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Don't forget the 2008 Calendar from the Chesterfield Historical Society
School #10 Record
Cemetery Book
Fisk Account Book
1862 Civil War Roster
Tax Records 1787-1799
Listed above are several very old documents of town history which have been scanned.
Origin: Established in 1735 while this part of New Hampshire was still under governance of Massachusetts, This town was once known as Township Number 1 along Connecticut River. After New Hampshire became an independent province under Governor Benning Wentworth, the town was incorporated in 1752 as Chesterfield, after Philip Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield. The Earl served as Secretary of State and joined William Pitt in opposing what they considered England's unfair treatment of the American Colonies. Chesterfield was the birthplace of Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1941 to 1946.
Chesterfield contains 45.6 square miles of land area and 2.0 square miles of inland water area.
1,905 residents in 1790
3,554
in 2000