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"Amoskeag" - meaning "good fish place" - Manchester was granted by Massachusetts Governor Benning Wentworth in 1751 as "Derryfield".
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Originally inhabited by the Penacook Indians, who called the area "Amoskeag" - meaning "good fish place" - Manchester was granted by Massachusetts Governor Benning Wentworth in 1751 as "Derryfield".
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I asked the guy from Amoskeag if I could buy the rifle for $73 and a laundry ticket, which is what I had in my wallet.
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I was running a rheumy eye down a rack of rifles being offered by Amoskeag Auctions, when I spotted a dark-honey-blond stock that could have only belonged to a .270 Joe Balickie built for me in 1985 or so.
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There is also an auction house called Amoskeag Auction in Manchester, New Hampshire, that specializes in selling firearms from estates.
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Dumaine “had learned his watch-making as boss of Amoskeag mills of Manchester, N.H., probably the largest cotton manufacturing plant in the world,” Landes writes.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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Samuel Griffiths had recently paused and talked with him, no less an important personage than Mr. Rudolph Smillie, one of the several active vice-presidents, had asked him most cordially and casually whether he played golf, and if so, when spring came again, whether he might not be interested to join the Amoskeag, one of the two really important golf clubs within a half dozen miles of the city.
An American Tragedy 2004
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Amoskeag bridge over the Merrimac at Manchester, N.H.,
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Hooksett, it comes to the Falls of Amoskeag, where Lowell's fair rival is built; thence onward past Nashua, to the Falls of Pawtucket, where its waters are thoroughly utilized to propel the machinery of a great city.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 Various
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John Stark had gone home in the fall to get married, and he brought back one hundred men whom he had enlisted at Amoskeag Falls.
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