Settling New Hampshire A Chronology

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N.H. Towns Settled between 1623 and 1650 Kensington New Castle Newfields Newmarket North Hampton Portsmouth Rye Seabrook South Hampton Brentwood Dover Durham Epping Exeter Fremont Greenland Hampton Hampton Falls

Lee Nashua Newington Somersworth Stratham Towns Added

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Manchester Merrimack Newton Nottingham Pelham Plaistow Raymond Rollinsford Windham Towns Added Chester Derry East Kingston Epsom Hudson Kingston Litchfield Londonderry

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Towns Added Gilford Jackson Lincoln Madbury Madison Ossipee Pittsburg Randolph Stewartstown Tuftonboro Benton Bethlehem Carroll Chatham Colebrook Columbia Eaton Ellsworth Enfield Errol

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Berlin Cambridge Clarksville Dummer Gorham Milan Roxbury Waterville Whitefield Towns Added

N.H. Towns 1850

N.H. Towns Remaining Unsettled 1850 Erving’s Location Green’s Grant Hadley’s Purchase Hale’s Location Hart’s Location Kilkenny Livermore Low & Burnham’s Purchase Martin’s Location Millsfield Odell Pinkham’s Grant Sargent’s Purchase Second College Grant Success Sugar Hill * Thompson & Meserve’s Purchase Wentworth’s Location Atkinson & Gilmanton Academy Grant Bean’s Grant Bean’s Purchase Chandler’s Purchase Crawford’s Purchase Cutt’s Grant Dix’s Grant Dixville ( * Sugar Hill separated from Lisbon in 1966) Menu

Atlantic Ocean Piscataqua Exeter MerrimackContoocook Ashuelot Connecticut Pemigewasset Ammonoosuc Saco Ellis Phillips Brook Upper Ammonoosuc Androscoggin Great Bay Three Connecticuts & Francis Umbagog Newfound Sunapee Massabesic Bow Ossipee Wentworth Squam Winnisquam Winnipesaukee New Hampshire Rivers & Lakes Menu

Points to Consider What natural geographic features probably influenced early settlement of New Hampshire? What economic factors affected the order of settlement? Which period in New Hampshire history had the most rapid settlement? Why might that be? Why do you think some places remain unsettled even today? When was your town settled? Menu

Information from Population of New Hampshire, Part One N.H. State Planning and Development Commission Concord, N.H., 1946 © Christopher MacLeod for the New Hampshire Historical Society