Editor's Response: Tell your teacher she must stay for detention and clap erasers for a week. On the web, spelling counts! We looked under Tadeusz Kosciuszko (click for a sample site) and found a zillion references to this Polish hero. We could not find a connection between Tad (1746-1817) and Seacoast, NH . He distinguished himself in New York and Yorktown and has nifty monuments at Annapolis and in Krakow. (JDR)

I used to live in Maine, and I long to return. I hope you do not mind, but I had to download some of these wonderful pictures as wall paper for my computer. Cyndi

Editor's Reply: Mom is always right. One time educational use is OK, but ALWAYS credit the source including web site URL, author and artist - even in 4th grade! Private home use too is cool as in Cyndi's case, but never pass along photos to others or use them on web sites. If you do, the Cyber Copyright Monster will get you when you sleep. (JDR)

Editor's Response: Just as long as it isn't a basketball team called the Thunderloons! That's been tried. For demographics contact the Quad Economic Development web site which includes Pease Tradeport and contact each chamber of commerce for its relocation kit through our all our Seacoast chambers on-line. (JDR)

Editor's Response: I assume you mean 1860. Sandy Sherman, president of the Piscataqua Savings Bank (founded 1877) told us his bank is not related to the "Exchange". Yours started out as the Piscataqua Bank in 1824, then the name was changed in 1844 to the Exchange and this would be the era of your bank note. In 1863 it was incorporated as the First National Bank, still visible, though now a clothing store, as one of the grand bank buildings in Market Square. At the Portsmouth Athenaeum there is a detailed history of the First National Bank written by Thomas Prince containing photos of all their bank notes. (JDR)

Editor's Reply: Your uncle is listed last alphabetically in the Portsmouth Herald among the 129 crewmen who perished when the USS Thresher sank in 8,400 feet of water off the east coast on April 10, 1963. There is a memorial display at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum (see Historic Sites). An equally moving experience is to read through the thick Thresher scrapbook of news clippings which is in the history room at the Portsmouth Public Library. The tragic loss of the submarine is still very much on the minds of Seacoast residents today. The best general history of local subs is the book "Portsmouth Built" by Richard Winslow. (JDR)

Editor's Response: Duke Delp, a major in Newmarket Militia tells us there is very little info about the 3rd NH regiment. Duke says they were allied with the 2nd regiment which wore one of three uniforms (or wore whatever they could get their hands on). The likely choices were brown with red facing, blue with red facing (used by the Newmarket Militia), or blue with white facing like the Continental Line. Delp notes that four Revolutionary war generals -- Dearborn, Cilley, Bartlett and Butler were connected with his hometown of Northwood, NH. (JDR)

Editor's Reply: Check in with the on-line island newspaper Monhegan Press linked at the bottom of our Monhegan article. Did you know that the Pilgrims had designs on Monhegan, and may have traveled there with NH founder David Thompson in the early 1620s? (JDR)

Editor's Reply: No, Shakespeare did not spend his missing years in NH. We shouldn't touch this one, but I invited it with my article on the Bard. Our resident English expert Mr. Whipple has his own hotlinks page. He says the "missing years" is a highly controversial topic among Shakespearean scholars. One story has it that Will offended a Lord Lucy, perhaps by poaching, not stealing, a deer on his property and had to disappear for a time. Another has it that around the summer of 1587 or so a traveling players company visited Stratford and young Will became captivated; he ran off with them to replace an actor who had died suddenly while on tour. These companies often left London in the summer to escape the stench and the frequent outbreaks of disease. (JW)

Editor's Reply: Our Indian cultures expert says to check the NH Archeologist, Vol. 33/34 #1, 1994, "The Pennacook: Lands and Relations, an Ethnography," by David Stewart-Smith. That issue can be ordered from our site if you click here. Also check the History of Manchester by CE Potter (1856) which includes the portrait of Passaconnaway, the most unsung hero of America whom we will be featuring in 1998. For a less weighty starting point try America's First People by Rosalind Hanson available from the NH Antiquarian Society. (JDR)

Editor's Reply: Hang onto your mousepad, this gets confusing. The Exeter chapter of Society of the Cincinnati was formed at Folsom's Tavern on Nov. 18, 1783. There were groups in all 13 colonies and one in France. Only men who had been Continental line officers could join and only their descendants were allowed to be members. The group exists to this day and owns the Ladd-Gilman House in Exeter, which is now known as the American Independence Museum. Both names are listed on our Historic Houses page. The Society meets twice each year. The Folsom House is a separate building built by Samuel Folsom around 1775 and was supposedly visited by Washington in his tour through the region. Originally called The Raleigh (after the Portsmouth-built ship of that name) the Folsom Tavern has been moved twice, most recently to near the Ladd-Gilman House (also AIM, get it?). Nicholas Gilman, a prominent Exeter citizen, was a Cincinnati member. Both houses are now owned by the Society and managed by AIM, a nonprofit group. The Folsom house is open by appointment when AIM begins for its 1998 season on May 1. We got this info from them. (JDR)

Editor's Reply: Oops. You are absolutely correct. Sometimes one digitized patriot looks just like another. Our thanks for an excellent piece of detection and we'll get right to work on an Enoch page. Anyone want trade a Folsom pic for two John Sullivans? (JDR)

Editor's Reply: Early Webster fans tended to stretch his Portsmouth timeline. In our article "Daniel Webster's Lost Portsmouth" we believe he took off for Boston in 1816, but old postcards imply he was in town longer. But there is a much bigger error in that piece that no one has found yet. First person who does wins a free video. (JDR)

How do I find the children of Gen. John Stark? I have searched the web, and cannot find his oldest daughter. She married a Carnes and had John Stark Carnes and Anna Carnes Smock. Do you know where I can find genealogy info on him?
Jan Skinner

Editor's Reply: Our Stark site is in Framers of Freedom. There are a couple of juvenile fiction books about him, including "John Stark: Freedom Fighter (1976) by Robert Richmond. Oddly enough, the 1949 book "A Life of Gen. Stark of NH" by Howard Parker Moore was also MISSING from our library. Could it be a cover-up? The historical society in Freedom, NH recently reprinted an 1831 "memoir" of Stark bundled with Robert Rogers (Roger's Rangers) Journal. To locate these, you may have to lay siege to many used bookstores. For Stark genealogy we suggested the NH Historical Society in Concord which has a great collection of his letters and the Manchester Historical Society. Since he had 11 kids, your work is cut out for you. (JDR)