1603: The dogs save the fort, communications break down, and the expedition heads for home in this EXCITING CONCLUSION of Martin Pring’s Journal!
Category Archives: forestry
Plummer’s Willow (Henniker)
We all start small and grow from there…
Elder Hovey’s Sabbath (Weare)
Even religious law can have loopholes…
Pring 13 ~ Sassafras Harvest
Things go quickly awry when Pring’s men exhaust the local supply of sassafras…
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!
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 …
Pring 11 ~ Sassafras Forest
Pring notes some of the many potential applications of the New England forests …
Pring 09 ~ We beheld their Gardens
Martin Pring ventures upriver in native canoes for a garden tour…
Moses Trussell (New London)
Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…
Pring 08 ~ Birchbarke Boats
Description of native canoes.
A Very Singular Circumstance (Henniker, 1775)
Out of the firing line, into the forest. 19 April 1775 SOURCE: Cogswell’s History of Henniker (p.262)
Ward’s Arrival (Henniker, 1763)
Some of Henniker’s earliest settler families arrive in town…
