[Nh-pm] Perl Monger's Meeting Place (potential)

[Ben Boulanger]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Mark Polhamus wrote:
> Here's another vote for Manchester, I'm getting tired of driving back to the
> border from the Lakes Region for just about every NH user group meeting.
> 
> Why does everything have to be in Nashua? -- that's not really NH, its a piece
> of Massachusetts that spilled over the state line ;) <-- disarming smiley

Not sure if you were kidding around, but you're actually absolutely 
correct:)  My fiancee discovered this when we first moved here:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~nhcnashu/nashua_history.htm

Nashua was originally part of the town of Dunstable, Massachusetts, which 
also included not only parts of what is now Dunstable, MA., but also 
Tyngsborough, MA., parts of Hudson, Hollis, Milford, Brookline, and of 
course Nashua, NH.

Chartered in 1673, the township of Dunstable, was founded by Jonathan 
Tyng, whose frame house overlooked the Merrimack River, in the section of 
the town which now bears his name.

His father, Edward, from Dunstable, England, had given him 3,000 acres 
some time around 1668, which Jonathan Tyng named Dunstable. 

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