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  Coos County, New Hampshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coos County (pronounced "CO-ahss" with two syllables, and sometimes rendered as Coös County) is a county in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, including the whole of the state's northern panhandle.
Coos county was separated from the northern part of Grafton County, New Hampshire and organized at Berlin in 1803, although the county seat was later moved to Lancaster.
In the county the population is spread out with 22.80% under the age of 18, 6.30% from 18 to 24, 26.70% from 25 to 44, 25.70% from 45 to 64, and 18.50% who are 65 years of age or older.
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 New Hampshire - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
New Hampshire was founded by Captain John Mason and first settled in 1623, just three years after the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts and it was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution.
New Hampshire's major regions are the White Mountains region, the Lakes area, the Seacoast region, the Merrimack Valley area, the Monadnock region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area.
According to the Census Bureau, as of 2003, the population of New Hampshire was 1,287,687.
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 List of New Hampshire county name etymologies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carroll County, New Hampshire: Carroll is named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Coos County, New Hampshire: Coos is named for a Native American word meaning crooked, in reference to a bend in the Connecticut River.
Sullivan County, New Hampshire: Sullivan is named for John Sullivan, the third and fifth governor of New Hampshire.
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 Coos County, New Hampshire - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Coos County (pronounced "CO-ahss" with two syllables) is a county located in the U.S. State of New Hampshire.
The county includes all of the northern one-third of the state, with beautiful mountain scenes and famous fall foliage.
The county includes the northern portion of the White Mountains, including the Presidential Range, the most prominent of which is Mount Washington, the highest peak in New England.
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 Cheshire County Official Website
New Hampshire covers 707 square miles in the southwestern corner of the state.
Cheshire County government consists of two branches; a Legislative Branch, referred to as the county delegation, which is comprised of twenty-four Representatives elected for 2 year terms, and an Executive Branch consisting of three commissioners.
The Cheshire County commissioners appoint a full-time county administrator to oversee the daily operations of the county.
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 New Hampshire Almanac
Because county boundaries have changed over the years, researchers must first determine what county the town was in at the date in quesiton.
Several of these were indigenous to New Hampshire: the Freewill Baptists were organized by Benjamin Randel at New Durham in 1780; the same year Caleb Rich founded a distinctive form of Universalism at Richmond; and in 1803 Elias Smith formed the first congregation of the Christian Connection at Portsmouth.
The largest dissenting community, however, was the Separate-Baptists, pioneered in New Hampshire during the Revolution by the itinerancy of Chaplain Hezekiah Smith of Haverhill and consolidated around the leadership of his highly successful convert, Dr. Samuel Shepherd of Brentwood.
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 Coos County, New Hampshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Coos County (pronounced with two syllables) is a county located in the U.S. State of New Hampshire.
As of the census of 2000, there are 33,111 people, 13,961 households, and 9,158 families residing in the county.
The racial makeup of the county is 98.05% White, 0.12% African American, 0.28% Native American, 0.37% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.16% from other races, and 1.00% from two or more races.
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 Coos County New Hampshire Real Estate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The first reference to the area is found in the 1704 records of New Hampshire, which names the area "Cohoss – a large and valuable tract of land along the Connecticut River." Over 90% of the land is forested, 24% of which is either State or National Forest.
Coös County is the northern-most of the ten New Hampshire counties, isolated from the rest of the state by a mountainous terrain.
It is bordered by Canada to the north, Vermont to the west, Maine to the east, and Grafton and Carroll counties to the south.
www.relocate-america.com /states/NH/cities/coos_cty.htm   (679 words)

  
 USGenWeb Archives: Coos County, New Hampshire
Coos County Rivers and Mountains from Merrill's 1817 Gazetteer of New Hampshire
Coos County Townships from Hayward's 1849 Gazetteer of New Hampshire
Coos County, NH pensioners inscribed on the pension list under the Act of Congress passed on the 18th of March, 1818.
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 Mount Washington (New Hampshire) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mount Washington (formerly Agiocochook) is, at 6,288 ft. (1916.6 m) the highest peak in the northeastern U.S. It is located in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, and in Coos County, New Hampshire.
While nearly the whole mountain is in the White Mountain National Forest, a small area (within a radius of something like a quarter mile), above 5,500 feet (1690 m) and including the summit, is the whole of Mount Washington State Park.
However, part of the reason for the manned observatory is to see and survive some of the worst weather on Earth.
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 Coos County, New Hampshire -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The county includes all of the northern one-third of the state's north-south extent, with beautiful mountain scenes and famous fall foliage.
The (The total national income divided by the number of people in the nation) per capita income for the county is $17,218.
In New Hampshire, locations, grants, townships (which are different from towns), and purchases are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part on any town and have limited self-government (if any, as many are uninhabited).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Co/Coos_County,_New_Hampshire.htm   (1274 words)

  
 Ancestrs - pafg09.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
She died 15 Apr 1896 in Whitefield, Coos County New Hampshire and was buried in Pine Street Cementry, Whitefield, NH.
She died 3 Mar 1850 in Whitefield, Coos Co, NH and was buried 9 Mar 1850 in Pine Street Cementry, Whitefield, NH.
Charles I (W,Ervyn) Lane was born 27 Nov 1854 in Whitefield Coos, New Hampshire.
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 The Early Days of Thaddeus Lowe, Echo Mtn. Echoes Fall 1999
His mother Alpha Green Lowe was a native of Shelburne, New Hampshire and it was from her that Thad’s strong will was said to come.
His new family treated him like a servant, and dismissed many of his questions about life, saying there was too much work to do to fuss with such things.
Thad also received the news that balloonist John Wise, was preparing to break the deadlock in Vera Cruz in the 1845 War in Mexico by bombing the San Juan Castle with bombs from the air.
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 COOS COUNTY NH - History and Genealogy
Coos was taken from Grafton County, one of the five original counties of the State--Rockingham, Strafford, Hillsborough, Cheshire, Grafton--and comprises all New Hampshire north of the present counties of Grafton and Carroll.
The census of 1880 gave the total population of this county as 18,850, with the town of Lancaster having the largest population within that county of 2,721 (Berlin at that time had 1,144 citizens).
Not long after the formation of Coos county, Chatham was annexed to Strafford county, and upon the erection of Carroll county, Chatham was included in that county.
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 The Political Graveyard: Coos County, N.H.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, 1881-85 (3rd District 1881-83, 2nd District 1883-85).
Coos County, N.H. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of
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 Coos County New Hampshire, Location, Description, Maps
Coos County is the home of Mount Washington, the the premiere mountain peak of the Eastern US, (although not the tallest).
The trail up is marked by memorials to those who have fallen and a much too rapidly growing list of casualties is kept at the summit.
Twin Mountain, New Hampshire is a village in the center of the White Mts.
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 New Hampshire Vital Records Information for Counties
Birth, death and marriage records since 1640 may be obtained from the City or Town Clerk in the city or town where the event occurred.
Copies of divorce records may be obtained from the State office or from the Clerk of the Superior Court in the county where the divorce was granted.
Hillsborough, NH Copies of divorce records may be obtained from the State office or from the Clerk of the Superior Court in the county where the divorce was granted.
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 Coos County, New Hampshire Local History & Genealogy
Coos County was formed, in 1803, from a portion of Grafton County.
Coos County towns include: Berlin, Carroll, Clarksville, Colebrook, Columbia, Dalton, Dixville Notch, Dummer, Errol, Gorham, Jefferson, Lancaster, Milan, Millsfield, Northumberland, Pittsburg, Randolph, Shelburne, Stark, Stewartstown, Stratford, Whitefield.
U.S. Census Bureau Interactive County Maps for New Hampshire.
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 Digital Coos County Map, Maps of Coos County County, New Hampshire.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Coos County Map, Maps of Coos County and all New Hampshire County Maps.
Every county map is available, but we may not yet have your county of interest completed.
Individual County Overview™ vector graphics are priced by population, with prices ranging from $275 to $425 per county.
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 New Hampshire Almanac
If the county name is not linked, see the "County Government Offices" section further down the page to obtain additional information.
Governor John Wentworth (served 1767-1775) named the first five counties in NH after his friends and relatives and places in England.
Much of the information reported is at the town or city level, rather than the county level, but miscellaneous county information can be found here, such as a listing of NH towns by county.
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 Towns, Regions, Rivers, Mountains etc. named after Columbus
As with most things in the new capital, a group of men got together to settle the matter.
A compromise was struck: the federal enclave would be known as the city of Washington, and the general area would be called the District of Columbia.
There was no public proclamation of the new name, however.
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 The Tufts Daily - Tufts sophomore elected to N.H. House of Reps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The New Hampshire House of Representatives seats 400 representatives, making it the third-largest parliamentary body in the English-speaking world.
The average age of New Hampshire state representatives is 59 years old - a mark Merrick misses by 40 years.
Merrick hopes to be chosen for either of these committees in the New Hampshire House.
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 New Hampshire Counties, New Hampshire (More Information)
The county seat of Coos County, New Hampshire, is West Stewartstown.
Grafton County is a rural county and is the second largest county geographically, in the west...
The county seat of Rockingham County, New Hampshire, is Brentwood.
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