From The Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire (in three parts), compiled from the best authorities, by Eliphalet Merrill and the Late Phinehas Merrill, Esq., Printed by C. Norris & Co., Exeter, NH, �1817, pg 146-147
Part Two of Gazetteer:
HOLLIS - a township in Hillsborough county, incorporated in 1746, and containing in 1810, a population of 1,529; bounded N. by Amherst and Millford, E. by Dunstable, S. by the line of the state, W. by Brookline, comprising 19,620 acres. There are here several ponds, viz. Flint�s, Penechunck, Long and Rocky ponds, averaging form 3 to 600 acres each. Nissitisset river crosses its S.W. extremity, and Nashua river its S.E. on which are two falls of eleven feet each. There is here a small village containing a congregational meeting house. Rev. Daniel Emerson was settled here in 1743, and died in 1810, aged 86.Rev. Eli smith, his successor, is the present pastor. There are in this town many valuable mill seats and several mills.
Submitted by T.C. Parziale 5/30/00
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