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Nicholas Gilman (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
itional towns, but Congress in its act of admission makes it an indispensable preliminary that the revolted towns shall be restored to New Hampshire. The towns at last accept the situation and become part of New Hampshire......1782 A convention which meets at Concord, June 10, 1778, frames a constitution which is rejected by the people. A new convention meets at Exeter in 1781, and after two years a constitution is framed which goes into effect......June 2, 1784 John Langdon and Nicholas Gilman. delegates from New Hampshire, sign the Constitution of the United States......Sept. 17, 1787 Convention assembles at Exeter, Feb. 13, adjourns to Concord, and ratifies the Constitution of the United States by a vote of 57 to 47......June 21, 1788 President Washington, on a tour of observation, arrives at Portsmouth......Oct. 30, 1789 Portsmouth Journal established at Portsmouth......1789 An academy, the second in the State, opened at New Ipswich......1789 Publication o
George Hough (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
mpshire, sign the Constitution of the United States......Sept. 17, 1787 Convention assembles at Exeter, Feb. 13, adjourns to Concord, and ratifies the Constitution of the United States by a vote of 57 to 47......June 21, 1788 President Washington, on a tour of observation, arrives at Portsmouth......Oct. 30, 1789 Portsmouth Journal established at Portsmouth......1789 An academy, the second in the State, opened at New Ipswich......1789 Publication of Concord Herald begun by George Hough......Jan. 5, 1790 Academies incorporated at Atkinson and Amherst......1791 Four post-routes appointed through the interior of the State......1791 New Hampshire Medical Society incorporated......1791 Bank established at Portsmouth......1792 Convention assembles at Concord, Sept. 7, 1791, revises the State constitution, changes the title of the chief magistrate from president to governor, and completes its labors......Sept. 5, 1792 Elder Jesse Lee, coming from Virginia, vi
Matthew Thornton (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
to the delegates of New Hampshire in Congress......June 15, 1776 Declaration of Independence of the United States signed by Josiah Bartlett and William Whipple, of New Hampshire, Aug. 2, 1776, and by a third representative from the State, Matthew Thornton......November, 1776 New Hampshire troops engage in the battle of Bennington, under John Stark, who is made brigadier-general by Congress......Aug. 18, 1777 Articles of Confederation ratified by New Hampshire, March 4, 1778, and signed nover to the farm of the late Benjamin Thompson, of Durham, and passes a secret or Australian ballot act at its session......Jan. 7–April 11, 1891 Ex-Gov. Samuel W. Hale dies at Brooklyn, aged sixty-eight......Oct. 16, 1891 Monument to Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, erected by legislative authority, dedicated at Merrimac......May 27, 1892 Statue of John P. Hale, donated by his son-in-law, W. E. Chandler, unveiled in the State-house yard, Concord......Aug. 3
Samuel W. Hale (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
889; dedicated......Dec. 3, 1890 Hiram A. Tuttle elected governor by legislature......Jan. 7, 1891 J. H. Gallinger elected United States Senator......Jan. 20, 1891 Legislature makes the first Monday in September (Labor Day) a legal holiday, directs removal of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from Hanover to the farm of the late Benjamin Thompson, of Durham, and passes a secret or Australian ballot act at its session......Jan. 7–April 11, 1891 Ex-Gov. Samuel W. Hale dies at Brooklyn, aged sixty-eight......Oct. 16, 1891 Monument to Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration of Independence, erected by legislative authority, dedicated at Merrimac......May 27, 1892 Statue of John P. Hale, donated by his son-in-law, W. E. Chandler, unveiled in the State-house yard, Concord......Aug. 31, 1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, born 1807, dies at Hampton Falls......Sept. 7, 1892 Vote for governor: John B. Smith, Republican, 43,676; Luther F. McKinn
Sir Jeffrey Amherst (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
Convention assembles at Exeter, Feb. 13, adjourns to Concord, and ratifies the Constitution of the United States by a vote of 57 to 47......June 21, 1788 President Washington, on a tour of observation, arrives at Portsmouth......Oct. 30, 1789 Portsmouth Journal established at Portsmouth......1789 An academy, the second in the State, opened at New Ipswich......1789 Publication of Concord Herald begun by George Hough......Jan. 5, 1790 Academies incorporated at Atkinson and Amherst......1791 Four post-routes appointed through the interior of the State......1791 New Hampshire Medical Society incorporated......1791 Bank established at Portsmouth......1792 Convention assembles at Concord, Sept. 7, 1791, revises the State constitution, changes the title of the chief magistrate from president to governor, and completes its labors......Sept. 5, 1792 Elder Jesse Lee, coming from Virginia, visits New Hampshire; founds the first Methodist society in the State...
William Leddra (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
with Massachusetts, April 14, 1641, which goes into effect, giving New Hampshire's representatives a vote in town affairs without regard to religious qualifications......Oct. 9, 1641 Colonies of Connecticut, New Haven, New Plymouth, and Massachusetts (including New Hampshire) form a confederacy......1642 White Mountains explored by Captain Neal......1642 Quakers William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson executed for returning to the province after banishment......Oct. 27, 1659 William Leddra hanged for being a Quaker......March 14. 1660 Warrant issued at Dover, directing three Quakeresses to be whipped out of the province. Stripped and tied to a cart, they are publicly whipped at Dover and Hampton, but freed at Salisbury through the agency of Walter Barefoot......December, 1662 Indians in King Philip's War ravage Somersworth and Durham, and between Exeter and Hampton......September, 1675 Four hundred Indians captured by strategy at Dover. Seven or eight are put
Meshech Weare (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
th, to which the House gives no heed. They expel three new royalist members, and the governor adjourns the Assembly to Sept. 28, and sails for Boston. From the Isles of Shoals he adjourns the Assembly until April, 1776, his last official act......September, 1775 A constitution for New Hampshire is framed by a Congress styling itself the House of Representatives, which assembles at Exeter, Dec. 21, 1775, and completes its labors......Jan. 5, 1776 Under the new form of government. Meshech Weare is appointed president of the council and of an executive committee chosen to sit during the recess of the council, as president of New Hampshire......1776 John Sullivan, of New Hampshire, appointed brigadier-general by Congress......1776 Ship-of-war Raleigh built at Portsmouth by decree of Congress......1776 A convention of both houses reports a declaration of independence, which was adopted and sent forthwith to the delegates of New Hampshire in Congress......June 15, 1776
John Sullivan (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
d by the British ministry on charge of neglect of duty......Aug. 11, 1767 Dartmouth College at Hanover chartered......Dec. 30, 1769 Nathaniel Folsom and John Sullivan appointed delegates to Congress at Philadelphia by a convention of eighty-five deputies, which meets at Exeter......July 14, 1774 By the request of a commit is appointed president of the council and of an executive committee chosen to sit during the recess of the council, as president of New Hampshire......1776 John Sullivan, of New Hampshire, appointed brigadier-general by Congress......1776 Ship-of-war Raleigh built at Portsmouth by decree of Congress......1776 A conventi L. Carr, Prohibition, 1,563; scattering, 320......November, 1892 Insane asylum at Dover burned; forty-five lives lost......Feb. 9, 1893 Monument to Maj.-Gen. John Sullivan, erected by legislative authority, dedicated at Durham......Sept. 27, 1894 Vote for governor: Charles A. Busiel, Republican. 46,491; Henry O. Kent, De
John Wentworth (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
e lieutenant-governor and Samuel Shute commander-in chief of the province......Oct. 13, 1716 Vaughan superseded by John Wentworth, by commission signed by Joseph Addison, English Secretary of State......Dec. 7, 1717 Sixteen Scottish families seribute the stamped paper, he is compelled to give up his commission, and is sent back to England......Jan. 9, 1766 John Wentworth, appointed governor in place of his uncle, removed by the British ministry on charge of neglect of duty......Aug. 11,ople assembles at Exeter......June, 1775 New Hampshire troops in the battle of Bunker Hill......June 17, 1775 Governor Wentworth convenes the Assembly, June 12, and recommends the conciliatory proposition of Lord North, to which the House givesatified by New Hampshire, March 4, 1778, and signed by the State representatives at Philadelphia, Josiah Bartlett and John Wentworth......Aug. 8, 1778 Phillips Academy at Exeter founded......1781 Daniel Webster born at Franklin, N. H.......Jan.
John Underhill (search for this): entry united-states-of-america-new-hampshire
ts, goes to a grandson, Robert Tufton, who takes the surname of Mason......1635 George Burdet, a clergyman from Yarmouth, England, succeeds Wiggin as governor of the Dover plantations......1636 Rev. John Wheelwright, banished from Boston as a result of the Antinomian controversy, and a few friends settle Exeter, and form a government with elections by the people......1638 Hampton, considered as belonging to the colony of Massachusetts, founded......1638 Burdet succeeded by Capt. John Underhill......1638 People of Portsmouth form a provisional government......1639 Provisional government established at Dover......Oct. 22, 1640 Four governments in New Hampshire subscribe to a union with Massachusetts, April 14, 1641, which goes into effect, giving New Hampshire's representatives a vote in town affairs without regard to religious qualifications......Oct. 9, 1641 Colonies of Connecticut, New Haven, New Plymouth, and Massachusetts (including New Hampshire) form a conf
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