Category: Sandwich

• When My Wedding Is Going to Be (Sandwich, NH)

  

  1839: Phebe Weed writes Larkin from Sandwich to tease & joke & vent (in some unexpected ways!)…

  Marek

  22 November, 2013

  1830s, marriage, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Caroline McGaffrey, Irene McGaffrey, Larkin Weed, marriage, money, Phebe Weed, race, sandwich

• Of One Blood All Nations (Sandwich, NH)

  

  1838: Sandwich petitions Congress to end the “nefarious traffic in slaves” in the District of Columbia…

  Marek

  6 November, 2013

  1830s, government, NH history, religion, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical

  abolition, congress, petition, sandwich, slavery

• OCTOBER 1839: Phebe Weed to Larkin Weed (Sandwich, NH)

  

  1839: Phebe Weed (NH) asks her brother Larkin (NJ) for advice about starting a Sandwich silkworm plantation …

  Marek

  6 November, 2013

  1830s, cabbage, farms, food, NH history, Sandwich, silk, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Larkin Weed, marriage, money, Phebe Weed, sandwich, silk, silkworms

• Regulations (New Hampton Academy)

  

  1835: Larkin Weed’s daily schedule at New Hampton Academy …

  Marek

  1 November, 2013

  1830s, education, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Academy, Larkin Weed, New Hampton, Phebe Weed, sandwich

• Thus You See (New Hampton, NH)

  

  1835: Larkin Weed writes home, in part to justify the expense boarding school at New Hampton …

  Marek

  26 October, 2013

  1830s, education, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Academy, Larkin Weed, New Hampton, Phebe Weed, sandwich

• A Scene Such as I Never Before Witnessed (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)

  

  1835: GUEST ARTIST “E.J.P.” (of Sandwich, NH) details Larkin’s adventure in a House of Death …

  Marek

  6 August, 2013

  1830s, death, guest artist, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  death, Larkin Weed, New Hampton, Phebe Weed, poverty, sandwich

• The Most Excruciating Torture (New Hampton, NH)

  

  1835: GUEST ARTIST draws the next episode in the education of Larkin Weed:

  Marek

  3 August, 2013

  1830s, death, guest artist, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  hindu, india, Larkin Weed, missionary, New Hampton, Phebe Weed, sandwich, torture

• All the Mirth that the Mind could Invent (New Hampton, NH)

  

  1835: After classes, Larkin Weed & friends descend on “a place of resort for bathing”:

  Marek

  31 July, 2013

  1830s, food, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Academy, fruit, Larkin Weed, New Hampton, recreation, sandwich

• Larkin’s Classes (New Hampton, NH) (GUEST POST)

  

  1835: Larkin describes his classes and hints at adventures to come …

  Marek

  26 July, 2013

  1830s, education, guest artist, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Academy, education, Larkin Weed, New Hampton, Phebe Weed, sandwich

• JUNE 1835: Larkin Weed to Phebe Weed (New Hampton, NH)

  

  1835: Larkin Weed writes home to his sister Phebe at Sandwich, describing his experiences in a single day of classes …

  Marek

  25 July, 2013

  1830s, education, medicine, New Hampton, NH history, Sandwich, SOURCE=Sandwich Historical, Weed Family Letters

  Academy, Larkin Weed, medicine, New Hampton, Phebe Weed, pudding, sandwich