Category: Uncategorized
-
Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House
August 8, 2022 | Concord, MA Our second stop in Concord was Orchard House, the childhood home of “Little Women” author Louisa May Alcott. We took a guided tour and learned a lot about the author and her very progressive family.
-
Old North Bridge & The Old Manse
August 8, 2022 | Concord, MA Our first stop in Concord was The Old Manse which is adjacent to The Old North Bridge. We attended a Ranger Talk at the Old North Bridge and learned that a lot of questions remain about how and why the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired.
-
A Few Other Plymouth Immigrants
August 9, 2022 | Plymouth, MA After the founding of Plymouth in 1620, an immigration wave called the Great Puritan Migration took place over the next 20 years. To read more, visit: https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/ Here are my Great Migration ancestors who arrived in Plymouth during that time: John Winslow (9th great grandfather) – arrived on the…
-
The Founding of Plymouth — 1620
August 8 & 9, 2022 | Plymouth, MA Driving from Concord and Waltham, we arrived on the coast at Plymouth in the late afternoon. After dinner on a breezy outside patio, we walked on the waterfront. We saw the Mayflower II replica ship and Plymouth Rock. Late the next morning, we took a brief, sweltering…
-
Founders of Amesbury — 1642
August 7, 2022 | Amesbury, MA My dad is related to at least 9 of the 18 first settlers of Amesbury, MA, so we had to make a stop in this town. Many children of these families married into the other founding families, which made tracing their ancestry very complex! From Britannica: Amesbury, town (township),…
-
Newburyport
August 6, 2022 | Essex Coast, MA We stopped for shopping and lunch in Newburyport. It was sidewalk sale weekend, and despite it being a Sunday, all the shops were open and vendors were in the squares. This is a very cute town — loved it!
-
Rockport
August 6, 2022 | Essex Coast, MA We made a quick stop in Rockport and walked down the pier lined with tourist shops.
-
Macy-Colby House circa 1649
August 7, 2022 | Amesbury, MA We stopped at the Macy-Colby House in Amesbury. It was super hot again, in the mid to high 90s. We didn’t tour the inside of the house as the tour docent told me it was under renovation and very messy. Everything appeared in order when we peeked in the…
-
Hocus Pocus & the 1692 Salem Witch Trials
August 6, 2022 | Salem, MA While in Salem, we visited several locations from the movie, Hocus Pocus, and took a Salem Night Tour which covered various witch trial historic sites, such as the town cemetery, prison, and site of the death of Giles Corey. The tour also stopped at the “haunted” home of the…
-
Founders of Ipswich — 1633
August 6, 2022 | Ipswich, MA Today we toured the historic Ipswich with Gordon Harris, Ipswich Town Historian, looking for traces of some of the town’s early settlers, Henry & Mary (nee Rogers) Pinder (Pindar) and William & Elizabeth (nee Perkins) Sargeant (Sargent). Following the death of Elizabeth Perkins Sargent, William married Henry’s daughter, Joanna…
True Moon Travel 