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New Hampshire

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to New Hampshire. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the colonial and provincial periods through statehood to the present.

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    6 Laws of New Hampshire, Second Constitutional Period 84-85, 88-89 (N.H. Sec'y of State ed., 1917)
    (1792)
    The militia consisted of "every free, able bodied white male citizen of this State resident therein who is, or shall be of the age of eighteen years and under the age of Forty years." Commissioned officers had to have "a pair of Pistols, the holsters of which to be covered with bear-skin Caps." Commissioned officers might have an espontoon, but field officers would not. Again, "parents, Masters, or Guardians" had to furnish their charges with "Arms and Accoutrements." And again they were "liable for the neglect and non appearance of such persons ... under their care. Also required"[t]he Commisioned Officers to furnish themselves with good horses of at least fourteen hands and one half high, and to be armed with a Sword, and a pair of Pistols; the holsters of which to be covered with bear-skin Caps..." and "That each Non-Commissioned Officer and Soldier ... shall within one year from and after the passing this Act, furnish himself with a good firelock, Bayonet and Belt, a Cartouch box that will contain twenty four Cartridges, two good flints, a Knapsack and Canteen - and that the commisioned Officers belonging to Companies of foot, shall be severally armed with a Sword or hanger, and an Wspontoon, and that the filed Officers be armed with a sword or hanger..."
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    4 Laws of New Hampshire, Revolutionary Period 273 (Henry Harrison Metcalf ed., 1916)
    (1780)
    An Act for Forming & Regulating The Militia within this State, and for Repealing All the Laws heretofore made for that Purpose: Militiamen had to attend musters and drills, and sometimes had to march off to fight in distant locations. Further, all males under 70 who were capable of bearing arms were put on the "alarm list." This meant that they had to have all the same arms and gear as militiamen
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    6 Laws of New Hampshire, Second Constitutional Period 84-85 (N.H. Sec'y of State ed., 1917)
    (1792)
    The militia consisted of "every free, able bodied white male citizen of this State resident therein who is, or shall be of the age of eighteen years and under the age of Forty years. Commissioned officers had to have "a pair of Pistols, the holsters of which to be covered with bear-skin Caps." Commissioned officers might have an espontoon, but field officers would not. Again, "parents, Masters, or Guardians" had to furnish their charges with "Arms and Accoutrements." And again they were "liable for the neglect and non appearance of such persons . . . under their care.
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    1941 N.H. Laws 48-49
    (1941)
    Ch. 46, § 15: No organization, society, club, post, order, league or other combination of persons, or civil group, or any members thereof, are authorized to assume any semblance of military organization or character by bearing or possessing rifles, pistols, sabres, clubs, or military weapons of any kind, or wearing a military uniform of any kind.