Author: Canton (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Part of Dorchester (extinct now) established as Stoughton on 22 Dec. 1726.
The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths and Intentions of Marriage, in the Town of Stoughton from 1727 to 1800
Author: Canton (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canton (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Part of Dorchester (extinct now) established as Stoughton on 22 Dec. 1726.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsReport of the Commissioner of Public Records
Author: Massachusetts. Record CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Richard Potter
Author: John A. HodgsonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.
Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties
Author: Massachusetts. Commissioner of Public RecordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Late William H. Whitmore, of Boston, Genealogist and Historian, and for Many Years Registrar of the City of Boston
Author: William Henry WhitmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Report on the Custody and Condition of the Public Records of Parishes, Towns, and Counties ...
Author: Massachusetts. Record CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Vital Records of Stoughton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1850
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Masquerade
Author: Alfred F. YoungPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679761853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In Masquerade, Alfred F. Young scrapes through layers of fiction and myth to uncover the story of Deborah Sampson, a Massachusetts woman who passed as a man and fought as a soldier for seventeen months toward the end of the American Revolution. Deborah Sampson was not the only woman to pose as a male and fight in the war, but she was certainly one of the most successful and celebrated. She managed to fight in combat and earn the respect of her officers and peers, and in later years she toured the country lecturing about her experiences and was partially successful in obtaining veterans’ benefits. Her full story, however, was buried underneath exaggeration and myth (some of which she may have created herself), becoming another sort of masquerade. Young takes the reader with him through his painstaking efforts to reveal the real Deborah Sampson in a work of history that is as spellbinding as the best detective fiction.