“Once a sovereign nation”…
Category: sources
Frontier Quarrels
Five reasons for the raid…
Hannah Dustin in the Snow
A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…
Hannah Dustin (1697)
“Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)
Wilcox Timeline (by Jess & Molly)
An overview of major events from Wilcox’s diary & letters…
“Almost an Accident”
Unsafe cannonades almost end in tragedy for guests at the Profile House…
NH Constitution Article 10: Right of Revolution.
“The people MAY and of right OUGHT TO…”
NH Constitution Article 9: No Hereditary Office or Place
Free elections, not family dynasties!
NH Constitution Article 8: Accountability of Magistrates & Officers; Public’s Right to Know.
Open, accessible government, for the people…
NH Constitution Article 7: State Sovereignty.
State’s rights, reserved for the people of NH…
NH Constitution Article 6: Morality and Piety.
This one explains why public schools and other state institutions don’t celebrate any one religion’s holidays
NH Constitution Article 5: Religious Freedom Recognized.
A logical extension of freedom of conscience.
NH Constitution Article 4: Rights of Conscience Unalienable
Some rights you just can’t give away.
NH Constitution Article 3: Society, its Organization and Purposes
Balancing NATURAL RIGHTS with the compromises and exchanges of SOCIETY…
Colby 116: Patient Patient
Newton’s story, continued …
NH Constitution Article 2a: The Bearing of Arms
This one’s short and to the point.
NH Constitution Article 2: Natural Rights
Life, liberty, property, happiness… This article has it all.
NH Constitution Article 1: Equality of People; Origin & Object of Government
“All [people] are born equally FREE and INDEPENDENT…”
Colby at Muddy Branch
Somehow, Colby has to get a pail of drinking water out of Muddy Branch Creek …
Safe House
After a harrowing experience in backwoods Georgia, Jonathan Daniels arrives at Atlanta in the middle of the night ..
Colby 115: Awaiting a Discharge
1863: Newton writes of his road to recovery & quest for a furlough …
Colby 114: Weak and Sick but Happy to be Home
1863: Finally, a letter arrives — brother Newton has made it back to New Hampshire!
Colby 113: Lucky Soldier
1863: Colby receives the best birthday mail EVER from his family at New England …
The Road South
1965: Jonathan Daniels encounters roadside resistance on his way to help integrate Southern churches …
