Excerpt from Annual Report, 1990 The first city ever organized on paper in New Hampshire was incorporated by the legislature under the name of the City of Franklin. This city was to be laid out, according to the plans, at the approach to the bridge on the Durham shore. In the year 1794, the New Hampshire Legislature granted a Charter to the proprietors of the Piscataqua Bridge for the purpose of building a bridge across Great Bay, from Fox Point in Newington to Cedar Point in Durham at the mouth of the Oyster River. The work began in April and on November 25th of the same year the first toll was taken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.