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.
Explore the BooksResearch TopicsOn 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.
Get Your CopyBoth 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.
Get Your CopyTested by a continuing disregard for their needs and rights as loyal British foreign citizens, New Hampshire settlers — and indeed a growing proportion of colonial citizens in general — grew increasingly more defiant of the whim of the Crown and Parliament. The sermons of Rochester's minister carry the voice of a frontier congregation through revolution and early republic.
Get Your CopyBorn in Berlin, N.H., raised in Rochester, N.H. Graduated from Holy Rosary High School in 1964. Following an eight-year military career, which included two years in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, the author completed, between May 1972 and December 1974, double major honors programs in History and French at the University of Texas at Austin.
In 2016, original town records previously under the author's care were returned with bound transcription to significant acclaim, prompting a commitment to finish ongoing research resulting in the current historical series on colonial Rochester, New Hampshire.
Primary-source explorations of the territory and township — land conveyance, town government, sermons, census returns, and more.