History in towns: Hancock, New Hampshire.

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: Banks, William Nathaniel | Copyright information

On June 3, 1779, when the few inhabitants of the recently settled town of Hancock, New Hampshire, petitioned the state legislature for incorporation, they begged to "Inform your Honnours that the tract of land on which we Inhabit...is so good that it will make a very commodious town or Parish." (1) Some three months later, many of the same landowners petitioned the legislature for an abatement of taxes, avowing that

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