Category: sabbath

• Musical Family

  

  Decades later, townsfolk fondly remembered one voice in the local church choir…

  Marek

  9 December, 2015

  1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Mont Vernon, music & dance, religion, sabbath

  Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Mont Vernon, Polly Leavitt Hutchinson, Sarah Leavitt

• “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 >>

  Marek

  26 August, 2015

  1700-1799, guest artist, Peterborough, sabbath

  church, Peterborough, sabbath, sunday, swears

• Colby 95: Sunday

  

  A sabbath (of sorts) in camp:

  Marek

  18 December, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, death, NH history, religion, sabbath, SOURCE=HHS

  chaplain, civil war, Freeman Colby, sunday, washington

• Sabbath Hawks (Weare)

  

  What a difference a century of Holy Sundays can make!

  Marek

  27 January, 2013

  1600-1699, 1800-1899, chicken, colonial, eagle+hawk, hunting, judicial branch, Massachusetts, sabbath, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  Edward Gove, hawk, hunting, Josiah Gove, sabbath, weare

• Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)

  

  Even religious law can have loopholes…

  Marek

  9 December, 2012

  1760s, colonial, firewood, religion, sabbath, Weare

  Levi Hovey, Samuel Hovey, Simeon Hovey, weare

• Welcome to New Hampshire (Hopkinton, 1781)

  

  Mr. Peabody just wants to drive his oxen from Maine to his new home in Henniker, NH…

  Marek

  4 November, 2012

  1780s, animals, cows, Henniker, Hopkinton, Maine, religion, sabbath