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NEW HAMPSHIRE HISTORY
No family genealogy is complete
without understand the history
of the state or area in which they lived
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History
Multi-County/Regional History
History of Individual COUNTIES
Belknap
| Carroll | Cheshire
| Coos | Grafton | Hillsborough
| Merrimack | Rockingham
Strafford | Sullivan
UNITED STATES
HISTORY
- General History
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- Ethnic Groups
NEW ENGLAND
HISTORY
NEW HAMPSHIRE
STATEWIDE HISTORY
- New Hampshire was
named in 1629 by Captain John Mason of Plymouth Council for his home
county in England. Algonquian-speaking peoples, including the Pennacook,
lived in the region when the Europeans arrived. The first explorers
in the area were England's Martin Pring in 1603 and France's Champlain
in 1605. The first settlement was established at Odiorne's Point (now
the port of Rye, New Hampshire). Native American conflicts were ended
in 1759 by Robert Rogers' Rangers. In 1774, before the American Revolution,
New Hampshire residents seized a British fort at Portsmouth, and drove
out the royal governor. In 1776 New Hampshire was the first colony to
adopt its own constitution. Three regiments served in the Continental
Army, and scores of privateers raided British shipping.New Hampshire
did not adopt a state flag until 1909. Prior to that time, numerous
regimental flags served to represent the state. The New Hampshire flag
consists of the state seal centered on a blue field and surrounded by
a wreath of laurel leaves with nine stars interspersed. New Hampshire
was the ninth of the original thirteen states to ratify the Constitution.
- A
Guide to Research in the History of New Hampshire Towns, 1780-1800
- A
Brief History of New Hampshire
- New
Hampshire Historical Markers
- Found
Only in New Hampshire: Robbins' Cinquefoil - Blog: Cow Hampshire
- New
Hampshire Firsts
- New
Hampshire Colonial History
- Article: "New
Hampshire Native Americans: Hiding in Plain Sight" - from
Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article: "New
Hampshire's Turnpike History"
- from Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article:
The
New Hampshire Gazette: the Oldest Newspaper in America - from Blog:
Cow Hampshire
- Article:
"New
Hampshire: The Privy's Murky History" - from Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article:
"New
Hampshire: Home of the Whooper Award" [Award Given Out by Governor
Hugh Gregg during the 1950s] - from Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article:
"New
Hampshire's Common Loon (Gavia immer)"
- from Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article:
"New
Hampshire Life in 1815"
- from Blog Cow Hampshire
- Article: "New
Hampshire's Year Without a Summer"
- from Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article: "A
Funeral and A Wedding" in Colonial New Hampshire (the
story of Gov. John Wentworth and his cousin bride, Frances Deering Wentworth
- from Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Article:
Official
New Hampshire State Tree: White Birch (Betula Papyrifera)
- Blog,
Cow Hampshire
- Article: New
Hampshire Body Snatching
- Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Article: New
Hampshire Newspaper: "The Farmer's Cabinet" & the Boylston
Family -
Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Article:
New
Hampshire's Missing Holiday: Fast Day
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article: New
Hampshire in 1918: The "Spanish Flu" Influenza Epidemic
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article: New
Hampshire: Strange Health Tips From 1888
- Blog: Cow hampshire
- Article: He
Made "New Hampshire Beautiful:" Rev. Wallace W. Nutting, D.D.
(1861-1941)
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Chronological
History of New Hampshire (timeline,
7000 B.C. to 2002)
- Industrialized
Develoment of New Hampshire - NH Historical Society - PDF
file (timeline, 1662 to 1990)
- New
Hampshire (History) Web Sites for Kids
- Biography: New
Hampshire's First Leader, Sagamore of the Penacook, Diplomat and Peacemaker:
Passaconaway (c1580-c1673) - Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Making
Perfume in 1862 (NH)
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- New
Hampshire April Fool 1877
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article: New
Hampshire: History of the Society of the Cincinnati -
Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Article: Metallak:
"The Lone Indian of the Magalloway" -
Blog: Cow Hampshire
- The
Popular Press in New Hampshire 1756-1800 - University of NH Library
- The
Lewis M. Stark Early New Hampshire Imprint Collection (1700's) -
UNH Library
- New
Hampshire Library of Traditional Music & Dance
- University of NH Library
- Historical Document:
1776
NH Document, regarding the payment of taxes - UNH Library
- Learn: NH
History Curriculum for Grade 6 - a superb online Lesson Plan for
teachers or parents to help their children understand early New Hampshire
history
- History: Captivity
of Susannah Hastings Willard Johnson - Old Fort #4 (book online)
| Likeness
and brief family history
- History: Newspaper
Delivery History in New Hampshire and Elsewhere - Blog: Cow
Hampshire
- Biography &
History: Death
on Mt. Washington: The Tale of Lizzie Bourne - Blog: Cow Hampshire
- History: New
Hampshire: Visions of Dorothy and Toto--It's Tornado Season [Tornado
History in New Hampshire] - Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Biography:
Passaconaway
- Native American leader of New Hampshire
- History: The
Last Patriots of the American Revolution (includes one NH man) -
PDF file [archived version]
- History: NH Sons
of the American Revolution - Research
- History: New
Hampshire's Most Expensive Colonial Necessity [Clothing] - Blog:
Cow Hampshire
- History: Delegates
to the 1918 New Hampshire Constitutional Convention
- Resource: History
& Genealogy section of the NH State Library
- New
Hampshire Individuals of Note, by Era
- Resource:
NH Town History Books available at the UNH Library (listings only)
- if you find one you would like to read, ask your local librarian
to borrow it through their inter-library loan program.
- History: Shifting
Boundary Lines and County Limits - of New Hampshire, Vermont, New
York (interesting reading) - from Washington Co VT USGenWeb site.
- History:
Haunted (?) Places in New Hampshire
- History: New
Hampshire's Flood History
MULTI-COUNTY
/ REGIONAL HISTORY
- NEW HAMPSHIRE
REGIONAL HISTORY
COUNTY/TOWN
- GENERAL HISTORY
- See the individual
COUNTY sections of this web site for individual
town or city histories
NEW HAMPSHIRE
COUNTIES (individual) HISTORY
BELKNAP COUNTY
HISTORY
- Communities
in Belknap County include:
Alton, Barnstead, Belmont, Center Harbor, Gilford, Gilmanton, Laconia,
Meredith, New Hampton, Sanbornton, and Tilton.
- Belknap County
was organized December 20, 1840, from parts of northeastern Merrimack
County and northwestern Strafford County. It is named for Rev. Dr. Jeremy
[Jeremiah] Belknap, noted preacher, educator, naturalist, historian
and author of The History of New Hampshire. Belknap county occupies
the geographic center of the State, and with the adjoining county of
Merrimack, is entirely surrounded by other counties. Its surface is
considerably above the level of the ocean, five hundred feet at the
shoreline of Lake Winnipesaukee, and is diversified by mountain, hill,
and valley, rivers and lakes. Gilmanton Mountain is the highest elevation.
Its area of about one hundred and fifty-five thousand acres of improved
land is very fertile, and the soil produces good crops.
- FIRST
SEE BELKNAP
COUNTY HISTORY & GENEALOGY (this
site) for individual town history and genealogy
- HISTORY LINKS
(external sites)
- SEE ALSO
THIS SITE:
CARROLL COUNTY
HISTORY
- Communities
in Carroll County include:
Albany, Bartlett, Brookfield, Chatham, Conway, Eaton, Effingham, Freedom,
Hart's Location, Jackson, Madison, Moultonborough, Ossipee, Sandwich,
Tamworth, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, Wolfeboro
- SEE the CARROLL
COUNTY section (this site) - coming soon
- HISTORY LINKS
(external web sites):
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
CHESHIRE COUNTY
HISTORY
- Communities
in Cheshire County include: Alstead, Chesterfield, Dublin, Fitzwilliam,
Gilsum, Harrisville, Hinsdale, Jaffrey, Keene, Marlboro, Marlow, Nelson,
Richmond, Rindge, Roxbury, Stoddard, Sullivan, Surry, Swanzey, Troy,
Walpole, Westmoreland, and Winchester
- SEE
the CHESHIRE COUNTY section FIRST for individual town histories
(this site)
- Official
Cheshire County NH web site
- Government: Cheshire
County Goverment
- History: Cheshire
County Quickfacts - U.S. Census Bureau
- HISTORY LINKS
(external web sites):
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
COOS COUNTY HISTORY
- Communities
in Coos County include: Berlin, Cambridge, Carroll [Twin Mountain,
and Bretton Woods are actually village districts within the town of
Carroll], Clarksville, Colebrook, Columbia, Dalton, Dixville, Dummer,
Errol, Gorham, Jefferson, Lancaster, Milan, Northumberland, Pittsburg,
Randolph, Shelburne, Stark, Stewartstown, Stratford, Wentworth Location,
and Whitefield.
- Coos County
also has the following Unincorporated Areas: Atkinson and Gilmanton
Academy Grant, Bean's Grant, Bean's Purchase, Cambridge, Chandler's
Purchase, Crawford's Purchase, Cutt's Grant, Dix's Grant, Erving's Location,
Green's Grant, Hadley's Purchase, Kilkenny, Low and Burbank's Grant,
Martin's Location, Odell, Pinkham's Grant, Sargent's Purchase, Second
College Grant, Success, Thompson and Meserve's Purchase, and Wentworth's
Location.
- SEE
the COOS COUNTY section
(this site) for detailed town and county history
and genealogy
- HISTORY LINKS
(external web sites):
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
GRAFTON COUNTY
HISTORY
- Communities
in Grafton County include:
Alexandria, Ashland, Bath, Benton, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Bristol,
Campton, Canaan, Dorchester, Easton, Ellsworth, Enfield, Franconia,
Grafton, Groton, Hanover, Haverhill, Hebron, Holderness, Landaff, Lebanon,
Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, Lyman, Lyme, Monroe, Orange, Orford, Piermont,
Plymouth, Rumney, Sugar Hill, Thornton, Warren, Waterville, Wentworth,
and Woodstock.
- SEE
the GRAFTON COUNTY section (this site)
for detailed county and individual town history & genealogy
- HISTORY LINKS
(external web sites):
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
HILLSBOROUGH
COUNTY HISTORY
- Communities
in Hillsborough County include:
Amherst, Antrim, Bedford, Bennington, Brookline, Deering, Francestown,
Goffstown, Greenfield, Greenville, Hancock, Hillsborough, Hollis, Hudson,
Litchfield, Lyndeborough, Manchester, Mason, Merrimack, Milford, Mont
Vernon, Nashua, New Boston, New Ipswich, Pelham, Peterborough, Sharon,
Temple, Weare, Wilton and Windsor.
- SEE
the HILLSBOROUGH
COUNTY section (this site) for detailed county
and individual town history & genealogy
- Official
Hillsborough County web site
- HISTORY LINKS
(external web sites):
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
MERRIMACK COUNTY
HISTORY
- Communities
in Merrimack County include:Allenstown,
Andover, Boscawen, Bow, Bradford, Canterbury, Chichester, Concord, Danbury,
Dunbarton, Epson, Franklin, Henniker, Hill, Hooksett, Hopkinton, Loudon,
New London, Newbury, Northfield, Pembroke, Pittsfield, Salisbury, Sutton,
Warner, Webster, and Wilmot
- SEE
the MERRIMACK COUNTY section (this
site) includes histories and details
on each town in Merrimack County NH
- Official
Merrimack County web site
- HISTORY
LINKS (external web sites):
- Merrimack
County
- includes current profile; UNH Extension Service
- National
Register of Historic Places - for Merrimack County NH
- Reminiscences
of Daniel Webster - 1885 article in The Century; a popular quarterly
- Cornell University Library
- Webster
New Hampshire Author and Illustrator: Tashua Tudor aka Starling
(Burgess) McCready (1915-living) - from blog: "Cow
Hampshire"
- Penacook
New Hampshire Sportsman and Coach: Robert Abial "Red"
Rolfe (1908-1969) - from blog: "Cow Hampshire"
- The
Concord Stone Polishing Machine [made by Concord Axle Co of Penacook,
and used in Concord] - from an 1890 article in Manufacturer
and builder magazine - Cornell University Library Online
- Biography:
Boscawen New Hampshire Inventor, Prof.
Moses Gerrish Farmer (1820-1893) - Blog:
Cow Hampshire
- Biography &
Genealogy: Concord
NH World War I Heroes, Twin Brothers: Ernest Potter Runnells and
Ellsworth Potter Runnells (1894-?) - Blog:
Cow Hampshire
- The
Osgoodites of Warner, New Hampshire - Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article:
Warner New Hampshire Artist, Fine Arts Printmaker: Nancy (Lewis)
Nemec (1923-2003) - Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Article: Concord
New Hampshire Educator, Sharon Christa (Corrigan) McAuliffe (1948-1986)
- Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Article: He
Put the Straw in Straw Point: New Hampshire Governor Ezekiel Straw
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article:
Concord
New Hampshire's White Park And Family
- Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Article:
Concord
New Hampshire: Sewall's Island, Falls and Bridge
- Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Article:
Salisbury
New Hampshire Lawyer, Orator, Statesman: Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
HISTORY
- Communities
in Rockingham County include: Atkinson, Auburn, Brentwood, Candia,
Chester, Danville, Deerfield, Derry, East Kingston, Epping, Exeter,
Fremont, Greenland, Hampstead, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Kensington, Kingston,
Londonderry, New Castle, Newfields, Newington, Newmarket, Newton, North
Hampton, Northwood, Northwood Narrows, Nottingham, Plaistow, Portsmouth,
Raymond, Rye, Salem, Sandown, Seabrook, South Hampton, Stratham, West
Nottingham, Westfield, and Windham.
- SEE the ROCKINGHAM
COUNTY section (this site) - coming soon
- Official
Rockingham County web site
- HISTORY LINKS
(external web sites):
- Rockingham
County
- includes current profile; UNH Extension Service
- Online Book
(Free) - History
of Old Chester NH (Google Books)
- Article: New
Hampshire Missing Places: Rye's Farragut Hotel - Blog,
Cow Hampshire
- Biography
& Genealogy : Derry
New Hampshire Astronaut, Rear Admiral Alan B. Shepard Jr. (1923-1998)
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article: Newton
New Hampshire's Social Worker and UFO Abductee: Eunice Elizabeth
"Betty" (Barrett) Stewart Hill (1919-2004)
- Blog, Cow Hampshire
- Hampton
NH - entire text of 1893 history by Joseph Dow - SEE
THE INDEX - online from Lane Memorial Library
- Hampton:
A Century of Town and Beach, 1888-1988 by Peter Evans Randall
- entire text of 1989 book online - Lane Memorial Library
- Biography
& Genealogy: Candia New Hampshire Journalist, Editor and Poet,
Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911) - from blog: Cow Hampshire
- Biography
& Genealogy: Portsmouth New Hampshire's Patriot, Tutor, Secretary,
and Peace Envoy, Col. Tobias Lear, Esq. (1762-1816) - Blog:
Cow Hampshire
- Biography &
Genealogy: Portsmouth
New Hampshire Soldier, Executive Clerk, Poet: Samuel Adams Wiggin
(1832-c1900) - Blog: Cow Hampshire
- National
Register of Historic Places - for Rockingham County NH
- Portsmouth
New Hampshire's Peace Conferences - blog, Cow Hampshire
- Exeter New
Hampshire, African
American Poet, James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871) - blog:
Cow Hampshire
- Missing
Places: Pannaway [now part of Rye] -
blog: Cow Hampshire
- Biography &
Genealogy:
Deerfield
New Hampshire Professor of Oratory: Moses True Brown (1827-1900)
- blog: Cow Hampshire
- History:
Hampton
New Hampshire's Norse Boulder, aka Thorvald's Rock - blog: Cow
Hampshire
- October
12, 1775: The Day Portsmouth Was Boston
- blog: Cow Hampshire
- Exeter
New Hampshire Artist & Botanist, Catherine "Kate"
Furbish (1834-1931) - blog: Cow Hampshire
- History &
Graphics: Isle
of Shoals; article (and sketches) written in 1874 in Harper's
New Monthly magazine - from Cornell University Library online [note:
correct spelling is ISLES]
- History &
Graphics: Portsmouth
NH - "Old Town by the Sea," 1874 article in Harper's
new monthly magazine - Cornell University Library
- History &
Graphics: Portsmouth
NH - "Old Portsmouth Profiles, 1893 article that includes
brief profiles of many early Portsmouth residents, in The Century;
a popular quarterly - Cornell University Library
- Amasa
J. Parker [his wife was Miss Harriet Langdon Roberts, dau of
Edmond of Portsmouth NH] from 1856 article in The United States
Democratic review - Cornell University Library Online
- History and
Photograph: Poem
about Gen. Jonathan Moulton House in Portsmouth NH - from an
1895 article found in The New England Magazine - Cornell University
Library
- Old
St. John's Parish in Portsmouth NH - includes photographs, sketches,
likenesses, and some amazing early history of people and events
in early Portsmouth NH; from an 1894 article in the "New England"
magazine
- Cornell University Library Online
- Brief
History of Deerfield NH
- Rays Place
- North
Hampton New Hampshire: Fuller Gardens (and family tree of
VIOLA (DAVENPORT) FULLER for whom the gardens are named
- from Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Biography
of John Langdon, of Portsmouth
- Cornell University Online
- The
Water-Ways of Portsmouth, by Louise Imogen Guiney: The Atlantic
monthly; Volume 60, Issue 357; July 1887
- The
Phillips Family and Phillips Exeter Academy; The North American
review;Volume 87, Issue 180 ; July 1858
- Biography &
Genealogy : "Rye
New Hampshire Artist and Writer, Rose (Cushing) Labrie (1916-1986)"
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article:
New
Hampshire Missing Places: Gosport, Isles of Shoals - Blog:
Cow Hampshire
- Article: A
Funeral And A Wedding" in Colonial New Hampshire
- Blog: Cow Hampshire
- Article: Salem
New Hampshire's Canobie Lake and Park - Blog: Cow Hampshire
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
STRAFFORD COUNTY
HISTORY
- Communities
in Strafford County include: Barrington, Dover, Durham, Farmington,
Lee, Madbury, Middleton, Milton, New Durham, Rochester, Rollingsford,
Somersworth, and Strafford.
- SEE the STRAFFORD
COUNTY section (this site) - coming soon
- Official
Strafford County web site
- HISTORY LINKS
(external web sites):
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
SULLIVAN COUNTY
HISTORY
- Communities
in Sullivan County include:
Acworth, Charlestown, Claremont, Cornish, Croydon, Goshen, Grantham,
Langdon, Lempster, Newport, Plainfield, Springfield, Sunapee, Unity,
and Washington.
- SEE the SULLIVAN
COUNTY section (this site) - coming soon
- Government: Sullivan
County
- HISTORY LINKS
(external web sites):
- SEE ALSO
ON THIS SITE:
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