Exeter, NH
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Meshech Weare
The Man Who Kept the Government Running
Meshech Weare did not look like a revolutionary. He was sixty-two when the war began, a judge who had spent his career in the careful middle distance between colonial authority and local autonomy. He ...
Modern Voices
Before the Declaration: New Hampshire Goes First
When I bring school groups into the Ladd-Gilman House, I ask them: when did New Hampshire declare independence from Britain? They say July 4, 1776. I tell them the right answer is January 5, 1776 — an...
