Excerpt from History of the Town of Canterbury New Hampshire, Vol. 1 of 2: 1727 1912 Except when the clerk of the Proprietors resided at Oyster River Parish in Durham, from which locality a number Of the early settlers came, the records of the town have been well kept. A plan of the lots into which the present Canterbury was orig inally divided is in existence. The Province Registry Of Deeds with its excellent card index contains many of the conveyances made in town prior to the division of New Hampshire into coun ties, which took effect in 1771 under the act Of 1769. It is the most authentic evidence of who were the first settlers, aside from a few tax lists which survived destruction. The State Papers have Often supplemented the information Of the town books or supplied it when local records were deficient. The historical sermon of the Rev. William Patrick, written in 1833, thirty years after his settlement as pastor of the town church, preserved some facts not elsewhere recorded which came within his knowledge, but he accepted as reliable only part of the ac counts oi the Indian raids given to him by the immediate descend ants of the participants. These are the sources from which the story Of Canterbury has been taken for the greater part of its existence. 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.