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From: "Bill Teschek" <>
Subject: Re: County Records
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 19:34:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: <3B6DBF71.BAABB16F@mediaone.net>


> Campton was never in Strafford County. Occasionally I have noticed an
> error like that in records, which sometimes at least can be traced to where
> the other party to the record lived, or the scribe who drew up the record,
> writing their home county out of absent-mindedness. Could this be the case
> here?
> George Sanborn

I tremble a bit a disagreeing with George Sanborn on anything, but Marsha
Wiswall Lindberg's "Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research" 3d
ed. states that Campton was located first in Strafford Co. then in Grafton.
Also a preface to one of the volumes in the NH State Papers series (I don't
know which volume) lists all the towns and when they were
granted/incorporated and when they changed counties and it states:
"Campton, granted 1761, Strafford 1771, Grafton 1782."

So are these two sources incorrect George?


Bill Teschek


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