Morgan Sasseville

Core 3

13 Colonies New Hampshire

December 11,2015

Mini History
In 1623 under the authority of a English land-grant,
Captain John Mason went to New Hampshire with several others. The people
sent were David Thomson, a Scotsman, Thomas Hilton, and fish-merchants of
London. With a number of other people in two groups to establish a fishing
colony in what is now New Hampshire at the mouth of the Piscataqua River.
Nine years before this Captain John Smith of England, sailing along the New
England coast, inspired by the beauty of our summer shores and the
loneliness of our countrysides, wrote back to his fellow citizen that:
"Here should be no landlords to rack us with high rents, or extorted fines to
consume us. Here every man may be a master of his own labor and land in a
short time. The sea there is the strangest pond I ever saw. What sport doth
yield a more pleasant content and less hurt or charge than angling with a
hook, and crossing the sweet air from isle to isle over the silent streams of a
calm sea? Thus the settlement of New Hampshire did not happen because
those who came here were persecuted out of England. The occasion which is
one of the great events in the annals of the English people was one planned
with much care and earnestness by the English crown and the English
parliament.

Job Occupation {Jobs}

In 1776, most adult males would either farm on
their own land, become loggers or work in mills
for grinding grain. Female adults would stay
home either watching their kids, cooking or
cleaning. Sons and daughter, well that is
another story. Daughters were expected to serve
their parents household until they were
married. Sons were expected to work for their
fathers until they were twenty-one.

Specific Products Manufactured

In the colonial period trade was very important. Exports were the
raw materials or finished products that the colonists traded or
sold to other countries. Imports are all products brought into the
colonies most of which were from England.The colonists imported
(or made at home) almost everything they needed to sustain life.
Clothing, furniture, tools, silver and books were important to get.
Some other important things were food, leathergoods, sugar,
molasses and weapons.Trade was a part of colonists every day
life.