Lyford’s Canterbury Genealogies, 1912
In 1912, James Otis Lyford wrote the History of Canterbury, N.H., 1727-1912 with a group of volunteers from Canterbury. The first volume was narrative, consisting of a thorough history of the town over the past 185 years. The second volume (digitized online here) held the genealogies of local families, the records of ancestors and descendants, that were collected by the “genealogy committee”, chaired by Mary Clough and Josephine Brown. They solicited families from near and far to contribute information to the genealogy, and carefully copied the notes and letters into a genealogical record. Many of those notes and letters were preserved by Miss Brown, and survive today as part of the Canterbury Historical Society’s archive of materials, now digitized and available to researchers online below.
It is expressly noted that the Canterbury Historical Society does not guarantee the accuracy of the information contained within the attached files, and because the files have no sources as to the origination of the information, it is suggested that any information should be verified and used in tandem with other research, not as a primary source alone.
Box 1: Abbott to French
Bagley Batchelder Battis Beck Blanchard Blanchard II Blinn Blinn II Boyce Boynton Bradley Bradley II Bradley IIIA Bradley IIIB Bradley/Ingalls Brown I Brown II Brown III Brown IV Brown V Buswell Bryant
Dalton Dearborn Dearborn II Dennison Dow Dow II Driscoll
Eastman/Dame Edgett Elkins Elliott Elliott/Clough Emery Emery/Whidden Evans Everett/Hackett
Fellows Fellows Misc. Fisk Flanders Fletcher Fletcher II Foster Frame French
Box 2: Gage to Nutting
Gage Gerry Gibson Gleason Glove Glover/Grover Glover II
Hannaford Harriman HarrimanB Haven Haynes Hazeltine Heath Hill Hills Howe Hoyt Huntoon Hutchins Hutchins II
James James II Johnson Jones Jones II Jones III Jones IV
Keniston Keysar Kezer Kittridge Knowles
Lake Lamprey Long Lovering Lyford
Mann Mason Mason II Matott McClary McDaniel Moody Moore Morgan Morrill Morrill II Morrill III Morrill IV Morse Muzzey
Genealogies of Canterbury Families and Local Town Histories
Listed below are several family genealogies of Canterbury families that are available online digitally:
AMES – The Samuel Ames Family, by John Kimball. Concord: Republican Press, 1890.
FIFE (ancestors) – History of Pembroke, N.H. by Nathan F. Carter. Concord: Republican Press, 1895.
FORREST – A History of the Antecedents and Descendants of William and Dorothy Worthen Forrest, by Lucy R. H. Cross. Concord: Republican Press, 1897.
FOSTER – Foster Genealogy, by Frederick C. Pierce. Chicago: Conkley, 1897.
KIMBALL – History of the Kimball Family, by Leonard A. Morrison. Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1897.
KIMBALL – The Joseph Kimball Family, by John Kimball. Concord: Republican Press, 1885.
MOORE – The Descendants of Ensign John Moore, by Howard P. Moore. Rutland: Tuttle, 1918.
MORRILL – Morrill Kindred in America (Vol. 1), by Annie Morrill Smith. New York: Lyons, 1914.
PEVERLY – transcript of Thomas Peverly of Portsmouth, N.H. 1623-1670 and Some of His Descendants, comp. by Henry W. Hardon. Privately Printed, Boston: Wright and Porter, 1927.
The History of Boscawen and Webster from 1733 to 1878, comp. by Charles C. Coffin. Concord: Republican Press, 1878.
History Boscawen-Webster, 1879-1933, comp. by Willis G. Buxton. Penacook: Ranney Press, 1933.
History of Concord, New Hampshire (vol. 1) comp. by James Otis Lyford. Concord: Rumford Press, 1903.
History of Concord, New Hampshire (vol. 2) comp. by James Otis Lyford. Concord: Rumford Press, 1903.
History of Northfield, New Hampshire, comp. by Lucy R. H. Cross. Concord: Rumford Press, 1905.