tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post8382641102999066799..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Rediscovering Ruth BryantUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-54132889982319626292013-06-17T19:32:54.054-05:002013-06-17T19:32:54.054-05:00She was from North Bridgewater, Massachusetts? Now...She was from North Bridgewater, Massachusetts? Now known as Brockton, Massachusetts. I know this link is wiki, but I've seen some of the firsts that happened in Brockton listed elsewhere too. <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockton,_Massachusetts<br /><br />VictoriaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-25886308000807181632011-01-30T02:40:54.721-05:002011-01-30T02:40:54.721-05:00Ruth's grave is pictured at findagrave.com.
S...Ruth's grave is pictured at <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=41795505&FLid=38151537&" rel="nofollow">findagrave.com</a>.<br /><br />She is on the same stone with her brother Oliver, who died Aug. 24, 1776, apparantly in service in the run-up to the Battle of Long Island.Peter Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11047119349197900440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-57456333106076825732010-08-07T19:48:11.047-05:002010-08-07T19:48:11.047-05:00Whups! Thanks for the sharp eyes. I corrected that...Whups! Thanks for the sharp eyes. I corrected that one misnaming.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-59144907150344136702010-08-07T15:32:21.120-05:002010-08-07T15:32:21.120-05:00"Rebecca"?"Rebecca"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-55070530130287074342010-08-03T11:03:52.494-05:002010-08-03T11:03:52.494-05:00I totally love your blog. I have been keeping a bl...I totally love your blog. I have been keeping a blog about searching for my family's roots and American identity at http://backwardho.blogspot.com. As a Californian all my life, I was suprised to find I had Puritan roots in New England and have been on a few exploratory missions there in Western Mass.Northern California Dreamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16371697497308438404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-71503786484476772862010-08-02T19:59:09.093-05:002010-08-02T19:59:09.093-05:00Rob, I was thinking of an anti-British/Tory strain...Rob, I was thinking of an anti-British/Tory strain also found in Wheatley's description of Ebenezer Richardson in <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=84yOE_rBMCUC&lpg=PA131&dq=phillis%20wheatley%20snider&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">"On the Death of Mr. Snider..."</a>:<br /><br /><i>In heavens eternal court it was decreed<br />How the first martyr for the cause should bleed</i>...<br /><br /><i>Where'er this fury darts his Pois'nous breath<br /><b>All are endanger'd</b> to the shafts of death</i><br /><br />...which probably isn't representative of Wheatley overall, fair enough. But I remembered it reading this, from Bryant:<br /><br /><i><b>Can we embrace the murderers</b> then<br />When we this scene behold?</i><br /><br />They both seem like poems about crossing a line, in the context of increasing estrangement and violence between loyalists and rebels. They both have that "passion for the battlefield" mentioned above, in different ways.Sam Ryanhttp://samryan.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-17097970458247944542010-08-02T19:31:32.682-05:002010-08-02T19:31:32.682-05:00I don't see Phillis Wheatley here; it actually...I don't see Phillis Wheatley here; it actually seems very post 18th-century. Impressive; I wouldn't mind seeing the rest.<br /><br />I wouldn't take the crimson gushing like a fountain image too seriously - poetically, it's gorgeous.Rob Velellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14284492589098267999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-76979216603319761582010-08-02T14:07:12.374-05:002010-08-02T14:07:12.374-05:00A fifteen-year-old poet being overly dramatic! Who...A fifteen-year-old poet being overly dramatic! Who could have imagined that?J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-342756262648898402010-08-02T12:09:19.017-05:002010-08-02T12:09:19.017-05:00"rivers of blood" imagery? There was no ..."rivers of blood" imagery? There was no mass of casualties, and who the murderers were depended on the POV of April 19. 1775. Methinks Ms. Bryant was indulging in a bit of hexametric hyperbole...RFullernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-32308807824076201252010-08-02T11:55:46.695-05:002010-08-02T11:55:46.695-05:00Wow, this is a great find! Echoes of Phillis Wheat...Wow, this is a great find! Echoes of Phillis Wheatley in the quoted lines.Sam Ryanhttp://samryan.net/noreply@blogger.com