New England Historic Genealogical Society

Record Book of New Castle, New Hampshire

Compiled by John Eldridge Frost in 1955, this book contains records that he transcribed from the gravestones at New Castle Cemetery, and it is supplemented with records from A.H. Locke's Portsmouth and New Castle Cemetery Inscriptions (1907). The dates in this database range from 1742 to 1956.

New Castle, a one square mile island on the tip of the seacoast, is the smallest town in the state of New Hampshire. A part of Rockingham County, the town was incorporated in 1693, though settled at a much earlier date. According the introduction of the record book, the graves of the pioneer settlers have never been found.

The original transcription is kept in the R. Stanton Avery Collections, call number NH NEW 26.

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Citation Information:

Record Book of New Castle, New Hampshire (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003) Typescript transcription of gravestones and supplemented with abstacted data from Portsmouth and New Castle Cemetery Inscriptions by A.H. Locke. Transcribed by John Eldridge Frost, R. Stanton Avery Collections, NEHGS, Boston, MA. "New Castle (New Hampshire) Record Book," 1955.)

 

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