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 165
Part Two of Gazetteer:
NEW BOSTON - in Hillsborough county, was incorporated in 1763, and contained by the last census, a population of 1,810 souls. It is bounded N. by Weare, E. by Goffstown and Bedford, S. by Amherst and Mount-Vernon, and W. by Lyndeborough, comprising an area of 26,538 acres.
Several branches of Piscataquog river flow through its S.W. extremity into Goffstown and throu� its S.E. part the 2d N.H. turnpike has its course. There is here a Baptist and a Presbyterian meeting house, 7 school houses, several mills, and a wire factory incorporated in 1812. Rev. Solomon Moore was settled in New Boston in 1768, died in 1803, and was succeeded in 1806 by the Rev. E.P. Bradford the present pastor. Elder J. Stone was ordained over the Baptist church in 1806, and is still in office.
Submitted by T.C. Parziale 5/30/00
New Boston