Europeans first settled New Hampshire in the 1620s.
Eunice Davis Dwinnell was born on May 23, 1771 in Chesterfield, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of Captain Isaac Davis and his second wife, Elizabeth Powers.
She married Israel Dwinnell in 1787 when she was about sixteen years old in Keene. Their children and life together are described in detail in the section on Israel and Eunice Dwinnell.
Chesterfield, Sullivan County, New Hampshire was incorporated in 1752. It is on the Connecticut River and bounded on the southeast by Swansey and Keene.
In 1790 during the first census, Sullivan County was part of Cheshire County.
