Give the 'founding mothers’ of Portsmouth their due

By Gloria Schmidt

We call it “Founders’ Brook” because that was what the Portsmouth Tercentenary Committee called it when they unveiled a monument to Portsmouth’s founders there in 1936.

In old records it was known as the “watering place” and later it was called “Stony Brook.” Today it is a place set aside to remember our founders, the Portsmouth Compact and the life of the community in its earliest days.

Laurie McDonough Greaney, chapter regent for the Battle of Rhode Island Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), joins other NSDAR members in calling out the names of Portsmouth’s “founding mothers” during a Conservation Commission event at Founders’ Brook on Oct. 26. The chapter, which was organized late last year and now has 50 members, serves …