New Hampshire 2011: Spring is On Its Way

Posted on 25 January, 2011 by Janice Brown

There are only 54 days until Spring, and so a poem full of flowers and hope is in order today.

O haste, ye vernal gales, to breathe
The genial, balmy air of Spring;
And smiling nature’s floral wreath
On wings of gentle zephyrs bring.
Ye liquid streams, soft murm’ring slow,
Again resume your peaceful flow;
And wake, ye birds, on every spray,
The warblings of your plaintive lay.

Then from bright Helicon’s fair bowers,
The rural muse shall play her lyre,
And sailing on the roseate hours,
The strings of melody inspire:
While echo, from the hills around,
Shall mingle in the flowing sound;
And woodland nymphs their garlands bring,
To strew up on the lap of spring.

And when the vesper shadows fall,
And Cynthia pours her mellow light,
Shedding her lucid rays o’er all
The flow’rets dipp’d in dews of night;
I’ll wander in the leafy grove,
And through the lonely valley rove,
Still listening to the evening breeze
That signs amid the verdant trees
— Carlos

From: New-Hampshire Statesman, newspaper (Concord, NH) Monday, February 24, 1823; Issue 8; col A [originally published in the Salem Gazette, Salem MA]

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Dredging the Pedigree Pond

Posted on 22 January, 2011 by Janice Brown

Most of my blog stories involve New Hampshire people with no obvious relationship to me (although I have found many connections by accident).  Since I am always curious about other people’s family trees, this one time I’ll share some of my own.  In some cases, I am related to the same ancestor in more than one line, and in those cases you will see a “x #” indicating how frequently.

—Some of My IMMIGRANT Ancestors (Paternal Side Only)—

Abbott (George 1587-1647 MA) x3
Alcott/Alcock (Thomas 1609-1657 MA)
Alexander (George 1629-1703 MA)
Allyn (Richard 1608-1683 CT)
Avery (Christopher 1590-1679 CT) x4

Bagley (Orlando 1628-1700 MA)
Bailey/Bayley (John 1590-1651 MA)
Bailey (Richard 1614-1648 MA)
Barker (Elizabeth 1612-1698 MA)
Barker (Richard 1621-1693 MA)
Barnard (Thomas 1608-1677 MA)
Bartlett (Richard 1648-1724 MA) x4
Barnes (William 1603-1698 MA)
Batt (Nicholas 1612-1677 MA)
Berry (William 1610-1654 Eng > Portsmouth NH)
Betts (Richard 1613-1713 NY)
Bishop (Edward 1620-1646 MA)
Bishop (James 1625-1691 CT)
Bitfield (Samuel 1602-1660 MA)
Blaisdell/Blasdell (Ralph 1593-1649 MA)
Blakesley (Edward 1590-1637 MA)
Blakesley/Blakeslee (Samuel 1624-1672 CT) X3
Bliss (Mary 1731 CT)
Bond (John 1624-1674 MA)
Bourne (Richard 1564-1632 MA)
Bowers (George 1590-1656 MA)
Bradley (Daniel 1589-1641 MA) x2
Brockit/Brockett (John 1611-1690 CT)
Brocklebank (Samuel c1628-1676 MA)

Carter (Thomas 1620-1669 MA)
Cate (James 1634-1677 NH)
Chamberlin (Joanna 1630-1700 NY)
Chandler (Elizabeth 1595-1711)
Chandler (Hannah 1630-1711)
Cheney (John 1592-1666 MA)
Clark (Capt. Daniel 1622-1710 Eng>Windsor CT)
Clarke (Richard 1608-1673 MA)
Colby (Anthony 1605-1661 MA) x3
Cooper (Peter ?-1667 MA)
Cooper (Thomas 1580-c1605 CT)
Corliss (George 1617-1686 MA)
Corser/Courser (John (1678-1776 NH)
Currier (Richard 1616-1687 MA)

Davis (Foulk 1615-1687 LI NY)
Davis (Thomas 1603-1683 MA)
Dewey (Thomas 1606 CT)
Dole (Richard 1622-1705 MA)
Doolittle (Abraham 1620-1690 CT)
Dow (Thomas 1601-1654 MA)
Drake (1605-1670 CT)
Dresser (John 1607-1672 MA) x2
Duty (William c1658-1738 MA)

Eastman (Roger 1610-1694 MA)
Edwards (John 1584-? CT)
Emery (Anthony 1601-1680 MA)
Emery (John 1598-1683 MA)

Fenton (Robert 1664-1741 Tolland Co. CT)
Fitts (Brigit 1614-1673 MA)
Flanders (Stephen 1620-1684 MA)
Frost (John 1588-1655 Long Island NY)

Gager (William 1592-1630 MA)
Gardiner (Elizabeth 1659-1690 LI NY)
Getchell (1617-1697 MA)
Glover (Henry 1607-1689 CT)
Gore (Samuel 1595-1643 MA)
Grannis (Edward 1630-1719 CT)
Gray (Robert 1635-1718 MA)
Green (Percival c1603-1639 MA)
Green (Thomas 1606-1667 MA)
Greenslade (Edward 1601-1622 MA) x2

Haddon (Jarrett 1610-1689 MA)
Hall (John 1627-1701 MA) x2
Harcutt (Richard 1623-1696 LI NY)
Hardy (Thomas 1605-1678 MA) x3
Harvey (Thomas 1580-1647 MA)
Hawes (Richard 1606-1656 Eng>Dorchester MA)
Haseltine/Hazeltine (John 1620-1690 MA)
Heaton/Eaton (Nathaniel 1610-1643 MA, CT)
Hemenway (Ralph 1610-1677)
Hidden (Andrew 1622-1702 MA) x2
Hills (Joseph 1602-1688 MA) x2
Holgate (James 1638-1710 MA)
Holt (Nicholas 1602-1685 MA)
Holyoke (Edward 1585-1660 MA)
Hoyt (John 1614-1684 NY) X2
Huggins (Robert 1579-1635 NH)
Hughes/Hewes (Elizabeth 1603-1686 MA, dau John)

Jacques (Henry 1618-1687 MA)
Jackman (James 1611-1694 MA) x2
Johnson (Thomas 1633-1719 MA)

Ketcham (Edward 1590-1655 LI NY)
Ketcham (John 1622-1697 NY)
Kilbourne/Kilborn/Kilburn (Thomas 1578-1640 CT) x2
Kinge/King (Katherine 1625-1692 LI NY)
Kinney/Kinne (Henry 1623-1696 MA)

Leaver (Thomas c1620-1683 MA) x2
Long (Robert c1621-1690 MA)
Look/Looke/Luke (John 1595-1650 MA)
Low (Dea. Thomas 1596-1677 MA)
Lupton (Thomas 1640-1684 CT)

Major (George 1648-1682 MA)
Mansfield (Richard 1611-1655 CT)
Martin (Amy 1751 ?CT)
Martin (George 1618-1686 MA)
Mather (Elizabeth 1646-1703 LI NY)
Merrill (Nathaniel 1601-1655 MA)
Miller (William 1620-1676 Eng> Northampton MA)
Miller (Margaret 1627-1680 CT)
Miner (Thomas 1608-1690 CT) x4
Mitchell (Thomas 1618-1660 CT)
Moody (Frances 1584-1650 CT)
Morris (Thomas 1604-1673 CT) x2
Morse (Anthony 1606-1686 MA)
Moulthrop (Matthew 1610-1668 CT)

Ordway (James 1624-1710 MA, father Edward)
Osgood (William 1609-1700 MA) x2

Paine (William 1596-1660 MA)
Palmer (Walter 1585-1661 CT)
Palmer (William 1585-1647 NH)
Parker (Elizabeth 1613-1694 MA)
Parshall (James 1650-1701 LI NY)
Peaslee/Peasley (Joseph 1600-1660 MA)
Philbrick (Thomas 1584-1667 Eng>Hampton NH)
Platts (Jonathan ?-1680 MA)
Plummer (Francis 1595-1672 MA) x2
Poole (Ann 1589-1683 MA)
Poore (John 1642-1701 MA)
Potter (John 1580-1659 CT)
Powell (Thomas 1616-1681 CT)
Pratt (John 1620-1655 Eng>Hartford CT)
Prince (James 1600-1634 MA)
Putnam (Edward 1603-1675 MA)

Quimby (William 1596-1657 MA)

Raymond (Richard 1602-1692 CT)
Raynsford (Edward 1609-1680 MA)
Reynolds/Runnels (William 1613-1675 ME/NH)
Rolfe (Ezra 1619-1652 MA)
Rolfe (Henry 1585-1642 MA)
Rust (Henry 1613-1684 MA)

Safford (Thomas 1599-1666 MA)
Sargent (William 1606-1675 MA) x2
Sawyer (Stephen 1663-1753 MA)
Shatswell (John 1574-1646 MA)
Smith (Francis 1596-1650 MA)
Smith (Nehemiah 1605-1677 CT)
Smith (Samuel 1602-1681 MA)
Stallyon (Michael 1600-1671 MA)
Stevens (John 1605-1662 MA) x2
Street (Nicholas 1603-1674 CT)
Sunderland (John 1618-1703 MA)
Swazey (John 1619-1692 LI NY)

Tenney (Thomas 1614-1700 MA)
Thompson (John 1617-1656 CT)
Thorley (Richard 1606-1685 MA)
Thurston (Daniel c1625-1692 MA)
Titcomb (William 1620-1676 MA)
Travers (Henry 1611-1648 MA)
Trumbull (John 1578-1657 MA)
Trumble (John 1612-1657 MA)
Tuthill/Tuttle (William 1607-1673 CT)
Tuthill/Tuttle (John c1625-1710 MA)

Uran/Urin/Euins/Yourin (William 1618-1664 Isles of Shoals NH)

Wakefield (John ?-1660 MA to CT)
Wakeman (Ellen 1607-1698 CT)
Wallingford (Nicholas 1629-1682 MA)
Wardwell (William 1607-1670 MA)
Webster (Gov John 1590-1661 CT)
Webster (John 1605-1646 MA) x2
Weed (John 1627-1688 MA)
Weeks (William 1628-1677 MA)
Wells (Isaac 1598-1671 MA)
Wheeler (David 1625-1669 MA)
Whitman (Zachariah 1600-1666 CT)
Wicks/Wickes/Weeks/Weekes (Thomas 1612-1671 LI NY)
Wildes (John 1618-1705 MA)
Wilford (Gilbert 1644-1676 MA)
Williams (John (1500-1559 MA)
Wise (Humphrey 1591-1639 MA)
Witson (Priscilla 1620-? CT)
Wolverton (Stephen 1585-1672 CT)
Woodman (Edward 1606-1690 MA)
Worthley/Wortley (Thomas 1691-1799 NH)

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Poem: "The Hills Are Home," by Edna Dean Proctor

Posted on 19 January, 2011 by Janice Brown

FORGET New Hampshire? By her cliffs, her meads, her brooks afoam,
With love and pride where'er we bide, the Hills, the Hills are Home!
On Mississippi or by Nile, Ohio, Volga, Rhine,
We see our cloud-born Merrimack adorn its valley shine;
And Contoocook–Singing Water–Monadnock's drifts have fed,
With lilt and rhyme and fall and chime flash e'er its pebbly bed;
And by Como's wave, yet fairer still, our Winnipesaukee spread.

Alp nor Sierra, nor the chains of India or Peru,
Can dwarf for us the white-robed heights of our wondering childhood knew–
The awful Notch, and the great Stone-Face, and the Lake where the echoes fly,
And the sovereign dome of Washington throned in the eastern sky;–
For from Colorado's Snowy Range to the crest of the Pyrenees
New Hampshire's mountains grandest lift their peaks in the airy seas,
And the winds of half the world are theirs across the main and the leas.

Yet far beyond her hills and streams New Hampshire dear we hold:
A thousand tender memories our glowing hearts enfold;
For in dreams we see the early home by the elms or the maples tall,
The orchard-trees where the robins built, and the well by the garden wall;
The lilacs and the apple-blooms make paradise of May,
And up from the clover-meadows floats the breath of the new-mown hay;
And the Sabbath bells, as the light breeze swells, ring clear and die away.

And Oh, the Lost Ones live again in love's immortal year!
We are children still by the hearth-fire's blaze while night steals cold and drear;
Our mother's fond caress we win, our father's smile of pride,
And, “Now I lay me down to sleep,” say, reverent, at their side.
Alas! Alas! their graves are green, or white with a pall of snow,
But we see them yet by the evening hearth as in the long ago,
And the quite churchyard where they rest if the holiest spot we know.

Forget New Hampshire? Let Kearsarge forget to greet the sun;
Connecticut forsake the sea; the Shoals their breakers shun;
But fervently, while life shall last, though wide our ways decline,
Back to the Mountain-Land our hearts will turn as to a shrine!
Forget New Hampshire? By her cliffs, her meads, her brooks afoam,
By all her hallowed memories,–our lode-start while we roam–
Whatever skies above us rise, the Hills, the Hills are Home!

–from “The Mountain Maid, And Other Poems of New Hampshire,” by Edna Dean Proctor; Houghton Mifflin & Company; Boston and New York; 1900
(written for “Old Home Week,” 1899)

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"Roots of American Cookery" at Remick Museum – January 22, 2011

Posted on 16 January, 2011 by Janice Brown

Have you ever wondered what colonial women went through to make a meal for their family?

You can discover how!

The Remick Museum in Tamworth New Hampshire will hold a Hearthside Dinner from 5-7 pm on January 22, 2011. Ages 16 & up, the cost is $40 per person.  Visitors help prepare and eat farm fresh foods cooked historically on a 19th century open hearth.  Menus reflect the season and advanced reservations are required. Members should inquire about a discount.

The Remick Country Doctor Museum and Farm is a non-profit organization that for the last 14 years has been open year round to the public. They continue to preserve New England history, farming, and agriculture through our exhibits, special events, sustainability workshops, educational programs and so much more. The Remick family, were notable Country Doctors of the Tamworth area, who dedicated their lives to their communities medical needs. Dr. Edwin Crafts Remick left his home and farm as a foundation and to what is now currently the Remick Museum and Farm. It is a fascinating and unique destination in New Hampshire, one that draws 10,000 visitors a year.

For more information call:
Christiana Amesquita, Public Relations Coordinator
Remick Farm and Museum
58 Cleveland Hill Road
Tamworth NH
Phone: 603-323-7591
email: pr@remickmuseum.org
web site: www.remickmuseum.org.

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Concord New Hampshire Educator & Astronaut, Sharon Christa (Corrigan) McAuliffe (1948-1986)

Posted on 13 January, 2011 by Janice Brown

January 28, 2021  marks the 35th anniversary of a tragedy–the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. [Note this story was originally written for 2016, the 30th anniversary.]

That event took the life of New Hampshire’s Christa McAuliffe (and six other astronauts).  But it couldn’t take her spirit–through education programs created in her name she continues to teach both children and adults. And so to mark that day, I am rep-osting this original story about Christa, with a few edits. Continue reading →

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