Source:New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers

Series Information

The New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers are a series of 40 volume series published by the New Hampshire state legislature, and compiled and edited over 77 years by various editors. The primary editors were Nathaniel Bouton, Isaac Weare Hammond, Albert Stillman Batchellor, Henry Harrison Metcalf, and Otis Grant Hammond. The volumes include information on provincial and state documents and records, town records and charters, rolls and documents relating to soldiers in the Revolutionary War (and in the French and Indian wars), probate records, and court records. Many of the volumes include a wealth of genealogical data.

Edward Holden posted a detailed summary of the volumes on the website of the New England Historic Genealogical Society (americanancesters.org). This summary is available online: New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers (PDF file).

More specific source pages on WeRelate

Some of the sub-series and individual volumes in the series have their own source pages on WeRelate.

• Volume 9: Town Papers. Documents and Records Relating to Towns in New Hampshire
• Volumes 14–17: Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War
• Volumes 24–25: Town Charters Granted within the Present Limits of New Hampshire
• Volume 26: New Hampshire Grants Being Transcripts of the Charters of Townships
• Volumes 27–28: Township Grants of Lands in New Hampshire, Included in the Masonian Patent issued subsequent to 1746 by the Masonian Proprietary
• Volume 29: Documents Relating to the Masonian Patent, 1630–1846
• Volume 30: Miscellaneous Revolutionary Documents of New Hampshire
• Volumes 31–39: Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire

Online editions

Most of the volumes of the series are available on Internet Archive (archive.org). On the more specific source pages above, links have been provided to copies available.

All 40 volumes of the New Hampshire Provincial and State Papers are also available as PDF files on the Secretary of State website for the State of New Hampshire under Archives and Records Management:
New Hampshire State Papers

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