MILTON - Native New Hampshire author Patrick O. Connelly, who has written extensively about the history of Rochester, is the featured speaker for the New Hampshire Farm Museum on Sunday, Aug. 16, at 1 p.m. at the Milton Old Town House on Route 125 in Milton.
The event is part of Old Home Days in Milton.
Connelly will be describing more than 30 years of transcribing the archives of Rochester as a passion which led to his meticulously detailed, annotated book Rochester, NH – New Hampshire Territory to Township 1620 – 1799.
The book details grants made by the Massachusetts Bay Colony North of Dover, the indigenous Abenaki History in the Territory of Rochester, introduction to the early development of colonial Rochester (now the present towns of Rochester, Milton, and Farmington), natural resources of the territory, and Squire John Plumer (Plummer), the king’s magistrate who was appointed as magistrate by Governor John Wentworth, the last Royal Governor of New Hampshire.
It was Squire John Plumer who gave two parcels of land to his sons Joseph and Beard in the 1700’s. The New Hampshire Farm Museum is situated on the Plumer property which comprised two historic homesteads.
The event is sponsored by Branch Hill Farm and will be free to the public.
The lecture will highlight the Northeast Parish Development into the Town of Milton between 1795-1802. The Milton Town House is at the corner of Town House Road and White Mountain Highway (Route 125) in Milton.
For more information, contact Janet Hotchkiss, M.S., Program Director, New Hampshire Farm Museum at 603-652-7840.