Online Genealogy Library Catalogue

Last Updated:  September 23, 2007

Town Clerk Vital Records 1743-1865

As hand copied by Pelham Historian C. Frances Hobbs

Records kept alphabetically by family name, not chronologically

Town Report Vital Records 1888-1951

As scanned from the Pelham Town Reports by Hayes and Genoter

Gravestones ~ All Cemeteries ~ Earliest - 1906

Gravestone Inscriptions All Cemeteries Earliest to 1906

As handwritten by C. Parker Hildreth and Silas Coburn

In order as found on the ground plus handwritten index

Gravestone Inscriptions All Cemeteries Earliest to 1906

Same as above typed by Melinde Lutz Sanborn, NHSOG

Computer indexed by Karen Genoter

Atwood Cemetery Inscriptions

As handwritten by C. Parker Hildreth and Silas Coburn in August 1905

Gumpus Cemetery Inscriptions

In 1976 members of the Pelham Historical Society, assisted by High School students, copied and typed up all of the gravestone information from the Gumpus Cemetery. This work is particularly interesting because it contains all of the epitaphs. While there is no index associated with this work, the gravestones are list in sequentially as they were found on the ground.  Therefore, the 1906 Silas Coburn index will work for most of the gravestones recorded in 1976.

Congregational Church Records 1751-1885

Baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions & dismissals

Typed by category in alphabetical order

Pelham Tax Maps 2006

{For a more detailed description of above mentioned items go to our online bookstore}

3 Files Containing Lists of Pelham Soldiers

1. French & Indian Wars (1754-1763)
   War of 1812
   Revolutionary War (1776-1783)
    

2. Civil War (1861-1865)
   World War I (1917-1918)
    

3. World War II (1941-1945)

The Provincial and State Papers of New Hampshire - 40 Volumes with Index

Published between 1867 and 1943, those volumes were edited by Nathaniel Bouton, Isaac W. Hammond, Albert Stillman Batchellor, Henry Harrison Metcalf, and Otis Grant Hammond. About 32,000 pages. Multitude of Information on each of Pelham’s Revolutionary War soldiers, other leading Pelham citizens, and the Town of Pelham. Two thousand and seventy page every name index by Frank C. Mevers

Aylings Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1886 - 1359 Pages

Information on each Pelham Civil War Veteran and short Regimental Histories.

Biography of Benjamin Day, Stone Carver 1783-1855

By Marilyn Day, Westford, MA 2005. Benjamin Day carved many of Pelham’s oldest gravestones. Photos. Narrative.

Gage-Cutter 1918 Quitclaim Deed - 6 Pages

This original deed was donated to the Pelham Historical Society by Frederick and Ellen Merriam. 

Pelham Census Lists (12 Files)

Census List Introduction

1790

1810

1820

1830

1840

1850

1850 in Alphabetical Order

1860

1862 - Census of all able bodied male residents of Pelham

1870

1880

Pelham Population from 1767 - 1969

Maps of Pelham, NH (8 Files)

-1858 Map of Pelham, NH

-1858 East Side of Pelham, NH

-1858 West Side of Pelham, NH

-1876 Pelham, NH Town Center

-1892 Map of Pelham, NH

-1892 East Side of Pelham, NH

-1892 West Side of Pelham, NH

-1900 Map of Pelham, NH drawn by Mary "May" Hillman Sherburne

Mary "May" Hillman Sherburne, a daughter of Frank Hillman and Alice Greeley Hillman was born in 1888 and died in 1978 at the age 90.   In her later years she was a noted local artist.  Several of her paintings were displayed at the Art Exhibit held at the Pelham Public Library June 15, 1996.   At age 12, she prepared this map of Pelham, possibly as part of a school project.

Pelham, NH Histories

Town of Pelham Histories (4 Files)

-1892 Brief History of Pelham, NH by Reverend Augustus Berry

-1909 Brief History of Pelham, NH by C. W. Hobbs

-1946 - 200th Anniversary of the Town of Pelham, NH

-1974 - Pelham: Old Days & Old Ways

Mrs. C. Frances (Hobbs) McLucas was a former president of the Pelham Historical Society.  She felt strongly about the lack of written History of Pelham.  At the time of her death she was compiling this story of town history and of the Hobbs family.  We The Pelham Historical Society were requested to publish it.  We present it in its entirety - unedited and unfinished - just as Mrs. McLucas left it.

John E. Hardy Family History

In this section of the Hayes-Genoter History and Genealogy Library we will collect and make available to the members of the Pelham Historical Society information relating to Pelham’s earliest families-those families that came to Pelham prior to the official end of the American Revolution, the period between 1719 and 1783. For more information relating to the John E. Hardy Family History Program, click here.

Family Histories (3 Files)

-1848 Some Account of Deacon John Butler of Pelham, NH, and his descendants by Caleb Butler of Groton

-1886 Butler Family Association

-The Butler Family - Deacon John Butler, down to the Present Day. 1901.

A Historical and Genealogical Record Dating From James Butler, one of the first settlers of Nashaway, Afterwards named Lancaster, Mass., bringing only the descendants of his third child, Deacon John Butler, down to the Present Day. 1901.

-A. Batchelder & Son

Augustus Batchelder was the son of Dr. Amos Batchelder, the uncle of Harry Atwood's wife (Carrie Stickney) and the uncle of Phil Currier's grandmother (Serena Stickney).  He grew up in the colonial at the intersection of Tenney and Nashua Road.  I assume the instruments were made in the barn attached to the house.  I am sure I have more information in my Batchelder and Stickney files.  The Sherburne's were also manufacturing musical instruments in this period.  Unfortunately, May gave away a beautiful bass to EG's cousin in Hollis.  I have been trying to get for the Historical Society.

Neighboring Town Vital Records

Between 1720 and 1746 portions of present day Pelham were part of Dunstable, Massachusetts, Nottingham, Massachusetts, Dracut, Massachusetts, the Nottingham District and the Dracut-Methuen Districts of New Hampshire. For that reason, the early vital records of each of these political entities are included in the Hayes-Genoter On Line History and Genealogy Library. Between 1735 and 1775, a large number of families migrated from Bradford, Massachusetts to present day Pelham. For that reason, the early Bradford vital records are also included in the library.

New Hampshire

Hudson, NH

Salem, NH

Massachusetts

Andover, MA

Bradford, MA

Dracut, MA

Dunstable, MA

Lowell, MA

Methuen, MA

Tyngsboro, MA

Neighboring Town Early Histories
Between 1720 and 1746 portions of present day Pelham were part of Dunstable, Massachusetts, Nottingham, Massachusetts, Dracut, Massachusetts, the Nottingham District and the Dracut-Methuen Districts of New Hampshire.  For that reason, sections of the early histories of each of these political entities are included in the Hayes-Genoter On Line History and Genealogy Library.

New Hampshire

Windham, NH

Nottingham-Hudson

Massachusetts

Dracut, Massachusetts by Silas R. Coburn

Dunstable, Massachusetts

Colonial Period Wills

Links (Last Updated 7/10/07)