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Excerpt from An Historical Calendar of Portsmouth
J A N U A R Y I The royal commission for the separation of the Province of New Hampshire from that of Massachusetts brought to Portsmouth. The town clock was set going. Nathaniel Haven took charge of The Oracle, and changed its name to The Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics. The present Methodist Church was dedicated. The Children's Home occupied the present Aldrich house on Court street. The first book was issued from the Public Library from a small upper room of the Custom House. State Law for free text books in schools went into effect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
