New+Hampshire

=   = =Josiah Bartlett= Josiah Bartlett was born in Amsburry Mass. in 1729. At the age of 20 he moved to New Hampshire and began practicing medicine, because the town of Kingston was a frontier settlement he was the only doctor for hundreds of miles around and so he bought some land and set up a farm. He married Hannah Webster and had 12 childeren. Bartlett became a colonel of a local militia and a justice of the peace in his town of Kingston. When he was first elected to be a delegate to the continental congress he declined so he could remaine with his family after a horrible fire the destroyed his home. In 1775 he was again elected to be a delegate and went to those sessions, till 1776 he was the only delegate from New hampshire and so he served in all of the comitees. Untill William Wipple and Mathew Thornten were added to the delegation. Because of his position he was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence after John Hancock. In 1777 he declined an offer to go back as a delegate because of failing health. When he returned home he continued his job of being a judge and was eventually elected the supreme justice in the supreme court of New Hampshire and later became the governor. He died in Kingston on May 19 1795.

=New Hampshire Colony=
 * New Hampshire is in the very northern states next to Vermont and Main
 * Because it is a costal state the main source of income came from ports and shipyards.
 * they had many farmlands, everyman was given at least enough land to support a family the more wealthy the more land
 * another major thing that people did was textile arts such as: knitting, spinning, weaving, ect.
 * and steel working
 * The summers are short and cool with, long cold winters