History of Campton, New Hampshire, USA

In Campton May 31, Mr. JOSIAH BLAISDELL, aged 33: killed while falling a tree. He was ever a firm friend of his country, and was on board a row galley in the fleet under Com. Macdonough, in the memorable battle of Lake Champlain.

The Blair Bridge is a wooden covered bridge originally built in 1829, that crosses the Pemigewasset River near Campton, New Hampshire, United States.

Campton, New Hampshire
Grafton county. Is bounded N. by Thornton, E. by Sandwich, S. by Holderness and Plymouth, W. by Rumney; is 50 miles from Concord and 75 from Portsmouth. Its surface is broken and uneven, abounding with rocky ledges, and having several mountainous tracts. Besides Pemigewasset river, running N. and S. through nearly the centre of the town, it is watered by Mad and Beebe's rivers, which fall into the Pemigewasset on the E., and by West Branch river and Bog brook on the W. The land in the valleys is generally good, and there is some good intervale. The high land us good for grazing. The forest trees are mostly deciduous. No white oak or pitch pine is found N. of the centre of the town. Iron ore of an inferior quality is found in some places. The towns of Campton and Rumney were both granted in Oct. 1761 to Capt. Jabez Spencer, of East Haddam, Conn., but he dying before a settlement was effected, his heirs, in conjunction with others, obtained a new charter, Jan. 5, ...

Campton, a post-township of Grafton county, New Hampshire, 45 miles N. by W, from Concord, intersected by the Merrimack river. Population, 1439.

HISTORY OF CAMPTON NH

Campton lies in the eastern part of the county, in lat. 43 degrees 49' and long. 71 degrees 40', bounded north by Thornton, east by the county line, south by Holderness and Plymouth, and west by Rumney and Ellsworth, having an area of about 28,000 acres. This township was originally granted to Gen. Jabez Spencer, of East Hadden, Conn., and others, October 9, 1761 [It has always been recorded that the town was granted to Jabez Spencer. But Mr. I. W. Hammond, in his "Town Papers," published in 1882, stated that the charter was granted to "Christopher Holmes and sixty-three others, by the terms of the grant Mr. Holmes being appointed moderator of the first meeting." Never having seen the charter, we cannot decide which is correct. Whose name came first on the charter, however, is of little consequence, for this is all it amounted to, as the territory was, or was intended to be, divided equally among the proprietors.], but they, it seems, failed to comply with the ...