Marblehead Museum Brick Kitchen Timeline

Jeremiah Lee, a weallthy colonial merchant, built this brick structure between 1766 and 1768 to serve as a kitchen and carriage house for his mansion next door. ;xNLx;;xNLx;According to town memory, individuals enslaved by Lee lived and worked here. ;xNLx;;xNLx;In the 19th century the building housed various stores, a community meeting space, and the Mugford Fire Company. From 1914 until 2020 it was home to the beloved Litchman-Orne Print Shop.

1600-01-01 00:00:00

Indigenous land

1600-01-01 00:00:00

World population is about 550 million

1600-01-01 15:00:30

Ancestral homeland

1603-03-24 00:00:00

Death of Elizabeth I of England

1607-01-01 00:00:00

Settlement of Jamestown, Virginia

1615-01-01 00:00:00

The Massachusett Naumkeags suffer defeat

1620-12-21 05:41:17

First settlers land at Plymouth Harbor

1621-01-01 00:00:00

Discovery of the Great Forts of Nanepashemet

1622-01-01 12:32:22

Thomas Graye, first European settler

1622-01-01 21:35:26

Jamestown massacre

1625-01-01 14:33:59

Founding of New Amsterdam

1625-01-01 14:34:42

Marblehead is settled

1636-01-01 00:00:00

The Desire, first colonial slave ship

1636-01-01 19:42:19

Harvard College founded

1637-01-01 03:07:39

Tax assessed on Marblehead residents

1638-01-01 00:00:00

First Meeting House built

1649-05-01 12:39:26

Marblehead self-governance

1651-01-01 01:42:41

Parliament passes first of several Navigation Acts

1655-01-01 13:57:32

Jamaica becomes the major slave market of the West Indies

1660-01-01 00:00:00

“Greatest towne for fishinge”

1662-01-06 06:46:46

"Common landing place"

1675-04-07 14:48:26

First school

1682-01-01 06:53:22

La Salle explores the length of the Mississippi River

1684-01-01 03:08:44

Land deed with the Naumkeag

1690-01-01 02:43:19

The Jackson and James families

1692-01-01 02:27:59

Witchcraft hysteria grips Salem, Massachusetts

1692-09-22 02:47:03

Marblehead's "witch" is hanged

1700-01-01 08:11:42

1,000 inhabitants

1700-01-01 20:24:13

Samuel Sewall publishes The Selling of Joseph, the first anti-slavery tract published in New England

1714-07-29 13:29:52

St. Michael’s Anglican Church built

1718-01-01 00:03:42

New Orleans is founded

1727-07-07 04:22:23

Town House completed

1730-10-17 08:33:49

Smallpox outbreak

1731-03-31 04:47:23

First town jail

1732-02-22 22:14:37

George Washington is born

1741-01-01 03:18:18

Papal bull 'Immensa Pastorum Principis' against slavery

1747-07-07 01:42:19

About 450 houses in Marblehead

1754-01-01 18:23:55

The French and Indian War

1755-03-08 07:03:39

Powder House erected

1759-01-01 00:18:06

Jeremiah Lee purchases the property from the heirs of Dr. George Jackson

1760-01-01 20:02:30

George III becomes King of Britain

1765-06-14 04:20:57

First census

1765-09-20 23:38:18

Ashley Bowen “parcels” the roof

1765-11-01 09:28:47

Parliament enacts the Stamp Act

1766-01-04 10:58:40

A shipping empire

1768-08-03 05:41:52

Lee Mansion completed

1769-07-21 03:50:10

“New brick kitchen or Coach House”

1770-03-05 08:02:30

The Boston Massacre

1773-12-16 09:16:49

The Boston Tea Party

1775-04-19 20:18:29

Battles of Lexington and Concord

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