Category: seacoast
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Journal of Martin Pring (cover + intro)
1603: Here’s a color cover image of Pring’s young guiternist…
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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…
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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:
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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!
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Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest
Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…
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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 …
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Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest
Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …
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Pring 10 ~ Rich and Fat Ground
After sailing around the New England coast for many weeks, the English run low on provisions, and so …
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Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens
Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…
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Pring 04 ~ Sassafras Dance
Quite possibly the first world-fusion dance party in New England history…
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Pring 03 ~ Meeting the Locals
The native people of NH’s seacoast take some interest in Martin Pring’s sassafras harvesting expedition …
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Pring 01 ~ Quest for Sassafras
Martin Pring details his visit to the New Hampshire seacoast in 1603.
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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!
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