The Oyeter River Plantation is another can of worms -- 150 years earlier too. This was one of the first settlements in Colonial New Hampshire, now the town of Durham. There is Durham Historical Society, but they are only open in the summer. If you call their number (603-868-5436) you'll get a recording listing three other numbers to call off season. You might also contact the Piscataqua Pioneers (PO Box 1511, Portsmouth, NH 03802), a group that does genealogical research in this region. Neither group has a web site. The Pioneers just released their listing of early Colonial settlers and there are Huckins family members listed. There are also genealogical clubs in Strafford and Rockingham counties here in New Hampshire and we've added their links below; Good luck, but hard to research from Mexico if you want original sources that are probably mouldering in an archive somewhere. That may be work that has to be done by hand, or you can hire a genealogy researcher.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nh/straffor.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1706/

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What makes this winter so miserable is its duration (since Thanksgiving ... do you recall what the weather was like on that day?), unrelenting nature, accumulation of ice and snow, frequency of ice and snow events (remarkably every 2-3 days since the start of February), windiness, and cloudiness. A lot of this is not captured in the record books.

For example, most of our sunny days have been bitterly cold and windy.For example, during the low-sun time of December we had lots of days with cirrus, technically only partly cloudy, but enough to further reduce the sun. For example, many of the storms in February look like nothing by conventional measure but are nasty to deal with -- that recent super-fluffy 4-inches of snow only recorded as .06 in. of water in Durham.

What are my qualifications for this nomination of "misearbleness"? Well, I am a long-term thoughtful weather observer, with a pretty good memory that I supplement by looking things up. And I get out in the weather. For many years I've taken my dog for a 35-minute walk at 5 a.m. EVERY morning. (The only time the weather prevented us from going was during our super ice storm several years ago, when it was truly impassible and dangerous.) And I try to work out every day, outdoors when possible. Plus all the other commuting comings and going and homeowner worries about leaks, etc.

The main barrier to declaring this the most miserable witner in a longer span than 20 years, are the two very-cold and snowy winters we had in the late 1970s. However, if we continue cold and stormy for another 30 days, it could become a close call, with the nod to this winter, then extending its claim on misearableness back at least into the 1960s. To use Lou McNally's sign-off phrase, that's the way it looks from here,
Jim Cerny, Madbury, NH
http://www.seacoastnh.com/weather/index.html