Category: sabbath
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“No Doing Things on a Sunday” (Peterborough, 1700s) (GUEST POST)
Peterborough resident Daniel portrays the strict sabbath laws of the town’s early settlers, as related in Kinscella’s Chronicles of Peterborough: NEXT: One practical joke from 1754 >>
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Welcome to New Hampshire (Hopkinton, 1781)
Mr. Peabody just wants to drive his oxen from Maine to his new home in Henniker, NH…