Category: 1600-1699

• Frontier Quarrels

  

  Five reasons for the raid…

  Marek

  10 January, 2017

  1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston

• Hannah Dustin in the Snow

  

  A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…

  Marek

  5 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  Hannah Dustin, highway, history, markers, Penacook, truth

• Hannah Dustin (1697)

  

  “Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

  Marek

  4 December, 2016

  1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markers

  1697, abenaki, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston, haverhill, Massachusetts, massacre, raid

• Sabbath Hawks (Weare)

  

  What a difference a century of Holy Sundays can make!

  Marek

  27 January, 2013

  1600-1699, 1800-1899, chicken, colonial, eagle+hawk, hunting, judicial branch, Massachusetts, sabbath, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  Edward Gove, hawk, hunting, Josiah Gove, sabbath, weare

• Journal of Martin Pring (cover + intro)

  

  1603: Here’s a color cover image of Pring’s young guiternist…

  Marek

  13 January, 2013

  1600s, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, music & dance, posters, seacoast

  martin pring, music

• Pring 16 ~ “Wee did behold to burne”

  

  1603: The crew of Martin Pring’s last ship watch the New England coast go up in flames…

  Marek

  29 December, 2012

  1600s, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  martin pring

• Goody Cole, Witch of Hampton (Guest Post)

  

  Here’s one from the COMICS WORKSHOP archives — an old mini-comic by Emma (grade 4) starring the only NH woman ever to be convicted of witchcraft:

  Marek

  23 December, 2012

  1600-1699, colonial, cows, death, guest artist, Hampton, seacoast, witches

  Goody Cole, Hampton

• Pring 15 ~ Final Fire

  

  1603: The dogs save the fort, communications break down, and the expedition heads for home in this EXCITING CONCLUSION of Martin Pring’s Journal!

  Marek

  18 December, 2012

  1600s, dogs, encounter & exploration, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  martin pring

• Pring 14 ~ Two Shots

  

  Pring’s last ship fires the first warning shots of a coming conflict …

  Marek

  8 December, 2012

  1600s, dogs, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  Pring

• Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest

  

  Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…

  Marek

  3 December, 2012

  1600s, encounter & exploration, harvest, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  Pring

• Pring 12 ~ As The Land is Full

  

  Wherein we can perhaps glimpse the little gold “crownes” in Pring’s eyes as he ogles the natives’ pelts …

  Marek

  17 November, 2012

  1600s, animals, bear, berries, deer, dogs, encounter & exploration, fish, forestry, fox, herbs, hunting, Journal of Martin Pring, medicine, porcupine, seacoast

• Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest

  

  Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …

  Marek

  16 November, 2012

  1600s, berries, encounter & exploration, forestry, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, medicine, seacoast

• Pring 10 ~ Rich and Fat Ground

  

  After sailing around the New England coast for many weeks, the English run low on provisions, and so …

  Marek

  15 November, 2012

  1600s, encounter & exploration, food, Journal of Martin Pring, Peas, seacoast

• Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens

  

  Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…

  Marek

  14 November, 2012

  1600s, berries, corn, encounter & exploration, food, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, Peas, rivers, seacoast

• Pring 08 ~ Birchbarke Boats

  

  Description of native canoes.

  Marek

  8 November, 2012

  1600s, encounter & exploration, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

• Pring 07 ~ These People in Colour

  

  Native fashions of the 17th century, for men and women …

  Marek

  7 November, 2012

  1600s, bear, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  bear, clothes, feathers, indians, martin pring

• Pring 06 ~ Let Loose the Mastives

  

  Martin Pring brings out his pets.

  Marek

  6 November, 2012

  1600s, dogs, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

• Pring 05 ~ Their Weapons are Bowes

  

  The English visitors inspect their hosts…

  Marek

  5 November, 2012

  1600s, eagle+hawk, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

• Pring 04 ~ Sassafras Dance

  

  Quite possibly the first world-fusion dance party in New England history…

  Marek

  2 November, 2012

  1600s, deer, encounter & exploration, Journal of Martin Pring, music & dance, seacoast, snakes

• Pring 03 ~ Meeting the Locals

  

  The native people of NH’s seacoast take some interest in Martin Pring’s sassafras harvesting expedition …

  Marek

  26 October, 2012

  1600s, encounter & exploration, fish, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast

  1603, abenaki, great bay, martin pring, nh, seacoast, trade

• Pring 02 ~ Sassafras Bay

  

  Pring’s crew find what they’re looking for on the New England seacoast …

  Marek

  25 October, 2012

  1600s, construction, encounter & exploration, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, Piscataqua, seacoast

  forest, fort, indians, martin pring, sailing, sassafras

• Pring 01 ~ Quest for Sassafras

  

  Martin Pring details his visit to the New Hampshire seacoast in 1603.

  Marek

  24 October, 2012

  1600s, animals, encounter & exploration, forestry, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, Piscataqua, seacoast

  1603, exploration, martin pring, queen elizabeth, sailing, sassafras, seacoast, voyage

• Bounds of New Hampshire (Mason Grant, 1629)

  

  This 1629 land grant by the Plymouth Company caused many headaches when everyone realized they’d ALREADY granted some of the same land to other people… not to mention the inhabitants already living thereupon!

  Marek

  23 October, 2012

  1620s, encounter & exploration, Merrimack, Piscataqua, rivers, seacoast, SOURCE=Little

  1629, bounds, company, early, exploration, grant, land, mason, plymouth, rivers

• Darby Field Climbs Mount Washington (1642)

  

  Two Indian guides lead the first European expedition to the top of the White Mountains…

  Marek

  7 October, 2012

  1640s, Dover, encounter & exploration, hiking, Piscataqua, rivers, Saco, SOURCE=Calloway, SOURCE=Winthrop, White Mountains

  abenaki, darby field, hiking, john winthrop, mount washington, mountains, rocks, weather, white mountains