"A friendly little town of 6304 residents, in Sullivan County on the Sugar River" | ||
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Newport was incorporated October 6, 1761.The first effort towards a settlement was made in the fall of 1763, by Jesse Wilcox, Ebenezer Merritt, Jesse Kelsey, and Samuel Hurd. A shire town of Sullivan county. Bounded north by Croyden, east by Sunapee and Goshen, south by Unity, and west by Claremont. Area, 25,267 acres. |
A few words about the spelling in the historic records. Please don't criticize our spelling. We have preserved the actual words in the history, as written. In the early days, education was a privilege and a great many did not have any formal schooling. |
Some Early
History names or structures in Newport |
Here are names of some early settlers |
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A Little bit
of Early History… In 1762 six people obtained from King George 111 a Charter to develope the new land. They were granted a Charter with the restriction that they must cultivate five acres of each fifty achers they got. Second condition was that they preserve all the white Pine trees for the masts of the Royal Navy's fleet of ships. In 1763 Decan Steven Wilcox and 6 men headed from Killingsworth and one hundred and sixty miles later stoped at Fort Number Four. They left there and made there way threw nearly inpassable forests to the foot of Pikes hill. There they spent the night and first thing the next morning headed back out. They arived at the foot of what is now Claremont hill There they built the first log cabin in June 1763. Along with Decon Steven Wilcox who was a man of sixty was his sons Phineas and Jesse, a son in law Samuel Hurd, and Absalom and Jesse Kelsey, and Ezra Parmalee in 1769 there were 15 family's in Newport. Primarly they built their cabins and houses along the Unity Road near where the Golf Course is now and along what now is Pine St. |
Sullivan
County Genealogy Project - Founded 1 August 1996 |
Updated 12-05-2005
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