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Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1] and their funerary traditions and grave art provide a unique insight into their views on death. The minimalist decoration and lack of embellishment of the early headstone designs reflect the British ...
The Massachusetts Bay Colony had been founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company, which included investors in the failed Dorchester Company which had established a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1623. The colony began in 1628 and was the company's second attempt at colonization.
Lawrence Park (December 16, 1873 – September 28, 1924) was an American art historian, architect, and genealogist who authored pioneering critical and biographical studies of portrait painters Gilbert Stuart, Joseph Badger, and Joseph Blackburn, active during the colonial and early federal periods of the United States. Park's four-volume ...
The Archives operates the Commonwealth Museum to educate and display some of its collections of important documents about state and national history. [5] The main permanent exhibit is entitled "The Massachusetts Experiment in Democracy: 1620–Today", and traces the Massachusetts experience through the Colonial, Revolutionary, Federal, and 19th century reform periods.
Captain Edward Johnson (1598–1672) was a leading figure in colonial Massachusetts, and is one of the founders of Woburn, Massachusetts. [1] 19th-century painting by Albert Thompson, on display at the Woburn Public Library, depicting Thomas Carter's ordination as minister of Woburn, Massachusetts on November 22, 1642. Capt.
Founder of Concord, Massachusetts Peter Bulkley (31 January 1583 – 9 March 1659, last name also spelled Bulkeley ) was an influential early Puritan minister who left England for greater religious freedom in the American colony of Massachusetts .
Charles Hammond Gibson Jr (1874–1954), philanthropist and art collector; Albert Gilman (d. 1989), Shakespeare scholar and professor of English at Boston University, buried together with his partner Roger Brown; Archibald R. Giroux (1897–1968), president of the Boston Stock Exchange and chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party
Roger Amidon was a French Huguenot, who had arrived with John Endecott's advance company after escaping to England from the Siege of La Rochelle in 1628. Roger was a ship's carpenter. He is first recorded at Salem, Massachusetts, where there was a flourishing shipbuilding industry in the early 17th century.