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.''
 * 1638-1772 approx.'- images only.+++
 * 1659-1696- Court papers- images only.
 * 1692-1771- Court records- images only.
 * 1695-1771- Court minutes- images only.
 * 1696-1771- Court minutes- images only.
 * 1699-1771- Court minutes- images only.
 * 1699-1773- Court minutes- images only. Includes probate minutes, 1707-1726.
 * 1714-1774- Court records- images only.
 * 1729-1770- Court records- images only.
 * 1730-1770- Records- images only. Includes Inferior Court of Common Pleas records from 1730 and 1741.

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.