Dublin lies in the extreme eastern part of the county, in lat. 45° 54′ and long. 4° 59′, bounded north by Harrisville, east by Peterboro, in Hillsborough county, south by Jaffrey, and west by Marlboro. It was originally granted by the proprietors of land purchased of John Tufton Mason, to Matthew Thornton and thirty-nine others, November 3, 1749, the charter being given by Col. Joseph Blanchard, of Dunstable, and was called Monadnock No. 3, or North Monadnock. The grant comprised an area of thirty-six square miles, or a territory seven miles long and five wide, and was given under the usual charter restrictions, among which that the whole tract be divided into seventy-one equal shares, each share to contain three lots, equitably coupled together, and to be drawn for at Dunstable, on or before the first day of July, 1750. On March 29, 1775, it was incorporated under the province laws, and legally given the name of Dublin. At this incorporation the township received a confirmatory charter from New Hampshire, issued by Governor Wentworth. In 1870 the township received a great curtailment of its territorial limits. Up to this time Nelson had bounded it on the north, the boundary line passing through the center of Harrisville village. But on the 2d of July of that year all the northern part of the town lying between the present northern line of the town and Harrisville village, was set off towards forming, with the southern part of Nelson, the new township of Harrisville. It is supposed that the town received its name from Dublin, Ireland, as the early settlers of the territory were of Scotch-Irish origin; but at the time of the incorporation only one of this class, Henry Strongman, remained, though he, it is said, was a native of Dublin, Ireland, and this fact is supposed to have settled the point.
This history entails tax records, sketches of early industry, churches, military, and benevolent societies, as well as biographies, genealogies and sketches of the early settlers.
- History of Dublin, New Hampshire
- Biographies of Dublin, New Hampshire
- Appleton, Francis, Jr.
- Brown, Samuel
- Derby, Samuel
- Fisk, Warren L.
- Gowing , John Jr.
- Howe, Elmer B.
- Jones, Samuel
- Knight, Ira D.
- Knowlton, John
- Mason, Thaddeus, Jr.
- Moore, Abram, Captain
- Morse, Thomas
- Perry, Ivory
- Pierce, Samuel
- Piper, Henry H.
- Piper, Solomon
- Powers, Asa
- Richardson, Abijah
- Smith, Henry H.
- Townsend, David
- Wellman, Jacob
- Weston, Roger