Author: Ray Greene HulingPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Samuel Hubbard, of Newport. 1610-1689
Author: Ray Greene HulingSAMUEL HUBBARD, OF NEWPORT
Author: RAY GREENE. HULINGPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033125656
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Samuel Hubbard, of Newport
Author: Ray Greene HulingPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266743767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Excerpt from Samuel Hubbard, of Newport: 1610 1689 His grandfathers had lived in perilous times and one of them, if not the other, had been a sufferer in the persecutions under Queen Mary. Thomas Hubbard, the father of James and the grandfather of Samuel, went to his death at the stake rather than recant his Protestantism. It was believed by his grandson that his fate was related in Fox's Book of Martyrs (book iii, Chap xiv.)under the name of Thomas Highed. If that belief be correct, as it probably is, the story in brief is as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Family History James Alan Burdick
Author: james burdickPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1329914325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The family history of James Alan Burdick as of February 20, 2016. Printed for review.
Genealogy of One Branch of the Peckham Family of Newport and Westerly, R.I.
Author: William Perry BentleyPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Inventory of the Church Archives of New Jersey
Author: New Jersey Historical Records Survey ProjectPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Proceedings of the Rhode Island Historical Society
Author: Rhode Island Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Newport History
Author: Killed Strangely
Author: Elaine Forman CranePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471443
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
"It was Rebecca's son, Thomas, who first realized the victim's identity. His eyes were drawn to the victim's head, and aided by the flickering light of a candle, he 'clapt his hands and cryed out, Oh Lord, it is my mother.' James Moills, a servant of Cornell... described Rebecca 'lying on the floore, with fire about Her, from her Lower parts neare to the Armepits.' He recognized her only 'by her shoes.'"—from Killed Strangely On a winter's evening in 1673, tragedy descended on the respectable Rhode Island household of Thomas Cornell. His 73-year-old mother, Rebecca, was found close to her bedroom's large fireplace, dead and badly burned. The legal owner of the Cornells' hundred acres along Narragansett Bay, Rebecca shared her home with Thomas and his family, a servant, and a lodger. A coroner's panel initially declared her death "an Unhappie Accident," but before summer arrived, a dark web of events—rumors of domestic abuse, allusions to witchcraft, even the testimony of Rebecca's ghost through her brother—resulted in Thomas's trial for matricide. Such were the ambiguities of the case that others would be tried for the murder as well. Rebecca is a direct ancestor of Cornell University's founder, Ezra Cornell. Elaine Forman Crane tells the compelling story of Rebecca's death and its aftermath, vividly depicting the world in which she lived. That world included a legal system where jurors were expected to be familiar with the defendant and case before the trial even began. Rebecca's strange death was an event of cataclysmic proportions, affecting not only her own community, but neighboring towns as well. The documents from Thomas's trial provide a rare glimpse into seventeenth-century life. Crane writes, "Instead of the harmony and respect that sermon literature, laws, and a hierarchical/patriarchal society attempted to impose, evidence illustrates filial insolence, generational conflict, disrespect toward the elderly, power plays between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, [and] adult dependence on (and resentment of) aging parents who clung to purse strings." Yet even at a distance of more than three hundred years, Rebecca Cornell's story is poignantly familiar. Her complaints of domestic abuse, Crane says, went largely unheeded by friends and neighbors until, at last, their complacency was shattered by her terrible death.
Author: John Osborne Austin