Listed record inventories
Selected holdings and indexes for Cheshire County, checked against the repository descriptions linked below. Date spans may contain gaps; an index is not a complete set of original records.
Newspapers
- Cheshire County Republican and Farmers' Museum (Keene, N.H.)1834-1835
- Cheshire Gazette (Walpole, N.H.)1825-1826
- Cheshire Republican (Keene, N.H.)1853-1910
- Cheshire Republican and Farmer (Keene, N.H.)1843-1852
- Cheshire Republican and Farmer's Museum (Keene, N.H.)1836-1842
- Cheshire Republican Keene Free Press (Keene, N.H.)1910-1914
- Church Union (Keene, N.H.)1892-189?
- Democratic Republican (Walpole, N.H.)1812-1813
- Dublin News (Monadnock [Dublin], N.H.)1908-1909
- Farmer's Museum (Walpole, N.H.)1827-1834
- Farmer's Museum, Or, Lay Preacher's Gazette (Walpole, N.H.)1799-1800
- Farmer's Museum, Or, Literary Gazette (Walpole, N.H.)1800-1804
- Granite State Journal (Claremont, N.H.)1869-1884
- Keene Evening Sentinel (Keene, N.H.)1890-1972
- Keene Kronicle (Keene, N.H.)1929-193?
- Monadnock Times (East Jaffrey, N.H.)1869-18??
- New England Observer (Keene, N.H.)1826-18??
- New England Observer (Keene, N.H.)1878-1889
- Newhampshire Sentinel (Keene, N.H.)1799-1957
- Political Observatory (Walpole, N.H.)1803-1809
- Star Spangled Banner (Hinsdale, N.H.)1863-18??
- The Arborbynite (Keene, N.H.)1947-194?
- The Cold River Journal (Alstead, N.H.)1883-1905
- The Columbian Informer, Or, Cheshire Journal (Keene, N.H.)1793-1795
- The Daily Tribune (Keene, N.H.)1889-1890
- The Experiment (Hinsdale, N.H.)1899-1???
- The Farmer's Museum (Walpole, N.H.)1804-1810
- The Farmer's Weekly Museum : Newhampshire and Vermont Journal (Walpole, N.H.)1797-1799
- The Farmer's Weekly Museum Newhampshire and Vermont Journal (Walpole, N.H.)1797-1799
- The Good Time Coming (Rindge, N.H.)1876-18??
- The Hinsdale Herald (Hinsdale, N.H.)1904-19??
- The Home Companion (Troy, N.H.)1872-19??
- The Home Visitor (Keene, N.H.)1917-19??
- The Investigator (Keene, N.H.)1903-19??
- The Jaffrey Recorder and Monadnock Breeze (Winchendon, Mass.)1932-1957
- The Keene Daily News (Keene, N.H.)1905-1905
- The Keene Methodist (Keene, N.H.)1873-18??
- The Keene Searchlight (Keene, N.H.)1926-19??
- The Monadnock (Keene, N.H.)1949-1972
- The Monadnock Breeze (Fitzwilliam, N.H.)1900-1932
- The Monadnock Monthly (Jaffrey, N.H.)1880-18??
- The Monadnock Times (East Jaffrey [Jaffrey], N.H.)1885-18??
- The Mountain Herald (Jaffrey, N.H.)1879-18??
- The Nelson Clarion (Nelson, N.H.)1870-187?
- The New-Hampshire Recorder and the Weekly Advertiser (Keene, N.H.)1787-1791
- The Newhampshire and Vermont Journal, Or, the Farmer's Weekly Museum (Walpole, N.H.)1794-1797
- The Newhampshire Journal, Or, the Farmer's Weekly Museum (Walpole, N.H.)1793-1794
- The News Bulletin (Keene, N.H.)1940-194?
- The Observer (Keene, N.H.)1890-1893
- The Owl's Reporter (Keene, N.H.)1947-1947
- The Philanthropist (Keene, N.H.)1845-1848
- The Press and Printer (Keene, N.H.)1887-18??
- The Rising Sun (Keene, N.H.)1795-1798
- The Student (Keene, N.H.)1883-188?
- The Times (Keene, N.H.)1842-184?
- The United States (Royalston, Mass.)1872-18??
- The Valley Record (Hinsdale, N.H.)1885-1896
- The Walpole Gazette (Walpole, N.H.)1891-1903
- Tract (Troy, N.H.)1885-18??
- Washington & Marlow Times (Hillsboro Bridge [Hillsborough], N.H.)1901-19??
- Winchester Gazette (Winchester, N.H.)1846-18??
- Winchester Star (Winchester, N.H.)1895-1917
See the repository's descriptions and search options
Repository access note: Selected newspaper titles cataloged by the Library of Congress with explicit county geography. Priority is given to titles beginning by 1950; up to five later titles are included where no earlier dated title is listed for that county. Dates describe publication history, not the issues available at a library. Multiple format records with the same title, place and dates are grouped. The catalog may describe paper, microfilm or online resources. Open ends and the word Current reflect the catalog description; confirm present availability and exact holdings with the libraries listed on the linked record.
Sources: the catalogs and repository descriptions linked on the entries above. Selected inventories do not establish complete coverage of every record type or online access to original documents. Read the repository access note for source dates and limitations.
Where to find the records
- Cheshire County official website
Hours, addresses and phone numbers for the town clerk, the county registry of deeds and the probate court, and any online record search the county offers.
- The town clerk
Births, marriages and deaths, kept by each town.
- The county registry of deeds
Deeds and other land records.
- The probate court
Wills and estates, by county (now the Circuit Court's probate division).
- The New Hampshire State Archives
In Concord: provincial, court and state records. Birth, marriage and death records are with the state's Division of Vital Records.
- New Hampshire Division of Archives and Records Managementfree
The state archives in Concord, with provincial, court and state government records.
- FamilySearch Catalogfree
Search by place for "New Hampshire, Cheshire" to find filmed and digitized records, many viewable free online with a FamilySearch account.
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Boundaries and parent counties
Formed from: Land not yet in any county
Later formed partly from Cheshire County: Sullivan County
Records stay with the county that created them. If your ancestor lived here before 1769, search the parent county. The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries shows each boundary change.
Research tip
In New Hampshire, births, marriages and deaths were kept by towns. Copies of many town records before 1901 were gathered by the state and are indexed at FamilySearch.