History of Acworth, Edited by J.L. Merrill, Town Historian. Published by the Town, 1869.

page 122-123 First Settlers
In 1772 [Acworth had] thirteen houses, probably all log cabins, one barn, one grist-mill, one saw-mill, eight miles of carriage road, and perhaps twenty-five legal voters. The town however, continued to receive acessions through the troublous times preceeding and during the Revolutionary War. Thomas Putman was soon joined at South Acworth by Joseph and William Markham, Alexander Houston and Christopher Ayers, and at the close of the war, by Thomas Slader and others.

page 140- selectmen-representatives to the legislature
1778. Thomas Putnam, Alexander Houston, Ephraim Keyes

page 166-Revolutionary War
The settlement was but in its infancy when the War of Independence broke out, but the active part it took in the struggle has been shown in the Centennial Address. Cheshire County was especially active and forward in the contest, and Acworth was not behind her sister towns. A single incident will illustrate the feeling of the times:
     By the great industry, Christopher Ayers and his mother had built their cabin, and harvested their first crop of rye. When an old man, Ayers would tell how they threshed the grain out upon the gound and put it "four bushels in a bag," and then sat down and cried for very joy, and his mother fell on her knees and thanked God. But the news of the need of men to carry on the war with the mother country reached their ears. Their neighbor, Mr. Houston, [Alexander] had told them if the king had his way, a poor man might work all day for a 'calf's head and pluck,' as in the old country. Ayers felt called upon to go and fight for his independence, and communicating his thoughts to his mother, she cried, "Go, Cris, and the Lord go with ye, and I will stay and mind the cabin." While she was there alone in her cabinm the rye being nicely stored in the loft "four bushels in a bag" the cabin took fire, when out went the bags of rye as easily as though they were bags of beach leaves, for the old lady was a pwerful woman, weighing fifteen stone (two hundred and ten pounds), and could put her son aside when he was a man."

     Acworth lay very near the war-path by which the New Hampshire militia flocked to cut off the advance of Gen. Burgoyne's army into New York, and her hardy sons, in great numbers, joined the eager militia. They were among the so-claeed "backwoodsmen" of New Hampshire who showed at Bennington, Stillwater and Saratoga, what so many doubted, that the militia could face the British soldiery without the protection of entrenchments. How many of the following list were among the number, who under Capt. Bellows, joined the militia at that time, we cannot tell. This memrable and decisive campaign, however, was doubtless the occasion of recording this list of men, who had, up to September, 1777, served in the army from nine days to five months. It must be remembered that the quota of Acworth was only five, and that five years before she had only twenty-five voters: [Alexander Houston is on the list].

...List of Revolutionary Pensioners who have lived in town: [Issacher Mayo is on this list]

These Acworth Hills A History of Acworth, New Hampshire 1767-1988 by Helen H. Funk [Published by The Town of Acworth, 1989]
Appendix: Acworth Houses (page 369)
#688 Owner: Helen Quinn ....Mulligan Road
Alexander Houston built this Cape style house about 1810. His son, Alexander Jr. followed in 1860, his grandson, George Houston in 1869. H. Towne in 1892, Mary Chapman, Xelpha C. Valliant, Helen and Milton J. Wright in 1948. Present owner Helen (Wright) Quinn, who has owned the property since 1954 and raises Morgan horses.