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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
Jul 28, 20213 min read


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
May 19, 20213 min read


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
Apr 1, 20213 min read


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
Jan 25, 20212 min read


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
Oct 12, 20205 min read


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
Jul 24, 20202 min read


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...

Maggie Meahl
Jun 16, 20202 min read


Major General Jedediah Huntington (1742/43-1818) Re-Visited Through Images
Recently, while procrastinating on my research and writing on Margaret Barret Huntington Stoughton (MBHS), Seventeenth-century Puritan...

Maggie Meahl
May 10, 20203 min read
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