Maggie Meahl
Field Trip! The Samuel Huntington Homestead Museum, Surrounding Countryside and Misc.
Went to Connecticut in early August. I had a packed agenda including a presentation at the historic Samuel Huntington Homestead Museum...
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Maggie Meahl
- Jul 1
- 1 min
Upcoming Presentation: The Samuel Huntington Homestead Museum
I am happy and honored to be speaking at the Samuel Huntington Homestead Museum on Saturday, August 3rd at 1P.M.: 36 Huntington Road,...
Maggie Meahl
- Mar 24
- 2 min
Norwich's Washington Street, Then and Now
"Norwich" was the traditional land inhabited by Eastern North American indigenous groups, including the Mohegan tribe. They struck a deal...
Maggie Meahl
- Jan 18
- 5 min
Jenny, Zina, and Zilpah: Wealth-Makers for Eastern Connecticut Patriot Enslaver Families
There is one Black woman, in the mid-eighteenth century Huntington-family orbit, who had children and contributed greatly to Huntington...
Maggie Meahl
- Oct 22, 2023
- 4 min
Andrew Huntington (1745-1824): Revolutionary War Commissary Helps Sickly French Troops
I still continue to slowly wade my way through my book. Have had an extremely busy year of shoulder surgery, travel, and family...
Maggie Meahl
- Jul 17, 2023
- 2 min
Field Trip: Connecticut Museum of Culture and History and the Samuel Huntington Homestead Museum
Recently I had the chance to go down to Connecticut to do some more research at the newly-re-branded Connecticut Museum of Culture and...
Maggie Meahl
- May 1, 2023
- 2 min
Field Trip: Early Seventeenth-Century Norwich, England (Part I)
MARGARET BARET HUNTINGTON STOUGHTON (1595-1665) GREW UP AND RAISED HER OWN CHILDREN HERE. After waiting through the pandemic, I finally...
Maggie Meahl
- Feb 27, 2023
- 2 min
When Life Gets in the Way of Writing
Recently I had shoulder surgery. Needless to say, it has somewhat stymied my research and writing. Before that, were the holidays which...
Maggie Meahl
- Nov 7, 2022
- 3 min
Major General Jabez Huntington (1719-1786): His World and Some of his Kin
This post offers just a glimpse into some of the people close to Jabez during his lifetime. There are so many it will be impossible to...
Maggie Meahl
- Aug 7, 2022
- 2 min
Wading Through the 18th-Century Hannah Huntingtons of Norwich, CT
Warning: Studying New England Puritan/Yankee families requires extreme patience due to the repetitive use of the same given names up,...
Maggie Meahl
- May 30, 2022
- 4 min
Field Trip To Norwich, CT: Day 1, the Geography
The Norwich, CT area is extremely historic, geographically beautiful, but challenging at the same time. Lots of hills! Recently I had a...
Maggie Meahl
- Mar 19, 2022
- 4 min
Hannah Perkins Huntington (Lynde Lothrop) and Joshua Huntington: A Norwich Merchant Marriage in 1718
By the early eighteenth-century, Norwich was a bustling trading center with some high-end merchants. Although not Boston or New York...
Maggie Meahl
- Jan 5, 2022
- 5 min
Sachem Uncas, the Mohegan and Norwich in the Seventeenth Century
It is not right to write about the speed in which the English Puritans were settling Connecticut (and profiting from the land) without...
Maggie Meahl
- Jul 28, 2021
- 3 min
Simon Huntington, Sr.(1629-1706): The Value of a 1706 Probate Record
There is nothing more satisfying to this researcher than finding an early probate record. It can really help form a picture in my mind...
Maggie Meahl
- May 19, 2021
- 3 min
The Saybrook Years (1647-1660): Christopher and Simon Follow Mason
As I described in previous posts, Margaret Barrett Huntington Stoughton (1595-1665) emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633 with...
Maggie Meahl
- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Margaret Barrett Huntington Stoughton (1595-1665): Daily Life in 1636 Matianuck/Windsor, CT
This is an updated post on Margaret. I will be speaking about her next Saturday, August 3, 2024 at The Huntington Homestead Museum at 1...
Maggie Meahl
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Field Trip: The Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Motherhood continues to take priority over my research and writing. It frustrates me, but I feel my young adult children do need me...
Maggie Meahl
- Oct 12, 2020
- 5 min
Hagar Mingo (1799-1859): Pious Black Yankee
Hagar Mingo was born sometime in September 1799 to Nelly, an enslaved woman owned by Major General Jedediah Huntington (1743-1818) and...
Maggie Meahl
- Jul 24, 2020
- 2 min
Rattlesnakes, Norwich, and Simon Huntington IV
It's been over a month since my last post. The pandemic has definitely stifled my writing impulses due to loss of routine, everyone at...
Maggie Meahl
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Apple Orchards, the Reverend John Eliot and 1633 Roxbury, MA
It is hard to overestimate how important seeds, tree grafts, and plant specimens were to the Puritans who came to Massachusetts Bay...
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