Category: 1760s

• First Clock in Town (Peterborough) (GUEST POST)

  

  Guest artist Chris depicts the arrival of new technology around 1765-1770, thanks to the efforts of Mrs. William Smith:

  Marek

  28 August, 2015

  1700-1799, 1760s, colonial, guest artist, Peterborough

  clock, Ella Gertrude Kinscella, Fitchburg, Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, linen, Mrs. William Smith, Peterborough, time

• Henniker 1861 School Committee Report (Part 2)

  

  1861: In its official report, the Henniker School Committee proceeds to excoriate parents & dispense vocational advice:

  Marek

  18 February, 2013

  1760s, 1860s, colonial, education, Henniker, SOURCE=HHS, town reports

  education, Henniker, parents, schools, teachers, town report

• The Old Bear (Dublin)

  

  No sense complaining about the food…

  Marek

  16 December, 2012

  1760s, bear, colonial, Dublin, SOURCE=Leonard+Seward

  bear, dublin, Eli Greenwood

• Snow-shoes (Weare, 1762)

  

  The only way to travel in those 18th century snows…

  Marek

  10 December, 2012

  1760s, colonial, encounter & exploration, hiking, SOURCE=Little, Weare

  snowshoes

• Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)

  

  Even religious law can have loopholes…

  Marek

  9 December, 2012

  1760s, colonial, firewood, religion, sabbath, Weare

  Levi Hovey, Samuel Hovey, Simeon Hovey, weare

• Winter of 1761-1762 (Weare)

  

  One settler family receives a surprise visitor during a particularly harsh winter in early Weare…

  Marek

  7 December, 2012

  1760s, colonial, deer, hunting, moose, pigs, SOURCE=Little, Weare, weather

  snow, winter

• John Colony (Keene)

  

  John Colony leaves his native Ireland to fight Indians (& French) in the New England…

  Marek

  1 December, 2012

  1730s, 1740s, 1750s, 1760s, French + Indian Wars, Keene, Maine, marriage, Massachusetts, Robert Rogers, SOURCE=Griffin, Vermont

  Fort Edward, Ichabod Fisher, Ireland, Israel Putnam, John Colony, Keene, Kilkenny, MA, ME, Melatiah Colony, Robert Rogers, Saxton’s River, VT, Wrentham

• Ward’s Arrival (Henniker, 1763)

  

  Some of Henniker’s earliest settler families arrive in town…

  Marek

  1 November, 2012

  1760s, 1770s, Amherst, colonial, construction, death, food, forestry, graves & memorials, Henniker, milk, Nashua, SOURCE=Cogswell

  butter, cabin, construction, farm, settlers, stumo, table, tree

• Second Horse in Town (Henniker, 1767)

  

  Because sometimes being FIRST doesn’t really count…

  Marek

  21 October, 2012

  1760s, Henniker, horses, SOURCE=Cogswell

  1767, animals, early, Henniker, horse