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Journals of Enoch Hayes Place: 1810-1849
Enoch Hayes Place (1786-1865) was pastor of the Third Freewill Baptist Church of Strafford, New Hampshire. He was born to James and Abigail (Hayes) Place on a farm in nearby Rochester, but spent most of his life in Strafford. He married his cousin, Sally Demeritt of Barrington, daughter of Daniel and Sarah (Hayes) Demeritt, on 29 September 1808. Enoch and Sally had nine children. His journals are an almost daily record of events in Southeastern New Hampshire and other states through which he traveled during 55 years of tremendous change of the American experience.
Journals of ENOCH HAYES PLACE
Volume Two of a two volume set of the Journals of one of the most notable of the Northern Free Will Baptists. Very historical as he records his journey among this denomination. Enoch Hayes Place never lived to see the day when his beloved United States declared an absolute end to what he thought was a blot on the very concept of the American republic--the "grim tyrant" of slavery. But he has left us a unique American journal beginning 22 years after ratification of the U.S. Constitution and leading up to the dawn of that day when, as he put it, "Slavery shall be dethroned forever in America." Being older than the Constitution of 1787, which was ratified by most of the states in 1788, the his...
The Awakening of the Freewill Baptists
The last decades of the eighteenth century brought numerous changes to the citizens of colonial New England. As the colonists were joining together in their fight for independence from England, a collection of like-minded believers in southern New Hampshire forged an identity as a new religious tradition. Benjamin Randall (1749ndash;1808) was one of the principle founders of the Freewill Baptist movement in colonial New England. Randall was one of the many eighteenth-century colonists that enjoyed a conversion experience as a result of the revival ministry of George Whitefield. His newfound spiritual zeal prompted him to examine the scriptures on his own, and he began to question the practic...
Rally the Scattered Believers
“An important new interpretation of how religious change shaped American cultural identity in the early republic.” —Journal of American History Northern New England, a rugged landscape dotted with transient settlements, posed challenges to the traditional town church in the wake of the American Revolution. Using the methods of spatial geography, Shelby M. Balik examines how migrants adapted their understanding of religious community and spiritual space to survive in the harsh physical surroundings of the region. The notions of boundaries, place, and identity they developed became the basis for spreading New England’s deeply rooted spiritual culture, even as it opened the way to a new...
Nexus
The newsmagazine of the New England Historic Genealogic Society.
Food for the Dead
These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is “a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs” (The Boston Globe). For nineteenth-century New Englanders, “vampires” lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, lasted well into the twentieth century. With humor, insight, and sympathy, he uncovers story upon story of dying men, women, and children who believed they were food for the dead. “A marvelous book.” —Providence Journal Includes an updated preface covering newly discovered cases.
A History of Vampires in New England
The author of A Guide to Haunted New England lifts the coffin lid on the region’s folklore and legends of the undead. New England is rich in history and mystery. Numerous sleepy little towns and farming communities distinguish the region’s scenic tranquility. But not long ago, New Englanders lived in fear of spectral ghouls believed to rise from their graves and visit family members in the night to suck their lives away. Although the word “vampire” was never spoken, scores of families disinterred loved ones during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries searching for telltale signs that one of them might be what is now referred to as the New England vampire. “In his remarkable book...
