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Category Archives: Geneology
How Pillsbury Lake Got Its Name
General Moody Adams Pillsbury. Born Boscawen 4 May 1794, Moody was the fourth (of 12) children of Lt. Daniel and Eunice (Thurlow “Thorla”) Pillsbury, some of the early settlers of Boscawen from Newbury, Massachusetts. From Charles Carleton Coffin’s History of … Continue reading
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Early Settlers
The land we call New Hampshire today was a different place before European settlers arrived. It was prime real estate to the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay. In the first generations after the Mayflower, Massachusetts Bay immigrants settled along the … Continue reading
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