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• Angel of Hadley -- Fact or Myth?

• Cape Cod History Project

• Customs and Fashions in Old New England

  By Alice Morse Earle, 1893. The author, a well-know antiquarian of her day, discusses the day-to-day life and culture in Early New England on topics from birth to death. (Transcription).

• Hartford History

• Images of Historical Hartford

• New England Flood of 1927

  November 1927 floods which killed 85 people, mostly in Vermont.

• Ogram's 17th Century New England Links

• Overview of American Whaling

• Rhode Island History

• The Avalon Project : Colonial Charters, Grants and Related Documents

  • Pre 18th Century Documents

    • A Grant of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, esq., 10th of August, 1622

    • Admission of the State of Vermont - February 18, 1791

    • Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire, 1639

    • Charter of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - July 15, 1663

    • Charter of the Colony of New Plymouth Granted to William Bradford and His Associates : 1629

    • Commission of Sir Edmund Andros for the Dominion of New England. April 7, 1688

    • Constitution of Vermont - July 4, 1786

    • Constitution of Vermont - July 8, 1777

    • Fundamental Agreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven, June 4, 1639

    • Fundamental Orders of 1639

    • Government of New Haven Colony

    • Government of Rhode Island-March 16-19, 1641

    • Grant of Hampshire to Capt. John Mason, 7th of Novemr., 1629

    • Grant of the Province of Maine : 1639

    • Grant of the Province of Maine : 1664

    • Grant of the Province of Maine : 1674

    • Grant of the Province of New Hampshire to Mr. Mason, 22 Apr., 1635, By the Name of New Hampshire

    • Patent for Providence Plantations - March 14, 1643

    • Plantation Agreement at Providence August 27 - September 6, 1640

    • The Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty : 1635

    • The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643

    • The Charter of Massachusetts Bay - 1691

    • The Charter of New England : 1620

    • The Combinations of the Inhabitants Upon the Piscataqua River for Government, 1641

• The New England House Historian

  Marian Pierre-Louis is a house historian who specializes in the historic homes of New England. She frequently lectures and writes about house histories throughout New England. She also has a monthly column called Old House Secrets in the Medway & Millis Local Town News.

• Weather Doctor's Weather People and History: Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death, The Year There Was No Summer

  History of the year without a summer of 1816, which affected weather worldwide, including New England.

• Wethersfield - A Brief History Lesson