Resources

There are many websites with genealogy-related info for New Hampshire family history research. If you have an additional helpful resource about Sullivan County ancestors, please share them with us.

• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• National Archives Military Records Research
• Internet Archive
• 1833 History of Charlestown, in New-Hampshire by Jaazaniah Crosby
• 1834 Annals of Charlestown in the County of Sullivan by Jaazaniah Crosby
• 1868 Claremont War History, April 1861 to April 1865 by Otis F. R. Waite, includes a biographical notice on each Claremont soldier with sketches of New Hampshire regiments
• 1877-1903 The Granite Monthly many more annual issues and TOCs through 1927 are available on Internet Archive. 1907 has an article about Sand Pond called Glimpses of Old Lempster
• 1876 History of Charlestown, New-Hampshire, the Old No. 4 by Henry H. Saunderson
• 1878 A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, ... by Joseph W. Porter
• 1886 History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd
• 1891 A History of the Putnam Family in England and America by Eben Putnam
• 1895 History of the Town of Claremont, New Hampshire for a period of one hundred and thirty years from 1764 to 1894 by Otis F. R. Waite
• 1897 Biographical Review ... containing life sketches of leading citizens of Merrimack and Sullivan counties, New Hampshire
• 1908 Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire by Ezra S. Stearns  Volume 1  Volume 2  Volume 3  Volume 4
• 1915 The Willard Genealogy. Sequel to Willard Memoir by Willard, Walker, and Pope
• 1916 History of New Hampshire by E. S. Stackpole  Volume 1  Volume 2  Volume 3  Volume 4  Volume 5
• 1917 Annual Report for Sullivan County, New Hampshire Many annual reports are available at Internet Archive, for the county as well as each town. In addition to officials, the earlier reports provide names of people receiving benefits, providing services, paying taxes, etc.
• 1917 The Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire
• 1930 Some Descendants of Stephen Lincoln of Wymondham, England by William E. Lincoln
• 1932 History and Genealogical Register of the Town of Langdon by Frank B. Kingsbury
• 1955 Second History of Charlestown, N.H., the Old Number Four by Martha M. Frizzell
• 1957 History of Goshen, New Hampshire: settled, 1769, incorporated, 1791 by Nelson, Walter R.
• 1978 John Huntley, Immigrant of Boston & Roxbury, Massachusetts and Lyme, Connecticut, 1647-1977, and some of his descendants Book 1 by Huntley, Virgil W.
• 1960 The Story of the Bloods: including ... lines from Robert Blood of Concord and Richard Blood of Groton by Roger D. Harris
• 1991 Descendants of John Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts by Ken Stevens
• 1992 The Ancestry of Emily Jane Angell, 1844-1910 by Dean C. Smith
• 1996 The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton, 1878-1908 by Dean C. Smith
• 2000 The Kempton/Kimpton Families in North America by M. W., E. F., and K. W. Saunders
• 2004 Plugging into Your Past: How to find real family history records online by Rick Crume
• 2007 Fifteen Generations of Whipples by Blaine Whipple
• 2024 Descendants of Richard Bailey of Rowley, Massachusetts by Chris H. Bailey
• USGenWeb Tombstone Project
• FindAGrave
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• Silsby Free Public Library has historical resources and photos of the town. Historic photos and other archival material
• National Register of Historic Places
• Saint-Gaudens
• Secretary of State
• Community Profiles of towns and counties, includes histories, contact info, and more
• Charlestown governement website
• Claremont governement website
• Cornish government website
• Goshen government website
• Grantham government website
• Lempster government website
• Plainfield government website
• Washington government website
• Sullivan County Registry of Deeds
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Historic Map Works - many plat maps are available to view online at no charge
• MapGeeks
• Maps of US - interactive map of New Hampshire county formation history
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Charlestown Historical Society-NH on Facebook
• Claremont NH Historical Society
• Goshen NH Historical Society
• Grantham Historical Society on Facebook
• Newport NH Historical Society
• Plainfield Historical Society
• Unity Historical Society
• Washington NH Historical Society
• Fort at No. 4, not a military fort, but a protected section of town, now a Living History Museum, on Facebook
• Lempster Owl by Deborah Stone
• History of Sand Pond
• GenealogyInc
• Linkpendium
• AccessGenealogy
• GenealogyTrails
• Bible Records Online
• LightLink Railroad Stations & Postcards

Publications Not Available Online (as of July 2025)

• A Brief History of Cornish, 1763-1974, 1976 by M. Wade, S. Tracy, and D. Wood
• A Supplement to the History of Goshen, 1976 by Doris Nelson Newman
• Catholic Marriages of Sullivan County 1902-80 excluding Claremont
• Catholic Marriage Records of Claremont's St. Mary's & St. Joseph's 1873-1980 by Friar Fernand Croteau, 1980
• Early Families of Unity, New Hampshire and Cemeteries of Unity, N. H. by Kathleen Beals
• Foundations of Old Goshen by Arthur Nelson and Ronald Whitney
• Genealogical Abstracts from Early New Hampshire Newspapers, Volume I by Scott Lee Chipman
• Gleanings From Our Early History by Walter R. Nelson
• Hill & Hollow: A History of Grantham, NH by Kenneth Story
• History of the Town of LANGDON, New Hampshire from 1787 to 1987Bicentennial Edition, with a Genealogical Register from 1930 to 1987, by Frank M. Sellers
• Index to Frizzell's Second History of Charlestown by Robin Van Mechelen, 2006
• Sweetwater Echoes, 1903 by Walter R. Nelson
• The Beginning of the History of Goshen by Walter R. Nelson (a pre-history)
• The Goshen, NH Bicentennial 1769-1969 a booklet
• The Judge's Daughter 1861-1866 diary of Mary Cushing of Charlestown
• Third History of Charlestown by Joyce Higgins, 2013

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