{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3393", "width": "2140", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Hollinger\\npH S3\\nMm Run H)3.2193", "height": "3393", "width": "2140", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "Z 880 990 M0\\niiiiiiii iiiiiiiirfiiiiiii|i||j|ii|i! lilliilllilllll\\nssaaoNOD do Aawaan", "height": "3393", "width": "2140", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3326", "width": "2099", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "REPORT\\nCommission for the Preservation. Protection,\\nAND Appropriate Designation\\nH\\nAt The Weirs, m the Town of Lacoiiia,\\nAPPOINTED BY THE\\nGOVERNOR AND COUNCIL,\\nIN ACCORDANCE WITH JOINT RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGIS-\\nLATURE, APPROVED SEPTEMBER 7, 1883, AND\\nAUGUST 25, 1885.\\nCONCORD\\nIra C. Evans, Public Printer\\n1893.\\n^\\\\iAA X", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "4 REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nsummer of 1891, when it was resumed, and the structure\\nnow covering the rock was completed the following\\nspring.\\nUpon its completion, the only remaining duty of the\\ncommissioners was its transfer to the possession of the\\nState. This was effected at the Weirs, on the first day\\nof August, 1892, two hundred and forty years after this\\nrock had been selected and marked as an important\\nmonument by the colony of Massachusetts Bay, by its\\ndelivery to his excellency the governor, in presence of\\nthe honorable council and of a large concourse of people.\\nThe exercises of the occasion were as follows\\nJoseph B. Walker, previously appointed by the com-\\nmissioners as president of the occasion, upon taking the\\nchair, briefly remarked\\nI invite you to forget, for a time, the present, and to go back in remem-\\nbrance to the time when all of civilized New Hampshire was embraced\\nwithin the limits of the four towns of Portsmouth, Dover, Hampton,\\nand Exeter to the days of the English commonwealth, when Oliver\\nCromwell ruled our mother country when New Hampshire was living\\nin happy union with its sister colony of IVIassachusetts Bay and John\\nEndicott was governor of both At that time, the Bay colony appointed\\ncommissioners to ascertain the head of Merrimack river. They found\\nit, they say, in their rejDort to the general court, at Aquedacan,\\nthe name of the head of the Merrimack, where it issues out of the lake\\nWinnepusseakit, and upon yonder boulder in the midst of the stream,\\nthey engraved the name of the governor and their own initials.\\nFor nearly two centuries, this stone submerged in the stream, like\\nthe body of Alaric of old in the Busento, rested unknown and forgotten.\\nWhen, some sixty years ago, it was accidentally discovered, it excited\\ngreat interest, not only on account of the event which it commemo-\\nrates, and its location at the point where our beautiful lake narrows to\\na beautiful river, but as an enduring memorial of the former union of\\nour people with those of Massachusetts. It is, I believe, the oldest\\nmonument of general interest now existing in the State.\\nIn 1883, our Legislature made provision for its elevation above the\\nlevel of high water, and for its preservation a duty which it owed to\\nitself, and an act of courtesy to the grand old commonwealth with", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION. 5\\nwhich New Hampshire was happily united for nearly half a century.\\nThe commission appointed for the execution of that purpose, having\\ndischarged the duty assigned it, is here to transfer to the State of New\\nHampshire the structure which they have caused to be erected. Deem-\\ning it fit that, on such an occasion, the constant care of a benign\\nProvidence which has watched over these two States during this long\\nperiod, which almost spans their entire history, should be devoutly\\nrecognized, the commission has invited the Rev. Dr. Andrew P.\\nPeabody, once of New Hampshire and now of Massachusetts, to open\\nthese exercises with prayer.\\nThereupon, he introduced the Rev. Dr. Peabody, of\\nCambridge, Mass., who offered a solemn prayer appro-\\npriate to the occasion.\\nUpon its conchision, the president stated that the com-\\nmissioners had requested Mr. Erastus P. Jewell, who\\nhad been long and intimately conversant with the history\\nof this locality, to prepare and deliver, on this occasion,\\nan historical address relative to this particular section of\\nNew Hampshire and to its southern boundary line, which\\nhe kindly consented to do. He thereupon presented to\\nthe audience Mr. Jewell, of Laconia, who delivered the\\nfollowing address\\nADDRESS OF MR. JEWELL.\\nThe substantial structure which the State of New Hampshire has\\nerected for the preservation of the Endicott .Rock with its ancient\\ninscription, is designed to perpetuate the record of an important event\\nin colonial history.\\nTwo hundred and forty years ago this beautiful water of the high-\\nlands was probably discovered by civilized man. There is no reasonable\\ndoubt that the explorers stood upon this historic stone, August i, 1652,\\nand upon that day cut the inscription upon its granite face.\\nThere is something sacred about this remarkable record which marks\\na period only thirty-two years from the first settlement of Plymouth.\\nThe stone is the oldest public monument in New England. Its age\\nalone would command respect.\\nSeveral of the principal nobility of England obtained from King", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6 REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nJames all the land in America between the degrees of forty and forty-\\neight north latitude, by the name of New England.\\nThe grantees of this unknown territory were known as the council of\\nNew England.\\nJohn JMason obtained from this corporation several grants, bearing\\ndate March 9, 1621 August 10, 1622; November 7, 1629; and\\nApril 22, 1635. He was instated in fee in a vast tract of land known\\nas New Hampshire.\\nNovember 27, 1629, Mason and Ferdinando Gorges procured a\\ngrant of territory by the name of Laconia.\\nMason transported settlers, built houses, forts, and magazines, fur-\\nnished arms,, including artillery, and all necessary materials for estab-\\nlishing a plantation, at very great expense.\\nIn 1628, the governor and company of the Massachusetts Bay in\\nNew England secured from the council of New England a grant of\\ncertain lands, therein described. A royal charter was obtained\\nMarch 4, 1629.\\nThe boundaries and descriptions in all these grants were imperfect\\nand strangely confused. The interior had never been explored, and\\ndifficulties of the most perplexing nature arose as soon as settlements\\nwere undertaken upon the territory which seemed to be included in\\nboth the grants to Mason and to the Bay company.\\nA section of the Massachusetts charter referring to the northern\\nboundary was as follows and also all and singular lands and hered-\\nitaments whatsoever which lie and be within the space of thr6e English\\nmiles to the nortliward of said river called Monomack alias Merry-\\nmack, or to the northward of any and every part thereof.\\nMason s New Hampshire grant of November 7, 1629, embraced all\\nthat part of the main land in New England lying upon the sea coast,\\nbeginning from the middle part of MerrimacT? river and from thence\\nnorthward along the sea coast to Piscataqua river, and so forwards\\nup within the said river and to the furthest head thereof, and from\\nthence northwestward until threescore miles be finished from the first\\nentrance of Piscataqua river; also from Merrimack through the said\\nriver and to the furthest head thereof and so forwards up into the lands\\nwestward until threescore miles be finished, etc.\\nIn 1652, the iMassachusetts colony resolved upon an exploring e.xpe-\\ndition to determine and to fix the northern boundaries of their patent.\\nPrior to this time conflicting views upon the construction of the\\npeculiar description in their charter had been entertained, and now\\nupon a careful perusal of the instrument it was determined that a point", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION. 7\\nthree miles northward of the head of tlie Mcninuick was the iiorlheni\\nlimit of their territory, and this notable expedition was organized to go\\nup the river to find the head thereof and to establish the bounds.\\nAt this time probably no white man had ever approached the lake\\nnearer than a point three miles northward of the forks of the river\\nat Franklin.\\nThe general court of the Massachusetts Bay colony in July, 1638,\\nordered Goodman Woodman and Mr. John Stretton with an Indian\\nand two others, api)ointed by the magistrates of Ipswich, to lay out\\nthe line three miles northward of the most northernmost part of Mer-\\nrimack, for well they were to have 5 jr. a day apiece.\\nMay 22, 1639, I fi^ i ^l^^t Woodward was ordered to have 3 for\\nhis journey to discover the running up of Merrimack, 10 s. more\\nwere added by order of the governor and deputies, and they which\\nwent with them, Thos. Houlet, Sargent Jacobs, Thos. Clark John\\nManning to have 50 s. apiece.\\nThis committee placed the northern line at a great pine tree, three\\nmiles north of the union of the Winnipesaukee and Pemigewasset\\nrivers, then considered the head of the Merrimack as it has since been\\nestablished.\\nThis first survey must have occupied nearly two weeks, and doubtless\\nwas made in the summer or early autumn of 1638.\\nThe pine tree was marked to indicate the extreme limit of the col-\\nonial charter, and was known for many years as Endicott s Tree.\\nIt is formally alluded to in the claim presented by Massachusetts to\\nthe celebrated Salisbury court, August 8, 1737, as a certain tree com-\\nmonly known for more than seventy years past by the name of Endicott s\\nTree, standing three miles northward of the parting of the Merrimack\\nriver, etc. No one knows where this tree stood.\\nDr. Runnels, in his excellent History of Sanbornton, says, it was\\nof no account for a colonial bound after the year 1639. ^t lived. It\\ndied. But no man knoweth of its sepulchre unto this day.\\nThe constraction put upon the charter in the spring of 1652, made\\nan authoritative exploration a necessity.\\nDifficulties and complications had arisen, involving other charters and\\nindividual rights. The conflict was serious and the difficulties great.\\nThe men who came up the Merrimack two hundred and forty years\\nago did not penetrate the wilderness as adventurers.\\nThey were representatives of the colony, and came to determine\\nboundaries and to take posses.sion. The order of the court. May 3,\\n1652, was as follows For the better discovery of the north line of", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "5 REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nour Patent, it is ordered by this Court that Capt. Symon Willard and\\nCapt. Edward Johnson be appointed as commissioners, to procure such\\nartists and other assistants as they shall judge meet, to go with them\\n\\\\.o find Old the most northerly part of Merrimack river, and that they\\nbe supplied with all manner of necessaries by the Treasurer fit for this\\njourney, and that they use their utmost skill and ability to take a true\\nobservation of the latitjide of that place, and that they do it with all\\nconvenient speed and make return thereof to the next session of this\\nCourt.\\nThe great purpose was to reach the most northerly part of the river.\\nThe head oi the Merrimack was the point in doubt.\\nThe expedition of 1638 seemingly had not reached the head of the\\nriver. They had only reached the forks of a river.\\nFor the new enterprise iiery able i?ten were chosen.\\nWillard was a captain of militia and frequently a member of the\\ngeneral court, from Concord. He afterward commanded a portion of\\nMassachusetts s forces in King Philip s war. He was born in Kent,\\nEngland. He came to Massachusetts in 1634. He died at Charles-\\ntown, April 24, 1676.\\nJohnson came to New England in 1630. He was a representative\\nfrom Woburn for twenty-seven years. He was speaker of the house\\nin 1655. He was the author of Wonder Working Providence of\\nZion s Savior in New England, which was published in London in\\n1654. He died, April 23, 1672.\\nWillard and Johnson were active and leading men in all colonial\\naffairs\\nThe commissioners procured Jonathan Ince, a scholar who lived at\\nCambridge, and John Sherman, a prominent citizen and land sur-\\nveyor of Watertown, as artists or surveyors, to observe and take the\\nlatitude of the most northerly part, or the head of Merrimack river.\\nSherman was the great-grandfather of the celebrated Roger Sherman,\\none of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.\\nEliot, the apostle to the Indians, mentions Ince as a godly young\\nman who hath a singular faculty to learn and pronounce the Indian\\ntongue. Ince was undoubtedly selected because he could do the\\nscientific work of the expedition and could also communicate with the\\nIndians. Dr. Samuel A. Green, in his pamphlet on the Northern\\nBoundary of Massachusetts, speaks of Ince as the Confidential clerk\\nof President Dunster. He graduated at Harvard in the class of 1650,\\nand acted in various capacities connected with the college for, several\\nyears afterward. I have little doubt that the inscription was the work", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION. 9\\nof Jonathan Ince and that his own initials were tlie last whicii received\\nthe touch of his hand.\\nIt is doubtful if four other men could iiave been found in New\\nEngland so well equipped for the important work before them.\\nJames Prentiss and another white man whose name is not preserved,\\naccompanied the commissioners as laborers.\\nWillard and Johnson indented with two Indians well acquainted\\nwith Merrimack river and the great lake born and bred all their dales\\nthereupon, very intelligent as any in all these parts.\\nThe language of the report is. we covenanted with them to lead\\nus up. the Merrimack river as far as the river was Merrimack river.\\nFew Indians names survive except the great leaders of the extinct\\nrace, but Pontauhum and Ponbakin, the intelligent native guides who\\nwere acquainted with the great lake, and who led this first expedition\\nto it, have an abiding place in history.\\nIndians were indispensable in these first journeys into the interior.\\nIt will be remembered that one was appointed by the magistrates in\\n1638, to go with Woodward and Stretton.\\nWillard and Johnson evidently selected superior guides, very\\nhitelligetit and well acquainted with the ri\\\\ er and lake, upon whom\\nthey could rely for necessary information.\\nWhen they came to the forks of the river and to Endicott s Tree\\nwith the marks upon it, placed there fourteen years before by the\\nformer explorers, a serious question arose as to how far the river was\\nMerrimack and which of the branches, if either, was to be followed.\\nThey report. when we came short of the lake about 60 miles, then\\ncame two rivers into, one from the westward of north and the other\\nfrom northward of the east. The westerly river to me, as I then\\nthought, was bigger than the other but taking notice of both these\\nrivers, and knowing we must make use of but one, I called the Indians\\nto inform us which was Merrimack river their answer was, the river\\nwhich was next unto us, that came from the Easterl}- point, which river\\nwe followed into the lake.\\nFrom the affidavit of Richard Waldern, called out by the general\\ncourt in 1665 to give evidence of what he knew about the name of\\nMerrimack river (Provincial Papers, vol. i, 290), it appears the\\nIndians understood both branches to be a part of the Merrimack, not\\nonly in that branch which runneth from Winnipiciocket but the other\\nbranch which runneth more westerly.\\nPeter Weares also declared under oath, that the natives told him, as", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "10 REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nfar back as 1638, tliat the lake called Winnipiseket issues into the river\\nof Merrimack.\\nPontauhum and Ponbakin must be regarded as undoubted authority\\nat that time, that the Merrimack river continued to the lake.\\nThe ditiiculty of navigating the Winnipesaukee at that season of\\nthe year is evident, from their estimate of the distance from Franklin\\nto the Weirs. That a sail-boat was used appears from the commis-\\nsioners account. They charge for making the boat, 3 01 ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.00 d.\\nUpon their return they give credit for the Sayles, pieces of rope\\nand two blocks, the boat and some ruff c., that were left 02\\n17 s. o c/.\\nWhether or not a sail-boat reached the lake at that time must for-\\never remain a matter of conjecture. The Indians navigated the river\\nfrom Aquedoctan to the sea with very large boats, and had Carrying\\nplaces, as they were called, where the boats were taken out and car-\\nried past the falls. It is not improbable that the trouble in getting up\\nthe river from Franklin was on account of the difficulties incident to\\nthe sail-boat.\\nUpon their arrival at the lake a well shaped boulder was found\\nexactly at the head of the river, seemingly inviting the inscription\\nwhich we have examined to-day, and which is destined to be an object\\nof interest to unborn generations who shall hereafter come from the\\nhot and crowded cities, for rest and comfort, and to enjoy the pure air\\nand unsurpassed scenery of central and northern New Hampshire.\\nIt is fortunate that we know the names of the pioneer tourists to this\\ndelightful spot. Fortunate that they left their enduring initials upon\\nthe only register open to them.\\nHere was an Indian village then, and many of the children of the\\ndeep woods had never seen a paleface.\\nIt is difficult to state when the Indians finally left their village at\\nAquedoctan, but it is well known that Isaac liradley and Joseph\\nWhittaker were taken by the Indians at Haverhill, Mass., in the fall\\nof 1695, and were captives at the lake all winter.\\nThey escaped the following spring, and after nine days in the woods\\narrived safely at Saco.\\nAquedoctan of 1652 was a large Indian fishing place. Here the\\nnatives came from a distance to get fish to dry and smoke for a win-\\nter supply of food. Stone weirs were built in the river.\\nThe Penacook word for Weirs was Aquedoctan. The great stone\\nfish trap was constructed in the form of a W. The lower points\\nextended quite a distance below the present iron bridge the walls", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "REPORT OP THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION. 11\\nextended up the river some ten or fifteen rods and touehed the shores.\\nGood sized stones, such as could be picked up in the river and on the\\nshores, were used at low or ordinary stages of the water the walls\\nwere never covered, but at flood times the water flowed over them.\\nThey were substantially built.\\nThe lower points were left open a few feet for the water and fish to\\ngo through. A short distance below the opening another wall was\\nbuilt, in a half-circle, and into the spaces were placed wickerwork,\\nthrough which the water could easily flow, but fine enough to secure\\nfish of any considerable size.\\nMr. Augustus Doe, a former resident and a very intelligent man, who\\nhad seen the weirs himself, and had learned much about them from the\\nearlier settlers, estimated that it would require the labor of two good\\nmen two months to build the walls.\\nInto these traps fish, including shad, which were then very abundant\\nin these waters, were driven and easily captured.\\nAs is well known, the salmon never came up the Winnipesaukee\\nriver. The salmon and shad parted company at Franklin.\\nWhen the white settlers came, the weirs were in a good state of\\npreservation and were used by them.\\nFish wardens were appointed yearly, whose duty it was to go two\\ndays each week, I think, to see that the fish were fairly distributed among\\nthe people who assembled here. If enough were not found in the\\ntraps, boats and rafts were sent up into the lake and the water was\\nbeaten with brush and fish were driven in.\\nThis was the method pursued by the Indians for ages before, for\\nthese rude walls bore unmistakable evidence of great age.\\nWith the exception of the two days each week when the wardens\\nwere present anyone could use them.\\nFrequently the early settlers would find the basket-like trap well\\nfilled with magnificent fish, and all our fathers had to do was to take\\nthe helpless captives out, unless a multitude had to be fed, when they\\nresorted to the method just described.\\nExcavations and improvements in the interest of navigation and\\nmanufactures have obliterated all traces of these interesting old mon-\\numents of another race.\\nThe explorers of 1652 arrived when they were in use and largely\\nrelied upon by the natives for a food supply.\\nThey camped here for a night or two, or shared the rude hospitality\\nof the friendlv Indians.", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "12 REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nThey were at the head of tlie Merrimack. They saw for the first\\ntime the wonderful lake of which they had heard so much.\\nThey cut the iiame of Governor Endicott and their own initials in\\ndeep letters upon the stone tablet and departed, never to return.\\nTheir stay was necessarily short. Nineteen days were consumed in\\nthe entire journey. The expenses were about eighty-four pounds.\\nUnder date of October 19, 1652, Sherman and Ince made a report,\\nas follows\\nJohn Sherman and Jonathan Ince on their oaths say, that at\\nAquedoctan the name of the head of the Merrimack where it issues\\nout of the Lake called Winnapeeseakit, upon the ist day of August,\\n1652 we observed, and by observation found, that the latitude of the\\nplace was 43\u00c2\u00b0, 40 12 besides those minutes which are to be allowed\\nfor the three miles more North wch. run into the Lake.\\nNo doubt the observations were made at noon of the day upon\\nwhich the stone was inscribed. The date may have been cut upon its\\nsurface. Drill holes which were evidently designed to attract atten-\\ntion and make the monument conspicuous, are still apparent, but no\\ntraces of the date remain.\\nAfter the departure of the noted discoverers, years rolled away.\\nThe red men disappeared. The ancient solitude reigned again for\\na while upon the uninhabited shores of Winnipesaukee.\\nA century later, or a little more, and white settlers came and civil-\\nization slowly advanced.\\nThe old controversies, involving jurisdiction, titles, and boundaries,\\nhad long been settled, and once important reports and documents had\\nbeen lost or filed away and forgotten.\\nAnother generation was upon the stage. Willard, Johnson, Sher-\\nman, and Ince had been sleeping more than a hundred and fifty years,\\nand no man lived who knew aught of the inscribed stone but the\\nfaithful sentinel silently kept the mysterious record unobserved until a\\nlaborer in the employ of Stephen C. Lyford, in 1833, noticed The\\nqueer marks, and called Lyford s attention to them.\\nThe name of Governor Endicott was easily read, and the same day\\nthe discovery was made known to the late eminent Judge George Y.\\nSawyer, who was then prstcticing law at Meredith Bridge.\\nThe next morning, Lyford, Sawyer, Daniel Tucker, and John T.\\nCoffin visited the Weirs and made a most enthusiastic examination.\\nMr. Sawyer investigated the whole matter, and, with Col. Philip\\nCarrigain, prepared an article which appears in volume four of the\\nCollections of the New Hampshire Historical Society.", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION. 13\\nIn a letter to me Judge Sawyer says, all enquiries made by Messrs.\\nLyford, Tucker, and Coffin, as well as by myself, of aged people, failed\\nto elicit any information in regard to the inscription, and we were con-\\nvinced that there was no knowledge of such sculptured rock, or any\\ntradition of its existence among the people in that section of the\\ncountry,\\nSince its discovery the waters of the lake have been controlled by\\nthe dam at Lakeport, so that the surface has been covered a great por-\\ntion of the time, and it was found that the water and ice were rapidly\\nobliterating the inscription.\\nIn October, 1880, casts were made by two Italian artists of Pjoston,\\nSenors Luchini and Caproni, one of which is preserved in the rooms\\nof the New Hampshire Historical Society at Concord. One was given\\nto the cabinet of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and a third to\\nthe proprietors of the locks and canals on the Merrimack river, whose\\noffice is in Lowell. Several others are in existence.\\nBut while the inscription was quite well defined, and to prevent\\nfurther destruction, the Legislature of New Hampshire, September 7,\\n1883, and August 25, 1885, made appropriations and the State\\nappointed commissioners to insure its preservation.\\nThe merely ornamental has been sacrificed in the attempt to make\\nthe work appropriate, massive, and permanent.\\nAges hence, when we, with the most of mankind have been forgot-\\nten when the great republic shall number more than two hundred\\nmillions, when the Aquedoctan of the Penacooks shall be the abode of\\na vast multitude, and the shore and the islands of our magnificent lake\\nshall be richly adorned with homes of luxury and splendor this cJd\\nhistoric treasure, shielded with stately care from vandalism, elemental\\nonsets and the ravages of time, shall continue in its abiding simplicity,\\nan object of surpassing interest, an impressive relic of colonial days,\\nand the time worn inscription shall be viewed with becoming rever-\\nence, while the tablet which our generation has erected for the instruc-\\ntion of those who come after us, in the distant years, under the then\\nvenerable, time battered, and mutilated shrine which stubbornly a.ssays\\nits protection, shall mutely tell its concise story witli monumental\\nfidelity to those who shall assemble here.\\nAs we look back two hundred and forty years, it seems a long time,\\nbut how insignificant when compared with the measureless years of\\nsolitude through which this gray old sentinel silently guarded the out-\\nlet of the lake, and the more distant years when Winnipesaukee turned\\nits waters into the sea bv another channel, and there was no head of", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "14 REPORT OF THK ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nthe Merrimack here or with the glacial wanderings of this voiceless\\nstone from its cradle bed in the infinite past when there was no\\nbeautiful water of the highlands, and the smile of the Great Spirit had\\nnot rested among the hills.\\nWonderful indeed has been the unrecorded history of this now\\nexalted wanderer more wonderful yet are the vicissitudes which\\nawait it.\\nIt beheld nature s tumultuous uproar and saw the awful conditions\\nprior to the appearance of man.\\nRaces have vanished and been buried in eternal oblivion before\\nthis primeval stone. So shall our race perish and be forgotten in the\\ninfinite years, and as the lifeless planet shall swing into the wild and\\nstormy hereafter, relentless time, scorning our efforts to perpetuate the\\nwork of human hands, with Titanic blows shall beat the Endicott Rock\\ninto impalpable dust.\\nThe address of Mr. Jewell was followed by music by\\nRublee s band, at the close of which, Mr. John Kimball,\\nchairman of the commission, gave a detailed account\\nof its work, at the close of which, in behalf of the com-\\nmission, he proceeded to transfer to Governor Tuttle, as\\nchief magistrate of New Hampshire, the completed\\nstructure now covering the Endicott Rock.\\nREMARKS OF MR. KIMBALL.\\nFrom 1652 to 1833, a period of one hundred and eighty-one years,\\nthe people of New Hampshire had no knowledge of the Endicott Rock.\\nIt is to be presumed that the inscription cut in the rough boulder in\\n1652 was plain and legible. The frost of winter and the h feat of sum-\\nmer, assisted by the ice in passing over the rock from the lake to the\\nriver, had disintegrated the surface so that the inscription was slowly\\ndisappearing.\\nSince the discovery in 1833, the interest in this rock has been\\nincreasing. A large number of tourists have annually visited it. A\\ngeneral impression prevailed that something should be done to preserve\\nit. September 7, 1883, a half of a century after its discovery, the\\nLegislature of New Hampshire passed a joint resolution appropriating\\n$400 for the preservation and protection of the Endicott Rock at\\nthe Weirs, in the town of Laconia. Nothing was done until October", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION, 15\\n25, 1S84, wlien the jjovernor and council appointed Erastus 1 Jewell,\\nof Laconia John Kimball, of Concord and Waldo E. Buck, of Lake-\\nport, commissioners to carry into effect the act of the Legislature.\\nLewis D. Badger, of Lakeport, was employed to raise the stone from\\nits bed in the sand to a point above high water mark, and place under\\nit a suitable foundation for the stone and structure which is now built\\nthereon. On account of a seam running diagonally tiirough the stone,\\nit was found necessary to strengthen it by the use of iron rods running\\nthrough and around it. The rock was about twelve feet long, six feet\\nwide, and four feet thick. The corners were worn off so that the ends\\nwere circular in form. It was found necessary to reduce the length to\\neight feet. The top of the rock is four feet above the pebbly beach\\nwhich surrounds it.\\nThe amount appropriated being insufficient to provide for the suit-\\nable protection and jDreservation of the rock, on August 25, 1885, the\\nLegislature appropriated a further sum of $720. For the next six years\\nthe water in the lake was unusually high, until the dry season of 1891,\\nwhen the water receded so that the work so long delayed, could be\\ncompleted. During this time, Mr. Buck, one of the commissioners,\\nhad removed from the State. On December 22, 1891, the governor\\nand council appointed Joseph B. Walker, of Concord, to fill the\\nvacancy.\\nEdward Dow, an architect, of Concord, had made a design of the\\nbuilding to be placed around and over the rock. This design has been\\nmodified by Giles Wheeler, of Concord, and the commissioners, and\\nadopted by them. It consists of a building of Concord granite, fifteen\\nfeet long, fourteen feet wide at the base, and thirteen feet high. The\\nbottom course of stone resting on the foundation is one foot, three\\ninches thick. The second course is twelve inches thick, receding\\ntoward the centre twelve inches, and forming a step twelve inches wide\\naround the building. The third course is one foot, three inches thick,\\nreceding from the second course twelve inches, and forming a second\\nstep twelve inches wide. On this course there is a three inch splay.\\nThe three courses of stone with the Endicott Rock form a solid mass\\nof stone and cement four feet high. On this masonry is erected a\\nbuilding of heavy block stone ten feet, six inches long, eight feet, six\\ninches wide on the outside and seven feet high on the inside, over\\nthe rock.\\nThis is surmounted by a capstone (in two parts) forming a solid\\nstone roof twelve feet long, and ten feet wide. On the top of this\\nstone roof is a block of granite four feet, six inches long, by two feet.", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "16 REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nsix inches wide, and ten inches thicl-c, which is ready to receive a bronze\\nstatue of Governor John Endicott, or some other personage who per-\\nformed an important part in our colonial history. On the north, west,\\nand south sides of this building there are three openings six feet high\\nby three and one half feet wide. In each of these openings there is\\ninserted a brass grill to protect the rock and its inscription. The\\nsurface of the rock can be seen and the letters of the original inscrip-\\ntion, having been covered with gold leaf, can easily be read from either\\nof the openings. On the east side of the building there is a polished\\ngranite panel facing the front or west opening, six feet high by four feet\\nwide. Upon this panel there is cut the following inscription\\nENDICOTT ROCK.\\nThe name of\\nlOHN Endicvt Gov.\\nand the initials of\\nEdward Johnson and Simon Willard, commissioners\\nof the Massachusetts Bay Colony,\\nJohn Sherman and Jonathan Ince, surveyors, were inscribed upon\\nthis rock\\nAugust I, 1652,\\nto mark the head of Merrimack River.\\nA line three miles northward of this rock was then claimed by that\\ncolony as the northern limit of their patent.\\nEI S W\\nW P lOHN\\nENDICVT\\nGOV\\nIS II\\nThe structure which covers this historic stone, long known as\\nEndicott Rock, was erected for its protection, in 1892, by the State of\\nNew Hampshire, in accordance with Joint Resolutions of its Legis-\\nlature, approved September 7, 1883, and August 25, 1885.\\nJOHN KIMBALL,\\nERASTUS P. JEWELL,\\nJOSEPH B. WALKER,\\nCo)ninissioners", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION. 17\\nTo the following named contractors who have executed the several\\nparts of the work, due credit should be given: Foundation, Lewis U.\\nBadger, Lakeport cut stone work, Granite Railway Company, Joseph\\nH. Pearce, superintendent, Concord moving stone from cars to the\\nrock, W. J. Morrison, Laconia laying the stone, F. E. House, Man-\\nchester; building the bridge, Henry C. Batchelder, Laconia; brass grill,\\nT. F. McGann, Boston gilding the inscription, Ezra A. Page, Laconia\\ncutting the inscription in panel, S. Andrew Smith, Concord; superin-\\ntendent of the work, Giles Wheeler, Concord. I will not burden you\\nwith an account of the expense in detail, only to say that the whole\\ncost is $2,426.82.\\nYour excellency the governor, and the honoral)le council And now\\nit only remains for the commissioners to deliver this building into your\\nhands, who are for tlie time being its lawful custodians. Permit me\\nto sav in behalf of the commissioners that we are grateful for the con-\\nlidence reposed in us by you and your predecessors and we close our\\nlabors hoping that this structure will be reasonably satisfactory to the\\npeople of New Hampshire, and will preserve and protect the Endicott\\nRock as required by the acts of its Legislature, for two hundred and\\nforty years, at least.\\nIn accepting the structure thus tendered, his excel-\\nlency replied as follows\\nADDRESS OF GOVERNOR TUTTLE.\\nMr. President a)id Fellow Citizens:\\nIn behalf of the people of New Hampshire, I accept, from the hon-\\norable commissioners who have acted in their name and behalf, the\\ncompleted and finished structure, designed to preserve an historic relic\\nof great interest to our people and to give to it that celebrity to which\\nit is entitled. It gives me great pleasure to say to the commissioners,\\nentrusted with this work, that it has been well done, and I gladly tender\\nto them, not only my own thanks, but also those of the honorable\\ncouncil, for the wisdom and fidelity with which they have applied the\\nappropriations, made by the Legislature, to the object sought to be\\naccomplished.\\nThe Endicott Rock is a New Hampshire landmark, only in a phys-\\nical sense, as it rests upon New Hampshire soil and is bathed by her\\nwaters. In its political significance and historical association its record", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "18 REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nbelongs to our sister commonwealth of Massachusetts, who claimed to\\nexercise jurisdiction over this gateway to our marvelous mountain\\nregions, nearly two and a half centuries ago. She made her record\\nhere, three miles south of her supposed northern boundary, more than\\na quarter of a century before the formation of the first council for the\\ngovernment of any part of our present territory under the name of\\nNew Hampshire, and one hundred and twenty-four years before the\\nadoption of our first and temporary constitution, which was also the first\\nconstitution adopted by any State that became a member of the\\nAmerican Union.\\nAn event of such significance as the attempt of the colony of Mas-\\nsachusetts to establish her boundary three miles north of the source of\\nthe Merrimack, according to the terms of her grant, in what is now\\nthe heart of our State, can never fail to be of deejD and absorbing interest\\nto every student of our early history and the judgment of all will be that\\nour State has acted wisely and well in preserving, for the inspection of\\nthe generations who will succeed us, an object whose historic interest\\ncan never diminish so long as these beautiful shores and charming\\nwaters shall gladden the eye of man. Those who have preceded me\\nhave spoken so eloquently and given us so clearly the historic events\\npertinent to this occasion, that 1 need not invade that field so fruitful\\nin thought and suggestion.\\nIn conclusion, I congratulate the people of our State that their Leg-\\nislature had the wisdom and generosity to make provision for the\\npreservation of this ancient historic landmark and 1 congratulate all\\nwho have an interest in whatever relates to the experiences of the\\nfounders of this now mighty empire of the New World, upon the most\\nhappy and successful accomplishment of this patriotic purpose.\\nMusic was again given by the band, after which, in\\nthe absence of His Excellency Governor Russell and of\\nthe Hon. Williiim C. Endicott, of Massachusetts, who,\\nit had been expected would be present, the Rev. Dr.\\nPeabody was invited to respond for the grand old com-\\nmonwealth by whose officers and in whose behalf the\\nEndicott Rock was inscribed and made historic.\\nThereupon, Dr. Peabody made an able and eloquent\\nimpromptu address, in the course of which he alluded to\\nhis former residence in New Hampshire and paid a high\\ntribute to its people.", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "REPORT OF TIIK KNDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION. 10\\nAt the close of Dr. Peabody s address, the president\\nreminded the audience that the exercises of such an\\noccasion would be entirely unsatisfactory unless ratified\\nb) the New Hampshire Historical Society, which had\\ndone what it could to preserve the early history of the\\nState and that it would hardly be safe to terminate them\\nwithout hearing from that venerable body, whose presi-\\ndent is with us a Scotch Irishman, in part, by blood,\\nbut a Puritan at heart by both blood and heart, a worthy\\nrepresentative of whatever is best among us. Hon. John\\nJ. Bell, of Exeter, was then invited to address the\\nassembly in behalf of the New Hampshire Historical\\nSociety, and responded in an interesting speech detail-\\ning with care important events in the early history of\\nNew Hampshire.\\nAt the close of Mr. Bell s address, the president\\nremarked that, while he had been speaking, a trial had\\nbeen made of the stone weirs, so graphically described by\\nMr. Jewell, as extending from shore to shore of the river,\\nin the form of a capital W, whose points extending down\\nstream opened into two small, circular inclosures for the\\ncapture of the fish driven into the same from above by\\nloud outcries and splashings of the water and that, an\\nexamination of these, just made, had revealed the grat-\\nifying fact that in one of them had been captured a live\\nsenator. Thereupon, Senator William E. Chandler,\\nwhose name was not upon the programme, was invited\\nto make the closing address, and was presented to the\\nassembly.\\nADDRESS OF HON. WILLIA.M E. CHANDLER.\\nMr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen:\\nIf the commissioners have caught me as a tish in tlie weirs, I must\\nbe brief or j-ou will not let me escape alive. It is hardly fair to ask\\none to speak at this late hour who had expected to listen, or at most to\\nextend a cordial greeting to Governor Russell and Ex-Secrctary Endi-", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "20 REPORT OP THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\ncott, who were to represent Massachusetts on this occasion. Perhaps,\\non reflection, tliey felt ashamed to come here and defend the movement\\nwhich resulted in marking the Endicott Rock. The president of the\\nNew Hampshire Historical Society, the Hon. John J. Bell, has\\ninformed us that the desire of Massachusetts to extend her jurisdiction\\nover the New Hampshire towns and the Maine settlements, arose only\\nfrom her policy of spreading the principles of civil and religious lib-\\nerty. I think there was another motive. I realize that Massachusetts\\nis represented here by our distinguished and venerable friend, the\\nRev. Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, and I beg to assure him that although\\nI may bear down on Massachusetts to begin with, I will make it all\\nright before I finish. That excursion of Maj. Simon Willard and\\nCapt. Edward Johnson, commissioners, and John Sherman and\\nJonathan Ince, surveyors, to Aquedoctan was one of the most prepos-\\nterous land-grabbing expeditions of which the world has a record. It\\nseems that on a previous excursion, in 1638, a tree had been marked as\\nthe northern boundary of Massachusetts, near the junction of the\\nPemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers. When the agents, in 1652,\\nreached this junction, they were told by an Indian that the stream\\nto follow up as the Merrimack was the Winnipesaukee, and so they\\ntook that route, and located their boundary as three miles out into the\\nlake, north of the marked rock where we now^ are. I think New\\nHampshire ought to be everlastingly grateful to that Indian and to\\nerect to him a monument. If it had not been for him the Massachu-\\nsetts party might have followed the Pemigewasset to its extreme source\\nand have drawn an east and west line three miles further north, and\\nthen Massachusetts would have claimed all of the White Mountains,\\nand might have held so noble a prize to this da}-.\\nConsider further this Endicott rock-marking excursion. The char-\\ntered northern boundary of Massachusetts was an east and west line\\nthree miles north of the most northerly part of the Merrimack river.\\nThen it was supposed that the Merrimack ran from west to east through\\nits whole course, and Massachusetts established her towns all along\\nthe northerly side SaHsbury, Almsbury, Haverhill, Methuen, and\\nDracut. After it became known that at Dracut the course of the river\\nwas south, the colony began to push their claims to the north and so\\nthese excursionists of 1652 came to the Endicott Rock and discovered\\nthat the place was forty-three degrees, forty minutes, and twelve seconds\\nof north latitude and three miles being added, the line fell within\\nthe lake at forty-three degrees, forty-three minutes, and twelve seconds.\\nDid they then follow out the line to the eastward to the ocean Not at", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION. 21\\nall. It was a wilderness through which they did not dare to travel a\\nsingle mile. They retreated south by the route they had come, with\\ntheir sail-boat and their Indian and went back to old Boston and made\\ntheir report. The general court then hired, no longer woodsmen, but\\nseamen, two experienced shipmasters, Jonas Clarke and Samuel\\nAndrews, and sent them off across the sea to the coast of Maine, where\\nthey found forty-three degrees, forty-three minutes, and twelve seconds\\nof latitude in Casco bay, on Clapboard island. Thereupon Massachu-\\nsetts claimed that her northern boundary was a. line drawn east and\\nwest through Casco bay and Lake Winnipesaukee, from the Atlantic to\\nthe South Sea, which my friend, President John J. Bell, has just told\\nme meant the Pacific ocean over not one mile of which northern\\nboundary had a single Mas.sachusetts colonist, or agent of the general\\ncourt, ever traveled or ever dared to travel. This was the claim of\\nright on the part of Massachusetts to rule New Hampshire at which\\nwe can well laugh to-day I\\nBut after all, on fuller view, Massachusetts deserves all the eulogy\\nwhich President Bell has given her. If any in the New Hampshire\\ntowns disliked her jurisdiction, they were able soon to witness her\\nhumiliation. The old Bay colony did stand for civil and religious lib-\\nerty, and resisted the oppressions of Charles the Second, and the\\narbitrary governors he sent over, and the renegades among their own\\nnumber whom those governors seduced. If the men of Massachusetts\\nhad been cringing and servile, they might have held New Hampshire\\nfast in their control. But they resisted the merry monarch and his\\nminions, and before many years had passed after the Endicott Rock\\nexcursion, it was decided by the English judges that New Hampshire\\nwas not within the chartered limits of Massachusetts: and in 1684, the\\npersecution of that colony resulted in the destruction of its charter upon\\nquo warranto proceedings in the English courts. But this humiliation\\nwas not long to be endured. The New Hampshire towns .sympathized\\nwith Massachusetts; the revolution of 1688 was at hand; and when\\nat last came the downfall of the Stuart dynasty in the mother country,\\nthe Puritan blood was up, and the Bay colonists arose against Sir\\nEdmund Andros, and shut him up a prisoner in Fort Hill castle, and\\nalso against the faithless chief justice, Jo. Dudley, and the perni-\\ncious Edward Randolph, and laid them by the heels in the common\\njail at Boston\\nThis is my amende to Massachusetts. From that time down to this\\ngeneration, in every battle for high principles, the men of Massachu-\\nsetts and the men of New Hampshire have fought shoulder to shoulder,", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "22 REPORT OF THE ENDICOTT ROCK COMMISSION.\\nbeginning in tlie Revolution at Bunker Hill, and ending at Yorktown\\nand in the late war of the rebellion, brethren of a common ancestry,\\nthey fought side by side for that liberty and union which is their blood-\\nbought heritage and their unending glory. New Hampshire can have\\nbut one issue with Massachusetts over the Endicott Rock. It shall\\nremain where it is, with its Massachusetts inscriptions. If agents of\\nthe commonwealth come to take it away, they must come with arms in\\ntheir hands. The New^ Hampshire boys will fight to keep it as a\\nprecious portion of her soil. But this, and this alone, may Massa-\\nchusetts do. Upon the ediiice which the State of New Hampshire\\nhas erected, there is room for a noble statue. Let us all agree and\\nhope that the sons of the old Bay colony and State may there appro-\\npriately place a likeness of their grand old Puritan chieftain, the\\nfather of Massachusetts, none other than the worshipful John Endi-\\ncott, governor.\\nAs remarked by Mr. Kimball in his foregoing address,\\nthe cost of the stone structure caused to be erected by the\\ncommissioners appointed for the protection of the oldest\\nexisting public monument within our limits, has exceeded\\nthe appropriations made by the Legislature in the sum\\nof thirteen hundred and six dollars and eighty-two cents\\n($1,306.82). This sum the commissioners have ad-\\nvanced in the full confidence of being reimbursed by the\\nState, as it was found during its progress that the work\\ncould not be satisfactorily executed for the amount\\nappropriated.\\nRespectfully submitted,\\nJOHN KIMBALL,\\nERASTUS P. JEWELL,\\nJOSEPH B. WALKER,\\nCommissioners for the Preservation and\\nProtection of the Endicott Pock.\\nConcord, N. H., October 26, 1892.\\nU^^", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "OCT 16 1900", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3321", "width": "2058", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 065 088 2\\nHoUinger", "height": "3326", "width": "2052", "jp2-path": "reportofcommissi00new_0028.jp2"}}