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Archive for June, 2011

Breast-shaped gourds, and other early American gravestone motifs

I was so busy staring at the inscription on the Jane Dummer/Henry Sewall stone that I recently posted about, I completely forgot to consider the carved imagery that surrounds it. Read more

Jane Dummer Sewall, 1626–1701

Much of what I know about Jane Dummer, who was my 9th great-grandmother and one of the first settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts, comes from the writings of her son Samuel Sewall. He was a prolific diarist, Salem witch trial judge (oops), and early advocate of abolition and women’s rights. Read more

Martha Mudge Wigglesworth, 1662–1690

Martha Mudge Wigglesworth was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1662. Read more

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