Guest artist Chris depicts the arrival of new technology around 1765-1770, thanks to the efforts of Mrs. William Smith:
Category: 1760s
Henniker 1861 School Committee Report (Part 2)
1861: In its official report, the Henniker School Committee proceeds to excoriate parents & dispense vocational advice:
The Old Bear (Dublin)
No sense complaining about the food…
Snow-shoes (Weare, 1762)
The only way to travel in those 18th century snows…
Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)
Even religious law can have loopholes…
Winter of 1761-1762 (Weare)
One settler family receives a surprise visitor during a particularly harsh winter in early Weare…
John Colony (Keene)
John Colony leaves his native Ireland to fight Indians (& French) in the New England…
Ward’s Arrival (Henniker, 1763)
Some of Henniker’s earliest settler families arrive in town…
Second Horse in Town (Henniker, 1767)
Because sometimes being FIRST doesn’t really count…
