List: Here is the New Hampshire information you requested: The information below is relative to the COUNTIES bordering the Connecticut River. **Settlements started in 1628 in present day Dover and 1631 Portsmouth. **1642-1679 New Hampshire was governed by Massachusetts **Many towns along the NH and Mass border were in Mass until 1749 or 1759 and those land records can be found in Hampden County Courthouse in Springfield,Mass(address given in "Massachusetts Research" which was sent out earlier) **probate records from 1636-1771 originally filed in Portsmouth and Exeter, NH and those records are in the New Hampshire State Papers in the New Hampshire Records and Archives(address above) VITAL RECORDS: offical records in each NH town or city are kept by the town clerks who sends copies to the bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics. The ORIGINAL records of every town up to 1850+- have been microfilmed along with every name index (except Exeter), these films are available at the State Library and New England Historic Genealogical Society. State of New Hampshire Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics Hazen Drive Concord,NH 03301 will do search by mail at $10 per search FEDERAL CENSUS' Federal Census from 1850-1880 1840 available for Rockingham,Merrimack, and Strafford Counties The census are available through the NARA (National Archives in Waltham,Mass) STATE CENSUS' NH never conducted one however edition of the provincial rate(taxes)list for 1732 and 1742 are available at genealogical libraries. The original is at the Division of Records Managment and Archives. COUNTY INFORMATION: Cheshire County: register of Probate 12 Court St Keene,NH 03431 603-357-7786........accepts brief mail inquiries. Records from 1771 to present. Call to find out how many pages in record as they charge $1.page for copying ($2.certified) COOS COUNTY: Register of Probate 55 School St Lancaster, NH 03584 603-788-2001..........accepts mail inquiries (same as Cheshire Co.) GRAFTON COUNTY Register of Probate Rt 10 Haverhill, NH 03774 603-787-6921..........records from 1773 to present...copies $1. per page HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: (not on Conn River but many migrated to VT and west) Register of Probate 33 Spring St Nashua,NH 03061 603-882-1231 ....records from 1771......mail inquiries accepted (same as others) SULLIVAN COUNTY Register of Probate 14 main St Newport, NH 03773 603-863-3150.........contact for information......records from 1827, index by surname CEMETERY RECORDS: New Hampshire Historical Society has large collection of stone inscriptions CHURCH RECORDS: Most churches have their own records. Check local libraries or historical society for records The New Hampshire Historical Soc. has many early records MILITARY RECORDS Division of Record Management and Archives has records of French-Indian War with name index; New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers; Revolutionary War records; Civil War records. Pension records are available at the National Archives in Washington, DC (pension applications are at the Waltham(Mass) and Pittsfield,Mass (N.A.R.A. repositories) LIBRARIES: New Hampshire Division of Records Management and Archives 71 Fruit St Concord, NH 03301 tel: 603-271-2236 http://www.state.nh.us/state/archives.htm provincial and state records--court records--town and county records-- military records--(see "military" above) New Hampshire Historical Society Library 30 Park St Concord, NH 03301 phone 603-225-3381 fax 603-224-0463 5,000 printed and manuscript genealogies(mainly NORTHERN New England)---and much more mail inquiries: genealogical are NOT accepted BUT historical inquiries ARE. email: NhhsLib@aol.com http://www.nhhistory.org New Hampshire State Library 20 Park St Concord, NH 03301 603-271-2144 (reference only) mostly PRE-1850 New Hampshire town records(all name index--none for Exeter) \many county court records and manuscript genealogies; federal censuses of NH (1790-1920) and 20th century newspapers ( on microfilm) Dover Public Library 73 Locust St Dover,NH 03820 http://www.dover.lib.nh.us 603-743-6050 Dover is a distance from the Connecticut River Valley but the library has the best and largest collection of books and journals on NH genealogy and history. ( may be worth checking out if you are out of places to search in NH) Keene Public Library all historical and genealogical materials have been moved to the Cheshire County Historical Society--phone 603-352-1895 I know it's located in Keene and if you address the mail to the: (they should get it) Cheshire County Historical Society Keene, NH 03731 HISTORICAL SOCIETIES: New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association Kim Sowles, Sec 7 Maple St Tilton, NH 03276 founded in 1975 to study and preserve NH old graveyards and gravestones New Hampshire Society of Genealogist P.O.Box 2316 Concord, NH 03302 http://www.tiac.net/users/nhsog email: pfwells@pop.mond.net check out website for their offerings. Hope this helps Cynthia Moderator of : Ct-River-Valley-L@rootsweb.com VTWindso-L@rootsweb.com CTHartfo-L@rootsweb.com to research posted information on towns and counties in the mailing list go to http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl (put name of mailing list in the first box and in the 2nd box put what you are looking for) http;//archiver.rootsweb.com/Ct-River-Valley-L/ http:archiver.rootsweb.com/VTWindso-L/ http//archiver.rootsweb.com/CTHartfo-L/