Vital Records of Dover, New Hampshire 1686-1850
Dover, New Hampshire (Strafford County) was first settled in 1623 and is considered “the oldest permanent settlement in New Hampshire and the seventh oldest in the United States.” The original township of Dover included the present towns of Dover, Durham, Lee, Madbury, Somersworth, Rollinsford, and parts of Newmarket, Newington, and Greenland.
This database consists of the records of 801 church admissions, 679 Baptisms, 2,409 births, 3,425 marriages, and 716 deaths. Images of the original book pages are accessible from the search results.
The original volume is available at our Boston research library, call number
F44.D7 D7 1894.To locate additional genealogy and local history resources,
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Citation Information
Vital Records of Dover, New Hampshire, 1686-1850. Dover Historical Society, 1894. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.)