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Monroe is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 788 at the 2010 census.〔United States Census Bureau, (American FactFinder ), 2010 Census figures. Retrieved March 23, 2011.〕 The town is located along a bend of the Connecticut River, across from Barnet, Vermont. It was originally chartered as part of Lyman. == History == In 1762 Colonial Governor John Wentworth issued a grant ("Number 11") to 64 persons obligated to clear, farm and settle one tenth of each of their parcels or forfeit the grant. Only two made the attempt but the charter was extended, in 1769, for another five years. Eleven of the original 64 grantees were named Lyman. In that same year, Wentworth also granted to one Colonel John Hurd (of Portsmouth part of the land which is today within the bounds of Monroe. The grant was named Hurd's Location and included five small islands in the Connecticut River, known as "Deer Islands," and a parcel of land from below the present Village Bridge to the foot of Fifteen Mile Falls.〔 (reprint by Higginson Book Company, Salem, MA), pp. 13 & 29〕 In addition to Hurd's Location, and the governor's , there were 23 lots of the 64 portions of Lyman located in "West Lyman," or the "Lyman Plain," now Monroe, making up less than of the present area. A portion of Bath, to the south, was annexed in 1897.〔Johnson, pp. 63, 637 (map)〕 The first known settlers on the "West Lyman" portion of Lyman were John Hyndman (also, "John Hinman"), with his wife and son, who settled on the largest of the Deer Islands (below the present-day Barnet Bridge) in 1784 and built a log cabin. When Colonel Hurd found out about it, he sued to have Hyndman evicted. A Barnet benefactor settled the controversy by purchasing title from Hurd. The first permanent settlers also came in the 1780s. They were the Olmstead families: Joseph, Timothy, and Israel, their wives and children.〔, pages 33-34〕 The first native son, Ethan Smith, was born in a cabin on the Canaan Road (over the Gardner Mountain to Lyman) in 1784. Because of the difficulty traversing the steep "Gardner's Mountain" , running north to south through the original Lyman grant of 1761, the settlers of the western portion had different priorities and needs than the rest of Lyman to the east. Monroe was incorporated as a separate town in 1854.〔Hamilton Child, Gazetteer of Grafton County NH, 1709-1886; Syracuse NY, June 1886, ''History of Lyman,'' p. 512〕 After appropriate consideration of the options, it was named after former President James Monroe. It had 619 residents in 1860 and 504 in 1880.〔H. Child, Gazetteer of Grafton County, N.H., 1709-1886, Syracuse, N.Y.: June 1886, ''History of Monroe,'' p. 551〕 "Captain"〔Title was an honorific bestowed by a grateful citizenry on many returning veterans of the Revolutionary War. Paddleford was actually a private〕 Phillip Paddleford, a Revolutionary soldier, settled in 1790, and built Monroe's first sawmill and gristmill on what is now called Smith Brook. Peter Paddleford (1785-1859) was the inventor of the wooden Paddleford Truss for covered bridges. Many of his original bridges still stand.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=The Paddleford Truss )〕 He was the builder of the "third Lyman Bridge" from Monroe to McIndoes, Vermont, in 1833, after the 1826 floods had taken out all bridges on the Connecticut River. It was a covered bridge of pine, over long, lasted over 96 years and was one of the oldest on the river.〔Johnson, p. 146〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Monroe, New Hampshire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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