List of counties in New Hampshire

New Hampshire The State is divided into 10 counties:

History

New Hampshire was in 1769 divided into five counties. The term derives from the counties (English counties ) in the UK from. The five counties were:

  • Cheshire County, named after the county of Cheshire in England
  • Hillsborough County, named after the British politician Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire
  • Rockingham County, named after Prime Minister Charles Watson- Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham
  • Strafford County, named after William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford

Later new county from parts of other counties were formed again and again, these were:

Since 1840, no new counties were formed more.

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