New Hampshire and Vermont: Bibliography and Sources

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Child, Hamilton, comp. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont, for 1882–1883. Syracuse, N.Y., 1882.

Child, Hamilton, comp. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vt., for 1882–1883. Syracuse, N.Y., 1883.

Child, Hamilton, comp. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, Vt., for 1883–1884. Syracuse, N.Y., 1883.

Child, Hamilton, comp. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Rutland County, Vt., for 1881–1882. Syracuse, N.Y., 1881.

Child, Hamilton, comp. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windham County, Vt., for 1724–1884. Syracuse, N.Y., 1884.

Child, Hamilton, comp. Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windsor County, Vt., for 1883–1884. Syracuse, N.Y., 1884.

Child, Hamilton, comp. Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, Vt., 1764–1887. Syracuse, N.Y., 1887.

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Clark, Charles E. Eastern Frontier: The Settlement of Northern New England, 1610–1763. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970.

Cobb, David A. New Hampshire Maps to 1900: An Annotated Checklist. Hanover, N.H.: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1981.

“Controversy between New York and New Hampshire, Respecting the Territory Now the State of Vermont.” In Documentary History of the State of New York, compiled by E. B. O’Callaghan, vol. 4. Albany, 1851.

Craven, Wesley Frank. Colonies in Transition, 1660–1713. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

Crockett, Walter Hill. Vermont, the Green Mountain State. 5 vols. New York: Century History Co., 1921–1923.

Daniell, Jere R. Colonial New Hampshire: A History. Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1981.

Dean, John Ward, ed. Captain John Mason, the Founder of New Hampshire. Boston, 1887.

DenBoer, Gordon, with George E. Goodridge, Jr. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: New Hampshire, Vermont. Edited by John H. Long. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 33 counties, 216 pages, 242 maps.

Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York. Title varies. Vols. 1–11 edited by E. B. O'Callaghan; vols. 12–15 edited by B. Fernow. Albany, 1853–1887. Cited as Docs. of N.Y.

Dubester, Henry J. State Censuses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population Taken after the Year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States. 1948. Reprint. New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. The standard guide for its subject.

Durel, John W. “Dividing the Province of New Hampshire into Counties.” Historical New Hampshire 32 (1977): 28–42.

Eno, Joel N. “Expansion of Vermont—Chronological—Based on Official Records.” Americana 25 (1931): 534–549.

Eno, Joel N. “Founding of Vermont: The Controversy Over the New Hampshire Grant.” Americana 12 (1918): 147–183.

Farmer, John, and Jacob Moore. Gazetteer of the State of New-Hampshire. Concord, 1823.

Farnham, Mary Frances, comp. Farnham Papers, [1603–1688]. Vols. 7 and 8 of Documentary History of the State of Maine. Collections of the Maine Historical Society, 2d ser. Portland, 1901–1902. These documents are concerned chiefly with territorial changes.

Farrow, Steven S. “Vermont Place-Name Changes: Counties, Towns, Gores and the Evolving Map of the State.” Master’s thesis, University of Vermont, 1985.

Flick, Alexander C., ed. History of the State of New York. 10 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1933–1937.

Fogg, Alonzo J., comp. Statistics and Gazetteer of New-Hampshire. Concord, 1874.

Fox, Dixon Ryan. Yankees and Yorkers. New York: New York University Press, 1940.

George, Staughton, Benjamin M. Nead, and Thomas McCamant, eds. Charter to William Penn, and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania Passed between the Years 1682 and 1700, Preceded by Duke of York’s Laws in Force from the Year 1676 to the Year 1682, with an Appendix Containing Laws Relating to the Organization of the Provincial Courts and Historical Matter. Harrisburg, 1879.

Graffagnino, J. Kevin. Shaping of Vermont: From the Wilderness to the Centennial, 1749–1877. Rutland and Bennington, Vt.: Vermont Heritage Press and Bennington Museum, 1983. Accompanied by an excellent portfolio of map reproductions.

Hall, Hiland. History of Vermont, from Its Discovery to Its Admission into the Union in 1791. Albany, 1868.

Hart, Albert Bushnell, ed. Commonwealth History of Massachusetts, Colony, Province, and State. 5 vols. New York: States History Co., 1927–1930.

Hayes, Lyman S. “History of Cumberland County.” In Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society for the Years 1923, 1924 and 1925, pp. 198–219. Before 1930 volumes in this series were identified only by year; series and volume numbers were not used.

Hayward, John. Gazetteer of Vermont. Boston, 1849.

Hill, Ralph Nading. Yankee Kingdom: Vermont and New Hampshire. New York: Harper and Row, 1960.

Historical Records Survey, New Hampshire. Belknap County. Inventory of the County Archives of New Hampshire, no. 1. Manchester: New Hampshire Historical Records Survey, 1938.

Historical Records Survey, New Hampshire. Carroll County (Ossipee). Inventory of the County Archives of New Hampshire, no. 2. Manchester: New Hampshire Historical Records Survey, 1939.

Historical Records Survey, New Hampshire. Cheshire County. Inventory of the County Archives of New Hampshire, no. 3. Manchester: New Hampshire Historical Records Survey, 1939.

Historical Records Survey, New Hampshire. Coos County. Inventory of the County Archives of New Hampshire, no. 4. Manchester: New Hampshire Historical Records Survey, 1940.

Historical Records Survey, New Hampshire. Grafton County. Inventory of the County Archives of New Hampshire, no. 5. Manchester: New Hampshire Historical Records Survey, 1940.

“Historical Sketch of the Northern Boundary of New-Hampshire.” Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society 2 (1827): 267–290.

Hunt, Elmer Munson. New Hampshire Town Names, and Whence They Came. Peterborough, N.H.: William L. Bauhan, 1970.

Hurd, D. Hamilton, ed. History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire. Philadelphia, 1886.

Hurd, D. Hamilton, ed. History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire. Philadelphia, 1885.

Hutchinson, Thomas. History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay. Edited by Lawrence Shaw Mayo. 3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936.

International Boundary Commission, United States and Canada. Joint Report upon the Survey and Demarcation of the Boundary between the United States and Canada from the Source of the St. Croix River to the St. Lawrence River. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1925.

Jackson, Charles T. Views and Map, Illustrative of the Scenery and Geology of the State of New Hampshire. Boston, 1845.

Jones, Matt Bushnell. Vermont in the Making, 1750–1777. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1939.

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Langdon, Samuel. “Accurate Map of His Majesty’s Province of New Hampshire in New England and All Adjacent Country Northern to the River St. Lawrence, and Eastward to Penobscot Bay.” 1756. MS. Faden Collection 9. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C. Photostatic copy at the Newberry Library, Chicago.

Lates, Richard, and Harold Meeks. “Line Which Separates Vermonters from Canadians: A Short History of Vermont’s Northern Border with Quebec.” Vermont History 44 (1976): 71–77.

McCarty, Virgil L. “Boundary Controversy: The Brownington-Johnson Land Problem.” Vermont Quarterly 15 (1947): 157–176.

McCarty, Virgil L. "Evolution of Vermont Counties." [1941]. Historical Records Survey, Vermont, 1936–1942. Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier. Typescript. A very useful collection of boundary laws and sketch maps of boundary changes.

McClellan’s Map of Windham County, Vermont . Philadelphia: C. McClellan and Co., 1856. Reprinted as McClellan’s Map of Windham County, Vermont, 1856: The Atlas Edition. West Chesterfield, N.H.: Old Maps, 1984.

MacDonald, Grace E., comp. Check-List of Session Laws. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1936. Complemented by Pollack (below), this guide lists all state session laws through 1935.

MacDonald, Grace E., comp. Check-List of Statutes of States of the United States of America, Including Revisions, Compilations, Digests, Codes and Indexes. Providence: Oxford Press, 1937. The most complete guide to state codes through 1937.

Mackintosh, W. A. “Canada and Vermont: A Study in Historical Geography.” Canadian Historical Review 8 (1927): 9–30.

Map of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, Compiled from the Latest Authorities . Philadelphia: A. Finley [1826].

Map of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, Compiled from the Latest Authorities. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1847. This map is nearly identical to the 1852 version (below).

Map of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, Compiled from the Latest Authorities. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1852. This map is nearly identical to the 1847 version (above).

Map of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, from the Most Authentic Sources . Hartford: H. F. Sumner and Co., 1834.

Massachusetts. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. Edited by Nathaniel B. Shurtleff. 5 vols. in 6. Boston, 1853–1854. Cited as Mass. Recs.

Meader, J. W. Merrimack River: Its Source and Its Tributaries. Boston, 1869.

Meeks, Harold A. Geographic Regions of Vermont: A Study in Maps. Geography Publications at Dartmouth, no. 10. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College, 1975.

Morison, Elizabeth Forbes, and Elting E. Morison. New Hampshire: A Bicentennial History. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1976.

Morris, Gerald E., and Richard D. Kelly, Jr., eds. Maine Bicentennial Atlas: An Historical Survey. Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1976.

Morrissey, Charles T. Vermont: A Bicentennial History. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1981.

New Hampshire. Laws of New Hampshire, Including Public and Private Acts and Resolves [1680–1835]. 10 vols. Concord, 1904–1922. Cited as N.H. Early Laws.

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Randall, E. H. “Weston.” Map copied from Weston Town Clerk’s Plan, June 1922. MS. Vermont Historical Society, Montpelier.

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Sauthier, Claude Joseph. Chorographical Map of the Province of New-York in North America, Divided into Counties, Manors, Patents and Townships, Exhibiting Likewise All the Private Grants of Land Made and Located in That Province, Compiled from Actual Surveys Deposited in the Patent Office at New York. London, 1779.

Sherman, Michael, Gene Sessions, and P. Jeffrey Potash. Freedom and Unity: A History of Vermont. Barre: Vermont Historical Society, 2004.

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