Excerpt from The Hillsborough Register, 1905The town of Hillsborough is situated in the north-west ern corner of Hillsborough county, to which the town has the distinction of giving its name. The original grant to 001. Hill was for a section about six miles square, the appearance of the town on the map, however, is more like a diamond with a northwest acute angle forced into the town of Washington, in Sullivan County. Hillsborough is bounded on the north by Washington and Bradford, on the east by Henniker, on the south by Deering and Antrim, and on the west by Windsor and Washington. The town is in latitude 43° 5' north, and longitude 5° 5' east. The surface of the town is greatly diversified by hills and valleys, the soil is strong and generally productive, but it is complained of for its rocks which render it generally hard to eultivate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.