Skip to content
Museum logo

Person Record

Metadata

Related Records

  1. S0090 - Portsmouth Church of Christ Record Book, 1803-1824

    Record book of the Portsmouth Church of Christ including list of members and dates joined, withdrew, or died; minutes (beginning 1 Jan. 1803) describing conversions and baptisms, and letters of admonition and commendation; and other membership lists (1807 Jan. 1, 1808 and 1820). Persons cited include elder/founder Elias Smith and others from New Hampshire and Maine towns. The Portsmouth Church of Christ eventually became the Pleasant Street Ch...

    Record Type: Archive

    Member list 1803-1807, p1.
  2. S0894 - Thomas Moulton Account Book

    Account book of Thomas Moulton, a Portsmouth blacksmith. Individuals listed in entries include those below. Some of the individuals have references concerning their occupations, for example Joshua Johnson is listed as a shoemaker, John Hill, blacksmith. Jacob Nutter, mason, Samuel Nelson, chairmaker Lyman Spalding, doctor, John French, butcher, George Hart, blacksmith, Edward Dimcey, mason, Joshua Johnson, yeoman, and Thadeus Perkins, truckman. E...

    Record Type: Archive

  3. S1027 - Liberty Pole Subscribers

    List of about 100 people who pledged money to raise a Liberty Pole at Liberty Bridge, Portsmouth, along with the amount they pledged to donate. c1824 See "Multimedia Files" for link to a transcript of the list of names in the document. Liberty Bridge To perpetuate to posterity the memory of glorious __________ the early history of their ____ has ever __ the anxious care of the patriotic and virtuous in every age. The venerable reli...

    Record Type: Archive

    Liberty Pole Subscribers
  4. S1223b - Mark Laighton account book, 1819-1823

    Day book kept by Mark Laighton from 1819 to 1823. Laighton was a mast and block maker and invented the roller block. He owned Laighton's Wharf and Mast Yard and had a house on Bachelor's Lane (later Green Street). Entries are similar to S1223a (the earlier book kept by Laighton) and include outfitting ships, dry goods and food items, blocks and repairs made to vessels. They also include work on the Portsmouth Aqueduct system and repair to pum...

    Record Type: Archive

Thank You!

Confirmation Message Here....