New Hampshire in the Struggle for Independence
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Excerpt from New Hampshire in the Struggle for Independence: Address Delivered Before the New Hampshire Historical Society, February 10, 1904 New Hampshire is small in extent but great in achievement. Its domain covers only 9,305 square miles. Its length is about 170 miles with an average width of nearly 55 miles. It is diversified by many hills, mountains, valleys, lakes and rivers whose beauty and charm are acknowledged by all lovers of the peaceful and picturesque in nature. Its cities and villages are busy hives of industry and homes of comfort and joy. Its citizens are thrifty, energetic, honest, patriotic and religious. Schools of all grades are maintained and illiteracy is a disgrace. Only about one per cent. of the native population is unable to read and write. Temples of worship adorn the country and city alike. Piety, reverence for law and authority, the recognition of personal rights and obligations and self-respect, prevail. These are inheritances from the sturdy settlers of the state who, building their homes upon the ever-advancing frontier, reclaimed their farms from the primeval forest. They led independent lives but, by combination when necessary and patriotic insistence at all times, they resisted oppression, secured freedom and established self-government in the new world for themselves and for us. Settlements were made at Odiorne´s Point near Portsmouth and at Dover in the year 1623. It is probable that the former antedated the latter by a few weeks but the latter became permanent and ripened into a prosperous city. The first meeting house in the colony was erected at Dover. In 1665 it was provided with a bell. Prior to that date the people had been summoned to worship by the beating of a drum. There also the first sawmill and the first corn mill in New England were erected. The settlement of New Hampshire was impeded by conflicting claims of title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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