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Category Archives: forestry

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!

Posted byMarek18 December, 20125 February, 2017Posted in1600s, dogs, encounter & exploration, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoastTags:martin pring1 Comment on Pring 15 ~ Final Fire

Plummer’s Willow (Henniker)

We all start small and grow from there…

Posted byMarek17 December, 201217 December, 2012Posted in1780s, forestry, Henniker, horses, SOURCE=CogswellTags:Henniker, Joseph Plummer, tree2 Comments on Plummer’s Willow (Henniker)

Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)

Even religious law can have loopholes…

Posted byMarek9 December, 201212 December, 2012Posted in1760s, colonial, firewood, religion, sabbath, WeareTags:Levi Hovey, Samuel Hovey, Simeon Hovey, weareLeave a comment on Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)

Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest

Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…

Posted byMarek3 December, 20125 February, 2017Posted in1600s, encounter & exploration, harvest, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoastTags:PringLeave a comment on Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest

Live Free and Draw Wood (Keene, c.1812)

An example of how NH town governments kept costs low 200 years ago: the annual minister’s firewood bee!

Posted byMarek29 November, 201229 November, 2012Posted in1810s, forestry, harvest, Keene, SOURCE=GriffinLeave a comment on Live Free and Draw Wood (Keene, c.1812)

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 …

Posted byMarek17 November, 20125 February, 2017Posted in1600s, animals, bear, berries, deer, dogs, encounter & exploration, fish, forestry, fox, herbs, hunting, Journal of Martin Pring, medicine, porcupine, seacoastLeave a comment on Pring 12 ~ As The Land is Full

Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest

Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …

Posted byMarek16 November, 20125 February, 2017Posted in1600s, berries, encounter & exploration, forestry, herbs, Journal of Martin Pring, medicine, seacoast1 Comment on Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest

Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens

Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…

Posted byMarek14 November, 20125 February, 2017Posted in1600s, berries, corn, encounter & exploration, food, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, Peas, rivers, seacoastLeave a comment on Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens

Moses Trussell (New London)

Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…

Posted byMarek10 November, 201212 December, 2013Posted in1770s, 1840s, education, forestry, graves & memorials, Hopkinton, John Stark, Massachusetts, New London, Plaistow, revolutionary era, SOURCE=roadside markers1 Comment on Moses Trussell (New London)

Pring 08 ~ Birchbarke Boats

Description of native canoes.

Posted byMarek8 November, 20125 February, 2017Posted in1600s, encounter & exploration, forestry, Journal of Martin Pring, seacoast1 Comment on Pring 08 ~ Birchbarke Boats

A Very Singular Circumstance (Henniker, 1775)

Out of the firing line, into the forest.

Posted byMarek3 November, 20123 November, 2012Posted in1770s, death, forestry, Henniker, Massachusetts, revolutionary era, SOURCE=Cogswell1 Comment on A Very Singular Circumstance (Henniker, 1775)

Ward’s Arrival (Henniker, 1763)

Some of Henniker’s earliest settler families arrive in town…

Posted byMarek1 November, 20121 November, 2012Posted in1760s, 1770s, Amherst, colonial, construction, death, food, forestry, graves & memorials, Henniker, milk, Nashua, SOURCE=CogswellTags:butter, cabin, construction, farm, settlers, stumo, table, treeLeave a comment on Ward’s Arrival (Henniker, 1763)

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