“Maria and Jemmy Bound to the ‘family’ hearth, Lift their enslavers” – S.E. Will you be selling a family member…
CELIA’S SMALLPOX INOCULATION
What did Celia think when her arm was sliced? How about when the dried pus was placed in the cut…
JEMBO
If you have a romanticized idea about colonial taverns, leave those thoughts at the old inn’s front doorstep. You will…
The Little Person of the Wayside Inn
Drawing from Adrian Covert’s “Taverns of the American Revolution, I learned that Benjamin Franklin was critical of inns and taverns.…
DICK BRATTLE’S REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION
Transcription by Susan G. Elliott, 26 Aug 2022 To read the original manuscript, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/54040531 “State of Vermont, District of Windsor…
DR. JOHN CORBETT’S PROBATED ESTATE INVENTORY
Dick Brattle’s Deposition in the Case of Inhabitants of Milford v. Inhabitants of Bellingham, 16 Mass. 108, 15 Tyng 108 (1819), September 1819 at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (Massachusetts Archives)
Transcription by Susan G. Elliott, 26 August 2022 The transcription follows the photos of the manuscript. I Dick Brattle of…
A Research Companion to the Article, Black Colonial Coopers
Here you will find the newspaper articles and advertisements that I transcribed in research for the previous article, Black Colonial…
QUEEN NANNY AND THE BIELSKI BROTHERS
What comes to mind when you hear the word, maroon? Is it a color? A dark red? Well, yes. But,…
HAGER AND THE CONNECTICUT CHEESE FACTORY
Usually, we think only in terms of enslaved people, molasses, and rum when referring to the Atlantic trade routes of…