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Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Traces the history of New Hampshire, discussing the daily life of Indian tribes before the seventeenth century, European exploration and settlement, the Indian wars, colonial life, the Revolutionary War, and ratification as the ninth state.
Author
Publisher
L.A. Cummings Co
Pub. Date
[1950]
Description
Traces the life of John Goffe, a Colonial-era New Hampshire resident, and his involvement in the French and Indian Wars and contributions to Revolutionary and pre-Revolutionary life in the state.
John Goffe was born 16 March 1701 in Boston. His parents were John Goffe and Hannah Parris. He fought in the French and Indian Wars. He married Hannah Griggs in 1722 and they had nine children. He died 20 October 1786. Focuses on his military career.
Series
Provincial and state papers volume XXIII
Publisher
Printed by the John R. Clarke Company
Pub. Date
1893
Author
Description
One of the most popular and enduring novels of the last century, Look to the Mountain is the epic story of two young settlers who start a new life in the foothills of New Hampshire's White Mountains on the eve of the American Revolution. They learn to survive amid the struggle in what was then a harsh and unforgiving landscape, forging a bond between both them and their adopted homeland. A critical and commercial success when it was first published...
Series
Provincial and state papers volume XL
Publisher
Published by the state of New Hampshire
Pub. Date
1943
Series
Provincial and state papers volume XIX
Publisher
J. B. Clarke, public printer
Pub. Date
1891 [1893?]
17) New Hampshire
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Discusses the founding of New Hampshire, daily life and politics in the early years, its role in the American Revolution, and its achievement of statehood.
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Series
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A historian delves into the legendary story of the baby who saved a ship full of Scottish immigrants from pirates.
Meet Mary, ocean-born and named by an infamous pirate. Her birth saved a group of Scottish immigrants aboard a ship bound for New England in 1720. Halfway through the grueling voyage, pirates intercepted and captured the vessel. Upon hearing a baby's cry, the pirate captain promised to spare the lives of all on board if the mother named...
Author
Publisher
History Press
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The true story of a woman hanged in colonial Portsmouth for burying her stillborn out-of-wedlock baby. On a cold December morning in 1768, thirty-one-year-old Ruth Blay approached the gallows for her execution. Standing on the high ground in the northwest corner of what is now Portsmouth's old South Cemetery, she would have had a clear view across the pasture to the harbor and open sea. The eighteenth-century hanging of a schoolteacher for concealing...
