Bookkeeper in Newton, NH

Local bookkeeping

Your bookkeeper in Newton

Newton got its name the simplest way a town can. When the colonial governor Benning Wentworth incorporated it, it went on the record as Newtown, simply because it was a new town, and the state legislature later trimmed that to Newton. Before then the land had been counted as part of Salisbury, then Amesbury, then South Hampton, and residents wanted a church they did not have to travel so far to reach. A town made of crossroads villages tends to be full of one-person businesses run from a kitchen table or a truck. Those are books I enjoy. I sort the transactions, reconcile the accounts and tell you in plain words how the month went.

The villages still answer to their old names: Newton Junction, Rowes Corner, Sargent Corners and Crane Crossing. Water leaves town three ways. The Little River takes the southwestern part, the East Meadow River drains the southern corner, and the Powwow River with its tributary the Back River carries off the rest, all of it inside the Merrimack watershed. Brandy Brow Hill, the high point, stands right on that southern corner, where Newton meets Merrimac, Massachusetts. Atkinson is about six and a half miles west of here in a straight line, so both towns work through the same seasons.

Call or text (603) 453-0154