The Scots-Irish settle in New Hampshire: Historical New Hampshire / New Hampshire Historical Society.

Title:

The Scots-Irish settle in New Hampshire: Historical New Hampshire / New Hampshire Historical Society.

Author:

New Hampshire Historical Society

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2019.

Physical Description:

p. 2-9 : illustrations (chiefly color).

Source:

Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2019 Vol. 72, No. 2 (Fall 2019) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

This article offers information on the early Scots-Irish settlers of New Hampshire. Land disputes between the Masachusetts Bay Colony and New Hampshire are discussed, along with the Schute Petition of 1718, in which the 319 settlers that signed it had tried to alert the governor of the two colonies, Samuel Shute, that they were coming from Ireland in hopes to live in the colonies. Asked to leave Boston, they mainly settled in Nutfield (an early name for what is now Londonderry), along the Merrimack River, though there were also excursions into Maine .They brought their Presbyterian faith and linen-weaving with them, thougth by around 1800 the Scots-Irisih were no longer considered their own ethnic group, but had assimilated with their English neighbors.

Subjects:

Immigrants , Colonists History. New Hampshire , Presbyterians History. New Hampshire , Scots-Irish History. New Hampshire , Decorative arts, Colonial , Petitions , Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.)

Locations:

New Hampshire History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Londonderry History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)

People:

Shute, Samuel, 1662-1742.

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Credit Line:

2019.

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