Charlestown, NH Town History
WEBMASTER'S NOTE: Street addresses, E-mail addresses and telephone numbers shown in this document may change without notice. Please feel free to advise us of changes you discover by sending us the name or URL of this Web page, the name of the entity, and the new address and/or telephone number to GFSBrenda@aol.comCharlestown was formed in 1735, when the General Court of Massachusetts gave charters to "plantations" in the upper Connecticut River Valley. Charlestown's county is Sullivan, which was formed in 1827. It's parent county was Cheshire (1771) the original county. Charlestown was first known as "The Fort at # 4".
Charlestown played an important part in the French and Indian War and also served as a gathering point for troops during the revolution.
Sources:
Ancestry's Redbook: American State, County & Town Sources, Revised Edition; edited by Alice Eicholz, Ph.D., C.G.; Ancestry; Salt Lake City, UT, 1992
http://www.chesulwind.com/fort-at-no4/history.htm (Site no longer valid - 2006)
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