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 147

Part Two of Gazetteer:

HOPKINTON - a township in Hillsborough county, incorporated in 1765, and now 
containing 2,216 inhabitants; bounded N. by Boscawen and Warner, E. by Concord, S. by 
Bow, Dunbarton and Weare, and W. by Henniker, comprising 26,967 acres.  Contoocook river has a serpentine course through this town and receives Black water and Warner 
rivers.  Three is in this town a handsome village containing about 50 dwelling houses, a 
congregational meeting house several stores, mechanic shops, etc. There is also in other 
parts of the town a Baptist and several other meeting houses.  The soil in Hopkinton is 
generally of an excellent quality.  Rev. Stephen Scales was ordained here in 1757, and 
removed in 1770, his successors have been Rev. Elijah Fletcher, Jacob Cram, and Ethan 
Smith the present pastor.  Elder Abner Jones was ordained over the Baptist church in 
1814. Hopkinton is upon the whole a handsome and flourishing town.  One term of the 
superior court and one of the common pleas is held here annually.
	On the 27th of April, 1746, a party of Indians entered one of the garrisoned houses 
in this town, the door having been accidentally left open.  Eight of the people were carried 
off, and several of them died in captivity.




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