Page "Lancaster, New Hampshire" Paragraph 2

Granted as Upper Coos in 1763 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth to Captain David Page of Petersham, Massachusetts, the town was settled in 1764 by his son, David Page, Jr. and Emmons Stockwell.

It was the first settlement north of Haverhill, to the south, and originally included land in what is now Vermont.

Situated on the northern Connecticut River, the community endured many Indian hostilities.

It would be named for Lancaster, Massachusetts, hometown of an early inhabitant.

Reverend Joshua Weeks, a grantee of the town, was among the group of explorers who named the mountains of the Presidential Range.

Other grantees were Timothy Nash and Benjamin Sawyer, who discovered Crawford Notch in 1771, making a shorter route to Portland, Maine possible.