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Jefferson (Dartmouth), Stark (Percy), Stratford (New Stratford), Columbia 

 (Cockborne), Randolph (Durand), Gorham (Shelburne Addition), Berlin 

 (Mainsburgh), Milan (Paulsburgh). 



The following are marked off without names : Somersworth, the lower 

 part of Ossipee, and Lebanon. 



In addition to the territories embraced under their present appellations, 

 the following towns included additional area : Rochester added Farming- 

 ton and Milton ; Barrington added Strafford ; Chester added Auburn and 

 Hooksett; Chichester included Pittsfield; Londonderry included Derry; 

 "Society Lands" included Deering, Francestown, Antrim, Hancock, and 

 Greenfield; Canterbury included Northfield; Gilmanton added Belmont 

 and Gilford ; Eaton embraced much of Ossipee, Madison, and Freedom. 

 Kilkenny and Percy (Stark) seem to have been magnified to three or 

 four times their proper width, and the straight east boundary is made to 

 run due north and south. The White Mountain and Upper Coos regions 

 were scarcely infringed upon by boundaries. 



The importance of this map has induced us to reproduce it in the atlas 

 as a fac-simile of one fourth the size of the original. For that reason, 

 those interested in the changes of boundaries and names that have taken 

 place since New Hampshire ceased to be a province of King George the 

 Third, may glean further items of interest by actual inspection. For the 

 same reason, it is not desirable to state, in detail, the position of the 

 numerous gores and grants that have been absorbed into adjacent town- 

 ships. I cannot forbear, however, to refer to the origin of the name 

 Kearsarge. Holland says, "Kyar Sarga mountain: by the Indians, 

 Cowissewaschook." The name seems to have been derived from that of 

 a Mr. Hezekiah Sargent, corrupted by usage into Kearsarge. It is not, 

 therefore, of Indian origin, as supposed by many. Furthermore, Kear- 

 sarge, in Warner, seems to have been the only mountain of that name in 

 1784. Hence, when the early settlers of Bartlett carried with them the 

 name of their favorite mountain, and applied it to a new peak in Chatham, 

 it cannot be expected that, in these days of rapid transit, we should 

 employ the same name, or even the corruption of ^"zarsarge, for the latter. 

 It is best to retain the original name of Pigwacket or Pequawket, as I 

 have endeavored to do uniformly in this report and on the new map. 



A similar transfer of names is seen at Colebrook. A fine mountain, 



