Welcome to Bidwell Lore number 102! This week we continue our new series on Captain William Goodrich and share more about his life in Stockbridge and his time in the Revolutionary War. William Goodrich, Jr., moved from Sheffield to Stockbridge, where around 1768 he married Sybil Woodbridge, daughter of Timothy Woodbridge. They had two children, a...
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Bidwell Lore – Timothy Woodbridge Part II
Welcome to week 46 of Bidwell Lore! This week we continue the story of Timothy Woodbridge with a petition he helped write for his Mohican friends. In 1750, the Provincial government ordered that an Indian Proprietorship be created in an effort to protect the Stockbridge Mohicans from further dispossession of their land by English colonists. The proprietors were...
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Bidwell Lore – Timothy Woodbridge
Welcome to week 45 of Bidwell Lore! This week we turn to the story of Timothy Woodbridge, schoolmaster of the Mohican Mission in Stockbridge and friend to the Mohicans in their struggles with the English. Timothy Woodbridge (1709-1774) School Master of the Mohican Mission in Stockbridge “The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred...
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Bidwell Lore – Ultracrepidarianism, Slavery, and The Age of Enlightenment, Part I
Welcome to week 26 of Bidwell Lore! This week we begin a new three-part series, still in the world of Barnabas and Mary, titledUltracrepidarianism, Slavery, and The Age of Enlightenment. Thank you Rick Wilcox for all of your work writing these articles! Ultracrepidarianism: the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge. In my role...