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Maggie Meahl
Nov 231 min read
New England Farm Life: A Field Trip to Old Sturbridge Village and Photo Dump
What was nineteenth-century New England farmlife like?
Maggie Meahl
Oct 284 min read
Bankruptcies, Early Deaths, and More: C.P. and Maria Huntington's Merchant Sons
The pious and "steady habits" lifestyle of Norwich Huntingtons would be smashed by the rough and tumble risks of New York City.
Maggie Meahl
Jul 11 min read
Upcoming Presentation: The 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,...
Maggie Meahl
Mar 242 min read
Norwich's Washington Street, Then and Now
"Norwich" was the traditional land inhabited by Eastern North American indigenous groups, including the Mohegan tribe. They struck a deal...
Maggie Meahl
Jan 185 min read
Jenny, Zina, and Zilpah: Wealth-Makers for Eastern Connecticut Patriot Enslaver Families
There is one Black woman, in the mid-eighteenth century Huntington-family orbit, who had children and contributed greatly to Huntington...
Maggie Meahl
Feb 27, 20232 min read
When Life Gets in the Way of Writing
Recently I had shoulder surgery. Needless to say, it has somewhat stymied my research and writing. Before that, were the holidays which...
Maggie Meahl
Nov 7, 20223 min read
Major General Jabez Huntington (1719-1786): His World and Some of his Kin
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...
Maggie Meahl
Aug 7, 20222 min read
Wading Through the 18th-Century Hannah Huntingtons of Norwich, CT
Warning: Studying New England Puritan/Yankee families requires extreme patience due to the repetitive use of the same given names up,...
Maggie Meahl
May 30, 20224 min read
Field Trip To Norwich, CT: Day 1, the Geography
The Norwich, CT area is extremely historic, geographically beautiful, but challenging at the same time. Lots of hills! Recently I had a...
Maggie Meahl
Jan 5, 20225 min read
Sachem Uncas, the Mohegan and Norwich in the Seventeenth Century
It is not right to write about the speed in which the English Puritans were settling Connecticut (and profiting from the land) without...
Maggie Meahl
May 10, 20202 min read
Major General Jedediah Huntington (1742/43-1818) Re-Visited Through Images
Recently, while procrastinating on my research and writing on Margaret Barret Huntington Stoughton (MBHS), Seventeenth-century Puritan...
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