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Hanover (N.H.: Town)

 

Biography

The town of Hanover, New Hampshire, received its royal charter on July 4, 1761. The town's first settler was proprietor Edmund Freeman who arrived with his family in 1765. In 1770, with the encouragement and promised financial support of the Hanover proprietors, the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock moved his recently-founded Dartmouth College, and Moors Indian Charity School, to Hanover. In the 1780's, Hanover and other New Hampshire towns bordering the Connecticut River, joined together to form Dresden, in the then-independent republic of Vermont. For much of the 19th and 20th century, the development of the town and the College were significantly intertwined, the prosperity and growth of each concerned with the other.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Hanover, N.H. extract

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 794211
Mss 794211
Date(s): 1794-03-11
Scope and Contents

Extract from Hanover, N.H. from the records of the town meeting accepting the report of the committee on Joseph Lee's account.

Hanover, N.H. Selectmen letter

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 801309
Mss 801309
Date(s): 1801-05-09
Scope and Contents

Hanover, N.H. Selectmen draft of the records of the town meeting.

Hanover (N.H.: Town) records

 Collection
Identifier: DH-1
DH-1
Date(s): 1761 to 1995
Scope and Contents The Town of Hanover's archival records held in the Dartmouth College Archives span the years between 1761 and 1995. The bulk of the records occur between 1800 and 1970, and chiefly are comprised of record books; account books; minutes; birth, death, and marriage certificates; highway surveys; tax warrants; and tax inventories. Other types of records include annual reports, maps, plans, deeds, architectural and engineering drawings, clippings and printed matter, memoranda, and...

Hanover (N.H.) votes

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 771226
Mss 771226
Date(s): 1771-03-26
Scope and Contents

Hanover (N.H.), Votes relative to Dartmouth College by the town of Hanover. Miscellaneous votes concerning the fixing of Dartmouth in the town of Hanover, and the estblishment of a parish, three miles square.

Hanover Town Meeting

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 780390
Mss 780390
Date(s): 1780-06
Scope and Contents

Rules for drafting militia and list of men already in militia and alarm list.

Hanover Town Meeting

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 780403
Mss 780403
Date(s): 1780-07-03
Scope and Contents

Vote to raise men for militia, their pay and list of men in service.

Hanover Town Meeting vote

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 790318
Mss 790318
Date(s): 1790-05-18
Abstract

In English.

Petition of Towns of Plainfield, Lebanon, Cornish, Hanover, Canaan, and Cardigan

 Item 1
Identifier: Mss 786151
Mss 786151
Date(s): 1786-02-01
Abstract

In English.

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