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��COUNTIES AND TOWNS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

��tain the names given when their charters were granted. They are found by coun- ties as follows :

Rockingham. — Candia, Charmingfare ; Chester, Cheshire; Danville, Hawke; Fremont, Poplin; Londonderry, Nut- field ; New Castle, Great Island.

Strafford and Belknap. — No changes.

Carroll. — Albany, Burton ; Conway, Pigwackett; Jackson, Adams; Ossipee, New Garden; Wakefield, East Town.

Merrimack. — Andover, Emerisstown ; Boscawen, Contoocook; Bradford, New Bradford; Concord, Penacook and Rum- ford; Dunbarton, Stark's Town; Henni- ker, Number 6; Hill, New Chester; Hop- kinton, New Hopkinton; Newbury, Fishersfield; New London, Dantzic; Salisbury, Baker's Town ; Sutton, Per- ry's Town; Warner, New Amesbury; Wilmot, Kearsarge.

Hillsborough. — Amherst, Souhegan- West ; Antrim, Society Land ; Bedford, Souhegan-East ; Brookline, Raby ; Fran- cestown, New Boston Addition ; Hudson, Nottingham-West ; Litchfield, Brenton's Farm; Lyndeborough, Salem Canada; Milford, Mile Slip; New Ipswich, Ips- wich Canada; Sharon, Peterborough Slip; Weare, Hale's Town; Windsor, Campbell's Gore.

Cheshire. — Alstead, Newtown ; Dublin, Monadnock, No. 2 ; Fitzwilliam, Monad- nock, No. 4 ; Gilsum, Boyle ; Hinsdale, Fort Dummer; Jaffrey, Monadnock, No. 2 ; Keene, Upper Ashuelot ; Marlbor- ough, Monadnock, No. 5; Nelson. Pack- ersfield ; Rindge, Monadnock, No. 1 ; Stoddard, Limerick; Swanzey, Lower Ashuelot; Walpole, Bellows Town; Westmoreland, Great Meadow; Winches- ter, Arlington.

Sullivan. — Charlestown, No. 4; Lemp- ster, Dupplin ; Springfield, Protect- worth; Sunapee, Saville; Washington, Camden.

��Grafton. — Benton, Coventry ; Ells- worth, Trecothick; Enfield, Belham; Franconia, Morristown ; Groton, Cocker- mouth ; Haverhill, Lower Cohos ; Lisbon, Concord; Littleton, Chiswick and Ap- thorp; Orange, Cardigan; Woodstock, Peeling.

Coos. — Berlin, Maynesborough ; Car- roll, Breton Woods; Colebrook, Cole- burne; Columbia, Cockburne; Dalton, Apthorp; Gorham, Shelburne Addition ; Jefi'erson, Dartmouth ; Lancaster, Upper Cohos; Milan, Paulsburg; Pittsburg, In- dian Stream; Randolph, Durand; Stark, Percy; Stewartstown, Stewart.

NAMES OF INDIAN DERIVATION.

The streams and mountains of New Hampshire, the names of which are of Indian origin, are more numerous than the towns. Merrimack, Nashua and Sunapee are all which come within the latter class, while the hills, mountains and streams with Indian names are many, and distributed throughout the State. Some of these are Ossipee, Con- toocook, Soucook, Suncook, Saco, Mo- nadnock, Kearsarge, Coos, Cocheco, Sun- apee, Unconoonock, Chocorua, Pemige- wassett, Mascomy, Massabesic, Amonoo- suck, Piscataquog, Souhegan, Andro- scoggin and others. Some of these are more euphonious than many of purely English origin, and are in no danger of being changed.

SCOTCH AND IRISH NAMES.

These do not abound in our State. We include in our list only Antrim, Derry, Dublin, Dunbarton and Londonderry. The town of Orange was incorporated as Cardigan, and the change was no im- provement. Its mountain is still known as Cardigan, a name, we think,.of Scotch origin.

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