Amherst New Hampshire USGenWeb Project

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Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire

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Brief Early History of Amherst

The town of Amherst had its orgion in a grant of land made by the General Court of Massachuestts to some of the citizens of that province for services in the Narraganset war in 1675-76.
The township was granted in 1728, and was know as Narraganset, No. 3, and subsequently as Souhegan West, No. 3 It was incorporated as a town January 18, 1760, at which time it received the name of Amherst, from General Jeffrey Amherst, at that time commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America. First settlement in the township was probably made in the spring of 1735 by Samuel Lamson and Samuel Walton from Reading, MA. In September, 1741, only fourteen families were settled in the township.
(History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, (1885))

Amherst Resources

Map of Amherst --

Amherst Town Records -- Records of our Amherst Ancestors.

Amherst Vital Records Office
Amherst Selectman
PO Box 960
Amherst, NH 03031
(603) 673-6041

Amherst Census Records -- Records of State and Federal Census.

Early Proprietors of Souhegan West now Amberst from lists dated 17 July 1734, 13 Aug. 1734, and 1735. (History of Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, (1885))

Capt. Benjamin Potter, Capt. Richard Mower, David Kenney, Cornelius Tarble, Lieut. Edenezer Rayment, Jeremiah Gatchel, John Bixbe, Ens. Thomas Tarbox, William Collins, John Trask, Capt. Stephen Peabody, Robert Hale, Esq., Bryant Melendy, Andrew Balche and Lieut. Joseph Prince by right of his uncle Richard Prince, (Joseph Prince was one of the original preprietors who settle in the township, he was from Salem Village (now Danvers))

Resident Tax-Payers in Amherst, September, 1760

Men of Amherst in the Revolution

Cricket Corner Cemetery

Biographical Sketches -- Of our Ancestors - Individual Narratives.

New Hampshire Civil War History and Genealogy

Amberst Lookup Volunteers

A Few Rules Before you request a Lookup from a book.

Lookups request should be limited to one name, or perhaps two if it is a married couple.
Information given will be limited. For example if it is a cemetery lookup, the information will be name of the cemetery and the information on the headstone.
Please do not ask for "everybody with X surname" or an entire family group, or for hard copies to be mailed; the volunteers have been asked not to comply with such requests.
Please make your request as specific as possible (first name, last name, known dates, etc.).
Include the name of the book or CD and county in your request.
In the subject line enter, the Town and County Name (Some of volunteers do more than one town or county.).

Volunteers have been advised to comply with U.S. copyright laws
The 4 Golden Rules of Copyright

Materials older than 1923 are absolutely safe.
Relaying FACTS is OK (This does not mean copying)
If the use of material created by someone else diminishes the market value of that person's work, then the copyright has been violated.
Getting written (not email) permission from the author/publisher is the surest way to ensure that you are not violating copyright law.

The USGenWeb Info for Volunteers - Copyright Information

We need local volunteers who are willing to do record and library look ups. Can you help us?

After you get a rely to a Lookup request:

1. Please send a Thank You Note.
2. Send a follow up message if the information was significant - let the Volunteer who provided the Lookup share that feeling of finding important information.
3. Pass the favor on to other -- Volunteer to do Lookups in your Reference Material.

The people listed below have Volunteered to do some Amherst look ups.

Jacqueline Savage Marshall	Has a personal copy of Daniel F. Seacomb's book, "History of the Town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, 1883." It is the 1972 edition, and it is indexed.
Lookup Volunteer Needed	"Colonial Amherst. The Early History, Customs and Homes. Geography and Geology of Amherst: Life and Character of General and Lord Jeffery Amherst; Reminscences of "Cricket Corner" and "Pond Parish" Districts", by Professor Warren Upham (1916).

Amherst Links

If you know of a Amherst link that would be appropriate to add to this page,
please e-mail Fred Kunchick

Amherst Town Page -- Town Directory

Amherst Historical Society

Amherst Town Library

New England Connections -- Only New England Families and Locations

New Hampshire Historical Society - 40,000 titles - New Hampshire and New England local history and genealogy.

Other Links

American Baptist Historical Society

Allen County Public Library Fort Wayne, Indiana

Retracing the Trails of Your Ancestors Using Deed Records

USGenWeb Archive "Census-On-Line" Project

National and International Links

USGenWeb Tombstone Project

Fun Sites

BSA Troop 22 Amherst, NH

Newsletters, Journals and Mailing List Information

Hillsboro County NH Mailing list

New Hampshire Mailing List

Northeast-Roots -- Mailing List for the New England States

Amherst Queries

Please feel free to post a short query for your surname in Amherst on the

Hillsborough County Query Page

however, if your lines are not in Hillsborough County, please do not enter a query here. View Queries along with information on how to Post your own query.

Global Search Query System

Hillsborough Co. Towns - USGenWeb New Hampshire

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