USSConnecticutwas thelead shipof the sixConnecticut-classbattleships.Due to theRoyal Navy's commissioning ofHMSDreadnoughtseven months earlier,Connecticutwas obsolete before she was commissioned; thus, she was the last lead ship of any class ofpre-dreadnoughtbattleship commissioned by the United States Navy.Connecticutserved as aflagshipfor theJamestown Exposition,which commemorated the 300th anniversary of the founding of theJamestowncolony. She later sailed with theGreat White Fleeton a circumnavigation of the Earth to showcase the United States Navy's growing fleet ofblue-water-capable ships. After the Great White Fleet returned to the U.S. on 22 February 1909,Connecticutparticipated in several flag-waving exercises intended to protect American citizens abroad until she was pressed into service as a troop transport at the end ofWorld War Ito expedite the return ofAmerican Expeditionary Forcesfrom France. For the remainder of her career,Connecticutsailed to various places in both the Atlantic and Pacific while training newer recruits to the Navy. However, the provisions of the 1922Washington Naval Treatystipulated that many of the older battleships,Connecticutamong them, would have to be disposed of, so she was decommissioned on 1 March 1922 and sold for scrap on 1 November 1923. (Full article...)
Anne Hutchinson,bornAnne Marbury(1591–1643), was aPuritanwoman, spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant in theAntinomian Controversythat shook the infantMassachusetts Bay Colonyfrom 1636 to 1638. Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in theBostonarea, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment in New England. She was eventually tried and convicted, then banished from the colony with many of her supporters. With encouragement fromProvidencefounder,Roger Williams,Hutchinson and many of her supporters established the settlement ofPortsmouthin what became theColony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.After her husband's death she moved toNew Netherlandnear an ancient landmark calledSplit Rockin what later becameThe BronxinNew York City.Here all but one of the 16 members of her household were massacred during an attack, the only survivor being her nine-year old daughter,Susanna,who was taken captive. Her well-publicised trials and the accusations against her make Hutchinson the most famous, or infamous, English woman in colonial American history. (Full article...)
Image 11Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (fromNew England)
Image 19TheMBTA Commuter Railserves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates theShore Line EastandHartford Line,covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (fromNew England)
Image 45A political and geographical map of New England shows thecoastal plainsin the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (fromNew England)
... thatCora Agnes Benneson,one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected byHarvard Law Schoolbecause "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
... that Puritan ReverendJohn WilsonimploredMary Dyerto repent and not be "carried away by deceit of the devil" before her execution in Boston as aQuaker martyr?
It became the first post-colonialsovereignnation in theAmericaswhen it broke off fromGreat Britainin January 1776, and six months later was one of the originalthirteen statesthatfoundedthe United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify theUnited States Constitution,bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.
It is known internationally for theNew Hampshire primary,the firstprimaryin the U.S. presidential election cycle.Concordis the state capital, whileManchesteris the largest city in the state. It has no generalsales tax,nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends)taxedat either the state or local level. (Full article...)
