Around the center of the first settlement of the village originally chartered as Concord in 1763, the community underwent several name changes before becoming Lisbon in 1824. A second charter in 1768 called it Gunthwaite, but after the Revolutionary War the Concord charter was reestablished and the name remained unchanged until the later renaming. Samuel Martin, identified as the first white man to tread the soil of Lisbon, arrived in 1753 and found a few wigwams still occupied by Indians who had cleared and cultivated the meadows. At the close of the Revolutionary War, only forty families and a number of bachelors were comfortably settled in log cabins in the entire township. The site of the present Young-Cobleigh-Hanno house stood where an old stockade and block house used as a fort once stood, a place where enlistments for the Revolutionary War were made and some meetings of the town proprietors were held. The meadow, known as Cobleigh Meadow, was also the place where the militia held its spring musters annually until about 1855.