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Blog post© 2018 Christy K Robinson
In the early 1990s before she passed away, my mother gave me an antique carriage clock she said belonged to her grandfather, John Russell Stone (1880-1938). Today I tried to find an age for my clock, and one antique store listing says "first half of 19th century." If it came down in John Stone’s family, that would mean it belonged to his grandparents. Mine looks just like the antique store’s photo, and has the key inside the back door, but it -
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Rather than write a narrative on the life of my 8thgreat-grandfather Isaac Robinson, son of Rev. John Robinson, I’ll submit this timeline of his life events, along with my commentary.
Timeline:
Leiden, Netherlands, centered around the St Pieterskirke where
Rev. John Robinson is buried.1610 Isaac Robinson born in Leiden, Netherlands, to Rev. John and Bridget Robinson, pas -
Blog postPre-Christmas Salefor History Loversand Gift GiversBooks can be autographed by author (free)for as long as I have them in stock.
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On Nov. 11, 2018, the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the Great War in 1918, I played the piano for the Life Church choir as we honored the sacrifices of millions of people who endured the horrors of World War I. Click "play" to hear the inspiring piece as you read the article below.
Leonard Robinson, in 1918-1919At age 33 in 1918, my paternal grandfather, Leonard Robinson, joined the American Expeditionary Force, and was assigne -
Blog postI've emerged from my writer/editor cave and proudly present a NEW BOOK, Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother. It's a nonfiction biography of Anne Hutchinson, and how her experience in the 1630s still resonates in the world today.
Years in the research, and 2.5 years in the writing and editing process, it's now available in paperback (Kindle available after Nov. 3). Mary Dyer, of course, has a larger role in the book than other authors have presented, considering my previous a -
Blog post© 2018 Christy K Robinson
While researching my books on William and Mary Dyer, and my 2018 book on Anne Hutchinson, I found many books, images, and ballads from their time period, the early- and mid-17th century.
This broadsheet, basically a paper periodical of the day, was written by an unknown author and published in 1647, during the English Civil Wars. The ECW had begun over royal authority (the divine rights of kings) and religious upheaval and reformatio -
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Blog postRead more reviews and order the books at http://bit.ly/DyersSeries
* * * * * 5 Stars for Mary Dyer Illuminated
MARY DYER ILLUMINATED is an example of historical fiction at its finest. A biographical work spanning the first forty years of Mary’s life, this novel paints beautiful descriptions of old England and old London. The history is amazingly well researched yet the story is smoothly, clearly drawn on the page. I felt as if Westminster and old Lincolnshire lived for mea -
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Rhode Island Charter of 1663, Providence, Rhode Island© 2018 Christy K. Robinson
The Rhode Island Charter of Liberties was granted July 15, 1663. As is still done today, 355 years later, a committee or group of community leaders spent weeks or months crafting the content and wording of the charter or constitution, and then presented the draft to a higher body for consideration and confirmation. In 1663, the monarch was King Charles II of England. T -
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My maternal grandmother told my mother at some point in the 1960s that their ancestors were "Scotch-Irish." My mom did years of research, and refuted that family legend. In fact, on the grandmother side, they were almost all English. On my maternal grandfather's side, English and German. However, on my dad's ancestry, besides the English, Dutch, and Welsh forebears, there were numerous Irish and Scottish ancestors who emigrated to Virgi -
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By BardofL - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8617206 In the English town of Boston, Lincolnshire is the 700-year-old church of St. Botolph's, the country's largest parish church. In 1612, Rev. John Cotton, a scholar with multiple degrees in theology, was appointed vicar of the church. Though his preaching was controversial with the Church of England bishops, his charisma and ability to draw tithe-pay -
Blog postRabbit trails to the ancestors
© 2018 Christy K. Robinson
While researching the lives and stories of your ancestors, have you ever lost the thread of your original search when you find a different ancestor and a previously unknown factoid, which you must sniff out? That happens to me all the time. It's called a rabbit trail. The idea is that a rabbit meanders through a yard, randomly nibbling on the garden, then leaves the scene before a dog comes along -
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Every late-spring or summer day that I'm out watering my potted vegetable plants to try to keep them alive in the harsh desert heat, I wonder how long I can keep them going before they inevitably wither from heat, lack of humidity, or hornworms (the voracious caterpillar of the sphinx moth). Meanwhile, nearby in the Arizona rocky gravel that passes for a desert "lawn," a plant grows and seems to flourish despite the climate and -
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June 1, 1660 was the day Mary Dyer chose to die, and with her death, bring an end to religious oppression.
Statue of Mary Dyer at the
Massachusetts Statehouse, a mile from
the gallows where she was executed.
Photo by Christy K Robinson.Mary Dyer intentionally left Shelter Island, a Quaker haven, and traveled first to Providence, Rhode Island, the colony where she was safe from persecution. She was the wife of Rhode Isl -
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Photos by Roy Hackford, used by permission. Click to enlarge photos.
Church of St. Denys, view from southwest. It’s fascinating to learn the history of a place or a building that we see as a static, finished piece of fabric, and realize that it’s been changing for a thousand years or more, as generations of people have come and gone. It will continue to change during our lives and after we're gone.
The village of Kirkby La Thorpe, Li -
Blog post© 2018 Christy K Robinson
Credit: Peter SchreiberI admit it, I'm a snowflake. Not in most things, not in politics. In fact, I can be fierce about politics! But in matters of the heart, I'm fragile and can melt under a December sun.
On my way home from a medical appointment, I heard a song on the Christian radio station I listen to on a regular basis. The lyricist was asking God to radically and suddenly change him, to be a different man, submitted to any command of God. -
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Americans United, a religious liberty advocacy group, celebrates Women’s History Month, and I am honored that they posted my article on MARY BARRETT DYER (1611-1660) at their “Wall of Separation” blog <http://bit.ly/MaryDyerOnAU>. Feel free to share or use the Facebook/Twitter/Google+ buttons at the bottom of this post.
Though Mary Dyer was a deeply religious woman, she understood the life-and-death importance of liberty of conscience -
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Blog post© 2018 Christy K Robinson
I turned on the TV at 9:00 this morning and learned that the evangelist Billy Graham had died overnight. He was 99 years old and world-renowned for his integrity. Hundreds of thousands of people gave their lives to the Lord as a result of his enthusiastic (the word origin of 'enthuse,' en theos, is for God to enter in) crusade sermons.
Billy Graham in 1964
Religion News ServiceMy parents and I attended a Billy Graham crusade -
Blog post© 2018 Christy K Robinson
Whether it's holding hands, massage, reiki, prayerful anointing (laying on of hands), acupressure, or another form of therapeutic healing, touch can be either a dramatic or subtle healing tool. The act of caressing a dog or cat can lower our blood pressure and heart rate.
Many of us have seen videos of faith healing services with some notorious evangelist breathing on cloths, and smacking people on their forehead, or telling people -
Blog post© 2018 Christy K Robinson
An unusual place to find an emotional declaration of love: a 17th-century Puritan. I thought Roger Clapp was a relative, but as it turns out, he’s the father-in-law of my eighth great-grandfather. No relation. I still like him for his cheerful gratitude in the face of life-threatening harsh conditions.
Capt. Roger Clapp arrived in Massachusetts Bay two months before Gov. John Winthrop did in 1630, resided in Dorchester, Mass., and -
Blog post© 2018 Christy K Robinson
"I do prize him above Kingdoms: I desire him more than Life."
If you’re been a Christian for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed the dramatic testimonies that are occasionally made in church: the Lord came into a person’s life and gave them physical healing, or strength to overcome an addiction, or willpower to overcome a particular sin. Or maybe they were trapped in gangs or crime, or a rebellious time of life until so -
Blog postMy mother, Judith Anson Robinson, did much of the family interviewing, letter writing, ordering of books and microfilms from genealogy libraries, and traveling to midwestern and northeastern states to learn our family's heritage back to the first colonists to America. Together, when I was a teenager, we discovered the gateway families that led back to some very famous medieval names. Mom kept up her hobby after I went off to university, and when we got a 1984 Macintosh computer and p
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Blog postFrom Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, by William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony.
He was writing of Christmas, 1621.
Apparently, there was a "war on Christmas" long before Fox News' Bill O'Reilly invented one. Puritans, Pilgrim separatists, Presbyterians, Dutch Reformed, and almost every religious group in New England (except a few Anglicans and Catholics) treated Christmas as any other day on the calendar.
Notice that Governor Bradford s -
Blog postOr: The Evolution of a Novelist
© 2017 Jo Ann Butler
I’d like to share a bit about myself by way of introducing my latest book, The Golden Shore. It joins Rebel Puritan and The Reputed Wife in my Scandalous Life series, homage to Rhode Island’s diverse origins, and also to one of its most notorious rebels, Herodias Long.
I’ve been in love with colonial America for 45 years. The seeds of that love affair were planted by a 1961 National Geogr -
Blog postOccasional guest blogger, Johan Winsser, announces the publication of his scholarly study of Mary and William Dyer.
Winsser's book, published Nov. 13, 2017, is
available on Amazon, at
http://amzn.to/2zDhTyx
“An authoritative and careful biography of Mary Dyer and her husband, William, which breaks new ground, dispels common beliefs, and balances both the Quaker and puritan sides of the story.”—H. Larry Ingle, author of First Among Friends: George Fox and the Creation o -
Blog postNo wonder it ended up in my email spam folder. The Secretary of State for Arizona, Michelle Reagan, sent an email blast titled "Show Us the Money!!!!" Sorry, people, there are no more exclamation marks available for use today. Not just in Arizona, but North America. She used them all in one email title. Come back tomorrow, when we get another exclamation mark shipment. The other thing is that her title and content were too much like the scams sent by Nigerians or t
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Blog post© March 9, 2012 by Carolina Capehart
On Facebook recently [2012] there was quite a lively discussion, as well as plenty of oooohhhing and ahhhhhing, amongst my assorted friends about the tin (or is it copper?) reflector oven that’s depicted in the painting below:
This is entitled simply “The Cook.” It was done by the Dutch painter Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) and was most likely completed by him at some point between 1657 and 1662.
Yes, you read that correctly: between the -
Blog postThis post is the second of two, on fashions of the early and mid-17th century, during the lifetimes of William and Mary Barrett Dyer and Anne and William Hutchinson. I tried to cover the various social strata. Part one of the fashion parade is HERE.
25. 1630s: Posthumous Portrait of Mary Fielding,
by Anthony Van Dyck
26. Lady Penelope Nicholas Wearing a Brown Dress and White Chemise
27. 1630s: Portrait of Miss May, by John Michael Wright
28. 1637: Lucy Percy, Cou -
Blog post© 2017 Christy K Robinson
For those of us raised practicing temperance (no alcohol use), this is ironic.
This slice of life is from the First Church of Boston,
the Puritan congregation from which Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer
were cast out in 1638. The event happened two years later,
perhaps around the first of March, then her admonishment
was given on the 8th day of March (the first month on their calendar),
1640, and her restorat -
Blog postSaturday, 30 September 2017
Diana Milne talks to Christy K Robinson - author, editor, organist and jam maker extraordinaire! © Diana Milne 2017 © Christy K Robinson 2017
I am sure that you are tired of being asked the usual questions that would be interviewers ask authors, so hopefully this interview is an interview with a difference and I have come up with some unusual questions!
Christy K Robinson is author of this website and these books. Click the boo -
Blog postThis week (Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2017), I am the subject of (or possibly victim of?) The Review Blog's interview between Diana Milne and an author. This is where you learn all my deepest, most closely held secrets that Diana skewered and pulled out of my soul. Prepare yourself for what may come.http://thereview2014.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/diana-talks-to-christy-k-robinson.html
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Blog postSometimes you can read a scripture passage over and over, and then--then!--something different leaps off the page and into your heart.
This week, I was dealing with several problems related to health and finances, and my own problems were echoed in the national news, with the U.S. Congress trying and failing at repealing the healthcare act that keeps me alive and may actually improve a condition that has afflicted me for years.
It goes beyond suspicion to certainty tha -
Blog postThis post is the first of two, on fashions of the early and mid-17th century, during the lifetimes of William and Mary Barrett Dyer and Anne and William Hutchinson. I tried to cover the various social strata, whose type of clothes were prescribed. For instance, shoe height had to be low for the poorer sorts, and gowns or men's boots had to match their station.
Since Mary and William Dyer were respected and in a higher merchant class, as well as William's social status as colonial a -
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.
Over the -
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.
Notice the signature of "Jeremiah Shepard,&qu -
Blog post© 2017 Christy K Robinson
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 -
Blog postRevolutionary War ancestors, who are 5th great-grandfathers, or 7 generations removed.
Paternal ancestors: Capt. Jared Robinson, 1740-1826, 6th Regiment, Connecticut LineCorp. Joseph 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 (West -
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 -
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
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© 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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