History and description of New EnglandNew Hampshire . -list. ^ ?ife. NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN OF NEW BOSTON, ETC. 593 New Boston, towards tlie nortlicast of Hillsborougli fouiity, is twenty-two miles from Concord, and was granted January 14, 1736, l)v tliestate of Massachusetts to inhabitants of Boston, from which circum-stance it received its name. It was incorporated by New Hampj^liire,February IS, 1763, and the first settlement was begun about the year1733. Among the earliest inhabitants were Messrs. Cochran, Wilson,Caldwell, McNeil, Person, and Smith; and in twenty-two years fromthe time of its
History and description of New EnglandNew Hampshire . -list. ^ ?ife. NEW HAMPSHIRE TOWN OF NEW BOSTON, ETC. 593 New Boston, towards tlie nortlicast of Hillsborougli fouiity, is twenty-two miles from Concord, and was granted January 14, 1736, l)v tliestate of Massachusetts to inhabitants of Boston, from which circum-stance it received its name. It was incorporated by New Hampj^liire,February IS, 1763, and the first settlement was begun about the year1733. Among the earliest inhabitants were Messrs. Cochran, Wilson,Caldwell, McNeil, Person, and Smith; and in twenty-two years fromthe time of its settlement it contained fifty-six persons, a saw and grainmill, and thirty-one dwelling-houses, — sufficient evidence that the earlyinhabitants were men of energy and perseverance. The Presbyterianchurch, organized in 1768, was the first religious society. Over thisciuuch Rev. Solomon Moore, a native of Ireland, educated at Glasgow,Scotland, was settled September 6, 1768. Mr. Moore was suspected oftoryism during the Revolutionary period, was arrested, taken to E
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