To learn about how to research your family tree in Goffstown NH, and throughout the state of New Hampshire VISIT this important section of my web site! Included is how to obtain documents, such as birth, marriage, death, divorce, probate, land deeds, military records, etc.

Only GOFFSTOWN NH-specific genealogy research information is listed below... all other resources may be found at the above link.

Please visit the GOFFSTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY web site. They have many old archives, documents and resources available!

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OBTAINING VITAL RECORDS IN GOFFSTOWN, N.H.
In addition to the NH Bureau of Vital Statistics, the Goffstown Town Clerk's Office maintains copies of birth, marriage and death certificates that occured in Goffstown

• Bureau of Vital Records
  6 Hazen Drive
  Concord, NH 03301
  (800) 852-3345 or
  in NH - (603) 271-4650
  Fax: (603) 223-6614
  Email: vitalrecords@dhhs.state.nh.us
• For more information about vital statistics in New Hampshire, see this page.
• Goffstown Town Clerk's Office
  16 Main Street
  Goffstown, NH 03045-1761
  Phone: (603) 497-3613
  
• If you are unable to locate the vital records through both of these methods because the dates are pre 1800, consider the NH State Library collection and the Archived collection (see below)

*VITAL RECORDS OF GOFFSTOWN, New Hampshire (NH) 1746-1858* Mostly births and marriage (not 100% complete, but an excellent list) - TXT file, this site

MARRIAGES
Hillsborough County Marriage Abstracts
only a few Manchester marriages listed here

DEATHS
GOFFSTOWN DEATHS REGISTERED
for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1955

CEMETERIES IN GOFFSTOWN, N.H.
The Cemetery Division of Goffstown Public Works along with the Cemetery Trustees maintain Goffstown's three municipal cemeteries. The largest cemetery is the Westlawn Cemetery (created in September 1817) located on North Mast Road just north of the village. The other municipal cemeteries are the Hillside Cemetery across from the Grasmere Town Hall (on Goffstown Back Road in Grasmere,the oldest in the town, holding many of the town's pioneers from the late 1700's) and the Shirley Hill Cemetery on Back Mountain Road (founded in the 1840's). There are many historic features in all of Goffstown's municipal cemeteries. For for information, call (603) 497-4824 or email the Department of Public Works.

The Goffstown Historical Society has compiled some of the Goffstown burials (tombstone inscriptions). Contact them for more information.

A Catholic cemetery located in Goffstown is Mount Calvary Cemetery.

For SOME photographs of tombstones in Hillside Cemetery, See "Photographs"

In addition there are many smaller cemeteries throughout the town: Background info and descriptions of cemeteries in Goffstown

Dodge Family Tombstones - Goffstown NH

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CENSUS & TAX RECORDS

• GOFFSTOWN PROPRIETORS - earliest property owners in Goffstown
  
• GOFFSTOWN CENSUS of 1773, 1775, 1786, 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840 & Tax List of 1843
• A list of taxpayers for the year 1761 in Goffstown

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MILITARY RECORDS

• Goffstown citizens who participated in the French & Indian War
• JOHN GOFFE'S MUSTER ROLL: A MUSTER ROLL OF MEN under the command of John Goffe, Captain, employed in Scouting and Guarding the Souhegan, Monson & Stark Garrison, Anno Domini, 1748 - ALHN
• Goffstown Soldiers during the Revolutionary War
• 1776 List of Soldiers who participated in the American Revolution
• Goffstown Men participating in the Civil War
• Also see "Military Resources" in NH

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MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS

• The Goffstown Historical Society has numerous resources including history, cemetery records, scrap books etc.
• Free Books Online about Goffstown NH - GoogleBooks
• Deeds in Goffstown NH - selected deeds (USGennet)
• Rootsweb Databases (includes some Goffstown High School Yearbooks)
• SEE "Family Trees" in Goffstown NH
• ALSO SEE "RESOURCES for GOFFSTOWN"
• Rootsweb Message Board for Hillsborough County: Board #1 | Board #2
• Rootsweb Message board for New Hampshire, Unknown County

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GOFFSTOWN SURNAMES & LOOKUPS

GOFFSTOWN SURNAMES
If you would like for me to post the Goffstown surname(s) that you are researching, please send me an email.[include your full name, email address that you want inquiries be sent to, and the last names (surnames) of your ancestors who were born, married, died or lived in GOFFSTOWN NH.

Please note that this page is strictly for surnames: if you have a query or are "seeking information," please use (post to) the Rootsweb Hillsborough County Query Board.

Please report any undeliverable email addresses, so I may remove them from this listing. All email addresses on this web site are now "encoded" to prevent spam robots from farming your email.

Surname	Researcher	Email	Date
ANNIS (1790-1835)	Tom McGrath	Send email to Tom McGrath	8/30/02
BAILEY(1740-1810)	Doug	Send email to Doug	11/12/01
BUTTERFIELD(1740-1810)	Doug	Send email to Doug	11/12/01
COLBY	Dean S. Lillis	Send email to Dean Lillis	2/06
GOULD (1790-1835)	Tom McGrath	Send email to Tom McGrath	8/30/02
KENNEDY	Sandra Lundie	Send email to Sandra Lundie	5/17/02
LILLIS (1830-1960)	Dean S. Lillis	Send email to Dean Lillis	2/06
LITTLE(1740-1810)	Doug Little	Send email to Doug Little	11/12/01
MACK (Pre 1914)	Charlotte M. Davis	Send email to Charlotte Davis	12/22/01
MARTIN	Joelyn James	Send email to Joelyn James	2/2/02
PERKINS		Send email	11/29/01
PIKE		Send email	11/29/01
POOR		Send email	11/29/01
RICH	Toni Argento	Sent Email to Toni Argento	7/10/02
RICHARDS(1838)	Kelly Jenne	Send Email to Kelly Jenne	4/2/04
RUSSELL(1810)	Kelly Jenne	Send Email to Kelly Jenne	4/2/04
STEVENS	Dean S. Lillis	Send email to Dean Lillis	2/06
STORY(1838)	Kelly Jenne	Send Email to Kelly Jenne	4/2/04
TAGGART		Send email	11/29/01
THOMAS, John (1780-1870)	Edith Davis McRae	Send email to Edith McRae	9/30/03
WELLS (1794)	Carolyn Wells	Send email to Carolyn Wells	4/10/02
WELLS	Bonita Hillmer	Send email to Bonita Hillmer	5/13/02
WILSON, Franklin H. living in Goffstown 1930	Carol Thomas	Send email to Carol Thomas	5/11/04
GOFFSTOWN LOOKUPS If you have any reference material on Goffstown and would like to volunteer to do lookup's, please send me an email.[include your full name, email address, and the details on the book or reference material you are willing to do looks ups. All look ups must be provided FREE of charge.] Please report any undeliverable email addresses, or any researchers who request payment for this research, so I may remove them from the listing.
Reference Material	Researcher	Email	Date
U.S. CENSUS 1790-1920 Two names - one census year each; please provide as much information as you can about the individual or family that would appear in the census.	Janice Brown	Email Janice Brown	04/07/03 updated 01/02/07
'The History of the Town of Goffstown 1733-1920' by George Plummer Hadley, Concord, NH: The Rumford Press, 1923. The first volume is a narrative about the history of the town and the second volume is ALL Genealogy!! I'll be happy to check the index for people.	Jacqueline Savage Marshall	Email Jackie Marshall
"Hillsborough County, New Hampshire" by D. Hamilton Hurd, 1885, J.W. Lewis & Co. Philadelphia [Section on Goffstown only]	Janice Brown	Email Janice Brown	04/07/03 updated 1/02/07