All posts tagged "Benning Wentworth"
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12.3K1New HampshireJosiah Bartlett, Founding Father, Gets Used to Wrongness
Dr. Josiah Bartlett saved his own life in the same spirit he signed the Declaration of Independence: by questioning authority. He was...
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27.9K5New HampshireFame, Fortune, Fire and Brimstone: The Legend of Jonathan Moulton
In 1763, Jonathan Moulton of Hampton, N.H., took his prize oxen north to Portsmouth, N.H. He decorated the impressive 1,400-pound animal with...
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19.0K3Connecticut6 Places That Used To Be Part of a Different State
For centuries, New England’s borders were anything but stable, and New Englanders didn’t agree on what they were. Maine was once part...
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10.0K1Politics and MilitaryVermont Statehood, Never A Sure Thing Until
The American Revolution finally ended for Vermont in Oct. 28, 1790, when the state offered to pay New York $30,000 ($770,000 in...
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11.7K18New HampshireN.H. Gov. Benning Wentworth Grabs the King’s Masts, Along With Vermont
If it weren’t for Benning Wentworth, Vermont probably wouldn’t exist. Wentworth was the Colony of New Hampshire’s first governor, and on Jan....
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