Charlestown

Settled as Number 4 (Fort at No. 4) by Massachusetts proprietors c. 1740 in what is now Sullivan County NH. Frontier outpost in the French and Indian Wars. Seth Walker arrived from Groton/Billerica MA by 1750. His son Col. Abel Walker (b. 1734) led the Charlestown militia company at the Battle of Bennington 16 Aug 1777 under Gen. Stark. Aaron Dean of Dedham settled here ~1787 and became the leading merchant for 40 years. Sally Walker Dean was born here 6 July 1795. Henry Hubbard (NH Governor 1842-3) lived here. Brant's third-great-grandmother Sally Walker Dean is buried here.