A list of significant dates in New England history:
March 21
1971: Vermont’s seasonal snowfall totals 132.2 inches, a record for the Green Mountain State.
March 22
Anne Hutchinson
1638:Anne Hutchinson, midwife and mother of 15, is expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her controversial Puritan religious teachings.
March 24
1664: Political and religious leader Roger Williams, known for advocating a separation between church and state, is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island. Rhode Island becomes a haven for Baptists, Quakers, Jews and other religious minorities, and nearly a century after Williams’ death, the Bill of Rights incorporates his notion of religious freedom into US law.
March 25
Nantucket sailors
1845: The Massachusetts State Legislature — responding to a petition from black Nantucket sailors who, after experiencing relative quality on the whaling ships, were unwilling to accept segregation or inequality in schools on land for their children — votes to guarantee access to public schools for all.
March 26
Robert Frost
1872:Robert Frost, who attended Dartmouth and Harvard colleges and is perhaps the most iconic New England poet, is born in San Francisco.
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