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Title: Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland ... connecting links between cities and towns of New England and those of the same name in England, Ireland and Scotland; containing narratives, descriptions, and many views, some done from old prints; also much matter pertaining to the founders and settlers of New England and to their memorials on both sides of the Atlantic;
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: State Street Trust Company (Boston, Mass.) Forbes, Allan, 1874-1955
Subjects: Cities and towns Cities and towns Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: Boston, Mass.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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dermen of Londonderry, Ireland. In April, 1719, sixteen Scotch-Irish families came over from the north of Ire-land and they were followed within a short time by many others, their reason formigrating to this country being to secure more religious liberty. It can, therefore,be said that they played the same part in Ireland that the Puritans did in Eng-land in relation to the new country. The newcomers spent their first winter in theharbour near Portland, Maine, where they suffered great hardship, as their vesselwas frozen in the ice and it was difficult to procure supplies. When spring came,however, they wandered to the territory called by them Londonderry from thetown of the same name in Ireland, so well known to them. The first thing theydid was to purchase from John Wheelwright the title to these lands that had beenpurchased by his family from the Indians a long time before; it was in this way thatthey became possessors of this territory which was at that time called Nutfield, t--*v
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LONDONDERRY, NEW HAMPSHIRE 105 on account of its many chestnut-trees. The name Londonderry was given in 1722.The early days brought many hardships to these settlers. They were once at-tacked by an armed party in the hope of dispossessing them by force from thenewly acquired property. At the time of this raid they were attending churchservices and it is said that the gallant Londonderry clergyman threw off his coatand offered to lead the attack should the enemy persist in trying to drive out thecongregation. It is also said that the first minister, Rev. Mr. MacGregor, alwayscarried his loaded gun into the pulpit and it is believed that this weapon is stillin the possession of one of the citizens of the nearby city of Manchester, NewHampshire. It may be interesting to give the names of some of the distinguished familiesof our Londonderry. Among them were the Morrisons, MacGregors, McKeans,Duncans, Greggs, Bells, Pattersons and Dinsmores. It is also worthy of men-tion that the well-known

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