Hampton, New Hampshire Celebrates 375 Years!

Founder's Park, Hampton, New Hampshire

This weekend is the kick-off celebration for the 375th anniversary year of the founding of Hampton, New Hampshire.  Reverend Stephen Batchelder led his flock to Hampton, which actually settled on 14 October1638, so the official celebrations for the 375th birthday will be a year long celebration.  A list of the founding families can be found on the stones at Founder's Park, across from the Historical Society, or at this blog post: http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/05/founders-park-hampton-new-hampshire.html  

This weekend, at the First Congregational Church of Hampton, founded by Rev. Batchelder / Bachiler, there will be a special service and all descendants of founding families are invited.  This is followed by a lunch and activities. See the web link below for more information and to register.   The official celebration will be a three day event in August 2013 at Tuck Field, next to the Historic Society.  A commission has been formed to plan the celebration.

First Congregational Church, Hampton

First Congregational Church

Hampton, NH

On October 14, 1638 Rev. Stephen 

Bachiler and fifty-five settlers from

Massachusetts laid out Winnacunnet

Plantation and organized what is now

the oldest congregational society in

New Hampshire and the second oldest

continuous church fellowship in the

United States

Presented by

New Hampshire Society

Daughters of the American Revolution

October 14, 1978

For more information:

Descendants Celebration Sunday- register here for the activities this weekend, October 14, 2012 http://www.firsthamptonchurch.org/descendants-celebration-sunday.aspx 

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Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo