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Founders of the Seventh Day Baptist Church in America — 1671
In 2021, the Seventh Day Baptist Church celebrated the 350th anniversary of the first congregation in North America at Newport, Rhode Island. Until last year, I knew nothing about this denomination. While conducting some family research, I discovered that my grandmother’s family was integral in the founding of Rhode Island with Roger Williams, the founding…
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Views of Newport
August 10, 2022 | Newport, RI On our final day of the trip, we spent the morning shopping on Thames Street, ate lunch at La Vecina, and after the sky cleared, relaxed for few hours at Goosebury Beach. I can’t wait to go back to Rhode Island and see more of this beautiful state.
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Cliff Walk
August 9, 2022 | Newport, RI After our tour of The Breakers, we walked the north half of the Cliff Walk which offered beautiful views of Newport’s Easton Bay. The mansions that line this public walking trail have erected chain link fence, some with barbed wire, lined with tall, thick bushes on either side. Unfortunately,…
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Dr. John Clarke is Kind of a Big Deal around Here
August 9, 2022 | Newport, Rhode Island In the visitors center at The Breakers, there’s a “Newport through the Ages” display with milestones in Rhode Island’s history. The 1663 entry caught my eye. Street in downtown Newport named after Dr. John Clarke. John Clarke (October 1609 – 20 April 1676) was a physician, Baptist minister,…
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Thomas Hiscox used to Hang around The Breakers
August 9, 2022 | Newport, RI Portrait of Reverend Thomas Hiscox by Robert Feke (1745). Thomas Hiscox (1686-1773), a Newport native, served as 4th pastor of the Seventh Day Baptist Congregation in Westerly, RI. Hiscox was married to John Clarke’s great niece, Bethia Clarke. (See John Clarke post.) Thomas & Bethia were my 7th great…
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The Breakers
August 9, 2022 | Newport, RI After an extremely hot morning in Plymouth, we decided to drive to Newport, where the temperature was 15-20 degrees cooler, to spend the rest of the day. When we arrived, it was much cooler and breezy — a welcome break from the oven-like weather in Massachusetts. We dodged an…
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Lyman Estate Featured in 2019 “Little Women” Movie
August 8, 2022 | Waltham, MA On the way to Plymouth, we made a quick detour to see the 1798 Lyman Estate which was used to film a scene in the 2019 film version of Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women.” From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lyman Estate, also known as The Vale, is a historic country house located…
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Founding of Haverhill — 1640
August 7, 2022 | Haverhill, MA We briefly passed through Haverhill on our way to Concord. My great grandmother, Evelyn Gile’s, ancestors were one of the 12 founders of Haverhill so we had to take a look! Samuel Gile/Guile and his father-in-law James Davis were among the first colonists to inhabit Pentucket which later became…
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Dr. Samuel Prescott: Paul Revere’s Midnight Riders
August 8, 2002 | Concord, MA & Minuteman NP Paul Revere gets most of the credit, but Dr. Samuel Prescott was the one who finished the task of warning the colonists that the British were coming. I was surprised to find that the site of Dr. Prescott’s home at 345 Lexington St. is next door…
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