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Exeter (de facto 1774–1776) Common languages: English (sole language of government) Abenaki Various other indigenous languages: Government: Land grant colony (1629-1641) Self-governing colony (1679-1686) (1689-1776) President
The Paper Money Riot, or Exeter Rebellion, was an armed uprising in Exeter, New Hampshire, on September 20, 1786. Following the American Revolution, the nation, states, and many individuals were deeply in debt. The lack of specie and paper currency in circulation made the payment of debts difficult for poor farmers.
1644 August 31: Cornish Royalist victory at the Second Battle of Lostwithiel. 1645 Cornish Royalist leader Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet makes Launceston his base and he stations Cornish troops along the River Tamar and issues them with instructions to keep "all foreign troops out of Cornwall". Grenville tries to use "Cornish particularist ...
In 1638 Exeter was founded by John Wheelwright. In 1631, Captain Thomas Wiggin served as the first governor of the Upper Plantation (comprising modern-day Dover, Durham and Stratham). All the towns agreed to unite in 1639, but meanwhile, Massachusetts had claimed the territory.
Exeter is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. Its population was 16,049 at the 2020 census, [2] up from 14,306 at the 2010 census. Exeter was the county seat until 1997, when county offices were moved to neighboring Brentwood.
William of Malmesbury, writing around 1120, says that in about 927, King Æthelstan of England expelled the Cornish from Exeter and fixed Cornwall's eastern boundary at the River Tamar. T. M. Charles-Edwards dismisses William's account as an "improbable story" on the ground that Cornwall was by then firmly under English control. [35]
After New Hampshire became an separate colony again in 1679, Provincial Governor John Cutt reorganized the militia on March 16, 1680, with one foot-company apiece for the four major settlements in Portsmouth, Dover, Exeter, and Hampton, and an artillery and cavalry company in Portsmouth. [1]
927 – Athelstan evicts the Cornish from Exeter (and perhaps the rest of Devon), according to William of Malmesbury, writing around 1120. [6] 932 – Monastery founded by Athelstan. [3] 1003 – Exeter sacked by forces of Sweyn of Denmark. [3] 1048 – Episcopal see relocated to Exeter from Crediton. [4] 1050 – Leofric becomes bishop of ...