Excerpt from History of the Town of Candia: Rockingham County, N. H., From Its First Settlement to the Present Time

Previous to about the year 1824 very little had been done in Rhe way of. Preparing or publishing histories of the towns in _new Hampshire. A small volume containing a Sketch of the 'history of Concord was published that year by Jacob B. Moore, a journalist of that town, and whose mother was a na tive of Candia. Charles Bell, a brother of Judge Samuel D. Bell, wrote a sketch of the history of old Chester, which was printed in Moore and Farmer's Historical Collection. Ln (846, Thomas B. Fox of Nashua published a small volume, containing a history of the town of Dunstable, of which Nashua was a part. A year or two later a Sketch of the his tory of Londonderry was written by Rev. Dr. E. L. Parker. In 1853, Francis B. Eaton published a volume of r51 pages, containing a sketch of the history of Candia, with various sketches and biographical notices of nearly forty prominent families. Soon after that date much larger and more compre hensive histories of towns began to appear, among which a his tory of Concord by Rev Dr. Nathaniel Bouton, and a history of Dublin by Rev. Dr. Leonard may be mentioned. Qthese were followed from time to time by other histories, some of which were quite large and expensive. Up to the present time about seventy histories of this kind have appeared In some cases the work of collecting and preparing the matter has been given to a committee, each member of which was as signed a special department.

The first suggestion that a second history of Candia was de sirable was made in 188 r, at the time when various spicy arti cles relating to early history of the town were published in the Candia Banner. It was said that, though Mr. Eaton's history was interesting and valuable as far as it went, it was quite limited in its scope and that there was no record of many very important events which had occurred since its publication. The subject was talked over, but no practical result was reached for a number of years. At length the undersigned.

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