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.
 * Town: Carroll . Clarksville . Colebrook . Columbia . Dalton . Dummer . Errol . Gorham . Jefferson . Lancaster . Milan . Northumberland . Pittsburg . Randolph . Shelburne . Stark . Stewartstown . Stratford . Whitefield
 * Township: Atkinson &amp; Gilmanton Academy Grant . Bean's Grant . Bean's Purchase . Cambridge . Chandler's Purchase . Crawford's Purchase . Cutt's Grant . Dix's Grant . Dixville . Erving's Location . Green's Grant . Hadley's Purchase . Kilkenny . Low and Burbank's Grant . Martin's Location . Millsfield . Odell . Pinkham's Grant . Sargent's Purchase . Second College Grant . Success. Thompson and Meserve's Purchase . Wentworth's Location
 * Village: Dixville Notch . Groveton

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