December, 1770: New Hampshire hears the final word on the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre.   They are largely acquitted of the crime.

January 1771 Governor Wentworth publishes reward for turning in deserted sailors, (40 shillings a piece)

January 11, 1771: in Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1000 men show up for a militia muster.

January 11, 1771:  Five men arrested for burglarizing a shop in Dover, New Hampshire.  (One later receives 20 lashes)

January 12, 1771:  The New Hampshire assembly assigns a committee to report on the condition of Fort William and Mary.  They find it in bad disrepair, viz:

According to the foregoing appointment we have viewed the fort and find it considerably decay’d & fallen to Ruin: We think it of absolute necessity that the Powder Magazine should be sufficiently secured, that the other Magazine & the Barrack should be Repaired, that the Ramparts should be filled with Earth, and good Platforms made for the guns, That as many Great Guns as can be planted on the walls within the fort should be put into good order, that the wall which is fallen Down should be Repaired, and that a work should be added for the Defence of the Entrance of the fort, and we judge that a sum not less than two hundred Pounds should be granted forr the above Purposes — all which we beg leave humbly to Report.

January 18, 1771:  White pine logs, considered the property of the King, were cut illegally and seized by Royal Governor Wentworth in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

January 25, 1771:  Swine no longer allowed to run free in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.