Category: pigs

• Illumination

  

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

  Marek

  24 February, 2016

  1800-1899, 1820s, farms, Hutchinson Family, Hutchinson Family Singers, Milford, NH history, pigs

  candles, David Hutchinson, John Hutchinson, Noah Hutchinson, pig, polly hutchinson, Rhoda Hutchinson, whale

• Colby 38: The Picket Line

  

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

  Marek

  25 October, 2013

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

  Freeman Colby, Maryland, pickets, Potomac

• 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

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

  

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

  Marek

  20 November, 2012

  1860s, Civil War, Civil War Letters of Joseph Rogers, pigs, SOURCE=WHS+Warren, Warner, weather

  civil war, frank rogers, Joseph Rogers, letter, ruth rogers, Warner

• 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… SOURCE: View Elisha Haynes’ pension application at www.EpsomHistory.com …The following year, in 1832, Haynes added another declaration that clarifies his family situation and health status. “Skumsborough”…

  Marek

  11 November, 2012

  1770s, 1780s, 1830s, Epsom, Greenland, pigs, revolutionary era