About The Book
On the Provincial New Hampshire northern northeast border, the frontier territory, later known as the Town of Rochester, N.H., stood at an important historical confluence. To the Indigenous Abenaki, the area was an important transit point where nine trails convened and crossed. To the settler and proprietor community, the town was a source of natural resources and potential economic success while serving as a protective buffer along the town's borders, at a most volatile time in the province's history. The process of laying out the divisions of the town was innovative for the day. The range/road layout became the preferred methodology for expanding beyond the Adirondack Mountains after 1800. Despite epidemics, freshets, devastating forest fires, and persistent harassment, the town prevailed in its quest for development and entered the 19th Century as one of the most populous and progressive towns in the state.
About The Book
Both the town records transcription and research Volume II and the contextual history of the territory and township, Volume I, is presented to inform the reader about Rochester, N.H. both as an Indigenous Abenaki ancestral territory, and frontier township. Extended research over some fifty years unearthed answers to the question of when, why, and how both cultures identified, selected, and developed the ten-square-mile, sixty-four-thousand-acre site on the frontier of Colonial New Hampshire. Much of the content has not previously been available for research or public consumption and images included [with the gracious support of authors and sources] provide context through which to better understand the life of the town.
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