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portion of their produce is carried to market in Massachusetts and 

 Connecticut. The bank oi Hampshire was establisned in 1792, with 

 a capital of 60,000 dollars ; by an act of assembly the stockholders 

 can increase it to 200,000 dollars in specie, and 100,000 dollars in any 

 other estate. 



Government.. .According to the present constitution, the legisla- 

 tive power resides in a senate and house of representatives, which 

 together are here styled the general court, and the supreme executive 

 authority is vested in a governor and council, the latter consisting of 

 five members. 



The constitution of New-Hampshire differs in no essential part 

 from that of Massachusetts, except in the pecuniary qualifications of 

 the members of the general court ; less property sufficing to qualify 

 a candidate in toe former state, for a seat in either house. 



Colleges and academies. ...The only college in this state is at 

 Hanover, caaed Dartmouth college, which is amply endowed with 

 lands, and is in a flourishing situation. The principal academies are 

 those of Exeter, New Ipswich, Atkinson, and Amherst. 



Character.... The inhabitants are industrious, hardy, and indepen- 

 dent. In a great part of the state the population is so thin, that the 

 advantages of public worship and schools, are not so generally en- 

 joyed, as in the mere populous slates of New-England. Many of the 

 young men emigrate in the character of artisans and day labourers. 

 Too free a use of spirituous liquors is among their faults.* 



History... .Perhaps this province first began to be settled in the 

 year 1629, when the Reverend John Wheelright purchased a part of 

 the land from the Indian sachems; though he did not go to reside 

 there himself till 1635, when he was disfranchised and banished by 

 the government of Massachusetts. In consequence of great divisions 

 and animosities that distracted the colony, in 1641, the inhabitants 

 solicited the interposition of Massachusetts, and became united with 

 it under the same jurisdiction. But in the year 1679, it was again 

 disjoined from Massachusetts, and erected into a distinct government 

 by the crown of Great Britain, a Mr. Cutt being appointed the first 

 royal governor ; though the same person was mostly governor of both 

 provinces. The progress of population and improvement was im- 

 peded much by a destructive Indian war, which broke out about the 

 year 1692. A controversy about the divisional line between the two 

 provinces having existed for many years, the people of Nuw-Hamp- 

 shire complained to the king and council, in 1740, against the joint 

 governor, whom they accused of being partial to Massachusetts. In 

 order to remove the cause of complaint, the king ever afterwards ap- 

 pointed a separate governor to preside over the colony of New-Hamp- 

 shire. "When the revolutionary war broke out, New-Hampshire 

 joined the other states, and sent two delegates to the general con- 

 gress, convened at Philadelphia, in 1774. The federal constitution 

 as it now exists was ratified by this state, June 21, 1788. by a conside- 

 rable majority of vote;. 



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