New Hampshire NHGenWeb Project
NHGenWeb is a free genealogical website, providing information about the
history of New Hampshire and the ancestors of the state.
It serves as a gateway to the project's county websites,
where focus lies on the history and genealogy of the specific county.
We hope you find helpful clues for your research of
ancestors and relatives of New Hampshire.
Please consider contributing your pieces of NHGenWeb family history. Corrections, updates, and additions to this site are always welcome. Our combined efforts can keep this a great site for all who visit!
State Coordinator: George Kidder kiddergeorge@yahoo.com
Assistant State Coordinator: Norma Hass normahass01@gmail.com
| County | Date Formed | County Seat | County or Town Coordinator |
| Belknap | 1840 | Laconia | Available for Adoption |
| Carroll | 1840 | Ossipee | Joan Kidder |
| Cheshire | 1769 | Keene | George Kidder |
| Coos | 1803 | Lancaster | Norma Hass |
| Grafton | 1769 | Haverhill | Erica Hughes |
| Town of Hanover | Edward Feustel | ||
| Town of Lebanon | Edward Feustel | ||
| Hillsborough | 1771 | Manchester | Available for Adoption |
| Merrimack | 1823 | Concord | Matthew Tooley |
| Rockingham | 1769 | Brentwood | Available for Adoption |
| Strafford | 1771 | Dover | Lynn Tooley |
| Sullivan | 1827 | Newport | Linda Simpson |
New Hampshire lost 1,442 Soldiers and Sailors who "Gave Their All" during World War 11 **NEW 2024
Compiled and edited by Russ Pickett
Date & Cause of Passing; Branch of Service; Rank; Awards; Photos; Cemetery were buried; link to F.A.G.
New Hampshire Honor Roll - 226 men Killed In Action - During The Vietnam War **NEW 2024
Compiled and edited by Richard Marsh
A Very Long List - Has Photos - Military Assignments - Bio. -
New Hampshire Honor Roll - World War 1 and 11, Korean War and Vietnam War **NEW 2024
Compiled and edited by Richard Marsh
List of Casualties - Monuments - plus many Civil War Memorials - Photos -
New Hampshire was founded on a land grant given in 1629 by the Council for New England to Captain John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges. The colony was named New Hampshire after the English county of Hampshire.
New Hampshire was the first state to declare its independence from England in January 1776, meaning that for the following six months until the founding of the United States of America with the Declaration of Independence, New Hampshire was the first post-colonial nation-state in the Americas. New Hampshire became the 9th state on 21 June 1788, and is nicknamed "The Granite State". Its motto is "Live Free or Die."
For many years prior to 1740, the boundary lines of the province of New Hampshire were in dispute.
Massachusetts claimed that the division boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was defined by a line drawn from a point on the Atlantic coast 3 miles north of the mouth of the Merrimack River, and running on the northerly and easterly side of the river, at a distance of 3 miles from it, to a point 3 miles beyond the parallel of the junction of the Winnipiseogee and the Pemigewasset; thence due west to the Connecticut. This included all the territory included in the present-day limits of Hillsborough County, with the exceptions of the town of Pelham and a portion of the town of Hudson which was more than 3 miles from the Merrimack River. It also included the whole of Cheshire County and the larger part of the present-day Merrimack and Sullivan Counties.
New Hampshire claimed for her southern boundary a line due west from the same point on the ocean. By this claim the towns of Pelham, Hudson, Litchfield, Nashua, Merrimack, Hollis, Amherst and other towns lying within about 14 miles of latitude were conceded to be within Massachusetts.
The ancient town of Dunstable, which contained more than two hundred square miles, and included all of the towns named above and portions of other towns within the present limits of New Hampshire, made a part of the county of Middlesex, in Massachusetts, and had not, before 1740, been regarded by any party as in part the territory of the province of New Hampshire.
The boundary between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was finally determined, in 1741, by the King himself who ended the controversy in favor of New Hampshire, and fixed the present boundary, granting a much larger territory to New Hampshire than had been claimed earlier. Upon the settlement of the question, the towns which had had a corporate existence under Massachusetts were rechartered by the province of New Hampshire, and new towns were formed from those portions of existing towns cut off from Massachusetts.
The following is from New Hampshire 'Provincial Papers', Province of New
Hampshire from 1738 to 1749; Vol. V, pp. 450-451.
"Whereas ye following
Persons Voluntiers in ye late Expedition against Louisbourg have petitioned ye
General Court for some allowances in Consideration of their Losses sickness &c.
suffer'd in said Expedition as represented in their respective Petitions on
File, Voted, That there be allow'd to said Persons ye sums as carried off to
each man's name following Viz-"
Phillip Jonson of Greenland
John Hicks of Dover
Samuel Keniston
Weymouth Ham of Portsmouth
Timothy Cotton of Dover
Jon Alcock
Joseph Ham
Samuel Frost
Leader Nelson
Shadrach of Weymouth
Hugh Montgomery
George Tomson
Ezekiah Pitman
Shubul Dearborn of Hampton
Joseph Redman of Dover
John Sleeper
Joseph Rawlins of Exeter
Tabitha Cass of Kensington
Jonathan Partridge of Portsmouth
Nicholas Dunn's Widow of Dover
Francis Mason of Stratham
Moses Leavit's Widow of Hampton
Josiah Shaw of Dover
Nathaniel Moulton
Daniel Doe of Durham
Eleazer Bickford of Dover
Samuel Blake of Kensington
Abraham Morgan of Stratham
Lewis Tuckers Widow of New Castle
Henry Triffethens Widow
Christopher Huntress of Newington
Maj. Ezekial of Gilman Exeter
Micheal Whidden of Portsmouth
David Decker of Dover
Israel Hodgsdon of Newington
George Dam
George Huntress of Portsmouth
Henry Sleeper of Dover
Micheal Martyn
Zach Foss
Benjamin Kimming of Exeter
Jerhimiah Marston Widow of Hampton
John Thomas Widow of Kittery
Benjamin Thomas of Hampton
Joseph Lamson of Exeter
Theodore Atkinson Esq.
William Prescut of Epping
William Fullerton of Brentwood
Capt. Jon Ladd of Kingston
Jonathan Ladd
Thomas Card New of Castle
Soloman Pinkham of Dover
Spencer Coleby
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