Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : England Languages : en Pages : 626
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John May (1590-1670) came to America with his wife and two sons, John and Samuel in 1640. They settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts. A book entitled "Worthies of England", printed in 1694, assigns the Mays of Sussex, England, a Portuguese origin. However, this has not been proven. In 1641 a record is found where John May was registered as a member in the church of John Eliot. Also a record of his becoming a FREEMAN of the colony. On 24 April 1670, John May made a will and died four days later.
Author: Cynthia Grant Tucker Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1491756721 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 436
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Shifting the center of gravity from pulpits to parsonages, and from confident sermons to whispered doubts, this family narrative humanizes the Eliot saints, demystifies their liberal religion, and lifts up the largely unsung female vocation of practical ministry. Spanning 150 years from the early 19th century forward, the narrative probes the womens defining experiences: the deaths of numerous children, the anguish of infertility, persistent financial worries, and the juggling of the often competing demands that parishes make on first ladies. Here, too, we see the matriarchs granddaughters scripting larger lives as they skirt traditional marriage and womens usual roles in the church. They follow their hearts into same-sex unions and blaze new trails as they carve out careers in public health service and preschool education. These stories are linked by the womens continuing battles to speak and make themselves heard over the thundering clerical wisdom that contradicts their reality. A wealth of photographs, genealogical charts, and a family roster deepen the readers engagement with this ambitious biography.
Author: Helen Deese Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 9780807050354 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 498
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In nineteenth-century Boston, amidst the popular lecturing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by Margaret Fuller, sat a remarkable young woman, Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912): transcendentalist, early feminist, writer, reformer, and, perhaps most importantly, active diarist. During the seventy-five years that Dall kept a diary, she captured all the fascinating details of her sometimes agonizing personal life, and she also wrote about all the major figures who surrounded her. Her diary, filling forty-five volumes, is perhaps the longest running diary ever written by any American and the most complete account of a nineteenth-century woman's life. In Daughter of Boston, scholar Helen Deese has painstakingly combed through these diaries and created a single fascinating volume of Dall's observations, judgments, descriptions, and reactions.
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