FootNote
The new kid on the block, FootNote is known for digitizing historical
documents... many of which are genealogical gems. With naturalizations,
city directories, war records, newspapers, town records, etc... this new
kid is quickly being recognized as an alternative to Ancestry.
While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Keene, the county seat, lies in the central part of the
county, in lat. 42º 55 and long. 4º 47, bounded north by Westmoreland,
Gilsum and Sullivan, east by Sullivan and Roxbury,
south by Swanzey, and west by Chesterfield
and Westmoreland. The boundaries thus roughly given enclose a beautiful
territory of about 22,010 acres, all included within the corporation limits
of the charming little city of Keene. We say "little," for it must be borne
in mind that the city is yet in the swaddling clothes of infancy, and
despite its large area has a population of less than 7,000 souls. A little
over ten years since, this "city" was a township, with a prosperous,
thriving and, as events have proved, ambitious village in its center. As a
township, then, we shall for the present consider it, turning back to the
year 1732.
This history entails tax records, sketches of early industry, churches,
military, and benevolent societies, as well as biographies, genealogies, and
sketches of the early settlers.
