Cheryl Lassiter is the author of several books on the history of Hampton, New Hampshire. She has received awards from the Association of Historical Societies of New Hampshire and the New England Museum Association. She blogs and writes a newspaper column on local history.

Her most recent book is a biography, Marked: The Witchcraft Persecution of Goodwife Unise Cole 1656-1680 (Blue Petal Press, 2015, previously published as The Mark of Goody Cole, 2014). Puritan superstition confronts an indomitable will in this first-ever, comprehensive biography of Unise Cole, the woman known as the Witch of Hampton.

In 2012, Cheryl published A Meet and Suitable Person: Tavernkeeping in Old Hampton, New Hampshire, 1638-1783, depicting the lives of the seventeen men and six women who kept the town’s public houses of entertainment during the colonial era.

In 2011, Cheryl published A Page Out of History: A Hampton Woman in the Needletrades, 1859-1869, a monograph based on the personal papers of Mary Anna Page Getchell (1832-1913). An educated but ordinary 19th century woman leads an extraordinary life as a milliner, dressmaker, and shop proprietor, successfully managing her shops through the turbulent years of the Civil War and beyond.

Under her imprint, Blue Petal Press, Cheryl has published Answering the Call, Hampton Men in the American Civil War by Eleanor A. Becotte (2013) and Marelli’s Market, the First 100 Years in Hampton, New Hampshire, 1914-2014 by Karen Raynes and Marcia Hannon-Buber (2013).