Rye Beach #2
by Marcia Lee Jones
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Rye Beach #2
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Marcia Lee Jones
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Photograph - Photography
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In June 1623, David Thomson, his family and a few others landed at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, which empties seven rivers and the Great Bay estuary into the ocean. The landing place today is called Little Harbor at Odiorne Point. As to whether this first English settlement was permanent, it is uncertain given the scarce and contradictory written records of that time. Soon more English colonists came to what is now Foss Beach and the settlement was known as Sandy Beach. By the 1630s, the larger communities of Strawbery Banke (Portsmouth), Dover, Hampton and Exeter took root. Most of these early colonists were from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, England. In the 1620s the Piscataqua seacoast region was the most viable and well supplied English colony in North America. Sandy Beach soon became part of the towns of Portsmouth, New Castle and Hampton. Some of the early founding families were Berry, Brackett, Brown, Locke, Seavey and Odiorne.
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