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The police logs are full of surprise and wonder caused not by a community organizing group, caught on film but by the namesake of our community.
Nutfield so called because in 1718 four Presbyterian ministers of Londonderry, 150 miles to the north of Dublin, Ireland left home with members of their congregation and came to America. Five ships arrived in Boston and the congregations headed to Casco Bay Maine. After a bad winter they moved on to Haverhill in the spring of 1719. According to Willey’s book of Nutfield, it is there they heard of land fifteen miles to the north called “Nutfield, from the abundance of it chestnut, walnut and butternut trees.”
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Read MoreThe police logs are full of surprise and wonder caused not by a community organizing group, caught on film but by the namesake of our community.
Nutfield so called because in 1718 four Presbyterian ministers of Londonderry, 150 miles to the north of Dublin, Ireland left home with members of their congregation and came to America. Five ships arrived in Boston and the congregations headed to Casco Bay Maine. After a bad winter they moved on to Haverhill in the spring of 1719. According to Willey’s book of Nutfield, it is there they heard of land fifteen miles to the north called “Nutfield, from the abundance of it chestnut, walnut and butternut trees.”
Read the rest of the story in the Londonderry Hometown Online News http://www.londonderrynh.net/?p=13211
