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===Colonial settlement=== The city was named after [[Claremont (country house)|Claremont]], the country mansion of [[Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle|Thomas Pelham-Holles]], [[Earl of Clare]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=18841 |title=Profile for Claremont, New Hampshire, NH |publisher=ePodunk |access-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006163159/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=18841 |archive-date=October 6, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> On October 26, 1764,<ref name="1875Claremont" /> colonial governor [[Benning Wentworth]] granted the township to Josiah Willard, Samuel Ashley and 67 others. Although first settled in 1762 by Moses Spafford and David Lynde, many of the proprietors arrived in 1767, with a large number from [[Farmington, Connecticut|Farmington]], [[Hebron, Connecticut|Hebron]] and [[Colchester, Connecticut|Colchester]], [[Connecticut]]. The undulating surface of rich, gravelly [[loam]] made agriculture an early occupation.<ref name=Coolidge>{{cite book |last=Coolidge |first=Austin J. |author2=John B. Mansfield |title=A History and Description of New England, General and Local |publisher=A.J. Coolidge |year=1859 |location=Boston, Massachusetts |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ/page/n483 445]β448 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_OcoMAAAAYAAJ |quote=coolidge mansfield history description new england 1859.}}</ref> Spafford was deeded land from Col. Samuel Ashley, who was given a charter to establish a ferry across the [[Connecticut River]] in 1784, the location of which is still known as Ashley's Ferry landing. Spafford was also the first man to marry in Claremont, and his son, Elijah, was the first white child to be born in the town. The [[Union Episcopal Church (Claremont, New Hampshire)|Union Episcopal Church]] in West Claremont was built in 1773, and is the oldest surviving [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] church building in [[New Hampshire]] and the state's oldest surviving building built exclusively for religious purposes. The parish was organized in 1771 and chartered by the New Hampshire legislature in 1794 as Union Church Parish.<ref name="crjc.org">{{cite web |url=http://www.crjc.org/heritage/N07-3.htm |publisher=Connecticut River Joint Commissions |title=Union Episcopal Church (English Church) |access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> Located across the street, Old St. Mary's Church, built in 1823 mostly in the [[Federal architecture|Federal]] style, was the first [[Roman Catholic]] church in New Hampshire.<ref name="newadvent">{{cite web |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10785a.htm |publisher=newadvent.org |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: New Hampshire |access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> It was discontinued in 1870 in favor of the new St. Mary's Church in the [[Lower Village District]].<ref name="crjc">{{cite web| url=http://www.crjc.org/heritage/N07-5.htm| publisher=Connecticut River Joint Commissions| title=Old St. Mary Roman Catholic Church| access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> During the American Revolution, Claremont had a large number of [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalists]], who used a small wooded valley in West Claremont called the "Tory Hole" to hide from the [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots]].<ref name="books.google.com">{{cite book |title=Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine |date=1913 |issue=v. 45-46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1oSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA386 |pages=1β386 |access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.claremontnh.com/uploads/pdf/4%20Historic%20Resources.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204515/http://www.claremontnh.com/uploads/pdf/4%20Historic%20Resources.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=live| title=Chapter IV. Historic Resources| work=City of Claremont Master Plan| year=2011| access-date=February 3, 2017}}</ref> In 1777, when the [[New Hampshire Grants]] declared their own sovereignty as the [[Vermont Republic]], Claremont was one of sixteen New Hampshire towns inclined to join them, and made multiple attempts to do so.<ref name="books.google.com"/>
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