Alstead, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, with an area of 24,756 acres, lies in the extreme northern part of Cheshire county, in 43º 6' of north latitude, and longitude 4º 48' east from Washington, bounded north by Sullivan county, east by Marlow, south by Gilsum and Surry, and west by Walpole and a part of Sullivan county. The territory now lying within its limits was originally granted by Gov. Benning Wentworth, probably in 1761.

This history entails sketches of early industry, churches, military, and benevolent societies, as well as biographies and sketches of the following early settlers:

Banks, John
Blake, Obadiah
Breed, Whitney
Browne, Abraham
Cady, Isaac
Chandler, Samuel
Cooke, Josiah
Dinsmore, Thomas
Emerson, Azel R.
Fisher, Isaac
Hatch, Azel
Howard, Jeremiah, Dea.
Kidder, Amos
Kidder, James
Kilburn, George W.
Kingsbury, Absalom
Kingsbury, Cyrus, Col.
Lovell, Henry A.
Marvin, Giles
Messer, Nathaniel D.
Military History
Partridge, Sylvester
Prentiss, Thomas R.
Proctor, Benjamin
Robertson, Lauson
Shepard, Jonathan
Slade, John
Smith, Emerson
Spencer, James
Thurston, Samuel
Tinker, Russell
Town, Elijah
Townsend, Levi
Tufts, Timothy
Turner, John
Vilas, Nathaniel, Lieut.
Vilas, Noah, Dea.
Watts, Joseph
Wood, Thomas

History and Biographies of Alstead, Cheshire County, New Hampshire

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