Vital Records from the New Hampshire Gazette

These records were compiled by Otis G. Hammond, former director of the New Hampshire Historical Society. They were abstracted by Priscilla Hammond in 1937.

Many of these early records include valuable details and clues that may not be available elsewhere. Below is a sampling of these records:

(1759, Nov. 30) BORN, in Windham, N. H., to William Waugh, Nov. 5, 1759, a son and a daughter, "which completed the number of ten legitimate children, five sons and five daughters, four double and two single births, eight alive and like to live. They were married Nov. 30, 1749.

(1760, March 14) DIED, in Middletown, R. I., Feb. 20, 1760, Mrs. Mary Turner, leaving 13 children, 98 grandchildren, 117 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandchild.

(1765, May 3) DIED, in Philadelphia, March 17, 1765, Mrs. Margaret Gray, in her 60th year, married nine times.

(1765, Jan. 18) DIED, in Portsmouth, John Damering, so badly frozen Jan. 11, 1765, that he died soon afterwards.

DIED in Dover, N. H., Feb. 23, 1773, Mrs. Christina Baker, born in Dover in March, 1688-9. With her mother she was taken captive by Indians in June 1689, and carried to Canada, where she married and had several children. Her husband died, and in 1714 she was exchanged, afterwards marrying Capt. Thomas Baker of North Hampton, N. H.; in Hingham, Mass."

Several casualty lists of the French and Indian Wars were published in the Gazette, such as

A list of Rogers's Rangers who were killed, wounded, or captured in an action with French and Indians near Lake Champlain Jan. 18, 1757

List of the killed and wounded at the late action near Ticonderoga

Names of the Officers killed, wounded, and taken prisoners without the Walls of Quebec, 28th of April, 1760

The original text is part of the R. Stanton Avery Collections, call number Mss A 6906.

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