Category: 1800s

• Resolved

  

  Early 19th century Baptist activism, hosted at the old district two school house …

  Marek

  23 January, 2016

  1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, politics, religion

  1800s, abolition, alcohol, baptist, Milford, prayer, school, slavery, temperance

• Brother Jesse

  

  The unfortunate tale of the eldest Hutchinson son …

  Marek

  9 December, 2015

  1800s, Hutchinson Family Singers

  1800s, 1810s, David Hutchinson, death, jesse-hutchinson-jr, Milford, sawmill

• Musical Family

  

  Decades later, townsfolk fondly remembered one voice in the local church choir…

  Marek

  9 December, 2015

  1800-1899, 1800s, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Mont Vernon, music & dance, religion, sabbath

  Jesse Hutchinson Sr., Mont Vernon, Polly Leavitt Hutchinson, Sarah Leavitt

• Young Chase at Keene

  

  Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…

  Marek

  28 November, 2012

  1800s, 1810s, 1820s, Connecticut, Cornish, death, education, glass, hiking, judicial branch, Keene, Roxbury, Salmon P. Chase, SOURCE=Griffin, SOURCE=roadside markers, sources, Vermont

  Keene, nh, Salmon P. Chase

• Snow Storm (Henniker, 1804)

  

  A freak Autumn snow storm disrupts the apple and potato harvests…

  Marek

  16 October, 2012

  1800s, apples, harvest, Henniker, potatoes, SOURCE=Cogswell, weather

  1804, apple, fall, harvest, Henniker, potato, snow, weather

• John Stark’s Last Orders

  

  By 1809, the general is far too old and sick to travel…

  Marek

  9 October, 2012

  “Live Free or Die”, 1800s, Derryfield, John Stark, Molly Stark, revolutionary era, SOURCE=NH.gov

  age, bennington, Derryfield, illness, John Stark, live free or die, military, travel

• John T. Gilman

  

  Gilman served as governor of NH from 1794-1805, and again from 1813-1816.  The town of Gilmanton is named after his family.  He was governor when the state legislature passed NH’s first mandatory voter check-list law. During the American Revolution he served in the “Minutemen” militia. Drawn from an engraving by Max Rosenthal. [Also see John Taylor Gilman…

  Marek

  5 September, 2012

  1800s, Henniker, NH people, politics

  governor, john gilman, nh, politician