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papoose Click the image at right to see the 1947 Papoose, the Hampton Center School Yearbook.
 
sstool button Click the image at right to read about our Standing Stool, an early child-rearing device.

embroidered eagle Embroidered eagle and flag, early 1900's. Located in the Tuck Museum building.

Print available for purchase in the Museum Store's Print Catalog


daughter towns Hampton’s land grant from Massachusetts was 100 square miles. This map shows the boundaries of the towns set off from the original grant with the dates when they were set off or incorporated. Located in the Tuck Museum building.

Print available for purchase in the Museum Store's Print Catalog


notice Laws regulating the taking of seaweed and rockweed went back on the record books as far as 1757. Seaweed was used by farmers for fertilizer. Located in the Tuck Museum building.

legal document       William Palmer's Will 1644
William Palmer was a grantee and one of the first settlers in Hampton in 1638, having first lived in Watertown and Newbury Massachusetts. Ann, mentioned in the will, is his second wife. William had three sons and two daughters. The oldest son, Edward, also had land granted to him in 1841. Below is the text of the will:
The day of death being certain and the time when uncertain and both Religious and human policy (?) call all men before death to dispose of their estate and I being in perfect understanding do thus dispose of my outward estate

First I will and bequeath to Ann my wife all that her former husband gave her by his will as it is found at my decease

Secondly I give and bequeath to Ann my wife for the term of her life my house and half my twenty acres of land at my house by equal division and five acres of salt marsh and five acres of my fresh marsh and to have twenty bushels of indian corn and my warmingpan and the best cushshing and two sows and have half (the use of) my barn during her life and one cow which she will

Thirdly I will and bequeath to my son Christopher all my housing and land in Hampton not already bequeathed and after my wifes decease a full enjoyment of all my housing and land in Hampton to him and his heirs for ever and I will that if I and my wife die before my son Joseph be fourteen years of age that son Christopher shall pay to Joseph till he come to the age aforesaid forty shillings by the year also my will is that my daughter Martha shall have ten pounds by the year for two years after my decease to be paid out of my estate further my will is that my daughter Mary shall have twenty pounds paid to her when she shall be at the age of twenty one years to be paid to her out of my estate/.

also I will and bequeath to my daughter Mary half my pewter and my featherbed upon the chamber as it is and also her mothers best goune and my will is that my wife shall keep in repair the housing she have for her life and I make my son Christopher executer of this my last will

This eighteen of ye seventh month 1644
Witness to this my last will                William Palmer
Timothy Dalton Senior                      his O mark
John Sherman

Located in the Tuck Museum building.

Carved board

Frank Jenness, 1872

One example of local folk art is the carved board below. One side shows a series of buildings on Winnacunnet Road- The JJ Leavitt Store, Thomas Lane House, Simon Jenness residence and blacksmith shop, and the East End Schoolhouse.

The town history reveals that Simon Jenness came to Hampton in 1832 and lived with Thomas Lane where he learned his trade. After marriage he settled on part of the Lane homestead.

Still standing today are the Leavitt store (now a private residence) and the Lane and Jenness homes. The barns and blacksmith shop and school have been torn down.

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44" x 15" x 3/4"

On the reverse of the board is the carving of two sloops – the Torrent and the Voland. The words "Capt Palmer" are carved next to the Voland.

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Located in the Tuck Museum building.


Below are a school bass drum (1928), and several views of an M.W. Brown piano, made in the late 19th century. Only several hundred of these pianos were ever made by this Hampton-based company. Both articles are located in the Tuck Museum building.
bass drum
piano piano detail

Early Cameras

Located in the Tuck Museum building.
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