historicnewengland.org/visit/homes/gilman.htm

Some general info, & small pic: usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/histryotln/colonial.htm

This has a narrative of town life: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_America Here’s a timeline of stuff, you could pick out certain things around and before the 1690 date to research, such as the smallpox outbreak not long before: angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/NewEngTimeline.html

More info.: usemb.se/usis/history/chapter2.html

Hope this helps!!! (I couldn’t put in the whole links, was getting “error code 999”–on the first ones, add “http://” in front of and the last two “www.” )