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Category Archives: pigs

Illumination

Whale oil or hog fat? The sustainable energy debate of the 1820s…

Posted byMarek24 February, 201618 October, 2018Posted in1800-1899, 1820s, farms, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, pigsTags:candles, David Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Noah Hutchinson, pig, polly hutchinson, Rhoda Hutchinson, whaleLeave a comment on Illumination

Colby 38: The Picket Line

1862: How they guarded the Potomac River, border between Union and Rebellion …

Posted byMarek25 October, 201327 March, 2014Posted in1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, NH history, peaches, pigs, SOURCE=HHSTags:Freeman Colby, Maryland, pickets, PotomacLeave a comment on Colby 38: The Picket Line

Winter of 1761-1762 (Weare)

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

Posted byMarek7 December, 201210 February, 2013Posted in1760s, colonial, deer, hunting, moose, pigs, SOURCE=Little, Weare, weatherTags:snow, winterLeave a comment on Winter of 1761-1762 (Weare)

We Go Without Mittens Very Well (Rogers, Nov. 20 1862, #2)

Rogers recounts recent experiences & dispenses domestic advice for the home front …

Posted byMarek20 November, 201228 December, 2012Posted in1860s, Civil War, Civil War Letters of Joseph Rogers, pigs, SOURCE=WHS+Warren, Warner, weatherTags:civil war, frank rogers, Joseph Rogers, letter, ruth rogers, Warner1 Comment on We Go Without Mittens Very Well (Rogers, Nov. 20 1862, #2)

Pension Application of Elisha Haynes (Epsom)

Haynes served from 1779-1782 in the Revolutionary War.  In 1831, when he finally applied for a veteran’s pension at age 70, he included an inventory of all his property…

Posted byMarek11 November, 201219 November, 2012Posted in1770s, 1780s, 1830s, Epsom, Greenland, pigs, revolutionary eraLeave a comment on Pension Application of Elisha Haynes (Epsom)

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