Record Group Number 17

Sullivan

Compiled by Alan F. Rumrill - Keene, New Hampshire

May 1983

This is a small record group consisting of two series entitled SUBJECT FILE and SULLIVAN COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER and filed in three folders. The materials encompass the year (1814 - 1901)- c. 1987. The materials are filed chronologically within each subject unless otherwise noted.

Sullivan was incorporated on September 27, 1787 being made up of the adjoining corners of Stoddard, Packersfield (now Nelson), Keene, and Gilsum. The first settler, Stephen Griswold and Benjamin Olcott, arrived in 1768. A small portion of Keene was annexed to Sullivan in 1794. Two hundred twenty persons lived in the town by 1790.

The items in this group do not focus upon any one subject or area of town history. T. Jewett Locke's brief history of the town is useful ready reference in that area. Joseph Mason's name arises several times in the materials (Deeds and Tax Records, 18l4-22).

Series I, SUBJECT FILE

Folder 1, A - Hi
Business
Ce1ebrations
Churches
Clubs and Organizations (Filed alphabetically by club name and chronologically
     within each club)
Deeds (Filed by grantee)
     Foster, Stephen - 1833, 1837
     Mason, Joseph - 1814, 1822
Government
Health and Welfare
History (Includes a 4 page history of Sullivan by T. Jewett Locke)

Folder 2, Hj - Z
Houses
Letters (Filed alphabetically by name of recipient)
Military
Natural History
Poetry - "The Old Jewett Homestead" by Edward L. Jewett, 1965
Recreation - Golf
Schools
Tax Records

Series II, SULLIVAN COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

Folder 1, 1980-1987