New Hampshire Cauldron

Posted on 15 August, 2006 by Janice Brown

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New Hampshire Glossary: Scotch-Irish

Posted on 14 August, 2006 by Janice Brown

Scotch-Irish– i.e. Ulster-Scots,” a term used to refer to the descendants of Lowland Scottish people

who live in Ulster, Ireland. “Scotch-Irish” or “Scots-Irish” are terms used to refer to the same people, and in particular, their descendants who migrated across the Atlantic.

These families had lived in Ireland for 100 to 200 years but had remained completely separate from the old Irish and retained their Scottish character and identity. They were usually of the Presbyterian faith. Scotch-Irish farmers from Northern Ireland began the prosperous settlement of Londonderry, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire in 1719.

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 4,319,232 people claimed Scottish heritage and 4,890,581 people claimed Scotch-Irish heritage. The two groups represent just over 3 percent of the U.S. population.

The likeness above is of Matthew Thornton, one of the early Scotch-Irish settlers of New Hampshire, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Janice

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New Hampshire Missing Places: Glacial Park, Thornton

Posted on 12 August, 2006 by Janice Brown

Thornton New Hampshire is located in the picturesque valley of the Pemigewasset River.

glacialpark1-watermarkedThat stream extends through nearly the center of the township, north and south. In the 1823 Gazeteer of the State of New-Hampshire is mentioned: “On Mill brook, there is a cascade, of which the water falls 7 feet in 2 rods and then falls over a rock 42 feet perpendicular.”  The New England Gazeteer of 1841, by John Hayward states: “On Mill brook, there is a cascade, at which the water falls 7 feet in 2 rods, and then falls over a rock 42 feet perpendicular.” In 1875 George L. Brown painted a picture of “Mill-Brook Cascade, at Thornton, New Hampshire.”

In 1886 the History of  Grafton County New Hampshire, stated  of this river in Thornton, “One of its several tributaries includes the Mill brook, from the east, where there is a beautiful cascade, the water falling from a perpendicular rock forty-two feet in height.” Continue reading →

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New Hampshire’s Native Americans: Hiding in Plain Sight

Posted on 10 August, 2006 by Janice Brown

Contrary to what you have been led to believe, New Hampshire’s history did NOT begin

Passaconaway, the Bashaba from “Passaconaway in the White Mountains,” by Charles Edward Beals Jr., Boston, 1916, Richard G. Badger Printer.

with the arrival of the European settlers, and all of New Hampshire’s Native People were not killed by disease and war.

Before most of our ancestors arrived, New Hampshire’s indigenous people, sometimes called the American Indian, had lived here for about 10,000 years, or 400 generations. Continue reading →

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Passaconaway, Sagamo of the Penacooks

Posted on 8 August, 2006 by Janice Brown

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