CONWAY — The town of Conway had not even existed on paper for a decade when tensions between the British Crown and the American colonies came to a head. Prospective settlers dared not venture into northern New Hampshire until the Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in 1763, and when Conway was chartered on Oct. 1, 1765, it was the northernmost settlement east of the White Mountains. It would be several more years before Conway and the three individually granted locations just to its south were permanently occupied.
Much of the town and the three adjoining locations just south of it had been granted to New Hampshiremen who’d fought for the king against the French. Several of those Loyalists who eventually moved here held commissions in the Queen’s Rangers, commanded by Robert Rogers of what is now Dunbarton.
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