WELCOME TO SALISBURY, NEW HAMPSHIRE in Merrimack Co. Founded 1768 Population 1998 - 1,137 Last Updated March 24, 2002    What's New Welcome to the Salisbury, New Hampshire USGenWeb Page. The name of Salisbury is derived from the Latin salus, which signifies safety, or health, and the Anglo-Saxon "bury", or "burgh", a corporate town, - hence, the town of health and safety. It was named directly from Salisbury, Mass., which was so called from Salisbury, England.    It is situated in latitude 43° 23', on the west bank of the Merrimack and Pemigewasset Rivers, sixteen miles north of Concord and eighty miles from Boston. It was originally bounded north by Andover, east by the rivers, above named, south by Boscawen and Warner and what was Kearsarge Gore, and contains twenty-eight thousand six hundred acres. If you have any records or information for Salisbury that you would like to contribute to this page, please let me know. I will be happy to post them here. Also, all comments, suggestions and corrections are welcomed.  E-Mail me Search this site-try alternate spellings   Search ANY word Search ALL words  Search EXACT phrase    Help Birth Records 1889-1896  Biographies Cemeteries Census       1800 Census       1840 Census Index Church Records       Salisbury Meeting House       Salisbury Baptist Church Death Records       1889-1893 Family Records - These are family records found in the Town Records of Salisbury. Family Records Index This is an index of father's names in Vol. 1 of the Salisbury Town Record Book Genealogical Web-sites related to Salisbury. If you have a Salisbury related website, please let me know, and I will list it here. History - Now includes the complete History from the book by D. Hamilton Hurd. Marriages Military Pensions Queries for Merrimack County Salisbury Resources - Town offices, Library, Vital records Lookups: If you have any reference material on Salisbury and would like to volunteer to do lookups, please E-Mail me. When requesting a lookup, please follow these general guidelines, as well as any guidelines posted by the Lookup Volunteer. 1. On the subject line enter Salisbury Lookup. 2. Put the name of what you are requesting a lookup from in the first line. 3. Limit your request to 1 or 2 specific names on separate lines. 4. Don't forget to thank your volunteer for their time and effort. Volunteers We have our first lookup volunteer! Thank you, Myrna!  Myrna Colby Toutant  toucowi@frontiernet.net has an old Salisbury history. The binding is gone and some of the index pages at the back are gone.     THE HISTORY OF SALISBURY NEW HAMPSHIRE, FROM DATE OF SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME, THE WHOLE INTERSPERSED WITH NUMEROUS INTERESTING INCIDENTS,    EMBELLISHED WITH MAPS, CUTS, AND PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS.    COLLATED BY JOHN J. DEARBORN    EDITED BY JAMES O. ADAMS AND HENRY P. ROLFE    MANCHESTER, NH PRINTED BY WILLIAM E. MOORE 1890    Copyrighted 1884 by John J. Dearborn. If anyone is interested in any info that this book might contain, I can look it up. Merrimack County, NH USGenWeb Project New Hampshire USGenWeb Project USGenWeb Project New Hampshire Historical Society NHHS has Some Church records for Salisbury, many old newspapers on microfilm, annual town reports, Revolutionary pension applications and much other very useful information. New Hampshire State Library NHSL has the old Town Records books of Salisbury, as well as 1,000's of books about NH history.  State of NH-Division of Records Management & Archives  This office has most of the deeds & wills for NH, some Civil War records,as well as some other information. You are the  Visitor Since June 24, 2000 Thank you for stopping by! This USGenWeb Page is maintained by  Herbert L. Girtman, Sr. Copyright 2000, 2001 - by Rick Girtman Copyright 2002 - by Herbert L. Girtman, Sr. All rights reserved. This page generously  Hosted By RootsWeb Graphics By