HAA 170G - Luke Calamita

The person I picked to research from the Old Burying Ground is Joseph Coollidge, Sr, who shared my last initial and my birthday of May 31st. He was born in 1666 to Simon Coollidge and died on December 17th, 1737. His WikiTree profile lists his occupation as a tailor, backed up by a genealogy published in the The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. He became the Deacon of the First Church in Cambridge on January 22, 1718, after having moved there in 1694. He was known to be a selectman in the years 1713, 1714, and 1730.  Joseph married Rebecca Frost (December 3, 1669 - July 1, 1750) around 1695, with whom he had six children, all born in Cambridge. Their first daughter, Rebecca Coollidge was baptised on December 8, 1697, but died soon thereafter. Her sister took the same name and lived from June 4, 1699 to June 5, 1754. Between 1701 and 1707, two more Coollidge children, Joseph and Mary, had been born and died as infants. Stephen was born on April 18, 1708 and lived un...

The current Massachusetts state flag reflects the commonwealth's colonial history in its depiction of an arm holding a sword -- distinctly colonial as a copy of a weapon owned by Myles Standish¹-- above the head of a Native American man whose weapons are positioned to indicate peace. The symbolism and imagery are derived from the state seal (pictured), originally engraved by legendary Patriot Paul Revere, lending the piece its ideological skew toward settler superiority. The clear subjugative context of this symbolism glorifies the conquest of Massachusett lands by early settlers. Contrastingly, the Massachusett people see the arrival of Europeans as an “English Invasion,” a term they use to refer to this event.² The tribe identifies strongly with its oral traditions, Medicine Ways, ritual dance, and specific worldview that is informed by their ancestral traditions. The Massachusett people’s removal from their native lands to Ponkapoag Plantation limited their ability to thrive as ...