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| TOWN | Formed From or Earlier Names | 1st Colonial Settlement | Town Inc. |
| AMHERST | Old Dunstable. Narraganset No. 3, Souhegan West | 1735 | 1760 |
| ANTRIM | Cumberland, Society Land | 1744 | 1777 |
| BEDFORD | Narraganset No. 5, Souhegan East | 1737 | 1750 |
| BENNINGTON | Society Land, Hancock Factory Village | Pre-1800 | 1842 |
| BROOKLINE | Old Dunstable. Formed from Mile Slip (aka Groton Gore), the western portion of Hollis and a northeastern section of Townsend. First incorporated with the name of Raby, in 1769. | 1769 as Raby; 1798 name changed to Brookline. | |
| DEERING | Formed from area earlier known as Cumberland; then incorporated, as Deering, in 1774, from Society Land. In 1842, a small portion of Deering was annexed into Bennington. | 1765 | 1774 |
| FRANCESTOWN | Formed from New Boston Addition and a portion of
Society Land. Francestown was named in honor of Frances Deering Wentworth, the wife of colonial governor John Wentworth. In the early days, the town was located on the only route between Boston and Vermont, the Second New Hampshire Turnpike. A toll of one cent per mile from coaches and wagons provided revenue. High-quality soapstone was mined in Francestown until the 1890s. --Martha A. Crosley Graham | 1760 | 1772 |
| GOFFSTOWN | Narragansett No. 4 | 1763 | |
| GRASMERE | |||
| GREENFIELD | Formed from portions of Society Land, Peterborough, Lyndeborough & Lyndeborough Gore. In 1792, and 1872, small portions of Greenfield were annexed to Francistown. | 1791 | |
| GREENVILLE | |||
| HANCOCK | Society Land | 1764 | 1779 |
| HILLSBOROUGH | Township No. 7, granted to Col. John Hill by MA. | 1741-46 | 1772 |
| HOLLIS | Old Dunstable | 1728 | 1746 |
| HUDSON | Old Dunstable; early name Nottingham West (1746), Hudson (1830). | 1746 as Nottingham West; 1830 as Hudson | |
| LITCHFIELD | Old Dunstable | 1734 as Natticook | |
| LYNDEBOROUGH | Originally granted by the Massachusetts General Court to veterans of New England's first war with Canada from Salem, Massachusetts, the area was known as "Salem-Canada." John Cram and his family were the first settlers, and established a sawmill in the community in 1736. The name "Lyndeborough" resulted from a re-grant to a group of people that included Benjamin Lynde, who later became Chief Justice of Massachusetts. The town has been home to the Lafayette Artillery Company (founded 1804) since 1833. --Wikipedia | 1735 | |
| MANCHESTER | Formed from sw portion of Chester, nw portion of Londonderry, and Harrytown. | 1722 | 1751, as Derryfield |
| MASON | 1768 | ||
| MERRIMACK | Formed from Nashua. Settled about 1722, and among its earliest inhabitants were the names of Usher, Hassell, and Chamberlain. | 1746 | |
| MILFORD | 2nd county seat | ||
| MONSON | Monson, now part of Milford and Hollis, is a 280-acre historic site and one of the most significant archeological sites in New England. The village was the state’s first inland colony. Although home to about 300 settlers from about 1737 to 1770, it never progressed beyond a cluster of houses. The only public structure was a pound for strayed livestock. | ||
| MONT VERNON | It is not clear why it is spelled differently from its namesake, Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. Some say a town clerk filling out official papers accidentally dropped the "u" in "Mount;" some say the change was made deliberately to draw attention to the town; some say it uses the French spelling of "mont" as a nod to what was then the region's large French-Canadian population. According to town histories, as late as the 1920s, there was some dispute about how to spell the name, with the post office and one of its most prominent hotels using a "u" for many decades. --Martha A. Crosley Graham | 1803 | |
| NASHUA | Old Dunstable | Dec 1836, name changed to Nashua, from Dunstable; From 1842-1853, northern part was inc. as "Nashville", then in 1853 reinc. together as part of City of Nashua. | |
| NEW BOSTON | The town was first granted in 1736 by colonial governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. At the time, lands to the west of the Merrimack River, disputed between the two provinces, were treated by Belcher as part of Massachusetts, and he granted the town to several Boston families. It was to have been called "Lanestown" or "Piscataquog Township," but by 1751 they called it "New Boston" after their hometown. Not all the grantees took up their claims, and the land was re-granted 10 years later to settlers from Londonderry. --Wikipedia | ||
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| PELHAM | Old Dunstable | ||
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| SHARON | |||
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| WEARE | |||
| WEST PETERBOROUGH | |||
| WILTON | |||
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