Hagar Mingo's worn Bible. Purchased with her money on becoming free in 1823. Courtesy of the New London County Historical Society (NLCHS), New London, CT. Hagar Mingo was a Black educated and pious woman who was a domestic worker for the extended General Jedediah Huntington family probably for her whole short life. Hagar was born sometime in September 1799 to Nelly, an enslaved woman owned by Major General Jedediah Huntington (1743-1818) and his wife Ann Moore Huntington (175

It is hard to overestimate how important seeds, tree grafts, and plant specimens were to the Puritans who came to Massachusetts Bay...

Recently, while procrastinating on my research and writing on Margaret Barret Huntington Stoughton (MBHS), Seventeenth-century Puritan...

This is a re-post from 2020, updated and edited. Is there a better time to dig into a writing project than during a pandemic when you are...

*Originally posted September 26th 2018* Faith Trumbull Huntington (c. 1753), “The Hanging of Absalom,”Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT...

The Joseph Lawson Weatherly Huntington family. Photo circa 1915.