The second New England: life beyond the Merrimack, 1690-1760: Historical New Hampshire/ by Charles Edwin Clark.

Title:

The second New England: life beyond the Merrimack, 1690-1760: Historical New Hampshire/ by Charles Edwin Clark.

Author:

Clark, Charles Edwin.

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, N.H. : New Hampshire Historical Society, 1965.

Physical Description:

p. 3-22.

Source:

Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1965 Vol. 20 issue 4 (Winter 1965) Historical New Hampshire

Description:

Both New Hampshire and Massachusetts had the same colonial economy, a complex of fur, fish, and lumber staples with substinence farming and trade. The first New Hampshire population diverged from Massachusetts norms. The Church of England started later in New Hampshire (1732) but grew rapidly as it was joined by Congregationalists seeking higher status. The Great Awakening had frontier exuberance here. The town system of expansion broke down and the printing press and library came to Portsmouth in the 1750's. By 1760 imperialist Massachusetts, from which the bulk of New Hampshire people had come, had effected a cultural conquest even while losing political control.

Subjects:

Congregational Churches. , Agriculture New England. , Economic history.

Organizations:

New Hampshire Historical Society Periodicals History.

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