We establish the existence of hyperelliptic curves of genus \(g\ge 2\) defined over \(\mathbb {Q}\) whose Jacobians possess rational torsion points of order N where \(N=4g^2+2g-2\) or \(4\,g^2+ 2\,g -4\) . For \(N = 2\,g^{2} + 7\,g + 1\) , we introduce a 1-parameter family of polynomials \(f_{t}(x)\) of degree \(2g+1\) . For all but finitely many rational values of t, if the discriminant of \(f_{t}(x)\) is nonzero, then the hyperelliptic curve defined by \(y^{2} = f_{t}(x)\) has a rational point of order N on its Jacobian.