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was surveyed and adjusted in 1741, the northern part of the town was determined to be in New
Hampshire, and was incorporated as a New Hampshire town in 1746. Both the northern New Hampshire half and the southern Massachusetts half prospered, and various villages were formed along the Merrimack, but
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