805067 In Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town of Mason, N. H., 1768-1968, edited by Elizabeth Orton Jones. Published by Mason Historical Society in 1968. Illus., photos, softcover (edges rubbed), 8vo., 205 pp. VG condition. Errata slip laid in. Inscription on fep., otherwise interior VG condition. A series of vignettes, most with many references to early residents. $35.00

0901076M Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire: With the Speeches of Messrs. Webster, Woodbury, Wilder, Bigelow, Parker, Dearborn, Hubbard, Goodrich, Hale, Plummer, Wilson, Chamberlain, and Others, Together with the Names of those Present, . . . Celebrated in Boston, November 7, 1842. Published by James Franch, Boston in 1850. ¼ leather with marble boards (edges worn, spine chipped), 8vo., 178 pp. Some age browning on the first and last few pages. The rest of the interior is in VG condition. The festival was a gathering of men of all ages and walks of life who were native of New Hampshire but had moved to the Boston area. The list of attendees, organized by New Hampshire county, includes name, where born, date moved to Massachusetts, occupation, and present residence. $40.00

0901075 History of the Town of Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. Published by The Town of Mont Vernon in 1976. Facsimile reprint of the 1907 edition. Index, photos, ports., black buckram, 8vo., 244+197 pp. A few ink marks, otherwise VG condition. The last 197 pages are family genealogy. $75.00

0901096 Historical Sketch of Amherst in the County of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, From Its First Settlement to MDCCCXXXVII, by John Farmer. 2nd edition, enlarged. Facsimile reprint of 1837 2nd edition (1st edition was 1820) by New Hampshire Publishing Company, Somersworth, NH in 1972. Notes, brown embossed covers, dj. (chipped, 3 tears), 8vo., 52 pp. VG condition. Many references to early settlers. $22.50

0901070 Grave Stone Records From the Ancient Cemeteries in the Town of Claremont, New Hampshire with Historical and Biographical Notes, by Charles B. Spofford. Published by George I. Putnam in 1896. Green cloth (covers spotted), 8vo., 86 pp. A few pencil and ink notes, otherwise the interior is VG. Includes: The Old Burying Ground, Claremont Village; The West Part Church-Yard; Catholic Cemetery; The Jarvis Yard; plus a list of fatalities. $75.00

0901071 Historic Homes of Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Volume II, by Marjorie Whalen Smith. Published by the author in 1971. Index, illus. photos, red cloth, dj. (soiled, a few small tears), 8vo., 180+ pp. VG condition. Inscription on fep. Appeared originally as a series of weekly articles in the Keene Evening Sentinel starting in 1962. This volume features 70 homes throughout the County with photos and histories of the houses and families. $50.00

0901037E Ashland, New Hampshire Centennial 1868-1968. No author or published given. Illus., photos, maps, adverts., softcovers (soiled), 8vo., 144 pp. Interior VG condition. In addition to the program for the centennial celebration, the book contains vignettes of social life, families, businesses, churches, etc. $27.50

0901020 Towns Against Tyranny. Hillsborough County New Hampshire During the American Revolution 1775-1793, edited by William M. Gardner. Published by County of Hillsborough, New Hampshire Bicentennial Committee in 1976. Softcovers (spotted, lower front corner bent), 8vo., 291 pp. Near VG condition. A town-by-town account which covers only the towns in present-day Hillsborough County and excludes the 13 towns to the north which now form part of Merrimack County. $35.00

0901021 Towns of the Nashaway Plantation. No author stated. Published by Lancaster League of Historical Societies in 1976. Biblio., illus., photos, maps, softcovers, 8vo., 197 pp. VG condition. Town-by-town histories for Lancaster, Harvard, Bolton, Leominster. Sterling. Boxborough, Berlin, Boylston, West Boylston, Clinton, and Hudson. $27.50

0901022 Walking Back Through Time: 50 Historical Sketches of Winchester, New Hampshire, by Edith W. Atkins. Published by the author, Winchester, NH in 1997. Author signed. Photos, softcovers, 8vo., 192 pp. VG+ condition. The sketches were originally published in Return of the Winchester Star. Many reference to early residents. $15.00

0901023 Place Names of the White Mountains, by Robert and Mary Julyan. Published by University Press of New England, Hamover, NH in 1993. Revised edition. Biblio., map, softcovers, 8vo., 176 pp. VG+ condition. The region runs from northeast of Lake Winnipesaukee more than 100 miles north to the Canadian border. It covers virtually the entire northern third of New Hampshire and portions of Maine to the east. $15.00

812120 The History of the First Baptist Church of New Lebanon, New Hampshire 1788-1978, by J. Duane Squires. Published by The Country Press, New Lebanon, NH in 1979. Photos., light blue buckram, small 4to., 54+ pp. Near-new condition. $30.00

812026 One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Boscawen and Webster, Merrimack Co., N. H.,  August 16, 1883. Also Births Recorded in the Town Records From 1733 to 1850. Published in Concord, NH in 1884. Ports, brown cloth (scuffed), 8vo., 211 pp. VG condition. Includes the program, speeches, and reports relating to the celebration, as well as Biographical sketches of: Charles Hubbard Amsden, Samuel Colcord Bartlett, Charles Carleton Coffin, Enoch Garrish, Ezra Sheldon Harris, John Kimball, Benjamin Ames Kinball, William Smith Kimball, Arthur Little, Ephraim Plummer, and Henry Pearson Rolfe. $65.00

805034 Records of the New Hampshire Medical Society from its Organization in 1791 to the Year 1854. Published by the Society, Concord, NH in 1911. Index, black cloth (covers a little scuffed), 8vo., 439 pp. VG condition. A full transcript of the proceedings of the Society from the original journals, arranged chronologically. A full-name index has been added. A wealth of information about the New Hampshire medical community. $45.00

805033 History of the New Hampshire Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, edited by Otis Cole and Oliver S. Baketel. Published by the Methodist Book Concern, New York, in 1929. Illus., photos, green cloth, 8vo., 384 pp. VG condition. A history of the Conference and each of the member churches. Includes a fold-out photo of the attendees of the 93rd Annual Session of the Conference in 1922; a pastoral record of the conference 1830-1928 (names, places of service and departure from conference), a list of pastoral deaths (with names, date and place of death, place of burial, age, and years of service). $25.00

707003 Lebanon 1761-1994: The Evolution of a Resilient New Hampshire City, by Roger Carroll. Published by Phoenix Publishing, West Kennebunk, Maine for Lebanon Historical Society in 1994. 1st ed. Indexes, biblio., illus., photos., maps, 4to., tan cloth with maroon spine, dj., VG condition, 307 pp. $45.00

704004 The Prescott Story, by Ray Brighton. Published by The Portsmouth Marine Society, New Castle, NH in 1982. Index, photos, ports., tan cloth, dj. (edges worn, several tears), 4to., VG condition, 119 pp. Inscription on fep. The story of Mary Elizabeth Prescott and her sister Josephine Fitts Prescott, daughters of Charles Smith Prescott and Joanna Abbott Fitts, and how they devoted a major portion of their fortune to erase the blighted South Mill Pond area of Portsmouth from the city map. $75.00

703015 The Church of Christ in Holles [Hollis]. The First Two Pastorates 1734-1831. An address Delivered on the Occasion of the Dedication of the New Meeting House, August 20, 1925 by Charles Darwin Adams. Published by the DAR, Hollis, NH circa 1925. Wraps, 8vo., VG condition, 31 pp. Adams’ address details the eighteenth century settlement of Hollis, New Hampshire by members of the Worcester, Powers, and Emerson families. $12.50 

612193 Stark Decency: German Prisoners of War in a New England Village, by Allen V. Koop. Published by University of New England Press, Hanover, NH in 1988. 2nd printing. Index. notes, illus., photos, black cloth, 8vo., VG condition, 136 pp. The story of Camp Stark in WWII, located in Stark, New Hampshire, as told by the prisoners themselves. $17.50

612089 The History of Milford, by George A. Ramsdell. Family Registers, by William P. Colburn. Published by the Town of Milford, NH in 1901. Index, references, illus., photos, ports., rebound in red buckram, thick 8vo., VG condition (a few pencil marks), 1,023 pp. Over 400 pages of family biographies. $95.00

612086 New Hampshire Residents 1633-1699, by Jay Mack Holbrook. Published by Holbrook Research Institute, Oxford, MA in 1979. Bibio., map, green cloth, 8vo., Near-new condition, 209 pp. Previous owner’s blind stamp. The author has reconstructed and compiled this list of 7,566 heads of household, with biographical information,  from tax lists, land grants, estate valuations, petitions, church membership lists, oaths of allegiance, ministers rates, first settler lists, and probate records. $30.00

612042M Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable-Thirty Families, by Ezra S. Sterns. Published by George E. Littlefield, Boston in 1911.  Index, brown cloth (edges a little worn), 8vo., VG condition, 103 pp. The area comprising Old Dunstable is located today in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Includes the following families: Acres, Beale, Blanchard, Cooke, Cromwell, Darbeyshire, French, Galusha, Gould, Harwood, Hassell, Honey. Lovewell, Lund, Marks, Parris, Perry, Read, Robbins, Searles, Smith, Swallow, Taylor, Temple, Tyng, Usher, Waldo, Warner, Weld, and Whiting. $75.00

612007 History of the Town of Rye, New Hampshire, From its Discovery and Settlement to December 31, 1903, 2 parts, by Langdon B. Parsons. Facsimile reprint, in 2 parts, of the original 1905 edition, published by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD in 1992. Indexes, photos, maps, softcovers, 8vo., VG condition, 675 pp. 2 folding maps laid in. Part I contains the narrative, Part II contains genealogies. Two volumes: $42.50

611096 Vital Records of Londonderry, New Hampshire. A Full and Accurate Transcript of the Births, Marriage Intentions, Marriages and Deaths in this Town from the Earliest Date to 1910, by Daniel Gage Annis and George Waldo Browne. A facsimile reprint published by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD 1989. Illus., softcovers, 8vo., VG condition, 320+ pp. $27.50

611046 Supplement to the History of Windham in New Hampshire. A Scotch Settlement. Giving the History of the Presbyterian Religious Society,  . . . , and Record of Marriages, Births, and Deaths from 1882 to 1892, . . .,  by Leonard A. Morrison. Published by Damrell & Upham, Boston, 1892. Red cloth, 8vo., VG condition, 169 pp. Also includes a records of marriages, baptisms and burials taken from the church register, parish of Templemore, diocese of Derry, Londonderry, Ireland (mid 1600s to early 1700s), and other lists of genealogical interest. $40.00

611047 History of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, by E. Harold Young. Published by the author, Pittsfield, NH, in 1953. Index, illus., photos, ports., map, green buckram, 8vo., VG condition, 575 pp. A thorough history of Pittsfield, Merrimack, County, with lots of reference to residents. The index is not very useful. Includes a section with information on the families of Richard Bartlett, William Berry, Joseph H. Danis, Drake, Goss, William Bainbridge Hartwell, Lane, Marston, Perkins, Edward Parkman Sanderson, Swett, Knowlton, French, Hiram A. Tuttle, John A. Walker, Edward S. Watson, and Sherburn Josiah Winslow.  $42.50

611048 A History of Walpole, New Hampshire, 2 Volumes, by Martha McDanolds Frizzell. Published ny Walpole Historical Society, Town of Walpole, NH, in 1963. Index, biblio., illus., photos, end-paper map, folding map laid in, gray cloth (edges a bit worn), 8vo., VG condition, 672 + 333 pp. Volume II comprises the index and genealogies. Two volumes: $75.00

611049 God, Grace, and Granite: the history of Methodism in New Hampshire, 1768-1988, by Charles W. Kern. Published by Phoenix Publishing, Canaan, NH, in 1988. 1st edition, limited to 1,250 copies. Index, biblio., sources, illus., photos, map, end-paper map, brown cloth with tan spine, dj., 8vo., VG condition, 195 pp. Includes lists of: presiding elders and superintendents, delegates to general conferences, traveling ministers, etc. $22.50

611051 History of Exeter, New Hampshire, by Charles H. Bell. A facsimile of the 1888 edition with a completely new every-name index by Karen L. Towle. Published by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, in 1979. Index, folding maps, green cloth (corners bumped), 8vo., VG condition, 469 + 82 pp. + unpaginated index. Includes 82 pages of family registers, marriage, births, deaths, baptisms, and marriage intentions. $60.00

611052 Collections of the Dover, N.H., Historical Society. Volume I [Vital Records]. Published by the Dover Historical Society in 1894. Index, embossed black cloth, 8vo., VG condition, 305 pp. Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Baptisms in Dover down to the year 1850, gathered from widely separated records. $60.00

611053 Manchester: A Brief record of its Past and A Picture of its Present, including an account of its settlement and of its growth as town and city; a history of its schools, churches societies, banks, post-offices, newspapers, and manufacturers; a description of its government, police, and fire department, public buildings, library, water-works, cemeteries, streets, streams, railways, and bridges; a complete list of the selectmen, moderators and clerks of the town and members of the councils, marshals and engineers of the city, with the state of the vote for mayor at each election,; the story of its part in the war of the rebellion with a complete list of all its soldiers who went to the war; and sketches of its representative citizens. With 38 steel and 18 wood engravings of its prominent men and buildings. Published by John B. Clark, Manchester, NH, in 1875. Index, illus., ports., adverts, brown cloth (edges and corners worn, cover spotted), 8vo. 463+ pp. The inside hinges are cracked, one signature at the back is loose, otherwise the interior is VG. The title says it all! $75.00

611056 Manchester of Yesterday, a Human Interest Story of its Past with One Illustrations, Including Rare Wood Engravings of Old Pioneers and Places, by L. Ashton Thorp. Published by Granite State Press, Manchester, NH, in 1939. Illus., ports., green cloth (edges a little worn), 8vo., VG condition, 561 pp. Book is in a damaged and soiled box, which has kept the book looking almost like new. Brief inscription on fep. Full of personal stories with many references to early residents. $55.00

611054 History of the Town of Durham, New Hampshire (Oyster River Plantation) with Genealogical Notes, 2 Volumes, by Everett S. Stackpole and Lucien Thompson. Published by New Hampshire Publishing Company, Somersworth, NH, 1973. A facsimile of the 1913 edition bound in a single volume. Indexes, illus., tan pictorial cloth, 8vo., VG condition, 436 + 502 pp. Previous owner’s receipt for purchase of book is pasted in the rear of the book. Includes 436 pages of narrative and 502 pages of genealogies. $60.00

611055 History of Pembroke, N. H. 1730-1895 in Two Volumes, by N.F. Carter and T. L. Fowler. Published by Published in Concord, NH, 1895. Both volumes are bound together. Indexes, illus., ports., folding tissue map, maroon cloth, 8vo., 428 + 459 pp. The title pages and most of the introductory pages are badly chipped and loose, the inside hinges are cracked. 428 pages of narrative and 384 pages of genealogical material. $125.00

611057 The History of Concord from its First Grant in 1725, to the Organization of the City Government in 1853, with a History of the Ancient Peacocks. The Whole Interspersed with Numerous Interesting Incidents and Anecdotes, Down to the Present Period, 1855; Embellished with Maps; with Portraits of Distinguished Citizens, and Views of Ancient and Modern Residences, by Nathaniel Bouton. Published by Benning W. Sanborn, Concord, NH in 1856. Name index, ports, 44 engravings, maps, brown embossed cloth (worn, spine and interior hinges reinforced with transparent tape), 8vo., interior in good to VG condition, 786 pp. A large folding tissue map of the city of Concord is laid in. $125.00

611041M The Fishbasket Papers: The Diaries, 1768-1823 of Bradbury Jewell, Esquire of Tamworth, Durham and Sandwich, New Hampshire, by Marjory Gain Harkness. Published by Richard E. Smith Publishers, Peterborough, NH, in 1963. Photos., end-paper map, orange cloth (inscription), dj., 8vo., VG condition, 236 pp. Bradbury Jewell (son of Mark Jewell of Devonshire) settled in Tamworth, NH in 1768 at age 16. He later became at Revolutionary War Militia Captain, a Justice of the Peace, and a farmer. He married Ruhamah Jewell (daughter of Elder Jacob Jewell)  $37.50

603014 Bent’s Bibliography of the White Mountains, edited by E. J. Hanrahan. Published by New Hampshire Publishing Company, Somersworth, NH, 1971. Originally published in 1911. Index, ports., softcover, 8vo., 114 pp. VG condition. $22.50 

511027 The Androscoggin River Valley: Gateway to the White Mountains, by D. B. Wight. Published by Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT in 1967. 1st edition. Indexes, maps, gray cloth, dj., square 8vo., 561 pp. VG condition. History of the area, arranged chronologically. Full of genealogical information with 69 biographical sketches. $40.00

206021 Reminiscences of a New Hampshire Town: The Belmont Centennial 1869-1969, complied by Wallace P. Rhodes. Published by The Centennial Book Committee, no date or place [1969]. Photos, softcovers (light soil), 8vo., 91 pp. History of the town, its industry, schools, and families. $17.50

310026 Lake Winnipeskaukee N.H. and Vicinity. Published by Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, no date. Photos, map, softcover (several small abrasions, front creased), 8vo., 32 pp. Top corner turned down, interior VG condition. Captioned photos of the lake and many of the summertime activities, apparently from the era of the 1940s and 1950s. A small tear on the edge of one page is mended with tape. $15.00

310027 Souvenir View Book of the White Mountains N.H. The Land of Scenic Splendor as Seen Through the Eye of a Camera. Published by Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, no date. Photos, maps, softcover (corners bumped and cover abraded), 8vo., not paginated (48 pp.). Interior mostly VG condition. Captioned photos of Crawford Notch, Mt. Washington, Bretton Woods, Franconia Notch, the Conway region, Lost River, and other areas. An area about 1 1/2 inches square on the bottom edge has been abraded. There are indentations on the bottom corner of many pages, mostly in the margins. $15.00

310028 Follow the Mount, by Heald, Bruce D. Published by Winnipesaukee Flagship Corp., Weirs Beach, NH, 2000. Later printing. Photos, maps, stiff wraps, 8vo., 124 pp. VG condition. A history of the early steamships which serviced Lake Winnipesaukee, with brief histories of each of the port cities. A useful reference. $12.50

310012 Webster Cottage and Those Who Lived There, by Childs, Frances Lane. Published by Hanover Historical Society, Hanover, NH, 1969. Photos, softcover (slightly wrinkled), 8vo., 40 pp. VG condition. Webster Cottage is owned by Dartmouth College and operated by the Hanover Historical Society as a house museum. This pamphlet was written by Francis Lane Childs (1884-1973), Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature at Dartmouth College. It details 175 years of house history, chronicling the lives of the Ripleys, Smiths, Skinners and McMurphys. Presentation inscription to his friend and colleague Rosalie Littell Colie (1924-1972), critic, scholar and author of the classic Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox. Scarce thus. $22.50

308034 Heads of Families at the Second Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1800 New Hampshire. Privately printed, Madison, WI, 1973. Index, cloth, 4to., 222 pp. VG condition. Gives the number of free white males and free white females, by age groups, and the number of all other free persons. $25.00

308172 State of New Hampshire Manual for the General Court 1977, by Kelley, Edward C. (ed.). Published by Department of State, Concord, NH, 1977. B&W and color photos, charts, cloth, thick 12mo., 835 pp. VG condition. Includes a list of towns and wards, many lists of government officials, and information on the erection of each city and town, and some unincorporated places. $15.00