How proprietors (1722–1785) and town government (1736–1799) managed the survey, distribution, and governance of the frontier township in parallel.
Read the Topic → TOPIC 02A 17th-century deed between Abenaki leaders and Peter Coffin of Dover — and the classic misunderstanding between Native concepts of territorial responsibility and English land conveyance law.
Read the Topic → TOPIC 03On November 29, 1775, the Rev. Joseph Haven answered the call to minister to the Town of Rochester, N.H. Sermon No. 79 was probably delivered in Rochester on the eve of independence.
Read the Topic → TOPIC 04Colonial-era advertising in the New Hampshire Gazette and what it reveals about new manufactures and commerce in the province on the eve of the Revolution.
Read the Topic → TOPIC 05Why town books, proprietary records, deeds, sermons, newspapers, and census returns must be read together to recover the true story of a colonial township.
Read the Topic → TOPIC 06The attack on the Rochester frontier at the end of April 1748, during the garrison years of King George's War.
Read the Topic → TOPIC 07How news, records, and official information moved through early Rochester — from town meeting warnings to the provincial capital at Portsmouth.
Read the Topic → TOPIC 08The four proprietary land divisions of the 64,000-acre township — dates drawn, lot sizes, share costs, and the proprietors who drew them, 1727–1762.
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