GAZETTEER

OF

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

CONTAINING

DESCRIPTIONS OF ALL THE

COUNTIES, TOWNS, AND DISTRICTS

IN THE STATE;

ALSO, OF ITS

PRINCIPAL MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, WATERFALLS, HARBORS, ISLANDS,

AND

FASHIONABLE RESORTS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

STATISTICAL ACCOUNTS OF ITS

AGRICULTURE, COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES;

WITH A GREAT VARIETY OF OTHER

USEFUL INFORMATION.

BY JOHN HAYWARD,

Author of "The New England Gazetteer," "Book of Religions," &c.

PREFACE.

THE unparalleled growth of New England in all its parts and in all its various agricultural, manufacturing and commercial relations, together with its rapid progress in effecting a safe and speedy inter-communication with all parts of the United States and the neighboring British Provinces, is deemed by the editor a sufficient apology for presenting to the public a new Gazetteer of any section of that favored land.

Our only fear is, that the car of improvement is so rapid that the most assiduous industry on our part will not enable us to keep pace with its motion. We have, however, put in requisition all our resources, and having done all we could to render our work worthy of patronage, we shall rely with confidence, as we have hitherto done, on the candor of a generous public.

We have adopted a new arrangement in our work which, it is thought, will be found more convenient for reference than any in our former publications of the kind. After a brief geographical description, biographical sketches, etc., are given the Boundaries of the towns under a distinct head;—the First Settlers and First Min isters come next, and are seen at a glance; then are given the Manufactures in the towns when practicable; and then some of the most important Productions of the Soil. The Distances come last, though not the least important item to the traveller.

We have generally been able to give the first ministers of each town down to eighteen hundred. A more extended account of the clergy could not well be given in this volume. The accounts of the manufactures are necessarily limited, but the value of the manufacturing establishments will be found in the tables. The amount of the productions of the soil, as given under most of the towns, was taken from an account published a few years since. They consist of only a few of the most important articles of production, but suffi

cient to indicate the quality of the soil and state of agricultural improvements.

Our readers will find the Tables of population and county and town Tables to contain a great variety of statistical information of considerable interest; particularly for comparing one section of the State with another.

To our numerous friends who have assisted us in our labors, especially to the Hon. Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of State, for important documents; to the Rev. William Jenks, D. D., for his learned and interesting Introduction to this volume; and to the Rev. William Cogswell, D. D., for his able account of the schools in New Hampshire, we tender our heartfelt acknowledgments. are much indebted to the kindness of G. Parker Lyon, Esq., for the use of his valuable register of the State.

From the works of the lamented John Farmer, Esq., and of Jacob B. Moore, Esq., we have drawn much treasure; and our readers will doubtless regret that the limits of our work would not permit more copious extracts from Dr. Charles T. Jackson's invaluable Report of the Geology of the State.