Located next door to the Rebecca Maxwell Phillips House on State Street in Warren, Rhode Island the Eddy-Cutler House stands as possibly the finest brick Federal style building in the waterfront town. In July 1806, Benjamin Eddy purchased this house lot and began construction on his new mansion. Born in Warren in August 1772, he married Abigail Kelly in 1794 and began a career as a sea captain. Like many of the town’s wealthiest residents, Benjamin Eddy was engaged in the slave trade. Captain Benjamin Eddy was captain of at least three slave voyages, delivering 139 captives to the Charleston docks in June 1806 alone. In 1808, just before the “Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves” he purchased and imprisoned 176 Africans – the largest number ever carried on a Warren slave ship. Nineteen died during the return voyage. When he reached Charleston, South Carolina the remaining 157 people were sold into slavery. At the time, the sale would have returned nearly $33,000. He would return home to this mansion on money profited from human suffering, a story as American as apple pie. In 1871, the Eddy Homestead was transferred to Charles R. Cutler, a ship master and whaler who had many successful voyages to the Indian Ocean.
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Good morning: Good job. Yes, “human suffering, a story as American as apple pie” Religion, formal or informal, communal or individualistic, offer succor, but that life consumes life at all “levels” of existence is as old as Adam. The search for truth, to the degree to which your work on journaling architecture of New England to depth psychology, philosophy, and art dredges up decay, destruction, violence, horror. “Words, words, words. “
I am second generation after the holocaust, if proudly, a hyphenated American. The constitution has inspired much positive change, which is slow even in the best of times, to recite the words of one of the great teachers Framinham Public Schools, South High. Sadly, my home, Massachusettes (CA, NY, et cetera) are pathololgicallly soft. Suffering is a stern teacher, so the more measels and crime, sadly the more momentum the pendulum gains in gravity towards my desires and my vision. Rest assured, I will be voting conservative. Anti-semitimis, in America, res ipsum loquitor. Schumer is not my senator, nor is Warren, though PA electued a frumpy uneducated scheister. Suffice to say, it is part of a healthy representative democracy to share one’s views, understanding that this is a measure of our civility, tolerance, and knoweldge of history.
I miss the town center in Framingham. Someday you will have to write about it for me.
Respectfully,
David Loring, York, Pennsylvania
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Shades of Chestnut St in Salem!
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Good evening, CMLEICH:
What does your comment refer to. I am confused. Did I miss a comment. At fifty-two my eyes labor every second I have to look at a screen. What is being referenced in the comment “Shades of Chestnut St. in Salem!” I am perplexed.
Good evening/ David Loring, York, Pennsylvania
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I believe he is referring to the prevalence of large, high-style Federal brick homes on Chestnut Street, similar to this house in Warren.
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Cool. Thx. / David
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I grew up in the area and this particular house gives off a sinister vibe. RIP to those poor souls to died at the hands of this “man”
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