The Monadnock region town of Lempster, New Hampshire was originally granted in 1735 by Massachusetts Governor Belcher as Number 9. Lempster was the ninth in a line of forts established to guard against Indian attacks.
Lempster was regranted in 1753 by Governor Benning Wentworth, as Dupplin, after Sir Thomas Hay, Lord Dupplin of Scotland, who had been in charge of the settlement of Nova Scotia. Following the Peace of Paris in 1761, when terms of many grants had not been carried out, the town was regranted as Lempster, named for Sir Thomas Fermor of Lempster, England, who was a Wentworth
