Illustration: flag of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Credit: NuclearVacuum; Wikimedia Commons.

Scions of Nantucket Founders (part 7 – first section)

By Melissa Berry on May 14, 2024

Melissa Berry continues her series about the founders of Nantucket and their descendants, showing photos of the island’s annual “Main Street Fete.”.. (Read More)

Scions of Nantucket Founders (part 6)

By Melissa Berry on May 9, 2024

Melissa Berry continues her series about the founders of Nantucket and their descendants, showing photos of long-ago islanders taken from scrapbooks... (Read More)

Illustration: "Cassandra Southwick in court before the magistrates," from the Boston Globe, 23 October 1923.

17th Century Quaker Women Gone Wild (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on May 7, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about three brave Quaker women who defied Puritan officials in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s... (Read More)

Photo: a close-up of Henrietta Howland Robinson Green. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

World’s Richest Woman Dies – Genealogist Finds True Heirs (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on May 2, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her story about how a genealogist was needed to determine the heirs of the world’s richest woman when she died... (Read More)

World’s Richest Woman Dies – Genealogist Finds True Heirs (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on April 30, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry describes how a genealogist was needed to determine the heirs of the world’s richest woman when she died... (Read More)

17th Century Quaker Women Gone Wild (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on April 25, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series describing three brave Quaker women who defied Puritan officials in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s... (Read More)

17th Century Quaker Women Gone Wild (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on April 23, 2024

Melissa Davenport Berry begins a series describing three brave Quaker women who defied Puritan officials in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s... (Read More)

Illustration: a close-up of “Clipper Ship Captain” (Capt. Ryder) by Charles Webster Hawthorne. Credit: Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia.

Scrapbook Photos of Provincetown, Massachusetts (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on April 18, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a Provincetown sea captain, Richard Ryder, who had a long and adventurous career... (Read More)

Photo: ox team hauling granite slab on Washington Street, annisquam, Massachusetts. Colonel Jonas French is standing second to the right. According to sources, Elizabeth Blood, widow of Joseph Blood, sold the quarry and lands to Col. French for the sum of $2,500. Credit: Annisquam Historical Society.

19th Century Stonecutters Featured in Old Scrapbook

By Melissa Berry on April 16, 2024

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry gives news clippings and photos from a scrapbook showing an earlier way of life... (Read More)

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