded Connecticut Museum of Culture and...

MARGARET BARET HUNTINGTON STOUGHTON (1595-1665) GREW UP AND RAISED HER OWN CHILDREN HERE. After waiting through the pandemic, I finally...

Recently I had shoulder surgery. Needless to say, it has somewhat stymied my research and writing. Before that, were the holidays which...

This post offers just a glimpse into some of the people close to Jabez during his lifetime. There are so many it will be impossible to...

Warning: Studying New England Puritan/Yankee families requires extreme patience due to the repetitive use of the same given names up,...

By the early eighteenth-century, Norwich was a bustling trading center with some high-end merchants. Although not Boston or New York...

Simon Huntington, Jr. (1659-1736) and Lydia Gager Huntington (1663-1737) are perhaps a good representation of successful third generation...

There is nothing more satisfying to this researcher than finding an early probate record. It can really help form a picture in my mind...

This is an updated post on Margaret. I will be speaking about her next Saturday, August 3, 2024 at The Huntington Homestead Museum at 1...

Motherhood continues to take priority over my research and writing. It frustrates me, but I feel my young adult children do need me...

Hagar Mingo was born sometime in September 1799 to Nelly, an enslaved woman owned by Major General Jedediah Huntington (1743-1818) and...

It is hard to overestimate how important seeds, tree grafts, and plant specimens were to the Puritans who came to Massachusetts Bay...

Recently, while procrastinating on my research and writing on Margaret Barret Huntington Stoughton (MBHS), Seventeenth-century Puritan...

This is a re-post from 2020, updated and edited. Is there a better time to dig into a writing project than during a pandemic when you are...