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| 1623 – Founding of New Hampshire 1630-31 – Strawbery Banke (Portsmouth) and Dover in this time frame 1634 – New Hampshire starts exporting lumber to England. By 1671, New Hampshire was sending ten ship loads of masts (over 120ft) as well as boards to England. 1636- Harvard University was founded in Newtowne (now Cambridge) 1638 – Exeter was founded. 1638 – Hampton was founded 1640-41 New Hampshire merges with Massachusetts Bay Colony and remained joined until 1680. Only about one thousand colonists in 1640. 1647 – Law requiring every town with fifty or more families to hire a teacher, partially paid for by taxes. 1656 - Required that every household that could “to spin for 30 weeks every year three pounds per week of lining (linen), cotton or wooling.” October 26, 1673 Massachusetts granted charter to the new town of Dunstable. This was the first New Hampshire town to be founded since the original four towns, and was also the first one located somewhat inland from the seacoast. (1) A group of 24 men signed a letter asking the General Court in Boston for a charter. The charter was the document which would make the small settlement on the Merrimack a true and official town. According to the charter the settlers had to agree to the following conditions: twenty or more settlers must build houses at least 18 ft square, improve and farm the land, build a Meeting House, and get a minister within three years. It was a very large area being about 200 square miles. Name may have come from the fact that Mary, the wife of Edward Tyng had come from Dunstable, England. (2) 1675 – 1676 – King Phillip’s War. 1680 – About 30 families with a population of 120. Establishment of the Royal Province of New Hampshire. 1689 –1697 – King William’s War 1691 –Hassell family murdered Perry and Temple killed. 2/3 of Dunstable families moved out. 1690 – 1692 Second union with Massachusetts Bay 1692 – Royal Province of New Hampshire 1701 – Population reaches 180. 1702 – 1713 – Queen Anne’s War 1703 – Capt. William Tyng sets up the Snow Shoe Men. 1711 – Reduced to 13 families because of raiding Indians. 1713 - 1784 Deacon Joseph Fletcher born in Chelmsford, MA 1714 - Josiah Farwell (Granther) b.1714 1715 to 1773 - Abigail Farwell b.1715 1725 – Disastrous raid on Indians by Lovewell and 47 men. Indians retreat and never menace the colonists again. 1735 - Deacon Joseph Fletcher marries Elizabeth Underwood and moves to Dunstable. 1736 - 1793 Elizabeth Fletcher born. 1738 - 1802 Thomas Fletcher Born. 1740 to 1774 - Nicholas Butterfield b.1740 1741 - 1813 Jonathan Fletcher born. 1741 – Boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts divides Dunstable (March 5, 1740) ??? 1742 - Widow Butterfield b.1742 1743 - 1803 Susannah Fletcher born. 1746 - 1795 Amy (a) Fletcher born. 1746 – New Charter for Dunstable, NH was granted by Governor Wentworth. 1744- 1748 – King George’s War 1749 - Sarah Fletcher born. 1752 - 1832 Joseph Fletcher born. 1754-1763 – The French and Indian Wars (Dunstable untouched) 1755 - Lucy Fletcher born. 1757 - 1833 Phineas Fletcher born. 1761 - Obadiah Butterfield b.1761 1763 - Abigail Butterfield b.1763 1764 - Sugar Act, Currency Act and opposition to these acts. 1765 - Quartering Act, Stamp Act and more opposition. 1765 1765 - Jonathan Butterfield b.1765 1766 - Patience Butterfield b.1766 1767 - Townshend Act (tax on tea, glass, lead, paper, and paint) 1767 - Ephraim Butterfield b. 1767 1767 – 520 people in Dunstable. 1768 - British troops in Boston 1768 - Hannah Butterfield b.1768 1769 - Thomas Butterfield dies. 1770 - Boston Massacre. Townshend Act back to only tea. 1772 – Joseph Dix becomes the schoolmaster. 1773 - First Continental Congress. Formation of the Minute Men 1773 - Boston Tea Party 1774 - Baby Butterfield b.1774 1774 – Seizure of arms and ammunition at Fort William and Mary. 1775, April 19th Battle of Lexington and Concord. 1775 – 705 people in Dunstable. 1783 – ONLY 578 people in Dunstable. 1837 – New Hampshire part of Dunstable is finally changed to Nashua |
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| Bibliography (1) Fradin, Dennis B. The New Hampshire Colony. 1988 Regensteiner Publishing Enterprises, (2) Haven, Robert Nashua … A History. (3) Nashua History Committee The Nashua Experience. History in the making 1673 1978 1978 Nashua Public Library. (4) Winship, Stephen A Testing Time Crisis and Revival in Nashua Nashua-New Hampshire Foundation 1989 (5) Wood, James Playsted Colonial New Hampshire. 1973 Thomas Nelson, Inc. (6) Fassett, James Colonial Life in New Hampshire |
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