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HB1664 Directing the department of natural and cultural resources to remove the Hannah Duston Memorial in Boscawen.

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Directing the department of natural and cultural resources to remove the Hannah Duston Memorial in Boscawen.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

5

Overall Impact Score

Concerning

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

5
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Your Wallet

Minimal financial impact; removal costs would be modest.

5
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Your Community

Raises important questions about how communities reckon with complex history, but the memorial's impact on daily life is limited.

5
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Your Freedom

A debate about public monuments that does not directly affect personal freedoms.

Status

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 194-156 02/12/2026 House Journal 4 P. 52

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

David Nagel (R)

The Short Version

Would direct the removal of the Hannah Duston Memorial in Boscawen, which commemorates a colonial-era figure who killed and scalped Native Americans. Killed 194-156, reflecting the contentious debate over historical monuments and their contemporary meaning.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Native American communities and advocates for historical truth
  • ▲ Those who view the monument as glorifying violence

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Historic preservation advocates
  • ▼ Those who view removing monuments as erasing history

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans opposed it ( 3 for , 189 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 153 for , 5 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Inexpedient to Legislate (kill motion) 2026-02-12
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

189R + 5D
Voted to Kill the Bill (194)
3R + 153D
Voted to Keep It Alive (156)
24
Absent
20
Not voting
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Voted Yea (194)

Republicans (189)
Democrats (5)

Voted Nay (156)

Republicans (3)
Democrats (153)
Absent (24)

Beth Richards (D) , Brian Cole (R) , Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charles Foote (R) , David Meuse (D) , Dillon Dumont (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Harry Bean (R) , Jeffrey Tenczar (R) , John MacDonald (R) , John Suiter (R) , Julie Gilman (D) , Mark MacKenzie (D) , Mary Murphy (R) , Michael Murphy (R) , Myles England (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Richard Brown (R) , Sean Durkin (R) , Susan Vandecasteele (R) , Terry Roy (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , William Dolan (D)

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