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Land Title Research

Collections that might be useful in Researching Land Titles

Provincial Deeds, 1670-1772

Rockingham County Deeds, 1772-c.1840

Grafton County Deeds, 1772-c.1860

Town Charters

Town Records (for some towns)

Masonian Plans (layouts -- some showing lots & ranges -- at time of charter of establishment of towns with Masonian Curve)

Town Plans of 1805 (shows boundaries of each town, other detail varies depending on the surveyor)

Surveyors' Records -- plans, fieldbooks, research notes
    Oren James, c.1890-c.1950, Northwood, Deerfield, Loudon area
    True Chesley, c.1925-c.1975, Northwood area
    George Lane, 20th century, Exeter area
    Samuel Lane, 18th century
    Alfred Osborne, mid-20th century
    Lewis Perley, 20th century, Lakes Region
    Albert Schaal, c.1950-c.1975, Peterborough area

Road and Highway layouts of state Roads, c.1790-c.1900. There is a file for each town.

Provincial Court Records., c.1650-1772

County Court Records
    Rockingham, 1772-c.1920
    Merrimack, c.1825-c.1885
    Hillsborough, 1772-c.1880
    Sullivan [not processed]
    Strafford [not processed]

Provincial Probate, c.1650-1772. Later records at Counties.

Perambulations of town boundaries (for many towns)

State boundaries with Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine

Connecticut River boundary dispute records

White Pine Blister rust maps, 1930s, 1950s, for towns affected

Railroad establishment records, c.1840-c.1920

Petitions (to Legislature, to Governor and Executive Council)

Plans of Land -- a small but useful collection of various plots

Title Deeds to state-owned property

Miscellaneous (indexes in Archives Reference Room)
    Roll Files
    Flat Files

New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers, 40 volumes
(c.1625-c.1793 [published 1864-1942]
    Index to NH State Papers adobe acrobat reader symbol

Index to Laws of New Hampshire, to 1883

Index to Council Records

Records of the Executive Council

Patten Papers, c.1737-1819, at the Supreme Court Law Library on Noble Drive in Concord. Matthew and David Patten were surveyors in the Bedford area.

Land Surveying Terms  adobe acrobat reader symbol

NH Bar Title Standards     NH Land Surveyors Association

 

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