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��Concord, New Hampshire.
��large company of Presbyterians from tier, Init within the territory, of the neigh-
the north of Ireland, known in Ameri- boring Province of New Hampshire,
can history as Scotch-Irish. It was ex- They perfected their title, and very soon
pedient to have vacant lands granted to had established a prosperous settlement
them : so the governor of Massachusetts in the wilderness. Soon afterwards the
ceded a township, not only on the fron- Pigwackets, the last tribe of New Hamp-
���shire Indians, suffered severely in a batde with the colonists, and withdrew to Canada, leaving a great tract of land open for settlement.
The Puritans were distinguished for their large families ; and the older settlements, near tide- water, in the course of several generations had become crowded. The young men viewed with envy the prosperity of the Scotch-Irish new-
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