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ACWORTH

• Brief History: The town of Acworth was granted to Col. Samuel Stoddard and sixty-four others on 19 September 1766, and was incorporated in 1771. William Keyes, Samuel Harper and John Rogers removed to this place in 1768. Cold river, which rises from Cold pond at one time afforded good mill seats. In its early days it was well known for the cutlure of flax which was made into a fine linen, and for being a source of crystals of beryl. In 1830 there were 1401 residents. The town lies 13 miles south of Newport and 44 west of Concord NH. It is bounded on the north by Unity, east by Lempster, south by Marlow, and west by Langdon and Charlestown.
• Villages and Place Names: Crescent Lake, East Acworth, South Acworth
• GOVERNMENT:
  
  • Official Town of Acworth web site
  • Overview and government of Acworth NH
• PROFILE & STATISTICS:
  
  • Resource: Profile of Acworth NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
  • Acworth Silsby Library
    
    
  • Acworth NH Historical Society
    24 Mclaughlin Road
    South Acworth, NH 03607
    Phone: (603) 835-2567
    
    
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • HISTORY & STATISTICS:
    • Online Book: - History of Acworth, the Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary with Genealogical Records- Merrill, John Leverett; 1869
    • Online Books: Reports of the officers of the Town of Acworth NH including vital statistics for varied years between 1892-2000- Internet Archive
  • SERMONS, EVENTS
    • Online Book: A sermon occasioned by the sudden death of Mrs. Pamelia S. House, wife of Rev. Albert H. House, Acworth, N.H., delivered April 27, 1849 - Wright, Edwin S.
    • Online Book: Officers and committees for the Centennial celebration to be holden at Acworth, N.H. September 16, 1868 - Acworth (N.H.)
    
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs of Acworth NH (Flickr)
  • Photographs: Pinterest on Acworth NH
    
    
• MAPS:
  • Hurd Town & City Atlas of New Hampshire ACWORTH, 1892 - Atkinson NH
  • 1893, 1935, 1936 USGS Maps of Acworth NH
    
  • Topographical Map of Acworth NH - NH Fish & Game Department
  • Mapquest map and driving directions to Atkinson, NH

• History: Charlestown NH is located on the Connecticut River. The only other river in the town is the Little Sugar River. There are three islands within the limits of the town, the largest of ten acres is called Sartwell's Island. The town was first granted by Massachusetts on 31 December 1735 to sixty-three people by the name of Number 4. On 2 July 1753 the town was incorporated with the name of Charlestown, being granted by Gov. Benning Wentworth to Joseph Wells, Phinehas Stevens and others, who were purchasers under the old grantees. The first white child born in Charlestown was Elizabeth Parker, daughter of Isaac, born in 1744 and died in 1806. Capt. Phineas Stevens was one of the first settlers, along with families by the names of Farnsworth, Sartwell (from Groton), Hasings (from Lunenburg) and Stevens (from Rutland). It is bounded on the north by Claremont, east by Unity, Acworth and Langdon, south by Landgon and Walpole and west by Springfield and Rockingham Vermont. Charlestown’s Main Street is the longest National Register District in New Hampshire
• Villages and Place Names: North Charlestown, Number 4, Hemlock Center, North Charlestown, Snumshire, South Charlestown, South Hemlock, Springfield Junction, Trapshire
  
• GOVERNMENT:
  
  • Official Town of Charlestown NH web site
  • Overview and government of Charlestown NH
  • Silsby Public Library in Charlestown NH
    
    
  • Charlestown Historical Society
    P.O. Box 159
    Charlestown, NH 03603
    Contact: Joyce Higgins, President
    603-826-9726
    Email: Joycehnh@cs.com
    
    
• PROFILE & STATISTICS:
  • Resource: Profile of Charlestown NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
    
    
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • Online Book: History of Charlestown, in New-Hampshire - Crosby, Jaazaniah, 1833 - Internet Archive
  • About Charlestown NH - from the official Charlestown NH web site
  • Online Book: Annals of Charlestown in the county of Sullivan (1834)
  • Online Book: History of Charlestown, New-Hampshire, the old No. 4 - Saunderson, Henry Hamilton, 1876 - Internet Archive
  • Online Book: - Historical address at the dedication of a monument in Charlestown, N.H. - Labaree, Benjamin, 1870.
  • Online Book: Sketch of the Life of Dr. Crosby, of Charlestown, N.H. - Livingston Stone, 1866
  • Online Book: Valuation of the real estate of Charlestown, New Hampshire, 1922 [shows landowners]
  • Online Book: Keene and vicinity, its points of interest, and its representative business men, embracing Keene, Hinsdale, Winchester, Marlboro, Walpole, Swanzey and Charlestown - Bacon, George F., 1891
  • Online Book: A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson: containing an account of her sufferings, during four years, with the Indians and French : together with an appendix, containing the sermons, preached at her funeral and that of her mother with sundry other interesting articles - Johnson, Mrs. (Susannah Willard); Mrs. Johnson and her companions were taken prisoner at "No. 4", now Charlestown, N.H., in a raid of Indians from St. Francis, Canada, in Aug. 1754
  • Online Books: Annual report of the Town of Charlestown, New Hampshire - Charlestown NH with vital statistics for the years: 1899, 1915, 1929, 1933-1936, 1940-1984, 1986-2008.
  • Charlestown, New Hampshire Students of the 1880's-90's - from blog: Memories of Yesteryear
  • Tombstone Inscriptions: Sullivan Co. NH, in Charlestown and surrounding towns (Find-A-Grave)
  • Genweb Archives for Sullivan County NH]
    
• Photographs:
  • Photographs of Charlestown NH: on Flickr
  • Photographs of Charlestown NH on Pinterest
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    Main Street, Charlestown NH
• Resources:
  • Fort No. 4 - Living History Museum - Charlestown NH
    
    
• MAPS:
  • Topographical Map of Charlestown NH - NH Fish & Game Department
  • Satellite Aerial View of Charlestown, NH
  • Google Map & Driving Directions to Charlestown NH

• History: Claremont New Hampshire was granted 26 October 1764 to Josiah Willard, Samuel Ashley and sixty-seven others. There are two different explanations of the origin of the name: (1) receiving its name from Lord Clive, (his estate called Claremont) an English general who had charge of the British forces in the East Indies; or (2) takes its name from Claremont Castle, an English palace named in honor of John Holles, the first Earl of Clare. The castle was built under the direction of Thomas Pelham Holles, who was involved in relations between the American Colonies and England, and a cousin to Governor Benning Wentworth [Note: this so-called Claremont Castle is the Claremont estate house mentioned in #1, but not to my knowledge ever known as a castle]. The first settlement was made in 1762 by Moses Spafford (son of Moses) and David Lynde. The Hon. Caleb Ellis came to reside in the town about 1800, in 1804 he was chosen a member of congress from NH, in 1809-1810 a member of the executive council. In 1812 he was an elector of president and VP, and in 1813 was appointed judge of the superior court. Claremont is watered by the Connecticut and Sugar Rivers, besides numerous brooks and rivulets. it is a fine undulating tract of territory, covered with a rich gravelly loam, convereted into the best meadows and pastures. The hills are sloping acclivities, crowned with elegant summits. The intervales on the rivers are rich and luxuriant. In earlier days the town had a number of manufactories of cloth, paper, leather &c. The town has beds of iron ore and limestone. The Green Mountain can be seen in the east, Flat Rock and Bible Hill in the south, and Barbouis Mountain and Trisback Hill in the west part of the town, the Ascutney Mountain in the north-west. The town is bounded north by Cornish, east by Newport, south by Unity and Charlestown, and west by Weathersfield, VT.
• Villages and Place Names: Jarvis Hill, Claremont Junction, West Claremont; Puckershire (questionable, never saw this name in connection with Claremont).
  
  
• GOVERNMENT:
• Official City of Claremont web site
• Goverment of Claremont NH
  
  
• PROFILE & STATISTICS:
  • Resource: Community Profile of Claremont NH
  • Online Books: Annual Reports of the Town of Claremont, New Hampshire [NH] including SOME with vital records, births, marriages, deaths for Years: 1891, 1894, 1898, 1903-1905, 1918, 1925-1929, 1932-1938, 1940-1953, 1955-1958, 1972.
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY
  • Online Book: History of the town of Claremont, New Hampshire, for a period of one hundred and thirty years from 1764 to 1894 - Waite, Otis Frederick Reed, 1895
    
  • Online Book: Grantees of Claremont, N.H., Reprinted from the Granite Monhtly also a chronological list of the Town Officers, Representatives and Postmaster from 1767-1893, compiled by Charles B. Spofford - Internet Archive
  • History of Claremont NH from book: History of Cheshire & Sullivan Counties NH
  • Online Book: A brief History of Claremont NH, from New Hampshire As It Is, 1856.
  • Online Book: A historical sketch of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Claremont, N.H - Knox, Martin van Buren, 1882
  • Online Book: Dedication of a soldiers' monument, at Claremont, N. H. - Claremont, N.H 1869
  • Online Book: Grave stone records : from the ancient cemeteries in the town of Claremont, New Hampshire, with historical and biographical notes - Spofford, Charles B., 1896
  • Online Book: Monograph of Union "Mark" Lodge, No.1, Claremont, New Hampshire : an abstract from the records, with a list of its members - Spofford, Charles B., 1891
  • Online Book: Cups and Spoons: A Collection of Tested and Approved Recipes - Congregational Society (Claremont, N.H .), 1890
• BIOGRAPHY
  • Online Book:Claremont war history: April, 1861, to April, 1865: with sketches of New-Hampshire regiments, and a biographical notice of each Claremont soldier, etc - Waite, Otis Frederick Reed, 1868
  • The face of Claremont New Hampshire’s Mary Farrar Jones (1789-1879), Blog: Cow Hampshire
  • Claremont New Hampshire’s American Mammoth Ox and Hon Isaac Hubbard (includes Hubbard genealogy) - blog, Cow Hampshire
• RESOURCES
  • Claremont NH Historical Society & Claremont History Museum
    PO Box 973
    Claremont, NH 03743
    603 543-1400
    
  • Mary E. Bartlett Library
  • Fiske Free Library [includes view and search Claremont birth, death, and marriage records covering the years 1887 to 1946]
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Claremont NH Photographs - Flickr
  • Claremont New Hampshire on Pinterest
    
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Sullivan Machine Company, Claremont NH

• MAPS:

• Topographical Map of Claremont NH - NH Fish & Game Department
• Google Map & Directions to Claremont NH
• Satellite Map of Claremont NH (Google Maps)

CORNISH

• History:The town of Cornish was first granted to Rev. Samuel McClintock, of Greenland NH, and sixty-nine others on 21 June 1763. It was first settled by emigrants from Sutton, Massachusetts in 1765. The town was named after Sir Samuel Cornish, a British naval commander who fought in the Seven Years' War and conquered Manila on 6 October 1762. The town is bounded north by Plainfield, east by Croydon, south by Claremont, and west by Windsor, Vermont. The Connecticut River waters the western border of Cornish and a fine bridge spans the river and connects this town with Windsor village, Vermont. Blow-me-down and Bryants' brooks are the only streams of any magnitude. In 1830 the population was 1,687. In 2010 the populatin was 1,640. In 1885 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the famed sculptor began coming to Cornish and soon after the Cornish Colony for artists was established here. The Cornish-Windsor Bridge is a two span 460 foot long Town Lattice Truss, built in 1866 and is the longest covered bridge in the United States.
• Villages and Place Names: Mast Camp, Ballock, Cornish Center, Cornish City, Cornish Flat, Cornish Mills, South Cornish, Squag City, Dingle Hill.
  
  
• GOVERNMENT, PROFILE & STATISTICS:
  
  • Town of Cornish, NH - official web site
  • George H. Stowell Free Library
  • Saint-Gaudens National Park
    
    
• PROFILE & STATISTICS:
• Resource: Community Profile of Cornish NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
• Municipal Government of Cornish NH
• Online Books: Annual Reports of the Town of Cornish, New Hampshire [NH] including SOME vital records, births, marriages, deaths for Years: 1890-1891, 1894-1897, 1899-1913, 1916-1920, 1923-1926, 1928-1932, 1934-1997, 1999-2003.
  
  
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • Online Book: History of the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, with genealogical record, 1763-1910 (Volume 1 Narrative) - Child, William
  • Online Book: History of the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, with genealogical record, 1763-1910 (Volume 2 Genealogy) - Child, William
  • Online Book: History of Cornish NH from the Gazeteer of NH, D.L. Guernsey 1894
  • Online Book: History of Cornish NH from the New England Gazetteer, by I.S. Boyd, 1841.
  • Online Book: History of Cornish NH, from the History of Cheshire & Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire, by Hamilton Hurd, 1886.
  • The Granite Monthly, August 1925: Saint-Gaudens Estate Draws Many Tourists
    
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs: Photographs of Cornish, New Hampshire (from Flickr)
  • Photographs: Photos of Cornish NH (on Pinterest)
    
    
• MAPS:
  
  • Google map and driving directions to Cornish NH
  • Topographical map of Cornish NH - NH Fish & Game
  • Aerial Map of Cornish NH (Google Maps)

• History: Croydon was granted by charter to Samuel Chase, and others May 13, 1763. It was settled in 1766. It was named for Croydon, a borough of London. Prior to 1800 it was a market town with a center for charcoal production, leather tanning, and a brewery, and the location of the Crown summer home of archbishops until 1780. In 1830 the population was 1,057. It is located 44 miles north north-west from Concord NH and 8 miles north from Newport. Croydon Mountain extends across the western part of the town and is the highest elevation in Sullivan County. The north branch of Sugar River crosses this town in a south-westerly direction. There are several ponds: Long Pond, Rock Pond, Governor's and Spectacle Ponds. In 1790 the town had 537 residents. In 2012 it had 751 residents. The town of "Coniston" in the best-selling novel of 1906 is based on Croydon, and Durkee was portrayed as "Jethro Bass."
  
  
• Villages and Place Names: Croydon Flat, Ryder Corner, East Village,
  
  
• GOVERNMENT:
  • Official Town of Croydon web site (none known)
  • Municipal information: Croydon NH
  • Croydon NH Historical Society
    
    
• PROFILE & STATISTICS:
  • Community of Croydon NH
  • Online Books: Annual Reports of the Town of Croydon, New Hampshire [NH] including SOME vital records, births, marriages, deaths for Years: 1892, 1925-1926, 1929, 1934, 1936-1949, 1951-1952, 1953-1984, 1985-2008.
    
    
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • Online Book: - Croydon NH 1866: Proceedings of the Centennial Celebration, etc, A Brief Account of the leading men, by Edmund Wheeler, 1867.
  • Online Book: Introductory Address of Hon. William P. Wheeler of Keene NH, president of the day, an oration of Baron Stow, 1867 delivered at the celebration at Croydon NH
  • Online Book: Croydon, NH History - chapter in book, History of Cheshire & Sullivan Counties NH.
  • Historical Sketch of Croydon NH, Collections of the New-Hampshire Histrocial Society, Volume VI, Concord, 1850
    
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs: Photographs of Croydon, New Hampshire (from Flickr)
  • Photographs: Photographs of Croydon NH (from Pinterest)
    
    
• MAPS:
  
  • Google map and driving directions to Croydon NH
  • Topographical map of Croydon NH - NH Fish & Game
  • Aerial Map of Croydon NH (Google Maps)

• History: Goshen was incorporated 27 December 1791, formed from parts of Fishersfield (Newbury), Wendell (Sunapee), Newport, Washington, Lempster, and Unity. The first settlement was made about the year 1769 by Capt. Benjamin Rand, William Lang, and Daniel Grindle, "whose sufferings and hardships were very great." The town wasThe town is bounded on the north by Newport and Wendell, on the east by Newbury, south by Washington and west by Lempster and Unity. Rands Pond is the largest body of water. Sunapee Mountain lies in the eastern part and is the principal elevation. Plumbago is found here in limited quantities.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Goshen Four Corners, Mill Village
  
  
• GOVERNMENT:
  • Official Town of Goshen NH web site
  • Municipal Government in Goshen NH - State of NH
• PROFILE & STATISTICS:
  • Resource: Profile of Goshen NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics.
  • Online Books: Annual Reports of the Town of Goshen, New Hampshire [NH] including vital records, births, marriages, deaths for Years: 1892, 1905, 1925-1927, 1929, 1935-1945, 1947-2007, 2009
• HISTORY & GENEALOGY:
  • Online Book: History of Goshen NH from the book, History of Cheshire & Sullivan Counties NH
  • Online Book: History of Goshen NH from the book, the Statistics and Gazetteer of NH
  • Online Book:History of Goshen NH from the book, New England Gazetteer
• RESEARCH:
  • Goshen NH Library
    
    
  • Goshen NH Historical Society [link dead]
    C/O TOWN OF GOSHEN
    GOSHEN NH 03752
    
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs of Goshen NH on Pinterest
  • Photographs of Goshen NH from Flicker
• MAPS:
  
• Google map and driving directions to Goshen, NH
• Goshen NH Aerial Map
• Goshen Topographical Map - NH Fish & Game

• History: Grantham New Hampshire was first granted 11 July 1761, but the proprietors did not fulfill the conditions of the charter and it was forfeited. In 1767 it was regranted to Col. William Symmes and 63 others. Among the first settlers were Ezra Buswell, Elijah Gleason, Abel Stevens, Francis Smith Esq., Ithamer Bartlett, Job Colton, Stephen Colton, Caleb Colton, Jonathan Parkhurst, Jabez Bennett, Isaac Jenny, Ebenezer Burr, Robert Scott, Charles Scott, Samuel Duncan, John Duncan, Robert Duncan, William Moulton, Ebenezer Stebbins, Abner Johnson, Parker Carr, Joab V. Young, Willard Marcy, James Smith and William Huntington. In 1786 the town was renamted New Grantham, but was restored to its original name of Grantham in 1818. The town's name comes from Thomas Robinson, 1st Baron Grantham. In 1936 a northeast corner of the town was severed and joined to Enfield. In 1844 a portion in the southwest corner was annexed to Cornish, and in 1858 a small area lying between Springfield and Grantham known as the "Gore" was included in Grantham. There are seven ponds, the largest of which is Eastman's Pond of nearly 300 acres. On the summit of Croydon mountain, which extends along the westerly part of the town, is a natural pond containing 70 acres. In 1830 the population was 1,079. In 2012 the population was 2,954 residents.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Centre Grantham, New Grantham, Eastman Community, Eastman Village
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Grantham web site
  • Grantham Community Profile
  • Grantham NH Municipal Goverment
  • Grantham (NH) Public Library
  • Grantham (NH) Historical Society
    
    
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
• Online Books: Annual Reports of the Town of Grantham, New Hampshire, including SOME vital records, births, marriages, deaths, for the years:1905-1907, 1909-1910, 1914, 1916, 1918, 1920-1921, 1924, 1925-1994, 1996-2009
• Online Book: - History of Grantham, NH from book, "The New England gazette."
• Online Book: History of Grantham NH from the book, "The statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire."
• Online Book: History of Grantham NH from the book: History of Cheshire & Sullivan Counties, NH
• Online Book: Three ancient cemeteries in New Hampshire, near junction boundary lines of Lebanon, Plainfield and Grantham (1910)
  
  
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
  • Photographs: Grantham NH on Flickr
  • Photographs: Grantham NH on Pinterest
    
    
• MAPS:
• Topographical Map of Grantham NH - NH Fish & Game
• Google Map & Driving Directions to Grantham NH
• Aerial Map of Grantham NH
  

• History: Langdon, New Hampshire was formed from territory taken from the towns of Charlestown and Walpole, and was incorporated 11 January 1787. It is named in honor of Hon. John Langdon, who was at the time, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and later was governor. Early settlers were Seth Walker in 1773, and Nathaniel Rice and Jonathan Willard in 1774. Rev. Abner Kneeland was ordained in the Universalist Church there in 1805 published a periodical called the 'Boston Investigator.' In 1795 the town voted not to accept additional land that would have extended it to the Connecticut River. A considerable branch of the Cold River passes through the town in a southerly direction. The population in 1830 was 667. Langdon lays claim to having New Hampshire's shortest covered bridge (Prentiss Bridge).
  
• Villages and Place Names: Cold River District, Condon Corner
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Langdon web site
  • Langdon NH Municipal Government
  • Langdon NH Community Profile
  • Heritage Commission Minutes
    
    
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY
• Online Books: . Annual reports of the selectmen and other town officers of the town of Langdon, N.H (Volume February 15, 1896)
  • Online Book: - History of Langdon NH, from book: New England gazetteer
  • Online Book: History of Langdon, from book: History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire
  • Online Book: History of Langdon, from the book: The Statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire
    
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
• Photographs of Langdon NH on Flickr
• Photographs of Langdon NH on Pinterest NH
  
  
• MAPS:
  • Topographical Map of Langdon NH - NH Fish & Game
  • Google map and driving directions to Langdon, NH
  • Langdon NH Aerial View
    

• History: Lempster NH is named named for Sir Thomas Fermor of Lempster, England, who was a relative of the Wentworth family. This territory was originally granted in 1735 by Massachusetts Governor Belcher as Number 9, the ninth in a line of forts established to guard against Indian attacks. The town was originally granted 1 January 1753 to Samuel Clark Paine and others under the name of Dupplin. No settlement was attempted under this grant, but 8 October 1761 a re-grant of the territory to Benadum Gallup and others. [And older source states the town was granted 5 October 1761 to Richard Sparrow and sixty-one others.] The conditions of this grant were not fulfilled, and yet another grant was made 5 January 1767 to Dudley Woodbridge and others in 67 equal shares, . It was settled about 1770 by emigrants from East Haddam and Windham Connecticut including Deacon Elijah Bingham, and Jabez Beckwith. By 1772 there were eight families in town. The second NH Turnpike from Windsor VT to Amherst NH was incorporated 26 December 1799 and passed directly through what became the main part of the town's village, greatly increasing traffic. In 1791 portions of Lempster were taken (along with parts of Newport, Unity, and Sunapee) to form a new town of Goshen. The population in 1830 was 999. The town is 40 miles west from Concord NH. One branch of the Sugar river, and the south and west branches of Cold River flow through the town. Near the western boundary line is a pond 320 rods long and 80 wide. Sand pond lies in this town and in Marlow NH. It is bounded on the north by Unity, east by Goshen and Washington, south by Marlow and west by Acworth.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Dupplin, Dodge Hollow, East Lempster, Keyes Hollow,
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESOURCES:
• Official Town of Lempster web site
• Municipal Government of Lempster NH
• Resource: Profile of Lempster NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
• Miner Memorial Library
  3 2nd New Hampshire Turnpike East Lempster, NH 03605
  (603) 863-0051
  
• Lempster NH Historical Society
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • Online Book: Way families of Marlow and Lempster, New Hampshire - Manning, Georgiana Way, 1870 [can be borrowed online]
  • Online Book: Annual reports of the Town of Lempster, New Hampshire, 1998-2003
  • Online Book: The History of Lempster NH, from book: The statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire
  • Online Book: History of Lempster NH, from book: New England gazetteer
  • Online Book: History of Lempster NH, from book: History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire
• PHOTOGRAPHS & MULTI-MEDIA:
  • Photographs of Lempster NH on Flickr
  • Lempster NH Photographs on Pinterest
• MAPS:
  • Google map and driving directions to Lempster, NH
  • Lempster NH Aerial View Map
  • Topographical Map of Lempster NH
    

• HISTORY: Newport's territory was first granted in 1753 as Grenville, after George Grenville, William Pitt's brother-in-law. Few of the grantees were able to take up claim, and on 6 October 1761, the town was granted to a new group of petitioners (mostly from the Killingworth area of CT) as Newport, in honor of Henry Newport, a distinguished English soldier and statesman. This group also had difficulty settling, and was granted a charter renewal in 1769. Newport is the shire town of Sullivan County, NH. One of the most well-known people born in Newport was Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, daughter of innkeeper Gordon Buell. She was one of the first women editors in America who edited the book Poems for Children that included Mary Had A Little Lamb. She made a successful appeal to President Lincoln for creation of a national holiday to be known as Thanksgiving Day.
• Villages and Place Names: Pike Hill, Wilmarth Ledge, Blueberry Ledge, Braggs Camp, Claremont Hill, Northville (village) Chandlers Mills, Guild, Kelleyville, North Newport, Chandler Station
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Newport web site
  • Newport NH Municipal Goverment
  • Profile of Newport NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
  • Richard's Free Library, Newport NH
  • Newport (NH) Historical Society
    
    
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • Online Book: Annual reports of the Town of Newport, New Hampshire, [includes SOME vital records, births, marriages and deaths] for years ending: 1926-1927, 1929, 1936-1939, 1942-1949, 1954-1960, 1964-1970, 1972, 1974, 1976-1978, 1987, 1990-2004, 2006-2007, 2009-2011
  • Online Book: The history of Newport, New Hampshire, from 1766 to 1878 - Wheeler, Edmund, 1879
  • Online Book: Our country. A sermon preached on Thanksgiving day, November 24, 1864, in the Methodist Church (union services,) Newport, N.H - Dinsmore, Cadford Mellen
  • Online Book: Manual of the Congregational Church in Newport, N.H. : organized Oct. 28, l779 - Newport (N.H.). Congregational Church
  • Online Book: Memoir of Harriet Dow: Of Newport, N.H., who Became a Christian at the Age of Eight Years.- Baron Stow
  • Online Book: The Newport business directory and advertiser (1870)
  • History of Newport NH, from book: New England gazetteer
  • History of Newport NH from book, "History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire."
  • History of Newport NH, from book "the Statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire.
  • Newport NH newspaper,
    
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS & MULTIMEDIA:
  • Several photographs of Newport NH - Flickr
  • Photographs of Newport NH - Pinterest
• MAPS:
• Google Map & Driving Directions to Newport NH
• Newport NH Aerial View Map
• Topographical Map of Newport NH - NH Fish & Game
  

• History: Plainfield, New Hampshire was granted 14 August 1761 to Benjamin Hutchins and fifty-nine others, mostly from the Plainfield Connecticut area. It was settled in 1764 by L. Nash and J. Russell. It is bounded on the north by Lebanon, east by Grantham, south by Cornish and west by Hartland, Vermont. The town lies sixty miles north west from Concord NH, and seventeen north west from Newport NH. The population in 1775 was 308; in 1830 there were 1,581 residents. The Kimball Union Academy was incorporated 16 June 1813 through a bequest from Hon. Daniel Kimball, as a seminary for the instruction of pious young men for the ministry.
  
  
• Villages and Place Names: Meridan Parish, Home Hill, Meridan, French's Ledges, East Plainfield, Hell Hollow, Mill Village, Coryville, Plainfield Village
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Plainfield web site
  • Profile of Plainfield NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics -
  • Municipal Government of Plainfield NH
  • LIBRARIES: Plainfield and Meriden
  • Plainfield NH Historical Society
    
    
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • Annual Report of the Town of Plainfield, New Hampshire, (N.H.) - including vital records, births for years: 1964-1967, 1973-1993, 1996-2007, 2009-2010
  • Online Book: - The general catalogue and a brief history of Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield, (Meriden P.O.) N.H. Also a biographical sketch of Hon. Daniel Kimball, its founder; 1880
  • Online Book: Recollections of an old soldier. The life of Captain David Perry, a soldier of the French and revolutionary wars. - Perry, David
  • The Founders of Plainfield NH, by Donna Beaupre (PDF)
  • Online Book: History of Plainfield NH, from book "New England gazetteer"
  • Online Book: The History of Plainfield NH, from book: "The statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire."
  • Online Book: History of Plainfield from book, "History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties"
  • Online Book: Three ancient cemeteries in New Hampshire, near junction boundary lines of Lebanon, Plainfield and Grantham (1910)
    
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS & MULTIMEDIA::
• Photographs of Plainfield NH - Flickr
• Photographs of Plainfield NH - Pinterest
• MAPS:
  • Topographical Map of Plainfield NH - Fish & Game Dept of NH
  • Google Map & Driving Directions to Plainfield NH
  • Aerial View Map of Plainfield NH
    

• History: The town of Springfield NH was granted 3 January 1769 by the name of Protectworth. At the time it was first granted to John Fisher Esq. and fifty-nine others mostly from Portsmouth NH. The town was located in the county of Grafton, later Cheshire, and finally in Sullivan County. Its first settlement began in 1772, by Israel Clifford, Ebenezer Loverin and Timothy Quimby. It was incorporated 24 January 1794 by the name of Springfield. In 1817 a tract of land lying between Springfield and Enfield, named "Heath's Grove" was taken by the town of Grantham. The town of Springfield NH is thirty-five miles from Concord NH and ninety from Boston MA.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Lowell's Mill, Station Pond, Old Spruce Mill, Mica Ledge, Scotland, Sorrel Hill, Sanborn Hill, East Springfield, Twin Lakes Village, Washburn Corner, West Springfield.
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Springfield NH web site
    
  • Profile of Springfield NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
  • Municipal Government of Springfield NH
  • Libbie Cass Library, Springfield NH
  • Springfield NH Historical Society
    
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • Annual Report of the Town of Springfield, New Hampshire, (N.H.) - including vital records, births marriages and deaths for the years:1888, 1891, 1893, 1899, 1902, 1933-1934, 1936-1967, 1969-1973, 1975-2008
  • Online Book: History of Springfield, from book, "History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire."
  • Online book: History of Springfield NH, from book: "The statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire."
  • Online Book: History of Springfield NH, from book "New England gazetteer"
• PHOTOGRAPHS:
• Photographs: Springfield NH on Flickr
• Photographs: Springfield NH on Pinterest
• SEE PHOTOGRAPHS PAGE, Sullivan County NH
• MAPS:
  • Topographical Map of Springfield NH - NH Fish & Game
  • Google Map & Driving Directions to Springfield NH
  • Aerial View Map of Springfield NH

SUNAPEE

• History: Before the town was officially granted, it was settled by some soldiers of the French wars, including one Oliver Corey, at which time the location was called Corey's town. The town was originally granted by the name of Seville (Saville) to that same Oliver Corey, John Sprague and others, on 7 November 1768. It was incorporated under the name of Wendell, in honor of one of the principal proprietors, John Wendell, on 4 April 1781. The name was changed to Sunapee (then the name of the lake and nearby mountain) in June of 1850. The first settlers came from Rhode Island in 1772, and a bit later from Portsmouth NH. The town is bounded in the north by Springfield, east by New London and Newbury and southerly by Goshen, west by Newport and Croydon. By far the largest portion of Sunapee Lake lies within the limits of the town. In 1790 the popluation was 267;in 1830 the population was 637.
  
• Villages and Place Names: Sunapee Harbor, Lake Sunapee, George's Mills, Corey's Town, Saville, Seville, Burkehaven, Fernwood, Granliden, Wendell
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Sunapee web site
  • Sunapee NH's Municpal Government
    
  • Profile of Sunapee NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
  • Abbott Library, Sunapee NH
  • Sunapee NH Historical Society
  • Lake Sunapee Region Chamber of Commerce
    
    
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • Sunapee Births, Marriages and Deaths from 1887-1915, and maps of Sunapee Cemeteries - from Historical Society web site
  • Annual Report of the Town of Sunapee, New Hampshire, (N.H.) - including vital records, births marriages and deaths for the years:1956, 1958-1964, 1966, 1975-1986, 1988 1990-1992, 1994-2002, 2004-2006.
  • Online Book: History of Sunapee NH, from book, "The New England Gazetteer," by John Hayward, 1841 [UNDER THE TOWN NAME OF WENDELL]
  • Online Book: The Story of Sunapee, by John H. Bartlett, published in 1941 (covers up to 1941). Hathi-Trust Library
  • Online Book: History of Sunapee NH, from book, "The statistics and gazetteer of New Hampshire," by Alonzo J. Fogg, 1874
  • Online Books: History of Sunapee NH, from book, "History of Cheshire and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire"
• PHOTOGRAPHS & MULTI-MEDIA:
• Photographs: Sunapee NH on Flickr
• Photographs: Sunapee NH on Pinterest
• LAKE SUNAPEE, New Hampshire (this lake is also party in Merrimack County NH)
  
  Blodgett's Landing, Lake Sunapee
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  Ben Mere Inn, Sunapee NH
• MAPS:
  • Sanborn Insurance Maps of Sunapee NH, 1921
  • Satellite View of Sunapee NH
  • Topographical Map of Sunapee NH
  • Google Map & Driving Directions to Sunapee NH

UNITY

• History: The territory now encompassing the town of Unity was chartered in 1753 by the name of Buckingham, after John Hobart, first Earl of Buckinghamshire. The township of Unity was granted 13 July 1764 [incorporated] to Timothy Goodwin, Theodore Atkinson, Meshech Weare and others. It was named Unity in commemoration of the end of a dispute between the towns of Kingston and Hampstead, certain parties from Kingston being provided with a section of this grant. The early settlers in 1769 were John Ladd, Moses Thurston, Charles Huntoon Esq. and Joseph Perkins. In 1791 and 1837 portions of this town was taken by Goshen. In 1810 a tract of land from Unity was annexed to Charlestown. In 1828 another small tract was annexed to Claremont.
  
• Villages and Place Names: East Unity, Quaker City, West Unity, Glidden Hill
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Unity NH web site
  • Municipal Government of Unity, New Hampshire
    
  • Profile of Unity NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
  • Unity (NH) Historical Society
    
    
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • Original Unity Town Records, Proprietors et al, Vol 1, 1753-1848 - Family Search [You will need to sign in, its free]
  • Annual Report of the Town of Unity, New Hampshire, (N.H.) - including vital records, births marriages and deaths for the years:1870, 1988, 1996-1999, 2001-2003.
  • Online Book: A record of the line of descent from Robert Quinby of Amesbury, Mass. : who in 1659 received land by allotment in Massachusetts colony, to Benjamin Quinby (Quimby) 1768, of Unity, N. H., and a complete record of Benjamin's descendants - Quimby, Silas Everard
  • Online Book: History of Unity, New Hampshire, from book, "History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire."
  • Online Book: History of Unity, New Hampshire, from book: The Statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire, by Alonzo J. Fogg, 1874
  • Online Book: The History of Unity NH, from book, The New England gazetteer containing descriptions of all the states, counties and towns in New England; 14th ed.; published 1841 by I. S. Boyd and W. White, J. Hayward
• PHOTOGRAPHS & MULTI-MEDIA:
• Photographs: Unity, New Hampshire from Flickr
• Photographs of Unity NH on Pinterest
• MAPS:
  • Satellite View of Unity NH
  • Topographical Map of Unity NH
  • Google Map & Driving Directions to Unity NH

WASHINGTON

• History: The township of Washington NH was first designated as Monadnock No. 8, in 1735 as part of the Mason Grant, but at that time no steps were taken by the grantees to settle and the charter was forfeited. In 1952 it was again granted by the Masonian proprietors in Portsmouth to 62 people who were mostly residents of Concord MA, and they gave it the name of New Concord, but this charter was too revoked. The town was granted a third time, in the spring of 1768 to Reuben Kidder of New Ipswich NH, as Camden, and it contained lands now part of Lempster and Bradford NH. Many of the early settlers were from Harvard MA including the families of Safford, Farnsworth, Sampson and Davis. On 13 December 1776 the residents petitioned the newly established American revolutionary government for incorporation of their town as Washington, in honor of General George Washington. In 1790 the town had 545 residents. Population in 1830 1,135. In 2012 there were 1,113 residents.
  
• Villages and Place Names: East Washington, Washington Centre.
  
  
• GOVERNMENT & RESEARCH:
  • Official Town of Washington NH web site
    
  • Profile of Washington NH, includes brief history, statistics, contacts, and demographics
  • Municipal Government of Washington, NH
  • Washington NH Historical Society
  • Shedd Free Library, Washington NH
• GENEALOGY & HISTORY:
  • Online Books: Annual Report of the Town of Washington, New Hampshire, including vital records for the YEARS: 1940-1941, 1949, 1956, 1973, 1975, 1979-2011.
  • Online Book: The History of Washington NH, from book: The History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties NH, includes genealogies of many of the early families
  • Online Book: History of Washington, NH from the book. "The Statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire by Alongo J. Fogg, 1874
  • Online Book: History of Washington NH, from the book, New England Gazetteer
  • Online Book: Poems of Sarah Shedd : founder of the Shedd Free Library, Washington, N.H.,1883.
    
    
• PHOTOGRAPHS & MULTI-MEDIA:
• Photographs: Washington NH on Flickr
• Photographs: Pinterest: Washington NH
• MAPS:
  • Satellite View of Washington NH
  • Topographical Map of Washington NH
  • Google Map & Driving Directions to Washington NH