trading post was built here about
1660. In 1725 Massachusetts granted the land in this vicinity to some of
her citizens; but this grant was not recognized by New Hampshire, whose
legislature issued (1727) a grant (the Township of Bow) overlapping the
Massachusetts grant, which was known as Penacook or Penny Cook. The New
Hampshire grantees undertook to establish here a colony of Londonderry
Irish; but the Massachusetts settlers were firmly established by the
spring of 1727, Massachusetts definitely assumed jurisdiction in 1731,
and in 1734 her general court incorporated the settlement under the name
of Rumford. The conflicting rights of Rumford and Bow gave rise to one
of the most celebrated of colonial land cases, and although the New
Hampshire authorities enforced their claims of jurisdiction, the privy
council in 1755 confirmed the Rumford settlers in their possession. In
1765 the name was changed to the "parish of Concord," and in 1784 the
town of Concord was incorporated. Here, for some years before the War of
American Independence, lived Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford. In
1778 and again in 1781-1782 a state constitutional convention met here;
the first New Hampshire legislature met at Concord in 1782; the
convention which ratified for New Hampshire the Federal Constitution met
here in 1788; and in 1808 the state capital was definitely established
here. The New Hampshire _Patriot_, founded here in 1808 (and for twenty
years edited) by Isaac Hill (1788-1851), who was a member of the United
States Senate in 1831-1836, and governor of New Hampshire in 1836-1839,
became one of the leading exponents of Jacksonian Democracy in New
England. In 1814 the Middlesex Canal, connecting Concord with Boston,
was completed. A city charter granted by the legislature in 1849 was not
accepted by the city until 1853.

See J. O. Lyford, _The History of Concord, New Hampshire_ (City
History Commission) (2 vols., Concord, 1903); _Concord Town Records,
1732-1820_ (Concord, 1894); J. B. Moore, _Annals of Concord,
1726-1823_ (Concord, 1824); and Nathaniel Bouton, _The History of
Concord_ (Concord, 1856).

CONCORD, BOOK OF (_Liber Concordiae_), the collective documents of the
Lutheran confession, consisting of the _Confessio Augustana_, the
_Apologia Confessionis Augustanae_, the _Articula Smalcaldici_, the
_Catechismi Major et Minor_ and the _Formula Concordiae_. This last was
a formula issued on the 25th of June 15