| Name | Date of Birth | Place of Birth in New Hampshire | Noteworthy | |
| Abbott, Charles | 1835 | New Hampshire | Republican legislator and merchant | |
| Aiken, Herman | 1809 | Deering | Soldier, surveyor, and pioneer | |
| Allen, Ebenezer | April 8, 1804 | Newport | He was attorney general and secretary of state of Texas under Anson Jones. He assisted Jones in framing the terms of annexation to the United States. He was the first elected state attorney. In 1848 Allen obtained the charter for the Galveston and Red River Railroad Company. In the 1850s he was a promoter and director of the Houston and Texas Central Railway. | |
| Beede, Joshua William | September 14, 1871 | Raymond | Geologist and Professor of Geology. Published articles on the geology and paleontology of the upper Paleozoic formations of Texas. | |
| Chadwick, Joseph M. | April 1812 | Exeter | Military and topographical engineer and acting adjutant general under Fannin at Goliad | |
| Chamberlain, Samuel Emery | November 27, 1829 | Centre Harbour | Soldier, adventurer, and artist. He fought in and painted numerous pictures of the battle of Buena Vista. In the Civil War, he rose to brevet brigadier general and took the Fifth Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry to Clarksville after the war. | |
| Clough, Jeremiah Morrill | June 28, 1819 | Canterbury | Lawyer and Confederate infantry officer. He was a Mexican War veteran. During the Civil War, he led the Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment. He was killed at the Battle of Fort Donelson. | |
| Cochran, James | 1852 | New Hampshire | Sold supplies to the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution and represented Austin County in the House | |
| Cochran, Robert E. | 1810 | New Hampshire | Alamo defender | |
| Dickey, George E. | October 29, 1840 | Wilmot | Architect of many public, commercial, and residential buildings in Houston. | |
| Farnsworth, Joseph Eastman | January 31, 1862 | Manchester | Telephone company executive | |
| Hale, William G. | October 9, 1822 | Newport | Law partner with Ebenezer Allen, practiced law in Galveston, specializing in land suits. was the attorney for the Peters colony | |
| Hall, David Graham | June 25, 1858 | Auburn | Established Foundation to eradicate venereal disease. The foundation’s lobbying efforts contributed to the passage of state laws requiring compulsory blood testing of both parties to marriages and of pregnant women. | |
| Hoit, Samuel | February 10, 1781 | Chester | Owned a league of land on Matagorda Bay under Stephen F. Austin’s fourth empresario contract. He represented Mina (Bastrop) in the Convention of 1832 | |
| Huckins, James | April 8, 1807 | Dorchester | Minister and founder of many Baptist churches in Texas. Fund raiser for Baylor University | |
| Kendall, George Wilkins | August 22, 1809 | Mont Vernon, near Amherst | Funded the city’s first cheap daily, the New Orleans Picayune. He was the nation’s first war correspondent during The Mexican American War. He played a major role in promoting the sheep business in Texas | |
| Kingsbury, Gilbert D. | Early 1800s | Dartmouth | Lecturer for the Illinois Temperance Society on Texas subjects and frontier life | |
| Long, Stephen Harriman | December 30, 1784 | Hopkinton | Railroad executive and explorer of the West | |
| MacGregor, Henry Frederick | April 25, 1855 | Londonderry | Railroad executive and Republican Party leader | |
| Neal, Solon D. | 1846 | Hanover | Medal of Honor for actions at the Battle of the Little Wichita River against the Kiowa Indians | |
| Peirce, Thomas Wentworth | August 16, 1818 | Dover | Railroad executive and attorney for the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company. | |
| Phelps, Timothy B. | 1790s | Oxford | He was a teacher in Stephen F. Austin’s colony in Texas. | |
| Pratt, Henry Cheever | June 13, 1803 | Oxford | Southwest landscape artist | |
| Rankin, Melinda | March 21, 1811 | Littleton | Established Presbyterian church schools in Texas and Mexico. Wrote Texas in 1850 and Twenty Years Among the Mexicans, A Narrative of Missionary Labor. | |
| Redfield, Henry Prentice | May 27, 1819 | Derry | Early colonist, soldier in the Texas Revolution and the Mexican War | |
| Streeter, Thomas Winthrop | July 20, 1883 | Concord | Businessman, collector of Texana, and author assembled the largest private Texana collection | |
| Storrs, Augustus | April 5, 1791 | Hanover | Trader on Santa Fe Trail | |
| Wheelock, Eleazar Louis Ripley | March 31, 1793 | Hanover | Established the town of Wheelock in what is now Robertson County where he was surveyor, land agent, lawyer, rancher, farmer, and soldier. He organized and captained a company of Texas Rangers in the Texas Revolution. In the Republic of Texas, he served as a regional land commissioner and Indian commissioner. | |
| Young, Charles Glidden | April 7, 1816 | Grafton | Railroad executive and industrialist |
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