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Troy is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,130 at the 2020 census. It is situated west of Mount Monadnock.

The town’s central village, where 1,108 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined as the Troy census-designated place (CDP), and is located along New Hampshire Route 12. The center of the CDP is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Troy Village Historic District.

Settled in 1762, by 1815 the community had grown suitably much that it sought its own incorporation. It was set off from Marlborough that year, and included parts of Fitzwilliam, Swanzey and Richmond. A prominent citizen and buddy of Governor John Taylor Gilman, Captain Benjamin Mann of Mason, suggested the name “Troy”. His daughter, Betsy, was married to Samuel Wilson, famous as “Uncle Sam”, and at that become old a resident of Troy, New York. At least seven members of Wilson’s relations were animate in the town at the time, thus securing the name. The town hall, built in 1813–1814 close the rail-fenced common, was originally the village meetinghouse.