New Hampshire.
1830. [Daniel Webster is] a genuine son of the “Granite State,” and a plain farmer’s boy.—Mass. Spy, Oct. 20: from the Virginia Advocate.
1837. A Daughter of the Granite State was to have been married, etc.—Balt. Comml. Transcript, Dec. 20, p. 2/2.
1841. The brave Granite Republic, whose interests I have the honor to represent in part here.—Mr. Woodbury of New Hampshire, in the U.S. Senate, June 16.: Cong. Globe, p. 42, App.
1842. I come from New Hampshire, or what we call the Granite State.—J. F. Cooper, ‘Jack O’Lantern, i. 112. (N.E.D.)
