All posts tagged "Portsmouth NH"
-
4.8K1New HampshireTobias Lear Writes George Washington Some Bad News
On March 25, 1796, Tobias Lear wrote a disconsolate letter to George Washington telling him his wife had died. Lear, born in...
-
22.2K18Business and LaborOna Judge Staines, the Fugitive Slave Who Outwitted George Washington
During George Washington’s final months as president, a 20-year-old slave named Ona Judge Staines slipped out of the President’s House in Philadelphia....
-
20.8K10IrregularsNew Hampshire Legend: Ocean Born Mary
The New Hampshire legend of Ocean Born Mary has pirates, ghosts, a light green silk wedding dress – and some of it...
-
17.4K13ConnecticutBlack Kings and Governors of New England
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
-
43.0K14MaineThe Greatest Submarine Rescue Ever: Saving the Squalus
On the morning of May 23, 1939, the submarine USS Squalus slipped beneath the storm-tossed surface of the Atlantic on a sea...
To Top
