County Records

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  visiting or requesting information because of sometimes changing contact information. All other record types not listed here are located in the town in which the event occured. Check NH's Cities & Towns and City & Town Clerks
• Probate Court has Probate Records from 1773
  3785 Dartmouth College Highway, Box 3, North Haverhill, NH 03774
  Phone : (603) 787-6931; Hours : Monday - Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm
• Register of Deeds has Land Records from 1773
  3785 Dartmouth College Hwy, N. Haverhill, NH. 03774
  787-6921 Fax: 787-2363; HRS: 7:30-4:30; Recording 8:00-3:45
• New Hampshire Vital Records Office [Order Online] [Search the Social Security Death Index] has Births, Death and marriage records after 1883 see also Vital Records Page
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Genealogical Addresses

• New Hampshire Society of Genealogist, P.O. Box 2316 , Concord, NH 3302-2316 (603) 225-3381
• New Hampshire Historical Society , The Tuck Library, 30 Park Street, Concord, NH 03301-6384
  Telephone: 603/228-6688 - Fax: 603/224-0463
• New Hampshire State Library, 20 Park Street , Concord, NH 03301; (603)271-2144 FAX: (603)271-6826

Military Resources

• Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900 from the State of New Hampshire (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Pension applications for service in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917, grouped according to the units in which the veterans served.
• Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 from the State of New Hampshire (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Documents in NARA publication M246 include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83.
• Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War from the State of New Hampshire (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Documents in NARA publication M246 include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83.
• Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files from the State of New Hampshire (The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, from NARA publication M804.

County History

Grafton County is a rural county and is the second largest county geographically, in the state with 1.716.5 square miles or 1.1 million acres. Ninety percent of the landscape is timberland. Grafton County covers nearly one-fifth of the state. Located in the west central portion of New Hampshire it shares 89 miles of the Connecticut River with Vermont and borders Coos County to the north, Carroll County to the east, and Sullivan, Merrimack and Belknap Counties to the south. The population of Grafton County is estimated at 77, 100 with a population density of 44.9 persons per square mile. Grafton was one of the five original counties and, until 1803, contained all the area now known as Grafton and Coos counties. Augustus Henry Fitzroy, the Duke of Grafton, an enthusiastically pro-American member of the British government, gave the county its name. Grafton contains more inland water than any county not claiming a part of Lake Winnipesaukee. Much of this inland water is in Newfound Lake and the western third of Squam Lake. Over half the White Mountain National Forest is in Grafton County as is Franconia Notch State Park and Cardigan State Park.

There is one city, Lebanon, and thirty-eight towns and one unincorporated township in Grafton County. Twenty-one of the towns in Grafton County have less than 1,000 people and one-third of the land is owned by either the state or federal government. One third of America's population is within one days' drive of the White Mountains, making the White Mountain National Forest one of the most heavily used in the country.

As in the other nine counties, Grafton County has three elected commissioners, who are responsible for administering the 16+ million dollar county budget. Local governments usually consists of a volunteer board of selectmen with a paid administrator. In addition, many towns have volunteer fire departments, conservation commissions, planning and zoning boards. Public safety is ensured with the cooperative efforts of local police, the county sheriff and State Police.

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