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Blog postLimited number of author-signed books now available! I have available 10 (now only three, so hurry and order!) two-volume sets of my biographical* novels, Mary Dyer Illuminated and Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This, that I will personalize for you or your gift recipient.
The retail (unsigned) price on Amazon is $20 each, plus shipping. But I will sign and ship them to US addresses as a pair, for $36 postage paid.
The story is told in two volumes because hav -
Blog postI was saddened to learn today of the passing of a friend of several years, Carolina M Capehart.
Carolina Capehart, my friend because we both
love history, and came together because of
this Dyer blog. Rest in peace.
Carolina was a food historian and hearth-cooking expert, who could be relied upon for good advice in research and writing on foods, menus, and cooking in the 17th-19th centuries. I sometimes consulted her for my Dyer research and for this blog.
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Blog postEffigy Hunter is a book about the LIVES of your medieval ancestors (and where to find their effigies and burial places). It's a five-star book for you and for your friends and family who enjoy history and tracking down famous ancestors. It's adventure travel!
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Blog postAs a few of you know, I'm researching and writing a nonfiction book about Anne Marbury Hutchinson. I haven't posted blog articles very often over the months of research and writing, and trying to make a living. Someone who negatively reviewed one of my Dyer books complained that some of the articles were taken from this Dyer blog, which costs me thousands of hours in research and writing time, and money spent on research books--but is provided at no cos
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Blog postEnjoy this guest post, a slice of life in 1682 New England.
© 2017 Ken Horn
Those old, stern Puritans. I love to study them. And because they are my ancestors, and some of my forebears experienced persecution at the hands of their ministers and leaders, I love to criticize them. But Puritan clergy were not always the staid, stern destroyers of all that might be enjoyable.
Old Tunnel Meeting House, Lynn, Mass., 1682.
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This article is adapted from a chapter in my book manuscript on Anne Marbury Hutchinson.
R andall Holden was one of the Rhode Island men abducted in 1643 by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He wrote a long, angry letter to the General Court from his prison cell in Salem.
Holden, 41, Samuel Gorton, 51, and John Green, 49, and other men had been supporters of Anne Hutchinson, and shor -
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Blog postRevolutionary War ancestors, who are 5th great-grandfathers, or 7 generations removed.Paternal ancestors: Capt. Jared Robinson, 1740-1826, 6th Regiment, Connecticut LineJoseph Howe, 1746-1807, Connecticut 1st RegimentLt. Asa Stevens, 1734-1778, died in Massacre of Wyoming, Pennsylvania. Hacked to death and scalped by Indians allied to British troops.Daniel Downing, 1739-1813, Connecticut, Capt. Branch’s Company, Jan. 10, 1778Henry Hamner, d. 1842 VirginiaCorp. James Westervelt (Westerfield), 175
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Blog postoriginal page location:
https://www.boston.gov/news/notes-archives-mary-dyer-executed-onthisday-1660
Notes from the Archives: Mary Dyer executed #onthisday in 1660 Published by: City of Boston Archives and Records ManagementOn this day in 1660, Mary Dyer was executed on the Boston Common for defying her banishment from Boston. Mary’s execution is one story in a larger narrative of frequent religious clashes in Boston's early days. Her death is often linked to the eas -
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Blog postHonor Mary Dyer’s sacrifice,
or your connection to her,
by giving in her name!Gifts toAmericans United for Separation of Church and State
are tax-deductible.
Click the link to go to their secure page.
© 2017 Christy K Robinson
No one knows Mary Dyer's date or even year of birth. Because of when she married, her husband's birth in 1609, and various life events, genealogists and historians have assumed that it was between 1609 and -
Blog post© 2017 Christy K Robinson Looking at the photos of friends' cemetery visits this weekend, remembering their immediate families, reminds me that it was a ritual of my godparents to do the same. (They weren't godparents, really, but they were designated as our caregivers if our parents died while we were kids. The man was my grandmother's cousin, fairly close to her age.) Dale and Adrienne Hall would take flowers to Adrienne's parents' graves and have a picnic there, and remember
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When I was a couple of years out of university and recovering from a life-changing injury, my mother and I went walking as good exercise in a controlled, safe environment: the shopping mall. In the housewares department, I found white porcelain plates, cups, and serving dishes with ink drawings and watercolors of wildflowers. I started buying them, a few pieces at a time. Later, I discovered some crystal goblets that were heavy and felt smooth t -
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Blog postAn online magazine, Adventist Today, published my article on evangelism.
If you click this link, the article will open in another tab.
http://atoday.org/evangelism-press-or-bless/
St. Vladimir (the statue subject) was the prince of
Novgorod and Kiev. In 988, he marched his subjects into
the Dnieper River at the point of spears and swords
and pronounced them baptized Christians. He was
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Charles Dyer was the last child of Mary and William Dyer. He was born the year after King Charles I was beheaded, at the time when the young Charles II was fighting Cromwell’s forces before he fled to exile in France. To name the Dyer baby after the Anglican (with Catholic leanings) king was a rather bold statement in Puritan, republican-leaning New England! King Charles I of England
1650: Charles Dyer born in Newport, Rhode Island, the last of -
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Blog postI wrote a feature article for Adventist Review in March 2016, and it was published in March 2017. Clicking the link (title) will open a new tab.
How Sabbath and the Book of Sports drove 35,000 Puritans to New England
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For more information on their contributions to our human rights and civil liberties, see the "For Educators" tab above. Celebrate International Women's Day, March 8, by honoring Mary Dyer and Anne Hutchinson. Religious liberty is STILL not settled, even after nearly 400 years of strife. If you're deeply religious, as Mary and Anne were, or a non-believer, religious liberty covers everyone. Everyone.
ANNE HUTCHINSON (15 -
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When the religious dissidents left (or were exiled from) Massachusetts Bay Colony in early 1638, they went first to the small town of Providence Plantations on the Seekonk River to meet with another dissident, Roger Williams, who had helped them negotiate with the Indians. Then they went on another few miles to the beautiful wooded island they’d purchased from the Native Americans during the extremely harsh winter when the Boston women were preparing to move -
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Holocaust Remembrance Day is kept every year, in thoughtful commemoration of a very dark period in human existence, the 1930s and 40s obliteration of more than 13 million people, six million of them European Jews. We particularly remember the attempt to exterminate the Jews, because it was a war on their religion and culture.
Though we think such a hideous, inhumane atrocity might never happen to us in modern times, we have only -
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From time to time, I post a life sketch of people who were important members of 17th-century England and New England culture.
George Herbert, 1593-1633, was an English Parliamentarian, an orator (a spokesman for a college of Cambridge University), an author, a poet who was well connected with notables like Rev. John Dunne and scientist Francis Bacon, and the minister of a tiny chapel of ease just outside Salisbury, Wiltshire. He was on -
Blog post“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” Luke 2:14
With whom is he pleased?
"This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another." 1 John 4:10,11
That means you. God is pleased with you.
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Every December, I listen to hours of Christmas music in a mix of styles on an mp3 player hooked up to my speakers. I have a huge variety of artists, from Celtic bagpipes to Mannheim Steamroller, James Taylor and Steven Curtis Chapman, Brooklyn Tabernacle and Casting Crowns, Harry Connick Jr. and Point of Grace, Sting and Barbra Streisand, and probably 20 other soloists or groups. I don’t like the Santa, snow, or “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” party musi -
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At New Year's in 2015-16, I wrote of my intention to be more than thankful--I wanted to be grateful. Some people would argue that thankful and grateful are the same. They may be. But to me, grateful goes the extra distance and recognizes the giver for giving up some "thing" of value, whether time, talents, advice, hugs, or of a tangible nature like a service, physical object or money.
Accepting a gift with grace and gra -
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Every year in November, peaking at about the 17th of the month, a meteor shower can be seen, dropping tiny streaks of light. Some flashes are so slight that you think you’ve imagined them. Other meteors are so bright that they make the annual pilgrimage to the back yard lawn chair, in your warm bathrobe and thick socks, worth the 2am alarm clock call.
Boston supermoon in 2013. In 2016, we may not see many meteors
because of the Nov. 14 "supe -
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2011-2016: Do Christians think it's OK
to back an immoral politician?
He's done it again. The man who is known for his career as a world-famous neurosurgeon and advocate for education has said that electing a terrible person to office means laying aside your Christian principles for a time. It hasn't even been six months since he said that being nice gets you nowhere.
Dr. Ben Carson is not alone in lowering his standards to put -
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Alf Wight on the moors
overlooking the Dales.If I hadn’t read Alf Wight’s autobiographical books about his life and career as a veterinarian in the Yorkshire Dales, there might not have been a William and Mary Dyer website with a third of a million page views, nor the books* I’ve written about them and their world.
Alf Wight wrote under the pseudonym of James Herriot. Ah! You recognize that name. When I was a teenager, reading and rereadin -
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Newport Historical Society:
Molly Bruce Patterson, right, scanned or photographed
several documents, including the 1644 deed here. When in Newport, Rhode Island in July 2016, I had an appointment to meet an archivist at the Newport Historical Society, to view documents in William Dyer’s handwriting. Most of the records that William wrote, I was informed, are in Providence, the state capitol.
But they brought out a land deed from December -
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William Dyer, in addition to being the first Attorney General in America, a haberdasher and shipping investor, a cofounder of Newport, Rhode Island, a militia captain, surveyor, admiralty court judge, and Commander-in-Chief-Upon-the-Seas, was a farmer. He was the son of a farmer in Lincolnshire, and his sons were farmers and husbandmen (animal breeders).
Mary Dyer, his wife, would have been occupied during the years for which we have no record, with m -
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William Perkins, 1558-1602, a moderate Puritan who earned his BA and MA degrees at Cambridge University in England, was one of the teaching “fellows” when John Robinson, the pastor of the Pilgrims to America, was a student there in the 1590s. Though Robinson wasn’t a Puritan, he was a Separatist, one who had broken with the Church of England over its adherence to many of the Catholic practices and beliefs. Robinson, a university professor himself, wrote many -
Blog postand the naming of the “other” Dyer(s) Island
© 2016 Christy K Robinson Top: Prudence Island
Middle: Dyer Island
Bottom: Aquidneck Island with the town of Portsmouth
Photo by Christy K Robinson, July 26, 2016
A few weeks ago, I was half-listening to a nature program on TV, when I heard the words “Shark Alley” and “Dyer Island.”
There’s a Dyer Island in Narragansett Bay, named after William Dyer, 1609-1677, a cofounder of Portsmouth and Newpo -
Blog postAvailable in paperback and Kindle ebook editionsFor yourself. For gifts. Mary Dyer Illuminated (Vol. 1) $7.99 Kindle or $15 paperback at AmazonMary Dyer: For Such a Time as This (Vol. 2) $7.99 Kindle or $15 paperback at AmazonThe Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport (nonfiction) $6.99 Kindle or $12 paperback on AmazonThe research is not only on Mary and William Dyer, but on John Cotton, John Wilson, Henry Vane, John and Margaret Winthrop, Anne and William Hutchinson, Edward Hutchinson, Richard
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Blog postAdmonito Generalis, Charlemagne (789AD)
“…Be sure to amend carefully [that means edit] in every monastery and bishop’s house the psalms, notes, chants, calendar material, grammars, and the epistles and gospels. For often enough there are those who want to call upon God well, but because of poor texts they do it poorly.”
Here's an experienced editor! Christy K Robinson, the Editornado Literary, commercial, and educational editing, proofing, and writing.http://www.christyk -
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Hugh Peter, a Puritan minister who did good things for New England, was one of the accusers of Anne Hutchinson at her 1637 and 1638 trials and pushed for her banishment. He would have been aware of Mary Dyer and her “monstrous” miscarriage.
His grandfather carried the name of a manor in Norfolk, England, called Dyckwoode, and it seems that for a time in the 16th century, the family lived in the Netherlands but moved to England for reasons of religious -
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On my first day in Boston in years, I visited the graves of Gov. John Winthrop and his family, Rev. John Cotton, Rev. John Wilson, Rev. John Davenport, Isaac Johnson, and others who I learned to know very well as I researched and wrote my books on the Dyers.*
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They were buried in what is now known as the King's Chapel Burying Ground. Boston was founded in 1630 to be a Puritan version of the New Jerusalem, wher -
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"This terrified wild donkey would not leave the firefighters sides yesterday
at the Willow Fire in Mohave Valley. Photo taken by my neighbor and friend,
Chief Bill Weber of the Desert Hills Fire District. The firefighters
sprayed the donkey down and he was safely removed from the danger.
Way to go guys!!!" -- Karen Kuehnel, to
Lake Havasu Living Magazine, August 9, 2015When my friends and I were kids in Chr -
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The Rhode Island General Assembly met in homes and inns for decades before a Colony House was purpose-built for the assembly's business meetings.
White Horse Tavern, a Newport establishment dating to the 1650s,
first as the home of Francis Brinley, “the massively framed building
and quarter acre of land fenced with Pailes at the corner of
Farewell and Marlborough Streets”;
then in 1673, it was converted to a tave -
Blog post1910: Edith Hall before
she married John Stone.© 2016 Christy K Robinson
While casually googling my maternal great-grandparents, I discovered a 1912 legal suit they brought against Canadian Northern Railway for a locomotive-caused forest fire that destroyed part of their northern Minnesota properties in 1910. They lived on homesteads near Williams, Minnesota, and they were clearing the land for cultivation, selling the timber to the sawmill at Rainy River, or to the relat -
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William Dyer's name is to the left
of the center tile.
Newport Historical Society
Museum and Shop.
Click to enlarge.On my recent visit to Newport, Rhode Island, on a mission to do research, and get a Dyer monument project rolling, I visited the Newport Historical Society. Their museum and shop is located at the nearby Brickmarket. Outside the shop is a brick mosaic with the Newport co-founders' names on it.
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Flying into Boston over the harbor.
Logan International Airport is built on an island and landfill.In July 2016, I traveled from my home in Arizona to Boston, Massachusetts, to participate in a historical event conducted by the Anne Marbury Hutchinson Foundation. The five-day event celebrated Anne Hutchinson on her 425th birthday with a ceremony at her statue on the Massachusetts Statehouse grounds, lectures and a reception at the Congregational -
Blog postI invite you to learn more about King Philip's War by reading The Savage Apostle, by John B. Kachuba. You can access the Amazon sales page and the other reviews by clicking the title hotlink.
The Savage Apostle, by John B. Kachuba(Review by Christy K Robinson)
The Savage Apostle, named after John Eliot, the Congregational (Puritan) pastor to the Native Americans (“savages”) of New England, is the first historical novel by author John B. Kachuba. The “novel” genre assignment seems w -
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Because Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer, Roger Williams and John Clarke, and almost every co-founder of Rhode Island, were very religious people (zealous Puritans, Antinomians, Baptists, Quakers, etc.) who sacrificed worldly goods and even their lives for their faith in God, we might think of these "Founders before the Founding Fathers" as desirous of a religious utopia in the New World.
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Hutchinson statue seen from
Beacon Street over the iron fence.
That's as close as you get,
most times.
The memorial statue of Anne Marbury Hutchinson was cast in bronze in 1915, and placed on the grounds of the Massachusetts State House in 1922. For generations, it was a landmark easily visited by descendants and admirers of Hutchinson. But after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the state raised an iron fence around the statehous -
Blog post© 2016 Christy K Robinson When the American Family Association boycott of Target began in May 2016, it was not about who uses which restrooms (because Target has locking restrooms for baby changing and disability access), it was about *FUNDRAISING* for the AFA. It's not about transgender people threatening your vulnerable daughters in a public restroom, or exposing their genitalia to impressionable children, somehow twisting children to an inevitable fate of gender reassignment. D
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Arizona taxpayers will pay $400,000 to reprint and re-mail a ballot because it wasn't edited before it was published.Ballot screw-up to cost taxpayers $400,000
by E.J. Montini, Arizona Republic columnist I type for a living, and I have made more mistakes than you could imagine. Or maybe you could, since so many of you generously point out each one to me. Thank you.
Word omissions. Grammar errors. Misspellings. Sometimes an errant clause
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