New Hampshire Colonial Records

Online Records
''Many records from the colonial era in New England were kept at the town or county level. Search the catalog at the town or county level to locate those records.''

History
The first European settlement in New Hampshire was built in 1623 along the Piscataqua River by merchants who came from the Plymouth Colony. Initially included in the province of Maine, Captain John Mason was granted land between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers which he named New Hampshire. In 1641, the jurisdiction of New Hampshire came under the Massachusetts Bay Colony and it became part of the county of Norfolk in 1643. Although New Hampshire continued to share a governor with Massachusetts until 1741, it became a royal province in 1679.

Court Records
Superior Court of Judicature (1699-1771)
 * 1699-1771, Court minutes (film 0980830). Digitized but not indexed.
 * 1699-1773, Court minutes (0984104). Digitized but not indexed. Includes probate minutes, 1707-1726.

'''Court of General Quarter Sessions (1695-1771)
 * 1695-1771, Court minutes (film 0980829). Digitized but not indexed.
 * 1730-1770, Records (film 0980937). Digitized but not indexed. Includes Inferior Court of Common Pleas records from 1730 and 1741.