1. Settling New Hampshire A Chronology

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48. 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

49. Lee Nashua Newington Somersworth Stratham Towns Added 1650 - 1700

50. N.H. Towns 1700

51. Manchester Merrimack Newton Nottingham Pelham Plaistow Raymond Rollinsford Windham Towns Added 1700 - 1725 Chester Derry East Kingston Epsom Hudson Kingston Litchfield Londonderry

52. N.H. Towns 1725

53. 45 more Towns Added 1725 - 1750

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55. 118 more Towns Added 1750 - 1775

56. N.H. Towns 1775

57. Towns Added 1775 - 1800 Gilford Jackson Lincoln Madbury Madison Ossipee Pittsburg Randolph Stewartstown Tuftonboro Benton Bethlehem Carroll Chatham Colebrook Columbia Eaton Ellsworth Enfield Errol

58. N.H. Towns 1800

59. Berlin Cambridge Clarksville Dummer Gorham Milan Roxbury Waterville Whitefield Towns Added 1800 - 1850

60. N.H. Towns 1850

61. 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

62. 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

63. 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

64. Information from Population of New Hampshire, Part One N.H. State Planning and Development Commission Concord, N.H., 1946 ©2002-2007 Christopher MacLeod for the New Hampshire Historical Society