Bookkeeper in Stratham, NH

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Your bookkeeper in Stratham

Long before it was Stratham, this ground was called Point of Rocks, for the way it sits between Great Bay and the Squamscott River. The Pennacook name was Winnicutt, and the Winnicut River still drains the east side of town. Phinehas Merrill mapped the whole place in 1793, which is unusual for a settlement this size. Today Routes 33, 108 and 111 cross the town, and much of the business along them is small: a stylist renting a chair, a consultant at a kitchen table, a trades owner with one van. Small does not mean simple, though. One debit card paying for both groceries and supplies can tangle a year of records, and untangling that is my work.

Stratham Hill and Jewell Hill beside it are both glacial drumlins and the highest ground in town. Stratham Hill Park shares a trail system with the Gordon Barker Town Forest, so hikers and mountain bikers know it well, and the town now holds its Summerfest at the park. Wiggin Memorial Library and the Stratham Historical Society keep the older stories. Younger children go to Stratham Memorial School, and teenagers to Exeter High School. Exeter sits to the southwest, Greenland to the northeast and Newmarket to the northwest. Stratham is about 18 miles northeast of my desk in Atkinson, farther than a quick errand, which is why the work runs online.

Call or text (603) 453-0154