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1796 New Hampshire map, Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division

New Hampshire

Statehood: Jan 1776
1st state of the United States

Bordering states:
South: Massachusetts
East: Maine
West: Vermont

Capital: Concord

Largest city: Manchester

Map: New Hampshire, 1796
(click map to enlarge)
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division

Counties: Original counties as listed in the 1776 New Hampshire Constitution: Cheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Stratford. New Hampshire County Creation Dates and Parent Counties. Counties in 2020: 10.

Personal Library

The Statistics and Gazetteer of New Hampshire, Alonzo J. Fogg, 1874.
Also available online

Institutions, Societies, and Government Websites

1776 New Hampshire Constitution

New Hampshire Historical Society

New Hampshire Secretary of State, Genealogy Holdings

New Hampshire Society of Genealogists

New Hampshire State Government Digital Document Depository

University of New Hampshire Library Digital Collections

Hillsborough County

Hayes-Genoter History & Genealogy On-Line Library, Pelham Historical Society

Pelham Historical Society

Maps

New Hampshire Maps, Library of Congress

New Hampshire Landowner Maps, Library of Congress

Interactive Map of New Hampshire County Formation History, Maps of U.S.

Historical Maps Works: New Hampshire

Additional websites

Historical Markers and War Memorials in New Hampshire

Record Sets-State Level

New Hampshire Record Sets
(Ancestry Collections)

New Hampshire Record Sets
(Family Search)

Virtual Libraries

State of New Hampshire

Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, vol. 1, Ezra S. Stearns, 1908.

Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, vol. 2, Ezra S. Stearns, 1908.

Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, vol. 3, Ezra S. Stearns, 1908.

Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, vol. 4, Ezra S. Stearns, 1908.

The History of New-Hampshire, vol. 1, Jeremy Belknap, M.A., 1784..

The History of New-Hampshire, Jeremy Belknap, 1812.

The History of New-Hampshire, George Barstow, 1842.

Newspapers

Newspapers.com: New Hampshire

Newspapers Archive: New Hampshire

Genealogy Bank: New Hampshire

Chronicling America, digitized: No New Hampshire listings

NewsLibrary: New Hampshire

Community History Archive Newspapers: New Hampshire

Small Town Newspapers
(Scroll toNew Hampshire )

The Telegraph, 1880s-1990s
Nashua, New Hampshire
Google Archives

Manuscripts

New Hampshire Manuscripts, Archive Grid

New Hampshire Manuscripts, Library of Congress

What will happen to all of our genealogy blogs and websites?

Our genealogy blogs and websites will inevitably disappear in the future. What is your plan for preserving your years of research?

Using newspaper collections in genealogy research

A continuation of my MyHeritage guest post and how using newspaper collections can extend and possibly correct genealogy research.

Ringing in 2022 with Genealogists on Twitter

Genealogists on Twitter is a collection of profiles for Twitter genealogists and family historians.

1890 New Bedford photo album featured in South Coast Today | Standard-Times

131 years and 6 months after New Bedford's high school class of 1890 held their graduation exercises, photos of 47 members of the group appeared in New Bedford's South Coast Today | Standard Times.

A blog post about every 1 1/2 years, that seems about right

When the pandemic began, it felt like we should write about it, but I didn't enjoy it and, let's face it, the whole world was writing about it. By May 2020, I wanted to escape the pandemic, not rehash it over and over. So, I did other things...

What would our ancestors say?

May 6 was our 56th day of isolation and, while most people’s quarantine time is slightly less, people have had it with isolating. Gone are the #stayathome pleas of the […]

Spring arrived

Spring has arrived. The flowers are blooming and the birds are chirping. The fishing boats are once again heading out each day and the huge row of lobster traps that […]

Normalizing by doing what is normal

The last week flew by primarily because I got back to doing what I did the majority of the time before the pandemic started. Sure, we didn’t go to any […]