Note 14 — THE IRISH SETTLERS OF SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Prof. E. D. Sanborn writing of these Puritans (1 Granite Monthly, 34), said: “Some portion of the bigotry, intolerance and persecution of Massachusetts Puritans migrated to New Hampshire with their laws. The result was a few prosecutions of witches and Quakers, but no capital convictions. After the lapse of a century some disabilities and distraint of goods for the support of ‘the standing order’ or clergy were inflicted on dissenters from the established creed. This petty intolerance continued until about 1819, when the Toleration Act became a law of New Hampshire.”