History of Concord, the Amsden Manuscript - Concord Public Library

A Capital for New Hampshire is a three volume unpublished manuscript completed by Grace P. Amsden in the 1950s. The manuscript provides an account of important Concord persons and buildings through the middle of the 20th century. The stories related to buildings associated with Count and Countess Rumford, Franklin Pierce, Robert Rogers, Isaac Hill and other Concord notables are interesting and informative, but little known to the present Concord community. Our hope is that this online version will make the information more readily available to the public. The original manuscript, with photographs, is available at the Tuck Library of the New Hampshire Historical Society, and a copy of the text is available in the Concord Room of the Concord Public Library. This work is an important resource that adds to our knowledge of the history of the City of Concord.

General Index A-J General Index J-Y	The General Index is the easiest and fastest way to search for items in the Amsden Manuscript, " A Capital for New Hampshire." For each alphabetically item listed in the index, a chapter number and page number indicate where the information is located.
Index of Locations	This index, as the title suggests, references where particular places in Concord are discussed in the Amsden Manuscript. Road and street names, and specific street addresses are listed alphabetically with chapter and page numbers. Photographs are included in this index.

Volume I
Introduction and Preface
Chapter 1	The Land of the Pennycooks
Chapter 2	Viewing of a Promised Land
Chapter 3	Building a Town in the Wilderness
Chapter 4	"Faith of Our Fathers"
Chapter 5	Pennycook Plantation Becomes the Town of Rumford
Chapter 6	Early Houses in Rumford
Chapter 7	Men of Rumford
Chapter 8	1746
Chapter 9	Years of Bitter Injustice: The Bow Controversy
Chapter 10	French and Indian Wars - 1754-1762
Chapter 11	Concord in 1766
Chapter 12	Farms Along the Village Street
Chapter 13	Hill Farms Over the River
Chapter 14	Along Contoocook River

Volume 2
Chapter 15	"Upon Contoocook Road North of Nathan Colby's"
Chapter 16	The Mills on Turkey River
Chapter 17	"Upon Hopkinton Road...West of Turkey River"
Chapter 18	Concord Street 1775 and During the Revolution
Chapter 19	Patriots and Tories
Chapter 20	Mast Yard, Horse-Hill and Dagody. School District No.1
Chapter 21	The Town of Concord
Chapter 22	The Town Surveys its Main Street
Chapter 23	"The Fort": East Concord Village
Chapter 24	Old School Districts - No. 4 and No. 5 and Little Pond
Chapter 25	Villages Along the Boscawen Road
Chapter 26	Destiny
Chapter 27	Concord Street 1809

Volume 3
Chapter 28	A Capital for New Hampshire
Chapter 29	When Concord was a Boating Center
Chapter 30	Prosperous Years, 1810-1820
Chapter 31	Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D.D.
Chapter 32	Lafayette 1825
Chapter 33 pt1	Concord, 1825-1830
Chapter 33 pt2	Concord, 1825-1830
Chapter 34	A Century of Development
Chapter 35	President Andrew Jackson Visits Isaac Hill
Chapter 36 pt1	1834
Chapter 36 pt2	1834

History of Concord: The Amsden Manuscript
Indexes	Volume 2
Volume 1	Volume 3
Photographs