Colonial New Hampshire

Sheepfields Farm occupies the land settled in 1774 by Samuel Foster. The land has been farmed pretty much continuously since that time. Samuel answered the call to arms in April 1775 and mustered out of New Ipswich NH to Concord and Lexington Massachusetts. Samuel served his newly founded country in many skirmishes until his death in 1778 somewhere in Southern New England. His widowed wife and a number of children eventually moved on to New York State during the push Westward.

Since Colonial times, very good records of the inhabitants of the property have been kept. Many interesting characters have lived, farmed or simply enjoyed the country life offered here in rural New Hampshire. We being the most recent to be gifted as the caretakers of such a unique piece of Colonial history.

More to come......