When your editor for your speech writer is as much an idiot as you...

Michele Bachmann, on a speech in New Hampshire:

You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord.

oh, and then she decided to directly insult my ancestors::

You've done it very well for almost 20 generations from the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, and I'm sure the very first one came up to New Hampshire and said, ‘This is where I want to be.'

Uh, no. New Hampshire was independently founded as a fisherman's wharf village, and the Puritans generally stayed out (as did other, even more restrictive sects). As things progressed, the British authorities would attempt to unite the two colonies (given that Maine was already part of Massachusetts so administration of the region was difficult) several times in the 17th century, and the religious differences between the states made unification government almost impossible.  New Hampshire was particularly unimpressed by late-century Massachusetts religious laws* that actually illegalized (to the point of the death penalty) being a member of certain sects (like Quakers).

So no, pilgrims and puritans did not go up the coastline to settle in New Hampshire - they would have found themselves very unwelcome up there.

Update:"Michele Bachmann will appeal to those who like Sarah Palin but wish she would be a little less intellectual." - Charles Walcott, Prof @ VA Tech

* this would be a point actually in New Hampshire's favor, but not something Bachmann would want to emphasize after being so vehemently against the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque".