Editing Keene, New Hampshire (section)

==History==
In 1735, colonial Governor [[Jonathan Belcher]] granted lots in the township of "Upper Ashuelot" to 63 settlers who paid £5 each (equivalent to {{US$|{{to USD|{{inflation|UK|5|1735}}|GBR}}}} in {{inflation/year|UK}}).<ref name="Griffin et al">{{cite book | last1 = Griffin | first1 = Simon Goodell | author-link1 = Simon Goodell Griffin | last2 = Whitcomb | first2 = Frank H. | last3 = Applegate (Jr.) | first3 = Octavius | title = A History of the Town of Keene: From 1732, when the Township was Granted by Massachusetts, to 1874, when it Became a City | publisher = Sentinel Printing Company | year = 1904 | location = Keene, N.H. | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=AJUOAAAAMAAJ&q=keene%20%22upper%20ashuelot%22&pg=PA21| access-date =July 11, 2010 | quote = No charter was granted by Massachusetts. The title rested in the acts of the legislature and the compliance with those acts by the payment of five pounds by each grantee, for himself and his heirs, and the fulfillment of all the conditions of the grant. Under that title these sixty-three grantees owned all the land in the township. The house-lots were laid out by the committee of the legislature, to be drawn by lot, and these proprietors and their successors divided the remainder of the land among themselves from time to time, as will be seen by their records.}}</ref>{{rp|21–22}}  It was settled after 1736 on [[Equivalent Lands]].<ref name="Vermont Hist">[http://www.vhist.com/vtbrattleboro/maps/2-equivalent-lands-and-fort-dummer/ Equivalent Lands] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218155412/http://www.vhist.com/vtbrattleboro/maps/2-equivalent-lands-and-fort-dummer/ |date=February 18, 2020 }}; webpage; Vermont History on-line; accessed April 26, 2020</ref>

In 1747, during [[King George's War]], the village was attacked and burned by [[Native Americans in the United States|Natives]]<!-- who? They were generally identified by tribe -->.<ref name="Griffin et al"/>{{rp|79}} Colonists fled to safety, but would return to rebuild in 1749.<ref name="Griffin et al"/>{{rp|96}} It was regranted to its inhabitants in 1753 by Governor [[Benning Wentworth]], who renamed it "Keene" after Sir [[Benjamin Keene]], a principal of the South Sea Trading company whose primary business was slave trading.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA173| title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=173}}</ref>

[[File:PostcardKeeneNHBoston&MaineRRYards1916.jpg|thumb|left|Boston and Maine railroad yard in Keene, {{circa|1916}}]]
In 2011, Massachusetts man Thomas Ball [[Self-immolation|immolated]] himself on the steps of a courthouse in Keene to protest what he considered the court system's abuse of divorced [[fathers' rights]].<ref name="immolation">{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2011/07/10/divorced_dad_leaves_clues_to_his_desperation/?page=1 |last1=Arsenault |first1=Mark |work=[[Boston Globe]] |title=Dad leaves clues to his desperation |date=July 10, 2011 |access-date=September 16, 2016}}</ref>