Coös County, New Hampshire Genealogy

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History

 * Coos County was created with northern portion from Grafton County 24 December 1803, organized at Berlin as the county seat.


 * The name Coos may derive from an Algonquian Indian word meaning crooked, in reference to a bend in the Connecticut River.


 * The seat was moved to Town of Lancaster.

Populated Places
City:


 * Berlin

Towns:

Townships:

Villages: 

Neighboring Counties
Carroll | Grafton | Oxford County, Maine | Essex County, Vermont | Compton County, Quebec

Census

 * In the 1810 Federal Census there were 3,991 residents.

B*y 1870 there were nearly 15,000.

Web Sites

 * FamilySearch.org Family History Library catalog for Coos County
 * The Coos County NHGenWeb Project, an member of The NHGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Coos County