From The Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire (in three parts), 
compiled from the best authorities, by Eliphalet Merrill and the Late 
Phinehas Merrill, Esq.,
Printed by C. Norris & Co. , Exeter, NH, ©1817, pg 104

Part Two of Gazetteer:

CONCORD - in Grafton county, was incorporated in 1768, and was formerly called 
Gunthwait.  It is a flourishing town.  Its population has nearly doubled within the last 10 
years, and in 1810, it amounted to 1126.  The value of property here has increased with 
the same rapidity.  It is bounded N.E. by Littleton and Bethlehem, S.E. by Franconia, 
S.W. by Landaff, and N.W. by Lyman, and contains 29, 130 acres.  There are here several 
ponds, vis. Minks, Straters, etc.  Two branches of the great Amonoosuck meet in this 
town and pass through it.  An iron factory lies on the eastern border  of the town, adjacent 
to Franconia.  Large quantities of lime-stone are found here, and large kilns are already 
erected, in which are burnt 400 hogsheads yearly.  All the iron ore, which supplies two 
furnaces, is lug from a quarry situated in the S.E. part of the town, about 4 miles distant 
from the furnaces.  There are in this town 1 meeting house 3 corn mills 5 saw mills 1 mill 
for dressing cloth and an oil mill.  There is here a free will Baptist church, over which 
Elder J. Quimby was ordained September 1800.


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