Rochester New Hampshire Genealogy

Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society

The Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society is a 15 publication series documenting the state’s history through various primary sources, including manuscripts, letters, and public records. It collates valuable narratives that were previously difficult to access, providing insight into events, individuals, and communities in New Hampshire. Each volume offers focused topics and historical analyses, and most volumes contain individual indexes.

Descendants of Elder Nutter of Dover, MA

The Nutter family of East Bridgewater, descended from Elder Hatevil Nutter, who emigrated from England in 1633, played a significant role in early New Hampshire history. Elder Nutter was a prominent figure, serving as a ruling elder and holding various land grants. His lineage includes notable descendants such as Isaac Newton Nutter, who contributed to local development and banking, and his sons, Richard Winslow and Charles Latham Nutter, who continued the family legacy in public service and business.

Narrative of the Captivity of Nehemiah How

A Narrative of the captivity of Nehemiah How, who was taken by the Indians at the Great Meadow Fort above Fort Dummer, where he was an inhabitant, October 11th, 1745. Giving an account of what he met with in his traveling to Canada, and while he was in prison there. Together with an account of Mr. How’s death at Canada. Exceedingly valuable for the many items of exact intelligence therein recorded, relative to so many of the present inhabitants of New England, through those friends who endured the hardships of captivity in the mountain deserts and the damps of loathsome prisons. Had the author lived to have returned, and published his narrative himself, he doubtless would have made it far more valuable, but he was cut off while a prisoner, by the prison fever, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, after a captivity of one year, seven months, and fifteen days. He died May 25th, 1747, in the hospital at Quebec, after a sickness of about ten days. He was a husband and father, and greatly beloved by all who knew him.

Biography of Solomon Hirsch

Solomon Hirsch, born in Germany in 1839, emigrated to America at fourteen and ultimately settled in Oregon. He was a prominent businessman and influential politician, co-founding a successful wholesale dry goods firm in Portland. Hirsch served in the Oregon Legislature, advocating for educational and financial reforms, and was elected State Senator three times, where he notably enacted the Hirsch Assignment Law. Appointed as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Turkey by President Harrison, his career exemplifies the potential for success in America through hard work and conviction. He married Josephine Mayer in 1870.