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Stamp Act Agent Burned in Effigy Print Email

Stamp Act Stamp / SeacoastNH.com

HISTORY MATTERS 

Americans are ticked off about the money crisis. NH folks too. But Portsmouth citizens were far more reactive in 1765 when George Meserve, a wealthy local, tried to levy a new British tax. The locals burned hum in effigy in Haymarket Square. Stamp agent George Meserve was a nervous wreck in fear of the colonial mob.
 
The Many Homes of Daniel Webster Print Email

 

Daniel Webster/ SeacoastNH.com

 

HISTORY MATTERS 

Daniel Webster slept around. You’ll find Webster’s historic homes in Marshfield, MA, Franklin and Portsmouth, NH and beyond. Well known, but little remembered by many -- has NH’s favorite son gone to the devil? We check out Webster’s real estate and reputation. (see below)

 
Louis de Rochemont in Hollywood NH Print Email

Hollywood, NH

 

HISTORY MATTERS

He was, by many accounts, a tough guy to work with. His single Academy Award was for a 1944 documentary, but he longed to produce dramas ripped from the headlines. Fiercely independent, he produced a romance, a cartoon, travel and experimental films, docu0drams, film n’oire and the incredible March of Time. 

 
Black Man with Washington Crossing the Delaware Print Email

Washington and African man corssing the Delaware in 1851 painting

 

HISTORY MATTERS 

Sometimes the wrong facts tell the right story. It seems that way with Prince Whipple of POrtsmouth, NH.. Although Prince , historians now say, is not the African soldier crossing the Delaware with Washington, he still symbolizes black patriots in the American Revolution.
 
Ruth Blay Hanged Here in 1768 Print Email

gallows

 

HISTORY MATTERS 

Researcher Carolyn Marvin is possessed by the story of the last woman executed in the state of New Hampshire. Among three NH women hanged for "concealment", Ruth Blay has largely been lost to history – until now. Marvin offers us an exclusive look at her ongoing study.
 

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  1. Ice Storm Photos Frozen in Time
  2. Fire and Ice in Downtown Portsmouth
  3. York Indian Legend Might be Real
  4. White Men Invented Saint Aspinquid
  5. No Thanks Given to NH Founders
  6. The Fall and Rise of Portsmouth NH
  7. Tales of a Real Ghostbuster
  8. Letter to Portsmouth in 2123 AD
  9. Time Capsule Buried in 1998
  10. Love Letters of Dorothy Vaughan
  11. Maine Yankee Escapes Confederate South
  12. Bicycles on the Water
  13. The Elusive Trail of Lucy Hale
  14. Was 1981 NH Bomber Crash Pilot Error?
  15. The Stones of Monhegan
  16. The Day the FB111A Crashed
  17. Like Father, Unlike Son
  18. Dartmouth Conceived as Indian School
  19. Eccentric Pilgrim Stranger Preached to Congress
  20. The UFO Romance of Betty and Barney Hill
  21. Almost Famous in a 1969 Cover Band
  22. Bad Boy Book Genre Born in NH
  23. Collecting John Paul Jones
  24. Why Old NH State House Should Not Be Restored
  25. Why Louis Wagner Was Smuttynose Slayer
  26. Black Heroes and White Voices
  27. Robinson History Added to Portsmouth Herald
  28. Lafayette was the First American Idol
  29. Things You Never Knew About Old Portsmouth Library
  30. NH Woman Meets Mormon Founder Joseph Smith
  31. Battle Cry of the eBay Warrior
  32. Maryellen’s Magic Wedding Dress
  33. Jesse James Women
  34. The Outlaw Josey Wales
  35. Why Bob Ford Could Not Kill Jesse James
  36. Dark Command
  37. Jesse James Complete Movie List
  38. Shakespeare and Me
  39. The Long Riders
  40. Renegade Girl
  41. The Return of Frank James
  42. The Remarkable Andrew
  43. The Haunting of Hibbard House
  44. The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
  45. Ride with the Devil
  46. Purgatory
  47. Kansas Raiders
  48. American Outlaws
  49. Bronco, Shadow of Jesse James
  50. I Shot Jesse James
  51. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter
  52. Jesse James Rides Again
  53. Lady Bird Flies Though Portsmouth
  54. The Great Missouri Raid
  55. Frank & Jesse
  56. Jesse James 1939
  57. The Great Jesse James Raid
  58. The Outlaws Is Coming
  59. Legends of the American West
  60. Jesse James at Bay
  61. Carpe Diem Cultural Center
  62. Two Men Who Tore Down Portsmouth
  63. How a Monument Gets Made
  64. Digging into the Oyster River Massacre
  65. Among the Ghosts of Gardner Street
  66. Which Bartlett is Bartlett Street?
  67. Saga of the Jenny Lind Figurehead
  68. Snowbound With Mr Whittier
  69. The Day They Took the Old NH Statehouse
  70. NH Coast Considered for National Park
  71. George Orwell Makes CIA Movie
  72. Seeking Blackbeard’s Pirate Treasure
  73. A Yankee in the Desert, Part Two
  74. A Yankee in the Desert
  75. The Devil With Jonathan Moulton
  76. Atlantic Heights was Architecture for the Poor
  77. Webster Farm Calling All Angels
  78. With Apologies to Kittery
  79. How NH Was Settled by Mistake
  80. The Truth About Ocean Born Mary
  81. The Day Lincoln Died for Me
  82. 4000 Yankees Attack Canada
  83. Portsmouth Genealogy and History Research Archives
  84. Daniel Webster Lost in Portsmouth
  85. Who Really Started Strawbery Banke?
  86. The Secret Room of Uncle Em
  87. David Thomson Vs the Pilgrims
  88. Whittier Died in New Hampshire
  89. First Portsmouth Guidebooks
  90. Best Clam Chowder in the World
  91. How the Governor Lost Three Mansions
  92. The Prescott Sisters Kick Butt
  93. The Deadly Summer of 1912
  94. The Incident at Exeter High
  95. The Day Max Fell
  96. Unfurling the Flags of Paul Jones
  97. Hampton Viking Grave is Hoax
  98. A Big Bridge and a Little Girl
  99. Abbie Hoffman Smoked My Dorm
  100. The Newspaper Riot of 1865

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