Category: cows

• 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

• Tom & Hen Hike Chocorua

  

  Drawn from Thomas Cole’s diary.

  Marek

  20 September, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, Art, cows, forestry, Henry Cheever Pratt, hiking, weather, White Mountains

  Chocorua, cow, curse, diary, Henry Cheever Pratt, Thomas Cole, White Mountains

• Colby 108: Place of Honor

  

  More maneuvers along the Potomac …

  Marek

  5 February, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, corn, cows, NH history, Reference Links, SOURCE=HHS

  civil war, Edward’s Ferry, Freeman Colby, Poolsville, Potomac, Siegel

• Colby 107: Holidays at the South

  

  Colby observes Christmas festivities far from his native New Hampshire …

  Marek

  2 February, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, corn, cows, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

  chickens, christmas, civil war, corn, cows, Freeman Colby, slaves

• Peculiar Calf (Henniker)

  

  1894:  Quality journalism in an age of miracles.

  Marek

  26 December, 2012

  1890s, cows, dogs, food, Henniker, SOURCE=HHS

  calf, cow, Walter Chase

• 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

• Milk of War (Keene)

  

  The fort’s surrounded, but the babies need milk… What’s to be done?!

  Marek

  5 December, 2012

  1750s, cows, death, dogs, French + Indian Wars, Keene, milk, SOURCE=Griffin

  John Colony, Keene, milk

• Woman of the Revolution (Dublin, 1779)

  

  Dublin neighbors rally to support each other in time of war…

  Marek

  8 November, 2012

  1770s, corn, cottage industries, cows, Dublin, potatoes, revolutionary era, SOURCE=Leonard+Seward

• Welcome to New Hampshire (Hopkinton, 1781)

  

  Mr. Peabody just wants to drive his oxen from Maine to his new home in Henniker, NH…

  Marek

  4 November, 2012

  1780s, animals, cows, Henniker, Hopkinton, Maine, religion, sabbath