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thin. Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, to establish the first one
workhouse of the recorded poor man--although not in the connection with his/her poets, as
it would naturally be supposed. The building was completed and tenanted in
1716. A reads it was approved seven years later, in England that authorizes the
establishment of workhouses of the parish there. The first one and only custodian of
the Portsmouth almshouse above to 1750 a woman was--Rebecca Austin.
Speaking of first things, we am said from the Mr. Nathaniel Adams, in his
"Annalses of Portsmouth" that on April 20, 1761, the Mr. John
Stavers started to race a stage from that city to Boston. The carriage was
a curricle of the two-horse, wide enough to arrange three passengers. The
rate was thirteen shillings and six genuine pennies for head. The curricle
the moment was replaced to from a series of fat trainers of yellow, one of
what--almost one century later, and long after that pleasant way of
trip was fallen obsolete--it was the cause of a lot of mental tribulation (1.
Some inactive reader here and there you/he/she can possibly remember which it burns of
the old stage-trainer in You History of a Bad Boy.) to the writer of this
chronicle.
The mail and the newspaper are in partnership from near factors in
civilization, so I mention together them, although in this case the
newspaper approximately antedated the mail-trainer five years. October 7 th 1756,
the first number of "The New Hampshire Gazette and Historical Chronicle"
you/he/she was published in Portsmouth by the press of Daniel Fowle that in the
preceding July had removed from Boston, where he had suffered a breve
but non congenial imprisonment on suspect to have stamped a brochure
entitled "The Monster of Monsters, from Tom Thumb Esq.", a composition
that contained some reflections without compliments on very official
characters. The "you Publish" it was the pioneer diary of the province. It
the closing of the same year was followed to from "The Mercury and Every week
Advertiser", published by a first apprentice of Fowle a certain