{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2626", "width": "1645", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class.\\nBook-JXuiL\\nCcpi^M?-\\nCOBaaGHT DEPOSIT.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2523", "width": "1633", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2406", "width": "1450", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2523", "width": "1633", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2528", "width": "1569", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2432", "width": "1547", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2517", "width": "1584", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "^rA^^^^^C", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE\\nBY\\nJOHN N. MCCLINTOCK\\nBOSTON\\nB. B. RUSSELL, Cornhill", "height": "2523", "width": "1579", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Copyright, i88\u00c2\u00bb,\\nBy John N. McClintock-\\nJHOonqtjm press, ^Soston.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "To\\nH/S EXCELLENCY CHARLES H. SAWYER,\\nGovernor of New Hampshire,\\nThis work is respectfttlly dedicated by the\\nAUTHOR.", "height": "2523", "width": "1558", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "ERRATA.\\nPage 21. For Mohesran read Moiihesran.\\n39\\n40\\n58\\n69.\\n71\\n76\\n91\\n108\\nFor Cape Anne read Cape Ann.\\nFor Rev. William Burdet read Rev. George\\nBurilet.\\nTitle of illustration should read Mouse of the Seven-\\nteenth Century.\\nFor George read Governor.\\nFor Rev. James Langdon read R S.muiel\\nLangdoii.\\nIllustration, First Fort at the mouth of the Piscata-\\nqua, was omitted.\\nIllustration, The Bell House, New Castle. was\\nomittetl.\\nIllustration, Our Alley, was omitted.", "height": "2486", "width": "1563", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nThe Author and Compiler of this work desired to produce a\\nbook of reference for the home, for the ofifice, and for the\\npublic library, which would be available for the student and of\\ninterest to the general reader. For his facts he has drawn\\nliberally upon Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap s History of New\\nHampshire, George Barstow s History, John M. Whiton s His-\\ntory, Prof. E. D. Sanborn s History; the ten volumes of the\\nProvincial and State Papers, edited by Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Bou-\\nton the six volumes edited by Lsaac W. Hammond, A. M.\\nthe eight volumes issued by the New Hampshire Historical\\nSociety; the three volumes, published by p-armer and Moore;\\nthe five volumes of the Adjutant-General s Reports, 1865, 1866,\\nand 1868; Major Otis F. R. Waite s New Hampshire in the\\nRebellion the Life of William Plumer the Life of Jeremiah\\nMason the works of John Scribner Jenness the many town\\nhistories, county histories, and registers Manuscript Records\\nin the Office of the Secretary of State Official Succession, by\\nHosea B. Carter; the Author s unpublished History of Pem-\\nbroke and the eleven volumes of the Granite Monthly. From\\nthe last he has taken bodily many sentences, paragraphs, and\\nwhole articles, which he considered especially worthy of repro.\\nduction, from the pen of ex-Governor Charles H. Bell, LL. D.\\nSamuel C. Bartlett, LL. D., President of Dartmouth College\\nex-Chief Justice J. Everett Sargent, LL. D. ex-Judge George W.\\nNesmith, LL. D. Hon. Joseph B. Walker Hon. Charles Levi\\nWoodbury Mr. George Wadleigh General George Stark\\nRev. Dr. Alonzo H. Quint Mr. John Albee L. A. Morrison,\\nA. M. Mr. Fred Myron Colby Mr. C. S. Spaulding Rev.\\nDr. F. D. Ayer Jolm M. Shirley, Esq. Rev. Dr. C. W.\\nWallace; Mr. Asa McFarland Mr. C. C. Lord; Dr. William", "height": "2518", "width": "1568", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "G. Carter Rev. Daniel Rollins Mr. W. F. Whitcher Mr. L.\\nW. Dodge and many others, proper credit to whom is given\\nin footnotes.\\nBy an oversight, several corrections were not made as marked\\nin the proof, and errors have been printed in the whole edition\\nbut are noted among the Errata.\\nNecessarily many facts and events of interest in New Hamp-\\nshire history have been omitted many have simply been\\nalluded to which would require many pages for their proper\\nrecital. There is enough history connected with every town\\nin the State to require a large volume to contain it. A history\\nof every regimental organization during the Rebellion should\\nbe, and is to be, printed. Hon. Charles H. Bell is preparing a\\nHistory of the Bench and Bar of New Hampshire and Dr.\\nIrving A. Watson is to issue an account of the doctors and\\nthe medical profession of the State.\\nThis work, such as it is, is submitted to the Public with the\\nhope, on the Author s part, that it will be kindly received, and\\nawaken an interest in historical research and in the preservation\\nof the history of New Hampshire.\\nJ. N. M.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS,\\nCHAPTER I.\\nDiscovery and Settleiments. 1623-1641.\\nPago\\nIntroduction Description Early Voyagers Martin Pring Cap-\\ntain Jolin Smitli Winter Fislieries Aborigines Virginia- Coun-\\ncil of Plynioutli Sir Ferdinando Gorges Captain Jolin Mason-\\nMariana Maine David Ttiomson Tlie Hiltons First Settle-\\nment Little Harbor Dover Neck Landing Character Pro-\\ngress Thomas Morton Massachusetts Charter New Hampshire\\nGrant Laconia Hilton s Patent Isles of Shoals Piscataqua\\nGrant Walter Neal White Mountains Dixy Bull Division of\\nPatent Death of Mason Thomas Wiggin Dover Captain\\nJohn Underbill Rev. John Wheelwright Exeter Rev. Stephen\\nBatchelor Hampton Union with Massachusetts 17\\nCHAPTER II.\\nUnion with Mass.\\\\chvsetts, 1641-1679.\\nLaws Courts Judges Masonian Claim Deputies Magistrates\\nDover Norfolk County Town Lines Roads Portsmouth\\nSurvey of Northern Boundary Endicott Rock Market Dun-\\nstable Witchcraft Quakers King s Commissioners Corbet\\nMasts Sabbath Laws Harvard College Oyster River Indian\\nWar Effect of Union Church History: Hampton Exeter\\nDover -Portsmouth Massachusetts Governors Magistrates and\\nDeputies 49\\nCHAPTER III.\\nKii G Philip s War, 1675-1678.\\nLong Peace Character of Indians Edward Randolph French\\nDutch New York Mohawks Causes of War Indian Vices\\nSachem Philip Mount Hope Rum Indian Shortcomings Lic-\\nensing the Sale of Arms Loss to the Colonies Loss to the Indians\\nPhilip s Straits Terms of Peace French Estimate of Indian", "height": "2475", "width": "1547", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "8 CONTENTS.\\nI JBS!\\nCharacter Kindness to Qiiakers Injustice to Indians Indian\\nYouth anxious for War Squando Insult to Squaw Attitude of\\nI enacooks and Cochecos Praying Indians Their Loss Murder\\nof their Old People Indian Depredations in New Hampshire\\nPeace Death of Philip Simon, Andrew, and Peter War in\\nMaine Treachery at Major Waldron s Garrison Expedition to\\nOssipee Mohawks warring on Friendly Indians Defeat at Black\\nPoint Major Andros and Peace Independence of the Colonists\\nSt. Castine 77\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nRoyal Province, 16S0-1692.\\nCondition of affairs John Cutt Council Assembly Laws\\nCafital Offences Penal Offences Grants Confirmed Randolph\\nBarefoote Mason Richard Waldron Tax-Payers in New\\nHampshire Cranfield Edward Gove s Rebellion Lawsuits\\nAppeal to King Riots Joshua Moodey Dudley ^Andros Re-\\nvolution Union with Massachusetts King William s War 91\\nCHAPTER V.\\nKiNc; William s and Queen Anne s Wars, 16S9-1713.\\nCauses St. Castine Grievances Richard Waldron s Death\\nDover Oyster River Salmon Falls Newington Lamprey\\nRiver Wheelwright s Pond Sandy Beach Portsmouth Ran-\\ngers Durham Massacre Widow Cutt Breakfast Hill Return\\nof Captives Treatment of Captives Queen Anne s War Peace\\nat Pemaquid Eastern Settlements ravaged Hampton Kingston\\nRemoval of Indians to Canada Dunstable Death of Colonel\\nWinthrop Hilton Peace Condition of Parties 109\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nRoyal Province, 169.2-1715.\\nSamuel Allen John Usher New Council Small Pox Post Office\\nNew Castle incorporated Kingston incorporated William Part-\\nridge Piscataqua Rebellion Earl of Bellomont Governor Allen\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u0094John Usher Mutilation of Records New Trial of Claim\\nAppeal to King Joseph Dudley Decision of English Courts\\nNashua Offers of Compromise^ Death of Allen Renewal of\\nSuit New Trial Death of Thomas Allen Hampton Falls\\nNewington 121", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nRovAL Province, 1715-1722.\\nI^.ige\\nIntroduction George Vaiiglian SanuieJ Shute John Wentworth\\nCommerce Two-Mile Slip Scotch-Irish Londonderry Earl v\\nSettlers Chester 136\\nCHAPTER Vlir.\\nRoyal Province. 17J2-1740.\\nLieutenant-Governor John Wentworth Governor Samuel Shute\\nFourth Indian, or Lovewell s War Indian Grievances Depreda-\\ntions in New Hampshire Attack on Nashua John Lovewell s Three\\nExpeditions Suncook Peace Penacook Rye Rumford\\nTimothy Walker First Church of Concord Hollis Bow Sun-\\ncook Settled Other Settlements Newmarket William Burnet\\nJonathan Belcher Death of Wentworth Character David Dun-\\nbar Durham Amherst Boscawen Charlestown Riot at Exe-\\nter Commerce Episcopal Chapel Throat Distemper .Suncook\\n-Boundary Line adjusted Massachusetts Documents Windham\\n-Retirement of Belcher jji\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nRoyal Province, 1741-1760.\\nGovernor Benning Wentworth Wentworth Hall Martha Hilton\\nA Cold Winter Epping Windham Brentwood French and\\nIndian War Louisburg SirWilliam Pepperrell Pepperrell House\\nWilliam Vaughan Number Four Incorporation of various\\nTowns Rumford (Concord) Wrestling Matches Old Style and\\nNew Style The Bow Case Coos County The Seven Years\\nWar -Rogers Rangers Rev. John Houston An Audacious Re-\\nconnaissance A Fierce Fight in the Woods John Stark Con-\\nquest of Canada Saint Francis Indians Quebec and Montreal\\nPontlac and Major Rogers Rogers House 189\\nCHAPTER X.\\nRoyal Province, 1760-1775.\\nHampshire Grants Taxation by Parliament Stamp Act Its Re-\\npeal Resignation of Governor Benning Wentworth Governor\\nJohn Wentworth His Popularity Early Settlers Their Customs\\nGilmanton Marlboro Canaan Enfield Lyme Orford\\nBath Lebanon Hanover GolTstown Newport Plainfield", "height": "2523", "width": "1633", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Pa^e\\nDanville Peterborough Bow Controversy Suncook Candia\\nWilton New Ipswich Lisbon Gilsum Lancaster Clare-\\nmont Wentworth Salisbury Milan Berlin Hillsborough\\nFitzwilliam Annals of Portsmouth Paul Revere- Capture of\\nFort William and Mary Holderness and the Livermores White-\\nfield White Mountain Notch Colonial Laws\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nThe Revoi-ution, 1775-1783.\\nLexington Portsmouth Fortified Bunker Hill- General Stark\\nGeneral Reed Nottingham Meshech Weare House of Repre-\\nsentatives Gov. John Wentworth Gen. John Sullivan Siege of\\nBoston ExettT in 1776 Committee of Safety Bennington\\nStillwater Saratoga First Schoolm.asters Keene Raid Free-\\nwill Baptists Samuel Livermore and Family .Slavery North-\\nfield Shakers Canterbury General Stark\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nState under First Con.stitution, 1784-1792.\\nConstitution of 1784 First Legislature First President Council\\nSenate House of Representatives Lawlessness Trouble at\\nKeene Mock Convention at Concord John Langdon John\\nSullivan Mob at Exeter Federal Constitution Littleton\\nUnited States Constitutional Convention Election under Constitu-\\ntion Members of the Continental Congress -Officials at Ports-\\nmouth Josiah Bartlett Town of Bartlett Orange Revision\\nof Statutes Constitutional Convention .\\\\ncient Singing 401\\nCHAPTER XIH.\\nState Government. 1792-1S12.\\nJohn Taylor Gilman Walpole Mr. West Milford Turnpikes\\nPortsmouth Methodists Centre Harbor Tithing Men Death\\nof Washington Second New Hampshire Turnpike ISanks\\nLaws ^Judge Smith Middlesex Canal Judge Pickering Fed-\\neral Judges Fourth New Hampshire Turnpike Republicans\\nPost-Offices Daniel Webster Burnham Navigation on the\\nMerrimack Embargo Patriots Governor Jeremiah Smith\\nCrow Bill \u00e2\u0080\u0094William Plumer 444", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. II\\nCHAPTKR XIV.\\nWar of 1S12 1812-181?.\\nPage\\nCauses of the War Right of Search Orders in Council Declara-\\ntion of War Governor William Plumer State Militia Daniel\\nWebster Governor John Taylor Gilman Federalists restored to\\nPower Change of the Judiciary Jereiniah Mason Defence of\\nPortsmouth False Alarms Hartford Convention Peace 487\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nStruggle for Toleration, 1S15-1S19.\\nThe Federalists disband as a Party Dartmouth College September\\nStorm Middlesex Canal Dartmouth University State House\\nChief Justice Richardson Daniel Webster Baptist Denomina-\\ntion President Monroe s Visit Governor Samuel Bell Bristol\\nThe Town House The Toleration Act Colonial Laws for the\\nSupport of the Ministry and Public Schools 507\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nEra of Good Will, 1819-1S2S.\\nPower-Loom at Amoskeag .Shelburne New Hampton Hurricane\\nLevi Woodbury David L. Morril Great Freshet Militia\\nGeneral Lafayette s Visit The Farmer Governor Benjamin\\nPierce and Family John Bell Franklin. ^30\\nCH.VPTER XVII.\\nTurnpikes, Canals, Railroads, 1S28-1S40.\\nJourney from New Hampshire to Philadelphia War against Turn-\\npikes Matthew Harvey Concord Canal and River Navigation\\nSamuel Dinsmoor Visit of Andrew Jackson Murder in Pem-\\nbroke New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane William Badger\\nNathaniel P. Rogers Parker Pillsbury Railroads Isaac Hill\\nSurplus Revenue Judge Boswell Stevens End of Turnpikes\\nJohn Page Edmund Burke James Wilson Eastern Railroad 556\\nCHAPTER XVIII.\\nAnti-slavery Agit.vtion, 1841-1860.\\nStephen S. Foster Harry Hubbard Pittsburg Indian Stream\\nWar John H. Steele John P. Hale Anthony Colby Man-\\nchester Jared W. Williams Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. Dr. Noah\\nMartin Franklin Pierce Kansas Countess Rumford Nathan-\\niel B. Baker Ralph Metcalf\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel Clark William W. Haile\\nIchabod Goodwin Reminiscences .sSz", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nW.\\\\R OF THE Rebellion, iS( )i-i865.\\nPage\\nElection of Abraham Lincoln Seceding States Firing on Sumter\\nFirst Regiment Mason W. Tappan Old Militia Governor s\\nHorse Guards Thomas L. Tullock-= Second Regiment Gilman\\nMarston J. N. Patterson Nathaniel S. Berry Third Regiment\\nEnoch Q. Fellows John H. Jackson J(i|in Bedel Fourth\\nRegiment Thomas J. Whipple Louts- Bell Fifth Regiment\\nIrd E. Cross Charles E. Hapgood ESward E. Sturtevant\\nSixth Regiment Simon G. Griffin Henry H. Pearson Seventh,\\nEighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth,\\nFifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Regiments Colonel Henry\\nO. Kent Joseph A. Gilmore Eighteenth Regiment Cavalry,\\nArtillery, and Sharpshooters Summary of Number of Volunteers\\nE. H. Durell George Hamilton Perkins .611\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nIrish in New Hampshire.\\nEarly Irish Settlers Soldiers in Indian Wars At Louisburg Con-\\nquest of Canada Revolution Emigration of J840-60 Ship\\nFever Terrors of the Plague Hawthorne s Description Mob in\\nManchester Rebellion Growth of Catholic Church Bishop\\nBradley 631\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nSince the Rebellion. 1S65-1SSS.\\nFrederick Smyth Sylvester Marsh Provincial Papers Rev. Dr.\\nBouton Walter Harriman Public Instruction Academies and\\nHigh Schools -Joiin B. Clark J. C. Moore People News-\\npapers Onslow Stearns -James A. Weston Bishop Baker E.\\nA. Straw Asa Fowler J. E. Sargent Charles H. Burns -P.\\nC. Cheney Phillips Exeter Academy Constitutional Convention\\nB. F. Prescott J. F. Briggs White Mountains Natt Head\\nCharles H. Bell Frank Jones Ossian Ray S. W. Hale\\nC. H. Bartlett J. H.Gallinger \u00e2\u0080\u0094Moody Currier C. H. Sawyer\\nJonathan Sawyer Joseph Wentworth Jonathan Kittredge W.\\nE. Chandler Harry Bingham Railroads \u00e2\u0080\u0094J. W. White \u00e2\u0080\u0094Dr.\\nEdward Spalding Summer Resorts Manufacturing George H.\\nEmery 646", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nSeal of Province Title Page\\nSealofState n\\nOld Langdon Farmstead i6\\nWhite Mountain Range, from Milan 19\\nGreat Bay 32\\nScene in White Hills 35\\nSummit of the Ravine, White Mountains 36\\nFarmhouse of Seventeenth Century 5S\\nGovernor John Winthrop 75\\nThe First Fort at the Mouth of the Piscataqua 76\\nAn Indian visiting the Settlers 78\\nGarrison House, built about 1645 85\\nTreaty of Peace between the Indians and the Settlers 86\\nDeath of King Philip 87\\nThe Conflict 90\\nThe Bell House, Newcastle 91\\nOur Alley loS\\nGarrison House in King William s War 112\\nHannah Dustin at the Massacre 116\\nThe Well 120\\nRev. John Emerson 122\\nPortion of Old Province House 123\\nOld Church, New Castle 124\\nAutograph and Seal of Theodore Atkinson 126\\nSeal of Richard Jose 126\\nMap of New Castle 127\\nCape Road, New Castle 135\\nNew Castle Fishermen 150\\nFirst Congregational Church at Concord 166\\nPlan of Eastern Part of Suncook, or Lovewell s Township 170\\nRural Scene 172\\nPiscataqua Gundalow 1S8\\nOld Wentwortli House, Rye 190\\nMantel, Old Wentworth House 193\\nFrontier Block House, 1746 206\\nWhite Mountain Scene 226\\nScene in Coos County 227\\nNew Hampshire Farm Scene 276", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14\\nILLUSTRATIONS.\\nLancaster\\nWarren\\nPlymouth\\nView from Bridge in Berlin\\nGovernor John Wentworth s House\\nPaul Revere s First Ride\\nNotch of White Mountains\\nBattle of Lexington\\nPost Rider of the Revolution\\nJaffrey Cottage, New Castle\\nGovernor John Taylor Oilman s House, Exeter\\nTown House, Exeter\\nResidence of Mr. Joseph B. Walker, Concord\\nLittleton\\nView of Portsmouth Harbor\\nGiant Stairs, Bartlett\\nOld Blodgett Mansion, Amoskeag Canal,\\nWith Wind and Current\\nBoat entering Locks\\nTow-path of the Canal\\nMending Lobster Nets\\nFort McClary\\nOn the Beach\\nWhaleback Light\\nWalbach Tower\\nDaniel Webster\\nGateway of Fort Constitution\\nShot of Lumber coming out of a Lock\\nPushing against the Current\\nState House, Concord\\nSquam Lake and Mount Chocorua\\nNew Hampton Institute\\nResidence of Prof. A. B. Meservey\\nMount Carter, from Gorham\\nNew Hampshire Asylum for the Insane\\nRailroad Cut\\nView near Meredith Village\\nMount Washington Railroad\\nPhillips Exeter Academy\\nEcho Lake, Franconia Notch\\nCastellated Ridge of Mount Jefferson\\nGovernor Charles H. Bell\\nHooksett\\nConcord Depot\\nLaconia\\nGeorge H. Emery\\nPembroke Academy", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "LIST OF STEKL ENGRAVINGS.\\nGovernor Charles H. Sawyer\\nChief Justice Jeremiah Smith\\nHon. John P. Hale\\nHon. Abraham P. Olzendam\\nGeneral Gilnian Marston\\nHon. Thomas L. TuUock\\nColonel Henry O. Kent\\nJudge Edward H. Durell\\nRight Rev. Dennis M. Bradley, Bishop\\nGovernor Frederick Smyth\\nColonel John B. Clarke\\nHon. Joseph C. Moore\\nGovernor Onslow Stearns\\nGovernor James A. Weston\\nChief Justice J. Everett Sargent\\nHon. Charles H. Burns\\nGovernor Person C. Cheney\\nHon. Daniel M. Christie\\nHon. James F. Briggs\\nHon. Aretas Blood\\nHon. Frank Jones\\nHon. Virgil C. Oilman\\nHon. Ossian Ray\\nGovernor Samuel W. Hale\\nHon. Charles H. Bartlett\\nHon. Jacob H. Gallinger\\nGovernor Moody Currier\\nMr. Jonathan Sawjer\\nColonel Joseph Wentworth\\nHon. William E. Chandler\\nHon. Harry Bingham\\nMr. Jeremiah W. White\\nHon. Edward Spaldins;\\nf Manchester\\nPage\\nFrontispiece.\\n481\\n)94\\n597\\n611\\n614\\n628\\n630\\n631\\n646\\n6.\u00c2\u00ab\\n656\\n657\\n660\\n661\\n662\\n667\\n668\\n674\\n676\\n677\\n678\\n678\\n679\\n680\\n68 1\\n6S2\\n68s\\n686\\n689\\n692\\n693", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "m^^\\nff j\\na\\n.b-e.^\\n-.i%;;^\\nM\\n.;;S^i!:\u00c2\u00abi5 f J^!^ /Kv/. *:--.k\u00c2\u00a3^-^ --^^--^^f^ i^\\nOld LanijAuqTnrtniilea^-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nDISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS, 1623-1641.\\nIntroduction Description Early Vovagers Martin Pring Cap-\\ntain John Smith Winter Fisheries Aborigines Virginia\\nCouncil of Plymouth Sir Ferdinando Gorges Captain John\\nMason Mariana Maine David Thomson The Hiltons First\\nSettlement Little Harbor Dover Neck Landing Character\\nProgress Thomas Morton Massachusetts Charter New\\nHampshire Grant Laconia Hilton s Patent Isles of Shoals\\nPiscATAC(uA Grant Walter Neal White Mountains Dixy\\nBull Division of Patent Death of Mason Thomas Wiggin\\nDover Captain John Underhill Rev. John Wheelwright\\nExeter Rev. Stephen Batchelor Hampton Union with Mass.\\\\-\\nchusetts.\\nT*HE history of New Hampshire involves an account of the\\nfirst settlements at the mouth of the Piscataqua and on the\\nshores of Great Bay, their growth into towns and their union\\nunder the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Colony the forma-\\ntion of the Royal Province of New Hampshire the woful\\nconflict with the Indians and with the French the inroad into\\nthe province of the Scotch-Irish and the spread of Massachusetts\\nsettlers up the valleys of the Merrimack and Connecticut rivers\\nthe contest of the inhabitants with the Masonian proprietors\\nthe part taken by the people of the province in achieving national\\nindependence the formation of an independent State govern-\\nment the compact settlement of the State and the growth of", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "l8 HISTORY OF NEW 1IA5IPSHIKE. [l523\\nmanufactures, railroads, and cities the share taken in the\\nGreat Rebellion the changes in the laws, habits and customs\\nof the people together with some account of those men who,\\nin the different generations, have guided and directed the\\ndestinies of the people in church, state and municipal affairs.\\nIt is the story of the evolution of a settlement of poor, unedu-\\ncated, bigoted and brave people, fresh from the tyranny of the\\nlaws of the old world, and imbued with the prejudices of their\\ntime, into a sovereign state, a liberal and enlightened common-\\nwealth, one of the partners in the great Republic, the United\\nStates of America.\\nNew Hampshire, one of the New England States and one of\\nthe original thirteen colonies which formed the American\\nUnion, lies between 70\u00c2\u00b0 ij and 72\u00c2\u00b0 37 west longitude, and\\nbetween 42\u00c2\u00b0 40 and 45\u00c2\u00b0 18 33 north latitude, and has an\\narea of 9,336 square miles. It is bounded on the north by ine\\nProvince of Quebec, the line following Hall s stream to its\\nsource and the watershed between the valley of the St. Law-\\nrence and the Atlantic coast it is bounded on the east by the\\nstate of Maine and the ocean, the Salmon Falls and Piscataqua\\nrivers forming a part of the boundary it is bounded on the\\nsouth by the State of Massachusetts, the line running north of,\\nparallel with, and generally three miles from, the Merrimack\\nriver, from its mouth to where the course of the river is south,\\nthence due west by compass to the Connecticut river; and\\nit is bounded on the west by the State of Vermont, the west\\nbank of the Connecticut river being the boundary line. The\\ngeneral shape of the State is that of a triangle, with a base of\\none hundred miles and a length of one hundred and eighty-five\\nmiles. It is drained on the west by the Connecticut river, on\\nthe east by the Androscoggin, the Saco and the Piscataqua\\nrivers, while the central and southern part of the State is\\ndrained by the Merrimack river and its tributaries. Between\\nthe Merrimack and Connecticut rivers there is a high ridge,\\nfrequently rising to lofty elevations, extending from the Massa-\\nchusetts line to the Franconia and White Mountain ranges, the\\nloftiest summits on the Atlantic seaboard. The northern", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 HISTOKV OF NEW II AMI SHIKK. I 542\\nsection of the State is very mountainous. In the central part\\nthere are many large ponds and lakes, the grandest of which is\\nLake Winnipiseogee, with an area of seventy square miles,\\nelevated five hundred feet above the ocean. The height of\\nMount Washington is 6,293 feet, and the mountainous tract of\\nwhich it is the highest elevation occupies a territory of fourteen\\nhundred square miles, sometimes called the Switzerland of\\nAmerica. The average elevation of the State above the sea is\\nestimated to be twelve hundred feet.i\\nSoon after the discovery of land beyond the Western Ocean\\nby Christopher Columbus, in 1492, adventurous sailors from\\nSpain, Portugal, France, Holland and England hastened to\\nimitate the great discoverer and crossed the Atlantic in search\\nof fame and fortune. As early as 1523, Verazzano, an Italian\\ncaptain in the employ of the French government, sailed from\\nEurope and struck America south of Cape Hatteras thence\\nhe followed the shore northward. From his accurate descrip-\\ntion of the prominent landmarks, he probably landed, the fol-\\nlowing summer, at or near the mouth of the Piscataqua river,\\nand traded with the natives. He stated that the Portuguese had\\nbeen before him in these parts. It was admitted by contem-\\nporary writers that for half a century, from as early as 1504,\\nthe Basques were whaling and fishing on the American coast.\\nThe patent authorizing a settlement in Newfoundland, in 1610,\\nsays that the coast had been used for more than fifty years for\\nthe fishery by the English. In 1527, John Rut, sent by Henry\\nVIII to explore, reported that he saw in the harbor of St.\\nJohns eleven sail of Normands, one Breton and two Portu-\\nguese barks, all a fishing. A French fisherman rescued his\\nparty from starvEvtion. Jacques Cartier, in 1534 and 1535,\\nexplored the gulf and river of St. Lawrence, and reported that\\nhe met many ships of France and Brittany. Robeval, in 1542,\\nfound seventeen ships of fishers at St. Johns.\\nThe official explorers found on their voyages fleets of fisher-\\nmen already practical pilots of the coasts and harbors.^\\nMartin Pring, with two small ships, sailed into the Piscataqua\\ni rof. C. H. Hitchcock. Charles Levi Woodbury.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "1614] niSCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS. 21\\nill June, 1603. The French discoverer, De Champlain, visitetl\\nthe river in July, 1605, and claimed the discovery of the Isles of\\nShoals.\\nOf the voyagers who visited the northern coast of America,\\nfor the sake of its furs and fish, one of the most remarkable\\nwas Captain John Smith, who ranged the shore from Penobscot\\nto Cape Cod, in 1614, and, in his route, discovered the river\\nPiscataqua, which he fountl to be a safe harbor with a rocky\\nshore. He states that, prior to this voyage, he had procured\\nseven or eight charts from the fishermen and traders, who had\\nbeen in the habit of frequenting the coast of New England, and\\nthat he did not enter the Merrimack river because two French\\nships were lying there. The French had traded with the\\nnatives in the vicinity for several years.\\nThe map which Captain Smitli made was presented to\\nI ince Chai les, who gave to the whole country the name of\\nNew England.\\nEarly in the seventeenth centurj it was discovered that fish-\\n.ng along the New England coast was more profitable in winter\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.han in summer, a fact which soon led to permanent settle-\\nments, not only at the Isles of Shoals and at Little Harbor,\\nbut at Dover Point, York, Portland, Pemaquid and Mohegan,\\nand at other points to the eastward. In fact, voyagers coming\\nwest attempted to make their landfalls at Mohegan and the Isles\\nof Shoals, and took their departure from them, when returning\\nto Eurojae.^\\nBefore the advent of the first white settlers, there were living\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2within the present limits of New Hampshire a powerful tribe\\nof Indians. F or how many generations they had occupied the\\ncountry and who were their predecessors, are unsettled ques-\\ntions. There are few or no traces of a more civilized race\\nhaving lived here before the Penacook Indians, a tribe of the\\nAlgonquin family. Their chief rendezvous was in the neighbor-\\nhood of Concord, where they rudely cultivated the Indian corn.\\nThey subsisted chiefly on fish and game, and made annual\\nmigrations from the interior to the seaboard. In prehistoric\\nJchn K. Lord. John Farmer Belknap, p. 2. 3 Charles Levi Woodbury.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 HI.S1\\\\)KV OF XF.W II AM I sH 1 KK [162O\\ntimes there is a tradition that a fierce battle tiecurred Ijetween\\nthem and their enemies, the Mohawks of the west, on the east\\nbank of the Merrimack, near the village of East Concord. In\\nthe early part of the seventeenth century their number is said\\nto have been greatly reduced by a plague. One of their favorite\\nhaunts was about the shores of Lake Winnipiseogee, where many\\ntraces of them may yet be found. The names they gave to the\\nlakes and streams and mountains have been adopted by those\\nwho came after them. They continued to live within the\\nlimits of the State for a hundred years after tlie first settlement\\nby Europeans, and their history is closely linked with that of\\nthe settlers, until the remnant, left after many disastrous wars,\\nwithdrew and joined their people on the banks of the St. Law-\\nrence. In the main Ihev were friendly to the colonists, but\\nseem to have been drawn into hostilities b_\\\\- neighboring tribes,\\nunder the influence of the French.\\nThe importance of effecting permanent settlements on the\\ncoast having become apparent, King James, in 1606,^ granted\\na patent limiting the dominion of Virginia from the thirty-fourth\\nto the forty-fourth degree of northern latitude. This territory\\nwas subdivided into North and South Vi^rginia South Virginia\\nwas assigned to certain noblemen, knights and gentlemen of\\nLondon North Virginia was granted to others of Bristol, Exeter,\\nand Plymouth.\\nIn-1620,^ the King, by his sole authority, constituted a council\\nof forty, by the name of The council established at\u00c2\u00abPlymouth,\\nin the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling and go\\\\-erning\\nof New England, in America.\\nThey were a corporation with perpetual succession, by election\\nof the majority, and their territories extended from the fortieth\\nto the forty-eighth degree of northern latitude. This patent, or\\ncharter, is the foundation of all the grants that were made of\\nthe country of New England. For some unexplained reason,\\ntheir affairs were transacted in a confused manner from the\\nbeginning, and the grants which thev made were so inaccurately\\nApril i.j. Farmer s F.dknan.\\nJ November?. 4 H.ir.ird s Collection. loj-riS.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "l62l] DISCOVEKV AND SETTLEMENTS. 23\\ndescribed and interfered so much with each other as to occasion\\ndifficulties and controversies of a serious character.\\nTwo of the most active members of this council were Sir\\nFerdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason. The former\\nhad been an officer in the navy of Queen Elizabeth, intimately\\nconnected with Sir Walter Raleigh, and had been appointed by\\nKing James governor of the fort and island of Plymouth. While\\nhe resided there, Captain Weymouth brought from Pemaquid\\ninto the harbor of Plymouth five American Indians, whom he\\nhad treacherously kidnapped.^ Three of these Gorges retained\\nin his service several years, treated them kindly, won their\\naffection, and learned from them the character of New England.\\nHe became very enthusiastic about the new world, fitted out\\nseveral expeditions to visit this coast, and upon the formation\\nof the Plymouth Council was elected its president. Captain\\nJohn Mason was a merchant of London, who became a sailor\\nand was appointed governor of Newfoundland. While there he\\nbefriended two Indians, who had been forcibly abducted from\\nNew England and sold into slavery by Thomas Hunt, a lieuten-\\nant of Captain John Smith, and won their good will by sending\\nthem to their homes.\\nWhile in Newfoundland he acquired a knowledge of America,\\nit being asserted by late writers that, in company with his friend\\nGorges, he personally explored the coast of his future province,\\nand upon his return to England, receiving the appointment of\\ngovernor of Portsmouth in Hampshire, he became interested in\\nthe Plymouth Council. A vacancy occurring he was elected a\\nmember and became the secretary. He procured a grant from\\nthe council, in 1621,^ of all the land from the river Naumkeag,\\nnow Salem, round Cape Ann to the river Merrimack, and all\\nland embraced by these two rivers to their heads, and all out-\\nlying islands within three miles of the shore. The district was\\ncalled Mariana, and was granted on the supposition that the two\\nrivers forming its bounds flowed directly east from their source\\nto their outlet. The following year* Gorges and Mason received\\nFarmer s Ilelknap. 2 J. C. A. Abbott.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03 March 9. i6. 2. Palfrey, 204. 4 August 10, 1622.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [162I\\njointly the grant of territory, which included all the land between\\nthe Merrimack and the Sagadahock rivers, from the ocean to the\\ngreat lakes and rivers of Canada.^\\nThe grant of that date in the New Hampshire Provincial Pa-\\npers^ gives the name The Provinxe of Maine to the territory,\\nwhich is thus described All that part of the main land in New\\nEngland lying upon the sea-coast betwixt ye rivers of Merrimack\\nand Sagadahock, and to the furthest heads of the said rivers, and\\nsoe forwards up into the land westward until three-score miles\\nbe finished from ye first entrance of the aforesaid rivers, and\\nhalf way over: that is to say, to the midst of the said two rivers.\\nUnder the authority of this grant, Gorges and Mason, who\\nunited with them several merchants of London, Bristol, Exeter,\\nPlymouth, Shrewsbury and Dorchester, attempted the establish-\\nment of a colony and fishery at the river Piscataqua.\\nThe time when, the manner in which, and the individuals by whom the\\nfirst settlements were made by Europeans at Little Harbor and Dover Point,\\nwhere, it is generally acknowledged, the original planting of New Hamp-\\nshire was comj^ienced, are so obscure, and have been so frequently a matter\\nof controversy, that historians gladly welcome all attempts which are made\\nto elucidate them.\\nFor more than two hundred years, on the authority of Hubbard, Prince,\\nand other early historians, followed by Belknap, the facts in relation to\\nthese settlements, briefly stated and generally accepted, were, that Sir\\nFerdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason, having obtained from the\\nCouncil constituted by the King of Kngland, for the planting, ruling and\\ngoverning of New England, a grant of all the land between the rivers\\nMerrimack and Sagadahock, extending back to the great lakes and river of\\nCanada, formed a company with several merchants of London and other\\ncities, and styling themselves The Company of Laconia, attempted the\\nestablishment of a colony and fishery at the mouth of the Piscataqua river.\\nFor this purpose, in the spring of 1623, they sent out David Thomson and\\nEdward and William Hilton, who had been fishmongers in London, with a\\nnumber of other people, in two divisions, furnished with all the necessaries\\nfor carrving out the design. Thomson landed at the river s mouth, at a\\nplace which he called Little Harbor, where he built a house, afterwards\\nknown as Mason Hall, erected saltworks, and made other preparations\\nfor carrying on his business, but the Hiltons set up their fishing stages eight\\nn .iles further up the river, on a neck of land which the Indians called Winni-\\nchahannet, but they named it Northam and afterwards Dover. Thomson,\\nPalfrey and Belknap. Provincial Papers, vol. i, p. 10. 3 Cenrge Wadleigh.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "iGjiJ discovery and settlements. 25\\nnot lieing pleased witli his conipanv or siluation, removed the next spring,\\nor a short time after, to an island in Massachusetts Bay, where he lived and\\nsoon alter died, while the Hiltons and their associates remained and made a\\npermanent settlement at Dover.\\nAll etVorts to ascertain the precise date of their arrival, or the ship in\\nwhich they came, had proved unavailing. The day of the month and the\\nmonth were unknown. In 1S23, at the celebration of the 200th anniversary\\nof the settlement of the State, at Portsmouth, when it was considered desir-\\nable to fix upon the d.av of their arrival, if possible, for the purpose of suit-\\nably observing it, all efforts to do so were found to be in vain. It was then\\ndeclared that Prince, the most laborious of all antiquaries in New England,\\nin 1736, could give no precise date, and no discovery of documents since has\\nmade it more definite than that the3 arrived in the spring of the year.\\nFrom the fact that no vessel was known to have arrived from England in\\nthat year until about June i, it was conjectured that the colonists might\\nliave been landed at the Piscataqua late in May, and May 23 Avas accord-\\ningly selected for the celebration.\\nThese statements remained unquestioned and were incorporated in all our\\nhistories and school books, imlil a document found among the ancient\\npapers of Gov. Winthrop gave a different reading to our early history.\\nThis document is an indenture, dated Dec. 14, I622, between David Thomson\\non the one part, and three merchants. Abraham Colmer. Nicholas Sherwill\\nand Leonard Pomroy, all of Plymouth, England, on the other irt.\\nIhe indenture recites that the Council for New England had granted to\\nThomson (Oct. 16, 1622) six thousand acres of land and one island in New\\nEngland, and that Thomson had conveyed one quarter part of the island to\\nthe three merchants named and agreed also to convey to them one quarter\\npart of the six thousand acres, on these conditions\\n1. That the three merchants, at their own charge, should provide and\\nsend that present 3 ear two men with Thomson, in the ship Jonathan of\\nPlymouth, to Mew England, with such victuals, provisions, c., as shall\\nsuffice them till they are landed.\\n2. The three merchants, at their own charge, were also to provide and\\nsend the same year three additional men in the ship Providence of Plymouth,\\nif they could so soon be gotten, or in some other ship, to New England: the\\ncharges of these three men to be borne equally by all the parties.\\n3. Two other men were also to be sent the same year in the Jonathan\\nthe charges to be borne by all the parties equally.\\n4. Thomson, with the seven men, as soon as landed, was to find a fit\\nplace and make choice of six thousand acres of land and a fit place to settle\\nand erect buildings.\\nFurther provision was made for dividing the property at the end of five\\nyears agreeably to the indentures, three fourths to Thomson and one fourth\\nNow in the possession of his descendant, Hon. Robert C Winthrop. copy of it has beeiT\\noublished in tile proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, with notes by Charles\\nDeane, Esq.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 HISTOKV OK XliW IIAJIPSHIKE. [162I\\nto the other three. Three fourths of the charge for phmting, building,\\nS:c., was to be borne by Thomson, and one fourth by the others. All\\nthe profits from fishing, trading, c., were to be divided equally, the\\nthree mercliants having liberty to employ the ships to fish, at their own\\ncharge, if Thomson did not choose to bear his share of such charge.\\nFrom this agreement it appears reasonably certain that Thomson did\\ncome over as stipulated, arriving at the mouth of the Piscataqua sometime\\nin the spring of 1623, as Hubbard has recorded. By the indenture he was to\\nproceed this present year (1622). By the method of reckoning at that\\ntime, the year ended on the 24th of March following. It is equally certain,\\nhowever, that he did not come out as the agent of the Company of Laconia,\\nfor that company was not then in existence, not having been formed until\\n1631. This error appears to have originated with Dr. Belknap, who knew\\nthat Mason and Gorges had a grant (Aug. 10, 1622) embracing the terri-\\ntory between the Merrimack and Sagadahock, which they intended to call\\nthe Province of Maine, but of which they never made any use, as the council\\nafterwards made other grants covering the same territory. Dr. Belknap\\nalso knew that Mason and Gorges, with other persons, were members of the\\nCompany of Laconia, From this and some statements of Hubbard, he\\ndoubtless concluded that the grant of 1622 was the Laconia grant, and that\\nthe associates, under the name of the Company of Laconia, began the settle-\\niiient at Little Harbor and Hilton s Point in 1623. It is now known that the\\nLaconia Patent was not issued until Nov. 17, 1629, and the company was\\nformed soon after.\\nThere is no direct evidence in the indentures, that the Hiltons were\\nassociated with Thomson in the enterprise, either as partners or servants.\\nFrom this fact and other considerations drawn from contemporaneous\\nhistory, Mr. Jenness, in his Notes on the First Planting of New Hamp-\\nshire, discredits the statement of Hubbard, and claims that the Hiltons\\nnever saw Dover Point until five or six years after Thoinson and his partv\\nlanded at Little Harbor, oral least that no settlement could have been made\\nthere in 1623. as has been generally believed.\\nTo establish this position he quotes the early historians to show that no\\nsuch place was known to, or once spoken of, by any of the visitors of Tliom-\\n.son, of whom there were several, during the years 1623 and 1624; that it is\\nabsurd to suppose that Edward Hilton, without any colony to assist him,\\nshould have gone so far from the succor of his friends, into the wilderness,\\nin the midst of treacherous and cruel savages, when the whole country\\npracticallv lav open iftfore him, to go in and occupy where he would; that\\nthe stages, which it is alleged were set up at the Point, were large and\\nexpensive structures intended for use in the fishing business, and that no\\nexperienced fisherman would have selected such a site for a fishing estab-\\nlishment, five or six miles above the mouth of the Piscataqua, a stream of\\nsuch rapidity that it is often impossible for a boat to contend against it,\\nwhile the great cod fisheries are several miles out at sea, which a fisherman,\\nleaving Hilton s Point at the very turn of the ebb tide, could not reajh and\\nreturn from the same day, if he stopped to cast his hook.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "l62l] DISC0VI:K\\\\ AM) SETTLEMENTS. 2/\\nAs to the tact of priority of settlement, if a mere iisliiiig and trading post\\nis to be regarded as such, we may as well admit that at Little Harbor (now\\nin the town of Rye) the first planting of New Hampshire was commenced.\\nThere is no doubt that Thomson and his men first disembarked, at or near\\nthat place, and pitched their tents or erected such huts as \\\\yere requisite for\\nshelter. Its site is now known as Odiorne s Point, and was well chosen for\\ndefence against the attacks of an enemy. Seyen men were to be furnished to\\nassist him. Four were to come oyer in the Jonathan, and three more were\\nto be provided the same year.\\nIt is reasonable to conclude that Edward Hilton may have come over from\\nKngland in one of the vessels which brought David Thomson and his men to\\nth- I iscataqua, on his own account, if not as an assistant of Thomson, as\\nHubbard asserts. David Thomson is described by Thomas Morton, in The\\nNew England Canaan, as a Scottish gentleman tliat was conversant with\\nthose people (the natives), a scholar, and a traveller that \\\\yas diligent in\\ntaking notice of these things, as a man of good judgment. The Hiltons\\nhad been fishmongers in London, and were acquainted with at least one\\nbranch of the business in which Thomson was to engage. They were just\\nthe men who would be selected to assist in the enterprise. William Hilton\\nhad previously been in America. He came to Plymouth in 1621, and his\\nwife and two children came over in 1623. He may have gone back and\\nreturned with them, or they may have come over to join him here. Hubbard,\\nwho wrote in 16S0, is supposed to have been personally acquainted with the\\nHiltons, and must have had some knowledge of their history and movements.\\nWilliam Hilton had a grant of land in Plymouth in 1623, but he left that\\nplace soon after, apparently on account of some disagreement in relation to\\nchurch matters, and is found ne.\\\\t at Piscataqua with his brother.\\nAs the business of Thomson and his assistants was to be fishing, and\\ntrading with the Indians, it is not probable that they would all remain\\npermanently in the same place. The Hiltons, with one or more of the party,\\nafter seeing the others safely established at the mouth of the river, may have\\ncome up to the Point, as Hubbard records. Or, as the party is said to have\\ncome over in two divisions, it is more probable that they did not arrive\\nuntil after Thomson and the four men who came in the Jonathan liad estab-\\nlished themselves at Little Harbor. Of the other three who were to be\\nprovided and sent over in the Providence, tlie Hiltons may have been two.\\nThe tradition has always been that Thomas Roberts was one of the original\\nemigrants with them. If he was, this would complete the number which was\\nto be provided.\\nThe distance between Little Harbor and the Point was but si.K or seven\\nmiles, and the location at the Point was doubtless at first selected for the\\nconvenience of trading with the Indians about the falls of the Cochecho, a\\nfavorite resort with them. It was also in the vicinity of good fishing\\nground, for the various branches of the Piscataqua, up to their first falls,\\nmust at that day 1 as they did long after and do now at some seasons) iiave\\nswarmed with fish, and there was no need of going far to cast the hook and\\nobtain them.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [162I\\nIt is not supposed that a party of three men, at tlie most, would go miles\\nat sea to the great fishing grounds, to obtain fish, when there was an abun-\\ndance offish so near them, or that large and expensive stages were required\\nfor curing them. By the terms of the indenture, the owners of the Jonathan\\nwere to pursue the fishing business independently of Thomson and his men\u00c2\u00bb\\nif he did not choose to bear part of the charge. It is probable that the\\nvessels from England attended to the deep sea fishing, while th; parties ort\\nshore confined their operations to the harbor and rivers.\\nIf the Hiltons were never mentioned by visitors to Little Harbor in 1623\\nand 1624. the same may be said of the other men who were with Thomson.\\nThe name of no man who was with him and there were seven is known,\\nunless we accept the statement of Hubbard.\\nIt may have been that the fishing and trading post at the Point was at the\\noutset regarded rather as a temporary than permanent settlement a place\\nto which at first they resorted only during the day, returning at night to the\\ncommon rendezvous at the mouih of the river. But its advantages must\\nhave been soon seen and appreciated. The whole country was open before\\nthem, to go in and occupy where they would, and they could hardly have\\nfound a more inviting place than the Point, either for fishing, planting, or\\ntrading with the Indians exchanging such articles as they brought with\\nthem from England for the beaver skins and other peltries of the Indians.\\nFor safety, no resort could have been better than this narrow neck of land,\\nand from which, by their boats, there were such immediate means of escape,\\nif escape was at any time necessary. For planting, also, in which they were\\nto engage, so far at least as they could contribute to their own wants, the\\nPoint was of all places the spot which they would select, and was far prefer-\\nable to any land nearer to Little Harbor.\\nThomson s enterprise, it appears, was not a success. He abandoned it\\nafter about three years residence (by some accounts the next year and\\nremoved to Massachusetts, Hubbard says, out of dislike either to the place\\nor his employers. His son is said to have been the first white child born\\nin New Hampshire. He never set up any claim afterwards to the patent, nor\\ndoes it appear that his partners in England reaped any advantages froni\\nit. Thomson s men are supposed to have remained at Little Harbor after\\nhis departure, but even this is uncertain. The only evidence that it was occu-\\npied is that there was a settlement somewhere at Piscataquack, besides\\nHiltons in 162S, and that such a settlement paid \u00c2\u00a32: 10 as its contributior*\\nfor expelling Morton from Merry Mount. What is thei-e more probable thar\u00c2\u00bb\\nthat the Hiltons m.iy liave remained at the Point or in its vicinity, with\\nsome of the other men of the company, after Thomson left\\nIf, as it is alleged, there is no authentic information of Edward Hilton s\\nbeing in this vicinty previous to 1627 or 1628, the information which we get\\nof him at that time is suflicient to show that he must have been settled here\\nfor some years and that he had a considerable stake in the country. In 162S,\\nas recorded by Bradford, he was assessed \u00c2\u00a31 toward the expense of the war\\nupon Morton of Merry Mount, already alluded to. the whole expense of the", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "1623] DISCOVEKV AXD SETTLEMKXTS. 29\\ncampaign being \u00c2\u00a312 .-07, ot which tlie Plymouth colony paid \u00c2\u00a32 10, or but\\nlittle more than twice the amount contributed by Hilton. It is also evident\\nthat the Hiltons must have been among the men which the partners of\\nThomson provided and sent over in 1623, from the fact that they settled so\\nnear to Little Harbor, on territory which must have been included within\\nthat which Thomson s patent covered, where they would not have been, by\\nany right, had they not been connected with Thomson s company, and that\\nwhen in 1630 Edward Hilton obtained a patent from the council of Plymouth\\nof the land upon which he had settled he had been for some considerable time\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0established thereon, so long, in fact, that the place had come to be known\\nbv his name, for his patent included all that part of the river Piscataqua\\ncalled or knovan bv the name of Hilton s Point, with the south side of said\\nriver, up to the falls of Squamscott and three miles into the main land for\\nbreadth, and it sets forth that Hilton and his associates had transported\\nthither servants, built houses and planted corn, and intended the further in-\\ncrease and advancement of the plantation.\\nIt cannot be believed that Hilton foundeda plantation at Hilton s Point in\\n1623, seven years before he got a deed of the land. If he came out with or\\nsoon after Thomson, it is seen for what purpose he came. He was one of the\\nmen sent out by Thomson s partners, the merchants in England, to assist in\\nthe enterprise, and as a representative of their interest in it. He had no legal\\nclaim to the scU under the patent. Thomson gave up his claim and went off\\nbefore the expiration of the five years, when the profits of the enterprise as\\nwell as the land were to be divided between the parties. The patent granted\\nwas evidently regarded by him as of little value, because neither he or his\\nheirs, or his partners, ever afterwards set up anv claim to it. All the interest\\nwhich they possessed at Little Harbor passed into the hands of the Laconia\\nCompany, of which Gorges and Mason were chiefs, under a new grant from\\nthe council, when Edward Hilton, for his own security, finding himself aban-\\ndoned by Thomson and the company by which he had been employed, ob-\\ntained, in 1630, a patent for the settlement at the Point. This patent he after-\\nwards sold in part to other parties, who appointed Captain Thomas Wiggin\\ntheir agent, by whom, in 1633, considerable acquisition was obtained to the\\npopu hition.\\nThe Laconia Company, in the meantime, having obtained possession of the\\nlands granted to Thomson at Little Harbor, appointed Captain Neal as their\\nagent, not for the settlement of a colonv, but for the management of a fisli-\\ning and tradii:g companv, a speculation similar to that in which Thomson\\nhad been engaged. In a few years this company broke up and the servants\\nwere discharged; the whole scheme proving a failure. On a division of the\\nproperty Mason bought the shares of some of his associates and sent over a\\nnew supply of men, set up saw-mills, and soon after died.\\nThe Thomson house erected at Little Harbor in 1623, though built of stone,\\ncould have been no such substantial structure as is imagined. It is not\\nprobable that it presented the general appearance of the dwelling\\nhouses of the time of James I., vast numbers of which still remain in good", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "^O IIISTOKV OF M;\\\\V IIAMI SIIIRE. 625\\npreservation all over the old country as Mr. Jenness states. Had it been of\\nthis character it would hardly have been reduced to the dilapidated condition\\nin which it was found by Hubbard in 16S0, less than fifty years after its erec-\\ntion, when only the chimney and some parts of the stone wall were stand-\\ning. It is probable that, as it must have been hastily built, it only sufficed\\nfor the immediate needs of Thomson and his little party, as a shelter from the\\nelements. Such as it was it passed into the hands of Mason s men, and was\\nsometimes called his stone-house. though it is now conceded that the term\\nMason Hall was never, as has been popularly supposed, applied to it.\\nFurther researches, which will undoubtedly be made by those who feel an\\ninterest in the early history of the State, may remove any doubts which now\\nexist in relation to its first settlement. In England there are in all proba-\\nbility records which would throw light on the subject. Until this investigation\\nis made Little Harbor is entitled to the monument which it is proposed to\\nerect in commemoration of the first settlement of New Hampshire. be-\\ncause it is the place where Thomson, the leader in the enterprise, and his as-\\nsociates, first touched its soil and Dover Neck, the site of the first meeting-\\nhouse erected in the State, is also entitled to a monument in commemoration\\nof that fact as well as that contemporaneous with the settlement at Little\\nHarbor, or very soon thereafter, a portion of the same company established\\nthemselves in thai icinity.\\nUnder the lead of David Thomson, this little band of ad-\\nventurers, evidence to the contrary not being obtainable, prob-\\nably arrived at the mouth of the Piscataqua sometime in the\\nearly summer of 1623 and as their little vessel, with its high\\nstern and antique prow, floated into the land-locked harbor\\nof Portsmouth, with its islands decked to the water s edge\\nwith verdure, and on every side the lofty pines, the stately\\noaks, and the flowering shrubs of the primeval forest indicat-\\ning a generous soil, the change from a long sea voyage, with\\nits storms and fogs and terrors, to a peaceful haven, more\\nenchanting then in its wild and picturesque beauty than now,\\nwith its navy yard, coal pockets, spile-bridge, and evidences of\\nthrift and commerce, must have been welcome. Their not\\nleaving on record an account of their hardships is evidence\\nthat they arrived at an auspicious time. They must have been\\ndelighted with the prospect. Here they and their children were\\nto found a State.\\nIt was a goodly scene. Fair islands lay,\\nIn xirgiii beauty, greening to their marge,", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "jgj .1 DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS. 31\\nEnt oIciLtl in tlie atmosphere of June.\\nThe birds sang welcome to the stranger ships,\\nAnd from their coverts timid deer looked out\\nTo shvlv scan the unfamiliar sight.\\nFar swept the coast, marked by its piny fringe,\\nAnd there upon the near horizon s verge\\nRose gentle isles, with verdure clad, that seemed\\nFair satellites of the majestic main.\\nResting, like emerald bubbles, on the sea.\\nAnd all was wonderful and new and grand!\\nIt is probable that before disembarking their goods they met\\nthe grave and friendly natives in council, and in return for\\nknives, fish-hooks, gaudy beads, and such commodities, obtained\\nthe good will of the lords of the soil, permission to start their\\nsettlement, and the right to all the land they could use for years\\nto come.\\nThe Hilton brothers, who afterwards became so prominent in\\nthe plantations, probably e.vplored the river and Great Bay and\\nlocated their infant colony with reference to the future agricul-\\ntural prospects of the region round about. They may have\\nbought of the Indians a deserted corn field, cleared land being\\nof the utmost importance to those early comers, -but the sea\\nafforded a never-failing supply of cod-fish salmon and trout\\nwere in the river and brooks clams were on the shore; game\\nwas in the woods, and birds were flying overhead or feeding in\\nthe marshes.\\nAny land about Great Bay, with its islands, creeks, and sinu-\\nosities, like a section of a park in the domain of some mighty\\nmonarch, must have seemed good to these Englishmen. All\\ntheir lives they had been cramped for room on the estate of\\nsome landowner of the old world, who valued his game and his\\ntrees more than the lives of his tenants. Here they could have\\nland for the taking its value would depend on the labor ex-\\npended. Here they could grow, and their children in coming gen-\\nerations would rival, in store of worldly goods and breadth of\\nmental culture, the descendants of the ancient nobility of Europe.\\nI By B. P. Shillaber. a native r,f Portsmouth.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "HISTOKV OF NEW IIA MPSIUIIE.\\n1620\\nThey were fishermen, farmers, laborers and servants. Some of\\nthem ignorant of tlielearniiigoftlie schools, superstitious, imbued\\nwitli the prejudices of the time some of the Established Church,\\nsonic Puritans, but all pious after a fashion; the most of them\\nhonest, believing in fair play and scorning treachery and hypoc-\\nrisy. They were self-reliant and law-abiding, and being left in\\na few years without lawful authority over them were competent\\nto establish a little State of their own. Without a lawfully consti-\\ntuted ruler, they did not lapse into anarchy, but accepted of tiieir\\nown will the strong government and stern justice of their ascetic\\nnei- libors of the Bay colony.\\nGREAT BAY.\\nThe scattered settlements from Plymouth to the Piscataqua,\\nmade during these years, maintained a neighborly intercourse,\\nfollowing their respective employments of fishing, trading and\\nplanting, until, in 1628, they were united in a common alarm bv\\nthe course pursued by Thomas Morton, who, from his station at\\nMount Wollaston or Merry Mount, was charged with furnishing\\narms and ammunition to the Indians. Eight settlements along\\nthe ct)ast shared the expense of arresting Morton and sending", "height": "2465", "width": "1633", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "1632] DISCOVERV AND SETTLEMENTS. 33\\nhim to England for trial. The settlement at the mouth of the\\nPiscataqua paid towards the expense the same as the colony at\\nPlymouth, and over twice as much as that at Dover, showing\\ntheir relative importance.^\\nMorton is said to have returned to New England and is re-\\nported to have died at one of the Piscataqua settlements.\\nTo understand the early history of New Hampshire it becomes\\nnecessary to consider the various grants issued by the Plymouth\\nCouncil, for these grants led to a conflict of interests and a strug-\\ngle which lasted for over a hundred years and was not finally\\nsettled until the breaking out of the Revolution. The grant to\\nGorges and Mason of 1622 was not perfected, nor was the earlier\\none to Mason of Mariana, for we learn from a grant by the\\nPlymouth Council to Sir Henry Roswell, dated March 19, 1627-8,\\nthat he and his associates were entitled to all lands embraced\\nbetween the Charles river and the Merrimack river, and also\\nall lands which lie within the space of three English\\nmiles to the northward of the Merrimack or to the north-\\nward of any and every part thereof. The following year- King\\nJames I chartered the Massachusetts Company, confirming to\\nthem the early grant to Roswell.\\nNovember 7, 1629, the Plymouth Council, upon mature de-\\nliberation, thought fit, for the better furnishing and furtherance\\nof the plantations in those parts, to appropriate and allot to\\nseveral and particular persons divers parcels of land within the\\nprecincts of the aforesaid granted premises, and deeded to\\nCaptain John Mason all that part of the mainland in New Eng-\\nland lying upon the sea-coast, beginning from the middle part of\\nthe Merrimack river, and from thence to proceed northwards\\nalong the sea-coast to Piscataqua river, and so forwards up with-\\nin the said river and to the furtherest head thereof, and from\\nthence north-westward until three score miles be finished from\\nthe first entrance of Piscataqua river; also from Merrimack\\nthrough the said river and to the furtherest head thereof, and so\\nforwards up into the lands westwards, until three score miles be\\nfinished and from thence to cross overland to the three score", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1632\\nmiles end acconipted from Piscataqua river; which said\\nportions of land, the said Captain John Mason, with\\nthe consent of the President and Council, intends to name New\\nHampshire. 1\\nIt would seem that Mason had the earliest claim to the three-\\nmile strip north of the Merrimack river from previous grants\\nbut his claim was never sustained, and the land, so far up the\\nriver as Pawtucket Falls, went into the undisputed possession of\\nthe Massachusetts Company and remained there ever after.\\nCaptain John Mason died in November or December, 1635,- and\\nleft his title to lands in New England to be a source of litiga-\\ntion to his heirs for several generations, as will hereafter appear.^\\nIn the spring of 163 1, Edward Hilton and his associates\\nreceived from the Plymouth Council the grant of Dover Neck.\\nAfter his grant of 1629 had been confirmed to him, Captain\\nMason was especially active in advancing the interests of his\\nmanor in New Hampshire. He sent over eight Danes to build\\nmills, saw timber, and make potash, and forwarded twenty-two\\nwomen to the colony. At Newichwannock he built the first\\nsaw-mill and corn-mill in New England, and a large house, well\\nfortified. The great house, so-called, was at Piscataqua, or\\nStrawberry Bank. He imported a large number of cattle, from\\nwhich descended the so-called native cattle of New Hampshire\\nand Maine. At about this time, the Isles of Shoals, which,\\nwhile one of the earliest, was one of the most important fishing\\nstations on the coast, was divided between Gorges and Mason,\\nthe southern section, in after years, becoming incorporated as a\\nNew Hampshire town by the name of Gosport.\\nAfter the grant to Hilton, Captain John Mason and his asso-\\nciate adventurers obtained a further grant from the Plymouth\\nCouncil of that part of their patent on which the building and\\nsalt-works were erected, situate on both sides the harbor and\\nriver Piscataqua, to the extent of five miles westward by the\\nsea-coast, then to cross over towards the other plantation in the\\nN. H. Provincial Papers, vol. i. p. 24. N. Bouton, D.D.\\n3 By patent of Plymouth Council to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason, dated\\nNov. 27, 1629, Lacoma was granted, including lands lying and bordering upon the great lakes and\\nrivers of tlie Iroquois and other nations adjoining.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "1632] DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS. 35\\nhands of Edward Hilton. The whole interest having been\\ndivided into two parts, Captain Thomas Wiggin was appointed\\nagent for the upper, and Captain Walter Neal for the lower\\nplantation. With Neal were associated Ambrose Gibbons,\\nGeorge Vaughan, Thomas Warnerton, Humphrey Chadbourne,\\nand Edward Godfrey, as superintendents of trade, fishery, salt-\\nmaking, building and husbandry. Neal resided at Little Harbor\\nwith Godfrey, who had the care of the fishery. Chadbourne\\nbuilt the ^/r^/ //.rr at Strawberry Bank, in which Warnerton\\nresided. Gibbons had the care of the saw-mill, and lived in the\\nfortified house at Newichwannock, where he carried on trade\\nwith the Indians. He afterwards removed to Sander s Point,\\nand was succeeded by Chadbourne. The proprietors provided\\nfor the defence of the settlement by sending to the plantation\\nseveral cannon and a fort was planned on the northeast point\\nof the Great Island at the mouth of the harbor.^\\nSC:nE h E hl^L^\\nCaptain Neal s mission was to explore and report on the\\nprovince of Laconia, and accordingly, in 1632, in company with\\nBelknap.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36\\nHISTORY OF NICW HAMPSHIRE.\\nL163-\\nJocelyn and Darby Field, he set out on foot to discover the\\ninterior, and establish a trade with the Indians. The party\\nvisited the White Mountains, which they christened the Clirys-\\ntal Hills; but probably they did not go beyond the foot-hills\\nof the great White Mountain range.\\nSome writers, depending on a statement in Rev, Samuel\\nDanforth s Almanac for 1647, have ascribed this visit to June\\nSUM 1 T OF THE RAV NE WHITE MOUNTAINb\\n4, 1642. ^Among recent authors, however, Chandler E. Potter\\nwas of the opinion that the original account of Dr. Belknap was\\nthe true one, that Walter Neal, Jocelyn, and Darby Field\\nwent to the White Hills in 1632, that the Jocelyn here\\nmentioned was not the author of New England Rarities Dis-\\ncovered, whose first visit to New England was in 1638. This\\nProf. J. H. Hunting", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "1633J DJSCOVKKV ANO SETTLEMENTS. 37\\namong other things had given discredit to Dr. Belknap s account.\\nBy some it is thought that the man referred to was Mr. Henry\\nJocelyn. The first mention of the White Hills in print was by\\nMr. John Jocelyn, in the book just mentioned. It is stated that\\nabout a month after Field s first visit, he went again with five\\nor si-\\\\ in his company, and that the glowing account he gave\\ncaused divers others to travel thither, but they found nothing\\nworthy their pains. Among those who went are mentioned\\nThomas Gorges and Mr. Vines, two magistrates of the province\\nof Sir Ferdinando Gorges. They went about the end of August,\\nof the same year. Prof. E. Tuckerman, in 1840, endeavored to\\ntrace the path of these early explorers, and he had little doubt\\nthat F ield entered the valley of Ellis River, and left it for\\nthe great south-east ridge of Mount Washington, the same\\nwhich has since been called Boott s Spur. Not finding minerals\\nor precious stones, but only high mountains with narrow valleys\\nand deep gorges, there were no inducements for further explor-\\nations.\\nNeal, on his return from this expedition, raised a force of\\nforty men from both plantations, and in company with a party\\nof twenty from Boston, pursued the pirate Dixy Bull to Fem-\\naquid, which place the latter had pillaged. The freebooter hav-\\ning gone further east, and the party pursuing being detained by\\ncontrary winds and bad weather, they returned in their four\\nsmall vessels to the Piscataqua, stopping long enough on their\\nway to hang an Indian at Richmond s Island. During the\\nfollowing year, 1633, the proprietors were put to large expense\\nin the way of wages to their employees on the Piscataqua, for\\nthe settlements were not self-supporting. Very little attention\\nhad been paid to agriculture, and not only provisions, but\\nclothing, utensils, medicines, articles of trade, implements for\\nbuilding, husbandry, and fishing had to be furnished to the\\nplantations, so that the proprietors, discouraged in the hope of\\nthe discovery of mines or a remunerative commerce, one after\\nthe other lost their interest or sold to the original and more\\nhopeful proprietors, Gorges and Mason.\\nBelknap.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "38 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 633\\nCaptain Walter Neal recorded that (in company with Captain\\nThomas Wiggm) he divided the patent into four townships in\\nthis year, 1633, which were afterwards known as Portsmouth,\\nDover, Exeter and Hampton and later in the year, returned\\nto England. John Albee, the graceful writer, and historian\\nof Newcastle, thus writes of the first governor of New Hamp-\\nshire\\nCaptain Walter Neal was a true .soldier of fortune: always ready for an\\nexpedition or campaign always seeking that kind of emplovnient from tiie\\nEnglish court or any transient patron among the gentry; always begging\\nfor something and not averse to recounting his own services, merits or\\ndemerits. He describes himself, when seeking an appointment in these\\nparts, as never liaving had any other profession but his sword, nor other\\nfortunes than war and he adds, pathetically, that his debts are clamorous\\nand his wants insupportable. When not otherwise engaged lie acted as\\ncaptain and drill master of the London Militia. He was a free lance, among\\nthe last of the kniglits-errant and of the Round Table. Such was the first\\ngovernor of New Hampshire and all the lands to the eastward of Massachu-\\nsetts Bay. He has nothing in common with the solemn and pragmatical\\nWinthrops and Endicotts, and instead of settling down at Mason Hall to\\nfound a church and raise corn, he goes in search of the fabled land of\\nLaconia, in expectation of finding precious stones and mines of gold. For\\nthree years he explored the woods, planned fortifications, drilled the settlers\\nin arms, and chased pirates. He is a typical character, of the same family of\\nRaleigh, Smith and Standish, men who discovered new countries, founded\\ncolonies, uniting the real and romantic as never before, and went trading\\nand exploring round the world, writing love songs and marvelous narratives,\\nand all as if it were the pastime of the moment and every day would bring a\\nnoble chance.\\nAlthough the names bestowed upon the towns were not given\\nuntil several years afterward, it may be well to believe that some\\nsuch a survey was made during the year, although not recorded\\nvintil later, when the towns were named. Certain it is, how-\\never, that in 1633 the Massachusetts authorities intimated that\\ntheir jurisdiction extended over New Hampshire.- There was\\nMason s claim to Mariana interfering with their grants from the\\nCharles river to the Merrimack, which had to be offset by a claim,\\nfounded on however doubtful an origin, upon New Hampshire.\\nBelknap. tt intlirop s History of New England, and Provincial Papers, vol. i. p. 106.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "1635] DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS. 39\\nThese differences were in the way of an amicable adjustment at\\nthe time of Captain Mason s death, Henry Jocelyn, representative\\nof Captain Mason, agreeing with Matthew Cradock, first gov-\\nernor of the Massachusetts Company, to give Massachusetts\\nthat land about Cape Anne secured to Mason by a patent\\ngranted before the Massachusetts patent, while Cradock agreed\\nthat Captain Mason should have that land which was beyond\\nMerrimack and granted to the Massachusetts This agree-\\nment was sent to Henry Jocelyn to get recorded at Boston, but\\nbefore he could have leisure to go there, he heard of Captain\\nMason s death and failed in his duty. To this time very little\\nimprovement had been made on the lands the lakes were not\\nexplored the vines were planted, but came to nothing no mines\\nwere found but those of iron, and those were not wrought\\nthree or four houses only were built during the first seven\\nyears The peltry trade with the Indians was of some value,\\nand the fishing served for the support of the inhabitants, but\\nyielded no great profit to the adventurers, who received but\\ninadequate returns in lumber and furs. Bread was either\\nbrought from England or Virginia.^\\nIn 1634, Mason and Gorges gave new life to the settlement\\nby sending over a fresh supply of servants and materials for\\ncarrying on the plantation, and appointed Francis Williams their\\ngovernor, a gentleman of such good sense and discretion, and\\nso acceptable to the settlers, that when they combined in a body\\npolitic they continued him at their head. The next year, 1635,\\nthe Plymouth Council surrendered their charter to the King,\\nfirst securing, or having confirmed, certain grants to individ-\\nuals and Captain John Mason died, an event of much importance\\nto the New Hampshire settlers. It had been his design to\\nestablish in his province of New Hampshire a manor, but\\ndeath overtook him before his plans had been consummated.\\nHis personal property in New England seems to have been\\nappropriated by his former servants and agents, with what\\njustice it is unnecessary to inquire, while his interest in the\\nHutch. Coll. Papers, p. 423. F. Belknap, 5S. Farmer s Belknap, 13.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OF \\\\E\\\\V HAMPSHIKE. [^^3S\\nland was left to youthful heirs, who were in no condition to\\nassert their rights until many years afterward.\\nIn the meanwhile, the affairs of the settlement on Hilton s\\nPatent, at Dover, were managed by Captain Thomas Wiggin\\nwith sagacity. In 1633 he brought from England Rev. Wil-\\nliam Leveridge, a worthy and able Puritan minister, and settled\\nhim over the parish, building for him the first church in\\nNew Hampshire. Mr. Leveridge remained a short time only,\\nremoving to the Plymouth colony. During the year the\\nsmall-pox raged among the Piscataqua Indians, greatly reduc-\\ning their numbers. The next year, 1634, Rev. William Bur-\\ndet, an artful impostor,^ who had been minister at Yar-\\nmouth, England, and who was a good scholar and plausible in\\nhis behavior, settled in Dover, and continued for sometime\\nin good esteem with the people as a preacher, till, by artful\\ninsinuations, he raised such a jealousy in their minds against\\nWiggin, their governor, that they deprived him of office and\\nelected Burdet in his place.\\nBurdet, while loyal to the Church and King, was not in sympathy\\nwith the authorities of the Massachusetts colony and com-\\nplained of them as hypocritical and disaffected with the govern-\\nment, as was shown by intercepted correspondence in 1638.\\nHe received the exiles from the Bay colony and was at length\\nforced to remove to Agamenticus, whence he was again obliged\\nto remove, finally going to England and joining the royal-\\nists.^ It was charged that he was not altogether circumspect in\\nhis habits while residing in New Hampshire. Among the Anti-\\nnomians, who were banished from Boston and took refuge in these\\nplantations, was Captain John Underbill. He had been a\\nsoldier in the Netherlands and was brought over to New\\nEngland by Governor Winthrop, to train the people in military\\ndiscipline. He served the country in the Pequod war, and was\\nin such reputation in the town of Boston that they had chosen\\nhim one of their deputies. Coming into conflict with the\\nMassachusetts authorities, from his sympathy with Wheel-\\nwright, he came to Dover, where he procured the office of\\nBelknap.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "1638] DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS. 4I\\ngovernor in place of Burdet. Being settled in his government he\\ngathered a church at Dover. Rev. Hansard Knollys was chosen\\nminister, who was not only not orthodox, but an Anabaptist\\nand an Antinomian, which rendered him very obnoxious to the\\nPuritans of Boston. They complained to the principal inhabit-\\nants on the river of a breach of friendship in advancing Under-\\nhill, and summoned both Underhill and Knollys to appear before\\nthe court at Boston to answer to charges. The people of Dover\\nvoted Underhill out of office and chose Thomas Roberts in his\\nplace. Rev. Thomas Larkham, a native of Lyme, Dorsetshire,\\na minister from Northam, near Barnstable, differed from the\\nchurch authorities of Boston, and settled in Dover, where he\\ndrew away the followers of Knollys and caused much trouble,\\nwhich terminated in a riot. Underhill siding with Knollys, the\\nLarkham party called in the intervention of Governor Francis\\nWilliams of the lower settlement, and at a trial Underhill was\\nfound guilty of disorderly conduct and banished from the plan-\\ntations. Knollys was dismissed from the church and returned\\nto England, where he died over sixty years later, a good man\\nin a good old age. Captain Underhill returned to Boston.\\nand later went to the Dutch settlement on the Hudson, where\\nhe received important commands in the military service of that\\ncolony. After Knollys departure, Mr. Larkham, for whom the\\ntownship was named Northam, charged with moral obliquity,\\nhastily left the colony, returning to England, where he died\\nsome thirty years afterwards, well-known there for a man of\\ngreat piety and sincerity.\\nOne of the exiles from Massachusetts was Rev. John Wheel-\\nwright, a preacher at Braintree, who, having been banished\\nfrom Massachusetts on account of his Antinomian principles,\\nobtained a grant from the Lidians, and settled, in 1638, with\\nmany of his followers, at the falls of Squamscott, giving the\\nplace the name of Exeter. Wheelwright was a friend and fel-\\nlow collegian of Oliver Cromwell had been vicar of Bilsby, in\\nLincolnshire, England, and brought his family to this country\\nin 1636. Landing in Boston, the next year he was banished\\nBelknap.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 64O\\nfrom the colony. There is a distinct tradition that there\\nwere residents at Exeter before Wheelwright arrived. He\\nat once gathered a church there, built a meeting-house, a\\nprimitive structure of small dimensions, and became the\\nminister. He drew up a form of civil government, called\\na combination, which, in a modified form, was signed\\nby him and thirty-four others in 1640. He remained at\\nExeter until the extension of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts\\nover the settlements of New Hampshire, when he withdrew, with\\nsome of his warmest supporters, to Wells, in Maine. In the\\nyear J638, Rev. Stephen Batchelor, with whom was soon after\\nassociated Timothy Dalton and a party, chiefly from Norfolk, in\\nEngland, to the number of fifty-six, made a settlement at Hamp-\\nton at a place known to the Indians as Winnicumet. This\\nwas strictly a Massachusetts colony; and although their settle-\\nment was objected to by the agents of the Mason estate and\\nthe settlers at Exeter, it was persisted in, and soon after led to\\nthe claim of Massachusetts to jurisdiction over the whole of the\\nterritory of New Hampshire. After the death of Captain\\nMason, his widow and executrix sent over Francis Norton as\\nher attorney to manage the estate. The expense exceeding the\\nincome, she was obliged to relinquish the care of the plantation,\\nand to let the servants shift for themselves. They shared the\\ngoods and cattle, Norton driving one hundred head to Boston\\nand there selling them. Some removed to other parts, but many\\nremained, claiming their lands and betterments, and formed a\\npermanent settlement about Strawberry Bank.\\nAt this time there were four distinct governments, including\\nKittery, on the Piscataqua river, united by mutual combinations\\nor forms of government. The political revolution in England\\ndeprived the people of hope of receiving the royal attention,\\nand being divided among themselves, the Massachusetts party,\\nwhich had been strengthened by large additions among the new\\nsettlers of Dover, prevailed, and it was resolved by the more\\nconsiderate persons to treat with Massachusetts about tak-\\ning them under their protection. The affair was more than a\\nyear in agitation, but was finally concluded, April 14, 1641, when", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "1632] DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS. 43\\nStrawberry Bank, and the inhabitants of Hilton s Patent,\\nor Northam, and Exeter, submitted to the jurisdiction of the\\nMassachusetts colony. This was greatly desired by the authori-\\nties at Boston, for they hoped thus to stretch the limits of\\ntheir patent so as to take in a great extent of territory. It\\nwas of advantage to the people of the Piscataqua, for it gave\\na strong government, which to them was the same as peace\\nand justice.\\nExeter at that time was not very orthodox, nor was Dover\\nwhile the people of Strawberry Bank inclined to the Established\\nChurch of England. So the people demanded and received\\nseveral concessions before consummating the union. Captain\\nThomas Wiggin seems to have been the most influential man,\\nin the colony in bringing about the desired end, and was\\nrewarded by high magisterial authority, under the new order of\\nthings. One of the most important concessions made was that\\na representative from the Piscataqua could serve, though he\\nwas not a church member.\\nThus was formed a union, under which, for nearly forty years.\\nNew Hampshire submitted to the laws and jurisdiction of Mas-\\nsachusetts.\\nOf the second governor of the Piscataqua settlements,\\nFrancis Williams, who succeeded Walter Neal and continued\\nas governor until the union with Massachusetts, little is known\\nto the writer, save that he became a magistrate, and an associate\\njustice in Norfolk county, and continued in office until 1645.\\nThe obscurity which surrounds the first settlement of New\\nHampshire has been partially cleared up by the researches of\\nthe late John Scribner Jenness. A careful perusal of the fol-\\nlowing extracts from his Notes on the First Planting of New\\nHampshire and on its Piscataqua Patents, may be of general\\ninterest, especially as the work was privately printed, and had a\\nvery limited circulation\\nAdvancing from this starting-point (the settlement of\\nDavid Thomson and his company, in 1623, at Pannaway, or\\nLittle Harbor), onl\\\\ a few steps further into the early history of\\nNew Hamiisliire. the student is again shut in bv a dense fog,", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 HISTOKV OK NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1632\\nthrough which, for a long time, he is compelled to grope his\\nuncertain way. Before the year 1632 is passed, he finds him-\\nself in the midst of a number of patents on the Piscataqua, none\\nof which can he clearly make out and define. He perceives,\\nlong and bitter contests between those rival patents, the true\\nground of which he cannot understand. He discovers that at\\nlast all these contending patentees and planters are in some\\nway swept into the jurisdiction of Massachusetts Bay, but the\\ndexterous legerdemain by which the annexation was effected\\nentirely escapes his detection. In vain does he seek for light in\\nthe pages of the Pilgrim or the Puritan historians. That whole\\nconfraternity, indeed, avowedly look upon the Piscataqua plan-\\ntations with utter contempt, and waste little or no time upon\\nthe annals of those sons of Belial who haunted about the\\nlower part of the river. It became the policy of the Bay\\nColony, in prosecuting their designs over the Piscataqua, to say\\nor write as little as possible on the subject, so that in case they\\nshould ever be called to account for their conduct in the matter,\\nthey could not, in any event, be condemned out of their own\\nmouths.\\nThe instrument which has been the chief cause of the confu-\\nsion and obscurity was the patent granted in 1629-30 to\\nEdward Hilton and his associates a petty conveyance of a\\nsmall tract of land around Dover Neck covering all that\\npart of the river Piscataquack, called or known by the name of\\nWecanacohunt or Hilton s Point, with the south side of the\\nsaid river, up to the fall of the river, and three miles into the\\nmain land by all the breadth aforesaid. Beginning at Hilton s\\nPoint or Dover Neck, the boundary line ran up along the south-\\nerly side of the Piscataqua river to the lower, or Quampegan\\nFalls, a distance of seven or eight miles, and reached back into\\nthe interior country three miles along the entire river frontage.\\nFormal possession was given to Hilton, July J, 163 1.\\nBefore Hilton s title was perfected, Strawberry Bank had\\nbegun to be settled. No less than sixty men were employed\\nin the Laconia Company s business on the Piscataqua, and\\na plantation had been established at Newichwannock, not", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "163 1] DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS. 45\\nfar from Ouampegan Falls, and on the opposite side of the\\nriver from Hilton s grant.\\nAs the Laconia patent conveyed to the adventurers no por-\\ntion of Piscataqua river, and as during two years occupation\\nthey had acquired an accurate knowledge of the region and its\\nmany advantages for traffic and commerce, it was their first\\ncare to procure a grant of the desired region not previously con-\\nveyed to Edward Hilton. Their grant was dated November 3,\\n163 1, and embraced all lands east of Great Bay, and five miles\\nsouth of Little Harbor, and a width of three miles on the north\\nand east of the Piscataqua from the sea to Quampegan Falls-\\nIt included the present town of Portsmouth, Newington, Green-\\nland, Newcastle and Rye. It did not conflict with the Hilton\\npatent, as it was made by the same grantor, the grand council\\nfor New England.\\nThe charter of Massachusetts Bay passed the seals March 4,\\n1628-29, thus ante-dating Mason s patent of New Hampshire\\nas well as both the Piscataqua river grants. If the Massachusetts\\nconstruction of their charter should prevail, then all the patents\\non the river would be swept away the whole of that region\\nwould fall by prior title into their hands and jurisdiction, and\\nneither Mason nor Hilton could have offered any effectual\\nopposition.\\nThis ingenious interpretation of the charter having been hit\\nupon, there appeared as early as 163 1, upon the banks of the\\nPiscataqua, one Captain Thomas Wiggin, a stern Puritan, and a\\nconfidential friend of Governor John Winthrop, who spent his\\nwhole after-life in maintaining the title of Massachusetts Bay\\nColony, under their great charter of 1628, to the lands about the\\nPiscataqua.\\nAs the construction the Bay Colony put upon their charter\\nwould, if enforced, have swept away the entire property of all\\nthe Piscataqua planters, it must have encountered a hot and\\ndetermined opposition from the whole river. The Massachu-\\nsetts perceived that the Piscataqua planters were bitterly hostile\\nto them in political and religious principles, and would on that\\naccount be likely to receive official aid from the old country in", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSllIKE. [164O\\ncase of an open conflict. In these difficulties, the Bay magis-\\ntrates deemed it prudent to break up and confuse, if possible,\\nthe solid front of opposition before making an attack and to\\nthat end they resolved to get into their own hands the entire\\nHilton patent.\\nAccordingly, after concerting the plan with Governor Win-\\nthrop and his assistants. Captain Wiggin, shortly after his quar-\\nrel with Captain Walter Neal over possession of Bloody Point,\\nwent out to England in 1632, and forming a company of\\nhonest men, as Winthrop calls them, succeeded, with their\\naid, in purchasing from Hilton and his Bristol associates the\\nentire Hilton patent, at the price of ;^2, 150. The purchasers\\nwere all Puritans and frientls of the Massachusetts colony who\\nhad been writ unto.\\nCaptain Wiggin, appointed manager for the new company,\\nreturned to New England in 1633, with reinforcements and\\nsupplies, and took immediate steps to submit the territory to\\nthe jurisdiction of Massachusetts but Wiggin found it impos-\\nsible to complete the bargain. Intense hostility against the\\ndesign sprang up at once among the original Hilton Point\\nplanters, many of whom were Royalists and Churchmen, who\\ncould not maintain their titles to land before a legal tribunal;\\nand they set up an independent government among themselves\\nunder the name of a combination. In 1637, they chose George\\nBurdet, a staunch Churchman, as their governor, in place of\\nWiggin.\\nCaptain John Underbill, who was chosen governor in 1638,\\non account of his supposed opposition to the Massachusetts\\nclaim, was found to be plotting with his ally, Hanserd KnoUys,\\nto establish that claim. This led to the riot in which Mr.\\nLarkham led the people against the governor, and was sustained\\nby Governor Francis Williams of Strawberry Bank. Underbill\\nand Knollys were both ordered out of the Piscataqua plantations\\nby a court presided over by Mr. Williams.\\nBut now at last, in 1640, amidst the turmoils and bitter quar-\\nrels among the inhabitants, Massachusetts saw her long awaited\\nopportunity to spread her jurisdiction over the Piscataqua.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "1640] DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENTS. 47\\nHugh Peters and two others were sent to understand the minds\\nof the people, to reconcile some differences between them, and\\nto prepare them. On his return in 1641, he reported to\\nGovernor Winthrop that the Piscataqua people were ripe for\\nour government. They grone for Government and Gospel all\\nover that side of the Country. Alas! poore bleeding soules.\\nThe precise methods used in preparing the people for the\\nPuritan anne.xation have never been fully disclosed. Edward\\nHilton s assent was purchased by a covenant. Governor Francis\\nWilliams, of the lower plantation, was secured for the measure,\\nbut the manner is not revealed. The chief inducement, however,\\nheld out to thepopulation at large seems to ha^e been the prom-\\nise of the Bay Colony, that they should enjoy all such lawful\\nliberties of fishing, planting and felling timber as formerly.\\nThe inhabitants at Strawberry Bank and vicinity at the time of the Union,\\n1640, were\\nGov. Francis Williams. Jno. Wall. William Berry.\\nAsst. Ambrose Gibbons.* Robert Puddington. Jno. Pickering.\\nWilliam Jones. Mathew Cole. Jno. Billing.\\nDr. Renald Fernald. Henry Sherburne. Jno. Wolten.\\nJohn Crowther. John Lander. Nicholas Row.\\nAnthony Bracket. Henry Taler. William Palmer.\\nMichael Chatterton. John Jones.\\nAmong the stewards and servants sent to New Hampshire by Captain\\nJohn Mason were\\nThomas Comack. Wm., Wm. Jr., and Hum- James Newt.*\\nWilliam Raymond. phrey Chadbourne. Francis Mathews.*\\nGeorge Vaughan. Jeremiah and Thos. Wal- Francis Rand.\\nThomas Wannerton. ford. James Johnson.\\nHenry Jocelyn. Thomas Chatherton. Anthony Ellins.\\nFrancis Norton. John Williams. Henry Baldwin.\\nSampson Lane. John Goddard.* Thomas Spencer.\\nRalph Goe. Thomas Fernald. Thomas Furrall.\\nHenry Goe. Thomas Withers. Thomas Herd.\\nWilliam Cooper. Thomas Canney.* Roger Knight.\\nHenry LongstatT.* John Symonds. William Seavev.\\nHugh James. John Peverly. Joseph Beal.\\nWilliam Bracket. Thomas Moore. John Ault.*\\nWilliam Brakin. Alexander Jones. James Wall.\\nEight Danes and twentv-two women.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48\\nmSTORV OK NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[1640\\nAmong the Dover settlers at the time were also\\nThomas Beard. Thomas Johnson.\\nGeorge Burdet. Hanserd Know les.\\nEdward Colcott. Thomas Larkham.\\nJohn Darn. Thomas Lajton.\\nWilliam Furber. William Leveridge.\\nJohn Hall. James Nute.\\nJohn Heard. Hatevil Nutter.\\nEdward and Wm. Hilton. James Ordway.\\nAt Exeter the signers of the combination wer\\nRev. John Wheelwright. Chr. Helme.\\nDarbv Ffield.\\nRobert Reid.\\nEdward Rishvorth.\\nFrancis Matthews.\\nRalph Hall.\\nRobert Soward.\\nRichard Bullgar.\\nChristopher Lawson.\\nGeorge Barlow.\\nRichard Morris.\\nAugustus Storre.\\nThomas Wight.\\nWilliam Wentworti^\\nHenry Elkins.\\nGeorge Walton.\\nSamuel Walker.\\nThomas Pettit.\\nHenry Roby.\\nWilliam Wenbourn.\\nThomas Crawley.\\nRobert Smith.\\nFourteen of whom made their mar\\nAt Hampton were early the following settlers\\nRev. Stephen Batchelor. William Fuller.\\nMr. Christopher Hussey.\\nThomas Cromwell.\\nSamuel Skullard.\\nJohn Osgood.\\nSamuel Greenfield.\\nJohn and Thomas Moul-\\nton.\\nRichard Pinkham.\\nWm. Pom fret.\\nThomas Roberts.\\nHenry Tebbits.\\nJohn Tuttle.\\nRichard Waldron.\\nThomas Wiggans.\\nNicholas Needham.\\nThomas Willson.\\nGeorge Rawbone.\\nWilliam Coole.\\nJames Wall.\\nThomas Leavitt.\\nEdmond Littlefield.\\nJohn Crame.\\nGodfrey Dearborn.\\nPhilemon Pormot.\\nThos. and Wm. War-\\ndell,\\nks.\\nWilliam Estow.\\nWilliaiTi Palmer.\\nRobert Caswell.\\nWilliam Marston.\\nJohn Philbrick.\\nHenry Ambrose.\\nMoses Cox.\\nThomas Ward.\\nDaniel Hendrick.\\nWilliam Sargeant.\\nRicliard Swayne.\\nWilliam Sanders.\\nRobert Tucke.\\nJohn Cross.\\nJohn Brown.\\nEdmund Johnson.\\nThomas Jones.\\nRobert Saunderson.\\nArthur Clark.\\nJoseph Austin.\\nWm. English.\\nWm. Wakefield.\\nThomas King.\\nGiles Fuller.\\nJohn Wedgewood.\\nJames Davis.\\nAbraham Perkins.\\nPhilemon Dalton.\\nJohn Huggins.\\nJeofTrey Mingay.\\nThomas Marston.\\nLieut. Wm. Hay ward.\\nIsaac Perkins.\\nFrancis Peabody.\\nRobert Page.\\nJoseph Smith.\\nWalter Roper.\\nWm. Fifield.\\nAnthony Taylor.\\nWm. Saunders.\\nThomas Chase.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nUNION WITH MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1679.\\nLaws Courts Judges Masonian Claim \u00e2\u0080\u0094Deputies Magistrates\\nDover Norfolk County Town Lines Roads -Portsmouth\\nSurvey of Northern Boundary Endicott Rock Market\\nDunstable Witchcraft Qitakers King s Commissioners Cor-\\nbet Masts Sabbath Laws Harvard College Oyster River\\nIndian War Effect of Union Church History Hampton\\nExeter Dover Portsmouth ^Massachusetts Governors Mag-\\nistrates and Deputies.\\nA T the time of the union, the breach between the Puritans\\nand the EstabHshed Church of England was not so wide as\\nit was soon destined to become. Most of their early ministers\\nwere regularly ordained and many had been educated at Oxford\\nor at Cambridge. The differences were not so much in the\\ncreed as in church government and the forms of worship. Even\\nthe ritual had not been entirely discarded. There were at that\\ntime, and for many years after, even until the creation of the\\nroyal province, two parties within the New Hampshire towns,\\nthe Puritan or republican party, and the opposition, made up\\nof ardent Churchmen, Royalists, Anabaptists, Antinomians,^\\nQuakers, freethinkers, and free lances.\\nDuring the union of these plantations with Massachusetts\\nthey were governed by the general laws of that colony and the\\nterms of the union were strictly observed. Exeter and Hamp-\\nton were at first annexed to the jurisdiction of the courts at\\nIpswich, till the establishment of a new county, which was called\\nThe Anabaptists denied the validity of infant baptism and believed in immersion.\\nThe Antinomians believed in the indwelling of the person of the Holy Ghost in the heart of\\nthe true believers and encouraged the women in taking part in religious meetings.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 HISTORY OF NKW HAMPSHIRE. [164I\\nNorfolk, and comprehended Salisbury, Haverhill, Hampton,\\nExeter, Strawberry Bank and Dover. These towns were then\\nof such e-xtent as to contain all the lands between the rivers\\nMerrimack and Piscataqua. The shire town was Salisbury, but\\nthe Piscataqua settlements had always a distinct jurisdiction,\\nthough they were considered as part of this new county. A\\ncourt was held in one or the other, sometimes once and some-\\ntimes twice in the year, consisting of one or more of the magis-\\ntrates or assistants, and one or more of the commissioners, chosen\\nby the General Court out of the principal gentlemen of each town.\\nThis was called the Court of Associates, and their power extended\\nto causes of twenty pounds value. From them there was an appeal\\nto the Board of Assistants, in Boston, which, being found incon-\\nvenient, it was, in 1670, ordered to be made to the county court\\nof Norfolk. Cases under twenty shillings in value were settled in\\neach town by an inferior court, consisting of three persons.\\nAfter some time, the towns had liberty to choose their associate\\njustices, which was done by the vote of both towns, opened at a\\njoint meeting of their selectmen, though sometimes they re-\\nquested the Court to appoint them as before. That mutual\\nconfidence between rulers and people which springs from the\\ngenius of a republican government is observable in all their\\ntransactions.\\n2 The extension of the jurisdiction of Massachusetts over New\\nHampshire could not fail of being noticed by the heirs of\\nMason but the distractions caused by the civil wars in England\\nwere invincible bars to any legal inquiry. The first heir named in\\nMason s will dying in infancy, the estate descended after the\\ndeath of the executrix to Robert Tufton, who was not of age\\ntill 1650. Joseph Mason came over as agent to look after the\\nMasonian interests. He found the lands at Newichawannock\\noccupied by Richard Leader, against whom he brought suit in the\\ncounty court of Norfolk but a dispute arising, whether the lands\\nin question were within the jurisdiction of Massachusetts, there\\nwas an appeal to the. General Court at Boston, which resulted in\\nthe survey by Jonathan Ince and John Sherman. Two experi-\\nFanner s Helknap, pp. 5J, 54. Belknap.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "1641] UNION WITH MASSACHUSETTS. 5 1\\nenced ship masters determined that the parallel of latitude ex-\\ntended from the outlet of Lake Winiiipiseogee to a point in Casco\\nBay, on the coast of Maine, and this line was determined by the\\nGeneral Court to be their northern boundary, thus including\\nthe most of the territory granted to Mason. They also decided\\nthat a quantity of land proportionable to Mason s disbursements,\\nwith the privilege of the river, should be laid out to his heirs.\\nThe agent made no attempt to recover any other part of the\\nestate, but returned to England, and the estate was given up\\nfor lost, unless the government of England should interfere.\\nDuring the Commonwealth, and the protectorate of Cromwell,\\nthere could be no hope of relief, as the family had always been\\nattached to the royal cause, and the colony stood high in the favor\\nof the Parliament and of Cromwell.\\nAt the restoration of Charles II, Robert Tufton, who took\\nthe name of Mason, applied to the King for redress, and the\\nattorney-general decided that the claim of Mason to the province\\nof New Hampshire was good and legal. The commissioners\\nwho came over in 1664 were to inquire into this as well as other\\nmatters. The reception of the commissioners resulted in a re-\\nport to the King unfavorable to the Massachusetts claims.\\nWhile in New England they took many affidavits, but made no\\ndetermination of the controversy. After the return of the\\ncommissioners, the government took no active measures for the\\nrelief of Mason, who became discouraged and joined with the\\nheirs of Gorges in proposing an alienation of their respective\\nrights in the provinces of New Hampshire and Maine to the\\ncrown, but the Dutch war s and other foreign transactions pre-\\nvented any determination concerning them till the country was\\ninvolved in all the horrors of a general war with the natives.\\nFrom the annals of New Hampshire, gathered with great\\ncare by the late Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Bouton, from town records,\\ncourt records, Massachusetts records, and New York documents,\\nand published in the first volume of the Provincial Papers,\\nare extracted most of the following items of more or less\\ninterest.\\nThe union of the four New Hampshire towns with Massa-", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1C4I\\nchusetts was perfected by an act passed by the General Court\\nheld at Boston on the 9th day of the 8th month, 1641. The\\npreamble having asserted that, according to the Massachusetts\\npatent, the Piscataqua river was within their jurisdiction and that\\na conference had been had with the people living there, who con-\\nsented to the arrangement, it was ordered that the people in-\\nhabiting there are and shall be accepted and reputed under the\\ngovernment of the Massachusetts that they shall have the\\nsame order and way of administration of justice and way of\\nkeeping courts as is established at Ipswich and Salem that\\nthey shall be exempted from all publique charges other than\\nthose that shall arise for or from among themselves shall\\nenjoy all such lawful liberties of fishing, planting, felling timber\\nas formerly that Mr. Simon Bradstreet, Mr. Israel Stough-\\nton, Mr. Samuel Symonds, Mr. William Tynge, Mr. Francis\\nWilliams and Mr. Edward Hilton, or any four of them, whereof\\nMr. Bradstreet or Mr. Stoughton to be one, shall have the\\nsame power that the Quarter Courts at Salem and Ipswich have\\nthat the inhabitants theie are allowed to send two deputies\\nfrom the whole river [settlements] to the Court at Boston\\nthat the commissioners have power to appoint two or three to\\njoin with Mr. Williams and Mr. Hilton to govern the people for\\nthe ensuing year as was done in Massachusetts and that the\\nauthority exercised by the officers of the combination should\\ncontinue until the arrival of the commissioners.\\nOn the loth of December, 1641, Mr. Wiggin, Mr. Warnerton\\nand Mr. Gibbons were joined in commission. In- May, 1642,\\nCaptain Wiggin, Mr. Edward Hilton, Mr. Warnerton and Mr.\\nWilliam Waldron were commissioned magistrates on the Piscata-\\nqua, with whom were associated William Hilton and Edward\\nColcord and William Hayward, John Crosse and James Davis,\\nat Hampton with power to settle cases under ^^20.\\nDuring the year it was granted that all the inhabitants of Pis-\\ncataqua who formerly were free there should have the liberty\\nof freemen in their several towns to manage all their town affairs,\\nand that each town should send a deputy to the General Court,\\nthough he was not a church member. During the year Northam", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "1647] UNION WITH MASSACHUSETTS. 53\\nwas regularly incorporated and Samuel Dudley, William Paine,\\nMr. Winslow and Mathevv Boyes were appointed to settle the\\ntown limits or bounds. The town was called Dover the follow-\\ning year.\\nIn 1643 Norfolk county was established, containing Salisbury,\\nHampton, Haverhill, E.xeter, Dover, Strawberry Bank. E.xeter\\npetitioned to have its bounds determined and William Wen-\\nbourn, Robert Smith and Thomas Wardell were appointed\\nmagistrates.\\nIn 1644 the inhabitants of E.xeter were enjoined from gather-\\ning a church and settling the Rev. Mr. Batchelor before their\\nreconciliation and fitness was manifest. The decree of banish-\\nment against Rev. Mr. Wheelwright was recalled. Passaconaway\\nand his sons submitted to the jurisdiction of Massachusetts.\\nThe bounds between Dover and Strawberry Bank were deter-\\nmined. Samuel Greenfield, innkeeper of Exeter, had his license\\nrevoked, and Richard Bulgar of Hampton was commissioned\\nlieutenant of the militia. Francis Williams, Mr. Fernald and\\nWilliam Sherburne were appointed magistrates at Strawberry\\nBank. Trouble between Mr. Batchelor and Hampton was re-\\nferred to a commission.\\nIn 1645 Philemon Dalton was licensed to marry at Hampton.\\nAnthony Stanyan, Samuel Greenfield, Robert Smith and John\\nLegatt were appointed magistrates of Exeter; Captain Wiggin,\\nMr. Williams and Mr. Smith, associate magistrates at Dover.\\nThe General Court discountenanced the holding of slaves at\\nPiscataqua and ordered that a negro brought from Guinea\\nshould be returned.\\nIn 1646 the bounds between Exeter and Hampton were deter-\\nmined by Samuel Dudley, Edward Rawson and Edward Carle-\\nton. William Waklron was appointed recorder of deeds at Dov-\\ner, and Mr. Waldron and Lieutenant Hayward laid out a road\\nfrom Dover to Salisbury. The court of the Piscataqua district\\nwas holden twice at Dover and Captain Wiggin, Mr. Smith and\\nAmbrose Gibbons were appointed associate magistrates. A road\\nwas laid out across the Hampton marshes.\\nIn 1647 a road was laid out from Haverhill to Exeter and", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54 HISTORY OF NKW IIAMPSHIPE. 652\\ntowne marks agreed upon by the General Court for horses,\\n[were] ordered to be set upon one of the nere quarters. S(tra\\\\v-\\nberry-banke) N(ortham) H(ampton) E(xeter).\\nIn 1648 it was ordered that court should be hoklen at Salisbury,\\nthe neglected shiretown of Norfolk county, and also at Hamp-\\nton. Musters for military training were held eight times a year.\\nSamuel Dudley, Captain Wiggin and Robert Clements were com-\\nmissioned justices for the county and authorized to administer\\nthe oath to the three commissioners for small causes in the sev-\\neral towns. Edward Starbuck was tried, having been charged\\nwith profession of Anabaptism. The courts had to deal jus-\\ntice for the crime of mui der, as in the case of Mrs. Willip, as\\nwell as for the crime of wearing the hair long, and professing\\nAnabaptism.\\nIn 165 1 the inhabitants of Strawberry ]5ank petitioned for a\\nsurve} of their bounds and for the establishment of a court and\\nfor the protection against the heirs of John Mason. Brian Pen-\\ndleton and Henry Sherburne were appointed associate magis-\\ntrates with Captain Wiggin, and the line between Strawberry\\nBank and Hampton and between Hampton and Exeter was or-\\ndered to be determined. Exeter was authorized to choose a con-\\nstable acceptable to the court. Four hundred acres of land\\nbetween Hampton and the Piscataqua were granted to Captain\\nWilliam Hathorne and six hundred acres to Emanuel Down-\\ning. Governor John Endicott, learning that the inhabitants of\\nStrawberry Bank were designing to throw off their allegiance to\\nMassachusetts and set up an independent government, com-\\nmanded Captain Wiggin to arrest the ringleaders and send them\\nto Boston for trial. Dover was fined \u00c2\u00a3io for not sending a\\ndeputy to the General Court.\\nIn 1652 court was holden by Mr. Bcllingham at Hampton, Sal-\\nisbury, Dover and Strawberry Bank, and Mr. George Smith,\\nMr. Richard Waldron and Mi Valentine Hill were appointed\\nassociate justices. Captain Simon Willard and Captain\\nEdward Johnson were appointed commissioners to determine\\nthe most northeil)- part of the Merrimack river. They accord-\\ningly employed John Sherman of Watertown and Jonathan", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "1652] L NION WITH MASSACHUSETTS. 55\\nIncc, ii student at Harvard College, to determine the latitude of\\nAquadahian, the name of the Merrimack where it issues out of\\nLake Winnipiseogee and on August r they found the latitude\\nwas forty three degrees, forty minutes, and twelve seconds, be-\\nsides those minutes which are to be allowed for the three miles\\nmore north which runs into the Lake.\\nOne of tlie most interesting objects connected witli the early history of\\nNew Hampshire, vet one that is little known, is the Endicott Rock, which\\nis situated on the head of a small island in the channel, at the Weirs. Prob-\\nably the exploring party who left their names chiseled upon it, were the\\nfirst Avhite men that ever gazed upon the waters of the beautiful lake. Al-\\nthough two and a half centuries have elapsed since that time, yet this inscrip-\\ntion still remains as a monument to their bravery and endurance.\\nThe inscription can still be entirely read by much study, but is fast wearing\\naway, and must soon entirely disappear under the constant action of the ele-\\nments. Recognizing this fact, the Lake Company, on whose domain it stands,\\nhave had several plaster casts taken, one of which is to be seen in their\\noffice at Lake Village while others have been presented to the Historical\\nSocieties of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.\\nWhen, and by whom, the discovery of this interesting relic was made, is\\nnot definitely known, but is supposed to have been made by Stephen Lyford\\nand Nathan Batchelder of Meredith Bridge, the constructors of the Old Bel-\\nknap, as they built a dSm across the channel on the Meredith side, in 1832,\\nfor the purpose of deepening the other one, in order tliat tliat famous steamer\\ncould pass down to Lake Village, which was then a thriving village of about\\na dozen houses. Others claim that Messrs. Daniel Tucker and John T. Coffin,\\npresident and cashier of the Meredith Bridge Savings Bank, were the original\\ndiscoverers. The State has recently provided for the preservation of this\\ninteresting monument.\\nThe inscription reads as follows\\nEI SW.\\nW. P. 10 HN\\nENDICVT\\nGOV\\nDover was declared entitled to send two deputies to the\\nGeneral Court and Strawberry- Bank one. It was determined\\nthat the northern bounds of Dover should extend from the first\\nfall of the Newichawannock river ujiou a north by west line four\\nmiles and the Lampereel river was confirmed as the bound be-\\ntween E.xeter and Dovei", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "56 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1655\\nIn 1653 the inhabitants at Strawberry Bank, claiming to have\\nbetween seventy and eiglity men able to bear arms, and between\\nfifty and sixty families, desired the privileges of a township,\\nand were incorporated by the name of Portsmouth. The free-\\nmen of Dover chose Captain Waldron and Valentine Hill as\\nassociates and their choice was confirmed by the General Court.\\nIn 1654 William Pomfret was appointed and authorized to\\nmarry such at Dover as shall be duly published and otherwise\\nfitt to joyne in marriage according to law: and Roger Shaw\\nof Hampton was impowered and ordered to sell wine of any sort\\nand strong liquors to the Indians as shall seeme meete and\\nnecessary for their relief, in just and urgent occasions, and not\\notherwise. The rates assessed for supporting the ministry\\nwere payable in money, beaver, beef, pork, wheat, pease, malt,\\ncheese, butter, or in any one of these commodities and the dep-\\nuties at the General Court at Boston dined together during the\\nsession at Lieutenant Phillips tavern, at the expense of the col-\\nony, and the keeper of said tavern shall be paid for the same\\nby the treasurer by discounting the same in the custom of wine\\nand they were also iequired to provide bo5.rding-places for the\\ndeputies who should succeed them. Lieutenant Phillips charged\\nthree shillings a day for breakfast, dinner and supper, fire and\\nbed, with wine and beer between meals, or eighteen pence for\\ndinner alone, with wine and beer betwi.xt meals. The Great\\nand General Court defined the law thus and by wine is in-\\ntended a cup for each man at dinner and supper, and no more.\\nIn 1655, at the request of the towne of Hampton, by theire\\ndeputy, itt is ordered that there shall be a market kept there on\\none day in every week, viz., on the fifth day, which is theire lec-\\nture day.\\nIn August, 1655, Captain Simon Willard and Edward John-\\nson, surveyors, who were employed by the provincial court of\\nMassachusetts, came from Woburn with an exploring company,\\nwhich usually consisted of a guard of eight or ten men, to pro-\\ntect the surveyors from Indian invasion as they penetrated the\\nThe deputies were paid by the towns they represented. The Dover deputy was allowed thirty\\nshillings for travelling expenses, two shillings and sixpence per day besides his** diet, while in at-\\ntendance.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "1656] UNION WITH MASSACHUSETTS. 57\\nunbroken forests. They arc supposed to be the first white men\\never in West Dunstable, traversing the Merrimack river and\\nits tributaries, going up Pennichuck brook to Pennichuck pond,\\nalso exploring what has been known for a period of over two\\nhundred years as the Witch Brook Valley, and embraced that\\nportion of West Dunstable known later as Monson and Hollis.\\nWitch Brook was discovered by those who belonged to the ex-\\nploring company of Johnson and Willard. Some of their number\\nwent up this brook quite a distance, and, leaving its bank to get\\na view of the surrounding forests, were unfortunate enough to\\nlose their way. Night came on before they regained the brook\\nand a thick fog set in, which rendered it extremely difficult for\\nthe men to follow it. Some one of their number remarked that\\nthe place was bewitched, and that the brook was bewitched\\nhence, it received its present name long before any settlement\\nwas made in the vicinity. There were many considerations\\nwhich helped to promote the early settlements there. One was,\\nthat a great portion of meadow land was made available by\\nreason of the beavers building their dams for the purpose of\\nflowing ponds, which hunters and trappers would break; and\\nthe whole tract was drained, leaving a mowing-field already\\ncleared for the new settler. Another consideration was, that\\nthe Indians had planted fields of corn on the uplands as late as\\n1665, which were found ready for cultivation. And still another\\nreason that actuated the people in settling in the section was,\\nthat its facility for fur catching was second to no other in the\\nState.*\\nIn 1656 the witchcraft craze reached New Hampshire.\\nMarch 30, Susannah Trimmings of Little Harbor, Piscataqua,\\ngoing home at night with Goodwife Barton, separated from her\\nat the freshet next her house. On her return, between Good-\\nman Evans and Robert Davis she heard a rustling in the\\nwoods, which she at first thought was occasioned by swine, and\\npresently after there did appear to her a woman, whom she\\napprehended to be Goodwife Walford, who asked her where her\\nconsort was and wanted to borrow a pound of cotton. Upon\\nC. S. Spaulding.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58\\nIllSTt)KV Ol- NKW HAMI SIIIKE.\\n[1656\\nbeing refused, the old woman threatened and then left her,\\nvanishing toward the water side in the shape of a cat, while Sus-\\nannah was struck as with a clap of fire on the back. She returned\\nto her home and was ill a number of days. This statement was\\nsworn to before Brian Pendleton, Henry .Sherburne and Renakl\\nTHE MILES STWDISH HOI ^F Dt \\\\Pt R\\\\\\nFernald, and the fact of her sickness was corroborated by the tes-\\ntimony of others. Agnes Puddinoton testified that a little after\\nsunset .she saw a yellowish cnt that her husband, John Pudding-\\nton, saw a cat in the garden and took down his gun to shoot her.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "1657] UM(l\\\\ WITH MASSACHUSETTS. 59\\nThe cat got up on a tree, and the gun would not take fire,\\nand afterwards the lock would not work. She afterwards saw\\nthree cats. On this and similar testimony, Goodwife Walford\\nwas bound over to the ne.\\\\t court. At the court of associates,\\nholden in June, Jane Walford was bound over until the next\\ncourt, upon suspicion of being a witch. The complaint was\\nprobably dropped at the next term, for some years afterwards\\nGoodwife Walford brought an action for slander against one\\nRobert Couch, for calling her a witch, and recovered five\\npounds and costs.\\nBy an act of the General Court this year, a fine of one hundred\\npounds was imposed on any ship master who should import a\\nQuaker, and that what Quakers soever shall arrive in this\\ncountry from forraigne parts, or come into this jurisdiction from\\nany parts adjacent, shall be committed to the house of correction,\\nand at their entrance to be severely whipt. A penalty of five\\npounds was imposed for importing any Quaker books, the same\\nfor keeping on hand such books while any person within the\\ncolony defending the opinions of the Quakers, for a first offence\\nshould be fined forty shillings, four pounds for the second offence,\\nwhile a third offence would subject the guilty party to imprison-\\nment and banishment from the realm. The act closed with the\\ngentle assurance that what person or persons soever shall\\nrevile the office or person of magistrates or ministers shall\\nbe severely whipt or pay the some of five pounds.\\nIn 1657 the land and properties of the honored Capt.\\nWiggin, not hitherto within the limits of any town, were placed\\nwithin the limits of Hampton. The people of Portsmouth built\\na meeting-house, and the ne.xt year settled Rev. Joshua Moody\\nas minister. This year the law against Quakers was made more\\nsevere. Whoever harbored them was fined forty shillings for\\nevery hour s entertainment or concealment of Quakers. Any\\nQuaker who should return to the jurisdiction of the colony after\\nhaving been banished, should, if a male, for the first offence,\\nhave one of his ears cut off; for the second offence, have the\\nother ear cut off if a woman, she should be whipt severely.\\nFor a third offence, every Quaker, he or she, shall have their", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF NEW IIAMl SHIKE. [1662\\ntongues bored through with a hot iron, and kept at the house of\\ncorrection, close to worke, till they be sent away at their own\\ncharge. A native Quaker fared the same as a foreign Quaker.\\nOur ancestors sought, in the wilderness, to obtain religious\\nfreedom for themselves, without toleration for other creeds than\\ntheir own. A party of eight persons were drowned off Hamp-\\nton during the year. The line between Hampton and Salisbury\\nwas determined, beginning at the ocean in the middle of\\nHampton river.\\nIn 1658 the inhabitants of Portsmouth were ordered to attend\\nall military service under command of Capt. Brian Pendleton, and\\nto observe the laws concerning the selling of strong liquors and\\nto keep good order in ordinaries. Dover this year voted to\\nraise twenty pounds for the maintenance of a schoolmaster,\\nwho could reid, write, cast accompt as the parents shall\\nrequire.\\nIn 1659 occun-ed the e.\\\\ecution, at Boston, of several Quakers,\\nunder the authority of the law passed in 1656.\\nThe forefathers must have been sorely afflicted with Quakers^\\nfor in 1661 the General Court decreed that any discovered\\nwithin the jurisdiction of Massachusetts should be stripped\\nnaked from the middle upwards, and tied to a cart s tayle and\\nwhipped thro the towne, and from thence immediately conveyed\\nto the constable of the next town towards the borders of our\\njurisdiction so from constable to constable, till they be\\nconveyed thro any the outwardmost townes of our jurisdic-\\ntion; and for a third offence should be branded on their left\\nshoulder with the letter R. Truly, in those days, these shores\\nmay be said to have been inhospitable. The unkindest part of\\nthis act was in the provision that the constables of the several\\ntownes were empowered to impresse cart, o.xen, and\\nother assistance. The Isles of Shoals were incorporated as a\\ntown by the name of Appledore, during the year.\\nIn 1662 Elunice Cole, a reputed witch of Hampton, after an\\nimprisonment, was banished from the colony. A New England\\npoet, John G. VVhittier, has immortalized the name of Eunice\\nCole, in his Tent on the Beach, as the witch of Hampton", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "1665] UNIUX WITH MASSACHUSKTTS. 61\\nwho caused the drowning of the party off the mouth of Hamp-\\nton river, in the year 1657. Still more cruel was the execution\\nof the sentence imposed by Richard Waldron upon Anna Col-\\nraan, Mary Thompkins, and Alice Ambrose, Quakers, who\\nreceived ten strokes each on their naked backs, while made fast\\nto a cart s tail, in each of the towns of Dover and Hampton on\\ntheir way through Massachusetts. The order to the constables\\nwas dated at Dover, in midwinter, December 22, 1662. The\\norder was executed in Dover, Hampton, and Salisbury, but in\\nthe last na-med town the women were rescued by Walter Bare-\\nfoote, who sent them out of the Province. They were probably\\nshipped to Rhode Island, the Barbadoes, or Nova Scotia.\\nIn July, 1664, the King s commissioners. Sir Robert Carre,\\nGeorge Cartwright and Samuel Maverick, arrived at the Piscat-\\naqua, and during their visit found the King s authority of very\\nlight weight within the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts colony.\\nThey informed the Massachusetts authorities that the King did\\nnot grant away his sovereignty when he granted powers to the\\ncorporation to make wholesome laws and to administer justice\\nby them. Nor had he parted with his right of judging\\nwhether those laws were wholesome, or whether justice were\\nadministered accordingly or no. He had not granted supreme\\nauthority over such of his subjects as were within the jurisdic-\\ntion of Massachusetts. The King reserved that authority and\\nprerogative for himself. The commissioners threatened the\\nMassachusetts Colony with the loss of their charter. They\\nwere not kindly received by the authorities, and having made a\\ntour of the settlements, in 1665, they made a report, in which\\nthey charged that Massachusetts had usurped authority over\\nthe Province of New Hampshire as well as over Maine, writing\\nof the former: This Province reaches from three miles north\\nof the Merrimack river to Piscataquay, and sixty miles into the\\ncountry. We find many small patents in it, and the whole\\nProvince to be now under the usurpation of the Massachusetts,\\nwho once set up a bound house three larg miles north of the\\nMerrimacke and owned it for about twelve years, yet since\\nclaims all this and sixty miles more to the north to be within", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 HISTORY OI-- NEW HAMPSHIRE. 665\\ntheir patent. We were up with the Piscataquay River, July\\nthe 9 (1665), when we received his Majesty s letter of Janu-\\nary 28. There being an excellent harbor, large and safe, and\\nseven or eight ships in it, and great store of masts, we sent\\nwarrents to 4 towns upon that river, with an intent to have\\ngotten that harbour fortified by them but the Massachusetts\\nsent a prohibition to them and a letter to us, by their Marshall,\\nwhich put a stop to our endeavours. This place, we think,\\ndeserves fortifying as much as any place in New-England.\\nWe are told by some of themselves that they have appointed a\\nGeneral Court to consider how to manage their opposition,\\nfor they intend to maintain the bounds of their patent as\\nfar as they have stret :hed them.\\nThen came a conflict of authority on the Piscatacjua. The\\nKing s commissioners having settled the Province of Maine\\nunderthe King s immediate government, one Abraham Corbett, of\\none of the Piscataqua towns, who had assisted the commis-\\nsioners by circulating petitions and obtaining evidence, was\\nsummoned by the Massachusetts authorities to appear at court,\\nand was arrested by the marshals of Dover and Portsmouth, and\\nlodged in jail in Boston. Bail was refused for him.\\nIn the report of the King s commissioners are the following\\ncharges against the Massachusetts colony: To elude His\\njyjj^tie s desire of their admitting men civill and of competent\\nestates to be free-men, they have made an act whereby he that\\nis 24 years old, a house keeper, and brings one certifi-\\ncate of his civill life, another of his being orthodox in matters of\\nfaith, and a third of his paying ten shillings (beside head money),\\nat a single rate, may then have liberty to make his desire known\\nto the court and it shall be put to vote.\\nThe comiss examined many townshipps and found that\\nscarce three in a hundred pay los. at a single rate yet if this rate\\nwas general it would be just; but hey is a church member,\\nthough he be a servant and pay not 2d., may be a free-man.\\nThey will not admit any who is not a church member of\\ntheir church, to the communion, nor their children to baptisme,\\nyet they will marry their children to those whom they will not", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "1665] UNION WITH MASSACHUSETTS. 63\\nadmit to baptisme, if they be rich, They did imprison and\\nbarbarously use Mr. Jourdain for baptising children.\\nThose whom they will not admit to the communion, they\\ncompel to come to their sermons by forcing from them five shill-\\nings for every neglect yet these men thought their own paying\\nof one shilling, for not coming to prayer in England, was an in-\\nsurportable tyranny.\\nThey have put many Quakers to death of other Provinces.\\nFirst they banished them as Quakers upon pain of death,\\nand then executed them for returning.\\nThey have beaten sometojelly, and been (other ways) exceed-\\ning cruell to others. They yet pray constantly for their\\npersecuted bretheren in England.\\nThey have many things in their lawes derogatory to His\\nMa honour of which the Com made a breviat and desired\\nthat they might be altered but they have yet done nothing in\\nit. Amongst others, whoever keeps Christmas day is to pay\\nFive Pounds.\\nThey caused, at length, a map of their Territories to\\nbe made, but it was made in a chamber by direction and\\nguess. In it they claime Fort Albany, and beyond it all the\\nland to the South Sea. By their south line they intrench upon\\nthe colonies of New-Plymouth, Rode Island and Conecticot, and\\non the East they have usurped Captain Mason s and Sr Ferdi-\\nnand Gorges patents.\\nThe comiss being at Piscataquay when they receaved His\\nMa letter, which comanded them to see the Harbours\\nfortified, c., sent their warrants to fower towns upon that river\\nrequiring them to meet at such time and place to heare his\\nMa letter read one of these warrants was sent post to\\nBoston, from whence two marshalls were sent by the Governor\\nand Councell, with another warrant to forbid the townes either\\nto meet or to do anything comanded them by the Com at\\ntheir utmost perill.\\nColonel Whalley and Goff [the regicides] were entertained\\nby the magistrates with great solemnity, and feasted in every\\nplace; after, they were told they were Traytors, and ought to", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 IlISTOKV OF NKW IIAMPSHIKE. 665\\nbe apprehended. They of this colony say that King Charles\\ny*^ First gave them power to make laws and execute them\\nand that they are not obliged to the King, but by civility.\\nThis colony furnished Cromwell with many instruments out\\nof their corporation and their colledge and those that have\\nretreated thither since His Ma happy returne, are much\\nrespected and many advanced to be magistrates. They did\\nsolicit Cromwell, by one Mr. Winsloe, to be declared a Free\\nState, and many times in their lawes stile themselves this State,\\nthis Commonwealth, and now believe themselves to be so.\\nThey demand what taxes they please, but their accounts\\ncould never yet be seen. Some few soldiers they keep at their\\ncastle. They convert Indians by hiring them to come and\\nhear sermons which the more generous natives scorne.\\nThis colony, which hath engrossed the whole trade of New\\nEngland, and is therefore the richest, hath many towns, but not\\none regularly built within its limits; w the comiss find to be\\nSeconnet Brook on the southwest and Merrimack River on the\\nnortheast, and two right lines drawn from each of those two\\nplaces till they come within twenty miles of Hudson s River.\\nThe comodities of the countrey are fish, which is sent into\\nFrance, Spaine and the Streights, pipe-staves, masts, firr-boards,\\nsome pitch and tarr, pork, beif, horses and corn which they\\nsend to Virginia, Barbadoes, c., and take tobacco and sugar\\nfor payment, which they (after) send for England. There is\\ngood store of iron made in this Province. Theire way of govern-\\nment is Common-wealth-like their way of worship is rude and\\ncalled Congregational] they are zealous in it, for thev persecute\\nall other forms.\\nThe action of the Massachusetts authorities was prompt in\\narresting Corbet, who was an innkeeper at Portsmouth and had\\nbeen active in circulating the petition to the King, but revealed\\nthat he was not alone in his wish to escape from the tyranny of\\nthe elders. The next year he was arraigned before the General\\nCourt and fined \u00c2\u00a3,2.0, and costs ^\u00c2\u00a35, and put under bonds of ;i\u00c2\u00a3^iOO\\nfor his peaceable demeanor, prohibiting his irregular practices\\nby retailing Beer, Cider, Wine or Licquors, and disabling him", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "1669] UNION WITH MASSACHUSETTS. 65\\nfrom bearing any office in the town where he lives. During\\nthe year 1665, the General Court so far complied with the wishes\\nof the King, as expressed by the King s commissioners, as to vote\\na fortification at the mouth of the Piscataqua, and the people of\\nDover voted a Terrett upon the meetinghouse for to hang a\\nbell.\\nIn 1666 the Massachusetts colony received a summons from\\nKing Charles II to send as delegates four or five persons to\\nrepresent their cause before him, and explain their course towards\\nthe King s commissioners, and were forbidden to punish any\\none for petitioning or appealing to the King.\\nIn 1667 the General Court granted a township, six miles\\nsquare, above Dover, to be within the jurisdiction of Dover, to\\npay for fortifying the mouth of Piscataqua, and ordered that all dis-\\naffected persons seeking to change the form of government of\\nthe townships on the Piscataqua should be sent to Boston for\\ntrial.\\nIn 1667 the fur trade with the Indians had become so import-\\nant that the Provincial Court of Massachusetts passed an act\\nregulating it and the exclusive right of this trade upon the\\nMerrimack river was sold to Major Simon Willard for the sum\\nof jC2^. The trade on Nashua river was sold at the same time\\nfor \u00c2\u00a38 that of Penichuck brook and its tributaries was sold to\\nJoseph Burroughs for \u00c2\u00a34. Almost all the first land grants were\\nselected by eager adventurers, with a view of having within their\\nborders the greatest facilities for trapping.\\nIn 1668 the bounds of Exeter were determined, and trees\\nfit for masts were reserved as public property, and a proper\\nobservance of the Sabbath was commanded. No servile work\\nwas allowed that day, save works of piety, of charity, or of\\nnecessity. The penalty was more severe in case of prophan-\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acrs or high handed presumption. Who ever should travel!\\nupon the Lord s day, either on horse backe or on foote, or by\\nboats from or out of their owne towne to any unlawful assembly\\nor meeting not allowed by law, were declared to be pro-\\nphaners of the Sabbath, as were those who did servile work.\\nIn 1669, Portsmouth appropriated ^60 per annum for seven", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l6/6\\nyears for aid to Harvard College. The inhabitants of that\\npart of Dover, called Oyster River, petitioned the General Court\\nfor parish privileges, and that they might have a minister set-\\ntled over them. They mustered seventy soldiers.\\nIn 1670 there were sixty soldiers in Exeter, and John Gilman\\nwas commissioned lieutenant. A causeway was built across the\\nmarsh at Hampton Dover and Portsmouth seem to have been\\nraised to the dignity of a county.\\nIn 1 67 1 the custom dues on imported goods and powder,\\nraised at Portsmouth, were declared due to the colonial treasury,\\nexcept such as were imported by the inhabitants of the river\\nsettlements.\\nThe next year, 1672, the duties collected at Portsmouth, as well\\nas rates derived from the selling of beer and wine, were voted to\\nbe used in fortifying the harbor. Dunstable, including Nashua\\nand a part of Hudson, Londonderry, Litchfield, Merrimack,\\nAmherst, Milford and Hollis, was incorporated by Massachusetts\\nauthority, Oct. 15, 1673; and a tract of land for a village was\\nlaid out above Dover township to the inhabitants of Portsmouth.\\nThe soldiers of Great Island, with the soldiers of Kittery,\\nfrom Spruce Creek eastward, were detailed to garrison the fort\\non Great Island, and Richard Cutt was appointed commander-in-\\nchief of the fort and garrison.\\nIn 1674 Mr. Stoughton was appointed to hold court in Nor-\\nfolk county, and Major Thomas Clark in Dover and Portsmouth,\\nas well as in Yorkshire, in Maine.\\nIn 1675 the inhabitants of Oyster River were granted libeity\\nto choose their selectmen. A company of forty men was placed\\nunder command of Major Waldron, twenty -two of whom were\\nfrom Esse.\\\\ County. Hampton was assessed ;\u00c2\u00a328 and Exeter\\n;\u00c2\u00a3S, to defray the expenses of the war, which will be treated\\nof in another chapter.\\nIn 1676 a force of seventy men from Essex, and sixty from Mid-\\ndlesex, were sent as a reinforcement to the Piscataqua. Exeter\\nand Haverhill were declared frontier towns. Scouting parties\\nwere maintained, and a bounty was offered for scalps of Indians.\\nThe county of Dover and Portsmouth were authorized to make", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "1679] UNION WITH MASSACHUSETTS. dj\\na special rate of taxation to meet the expenses of tlie war.\\nThe refugees from the eastward were enrolled and seventy\\nsoldiers from Suffolk were sent to reinforce Piscataqua. Major-\\nGeneral Denison was appointed commander-in-chief. During\\nthe war a contest was being carried on in England of much im-\\nportance to New Hampshire, as Robert Tufton Mason, grand-\\nson of Captain John Mason, had presented his petition to the\\nKing, claiming the Province of New Hampshire as his patrimony,\\nwhile his claim was being combatted by William Stoughton\\nand Peter Bulkley, the agents of the Massachusetts colony.\\nThe hearing was had in April, 1677. Gorges, the claimant of\\nMaine, who brought his suit jointly with Mason, won his case,\\nwhen his claim was promptly bought up by the Massachusetts\\nagents. Mason s claim was not for the government but for\\nthe land, and was left open for further adjudication. Edward\\nRandolph, Mason s kinsman and agent, visited New England in\\nthe summer of 1676, and rather caustically reported on the\\nstate of affairs in the colonies to the Council of Trade No\\nadvantages, but many disadvantages, have risen to the English\\nby this warr, for about six hundred men have been slain and\\ntwelve captains, most of them stout and brave persons and of\\nloyal principles, whilst the Church members had liberty to stay\\nat home and not hazard their persons in the wilderness. So it\\nis not surprising that the next year, 1677, a more stringent\\nobservance of the Sabbath was ordered. Offenders that shall\\nany way transgress against the Laws, title Saboath, either in\\nmeeting house by abusive carriage or misbehavior, by making\\nany noyse or otherwise, or during the day shall\\nbe put into a cage in Boston, set up in the market place,\\nand in other towns where county courts shall appoint, and\\nthere remain till tried. The Indians about the Piscataqua who\\nhad submitted were held on a resei-vation at Cocheco, and were\\nforbidden to carry arms unless licensed by Major Waldron.\\nThe commission constituting a President and Council for the\\nProvince of New Hampshire passed the Great Seal of England,\\nSept. 18, 1679.\\nThe erection of New Hampshire into a royal province was", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "68 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1679\\nundoubtedly due to the claims of Mason, who could get no\\nredress from the Massachusetts courts. As events proved, he\\nfound the people of the new Province, who had enjoyed possession\\nof their lands for over half a century, as bitterly opposed to his\\nclaims and demands for rent as ever. They threw every obsta-\\ncle in his way, and he got very little satisfaction from the\\narrangement. He died a disappointed man.\\nDuring the union with Massachusetts the Congregational, or\\nrepublitan form of church government, had become firmly\\nseated in the four townships, and the people had become accus-\\ntomed to self-government, in open town meeting. From feudal\\ndependents they had become independent freemen, jealous of\\ntheir rights and impatient of an irresponsible authority. Many\\nof the more severe laws of the Bay Colony, on account of public\\nsentiment, were a dead letter in their courts. Their descend-\\nants have only to blush at the whipping of some Quaker women.\\nOn the other hand, they had submitted to strict laws, established\\nan impartial judiciary, built churches and settled learned\\northodox ministers, called in the schoolmaster and contributed\\nto the enlargement of Harvard College, and had been greatly\\nprospered in their agriculture and in their commerce. Already\\nthe foundation of large fortunes had been gathered in Ports-\\nmouth and on Great Island.\\nThey had become not only a law-abiding, but a religious com-\\nmunity, and as Church and State were closely identified in\\nthose early days, before considering the Indian wars, it may\\nbe of interest to glance at the\\nCuiRcii History.\\nTo appreciate fully the importance of the Church in early colonial history,\\nit must be remembered that it was not until nearly half a century after the\\nRevolution that Church and State were finally separated in New England.\\nOver the most of the civilized world, at that period, the Pope claimed and\\nexercised supreme authority. Northern Germany and northern Europe gen-\\nerally had followed the lead of Luther, Calvin and other reformers, and had\\nseparated from the Church of Rome. In England, commencing with Henry\\nVIII, the crown had assumed to be at the head of spiritual as well as\\ntemporal affairs, and arbitrarily dictated the creed and the forms of wor-\\nship. To escape this tyranny, the Pilgrims and Puritans, front among", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "179- UN KI.N WITH MASSACHUSETTS. 69\\nwhom came the early settlers of Hampton, Exeter and Dover, had obtained\\ntheir charter for New England. The form of government which they estab-\\nlished was a theocracy as well as a democracy, under which the Church was\\nall important. The Puritans, however, while claiming toleration for them-\\nselves, were not willing to grant toleration to others. Respect for the\\nChurch and for the ministers and for the ordinances of religion was rigidly\\nentorced, severe punishment being inflicted for the slightest departure from\\nuniformity of belief. The ministers, in one sense, were the rulers of the\\ncommunity, and as such deserve a place in the civil history of the Common-\\nwealth. Descent from one of these early magnates, to a New Englander, is\\nequivalent to a patent of nobility.\\nWhen the township of Hampton was granted for a plantation, in Septem-\\nber, 163S, some of tlie grantees were already united together by Church\\ngovernment. The original members of the Church and the first settlers of\\nthe town, generally, were Puritans. They brought a pastor with them, and\\nsoon after their arrival they selected a site and built a meeting-house. Rev.\\nStephen Batchelor, the first pastor, may be regarded as the father and founder\\nof the town. At that time he was not far from seventy-seven years old. On\\nlanding in Boston, in 1632, he joined his son-in-law, Christopher Ilussey, at\\nLynn, and later made the settlement at Hampton. In 1639, Rev. Timothy\\nDalton was associated with Mr. Batchelor, but dissensions arose and Mr.\\nBatchelor accepted a call to Exeter. In 1656, or 1657, he returned to England,\\nwhere he died at the age of one hundred years. His associate, Mr. Dalton,\\nwas six y 3 ears of age when he settled in Hampton. In 1647 he had asso-\\nciated with him Rev. John Wheelwright, formerly pastor of the church at\\nExeter, and later from Wells, who remained ten years. In 1658, Mr. Wheel-\\nwright was in England, where he met his old collegefriend, Oliver Cromwell,\\nbut on the restoration of Charles II he returned to America and was settled\\nover the church in Salisbury, where he died, the oldest pastor in New\\nEngland. Rev. Seaborn Cotton,- eldest son of Rev. John Cotton, of\\nBo^-ton, was associated with Mr. Dalton, in 165S, and on Mr. Dalton s\\ndeath, in 1660, was ordained pastor. He died suddenly in April, 1686,\\na thorough scholar and an able preacher. The town gave Mr.\\nCotton a fiirm of two hundred acres. His wife was Dorothy, daughter\\nof George Simon Bradstreet. After his father s death. Rev. John Cotton, 2d,-\\npreached occasionally, as did Rev. John Pike, who had been driven from\\nDover by Indian depredations. ?Ir. Cotton was ordained minister at Hamp-\\nton in 1696. He was beloved and respected, and died, very much lamented,\\nin 1710, very suddenly, and was succeeded by Rev. Nathaniel Gookin, who\\ncontinued as pastor until 1734- Mr. Gookin s successor was Rev. Ward\\nCotton, who continued to preach until 1765, when he was dismissed and was\\nsucceeded by Rev. Ebenezer Thayer, whose labors terminated with his life,\\nin 1792. After his death, there came a rupture between town and church, the\\nNovember, 1679.\\nBorn in 1633 (Harvard College, if.51 while bis parents were crossing the .\\\\tlantic.\\n3 Born in ilSsS, Harvard College, ih-jX. 4 .orn 1734, Harvard College, 1753.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "O HISTOKV OF NEW H AMJ 3HI 111-:. 656\\nformer calling and settling, in 1796, Rev. William Pidgin. and voting them-\\nselves Presbyterians; the latter ordaining Rev. Jesse Appleton, the same\\nyear. Mr. Appleton remained at Hampton until elected second president of\\nBowdoiii College in 1S07. He married, in iSoo, Elizabeth, daughter of Hon.\\nRobert Means of Amherst, and their daughter was the wife of President\\nFranklin Pierce. Mr. Pidgin was also dismissed in 1S07, receiving a call to\\nMinot, Maine, and afterwards dying at Portland. After this the tv.-o factions\\nbecame united, and settled, in 180S, the Congregational minister, Rev- Josiah\\nWebster, who continued with the church until his death in 1S37. He was\\nfollowed, in 1838, by Rev. Erasmus D. Eldredge; in 1S49, ^y ^^v- Solomon\\nPayson Fiiy; in 1855, by Rev. John Colby. From this account it will be\\nseen that the Congregational church of Hampton is the oldest in the State.\\nAt Exeter, after Mr. Wheelwright removed to Wells, in 1641, there was no\\nsettled minister, on account of divisions in the church, until Rev. Samuel\\nDudley, a son of Governor Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts, was settled in\\n1650. There is no record of a cliurch during his ministry, which lasted until\\nhis death, in 16S3. A church wa.-s organized and Rev. John Clark was\\nsettled in 169S. Rev. John Odlin was settled in 1706; married the widow of\\nhis predecessor, and ministered to the town until his son, Rev. Woodbridge\\nOdlin, was ordained as his father s colleague and successor in 1743. The\\nson s ministry continued thirty-two years. Rev. Isaac Mansfield was\\nordained in 1776 and dismissed in 17S7. He moved to his native town and\\nbecame a magistrate. Rev. William F. Rowland was settled in 1790 and\\ndismissed in iSjS. He was succeeded in 1S29 by Rev. John Smith in 1S3S.\\nby Rev. William Williams; in 1S43, by Rev. Joy H. Fairchild; in 1845, by\\nRev. Roswell D. Hitchcock. There was a rupture, in 1744, of the church of\\nExeter, when the second church was formed, and Rev. Daniel Rogers was\\nfirst pastor. He was a descendant of John Rogers, the martyr of Smithfield. a\\nfriend of Whitefield, a pall-bearer at his funeral, and closed his ministry and\\nlife in 17S5. He was succeeded in 1792 by Rev. Joseph Brown, a native of\\nChester, England, who remained five \\\\-ears. In 1S17, Rev. Isaac Hurd was\\nsettled and continued three years in the ministry. Rev. Asa D. Mann was\\nsettled, in 1851, as a colleague pastor.\\nRev. William Leveridge, the first minister of Dover, received the degree\\noi: A. B. from Cambridge College, England, in 1625: that of A. M. in 163c.\\nHe was an able and worthy Puritan minister, ardent, industrious, enter-\\nprising, and possessed a good deal of independence of character. He left\\nDover in 1635, from want of support, and died on Long Island in 1692. He\\nwas succeeded, in 1637, by George Burdet, 3 minister from Yarmouth,\\nEngland, restless, intriguing and ambitious, whose course has been\\nDartmouth College, 1794. Bom 1772, Dartmouth College, 1792.\\n3 Mr. Appleton died at Brunswick in iSi 4 In 1848, aged seventy-five.\\n5 Bom in Newbury, Mass., in 1670; he died in 1705.\\nBorn in Boston, i68j Harvard College, 1702 died in 1754.\\n7 Born at Marblehead, 1750: Harvard College, 1767 died in 1S26.\\n8 Burn in Plainfield, Conn., in 1761 Dartmouth College, 17S4 died in 1S4J.\\nHarvard College. 1725.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "1641J UNION WITH MASSACHUSETTS. \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Jl\\nnoted. Then came Hanserd Knollys, who landed at Boston in 163S and\\nthe same year settled and organized the first church in Dover. In\\nthe trouble with Larkham, the more ardent Puritans sustained Knolljs,\\nwho, however, in 1641, became weary of contention and left the tield,\\nreturning to his aged father in England, where he joined the Baptists, and\\nwas persecuted till he died fifty years after. Thomas Larkham was an able\\nand learned man, but as turbulent as Burdet. He favored the Episcopacy,\\nusing its liturgy in burial services. He returned to England in 1643, became\\na devotedly pious man, and died in 1669. The Puritans liaving gained the\\nascendancy in Dover, the people applied to the authorities in Boston, for a\\nminister, and Daniel Maud, a graduate of Emanuel College, Cambridge, a,\\nschoolmaster in Boston, was settled and continued to minister to the parish^\\nfrom 1642 till his death in 1655. He was succeeded by Rev. John Rayner,\\nRev. John Rayner, Jr., and Rev. John Pike, before the separation from Massa-\\nchusetts. Under the former came the trouble with the Qiiakers, the\\nexchange of a drum for a bell for calling the worshippers together, and the\\nbuilding of a meeting-house at Oyster River; under the latter came the\\nIndian troubles.\\nAmong the assets of Captain Jolin Mason, there were articles which indi-\\ncated that some attention had been paid to religion of the Established\\nform. As early as 1640, a glebe of fifty acres was deeded to the church-\\nwardens and a chapel and parsonage seem to have been built. The first\\northodox minister was Joshua Moody, who was settled in 1658. To encour-\\nage him, those who slept or took tobacco on the Lord s day during service\\nwere doomed to a cage. A church of eight members was organized in 1671.\\nAl terthe separation from Massachusetts, he got into trouble, in 16S4, with Gov-\\nernoi- Cranfield, for refusing to administer the sacrament of the Lord s Supper\\nindiscriminatingly, was imprisoned and released only on his promising to\\nleave the colony. He returned in 1693 and died in 1697. He was succeeded by\\nRev. Nathaniel Rogers, who was succeeded, in 1723, by Rev. John Fitch in\\n1746, by-Rev. James Langdon, whowns called to be presidentof Harvard Col-\\nlege in 1774; in 1779, by Rev. Joseph Buckminster in iSiJ.byRev. Israel W.\\nPutnam.\\nThere is one feature of the union of New Hamp.shire and\\nMassachusetts, the distorted construction of the Hilton Patent,\\nwhich Mr. Jenness has carefully investigated, and from his\\nvaluable pamphlet the following extracts are taken\\nHaving obtained jurisdiction over the territory about the\\nPiscataqua river, the Massachusetts General Court, in j une, 1641,\\nenacted a law defining the Hilton Patent as e.xtending from\\nthe mouth of the river at Strawberry Bank, thence around the\\nBorn in 1598, at Cawkwell, England a graduate at Cambridge, England, ordained in the Estab-\\nlisl-ed Church in 1629.\\nBorn in 1601 a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "72 }nSTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1665\\nshores of the Great Bay up the Exeter river to Squamscott Falls,\\nand three miles back into the country. The additional terri-\\ntory thus embraced was known as the Squamscott Patent.\\nThis construction was never fully carried out, but served to\\nfurnish the Bay Colony with a pretext for jurisdiction. In the\\nact of annexation, the voluntary submission of the planters\\nand patentees was not mentioned, although their course alone\\nmade annexation possible but the Massachusetts authorities\\nsagaciously resolved that the whole territory was within the\\nMassachusetts bounds.\\nHaving securely extended their jurisdiction, they had little or\\nno further interest in the river patents but difficulties and\\ninjustices of many sorts soon sprang up all over the annexed\\nterritory, which long disturbed the quiet of the new govern-\\nment. When Dover was laid out, in 1642, Bloody Point was\\nexcluded from the new township. The following year, how-\\never, the marsh and meadow and four hundred acres of upland\\non Bloody Point were annexed to Dover and in 1644 the entire\\nneck of land was joined to that township. The inhabitants of\\nStrawberry Bank and of Dover were hostile to the construc-\\ntion placed upon the Hilton or Squamscott Patent. The lower\\nplantation on the Piscataqua, after 1641, had undergone a com-\\nplete transformation, civil and religious. A party of strict\\nPuritans had, by the aid of Massachusetts, gotten possession of\\nthat plantation, and under the system of the Bay Colony were\\nenabled to perpetuate their power at their own pleasure, and to\\nallot among themselves, some eight or ten in number, nearly all\\nthe valuable common lands within their limits. According to\\na petition to the King, made in 1665 by some of the non-free-\\nmen of Portsmouth, five or six of the richest men of the\\nparish ruled, swayed, and ordered all offices, both civil and\\nmilitary, at their pleasure, and have kept us under hard servi-\\ntude, and denied us our public meeting, the common prayer\\nsacraments, and decent burial of the dead and have also\\ndenied us the benefit of freemen and have engrossed the\\ngreatest part of the lands within the limits of the plantation\\ninto their own hantls,", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "1665] UNION WITH IIASSACIILISETTS. 73\\nIn 1655 the General Court attempted a compromise, and\\nappointed a committee to settle the bounds of the Squamscott\\nPatent, and excluded all the settlements below Boiling Rock.\\nJohn and Richard Cutts, Captain Brian Peiidleton, Richard Mar-\\ntyn and Joshua Moodey, and a few others who then ruled the\\nlower plantation and were owners of the Piscataqua or Great\\nHouse Patent, accepted this line, but soon acquired by pur-\\nchat-e, for a nominal sum, nearly all the lands embraced by their\\nown claim.\\nThe only substantial advantage derived from the Massachusetts construction\\nof the Hilton Patent was taken by the Massachusetts themselves. Jurisdic-\\ntion over the Piscataqua had been obtained by the skilful use of that\\ninstrument, and once got it was firmly kept, after that instrument had dis-\\nappeared. But this usurpation, of which it was said by Judge Potter, a\\nmore unjust and tyrannical act never was perpetrated on this continent, was\\nnot destined to endure for many years. The people of the lower Piscataqua\\nwere in spirit deadly hostile to the Massachusetts Bay. Shortly after the\\nannexation, a few of the Puritan sort and faith had crept into the country,\\nand by the aid of the B.iy had seized on the offices and places of power and\\nappropriated to themselves nearly all the common lands; but the original\\nplanters grew daily more and more incensed. In 1651 the inhabitants\\nof Strawberry Bank openly rebelled and attempted to withdraw their subjec-\\ntion to the Boston government. But this outbreak was suppressed. Another\\nelTort was made to the same purpose on the arrival of the Royal Commis-\\nsioners, in 1664, though without permanent success. But in 1679, the\\nMassachusetts usurpation over the Piscataqua was terminated by the erection\\nof New Hampshire into a Royal Province.\\nThus did the last fruits of the Hilton Patent decay and perish; thus were\\nthe angry broils of forty years composed. The proprietors of the Patent\\nhad, after all, profited little or nothingAv the attempted appropriation of\\nPiscataqua lands. The Massachusetts were in the end coni ielled to disgorge\\nthe purloined jurisdiction they had so uneasily obtained and kept, and thus\\nretributive justice was at last meted out to all actors in the transaction.\\nIt was the desire of Massachusetts Bay to include the Piscataqua region\\nwithin her limits and to secure there a good neighborhood of honest men.\\nwhich led her magistrates to effect, through their friend, Captain Thomas\\nWiggin, in 1633, a purchase and transfer of the Hilton Point Patent to the\\nPuritan Lords and Gentlemen of Shrewsbury, whose successors in 1641, in\\naccordance, we suppose, with the original understanding, made a full sub-\\nmission of the Patent to Massachusetts jurisdiction. At tlie same time, in\\nfurtherance of the same general design, a statutory construction was pu*\\nupon the Patent, by which it was split into two distinct portions, and the\\nlower or .Squamscott portion was violently stretched, so as to cover the whol T\\nsouthern bank of the river from Squamscott Falls to its mouth.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 665\\nThe Hilton Patent having thus served its political and religious purpose,\\nivas never fully enforced. Large portions of its territory were granted to\\nDover, and a still larger part was letained by Strawberry Bank, and in the\\nconclusion o\u00c2\u00a3 the whole matter, the Squamscott patentees took but trifling\\nadvantages from the distorted misconstruction of their grant.\\nThe long controversy was no doubt of trifling importance, but whoever\\nwill study it attentively will see displayed such a stubborn conflict between\\npatentee and planter, such a hot contention between Royalist and Round-\\nhead, such a fierce hatred between Puritan and Churchman, and at all times\\nsuch political sagacity and vigor of thought, as make the story of the Hilton\\nPoint Patent the most instructive, if not entertaining, in the early annals of\\nNew Hampshire.\\nUntil a very recent date, the only original materials for a real history of\\nNew Hampshire during the first half century of its existence, available\\nto students, were the scanty relics of town and county records, and a\\nfew documents preserved among the archives of Massachusetts, or in\\nprivate hands, together with some casual hints and prejudiced notices of the\\nPiscataqua to be found among the historians of Plymouth and the Bay.\\nGovernors of M.\\\\ssachvsetts during the Union.\\nAt the time of the union, Richard Bellingham was governor of Massachu-\\nsetts. He was re-elected in 1654 and again in 1665, serving eight years for\\nhis last term. He died Dec. 7, 1672, aged eighty years.\\nJohn Winthrop, a former governor, was re-elected in 164J, 1^43. 1646\\n1647 and 164S. He died Match 26, 1649, aged sixty-one years.\\nJohn Endicott was elected governor in 1644, 1649, 1651, 1652, 1653 and\\nevery 3 ear for ten years from 1655. He died March 15, 1665, aged seventy-\\nsix years.\\nThomas Dudley was elected governor in 1645, and was re-elected in iCi^o.\\nHe died July 13, 1653, aged seventy-seven years.\\nJohn Leverett was elected governor in 1673 and served six years. He died\\nMarch 16, 1679.\\nSimon Bradstreet, elected governor in 1679, served until 1685. He was\\nagain elected in 16S9 and served three years. He died March 27, 1697, aged\\n94 years.\\nDuring the union with Massachusetts, Hampton was represented at the\\nGeneral Court at Boston by Lieutenant William Hayward,* William English,\\nWilliam Estow,* JeofTrey Mingay, Roger Shaw, Mr. Anthony Stanyon,*\\nHenry Dow, Mr. Robert Page, Lieutenant Christopher Hussey, Mr. William\\nFuller, Mr. Samuel Dalton,* Captain William Gerrish, Mr. Thomas Mai ston,\\nMr. Joshua Gilman.\\nThe magistrates of the town, aside from the representatives, were William\\nWakefield, John Cross, and James Davis.\\nMagistrates.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "GOVERNOR WINTHROP.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "76 IlISTOKV OI NEW IIA.MPSHIHE. [1679\\nStrawberry Bank, or Portsmouth, was represented at tlie General Court\\nby Mr. James Parker, Mr. Stephen Winthrop, Mr. Brian Pendleton,* Mr.\\nHenry Sherburne,* Mr. Nathaniel Fryer.* Mr. Elias Stileman.* Captain\\nRichard Cutt,* Mr. Rich. Martyn,* John Cutt. of whom Brian Pendleton and\\nRichard Cutt were longest in service.\\nThe magistrates of the town, during the union aside from the representa-\\ntives, were Francis Williams, Thomas Warnerton, Ambrose Gibbons, Renald\\nFernald and Thomas Daniell.\\nDovci- was represented at the General Court by Edward Starbuck. Mr.\\nWilliam Hilton,* Caplain Thomas Wiggin,* William Heath. William Wal-\\ndron.* William Furbur, Lieutenant John Baker, Mr. Valentine Hill,* Major\\nRichard Waldron,* Lieutenant Richard Cooke, Lieutenant Peter Coffin,\\nAnthony Nutter. Aside from these, the magistrates were Edward Hilton,\\nWilliam Waldron, George Smith, William Pomfret, John Hale, Thomas\\nClarke and Edward Colcord. Richard Waldron, first elected in 1654, was\\nre-elected twenty-three consecutive times, twenty-five times in all, being in\\ncommand of a force during the King Philip war in I676. In 1679 he was\\nelected from Kittery. Durini; eight sessions he was chosen speaker.\\nExeter sent no representative. Robert Smith and John Legatt were\\nmagistrates.\\nMagistrates.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nKING PHILIP S WAR, 1675-1678.\\nLong Peace Character of Indians Edward Randolph French\\nDutch New York Mohawks Causes of War Indian Vices\\nSachem Philip Mount Hope Rum Indian Shortcomings Lic-\\nensing the Sale op Arms Loss to the Colonies Loss to the\\nIndians Philip s Straits Terms of Peace French Estimate of\\nIndian Character Kindness to Qi^iakers Injustice to Indians\\nIndian Youth anxious for War Sc^jando Insultto SquAW\\nAttitude of Penacooks and Cochecos Praying Indians Their\\nLoss Murder of their Old People Indian Depredations in\\nNew Hampshire Peace Death of Philip Simon, Andrew, and\\nPeter War in Maine Treachery at Major Waldron s Garrison\\nExpedition to Ossipee Mohawks warring on Friendly Indians\\nDefeat at Black Point Major Andros and Peace Independence\\nOF THE Colonists St. Castine.\\nOOON after the juristliction of Massachusetts was cxtcncled\\nover New Hampshire and the coast of western Maine, a\\ncombination had been effected between the New England c il()n-\\nies for offensive and defensive purposes. According to its\\nprovisions, the quota of men and money required from eacli\\nof the members of the combination was strictly determined in\\ncase of war and it had all the advantages of a .centralized,\\nalthough a republican, government. It made possible the defeat\\nand extermination of Philip and his followers.\\nThe colonists had been settled along the shores of New England\\nfor half a century before there was any general trouble with the\\nnatives. With the exxeption of the Pequod war, in which that\\ntribe was practically exterminated, there had been a profound\\npeace, the Indians in their contact with the white men even", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "78\\nlUSTOKV OK NEW llAMf SIl IKE.\\n[1675\\nsubmitting to the coloni:al laws. They were held accountable\\nfor crimes the same as the settlers, and even the hanging of an\\noffending Indian, if done legally, did not provoke hostility\\nbetween the races. We have been accustomed to take the\\nMassachusetts view of the trouble which so exasperated the\\n--Jf^\\nITING THE SETTLERS\\nIndians that a general war was waged all along the New England\\ncoast. Supposing the reader familiar with the often told story\\nof the bravery of their ancestors, and the treachery and cruelty\\nof their savage foes, a view of the other side may be of interest.\\nPhysically the American Indian is asplendi l type of manhood.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "1775] KING Philip s wak. 79\\nAs he was found by the first comers, he was honest, honorable,\\nand hospitable. He welcomed the newcomers as neighbors and\\nsurrendered to them for a paltry consideration his most valuable\\nlands and privileges.\\nThe settlers did not treat them fairly. They were children\\nof the forest and should have been treated as children or wards.\\nThe land was theirs by every human law and their rights should\\nhave been protected and guarded. Under a proper cultivation, a\\nvery small part of their territory would have amply sufficed for\\ntheir maintenance and would have been as valuable as the vast\\narea which they did not use and needed only for the wild game.\\nFor fifty years they had lived beside the settlers as friends.\\nEdward Randolph came to New England in 1676, and from\\nhis report to the Council of Trade a few extracts ma) show the\\nview taken of the war by an unprejudiced Englishman.\\nThe French have lield a civil con-espondence with the inhabitants of\\nHampshire, Maine and the Duke s Province, althougli llie government of\\nBoston, upon all occasions, is imposing upon the French and encouraging\\nan interloping trade, which causeth jealousies and fears in the inhabitants\\nbordering upon Acadie, that the French will some time or other suddenly\\nfall upon them, to the breach of the national peace.- The government of the\\nMassachusetts hath a perfect hatred for the French, because of their too near\\nneighborhood and loss of their trade, and look upon them with an evil eye,\\nbelieving they had a hand in the late war with the Indians.\\nFor the government of theMassachusetts loves no government that is not like\\ntheir owne, and therefore they were more kind and friendly to the Dutch (even\\nin time of warr) when they were possessed of New York, than they are to their\\ncountrymen, the English.\\nHowever, the governor of New York hath proved very friendly and\\nserviceable to the Massachusetts in this warr, and had the magistrates of\\nBoston either conferred with or hearkened to the advice of Colonel Andross,\\nthe Indian warr had either been diverted or proved less destructive, for he\\noffered and would have engaged the Mohawks and Maquot Indians to have\\nfallen upon the .Sachem Phillip and his confederates but his friendship,\\nadvice and offers were slighted.\\nNevertheless, Colonel Andross, out of his duty to his Majestie kept the\\naforesaid Indians from taking any part with the Sachem Phillip.\\nVarious are the reports and conjectures of the causes of the late Indian\\nwars. Some impute it to an an imprudent zeal the magistrates of Boston\\nto Christianize those heathens, be bre they were civilized, and enjoining\\nthem to the strict observation of their laws, which, to people soe rude and\\nX. H. p. p., vol. ;,p. 441.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "80 IlLSTORV OF NEW HAMI SHIKE. [^775\\nlicentious hath proved even intolerable; and that the more, for while the\\nmagistrates, for Iheir profit, severely putt the laws in execution against the\\nIndians, the people on the other side, for lucre and gain, intice and provoke\\nthe Indians to the breach thereof, especially to drunkenness, to which these\\npeople are so generally addicted, that they will strip themselves to the skin\\nto have their fill of rum and brandy.\\nThe Massachusetts government having made a law that every Indian being\\ndrunk should pay ten shillings or be whipped, according to the discretion of\\nthe magistrate, many of these poor people willingly offered their backs to\\nthe lash, to save their money. Upon the magistrate finding much trouble\\nand no profit to arise to the government by whipping, did change that pun-\\nishment of the whip into a ten days work, for such as would not or could\\nnot pay the fine of tenn shillings; which did highly incense the Indians.\\nijome believe that there have been vagrant and Jesuitical priests, who have\\nmade it their business and design for some years past to go from sachem to\\nsachem, to exasperate the Indians against the English and to bring them\\ninto a confederacy, and that tliey were promised supplies from France and\\nother parts, to extirpate the English nation out of the continent of America.\\nOthers impute the cause to arise from some injuries offered to the .Sachem\\nPhillip, for he being possessed of a tract of land called Mount Hope, a very\\nfertile, pleasant and rich soil, some English had a mind to dispossess him\\nthereof, who, never wanting some pretence or other to attain their ends,\\ncomplained of injuries done by Piiillip and his Indians to their stocks and\\ncattle. Whereupon tlie Sachem Phillip was often summoned to appear\\nbefore the magistrates, sometimes imprisoned, and never released but upon\\nparting with a considerable part of his lands.\\nBut the government of the Massachusetts (to give it in their own words)\\ndoe declare these are the great and provoking evils which God hath given the\\nbarbarous heathen commission to rise against them\\nThe woful breach of the fifth commandment, in contempt of theirauthority,\\nwhich is a sinn highly provoking to the Lord.\\nFor men wearing long hair and perriwigs made of women s hair.\\nFor women wearing borders of hair and for cutting, curlingand laying out\\ntheir hair and disguising themselves by following strange fashions in their\\napparel.\\nFor prophaneness of the people in not frequenting their meetings, and\\nothers going away before the blessing is pronounced.\\nFor suffering the Qiiakers to dwell among them, and to sett up their\\nthresholds by God s thresholds, contrary to their old laws and resolutions,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with many such reasons.\\nBut whatever was the cause, the English have contributed very much to\\ntheir misfortunes, for they first taught the Indians the use of arms and\\nadmitted them to be present at all their musters and trainings, and showed\\nthem how to handle, mend and fix their musquets, and have been constantly\\nfurnished with all sorts of arms by permission of the government, soe that\\nthe Indians are become excellent fire-men, and at Natick, a town not far", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "1/75] i^i-^fi riiii.ip s WAR. 8i\\ndistant from Boston, there was gathered a church of praving Indians who\\nwere exercised as trained bands, under officers of their own. These have\\nbeen the most barbarous and cruel enemies to the English above an v otiier\\nIndians, Captain Tom, their leader, being l.ntely taken and hanged at\\nBoston, with one other of their chiefs.\\nThat notwithstanding the ancient law of the country, made in 1633, that\\nno persons should sell anv arms or ammunition to any Indian yet\\nthe government of the Massachusetts, in the year 1657 (upon design to\\nmonopolize the whole Indian trade to themselves), did publish and declare\\nthat the trade of furs and peltry with the Indians, within that jurisdiction,\\ndid solely and properly belong to their commonwealth, and not to everv\\nindifferent person and did enact that no person should trade with the\\nIndians for any sort Of peltry, except such as were authorized by that Court\\ngiving liberty to all such as should have license from them to sell unto\\nany Indians, guns, swords, powder and shot, paying, etc. By which\\nmeans the Indians have been abundantly furnished w-ith great store of arms and\\nammunition, to the utter ruin and undoing of many families in the neigh-\\nboring colonies, for to enrich some few of their relations and church\\nmembers.\\nNo advantages, but many di.sadvantages, have arisen to the English by the\\nwarr, lor about six hundred men have been slain and twelve captains, most\\nof them stout and brave persons and of loyal principles, whilst the church\\nmembers had liberty to stay at home and not hazard their persons in the\\nwilderness.\\nThe loss to the English in the several colonies, in their habitations and\\nstock, is reckoned to amount unto one hundred and fifty thousand pounds\\nthere having been about twelve hundred houses burnt, eight thousand head of\\ncattle, great and small, killed, and many bushels of wheat, pease and other\\ngrain burnt (of which the Massachusetts colony hath not been damnified one\\nthird part, the great loss falling upon New Plymouth and Connecticut\\ncoloniesi, and upward of three thousand Indians, men, women and children,\\ndestroyed, who. if well managed, would have been very serviceable to the\\nEnglish: which makes all manner of labor dear.\\nThe warr, at present, is near ending, for Sachem Phillip, not being able to\\nsupport his party or confederates, hath left them to make the best terms they\\ncan: he himself sculking in the woods with a small party of two or three\\nhundred men, being in despair of making his peace.\\nIn Plymouth colony the Indians surrender themselves to Governor Wins-\\nlow upon mercy, and bring in all their arras, and are wholly at his disposal,\\nexcepting life and transportation but for all such as have been notoriously\\ncruel to women and children, soe soon as discovered, they are to be executed in\\nthe sight of their fellow Indians.\\nThe government of Boston have concluded a peace upon these terms\\nI. That there be from henceforward a firm peace between the English and\\nIndians.\\n3. That after the publication of the articles of peace by the General Court,", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 IIISTOKV OK NEW HAMPSHIRE. 775\\nif any English sliall willfully kill an Indian, upon due proof lie shall die for\\nthe fact; and if an Indian kill an Englishman and escapeth, the Indians are\\nto produce him, and he to pass tryal bj the English laws.\\n3. That the Indians shall not conceal or entertain any known enemies to\\nthe English, but shall discover them and bring them to the English.\\n4. That upon all occasions the Indians are to aid and assist the English\\nagainst their enemies, and to be under English command.\\n5. That all Indians have liberty to sit downe at theirformer habitations\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0without any lett or interruption.\\nBy this report it will be seen that the English lost six hundred\\nmen the Indians, three thousand men, tuonien and children.\\nMens, du Bratz says of the Indians There needs nothing\\nbut prudence and good sense to persuade these people to what\\nis reasonable and to preserve their friendship without interrup-\\ntion. We may safely affirm, that the differences we have had\\nwith them have been more owing to the French than to them.\\nWhen they are treated violently or oppressively, they have no\\nless sensibility of injuries than others. They are said to have\\nbeen cruel. So have been all races and nations, rude or civilized,\\nfrom the Persians, Romans, Carthaginia hs, to the modern Euro-\\npean people. The English have always been cruel. There\\nare cruel laws on the statute books of New Hampshire to-day.\\nIf they were treacherous, so were their foes. A Quaker would\\ntrust them, it seems, rather than the tender mercies of the Mas-\\nsachusetts magistrates, who bored his tongue, lopped off his ears,\\nand put him to death.\\nIt is said that Philip was forced on by the fury of his young-\\nmen, sorely against his own judgment and that of his chief\\ncounsellors and that as he foresaw that the English would, in\\ntime, establish themselves and extirpate the Indians, so he\\nthought that the making war upon them would only hasten the\\ndestruction of his own people. The inhabitants of Bristol show\\na particular spot where Philip received the news of the first\\nEnglishman that was killed with so much sorrow as to cause\\nhim to weep a few days before he had rescued one who had\\nbeen taken captive by his Indians and privately sent him home.\\nThere dwelt near the river Saco, a sachem named Squando,\\najjerson of the highest dignity, importance and influence among", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": ".1675] Kixii i im.n s WAK. S3\\nall the eastern Imlians. His squaw, passing along the river in\\na canoe, with her infant child, was met by some rude sailors,\\nwho, having heard that the Indian children could swim as natu-\\nrally as the young of the brute kind, in a thoughtless and un-\\nguarded humor overset the canoe. The child sunk and the\\nmother instantly diving fetched it up alive, but the child dying\\nsoon after, its death was imputed to the treatment it had received\\nfrom the seaman and Squando was so provoked that he con-\\nceived a bitter antipathy to the English and employed his great\\nart and influence to excite the Indians against them.^\\nThe first alarm of the war in the Plymouth colony spread\\ngreat consternation among the distant Indians and held them a\\nwhile in suspense what part to act. Quarrels and misunder-\\nstandings soon drew the Eastern Indians into the contest.^\\nIn this first war it is uncertain just what part the native New\\nHampshire Indians took. In 1660, Passaconaway, the chief of\\nthe Penacooks, to whom all the New Hampshire Indians were\\nin subjection, had relinquished all authority over his tribe to his\\nson Wannalancet. Numphow, who was married to one of Pas-\\nsaconaway s daughters, was the chief for some years of the vil-\\nlage at Pawtucket Falls. In 1669, Wannalancet, in dread of the\\nMohawks, went down the river with his whole tribe, and located\\nat Waaiasit, and built a fortification on Fort Hill, in Belvidere,\\nwhich was surrounded with palisades. The white settlers in the\\nvicinity, catching the alarm, took refuge in garrison houses. In\\n1674 there ware at Wamesit fifteen families, or seventy-five souls,\\nenumerated as Christian Indians, aside from about two hundred\\nwho adhered to their primitive faith in the Great Spirit. Nump-\\nhow was their magistrate as well as chief. The log meeting\\nhouse presided over by the Indian preacher, Samuel, stood near\\nthe Eliot church in Lowell. In May of each year came Eliot\\nand Gookin the former to give spiritual advice, the latter to\\nact as umpire or judge, having jurisdiction of higher offences\\nand directing all matters affecting the interests of the village.\\nWannalancet held his court as sachem in a log cabin near\\nPawtucket Falls. At the breaking out of King Philip s War,", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "84 IIISTOKV OF NEW IIAMPSHIKE. [l^/S\\nhe, with the local Indians, are said to have remained faithful to\\nthe counsels of Passaconaway to be friends with the English, and\\neither took sides with the colonists or remained neutral. Be-\\ntween the two parties they suffered severely. Some were put\\nto death by Philip, for exposing his designs; some wer^put to\\ndeath by the colonists, as Philip s accomplices some fell in\\nbattle, fighting for the whites some were slain by the settlers,\\nwho mistrusted alike praying and hostile Indians. During the\\nfollowing year, 1676, the able-bodied Indians of Wamesit and\\nPawtucket withdrew to Canada, to be out of the contest, leaving\\na few of their helpless and infirm old people at the mercy\\nof their neighbors. When the Indians returned, after peace had\\nbeen declared, their old people and dependents were no more,\\nhaving been wantonly murdered, and their lands confiscated.\\nAfter a while, having been located on an island in the river,\\nthey had parted with their last acre, and in after years took\\nrefuge with the St. Francis tribe on the St. Lawrence.\\nSquando, possibly, was the chief who directed the attack on\\ntlie New Hampshire settlements. The war raged mainly to the\\neastward and to the westward, the trouble in New Hampshire\\nbeing caused by one or more small companies of mischievous\\nIndians. In September they burned two houses at Oyster\\nRiver, killed two men in a canoe and carried away two captives,\\nboth of whom soon after made their escape. About the same\\ntime a party of four laid in ambush near the road between\\nExeter and Hampton, and killed Goodman Robinson. His son,\\nwho was with him, escaped into the swamp, and reached Hamp-\\nton about midnight. They took another captive, who escaped\\nby the help of an Indian. A few days later they made an\\nassault on a house in Newichawannock and captured two children.\\nThe two following days they made several appearances on both\\nsides of the river, using much insolence, and burning two houses\\nand three barns, with a large quantity of grain. Five or six\\nhouses were burned at Oyster River and two more men were\\nkilled. A scouting party from Dover, of twenty young men^\\ncame upon a party of five Indians near a deserted house, two of\\nwhom the) captured, tne others escaping. All the plantations", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "16/5]\\nUIN G PIIII.IP S WAK.\\n85\\n:it Piscutaqua were now filled with fear and confusion. Business\\nwas suspended, and every man was obliged to provide for his\\nown and his family s safety. They took up their quarters in\\nthe garrison houses and were on guard night and day, siil^ject\\nto continual alarms.^\\nGARRISON HOUSE, BUILT ABOUT 1645.\\nIn October, a day of fasting and prayer was observed. Soon\\nafter, an old man named Beard was killed at Oyster River. A\\nparty of Indians threatened Portsmouth from the Maine side,\\nbut a pursuing party compelled them to abandon their jwcks\\nand plunder. They soon after did more mischief at Dover and\\nLamprey River, and killed one or two men at Kxeter. The\\nMassachusetts government planned an attack, late in the fall,\\nupon the Indian settlement at Ossipee or Pigwacket, but it was\\nnot carried out on account of the deep snow and the severity of\\nthe weather.\\nThese Indians, during the winter, were pinched with famine,\\nand having lost about ninety of their number, bv war and want\\nof food, sued for peace. They came to Major Waldron, expres.sed", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "86\\nHISTUKV OF NEW HAMPSHIKE.\\n;i676\\ngreat sorrow for what had been done and promised to be quiet\\nand submissive. By his mediation, a peace was concluded with\\nthe whole body of eastern Indians, which continued until\\nAugust, 1676. The restoration of the captives made the peace\\nmore pleasant.\\nTREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN THE INDIANS AND THE SETTLERS.\\nThe affairs of Phili]i, who renewed hostilities in the spring,\\nbecame more and more desperate. Many of liis allies and\\ndependents forsook him, and he was slain in August. The\\nwestern Indians who had been engaged in the war, now fearing\\ntotal extirpation, endeavored to conceal themselves among their\\nbrethren 01 Penacook who had not jomcd in the war, and with\\nthose of Ossipee and Pigwacket who had made peace. Several\\nof them were taken at different times and delivered up to public\\nexecution. Three of them, Simon, Andrew and Peter, who had\\nbeen concerned in killing Thomas Kimball of Bradford, and\\nDelknap.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "1676]\\nKING PHILU^\\n^7\\ntaking his famil) captive, restored the woman and the children.\\nIt being doubted whether this act of submission was sufficient\\natonement, they were committed to Dover prison for trial.\\nFearing the result of the trial, they escaped and joined the\\nIndians of the Kennebec and Androscoggin, who renewed hos-\\ntilities in August, and later they were active in distressing the\\npeople on the Piscataqua.\\nDEATH OF KING PHIUP.\\nThis renewal of hostilities in 1676 occasioned the sending of\\ntwo companies to the eastward, under Captains Joseph Syll and\\nWilliam Hathorne. In the course of their march they came to\\nCocheco early in September, where four hundred mixed\\nIndians were met at the house of Major Waldron, with whom\\nthey had made peace and whom they considered as their friend\\nand father. The two captains would have fallen upon them at\\nonce, having it in their orders to seize all Indians who had been\\nconcerned in the war. The major dissuaded them from that\\npurpose, and contrived the following stratagem or treach-\\nBelknap.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 HISIUKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1676\\nery, which led to untold horrors in years to come. He pro-\\nposed to the Indian.s to have a training the ne.\\\\t day, and a sham\\nfight, after the English mode and summoning his own men,\\nwith those under Captain Frost of Kittery, they, in conjunction\\nwith the two companies, formed one party, and the Indians\\nanother. Having diverted them for a while in this manner,\\nand caused the Indians to fire the first volley, by a peculiar\\ndexterity the whole body of them (except two or three) were\\nsurrounded before they could form a suspicion of what was\\nintended. They were immediately seized and disarmed, without\\nthe loss of a man on either side. A separation was then made.\\nWannalancet, with the Penacook Indians and others who had\\njoined in making peace the winter before, were peaceably dis-\\nmissed but the strange Indians (as they were called), wht) had\\nfled from the southward and taken refuge among them, were\\nmade prisoners, to the number of two hundred, and being sent\\nto Boston, seven or eight of them, who were known to have\\nkilled any Englishmen, were condemned and hanged. The rest\\nwere sold into slavery in foreign parts. This action was\\nhighly applauded by the voice of the colony.\\nThe remaining Indians, however, looked upon the conduct of\\nMajor Waldron as a breach of faith, inasmuch as they had taken\\nthose fugitive Indians under their protection and had made\\npeace with him.\\nA breach of hospitality and friendship, as the)- deemed this\\nto be, merited, according to their principles, a se\\\\ ere revenge,\\nand was never forgotten or forgiven. The major s situation on\\nthis occasion was, indeed, e.\\\\tremely critical, and he could not\\nhave acted either way without blame. It is said that his own\\njudgment was against any forcible measure, as he knew that\\nmany of those Indians were true friends of the colon)-.\\nLate in the fall an expedition was undertaken to Ossipee to\\ndestroy the Indian fort at that point, but they returned without\\nmeeting a hostile Indian. A peace was brought about in Nov-\\nember, through Mogg, a Penobscot Indian, with the Penobscot\\nand Eastern tribes, and several captives were returned. A fear\\nBelknap.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "1677] K]NG Philip s wak. 89\\nthat the Indians diil not make the peace in good faith led to an\\nexpedition under ]\\\\Iajor W akiron in February, 1676-7, as far\\neast as Pemaquid. The company started, a day of prayer\\nhaving been previously appointed for the success of the enter,\\nprise, and again Major Waldron was charged with treachery,\\ninasmuch as the company returned after having killed thirteen\\nIndians in time of peace. Hostilities again commenced in 1677.\\nTwo envoys from Massachusetts visited the warlike Mohawks\\nan I secured their alliance to punish the eastern Indians. About\\nthj middle of March the Mohawks made their appearance at\\nAmoskeag Falls, when they fired upon a son of Wannalancet.\\nPresently after this they were discovered in the woods near\\nCocheco. Major Waldron sent out eight of his Indians, whereof\\nBlind Will was one, for further information. They were all\\nsurprised together by a company of Mohawks, two or three\\nescaped, the others were either killed or taken. Blind Will,\\nwho was a chief of much influence, was killed. Two who were\\ntaken with him, and escaped, reported that the mission of the\\nMohawks was to kill all the Indians in these parts without\\nilistinction. As the attacks of the Mohawks happened to be\\nalways on the friendly and unarmed Indians, they became\\nestranged from the English and took refuge with the French in\\nCanada. From friends many of the Cocheco tribe became cruel\\nenemies. Nor did the Mohawks inspire the hostile Indians of\\nMaine with terror; they commenced hostilities early in the\\nspring. The three Indians, Simon, Andrew, and Peter, before\\nmentioned, killed John Keniston in Greenland. In May si.v\\nfriendly Indians were surprised near Portsmouth by a party led\\nby Simon. In June, four men of Hampton were killed. An\\ne.vpeditioii of two hundred Natick Indians and forty soldiers,\\nunder Captain Benjamin Swett of Hampton, started on an expe-\\ndition to the Kennebec, but at Black Point, at the mouth of the\\nScarborough river, were decoyed into a general engagement\\nwith the Indians, and lost sixty of their number, including the\\ncaptain, before they could retreat into the fort. The victorious\\nsavages then surprised about twenty fishing vessels, at anchor\\nalong the coast, their crews falling an easy prey. All through", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "90\\nHISTOKV OK NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n1678\\nthe summer, the Indians continued their depredations and kept\\nthe settlers along the eastern coast in constant alarm, while the\\nwar greatly reduced their number.\\nTHE CONFLICT.\\nIn August, Major Andros, governor of- New York, took pos-\\nsession of the district of Maine, which had been granted to the\\nDuke of York, fortified Pemaquid, and concluded a treaty of\\npeace with the Indians, who returned their prisoners and the\\ncaptured fishing vessels.\\nIn the spring of 1678, commissioners were appointed to settle\\na formal treaty of peace with Squando, which was made at\\nCasco, when the remaining captives were returned to their\\nfriends.\\nThus ended a war of three ye.irs duration. The Massachu-\\nsetts government carried it on without appealing to the King\\nfor assistance, and took upon themselves all the expense.\\nThrough it all they conducted themselves as an independent\\nState. Contemporary authority states that the Indians were", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "\\\\6~S\\\\ Kim; i liii.ir s vvak. ql\\nsu|i[)lied with arms ami amnninition by the Baron de St. Castine,\\nwho occupied a plantation on the east side of Penobscot Bay,\\nwhere the town of Castine is situated, but this was never cor-\\nroborated. The settlers themselves hatl furnished the Indians\\nenough ammunition for the campaign.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nR O YAL PRO] INCE, 1 680 1 692.\\nCondition of Affairs John Cutt Council Assembly Laws\\nCapital Offences Penal Offences Grants Confirmeu Ran-\\ndolph Barefoote Mason Richard Waluron Tax-Payers in\\nNew Hampshire Cranfield Edward Gove s Rebellion Law-\\nsiiTs Appeal TO King Riots Joshua Moodey Dudley An-\\nDRos Revolution Union with Massachusetts King William s\\nWar.\\nI HE people of the four towns of New Hampshire were\\nincorporated as a Royal Province without being consulted\\nas to their wishes. They had become accustomed to the laws\\nenacted by the Bay Colony, and their deputies had assisted\\nin framing them. They enjoyed many privileges under the\\nrepublican government which had been over them, which they\\ncould foresee were to be abridged and they knew that the new\\ngovernment was imposed upon them to help Mason perfect bis\\nclaim to the Province. During the union, the Massachusetts\\nsettlements had spread out over the State across the Connec-\\nticut river while the four New Hampshire towns, save for the\\nnatural increase within their borders, remained iti statu quo,\\nfrom the fact that there was no competent authority to grant\\ntownships or lands. They had become attached to their homes\\nand farms, their hills and valleys, with a patriotism natural to\\nthe Saxon race, had defended their possessions from savage\\nIndians, and were united and determined to hold them against\\nany claimants. They made no claim to the wild lands, but\\ndemanded peaceful possession of what they had reclaimed from\\nthe wilderness, had occupied over half a century, and had\\ndefended with their best blood.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "l68o] KOVAI, PROVINCE. 93\\nWhen the loui- towns of I ortsniouth, Dover, Exeter and\\nHampton were taken from the jurisdiction of Massachusetts,\\nand elevated to the ambitions condition of a Royal Province, they\\nincluded within their bounds two hundred and nine qualified\\nvoters less than are now registered in many of the smaller\\ntowns of the State and they would be now entitled to only\\ntwo representatives in our present Legislature. Their export\\ntrade consisted of masts, planks, boards, staves and other lumber,\\nof great bulk and little value. The fishing business had sought\\nother ports. There was not enough grain raised for home con-\\nsumption, and the people were slowly recovering from their losses\\nincurred by the disastrous Indian conflict, in which houses and\\nbarns had been burned, stock killed, fields laid waste, and many\\nof the most promising of the rising generation had fallen victims\\nto the fatal tomahawk and scalping knife. Taxes, under the\\ncircumstances, were very burdensome.\\nThere was a fort, for the protection of the harbor, erected on\\nGreat Island during the Dutch war of 1665, which mounted\\neleven six pounders. There was also a battery of five guns at\\nPortsmouth for the defence of the town against Indians.\\nThe records of the port for the year 1680 show that twenty-\\ntwo ships, twenty barks and brigs, and five smaller vessels\\nentered the harbor, mostly unladen, and seeking a load of\\nlumber.\\nFor a number of years the inhabitants had been accustomed\\nto the confinement and inconvenience of garrison life, and at\\nthe first indication of danger would hasten to the protection of\\na neighboring block-house. Arms were kept in readiness at all\\ntimes for instant use, and were generally carried on all occa-\\nsions, in the field, at church, at town meeting and at all social\\ngatherings.\\nThe commission constituting a president and council for the\\nProvince of New Hampshire was issued by Charles II, and\\npassed the Great Seal, Sept. 18, 1679, and went into effect\\nJan. 21, 1680. The jurisdiction of Massachusetts was declared\\nillegal, and John Cutt of Portsmouth was named the first presi-\\ndent. With liini, as a council, were associated Richard Martin,", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "94 HISTOKV OF XKW HAMPSHIRE. 1 680\\nWilliam Vaughan and Thomas Daniel of Portsmouth, John\\nGilman of Exeter, Christopher Hussey of Hampton and Rich-\\nard Waldron of Dover. In accordance with the commission\\nfrom the King, they chose to join them in the council Elias\\nStileman of Great Island, who had been a clerk of the county\\ncourt, and whom they appointed secretary Samuel Dalton of\\nHampton, and Job Clements of Dover. The president nomi-\\nnated Waldron as deputy or vice-president, Richard Martin\\nwas appointed treasurer, and John Roberts marshal.\\nThe administration included the leading men in the four\\ntownships. The president was one of three brothers, John,\\nRobert, and Richard Cutt, from Wales, who settled on the\\nPiscataqua before 1646. Richard at first carried on the fish-\\neries at the Isles of Shoals, and was afterward in command of\\nthe fort on Great Island. He died in Portsmouth in 1670.\\nRobert Cutt located at Great Island, and afterwards at Kittery,\\nwhere he carried on ship building. President John Cutt settled\\nat Strawberry Bank, where he acquired much wealth from mer-\\ncantile pursuits, but was aged and infirm when appointed to\\noffice. He was of acknowledged probity, and held in high\\nesteem in Portsmouth. His daughter, Hannah, married Colonel\\nRichard Waldron, son of Major Richard Waldron of Dover.\\nHis widow, Ursula Cutt, was killed by the Indians, in the\\nsummer of 1694, at The Pulpit, a few miles up the Piscata-\\nqua. President Cutt died in March, 168 1. The Cutt brothers\\nwere the largest landowners in Portsmouth in their generation.\\nOf the council, Richard Martin was a man of good character\\nand great influence, and had been very active in procuring the\\nsettlement of a minister in the town. He died thirteen years\\nlater.\\nWilliam Vaughan was a wealthy merchant, generous and\\npublic spirited, and of undaunted resolution. He was of Welsh\\ne.\\\\traction, but had been bred in London. He died in 17 19.\\nThomas Daniel was a person of much note and importance\\nHe died three years after he was appointed to office.\\nJohn Gilman was a leading and influential man in Exeter,\\nand the ancestor of many men of note in Province and State\\nHe died in July, 1708, at the age of eighty-four years.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "l68o] ROYAL PRONIN CE. 95\\nChristoiiher Hussey was a principal man in Hampton. He\\ndied four years later, at the age of seventy-five years.\\nMajor Richard Waldron of Dover, was a native of Somerset-\\nshire, and one of the early settlers on the river. He had been\\nespecially prominent in military affairs, a justice in the Court of\\nAssociates, and many years a member of the Massachusetts\\nGeneral Court. According to Brewster, the Rambler of\\nPortsmouth, his son was elected to the council tlie following\\nyear, and succeeded Cutt as president. Belknap and Farmer\\nstate that it was the father who succeeded Cutt.\\nThe commission was brought to Portsmouth by Edward Ran-\\ndolph, whose caustic report of the causes and results of King\\nPhilip s war were noted in the preceding chapter, but three\\nweeks elapsed before it was published. Dr. Belknap is of the\\nopinion that the council accepted their offices with reluctance,\\nand onlv to prevent others from being appointed whose aims\\nmight not be to the best interests of the commonwealth.\\nThis change of government gratified the discontented few,\\nbut was greatly disrelished by the people in general, as they\\nsaw themselves deprived of the privilege of choosing their own\\nrulers, which was still enjoyed by the other colonies of New\\nEngland, and as they expected an invasion of their property\\nsoon to follow. When writs were issued for calling a General\\nAssembly, the persons in each town who were judged qualified to\\nvote were named in the writs, and the oath of allegiance was\\nadministered to each voter. A public fast was observed, to ask\\ndivine blessing on the approaching Assembly, which met at\\nPortsmouth about the middle of March, and was opened with\\nprayer and a sermon by Rev. Joshua Moodey.\\nPortsmouth, with seventy-one cjualined voters, sent as depu-\\nties Robert Elliot, Philip Lewis and John Pickering Dover,\\nwith sixty-one voters, sent Peter Coffin, Anthony Nutter and\\nRichard Waldron, Jr. Hampton, with fifty-seven voters, sent\\nAnthony Stanyan, Thomas Marston and Edward Gove and\\nExeter, with twent) voters, sent Bartholomew Tippen and\\nRalph Hall.\\nTheir first act was to acknowledge the royal favor of the", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "g6 msTnuv oi new hami shike. [i6So\\ncommission creating a distinct government their next, to\\naddress the authorities of Massachusetts, excusing their acts of\\nindependence and then they proceeded to frame a series of\\nlaws for their future governnient. They discovered sixteen\\ncrimes worthv of capital punishment, and twenty-one penal\\noffences. Among the former were idolatry, blasphemy, treason,\\nrebellion, murder, witchcraft, perjury, man-stealing, cursing\\nparents, and rebellion against parents among the latter were\\n-swearing, profaning the Lord s day, contempt of God s Word or\\nministers, forgery, bribery, defacing records or landmarks, lying,\\nburning or breaking down fences, gaming, lottery, drunkenness,\\nand firing woods.\\nThe first act in the new code provided tl-.at no Act, Imposi-\\ntit)n. Law or Ordinance be made or im])ose(.l without the\\napproval of the Assembly, council and president.\\nAll charters and grants of land were confirmed the General\\nCourt were a supreme court of judicature law cases were to\\nbe tried by juries, and inferior courts were constituted at Dover,\\nHampton and Portsmoutl;.\\nThe military establishment of the Province consisted of one\\ncompany of foot soldiers in each town, one company of artillery\\nat the fort, and one troop of horse, all under the command of\\nMajor Waldron.\\nThe authorities were especially jealous of their rights and\\nresolutely withstood any encroachment of their privileges by\\nRandolph, who liad been commissioned collector, surveyor and\\nsearcher of the customs for all New England. Captain Walter\\nBarefoote was the deputy collector at I ortsmouth. In the exe-\\ncution of his commission, Randolph seized a vessel belonging to\\nMark Hunking of Portsmouth, bound from Maryland to Ireland,\\nwhich put into the harbor for a few days. F or this he was sued\\nat a special court and had to pay damages and costs. The dep-\\nuty collector was also indicted and fined for disturbing and\\nobstructing his Majesty s subjects in passing from harbor to\\nharbor in requiring that all vessels should be entered and\\ncleared with him.\\nIn December, Ma.son, the claimant, came from England with", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "i6So]\\nKOVAL. PROVINCE.\\n97\\na royal command requiring the council to admit him to a seat on\\nthe board. Having become a member he commenced to make\\ndemands, persuading some of the people to take leases of him,\\nthreatening others, forbidding them to cut firewood and timber,\\nasserting his right to the Province, and assuming the title of\\nlord-protector. The people became very uneasy, and petitions\\ncame into the Assembly from every town. At length Mason\\nwas indicted for an offence which was deemed an usurpation\\nover his Majesty s authority as established in the Province, but\\nescaped arrest by flight to England, in March, 1681, about the\\ntime of President Cutt s death. Another vacancy was caused\\nin the council by the death of Samuel Dalton of Hampton, and\\nRichard Waldron, Jr., of Portsmoytn and Anthony Nutter of\\nDover were elected to the office. Richard Waldron was presi-\\ndent of the council from the death of Cutt to the arrival of\\nLieut. -Governor Edward Cranfield early in October, 1682. Wal-\\ndron died in June, 1689, aged eighty.\\nTax P.vyers in Hampton, in May, 16S0.\\nNathaniel Bachilder.\\nJacob, Tho., Ben., Jon.,\\nBiowne.\\nNath I Boulter. Sen. Jr.\\nJohn Blake.\\nMark Baker.\\nMoses Cocks (Cox).\\nEdw. and Sam l Colcord.\\nJoseph and Sam l Cass.\\nAbraham Drake, Sen. and\\nAlexander Denham.\\nGershom Elkins.\\nWill, and John Fuller.\\nSam l Fogg.\\nBen. and Will.* Fifield.\\nSen.\\nHenry and Abra. Greene.\\nJon. and Isaac Godfree.\\nEdw. Gove.\\nJon. and Jacob Garland.\\nJames Samuel, Philbrick.*\\nCaleb and Jacob Perkins.\\nJoseph Palmer.\\nHenry Roby.\\n*Jon. Redman. Sen. and\\nTho. Row.\\nJon. and Will. Sanborne,\\nSen.\\nRichard and Jon. San-\\nborn. Jr.\\nAnt. and Jon. Taylor.\\nSamuel and Daniel Tilton.\\nPhillips Towle.\\nJohn Tuck.\\nTho. Thurtten.\\nMr. Andrew Wiggin.\\nMr. Tho. Wiggin.\\nNath I Weare.\\nTho. Warde.\\nTho. Webster.\\nBetween 70 and 90 years.\\nGodfre, Thomas,\\nHen. and John Dear-\\nborn.\\nJohn Hussv.\\nJon., Nehemiah and\\nMorris Hobs, Sen.\\nand Jr.\\nTim. Hilyard.\\nJames Johnson.\\nP^rancis Jennis.\\nJohn Knowles.\\nAretus, Tho. and\\nHizrom Lovitt.\\nDaniel Lainprey.\\nSamuel Sherborn.\\nBenj. and Jos. Swett.\\nAnthony and Jno.\\nStanyen.\\nRobard Smith.\\nJon. Smith, tayler.\\nJon. Smith, cooper.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98\\nIIISTUKV OF Nl:\\\\V IIAMI SHIKE.\\n[1680\\nIsaac, Jon. and Epli.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Thomas, Will, and\\nJames Marston.\\nHenry, Jon., Joseph and\\nlienj. Moulton.\\n*Jon. Marion.\\nJon. Masson.\\nJoseph Mead.\\nTho. Nud.\\n*Abra. and Isaac Perkins.\\nFrancis and Tho. Page.\\nTJio. Philbrook, Jonathan\\nChristopher Palmer and\\nJonathan and David\\nWedgwood.\\nRalph Welch.\\nNath l Wright.\\nTho. Rachel and James\\nChase.\\nAbra m Isaac, Cole.\\nBenj. and Tho. Cram.\\nIsrael. *John Clifford,\\nSen and Jr.\\nElias Crichitt.\\nHenry, Jos. and Daniel\\nDow.\\nTho. Sleeper.\\nJos. and Ben. Shaw.\\nWill Swaine.\\nJoseph Smith.\\nWill Sanborne, Jr.\\nJon. Sleeper.\\nGeorge Swete.\\nI Samuel Dalton,\\nI John Sanborne,\\nI Henry Moulten,\\nI Nathaniel Weare,\\nJohn Smith,\\nSelec/men.\\nTax Payers at Exeter, in April, 16S0.\\nImp. Gov. Robt. Wadlee.\\nMr. Moses Gillman.\\nMr. John Thomas.\\nMr. Barthol w Pipping.\\nMr. Edward Hilton.\\nMr. Sam l Hilton.\\nMr. Richard Scamon.\\nMr. Wiggin s mill.\\nMajor Sharpleigh, for Hil-\\nton s mill.\\nMajor Clark, for his mill.\\nNic. Norris.\\nPeter Follsham.\\nChristian Dolhoff.\\n.Sam l Leavitt.\\nMoses Leavitt.\\nDavid Lawrence.\\nJohn Follsham, Jun.\\nSam. Follsham.\\nEphraim Follsham.\\nNat. Follsham.\\nEdward Gillman.\\nJohn Gilman, Jun.\\nCornelius Larey.\\nGeorge Jones.\\n|ona n Robinson.\\nJeremy Canaugh.\\nEleazer Elkins.\\nAlexander Gorden.\\nRobt. Smart. Sen.\\nJohn Young.\\nDavid Robinson.\\nWill m Hilton.\\nSam l Hall.\\nRalph Hall.\\nKinsley Hall.\\nJohn Sinckler.\\nWilliam Moore.\\nPhillip Cartey.\\nJohn Wedgewood.\\nHenry Magoon.\\nJonathan Thing.\\nJoseph Taylor.\\nAnthony Goff.\\nCharles Gledon.\\nEdw d Sowell.\\nJonathan Smith.\\nSamuel Dudley, Jr.\\nRobert Stewart.\\n*^Huniphrey Wilson.\\nRobert Powell.\\nAndrew Constable.\\nNic. Listen.\\nJohn Bean.\\nTege Drisco.\\nJoell Judkins.\\nEphraim Marston.\\nTheop. Dudley.\\nThos. Mekins.\\nBiley Dudley.\\nRobt. Smart, Jun r.\\nRich d Morgan.\\nThos. Tidman.\\nJohn Clark.\\nJames Kid.\\nNad. Lad.\\nJam?s Perkins,\\nf John Gillman, Sen.\\n-j Ralph Hall,\\nEdw d Smith,\\nTrustees of Exeter*\\nCociiECO Tax Payers.\\nMajor Richard Waldron.\\nLeft. Peter Coffin.\\nIsaac Hanson\\nWidow Hanson.\\nRich. Nasson.\\nJno. Ellis.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "ROYAL PROVINCE.\\n99\\nJno. Ham.\\nWill Horn.\\nZacherie Field.\\nJinkin Jones.\\nTho. liownes, Jr.\\nBenjamin Herd.\\nEzekill Winfoid.\\nSam l Wentworth.\\nElder Wentworth,\\nGeorge Ricker.\\nTho. Paine.\\nGorshem Wentworth.\\nJno. Heard. Sen.\\nJohn Heard, Jr.\\nWill Harford.\\nStephen Ottis.\\nTho. Hanson.\\nPeter Masson.\\nRobert Evens.\\nTobias Hanson.\\nJno. Dam, Sen.\\nJno. Cox.\\nJno. Roberts, Sen.\\nTho. Roberts, Jr.\\nWidow Tibets.\\nJeremy Tibets.\\nWildrum Dam.\\nAbraham Nutt.\\nPhillips Cromwell.\\nTho. Whitehouse.\\nWilliam Fiirber, .Sen.\\nWilliam Furber. Jr.\\nRichard Roe,\\nLeft. Nutter.\\nJohn Dam, Jr.\\nJohn Bickford, Jr.\\nSamuel Rawlens.\\nJames Rawlens.\\nCapt. Jno. Gerrish.\\nJonathan Watson.\\nRalph Twomley.\\nTho. Austjn.\\nHumphrey Barney.\\nMr. Will. Partridge.\\nTho. Douns, Sen.\\nNathan l Stephens.\\nJno. Church.\\nMark Goyles.\\nTho. North.\\nMr. John Evens.\\nTimothy Hanson.\\nMr. Goft.\\nJno. Frost.\\nWilliam Kim.\\nJames StagpoU.\\nHarvey Hobbs.\\nRich. Ottis, Sen.\\nRich. Ottis, Jun.\\nDover Neck Tax Payers\\nJohn Pinkham.\\nWill. Willey.\\nJohn Hall, Jr.\\nJohn Hall, Sen.\\nJohn Tiittle.\\nRich. Rich.\\nJob. Clements, Esq.\\nJoseph Beard.\\nJoseph Canie.\\nNathan Hall.\\nBloody Point Tax Payers.\\nIccobad Rawlins.\\nJno. Hudson.\\nWidd. Cattor.\\nJno. Bickford, Sen.\\nMichael Brown.\\nHenr} Longstof.\\nWidd. Trickle.\\nJoseph Trickle.\\nRich Seamon.\\nWm. Yerington.\\nJno. Knight.\\nJoseph Sanders.\\nMaturin Ricker.\\nJno. Windicot.\\nWill. GilTord.\\nWill. Tasket.\\nJno. Derry.\\nJames Derry.\\nPhillips Chesley.\\nTho. Chesley.\\nJno. Roberts, Jr.\\nNath l Kene.\\nAbraham Clarke.\\nEdward Tayler.\\nJno. Michill.\\nEdward Eayers.\\nWill. Tomson.\\nJames Hawkins.\\nJames Nutt, Sen.\\nJames Nutt, Jr.\\nEdward Allin.\\nTho. Perkins.\\nIsaac Stokes.\\nTho. Young.\\nThos. Roberts, Sen.\\nMr. Will. Henderson.\\nJno. Cooke.\\nJohn Meader. Jr.\\nIsaac Trickie.\\nWilliam Shackford.\\nNicholas Harris.\\nJoseph Hall.\\nLuke Mallune.\\nWilliam Gray.\\nBenjamin Rawlins.\\nEframe Trickie.\\nPortsmouth Tax List, Sept., i6Si.\\nJno. Cutt.\\nJno. Dennet.\\nGeo. Hunt.\\nJno. Partridge.\\nJno. Fabins.\\nGeorge Fabins.\\nRobt. Rousley.\\nAntho Elms Estate.\\nEdward Cate.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "lOO\\nIlISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n1682\\nMr. Rich. Walden.\\nMr. Otsella Cutt.\\nRich. Watts, and negro.\\nMr. Jno. Huckins.\\nMrs. Elenor Cutts.\\nWm. Ham.\\nRich. Jackson .md sons.\\nWni. Earle.\\nJno. Cotton.\\nRuben Hull.\\nRich. Martyn, Esq.\\nJno. Seward and man.\\nFrancis Mercer.\\nJno. Hardj.\\nSam l Case.\\nJno. Frenchman, smith.\\nPhil. Several.\\nObad Moss.\\nEdward Melcher.\\nGeorge Levels Son.\\nJno. Fletcher.\\nJno. Cutt, mariner and\\nman.\\nJno. Tucker and three\\nheads.\\nTho. Harvev and man.\\nGeorge Snell.\\nSam. Clark.\\nMat. Nelson.\\nTim. i:)avis.\\nJean Jose and Richard.\\nRich. Door.\\nPeter Ball.\\nMark Hunckins.\\nRich. Shortridge,\\nLewis Williams.\\nJno. Brown.\\nRob t Pudington.\\nRob t Lang.\\nRich. Waterhouse.\\nJno. Pickering-.\\nWni. Sheller.\\nJno. Jackson, seaman.\\nJno. Bartlet.\\nWalter Ell.\\nWm. Pitman.\\nAlexander Denet, Jr.\\nWm. Brookin.\\nNat. White.\\nTho. Stevens.\\nRich. Monson.\\nFrancis Jones.\\nJno. Bandfield\\nPhil Tucker.\\nDan. Duggin.\\nJa. Jones.\\nWm. Cotton.\\nNeh. Partridge and 2.\\nRich. Webber.\\nTho. Ladbrooke.\\nTho. Jackson.\\nGeo. Bramhall.\\nJno. Light.\\nHen. Kerch.\\n.Sam l Whidden.\\nJno. Whidden.\\nTho. Gubbtail.\\nJno. Presson.\\nLeo. Drown.\\nWm. Richards.\\nHugh Leer.\\nHen. Savage.\\nWm. Walker.\\nWm. Cate.\\nDavid Griffith.\\nFrancis Huckins.\\nJno. Jones.\\nJoseph Jewell.\\nRoland, at Hunt s.\\nAnthony Furbur.\\nJno. Shipway.\\nWm. Vaughan, Esq.\\nJa. Treworgie.\\nWm. Williams.\\nCrafts.\\nTho. Gill.\\nTho. Wakan.\\nLodwick Fouler.\\nEdward Holland.\\nJno. Seavie.\\nRobt. Williams.\\nWm. Mason.\\nMr. Moody, for Mary\\nCutts land.\\nDan l Westcot.\\nEphriam Linn.\\nJno. Wakan.\\nJno Baker.\\nJno. Chevalier man.\\nWm. Rocklief.\\nNico. Walden.\\nRich, atjno. Tucker s.\\nHubertus Matton. x\\nDitto Journaman.\\nPhil Founds.\\nJa. Levet.\\nWm. Roberts.\\nJno. Muchmore.\\nRobt. Almonie.\\nTho. Daniel.\\nJno. Jackson, Sen.\\nJno. Jackson, Jr.\\nTho. Pickering.\\nPeter Harvey.\\n[Signed by\\nElias Stileman\\nWilliam Vaughan.\\nThom. Daniel.\\nRobert Elliot.\\nCranfield had been commissioned by the King, and instructed\\nby the English authorities to sustain the claims of Mason. He\\narrived in New Hampshire in October, 1682, and published his\\np. p., vol. i, 424-2I", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "l682] ROYAL PROVINCE. lOI\\ncommission. His council consisted of Mason, styled proprietor,\\nWaldron, Daniel, Vaughan, Martin, Oilman, Stileman and Clem-\\nents, of the old board, and Walter Barefoote and Richard\\nChamberlain. Mason had mortgaged his whole interest in the\\nProvince to Cranfield, who made no secret of his intention to\\nreap a rich harvest. Within a week after his arrival, Waldron\\nand Martin were suspended from the council, Cranfield having\\nthe supreme authority. When the Assembly, which had been\\nsummoned, met about the middle of November, Waldron and\\nMartin were restored to their seats in the council, and conciliation\\nwas attempted by both parties. The Assembly voted the governor\\n^250 and adjourned. At the next session, in January, 1683,\\nthere was an open rupture. He vetoed the bills of the Assembly\\nand they wcfuld not accede to his wishes, so he dissolved them,\\nafter he had suspended Stileman from the council and from the\\ncommand of the fort. Stileman s offence was in allowing a vessel\\nunder seizure to go out of the harbor. Barefoote was made cap-\\ntain of the fort in his place. The dissolution by the governor of\\nthe Assembly, a thing before unknown, aggravated the popular\\ndiscontent and secured him the ill-will of the men of New\\nHampshire and soon the feeling of resentment rose so high as\\nto result in a rebellion. In a report made to the Board of Trade\\nby Randolph, there is an account of this rebellion\\nA short time after [the dissolution], one Edward Gove, who served [in the\\nAssembly] for the town of Hampton, a leading man and a great stickler for\\nthe late proceedings of the Assembly, made it his business to stir the people\\nup to rebellion by giving out that the governor, as vice-admiral, acted by the\\ncommission of his royal highness, who was a Papist, and would bring Popery\\nin amongst them; that the governor was a pretended governor, and his\\ncommission was signed in Scotland. He endeavored, with a great deal of\\npains, to make a party, and solicited many of the considerable persons in\\neach town to join with him to recover their liberties infringed by his\\nMajest_\\\\ s placing a governor over them; furtlier adding that his sword was\\ndrawn, and he v.ould not lay it down till he knew who should hold the gov-\\nernment. He discoursed at Portsmouth to Mr. Martyn, treasurer, and soon\\nafter to Captain Hall of Dover, which they discovered to the governoi who\\nimmediately dispatched messengers with warrants to the constable of Exeter\\nand Hampton to arrest Gove; and fearing he might get a party too strong\\nfor the civil power (as indeed it proved, for Justice Weare and a marshal\\nwere repulsed), the governor forthwith ordered the militia of the whole", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "I02 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIKI;. [1683\\nProvince to be in arms and understanding by the marshal that Gove could\\nnot be apprehended at Hampton b_v himself and a constable, but had gone to\\nhis party at Exeter (from whence he suddenly returned with twelve men\\nmounted and armed with swords, pistols, and guns, a trumpet sounding, and\\nGove with his sword drawn riding at the head of them), was taking horse,\\nand with a part of the troop intended to take Gove and his companv: but the\\nGovernor was prevented by a messenger from Hampton, who brought word\\nthat they were met withal, and taken by the militia of the town, and were\\nsecured with a guard; the trumpeter forcing his way escaped, after whom\\na hue and cry was sent to all parts, but as yet he is not taken. This rising\\nwas, unexpectedly to the party, made on the 21st day of January, 16S3.\\nIt is generally believed that many considerable persons, at whose houses\\nGove either sent or called to come out and stand for their liberties, would have\\njoined with him had he not discovered his designs, or appeared in arms at\\nthat day. For upon the 30th of January being appointed by the governor a\\nday of public humiliation, they designed to cut off the governor, Mr. Mason,\\nand some others whom they affected not. The governor sent a strong party\\nof horse to guard the prisoners, then in irons, from Hampton to Portsmouth.\\nThev were brought before the governor and council and examined, when\\nGove behaved very insolently.\\nWhen arrested, Gove and his companions were put under the\\ncharge of Captain Walter Barefoote at New Castle, so the record\\nquaintly says, In regarde that ye prison was out of repaire.\\nWhile in custody there, Gove wrQte a letter to the justices who\\nwere about to try him, and in it he describes his condition. He\\nsays: My tears are in my eyes, I can hardly see. If\\never New England had need of a Solomon or David it is now.\\nWe have a hard prison, a good keeper, a hard Captain, irons an\\ninch over, five foot seven inches long, two men locked together,\\nyet I had, I thank God for it, a very good night s rest. On the\\n1 5th of February, 1683, a special court was called to try Gove and\\nhis comrades, and after long consideration the jury found Gove\\nguilty of high treason, and all the rest in arms. The\\ngovernor ordered the court to suspend its judgement (on the\\nlatter till His Majesty s pleasure should be known therein\\nmost of them being young men and unacquainted with the law.\\nThe judge, Richard Waldron, who, it is said, shed tears while\\nsentencing Gove, pronounced the dreadful sentence that he\\nshould be hung, drawn atid quartered, that being the punish-\\nment for the offence.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "1683] ROYAL PROVINCE. t03\\nMost of Gove s companions were pardoned and Gove himself,\\nafter being sent over to England and confined in the Tower for\\nsome years, was pardoned and sent back to Hampton. There\\nis on file in the State Paper Office in England a petition of his\\nwife to pardon her husband. She gives as his excuse that he\\nwas into.xicated at the time, and hints at a streak of insanity\\nwhich ran in his family. After his return to America he lived\\nbut a short time, and always contended that a slow poison had\\nbeen administered to him in prison. His house, a part of it,\\nstill stands in Seabrook, and there is growing on the premises a\\npear-tree which it is said he brought from England with him.\\nHis descendants became Quakers, and some of them still wor-\\nship in the old Quaker meeting-house in Seabrook, which was\\nformerly a part of Hampton and it is near this old church that\\nGove s remains lie buried.\\nThus ended the first rebellion in New England. It hastened\\nCranfield s removal, but was of little permanent consequence\\ncompared with that which occasioned the downfall of Sir Edmund\\nAndros six years afterward, when Cranfield, Randolph and many\\nother supporters of tyranny went down with Sir Edmund. Ran-\\ndolph, who had been active in punishing Gove, was himself\\nimprisoned in Boston, and wrote many piteous letters to King\\nWilliam, asking to be set free.^\\nThe governor and the people of the Province could not arrive\\nat an amicable adjustment of their conflicting interests. The\\nformer, as well as Mason, was rash and impetuous, and in deal-\\ning with such sagacious men as Major Waldron, John Wingate\\nand Thomas Roberts, three of the principal landowners in\\nDover, they were easily led into the wrong. The governor\\nmade extravagant threats, but the people were not intimidated.\\nThey had offered to refer the matter to the King, and their offer\\nbeing refused, they felt that they had justice on their side. On\\nsome fresh pretence, Waldron, Martin and Gilman were sus-\\npended from the council, and the deaths of Daniel and Clem-\\nents left two other vacancies. Vaughan held his seat the\\nlongest, but was at last tiirust out. Their places were filled by\\nJ. C. Sanborn.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 iiiSToKA oi- m;w ha.mfshikk. 683\\nNathaniel Frye, Robert Elliot, John Hinckes, James Sherlock,\\nFrancis Champernoon and Edward Randolph, a council made up\\nto the governor s satisfaction. The courts were overturned.\\nWalter Barefoote, the deputy governor, was judge, Mason was\\nchancellor, Chamberlain was clerk, Randolph was attorney-\\ngeneral, and Sherlock was provost-marshal and sheriff. Some,\\nawed by threats or flattered by promises, took leases from\\nMason, and served for deputy sheriffs, jurors and witnesses.\\nThen followed a multitude of lawsuits, which were not contested\\nby the landowners and Mason came into possession of most\\nof the cultivated land of the Province. No attention was paid\\nto legal forms; and as the only redress laid in a direct appeal to\\nthe King, Nathaniel Weare of Hampton was privately fur-\\nnished with petitions and statements, and sailed from Boston\\nfor England, as the agent for the towns. William Vaughan\\naccompanied Weare as far as Boston, and on his return was\\nthrown into prison and confined for nine months. In the mean-\\nwhile Cranfield had assumed the whole legislative power, pro-\\nhibited vessels from Massachusetts to enter the port, altered\\nthe value of silver money, changed the bounds of townships,\\nsued the former treasurer of the province, and was altogether\\narbitrary and tyrannical. Finding that he could not raise\\nmoney for his wants, he summoned the Assembly in January,\\n1684, and demanded that they should pass an act which had\\nbeen approved by the council. They took time to deliberate,\\ngoing from Great Island during the night to Portsmouth\\nto consult with Mr. Moodey, and on their return refused to do\\nas the governor desired. They were dissolved, and many of\\nthem were immediately appointed constables, liable to fines for\\nnot collecting the rates. Moodey became an object of hatred\\nand an early opportunity was taken to visit the governor s dis-\\npleasure upon him. He was prosecuted as a Non-conformist,\\naccording to a law in force in England, sentenced to imprison-\\nment, and confined with Major Vaughan at the house of Captain\\nStileman on Great Island for thirteen weeks. Rev. Seaborn\\nCotton of Hampton fled to Boston to escape persecution. Mr.\\nMoodey was released from confinement on his promising to\\nleave the Province.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "1685] ROYAL PKOViNCE. IO5\\nAll through the year 1684, disorder ruled in New Hampshire.\\nThe people united to resist the oppression of Cranfield. His\\nmarshals and sheriffs were treated to a great variety of abuse.\\nThey were welcomed with hot water and clubs. One was tied\\nto his horse and carried to Salisbury. The militia was called\\nout to suppress the riot, but not a trooper appeared. At length\\nCranfield, finding his authority all gone, was forced to desist.\\nIn the meanwhile Weare had received a hearing in England,\\nand the governor was called upon to defend his course. Upon\\nreceiving the letter from the Board of Trade, he suspended\\nMason s suits till the question concerning the legality of the\\ncourts should be decided.\\nAt a hearing in March, 1685, it was decided by the English\\ncourt that Cranfield had exceeded his authority and had not\\npursued his instructions. Having received a leave of absence\\nwith the report, he gave over the contest, and quietly embarked\\nfor Jamaica. He was afterwards collector at Barbadoes, and\\ndied about the year 1 jcx).\\nAfter Cranfield s departure in May, 1685, his authority de-\\nvolved on Walter Barefoote, deputy governor and he and his\\nfriend Mason, the claimant, had a very uneasy time of it. One\\nThomas Wiggin, in company with Anthony Nutter, a large and\\npowerful man, called at Barefoote s house on Great Island,\\nwhere Mason was sojourning. Wiggin took the law into his\\nown hands and gave Mason a thrashing. Barefoote interfering,\\nreceived his share of the assault, in which he lost a tooth and\\nhad two ribs broken. Nutter left his friend to do the whipping,\\nwhile he stood by laughing, and prevented outside interference.\\nThe authority of the deputy governor was held in as much con-\\ntempt as had been that of the gov-ernor.\\nCharles II died in February, 1685, and was succeeded by his\\neven more arbitrary and tyrannical brother, James II, who\\nimmediately put in force a new scheme for the government of\\nNew England. A commission was issued to a president, Joseph\\nDudley, a son of the former governor, Thomas Dudley of Massa-\\nchusetts, and to a council, only one member of which, John\\nHinckes, was a resident of New Hampshire, for the governing", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "I06 HISTOKV OK NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1688\\nof all New England. The territory was divided into the four\\ncounties of Suffolk, Middlesex, Essex and Hampshire, and the\\nthree provinces of Maine, New Hampshire and Narragansett.\\nNew courts were established. The new form of government\\nwent into effect in May, 1686; and from the tolerable decency\\nwith which it commenced operations, the way was paved for the\\nappointment of a governor general. At the end of the year Sir\\nEdmund Andros, who had been governor of New York, arrived\\nat Boston, with a commission appointing him captain-general\\nand governor-in-chief of the territory and dominion of New\\nEngland, which was made to include Plymouth colony, with the\\ncounties and provinces before mentioned. In the council of\\nfifteen, besides Hinckes, were Robert Mason and Edward Ran-\\ndolph. No Assembly was provided for. Members of the council\\nwere judges. The governor and any five of the council consti-\\ntuted a quorum seven were a full board, and were authorized\\nto make laws, execute them, and preside as justices. Andros\\ncommenced his administration with the fairest professions, but\\nsoon became a tyrant. Those of his council who did not sustain\\nhim in all his designs were not summoned. Randolph and\\nMason were his confidants. The press was restrained, liberty\\nof conscience infringed, and exorbitant fees and taxes de-\\nmanded. The people had no privilege of representation. Titles\\nto land were annulled. Indian deeds were declared no better\\nthan the scratch of a bear s paw. New patents were issued,\\ncovering old grants, as the charter was vacated. The only town\\nmeeting allowed was for the election of town officers. No per-\\nson was permitted to go out of the country without express\\nleave from the governor. An appeal to the King was of no\\neffect.\\nAll through the year 1687 and 1688 the people submitted to\\nthe encroachments of the government. In England, at the\\nsame time, the people were subjected to like obnoxious laws,\\nand were preparing for a change. On the annexation of New\\nYork to New England, Andros found ready tools for his service,\\nand neglected Mason and his clamis. Having received a favor-\\nable verdict before the English court of appeal. Mason returned", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "i6go] KOVAi. ^R()Vl^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2c\u00e2\u0096\u00a0I\u00e2\u0080\u00a2:. 107\\nto New England to take possession of his province, when he\\nwas met by a new difficulty. The new authorities seemed\\njealous of his increased importance, and would not grant execu-\\ntion, or allow that he had the power to i;rant land by leases.\\nIn the midst of his troubles he dioil, in Jul\\\\-. 1688, leaving his\\nclaims and lawsuits to his two sons, John and Robert Mason.\\nOn the news of the landing in England of William Prince of\\nOrange reaching Boston, Andros imprisoned the messenger;\\nbut the people of Massachusetts rose in April, 1689, and seized\\nthe governor and his accomplice.^, whom they imprisoned, and\\nafterward sent as prisoners of State to the old country. The\\nmagistrates under the old charter, with Bradstreet, the late\\ngovernor, at their head, assumed the name of a Council of\\nSafety, and maintained a form of government until orders were\\nreceived from PIngland.\\nNew Hampshire was left without a government.\\nThe people of the Province were persuaded by some of the\\nleading men to meet in convention and take measures for\\ntheir future government. The following deputies were chosen\\nFrom Portsmouth, Major William Vaughan, Richard Waldron,\\nNathaniel Fryer, Robert Elliot, Thomas Cobbet and Capt. John\\nPickering from Dover, Capt. John Woodman, Capt. John\\nGerrish, John Tuttle, John Roberts, Thomas Edgerly and\\nNicholas P^ollet from E.xeter, Robert Wadley, William Moore\\nand Samuel Leavitt. Hampton was in sympathy with the move-\\nment, but dissensions arising in town meeting no deputies were\\nsent. At an adjourned meeting of the convention in January,\\n1690, it was decided to renew their union with Massachusetts\\nuntil the King s pleasure should be known. A petition signed\\nt y 372 inhabitants and trained soldiers of the Province of\\nNew Hampshire was presented to the Massachusetts authori-\\nties, and favorably received.\\nThis union was the more desired on account of the breaking\\nout of what was known as King William s War, and lasted until\\nthe a])pointment, in 1692, of Governor Samuel Allen and Lieu-\\ntenant-Governor John Usher.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "I08 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. ^Q-\\nDiiring the union, Portsmouth was represented at the Massachusetts Gen-\\neral Court in i6go, 1691 and 1692, by one or two of their delegates, Elias\\nStileman, John Foster, Richard Waldron and Jolin Pickering. The military\\nand civil officers of the Province during the union approved by the governor\\nand council were: Samuel Penhallow, treasurer; John Pickering, recorder;\\nWilliam Vaughan, Richard Martin and Nathaniel Fryer, justices of the peace,\\nat Portsmouth John Gerrish, at Dover Robert Wadleigh, at Exeter; Major\\nWilliam Vaughan, commander of the militarv forces. Of the military company,\\nat Dover, John Gerrish was commissioned captain: John Tuttle, lieutenant:\\nWilliam Furber, ensign at Oyster River (Durham), John Woodman, captain\\nJames Davis, lieutenant Stephen Jones, ensign at Portsmouth, Walter\\nNeale, captain; John Pickering, lieutenant; Tobias Langdon, ensign: at\\nExeter, William Moore, captain; Samuel Leavitt, lieutenant; Jonathan\\nThing, ensign: at Great Island (New Castle Nathaniel Fryer, captain;\\nThomas Cobbet, lieutenant; Shadrach Walton, ensign at Hampton, Sam-\\nuel Sherburne, captain; Edward Gove, lieutenant; John Moulton, ensign.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nKING WILLIAM S AND QUEEN ANNE S WARS,\\n1689-1713.\\nCauses St. Castine Grievances Richard Waldron s Death\\nDover Oyster River Salmon Falls Newington Lamprey\\nRiver Wheelwright s Pond Sandy Beach -Portsmouth\\nRangers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Durham Massacre Widow Cutt Breakfast Hill-\\nReturn OF Captives Treatment of Captives Queen Anne s War\\nPeace at PEMAqiiiD Eastern Settlements Ravaged -Hampton\\nKingston Removal of Indians to Canada Dunstable\\nDeath of Colonel Winthrop Hilton Peace Condition of Par-\\nties.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2T^HE first Indian war resulted to the advantage of the set-\\ntlers. A large proportion of the New England Indians had\\nbeen exterminated. The most stalvirart and the fiercest, who\\nsurvived, nursed their wrath, magnified their grievances, and\\nplotted future vengeance. Their anger was increased by artful\\nenemies of the English settlers, until the basest treachery and\\ndemoniac cruelty became a part of their character in their deal-\\nings with the New England colonies. The war became one of\\nextermination on both sides. The French made it a little less\\nfearful by offering a much larger bounty for captives than for\\nscalps. A bounty on scalps was offered also by the colonial\\nauthorities. In 1689 commenced a contest of races, which, with\\nbut a brief suspension of hostilities, was destined to be pro-\\nlonged for a quarter of a century, a generation, and to result\\nin the practical dispersion of the aborigines from the whole ter-\\nritory of New England, their former home and hunting ground.\\nKing William s War was the most disastrous as it was the\\nmost prolonged of the many contests in which the New Engl-", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "I lO HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l689\\nand colonists were engaged. It lasted with but an occasional\\ntruce for ten years, and was the more fierce because to race\\nhatred was added religious fanaticism. Besides, the Indians had\\na base of supplies in Canada, and counted on the French as\\nallies and confederates. Before the French monarch, Louis\\nXIV, had made war on William and Mary, the sovereigns of\\nEngland, in the interest of James II, the dethroned king, An-\\ndros, by his overbearing and arbitrary course in New England,\\nhad prepared the way, before he was driven from ofifice, for a\\ngeneral Indian war, the horrors of which were greatly increased\\nwhen war was declared between the home governments of\\nFrance and England. France held all land to the eastward of\\nPenobscot river by treaty, and Baron de St. Castine had for\\nmany years resided on the peninsular of Castine and carried on\\na large trade with the Indians. A new line was run which left\\nCastine within English territory, and soon afterward, in 1688,\\nAndros went with an armed force and plundered De Castine s\\nhouse and fort. Thereupon the Frenchman, who had the sym-\\npathy and confidence of the Indians to the fullest extent, incited\\nthem to open hostility. This was the more easily done as they\\nhad grievances of their own for which they could obtain no\\nredress. Their tribute of corn was withheld, seines obstructed\\ntheir fishery, cattle destroyed their crops, and their land was\\ngranted to settlers without their consent. To this was added\\nthe fact that they had become Catholics, and considered the\\nEnglish as heretics and their natural enemies. War com-\\nmenced in Maine. Andros led an army of seven hundred men\\ninto their territory but the only loss was sustained by his own\\nforce, for not an Indian was seen on the march.\\nThe treachery of Major Waldron, a dozen years before, still\\nrankled in the memory of the Cocheco, the Pigwacket, and the\\nPenacook tribes. The strage Indians, who had been sold into\\nslavery in foreign countries, and had escaped and returned,\\nwere thirsting for revenge, and formed a confederacy for sur-\\nprising the Cocheco settlement and taking vengeance. Their\\nplans were carefully matured. Wannalancet, as chief of the\\nPenacooks, was succeeded by Hagkins, who had been treated", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "16.S9] KING William s wak. i i\\nwith neglect by Cranfiekl and was ready to listen to Castine s\\nemissaries.\\nOstensibly they were at peace with the Province, when near\\nthe last of June, 1689, they assembled in the neighborhood\\nof Dover. The veteran magistrate, Richard Waldron, feared no\\ntreachery. Some of the inhabitants were uneasy on account of\\nmeeting so many Indians and warned Waldron without effect.\\nAn official warning was on its way from Boston, but arrived\\ntoo late. There were at the time five garrisoned houses near the\\nfirst falls of the Cocheco river, Waldron s, Otis s and Heard s on\\nthe north side of the river; Peter Coffin s and his son s on\\nthe south side. The Indians sent two squaws to each of the\\ngarrisoned houses in the evening, to ask shelter for the night, and\\nthey were welcomed at all, except the younger Coffin s, and\\nallowed to sleep by the open fire when the family had retired.\\nOne of the chiefs, Mesandowit, was hospitably entertained by\\nMajor Waldron the day before, and the squaws told him to\\nexpect a trading visit from the Indians the following day.\\nWhen all was. quiet, the squaws opened. the gates and admitted\\ntheir confederates. Waldron, on being aroused, sprang from his\\nbed and bravely defended himself until he was overpowered\\nand cruelly put to death, amid the jibes of his captors. His\\n.son-in-law, Abraham Lee, was also killed. The Otis garrison,\\nnext to Waldron s, shared the same fate. Heard s and Elder\\nWentworth s were accidentally saved. The elder Coffin s was\\nsurprised, and his son surrendered to save his father; but both\\nfamilies escaped while the Indians were plundering the houses.\\nTwenty-three people were killed and twenty-nine were carried\\naway captives. Five or six houses and the mills were burned,\\nand the Indians had departed with their prisoners and booty\\nbefore assistance arrived from other parts of the town. The\\nprisoners were carried to Canada and sold to the French and\\nthey were said to have been the first ever carried there. A\\npursuing party, under command of Captain Noyes, destroyed\\nthe corn of the Indians at Penacook and another party, under\\nCaptain Wincol, killed several Indians at Lake Winnipiseogee,\\nand despoiled their fields.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "mSTOKV OI- NKW JIAMl-SlliKE.\\n[1690\\nIn August, the Indians surprised Huckin s garrison at Oyster\\nRiver and killed them all, to the number of eighteen, while at\\nwork in a field, and took the children, after killing three or four\\nof their number, and the women into captivity.\\nIn 1690, Count de Frontenac, the French governor of Canada,", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "iCgs] KING William s war. 113\\nentered resolutely into the war and furnished the hostile Indians\\nwith arms and supplies. He offered a bounty for scalps and\\nprisoners. Salmon Falls was attacked in March by a combined\\nFrench and Indian force, and twenty-seven of its brave defenders\\nwere slain, and fifty-two, mostly women and children, were car-\\nried into captivity. After plundering the place, the houses, mills,\\nand barns, together with the stock within them, were burned.\\nThe assailants were followed on their retreat and an engagement\\nensued, in which four or five of the pursuing party were killed\\nand the rest retired. The enemy lost two of their number.\\nIn May, the Indians made an assault on Fox Point, in New-\\nington, burned several houses, killed fourteen people, and\\nretreated with six captives. They were pursued by Captains\\nFloyd and Greenleaf, and some of the captives escaped, but the\\nIndians made good their retreat.\\nIn July, the enemy were very active. Within three days they\\nkilled eight at Lamprey river, eight at Exeter, and sixteen at\\nWheelwright s pond, in Lee, taking only one captive. The loss\\nin Exeter was in defending the Hilton garrison house. The\\nloss at Wheelwright s pond was in a bloody engagement in which\\nCaptain Wiswall, Lieutenant Flagg and Sergeant Walker were\\nkilled. Both parties retreated. Within a week following the\\nIndians killed forty people between Lamprey river and Ames-\\nbury. Captives, if not healthy and vigorous, were cruelly tortured\\nand put out of the way. There were very few instances of\\nmercy during the war. In the fall there was a cessation of\\nhostilities, which lasted until June, 1691, when two men were\\nkilled at Exeter. In September, the Indians came from the\\neastward in canoes, landed at Sandy Beach, or Rye, and killed\\nor carried away twenty-one persons. Captain Sherburne of\\nPortsmouth was killed during the year.\\nIn 1692, the frontiers were guarded by ranging parties in the\\nwoods, after the destruction of York and the Indians found it\\ndifificult to surprise a garrison. A party of them near Cocheco\\nwere themselves surprised and only one of their number escaped.\\nTobias Hanson of Dover was the only victim during the year\\n1693, except a poor family captured at Oyster River. A truce", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114 HISTORY OF -NEW HAMPSHIRE. I 1 696\\nwas agreed upon at Pemaquid in August, and the settlers had a\\nrespite for the rest of the year. They had become so disheart-\\nened that they were ahnost persuaded to leave the Province.\\nTo add to their troubles, there was a misunderstanding with the\\nMassachusetts authorities, who had been rather occupied with\\nwitchcraft trials than the prosecution of the war, and assistance\\nwas sparingly afforded to their neighbors. At length all the\\nMassachusetts soldiers were withdrawn.\\nAfter the middle of July, 1694, alongmeditated attack was made\\nby two hundred and fifty Indians, led by Sieur de Villieu, upon\\nthe settlement at Oyster River (Durham). There were block-\\nhouses for the defence of the inhabitants but, not suspecting\\ndanger, many families were at their own unfortified homes, and\\nthe garrisons were unprepared for an attack. Of the twelve\\nfortified houses five were destroyed. Fourteen people were\\nsurprised and killed in one. The deserted houses were set on\\nfire. Over ninety people were killed or carried into captivity.\\nThere were many narrow escapes and many scenes of frightful\\ncruelty. A French priest accompanied the expedition, which\\nwas composed of Maine and New Brunswick Indians, from the\\nKennebec, Penobscot and St. John rivers, and French troops.\\nSeven of the garrison houses were bravely and successfully de-\\nfended. The enemy, having done what mischief they could,\\nretired and the scalps taken were afterward presented to Count\\nFrontenac, in Canada.\\nWithin a few days a wandering party of Indians killed Madam\\nUrsula Cutt, widow of the first president, and three of her\\nlaborers, while haymaking at a place called the Pulpit. In July,\\n1695, two men were killed at Exeter. In May, 1696, John\\nChurch was killed at Cocheco. Near the end of June the Indians\\ncame from the Nubble, at York, in canoes, and landed at Sandy\\nBeach, or Rye, and made an attack on five houses at once.\\nAt Sagamore s Creek, in Portsmouth, fourteen people were in-\\nstantly killed and four carried into captivity. The whole number\\nslain, according to John Farmer, was twenty-four. A pursuing\\nparty recovered the prisoners at Breakfast Hill, but the Indians\\nescaped and eluded a fleet of boats sent to cut off their retreat", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "1697] KING William s war. 115\\nto the eastward. In July, a party in Dover were waylaid while\\nreturning from church. Three were killed, three wounded, and\\nthree carried away captives. In August, one settler was killed\\nin Rye and another at Lubberland, on Great Bay. In June,\\n1697, an attack was planned on the town of Exeter, which was\\naverted by an accident. One person was killed, another wounded,\\nand a third carried into captivity. During the year a grand in-\\nvasion of the country of New England was planned by the\\nFrench, but was happily postponed until the towns were fortified,\\nwhen peace was declared. A final treaty was made with the\\nIndians at Casco early in January, 1699, and many captives\\nwere restored to their friends. Many of them, however, had\\nbecome members of Indian tribes and did not return to civili-\\nzation.\\nDuring the war of ten years the four towns in the province of\\nNew Hampshire and the adjoining settlements at York, Kittery,\\nand Berwick, lost, in killed, wounded and captives, about four\\nhundred of their number. The stories narrated by the returning\\ncaptives were full of woe. They had been forced to look upon\\nthe torture and death of many of their companions, who had\\nincurred the ill-will of the savages. They had been forced to\\nhasten through a wilderness, without proper food or raiment,\\nand had beeen subjected to so many hardships that only the\\nmost robust and healthy survived. The Indians, from friendly\\nneighbors, had become relentless foes. The treachery of Major\\nWaldron, from which they had lost faith in the English settlers,\\nand the attack of the Mohawks on the peaceably inclined Indians,\\nhad converted them into fiends incarnate. Nothing seemed too\\nhorrible for them to imagine and perpetrate. From superstition\\nor some other cause they respected the chastity of their female\\ncaptives, but would as ruthlessly murder them as their male\\nprisoners. During an incursion made upon Haverhill, in 1697.\\nthe Indians attacked the house of Hannah Dustin. Her husbauil\\neffected the rescue of his children, but the mother fell into the\\nhands of the attacking party, who murdered her babe and com-\\npelled her to rise from a bed of sickness, and, with her nurse, to\\nfollow them towards Canada. During their journey, the party,", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "ii6\\nHISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[1697\\ncaptors and captives, stopped for the night at the small island\\nat the mouth of the Contoocook river at Penacook. Here the\\ntwo captive women with the assistance of a boy, planned and\\nHANNAH DUSTIN AT THE MASSACRE.\\nUpon this spot (the island of Contoocook, N. H.) stands a monument erected to the memory of\\nHannah Dustin, through the efforts of Colonel Robert B. Caverly, poet and historian.\\nexecuted an escape, which was done by killing ten of the twelve\\nIndians of the party, and following the river back to the settle-\\nments. As a matter of course, they were forced to take their", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "1708] QUEEN ANNe s WAR. II7\\ncaptors at a disadvantage, killing them while they were asleep,\\nand possibly drunk.\\nThe peace of Ryswick, which closed King William s War, was\\nof short duration. Louis XIV proclaimed the Pretender king\\nof England, and his governor, Villebon, had orders to extend the\\nProvince of Acadia to the Kennebec river. The English claimed\\nto the St. Croi.x river. Governor Dudley had particular orders\\nto rebuild the port at Pemaquid, but the Massachusetts Assembly\\nwould not consent to the expense. He met at Casco delegates\\nfrom the tribes of the Norridgewock, Penobscot, Pigwacket,\\nPenacook and Androscoggin Indians, and concluded a firm peace\\nwith them in June, 1703. This did not prevent the Indians,\\nhowever, after the declaration of the Queen Anne War, from join-\\ning the French and invading New England. They killed and\\ntook captive one hundred and thirty people betvi een Casco and\\nWells in a few weeks, burning and destroying all before them.\\nAbout the middle of August a force of thirty killed five people at\\nHampton, a Quakeress among the number, and plundered two\\nhouses; but fled before a pursuing party. Instantly the whole\\nfrontier was in arms. A visit of a company to Pigwacket in the\\nfall led to the death of six and the capture of six Indians. During\\nthe winter the settlers were very active in carrying the war into the\\nenemy s country, under the command of Major Winthrop Hilton\\nand Captains John Gilman of Exeter, and Chesley and Davis of\\nOyster Rixer.\\nDuring the year 1704 the aggressive policy of New England\\nwas continued, yet the Indians succeeded in killing and captur-\\ning several people in the Province, one at Oyster River in April,\\nand several at Lamprey River the next day. In August they\\nkilled several at Oyster River. In January, 1708, Colonel Hilton\\nled a force against Norridgewock, which was only successful in\\ndestroying the village. During the year another attempt was\\nmade to settle the township of Kingston, which did not succeed.\\nAmongst the settlers were Ebenezer Webster, an ancestor of\\nDaniel Webster, Moses Elkins, Jonathan Sanborn, Ichaboti\\nRobie, Aaron Sleeper, Thomas Webster, Thomas Philbrick and", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "Il8 HISTOKV (IF XEW HAMPSHIRE. [l/OQ\\nJabez Colman. The first birth in the town was that of Benjamin\\nWebster, in 1701. In 1725 the town contained eighty-one fami-\\nlies. In 1732, it liad one hundred and sixty-four ratable inhabi-\\ntants and one hundred and fifteen dwelling houses, of which\\nsixty-four were two stories high.\\nAn attempt was made to settle Rev. William Thompson in\\n1720. Rev, Ward Clark was ordained and settled in 1725 Rev.\\nPeter Coffin, in 1737; Rev. Amos Tappan, in 1762; Rev. Elihu\\nThayer, D. U., in 1776 Rev. John Turner, the last minister\\nsettled by the town, in 18 18.\\nThe Indians of New England had been encouraged to remove\\nto Canada by the French governor, and accordingly had been\\nincorporated with the St. Francis tribe on the St. Lawrence and\\nwere thus more readily wielded against the English. At the re-\\nopening of hostilities, in 1706, after a short truce, a small party\\nof Indians attacked the house of John Drew, at Oyster River, in\\nApril, and killed eight and wounded two but the women suc-\\ncessfully defended the place. On the retreat of the Indians\\nthey killed John Wheeler, his wife and two children, who fell\\ninto their hands. In June two men were killed in Dover. In\\nJuly two men were killed at Dunstable. In August an attack\\nwas made on Dover, in which ten men lost their lives or were\\ncarried into captivity. The Indians also killed several others\\nduring the summer at Dunstable, Hampton, and along the fron-\\ntier. During the winter of 1707, Colonel Hilton was successful\\nin cutting off a party of twenty-two, near Black Point, in Maine.\\nDuring the following summer, while a force of a thousand men\\nwere attacking Port Royal, a harassing warfare was kept up by\\nthe enemy along the frontier and several men were killed at Oyster\\nRiver, at Kingston, and at Exeter. The Indians were accustomed\\nat this time to wander in small parties and the settlers were\\nalways armed and generally within the protection of their block-\\nhouses. In September, a lumbering party was surprised at\\nOyster River by a party of French Mohawks and eight of their\\nnumber were instantly killed.\\nNew Hampshire escaped any loss during the year 1708, l^ut in\\nthe spring of 1709 several men were captured in E.\\\\cter, and one", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "iyi^\\\\ QUEEN ANNE s WAR. 1 19\\nwas killed at Oyster River. One of the Exeter captives was in-\\nhumanly tortured. During the year an expedition was planned\\nagainst Canada, but was not carried into effect.\\nIn July, 1710, the Indians, who had before made several at-\\ntempts, succeeded in killing Colonel Winthrop Hilton. Two of\\nhis companions were killed at the same time, and two others were\\ncaptured. Colonel Hilton was the son of Edward Hilton and Ann\\n(Dudley) Hilton. Edward Hilton was the son of Edward\\nHilton, the first settler of Dover. Ann Dudley, Colonel\\nHilton s mother, was the daughter of Rev. Samuel and Mary\\n(Winthrop) Dudley, and was the granddaughter of Governor\\nThomas Dudley and Governor John Winthrop. His loss was\\nseverely felt in the Province, and he was buried with military\\nhonors. Soon after the attack on Hilton s party, the Indians\\nkilled or took captive several persons at Exeter, four at Kingston\\nand one at Cocheco. During the summer Colonel Shadrack\\nWalton led the New Hampshire quota of one hundred men to\\nhelp capture Port Royal. Late in the fail he led a force to the\\neastward, and slew several hostile Indians. In the spring of\\n171 1 five men were killed at Dover, and a party returning from\\nchurch fell into an ambush. During the summer a formidable\\nexpedition of some six thousand troops were sent to reduce\\nCanada, but lost a thousand of their number in the St. Lawrence\\nriver during a stormy night, and the balance of the fleet returned\\nto Boston.\\nThe Indians, encouraged by the failure of this attack, com-\\nmenced their aggressions in the spring of 17 12, killing a settler\\nin Exeter, another at Dover, and another at Oyster River. A\\nmarauding party of eight Indians were surprised and killed on\\nthe Merrimack. During June and July the enemy attacked the\\nsettlers at Exeter, Kingston and Dover, and caused some loss of\\nlife. In the autumn the news of the peace of Utrecht was\\nreceived and a suspension of arms was proclaimed at Ports-\\nmouth. In July, 171 3, a formal treaty of peace was made with\\nthe Indians, and an exchange of prisoners was brought about\\nthe next summer. During the whole war, Usher was a faithful\\nofficer. He frequently came into the province by Dudley s", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "I20 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 7 3\\ndirection, and sometimes resided in it several months, inquiring\\ninto the state of the frontiers and garrisons, visiting them in\\nperson, and consulting with the officers of the militia as to the\\nproper methods of defence.\\nThe drain of the war had been fearful on the little province\\nof New Hampshire, still it was more than offset by the large\\nfamilies and the natural increase within the colony. It had\\nbred a race of men skilled as the Indian in the arts of wood-\\ncraft and the peculiar stratagems of Indian warfare. Children\\nhad been reared amidst the alarms of the dread war-whoop and\\nthe whistle of the hostile bullet. Boys were trained as soldiers\\nat an early age, and even the women, on occasion, successfully\\ndefended their homes from the prowling savages. Hannah\\nDustin is a typical heroine of that era. After such a school\\nthose boys could never wear the yoke of servitude. Henceforth\\nthey were freemen.\\nThe Indians, on the other hand, suffered from war and famine.\\nSleuth hounds, for the sake of the reward or to revenge the\\nmassacre of a family, in the shape of desperate man-hunters,\\nrangers and scouts, were continually on their trail and diminish-\\ning their numbers. In endurance the white man was their superior\\nand was bound to be the victor in the end.\\n-s", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nROYAL PROVINCE, 1692-1715.\\nSamuel Allen John Usher New Council Small Pox Post\\nOffice New Castle Incorporated Kingston Incorporated\\nWilliam Partridge PiscATAquA Rebellion ,Earl of Bellomont\\nGovernor Allen John Usher Mutilation of Records New\\nTrial of Claim Appeal to King Joseph Dudley Decision\\nOF English Courts Nashua Offers of Compromise Death of\\nAllen Renewal of Suit New Trial Death of Thomas Allen\\nHampton Falls Newington.\\nT\\n*HE administration of John Usher, as lieutenant-governor,\\nrepresenting his father-in-law, Samuel Allen, and Gover-\\nnor Joseph Dudley, was at a time the most mournful in the his-\\ntory of the Province or the State, and the most illy suited for\\nthe establishment of claims to lands which were occupied by\\npeople defending them from a savage foe, and exciting sympa-\\nthy in the minds of home and foreign judges by their bravery\\nand sacrifices. According to the common law of England,\\nAllen was undoubtedly right. The discovery and occupation of\\na vast continent, however, brought different elements into the\\nlegal questions involved. The right of even a prince to grant\\nland to the exclusion of actual settlers in long and undisturbed\\npossession is seriously questioned. When to the difficulties of\\nthe case is added the purchase of the territory from its un-\\ndoubted owners, the Indians, and thereafter the maintaining the\\npossession by right of conquest, one s sympathy must lean towards\\nthe settlers. In a foreign war, it is the patriotic duty of a citi-\\nzen to sustain his government, right or wrong but even in that\\ncise, when it becomes a matter of history, he may question the\\njustice and equity of the course pursued by the public or the\\nState.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "HISTORY Of NEW lIAMPSillRE.\\n[1692\\nIn the midst of the Indian war, the Province of New Hamp-\\nshire was placed under a new government. The people desired\\nfor the most part to continue their union with Massachusetts,\\nbut Samuel Allen of London, who had purchased the interest\\nof the heirs of Mason to New Hampshire, claimed recognition\\nof his title from the crown, and a commission for the govern-\\nment of the province. A petition from the people for a union\\nwith Massachusetts was neglected, and the power of govern-\\n^^_\\n3e\\\\vL\\nn\\\\exsc^\\nment was conferred upon Allen. His son-in-law, John Usher,\\nwas appointed lieutenant-governor in his absence. The coun-\\ncillors named in the commission were John Usher, John Hinckes,\\nNathaniel Fryer, Thomas Graffort, Peter Coffin, Henry Greene,\\nRobert Elliot, John Gerrish, John Walford and John Love.\\nTo these were afterwards added Major Vaughan, Nathaniel\\nWeare and Richard Waldron.\\nThe lately appointed lieutenant-governor arrived and pub-\\nlished his commission in August, 1692. His council were gen-\\nerally men who had the confidence and good will of the people,\\nbut Usher himself was unpopular on account of his connection", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "1692]\\nKOVAL PRO\\\\lNXE.\\nwith the government under Andros and his interest in Allen s\\nclaim to the lands. He was a native of Boston, a tradesman\\nof considerable wealth, and had successfully conducted the\\n\\\\/^^^m^.Ff^^^i^\\n^m.4^m.\\nnegotiations on the part of Massachusetts for the purchase\\nfrom Gorges of the Province of Maine. He had been treasurer\\nin the government of Sir Edmund Andros, and was largely", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "124\\nmSTOKV OF NEW HAMI SHIKE.\\n:i692\\ninterested in land speculation. He was good-natured, open,\\nand generous but no statesman or courtier. He was not affa-\\nfj\u00c2\u00ab.w-(ast!e. i\\nble, but rather stern and severe. He prided himself on his\\nauthority, was consequential and dictatorial, but fairly gov-\\nerned durinsr the Indian ti oublcs.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "1692] KOVAI. I KOVINCE. 1 25\\nDuring the year 1692, besides the terror of the Indian war,\\na very fatal epidemic of small pox raged at Portsmouth and\\nGreenland.\\nIn 1793 the first post-office in the Province was established at\\nPortsmouth. During the same year Great Island, Sandy Beach\\n(Rye), and Little Harbor were incorporated as the town of\\nNew Castle. Great Island had been a place of considerable\\nimportance. During Cranfield s administration it was the seat\\nof government. It was afterwards reduced in size by the incor-\\nporation of Rye, until to-day, with an area of only 458 acres, it\\nis the smallest township in the State. It was the home in later\\nyears of Theodore Atkinson, chief justice of the Province.\\nRev. Samuel Moody preached at New Castle before 1700 Rev.\\nJohn Emerson was ordained in 1704; Rev. William Shurtleff,\\nin 1712; Rev. John Blunt, in 1732 Rev. David Robinson, in\\n1748; Rev. Stephen Chase, in 1750; Rev. Oliver Noble, in\\n1784.\\n1 What was the population of New Castle at the date of its\\ncharter, it is quite impossible to determine accurately. On one\\noccasion forty men signed a petition, which list included none\\nof the government officials. It is probable that, in 1693, there\\nwere within the whole territory of this town not far from five\\nhundred inhabitants.\\nThe records of the town from 1693 to 1726 were lost for\\nmany years, and were not recovered until 1873, when they were\\nfound in the hands of a private gentleman of England, who pre-\\nsented them to the town authorities.\\nThe following description of a New Hampshire town meeting-\\nis taken from Mr. Albee s readable History of New Castle\\nIn general, it may be said that it is an occasion when some public busi-\\nness is transacted, of the necessary sort, and the year s accumulation of\\ncriticism, grievances, and personal grudges be discharged. In New Castle\\nwe deliberate with our hats on, after the manner of the British. Parliament.\\nWe always think there is time enough to take them off when we go to bed.\\nNo sooner is a new town government elected than it begins to be watched\\nand found fault with. Then appears that almost natural impulse of our race,\\nor. perhaps, inherited in its long contests for freedom, which impels it to\\nJohn .\\\\;bcc.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "126\\nHISTOKV OK NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[1693\\nconsider its civil rulers natural enemies. In town governments this watch-\\nfulness and criticism are not always an unmi.\\\\ed good the j often become\\nfrivolous, and turn on personal or partv sympathies and antipathies.\\nHow can I find my family history said a gentleman to a genealogist-\\nSimply by running for an office, was the answer. The selectmen are\\nseated behind a long table, on which are the records, the account books and\\npapers, and a law book or two the town officer, perhaps, and the statutes\\nof the State. They look nervous, but defiant. Indeed, it does put a man on\\nhis mettle to face a body of citizens to whom he is directly accountable.\\nBefore the selectmen stand their fellow citizens perhaps fifty, perhaps two\\nhundred ready to listen to the report of the year s transactions; read v.\\nalso, to put the most provoking questions. The town methods of conducting\\nbusiness are clumsy, absurd, informal the manners of the meeting rough\\nnow violent, now indifferent; matters proceed confusedly; but the ends\\nattained are the pride of our civilization, equitable taxation, safe roads and\\nbridges, care of the poor, public order, and equal and sufficient education\\nfor all.\\nThere was a period in the history of all New England towns when thev\\nhad the care of religion.\\nThat the ancient town meetings were much like the modern, is evident\\nfrom careful reading of the records. It is clear enough when matters are in\\ncontention it is clear what is of public interest from year to year.\\nThe first town clerk of New Castle, by election, was Theodore Atkinson.\\nBelow is the seal of Richard Jose, sheriff of the Province and town, in the\\nseventeenth century.\\nThere was a regular night watch for all parts of the town and every night\\nthe constable, with four men of the watch, visited all public houses to\\nenforce the regulations concerning them. No strangers were allowed in\\nNew Castle above fourteen davs, without notice to the selectmen. Whoever", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "1 693]\\nROVAL PROVINCE.\\n127\\nsold liquor to a common drunkard was liable to fine; and the selectmen gave\\nto the innkeeper the names of persons to whom they were forbidden to sell.\\nThe selectmen, in early times, met monthly to attend to any business\\nbrought before the board. They also sat as judges, deciding trivial matters\\nappertaining to the community.\\nSampson Sheafe, a graduate of Harvard College, was the first schoolmaster\\nAmong the inhabitants of New Castle for two centuries, appear the names", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "128 HISTOKV OF M-.W HAMFSHIKE. [1694\\nof Amazeen, Bell, Frost, Lear. Meloon, Tarlton, Vennard, White and\\nYeaton. Here have lived those of the name of Atkinson. Elliot, Estwick,\\nFrver, Hinckes, Jackson, JaftVev, Jones, Jordan, Langmaid, Leach, Odiorne,\\nParker, Rand, Randall, -Seavv, Slileman, Trefethen, Tucker, Waldron, Wal-\\nford, Wallis, Walton, Sargent, and Prescott.\\nThe following year, 1694, an attempt was made to extend the\\nsettlements, and the township of Kmgston was granted to a\\nparty of twent} men from Hampton and the town was incorpo-\\nrated but within two years the settlers deserted the place and\\ndid not return until peace was declared in 1799.\\nGrantees of Kingston.\\nJames Prescott. Sen. Benjamin Sanborn. John Mason.\\nThomas Philbrook. Jr. Daniel Moiilton. Nathaniel Sanborn.\\nSamuel Colcord. Isaac Godfrev. John Moulton.\\nSamuel Dearborn. Gershom Elkins. Francis Towle.\\nJacob Garland. Thomas Webster.\\nEbenezer Webster. William Godfrey.\\nDuring the two or three first years of Usher s administration\\nthe public charges were provided for by an excise on wines and\\nliquors and a tax on merchandize, the Assembly voting them year\\nby year. During the year i6-)5 the deputies became unmanage-\\nable and refused to grant money, except for the defence of the\\nProvince. Nor could Usher obtain money from Allen, the pro-\\nprietor of the Province, for his drafts were dishonored. He de-\\nsired Governor Allen to take the government into his own hands\\nor find a successor to himself. The people, however, had antici-\\npated him, for having removed Hinckes, Waldron and Vaughan\\nfrom the council, on account of their opposition of the proprie-\\ntary claim, he so irritated the leading men of the Province that\\nthey conspired for his removal, and privately recommended Wil-\\nliam Partridge as his successor as lieutenant-governor. Part-\\nridge was a native of Portsmouth, a shipwright, of extraordinary\\nmechanical genius, of a politic turn of mind, and a popular\\nman. He was treasurer of the Province, largely concerned in\\ntrade, well known in England as a dealer in masts and timber for\\nthe navy, and he received his commission as lieutenant-governor", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "1696] ROYAL I KOVINXE. I29\\nin June, i6g6. He returned to New ICnglaiid and assumed the\\nduties of office in January, 1697, and the suspended councillors\\nresumed their seats. John Pickering, a man of rough and ad-\\nventurous spirit, and a lawyer, was made King s attorney, and\\nthe records which Usher had compelled him to deliver up were\\ndeposited in the hands of Major Vaughan, who was appointed\\nrecorder.\\nUsher, who resided in Boston, claimed these acts to be illegal,\\nand sent his secretary, Charles Story, to England, with an\\naccount of what he styled the Piscataqua rebellion and re-\\nceived directions from the English authorities to keep his office\\nof lieutenant-governor until Partridge was legally qualified.\\nHe was frustrated in his designs, for Partridge went through\\nthe required forms and duly qualified himself the day after\\nUsher arrived in Portsmouth with his commission, in December,\\n1697.\\nThe Assembly met early in January, 1698, and approved what\\nhad been done, and sent Ichabod Plaisted to meet the Earl of\\nBellomont, the newly-appointed governor of New England, upon\\nhis arrival in New York. During the year. Governor Allen, a\\nman of a pacific and condescending disposition, came from\\nEngland, and, as his commission was still in force, took the oaths\\nand assumed the command. Usher was reinstated in the coun-\\ncil. Partridge was suspended, and an altercation ensued between\\nthe governor on the one part and the council and the Assembly\\non the other. Elliot withdrew, and was soon followed by Coffin\\nand Waldron the Assembly refused to appropriate money and\\nthe governor dissolved them. Fryer, of the old board, alone re-\\nmained in the council. Joseph Smith of Hampton and Kingsley\\nHall of Exeter were appointed to the council, and Sampson\\nSheafe, the secretary, and Peter Weare, made up a quorum.\\nIn the summer of 1699, the new governor-general, the Earl of\\nBellomont, a nobleman of distinguished figure and polite man-\\nner, a firm friend to the revolution, a favorite of King William,\\nand one who had no interest in oppressing them, published his\\ncommission in New Hampshire, to the great joy of the people.\\nUpon the change in rulers. Partridge took his seat as lieutenant-", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "130 inSTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 701\\ngovernor, and the displaced councillors were again called to the\\nboard. Richard Jose was made sheriff in place of William\\nArdell, and Charles Story secretary in the room of Sheafe.\\nPeace within and without the Province having been tempora-\\nrily restored, and the government modelled in favor of the peo-\\nple, both parties in the land suits agreed to leave the decision to\\nproperly constituted courts. The Assembly having voted Bello-\\nmont ;^500, he left the Province within three weeks to the gov-\\nernment of his lieutenant-governor, Partridge. Partridge ap-\\npointed Hinckes chief justice and Peter Coffin, John Gerrish,\\nand John Plaisted assistants and Waldron chief justice of the\\ninferior court, with Henry Dow, Theodore Atkinson, and John\\nWoodman, for assistants.\\nDuring the summer of 1700, Colonel Romer, a Dutch engineer\\nunder Bellomont s direction, planned a fortification for the harbor\\nto cost ;^6,ooo, but the Assembly pleaded their poverty as an\\nexcuse for not building it. In the mean while, Allen saw very\\nlittle chance for him to recover his rights under the new courts\\nas then constituted. The records of the superior court having\\nbeen mutilated, all evidence of judgments recovered by Mason\\nwere lost and suits had to be commenced from the beginning.\\nWaldron, one of the principal land-holders, and a strenuous\\nopposer of the proprietary claim, was singled out to stand\\nforemost in the controversy with Allen, as his father had with\\nMason. The decisions were invariably given in favor of the\\ndefendant with costs. Allen s only refuge was in an appeal to\\nthe King, which the courts, following the example of their\\nbrethren in Massachusetts, refused to admit. He then petiti-\\noned the King, who granted an appeal, and censured the court for\\nnot permitting it.\\nDuring the year 1701, Bellomont died in New York; and the\\nAssembly confirmed the grants of land within their townships\\nand ordered their township lines to be determined. But Allen\\nprevented the laws being enacted and sent Usher to England\\nto attend to his appeal before the English courts.\\nKing William having died. Queen Anne, his successor, ap-\\npointed Joseph Dudley, a former president of New England, to", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "1702] KOVAL PROVINCE. I3I\\nbe governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and his\\ncommission was published in Portsmouth in July, 1702. The\\nAssembly, by a well-timed present, interested him in their favor;\\nbut Usher was successful before the Queen, and not only won\\nAllen s case, but secured tor himself the appointment of lieu-\\ntenant-governor of the Province, against the protest of Waklron,\\nwho represented the people of New Hampshire.\\nIn 1703 the attorney-general of the English court reported\\nthat Allen s claim to the waste land of the Province of New\\nHampshire was valid, and late in the year Usher published his\\ncommission in Portsmouth.\\nDuring the year of 1702 the colonial court of Massa-\\nchusetts built a trading-house for the Indians, and established a\\nfortified garrison at Watanic the Indian name for Nashua\\nwhich was afterwards called Queen s garrison, and situated about\\nsixty rods easterly of Main street, in Nashua, and about as far\\nnorth of Salmon brook. This was the head-quarters of trade\\nwith the Indians for many years.\\nIf we consider the appearance and extent of the primitive\\nforests, in the midst of natural scenes like these, it is not sur-\\nprising that these bold pioneers should select a place like this in\\nwhich to rear their log huts for, as Governor Wentworth said,\\nthe royal or mast pines of Dunstable plains were the best in\\nNew Hampshire and they presented a majestic appearance.\\nThese trees often grew to the height of two hundred feet, and\\nas straight as an arrow, many of them forty inches in diameter.\\nThese pines were, by royal enactment, reserved for the king s\\nnavy, and were designated by the surveyors of the woods by a\\nmark made to represent an Indian arrow, and the owners of the\\nland were forbidden to cut them.\\nThe town of Greenland was set off from Portsmouth in 1705,\\nand incorporated as a parish in 1706. There were at the time about\\n320 inhabitants. Settlements had commenced within the terri-\\ntory many years before and men, women and children had been\\naccustomed to walk si.x and eight miles to attend services and\\nmeetings at Portsmouth. Rev. William Allen was ordained and", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132\\nHISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n.1704\\nsettled as their minister in 1707 Rev. Samuel McClintock, D.D.,\\nin 1756; Rev. James Neal, in 1805; Rev. Ephraim Abbott, in\\n1813; Rev. Samuel W. Clark, in 1829; Rev. Edwin Holt, in\\n1848; Rev. Edward Robie, in 1852.\\nJohn Allen.\\nDaniel Allen.\\nJoseph Berry-\\nNathaniel Berry.\\nJames Berry-\\nRobert Bryant, Ji\\nJohn Bryant.\\nJohn Cate.\\nSamuel Davis.\\nDaniel Davis.\\nJohn Docom.\\nRobert Goss.\\nInh.\\\\hitants of Greenl.\\\\nd\\nWilliam Haines.\\nMatthew Haines.\\nWilliam Hodge.\\nNathaniel Hugen.\\nEbenezer Johnson.\\nJohn Johnson.\\nNathan Johnson.\\nJames Johnson.\\nSarah Jackson.\\nJatncs March.\\nIsrael March.\\nSamuel Neal.\\nIN 1714-\\nJohn Neal.\\nThomas Perkins.\\nThomas Packer.\\nJoshua Peirce.\\nJohn Philbrook.\\nJohn Philbrook.\\nBenjamin Skilan.\\nNathaniel Watson.\\nJoshua Weeks.\\nJonathan Weeks.\\nJoseph Weeks.\\nSamuel Weeks.\\nThe year 1704 was remarkable for the renewal of the Indian\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0war and dissensions between the lieutenant-governor and his\\ncouncil and the Assembly. The recorder refused to deliver the\\nrecords to Penhallow, the secretary, without a vote of the Assem-\\nbly. The latter appropriated thirty-eight shillings towards\\nUsher s support, and voted him the use of two rooms at New\\nCastle, a rather meagre allowance, considering the wealth and\\nstate of the lieutenant governor. The decision of the English\\ncourts having been communicated to the Assembly by Gover-\\nnor Dudley, they signified their consent to the proprietor s claim\\nto the waste lands of the Province, but asserted that he had\\ngone beyond his rights in taking possession of the commons\\nwithin the incorporated township. In fact, Allen had served\\nlegal papers upon Waldron, and urged the governor s presence\\nto enforce the Queen s decree but Dudley was attacked by a\\nseasonable fit of sickness at Newbury, which prevented his\\nattendance at court. At length, fairly worn out by the contro-\\nversy with such determined adversaries, Allen made advan-\\ntageous offers of compromise, in 1705, accepting for himself a\\ntract forty miles long and twenty miles wide, at the head of the\\nold township, and reasonably large farms in each of the settled", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "1715] ROYAL PROVINCE. 1 33\\ntowns ami ^2,000 in cash, while he released all title to the bal-\\nance of the territory of the province. Death again prevented\\nthis happy arrangement, for Samuel Allen died in May, 1705,\\nthe day after the necessary papers were to have been signed.\\nHe was a gentleman of no remarkable abilities, and of a soli-\\ntary rather than a social disposition but mild, obliging, and\\ncharitable. His character as a merchant was fair and upright,\\nand his domestic deportment amiable and exemplary. He was\\na member of the Church of England, but attended the Congre-\\ngational services at New Castle. He died in his seventieth\\nyear, leaving one son and four daughters.\\nThe year after his death, his son, Thomas Allen of London,\\nrenewed the suit in the inferior court of the Province, in 1706,\\nand was defeated. On an appeal to the superior court, in 1707,\\nhe was again defeated. This was the most celebrated trial of\\nthe case. James Menzies and John Valentine appeared for the\\nproprietor and John Pickering and Charles Story for the de-\\nfence. The jury paid no attention to the Queen s directions,\\nand the case was again appealed to the English courts. Then,\\non the account of the loyalty of the people, and their sufferings\\nduring the war, no decision was arrived at until the case was\\nabruptly closed by the death of Allen, in 1715.\\nHampton Falls, originally a part of Hampton, set off in 1709,\\nwas incorporated in 171 2, when Rev. Theophilus Cotton was\\nsettled as the minister. He was succeeded in 1727 by Rev.\\nJoseph Whipple; in 1757, by Rev. Josiah Bayley in 1763, by\\nRev. Paine Wingate; in 1781, by Rev. Samuel Langdon, D. D.,\\nfor several years president of Harvard College in 1798, by\\nRev. Jacob Abbott, the last Congregational minister, who was\\ndismissed in 1827.\\nPetitioners for Incorpor.\\\\tiox of Hampton FAfeLs.\\nJohn Brown. Jonathan Fifield. Robert Reed.\\nWilliam Brown. Jonathan Filbrook John Swavn.\\nIsrael Black. John French. Caleb Swavn.\\nNath. Bacheler. John Gove. Joseph Sweet, Jr.\\nBenj. Bacheler. Ebenezer Gove. Jacob Stanyan. 1\\nMoses Blake. Isaac Green. John Sanborn.\\nPhilemon Blake. Nathan Green. Wm. Sanb.orn.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134\\nIIISTOKV OF Xi:\\\\V HAMPSHIRE\\nLI7I6\\nTiinolliy Blake.\\nJohn Cass.\\nJoseph Cass.\\nJohn Cram.\\nJohn Cram.\\nThomas Cram.\\nBenjamin Cram.\\nZachariah Clifford.\\nIsrael Clifford, Jr.\\nJacob Clifford.\\nJohn Drown.\\nJohn Eaton.\\nJo.seph Emons.\\nBenjamin Fifield.\\nEphraini Hoit.\\nTimothy Hutchins.\\nBenj. rnilyard.\\nSaml. Ilealy,\\nNehemiah Heath.\\nJohn Morginn.\\nSaml. Melcher.\\nBonos Norton.\\nBenj. Perkins.\\nCaleb Perkins.\\nJonathan Prescott.\\nNath. Prescott.\\nJames Prescott. Sen.\\nThos. Philbrook.\\nJoseph Swett.\\nSamuel Shaw.\\nCaleb Shaw,\\nJoseph Sanborn.\\nEnoch Sanborn.\\nWilliam Shipperd.\\nJoseph Tilton.\\nDaniel Tilton.\\nJethro Tilton.\\nDavid Tilton.\\nPeter Weare.\\nNathl. Weare.\\nNathl. Weare, Jr.\\nEdward Wilkins.\\nDuring all these years of war, John Usher continued in his\\noffice of lieutenant-governor. His austere and ungracious\\nmanners, and the interest he had in Allen s claim, prevented\\nhim from acquiring that popularity which he seems to have\\ndeserved. What was most remarkable, he had to serve for the\\nhonor of the office without any of the emoluments. His prede-\\ncessor had been liberally paid, but even the great popularity of\\nDudley could not induce the Assembly to give Usher a salary.\\nTheir first allowance to him was less than \u00c2\u00a3^2 for travelling\\nexpenses from Boston, which amount they increased to ^5, and\\nin a fit of generosity, at Dudley s suggestion, they again in-\\ncreased it to ^10. They also provided him with quarters on\\nGreat Island, which he complained of as not fit for his servants.\\nUpon his retiring from office, in 17 15, he returned to Medford,\\nwhere he lived in state for nearly a dozen years, dying at the\\nage of seventy-eight years.\\nHe was succeeded in office by George Vaughan, in October,\\n171 5. Governor Dudley had become very popular. His salar\\\\\\nwas freely appropriated, and petitions were sent to the Queen\\nto keep him in office; but he was superseded in October, 1716,\\nby Samuel Shute.\\nWith the departure of Usher and the death of .-Mien, the\\nMasonian claim was taken from the courts for the last time, but\\nin ano .her generation it was destined to aiise and trouble\\npeople in another way for many years to come.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "I7I4]\\nROYAL PROVINCE.\\nI3S\\nNewington was named, in 17 14, by Governor Dudley, and had\\nalready been incorporated as a parish. It included the disputed\\nterritory called Bloody Point, which, in 1644, had contained\\ntwelve families. The settlers at that time were James John-\\nson, Thomas Canning, Henry Longstaff, Thomas Fursen, John\\nFayes, William Frayser, Oliver Trimings, William Jones, Philip\\nLewis, Thomas Trickey, John Goddard and one other. It had\\ntown privileges as early as 1737. Rev. Joseph Adams was\\nordained and settled in the town in 1715, and was followed, in.\\n1795, by Rev. James Langdon, the last settled Congregational\\nminister.", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nROYAL PROVINCE, 17 15 -1722.\\nTxTRODUCTioN George Vaughan Samuel Shute John Wcntworth\\nCommerce Tuo-Mile Slip Scotch- Irish Londonderry Early\\nSettlers Chester.\\npEACE having been assured, by a treaty with the French and\\nIndians, from 1715 to 1722 the Province took rapid strides in\\nthe line of progress. Commerce was fostered, and settlements\\nwere rapidly advanced upon hitherto ungranted lands. The\\npower of the Indians had been broken by repeated contests,\\nand only a few of them remained, scattered over the Province,\\nto impede the advance of settlers. The rights of the proprietors,\\nunder the Masonian grant, had fallen into the hands of minors,\\nor non-resident claimants, and were not very definite. From\\nrepeated suits the representatives of the claim had come to\\nrealize that the people of the Province would never submit to\\nhold their lands as tenants under a landlord. The claimants\\nwatched the progress of events, but could not control them.\\nUp to this time the settlements had been confined to a narrow\\nterritory bordering upon the ocean and Great Bay. On account\\nof the uncertainty of title, the inland valleys and meadows had\\nnot been occupied. Within ten yeajrs, the frontiers were advanced\\nnearly fifty miles into the interior.\\nGeorge Vaughan, the lieutenant-governor, who superseded\\nJohn Usher, arrived in the Province and opened his commission\\nin October, 1715. After his arrival, Governor Dudley, daily ex-\\npecting his successor, did not come into New Hampshire, but left\\nthe government to Vaughan. George Vaughan was the son of\\nMajor William Vaughan and received the office as a recognition", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "171 7] KOVAL PROVINCE. I37\\nof the services of his father, who had suffered financially and\\nphysically in defending the colonists from the rapacity of the pro-\\nprietors. Lieutenant-Governor Vaiighan held the office of chief\\nmagistrate one year before the arrival, in October, 171 7, of\\nGovernor Samuel Shute. He summoned the Assembh-, who re-\\nfused to make appropriations for a longer time than one year,\\nwhereupon he dissolved them.\\nSamuel Shute, governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire,\\nmade several changes in the council upon his arrival in Ports-\\nmouth, confining his new appointments to residents of that\\ntown. This was not satisfactory to the rural portion of the\\nProvince, who remonstrated with the governor, and complained\\nthat the traders of Portsmouth were favored in imposing taxes\\nto the injurv of the farmers. The governor judiciously left the\\nmatter to be settled by his council.\\nla 1717, the authorities, at the recommendation of the gover-\\nnor, issued bills of credit or bonds, to the amount of ^15,000,\\nbearing 10 per cent, interest. A difficulty soon arose between\\nGovernor Shute and Lieutenant-Governor Vaughan. The latter\\nclaimed to be chief magistrate in the absence of the former and\\nsuspended councillors and dissolved the Assembly on his own\\nauthority. To this Governor Shute objected, and the council\\nsustained him whereupon he suspended Vaughan, reinstated\\nPenhallow, a deposed councillor, and recalled the dissolved Assem-\\nbly. John Wentworth, sometime later in the year, received\\nthe appointment of lieutenant-governor, his commission arriv-\\ning early in December.\\nWentworth had accumulated considerable property. He was\\nprudent, obliging, and popular with the people and, having\\nserved five years in the council before he was appointed lieuten-\\nant-governor, he was familiar with the forms and duties of the\\noffice. As a merchant, he could develop the resources of the\\nProvince to the best advantage, and, as it was a time of peace,\\nfind for the lumber and naval stores a ready and profitable\\nmarket.\\nUnder Wentworth s wise admniistration various industries\\nwere fostered. An old Massachusetts trrant was revived, and a", "height": "2507", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "13S msTOKV OF NKW HAMPSHIRE. [1722\\nstrip of land bordering on Dover, called the two-mile slip, was\\ngiven to encourage the mining of iron ore. Besides masts, there\\nwas considerable commerce in tar, pitch, and turpentine and a\\nstart was made in raising hemp. All the available land in the\\nProvince already granted was not sufficient for the wants of the\\npeople.\\nAt this juncture, a large party of emigrants from the north of\\nIreland arrived in New England and requested of Governor Shute\\nthe grant of a township on which to settle. He sent a party of\\nthem along the eastern coast, but they returned to Boston with-\\nout finding land that suited them. Hearing of a desirable place\\nungranted above Haverhill, they chose to locate their grant of\\nn township there. This was in 17 19. A new difficulty now\\narose. Who could grant the territory The King could not do\\nso without interfering with private property, for his predeces-\\nsors had already granted it. Some three years before, the\\nauthorities of Massachusetts and New Hampshire had attempted\\nto decide their boundary line, but could not agree. There were\\nmany claimants under the Masonian grant and there was an\\nIndian title. The new settlers at first bought the latter title\\nand applied to Usher, representative of the Masonian claim, for\\na deed from him for his interests, but could not obtain one. So\\nthey laid out their township, and, as they could do so, perfected\\ntheir titles. They brought with them the cultivation of the Irish\\npotatoes, and the necessary materials for the manufacture of\\nlinen. They came with their ministers and their school-masters\\nand were pious, brave and frugal. They at once organized a\\nchurch, and receiving an act of protection from the New Hamp-\\nshire authorities, were permitted to have a justice of the peace,\\nJames McKeen, and a deputy sheriff, Robert Weir, among\\nthem. Their number was rapidly increased by later arrivals,\\nso that, in 1722, the town was incorporated by the name of\\nLondonderry.\\nThe Scotch-Irish, so called in New England history, were of\\nSaxon lineage, with their blood unmi.xed, in the seventeenth\\ncentury, with the half barbaric Scotch highlanders, or their rude\\ncousins, the Irish Celts. They were rigid Presbyterians, fol-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "1722] ROVAL PROVINCE. I39\\nlowers and admirers of Oliver Cromwell, enemies of Popery and\\nthe Established Church of England, brave, zealous, lovers of\\nlearning and liberty, and withal bigoted in their advanced\\nnotions. Cromwell had peopled the waste districts of northern\\nIreland with these, his most trusted and reliable troops, to pacify\\nthat land most effectually. A change in the government\\nbrought careless King Charles II to the throne, a Catholic at\\nheart, an Episcopalian by profession, a voluptuary in practice, who\\nwithdrew his support from, and deprived of arms for defence,\\nthe Scotch colony planted in Iicland, leaving them to the mercy\\nof a revengeful peasantr)-. Who so ready to welcome a revolu-\\ntion as these brave Scots, oppressed by the government, cruelly\\npersecuted by their neighbors, and powerless to oppose William\\nof Orange became their champion, ami, like the Ironsides of\\nCromwell, their fathers, they drove the Irish from their borders,\\nantl withstood the most determined siege in historv within the\\nwalls of Londontlerry, resisting the power of the Irish and\\nFrench troops seeking to reduce them.\\nThey could present a brave front to an open attack, but they\\nwere not equal to withstanding the petty encroachments of the\\nEstablished Church insidiously undermining their beloved Kirk.\\nThe Pilgrims had found religious freedom in a new and undeve-\\nloped country, and thither the Scotch-Irish sent agents to spy\\nout and report the condition of the land and its fitness for\\noccupation. The Irish hati not intimidated them they scorned\\nthe untutored Indian. Like an invading host they flocked to\\nthe sea-board and poured into New England, Pennsylvania, and\\nthe southern provinces, pushing the frontiers rapidly into the\\nuntrodden wilderness, and settling the fertile valleys and hill-\\nsides far in advance of their predecessors. One stream striking-\\nBoston was diverted to Londonderry. The Scotch-Irish colony\\nlocated there in 17 19 came to stay. Hundreds followed in their\\nfootsteps, tarried awhile with their friends so happily settled,\\nand pressed on into the wilderness, over the hills to the P alls of\\nAmoskeag, up the Merrimack, by Hooksett Falls, to the fertile\\nvalley of the Suncook. still further to the blooming intervales of\\nPenacook and the wide meadows of the Contoocook. They", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "I40 HISTOKV U.- NEW IIAMPSHIKE. IW-^\\nwere cultivating fields in Epsom before the township was laid\\nout to the grantees. The Massachusetts surveying party laying\\nout Concord reported that they were in possession of the inter-\\nvales, and were protected by a fort from disturbance of friend or\\nfoe. The law dislodged them from that favored spot, now the\\nsite of the village of East Concord, and was invoked to keep\\nthem out by the first settlers for among the first regulations\\nadopted by the proprietors of Penacook was one forbidding\\nthe alienation of any lot without the consent of the community\\nunder penalty of forfeiting the right to the lot to the proprietors\\na rule evidently intended to exclude a parcel of Irish people\\nknown to be seeking homes in the neighborhood.\\nThe proprietors of Suncook no doubt found the land occupied\\nby these same strangers and aliens, but the same prejudice did\\nnot prevail, for early in the records of the township the Scotch-\\nIrish were holding original rights, were admitted as pro-\\njDrietors and freeholders, and even as early as 1737 were claiming\\na majority. No doubt they held the title to their lands first by\\npossession and occupation, next by legal conveyance from the\\nSuncook proprietors. Being in a majority they claimed a voice\\nin the settlement of a minister to preach the gospel, but were\\ncounted out, and paid their rates towards the support of a\\nminister not to their liking with evident disrelish.\\nWhat wealth of associations is connected with the name of\\nLondonderry The Scotch Covenanters, stern, brave men, who\\nmade a garden of the north of Ireland, who so stubbornly and\\nsuccessfully defended their devoted city, who helped so manfully\\nto maintain the monarch and the cause that later would oppress\\nthem as aliens, surrounded by enemies at home, burdened by\\nobnoxious laws enforced by their allies of the Established\\nChurch, sought in the wilderness of America liberty and that\\nreligious freedom which the Puritans, a century earlier, had suc-\\ncessfully gained. A young man. Holmes by name, son of a\\nPresbyterian minister, brought a good account of the promised\\nland. Four congregations, led by their respective clergymen,\\ncommenced the exodus, which, in a few years, rendered possible\\nI Hon. L. Morrison, A. M.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "IJig] KOVAI. I KO /IXCE. 141\\nthe American Revolution. Governor Shute, of Massachusetts,\\nwas above the narrow prejudices of his contemporaries in the\\ncolony, and welcomed this band of hardy settlers, resolute\\nwarriors, scholars and skilled artisans, and generously granted\\ntliem a large section of land. April 11, 1719, the congregation,\\nunder the spiritual guidance of Rev. James MacGregore, arrived\\nat Horse Hill and commenced the settlement of the township of\\nLondonderry, a tract, as originally granted, twelve miles square.\\nIt cornered on the present Massachusetts State line, and was\\nbounded on the south by Pelham, on the west by Litchfield, on\\nthe north by Chester, and on the east by Hampstead. It in-\\ncluded the present towns of Londonderry, Derry, and Windham,\\nand tracts now embraced within the towns of Salem, Hudson,\\nand the city of Manchester.\\nThese settlers, whose descendants have removed the odium at-\\ntached to the name of Scotch-Irish, and have written their\\nnames on the imperishable pages of history, receiving their\\noriginal grant from Massachusetts, had it confirmed to them by\\nthe authorities of New Hampshire, purchased the right claimed\\nunder the Wheelwright deed and evidently entered into a compact\\nwith the Indians, for they were never disturbed in their possess-\\nions, although a frontier town. During the first summer they\\nunited in cultivating a field in common, amicably dividing the\\nproduce in the autumn. Although not rich, they brought with\\nthem considerable property from the old country, and very soon\\nwere surrounded with many of the comforts and even luxuries\\nof civilization. A two-story house was built for their minister,\\nand a commodious church for public worship. Schools were estab-\\nlished in different parts of the town and much attention\\ngiven to the education of the young. It is a characteristic fact\\nthat ninety-five out of one hundred of the original proprietors\\nleft their autographs in a fairly legible hand on various petitions.\\nThe progress made by the town of Londonderry was remark-\\nable. Its wealth and population increased rapidly. In 1775\\nit contained 2,590 inhabitants, ranking next to Portsmouth in im-\\nportance. By 1820 Gilmanton and Sanbornton had outstripped\\nit, and it held the fourth position among the New Hampshire\\ntowns.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "143\\nIIISTOKV OF .Ni;w HAMPSHIRE.\\n.1719\\nThe vanguard of the Scotch-Irish invasion which settled Londonderrv, ac-\\ncording to Jolin Farmer, were\\nRandel Alexander.\\nSamuel Allison.\\nAllen Anderson.\\nJames Anderson.\\nJohn Barnet.\\nArchibald Clendenin.\\nJames Clark.\\nJames Gregg.\\nJohn Mitchell.\\nJohn Morrison.\\nJames McKean\\nJohn Xesmith.\\nThomas Steele.\\nSterrett.\\nJohn Steward.\\nRobert Weir.\\nWithin a few vears thev were followed by\\nJames Adams.\\nJohn Adams.\\nJames Aiken.\\nNathaniel Aiken.\\nJames Alexander.\\nJohn Andersen,\\nRobert Arbiickel.\\nJohn Archbald.\\nJohn Barnett.\\nMoses Barnett.\\nJohn Barr.\\nSamuel Barr.\\nJohn Bell.\\nJames Blair.\\nJohn Blair.\\nJames Caldwell.\\nJames Campbell.\\nDavid Cargill.\\nBenjamin Chamberlain.\\nMatthew Clark.\\nAndrew Clendenin.\\nNinin Cochran.\\nPeter Cochran.\\nRobert Cochran.\\nWilliam Cochran.\\nThomas Cochran.\\nJohn Conaghie.\\nHugh Craige.\\nJohn Craig.\\nJesse Cristi.\\nJohn Cromay.\\nJohn Dinsmore.\\nPatrick Douglass.\\nWilliam Eayrs.\\nJanieN (iillnior.\\nRobert Gillmor.\\nJohn Goffe.\\nJohn Goffe, Jr.\\nSamuel Graves.\\nJohn Gregg.\\nWilliam Harper.\\nJames Harvey.\\nJohn Harvey.\\nWilliam Hogg.\\nAbraham Holmes,\\nlonathan Hollnie.\\nJohn Hopkins.\\nSolomon Hopkins.\\nThomas Horner.\\nSamuel Houston.\\nWilliam Humphrey.\\nDavid Hunter.\\nAlexander Kelsey.\\nRobert Kennedy.\\nBenjamin Kidder,\\nJames Leslie.\\nJames Lindsay.\\nEdward Linkfield.\\nDaniel McDuffie.\\nRobert McFarlin.\\nNathan McFarlin.\\nJames MacGregore.\\nDavid MacGregore.\\nRobert McKean.\\nSamuel McKean.\\nArchibald Mackmurphy,\\nJohn McMurphy.\\nAlexander MacNeal.\\nJohn McNeill.\\nWilliam Michell.\\nHugh Montgomery.\\nJohn Moore.\\nWilliam Moore.\\nJames Morrison\\nRobert Morrison.\\nSamuel Morrison.\\nDavid Morrison.\\nJames Nesmith.\\n.Alexander Nickels.\\nHugh Ramsey.\\nJames Reid.\\nMatthew Reid.\\nAlexander Renkine.\\nSamuel Renkin.\\nJames Rodgers.\\nHugh Rogers.\\nJohn Shields.\\nArchibald Stark.\\nCharles Stewart.\\nThomas Stewart.\\nJames Taggart.\\nJohn Taggart.\\nJames Thomson.\\nWilliam Thomson.\\nRobert Thompson.\\nAndrew Todd.\\nSamuel Todd.\\nAlexander Walker.\\nJames Walles.\\nArchibald Wear.\\nRobert Weir.\\nBenjamin Willson.\\nJa:nes Willson.\\nHugh Wilson.\\nThonias Wilson.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "I720J KOYAL PROVINCE. I43\\nAnd later by those cf the name of\\nTaylor.\\nPierce.\\nMcAlester.\\nGibson.\\nSpaulding.\\nLivermore.\\nBurns.\\nPrentice.\\nMcClintock.\\nParker.\\nWallace.\\nKnox.\\nProctor.\\nChoate.\\nMann.\\nThornton.\\nPatterson.\\nCunningham.\\nThom.\\nFisher.\\nDaniels.\\nSimonds.\\nPinkerton.\\nMartin.\\nThe granting and incorporation of Londonderry to new com-\\ners was distasteful to men who for a generation had suffered to\\nmaintain a foothold along the coast against the attacks of a\\ncruel and treacherous enemy, cramped for land as they and their\\nlarge families had become and immediately all kinds of reasons\\nwere advanced why townships should be granted, both in New\\nHampshire and in what was then claimed as Massachusetts,\\nbounded by a line parallel with the Merrimack river, extending to\\nGovernor s Island in Lake Winnipiseogee, and thence running\\ndue west across the present State of Vermont to the east line\\nof the Province of New York. Some of these petitions were\\nfavorably received and acted upon. In 1722, Governor Shute,\\nas his last official act, granted and incorporated, in the name of\\nthe King, the four townships of Chester, Nottingham, Barrington,\\nand Rochester.\\nThe records of Chester commence with the proceedings of\\na meeting of the Society for settling the Chestnut Country,\\nheld at said country, the fifteenth of October, 17 19. The\\nsociety had probably existed some time, and was composed\\nprincipally of men of Hampton and Portsmouth. Afterward\\nduplicate records were kept at Hampton. The number of the\\nsociety was restricted to ninety. They had preferred a petition\\nto the governor and council, and in March, 1720, it was with-\\ndrawn, and another presented. They also voted to keep three\\nmen on the ground, and a possession fence was built. They\\nalso laid out lots before obtaining any grant. This meeting was\\nprobably at Walnut Hill, near the south east corner of the town-\\nship. There was also another company of Massachusetts men,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "144 IIISTUKV OF NEW llAMI SUIKE. [1/22\\nheaded by John C.ilf, who were endeavoriat; to [jrocure a grant.\\nJohn Calf was a clothier at the Falls, in Newbury, and was a\\ngrantee under the charter of Chester, and moved and carried\\non the trade there. They also tried to have possession. There\\nis a deed on the records to Samuel Ingalls of Cheshire,\\nblacksmith, dated Oct. 23, 1717. H e appears afterward, indeed,\\nto be of Haverhill, but he had a constructive residence in\\nChester, and a constructive possession of the territory. There\\nseems, by the House and council records, to have been other\\nparties endeavoring to obtain a grant. There is a deed on\\nRockingham records, dated May, 1722, wherein Stephen Dud-\\nley, of Freetown (Raymond), in consideration of affection, con-\\nveys to Francis James of Gloucester, his right to 400 acres in\\nFreetown, to be taken out of that tract bought of Peter Penult,\\nand Abigail his squaw, by deed, dated on Jan. 17, 1718.\\nThis was probably a move for color of title and possession\\nfor some of the parties. There was a compromise made by\\nadmitting certain persons of the Massachusetts party, and also\\nof E.xeter, and a grant was obtained Jan. 4, 1720; but the char-\\nter of the town was dated May 8, 1722. The governor and\\nlieutenant-governor had each a farm of 500 acres, and a home\\nlot, by a vote of the society and the charter provided that the\\nfirst settled minister should have a right, also one for a parson-\\nage, and one for a school. The boundaries commenced at the\\nsouth-east corner, at the supposed intersection of Haverhill\\nand Kingston lines. In 1674, Haverhill lines were run from\\nHolt s Rocks (a little east of the Rock bridge), north-west and\\nfrom Merrimack river due north, until it cut the first line.\\nAt this spot was erected a great pillar of stones, which\\ntwo old men, more than si.xty years ago, told Benjamin Chase\\nthey had seen in Chester South Woods. When the Province\\nline was settled in 1741, Daniel McDuffee and Hugh McDuffee,\\nwho lived near Kimball s corner in Derry, were cut off from\\nHaverhill.\\nWhen the town was laid out into lots, there were 1 17 grantees\\nand each member of the council had a right. The home lots\\nof 20 acres, from the corner by Kingston, and the old Haver-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "1722] KOVAI. I KOVINCE. 145\\nliill line, to the head of Chester street, and a ten rod way cross-\\ning at right angles where the Centre now is, on which the\\nfirst meeting-house was built, were laid out in 17 19, before any\\ngrant was made. In 1724, an additional lot of fifty acres was\\nlaid out to each grantee. The beavers had built dams on the\\nstream, which killed the growth, and when the beavers were\\nkilled and the dams went down, the grass came in, and in\\n1728 a meadow lot was laid out to each right. There is a\\nstream, which heads near the Congregational church in Auburn,\\nextending into Londonderry, with meadows, which was called\\nthe -Long Meadows and what is now Auburn was the\\nLong Meadows. In 1728, the first part of the second\\ndivision of lOO acres, called the Old Hundreds, which is the\\npresent town of Raymond in 1736 the second part of the\\nsecond division of 100 acres in 1739 the third division of 80\\nacres, all in Candia in 1745 the fourth division of 60 acres;\\nand in 1752 the fifth division of 40 acres, all in Hooksett, were\\nlaid out. Maps of these divisions were made at the time, and\\nhave been preserved by copying, and all deeds gave the number\\nand division of the lot, so that one can locate every settler\\nwhose deed is on record. The first settler was Samuel Ingalls,\\nborn in Andover, 1683, and moved to Haverhill, and had six\\nchildren before coming to Chester and his daughter Meheta-\\nble, born 1723, was the first child born in Chester. She married\\nSamuel Moore, who afterwards lived at Candia corner. She\\ndied in 18 18. There is a tradition that he came to Chester\\nin 1720. In March, 1722, Samuel Ingalls of Winfield, otherwise\\nCheshire, sold a right, reserving the home lot, number 64, on\\nwhich I live. He built the first farmhouse about 1732; held\\nthe ofifice of raoderator, selectman and town clerk. In 1731,\\nSamuel Ingalls is styled captain on the record and Ebenezer\\nDearborn, lieutenant, and Jacob Sargent, ensign, which was the\\nfirst military organization. January, 1720, he and three others\\nhad land and a privilege granted to build a saw-mill, and in\\n1730 John Aiken had a grant of land to build a grist-mill.\\nLondonderry was granted to settlers, already on the ground,\\nbut there were but six of the oriirinal cfrantees of Chester who", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "146 HISTOKV OF NKW HAMPSHIRE. 7-2\\never lived here, except the Rev. Moses Hale, the first minister\\nwho settled on the minister s lot. The first settlement was at\\nWalnut Hill, near the south-east corner, but settlers soon came\\nin from different parts and settled in different places. The\\ncharter provided that every proprietor should build a house and\\nsettle a family in three years, and break up and plant three\\nacres in four years, and a meeting-house should be built in\\nfour years, provided that there should be no Indian war in that\\ntime. The settlers, who were grantees, were Samuel Ingalls,\\nWilliam Healey of Hampton Falls, Dea. Ebenezer Dearborn of\\nHampton, who had five sons Nathan Webster of Bradford, who\\nhad three sons John Calf, who lived in Chester, and Thomas\\nSmith of Hampton.\\nThe sons of grantees were John and Samuel Robinson, sons\\nof Ichabod of Hampton Falls Ephraim, Thomas, and John\\nHaselton, sons of Richard of Bradford Anthony and Francis\\nTowle, sons of Caleb of Hampton, and Elisha, a grandson,\\nsettled in Raymond and John Shackford, son of Samuel of\\nPortsmouth and Samuel Emerson, son of Jonathan of Haver-\\nhill. His name first appears on the records in 173 1, when he\\nwas elected town clerk, and was re-elected every year until\\n1787, when he died. His son John succeeded him until 1S17.\\nHe was a land surveyor, and laid out the second part of the\\nsecond division in 1736, and all subsequent divisions. He did\\nall the surveying and wrote most of the deeds. He was a man\\nof such judgment and integrity, and the people had such confi-\\ndence in him, that nearly all the minor controversies were\\nreferred to him without any legal formalities, and his decision\\nwas beyond appeal or review. His son, Nathaniel, was a promi-\\nnent man in Candia. Among the early settlers were Enoch\\nand Benaiah Colby, and Paul and Sylvanus Smith of Hampton\\nEnsign Jacob Sargent from Amesbury, Sampson Underbill\\nfrom Salisbury, Cornet John Lane from Rye; Henry, Jonathan,\\nand Nathaniel Hall from Bradford Thomas, Moses, Daniel,\\nand Caleb Richardson also, Benjamin Hill, who was the first\\nrepresentative elected, but not received and Abel Morse, who\\nwas the first representative received, from Newbury who were", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "1722] ROVAI, PROVINCE. I47\\nCongregationalists. Then of the Scotch-Irish, who were Pres-\\nbyterians the grandfather, James Wilson, who died 1739, aged\\n100; the son, James, and his four sons, William, James, Robert,\\nand Hugh. They came from Ireland to Stratham, thence to\\nChester in 172S; Alexander Craige, William White, William\\nCrawford, John Talford, William and Robert Graham, John\\nAiken, and James Shirley. In 1728, the meeting-house was located\\nat Centre where four principal roads met, near the minister s\\nlot. The dimensions were fifty by thirty-five feet, and each\\nproprietor was to pay forty shillings. The house was not fin-\\nished until several years afterwards, and in 1737 land was\\ngranted to Peter and Thomas Cochran, the builders. This\\nhouse stood until 1773, when a new and noble house was\\nerected, and since has been modernized.\\nIn 1729, Mr. John Tuck of Hampton was called to be the\\nminister, with a salary of ^120, which he declined. January\\n15, 1729, Rev. Moses Hale was called to be the minister with a\\nsalary of ^120. He was ordained October 20, 173 1. He was\\nborn at Newbury, 1702; graduated. Harvard, 1722. He built\\na house on the minister s lot, and purchased Governor\\nWentworth s home lot, which was sold to his successor, Rev.\\nEbenezer Flagg. Mr. Hale soon became deranged, and was\\ndismissed in 1735, and moved to Haverhill. June, 1735, Rev.\\nTimothy White was called, but declined. June 23, 1736, Rev.\\nEbenezer Flagg was called, with a salary of ^^120, silver at\\ntwenty shillings per ounce. He was ordained September, 1736.\\nHe was born at Woburn, October 18, 1704; graduated Harvard,\\n1725 died November 14, 1796, and was succeeded by Re v.\\nNathan Bradstreet, 1792.\\nThe Presbyterians joined in building the meeting-house and\\npaying Mr. Hale; but before he left they had hired the Rev.\\nJohn Wilson, and afterwards built a meeting-house about a mile\\nsouth of the other, and they protested against hiring or settling\\nany other minister. They appealed to the governor and coun-\\ncil by a document, in an excellent handwriting and language\\nand noble sentiments and the result was an act was passed,\\n1740, incorporating two parishes. There is in existence one of", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "148 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1722\\nMr. Wilson s manuscript sermons, dated 1734. There was a\\nsmall meeting-house built at the Long Meadows, and about one\\nthird of the preaching was there. In 1793, the two were talvcn\\ndown and a new one built at the Long Meadows. Mr. Wilson\\ndied February i, 1778, succeeded in stated supplies by a Mr.\\nClark, Mr. Amran and others, and Mr. Colby, installed 1863.\\nThe first grant for a saw-mill was made to Samuel Ingalls\\nand others, and a grist-mill to John Aiken. About 1734, John\\nCalf moved to Chester, and in 1735, had a grant of land and\\nprivilege to build a fulling mill on the stream running into the\\npond, above the present mill-pond. There probably was none\\nto the north of it for a long time, and an extensive business\\nwas done. His son Robert succeeded him, and built a saw-\\nmill there. Samuel Shirley had built a corn-mill on the present\\nsite, and Calf s dam being cut away, he and his son-in-law,\\nJoseph Blanchard, purchased Shirley s in 1777, and the privi-\\nlege has been used for a grist-mill, saw-mill, clothing-mill and\\nfor other manufactures.\\nIn 1739, land and privilege was granted to John McMurphy\\nto build a grist-mill on Massabesic river, below the pond, re-\\nserving the right to build iron works, should ore be found.\\nThe first inventory on record was, in 1741, returned to the\\nsecretary s office to make a proportion of Province rates, on\\nwhich are 150 names, 124 houses, 97 horses, 78 oxen. In 1776,\\nthere were 916 inhabitants. In 1744, a writ for the election of\\na representative was sent to Chester by the governor, and\\nBenjamin Hill was elected, but was sent back because the writ\\nwas not issued by the Assembly. In 1748, Captain Abel Morse\\nwas received.\\nThe committee of the society voted that when the next pro-\\nprietor forfeited his lot, it should be appropriated to a school\\nJanuary, 1721. In 1737, jCso were raised for a school the\\nmaster to be removed to different parts of the town. In 1740,\\nit was voted that a school should be maintained through the\\nyear, partly by masters and partly by dames. In 1744, the town\\nwas divided, and school-houses built probably then. It was\\nvoted in 1750, that Charming Fare (Candia) and Freetown (Ray-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "17-2] ROVAI. PROVINCE. 1 J9\\niiiond) should have their share of tlie school money. The town\\nwas required by law, having loo families, to have a grammar\\nschool. The selectmen were once indicted for not having such\\na school.\\nIt will be seen that Chester was a very large town, and now\\nconstitutes several towns. At the annual meeting, March, 175 i,\\nit was voted that a tract at the south-west corner of the town,\\nfour miles long and five miles and three quarters wide, may bo\\nadjoined to a part of Londonderry, and the lands about Amos-\\nkeag may be set off as a separate parish. The land between\\nChester and the river called Harrytown had never been incorpo-\\nrated into any town.\\nChester old line was about a mile from the city hall of Man-\\nchester. This was incorporated into a township, called Derry-\\nfield, September 3, 175 1. The name was altered to Manchester,\\nin 1810.\\nAt the annual meeting, March, 1762, voted that a tract\\nabout four miles and a half long, and four miles wide, may be\\nincorporated into a parish; incorporated December 17, 1793;\\nnamed Candia. At a meeting, January 22, 1763, it was voted\\nthat tlie north parish or Freetown shall be set off as a town or\\nparish incorporated by the name of Raymond, May 9, 1764.\\nThe inhabitants of that part of Chester, commonly called\\nChester Woods, extending to AUenstown, suffering inconven-\\niencies, the farthest having to travel seventeen miles to town\\nmeeting, preferred a petition to be set off, and at the annual\\nmeeting, March, 1822, the town passed a vote in favor, and July\\n2, this, with a part of Dunbarton, was incorporated by the name\\nof Hooksett.\\nIn 1845 the town was divided, and the west part, which had\\nbeen called the Long Meadows, containing about two-fifths of\\nthe territory and inhabitants, was incorporated by the name of\\nAuburn.\\nSettlements were not commenced at Nottingham and Roches-\\nter until after the Lovewell war. Harrington was settled about\\n1732.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "ISO\\nHISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n1722\\nin Februarv 1717, occurred tlie greatest fall of snow recorded in the an-\\nnals of New England almost burving under the frozen mass the small log-\\nhouses of the new plantations. In Boston the snow was six feet deep. Dur-\\ning the year the laws of die Province were printed for the first time, at Boston,\\nin a folio volume of sixtv pages.\\nJt.wCAsrl- ysi(\u00c2\u00a3H \u00c2\u00bbieN", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nROYAL PROVINCE, 1722-1740.\\nLieutenant-Governor John Wentworth Governor Samuel Shute\\nFouRTrt Indian, or Lovewell s War -Indian Grievances Depre-\\ndations IN New Hampshire Attack on Nashua John Lovewell s\\nThree Expeditions Suncook Peace Penacook Rye Rum-\\nford Timothy Walker -First Church of Concord IIollis\\nBow Suncook Settled Other Settlements Newmarket\\nWilliam Burnet Jonathan Belcher Death of Wentworth\\nCharacter David Dunbar Durham Amherst Boscawen\\nCharlestown Riot at Exeter Commerce Episcopal Chapel\\nThroat Distemper Suncook Boundary Line Adjusted Massa-\\nchusetts Documents Windham -Retirement of Belcher.\\nnpHEREwere within New Hampshire at this period not far\\nfrom ten thousand inhabitants. E.xcept for the Lovewell\\nWar, in which the Indians were by far the heaviest losers, it was a\\ntime of foreign and domestic peace and the Province advanced\\nrapidly in numbers and in wealth. From the unfortunate\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2quarrel between the royal governor and many of the leading\\nmen of the Province, the way was prepared for an independent\\nand a separate government. The older towns continued to be\\nnurseries for hardy and stalwart pioneers, who steadily pushed\\nthe settlements further and further into the wilderness. The\\ngun had done its share in conquering the land, and now the\\naxe and the plough became the instruments of civilization.\\nThe log huts of the settlers were rapidly replaced by the old-\\nfashioned frame houses, and the adjoining fields became more\\nand more extended. Husbandry, the chief occupation of the\\npeople, produced a race of men hardy, healthy and happy.\\nLarge families were the rule and sons, when they had chosen", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "152 msroKV OF new iiAMrsHiKE. [1723\\ntheir mates, were sure of obtaining a home in the woods, where\\ntheir industry would soon provide them with a farm.\\nLieutenant-Governor John Wentworth was chief magistrate\\nof New Hampshire from the date when Governor Samuel Shute\\nleft the colonies for England, in June, 1723, to the arrival in\\nAmerica of his successor, Governor William Burnet, in 1728.\\nA violent party in Massachusetts had made such strenuous\\nopposition to him, and caused him so much vexation, that\\nGovernor Shute found it desirable to ask leave to return to\\nEngland. He is said to have been a man of humane, obliging\\nand friendly disposition but having been used to military com-\\nmand, for he was a colonel in the English army before his ap-\\npointment, he could not bear with patience the collision of\\nparties, nor could he keep his temper when provoked. Fond of\\nease, and now in the decline of life, he would gladly have spent\\nhis days in America, if he could have avoided controversy. The\\npeople of New Hampshire were satisfied with his administra-\\ntion, as far as it respected them and were more liberal to him\\nin voting him a salary than Massachusetts, in proportion to\\ntheir means. He died April 15, 1742, at the age of eighty\\nyears.^\\nGovernor Shute left New England suddenly, while the people\\nwere in the distress and perplexities of Lovevvell s Indian war.\\nUpon his departure Lieutenant-Governor Wentworth conducted\\nthe affairs of the Province with prudence and energy. A\\nsystem of garrisons and scouts being adopted, he saw that the\\ngarrisons were supplied with stores, and frequently visited the\\nfrontier posts personally, to see that duty was performed. He\\njoined with Lieutenant-Governor William Dunimer of Mass-\\nachusetts in remonstrating with the governor of Canada for\\nassisting the Indians.\\nThe fourth Indian war, commonly called Lovewell s War,\\nbroke out in the summer of 1722. France and England were\\nat peace at the time. The Indians were thought to have been\\ninstigated to assume the offensive by the French of Canada\\nand by Jesuit priests resident among them. Fr. Ralle, at\\nFaimer s Helknap.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "1724] ROYAL PROVINCE. I53\\nNorrido evvock, escaped from a force sent to arrest nim but liis\\npapers, which fell into the hands of the English, confirmed their\\nbelief in French intervention. The chief grievance of the\\nIndians was the rapid growth of the settlement along the coast\\nof Maine, interfering with their fishing and hunting privileges.\\nAt first disputes arose between the settlers and the Indians,,\\nquickly followed by active hostilities, until the authorities of\\nMassachusetts were at length forced to declare war. New Hamp-\\nshire, situated between the two divisions of Massachusetts, was\\ndrawn into the controversy. Colonel Shadrach Walton, Col-\\nonel Thomas Westbrooke of the council, and Captain John\\nPenhallow, were New Hampshire men, who were active in carry-\\ning on the war to the eastward. The military of the Province\\nwas organized, garrison houses fortified, and scouting parties\\nwere kept in the field. A bounty of one hundred pounds was\\noffered for every Indian scalp a sum equal at that time to\\nabout two hundred Spanish dollars.\\nThe first appearance of the enemy in New Hampshire was\\nat Dover, in 1723, where they surprised and killed Joseph Ham,\\nand took three of his children captives. The rest of his family\\nescaped into the garrison. Soon afterwards they killed Tristram\\nHeard. At Lamprey River, in August, they killed Aaron\\nRawlins and one of his children, taking his wife and three other\\nchildren into captivity\\nIn the spring of 1724, the Indians killed James Nock, at\\nOyster River, and in May, captured Peter Colcord and Ephraim\\nStephens and two children. Colcord soon afterwards escaped.\\nA week later they killed George Chesley and Elizabeth Burn-\\nham at Oyster River and took Thomas Smith and John Carr\\nat Chester, who both escaped. In June, Moses Davis and his\\nson were killed at Oyster River and one Indian was killed and\\ntwo were wounded. In Dover, Ebenezer Downes, a Quaker,\\nwas taken and a part of the family of John Hawson, another\\nQuaker, were killed and the rest taken into captivitv. On\\naccount of these atrocities an expedition was planned to\\nNorridgewock, which resulted in the death of Fv. Ralle and\\neighty Indians, the release of several captives, and the recovery", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "154 HISTOKV UK NEW IIAMPSHIKE. [^7-4\\nof considerable plunder. Tlie Indians who wei c out on tlie war\\npath continued their depredations, killing Jabez Colman and son\\nat Kingston, but avoided their own villages, to escape a similar\\nfate to what befell Norridgewock.\\nOn the morning of September 4, 1724, Thomas Blanchard\\nand Nathan Cross started from the harbor with a basket of\\nlunch, a jug, and the indispensable gun, for the pine forest on\\nthe north side of Nashua river, to box trees for the manufac-\\nture of turpentine. Tradition in the Cross family locates their\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0operations on Lock street, immediately back of the cemetery.\\nThe day proving wet and drizzly, they put the gun and dinner\\nbasket into a hollow log, for the purpose of keeping the powder\\nand food from getting wet. How long they pursued their work\\nis unknown, but some time before night a party of seventy\\nFrench Mohawks from Canada fell upon them and made them\\n])risoner.s. The people at the Harbor, or Salmon Brook, finding\\nthey did not return at night-fall, started out a party of ten to\\nlook for them. Arriving at the place where they had been at\\nwork, they found several barrels of turpentine had been spilled\\non the ground, and judged, from several marks made upon the\\ntrees with wa.-c and grease, that the men had been carried away\\nalive. The party, under the lead of Lieutenant French, decided\\nto follow them and rescue their friends, if possible; but on\\narriving near the brook which flows from Horse Shoe pond, in\\nMerrimack, to the Merrimack river, they were ambushed by the\\nsavages, and all killed except Josiah Farwell. This, of course,\\nended pursuit, and Blanchard and Cross were taken to Canada\\nas prisoners. After nearly a year s confinement they succeeded\\nin effecting their own ransom, and returned home, finding their\\nbasket, jug and gun in the hollow log as they had left them.\\nAroused by these depredations, John Lovewell, Josiah Far-\\nwell, and Jonathan Robbins petitioned the Provincial Govern-\\nment of Massachusetts for authority to raise and equip a com-\\npany of scouts to kill and destroy their enemy, the Indians.\\nReceiving proper encouragement, Capt. Lovewell, with a com-\\nJosUh Farwell was o\\nne of the grantee\\ns of Suncook.\\nAt the January meet\\nlig of the Nashu\\n1 Historical Society\\nsociety by Levi S. Cr\\nOSS.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "1725] ROVAL PKOVINCE. 155\\npaiiy of men zealous to revenge their injuries, caried the war\\ninto the country of the enemy, rangeil up the Merrimack valle)\\nand to the northward of Lake Winnipiseogee, and succeeded\\nin obtaining one captive and slaying one Indian.\\nOn the second expedition of Captain John Lovewell s com-\\npany, the following January, 1725, they surprised and killed ten\\nIndians in the neighborhood of Taniworth, The third expedi-\\ntion, of forty-six men, left Dunstable April 16, 1725.\\nThe following detailed account of the battle is taken from the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0work of Rev. Thomas Symmes, edited by Rev. Dr. Nathaniel\\nBouton, and published in May, 1861:\\nThey had travelled but a short distance before Toby, an Indian,\\nfalling sick, was obliged to return, which he did with great re\\nluctancc.\\nWhen they had marched as far as Contoocook, Mr. William\\nCummings of Dunstable became so disabled by a wound that\\nhe had received from the enemy some time before that the cap-\\ntain dismissed him, together with a kinsman of his to accompany\\nhim back.\\nThey proceeded on to Ossipee, and at this place Mr. Benjamin\\nKidder of Nutfield, falling sick, the captain made a halt, and\\ntarried while they built a small fortification for a place of refuge\\nto resort to if there should be occasion.\\nHere he left his doctor, a sergeant and seven other men, to\\ntake care of Kidder. And they left at this place, also, a con-\\nsiderable quantity of their provisions, to lighten the loads of the\\nmen and facilitate their march, and which they intended should\\nserve as a recruit on their return.\\nWith his company now reduced to only thirty-four men, with\\nhimself, Captain Lovewell, not at all disheartened by his mis-\\nfortunes, proceeded on his march from his fortification at Ossipee\\nfor Pigwacket, about forty miles distant from said fort, through\\na rough wilderness.\\nThe names of those who proceeded on from Ossipee, and who\\nengaged Paugus, with his gang of about eighty Indians, are as\\nfollows (except one who, like a coward, ran from them at the be-\\nginning of the engagement, and sneaked back to the fort, and", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "1S6\\ninSTOKV OI- MAV IlAMrsHIKE.\\n[1725\\nwhose name is unworthy of being transmitted to posterity),\\nbeing those brave fellows who boldly and successfully contended\\nwith more than twice their number, namely,\\nCapt, John Lovewell,\\nLieut. Joseph Farwell, Sergeant Noah Johnson,\\nLieut. Jonathan Robbins, Robert Usher,\\nEnsign John Harwood, Samuel Whiting,\\nall of Dunstable.\\nEnsign Seth Wyman, Ichabod Johnson,\\nCorp. Thomas Richardson, Josiah Johnson,\\nTimothy Richardson,\\nall of Woburn.\\nEleazer Melvin,\\nJacob Farrar,\\nJoseph Farrar,\\nEleazer Davis,\\nJosiah Davis,\\nJosiah Jones,\\nDavid Melvin,\\nall of Concord, Mass.\\nChaplain Jonathan Frye, of Andover.\\nSergeant Jacob Fullam, of Weston.\\nCorp. Edward Lingfield, of Nutfield.\\nJonathan Kittridge, and Solomon Keyes,\\nof Billerica.\\nEli:;s Barron,\\nIsaac Lakin,\\nJoseph Gilson,\\nJohn Jefts,\\nDaniel Woods,\\nI homas Woods,\\nJohn Chamberlain,\\nEbenezer Ayer, and\\nall of Groton.\\nAbiel Asten,\\nof Haverhill.\\nFrom the Thursday before the battle the company were ap-\\npiehensive they were discovered and dogged by the enemy\\nand on F^riday night the watch heard the Indians about the\\ncamp and alarmed the company, but it being very dark, they\\ncould make no further discovery.\\nOn Saturday, the 8th of May, while they were at prayers,\\nNo.-ih Johnson was the last survivor of this company. He was one of the first settlers of Pem-\\nbroke, where he was a deacon of the church. He received a pension from the .Massachusetts govern-\\nment of /15 per year. He removed to Plymouth, N. H., in his old age, and died there August 13,\\n179S, in the one hundredtli vear of his age.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "iy2$] ROVAL I KOVINXE. I 5/\\nvery early in the morning, tlie} heard a gun and some little\\ntime after they espied an Indian on a point that ran into Saco\\njiond.\\nThey now concluded that the design of the gun and the\\nIndian s discovering himself was to draw them that way. They\\nexpected now without fail to be attacked, and it was proposed\\nand consulted whether it would be prudent to venture an en-\\ngagement with the enemy (who they perceived were now\\nsufficiently alarmed), or endeavor a speedy retreat. The men\\ngenerally and boldly answered We came to see the enemy\\nwe have all along prayed God we might find them and we had\\nrather trust Providence with our lives, yea, die for our country,\\nthan try to return without seeing them, if we might, and be\\ncalled cowards for our pains.\\nThe captain readily complied to lead them on, though not\\nwithout manifesting some apprehensions and, supposing the\\nenemy were ahead of them (when, as it proved, they were in the\\nrear), ordered the men to lay down their packs, and march witli\\nthe greatest caution, and in the utmost readiness.\\nWhen they had marched about a mile and a half, or two miles.\\nEnsign Wyman espied an Indian coming toward them, where-\\nupon he gave a signal, and they all squatted, and let the Imiian\\ncome on. In a short time several guns were fired at him upon\\nwhich the Indian fired upon Captain Lovewell with beaver-shot,\\nand wounded him mortally (as is supposed), though he made but\\nlittle complaint, and was still able to travel, and at the same time\\nwounded Mr. Samuel Whiting. Ensign Wyman immediately\\nfired at and killed the Indian, and Mv. Fry and another scalped\\nhin. 1\\nGov, Hutchinson, in his history of Massachusetts, has ranked this Indian with the Roman\\nCurtius, who devoted himself to death to save his country. Dr. Belknap, who visited the s:iot in\\n17S4, thinks there is no foundation for the idea that he was placed there as a decoy and that he had\\nno claim to the character of a hero. The point on which he stood was a noted fishing place the\\ngun which alarmed Lovewell s company was fired at a flock of ducks and when they met him he\\nwas returning home with his game, and two fowling pieces. The village was situated at the edge of\\nthe meadow, on Saco river, which here forms a large bend. The remains of the stockade w ere found by\\nthe first settlers of Fr\\\\-eburg forty years afterward. Walter Bryant, of Bow, who was employed as\\nsurveyor in a company engaged in the intended expedition against Canada, in 1747, passed over the\\nground where the sanguinary conflict took place. He there discovered Indian camps large enough\\nto hold thirty men \u00e2\u0080\u0094saw the spot where Lovewell was killed, and the trees full of bullet-holes, hav-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "l^H IIISTOKV OF NEW IlAMPSllIKE. 725\\nThey then marched back toward their packs (which the enemy\\nhad found in the mean time and seized), and about ten of the\\nclock, when they came pretty near to where they had laid them,\\nat the north-east end of Saco pond, on a plain place, where there\\nwere few trees and but little brush, the Indians rose up in front\\nand rear in two parties, and ran toward the English, three or\\nfour deep, with their guns presented. The English also in-\\nstantly presented their guns, and rushed on to meet them.\\nWhen they had advanced to within a few yards of each other\\nthey fired on both sides, and the Indians fell in considerable\\nnumbers but the English, most, if not all of them, escaped the\\nfirst shot, and drove the Indians several rods. Three or four\\nrounds were fired on both sides but the Indians being more\\nthan double in number to our men, and having already killed\\nCaptain Lovewell, Mr. Fullam (only son of Major Fullam of\\nWeston), Ensign Harwood,John Jefts, Jonathan Kittredge, Dan-\\niel Woods, Ichabod Johnson, Thomas Woods, and Josiah Davis,\\nand wounded Lieutenants Farvvell and Robbins and Robert\\nUsher, in the place where the fight began, and striving to\\nsurround the rest, the word was given to retreat to the pond,\\nwhich was done with a great deal of good conduct, and proved\\na great service to the English (the pond covering their rear),\\nthough the Indians got the ground where the dead of our party\\nlay.\\nThe fight continued very furious and obstinate, till towards\\nnight the Indians roaring and yelling and howling like wolves,\\nbarking like dogs, and making all sorts of hideous noises the\\nEnglish frequently shouting and huzzaing, as they did after the\\nfirst round. At one time Capt. Wyman is confident the Indians,\\nwere diverting themselves in povv^owing, by their striking upon\\nthe ground, and other odd motions but Wyman, creeping up\\nand shooting their chief actor, broke up their meeting.\\nSome of the Indians, holding up ropes, asked the English if\\nthey would take quarter but were briskly answered, that they\\nwould have no quarter but at the muzzles of their guns.\\ning, also, imilalions of men s faces cut out upon them. When Dr. Belknap \u00c2\u00abas there the nan\\nthe dead, on tlie trees, and the holes where balls had entered and been cut out, were plainly vi\\nThe trees h-;l tlie appearance of being very old, and one of them was fallen.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 /fist. Coll., vol.\\ni9, 30.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "1725] KOVAI. I KOVIN CE. 1 59\\nAbout the middle of the afternoon the ingenious Mr. Jon-\\nathan Frye (only son of Captain James Frye of Andover), a\\nyoung gentleman of liberal education, who took his degree at\\nHarvard College, 1723, and was chaplain to the company and\\ngreatly beloved by them for his excellent performances and\\ngood behavior, and who fought with undaunted courage till that\\ntime of day, was mortally wounded. But when he could fight\\nno longer he prayed audibly several times for the preservation\\nand success of the residue of the company.\\nSometime after sunset the enemy drew off and left the field\\nto our men. It was supposed and believed that not more than\\ntwenty of the enemy went off well. About midnight the Eng-\\nlish assembled themselves, and upon examination into their\\nsituation they found Jacob Farrar just expiring by the pond,\\nand Lieutenant Robbins and Robert Usher unable to travel.\\nLieutenant Robbins desired his companions to charge his gun,\\nand leave it with him, which they did; he declaring that As\\nthe Indians will come in the morning to scalp me, I will kill one\\nmore of them if I can.\\nThere were eleven more of the English who were badly\\nwounded, namely, Lieut. Farwell, Mr. Frye, Sergeant Johnson,\\nSamuel Whiting, Elias Barron, John Chamberlain, Isaac Lakin,\\nEleazer Davis and Josiah Jones but they, however, marched\\noff the ground with the nine others who received no consider-\\nable wounds, namely. Ensign Wyman, Edward Lingfield,\\nThomas Richardson, the two Melvins, Ebenezer Ayer, Abiel\\nAsten, Joseph Farrar and Joseph Gilson. These all proceeded\\non their return for the fort, and did not perceive that they were\\nwaylaid or pursued by the enemy, though they knew our men\\nhad no provision, and must therefore be very faint.\\nFour of the wounded men, namely, Farwell, Frye, Davis and\\nJones, after they had travelled about a mile and a half, found\\nthemselves unable to go any further, and with their free consent\\nthe rest kept on their march, hoping to find a recruit at the\\nfort, and to return with fresh hands to relieve them\\nAs they proceeded on they divided into three companies one\\nmorning, as they were passing a thick wood, for fear of making", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "l6o III.STOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l7-5\\na track liy vvhicli the cncm) might follow them. One of the\\ncompanies came iii)on three Indians, who pursued them some\\ntime. Meanwhile Elias Barron, one of this party, strayed from\\nthe others, and got over Ossipee river, by the side of which his\\ngun case was found, and he was not heard of afterward.\\nPZleven, in another party, reached the fort at Ossipee but to\\ntheir great surprise found it deserted. The coward who fled in\\nthe beginning of the battle ran directly to the fort, and gave\\nthe men posted there such a frightful account of what had hap-\\npened that they all fled from the fort and made the best of their\\nway home.\\nSolomon Keyes also came to the fort. When he had fought\\nin the battle till he had received three wounds, and had become\\nso weak by the loss of blood that he could not stand, he crawled\\nup to Ensign Wvman, in the heat of the battle, and told him he\\nwas a dead man but (said he) if it be possible I will get out of\\nthe way of the Indians that they may not get my scalp. Keyes\\nthen crept off by the sitle of the pond to where he provident-\\nially found a canoe, when he rolled himself into it, and was\\ndriven by the wind several miles toward the fort he gained\\nstrength fast, and reached the fort as soon as the eleven before\\nmentioned, and they all arrived at Dunstable on the 13th of\\nMay, at night.\\nOn the 15th of May, Ensign Wyman, and three others, arrived\\nat Dunstable. They suffered greatly for want of provisions.\\nThey informed that they were wholly destitute of all kinds of\\nfood from a Saturday morning till the Wednesday following,\\nwhen they caught two mouse-squirrels, which they roasted whole,\\nand found to be a sweet morsel. The) afterwards killed some\\npartridges and other game, and were comfortably supplied till\\nthey got home.\\nEleazer Davis arrived at Berwick, and reported that he and\\nthe other three who were left with him waited some days for the\\nreturn of the men from the fort, and at length despairing of\\ntheir return, though their wounds were putrefied and stank, and\\nthey were almost dead with famine, yet they all travelled on\\nseveral miles together, till Mr. Frye desired Davis and Farwell", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "1725] ROYAL PROVINCE. 161\\nnot to hinder themselves any longer on his account, for he found\\nhimself dying, and he laid himself down, telling them he should\\nnever rise more, and charged Davis, if it should please God to\\nbring him home, to goto his father and tell him that he expected\\nin a few hours to be in eternity, and that he was not afraid to die.\\nThey left him, and this amiable and promising young gentleman,\\nwho had the journal of the march in his pocket, was not heard\\nof again.\\nLieutenant Farvvell, who was greatly and no doubt deservedly\\napplauded and lamented, was also left by Davis within a few\\nmiles of the fort, and was not afterward heard of. But Davis,\\ngetting to the fort, and finding provision there, tarried and re-\\nfreshed himself, and recovered strength to travel to Berwick.\\nJosiah Jones, another of the four wounded who were left the\\nday after the fight but a short distance from the scene of action,\\ntraversed Saco river, and after a fatiguing ramble arrived at\\nSaco (now Biddeford), emaciated and almost dead from the loss\\nof blood, the putrefaction of his wounds, and the want of food.\\nHe had subsisted upon the spontaneous vegetables of the forest,\\nand cranberries, c., which he had eaten came out at a wound\\nhe had received in his body. He was kindly treated by the peo-\\nple at Saco, and recovered of his wounds.\\nSeveral of the Indians, particularly Paugus, their chief, were\\nwell known to Lovewell s men, and frequently conversed with\\neach other during the engagement.\\nAfter the return of the English from their fight, Colonel Tyng,\\nwith a company, went to the place of action, where he found\\nand buried the slain.\\nColonel Tyng found where the Indians had buried three of their\\nmen, which were dug up, and one of them was known to be the\\nbold Paugus, who had been a great scourge to Dunstable.\\nThis encounter resulted in the course of a few years in the\\ngrant by Massachusetts authority of the township of Suncook,\\nor Lovewell s township, to the survivors and to the heirs of those\\nwho had perished of Captain Lovewell s heroic company. With\\nRumford this township conflicted with the township of Bow and\\nthe matter was not settled until the incorporation of Pembroke,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "l62 HISTORY OF NEW HAMI SHIRE. [1726\\nmany years after, and the grantinsr of another township within\\nthe district of Maine.\\nEarly in the year 1725, Theodore Atkinson, joined with two\\ncommissioners from Massachusetts, visited the French governor\\nat Montreal and entered a formal protest against his encourag-\\ning the Indians in the war. He denied the responsibility, but\\nadmitted having much influence with them and brought about\\na meeting of some of the chiefs with the commissioners. Upon\\ntheir return to New England, by way of Crown Point and Albany,\\nunder escort to the frontiers, they brought sixteen captives whom\\nthey had ransomed, and made arrangements for the ransom of\\nothers.\\nThe last attack of the Indians during the war was upon a\\nparty in Dover. Benjamin and William Evans were killed.\\nJohn Evans was wounded, scalped and left for dead, but re-\\ncovered, and lived fifty years after. The attacking party eluded\\npursuit, and took Benjamin Evans, Jr., a lad of thirteen, captive\\nwith them to Canada.\\nA treaty of peace was brought about in December.\\nThat New Hampshire escaped with so little loss during this\\nwar is attributed to the fact that the fury of the enemy was di-\\nrected to the destruction of the eastern settlements, and because\\nthe men of the whole Province, by training, had become veterans,\\nsoldiers, and scouts.\\nIn May, 1726, the governor and council appointed Nathaniel\\nWeare, Theodore Atkinson and Richard Waldron, Jr., a commit-\\ntee to warn off the settlers at Penacook a commission promptly\\nattended to, for they reported the same month that they had\\nvisited the locality known as Penacook, where they had found\\nforty men clearing the land and laying out a town. In April, the\\nLieutenant-Governor, John Wentworth, addressed the General\\nAssembly, held at Portsmouth, stating the case, and called for\\nsupplies to press upon the home government the need of deter-\\nmining the boundary of the Province adjoining the Massachusetts\\ncolony. The Assembly voted ^lOO to Mr. Agent Newman, for\\nhim to prosecute and endeavor a speedy settlement of the lines\\nbetween this Government and that of the Mass.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "1726] ROYAL PROVINCE. 163\\nThe township of Rye, taken from Poitsmcnith, Greenland, and\\nHampton, was incorporated in 1726. It was settled as early as\\n1635, and for many years it was known as Sandy Beach. The\\ninhabitants having been obligetl to attend religious services in\\nneighboring towns, had at length built a meeting house of their\\nown, in 1725, and demanded and received a town charter the\\nfollowing year. They had suffered, in common with adjoining-\\ntowns, by the depredations of the Indians during the forty years\\nof alternate war and peace preceding their incorporation.\\nRev. Nathaniel Merrill was settled in 1726; Rev. Samuel\\nParsons, in 1736 Rev. Huntington Porter, in 1784, who\\npreached his half century sermon in 1835. He died in Lynn\\nin 1844, aged nearly eighty-nine years.\\nThe first settlers of the town were of the names of Berry,\\nSeavey, Rand, Brackett, Wallis, Jenness and Locke.\\nThe Puritans were distinguished for their large families and\\nthe older settlements, near tide-water, in the course of several\\ngenerations, had become crowded. The young men viewed\\nwith envy the prosperity of the Scotch-Irish new comers. Why\\nshould not they receive land for actual settlement as well as\\naliens and strangers Had not their fathers and grandfathers\\ndone good service in the various Indian wars. Many petitions\\nwere sent to the Gi cat and General Court of Massachusetts,\\nclaiming grants on a multitude of pretexts. This northern part\\nof the colony was even then in dispute, and might at any time,\\nby decision of the home government, be decided to be within\\nthe limits of the Royal Province of New Hampshire.\\nThe township of Penacook was granted by Massachusetts,\\nJanuary 11, 1725, to Benjamin Stevens, Ebenezer Eastman and\\nothers, and included seven miles square. Settlement was com-\\nmenced the following year In 1727, Captain Ebenezer East-\\nman moved his family into the place. In 1728, the south boun-\\ndaries of the town were extended, as an equivalent for lands\\nwithin the limits before granted to Governor Endicott, and\\nclaimed by heirs of Judge Sewall.\\nThe first settlers of the plantation of Penacook were carefully\\nselected men. brave, lavv-al)iaing. God-fearing, chosen from", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "164 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIKE. [1726\\namong their fellows by a committee of the court, to establish a\\nmodel community. They came to stay. Very many of the\\nfirst families are represented by their descendants to this day.\\nThey laid out wide and beautiful Main street substantially as it\\nis now; they divided the land into home lots and farms, cleared\\naway the forest trees, built log-houses at first (which were soon\\nreplaced by frame buildings, some still standing), and a meeting-\\nhouse. Their plantation was incorporated, under the name of\\nRumford, in 1733. They built several garrison-houses for the\\nprotection of their families, for an Indian war broke out soon\\nafter the settlement was effected. For a number of years this\\nwas a frontier post, e.xposed to the attacks of the savages. Of\\na Sunday their minister would go into the pulpit, armed with\\nthe best gun in the parish, and preach to a congregation armed\\nand equipped to repulse a possible Indian surprise. Men went\\nto their work in the fields with an armed escort.\\n^The First Congregational Church in Fenacook or Rumford\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2or Concord was organized in November, 1730. The proprietors\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2oi the town, at a meeting in Andover, Mass., in February, 1726,\\nvoted to build a block-house, which should serve the double pur-\\npose of a fort and a meeting-house. Early in 1727, the first\\nfamily moved into the town, and Rev. Bezaleel Toppan was\\nemployed to preach one year from May. Mr.Toppan and Rev.\\nEnoch Coffin, both proprietors of the town, were employed by\\nthe settlers to preach till October, 1730, when it was resolved\\nto establish a permanent ministry. Rev. Timothy Walker was\\nat once called to be the minister of the town.\\nHe was a native of Woburn, Mass., and a graduate of Har-\\nvard College, in the class of 1725. He died suddenly, on\\nSabbath morning, in September, 1782, aged seventy-seven years,\\ndeeply mourned by the people he had so faithfully served and\\nled, and between whom and himself the mutual attachment had\\nremained strong to the last.\\nThe deep impress of this early ministry has never been\\neffaced, and the influence of Mr. Walker, to a large degree,\\ndecided the moral tone and habits of the town. For more than", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "1726] KOVAL PKOVI.NXE. 1*^5\\nhalf a century he directed the thouglit, and was the religidiis\\nteicher of the early settlers and his clear convictions, his bold\\nutterances, and his firm adherence to practical principles, made\\nhim a wise leader. He served the town as well as the church.\\nHis wise counsel and prompt and judicious action ni relation to\\nevery matter of public in.terest were if great benefit to the\\npeople, and gciv him a wide and acknowledged influence. Three\\ntimes he visited England, as agent for the town, to confirm its\\nendangered rights, and was enabled by his personal influence\\nand wisdom to make secure forever the claims and privileges of\\nthe settlers. His influence will be acknowledged, and his name\\nremembered with gratitude by future generations. His daugh-\\nter married Benjamin Thompson, afterwards Count Rumford,\\nand was the mother of the Countess of Rumford.\\nThe fiist meeting-house of Concord was built of logs, in\\n1727, and served as a fort an J a place of worship. It stood near\\nWest s brook, and was occupied by this chui ch twenty-three\\nyears. The second house was that so long known as the Old\\nNorth. The main body of the house was built in 1751. In\\n1783 it was completed with porches and a spire, and in 1802\\nenlarged so as to furnish sittings for twelve hundred people, and\\na bell was placed in the tower. Central in its location, it was\\nfor a long time the only place of public worship in the town,\\nand was used by t!ie Church for ninety years. It served the\\nState also. In tliis house the Convention of 178S met to form\\na permanent plan of go\\\\-crnment for the State. Here, with\\nreligious services, in 1784, the new State Constitution was first\\nintroduced, and here, too, in June, 17S8, the Federal Constitu-\\ntion was adopted, b\\\\ which New Hampshire became one of the\\nStates of the Union. This was the ninth State to adopt that\\nConstitution, the number required to retider it operative so\\nthat, by this vote, it became binding upon the United States.\\nAfter another church edifice was built this was used hv the\\nMethodist Biblical Institute till 1866. When it was de-\\nstroyed by fire, in November, 1870, there jjassed from sight\\nthe church building which had associated with it more of\\nmarked and precinus history than with any other in the State.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "1 66\\nIIISTIIKV (II- Nl:\\\\V UAMPSIIlKr\\n[1727\\nThe third house of worshiii was dedicated in iS^2and I lirned\\nI 1873. The present house of worship was dedicated in 1876.\\nFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AT CONCORD.\\nFrom the parent cluirch liave been separated the South church\\nand the churches at East and West Concord. To Mr. Walker", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "l/2y] KOVAL PROVINCE. I67\\nsucceeded Rev. Israel I Lvans, a chaplain in the continental army,\\nRev. Asa McFarland, Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, D. D., the State\\nhistorian, and the present pastor, Rev. Franklin D. Ayer, D. D.\\nConcord was incorporated by New Hampshire, June 7, 1765.\\n1 So great was the security felt by the settlers at the close of\\nLovewell s war, that they emigrated into the wilderness in every\\ndirection. The first settlement in that part of West Dunstable\\nknown as Witch Brook Valley was made about the year 1728\\nby Caleb Fry, according to a copy of an original draft or plan\\nof the township of Dunstable by Jonathan Blanchard, dated June,\\n1720. This plan is now in a tolerable state of preservation, to\\nbe seen at the office of the Hillsborough county registry of deeds\\nat Nashua. Mr. Fry held a land grant west of Timothy Rogers s\\ngrant, lying on the west of Penichuck pond, and embraced\\nnearly all the territory now included in District No. 8 in the town\\nof Hollis, lying west of the school-house. According to tradi-\\ntion, he came from Andover, was a son of James Fry, who was a\\nsoldier in the Narragansett war of 1676, and a brother of James\\nFry, of Andover, one of the grantees of Souhegan West, after-\\nwards called Amherst.\\nThat Mr. Fry was the first one to occupy his own land grant\\nin all this section is evident from the fact that he built a turn-\\ning mill, and operated it a number of years. This mill was sit-\\nuated on the Little Gulf brook, east side of Ridge hill, so called,\\nabout twenty rods south of the road at the Spaulding place, in\\nthe north part of Hollis. At a short distance easterly from\\nthis mill is still to be seen the place of an old cellar-hole, indi-\\ncating that a dwelling once stood there. It was on this spot\\nin the wilderness that Mr. Fry erected his log-hut. It is evident\\nthat he cultivated a piece of land, and set out thereon three\\napple-trees, one of which is now standing, and in bearing con-\\ndition, over one hundred and fifty years old, and is the largest\\napple-tree in the town of Hollis. Mr. Fry also manufactured\\nwooden ware, and was employed a portion of the time in trap-\\nping. At what time he left is unknown, but it was before 1746.\\nThe early landmarks have disappeared, and it is not easy to\\nC. S. Spaulding.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "i6S HisioKV vv m:w iiamtsiiike. [^7-7\\nreproduce the scenes in which they planted their habitations.\\nTo men employed in subjugating the forests, fighting wild men\\nand wild beasts, clearing lots, and making paths, there was no\\nleisure, and little disposition, to make records of their doings.\\nThe survivors of Captain John Lovewell s expedition to Pig-\\nwacket petitioned the General Court of Massachusetts for the\\ngrant of a township as a recompense for their sufferings, and\\nreceived the grant of Suncook, or Lovewell s Township.\\nMeanwhile the authorities of the Province of New Hampshire\\nhad jealously watched the proceedings of the Massachusetts\\nBa) people. The township of Bow was incorporated May 20,\\n1727, conflicting with the grants of Penacook and Suncook.\\nThe township was laid out January 28, 1728-g, b) Andrew\\nWiggin, William Moor, and Edward Fifield.\\nApril 5, 1725, Colonel Tyng, in command of a scouting party\\nascending the Merrimack valley to Lake Winnipiseogee, reported\\nmeeting a company of Irish, who were located on and occupy-\\ning the lands on the intervale about the village of East Concord.\\nThey had built a fort for protection against the savages. Later\\nthey were dislodged from those fair fields and forced to mov^e\\non. Previous to the granting of Epsom, in May, 1727, certain\\nScotch-Irish families, from Londonderry, had settled within that\\nterritory. It is probable that the fruitful and fertile lands of\\nLovewell s township had been thoroughly examined by these\\nhardy pioneers before it was granted by either Province. They\\nwere not allowed to purchase land in Penacook the proprietor\\nforfeited his right if he sold to one of the race. No such re-\\nstriction kept them from purchasing the rights of the proprietors\\nof Suncook, or Lovewell s township and a fair field was opened\\nfor their settlement.\\nThere is reason to believe that the first movement toward a\\nsettlement of Suncook was in the summer of 1728. It was the\\ncustom of the young men to start early in the spring for the\\nnewly-granted wild lands, build a rude log shanty for temporary\\nshelter, and proceerl at once to clear away the forest growth\\nfrom their lots. The a.xe and fire-brand were the means em-\\nployed. Not uiifrequcntly the crop of the first season nearly", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "1729] KOVAI. PKOVINXE. 169\\npaid for the land. After the harvest the toilers would return\\nto a more settled community in which to pass the winter.\\nTradition asserts that Francis Doyne and his wife were the\\nfirst white inhabitants who ever wintered in the township,\\n172S-9, and they may be said to have been the first permanent\\nsettlers. Their log hut is said to have been located about in\\nthe middle of the field west of Pembroke street, just north- of\\nthe road leading toward Garvin s falls. After a severe snow-\\nstorm they were visited by a party from Penacook, who were\\nanxious as to their safety, and were found in a roughly-built\\ncabin, comfortable, contented, and protected against the incle-\\nmency of the weather. Doyne was one of Captain Lovewell s\\nsoldiers. During the same summer, 1728, the property was\\nprobably visited, both by many of the original grantees, tlieir\\nheirs, and others wanting to purchase. The amount of work\\naccomplished during this first year towards effecting a perma-\\nnent settlement is unknown but there is reason to believe that\\nthe active settlement was undertaken during the summer of\\n1729. Land certainly was not at a premium at that time,\\nwhen the right to three hundred and sixty-five acres, with the\\nchance of drawing the best lands in the township, was sold for\\ntwenty-four pounds. As silver was reckoned at twenty shillings,\\nor one pound, to the ounce then, the land brought but six and a\\nhalf cents for an acre.\\nIn a general sense the settlers of the township displaced the\\nIndians, but no particular tribe is known to have occupied the\\nterritory save as a hunting-ground and fishing rendezvous. The\\nname of one Indian only has come down to us as having any\\nconnection with the place, and his record is very traditional and\\nvague. Plausawa, in whose honor the hill in \\\\(jrth Pembroke\\nis named, is said to have had his wigwam in that locality. With\\nhis comrades, Sabatis and Christi, he was a frequent visitor to\\nthis and neighboring sections, until war was declared, when he\\ncast his lot with the St. Francis tribe. The three are charged\\nwith having led or instigated the attack upon Suncook and Ep-\\nsom in after years. During a cessation of hostilities, Plausawa\\nand Sabatis were killed while on a friendly visit to Poscawen,\\nin 1753.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "IILSTDKV OK NEW IIAMPSHIKE.\\n730\\nLovewell s township, or Suncook, was a frontier town for\\nmany years after its settlement. That it suffered no more dur-\\ning the contest was owing to the fact that its young men were\\nconstantly on the scout toward the encmv.\\nThe settlers were the Puritans, from the old Bay Colony the\\nScotch-Irish Presbyterians, from the settlement of London-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "IJJOj KOVAI, rUON lN CE. IJI\\nderry and, lastly, the New Hampshire settlers from the neigh-\\nborhood of Exeter, Dover and Kingston, who came in later under\\nBow titles. Truly the town was not homogeneous. A French\\nfamily was the first to locate in town, and several Welsh families\\nsettled there later.\\nThe inroad of settlers in 1730 was probably rapid. The\\ni;iants of the forest fell before the woodman s axe, and the log\\ncabin was rendered homelike by the presence of women and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0children. The few scattering Indians remaining in the neigh-\\nborhood were indifferent or friendl)-, and doubtless the settlers\\nreceived occasional calls from them.\\nThe log houses built by the pioneers of the last century have\\nbeen replaced by framed buildings, but they may still be seen\\nin the logging camps of Grafton and Coos counties, and in all\\nnew countries. In summer the life was not unpleasant the\\nriver teemed with shad, salmon, and trout the deer and the\\nbear wandered in the neighboring forests the virgin soil yielded\\nwonderful harvests. Their fare was simple, but with prudence\\niind foresight one could provide for the family during the long\\nwinter months, with ordinary exertion. Fuel was at their very\\ndoors, to be had for the chopping, and pitch pine knots answered\\nfor candles and gas.\\nWolves, lean and hungry, might howl about their safely\\nbarred windows, but could not enter their dwellings nor could\\nthe cold affect them, with logs hospitably piled in the open fire-\\nplace. The Bible and New England Primer might form tlieir\\nthoroughly read library, but tradition was a never failing source\\nof interest to them\\nJames Moore probably erected his house this year, said to\\nhave been the first framed building in the townsliip, and the\\nframe to-day forms a part of Samuel Emery JMoore s house.\\nNeighbors from Buckstreet and Concord assisted at the raising,\\nand a few Indians are said to have helped. Tradition asserts\\nthat one of the latter was worsted in a friendly contest and trial\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of strength, usual from time immemorial on such occasions, and\\nbecame very angry at his overthrow, threatening vengeance.\\nHis wrath was appeased by a )otation from a brown jug which", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "1/2\\n1II.^T(,U;V OF NEW liAMPSIlIKi:.\\n[1730\\nJT\\nil ^fe-vr-^ i-^\\nNote. Very early in the Suncook records is a mention of a conflict between the Orthodox and\\nPresbyterian churches. By the former Rev. Aaron Whttemore was settled as the minister uf the\\nparish, the latter entering a formal protest. At the time of his settlement the Presbyterians were in\\na majoiity in the township; but absent grantees, residents in Massachusetts, claimed the right of\\nvoting by proxy, and maintained control of the political and reli^ous affairs of the town.\\nRev. Aaron Whittemore was a graduate of Harvard College,\\ntaiued a leading position in the affairs of Suncook and Pembroke,\\nwar his house was garrisoned by an armed force, and he had\\nprominent families in the State trace back their ancestry to hii\\nnumerous and influential. Among them are the Kittredges and Woodmans, besides the \\\\Vhittemores\\nscattered throughout the State from Nashua to the Upper Coos.\\nSubmitting to the inevitable the Presbyterian members of the parish became reconciled; and for\\nmany years listened to the preaching, and paid their rates towards the support, of Mr. Whittemore.\\nThe Province line, as determined, must have been to the latter a grievance, for he was a faithful\\nson of the Bay Colony and in favor of its laws and institutions.\\nind for a third of a century sus-\\nDuring the French and Indian\\nhe militia. Many\\nnd his descendants are very", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "1730] Kt)V.VL i KO\\\\ l\\\\CE. 173\\nhad already come into use. Moore was very sagacious in his\\ntreatment of the Indians, and gained their friendship his place\\nwas avoided by them in after years during the hostilities,\\nalthough it was fortified to repel an attack.\\nBesides granting the township of Bow, the New Hampshire\\nauthorities, in 1727, granted Epsom, Barnstead, Chichester, Can-\\nterbury and Gilmanton to companies intending to form perma-\\nnent settlements, thus extending the frontier out into the interior.\\nEpsom and Canterbury were immediately occupied and garri-\\nsoned later during the French and Indian wars, while the other\\ntownships were not reclaimed from the wilderness until the re-\\nturn of peace.\\nNewmarket was cut off from E.xeter in 1727. Rev. John\\nMoody was ordained and settled in 1730; Rev. S. Tombs, in\\n1794; Rev. James Thurston, in 1800.\\nGovernor William Burnet assumed the ofifice of chief magis-\\ntrate of Massachusetts and New Hampshire in July 172S, com-\\ning from New York, where he had acted in the same capacity.\\nHe was welcomed at Boston by a committee of the council and\\nassembly of the Province of New Hampshire, and was after-\\nwards granted a regular salary. He died in September, 1729,\\nhaving visited New England but once, and was succeeded by\\nGovernor Jonathan Belcher.\\nGovernor Burnet had been very popular in New York, and\\nwas described by Lieutenant-Governor Wentworth, in one of his\\nspeeches, as a gentleman of known worth, having justly ob-\\ntained a universal regard from all who have had the honor tt)\\nbe under his government. He died at the early age of forty-\\none years.\\nBelcher, a native of New England, was a merchant of large\\nfortune and unblemished reputation. He had spent six years in\\nEurope and had been presented at court. He was graceful in\\nhis person, elegant and polite in his manners of a lofty antl\\naspiring disposition a steady, generous friend a vindictive, but\\nnot implacable enemy.\\nA controversy soon arose between the new governor and\\nBelknap.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "174 lIISruKV OF NEW IIAMi .SllIKE. L 73^\\nWciitworth, the lieutenant-governor of the Provinec, on account\\nof a letter which Wentworth had written to Governor Shute,\\nand all friendly relations between the two ceased. Belcher took\\nactive measures to express his enmity, curtailing the importance\\nand emoluments of the office of lieutenant-governor, to the dis-\\ngust and disappointment of Wentworth and liis many friends.\\nWentworth himself did not long survive, but died Dec. 12, 1730,\\nat the age of fifty-nine years.\\nLieutenant-Governor John Wentworth was the son of Samuel\\nand Mary (Benning) Wentworth of New Castle, and the grand-\\nson of Elder William Wentworth of Exeter, who signed the\\ncombination in 1639. He was born in June 16, 1672, and in\\nearly life was a sea-captain. After leaving the sea he was a mer-\\nchant, and was reputed a fair and generous dealer. He was a\\ngentleman of good naturcd abilities, much improved by conver-\\nsation remarkably ci\\\\il ami kind to strangers respectful to\\nthe ministers of the gospel a Un-er of good men of all denomi-\\nnations compassionate and bountiful to the pbor courteous\\nand affable to all. Mn February, 1711-12, he was appointed\\na councillor by Queen Anne, in place of Winthrop Hilton, de-\\nceased, and was justice of the Court of Common Pleas from 171 3\\nto 171S. He was appointed lieutenant-governor in 1717, and\\nheld the office until his death. Of his sixteen children, fourteen\\nsurvivetl him, of whom one was Benning Wentworth and another\\nthe wife of Theodore Atkinson.\\nThe course pursued by Governor Belcher was resented by the\\nfriends of Wentworth and the opposition was led by Benning\\nWentworth and Theodore Atkinson but Belcher disregarded\\nhis opponents and apprehended no danger from their resent-\\nment.\\nMr. Wentworth was succeeded as lieutenant-governor by\\nDavid Dunbar, a native of Ireland, formerly a colonel in the\\nl^ritish service, and unfriendly to Governor Belcher. He had\\nbeen commander of the fort at Pemaquid, and upon his appear-\\nance in New Hampshii c, in 1731, he joined the paity in opposi-\\ntion to the governor. Soon after his arrival a petition was sent\\nliilkn.i.).", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "173 KOVAI. I KOX I.VCE. I75\\nto England, praying for the removal of Governor Belcher, alleg-\\ning that his government was grievous, oppressive, and arbitrary.\\nRichard Waldron, with a party friendly to the governor, drew up\\nan address in Belcher s favor, and forwarded it at the same time.\\nAs a result of letters and petitions, Theodore Atkinson, Benning\\nWentworth, and Joshua Peirce were appointed councillors, but\\nbeing kept out of office for two years, the two former were elected\\nto the Assembly, where they maintained their opposition.\\nDr. Belknap is of the opinion that it was the design of Gov-\\nernor Belcher to effect a union of New Hampshire with Massa-\\nchusetts but the people could not be brought to ask for it.\\nThe opposition favored a government entirely distinct from\\nMassachusetts. The chief trouble which they encountered was\\nthe poverty and limited area of the Province, and so they ad-\\nvocated its enlargement. They were in favor of determining\\nthe boundary lines of the Province, which the governor and his\\nfriends were by no means an.xious to settle. The New Hamp-\\nshire authorities became more zealous to have the line deter-\\nmined than Massachusetts, although they realized that it would\\nnot greatly benefit them personally, as the territory would either\\nrevert to the King, to again grant, or become the property of\\nthe heirs of Mason and Allen.\\nThe governor, as obliged by his instructions, frequently urged\\nthe settlement of the lines in his speeches and a committee\\nfrom both provinces met at Newbury, in the autumn of 1731, to\\narrange the affair but the Massachusetts party prevented an\\naccommodation whereupon the New Hampshire authorities de-\\ntermined no longer to treat with Massachusetts, but to petition\\nthe King to decide the controversy.\\nAccordingly, in 1732, John Rindge, a merchant of Portsmouth,\\nwho had influential friends in England, was appointed by the\\nAssembly agent for the Province. He visited the old country,\\nand presented to the King a petition, requesting the establish-\\nment of the line between the two provinces and upon his re-\\nturn to America the affair was left to the management of Cap-\\ntain John Thomlinson, a merchant of London, a gentleman of\\ngreat penetration, industry and address. This petition, how-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "1/6 IIISTOKV Nl-.W llAMI SiilKE. [^73-\\n-ever, was not entlorscd by the governor or by his council but\\nwas authorized by the iVssembly and the lieutenant-governor.\\nGovernor Belcher charged Dunbar with being false, perfidi-\\nous, malicious, and revengeful, a plague to the governor and a de-\\nceiver of the people. The opposition alleged that the governor\\nconsented at every session of the Massachusetts Assembl)- to\\ngrants of land within the disputed territory.\\nIn 1732, a vote of the proprietors of Suncook is the first\\nmention in the town records of the Bow controversy. In case\\nthe claim of Massachusetts was sustained, the right of the gran-\\ntees of Suncook would be established in case New Hampshire\\nobtained jurisdiction, the right to the land would be legally\\nvested in the heirs of John Mason.\\nOyster Ri\\\\er, a parish of Dover, was incorporated as Durham\\nin 1732. It had been made a parish in 165 1 separated in 1675;\\nincorporated in 17 16. It had suffered severely during the Indian\\nwars, the enemy frequently committing depredations within its\\nlimits. A church was built in 1655. The first minister, settled in\\nthe parisli in 1674, was John Russ, who died in 1736, at the age of\\none hundred and eight years. He was also the parish physician.\\nRev. Hugh Adams was settled in 1718 Rev. Nicholas Oilman,\\nin 1 741 Rev. John Adams, in 1748 Rev. Curtis Coe, in 1780,\\nwho was dismissed in 1806.\\nThe township of Narragansett No. 3, Souhegan West, or Am-\\nherst, was granted, in 1733, by Massachusetts. The first settle-\\nment was commenced, in 1734, by Samuel Walton and Samuel\\nLampson and others from Esse.x county. A meeting house was\\nbuilt in 1739. The town was incorporated in 1760, as Amherst,\\nand upon the organization of Hillsborough County it was made\\nthe shire town. Milford, in 1794, and Mount Vernon, in 1803.\\nwere separated from Amherst. A church was organized in\\n1 741, and Daniel Wilkins was settled as minister, and continued\\nthere until his death, in February, 1784. Rev. Jeremiah Bar-\\nnard was settled in 1779 Rev. Nathan Lord, in 18 16, after-\\nwards president of Dartmouth College.\\nThe township of Contoocook, afterwards Boscawen, was\\ngranted by Massachusetts in 1733, and a settlement was made", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "1/33] KOVAL PROVINCE I77\\nthe next year by Natlianiel Danforth, Andrew Bohonnon, Moses\\nBurbank, Stephen Gerrish and Edward Emery, a colony from\\nNewbury, Massachusetts. Soon twenty or thirty families were\\nsettled within the township. A fort, one hundred feet square\\nand ten feet high, was built in 1739, in which the inhabitants\\nwere obliged to take refuge for a period of twenty-two years.\\nRev. Phinehas Stevens was settled as minister in 1737, and a\\nmeeting house was built the next year, as large as that at Rum-\\nford and two feet higher. Mr. Stevens was succeeded, in\\n1761, by Rev. Robie Morrill in 1768, by Rev. Nathaniel Merrill\\nin 1 78 1, by Rev. Samuel Wood, who continued in the ministry\\nfor over fifty years. The town was incorporated in 1760, and\\nnamed in honor of Admiral Boscawen.\\nSettlements were pushed up the valley of the Connecticut as\\nfar as Charlestown soon after 1735, in which year that town, by\\nthe name of No. 4, was granted by Massachusetts to the citizens\\nof Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield, Deerfield and Sunderland.\\nThe fifst settlers were several families by the name of Parker,\\nFarnsyvorth, Sartwill from Groton, Hastings from Lunenburg,\\nand Stevens from Rutland. In 1743 a fort was built, under the\\ndirection of Colonel Stoddard of Northampton and the first\\nmills were erected the following year. The town was temporarily\\nabandoned by the inhabitants in 1 747, on account of the Indian\\nwar, but a garrison was stationed at the fort as a protection\\nto the frontiers. Charlestown was incorporated in July, 1753.\\nRev. John Dennis was settled as minister in 1754; Rev. Bulkley\\nOlcott, in 1761 Rev. Jaazaniah Crosby, in i8io; Rev. J. De\\nF. Richards, in 1841 Rev. Worthington Wright, in 1851.\\nIn the meanwhile, the relations between Governor Belcher\\nand his lieutenant-governor, Dunbar, were not of an amicable\\ncharacter. Dunbar had no seat in the council, and was de-\\nprived of command of the fort at New Castle, and as many of\\nhis perquisites as possible, by the governor. In anger, Dunbar\\nretired to his fort at Pemaquid, where he remained two years,\\nUpon his return, he was treated with less severity by the\\ngovernor.\\nDunbar, in his office of surveyor-general of the King s woods,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "178 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 737\\nwas frequently arbitrary in his dealings with the people upon\\nthe Piscataqua, and incurred their enmity. At Exeter, while\\nenforcing some of his obnoxious regulations, he was set upon by\\na force disguised as Indians, and, together with his party, re-\\nceived rough usage. They were obliged to tramp back to\\nPortsmouth, as their boat was rendered unserviceable. For this\\noffence he could receive no legal redress, as his assailants were\\nunknown. As a retaliation, he ordered that courts should be\\nholden only at Portsmouth, instead of at E.xeter, Dover, and\\nHampton, as formerly. He was caressed by the opponents of\\nBelcher, and, in 1737, went to England to prosecute his design\\nof creating New Hampshire into an independent province, of\\nwhich he desired to obtain control. Disappointed in his ambi-\\ntion, he accepted an office offered by the East India Company,\\nand was appointed governor of St. Helena.\\nThe trade of the Province at this time consisted chiefly in\\nthe exportation of lumber and fish to Spain and Portugal, and\\nthe Caribbee Islands. The mast trade was wholly confined to\\nGreat Britain. In the winter, small vessels went to the south-\\nern colonies with English and West India goods, and returned\\nwith corn and pork. Woollen manufacture was diminished, as\\nsheep were scarce, but the manufacture of linen had greatly in-\\ncreased by the emigration from the north of Ireland,\\nIn 1732, an Episcopal church was organized at Portsmouth,\\nand a chapel built, which was consecrated in 1734 and two years\\nlater. Rev. Arthur Brown was settled as their minister, with a\\nsalary from the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign\\nParts. In 1735, the Province was visited with a new epidemic,\\nknown as the throat distemper and of the first forty who had\\nit none recovered. It first appeared at Kingston. In the\\nwhole Province not less than one thousand persons died of the\\ndisease, of whom some nine hundred were children. Over two\\nhundred died at Hampton Falls, and over one hundred at\\nExeter, Kingston, and Durham.\\nIn 1737, the settlers at Suncook bargained with John Coch-\\nran of Londonderry to erect a saw-mill and a grist-mill on the\\nBelknap.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "1737] KOVAI. I K()\\\\IN-CE. 179\\nSuncook river, and agreetl to deed to him lot No. i, which\\nembraced the compact part of the present village of Suncook,\\nin the town of Pembroke. The conditions of the grant he evi-\\ndently complied with, for the deeds of all property within th^it\\narea can be traced to him.\\nIn accordance with a vote the first road to Rumford was laid\\nOut. It led diagonally across the lots, very directly from the\\nfirst meetinghouse, built in 1733, at the north-east corner of the\\ncemetery, over intervening land to the bridge over the Sou-\\ncook, thence by the river bank to the great bend in the Merri-\\nmack, where a ferry was early established, about a mile below\\nthe lower bridge in Conctird, and nearly as far above the rail-\\nroad bridge.\\nA bounty of sixpence a tail was voted for every rattlesnake\\nkilled in the township.\\nThe north and east part of the town was then a wilderness,\\ncovered by the primeval forest. The Suncook settlers, for the\\nmost part, were on the home lots, which were on each side of\\nwhat is now Pembroke street. Their meadow lots, on the Sun-\\ncook, Merrimack and Soucook rivers, were reached by winding\\npaths through the forest, and were valuable to the pioneers\\nfrom the wild grass that grew upon them. The intervale lots\\nalong the Merrimack are said to have been open at the first\\nsettlement, from inundations of the river, or kept so by the\\nIndians, the former occupants of the land, as corn fields.\\nAn old man once said that the pioneers settled on high land,\\nnot on account of its fertility, but to avoid the trails of the\\nsavages, which were made by the river bank that the Indians\\nwould never turn from their march to do malicious injui y,\\nexcept when on the war path and because from an elevation\\nthe clearings could be better protected by a stockade and\\ngarrison house.\\nThomlinson, the agent of New Hampshire in England, was\\nindefatigable in his efforts in behalf of the little Province. It\\nwas greatly due to him that the chapel was built at Portsmouth,\\nand that a minister was settled over the parish. Through his\\ninstrumentality, commissioners from among the councillors of", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "l80 HISTORY OF NEW UAIM PSIl IKK. [1/37\\nNew York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Nova Scotia, all\\nfrom royal governments except those from Rhode Island, and\\nwith that colony Massachusetts had a controversy respecting\\nboundaries, were appointed to adjudicate the dispute on boun-\\ndary line. The commissioners, three from Nova Scotia, and\\nfive from Rhode Island, met at Hampton, August i, 1737.\\nHere they were met by a committee of the New Hampshire\\nAssembly, who presented the demands of the Province, while\\nagents of Massachusetts stated their claims. On the loth of\\nAugust, the General Court of Massachusetts met at Salisbury,\\nwhile the General Court of New Hampshire met at Hampton\\nFalls. The latter, however, were fiot united, as the Council\\nwere of the Massachusetts party, while the Assembly favored\\nthe New Hampshire pretensions. The commissioners, how-\\never, could not determine definitely the line between the two\\nProvinces, but referred the matter to the King and Council.\\nHere the New Hampshire interests were again entrusted to\\nThomlinson, who was a host in himself. Not receiving the nec-\\nessary papers from the New Hampshire authorities to prosecute\\ntheir claim, he manufactured such as he thought would be most\\npowerful for the benefit of his clients of New Hampshire.\\nWhile the matter was pending, in 1738, Thomlinson bought up\\nthe Masonian claim to the Province for ^1,000, on his own\\nresponsibility, in behalf of the New Hampshire Assembly.\\nIn this appeal. New Hampshire had the advantage of the\\nmost skilful advocates, who represented the poor, little, loyal,\\ndistressed Province of New Hampshire as crowded and op-\\npressed by the vast, opulent, overgrown Province of Massa-\\nchusetts and New Hampshire won the case. The question\\nwas settled by his Majesty, in council, March 5, 1740, and the\\npresent southern and eastern boundary of New Hampshire was\\nestablished. Many townships granted by Massachusetts were\\nfound to be without the jurisdiction of the Province that had\\ngranted their charters, and within a Province governed by differ-\\nent laws, and where the title to the wild land was in dispute.\\nThis was the more bitter to the inhabitants of the territory\\nbecause of the Masonian claim. This hung over their heads.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "1737] K()\\\\AI, J KOVINCE. iSl\\nami affected their ownership in the lands which they had\\nrecovered from a wilderness by years of toil and exposure. The\\nProvince of New Hampshire gained jurisdiction over a strip of\\nland fourteen miles wide, extending its whole width, and was\\nsupposed to include the present State of Vermont. Twenty-\\neight newly granted townships, between the Merrimack and\\nConnecticut rivers, were cut off from Massachusetts and\\nannexed to New Hampshire. The latter Province gained seven\\nhundred square miles more than the authorities had claimed,\\nbesides the territory west of the Connecticut river.\\nKensington was detached from Hampton, and incorporated\\nin 1737, when Rev. Jeremiah Fogg was settled as minister over\\nthe town. He was succeeded, in 1793, by Rev. Napthali Shaw;\\nin 18 1 2, by Rev. Nathaniel Kennedy.\\nICivil Engineer Nelson Spoft ord, of Haverhill, boundary line .surveyor on\\nthe part of M.issachusetts in the present controversy with New Hampshire,\\nis in receipt of valuable and important copies of maps and other documents\\nrelative to this subject from the Public Records office of England.\\nIn 1SS3 Mr. SpofFord made inquiries of Minister Lowell as to the necessary\\nproceedings in order to ascertain what documents might be found on record\\nrelative to the settlement of the boundary line controversy in 1741.\\nMr. Stevens was employed to search the records, and he forwarded to Mr.\\nSpofTord a list of twenty-five documents and maps relating to this subject,\\nwith the cost of copying; and here the matter rested until the Boundary\\nLine Commission was organized, in 1SS5, when Mr. Spoft ord was directed\\nto order copies of such documents as might appear to be of the most import-\\nance, but owing to delays from various causes these documents have been\\nbut recently received.\\nThe list embraces some three hundred pages foolscap of closely written\\nmatter, and copies of three maps. Among the documents appear the\\nfollowing:\\nNo. L\\nPublic Record Office of England.\\nColonial Correspondence Bd. of Trade New England.\\nOreder of the King in Council. 9 April 1740.\\nIndorsed, New England, A/assachusei/s Bay Ne-v Hampshire Order of Council\\ndated April 9th 1740 directing the Board to prepare an Instruction\\nto the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire for\\nsettling the Bounds of these Provinces pursuant to a report of the\\nCommittee of Council.\\nAt the Court of St. James the 9th. April 1740\\nPresent\\nThe K UL s mos: EKcellant .r,i;..-~(v in Council", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "l82 IlISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [^737\\niV/icrecif: His Majesty was this day pleased by his order in Council, to\\nsignify liis approbation of a Report made by the Lords of the Committee in\\nCouncil upon the respectiye Appeales of the Provinces of the Massachusetts\\nBay and New Hampsliire for tlie Determination of the Commissioners ap-\\npointed to settle tlie Boundarjs between the said Provinces, and to direct in\\nwhat manner the said Boundarys should be settled, and also to require the\\nGovernor and the respective Councils and Assemblys of the said Provinces\\nto take especial care to carry His Majestys commands thereby signified into\\ndue execution. as by a copy of the said Order hereto annexed may more fully\\nappear. And His Majesty being desirous to remove all further pretence for\\ncontinuing the Disputes which have subsisted for many years between the\\nsaid Provinces on Account of the said Boundary, and to prevent any dehiy\\nin ascertaining the Boundary pursuant to the said order in Council, Doth\\nHereby Order that the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations do\\nprepare the Draught of such an instruction as they shall conceive proper to\\nbe sent to tlie Governor of those Provinces, for enforcing the due execution\\nof the said order and requiring him in the strongest ternis to cause His\\nMajestys Commands in tliis behalf to be executed in the most effectual and\\nexpeditious manner, to the end that his Majestys Intentions for promoting\\nthe Peace and Qjiiet of the said Provinces, may not be frustrated or delayed.\\nAnd thev are to lay the said Draught before the Right Honorable the Lords\\nof the Committee of Council for Plantation Affairs.\\n(Signed) Temple Stanyan\\nNo. n.\\nOrder of Committee of Council 9 April 1741\\nIndorsid (with petitions) Massachusetts Oreder ol the Lords of ye Com-\\nmittee of Council dated ye 9th of April 1741 referring to this board ye\\nPetition of Thomas Hutchinson of Boston Esq. praying his Majesty\\nto direct that the several Line Townships which by the Line directed\\nto be run by his Majestys Order in Council of ye 9th April 1740 will\\nbe cut off from the Province of Massachusetts Bay may be united to\\nthat Province.\\nAt the Council Chamber Whitehall\\nthe 9th. of April 1741 By the Right Honorable the Lords of the\\nCommittee of Council for Plantation Afl airs.\\nHis Majesty, having been pleased by his order in Council of the 9th of\\nFebruary last, to refer unto this Committee the humble petition of Thomas\\nHutchinson of Boston in his Majesty Province of Massachusetts Bay Esqr.\\nhumbly praying that His Majesty will be graciously pleased to direct that\\nthe several Townships, commonly known by the name of the line townships.\\nwhich by the Line directed to be run by his Majestys Order in Council of the\\n9th of April 1740, will be cut off from the said Province of Massachusetts\\nBay may be United in tliat Province The Lords of the Committee this day\\ntook the said petition, together with several others thereto annexed, from the\\nsaid Township into Consideration, and are hereby pleased to refer the same", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "1737] ROVAL PROVINCE. 183\\nto tlie Lords Comnussioners for Trade and Plantations, to examine into tlie\\nsaid Petitions, and report their Opinion tliereupon to this Committee\\n(Signed) Temple Stanyan.\\nBenning Wentuorth to the Board of Trade Sth December 1742\\nIndorsed New Hampshire Letter from Mr. Wentworth Governor of New\\nHampshire to the Board, dated Portsmouth \\\\e Sth December 1742\\nReferring to the petitions of the inhabitants who had without their consent\\nbeen summarily transferred from the jurisdiction of Massachusetts to that of\\nNew Hampshire, and who had petitioned the King to be returned to Massa-\\nchusetts, Wentworth says,\\nAnd unless it should be His Majesty s pleasure to put an end to Applications\\nof this Nature, It will be impossible for me to carry his Royal Instructions\\ninto Executi on.\\nNew Hampshire sits down bv liis Majesty s determination, and has showed\\nthe greatest obedience thereto by paying the whole expense of running and\\nmarking out the boundaries in exact conformity to the royal deter-\\nmination, and therefore thinks it a great hardship that Massachusetts should\\nlead them into any new charge, in a dispute that had subsisted near four\\nscore years, and which has been so solemnly determined.\\nAnd it inay be added here, also, that the legislature of New Hampshire\\nsupplemented the above appeal of Governor Wentworth with a prayer to the\\nKing, never, under any circumstances, to admit of the slightest infraction\\nof the boundary line, thus determined and established according to his royal\\nwill and pleasure and to the credit of that Province and State it may also\\nbe stated here that that work, the boundary line as then established and recorded,\\nhas never been called in question by either, and the State has never gone back\\non her own record\\nJonathan Belcher to the Board of Trade.\\n7 May 1 741.\\nIndorsed Massachusetts, new Hampshire Letter from Mr. Belcher Governor\\nof New England, dated at Boston ye 7th of May 1741, concerning a difficulty,\\narisen upon ye construction of His Majesty s Judgment respecting ye Bounda-\\nries betwixt ye Province of Massachusetts Bay and that of New Hampshire.\\nThis isavery important document, and, as will be seen, effectually disposes\\nof all claims New Hampshire may have been supposed to have to a slice of\\nMassachusetts, and forms a very valuable and important State paper.\\nIn connection with these documents, Mr. Spofford has also received copies\\nof three very important and valuable maps relating to the boundary line con-\\ntroversy of 1741.\\nNo. I is a map of Merrimack river and the boundary line at three miles\\ndistant on the north side thereof, by George Mitchell, surveyor. This map\\nis about 18x24 inches, and bears the following inscription on the upper left\\nhand corner, enclosed in scroll work:", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "184 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 11737\\nTo\\nHis Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqr.\\nCaptain General V Commander in Chief over His Majesty s Province of New\\nHampshire\\nThis map is humbly inscribed by\\nHis Excellencys\\nMost Obdt. Servt.\\nGeorge Mitchell Surv r.\\nAnd immediately under this we find the following note\\nBy Lines drawn on the North side of ye River there is as much land as\\nwater, which have their corresponding parallels at three miles distance but\\nas ye Sudden Bends renders it impracticable to come up to the Truth, the dif-\\nference is divided equally in General.\\nIn the lower left hand corner is the following note\\nReceived April 20th, with Governor Wentworth s Letter dated at Portsmouth\\nin New Hampshire 6th March i /^ik.2\\nIn the lower right hand corner is tlie title enclosed in scroll work.\\nA MAP\\nOf the River Merrimack\\nfrom the Atlantick Ocean\\nto Pawtucket Falls de-\\nscribing Bounds between\\nHis Majesty s Province of\\nNew Hampshire and the\\nMassachusetts Bay, agree-\\nable to His Majestys Or-\\nder in Council 1741\\nOn the back of the map we find the following sworn statement\\nGeorge Mitchell makes Oath, that this survey made by him of the River\\nMerrimack, from the mouth of said River to Pawtucket Falls, is true and exact\\nto the best of his skill and knowledge, and that the line described in the plan\\nis as conformable to His Majestys determination in Council, as was in his\\npower to draw, but finding it impracticable to stick to the letter of said deter-\\nmination, has in some places taken from one Province, and made ample allow-\\nance for the same in the next reach of the River.\\nPortsmouth. New Hampshire. March Sth, 1741.\\nGeorge Mitchell,\\nSworn C Jothani Odiorne fus.\\n1 \\\\oi the\\nbefore H. Sherburne J Peace\\nThus it will be seen that Mitchell was no tool or emissary of Belcher s, but\\nhe drew the boundary line according to his interpretation of the King s De-\\ncree, as it appears from examination of the map that he surveyed the river,\\nmade his plan, and then proceeded to lay off a strip of land three miles wide\\non the north side thereof. This he did by first drawing straight lines along", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "1737] KOVAL PROVINCE. 185\\nthe north shore of the river, passing so as to take one half of the river into\\nhis estimate, proiectini; these lines from the ocean to Pawtucket falls, and then\\ndraws the boundary line at three miles distance from these straight lines.\\nConsequently no part of his line appears on the south side of the river.\\nMitchell does not seem to have understood the gymnastics of modern survey-\\ning.\\nThis map shows no small degree of artistic ability in the surveyor who pro-\\njected it, so much so that Mr. SpofFord already has applications for copies\\nfrom parties interested in works of this description.\\nBut this map not only indicates a superior draughtsman, but a remarkably\\nskilful and accurate surveyor.\\nHis plan of the river, reduced by pantograph to the scale of the map accom-\\npanying the recent report of the New Hampshire Commissioners to the leg-\\nislat\\\\ire of that Stats, shows the survey to have been made and platted with a\\nwonderful degree of accuracy.\\nThis latest survey and plan were executed with the very best of modern ap-\\npliances, by a skilful and experienced surveyor but recently from the United\\nStates Government survey of the Mississippi river, and neither time nor ex-\\npense was spared to make it as accurate as could be platted on a scale of 500\\nfeet to one inch still, on comparing the latest product of modern skill, it is\\nlittle more than a fiic simile of Mitchell s work done with the rude instru-\\nments of a centurv and a half ago.\\nMap No. 3.\\nThis map is on a sheet about 24x36 inches, and is the work of the same\\nsurveyor, and executed in the same general style as No. 2. The title reads\\nas follows\\nA Plan of the Rivers and Boundary Lines referred to in the Proceedings and\\nJudgment to which this is annexed. George Mitchell Surveyor\\nNote\\nReed. Dec. 20 17,57, wMth Letter from ye Commissioners for settling the\\nBoundary Lines betw-een ye provinces of Massachusetts Bay New Hamp-\\nshire Cenr 79\\nThecommissionof1737.it will be remembered by persons familiar with\\nthis question, reported in substance as follows:\\nThat if the second charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay covered\\nall the territory tliat the first charter covered, then the line should commence\\nat the Atlantic ocean, three miles north of the mouth of the Merrimack river,\\nand thence running westerly and northerly, keeping at three miles distance\\nfrom the river to the junction of tlie Winnipiseogee and three miles further\\nnorth, thence due west to his majesty s other dominions; but if it did not,\\nthen the dividing line should begin at a point three miles north of the Black\\nRocks and thence due west to his majesty s other dominions. Tliese lines\\nare all shown on the plan.\\nBut both parties appealed from this decision, and the matter was carried\\nbefore the King in council. This august body seems to have been run by", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "I 86 HISTOk\\\\ iNICW lIAMrsHIKE. [^737\\nNew Hampshire s paid agent, one George Thomlinson, and the line was estab-\\nlished at three miles north of the river to Pawtucket falls, and thence due\\nwest, etc. This gave New Hampshire some 700 square miles of Massaclui-\\nsetts more than that Province had ever claimed, consequently her willingness\\nto pay all the expenses of running the lines that make the area of that State\\nto-day 1,400 square miles larger than Massachusetts.\\nThese records and maps are not only interesting historical documents, but\\nthey show past all controversy that the boundary line matter was settled by\\nthe king s decree, that the execution was served, the land set off, the lines\\nrun and marked on the ground, the plans returned, accepted and recorded,\\nand the whole business executed as perfectly and thoroughly as it was possi-\\nble to fix any division line anywhere at that time. It was all done with the\\ncordial assent and concurrence of New Hampshire. Massachusetts protested\\nagainst it, but without avail. The line thus established has been the line ot\\njuri.sdiction ever since. Massachusetts set the bounds stones at the angles\\nin 1S27 they are all there to-day, and mark the angles in the line. Mr. Spof-\\nford has run on the ground, and there is not the slightest doubt of its correct-\\nness substantially, and wh} any person should now suppose for a single mo-\\nment that a boundary line thus established by both parties can be changed at\\nthe option of one. and without the consent and against the wishes of the in-\\nhabitants living near it, is a mystery we shall not attempt to solve.\\nEast Kingston was incorporated in 1738. Rev. Peter Coffin was settled as\\nminister the following year and was dismissed in 177^.\\nThe Scotch settlers of Londonderry came to this wintry land to have\\nA faith s pure shrine,\\nand\\nTo make a happy fireside clirae\\nFor weans and wife.\\nTiiey were hard-headed, long-headed, level-headed, uncompromising, uncon-\\nquered. and unconquerable Presbyterians. They were of a stern and rugged\\ntvpe. They clung to the tenets of the Presbyterian faith with a devotion, con-\\nstancy, and obstinacy little short of bigotry, and in it was mingled little of\\nthat charity foi others of a different faith which sufiereth long; nor is this\\nsurprising, when we consider the circumstances of their lives, and the stock\\nto which they belonged. They were the descendants of a brave and heroic\\nrace of men and women, who had resisted the encroachments of the Estab-\\nlished Church of England, risen in opposition to it, and in 1638 entered in-\\nto a solemn league and covenant to maintain the reformed religion in\\nScotland, and to resist and put down popery and prelacy hence the name of\\nCovenanter.\\nFor the preservation of their religious liberty and their form of faith the\\nCovenanters had struggled, and fought, and suffered amid the moors and\\nmountains and fastnesses of Scotland with a fortitude and heroism unsur-\\npassed. Manv laid down their lives to secure its preservation; many strug-\\ngled bravelv on during the troubled years, bearing aloft the ensign of their", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "1737] ROYAL PROVINCE. iS/\\nf;iith, wliicli tlicv believed to be the only true faith, and their banner the only\\ntrue standard of the cross.\\nThe foot of the persecutor followed the faithful to Ireland, and there they\\nfelt the avenging arm of resisted and arbitrary power. Some of those who\\nhad taken part in the brave defence of Londonderry, Ireland, owned land hert\\nwhich was occupied by their sons. The story of the past, of the conflicts in\\nScotland, the flight to Ireland, the endurance and sufterings and sacrifice:\\nand final triumphal the siege of Derry, were fresh in their memories,\\nthey were engraven on the tablets of their souls, and the lessons influenceo\\ntheir lives. So the faith of the stern, grim Covenanter was transplanted to\\nLondonderry. It took root and flourished on this soil, and grew with r\\nstrong, steady, and solid growth. The Scotch settlers were a conservativt\\nand thinking people, and their institutions were the result of thought. Mani\\nof the characteristics, sentiments, and much of the feelings of the Cove-\\niian crs were here, and these have not entirely died out of their descendants.\\nThe religious side of the characters of the first residents was largely developed.\\nThe town of Windham, incorporated in February, 1739, has been stronglv\\northodox from the beginning. Many families attended meeting at what i.s\\nnow East Derry. After attending to their morningduties, the whole family,\\nmen, women, and children, would walk eight or nine miles to meeting,\\nlisten to two long sermons, and then return to- their homes, seldom reaching\\nthem until after dark. So they prized the sanctuary, and appreciated and\\ndearly loved the faith in whicli tliey trusted.\\nThe first religious meetings were holden in barns during the warm season\\nfor eleven years, when, in 1753, the first meeting house was built, on a high\\nelevation south-east of Cobbett s pond, now known as Cemetery Hill.\\nTheir Scotch ancestors, exiles from the lochs and glens of Scotland, could\\nnot forget the customs of the dear old father-land. So they located the burial-\\nplace of themselves and their kindred in the shadow of the kirk. It is a\\nbeautiful spot. The lovely lake nestles at the foot of this white-washed hill,\\nshimmering with brightness in the suramersun, and in the autumn mirroring\\nin its bosom all the beauty of the forest trees. It is a pleasant place on which\\nto pitch one s tent after the weary march, when with folded arms the silent\\nones will rest undisturbed till the reveille call at the great awakening. So the\\ndead rested near where the living \\\\^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0orshipped, where in summer davs, through\\nthe opened windows which let in the sunshine and the breath of flowers, the\\nwords as they fell from the lips of the living preacher might be borne by the\\nbreezes which gently w aved the grass that grew and the flowers that bloomed\\non the mounds of the peaceful sleepers.\\nThe first pastor was Rev. William Johnston, who receiveda call to settle\\nhere in July, 1746.\\nThe towns cut off from Massachusetts petitioned to be re-\\nanne.xed. but their plea was met and successfully combated by\\nThomlinson. About the same time, Governor Belcher procured\\na petition, from his si.x friends of tiie council of New Hamp-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKV ll NKW HAMI SIHKIC,\\n1740\\nshire, to the King, praying that the whole Province might be\\nannexed to the government of Massachusetts. This matter had\\nbeen long in contemplation with these gentlemen but was now\\nproduced at the most unfortunate time which could have been\\nchosen. Their petition was at once rejected.\\nThe boundary line between the two Provinces was finally\\nsurveyed and determined in 1741 the curved line from the\\nocean to Pawtucket Falls being determined by George Mitchell\\nthe line thence to the Connecticut river being surveyed by\\nRichard Hazen and the eastern boundary by Walter Bryant.\\nThe enemies of Governor Belcher in both Provinces finally\\ntriumphed and accomplished his downfall. He was succeeded\\nin Massachusetts by Governor William Shirley, and in New\\nHampshire by Governor Benning Wentworth.\\nGovernor Belcher was soon after appointed governor of New\\nJersey, where he was held in the highest esteem, and where he\\ndied in August, 1751, in his seventy-sixth year. In some in-\\nstances Governor Belcher was imprudent and unguarded. He\\nwas zealous to serve his friends, and hearken to their advice.\\nHe paid no court to his enemies, but openly treated them with\\ncontempt. His language to them was severe and reproachful.\\nHe had by far too mean an opinion of their abilities, and the\\ninterest which they had at court. He had a consciousness of\\nthe general integrity of his own intentions, and appears to have\\nbeen influenced by motives of honor and justice.^\\nT,5tAT^UU^ GoNOftt", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nROYAL PROVINCE, 1 741-1760.\\nGovernor Bensing Wentvvorth Wentvvorth Hall Martha H ilton\\nA Cold Winter Epping Windham Brentwood French and\\nIndian War Louisbl rg Sir William Pepperrell Pepperrell\\nHouse William Vaughan Number Four Incorporation of\\nvarious Towns Rumford (Concord) Wrestling Matches Old\\nStyle and New Style The Bow Case Coos County The Sev-\\nen Years War Rogers Rangers Rev. John Houston An Auda-\\ncious Reconnaissance A Fierce Fight in the Woods John Stark\\nConc^uest of Canada Saint Francis Indians Quebec and\\nMontreal Pontiac and Major Rogers Rogers House.\\nDENNING WENTWORTH was commissioned governor of\\nthe royal Province of New Hampsliire in 1741. From the\\ngraceful pen of Fred Myron Colby is the following tribute to\\nhis memory\\nFew names hold more e.xalted rank in the annals of the old\\nthirteen colonies than that of Wentvvorth. The progenitor of\\nour colonial family was William, a cousin of the ill-fated chan-\\ncellor of Charles the First, who arrived in New Hampshire as\\nearly as 1640. Benning Wentworth was a great-grandson of\\nWilliam. His father was John Wentworth, who was lieu-\\ntenant-governor of New Hampshire from 1717 till 1730. The\\nson graduated at Harvard, and afterwards was associated with\\nhis father and uncle in the mercantile business at Portsmouth.\\nHe several times represented the town in the Provincial As-\\nsembly, was appointed a King s councillor in 1734, and finally,\\nin 1 741, became the royal governor of the Province. His life", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "igo\\nHISTORY OF Xr.W HAMPSHIRE.\\n[1741\\nwas long, active and distinguished, and during liis career New\\nHampshire advanced rapidly in wealth and prosperit}-, though\\nd\\nnot so fast as the governor did. He laid heavy tribute on the\\nProvince, and exacted heavy fees for grants of land. He had", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "I74 ROYAL PROVINCE. igi\\nthe right perhaps. That he was a right brave and distinguished\\nlooking cavalier, and well fitted to lead society at a provincial\\ncourt, his portrait at Wentworth Hall abundantly shows. It\\nrepresents him dressed in the height of fashion, with a long\\nflaxen peruke flowing in profuse curls to his shoulders. He has\\na handsome, dignified face, the lips wearing an engaging smile,\\nand the air generally of face and figure of one who is lord of\\nthe manor. Indeed, there was everything in the career of the\\nworthy governor to give him, what in Europe used to be called,\\nthe bel air. Fortune had taken him by the hand from the\\nvery cradle, and some beneficent fairy, throughout all his life,\\nseemed to have smoothed away all thorns in his path, and scat-\\ntered flowers before him. He died at the age of seventy-four,\\nhaving lived as fortunate and splendid a life as any gentleman\\nof his time in the new world.\\nDespite its air of grandeur, Wentworth Hall, at Little Harbor,\\nis an architectural freak. It is seldom that one will find so\\nlarge a house that is as irregular and straggling as this one is.\\nThe rambling old pile looks as if it had been put together at\\ndifferent periods, and each portion the unhappy afterthought of\\nthe architect who designed it. It is simply an extension of\\nwing upon wing, and this whimsical arrangement is followed up\\nin the interior. The chambers are curiously connected by\\nunlocked for steps and capricious little passages, that remind\\none of those mysterious ones in the old castles, celebrated by\\nthe writers of the Anne Radcliffe school.\\nIt was in 1749 ^hat he commenced to build this mansion, and\\nit was completed the ne.xt year. He had been fascinated by\\nthe beauty of the place, and the magnificent structure which\\nrose at his command was worthy of its situation. Where he\\nobtained his plan no one knows, but perhaps the irregularity of\\nthe structure was compensated by the grandeur and sumptu-\\nousness of its adornments. Everything about the mansion was\\non a grand scale. The stables held thirty horses in time of\\npeace. The lofty gateways were like the entrance to a castle.\\nThe offices and out-houses might have done credit to a Kenil-\\nworth or a Middleham. As it now stands, girt by its ancestral", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "ig2 HISTOUV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. L 74I\\ntrees, looking out upon the sea, the house seems a patrician of\\nthe old regime, withdrawing itself instinctively from contact\\nwith its upstart neighbors. Having an existence of four gener-\\nations and more, a stately, dignified, hospitable home before\\nWashington had reached manhood, the Wentworth house may\\nclaim the respect due to a hale, hearty old age, as well as that\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0due to greatness.\\nFew houses in America have had as many illustrious visitors.\\nRooms under its roof have been occupied by Governor Shirley\\nof New York, Lord Loudon, commander-in-chief of the British\\nforces in America, Sir Charles Knowles, Admiral Boscawen,\\nGeorge Whitefield, and other worthies of that period. Stately\\nmerrymakings have been celebrated in its old halls.\\nThe first door on the right hand of the hall opens into the\\ngrand parlor of the old governor, which still retains all of its\\nformer magnificence. The paper on the walls is the same that\\nwas put on at the time the mansion was erected, and the carpet\\non the floor was put there by Lady Wentworth more than\\neighty years ago.\\nIn this room, surrounded by the wondering invited guests of\\nthe governor, was consummated the marriage ceremony which\\nLongfellow has celebrated in his Tales of a Wayside Inn,\\nbetween Wentworth and his chamber-maid. It was something\\nof a change for Martha Hilton. She was a girl of matchless\\nbeauty, but very poor. When young she had scandalized her\\nneighbors by glimpses of bare ankles as she promenaded in\\nscant costume. A puritanic dame one time remonstrated with\\nthe maiden in rather severe terms for exhibiting so much of her\\nbeauty. But Martha answered not abashed, Never mind how\\nI look I yet shall ride in my own chariot, ma am. It was a\\ntrue prophecy. After a lapse of years, attracted by her grace,\\nher beauty, her wit and good sense, Benning Wentworth offered\\nher his hand, and they were married on the governor s si.xtieth\\nbirthday.\\nAround the Council Room are some grand old portraits, thir-\\nteen in all. They are all in handsome gilt frames and some of\\nthem have rare histories, if they could be told.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "KOYAL I KOX INCE.\\n193\\nAt the entrance of the Council Chamber are seen the racks\\nfor the twelve guns, carried when occasion required by the\\no-overnor s guards. In the billiard room, which adjoins this\\napartment, still remains the ancient spinet, now time-worn and\\nvoiceless, but whose keys have many a time been touched by", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "194 uisToKV IIP m;\\\\v hami siiire. L 74^\\nthe jewelled white fingers of aristocratic belles. Washington\\nlistened to its music once when he visited here in 1790, the\\nguest of the hospitable Colonel Wentworth. Here, too, is seen\\nin one corner, the old buffet which, in the olden time, has held\\nmany a full and empty punch bowl. Opening out of the larger\\napartment are little side rooms where illustrious guests. General\\nLoudon, Admiral Boscawen, Lord Pepperell and many others,\\nhave played at cards and other games, until the wee sma\\nhours. About the whole hall there is a choice venerableness.\\nIn 1770, Benning Wentworth breathed his last in the arms of\\nhis faithful wife. The governor rewarded her care and faithful-\\nness by bequeathing her his entire estate. The great house\\nwas not long without a master, however. Lady Wentworth,\\nafter living single about a year, fell into the matrimonial traces\\na*ain, but without changing her name. She outlived her second\\nhusband several years, and at her death, in 1804, left the old\\nmansion to her daughter Martha, whom she had by Colonel\\nMichael Wentworth. She was buried beside her first husband,\\nin the churchyard of St. John s, in Portsmouth.\\nThe mansion at Little Harbor continued to be occupied by the\\nsecond Martha Wentworth, who was also a Lady, her husband\\nbeing Sir John Wentworth, until 18 16, when they went to\\nEngland, from whence they never returned.\\nThe winter of 1741 was famous throughout New England as\\nmuch colder than any which preceded it. Probably no year\\nsince could furnish testimony for cold either so intense or pro-\\ntracted. The snow, which covered the whole country as early\\nas the 13th of November, was still found the ne.\\\\t April covering\\nthe fences. The Boston Post Boy for January 1 2th, reports a tent\\non the Charles River for the entertainment of travellers. The\\nBoston Netvs Letter for March 6th, tells us that people ride\\nevery day from Stratford, Conn., to Long Island, which is three\\nleagues. Even as far east as New London, we are told that\\nthe ice extended into the sound as far as could be seen from\\nthe town and that Fisher s Island was united .to the main-\\nland by a solid bed. On March 28th, the Boston News Letter\\nreports that the people living on Thompson s Island had crossed", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "1 74-] K()\\\\AL ri o\\\\ i.\\\\ CE. f95\\nover to Dorchester to church on the ice for the fifteen preceding\\nSundays.\\nAs late as the 9th of July, a letter from New London, Conn.,\\nreports on the east side of the Connecticut river a body of ice\\nas large as two carts can draw, clear and solid, and adds very\\nartlessly that it might lay there a month longer, were it not\\nthat so many resort, out of curiosity, to drink piuich made out\\nof it. On the 17th of July snow was still lying in a mass in\\nthe town of Ipswich, Mass., nearly four feet thick. But the\\nmost marvellous record of that season is tlie statement made by\\nAlonzo Lewis, author of the Annals of Lynn, Mass., that\\nFrancis Lewis, the signer of the Declaration of Independence,\\ndrove his horse from New York to Barnstable, the whole length\\nof Long Island Sound on the ice.\\nEpping was set off from I lxeter in 1741. Rev. Robert Cut-\\nler was the first minister, settled in 1747. Me was succeeded\\nin 1758, by Rev. Josiah Stevens in 1793, by Rev. Peter Holt\\nin 1826, by Rev. Forest Jefferds in 1842, by Rev. Calvin\\nChapman; in 1849, ^Y Rev. Lyman White.\\nThe town has claimed among its distinguished residents,\\nGeneral Henry Dearborn, Governor William Plumer, Senator\\nJohn Chandler, William Plumer, Jr., and Governor Benjamin F.\\nPrescott.\\nThe Quakers and Baptists had a foothold in the town ver)\\nearly in its history. Jonathan Norris, Joshua P olsom, and his\\nson, Benjamin Folsom, were among the leaders of the former\\nsociety. Among the Baptists, Rev. Dr. Samuel Shepard was a\\npreacher for nearly half a century.\\n1 Windham, from 1719 to 1742, was a parish of Londonderry,\\na part and parcel of that historic Scotch settlement.\\nIt is doubtful if any permanent settlements were made till the\\nadvent of the Scotch in 1719 in the Londonderry colony. The\\nfirst house in Windham was established on Copp s hill, south-\\neast of Cobbett s pond, about 1720. Its occupant was John\\nWacldell. In 1721 David Gregg, .son of John Gregg, of London-\\nderry, Ireland, and grandson of Captain David Gregg, a Scotch-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "ig6 HISTOKY OF NEW }IAMPSHIKE. [^74-\\nman and captain in Cromwell s army, established himself hi the\\nwest side of the town. He was the uncle of Andrew Gregg,\\nmember of the U. S. Senate from Pennsylvania, in 1 806-7.\\nThis David Gregg was joined by Alexander McCoy from the\\nhighlands of Scotland. In 1723 John Dinsmoor, son of John\\nDinsmoor of Scotland, located near the Junction. In 1728 or\\n29 John Archibald settled in the north part of the town.\\nAbout 1730, Lieut. Samuel Morrison, son of Charter James\\nMorrison of Londonderry^ N. H., and grandson of John Morri-\\nson of Scotland, settled in the east of the town, in the Range.\\nHe was the ancestor of the Morrisons at Windham.\\nIn 1733, Henry Campbell of Londonderry, Ireland, and the\\ngrandson of D.micl Campbell of Scotland, settled in the east\\nof the town, on Beaver river, and where his descendants\\nlive unto this day. About this same date Alexander Simpson\\nand Adam Templeton struck for settlement here.\\nJohn Cochran, of Scotch blood, came in 1730, hewed from tlic\\nwilderness his farm, upon which his descendants have since\\nlived. Alexander Park and John Armstrong appeared soon\\nafter.\\nThese are some of the pioneer fathers William and Robert\\nThompson, Joseph Waugh, Thomas Ouigley, Alexander and\\nJames Dunlap, Johli Kyle, John Morrow, Hugh Graham, John\\nand James Vance, Samuel and William McAdams, James Gil-\\nmore, Andrew Armour, John Hopkins, Daniel Clyde, William\\nThom, John Stuart, Hugh Brown, Samuel Kinkead, Francis\\nSmilie, Alexander Ritchie, William Jameson, Nathaniel Hemp-\\nhill, James Caldwell, who were here in early times, and, with\\nthe exception of William Thom, not a single descendant of any\\nof this list, bearing the family name, remains in town to-day.\\nImmediately after the first settlement had been made in Lon-\\ndonderry, near what is now the east village, individuals would go\\nfrom home to the more distant glebes to work in summer, and\\nwould return in the winter. Many young men lived in this\\nmanner several years, laboring thus to prepare a home for their\\nfuture companions. When the home was provided they went\\nor sent to Scotland, or to the Scotch settlements in Ireland,", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "i~4~\\\\ KOVAI. PROVINCE. 197\\ntor the brave lass who had consented to cross the wide ocean\\nto meet her stern lord in the wilderness, and by her presence\\nto cheer, to brighten, and to bless his home and life.\\nLand was cheap, and John Hopkins purchased a large tract\\nfor a web of linen cloth. Neighbors were far apart, oftentimes\\nas far as three miles, and it was said, we were obliged to go\\nthree miles to borrow a needle, not being able to buy one.\\nThere were no grist-mills nearer than Haverhill or Andover,\\nMass., so the grain was carried on poles trailed from the horse s\\nback. They often broke their corn into meal by placing it be-\\ntween two revolving stones, this being a hand-mill called a cairn.\\nThey lived mainly on what could be raised in the ground. They\\npossessed but little wealth, for their lot was like their father-\\nland, Scotland, cast in a cold wintr) land, with a hard and rocky\\nsoil.\\nNorth Hampton and South Hampton were incorporated in\\n1742.\\nBrentwood was incorporated in 1742. It was taken from\\nExetei including the present town of Freemont, and had been\\nknown as Keenborough. A meeting-house had already been\\nbuilt. Rev. Nathaniel Trask was settled as the first minister\\nof the place. He was succeeded, in 1 801, by Rev. Ebenezer\\nFlint in 1S13, by Rev. Chester Colton in 1826, by Rev. Luke\\nA. Spofford in 1831, by Rev. Jonathan Ward in 1833, by Rev.\\nFrancis Welch; in 1839, M John Gunnison in 1841, by\\nRev. James Bout well in 1854, by Rev. Charles Dame. Elder\\nSamuel Shepard was settled over a society of Baptists in the\\ntown in 1775 and continued until his death, in 1816.\\nGovernor Benning Wentworth had been received at Ports-\\nmouth with great marks of popular respect upon the publi-\\ncation of his commission in December, 1741. He had been a\\nheavy loser by the failure of Spanish officials to meet their obli-\\ngations to him, and his claim and other neglected claims of\\nEnglish merchants against the Spanish government led to the\\ndeclaration of war on the part of Great Britain to seek redress.\\nIn his first address to the General Court of New Hampshire he\\ndid not forget to recommend a fi.xed salary for himself, not", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "I9H Ill.-^IDKN (II \\\\l:\\\\\\\\ IIAMP.SLIIKK. 1 744\\n.subject to depreciation luir the payment of expenses which\\nliacl arisen on account of the boundary lines.\\nThe Assembly, in their answer, acknowledged the wisdom\\nand justice of the King in determining the long controversv\\nbetween them and Massachusetts, but claimed that half the\\nexpense of settling the boundary lines sliould be borne by tiic\\nadjoining Province. They promised ample provision for liis\\nhonorable support as soon as practicable. They voted a salary\\nif .\u00c2\u00a3250 to the governor, which they increased to ^500, and\\nan additional sum for house rent. They presented their agent,\\nThomlinson, with ^^500 sterling for his faithful services. They\\nalso issued paper money to the amount of ^\u00c2\u00a3^25,000. Tlic\\ngovernor s salary was further increased by ^800 sterling, his\\npay as surveyor of the woods, an office which Dunbar was in-\\nduced to resign upon receipt of ^2,000 sterling. Thomlinson\\nbrought about the appointment of Wentworth to the office upon\\nthe surrender of his claim of JSf .ooo against the Spanish\\nc.own.\\nThe good foitune of Governor Wentworth did not fail to\\nraise up envious enemies, but their schemes for his overthrow\\nwere futile.\\nIn 1744 the proprietors of Suncook chose Colonel Benjamin\\nRolfe, Mr. Andrew McFarland, and Deacon Noah Johnson, to\\ntreat with the proprietors of the Town of Bow, at their ne.xt\\nmeeting, and to see upon what terms or agreement thev will\\ncome into with us concerning our lands which the\\\\ have in\\ndispute with us, and see if said proi^rietors will take up with\\nsuch offers or proposals as the Province or l rf)vinces shall make\\nunto them or some other way; so that all controversies or law-\\nsuits may be ended for the future, that s i it may be for theirs\\nand our peace and benefit.\\nThe war commenced between lingland and Spain soon in-\\nvolved nearly all Europe. When France became an ally of the\\nSpaniards, New England became interested. The French garri-\\nson at Cape l^reton, having earlv information of the declaration\\nof war, surprised and captured the unprepared JCnglisli fishing\\nRelkr.T:i.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "1744] KovAL ruoviNCE. 199\\nstation at Canseau, near the northern part of Nova Scotia, and\\nwere assisted by the Indians. As a consequence the govern-\\nment of Massachusetts declared war against the French and\\nIndians in October, 1744, and offered a bounty for scalps and\\nprisoners.\\nFrom the pen of Rev. Daniel Rollins, a descendant of the\\nchief actor in the romantic drama of the Louisburg war, comes\\nthe following accounts\\nFrance had declared war on the 15th of March, 1744; and\\nabout si.x months prior to that time. Governor Shirley sent a letter\\nto Colonel Pepperrell, desiring him to hold his regiment in readi-\\nness to protect the frontier against the Indians. He accordingly\\nsent copies of it to each of his captains, and also added the\\nfollowing spirited sentence I hope that He who gave us our\\nbreath will give us the courage and prudence to behave ourselves\\nlike true-born Englishmen.\\nColonel Pepperrell was born at Kittery Point, Maine, June 27,\\n1696. The colony was then under the jurisdiction of Massa-\\nchusetts both being subject, of course, to the crown.\\nThe capture of Louisburg, the Gibraltar of America, was\\nthe leading event in our Colonial history; but it was followed\\nso closely by the Revolution, that it is somewhat obscured in\\nthe light of that great struggle. The town of Louisburg,\\nnamed after le grand monarqiic is situated in the south-\\neastern part of Cape Breton Island, adjoining Nova Scotia, and\\ncontrols the entrance to the Gulf and River St. Lawrence. It\\ncommanded the fisheries by its position. The island also pro-\\nduced large quantities of excellent ship timber. That ripe\\nscholar, the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, in his exhaustive description\\nof its capture, says the town of Louisburg was two and a half\\nmiles in circumference, fortified in every accessible part, with a\\nrampart of stone from thirty to thirty-six feet high, and a dit\u00c2\u00abch\\neighty feet wide. On an island at the entrance to the har-\\nbor, which was only four hundred yards wide, was a battery of\\nthirty cannon, carrying twenty-eight pound shot and at the\\nbottom of tlie harbor, directly opposite to the entrance, was the\\nt^rand or roval battei-\\\\-, of twenty-eight fort) -twos, and two", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "200 HISTUKV OF N EW 11AM1 SHIKE. [l745\\neighteen -pound cannon. The entrance to the town was at\\nthe west gate, over a drawbridge, which was protected by a\\ncircular battery of thirteen twenty-four-pound cannon. These\\nworks had been twenty-five years in building, and, though un-\\nfinished, had cost France not less than six millions of dollars.\\nIt is worthy of notice that only New England troops took part\\nin the siege. Colonel Pepperrell was selected to command the\\nforces, with the rank of lieutenant-general. He already occupied\\nthe ne.Kt highest post to that of the governor, viz., president\\nof the council. He was also very wealthy and popular, and\\nlikely to draw soldiers to his standard, as indeed proved to be\\nthe case. Nil dcspcranduni Cliristo ducc, was the motto of\\nthe invaders. Colonel Pepperrell advanced five thousand\\npounds from his own fortune, and threw himself into the work\\nof preparation with all the impetuosity of his nature.\\nThe West India squadron, under Commodore Warren, which\\nwas to co-operate with the New-England troops, failed to arrive\\nat the appointed time but they set sail without them on March\\n24, 1745, and after a short passage reached Louisburg, and began\\nat once to disembark and invest the town. On the 24th of\\nApril, Warren and three of his men-of-war joined them, and\\nothers arrived later. It appears that they took part in the bom-\\nbardment to some extent, but most of the work had necessarily\\nto be done by the land forces with their heavy siege-guns. The\\nships also served to good purpose in preventing reinforcements\\nand supplies from entering the harbor. But space will not per-\\nmit a detailed account of the capture of the Dunkirk of\\nAmerica. Suffice it to say that the place capitulated after\\na seven-weeks arduous attack by land and sea. The cross of St.\\nGeorge had supplanted the lilies of France. On the 17th of\\nJune, 1745, General Pepperrell marched into the town at the head\\nof his troops, and received the keys, although Commodore\\nWarren had vainly flattered himself that he or one of his\\nofificers should have the honor of receiving the surrender of the\\nplace. He had even gone so far as to send a letter to the\\nFrench governor, ordering him to deliver the keys to some one\\nwhom he should afterwards desigr.ate. General Pepperrell did not", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "17451 ROVAI. I KOVINCE. 20I\\nknow of this action at the time and he probably never learnetl\\nof it, as they continued to be good friends. Very likely he\\nknew of Warren s desire to assume the glory for this was the\\ngeneral opinion among the people of New England at the time,\\nand, indeed, feeling ran very high on the subject. Dr. Chauncey\\nexpressed their sentiments when he wrote the following to General\\nPepperrell. He said If the high admiral of England had been\\nthere, he would not have had the least right to command any-\\nwhere but aboard his own ships. A good instance of the\\nAiiicrican spirit thirty years prior to the Revolution.\\nSmollett says: The conquest of Louisburg was the most\\nimportant achievement of the war of 1744.\\nWard, in his edition of Curwen s Journal of the Loyalists,\\nsays That such a city should have yielded to the farmers^\\nmerchants, and fishermen of New England, is almost incredible.\\nThe lovers of the wonderful may read the works which contain\\naccounts of its rise and ruin, and be satisfied that truth is\\nsometimes stranger than fiction.\\nPepperrell received a letter from the Duke of Newcastle, dated\\nat Whitehall, August 10, 1745, acquainting him that his Majesty\\nhad sent a patent from Hanover creating him a baronet of Great\\n]5ritain, an honor never before conferred on a native of\\nAmerica. Commodore Warren was also promoted to the rank\\nof admiral.\\nA trophy of the capture of Louisburg lies almost at our\\ndoors. The visitor, on approaching the massive and stately\\nbuilding known as Gore Hall, at Cambridge, may see a gilded\\ncross over one of its doors, which was taken from a Erench\\nchurch and eventually foiuid a resting-place there. The granite\\npile stands for learning and progress. The cross may well re-\\nmind the students and all the friends of the university of its\\nmotto, Christo et Ecclesise, that its meaning may never be\\nforgotten in our onward march.\\nSir William Pepperrell embarked in Admiral Knowles -s\\nsquadron for Boston, Sept. 24, 1746, and arrived there on the\\n2nd of October, after a storm.v passage.\\nHe set sail for London in September, 1749, and was cordially", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "202 IIIbT()R\\\\ Ol M;\\\\V HAMl SIIIKE. 745\\nreceived at court by his Majesty, King George II. He was also\\ntlie recipient of many attentions from the Prince of Wales and\\nLord HaUfax. The mayor of London waited on him, and pre-\\nsented him with a set of plate in honor of his distinguished ser-\\nvices. Sir William was a man of fine appearance, somewhat\\ninclined to be portly, and his dignified and elegant bearing made\\nhim noted, even at the court of St. James. A description of\\nthe dress which he wore when presented has not come down to\\nus, but he oiclinarily dressed in the rich apparel customary for\\ngentlemen in his day, viz., a suit of scarlet cloth trimmed with\\ngold lace, silk stockings and silver shoe buckles, and the usual\\npowdered wig. He also wore lace ruffles at his wrists, and the\\nlong vest then in fashion. There is extant a full-length portrait\\nof him by the gifted Smibert, in the Essex Institute at Salem.\\nIt belongs to, and was formerl)- in, the Portsmouth Athenaeum,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2where it should have remained.\\nMe lived in great style at Kittery, and kept open house for\\nall his friends, although he was choice in his acquaintance.\\nHis library was the best in that part of the country, and was\\nmuch consulted by scholars, especially the clergy. His large\\nand substantial house was hung with beautiful paintings and\\ncostly mirrors. His cellar was filled with rare old wines, not\\nto mention the highly-prized New England rum, that had been\\nmellowed by its voyage to the Indies and back. His park was\\nstocked with deer he kept a coach-and-six, and also had a\\nsplendid barge, manned by six slaves in uniform.\\nHe owned immense tracts of land in Maine and it is said\\nthat he could travel from Portsmouth to Saco River, a distance\\nof thirty miles, all the way on his own soil. All these vast\\nestates were confiscated during the Revolution.\\nStill another honor awaited him for he received a commis-\\nsion of lieutenant-general in the royal army, bearing date Feb.\\n20, 1/59, giving him the command of all the forces engaged\\nagainst the French and their savage allies. But the old veteran\\ncould not take the field, for his health was failing and he died\\non the 6th of July, 1759, in the sixty-third year of his age. His\\nremains were placed in the family tomb, on his estate at Kittery\\nPoint.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "174^3] KOVAL I KOVIN CE. 2O3\\nThe old I c[ipeircll House, bnilt neail} two luiiKlred years\\n^go, which has seen more of splendor, and sheltered more\\nfamous individuals than any other private residence on this side\\nof the sea, is still the object of frequent pil j;rimages to Kittery\\nPoint. The house was built by the first William Pepperrell, the\\n;;reat merchant and ship-builder of his time. He accumulated\\nva wealth by trade, and his mansion reflected the boundless-\\nness of his means. Grand as any old English castle, it stood\\nlooking out to sea, girt by a great park where droves of deer\\nimported. His son, the famous Sir William Pepperrell, enlarged\\nand adorned it at the time of his marriage in 1734. This Lord\\nPepperrell, the only American baronet after Sir William Phipps,\\nwas a remarkable man. He was the richest merchant in the\\ncolonies, and had at times two hundred ships at sea. His suc-\\ncess at Louisburg proved him a skilful general, and his political\\niiiriuence was second to that of no man s in the colonies. The\\nstvle he lived in recalled the feudal magnificence of the great\\nbarons. The walls of his great mansion were adorned with rich\\ncarvings, splendid mirrors, and costly paintings. In his side-\\nboard glittered heavy silver plate and rare old china. Wine a\\nh.undred years old, from the delicate, spicy brands of Rhineland\\nto the fiery Tuscan, was in his cellars. He kept a coach with\\nsi.K white horses. A retinue of slaves and hired menials looked\\nto him as their lord and he had a barge upon the river, in\\nwhich he was rowed by a crew of Africans in gaud)- uniforms.\\nThe only man in all the colonies worth two hundred thousand\\npounds sterling, reigning grandly over grand estates for, like\\nan English peer, he might have travelled all day long upon his\\nown lands, sovereign lord, in fact, if not in name, of mor-? than\\nfive hundred thousand acres, timber, plain and valley, i.i New\\nHampshire and Maine. Sir William Pepperrell coukl do this,\\nand yet not live beyond his means.\\nThe original paper remains on the walls of the wide iiall, as\\ndo the deer antlers above the doors. The observatory upon the\\nroof affords a fine view of the surrounding country. A noble\\navenue of ehns, a quarter of a mile in length, formerly i- from\\nlie J Myrnn Cilbv.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "204 HISTORY OF NICW HAMPSHIRE. 1 74^\\nthe street to the door. The trees were about one rod apart.\\nThe perspective effect of this grand avenue must have been\\npeculiarly graceful and impressive. Some vandal cut down the\\ntrees years ago. But no one can destroy the beauty of the\\nnoble site on which the mansion stands. The late James T.\\nFields, an honored son of Portsmouth, endeavored, among\\nothers, to purchase it for a summer residence.\\nOne of the prime movers and most enthusiastic supporters\\nof the expedition against Louisburg was William Vaughan, son\\nof Lieut.-Governor Vaughan of New Hampshire, who was exten-\\nsively engaged in fishing along the eastern coast. Some claim\\nthat he originated the idea. Governor Shirley, of Massa-\\nchusetts, having determined upon the matter, Vaughan rode\\nexpress from Boston to Portsmouth, where the New Hampshire\\nAssembly was sitting. Governor Wentworth, between whom\\nand Governor Shirley the most amicable relations existed, im-\\nmediately laid the matter before them, and proposed a confer-\\nence of the two houses to be held on the next day. The house\\nof representatives having caught the enthusiasm of Vaughan\\nwere impatient of even this delay, and immediately took favor-\\nable action, appropriated ;\u00c2\u00a34,ooo, and authorized the governor\\nto select two hundred and fifty men and provide stores and\\ntransports. To raise the necessary money, they had to go beyond\\nthe power vested in them by the crown, but were advised to do so\\nby Governor Shirley. By the middle of February their quota of\\nmen were enlisted, eager to serve under such a popular man as\\nColonel Pepperrell. Governor Wentworth was at first inclined\\nto take command of the force, but was persuaded to stay at\\nhome. The famous George Whitefield gave the expedition a\\nmotto, AUl Desperandiim Christo Diicc, which almost gave it the\\ncharacter of a crusade.\\nIncluding the crew of an armed sloop in command of Captain\\nJohn Fernald, New Hampshire furnished three hundred and\\nfifty men, organized into a regiment under command of Colonel\\nSamuel Moore, besides one hundred and fifty men enlisted in\\nMassachusetts regiments, or one-eighth of the whole land force.\\nThe New Hampshire troops arrived at the rendezvous at Can-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "1746] K(i\\\\Al. I I;()\\\\-1NCE. 205\\nseau the last dav of March, two days before the arrival of their\\ncomrades.\\nThe expedition was planned by a lawyer, executed by a mer-\\nchant, at the head of a body of husbandmen and mechanics,\\nanimated indeed by ardent patriotism, but destitute of professi-\\nonal skill and experience. If an\\\\ one circumstance had taken\\na wrong turn on our side, and if any one circumstance had not\\ntaken a wrong turn on the French side, the expedition must have\\nmiscarried.\\nThe impregnable fortress capitulated after a short siege, in\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which New Hampshire lost eleven men, five killed and six died\\nof sickness. Lieutenant-Colonel Vaughan especially distin-\\nguished himself. The British navy, however, reaped most of\\nthe rich harvest from the victory but Wentworth and Shirley\\nwere confirmed in their governments as a result.\\nDuring the year 1746 the conquest of Canada was planned by\\nthe British ministry, and the American Colonies were directed\\nto prepare for the contest. The Indians attached to the inter-\\nests of the French had already commenced their depredations\\nalong the whole frontier, destroying the fields and cattle, burn-\\ning houses and mills, and killing and carrying away the inhabi-\\ntants. So an offensive campaign was designed to carry the war\\ninto the country of the enemy. Eight hundred men were\\nenlisted in New Hampshire in June, and ready for embarkation\\nin July, under command of Colonel Atkinson but the English\\nfleet which was to co-operate with it did not arrive. The arri-\\nval in Nova Scotia of a French army and fleet alarmed New\\nEngland, and for a time they acted on the defensive, strength-\\nening the forts at the mouth of the river and preparing for an\\nattack. But the French fleet met with misfortunes and losses,\\ngave up their proposed attempt to subdue New England, and\\nreturned to France greatly discouraged. To New Englanders\\nthe troubles of the French seemed providential. Colonel\\nAtkinson s regiment during the fall and winter was stationed\\non the frontier in the neighborhood of Lake Winnipiseogee.\\nDuring the war Massachusetts sustained garrisons in the", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "206\\nlilSlOKV (IF M:\\\\V IIAMl SllIKE.\\n[174\\nvalley of the Connecticut, in to\\\\vn,shi[)s tiiat had been granted\\nby that Province within New Hampshire, to j^rotect their\\nnorthern frontier. They had forts at Number Four, or Charles-\\ntown Great Meadow, or Westmoreland (ireat I ^all, orWalpole\\nFort Dummer, or Hinsdale Upper Ashuelot, oi- Keene and\\nLower Ashuelot, oi- Swanzev. New Hampshire maintained\\ngarrisons along the frontier of their settlements at Penacook,\\nor Concord Suncook, or Pembroke Contoocook, or ]5oscawen\\nNew Hopkinton, or Hopkinton Soiihegan ]{nst, or M,-rrimack\\nSouliegan West, or Amherst; and at Londondeiry, Chester,\\nFlpsom, and at Rochester. In the gai rison houses the inhabitants\\ntook refuge by night and never left them with a feeling of security.\\nThey went constantly armed. Nor were their fears without\\nfoundation. Although parties of scouts were kept ranging the\\nwoods, surprises and attacks, more or less successfiil, were of\\nfrequent occurrence.\\nTiie first a[)pcarance of the enem\\\\- in the Province was at\\nGreat Meadows, eaih in }u]x. 1744. wheie they killed William\\nPhi]xs. Tlie .same week they killetl Josej)!! I isher oi Upper\\nAshuelot.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "1746] ROVAL PKO\\\\INXE. 20/\\nIn October the Indians captured Nehemiah How and killed\\nDavid Rugg at Great Meadow.\\nIn the spring of 1746 the Indians captured John Spofford,\\nIsaac Parker, and Stephen Farnsworth, at Number Four,\\nand killed their cattle. In April they attempted to surprise\\nthe Fort at Upper Ashuelot. John Ballard and the wife of\\nDaniel McKenny were killed and Nathan Blake was taken into\\ncaptivity. They burned several houses and barns. About\\nthe same time they surprised a garrisoned house at New\\nHopkinton and captured and took to Canada Samuel Burbank\\nand David Woodwell and six members of their families. Mary\\nWoodwell, one of the captives, afterwards joined the Shakers\\nat Canterbury.\\nIn May a small party made an attack upon Number Four, and\\nkilled Seth Putnam, but were repulsed by Major Josiah Willard.\\nAt Contoocook Elisha Cook and a negro were killed and\\nThomas Jones taken captive. At Lower Ashuelot, Timothy\\nBrown and Robert Moffat were captured. Near the end of\\nthe month there was cjuite a battle at Number Four, in which\\nfive were killed on each side.\\nIn June another engagement occurred at the same place,\\nin which one settler lost his life. Captain Phinehas Stevens\\nwas in both battles. At Bridgman s Fort, near I ^ort Dummer,\\nWilliam Robbins and James Baker were killed, and Daniel How\\nand John Beaman were captured. At Rochester, they killed\\nJoseph Heard, Joseph Richards, John Wentworth, and\\nGershom Downs, and wounded and captured John Richards\\nand took a boy named Jonathan Door.\\nin August they killed one Phillips at Number Four, Joseph\\nRawson at Winchester, and Moses Roberts at Rochester.\\nAt Contoocook two men were taken. At Rumford, on the road\\nto Millville, were killed Samuel Bradley, Jonathan Bradley,\\nObadiah Peters, John Bean, and Peter Lufkin. Alexander\\nRoberts and William Stickney were carried into captivity. The\\nIndians lost four killed and several wounded, two of them\\nmortally. A monument marks the site of the massacre on\\nthe outskirts of the precinct of the city of Concord. A Mr. Es-\\ntabrook was killed near the same place in November.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "208 HISTOKV OF NEW IIAMI SUIRE. 1 747\\nIn the fall ot i~4f Massachusetts withdrew her garrisons\\nfrom the towns within New Ham|jshire and many of the inhab-\\nitants left at the same time. Four families, who remained at\\nShattuck s fort, in Hinsdale, successfully defended it against\\nan Indian attack\\nIn the Spring of 1747, Captain Phinehas Stevens, with a\\nranging company of thirty men, occupied the fort at Number\\nFour, and within a few days sustained a most determined attack\\nfrom a party of French and Indians, which was kept up for\\nthree days, when the enemy retired Robert Beard, John\\nFolsom, and Elizabeth Simpson were killed at Nottingham.\\nIn the autumn, Bridgeman s fort (Hinsdale) was captured, with\\nits garrison, several of whom were killed and the others\\ntaken to Canada.\\nThat wide stretch of hilly country lying between the Mer-\\nrimack and Connecticut rivers was, at that time, a densely-\\nwooded wilderness. The few who would have ventured to\\noccupy it well knew that so long as the French remained in\\npossession of Canada the region was in continual danger from\\nattacks by the Indians. In 1746 these attacks had become\\nso frequent and successful, that many of the settlements com-\\nmenced in the central and southern parts of the State had been\\nabandoned. There remained on the Merrimack small openings\\nat Nashua, Litchfield, Concord, Amoskeag, Suncook, Boscawen,\\nand Canterbury, and one at Hinsdale and another at Charles,\\ntown on the Connecticut but the entire midland between these\\nvalleys was an unbroken, heavy-wooded country.\\nIn the fall of 1747 two explorers from Dunstable, Nehemiah\\nLovewell and John Gilson, started from the present site of\\nNashua for the purpose of examining the slope of the Mer-\\nrimack, and of crossing the height of land to Number Four,\\nnow Charlestown, which was known as the most northern\\nsettlement in the Connecticut valley. Knowing the difficulties\\nin traversing hills and valleys mostly covered with underbrush\\nand rough with fallen timber and huge bowlders, they carried as\\nlight an outfit as possible a musket and camp-blanket each,\\nJolin H. l-ood.lle.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "1747] ROVAL I KtniN CE. 2og\\nwith five tlays provisions. Following the Souhegan to Milford\\nand Wilton, they then turned northward, and crossing the\\nheight of land in the limits of the present town of Stoddard, had\\non the afternoon of the third day their first view of the broad\\nvalley westward, with a dim outline of the mountains be-\\nyond. The weather was clear and pleasant, the journey\\nlaborious but invigorating. On their fourth night they camped\\non the banks of the Connecticut, some ten miles below Charles-\\ntown. At noon of the next day they were welcomed at the rude\\nfort, which had already won renown by the heroic valor of its\\nlittle garrison.\\nAt this time the fort at Number Four was commanded by\\nCaptain Phinehas Stevens, a man of great energy and bravery,\\nLovewell and Gilson were the first visitors from the valley\\nof the Merrimack, and their arrival was a novelty. That night,\\nas in later days they used to relate, they sat up till midnight,\\nlistening to the fierce struggles which the inmates of this\\nrude fortress, far up in the woods, had encountered within\\nthe previous eight months. The preceding winter this fort had\\nbeen abandoned, and the few settlers had been compelled to\\nreturn to Massachusetts. But Governor Shirley felt that so im-\\nportant an outpost should be maintained. As soon as the\\nmelting of the deep snow in the woods would permit, Captain\\nStevens, with thirty rangers, left Deerfield for Number Four\\nand reached it on the last day of March. The arrival was most\\nfortunate. Hardly was the fort garrisoned and the entrance\\nmade secure when it was attacked by a large force of French\\nand Indians. Led by Debeline, an experienced commander,\\nthey had come undiscovered and lay in ambush for a favorable\\nmoment to begin the attack. But the faithful dogs of the\\ngarrison gave notice of the concealed foe. Finding they were\\ndiscovered the Indians opened a fire on all sides of the fort.\\nThe adjacent lug houses and fences were set on fire. Flaming\\narrows fell incessantly upon the roof. The wind rose and the\\nfort was surrounded by flames. Stevens dug trenches under\\nthe walls and through these the men crept and put out the\\nfires that caught outside the walls.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "2IO HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 747\\nFor two days the firing had been kept up and hundreds\\nof balls had been lodged in the fort and stockade. On the\\nmorning of the third day Debeline sent forward a flag of truce.\\nA French officer and two Indians advanced and proposed\\nterms of capitulation, which were that the garrison should\\nlay down their arms and be conducted prisoners to Montreal.\\nIt was agreed that the two commanders should meet and Captain\\nStevens s answer should be given. When they met, Debeline,\\nwithout waiting for an answer, threatened to storm the fort and\\nput every man to the sword if a surrender was not speedily\\nmade. Stevens replied that he should defend it to the last.\\nGo back, said the Frenchman, and see if your men dare\\nfight any longer. Stevens returned and put to the men the\\nquestion, Will you fight or surrender. They answered,\\nWe will fight. This answer was at once made known to the\\nenemy, and both parties resumed arms. Severe fighting was\\nkept up during the day. The Indians, in approaching the\\nstockade, were compelled to expose themselves. They had\\nalready lost over a dozen of their number, while not one of the\\ndefenders was slain. The French commander, reluctantly\\ngiving up all hopes of carrying the fortification, returned\\ntowards Canada. The coo! intrepidity of the rangers saved\\nNumber Four. Sir Charles Knowles, then in command of the\\nfleet at Boston, sent Captain Stevens an elegant sword. Subse-\\nquently in his honor. Number Four was called Charlestown.\\nAfter various perils and a narrow escape from capture by the\\nIndians, Lovewell and his companion arrived safely at Dunstable.\\nIn the spring of 1748, Captain Stevens was again in com-\\nmand at the fort at Number Four, with a garrison of one hun-\\ndred men. A scouting party of eighteen, sent from the fort,\\nlost si.x of their number.\\nDuring the summer, the Indians made an attack on Roch-\\nester, in which the wife of Jonathan Hodgdon was killed; and\\nlater, three men were killed at Hinsdale s Fort, Nathan French,\\nJoseph Richardson, and John Frost. William Bickford, of the\\nseven prisoners taken, died of his wounds.\\nCaptain Hobbs, with a scouting party of forty men, was", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "1745] KOVAL PKOVIXCE. 211\\nattacked near West Ri\\\\cr, in Hinsdale; and, after a b ittle of\\nthree hours, withdrew with the loss of three men killed and four\\nwounded. The same party of the enemy killed two men and\\ncaptured nine in the same neighborhood. Peace was declared\\nbetween France and England in 1749, but an attack was made\\nupon Number Four in the early summer, in which one man,\\nObadiah Sartwell, was killed, and a son of Captain Stevens was\\ncaptured and taken to Canada. Peace was destined to continue\\nuntil 1754.\\nDuring this war the Indians did not murder nor torture their\\nprisoners, but treated them humanely, according to the testi-\\nmony of many who returned.\\nDuring the continuance of the war had occurred an event of\\nmuch interest to New Hampshire. It will be remembered that\\nThomlinson had purchased of the last Mason heir his interest in\\nNew Hampshire, promising him 1,000 in behalf of the As-\\nsembly. After the settlement of the line between the prov-\\ninces, and during the attack on Louisburg, in which Mason had\\ncommand of a company, Governor Wentworth frequently called\\nthe attention of the General Court to the matter, but that body\\nhesitated to appropriate the necessary funds to complete the\\npurchase. At length Mason, becoming impatient, and the\\nentail having been docked, made a trade with certain gentlemen\\nof the Province, and, January 30, 1746, disposed of his whole\\ninterest for ^1,500 currency, on the very day a committee of\\nthe Assembly called upon him to arrange the matter. The\\npurchasers were Theodore Atkinson, M. H. Wentworth, Rich-\\nard Wibird, John Wentworth, George Jaffrey, Nathaniel Me-\\nserve, Thomas Packer, Thomas Wallingford, Jotham Odiorne,\\nJoshua Pierce, Samuel Moore, and John Moffat. Their act\\nraised a storm of indignation but they prudently filed at the\\nrecorder s office a quit-claim deed to all the towns which had\\nbeen granted by New Hampshire authority, viz., Portsmouth,\\nDover, E.xeter, Hampton, Gosport, Kingston, Londonderry,\\nChester, Nottingham, Barrington, Rochester, Canterbury, Bow,\\nChichester, Epsom, Barnstead, and Gilmanton.\\nIn 1746 the towns of Merrimack, Pelham, Hudson, Hollis,\\nand Dunstable were incorporated.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "212 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [^746\\nMerrimack, formerly Souhegan East, had been settled about\\nthirteen years. A Mr. Hassell was among the first settlers.\\nThe first house in town had been built many years before any\\npermanent settlement was made, and was occupied by John\\nCromwell for purposes of trafiic with the Indians. The house\\nwas standing near the Merrimack River in 1679, but was after-\\nward burned. Rev. Jacob Burnap, D. D., was settled as min-\\nister in 1772, and died in 1821 Rev. Stephen Morse, in 1825;\\nRev. Stephen T. Allen, in 1839; Rev. E. G. Little, in 1850. A\\nchurch was organized in the south part of the town in 1829.\\nThe town was the home for many years of Hon. Mat hew\\nThornton.\\nThe first settlements were made in Pelham, in 1722, by John\\nButler and William Richardson, the grandfather of Chief-\\nJustice Richardson. A meeting house was built in 1747, and\\nRev. James Hobbs was ordained as minister in 1751. He was\\nsucceeded by Rev. Amos Moody, in 1765 by Rev. John H.\\nChurch, in 1798; by Rev. John Keep, in i8js by Rev. Cyrus\\nW. Allen, in 1843; by Rev. Charles Rockwell, in 1854.\\nHudson was incorporated as Nottingham West, and formed a\\npart of Dunstable. It was settled as early as 17 10. Some of\\nthe early names were Bljidgett, Winn, Lovewell, Colburn, Hill,\\nGreeley, Cross, Cummings, Pollard, Marsh, and Merrill. A man\\nby the name of Cross was taken prisoner to Canada from the\\ntown. Rev. Nathaniel Merrill was settled as minister in 1737;\\nRev. Jabez L. Fisher, in 1796; Rev. William K. Talbot, in\\n1825; Rev. D. L. French, in 1852.\\nHollis, known to the Indians as Nisitissit, was, before its in-\\ncorporation, the west parish of Dunstable. The first settlement\\nwas made by Captain Peter Powers, in 1731. A church was\\norganized, and Rev. Daniel Emerson was settled as the minister\\nin 1743. He was chaplain during the French and Indian War.\\nHe died in 1801. Rev. Eli Smith was settled as colleague pastor\\n,in 1793; Rev. David Perry was settled in 1831 Rev. James\\nAiken, in 1843 Rev. Matthew D. Gordon, in 1849; R^v. P. B.\\nDay, in 1852. Among the notable families who have lived in\\nthe town arc those by the name of Powers, Goodhue, Cum-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "1/47] ROYAL PROVINCE. 21 3\\nmiii-s, limerson, Burge, Farley, Proctor, Kendrick, Worcester,\\nKlood, Jevvctt, Tenney, Eastman, Hardy, Smith, Holt, and\\nSawtell.\\nThe old town of Dunstable was granted in 1672, and was\\ndivided in 1740 by the Province line. Among the early settlers\\nappear the names of Weld, Blanchard, Waldo, Cumings, French,\\nLovewell, Farwell, Lund, and Colburn. Hon. Edward Tyng\\nwas among the earlier settlers, and the town received its name\\nin honor of his wife. A church was organized in 1685, when\\nRev. Thomas Weld was settled as minister. He was killed by\\nthe Indians in 1702. Rev. Nathaniel Prentice was settled in\\n1718, and ministered to the people until his death in 1737. He\\nwas succeeded, in 1738, by Rev. Josiah Swan in 1748, by Rev.\\nSamuel Bird; in 1767, by Rey^_JjQS\u00c2\u00a3ph_Kidder in 1813, by\\nRev. Ebenezer B. Sperry in 1826, by Rev. Handel G. Nott\\nin 1S36, by Rev. Jonathan McGee in 1842, by Rev. Matthew\\nHale Smith; in 1846, by Rev. Samuel Lavvson in 1849, by\\nRev. Daniel March. The Olive Street church separated in\\n1834; the Pearl Street church in 1846.\\nThe towns of Hampstead, Newton, Plaistow, and Litchfield\\nwere incorporated in 1749, and the township of Salisbury was\\ngranted the same year.\\nWith great wisdom the Masonian proprietors sought to dis-\\narm antagonism to their claims by granting townships to peti-\\ntioners, often without fees, and always without quit-rents.\\nThey quieted the proprietors of the towns, on the western side\\nof the Merrimack, which had been granted by Massachusetts,\\nbefore the establishment of the line so that they went on\\npeaceably with their settlements. The terms of their grants\\nwere, that the grantees should, within a limited time, erect\\nmills and meeting-houses, clear out roads, and settle ministers.\\nIn every township, they reserved one right for the fir.st settled\\nminister, another for a parsonage, and a third for a school.\\nThey also reserved fifteen rights for themselves, and two for\\ntheir attorneys all of which were to be free from ta.xes, till\\nsold or occupied. By virtue of these grants, many townships\\nwere settled, and the interest of the people became so united", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "214 HISTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 750\\nwith that of the prupiietDis, that the prejutHce against them\\ngradually abated.\\nThe towns of Suncook and Runiford were not included in\\nthis general amnesty.\\nIn November, 1750. a suit was commenced against Deacon\\nJohn Merrill, b\\\\ the proprietors of the common and undivided\\nlands lying and being in the town of Bow, in an action of\\nejectment, wherein they demanded eight acres of land and ,dl\\nimprovements made by Deacon Merrill. This seems to have\\nbeen the beginning of litigation, the test of the right of the\\nproprietors of Bow to lands claimed by them. The settlers\\nvoted to raise money to defend Deacon Merrill.\\nAt the same time Captain John Chandler, Colonel Benjamin\\nRolfe, Lieutenant Jeremiah Stickney, Mr. Ebenezer Virgin, and\\nDr. Ezra Carter, or the major part of them, were appointed a\\ncommittee for said proprietors, to advise and order Deacon\\nJohn Merrill how he shall pursue and defend the action brought\\nagainst said Merrill by the proprietors of Bow also, to advise\\nand order an} other person or persons that shall be sued or\\nshall sue in order to support and defend their rights or claims,\\nwhat method they shall pursue for the purposes aforesaid.\\nBedford and Salem were incorporated in 1750.\\nThe township of Dunbarton was granted in 175 i.\\n^The first settlement was made about 1735, by Joseph and\\nWilliam Putney, James Rogers and Obediah Foster, who came\\nfrom Rumford (now Concord), and located in the eastern part\\nof the town, at a place called Great Meadow. Here they\\nerected log houses, planted fruit trees and set about imjiroving\\nthe land. When a body of Indians appeared in the vicinit) of\\nRumford, two friends of Rogers made their way by sjiotted\\ntrees to warn the settlers of the danger. They found one of\\nthe families engaged in cooking for supper and the other churn-\\ning. Upon the receipt of the alarming intelligence they at\\nonce abandoned their homes, leaving the meat to fry itself\\naway and the cream to churn itself to butter, and during the\\nnight succeeded in reaching Rimifunl. Returning the next day\\nKarmei s I .i-lknap, p. 29..1 l- r N. Houion. 3 J. li, Cuniior.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "I 75 J KOVAL rROVIN CE. 215\\nto drive their cattle to the garrison, they found them all slaugh-\\ntered, their houses plundered and burned, and the apple trees\\ncut down. Three years later Messrs. Putney and Rogers made\\na permanent settlement, though they had procured no title to\\nthe land, but their possession was confirmed by the proprietors,\\nwho, in 175 1, obtained a grant of the township. The extensive\\nrange of meadow land already cleared by the industrious\\nfarmers was particularly adapted to agriculture and was rich in\\nthe kind of grass called blue-joint. The name given by the\\nsettlers was Mountalona, from a place where they once dwelt\\nin Ireland, for religious oppression had driven them from their\\nancestral homes in Scotland. We can but admire the intrepidity\\nof this little band in removing so far away from the garrison at\\na time fraught with so many dangers, for although the Indian\\nwar ended about this time, the peace was not of that substantial\\ncharacter which ensures perfect security. It was more than\\nlikely that the pioneers were suspicious of their former foes, for\\na long time after the cessation of hostilities, and even while pur-\\nsuing their daily avocations, they were ever on the alert to\\ndetect the cat-like tread of the treacherous red-skins. They\\nhad not forgotten the devastation of their farms and homes,\\nand the massacre on the IIo]ikinton road was still fresh in their\\nminds. But the remembrance of these scenes, while it served\\nto increase their caution, rendered them only the more deter-\\nmined in their enterprize. Mr. Rogers was the father of Major\\nRobert Rogers, celebrated as a leader of the rangers in the\\nFrench and Indian war. The elder Rogers met with a singular\\nand painful death in attempting to visit his friend Ebenezer\\nAyer. Mr. Ayer, who was a hunter of no little renown, had\\nbeen in quest of game during the day, and returning to camp\\nearly in the evening was still on the lookout for a bear, when\\nMr. Rogers appeared. Mistaking his friend (who was dressed\\nin a bear-skin suit) for an animal of that species, he fired and\\nmortally wounded him. Mr. Ayer was intensely grieved at the\\naccident and could never relate the occurrence without shed-\\nding tears. At the time of this settlement, Concord (or Rum-\\nford) had aiiout 350 inhabitants. Bow not more than five", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "2l6 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 751\\nfamilies, and Goffstown might have had a few inhabitants,\\nthough it is very doubtful, wl-.ile Hopkinton had been settled\\nten years. In 1751 arrangements were made for a regular\\nsettlement of the town, the included territory being granted by\\nthe assigns of John Tufton Mason to Archibald Stark, Caleb\\nPaige, Hugh Ramsey and others. This grant embraced a\\nterritory five miles square, and included a portion of the present\\ntown of Hooksctt. The ne.xt settlement was made in the\\nwestern part of the town, by William Stinson, Thomas Mills\\nand John Hogg. These families were for a time three miles\\napart, with no intervening neighbors, and we can imagine the\\nsense of loneliness which would at times enter their hearts despite\\nthe cheerful character of their natures. During the day the\\ncares of the farm would engross their attention, but when the\\nsetting sun had proclaimed the hour of parting day, and all\\nthe earth a solemn stillness wore, they must have keenly felt\\ntheir isolation and sometimes deeply sighed for the homes which\\nthey had left. To add to the dreariness of the long winter\\nnights, savage beasts rent the air with yelps and howls till\\nchildren trembling buried their heads in the pillows and sterner\\nhearts still feared the inroads of their skulking foes. The first\\nchild born in the town was probably Sarah Mills, daughter of the\\nabove mentioned Thomas Mills, although Stark, the historian,\\nsays: We are inclined to believe that the first child born upon\\nthe territory was one of the family of James Rogers or Joseph\\nPutney, who settled upon it several years prior to 1746, to the\\noldest sons of whom lots of land were granted in 1752. From\\nthis time emigrants flocked to all parts of the town, some com-\\ning direct from Scotland, others from Haverhill, Ipswich, Salem,\\nTopsfield, and other Massachusetts towns, until, in 1770, Dunbar-\\nton boasted of its 497 inhabitants, being two-thirds of its pre-\\nsent population. These people, actuated by a love for their new\\nhomes and assisted by the generous hand of nature, rapidly de-\\nveloped those resources which have added wealth and impor-\\ntance to the town. The building of highways was one of the\\nfirst improvements, and as early as 1760 we find notice of roads\\nbeing laid out, anel the nuiiu hi;;li\\\\va\\\\ running through the west-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "I/S KOVAL PROVI^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2CE. 21\\nern part of the town was probably established long before-\\nThis was the principal route to Boston from central New Hamp-\\nshire, and for years these hills resounded with the busy strains\\nof travel. The whirling coach threw clouds of dust to blind the\\nteamster s sight, and the rumbling of its wheels brought many\\na head to the windows whose narrow panes afforded hut a lim-\\nited view of the Fast Mail.\\nIn 1760, lot No. 12, in the 4th range, containing 100 acres,\\nwas granted to Captain John Stark (afterwards General), upon\\ncontlition that he build a saw-mill, the same to be put in opera-\\ntion within one year. The condition was fulfilled. Captain\\nWilUam Stinson erected the next mill.\\nReligion and education received prompt attention, and in 1752\\na vote was passed that a meetinghouse should be built within\\nfive years from May next ensuing. The house was finished in\\n1767 and remained twenty-five years, when it was removed to\\nmake way for a more pretentious edifice. The first school-\\nmaster who taught in Dunbarton was a Mr. Hogg commonly\\ncalled Master Hogg. The first female teacher was Sarah\\nClement. With the facilities now afforded for mental culture,\\nwe can hardly conceive of a more disheartening task than the\\nacquirement of an education under the adverse circumstances\\nof the eighteenth century. In these schools ver) few of the\\nscholars possessed text books, so the teacher gave out the pro-\\nblems and the pupils were expected to return the answer with-\\nout a repetition. The way must have been blind indeed, but\\ntheir victories over the hard sums and difficult passages were\\nconquests of which they were justly proud, and which fitted\\nthem to win even greater laurels in the contest for liberty.\\nFor several years the nearest grist-mill was at Concord, to\\nwhich the settlers carried their grists upon their backs in sum-\\nmer, and in winter drew them upon hand sleds .through a path\\nmarked by spotted trees. From the forest trees these hardy\\npioneers made mortars in which to render the corn fit for making\\nsamp, the use of which they had learned from the Indians.\\nAmong the impediments which the early settlers encountered ia\\nclearing and burning over the land were the Kinc s trees.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "2l8 HISIOKV 0[- NEW IIAMl SlllKE. 751\\nThese trees were marked by the Khig s surveyors for use in the\\nroyal navy, and any damage which occurred to them subjected\\nthe offender to a considerable fine. Notwithstanding the diffi-\\nculties, hardships and privations which compassed them round\\nabout, these sturdy foresters seem to have lost none of their\\ngood courage, and that they were wont to enjoy themselves\\nupon occasions, is manifest from the frequent occurrence of\\nhorse-races, while huskings, flax-breakings, apple-parings and\\nhouse-raisings were joyful scenes to the people of those days.\\nA few of their industrial pastimes are still in vogue. It was\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0customary in olden times, at raisings and upon other occasions\\nwhen people assembled in numbers, to assist voluntarily in per-\\nforming tasks which required the strength of many, to keep up\\n^ood cheer by trials of strength and gymnastic exercises.\\nAmong these pastimes wrestling matches were, perhaps, the\\nmost popular, and men who had distinguished themselves in\\nthis art were known to each other by reputation, although\\nresiding in distant towns. It was the habit of such notable\\nindividuals to travel many miles to try a fall at wrestling with\\nother champions, although entire strangers. An anecdote ex-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0emplifies this species of wrestling, although the result was not,\\nperhaps, satisfactory to the knight who came so far to obtain a\\nfall. A person called at the house of John McNiel, of London-\\nderry, in consequence of having heard of his strength and\\nprowess. McNiel was absent, which circumstance the stranger\\nregretted exceedingly as he informed his wife, Christian, who\\nenquired his business since he had traveled many miles for\\nno other purpose than to throw him. And troth, mon,\\nsaid Christian McNiel, Johnny is gone; but I m not the\\nwoman to see ye disappointed, an if ye ll try, mon, I ll throw\\nye meself. The stranger not liking to be bantered by a woman,\\naccepted the challenge and sure enough. Christian tripped his\\nheels and threw him to the ground. The stranger upon getting\\nup thought he would not wait for Johnny, but disappeared\\nwithout leaving his name.\\nDerryfield was incorporated in 1751.\\nFour towns were incorporated in south western New Manip-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "175-1 Kt \\\\.\\\\I. I KOVIN CE. 219\\nshire in 175J. Of these Winchester, grantetl by Massachusetts\\niis Arlington, had been settled a score of years. During the\\nIndian war all the houses of the settlement were destroyed, and\\nthe people took refuge in a garrison-house.\\nWalpole, formerly Great Falls, was settled in 1749, by Colonel\\nlicnjamin Bellows ant^ associates, to whom the charter was\\nissued. In 1755, at the head of twenty men, Colonel Bellows\\ncut his way through a large force of Indians, and entered the\\nfort from which the party had been absent on a scout.\\nChesterfield was not settled until some nine years after its\\ncharter was granted.\\nRichmond was settleil within five or si.\\\\ years after its charter\\nwas granted.\\nThe Gregorian rule was eaily adopted in most Catholic coun-\\ntries, and also in man\\\\- that were Protestant. Scotland made\\nthe change in 1600. Hut manv Protestant countries hesitated,\\nnot wishing to follow the Roman church too nearly, even when\\nthey knew she was right. But in 175 1, an act of Parliament\\nwas passed providing that in 1752 the change should be made;\\nand eleven days were accordingly dropped from the calendar to\\nmake it agree with tlie Giegorian rule. This act also became\\nthe law of the colonies in America. This was the great change\\nin this country and in England, from the old to the new style.\\nPope Gregory XIII ruled from 1572 to 1585. He was born\\nat Bologna, February 7, 1502, and was known as Hugo Buon-\\ncompagni. He was first a lawyer, then a priest, and finally\\nPope of Rome. He was a man of enlarged and liberal views,\\ngreat energy and zeal, anil very remarkable ability. Among his\\nother distinctions was that of the correction of the Julian calen-\\ndar, and the promulgation of that known by his name, the\\nGregorian Calendar.\\nPope Gregory XIII ordered that ten days be suppressed from\\nthe calendar, so that the iith should he the 21st of the month.\\nThis was done by making the 5th of October, 1582, the 15th,\\nwhich would bring the equino.x on the same day on which it fell\\nin the year 325, when the first Council of Nice was held.\\nUp to the year 1600, the difference between the old style and", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "220 HI-STORV SEW ^A^^^SHIKt:. 753\\nthe new was ten days but the year 1600 being a leap year,\\nunder both systems, the difference continued to be ten days\\nonly to the year 1700, which would have been a leap year by\\nthe old or Julian, but was not so by the new or Gregorian rule.\\nThis made the difference eleven days after that year up to the\\nyear 1800. Since the year 1800 another day is to be added to\\nthe difference between the old style and the new, making twelve\\ndays now, and after the year 1900 the difference will be thirteen\\ndays.\\nBut the change was more than this. Up to this time, since\\nthe twelfth century, as we have seen, the year commenced in\\nEngland on the 25th of March, and the same was true in the\\nProvinces. This act of 175 1 provided, also, that beginning with\\n1752, the year should begin with January. It was customary\\nto write dates that occurred prior to 1752, between January i\\nand March 25, so as to indicate the year by both the old style\\nand the new as, January 20th, 1 740-1. This date by the\\nold style would be in the latter part of 1740; but by the new,\\nthe same date would be early in the year 1741. This would\\nonly show the difference in the year, but not in the day of the\\nmonth.\\nRussia is said to be the only Christian nation that has not\\nadopted the Gregorian calendar. A person in Russia, writing\\nto a person in France or England, or other country having\\nadopted the new style, would date their letter April laOr j;;\\n1883, which shows the difference in the day of the month\\nbetween the old style and the new.\\nHinsdale was incorporated in 1753. Before the southern\\nboundary line of the province was determined it formed a part\\nof Northfield, Massachusetts, which was granted and settled as\\nearly as 1683 and it included the town of Vernon, Vermont,\\nuntil the erection of the Hampshire grants into a State. It\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was known as Fort Dummar for many years. The inhabitants\\nsuffered severely from the Indians in 1746, 1747, and 1748, and\\nCj^ain in 1755, losing many of their number.\\nDuring the year Keene and Swanzey, Upper and Lower\\nI. E. Sargeant.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "1/531 ROVAI. rKO\\\\INCE. 221\\nAshuelot, were iiicor[K)ratccl, as also vvei e Charlestovvn, Number\\nFour, and Westmoreland, Number Two, or Great Meadow.\\nKeene had been settled as early as 1734; two years later a\\nmeeting house was built. In 1745 the town was attacked by\\nIndians and the next year the inhabitants, who had taken\\nrefuge in the fort, beheld their houses and church burnt, while\\nthey defended themselves within its walls. In 1747 the settle-\\nment was abandoned and was not occupied again until 1753.\\nIn 175s the town was again inflicted by an Indian attack.\\nSwanzey was settled at about the same time as Keene, and\\nsuffered so much from Indian depredations from 1741 to 1747\\nthat the inhabitants abandoned their settlement and returned\\nto Massachusetts. Many of them returned about three years\\nlater and soon afterward were incorporated.\\nCharlestown, Number Four, was settled by Massachusetts\\npeople soon after its grant was made and a fort was built in\\n1743. The town suffered much loss from Indians in 1746, and\\nthe next year the place was abandoned by the inhabitants, but\\na garrison was stationed at the fort to protect the frontiers.\\nThe charter was granted to the original settlers, who had\\nreturned to their deserted homes in the meanwhile.\\nWestmoreland was first settled in 1741, and underwent the\\nusual hardship of the Indian war, which soon followed but\\nthe mischief done was of no great magnitude.\\n1 While the trial of the Bow case was going on, a warrant\\nwas issued by the government of New Hampshire, May 30,\\n1753, for raising an assessment of sixty pounds on all polls and\\nestates ratable by law within the township of Bow and another\\nwarrant, July 26, 1753, for raising thirty-one pounds four\\nshillings, to be collected and paid in on or before the 25th of\\nDecember next ensuing. The persons on whom these taxes\\nwere to be assessed were, with perhaps three or four excep-\\ntions, inhabitants of Rumford.\\nUp to this time a town meeting had never been held bv the\\ninhabitants of Bow proper; and on the 30th of June, 1753, a\\nspecial act was passed, appointing Daniel Pierce, Esq., to warn\\nRev. Dr. N. Bouton s Histon- of Concord.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "223 iiisi()i;v oi m;\\\\v iiami !iike. [1755\\naiul call a meeting of the inhabitants uf Bow the preamble to\\nsaid act setting forth that the inhabitants had never held a\\nmeeting as a town. The meeting was accordingly notified and\\nheld July 25, 1753. But unexpected difficulties were here\\nencountered.\\nThe selectmen rc|iorted to the governor Though we are\\nready and that with cheerfulness to obey every order of\\ngovernment, yet that we are at a loss as to the boundaries of\\nsaid Bow, and consequently do not know who the inhabitants\\nare that we are to assess said sums upon. That the pro[)rietors\\nof Bow, in running out the bounds of said town, have, as we\\nconceive, altered their bounds several times and further, that\\none of those gentlemen that purchased Captain Tufton Mason s\\nright to the lands in said Province, has given it as his opinion\\nthat said proprietors have not as yet run out the bounds of said\\ntown agreeable to their charter, but that their southeast side\\nline should be carried up about three quarters of a mile further\\ntoward the northwest and there is lately by his order a\\nfence erected along some miles near about said place, designed\\nas we suppose) as a division fence between said Bow and land\\nyet claimed bv said purchasers.\\nAnd that, on the other hand, the inhabitants of Pennycook,\\nformerly erected into a district by a special act of the General\\nAssembly of this Province (though they object nothing against\\nsubmitting to order of government) refuse to give us an\\ninvoice of their estates that is, such of them as we have asked\\nfor the same), alleging that they do not lay in Bow, and that\\nthis said Assembly did as good as declare in said district act.\\nThe next step, February 12, 1753, on the part of the inhabi-\\ntants of Rumford, was to appoint Rev. Timothy Walker and\\nBenjamin Rolfe, Esq., to represent to the King s most\\nExcellent Majesty in Council, the manifold grievances they\\nlabored under, by reason of the law suits commenced against\\nthem by the proprietors of Bow, and by being for several years\\npast deprived of all corporation privileges in August follow-\\ning, a petition was preferred to the iVIassachusetts go\\\\^ernment,\\nrepresenting their grievances and asking such relief as in their", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "I753j ROYAL PROVINCE. 225\\ngreat wisdom tlicy sliould see fit to grant. In answer to wliich\\nlatter petition one hundred pounds were granted.\\nDeputed as an agent for the proprietors of Rumford, Rev.\\nMr. Walker sailed for England in the fall of 1753, and pre-\\nsented to the King s most Excellent Majesty in Council, a\\npetition, drawn up, as appears, by himself, from which extracts\\nare taken and which most humbly sheweth\\nThat the lands contained in said town of Rumford were\\ngranted by the government of the Province of the Massachu-\\nsetts Bay, in the year 1725, and were supposed, according to\\nthe con.struction of the Massachusetts Charter and the deter-\\nmination of his Majesty King Charles the Second, in 1677, to\\nlay wholly within the said Province, though bounded on New\\nHampshire, seeing no part of said lands extended more than\\nthree miles from the river Merrimack towards New Hampshire.\\nYour petitioners and their predecessors very soon engaged in\\nbringing forward the settlement of the above granted lands,\\nthough in the midst of the Indian country, and near thirty\\nmiles beyond any English plantation, and have defended them-\\nselves more at their own cost than at the charge of the public,\\nthrough the late war with ye French and Indians and from a\\nperfect wilderness, where not one acre of land had ever been\\nimproved, they had made a considerable town, consisting of\\nmore than eighty houses, and as many good farms and your\\nhumble petitioner, Timothy Walker, was regularly ordained\\nthe minister of the church and parish in said town in the year\\n1730, and has continued there ever since.\\nYour petitioners beg leave further to represent to your\\nMajesty, that at the time of the aforesaid grant they had no\\napprehension that their bounds would ever be controverted by\\nthe Province of New Hampshire but it has so happened that\\nby your Majesty s late determination of ye boundary line\\nbetween ye two Provinces, the whole of the aforesaid township\\nfalls within the province of New Hampshire. Soon after the\\naforesaid determination, your petitioners made their humble\\napplication to your Majesty in Council, that they might be\\nrestored to your Province of the Massachusetts Bay, which", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "224 HI^TOKV OK NEW HAMPSHIKE. L 753\\nyour Majesty was pleased to disallow but your humble\\npetitioners have dutiful!)- submitted to the government of your\\nMajesty s Province of New Hampshire ever since they have\\nbeen under it, and with so much the greater cheerfulness\\nbecause they were well informed your Majesty had been\\ngraciously pleased to declare that however the jurisdiction of\\nthe two governments might be altered, yet that the private\\nproperty should not be affected thereby.\\nBut notwithstanding this your Majesty s most gracious\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0declaration your poor petitioners have for several years past\\nbeen grievously harassed by divers persons under color of a\\ngrant made by the government and council of New Hampshire\\nin the year 1727, to sundry persons and their successors, now\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0called the Proprietors of Bow.\\nYour petitioners further humbly represent, that the said\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0grant of Bow was not only posterior to that of Rumford, but is\\nlikewise extremely vague and uncertain as to its bounds, and\\nits being very doubtful whether it was the intent of the governor\\nand council of New Hampshire that it should infringe upon the\\nMassachusetts grant of Rumford and notwithstanding the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0grant of Bow has now been made so many years, there are but\\nthree or four families settled upon it, and those since the end\\nof the late French war; the proprietors choosing rather to\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0distress your petitioners by forcing them out of the valuable\\nimprovements they and their predecessors have made at the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0expense of their blood and treasure, than to be at the charge of\\nmaking any themselves. But your petitioners greatest mis-\\nfortune is, that they cannot have a fair, impartial trial, for that\\nthe governor and most of ye council are proprietors of Bow,\\nand by them not only ye judges are appointed, but also ye\\nofficers that impanels ye jury, and the people also are generally\\ndisaffected to your petitioners on account of their deriving\\ntheir titles from the Massachusetts and all the actions that\\nhave hitherto been brought are of so small value, and, as your\\npetitioners apprehend, designed so that by a law of the\\nProvince there can be no appeal from the judgments of the\\ncourts to vour Majestv in council; and if it were otherwise the", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "1753] ROVAL PROVINCE. 22$\\ncharges that vvoulcl attend such appeals would be greater than\\nthe value of the land, or than the party defending his title\\nwould be able to pay; and without your Majesty s gracious\\ninterposition your petitioners must be compelled to give u|i\\ntheir estates, contrary to your Majesty s favorable interposition\\nin their behalf.\\nYour petitioners further beg leave humbly to represent,\\nthat, while they were under the government of Massachusetts\\nBay, they enjoyed town privileges by an act specially made for\\nthat purpose in the year 1733, and expressly approved by your\\nMajesty in the year 1737 but the utmost they could obtain\\nsince their being under New Hampshire has been erecting them\\ninto a district for a short term only which term having expired\\nnear four years ago, they have been without any town privileges\\never since, notwithstanding their repeated applications to the\\ngovernor and council and they are not able to raise any\\nmoneys for the support of their minister, and the necessary\\ncharges of their school and poor, and other purposes nor have\\nthey had any town officers for the upholding government and\\norder, as all other towns in both the Provinces of New Hamp-\\nshire and the Massachusetts Bay usually have. Under these\\nour distresses we make our most humble application to your\\nMajesty.\\nWhile in England the first time Mr. Walker succeeded, so far\\nas to obtain a hearing of the case before his Majesty, which\\nshould take place the ensuing winter. He engaged Sir\\nWilliam Murray, afterward Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, as his\\ncounsellor and advocate, with whom, it is said, he formed a\\nparticular acquaintance. But it was necessary for him to go\\nagain. Accordingly, in October, 1754, Benjamin Kolfe, Esq.,\\npresented a petition to the General Court of Massachusetts, in\\nwhich he acknowledged the receipt of one hundred pounds\\nsterling the previous year, and asked for still further aid.\\nWhile the proprietors of Rumford sought pecuniary aid from\\nthe government of Massachusetts, the proprietors of Bow also\\napplied for the same purpose to that of New Hampshire, and\\nobtained a grant of one hundred pounds to aid them in carrying\\non the suit.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "226\\nIIISTOKV (IK NEW IlAMl SlllUE.\\n754\\nAfter the exploration of Field and others it was more than a\\ncentury before we again hear of white men within the limits in\\nCoos County. The English were pushing their settlements up\\nthe valleys of the Connecticut and the Merrimack, trappers\\npenetrated the wilderness far above the settlements, and they\\noften met the Indians on these hunting excursions and evidently\\nwere on friendly terms with them. But the French as well as\\nthe Indians were becoming jealous of the extension northward of\\nthe English settlements. As the English contemplated laying\\nWHITE MOUNTAIN SCENE.\\nout two towns in the spring of 1752, which should embrace the\\nCoos meadows, the Indians remonstrated and threatened. It is\\nprobable, however, that their threats were not known to all the\\nsettlers, for four young men from Londonderry were hunting\\non Baker s River, in Rumney; two of these, John Stark and\\nAmos Eastman, were surprised and captured by the Indians,", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "754j\\nKOVAI, MUIVINCE.\\n227\\nApril 28, 1752. They were taken to Coos, near where ]Ia\\\\er-\\nhill now is, and where two of the Indians had been left to kill\\nL;anie against their return. The next day they proceeded to the\\nupper Coos, the intervales in the south-west part of Coos\\nCounty, from which place they sent Eastman with three of\\ntheir number to St. Francis. The rest of the party spent some\\ntime in hunting on the streams that flow into the Connecticut,\\naCENE !N COOS COUNTY\\nand they reached the St. Francis June 9, when Stark joined\\nhis companion, Eastman, but they were both soon after ran-\\nsomed and they returned to their homes. From this and other\\ncircumstances, it is altogether probable that John Stark, after-\\nwards so famous in American history, was the first white man\\nwho ever saw the broad intervales of the Upper Coos.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "228 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 754\\nNotwithstanding the threatening attitude of the French and\\nIndians a company was organized in the spring, 1753, to survey\\nor lay out a road from Stevenstown (Franklin) to the Coos\\nmeadows. Captain Lacheus Lovewell was commander, Caleb\\nPage surveyor, and John Stark guide. There has been\\nmuch speculation in regard to the organization and object of\\nCaptain Lovcwell s company, but in the account here given I\\nhave followed Mr. C. E. Potter.\\nThe best known of all the expeditions to the Coos County\\nwas that of Captain Peter Powers. They commenced their\\ntour Saturday, June 15, 1754. Starting from Concord, they\\nfollowed the Merrimack River to Franklin, the Pemigewasset\\nRiver to Plymouth, Baker s River to Wentworth, and then they\\ncrossed over on to the Connecticut via Baker s Pond. They\\nwere ten days in reaching Moose Meadowg, which were in\\nPiermont, and on June 3 they came to what is now Jdhn s\\nRiver, in Dalton this they called Stark s River. They went\\nas far north as Israel s River, named by them Power s River, in\\nLancaster, when they concluded to go no farther with a full\\nscout, but Captain Powers and two of his men went five miles\\nfurtker up the Connecticut, probably as far as Northumberland,\\nwhere they found that the Indians had a large camping place,\\nwhich they had left not more than a da) or two before. On\\nJuly 2 they broke up their camp on Israel River and began\\ntheir march homeward. The knowledge we have of this expe-\\ndition is derived chiefly from a journal of Captain Powers, in the\\nHistorical Sketches of Coos County by Rev. Grant Powers.\\nThe journal of Captain Powers is fragmentary and meagre, and\\nthe comments made by the author of the sketches have not\\ngiven us any additional light, but have rather added obscurity\\nto the original narrative.\\nGrant Powers says that the object of the expedition was dis-\\ncovery but if Captain Powers company was the one referred\\njto by Governor Wentworth in a message of May 4, 1754, and\\nin one of Dec. 5, 1754, they certainly went to see if the French\\nwere building a fort in the Upper Coos. As this was the only\\nexpedition fitted out during the year that went in this direction.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "I 755 I KOVAL PROVINCE. 229\\nit is quite certain that this is the one to which the message\\niclened. But it is something to be able to say that Captain\\nI ctcr Powers, with his command, was the first body of English-\\nspeaking people who camped on the broad intervales of Coos\\nCounty.^\\nSomersworth was set off from Dover in 1754.\\n-During the French ami Indian wars small bodies of soldiers\\nwere often employed to watch and ward the frontiers, and\\nprotect their defenceless communities from the barbarous assaults\\nof Indians, turned upon them from St. Francis antl Crown Point.\\nRoljert Rogers had in him just the stuff required in such a soldier.\\nWe shall not, therefore, be surprised to find him on scouting\\n(hity in the Merrimack Valley, under Captain Ladd, as early as\\n1746, when he was but nineteen years of age and, three years\\nlater, engaged in the same service, under Captain Ebenezer\\nIvistman, of Pennycook. Si.v years afterwards, in 1753, the mus-\\nter rolls show him to have been a member of Captain John Goff s\\ncompany, and doing like service. Such was the training of a\\nself-reliant mind and a hardy physique for the ranging service,\\nin which they were soon to be employed.\\nIn 1749, as Londonderry became filled to overflowing with i^e-\\n])eated immigrations from the North of Ireland, James Rogers,\\nthe father of Robert, a proprietor, and one of the early settlers of\\nthe township, removed therefrom to the woods of Dunbarton,\\nand settled anew in a section named Montelony, from an Irish\\nplace in which he had once lived. This was before the settle-\\nment of the township, when its territor) existed as an unsejxi-\\nrated part only of the domain. He may, quite likely, have been\\nattracted hither by an e.xtensive beaver meadow or pond, which\\nwould, with a little improvement, afford grass for his cattle,\\nwhile he was engaged in clearing the rich uplands which sur-\\nrounded it..\\nSix years only after his I emoval (1755), he was unintention-\\nally shot by a neighbor whom he was going to visit the latter\\nmistaking him for a bear, as he indistinctly saw him passing\\nthrough the woods.\\nJ. H. Hunlinglon. J. 1). W.,lker,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "230 IllSTOKV OF NF.W II A M p n IklC. L 755\\nThe thirteen American Colonies had, at that time, all told, of\\nboth white and black, a population of about one million and a\\nhalf of souls (1,425,000). The French people of Canada num-\\nbered less than one hundred thousand.\\nThe respective claims to the central part of the North Ameri-\\ncan continent by ICngland and France were conflicting and ir-\\nreconcilable. The former, by right of discovery, claimed all\\nthe territory upon the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to\\nFlorida, and bv virtue of numerous grants the right to all west\\nof this to the Pacific Ocean. The latter, by right of occupation\\nand exploration, claimed Canada, a portion of New England and\\nNew York, and the basins of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to-\\ngether with all the territory upon the streams tributary to these,\\nor a large part of the indefinite West.\\nTo maintain her claims France had erectetl a cordon of forts\\nextending diagonally across the continent from the mouth of the\\nSt. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. It one will follow, in\\nthought, a line starting at Louisburg, and thence running up\\nthis great river to Quebec ami Montreal, and thence up Lake\\nChamplain to Crown Point and Ticontleroga, and on westward\\nand south-westwai d to Frontenac, Niagara, and Detroit, and\\nthence down the Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans, he will\\ntrace the line across which the two nations looked in defiance\\nat each other, and instantaneously see that the claims of France\\nwere inadmissible, ami that another war was inevitable. It\\nmattered little that of the forty-five years immediately j^reced-\\ning the treaty of Ai.\\\\- La Chapelle, fourteen, or one-third of the\\nwhole number, had been years of war between these two neigh-\\nbors. They were now, after a peace of only half a dozen years, as\\nready for a fresh contest as if they were to meet for the first\\ntime upon the battle field. In fact, another conflict was unavoid-\\nable a conflict of the Teuton with the Gaul of mediasvalism\\nwith daylight of conservatism with progress.\\nHostilities may be said to have been commenced by the French,\\nwhen, on the i8th day of April, 1754, they dispossessed the\\nOhio company of the fort which they were erecting at the forks\\nof the Ohio river, afterwards named Fort Du Ouesne.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "1-55] KIIVAI, I RONIXCE. 231\\nTlic plan of a Colonial Confederation, formed at the Albany\\nconvenlioa in July of that year, having failed of acceptance\\nby the mother country and the colonies both, the home govern-\\nment was forced to meet the exigency by the use of British\\ntroops, aided by such others as the several Provinces were will-\\ning to furnish.\\nThe campaign of the next year (1755) embracetl\\n1st. An expedition, under General Braddock, for the capture\\nof Fort Du Quesne.\\n2nd. A second, under General Shirley, for the reduction of\\nFort Niagara, which was not prosecuted.\\n3rd. A third, under Colonel Moncton, against the French\\nsettlements on the Bay of Fundy, resulting in the capture and\\ndeportation of the Acadians.\\n4th. A fourth, under General William Johnson, against\\nCrown Point, a strong fortification, erected by the French, in\\nthe very heart of New England and New York, whence Innum-\\nerable bands of Indians had been dispatched by the French to\\nmurder the defenceless dwellers upon the English frontiers, par-\\nticularly those of New Hampshire, to destroy their cattle and to\\nburn their buildings and other property.\\nTo the army of this latter expedition New Hampshire contri-\\nbuted, in the early part of this year, a regiment of ten compa-\\nnies, the first being a company of Rangers, whose captain was\\nRobert Rogers, and whose second lieutenant was John Stark.\\nBut a few words just here in explanation of the character of\\nthis ranging branch of the English army. It was a product of\\nexisting necessities in the military service of that time. Most\\nof the country was covered with primeval forests and military\\noperations were largely prosecuted in the woods or in limited\\nclearings. The former were continually infested with Indians,\\nlying in ambush for the perpetration of any mischief for which\\ntbey might have opportunity.\\nIt became necessary, therefore, in scouring the forest to drive\\ntliese miscreants back to their lairs, as well as in making military\\nreconnoissances, to have a class of soldiers acquainted with In-\\ndian life and warfare preparcfl, not only to meet the Indian on", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "232 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 755\\nhis own ground, but to fight him in his own fashion. The Brit-\\nish regular was good for nothing at such worlv. If sent into\\nthe woods he was quite sure either not to return at all, or to\\ncome back without his scalp. And the ordinary provincial was\\nnot very much better. From this necessity, therefore, was\\nevolved the Ranger.\\nHe was a man of vigorous constitution, inured to the hard-\\nships of forest life. He was capable of long marches, day after\\nilay, upon scant rations, refreshed by short intervals of sleep\\nwhile rolled in his blanket upon a pile of boughs, with no other\\nshelter but the sky. He knew the trails of the Indian.s, as well\\nas their ordinary haunts and likeliest places of ambush. He\\nknew, also, all the courses of the streams and the carrying\\nplaces between them. He understood Indian wiles and warfare,\\nand was prepared to meet them.\\nStand such a man in a pair of stout shoes or moccasins cover\\nhis lower limbs with leggins and coarse small clothes give him\\na close-fitting jacket and a warm cap stick a small hatchet in\\nhis belt hang a good-sized powder-horn by his side, and upon\\nhis back buckle a blanket and a knapsack stuffed with a moder-\\nate supply of bread and raw salt pork to these furnishings add\\na good-sized hunting-knife, a trusty musket and a small flask of\\nspirits, and you have an average New Hampshire Ranger of the\\nSeven Years War, ready for skirmish or pitched battle or, for\\nthe more common duty of reconnoitering the enemy s force and\\nmovements, of capturing his scouts and provision trains, and\\ngetting now ant! then a prisoner, from whom all information\\npossible would be extorted and, in short, for annoying the\\nFrench and Indian foe in every possible way.\\nIf you will add three or four inches to the average height of\\nsuch a soldier, give him consummate courage, coolness, readi-\\nness of resource in extremities, together with intuitive knowl-\\nedge of the enemy s wiles, supplemented with a passable\\nknowledge of French and Indian speech, you will have a toler-\\nable portrait of Captain Rol^ert Rogers at the beginning of our\\nSeven Years War.\\nHe received his fii st captain s commission in the early part", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "1/551 KOVAI. rKO\\\\INCE. 2^1\\nof 1755, and was employetl by the New Hampshire government\\nin building a fort at the mouth of the Ammonoosuc river and\\nin guarding its Northern and Western frontiers until July, when\\nhe was ordered to Albany to join the army of Major-Generai\\nJohnson. His first service there was in fiu nishiug escort, with\\na company of one hundred men, to a proxision train from\\nAlbany to Fort Edward. From this latter |)oint he was after-\\nwards repeatedly despatched, with smaller bodies of men, up\\nthe Hudson river, and down Lake George and Lake Champlain\\nto reconnoiter the French forts. Some of these e.xpeditions-\\ne.xtended as far north as Crown Point and were enlivened with\\nsharp skirmishes. He was absent up the Hudson upon one of\\nthese when the French were defeated at the battle of Lake\\nGeorge and Baron Dieskan was made prisoner.\\nThis year of 1755 was one of the most eventful of the early\\nAmerican history. It marks the fatal defeat of the disciplined\\nlittle army of the intrepid but despotic General Kraddock, who\\nsaid that the savages might be formidable to raw American\\nmilitia, but could never make any impression upon the King s\\nregulars but who, had he survived the fight, would have seen\\nthe remnants of his boasted regulars saved from utter annihila-\\ntion by the bravery of these same American raw militia, skil-\\nfully and valorously handled by the young American militia\\ncolonel, George Washington.\\nUpon the breaking out of the Seven Years War John Stark\\nwas commissioned by the governor as second lieutenant of\\nRogers company of Rangers, attached to Blanchard s regiment.\\nCaptain Rogers mustered a company of rugged foresters, every\\nman of whom, as a hunter, could hit the size of a dollar at a hun-\\ndred yards distance could follow the trail of man or beast endure\\nthe fatigue of long marches, the pangs of hunger, and the cold\\nof winter nights, often passed without fire, shelter, or covering\\nother than their common clothing, a blanket, perhaps a bear-\\nskin, and the boughs of the pine or hemlock. Their knowledge\\nof Indian character, customs, and manners was accurate. They\\nwere principally recruited in the vicinity of Amoskeag falls,\\nI .eorge Stark.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "2^4 IIISI OUV Ol NIW IIAMCSllIKE. L 755\\nwhere Rogers, a resident of the neighboring town of Dunbar-\\nton, which then extended to the Merrimack river, was accus-\\ntomed to meet them at the annual fishing season. They were\\nmen wiio could face with equal resolution the savage animals,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2or the still more savage Indians of their native woods, and\\nwhose courage and fidelity were undoubted.\\nIt was early in the summer of this stirring year of 1755 that\\nRogers company of Rangers received orders to march\\nIhrougli the pathless forests to join their regiment at Fort\\nEdward, the head-quarters of General Johnson s army, which\\nplace they reached early in August, a short time before the\\ndesperate attack made on Johnson by the French and Indians\\nat the south end of Lake George, near Bloody pond, so named\\nfrom the slaughter on this occasion.\\nIn tlie spring of 1755, when an expedition was being fitted\\nout to attack the French at C. rown Point, so little was known of\\nthe country between the Merrimack and Lake Champlain, it\\nwas supposed that the Upper Coos Meadows were upon the\\ndirect route from Salisbury Fort (Franklin) to Crown Point,\\nhence Governor Wentworth directed Colonel Blanchard to stop\\nwhen on his march and build a fort at these meadows. While\\nhe was delayed in making his preparations for the march, Captain\\nRobert Rogers, with his company of Rangers and detachments\\nfrom other companies, were sent forward to build a fort. It was\\nlocated on the east bank of the Connecticut, just south of the\\nnioutli of the Upper Ammonoosuc, and it was called Fort Went-\\nworth, in honor of the governor. When completed, the com-\\nmand continued their march to Crown Point.\\nIn the spring of 1755, Jona. Lovewell was appointed by the\\nGeneral Court of New Hampshire to warn a town meeting in\\nBow, 22d of April, for the choice of officers, c., which he ac-\\ncordingly did, and subsequently made return that he warned the\\nmeeting and attended as moderator, at the place and time\\nappointed but tliat t/iov was but one inhabitant of said Bozu\\nihat attended. This apparent disregard of their authority seems\\nto have been resented by the government for, at the very next\\nJ, H. Hantingloii.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "17551 KovAi. rkoviNCK. 235\\nsession, tliey jiassed what was called tlic Hinv Act, foi- assess-\\ning; and collecting taxes in the ret ractor\\\\ town in which thev\\nset forth that in contempt of the la.w, and in defiance of the\\ngovernment, the said town of Bow refused to meet at the time\\nand place appointed, c. As a remedy for this it was enacted\\nThat Ezra Carter antl Moses Foster, Esqs., and John Chand-\\nler, gentlemen, all of said Bow he assessors to assess the ]iolls\\nand estates within said town of Bow. the sum of five\\nJiniidred and eiglity poniids and sixteen shillings, new tenor bills\\nof ])ublic credit. Not having complied with the act, they were\\ndoomed, and feeling themselves oppressed, petitioned for for-\\nbearance and a redress of grievances.\\nWhile the inhabitants of Rumford were thus complaining of\\ngrievances and struggling with their difificulties, the proprietors\\nof How proper became sensible that the controversy in which\\nthey were involved was detrimental to their interest, and, to\\nsave the great expense which inevitably attends contention,\\nthey proposed terms of accommodation and agreement, having\\nrespect, however, chiefly to settlers of Suncook, which resulted,\\nin 1759, in an act for incorporating a parish, partly within the\\nplaces known by the name of Suncook and Buck-street, bv the\\nname of Pembroke.\\nThe Provincial government of New Hampshire never recog-\\nnized the existence of the township of Suncook. That part of\\nAllenstovvn lying north of the Suncook river was known as early\\nas the French and Indian war as Buck-street. According to\\nHolland s map of New Hampshire, published in England just\\nafter the revolution, there was a gore of land between Bow and\\nAUenstown ungranted by the New Hampshire proprietors.\\nThis gore can be traced in Canigain s map, published in 1816.\\nin Walling s map of Merrimack county, published in 1858, and\\nin the map accompanying Hitchcock s Geological Report, jjub-\\nlished in 1826. The place called Suncook in the charter from\\nNew Hampshire evidently means to include this ungranted gore,\\nas it had no other name by which it could be briefly designated.\\nUpon the decease of Geaeral Braddock, Governor Shirley suc-\\nceeded to the chief command of the English forces in North\\nli.!,-.. rf ncorcl.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "C36 HISTOKV OK NEW 11 AM I SII IKE. 75^\\nAmerica, and on the i Sth of March, 1756, Rogers received orders\\nfrom him to repair to Boston for a personal conference. He\\nreached Boston on the 23d of the same month, and as the result\\nof his inter\\\\ ievv with the governor was commissioned to recruit an\\nindependent corps of Rangers, to consist of sixty privates, an\\nensign, a lieutenant, and a captain. The corps was to be\\nraised immediately. None were to be enlisted but such as\\nwere accustomed to travelling and hunting, and in whose cour-\\nage and fidelity the most implicit confidence ccukl be placed.\\nThey were, moreover, to be subject to military discipline and\\nthe articles of war. The rendezvous was appointed at Albany,\\nwhence to proceed with whale-boats to Lake George, and\\nfrom time to time to use their best endeavors to distress the\\nI rench and their allies by sacking, burning, and destroying\\ntheir houses, barns, barracks, canoes, batteaux, etc., and by\\nkilling their cattle of every kind, and at all times to endeavor to\\nwaylay, attack, and destroy their convoys of provision, by land\\nand by water, where they could be found.\\nWithin thirty days from the issuance of this commission, the\\nenlistment of the new corps of Rangers was complete, many of\\nhis old company re-enlisting, and Rogers again selected John\\nStark for his ensign, or second lieutenant. Although no impor-\\ntant military operations were attempted during this campaign,\\nthe Rangers were constantly on foot, watching the motions of\\nthe enemy at Crown Point and Ticonderoga, cutting off their\\nconvoys of supplies, and often making prisoners of sentinels at\\ntheir posts.\\nThe efficiency of the campaign of the next year (1756), which\\ncontemplated the taking of Crown Point, Niagara and Fort Du\\nOuesne, was seriously impaired by the repeated changes of\\nCommander-in-Chief Major General Shirley being superseded\\nin June by General Abercrombie, while he, about a month later,\\nyielded the command to the inefficient Lord Loudon. The\\nonly occurrences of particular note during this campaign were\\nthe capture of our forts at Oswego by General Montcalm and\\nthe formal declarations of war by the- two licllignents.\\n1 J 1;. W .ilkti", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "1756] KOVAI, I KiniNL E. 237\\nRogers and his men were stationed at Fort William Henry,\\nand made repeated visits to Ticonderoga and Crown Point, to\\nascertain the power of the enemy, and to annoy him as they\\nhad opportunity. They went down Lake George, sometimes by\\nland upon its shores, and sometimes by water and in boats. In\\nthe winter their land marches were frequently upon snow-shoes,\\nand their boats were exchanged for skates. On such occasions\\neach Ranger was generally his in commissary, and carried his\\nown supplies.\\nIn his journal for this year (1756) Rogers notes thirteen of\\nthese expeditions as worthy of record. The first was down\\nLake George on the ice, in January, with seventeen men,\\nresulting in the capture of two prisoners, and two sledges laden\\nwith provisions.\\nThe second was made in February, with a party of fifty men,\\nto ascertain the strength and operations of the French at Crown\\nPoint. Having captured one prisoner at a little village near by\\nthe fort, they were discovered and obliged to retire before the\\nsallying troops of the garrison. With very marked sangfroid\\nhe closes his account of this reconnoissance by saying We\\nemployed ourselves while we dared stay in setting fire to the\\nhouses and barns in the village, with which were consumed large\\nquantities of wheat, and other grain we also killed about fifty\\ncattle and then retired, leaving the whole village in flames.\\nThere often appears a ludicrous kind of honesty in the simple\\nnarratives of this journal. He occasionally seized certain stores\\nof the enemy which a Ranger could destroy only -with regret.\\nHe naively remarks, in narrating the capture in June, of this\\nsame year, of two lighters upon Lake Champlam, manned by\\ntwelve men, four of whom they killed We sunk and destroyed\\ntheir vessels and cargoes, which consisted chiefly of wheat and\\nflour, wine and brandy some few casks of the latter we care-\\nfully concealed.\\nHis commands on such occasions varied greatly in numbers,\\naccording to the exigency of the service, all the way from a\\nsquad of ten men to two whole companies and the excursions\\njust mentioned afford fair specimens of the work done by the\\nRangers under Rogers this year.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "23 S HISTOKV OF NEW IIAMI SHIKE. I 1 756\\nIJut Captain Rogers had qualities of a higher order, which\\ncommended him to his superiors. His capacity as a Ranger\\ncommander had attracted the notice of the ofificers on duty at\\nLake George. The importance of this branch of the service\\nhad also become apparent, and we shall not be surprised to\\nlearn that he was commissioned anew as captain of an inde-\\npendent company of Rangers, to be paid by the King. This\\ncompany formed the nucleus of the famous corps since known\\nas Rogers Rangers.\\nIn July another company vvas raised, and again in December\\ntwo more, thereby increasing the Ranger corps to four compa-\\nnies. To anticipate, in a little more than a year this was far-\\nther enlarged by the addition of five more, and Captain Rogers\\nwas promotetl to the rank of Major of Rangers, becoming thus\\nthe commander of the whole corps.\\nThe character of the service expected of this branch of the\\narmy was set forth in Major-General Shirley s orders to its com-\\nmander in 1756, as follows, viz. From time to time, to use\\nyour best endeavors to distress the French and allies by sack-\\ning, burning, and destroying their houses, barns, barracks,\\ncanoes, and battoes, and by killing their cattle of every kind\\nand at all times to endeavor to way-lay, attack and destroy their\\nconvoys of provisions by land and water in any part of the coun-\\ntry where he could find them.\\nThe campaign of 1757 contemplated only the capture of\\nLouisburg. To the requisite preparations Lord Loudon di-\\nrected all his energies. Having collected all the troops which\\ncould be spared for that purpose, he sailed for Halifa.x on the\\ntwentieth of June, with six thousand soldiers, among them being\\nfour companies of Rangers under the command of Major\\nRogers. Upon arriving in Halifax his army was augmented by\\nthe addition of five thousand regulars and a powerful naval\\narmament. We have neither time nor inclination to consider\\nthe conduct of Lord Loudon on this occasion farther than to\\nsay that his cowardice and imbecility seem wonderful. Find-\\ning that, in all probabilitv, Louisburg could not be taken with-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "1/5^] KOVAL l\u00e2\u0096\u00a0KOVI^XE. 239\\nout some one getting hurt, he returned to New York without\\nstriking a blow. If about this time our heroic commander of\\nthe Rangers used some strong language far from sacred, it will\\nbecome us to remember Zeke Webster and think as chari-\\ntably of his patriotic expletives as we can. He returned to\\nNew York three weeks after the surrender of Fort William\\nHenry, where, with his Rangers, he might have done something,\\nat least, to prevent the horrible massacre which has tarnished\\nthe fair fame of Montcalm indelibly.\\nEngland and America both were humbled in the dust by the\\nevents of 1757 and 1758. Failure, due to the want of suffici-\\nent resources is severe, but how utterly insufferable when,\\nwith abundant means, incompetency to use them brings defeat.\\nStill, we are under greater obligation to Lord Loudon than\\nwe are wont to think. His imbecility helped rouse the British\\nnation and recall William Pitt to power, whose vigor of pur-\\npose animated anew the people of other countries and ])rom-\\nised an early termination of French dominion in America.\\nSandown was incorporated in 1756.\\n^Rev. John Houston, the first pastor of the Presbyterian\\nchurch in Bedford, N. H., was born in Londonderry, N. H.,\\nin 1723. His parents were emigrants from the north of Ire-\\nland, and known as Scotch-Irish.\\nHe was educated at Princeton, N. J., graduating in 1753.\\nHe studied divinity in his native town with the Rev. David\\nMcGregor, pastor of the church in the east parish of that town.\\nMr. Houston received his call to Bedford in August, 1756,\\nand was ordained in September, 1757. His stipend, as it\\nwas called, was to be equal to forty pounds sterling, but there\\nwas a provision by which the town, at its annual meeting, might\\nvote to dispense with any number of Sabbaths which they\\nchose, and the payment for those Sabbaths might be taken from\\nthe salary.\\nBy virtue of being the first settled minister in town, Mr.\\nHouston was entitled to certain lands reserved for that purpose\\nin the settlement of the town. These he received and they\\nI. p.. Walker. Rev. C. W. W.illace", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "240 UlSlllK^- HI- NEW IIAMl SlllKE. L 7S^\\nadded much to his small salary. He was also well-reputed for\\nclassical and theological learning, and his settlement gave pro-\\nmise of usefulness and happiness.\\nFrom all we can learn he was thus useful and happy for a\\nnumber of years. Then commenced the dark and stormy\\nperiod in the history of our country. Bedford was especially\\npatriotic. Every man in town, over twenty-one years of\\nage, except the minister, signed the following paper We do\\nhereby solemnly engage and promise that we will, to the utmost\\nof our power, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, with arms\\noppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies\\nagainst the united American colonies. Mr. Houston gave the\\nfollowing reasons for refusing to sign this declaration\\nFirstly, because he did not apprehend that the honorable\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0committee meant that ministers should take up arms, as being\\ninconsistent with their ministerial charge. Secondly, because\\nhe was already confined to the county of Hillsborough there-\\nfore he thinks he ought to be set at liberty before he should\\nsign the said obligation. Thirdly, because there are three men\\nbelonging to his family already enlisted in the Continental\\narmy.\\nThese reasons were not regarded as sufficient, so. May 16,\\n177s, the following article is found in a warrant for town meet-\\ning To see what method the town will take relating to Rev d\\nJohn Houston in these troublesome times, as we apprehend his\\npraying and preaching to be calculated to intimidate the minds\\nof his hearers, and to weaken their hands in defense of their\\njust rights and liberties, as there seems a plan to be laid by\\nParliament to destroy both.\\nWe hear of no action on this article until June 15, 1775,\\nwhen a vote was unanimously passed in which it was stated\\nTherefore, we think it not our duty, as men or Christians, to\\nhave him preach any longer for us as our minis^er.\\nThus closed the ministry of Rev. John Houston to the people\\nof Bedford. From all the light which reaches us through the\\ndimness of an hundred years, we have no doubt that both par-\\nties were truly sincere. Judged, however, by subsequent", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "1756] ROVAL l-KOVINCE. 24I\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acvents, it is evident that the people were right and the minister\\nwrong. That is, they were right in their patriotism, and he was\\nwrong in his loyalty to the King. Still it is worthy of notice\\nthat the removal of Mr. Houston from his pastoral office in Bed-\\nford was followed by a long period of religious declension.\\n1 In the early part of the winter of 1756-57, the English\\nand French armies, under the respective commands of Lord\\nLoudon and Gen. Montcalm, confronting each other in the\\nvicinity of Lake George, retired to winter quarters the main\\nbody of the English regulars falling back on Albany and New\\nYork city, the provincial soldiers dismissed and sent to their\\nhomes, and the French falling back to Montreal. Each gen-\\neral, however, left his frontier posts well garrisoned, to be held\\nas the base of further military operations the following season\\nthe force left by the French at their forts about Ticonderoga\\nand Crown Point, at the northerly end of Lake George, being\\nabout 1 ,200 men, including Indians, and the English force at\\nFort Edward and Fort William Henry, near the southerly end\\nof the lake, consisting mainly of four companies of Rangers,\\ntwo companies at each fort. The company of Lieutenant Stark\\nwas posted at Fort Edward. All through the winter the\\nRangers patrolled the lake, and kept a vigilant outlook upon the\\nFrench garrisons.\\nIn the middle of this winter a desperate battle was fought in\\nthe immediate vicinity of Ticonderoga, which, for numbers\\nengaged, was one of the most bloody of the war, and in which\\nLieutenant John Stark won his commission as captain.\\nOn the 15th of January, 1757, Captain Rogers, with Lieu-\\ntenant Stark and Ensign Page with fifty Rangers, left Fort\\nEdward to reconnoitre, in more than usual force, the situation\\nand condition of the enemy at the northerly end of the lake.\\nThe snow was four feet deep on a level. They halted at Fort\\nWilliam Henr} one day to secure provisions and snow-shoes,\\nand on the 17th, being reinforced by Captain Spikeman,\\nLieutenant Kennedy, and Ensigns Brewer and Rogers, with\\nGen. George Stark.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "242 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 757\\nabout thirty Rangers, they started down Lake George on the\\nice, and at night encamped on the east side of the first\\nnarrows.\\nOn the morning of the iSth some ot the men who had been\\novercome by the severe exertions of the previous day s march\\nwere sent back, thus reducing the effective force to seventy-\\nfour men, officers included. This day they proceeded twelve\\nmiles farther down the lake, and encamped on the west shore.\\nOn the 19th, after proceeding three miles farther on the lake,\\nthey took to the west shore, put on their snow-shoes, and\\ntravelled eight miles to the north-west, and encamped three\\nmiles from the lake. On the 20th they travelled over the snow\\nall day to the north-east, and encamped three miles from the\\nwest shore of Lake Champlain, half-way between Ticonderoga\\nand Crown Point. The ne.xt day, January 21st, being now in\\nthe very heart of the enemy s country, they proceeded to watch\\nthe passage of parties on Lake Champlain, going and coming\\nbetween the forts, and soon discovered a convoy of ten sleds\\npassing down the lake from Ticonderoga to Crown Point.\\nLieutenant Stark was ordered, with twenty men, to capture the\\nleading sled, while the main body attempted to prevent the\\nothers from going back. They succeeded in taking seven\\nprisoners, six horses, and three sleds. The remainder of the\\nsleds made good their escape, and gave the alarm at the fort.\\nValuable information was obtained from these captives, and it\\nwas also learned that the French garrisons had been recently\\nconsiderably reinforced, and were on the alert to cut off all\\nEnglish scouting parties. The heavy French garrison at\\nTiconderoga being now informed by the fugitives of this auda-\\ncious reconnaissance in their immediate vicinity, Rogers wisely\\ndecided to retire with all expedition. But he unwisely departed\\nfrom the usual custom of the Rangers to return by a different\\nroute from that on which they came, and, in defiance of the\\ncounsels of his officers, retreated on his tracks.\\nThe day was rainy. On reaching the fires that they had kin-\\ndled and camped by the night before, the Rangers halted to dry\\ntheir guns and otherwise prepare for the expected conflict. It", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "i757j KovAi TRnviNCE. 243\\nwas past noon when the little battalion had completed their prep-\\narations. F orming in single file, with Captain Rogers in front,\\nCaptain Spikeman in the centre, and Lieutenant Stark in the rear,\\nsupported by their snow-shoes on the deep snow, they silently\\ntook up their homeward march. Their path lay oyer hilly\\nground and through thick woods, from whose dark depths they\\nhad reason to believe they were watched by the savage scouts\\nof the enemy a belief but too soon verified, for on rising the\\nbrow of the hill, not a mile from the fires of their late camp,\\nthey received a volley of two hundred bullets, fired from the\\nguns of the unseen enemy in ambush, at distances from five to\\nthirty yards away. Rogers was wounded in the head, and sev-\\neral of the men were killed or wounded by the volley but\\nfortunately the marksmanship of the enemy was, in this instance,\\nfaulty, and the effect comparatively slight. The habitual tactics\\nof the Rangers, to scatter when suddenly attacked by a supe-\\nrior force, and to rally again upon some supporting point, now\\nstood them in hand. They had been under fire too many times\\nto be thrown into a panic. Each man was for the time being\\nhis own commander. Each took his own way to the rallying\\npoint, exchanging shots with the enemy as he ran. That rally-\\ning point was John Stark, with his rear guard. Gathering\\naround him, they awaited their pursuers. The surrounding\\ntrees of the thick forest were of large size. Each Ranger en-\\ndeavored to so place himself that a tree covered him partially\\nfrom the shots of the enemy, and thus they awaited the second\\nonset. No soldiers ever had more at stake. The French offi-\\ncials at Montreal paid $11 each for EngUsh scalps, and ;^55 each\\nfor English prisoners sufficient inducement to excite the\\nsavage cupidity of their Indian allies into desperate efforts to\\nkill or capture and oftentimes the alternative fate of a prisoner\\nwas torture at the stake. The backwoodsman learned to give\\nno quarter, and to expect none, in fighting this savage foe.\\nAll through the afternoon of this 21st of January, 1757, this\\nwoods fight raged. The Ranger measured carefully his charge\\nof powder, rammed home the ball in a greased patch, and woe to\\nthe enemy who exposed his body or limbs to these expert marks-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "244 HISTORY OF NEW II AMI SIIIKE. [^757\\nmen. Two hundred and fifty of the enemy went into that day s\\nfight, and only one hundred and thirty-four came out of it ahve,\\none hundred and sixteen having been killed on the spot or died\\nof wounds. The Rangers lost fourteen killed, six wounded, and\\nsix taken prisoners.\\nAs darkness came on, the surviving French and Indian force,\\nalthough still outnumbering the English, retired to the cover of\\nTiconderoga. Captain Rogers having been disabled by two\\nwounds, and Captain Spikeman killed, early in the action the\\ncommand devolved upon Lieutenant Stark, who, as soon as\\nthe enemy ceased to press him, carefully looked after the\\nwounded, secured the prisoners, and, taking both wounded and\\nprisoners with him, commenced the tedious march homeward.\\nEncumbered by the care of the wounded, and fatigued with the\\nexertions of the day, their movements were necessarily slow,\\nand the entire night was consumed in reaching the shore of\\nLake George, near where they left it on the 19th. The wounded,\\nwho during the night march had kept up their spirits, were by\\neight o clock in the morning so overcome with cold, fatigue, and\\nloss of blood that they could march no further. The nearest\\nEnglish post was forty miles away, and the enemy was less than\\nten miles in their rear, and might again attack them at any time.\\nIn this emergency Lieutenant Stark volunteered, with two Ran-\\ngers, to make a forced march to Fort William Henry for succor,\\nwhile the command, under the junior ofificers, undertook to de-\\nfend and care for the wounded until help arrived. Without\\nwaiting for rest or refreshment after their all-day fight and all-\\nnight retreat, these three hardy volunteers continued on their\\nmarch, and reached the fort the same evening. Hand-sleighs\\nwere immediately sent out, with a fresh party, to bring in the\\nwounded, and reached them next morning. No greater feat of\\nhardihood and endurance was ever performed a day of desper-\\nate fighting, followed by an all-night retreat, encumbered with\\nthe wounded, and then, without rest, these three volunteers\\nmaking a forced snow-shoe march before night. Truly this\\nschool of war was a fitting preparation for the subsequent strug-\\ngle of the Revolution. The decision, prudence, and courage of", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "KOVAL I KOVINCE.\\n245\\nStcuk admittedly saved the detachment from complete destruc-\\ntion, and he was immediately promoted to be a captain, filling\\nthe vacancy caused by the death of Captain Spikeman.\\nRogers was wounded twice and lost some twenty of his men.\\nThe P rench, as was subsequently ascertained, lost one hundred\\nand sixteen. The pro.ximity of Ticonderoga rendered vain the\\ncontinuance of the contest, and he availed him of the shelter\\nof the night to return to Fort William Henry.\\nFor this exploit he was highly complimented by General\\nAbercrombie, and, at a later period of this same year, was\\nordered by Lord Loudon to instruct and train for the ranging\\nservice a company of British regulars. To these he devoted\\nmuch time and prepared for their use the manual of instruction\\nnow found in his journals. It is clearly drawn up in twenty-\\neight sections and gives very succinctlv and lucidly the rules\\ngoverning this mode of fighting.\\nCaptain Stark continued with the army during the succeeding\\ncampaigns of 1758 and 1759, his corps being constantly em-\\nployed in their accustomed service, and winning credit and com-\\nmendation from the generals in command.\\nThe conquest of Canada, in 1760, put an end to military op-\\nerations in North America, and Captain Stark, not being desir-\\nous of continuing in the British army, tendered his resignation,\\nwhich was accepted.\\nLord Loudon was succeeded in the early part of 1758 by\\nGeneral Abercrombie and plans were matured for capturing the\\nLake forts, Louisburg and Fort Du Ouesne. By the close of\\nNovember, the two last, with the addition of Fort Frontenac,\\nwere ours. The movement against Crown Point and Ticonde-\\nroga did not succeed. In the assault upon the latter Rogers\\nand his Rangers fought in the van and in the retreat brought up\\nthe rear.\\nIn the spring of this year (1758) Rogers went down Lake\\nGeorge at the head of about one hundred and eighty men, and\\nnear the foot of it had a desperate battle with a superior body\\nof French and Indians. He reported on his return one hundred\\nand fourteen of his party as killed or missing. Why he was not", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "246 HIS lOKV OF Ni .W HAMl SHIKE. 1^759\\nannihilated is a wonder. General Montcalm, in a letter dated\\nless than a month after the encounter, says Our Indians\\nwould give no quarter they have brought back one hundred\\nand forty-six scalps. For his intrepidity on this occasion he\\nwas presented by General Abercrombie with the commission\\nof Major of Rangers, before alluded to.\\nMr. Pitt proposed in the campaign ot 1759 the entire con-\\nquest of Canada. Bold as was the undertaking it was substan-\\ntially accomplished. Ticonderoga and Crown Point were\\nabandoned in July, Fort Niagara capitulated the same month,\\nand Quebec was surrendered in September.\\nTheir violation of a flag of truce in this last month now called\\nattention to the St. Francis Indians, who had been for a century\\nthe terror of the New England frontiers, swooping down upon\\nthem when least expected, burning their buildings, destroying\\ntheir cattle, mercilessly murdering their men, women and chil-\\ndren, or cruelly hurrying them away into captivity. The time\\nhad now come for returning these bloody visits. The proffering\\nof this delicate attention was assigned by Major General Am-\\nherst to Rogers. In his order, dated September 13, he says:\\nYou are this night to set out with the detachment, as ordered\\nyesterday, viz., of 200 men, which you will take under your\\ncommand and proceed to Missisquoi Bay, from whence you will\\nmarch and attack the enemy s settlements on the south side of\\nthe river St. Lawrence in such a manner as you shall judge most\\neffectual to disgrace the enemy, and for the success and honour\\nof his majesty s arms.\\nTake your revenge, but don t forget that tho those villains\\nhave dastardly and promiscuously murdered the women and\\nchildren of all ages, it is my orders that no women or children\\nare killed or hurt.\\nIn pursuance of these orders Major Rogers started the same\\nday at evening. On the tenth day after he reached Missisquoi\\nWay. On the twenty-third, with one hundred and forty-two\\nRangers, he came, without being discovered, to the environs\\nof the village of St. Francis. The Indians had a dance the\\nevening following his arrival and slept heavil)- afterwards. The", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "1760] KOVAL PROVINCE. 247\\nnext morning, half an hour before sunrise, Rogers and his men\\nfell upon them on all sides, and in a few minutes, ere they had\\ntime to arouse themselves and seize their arms, the warriors of\\nthat village were dead. A few, attempting to escape by the\\nriver, were shot in their canoes. The women and children were\\nnot molested.\\nWhen light came it revealed to the rangers lines of scalps,\\nmostly English, to the number of six hundred, strung upon\\npoles above the doorways. Thereupon, every house except three\\ncontaining supplies was fired, and their destruction brought\\ndeath to a few who had before escaped it by concealing them-\\nselves in the cellars. Ere noon two hundred Indian braves had\\nperished and their accursed village had been obliterated.^\\nThe operations of the next year (1760) ended this long and\\nfierce struggle. The attempted re-capture of Quebec by the\\nFrench was their final effort. The army of the Lakes em-\\nbarked from Crown Point for Montreal on the sixteenth day of\\nAugust. Six hundred Rangers and seventy Indians in whale-\\nboats, commanded by Major Rogers, all in a line abreast, formed\\nthe advance guard. He and his men encountered some fight-\\ning on the way from Isle a Mot to Montreal, but no serious ob-\\nstacle retarded their progress. The day of their arrival Mon-\\nsieur de Vaudveuil proposed to Major-General Amherst a capit-\\nulation, which soon after terminated the French dominion in\\nNorth America.\\nThe English troops, as will be remembered, entered Montreal\\non the evening of the eighth of September. On the morning\\nof the twelfth Major Rogers was ordered by General Amherst\\nto proceed westward with two companies of Rangers and take\\npossession of the western forts, still held by the French, which,\\nby the terms of the capitulation, were to be surrendered.\\nHe embarked about noon the next day with some two hun-\\ndred Rangers in fifteen whale-boats, and advanced to the west\\nby the St. Lawrence and the Lakes. On the seventh of No-\\nvember they reached the mouth of the Cuyahoga, where the\\nbeautiful city of Cleveland now stands. The cross of St.\\nJ. B. Walker.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "248 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [I/60\\nGeorge had never penetrated the wilderness so far before.\\nHere they encamped and were soon after waited upon by mes-\\nsengers from the great chieftain, Pontiac, asking by what right\\nthey entered upon his territory and the object of their visit.\\nRogers informed them of the downfall of the French in America,\\nand that he had been sent to take possession of the French\\nforts surrendered to the English by the terms of the capitula-\\ntion. Pontiac received his message, remarking that he should\\nstand in his path until morning, when he would return to him\\nhis answer. The next morning Pontiac came to the camp and\\nthe great chief of the Ottawas, haughty, shrewd, politic, ambi-\\ntious, met face to face the bold, self-possessed, clear-headed\\nMajor of the British Rangers. It is interesting to note how\\ncalmly the astute ally of the French accepted the new order of\\nthings and prepared for an alliance with his former enemies.\\nHe and Rogers had several interviews and in the end smoked\\nthe pipe of peace. With dignified courtesy the politic Indian\\ngave to his new friend free transit through his territory, pro-\\nvisions for his journey and an escort of Indian braves. Rogers\\nbroke camp on the twelfth and pushed onward towards Detroit.\\nBy messenger sent forward in advance he apprized Monsieur\\nBelletre, commandant of the fort, of his near approach and the\\nobject of it. The astonished officer received him cautiously.\\nSoon satisfied, however, of the truth of the unwelcome news\\nthus brought, he surrendered his garrison. On the twenty-\\nninth of November the British flag floated from the staff which\\never before had borne only the lilies of France.\\nOn the tenth of December, after disposing of the French\\nforce found in the fort, and having taken possession of the forts\\nMiamie and Gatanois, with characteristic ardor Rogers pushed\\nstill farther westward for Michilimackinac. But it was a vain\\nattempt. The season was far advanced. Turning eastward,\\nafter a tedious journey, he reached New York on the fourteenth\\nof February, 1761.\\nFrom New York, there is reason to suppose that he went\\nthis same year as Ca]itain of one of his Maiest\\\\- s Indeiiendent\\nCompanies of Foot to South Caiolina, and there aided Colonel", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "1761] KOVAL rKoxrxcE. 249\\nGrant in subduing the Clierokees. From this time onward for\\nthe next two years we lose sight of Major Rogers, but he re-ap-\\npears at the siege of Detroit in 1763.\\nThe next glimpse we get of Major Rogers is at Rum ford\\n(now Concord) where he had a landed estate of some four or\\nfive hundred acres. A year or so after the surrender of Mon-\\ntreal he was married to I llizabeth, daughter of Rev. Arthur\\nRrown, rector of St. John s Church, in Portsmouth, which he\\nconsidered his residence. For three or four years, between\\n176c and 1765, he trafficked a good deal in lands, buying and selling\\nnumerous and some quite extensive tracts. Some of these\\nlands he seems to have purchased and some to have received in\\nconsideration of miHtary services. In 1764, Benning Went-\\nworth, as governor of New Hampshire, conveyed to him as a\\nreduced officer a tract of three thousand acres, lying in the\\nsouthern part of Vermont.\\nOne conveyance made by him and bearing date December\\n20, 1762, arrests our attention. By it he transferred to his\\nfather-in-law. Rev. Arthur Brown, before mentioned, some five\\nhundred acres of land in Rumford (now Concord), together with\\none negro man, named Castro Dickerson, aged about twenty-\\neight one negro woman, named Sylvia one negro boy, named\\nPomp, aged about twelve, and one Indian boy, named Billy, aged\\nabout thirteen. If the object of the conveyance was to secure\\nit as a home to his wife and children against any liabilities he\\nmight incur in his irregular life, the end sought was subse-\\nquently attained, as the land descended even to his grand-\\nchildren.\\nThe old Rogers House, so called, is still standing upon the\\nformer estate of Major Rogers, on the east side and near the\\nsouth end of Main Street, in Concord. It must be at least a\\nhundred years old, and faces the south, being two stories high\\non the front side and descending by a long sloping roof to one\\nin the rear. It was occupied by Arthur, son of Major Rogers,\\nwho was a lawyer by profession and died at Portsmouth, in 1841.\\nMajor Rogers did not prove a good husband, and seventeen\\nyears after their marriage his wife felt constrained, February 12,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "50 HISTORY OF NEW HAM I Sll 1 HE. [1761\\n1778, to petition the General Assembly of New Hampshire for\\na divorce from him on the ground of desertion and infidelity.\\nMajor Rogers was an author as well as soldier. He seems to\\nhave been in England in 1765, and to have there published two\\nrespectable volumes of his writings. One is entitled Journals\\nof Major Robert Rogers the other is called A concise view\\nof North America.\\nIn 1770 he sailed for England, and there, strange as it may\\nseem, the stalwart, fine-looking, wily ex-commandant was lionized.\\nWe see nothing more of Major Rogers until July, 1775, when\\nhe again appears in America as a major of the British Army,\\nretired on half-pay.\\nOn the second day of December, a little more than a month\\nlater, in shabby garb, he calls upon President Wheelock, at\\nHanover. Later, at Medford, Massachusetts, he addressed a\\nletter to General Washington, soliciting an interview but his\\nreputation was such that the Commander-in-Chief declined to\\nsee him.\\nIn August, 1776, he accepted a commission of 1-ieutenant\\ncolonel commandant, signed by General Howe, and empower-\\ning him to raise a battalion of Rangers for the British army.\\nTo this work he now applied himself and with success.\\nOn the twenty-first of October, 1776, Rogers fought his last\\nbattle on American soil. His regiment was attacked at Mam-\\naronec, New York, and routed by a body of American troops.\\nThe next year he returned to England, where he is said to\\nhave died in the year 1800.\\nJ. B. Walke.-.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nROYAL PkOnXCE, 1 760-1 775.\\nH.w.p.iiiRi; Grants Taxation by Parliament Stamp Act Its\\nRi;i EAL Resignation ok Governor Benning Wentworth Gov-\\nernor John Wentworth His Popilarity Early Settlers\\nTheir Customs Gilmanton Marlboro Canaan Enfield\\nLyme Oxeord 11 r ii Lehanon Hanover Goffstown\\nNewport Plaini-ield Danville Peterboroigh Bow Con-\\ntroversy SvNcooK Candia Wilton New Ipswich Lisbon\\nGiLsiM Lancaster Claremoxt Wentworth Salisbury\\nMilan Berlin Hillsborough Fitzv ili.ia.m Annals of\\nPortsmouth Paul Revere Capture of Fort William and\\nMary Holderness and the Livermores Wiiitefield White\\nMountain Notch Colonial Laws.\\nT^HI*. result of a series of wars for nearly three quarters of a\\ncentury had given the English undisputed possession of the\\nnorthern part of the Western Continent. During the last war\\nthe seasons were fruitful, and the colonies were able to supply\\ntheir own troops with provisions. Then followed two years of\\nscarcity. Added to the drought of 1761 a forest fire devastated\\nBarrington and Rochester, and spread into Maine. A contro-\\nversy had already commenced between the governors of New\\nYork and New Hampshire in regard to jurisdiction over the\\nterritory now included within the State of Vermont. As early\\nas 1750 Governor Wentworth had granted the township of\\nBennington, and had continued to grant townships within the\\ndisputed territory until the breaking out of the last French and\\nIndian war in 1754. In 1761 he granted no less than sixty\\ntownships on the western side, and eighteen townships on the\\neastern side, of the Connecticut river. The whole number of", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "252 pi=;tory of xew iiami shikk. 763\\ngrants on the western side of the river amounted to one hundred\\nand thirty-eight. In each the governor reserved a tract of five\\nhundred acres for himself, clear of all fees and charges. The new\\ntownships were mostly filled with emigrants from Massachusetts\\nand Connecticut. The western boundary of New Hampshire was\\ndetermined in July, 1764, to be the western bank of the Con-\\nnecticut river and the jurisdiction of New Hampshire was with-\\ndrawn from the Hampshire grants and confined to its present\\nlimits.\\nAt this time commenced in the Colonies a series of events\\nwhich was destined to lead to an open rupture with the mother\\ncountry and finally to the independence of the American colo-\\nnies and the formation of a republic. The war with the French\\nhad greatly added to the public debt of Great Britain and the\\nhome government, in 1763, attempted to impose taxes on the\\ncolonies without their consent. The colonies had borne their\\nshare of the expense of the war in America and had been fairly\\nreimbursed for their outlays but a new ministry coming into\\npower sought to draw the money from the colonies again in\\nthe shape of ta.xation. The first act of oppression was that\\nrestricting the intercourse which the American colonies had\\nenjoyed with the West India Islands, quickly followed by the\\nStamp Act, similar to the one in force during the late Re-\\nbellion. Petitions and remonstrances were drawn up and\\nsent to England. Economy rendered the first Act of little\\nvalue to England, while the Stamp Act could not be enforced.\\nIn 1765 the Assembly of Massachusetts proposed a congress\\nof deputies from each colony to consult upon our common\\ninterest, as had been customary in times of common danger.\\nThe house of burgesses of Virginia passed spirited resolves\\nasserting the rights of their country, and denying the claim of\\nparliamentary taxation. In the English parliament those op-\\nposed to the Stamp Act spoke of Americans as Sons of\\nLiberty and the phrase was quickly adopted by associations\\nin every colony. George Meserve was appointed to distribute\\nthe stamps in New Hampshire, but he resigned upon dis-\\ncovering the opposition to the Act in his native Province.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "1766] K( \\\\.\\\\l l K()\\\\l\\\\CE. 253\\nAlthough New Hanipshire sent no delegates to the colo-\\nnial Congress which met in New York in 1765, the Assem-\\nbly endorsed the measures and resolutions which were adopted\\nthere, and sent similar petitions to England to be presented to\\nthe King and parliament by their agent, Barlow Trecothick,\\nand John Wentvvorth, a young gentleman of Portsmouth who\\nwas then in England.\\nA movement inaugurated in New Hampshire to do away with\\nthe courts, on account of their not complying with the provisions\\nof the Stamp Act, was quickly suppressed.\\nGovernor Wentvvorth had received no official notification of\\nthe Stamp Act and had taken no active part in enforcing it. He\\nwas now in the decline of life, had made his fortune, and had\\noccupied his office for twenty-five years. He did not deem it\\nwise to oppose the popular will.\\nThe colonists, however, took the most effectual measures to\\nprocure the repeal of the obnoxious tax by agreeing to import\\nno goods until its repeal. The Sons of Liberty became an\\norganized and effective political body in 1766; but at that time\\nwere not disloyal to the home government. During the year\\nattacks were made upon Governor Wentworth to unseat him\\nfrom his office. Charges were preferred, but were not invest-\\nigated and he was allowed to resign his office in favor of his\\nnephew, John Wentworth, who arrived in the Province the\\nfollowing spring.\\nIn the prime of life, active and enterprising, polite and\\neasy in his address, and placed in power by the same minister\\nwho had procured the repeal of the Stamp Act, Governor Went-\\nworth becarhe a popular favorite. His inclination and interest\\nled him to cultivate the good will of the people. Brought up to\\ncommercial pursuits, he had a taste for agriculture, and contrib-\\nuted to the encouragement of agricultural pursuits. He began\\nfor himself a plantation in Wolfeborough, which led others to\\nemulate his example in cultivating the wilderness. The rapid\\nprogress of the Province drew the attention of the people from\\nobnoxious laws enacted for raising a revenue in the colonies.\\nThe Assembly voted him a salary of j\u00c2\u00a3/00, equal to $2,333,\\nbesides ;^6o to ;iCioo for house rent.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "251 HISTOKY OF NEW II A I I SII I KE. L 7^5\\nThe governor encouraged the building of new roads and was\\ninstrumental in locating Dartmouth College at Hanover, in 1769.\\nIn 1771, the Province was cfivided into five counties, Rock-\\ningham, Strafford, Hillsborough, Cheshire, and Grafton and\\nspecie payment was resumed.\\nThe last French and Indian war was virtually ended at the\\nsurrender of Montreal, September 8, 1760, and the victorious\\ntroops returned and scattered to their hillside farms, to pursue\\nthe paths of peace and discuss the exciting incidents of the\\nlate conflict.\\nAll fear of an Indian outbreak being now over, the rush from\\nthe lower settlements to the upper waters of the Merrimack\\nand Connecticut was immediate and note-worth\\\\-.\\nThe first duty of the pioneer was to provide shelter for\\nhimself, his wife, and children. The first houses in a town\\nwere built of logs, the floors of wliich were of hewn plank, four\\nor more inches in thickness. As the land was cleared these\\nlog-houses gave place to framed buikhngs. The most durable\\ntimber was chosen, and the neighboring Indians frequently\\nassisted in the raising.\\nThe tall jiines and oaks were incumbrances to the land, and\\nthe first efforts were directed to destroying them. The blows\\nof the axe resounded through the woods the tree which had\\nwithstood the gales of a century fell quickly to the ground the\\nlimbs were cut off, and the trunk cut in convenient lengths for\\nhandling, when great piles were formed and the torch applied.\\nAfter a rain had neutralized the ashes, the grain was sown\\nand harrowed in and the harvest gathered frequently paid for\\nthe labor of clearing the land and for the land beside.\\nThe roads at first were rough and bad, mere foot-ways or\\nbridle-paths. Horses were trained to carry double, and the\\npillion, a seat behind the saddle for women, was in general use\\nuntil the Revolution. The surveyor, with chain and compass,\\nlaid out the road and spotted the trees the axe-men followed\\nafter and cleared a way one or two rods wide, bridging the\\nbrooks and streams with logs, and building causeways over\\nwet places of the same material.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "1765] ROVAL PROVINCE. 255\\nThese roads were improved slowly, but in course of time\\nwould allow the passage of oxen and heavy loads and later\\nthey permitted the transit of the chaise and wagon, which came\\ninto use soon after the Revolution.\\nThe clothing was almost wholly homespun sheep were kept\\nfor their wool, and flax was raised on every farm. The wool\\nwas carded and spun by the women of the family, and the loom\\nwas in every well-organized household. Rev. Jacob Emery of\\nPembroke once received a summons to attend the Provincial\\nCongress the next day, in the distant town of Exeter. He\\nlacked a pair of pantaloons befitting his dignity, and was in a\\nquandary. His good wife, so says tradition, was equal to the\\nemergency. A sheep was captured and shorn its wool-carded^\\nspun and woven the necessary garment designed and made\\nfrom the raw material, and presented to the worthy and\\npatriotic parson, in season for him to set out for the meeting\\nbefore the d\u00c2\u00abwn of day.\\nThe food of the settlers was plain. Very little tea was used,\\nand coffee rarely ever. Game, or fish, with vegetables, was\\neaten for dinner or bean, corn, or pea porridge. Bread, milk,\\nand boiled Indian pudding were staple articles of diet morning-\\nand evening.\\nThe whole settlement were neighbors, and shared in each\\nother s griefs and joys. Ready assistance was rendered to the\\nsick and unfortunate, and interchange of labor was frequent.\\nPatriarchal simplicity, respect, and submission prevailed in\\ntheir families and especial deference was paid to the Sabbath.\\nIt was a day devoted to the spiritual improvement of the old\\nand young alike. Aside from the Bible, books were very scarce\\nand highly prized, a minister s library consisting of a few\\nchoice, well-worn volumes, and newspapers were almost\\nunknown.\\nThe first iron crane was used in Rumford in 1758. Until\\nthen the people in this vicinity used what were known as lug-\\npoles, which were sometimes burned off, letting the fat into the\\nfire.\\n1 Gilmantown was huge. Eighteen miles was the length from\\nRev. J. E. Fullerton.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "256 HISTnK^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 OF NEW IIAMI SIIIKE. 65\\nNoithfield, Canterbury, and Loudon to the Lake \\\\V innipi-\\nseogee at the Weirs. In some places it was ten miles wide.\\nIt contained 83,500 acres. The old town included the present\\ntowns of Belmont, Gilmantown, Gilford, and the portion of\\nLaconia on the east side of the Winnipiseogee river.\\nThe township was granted in 1727 to twenty-four persons by\\nthe name of Oilman, together with 153 others. Many of the\\nshares were the gift of the government for service in the wars.\\nThe character of the first proprietors and settlers will be the\\nacorn determining the character of the full-grown tree. A\\ngreater part of the early inhabitants came from Exeter. As\\nExeter was settled from Massachusetts, and was for some time\\nunder Massachusetts, the early settlers were imbued with the\\nideas and habits of the State.\\nIt is worthy of special notice that at least seventeen of the\\nfounders were college gradiiates twelve of them ministers of\\nthe gospel. Others were men of note and influence in their\\nold homes.\\nThough all the proprietors did not become settlers, their\\nenlarged ideas in regard to the founding of schools and the\\nearly building of churches attracted the best class of citizens,\\nand have given Gilmanton a proud record in the State.\\nThe great attractions of the region to-day were the great\\nhindrances to its early settlement.\\nThe beautiful lake on its northern boundary was a favorite\\nresort of the red men, as it is of his white brother. The clear\\nwaters abounded with food for his scouting parties. The chain\\nof lakes and rivers served as the thoroughfare for the Canada\\nIndians, as they made their dreaded incursions upon the white\\nsettlers.\\nOld Belknap was a point of observation which the savage\\nclimbed, not to revel in the wonderful view of lake dotted with\\ngreen islands, of mountain, and of valley, but to see where the\\ncurling smoke of some settler revealed the hope of a scalp.\\nIt is not surprising that so exposed a spot was not settled till\\n1 761, when the Indian wars were over.\\nWe little realize the hardships and toils of the early settlers.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "1765] KOVAL PROVINCE. 257\\nImagine all the iron work tor the- first saw-mill brought on\\nhorseback. Or think of the 26th of December, 1761, when\\nBenjamin Mudgett and wife arrived in town. Think of it, oh\\nye who boast of an hour s walk as a great achievement. The\\nlast twelve miles, so the storif goes, they came on foot and on\\nsnowshoes. It is not strange that, a mile from her journey s\\nend, the wife threw herself upon the snow, saying, I may as\\nwell die here as anywhere if I attempt to go farther it will kill\\nme, and if I stop here I shall but die. She reached her home,\\nand lived seventy-three years after.\\nLower Gilmanton was the first region settled. Here lived\\nthe old lawyers, Stephen Moody, Esq., John Ham, Benjamin\\nEmerson, and the old physicians. Dr. Silver, Dr. B. Kelley, and\\nDr. N. C. Tebbetts.\\nEast Gilmanton was of importance. Here was the first Con-\\ngregational church, and when Gilmanton became a shire town\\nof Strafford county, the court was held in the meeting-house.\\nIron Works, or Averytown, grew up from the operations in\\niron ore commenced in 1778. Theore was taken from Suncook\\nor Lougee s Pond, in twenty feet of water. The working being\\nunprofitable was discontinued. Here Senator James Bell prac-\\ntised law, and kept the post-ofifice.\\nGilmanton Corner has been the social and literary centre of\\nthe town. Gilmanton Academy was erected in 1796. In 1799\\nthe county court began to be held in the village. Here Judge\\nIra A. Eastman commenced his practice. The Theological\\nSeminary was opened in 1836.\\nFactory Village, now Belmont Village, received its name\\nfrom the brick factory erected in 1834. The town of Belmont\\nwas left by the separation of the lower part of Gilmanton from\\nit in 1859.\\nMeredith Bridge Village, Lake Village, and Gilford Village\\nwere set off, in 18 12, with the town of Gilford.\\nThe first settler in Meredith Bridge Village was Samuel\\nJewett, who came in 1777. He served at Bunker Hill. When\\nhe enlisted he was too short but the enlisting officer run his\\nhand through the soldier s hair, and lifted it till it touched the", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "258 HISTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. L 7^5\\npole under which the soldiers stood, telling him that what he\\nlacked in inches he made up in grit. Daniel Avery, who came\\nin 1779, by his energy may be called the father of the village on\\nthe Gilmanton side.\\nLake Village, for a time, boasted her iron works, the ore for\\nwhich came from Gunstock mountain. On Gunstock brook, at\\nthe foot of the mountain, grew the rural village now called\\nGilford Village.\\nGilmanton boasts her literary ventures. In 1800 appeared\\nthe Gilmanton Gazette and Farmer s Weekly Magazine. The\\nRnral Musenm appeared the same year. Both soon disappeared.\\nFor four years from its first number, May, 1835, the Saboath-\\nSchool Advocate was issued. The Parents Magazine was born\\nin Gilmanton, September, 1840, but was early carried to Con-\\ncord. In 1842 and 1843 the Biblical Journal \\\\\\\\?is born and\\ndied. The New Hampshire Repository was the last venture.\\nGilmanton Academy was chartered June 20, 1794. Peter\\nL. Folsom, A. B., was the first preceptor, holding the position\\nsix years. The tuition was $1.00 a term.\\nThe Academy was, for a while, one of the two principal in-\\nstitutions in the State, and numbers among its graduates many\\nleading citizens. It was a part of the original design to have\\nthe Academy furnish a theological training for ministers. A\\ndepartment called Gilmanton Theological Seminary was formed\\nin 1836, to aid in providing an adequate supply of able, hum-\\nble, zealous and laborious ministers of the gospel for the\\nchurches of the State and country, especially the feeble and\\ndestitute.\\nGilmanton soil and climate have been especially favorable to\\nthe growth of churches. There have been three Congregational\\nchurches. The first, for years the town church, was incorpo-\\nrated in 18 1 7 as the First Congregational Society. Rev. Luke\\nA. Spofford succeeded Rev. Mr. Smith in 18 19, and was\\nsucceeded in 1825 by Rev. Daniel Lancaster, who became\\npastor of the second church in 1835.\\nThe Centre (Congregational) Church, on the Academy grounds,\\nwas organized in 1826. Rev. Herman Rood became pastor the", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "1765] ROYAL PROVINCE. 259\\nsame year. Enjoying the audience from the Academy, and the\\npatronage of the Seminary, this church has been the leading\\nCongregational church in town. After Mr. Rood s pastorate,\\nit was ministered to by Rev. Daniel Lancaster half the time,\\ntill he became its pastor in 1835. Mr. Lancaster conferred a\\ngreat benefit upon the town by compiling a laborious and accu-\\nrate history, which must serve as the foundation of all future\\nhistories of the town.\\nThe Iron Works Congregational Church was organized in\\n1829. The first pastor, Rev. Charles G. Safford, came in 183 1,\\nand remained till 1836. Rev. S. S. N. Greeley was pastor from\\n1839 till 1842.\\nThe First Baptist Church was organized Nov. 16, 1773. The\\noriginal male members were Orlando Wood, Thomas Edgerly,\\nThomas Mudgett, John Fo.x, Dudley Young, Samuel Weeks.\\nThe original charter of Marlow, signed Ben. Went-\\nworth, and bearing date October, 1761, shows that the town\\ngrant was divided into seventy equal shares, containing by\\nadmeasurement twenty-three thousand and forty acres, six\\nmiles square. As soon as there shall be fifty families resi-\\ndent, reads the charter, and settled thereon, said town shall\\nhave the liberty uf holdin^i; two fairs annually. The grantees\\nare si.\\\\t)-nine in number, and William Noyes s name heads\\nthe list.\\nGood authority gives the names of the first settlers as\\nJoseph Tubbs, Samuel and John Gustm, N., Royce, N. Miller,\\nand Natiian Huntley, and the same authority states that the\\nfirst town meeting was held in March, 1776; but the records of\\na town meeting held in March, 1766, arc now in existence, and\\nthe town has the notices of such meetings from that time\\nforward. The authentic copy reads as follows\\nThe Inhabitants of this town met according to the warning\\nin the Charter, and being legally warned to meet at the\\ndwelling-house of Sam l Gustin, Joseph Tubbs was chosen\\nModerator for said Meeting, and Sam l Gustin Clerk for said\\ntown and the meeting was adjourned to the third Tuesday of\\nG. B. Griffith.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "26o HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 765\\nMay next at the Dvvelling-House of Joseph Tubbs of Marlow at\\none of the clock in the afternoon on said day.\\nMay ye i6th, 1766, then met according to adjournment and\\nchose Joseph Tubbs the first Selectman Sam l Gustin the\\nsecond Selectman, and Martin Lord the third Selectman.\\nSam l Gustin, Clerk.\\nThese were probably the first selectmen chosen. In 1767\\nNathan Huntley, Samuel Gustin, and Nehemiah Royce were\\nchosen selectmen.\\nIn 1773 is the first copy of a warrant for a town meeting.\\nIt was directed to the constable.\\nIn 1778 the first minister was settled. Rev. Caleb Blood,\\nCongregationalist. He was dismissed the next year, and Rev.\\nEleazer Beckwith, Baptist, succeeded, and preached till his\\ndeath in 1809.\\nThe Proprietors committee in 1767 were Nathan Hunlley\\nand Samuel Gustin. In 1783 John Lewis was chosen collector\\nof the Runibe tax, and in the same year it was voted to exempt\\nthe widows from taxation for twelve months.\\nIt is evident that but few of the charter members remained\\nin town for a long period if they did, they left no descendants.\\nNathan Huntley s name does not appear on that document, yet\\nhe was one of the first settlers.\\nThe earliest buildings were put up near Baker s Corner, by\\nJohn Gustin. Nathan Huntley settled near Marlow Hill, and\\nJoseph Tubbs in the south part of the town. The first\\nmeeting-house was built in 1798, on Marlow Hill. It had big\\nsquare, two-story galleries all around, and contained the box\\npews. It was taken down in 1845, lid removed to the south,\\nnow the main, village, as a sort of a union church it is now\\ncalled the Christian Church. There is no preaching in it at\\npresent, and the basement is used as the town hall. Origin-\\nally this edifice stood near Baker s -Corner; it was not\\nclap-boarded or plastered, and was furnished with the\\nprimitive wooden benches. The Methodist church, also,\\noriginally stood on Marlow Hill. Before its erection, there\\nwere quite a number of Universalists in town, and, not agree--", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "1765] KOVAL PROViNCE. 261\\ning in regard to a minister, a comniittee was chosen^ one from\\nthe Baptists, one from the Congregationalists, and one from the\\nUniversalists to procure a pastor and in order to have one\\nthat would unite them, they employed the Rev. Peter Jacobs, a\\nMethodist, and this was the first introduction of Methodism in\\nMarlow, which is at this time the popular church of the place.\\nOral tradition says that a Mr. Marshall was the first man to\\npreach a Methodist sermon in town, but nothing is remembered\\nof him except the fact that he preached two or three times.\\nMr. Jacobs was succeeded by Rev. Paul Dustin, a local\\npreacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he organized a\\nMethodist society. Among its first members were Franci.s\\nBrown, Amos Gale, Jr., and wife, Cyrus Comstock and wife, Mrs.\\nGriffin, and Samuel Rice. Subsequently Mr. Dustin preached\\nfor the Congregationalists at Alstead, where he died, February\\n10, 181 1, at the early age of thirty-si.\\\\, and was buried in the\\ncemetery at Alstead Centre.\\nRev. Dexter Bates was probably his successor, as he was\\nknown to be the pastor in 1812-13. He is sjioken of as a\\nstrong man, full of zeal and energy.\\nIn 181 5 Marlow was embraced in Grantham Circuit, New\\nEngland Conference, Vermont district, with Eleazer Weils\\npresiding elder, and Warner Bannister preacher the latter did\\nnot preach in Marlow oftener than once in four weeks. The\\nentire circuit, comprising probably from six to ten towns, re-\\nported a membership of two hundred and fifty-five whites and\\none colored.\\nCali.sta M. Huntley {Marie Calisio Pirctoli) was born in Marlow. April 11,\\n:84i, and with her parents moved to Boston in 1845, and t rom thence to\\nLynn in 1S51. At a very early age she manifested great musical talent, and\\nseemed to feel the strongest desire to cultivate her gift. The sooner to\\naccomplish her darling wish, she purchased a sewing machine, and after\\nworking upon it till its price was paid, she, at the tender age of twelve, began\\nto save her wages till she was enabled to purchase a piano. Then h. i mus-\\nical education commenced in earnest. Before she had taken any lessons,\\nCalista had mastered many of the problems of this beautiful science. After\\nreceiving instruction a while from a competent teacher, she herself i^ave\\nlessons, remaining a pupil still. Her talent not only secured scholars, but", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "262 IIISTOKV OI Xmv IIAMI SHIKE. 7 5\\nshe ere long was ofTered the leailinc; pUice in churches and at festivals; so she\\nwas able to continue her favorite study. In April, iS66, she went to Italv.\\nand pursued her chosen vocation, taking lessons till she had perfected a\\nthorough course of study, under the tuition of the best masters. In the\\nmeantime she gave concerts and other entertainments to pay her expenses,\\nunder the stage name of Marie Calisto. In 1869 she married Geromano\\nPiccioli. Since then she has visited and sung in all the principal cities of\\nEngland, Ireland, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and, in fact, over the\\nwhole civilized world, and has won a lasting and well-deserved fame. She\\nspeaks four different languages fluently, and though she of necessity has\\nquite a foreign air, still she is very easy in her manners, broad in her\\nreligious views, and in all respects is a lady of line appearance, to whom the\\nhumblest may easily find access at her elegant home. Her residence is in\\nItalv, but she is now temporarily stopping in Lynn, Mass. Marlow hasgood\\nreason to be proud of this distinguished artist.\\nHere, too, was the native place of Rosinee Richardson, familiarly known\\nas Fat Rosinee, who in her d.\\\\v was the wonder of the world. .She trav-\\nelled with Barnum for several years, and died not long since in Florida.\\nNahum Stone, son of I^hineas. \\\\\\\\h~, in olden times had a small tannery at\\nthe head of Stone Pond, was a native of Marlow. He at one time owned and\\nedited what is now known as the CAes/iire lieftiblicaii, at Keene.\\nAmong the early settlers and substantial citizens passed away was Mr. Far-\\nley-, who came from Billerica, Mass., and who, at one time, owned the princi-\\npal part of the Plains, selling out his mill rights to Mr. Russel Huntley.\\nWells Way, commonly called the Old Squire, was a very popular and\\nprominent man almost all arbitration was left out to him. He was a town\\nclerk for many years and held various other offices. Silas Mack and Samuel\\nRoyce were both town clerks and selectmen for many years.\\nOld manuscript letters tell us that in 1788 there were forty-\\ntwo votes cast in Marlow. John Langdon had thirty-six;\\nJohn Sullivan, si.x. In 1800 it was voted not to ta.\\\\ a widow s\\ncow. At the annual town-meeting, the same year, William\\nLewis was chosen constable and collector he was to receive\\nthree dollars and eighty cents for his labor in the latter ofifice.\\nBaker s Corner was in olden times the on!)- business resort.\\nHere was a flourishing store, a potash manufactory, and a hotel.\\nThe public-house first opened had Samuel Richardson for pro-\\nprietor. All these buildings subsequently passed into the hands\\nof William Baker. The first store ever kept in town was opened\\nby Mr. Lamphier in the house now owned by Curtis Winham,\\non the Hill. Soon after, Francis D. Ellis opened a store and\\nhotel, and a hostelry was also started by Kli.sha Huntley, Esq.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "1765 J KOYAL PKOVINCE. 263\\n111 1761 charters were granted to Canaan, Enfield, Lebanon,\\nHanover, Lyme, Orford, Bath, Lyman, Holderness, Mario w,\\nGoffstown, Lempster, Grantham, Newport and Plainfield.\\nThe first permanent settlement in Canaan was made in the\\nwinter of 1766 or 1767, by John Scofield, who conveyed what\\neffects he possessed the distance of fourteen miles over a crust\\nof snow upon a hand-sled. Among others of the first settlers\\nwere George Harris, Thomas Miner, Joshua Harris, Samuel\\nJones, and Samuel Meachani. The first church was formed in\\n1780. Rev. Thomas Baldwin, D. D., a Baptist minister, was\\nordained in 1783. Rev. Joseph Wheat was settled in 18 13. A\\nCongregational society was incorporated in 1820 and Rev.\\nCharles Calkins was settled over it.\\nThe first settlers of Enfield were Nathaniel Bicknell, Jonathan\\nPaddleford, and Elisha Bingham. A Congregational church\\nwas organized in December, 1799, over which Rev. Edward\\nEvans was settled. Jesse Johnson, one of the early settlers,\\nwas a justice of the peace and a member of the legislature. His\\nson of the same name was a leading citizen of the town. A\\nsociety of Shakers was organized in the town in 1792, under the\\nadministration of Elder Job Bishop.^\\nThe first settlement was made in Lyme, in 1764, by Walter\\nFairfield, John and William Sloan, and others from Connecticut.\\nA Congregational church was organized in 1772 and Rev. Wil-\\nliam Conant was settled the next year.^\\nThe first settler in Orford was a Mr. Cross, who came with\\nhis family from Lebanon, in 1765. He was followed the same\\nyear by General Israel Morey, John Mann, Esq., and a Mr. Cas-\\nwell, with their families from Connecticut. A church was or-\\nganized in 1770 and Rev. Oliver Noble was settled as minister.\\nHe was followed in 1787 by Rev. John Sawyer; in 1801 by\\nRev. Sylvester Dana in 1823 by Rev. James D. Farnsworth.\\nRev. Mr. Dana was settled over the West church for over ten\\nyears.\\nThe settlement of Bath was commenced in 1765 by John\\nHarriman, from Haverhill, Mass. He was soon followed by", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "264 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 76S\\nMoses Pike and the family of Mr. Sawyer. A Presbyterian\\nchurch was organized in 1778 and dissolved in 1791, when a\\nCongregational church was formed. Rev. David Sutherland\\nwas its first settled minister.\\nAmong the first settlers of Lebanon were William Downer,\\nWilliam Dana, Levi Hyde, Charles Hill, Silas Waterman, and\\nNathaniel Porter from Connecticut, wh* made the first settle-\\nment north of Charlestown. They were a hardy, brave people\\ntenacious of their principles many of them were men of strong\\nminds, good habits, correct principles, and good, common edu-\\ncation. A Congregational church was organized in 1771, and\\nRev. Isaiah Potter was settled as minister. A Baptist church\\nwas formed in 1782, over which Rev. Jedidiah Hibbard was\\nsettled. A Universalist society was organized in 1813.^\\nThe first settlement in Hanover was made in 1765 by Colonel\\nEdmund Freeman, from Connecticut. The ne.\\\\t year he was\\njoined by Benjamin Davis, Benjamin Rice, Gideon Smith, and\\nAsa Parker, all from the same colony. In 1770, Dartmouth\\nCollege was established there by Rev. Dr. Wheelock.^\\nGoffstown was granted by the Masonian proprietors in 1748,\\nand incorporated thirteen years later.\\nThe first settlement of Newport was made in 1763, by Jesse\\nWilcox, Ebenezer Merritt, Jesse Kelley, and Samuel Hurd,\\nfrom Connecticut.\\nPlainfield was settled in 1764, by L. Nash and J. Russell,\\nfrom Connecticut. A Congregational church was formed in\\n1765 and Rev. Abraham Carpenter was settled as minister.\\nThe town is the seat of the Kirhble Union Academy at Meriden,\\nincorporated June 16, 1813, and endcwed by Hon. Daniel Kim-\\nball.\\nHawke, or Danville, Amherst, Peterborough, and Boscawen\\n.vere incorporated in 1761.\\nThe first settlement was made in that j^art of Kingston now\\nDanville, between 1735 and 1739, by Jonathan Sanborn and\\nJacob Hook. Rev. John Page was settled as minister in 1763-\\nHe died in 1782.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "1765] KOVAF. PROVINCE. 265\\nThe first settlement was matle in Peterborough, in 1739, In\\nWilliam Robbe, Alexander Scott, Hugh Gregg, William Scott,\\nand Samuel Stinson, some of whom were accompanied by their\\nfamilies. The settlement was abandoned in 1744, and the region-\\nwas not occupied again until 1748. On their return they were\\njoined by many from Londonderry and Lunenburg, so that in ten\\nyears there were forty-five families in the township, who were\\nmostly Presbyterians. Rev. John Morrison was settled as min-\\nister in 1766.\\nIn 1762 happily the l-5ow controversy, which had been so long\\nwaged, was drawing to a close. In the courts of New Hamp-\\nshire every case brought to trial, touching the title to their lands,,\\nhad been decided against the proprietors of Rumford but the\\nRev. Mr. Walker and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq. the men to whom\\nthe proprietors had entrusted their cause confident of its\\njustice, were neither bafifled nor discouraged. With a firmness\\nof purpose worthy all praise, and sustained by the unanimous\\nwill of the people, the Rev. Mr. Walker persevered in his\\nagency. In the fall of 1762 he visited England for the third\\ntime, to attend the trial of the cause, which was still pending.\\nHe had formed valuable acquaintances among ministers of re-\\nligion, members of Parliament, and members of his Majesty s\\nCouncil. Sir William Murray, his learned counsellor and advo-\\ncate in the first trial, was now Lord Mansfield, chief justice of\\nthe King s Bench. After long and anxious suspense the trial\\ncame on, and Mr. Walker announced the result in a letter dated\\nin December as favorable to the Rumford and Suncook settlers.\\nThe decision of the King in council states\\nThat some vears since, upon a dispute about the boundary line between\\nthe provinces of the Massachusetts Bav and New Hampshire, his Majesty\\nwas pleased to issue a commission to mark out the dividing line between the\\nsaid Province of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay, but with an express\\ndeclaration that private property should not be affected tliereby. And upon\\nhearing the report of the commissioners appointed to settle the said boundary,\\nhis Majesty was pleased, by his order in council, made in 1740, to adjudge\\nand order that the northern boundary of the said Province of the Massachu-\\nsetts Bay are and be a similar curve line, pursuing the course of Merrimack", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "266 iii-^ioKV OF m:\\\\v hamp.shike. [1765\\nriver at three miles distance on the north side thereof, beginning at the Al-\\nlantir ocean, and ending at a point due north of a place called Pautucket Falls,\\n-and a straight line drawn from thence due west, cross the said river, till it\\nmeets with His Majesty s other governments; by which determination two\\nthird parts at least of the said river Merrimack, with the lands and settlements\\nthereon, and among the rest the said towns of Pennicook, or Rumford, and\\nSuncook. would lav upon the said river considerably above the said Pautucket\\nfalls, were excluded out of the said Province of Massachusetts Bay, in which\\nthey had before been thought and reputed to be, and thrown into the said\\nother Province of New Hampshire. That notwithstanding his Majesty had\\nbeen pleased, at the time of issuing the said commission, to fix the said boun-\\ndary, to declare the same was not to affect private property yet certain per-\\nsons in New Hampshire, desirous to make the labors of others an advantage\\nlo themselves, and to possess themselves of the towns of Pennicook, otherwise\\nRumford, and Suncook, as now improved by the industry of tlie appellants\\nand the said first settlers thereof, w^honi they seek to despoil of the benefit of\\nall their labors.\\nHis Majesty this day took the said report into consideration, and was\\npleased, with the advice of his privy council, to approve thereof, and to order,\\nas it is hereby ordered, that the said judgment of the inferior court of common\\npleas of the Province of New Hampshire, of the 2d of September, 1760, and\\naiso the judgment of the superior court of judicature, of the 2d Tuesday in\\nNovember, afiirming the same, be both of them reversed, and that the appel-\\nlants be restored to what they may have lost by means of the said judgment,\\nwhereof the Governor or Commander-in-Chief of His Majesty s Province of\\nNew Hampshire, for the time being, and all others whom it may concern, are\\nto take notice and govern themselves accordingly.\\nBut notwithstanding his Majesty s decision the controversy\\nhad become so complicated, and involved so much personal in-\\nterest and feeling, that many years elapsed before its final set-\\ntlement. The difficulty with the government of the Province\\nin respect to taxes was terminated by a charter of incorporation,\\nbut conflicting personal interests had to be compromised. The\\nprudence, decision, ami readiness for reconciliation on just prin-\\nciples, which distinguished the proprietors in all their subse-\\nquent proceedings, appear from the records. The controversy was\\nfinally terminated in 1772. The common lands which had been\\nreserved were divided and laid off to the respective proprietors\\nand grantees.\\nAt length Mr. Walker s able management of the Bow case having\\nwon a favorable decision, Rumford was to remain intact, and", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "l/t S] KOVAI, PROVINCE. 267\\nSO was Suncook. Suncook, however, had given over the strug-\\ngio and was no more in its place was Pembroke, a creation of\\nthe General Assembly of New Hampshire. Who would blame\\ntheir worthy divine, the Rev. Aaron Whittemore, if he upbraided\\nthe people for their want of faith in the paternal guardianship\\nof the Old Hay Colony, in which he had filial confidence\\nPiobably he had no soft answers lo turn away their wrath, but\\nrather enkimlled it for the\\\\- met one November day and voted\\ntheir old minister out of his parish. Here their anger eniied, for\\nthe ne.xt year they petitioned for, and obtained, the charter for a\\nseparate parish for the Presbvterians, allowing the minority to\\nretain the services of their faithful minister and not forcing\\nthem, in retaliation for past acts, to support the Rev. Daniel\\nJNIitchel.\\nIn 1762 the population of that part of the Chesnut Coun-\\ntry called Charmingfare numbered so many families who were\\nobliged to make their way over bridle-paths and through woods\\nten or twelve miles to meeting, that the freeholders of Chester\\nvoted to set off a new parish north and west of their present\\nlimits and north of Long Meadows, now Auburn. The new\\ntownship was supposed to measure five and one half miles one\\nwa\\\\-, by four miles the other, being nearly a parallelogram in\\nshape, and was divided into one hundred and thirt} proprietary\\nlots.\\nThe earliest date at which anyone moved within the limits of\\nthe new parish cannot now be determined. The late Colonel\\nR. E. Patten claimed to have heard it said by one of the fathers\\nwho knew, that David McClure built his log cabin on the\\nnorth-east slope of Patten s hill, in 1743. Chase, in his history\\nof Chester, remarks that McClure did not take his farm at\\nChester Centre before 1744. On page two hundred and sixty,\\nhowever, of that history, the invoice table of 1741 gives David\\nMcClure as assessed for a house and a horse.\\nWilliam Turner, generally considered the first settler, and\\nwho appears to have been in Chester in 1741, or before, built a\\nhouse in 1748, on a swell of land near the present Candia\\nF. p. Eaton.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "268 iiisroKV OF Ni;\\\\v nAMr iiiKE. L 765\\nvillage. The next year came Benjamin Smith from Exeter,\\nand began a clearing about one half mile south-east. Enoch\\nColby came from Hampton about the same time, and settled a\\nmile or more south-west from Turner. They appear to have\\nbeen neighborly, for Mr. Turner married Colby s sister, and\\ntheir daughter Sarah was the first child born in town. In\\n1753, Nathaniel Burpee came from Rowley, Massachusetts, and\\nbuilt one quarter of a mile north he united in his person two\\n\\\\ery useful functions he was tailor and deacon. After this\\nthe influx of population, if not rapid, was steady. The earliest\\nrecorded census in 1767 gives the number as three hundred and\\nsixty-three. Eight years later it had more than doubled.\\nUnder the consent signified by the vote of Chester, thirty-\\neight freeholders petitioned for a charter, and in 1763 it was\\nduly granted by the Governor, Council and Assembly, whereby\\nthe inhabitants and their estates are made a parish by the\\nname of Candia.\\nIn Moore and Farmer s New Hampshire Gazetteer, it is said\\nthat this name was given by Governor Benning Wentworth,\\nwho had been a prisoner on the island of Crete, now Candia, in\\nthe Mediterranean. The statement was adopted in Eaton s His-\\ntory, and also by the late Rev. Dr. Bouton, in some notes on\\nthe names of towns in his State Papers. I have not seen any\\nallusion to this imprisonment in Belknap s or in Brewster s\\nRambles. Some circumstances in the life of Wentworth, how-\\never, give it an air of probability.\\nIt is to the distinction of the people of that rough but thrifty\\nlittle town, that the world knows but one other place of like\\nname. There are Chesters and Raymonds and Deerfields in\\nabundance, but, especially to those to the manor born, but one\\nCandia in fact or in sentiment.\\nIt would be interesting to know where the first town meeting\\nwas held, but the record gives us no hint, though John Carr s\\ntavern was surely built (and is now the oldest inhabited house\\nin town), and Deacon Palmer s Lintel received the worship-\\n])ing congregation on Sunday.\\nIt was on March 13, 1764, that this jirecursor of a long and", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "1765] KCIVAI. I KON IXCE. 269\\nlively series of March meetings was calleil by Samuel Emerson,\\nEsq., duly authorized for that purpose. Doctor Samuel Moore,\\nas the record styles him, who came from Hampstead two years\\nbefore, was chosen Moderator and Parish Clerk, which latter\\noffice he held twenty-nine years. He was one of those univer-\\nsal factotums useful and indispensable in the building up of new\\ntowns, not a regular physician but able to pull teeth, perform\\nsimple surgical operations, and give common sense if not legal\\nadvice in matters of dispute. His wife was reputed equally effi-\\ncient and capable in her own particular sphere.\\nThe chief reason for the new charter was the difficulty of at-\\ntending public worship, and so the first vote to raise money was\\nof one hundred and fifty pounds old tenor, to hire preaching,\\nand one hundred pounds for schooling. A small sum, the old\\ntenor currency having depreciated to about one twentieth of its\\nnominal amount, but it was enough for immediate use.\\nShirbane Rowe was chosen inspector of deer, and John\\nCarr tythingman. Three hawards or hay wardens were also\\nchosen, whose duty it was to take up and impound any cattle\\nfound trespassing on inclosures or cornfields.\\nAs there were few fences, cattle were of course allowed to\\nroam at large, as well as sheep. To identify the sheep a system\\nof ear marks was used, and they are recorded in quaint lan-\\nguage in the town book, as for instance Shirbane Rowe s\\nmark for creatures a happenny under side left ear. Silas\\nCammet mark for his creatures a slit in ye Rite ear. Nicho-\\nlas French s mark for his creatures a cropp of the left ear swal-\\nlow tail ye right. Inspectors of deer were appointed to see\\nthat the game laws were enforced, which forbade the killing of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0deer at certain seasons. The tythingmen served as local police,\\nnot only maintaining the order and attention in meeting, but\\nthey arrested unlucky travellers making more than a Sabbath\\nday s journey, and saw that the guests in Colonel John Carr s\\nInn did not carry their carousing to excess. The remaining\\nofficers chosen did not differ in title or function from those\\nchosen at the present day, and therefore call for no mention.\\nAbout this time the following terse \\\\ote appears upon the", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "270 HISTORY OF NEW HA.Ml SHIRE. jSj\\nrecord, without gloss or comment Concerning Hoggs, we\\nwill stand by the old laws in that case provided.\\nIn all those days they were looking out for a minister,and various sums were\\nvoted for preaching. Rev. Tristram Gilman very acceptahly served them for\\nforty-one Snbbaths, Rev. Mr. Webster fifteen, and Rev. Jonathan Searle ten.\\nBesides, Rev. Messrs Hall, Joseph Currier and Thomas Lancaster preached\\neach a shorter time. Calls were extended to Messrs Gilman and Searle, but\\nnot accepted. Neither were the schools neglected, eighteen pounds being\\nappropriated to each quarter or district, and a writing and reading school\\nestablished the whole of the year. In January, 1766, the amount voted for\\npreaching and schools was more than doubled, and four hundred pounds old\\ntenor expended on the parsonage lot. September Sth, at a special meeting of\\nthe parish, they voted sixty pounds lawful money in labor, and five pounds\\nin cash, toward building a meeting-house, preaching having been maintained\\nmeanwhile in Deacon Palmer s Lintel, the house thus designated being sit-\\nuated a few rods east of the present parsonage, on the spot where the late N.\\nB. Hall resided. There was a triangular pediment over the front door from\\nwhich the name given to the vhole structure doubtless came. Whether this\\nis anything more than a local term my observation or reading does not inform\\nme.\\nIt was voted, that the meeting-house frame should be begun on the :;2nd of\\nthe month, and John Clay, Walter Robie, Esq., Benjamin Cass, Moses Ba-\\nker, Jonathan Bean, Nathaniel Emerson and Abraham Fitts, were chosen\\na committee to take the work in charge.\\nThe sixty pounds could be paid in labor at two shillings six pence per dav,\\nor in lumber at current rates, and the frame was to be completed by the last\\nof October. If any member of the parish failed to pay in lumber or labor the\\nconstable could collect it in money.\\nOctober 20th the selectmen were authorized to assess a sufficient sum to\\nfinish the frame, and codfish, potatoes and butter were provided for the rais-\\ning supper. The house was forty-five feet long by forty wide and was laid\\nout into pew lots which were sold to raise money to complete the building.\\nEighty-two years after, when this meeting-house was burned, a neighboring-\\nblacksmith, with whimsical thrift, sowed turnip seed in the ashes, to save, as\\nhe said, the interest on his money. Nearly all the materials required could\\nbe furnished home made, except the glass, and in order to provide for what\\nthe record calls the glassing, liberty was given to cut red oak timber on the\\nschool and parsonage lots, to be made into staves three feet eight inches long.\\nEighteen shillings per M was allowed for the staves until enough had been\\ncut to amount to sixty pounds lawful money. It took several years to finish\\nthe glazing, and in 1771 a committee was chosen to look after the glass rate,\\nand see that no more red oak staves were cut than was necessary. Possibly\\nthe incumbent. Rev. Mr. Jewett, made some objections, as the income of the\\nlot was part of his salary. The committee offered, if allowed to cut thestaves,\\nto build a fence around the lot.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "1765] KOVAL PROVINCE. 271\\nIn addition to the ordinary trials of a frontier life, tlie war of\\nthe Revolution approached. In 1770 they had called and\\nsettled the Rev. David Jewett, engaging to pay him eventually\\nsixty-five pounds a year, with the income of the parsonage, to\\nbuild him a house and barn, and dig a well, thus increasing the\\nburdens of the day. In 1796 a steeple and porch were added\\nto the meeting-house, and in 1802 a bell and weather-cock.\\nMajor Samuel Moore seems to have been the contractor for\\nfinishing the steeple, as it is said that he employed a Newbury-\\nport copper-smith to make the weather-cock, and soon after,\\nfailing in business, did not pay him. The town had paid Mr.\\nMoore all that was his due, but on a representation that the\\ncopper-smith was a poor man, voted to allow his claim. One of\\nthe townsmen, antedating Wall Street by a century, hurried down\\nto Newbur)-, bought the claim at half price, paying in sugar\\nwhich he had got in trade, probably for barrels, and came back\\nto the selectmen to realize by some means the transaction\\nbecame known to the town fathers, and they sent down the full\\namount to the artisan. Let us be thankful that thus this bird was\\nan honest rooster, and served the parish well for thirty-six years,\\nwhen, at the burning of the house, he took his final flight, and\\nwas resolved into his native copper, ceasing forever to breast\\nthe storm, or guide the winds. The oaken frame of the house\\nwas very massive, but, heavy as it was, the famous gale of Sep-\\ntember, 1815, started the roof, which was seen to lift as if\\nmeditating a flight, but finally thought better of it, and settled\\nback to its old position.\\nThe house stood on the hill, or central plateau, fronting the\\nsouth, and not far from the geographical centre of the parisli it\\nwas at least beautiful for situation.\\n^In June, 1735, the Massachusetts General Court granted to\\nSamuel King and others, in consideration of their sufferings\\nin the expedition to Canada in the year 1690, the township of\\nLyndeborough, and about one third of Wilton on the north\\nside, under the name of Salem Canada. In this part of Wilton,\\nin June, 1739, was the first settlement made. The first settlers\\nJ. B. Conner.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "2/2 HISTOKV Ol NEW HAM I SHIKE. 7^5\\nwere Ephraim ami Jacob ruliuini, and John Dale, who removed\\nto this place from Danvers, Mass. In 1749 the Masonian pro-\\nprietors made a grant of the rest of the town under certain\\nconditions, to forty-six persons. The grantees had it laid out,\\nand annexed to a part of Salem Canada, and called No. 2. It\\nwas incorporated June 25, 1762, under the name of Wilton, a\\nname probably derived from an ancient borough in Wiltshire,\\nEngland and the first town meeting was held July 27, 1762,\\ntwenty-three years after the first settlement. Before the\\nRevolution, a range of lots, half a mile wide, was set off to Tem-\\nple, and thus the town finally assumed its present size and\\nshape. Improvements of all kinds were slow and gradual.\\nThe first settlers went to Dunstable to mill and when Shep-\\npard s mill in Milford, seven miles distant, was built, it was so\\ngreat a convenience that it was hardly thought less of than a\\nmodern railroad. The first grist mill in Wilton was built bv\\nDeacon Samuel Greeley of Nottingham West. The first saw\\nmill was near Philip Putnam s, on the North Stream (Stony\\nBrook). The second grist and saw mill was Hutchinson s, at\\nthe east village. These were all the grist mills erected before\\nthe Revolution. The roads were at first little more than foot-\\npaths marked by spotted trees. For a long time there were\\napprehensions of danger from the Indians Wilton seems never\\nto have been a fixed residence for them, but merely a hunting-\\nground. The\\\\% however, lived along the Merrimack, and in\\ntime of hostility, or when hostility was feared, the first settlers\\nwent into garrison. This continued about ten years. One\\ngarrison was in Milford, the other in Lyndeborough, near\\nwhere Ephraim Putnam settled. The ecclesiastical history of\\nour New England towns has always been of great interest and\\nimportance, and it must be gratifying to all whose native\\nplace is Wilton, that the means for religious improvement have\\never been carefully provided by its inhabitants.\\nWhen the town was first laid out, one share of two hundred\\nacres was set apart for the first minister, and another for the\\nsupport of the ministry. There had been occasional preaching\\nhere most of the time and from the records it appears that at", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "1765] ROVAL PKOVrNCE. 273\\nleast two persons had been invited to settle but the first\\nminister actually installed was Mr. Jonathan Livermorc, who\\nwas ordained December 14, 1763; on the same day a church\\nwas formed, consisting of eight male members. Mr. Livermore\\nwas minister thirteen years and resigned. It may be men-\\ntioned as an interesting fact, that there were only two families\\nin town during his ministry whose children were not baptized.\\nThe first meeting-house was built in 1752. It was used twenty-\\none years and then taken down.\\nThe second one was built during the ministry of Mr. Livermore. They\\ncommenced raising it in September, 1773. Sucli things were conducted difler-\\nently then from what they are now, and were considered a work of two days.\\nPeople came from distant towns to see the spectacle, and great preparations\\nwere made. A committee of the town appointed the raisers, and ample pro-\\nvisions were made to entertain stiangers. The morning dawned amid all\\nthe glories of that beautiful season, and people from all parts came in great\\nnumbers. Some came on foot, and some practised the method, unknown to\\nmodern days, of riding and tying; others were on horseback with their\\nwives or sisters behind on a pillion. It was an occasion of universal expecta-\\ntion. The timbers were all prepared, the workmen ready, and the master-\\nworkman, full of the dignity of his office, issuing his orders to his aids. All\\nwent on prosperously. The good cheer, the excitement of the work, the crowd\\nof spectators, men looking on, women telling the news, boys plaving their\\nvarious games, all made it a scene of general rejoicing. The sides of the\\nhouse were already up, and also a part of the roof at the east end of the build-\\ning. One of the raisers from Lyndeborough, Captain Bradford, had brought\\nover his wife, whom he left on account of illness at the house of Mr. Baldwin,\\nwhile he went on to take part in the work. Having to pass along the centre\\nof the building, he observed that the middle beam, extending across the centre\\nof the church, was not properly supported. A post was under the centre, but\\nit was worm-eaten and was already beginning to yield and give way under the\\npressure. In raising the middle part of the roof, the weight of the workmen\\nwould come on this beam, which was evidentlv not strong enough to bear up\\nthe timbersand men. He immediately ascended to the roof and informed the\\nmaster-workman, who, being made over-confident by the success thus far, re-\\nplied that if he was afraid he could go home, that they wanted no cowards\\nthere. Indignant at the reply, Captain Bradford went down and started off for\\nhis wife, with the intention of returning home. Before reaching Mr. Baldwin s\\nhe looked back, and saw the men swarming upon the unsupported beam.\\nThey were raising up with much exertion and shouts of direction and encour-\\nagement the beams and rafters, when suddenly he saw the frame already\\nerected tremble, the men shrink back aghast; the building seemed to rock for\\na moment to and fro, then all, timbers and tools and men, rushed down to-\\ngether in one mingled mass. The crash was so loud as to be heard nearly a", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "274 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 765\\nmile. For a moment all was silent, then the air was filled with groans,\\nand outcries, and shrieks of terror. Of the fifty-three men who fell with the\\nframe, three were instantly killed, two died shortly afterward, and mo.^-t of\\nthe others were more or less mangled and wounded. To understand the im-\\npression that the event made at the time, it must be remembered that the\\nwhole population of the town was less than five hundred. At a fast which\\nwas kept, Mr. Livermore preached from the text, which then must have been\\npeculiarly impressive Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain\\nthat build it. After many mishaps the church was finally completed near\\nthe end of the year 1774, and dedicated the next January, when Mr. Livermore\\npreached a sermon from tlie text But who am I and what is my people,\\nthat we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort. In July. 1S04,\\nthe house was struck with lightning, and the middle part at the end rent from\\ntop to bottom.\\nIn former days, before people had become so delicate and\\nluxurious as now, there was no fire in the church in winter.\\nThe older men chose to have it understood that their zeal kept\\nthem warm while the young men, fearing perhaps lest their\\nreputation for hardihood might suffer in the eyes of the gentler\\nsex, would not confess that they were to be made to feel cold\\nby any weather. But it has been intimated that there were\\nlads who, when the thermometer was at zero, by the middle of\\nthe afternoon sermon, were ready, after some misgivings, to\\ngive up their reputation for zeal and pride of sex, for the\\nchance of holding their fingers for a few moments over their\\nmother s foot-stove.\\nMany of the town papers relating to the affairs of Wilton\\nduring the war of the Revolution have been lost. An examin-\\nation of those remaining prove, that nearly every able-bodied\\nman belonging in the town was out in the war, and either did\\nservice personally, or hired another to fill his place for a longer\\nor shorter period. Wilton was represented in the battle of\\nBunker Hill, and a large number of her men were in the army\\nat Cambridge. It is known that at least eight, and probably\\nmore, were in the battle of Bennington, one of whom,\\nEbenezer Perry, was killed.\\nNew Ipswich, Wilton, and Dresham were incorporated in\\n1762. The former town was granted by Massachusetts and\\nsettled, before 1749, by Reuben Kidder, Archibald White,", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "17^5] KOV.M. I KtJVI.NCt;. 275\\nJoseph and Ebenezer liallard, Joseph Stevens, and others. It\\nwas regranted in 1750 by the Masonian proprietors. The fir.st\\nminister was Rev. Stephen Farrar, who died in 1809. He was\\nsucceeded, in 1812, by Rev. Richard Hale.\\nLisbon was first granted in the year 1763, under the name\\nof Concord, which name it retained for the succeeding five years.\\nThe grantees not complying with the conditions of the charter,\\nthe same became forfeited, as was supposed, and in 1768 it was\\nregranted to an entirely new company of proprietors, under the\\nname of Gunthwaite. Through the influence of Captain Leon-\\nard Whiting, who was instrumental in procuring the second\\ncharter, and Major John Young, of Haverhill, Mass., some set-\\ntlements were made. Matters, however, progressed slowly, and\\nfor several years there were but few additions. The war of\\nthe Revolution came to a close, and a new impetus was given\\nto emigration.\\nIn the year 1785 there were comfortably ensconced in log\\ncabins forty families, besides a respectable contingent of bachel-\\nors. After the first influx subsequent to the war, emigration in\\nsome degree abated yet each year witnessed a sure and steady\\nincrease, and evidently the morning of prosperity began to\\ndawn upon the new colony. The genuine prosperity which had\\nrewarded the efforts of the Gunthwaite proprietors was coveted\\nby the original grantees. They came forward, laid claim to the\\ntownship, and, as is surmised, made some kind of a compromise\\nwith certain influential citizens. The controversy thus raised\\nwas followed by litigation, which culminated in the restoration\\nof the Concord charter. Hence, as by a single stroke of the\\npen, the Gunthwaite titles were extinguished, and the poor set-\\ntier, who with his wife and children during these years had\\nshared all the privations of pioneer life and had begun to enjoy\\nsome of the comforts so dearly earned, was at once deprived of\\nhis home, with nothing left but his pittance of personal property.\\nA part of the settlers abandoned their claims and went to\\nCanada and places further north others endeavored to sell\\ntheir improvements, but no one was willing to purchase, so\\n1 Sanuicl Emcrv.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "2/6 IIISTUKV OF NEW HAMPSHIKE. [1765\\nprevalent was a feeling of distrust and uncertainty. Every one\\nknew that the first charter had actually been forfeited, and that\\npoints had been carried by the dint of bulldozing and fraud\\nand yet there was no redress, inasmuch as the courts had decided\\nagainst them. By far the greater number of citizens remained\\nupon their farms and awaited the issue and when the claims\\nof the Concord proprietors were fully established and acknowl-\\nedged, finding they must yield to the inevitable, they pur-\\nchased their farms over again. At length the excitement and\\ndisturbance subsided, and by an Act of the Legislature the name\\nof Concord was resumed, and retained until 1824, when it was\\nchanged to Lisbon.\\nThe first settlers of tlie town were Samuel Martin, Ebenezer Richardson,\\nWilliam Belknap, and Samuel Sherman; then followed the Youngs, the most\\ninfluential family through a considerable period afterwards came these, being\\nthe surnames, Dexter, Darley, Judd, Parker, Aldrich, Jesseman, Bishop,\\nHarris. Howland. Northey, Hildreth, Jewett, Colby, Q^iimby, Streeter.\\nSpooner, Oakes, Priest, Noyes, Jameson, Taylor, Haines, Applebee, Morse.\\nBailev. Ash, Whitcomb. Smith, Page, Wells, Knapp, Kinneston, Burt, Ka\\\\\\nEmery, Cushman, Moris, Kelsea, Gurnsey, Mclntire, Cooley, Whiting, Bar-\\nrett, Clark, Walker, Palmer, Robins, Cole, Eastman, Whipple, Cobleigh,\\nKimball, Savage, Gould, and Ela. besides individuals and other families.\\nperhaps equally earl3 but not so numerous.\\nGilsum originally included the larger part of both .Sullivan\\nand Surry, and was first granted in 1752, under the name of\\nBoyle. It was regranted in 1763, and received its present\\nunique name from a combination of the names of two of its lead-\\ning proprietors, Colonel Samuel Gilbert and his son-in-law. Rev.\\nClement Sumner. Its earliest settlers were from Connecticut,\\nlargely from Hebron, Bolton, and Glastonbury. The promi-\\nnent family names of the first few years were Kilburn, Dewey,\\nWilcox, Adams, Pease, Hurd, Bliss, and Bill, of which only\\nHurd and 15111 now remain.\\nGilsum had no Tories in the Revolution, and has always fur-\\nnished her full quota of men when called to defend the liberties\\nof the people or the nation s honor. Twenty names are credited\\nto Gilsum on the Revolutionary rolls of the State, while the\\nSyivanus Hayward.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "ijC Sl Kov.\\\\r. PROVINCE. 277\\nwhole number of men between sixteen and fifty, in 1777, was\\nonly thirty-nine. Seven Gilsiim men served in the war of 18 12,\\nand seven more volunteered, but were not called for. In the\\nwar of the Rebellion, Gilsum furnished seventy-one men,\\ntwenty-nine of whom were lier own citizens.\\nA Congregational church was organized here in 1772, but no\\nminister was secured till 1794, when Rev. Elisha Fish was set-\\ntled by the tozvn, and remained till his death in 1807. Opposi-\\ntion to the old system of supporting preaching by public taxa-\\ntion was very early developed, and after Mr. Fish s death no\\nminister was settled by the town. The only church in Gilsum\\nat the present time is the original one above mentioned, now\\npassing its one hundred and ninth year, with about forty resi-\\ndent members. A Methodist church, of considerable numbers\\nand activity, flourished here for some years, but is now dis-\\nbanded. A Christian church was established here about sixty\\nyears since, and numbered many converts, now mostly dispersed\\nto other churches. A feeble Baptist church was removed here\\nfrom Sullivan, but survived only a few years. A branch of the\\nMormon church was organized in town in 1S41, numbering\\nnearly fifty resident members. Some perished on their way to\\nUtah, and some are now residents of that Territory.\\nA grist mill and saw-mill was built in 1776. In 1813 Luther\\nWhitney built a clothing mill on the brook near his father s\\nhouse. Seven years later he removed to the village. In 1832\\nthe manufacture of cloth was first undertaken by David Brig-\\nham and H. G. Howe. Since then woollen manufactures in va-\\nrious forms have been the most important industry of the place.\\nThough Gilsum has sent out almost no men of national reputa-\\ntion, yet many useful men, and men of considerable local dis-\\ntinction, are identified with Gilsum history.\\nLancaster was incorporated on the 5th of July, 1763, and\\nowes its early settlement, like many other events in the world,\\nto passion. David Page, Esq., grand uncle of Governor Page,\\ndissatisfied with the division of the rights in Haverhill, and\\nhaving been advised of the extent and fertility of our\\nJoliu W. Weeks.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "278 IllSTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. /^S\\nmeadows by some of the survivors of that party of Rogers\\nRangers, who, after the destruction of the village of St. Fran-\\ncois, reached and passed down the waters of the Connecticut,\\nbeing a man of great resolution, resolved to penetrate at once\\nto the Upper Coos. With this view, in the autumn of 1763, he\\nsent his son, David Page, Jr., and Emmons Stockwell, to build\\na camp, and winter in Lancaster. In the year 1764, David\\nPage, Esq. called by the settlers Governor Page), with his large\\nfamily, moved to I^ancaster, followed by several young men,\\neager to improve, or rather make, their fortune. The best\\ntracts of land were immediately occupied, and were so pro-\\nductive that for many years manure was considered unnecessary,\\nand was actually thrown over banks and into hollows, where it\\nwould be most out of the way. At this period there was no\\nsettlement between Haverhill and Lancaster, and but few north\\nof Number Four, now Charlestown. There being no roads, the\\nsettlers suffered inconceivable hardships in transporting their\\nnecessaries, few as they were, being obliged to navigate their\\nlog canoes up and down the fifteen mile falls, now known to\\nbe twenty miles in length, with a descent of more than three\\nhundred feet and in winter to pass the same dangerous rapids\\nin sleighs and with ox-teams, frequently falling through the ice,\\nand sometimes never rising above it. High water to descend,\\nand low water to ascend, were thought the most favorable\\ntimes.\\nThe first town meeting was held on the i ith of March, 1769.\\nThe first mill was operated by horse power, but so illy con-\\nstructed, that it was little better than the large mortar and\\npestle attached to a pole, which was used by many. A water\\nmill was erected, and soon after burnt; another and another\\nmet the same fate. These disasters, with the Revolutionary war,\\nreduced the settlers to extreme distress. Newcomb Blodgett\\nand some others being captured by the Indians and carried to\\nCanada, led to the determination of abandoning the country\\nand for this purpose the settlers collected at the house of\\nEmmons Stockwell. whose resolution never forsook him, even\\nfor a moment. Mv family, said he, and I shan t go. This", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "WARREN, N H.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "IjC Sl ROVAI. l KO\\\\IN-CE. 279\\nremark changed the oi)inion of several families, who remained,\\nyet with but very few accessions to the end of the great and\\nglorious struggle.\\nOn the 7th of January, 1776, Joseph Whipple was chosen to\\nrepresent the towns of Lancaster, Northumberland, Dartmouth\\nnow Jefferson Apthorp (merged in other towns and Strat-\\nford. V^oted to give their representatives instructions from\\ntime to time. At a subsequent meeting, Joseph Whipple was\\nagain elected to the same office, a vote of thanks passed for\\nhis past services, and a committee of five was chosen to give\\nhim instructions for the future. Thus was the right of instruc-\\ntion established to govern the first representative. Near and\\nsoon after the close of the war, several families, who had lost\\nmuch of tlieir property during the conflict, migrated to Lan-\\ncaster. Major Jonas Wilder, with a large and highly respectable\\nfamily, was of the number. He built a grist and sawmill.\\nIn May, 1787, Captain John Weeks, for a like reason, came to this\\ntown. At the March meeting in 1789, twenty votes were cast\\nfor State officers and even this small number were divided by\\nimportant political considerations; twelve friends to popular\\nrights however prevailed.\\nIn the year 1763 charters were granted with a lavish hand.\\nPoplin, or Fremont, Alstead, Candia, New Boston, Warren,\\nHaverhill, Woodstock, Lancaster, Gilsum, Plymouth, Cornish,\\nand Croydon were incorporated.\\nClaremont, Weare, Benton, Lincoln, Franconia, Piermont,\\nLyndeborough, Raymond, Newington and Unity were incorjior-\\nated in 1764.\\nClaremont was chartered by (ieorge HI., October 26, 1764.\\nJosiah Willard, Samuel Ashley and si.xty-eight others were the\\ngrantees. It recei\\\\ ed its name from the country-seat of Lord\\nClive, an English general. The first settlement was made in\\n1762 by Moses Spafford and David Lynde. In 1763 and 1766\\nseveral other inhabitants arrived. In 1767 a considerable num-\\nber of proprietors and others from the towns of Farmington,\\nHebron and Colchester, in Connecticut, made settlements in\\ndifferent parts of the town. The first native of Claremont was", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "280 HISTORY OF NKW HA.Ml in KE. 7*^5\\nl ;iijah, son ot Moses Spafford, who was born in 1763. Aniong^\\nthe early inhabitants to whose enterprise the town was essen-\\ntially indebted for its prosperity, may be mentioned Samuel\\nCole, Esq., who graduated at Yale College in 1731, and was\\nfor many years very useful as an instructor of youth. He died\\nat an advanced age. Dr. William Sumner, a native of Boston,\\nwho came to this place in 1768 from Hebron, Connecticut, was\\na resident several years in Claremont, where he died in March\\n1778. Colonel Benjamin Sumner, who was many years a civil\\nmagistrate, died in May, 181 5, aged seventy-eight. Colonel Jo-\\nseph Waite, who was engaged in the French and Indian war, was\\ncaptain of one of Rogers companies of Rangers, and com-\\nmanded a regiment in the Revolutionary war, died in October,\\n1776. Captain Joseph Taylor, who was engaged in the Cape\\nBreton, the French, and the Revolutionary wars, who was, with\\none Farwell, taken prisoner by the Indians in the summer of\\n1755, carried to Canad.a and soUl to the French, returned to\\nClaremont, and died in March, 1813, at the age of eighty-four.\\nHon. Samuel Ashle\\\\ moved to this town in 1782. He was in\\nthe wars of 1745 and 1755. He sustained several civil offices,\\nand was judge of the Court of Common Pleas. He died i n\\nFebruary, 1 792.\\nAt the outbreak of the Revolution the town was tlivided\\nbetween the Whigs and Tories, the Loyalists being in a min-\\nority. No overt acts on their part having been undertaken,\\nthey lived at peace with their neighbors throughout the war,\\nalthough under the watch of a self-appointed Committee of\\nSafety from among the citizens of Claremont and adjoining\\ntowns.\\nThe early inhabitants were about equally divided in their\\nattachment to Episcopacy and Congregational principles. The\\nchurches of these denominations may be considered as coeval.\\nAt a town meeting held at the house of Thomas Jones, May 9,\\n1 77 1, it was decided to settle in town a minister of the Gospel.\\nA committee of three was chosen and instructed to apply to\\nMr. Elijah Parsons to come and preach as a candidate; but if\\nhe fails, to apply to Dr. Wheelock (president of Dartmouth", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "1765] KOVAI. PKO\\\\ lNCi:. 281\\nCollege) for advice who to apply to in his room. The first\\nminister settled by the Congregational society was Rev. George\\nWheaton, who was ordained Feb. 19, 1772.\\nThe first minister of the Episcopal society was Rev. Ranna\\nCossit, who sailed for England for holy orders in December,\\n1772. He was ordained by the Bishop of London, but was\\nsucceeded in 1775 by Rev. Daniel Barber, who continued in the\\nministry there until 1818.\\nThe first services were held in the South School-house, the\\nmeeting-house of that day, which stood on Jarvis hill, in the\\nwest part of the town. It was a frame building covered with\\nrough boards, furnished with rude benches for seats, and having\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2only the ground for a floor. The first meeting-house was built\\nin 1 79 1, on the road from Claremont village to the Junction,\\nnear the Draper place. It was subsequently enlarged and was\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2occupied by the society until 1836, soon after which it was\\nmoved to the village it is now a part of the town-house.\\nRaymond, Conway, Concord, Centre Harbor, Dunbarton,\\nHopkinton, Stark, Lee, and Deerfield were incorporated in\\n1765.\\nAcworth, Bridgewater, Burton, Eaton, Albany, and Farns-\\nworth were incorporated in i 766.\\nThe town of Wentworth was chartered by Gov. Benning\\nWent worth in 1766. There were originally sixty grantees or\\nproprietors, mostly residing in the towns of Kingston, East\\nKingston, Hawke (now Danville), and South Hampton, which\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2originally included what is now Seabrook, and Salisbury, Mass.\\nThe charter is in the usual form of the charters of those days.\\nIn the name of George the Third, by the Grace of God, of\\nGreat Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith,\\netc. A tract of land six miles square was granted, containing\\n23,040 acres, out of which an allowance is to be made for high-\\nways and unimprovable lands, by rocks, ponds, mountains, and\\nrivers, 1,040 acres. The land was to be divided into sixty-six\\nequal shares, and was bounded on the north by Warren, east by\\nRumney, south by Dorchester, and west by Orford and to be\\nI Hon. J. E. Sargent.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "282 HISTORY OK NKW II A M J SIl IKE. 7^5\\nknown as the town of Wentworth and its inhabitants were de-\\nclared to be enfranchised with and entitled to all the privi-\\nleges and immunities which other towns exercise and enjoy.\\nWhen the town should consist of fifty families resident therein,\\nthey were to have the liberty of holding two fains therein annu-\\nally, and that a market may be opened and kept open one or\\nmore days in each week. Provision is made for the calling of\\nthe first meeting of the proprietors, and the annual meetings\\nthereafter. To have and to hold said granted premises upon\\nthe following conditions Every grantee shall plant and culti-\\nvate five acres of land within five years, for every fifty acres\\ncontained in his or their shares or proportions, in said township,\\non penalty of forfeiture, etc. All white pine trees in said town-\\nship, fit for masting our Royal Navy, to be preserved and\\nnot to be cut without permission upon the division of the lands,\\na tract of land as near the centre of the town as may be, to be\\nmarked off as town lots of the contents of one acre, one of\\nwhich lots shall be assigned to each proprietor. The rent to\\nbe paid for the same is one ear of English corn per annum\\nand in 1777, on the 2Sth day of December, one shilling procla-\\nmation money for every hundred acres of land owned by him,\\nwas to be paid by every proprietor and owner to the King, and\\nin the same ratio for a larger or smaller tract, which was to be\\nin full of all future rents and services.\\nDated November i, 1766.\\nThere was a reservation of five hundred acres in the north-\\nwest corner of the plan of tJie town, marked B. W. and\\nknown as the Governor s reservation.\\nThis charter was granted to John Paige, Esq., and fiftv-nine\\nothers. There were five sons of said John Paige, Esq., who\\nwere, with him, grantees and proprietors of the town, namely,\\nSamuel, Moses, John, Ephraim, and Enoch. They all lived in\\nSalisbury, Mass., and so far as we know only two of them ever\\ncame to Wentworth. The two younger sons, Ephraim and\\nEnoch, afterwards settled in Wentworth and died there. Proba-\\nbly but few of those original proprietors ever saw any part of\\nthe township thus granted to them. We cannot learn that any", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "1765] K()\\\\.\\\\I, KOVINCE. 283\\nOthers of the whole sixty original proprietors ever settled ia\\nWentworth, except Ephraim and Enoch Paige.\\nJohn Paige, Esq., the first grantee, was the son of one Onesi-\\nphorus Paige of Salisbury, Mass., and was born February 21,\\n1696. He married Mary Winsley, of said Salisbury, April 16,\\n1 720. They had five sons and several daughters, none of whom,\\nso far as we know, ever came to Wentworth, except the two\\nyoungest sons as before nientionetl. But they were not among\\nthe first settlers of the town.\\nDuring the year 1770 the first settlement was made in town by\\nDavid Maxfield, Abel Davis, and Ephraim Lund, and in the\\norder above named, though all in the same season. David Max-\\nwell settled on the White farm, as it was formerly called, on the\\nintervale since occupied by Richard Pillsbury and Colonel Joseph\\nSavage. He lived in town about two years. Abel Davis cleared\\na small piece of land and built a log house on the Jonathan\\nEames place, so-called, and since occupied by Daniel Eames,.\\nand now by Amos Rollins. This house was west of the pres-\\nent buildings toward the river. He remained in town but a short\\ntime, removing to Vermont. His daughter, Mary Davis, after-\\nward came into town and livetl with Enoch Paige s family, and\\nbecame the second wife of Ebenezer Gove, one of the early\\nsettlers, about 1780. Ephraim Lund erected a log house on the\\neast side of the river, near where the red school-house now stands\\nin District No. i. He resided in town for five or six years, and\\nthen removed to Warren, where he afterward lived and died at\\nan advanced age.\\nEphraim Paige, son of John Paige, Esq., and Mary Paige, of\\nSalisbury, Mass., was born at said Salisbury, March 16, 1731.\\nHe married Hannah Currier there, and had ten children born\\nin Salisbury, and then in the summer of 1773 he moved his\\nfamily to Wentworth, where he had three more children, mak-\\ning thirteen in all ten daughters and three sons. John Paige,\\nthe eldest son, was born at Salisbury in 1769. Samuel, the sec-\\nond son, was born in Wentworth in October, 1773, and is said\\nto have been the first male child born in the town of Went-\\nworth. His third son. Currier Paige, was born in Wentworth,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "2S4 IIISTOKV Ol N l.W ilAMr SIIIKK. [l/SS\\nMarch 29, 1781, and was the youngest of the family. Epliraim\\nfirst settled in a log house on the lower end of the intervale,\\nsuice owned by James K. Paige, and afterward occupied as a\\ntown farm, near the brook. The road that then passed up the\\nwest side of the river went east of the village, round the hill\\nand back of it, to the intervale above.\\nSalisbury was incorporated in 1767.\\n1 In the political canvass in our State which closed with the\\nMarch election, 1858, it was publicly stated by some of the\\nspeakers that Judge Webster, the father of Hon. Daniel Web-\\nster, could neither read nor write. There is sufficient evidence\\nin Franklin and Salisbury to satisfy the most sceptical that he\\ncould not only read and write, spell and cipher, but he knew\\nhow to lend the means to found a State. Daniel Webster, in\\nhis autobiography, gives a brief but too modest outline of the\\nlife of his father. His acts and works gave him deserved in-\\nfluence and fame in the region of his home.\\nEbenezer Webster was born in Kingston, in 1739. He\\nresided many years with Major Ebenezer Stevens, an influential\\ncitizen of that town, and one of the .first proprietors of Salisbury.\\nSalisbury was granted in 1749, and first named Stevenstown, in\\nhonor of Major Stevens. It was incorporated as Salisbury, 1767.\\nJudge Webster settled in Stevenstown as early as 1761.- Pre-\\nvious to this time he had served as a soldier in the French war,\\nand once afterwards. He was married to Mehitable Smith, his\\nfirst wife, in 1761. His first two children died while young.\\nHis third child was Susannah, who married John Colby, and\\nrecently died in P ranklin. He had also, by his first wife, two\\nsons David, v/ho died some years since at Stanstead and\\nJoseph, who died in Salisbury. His first wife died in 1774.\\nJudge Webster again married Abigail Eastman, in 1774. By\\nhis last wife he had five children, viz.: Mehitable, Abigail (who\\nmarried Wm. Hadduck); Ezekiel, born March 11, 1780; Dan-\\niel, born January 18, 1782, and Sarah, born in May, 1784, and,\\nHon. George W. Nesmith.\\nWhen Judge Webster first settled in Stevenstown, he was called Ebenezer Webster, Jr. In\\n1694, Kingston was granted to James Prescott and Ebenezer Webster and others, of Hampton.\\nHe descended from this ancestry.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "1765] ROVAI, PRO\\\\ INCE. 285\\nwith his last wife and many of his children, now lies buried in\\nthe graveyard originally taken from the Elms farm. For the\\nfirst seven years of his life, after he settled on the farm now\\noccupied by John Taylor, in Franklin, he lived in a log cabin,\\nlocated in the orchard west of the highway, and near Punch\\nBrook. Then he was able to erect a house of one story, of\\nabout the same figure and size as that now occupied by William\\nCross, near said premises. It was in this house that Daniel\\nWebster was born. In 1784 Judge Webster removed to the\\ntavern house, near his intervale farm, and occupied that until\\n1800, when he exchanged his tavern house with William Had-\\nduck for that where he died.\\nIn 1 761 Captain John Webster, Eliphalet Gale, and Judge\\nWebster erected the first saw-mill in Stevenstown, on Punch\\nBrook, on his homestead near his cabin.\\nIn June, 1764, Matthew Pettengill, Stephen Call, and Eben-\\nezer Webster were the sole highway surveyors of Stevenstown.\\nIn 1765 the proprietors voted to give Ebenezer Webster and\\nBenjamin Sanborn two hundred acres of common land, in con-\\nsideration that they furnish a privilege for a grist mill, erect a\\nmill and keep it in repair for fifteen years, for the purpose of\\ngrinding the town s corn.\\nIn 1768 Judge Webster was first chosen moderator of a town-\\nmeeting in Salisbury, and he was elected forty-three times after-\\nwards, at different town meetings in Salisbury, serving in March,\\n1803, for the last time.\\nIn 1769 he was first elected selectman, and held that office\\nfor the years 1771, 7-. 74. 76, 80, 85, 86 and 1788 resigned\\nit, however, in September, 1776, and performed a six months\\nservice in the army.\\nIn 1771, 1772, and 1773, he was elected and served in the\\nofi[ice of town clerk. In 1778 and 80, he was elected represen-\\ntative of the classed towns of Salisbury and Boscawen also,\\nfor Salisbury, 1790 and 91. He was elected senator for the\\nyears 1785, 86, 88, and 90; Hillsborough county electing two\\nsenators at this time, and Matthew Thornton and Robert Wal-\\nlace of Henniker served as colleagues, each for two of said", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "286 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1/65\\nyears. He was in the senate in 1786, at Exeter, when the\\ninsurgents surrounded the house. His proclamation then was,\\nI command you to disperse.\\nIn March, 1778, the town chose Captain Ebenezer Webster\\nand Captain Matthew Pettengill as delegates to a convention to be\\nheld at Concord, Wednesday, June 10, for the sole purpose of\\nforming a permanent plan of government for the future well\\nbeing of the good people of this State.\\nIn 1788, January 16, Colonel Webster was elected delegate to\\nthe convention at Exeter, for the purpose of considering the\\nproposed United States Constitution. A committee was also\\nchosen by the town to examine said constitution and advise\\nwith said delegate. This committee was composed of Joseph\\nBean, Esq., Jonathan Fifield, Esq., Jonathan Cram, Capt.\\nWilder, Dea. John Collins, Edward Eastman, John C. Gale,\\nCapt. Robert Smith, Leonard Judkins, Dea. Jacob True, Lieut.\\nBean, Lieut. Severance, and John Smith. At the first meeting\\nof the convention in February, Colonel Wfebster opposed the\\nconstitution under instructions from his town.\\nA majority of the convention was found to be opposed to the\\nadoption of the constitution. The convention adjourned to\\nConcord, to meet in the succeeding month of June. In the mean-\\ntime Colonel Webster conferred with his constituents, advised\\nwith the committee on the subject, asked the privilege of sup-\\nporting the constitution, and he was instructed to vote as he\\nmight think proper. His speech, made on this occasion, has\\nbeen printed. It did great credit to the head and heart of the\\nauthor\\nMr. President: I have listened to the arguments for and\\nagainst the constitution. I am convinced such a government as\\nthat constitution will establish, if adopted, a government acting\\ndirectly on the people of the States, is necessary for the com-\\nmon defence and the general welfare. It is the only govern-\\nment which will enable us to pay off the national debt, the\\ndebt which we owe for the Revolution, and which we are bound\\nin honor fully and fairly to discharge. Beside, I have followed\\nthe lead of Washington through seven years of war, and I have", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "1767] KOYAL TKOVINCE. 287\\nnever been misled. His name is subscribed to this constitution,\\nlie will not mislead us now. I shall vote for its adoption.\\nThe constitution was finally adopted in the convention by a\\nvote of 57 yeas, 47 nays.\\nColonel Webster gave his support to the constitution. He\\nwas one of the electors for President when Washington was\\nfirst chosen to that office.\\nIn the spring of 1791, Colonel Webster was appointed judge\\nfor the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Hillsborough.\\nThis office he held at the time of his death in April, 1806.\\nHe was one of the magistrates, or justice of the peace, for Hills-\\nborough county for more than thirty-five years prior to his\\ndecease.\\nAtkinson, Chatham, Campton, and Rumney were incorpo-\\nrated in 1767; Seabrook, Meredith, Lisbon, Henniker, Sand-\\nwich, Rindge, and Mason were incorporated in 1768.\\nBrookline, Surry, and Temple were incorporated in 1769;\\nSanbornton and Wolfeborough were incorporated in 1770.\\nMilan was granted in December, 1771, as Paulsborough, in\\nhonor of Paul Wentworth.\\nBerlin was granted in December, 1771, as Maynesborough, in\\nhonor of Sir William Mayne of Barbadoes.\\nThe town of Hillsborough was incorporated in November,\\n1772, there being at that time twenty-two men who were free-\\nholders.\\nIn 1 741, contemporary with the running of the boundary\\nline which separated the province of New Hampshire from\\nthat of Massachusetts, a company was formed in Boston, who\\ntravelled thence through the forests to Hillsborough, and\\npitched their tents in its wilderness. This territory had been\\nformerly granted to Colonel John Hill. The little settlement was\\ncalled Hillborough in honor of Colonel Hill; the leading men were\\nSamuel Gibson, James Lyon, Robert McClure, and James Mc-\\nCoUey, the two latter being natives of the north of Ireland.\\nThere was in the little colony a commingling of Puritanism and\\nPresbyterianism, concentrating in a strong religious feeling.\\n1 Fmnk H. Tierce.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "288\\nHl:?TOKV OF NEW IlAMrSIIIKE.\\n[1772\\nIn proof of this sentiment, among the earliest labors of the\\nsettlers was the erection of a meeting house and a parsonage.\\nLand was assigned for a grave-yard, in which several members\\nof the colony were buried. There remains to-day no vestige of\\nthis solitary cemetery. The wife of McColley was the only\\nfemale in the settlement, and remained exiled from her sister-\\nhood for more than a year. Her husband built the first\\ndwelling a log hut -near the Bridge, where the first child\\nborn in the settlement saw the light.\\nLieut. John McColley subsequently entered the Royal service\\nand fought against the French and Indians. Afterwards he\\nwas in the war of the Revolution, in the militia corps which\\nNew Hampshire sent against Gen. Burgoyne. Hewasaman\\nof exemplary character, and died in 1834, at the age of 92.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "1772] KOVAL PKOVINXE. J89\\nSome five months after the birtli nf l.icut. McColley s child a\\ndaughter was born to Samuel Gibson, who was named\\nI^llizabeth.\\nIn 1744 the Cape Breton war broke out between the English\\nand French and Northwestern Indians. This war carried\\ndeath and destruction wherever it was prosecuted. The Indian\\nraids upon many of the early settlements, and the slaughter and\\ndestruction of the dwellers therein, are matters of tragic his-\\ntory, in which Hillborough shared.\\nIn 1746 the menaces of the Indians were so threatening that\\nthe feeble colony of seven or eight families in Hillsborough, on\\nhasty consultation, agreed to abandon their homes and seek\\nsafety in Massachusetts. They hid away their agricultural im-\\nplements, loaded their cattle with what household property and\\nprovisions they could carry, buried the remainder of their port-\\nable property, and set forth. It appears that the party made\\nits way to Litchfield and there settled down.\\nThe population of Hillsborough slowly increased until 1775,\\nwhen the settlement contained forty families. At this time\\nthe war with England broke out, and elicited a common resis-\\ntance against the wrongs sought to be inflicted by the govern-\\nment of the mother country on her North American colonists.\\nNo locality manifested more patriotic ardor or devotion to the\\ninterests of liberty than the people of this town. They armed\\nand equipped themselves for local protection and national\\nresistance. No patriotic sacrifice within their power was\\nwithheld they offered their all that the rights of the people\\nshould be asserted. The town assessed itself in nine thousand\\nseven hundred pounds to purchase provisions for the American\\nArmy, and more than thirty stalwart men from the forty fami-\\nlies gave their personal service in the war that ensued, and\\nfought in Stark s regiment at Bunker Hill, where their brave\\ncommander. Captain Isaac Baldwin, fell mortally wounded.\\nIn royal Rockingham, in southeastern New Hampshire, lies\\nthe territory incorporated under the name of Northwood, a day s\\njourney from the fair old town of Portsmouth. Settlement was\\nbegun on Northwood soil by emigrants from North Hamilton.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "290 lus i oia oi Ni.w HAMPsuiKK. [1773\\nTheir names wtre John and Increase Batchelder, and Moses\\nGodfrey. This was in the year 1763. Then Northwood was a\\ndependency of Nottingham. After them the Johnsons, the\\nHoyts, and the Knowltons came. These men felled the forests\\nand subdued the rocky soil and these laid the foundation of\\nthe future township.\\nIn the year 1773, ten years later than the first settlement, it\\nwas erected into an independent borough, electing Samuel John-\\nson, Joseph Demeritt, and Benjamin Hill as selectmen. Jona-\\nthan Jenness was first justice of the peace. The first postmaster\\nwas John Furber.\\nReligiously, the early jiioneers were Baptists. In the year\\n1772, a church was built, the third of that denomination in the\\nState. This edifice was rebuilt in 1816. A bell was added in\\n1878. Recently was witnessed the completion, free from debt,\\nof a commodious parsonage. The society has had twelve pas-\\ntois, Edmund Pillsbury having been the first.\\nThe Congregationalists erected a meeting-house here in 1780.\\ni his was rebuUt in 1840. A call was extended to Rev. Josiali\\nPrentice of Alstead, who sustained the charge forty-three\\nyears. This society has had six pastors.\\nThe rise of the Free Baptist church in Nortiiwood was due\\nto the evangelical labors of Rev. D. P. Cilley, though David\\nMarks had preached here a few times before him. Cilley\\nlabored here in 1833. Then the society was organized, which\\nheld its meetings at the mountain school-house. Not until six\\nyears later, or in 1838, was their house of worship completed.\\n^General James Reed, one of the original proprietors of Mon-\\nadnock Number Four, now Fitzwilliam, was a native of\\nWoburn, Massachusetts, where he was born in the year 1724.\\nHe was a descendant, in the fifth generation, of William and\\nMabel Reed, who sailed from London in July, 1635.\\nHis military life commenced in 1755, when he served in the\\ncampaign against the French and Indians, commanding a\\ncompany of provincial troops under Colonel Brown. In the\\nsame capacity he servetl with (icneral Abercrombie in 1758, at\\nJ. l!ldke.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "1774] KOVAl. I KOVINCE. 29I\\nTiconderoga and with General Amherst in 1759. He was\\nemployed in various public services until the peace of 1763.\\nIn the year 1765 he settled in Fitzwilliam, and in 1770 he\\nreceived the commission of lieutenant-colonel. The lapse of\\ntime has hidden from view the detailed account of his services\\nin these campaigns but his early selection by his countrymen\\nfor the command of a regiment at the beginning of the Revo-\\nlution indicates that his military career was creditable to himself\\nand valuable to his country. It was in this severe school that\\nhe, like many of the officers of the Revolution, acquired that\\nmilitary skill which gave strength and efficiency to the Conti-\\nnental army.\\nOn the 19th of May, 1773, Colonel Reed, with several others,\\nreceived a grant of Fitzwilliam, or Monadnock Number Four, from\\nJohn Wentworth, the Provincial Governor of New Hampshire.\\nIn 1770, he settled with his family about a mile northwesterly\\nof the centre village in Fitzwilliam, where he erected a large\\nand commodious house. Being the owner of a considerable\\nportion of the area of the town, he was actively employed in\\npromoting its settlement, and for those times was considered\\nwealthy and the first school in Fitzwilliam was taught in his\\nhouse by Miss Sarah Harris, at the age of seventeen. His\\nname appears upon the records as the leading spirit of the town.\\nHe was proprietors clerk and moderator of the town meetings\\nfor several years after its incorporation.\\nIn April, 1774, the town of Portsmouth 1 instructed their repre-\\nsentatives to use their influence in the General Assembly, to\\njoin with the other colonies in every constitutional method to\\noppose the claim of Parliament to tax the American colonies\\nwithout their consent, and to keep up a continual correspon-\\ndence with them for that purpose to abolish the Court of Ap-\\npeals, and also to employ their efforts that the justices of the\\ncourts of law should hold their offices during good behavior,\\nand not at the will of the crown that adequate salaries should\\nbe granted to the justices of the superior court that they strenu-\\nously oppose any salaries being granted to either of the justices\\nAnnals of Portsmouth.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "292 HISTORY OK NEW HAMPSHIRE. 774\\nof the courts of law independent of this government that they\\nshould take the opinion of the judges and some lawyersasto the\\noperation of any law of consequence which they are about to\\npass that good roads be made into the interior part of the prov-\\nince that laws be passed to prohibit the importation of slaves\\nthat secure places be provided for the records of the several\\noffices that the fees in all public offices be established by law;\\nthat enquiry be made concerning the application of all money\\ngranted for the use of the government, especially the powder\\nmoney that the representatives be chosen annually, and that\\ntheir doors should be open to all who choose to hear their de-\\nbates.\\nOn the 25th of June twenty-seven chests of tea, subject to\\nthe duty, were landed and stored in the custom house before\\nthe inhabitants had knowledge of it. A town meeting was held\\non the 27th, which appointed a guard to keep the tea secure\\nand to prevent insults being offered to any individual on account\\nof it. Upon consultation with Edward Parry, Esq., the con-\\nsignee, it was agreed that he should re-ship the tea, and a com-\\nmittee was chosen to see this agreement executed. The tea hav-\\ning been entered, the consignee paid the duty upon it openly,\\nwhich was necessary before it could be re-shipped. The gover-\\nnor used every precaution to preserve the peace of the town,\\nand everything remained quiet. The tea was re-shipped and\\nsent to Halifa.x.\\nA committee of inspection was appointed to examine and\\nfind out if any tea should be imported, and upon the discovery\\nof any, to give the earliest notice thereof to the town.\\nDeputies were chosen at Portsmouth, July 1 5, to meet the\\ndeputies from the other towns in the province, to elect a dele-\\ngate to the General Congress, which was to meet at Philadelphia\\nSeptember i.\\nThe inhabitants entered into an agreement in writing, which\\nwas generall} signed, by which they pledged their faith and\\nhonor that they would not import, sell, purchase, or consume any\\nkinds of East India teas, nor suffer the same to be used or con-\\nsumed in their respective families, until the duties should be\\ntaken off.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "1/74] KdlAI. I KOVINCE. 293\\nIn September the ship Fox, commanded by Captain Zacha-\\nriah Norman, arrived at Portsmouth, having on board thirty\\nchests of tea consigned to Edward Parry, which caused some\\ndisturbance in the town the populace broke the windows of tlie\\nconsignee, and he applied to the governor for protection. The\\ngovernor convened the council, and required the aid of the\\nmagistrates and other civil officers to sup]5ress the riot, which\\nwas soon effected.\\nThe town assembled the next day, and Edward Parry, Esq.,\\nbeing present, publicly declared that he would not accept the\\nconsignment of said tea, nor have anything to do with it\\nand Captain Norman promised that he would at his own expense\\nre-ship said tea and send it to Halifax. A committee was ap-\\npointed to guard the tea and see it sent off, who reported that\\nit was shipped on board another vessel, and that they saw the\\nvessel with the tea on board outside of Fort Point.\\nOn the loth of October, the town voted to give two hun-\\ndred pounds for the relief of the industrious poor of the towns\\nof Boston and Charlestown, under the oppression they now\\nsuffer from the port of Boston being blocked up by an Act of\\nthe British Parliment.\\nA very numerous committee was chosen to keep up the good\\norder and quiet in the town, and to examine into every matter\\nthat may appear unfriendly to the interests of the community.\\nGovernor Wentworth retained his popularity as extensively\\nas possible for a person of his situation, which was extremely\\ncritical for he was placed between two contending parties, of\\nopposite interests, and it could not be expected that he would\\nplease both. His wishes were to preserve the union of the two\\ncountries. He was attached to his government, and was de-\\nsirous of promoting its welfare as far as he could consistently\\nwith his duty to the King, which he considered paramount to\\nall other obligations. A circumstance took place which lessened\\nhim in the estimation of the people. The troops at Boston\\nwere destitute of barracks, and the carpenters there refused\\nassistance in building them. General Gage applied to Went-\\nworth to procure workmen, and he secretly employed an agent", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "-94\\nIIISTOKV OI M:\\\\\\\\ HAMISIIIRE.\\n[1774\\nto hire carpenters to construct the barracks. As soon as it was\\nknown, his conduct was severely censured, and the Committee\\nGOVERNOR WENTWORTH HOUSE, PORTSMOUTH.\\n\u00c2\u00abf Safety, of which his uncle, Hunking Wentworth, Esq., was\\nchairman, declared that the person guilty of such conduct was\\nThe family portraits of the Wentworths. by Copley and his master, Blackburn, and other vain,\\nable historical mementos of colonial days and royal stat., are still preserved in the Mansion. In the\\nhouse was born, July 14, iSio, Edward Henry Durell, who became a distinguished lawyer in New\\nOrleans and a Judge of the United States court for the district of Louisiana a man eiuinent fo--\\nWis learning and ability.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "1774 1 Ki rKoviiNX E. 295\\nan enemy to the community. I rom this time his influence\\ndeclined, and he retained only the shadow of authority. The\\nreal power was transferred to the Committee of Safety, and their\\norders were implicitly obeyed.\\nHon. Hunking Wentworth, who was the uncle of the gover-\\nnor, was the efficient chairman of the Portsmouth Committee of\\nSafety as long as his health and age would admit. He died in\\nPortsmouth, Sept. 21, 1784.\\nThe proceedings of the General Congress were published in\\ne\\\\ei part of the country, and received with approbation. They\\nmade a declaration of their rights, stated their grievances, and\\nentered into an association suspending all commercial inter-\\ncourse with Great Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies. When\\nthese proceedings were laid before this town, they voted unani-\\nniousl)-, That they did cordially accede to the just state of\\nthe rights and grievances of the British colonies, and of the\\nmeasures adopted and recommended by the American Conti-\\nnental Congress, for the restoration and establishment of the\\nformer, and for the redress of the latter. They voted, That\\nthe association, strictly adhered to, would in their opinion prove\\nthe most peaceable and successful method for the removal of\\nthe distresses these colonies are laboring under, and the restor-\\nation of their violated rights therefi re they cheerfully adopted,\\nand would punctually and religiously execute the same, as far\\nas in them lies. A committee of twenty-five persons was\\nchosen to observe the conduct of all persons, touching the\\nassociation, that every person within the limits of their appoint-\\nment conform to the same and if any should be hardy enough\\nto violate it, in such case the majority of the committee shall\\nforthwith cause the truth of the case to be ]5ublished in tlie\\nGazette, according to the recommendation of Congress. And\\nlest some, for sordid gain, should be tempted to violate the\\nassociation, they recommended a non-consumption as the best\\nguard against any infraction of the non-importation agreement.\\nThfey bore testimony against every species of gambling, and\\nrecommended industry and frugality to the inhabitants.\\nAmongst other systems of economy which were adopted, the", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "2()6\\nHISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n774\\nregulation of funerals was one of the most important. They\\nwere usually attended with great expense, often beyond the\\nability of the survivors of the family to meet. All the connec-\\ntions were obliged to dress in a full suit of mourning cnam-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "I774j KOVAL i KOVlNCE. 297\\nelled rings were distributed to the near relatives; gloves and\\nrings were given to the pall-bearers and to the clergyman who\\nofficiated at the grave. In many instances escutcheons with\\nthe family armorial bearings painted on silk were laid on the\\ncoffin, placed over the door, and sent to the particular friends\\nof the deceased. By general consent these expenses were dis-\\npensed with, and instead of them gentlemen wore black crape\\nround the left arm, and ladies black ribbons, as badges of\\nmourning.\\nThe corporation of Harvard College made choice of Rev.\\nDoctor Langdon as president of that institution. After due\\nconsideration, and by advice of his friends, he accepted the\\nappointment. His parish was strongly attached to him, and\\nconsented to the separation very reluctantly. The connection\\nbetween them was dissolved October 9th, 1774. He was\\nborn in Boston in 1722, of respectable parents, was graduated at\\nHarvard College in 1740, with a high reputation as a scholar.\\nHe came to Portsmouth soon after, and had the charge of the\\ngrammar school.\\nIn 174s he was appointed chaplain of Colonel Meserve s\\nregiment, and was present at the capture of Louisburg. Aftei\\nhis return, he was invited to preach at the North parish, as\\nassistant to Mr. Fitch, whom he succeeded in the ministr\\\\- in\\nthe year 1747. He protracted a map of New Hamjjshire, in\\ncompany with Colonel Blanchard, which they published in\\n1 761, and inscribed it to the Honorable Charles Townseiid, Sec-\\nretary at War. In return for this compliment, the Secretary\\nobtained for Mr. Langdon a degree of Doctor in Divinity from\\nthe University of Aberdeen in Scotland. On the formation of\\nthe American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Massachusetts\\nhe became a member. Doctor Langdon s publications are\\nnumerous.\\nHe resigned his office in 1780, and the following January was\\ninstalled over the church at Hampton Falls, where he spent\\nthe residue of his days in usefulness and peace, a blessing to\\nthe people of his charge, and happy in the enjoyment of their\\naffection and respect.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "29i^ HISTORY OF NEW H A .M PSIIIKI;. 774\\nAn order had been passed by the King in council, prohibit-\\ning the exportation ef gunpowder and military stores to Amer-\\nica. The Committee of Safety received a copy of it by express\\nfrom Boston, the 13th of December. They collected a com-\\npany with great secrecy and dispatch, who went to Fort\\nWilliam and Mary at New Castle, under the direction of Major\\nJohn Sullivan and Captain John Langdon, confiued the cap-\\ntain of the fort and his five men, and brought off one hundred\\nbarrels of gunpowder. The next day another company brought\\noff fifteen of the lightest cannon, all the small arms, and some\\nwarlike stores.\\nOn the 13th December, 1774, Paul Revere took \\\\\\\\\\\\s first public\\nride. While it may not have been of so far reaching impor-\\ntance as his later one, it richly deserves a place in history. It\\nhappened in this manner. The Boston Committee of Safety had\\njust heard of the British order that no military stores should\\nbe exported to America. They accordingly sent Paul Revere\\non a fleet horse to Portsmouth, to apprise the similar committee\\nthere of the news and probably to urge them to secure the\\npowder which was in Fort William and Mary in the harbor, as\\nreinforcements were expected shortly from England.\\nThe garrison consisted of only five men, and they had under\\ntheir charge a hundred guns and a large quantity of powder and\\nballs, the possession of which was deemed important to the patriot\\ncause. John Sullivan was a member of the Provincial Congress\\nthat year, and had just arrived in Portsmouth from Philadelphia.\\nWar had not been declared, but there was no telling when the\\nflames of dissension would burst forth. When the conflict did\\ncome there would be need of arms and ammunition. When the\\nBritish troops arrived, and they were momentarily expected,\\nthe fort would be in their hands, and it would be too late to\\ncapture it. Sullivan proposed the immediate capture of the\\nplace, and offered to lead the men to the attack. A military\\nforce v/as accordingly summoned as secretly as possible from\\nthe neighborliood. Sullivan and John Langdon took the com-\\nmand, and the march was commenced toward the Plnglish fort.\\nIt was a liazardoiis inuicrtaking. The sycophants of Went-", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "17741 KO\\\\AI. I ROVINCE. 2Cf)\\nworth thronged the town, who would consider the capture of\\nthe patriots as a good passport to the governor s favor. Besides,\\nthere was danger from the fort. If the captain became aware\\nof their design, he was sure to turn the guns upon them and\\ndestroy them. But no alarm was given, and in silence Sullivan\\nand his little band approached the works. With a rush they\\ngained the gate, captured the sentry, and before a challenge\\ncould be given had the captain and every man in the fort\\nprisoners. The British flag was hauled down. The gunpowder,\\nof which there was one hundred barrels in the fort, was immed-\\niately taken away and hid in the houses of the patriots. Sullivan\\nconcealed a portion of it under the pulpit of the Durham meet-\\ning-house. A large part of this plunder afterwards did good\\nservice at Bunker Hill. Next day fifteen of the lighter cannon\\nand all of the small arms were carried away. The governor and\\nhis officers received no intelligence of the affair until it was too\\nlate to remedy it, and when the British troops arrived they found\\nonly a dismantled fortress. The affair, which in itself may\\nappear to be of no great moment, assumes a different aspect\\nwhen we consider the time at which it occurred. It was the\\nfirst act of armed hostility committed against the crown of Great\\nBritain by an American.\\nHolderness was granted in 1751. One of the original\\ngrantees was Hon. Samuel Livermore, one of the most dis-\\ntinguished men of New Hampshire in the Revolutionary\\nperiod. All of the Livermores in this country are supposed\\nto be descendants from John Livermore, who settled in Water-\\ntown, Massachusetts, as early as 1642. Samuel Livermore was\\none of the great-grandsons of John Livermore. He was born\\nMay 14, 1732, at Waltham. At the age of twenty he graduated\\nat Nassau Hall, Princeton, one of the most ancient and respec-\\ntable collegiate institutions in the country. Selecting law for\\nhis profession, he became a student under Hon. Edward Trow-\\nbridge, and was admitted to practice at the supreme judicial\\ncourt of Middlesex county, in 1756. The ne.\\\\t year he removed\\nto New Hampshire, established himself at Portsmouth, where\\nFred Myron Colby.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "300 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1/74\\nhe soon became a distinguished member of the bar. He filled\\nsome of the most honorable and lucrative offices in the Province,\\nand was for several years judge advocate of the Admiralty Court,\\nand subsequently succeeded Wyseman Claggett as the king s\\niittorney-general of New Hampshire. In this position he\\nbecame the most necessary adviser to John Wentworth in the\\ntroubles that were growing up between the colonists and the\\ncrown.\\nFrom the first Mr. Livermore was found on the popular side,\\nand doubtless it was on account of some embarrassment\\nbetween himself and Governor Wentworth that he removed his\\nhome to Londonderry, then the second town of the Province in\\nwealth and population. From 1768 to 1772 he represented that\\ntown in the General Assembly. He still continued to hold the\\noffice of attorney-general, thus showing that, though an op-\\nponent of the encroachments of viceregal power, his abilities\\nwere respected by the Wentworths. His circuit embraced not\\nonly all New Hampshire, but the counties of York and Cum-\\nberland in Maine as well, extending as far as Portland. His\\nearnings at this time could not have amounted to less than\\n$5000 per annum, a large sum for the period.\\nOne of Livermore s ambitions was to be a great land owner.\\nHe was one of the original grantees of the township of Holder-\\nness, and by purchase gradually became the proprietor of nearly\\ntwo-thirds of its territory. For Gov. Wentworth s right he paid\\n$50, and for James Kelley s the sum of $88.88. In this way\\nsome ten or twelve thousand acres in Holderness, Campton and\\nPlymouth came under liis ownership, and it was good land, too,\\npasture, woodland and valley, whose yearly income brought\\nmore than one good pound into the proprietor s pocket. Incited\\nperhaps by the example of Governor Wentworth, who in 1770\\nhad built a splendid summer residence on the shores of Lake\\nWinnipiseogee in Wolfeborough, and perhaps, too, desiring to\\nbe at a distance from the tempest that he saw gathering over\\nthe government at Portsmouth, Livermore sold his farm in\\nLondonderry to John Prentice, a graduate of Harvard, who had\\nstudied law with liim, and afterwards was attorney-general of", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "1774] KOVAL I KOVIN CE. 3OI\\nthe State from 1787 to 1793, and betook himself with his family\\nto liis wilderness home. This was in the year 1774.\\nAt that time there were but nme families in Holderness.\\nWilliam Piper had come there in 1763; the others, John Fox,\\nJohn Sheppard, Bryant Sweeney, Samuel Eaton, Joseph Sin-\\nclair, Andrew Smith, John Herron, and Nathaniel Thompson\\nsettled later. Several families followed the Livermores from\\nLondonderry and vicinity. Among them was John Porter who\\nbecame the first settled lawyer of Plymouth, but returned to\\nLondonderry in 1806, which town he represented for eleven\\nyears. IVIrs. Porter was a very accomplished lady, and was Mrs.\\nLivermore s most intimate friend.\\nMr. Livermore lived successively in two or three small build-\\nings before he built the large and handsome mansion in which\\nhe died, and which he erected during the last of the Revolution.\\nDuring the first years of the struggle he took no prominent\\npart. It was from no lukewarmness to the cause, however.\\nDoubtless his high office that he had held under the crown and\\nhis well-known friendship to Governor Wentworth caused some\\nof the patriot leaders to regard him with suspicion. These\\nyears he remained entirely aloof from public affairs, caring for\\nhis own affairs in Holderness. He had a grist mill at the\\nmouth of Millbrook, and here he might have been seen any day\\nin 1776 and 1777 dressed in a white suit, and tending the mill\\nwith his own hands. We find him soon after this a member of\\nthe State Assembly from Holderness. He had now a splendid\\nopportunity to prove that he was no lukewarm adherent to the\\ncause of the colonists. He threw the vifhole weight of his\\npower and influence into the popular scale and became the con-\\ntrolling spirit of the assembly. Such men as Meshech Weare\\nand Matthew Thornton, who knew his worth and his vast\\nability, embraced his cause. Li 1778 he was appointed attorney-\\ngeneral of the State, again superseding Wyseman Claggett, who\\nhad held the office for two preceding years.\\n^The just claims for services of some of the hardy rangers,\\namong the original proprietors of Whitefield we find recognized\\nI L. W. Dodge.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "302 IIISTOKV OF NMiW liAMPSlI IKE. 774\\nby Gov. Wentwoith. There were Captain Gerrish, and Lieut.\\nVVaite, and Ensign White, and the Farringtons, all of Rogers s\\ncompany. Then there were the Cloughs, five of them, all from\\nCanterbury, and Imder Stark, and there was Colonel Jonathan\\nBailey, whose possessions were also increased in this region by\\npurchases with Colonel Moses Little. This latter once owned\\nnearly all of what was known as Apthorp, extending for fifteen\\nmiles or more along the Connecticut river, and embracing the\\npresent towns of Littleton and Dalton. The name of the terri-\\ntory was changed from its first English title of Chiswick, so\\nnamed from the celebrated country seat of the duke of Devonshire,\\nto Apthorp, in memory of a distinguished divine who came to this\\ncountry in 1759, as a missionary of the Society for the Propa-\\ngation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. After its purchase by\\nColonel Little, who was then the Surveyor of the King s\\nWoods in this section, it was divided, one part taking the\\nname of Littleton, from its owner, and the other Dalton, from\\nan old towsman of the colonel s, Hon. Tristram Dalton, who\\nwas also one of the original grantees. Colonel Little was a\\nnative of the old town of Newbury, Massachusetts, and was\\ngreatly distinguished throughout the war of the Revolution.\\nThe town of Whitefield, until July 4, 1774, formed a part of\\nthe ungranted lands, and lays claim to being the last town-\\nship granted within the State under ro)al favor, and b} its\\nlast royal governor, John Wentworth. At that date it only ic-\\nquired an organization and a name, for its metes and bounds\\nwere already established by surveys of surrounding townships\\ntherefore this was literally what was left, and they called it\\nWhitefield when organized, from the celebrated Methodist\\ndivine of that name, who a few years previously in an itinerating\\ntour in southern New Hampshire and in Massachusetts stirred\\nthe religious thoughts of the people into intense activity, so\\nthat, says a writer of the day, his name was a household word.\\nHis last sermon was at E.xeter, where, on his journey from\\nPortsmouth to Boston, he had stopped bv the importunities of\\nfriends to preach one of his unique discourses. It was delivered\\nin the open air, for the doors of the established churches were", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "1774] KOVAL I KOVINCE. 3O5\\nclosed against him, aiul only (lod s great temple was open, and\\nfor two long hours he interested the crowd which had flocked\\nto see him and to hear his wonderful doctrines. Greatly fatigued\\nhe continued liis joiu ney to Newburypoit, where, by appoint-\\nment, he was to preach the next ila\\\\-, hut on the following\\nmorning he was seized with a return of a long-fought asthmatic\\ntrouble, and died suddenl)- at the home of his friend, Rev. John\\nParsons, September 30, 1770.\\nIt is doubtful if any of the early proprietors of Whitefield,\\nsave those who joined the first surveying party under Captain\\n(ierrish, and those of the scouting rangers, ever set foot\\nupon their pine-land possessions. Certain it is, none ever be-\\ncame actual settlers. Timothy Nash may have hunted there,\\nand the Rev. Jeremy Belknap, New Hampshire s early his-\\ntorian, who was one of the Cutler exploring party, in 1784, at\\nwhich time the name of Washington was first applied to the\\nhighest peak of the mountains, doubtless surveyed with his eye\\nfrom afar off his gubernatorial donation of the ninety-fourth\\npart of the township, but aside from these no one of the\\ngrantees of the town ever saw their Cohos estates. So it\\nremained for Major John Burns, Colonel Joseph Kimball,\\nJohn McMaster, and their followers, in the beginning of the\\npresent century, to develop the wild Whitefield tract, which the\\nearly organizers of the township, in their down-country meet-\\nings, had vainly tried to accomplish.\\nSamuel Adams was chosen moderator at the first meeting\\nof the proprietors of the town, after the close of the war, and\\nthe early records of the township bear his signature, in tiie\\nsame unmistakable characters that are shown upon that Record\\nof Independent Declarations that made us a nation.\\nPerhaps to the energies of Samuel Minot is due the\\nrevival of interest in the early settlement of Whitefield, after\\nthe disappearance of the original proprietors. He owned at\\none time, by vendue purchase, more than three fourths of the\\nfirst granted rights of the township. His fatiier. Captain\\nJonas Minot, was the first proprietors clerk.\\nColonel .Samuel Adams and Captain Robert Piaster were two", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "304 mSTOKV OK NEW HAMPSMIKE. 774\\nof the chosen assessors, in those primitive days of the town\\nand their duties as well as all the transactions relating to the\\nunsettled location were conducted at a distance of one hundred\\nand fifty miles from the place of interest the first meeting\\nhaving been held at old Dunstable, which town and its divi-\\nsions probably furnished more men for the famous Rogers Ran-\\ngers than any other section. Also for the Powers expedition,\\nwhich located and named the wild river along whose hill-\\nshadowed valley we are traversing. For many years the early\\nproprietors of Whitefield could hardly be content with their\\nchartered boundaries, supposing by semi-authoritative descrip-\\ntion that the western limit was along the summit of, or near\\nto, the Apthorp range of hills but the corner monuments of\\nColonel Gerrish, established in 1779, and the blazed line of\\nCaptain Eames, in 1802, settled the doubt, and the river\\nrippled into Dalton at its present boundary, and Blake s\\nPond marked the designated corner. This name was left to\\nthat fountainless lakelet above Whitefield village, by a famous\\nhunter, Moses Blake, who in the wilderness days, here among\\nthe pines, pitched his cabin and scouted this region for peltries.\\nWhat changes have taken place along this historic stream,\\nsince the wild Coosauke roamed in undisputed freedom along\\nits pine-clad borders Or since John Stark, in a military\\npoint of view New Hampshire s George Washington, as an\\nIndian captive, explored its valley, fished its waters, and hunted\\nits game-haunted solitudes. The rock-lined hills along its\\nboundaries are almost disforested the dark-shadowed trail of\\nthe roving native has become the steel-clad track of civiliza-\\ntion the scream of the steam whistle echoes above the\\nsavage war-whoop grain-burdened fields and sunny pas-\\ntures are spread over the broad uplands, where, but a century\\nago, amid the unbroken forests howled the prowling bear, and\\ntramped the unhunted moose, while up from below comes the\\nhum of industry from a thousand mill-wheels of improvement.\\nIt was from the top of the Cherry Mountain that Timothy\\nNash, one of the solitary hunters of this region, in 1771, first\\ndiscovered the old Indian pass now famous as the White", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "17741 ROVAI. PKOVIN CE. 305\\nMountain Notch. Up one of the rivulet paths he had tracked\\na moose, and finding himself near the highest point, in his\\neagerness for an unobstructed view he climbed a tall tree, and\\nfrom this birchen lookout he saw, away to the southward, what\\nhe at once surmised must be the hitherto unknown defile.\\nSteering with the acquired precision of an old woodman for\\nthe desired point, he had the satisfaction of realizing the truth\\nof his surmises for it was indeed the rocky pass, the gateway\\nof the mountains. Admitting to his secret a fellow-hunter, by\\nthe name of Sawyer, together they repaired to Governor Went-\\nworth, at Portsmouth, who, after sufficient and novel proof of\\nthe fact of the discovery, gave to the fortunate hunters a grant\\nof land, since known as the Nash and Sawyer location. Nash\\nwas also one of the original grantees of the town of Whitefield,\\nbut whether by purchase or in consideration of services rendered\\nis not known.\\nAll along the pathways of the world s history there are scat-\\ntered monuments to the memory of its men of mark pioneers\\nin its enterprises, foremost in its leading events, great captains\\nin tiie onward march of improvement. Around the headwaters\\nof John s and Israel s rivers, in those days, between the depar-\\nture of the Indians and the coming of the white man, settled\\nColonel Joseph Whipple. He was a brother of that General\\nWilliam Whipple whose illustrious name goes down to posterity\\nalong with those others of the framers and signers of that im-\\nmortal instrument which gave us our liberties. They were\\nsuccessful merchants in the town of Portsmouth, and acquired\\nlarge landed estates north of the White Mountains, most of\\nthen doubtless, as reward for valuable service, both civil and\\nmilitary, rendered the State. Colonel Whipple s title to these\\nJefferson meadows followed that of Colonel John Goffe, the\\nfirst owner after the extinction of the Indian titles, and by him\\nnamed Dartmouth. What particular incentive brought Colonel\\nWhipple hither so early as 1773 it would be satisfactory to\\nknow. A luxurious home by the sea-side exchanged for a wild\\nhaunt among the mountains the enjoyments of civilization\\nfor the deprivations of the wilderness. Was it an inborn love", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "30 IlISTOKV NI .W HAMI SHIKK. [l774\\nfor adventure to be gratified, or really the acquisition of more\\nwealth and power in the development of his broad acres Or\\nwas it the allurements of the grand old mountains themselves,\\nand lie\\nA lover true, who knew b^- he:n t\\nKach joy the mountain dales impart.\\nThe settlement of the colonel lying in the track of the In-\\ndians, as they passed from the valley of the Saco to the Con-\\nnecticut, by way of the Notcii and Cherry Mountain pass, he was\\nat times greatly annoyed by the visits of the redskins. They\\nnever seemed to wish him any harm, however, until during the\\nRevolutionary war, lie one day found himself a captive in his\\nown house. A wandering party of warriors applied to !iim for\\nentertainment, and he, as usual, suspecting no evil intentions,\\nadmitted them to his house and his table. Their wants supplied\\nthey coolly informed him of their purpose to take him to Can-\\nada as a prisoner. Feigning submission, he at once commenced\\nbtistling around in preparation for the journev, telling them they\\njnust wait a little until he could make readv to go. During his\\nseeming preparations, he contrived to in.striict his housekeeper\\nto gain, by some stratagem, their attention from liis movements\\nthis she successfully did, by the help of some curious mechanism\\nwhich the Colonel possessed. Passing into his sleeping room\\nfor the alleged purpose of changing his clothing, he leaped from\\na rear window, and ran for the meadow where his workmen\\nwere engaged in fence-building. Directing each man to shoulder\\na stake, as soon as his would-be captors appeared in search of\\nhim, the sham hunters started for them. Seeing, as the\\\\ sup-\\nposed, a party of v/ell-armed, brawny fellows coming for them\\nin dead earnest, the red devils, hastily seizing what booty they\\ncould conveniently make way with, took to the woods, firing as\\nthey went on a Mr. Gotham, who was a membei of the Whipple\\nhousehold.\\nThese Indians were, doubtless, members of tlie warlike tribe\\nof Sokokies, or Fequauquaukes, who were driven from the valley\\nof the Saco and their ancient hunting-grounds by the advance", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "17741 KoYAi, I KoviNci:. 307\\nof the wliitc man in the early half of the eighteenth centiu-y.\\nThey were the most warlike of all the Abenakis tribes, but\\nseem to have disbanded after the Lovewell fight, and joined the\\nAnasagunticooks of northern Maine, and the Coosaukes at the\\nhead-waters of the Connecticut, and, in a few years thereafter,\\nthe St. Francis tribe in Canada. Those who attempted the ab-\\nduction of Colonel Whipple were, doubtless, in the employ of the\\nEnglish, and this was among the last of hostile demonstrations\\nby the subdued natives, before their final disappearance.\\nAbout a mile below the first, or Dodge and Abbott, damming\\nof the John s river, is a second artificial obstruction. Here\\nwas built in early Whitefield days, the Foster mill, and here\\namong the pineries settled one Foster. There are Fosters and\\nFosters but there was but one Perley Foster, and he the sire\\nof a son who became the hero of two wars. In a humble home\\nin this secludetl spot was born, in 1823, Gen. John G. Foster.\\nThe last trace of the old Foster house is obliterated. Noth-\\ning remams to mark the birth-place of a man of note but the\\ndim outlines of a cellar not even the traditional sentinel of an\\nancient apple tree. We rememljer to have passed along the\\nalmost disused, half-forgotten road, one summer day in the long-\\nago, when the old house, from dilapidation, had become unten-\\nantable. Clapboards were rattling in the wind the doors and\\nwindows were in useless ruin a thicket of unrebuked thistles\\nwas crowding about the entrance and the only thing of beauty\\nabout the spot was a broad-disked sun-flower, growing upon the\\nsunny side, with a flourishing family of tall hollyhocks. After\\nawhile the old structure, from constant wind-beatings, tumbled\\ndown the ruins were gathered up or burned, and the site\\nplowed under. Descendants of the ancient May-weeds still\\nlinger around the place of the old gateway, and there are relics\\nof a way-side fence; but even the noisy brook, which tinkled its\\nway across the road and down into the beaver meadow, is almost\\nrun dry.\\nThus does time, the obliterator, crowd away the past, with its\\nhomes and its hallowed spots, to make room lor the future.\\n1,. W. Uudge.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "308 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 774\\nThe old Foster mill, by its addition and changes, has lost its\\noriginality, but the river still rushes onward, singing as it runs,\\nMen may come and men may go.\\nBut I flow on for ever.\\n1 The principal town officers, prior to the war of the Revolu-\\ntion, authorized or required by the Province Laws of New\\nHampshire to be elected at the annual town meetings, were a\\nmoderator for the meetings, town-clerk, treasurer, selectmen or\\ntownsmen, constables, fence-viewers, field-drivers or hay-\\nwards, surveyors of highways, surveyors of lumber, sealers of\\nweights and measures, sealers of leather, tithingmen, deer-reeve\\nor deer keepers, hog-reeves, pound keepers, overseers of the\\npoor, and overseers of houses of correction. Several of these\\noffices have now for many years become obsolete, there being\\nno statute law authoricing them. The powers and duties per-\\ntaining to some others of them, since the adoption of the con-\\nstitution of 1792, differ widely from what they were under the\\nProvince Laws, while those of others remain substantially as\\nbefore the Revolution.\\nThe moderator, then as now, was the presiding officer of the\\ntown meeting, with much the same powers and duties as under\\nthe present State laws. No person was allowed to speak in the\\nmeeting without leave first obtained of that dignitary, nor\\nwhen any other person was speaking orderly. All persons\\nalso were required to keep silent at the request of the moder-\\nator, under the penalty of five shillings for the breach of every\\nsuch order. (Colonial Laws, IJl8.) By an Act of the General\\nCourt in 1791, it was further provided that if any person, after\\nbeing notified by the moderator, should persist in disorderly\\nconduct, the moderator should order him to withdraw from the\\nmeeting, and that if the offender should fail to obey, he should\\nforfeit and pay a fine of twenty shillings for the use of the\\ntown. Laws of Tjgj, p. 1S7.)\\nIn puisuance of an Act of the General Court of the Province\\npassed in 1 719, the freeholders and otlier inhabitants of each\\nSamuel r, Worcester.", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "1/74] KOVAi. i-KoviNci;. 309\\ntown, having taxable property of the value of \u00c2\u00a320, were required\\nto meet sometime in the month of March annually, and beside\\nother town officers, to choose three, five, seven, or nine able\\nand discreet persons of good conversation, inhabitants of said\\ntown, as selectmen or townsinen. Under the laws of the\\nProvince no inhabitant had a right to vote at these meetings\\nexcept freeholders and such others as had taxable personal\\nestate of the value of ;\u00c2\u00a320.\\nIn respect to several matters of public concern, the selectmen\\nof towns at that time had much more power and a wider field of\\nduty than the like officers of the present day. Unless other\\npersons were elected to that office, the selectmen were ex officio\\noverseers of the poor of the town, chargeable not only with the\\ncare of providing for their needs, but also with the further in-\\nhosi)itable duty of warning out of their town all such new\\ncomers or settlers as it was feared might become paupers if\\nallowed to remain as permanent residents. They also had the\\nexclusive charge of the public schools of the town, including\\nthe building of school-houses, the employment and payment of\\nteachers, and the assessment of all school taxes for school build-\\nings and accommodations, and the wages and salaries of school-\\nmastei s. In addition to the as.=essment of taxes for schools, it\\nwas also their duty to assess taxes upon the polls, personal\\nestates, and lands of all the inhabitants of the town in just and\\nequal proportion, according to their known abilit\\\\-, for all such\\nsums as may have been ordered at the town meeting for the\\nsupport of the ministry, the poor, and all other necessary\\ncharges of the town. {Colonial Laws of lyiQ- Under the\\nProvince Laws, males were chargeable with a poll tax at the\\nage of eighteen. The valuation of some of the items consti-\\ntuting the basis of taxation was as follows Polls, or white males\\nover eighteen years of age, eighteen shillings male slaves from\\nsixteen to fifty years old, sixteen shillings female slaves of the\\nlike age, eight shillings horses and oxen four years old, three\\nshillings improved land, sixpence per acre.\\nThe office of field-driver, one of the town offices in New\\nHampshire for one hundred years and nu/ie, has long since", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "JIO HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 774\\nj;onc into disuse, and the word itself, though in current use in\\nthe old colony statutes, is not to be found in the unabridged\\nDictionaries of either Webster or Worcester. It is, however,\\ndefined in Bartlett s Dictionary of Americanisms, as a civil\\nofificer whose duty it is to take up and impound swine, cattle,\\nsheep, and horses going at large in the public highways or the\\ncommon and improved lands, and not under charge of a keeper.\\nFor very many years after the first settlement of most of the\\ntowns in New Hampshire a very large part of the unimproved\\nland was unfenced, the rights of the owners of such land lying\\nin common. These common lands in most of the towns fur-\\nnished much valuable pasturage for cattle, and acorns and other\\nnuts for swine, and by the laws of the Province no cattle, swine,\\nor other domestic animals were permitted to run at large upon\\nthem without the consent of the land owners. If such animals\\nwere found at large upon the highway, or upon those lands lying-\\nin common, without the consent of the owners, it became the\\niluty of the field-driver to impound them, for which service he\\nwas allowed one shilling each for neat cattle and horses, .and\\nthree pence each for sheep and swine, to be paid by the owner\\nof the animals before being allowed to take them from the\\npound.\\nThe ancient office of tithingman, like that of field-\\ndriver, has also become obsolete in the State, and the name\\nitself, once a terror to rude and wayward youth, very nearly so.\\nTwo, and in some towns four, of these officials were chosen at\\nthe annual town meetings. It was among their duties, under\\nthe colony laws, to visit and inspect licensed public-houses, and\\nto inform of all disorders in them. Also to inform of all idle\\nand dissolute persons, profane swearers, and Sabbath breakers.\\nBut one of their principal and most important duties appears to\\nhave been to attend public worship on the Sabbath, and to take\\nnote of and prevent all rudeness and disorders during the ser-\\nvices, and, if needful, to arrest on view, and to aid in the trial\\nand punishment of all such persons as were guilty of irreverent\\nor disorderly conduct. In towns where four of these dignitaries\\nwere chosen, it appears that two of them were expected to take", "height": "2432", "width": "1622", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "1774] KOVAI. HKOVINCR. 3II\\ntheir seats on the lower floor of the meeting-hcusc, to take note\\nof all rudeness and disorder below, and the two others to be\\ninstalled in the gallery, chargeable with the like duties in respect\\nto all improprieties and misconduct above. As a badge of\\nthis ofifice and authority the colony laws provided that each of\\nthem should carry a black staff or wand two feet in length,\\nand tipped at one end for about three inches with brass or pew-\\nter. {Colonial Laws of I IS) l^y ^n Act of the New Hamp-\\nsiiire General Court, passed in 1789, the law in respect to\\ntithingmen was amended, and their powers and duties somewhat\\nenlarged. This amended Act required the tithingmen to be\\nchosen to be persons of good substance and sober life, and\\namong other things made it their duty to stop and detain all\\npersons travelling on the Sabbath between sunrise and sunset,\\nexcept in attending public worship, visiting the sick, or on\\n.some work of charity.\\nBy a Province Law enacted in 17 19 swine were not per-\\nmitted to run at large between the first day of April and\\nthe first day of October of each year, without being yoked and\\nrung in the mode described in the law and two or more offi-\\ncials, known as hog-reeves or hog constables, were required to\\nbe chosen at the annual town meeting, chargeable with the\\nduty of enforcing the law at the expense of the guilty owner of\\nthe swine. The regulation hog yoke, as defined in the law,\\nwas made of wood, and to be in length above the swine s\\nneck-, equal to the depth of the neck, and half as long below,\\nthe bottom piece of the. yoke to be equal in length to three\\ntimes the thickness of the neck. The ring, as defined in the\\nAct, was made of strong flexible iron wire to be inserted in\\nthe top of the nose to prevent rooting, the ends of the wire to\\nbe twisted together and to project one inch above the nose.\\n(Colonial Laivs, IJI^.) The fees of the hog-reeve, as fixed by a\\nlaw passed in 1794, were one shilling for yoking, and sixpence\\nfor ringing, each swine.\\nIn accordance with a long-established custom prevailing in\\nmany towns in New Hampshire, all the young men of the town\\nwho were married within the year ne.\\\\t preceding the annual", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "312 msTUKV OF NEW HAMl SMIKE. L 774\\nMaicli election were entitled to the compliment of an election\\nto the very honorable and responsible office of hog-reeve.\\nThe forests of New Hampshire, at the time of its first settle-\\nment, and for many years after, abounded with deer, lioth the\\nskin and flesh of these animals being of great value to- the set-\\ntlers, laws were passed to prevent the killing of them at such\\nseasons of the year as would tend to diminish their natural in-\\ncrease. By a Province Law enacted in 1741, it was made a\\ncrime to kill deer between the last day of December and the\\nfirst day of August. An offender against this law was liable,\\non conviction, to a fine of ten pounds. If not able to pay the\\nfirie he might be sentenced to work forty days for the govern-\\nment for the first offence, and fifty days if he should offend a\\n.second time. It was made the duty of the town, at their\\nannual March meeting, to choose two officers, known as dccr-\\nrccvcs or deer keepers, to see that this law was observed and to\\naid ill the prosecution for its violation, coupled with the au-\\nthority to enter and search all places where they had cause to\\nsuspect that the skins or flesh of deer, unlawful])- killed, had\\nbeen concealed.\\nA Colony Law passed in 1719 provided for the erection an d\\nregulation of houses of correction for the Province, designed\\nfor the keeping, correcting and setting to work of rogues,\\n\\\\-agabonds, common beggai s, and lewd and idle persons.\\nSuch persons, on conviction oefore a justice of the peace or the\\ncourt of sessions, were to be sent to the house of correction and\\nset to work under the master or overseer of that institution.\\nUpon his admission, the unluck)- culprit was to be put in\\nshackles, or to be whipped, not to exceed ten stripes, unless\\nthe warrant for his commitment otherwise directed. {Colonial\\nLaws of lyiS-iyig.) 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Representatives Lawlessness Trouble\\nAT Keene Mock Convention at Concord John Langdon\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John\\nSullivan Mob at Exeter Federal Constitution Littleton\\nUnited States Constitutional Convention Election under Con-\\nstitution Members of the Continental Congress Officials at\\nPortsmouth Josiah Bartlett Town of Bartlett Orange\\nRevision of Statutes Constitutional Convention Ancient\\nSinging.\\nT^HE Revolution had not only involved the colonies in war but\\nhad thrust upon them the perils of self-government. Ne.xt\\nto the demands of the war, and, indeed, essential to its success,\\nwas the call on the civil wisdom of the country for local insti-\\ntutions and new forms of government. The epoch of the\\nRevolution was the epoch also of written constitutions. The\\nold governments were dissolved society was thrown into its\\nfirst elements. Utopian and fantastic ideas of government were\\nadvanced, and the adoption of a firm and acceptable form of\\ngovernment which would protect the people in their newly\\nAcquired liberty was a matter of serious consideration. The\\npeople of New Hampshire had been the first, after the opening\\nr)f hostilities, to adopt a written constitution. It had goue into\\nffect early in January, 1776, before the Declaration of Indepen-\\ndence and its title, A form of government to continue during\\nthe present unhappy and unnatural contest with Great Britain,\\nwas a proof of the unsettled state of public feeling at the time.\\nIt imposed no restriction on the right of suffrage, and left the\\nhighest offices open to all. In 1779 a convention had formed\\nWilliam Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "402 HISTORV OF NEW llA MPSllIKE. 784\\na n\u00c2\u00abw constitution, which proposed that the government should\\nbe entrusted to a Council and House of Representatives ami\\nprovided that all the male inhabitants of the State, of lawful\\nage, paying taxes, and professing the Piotestant religion, should\\nbe deemed lawful voters in choosing councillors and represen-\\ntatives and that these officers, aside from the same qualifica-\\ntions, should have an estate of ;\u00c2\u00a3300. This constitution was\\nrejected by the people. It had been framed about the time of\\nthe alliance with France, when the soldiery and not the religion\\nof that country was wanted. Another convention was called\\nin 1781 and the constitution which it framed, after alterations\\nand amendments had been made, went into operation in 1784.\\nOne of its clauses declared that every individual has a natural\\nand unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates\\nof his own conscience and reason, while another article, a\\nsort of compromise between the new spirit of religious free-\\ndom and the old intolerance, confined to Christians the pro-\\ntection of the law for this unalienable right. Other clauses\\nprovided that no person should hold the office of governor,\\ncouncillor, senator, delegate, or member of Congress, unless he\\nwere of the -Protestant religion. The new constitution met\\nwith considerable opposition, although parties were not divided\\nupon it. Men who were afterwards Federalists and Democrats\\nopposed the religious test, notably William Plumer, a law-stu-\\ndent, an able writer, and an earnest and eloquent public speaker.\\nThe treaty of peace between Great Britain and the United\\nStates of America was signed in Paris, in September, 1783.\\nThe constitution, containing bill of rights and form of govern-\\nment agreed upon by the delegates of the people of New\\nHampshire, in a convention held at Concord on the first Tues-\\nday of June, 1783, had been submitted to and approved by the\\npeople and had been established by their delegates in conven-\\ntion, in October, 1783. It was to go into effect in June, 1784.\\nAccordingly in June, 1784, the newly elected legislature,\\nperhaps as distinguished a body of men as ever gathered to-\\ngether within the limits of the State, assembled at Concord, and\\nWiULuii Phimor. 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According to the constitution, the new\\nSenate was to be composed of twelve members.\\nGeorge Atkinson was chosen speaker of the House Woodbury\\nLangdon was chosen as senior senator.\\nJohn McClary and Francis Blood, of the Senate, and Josejih\\nBadger, Nathaniel Peabody, and Moses Chase, of the House,\\nwere elected councillors.\\nAbiel Foster, Jonathan Blanchard, John Langdon, and Moses\\nDow were appointed delegates to represent New Hampshire in\\nCongress for a year, commencing the following November, but\\nall except Mr. Foster refused the honor, and subsequently Samuel\\n^Livermore, Pierce Long, and Elisha Paine were associated with\\nMr. I oster, but two serving at once.\\nSamuel Livermore, Josiah Bartlett, and John Sullivan were\\nappointed a committee to revise the laws of the State, and to\\ndraw such new laws as they might deem necessary.\\nEbenezer Thompson was elected secretary for the State John\\nTaylor Oilman was elected treasurer.\\nThe pay of the members was si.x shillings a day the secretary\\nof the State and the clerk of the House received nine shillings.\\nThe first session at Concord lasted about two weeks, when the\\nlegislature adjourned to meet in October in Portsmouth. It was\\nnot until the second meeting that a yea and nay vote was\\nrecorded.\\nA town with one hundred and fifty ratable male polls was\\nentitled to one representative with four hundred and fifty polls,\\nto two with seven hundred and fifty polls, to three. Every\\nmember of the House was seized of a freehold estate in his own\\nright of at least ;!Cioo; a senator had to own ^200 in a free-\\nhold estate to be eligible for the office.\\nHis E.xcellency, Meshech VVeare, who had served the State\\nthroughout the struggle for independence as its chief executive\\nofficer, was found to have received a large majority of the votes\\ncast, and was duly declared elected the first president of the new\\nCommonwealth. He was not, however, sworn into office for\\nseveral days after the legislature met.\\nOn the first day of the session the members of both branches", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "404 III TOKV OK NEW I lA.MFSll IKK. [1/84\\nof The General Court attended services at the Old North\\nChurch, and listened to a sermon by Rev. Samuel McClintock,\\nof Greenland. So well pleased were they that they voted him\\n;^I5 in the afternoon to recompense him. The sermon is on\\nfile among the archives of the State library, and is worthy of\\nperusal after a century has passed by. A few extracts may be\\nof interest to the present generation:\\nHiiw b coming is it that we should render unto Him in a public manner\\nthe most devout ascriptions of praise for the great things He has done for us\\nin delivering us from the cruel hand of oppression and the impending miseries\\nof abject servitude, crowning our arduous struggle in defence of the rights of\\nhuman nature with triumphant success, in acknowledgment of our inde-\\npendence and sovereignty, and in giving us the singular advantage of forming\\na constitution of government for ourselves and our posterity. If we should\\nneglect to render due praise to Him on such a great occasion, the heathen\\nwould rise up in judgment and condemn us for our impietv and ingratitude.\\nHe speaks of the present glorious revolution in this land, and continues\\nHardly anv people were ever less prepared to enter the list with such a great\\nand powerful nation. War was not our object or wish on the contrary we\\ndeprecated it as a dreadful calamity, and continued to hope, even against hope,\\nthat the gentle methods of petitioning and remonstrating might obtain a re-\\ndress of grievances.\\nThe war on our part was not a war ofambition, but a justifiable self-defence\\nagainst the claims of an arbitrary power, which was attempting to wrest from\\nus the privileges we had all along enjoyed, and to subject us to a state of ab-\\nject servitude.\\nThey were men of war from their youth. They had regular troops, used\\nto service, who had signalized their valor on the Plains of Minden and on the\\nHeights of Abraham, commanded b3 able and experienced generals, amply\\nfurnished with all the terrible apparatus of death and destruction, and aided\\nby mercenary troops who had been bred to arms and were versed in all the\\nstratagems of war; add to this they had a navy that ruled the ocean, and\\nregular resources to supply their demands. On the other hand, we were inex-\\nperienced in the art of war, and had neither disciplined troops, nor magazines\\nof provision and ammunition, nor so much as one ship of war to oppose to\\ntheir formidable fleets, nor any regular resources, not even so much as the\\ncertain prospect of any foreign aid; besides, all the civil governments were\\ndissolved and the people reduced back to a state of nature, and in danger of\\nfalling into anarchy and confusion.\\nThat people so widely separated from one another by their situation, man-\\nners, customs, and forms of government, should all at once be willing to\\nsacrifice their present interests to the public good and unite like a band of\\nbrothers to make the cause of one State, and even of one town, a common\\ncause; and that they should continue firm and united under the greatest dis-", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "1784] STATE L-NDER FIRST CONSTITUTION. 405\\ncouragements .ind Ihe most trying reverses of fortune that an army of freemen,\\nvoluntarily assembled at the alarm of danger men who had been nurtured\\nin the bosom of liberty and unused to slavish restraints, should be willing\\nto submit to the severity of military government for the safety of their coun-\\ntry, and patiently endure hardships that would have tried the fortitude of vet-\\nerans, following their illustrious leader in the depths of winter, through cold\\nand snow, in nakedness and perils, when every step they took was marked\\nwith the blood that issued from their swollen feet, and when they could not be\\nanimated to such patience and perseverance by any mercenary motives, was-\\na rare spectacle, and for its solution must be traced to a higher source.\\nThe whole sermon shows that the speaker, if not the hearers,\\nappreciated the magnitude of the struggle through which the\\ncolonies had successfully passed, and realized the responsibility\\nwhich devolved upon them in establishing the new state on a\\nsure foundation.\\nMoney at this time was very scarce, that is, gold and silver.\\nThe Continental currency had depreciated so that forty pounds\\nrepresented one, and was very difficult to dispose of at any\\nfigure, being thought nearly worthless. The new legislature\\nvoted to raise ;i\u00c2\u00a3^25,ooo, but were aware of the difficulty of rais-\\ning any. They provided for the pensions of disabled soldiers\\nfor a lighthouse at Newcastle, and for the pay of the officers of\\nthe State, but made the collection possible by allowing evi-\\ndences of State indebtedness to be received as State taxes.\\nAt this time the State contained a population of about 140,000\\nsouls, mostly employed in agricultural pursuits. Portsmouth was\\nthe only place of much importance, sending three representatives\\nto the General Court, but its leading men were the unpopular Mas-\\nonian proprietors, and thus its influence was curtailed. Ne.xt in\\nimportance was the town of Londonderry, where already had\\nsprung up a few manufacturing industries. Derryfield sent no\\nrepresentative. This was before the days of turnpikes and can-\\nals, and the roads were carried over the hilliest and most rocky\\nroutes, to save expense in maintaining, and were consequently\\nas bad as they well could be but as they were not much used\\nexcept by foot travellers and horsemen, it did not much matter.\\nBridges were of such a character that they were generally carried\\naway by the freshet every spring, while the main dependence", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "406 IIISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIKE. 7^4\\nwas placed on ferries. The crops on the new lantl on the hill-\\nside farms were abundant. Large families of children were\\nraised, and were educated in the rudiments at the little school-\\nhouse in every district. On every farm was a self-sustaining\\ncommunity: they raised their own wheat, corn, vegetables, maple\\nsugar, and all the food required they raised their own wool and\\nflax they tanned their own leather they made their own cloth,\\nand made their own garments. Every town had its minister.\\nThen came the miller with grist-mill and saw-mill then the\\nblacksmith and, lastly, when the town had gained a certain\\nstanding, a justice of the peace.\\nDartmouth College was granted the right by the first legis-\\nlature of the State to hold a lottery in order to raise ^3,000.\\nMeshech Weare, the new president of the State, was at this\\ntime well advanced in years, being over seventy.\\nOf the councillors, John McClarv, of Epsom, was a delegate to the\\nProvincial Congress whicli met in May, 1775. He died in June iSoi, aged\\neighty-two.\\nGen. Francis Blood, of Temple, was representative all througli the Revolu-\\ntionary War. a justice of Court of Common Pleas, and afterwards chief justice.\\nHe was a man of superior mind, sagacity, and information, for many years\\nthe leading man of the town, acquired a handsome property, and died in 1790.\\nDr. Nathaniel Peabody, of Atkinson, was one of the distinguished men of\\nhis times. He was adjutant-general of the State, member of Congress,\\n.and major-general of the State militia, 1793. He died in Exeter in June, 1S23.\\nGeneral Joseph Badger, son of Captain Joseph Badger, was a tjian of great\\nmilitary ardor, and held offices in the militia for thirty years. He was present\\nat the capture of Burgoyne in 1779.\\nMoses Chase, of Cornish, came of that fomily whicli has given so many\\ndistinguished names to American history, including that of Chief Justice\\nSalmon P. Chase.\\nOf the senators, Joseph Gilman, of Exeter, was treasurer of Rockingham\\ncounty. He died in May, 1806.\\nWoodbury Langdon, of Portsmouth, was a merchant; a member of the old\\nCongress, judge of the Supreme Court, and a firm patriot, devoted to the\\n;ause of his country.\\nTimothy Walker, of Concord, only son of Rev. Tiftiothy Walker of Con-\\ncord, was justice of Court of Common Pleas, chief justice five years candidate\\nfor governor in 179S. He died in May, 1S22. He filled all the town and State\\noffices to which he was elected with fidelity and honor.\\n]ohn Langdon. of Portsmouth, was afterwards president of New Hampshire.\\nHonorable John Wentworth. of Dover, representative through the war;", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "1784] STATE UNDER ElKST CONSTITU I lON. 4OJ\\none of the executive council of tlie Stale; on tlie Co!ii;r.ittee of Safety; and\\na delegate to the Continental Congress. He was an able lawyer; as a man,\\nbenevolent, and of a good-natured address, and a statesman of superior abili-\\nties. He died in January, 17S7.\\nEbenezer Smith, w-as a proprietor of Gilmanton, but settled in Meredith in\\n1768, and was a father of the town for ni;uiy years. He was judsje of\\nProbate; lieutenant-colonel of loth regiment militia; and president of the\\nSenate two years. He died in August, 1S07.\\nMatthew Thornton yas a member of Congress and a signer of the Declaration\\nof Independence.\\nSimeon Olcott, of Charlestown, was judge of Probate chief justice of Court\\nof Common Pleas; associate justice of Superior Court in 1790; chief justice\\nfrom 1795 to iSoi and United States senator. He died in February, iSij.\\nEnoch Hale, of Rindge, was a leading citizen of the town, till he removed\\nto Walpole in 17S+. He died in Grafton, Vt., in April. 1813, aged seventy-nine.\\nMoses Dow-, of Haverhill, \\\\yas the first lawyer of Grafton county, and for\\nsome time was register of Probate.\\nOf the House of Representatives, George Atkinson, who was born, lived,\\nand died in Portsmouth, was a man of considerable ability, strict integrity,\\nand of an irreproachable character. He was four times appointed a delegate\\nto the Continental Congress, but each time declined the office. He was also\\nappointed a member of the Committee of Safety, and declined. He was ap-\\npointed a special justice of the Superior Court. In 17S5 he was one of four\\ncandidates for president of the State, and received the largest popular vote,\\nbut failed of an election before the legislature. He died in February, 1788.\\nGeorge Gains was one of the Committee of Safety for the State in 1777.\\nJohn Pickering, a native of Newington, was attorney-general in 17S6; re-\\npeatedly a member of the legislature president of the United States Senate in\\n17S9; and governor of the State, ex officio, when Governor John Langdon was\\nelected to the United States Senate. In 1790 he was appointed chief justice of\\nthe Superior Court, and held the office five years. He was afterwards district\\njudge of the United States and served till 1804. He died in April, 1S05.\\nColonel Daniel Runnels, of Londonderry, served as captain in Colonel\\nNichols s regiment at Bennington, and as c.iptain in Colonel Peabodys\\nregiment in Rhode Island in 177S. He was an able and distinguished citizen.\\nThomas Bartlett, of Nottingham, was among the leading patriots ot\\nRockingham county. He was captain of a company in 1775 at Winter Hiil;\\nlieutenant-colonel in Colonel Gilman s regiment in Rhode Island in 1778; a\\nmember of Committee of Safety in 177S; colonel of a regiment at West Point\\nin 17S0; brigadier-general of New Hampshire militia in 1792; representative\\nin 1775: speaker o\u00c2\u00a3 the House of Representatives; judge of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas. He died in June, 1807, aged fifty-nine.\\nMoses Leavitt, of North Hampton, actively participated in the war of the\\nRevolution. He was appointed captain in the Continental service in 1776,\\nand was employed on coast defence during the war. He was representative\\nin 1782 and 17S3.\\nHon. Christopher Toppan, of Hampton, was a useful and distinguished", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "408 IlISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [^7^4\\ncitizen, son of Dr. Edmund Toppan, and grandson of Rev. Christopher\\nToppan, of Newburv, Mass. His mother was a daughter of Colonel Joshua\\nWingate. He was often a representative and councillor. He died in Febru-\\nary, 1S19, aged eightv-four.\\nDaniel Emerson, of HoUis, was coroner for Hillsborough county; captain\\nin Rhode Island expedition representative and councillor. He died in\\nOctober, 1S21.\\nLieutenant Robert Wallace, of Henniker, was a native of Londonderry;\\njudge of Court of Common Pleas for Hillsborough county, and councillor\\nfrom 17SS to 1S03. He died in January, 1S15.\\nJohn Duncan, of Antrim, a native of Londonderry, was a prominent\\ncitizen, serving as town-clerk, representative, selectman, and senator. He\\ndied in March. 1S23.\\nJohn Underbill, of Chester.\\nJohn Cram, one of the chief men in the town of Pittsfield.\\nCaptain Jeremiah Clough, of Canterbury, was a veteran of Bunker Hill,\\nand an active and influential citizen.\\nMaior Nathan Bachelder, of Loudon, was one of the most active and influ-\\nential citizens of that town from its organization until the close of the\\ncentury.\\nSamuel Daniell, of Pembroke, was a lending citizen of that tjwn.\\nColonel Nathaniel Emerson, of Candia, was called to public stations\\nperhaps more than any other individual who ever lived in Candia.\\nJeremiah Eastman, of Deerfield, was born in December, 1732, in Kensing-\\nton, and settled in Deerfield.\\nJames Betton, of Windham, was a farmer, surveyor, and auctioneer.\\nMajor Jonathan Wentworth, of Somersworth, was captain in siege of\\nBoston.\\nJohn Sanborn, from Sanbornton, a veteran of the old French war, and a\\nsoldier of the Revolution, was a benevolent, generous-hearted man, of dig-\\nnity and presence, full of dry humor.\\nRobert Means, of Amherst, born in Ireland, was noted for his hon-\\nebtv, fair dealing, close attention to business, and in time became one of the\\nmost widely known and distinguished merchants in the town or State.\\nBenjamin Mann, of Mason, commanded a company at the battle of Bunker\\nHill. He moved to Keene in iSoo. and died in iSoi.\\nMr. Ephraim Adams, of New Ipswich, was one of the leading men of that\\ntown for many years.\\nMatthew Wallace, of Peterborough, was seventeen times moderator; eleven\\nyears town-clerk six years selectman six years representative.\\nCaptain Francis Davis, of Warner, was the first representative from War-\\nner, both to the Provincial Congress at Exeter as well as under the constitution.\\n\u00c2\u00abi Elijah Grout, of Charlestown, was very active and widely known through-\\nout the Revolution. He was a brave and good man. He was intelligent and\\nfar-seeing, and had all the qualities of a sterling man.\\nWilliam Smiley, of Jatfrey, an early settler, was a prominent and influen-\\ntial man.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "I7S4] STATE UNDER EIKST CONSTITUTION 4O9\\nSamuel King, of Chesterfield, was a phvsician.\\nStephen Powers, of Croydon, was an early settler of that place, and was\\ndistinguished for his giant frame, great physical strength, and vigorous in-\\ntellect.\\nColonel Timothy Bedel, of Bath, was prominent all through the Revolu-\\ntion, holding important commands on the northern frontier.\\nMoses Baker, of Campion, was the great-grandfather of Hon. Henry W.\\nBlair.\\nSuch, with their associates of like character, were the men\\nchosen by the yeomanry of New Hampshire to organize the new\\nState government. To them was intrusted the welfare of the\\nCommonwealth at the most important and trying time of its his-\\ntory, a period of depression and distress such as had hardly\\nbeen felt in the sharpest crisis of the war itself. The close of\\nhostilities with England brought with it no relief to the suf-\\nferings of the people, but seemed for a time rather to aug-\\nment them. A feeling of very general discontent pervaded\\nthe public mind, no longer held in check by a foreign foe.\\nThe government was weak and inefficient, the people poor and in\\ndebt, credit both public and private impaired, or rather well-nigh\\ndestroyed. A depreciated paper currency took the place of specie\\ntender laws and the further issues of paper were loudl) called for\\nby the discontented and debtor party, as the only remedy for the\\ngreat and acknowledged evils of the times and the courts of law\\nwere more than ever surrounded by mobs, whose avowed purpose\\nwas to prevent the judges from proceeding in the trial of cases.\\nIn Keene, nearly two years before, the judges of the Superior\\nCourt, accompanied by the attorney-general, John Sullivan,\\nwere warned in the outskirts of the village that a mob had col-\\nlected about the court-house, who would resist with violence any\\nattempt to enforce the laws. Sullivan undertook to get the\\ncourt, with as little loss of dignity as possible, out of the hands of\\nthe mob. He accordingly halted the party while he put on his\\nuniform of a general in the Continental army blue coat, bright\\nbtittons, sword, and cocked hat with plume, that had been seen\\non nearly every battlefield of the Revolution, mounted his pow-\\nerful gray horse, and, preceding the court, conducted them into\\nthe town. An armed assembly had gathered about the court-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "410 iriSTOKY OF NEW HAMPSIIIKE. [^7^4\\nhouse, sullen in their aspect and resolute in their purpose to pre-\\nvent the transaction of business, who gave way, however, and\\nallowed the court to enter. The judges having taken their seats,\\nthe court was opened in due form by the crier, while the crowd\\nrushed tumultuously in and filled the house. Sullivan, who was\\na man of fine personal appearance, dignified aspect, and com-\\nmanding deportment, stood in the clerk s desk and calmly and\\nresolutely surveyed the multitude, recognizing among them offi-\\ncers and soldiers who had served with him. He seemed once\\nmore their trusted commander, and the instinct of obedience was\\nworking strongly in the mass, who felt his presence and involun-\\ntarily obeyed the motions of their old chief. With dignity he\\ntook off his cocked hat, disclosing a profusion of white powdered\\nhair, unbelted his long sword and deliberately laid them on the\\ntable. Having gained their attention, and silence ensuing\\nafter considerable disturbance, he demanded of them why\\nthey had come before the court in such a turbulent manner.\\nHe was answered by many voices: The petition! the peti-\\ntion and a committee stepped forward with a huge roll of\\npaper which Sullivan received and presented to the court. The\\nclerk having read it, Sullivan addressed the people, courteously\\nbut firmly, on the impropriety of any attempt to influence, even\\nby the appearance of violence, the deliberations of the court;\\ntold them their petition would be considered and directed them\\nto withdraw. They obeyed with reluctance, whereupon the\\ncourt adjourned until the next day, in hope that the mob would\\ndisperse. In the afternoon Sullivan addressed them on the sub-\\nject of their complaints, and advised them to return to their\\nhomes. On the opening of the court the next morning the\\nhouse was full of people, impatient for the answer to their peti-\\ntion. Sullivan, now in citizen s dress, with grace and dignity\\nsaid that he was instructed by the court to inform them that the\\ncourt would continue all causes on the civil docket in which\\neither party was not ready for trial, as the court was due in another\\ncounty. Upon which announcement the people withdrew with\\ncheers for General Sullivan. The mob had effected its puv-\\npose, and the dignity of the court had been sustained. At", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "1784] STATK UNDER FIRST CONSTITUTION. 411\\nthis time Keene ami the towns bordering on tlie CtHinecticut\\nwere lukewarm in their allegiance to the New Hampshire au-\\nthorities.\\nIn Massachusetts a similar condition of things led, in 1786,\\nto Shays s rebellion and in this State, at an earlier period of\\nthat year, events seemed fast tending to a like dangerous issue.\\nMany town and county conventions were held, and petitions for\\na redress of grievances were presented to the legislature. Del-\\negates from some of the conventions assembled in Concord\\nduring the June session, where they were assisted to organize\\nby several active young men, some of whom were afterwards\\ndistinguished in the service of the State, who, although not prop-\\nerly chosen members, conceived the idea of turning the pro-\\nceedings into ridicule. Having been admitted without question,\\nas delegates from their respective towns, they at once took a\\nleading part, taking different sides to avoid an appearance of\\nconcert, and vied with the true members in their zeal for reform.\\nAfter a debate of several hours the convention adopted a series\\nof resolutions, and appointed a committee, of which William\\nPlumer, one of the eleven young conspirators, was chairman, to\\nreport a petition to the legislature. This petition, which was\\nreported the next morning, embodied the substance of the reso-\\nlutions, and was unanimously adopted by the convention. Among\\nother things it requested the legislature to abolish the Court of\\nCommon Pleas, to establish town courts, to restrict the number\\nof lawyers to two in a county, and to provide for the issue of\\nState notes to the amount of three million dollars, the same to\\nbe legal tender in payment of all debts. The issue of paper\\nmoney by the State was the favorite measure of the discontented\\nand debtor party, and the mock members of the convention\\ncould hardly keep pace with the real ones in the extravagance\\nof their suggestions. Dr Jonathan Gove, of New Boston, who\\nrepresented ten towns in Hillsborough county, proposed to raise\\nthe amount named to twelve millions of dollars, to pay all debts\\npublic and private. The convention went in a body to present\\ntheir petition, and were gravely received by the legislature.\\nThe speaker showed them ceremonious attention, and, as one of", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "412 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l/SS\\nthe delegates said, treated them with superfluous respect,\\nlaying their memorial on the table. Having again assembled at\\ntheir place of meeting, Mr. Plumer addressed them and showed\\nthe absurdity of their proceedings after a heated discussion\\nthe convention broke up in disorder and for sometime the very\\nname of a convention became a term of reproach.\\nThe dispute between the people of New Hampshire and the\\ninhabitants of the Hampshire grants and the authorities of New\\nYork as to the western boundary of New Hampshire had been\\nsettled by the Continental Congress admitting into the Union the\\nnew State of Vermont. About this time several New Hampshire\\ntowns situate in the Connecticut valley were tempted to throw\\noff their allegiance to New Hampshire but happily more pru-\\ndent counsels prevailed and the separation did not take place.\\nJohn Langdon, who was elected second president of the State\\nin 1785, after Meshech Weare had declined to serve, was born in\\nPortsmouth in 1740, was a merchant, shipbuilder, and a patriot.\\nHe helped seize the ammunition at Fort William and Mary in\\n1774, built the Ranger for John Paul Jones, was a delegate to the\\nContinental Congress in 1775 and 1776, served with Stark at\\nBennington, was again elected president of the State in 1788, a\\ndelegate to the convention which framed the constitution of the\\nUnited States, and to the State convention which accepted it.\\nHe was the first United States senator elected, and was chosen\\npresident of that body, and as such informed General Washing-\\nton of his election. After he left Congress he was elected gov-\\nernor five times. From a Federalist he became a Republican, and\\nlater a Democrat.\\nGeneral John Sullivan was chosen president of New Hampshire\\nin 1786. The want of money and the depression in business\\nwere evils too deeply rooted to be removed by ridicule, mock\\nconventions, or idle talk. The people were in distress, especially\\nthe veterans of the Continental army. New conventions were\\ncalled in different parts of the State. In the Rockingham con-\\nvention, held in Chester, it was resolved to send to E.xeter,\\nwhere the legislature was to meet in September, a body of\\nWilliam Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0426.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "1786] STATE UNDER FIRST CONSTITUTION. 413\\narmed men to enforce their claims. Accordingly about two\\nhundred men, under command of Joseph French, of Hampstead,\\nand James Cochrane, of Pembroke, some armed with muskets and\\nothers with clubs, marched into Exeter, and sent in their petition to\\nthe General Court for a redress of grievances, declaring their inten-\\ntion, if it was not granted, to do themselves justice. They sur-\\nrounded the house in which the legislature was in session, and,\\nplacing sentinels at the door and windows, demanded an imme-\\ndiate answer to their petition. The House appointed a com-\\nmittee on the petition but the Senate, under the influence of\\nSullivan, who was now president of the State, and as such had\\na seat in the Senate, refused to act on the subject while they\\nwere thus besieged by the mob, and proceeded with their ordi-\\nnary business.^ A party of the friends of order armed them-\\nselves, and called upon all good citizens to disperse the mob and\\nthus set the members of the legislature at liberty. General\\nSullivan came out, accompanied by Nathaniel Peabody, Ebenezer\\nWebster, and other officers of the Revolution and friends of gov-\\nernment, and ordered the mob to disperse. Armed citizens in\\ntheir rear, pressing on them and calling for the artillery to ad-\\nvance, the mob began to retire and French, finding that the\\nlegislature was not frightened by threats, withdrew with his\\nmen some distance from the village for the night. Sullivan\\nsummoned the militia, and on the following morning nearly two\\nthousand assembled and were led by General Cilley against the\\ninsurgents, who made some show of resistance. Upon being\\nordered to fire by Major Cochrane they broke and fled in disor-\\nder, and the militia captured thirty-nine of their number. The\\nquestion now arose as to what should be their punishment.\\nThey had been guilty of treason or of some high offence. The\\nleaders were brought before the two Houses in convention.\\nFrench made very humble supplications for his life. Cochrane,\\nwho had been a soldier in the Revolution, pled for pardon with\\nsome self-respect. Both stated that they had been encouraged\\nin their course by men in high standing, some of them members\\nof the legislature, who now repudiated all connection with their\\nWilliam Pkimer, Jr. i", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0427.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "414 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l/S/\\nacts. The leaders now became as an.xious to get rid of their\\ncaptives as they had been the day before to capture them. Most\\nof them were indicted, but allowed at the next term of court to\\nescape without punishment. Such as were church members\\nwere dealt with by their churches militia officers were dis-\\nmissed from the service. It was deemed good policy, as no\\nblood had been shed, to treat this first attempt at armed resist-\\nance to the Government with lenity, yet so as to vindicate the\\nviolated authority of the law, thus attacked at the fountain head.\\nLittleton is a part of the territory originally granted as Chis-\\nwick.^ Subsequently it was called Apthorp. In 1784 it was\\ndivided, forming the present towns of Littleton and Dalton.\\nThe first town meeting in Littleton appears to have been\\nheld on the 19th day of July, 1787, at the house of Nathan\\nCaswell, the first settler in the town, the same having been-\\ncalled by John Young, by authority granted by the legislature,\\nwho by the same authority served as moderator. At this meet-\\ning Robert Charlton was chosen clerk, Samuel Larnard, John\\nChase and Perley Williams, selectmen, and Sargent Currier,\\nconstable. Until 1809 the town was classed with various others,\\nthe arrangement being changed at different times, for the pur-\\npose of choosing a representative to the General Court. The\\nfirst resident of Littleton chosen representative was James Wil-\\nliams, in 1794. The next was James Rankin, in 1798; then\\nDavid Goodall, from 1800 to 1806 inclusive, the class then in-\\ncluding Littleton, Dalton, and Bethlehem.\\nThe year 1787 is memorable as that in which the constitution\\nof the United States was formed. Highly as that instrument is\\nnow prized, it was not received with much favor by the people\\non its first promulgation. It met, in all the States, with many\\nIt has been a central point in While Mountain travel ever since tourists and pleasure seekers com-\\nmenced visiting this now celobrnted region. Even before the construction of the railroad, it was, in\\nthe summer time, a great stage depot, where centred the various lines to the mountains from the wes-\\ntern approach. It is, however, since the construction of the White Mountains Railroad, which was\\ncompleted to this point in 1853, that the growth of the place in population and business importance has\\nmainly occurred. From 1S53 until 1S70, when the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad, having\\ncome into possession of the White Mountains road, extended the line to Lancaster and Fabyan s,\\nLittleton enjoyed the advantage of being a railroad terminus, which contributed materially to its\\ndevelopment as a trade centre.\\n2 H. H. Metcalf.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0428.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0429.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "4l6 HISTORY- OF .NEW IIAMl SHIKE. 88\\nopponents and in several it was adopted only after repeated\\ntrials, and by small majorities.\\nIn more than half the States its ratification was accompanied\\nby proposed amendments, without which it would probably have\\nbeen rejected. A government for the Union was proposed by\\nconstitution for the first time. The votes of the Revolution-\\nary Congress had no legislative authority even the articles of\\nconfederation, which went into operation in 1781, merely formed\\na league or alliance between independent States. The people\\nwho believed in establishing a strong central government were\\ncalled Federalists; those who believed in State rights were soon\\ncalled Anti-Federalists. After its ratification the friends of the\\nfirst two administrations retained the name of Federalists,\\nwhile their opponents took that of Republicans. The Federal-\\nists were succeeded by the Whigs, and later by the Republicans\\nthe Anti-Federalists became Republicans, and at length\\nDemocrats the two great political parties into which the people\\nof the United States are divided at the present time. In gen-\\neral the Federalists were in favor of a liberal construction and\\ne.vercise of the powers of the general government and the Re-\\npublicans, in theory always, and to a considerable extent in prac-\\ntice, were for narrowing down those powers to their least possible\\nextent. The election of delegates to the convention, which was\\nto accept the proposed constitution or to reject it, drew into two\\nparties the people, who became thoroughly familiar with its provi-\\nsions from frequent private and public discussions. Men equally\\nhonest and intelligent belonged to both parties.\\nThe convention chosen to accept or reject in behalf of the\\nState the Federal Constitution met at the Court House at\\nExeter, February 13, 1788. That instrument had already re-\\nceived the approval of six States. Upon the meeting of the dele-\\ngates it was found that there was a powerful opposition to the\\nproposed form of government, many of the members from the\\nsmaller towns having been instructed to vote against it. The\\nconvention included many of the leading men of the State. The\\nleading Federalists were John Sullivan, John Langdon, Samuel\\n\\\\Villi.im Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0430.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "1788] STATE UXUEK EIKST CONSTITUTION. 417\\nLangdoii, Samuel Livermoie, Josiah Bartlett, John Pickering,\\nJohn Taylor Oilman, and Benjamin licllovvs. The leaders of tlie\\nopposition were Joseph Badger, Joshua Atherton, William Hooper,\\nMatthias Stone, Abiel Parker, and Jonathan Dow. During the\\nearly debates it seemed that the opponents of the constitution had\\na majority in the convention. The friends of the Union did\\nnot dare to let a decisive vote be taken, and after a session of\\nseven days brought about an adjournment, in order to let those\\ndelegates whom they had won over return to their constituents\\nfor different instructions. The convention again assembled in\\nJune, at Concord, and in the meanwhile two more States had\\nvoted to accept the constitution. Thus devolved upon New\\nHampshire the responsibility of casting the ninth or decisive\\nvote, which would put the new form of government in operation.\\nNew York and Virginia were considering the measure, in con-\\nvention, at the same time. June 21, by a vote of 57 yeas to 47\\nnays the New Hampshire convention voted to accept the federal\\nconstitution, but at the same time proposed several amendments.\\nA messenger was sent post haste to notify the convention then\\nsitting in New York, and undoubtedly caused favorable action\\nin that body.\\nTradition asserts that one delegate, of pronounced Anti-F ed-\\nei al convictions, was being dined and wined at the house of\\nJudge Walker at the time the decisive vote was being taken,\\nand failed to have his vote recorded.\\nAt the meeting of the legislature in the fall of 1788 the choice\\nof two senators to the first Congress of the United States under the\\nnew constitution devolved upon it. The two Houses refused to\\nmeet in convention and accordingly voted separately by ballot.\\nIn the House John Langdon had all but three votes, where-\\nupon William Plumer offered a resolution declaring that Mr.\\nLangdon was duly elected, and called for the yeas and nays, thus\\nputting every member s vote on record. His object did not ap-\\nliear at the time, but was understood, when the ballot for the\\nsecond senator was taken, to establish a precedent. The two\\ncandidates were Josiah Bartlett and Nathaniel Pcabody and the\\nlatter, an AntiT ^cderalist, had a considerable majority, which", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0431.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "4l8 HI6TUKV OI NEW HA.Ml SIUKi;. [^7^8\\nwas rctluced to two on tiic roll call, Mr. Plunier, in a plain and\\nforcible speech, having denounced Mr. Peabody as unfit for the\\noffice, and extolled Dr. Bartlett. It had the desired effect on\\nthe Senate, which sent down the name of Dr. Bartlett and he\\nwas finally elected. Dr. Bartlett declined the honor, however\\nand Paine Wingate was chosen in his place. Mr. Peabod} felt\\nmortified and provoked at the result, talked loudly of his vio-\\nlated honor, and threatened to chastise his assailant. A prompt\\nintimation that more or worse would be said if he moved far-\\nther put an end to his threats, though not to his hostility.\\nAt the December session of the legislature to count the votes\\nfor electors and announce the result it was found there had\\nbeen no choice by the pcojile. Again the Senate refused to\\nmeet the House in convention, causing an exciting and angry\\ncontroversy but the House at the last moment yielded the\\npoint. President Sullivan violently opposed the claim of the\\nSenate, while William Plumer favored it.\\n2 p\\\\-w if an\\\\ of the original thirteen States had an abler or more\\ninfluential rc^jresentation in the various Continental Congresses\\nby which the war of the Revolution was directed tiian New\\nHampshire, a representation which was continued, in point of\\nability and influence, in the various congresses which met under\\nthe Articles of Confederation, until the constitution was adop-\\nted, and the first Congress met at New York in 17S9. From the\\nmeeting of the first Continental Congress at Philadelphia, Sep-\\ntember 5, 1774, to the adjournment of the last Congress under\\nthe Confederation, at New York, October 21, 1778, New Hamp-\\nshire was represented by eighteen of her wisest and most\\nprominent men. Several of these, as for instance Nathaniel\\nFolsom, John Langdon, Samuel Livermore, and John Sullivan,\\nserv ed for several terms, having been engaged in other patriotic\\nservice in the intervals between their terms of service.\\nWhen the first Continental Congress met at Philadeljihia,\\nSeptember 5, 1774, New Hampshire had two representatives,\\nNathaniel Folsom and John Sullivan.\\nWilliaiii PUiiiiLT, Jr. W. V. Wlii-.ch.:r.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0432.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "1788] STATE UNDER EIKST CONSTITUTION. 4I9\\nNathaniel Folsom was born al Exeter, in i7- 6. lie early evinced ability\\n^vhich gave him prominence in the aftairs of the Province. In the Seven\\ni ears War he served as captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel\\nlilanchaid. He was active in militia affairs, and commanded the 4th\\nregiment at the outbreak of the Revolution. He was a delegate to the\\nfirst Continental Congress at Philadeljihia. In April, 1775, he was appointed\\nbrigadier-general to command the State troops sent to Massachusetts, and\\nserved during the siege of Boston. He was subsequently major-general. He\\nwas again a delegate to the congresses which met at Lancaster, Penn.,\\nPhiladeli)hia, York, and Philadelphia, serving the whole time in the first\\nthree of these congresses, and about a year, 1779-S0, in the last. In each of\\nthese he was regarded as a valuable member. In 177S he was a member of\\nthe New Hampshire Executive Council, and was the President of the State\\nconstitutional convention which prepared the first constitution of the State\\nin 17S3. He died at E,\\\\eter, where, for the greater part of his life, he had his\\nhome. May 26, 1790.\\njolin Sullivan.\\nJosi.ili Bartlett.\\nJohn Langdon, born in Portsmouth, June 25, 1741, was one of the most\\nactive citizens of the Slate in the movements leading to the Revolution. He\\nwas a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, and was appointed con-\\ntinental navy agent. Largely at his own expense he equipped General\\nStark s regiment which won the battle of Bennington. He was elected to the\\nContinental Congress in 17S6; was for a number of years a member of the\\nState House of Representatives and several times speaker. He was elected\\npresident of the State in 17S8, and United States senator in 17S9 and in 1795.\\nHe was elected governor in 1S05, 1S06, 1S07, iSoS, and 1810. He declined the\\noffice of secretary of the navy offered to him by President Jefferson, and the\\noffice of vice-president tendered by the Democratic delegation in 1S12. He\\ndied in Portsmouth, September iS, 1819, mourned as one of the most honored\\nand distinguished citizens of the State.\\nWoodbury Langdon. an older brother of John, was born at Portsmouth\\nin 1739, and, like his brother, early engaged in mercantile pursuits. He\\nserved for about a year, 1779-17S0, in the Continental Congress, rendering\\nvaluable service in the councils of the time. For three years, from 17S1 to\\n1784, he was a member of the State Executive Council. In 1782 he was ap-\\npointed one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the State, serving but a\\nshort time, however. In 1786 he was again appointed, serving till 1790. He\\ndied at Portsmouth, January 13, 1805.\\nOne of the most honored names in New Hampshire s early history is that\\nof Matthew Thornton. He was born in Ireland in 1714, and came, when a\\nmere lad, to America, living for a while at Wiscasset, Me. Removing to\\nWorcester, he received an academic education, studied medicine, and\\nbegan his practice in the historic town of Londonderry. In the famous\\nexpedition of Sir William Pepperrell against Louisburg he served as\\nsurgeon, and was afterward prominently connected with the colonial militia,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0433.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "420 IIISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 788\\nhoUling for several years a commission as colonel. lie was a member of the\\nconvention which declared New Hampshire to be a sovereign State. He served\\nin the Continental Congress from 1776 to 1778, and in the latter year resigned\\nto accept the chief justiceship of Hillsborough county. He held this position\\nonly about two years, resigning to accept an appointment on the supreme\\nbench of the State. In 17S3 he was a member of tlie Stale House of Repre-\\nsentatives, and the next year of the State Senate. The yearfollowing he was\\na member of the Executive Council, but soon afterward removed to Massa-\\nchusetts. He died at Newburyport, Mass., June 24, 1804, in his ninety-\\nfirst year.\\nWilliam Whipple, born at Kittery, January 14. 1730, received his education\\non board a vessel, being bred a sailor, and was in command of a vessel in the\\nAfrican trade before he readied his twenty-first birthday-. During the Seven\\nYears War he retired from a seafaring life and engaged in mercantile\\npursuits, at Portsmouth, in which he was remarkably successful. In\\n1775 iie was elected a member of the Continental Congress, tak!ig his\\nseat in May; was re-elected in 1776, talking his seat in February, in time to\\nimmortalize himself as one of the signers of the Declaration. He was again\\nelected in 177S, but did not take his seat till some time after the opening of\\nthe congress, as in the meantime he had accepted the command of a brigade\\nfor the defence of Rhode Island. He declined further re-elections to Con-\\ngress which were tendered him, and resigned his militar_v commission, June\\n20, 17S2. He was a member of the State Assembly, 17S0-1784; superinten-\\ndent of finance of the State, 17S2-17S4. In 1782 he wasappointed a judge ot\\nthe State Supreme Court, holding the position till obliged to relinquish it on\\naccount of disease. While captain of a vessel in the African trade he engaged\\nto some extent in the slave-trade, but after the opening of the war of the\\nRevolution he emancipated all his slaves, and refused to assist General Wash-\\nington in the recovery of a servant of Mrs. Washington, who had run away\\nand taken refuge in Nev^ Hampshire. Captain Whipple, as he was familiarly\\ncalled, died suddenly, of heart disease, November 28, 17S5.\\nGeorge Frost was born at Newcastle, April 26, 1727, and after receiving a\\npublic school education, entered the employ of his uncle, the celebrated mer-\\nchant, Sir William PepperrelKat Kittery Point. For several years he followed\\na seafaring life as supercargo and captain, but in 1770 abandoned the sea and\\nremoved to Durham. He was made a judge of the Strafford county Court of\\nCommon Pleas in 1773, and served till 1791, for several of these years being\\nchief justice. He was elected a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1777,\\nand served, rendering good service, till 1779. For the three years 1781-1784 he\\nwas a member of the Executive Council. Resigning his seat on the bench\\nat the age of seventy, he retired to private life, and died at Durham, June 21,\\n1796, in his seventy-seventh year.\\nLittle needs to be said of the Wentworths, a familyof the first prominence in\\nthe colonial and early history of New Hampshire, and the list of members of\\nthe Continental Congress could hardly be said to be complete unless it em-\\nbraced the name of a Wentworth. John Wentworth, Jr., was born at Somers-", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0434.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "1 788] STATK UNDER FIRST CONSTITUTION. 42 I\\nwortli, July 17, 1745, and graduated at Harvard College in the class of\\n176S. He was admitted to tlie bar and commenced the practice of law\\nat Dover in 1770. This same year he was appointed bj Governor John\\nWentworth register of probate for Strafford county. Was a member of the\\nState House of Representatives from 1776 to 17S0, and served as a member of\\nthe Continental Congress for nearly the whole of 1778 and 1779. He was a\\nmember of the State Senate 17S1-1784, and of the Executive Council 17S0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n17S4. He was recognized as a man of the most brilliant talents and of great\\npromise, and his early death, which occurred at Dover, January 10, 17S7, was\\ndeeplv regretted by all the people of the State.\\nNathaniel Peabody was born at Topsfield, Massachusetts, March i, 1741.\\nHe was the son of Dr. Jacob Peabody, with whom he studied medicine, and\\nafter being licensed commenced practice at Plaistow in 1761.\\nHe was an ardent advocate of the Revolution, and was commissioned\\nlieutenant-colonel in the militia in 1774, and was the first man in the pro-\\nvince to resign a royal commission. He was elected one of the Committee of\\nSafety January 10, 1776, and was appointed adjutant-general of the State\\nmilitia July 19. 1779. He was elected to the Continental Congress in 1779,\\nand again in 17S6, but tlie latter time did not act. He was for eight years a\\nmember of the State legislature, and in 1793 was elected speaker. Few merb\\nrendered the State better service in both civil and military capacity during-\\nthe Revolutionary period, but in his last years lie became financially em-\\nbarrassed and died in jail at Exeter, June 27, 1S23, wliere he had been impris-\\noned for debt.\\nOf Philip White little is known beyond the fact that he was a native of New\\nHampshire, and was probably a member of the lamily of Whites that were\\namong the early settlers of Rockingham county. He served a short time as-\\none of the delegates from New Hampshire in the Continental Congress that\\nmet at Philadelphia, July 2, 1778. His term of service was in tlie latter part\\nof 17S2 and during the early months of 1783. Like some congressmen of the\\npresent day he was not much heard from, and made no enduring mark.\\nLivermore is one of the honored names of New Hampshire history. Sam-\\nuel Livermore in 1780 was chosen a delegate to the Continental Congress,\\ntaking his seat in February of that year, but resigned in June, 1782, to accept\\nthe chief justiceship of the New Hampshire Court of Common Pleas.\\nJonathan Blanchard served in the Continental Congress in 17S3-S4.\\nAbiel Foster, pastor of the Congregational church in Canterbury, was a.\\nmember of the Continental Congress in 17S3 and 17S4, and was several times\\nelected to Congress under the Constitution.\\nJohn Taylor Oilman is perhaps best known to students of New Hampshire\\nas the man who held for the longest period the chief executive office. His\\nfather was for a long time receiver-general of the Province, and afterward of\\nthe State, and he was for several years assistant to his father. In 1782-178^\\nhewasa delegate from New Hampshire to the Continental Congress. In 1794\\nhe was elected governor as a Federalist, and was re-elected each year till 1S05,\\nwhen he was defeated by John Langdon, Democrat, by nearly 4000 majority.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0435.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "422 HISTORV 01 NEW HAMl SHIKE. [l\\nIn iSiJ he was again the Federal candidate. Init failing a majority of votes by\\nthe people, his opponent William Plumer was elected bj the legislature. In\\n1S13 he was again elected governor by a majority of 500 votes, and was re-\\nelected in 1S14 and 1S15, each time by about the same majority. Governor\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Gilman well earned the title of being the Federal governor par excellence of\\nthe State. He was born in Exeter, December 19, 1753; and died there\\nAugust 21, 1S28.\\nHis brother, Nicholas Gilman, was born at Exeter in 1762, and served in the\\nRevolutionary war as lieutenant, captain, adjutant, and adjutant-general. From\\n1786 to 17SS he was the youngest member of the Congress of the Confederation.\\nHe was a member of the first, second, third and fourth congresses, serving till\\nMarch3, 1797, when he took his seat in the United States Senate as a Democrat.\\nHis election to this position was the first break in the New England Federa-\\nJists in the Senate, who up to this had been solidly Federal. He was re-elec-\\nted in 1805, and again in iSii, and died at Philadelphia, on his way home.\\nMay 3, 1S14. Congress had adjourned April iS. During liis senatorial\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2career he was as ardent a Democrat as was his brother John Tavlor a Fed-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0eralist.\\nPierce Long was a native of Portsmouth born in 1739, he became, on\\nreaching inanhood, a partner with his father in the shipping business. In\\n1775 he was a delegate to the Provincial Congress of New Hampshire, and on\\nthe breaking out of hostilities served in the Revolutionary army as colonel\\nof the (st New Hampshire regiment, especially distinguishing himself at\\nTiconderoga. In 17S4, 17S5, and part of 17S6 he was an efficient member\\nof the Continental Congress. He was a member of the Executive Council\\n17S6-17S9, and member also of the State Constitutional Convention of 178S.\\nIn 1789 he was appointed by President Washington collector of customs at\\nPortsmouth, where he died April 3, 1799.\\nPaine Wingate -was another of New Hampshire s members of the Conti-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2nental Congress who was liberally educated. He was born at Amesbury,\\nMassachusetts, May 14, 1739, and graduated at Harvard in 1759. Like Abiel\\nFoster he studied theology, and December 14, 1763, was ordained over the\\nchurch at Hampton Falls, remaining as its minister till March iS, 17S1, when\\nhe was dismissed; removed to Stratham and engaged in farming. In the\\nlatter part of 1787 and the former part of 17S8 he served for a brief period in\\nthe Continental Congress, and was one of the first United States senators\\nfrom New Hampshire, serving four years from March 4, 17S9. He was elec-\\nted representative to the third Congress, serving two years. F rom 1798 to\\n1S09 he was one of the judges of the Superior Court, retiring w hen he reached\\nhis seventieth birthday. He passed liis last years in Stratham, dying there\\nMarch 7, 1S3S, having nearly completed his ninety-ninth year. His life, cov-\\nering as it did tlie field of theology, politics and law, extending through nearly\\na century, was a remarkable one.\\nThese eighteen names deserve to be placed on New Hampshire s roll of\\nhonor. They belong to men whose lives, services, and character had an in-\\nt-alculable influence in making New Hampshire what it has been and is, in", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0436.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "1788] STATE UNDER FIRST CONSTITUTION-. 423\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^iviiii;- it its honorable place in American hisloi v. T!u- names of these\\npatriots are worthv to be helii in remembrance b_v every son ol the Granite\\nState.\\nThe following account of the custom and post offices is from\\nthe pen of the late Hon. Thos. L. Tullock, a native of Portsmouth:\\nAbout the year 1675 Sampson Sheafe, senior, was collector of\\nthe port of Piscataqua, and continued in office a few years. Dur-\\ning his administration several vessels were seized for a violation\\nif the revenue laws, or the laws of trade and navigation. He\\nwas successful as a merchant honored as one of His Majesty s\\nCouncil, and also as secretary of the Province. His descendants\\nLecame prominent and wealthy citizens of the Province. His\\ngreat-grandson, the Hon. James Sheafe, an opulent merchant of\\nPortsmouth, was a member of the Sixth Congress and a United\\nStates senator. He was also the Federal candidate for governor\\nof New Hampshire in 18 16, but was defeated by William PI ti-\\nmer. Mr. Sheafe died December 5, 1829, aged seventy-four.\\nIn 1680 Edward Randolph was the collector of customs for\\nNew P3ngland, and Walter Barefoote was deputy collector.\\nIn 1692 Phesant Estwick was the deputy collector of the port\\nof Portsmouth.\\nAbout the year 1700 Samuel Pcnhallow was appointed col-\\nlector. He was an eminent citizen, one of the governor s Coun-\\ncil, chief justice of the Superior Court of Judicature in 1717,\\nrecorder of deeds, treasurer of the Province, and held other\\nresponsible positions. He married a daughter of President John\\nCutt, and inherited in his wife s right a large estate. He died in\\nDecember, 1726, aged sixty-two.\\nHon. Theodore Atkinson, senior, who died September 22,\\n1779, aged eighty-two, was ^o niany years the secretary of the\\nProvince, and held other offices of reputation, such as president\\nof council, and chief justice of the Superior Court of Judicature.\\nHe was the son of Hon. Theodore Atkinson, of Newcastle,\\nand the father of Hon. Theodore Atkinson, junior, and\\npreceded and succeeded him in the office of secretary of the\\nProvince. He had also been collector of customs, naval officer\\nof the i)ort, and sheriff of the Province but Jonathan Belcher,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0437.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "424 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE;. ^7^9\\nof Boston, when appointed in 1730 governor of Massachusetts\\nand New Hampshire, removed Mr. Atkinson from the office of\\ncollector, and appointed Richard Wibird in his stead. He also\\ndisplaced him as naval officer and Captain Ellis Huske suc-\\nceeded to the office. Mr. Atkinson was however continued as\\nsheriff. Mr Atkinson married the daughter of Lieut. -Governor\\nJohn Wentworth.\\nLieut. -Gov. John Temple, surveyor general of His Majesty s\\ncustoms in the northern part of America, appointed Theodore\\nAtkinson, jr., deputy collector of the customs at Piscataqua-\\nJames Nevin, a native of Scotland, a post captain in the British\\nnavy, and also one of His Majesty s Council, was collector of the\\ncustoms for the port of Portsmouth, and was succeeded by John\\nHughes. Robert Hallowell succeeded him, remaining in Ports-\\nmouth about one year, until 1772, when he was transferred to\\nBoston.\\nGeorge Meservc, a native of Portsmouth, son of Colonel Nath-\\naniel Meserve, who rendered highly meritorious services at the\\nfirst and second siege of Louisburg, as well as at Crown Point\\nand Fort Edward, and died at Louisburg in 1758, was the agent\\nfor the distribution of stamps in New Hampshire. He was in\\nEngland in 1765, when the Stamp Act passed. His commis-\\nsion reached Portsmouth in 1766 but the Act was particularly\\nobnoxious to the people of the Province, and the Sons of Liberty\\nat Portsmouth were so active and positive in their opposition,\\ntliat Mr. Meserve declined to qualify, not deeming it prudent to\\naccept the trust. To compensate him for the disappointment\\nand loss of the office, he was appointed comptroller of customs\\nfor the port of Boston but with the consent of the Crown, Mr.\\nHallowell, the collector at Portsmouth, exchanged offices witli\\nhim, and he returned to Portsmouth, where he was collector of\\nthe port in 1772.\\nRobert Trail, who married Mary Whipple, the sister of Joseph,\\nthe collector of customs, and William Whipple, one of the\\nsigners of the Declaration of Independence, was at one time the\\ncomptroller of the port at Portsmouth an office not continued\\nunder the present ni-r;anization of the government.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0438.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "j-Sq] state under first constitution. 425\\nEleazer Russell was naval officer, and virtually for a time the\\ncollector of the port. He was an unmarried man, very precise\\nand careful. It is related of him that when a vessel arrived\\nand the papers were carried to the custom house, Mr. Russell\\nwould receive them with the tongs and submit them to a smok-\\ning before he examined them, being always in great fear of\\nsmall-pox or foreign epidemics. He was connected with the\\ncustoms September 9, 1776, for he wrote on that day a letter of\\nconsiderable length to Hon. Meshech Weare in relation to\\nmaritime fees charged and collected. May 23, 1783, he was\\ninstructed by President Weare to allow British vessels to\\nenter the port, as the reasons for excluding them had ceased.\\nColonel Pierce Long was appointed by Washington collector\\nin 1789, but died in April before entering upon the duties of the\\nofifice. Colonel Long was a successful merchant, an influential\\nmember of the Provincial Congress, and was particularly distin-\\nguished for his military and civic services.\\nBenjamin Franklin was appointed general deputy postmaster\\nin 1753, and in the following year startled the people of the col-\\nonies by giving notice that the mails for New England, which\\ntheretofore had left Philadelphia once a fortnight in winter,\\nwould start once a week throughout the year. In 1760 he pro-\\nposed to run stage wagons between Philadelphia and Boston for\\nthe conveyance of the mail, one starting from each city on Mon-\\nday morning, and reaching its destination by Saturday night.\\nFranklin was removed from office by the British ministry in\\n1774. The Continental Congress appointed a committee to de-\\nvise a system of post-office communication, and on July 26,\\n1775, a report was submitted, and the plan proposed was adopted,\\nwhereupon Dr. Franklin was appointed postmaster-general.\\nJeremiah Libbey was postmaster at Portsmouth in 1776.\\nIn 1790 the general post-office was located in New York city,\\nat which time there were 1875 miles of post-roads established\\nin the United States. Now the aggregate length of routes, in-\\ncluding all classes of service, would probably reach over 350,000\\nmiles. In 1790 there were only seventy-five post-offices. Now\\nthere are over 50,000. The entire revenue from postages in 1790", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0439.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "426 IIISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. /SQ\\nwas less than sixteen thousand dollars. Now it aggregates u\\\\\\nwards of forty-two million dollars.\\nIn April, 1761, John Stavers, an Englishman by birth, and the\\nproprietor of noted hosttlries in his day, commenced running a\\nstage between Portsmouth and Boston. A curricle, or large\\nstage chair, drawn by two horses and sufficiently wide to comfort-\\nably accommodate three persons, was the vehicle used, and is repre-\\nsented to have been the first regularstage line established in Amer-\\nica. Thejourney was performed once a week. The conveyance\\nstarted on Monday for Boston and returning arrived at Ports-\\nmouth on Friday. An advertisement announcing the enterprise\\nreads: It willbc contrived to carry four persons beside the driv-\\ner. In case only two persons go, they may be accommodated to\\ncarry things of bulk or value to make a third or fourth person.\\nAfter one month s successful service, public notice was given\\nthat five passengers would be carried, leaving Portsmouth on\\nTuesday, and arrive back Saturday night.\\nIn May, 1763, The Portsmouth Flying Stage Coach, with\\nfour or six horses according to the condition of the roads, started\\nfrom the Earl of Halifax inn, kept by John Stavers, on\\nQueen, now State street, near the easterly end, toward the Pis-\\ncataqua river. The new Earl of Halifax hotel was first oc-\\ncupied about 1770, and was a commodious three-storied wooden\\nstructure, situated on the corner of Pitt (changed to Court) and\\nAtkinson streets, and is now occupied as a tenement house. The\\nstable, a very large and spacious building which sheltered the\\nhorses belonging to the Flying Stage Coach, as well as those of\\ntravellers, is on the corner of Atkinson and Jefferson streets, and in\\nthe rear of the public-house. The inns had been respectively\\nnamed, first Earl of Halifax, and afterward William Pitt,\\nand had furnished comfortable quarters for Washington, Lafay-\\nette, Hancock, Gerry, Knox, Sullivan, Rutledge, Louis Philippe,\\nand many other illustrious personages. The driver attached to\\nthe Flying Stage Coach was Bartholomew Stavers, undoubt-\\nedly the first regular stage driver north of Boston, if not in the\\ncountry.\\nOne of the earliest mail pouches, if not the first in use on the", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0440.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0441.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "428 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 790\\nroute, and of not greater capacity than a common hand satchel,\\nis preserved among the curiosities at the Portsmouth Athen-\\naeum.\\nEleazer Russell, a great-grandson of John Cutt, the first presi-\\ndent of the Province, held several government positions. At one\\ntime he was naval ofificer of the port, and also the sole postmas-\\nter of the Province of New Hampshire, and was distinguished as\\nthe first postmaster in the State. All letters addressed to New\\nHampshire were deposited in his office, and remained there un-\\ntil sent for from other towns. Mr. Brewster, in his Rambles\\nnumbered forty-seven, gives quite an interesting account of this\\nvery precise and dignified public functionary, with cock hat and\\nwig, a light coat with full skirts, a long vest with pocket pads\\nlight small clothes, with bright knee buckles, and more ponder-\\nous buckles on his shoes. For several years Portsmouth had\\nthe only post-ofifice in the Province of New Hampshire, and Elea-\\nzer Russell filled most acceptably the office of postmaster as well\\nas naval officer. His residence, which was the custom house\\nas well as the first post-office, was located near the old ferry ways\\nwhere the stone store now stands, opposite the intersection of\\nRussell with Market street.\\nIn the Committee of Safety, at Exeter, July 27, 17S1, pursu-\\nantto a vote of the General Assembly of June 27, 1781, author-\\nizing the establishment of a post to ride from Portsmouth to the\\nwestern part of New Hampshire, John Balch, of Keene, was ap-\\npointed post-rider for three months, at the compensation of sev-\\nenty dollars in hard money for the entire service. The route\\nwas from Portsmouth via Concord and Plymouth to Haverhill\\nthence down the Connecticut river through Charlestovvn and\\nKeene to Portsmouth the trip to be performed in each and\\nevery fourteen days, the committee reserving the right to alter\\nthe route if the public good or convenience should require any\\nchange.\\nDr. Josiah Bartlctt, of Kingston, was elected president of the\\nState in 1790, succeeding John Sullivan. Dr. Bartlett was very\\ndistinguished in the early annals of the State. He was born in\\nAmesbury, Massachusetts, in November, 1727, studied medicine.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0442.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "1790] STATE UNDER FIRST CONSTITUTION. 429\\nsettled 111 Kingston, and soon acquired a large practice by his\\nskill in surgery, and in the study of the human frame. He was\\nearly noted for uprightness and decision of character.\\nGovernor John Wentworth gave him the command of a regiment of\\nmill ia.\\nIn 1765 Dr Bartlett was first elected a representative from Kingston to the\\nlegislature, where he soon became distinguished, as a leader of the opposi-\\ntion.\\nIn February, 1775, Dr. Bartlett received a letter notifying him that his\\nname had been erased from the commission of the peace for the county of\\nKockingliam, and that he had been dismissed from his colonelcy in the\\nmilitia. Other patriots were treated in the same way.\\nIn the summer of 1775 Dr. Bartlett was chosen a delegate to the Conti-\\nnental Congress, and he set out for Philadelphia in the following September.\\nWhen Congress decided to take a vote on the subject of independence, they\\nbegun with the northernmost colony. New Hampshire. Dr. Bartlett s name\\nwas called first, and he voted in the affirmative. The other members were\\nthen appealed to in rotation until they came to Georgia, the southernmost\\ncolony. The president of Congress, John Hancock, was the first to sign the\\nDeclaration of Independence. Josiah Bartlett was the second who did so.\\nIn 17S0 he was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas.\\nIn 1782 he was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court, and he held that\\nposition until 17SS, when he was made chief justice of the Supreme Court.\\nIt does not appear that he had any special legal training for the bench,\\nbut few of the judges had in those days. But he had many of the requisites\\nthat generally go far towards the making of a sound justice, viz., honesty,\\ngood sense, and a large knowledge of books and men. In the somewhat un-\\nsettled state of the colonies, judges were not so much called upon to resolve\\nline points of law as they are at the present time.\\nDr. Bartlett was elected president of the State in 1790, and also in 1791.\\nWhen the new constitution went into eft ect, in 1792, the title was changed\\nto that of governor. Dr. Bartlett was elected governor in 1792 and in 1793,\\nthus being the first governor of the State.\\nIn 1792 Governor Bartlett was one of the electors of president and vice-\\npresident.\\nIn 1794 he retired from the gubernatorial chair. He was also elected to\\nthe United States Senate, but could not accept because of poor health. He\\nwas a staunch Federalist in politics, an active member in, and president of,\\nthe New Hampshire Medical Society.\\nHe was a man of fine figure, being six feet in height, and of erect bearing.\\nHis face was thoughtful and expressive, and he had handsome blue eyes.\\nHe wore his auburn hair in a queue, and had a white stock at his throat, and\\nruffles on his wrists. He wore knee breeches, black silk stockings, and low\\nshoes with silver buckles, the prevailing style for gentlemen at that time. He\\nwas affable, but dignified, in manner. In religion he was a Universalist.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0443.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "430 HISTOKV OF NEW )1A.MI SHIKK. [l/QO\\nIn Kingston, at a little distance back from the large and well-kept green,\\non higher ground, stands the imposing, old-fashioned house built by Josiah\\nBartlett. White oak was the material chiefly used in its construction. On\\nthe other side of the common stands the village tavern. Just beyond the old\\nhostelry lies that part of the hamlet which slowly but surely encroaches upon\\nthe busy portion.\\nIn one corner rest the remains of Josiah Bartlett. wlio died of paralysis\\nMay 19, 1795, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. A simple monument of cut\\ngranite marks the spot, a fitting covering for one of New Hampshire s most\\nhonored sons.\\nJosiah Bartlett commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Ordwav when\\nonly sixteen years of age. But prior to this he obtained a rudimentary\\nknowledge of Latin and Greek. He soon exhausted Dr. Ordway s meager\\nlibrary, and subsequently other libraries in that section, among which was\\nRev. Dr. Webster s of Salisbury. After five years of study, Dr. Bartlett\\nsettled in Kingston in 1750, and commenced the practice of his profession.\\nThat fine discretionary judgment which ever characterized his public life\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was early manifested in his methods of practice as a physician. He was a\\nclose and careful observer. Early in his professional career he discovered\\nerrors in the then accepted pathology and treatment of disease. Believing\\nthat his own life was saved in a severe fever by a quart of cider, which he\\npersuaded his watchers to get in the night, against the explicit orders of his\\nphysician that drinks should not be administered, he ever after discontinued\\nthe barbarous practice which allowed patients burning with a fever to die of\\nthirst.\\nThat terrible scourge now known as diphtheria appeared in this country for\\nthe first time at Kingston, with fearful fatality. The orthodox method of\\ntreatment for the disease was by bleeding, emetics, depressing drugs and\\nstarvation under the belief that the malady was inflammatory in its charac-\\nter. Dr. Bartlett again saw error in this conception of the pathology of the\\ndisease, and with a boldness that always followed his convictions, inaugurated\\na method of treatment diametrically opposite to the one endorsed by the pro-\\nfession. He resorted to tonics and antiseptics, with a sustaining diet, and\\nmet with a degree of success that had not before characterized the treatment\\nof the throat distemper.\\nThese incidents in his professional life almost constitute marking stones\\nin the progress of medicine in this country. Indeed, Belknap and other\\nhistorians have made a record of his marked success in the treatment of the\\nmalignant throat distemper.\\nThe mantle of distinction was first placed upon him while a tireless and\\nconscientious worker in the ranks of the medical profession. The historv\\nof his unparalleled career indicates that he possessed a fixity of purpose that\\nof fidelity to present duty in whatever capacity in life the course of events\\nplaced him. This quality was first manifested in the laborious routine of\\nmedical practice and its appreciation by the loyal citizens of the Province,\\nKev. IXmiel Rollins.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0444.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "1790] STATE UNOEK FIKST CONSTITUTION 43/.\\n(Coupled with his recognized ability, led liim .step by step into nearly every\\nofficial position within their gift.\\nPrior to 1791 no medical society or organization existed in the State.\\nDuring that year Dr. Bartlett, then president of New Hampshire, with eigh-\\nteen associated, all physicians of eminence and ability, obtained a charter for\\nthe New Hampshire Medical Society. The document shows the handiwork\\nof his master mind and his recognition of the importance of education to\\nthe physician. In proof of this reads the second preamble, which occurs\\nnear the middle of the enacting sections of the charter\\nAnd whereas it is clearly of importance that a just discrimination shoulc?\\nbe made between such as are duly educated and properly qualified for tlie\\nduties of their profession, and those who may ignorantly and wickedly admin-\\nister medicine whereby the health and lives of many valuable individuals\\nma^- be endangered, or perhaps lost to the community. Be it therefore fur-\\nther enacted, etc.\\nThis admirable charter was signed by Josiah Bartlett, president, on\\nFebruary 16, 1791. By its provision he was to call the first meeting of the\\nsociety, which he did on the 4th day of May following, at E.xeter. The manu-\\nscript records of that meeting say Present His Excellency Josiah Bart-\\nlett, Esq., Joshua Brackett, Hall Jackson, Nathaniel Peabody, John Rogers,\\nEbenezer Rockwood, William Cogswell, William Parker, jr., Benjamin Page,\\nand Isaac Thom, members. One will recognize these names as men of\\neminence in the earlier history of New Hampshire, whom Josiah Bartlett\\nchose and received as associates in the profession.\\nDr. Bartlett was elected president of the New Hampshire Medical Society\\nat its first meeting, and held the office for two years and then declined a re-\\nelection. The society passed resolutions thanking him for his inestimable\\nservices, to which he replied with the following letter\\nGentlemen of the New Hampshire Medical Society:\\nThe unexpected resolve of thanks presented me by your committee, for\\nthe small services I have been able to afford the Medical Society, I consider\\nas an instance of the polite attention and regard they mean to pay to such\\npersons as may in any manner endeavor to promote the public happiness.\\nI have long wished that the practice of medicine in the State (upon which\\nthe lives and healths of our fellow citizens depend) might be put under better\\nregulations than it has been in times past, and have reason to hope that the\\nincorporation of the New Hampshire Medical Society (if properly attended\\nto by the fellows) will produce effects greatly beneficial to the community by\\nencouraging genms and learning in the medical sciences and discouraging\\nignorant and bold pretenders from practising an art of which they have no\\nknowledge.\\nThat the members of the society maybe useful to themselves and the public,\\nand enjoy the exalted pleasure of satisfaction that arises from a conscious-\\nness that they have contributed to the health and happiness, not only of their\\npatients, but, by communicating to others the knowledge and cure of disease,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0445.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "432 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 790\\nto the general happiness of the hmiian race, is tlie ardent wisii. Gentlemen,\\nof your very humble servant, Josi.vii Bartlett.\\nConcord, N. H., June 19th, 179.V\\nThis letter was his last communication to the New Hampshire Medical\\nSociety. He founded it, drew its charter, shaped its by-laws and regulations,\\nand saw it properly organized upon a basis that guaranteed its perpetuity,\\nbefore his lamp went out.\\nAt the June session of the legislature, 1790, Wilham Plumcr\\nobjected to John S. Sherburne s taking his seat as a member,\\non the ground that he was a pensioner of the United States, and\\nheld the office of district attorney under the general govern-\\nment. During the discussion Sherburne shed tears, which\\nso influenced the members that he was allowed to retain his\\nseat. He had been a preacher and had become a lawyer, and had\\nlost his leg while in the army. He was a man of talents, gentle-\\nmanly in his manners and insinuating in his address. He was\\nafterwards elected to Congress, and held for many years the office\\nof district judge. The State constitution, established three years\\nlater, settled the question thus raised by excluding from both\\nbranches all persons holding any office under the United States.^\\nThe attempt to impeach Judge Woodbury Langdon occu-\\npied considerable of the time of this and the ne.xt legis-\\nlature. After many delays the impeachment was finally dropped,\\nthe judge having resigned his seat on the bench and accepted\\nan office under the United States. Many believed that the\\nimpeachment proceedings arose from private pique and personal\\ninterest. Jeremiah Smith, a rising young lawyer, this being his\\nthird term, conducted the impeachment for the House.\\nThe legislature, which prided itself very little on its patronage\\nof literature, appropriated ^50 towards the expenses of Rev. Dr.\\nJeremy Belknap s History of New Hampshire.\\nThe attempt to lay a direct State tax warmly recommended by\\nthe treasurer was defeated after a severe struggle by a single\\nvote. The argument used against the motion was that the trea-\\nsurer used the funds of the State for his private emolument\\nwhile the friends of the measure claimed that the public had no\\nconcern in the matter, except to see that his bondsmen were\\ngood.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0446.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "1790] STATE UNDER FIKST CONSTITUTION. 433\\nHis course on this measure alienated William Plumer from the\\nleading Exeter politicians, while agreeing with them in general\\npolitics, and made him ultimately a centre of anti-Exeter\\ninfluence. 1\\nExeter was for many years the political capital of the State.\\nJohn Taylor Gilman, Nicholas Oilman, Nathaniel Gilman, Oli-\\nver Peabody, Samuel Tenney, Benjamin Abbott, George Sulli-\\nvan, Benjamin Conner, who though less known was a great party\\nmanager, and, later, Jeremiah Smith, possessed an aggregate of\\ntalents and information, and a weight of character and influence,\\nwhich could be equalled in no other part of the State.\\nSo little was the general interest felt in politics at this time\\nthat only one in seventeen of the inhabitants of the State took\\nthe trouble to vote.\\n^The land which now comprises the town of Bartlett was granted\\nby Governor Wentworth to several persons, among whom were\\nWilliam Stark and Vera Royce, for services rendered in Canada\\nduring the French and Indian war. Captain Stark divided his\\nshare into lots, giving large tracts to persons who would settle\\nthem. Two brothers by the name of Emery, and a Harriman,\\nwere the first permanent settlers. Settlements had been begun\\nduring this time in most of the locations in the vicinity of the\\nmountains. In 1777, but a few years succeeding the Emerys,\\nDaniel Fox, Paul Jilly, and Samuel Willey, from Lee, made a\\nsettlement in what is known as Upper Bartlett, north of those\\nalready located. They commenced their settlement with mis-\\nfortune as well as hardship. Their horses, dissatisfied with the\\ngrazing along the Saco, started for their former home in Lee.\\nHon. John Pendexter removed to the town from Portsmouth\\nat an early period of its history, settling in the southern part\\nnear the Conway line. Here he resided the remainder of his\\nlife, dying at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He and\\nhis wife came a distance of eighty miles in midwinter, she riding\\nujjon an old, feeble horse, with a feather-bed under her, and an\\ninfant child in her arms, he by her side, hauling their household\\nfurniture upon a hand-sled. Nor was it a well-prepared home to\\nWilliam Piume Jr. E. A. Philbrick.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0447.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "434\\nHISTOKV OF NEW IlAMrsiIIKE.\\n1790\\nwhicli they came, a warm house and well-cultivated lands,\\nbut a forest and a rude log- cabin.\\nThe town was incorporated in June, 1790, autl named in honor\\nof Governor ]5artlett.\\nGIANT STAIRS, BARTLETT.\\n^Cardigan lifts its silvery head thirty-one hundred feet above\\nthe sea level. At its base stood the dwelling-house and farm-\\nbuildings of Colonel Elisha Payne, lie was horn in 1731, and\\nreared in the State of Connecticut, and probably graduated at", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0448.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "1790] STATE UNDER FIRST CON SIITUTION. 435\\nVale College. The township of Cardigan was granted in February,\\n1769. The grantees were Elisha Payne, Isaac Fellows, and\\nninety-nine others. The first settlements in the township were\\nmade in 1773, by Payne, Silas Harris, Benjamin Shaw, David\\nP^ames, and Captain Joseph Kenney. Payne at this time was\\nforty-two years of age. The town was incorporated by the name\\nof Orange, in June, 1790. Payne went back into the dense wil-\\nderness, far beyond the reach of any human habitation, and se-\\nlected a swell of good, strong land for his farm, near the base of\\nthe mountain.\\nPayne was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1784 to 1801,\\nand was its treasurer in 1779 and 1780. His connection with\\ntiie college explains the fact, that when the small-pox broke out\\nat Dartmouth, subsequent to 1780, the afflicted students were\\ncarried to this remote and lonely mountain-seat for treatment.\\nPayne had removed to East Lebanon, and settled on the shore\\nof Mascoma Lake, before this occurrence. Several of the stu-\\ndents died and wei e buried, but no stone marks the place of\\ntheir peaceful rest. The Payne house, from tliis time forward,\\nwas called the Pest House, and was used as such, at a later day,\\nby the authorities of Orange.\\nPayne had a son, Elisha Payne, jr., who graduated at Dart-\\nmouth, and who was a man of character and ability. He was\\nthe first lawyer to open an office in Lebanon. This office was\\nat East Lebanon, which was then the chief village in that town.\\nHe served in both branches of the legislature of this State, but\\ndied at the early age of about forty-five.\\nElisha Payne, senior, was a man of strong mind and great\\ndecision of character. He was the leader, on the east side of\\nthe Connecticut river, in the scheme to dismember New Hamp-\\nshire and annex a tract, some twenty miles in width, to Vermont.\\nIn July, 1778, he was chosen, under the statutes of Vermont, a\\njustice of the peace for the town of Cardigan, in a local town-\\nmeeting held that day. He was a member of the Cornish\\nConvention of 1778, and of the Charlestown Convention\\nin 1 78 1. He was representative from Cardigan in the Vermont\\nlegislature, under the first union, in 1778, and was representative", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0449.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "436 JUSTOKY OF XKW HAMPSHIRE. 790\\nfrom Lebanon, under the second union, in April, 1781. In Oc-\\ntober of the same year he was chosen lieutenant-governor of\\nVermont, by the legislature of that State, then in session at\\nCharlestown, New Hampshire. In this legislature, fifty-seven\\ntowns west of the Connecticut and forty-five towns on the New\\nHampshire side of that river were represented.\\nWhen the bitter and prolonged strife between the two juris-\\ndictions, New Hampshire and Vermont, was nearing the crisis,\\nand Bingham and Gandy of Chesterfield had been arrested by\\nVermont officials for resisting the authority of that State, and\\nthrown into jail at Charlestown, and Colonel Enoch Hale, the\\nsheriff of Cheshire county, had proceeded under orders from the\\npresident and Council of New Hampshire to release them, and\\nhad been seized and summarily committed to the same jail, and\\nthe militia of New Hampshire had been put on a war footing to\\nrescue Hale and the other prisoners at Charlestown, Governor\\nChittenden of Vermont commissioned Elisha Payne of Leba-\\nnon, the lieutenant-governor, as brigadier-general, and appointed\\nhim to take command of the militia of that State, to call to his\\naid Generals Fletcher and Olcott, and such of the field officers\\non the east side of the Green Mountains as he thought proper,\\nand to be prepared to oppose force to force. But bloodshed was\\nhappily averted. The Continental Congress took hostile ground\\nagainst the scheme to dismember New Hampshire, and General\\nWashington put his foot upon it. In this dilemma the authori-\\nties of Vermont, for the sake of self-preservation, relinquished\\ntheir claim to any part of New Hampshire, and in February,\\n1782, the second union between the disaffected towns on the\\nwest side of this State and Vermont came to an end.\\nIn addition to the offices already named, Payne held that of\\nchief justice of the Supreme Court of his cherished State, Ver-\\nmont, a State then stretching from the head-waters of the Pemi-\\ngewasset to Lake Champlain.\\nAfter a life of adventure, of strange vicissitude, of startling-\\nsuccess and crushing defeat, Elisha Payne quietly fell asleep in\\nEast Lebanon, at the age of seventy-six years. He was buried\\nin the impretending cemetery near his place of residence in that", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0450.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "I791] STATE UNDER FIRST CONSTITUTION. 437\\nvillage. His wife, a number of his children, and other member.s\\nof the family, in all seven persons, were iniirned in the same\\ncemetery lot but about a quarter of a century ago, in the late\\nfall, there came a fearful storm, and the gentle brook whose\\ncourse lies along the border of this receptacle for the dead sud-\\ndenly became a rushing torrent, and, breaking from its channel,\\nswept in among the quiet sleepers and carried away most that\\nremained of the Payne family. Winter closed in, but the next\\nspring such bones as had not found a lodgment at the bottonv\\nof Mascoma Lake, as it is usually called, were gathered up, all\\nput into one box and redeposited in the earth in another part of\\nthe cemetery, whereon has been erected, by family relatives, a\\nsubstantial and appropriate monument. And so ends the story\\nof a life of stern conflict and romantic incident.\\nThe winter session of 1791 was devoted chiefly to a revision\\nof the statutes, with a view to anew edition of the laws. Among\\nthe bills introduced was one for the punishment of blasphemy.\\nThe committee reported the old law, in substance, but Mr.\\nWelman, who had been a preacher, moved as an amendment\\nthat any person convicted of speaking disrespectfully of any\\npart of the Bible should have his tongue bored through with a\\nhot iron. Sherburne seconded this motion in a vehement speech,\\ndeclaring that he should be better pleased with death as the pen-\\nalty for so atrocious an offence. As Sherburne was thought to\\nbe an unbeliever, and was free in his remarks on Scripture and\\nhis ridicule of the clergy, his address was thought an effort to\\nbring out Plumer on the unpopular side. Fearing the amend-\\nment would pass Mr. Plumer did speak against it in his eloquent\\nand impressive style, and did succeed in defeating it, though not\\nby a large majority. Whipping, branding and other mutilations\\nof the body were punishments then inflicted by the penal codes\\nof most of the States, and the zeal of a Christian community saw\\nnothing revolting in their application to the support of religious\\ntruth. 1\\nIt was during the preceding session that Mr. Phinier, who was\\na popular leader in the House, introduced a bill to tax State notcs^\\nWiliim Pliner, Jr.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0451.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "438 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 79\\na measure combated by the lixeter party, who were largely inter-\\nested.\\nYour JTifluence, said one of them to him, may carry the\\nbill through an ignorant House, as you can carry anything else\\nthere, but it will be rejected by the Senate. We shall see,\\nwas the quiet reply. The bill passed the House and was sent to\\nthe Senate, but was lost. It passed the House a second time,\\nwas enacted by the Senate, and became a law. A member of\\nthe House, not from Exeter, aftei-wards boasted that he had\\npocketed the first bill.\\nAt the November session of the legislature at Portsmouth\\nthe most important business was the incorporation of a bank.\\nThe Bank of the United States had recently been established,\\nand there were only three State banks in the country, one in\\nBoston, one in New York, and one in Philadelphia.\\nAt this time the legislature was in the practice of frequently\\ninterfering with the business of the courts, by granting new trials\\nand prescribing special rules for the trial of a particular action.\\nA ludicrous instance of the exercise of this sovereign power\\noccurred in the western part of the State, in a case involving the\\nownership of two pigs. The legislature passed an Act to set\\naside the finding of the court, but the justice, an old soldier of\\nthe Revolution, convinced by the arguments of Jeremiah Mason\\nthat the legislature had no right to interfere with his ruling,\\nwould not grant a new trial and the pig action gained extensive\\nnotoriety and tended to bring such special Acts of the legisla-\\nture into ridicule and deserved contempt.^\\nA convention having been called to revise the constitution of\\nthe State, the elections took place in August, and the conven-\\ntion met early in September, 1791. The importance of the\\nobject drew together many of the ablest men of the State. The\\ndiscussion, not of laws merely, but of constitutional provisions,\\nand the fundamental principles of government, gave to the de-\\nbates an interest not often felt in legislative proceedings. The\\ndebates, though long and able, were never published, and the\\njournal of the convention furnishes but an imperfect account of\\nI Jeremiah Mason.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0452.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "1791] STATE UNDKR FIRST CDNSTITUIIOX. 439\\nwhat was clone, and still less by whom it was clone. Even the\\n3 eas and nays are only given in two or three cases. From the\\nLife of William Plumer, a member of the convention, one can\\nobtain some account of the proceedings of the body. Among the\\nJiiembers were John Pickering, Edward St. Loe Livermore, Dr.\\nSamuel Tenney, James MacGregore, Moses Leavitt, Christopher\\nToppan, Nathaniel Rogers, General Joseph Cilley, John McClary,\\nAbial Foster, Timothy Walker, Colonel Nathaniel Head, John\\nCalfe, Dr. Nathaniel Peabody, John Waldron, Ebenezer Thomp-\\n.son, Thomas Cogswell, Ebenezer Smith, Zachariah Chandler,\\nJoshua Atherton, Jeremiah Smith, Major Benjamin Pierce, Major\\nCaleb Stark, Rev. Jonathan Searls, Daniel Newcomb, John\\nDuncan, Samuel Livermore, Elisha Payne, Captain Nathaniel\\nWhite, Moses Chase, Nahum Parker, Timothy Tilton, and others,\\nstrong men, having the future best interests of the State con-\\nstantly in mind.\\n1 The old constitution was taken up by sections, and its provi-\\nsions altered or amended, and new clauses added, or old ones\\nstricken out, at the will of the convention, till the whole had been\\nrevised. This occupied the first ten days of the session. William\\nPlumer and Jeremiah Smith were the most conspicuous members\\nof the convention. The former was then a young man, just com-\\ning into notice, having been admitted to the practice of law only\\nfour years before, yet there was no one who took so active apart\\nor who had greater influence in that body. By his industry and\\nperseverance, his energy and decision, and, above all, by the force\\nand accuracy of his discriminating mind, he acquired, before the\\nclose of the convention, a weight and authority in that body which\\nno other man possessed. He was, said Judge Livermore, by\\nall odds the most influential man in the convention so much so\\nthat those who disliked the result called it Plumer s constitution,\\nby way of insinuating that it was the work of one man, and not\\nthe collective wisdom of the whole assembly. The manuscript\\nvolume in the State House which relates to the convention is\\nmainly in the handwriting of Mr. Plumer and Mr. Smith. Both\\nof these men were at this time comparatively young, ambitious", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0453.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "440 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 791\\not distinction, liard workers, prompt in action, and ready and wil-\\nling alike with the tongue and the pen. They concurred for the\\nmost part in their general views of policy, though occasionally\\ndiffering on questions of minor importance. But in concert or\\nopposition it was hard to say whether, aside from the strength of\\ntheir arguments, the House most admired the broad humor, the\\nScotch-Irish drollery and shrewdness of Smith, or the keen re-\\ntort, the ready resources, and strong practical common sense of\\nPlumer. Smith being at that time a member of Congress was\\npresent only during the first session of ten days. Plumer was\\npresent to the end and busy from the first. They were at this\\ntime friends, although, placed ultimately at the head of opposite\\nparties in the State, their friendship was not destined to survive.\\nTheir respect for each other was probably lifelong. The sub-\\njects in which Mr. Plumer took the strongest interest were the\\nprovisions on the subject of religion, the organization of the exec-\\nutive department, the judiciary, and the basis of representation\\nin the House. Mr. Plumer took the broadest view of religiou.s.\\ntolerance his opponents would have subjected all the inhabi-\\ntants of the State to a town tax for the support of the clergy-\\nman whom the majority of the voters should select as their pas-\\ntor. Neither party prevailed, and the provision of the 1784\\nconstitution remained in force. His motion to abolish the reli-\\ngious test for office holders, who were required by the consti-\\ntution to be of the Protestant religion, though at first rejected,\\nwas finally adopted by the convention. It was not accepted by\\nthe people at that time nor subsequently in 1850, although it\\nremained a dead letter for very many years before it was finally\\nstricken from the constitution in 1876. Mr. Plumcr s idea was\\nto divide the State into sixty representative districts, nearly\\nequal as to population, but this was rejected by a strong\\nmajority. The smaller towns, miniature republics, refused to sur-\\nrender their ancient privileges of representation in the legislative\\nassemblies. Mr. Plumer advocated the separation of the execu-\\ntive from the legislative department and the power of veto, and\\nwould have made a plurality of votes alone necessary for a\\nchoice by the people of senators, so that the Senate should not", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0454.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "1792] STATE UNDER FIRST CONSTITUTION. 44I\\n(.lepeiul upon lIio House for tlie election of any of its members.\\nThe plan for organizing- the judiciary department to secure a more\\nspeedy and less expensive administration of justice, and to reform\\nits expense, its injustice, its delays, by lessening the number\\nof courts and increasing their power, and for extending the jur-\\nisdiction of justices of the peace to sums not exceeding four\\npounds, was rejected by the people, except as to extending the\\njurisdiction of justices of the peace. The convention appointed\\na committee to reduce the amendments to form, and another\\ncommittee to take the whole subject into consideration and re-\\nport at a future meeting the amendments proper to be submitted\\nto the people.^\\nThe convention then adjourned to meet in February, 1792.\\nThe committee of ten, two from each county, met frequently.\\nPeabody, who was chairman, was disposed to perplex and em-\\nbarrass, rather than aid, the business. Atherton acted almost\\nuniformly with Peabody. Freeman was opposed to all amend-\\nments. The infirmities of age made Payne inactive. Page\\nwas able and well disposed, but indolent and inattentive. The\\nchief labor and responsibility fell on Plumer. The other mem-\\nbers of the committee gave him little trouble and no assistance.\\nHe had to control perverseness and rouse indolence, both very\\nlaborious and perplexing. By perseverance he surmounted\\nevery obstacle thrown in his way. The committee agreed upon\\namendments which Mr. Plumer reduced to form, and transcribing\\nthe whole constitution, introduced them into their proper places.\\nOn the meeting of the convention, in 1792, the report of the\\ncommittee was assailed from various quarters, but Page and\\nAtherton joined Plumer in its defence, and succeeded after long\\ndebates, continuing for two weeks, in carrying it through, al-\\nthough not without some important modifications. The con-\\nvention then adjourned, to meet again in May to receive the\\nanswer of the people. On coming together again a committee\\nwas appointed to ascertain what amendments had been adopted\\nand what rejected, and to harmonize the old and new constitu-\\ntions. This being done the subject was again submitted to the\\nWilliam Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0455.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "442 lUSTOKV o|- Ni:\\\\V IIAMI SIIIRE. 79-\\npeojale and the labors if the convention vvei c closed h)- an-\\nother short session in September. The constitution thus\\nformed remained in force without alteration until 1876, nor was\\nthere any attempt at change for nearly half a century. Of this\\nconvention Governor Plumer was the last survivor when the\\nconvention of S50 met, and he did not live to see it close.\\nOne clause in tiie constitution of New Hampshire Governor\\nPlumer always claimed the credit of inserting: No member\\nof the General Court shall take fees, be of counsel, or act as\\nadvocate in any cause before either branch of the legislature: and\\nupon due proof thereof such member shall forfeit his seat in the\\nlegislature.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^The first singing ol whicii we have any record was inainlv congregational,\\nwithout instrumental accompaniment, and identical with that style which\\nprevailed in the early New England church. It was led by a precentor, who\\nread two lines of the hymn to be sung at a time, then announced the tune,\\ngave the key on the pitch-pipe, and, standing usually in front of the pulpit,\\nbeat the time and sang with the congregation. Moreover, the precentor wa\\nusually a deacon, hence the term deaconing the hymn and from the early\\nperiod to the present day many of the deacons have been prominent singers.\\nThe names of the tunes used in the early period are very curious. Most of\\nthem are named from places, and New Hampshire is well represented in\\nAlstead, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Bristol, Concord, Dunbarton. E,\\\\eter, Epsom,\\nPembroke, Portsmouth, Lebanon, and Loudon; some for States,\\nas Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia; some for the\\nsaints, as St. Martin s, St, Ann s, All Saints some for countries, as\\nAfrica, Russia, Denmark a very few for persons, as Lena and we\\nfind one, which was probably not used in church, entitled, An Elegy on\\nSophronia, who died of small-pox in 1711. consisting of twelve stanzas set to\\na. most doleful melody.\\nTradition has it that the first hymn ever sung in Concord was the lo.^rd,\\nBook I, Watts s Psalms and Hymns, Pm not ashamed to own my Lord.\\nThis method was pursued for some time, but at length it is recorded in Dr.\\nBou ton s History of Concord, that Mr. John Kimball, subsequently deacon,\\nbeing one of the singers, proposed to Rev. Mr. Walker to dispense with the\\nlining of the hymn, as it was called; but as Mr. Walker thought it not pru-\\ndent to attempt it first on the Sabbath, it was arranged between them to make\\nthe change on Thanksgiving day. Accordingly, after the hymn had been\\ngiven out, the leader, as usual, read two lines, the singers struck in, but\\ninstead of stopping at the end of the two lines, kept on, drowning the voice\\nof the leader, who persisted in his vocation of lining the hymn.\\nAlthough some singers sat in the front seats in the neighborhood of the\\nWilliam Hliimer, Jr. Sec. 7, Part Second, Constitution of New Hampsliire.\\n3 llr. W. (.:.irter.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0456.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "1/9-] STAUl-. UNDKK FIRST CONSTITUTION. 443\\nleader, still inaiiy more were scattered tliroughoiit the congregation, and\\ngradually it became apparent that the singing could be made more effective by\\ncollecting the men and women singers together in a more compact body,\\nand accordingly the choir was formed, which was under the direction of a\\nchoir-master. When the meeting-house was finished in 17S4 it was fitted\\nwith a singers pew in the gallery opposite the pulpit. This was a large\\nsquare pew, with a box or table in the middle for the singers to lay their\\nbooks on. In singing they rose and faced each other, forming a hollow-\\nsquare. When the addition was made to the meeting-house in 1S02, the old\\nsingers pew was taken away, but seats were assigned thoni in tlie same rela-\\ntive position opposite the pulpit.\\nThe first instrument in use was the pitch-pipe, which was made of wood,\\nan inch or more wide, somewhat in the form of a boy s whistle, but so con-\\nstructed as to admit of different keys. This was simply used to give the\\ncorrect key, and was not played during the singing. Under the ministry of\\nRev. Mr. Evans, who was himself very fond of music, some instruments were\\nintroduced, which innovation was attended with so much opposition that,\\naccording to tradition, some persons left the meeting-house rather than\\nhear the profane sound of tlie fiddle and fiute. We find, then, at the begin-\\nning of the second century of the existence of the church, the service of\\npraise was sustained by a large choir, accompanied by wind and string instru-\\nments, usually a violin, flute, clarinet, bass viol, and double bass, the two lat-\\nter being the property of the society.\\nThe choir consisted of thirty persons of both sexes, under the direction o\u00c2\u00bb\\na chorister, who was usually a tenor singer. This leader was the only indi-\\nvidual who received compensation, and it was stipulated in his engagement\\nthat he should teach a singing-school, which any person in the societv could\\nattend for improvement in singing. The singing-school was usually held\\nin the court-house, sometimes in the bank building, was promptly attended,\\nand its weekly ineeting an occasion which was eagerly looked foward to by\\nthe young people, especially for its social as well as musical advantages.\\nFrequently the rehearsals of the choir were held at the various houses of the\\nsingers, and were most enjoyable occasions. Concerts, or musical entertain-\\nments, were of rare occurrence, consequently the weekly rehearsal, combining-\\nso much of recreation with musical instruction, was attended with an interest\\nand promptness unknown to the volunteer choir of the present day. On\\nthe Sabbath they promptly appeared, bringing with them their music-books,\\nmany of them their luncheon, and in cold weather their foot-stoves, making\\nthemselves as comfortable as possible under the circumstances. Doubtless\\nthe singers and players of to-day can appreciate the difficulty of keeping\\nthe pitch, and handling the bow, and fingering the strings and keys, at a tem-\\nperature frequently below freezing.\\nThe interest in church music continued unabated during the later years of\\noccupancy of the old North Church, and when the new church was occupied\\nin 1S4J, the choir filled the greater part of the gallery, which was finished for\\ntheir accommodation. To this church then came the choir, bringing with\\nthem the ancient viols, soon to be sacrificed at the shrine of tlie new organ.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0457.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER Xlll.\\nSTATE GO VERNMENT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1 792- 1 8 1 2.\\n|oHN Taylor Gilman Walpole Mr. West Milford Turnpikes\\nPortsmouth Methodists Centre Harbor Tithing Men\\nDeath of Washington Second New Hampshire Turnpike B.\\\\nks\\nLaws Judge Smith Middlesex Canal Judge Pickering\\nFederal Judges\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fourth New Hampshire Turnpike Republicans\\nPost-Offices Daniel Webster Burnham Navigation on the\\nMerrimack Embargo Patriots Governor Jeremiah Smith\\nCrow Bill^ William Plumer.\\nT^HE new State constitution went into operation in June, i 92,\\nduring the administration of President Josiah Bartlett, who\\nwas the first to assume the title of governor of the State of New\\nHampshire. During the preceding year the New Hampshire\\nMedical Society had been organized, of which he was elected\\nfirst president. The first bank in the State was established at\\nPortsmouth in 1792, with a capital of g 160,000, a year memora-\\nble for the advent of Elder Jesse Lee, who introduced Metho-\\ndism into the State. A newspaper had been established in\\nConcord by George Hough as early as 1790.\\nJohn Taylor Gilman was elected governor in 1794. He be-\\nlonged to a noted and wealthy family of Exeter.\\nThrough all the colonial period they were a notable and influential race.\\nMembers of the family held civil office from the time our colony became a\\nroyal Province up to within the memory of men now living. Edward Gil-\\nman, the ancestor of all the Gilmans of this .State, came into New Hampshire\\nsoon after its first settlement, and among his descendants have been men in\\nevery generation who have done honor to their country, and whom this\\ncountry has delighted to honor. Hon. John Gilman, the son of the preced-\\ning, was one of the councillors named in President Cutts commission in\\nFred Myron Colby.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0458.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "1794] STATE GOVERNMENT. 445\\n1679. He died in 170S. His son, Capt. Nicholas Gilman, was an officer of\\nskill and decision during the Indian %vars of Queen Anne s reign, was a\\nfriend of Col. Winthrop Hilton, and had command of a detachment that\\nmarched against the savages to revenge the death of that lamented officer in\\n1710. Hon. Peter Gilman was a rojal councillor under John Wentworth,\\nand was the first to fill the office of brigadier-general in New Hampshire.\\nCol. Daniel Gilman was one of the commissioners from New Hampshire,\\nstationed at Albany, in 175G, to take care of the provisions furnished hy the\\nProvince for our troops quartered at Ticonderoga. He was also the colonel\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of the 4th New Hampshire regiment of militia for many years. He was\\na grantee of the town of Gilmanton, and two of his sons settled there.\\nNicholas Gilman, his oldest son, was born October 21, 1731. The greater\\npart of his life was passed at E.xeter. He inherited his father s patrician rank,\\nand early became a man of influence in his native village. In 1752 he pur-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0chased of William Ladd, Esq., the large mansion-house that had been built\\nby Nathaniel, and moved into it with the wife he had recently married. Miss\\nAnn, daughter of Rev. John Taylor of Milton, a descendant of one of the\\nPilgrim fathers. The new mistress of the Gilman house, as it was thereafter\\ntermed, was a woman of large culture, strong mind, and great beauty of per-\\nson. Her first child, who was born just a year after her marriage lacking\\ntwo days, was named for her father, a patronymic that was famous in New\\nHampshire in after years. The early years of marriage were somewhat\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0disturbed by the rumors of war, that blew fateful and threatening from the\\nfrontiers, and his second son, who bore his own name, was an infant of\\nscarcely two months when Nicholas Gilman marched, as lieutenant, under\\nhis uncle Peter, to join in the operations around Lake George in 1755.\\nPrior to the Revolution he held many important civil and military appoint-\\nments under the government of the Wentworths. Between him and the last\\nroyal governor, the cultivated and enterprising Sir John, there was a strong\\npersonal friendship. When the storm of the Revolution came, he threw all\\njf his influence into the patriot cause; but this did not antagonize him with\\nthe governor, who declared that, when the rebellion should be put down. Col.\\nGilman should be spared all punishment. No other man shared his friend-\\nship to such a degree, save Major Benjamin Thompson, who was afterward\\nCount Rumlord.\\nNicholas Gilman was one of the great men of New Hampshire during the\\nRevolutionary period. He had wealth, large ability, and a great name, and\\nhe threw them all into the scale for the patriot cause. Nor did he shirk the\\ntoils incumbent on the patriot of 76. He won, it is true, no glory in the field\\nof carnage. His was not the genius of a man of war, but that of a man of\\npeace. He was needed at home, and the services of Meshech Weare himself\\ncould have been better dispensed with than those of Col. Gilman. From\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2775 to 7S.2 he was treasurer of the State of New Hampshire. Besides this,\\nhe was Continental loan officer, one of the chief members of the Committee of\\nSafetv, and councillor of the State from 1777 to the day of his death. His re-\\nlation, therefore, to the financial affaiis of New Hampshire resembled much", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0459.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "446 HISTORY OF XKW HAMPSHIKE. [1/94\\nthat of Robert Morris to those of the nation. He was an active and accom-\\nplished man of business, and liis prudence and skill in finance were remark-\\nable. New Hampshire had no abler servant in the field, at home or abroad,\\nthan Col. Gilnian and perhaps it is not sa^ ing too inuch to state that he\\nfurnished a fourth part of the brains of New Hampshire in the Revolution,\\nthe other members of the quartette being Meshech Weare, Samuel Livermore,\\nand Josiah Bartlett. Moreover, his own personal strength and the influence\\nof his able sons and numerous friends furnished a firm support to the patriot\\ncause in the eastern part of the .State, which, if such powerful influence had\\nbeen lacking, would probablv have been overawed b\\\\- the authority of the\\ncrown.\\nCol. Gilman survived the treaty of peace but a siioi t time. He tlied in the\\nprime of life, April 7, 17S3. His wife preceded him to the grave by a few\\ndays, dying March 17, 17S3. Their tombs are still visible in the old ceme-\\ntery of Exeter. They were the parents of three sons, John Taylor, Nicholas,\\nand Nathaniel Gilman, all prominent men o\u00c2\u00a3 New Hampshire in their day.\\nThe Gilman mansion was built somewhere near the year 1740, and is there-\\nfore of an age contemporary with the Mount Vernon mansion, the Walker\\nhouse at Concord, and the Sparhawk mansion at Kittery. It is only a few\\nyears older than the Gov. Wentworth house at Little Harbor, and but a year\\nor two younger than the Meshech Weare house at Hampton Falls. It is a\\ngood specimen of the domestic style which prevailed in the colonies before\\nthe Revolution. Built of brick covered with wood, three stories in height,\\nwith dormer windows in its upper story, gambrel-roofed, and its walls a yel-\\nlow dun color, its air of antiquity is unmistakable, and at the same time it\\npleases the eye with its varied charms. It stands well in from the street, with\\na yard and shrubbery in front.\\nThe mansion occupied by this distinguished worthy from the time of his\\nmarriage to that of his death is still standing on Water street. It occupies a\\nslight eminence, overlooking the street and the river, with the front facing\\nthe south-east. The old house has been kept in pretty good repair, and has\\nnever been altered nor in any way modernized. It stands out alone in the\\nlandscape, with an air of venerable dignity, its huge chimneys rising above\\nthe tall trees, and its windows looking down upon the street and over the\\nwater, where many a time they must have seen pageants and sights worth\\nlooking upon. In its one hundred and fifty years of life it must have seen\\nmuch that was interesting in the history of Exeter.\\nAfter the death of Nicholas Gilman, the old house became the property of\\nhis oldest son, John Taylor Gilman, who resided in it until his marriage with\\nhis third wife. John Taylor was the most prominent of the three brothers.\\nHe was born December 19, 1753. His early education was scant, being no\\nmore than what the common schools of Exeter afforded at that time. At an\\nearly age he became interested in shipbuilding, an industry that was then\\nactively engaged in by many of the citizens of Exeter. The elder Gilman\\nwas a wealthy and enterprising man, owner of a large estate and a store. In\\nconnection with navigation, young Gilman now and then busied himself with\\nagriculture and trade.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0460.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "1794] statf: covEKNMr.NT. 447\\nOne of the schoolmates of John Taylor Oilman was Miss Deborah Folsom.\\nShe was the daughter of Gen. Nathaniel Folsom, the rival of Gen. Stark, and\\na famous Revolutionary worthy. Born the same year that Oilman was, Miss\\nFolsom was, during the few years prior to the Revolution, the reputed belle\\nof Exeter. The two families were intimate, John Taylor soon became an\\nannounced suitor, and a few months before that affair at Concord Bridge,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Where the embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the\\nworld, they were married. When the Revolution broke out, John Taylor\\nOilman was only twenty-two years old.\\nOn the morning of April 20, 1775, at daybreak, the news arrived at Exeter\\nof the battle at Concord. With all the alacrity and ardor of a youthful\\npatriot, the young husband gathered a company and marched tor Cambridge,\\nwhich place he reached at noon of the next day. Mr. Oilman, however, did\\nlittle military service. He was needed at home. He acted as commissary in\\nsupplying the three regiments of the State at Cambridge. In 1779 he was\\nelected a member of the New Hampshire legislature, and subsequently served\\nupon the Committee of Safetj In 1780 he was the sole delegate from New\\nHampshire to attend the convention at Hartford. He was absent six weeks\\nfrom home, riding on horseback and paying his own expenses, as there was\\nnot sufficient money in the State treasury to defray them. This period was\\nknown as the dark days. The crops of the farmers had been unfavorable,\\nand destitution and distress pervaded the army. There was no money nor\\ncredit in either department.\\nIn 17S1 Mr. Oilman succeeded General Sullivan as a member of the fed-\\neral Congress, and was re-elected the second year. He was at that time the\\nyoungest man in Congress, but his influence was not the least. At the end\\nof his service in Congress he succeeded his father as treasurer of the State,\\nshowing a remarkable aptitude for finance, only second to that of his father.\\nJohn Taylor Oilman was a Federalist in politics, and a firm supporter of\\nthe administration of Washington. In 1794 Dr. Bartlett, who had been sev-\\neral times elected president of the State, and who had served as the first gov-\\nernor, declined all further public offices, and John Taylor Oilman was selected\\nas the standard bearer of his party. Tiinothy Walker Avas the candidate\\nof the Republicans. That party was just then greatly in the minority, and\\nOilman was easily elected. He was at this time at the meridian of his\\nstrength and ripened manhood, and one of the most popular men in the State,\\nHe was re-elected several times, though opposed by such men as Walker and\\nLangdon. In 1S05 the Republicans triumphed, and John Langdon was elected\\ngovernor. Four years afterward the Federalists again came into power, but\\nJeremiah Smith was the gubernatorial candidate. The next year Langdon\\nwas again elected, and also in iSii. William Plumer, of Epping, was elected\\nby the Republicans in iSi;. Plumer was renominated the following year, but\\nthe Federalists, who had again taken John Taylor Oilman for their stand\\nard bearer, triumphed. Mr. Oilman was elected the two next consecutive\\nyears without any trouble, although opposed each time by that able Repub-\\nlican chief William Plumer. His administration covered the exciting period", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0461.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "448 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 794\\nof the last war with England, and though of the opposite party ill politics, he\\nwas not one to dally when the honor of the flag was in jeopardy. He man-\\naged the affairs of the State with much energy and skill, its military defences\\nrequiring his exclusive attention. Detachments of militia were located on the\\nfrontier of the Coos country, to guard against invasion in that quarter.\\nIn 1S14 an attack from the British fleet, off our coast, was expected to be made\\non the navy yard at Portsmouth, and upon the town itself. Great excitement\\nprevailed. All eyes were directed to Governor Oilman, who, serene and calm.\\nbut active and determined, surveyed the scene. He issued his call for troops:\\nthe State militia, prompt to respond, rushed forward with all its former alac-\\nrity and patriotism. More than ten thousand men gathered at Portsmouth\\nand upon the shores of the Piscataqua, to meet the lion of St. George. But\\nthe danger passed the war closed, and New Hampshire, under the guidance\\nof its master liand, came out unscathed and untarnished.\\nGovernor Gilman declined a re-election in 1S16, and announced his inten\\ntion never to participate in political struggles again. He had now reached\\nthat age at which it is natural for men to look forward to days of rest and\\nseclusion. Few men had lived a more active life, or had been more promi-\\nnently before the public. He had been chief magistrate of the State for four-\\nteen years, a much longer period than any other man, \u00e2\u0080\u0094John Langdon, who\\ncame next to him, having been governor for a term of eight years, and Josiali\\nBartlett, William Plumer, and Samuel Bell four years each. No one of the\\nroyal governors held the office so long, with the single exception of Benning\\nWentworth, whose administration began in 1741 and ended in 1767, a period\\nof twenty-six years.\\nThe latter part of the governor s life was spent in that retirement which,\\nafter such a public and excited career, could not have been uncongenial to\\nhim, in the rural occupations that he loved, and in the cultivation of the social\\nrelations. The memories of the past thronged upon him. He loved to recall\\nthe days of Washington, and he wore the old costume long waistcoai,\\nbreeches, and queue to the last. He was interested in all educational prc-\\njects, and was for a long time one of the trustees of Dartmouth College, an-;\\npresidentof the trustees of Phillips Academy at Exeter. The site now occu-\\npied by the academy was given by Governor Gilman, who ever felt an affec-\\ntionate concern for its welfare. In iSiS Dartmouth College bestowed upon\\nhim the degree of LL.D.\\nOf a strong and original intellect. Governor Gilman was a keen observe\\nand logical reasoner. Few men could see so far as he could, and he was al-\\nways ready to act upon any and all occasions. As a man, he was ardent, im-\\npetuous, and unieserved in his acts and feelings. A true patriot and an\\nardent lover of his country, lie was ever wont to freely canvass the policy and\\nmotives involved in the old national struggles. Life s warfare over, he sleeps\\nnow near the home of his youth, among the friends of his boyhood and\\nnoble manhood. But the turf rests lightly above his grave, and his name is\\nsacredly linked with the other illustrious dead of our early history.\\nOf Governor Gilman s personal appearance we have several descriptions.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0462.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "1794] STATE GOVERNMENT. 449\\nHe was six feet high, of a portly figure, and neighed about two hundred\\npounds. He had keen bhie eves, a fair complexion, light brown hair, a lion-\\nlike jaw, and a nose of composite order, being neither Roman, Greek, or Jew-\\nish. He was a most dignified old man, and preserved his straightness and\\nvigor to the last. He died in August, 1S2S.\\nColonel Gilman, as we have said, died in 17S3. His large property was di-\\nvided among his sons. The youngest, Nathaniel, had married Miss Abigail\\nOdlin, relative of Dr. Odlin, and he now became the owner of the original\\nOdlin property. It was his home for the remainder of his life. Nathaniel\\nwas a boy of sixteen when theRevoliition commenced, and did not go to the\\nfield at all. But he did useful service at home, in assisting his lather in his\\nmanifold employments. He succeeded his father as financial agent for the\\nState, and was a prosperous and prominent citizen. Though he did not fill\\nthe nation s eye like his older brothers, Colonel Nathaniel Gilman filled many\\nimportant offices in his day. He was prominent in the State militia, was a\\nState senator, and served as State treasurer for many years. He died in 1847,\\nat the age of eighty-seven, llewas thefatherof four daughters and seven sons.\\nNathaniel Gilman wt.s the tallest and the stoutest of the three brothers.\\nHe was the Roman of them all, six feet and two inches in height, of remark-\\nably muscular and vigorous mold, with a Roman nose, light hair, and the fair\\ncomplexion of the Gilmans. Grave and sober in his look, we can imagine the\\nfear with which he was regarded by the urchins who used to pilfer his fruit.\\nHis older brother. Senator Nicholas, was the most elegant man of liis day in\\nNew Hampshire. He had the fine physique of Ezekiel Webster, and the\\nwinning grace of Aaron Burr. His height was five feet and ten inches, the\\nheight of a gentleman, according to Chesterfield. He had a nearly straight\\nnose, mild blue eyes, a handsome chin, and wore his hair in a queue. Blonde,\\nsuperb in carriage, of striking dignity, he W as the perfect ideal gentleman of\\nthe old school.\\nNicholas, like his brother, John Taylor, was a soldier of the Revolution.\\nHis whole term of service included six years and three months. During the\\nlatter part of the war he was deputy adjutant-general, and in that capacity\\nivas at Yorktown, where he received from Lord Cornwallis, to whom he was\\nsent for the purpose by Washington, the return of exactly seven thousand and\\nfifty men surrendered. He held the commission of captain, and was for a\\ntime a member of General Washington s military family. After the suspen-\\nsion of hostilities, Nicholas Gilman was a delegate, from his Slate, to the Con-\\ntinental Congress for two consecutive years 17S6 and 17S7. Under the new\\nconstitution he was a member of the House of Representatives in Congress\\neighty-ears, and a United States senator for nine years. He died before the\\ncompletion of his second term, at Philadelphia, while returning from Wash-\\nington, May 2, 1S14. He was never married. He resided all his life with his\\nbrother Colonel Nathaniel.\\nAt the death of the latter the house and estate came into the hands of one\\nof his sons, Joseph Taylor Gilman. He married Miss Mary E. Gray,\\ndaughter of Harrison Gray, of Boston. In 1S62 Mr. Gilman died, compara-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0463.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "450 IIISTOKV OF NEW II AlIPSHI KE. 794\\ntiveh- a voiiii;; m.m. His widow, ril tcr iliio time, iiian-ied again .i man\\nnot unknown to fame, Hon. Charles II. Bell, in iSSi the chief e.\\\\ecu-\\ntive of New Hampshire. Governor Bell is a son of Hon. John Bell, who\\nwas governor of the State in 182S. He bears a noble name, a name scarcelv\\nsecond to that of tlie Gilmans in age and honor. T\u00c2\u00ab-o brothers of the name\\nliave been governors of the state dnring a period of five vears; one was a\\nUnited States senator from New Hampshire for twelve vears, and a justice of\\nthe Supreme Court for three years. Another of the name was chiet justice of\\nNew Hampshire from 1859 S64, and one of the most eminent lawvers in\\nthe State. They have been spealiers of the house, presidents of the Senate,\\nand congressmen, filling every office with ability, honesty, and lienor.\\nIll 1794 a post-rider went between Boston and Concord eacli\\nway once a week. A weekly line of stages was advertised, run-\\nning from Concord, through Pembroke, Allenstown, Chester,\\nand Haverhill, to Boston. Two days time was allowed for the\\nmail to make the trip one way. The advertisements of this year\\nmention no public conveyance in other directions. The notice\\nappeared October i.\\nIn November the stage line made a connection at Haverhill\\nwith stages for Exeter and Portsmouth. Passengers were\\nallowed to carry fourteen pounds of baggage free.\\nWalpole was at that time a place of more business than an\\\\-\\nin that vicinity, and was much resorted to by the people of the\\nneighboring towns. There was also a considerable travel from\\na distance passing on what was called the great river road. The\\ninhabitants of that part of the valley of the Connecticut river were\\nthen just passing from the rude and boisterous manners of first\\nsettlers to a more civilized, orderly and composed state.^ A set\\nof young men, mostly of the legal profession, gathering from\\nmany miles up and down the river, were much in the habit of\\nfamiliar intercourse for the sake of amusement and recreation.\\nThey occasionally met at village taverns, but more commonly at the\\nsessions of the courts, and freely indulged in gaming, excessive\\ndrinking, and such like dissipations. The most of them were\\ngentlemanly in manners, and some talented. The ruin of some\\nserved as a warning to others.\\nMr. West was by far the first and best lawyer, and in all re-\\nspects the most respectable man, in that region of country. He\\niM-ed Myvcii t.i.lby. Jeremiah M.ison.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0464.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "1/94] STATE GOVEKNiMKNT. 45 1\\nwas educated at Princeton College, and commenced the practice\\nof law at Charlestown before the close of the Revolutionary\\nwar. He had good natural powers of mind, a quick and clear\\nperception, a delicate taste, highly refined, a sound judgment,\\nand lively imagination. His style of speaking was simple, nat-\\nural, smooth, and mild always pure and neat, and sometimes\\nelegant with a good person, clear and pleasant voice, much\\nearnestness and apparent sincerity, he was altogether a most\\npersuasive speaker. In arguing cases of complicated and\\ntloubtful evidence before a jury he had few or no superiors. In\\nthe discussion of questions of law, and in argumentation of\\nmere abstract propositions, he was less powerful, for he was\\ndeficient in law learning. This he was fully sensible of, and\\nattributed it to his having quitted the study when he began the\\npractice of the law. He said of the elder Judge Livermore, who\\nhad been attorney-general of the Province before the Revolution,\\nand chief justice of the Supreme Court, that, having no law\\nlearning himself, he did not like to be pestered with it at his\\ncourts that when he (Mr. West) attempted to read law books in\\na law argument, the chief justice asked him why he read them\\nif he thought that he and his brethren did not know as much\\nas those musty old worm-eaten books Mr. West answered,\\nThese books contain the wisdom of the ancient sages of the\\nlaw. The reply was, Well, do you think we do not under-\\nstand the principles of justice as well as the old wigged lawyers\\nof the dark ages did Thus his law books were laughed out\\nof court. This was surely but poor encouragement for the dry\\nstudy of law books. Mr. West was a member of the conven-\\ntion of New Hampshire for adopting the constitution of the\\nUnited States, when from his known talents much was expected\\nfrom him but his modesty and diffidence kept him from speak-\\ning although he was very much interested in the result, which\\nwas for a long time in suspense.\\nJoseph Dennis, a graduate of Harvard College, 1790, was also\\npractising law at Walpole at this time, although his legal\\nknowledge consisted wholly in a choice selection of quaint, obso-\\nJeremiah Mason.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0465.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "452 lllSTOKV OF Ni:\\\\V IIAMPSIIIKE. L 794\\nlete, and queer phrases from Plowden s Commentaries, the\\nonly book he ever read with any attention. These phrases he\\noften repeated in ridicule of the law, to the great amusement of\\nhis auditors. He was the most aerial, refined, and highly sub-\\nlimited spirit, with a good share of native genius, and a\\ndelicate and accurate taste, cultivated by an ardent study of the\\nEnglish classics. He afterwards edited the Portfolio in Phil-\\nadelphia.\\nAnother of the extraordinary men who then ranged that\\ncountry was William Coleman, afterwards so greatly distin-\\nguished as the editor of the Nezu York Evening Post, under\\nthe patronage of General Hamilton, that his opponents gave him\\nthe title of field-marshal of Federal editors. By great industry\\nand persevering diligence he acquired a good education. As a\\nlawyer he was respectable, but his chief excellence consisted in\\na critical knowledge of the English language, and the adroit\\nmanagement of political discussions. His paper for several\\nyears gave the leading tone to the press of the Federal party.\\nHe freely admitted the assistance he received from Alexander\\nHamilton in writing his most powerful editorials.\\n-In contradistinction to most of the places in the valley of the Souhegan,\\nMilford boasts of no antiquity and will not celebrate its centennial until 1894.\\nFor its origin it is indebted to a genuine outburst of human nature in the\\nform of dissatisfaction, which took place in the old town of Monson. That\\nancient, now extinct, town was incorporated April i, 1746, and was bounded\\non the north by the Souhegan river and south by Ilollis. Its corporate exis-\\ntence lasted for twenty-four years, during which time it regularly held annual\\ntown meetings, elected its town clerks, selectmen, tithingmen, hogreeves and\\nother town officers but there is no evidence that it ever had a school-house,\\nmeeting-house, or a learned orthodox or other minister. The only public\\nstructure ever owned by the town was a pound built for the confinement of\\ndisorderly cattle. At the first town-meeting, held in May, 1746, it was voted\\nto build a pound and also buy a suitable book to record votes in, and other\\nthings as the town shall see fit. The people of Monson, however, liketlieir\\nneighbors of HoUis, do not at any time seem to have been well content with\\ntheir chartered boundaries. Several expedients in difterent years came before\\nthe annual meetings proposing changes in the chartered limits, soine of them\\nfavoring additions to its territory, others a division of it in various ways.\\nAmong the rest was a proposal adopted at the March meeting in 1760, to\\nI Jeremiah Mason. 2 J. B. Conner.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0466.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "1796] STATE r.OVERNMENT. 455\\nannex the land on the south side of Monson to Ilollis, and to petition tiie\\ngovernor and Council for such part of Souhegan west to be added to Monson\\nas would be sufficient to maintain the Gospel and other incidental charges.\\nAgain, in 1761 the town voted to set off a mile and a half on the south to\\nHollis. This last was passed to favor a petition of Ilollis to the General Court\\nfor the like purpose. After this date all questions looking to a change in the\\nboundaries of the town seem to have rested until 1770, when the people of\\nMonson, having abandoned all hope of maintaining preaching, or of settling\\nthe Gospel among them, petitioned the General Court to put a final end to-\\ntheir unhappy and troubled corporate life by a repeal of their charter. In\\nthis petition thev gave as a reason the barrenness of the soil about the centre of\\nthe town, and their inability to establish the Gospel or even to build a meet-\\ning-house. The consent of Hollis to accept of two miles in width of the south\\nside of the suppliant town, and of Amherst all the residue, having been ob-\\ntained, an Act was passed by the General Court in 1770, dividing Monson by\\na line extending east and west, passing very near its centre, and annexing\\nthe south part to Hollis and the north to Amherst.\\nIn 1793. the town of Milford was incorporated, the Act chartering it being-\\nentitled An Act to incorporate the south-westerly part of Amherst, the\\nnorth-westerly part of Hollis, the Mile Slip, and Duxbuy school farm into a\\ntown. Milford as incorporated included a small part of Amherst north ol\\nthe Souhegan, much the largest portion of that part of the old town of Mon-\\nson which was ceded to Amherst in 1770, all of the Mile Slip notincluded in\\nRaby, with the Duxbuy school farm, and an area of one thousand acres taken\\nfrom Hollis. Thus it will be seen that Monson, after having been carved into\\nmany slices and served up in a variety of ways, was finally collected, moulded\\ninto a different form, given another name, and in its new dress graces one of\\nthe most beautiful spots on the Souhegan river.\\nThe charter for the first New Hampshire turnpike, extend-\\ning from Concord to the Piscataqua bridge, in the vicinity of\\nPortsmouth, was granted by the legislature in 1796, and was\\npromptly commenced and completed, running through the ex-\\ntreme northern section of Pembroke. This was the first of a\\nseries of these thoroughfares, extended by the enterprise of a\\nfew public-spirited individuals into every section of the State.\\nTurnpikes are not of American origin. They existed in the\\nmother country long before the days of Mansfield and Black-\\nstone. The first turnpike road was between the West Riding\\nof Yorkshire and London. This Act was passed in the fifteenth\\nyear of the reign of Charles the Second. It was an innovation\\nthat excited great hostility. The people benefited by it tore\\nJulin M. Shirley.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0467.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "454 HISTORY OF NEW llAMPSHIKE. [1/96\\ntlown the toll-bars, and the new enterprise was baptized in blood\\nbefore the people would submit to it. The new system tri-\\numphed by slow degrees.\\nMacaulay graphically describes the condition of that country\\nwith respect to communication before such roads became accept-\\nable to the public.\\nCapital seeking an outlet saw its opportunity, and under a\\nswarm of Turnpike Acts the country was at last gridironed with\\nthese roads.\\nThe turnpike craze in this State is almost forgotten we caught\\nit from Massachusetts it began in 1795 and culminated about\\ntwenty years after it wrought a revolution in public travel,\\nrelatively, nearly as great as that brought about by the railwa)\\ncraze between 1840 and ICS50. The system with us did not\\noriginate in the local want or demand along the lines contem-\\nl^lated. Other and more far-reaching causes, as we shall see,\\nwere at the bottom of the movement. The settlement of the\\n.State was necessaril} by progressive, though at times apparently\\nsimultaneous, steps. First came the settlement and location of\\nthe four towns, and the opening of communication between\\nthem then the advent of the trapper, hunter, and scout into\\nthe unsettled portion then came the land grants, and the set-\\ntlement in isolated locations then the blazed path to the parent\\ntowns and to the cabin of the pioneer or the outposts then the\\ndrift-ways, cart-ways, and the local roads winding from cabin to\\ncabin then the town-ways and session or county roads, with\\nhere and there the provincial roads like that which passes\\nthrough Gilmanton and that which was laid out and built from\\nthe Gerrish place now the county farm at Boscawen to the\\ncollege at Hanover in 1784-86 by legislative committee, and\\nthat laid out by a like committee from Hale s Bridge, in Wal-\\npole, in the county of Cheshire, running si.Kty miles to a pitch-\\npine tree on Deerneck in Chester.\\nFifty-three turnpike companies were incorporated in this\\nState. The Acts of corporation in Massachusetts were in\\nfact based on English models, but the Bay State mind, then as\\nnow, felt itself competent to improve upon anv model, irrespec-", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0468.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "1796] STATE GOVEKX.MKNr. 455\\ntive of whether it was the work of human liands or of the Divine\\nArchitect and as minds differed even in Massachusetts there\\nwas a marked diversity in these Acts and the New Hampshire\\nActs were Httle less consistent or coherent.\\nThe New Hampshire turnpike road is commonly known\\nas the first New Hampshire turnpike, because it was the first\\nAct of the kind in this State. John Hale, Arthur Livermore,\\nIsaac Waldron, John Goddard, Thomas Leavitt, William Hale,\\nJind Peter Green, all notable men, were the corporators espe-\\ncially named in the Act. This Act was passed June i6, 1796.\\nThe road ran from Piscataqua bridge in Durham to the Merri-\\nmack river in Concord, passing through Lee, Barrington, Not-\\ntingham, Northwood, ICpsom, and Chichester. The distance\\nwas thirtv-si.\\\\ miles.\\nThe elaborate plan or survey of tliis pioneer turnpike in tliis State may still\\nbe seen in the State Hou e in Concord. The Act contains in eft ect eleven sec-\\ntions. The first gave the names of the corporators, the name of the corpora-\\ntion, and conferred upon it the inestimable privilege of suing and being sued;\\nthe second provided for the organization and the establishment of regulations\\nand by-laws for the government thereof; the third empowered the corpora-\\ntion to survey, lay out, make, and keep in repair a turnpike road or highway\\nof four rods wide, in such route or track as in the I e~t of their judgment and\\nskill will combine s/ioyhtess of distance -vit/i the most practicable ground\\nbetween the termini; the fourth provides that the damages to landowners\\nshould be fixed by the Court of Common Pleas, if the parlies could not agree:\\nthe fifth in relation to gates and turnpikes to prevent trespass;\\nthe sixth authorized the appointment of toll-gatherers and fixed tne rates of\\ntoll; the seventh authorized the purchase of one thousand acres of land in fee\\nsimple, and provided that the shares be assigned by deed, and that the shares\\nbought be sold for non-payment or assessments the eighth prohibits the\\ntaking of toll prior to the expenditure of six hundred dollars upon each mile\\nof the road, a proportionate sum upon the whole number of miles; by the\\nninth the corporation was liable to be indicted and fined the same as towns\\nfor defective highways, with a proviso that if the turnpike road ran over any\\npart of the road then used the company should neither collect toll for that\\npart nor be liable to repair it; the tenth provided that an account of the ex-\\npenditures and profits should be laid before the Superior Court at the end of\\ntwenty years, under penalty of forfeiture of charter, that if the net profits\\nfor the twenty years should exceed twelve per cent, per annum the court\\nmight reduce the tolls so that it should not exceed that rate, and if the profit\\nwas less than six per cent, the judges might raise the toll so that the rate should\\nnot be less than six nor more than twelve per cent. the eleventh provides", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0469.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "456 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 797\\nthat the charter sliould be void unless tlie road should be completed in ten\\n_vrars, with the proviso that the State, alter the expiration of fortv vears, might\\nconvert the same into a public highway by repaying what had been expended\\nby the company, with interest at the rate of twelve per cent, per annum\\nthereon, after deducting the amount of the toll actually received.\\nSome of the provisions of this Act and that of the fourth are in marked con-\\ntrast. The preamble to this Act and the petition for the fourth should be read\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ogether; they were both the work of comprehensive minds having the same\\nobjects in view.\\nThe preamble is as follows\\nWhereas a petition has been presented to the General Court, setting forth\\n.hat the communication between the sea coast and the interior parts of the\\nState might be made much more easy, convenient, and less expensive, by a\\ndirect road from Concord to Piscataqua bridge than it now is, between the\\ncountry and any commercial seaport; that the expensiveness of an undertak-\\ning of this kind, however useful to the community, would burthen the towns\\nthrough which it may pass so heavily as to render it difficult to effect so im-\\nDortant a purpose, otherwise than by an incorporated company, who might\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0iie indemnified by a toll for the sums that should be e.xpended by them there-\\nfore it was prayed by the petitioners that they and their associates might be\\nincorporated into a body corporate for the aforesaid purpose, under such limi-\\ntations, and with such tolls as might be thought fit, which prayer being rea-\\nsonable, etc.\\nAl the meeting of the legislature in June, 1797, John God-\\ndard had three votes for speaker Woodbury Langdon, seven\\nP-Ussell Freeman, forty-one and William Plumer, seventy-\\nthree and William Plumer, who for si.x years had held aloof\\nfrom the legislature, practising his profession, was thus wel-\\ncomed back to public life. He was at that time a Federalist.\\n2 Edward St. Loe Livermore, at the head of the Rockingham\\ncounty bar, having accepted a seat on the bench of the Supreme\\nCourt, Portsmouth offered a fair field to a rising young lavi^yer,\\nJeremiah Mason, to enter. It was relatively a place of more\\nimportance than now. Its chief sources of prosperity were\\nshipbuilding, for which it had peculiar facilities in its noble\\nharbor, and in its proximity to extensive forests, and the carry-\\ning trade, for both of which it was mainly indebted to the wars of\\nthe French Revolution, which were desolating Europe. It had\\nmany prosperous and enterprising merchants, and an active,\\nthrifty, and energetic population. Its ships were known in every\\nWilliam Plumer, Jr. Icreini.i i M.isrn Life.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0470.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "1/97] STATE GOVERNMENT. 457\\nclime, and the commerce which enriched it gave an improved\\ntone to the manners and social habits of its inhabitants.^ Many\\nmen of good judgment entertained the behef that the future\\nprogress and prosperity of Portsmouth v/cre more assured than\\nthose of Boston.\\nPortsmouth was also at that time a pla^e of more than com-\\nmon social attractions. Even before the Revolution, in days of\\nwigs, cocked hats, and flowered waistcoats, it was the residence\\nof many cultivated families and the seat of a generous hospitality,\\nand at the close of the last century its old character remained,\\nindeed made more marked by the wealth which commerce had\\npoured into its lap. The Marquis of Chastellu.x, who was there\\nin 1782, speaks of seeing handsome women elegantly dressed,\\nof dinners and suppers, and of fine houses richly furnished.\\nThere must have been an easy, agreeable, and somewhat refined\\nsociety. Travelling was slow, difificult, and expensive. For\\nsociety, the inhabitants were mainly dependent upon them-\\nselves the ties of social life were closely drawn. Men were not\\nso busy and time was not so precious as now. Books, news-\\npapers, and magazines were rare men and women read less,\\nbut talked more, and wrote longer and more elaborate letters,\\nthan now. Cheap postage has spoiled letter writing. Much\\ntime was spent in social visits tea parties and supper parties were\\ncommon. The gentlemen had their clubs and exclusive social\\ngatherings, sometimes too convivial in their character; and\\noccasionally a youth of promise fell a victim to the temptations\\nof a mistaken hospitality. Gaming was more common among\\nrespectable people than now.^\\n^There are different divisions of Methodists, but those most\\ncommon in this section of the country, and the largest body of\\nthem, are called Episcopal Methodists. The denomination\\noriginated in England in 1739, mainly under the labors of Rev.\\nJohn Wesley.\\nThe first Methodist Society in this country was organized in\\nNew York city in 1766. It was composed of immigrants from\\nIreland, who had been won to the faith by the preaching of Mr.\\nJeremiah Mason s Life. Joseph FuUonton.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0471.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "458 HisToKV OF m;\\\\v iiami shire. 79/\\nWesley. The first Methodist preacher in that city was Philip\\nEmbury. New England was visited by several preachers, amoni;\\nthem being Rev. Jason Lee, a pioneer often on the frontiers,^\\ntravelling on horseback, and addressing, with great earnestness,,\\nzeal, and fervor, multitudes that came to hear him. He was in\\nBoston, where he preached once under the great elm on the\\nCommon.\\nNo sooner had a foothold been gained in Massachusetts than\\nNew Hampshire was considered a field to be cultivated. In\\n1794 the New England Conference appointed John Hill to\\nlabor in this State. What came of this is not known, as there\\nis no record of his work. Possibly he did not come into the\\nState. Yet, through the efforts of some one, a society was soon\\nafter formed in Chesterfield, which in 1797 had ninety-two mem-\\nbers, and that year Smith Weeks was appointed to that place.\\nThe church there still exists, and is probably the oldest in the\\nState. Two years later Elijah Batchelder was appointed there.\\nIn the meantime other sections were visited. Jason Lee, above named,\\nlabored in the lower part of the State to some extent. Some opposition was\\nencountered, but in general a good work is not hindered by opposition, but,\\non the contrary, is usually advanced. During the year 1800 a society was\\nconstituted in Landaff and one in Hawke, now Danville: in 1801 one in Han-\\nover; in 1S02 one in Biidgewater and one in Kingston in 1803 one in Grant-\\nham; in 1S04 one in Pembroke, one in Loudon, and one in Tuftonborough\\nin 1S05 one in Northlield and one in Centre Harbor; in 1S06 one in Ports-\\nmouth; in 1S07 one in Canaan and one in Rochester; in 1810 one in Green-\\nland.\\nThe several places to which a minister was appointed constituted a cir-\\ncuit, receiving its name from the principal town; and this continued, espe-\\ncially in country regions, until within a very few years. A circuit embraced\\ntwo, three, or more towns. These the minister was to visit and hold evening\\nor other meetings. When a circuit was very large, two ministers were\\nassigned to it. On a circuit, a minister was much in the saddle, or travelling\\non foot in wilderness regions, finding his way by spotted trees.\\nDuring the times in which the above societies were established, and later,\\nthere were several distinguished ministers doing good service in the State-\\namong whom should be named the following\\nRev. Elijah Hedding, who travelled over some of the rough portions of the\\nState, preaching the gospel to many, but subsequently becanie a bishop, and\\nresided in Poughkeepsie, N. V., wliere he died.\\nRev. Wilbur Fisk, who was a presiding elder in New Hampshire, and", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0472.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "I79S] STATE GOVERN M1;NT. 459\\nafterwards became presidentof Weslejan University, in Middletown, Conn.,\\nand \\\\vas elected bishop, but diid before serving in that office.\\nRev. John Broadhead, a native of Pennsylvania, who was for some time ;i\\npresiding elder a man of sterling ability- and an effective preacher, who\\nresided at what is now South Newmarket, was a senator in the legislature,\\nand for four years representative in Congress, and who died April 7, 1S3S.\\nIn June, 1788, Benning Moulton, and fifty-one others, in-\\nhabitants of Meredith Neck, the northern district of New Hamp-\\nton and New Holderness, and of the southern district of Moul-\\ntonborough, petitioned the legislature to be severed from the\\nrespective towns to which they then belonged, and incorporated\\ninto a township by the name of Watertown, for the following\\nreasons That the lands aforesaid are so surrounded with\\nponds, and impassable streams running into and out of said\\nponds, and so remote from the centres of the respective towns\\nto which they belong, that we have hitherto found the greatest\\ninconvenience in attending public worship. The matter came\\nbefore the legislature in January 1789, and a committee, consist-\\ning of Hon. Joseph Badger of Gilmanton, Daniel Beede, Esq.,\\nof Sandwich, and Captain Abraham Burnham of Rumney,\\nwas appointed to view the situation of the premises petitioned\\nfor, and report their opinion thereon to the General Court\\nat their next session.\\nThe committee visited the locality in May following, with a\\ncopy of the petition, in which the bounds of the proposed town\\nwere described, and containing the names of the petitioners.\\nThey made up their report on the premises, and wrote it on the\\nback of the copy of the petition, dating the same Centerr\\nHarbor May y\u00c2\u00ab 28th, 1789. It seems from this, that there was\\na landing then called Centre Harborr, eight years before the\\ntown was set off and incorporated.\\nThree men by the name of Senter signed this petition and as\\nthe committee had it before them when they made up their\\nreport, it is not probable that such men as Judge Badger, by\\nwhose hand the report was made, or either of the others, would\\nhave written Center if they had intended to write Senter.\\nThe aforesaid committee reported against the petitioners,\\nM W. Hammond.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0473.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "460 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l799\\nsaying, That while the lands proposed would make a conven-\\nient small town it would be a damage to Holderness and Mere-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0tlith, and that neither of the towns would be able to support\\npublic worship, and the matter then dropped until 1797, at\\nwhich time a petition was presented to the legislature, bearing\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0date New Hampton, June, 1797, signed by James Little and\\nforty-six others, praying That your honors would set off such\\na part of said town as is included in the following bounds as a\\ntown, and that it may be incorporated by the name of Centre\\nHarbor. The bounds are then given, which they say are\\nagreeable to a vote of the town of New Hampton in the year\\n1786. The legislature appointed a hearing for their next ses-\\nsion, and required the petitioners to post a copy of the petition\\nand order of court in some public place in said town, eight\\nweeks before said hearing, and serve a like copy on the select-\\nmen. There is preserved the copy which was posted, written\\nin a plain hand, the corners showing the nail holes, and contain-\\ning a certificate dated November 18, 1797, stating that it was\\nposted at the store of Moses Little in New Hampton, eight\\nweeks prior to said date and also a copy containing an acknowl-\\nedgment of the selectmen of service on them, in both of which\\nthe name of the proposed town is written Centre Harbor. If\\nit was the intention of the people to name the town Senter s\\nHarbor, it is impossible that it could have been posted in a con-\\nspicuous place, and undoubtedly read by nearly every man in\\ntown, and the error remain undiscovered.\\nAdd to this fact that it has been spelt Centre in the town\\nrecords from that time to this, and that the first petition from\\nthe town after its incorporation, which was for the appointment\\nof Lieutenant Winthrop Robinson as justice of the peace, was\\ndated Centre Harbor, April, 1798.\\nThe first settlements were made by Ebenezer Chamberlain\\nin 1765 and Colonel Joseph Senter in 1767. A Congregational\\nchurch was formed in 1815, over which Rev. David Smith was\\nordained in 18 19.\\nOne of the duties imposed upon the tithingmen in 1799 was\\nto stop all persons travelling on the Sabbath, and interrogate", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0474.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "iSOOj STATE GOVERNMENT. 461\\nthem in relation to their business, names, and places of resi-\\ndence. Proud of their brief authority, zealous in the cause, they\\nwere frequently a source of annoyance almost unbearable, seiz-\\ning upon the reins of the traveller s horse with the ungracious\\nrudeness of the highwayman, rather than as the conservators\\nof religious observance and civil order.\\nEighty years after the event Colonel Willian: Kent gave his\\naccount of how the inhabitants of Concord, few in number, at-\\ntended the funeral services on the death of General Washing-\\nton, at the Old North meeting-house in Concord, February 22,\\n1800. They formed a procession, old and young, and marched\\nto the church.\\nThe solemniU of the occision, the deep mourning dress of the pulpit and\\ngalleries, in connection with the sad countenances of the people, are vivid in\\nmy memory to this day. Concord at that time, and for many years after,\\nhad a population of about two thousand, with the same territorial limits as\\nat present.\\nIn the precinct, in what may be called the city proper, there was only one\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0street, now called Main street, and then only llu street. The principal ave-\\nnue to the street was then called Milk road (now called Pleasant street). It\\nled to the grist-mill belonging to the late Jacob Carter, father of our esteemed\\ncitizen Jacob Carter, Esq., and at the present time owned and occupied by St.\\nPaul s school. This road, or Pleasant street, had only ten buildings as far\\nas the top of the hill opposite the asylum. On the north, beginning at the\\ncorner of the street now called Green street, and as far north as Centre street,\\nwas a swamp with a brook leading to the river, and a dense growth of trees\\nor shrubbery to the top of the hill, the section now occupied by our most\\nvaluable residences. About the year 1S15 Judge Green built the house now\\noccupied as the Asylum for the Aged, on about sixty-five acres of the land\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0connected therewith. As evidence of the greatly increased value, the house\\nand land belonging were sold for $5000.\\nOn the south of Pleasant street, extending to Bow line, the land was\\noccupied for cultivation and pasture, with the exception of a few scattered\\nhouse-lots, not exceeding twenty in all.\\nMain street at that time, according to my recollection, from the south end\\nto the north, had five public-houses one of which, called the Butters Tavern,\\nis now the only one standing; six stores; and the whole number of dwellings\\ndid not exceed seventy-five. The first and only brick building in Concord\\nwas erected in 1S06, and is now occupied by the First National Bank. At\\nthat time there was no public conveyance in any direction. This fact I can\\nfully realize, as I was a student at Atkinson Academy, and the only mears of\\ncoming home at vacation was by the post-rider, who carried the mail once a\\nweek on horseback from Haverhill, N. II., to Haverhill, Mass., who led xay", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0475.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "462 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [18OO\\nhorse by his side for me to ride. The post-office was kept by David George,\\nin a small 6 byS room in his hatter s shop. The whole contents of a mail for\\nConcord might not have required more than a good-sized hat. Correspond-\\nence was rare, and mostly of imperative necessity, on account of the expense\\nof postage. Letters directed the shortest distance took ten cents for postage,\\nand the expense proportionally increased with the distance; love letters\\nwere few and far between. The only meeting-house in town was the Old\\nNorth, standing on the spot now occupied by the Walker school-house,\\nand it continued to be so until the year iS;;6, when the First Baptist church\\nwas dedicated; and in 1S29 the Unitarian. The churches have continued in-\\ncreasing with the increase of population, now numbering, in all the city\\nfifteen.\\nThe second New Hampshire turnpike road was incorporated December 26,\\n1799. It ran from Claremont through Unity, Lempster, Washington, Mar-\\nlow, Hillsborough, Antrim, Deering, Francestown, Lyndeborough, New\\nBoston, Mont Vernon, and to Amherst, th ough as respects several of these\\ntowns it merely cut the corners. It was fifty miles in length.\\nThe third was incorporated December 27, 1799. It ran from Bellows Falls\\nand Walpole, through Westmoreland, Surry, Keene, Marlborough, Jaffrey,\\nand in a direction towards Boston. The distance was fifty miles.\\nThe petition for the fourth New Hampshire turnpike road was presented\\nto the legislature in iSoo, and was signed by Elisha Payne, Russell Freeman,\\nand Constant Stoors.\\nOn November 25, 1800, the House voted that the prayer\\nthereof be granted, and that the petitioners have leave to bring\\nin a bill accordingly, with which the Senate on the next day\\nconcurred.\\nThe population of the State in 1800 was 183,868; but the\\npopulation of the towns through some portion of which the\\nturnpike passed was less than 10,000.\\nBefore considering the act of incorporation, it may be useful to advert\\nbriefly to some of the more salient of the almost innumerable provisions of\\nthe English Turnpike Acts.\\nThey provided that two oxen were to be considered the same as one horse;\\nthat cattle str.iying on a turnpike road might be impounded; that nails in\\nwheel tires should be countersunk so that they should not project more than\\none-fourth of an inch above the surface; that carriers dogs should not be\\nchained to the wagons that teams should not descend hills with locked\\nwheels unless resting on skid pans or slippers that supernumerary beasts of\\ndraught should not be used without licence; that no goods should be un-\\nloaded before coming to a turnpike gate or weighing machine; that drivers\\nshould not turn from the road to avoid such machine; that children under\\nthirteen years should not be drivers that all drivers must give their names\\nthat no driver should ride, etc., without some one on foot or horseback to\\nJohn M. Shirley.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0476.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "iSOO] STATE GOVERNMENT. 463\\nguide the team; that drivers when meeting other carriages must keep to\\nthe left side of the road; that no person should pull down, damage, injure,\\nor destroy any lamp or lamp-post put up in or near the side of a turnpike\\nroad or toll house, or extinguish the light of such lamp; and that no wind-\\nmill should be erected within two hundred yards of any part of the turnpike\\nroad.\\nIt was made the duty of the turnpike surveyor to prevent and remove all\\nannoyance by filth, dung, ashes, rubbish, or other things whatsoever, even if\\nlaid upon a common within eighty feet of the centre of the road, and to turn\\nany watercourse, sinks, or drains which ran into, along, or out of any turn-\\npike road to its prejudice, and to open, drain, and cleanse watercourses or\\nditches adjoining the road, and to deepen and enlarge the same if the owners\\nneglected so to do after seven days notice in writing.\\nWith very trifling differences the same rule was applied to obstructions of\\nhighways and turnpikes.\\nNo tree, bush, or shrub was allowed within fifteen feet of the centre, un-\\nless for ornament or shelter to the house, building, or courtyard of the owner.\\nHedges and boughsof trees were to be kept cut and pruned, while the possessors\\nof the lands adjoining the roads were to cut down, prune and lop the trees\\ngrowing on or near the hedges or other fences in such a manner that the\\nhighways should not be prejudiced by the shade, and so that the sun and\\n%\\\\ind should not be excluded from them to their damage, with the pro-\\nviso that no oak trees or hedges must be cut except in April, May, or June,\\nor ash, elm, or other trees except in December, January, February, or March.\\nThe surveyor could not compel the cutting of hedges except between the last\\nday of September and the last day of March.\\nThe hedges were to be cut six feet from the surface of the ground, and the\\nbranches of trees, bushes, and shrubs were also to be cut, and were treated\\nas a nuisance if they overhung the road so as to impede or annoy any person\\nor carriage travelling there.\\nWhen a turnpike road was laid out, which rendered an old road unneces-\\nsary, the trustees, etc., could discontinue the old road, which thereby vested\\nin them, and they might sell and convey the saine by deed, or they might\\nby agreement give up the same to the owners of adjoining lands by way of\\nexchange, or the old road might be sold to some adjoining landowner, or in\\ncase he refused to purchase to some other person.\\nUpon the completion of the contract the soil of the old road vested in the\\npurchaser and his heirs, saving fossils, mines, and minerals to the original\\nproprietor.\\nThe exceptions under the English Acts were much more minute than un-\\nder section six of the Act under consideration.\\nNo toll could be collected for horses or carriages which only crossed the\\nturnpike, or which did not pass one hundred yards thereon, or for horses or\\ncarriages conveying any one to or from the election of a member of the\\ncounty where the road was situate; or for the mails or the military service,\\nnor for any inhabitant of a parish, etc., attending a funeral therein, nor for\\nany curate, etc., visiting any sick parishioner or attending to any other paro-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0477.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "464 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 80O\\nchial duty within his parish nor from any person going to or returning\\nfrom his parochial church or chapel or usual place of religious worship toler-\\nated by law, on Sundays or any day on which divine service was by authority\\nallowed to be celebrated.\\nThe first meeting of the corporation was duly warned by Ehslia\\nPayne, January 28, 1801. The meeting was held at the dwelling-\\nhouse of Clap Sumner, Innholder, in Lebanon, on March 24,\\n1801, at ten a. m. Elisha Payne was chosen moderator, Benja-\\nmin J. Gilbert of Hanover was chosen clerk, accepted his ap-\\npointment, and was sworn accordingly.\\nAn examination of the list shows how largely the people at\\nPortsmouth, at Hanover, and at Lebanon were interested.\\nThe shareholders at Hopkinton were headed by Judge Harris.\\nHerriman, or Harriman, also resided there.\\nThe list shows, with the exception of Bowers and a few others\\nin Salisbury, how few shareholders there were in the outset\\nalong the line from Boscawen ferry to Lebanon.\\nThe next step was to provide for locating the road. This was, if possible,\\nmore delicate and difficult than the raising of funds. The feelings of the\\nrival interests along the line were very strong. With the e.xception of that\\npart of the road from Fifield s mills to Horse-shoe Pond in Andover, a distance\\nof about three miles, there was likely to be a sharp and bitter controversy\\nabout the location of the entire route. Strange as it may seem, Roger Per-\\nkins and General Davis at this time had not discovered how vital it was for\\nthe interest of that section that the turnpike should run from the Potter Place\\nto Hopkinton. Through their efforts, mainly, this route was afterwards laid\\nout b^ order of the court, and partially built. It was overthrown by Ezekiel\\nWebster, who never forgot the hostility of the people of Hopkinton towards\\nhim in a celebrated case, upon the ground mainly that for a portion of the\\nway it ran along or over old highways.\\nThe corporators in the outset determined to select people outside the State\\nto make the location in order to avoid the huckstering and log-rolling which\\nhad made so much trouble in other cases, and which afterwards caused so\\nmuch feeling in the location of railroads. Accordingly at the adjourned\\nmeeting, M.iy 29, 1801, the following votes were passed\\nVoted that General James Whitelaw of Ryegate, General Elias Stevens of\\nRoyalton, and Major Micah Barron of Bradford, all in the State of Vermont,\\nbe a committee to survey and lay out the route for the fourth turnpike road\\nin New Hampshire.\\nThe great question before the legislature at the June session,\\n1800, was on the memorial of certain persons asking for the estab-", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0478.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "l80l] STATE GOVERNMENT. 465\\nlishment of another bank in Portsmouth. Soon after the estab-\\nlishment of the New Hampshire bank, a company was formed\\nin that town, which issued bills and transacted the ordinary busi-\\nness of a bank, though unincorporated. The old bank was in\\nthe hands of the Federalists the new one, established by\\nLangdon, Sherburne, Goddard, and other Republicans, was not\\na mere money concern, but was intended as an engine of poli-\\ntical power. They had the year before applied for an Act of\\nincorporation, which was denied them and a law was passed\\nmaking all such unincorporated banking associations unlawful.\\nThe State had, also, became a stockholder in the old bank.\\nThe March elections had turned mainly, in many places, on this\\nbank question and the Republicans had gained largely by the\\nvotes of men who regarded the old bank as a monopoly, the\\nState subscription as a bribe, and the new bank as the only sure\\nemedy for the financial evils of the times.^\\nThe question came up in the House on a memorial of the\\n.lew bank, praying for the repeal of the prohibition on unin-\\ncorporated banking associations, the law not having gone into\\noperation. The Federalists were opposed to the request on\\nparty grounds, and were represented by William Plumer the\\npetitioners were represented by Mr. Goddard, the ablest debater\\non the Republican side. After a heated debate, the law was not\\nrepealed.\\nThe session closed on Monday, the governor refusing to ad-\\njourn the Houses on Saturday lest some of the members might\\ntravel towards their homes on the Sabbath. Mr. Sheafe was\\nelected to the United States Senate by a small majority.^\\nThe Federalists were evidently losing ground, and the new\\nbank at Portsmouth was gaining friends in every part of the\\n-State. It required the utmost personal popularity of some of\\nthe tried Federal leaders to secure their election to the legis-\\nlature. When the legislature met at Hopkinton in June, 1801,\\nthough the Federalists had a decided majority, John Langdon,\\nthe Republicans candidate, wanted but two votes of being\\nelected speaker. Prentice owed his majority of one to the vote\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0William Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0479.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "466 IIISTOKV Ol- NKW HAMI SIlIKi;. I .So2\\nof a mail whom he had grossly insulted at a former session,\\nproof at that time of the influence of party over individual con-\\nduct, especially as Prentice was much inferior as a presiding\\nofficer to Langdon. The proprietors of the Union Bank re-\\nnewed, at this session, their application for an Act of incorpora-\\ntion. The Federalists being divided in opinion, the bill passed\\nthe House but was rejected by the Senate at the next session,\\nhowever, the Union Bank obtained its charter. The Repub-\\nlican party had, in the meantime, by the election of Mr. Jeffer-\\nson to the presidency, gained the ascendency in the general\\ngovernment, but were still in a minority in New Hampshire.\\nAccessions to their number were owing to the local question of\\nthe bank. The .system of paper money, except in the old form\\nof State notes, which had everywhere jiroved disastrous to\\npublic credit, was at that time a novelty in the State. For\\nyears the Union Bank confined its loans to its political friends,\\nor to those whom it hoped to make such. The old bank was\\nnot more liberal in its policy. The system of State banks\\nspread in all directions, and on the whole was beneficial to the\\npublic interests, and continued in force until the establishment\\nof the National Bank system.\\nAt the June session, 1802, William Plumer was elected to fill\\nthe unexpired term in the United States Senate of Mr.\\nSheafe, who had resigned. Nicholas Oilman, the candidate of\\nthe opposition, was also a Federalist, but less pronounced in his\\nviews than his brother. Governor Gilman. At that time Mr.\\nPlumer was considered the ablest man in his ]iartv.\\nPrior to the appointment ol Judge Siiiitli in 1S02, the la\u00c2\u00ab in this Slate\\na science had no existence. For tliis there are two principal reasons:\\nI. Under the proprietary government of Mason we had no law of our own.\\neither statute or common. As late as 1660, Mason claimed that New\\nHampshire and Maine were governed by the law of the mother counlr\\\\.\\nPortsmouth, Dover, Exeter, and Hampton were little principalities, and did\\nsubstantially as they pleased. The Province, as such, had no existence be-\\nfore the union with Massachusetts, in 1641, nor until after the forced separa-\\ntion in 1679.\\nThe first code of laws enactecl in this Province, in 1679-1680, was in sub-\\nijul.n -M. Slu,l,.y.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0480.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "l802] STATE GONEKNMKNT. 467\\nstance a re-enactment of the Mosaic coile, was sent to the mother country for\\nroval sanction, and was disallowed by the Privy Council, as many others\\nafterwards were.\\nDuring the reign of James II. the laws were silent. A trinity of pro-\\nconsuls ruled and robbed the people. In 1692, seventy years after the settle-\\nment, we were entirely destitute of what is called ivritlen law. Man} statutes\\nwere enacted after this time which never received the sanction of the King\\nand Council.\\nNo laws were published until 1716, when an edition of sixty pages folio\\nwas published in Boston. In 171S seventy-two pages were added, and in\\n1719 twenty-four pages more. After this, and before 1728, sixteen pages\\nmore were added, making in all a volume of one hundred and seventy-two\\npages. There was no printing press in this Province till 1756. An edition\\nof the statutes was published here in 1760, but discarded as not authentic,\\nand a new and carefully printed edition was published in 1771. After\\nthe Revolution, the statutes were printed in folio till 1789, when an octavo\\nedition, containing the public and some of the private laws, was published\\nby order of the legislature. The dissatisfaction of the public compelled the\\npublication of a new and revised edition in 1792, which was followed by the\\nedition of 1797, and afterwards by the more copious one of 1805.\\nThe statute law, when Judge Smith came to the bench, was in a crude,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2;haotic, and imsatisfactory condition, and the common law far worse.\\n2. With notable exceptions, like the Livermores, which prove the rule, the\\nJench was filled with broken-down ministers, lumbermen, bankrupt traders,\\n.;nd cheap lawyers. From two to four of these judges, as the quorum varied,\\nattended each trial term, if they did not, as sometimes happened, forget the\\ntime; and not unfrequently they all charged the jury in the same cause, dif-\\nfering oftentimes as much as the opposing counsel.\\nSmith was a strong man. It needed some iron hand to purge the Augean\\nstable, and he came. He was one of the best representatives of that industri-\\nous, tough, enduring, Scotch-Irish stock, who regarded it as recreation to\\nwork or fight from dawn till set of sun, and then to spend half the night in\\njest, and song, and story. At forty, Sm.ith was a profound lawyer. He had\\nabsorbed the history of New England, and especially of this Province and\\nState, as a sponge does water. At this time he was the greatest master of\\nprobate law in New England. No one since has equalled him; and no one\\nin this State has approached him except the late Charles H. Atherton. He\\nprepared two large manuscript volumes on the subject. It cost a vast amount\\nof time and labor, and was an able work of great value. It was the reservoir\\nfrom which Webster, Chief Justice Richardson, and others hardly less emi-\\nnent, continually drew. Notwithstanding he was a busy man of affairs, he\\nwas top-heavy with law learning when he came to the bench, and when he\\nretired, at the age of fifty-six, he had accomplished more than ought to be\\nexpected of those at seventy-five, who now stand in the fore-front of the\\nprofession with the aid of all the modern appliances.\\nUpon coming to the bench, Judge Smith promptly introduced the practice", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0481.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "46S HISTORY OF NEW IIAMI SIIIRE. [l^OJ\\nof allowing a single judge to direct the course of trials, at the trial terms, of\\nreserving cases and questions for the consideration of the whole court, and\\nof preparing written opinions.\\nThis brought order out of chaos, but tlie labor was immense. Besides that\\nexpended on the great work of his life, the treatise on probate law, he pre-\\nsided at the trial terms, examined the cases, and prepared the written\\nopinions in all cases heard in banc, numbering from sixty to seventy yearly,\\nand making fourteen manuscript volumes with a manuscript digest.\\nPartisan madness prevented the publication of these opinions when that\\npublication was demanded by every rational consideration of the public in-\\nterest. Had they been published when they ought, thousands and tens of\\nthousands of the money of individuals and the public would have been saved,\\nfor a very large proportion of the questions heard before Judge Smith have\\nsince been litigated at great expense.\\n^The curious traveller may still trace with little difficulty the\\nline of the old Middlesex Canal, with here and there a break, from\\nthe basin at Charlestown to its junction with the Merrimack at Mid-\\ndlesex village. Like an accusing ghost, it never strays far from\\nthe Boston Lowell Railroad, to which it owes its untimely end.\\nJudging the canal by the pecuniary recompense it brought its\\nprojectors, it must be admitted a dismal failure yet its incep-\\ntion was none the less a comprehensive, far-reaching scheme,\\nwhich seemed to assure a future of ample profits and great pub-\\nlic usefulness. Inconsiderable as this work may appear com-\\npared with the modern achievements of engineering, it was, for\\nthe times, a gigantic undertaking, beset with difficulties scarcely\\nconceivable to-day. Boston was a small town of about twenty thou-\\nsand inhabitants; Medford, Woburn, and Chelmsford were insig-\\nnificant villages and Lowell was as yet unborn, while the valley\\nof the Merrimack northward into New Hampshire supported a\\nsparse agricultural population. ]3ut the outlook was encourag-\\ning. It was a period of rapid growth and marked inprovements.\\nThe subject of closer communication with the interior early be-\\ncame a vital question. Turnpikes, controlled by corporations, were\\nthe principal avenues over which country produce, lumber, fire-\\nwood, and building-stone found their way to the little metropolis.\\nThe cost of entertainment at the various country inns, the frequent\\ntolls, and the inevitable wear and tear of teaming, enhanced\\nvery materially the price of all these articles. The Middlesex\\nJoliM M. Shirley. L. L. Dame.\\ni0f", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0482.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "1803] STATE GOVERNMENT. 469\\nCanal was the first step towards the solution of the problem of\\ncheap transportation. The plan originated with the Hon. James\\nSullivan, a judge of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, attor-\\nney-general, and governor in 1807 and 1808. He was a brother\\nof General John Sullivan, of Durham.\\nA brief glance at the map of the New England States will bring out in bold\\nrelief the full significance of Sullivan s scheme. It will be seen that the Mer-\\nrimack river, after pursuing a southerly course as far as Middlesex village,\\nturns abruptly to the north-east. A canal from Charlestown mill-pond to\\nthis bend of the river, a distance of twenty-seven and a quarter miles, would\\nopen a continuous water-route of eighty miles to Concord, N. H. From thi\\npoint, taking advantage of Lake Sunapee, a canal could easily be run in a\\nnorth-westerly direction to the Connecticut at Windsor, Vt. and thence,\\nmaking use of intermediate streams, communication could be opened witlv\\nthe St. Lawrence. The speculative mind of Sullivan dwelt upon the preg-\\nnant results that must follow the connection of Boston with New Hampsliire\\nand possibly Vermont and Canada. He consulted his friend, Colonel Bald-\\nwin, sherift of Middlesex, who had a natural taste for engineering, and they\\ncame to the conclusion that the plan was feasible. Should the undertaking\\nsucceed between Concord and Boston, the gradual increase in population and\\ntraffic would in time warrant the completion of the programme. Even should\\ncommunication never be established beyond Concord, the commercial advan-\\ntages of opening to the market the undeveloped resources of upper New\\nHampshire would be a sufficient justification. A charter was granted, bearing-\\ndate of June 22, 1793, incorporating James Sullivan, Esq., and others, bv\\nthe name of the Proprietors of the Middlesex Canal, and on the same day\\nwas signed by His Excellency John Hancock, governor of Massachusetts.\\nColonel Baldwin, who superintended the construction of the canal, re-\\nmoved the first turf September 10, 1794- The progress was slow and at-\\ntended with many embarrassments. The purchase of land from more than\\none hundred proprietors demanded skillful diplomacy. Most of the land.s\\nused for the canal were acquired by voluntary sale, and conveyed in fee-sim-\\nple to the corporation. Sixteen lots were taken under authority of the Court\\nof Sessions while for thirteen neither deed nor record could be found when\\nthe corporation came to an end. Some of the land was never paid for, as the\\nowner refused to accept the sum awarded. The compensation ranged from\\nabout $150 an acre in Medford to $25 in Billerica. The only instrument\\nused for engineering purposes was a level imported from England. Of the\\ntwo routes considered, the rejected route was forty years later selected for the\\nLowell Railroad. The canal was thirty feet wide, and four feet deep, cost\\n$500,000, was twenty-seven and a quarter miles long, connected Charles\\nriver with the Merrimack above Lowell, and was opened to public navigation\\nin 1S03.\\nAs the enterprise had the confidence of the business conimunitv, monev\\nfor prosecuting the work had been procured with comparative ease. The", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0483.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "470 jriSTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 804\\nstock was divided into eight hundred shares. The stock had steadily ad-\\nvanced from $25 a share in the autumn of 1794 to $473 in 1803, the year the\\ntanal was opened, touching $5cw in 1S04. Then a decline set in, a few dol-\\nlars at a time, till 1S16. when its market value was $300 with few takers,\\nalthough the canal was in successful operation.\\nThe Federal party was carefully organized in the spring of\\n1804 by Senator Plumer to carry the fall election.s. Although\\nGovernor Oilman had been re-elected in Marcli, a majority of\\nboth Houses was Republican. Associating with himself five\\nother persons, one from each county, he formed a self-constitu-\\nted State committee, of which he was chairman. Under their\\nauspices county committees were formed, who in turn organized\\ntown and school district committees, whose duty it was to bring\\nout every Federal voter to the polls, and to secure as far as pos-\\nsible every wavering and doubtful voter for their party. This is\\nbelieved to have been the first instance in this State in which a\\nsystematic attempt was made to bring the whole force of a party,\\nthoroughly organized, to bear with undivided weight on the\\nresult of an election. Newspapers were provided for gratuitous\\ndistribution post-riders were employed to distribute them in\\nevery part of the State. An address was prepared by Mr.\\nPlumer: six thousand copies were distributed, in every town in\\nthe Commonwealth. The election occurred in August for rep-\\nresentatives to Congress, and through these unusual exertions the\\nFederalists carried the State by an average majority of nearly\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2eight hundred votes.\\nAt the presidential election, however, the Federalists suffered\\na fearful defeat by the Republicans, losing New Hampshire by\\nover five hundred votes. Even Massachusetts voted for the re-\\nelection of Thomas Jefferson as president. He received all but\\nfourteen of the one hundred and seventy-six electoral votes.\\nThe opposition to him was confined to Connecticut, Delaware,\\nand Maryland.\\nHon. John Pickering of Portsmouth was i-emoved from the office of judge\\nof the district court for New Hampshire in the year 1S04, and died in 1805.\\nHe was born in Newington in 173S, graduated at Harvard College in 1761\\ni^oon became eminent in the profession of the law in Portsmouth; was an", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0484.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "lS04] STATE (iONEKNMENT. 47 1\\n-active partisan in dotenco of tlic rights and libertv of America as earl)- as\\n177.5 was on a committee to prevent the importation of tea; in 1775. 1776, and\\nseveral other succeeding years, was an influential member of the legislature\\ni rom Portsmouth; was a member of the convention, and assisted in framing\\nour State constitution was chief justice of our Supreme Court for five years.\\nL-ommenciMg with 1790; was previously attorney-general for one year; served\\nas governor most of one year, after John Langdon was chosen senator; was\\none of the electors of president for 17S8 and 1792, and had the privilege of\\nvoting for Washington and sustaining his administration was appointed by\\nhis fellow citizens to address Washington in 17S9, when Washington visited\\nPortsmouth. His address and Washington s answer may be found in Brews-\\nter s Rambles about Portsmouth. About the end of the year 1795, upon his\\nresignation of the office of judge of our State court, he was appointed by Wash-\\nington to the office of district judge of New Hampshire. It was suggested that\\nthe health of Judge Pickering at this time was not firm, and this change of office\\nwas made because the duties required of the incumbent of the district court\\nwere less laborious than the requisitions of the State bench. And there is\\nthe authority of Governor IMumer for the assertion, that the hypochondria of\\n1794, of Judge Pickering, as it was then called, had, in 1803, been developed\\ninto such a condition, bodily and mental, as to render him incompetent to\\nthe proper discharge of his official duties. It was not doubted his mental\\npowers were deranged. Then the question arose how to get rid of the judge\\nfrom the bench. In February, 1803, President Jefferson sent his message to\\nthe House of Representatives, enclosing a letter and affidavits exhibiting a\\ncomplaint against Judge Pickering. The message and papers were referred\\nto a committee consisting of Nicholson of Maryland, James A. Bayard of\\nDelaware, John Randolph of Virginia, Tennev of New Hampshire, and El-\\nmendorf of New York, with instructions to report thereon. On the iSth\\nof February Mr. Nicholson made his repott, recommending the adoption of\\nthe following resolution Resolved, That John Pickering, judge of thf New\\nHampshire district court, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors.\\nThis report came up for consideration in March, 1803, a day or two before\\nthe close of the session of that Congress. Goddard of Connecticut moved its\\npostponement to the next session. This motion was sustained by the mover,\\nMitchell of New York, Dana of Connecticut, and Mott of Pennsylvania. It\\nwas rejected by the House, and the resolution was adopted. Messrs. Nichol-\\n.son and Randolph were appointed managers, by the House, to conduct pro-\\nceedings before the Senate. The House resolution was transferred to the\\nSenate, and was there postponed to the next session. At the session of 1S04\\nthe trial came on. Governor Plumer was then one of the senators from this\\nState. He states that both of the New Hampshire senators were examined\\nas witnesses as to the character of Judge Pickering, and testified to the high\\nmoral worth of the judge so long as he retained the use of his reason. Here\\nthen was exhibited, before one of the highest tribunals of our land, the ex-\\ntraordinary attempt to interpret mental insanity, in its meaning and conse-\\nquences, as tantamount to crime and misdemeanor an unuarrantable", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0485.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "472 IIISTOKV OF Ni:\\\\V HAMPSHIRE. 1 804\\nattempt to confound all distinction of law and justice which, when carried\\ninto practice, would pervert the constitutional provision of impeachment for\\ncrime into an unconstitutional mode of removal from office without crime.\\nSenator Samuel White of Delaware, on this occasion, used the following\\nstrong denunciatory language. He said: The accused is in default, not in\\nconsequence of contempt of court, but under the awful visitation of God. and\\nas he is mentally deranged, our proceedings scarcely deserve the name of a\\nmock trial. Nicholson, senator from Virginia, here called out, Order!\\nOrder! Order! I will not permit our proceedings to be called by the name\\nof a mock trial.\\nMr. White said to the president: I am in order, sir: I repeat it. it is a\\nmock trial. I have no wish to give oflence, but if that gentleman is offended,\\nI am ready to give him satisfaction at any time and place. The president\\ngave no rebuke to the parties. No meeting followed their words. Governor\\nPlumer informs us that the impeachment met with strenuous opposition in\\nthe Senate. The measure was carried at last by tlie vote of seventeen to\\nseven nays several senators refusing to vote. The whole Senate then con-\\nsisted of thirtv-two; only twenty-four voted for the resolution; two-thirds\\nwere required to impeach. Judge Pickering was not present, nor was he rep-\\nresented by counsel. It occurs to us his removal may have been justly de-\\nmanded, because his disease was shown to have been incurable, and his office\\nprobably required an incumbent able to work. Yet, admitting the public\\nnecessity of his removal, we cannot come to the conclusion that the Consti-\\ntution of the United States, or its wise framers, ever contemplated that, in\\norder to effect the removal of a judge admitted to be insane, the sole remedy\\nmust exist in the open and serious charge or allegation of committing some\\ncrime or misdemeanor, when it is obvious to everyone that his mental status\\nis of that character as to render him not responsible for the commission of\\nany offence. The provision for removal by impeachment was evidently de-\\nsigned to apply to cases of actual guilt, fully sustained by ample proof. In\\nthis case the severe charge is alleged, but the proof of guilt is wanting.\\nHence, the trial deserved Senator White s denunciation. If the public good\\ndemanded Judge Pickering s removal from office, why not resort to such a\\nremedy, rather than to the harsh, unjust remedy of itnputing crime where\\nnone has been committed. We are glad to know that all our New Hampshire\\ndelegation in Congress, and such men as Huger, Griswold, John C. Smith,\\nJames A. Bayard of Delaware, and many other able men in both branches,\\nwere found in opposition to this wicked proceeding.\\nThe year 1S04 had witnessed the completion of the great enterprise the\\nfourth New Hampshire turnpike; that is, the road to use the common\\nspeech of the times had been built through and in some sense was open\\nfor public travel thereon but the cost had far exceeded the expectations of\\nthe pioneers in the enterprise. Instead of costing $600 or less per mile, it\\nhad cost $61,157.00, or more than $iJoo per mile. No toll-houses had been\\nerected. No turnpikes or gates were set up till March 2, 1S06. The repairs\\nwere expensive, and the prospect of fat dividends was remote.\\nG. \\\\V. NesmLli. =J. .M. iliirley.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0486.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "l804] STATE GOVERN M EXT. 473\\nUntil the turnpikes were set up, there was little disposition to pay toll.\\nThe location of tliese turnpikes was regarded as a matter of great importance,\\nsecond only to the location of the road itself. Besides other places, tradition\\nsays that a gate was erected at George Hill in Enfield, which we know was\\nafterwards removed to Fishmarket. Another was erected at the low Gav\\nHouse in what is now Wilmot, some thirty or forty rods on the road to\\nSpringfield from the Porter K. Philbrick stand. The most important, witli\\nperhaps one e.vception, was that at West Andover. It barred not only the\\nfourth, but its great feeder the Grafton turnpike. It was erected almost op-\\nposite to the great elm tree which now stands near the house of George M.\\nBabbitt.\\nThere was another, known as the Parker Gate, not far from the Pet\\nWebster place in Salisbury, near what is now known as the Heath premises.\\nThe site of the old cellar of the toll-house may yet be seen.\\nThere was another in Boscawen, about which there was no end of con-\\ntention.\\nThese gates were sometimes set up temporarily in one place and then re-\\nmoved to another for the greater security of the interests of the corporation.\\nAll sorts of lies, tricks, and evasions were resorted to to get rid of the pay-\\nment of toll. Selectmen sometimes laid out roads or changed the route of\\nold ones in order to enable the traveller to leave the turnpike before he\\nreached the gate, and then resume his travel on the turnpike beyond it.\\nSinners evaded the p.ayment of toll by claiming that they were passing\\nwith their horses and carriages to or from public worship, when they\\nnever intended to attend anything of the kind in any sense known to the\\nreligious world. Among themselves they claimed that the charter did not\\ndefine public worship, that going a-courting, attending a card party or a\\ndrinking bout where parties regaled themselves with that choice elixir of the\\nsaints. West India or New England rum, was religious service. Good chris-\\ntians cheated the corporation out of its due by claiming that they were going\\nto mill when they were going a-visiting or attending to their private busi-\\nness, and that they were engaged in their common or ordinary aftairs of\\nbusiness concerns within the town where they belonged when they were not\\nengaged in such business, and were out of the town where they belonged.\\nThe winds blew, the floods came and washed away the road-bed. and ren-\\ndered the travel thereon and upon the bridges unsafe.\\nThere were no stages here in those days to aid in swelling dividends.\\nThey were the product of a later epoch. There was a rumor that such things\\nhad been seen in New York, in 1S04. It was said, though not fully believed,\\nthat there was a New York and Albany stage line on the east side of the Hud-\\nson river, that the stage left the city every morning at six o clock and reached\\nAlbany on the third day, that the fare of each through passenger was eight\\ndollars, and that every way passenger had to pay a York sixpence a mile. It\\nwas also said that a like stage ran daily on the west side of the river between\\nNew York and .\\\\lbany. that the through fare was the same as on the other\\nroute, and that way passengers onlv had to pay five cents a mile.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0487.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "474 nisToNV ()i- NEW hami shike. S05\\nThere were then no great transportation companies, and the canal craze\\nwhich came on at a later day had not even reached this part of New Hamp-\\nshire.\\nDown to 1805 New Hampshire was a Federal State; but in\\nthat year, after an exciting contest, the Republican party pre-\\nvailed, choosing for a governor John Langdon, and carrying^\\nevery branch of the State government by a majority of nearly\\nfour thousand. Simon Olcott s term of service in the United\\nStates Senate having expired in March, Nicholas Oilman, a Re-\\npublican, was chosen in his place. He was the first Republican\\nwho had represented the State in either House of Congress, and\\nhis election was considered a great party triumph.\\nWilliam Plumer, in 1805, wrote Uriah Tracy as follows\\nDemocracy has obtained its long-expected triumph in New Hampshire.\\nJohn Langdon is governor-elecL His success is not owing to snow, rain,\\nhail, or bad rouds, but to the incontrovertible fact that the Federalists of this\\nState do not compose the majority. Many good men have grown weary of\\nconstant exertions to support a system whose labors bear a close affinity to\\nthose of Sisyphus.\\nTo comprehend all that was implied in the popular conception\\nof this political change, one needs to reflect in part upon a con-\\ndition of society no longer obtaining. The dominant Federal\\nelement was largely embodied in the professional and official\\nclasses, who formed a kind of select aristocracy, more separated\\nfrom the sympathy and co-operation of the common people than\\nany considerably influential class in New Hampshire to-day. In\\na sense, the triumph of Republicanism was the success of the\\nmasses of the people. The commonalty, so to speak, had asser-\\nted their right to lead as well as to be led. The rights of the\\npeople have formed the theme of every Anti-Federalist since the\\nadoption of the constitution.^\\nThe Republicans came into full possession of the State govern-\\nment in 1806, re-elected Governor Langdon and the legislature\\nelected Nahum Parker to the United States Senate, to succeed\\nWilliam Plumer. In August five Republican members of Con-\\ngress were chosen, thus making the whole delegation solid in\\nsupporting the administration of Thomas Jefferson.\\nJohn M Shirley, William Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0488.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "l806] STATE GOVERNiMENT. 475\\nThe establishment of post-offices in many of the less impor-\\ntant towns, in 1806, was without doubt very welcome to the\\ninhabitants, and may be justly considered an important event in\\ntheir history.\\nIn earlier times it was customary to intrust to some friend or\\nacquaintance, who might be travelling in the right direction, a\\nmissive for an absent friend or relative. Doubtless the post-\\nrider, in his journeying through the town, accommodated those\\nliving on his immediate route, and the blowing of his horn an-\\nnounced his welcome approach. As a matter of course, few\\nletters were written in those days, so that high rates of postage\\nwere not onerous.\\nIn 1806, as tradition has it, the Grafton turnpike was for-\\nmally opened. The travel upon the great feeder as well as\\nupon the trunk line steadily increased. Year by year new\\ntaverns were put up on the line. Year by year the pod and\\ngimlet teams with their precious freight from beyond the State\\nincreased in number and their freight in importance.\\nNo coaches ran from Boston to Concord till 1807.^ The main\\npublic means of conveyance in 1806 was by the post-horse,\\nwhich carried the packet while the post-boy walked by his side.\\nWe have no means of fi.xing the precise time when the stages\\nran north from Concord. Pettengill of Salisbury drove up the\\nfirst trip. This was a two-horse coach. Harvey and others\\nafterwards controlled this line of two-horse coaches. The larger\\nones came afterwards. The stages were passing up the turnpike\\njust prior to the war of 18 12.\\nJames Rowe, Esq., of Wilmot, acted as post-boy and carried\\nthe mail from West Andover over the Grafton turnpike to Or-\\nford in 1822, and did errands. There were no stages which\\nran over that route, to his knowledge, at or before that time.\\nBetween 181 5 and 1818 the Boating Company was organized,\\nand the Canal Company located its northernmost boat-house\\nand store at Concord. The big teams became one of the perma-\\nnent institutions, and then came the stages with their whir and\\nrattle, and the mails. This gave a ready market in every town\\nJohn iM. Shirley.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0489.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "476\\nHISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[1S07\\nfor all kinds of provision for man and beast and for the farmer s\\nhorses.\\nThe pressure of this increased travel demanded greater ac-\\ncommodations both as respects the road and along the line.\\nChanges in the route were made to facilitate the transit of heavy\\nfreight, and some of them at great expense.^\\nFollowing the construction of the Middlesex Canal came the\\nrequisite works to render the Ivlerrimack river navigable from\\nthe head of the Middlesex to the town of Concord, being a\\nseries of dams, locks, and short canals to overcome the natural\\nThe old Blodgett Mansion at Amoskeag Canal. Erected in 1795. Pulled down in 1870.\\nrapids and falls of the river. The first of these works was a\\nlock and short canal at Wicasee Falls, three miles above the\\nhead of the Middlesex, at what is now known as Tyng s Island.\\nNo fall is now perceptible at that point, the Lowell dam having\\nflowed it out. The second work, fifteen miles further up the\\nriver, at Cromwell s Falls, consisted of a dam and single lock.\\nThen came dams and single locks at Moor s, Coos, Goff s, Grif-\\nfin s, and Merrill s Falls. About a mile above Merrill s Falls were\\nthe lower locks of the Amoskeag a canal next in importance to\\nJohn M. Shirley. General George Stark.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0490.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "i8o7]\\nSTATE CIOVEKN MENT.\\n477\\nthe Middlesex. It was only about one mile in length, but sur-\\nmounted, by works of very considerable magnitude, the great\\nfall of between fifty and sixty feet that now furnishes the water\\nWITH WIND AND CURRENT.\\npower for the manufactories of Manchester. Its construction\\nwas first undertaken by Samuel Blodgett as early as 1794, but\\nit was not completed until 1807.\\nBOAT ENTERING LOCKS.\\nEight miles above Amoskeag the locks and short canal of\\nHooksett overcame a fall of some seventeen feet and six miles\\nfurther on the Bow locks and canal afforded the final lift of", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0491.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "478\\nHISTORY OF NEW IIAMPSIIIKE.\\n\\\\l807\\ntwenty-seven feet, to the level of the navigable water of the\\nMerrimack river at Concord.\\nShort side canals with locks were subsequently built at the\\njunctions of the Nashua and Piscataquog rivers with the Merri-\\nmack to facilitate the passage of boats from the Merrimack to\\nthe storehouses in Nashua and Piscataquog villages.\\nFor forty years this line of canals formed the principal channel\\nof heavy transportation between the two capitals, and, except\\nthat the canals did not effectually compete with the stages for\\ncarrying passengers, they held the same position to transporta-\\ntion as is now held by their successor and destroyer the rail-\\nroad.\\nTHE TOW-PATH ON THE CANAL,\\nDuring the entire season of open river, from the time that the\\nspring break-up of winter ice permitted navigation to commence,\\nuntil the frosts of fall again closed it, this eighty-five miles of\\nwater was thronged with boats, taking the products of the coun-\\ntry to a market at the New England metropolis, and returning\\nloaded with salt, lime, cement, plaster, hardware, leather, liquors,\\niron, glass, grindstones, cordage, paints, oils, and all that infinite\\nvariety of merchandise required by country merchants, formerly\\nclassed under the general terms of dry and West India\\ngoods. The original bills of lading show that they brought\\nup from Boston, for consumption in the country, flour, corn, but-\\nter, and cheese, which plainly indicates that the people of the", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0492.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "l8oS] STATE GOVERN MKNT. 479\\nMerrimack river valley gave more attention in those days to\\nlumbering and river navigation than to agriculture.\\nThe boats were built of two-inch pine plank, spiked on small\\noak cross-joints and side-knees, and had heavy oak horizontal\\ntimbers at either end. The sides were vertical and without\\ncross thwarts, except what was called the mast-board, a thick\\noak plank, securely fastened across on top, from side to side, a\\nlittle forward of the centre of the boat. A cross yard, with a\\nsquare sail attached, which could be hoisted or lowered at plea-\\nsure by a rope working over a single block in the top of the\\nmast, completed the sailing outfit. It was only used upon the\\nriver, the mast being struck and stowed in the boat when pass-\\ning the larger canals. The rudder was a long steering oar,\\njMvoted on the centre of the cross-frame of the stern, the blade,\\nabout eighteen inches wide and ten feet long, trailing in the\\nwater behind the boat, and the handle or tiller extending about\\nthe same distance over the boat, so as to afford a good leverage\\nfor guiding the unwieldy craft.\\nThe Act of embargo went into effect at the end of December,\\n1807, and was not repealed until a year had elapsed. Theamount\\nof suffering it involved can hardly be appreciated. Had a farmer\\nbeen forbidden to work his farm for a year, he would still have had\\nhis farm. The merchant s ships rotted at the wharf. The sailors\\nwere thrown out of employment, fortunes were swept away,\\nand many were ruined. So disastrous were its effects that\\nmany of the most ardent Federalists could see relief only in a\\ndissolution of the Union, which no longer protected their prop-\\nerty. The Massachusetts legislature, in February, 1809, c-\\nclared the embargo unjust, oppressive, and unconstitutional,\\nand not legally binding on the citizens of the State.\\nIn the spring election, in 1808, for State officers, the Repub-\\nlican party retained their ascendency, choosing a legislature\\nwhich sustained the policy of President Jefferson, adopting\\nan address to that effect but in the national election in the\\nautumn the tide of politics turned, and the Federal party\\nprevailed, cfeoosing five members of Congress, and presidential\\nelectors.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0493.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "480 HISTORY Ol NEW IlA.MI .Slll KI.. I 808\\nThe commencement of the Amcri an J^a/rt pt wan attended by circinii-\\nstances of no more favorable character than acconipanied preceding attempt^,\\nexcept that Concord had been chosen in wliich to permanently hold the ses-\\nsions of the legislature. In all probaliilify the Patriot, after brief existence,\\nwould have gone into the same grave as its predecessors, but for the fortunate\\ncircumstance that it came into the custody of a gentleman of the ability, in-\\ndustry and tact necessary not merely to rescue it from the fate of other village\\njournals there, but to make it a power in New Hampshire. This person was\\ntlie late Hon. Isaac Hill, who in his day acquired a reputation as a political\\nwriter and journalist second to that of no other newspaper conductor. He\\ncame to Concord soon after the expiration of his apprenticeship with Joseph\\nGushing, proprietor and publisher of the Amherst Cabinet. The American\\nPatriot had been six months in existence. The first number printed by Mr.\\nHill is dated April iS, 1S09; and thenceforward the people of New Hampshire\\ncame within an influence they had only imperfectly realized the power ot\\nthe press to mold and guide popular opinion. Mr. Hill was a man of decided\\nconvictions and untiring industry, wrote witli great facility and vigor, and\\npossessed that electric force by which a writer upon political adairs imparts\\nto others the convictions and zeal possessed by himself Under his guiding\\nhand the success of the Patriot was certain. It soon became a success-ful\\njournal, attaining a wide and constantly increasing circulation greater than\\nthat of any preceding or contemporary journal in New Hampshire. Acircum-\\n.stance which accelerated its growth was that difficulty with England which\\nculminated in what is known as the war of iSi.:-i5. That the Patriot, in the\\nbands of Mr. Hill, would have become permanent, even in years of profound\\ncalm, there is no reason to doubt but it is equally certain that its growth\\nwould have been less rapid, because of the natural sluggishness of mankind\\nuntil moved by exciting causes, the disinclination of the people, during the\\nfirst twenty years of the period here in review to expend money for the grat-\\nification of literary taste, and the limited amount of money in circulation.\\nThe only competitor of the AVw Hampshire I atriot, from its commence-\\nment until the year 1S23, was the Concord Gazette. The scanty materials\\nemployed in printing the Gazette were purchased of Dudley Leavitt, the cel-\\nebrated almanac author, and were brought hither from Gilmanton Corner in\\na two-horse wagon. They had been used for printing one number of the\\nalmanac, and a village paper. The circumstance that only two horses were\\nrequired to transport two men and the materials with which a weekly paper\\nwas equipped, sixty-five years ago, is of sufficiently suggestive character.\\nJeremiah Smith was elected governor in 1809.\\nJudge Smith, after serving four terms in Congress, and as\\njudge of probate in the county of Rockingham, was at forty-one,\\nin February, 1801, made judge of the Circuit Court of the United\\n.States for the district of New Hampshire; and in May, 1802,\\nchief justice of the highest court in the State. He held this posi-\\n.\\\\sa McFarland.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0494.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": ",07SmilKE3M^IHI gSSHIPIlIo", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0497.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0498.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "I Soy] STAT] r;ovEKNMENT. 481\\nlion until 1809, when he was over-persuaded by certain of his pol-\\nitical friends, among whom was Daniel Webster, to abandon it for\\nthat of governor, because the supposed interests of the Federal\\nparty required the nomination of its most available candidate.\\nJeremiah Smith, the son of William and Elizabeth (Morison)\\nSmith, was born at Peterborough, N. H., November 29, 1759.\\nHis parents were of Scotch-Irish stock. His father was born\\nin the north of Ireland, and his maternal grandfather, John\\nMorison, was in Londonderry during the siege of that town, and\\nwas at the battle of the Boyne. He early developed great de-\\nsire for learning sometimes walking miles to a place where he\\nheard there was a book. When seventeen years of age he en-\\nlisted for a short term in the Revolutionary army, and was pres-\\nent at the battle of Bennington, where he was slightly wounded.\\nIn 1777 he entered Harvard College. After remaining there\\ntwo years, he removed to Queen s (now Rutgers) College in New\\nJerse\\\\-, where he graduated in 1780. He was admitted to the\\nbar in 1786, and opened an office in his father s farm-house at\\nPeterborough. In 1788, 1789, and 1790 lie was a member of\\nthe legislature, and was chairman of the committee which pre-\\njiared the draft of the revisetl statutes enacted in 1791. He was\\na member of the constitutional convention of 1791, and took a\\njirominent jiart in its proceedings. In December, 1790, he was\\nelected a member of the second Congress of the United States,\\nand was re-elected to the third, fourth, and fifth Congresses. In\\nCongress he was a supporter of Washington s administration\\nand, when the inevitable division into parties came, he joined\\nthe Hamiltonian Federalists.\\nIn July, 1797, he resigned his seat in Congress, accepted the\\nappointment of Unitefl States district attorney for New Hamp-\\nsliire, and removed to Exeter, which continued to be his home\\nuntil within a few months of his death. In 1800 he was ap-\\n])ointed judge of probate for the county of Rockingham, and it\\nwas probably at this time that he composed an elaborate treatise\\non probate law, which still exists in manuscript. In February,\\niSoi, he was appointed by President Adams a judge of the newly\\nestablished U. S. Circuit Court, which was abolished a year later.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0499.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "482 HISTOKV OK M .W IIAMCSIliKr.. 1 809\\nIn 1802 he was appt)into(l chief justice of tlie Superior Court\\not New Hampshire, and served until i8og, when he became\\ngovernor. Failing a re-election as governor, he returned to\\nthe bar in 1810, but left it in 1813 to take the position of chief\\njustice of the Supreme Court established in that year. Upon\\nthe abolition of this court in 18 16 he returned once more to the\\nbar, where he was associated with Mason and Webster as counsel\\nin the Dartmouth College case.\\nIn 1820 or 1821 Judge Smith withdrew from active practice,\\nand passed the remaining years of his life chiefly at his beautiful\\nhome in Exeter, still continuing to be a purchaser and reader\\nof law books, and an indefatigable student of general literature.\\nIn these years he was never idle. In addition to his legal and\\nliterary studies he gave much time to financial and educational\\ntrusts serving as president of the E.xeter Bank, and as treasurei\\nand presiilent of the board of trustees, of Philli])s l^xeter Acad-\\nemy.\\nIn the spring of 1842 he rcmoxed to Dover, N. II.. where he\\ndied September 21, 1843.\\nThe most important public service rendered b) Judge Sniitii\\nwas that performed by him as chief justice of New Hampshire.\\nBefore his time the administration of the law in this State was\\nexceedingly unsystematic, not to say chaotic. A lively sketch\\nof the old state of things may be found in the life of Governor\\nPlumer, pages 149-159 and 181-184. Many of the judges of\\nthe highest court had received no legal education. Two of the\\nthree associate justices at the date of Judge Smith s appoint-\\nment were clergymen. It cannot be doubted that the credit of\\nbringing ordei of chaos belongs to Judge Smith more than\\nto any other one man To him, said Mr. Mason, the State\\nis greatly, if not chiefly, indebted for the present more orderly\\nproceedings, and better administration of justice. With\\nhim, said Chief Justice Parker, there arose a new order of\\nthings. The present chief justice (Hon. Charles Doe), in Vol.\\n49, New Hampshire Reports, p. 604, alludes to the inestimable\\nlabors of Chief Justice Smith, who found the law of New Ilani])-\\nshire, in practice and administration, a chaos, and who left it com-", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0500.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "iSog] STATE GOVEKNiMICNT. 483\\nIJCiratively an organized and scientific system. When I came\\nto the bar, wrote Mr. Webster to Chancellor Kent, he was\\nchief justice of the State. It was a day of the gladsome light\\nof jurisprudence. He knows everything about New\\nEngland, having studied much of its history and its institutions\\nand as to the law, he knows so much more of it than I do, or\\never shall, that I forbear to speak on that point.\\nThe practice of reporting the decisions in print did not begin\\nin this State until after Judge Smith had left the bench and\\nconsequently none of his opinions are to be found in the regular\\nseries of New Hampshire Reports. A volume selected from his\\nmanuscript decisions was published in 1879, and is commonly\\ncited as Smith s New Hampshire Reports. But these deci-\\nsions, though praised by competent authorities, cannot give the\\npresent generation a fair idea of the worth of Judge Smith s\\njudicial labors. His most valuable work, that of systematizing\\nthe practice and administering the law upon scientific principles,\\nis something which cannot be fully delineated on paper or in\\nprint.\\nAny sketch of Judge Smith would be incomplete if it failed\\nto mention the high estimate generally formed of his conversa-\\ntional powers. On this point it will be sufficient to cite the\\ntestimony of Mr. Webster, given near the close of his own life,\\nafter opportunity for converse with the best talkers of England\\nas well as America. Jeremiah Smith, wrote Mr. Webster in\\n1849, was perhaps the best talker I have been acquainted with\\nhe was full of knowledge of books and men, had a great deal of\\nwit and humor, and abhorred silence as an intolerable state of\\nexistence.\\nThe two paupers who claimed support from a town in Rock-\\nIngham county were bid off to the lowest bidder Joseph\\nBaker bidding in a woman for twenty-three cents a week, and\\nSolomon Wheeler, Esq., bidding in a man for one dollar and\\nfifty-eight cents a week the town agreeing to clothe and pro-\\nvide medical attendance for the unfortunate ones. This entry in\\nthe records of the town in 1809 is remarkable, as it is the first\\nmention of the disposal of paupers in this way.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0501.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "484 mSTOKV NEW IIAMPSHIKE. [181O\\nJames Tallant was the post-rider out of Concord, and sup-\\nplied the N eic Hanipsliin- Patriot, then in its first vohnne, to\\nits patrons, and, with the editor, dunned delinquents in its\\ncolumns.\\nJohn Langdon, the Republican candidate, was elected over his\\nFederal opponent, Governor Smith. William Plumer, who had\\ngiven in his allegiance to the popular Republican party, was elec-\\nted to the State Senate, and was chosen president of that body.\\nThe following year Governor Langdon offered $2000 to his party\\nassociates, to be used as a campaign fund, if they would excuse\\nhim from being again a candidate but his offer was not ac-\\ncepted, and he was re-elected against his old opponent, Gilman\u00c2\u00bb\\nthe Federalists having dropped Smith, as less likely to suc-\\nceed. Charles Cutts, a Republican, was elected to the United\\nStates Senate to fill out Nahum Parker s unexpired term. Of\\nthe five members chosen to Congress, in the fall of 18 10, four\\nwere Republicans. The parties were pretty equally divided, and\\nneither could afford to be careless or indolent. Each was obliged\\nto select good candidates, and to work hard in their behalf. The\\nresult being doubtful, elections were watched with lively interest,\\nand the full strength of each party was brought out. Of wealth,\\ninfluence, social position, and education the Federal party had\\na larger share than its rival. The clergy had much power over\\npublic opinion, and the clergymen of New Hampshire, as well\\nas all New England, were generally Federalists, not only dislik-\\ning the politics of Jefferson, but hating him personally on ac-\\ncount of his heterodoxy in religion, with all the rancor of theo-\\nlogical hatred.\\nThe Crow bill, so familiar to the legislature of late years,\\nwas discussed in Pembroke in 18 10. A bounty of twenty-five\\ncents each was offered for the destruction of crows, but within\\nthe year the offer was repealed.\\nManufacturing of cotton into cloth, which has since become\\nan industry of great importance in the village of Suncook, was\\nfirst undertaken this year by Major Caleb Stark, a Revolutionary\\nsoldier and son of General John Stark. He purchased the\\nI William Plumer, Jr. Life of M.ison.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0502.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "l8l2] STATE GOVERNMENT. i 485\\nestablishment known as Osgood s Mills, which was being en-\\nlarged or rebuilt by a company, and intnxluced machinery lately\\ninvented.\\nThe celebrated Cold Friday was January ii, iSio. The\\npeople of that date kept indoors and piled the wood upon fervid\\nfires.\\nIn 1812 William I lumer of Epping was elected governor.\\nHe was a descendant of the Puritans, and was born in Newbury-\\nport, Mass., in June, 1759, and in childhood was brought to Epping.\\nHe was a thoughtful and studious youth, and when twenty-one\\nyears of age began to preach as a Baptist minister, travelling\\nthrough most of the State, delivering one or two sermons every-\\nday, and meeting with much success as an evangelist. In a\\nshort time, however, he turned his attention to legal studies. In\\n1785 he was elected to the legislature, and again in 1786, and\\nwas admitted to the bar in 1787. Although a Federalist, he\\nwas elected to the legislature in 1788, 1790, 1791, when he was\\nelected speaker, to the constitutional convention of 1791, to\\nthe House in 1797, 1798, 1800, and 1801. In 1802 he was\\nelected to the Senate of the United -States to fill out Mr.\\nSheafe s term, and served until 1807. In 1810 and 181 1 he wa.s.\\nelected to the State Senate, of which botl\\\\- he was chosen presi-\\ndent at both sessions. In 1812 he was elected governor by the\\nDemocrats, and re-elected in 1 8 16, 18 17, and 1818. At the close\\nof his last term he retired to the quiet of his library and farm,\\nand took no more active part in politics, until his death ia\\nDecember, 1S50, at the age of ninety-one years.\\nHis election was by a very small majority. This too was tl}c\\nyear for the choice of presidential electors. The autumn elec-\\ntion was contested with peculiar earnestness. Each party put\\nforth all its strength, and after a hot conflict the Federal party\\nprevailed, choosing the electors of president and the members\\nfor the thirteenth Congress. Among these latter was Mr. Web-\\nster, who had become widely and favorably known by the\\nRockingham memorial in opposition to the war, published in\\nAugust, 18 1 2.2", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0503.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "486\\nHISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[i8i:\\nInquiry is frequently made as to the disposition or fate of our judges, who\\nare unable to discharge the duties of their stations by reason of permanent\\nbodily infirmities, or confirmed mental insanity.\\nAs to the judges appointed under State authority, the constitution confers\\nthe power upon the executive to remove the judge in such cases, when both\\nHouses of the legislature, in their discretion, shall, by their joint address,\\nfirst determine that the public good requires the act to be done.\\nThe first under our own State Constitution occurred in 1812. William\\nPlumer was governor; Arthur Livermore was chief justice of the Supreme\\nCourt; Clifton Claggett was associate justice; Judge Evans, who lies buried\\non the old Ilopkinton road, near Concord line, was associate justice.\\nThe views o\u00c2\u00a3 Governor Plumer, in relation to the case of Judge Evans, are\\nstated in the following extract:\\nLivermore, tlie chief justice, though a strong man, felt the need of abler\\ndissociates. Evans, who was not a lawyer, had been prevented by ill health\\nfrom sitting on the bench more than one day for the last eighteen months.\\nOn applying in person for an order for his quarter s salary, the governor ad-\\nverted delicately to the condition of the court, when Evans said that he had\\nsome thoughts of resigning, but that he was poor as well as sick, and wanted\\nthe emoluments of his office for his support. To remove a sick man, says the\\ngovernor, in his journal, oppressed wit.i poverty, is a hardship to him; to\\n.continue him in office is a greater haidship to the State. The legislature\\nmust decide. They had decided, in June, not to request his removal, and\\nw ithout such request the governor could not act in the case. The governor\\nplaced the responsibilitv where it belonged. Here was a case of non-action.*", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0504.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\n1 1 A OF /Si i- 1 8 1 2- 1 8 1 5\\nCauses of the War Right of Search Ordkrs ix Council Decla-\\nration OF War Governor William Pluaier State Militia\\nDaniel Webster\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Governor John Taylor Gilman Federalists\\nrestored to Power Change op the Judiciary Jeremiah Mason\\nDefence of Portsmouth False Alarms Hartford Convention\\nPeace.\\nI HE war of 1812, known for several generations as the last\\nwar with Great Britain, arose from complications attendant\\nupon England s titanic struggle to overthrow the Emperor\\nNapoleon. Her enforcement of the right of search, to enable\\nher ships to take enemies goods out of neutral vessels, exas-\\nperated even friendl} powers, and as earl}- as 1801 Russia was\\njoined by Sweden and Denmark to enforce resistance to the\\nclaim. In 1807 England had to face Napoleon alone. The\\nbattle of Friedland and the peace of Tilsit left him master of\\nthe greater part of the Continent. The English victory at\\nTrafalgar two years earlier over the combined French and\\nSpanish fleets had left England mistress of the sea. Prussia\\nand Austria were already stripped of territory and, as protector\\nof the Confederation of the Rhine, Napoleon ruled in Germany.\\nItaly was directly subjected to his power. Unable to make\\nwar upon England by his fleets and armies, he attempted to\\nsubdue her by ruining her commerce. By the Berlin decree he\\ndeclared the whole of the British islands to be in a state of\\nblockade, though he had not a single ship at sea to enforce his\\ndeclaration. He declared all British manufactured goods pro-\\nhibited wherever his power reached and excluded from his", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0505.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "488 IIISTOKV OK NEW IlAMl .sllIKE. [lSl2\\ndominions even neutral ships which had touched at a British\\nport. The British government retaliated by Orders in Council\\nthat declared that all vessels trading with France were liable to\\nseizure, and that all such vessels clearing from a hostile port\\nmust touch at a British port to pay customs duties. Napoleon\\nanswered by the Milan decree, forbidding neutrals to trade in\\nany article imported from any part of the British dominions.\\nThe Orders in Council cost England a war with America. The\\nBerlin and Milan decrees contributed largely to the overthrow\\nof Napoleon s power. Every poor man who was debarred from\\nthe means of providing sugar or cloth for his family felt the\\ngrievance. The French Republic had declared war against the\\nnobles Napoleon decreed an oppression which was felt in every\\ncottage.\\nThe right of search, many years enforced by the English, was\\na grievous burden to our adventurous sailors, and an insult to\\nevery patriotic American. The Orders in Council, enforced by\\nthe whole power of the British navy, amounted to a confiscation\\nof American ships and as the English Government refused to\\nwithdraw it at the urgent request of President Madison, he\\ncalled an e.xtra session of Congress in November, iBii, and\\nlaid before them the state of our foreign relations and recom-\\nmended preparation for war. Congress at once increased the\\nforce of the navy and the regular army, accepted the service of\\nvolunteers, detached the State militia, and made other active\\npreparations for war and in the early pait of 1812, insults and\\ninjuries being continued on the part of Great Britain, openly\\ndeclared war on that power. This act of war was unpopular\\nwith the Federalists, but was sustained by the great majority of\\nthe American people, who felt that a resort to arms was the only\\nalternative for maintaining our rights, protecting our citizen.s,\\nand sustaining the national honor.\\nPresident Madison made requisition upon the government of\\nNew Hampshire for its quota of militia to be detached, armed,\\nequipped for actual service, and in readiness to march at the\\nshortest notice and Governor John Langdon issued general\\norders in the latter jmrt of ]\\\\Ia\\\\- for a draft (if three thousand", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0506.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "l8l2] WAR OF l8l2. 489\\nfive hundretl men, leaving their organization into companies,\\nbattalions, and regiments in the hands of his successor, Gover-\\nnor William Plumer, who entered upon the duties of his office\\nin June. The declaration of war found the militia of the State\\nin a flourishing condition. It consisted of three divisions, si.\\\\\\nbrigades, and thirty-seven regiments.\\nWilliam Plumer was elected governor by the legislature as\\nan Anti-Federalist.\\nIn 1812 he was in the prime of manhood, and though not a\\nmilitary man, was one of energy, patriotism, method, and great\\nexecutive ability. His heart and hand were in the cause. His\\npredecessors in office had been men engaged in the Revolu-\\ntionary struggle, and in time of peace had prepared for war by a\\nwell-regulated militia. Timoth) Upham and John A. Harper\\nwere his aids, Michael McClary, adjutant-general, Samuel\\nDinsmoor, quartermaster-general, and Moody Bedel, com-\\nmander of a brigade. In June Major-general Clement Storer o.\\nthe first brigade detached a battalion to defend the sea coasi\\nabout Portsmouth, the companies being commanded by Captain.\\nRobert Neal, Samuel Shackford, Joseph Towle, and John Leor\\nard. Moses C. Pillsbury, many years warden of the State Prisor.,\\nwas a sergeant in Captain Leonard s company. At the samt\\ntime a company under command of Captain Ephraim H. Mahu\\nrin was stationed at Stewartstown, on the northern frontier.\\nJohn Page, jr., afterwards United States senator and governor,\\nwas his lieutenant.\\n1 The office of governor of New Hampshire had, in 1S12, great\\nimportance attached to it in popular estimation. The ofifice\\nhad been confined for many years to two men John Langdon\\nand John Taylor Gilman. Langdon, the leader of the De-\\nmocracy, was, perhaps, the most perfect gentleman in the State\\ndignified, yet easy of deportment, urbane and courteous, with a\\nnative grace which won the good-will and respect of all who ap-\\nproached him. Gilman, the representative of less popular opinions,\\nwas also a man of good personal appearance and refined manners,\\nand wore the old-fashioned cocked hat of the Revolution with an", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0507.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "49\u00c2\u00a9 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMI SlilRE. [l8l2\\nease and dignity not unbecoming his high station. The unpop-\\nularity of the embargo had made Judge Smith governor in 1809.\\nLangdon positively declining to be a candidate this year, on ac-\\ncount of the infirmities of age, William Plumer was the candi-\\ndate nominated by the Democracy to defeat John Taylor Oilman,\\nthe Federal candidate. Personal attacks were made on the\\ncharacter of Mr. Plumer. He was charged with having once\\nbeen a zealous Baptist preacher, and then an unbeliever once\\na Federalist, then a Democrat. He was known as an advocate\\nof equal justice to all sects, both in court and legislature, and\\nthe charges as to his liberality of creed were thought to be no\\ndisadvantage to him. The Congregational clergy were mostly\\nFederalists the Methodists, Baptists, and other minor sects\\nwere arrayed against them. So many votes were thrown away\\nby Republicans who remembered Plumer as a Federalist, and\\nby Federalists who thought Judge Smith had not been fairly\\ndealt with, that the election was thrown into the legislature.\\nWilliam Plumer was elected governor by one hundred and four\\nvotes against eighty-two for Gilman. All branches of the Gov-\\nernment, including the Council and the judiciary, were now\\nRepublican. The day before the meeting of the legislature\\nGovernor Plumer rode on horseback from Epping to Concord.\\nThe governor s inaugural address is said to have been very\\neloquent and impressive, and was received both in and out of\\nthe State with much favor. It was delivered a few days only\\nbefore the declaration of war with England, a measure that\\nseemed both just and necessary to the governor. Hall, Upham,\\nand Smith were the three Republican councillors, P ranklin and\\nChase were the Federal councillors. It had been the custom\\nfor councillors, before this date, to favor their own nominations\\nto important offices, a custom which Governor Plumer allowed\\nto fall into disuse. His councillors, however, dictated to him\\nthe nomination of a judge of the Superior Court, against his\\nbetter judgment.\\nIn July Governor Plumer perfected the organization of the\\ndetached militia, forming what was known as the Eastern\\nBrigade under Brigadier-general Clement Storcr of Portsmouth,", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0508.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "l8l2] WAR OF kSi2. 49?\\nand the Western Brigade under Brigadier-general John Mont-\\ngomery of Haverhill, the whole division commanded by Major-\\ngeneral Henry Bntler of Nottingham. Fort McClary protect,\\ning the Kittery Navy Yard, was garrisoned by a detachment\\nof New Hampshire troops under Timothy Upham of Ports-\\nmouth, who had been commissioned major in the regular army,\\na timely precaution, for British vessels were cruising off the\\ncoast and had even entered the outer harbor. So great was the\\nalarm that the women and children and valuables of every kind\\nwere sent from Portsmouth into the interior for safety. The\\nforce of militia not only allayed these fears, but prevented illicit\\ncommerce with the enemy, who paid good prices for fresh\\nprovisions. This trade is supposed to have been carried on by\\nthe citizens of Vermont and Maine.\\nThe seat of war, aggravated by the horrors of Indian atroci-\\nties, was along our northern and western frontiers. There\\nColonel James Miller of Temple was doing good service in the\\nneighborhood of Detroit.\\nAt the presidential election in the fall Madison was re-elected\\nby Southern and Western votes, receiving none north of Penn-\\nsylvania except six given by the legislature of Vermont at a time\\nwhen the people would have given them to Clinton. In regard\\nto national issues at this time, as John Quincy Adams said,\\nthe two great parties had crossed over the valley and taken\\npossession of each other s mountain. The course pursued by\\nthe leading Federalists at this time, in associating the defeat of\\nan American by a British force as the overthrow of their adver-\\nsaries, identified them in the popular estimation with the ene-\\nmies of their country and led to the final disruption of their\\nparty. Many worthy citizens were seen to rejoice over British\\nvictories, and to mourn over those of their own country, as, half\\na century later, many conducted themselves during the Rebellion.\\n1 At the November session of the legislature the governor s\\naddress was mainly devoted to the subject of the war then pro-\\ngressing. He was in harmony with the administration, unlike\\nthe chief-magistrates of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Both\\nWilliam PUimer. Jr.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0509.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "492\\nHISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[i8i;\\nHouses returned answers to the speech, approving of the war,\\nand of the prompt and patriotic manner in which the call of\\nthe president respecting the militia was complied with. The\\nFederalist minority voted against the answers in both branches,\\nits chief protest being directed against the power claimed by the", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0510.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "I8l2]\\nWAR OF l8l2.\\n493\\npresident of calling out the militia, and placing them under\\nofficers of the United States. The majority declared that the\\n*Wl(ALR5\\\\cKJflGHT.\\nwar was just, but referred to Napoleon as that scourge of na-\\ntions, and were opposed to any alliance with him. The minority\\nnecessary, but upheld\\ndid not deem the war to have been", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0511.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "494 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l8l2\\nthe governor in his policy to protect the frontiers. The effort\\nto fill the vacancy in the office of United States senator was\\nunavailing, as Mr. Sanborn of Epsom, who held the tie vote in\\nthe Senate, could not agree with his party associates as to the\\nnominee. The governor returned one law and two resolves to\\nthe legislature, with his objections to them, and both were\\ndropped. The building of the old State s Prison was undertaken\\nthis year, and several changes made in the criminal code. Before\\nthis there had been eight offences punishable with death only\\ntwo were allowed to remain on the statute book murder and\\ntreason and the old punishments of the whip and pillory were\\nchanged to imprisonment in the State s Prison or in the county\\njail. Aside from the militia Very many citizens of the State\\nvolunteered to join the regular army, or enlisted in privateers-\\nmen. Lieutenant-colonel Moody Bedel opened a recruiting office\\nat Concord in May, and in September sent three hundred and\\nninety-seven recruits to join his regiment, the iith United\\nStates infantry, at Burlington. The regiment was mainly from\\nNew Hampshire.\\nJohn McNeil of Hillsborough and John W. Weeks of Lancaster\\nwere captains in this regiment. In July of the next year the\\nregiment was consolidated with the 21st, in which Jonathan East-\\nman of Concord was a lieutenant.\\nLi November, 181 2, eleven companies of volunteers had their\\nrendezvous at Concord, and were organized as the First Regi-\\nment of New Hampshire Volunteers, under the command of\\nColonel Aquila Davis of Warner, but in the following January\\nthe regiment was disbanded, the enlisted men being distributed\\nto regiments in the regular army. Most of the soldiers were\\njoined to the 45th United States regiment, of which Aquila\\nDavis was lieutenant-colonel. At the expiration of their term\\nof enlistment, at the end of one year, many re-enlisted, and\\nthe 45th regiment was mainly recruited in New Hampshire.\\nThe pay of a private was $10, of a corporal ^11, of a sergeant\\n$12.\\nIn December a voluntary corps of infantry was organized,\\ncomposed of such men as were not liable by law to do military", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0512.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "i8i3] WAR (II lo 12. 495\\nduty, but were to be called on for service only in case of inva-\\nsion.\\nIn January, 1S13, Cajitain Edmund Freeman of Lebanon and\\n1 lV\\\\r,iit4\\\\\\nk.\\niiwtr\\ncompany were detached from the Western Brigade to relieve\\nCaptain Mahurin s command at Stewartstown. In April Captain\\nAdjutant-general s Reports, 1868.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0513.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "49*5 lllSTOKY OK NEW llAMl SHIKK. 8 1\\nWilliam Marshall s company of Sea Fenciblcs was stationed\\nat Little Harbor for the defence of Portsmouth. As British\\ncruisers were hovering continually upon the coast, the people of\\nPortsmouth became alarmed, and in May called a town meeting\\nto provide for defence. After considerable discussion their repre-\\nsentatives were instructed to lay before the legislature the ex-\\nposed situation of the town and harbor. At the meeting Dan-\\niel Webster made one of his characteristic speeches. He said\\nTalk is not what the crisis demands. The forts near the town\\nwant repairs, want men to defend them when repaired. The\\ngovernment of the United States and the State government\\nhave been applied to for men to repair and defend these forts but\\nwe know not that either will attend to our application. But one\\nthing we do know, the crisis demands labor, and we can labor,\\nwe can repair the forts. And then we know another thing, wc\\ncan defend thetn. Now, I propose that every man who wants\\nthese forts repaired, wants these forts, aye, the town of Ports-\\nmouth, defended, appear on parade to-morrow morning with pick-\\naxe, spade, and shovel, and that they go to the Islands and re\\npair the forts. The meeting adjourned with a hurrah for pick,\\naxe, spade, and shovel. The next morning hundreds of the pa-\\ntriotic men of Portsmouth gathered upon the parade, and with\\nMr. Webster, duly armed with a shovel, proceeded to the forts,\\ncommenced their work, and in the course of a few days had com-\\npleted the repair of the fortifications, forts Washington and\\nSullivan, on either side of the narrows.\\nAt the annual election in March, i8i 3, ex-governor John Tay-\\nlor Gilman was elected governor, and was inaugurated in June.\\nThe minority of 18 12 had now become the majority. Governor\\nGilman was a patriot and soldier of the Revolution, and conser-\\nvative in his views as to the war, although the standard bearer of\\nthe opposition to the war. No one could find fault with his\\nmessage\\nThe consequences of the war cannot be foreseen, and thi?re\\nare divers opinions respecting the necessity of the war, as well\\nas the causes which induced our government to make the declar-\\nAdjutanl-general s Reports, i86S.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0514.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "i8i3]\\nWAK (l|- 1,S|2.\\n497\\nation. We are bound to su[:)port our system of national govern-\\nment and the laws emanating therefrom but this by no means\\nhinders the right of free inquiry, or the full expression of senti-\\nments upon the measures of government.\\nIt is not doubted that we have had great causes of complaint\\nDANIEL WEBSTER.\\nagainst both Great Britain and I- raiice, and perhaps at some\\nformer period much greater against one or both of these govern-\\nments than existed against the British at the time of the declar-\\nation of war.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0515.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "498 msroKV i)i NEW iiAMi siiiKii. [1S13\\nWhile wc demand redress for injuries received from others, we\\nshould suitably regard their just expectations from us and may\\nwe not, without being liable to the charge of justifying the con-\\nduct of Great Britain, inquire whether they have no just cause of\\ncomplaint against our government whether our professions of\\nstrict and impartial neutrality, in the important contest between\\nGreat Britain and France, had been constantly maintained and\\nwhether there had not been a manifest difference in our resent-\\nments, and in the language and manner of seeking redress for\\nwrongs, exhibiting an unwarrantaijlc partiality for France?\\nThis message voiced the sentiments of the Federalists of thai\\nday.\\nThe spring elections of 1813 were conducted with great zeal\\nand vigor on both sides, but with less personal abuse of Governor\\nPlumer than in the preceding year. His dignified and impartial\\nconduct in office had inspired even his opponents with a respect\\nfor him. The worst charges against him were his ordering out\\nthe detached militia, supporting the war, and vindicating the\\nnational government. The result of the canvass was the election\\nof Governor Gilman by a very small majority of two hundred and\\nfifty votes out of more than thirty-five thousand thrown. There\\nwere few or no scattering votes. One of Governor Plumer s last\\nofficial acts was stationing a guard at Little Harbor. His pro-\\nclamations for Fast and Thanksgiving were of such a patriotic\\norder that ministers in neighboring States, who were Republi-\\ncans, read them in place of those from their own Federal\\ngovernors.\\nThe accession of the Federal party to power was followed by\\na reorganization of the courts of law. An Act of the legislature\\nabolished the Superior and Inferior Courts turned out all the\\nold judges and established a Supreme Court and a Circuit\\nCourt of Common I leas in place of the old courts. Jeremiah\\nSmith was appointed chief justice, and Arthur Livermore and\\nCaleb Ellis associate justices of the Supreme Court, able men\\nand good judges, whose administration gave strength to their\\nparty and improved the courts. But the act of the legislature\\nWilli.n.. I lumei. Jr.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0516.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "i8i3] WAR OF iSi2. 499\\nwas thought unconstitutional by the Republicans, and next to the\\nwar most divided the two parties. Twenty-one judges were at\\nonce removed from office in a way unknown to the constitution\\nand contrary to its express provisions, as decided by at least two\\nof the new judges. In the counties of Strafford, Rockingham,\\nand Hillsborough the old judges attempted to hold courts at the\\nsame time with the new ones. In the two latter counties, the\\nsheriffs, Butler and Pierce, who were Republicans, took part\\nwith the old court. Whereupon Governor Gilman called the\\nlegislature together and removed the refractory sheriffs, and the\\nnew judges met with no further obstructions.\\nAt the June session of the legislature, 1813, Jeremiah Mason\\nwas elected to the United States Senate. The legislature first\\nchose Dr. John Goddard, a merchant of Portsmouth, originally\\na physician, a man of ability and high character but having\\nno taste for public life he declined the honor. The legislature\\nnext made choice of Mr. Mason.\\nMr. Mason was a firm Federalist, and one of the ablest law-\\nyers in his own or any other age. At the time of his election\\nhe was forty-five years of age and in the zenith of his fame. He\\nwas a native of Connecticut, a graduate of Yale, and had finished\\nhis legal studies in Vermont and as a young man had settled\\nfirst in Westmoreland and later in Walpole. He saw an ope-\\nning in Portsmouth and settled there in 1797, soon after marrying\\nMary, daughter of Colonel Robert Means, of Amherst, and at\\nonce took a leading rank among the lawyers of the State. After\\nJudge Smith was elevated to the bench he was the leading law-\\nyer in the State. He was attorney-general for three years. In\\n1807 Daniel Webster removed from Boscawen to Portsmouth,\\nand for the ne.xt nine years divided with Mr. Mason the leading\\nbusiness of the State. As a general rule they were retained on\\nopposite sides in every important case, until Mr. Webster s\\nremoval to Boston in 18 16. Their great powers were joined with\\nthose of Jeremiah Smith s in the famous Dartmouth College\\ncauses. Governor Plumer offered Mr. Mason the appointment\\nof chief justice of the Supreme Court, but he declined the honor.\\nMr. Mason removed to Boston in 1832, where he died sixteen years", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0517.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "500 mSTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1813\\nlater. In 1813 Mr. Mason and Mr. Webster were considered the\\nstrongest men in the State of New Hampshire, for already the\\nlatter s greatness was beginning to be recognized. Mr. Webster\\nhad already been elected to the House. Mr. Mason was from his\\njudgment and prudence peculiarly fitted for public ofifice in times\\nwhen party spirit ran high. There was nothing impassioned\\nin his temperament or fanatical in his understanding. His\\nmind was judicial in its tone, and he had no taste for extreme\\npropositions or extreme measures. His self-control was perfect.\\nHe was no politician and no aspirant for political distinction,\\nbut he took a keen interest in public affairs and was a patriot\\nin the best sense of the word. He reverenced the character\\nand the principles of Washington, and fully appreciated the in-\\nestimable services he had rendered to the country. Some Fed-\\neralists let their opposition to the war carry them beyond the\\nbounds alike of prudence and patriotism, but Mr. Mason was\\nnot one of these nor was his friend Mr. Webster. Their\\ncourse illustrated the proper functions of an opposition in time\\nof war, under a constitutional government.\\nThe almost exclusive business of Congress during the winter\\nof 1813 and 1814, was the providing of men and money for\\ncarrying on a war into which the country had been plunged with\\nlittle of forethought and less of preparation. The party opposed\\nto the war, though weak in numbers, was powerful in ability and\\ninfluence but the force of the opposition was not so great a\\ndifficulty in carrying on the war as was the cold and languid sup-\\nport of its friends. It was in truth a politicians war, and the\\npopular heart neverwas for it or in it. That intense public spirit\\nwhich, during our civil contest, made all efforts easy and all sac-\\nrifices light, was wholly wanting. Federalists and Democrats\\nabused each other with equal virulence, but the energies of both\\nwent no farther the two nerves of war iron and gold, men and\\nmoney were hard to come at. The brilliant successes of our\\nnavy had not been enough to counteract the depressing influence\\nof the disasters and misfortunes which had attended our arms on\\nland and a general feeling of despondency and anxiety hung\\nLife of Mason.", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0518.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "J 8 14] WAR (H-- 1 8 13. 5or\\nover the country, and made the task of carrying;- on the govern*\\nment and keeping up the war one of no small difficulty.^\\nIn August the people of Portsmouth hecame apprehensive of\\nan attack, and were furnished with arms and ammunition by the\\ngovernor. In the west the war was conducted with varying\\nsuccess through the year. The retaking of Detroit and Mich-\\nigan, and Commodore Perry s victory on Lake Erie, balanceel\\nmany reverses of American arms. At Detroit Colonel Lewi.s\\nCass, a native of E.xeter, became distinguished. He was born\\nin 1782; at an early age settled in Ohio; and in 1807 was ap-\\npointed marshal of the State. In 1813 he was appointed\\nbrigadier-generg.1 and later governor of Michigan Territory.\\nHe was afterwards secretary of war in General Jackson s cabi-\\nnet minister to France in 1S36; United States senator in\\n1S45 a candidate for the presidency in 1848 re-elected to the\\nSenate in 185 1; President Buchanan s secretar\\\\- of state in\\n1857, resigning in January, i86i. He died in 1866. He was a\\nbrave soldier, an accomplished gentleman, a true patriot, and an\\nable statesman, who reflected credit upon his native State.\\nDuring the year General Timothy Upham distinguished him-\\nself as a brave officer during an attempted attack on Montreal.\\nBritish ships of war remained off the coast of the United\\nStates during the winter of 18 13 and 18 14, their rendezvous\\nbeing at the Bermuda Islands and at Gardner s Bay, at the east\\nend of Long Island, while the coast of eastern New England\\nwas reached by an easy run of their cruisers from Halifax, their\\nnaval depot upon the coast of North America.\\nThe attack of the British, in April, 18 14, upon the fleet of\\nvessels collected for safety in the Connecticut river greatly\\nalarmed the people of Portsmouth, and in answer to their de-\\nmands, companies under command of Captains Shackford and\\nMarshall were immediately stationed in the neighborhood. In\\nthe latter part of the month Admiral Cochrane, from his rendez-\\nvous at the Bahamas, issued a proclamation declaring the whole\\ncoast of the United States in a state of blockade, thus including\\nNew England, before excepted. Forthwith British cruisers ap-\\nLife of Mason.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0519.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "502 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l8l4\\npeaied in Massachusetts Bay and captured and burned some\\ntiiirty or forty coasting vessels, producing great consternation in\\nPortsmouth. A demand was made for a force of a thousand men\\nfor the protection of the town and in May Governor Langdon\\ndetached eight companies of the militia and placed them under\\nthe command of Major Edward J. Long, of Portsmouth, to de-\\nfend the town and harbor. Among the officers were Captain\\nAndrew Pierce, Jr., of Dover, and Captain Bradbury Bartlett,\\nof Nottingham.\\nWhen the legislature assembled in June, 1814, the governor\\nlaid before them his doings in a special message and a special\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0committee was appointed upon the subjects of the detached\\nmilitia and the maritime defence. To this committee was re-\\nferred the correspondence of the governor with the secretary of\\nwar and the letters of the latter were so objectionable on\\naccount of their omissions that the committee recommended\\nthe disbandment of six of the eight militia companies detached\\nin May and stationed at the mouth of the Piscataqua. This\\nwas done because the general government did not acknowledge\\nthe service done by the militia. Their report was accepted and\\nacted upon by the governor. In the meanwhile the greatest\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0excitement existed at Portsmouth. They had been for weeks\\nin the expectation of an immediate attack upon the town, by\\nthe British, whose cruisers were continually hovering about our\\n;oast. Alarms had been frequent as to the landing of the\\nenemy, and many of the inhabitants had their valuables packed\\nready for transportation into the interior. After ten o clock in\\nthe evening of June 21, messengers brought the intelligence that\\na British force was landing at Rye and were about to march\\nupon Portsmouth. Alarm bells were rung and signal guns fired.\\nThe militia companies turned out with alacrity and prepared for\\nthe attack. Teams and people on foot, loaded with packages\\nand bundles, filled the streets, making with all haste for the\\ncountry. Drums beating, the clatter of horses hoofs on the\\npavement, the crying of children, the shrieking of women, made\\nthe confusion Babel-like.\\nA martial spirit pervaded all ranks, and they glowed with ardor", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0520.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "I8i4]\\nWAR I8l2.\\n503\\nto be Iccl to the place of danger. In a short time order prevailed\\nto some extent and scouts were sent out to reconnoitre. It proved\\na false alarm. From Portsmouth the alarm spread into the inte-\\nrior, and great excitement existed throughout the State, not\\nallayed until the report was contradicted.", "height": "2435", "width": "1520", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0521.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "504 IlISTOKV OF M;\\\\V llAMPSHIKi:. 814\\nIn September Governor Oilman yielded to the popular demand\\nfor active preparations for defence, and detached twenty-three\\nregiments of the militia, two days later ordering the entire body^\\ninfantry, cavalry, and artillery, to hold themselves in readiness to\\nmarch at a moment s warning. These orders were sent by express\\nthroughout the State, and were obeyed with the greatest alacrity.\\nSo great was the enthusiasm among the people that whole com-\\npanies volunteered, and a draft had to be made of those wiio\\nshould stay at home. Sixteen companies of troops from the\\ninterior were joined to the two regiments belonging in the neigh-\\nborhood of the coast, and were all formed into a brigade under\\ncommand of Brigadier-general John Montgomery, and of the\\ncommander-in-chief. Governor Gilman.\\nThe detached troops were judiciously posted in case of an\\nattack. Forts Constitution and McClary, and Forts Washington\\nand Sullivan at the Narrows, filled with regulars and militia, de-\\nfended the main entrance to the harbor. A battery at Little\\nHarbor was supported by two regiments, and artillery at the\\nSouth Ropewalk, while a considerable force was stationed at the\\nPlains to prevent a surprise from Greenland or Rye. All the\\nforces could be concentrated on any part of the line of defence.\\nGovernor Gilman took the command in person, and with his staff\\nwas watchful of every point and most assiduous in his labors\\nO prepare a vigorous reception for the enemy. George Sullivan,\\n!3radbury Cilley, Edward J. Long, and Daniel Gookin were his\\naides.\\nA British officer, after the war, told Colonel Walbach that he\\nwent up the Piscataqua and reconnoitred the town, disguised\\nas a fisherman, to find out the feasibility of an attack with a view\\nof destroying the Navy Yard and the town of Portsmouth. On\\nhis returning to the fleet and reporting that the town was swarm-\\ning wivh soldiers and well defended, the British commander aban-\\ndoned the project. The danger being past, the enemy having\\nwithd.awn to the southward, the main part of the troops\\nwere discharged early in October, leaving a small force as a gar-\\nrison uitil winter.\\nIn the neighborhood (if Niagara alls, during the summer,", "height": "2448", "width": "1562", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0522.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "1814] \\\\VAK or 1812. 505\\nMajor John McNeil of Hillsborough is credited with routing the\\nenemy at the battle of Chippewa. At Lundy s Lane Major\\nMcNeil s horse was killed under him by a cannon ball, and he\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was severely wounded in the right knee, but would not leave\\nthe field. Here the gallant Colonel Miller, of Temple, when\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ordered to storm the British battery, replied I ll try, Sir, and\\nin the face of a galling fire, and in a hand-to-hand conflict, cap-\\ntured seven pieces of elegant brass cannon and held them against\\nseveral attempts of the enemy to recover them. He was im-\\nmediately promoted to the rank of general. In the sortie from\\nFort Erie a few weeks later General Miller again distinguished\\nhimself, as did Colonel Moody Bedel and Lieutenant-colonel\\nUpham. During the year the Americans lost the city of Wash-\\nington, drove the British forces from Lake Champlain, and re-\\npulsed them at New Orleans early the following year.\\nA treaty of peace had been concluded at Ghent in December,\\n1814, and was announced by special messenger, while the people\\nwere rejoicing over the victory at New Orleans and the news\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was nowhere more welcome than to the inhabitants of New\\nHampshire.\\nThe Federalists carried all branches of the State governmen*\\nin 1814 except the Council, in which were three Republicans.\\nThey re-elected Governor Gilman by a majority of little over\\nhundred votes out of nearly forty thousand thrown. The pres\\nsure of war brought about this result, many Republicans fearinj.\\nthat if Mr. Plumer was elected he would call out the militia\\nThe Congregational clergy of New England took an active part in\\npolitics as they had done from the first, preaching political sermons\\non Fast and Thanksgiving days, and often on other days. They\\nhad been zealous Whigs during the Revolution, and had been as\\nzealous Federalists during the early days of the Republic, their\\nassistance being relied upon by the leaders of that party. They\\nhad given great offence to the Republicans, many of whom for\\nthis reason withdrew from their societies and joined the Baptists,\\nMethodists, and other sects. Mr. Plumer issued a pamphlet\\nentitled An Address to the clergy of New England on their\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0William Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0523.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "506 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSIIIKE. [1814\\nopposition to the Rulers of the United States, by a Layman.\\nThe work received a very wide circulation in the newspapers,\\naside from three thousand copies of the pamphlet, and attracted\\nmuch attention. Governor Strong s letter inviting New Hamp-\\nshire to join with Massachusetts in sending delegates to the Hait-\\nford convention reached Governor Gilman after the adjournment\\nof the legislature, and the governor could not convene the legis-\\nlature without the advice of his Council, the majority of whom\\nwere Republicans and opposed to the measure.^ The Hartford\\nconvention,which met in December, 1814, consisted of delegates\\nappointed by the legislatures of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and\\nRhode Island, and members appointed by two county conven-\\ntions in New Hampshire, and one in Vermont, and conducted\\ntheir proceedings with closed doors and a mutual pledge of invi-\\nolate secrecy as to all propositions, debates, and proceedings, ex-\\ncept the final report. The character of this, as well as the boldly\\nannounced views of the promoters of the convention, left little\\ndoubt that a revolution was contemplated unless their demands\\nwere acceded to. Among their claims they wanted no natur-\\nalized citizen to hold any civil office no president to be elected\\na second time no State to furnish two presidents in succession.\\nThey provided for a new convention to meet in Boston in June\\nfollowing, in case the war should continue.", "height": "2448", "width": "1519", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0524.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nSTR UGGLE FOR TOLERA TION, 1 8 1 5 1 8 19.\\nThe Federalists Disband as a Party Dartmouth College Sep-\\ntember Storm Middlesex Canal Dartmouth University Si ate\\nHouse Chief Justice Richardson Daniel Webster Baptist\\nDenomination President Monroe s Visit Governor Samueu\\nBell Bristol The Town House The Toleration Act Colo-\\nnial Laws for the Support of the Ministry and Public Schools.\\npEACEi ended nearly all causes of party differences in the\\nState and country. Impressment ceased with the European\\nwars, as did French decrees and British Orders in Council, non-in-\\ntercourse, embargo, and the war in America. During the war the\\nRepublicans were said to have been under French influence,\\nthe Federalists under British influence. One party sympathized\\nwith England, the other party admired Napoleon. It was not\\nuntil after the 18 12 war that a truly American feeling obtained\\nthe entire ascendency in this country.\\nThe Federal party died with the war. It had gone out of\\npower in the country in 1801, and its northern and southern\\nmembers had become estranged. It was never a popular party.\\nThe Hartford convention brought such odium upon it that men\\nbecame ashamed of the name. At the same time the Republi-\\ncan party lost its identity, having eliminated some of its worst\\nerrors, both of theory and practice and absorbed into itself much\\nof what was best of the principles of the Federalists. The era\\nof good feeling, which commenced with Mr. Monroe s adminis-\\ntration, led to a speedy oblivion of old feuds and for the eight\\nyears which followed party lines were obliterated. When once\\nmore parties were formed under the leadership of Adams and\\nWilliam Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0525.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "508 HISTORY OV NEW HAMPSHIRE. 8 1 5\\nJackson, many old Federal leaders were found to be Demo-\\ncrats, and as many old Republicans took rank as Whigs. The\\nold questions had been settled, and the new ones of tariff, in-\\nternal improvement, and the extension or restriction of slavery\\narose. The old party feeling in New Hampshire did not subside\\nuntil after the March elections of 1815, and Governor Oilman\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was re-elected by a majority of thirty-five votes, so close and\\nloubtful was the contest. During the summer, the trouble long\\nbrewing in the affairs of Dartmouth College resulted in an open\\nrupture between the president, John Wheelock, and the trustees.\\nHe applied to the legislature for an investigating committee\\nthey, without waiting for the report of the legislative committee,\\nremoved Dr. Wheelock from his office of president and trustee,\\nand inaugurated his successor. Rev. Francis Brown and the\\naffairs of the college entered into the politics of the State in\\nthe next election.^\\nA destructive tempest took place on Saturday, September 23, 1815, and sur-\\npassed, in extent and violence, any wind that has blown over New England\\nluring the present centurv.\\nThe day was rainy, and the wind came from an easterly quarter, we think\\nthe south-east. In Concord, although, from its situation in the valley of the\\nMerrimack, the damage was less than in more exposed places, yet here build-\\nings were unroofed, growing crops damaged, and wood and timber-trees torn\\nup by the roots, which, at their present valuation, would be worth many\\nthousands of dollars. The rotten trunks of trees blown down in that memo-\\nrable gale have hardly yet disappeared from forests in this city; a circum-\\nstance to be accounted for in this wise sixty 3 ears ago wood was of so little\\nvalue that people neglected to remove these fallen trees until they fell into\\nsuch decay as to be worthless.\\nThe wind commenced in the morning at north-east. At about noon it\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0changed to south-east, and for two hours seemed to threaten everything with\\nruin. The sturdy oak, the stately elm, and the pliant poplar were alike vic-\\ntims to its fury. The destruction of orchards and buildings has been great.\\nThere is scarcely an apple left on the standing trees. Many cattle have been\\nkilled bv falling trees. Had this violent wind occurred in the season of vege-\\ntation there is no calculating its effects. It might have produced a famine.\\nSheds, trees, fences, etc., were blown down, buildings unroofed, and limbs\\nand fragments of trees strewed in every direction. It continued with una-\\nbated fury nearly two hours.\\nJohn M. Shirley. Asa McFarland.\\n3 Xrw Hampshire Patriot. Amherst Cabinet,", "height": "2458", "width": "1519", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0526.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "i8i5l\\nSTRUGGLE FOR TOLERATION.\\n509\\nIn 1814 the obstructions in the Merrimack had been sur-\\nmounted, so that canal boats, lociiing into the river at Chelmsford,\\nhad been poled up stream as far as Concord.\\nFirewood and lumber always formed a very considerable item\\nSHOT OF LUMBER COMING OUT OF A LOCK.\\nin the business of the canal. The navy yard at Charlestown\\nand the ship yards on the Mystic for many years relied upon the\\ncanal for the greater part of the timber used in shipbuilding\\nPUSHING AGAINST THE CURRENT.\\nand worlf was sometimes seriously retarded by low water in the\\nMerrimack, which interfered with transportation. The supply of\\noak and pine about Lake Winni[)iseogee, and along the Merri-\\nmack and its tributaries, was thought to be practically inexhaus-\\nGeneral George Stark.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0527.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "5 lO HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1816\\ntible. In the opinion of Daniel Webster, the value of this tim-\\nber had been increased $5,000,000 by the canal. Granite from\\nTyngsboroiigh, and agricultural products from a great extent of\\nfertile country, found their way along this channel to Boston\\nwhile the return boats supplied taverns and country stores with\\ntheir annual stock of goods. The receipts from tolls, rents, etc.,\\nwere steadily increasing, amounting in 18 12 to $12,600, and in\\n1816 to $32,600.\\nYet, valuable, useful, and productive as the canal had proved\\nitself, it had lost the confidence of the public, and, with a few\\nexceptions, of the proprietors themselves. The reason for this\\nstate of sentiment can easily be shown. The general depression\\nof business on account of the embargo and the war of 18 12 had\\nits effect upon the canal. In the deaths of Governor Sullivan\\nand Colonel Baldwin, in the same year, 1808, the enterprise waj\\ndeprived of the wise and energetic counsellors to whom it owed\\nits existence.\\nThe aqueducts and most of the locks, being built of wood,\\nrequired large sums for annual repairs the expenses arising\\nfrom imperfections in the banks, and from the erection of toll-\\nhouses and public-houses for the accommodation of the boatmen,\\nwere considerable but the heaviest expenses were incurred in\\nopening the Merrimack for navigation. From Concord to\\nthe head of the canal the river has a fall of one hundred and\\ntwenty-three feet, necessitating various locks and canals. The\\nMiddlesex Canal Corporation contributed to the building of the\\nWiccasee locks and canals, $12,000; Union locks and canals,\\n$49,932 Hookset canal, $6,750; Bow canal and locks, $14,115.\\n^Before 1816 the quarrel in the management of Dartmouth\\nCollege had been between Federalists and Congregationalists,\\nalthough Dr. Wheelock leaned towards the Presbyterians in his\\nsympathies. In the spring elections of 1816 Mr. Plumer received\\nnot only the support of the Republicans, but of the Federalists\\nwho were friends of Dr. Wheelock, and was elected governor,\\nreceiving over twenty thousand votes, while his opponent, James\\nSheafe of Portsmouth, received more than two thousand less.\\nJohn M. Shirley.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0528.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "I8l6j STKUCCiLK I OK TOI.KKATION. 5rl\\nSheafe had been a Tory, and was imprisoned during the Revohi-\\ntion, but had come into popular favor again, and at this time was\\nthe richest man in the State. He had been elected a United\\nStates senator in 1802 Mr. Plumcr having been elected to fill\\nout his unexpired term. The interest felt in politics then is\\nknown from the fact that the votes numbered one in six of the\\ninhabitants.\\nMr. Webster favored the design of creating a University of\\nNew Hampshire, to be located at Concord, to settle the college\\nquarrel. Governor Plumer proposed in his message a reorganiza-\\ntion of the college, thus placing it under legislative control a\\nproposition which met with favor with the great Republican lead-\\ners of the country and was favorably acted upon by the legislature.\\nHis recommendation to remit ta.xes on manufacturing establish-\\nments, on being adopted, led to a large increase of business in the\\nState. His idea of establishing Congressional districts was after-\\nwards put in force. The legislature complied with his wishes and\\nfreely granted charters to all religious denominations and re-\\nduced official salaries.\\n^The most important measure undertaken was the reorganiza-\\ntion of the Courts. The Judiciary Acts of 18 13, being con-\\nsidered unconstitutional by the Republican majority of the Gen-\\neral Court, were promptly repealed, and the new judges, de facto\\nif not dejiire, were addressed out of office, and the same course was\\ntaken as to the old judges, leaving the Commonwealth without a\\njudiciary. A similar course in regard to the federal sheriffs was\\nproposed, but not acted upon. The appointment of seventeen\\nnew judges after the adjournment of the legislature was a diffi-\\ncult task, as the governor did not wish the court to be wholly\\npartisan, but only one of his appointments offered to Federalists\\nwas accepted. William M. Richardson was appointed chief jus-\\ntice, although the office was offered to Jeremiah Mason, the lead-\\ning lawyer in the State, and a firm Federalist. Levi Woodbury,\\nwho was then secretary of state and boarding with the governor\\nat the house of Isaac Hill, was appointed a judge in place of\\nGeorge B. Upham, who refused the office from political motives.\\nWilliam Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0529.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "512 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l8l6\\nSamuel Boll was the other judge of the Supreme Court ap-\\npointed by the governor.\\nA little entry in Governor Plumer s private diary under date\\nJuly 4, 1816, Fixed the site for the State House, is thought to\\nbe the only record of that important event. In his address\\nto the legislature at an adjourned meeting in November he ad-\\nverted to it and aroused opposition to himself in his own party.\\nThe location of the new State House, whether north or south\\nof a given line, on the main street in Concord, was a question\\nin which it might have been thought few would take much in-\\nterest, except the dwellers on that street. Yet it excited a\\nfurious contest, not only in the town, but among the members\\nof the legislature and through the State. As the spot selected\\nby the governor and Council was at a considerable distance\\nsouth of the old State House, the people at the North End,\\nwith whom nearly all the members of the legislature had\\nhitherto boarded, were likely, by the new location, to lose\\nthenceforth this monopoly. The clamor which they raised was\\nin proportion to their supposed interest in the question and it\\nwas soon found that many of the members were deeply infected\\nwith the feelings and the prejudices of their landlords on this\\nsubject. Representatives of their respective boarding-houses\\nrather than of the State, as a member expressed it. The spot\\nselected was denounced as a quagmire and a frog pond. The\\ngovernor and Council were sustained by the legislature, how-\\never, and it was afterwards admitted that no better spot could\\nhave been selected.\\nBy Act of the legislature Dartmouth College was changed to\\nDartmouth University, the number of trustees was increased\\nfrom twelve to twenty-one, and a board of twenty-five overseers\\nwas created. Both political parties and all prominent religious\\nsects were represented on these boards. The Act provided for\\nperfect freedom of religious opinions among the officers and\\nstudents of the university, and was part of the plan to bring\\nthe institution under the fostering care of the State.^ The old\\nboard of trustees resisted this Act, and, appeal being made to\\nWilliam Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0530.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "i8i6]\\nSTRUGGLE I OR TOLEKATION.\\n513\\nthe courts, it was decided that the trustees must yield. The\\nmatter, however, was finally carried before the Supreme Court\\nof the United States, where the old board of trustees were sus-\\nSTATE HOUSE, CONCORD.\\ntained, and where it was practically ruled that a legislature\\ncould not overturn the charter granted by the king a tri-\\numph for the trustees, but, in the minds of many, a serious blow", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0531.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "514 HISTOKV NEW II AM I SHIKE. [1816\\nto Dartmouth College, which inissed its op])ortunity to become\\na great university under the auspices of the Commonwealtli.\\nTimothy Farrar, and afterwards John M. Shirley, published vol-\\numes on this controversy easily accessible, whik- numberless\\npamphlets were issued on the same subject.\\nAt the September term of the court, 1817, the case of Dart-\\nmouth College was tried before Chief Justice Richardson and\\nJudge Bell at Exeter. Mason, Smith, and Webster argued the\\ncause for the trustees, Sullivan and Bartlett for the State. These\\nwere all members of the Rockingham bar, when it was literally\\nan arena of giants. Of this bar Judge Story said that it had\\nvast law learning and prodigious intellectual power. Mason,\\nat this time fifty years old, was from Connecticut, but read law\\nand commenced practice in crmont. He was six feet seven\\ninches in height, and proportionately large in other respects.\\nHis intellectual exxeeded his physical stature. Webster, with a\\nthorough knowledge of the man, deliberately wrote down that as\\na lawyer, as a jurist, no man in the Union equalled Mason, and\\nbut one approached him. Mason loved his family and the law\\nfor the sake of the former he resigned his position as United\\nStates senator. He was denied the gifts and graces of the ora-\\ntor, but this great man on his feet in the court room was seem-\\ningly an inspired Euclid.\\nSmith, then fifty-eight years old, was possessed of great and\\naccurate learning, and of great natural abilities, but, like Mason,\\nhe was no orator.\\nWebster, at thirty-five, the Great IMack Giant of the East,\\nwas in full possession of his great powers.\\nSullivan,forty-threeyearsof age, was from a race of soldiers, ora-\\ntors, and lawyers. He was for many years attorney-general, as\\nhis father was before him and his son after him. He was a classi-\\ncal scholar, well read in the law an excellent special pleader\\nswift to perceive, prompt to act, and full of resources. He\\nrelied too little on his preparation, and too much upon his ora-\\ntory, his power of illustration and argument. But neither the\\ncourt, the jury, nor the people ever grew weary of listening to\\nJohn .M. Shirley.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0532.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "l8l6] STRUGGLE FOR TDI.I.KATION. 515\\nhis silver tones or liis arguments, that fell like music on the\\near.\\nBartlett was from a family eminent for its physicians,\\npreachers, and jurists. He was at thirty-one indefatigable in\\npreparation, eloquent in the highest sense, ready, witty, and a\\npopular idol.\\nWebster, who had the closing argument, so wrought upon the\\ncourt that it adjourned in tears, and tradition affirms that it was\\nthe greatest effort of his life. The counsel for the State were\\novermatched, but they won their case.\\nChief Justice Richardson was a graduate of Harvard, a mem-\\nber of Congress from Massachusetts in iSi2, and was subse-\\nquently re-elected but, being averse to political life, resigned\\nand removed to Portsmouth, in his native State, in 1814. From\\nhis appointment, in 18 16, till his death, in 1838, he was chief\\njustice of the highest court. Physically he was as imposing as\\nhe was great intellectually. Like Marshall s, his eyes were black,\\npiercing, and brilliant his hair was black as a raven s wing.\\nHe had refined and simple tastes he had a full, high, and broad\\nforehead. In learning and industry he ranked with Chief\\nJustice Parsons. He was a great and honest judge. He did\\nnot owe his eminence to subtility in judicial fence. His reas-\\noning and his heart alike were as open and ingenuous as the light\\nof day. He was reverenced by the people of the State as no\\nother judge ever was.\\nJudge Bell, father of the late Chief Justice Bell, belonged to\\ni family famous for their talent. He was a graduate of Dart-\\nmouth College, and had been a trustee. He was judge until he\\nwas elected governor in 18 19, and afterwards for twelve years a\\nUnited States senator. He was a man of immense erudition\\nand great business capacity, a thorough lawyer, and possessed\\nof great moral courage.\\nJudge Woodbury was some years less than thirty at the time\\nof his appointment. He succeeded Governor Bell as chief mag-\\nistrate. He was afterwards United States senator, secretary of\\nthe navy, secretary of the treasury, and one of the justices of the\\nJohn M. Shirley.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0533.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "5l6 HISTOKV OK NEW IIAMPSIIIRK. [lSl6\\nSupreme Court of the United States from 1S45 until his death\\nin 185 1. He was a possible and very probable candidate for the\\npresidency.\\nAccording to Jeremiah Mason, three more men so well qual-\\nified as the present judges, and who would accept the office,\\ncould not be found in the State.\\nThe trustees of the college had for a considerable time pur-\\nsued a course calculated to render them unpopular with a ma-\\njority of the people. Possessing, under their charter from the\\nKing, the power of removing members of their board and ap-\\npointing their own successors, they had confided the exclusive\\ncontrol of an institution designed for the common benefit to\\nmembers of a single religious sect and a single religious party.\\nFunds bequeathed to the college for the establishment of a pro-\\nfessorship had been applied to purposes partaking of a sectarian\\ncharacter. John Wheelock, himself a liberal benefactor of the\\ncollege, and the son of its illustrious founder, had been removed\\nby a summary exercise of the powers of the trustees.\\nMr. Mason felt the deepest interest in the Dartmouth\\nCollege case, and argued it with all the energy of conviction.\\nIn his view it was not simply a controversy between two corpo-\\nrations as to which was entitled to certain rights and property,\\nbut the question went deeper than this. It went deeper than\\nthe relations between the States and the general government,\\neven to the foundations of civil society itself. He believed the\\nAct of the legislature of New Hampshire to be a piece of legis-\\nlative usurpation, and that the State had no more right to trans-\\nfer the property of Dartmouth College to another corporation\\nthan they would have to take his house from him without paying\\nfor it, and give it to another man.\\nDartmouth College had, in its earlier years, a somewhat re-\\nmarkable and romantic history. Its founder, Eleazer Wheelock,\\nwas no ordinary man. He was an eminent preacher, a man of\\nbroad plans, of high enthusiasm, of indefatigable toil, and of\\ngreat executive ability. Everyone of these qualities was put to\\nJohn M. Shirley. Barstow s History of New Hampshire.\\nRev. S. C. Bartletl, D. D., I.L. D.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0534.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "l8l6] STRUGGLE FOR TOLERATION. 517\\nthe severest test in his arduous enterprise. His original concep-\\ntion of an Indian school exhibited well the wisdom of his judg-\\nment, which anticipated the results of the latest experience.\\nFor his plan was to train Indian youth of both sexes, so sepa-\\nrated from all their savage environments as to mould them fully\\ninto the habits of Christian civilization, and send them back ttv\\ntheir own country, in company with English young men alsck\\neducated by him as missionaries, that their united efforts might\\nraise the savage tribes to the same habits of life. There has\\nbeen little advance upon the wisdom of the plan.\\nWhen the Indian school expanded into a college, and caused\\nits transfer to another locality, the labor and care thrown upon\\nhim were enormous an extended and incessant correspondence at\\nhome and abroad, the necessity of devising ways and means for\\nevery separate part of the enterprise, material and literary, an\\nexhausting attention to all the minutia; of business, the struggle\\nof a settlement in an unbroken -forest, remote from supplies, and,\\nat times, the oppression of debt.\\nFrom Lebanon, Conn., in August, 1770, he pushed his way ta\\nHanover, to make ready. In a short time he was followed by\\na part of his family, who with difficulty made their way over the\\nwretched roads in a coach, the gift of a London friend, and by\\ntwo pupils who came on foot. This company entered a dense\\npine forest, containing two or three log huts, and no house on\\nthat side of the river within two miles. They felled six acres\\nof forest, and the fallen trees in all directions covered the\\nground to about the height of five feet. One of those trees,,\\nsays Dr. David McClure, who avers that he measured it, reached\\nthe almost incredible length of two hundred and seventy feet,\\nfrom the butt to the top and the sun was invisible by reason\\nof the trees till it had risen many degrees above the horizon.\\nMany of the company at first slept on the ground vv ith boughs\\nof trees for beds, sheltered by a few boards raised over them on\\npoles. Here at once began the labor of clearing the ground,\\nof erecting buildings, of digging wells (the first attempt unsuc-\\ncessful), and even of erecting a saw-mill and a grist-mil). These\\nmills failed to serve any valuable purpose, and he was obliged", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0535.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "5l8 mSTOKV Ol NEW IIAMl slIlKE. [1816\\nto send a great distance into Massachusetts and Connecticut\\nfor necessary provisions. Tlie process was often attended with\\nunavoidable delays, the supplies were scanty, and they sub-\\nmitted to coarse fare. Dr. Wheelock sometimes conducted\\nmorning and evening prayers in the open air. He was cheered\\nin the first hard winter by a religious revival. The snow that\\nlay four feet deep did not chill out the warmth of poetic fire.\\nWe have an interesting record of that early time in a consider-\\nable poem written by Levi Frisbie, then a senior in college pre-\\nparing for missionary work. The following is an extract\\nFor now the king of dav, at distance far,\\nIn soutliern signs drove liis refulgent car.\\nOn northern climates beamed a shorter day,\\nAnd shot obliquely his diminished ray.\\nGrim winter, frowning from the glistening Bear,\\nUnbarred his magazines of nitrous air.\\nAnd, clad in icy mail, of rigid form,\\nMenac d dark, dismal days of dreadful storm.\\nForlorn thus youthful Dartmouth trembling stood.\\nSurrounded with inhospitable wood;\\nNo silken furs on her soft limbs to spread.\\nNo dome to screen her fair, defenceless head.\\nOn every side she cast her wishful eyes.\\nThen humbly raised them to the pitying skies.\\nThence grace divine beheld her tender care,\\nAnd bowed her ear propitious to the pra^-er.\\nSoon changed the scene; the prospect shone more fair;\\nJoy lights all faces with a cheerful air;\\nTlie buildings rise, the work appears alive,\\nPale fear expires, and languid hopes revive,\\nGrim winter s surly blasts forbear to blow.\\nAnd heaven locked up her magazines of snow.\\nThe poem, which could not have been written later than the\\nSeptember following this grim winter, concludes thus\\nThus Dartmouth, happy in her sylvan seat.\\nDrinks the pure pleasures of her fair retreat.\\nHer songs of praise in notes melodious rise\\nLike clouds of incense to the listening skies;\\nHer God protects her with paternal care\\nFrom ills destructive, and each fatal snare;\\nAnd may lie still protect, and she adore\\nTill heaven, and earth, and tinu-, shall be no more.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0536.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "l8l6] STRUGGLE I OK TOLEKAl ION. 519\\nThe ticlat attending Dr. Wheelock s Indian school, both at\\nhome and in England, where George III. had been a donor of\\ntwo hundred pounds, created a very considerable competition\\nconcerning its location, when removed from Connecticut.\\nAmong the competing places were Albany, N. Y. Pittsfiekl\\nand Stockbridge, Mass. Hebron and Norwich, Conn., and many\\nothers. Hanover was chosen for several reasons, among which\\nappear to have been the feasibility of securing large tracts of\\nland its proximity to the Indian tribes the desirableness of\\nfurnishing ministers to the new settlement in the Connecticut\\nvalley, to which Hanover was regarded as somewhat central,\\nand most convenient for transportation up and down the river.\\nPerhaps quite as influential as any other reason was the power-\\nful aid and influence of John Wcntworth, royal governor of New\\nHampshire. The first commencement was attended by the gov-\\nernor. At the second commencement, also, he was accompanied,\\nor expected to be, by the speaker and several members of the\\nassembly, his secretary, the high sheriff of Hillsborough county,\\nthe collector of Salem, Rev. Dr. Langdon, and various other\\nprominent persons.\\nThe war of the Revolution made havoc not only with Wheel-\\nock s plans for the Indian tribes, but with the financial condition\\nof the college. By a wise foresight, when the charter was pro-\\ncured from the King, it had been made the charter, not of an Indian\\nschool alone, but of a college, and as a college it has done its great\\nwork. Its founder died, worn out with cares and labors, within\\nnine years of its establishment, but he had made it a power in the\\nland. For the first thirty years more than three quarters of its\\nstudents came from outside New Hampshire. They were from\\nthe whole valley of the Connecticut, from Massachusetts, Maine,\\nVermont, New York. Not less than nine or ten younger col-\\nleges have since been established within the region fi oni which\\nDartmouth then drew its students.\\nIt would take a small volume to trace out the various sources\\nof interest connected with the college from its romantic origin\\nto the present time, or to do justice to its remarkable work. Of\\nnearly five thousand graduates, over two thousand are now living.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0537.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "520 HISTORY Ol- Ni;\\\\V HAMPSHIRE. [1816\\nThe ^e men have come from all parts of the country, and have done their\\nwork in nearly all parts of the world and in every form of useful activity.\\nWhile some nine hundred of them as ministers have preached the Gospel at\\nhome, a goodly number, among them Goodell, Poor, and Temple, have car-\\nried it abroad, to Africa, China, Japan, Turkey. India, Syria, Persia, the\\nislands of the ocean, and the Indians of North America. They have aided in\\ntranslating the Bible into the Armeno-Turkish. the Hawaiian, and the Japan-\\nese languages. Six of them have been members of the Cabinet of the United\\nStates, six have represented the government at foreign courts, and a goodly\\nnumber have been foreign consuls. Two of them have sat on the supreme\\nbench of the United States one as chief justice and many others (26) have\\nbeen its district judges and district attorneys. The college has graduated\\nforty-seven judges of State supreme courts (including twenty chief justices),\\nmore than sixty judges of superior, county, and common pleas courts, besides\\na great number of probate and police judges, one m.ijor-general of the United\\nStates army, a superintendent of West Point, thirteen brigadier-generals,\\nthirteen colonels, thirteen lieutenant-colonels, twelve majors, two adjutants,\\nthirty-three captains, and numerous other commissioned officers (lieuten-\\nants, surgeons, chaplains) of United States volunteers. Thirty-two have\\nbeen presidents, and a hundred and eighty professors, of colleges and profes-\\nsional schools; twenty-three have been governors of States and Territories, at\\nleast sixty-five representatives and sixteen senators in Congress, thirty-one\\nspeakers of State legislatures, and eighteen presidents of State Senates.\\nThe graduates of the college have been greatly distinguished in the legal\\nprofession, and perhaps even more so in educational work. Tlie late Dr. T.\\nH. Taylor declared that in the latter respect the record of Dartmouth was, in\\nproportion to her numbers, superior to that of any other college in the\\ncountry. Her teachers and superintendents have been dispersed through the\\nland, and one of her graduates w-as at the head of the Bureau of Education,\\nwhile the two oldest and best fitting-schools of New England (Andover and\\nExeter) have been in charge of Dartmouth men.\\nThe indebtedness of New Hampshire to its one ancient college has never\\nbeen half told nor understood. About nineteen hundred natives of the State\\nhave graduated at the college, besides a great number who pursued part of the\\ncourse of study. Far the greater part of them have been young men of mod-\\nerate and even straitened circumstances, and probably a majority have been\\nfarmers sons. They have come from one hundred and ninety-five towns,\\nwhich contain thirteen-fourteenths of the population of the State, and have\\nbeen trained for spheres of usefulness, often very eminent. Meanwhile the\\ncollege has furnished teachers for the academies and high schools and for the\\ndistrict schools through every corner of the State for a hundred years. A\\ngreat multitude of young persons, who never saw the inside of the college,\\nhave been taught, as was Horace Greeley and Zachariah Chandler, by Dart-\\nmouth students. Who has not felt their stimulating influence in the school,\\nand the pulpit, at the bar, and on the bench, in the medical profession, and\\nthrough the press. We can trace more than two hundred and twenty of them", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0538.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "l8l7] STRUGGLE FOR TOLERATION. 52I\\nas New Hampshire pastors (without reckoning many evangelists) of all the\\nseveral Protestant denominations, and over three hundred and thirty teachers\\nof academies and high schools.\\nProbably more than four thousand winter schools have been tauglit bv\\nthem. During fifty years past the college has furnished the State eigliteeu\\njudges of the Supreme Court, and eleven of the Court of Common Pleas, and\\nnine governors. Five of the seven present judges of the Supreme Court are\\nof the number.\\nBut the men of distinction are not, after all, the chief glory of the institu-\\ntion. The highest work of the college consists in its liaving trained a great\\nhost of men of nobly balanced characters and clear-cut intellects for quiet,\\nsteady, powerful usefulness in every department of life and labor in this\\nState, in the country, in the world. But it should never be forgotten that its\\nchief benefits, direct and indirect, have been conferred upon the rural popu-\\nlation of New Hampshire. It has taken a great company of farmers sons,\\nlike the Chases and the Websters, and other poor boys, and while raising\\nthem to power and eminence, has meanwhile sent them forth into the acade-\\nmies and district schools in every portion of the State to teach the boys that\\ncould not go to college, and give them, too, the teaching of the ablest men\\nthe country has produced. For more than a century Dartmouth College has\\nthus been the normal school ot New Hampshire and no region in the world,\\nprobably, can point to a more remarkable set of schoolmasters than she has\\nthus furnished to the population.\\nIn this sketch there has not been room to say anything of the brilliant his-\\ntory of the Dartmouth Medical School, with its 13S9 graduates, who have not\\nonly filled the State with the beneficent fruits of their careful training, but\\nhave honored their noble profession everywhere of the excellent record of\\nthe Chandler Scientific School, founded for instruction in the practical and\\nuseful arts of life, with its requisites, its aim, and its sphere all so carefully\\ndefined by the will of its founder, to do a most useful work, as to hold it un-\\nalterably to its specific function of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering,\\nadmirably devised by perhaps the ablest superintendent that West Point has\\nhad, of which the graduates, though few in number hitherto, are making an\\nenviable mark nor o\u00c2\u00a3 the Agricultural College adjacent, with its excellent\\ncourse of purely English education. They are all doing their work well.\\nThe elections of 1817 were decided on personal issues. Gov,\\nernor Plumer was opposed by members of his own party but\\nwhen the votes were counted it was found that he had a major-\\nity of over three thousand votes. Mason was the candidate of\\nthe Federalists. In June the new State House was approaching\\ncompletion. Mary Dyer, the e.x-Shakeress, commenced at the\\nJune session of the legislature her warfare with the society,\\nwhich was destined to continue, with memorials to the legisla-\\nture and publications against them, for more than thirty-five", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0539.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "522 mSTOKV OF NEW UAMI SHIKE. Si\\nyears. She was a woman of great energy and decision of cliar-\\nacter, whose sharp tongue and shrewd wit were more than a\\nmatch for Joseph (Dyer) and his brethren.\\nThe adjournment of the legislature was followed by President\\nMonroe s visit to New Hampshire on his tour through the North-\\nern States. He received everywhere the most flattering atten.\\ntions from all classes. It was the first visit of a Southern presi-\\ndent to New England after Washington s tour.\\nThe party were very favorably impressed with the towns and\\nvillages on the route from Portsmouth to Concord, and with their\\nreception; and no doubt the passage of the imposing coach of\\nstate was long remembered by the inhabitants as a notable event-\\nQuite different was the journey of Governor William Plumer,\\nwho rode on horseback to and from his Epping home and\\nConcord.\\nDr. Abel Blanchard died in October, 1817, leaving the most of\\nhis property for the foundation and maintenance of a seminary\\nof learning Pembroke Academ\\\\-.\\nThe new academy building was dedicated to the cause of edu-\\ncation in May, i8ig the next day the school was opened under\\nthe care of Rev. A. W. Burnham, principal, and the institution\\nwas successfully launched on its career of usefulness.\\nIf one goes back to the year 1755, he comes to the time from which to date\\nthe commencement of the history of the Baptist denomination in New Hamp_\\nshire. In that year the first Baptist church now in existence in the State was\\nformed in the town of Newton, the county of Rockingham. It was a time\\nwhen the standing order, as it was termed, was the dominant religious\\npower witliin our borders, and to whose mandates all were expected to render\\nobedience. In this organization one finds an illustration of the union of\\nchurch and state. The town, in connection with the church, called and\\nsettled the minister, paid his salary in money or in those things that he\\nneeded to supply his wants, built the meeting-house and the parsonage, levied\\nthe rates upon the inhabitants, and all were expected to pay or suffer the\\npenalty prescribed by law. The Baptists in the State, in the last century,\\nbore the brunt of the battle for religious toleration, as the records of the\\nchurch in Newton and other churches amply attest.\\nNear the middle of the eighteenth century, a remarkable man came from\\nEngland to our country, and exerted a great influence in the religious world.\\nIt was George Whitefield, the friend and contemporary of John Wesley. One\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0William Plumer, Jr. Howard M. Cooke.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0540.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "l8l7] STRUGGLE FOR TOLERATION. 523\\nof the important results that followed his labors in New England was the\\nbreaking down, in a degree, of the power of the standing order; and this\\nresult contributed indirectly to the spread of Baptist sentiments and the in-\\ncrease of Baptist churches so that while in 1739, one hundred years from the\\norganization of the first Baptist church in Providence, R. I., there were but\\nthirty-eight churches of the faith in the land, in 17S3, or in less than half a\\ncentury, there were three hundred and nine.\\nThe brilliant example and great success of Whitefield and his followers\\nhad taught the utility of the itinerant system of preaching. In our own State,\\nseveral Baptist ministers, at nearly the same time, entered its borders, at dif-\\nferent points, and commenced their laliors. Among the more prominent and\\nsuccessful of these was Rev. Hezekiah Smith, pastor of the Baptist church in\\nHaverhill, Mass. He made missionary tours in various directions, accom-\\npanied by some of the members of his church. In the course of his journey-\\nings, Mr. Smith visited the town of Concord. His success in other places\\naroused hostility to him and his mission, and called for a special warning\\nfrom Rev. Timothy Walker, the pastor, at that time, of the Old North Church.\\nThis was given in a sermon, afterwards published, entitled, Those who\\nha\\\\e the form of Godliness, but deny the power tliereof. It does not appear\\nthat Mr. Smith was anywise daunted by this ministerial fulmination and il\\nis probable his labors in Concord, at that time, were indirectly the means 01\\nthe formation, some years later, of the First Baptist Church of Concord.\\nConcord, at the commencement of the present century, was a pleasant\\ntown, with a population of two thousand and fifty-two. A resident here in\\nthose years passing up Main street to-day, and viewing the handsome and\\nsubstantial business blocks that adorn the city, could not fail to note the\\nchange which this lapse of time has made in its appearance. A change as\\ngreat as that, however, has taken place in less than eight decades, in the\\nopinions and practice of the people in matters of religious observance.\\nWithin the limits of the city there are now at least seventeen public places of\\nworship, representing nine different denominations. But in tlie early years\\nof the century, all or nearly all the people of the town met in the same\\nchurch, and listened to the same minister. How famous was then the Old\\nNorth Meeting-House, the place whither the families went up to worship\\non tlie Sabbath. The Puritan method of observance was still in vogue, and\\ngoing to meeting, as it was termed, was a universal custom, and one not\\nto be lightly esteemed or disregarded. This unity of sentiment and practice,\\nwhich had prevailed from the incorporation of the town, in 1725, was des-\\ntined to have an end. In iStS the initiatory steps were taken for the\\nformation of the First Baptist Church in Concord. The record states that\\non the 20th of May, 181S, a number of persons residing in Concord, and\\nbelonging to Baptist churches elsewhere, met at the house of Mr. Richard\\nSwain, in said town, for the purpose of ascertaining what degree of fellow-\\nship existed among them in the faith and order of the gospel, and also to\\nconsider what were the prospects of forming a church agreeable to the prin-\\nciples and practice of the Apostles of our Lord. After a free and full discus", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0541.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "524 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 9\\nsion of the first object before them, the following persons gave to each other\\nan expression of their Christian fellowship, viz. James Willev, John Hoyt,\\nSarah Bradlev, Deborah Elliot, Sallv Swain, and Nancv Whitney.\\nOn the ;8th of the same month, the record also savs, an adjourned ses-\\nsion was held at the house of Mr. Nathaniel Parker, at which meeting three\\nsisters related their Christian experience, and made a brief statement of their\\nviews of Christian doctrine, after whicli those present expressed to them their\\nChristian fellowship. The next act of that meeting was to listen to the\\nChristian experience of Mr. Oliver Hart, and to agree to receive him to the\\nfellowship of the church when he shall have been baptized. At this meeting,\\nmembers from the church in Bow were present, by invitation, to advise in\\nreference to the constitution of a church. These brethren, having examined\\nthe subject, unanimously advised this small band of Christians to organize.\\nOn the 23d of September, 1S18, a council of neighboring churches was\\nheld at the house of Rev. William Taylor, and a church constituted, number-\\ning fourteen members. The public services in recognition of this church\\nwere attended at the Green house. Rev. John B. Gibson preached the\\nsermon, Rev. Otis Robinson of Salisbury gave the hand of fellowship, and\\nRev. Henry Veazey of Bow offered prayer. For over seven years this church\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2did not possess a house of worship, but was accustomed to hold services on\\nthe Sabbath in the school-house, which stood upon the site of the high school\\nbuilding. In 1S25 a church edifice was erected, dedicated on December jSth\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of that year, and opened for public worship in January, 1826.\\nThe March elections of 1818 were conducted with much less\\nthan their usual zeal and acrimony. Many Federalists voted for\\nthe Republican candidate, others for Jeremiah Smith or William\\nHale. Governor Plumer was re-elected by a majority of over six\\nthousand votes over all other candidates. Governor Plumer in\\nhis address referred to the law for the imprisonment of debtors,\\nand recommended its repeal or radical change. The bill for les-\\nsening the hardships of poor debtors was passed with the utmost\\ndifficulty and yet it was a few years only before the total\\nabolition of imprisonment for debt was enacted with the entire\\napprobation of the people.\\nAt the Republican legislative caucus in June, after Samuel\\nBell was nominated for governor, the majority nominated Gov-\\nernor Plumer for United States senator. At the balloting the\\nminority of the Republicans supported Parrott, the Federalists\\nJeremiah Smith, thus bringing three candidates into the field.\\nThe Federalists gave their support to the minority candidate,\\nWilliam Plumer, Jr.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0542.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "J 819] STRUGGLE FOR TOLERATION. 525\\nand Parrott wa elected. It was understood that the Governor\\nallowed his name to be used to defeat Butler.\\nIn Governor Plumer s diary, under date of June 30, occurs the\\nfollowing entry: The lawyers in the House were unitedly\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0opposed to it [the bill exempting the bodies of debtors from\\narrest on executions issued from justices of the peace]. Second\\nand third rate lawyers, as many of these are, make bad legislators.\\nGovernor Plumer exercised a great influence over legislative bod-\\nies and at the same time preserved his self-respect and indepen-\\ndence. He made his appointments carefully, and was very popular\\nin the State during a public life of nearly thirty years. He retired\\nfrom office with the respect of all parties and with no fewer\\npersonal enemies than a man of decided character and fearless\\n-disposition would ordinarily have. He lived over thirty years at\\nEpping after his retirement, in correspondence with the lead-\\ning men of the party and nation, until he was the last survivor of\\nhis generation.\\nSamuel Bell was elected governor in 18 19.\\nIt is doubtful if any race has done more to fix the character of\\nour institutions, to stimulate and direct real progress, and to de-\\nvelop the vast resources of the United States, than that portion\\nof our earlier population known as the Scotch-Irish. Their re-\\nmarkable energy, thrift, staidness, and fixed religious views made\\ntheir settlements the centres of civilization and improvement, in\\nColonial times that their descendants proved sturdy props of the\\ngreat cause that ended in the independence of the United States\\nis a matter of history. Of this stock. New Hampshire has\\nchosen three governors, lineal descendants from John Bell.\\nThe name of Bell occupies a proud place in the history of\\nNew Hampshire. No other single family of our State has\\nwielded for so long a period such an influence in the executive,\\nlegislative, and judiciary departments of our State government\\nas the descendants of the emigrant John Bell, who purchased a\\ntract of land in Londonderry, in 1720, about a year after the\\noriginal settlers purchased the township. His son, John, born\\nin Londonderry in August, 1730, was a man of considerable im-\\nJohn Templeton.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0543.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "526 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1S19\\nportance, and held many responsible offices. He married and\\nhad five children, two of whom filled the office of governor of\\nNew Hampshire. He died in 1825. in the ninety-fifth year of\\nhis age.\\nOf John s children, two died young the third, Jonathan, en-\\ngaged in trade in Chester, and died in 1808.\\nThe fifth son, Samuel, was born in February, 1770. He was\\na graduate of Dartmouth College, class of 1793. He was one\\nof the most popular public men of his day. In 1805-6 he was\\nspeaker of the House of Representatives, president of the Senate\\nin 1807-8, and justice of the Supreme Court from 1816 to 1819.\\nHe was elected governor in 18 19, and was three times re-\\nelected without organized opposition. In 1823 he was elected\\nUnited States senator,^ which office he held till 1S35. He\\nmarried and had a family of nine children. His death occurred\\nin December, 1850.\\nJanuary and February, 1S19, were very warm, with very little\\nsnow the ground being bare the whole time, and no sledding\\nall business and journeys were performed with wagons.^\\nBristol was chartered in June, 18 19.\\nIt was formed from portions of Bridgewater and New Chester (Hill).\\nBy the Act of incorporation James Minot, Ichabod C. Bartlett, and Joseph\\nFlanders, or any two of them, were authorized to call the first annual town\\nmeeting in March following. They united in this call, and at the first annual\\nmeeting, March 14, 1S20, Joseph Flanders was elected moderator, James\\nMinot clerk, and Joseph Flanders, Moses W. Sleeper, and John Clough\\nselectmen. Ichabod C. Bartlett was chosen treasurer, and James Minot repre-\\nsentative to the General Court. The citizens of the new town seem to have\\nstarted out with practical unanimity of political sentiment, so far as State\\naffairs were concerned, as upon the vote for governor at this meeting, ninety-\\none ballots were cast for Samuel Bell, five for John Orr, two for Robert\\nSmith, and one for David Sterret. The same, or even greater, unanimity in\\nthis regard was manifested several years later, when, in 1S27, there were one\\nhundred and seven votes cast for Benjamin Pierce, and one for Sherburne\\nLock.\\nAmong the other oflicers elected at this first town meeting were two tith-\\ningmen. These were Timothy Eastman and David Truel. Peter Hazelton\\nwas chosen constable. The record of the meeting also informs us that it was\\nvoted to raise $150, in addition to what the law requires, for the support of\\nMS. Diary.", "height": "2453", "width": "1508", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0544.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "]8l9] STRUGGLE KOK TOLKKATION. 527\\nschools, $600 for the repair of highway, and $350 to defray town charges. It\\nalso appears that the collection o\u00c2\u00a3 taxes was bid off for three cents on a dol-\\nlar, by Walter Sleeper. This would be regarded as a pretty extravagant\\npercentage in these days, but it must be remembered that the amount to be\\ncollected was comparatively small.\\nNew Chester, which formerly included Bridgewater (the latter\\nincorporated in 1788), was granted in August, 1759, to John\\nTolford, Matthew Thornton, and others, hut no settlement was\\nmade for several years.\\nIn a case in the Hillsborough court, May, 1803, Smith, C. J.,\\nby which John Muzzy brought action against Samuel Wilkins\\nand others who acted as assessors for the parish of Amherst in\\n1795, and by whom Muzzy was imprisoned because he would not\\npay his tax of seventy-five cents t ward the settled minister s\\nsalary, it was decided that Muz^y, being a Presbyterian, was ex-\\nempt from the tax, since Presbyterians were a different sect\\nunder the constitution and the laws from the Congregationalists,\\nand were to be recognized as such. The judge said that the\\nconstitution was designed to secure to every man the free enjoy-\\nment of his own opinion on religious subjects. All denomina-\\ntions were to be equally under the protection of the law, securing\\nto them even safety from persecution. William Plumer was\\nearly a prominent Protestant, and freely a legal helper to\\nthose against whom cases were entered. It was necessary to\\nhave such a champion, for the collectors of church taxes did not\\nscruple in their methods. Barstow, in his Plistory of New]\\nHampshire, tells of a case in which the cow of a poor laborer\\nwas sold at vendue in default of paying; church taxes nor was\\nhousehold furniture or even dishes exempted from the stem\\nparish collector. Acts of incorporation would be granted the\\nCongregational church but be denied to other denominations.\\nThe advent of Quakers, Freewill Baptists, Methodists, Univer-\\nsalists, and other sects was working a revolution. They entered\\nthe courts, and could always find in Governor Plumer, at least,\\nable and willing counsel in those legal contests.\\nIn the constitutional convention of 1791 he tried hard to carry\\nH. H. Metcalf.", "height": "2457", "width": "1542", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0545.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "528 IHSTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 9\\na provision giving full liberty to worship God according to the\\ndictates of one s own conscience. But this liberty was not then\\ngranted, nor, on the other hand, could the opponents of it carry\\na provision to tighten the principles of the constitution of 1784.\\nHe did succeed in that convention in getting a motion carried\\nto abolish the religious test for office-holders, but this failed in\\nthe vote of the people on it. But so great had become the pres-\\nsure from the increase of other persuasions, and the spirit of\\ndeeper insight, that the legislature of 1804 granted the right to\\nFreewill Baptists to be considered a distinct religious sect or\\nclenoniination, with all the privileges of such agreeable to the\\nconstitution. The next year the Universalists obtained a sim-\\nilar recognition, and in 1807 the Methodists shared the same\\nfavor.\\nIn 1 8 16 the legislature passed an Act that the property of\\nministers, which before had been exempted, should be taxed.\\nThe same year Rev. Dan. Young, of Lisbon, a located Methodist\\nminister, having been elected a member of the State Senate,\\nbrought in a bill repealing the old obnoxious laws by which a\\ntown could vote to settle a minister and then pay his salary by\\ntaxes and in place of that law offered a bill by which all per-\\nsons voluntarily associating to build a house of worship, or hire\\na minister of the Gospel, should be held to the fulfilment of their\\ncontract, but no person should be compelled to go into such a\\ncontract. That year he was able to secure only three votes\\nbesides his own for the bill. The next year the same bill re-\\nceived exactly one half of the votes of the Senate. The third\\nyear it went through by a large majority, but was tied in the\\nHouse. In 1819, having been sent up again from the Senate,\\nthe House by a majority vote carried it, and thus the power was\\ntaken from the towns to assess taxes on all to support the min-\\nistry, and relegated to such as voluntarily entered the church or\\nsociety.\\nDr. Whipple, of Wentvvorth, in tlie House, seems to have had\\nmuch to do in framing the bill and in its final success so it is\\nknown in some authorities as the Whipple bill. By the bill any", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0546.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "iSic.]\\nSTRUGGLE FOR TOLERATION.\\n529\\none, also, could separate himself from any such society or organ-\\nization, or from obligations of the town, by leaving a written\\ncertificate with tiie clerk of such a purpose, and that he was of\\nanother persuasion. Men of the old regime deemed it all a re-\\npeal of the Christian religion, thinking it meant also an abolition\\nof the Bible, and that they might as well burn that book. But\\nexperience soon convinced them of the great worth to both state\\nand church to have them separate. Some slight changes were\\nmade a few years later in this Act, but none affecting its purpose\\nof completest religious freedom.\\nSQUAM LAKE AND MOUNT CHOCORUA.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0547.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVI.\\nERA OF GOOD- WILL, 1819-1828.\\nPower-Loom at Amoskeai; Shelbirne New Hamptom Hurricane\\nLevi Woodbury Daviij L. Morril Great Freshet Mili-\\ntia General Lafayette s Visit The Farmer Governor Ben-\\njamin Pierce and F/milv John Bell Franklin.\\nIVTO single invention, perhaps, has ever wrought such wonders\\nin the civilized world as the power-loom. Strange to say,\\nit was the work of an English clergyman. Rev. Dr. Cartwright,\\nwho invented it in 1787. The use of the power-loom was com-\\nmenced at Amoskeag F alls in 18 19.\\nThe Scotch-Irish at Nutfield, afterwards Londonderry, and\\nthe English at Penacook, now Concord, pressed their claims\\nfor the possession of the falls as a fishing place. No doubt\\nit was a prize worthy of an earnest struggle. Concord claimed\\nit under their grant from Massachusetts while the Scotch-\\nIrish founded their claim on the authority of the New Hamp-\\nshire Province. The advantage, however, was on the part of the\\nIrish. Their settlement was nearer, in numbers much larger,\\nand they had possession. The first settlers in the neighborhood\\ncame from Londonderry in 1731. No doubt the fishing interest\\nwas the principal attraction. The shad, the salmon, and the lam-\\nprey eel, the last of which the late William Stark so poetically\\neulogized, were the fish there caught. If Stark has not very\\ngreatly exceeded even poetical licence, we may realize the mag-\\nnitude of the fishing interest at that day. He says\\nFrom the eels they formed their food in chief.\\nAnd eels were called the Derr\\\\ licld heef;\\nIt was often said that their onl\\\\ care,", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0548.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "iSig] ERA OF GOOD-WILL. 53I\\nAnd their only wish, and their only prayer,\\nFor the present world, and the world to come,\\nWas a string of eels and a jug of rum.\\nIf all this could be said of the eel, we leave some future poet\\nto extol the value of the shad and the salmon.\\nSaw and grist mills were built at Amoskeag at a very early\\ndate, but the first interest of suiificient importance to demand\\nmuch notice was the digging of the canal. This was substantially\\nthe work of one man, Samuel Blodge t, an officer under Governor\\nWentworth, a keeper of the King s woods, and collector of duties\\non spirituous liquors. He came to the neighborhood in 1751,\\nand bought a farm on Black brook, two miles from Amoskeag.\\nHe was a man of great versatility of talent farmer, merchant,\\nmanufacturer of potash, lumber-dealer, sutler in the army in\\nthe French and Indian war. He went to Europe, and there was\\nengaged in raising sunken ships, and finally, after having accu-\\nmulated quite a fortune for that day, returned, and in May,\\n1794, when seventy years of age, commenced the great work of\\nhis life, what is known in history as the Blodget canal, around\\nAmoskeag Falls. The work, however, was attended with many\\ndifficulties, and his whole fortune of thirty or forty thousand\\ndollars was all expended before it was completed. He then\\nsolicited assistance from his friends, and applied to the legis-\\nlatures of New Hampshire and Massachusetts for grants of lot-\\nteries to raise funds but as late as 1803 he wrote It is very\\npainful indeed to me to reflect on a ten years ardent exertione\\nat this stage of my life, sparing no pains in my power, with the\\nutmost stretch of invention to finish this canal, the expense of\\n$60,000 already having been devoted to it, and the work not yet\\ncompleted.\\nBy continued exertions, however, the canal was completed in\\n1807, about the time of Mr. Blodget s death. This work, when\\nwe take into view all the difficulties connected with the prose-\\ncution of a new enterprise, stands almost unrivalled in the his-\\ntory of New England.\\nIt is, however, the manufacture of cloth which noiv distin-\\nguishes, and will for a long time to come, Amoskeag. The", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0549.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "532 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 819\\nriver here falls fifty feet, and the power is immense. As in the\\ncase of the canal, it was a single mind that led the way in the\\ndevelopment of this great enterprise. Benjamin Pritchard was\\nhere the moving power. We first hear of him as a resident of\\nNew Ipswich, and engaged in manufacturing there. Machinery\\nwas used in that town for spinning cotton by water power in\\n1803, and was the first in the State.\\nMr. Pritchard paid his last tax in New Ipswich in 1807, and\\nin March, 1810, we find his mill in operation at Amoskeag. The\\nproperty was then owned by a joint-stock company, divided into\\none hundred shares. At the first meeting fifty-five shares were\\nsold, of which Mr. Pritchard took twenty-five. The building\\nwhich was then erected was about forty feet square and two\\nstories high. The only machinery placed in it was for spinning,\\nand the only machine then used for that purpose was the jenny.\\nThis machine was first put in operation in England in 1767,\\nand was the earliest improvement in spinning after the one-\\nthread wheel, doing its work substantially on the same plan,\\nonly instead of one it drew out several threads at the same\\ntime.\\nThe water to carry this machinery at Amoskeag was taken\\nfrom the mill-dam of Ephraim and Robert Stevens. They gave\\nbonds to the amount of two thousand dollars, as the obligation\\nreads, to furnish so much water as shall be sufficient for carry-\\ning an old-fashioned undershot corn-mill at all seasons of the\\nyear and at all days in the year, so long as water is needed for\\ncarrying on the manufacturing of cotton and wool at that\\nplace. For this, they were to receive ten dollars annually.\\nFive years later twelve dollars per annum were paid for furnish-\\ning water sufficient to run the Amoskeag cotton and woollen\\nmill.\\nFrom 1 8 10 to 18 19 spinning was the only work done there.\\nIt is interesting to learn how this now simple operation was\\nthen performed. After the cotton vvas received, it was given\\nout into families, in lots of from fifty to one hundred pounds,\\nto be picked. This was done by first whipping the cotton in a\\nrude frame. This whijiping machine was a unique article, per-", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0550.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "l820] ERA OF GOOD-WILL. 53J\\nhaps thirty inches square, across which common cod line was\\nwoven at right angles, leaving spaces of half an inch on three\\nsides were placed boards, and the whole raised on posts breast\\nhigh. On this the cotton was placed and whipped with twa\\nsticks like the common ox-gourd. This old whipping machine\\noperated by a boy, has given place to the picker of our day.\\nSome years after the manufacture of yarn was commenced^\\nperhaps because the market was more than supplied, the com-\\npany introduced the weaving of cloth. This was done on hand-\\nlooms in the neighborhood. The agent of Amoskeag mills,\\nJotham Gillis, carried out yarn for this purpose. It was before\\nthe days of railroads, even before carriages, if we except the old\\none-horse shay, and Mr. Gillis, upon horse-back, would ride six\\nmiles away, with bundles of yarn tied about his saddle. This\\norder of things continued till 1S19, when the power-loom was\\nintroduced, only five years after its introduction into the coun-\\ntry. The first was put m operation at Waltham, Mass., by Mr.\\nAdams, the father of Phineas Adams, the late agent of the Stark\\nJ^mills. The loom had then been in operation in England from\\ntwenty to twenty-five years.\\nIn 1S20 Jeremiah Mason was a member of the House of\\nRepresentatives, and as chairman of the judiciary committee\\ndrew and secured the passage of a law changing the judiciary\\nsystem of the State, abolishing the Court of Common Pleas,\\ntransferring most of its jurisdiction to the Superior Court, and\\nconstituting a Court of Sessions. Early in the June session\\nGovernor Bell received from the governor of Virginia The Vir-\\nginia Report and Resolutions on the Missouri Question, which\\nhe transmitted to the legislature for their action. They set\\nforth in forcible and earnest language the doctrines as to the\\nsovereignty of the States and the limited powers of Congress.\\nThe answer of the New Hampshire legislature was written by\\nMr. Mason, and was a masterly treatment of j:he constitutional\\nquestions involved, ending with the resolution That in the\\nopinion of this legislature the Congress of the United States.\\nhas by the Constitution the right, in admitting new States into\\nRev. C. W. Wallace. D. D.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0551.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "5j 4 history of new Hampshire. [1820\\nthe Union, to prescribe tlie proliibition of slavery, as one of tiie\\nconditions on which such State shall be admitted, and that the\\nexistence of slavery within the United States is a great moral\\nas well as political evil, the toleration of which can be justified\\nby necessity alone, and that the further extension of it ought to\\nbe prevented by the due exercise of the power vested in the\\ngeneral government.\\nHon. Jeremiah Mason was a member of the House of Repre-\\nsentatives in December, 1820, and while standing in the gallery,\\nJudge Nesmith heard him state the proposition that in his ex-\\nperience he knew of no little law cases, that all alike, whatever\\nthe amount involved might be, turned upon the same golden\\nbinges of justice. And it was sometimes as difficult to ascertain\\nthe true merits of a case, or trace the accurate boundaries of\\nright and wrong, where only five dollars might be involved, as\\nwhere thousands were at stake. The question then pending\\nbefore the House referred to the amount of litigated claims of\\nwhich a certain court should by law have jurisdiction.\\nMr. Mason s personal appearance was very imposing. His\\nheight was over six feet and six inches. His weight about two\\nhundred and seventy-five pounds. His uncommon size natur-\\nally attracted the wonder of beholders. His arguments to the\\njury were never tedious, ahrays commanding their close atten-\\ntion, being remarkable specimens of plain, clear, direct, compre-\\nhensive, logical reasoning, generally addressed to the understand-\\ning rather than to the passions of the hearer. He presented\\nclear ideas and forcibly expressed. He managed well an\\nunwilling, untruthful witness. In his quiet and easy way he\\nwould turn such a witness inside out without letting him know\\nwhat he was about.\\nThe township of Shelburne, which lies in Coos county, north-\\neast of the White Mountains, was chartered by George III. to\\nMark Wentworth, and six others. The date of the grant was\\n1 771, and included Shelburne Addition, now known as Gorham.\\nIt was surveyed in the same year by Theodore Atkinson, who\\nspent a number of months in the vicinity of the mountains.\\nHon. George W. Nesmith.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0552.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "l820] ERA OF GOOD-WILL. 535\\nThe population in 1820, when it was incorporated, was 205, while\\nin 1870 it was only 250.\\nThe first permanent settlers w-ere Hope Austin, Daniel and\\nBenjamin Ingalls, who moved there in 1771. The next year\\nThomas Wheeler, Nathaniel Porter, and Peter Poor came there,\\nand were afterward killed by the Indians. In 1781 came Moses\\nMesser, Captain Jonathan Rindge, and Jonathan and Simeon\\nEvans. Captain Rindge is well remembered by the old resi-\\ndents in town as one of the most respected of the early\\nsettlers.\\nThe early history is filled with incidents of toil and hardships\\nwhich the pioneers were forced to undergo. Mr. Hope Austin,\\nwith his family, consisting of a wife and three children, moved\\ninto town at a time when the ground was covered with five\\nfeet of snow. All the way from Bethel, a distance of twelve\\nmiles, they walked, Mr. Austin and two hired men drawing the\\nfurniture on hand sleds, while Mrs. Austin carried her youngest\\nchild, an infant of nine months, in her arms, with Judith, aged\\nsi.x, and James, aged four, trudging b)- her side. When they\\narrived at their new home they found simply the walls of a log\\ncabin, without roof or f^oor. To shelter them from the rains\\nand snows they cut poles and laid across the walls. On these\\nthey laid shingles, covering a space only large enough for a bed.\\nIn this they lived until the next June. At the time of the In-\\ndian massacre in August, spoken of in Segar s narrative,\\nthey fled to Fryeburg, where they remained until the next March.\\nDeacon Daniel Ingalls was well known and highly esteemed\\nthroughout the mountain region for his piety and benevolence,\\nand his death was received by all with sadness.\\nHis two sons, Moses and Robert, settled in Shelburne. They\\nwere both distinguished as being kind-hearted men, and a valu-\\nable addition to the young colony. Moses was brave and dar-\\ning, and a keen lover of hunting.\\nRobert Fletcher Ingalls was undoubtedly the first temperance\\nreformer in New Hampshire. He formed a band known as the\\nCold Water Army, embracing the youth of both sexes, and\\nworked for the cause until the day of his death. On the 4th day", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0553.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "5^6 IlISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l82I\\nof July before he died he took part in the exercises, delivering\\nan address which is remembered to this day.\\nAfter the unsuccessful attempt against Quebec, in which the\\ngallant and lamented Montgomery lost his life, many of the\\nAmerican soldiers deserted, and endeavored to find their way\\nhome through the forests of Canada. Twelve of these soldiers\\nsucceeded in finding their way to Shelburne late in the fall of\\n1776, where they were discovered by a negro in the employ of\\nCaptain Rindge, nearly exhausted. After becoming recruited\\nthey gave an account of their sufferings from the time they left\\nQuebec. They followed the Chaudiere river for a long distance,\\ncrossed the highlands, and came to the Magalloway river, down\\nwhich they passed to its confluence with Clear Stream, at\\nErrol.\\nHere they left one of their number, named Hall, too weak to\\nproceed farther. Captain Rindge and Moses Ingalls immediately\\nstarted in quest of him, and after a long search he was found\\nlying across his gun, near where his comrades left him. He had\\ndragged himself to the bank to drink, and, his head hanging\\nover a little descent, he was unable to raise it from weakness, and\\nso drowned. They buried him on the bank, and, as a memorial,\\nchanged the river s name from Clear to Hall s Stream.\\nThe New Hampton Institution has a model location in a\\nquiet village, amid New Hampshire hills and rural scenery,\\nand among people who fully appreciate the advantages of hav-\\ning a college or seminary in their midst. It was established in\\n1 82 1, and soon became widely known as a theological school for\\ndivinity students preparing for the Baptist ministry.\\nIn 1829 a female department was added.\\nIn 1852 the institution came into the hands of the Freewill\\nBaptist denomination and for sixteen years, or until it was re-\\nmoved to Lewiston, Me., in 1870, it was the seat of a Biblical\\nschool. In 1866 a commercial department was added to the\\nschool.\\nThe hurricane in the Kearsarge region, in September, 1821,\\nwas the most destructive tornado of which there is any record\\nas having swept over any portion of New England, and, in pro-", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0554.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0555.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "53^ HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l822\\nportion to its extent, infinitely more destructive than the great\\nwind of September, 1815.\\nAbout six o clock, after a warm day, a dark cloud was\\nobserved to rise in the north and north-west, illuminated by in-\\ncessant flashes of vivid lightning. Houses and barns, fences\\nand trees, were levelled to the ground and the debris carried\\nlong distances. Several lives were lost.\\nThe literary fund, for the benefit of the public schools, was\\nestablished in 182 1, by imposing a tax of one-half of one per\\ncent, upon the banks of the State.\\nIn June, 1822, Hon. Samuel Dinsmoor, senior, of Keene, was\\nnominated for governor by the Democrats or Republicans, in\\nthe legislature of that year candidates for governor and for\\nCongress being then nominated in June by members of the\\nlegislature.\\nIn the winter before the election Levi Woodbury, then one of\\nthe justices of the Superior Court, was nominated for governor\\nby an irregularly constituted assemblage of people in attendance\\nupon a term of court in session at Portsmouth. The Patriot\\nsustained the nomination of the legislative convention, and\\ncame out in strong rebuke of this procedure at Portsmouth,\\nwhich really was an open revolt, by so many Democrats as par-\\nticipated in the nomination of Judge Woodbury, against the\\nregular nomination of the party the preceding June. But the\\nPortsmouth transaction was countenanced, if not shaped, by the\\nPlumers of Epping, Judge Butler of Deerfield, the North End\\nDemocrats in Concord, and other equally conspicuous and in-\\nfluential politicians in various parts of the State. Although\\nthe Federal party had been disbanded, yet thousands who were\\nmembers of it naturally sympathized with any procedure in\\nconflict with the Patriot, and, with nearly one accord, went into\\nthe support of Judge Woodbury, who was chosen over General\\nDinsmoor by 4026 majority in 1823.\\nThere were jealousies between North End Democrats and\\ntheir down-town political brethren so long ago as fifty years.\\nThey at the North End regarded those beneath the shadow\\nN. H. Patriot.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0556.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "1823] ERA OF GOOD-WILL. 539\\nof the State House as desirous of giving law to the Democratic\\nparty. The last-named men were spoken of as Parliament-\\ncorner politicians, a term which included Isaac Hill, William\\nLow, Joseph Low, Richard Bartlett, Jacob B. Moore, and a few\\nother active and influential men south of the present City Hall.\\nThose North End gentlemen of the same party who were be-\\ncoming, if not alienated from, at least jealous of their down-\\ntown brethren, and who immediately or more remotely partook\\nof this feeling, were John George, Robert Davis, Samuel Coffin,\\nAbiel Walker, Francis N. Fiske, Charles Walker, Samuel Spar-\\nhawk, and other less conspicuous men. There were also\\nDemocrats in other portions of New Hampshire who had be-\\ncome jealous of the Parliament corner leaders, and this, at\\nfirst, slight misunderstanding or disaffection culminated in the\\ncommencement of the journal known as the Arit/ Hampshire\\nStatesman, January 6, 1823, a paper that is one of the very\\nfew which, growing out of a mere feud among local politicians,\\nbecame a permanent establishment. Luther Roby, then in\\nbusiness at Amherst, moved to Concord, and became printer\\nand publisher of the Statesman, and Amos A. Parker, then in\\nthe practice of law at Epping, was engaged to conduct it.\\nThe Statesman of course advocated the election of Judge\\nWoodbury; indeed, when it was commenced it was understood\\nthat a rebellion was on foot against the nominee of the June\\nconvention. But the triumph of the North End gentlemen was\\ntransitory, for one of the first important appointments by Gov-\\nernor Woodbury was that of Hon. Richard H. Ayer, of Hook-\\nsett, to be sheriff of the newly formed county of Merrimack.\\nThis was a suitable selection fitness being the standard but\\none which created disappointment, indeed displeasure, through-\\nout the ranks of those by whose votes Judge Woodbury was\\nmade governor. Mr. Ayer was brother-in-law of Mr. Hill, and\\nexerted all his power to thwart the election of Governor Wood-\\nbury, who, in fact, by this and other procedures, turned his back\\nupon his supporters, and distinctly indicated to them that he\\nshould henceforth seek promotion in another quarter. He was\\ngovernor only one year.^\\n.\\\\sa McFarland.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0557.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "540 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1823\\nLevi Woodbury was the son of the Hon. Peter Woodburv, and was born\\nat Francestown, on the 22d of December, 1789. He was of the oldest Massa-\\nchusetts stock, being descended from John Woodbury, who emigrated from\\nSomersetshire, in England, in the year 1624, and was one of the original set-\\ntlers of Beverly, Mass. Peter Woodbury removed from Beverly to Frances-\\ntown in 1773. His son Levi entered Dartmouth College in October, 1S05.\\nAfter his graduation with honor in 1S09, in September of that year, he began\\nthe study of law at Litchfield, Conn., pursuing it at Boston, Exeter, and\\nFrancestown; and in September, 1812, commenced practice in his native vil-\\nlage. He soon obtained a high rank at the bar, with an extensive business.\\nHis first public service was upon his election as clerk of the Senate of New\\nHampshire in June, 1816. In December of the same year he received the ap-\\npointment of judge of the Supreme Court of the State and in the discharge\\nof the duties of his position was seen the inherent force of his abilities,\\naided by his constant and never-ceasing habits of application.\\nIn June, 1S19, he married Elizabeth W. Clapp, of Portland, and, re-\\nmoving to Portsmouth soon after, except when absent on public duties re-\\nsided in that city. In March, 1823, he was chosen governor of New Hamp-\\nshire, and re-elected in 1S24.\\nIn 1825 he was chosen one of the representatives from Portsmouth in the\\nlegislature, and elected speaker upon the assembling of the House of Repre-\\nsentatives. This was his first seat in any deliberative assembly; but his\\nknowledge of parliamentary law, aided by his dignity and urbanity of manner,\\nserved to enable him to fill the office in a commendable manner.\\nAt the same session he was elected a senator in the Congress of the United\\nStates. His senatorial term was completed in March, 1S31, and in that\\nmonth he was chosen State senator from his district; but before the legislature\\nassembled he was, in May, 1831, appointed secretary of the navy, and re-\\nsigned the senatorship June 4th of that year, and served till June 30, 1S34,\\nin the secretaryship.\\nIn July, 1S34, Governor Woodbury was appointed secretary of the Treas-\\nury, and served until the election of General Harrison to the Presidency.\\nHe was again elected a senator in Congress for the term of six years, com-\\nmencing March 4, 1841. He served until November, 1845. During that\\nyear President Polk had tendered Governor Woodbury the embassy to the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2court of St. James, but the appointment, for domestic reasons, was declined.\\nUpon the death of Mr. Justice Story, Mr. Woodbury was commissioned an\\nassociate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and after subse-\\n}uently entering upon the duties of this high office, continued therein until\\nhis death, which occurred September 4, 1851.\\nJudge Woodbury, in the various public positions he was so constantly\\ncalled to fill, showed himself abundantly capable for the discharge of their\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0duties.\\nAs a legislator he was painstaking and industrious, as a judge studious\\nand indefatigable in his labors, and as a cabinet minister comprehensive\\nand yet exact in his knowledge of details. His life was one of uninterrupted", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0558.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "1824] ERA OF GOOD-WILL. 54I\\nwork, and his death at the age of sixty-one deprived the country of an up-\\nright judge and an eminent public man. Of liis children, his only son is\\nCharles Levi Woodbury, a prominent lawyer in practice in Boston, who re-\\ntains the family mansion at Portsmouth. One daughter married Hon.\\nMontgomery Blair, who was postmaster-general under President Lincoln,\\nand another was the wife of Captain Gustavus V. Fox, formerly of the United\\nStates navy, who rendered to the country such signal service by his practical\\nknowledge as assistant secretary during the war.\\nIn 1824 David L. Morril was elected governor by the legisla-\\nture. He was born in Epping in June, 1772, was educated at\\nExeter Academy, studied medicine, and entered into practice in\\nEpsom, in 1793. He commenced to study theology in 1800, and\\nwas ordained pastor of the church in Goffstown in 1802, but re-\\nsigned his charge in 181 1, and again commenced to practise med-\\nicine. In 1808 he was elected representative from Goffstown, and\\nre-elected every year till 1817. In June, 1816, he was chosen\\nspeaker of the House, and the same session was chosen to the\\nSenate of the United States for six years. In 1823 he was\\nelected a member of the New Hampshire Senate and was presi-\\ndent of that body. In 1825 he only lacked a few votes of re-\\nelection. He settled in Concord in 1S31, where he remained a\\nhighly respected and useful citizen until his death in January,\\n1846.\\nMr. Mason was a candidate for the United States Senate in\\n1824. There was a strong desire on the part of his friends that he\\nshould resume the place he had formerly filled with so much\\nhonor to himself and so much usefulness to the country. Poli-\\ntics were in a transition state, and votes were determined mainly\\nby personal preferences for the four candidates for the presidency,\\nMr. Adams, General Jackson, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Clay, all\\nof whom were members of the old Republican party. All the\\nNew England States, New Hampshire included, supported Mr.\\nAdams and Mr. Mason, who distinctly preferred him to any of his\\nrivals, once mare found himself on the side of the majority.\\nEleven of the State senators had been Republicans, and a majority\\nof the House had been of the same party. At the June session Mr.\\nMason was the strongest candidate, but the election was put off\\nHistory of Rockingham County.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0559.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "542 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1824\\nuntil the November session. In the meantime Mr. Eastman, a\\nState senator and a brother-in-law of Levi Woodbury, had been\\nelected to Congress. The House gave Mr. Mason a two-thirds\\nmajority: the Senate voted for William Plumer, Jr. The action\\nof the House was communicated to the Senate in the form of\\na resolution naming the person chosen. The Senate concurred\\nin passing the House resolution with an amendment striking\\nout the words Jeremiah Mason and inserting William\\nPlumer, Jr. Mr. Mason was standing before the fire in the\\nRepresentatives Hall, and when William H. Y. Hackett, assis-\\ntant clerk of the Senate, having delivered the message to the\\nHouse, went by him Mr. Mason said, Good morning, Mr.\\nHackett, I see you propose a trifling amendment. The Senate\\nafterwards voted for John F. Parrott and Samuel Dinsmoor. Late\\nin December a vote was taken in the Senate which was a tie, al-\\nthough seven members had pledged themselves to vote for Mr.\\nMason, and the legislature adjourned without electing anybody to\\nthe position. Levi Woodbury was elected senator at the next\\nsession of the legislature, but Mr. Eastman, to whom was at-\\ntributed the defeat of Mr. Mason, was not re-elected to Con-\\ngress. Mr. Woodbury was at that time a supporter of Mr. Adams,\\nbut soon became a zealous and trusted adherent of General\\nJackson. 1\\nThe most destructive freshet in the valley of the Merrimack,\\ntaking place outside the season when crops were upon the earth,\\nwas that of February, 1824. It was a complete demolisher of\\nbridges, from the mountains in northern New Hampshire, and\\nfrom the sources of the Contoocook river, in the southern portion\\nof the State, on to the sea. The volume of water which passed\\ndown the valley in the rise of February, 1824, was vastly less\\nthan \\\\\\\\ha.i flowed in any given time in the freshet of 1869 but\\nenormous quantities of ice swept all before them. Both the\\nbridges which then spanned the Merrimack in Concord the\\nFederal and the Lower, as they were called were de-\\nstroyed, as would have been a dozen others had they stood in\\nthe way of the devastating flood. The facts were these A\\nLife of Mason", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0560.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "IX25I ERA OF GOOD-WILI,. 543\\nwarm and copious rainfall set in when the ice had not been at all\\nweakened by any mild days. It was as thick and strong as in\\nJanuary. The warm rain fell upon a great body of snow, and the\\nrain and dissolving snow were suddenly precipitated into the\\nstreams. The effect was speedily seen, as it had been appre-\\nhended by men who had long been conversant with freshets.\\nEnormous fields of thick-ribbed ice were broken into great frag-\\nments and driven with unusual and irresistible velocity down the\\nswollen river.\\nVery few general elections take place when a party does not\\nsuffer because of absence from the polls of voters in sympathy\\nwith it. In November, 1824, in Concord and Pembroke, men\\nenough remained away from the polls to have elected Ezekiel\\nWebster a member of Congress. The choice was by general\\nticket, and Mr. Webster needed only about one hundred more\\nvotes.\\nIn 1825 there were at least seven if not eight military organi-\\nzations in Concord, as follows One company of cavalry, in\\nwhich were from sixty to seventy mounted men one of artillery,\\nforty to fifty men a company of light infantry, about forty men\\nand four companies of militia (men dressed in their every-day\\napparel), with guns, knapsacks, and cartridge-boxes. One of\\nthese last named companies was composed of men residing in\\nthe centre part of the town another, of those in the south-west\\npart and Millville a third in West, and a fourth in East, Con-\\ncord. There was a company known as the Borough riflemen,\\ncomposed of men living in the north-western part of the town,\\nincluding the neighborhood then known as The Borough but\\nwhether all the preceding were then in existence the writer is\\nuncertain.\\nThe fields of Mars, in Concord and Pembroke, where these\\ntroops made manifest the valor they would have displayed if\\ncalled into the service of the country, are many. The earliest\\nrecollection of a militia-muster was upon what was known as- the\\nlower interval, in East Concord, sixty or seventy years ago. It\\nwas a notable day. Two companies of cavalry, two of artillery,\\nseveral of light infantry, and ten to fifteen companies of men", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0561.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "544 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 825\\nwith arms, but not dressed in uniform, from Canterbury, Loudon,\\nConcord, Chichester, and Pembroke, and men, women, and chil-\\ndren, upon the ground in numbers greater even than the troops,\\nwere assembled. The exhilarating effect of the spectacle, espe-\\ncially upon young folks, can be readily imagined.\\nAs the war with England, declared by Congress, June, 1812,\\nbecame a more and more distant event, the military spirit de-\\nclined, and those full companies of cavalry, artillery, light infan-\\ntry, and riflemen, which had made so excellent an appearance\\nfrom time to time on Main street, began to languish and\\nlanguishing did die, one by one, until the military organization\\nof New Hampshire was virtually dissolved.\\nA part of the visit of General Lafayette to the State shall be\\ndescribed in the words of his youthful companion. Colonel A. A.\\nParker, aide-de-camp of Governor David L. Morril, lately living\\nat a venerable old age, and in the full possession of his faculties,\\nin Glastonbury, Connecticut.\\nGeneral Lafayette had made a journey through the Southern\\nand Western States, and had received demonstrations of welcome\\nfrom everybody. At Boston the ceremonies of his reception\\nhad been imposing, joined in by all New England and he had\\nassisted in laying the corner-stone of Bunker Hill monument,\\nJune 17. The governor of Massachusetts had insisted upon\\nescorting the hero to the State line at Methuen, where he was\\nreceived by Colonel Parker.\\nThe party consisted of General the Marquis Gilbert Motier de\\nLafayette, George Washington Lafayette, his son, Emile Lavo-\\nsiur, his private secretary, his servant, who seemed to be a very\\ncapable man of all work, the driver, Mr. Nathaniel Walker, and\\nColonel Parker; the equipage consisted of three carriages, a\\nbarouche drawn by four horses with flags in their headstalls, a\\nfour-horse stage-coach, and a two-horse covered carriage for bag-\\ngage.\\nWe found the scenes on the route in Massachusetts repro-\\nduced in New Hampshire for at all the hotels, stores, villages,\\nand cross-roads, multitudes had assembled to greet him as he\\n.\\\\sa McFarland.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0562.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "1825] ERA OF GOOD-WILL. 545\\ncame. It was in the rosy month of June, and roses were abund-\\nant, especially in and about our carriage, in the shape of wreaths\\nand bouquets. At times our carriage became so much incum-\\nbered that we had to throw them overboard in some solitary\\nplaces.\\nOur route lay through Suncook village, at the south end of\\nPembroke. There Major Caleb Stark, son of Major-general\\nJohn Stark, lived and as he had a slight acquaintance with Gen.\\neral Lafayette in the Revolutionary war, had written to him a\\nrequest that he would call at his house, as he very much wished\\nto see him and introduce him to his family. We called, and on\\nintroducing him to the general, he seized his hand and began an\\nanimated speech about Revolutionary times, which did not seem\\nsoon to terminate. His family were standing on the opposite\\nside of the room, waiting to be introduced, but he seemed to\\nhave forgotten them I was acquainted with the major, but not\\nwith his family, and could not introduce them myself. In this\\nJilemma the spirited Miss Harriet Stark, no longer able to\\norook delay, came forward, seized General Lafayette s hand, and\\nsaid Permit me to introduce myself to you as the eldest\\nslaughter of Major Caleb Stark, with whom you are talking, and\\nthe grand-daughter of Major-general John Stark, the hero of\\nBennington and now permit me to introduce you to my mother,\\nbrothers, and sisters which she did, with her usual prompt-\\nness and energy.\\nWhen we were seated in the carriage. General Lafayette\\nsaid Miss Harriet Stark does indeed inherit all the fire and\\nspirit of her grandfather, and would have been a heroine had she\\nlived in the exciting scenes of the Revolutionary times.\\nNear the close of a beautiful summer day (Tuesday, June\\n21), one of the longest in the year, we entered upon the long\\nmain street of Pembroke. The sun, having moved round his\\nlong circle in the sky, was resting in crimson robes on the west-\\nern hills, and soon retired for the night. Not so Pembroke\\nvillage that was wide awake, and gave the general as enthusi-\\na.stic a welcome as he had received anywhere on the route.\\nSometimes, it seemed, the less the numbers the greater the zeal.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0563.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "S46 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1825\\nWe had used due diligence and had travelled rapidly when\\nnot hindered but our coming had been so well advertised by\\nthe well-knpwn Walker, the stage-driver on the route, that it\\nwas known to all people, far and near. And so it was that we\\nwere not only detained at villages, hotels, and cross-roads, but\\neven at a single cottage. Our approach seemed to have been\\nwatched and, at the report of a musket or bugle blast, people\\nwould rapidly appear from their lounging places, where none\\nwere visible before and the general must needs pause a mo-\\nment, take by the hand those near by, and speak a few words.\\nInfancy and age were alike presented, and the halt and the lame\\nwere sitting in easy chairs before the cottage doors; At one of\\nthese cottages an invalid old lady, cadaverous and pale, was\\nbrought by two men, in her arm-chair, to the carriage she\\nseiEcd the general s hand with both of hers, and with tearful eyes\\nexclaimed, Bless the Lord\\nAt Fiske s Hotel, on the main street of Pembroke, five miles\\nfrom Concord, we rested for the night. A large concourse of\\npeople gave the general a hearty welcome, and shook hands\\nwith him, and he made a short speech. On my suggesting to\\nthe most active men that the general had had a long and\\nfatiguing day, and needed rest, the people promptly retired, and\\nPembroke village could never have been more quiet. After sup-\\nper the general leaned back in his easy chair and carried on a\\nlong and agreeable conversation with his escort before retiring.\\nThe next day (June 22, 1825) a committee of the legislature,\\nthen in session at Concord, consisting of Hon. Stephen P. Web-\\nster, of the Senate, and four members of the House, came down\\nin a coach-and-six to escort the general to Concord. Six white\\nhorses were attached to the barouche, in which were General\\nLafayette and Mr. Webster and the procession, made up of a\\nlong line of carriages, proceeded on their way, being met on the\\nConcord line by twenty independent companies of the New\\nHampshire militia, under the command of General Bradbury\\n-Bartlett.\\nLafayette s personal appearance at the time is thus sketched\\nHe is now about sixty-eight years of age with a fresh and", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0564.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "i8:5j GOOD-WILL. 547\\nvigorous constitution for one of his years though it was\\nseverely tried in the dungeons of Olmutz. He lost all his hair\\nduring that confinement, and now wears a wig. The account\\ncloses with anecdotes and reminiscences of the general, and is\\naltogether deeply interesting, showing that the journalists of\\nthat day were as appreciative of a special occasion, and quite as\\nsure to seize its salient points, as are those of the present day,\\nwith all their superior facilities.\\nORDER OF PROCESSION,\\nOn the introduction of General L.\\\\fayette into the Tovjn of Concord, and\\nto the Legislature.\\n[Corrected.]\\nThe following shall be the Order of Procession on the introduction of\\nGeneral Lafayette into the Town of Concord, and to the Legislature.\\nThe Committee of Arrangements (consisting of Messrs. Webster and\\nBowers, of the Senate; Messrs. Bradley, Fisk, Peabody of E., Parker of G.,\\nMarch, Hayes, Barrett, Webster of B., Rogers of O., Bellows, Baker, Carey,\\nFlanders of B., Mahurin, and Meserve, of the House), with the Marshals,\\nshall move from the front of the State House at half-past five o clock on\\nWednesday morning, June 22d.\\nShall arrive at Pembroke at 7 o clock.\\nThe Chairman of the Committee will be introduced to the General and\\nSuite by his Excellency s Aides.\\nThe Chairman will then address the General, and introduce the members\\nof the Committee and Marshals.\\nProcession shall move from Pembroke at half-past seven, in the following\\norder\\nMARSHALS\\n_ Rogers. Perkins. Marston.\\nCom.viittee of Arrange.ments. 2\\nI\\nChief Marshal Parker.\\nGENERAL LAFAYETTE j\\nAnd Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements.\\nvj (In a Barouche.) J\\nIV/iittetnore. The General s Suite. Darling.\\n(In Carriages.)\\nAides of His Excellency.\\nChamberlain. Gentlemen of Distinction, Strangers, Chadtuick.\\nand Citizens,\\nLocke. I In Carriages and on Horses. Clarke.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0565.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "548 IlISTOKY OF M:w liAMPSIHRE. [1825\\nAt the line of Concord, the Committee of Arrangements from the citizens\\nof Concord will be introduced to the General by the Marshal, and then take\\ntheir place in the procession next to the Aides of his Excellency.\\nA national salute will be fired from the military upon the hill beyond the\\nbridge.\\nProcession shall be received at the same place bv the military escort, under\\nthe command of General 1J.\\\\rtlett.\\nThe band of musick shall follow the military escort, and precede the Com-\\nmittee of Arrangements; and in this form the procession shall move to the\\nnorth end of Main street, wheel and return down Main street to the General s\\nquarters at Colonel Kent s.\\nThe General shall be escorted in the same manner from his quarters, up\\nMain street to opposite the State House, and a national salute shall be fired\\non the moving of the procession.\\nThe military shall then form a line from the front gate to the Capitol, ten\\nfeet from each side of the gravel walk.\\nCommittee of Arrangements will dismount and form between the barouche\\nand the gate two deep. The General and his suite will alight from their car-\\nriages, the General being supported by Senators Webster and Bowers they\\nwill move to the Capitol, followed by the General s suite and his Excellency s\\naides.\\nAfter entering the south door of the Representatives Chamber, the com-\\nmittee will open, the General shall be announced by the Marshal, and the\\nLegislature shall rise and receive him. He will then be presented by the\\nMarshal to the Governor and Council, Senate, and House of Representatives\\nafter which the Governor shall make an address to the General, in behalf of\\nthe Legislature.\\nThe Marshal will then introduce him to the Governor, who will introduce\\nhim to the Council. The Governor will introduce him to the President of the\\nSenate, who will introduce him to the Senators. The Governor will intro-\\nduce him to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who will intro-\\nduce him to the members.\\nWhen the General shall be introduced into the Representatives Chamber,\\nthe Governor will be seated in the Speaker s chair. the Council at the right\\nof the Governor in the wall seat and the Senate on the left of the Speaker s\\nchair. On the right of the Speaker, on the floor, in settees, the Secretary\\nand Treasurer, Adjutant and Commissary General, the Attorney-General,\\nJudges of the Courts, Senators, and Representatives to Congress.\\nThe Speaker of the House will be seated in a chair in front of the centre\\ndivision of the House.\\nThe General will be conducted to his seat at the right of the Governor and\\nhis suite, to the seat in front of the Council.\\nThe General will be escorted in the same way, supported by the Governor,\\nto the area of the Capitol, where the Revolutionary officers and soldiers will\\nbe introduced to him by the Marshal.\\nHe will be escorted and supported in the same manner by the Governor to\\nthe dinner table.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0566.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "1825] EKA OF GOOD-WILL. 549\\nFrom the table he shall be escorted and supported in like manner to his\\nbarouche and accompanied in the barouche hy the Governor to his quar-\\nters.\\nThe military will then be discharged.\\nAt seven o clock the General will hold a levee on the area of the Capitol,\\nfor the introduction of ladies and gentlemen.\\nAfter the levee, the Capitol will be illuminated.\\nMarshals Cartland, French, Bell, and Hum will have charge of the State\\nHouse and Yard.\\nIn 1825 farmers were simply farmers and nothing more. Tiiey\\nraised nearly all the supplies for their own tables, and largely for\\ntheir clothing, which was manufactured from the raw materials\\nin their homes. Wheat was much more generally grown then\\nthan now, but not in sufficient quantities to furnish bread for the\\nhousehold. Flour was rarely bought by the barrel and barley,\\nrye, and Indian corn were extensively used. In those earlier\\ndays flour bread was, with large numbers of families, dignified\\nwith the name of cake, and considered a lu.xury for use on\\nextra occasions, when company was entertained. A story is told\\nin one of the old Rockingham county towns which illustrates this\\nfact. A high-toned gentleman, known as the Squire, called\\nat a farm-house one day, on some business, and when he had\\nfinished his errand and had remounted at the door, the good\\nhousewife, wishing to impress the squire with the dignity and\\nthrift of her family, said to him: Squire, won t you stop and\\nhave some flour bread and butter. thinking it now too late for\\nhim to accept her invitation. To her chagrin the doughty squire\\nreplied Thank you, marm, I don t care if I do, and promptly\\ndismounted and entered the house. The poor woman could only\\nexplain that to her surprise she found the flour bread all out, and\\noffered him the best she had, some Indian bannock. A string of\\nbannocks, eight or ten in number, would be set upon tins in front\\nof the fire in the broad fireplace, there being room then left in\\nthe corner for one to sit and look straight up the chimney into^\\nthe blue heavens. There was very little market for farm pro-\\ntluce in those days, except in the larger towns long journeys\\nhad to be made, mostly to such as were known as sea-ports,\\nCopy of official program.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0567.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "550 HISTORY OK NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1827\\nas there were no interior towns of sufficient population to be\\ncentres of such trade. Every farmer kept a flock of sheep, and\\nwool constituted a large portion of the clothing. It was carded,\\nSpun, and woven at home, and made into garments for both sexes.\\nThe best clothes for men and boys were made of what was\\ncalled fulled cloth. This was made at home, of the finest\\nmaterial, and taken to the mills known as fulling-mills, where\\nit was put through a process of thickening, dyeing, and finishing.\\nThe women used to wear gowns of cloth which was called\\npressed woollen. This was simply home-made flannel, taken\\nto the mills above-named and pressed so as to present a glossy\\nsurface.\\nEvery farmer had a small patch of fla.x. This was pulled and\\nspread out in rows on the ground, rotted and then broken\\nand swingled, and was prepared for the combing, carding, and\\nthe little wheel, as the machine was called, on which the flax\\nwas spun, to distinguish it from the larger machine for spinning\\nwool. It was woven into cloth for table covers, towelling, sheet-\\ning, and sliirting. The tow, which was the coarse portion\\ncombed out on the hatchel, was spun into a coarse yarn, of\\nwhich a cloth was made for summer suits for men and boys.\\nThe tow shirt, so commonly worn, was, when new, an instrument\\nof torture to the wearer, as it was full of prickling spines left\\nfrom the woody part of the stalk.\\nBenjamin Pierce was elected governor in 1827. He was born\\n.n Chelmsford in December, 1757.\\nTwo days after the encounter between the patriots and the\\nBritish soldiers at Lexington, Benjamin Pierce, then eighteen\\nyears old, was holding the plough in his uncle s field in- Chelms-\\nford when the news of that event arrived. He immediately left\\nthe plough, took his uncle s gun and equipments, and started for\\nBoston. There he enlisted was present at the battle of Bun-\\nker Hill, remained in the service during the war, and was on the\\nstaff of George Washington until the final disbandment of the\\nAmerican army at West Point in 1784. He settled in Hills-\\nborough in 1786, and earnestly engaged in agricultural pursuits.\\nHe took great interest in military affairs, holding offices in the", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0568.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "1827] EKx\\\\ Ul C.OOD-WILL. 551\\nmilitia from colonel to general of brigade. In 1798 he refused\\na colonel s commission in the regular army. He was also\\ncalled upon to fill many political offices, such as representative,\\ncounsellor, and presidential elector. He finally was chosen gov-\\nernor of New Hampshire in 1827-9. His public services in one\\ncapacity and another extended over fifty years. At his death,\\nwhich took place in April, 1839, when in his eighty-second\\nyear, he was vice-president of the Society of the Cincinnati.\\nHe was patriotic, brave, noble-minded, and charitable a bene-\\nfactor to his country, and a blessing to his State and society,\\nand no one memory associated with the past history of Hillsbor-\\nough brings up higher feelings of respect and veneration than\\nthat of General Benjamin fierce.\\nWhen high sheriff of Hillsborough county his duties called him at one\\ntime to Amherst, where he found, imprisoned in tlie jail, three Revolutionary\\nsoldiers. Interesting himself in their behalf he learned the prisoners had\\nserved their country well and faithfully had honorable discharges, but at\\nthe close of the Revolution, like hundreds of their comrades, were penniless.\\nThey had, after long and weary days of travel, reached their homes, where\\na merciless creditor secured their arrest and imprisonment for debt. Ascer-\\ntaining these facts, he instantly discharged their liability, and, taking the\\nkeys from the jailor, unlocked the prison doors, and, leading the old veterans\\nfrom confinement, pointing to the blue sky above them said: Go, breathe\\nthe free air! There can be no true republican liberty when such men as you\\nare consigned to prison for such a cause.\\nThe Pierce mansion in Hillsborough stands in the midst of grounds which\\nin former years were laid out with elegant taste, and embellished with fruit\\ntrees and shrubbery. Several handsome, stately trees embower the venerable\\nroof. Around the front side of the building extends a broad and generous\\npiazza. Surely none ever gave a more genial welcome.\\nThe founder of this mansion was a great man in his day, and with but one\\nexception was probably the most popular governor ever elected in New\\nHampshire. Even to-day, after the lapse of forty years, his verv name\\ntouches the heart almost to a burst of enthusiasm. His personal appearance,\\nas it has been preserved by the portraits on the walls of the mansion and in\\nthe State House at Concord, is indicative of the man. There is something\\nof the look of a Jackson in that face. The jaws have the same lion-like solidity,\\nthe lips are firm, and the nose identical with that same feature which we\\nobserve in the portrait of the hero of the hermitage, but the eyes have a merry\\ngleam, and the rubicund visage and the thick-set, portly figure tell more\\nplainly than words can of the frank, fearless, good natured, good living, hos-\\nFred Myrrni Colby.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0569.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "552 HISTOKV OK NEW HAMPSHIRE. 82/\\npitable .squire, whoso name could rallv more oters to the polls than that of\\nanv other man in the State, after John T. Gilnian.\\nGrand as the house is, one would hardly think that it had been the scene of\\nso much romance and glory. Yet tliere is no dwelling within our State that\\ncan evoke more significant associations than does this rural mansion. Here\\ndwelt the embryo statesman and president, Franklin Pierce, son of Governor\\nPierce, through all his boyhood days. Out of these windows looked the eyes\\nthat were to gaze on the splendors of the White House, and the varied scenes\\nof foreign lands. In this very yard rang the voice which was to stir listening\\nsenates with its tones. Around this place centres all of the associations con-\\nnected with his youthful years. Here was the theatre of his early sports,\\nhere his school-d.ays began, here he had his first visions of future eminence,\\nor of the possibility of it. Through this very door he passed with his college\\nhonors upon him, the friend of Stowe, of Hawthorne, of Longlellow, and\\nothers equally known to fame. Here, also, he came with the trappings of\\nstate upon him, surrounded by a galaxy of the noblest Americans. Great\\nmen, statesmen, writers, divines, and soldiers have been domiciled under this\\nroof. Nearly all of the leading men of New Hampshire, for fifty years, vis-\\nited at Squire Pierce s house. Isaac Hill, the Athertons, Ebenezer Webster,\\n^udge Woodbury, John T. Gilman, Samuel Bell, and Governor Steele were\\niiore than once guests of the governor. And, afterwards, Hawthorne, Dr.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\ppleton, the McNiels, and others came to see the young lawyer, their friend,\\nohn McNiel, in particular, was often a visitor there, coming every Sunday\\nnight to pay his addresses to a certain staid, beautiful maid, who afterwards\\nbecame his wife.\\nThe school system of the State was entirely reorganized in 1827.\\nThe law jDrovided for the election of a superintending school\\ncommittee, who were required to examine and license teachers,\\nvisit and inspect schools, to select school-books, and report in\\nwriting upon the condition of the schools at the annual town-\\nmeeting. They were empowered to withdraw certificates and\\ndismiss teachers and scholars, and they were allowed pay for ser-\\nvices rendered. District or prudential committees were consti-\\ntuted the legal agency to hire teachers, to provide board for the\\nteacher, fuel, and to repair and take care of the school-house.\\nThe inhabitants of a district were authorized to raise money by\\nta.\\\\ to build and repair the school-houses.^\\nNovember 9, 10, 11, 1827, were three of the coldest days ever\\nknown at the time of year. The Merrimack river froze over.\\nThe election in the year 182S resulted in the choice of John\\nBell of Chester for governor. He was a brother of Governor\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J nM. Shirley.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0570.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "1 828] ERA OF GOOn-^VlLL. 553\\nSamuel Bell, and the father of Governor Cliarles M. Bell. He\\nwas born in July, 1765, was educated in Londonderry, and com-\\nmenced business by engaging in the Canadian trade, occasioning\\nfrequent journeys to the business centres of that province, which\\nwith the slow transit of those days was no light task. Later he\\nestablished business in Chester, where he continued to reside till\\nhis death in 1836. He had an active interest in politics, and in\\n18 17 was elected a member of the Executive Council, to which\\nhe was four times re-elected. In 1823 he was appointed high\\nsheriff of Rockingham county. He was elected governor, in\\n1828, at a time when the contending political interests took\\nsides with the rival candidates for the presidency, Jackson and\\nAdams, discarding old party ties and names. Mr. Bell was a\\nstaunch supporter of Adams. The struggles for supremacy be-\\ntween the adherents of Adams and Jackson were more bitter\\nthan those between the old parties, and the factions were so\\nevenly matched in numbers that candidates for office had to be\\nselected with wise discrimination.\\nIn the summer of 1828 Mr. Mason was chosen president of\\nthe branch bank of the United States at Portsmouth, and insti-\\ntuted many reforms in the management of the institution.\\nThe town of Franklin was incorporated December 24, 1828.\\nThe territory of the town was formerly in the towns of Salis-\\nbury, Andover, Sanbornton, and Northfield, and, prior to 1823,\\nin the three counties of Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Strafford,\\nwhich joined near where the Pemigewasset and Winnipiseogee\\nunite to form the Merrimack river, and where the present thriv-\\ning village of Franklin is located.\\nIn the summer of 1748 the first settlement of the town was\\nmade in the neighborhood of the Webster place a fort was built,\\nand occupied four months. Upon the withdrawal of the garri-\\nson to the lower settlements, Philip Call and his son Stephen\\nremained, and thus became the first permanent residents of the_\\ntown. In 1749 Masonian proprietors granted the town as\\nStevenstown. Nathaniel Maloon and Sinkler Bean were the\\nfirst settlers in the western part of the town, residing on the\\nBlackwater, on the South Road, so called. In 1754 the former,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0571.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "554 HisTOKV 01- m:\\\\v HAMrsniKE. [1828\\nwitl; his wife and three children, were taken captives to Canada\\nby Indians and disposed of to the French, with whom they\\nremained for several years. Call s wife was killed by the\\nIndians in August, 1754. Her husband witnessed the event\\nwhile hidden, unarmed, in the bushes. Her daughter-in-law,\\nwith her grand-child, escaped death by concealment in the\\nchimney. Her descendants are among the residents of the\\ntown to this day. Peter and John Bovven settled on the Bur-\\nleigh place, about 1748. John Webster and Ebenezer Web-\\nster, cousins, settled in the town, 1759-60; the former was a\\nsettler in Boscawen in 1754. The latter was the father of\\nEzekiel and Daniel Webster. They built a grist-mill on French\\nbrook, near the Shaw place. The earliest tombstone preserved\\nin town is in the lower graveyard near the Webster place, and\\nis to commemorate one Ephraim Collins who died in 1767, after\\na residence in town of at least fifteen years. Jacob Morrill,\\nTristan Quimby, and Benjamin Sanborn were among the early\\nsettlers of the lower village.\\nAside from the grist-mill and one house there was no settle-\\nment in the present upper village until after the Revolution.\\nEbenezer Eastman may be called the father of the village.\\nHe came from Concord in the year 1790, at the age of twenty-\\nseven. He possessed property, ability, and enterprise. He\\nbuilt a saw-mill, kept a tavern, conducted a farm, and was exten-\\nsively engaged in lumbering. The Webster House was his\\nold homestead. He owned several hundred acres of land in the\\nvicinity. He died in 1833 in the brick house south of Judge\\nNesmith s. Several families followed Mr. Eastman s lead, and\\nso the village was started.\\nHon. Geo. W. Nesmith has been identified with the town\\nsince 1822. He was born in Antrim, in October, 1800. He pur-\\nsued his preparatory studies with Rev. John M. Whitton, Daniel\\nM. Christie, and Henry Cummings, graduated from Dartmouth\\nCollege, class of 1820, read law with Parker Noyes of Sal-\\nisburv in the same office where Daniel Webster studied, taught\\nschool for a short time in Concord and in Bradford, and\\nwas admitted to the bar in 1825. Judge Nesmith has always", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0572.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": "i828]\\nERA OF GOOD-WILL.\\n555\\nbeen an honored citizen of Franklin, and has represented the\\ntown many years in the legislature. He was for a long time\\njustice of the Supreme Court, and is now a trustee of Dartmouth\\nCollege.\\nOne of the most affable and genial gentlemen of the old school\\nis Judge Nesmith. His years sit lightly upon him. An honor-\\nable man, a just judge, a kindly neighbor, a good citizen, and a\\nripe scholar, he can calmly sit in his well-appointed libarry, sur-\\nrounded by his well-loved books and mementoes of the past, and\\nreview a well-spent life crowned with honors. He is of Scotch-\\nIrish descent.\\nMOUNT CARTER, FROM GORHAM.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0573.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII.\\nTURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS, 1828- 1840.\\nJourney from New Hampshire to Philadelphia War against\\nTurnpikes Matthew Harvey Concord Canal and River Navi-\\ngation Samuel Dinsmoor Visit of Andrew Jackson Murder\\nIN Pembroke New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane William\\nBadger Nathaniel P. Rogers ^Parker Pillsbury Railroads\\nIsaac Hill Surplus Revenue Judge Boswell Stevens End\\nOF Turnpikes John Page Edmund Burke James Wilson East-\\nern Railroad.\\nT^HE 1 active business man of the present day scarcely realizes\\nthe advances that have been made during the last half century\\nin facilities for travel and transportation. So accustomed has\\nhe become to the easy transition, in a single night, by palace\\ncar, or by more palatial steamer, from his place of business, in\\nalmost any of the southern New Hampshire cities or towns, to\\nthe great commercial centres of New York or Philadelphia, that\\nsuch a magical annihilation of time and space seems to him as\\nmuch a matter of course as the rising and setting of the sun.\\nIn the year 1828 the late Frederick G. Stark resided in Man-\\nchester, and kept a country store near the site of the present\\ncity. He was also superintendent of the old Amoskeag Canal.\\nHis goods were bought in Boston, and two or three trips a year\\nto the New England Metropolis comprised the extent of his\\ncustomary travel. But occasionally his affairs required a more ex-\\ntended journey, and being a man of method and close observation,\\nhe was in the habit of noting down what he saw when travelling\\nout of his usual course. His journal, written during a journey\\nGen. George Stark.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0574.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "1 828] TURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS. 557\\nfrom Manchester to the City of Brotherly Love, before the\\ndavs of railroads, has been preserved, and reads as follows\\nSaturdav, October 4, 1S2S. Left home at about nine a.m.; passed across\\nthe Amoskeag Falls with my brother Charles, who went with me to help\\ncarry my trunk; had with me a change of clothing, and just a thousand\\ndollars in money went to Amoskeag Hotel and waited for the stage, which\\ncame along in about half an hour, and I got on board of it and proceeded to\\nBoston, where I arrived about eight o clock in the evening.\\nTuesday, October 7. Took the Providence stage at five o clock in the\\nmorning, and arrived at Providence between eleven and twelve, and went\\ndirectly on board the steamboat Chancellor Livingston, and soon after twelve\\nleft the wharf for Newport and New York. Arrived at Newport about half\\npast three, and took in more passengers, making in all about a hundred; left\\nthe wharf in about half an hour, and proceeded on for New York. Wind\\nstrong ahead at sunset we were in the open sea north-west from Block Island,\\nwhich was just in sight, and a heavy sea was going, which pitched and rolled\\nthe boat so that few of the passengers walk the deck without staggering and\\nstumbling.\\nWednesday, October S, 1S2S. Got up this morning at six o clock. Wind\\nblew hard all night, and been in heavy sea all night; the vessel rolled and\\npitched exceedingly, but the wind has abated some and the water is not so\\nrough, we having got into Long Island Sound. We arrived at New York\\nabout nine in the evening. I and two other gentlemen went to a Mrs. John-\\nson s in Pearl street, and put up; had a pretty comfortable night s lodging.\\nTkursdav, October g, iS S. Walked out in the morning before breakfast,\\nto take a peep at the famous city of New York, and returned to Mrs. Johnson s\\nto breakfast. After breakfast went to the landing place of the Union line\\nsteamboats to engage passage to Philadelphia; wrote a letter to brother John\\nand put it into the post-office; went back to Mrs. Johnson s, paid my bill of\\nentertainment, and got a porter to carry my trunk to the landing, and went\\non board steamboat Bellona, bound for New Brunswick, where we arrived\\nabout four or five o clock, and took stages for Princeton and Trenton. We\\narrived at Trenton about nine o clock, where we took supper and lodging, for\\nwhich they charged 75 cents, besides paying the boot blacker in the morning.\\nAbout four o clock, Friday morning, we were called up to go on board the\\nsteamboat for Philadelphia, and arrived at destination about nine o clock.\\n^The twenty years after the opening of the fourth New Hamp-\\nshire turnpike wrought a marked change along the line and\\nwith the travelling public. Those who had little public spirit,\\nand sought to get along in the world by paying as little as pos-\\nsible, regarded the toll gate as a bar to progress, a restriction\\nupon individual liberty, and a clog upon the inalienable rights of\\nJohn M. Shirley.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0575.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "55^ HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1S3O\\nmen. The tavern-keepers, with their retainers and dependants,\\nwho wielded a great deal of influence, felt that a free road would\\nbring a large increase of public travel and consequent profits to\\ntheir pockets. The general public felt that the corporation was\\nmade up of a few men, some of whom had acquired blocks of\\nstock at low prices and summed up their opposition in the\\nugly word monopoly. A war was made upon the turnpikes such\\nas afterwards in a more limited form fell upon the toll bridges.\\nThe result was that on January 23, 1829, the Grafton turnpike,\\nin law, was made a free road.\\n^Matthew Harvey was elected governor in 1830, defeating\\nTimothy Upham. He was born in Sutton, in June, 1781. He\\nwas a son of Matthew and Hannah (Sargent) Harvey. He pre-\\npared for college under the tuition of the Rev. Samuel Wood,\\nD. D., of Boscawen. He graduated at Dartmouth College in\\nthe class of 1806. He studied law with John Harris, of Hop-\\nkinton, and was admitted to the bar in 1809. He then opened\\nan office in Hopkinton, and began his professional career. Pos-\\nsessed of merit and capacity, he rose to distinction endowed\\nwith certain temperamental characteristics, he became a promi-\\nnent leader in Republican, or Democratic, politics. In a special\\nsense he became an eminently popular public official.\\nIn 1800 the town of Hopkinton was in a prosperous and\\nthriving condition. Its population was increasing. It kept on\\nincreasing for at least thirty more years. Hopkinton, during a\\nconsiderable portion of this time, was a town of public distinc-\\ntion and celebrity. It was a centre of commercial, judicial, po-\\nlitical, and social activity and enterprise. Its influence was felt\\nin every department of the Commonwealth. Besides, in 1800,\\nthe conditions of political classification in Hopkinton differed in\\nno material respect from those of the rest of the State. Conse-\\nquently, in 1804, when the tide of political favor was turning to-\\nwards Republicanism, the public position of Hopkinton made it\\na favorable field for the location of some individual of political\\nambition, who might improve the opportunity of the flooding\\ntide of Republicanism to ride on to fortune. The opportunity\\nC. C. Lord.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0576.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "1830] TURNPIKES, CANALS, KAILROADS. 559\\nwitnessed the aspirant. The right man appeared. His name\\nwas Matthew Harvey.\\nMatthew Harvey was many years in office. He was tfie incumbent of\\nsmaller as well as of greater offices. He was moderator of Hopkinton s an-\\nnual town meeting from 1S26 to 1S28; also in 1S33 1S34.; again in 1840\\nand 1841; and finally from 1S45 to 1S50. He represented the town in the\\nState legislature from 1S14 to i8;o, and was speaker of the House the last\\nthree jears; he was a member of the national House of Representatives from\\n1S21 to 1-825, and afterwards in the State Senate three 3 ears, being president\\nthe last two and a member of the New Hampshire executive council in 1828\\nand 1S29.\\nIn politics Matthew Harvey represented the reactive element in govern-\\nment. In the position of a political leader, it was but natural that he should\\nat times exhibit the tendency to outward indifference to formalism so natural\\nto his political clan. It has been told of him that, being chosen to his fre-\\nquent office of moderator of town meeting, instead of saying to the voters of\\nthe town, You will now please forward your ballots for town clerk, he\\nwould sometimes sa} You will now please forward your ballots for Joab\\nPatterson for town clerk. In fact, it was a small perversion of formalities.\\nJoab Patterson was a popular town clerk, and was frequently re-elected.\\nIn personal stature Matthew Harvey was of medium height\\nand proportions, and erect. In style he was tidy, dignified, and\\ngentlemanly. In social nature he was generous, kind, and sym-\\npathetic in moral character honest and truthful in religious\\nlife fervent and liberal. His whole personal identity partook\\nmore of the ideal than of the actual, though he was not so ideal\\nas to be impractical.\\nIn 1850 Matthew Harvey moved to Concord, where he died\\nm 1866.\\n^In 1830 Concord contained three thousand seven hundred\\ninhabitants. It was the shire town of the county and capital\\nof the State. A flourishing village was rapidly growing. There\\nwere seven printing offices three political newspapers pub-\\nlished and in the village eight attorneys at law and five physi-\\ncians. The field for a pastor was large and the labor abundant,\\namong a people distinguished for industry and morality. There\\nwere three other churches, besides an occasional gathering\\nof Friends, the First Baptist, organized in 1818, a Metho-\\ndist, organized in 1828, and the Unitarian, oiganized in 1829.\\nRev. F. D. Ayer,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0577.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "S60 IlISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [183O\\nDr. Bouton estimated that the whole number connected with\\nall of them was about one-fourth of the adult population, and\\none-seventh of the inhabitants, while one-third of the popu-\\nlation attended services on the Sabbath and seven-eighths could\\nbe reckoned as church-going. The Old North, built in 1751,\\nwas still the rallying point of the town, and the great congrega-\\ntion, averaging about a thousand, thronged it every Sabbath.\\nThey came from all directions, long distances, and many on foot.\\nThe young pastor, Nathaniel Bouton, had been here just long\\nenough to get fairly at work, and to use the powers of church\\nand parish efficiently. Large as was the church it was united,\\nready to sustain the efforts and plans of the pastor. Besides\\npreaching on the Sabbath, the pastor appointed weekly lectures\\nin different districts, and instituted four Bible classes. He\\nfollowed this plan for seven years, going on horseback to all\\nsections of the town, visiting the people and holding the services.\\nThe church also was at work, and in 1831 there was connected\\nwith the church fourteen parish schools, taught in different\\ndistricts, and containing four hundred and fifty-five scholars.\\nProtracted meetings of three or four days duration were also\\nheld, in which the pastor was assisted by neighboring pastors.\\nOnce or twice a year committees were appointed to visit from\\nhouse to house, converse and pray with every family. The\\nchurch frequently made appropriations of money to be spent in\\npurchasing tracts to be distributed and books to be loaned to\\ninquirers.\\nFrom Regulations relative to the navigation of the Middle-\\nsex Canal, a pamphlet published in 1S30, it appears that boats\\nwere required to be not less than forty feet nor more than\\nseventy-five feet in length, and not less than nine feet nor more\\nthan nine and a half feet in width. Two men, a driver and\\nsteersman, usually made up the working force the boats, how-\\never, that went up the Merrimack required three men, one to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ftsteer and two to pole. The Lowell boats carried twenty tons\\nof coal fifteen tons were sufficient freight for Concord when\\nthe water in the Merrimack was low, not more than six or seven\\nGeneral George Stark.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0578.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "1830] TURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS. 561\\ntons could be taken up the river. About 1830 the boatmen\\nreceived i 5 per month.\\nIt is difficult to ascertain the whole number of boats employed\\nat any one time. Many were owned and run by the proprietors\\nof the canal and many were constructed and run by private\\nparties who paid the regular tolls for whatever merchandise they\\ntransported. Boats belonging to the same parties were conspic-\\nuously numbered, like railway cars to-day.\\nLumber was transported in rafts about seventy-five feet\\nlong and nine feet wide; and these rafts, not exceeding ten in\\nnumber, were often united in bands. A band of seven to ten\\nrafts required the services of five men, including the driver.\\nBoats were drawn by horses, and lumber by oxen; and lug-\\ngage boats were required to make two and a half miles an hour,\\nwhile passage boats attained a speed of four miles. Boats of\\nthe same class, and going the same way, were not allowed to\\npass each other, thus making racing impossible on the staid\\nwaters of the old canal. Whenever a boat approached a lock,\\nthe conductor sounded his horn to secure the prompt attention\\nof the lock-tender but due regard was paid to the religious\\nsentiment of New England. Travelling on the canal being\\npermitted on Sundays, in consideration of the distance from\\nhome at which those persons using it generally are, it may be\\nreasonably expected that they should not disturb those places\\nof public worship near which they pass, nor occasion any noise\\nto interrupt the tranquillity of the day. Therefore it is estab-\\nlished that no signal-horn shall be used or blown on Sundays.\\nThe tariff varied greatly from year to year. In 1827 the rate\\nfrom Lowell to Boston wss ^2.00 the gross ton but many art-\\nicles were carried on much lower terms.\\nOn account of liability of damage to the banks of the canal,\\nall navigation ceased at dark hence, at every lock, or series of\\nlocks, a tavern was established. These were all owned by the\\ncorporation, and were often let to the lock-tender, who eked out\\nhis income by the accommodation of boatmen and horses.\\nA trip over the canal in the passenger-packet, the Governor\\nSullivan, must have been an enjoyable experience. Protected", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0579.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "562 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. \u00c2\u00a730\\nby iron rules from the dangers of collision undaunted by squalls\\nof wind, realizing, should the craft be capsized, that he had\\nnothing to do but walk ashore, the traveller, speeding along at\\nthe leisurely pace of four miles per hour, had ample time for\\nobservation and reflection.\\nWith the accession of business brought by the corporations at\\nLowell, the prospect for increased dividends in the future was\\nextremely encouraging. The golden age of the canal appeared\\nclose at hand but the fond hopes of the proprietors were once\\nmore destined to disappointment. Even the genius of James\\nSullivan had not foreseen the railway locomotive.\\nIn 1829 a petition was presented to the legislature for the sur-\\nvey of a railroad from Boston to Lowell. The interests of the\\ncanal were seriously involved. A committee was promptly\\nchosen to draw up for presentation to the General Court A\\nRemonstrance of the Proprietors of Middlesex Canal against the\\ngrant of a charter to build a Railroad from Boston to Lowell.\\nThis remonstrance, signed by William Sullivan, Joseph Coolidge,\\nand George Hallett, bears date of Boston, February 12, 1830,\\nand conclusively shows how little the business men of fifty years\\nago anticipated the enormous development of our resources\\nconsequent upon the application of steam to transportation\\nIt is believed no safer or ciieaper mode of conveyance can ever be estab-\\nlished, nor any so well adapted for carrying heavy and bulky articles. To\\nestablish therefore a substitute for the canal alongside of it, and in many\\nplaces within a few rods of it, and to do that which the canal was made to do,\\nseems to be a measure not called for by any exigency, nor one which the\\nlegislature can permit, without implicitly declaring that all investments of\\nmoney in public enterprises must be subjected to the will of any applicants\\nwho think that they may benefit themselves without regard to older enter-\\nprises, which have a claim to protection from public authority. The remon-\\nstrants would also add that, so far as they know and believe, there never can\\nbe a sufficient inducement to extend a railroad from Lowell westwardly and\\nnorthwestwardly, to the Connecticut, so as to make it the great avenue to\\nand from the interior, but that its termination must be at Lowell, and con-\\nsequently that it is to be a substitute for the modes of transportation now in\\nu.se between that place and Boston, and cannot deserve patronage from the\\nsupposition that it is to be more extensively useful.\\nTlv 7 /-\u00c2\u00abM. r v of Si-ptemhtr i, 1S30, remarks: It is not astonish-\\ning thai so much reUiciaiice exists against ])lunging into doubtful specula-", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0580.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "1S32] TURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS. 563\\ntions. The public itself is divided as to the practicability of the railroad. If they\\nexpect the assistance of capitalists, they must stand ready to guarantee the\\nper centum per annum; without this, all hopes of nailroads are visionary and\\nchimerical. In a report of legislative proceedings published, in the y?o.s/o\u00c2\u00bb\\nCourier, of January 25, 1S30, Mr. Cogswell, of Ipswich, remarked: Rail-\\nways, Mr. Speaker, may do well enough in old countries, but will never be\\nthe thing for so young a country as this. When you can make the rivers run\\nback, it will be time enough to make a railway. Notwithstanding the pa-\\nthetic remonstrances and strange vaticinations of the canal proprietors, the\\nlegislature incorporated the road and refused compensation to the canal.\\nEven while the railroad was in process of construction the canal directors do\\nnot seem to have realized the full gravity of the situation. They continued\\nthe policy of replacing wood with stone, and made every effort to perfect the\\nservice in all its details.\\nThe canal dividends had been kept up to their highest mark by the sale of\\nits townships in Maine and other real estate, but now they began to drop. The\\nyear the Lowell road went into full operation the receipts of the canal were\\nreduced one-third; and when the Nashua Lowell read went into full\\noperation, in 1S40, they were reduced another thirJ. The board of directors\\nwaged a plucky warfare with the railroads, reducing the tariff on all articles,\\nand almost abolishing it on some, till the e,\\\\penditures of the canal outran its\\nincome; but steam came out triumphant.\\nConcord, Piscataquog, Litchfield, and Nashua each had its lines of boats,\\nmaking in the aggregate quite a little fleet. The broad reaches of the river\\nbelow Nashua were at times rendered especially picturesque by the bellj ing\\nsails as the boats drove before the wind.\\nThis part of the river had also upon it, for three or four years subsequent\\nto 1S34, fair-sized sfeamboat, plying for passengers and freight between\\nNashua and Lowell. She was commanded one season by Captain Jacob Van-\\nderbilt of Staten Island, New York, brother to the late Commodore Vander-\\nbilt. In the early part of the season, while the water of the river was at its\\nhighest stages, it was also thronged with logs and lumber being taken down\\nfor market.\\nThe first agent appointed by the canal company, to superintend the said\\ncanals, to collect tolls, at Amoskeag, was Saxnuel-E Kidder, who had for\\nmany ears been assistant and confidential secretary of Jjjsigfi\u00e2\u0080\u0094Blodgett, the\\nleading proprietor of the Amoskeag Canal. He held the appointment until\\nhis decease in 1S22, when Frederick G. Stark, a grandson of General John\\nStark, was appointed his successor. Mr. Stark held the position continuously\\nabout fifteen years until 1S37. During this period his correspondence shows\\nhim to have been in active communication with the Boston agents of the\\nproprietors of the Middlesex Canal, who also owned or controlled the river\\ncanals, and he appears to have at all times enjoyed their full confidence.\\nThe Merrimack river canals were blotted out by the railroads. The open-\\ning of the railroad to LoweU in 1S35, to Nashua in 1S3S. and to Concord in\\n1842 were successive steps of destruction to the whole system of river naviga-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0581.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "564 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRK. 833\\ntion, and culminated in a total abandonment of the canals soon after the\\nConcord Railroad was put in operation.\\nA hardy race of boatmen, pilots, and raftsmen men of uncommon\\nstrength and endurance, skilful in their calling but unfamiliar with other\\nlabor were suddenly and permanently thrown out of employment. The\\nwooden dams and locks went to decay, the embankments were cut and\\nploughed down, and successive spring freshets have hurled their icy batteries\\nagainst the stone abutments and lock walls until they are nearly obliterated,\\nand the next generation will know not of them.\\nIn 1 83 1 Samuel Dinsmoor of Keene was elected governor,\\ndefeating Ichabod Bartlett.\\nHon. Samuel Dinsmoor was a native of Windham, born in\\nJuly, 1766. He was of the Londonderry Scotch-Irish descent,\\ngreat-grandson of John Dinsmoor, one of the first settlers,\\ngrandson of Robert Dinsmoor, and son of William Dinsmoor.\\nHe graduated at Dartmouth College, 1789; read law, and settled\\nin Keene in 1792. As a young man he was especially interested\\nin military affairs, and organized the Keene light infantry one\\nof the finest drilled and best equipped corps known under the\\nold militia laws. In 1808 he was appointed postmaster. In\\n181 1 he was elected to Congress, and distinguished himself by\\nfavoring the war with Great Britain. On his return he was\\nappointed collector of the direct tax, and afterwards was judge\\nof Probate. In 1821 he was elected a councillor. In 1S23 he\\nwas the regular nominee for governor, but was defeated by Levi\\nWoodbury on an independent ticket. He died in March, 1835.\\nGovernor Samuel Dinsmoor was re-elected in 1832, again\\ndefeating Mr. Ichabod Bartlett.\\nGovernor Samuel Dinsmoor was elected for a third term in\\n1833, defeating the Whig candidate Arthur Livermore.\\nGeneral Andrew Jackson, then president of the United States,\\nvisited New Hampshire, by invitation of the legislature. The\\noccasion brought a vast company into Concord, and the 28th of\\nJune, 1833, became distinguished as one of the great days at\\nthe capital of New Hampshire. It was anterior to the construc-\\ntion of railways in the State, hence conveyance thither was by\\nwheel carriages or personal locomotion. The occasion diifered\\nfrom the visit of General Lafayette to Concord, eight years", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0582.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "1833] TURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS. 565\\nbefore, spoken of on a preceding page, in that the former\\nbrought out men without regard to any pohtical preferences,,\\nwhile the visit of President Jackson was during a season of\\nmuch partisan strife. Nevertheless the number of people in\\ntown, June 28, 1S33, was very great, and their demonstrations of\\ndelight were of the most emphatic character. To thousands of\\nDemocrats it was the happiest day of their lives, if outward\\nappearances be taken as proof of joys within.\\nThe day was Friday the weather of auspicious character.\\nThe president was accompanied by the vice-president, Martin\\nVan Buren Hon. Lewis Cass, secretary of war Hon. Levi\\nWoodbury, secretary of the navy the private secretary of\\nthe president, Major Donaldson, of Nashville, Tenn., and a\\nfew others. He was met on the river-road, so called, in Bow,\\nbeing there received by a cavalcade, at the head of which was\\nthe town committee, of whom General Robert Davis was chair-\\nman. The military display was of a high order, consisting of\\neight picked companies, of which was the Keene light infantry,.\\nin command of James Wilson probably the best disciplined,\\nmost effective, largest, and most attractive military company\\never seen in New Hampshire. The entire body of troops was-\\nin charge of Colonel Stephen Peabody of Milford.\\nThe president rode into town on horseback, preceded by the\\nmilitary, and passed up Main street to the North End, down\\nState street to School, thence to the Eagle Hotel, where he\\nremained during his stay in town. The next day (Saturday)\\nthe president reviewed the troops, accompanied by Governor\\nDinsmoor and Adjutant-general Low, this spectacle being\\nwitnessed on State street, immediately west of the Capitol.\\nSucceeding this was the introduction of the president to the\\ncivil government and legislature. The press in the House, the\\npassages, and galleries, was probably never greater than on this\\noccasion, there not being a foot of vacant space in the Repre-\\nsentatives Hall or galleries.\\nOn Saturday the president received the calls of citizens and\\nothers, visited the State Prison, and in the evening received a.\\nmultitude of ladies and gentlemen in the Doric Hall, or ar-a of", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0583.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "566 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l833\\nth State House. On Sunday he and his suite attended public\\nworship in the forenoon at the North church, early in the\\nafternoon at the Unitarian church, and a service at four o clock\\nat the Baptist church.\\nThe president and his suite left on Monday morning for\\nWashington, being accompanied to the town line by the same\\ncommittee by whom he was received.\\nThe youngest of the sons of Hon. Isaac Hill was, with\\nanother youth named Andrew Jackson, presented to the presi-\\ndent, who gave to each a United States silver coin, saying,\\nHere, ray sons, is the eagle of your country, which I have\\nendeavored to honor and defend. Keep it in remembrance of\\nme, and if it is ever assailed by a foreign or domestic foe, rally\\nunder its pinions, and defend it to the last.\\nThe town of Pembroke was shocked, on Sunday, June 23, by\\nthe rapidly spread intelligence that Sally, wife of Chauncey\\nCochran, had been murdered by Abraham I rescott, a boy of\\neighteen, who had been living with the family.\\nPrescott accomoanied Mrs. Cochran into a field near the\\nhouse to pick strawberries, and struck her the fatal blow, in a\\nsecluded spot, with no motive that was ever known. From\\nthe testimony at the trial it was evident that he was of weak\\nmind.\\nHe was lodged in jail at Hopkinton, and was allowed two\\ntrials, in which he was ably defended by Hon. Ichabod Bartlett,\\nof Portsmouth, and Charles H. Peaslee, Esq., of Concord, who\\nfirmly believed in his moral irresponsibility and prosecuted by\\nthe attorney-general, George Sullivan, Esq., and the county\\nsolicitor, John Whipple, Esq. The court was held by Chief Jus-\\ntice William M. Richardson, Associate Justice Joel Parker, with\\nthe Common Pleas justices, Benjamin Wadleigh and Aaron\\nWhittemore, at the first trial, in September, 1834.\\nThe jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced\\nto be hung.\\nHis counsel, feeling a positive conviction that he was irrespon-\\nsible for his acts, either through mental impotency or insanity,\\nsought every possible pretext for a new trial. A new trial was", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0584.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0585.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "5d8 msTOKV OF ni;\\\\v Hampshire. 834\\ngranted at the December term of the Superior Court, 1834,\\nand the case came on for trial in September, 1835 when\\nAssociate Justice Nathaniel G. Upham took the place of Chief\\nJustice Richardson on the bench the other justices and the\\ncounsel were the same as at the first trial.\\nPrescott was again found guilty, and his sentence confirmed,,\\nto the disappointment of many who did not believe him morally\\nguilty.\\nOn the day fixed for the execution a great crowd assembled at\\nHopkinton village to witness the event, and when informed that\\na reprieve had been granted, behaved in a most disgraceful man-\\nner, and by their demonstrations caused the death of a lady from\\nfright. The reprieve was granted for a final hearing before the\\ngovernor and Council but they refused to interfere, and the sen-\\ntence was carried into effect January 6, 1836.\\nOne trial was held at the Old North meeting-house, in Con-\\ncord. General Peaslee and Mr. Bartlett managed the case with\\ngreat learning and ability and it was largely due to their in-\\nstrumentality that the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane\\nwas afterward established. Prescott was buried in Rumney.\\nOne of the most generous benefactors of the Asylum for\\nhe Insane was Moody Kent, a resident of Pembroke.\\nThe power of the human voice to give force to language\\nvas never more apparent than in the case of George Sulli-\\nvan. Probably that one of his productions upon which the\\ngreatest labor was bestowed was his argument for the gov-\\nernment in the case of Abraham Prescott on an indictment\\nfor the murder of Mrs Sally Cochran, of Pembroke, before\\nthe Court of Common Pleas, holden in Concord, for the\\ncounty of Merrimack, September, 1834. This production fills\\nwenty-seven pages of the printed Trial, and was attentively\\nlistened to, from beginning to close, by a great assembly\\nbut, read at the present day, it will be found of far less\\nforce than the argument of Hon. Ichabod Bartlett, of counsel\\nfor the prisoner, made the same or the preceding day. But pub-\\nlic opinion was with the attorney-general, and, therefore, had the\\nmerits of the two arnuments been submitted to those who heard", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0586.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "l834j TURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS. 569\\nthem to decide by vote, a great preponderance would have been\\n-on the side of SulHvaiL\\nThe spot where Mrs. Cocliran fell is indicated by a granite\\nblock about a foot square and three feet high, bearing the\\nfigures 1833.\\nWilliam Badger, of Gilmanton, was elected governor in 1834.\\nOld Gilmanton was formerly one of the largest and most im-\\nportant towns of New Hampshire, and before Belmont was\\nsevered from it the value of agricultural products exceeded that\\nof any other town in the State. Among its citizens were num-\\nbered many men of large wealth and usefulness, not a few of\\nwhom acquired a name that was known and reverenced beyond\\nthe limits of their own neighborhootl. Gilmanton citizens,\\nbearing the proud name of Gilman, Cogswell, and Badger, dur-\\ning more than one generation exercised active influence in the\\ncouncils of the State. They were militia officers, sheriffs,\\njudges, senators, and governors.^\\nTo the site of the Badger homestead, in 1784, came General Joseph\\nBadger, jr., one of the brave soldiers of the Revolution. But he was not\\nthe first Badger who was eminent in the history of Gilmanton. His father,\\nGeneral Joseph Badger, sen., was one of the earlier settlers, and a prominent\\nman in the town and in the State. In 1773, when Governor Wentworth\\norganized three additional regiments in the militia of the State, he placed as\\ncolonel at the head of the tenth the first one organized his friend, Joseph\\nB.idger, then a man a little past fifty. His regiment comprised the towns of\\nGilmanton, Barnstead, Sanbornton, Meredith, and New Hampton. Colonel\\nBadger was in command of his regiment when the war opened, and took an\\nactive part in favor of the patriot cause. For many years he represented the\\ntown at the General Assembly, and in 17S4 he was councillor for Strafford\\ncounty. Before the war closed he was appointed brigadier-general of militia,\\nand had a commission signed by Meshech Weare. He was moderator twenty\\ntimes in twenty-five years, a selectman eleven years, and town treasurer six\\nyears. He died in 1S03, at the age of eighty-two years, after living one of the\\nmost active and useful lives of his generation.\\nHis oldest son, Joseph, jr., followed in the veteran s footsteps. He was a\\nsoldier in the Revolution, and fought in several of the battles of that contest.\\nHe was a lieutenant of his regiment during the campaign against Burgoyne,\\nand did eminent service under Gates. After the close of the war he returned\\nto Gilmanton, and turned his attention to farming. He owned three hundred\\nacres of land, the nucleus of what became ultimately a magnificent country\\nestate. His residence was a simple, one-story, frame house, but it was the\\nAba McFarland. 2 Fred Myron Colby.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0587.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "570 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l834\\nhome of contentment, prosperity, and happiness. The people knew his\\nworth and honored him from time to time with a testimony of their trust.\\nThey sent him several successive years to the legislature as the representa-\\ntive of the town. In 1790 he was chosen councillor for the Strafford district,\\nand was re-elected eight times to that important office. He was prominent in\\nthe State militia, passing through various grades of office in the tenth regi-\\nment to its command in 1795- In 1796 he was appointed by Governor Gil\\nman brigadier-general of the second brigade. He died at the age of sixty-\\none, January 14, 1S09. Says Judge Chandler E. Potter, in his Military\\nHistory of New Hampshire As a brave soldier, earnest patriot, and up-\\nright citizen, few men have better deserved the favor of the public than\\nGeneral Badger.\\nThe inheritor of his wealth, his ability, and his popular favor was his son\\nWilliam Badger, who was the third generation of a family to whom honors\\ncame by a sort of natural descent. Born in 1779, William was but a boy of\\nfive years when his father settled upon the hill. Thus his youth was passed\\namong the charming influences of this unsurpassed location. Much of what\\nhe achieved in life must be ascribed to the environs of his boyhood, and thus\\nis exemplified the helpfulness of lofty surroundings. He did not owe all to\\nhis ancestry, nor to his training; the fact that he rose higher than his fathers\\nhe owed undoubtedly to the exquisite beauty of the landscape he gazed upon,\\nand to the strengthening breezes that blew around his boyhood home. Wil-\\nliam Badger was elected a State senator from district No. 6. He was twice\\nre-elected, and the last year, iSi6, he was president of the Senate. This lat-\\nter year he was appointed an associate justice of the Court of Common Pleas,\\nan office that he held until 1S20. In May of that year Governor Bell ap-\\npointed him sheriff of the county of Strafford, and he served in that capacity\\nten years, retiring in 1S30.\\nColonel Badger was a Democrat of the Jefferson and Jackson\\nschool, and about this time began to be regarded as a sort of\\nprospective candidate for gubernatorial honors. His large\\nwealth, his noble ancestry, his long and meritorious services\\nbrought him before all men s eyes. He had moreover those\\npopular democratic manners that endeared him to the people.\\nIn 1831 the elder Samuel Dinsmoor, of Keene, was the nominee\\nof the party, and was three times successfully elected. In 1834\\nColonel Badger became the candidate, and received a triumphant\\nelection. The ne.xt year he was re-elected. Governor Badger\\nwas a very efificient chief magistrate. He possessed strict in-\\ntegrity, his judgment was sound, and when determined upon a\\ncourse of action he was not to be swerved from it. During the\\nIndian Stream territory troubles his duties were of great\\nFred Myron Colby.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0588.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "1834] TURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS. 57I\\nresponsibility, but he performed them with promptness, and at\\nthe same time judiciously. A man with less care and prudence\\nmight have greatly increased our border troubles. His course\\nreceived the hearty commendation of all parties, and doubtless\\nsaved us from a war with Great Britain.\\nGovernor Badger was a tall, stately man, strong, si.\\\\ feet in\\nheight, and at some periods of his life weighed nearly three\\nhundred pounds. He was active and stirring his whole life.\\nThough a man of few words he was remarkably genial. He\\nhad a strong will, but his large good sense prevented him from\\nbeing obstinate. He was generous and hospitable, a friend to\\nthe poor, a kind neighbor, and a high-souled, honorable Chris-\\ntian gentleman.\\nHe died September 21, 1S52, at the age of seventy-three.^\\n^In 1838 Nathaniel P. Rogers removed from Plymouth to\\nConcord, and became the sole editor of the Herald of Frctdoni.\\nHe had, from its establishment in 1834, furnished many most\\ntrenchant and brilliant articles for its columns.\\nHe was born in Plymouth, graduated with honors at Dart-\\nmouth College in 1816, studied law with Richard Fletcher, then\\nsettled down to its practice in his native town, and continued\\nthere through about twenty quite successful years.\\nAs student in books of general literature, especially history\\nand poetry, none were before him. But general reading never\\ndetracted in the least from the duties of his profession. At the\\ntime of his death, an intimate friend who knew him long and\\nwell wrote of him, that so accurate was his knowledge of law,\\nand so industrious was he in business, that the success of a\\nclient was always calculated upon from the moment that his\\nassistance was secured.\\nThe great mission of his life, however, was neither literature\\nnor law. He was subsequently ordained and consecrated as a\\nhigh priest in the great fellowship of humanity, and most\\ndivinely did he magnify his office in the last ten years of his life\\non earth. In 1835 s espoused the cause of the American\\nslave, and marshalled himself by the side of William Lloyd\\nFred Myron Colby. Parker Pillsbury.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0589.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "572 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l834\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Garrison and his then hated, hunted, and persecuted discipleship.\\nFrom that time the anti-slavery enterprise, the temperance and\\npeace causes, and the equal rights of woman had no firmer,\\nbraver, and most certainly no abler advocate and champion than\\nwas he.\\nNew Hampshire politics were at that time almost unanimously\\ndemocratic. And Democracy meant a diabolical devotion to\\nslavery. Nor was its rival, the Whig party, but little better.\\nAnd the clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, were still in\\nfull sacramental communion with the churches and pulpits of\\nthe South.\\nAnti-slavery meetings were everywhere mobbed and broken\\nup. Garrison had been seized in broad day by a mob of gentle-\\nmen in broadcloth driven from an anti-slavery concert of\\nprayer, then seized, stripped of most of his clothing, and with\\na rope about his body, was pulled along some of Boston s princi-\\npal streets until rescued by the mayor and police and shut in the\\nstrongest jail to save his life. In Concord, a meeting attended\\nby George Thompson, of England, John G. Whittier, and other\\neminent abolitionists, was most ignominiously broken up, and\\nThompson only missed the tar kettle by being spirited away out\\nof the village and concealed by his friends. Whittier narrowly\\nescaped the baptism of tar and feathers by being mistaken for\\nThompson by the rioters. A Methodist minister, engaged to\\ngive an anti-slavery lecture in Northfield, was arrested as a\\ncommon brawler, and dragged from his knees and the pulpit as\\nhe was opening his meeting with prayer.\\nBut such was the popular sentiment towards slavery, when\\nNathaniel Peabody Rogers, with wife and family of seven young\\nchildren, removed to Concord and became editor of the Herald\\nof Freedom, .a small, unpretentious sheet, without capital, or\\nmany subscribers, but commissioned to speak with voice to be\\nheard round the world and down the ages.\\nRogers had most unshaken faith in the people, never doubt-\\ning that, wisely taught and led, they would gladly abolish slavery\\nand cease to oppress and enslave one another.\\nHe and his immediate associates relied solely on the power of", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0590.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "-.835] TUKNIMKES, CANALS, KAILROADS. 573\\nmoral and spiritual truth. They formed no political party.\\nThey abjured the ballot altogether as a reforming agency and\\nstill more essentially the bullet, the only specie redemption of\\nthe ballot.\\nAnd Rogers lived to see the downfall of that old Democratic\\ndynasty in his native State, and in many other States, and the\\nrending in twain of the Methodist General Conference and\\nsome other powerful ecclesiastical associations, and a revolution\\nin ecclesiastical, especially clerical, control and leadership.\\nHe died in October, 1846, and was buried in Concord, where\\nno monument commemorates his last resting-place.\\nNathaniel P. Rogers, in October. 184^, soon after he entered the lectiu-e\\nfield, wrote as follows\\nThe abolitionists of the country ought to know Parker Pillsbury better\\nthan they do. I know him in all that is noble in soul, and powerful in talent\\nand eloquence. The remote district school-house, in New Hampshire, and\\nthe old granite county of Essex, Massachusetts, where he was born, would\\nbear me witness to all I could say. He is one of the strong men of our age.\\nWe passed the solitary school-house a few days since, where he\\nwas allowed the few weeks schooling of his childhood but thanks they were\\nso few! He was educating all the better for humanity s service on the\\nrugged tarm. He there taught himself to be a man. A great lesson he had\\neffectually learned before he came in contact with seminaries and a priest-\\nhood. These proved unequal, on that account, to overmatch and cower\\ndown his homespun nobility of soul. They tied their fetters round his manly\\nlimbs, but he snapped them as Samson did the withes, and went out an abol-\\nitionist, carrying off the very theological gates with him upon his manly\\nshoulders.\\nThe importance of railroads to the people of New Hamp-\\nshire can hardly be estimated. Probably no section of this\\ncountry is benefited and its material interests so largely and\\ndirectly aided in a general manner as this State, while in some\\nlocalities the development of every important enterprise is al-\\nmost entirely dependent upon railroad facilities.\\nAt the June session, in 1835, the Nashua and Lowell, Con-\\ncord, and Boston and Maine Railroads were chartered. The\\nEastern Railroad was chartered in 1S36; the Dover and Winni-\\npisiogee, in 1839: the Northern, Great Falls, and Conway, Bos-\\nton, Concord and Montreal, and Cheshire Railroad.s, in 1844;\\nParker Pillsbury.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0591.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "574 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 836\\nthe Portsmouth, Newmarket, and Concord Railroad, the Frank-\\nlin and Bristol, the Ashuelot, and the Sullivan Raih oads, in\\n1846; the Manchester and Lawrence, and the Atlantic and St.\\nLawrence, in 1847; the Connecticut River Railroad, and the\\nContoocook Valley Railroad, the Concord and Claremont, the\\nMonadnock, the White Mountains (to Littleton), and the Nash-\\nua and Epping Railroads, in 1848 the Suncook Valley, the\\nManchester and Candia, in 1849; the Ammonoosuc Railroad\\n(to buy and e.xtend White Mountain Railroad to Lancaster), in\\n1855 the White Mountains Railroad, in 1859; the Dover and\\nWinnipisiogee Railroad, in 1862; the Manchester and Keene\\nRailroad, in 1864; the Portland and Rochester and the Ports-\\nmouth and Dover Railroad, in 1866; the Ogdensburg, in 1867;\\nthe Wolfeborough Railroad, in 1S68 the Hillsborough and\\nPeterborough Railroad, in 1869; the Nashua, Acton, and Bos-\\nton Railroad, in 1872; the Pemigewasset Valley Railroad, in\\n1874; the Farmington and Rochester, in 1877 the Profile and\\nFranconia Notch Railroad, the Whitefield and Jefferson Rail-\\nroad, and the New Zealand River Railroad, in 1878 the Kil-\\nkenny Railroad, in 1879. The Upper Coos Railroad was\\ncompleted in 1887.\\nIn 1836 Isaac Hill was elected governor of the State. Few\\nhave rendered their names more conspicuous in the affairs of\\nthe town of Concord and of the State of New Hampshire.\\nBorn in Cambridge in April, 1788, he was apprenticed to the pub-\\nlisher of the Amherst Cabinet; and in April, 1809, he issued the\\nfirst numbeV of the Neiv Hampshire Patriot. He was elected\\nto the State Senate in 1820, 1821, 1822, 1827; and in 1828 he\\nwas the candidate of his party for United States senator. In\\n1 829 he was appointed by General Andrew Jackson second compt-\\nroller of the Treasury department. His nomination was rejected\\nby the Senate in April, 1830, when he returned to New Hamp-\\nshire and obtained the election as United States senator, and\\ntook his seat in the body which had sought to humble him. He\\nresigned his seat in the Senate, when he was elected governor,\\nand he was re-elected in 1837, and again in 1838. In 1840 he\\nwas appointed sub-treasurer at Boston. He exerted great influ-", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0592.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "1836] TUKNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS. 575\\nence over the people of the State. He possessed great native\\ntalent, indomitable energy, industry, and perseverance. As a\\npolitical editor he had few equals. His reputation extended\\nthroughout the country. He was kind and amiable. He died in\\nMarch, 185 l\\nIn the year 1836 Congress voted to distribute about thirty-six\\nmillions of dollars of surplus revenue, then lying in the Treasury,\\namong the several States. These millions had accumulated\\nfrom the sales of public lands, and were still increasing. The\\nnational debt had been all paid. General Jackson told his party\\nthat this money was a source of danger to the liberties of the\\ncountry. The Democratic party in those days was hostile to\\ninternal improvements, and opposed them everywhere. Rail-\\nroads were built by individual energy rivers were obstructed\\nby snags, sawyers, rafts, and sand-bars, and even the harbors of\\nthe lakes, and the St. Clair flats, were found pretty much in the\\ncondition nature left them. This money was to be distributed\\nin four instalments, three of which were paid when an angry\\ncloud hovered over our northern borders, threatening war with\\nEngland, and the fourth instalment of nine millions was re-\\ntained to pay the expenses of transporting troops to Maine, to\\nNiagara, and to the Indian Stream country in northern New\\nHampshire. The amount paid over to New Hampshire ex-\\nceeded 3800,000. The legislature votetl to divide the money\\namong the towns in proportion to population.\\nIn the fall and winter of 1836 Hon. Boswell Stevens, of Pem-\\nbroke, held the ofifice of judge of Probate for Merrimack county.\\nHe was an able lawyer, and a popular and upright judge.\\nDuring the session of the legislature of that year he was struck\\nwith a paralysis, entirely disabling him from ability to discharge\\nthe duties of his office. His case came before the legislature at\\ntheir fall session. The evidence of able physicians was received\\nthat there was no reasonable prospect of his recovery. Accord-\\ningly, both branches of the legislature united in an address to\\nthe governor, requesting his removal from office. The place of\\nthe judge was soon occupied by his successor. Judge Stevens\\ndied in January of the next year.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0593.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "576 HISTORY OF NEW IIAMP.SHIKE. [1838\\nAfter protracted litigation the proprietors of the fourth\\nturnpike were victorious over their enemies. The Court of\\nCommon Pleas, at the first term, 1837, obeyed the mandate of\\nthe higher court. The corporation, standing upon the thin edge\\nof a technicality, had won a barren victory which presaged ulti-\\nmate defeat. The whole community, with the tavern keepers\\nand stage proprietors and drivers on the lead, united for free\\nroads.\\nOn July 2, 183S, they carried through the legislature an Act authorizing\\nselectmen and the court to take the franchise and other rights of corpora-\\ntions for public highways in the same manner as they took the land of indi-\\nvidual.\\nThe assault soon commenced all along the line. A monster petition,\\nheaded by Reuben G. Johnson, to free the turnpike from West Andover to its\\nBoscawen terminus was filed in the Court of Common Pleas for Merrimack\\ncounty, February 11, 1S39.\\nAt the term of that court commencing on the third Tuesday of March, 1839,\\nSimeon P. Colby, Jesse Carr, and Stephen Sibley were appointed a court s\\ncommittee thereon. At the September term, 1S39, Moses Norris, jr., of Pitts-\\nfield, and Nathaniel S. Berry, of Hebron, were substituted for Carr and Sibley.\\nThe hearing was had at Johnson s tavern the Bonney place in Boscawen,\\nOctober 28, 1S39, and lasted seven days.\\nThey freed the turnpike, and ordered that Andover should pay $566, Salis-\\nbury, $600, and Boscawen, $534, for the benefit of the stock-holders of the\\nturnpike. The report was accepted at the March term, 1S40. Upon similar\\npetitions the turnpike had been freed from the other termini to Grafton line.\\nThe great highway thereafter swarmed with travel as it never had done\\nbefore.\\nBut in 1S46-7-S, by successive steps, the Northern Railroad was put through\\nfrom Concord to White River. A great revolution had thus been wrought.\\nThe thoroughfare, with its long lines of pod, gimlet, and big teams, and its\\nwhirring stage coaches teeming with life and animation, became almost as\\nsilent as a deserted grave-yard. The taverns which dotted almost every mile\\nwere silent, too, and the great stables at the stage stations and elsewhere,\\nfilled with emptiness, looked like the spared monuments of another period\\nRailroads have taken the place of canals and turnpike roads.\\nThe foregoing account of the fourth New Hampshire turn-\\npike is taken from an extended account written by John M.\\nShirley and published in the Granite Monthly. The other turn-\\npikes of the State suffered the same or similar fate. Like the\\ntoll bridges they became the property of the town, or the\\ncounty, or were disused.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0594.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "I839I TUKXI IKF.S. CANALS, RAII.KOAnS. 57/\\nJohn Page, jr., was elected governor in 1839, and re-elected in\\n1840 and in 1841. He was a native of Haverhill, born in 1787,\\nand son of John Page, the first white man that wintered in the\\ntown. He served on the northern frontier in the 18 12 war, fre-\\nquently represented Haverhill in the legislature, was register of\\ndeeds of Grafton county in 1827, and again from 1829 to 1835,\\nwhen he was elected United States senator to serve the unex-\\npired term of Governor Isaac Hill. He was interested in\\nagriculture, and promoted Dr. Jackson s geological survey of\\nthe State. He died in 1865.1\\nIn March, 1839, Edmund Burke of Newport was elected to\\nCongress. Mr. Burke was born in Westminster, Vt., in January,\\n1809, studied Latin with Hon. Henry A. Bellows, afterwards\\nchief justice of New Hampshire, and read law.\\n-At the close of his Congressional labors, March 4, 1S45, Mr. Burke entered\\nupon the duties of the office of commissioner of patents, to which he was\\nappointed without solicitation on his part hy his friend Mr. Polk.\\nIn the summer of 1850 Mr. Burke returned to his home in Newport, and\\nresumed the active practice of his profession as a lawyer, which he steadily\\npursued with great success forever thirty years, attaining a position at the\\nbar second to that of no lawyer in the State.\\nHe was prominent in the Democratic councils in the State, and ever after\\nthe period of his Congressional service was regarded, throughout the country,\\nas one of the foremost representatives of the New Hampshire Democracy. In\\nthe conventions of his party, State and national, he took a conspicuous part.\\nHe presided at the Democratic State convention in Concord in the summer of\\n1S53, and again in the winter of 1S66-7. He was a delegate from New Hamp-\\nshire to the national Democratic convention in Baltimore, in 1S44, which\\nnominated James K. Polk for president, and to the convention holden in the\\nsame city in 1S52, in which Franklin Pierce received the presidential nomina-\\ntion. It may here properly be remarked that to the strong influence of Mr.\\nBurke, properly exercised through his extended acquaintance and iiigh stand-\\ning with leading men of the party from different sections in the convention,\\nmore than to the efforts of any other individual, the choice of the convention\\nwas ultimately bestowed upon the then favorite son of the Granite State.\\nMr. Burke died in 1883.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^The year 1840 was a notable year in the history of this\\ncountry. No political campaign ever exceeded this in inter-\\nest and excitement. The Democrats had nominated Martin\\n.^djutant-generars Report, iS6S, part 2, page 20. 2 j^_ h. Metcalf.\\nRev. J. I-. Seward.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0595.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "5/8 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 84O\\nVan Buren for a second term, and the Whigs had nominated\\nGeneral W. H. Harrison. The shouts for Tippecanoe and\\nTyler too, the long processions in which were the log cabins\\nand barrels of hard cider, and the excited political debates\\nand stump speeches, will never be forgotten by any one\\nwho participated in the eventful campaign. General James\\nWilson, of Keene, remarkably distinguished himself in this\\nexciting struggle, delivering stump speeches in all parts of the\\ncountry, and contributing largely to the success won by the\\nWhig party.\\nGeneral James Wilson was the son of Hon. James Wilson (born in Peter-\\nborough in August, 1766, graduated at Harvard College in 17S9, representa-\\ntive to Congress from 1S09 to iSii, an able lawyer and a firm Federalist,\\ndied in January, 1839; and Elizabeth (Steele) Wilson, and inherited not only\\nthe practice but the great talents of his honored father; he was born in\\nPeterborough, March 18, 1797. His early years were passed in his native\\ntown. His educational advantages were such as were obtainable in a country\\ntown at that time. He studied at Phillips Exeter ,\\\\cademy, graduated at Mid-\\ndlebury College in 1S20, read law with his father and took his practice.\\nIn the military service of his State, General Wilson was deservedly popular.\\nHe was appointed captain of the Keene light infantry, January i, 1821, and\\nrose through all the various ranks until he was made major-general of the\\nThird Division of the New Hampshire militia.\\nIn 1S25 he was chosen as one of the two representatives to the General\\nCourt from the town of Keene. In iS:;S he was elected speaker of the House.\\nIn the legislature at that time were Hon. Ezekiel Webster, Hon. U. M.\\nFarley, Hon. Joseph Bell, Hon. P. Noyes, and other noted men. From the\\nyear 1825 to the year 1S40 inclusive. General Wilson represented Keene in the\\nStale legislature, excepting the years 1833, 1S3S, and 1839. In the last two\\nof the years just named he was Whig candidate for governor, but was de-\\nfeated by his Democratic opponent.\\nHe had been famous as an orator and advocate before, but his\\nrhetorical triumphs, at this time, extended his reputation to all\\nparts of the land. His presence was unusually impressive.\\nHe was six feet four inches in height, straight, well-built, with\\nblack curling hair and bright blue eyes, as fine a set of white,\\nsound teeth as was ever seen, of a stern and determined, yet\\nfascinating and impressive countenance. He delighted to joke\\nabout his personal appearance, and would describe himself as a\\nrough-hewn block from the Granite State. His friends\\nspoke of him familiarly as Long Jim, Gen. Jim, etc.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0596.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "1S40] TURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS. 579\\nHe had all the qualifications of a first-class orator, lie was a logical think-\\ner, and arranged the subjects ol his thought methodically. He was well read\\nin history and the Bible, and was ready with a good illustration to enforce his\\npoints. He was a capital story teller, and knew just when and where to tell\\none. He could laugh or cry at will, and could produce either effect upon his\\nauditors at pleasure. Nor was this done wholly for effect. He was a sincere\\nman. He had fine feelings and instincts and was remarkably humane; and,\\nwhenever he spoke, he was tremendously in earnest. He was no hypocrite.\\nHis political principles were based on study, reflection, and sound arguments.\\nHe had a powerful voice, and could be distinctly heard for many yards in an\\nopen field. He had a marvellous command of language and an inexhaustible\\nfund of wit. He was a keen, shrewd observer and a good reader of human\\nnature; hence he knew how to adapt himself to his audience. Possessing all\\nof these manifold qualifications of a first-class orator, it is no wonder that he\\ngained a hearing in the famous canvass of 1S40. Men of every shade of poli-\\ntical opinion flocked to hear him. A curious anecdote of the time is preserved.\\nOne day he was making a stump speech in some place, and, in another part\\not the same field, some distance away, some one was addressing a Democratic\\nassemblage. Some stray auditors from the Democratic fold found their way\\nto the side of the field where Wilson was speaking. They returned with a\\nglowing account of his eloquence. One by one the Democrats went to the\\nother side of the field to hear the famous Whig orator, till finally not a list-\\nener was left for the Democratic speakers.\\nThe Whigs were victorious, but General Harrison enjoyed his victory\\nonly a single month.\\nThe visit of General Wilson to Keene, in 1861, after an ab-\\nsence of more than a decade, was a memorable one. Soon after\\nhis arrival, the shot was fired at Sumter, and the regiments be-\\ngan to be formed ready to march to the conflict.\\nOne memorable occasion will never be forgotten by those\\nwho witnessed it. It was on the 22nd of April, 1861.\\nA mass meeting was announced to be holden in the public\\nsquare on the morning of that day. General Wilson accepted\\nan invitation to address the meeting. The knowledge of this\\nfact was conveyed to the adjoining towns. An immense aud-\\nience assembled, filling the square. It was the general s first\\npublic appearance since his arrival. As the hour for the speak-\\ning drew near, a band proceeded to the general s residence\\nand escorted his carriage to the grand stand. When the door\\nwas opened, and the familiar form of the old hero was seen\\nmounting the rostrum, such a tumultuous applause was heard\\nas was never known in Keene before. Old friends from Keene", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0597.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "jSO IIISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 84O\\nand the adjoining towns were there in great numbers, repre-\\nsenting all occupations and professions. When he began to\\nspeak, all voices were hushed. It was the same grand old voice,\\nwith its familiar ring, the same telling and forcible gestures, the\\nsame oratorical power, with fun and anecdote alternating with\\nthe most solemn and pathetic passages, the same earnestness,\\nand the same persuasive and convincing eloquence which so\\nmany had heard in former days from the same lips.\\nIt was a scene never to be forgotten by those who were pres-\\nent and it did much good, the immediate effect being to add\\nmany names to the roll of enlistments. General Wilson died in\\nKeene in May, i8Si.\\nA charter was obtained from the legislature of New Hampshire in 1S36,\\nshortly after the incorporation of the Eastern Railroad in Massachusetts,\\nestablishing a company for the purpose of continuing the railroad from the\\nMassachusetts line to Portsmouth. A company was then formed, and a sur-\\nvey and location of the route were made by Mr. Barney, but the stock was not\\nwholly taken up, and no measures were taken for the prosecution of the work,\\nuntil 1839. additional Act was then obtained authorizing a new location,\\nwith a limitation as to its termination in Portsmouth, and the company was\\nreorganized and the subscription completed. The new company was com-\\nposed in part of individuals who were proprietors in the Massachusetts com-\\npany, and a majority of the directors chosen were also directors of the latter\\ncompanj Colonel Fessenden was appointed engineer, and under his direc-\\ntion new surveys of the route were made. He made a report to the directors\\non two lines, an eastern and western. The western line, although a little\\nlonger than the other, was recommended by him as entitled to the preference,\\nas having fewer curves, a less extent of bridges, and not crossing any naviga-\\nble streams. It also passes near a greater amount of population. This\\nroute was adopted by the directors, and the grading of the line was soon after\\ncontracted for. After leaving the Merrimack river at Newburyport bridge,\\nthe line passes west of the old Salisbury village; after reaching Hampton\\nFalls, leaves the village a third of a mile at the west, and the landing on the\\neast, passes a little west of Old Hampton village to Cedar Swamp in Green-\\nland, and after crossing the Greenland road above the plains proceeds to\\nPortsmouth. The termination was originally fi.xed near the Universalist\\nmeeting-house, but by authority of a new Act of the legislature passed in 1S40,\\nand with the consent of the inhabitants of Portsmouth by vote in town meet-\\ning, it is changed to a point in the northerly part of the town, where it may\\nbe extended, if it should hereafter be determined so to do, by a bridge over\\nPiscataqua river. The length of the line thus located in New Hampshire is\\nfifteen miles and two thousand five hundred and seventy feet, and from Mer-\\nRev. J. Seward. l. ontcnipnrarv Magazine Article.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0598.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "TURNPIKES, CANALS, RAILROADS.\\n581\\nrimack river nineteen miles one tliousand and eigiity feet. Of this distance,\\neigliteen and a third miles are straight, and the residue curved on a radius\\nnot less than a mile. About five miles of the distance are level, and the gra-\\ndients for the residue vary from fifteen to thirty-five feet per mile; the\\ngreatest elevation being about ninety feet above the marsh level. The whole\\nlength of the raih oad from East Boston to Portsmouth is thus fifty-three\\nmiles two thousand three hundred and ninety feet.\\nThe remaining portion of the Eastern Railroad in Massachusetts, interven-\\ning between Newburyport and the New Hampshire line, was put under con-\\ntract for grading, as was also the erection of the bridge over the Merrimack\\nriver at Newburyport, in the summer of 1S39, to be completed in the follow-\\ning summer. These two portions of this railroad were opened in 1840.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0599.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVIII\\nANTI-SLA VER Y AGITA TIOX, 1841-1860.\\nStephen S. Foster Harry Hubbard Pittsburg Indian Stream\\nWar ^JoHN H. Steele John P. Hale Anthony Colby Man-\\nchester Jared W. Williams Samuel Dinsmoor, Jr. Dr. Noah\\nMartin Franklin Pierce Kansas Countess Rumford Na-\\nthaniel B. Baker Ralph Metcalf Daniel Clark William\\nW. Haile Ichabod Goodwin Reminiscences.\\nTV/TR. STEPHEN S. FOSTER,^ the zealous abolitionist, faith-\\nful to the enslaved and to his own solemn convictions, con-\\nceived the idea of entering the meeting-houses on Sunday, and\\nat the hour of sermon respectfully rising and claiming the right\\nto be heard then and there on the duties and obligations of the\\nchurch to those who were in bonds at the South.\\nThis measure he first adopted in the Old North church, at Concord, in Sep-\\ntember, 1841. He was immediately seized by three young gentlemen, one\\na Southerner from Alabama, and the other two guards at the State Prison,\\nthrust along the broad aisle and violently pushed out of the house. A full\\naccount of the transaction was published in the Herald of Freedom on the\\nfollowing Friday. 17th of the same month. But Mr. Foster could not be\\ndeterred iVom his purpose. And the measure proved so effective as a means\\nof awakening the public attention to the importance of the anti-slavery enter-\\nprise, that others were led to adopt it. Of course it led to persecution,, and\\nsome were imprisoned for the offence, Mr. Foster as many as ten or twelve\\ntimes, in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Perhaps his most memorable\\nexperience at the hands of the civil law, at the time, was in Concord, in June,\\n1S42. On Sunday, the twelfth of that month, being in Concord, he went in\\nthe afternoon to the South church, and at the time of sermon lie rose in a\\npew at the side of the pulpit, and commenced speaking in his usual solemn\\nand deeply impressive manner. He evidently would have been heard, and\\nwith deep attention, too, for many in the house not only knew him well, but\\nI arker Pillsbury.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0600.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": "1841] ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION. 5S3\\nknew that this was a course not unusual with him, and one in the rightful-\\nness of which he conscientiously believed, and, besides, was sometimes able\\nto make most useful and effective. Even the Unitarian society, one Sunday,\\ngave him respectful hearing; the minister, Rev. Mr. Tilden, even inviting\\nhim to speak.\\nBut not just so the South church; there he was immediately seized and\\nrushed with great violence to the door, and then pitched headlong down the\\nrough stone steps to the street, injuring him so severely that he had to be\\nhelped to his lodgings, and a surgeon was called immediately to attend him.\\nFortunately no bones were broken nor dislocated, but bruises and sprains\\ncompelled his walking with a cane for several days. But that was not all.\\nOn Monday he was arrested by leading members of the church for disturb-\\ning public worship, and carried before a magistrate for trial. Perhaps no\\njustice s court in Concord ever excited profounder interest than did this. But\\nFoster came most triumphantly out of it. Even the small fine imposed as\\nmatter of form was paid, and nearly doubly paid, by the throng that crowded\\nthe room, tossing their quarter and half dollars on to the lable. The kind-\\nhearted magistrate, seeing that he would be sustained, remitted the fine and\\nthe costs, and Mr. Foster was discharged, amid the acclamations of the mul-\\ntitude that filled the court room, and then, with louder cheers, demanded that\\nall the money be taken from the table and handed over to Mr. Foster. And\\nit was done.\\nStephen S. Foster was a native of New Hampshire. Long\\nbefore slavery was abolished, or had appealed to the arbitrament\\nof war as a forlorn hope, he had seen and demonstrated that his\\nnative State had profounder interests in it than any of its wisest\\nsages, statesmen, clergymen, or churchmen had ever dreamed.\\nThough among the least of her sister States, the war of the\\nRebellion drew away from her noblest, bravest, strongest sons\\nmore than thirty thousand and over four thousand perished in\\nbattle, or by disease and exposure inseparable from war, so often\\nmore dreadful than death at the cannon s mouth All this, not\\nto speak of other thousands who escaped death, but pruned of\\nlimbs, plucked of eyes, and scarred and disabled for life by the\\niron hail-stones of the bloody field. All this, not counting the\\nsighs and tears, bereavements and losses of mothers, sisters,\\nwidows, and orphans. All this, not reckoning financial, moral,\\nnor spiritual impoverishment and desolation, not to be restored\\neven by the incoming generation\\nAnd so slavery became a New Hampshire institution after all\\nand Stephen Foster, being native to the State, and superemi-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0601.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "584 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [184I\\nnently an anti-slavery man, had intellectual and moral gifts and\\ngraces of which any State might be proud.\\nStephen Symonds Foster was born in Canterbury, in November, 1809.\\nHis father was Colonel Asa Foster, of Revolutionary memory, and of most\\namiable and excellent qualities and endowments. Mrs. Foster, too, was re-\\nmarkable for sweetness of disposition and fine culture for her time, joined to\\nelegance and beauty of person, lasting to great age; both herself and husband\\nalmost completing a century. The old homestead is in the north part o!\\nCanterbury, on a beautiful hillside, overlooking a long stretch of the Merri-\\nmack river valley, including Concord, and a wide view, east and west, as well\\nas south.\\nHis parents were most devout and exemplary members of the Congrega-\\ntional church, to which he also was joined in youthful years. At that time,\\nthe call for ministers and missionaries, especially to occupy the new opening\\nfield at the West, called then the great valley of the Mississippi, was loud\\nand earnest. At twenty-two he heard and heeded it, and immediately entered\\non a course of collegiate study to that end. and it is only just to say that a\\nmore consistent, conscientious, divinely consecrated spirit never set itself to\\nprepare for that then counted holiest of callings.\\nWith him Love your enemies was more than words, and Resist not\\nevil was not returning evil, nor inflicting penalties under human enact-\\nments.\\nIn Dartmouth College he was called to perform military service. On\\nChristian principles he declined, and was arrested and dragged away to jail.\\nSo bad were the roads that a part of the way the sheriff was compelled to ask\\nhim to leave the carriage and walk. He would cheerfully have walked all the\\nway, as once did George Fox, good naturedly telling the officer. Thee need\\nnot go thyself; send thy boy. I know the way. For Foster feared no prison\\ncells. He had earnest work in hand, which led through many of them in\\nsubsequent years.\\nEternal Goodness might have had objects in view in sending him to Haver-\\nhill, for he found the jail in a condition to demand the hand of a Hercules,\\nas in the Augean stables, for its cleansing. His companions there were\\npoor debtors, as well as thieves, murderers, and lesser felons. One man so\\ngained his confidence as to whisper in his ear that on his hands was the blood\\nof murder, though none knew it but himself. Another poor wretch h.id\\nbeen so long confined by illness to his miserable bed. that it literally swarmed\\nwith vermin.\\nFoster wrote and sent to the world such a letter as few but he could write,\\nand wakened general horror and indignation wherever it was read; and a\\ncleansing operation was forthwith instituted. And the filth on the floor was\\nfound so deep., and so hard trodden, that strong men had to come with pick-\\naxes and dig it up. And that jail was not only revolutionized, but the whole\\nprison system of the State, from that time, began to be reformed and im-\\nprisonment for debt was soon heard of here no more.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0602.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "I84-J ANTI-SI, AVEKV ACITAI ION. 585\\nHis college studies closed, ho entered for a theological course tlu- Union\\nSeminary in New York.\\nIn 1839 Mr. Foster abandoned all hope of the Congregational ministry, and\\nentered the anti-slavery service, side by side with Garrison of the Boston\\n[liberator., and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers of the New Hampshire Ileru/d oj\\nFreedom. And from that time onward till slavery was abolished, and indeed\\nto the day of his death, the cause of freedom and humanity, justice and truth,\\nhad no more faithful, few if any more able champions.\\nMr. Foster, having adopted and proved the great utility of his new method,\\nPersisted in it until it was demonstrated that no other had ever subserved so\\ngood a purpose in arousing the whole nation to its duty and danger. Noth-\\ning like or unlike it, before or afterward, so stirred the whole people, until\\nJohn Brown, with his twenty heroes, marched on Harper s Ferry and chal-\\nlenged the supporters of slavery to mortal combat.\\nTo-day neither John Brown nor Stephen Symonds Foster need apology\\nor defence. Though their mortal bodies lie mouldering in the dust, their\\nspirits inarch on in glory and victory for evermore.\\nProbably he encountered more mob opposition and violence than any other\\nagent ever in the anti-slavery lecturing field, and almost always he would in\\nsome way obtain control of his opponents. He died in September. 18S1, at\\nthe age of seventy-two.\\nThe election in 1S42 resulted in the choice of Henry Hubbard\\nfor governor. He was son of Hon. John Hubbard, born in\\nMay, 1784, in Charlestown graduated at Dartmouth College\\nin 1803; read law with Hon. Jeremiah Mason; and settled in\\nCharlestown. In 18 10 he was chosen moderator, which office\\nhe held, in all, sixteen times. He was first selectman in the\\nyears 18 19, 1820, and 1828, in which last year he was also\\nmoderator and town clerk. He represented the town in the\\nlegislature eleven times in all between 1812 and 1827. In\\nJune, 1825, he was chosen speaker of the House of Repre-\\nsentatives, in place of Hon. Levi Woodbury, who had been\\nelected to a seat in the United States Senate. He was also\\nchosen to the same office in the years 1826 and 1827. In 1823\\nhe was appointed solicitor for Cheshire county, in which capacity,\\nexhibiting rare qualities as an advocate, he served the term of\\nfive years. On the incorporation of Sullivan county he was\\nappointed judge of Probate, the duties of which office he con-\\ntinued to discharge until 1S29, when he was chosen a represen-\\ntative to Congress. In Congress, to employ the language of\\nChief Justice Gilchrist, He at once distinguished himself by", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0603.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "586 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIKK. ^43\\nthe possession of those qualities which characterized him through\\nHt e. Always willing to labor never disposed to throw upon\\nothers what belonged to himself; indefatigable in the transaction\\nof all business intrusted to him an ardent political friend, but a\\ncourteous antagonist he had the entire confidence of General\\nJackson and the kindly regard of his opponents. He was an\\nactive member of the Committee of Claims, upon whose deci-\\nsion such important interests depended, and signalized himself\\nby his untiring support of the Pension Act of 1832, which gave\\ntheir long-delayed recompense to the soldiers of the Revolution.\\nIn 1834 he was elected to the Senate, where, for the period of\\nsix years, he had the implicit confidence of the administration,\\nand the Democratic party. In 1842 and 1843 he was\\nelected governor of New Hampshire. With this ofifice his polit-\\nical career closed, although at every successive election no one\\nin the State rendered more efificient service to the Democratic\\ncause.\\nIt may be added to the above, that soon after leaving the\\ngubernatorial chair he was appointed sub-treasurer at Boston,\\nto which city he for a time removed.\\nPolitically, the life of Governor Hubbard must be divided into\\ntwo eras the first, in which he earnestly supported the Federal-\\nistic or Whig party the second, in which he earnestly sustained\\nthe Democracy. He died on June 5, 1857. Most of his life was\\npassed in Charlestown, and he died in the house in which he\\nwas born.\\n^The town of Pittsburg, which, prior to its incorporation in\\n1843, was known as the Indian Stream territory, forms the ex-\\ntreme northern portion of the State, lying north of the forty-fifth\\nparallel of north latitude, and is a portion of the tract claimed\\nrespectively by the governments of Great Britain and the United\\nStates the question of jurisdiction being settled by the Webster\\nand Ashburton treaty in 1842.\\nAbout the year 1790, some twelve or fifteen hardy pioneers\\nfrom Grafton county, attracted by the marvellous stories told\\nby two explorers who had followed the course of the river through\\nHistory of Charlestown. David Blanchard.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0604.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": "1843] ANTI-SLAVERV AGITATION. 587\\nto Canada, of the wonderful fertility of the soil in the valley of\\nthe upper Connecticut, made their way through the forests, and\\ncommenced a settlement on the river and in the valley of the\\nIndian Stream. They were mostly driven away by hostile bands\\nof Indians during the war of 1812.\\nSome of these returned after the close of the war, bringing\\nothers with them and in 1820 there were probably about forty\\nfamilies settled along the north bank of the river, the settlement\\nextending about eight miles north and east from the mouth of\\nIndian Stream.\\nIn 1820-22 surveys were made along the Connecticut, and\\nsome ten thousand acres of land marked out in lots of one and\\ntwo hundred acres each, by Moses Davis and Jonathan Eastman,\\nfor an association of proprietors who claimed to derive their\\ntitle to these lands by deed from one Philip, a chief of the St.\\nFrancis tribe of Indians.\\nThese lands were offered to settlers by the proprietors, in\\nalternate lots, on condition of making stipulated improvements\\nthereon within a given period, and working on roads, or in other\\nwords doing settlers duty, as it was termed.\\nIn 1824, at the June session of the New Hampshire legisla-\\nture, the attention of the State government was called to the\\nencroachments of these settlers on lands north of the parallel\\nof forty-five degrees north latitude, which it claimed as part of\\nits public domain and a committee was accordingl} appointed\\nto proceed to the territory, make the necessary investigations,\\nand report the fact at the November session. The committee\\nreported some fifty-eight settlers on the lands.\\nThe State repudiated the Indian or proprietary title, but in view\\nof the hardships endured by these pioneers, and their having\\nentered upon their lands in good faith, quieted them in their\\ntitle to the lands in their possession, to the amount of two hun-\\ndred acres each, excepting Jeremiah Tabor, who was quieted in\\nthe amount of five hundred acres, and Nathaniel Perkins in the\\namount of seven hundred acres.\\nAmong the early settlers. 1816-1824, in the town were Nath-\\naniel Perkins, from New Hampton, John Haynes, from I sbon,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0605.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "58S IIISTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 1 ^^43\\nRichard I. Blanchard, from Haverhill, Ebenezer Fletcher, from\\nCharlcstown (No. 4), father of Hiram Adams Fletcher, for a\\nlong period a prominent member of the Coos bar, and who died\\nat Lancaster in 1880, Kimball B. Fletcher, a prominent citizen\\nof Lancaster (Mr. Fletcher brought considerable money with\\nhim from Charlestown erected a large saw and grist mill in\\ntS26 a large barn, and cleared up an extensive farm, and finally\\nmoved to Colebrook, where he died about i860). General\\nMoody Bedel, and General John Bedel of the Mexican war and\\nthe Rebellion, were among the early settlers, removing from\\nHaverhill in 1816. General Bedel rendered very efficient service\\nin the war of 1812, commaniling a regiment at Ticonderoga and\\nat Lundy s Lane.\\nBut little attention was paid by the State to this section for\\nsome twelve years subsequent to this period the citizens in\\nthe mean time having for their mutual protection formed a gov-\\nernment of their own, very democratic in form, having a written\\nconstitution and code of laws the supreme power vested in a\\ncouncil of five, annually chosen a judiciary system for the col-\\nlection of debts and the prevention and punishment of crime\\na military company duly organized and equipped probably more\\nas a police force than for offensive or defensive purposes.\\nThis government continued till 1836, when the governments of\\nLower Canada and of New Hampshire each endeavored to ex-\\nercise jurisdiction over the territory, resulting in the arrest and\\ncarrying off across the border, by an armed force of twelve men\\nfrom Canada, Richard L Blanchard, a deputy sheriff, for the\\ndischarge of his duty as such under the laws of New Hampshire,\\nand his rescue, on Canadian soil, on the same day by a party of\\nmounted men, some sixty in number, from the adjoining towns\\nin Vermont and New Hampshire. Two of the Canadian party\\nwere severely wounded in the melee one by a pistol shot in\\nthe groin, the other by a sabre cut in the head.\\nThis was immediately followed by what is known as the Indian\\nStream war. The 5th company infantry, 24th regiment New\\nHampshire militia, under the old military organization, under\\ncommand of Captain James Mooney, was called out by Adjutant", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0606.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "1843] ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION. 589\\nGeneral Low and stationed at Fletcher s Mills, to protect the\\ninhabitants against the encroachments of the Canadian author-\\nities. The whole difficulty was happily terminated by the treaty\\nbefore referred to.\\nFrom its incorporation in 1843, to i860, the increase in pop-\\nulation was only about fifty. At the commencement of the\\nRebellion the town contained four hundred and fifty inhabi-\\ntants, yet this small number furnished seventy men to aid\\nour country in the hour of its peril, being largely represented\\nin the 2nd and 13th New Hampshire regiments. Amos and\\nSimon Merrill were the first to enlist at the first call for three\\nmonths, and re-enlisted, before the expiration of their term, for\\nthree years, or during the war. The former was shot dead on\\nthe field at the first battle of Bull Run. The last mentioned,\\nafter having been engaged in thirteen regular battles, lost a leg\\nat Gettysburg, and was lately doing good manual labor in clear-\\ning up a new farm in the town. A fearful fatality seemed\\nto decimate the ranks of the Pittsburg soldiers, -shown by\\ndesolate homes and the mutilated and scarred veterans who\\nreturned.\\nFrom the close of the war of the Rebellion, Pittsburg\\nhas slowly but steadily gained in population and material\\nprosperity.\\nAt a special convention of the Protestant Episcopal churches\\nof New Hampshire, held October 4, 1843, after the death of\\nBishop Griswold of the Eastern Diocese, a motion to elect a\\nseparate bishop barely prevailed, and Rev. Carlton Chase, of\\nBellows Falls, Vermont, was chosen.\\nA church and parsonage had been built at Strawberry Bank, in 163S, and\\nfifty acres of land had been given as endowment soon afterwards. Rev.\\nRicliard Gibson was called as rector, but was banished from the colony in\\n1642, by Massachusetts authority. Ninety years afterward, in 1732, a parish\\nwas organized at Portsmouth, and (^leen s Chapel begun. Rev. Arthur\\nBrowne was rector. Of six hundred families in Portsmouth in 1741, less than\\nsixty conformed to the Episcopal Church, but all the Churchmen in New\\nHampshire were his parishioners, and he administered the charge with faith-\\nful diligence from 1736 till his death in 1773. He was helped in the itineracy\\nby his son Marmaduke, from 1755 to 1762, and by Rev. Moses Badger trom\\n1767 to 1774. In 176S there were eleven hundred and thirty-two souls under\\nhis care.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0607.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "59\u00c2\u00b0 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [^^43\\nA second parish was organized in 1773, at Claremont, by Churchmen from\\nConnecticut. The building tlien erected still stands in the western part ot\\nthe town. Rev. Ranna Cossit was rector from 1773 to 1785.\\nThe third parish was formed at Holderness.\\nDuring the Revolution the Church of England in New Hampshire was-\\nabolished. The war over, the need of organization began to be much felt.\\nValuable property was at stake, over forty thousand acres of land having been\\nreserved for the endowment of future parishes by Governor Benning Went-\\nworth. Unfortunately the larger part of the land endowment was ultimately\\nlost, a small amount only having been saved to help the diocesan work.\\nIn 1789 New Hampshire was represented at a meeting of six clergymen in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Salem, Massachusetts, when Dr. Bass was elected bishop of the two States.\\nRev. John C. Ogden was rector at Portsmouth from 17S6 to 1793. Rev. Robert\\nFowle was rector at Holderness from 1789 .o 1847. A fourth parish was or-\\nganized at Cornish, in 1793, through the efforts of a Daitmouth student.\\nPhilander Chase, the future missionary bishop.\\nThe diocesan history begins with the meeting at Concord, in August, 1S02,\\nof the first convention, at which were present the rectors of Portsmouth,\\nClaremont, and Holderness, and two lay delegates each from Portsmouth,\\nHolderness, and Cornish. Rev. Joseph Willard, of Portsmouth, presided:\\nRev. Daniel Barber, of Claremont, a remarkable man, able, ambitious, un-\\nwise, would not consent to the proposed union, but advocated a union with\\nthe Vermont churches. Mr. Barber was in harmony witli the diocese in 1809.\\nHopkinton became a parish in 1803; Plainfield in 1S04. To these were\\nsoon joined Drewsville (Walpole), Charlestown, Concord, Dover, and Man-\\nchester. In 1810 there were 151 communicants; in 1820, 198; in 1840, 394.\\nFrom 1812, for thirty years, the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire en-\\njoyed the superintendence of Bishop Griswold.\\nBishop Chase was consecrated in October, 1844, and served\\nthe diocese faithfully and wisely until his death in January,\\n1870. He left twenty-three parishes where he had found\\ntwelve twenty-one clergymen instead of eleven 1350 commu-\\nnicants instead of 500.\\nIn May, 1870, the convention elected, as successor to Bishop\\nChase, Rev. William W. Niles, D. i)., professor of Latin in\\nTrinity College, Hartford and he was consecrated at Concord\\nthe following September. There were, in 1887, twenty-two\\nparishes, thirteen missions, thirty-seven clergymen, and 2635\\ncommunicants.\\nAmong the prominent clergymen of the Protestant Epis-\\nRight Reverend William W. Niles, D. D., son of Daniel L. and Delia (Woodruff) Niles, was\\nbom in Hatley, Province of Quebec, May 24, 1832; graduated at Trinity College in 1851 and\\nreceived the degree of Doctor of Divinity both from Trinity College and from Dartmouth College.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0608.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "1844] AXTISLAVERY AGITATION. 59I\\ncopal church of New Hampshire have been Rev. Dr. Isaac G.\\nHubbard, of Clareinont, Rev. Dr. James H. Eames, of Concord,\\nRev. Dr. M. A. Herrick, of Tilton, famed for his scholarship,\\nand Rev. Dr. Burroughs, of Portsmouth.\\nJohn H. Steele was elected governor in 1844.\\nGovernor Steele was born in Salisbury, North Carolina, in\\nJanuary, 1789, and was of Scotch-Irish stock. He settled in Pet-\\nerborough in 181 1, without funds and without friends, and went\\nto work at his trade of making chairs and gigs. He had me-\\nchanical skill and genius. He was soon a manufacturer himself,\\ninstead of laboring for others; and he put in operation the first\\npower-loom in the State and built and superintended a large\\ncotton mill in West Peterborough. He represented Peter-\\nborough in 1S29; was councillor in 1840 and 1841. He was re-\\nelected governor in 1845. After retiring from office he led a\\nquiet life on his farm and in the village, and had great influence\\nin the town, exercised for its best interests and welfare. Hi\\ndied in July, 1865.\\nIn 1845 happened the memorable contest between John P. Hah\\nand Franklin Pierce. Mr. Hale, a native of Rochester, a grad\\nuate of Bowdoin College, 1827, had entered the political field in\\n1832, when he was sent to the legislature and became one of the\\nmost able and eloquent supporters of the Democratic party,\\nreceiving the election to Congress in 1843. There he soon be-\\ncame prominent from his anti-slavery sentiments, and took a\\nleading part in the presidential campaign of 1844. He differed\\nfrom the accepted sentiments of his party, which had for sixteen\\nyears had an unbroken sway and remorselessly cut down every\\nman who dared to oppose its declared will. The legislature in\\nsession the previous year had instructed the New Hampshire\\ndelegation to favor the admission of Texas as a slave State.\\nMr. Hale met these resolutions with defiance. He stood by his\\nrecord he had made against any further strengthening of the\\nslave power.\\nFew men have sliown such g,-ealness of soul and loyalty to convictions\\nunder such temptations. While most men would have vielded, Mr. Hale did\\nJ, H Lla,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0609.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "592 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1845\\nnot falter; but at once wrote his celebrated letter to the people of New Hamp-\\nshire, against the action of the legislature in its resolutions, in which, after\\nsetting forth the aims and purposes of annexation, and the reasons given bv\\nthe advocates and supporters of the measure, he declared them to be emi-\\nnently calculated to provoke the scorn of earth and the judgment of Heaven.\\nHe said he would never consent by any agency of his to place the country in\\nthe attitude of annexing a foreign nation for the avowed purpose of sustain-\\ning and perpetuating human slavery; and if they were favorable to such a\\nmeasure, they must choose another representative to carry out their wishes.\\nThe Democratic State Committee immediately issued a call for the re-as-\\nsembling of the Democratic Convention at Concord, on the 12th of February,\\n1845, and every Democratic paper which could be prevailed upon to do so\\nopened its battery of denunciation, calling upon tlie convention to rebuke\\nand silence Mr. Hale. To show what efforts were made to crush him it need\\nonly be said that such leaders of the party as Franklin Pierce, who had been\\nhis warm friend ever since they were fellow students in college, went forth\\nover the State to organize the opposition. At Dover he called in the leaders\\nof the party, and the editor of the Dover Gazette, who had taken such strong\\nground against annexation, and under their influence the Inizettc changed\\nsides and went over to Mr. Hale s enemies.\\nHe then went to Portsmouth and brought over the leaders there, with ihi\\nexception of John L. Hayes, then clerk of the United States Court. The same\\nresult followed at Exeter, with the exception of Hon. Amos Tuck. In th s\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0way the convention was prepared to throw overboard Mr. Hale and put\\nanother name on the ticket in place of his. Expecting no other fate when he\\nwrote his letter, Mr. Hale remained at his post in Congress, and only assisted\\nhis friends from that point, making arrangements at the same time to enter\\nupon the practice of law in New York city upon the close of his term. But\\nresolute friends who believed with him rose up in all parts of the State to\\ndefeat the election of John Woodbury, who had been nominated in the place\\nof Mr. Hale. Prominent among these, in addition to those named above,\\nwere Nathaniel D. Wetmore of Rochester, John Dow of Epping, George G.\\nFogg, then of Gilmanton, James M. Gates of Claremont, James Peverly of\\nConcord, John Brown of Ossipee, George W. Stevens of Meredith, John A.\\nRollins of Moultonborough, James W. James of Deerfield, N. P. Cram of\\nHampton Falls, and Samuel B. Parsons of Colebrook, with others of like\\nstamp, who organized the first successful revolt against the demands of the\\nslave power, which, until then, had been invincible. Through their efll orts\\nWoodbury, the nominee of the convention, failed to secure the majority over\\nall others needed to elect him, and another election was called to fill the va-\\ncancy. Great excitement pervaded the State during the canvass, into which\\nMr. Hale entered with spirit, giving full play to all those characteristics\\nwhich made him the foremost orator of the State before the people, as he had\\nbeen before juries.\\nThe canvass opened in Concord in June, on the week for the assembling of\\nthe legislature, in the Old North church. To break the force and effect of", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0610.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "1 8451 ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION. 593\\nMr. Hale s speech there, the Democratic leaders determined that it should be\\nanswered upon the spot, and selected Franklin Pierce for the work. On his\\nway up to the church, Mr. llale saw no people in the streets, and he began\\nto fear there might be a failure in the expected numbers in attendance, as\\nthere had been oi.ce before in the same place in 1S40, when he and other\\nleaders of the partv were to address a mass meeting; but when he reached\\nthe old church, he saw why the streets were vacant the people had all gone\\nearly to be sure of getting in, and the house was full to overflowing. Aware\\nthat he was addressing not only the citizens of Concord and adjoining towns,\\nand members of the legislature, but the religious, benevolent, and other or-\\nganizations which always met in Concord on election week, he spoke with\\nmore than his usual calmness and dignity. He created a profound impres-\\nsion, and made all feel, whether agreeing with him or not, that he had acted\\nfrom a high sense of public duty and conviction.\\nMr. Pierce, who had few equals as a speaker, saw the marked effect of Mr.\\nHale s address, and spoke under great excitement. He was bitter and sarcas-\\ntic in tone and matter, and domineering and arrogant in his manner, if not\\npersonally insulting. The convention was wrought up to the highest pitch\\nof excitement when Mr. Hale rose to reply. He spoke briefly, but effectively,\\nand closed by saying\\nI expected to be called ambitious, to have my name cast out as evil, to be\\ntraduced and misrepresented. I have not been disappointed but if things\\nhave come to this condition, that conscience and a sacred regard for truth\\nand duty are to be publicly held up to ridicule, and scouted without rebuke,\\nas has just been done here, it matters little whether we are annexed to Texas,\\nor Texas is annexed to us. I may be permitted to say that the measure of\\nmy ambition will be full, if when my earthly career shall be finished and my\\nbones be laid beneath the soil of New Hampshire, when my wife and chil-\\ndren shall repair to my grave to drop the tear o\u00c2\u00a3 affection to my memory, they\\nmay read on my tombstone, He who lies beneath surrendered office, place,\\nand power, rather than bow down and worship slavery.\\nThe scene which followed can be imagined, but not described, as round\\nafter round of applause greeted this close. At the end of the canvass, in\\nSeptember, with three candidates in the field, there was again no election.\\nA second effort in November ended with a like result. No other attempt was\\nmade until the annual March election of 1S46, when full tickets were placed\\nin the field by the Democrats, Whigs, Free-Soilers, and Independent Demo-\\ncrats. The issue of no more slave territory was distinctly made and a\\ncanvass such as the State had never known before, in which Mr. Hale took\\nthe leading part, resulted in a triumphant vindication of his course, and the\\ncomplete overthrow of the Democratic party, which was beaten at all points.\\nMr. Hale was elected to the House, from Dover, on the Independent ticket,\\nand on the opening of the session was made speaker of the House of Repre-\\nsentatives, and during the session was elected United States Senator for the\\nfull term of six years.\\nDuring this session of the legislature an incident took place which ex-\\nhibited the independent spirit of the man. Dr. Low, a member from Dover,", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0611.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": "594 msTOKV ov new Hampshire. [1846\\nintroduced resolutions upon the tariff, slavery, and annexation, taking the\\nultra-Whig view of the tariff question, and intended to bring Mr. Hale and\\nhis friends to their support as the condition upon which he could have the\\nvote of a considerable portion of the Whig party. But instead of yielding his\\nconvictions for the consideration of their support, he and his friends declared\\nthey would submit to no shackles; they had fought successfully against the\\ntyranny of one political organization, and no allurements of a senatorship\\nshould stifle their convictions and bind their judgment to the dictations of\\nanother. Much excitement followed, but the counsels of the liberal Whigs\\nprevailed. The resolutions were not called up until after the senatorial elec-\\ntion, when Mr. Hale left the speaker s chair and offered amendments which\\nwere adopted after a strong speech by him in their favor. He was supported\\nby his old friend and instructor, Daniel M. Christie of Dover, also a member\\nof the House, who had done much to quiet the opposition and induce it to\\nvote for Mr. Hale.\\nMr. Hale was nominated as the Free-Soil candidate for the\\npresidency in 1847, but declined it and again the honor was\\ntendered to him in 1852, when he received 155,850 votes. In\\n1855 he was again elected to the Senate to fill vacancy caused by\\ndeath of Charles G. Atherton, and was re-elected in 1858 for a\\nfull term. After his retirement from the Senate he was minister\\nto Spain for four years. He died in 1873.\\nAnthony Colby was elected governor in 1846.\\nAnthony Colby is known in his native State as a typical\\nNew Hampshire man. Born and bred among the granite\\nhills, he seemed assimilated to them, and to illustrate in his\\nnoble, cheerful life the effects of their companionship. His\\ngreat heart, sparkling wit, fine physical vigor, and merry laugh\\nmade his presence a joy at all times, and welcome everywhere.\\nHis ancestry on his father s side was of English, and on his\\nmother s of Scotch-Irish, origin.\\nDuring the last century his father, Joseph Colby, bought a\\nportion of land under the Masonian grant from Mr. Minot,\\nand settled in New London, where Anthony Colby was born in\\n1795. Then the restriction of ownership in the State was that\\nall the white-pine trees be reserved for masting the ships of\\nHis Majesty s royal navy. Each town was required to set\\napart a portion of land for a meeting-house, and the support of\\nthe gospel ministry for a school-house and the support of a\\nschool, as well as a military parade ground.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0612.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "^^?^^^^^i-\\nHOIT. JOHFPEALE", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0615.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0616.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "1840] ANTI-SLAVEKV AGITATION. 595\\nIn politics, Mr. Colby was always conservative. He was first\\nelected a member of the New Hampshire legislature in 1828,\\nand afterwards held nearly every higher office of trust in the\\nState. Daniel Webster was his personal friend. Their fathers,\\nwho lived in the same county, only about twenty miles apart,\\nwere many years associated in the legislature of which they\\nwere members, from Salisbury and New London. The friend-\\nship between himself, Judge Nesmith, of Franklin, and General\\nJames Wilson, of Keene, was more than simple friendship,\\nthey were delightful companions of essentially different cha-\\nracteristics, the combination was perfect. Daniel Webster was\\ntheir political chief, and his tacation sometimes found these\\nmen together at the Franklin farm-house, and at the chowder\\nparties up at the pond. The Pheni.x Hotel, under the charge\\nof Colonel Abel and Major Ephraim Hutchins, was the central\\nrendezvous, where a great deal of projected statesmanship, a\\ngreat deal of story telling and fruitless caucusing were indulged\\nin, down to the revolution of 1846, when the Democrats lost\\ntheir supremacy by the admission of Texas as a slave State,\\nwhen John P. Hale went into the Senate. When Mr. Colby\\nwas elected governor, Mr. Webster wrote him earnest congratu-\\nlations.\\nNo Whig had held the office of governor, until the election\\nof Anthony Colby, since the election of Governor Bell, an\\ninterim of seventeen years. Governor Colby being rallied upon\\nhis one-term office, said he considered his administration the\\nmost remarkable the State ever had. Why so. was asked\\nwhen with assumed gravity he answered Because have\\nsatisfied the people in o ie j/ear, and no other governor ever did\\nthat.\\nThe city of Manchester was incorporated in 1846. The rise,\\ngrowth and prosperity of this, the largest city in the State, has\\nbeen almost wholly dependent upon its great manufacturing\\ninterests. There are now in the city five large corporations,\\nwith an aggregate capital of many million dollars, besides many\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2other manufacturing establishments of less importance.\\nIn 1830 an examination of the territory bordering on the east", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0617.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "596 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1846\\nbank of the river, a short distance below the falls, developed the\\nfact that there were splendid sites for mills at that point.\\nA large number of Boston capitalists united and resolved to\\nlay the foundations of a great manufacturing town. Accord-\\ningly, in the year 183 1, the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company\\nwas incorporated. The Company secured a title to all the water\\npower upon the Merrimack at Manchester, Hooksett, and at\\nGarvin s Falls, below Concord. Upwards of fifteen hundred\\nacres of land on the east side of the river at Manchester were\\npurchased.\\nThose lands extended from the falls south for a distance of\\nabout a mile and a half, and a mile in an easterly direction. A\\nnew town was laid out, the streets crossing each other at right\\nangles. A new stone dam and two canals with guard locks were\\nalso constructed.\\nIt was the plan of the company to furnish other companies\\nwith sites and power for mills, and to erect such mills to be op-\\nerated on their own account, and at the same time to sell their\\nlands for stores, dwelling-houses, etc. The first mill in the new\\ntown was erected by the Amoskeag Company for the Stark Cor-\\nporation in 1838. The Amoskeag Company also built a machine\\nshop and foundry the same year, and in 1839 the company\\nbuilt two mills on their own account. In 1843 the company\\nerected another mill. These were followed by others at various\\ntimes, until now the company is said to be the largest in the\\nworld.\\nThe Stark Mills Company was incorporated in 1838.\\nThe Manchester Mills enterprise was originally incorporated\\nin 1839 by the name of the Merrimack Mills. In 1849 its name\\nwas changed to the Manchester Print Works. During the war,\\nand a few years succeeding, this company was very successful,\\nand very high dividends were paid. But in a year or two later\\nmisfortunes overtook the company, until finally the whole prop-\\nerty was sold to pay the debts, and a new company which was\\nincorporated purchased the property and commenced great im-\\nprovements.\\nThe Langdon Mills Company was incorporated in 1857 and", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0618.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0619.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0620.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "1846] ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION. 59/\\ncommenced operation in iS6o. The success of the company\\nfor several years during and succeeding the war was very re-\\nmarkable. About the year 1865 an annual dividend of fifty\\nper cent, upon the capital stock was paid.\\nAmong the other manufacturing interests at Manchester are\\nthe Manchester Locomotive Works, managed by Hon. Aretas\\nBlood, in which as many as seven hundred hands have been\\nemployed, and Hon. A. P. Olzendam s Hosiery Mill, which\\nemploys three hundred hands.\\nAbraham P.Olzendam was born in Barmen, Prussia, October lo, iSii. His\\nfather was a chemist. At the age of eighteen he was initiated into the mys-\\nteries of his father s business; proved an apt scholar; and soon became an\\nexpert in the application of scientific principles to the mixing of colors and\\nthe dyeing of fabrics. His active mind found congenial study in political econ-\\nomy. The demands of his countrymen for liberty were seconded by him, and\\nwith the enthusiasm of youth he entered heartily into the plans of his fellow\\npatriots for the amelioration of liis country. Hopeless of accomplishing the\\nherculean task of freeing his people, despairing of gaining at home that place\\namong his fellows which his inborn ability warranted him in demanding, he\\nquietly bade farewell to his fatherland, and embarked for America at the age\\nof twenty-seven. The good ship, General Washington, brought him over,\\nand he landed in New York. June 13, 1S48, hastening at once to the consti-\\ntuted authorities to signify his intention of becoming a citizen of the United\\nStates.\\nHis skill as a dyer readily gave him employment in the neighborhood of\\nBoston. Within a few months he launched his own commercial bark, enter-\\ning into business on his own account. Various fortunes attended his efforts\\nfor the next ten years. In 1S5S he became a citizen of Manchester, at first\\naccepting employment in the Manchester Mills, afterward in the Amoskeag\\nMills, until 1S63, when he commenced the manufacture of hosiery by the\\nuse of machinery. From a small beginning he has built up a very extensive\\nbusiness, employing more than three hundred operatives at the mill, and\\naffording pin money for a thousand women for miles around, using nearly a\\nthousand tons of wool every year, and preparing for the market about one\\nhundred thousand pairs of stockings each month.\\nIn iSSS he purchased the Namaska Mill, in which he carries on his exten-\\n\u00c2\u00bbive manufacturing operations.\\nSuch mechanical skill and business capacity as his was sure to win for him\\na foremost place in commercial pursuits. Mr. Olzendam cast his first vote\\nfor Franklin Pierce. Since then he has been a Republican, joining the party\\nat its very outset, and ever being a quiet worker for its interests. In 1S73 and\\n1874 he was elected to represent Manchester in the legislature. In 18S5 he\\nwas a member of the State Senate, but has never sought political preferment.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0623.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "59S HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1847\\nFor many years he has been identified with the First Unitarian Church of\\nManchester, having served several terms as director, and frequently acting on\\nimportant committees when executive action was demanded. In 186; Mr.\\nOlzendam became an Odd Fellow, and a few years later was initiated into the\\nmysteries of Masonry, and now gracefully wears the title of Sir Knight.\\nSince its organization, in 1S74, he has been a trustee of the People s Savings\\nBank.\\nOctober i, 1851, he was married to Theresa Lohrer, of Dresden, Saxony.\\nThey were the parents of eight children, of whom Clementine Olzendam,\\nAlexander H. Olzendam, Gustavus Olzendam, Sidonia Olzendam, and Louis\\nOlzendam survive and reside at home. After the death of the mother of these\\nchildren Mr. Olzendam was joined in marriage to Mrs. Susie J. Carling.\\nThe family occupy a spacious residence in the northeast part of Manchester,\\nsurrounded by grounds carefully cultivated.\\nMr. Olzendam has risen to a very honorable position in Manchester, pri-\\nmarily by closely attending to his business as a manufacturer, and since then,\\nin addition, by showing himself an excellent citizen, liberal, high-minded,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0disposed to do what he can to aid every benevolent object and to further the\\ngrowth and prosperity of the city. Manchester is better for his coming and\\nhis staying. A genial gentleman, he enjoys the acquaintance and confidence\\nof a large number of warm personal friends. Many men, as fortune favors\\nthem, withdraw more and more from societ} and give out less and less\\ntowards it, but society feels his prosperity and enjoys with him his success.\\nSuch is the welcome which New Hampshire extends to men of foreign\\nbirth who settle in the State.\\nIn 1847 J. W. Williams was elected governor.\\nHon. Jared Warner Williams was born in West Woodstock,\\nConn., in 1796. He was graduated at Brown University in\\n1818 read law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School and came\\nto Lancaster in 1822, where he commenced the practice of his\\nprofession, and was a resident until his death.\\nMr. Williams was elected representative of Lancaster in\\n1830-31 was register of Probate from 1832 to 1837; in 1833\\nhe was chosen to the State Senate; in 1834 and 1835 he was\\npresident of that body in 1837 he entered Congress from the\\nSixth District, and served four years. He was governor of\\nthe State in 1847-48 in 1852 was made judge of Probate in\\n1853 he filled the vacancy in the United States Senate occasioned\\nby the death of Hon. C. G. Atherton in 1S64 he was a delegate\\nto the Chicago convention. In addition to these political distinc-\\ntions, Governor Williams received the degree of A. M. from\\nClark s History of Manchester.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0624.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "1849] ANTI-SLAVERV AGITATION. 599\\nDartmouth College in 1825 and that of LL. D. from Brown Uni-\\nversity in 1852. He died in September, 1864, aged sixty-eight\\nyears. He was a gentleman of the highest type of character,\\nwinning social qualities, and rare abilities. His various honors\\nsat easy upon him, and vanity did not manifest itself.\\nThe Mexican war commenced in the spring of 1846. General\\nZachary Taylor soon after led an expedition into Mexico and\\nwon the battles of Palo Alto, Monterey, and Buena Vista.\\nAmong his officers were Lieutenant Joseph H. Potter and\\nMajor W. W. S. Bliss.\\nIn General Winfield Scott s successful invasion of the country\\nthe following year, many New Hampshire men won distinction\\nColonel Franklin Pierce, Dr. John D. Walker, Captains T.\\nRowe, E. A. Kimball, J. W. Thompson, and Daniel Batchelder,\\nLieutenants George Bowers, John H. Jackson, Thomas J.\\nWhipple, Daniel H. Cram, Thomas P. Pierce, John Bedel, and\\nmost of the non-commissioned officers and privates of companies\\nC a!id H of the 9th regiment United States army.\\nThe Mexican war having resulted in large acquisition of ter-\\nritory by the United States, and gold having been discovered on\\nthe Pacific Slope, a great drain was made on the energetic young\\nmen of the State, who rushed to California to better their for-\\ntunes. For fifty years the fertile prairies of the West had also\\nbeen steadily alluring not only the young men but whole families\\nfrom their hillside and valley farms.\\nSamuel Dinsmoor, jr., was elected governor in 1849.\\nSamuel Dinsmoor, jr., v/as admitted to the bar in 18 19, but\\nwas not enrolled as an attorney at Keene until 1823. He was\\nthe son of Governor Samuel Dinsmoor; born May 8, 1799; grad-\\nuated at Dartmouth College in 181 5 and was associated with\\nGeneral James Miller in the practice of law in Arkansas. In\\n1826 and 1827, and in 1829 and 1830, he was clerk of the Sen-\\nate for several years he was postmaster the cashier of Ash-\\nuelot Bank, later its president in 1849, i^SO. ^i^tl 185 i gover-\\nnor of New Hampshire. He died February 24, 1869.\\nIn 1850 the expenses of the legislative, executive, and judi-\\nciary departments of the State amounted to $36,142.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0625.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "600 IlISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1S5O\\nThere were three trains daily each way between Concord and\\nBoston, both by way of the Concord Railroad and of the Man-\\nchester and Lawrence. Passengers taking the ten a. m. train\\nfrom Concord arrived in Boston in time to take the four p. ^r.\\nsteamboat train for New York. By the Northern Railroad one\\ncould reach Montpelier and Wells River; by the Contoocook,\\nHillsborough by the Boston, Concord and Montreal, Lake\\nWinnipiseogee, by way of Meredith Bridge. In the United\\nStates at that time there were seven thousand si.\\\\ hundred and\\nseventy-seven miles in operation. Nathaniel White and Benja-\\nmin P. Cheney had charge of the express business over most of\\nthe New Hampshire Railroads. John Gibson conducted the\\nEagle Coffee House, and John Gass the American House.\\nA constitutional convention met in Concord early in Novem-\\nber, 1850. Of the two hundred and ninety members, one hun-\\ndred and fifty-seven were farmers, twenty-nine lawyers, and\\nthirty merchants. Franklin Pierce was chosen president, re-\\nceiving two hundred and fifty-seven votes out of tvi-o hundred\\nand si.xty-four cast and Thomas J. Whipple was chosen secretary\\nalmost as unanimous!)-. Among the delegates were\\nWilli.Tm Plumei Jr. Joel Eastman.\\nGilman Marston. Cyrus Barton.\\nUri Lamprey. George Minot.\\nBradbury Bartlett. Jonatlian Eastman.\\nLevi Woodbury, Henry Putney.\\nIchabod Bartlett. George W. Nesmith.\\nIcbabod Goodwin. Jesse Gault, Jr.\\nThomas E. Sawyer. Asa P. Gate.\\nBenning W. Jenness. Aaron Whittemore.\\nJames Bell. Andrew Wallace.\\nN. G. Upham. Isaac Spaulding.\\nL. W. Noyes. Charles G. Atherton.\\nGeorge W. Hammond. William Ilai .e.\\nLevi Chamberlain. Dyer H. Sanborn.\\nIra Whitcher. William P. Weeks.\\nEdwin D. Sanborn. Hazen Bedel.\\nThe State was strongly Democratic at that time, the State\\nSenate that year having only one in the opposition. After a\\nsession of about fifty days a new constitution was agreed upon", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0626.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "1852] ANTI-SLAVEKV AGITATION. 60I\\nand submitted to the jieople but it found no favor witli tlie\\nWhigs, and was rejected.\\nThe Democratic State convention met at Concord during the\\nsession of the legislature and nominated John Atwood, of New\\nBoston, as their candidate for governor. From some injudicious\\nstatements of their candidate, he was repudiated by the party,\\nled by the Cheshire Republican, Nezvport Argus, Dover GaactU,\\nand Concord Patriot, and upon the reassembling of the conventio\\nin 1851 he received only three of the two hundred and five votes\\ncast. A serious bolt was the consequence, and Samuel Din.s\\nmoor, jr., the Democratic candidate, lacked several thousan;\\nvotes of a majority.\\nIn the nomination of 1S51 the Democratic party at lirst mad\\nchoice of Luke oodbury, of Antrim, for their standard beare:\\nthe following year, but he was gathered to his fathers la\\nAugust.\\nDr. Noah Martin was elected governor in 1852. Dr. Martin\\nwas a descendant of the Scotch-Irish settlers of Londonderry\\nHe was born in Epsom in July, 1801, graduated at the Dar c\\nmouth Medical College in 1824, and the next year settled in\\nGreat Falls. In 1834 he settled in Dover. He was represer.\\ntative in 1830, 1832, and 1837, and State senator in 1835 and\\n1836. He was re-elected governor in 1853. He died in Dover\\nin June, 1880. He was a Democrat, well read on a great variety\\nof subjects, proficient in law as well as medicine, and a states-\\nman from his native good sense and judgment.\\n^The result of the fall elections of 1852 was that Franklin\\nPierce of New Hampshire was elected president, having carried\\ntwenty-seven States, choosing two hundred and fifty-four elec-\\ntors General Scott, the Whig candidate, having carried only\\nfour States Massachusetts, Vermont, Kentucky, and Teii-\\nnessee, choosing forty-two electors.\\nPresident Fr.inklia Pierce, son of Governor Benjamin Pierce, was born in\\nHillsborougli in November, 1S04; graduated from Bowdoin College in 1SJ4;\\nstudied law with Judge Woodbury and Judge Parker; was a zealous Demo-\\ncrat; elected to represent Hillsborough in 1S29; speaker of the House in 1S32\\nai d 1S33 elected to Congress in 1S33, to Senate in 1837, resigning in 1S42.\\nW. D. Northend.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0627.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "602 HISTOUY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 853\\nlie declined the position of attorney-general of the United States in 1S46.\\nHe volunteered in a Concord comjiany for the Mexican war; was appointed\\ncolonel of the yth Regiment United States army; brigadier-general in\\nMarch, 1S47; was wounded at battle of Contreras in August; resigned in\\nDecember at the close of the war. In 1S50 he was president of the convention\\nfor revising the constitution of the State. The special feature of his inau-\\ngural address was the support of slavery in the United States, and the an-\\nnouncement of his determination that the Fugitive Slave Act should be\\nstrictly enforced. This was the keynote of his administration, and pregnant\\nwitli vital consequences to the country. From it came during his term the\\nOstend conference and manifesto, the repeal of the Missouri compromise,\\nand the troubles in Kansas and Nebraska, which crystallized the opposing-\\nforces into the Republican party, and led later to the great Rebellion. He\\ndied in October, 1S69.\\nThe countess of Rumford died in December, 1852, at the age of seventy-\\neight. The Roll e-Rumford house occupies a very pleasant site but a few rods-\\nfrom the Merrimack river, on a slight eminence that overlooks that stream.\\nHer home, the Rolfe-Rumford house, was built in 1764 by Colonel Ben-\\njamin Rolfe. Colonel Rolfe was a great man in the colony in ante-Revolu-\\ntionary days, the son of Henry Rolfe, one of the original grantees of Pena-\\ncook. He was a man of scholarly attainments, having graduated at Harvard\\nin 172S. Able, wealthy, and enterprising, he was a man of authority, holding\\nthe highest offices of the settlement. He was the town clerk of Rumford for\\nmany years, and was the first one chosen to represent the town in the Gen-\\neral Assembly of New Hampshire. In 1745 he held the commission of colo-\\nnel in the province under Governor Benning Wentworth, By inheritance\\nand his own industry he acquired a large property, and was by far the \\\\vealth-\\niest person in Concord. He lived according to his means, alter the fashion\\nof the day. His large estate was worked by slaves and servants to the num-\\nber of a dozen. He purchased and owned the first chaise ever used in Con-\\ncord, in 1767. It had, says Dr. Bouton, a standing canvas top, and probably\\ncost about $60, which would be about equal to the sum of $240 in these days.\\nThis old-time magnate lived a bachelor until he was nearly sixty. At that\\nage he lost his heart to Miss Sarah Walker, the oldest daughter of Rev. Tim-\\nothy Walker, who was thirty years his junior. Miss Walker was beautiful\\nand accomplished. The Rolfes at the South End, and the Walkers at the\\nNorth End, with the Collins, Eastmans, Bradleys, and Stickneys between,\\nwere the aristocracy of old Rumford. They lived differently from the other\\npeople, usurped most of the offices, and controlled the business and social\\ninterests of the town. The marriage, therefore, of Colonel Rolfe and Miss\\nWalker must have been one of the grand events of the colony. It occurred\\nin the year 1769. That this union of May and December was otherwise than\\na happy one we have no reas jn for believing, but it was very short. In Dec-\\nember, 1771, Colonel Rolfe died, leaving his widow the wealthiest person in\\nthe settlement.\\nEncyclopitlia T^rilannica. Fred Myron Colby.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0628.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "1853] ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION. 605\\nAbout this time there came to Concord, from Woburn. Mass., a young man\\nby the name of Benjamin Thompson. Though a mere youtli in years, he was\\nwondertully matured in mind. He was a good scholar, and developed hand-\\nsomely in personal appearance. He was engaged at once as the teacher of\\nRum ford Academy.\\nThompson was a philosopher by nature, and nothing could divert him\\nfrom his philosophical researches and mechanical pursuits. Handy with\\ntools and full of inventive genius, he spent his spare time in all sorts of ex-\\nperiments on subjects suggested by his reading. Naturally gay and fond of\\nsociety, he entered into all the manly sports of the time while at Concord.\\nHe was the most expert skater and swimmer among the young men. At the\\nsocial evening parties he was a favorite. With his experiments in chemistry\\nand philosophy, his feats of swimming and skating upon the Merrimack\\nand Horse-shoe Pond, his genial and engaging manners at all times and\\nplaces, he lor a time was very popular among old and young at Rumford.\\nAt Mr. Walker s Thompson often met the young widow, Mrs. Rolfe. They\\nmarried sometime before January, 1773, at Parson Walker s house, and the\\npoor schoolmaster became the richest man in Rumford.\\nMr. and Mrs. Thompson inaugurated a style of living at the Rumford\\nhouse that completely threw in the shade anything of the kind previously.\\nWhile attending a military review at Dover, Thompson attracted the atten-\\ntion of Governor Wentworth.\\nThe distinguished friendship of the royal governor won for Thompson the\\nappointment of major in the nth regiment of the New Hampshire militia,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2over the heads of all the old officers. This gained for him the enmity of\\nall his superseded rivals, and of some others who envied him his good fortune.\\nIn the family mansion was born their daughter, Sarah, the afterward\\nbenevolent countess of Ramford, October iS, 1774. A few happy, prosper-\\nous months went by. Blest in his fiimily relations, honored for his position\\nand his culture, the intimate friend of Wentworth, of Wheelock, the president\\nof Dartmouth College, of Parson Walker, and other eminent and learned men.\\nBenjamin Thompson seemed riding on the highest wave of prosperity and\\nhappiness. Upon this brilliant day burst the storm of the Revolution.\\nBenjamin Thompson was as yet but twenty-two years of age. His sudden\\nrise, his unvarying prosperity, and, more than all, the governor s fiivor, had\\nmade him enemies, and a grand combination was made to crush him.\\nThough inclined to the patriot cause, he was denounced as a Tory. Even the\\ninfluence of the Walkers, who were ardent patriots, and known as such, could\\nnot save him. Fearing violence from a mob of village patriots, if he remained,\\nyoung Thompson fled from his home in the night. The jealous officers con-\\ntinued to malign him, and the rumors spread through the American anny.\\nSuspected without cause, and wishing to obtain a commission in the patriot\\narmy, he demanded an inquiry. It resulted in a drawn verdict. After vainly\\ntrying to live down the ill odor by zealous army work on the American side,\\nand finding himself still in danger from suspicion and hostility, he gave up\\nthe patriot cause in disgust, and fled to the British in Boston.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0629.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "604 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIKE. 854\\nGoing to England at the close of the Revolution, he obtained service\\nunder the elector of Bavaria, and upon his departure was knighted, by which\\nhe became Sir Benjamin Thompson. In the public garden of Bavaria his\\nstatue stands, of heroic size, as the patron genius of the place. The elector\\nalso honored him by conferring upon him several of the highest offices in the\\nempire. He was a member of the Council of State; major-general; knight\\nof Poland; commander-in-chief of the army; minister of war; chief of the\\nregency in the elector s absence; and count of the Holy Roman Empire. To\\nthis latter title he added Rumford, in honor of his old home in America. He\\nleft Bavaria only as minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to the\\ncourt of St. James, with a pension for life. Count Rumford had never ceased\\nhis interest in philosophical investigations, and while in England engaged in\\nexperiments whose fruits came home to every man s kitchen and fireside.\\nLady Sarah Thompson, his wife, died in 1792. Mrs. Thompson s son by her\\nfirst marriage, Paul Rolfe, by inheritance became the owner of the house\\nand estate in Concord, and died in July, 1S19, and his half sister became his\\nheiress. She saw life as few saw it. She was a queen of society. She was\\nnever married. Tired of courts and their flatteries, after her return to Amer-\\nica, in 1S45, she spent the remainder of her life in a quiet circle of society,\\naloof from the stir of city life, with an adopted daughter for her companion.\\nGovernor Nathaniel B. Baker, the son of Lieutenant Abel\\nBaker, of Concord, was born in Henniker, Sept. 29, 1819. He\\ngraduated at Harvard College in the class of 1839; read law\\nwith Messrs. Pierce and Fowler and, from 1841 to 1845, ^^^s\\none of the proprietors and editors of the New Hainpshire Pat-\\nriot. In 1841 he was quartermaster of the Eleventh regiment;\\nwas appointed adjutant of the same in 1842, and held the office\\nthe following year. In 1844 and 1845 was aide to Governor\\nSteele, with rank of colonel. In 1846 he was appointed clerk\\nof the Court of Common Pleas, and of the Superior Court for\\nthe county of Merrimack. He was representative from Concord,\\nand speaker of the House of Representatives, in 1850 and 1851,\\nand elector of president and vice-president in 1852. In 1854 he\\nwas elected governor of New Hampshire, and served as chief\\nmagistrate one year. Subsequently he took up his residence\\nin Clinton, Iowa, having an appointment as attorney for the\\nrailroad in that vicinity. At the commencement of the war he\\nwas appointed adjutant-general of Iowa, and held that office,\\nhaving performed its duties during the trials of the Rebellion\\nwith his usual promptness and energy, until the close of the\\nwar.^\\nAdjuLlnt-generars Report.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0630.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "iSSS] AXTI-SLAVERV AGITATION. 605\\nIn 1852 the Democratic party seemed strongly intrenched in\\npower in New Hampshire, and were arrogant and overbearing.\\nThe Know-Nothing movement was introduced to break their\\nsolid front and well it succeeded.\\nAt the spring election in 1855 Ralph Metcalf was elected\\ngovernor by the Know-Nothing party. Governor Metcalf was\\nborn in Charlestown in November, 1798, passed his youth on the\\nfarm of his father, who was a veteran of the Revolution, gradu-\\nated at Dartmouth College in 1823, read law, and settled in New-\\nport and later in Claremont. In 1831 he was elected secretary\\nof state, moved to Concord, and held the office until 1838-\\nHe declined the office of attorney-general while he was secretary,\\nand during a temporary residence in Washington refused the\\nplace of editor of one of the leading journals of that city. In\\n1S45 he was living at Newport, when he was appointed register\\nof Probate for the county of Sullivan. He was a representative\\nin 1852 and in 1853, the latter year serving on the committee\\nfor codifying the laws. He was re-elected in 1856. He died\\nat Claremont in August, 1S58. Governor Metcalf was a great\\nlover of romance, read and reread the standard authors, and\\nwielded a ready and humorous pen. He was fond of social life,\\nand contributed freely to its promotion.\\nIn 1855 the legislature was called upon to elect two United\\nStates senators. For the first time in a quarter of a century,\\nwith a single exception, the Democratic party was in a minority.\\nThe opposition was composed of the Whig party, then on the\\npoint of dissolving, the American party, commonly known as\\nthe Know-Nothing party, and the Free-Soil party. These\\nelements, a year later, were fused in the Republican party.\\nBy common consent Hon. John P. Hale was nominated for the\\nshort term, and the contest for the long term was between Mr.\\nClark and the Hon. James Bell. In the senatorial caucus the\\nlatter was nominated and subsequently elected by the legisla-\\nture. The contest, although warm, was a friendly one, so that\\nwhen, two years later, in 1857, the legislature was called to fill\\nthe vacancy in the office occasioned by the death of Senator\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Judge 1 W. Smith.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0631.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": "6o6 HISTORY OK NEW HAMPSHIRE. [l8S\\nBell, in obedience to the common wishes of their constituents\\nthe Republican members nominated and the legislature elected\\nMr. Clark. Upon the expiration of his term he was re-elected\\nin i860 with little opposition. The ten years spent by Senator\\nClark in Congress constituted the most eventful period in the\\nhistory of the Republic. Me witnessed the rise, progress, and\\noverthrow of the Rebellion. He was a firm supporter of the\\nvarious war measures adopted for the suppression of the Rebel-\\nlion, and had the confidence of President Lincoln and Secretary\\nStanton. He failed of a re-election in 1866, as his colleague.\\nSenator Hale, had done two years before, not from any lack of ap-\\npreciation of the invaluable services they had rendered the coun-\\ntry, nor of the honor they had conferred upon the State by their\\ncourse in Congress, but because the rule of rotation in office had\\nbecome so thoroughly ingrafted into the practice of the Republi-\\ncan party in the State that a departure from it was not deemed\\nwise, even in the persons of these eminent statesmen.\\nIn the summer of i866 a vacancy occurred in the office of district judge of\\nthe United States District Court for the district of New Hampshire, and Sena-\\ntor Clark was nominated for the position by President Johnson, and unani-\\nmously confirmed liy tlie Senate. He tliereupon resigned liis seat in tl .e\\nSenate and entered upon the discharge of his judicial duties. The wisdom of\\nhis selection has been justified by his career upon the bench. Tlie office of\\ndistrict judge does not afford such opportunity for public distinction as the\\nbench of some other courts, the jurisdiction of the court being principally\\nlimited to cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States.\\nNew Hampshire, from its size, location, and business relations, furnishes\\nonly a small amount of business for the federal courts, and not much of that\\ngenerally of public interest. In addition to holding his own court, Judge\\nClark has frequently been called to hold the federal courts in other States in\\nthe first circuit. He has brought to the discharge of his judicial duties the\\nsame learning, industry, and interest that characterized his labors at the bar\\nand in the Senate. His decisions have commended themselves to the profes-\\nsion for their soundness and fairness.\\nDaniel Clark was born in Stratham, October 24, 1809, and\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College in 1834.\\nSt. Paul s school, at Concord, was opened in April, 1856, for the\\nadmission of pupils, having been incorporated the previous year.\\nUnder the direction of Rev. Dr. Henry A. Coit, the school has", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0632.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "1857] ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION. 607\\nincreased from five pupils in 1856 to three hundred pupils iit\\n1888.\\nThe school is located on a domain of six hundred acres\\npleasantly situated in the valley of Turkey river, two miles\\nwest of the State House. The buildings erected from time to\\ntime to meet the wants of the growing school are architecturally\\npleasing to the eye and are charmingly grouped. The chapel, not\\ncomplete in 1888, cost over $100,000, and is said to be the finest\\nof its class in the United States. The founder of the school, a\\nBoston physician, was desirous of endowing a school of the\\nhighest class, for boys, in which they may obtain an education\\nwhich shall fit them for college or business, including thorough\\nintellectual training in the various branches of learning gymnas-\\ntic and manly exercises adapted to preserve health and strengthen\\nthe physical condition such aesthetic culture and accomplish-\\nments as shall tend to refine the manners and elevate the taste;\\ntogether with careful moral and religious instruction.\\nThe full course of instruction is designed to cover seven years\\nand to prepare for admission to the freshman or sophomore\\nclass in any American college. The school gathers most of its\\npupils from other States and its high success has won honor\\nfor the Episcopal Church which it represents.\\nAdjoining the grounds of St. Paul s school, and intimately\\nconnected with it, is the Diocesan Orphans Home, the first\\nrefuge of the kind opened in the State, and always full of chil-\\ndren.\\nIn 1S57, William Haile of Hinsdale was elected governor of\\nthe State.\\nGovernor Haile was the standard bearer of the newly or-\\nganized Republican party, whose first national campaign had\\nbeen led by John C. Fremont. The party drew to itself Whigs,\\nFree-Soil Democrats, Abolitionists, and all those in opposition\\nto the Democratic party.\\nGovernor Haile was born in Putney, Vermont, in 1807,\\npassed his boyhood and early manhood in Chesterfield, and in\\n1834 embarked in business in a country store in Hinsdale, with\\nsmall capital but good credit. In 1847 he undertook manufac-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0633.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "6o8 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1859\\nturing, and was as successful as he had been in trade. His\\nhonesty and untiring devotion to business insured success. He\\ntook an active and prominent part in church affairs, and belonged\\nto a number of benevolent societies. Though extensively en-\\ngaged in business he took a prominent part in political affairs.\\nWith the exception of two years he represented Hinsdale in the\\nlegislature from 1846 to 1854. In 1854 and 1855 he was a mem-\\nber of the Senate, being chosen president of that body the latter\\nyear, and was elected as representative in 1856. He was the\\nfirst successful standard bearer of the Republican party for the\\noffice of governor. He was re-elected in the year 1858. In\\n1873 he removed to Keene, built a fine residence, and took an\\nactive part in business till his death in July, 1876.\\nThe panic of 1857 came upon the country with crushing and\\ndisastrous effect. Every interest was prostrated and the\\npresident was compelled in his message to Congress to portray\\nthe disastrous condition of the country in strong colors. Mr.\\nBuchanan said\\nWith unsurpassed plenty in all the elements of national wealth, our manu-\\nfacturers have suspended, our public works are retarded, our private enter-\\nprises of different kinds are abandoned, and thousands of useful laborers are\\nthrown out of employment and reduced to want.\\nFollowing the panic of 1857 there were four years of hard\\ntimes. Money was scarce, specie payment was maintained by\\nthe banks with great difficulty, as the gold from the California\\nmines had largely been shipped to Europe to pay adverse bal-\\nances, and new enterprises were few in number and unprofitable\\nin result.^\\nIchabod Goodwin was chosen the governor of New Hamp-\\nshire, as the Republican candidate, in the year 1859, and was\\nre-elected by the same party in the following year, his second\\nterm of office having expired June 5, 1861. Born at the close\\nof the last century in North Berwick, Maine, he was a ship-\\nmaster for a number of years; settled in Portsmouth, in 1832,\\nand established himself as a merchant. He served in the legis-\\nJames G. Blaine.\\ni", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0634.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "l86o] ANTI-SLAVEKV AGITATION. 609\\nlature of New Hampshire as a member of the Whig party for\\na number of years. He was also a delegate at large from the\\nState to the conventions at which Clay, Taylor, and Scott were\\nnominated by the Whigs for the presidency, and was a vice-\\npresident at the two first-named conventions; and he twice\\nserved in the constitutional conventions of New Hampshire. He\\nwas the candidate of the Whigs for Congress at several elections\\nbefore the State was divided into Congressional districts. New\\nHampshire was in those days one of the most powerful strong-\\nholds of the Democratic party in the country.\\nDuring his administration the war of the Rebellion was com-\\nmenced. The military spirit of the people of New Hampshire\\nhad become dormant, and the militia system of the State had\\nfallen pretty much to decay, long before the first election of Mr.\\nGoodwin to the ofifice of governor. A slight revival of that\\nspirit, perhaps, is marked by the organization in his honor, in\\nJanuary, i860, of The Governor s Horse Guards, a regiment\\nof cavalry in brilliant uniform, designed to do escort duty to the\\ngovernor, as well as by a field muster of several voluntary organ-\\nizations of troops which went into camp at Nashua in the same\\nyear. But when the call of President Lincoln for troops was\\nmade in the spring of 1861, the very foundation of a military\\nsystem required to be established. The nucleus itself required\\nto be formed. The legislature was not in session and would not\\nconvene, except under a special call, until the following June.\\nThere were no funds in the treasury which could be devoted to\\nthe expense of the organization and equipment of troops, as all\\nthe available funds were needed to meet the ordinary State ex-\\npenditures. The great confidence of the people of New Hamp-\\nshire in the wisdom and integrity of Mr. Gocdwin found in this\\nemergency full expression. Without requiring time to convene\\nthe legislature so as to obtain the security of the State for the\\nloan, the banking institutions and citizens of the State tendered\\nhim the sum of \u00c2\u00a7680,000 for the purpose of enabling him to\\nraise and equip for the field New Hampshire s quota of troops.\\nThis offer he gladly accepted and averting delay in the proceed-\\nings by refraining from convening the legislature, he, upon his", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0635.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "6io\\nHISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[i860\\nown responsibility, proceeded to organize and equip troops for\\nthe field and in less than two months he had dispatched to the\\narmy, near Washington, two well-equipped and well-officered\\nregiments. Of this sum of $680,000 only about $100,000 was\\nexpended. On the assembling of the legislature that body\\nunanimously passed the Enabling Act, under which all his\\nproceedings as governor were ratified, and the State made to\\nassume the responsibility.\\nVIEW NEAR MEREDITH VILLAGE.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0636.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0637.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0638.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIX.\\nWAR OF THE REBELLION, 1861-1865.1\\nElection of Abraham Lincoln Seceding States Firing on Sumter\\nFirst Regiment Mason W. Tappan Old Militia Governor s\\nHorse Guards Thomas L. Tullock Second Regi.ment Gilman\\nMarston J. N. Patterson Nathaniel S. Berry Third Reg-\\niment Enoch Q^ Fellows John H. Jackson John Bedel\\nFourth Regiment Thomas J. Whipple Louis Bell Fifth Reg-\\niment Edw.vrd E. Cross Charles E. Hapgood Edward E.\\nSturtevant Sixth Regiment Simon G. Griffin Henry H.\\nPearson Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth,\\nThirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth\\nRegiments Colonel Henry O. Kent Joseph A. Gilmore Eigh-\\nteenth Regiment Cavalry, Artillery, and Sharpshooters\\nSummary of Number of Volunteers E. H. Durell George Ham-\\nilton Perkins.\\nTN the fall election of i860 the Republican party was success-\\nful. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, received one hundred and\\neighty electoral votes for president John C. Breckinridge,\\nseventy-two John Bell, thirty-nine Stephen A. Douglas,\\ntwelve; and Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate,\\npledged to resist the extension of slavery into the Territories,\\nwhen the votes were counted in the United States Senate, was\\ndeclared elected president of the United States. December 20,\\ni860, the State of South Carolina, through a popular convention,\\npassed an ordinance of secession from the Union In January,\\n1861, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and\\nNorth Carolina followed, and adopted similar acts of secession.\\nAbraham Lincoln was inaugurated March 4, 1861, and imme-\\ndiately called to his cabinet William H. Seward, as secretary of\\nstate; Salmon P. Chase, as secretary of the Treasury; Simon\\nThe facts in this chapter are largely derived from tlie Adjutant-General s Reports.", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0641.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": "6l2 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 86 1\\nCameron, as secretary of war and Gideon Wells, as secretary\\nof the navy.\\nEarly in February forty-two delegates, representing the seven\\nseceded States, had assembled at Montgomery, Alabama, and\\norganized a Southern Confederacy. Jefferson Davis was elected\\npresident, and Alexander H. Stevens, vice-president, of the new\\ngovernment.\\nApril 12, 1861, the Confederate forces opened fire on Fort\\nSumter, in Charleston Harbor, which was held by a small garrison\\nof loyal men, under command of Major Robert Anderson. The\\nnews of the attack was flashed over the wires north and west.\\nThe whole American people were roused as never before. The\\npresident immediately issued a proclamation calling for seventy-\\nfive thousand volunteers. The secretary of war made a requisi-\\ntion on the State of New Hampshire for one regiment of infan-\\ntry for three months service.\\nGovernor Goodwin directed Adjutant-general Joseph C. Abbott\\nto issue the necessary orders calling for the required number of\\nvolunteers and in less than ten days a thousand eager recruits\\nwere assembled at Concord. Mason W. Tappan was com-\\nmissioned colonel, Thomas J. Whipple, lieutenant-colonel, and\\nAaron F. Stevens, major.\\nAfter a month of drill on the fair grounds, about a mile east\\nof the State House, the First regiment embarked May 25, 1861,\\nand proceeded to Washington. Active hostilities were opened\\nbetween the opposing forces of the North and South at the\\nbattle of Bull Run, July 21 a battle which was destined to open\\nthe greatest struggle of modern times, if not the greatest in the\\nhistory of the world.\\nThe First formed a part of the Union line, but was many\\nmiles away from the active operations of that eventful day. The\\nregiment was mustered out August 9, 1861.\\nConnected with the First regiment were Adjutant Enoch Q.\\nFellows, Quartermaster Richard N. Batchelder, Surgeon Alpheus\\nB. Crosby, Captain Louis Bell, Captain Ira McL. Barton, Cap-\\ntain Edward E. Sturtevant, Lieutenant Henry W. Fuller, Ser-\\ngeant-major George Y. Sawyer, Sergeant Daniel B. Newhall, and\\nmany others who afterward won honor in the service.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0642.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "l86l] WAR OF THE REGELLION. 613\\nColonel Mason W. Tappan, who led the First regiment of New\\nHampshire volunteers to the field of battle to help the president\\nmaintain the integrity of the Union and resist the attacks of\\nthose rebelling against the government, was a native of Newport,\\nand a resident of Bradford. He was born October 20, 1817;\\nstudied law with Hon. George W. Nesmith was in the legisla-\\nture in 1853, 1S54, and 1855, and was elected a member of Con-\\ngress the latter year. He served in all six years, and was a fear-\\nless defender of Union principles. After his return with the\\nFirst, he was appointed colonel of the Fourth and of the Six-\\nteenth regiments, but decided to let younger men take the com-\\nmand. He was appointed attorney-general in 1876, and served\\nuntil his death, October 25, 18S6. He was an able lawyer and\\nan eloquent public speaker.\\nAt the breaking out of the war, Ichabod Goodwin was gov-\\nernor of the State Moody Currier was a member of the Council,\\nThomas L. Tullock was secretary of state, Allen Tenney was\\ndeputy secretary, Peter Sanborn was State treasurer, and Asa\\nMcFarland was State printer Daniel Clark and John P. Hale\\nwere United States senators and Gil man Marston, Mason W.\\nTappan, and Thomas M. Edwards, members of Congress.\\nThe militia consisted of 34,569 men, divided into three divi-\\nsions, six brigades, and one regiment. The only really effective\\nmilitary organizations at the time were the Amoskeag Veterans\\nand the Governor s Horse Guards. Of the latter, George Stark\\nwas colonel, A. Herbert Bellows, lieutenant-colonel, Henry O.\\nKent, major, Thomas J. Whipple, adjutant. Chandler E. Potter,\\njudge advocate, Joseph Wentworth, quartermaster, Charles P.\\nGage, surgeon, J. C. Eastman, assistant surgeon, Henry E. Par-\\nker, assistant chaplain, Frank S. Fiske, sergeant-major, Charles\\nA. Tufts, quartermaster-sergeant, Natt Head, chief bugler,\\nStebbins H. Dumas, commissary. True Garland, standard\\nbearer. John H. George and Cyrus Eastman were captains\\nand Edward H. Rollins, Benjamin Grover, Bainbridge Wadleigh,\\nand Micajah C. Burleigh, were lieutenants.\\nThe secretary of state, Thomas L. Tullock, was a native of\\nPortsmouth. He was very efficient in aiding Governor Goodwin", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0643.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "6l4 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [186I\\nin arming and equipping the first troops sent from the State to\\nsuppress the Rebellion. At the expiration of his term of office\\nhe was appointed navy agent at Portsmouth. At the navy yard\\nseveral thousand workmen were employed, and an immense amount\\nof material was jsurchased for the construction of ships of war.\\nAmong the number launched at the yard during the war, or\\nwhile Mr. Tullock was agent, were the Kearsarge, Franklin,\\nOssipee, Sacramento, Sebago, Mahoska, Sonoma, Conemaugh,\\nPavvtucket, Nipsic, Shawmut, Sassacus, and Agamenticus. Mr.\\nTullock was instrumental in forming the nucleus of the very\\nperfect collection of portraits of governors and statesmen which\\nadorn the State House. He was afterwards postmaster of the\\ncity of Washington. He was a student of historical subjects\\nand a graceful writer on historical and antiquarian themes.\\nThomas Logan Tullock, son of Captain William and Mary (Neal) Tullock,\\nwas born in Portsmouth, February 11, 1S20. He received his education at\\nthe Portsmouth High School, and in early youth embarked in commercial\\npursuits. In 1S49 he was appointed postmaster of Portsmouth, and held the\\noffice four years. In 1S5S he was elected by the legislature secretary of state,\\nand held the office until June, 1S61, when he was appointed navy agent. He\\nresigned the latter office in August, 1S65, and accepted the office of secretary\\nof the Union Republican Congressional Committee, with headquarters at\\nWashington. Upon the election o\u00c2\u00a3 General Grant, Mr. Tullock was appointed\\nchief of the appointment division of the Treasury department, and later\\ncollector of internal revenue for the District of Columbia. He held the office\\nuntil 1876. The next year he was appointed assistant postmaster of Washing-\\nton. In 1SS2 he was appointed postmaster of Washington. He died June 20,\\n1883.\\nMr. Tullock was twice married; first, August 29, 1S44, to Emily Estell\\nRogers; second, January 10, 1S66, to Miranda Barney Swain, a native of New\\nHampshire, whose devotion to our wounded soldiers during the war of the\\nRebellion is gratefully remembered throughout the State. Of his children\\nby his first wife, Thomas L. Tullock, jr., paymaster U. S. Navy, was lost on\\nthe steamer Oneida, in Yokohama, Japan, January 24, 1870; and Seymour\\nM. Tullock settled in Washington. By his second marriage he left one son,\\nHenry Vanderbilt Tullock.\\nMr. Tullock was an active member of the Methodist church, and was a\\nMason of high degree.\\nUpon the first call for troops so many volunteers assembled\\nthat a camp was established at Portsmouth, and enough enlisted\\nto form another regiment. The call came for three hundred", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0644.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "J^y-o^J^i^.^-^-", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0647.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0648.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "lS6l] WAR OF THE KEUELLIUN. 615\\nthousand troops to serve three years and most of the men re-\\nenlisted. Colonel Thomas P. Pierce, a veteran of the Mexican\\nwar, resigned and the Second regiment was organized, with\\nHon. Oilman Marston as colonel Frank S. Fiske, of Keene,\\nas lieutenant-colonel and Josiah Stevens, Jr., of Concord, as\\nmajor. The regiment left Portsmouth for the seat of war June\\n20, 1 86 1. A month later, July 2i, they took pa/t in the battle\\nof Bull Run. Early in the fight, Colonel Marston was severely\\nwounded, but having had his wound dressed, came again upon\\nthe field to lead his men. The Second behaved like a veteran\\nregiment, but shared in the panic which seized the Northern\\narmy. The loss of the regiment was seven killed, fifty-six\\nwounded, and forty-six prisoners. While in winter quarters the\\ncommander of the brigade had noticed the guard-house of the\\nSecond, and considered it altogether too comfortable quarters\\nfor the prisoners confined there. Accordingly he ordered Col-\\nonel Marston to build a dungeon, without so much as a crack or\\nan opening anywhere, so that it should be perfectly dark. The\\ndungeon was built, and one day General Neaglee went over to\\ninspect it.\\nWhere is the entrance, said he and how do you get any-\\nbody into it\\nOh said Colonel Marston that s not my lookout. I\\nobeyed orders to the letter How do you like it\\nIn April, 1862, the Second joined the main army of the Poto-\\nmac at Yorktown, and took part in the siege, and in the attack\\non Fort Magruder during the advance on Williamsburg. The\\nregiment lost in the battle eighteen killed, sixty-six wounded,\\nand twenty-three missing. Captain Leonard Drown was killed.\\nCapt:iiii Evarts W. Farr lost an arm, and Captain Edward L.\\nBaiicy and Lieutenant Samuel O. Burnham were wounded. At\\nthe battle of Fair Oaks, one company of the Second lost twenty-\\ntwo killed and wounded out of forty-two taken into the fight.\\nThe Second took part in the Seven Days Fight and in the\\nretreat to the James River, and in nearly all the actions of the\\nfamous Peninsular Campaign.\\nHaving joined Pope s army, the Second formed a part of the", "height": "2430", "width": "1552", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0649.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "6l6 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1861\\nUnion army at the second battle of Bull Run in August, 1862,\\nand lost sixteen killed, eighty-seven wounded, and twenty-nine\\nmissing, out of three humlred and thirty-two men engaged.\\nIn the spring of 1863 the regiment returned on a furlough to\\nConcord. Colonel Marston was appointed brigadier-general, and\\nEdward L. Bailey, colonel of the Second. In May they returned\\nto the front, having received into their ranks the recruits of the\\nSeventeenth, and took part in the battle of Gettysburg, fighting\\nin the Peach Orchard. Of the twenty-four officers and three\\nhundred and thirty men taken into the fight, nineteen had been\\nshot dead, one hundred and thirty-six were wounded, and thirty-\\neight were missing, dead or wounded on the field or prisoners\\nin the hands of the enemy -three-fifths of the whole number\\nengaged.\\nEarly in August, 1863, the Second, in a brigade commanded\\nby General Marston, were stationed at Point Lookout to guard\\na depot for prisoners of war, and remained at that post until the\\nspring of 1864.\\nIn the latter part of April the regiment joined the army of\\nthe Potomac, and took part in the battle of Cold Harbor, losing\\nseventy in killed and wounded. This was the last battle of the\\noriginal Second, the men who had not re-enlisted soon after de-\\nparting for New Hampshire, where they were mustered out June\\n21, 1864. There remained two hundred and fifty men, veterans\\nand recruits, under command of Captain J. N. Patterson. In\\nthe army of the James and in the army of the Potomac for the\\nnext year, the Second did good service in battle and siege, and\\nwere mustered out in November, 1865.\\nTo the Second belonged Corporal Thomas E. Barker, after-\\nward colonel of the Twelfth Adjutant S. G. Langley, lieuten-\\nant-colonel of the Fourth Captain T. A. Barker, lieutenant-\\ncolonel of the Fourteenth Lieutenant H. B. Titus, colonel of\\nthfe Ninth Captain S. G. Griffin, brevet major-general; Lieuten-\\nant A. B. Thompson, captain U. S. army and secretary of\\nstate Lieutenant W. H. Prescott Captain W. O. Sides, the\\nfirst volunteer of New Hampshire Private Orrin N. Head, ad-\\njutant of the Eighth Sergeant Welcome A. Crafts, colonel of", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0650.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "l86l] WAR OF THE REBELLION. 61/\\nthe Fifth Private Martin A. Hayncs, member of Congress\\nChaplain Henrv E. Parker, professor at Dartmouth College.\\nMiss Harriet P. Dame attended the regiment as a voluntary\\nhospital nurse.\\nGeneral Oilman Marston was very popular as commander of\\nthe Second, and as brigade commander. He descended from\\nThomas Marston, one of the first settlers of Hampton, and was\\nborn in Orford, August 20, 181 1. He graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1837, and four years later, having been admitted to\\nthe bar, he settled in E.xeter. He was frequently elected to the\\nlegislature, and in 1859 he was elected a member of Congress.\\nHe was re-elected in 1861, and again in 1865. After the war he\\nwas frequently elected to the legislature, and is one of the\\nablest and most distinguished lawyers of the New Hampshire\\nbar. i\\nJoab N. Patterson, a graduate of Dartmouth College, in i860,\\nwas appointed colonel of the Second, and brevet brigadier-gen-\\neral for bravery in battle, and general good conduct throughout\\nthe war. He was never absent from march, drill, or skirmish.\\nAfter the war he was for many years United States marshal,\\nand made his home in Concord. He was born in Hopkinton,\\nJanuary 20, 1835.\\nNathaniel S. Berry, of Hebron, was elected governor in March,\\n1861, and was inaugurated the following June. He became\\nchief magistrate at the most trying time in the history of the\\nState. In all he did he was influenced by pure and patriotic\\nmotives his official acts were characterized with care and pru-\\ndence, and liis State papers were brief, clear, and wise. He was\\nre-elected in 1862, and when he retired from ofifice in June, 1863,\\nhe carried with him the respect and good wishes of all. During\\nhis administration all the regiments except the First were sent to\\nthe front.\\nN.ithaniel S. Berry was born in Bath, Maine, September i, 1796; was\\nbrought in childhood to Lisbon, learned the tanner s trade, and settled in\\nBristol. He was a representative in 1S2S, 1S33, 1S34, 1S37, and 1S54: a State\\nsenator in 1S35 and 1S36; judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1S41\\njudge of Probate in 1S56. In 1S40 he settled in Hebron.\\nMarston Genealogy*.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0651.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "6l8 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [lS6l\\nThe Third reghnent was recruited throughout the State, and\\nwas organized at Concord early in August, 1861, and mus-\\ntered into the service the last part of the month. So many\\nvolunteers offered that there was a surplus of two hundred, who\\nformed the nucleus of the Fourth. Enoch Q. Fellows, of Sand-\\nwich, was commissioned colonel, John H. Jackson, lieutenant-\\ncolonel, and John Bedel, major. The colonel was a graduate of\\nWest Point, class of 1844, and a native of Sandwich, where he\\nwas born June 20, 1825. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he\\nwas a brigadier-general of the State militia. He commanded\\nthe Third for about a year. He was afterwards colonel of the\\nNinth, and led that regiment into the battle of Antietam. On\\naccount of poor health he was soon after obliged to resign. He\\nis said to have been one of the most capable ofificers in the\\narmy from New Hampshire during the war. He was faithful\\nand attentive to duty, and cool and skilful in action.. He was\\nin the legislature in 1868 and 1869.\\nColonel John H. Jackson was a native of Portsmouth, born\\nOctober 20, 18 14. Served through the Mexican war with honor,\\nand was in command of the Third for two years. John Bedel,\\nof Bath, was also a veteran of the Mexican war, a son of Gen-\\neral Moody Bedel, of the war of 1812, and grandson of General\\nTimothy Bedel, of the Revolutionary army. He was born July\\n8, 1822, in Indian Stream Territory; was admitted to the bar;\\nwas in the legislature in 1868 and 1869, and Democratic candi-\\ndate for governor in 1869 and 1870. He died February 26, 1875.\\nThe Third left the State early in September, 1861, and took\\npart in the expedition against Port Royal, on the coast of South\\nCarolina. At Hilton Head Island they did garrison duty through\\nthe winter. In June, 1862, the regiment was sent to James\\nIsland, and on the i6th, at Secessionville, received its first bap-\\ntism in blood. It had previously lost about a fifth of its number\\nby sickness. The regiment went into the fight with twenty-si.x\\nofficers and five hundred and ninety-seven men, of whom one\\nhundred and four were killed and wounded. In October the\\nThird took part in the battle of Pocataligo. In the summer of\\n1863 the Third formed a part of the investing force about", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0652.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "l86l] WAR OF THE REBELLION. 619\\nCharleston. At the battle of Alorris Island its loss was nine\\nkilled and thirty-one wounded in the assault on Fort Wagner\\nthe regiment lost fifty-five killed, wounded, and missing, Lieu-\\ntenant Colonel John Bedel among the number. For the next six\\nmonths the Third was occupying trenches on Morris Island,\\nlosing thirty-two killed and wounded. In April, 1864, the Third\\nwas engaged in an expedition to Florida, and late in the nmnth\\njoined the army of the James. The next year was one of con-\\nstant battle, skirmish, or march. The regiment was in the\\nbattle of Drury s Bluff, the capture of Fort Fisher, the siege of\\nPetersburg, and at taking of Wilmington, N. C. The regiment\\nwas mustered out July 20, 1865.\\nTo the Third belonged Lieutenant-colonel Josiah I. Plimpton,\\nkilled at Deep Run, Va. Lieutenant-colonel James F. Randlett.\\nAdjutant Elbridge J. Copp, Surgeon Albert A. Moulton, Captaii,\\nMichael T. Donohoe, Captain Richard Ela, killed at Drury\\nBluff, and Perry Kittredge, D. A. Brown, J. A. Dadmun, S. F\\nBrown, George L. Lovejoy, Nathan W. Gove, John C. Linehan^\\nand John W. Odlin, of Concord.\\nThe Fourth regiment was organized at Manchester, and mus-\\ntered into the service September 18, 1861, and a few days later\\nleft the State for Washington. Thomas J. Wliipple, of Laconia\\nwas commissioned colonel Louis Bell, of P armington, lieu,\\ntenant-colonel and Jeremiah D. Drew, of Salem, major. The\\nregiment took part in the expedition against Port Royal, and\\noccupied Hilton Head Island. During the winter the Fourth\\nwent to Florida. Colonel Whipple resigned in March, 1862.\\nDuring the summer of 1862 a part of the Fourth occupied St.\\nAugustine, and put Fort Marion in good repair. They were\\nrelieved by the Seventh, in September, and joined the rest of\\nthe regiment at Beaufort, in season to take part in the battle of\\nPocotaligo, losing three killed and twenty-five wounded. The\\nregiment wintered at Beaufort. In the spring of 1863, the\\nFourth took part in the unsuccessful attack on Charleston, and\\nin the siege of Fort Wagner, which lasted through the summer.\\nIn January, 1864, the Fourth was ordered to Beaufort, and\\nthe next month to Jacksonville, Florida, thence back to Beaufort.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0653.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "620 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1861\\nThe re-enlisted veterans, to the number of three hundred and\\neighty-eight, received a furlough of thirty days to revisit New\\nHampshire under Colonel Bell and at the expiration of their\\nleave in April they were joined to the army of the James.\\nThen followed months of severe fighting to crush the Rebellion.\\nAt one time only one captain was left for duty in the Fourth,\\nand the brigade was in command of a captain. In the attack on\\nFort Gilman only forty men could be mustered for the fight.\\nIn the successful attack on Fort Fisher Colonel Bell fell mor-\\ntally wounded while leading a brigade but the fortress, defended\\nby a superior force of the enemy, was captured. Then came the\\noccupation of Wilmington. The I ^ourth was mustered out and\\narrived home August 27, 1865.\\nTo the Fourth regiment belonged Colonel William Badger,\\nQuartermaster William K. Norton, Lieutenant Henry A. Mann,\\nand Captain Frederick A. Kendall.\\nColonel Thomas J. Whipple was born in Wentworth, January 30, 1S16;\\nwas educated at New Hampton and at Norwich University, read law, and\\nwas admitted to the bar in 1S40. He served in the Mexican war as adjutant\\nof Colonel Franklin Pierce s regiment, and was taken prisoner at Vera Cruz.\\nAfter resigning from the Fourth he was chosen colonel of the Twelfth. He\\nwas a member of the constitutional convention of 1S76, and has built up a\\nlarge law practice. He is an able lawyer and a powerful advocate.\\nGeneral Louis Bell, son of Governor Samuel Bell, was born March S, 1837,\\ngraduated at Brown University in 1855, was admitted to the bar in 1857, and\\nsettled in Farmington. He was breveted brigadier-general, January 15, 1S65,\\nthe day he was mortally wounded.\\nThe Fifth regiment was mustered into service in October, 1861,\\nand left Concord the last of the month for the seat of war, under\\ncommand of Colonel Edward E. Cross, of Lancaster, Lieu-\\ntenant-colonel Samuel G. Langley, of Manchester, and Major\\nWilliam W. Cook, of Derry. Dr. Luther M. Knight, of Franklin,\\nwas surgeon, and Rev. Elijah R. Wilkins, chaplain. In April,\\n1862, the regiment took part in the siege of Yorktown and the\\nadvance on Williamsburg and early in June fought at Fair\\nOaks. In the last battle the Fifth lost one hundred and eighty-\\nsix killed and wounded. Colonel Cross and Major Cook among\\nthe latter. Then followed the Seven Days Battle in the retreat", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0654.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "l86l] WAR OF THE REBELLION. 62 1\\nto Harrison s Landing in which the Fifth lost over one hundred\\nofficers and men. By the middle of August the regiment num-\\nbered only three hundred and fifty fit for duty. At Antietara,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of the three hundred and nineteen officers and men who entered\\nthe fight, one hundred and eight were killed and wounded.\\nOn that day it won the title of the Fighting Fifth. During\\nits first year of service the Fifth lost three hundred and thirty-\\nfive in killed and wounded, besides si. ity-nine who died of\\ntlisease. In December, 1862, the Fifth was in Hancock s\\ntlivision which charged the enemy at Marye s Heights, opposite\\nFredericksburg, where Major Sturtevant was mortally wounded.\\nThe regiment lost in the charge one hundred and eighty-si.x\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2officers and men, victims of a blunder.\\nIn May, 1863, the Fifth took part in the battle of Chancellors-\\nville, losing forty ofificers and men and in July was engaged\\nin the battle of Gettysburg, where Colonel Cro.ss, leading a\\nbrigade, was mortally wounded. In the three days battle the\\nFifth lost four officers and eighty-two men killed and wounded,\\nout of one hundred and si.xty-five men who went into the\\nfight. Near the last of July, 1S63, the regiment returned to\\nConcord to recruit its shattered ranks. During a stay of nearly\\nthree months the Fifth was recr-uited to the minimum strength;\\nand Charles E. Hapgood, of Amherst, was commissioned colo-\\nnel, Richard E. Cross, of Lancaster, lieutenant-colonel, and\\nJames E. Larkin, of Concord, major. Early in November the\\nregiment started for the front, and was brigaded with the Sec-\\nond and the Twelfth at Point Lookout, under command of Gen-\\neral Marston. In May, 1864, the Fifth joined the army of the\\nPotomac in its grand campaign from the Rapidan to the James\\nunder Grant, and fought at the battle of Cold Harbor, losing\\ntwo hundred and two ofificers and men killed and wounded. In\\nthe attack on Petersburg, June 16, the Fifth lost thirty\\nofificers and men killed and wounded, Colonel Hapgood among\\nthe latter. The command of the regiment devolved on Major\\nLarkin. June 17 the regiment lost twenty-nine killed and\\nwounded June 18, seven men. The regiment was in action at\\nDeep Run. At Reams Station the Fifth lost thirty-three of its", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0655.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "622 mSTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1861\\nnumber. For months during the summer and fall of 1864 the\\nregiment lay in the trenches before Petersburg and took part\\nin the closing struggle of the Rebellion. The original Fifth\\nwas mustered out of service October 12, 1864; the re-enlisted\\nveterans were under command of Major, and later Lieutenant-\\ncolonel, Welcome A. Crafts. The regiment marched in the grand\\nreview at Washington, and was mustered out of the service of\\nthe United States July 8, 1865.\\nTo the Fifth belonged Major Thomas L. Livermore, Colonel\\n.of the Eighteenth Lieutenant George W. Ballock Ira. McL.\\nBarton, Charles H. Long, and Isaac W. Hammond.\\nThe Fifth lost more in killed and wountlcd than any other\\nregiment in the Union army.\\nColonel Edward E. Cross w.is born at Lancaster, April 22, 1S32, received a\\ncommon-school education, and learned the printer s trade. He became a news-\\npaper correspondent and made many journeys into the Indian country, lead-\\ning a life of adventure and peril. At the breaking out of the war he was in\\ncommand of a military force in Mexico. He was a man of cool courage,\\nfearless of danger. Colonel Charles E. Hapgood was born in Shrewsbury,\\nMass., Dec. 11, 1S30. In 1S5S he was in trade in Amherst. After the war\\nhe went into business in Boston. Major Edward E. Sturtevant was born in\\nKeene, August 7, 1826, was a printer by trade, and settled at Concord, and\\nwas on the police force at the breaking out of the war.\\nThe Si.\\\\th regiment was organized at Keene, and mustered\\ninto the service the last of November, 1861. Nelson Converse,\\nof Marlborough, was ajspointed colonel, Simon G. Grififin, of\\nKeene, lieutenant-colonel, and Charles Scott, of Peterborough,\\nmajor. O. G. Dort was a captain Alonzo Nute, of Farming-\\nton, was quartermaster; Thomas P. Cheney, of Holderness, a\\nlieutenant. The regiment left the State about Christmas time,\\nand joined General Burnside s expedition into North Carolina.\\nIt was engaged in the battle of Camden, in April, 1862, led by\\nColonel Griffin; Colonel Converse having resigned in March, antl\\nCapt. O. G. Dort having been appointed major to fill vacancy\\ncaused by promotion. In August the Si.xth joined the army of\\nGeneral Pope at Culpeper Court House, and took part in the\\ndisastrous campaign which followed. At the second battle of\\nBull Run, August 29, 1862, the regiment lost thirty-two killed.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0656.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "lS6l] WAR OF THE REBELLION. 62 J\\none hundred and ten wounded, and sixty-eight missing, or nearly\\none half the number engaged. Nearly all the missing were\\nkilled or wounded, and the woundeil were all captured. Of\\ntwenty oflficers, five were killed, si.v wounded, and two captured.\\nThe shattered Si.xth took part in the battle of Chantilly and in\\nthe battle of Antietam. In December the Sixth was in the\\nfight at Fredericksburg. In the spring of 1863, the Sixth was\\ntransferred to Kentucky, where in May Colonel Grififin was given\\ncommand of the brigade which included the Sixth and Ninth,\\nand was sent with his brigade to heljj General Grant invest\\nVicksburg. At the battle of Jackson Colonel Grififin com-\\nmanded the Ninth corps. In January, 1864, the re-enlisted vet-\\nerans enjoyed a furlough of thirty days in New Hampshire. In\\nMarch the Sixth, Ninth, and Eleventh were brigaded, and\\nstationed at Annapolis, under command of Colonel Griffin, and in\\nApril joined the army of the Potomac under General Grant at\\nthe Rapidan. Immediately the brigade was brought into action,\\nand nobly acquitted itself in the battle of the Wilderness. At\\nSpottsylvania the Sixth lost sixty-eight killed and wounded, and\\nColonel Griffin won his star. Lieutenant-colonel Henry H.\\nPearson lost his life May 26, 1S64; and Phin P. Bixby was pro-\\nmoted to the command. The history of the .Sixth, and of Gen-\\neral Griffin s brigade, from this time on to the close of the war is\\ninseparably connected with that of the army of the Potomac.\\nThey took part in the battles of North Anna River, Tolopotomy\\nCreek, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Weldon Railroad, Poplar Spring\\nChurch, Hatcher s Run, and the final assault on Petersburg. The\\nregiment was mustered out July 17, 1S65.\\nGener.il Simon G. Griffin was born in Nelson, August 9, iS:!4. He received\\na thorough .icademical education, engaged in teacliing, represented Nelson int\\nthe legislature two years, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Merri-\\nmack county in the fall of 1S60. He commanded company B of the Second\\nat the battle of Bull Run. He was commissioned colonel of the Sixth April\\n22, 1S62. He was commissioned brigadier-general May 12, 1S64, for judgment\\ndispla^ ed a: the battle of Spottsylvania. He was breveted m.njor-general for\\ngallant conduct at the attack on Petersburg, April 2, 1S65, while leading a\\ndivision. He was mustered out of the service in September, 1S65, and settled\\nin Keene. He represented Keene in the legislature in 1S66, 1S67, and 1S6S,\\nbeing chosen speaker his last two terms. He was nominated for Congress ia\\n1S71, and again in 1S73, but was defeated.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0657.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "624 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 86\\nLieutenant-colonel Henrv II Pearson was a student at Phillips Exeter\\nAcademy at the breaking out of the war. He was born in Illinois, February\\n26, 1840. Fired with military and patriotic ardor he volunteered among the\\nfirst, and afterwards returned to Exeter and raised a company, and joined the\\nSixth. He was a young man ot commanding figure and manner, kind and\\nattentive to the wants of his men, while his coolness and bravery gained for\\nhim the love and respect of all.\\nThe Seventh regiment was organized at Manchester in De-\\ncember, 1861. It was raised through the efforts of Adjutant-\\ngeneral Joseph C. Abbott, of Concord, who was appointed Heu-\\ntenant-colonel. The command of the regiment was given to\\nColonel H. S. Putnam, a native of Cornish, born in 1835, and a\\ngraduate of West Point in 1857. Daniel Smith, of Dover, was\\ncommissioned major, and Andrew H. Young, quartermaster.\\nThe Seventh left the State about the middle of January, 1862,\\nand for the rest of the winter was at Dry Tortugas. In June it\\nwas transferred to Port Royal, and some time later to St. Augus-\\ntine. In June, 1863, the regiment took part in the siege of\\nCharleston, and in the assault on Fort Wagner. There they\\nlost, in a brief charge, two hundred and eighteen killed,\\nwounded, and missing Colonel Putnam among the former.\\nAt the battle of Olustee, Florida, in February, 1864, the regi-\\nment lost two hundred and nine killed, wounded, and miss-\\ning. In April the Seventh joined the army of the James, and\\nfor the next year participated in the* siege of Petersburg and the\\ngreat battles in that neighborhood, including the capture of Fort\\nFisher. The regiment was mustered out in June, 1865. At\\nthat time there were less than one hundred men of the original\\nforce.\\nColonel Abbott was born in Concord, July 15, 1S25. After the war he\\nwas U. S. senator from North Carolina. Lieutenant Samuel H. Henderson,\\nof Dover, killed at Deep Run, August 16, 1S64, was born in December,\\n1833. Grovenor A. Curtice, of Hopkinton, was captain of company D of\\nthe Seventh.\\nThe Eighth regiment was organized at Manchester, and was\\nmustered into the service December 23, 1861, with Hawkes\\nFearing as colonel, O W. Lull, of Milford, lieutenant-colonel,\\nMorrill B. Smith, of Concord, major, and Dr. S. G. Dearborn,\\nof Milford, surgeon. In March, 1862, the Eighth joined the", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0658.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "lS62] WAR OF THE REBELLION. 625\\narmy of the Gulf, under General B. F. Butler. In May and\\nJune, 1863, the Eighth was in the engagement at Port Hudson.\\nIn their first assault, out of three hundred engaged, one hundred\\nand twenty-four were killed or wounded. Lieutenant-colonel Lull\\namong the former. In April and May, 1864, the Eighth,\\nmounted, took part in the Red River campaign. In December,\\nthe remnant of the regiment who had not re-enlisted passed up\\nthe Mississippi river, which they had helped to open, on their\\nway home.\\nThe re-enlisted veterans, to the number of three hundred\\nand five, remained, the battalion under command of Captain\\nJames H. Landers, of Concord, and did duty in the neighbor-\\nhood of Natchez until the collapse of the Rebellion. Among\\ntheir number was Captain Dana W. King, of Nashua.\\nColonel Fearing was a merchant of Manchester.\\nLieutenant-colonel Lull, a native of Weare, was born January\\n14, 1826, studied law, and settled in Milford.\\nThe Ninth regiment was organized at Concord during the\\nsummer of 1862, and left the State near the end of August,\\nunder command of Colonel E. O. Fellows, to join the army of\\nthe Potomac. In twenty days they took part in the battles of\\nSouth Mountain and Antietam, losing ten killed and over one\\nhundred wounded, Lieutenant-colonel Herbert B. Titus among\\nthe latter. In December the Ninth was engaged in the disas-\\ntrous battle of Fredericksburg, led by Colonel Titus and Lieu-\\ntenant-colonel John W. Babbitt. In 1863 they were in Ken-\\ntucky, and later at Vicksburg, and then in Kentucky and Ten-\\nnessee. In May, 1864, the regiment again joined the army of\\nthe Potomac, fought at Spottsylvania, in the trenches before\\nPetersburg, and in the great military movement which crushed\\nGeneral Lee and his army. It joined in the grand review at\\nWashington, and was mustered out in June, 1865.\\nOf the Ninth regiment were Majors George W. Everett and\\nGeorge H. Chandler, Adjutants William N. Cook and William\\nI. Brown, Quartermaster William Pitt Moses, and Captain L.\\nH. Pillsbury and Lieutenant W. S. Pillsbury, of Londonderry.\\nThe Tenth rejriment was organized at Manchester in the", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0659.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "636 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1S62\\nsummer of 1862. It was composed mostly of men of Irish\\nbirth or descent, and left for the front under command of Colonel\\nMichael T. Donohoe, Lieutenant-colonel John Coughlin, and\\nMajor Jesse F. Angell. It was joined to the army of the Poto-\\nmac. Wm. H. D. Cochran was a first lieutenant. Colonel\\nDonohoe, who was breveted brigadier-general for gallant conduct\\nin the field, was born in Lowell, Mass., November 22, 1838, and\\nwas educated at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester,\\nMass. For the last two years of the war he was in command of\\na brigade. The Tenth took part in the battle of Fredericks-\\nburg, in December, 1862. During 1863 the regiment was serving\\nin the neighborhood of Norfolk. In 1864 it joined the army of\\nthe Potomac, and took part in the battle of Cold Harbor. Most\\nof its service was with the army of the James. The Tenth\\nshowed splendid qualities at the assault on Fort Harrison. The\\nregiment rendered efficient service to the Union cause, and dis-\\nplayed coolness and bravery on many a battle-field. It was\\nmustered out in June, 1865.\\nThe Eleventh regiment was organized at Concord in the sum-\\nmer of 1862, and was mustered into service early in September,\\nunder command of Colonel Walter Harriman. Major Moses A.\\nCollins, Adjutant Charles R. Morrison, and Quartermaster\\nJames F. Briggs went out with the regiment. It joined the\\narmy of the Potomac in time to take part in the battle of\\nFredericksburg. In 1863 it served in Kentucky, and formed\\npart of the force investing Vicksburg, Mississippi. In the fall\\nthe regiment formed a part of the garrison which defended\\nKno.xville. In 1S64 the Eleventh was in the battle of the\\nWilderness, when Colonel Harriman was captured, and Lieu-\\ntenant-colonel Moses N. Collins was killed at Spottsylvania at\\nCold Harbor in the trenches before Petersburg at Hatcher s\\nRun and in the final struggle before Richmond and Peters-\\nburg. Colonel Harriman, afterwards governor of New Hamp-\\nshire, was breveted brigadier-general. Leander W. Cogswell\\nwas appointed lieutenant-colonel, and Evarts W. Farr, major.\\nThe Eleventh was discharged in June, 1865.\\nThe Twelfth regiment was raised mainly from Belknap and", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0660.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "1862] WAR OF THE REBELLION-. 62/\\nCarroll counties in August, 1862, and was entrusted to the\\ncommand of Colonel Joseph H. Potter, a native of Concord and\\na graduate of West Point, class of 1843. John F. Marsh was\\nlieutenant-colonel and George D. Savage, major. The regiment\\nleft for the front the last of September, and was in the battle of\\nFredericksburg, as part of the reserve. In May, 1863, it was\\nengaged in the battle of Chancellorsville, and in July was brigaded\\nwith the Second at Point Lookout. In 1864 it joined the army\\nof the James and fought at Drury s Bluff and Cold Harbor, and\\nformed a part of the line investing Richmond. The Twelfth\\nwas mustered out in July, 1865. Colonel Potter was appointed\\nbrigadier-general, and Thomas E. Barker, colonel. J. Ware\\nButterfield went out as captain Ira C. Evans as musician.\\nThe Thirteenth regiment was organized in Concord, in the\\nfall of 1862, and mustered into service near the end of Septem-\\nber. Aaron F. Stevens was appointed colonel, George Bowers,\\na veteran of the Mexican war, lieutenant-colonel, and Jacob\\nStorer, major. It went to the front early in October, and took\\npart in the battle of Fredericksburg. In 1863 the regiment\\nserved in the neighborhood of Norfolk. In 1864 the Thirteenth\\nwas in the attack on the Walthal Railroad, at the battles of\\nSwift Creek, Kingsland Creek, Drury s Bluff, and Cold Har-\\nbor, in the trenches before Petersburg, and in many of the\\nskirmishes and battles of the last year of the war, with the army\\nof the James. It was mustered out of the service in June, 1865.\\nColonel Stevens was appointed brigadier-general by brevet. In\\nthe regiment was Person C. Cheney, afterwards governor of New\\nHampshire, Mortier L. Morrison, George B. Twitchell, John\\nSullivan, Jr., Charles B. Gafney, Henry Churchill, Rufus P.\\nStaniels, George Farr, and Oliver M. Sawyer.\\nThe Fourteenth was the last of the three years regiments\\nraised in New Hampshire. It was organized at Concord in the\\nfall of 1862. Mustered into service September 24, and left the\\nState for Washington the latter part of October, and for over a\\nyear did duty in guarding the city of Washington. In February,\\n1864, the regiment was sent to the department of the Gulf, and\\nserved in the neighborhood of New Orleans until midsummer.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0661.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "628 IIISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1862\\nwhen it joined General Sheridan and the army of West Virginia,\\nand fought with him in the valley of the Shenandoah, at Win-\\nchester and elsewhere. In January, 1865, the Fourteenth were\\nordered to Savannah, Georgia. The regiment was discharged\\nthe last of July, 1865. Among the officers of the Fourteenth\\nwere Colonels Robert Wilson, Alexander Gardiner, Carroll D.\\nWright, Theodore A. Ripley, and Tileston A. Barker Dr. Wil-\\nliam H. Thayer, John W. Sturtevant, Solon A. Carter, Samuel\\nA. Duncan, and Stark Fellows.\\nThe Fifteenth regiment, of nine months men, was organized\\nin Concord in the fall of 1862, and arrived at New Orleans and\\njoined the army late in December. In the summer of 1863 the\\nregiment took part in the assault on Port Hudson and the siege\\nwhich led to the capture of that stronghold. The regiment was\\nmustered out in August. John W. Kingman, of Durham, was\\ncolonel. Among the officers were Lieutenant-colonel Henry\\nW. Blair, and Thomas Cogswell, jr.\\nThe Sixteenth regiment, of nine months men, was mustered\\ninto the service about the middle of October, 1862, and started\\nfor the front in December, with James Pike, colonel, Henry W.\\nFuller, lieutenant-colonel, and Samuel Davis, Jr., major. Their\\ndestination was the department of the Gulf, where on their ar-\\nrival they joined the Banks expedition, and were present at\\nthe fall of Port Hudson. On their return North their route was\\nup the Mississippi river.\\nThe Seventeenth regiment, of three months men, was raised\\nin the Third Congressional District, and Henry O. Kent, of\\nLancaster, was appointed colonel. Seven hundred and ninety-\\none men were enlisted and the regiment assembled in Concord\\nin November, 1862. It received a furlough from December\\nuntil April, 1863, when upon reassembling it was decided by the\\nauthorities to consolidate the Seventeenth with the veteran\\nSecond.\\nColonel Henry O. Kent, son of Richard Peabody and Emily\\nMann (Oakes) Kent, was born in Lancaster, February 7, 1834,\\ngraduated at Norwich Military University in 1854, read law, and\\nwas admitted to the bar in 1858. Soon after he became editor", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0662.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "C ha^\\nCo, f%2..i^", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0665.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0666.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "1S63] WAR OF THE KEliELLION. 629\\nof tlie Coos Republican. His editorials were strong, vigorous,\\nand earnest and his paper became a power in the councils of\\nhis party. After the war, in 1870, he sold his interest in the\\npaper and afterwards devoted himself to banking. In 1857 he\\nwas clerk of the House of Representatives, and a member in\\n1862, 1868, and 1869. He was a supporter of Horace Greeley\\nfor the presidency, in 1872, and thereafterwards was a member\\nof the Democratic party. He was accorded the Congressional\\nnomination in the Third District in 1875, 1877, and 187S. He\\nsucceeded Colonel Daniel Hall in the naval office at Boston\\nupon the election of President Cleveland.\\nJoseph A. Gilmore received the Republican nomination for\\ngovernor in 1863, and was elected and was re-elected in 1864.\\nHe was a man of wonderful activity and energy, pushing to\\ncompletion any work left to his care. His messages were full of\\npatriotic expressions and suggestions. He promptly furnished all\\ntroops demanded by the War Department, and was untiring in\\nhis attention to the soldiers in the field and in the hospitals.\\nJ. A. Gilmore was born in Weston, Vermont, in iSii, settled in Concord\\nin early manhood, was engaged in heavy mercantile business, and was super-\\nintendent of the Concord Railroad. He was a member of the State Senate\\nin 1S5S and 1S59. He died April 17, 1S67.\\nThe Eighteenth regiment was raised in the summer of 1864,\\nand went to the front under command of Colonel Thomas L. Liv-\\nermore. Joseph M. Clough was lieutenant-colonel, and Wil-\\nliam I. Brown, major. The regiment did good service in the\\nclosing campaign of the war, and was mustered out in June and\\nJuly, 1865.\\nThe First regiment of New Hampshire Cavalry was raised in\\nthe spring of 1864, and did good service for the Union cause.\\nThe State also sent to the front the First Light Battery, a\\nregiment of Heavy Artillery and several companies of Sharp-\\nshooters, the latter were in thirty battles, and several com-\\npanies to the First New England Cavalry.\\nDuring the Rebellion the State sent out 31,426 volunteers:\\nIn the First, 765 Second, 2645; Third, 2013; Fourth, 1749;\\nO. F, R. Waite s New Hampshire in the Rebellion.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0667.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "630 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1865\\nFifth, 2547; Sixth, 2531 Seventh, 17 19; Eighth, 15S6; Ninth,\\n1820; Tenth, 1293; Eleventh, 1622; Twelfth, 1417; Thirteenth,\\n1227; Fourteenth, 1346; Fifteenth, 876; Sixteenth, 874; Sev.\\nenteenth, 203 Eighteenth, 951; New England Cavalry, 419;\\nLight Battery, 163 Sharpshooters, 345 First Cavalry, 1491\\nHeavy Artillery, 1824. Of these, 1538 were killed or died of\\nwounds 2541 died of disease and 285 were missing in action.\\n1613 re-enli.sted.\\nThe State was honorably represented in the navy during the\\nstruggle to suppress the Rebellion. Among those who espe-\\ncially distinguished themselves were Captain George E. Belknap\\nand Captain George Hamilton Perkins.^ The latter, a son of\\nHon. Hamilton E. Perkins, of Concord, commanded an ironclad\\nmonitor in the attack on the defences of Mobile Bay, and op-\\nerated his vessel from a position on top of the turret.\\nDuring the Rebellion the country and the Union cause was\\nserved by men of New Hampshire birth who had removed to\\nother States. Among these were Benjamin F. Butler, John A.\\nDix, William Pitt Fessenden, Salmon P. Chase, Henry Wilson,\\nHorace Greeley, and Edward Henry Durell, beside a multitude\\nof others in less conspicuous positions.\\nHon. E. H. Durell, a Union man, and an eminent lawyer of\\nNew Orleans, was appointed by President Lincoln, in 1863,\\njudge of the United States District Court for the eastern district\\nof Louisiana. During the occupation of that city by the Union\\narmy, he was a friend to all Northern soldiers, especially those\\nfrom his native State. He resigned his office late in the year\\n1874. Judge Durell was offered the Austrian mission, and the\\noffice of governor of Louisiana, both of which he declined and\\nwas the leading candidate of Southern Republicans for the\\nvice-presidency in 1886. He died in Schoharie, N. Y., March\\n29, 1887.\\nGeorge H. Perkins was bom October 20, 1836, was appointed cadet midshipman in 1S51, and was\\nnoted through the war for his coolness and bravery.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0668.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "/V t^U/t:^^i^", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0671.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0672.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0673.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0674.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XX.\\nIRISH LV NEW HAMPSHIRE}\\nEarly Irish Settlers Soldiers in Indian Wars At Louisburg\\nCoNcyjEST OF Canada Revolution Emigration of 1S40-60 Ship\\nFever Terrors of the Plague Hawthorne s Description\\nMob IN Manchester Rebellion Growth of Catholic Church\\nBishop Bradley.\\nA S the ore can be traced by the outcroppings on the ledges in\\nthe mountains of Colorado and Nevada, so can the nationality\\nof those sprung from the Emerald Isle be determined from the\\nold Milesian or Scottish names which appear in the Provincial\\nrecords, almost from the first entry in 1623 down to the out-\\nbreak of the Revolutionary war in 1775. The terrible condition\\nof affairs in Ireland between 1640 and the final establishment\\nof William of Orange as the ruler of the British Empire in\\n1688, drove thousands away from Ireland. Many were sold,\\nyoung men and women, during the reign of Cromwell, in the\\nWest India Islands and New England, thus losing their religion\\nand nationality.\\nOn the defeat of James the Second the Irish army was dis-\\nbanded, the greater part leaving their country for ever to take\\nservice in the Continental countries the strength of their arms\\nand the intensity of their hatred towards England being felt on\\nscores of bloody battlefields for more than a hundred years\\nafterwards. It is not at all unreasonable to believe that many\\nwere induced to go to America from a love of adventure, as\\ntheir names appear on the military rolls of the colony at an\\nearly date, doing good work for the settlers, fighting the French\\nFrom the pen of Hon. John C. Linehan.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0677.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "6^2 nisroKV of xi:\\\\v Hampshire. [1865\\nin the north and the Indians around tliem. Not only in New\\nHampshire but in nearly all of the thirteen colonies, and most\\nespecially in Pennsylvania, were their services in demand, it\\nbeing a matter of record that William Penn applied for a con-\\ntingent for the defence of his infant colony. Darby Field, an\\nIrish soldier for discovery, is undoubtedly entitled to the\\ncredit of being the first of his race to step foot on the old Granite\\nState. He was sent here by Captain John Mason, in 1631, and\\naccording to all writers on New Hampshire was the first Euro-\\npean to ascend the White Mountains, in 1635. From 1641 to\\n1660 there will be found in the Provincial records such names\\nas Duggan, Dermott, Gibbons, Vaughan, Neal, Patrick, Buckley,\\nKane, Kelly, Brian, Healey, Connor, Murphy, Malone, Corbett,\\nMcCIary, McMullen, Pendergast, Keilly, McGowan, McGinnis,\\nand Sullivan. On following up the records, it will be found\\nthat many of the names have in the lapse of time been changed,\\nbut their identity can easily be established. In a company\\ncommanded by Captain John Gilman, in 1710-12, appear the\\nnames of Connor, Leary, Driscol, McGowan, Carthy, and\\nPatrick Greing. What is called the Scotch-Irish settlement\\nof Londonderry took place in 1719, but for seventy years before\\nthat date those distinctive Irish names a re found here and there\\nin the Provincial records.\\nIn the regiment commanded by Colonel Moore at the capture\\nof Louisburg, Cape Breton, in 1745, the following men served.\\nThe names are Celtic, unmistakably, some peculiar to Ireland\\nand Scotland, but the majority to Ireland\\nRichard Fitzgerald, Roger McMahon, John Welch, Thomas\\nI.eary, Daniel Kelly, Daniel Welch, Patrick Gault, Andrew\\nLogan, James McNeil, John Logan, Thomas Haley, John Foy,\\nJohn McNeil, James McLaughlan, James Mc Lenceh an, Grace,\\nFoy, Kenny, Malone, Connor, Murphy, Flood, Griffin, McGowan,\\nIVIoore, Kelly, Farley, Moloney, and McCarthy. Eleven years\\nafterward, in the war which ended in the capture of Canada\\nthe Old French War are enrolled the names of Moore,\\nMcDuffy, O Neal, McClary, Mitchel, Logan, Carthy, Con-\\nnor, Flood, McCormack, Malone, Strafon, Kelly, IMcMahon,", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0678.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "1865] IKIsn IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 633\\nHart, Sweeny, Murph_v, Ryan, Moloney, McMahon, Cunning-\\nham, Mooney, McGovvan, Sullivan, Madden, Welch, Molloy,\\nMcCarthy, McLaughlan, Connor, McCarrill, Tobin, Clark, Don-\\nnell, McKeon, Driscol, Rowan, McClennen, Connolly, Moylan,\\nHaley, Kennedy, Laney, McConnihie, Broderick, Rankin,\\nGrady, Meroney, McMillan, Ennis, McGee, Moran, Murphy,\\nand Powers. Many of these men bear the distinctive Irish\\ngiven names of Patrick, Michael, Dennis, Cornelius, and Darby,\\nand all are in appearance Irish as the hills.\\nBryan McSweeny, a veteran of the French war, was one of\\nthe selectmen of Holderness, in 1773, ami Michael Dwyer, in\\n1786; Obadiah Mooney in Canterbury, in 1786, and Jacob\\nJ- lynn in Duxbury, the same year. In Peterborough, 1786, were\\nthe families of McNee, Kenny, and McDonnell in Concord,\\nMcMillan, Roche, Guinlon, and Shute in Bedford, Callahan,\\nFJynn, Murphy, Manahan, O Neil and McCleary in Aliens-\\ntown, in 1787, the family of Duggan in Rochester, Killey,\\nLynch, and Patrick Murrey. Hon. Robert Means was born in\\nIreland and came to Amherst in 1764.\\nAntrim s first settler was Philip Roiley, 1774 and two of the\\nmost eminent citizens in its early days were Maurice Lynch aiul\\nTobias Butler, both natives of Ireland. Stephen and Dennis\\nPendergast were among the Barnstead settlers, in 1788 and in\\nDurham, 1749, the Sullivan family appear often. John, James,\\nHumprey, Valentine, libenezer, and their descendants, have been\\namong the first in New England. With these were the names of\\nDriscol, I urness, Cogan, Pendergast, Ryan, and Welch. Fitz-\\ngeralds appear in the Boscawen town records in 1757, and\\nCallahan in 1783. Carrigain in Concord, and Kelly and Mc-\\nGowan in Brentwood, kept up the connection and Dorchester\\nfurnishes a Darby Kelly and McClanathan Cocheco, a Connor,\\nKelly, and Hern Exeter, Roger Kelly and Cornelius Lary.\\nDublin was first settled by Thomas Morse, John Alexander,\\nHenry Strongman, and William Scott, natives of Ireland.\\nEpsom and the McCIarys are inseparable in colonial and State\\nrecords. In Francestown, 1772, Thomas, John, William, and\\nThomas Quigley, jr., represented one of the best old Irish", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0679.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "634 insTORV of new iiami shire. [1865\\nfamilies and in Gilmanton were Magoon, Malone, Mooney,\\nCasey, and Connor. In Goffstown one of the great Irish clans\\nhad a representative in John O Neil, in 1783, and Richard\\nCoughlan represented another in Chesterfield, in 1777. In\\nHoklerness was quite a collection of Celts in 1789 Hogan,\\nMooney, Dwyer, Connor and McSweeny in Hopkinton, Connor\\nand McLaughlan in Nottingham, Thomas Barry and in\\nLondonderry, among the names of others, are those of Donahoe,\\nO Neil, Donavan, Kelly, Callahan, Murphy, McLaughlan, and\\nHaley in Merrimack, McConihie, McCormick, and Griffin\\nin Dunstable, 1762, Donally and Lonergan in New Boston, 1775,\\nMcLaughlan, Rowan, Donavan, Quigley, Butler, and McGinnis\\nin New Castle, Malone, Neal, and Shannon m Newmarket,\\nFitzgerald, Malone, and Driscol. There is no doubt but\\nthat Irish blood was well mixed with that of the English set-\\ntlers in New Hampshire previous to the Revolution; and that\\ncontest proved there was no deterioration from the intermixture;\\nfor the names of Sullivan and Stark will go down to posterity\\nbeside those of Poor and Cilley, as gallant defenders of the\\nliberties of the people of the States. One illustration will prove\\nthe presence of those of Irish blood here before the Revolution.\\nThe expedition against the Six Nations, in 1777, was under the\\ncommand of Major-general John Sullivan, theson of Irish parents.\\nThe division was made up of three brigades and two of the bri-\\ngade commanders. Generals William Maxwell and Edward Hand,\\nwere natives of Ireland and at least two of the regimental com-\\nmanders, Colonel William Butler and Colonel Thomas Proctor, were\\nfrom the same country. Of the part taken by the Irish in New\\nHampshire in the struggle for independence, her rolls of the\\nkilled and wounded bear witness, from Bunker Hill to Yorktown.\\nThe Mac s and the O s were generally in the thickest of the\\nfray, and their record in the new world for bravery and deter-\\nmination equalled their best efforts in Europe.\\nThe outbreak of the French Revolution, the long wars that\\nfollowed, ending only at Waterloo, and the brief period of pros-\\nperity that resulted from that contest to the people of Ireland,\\nin an increased demand for her agiicultural products at an", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0680.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "1865] IRISH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 635,\\nenhanced value, checked for the time being the tide of emigra-\\ntion from that country.\\nFor the first time for centuries the people there had a compara-\\ntive peace. No outbreak had taken place since the rebellion of\\n1 798. The population of the country had rapidly increased, so that\\nin 1840 it was over eight millions of souls. Up to this year very\\nfew of the Irish people had sailed for America since the year\\n1800; scarcely any to New England. The result was that when\\nthe dreadful famine broke out between 1840 and 1850, and\\nthe exodus to America began, the Irish people were strangers\\nto those of their kindred in New Hampshire whose ancestors had\\nleft Ireland more than a century before. And to add to the feel-\\ning of estrangement, the difference in religion made itself felt, as\\nthe great bulk of the new emigrants were Catholics.\\nThe outlook then for the poor Irish Catholic, whom poverty\\nor misfortune had driven to the United States during the period\\nbetween 1S35 and 1S55, was anything but pleasing, especially\\nin New England while the fearful stories told of the dreadful\\nscenes on shipboard, the deaths from the famine fever, and the\\nconsequent fear of infection, made their presence both undesir-\\nable and unwelcome. The native American riots in Philadelphia\\nand New York the burning of the convent in Charlestown,\\nMass. the blood-curdling stories circulated by Maria Monk\\nand the brutal and false harangues of the apostate priests\\nHogan, Chiniquy, and Gavazzi, aided by the insensate ravings\\nof the fanatic madman, the Angel Gabriel, influenced public\\nsentiment, which had already been deeply prejudiced against\\nanything Catholic by early teachings, strengthened by the liter-\\nature of the day. What the Irish Catholics suffered in those sad\\ndays the present generation can form no conception of. Starv-\\ning and dying at home, those, who were fortunate enough to\\nhave the means, left their native land in despair; and, turning\\ntheir faces to the west, resolved to seek their fortunes in America,\\nwhere they could earn an honest livelihood, and give their fami-\\nlies a decent maintenance. The emigration first inclined towards\\nCanada, from whence it overflowed into the States. It was but\\nnatural that the terrible disease which they brought across the", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0681.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "636 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 865\\nocean with thcni inspired terror and deepened the prejudice,\\nalready strong enough, against them, although their sufferings\\n:uid misery appealed strongly to the best sympathies of the\\nhuman heart. The first of the fever-smitten ships to enter the\\nSt. Lawrence was the Urania from Cork, with several hun-\\ndred emigrants, a large proportion of them sick and dying from\\nthe awful plague, on May 8, 1847; and before the first week of\\nJune following eighty-four ships of various tonnage were quar-\\nantined at Grosse Island, Quebec, not one of which was free from\\nthe taint of malignant typhus, the offspring of famine and of\\nthe foul ship-hold. This fleet of vessels literally reeked with\\npestilence. All sailing vessels, the merciful speed of the well-\\nappointed steamer being unknown to the emigrants of those\\ndays, a tolerably quick passage lasted from six to eight weeks,\\nwhile passages of ten or twelve weeks, and even a longer time,\\nwere not considered at all extraordinary at a period when craft\\nof every kind the most unsuited, as well as the least sea-\\nworthy, were pressed into the service of human deportation.\\nWho can imagine the horrors of even the shortest passage in\\nan emigrant ship crowded beyond its utmost capacity of stowage\\nwith unhap]: y beings of all ages, with fever raging in their\\nmidst. Under the most favorable circumstances it is impossible\\nto maintain perfect purity of atmosphere between decks, even\\nwhen ports are open and every device is adopted to secure the\\ngreatest amount of ventilation. But a crowded emigrant ship\\nof forty years since, with fever aboard! the crew sullen or brutal\\nfrom very desperation, or paralysed from terror of the plague\\nthe miserable passengers unable to help themselves, or afford\\nthe least relief to each other one-fourth or one-third or one-\\nhalf of the entire number in different stages of the disease\\nmany dying, some dead the fatal poison intensified by the in-\\ndescribable foulness of the air breathed and rebreathed by the\\ngasping sufferers the wails of children, the ravings of the\\ndelirious, the cries and groans of those in mortal agony Of\\nthe eighty-four vessels anchored at Grosse Isle, in the summer\\nof 1847, there was not a single one to which this description\\nmight not rightly apply. Sheds were built for the unfortunate", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0682.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "1865] IRISH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 637\\npeople, sick and dying and round tlieir walls lay groups of half-\\nnaked men, women, and children. Hundreds were literally\\nflung on the beach, left amid the mud and stones to crawl on the\\ndry land how they could. A priest who was an eye-witness of\\nthese distressing scenes said he had seen, one day, thirty-seven\\npeople lying on the beach, crawling on the mud and dying like\\nfish out of water. Many of these, and many more besides,\\ngasped out their last breath on that fatal shore, not able to drag\\nthemselves from the slime in which they lay.\\nThe mortality was frightful, and on that barren isle the dust\\nof more than twelve thousand human beings, the victims of\\nfamine and plague, mingle with the soil of the land of promise.\\nOf this number full five thousand were simply described as un-\\nknown. Several priests a few Irish, the majority French Can-\\nadian caught the infection, and out of twenty-five who were\\nattacked seven paid with their lives the penalty of their devo-\\ntion. Not a few were professors in colleges, but at the appeal\\nof the archbishop they left their classes and their studies for\\nthe horrors and perils of the fever sheds. This deplorable havoc\\nof human life left hundreds of orphans dependent on the charity\\nof the public and nobly did the French Canadians respond to\\nthe unconscious appeal of this multitude of little ones. From\\nthe loss of the parents it was hard to determine the relationship\\nbetween the unfortunate waifs. It was only by patiently observ-\\ning the little creatures when they found strength to play, and\\none infant ran to meet another, or caught its hand, or smiled at\\nit, or kissed it, or showed pleasure in its society, that a clue was\\nfound, and many children of the same parents thus preserved\\nbut many more were separated forever, and both name and iden-\\ntity lost. Thousands were in this way adopted and brought up\\nby their kind protectors, but lost to their tongue and name.\\nSunday after Sunday, as the children got well enough, they were\\ne.xposed at the churches after mass by the good priests, who made\\ntouching appeals to those who could provide them with homes\\nand these appeals were not in vain, for all found shelter and pro-\\ntection from the kind-hearted French farmers. But it was not\\nalone at Quebec that such dreadful scenes were witnessed, as", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0683.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "638 HISTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [J865\\nMontreal, farther up the river, had their counterpart over six\\nthousand dying at the east banl of the river, at a point not far\\nfrom the terminus of the Victoria Bridge. As at Quebec, the\\npriests and nuns were unwearied in their care of the afflicted,\\nand thirteen out of thirty of the Grey nuns who were stricken\\ngave their lives a sacrifice for the poor and lowly. With one\\nexception, every priest in the city was down with the plague, and\\neight of them went to their graves. From Bishop Bourget down\\nto the lowest secular priest all were equally exposed, and faced\\ndeath to relieve the wants of those unable to help themselves.\\nAmong the first to fall a victim was Father Richards, a venerable\\nman long past the time of active service.\\nA convert from Methodism in early life, he had specially\\ndevoted himself to the Irish, who were then but a very small\\nportion of the population.\\nNot only did he mainly provide for the safety of the hundreds\\nof orphan children, but, in spite of his great age, he labored in\\nthe fever sheds with a zeal which could not be excelled. Father\\nRichards wants fresh straw for the beds; said a messenger to\\nthe mayor. Certainly he shall have it. I wish it was gold,\\nfor his sake said the mayor. A few days after the Protestant\\nmayor and Catholic priest were martyrs of charity.\\nOnly a few days before stricken down. Father Richards\\npreached on Sunday in St. Patrick s, and those who heard him\\non that occasion never forgot the venerable appearance and im-\\npressive words of that noble servant of God. Addressing a\\nhushed and sorrow-stricken audience, as the tears rolled down\\nhis aged cheeks, he thus spoke of the faith and sufferings of the\\nIrish\\nOh my beloved brethren, grieve not, I beseech you, for the\\nsufferings and death of so many of your race, perchance your\\nkindred, who have fallen, and are still to fall, victims to this\\ndreadful pestilence. Their patience, their faith, have edified all\\nwhose privilege it was to witness it. Their faith, their resigna-\\ntion to the will of God under such unprecedented misery, is\\nsomething so extraordinary that, to realize it, it requires to be\\nseen. Oh my brethren, grieve not for them they did but pass", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0684.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "IS65] IRISH IN XEW IIAMPSIHRE. 639\\nfrom earth to the glory of heaven. True, they were cast in\\nheaps into the earth, their place of sepulture marked by no name\\nor epitaph but I tell you, my dearly beloved brethren, that from\\ntheir ashes will spring up the faith along the St. Lawrence, for\\nthey died martyrs, as they lived confessors, to the faith. How\\nprophetic the words of this good man were, the innumerable\\nspires, surmounted by the cross, from the St. Lawrence to the\\nGolden Gate, bear witness. There, as at Quebec, the orphan chil-\\n(.Iren were provided with homes among the generous Canadians\\nand their own loving kindred, the Irish of Montreal. For years\\nno stone or epitaph marked the last resting-place of the bodies\\nif those who left their native land with such high hope of the\\nfuture and it remained for the workmen who built the Victoria\\nBridge, most of them Englishmen, to place a memorial there of\\nthe sad event. In the centre of a railed-in spot of land at\\nPoint St. Charles, within a hundred yards of the bridge, there\\nis a huge boulder taken from the bed of the river and placed\\non a platform of roughly hewn stone, and on it there is this\\ninscription\\nTO\\nPRESERVE FROM DESECRATION\\nTHE REMAINS OF SIX THOUSAND EMIGRANTS,\\nWHO DIED OF SHIP-FEVER\\nA. D. 1S47-S,\\nTHIS STONE IS ERECTED BY THE\\nWORKMEN OF MESSRS. PETO, BRASSY, AND EETTS,\\nEMPLOYED IN THE\\nCOJJSTRUCTION OF THE VICTORIA BRIDGE,\\nA. D. 1859.\\nIn the little church of the Bon Secour, familiar to all visitors\\nto Montreal, can be seen among the many votive offerings a me-\\nmorial picture, representing, with all the painter s art, the horrors\\nand the glories of the fever shed, the dying Irish strong in\\ntheir faith, the ministering sisters shedding peace on the pillow\\nof suffering, the holy bishop affording the last consolations of\\nreligion to those to whom the world was as nothing but in its\\nterrible significance the rude monument by the mighty river s\\nside is far more impressive.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0685.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "640 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [^^^S\\nBut the suffering did not cease here, but continued still up the\\nriver, which must for that reason be ever memorable in the\\nannals of the Irish Catholic exodus of 1S47-8. In the grounds\\nof the General Hospital at Kingston rests all that was mortal of\\n1900 emigrants who were in their sufferings tenderly attended\\nto by Protestant as well as Catholic the Protestant mayor and\\naldermen working side by side with the good sisters and priests.\\nThe same scenes of suffering and death were to be witnessed in\\nToronto. Sheds were constructed, and hearses and dead-carts\\nwere in hourly requisition. The panic was universal, but the\\nhumane and high-spirited of all denominations did their duty\\nmanfully. The priests were ceaselessly at work, with the usual\\nresult the sacrifice of several of their number.\\nThe greatest loss was that of the bishop, Dr. Power, a man\\nvenerable in years, a native of Ireland. He was implored not\\nto go to the sheds and expose himself, but he replied, My good\\npriests are down in sickness, and the duty devolves on me.\\nRarely if ever has a larger funeral procession been seen in\\nToronto, and never has there been a more universal manifestation\\nof sorrow than was witnessed on that mournful occasion. Every\\nplace of business in the city was closed, and Protestant vied\\nwith Catholic in doing honor to the memory of a holy and brave-\\nhearted prelate. The city of St. John, New Brunswick, was\\nthe scene of a similar horror, and destruction of human life.\\nWherever an emigrant ship touched the shores of the British\\nProvinces, or sailed into their rivers, there the same awful\\nloss of life was recorded. A full description 6i those terrible\\ndays is given in Maguire s Irish in America, from which the\\nforegoing is condensed and how the appearance of the unfor-\\ntunate people, who swarmed over the line into the States, struck\\nthe average American, has been told by Nathaniel Hawthorne,\\nin his sketch of an Inland Port Nothing struck me more in\\nBurlington than the great number of Irish emigrants. They\\nhave filled the British Provinces to the brim, and still continue\\nto ascend the St. Lawrence in infinite tribes, overflowing by\\nevery outlet into the States. At Burlington they swarm in huts\\nand mean dwellings near the lake, lounge about the wharves, and", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0686.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "J 865] IRISH IN NEW IIAMPSinKi;. 64 1\\nelbow the native citizens oat of competition in tlieir own line.\\nEvery species of mere bodily iabor is the prerogative of these\\nIrish. Such is their multitude in comparison with any possible\\ndemand for their services, that it is difficult to conceive how a\\nthird part of them should earn even a daily glass of whiskey,\\nwhich is doubtless their first necessary of life daily bread being\\nonly the second. Some were angling in the lake, but had caught\\nonly a few perches, which little fishes, without a miracle, would\\nbe nothing among so many. A miracle there certainly must have-\\nbeen, and a daily one, for the sustenance of these wandering\\nhordes. The men e.\\\\hibit alazy strengtliand careless merriment,\\nas if they had fed well hitherto, and meant to feed better here-\\nafter. The women strode about, uncovered in the open air, with\\nfar plumper waists and brawnier limbs, as well as bolder faces,\\nthan our shy and slender females. And their progeny, which was\\ninnumerable, had the reddest and roundest cheeks of any child-\\nren in America.\\nNot very kindly or sympathetic the remarks of the genial\\nHawthorne, but they are illustrative of the sentiments of the\\nnatives to the manor born in those days. The most extravagant\\nstories were told and believed, and many people would go quite\\na distance to see the Irish. One woman, when a young girl,\\ntold the writer that, in company with a female friend, she\\nwalked six miles to the terminus of a railroad then being con-\\nstructed to see an Irishman, and was surprised as well as disap-\\npointed to find that they looked just like other men. Their first\\nemployment was on the railroads, in the canals, and in every\\nplace where their muscles could be used to the best advantage.\\nWherever hard labor was required in the ditch, the cut, the\\nmines, laying track, building roads, shovelling, and spike driving,\\nthe services of the Irish were in demand. Very often the work\\nwas of the hardest description, the hours long, and the pay small\\nbut severe as the labor was, and long as the days were, and small\\nas the wages might be, their wit or humor never left them and\\nthe loved ones in the Old Art were not neglected when pay-\\nday came around. Of the sacrifices made by those faithful\\npioneers, God alone knows. Day and night their thoughts were", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0687.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "642 HISTORV OF NEW ilA.Ml SHlKE. 865\\nconstantly with the dear ones at home and the aim of all was to\\nwork and save enough to bring them across that ocean which\\nfurnished graves for so many thousands. The experience of one\\nwas that of all. A native of Cork who came over in 1847 made\\nhis home in New Hampshire. He left behind him a wife and\\nfive children, the oldest but eleven years of age. For two long,\\nlong years he toiled unceasingly to save a sum sufficient to pay\\nthe expense of their passage, and in the meantime sent money\\nregularly each quarter to provide them with the necessaries of\\nlife but the happy hour finally arrived, when, after a long and\\ntempestuous voyage of over six weeks, the loved ones were\\nonce more united, to begin anew the battle of life on the west-\\nern shores of the Atlantic. He located in a village in the\\ncentral part of the State, with none of his own nationality less\\nthan twelve miles on either side of him, no church, the nearest\\nat Lowell, seventy-five miles south. Here he resided four years,\\nin a small community, all American and Protestant, but good\\nkind neighbors, and friendly to the most extreme degree.\\nBut if the church and the priest were not present, the faith\\nwas kept alive. The prayers at mass were read regularly every\\nSunday, and the rosary recited during Lent and Advent. That\\ngood friend of the race, Tlie Boston Pilot God bless it and\\nPatrick Donahoe for the good it has done was a weekly visitor\\nand after a time the priest made an occasional call to baptize the\\nchildren, and give their elders an opportunity to go to their duty.\\nHis life s work is about done, but he has seen grow up around\\nhim a community free from the intolerance and prejudice which\\nmet him forty years ago and this change was brought about by\\nthe honest industry which has made the good Irish Catholic\\nrespected wherever he cast his lot. The cities of New Hamp-\\nshire have now magnificent Catholic churches, where in his day\\nthere were none and it is a very small village where there are\\nany manufacturing interests that the little chapel surmounted\\nwith a cross, humble it may be, cannot now be found. One of his\\nsons is a respected priest in the church of which he has all his\\nlife been a devoted adherent. Another is an honored citizen of\\nthe State, and a grand-daughter is one of the order of the Sisters", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0688.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "1865] IRISH IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 643\\nof Mercy. So that in Iiis own life he but illustrates the expe-\\nrience of others, not only in the State, but in the nation.\\nThe period between 1850 and the outbreak of the Rebellion\\nwas one of trouble and sorrow for the poor Irish emigrants.\\nRiots broke out in Baltimore, New Orleans, and Louisville,\\nKentucky but it is to the credit of the American people that,\\nin the main, the outbreaks were the result of the inflammable\\nharangues of men like those mentioned. The loyalty even of the\\nnew comers was doubted and in the State of Massachusetts half\\na dozen military companies, composed of men of Irish birth or\\norigin, were disbanded on the ground that they could not be\\ntrusted with arms in their hands. The excitement all over New\\nEngland was intense. A priest in Maine was tarred and feath-\\nered, from the effect of which he never recovered. The Catholic\\nchurch in Manchester was attacked by a mob on the 4th of July,\\n1855, the priest having to flee for his life. Thirty years later,\\nat his death in 1885, a mark of respect was paid to his memory\\nby the citizens of Manchester, that showed how completely pub-\\nlic sentiment had changed. On the day of his funeral all of the\\nmills were shut down, and all of the stores closed, during the hours\\nof service and this was sincere for no man in the city was more\\nrespected by Catholic and Protestant alike than the saintly\\nFather McDonald, whose whole life had been devoted unself-\\nishly to the service of God. But the time was rapidly approach-\\ning when the loyalty of the Irish Catholic was to be tried and\\nnobly he stood the test, as the record of the State proves in the\\neventful period from 1861 to 1865. The first call for troops in\\nApril, 1 86 1, to repel the threatened invasion of Washington, and\\nthe second for 300,000 more to save the Union, found the Irish\\nCatholics of New Hampshire as eager to enroll themselves in\\nthe ranks of the volunteers, as those who were born here of the\\nold stock and of a different creed and from the first conflict at\\nBull Run, in July, 1861, down to the end at Appomatox, in 1865,\\nthe men of New Hampshire shed their blood freely for the res-\\ntoration of the Union. Under the old flag they all loved, they\\nforgot the differences of creed and nationality; and in the fires of\\nmany battlefields were welded ties of love and friendship that", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0689.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "644 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIKE. 865\\nfanaticism can never sever. Not a muster roll of a company,\\nbattery, or regiment, not a soldier s monument, rearing its column\\nto the sky, not a tablet or monument in public square or ceme-\\ntery, inscribed in memory of New Hampshire s soldier dead\\nbut will be found engraved with the names of many men or bovs\\nof Irish birth or lineage, who gave all that was dear for the land\\nthey loved.\\nIn the Third regiment, company C, Captain M. T. Donahoe,\\nwere one hundred of the old race, and scattered through the\\nother companies of the regiment were more than double that\\nnumber. Company G, Captain M. O. Flynn, of the Fourth,\\nwere of the same stock. Two companies in the Eighth, under\\nCaptains Connelly and Healey, and nearly one full regiment,\\nthe Tenth, Colonel Michael T. Donahoe, proved the loyalty of\\nthe Irish to their adopted country. Not a regimental organiza-\\ntion that left the State, from the First to the Eighteenth, the\\ncavalry, light battery, and the United States navy and marine\\ncorps, but what had representatives of the race in their ranks\\nand it can be said to their eternal honor that the great majority\\nof them, or of those in the regiments named, volunteered be-\\nfore the government offered bounties as an inducement to enlist.\\nDuring their four years of service, either in camp, on the march,\\non the battlefield, on picket, in the hospital, or in the prison pen,\\nthe question of nationality or creed was never touched upon the\\nblue jacket made Americans of them, and the question of loyalty\\nwas then and there forever settled. The children of the men who\\ntoiled on the railroad, and who served in building, hewing, cutting,\\ndigging, and trenching, thirty and forty years ago, are to-day\\nmany of them skilled mechanics, business and professional men,\\nand making their mark in the State. The great body of them\\nare honest, industrious, law-abiding people, willing to earn an\\nhonorable living, pay their just obligations, and live in peace\\nwith their neighbors. Their clergymen are beloved by their\\nparishioners, and esteemed by their fellow citizens generally.\\nThe present generation, nor the one following, cannot forget\\nthe labors of Father McDonald in Manchester, Father O Donnell\\nin Nashua, Father Murphy in Dover, and Father Barry in Concord.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0690.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "1865] IRISH IN NEW HAJIPSHIKIC. 645\\nThe first two have gone to reap the reward of tlieir labors the\\nlast two still remain, loved and honored by all who know them\\nand in the State the church is presided over by a prelate^ whose\\ngenial presence and loving devotion to the spiritual interests of\\nhis flock are a benison to all with whom he comes in contact.\\nRealizing, then, the full significance of the events of the past\\nforty-eight years, the American in New Hampshire of Irish\\nbirth or origin can in a few years pass between the gates of the\\nold and new centuries, conscious that he has fulfilled the duties,\\nof the one, and stands ready to assume the responsibilities of\\nthe other.\\nRev. Michael Lucey, of Exeter, died in 1S73, aged nearly 67 years; and Rev. Father Drummond,\\nof Dover, died in 1883, aged 75 years: both full of years and honors. To them is much credit due\\nfor the growth of the Catholic church in New Hampshire.\\nRight Reverend Dennis M. Bradley, bishop of Manchester, was born in\\nCastle Island, County Kerry, Ireland, February ^5, 1S46. His father died in\\n1S53, and his mother, with six children, came to America the following year\\naud settled in Manchester. He graduated at the College of the Holy Cross,\\nat Worcester, Mass., in 1S67 studied theology at St. Joseph s Provincial\\nTheological Seininary, at Troy. N. Y. was ordained in June, 1S71 and for\\nnine years was with Bishop Bacon and Bishop Healy, at Portland. In iSSa\\nhe was chosen pastor of St. Joseph s church, Manchester. June 11, 1SS4, he\\nwas consecrated first bishop of the new see of Manchester (New Hampshire\\nhaving been created a diocese), being at the time the youngest bishop of the\\nRoman Catholic Church in the United States. In iSSS Bishop Bradley had\\nunder his jurisdiction about eighty-five thousand Catholics under the spiritual\\nrare of fifty-six priests, forty-four churches, aside from two building, thirtv-\\nfour parochial schools seventeen for boys, and seventeen for girls, only four\\nof each conducted by lay teachers four academies for girls, four orphan\\nasylums, one hospital, one home for aged women, and a Catholic high school\\nat Manchester under the care of si.K Christian Brothers.\\nSt. Joseph s Cathedral and the episcopal residence at Manchester cost over\\n$125,000.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0691.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXI.\\nSINCE THE REBELLION, 1 865-1 888.\\nFrederick Smyth Sylvester Marsh Provincial Papers Rev. Dr.\\nBouTON Walter Harriman Plblic Instruction Academies and\\nHigh Schools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John B. Clark\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. C. Moore People Newspa-\\npers Onslow Stearns James A. Weston Bishop Baker E.\\nA. Straw Asa Fowler J. E. Sargent Charles H. Burns\\nP. C. Cheney Phillips Exeter Academy Constitutional Con-\\nvention B. F. Prescott J. F. Briggs White Mountains\\nNatt Head\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles H. Bell Frank Jones Ossian Ray S.\\nW. Hale C. H. Bartlett J. H. Gallinger Moody Currier\\nC. H. Sawyer Jonathan Sawyer Joseph Wentworth Jonathan\\nKittredge W. E. Chandler Harry Bingham Railroads\\nSummer Resorts Manufacturing.\\nTN the Republican convention of January, 1865, Frederick\\nSmyth, of Manchester, received two-thirds of an informal\\nballot, which was then made unanimous by acclamation.\\nFrederick Smyth was born in Candia in iSig, and in early manhood was in\\nInisiness in Manchester. He soon became interested in municipal atTairs, and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was twice elected city clerk. His manifest efficiency in cit^ affairs, and the\\nthoroughness with which he mastered every detail, suggested his fitness for\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mayor, and he was accordingly nominated and elected to that office in March,\\n1S52. He was re-elected for two successive years thereafter, and again at a\\ntime of peculiar importance in municipal affairs in 1S64. A distinguishing\\nmark of his first year s administration will ever remain in the trees which adorn\\nthe parks and streets of Manchester. In July and in October of Mayor Smyth s\\nfirst year, the Whig party lost its two great leaders, Henry Clay and Daniel\\nWebster, and the attention of the citizens was called to some fitting expres-\\nsion of feeling in both cases by a brief message from the mayor. His first\\nelection was by Whig votes over the opposition of Democrats and Free-Soilers\\nhis second by Whig and Free-Soil votes; his third with very little oppo-\\nsition, and his fourth with virtually none at all. During his second year the\\nF. B. Eaton.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0692.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "A\\n^^c-e-z-L-o^/\\nG0VKB,NOR or NEW HAMF", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0695.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0696.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "1865] SINCE TIIK KKIU-.I.I.IOX. 647\\nAmoskeag F alls biidgewas rebuilt, and parts of Gofistowii ai.^. Bedford were\\nannexed to the city. The most lionorable monument, however, which will\\nstand to his name is the part he took in the foundation of a free public library.\\nIn 1855 he was appointed by Governor Metcalf and council, chairman of\\ncommissioners to locate and build a House of Reformation for juvenile oflonders.\\nIt was dedicated in 1S5S. In the year 1S57 and 1S5S Mr. Smyth was a mem-\\nber of the State legVslature, and was also made treasurer of the Reform school.\\nIn the convention which nominated Ichabod Goodwin, in 1859, stood fourth\\non the list of candidates. In 1S60 he was president of the State Republican\\nConvention, and was soon after appointed by Secretary Cha.se one of the\\nagents to obtain subscriptions to the national loan. In tS6i he was appointed\\nas one of the agents on the part of the United States to the International\\nExhibition at London, where Her Majesty s commissioners made liim a juror.\\nEarly in the war of the Rebellion he was cashier and principal iinancial\\nmanager of the Merrimack River Bank, and also of the Merrimack River\\nSavings Bank. His faith in the government led him to invest largely in\\nbonds and to accept the charter for the bank of discount, which tlienceforth\\nbecame the First National Bank of Manchester. At that time few men or\\nbanks cared to follow his example, but the event justified his sagacity.\\nHe was elected by a majority of over six thousand, the largest\\nmajority given to any governor for twenty-four years. He\\nentered upon no easy task. The State was beginning to feel\\nseverely the stress of the time. Gradually a great debt had\\naccumulated. Regiment after regiment had been promptly\\nequipped and sent into the field, and the banks had advanced\\nmoney quite to the extent of their courage, and nearly to that of\\ntheir ability. In the open market were met the gold bonds of\\nthe government, free from taxes. The same trouble pulsed\\nthrough all the arteries of the body politic and the people of a\\nState always careful and conservative in all its expenditures beheld\\nwith something like dismay this mountain of obligation swollen\\ninto millions. It was almost impossible to get money for current\\nexpenses. A previous legislature had authorized the issue of\\nthree and one-half millions of six per cent. State bonds, payable\\nin currency, only $424,000 of which had been taken. Governor\\nSmyth, in his first message, recommended the issue of bonds\\nbetter calculated to meet the exigencies of the case, and that\\ncurrent expenses be provided for by taxation. As a matter of\\ninterest to capitalists, he took care to set forth the resources of\\nthe State, its prudent habit in expenditures, and the hostility to\\nF. B. Eaton.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0697.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "64S IlISTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 865\\nrepudiation in every form which our people had inherited from\\na frugal, patriotic, and God-fearing ancestry. We must, he\\nsaid, now observe the most rigid economy in expenditure, and\\nbring the expenses to a peace basis as soon as possible. Our\\npeople are naturally economical, and hold sacred all pecuniary\\nobligations. He compared, in a very effective manner, the\\nagricultural products of a State vi^hich had hitherto borne the\\nreputation of producing only men, with those of some of the\\nmore fertile members of the Union, to our decided advantage.\\nHe called to mind the unrivalled water-power with its present\\nand prospective improvement, and urged that attention to the\\nlatent wealth of the State which due regard to our prosperity\\ndemanded.\\nIn the first three months of his administration he raised over\\none million of dollars on favorable terms, a large amount of which\\nwas obtained in Manchester. From that time forward the financial\\naffairs of the State received the most scrupulous attention. In\\nthe haste and waste of war, unavoidable confusion at times arose\\nin accounts between the several States and the general govern-\\nment, and it was not only then impossible to pay our debts, but\\nequally so to get our dues. Governor Smjth s large acquaintance\\nwith men gave him influence at headquarters, and he suffered\\nno opportunity to pass to advocate the claims of his State.\\nAt the close of the war. Governor Smyth found the suspended\\nand disallowed accounts of the State against the general govern-\\nment of over one million of dollars. These disallowances and\\nsuspensions were mainly in the expenditures growing out of\\nearlier military operations previous to his accession to office.\\nGovernor Smyth did not busy himself to fix charges of petty\\nlarceny against one officer, or of wholesale robbery against\\nothers. He did not assume that every man who was charged\\nwith fitting out the first regiment sent from the State had stolen\\nall that he couldn t duplicate vouchers for on official paper. On\\nthe contrary, he urged upon the accounting officers, at Wash-\\nington, the impetuous zeal with which the State had responded\\nto the call of the government, and represented the impossibility\\nof complete exactness in the accounts. Under such circum-", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0698.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "1 866] SINCE THE KEBELLIOX. 649\\nstances he exerted himself to obtain vouchers wlierc his prede-\\ncessor had omitted to secure them, and to explain their absence\\nwhen they could not be procured. In this way he saved hun-\\ndreds of thousands of dollars to the treasury of the State, and\\nput no stain on its fair fame.\\nAt the end of his first year, his nomination for a second term\\nfollowed as a matter of course, and he was re-elected in 1866 by\\na large majority.\\nThe second year of Governor Smyth s administration was in\\nall respects as satisfactory as the first. The State debt was\\nfunded at a lower rate of interest than was offered by the gen-\\neral government. The revision of the statutes, the reorganiza-\\ntion of the militia, measures looking to the restoration of fish to\\nour waters, and the publication of ancient State papers, are\\namong some of the matters of general interest.\\nSaid the Boston Jotirnal. on his retirement at the close of the second term\\nGovernor Smvth s administration lias been highly successful, not only in a\\nfinancial point of view, which is demonstrated by statistics, but in all other\\nrespects. Said the Comtnercial Bulletin: He has been as vigorous and\\ncareful of the interests of the people as if those concerns were personal to\\nhimself, and successfully sought so to manage the financial affairs of the State\\nthat its credit stands as well as any other commonwealth. Said the Daily\\nMonitor: To-daj Governor Smyth resigns his trust with the proud con-\\nsciousness of leaving nothing uncertain or unsettled which diligence, busi-\\nness tact, and untiring zeal could close up and arrange; nor has Governor\\nSmyth s administration been merely a financial success he has neglected no\\nsingle public interest; himself a practical example of all the virtues which\\nconstitute a good citizen, he has interested himself in every movement which\\nlooked to the welfare of the community and the promotion of industry, tem-\\nperance, and good morals among the people.\\nIt is a significant fact, that in a time of much party feeling the governor\\nwas able to sav in his valedictory, Whatever may have been the difterence\\nof opinion among us, there has been no factious opposition from any source\\nto measures necessary for the public good, but I have been uniformly receiv-\\ning the hearty co-operation of all parties in this difficult work. Only once\\nduring his two years administration did he consider it necessary to interpose\\nhis veto, and the House sustained him 132 to 6.\\nSo successful was the administration that, contrary to precedent, many of\\nthe most influential and respectable journals of the State advocated his nom-\\nination for a third term.\\n2While on a visit to his native State in 1852, Mr. Sylvester\\nI F. B. Eaton. C. C. CofBn.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0699.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "650\\nIlISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[1866\\n^lai sh ascended Mount Washington, accompanied by Rev. A.\\nC. Tliompson, pastor of tiie Eliot Church, Roxlnii y, and while\\nstruggling up the steep ascent, the idea came to him that a rail-\\nroad to the summit was feasible, and that it could be made a\\nprofitable enterprise. He obtained a charter for such a road in\\n1858, but the breaking out of the war postponed action till 1866,\\nwhen a company was formed and the enterprise successfully in-\\naugurated and completed.\\n^10U\\\\T WASHINGTON RA LROAD.\\nThe subject, referred to by Governor Smyth in his message\\nto the legislature in June, 1866, of preserving the documents\\nand early archives of the Province and State, met with the ap-\\nproval of the legislature, and led to the appointment of Rev.\\nNathaniel Bouton, D. D., as editor and compiler of Provincial\\nRecords. Dr. Bouton was at the time corresponding secretary\\nof the New Hampshire Historical Society. This society was\\norganized and incorporated in the summer of 1823 by William\\nPlumer, Levi Woodbury, Nathaniel A. Haven, George Kent,\\nJacob B. Moore, Nathaniel Adams, Parker Nnves, Jolm Farmer,", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0700.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "1867] SINCE THE REBELLION. 651\\nIchabod Bartlett, Timothy Upham, Andrew Peirce, Samuel\\nDana Bell, Richard Bartlett, and others. William Plunier was\\nthe first president and lie was succeeded in office by Levi\\nWoodbury, Ichabod Bartlett, Salma Hale, Matthew Harvey,\\nCharles H. Atherton, Joel Parker, Nathaniel Bouton, Nathaniel\\nG. (Jphani, Samuel D. Bell, Charles Burroughs, Levi Chamber-\\nlain, William Plumer, jr., Chandler E. Potter, PIdwin D. Sanborn,\\nJoseph Dow, William H. Y. Plackett, Charles H. Bell, and, in\\n1S87, by J. Everett Sargent. The society published, in 1824,\\ntheir first volume; in 1866, their eighth volume; in 1888, the\\nfirst volume of Proceedings.\\nDr. Bouton resigned his pastorate of the North Church, in\\nConcord, which he had held since 1825, devoted his time and\\nenergy to the work, and edited ten volumes of Provincial and\\nState Papers. After Dr. Bouton s death, the work was carried\\non by Isaac W. Hammond, who in 188S had published six addi-\\ntional volumes.\\nIn 1867 General Walter Harriman received and accepted the\\nnomination of the Republican party for governor, and after a\\nmost exciting campaign, during which he engaged in a joint\\ncanvass with Hon. John G. Sinclair, the Democratic candidate,\\nhe was elected to the chief magistracy of the State, and was re-\\nelected in 1 868, after another hard-fought campaign, by a larger\\nvote tiian had ever been cast for a gubernatorial candidate up to\\nthat time.\\nWalter H.Tniman, of old Massachusetts colonial stock, was born in War-\\nner, in 1S17. He was a forcible and eloquent orator, for some jears in early\\nmanhood in the ministry; but afterwards he engaged in commercial pursuits,\\nand became prominent in military and political affairs. He was chosen to\\nthe House of Representatives in 1849, and again in 1850, from his native\\ntown. In 1853 he was elected State treasurer. In 185S he was again elected\\nto the legislature by the people of Warner, and was the Democratic candidate\\nfor speaker. In 1859 he was elected to the State Senate, and was re-elected\\nthe following year, occupying each year a leading position in that bod3\\nFrom his entry into political life he had been an active champion of the prin-\\nciples of his party upon the stump, and soon came to be regarded as one of\\nthe most effective campaign speakers in the State, so that his services in this\\nNathaniel b,,uiuii was born in Noiwalk, Conn., June 20, 1700; graduated at Ya!e Colleje in\\n1821 wa3 ordained at Concord, March 23, 1825 resigned March 23, 1S67; died June 6, 137S.\\n-Rev. S- c. Beane.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0701.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "652 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1867\\ndirection were most eagerly sought whenever political issues were occupying\\nthe public mind.\\nIn the spring of 1S61 he became editor and joint proprietor of the Union\\nDimocrat at Manchester. Regarding all other political considerations as of\\nsecondary moment, in the great emergency when the perpetuity of the federal\\nUnion and the supremacy of the constitution were threatened by armed re-\\nbellion, he unreservedly sustained, individually and in his editorial capacity,\\nthe administration of President Lincoln in the measures adopted for the pros-\\necution of the war against Rebellion, thereby taking issue with the great ma-\\njority of his party, who, while they believed in maintaining the Union invio-\\nlate, persisted in their right to criticize the policy of the administration, and\\nto oppose such measures as they believed inappropriate to the legitimate end\\nin view. Hence he found himself acting with those distinctively known as\\nWar Democrats, and continued to urge the surrender of all partisan issues,\\nin view of the great contest in which the country was involved.\\nIn August. 1S62. he was made colonel of the Eleventh. He led this regi-\\nment to the field, and was at its head most of the time until the close of the\\nwar, except the four months, from May to September, 1864, when he was an\\ninmate of Confederate prisons. With some other captured Union officers, he\\nwas, for seven weeks of this time, imprisoned in that part of Charleston, S.\\nC, which was most exposed to the fire of the Union guns from Morris\\nIsland, but providentially, though that part of the doomed city was destroyed,\\nno harm came to him from the guns of his fellow-loyalists.\\nThe first set battle in which the Eleventh bore a part was that of Fredericks-\\nburg, in December, 1S62, when, with unflinching courage. Col. Harriman and\\nhis men faced the dreadful carnage of that long day before Marye s Height,\\nless than three months after their arrival in the field. The loss of the regi-\\nment in this engagement was terrific. The Eleventh, under their colonel, at\\nthe front, was in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1S64, when they made\\na daring and stubborn onset on the Confederate intrenchments, carrying be-\\nfore them two successive lines of the enemy s works. But among the five\\nthousand Union men that were captured in that bloody engagement, the com-\\nmander of the Eleventh was included. Colonel Harriman and the survivors\\nof the charge were present at the final grapple of the war before Petersburg,\\nand on the 3d day of April, 1865, he led a brigade of nine large regiments, a\\nforce three times as great as the whole American army at Bunker Hill, into\\nthat fated city, on the heels of Lee s fleeing command. Colonel Harriman\\n-vvas appointed brigadier-general, U. S. V., by brevet, for gallant conduct\\nduring the war, to date from March 13, 1865.\\nOn his arrival home, at the close of the war. General Harriman was elected\\nto the office of secretary of state, by the legislature then in session, and he at\\nonce entered upon the duties of the office, which he held two years, and until\\nhis promotion to the gubernatorial chair.\\nHe was distinguished as a platform speaker. His delivery was fine, his\\nlogic clear as crystal, his manner easy and natural, and his physical force\\ntremendous. With a voice clear and distinct as a trumpet, of immense com-", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0702.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "1867] SINCE THE KEIiEM.ION. gri\\nlass, volume, and power, his infliience over an andience was complete, lie\\niftected nothing, but proceeded at once to the work in liand, and from the\\n^ery outset carried his hearers with hhn, rising, at times, with the inspira-\\nion of his theme, to the loftiest flights of eloquence.\\nDuring the presidential campaign of 1S6S, Governor Ilarriman engaged\\nctively in the canvass, inaking an extended tour through the Middle and\\nVestern States in advocacy of the election of General Grant, the Republican\\nlominee, by whom, upon his accession to the presidency the following spring,\\niie was appointed to the position of naval olUcer at the port of Boston, which\\noffice he continued to hold during the entire eight years of General Grant s\\nadministration, retiring therefrom in 1S77. His voice has been often heard in\\nmany of the States of the Union, and be was widely known as an able and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0eftective political debater.\\nGeneral Ilarriman retained his home in Warner until tlie spring of 1S7J,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0when he removed to Concord, where he died July 25, iS8^.\\nIn 1867 a State superintendent of public in.struclion was\\nappointed. At first he co-operated with a board consisting of the\\ngovernor and Council; but later he acted alone. His duties\\nwere to cultivate an interest in the public schools and to raise\\nthe standard of their efficiency. Amos Iladley was the first to\\nfill the office. Ex-senator James W. Patterson was appointed in\\n1880. The present system took the place of a county system of\\nsupervision called a Board of Education, which had its secretary\\nand went into effect in 1851.\\nThe first effort to organize a State supervision of schools was\\nmade in 1846 by the appointment of a commissioner. The first\\nincumbent of the office was Charles B. Haddock, who made the\\nfirst State report. In 1885 the towns, by law, were made\\nschool districts, and the schools were placed under the direction\\nof a board of education consisting of three members directly\\ntinder the government of the town. In the larger towns there\\n\\\\as been for many years a system of graded schools at which\\nhe children of the State have been afforded good educational\\nacilities. The New Hampshire State Normal School was\\nstablished in 1871, at Plymouth, for the education of teachers,\\nnd is controlled by a board of trustees. Previously and since,\\neachers institutes have been maintained for the purpose of\\nmproving methods of instruction in the State.\\nBesides Dartmouth College and Phillips Exeter Academy\\nhere are seminaries, schools, and academies scattered throughout", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0703.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "6S4 HISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1867\\nthe State. St. Paul school at Concord, under the direction of\\nDr. Henry A. Coit, has become one of the most celebrated\\nschools of America. There is the normal school at Plymouth, the\\nHolderness school for boys the Colby academy, at New Lon-\\ndon the seminary, at Tilton the institution, at New Hamp-\\nton (1821); Appleton academy (1789), at New Ipswich; Pink-\\nerton academy 1 8 14), and Adams female academy at Derry Rob-\\ninson female seminary, at E.xeter Brackett academy, at Green-\\nland Valley academy, at Hillsborough McGaw normal institute,\\nat Merrimack classical institute, at Milton McCollom institute,\\nMont Vernon; Kimball union academy (18 13), at Meriden\\nDearborn academy, at Seabrook Barnard school, at South\\nHampton and Austin academy, at Strafford. There are acad-\\nemies at Andover, Atkinson (1791), Boscawen, Bath, Canaan,\\nChester, Colebrook,Contoocook, Penacook, North Conway, Dcer-\\ning, Epping, Francestown (1819), Gilmantown (1794), Hampton,\\nHaverhill (1794), Henniker, Hopkinton, Kingston, Marlow, North-\\nwood, Orford, Pembroke (18 18), Pittsfield, Portsmouth, (1808),\\nSandwich, Salisbury, Washington, and Wolfeborough. There\\nare high schools at Bristol, Charlestown, Claremont, Concord,\\nDover, Dunbarton, P armington, Exeter, Franklin, Freedom,\\nHampstead, Hancock, Hinsdale, Jaffrey, Keene, Laconia, Lake\\nVillage, Lancaster, Lebanon, Littleton, Manchester, Marlbor-\\nough, Milford, Nashua, Newport, Petersborough, Portsmouth,\\nRaymond, Rochester, Rollinsford, Great Falls, Troy, Walpole,\\nWarren, Weare, and Winchester.\\nThe State industrial school, situated on the farm of General\\nJohn Stark, was chartered in 1855, and opened in 1858.\\nCol. John B. Clarke, of Manchester, was elected State printer\\nin 1S67. He was re-elected in 1868, 1869, 1877, 1878,1879, 1885,\\nand 1887. John Badger Clarke, son of Greanleaf and Julia\\n(Cogswell) Clarke, was born in Atkinson, January 30, 1820;\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College in 1843 studied law and in\\n1852 became proprietor of the Mirror and American, and the\\nMirror and Farmer. His life s work has been the building of\\nthese great newspapers from a small beginning to a most influ-\\nential place among New England journals. In 1888 the Mirror", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0704.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0707.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0708.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0709.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "/.A C 7^^", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0710.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "lS6S] SINCE THE KEI!EM.IOX.\\n655\\nwas welcomed in about thirty tliousand households, its influence\\nfelt far beyond the frontiers of the State. Under the manatee,\\nment of the genial, liberal, enterprising, and able editor, the\\nMirror has become a power. Colonel Clarke has been aided in\\nliis editorial work by James O. Adams and Henry M. Putney.\\nIt has always represented the most aggressive Republican ideas.\\nIts Democratic rival in Manchester is the Univn, established in\\n1S51, the daily edition of which reaches nearly fourteen thousand,\\nwhile of the Weekly Union seventeen thousand are issued. The\\nsuccess of the Union has also largely been due to the efforts of\\none man, Hon. Joseph C. Moore, M. D. Joseph Clifford Moore,\\nson of Dr. F. and Frances F. Moore, was born in Loudon, August\\n23, 1845; received a common-school education; attended the\\nNew York Medical College and commenced to practise with his\\nfather at Lake Village, in 1866. In 1879 he became interested\\nin building up the Union, and splendidly succeeded, soon making\\nit a widely read and influential morning newspaper. In 1884\\nDartmouth College conferred upon him the degree of A. M.\\nHe was one of the prime movers in organizing the popular New\\nHampshire Club, and served as its president.\\nA State news department, arranged by counties, was first\\nstarted in the People, at Concord, in 1868, by Henry H. Metcalf.\\nIn 1877 he started the Granite Monthly, at Dover; and in 1879\\nissued it at Concord. From the burden of his editorial work he\\nwas obliged to relinquish his interest in the magazine to John N.\\nMcClintock, who afterwards carried it on, until, in 1888 eleven\\nvolumes had been published, devoted chiefly to historical and\\nbiographical matters.\\nOf the one hundred and seven publications issued in New\\nHampshire, the Gazette oi Portsmouth was established in 1756,\\nXhQ Journal in 1793 the Cheshire Republican in 1793 the Sen-\\ntinel in 1799, both of Keene the Amherst Cabinet in 1802 the\\nPeople and Patriot in 1809, the Statesman in 1823, both of Con-\\ncord the Argus and Spectator, of Newport, in 1823 the Dover\\nEnquirer and Nashua Gazette in 1827 the Exeter News Letter\\nin 183 1 the Nashua Telegraph in 1832. The Manchester Union\\nand the People and Patriot claim to be the leading Democratic", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0711.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "656 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. S/O\\njournals. Tlie two leading Republican papers are the Statesman\\nand the Manchester Mhivr and Ajncrkan.\\nIn the Republican State convention of 1869 no name but\\nthat of Onslow Stearns was presented for the gubernatorial nom-\\nination, which was conferred upon him by acclamation, a cir-\\ncumstance of rare occurrence in the case of a first nomination.\\nHe was elected, by a decided majority over Gen. John Bedel,\\nthe Democratic candidate, and was renominated the following\\nyear. He sent a letter to the convention, declining the renom-\\nination, on account of the state of his health and the pressure of\\nbusiness cares, but the convention refused to accept the decli-\\nnation, and a committee was appointed to wait upon him and\\nurge its withdrawal, which was finally successful in its efforts.\\nHis re-election followed, and for another year he devoted nc\\nsmall share of his attention to the interests of the State, not.\\nwithstanding the varied demands of the extensive corporate\\ninterests under his management. To the financial affairs of the\\nState his care was especially directed, and during his administra-\\ntion the State debt was reduced nearly one-third, while the State\\ntax was also reduced in still greater proportion. He also took a\\nlively interest in the management of the State Prison, and was\\ninstrumental in effecting great changes therein, securing more\\nthorough discipline and putting the institution upon a paying\\nbasis, whereas it had long been run at a pecuniary loss to the\\nState.\\nIn the discharge of all his public duties, Mr. Stearns always\\nsought to treat the matter in hand in a thoroughly practical and\\nbusiness-like manner, exercising the same judgment and dis-\\ncrimination as in the management of his private and business\\naffairs. Although firmly attached to his party, he was less a\\npartisan in the exercise of his official functions than many of\\nhis predecessors had been, and was the first Republican gover-\\nnor of New Hampshire to nominate a Democrat to a position\\nupon the supreme bench, which he did in 1870, when Hon-\\nWm. S. Ladd of Lancaster was made an associate justice of\\nthe Supreme Judicial Court to fill the vacancy caused by the re-\\ntirement of Judge George W. Nesmith.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0712.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "{jL^^^c^Jzr^^.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0715.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0716.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0717.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "coT^in-f^ ^n: /v^ztff H^", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0718.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "871] SINCE TilE KEIiEI.LION. (3^7\\nGovernor Stearns was born in Billerica, August 10, iSio; settled in Con-\\ncord in 1S45, where lie was largely interested in the railroad enterprises of\\nNew England; and died December 29, 187S.\\nHe was a public spirited and generous man, contributing liberally to all\\nthat was calculated to advance the interests of his adopted city.\\nThe long and arduous labor of his life was not without its substantial re-\\nward, and he became the possessor of an ample fortune, enabling him to\\ndispense a liberal hospitality. Among the many distinguished persons enter-\\ntained in his elegant mansion were two incumbents of the chief magistracy\\nofthe United States General Grant and Mr. Hayes, each of whom became\\nhis guest when visiting Concord.\\nIn 1S71 James A. Weston was chosen governor.\\nJames Adams Weston was born in Manchester, August 27, 1827, and was\\ndescended from John Weston, one of the founders of Weymouth, Massachu-\\nsetts, and James Wilson, one ofthe Londonderry colonists.\\nAs a civil engineer, he occupies a place in the front rank in his profession\\nin New England and his services have been in demand far beyond his ability\\nto respond, in making surveys for proposed railways and water-works.\\nIn his political convictions and associations, Mr. Weston has been a Dem-\\nocrat from youth.\\nA devoted supporter ofthe principles and policy of his party, he has won\\nand held the personal respect of both friends and opponents in political\\naffairs; so that, when a candidate for public office, he has never failed of\\nstrong popular support, measurably exceeding that of his party strength\\nalone. In 1861 he was persuaded to accept the Democratic nomination for\\nmayor of Manchester.\\nAgain, in 1S67, Mr. Weston was pressed into service by his party associates\\nin the city, as a mayoralty candidate against Hon. Joseph H. Clark, then\\nmayor, and Republican candidate for re-election. This canvass resulted in\\nhis election.\\nAt the next election the Republicans made a strong and determined effort\\nto regain their ascendency in the city the returns gave Mayor Weston a\\nmajority of seven votes over his Republican opponent, Hon. Isaac W. Smith.\\nThe revising process was resorted to, however, and the latter declared\\nelected by twenty-three majority. In 1S69 Mr. Weston defeated Mayor Smith\\nby a good majority, and was re-elected the following year.\\nMayor Weston s remarkable success as the standard-bearer of his party in\\nthe city of Manchester, and the increased popularity he had secured by wise\\nand efficient administration of municipal affairs in that large and prosperous\\ncommunity, suggested him to the Democracy of the State at large as a most\\nfit and available candidate for the gubernatorial nomination and at the State\\nconvention, in January, 1S7:, he was made the nominee ofthe party for gov-\\nernor.\\nThe election resulted in no choice of governor by the people,\\nH. H. lletcalf.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0719.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "658 HISTOKV OF NEW II.\\\\ M PS!! IRE. S/I\\nthough Mr. Weston received a decided plurality of the votes\\ncast, and was chosen governor by the legislature in June follow-\\ning, the Republicans thus losing control of the State govern-\\nment for the first time since their advent to power in 1855-\\nDetermined to retrieve their fallen fortunes, the Republican\\nleaders, in 1 872, brought to the front, as their standard-bearer and\\ngubernatorial nominee, Hon. Ezekiel A. Straw, agent of the\\nAmoskeag Manufacturing Company, a man of great resources\\nand unparalleled influence in manufacturing circles, not only in\\nManchester, but throughout the State. His defeat of Governor\\nWeston in the following canvass was a matter of no surprise to\\neither party and his re-election the subsequent year naturally\\nresulted. The Democracy, however, insisted on continuing Mr.\\nWeston as their candidate and in 1874 he secured a handsome\\nplurality, and was again elected governor by the legislatuie. In\\nDecember previous he had received the unusual distinction of a\\nfourth election as mayor of the city, being chosen by a majority\\nmuch larger than he had ever before received, reaching some six\\nhundred votes. Although there was great partisan excitement\\nin the State during Mr. Weston s second administration, his\\nofficial integrity and thorough devotion to the welfare of the\\nState were conceded even by his most determined political oppo-\\nnents; and no man holds in fuller measure the respect and\\nesteem of the people, regardless of party, than does James A.\\nWeston, the only living Democrat who ever occupied that\\nposition.\\nOther men in New Hampshire have attained greater wealth and more\\nvaried public honors; but when all the elements of substantial success are\\nconsidered, there are none, certainly, who outrank James A. Weston. Cau-\\ntious, sagacious, and methodical with a well-balanced mind, and executive\\nability of a high order; scrupulously exact in the performance of every duty\\nand the discharge of every trust, public or private; uniformly courteous in\\nhis intercourse with others, and mindful of every obligation to society and\\nhumanity, the ample measure of success he has attained, and the general\\nesteem in which he is held, are but the legitimate outcome of his life and\\nconduct.\\nBishop Baker died in Concord, December 20, 1S71. Right\\nRev. Osmand Cleander Baker, son of Dr. Isaac and Abigail\\nn. H, Mctcalf.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0720.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab872| SIN-CE Till.; KEUKI.LIO.N. g^\\n(Kidder) Baker, was born in Mario w, July 30, 1S12. Entered\\nMiddletown University in 1S30, and left at the end of his junior\\nyear on account of sickness. He was consecrated bishop of the\\nMethodist Episcopal Church in 1852.\\nIn 1872, the Republican party, after the defeat of the previous\\nyear, selected as their standard bearer Hon. lizekiel A. Straw\\nof Manchester, the agent of the Amoskeag corporation, and\\nelected him.\\nGovernor Straw was born in December, iSiy, in Salisbury; was educated\\nat the Phillips Exeter Academy, and became a civil engineer. He received\\nemplovment in July, 1S3S, from the Amoskeag company, and continued in\\ntheir employ until his death. He was in the company s service as engineer\\nlor thirteen years. In 1S51 Mr. Straw was appointed lo the position of agent\\nof the land and water-power department of the company. Five years later\\nthe machine shops were also put in his charge, and in 185S the mills were\\nadded; so that he became the active manager of the entire business of the\\ncompany. He was representative from 1S59 to iSf.3 inclusive, and served\\nefficiently for the last three years as chairman of the Committee on Finance,\\nat that time the war period one of the most important of the legislative\\ncommittees. In 1864 he was chosen a senator.\\nIn the oflice of chief magistrate of the State, which he filled\\nfor two years, being re-elected in 1873, Mr. Straw maintained his\\nindependence of character, and acted throughout as his own\\njudgment dictated, looking only to the best interests of the\\npeople as viewed from his standpoint. No governor ever brought\\nto the position a higher degree of executive ability and practical\\nknowledge of affairs, or was more universally governed in the\\nperformance of his duties by his own convictions of right. After\\nTie retired from the ofTice of governor, Mr. Straw was not engaged\\nin public service until his death.\\nAsa Fowler was speaker of the House of Representatives in\\n1872.\\nAsa Fowler was born in Pembroke, February 23, 181 1;\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College in 1833 studied law, and settled\\nin Concord. In 1855 he was nominated by the Independent\\nDemocrats, or Free-Soilers, as their candidate for governor, and\\nthe same year he accepted the position of associate justice of\\nthe Supreme Court. He resigned in 1861. He died April\\n26, 1885.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0721.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "66o mSTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1873\\nJudge Fowler was one of the most diligent, laborious, and\\nsuccessful lawyers in the State, and for many years he had the\\nlargest practice. At different times he was associated with\\nFranklin Pierce, John Y. Mugridge, and William E. Chandler.\\nHe drafted more bills for the legislature than any other man.\\nThe beautiful Fowler Library, presented in 1888 as a gift to\\nthe city of Concord by his children, may be considered a monu-\\nment to his memory.\\nIn March, 1873, upon the death of Chief Justice Bellows,.\\nJudge J. Everett Sargent was appointed chief justice of the\\nState, which place he held until August, 1874, when the court\\nwas overturned. Chief Justice Sargent, at the time of his ap-\\npointment as chief justice, had become the oldest judge upon\\nthe bench, both in age and date of commission, so frequent had\\nbeen the changes in its members since his appointment to that\\nbench, less than fourteen years before.\\nJonathan Everett Sargent was born at New London, October 23, 1816. He\\nlived at home, working upon the farm until he was seventeen years of age.\\nHe studied at Hopkinton and Kimball Union acidemies, Entered Dart-\\nmouth College and graduated in 1S40. He studied law with Hon. W. P.\\nWeeks, of Canaan, and on a visit to Washington was admitted to the bar in\\n1842.\\nAfter returning home, he continued his legal studies with Mr. Weeks until\\nthe July law term, in Sullivan county, in 1S43, when he was admitted to the\\nbar. He then went into company with Mr Weeks at Canaan, where he re-\\nmained till 1S47, when he removed to Wentworth and opened an office there-\\nHe had been appointed solicitor for Grafton county in November, 1844,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0while at Canaan, and he at once commenced a lucrative business at Went-\\nworth; was reappointed solicitor in 1S49 years more, thus holding\\nthe office for ten years, to 1S54, performing the duties to the entire acceptance\\nof the county and the people. He declined a reappointment.\\nIn 1S51 he was first elected a member of the legislature from Wentworth\\nand served as chairman of the committee on incorporations. The next year\\nhe was re-elected, and was made chairman of the judiciary committee, and in\\n1853 he was again a member, and was nominated with great unanimity and\\nelected as speaker of the House of Representatives. He served with ability\\nand impartiality and to the general acceptance of all parties.\\nThe next winter a new man was to be selected as a candidate for senator in\\nhis district, and at the convention he was nominated with great unanimity,\\nand was elected in March, in a close district, by about three hundred major-\\nity. When the Senate met in June, there was some discussion as to a candi-\\ndate for president, but at the caucus he was nominated upon the first ballot.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0722.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0723.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0724.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0725.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "CyVh^a/y-tj^ y^VTl U{\\nLA^yt-T^", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0726.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "1873] SINCE THE KEr.ELl.lON.\\nand was diil.v elected as president of the Senate in 1S51. He was renominated\\nin the spring of 1S55, but the Know-Nothing nujveniLiU Ihat year carried\\neverything before it, and he was defeated, with nearly all the other Demo-\\ncratic nominees in the State. On the 2d d.iy of April he was appointed a cir-\\ncuit justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the State. But in June of that\\nyear, the old courts were abolished and new ones organized. Jud e Sar enl\\nwas making his arrangements to go into practice again at the bar when he\\nreceived a request from Governor Metcalf that he would accept the second\\nplace on the bench of the new Court of Common Pleas. This offer was ac\\ncepted, anil Judge Sargent was appointed as an associate justice of the Court\\nof Common Pleas.\\nAfter the repeal of the Missouri compromise and the passage of the Kansas-\\nNebraska Act in 1S54, the great question between the political parties for sev-\\neral years, during the contests in Kansas that followed, was as to whether\\nslavery should be allowed in the Territories, or whether they should be free.\\nIn the mind ofjudge Sargent there could be but one answer to this question,\\nand in acting according to his convictions of right in that matter he was\\ncompelled to oppose the party with which he had hitherto acted and in car-\\nrying out liis convictions consistently he could do no other way than to go\\nwith the Republican party.\\nlie acted as judge of the new Court of Conitnon I leas for four years, until\\n1S59, when, by a statute of that year, that court was abolished, and the Su-\\npreme Judicial Court was to do the work of that court in addition to its own,\\nand one new judge was to be added to that court, making the number of Su-\\npreiTie Court judges six instead of five, as before. Judge Sargent was at once\\nappointed to that place on the supreme bench. He was then the youngest\\nmember of the court in age, as well as in the date of his commission. He\\nremained upon the bench of that court just fifteen years, from 1S59 to 1S74.\\nHe was distinguished for his laborious industry, his impartiality, and his\\nability. His written opinions are contained in the sixteen volumes of the\\nNew Hampshire Reports, from the 39th to the 54th inclusive, numbering\\nabout three hundred in all. Many of these are leading opinions upon various\\nsubjects, and show great learning and research. Since 1869 Judge Sargent\\nhas resided in Concord, devoting his attention at first to law, and later to\\nfinances and historical studies. He succeeded Hon. Charles H. Bell as pres-\\nident of the New Hampshire Historical Society in 1887.\\nIn 1873, Charles H. Burns, of Wilton, one of the ablest law-\\nyers and one of the most eloquent orators of New Hampshire,\\nwas elected to the State Senate. Charles H. Burns, son of\\nCharles A. and Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Burns, and a descendant\\nof John Burns, the pioneer Scotch-Irish settler, who settled in\\nMilford in 1746, was born in Milford, January 19, 1835. He re-\\nceived a hic, h-school education, read law with Col. O. W. Lull,\\ngraduated at the Har^ ard Law School in 1858, and was soon", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0727.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "662 HISTORY OF NEW HAMI SHIRE. [iS/S\\nafter admitted to the bar. He settled in Wilton, although his\\nbusiness grew to require an office at Nashua. In 1876 he was\\nappointed county solicitor of Hillsborough county, and served\\nseven years. He was re-elected to the Senate in 1879. In 1881\\nhe was appointed United States district attorney for New\\nHampshire and re-appointed in 1885. In 1883 his many friends\\ndesired to elect him to the United States Senate.\\nDuring Governor James A. Weston s second term in office, in\\n1874, he was supported by a Democratic majority in the Senate\\nand House of Representatives. There was a complete overturn\\nin all State offices.\\n1 In 187s, under peculiar circumstances, Person C. Cheney be-\\ncame the Republican candidate for governor. In 1874 the Re-\\npublicans had lost the State for causes which it would not be\\nuseful to recite and the Democrats, having control of every\\nbranch of legislation, had used their power to fortify themselves\\nin the possession of the State government, by making new ward\\ndivisions in the city of Manchester, and redistricting for coun-\\ncillors and senators, in such a manner as to put their adversaries\\nat great disadvantage, and render it almost impossible to recover\\nthe State. Under such circumstances it became absolutely\\nnecessary for them to place at the head of the ticket a name of\\nthe greatest personal popularity. Such were the prestige of Mr.\\nCheney, gained by his successful administration as mayor of\\nManchester, his personal magnetism among those who knew\\nhim, and his well-known energy as a canvasser, that, unexpect-\\nedly to himself, he was selected as the standard bearer of his\\nparty, and the result proved how wisely. The hottest campaign\\never known in a State proverbial for the violence of its political\\ncontests ensued, and there was no choice of governor by the\\npeople but Mr. Cheney had a plurality of the votes cast, al-\\nthough Judge Roberts, his competitor, received the heaviest\\nvote his party had ever polled in New Hampshire. The Repub-\\nlicans secured a majority in the legislature, which elected Mr.\\nCheney governor. In 1876 Governor Cheney was again a can-\\ndidate, and after a canvass which exceeded in intensity even that\\nDaniel Hall.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0728.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "J\\n)^A", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0731.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0732.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "1876] siNCK Tiir. kl:i;ici.lk)n. (-,f-,,\\nof 1S75, he was rc-clcctcd l)y a flattcrin;^- majority of Iho popular\\nvote, which was heavier than liad ever before been cast in New\\nHampshire. Mr. Cheney brought to the office of governor a\\njjatriotic love for the State and solicitude for her good name, a\\nclear insight, great executive ability, thorough business habits,\\nand personal dignity, urbanity, and tact of a high order. These\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2qualities, combined with his undoubted integrity and earnest-\\nness of purpose, enabled him to give the State a most prudent\\nand successful administration of its affairs. The retrenchment\\nof expenses, so much needed in a period of financial depression\\nfollowing years of sharp distress, was kept steadily in view, and\\na thorough business system inaugurated in all branches of tiie\\ngovernment the affairs of the adjutant-general s office were re-\\ndeemed from years of neglect and confusion the State debt was\\nmaterially reduced at his suggestion a law was passed requiring\\nvouchers to be filed for all disbursements from the governor s\\ncontingent fund and the finances of the State were left in all\\nrespects upon a sound and stable basis. The prominent part of\\nNew Hampshire in the Centennial Exposition was due largely\\nto his foresight, his faith in its benefits, and his untiring efforts\\nin its behalf. None who participated in them will ever forget\\nthe brilliant success of New Hampshire Day at Philadelphia,\\nor the reception of Governor and Mrs. Cheney, during his term\\nof office, to the members of the legislature and the citizens of\\nthe State, at White s Opera House, which was a memorable\\nsocial event.\\nGovernor Cheney retired from office with the universal respect\\nand esteem of men of all parties, and has since devoted himself\\nclosely to business.\\nPerson C. Cheney was born in th.at part of lloklerness which is now Ash-\\nland, February 25, iSjS. The square, olj-fashioned New England house,\\nwhere the family resided, is still to be seen. It stands in the picturesque\\nvillage of Ashland, overlooking the valley below, and commandini; a view of\\nlofty hills and beautiful scenery. His boyhood and early manhood were\\npassed at Peterborough.\\nMr. Cheney took an early interest in politics, and represented the town of\\nPeterborough in the legislature in 1853 and 1854. He entered ardently into\\nthe memorable events of 1S60 and 1861. and zealously aided and promoted the\\npreparation of the State for the great struggle to maintain the fnion. In due", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0733.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": "664 IIISTOKV OV NEW HAMPSHIRE. 876\\ntime he oftered his personal services, and in August. 1S62, was appointed\\nquartermaster of the Thirteenth regiment, and proceeded with the regiment\\nto the seat of war. Joining the army of the Potomac, he rendered faithful\\nservice to the regiment and the country, until exposure and overwork in the\\ncampaign before Fredericksburg brought on a long and dangerous sickness.\\nBarely escaping with his life, he was compelled to resign and return home.\\nHe received an honorable discharge in August, 1S63. In 1S64 he was chosen\\nrailroad commissioner for New Hampshire. In 1866 Mr. Cheney removed to\\nManchester.\\nMr. Chenev, upon becoming a resident of Manchester, became at once\\nthoroughly and prominently identified with the development and prosperity\\nof that rapidly growing city; and very soon his business capacity and in-\\ntegritv, his liberal spirit and engaging manners, attracted attention to him as\\na man not onlv highly fitted for public honors, but as pre-eminently capable\\nof commanding them at the hands of the people. He was brought forward\\nas a candidate for mayor of Manchester in 1S71, and elected by a larger ma-\\njority than any candidate had received since 1S63. He performed the duties\\nintelligently and to general acceptance, but declined a re-election. Mr.\\nCheney for many years has been extensively interested in manufacturing en-\\nterprises and in banking.\\nDuring Governor Currier s administration, a vacancy occurring in the\\nUnited States Senate by the death of Hon. Austin F. Pike, Mr. Cheney was\\nappointed bv the governor to act as senator until the meeting of the legisla-\\nture the following June, which position he accepted and filled, but declined\\nto be a candidate for an election by that body.\\nA brave, true, and honest man, a sincere and warm-hearted friend, of\\npositive convictions, of unflinching devotion to principle, and fitted for any\\nstation his useful service, his honorable and upright character, and his high\\nand unselfish aims, have made him a power in the State.\\nHaving considered Exeter in 1776, a glance at the town a cen-\\ntury later maybe of interest. It chief object of interest at the\\nlatter date is Phillips Exeter Academy.\\n2 This venerable institution is one of the oldest nurseries of\\nclassical education in America. It was founded in 1783 by Dr.\\nJohn Phillips, a merchant of Exeter, in the days when that town\\nwas a business centre and the shipment of heavy goods was by\\nwater, in vessels of a few hundred tons burden. Dr. Phillips hav-\\ning amassed a considerable fortune, seems to have determined on\\nthe perpetuation of the family name, not especially to satisfy\\nfamily pride, but to confer a lasting blessing on a posterity ever\\nready to acknowledge its obligations to the world s benefactors.\\nExeter of 1888 only contains double the number of inhabi-\\nn.miel Hall. H. H. Metcalf.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0734.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "^76] SINCE THE KEIiELLlOX rr\\n005\\ntants it (lid in i--r i ;t., .,\u00e2\u0080\u009ei-..,.,.i 1\\niK-iut) icmims xlmost im\\ndisturbed. The Squamscott river is as placid and the falls above\\nIt awaken scarcely a new echo, while manv of those incident to", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0735.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "666\\nIIISTOKV OF .\\\\i;\\\\V HAMPSHIRE. [l^7(\\nshipping died along its banks forty or fifty years since. A cot-\\nton-mill by the river side and a machine-shop and foundry near\\nthe depot, are the princijjal manufactories, and occupy the\\nplace of corn-mills, saw-mills, and a few tanneries. The latter,\\nin active operation, with shipping, ship-building, and country\\ntrade, were the foundation of prosperity and wealth one hundred\\nyears ago. It was the fortune of Dr. Phillips to endow an in-\\nstitution more lasting than all of these, and the fortune of pos-\\nterity to reap the manifold results of such a beneficent endow-\\nment. It appears by the catalogue of 1783 that 56 students\\nattended, and of these, 38 belonged to Exeter. As early as\\n1785 there was one student from the West Indies. Before the\\nyear 1800 a dozen had attended from the West Indies; and\\nother States besides New Hampshire were well represented.\\nThe number attending to April, 1869, was 3855. This number\\nmust have increased to nearly five thousand.\\nThe list of principals is wonderfully short. Only four names\\nappear. Dr. Benjamin Abbott, Dr. Gideon L. Soule, Albert C.\\nPerkins, and W. O. Scott. The labors of Dr. Abbott and Dr.\\nSoule cover more than three-fourths of a century of indefatiga-\\nble toil and unremitting aid to those climbing the hill of science.\\nDr. Abbott was principal of the academy from 1788 to 1838,\\njust half a century. Dr. Soule, having been already associated\\nwith Dr. Abbott for about seventeen years, was elected princi-\\npal in 1838, and held the position until 1873. The success, the\\nfame, and the lasting reputation of the school is largely attribu-\\ntable to the efforts of these venerable instructors.\\nAmong the pupils of E.xeter were Lewis Cass, Daniel Web-\\nster, Leverett Saltonstall, Joseph G. Coggswell, Edward Everett,\\nJohn A. Dix, John G. Palfrey, Jared Sparks, George Bancroft,\\nand others eminent in learning and statesmanship.\\nThe academy building being destroyed by fire in December,\\n1870, donations for the new building delicately and modestly\\ndropped into the trustee s hands from members of the alumni,\\nuntil (with contributions from other beneficent sources) the sum\\nswelled to $50,000, or enough to complete the new academy\\nbuildin", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0736.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0737.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "(^Bdt^^J/CCwyt^Zi^", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0738.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "1^76] SINCE THE REBELLION. ^^,7\\nThe academy building destroyed in 1870 was erected in 1794\\nwith the exception of the wings, which were afterwards addeil.\\nIn 1876 a constitutional convention was held at Concord\\nAs a result of its* deliberations, the religious qualification of\\noffice-holders was removed; biennial elections were decided\\nupon but the work was so poorly done that another convention\\nwas soon demanded.\\nIn 1876, December 8, there died in Dover Daniel M. Chri.stie,\\nwho for half a century was one of the leaders of the New\\nHampshire bar. Daniel Miltimore Christie was of Scotch-\\nIrish stock. He was born in Antrim, October 15, 1790; o-rad-\\nuated at Dartmouth College, in 18 15, at the head of his class\\nread law in Peterborough and settled at first in York, Maine.\\nIn 1823 he moved to Dover. He was first elected to the leg-\\nislature in 1826 and was re-elected eleven times. Daniel M.\\nChristie, LL.D., was a man of extraordinary endowments, un.\\nremitting in his labors and his diligence. He became a great\\nman, not at a bound, but slowly and steadily. In his prime he\\nwas the contemporary and peer of Daniel Webster, Jeremiah\\nSmith, Jeremiah Mason, George Sullivan, and Ichabod Bartlett.\\nHe married Mrs. Dorothy Dix Woodman, daughter of John\\nWheeler, Esq., and widow of Hon. Charles Woodman. In his\\nhome life he was a model father and husband, kind, considerate,\\nand indulgent. They were the parents of six daughters.\\nAt the spring election in 1877 the Republican party elected\\nits candidate, Benjamin F. Prescott, of Epping. His Demo-\\ncratic competitor was Hon. Daniel Marcy, of Portsmouth.\\nMr. Prescott, a descendanj of Captain Jonathan Prescott. who fought with\\nPepperrell at the siege of Louisburg, was born in Epping, February 26, :Si;i;\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College in 1856, was admitted to the bar in 1859, was\\nassociate editor with Amos Hadleyon the Independent Democrat WW 1S66. In\\n1872 he was elected secretary of state, and was re-elected in 187,3, S75, and\\n1876. To him, while secretary of state and governor, and since, is chiefly\\ndue the unequalled collection of historic portraits at the State House, Dart-\\nmouth College, and at Phillips Exeter Academy. As early as 1876 he was\\nmade a member of the Royal Historical Society of London.\\nUnder Governor Prescott s administration the laws of the\\nState were revised, the new prison constructed, the militia reor-", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0741.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "668 HISTORV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1877\\nganized, and judicial apjjointmeiits made. The prison was built\\nwithin the appropriation. In all his official acts, Governor I res-\\ncott was animated by a purpose single to the welfare of the\\nState, and upon his retirement to private life, at the end of his\\nterm, he took with him the respect of its people, irrespective of\\nparty or sect.\\nWhile governor he wa.s frequently called upon to address pub-\\nlic and private gatherings, and he seldom failed to respond. His\\nfirst address was at Epping, on the occasion of a public recep-\\ntion given him by the citizens of the town, without distinction\\nof party, on the day after his inauguration. He was present at\\nthe inauguration of Rev. Samuel C. Bartlett, D.D., LL.D., as\\npresident of Dartmouth College, and gave an address of welcome\\nto that eminent scholar. The governor visited, with a large de-\\ntachment of the State militia and distinguished citizens of the\\nState, the centennial celebration of the battle of Bennington,\\nVt., and spoke there for the State at the banquet on that mem-\\norable occasion. He was also at State and town fairs and meet-\\nings of various kinds.\\nIn 1877 James F. Briggs, of Manchester, was elected a mem-\\nber of Congress, and was re-elected in 1879 and in 1881.\\nJames F. Briggs, son of John and Nancy (Franklin) Briggs,\\nwas born at Bury, Lancashire, England, October 23, 1827, and\\nin infancy was brought by his parents to the United States. In\\n1836 the family settled in Ashland, where the father commenced\\nthe manufacture of woollen cloth. Here the son served his ap-\\nprenticeship, educated himself, studied law, and was admitted to\\nthe bar in 185 1. He at finst settled at Hillsborough Bridge,\\nrepresenting the town in 1856, 1857, and 1858. During the Re-\\nbellion he served as quartermaster of the Eleventh. In 1871 he\\nestablished himself at Manchester, where he was appointed city\\nsolicitor. He was soon elected to the State Senate, and was a\\nmember of the constitutional convention. During his term in\\nCongress he was a faithful, hard-working member, wielding a\\ngreat influence, and commanding the confidence of his associ-\\nates. A ready writer and an able speaker, he fairly won his\\nsuccess at the bar and his influence in lesfislativC assemblies.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0742.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "0~l U LLLlu", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0745.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0746.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "1877]\\nSINCE THE REBELLION.\\n669\\nFrom A mwo- the Clouds, a newspaper published on the\\nsummit of Mount Washington, and established in 1876 the\\nfollowing summary of leading events in White Mountain history\\nhas been selected.\\nThe Indian name of the White Mountains was Waumbek\\nMethna of Mount Washington, Agiochook. The first ascent\\nECHO LAKE, FRAHCONIA MOTC\\nof Mount Washington was by Darby Field. The first account\\nof the mountains was published in John Josselyn s New\\nEngland Rarities Discovered, 1672. Conway was settled in\\n1764. The White Mountain Notch was discovered by Nash\\nand Sawyer, 1771. Franconia was settled in 1774; Bartlett\\nabout 1777: and Jackson (formerly Adams), about 1778.\\nMount Washington was named in 1784. Bethlehem was settled\\nin 1790. The first settlement at site of P abyan House was by^", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0747.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "670\\nJIISTOKV OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\n[1877\\nCaptain Eleazer Rosebiook in 1792. Abel Crawford, the Patri-\\narch of the Mountains, Roscbrook s son-in-law, settled near\\nBemis Station, about 1793. The first house for visitors was\\nbuilt by Capt. Rosebrook in 1803. Ethan Allen Crawford,\\nAbel s son, who was born at Guildhall, Vt., 1792, and died at\\nFabyan s, 1848, took Rosebrook s house, in 1817. He opened\\nthe first foot-path to the summit of Mount Washington in 18 19,\\nand built a stone cabin near the Summit soon afterwards.\\nCASTELLATED RIDGE OF MOUNT JEFFERSON.\\nA. N. Brackett, J. W. Weeks, and five others, from Lancaster,\\nwent over the entire White Mountain range, with E. A. Craw-\\nford as guide, in July, 1820, and named Mounts Madison,\\nAdams, Jefferson, Monroe, Franklin, and Pleasant. They were\\nthe first to spend the night on Mount Washington. The first\\nladies to ascend Mount Washington were three Misses Austens\\nof Portsmouth.\\nThe family of James Willcy, jr., was destroyed by a land-\\nslide in White Mountain Notch, August 28, 1826. The first\\nbridle-path to the summit was opened in 1840, by Thomas J.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0748.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "1878] SINCE THE REBELLION. (5-j\\nCrawford, brother of Kthan. His father, Abel Crawford, tlien\\nseventy-five years old, rode the first horse that cHmbcd the\\nmountain.\\nThe old Summit Ifouse was built by J. S. Hall and L. M\\nRosebrook, in 1852. The old Tip-top House was built by Sam-\\nuel F. Spaulding Co., in 1853.\\nThe carriage road was begun in 1855, and finished in 1861\\nthe engineers were D. O. Macomber and C. H. V. Cavis. The\\nrailway was projected by Sylvester Marsh, of Littleton it was\\nchartered in 1858 work was begun in 1866 the road was opened\\nto the public when built to Jacob s Ladder, August 24, 1868 and\\nfinished in July, 1869. The depot was built at Summit in fall\\nof 1870; it was blown down iii spring of 1876. The Summit\\nHouse was built by John E. Lyon and Walter Aiken in 1872.\\nThe signal station was built in 1874. The Glen stage ofifice was\\nbuilt in 1878. The Tower was built in 1880. The first winter\\nascent of mountain was made by the sheriff of Coos county and\\nB. F. Osgood of the Glen House, December 7, 1858. The first\\nparty spent a night on the mountain in winter, February 19,\\n1862. The signal station was established in 1870. Private\\nWilliam Stevens died at the station, February 26, 1872.\\nFrederick Strickland, an Englishman, perished in the Am-\\nmonoosuc Ravine, October, 185 1. Miss Lizzie Bourne, of Ken-\\nnebunk, Me., perished on the Glen bridle-path, near the Sum-\\nmit, on the night of September 14, 1855. Mr. B. L. Ball, of\\n]5oston, was lost on Mount Washington, in October, 1855, in a\\nsnowstorm, but was rescued after two days and nights expo-\\nsure without food or sleep. Benjamin Chandler, of Delaware,\\nperished near Chandler s Peak, August 7, 1856, in a storm, and\\nhis remains were not discovered for nearly a year. Harry W.\\nHunter, of Pittsburg, Pa., perished on the Crawford bridle-path,\\nSeptember 3, 1874, a mile from the Summit. The remains\\nwere discovered July 14, 1880.\\nIn the election of 1878 Governor Prcscott was the successful\\ncandidate against Hon. Frank A. McKean, of Nashua.\\nThe amended constitution was to go into effect in June, 1879,\\nthe election of governor and members of the legislature taking\\nplace in November instead of March as formerly.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0749.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "6/2 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1S78\\nAt the convention in September, 1878, which was the first to\\nselect candidates for a biennial term, Natt Head was nominated\\nupon the first ballot by a decided majority. By reason of the\\nthird party or Greenback movement, it was not expected by\\nhis most sanguine supporters that he would be elected on the\\npopular vote, yet the result was that he was chosen over all bv\\na large majority.\\nGovernor Natt Head was descended from Welsh and Scotch ancestrv, and\\nwas born in Ilooksett, May 20, 1S28. His great-grandfather, Colonel James\\nHead, had command of a garrison in Suncook during the French war and\\nwas killed at the battle of Bennington. Colonel Head had three sons, of\\nwhom Nathaniel, born in Bradford, in 1754. was the grandfather of Governor\\nNatt Head. When a young man the son paid his addresses to Miss Anna\\nKnox, daughter of Timothy Knox, of Pembroke. She was of Scotch-Irish\\nblood, and one day, as the father and son were plowing, the former remarked,\\nNathaniel, do you intend to marry that Irish girl. The son respectfullv\\nbut emphatically answered in the affirmative whereupon the father added,\\nThen, understand, you can never share in my property. Young Nathan-\\niel s answer was Very well; I will take care of myself. And in accordance\\nwith his declaration he dropped the goad-stick, and in a few hours left the\\npaternal roof to take up a farm in the wilderness and build a home. The\\nfather made good his threat, and at his death Nathaniel received one dollar\\nand his brothers the remainder of the property. Nathaniel located in that\\nportion of Chester now Hooksett, and, building a log-house, carried to it Anna\\nKnox, his wife. The site o\u00c2\u00a3 the primitive cabin was the identical spot\\nwhere Governor Head s residence now stands.\\nThe appointment which brought Governor Natt Head most conspicuously\\nbefore the public was that of adjutant, inspector, and quartermaster-general\\nof the State, which he received from Governor Gilmore, in March, 1S64. He\\nwas called to that office at a period when the Republic was in one of the most\\nserious crises of the great civil war, and when the loyal people of New\\nHampshire were putting forth every effort to enlist the men called for under\\nthe president s proclamation of the preceding month.\\nThe reports issued during General Head s administration not only give the\\nname and history of every oflicerand soldier who went into the service from\\nthe State, but they embrace biographical sketches of all the field officers who\\nfell in battle or who died of disease during the war, together with a brief\\nhistory of all the organizations, giving their principal movements from their\\ndeparture to their return home. These books also include the military his-\\ntory of New Hampshire from 1623 to 1S61, the data for which were gathered\\nwith great perseverance and under many discouragements from various\\nsources in this and other States, and from the rolls in the War Department at\\nWashington, thus making the united reports a work of inestimable value to\\nthe present and coming generations, and, at the same time, constituting an", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0750.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": "^79] SINCK TUK KKBEI.I.ION.\\ninvaluable contribution to the martial history of the nation. He was the\\nlirst adjutant-general in our country who conceived the idea of having hand-\\nsomely engraved on steel, with attractive and appropriate symbols, and o( a\\nsize adapted to framing, a memorial certificate to be presented to all survivint;\\nofficers and soldiers from the State, and to the widows or nearest relatives of\\nthose who gave their lives in the great struggle for the preservation of the\\nRepublic.\\nHis gubernatorial administration wa.s tliroughout emincntlv\\nsuccessftil, creditable alike to his own ability and fidelity and to\\nthe fair fame of the State which he so honorably scrveil.\\nDuring his term of office there arose many important measures\\nand questions whose consideration demanded practical good\\nsense, wisdom, and impartial judgment. The well-known Ikiz-\\nzell murder case, which finally became one of the most celebrated\\nin the criminal records of the world, had been twice tried wiicn\\nGovernor Head entered the executive chair. Buzzell was then\\nawaiting execution, and thousands had petitioned for a commu-\\ntation of his sentence. His Excellency and his official advisers\\ngave a long and patient hearing to counsel for the State and for\\nthe defence, and to all others who desired to be heard, and then,\\nafter mature deliberation, refused the prayer on the ground that\\nno new evidence had been presented that would warrant the\\nchanging of the decision of the court. Buzzell suffered the ex-\\ntreme penalty of the law, and the conclusion in his case was sus-\\ntained by legal and public opinion. The project of a new State\\nPrison, which had been successfully inaugurated under his prede-\\ncessor, was carried forward to its completion. The commissioners\\nselected to superintend the work consulted with the governor at\\nevery step, and without even a whisper of extravagance or job-\\nbery the building was finished, dedicated, and opened for use,\\nand stands to-day, in thoroughness of structure and excellence of\\narrangement, second to no other penitentiary in the country.\\nThere came before Governor Head many judicial and other ap-\\npointments, .all of which were made with the single aim of serv-\\ning the highest interest of the State. His administration took\\nits rank in history as one of the purest, wisest, and best that\\nNew Hampshire has ever had.\\nThe Holderness School for Boys was opened in 1879 as a", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0751.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "674 HISTOKV OF \\\\E\\\\V ]1 A MP.SII I KE. I 8So\\ndiocesan school in tlie old mansion of the Livermores, and the\\nvenerable church served as its chapel until the erection of a beau-\\ntiful Gothic chapel was demanded. Destroyed by fire in March,\\n1882, the historic homestead has given place to new buildings\\nspecially adapted to the school work. Rev. Frank C. Coolbaugh\\nis the rector of the school, and also of Trinity church in the\\ntown of Holderness.\\nSt. Man s school for girls, in Concord, was opened seven j-ears later, or in\\n18S6, in the mansion occupied by Hall Burgin, Governor Gilmore, and Judge\\nAsa Fowler. The Chase Home for Children, an orphanage under episcopal\\npatronage, was opened in Portsmouth in 1879.\\nIn 1880 Aretas Blood, of Manchester, was chairman of the\\nelectors who cast the vote of New Hampshire for James A.\\nGarfield for president of the United States.\\nAretas Blood, a descendant of James Blood, an early settler of\\nConcord, Mass., was born October 8, 1816, in Weathersfield,\\nVt. Having learned the trade of a blacksmith and machinist,\\nMr. Blood, after having visited the West, settled in Man-\\nchester in 1853, and established the next year the Manchester\\nLocomotive Works. In 1857 he became the agent and manager\\nof the company. Here his mechanical skill, executive ability,\\nand judgment in financial affairs have had full scope for their\\nexercise and he has built up one of the largest manufacturing-\\nestablishments in the State. The works can turn out one hundred\\nand fifty locomotives and fifty steam fire engines every year, and\\ngive employment to seven hundred skilled workmen. Over\\nthirteen hundred of these locomotives are now in use. Mr.\\nBlood s financial ability has been called into the service of\\nseveral manufacturing enterprises and banks.\\nMr. Blood has been very successful in business and his\\nsuccess in life may be attributed to his stubborn perseverance,\\nas well as his good judgment and remarkable common sense.\\nMr. Blood was married September 4, 1845, to Lavina K. Kendall. His\\ndaughter Nora married Frank P. Carpenter; his daughter Emma married\\nih: L. M. French.\\nHon. Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, the Republican candidate\\nfor governor, elected in the fall of 1S80, was inaugurated ir.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0752.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "i^UZi/ /JU^^", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0755.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0756.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "5I]\\nSINCE TIIK I Kni:r.LIOX.\\n67s\\nJune, 1^81. As was expected at the time of his election the\\nadministration of Governor Bell was marked by the dignity\\nand high character of tlie chief magistrate.\\nGovernor Charles II. Bell, son of Governor John and Pcrsis\\n(Thorn) Bell, and nephew of Governor Samuel Bell, was born in\\nNov., 1823, in Chester, was educated at Pembroke and Phillips\\nExeter Academies, graduated at Dartmouth College in 1S44, read\\nCHARLES H. BELL\\nlaw with Bell and Tuck in Exeter, and subsequently continued\\nwith his cousin Hon. Samuel Dana Bell, one of the most emi-\\nnent lawyers in the State, and who for five years held the office\\nof chief justice of New Hampshire. On his admittance to the\\nbar, the young lawyer commenced to practice in his native town,\\nand later removed to Great Falls, and finally settled in Exeter.\\nHe entered actively into practice, and speedily manifested abil-\\nities of a high order and unusual professional attainments, which\\nat once raised him to prominence. In 1856 he was appointed\\nsolicitor of Rockingham county, and filled the office for ten\\nyears. He was a representative in 1858, and chairman of the\\njudiciary committee. He was re-elected in 1859 and i860, being\\nelected speaker the last year. He developed rare qualities as a", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0757.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "6/6 inSTOKY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 88 I\\npresiding officer. With an extended knowledge of parliamentary\\nlaw, coupled with his native dignity and firmness, he wielded\\nthe gavel with such ability and judicial fairness as to make him\\none of the most popular of speakers.\\nIn 1863 and 1864 Mr. Bell was elected to the State Senate, and during the\\nlatter jear served as president of that body. In 1S72 and 1S73 he was again\\nchosen to the House, bringing with him a ripeness and experience in legisla-\\ntive duties that gave to him the leadership of his party, and made him one\\nof its most influential members. In 1S79 Mr. Bell was appointed United\\nStates Senator, for the special session of that year, by Governor Prescott, to\\ntake the place of Bainbridge Wadleigh, whose term of office had expired.\\nAt the commencement at Dartmouth College in June, 1881, the degree of\\nLL. D. was conferred upon him.\\nThe Democratic candidate for governor in the fall election of\\n1880 was Hon. Frank Jones, of Portsmouth. Mr. Jones was\\nborn in Harrington, September 15, 1832. He was a son of\\nThomas and Mary (Priest) Jones, and a grandson of Pelatiah\\nJones, a successful shipmaster of Portsmouth. Mr. Jones\\nstarted in business in Portsmouth, and soon gained a reputa-\\ntion for business sagacity and executive ability. Financially he\\nbecame the most successful man in New Hampshire.\\nFrank Jones is a familiar name with the people of New Hampshire, anct\\nwell known beyond its borders. It is synonymous with pluck, energy, and\\nsuccess. He has been four times the Democratic candidate for mayor of\\nPortsmouth, and twice elected to that office in iS6S and 1S69\u00e2\u0080\u0094 although the\\nRepublican party was in a majority in the city at the time. He was also, for\\ntwo years, the candidate of his party for State senator, and, though failing of\\nan election, very nearly overcame the decided Republican majority in the dis-\\ntrict. In 1S75 he was nominated with great unanimity by the Democratic\\nconvention at Newmarket for representative in Congress for the First Con-\\ngressional District, and in theelection defeated the Republican nominee, Col.\\nCharles S. Whitehouse, of Rochester, although at the previous election the\\nRepublicans elected their candidate. Renominated for the next Congress, in\\n1S77, the Republicans made a determined effort to secure his defeat, selecting\\nas their candidate Gen. Gilman Marston, of Exeter, who had won distinction\\nin military as well as civil life, and had been three times elected to the same\\noffice in past years yet so great was Mr. Jones popularity and so well satis-\\nfied were the people with his services for the previous term, that his oppo-\\nnents were unable to compass his defeat, and he was returned bv a plurality\\nof forty votes over the formidable candidate who had been pitted against him.\\nAt the close of his second term in Congress, although strongly importuned to\\nH. H. Metcalf.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0758.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "722?;?^", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0761.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0762.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0763.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "(Q. ek/.\\n/y^ a^-7^", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0764.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": "l88l] SINCE THK REBELLION.\\n(^17\\nbe again a candidate, lie positively refused. lie was actively interested in the\\nrailroad war ol 1SS7. Mr. Jones has acquired a very large fortune, which he\\nuses in a public-spirited way. He built the Rockingham house, the pride of\\nPortsmouth upon the site of the old I.augdon house, the home of Woodbury\\nLangdon, a brother of John Langdon,and one of the early judges of the Su-\\npreme Court. The original house was burned in the great fire which devas-\\ntated Portsmouth in 17S1, but was rebuilt by Judge Langdon five vears later.\\nIn 1830 the place was purchased by a company and transformed into a hotel.\\nComing into the possession of Mr. Jones it was substantially rebuilt in 1870,\\nand again in 1SS4. The Wentworth at Newcastle, the island town in\\nPortsmouth harbor, was completed by Mr. Jones in 1879-S0.\\nOne of the leading members of the State Senate in 1881 was\\nHon. V. C. Gilman, of Nashua.\\nVirgil Chase Gilman, a member of the historical Gilman fam-\\nily, a descendant of Moses Gilman, and a son of Emerson and\\nDelia (Way) Gilman, was born in Unity, May 5, 1827. He was\\neducated at the public schools of Lowell, Mass., and settled in\\nNashua in 1843. -^t the age of twenty-four year.s he embarked\\nin the manufacture of card-board and glazed paper, then an in-\\nfant enterprise in this country, and continued in the business\\nfor over twenty years. His health required out-of-door exercise\\nafter long application to office work and he devoted his ener-\\ngies to cultivating a farm, and breeding Jersey cattle, driving\\nhorses, and Plymouth Rock fowls. In 1876 he accepted the\\noffice of treasurer of the Nashua Savings Bank, which cares for\\ndeposits of over three million dollars, and is a director in the\\nNashua Iron and Steel Company, the Underbill Edge Tool\\nCompany, the Amesbury A.xle Company, and the Indian Head\\nNational Bank. Mr. Gilman has served the city of Nashua in\\nevery office from ward clerk to mayor, as assessor, member of\\nthe board of education, and trustee, secretary, and treasiner of\\nthe public library. In the Senate he served as chairman of\\nthe judiciary committee, where his business-like and methodical\\nhabits were of great advantage to, and fully appreciated by, the\\nSenate and by the public. Here his sound judgment and ster-\\nling common sense had ample opportunities for exercise. An\\nactive and influential member of the Congregational church,\\npublic-spirited in forwarding every good work, his energy, integ-\\nrity, and discretion are widely recognized. In 1850 he married", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0767.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": "6/8 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1882\\nSarali Louise, daughter of Gideon Newcomb, Esq., of Ro.xbury.\\nOf their two children, one died in infancy, and the other, Har-\\nriet Louise Oilman, married Charles W. Hoitt, a lawyer of\\nNashua.\\nAt the death of Hon. Evarts W. Earr, in November, iS8o,\\nMr. Ossian Ray, of Lancaster, was elected to fill out the unex-\\npired term. He was twice re-elected and served until March 4,\\n1885.\\nOssian Ray was born December 13, 1S35, in Hinesburg, Vt.,\\nand traces his descent from Revolutionary patriots. In 1854\\nhe settled in Lancaster, and at the age of twenty-one was ad-\\nmitted to the bar, and formed a partnership with Hon. Jacob\\nBenton. He has since been associated with Hon. William S.\\nLadd, Hon. Irving W. Drew, Hon. Chester B. Jordon, and\\nPhilip Carpenter. Mr. Ray represented Lancaster in 1868 and\\n1869, and was. solicitor of Coos county from 1862 to 1872. He\\nwas appointed United States attorney for the district of New\\nHampshire by President Hayes. He was an active and influen-\\ntial member of Congress, and ranks very high in the legal pro-\\nfession.\\nSamuel \\\\V. Hale, of Keene, was elected governor in the fall\\nof 1882, defeating M. V. B. Edgerley, of Manchester, the Dem-\\nocratic candidate, and was inaugurated in June, 1883.\\nGovernor Hale s administration of the affairs of the common-\\nwealth was characterized by dignity, moderation, and prudence\\nand he retired from his high office, at the close of his term, with\\nthe respect of political friend and foe.\\nGovernor Hale was born in Fitchburg, Mass., in 1823, and in 1845 set-\\ntled in Dublin, removing to Keene in 1859, when he became extensively in-\\nterested in manufacturing enterprises, railroads, and large financial transac-\\ntions.\\nHe was elected a member of the State legislature in 1S66, and was re-elected\\nthe next year. In 1S69 he was chosen a member of the governor s Council,\\nto which position he was re-elected in 1S70.\\nCharles H. Bartlett, of Manchester, was chosen president of\\nthe State Senate in 1883. Charles Henry Bartlett, son of\\nJohn and Jane (Sanborn) Bartlett, and a descendant of Richard\\nBartlett (of Newbury, Mass., in 1635), born in Sunapee,", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0768.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "Tri\\n/TtL", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0771.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0772.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "-T--^\\na^jo^^^^.^ n^K 06^ z", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0775.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0776.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0777.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "WhO^Jtr.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0778.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "5884] SINXE THE KEllKLLION.\\n679\\nOctober 15, 1833. He received an academic educalion studied\\nlaw was admitted to the bar, in 1S58; settled in Wentworth.\\nand in 1863 moved to Manchester. From 1867 to his election\\nto the Senate, be was clerk of the United States District Court.\\nHe was mayor of Manchester in 1872. Mr. Bartlctt brou ^ht\\nto his chosen profession of the law a keen, well-balanced mind,\\nwith faculties always at command. He was a member of the\\nconstitutional convention in 1876, and received the degree of\\nA. M. from Dartmouth College in 1881,\\nThe Republican majority of 1883 were unable to elect a\\nUnited States senator until after a long contest. The candi-\\ndates offered to the suffrages of the legislature included the\\nleading men of the party. At length the legislature elected\\nAustin F. Pike, of Franklin. He died during his term of office\\nin 1884.\\nIn the fall election of 1884, Dr. Jacob H. Gallinger, of Con-\\ncord, was elected to represent the Second Congressional District,\\nand was re-elected in 1886. Dr. Gallinger was born in Cornwall,\\nOntario, March 28, 1837. At the age of twelve years he entered\\na printing office, and at the age of eighteen he commenced the\\nstudy of medicine in Cincinnati. In i860 he settled in Keene,\\nand two years later in Concord. He represented Concord in\\nthe legislature in 1872 and 1873 was a member of the consti-\\ntutional convention in 1876; State senator in 1878 and 1879\\npresident of the Senate during his last term and chairman of\\nthe Republican State Committee since 1882. Dr. Gallinger is\\none of the most popular and successful campaign orators in the\\nState. As a speaker he is rapid, direct, and practical, has an ex-\\ncellent voice, and always commands the close attention of his\\naudience. He is also a facile and effective writer, and has fre-\\nquently been called upon for public addresses on topics aside\\nfrom politics. As an organizer he is noted for his executive\\nability. As a physician he has a large practice.\\nHon. Moody Currier, of Manchester, was inaugurated gov-\\nernor in June, 1885, having been elected the preceding fall.\\nGovernor Currier was born in Boscawen in April, 1S06. He is the arciiitect\\nof his own fortunes. He was brought upon a farm in Bow, but early evinced", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0781.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "680 mSTOKY OK NKW HAMPSHIRE. \u00c2\u00a785\\nan insatiable desire for informatitiii. He fitted for college, and graduated at\\nUartmouth in 1S34, read law with Hon. Daniel Clark, and engaged in literary\\npursuits. He settled in Manchester in 1S41, and became cashier of the Amos-\\nkeag Bank in 1S4S at its organization. Me is still connected with the insti-\\ntution as well as other large financial interests. He was clerk of the Senate in\\n1S43 and 1S44, senator in 1856, president of the Senate in 1S57, councillor in\\n1S60 and 1S61, chairman of the war committee of the Council during the first\\nfifteen months of the Rebellion. In that position he exhibited great abili;*\\nand energy, and rendered efficient seryice to the State and the nation. He\\nentered with his whole soul into the business of raising and equipping troops,\\nand won great praise from all parties for his efforts in this direction. The\\nfirst eight regiments of infantry, a battery, four companies of cavalry, and\\nthree companies of sharpshooters \\\\yere organized, equipped and sent to the\\nfront with the utmost despatch while Mr. Currier was at the head of the\\nwar committee. In compliment to him, the rendezvous of the Eighth regi-\\nment at Manchester was named Camp Currier.\\nGcvernor Currier has an ardent temperament and versatile\\ntalent. His practical judgment is shown in the success of the\\nbanking institutions which he has managed for many years, and\\nalso in the success of the various other enterprises with which\\nhe has been connected in an official capacity. He is method-\\nical and cautious in his habits, and has always sustained\\nthe reputation of being honorable and upright in all his business\\nrelations. He maintains a high rank as a scholar, and, unlike\\nmany other men who have enjoyed the advantages of a liberal\\neducation, he has throughout his whole life taken a strong inte-\\nrest in the study of literature, science, and philosophy. He\\nretains a taste for the ancient classics and is quite familiar with\\nfVench, German, and other modern languages. He has written\\nmany pieces of poetry, creditable in taste and composition. By\\nindustry and prudence he has acquired a handsome fortune, and\\nhis residence is a model of taste. He is liberal in his gifts to\\nworthy objects and especially to those which relate to intellectual\\nculture.\\nHis administration of the affairs of the State was marked by\\nthe prudence, sagacity, and caution so characteristic of him all\\nhis life and he retired from office at the close of his term with\\nthe respect of all.\\nAt the fall election in November, iS86, Rev. Luther F. Mc-\\nKinney, of Manchester, the Democratic candidate for Congress-", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0782.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0785.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0786.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0787.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0788.jp2"}, "747": {"fulltext": "188/] siNci: Tiiii: rebellion. 68i\\nman in the First District, was elected. Dr. Jacol) H. Gailin -er\\nwas re-elected in the Second District.\\nIn the fall of 1886 Charles H. Sawyer, of Dover, was the\\nRepublican candidate for governor. The Democrats voted for\\nColonel Thomas Cogswell, of Gilmanton the Prohibitionists\\nvoted for Col. Joseph Wentworth, of Concord. His Excellency\\nGovernor Sawyer was elected by the legislature, and inaugurated\\nin June, 1887. He does not owe the estimation in which he is\\nheld to the doings of his ancestors. He has earned his own po-\\nsition in the world. Yet he cannot fail to feel an honorable\\npride in the fact that he is sprung from a line of energetic and in-\\ngenious workers, who made themselves useful and respected in\\ntheir generations.\\nCharles H. Sawyer is a lineal descendant of John Sawyer, a\\nfarmer of Lincolnshire in England, one of whose sons, Thomas,\\nemigrated to this country about the year 1636.\\nPhineas, the great-great-grandson of Thomas, and the grand-\\nfather of Charles H. Sawyer, bought in Marlborough, Mass., a\\ncentury later, a water privilege and mills, to which he afterwards\\nadded a cotton factory a difficult and hazardous undertaking at\\nthat early day.\\nJonathan Sawyer, the youngest of his twelve children,\\nwas born at Marlborough, Massachusetts, m 18 17. He went\\nwith his mother and other members of the family, when\\nhe was twelve years old, to Lowell, where for the next few\\nyears he attended school. He was a member of the first class\\nthat entered the high school of that city, having among his\\nmates Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, Gov. E. A. Straw, and G. V.\\nFox, assistant secretary of the navy during the civil war. On\\naccount of a severe sickness, young Sawyer at sixteen years of\\nage left school, and while recruiting his health made a visit to\\nhis brother, Alfred Ira Sawyer, who, after some experience as a\\ndyer at Amesbury and Great Falls, had come in 1824 to Dover,\\nwhere he was operating a grist-mill, a custom carding and\\ncloth-dressing mill, converting this last into a flannel-mill.\\nJonathan remained in Dover two years, going to school and\\nGov. C. H. Bell.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0791.jp2"}, "748": {"fulltext": "682 HISTORY OF NEW llAMPSiMRE [iSS/\\nworking for his lirothcr. In the fall of 1S35 he returned to\\nLowell. His mother, for the purpose of conferring upon her\\nson a more complete education, sent him to the great Methodist\\nschool at Wilbraham, which at that time was a most flourishing\\npreparatory school for the Wesleyan University at Middletown,\\nConn. Here he remained two terms, when, at nineteen years of\\nage, returning to Lowell, he went into a woollen establishment as\\na dyer. Afterwards he went into this business on his own ac-\\ncount, and continued in it until 1839.^\\nForty years ago Dover received Jonathan Sawyer, then a\\nyoung man full of hope and ambition, honesty and executive\\nability, whose career has done so much to advance the prosper-\\nity of his adopted home. He found on Bellamy river a small\\nwater-power, about which to-day is built one of the largest and\\nmost prosperous manufacturing establishments within New\\nl\u00c2\u00a3ngland, the products of which are welcomed in a million\\nAmerican homes. He gathered about him a score of working\\npeople at first, whose pay was small in those early days of free\\ntrade. But when our government threw its protecting arm and\\nfostering care about the infant industries of the country, the es-\\ntablishment prospered and grew. Willing hands found ready\\nwork. The fame of the goods became widespread new mills\\nwere built new machinery was introduced new operatives\\nwere employed. The profits of the business were embarked in\\nit enlargement, until five hundred busy workmen found employ-\\nment. While their number was increasing the pay had doubled.\\nHe is still a principal and active proprietor of the Sawyer Wool-\\nlen Mills, in the enjoyment of health, competence, and the res-\\npect won by a life of honorable exertion and spotless integrity.\\nCharles H. Sawyer, the eldest son of Jonathan and Martha\\n(Perkins) Sawyer, was born in Watertown, N. Y., March 30,\\n1840. At the age of ten he was brought by his father to Dover,\\nand acquired the basis of his education in the excellent public\\nschools of that place. When he became seventeen, his father,\\nwho designed him for the hereditary calling of manufacturing,\\nplaced him in the flannel-mill as an ordinary hand, to enable him\\nRev. Dr. George B Spalding.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0792.jp2"}, "749": {"fulltext": "I\\n-c", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0795.jp2"}, "750": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0796.jp2"}, "751": {"fulltext": "1887] SINCE THE KEHELLIOX. 685\\nto form a practical acquaintance witii tlic various and conii)li-\\ncated processes required to transform tlie rough fleece into the\\nfinished fabric. Here he supplemented his book education by the\\neducation of work, observation, and experience. Step by step he\\nrose to the higher grades of employment, mastering every de-\\ntail of the business as he went, until at the age of twenty-si.\\\\ he\\nwas appointed superintendent of the establishment. He soon be-\\ncame interested in large financial operations. Though so diligent\\na man of affairs. Governor Sawyer finds the time for mental\\ncultivation. His library contains the best books of solid value,\\nand he has made himself acquainted with their contents. On\\nall subjects of public interest and practical importance he keeps\\nthoroughly informed, and has well-considered opinions. Nat-\\nurally somewhat reticent, he never obtrudes his views but\\nwhen they are sought for, they are found to go straight to the\\nmark, and to have behind them all the force of rare sagacity and\\ncareful thought. He makes no pretentions to oratory, yet ora-\\ntors might well envy the impression which his plain, convincing\\nstatements command. In the recent panic caused by the with-\\ndrawal from the State of foreign insurance companies, it was\\nmainly Colonel Sawyer s calm and clear demonstration of the\\nfeasibility of a manufacturers mutual system of home insurance\\nthat quieted the needless feelings of alarm.\\nIt has been truly remarked of Governor Sawyer that Nature\\nmade him on a large scale. His great interests he wields easily,\\nand carries his broad responsibilities without fatigue. His re-\\nmarkable executive ability never seems to be taxed to its full\\ncapacity there is always an appearance of reserve strength be-\\nyond. He has a large way of estimating men and things. No\\npetty prejudices obscure the clearness of his vision or weaken\\nthe soundness of his judgment. He has the courage of his\\nconvictions, and does not shrink from telling an unpalatable\\ntruth when necessary but he has the rare faculty of giving no\\nneedless offence. In the wide round of his occupations he\\nmust needs have caused some disappointments but his char-\\nacter for justice and fair dealing is so univensally understood\\nthat censure finds no vulnerable spot to fasten on. Modest and", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0797.jp2"}, "752": {"fulltext": "684 HISTORY OF NEW IIAJIPSHIRE. [1S87\\nunassuming in a remarkable degree, the public positions he has\\nheld have come to him through no longing or efforts of his own\\nin his case it is emphatically true that the office has always\\nsought the man.\\nGovernor Sawyer is a member of the Congregational society\\nin Dover, and a liberal contributor to its support, as well as to\\nevery worthy object of charity and scheme of benevolence that\\nis brought to his notice from whatever quarter. Though his\\nmanner is reserved, his heart is warm, and his sympathies are\\nquick and wide and his generosity and helpfulness in a good\\ncause are not limited by place or creed or nationality. Gover-\\nnor Sawyer has too great an interest in public affairs to be\\nwithout decided political convictions. He cast his earliest vote\\nfor Abraham Lincoln, and has ever since been unswerving in his\\nallegiance to the Republican party. His experience in the ser-\\nvice of the public has not been inconsiderable. After having\\nserved with credit in both branches of the city council of\\nDover, he was chosen a representative in the State legislature\\nin the years i869and 1870, and again in 1876 and 1877. His\\nability and standing in that body are indicated by the fact of his\\nassignment to the important committees on the judiciary, rail-\\nroads, manufactures, and national affairs. His last political\\nservice before election was that of delegate at large to the Na-\\ntional Republican Convention at Chicago, in 1884.^\\nThe Democratic candidate for governor in 18S6, Colonel\\nThomas Cogswell, of Gilmanton, was a veteran of the Union\\narmy, a lawyer and farmer, and popular with his party.\\nColonel Joseph Went worth, of Concord, the candidate of the\\nProhibition party for the office of governor, again called into\\nprominence a member of the historical Wentworth family, who\\nfor so many years influenced the destinies of Province and State.\\nHe traces his descent from Elder William Wentworth, the pro.\\ngenitor of the New England branch of the family, through\\nEzekiel, of Dover, Benjamin, of Dover, Colonel John Wentworth,\\na judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Hon. John Wentworth, a\\nmember of the Continental Congress, and Hon. Paul Went-\\nEx-Gov. C. H. Bell.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0798.jp2"}, "753": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0799.jp2"}, "754": {"fulltext": "T^ ^/lJzy y/^^^^i^u^^y^/", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0800.jp2"}, "755": {"fulltext": "^^^7] SINCE THK REI .KI.I.ION.\\n-.85\\nworth, a leading citizen of Sandwich in the early hall of the\\npresent century. In him is united the blood of the Weiit-\\nworths, the Gilmans, the Frosts, the Cogswells, and the Lcigli-\\nlons. His brother, Hon. John Wentworth, of Chicago, has\\nbeen prominently before the people of Illinois since the scf r-\\nment of that western metropolis.\\nColonel Joseph Wentworth, born in Sandwich, Jaiuian ,,,.j, ,a-\\ntended school at the New Hampton, Hopkinton, and Berwick Academies,\\nand settled in his native town, where for thirty years he kept a general counlrv\\nstore, looking after his farm and banking interests.\\nHe was aide to Covernor Page, the first register of deeds for Carroll county,\\nsheriff for five years, representative to the legislature in IS^4 45, and a mem-\\nber of the constitutional convention in 1850, postmaster fifteen years, also\\npresident and chief owner of Carroll County National Bank. In 1870 he\\nmoved to Concord and was chosen assessor of ward six, member of the con-\\nstitutional convention in 1S76, and a representative to the legislature in 1S78.\\nMr. Wentworth was married in 1S45 t Sarah Payson Jones, of Brookline,\\nMass., and is the father of six children, two sons and tour daughters, all now\\nliving. His sons, Paul and Moses, entered Harvard College the same day,\\nand graduated the same day, and are both practising law, one in Chicago, and\\nthe other in Sandwich.\\nMr. Wentworth, since his residence in Concord, has had much influence in\\nsocial and financial circles. He enthusiastically supports those political doc-\\nrines which he believes to be right, and was the standard bearer of a parly,\\nnot so strong in numbers, as they are strong in their attachment to what tbey\\nconceive to be their duty.\\nOne of the earliest and most eloquent advocates of temperance\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was Jonathan Kittredge, afterwards chief justice of the Court\\nof Common Pleas. He was son of Dr. Jonathan and Apphia\\n(Woodman) Kittredge, and was born in Canterbury, July 17, 1793.\\nHe graduated at Dartmouth College in 18 13, read law, and\\nsettled in Lyme. He afterwards lived at Canaan and in 1859\\nmoved to Concord. He died April 8, 1864.\\nNathaniel White, of Concord, was a leading advocate of\\ntemperance by precept and example.\\nThe successful candidate in the race for the United States\\nsenatorship in June, 1887, was the Hon. William Eaton\\nChandler, of Concord. He was elected June 15, for the term of\\ntwenty months. In him New Hampshire had another strong\\nsenator. He entered the Senate chamber with a national repu-", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0803.jp2"}, "756": {"fulltext": "686 HISTORY OI- NEW llAMi SllIRE. [l^ ^7\\ntatioii for sagacity and wisdom already acquired, with the ex-\\nperience of his vvhol* youth and manhood devoted to public\\naffairs, with the acquaintance and confidence of officials and\\nstatesmen of every section, with a thorough knowledge of the\\nwants and needs of the State of New Hampshire and of the\\ncitizens of the State of every degree, with a familiarity with the\\nintricate mechanism of all the departments of the government,\\nwith a full and discriminating understanding of law State, na-\\ntional, and international which would grace the bench of any\\ncourt, and with judgment almost intuitive.\\nThe following is from Applcton s Cyclopczdia of American Biog-\\nraphy\\nChandler, William Eaton, cabinet minister, born in Concord,\\nN. H., December 28, 1S35. He studied law in Concord, and at\\nthe Harvard Law School, where he was graduated in 1855. For\\nseveral years after his admission to the bar in 1856 he practised\\nin Concord, and in 1859 was appointed reporter of the New\\nHampshire Supreme Court, and published five volumes of re-\\nports. From the time of his coming of age Mr. Chandler was\\nactively connected with the Republican party, serving first as\\nsecretary, and afterward as chairman of the State committee. In\\n1862 he was elected to the New Hampshire House of Repre-\\nsentatives, of which he was speaker for two successive terms, in\\n1863-64. In November, 1864, he was employed by the nav}\\ndepartment as special counsel to prosecute the Philadelphia\\nnavy-yard frauds, and on March 9, 1865, was appointed first\\nsolicitor and judge-advocate-general of that department. On\\n17th June, 1865, he became first assistant secretary of the\\nTreasury. On 30th November, 1867, he resigned this place and\\nresumed law practice. During the next thirteen years, although\\noccupying no ofScial position except that of member of the con-\\nstitutional convention of New Hampshire in 1876, he continued\\nto take an active part in politics. He was a delegate from his\\nState to the Republican national convention in 1868, and was\\nsecretary of the national committee from that time until 1876.\\nIn that year he advocated the claims of the Hayes electors in\\nFlorida before the canvassing board of the State, and later was", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0804.jp2"}, "757": {"fulltext": "^^mi\\n4fm\u00c2\u00a3 mx.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0807.jp2"}, "758": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0808.jp2"}, "759": {"fulltext": "88/ 1 SIXCK Tin; KKIJI.l.I.K.N\\nG ^7\\none of the counsel to prepare the case siibmiited by the Repub-\\nlican side to the electoral commission. Mr. Chandler afterward\\nbecame an especially outspoken opponent of the Southern policy\\nof the Hayes administration. In i8So he was a delegate to the\\nRepublican national convention, and served as a member of the\\ncommittee on credentials, in which place he was active in secur-\\ning the report in favor of district representation, which was\\nadopted by the convention. During the subsequent campaign\\nhe was a member of the national committee. On March 23,\\n1881, he was nominated for United States solicitor-general, but\\nthe Senate refused to confirm, the vote being nearly upon party\\nlines. In that year he was again a member of the New Hamp-\\nshire legislature. On 7th April, 1882, he was appointed secre-\\ntary of the navy. Among the important measures carried out\\nby him were the simplification and reduction of the unwieldy\\nnavy-yard establishment the limitation of the number of annual\\nappointments to the actual wants of the naval service the dis-\\ncontinuance of the extravagant policy of repairing worthless\\nvessels and the beginning of a modern navy in the construction\\nof the four new cruisers recommended by the advisory board.\\nThe organization and successful voyage of the Greely relief ex-\\npedition in 1884 were largely due to his personal efforts. Mr.\\nChandler was a strenuous advocate of uniting with the navy the\\nother nautical branches of the federal administration, including\\nthe light-house establishment, the coast survey, and the revenue\\nmarine, upon the principle, first distinctly set forth by him, that\\nthe officers and seamen of the navy should be employed to per-\\nform all the work of the national government upon or in direct\\nconnection with the ocean.\\nMr. Chandler has been twice married, in 1859 to a daughter\\nof Governor Joseph A. Gilmore, and in 1874 to a daughter of\\nHon. John P. Hale.\\nSince the days of Franklin Pierce and Isaac Hill, the Demo-\\ncratic party has had many and able leaders, prominent among\\nwhom have been Colonel John H. George, Hon. Josiah Minot,\\nHon. Daniel Marcy, Hon. Harry Bingham, Hon. Frank Jones,\\nHon. A. W. Sullowav, Hon. fames A. Weston, Colonel Thomas", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0809.jp2"}, "760": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0810.jp2"}, "761": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0811.jp2"}, "762": {"fulltext": "^-tyl^-^^^^yT^l\\n^?7t,.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0812.jp2"}, "763": {"fulltext": "1887J SINXK THK KKliKI.LlON. (iSg\\nCogswell, John M. Hill. Hon. llosca VV, Parker, Hon. Kdimind\\nBurke, John H. Pearson, and Charles F. Stone.\\nHon. Harry Bingham, born Mareh 30, 1821, in Concord, Vl.,\\nof New Hampshire stock was brought up on a farm educated\\nat Lynilon (Vt.) Academy graduated at Dartmouth College in\\n1843 studied law with George C. Cahoon, David Hibbard, and\\nHon. Harry Hibbard taught school while a student was a l-\\nmitted to the bar at the May term, 1846, and settled in Littleton\\nin the practice of the law. In 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, and\\n1868 he was elected representative, and every term from 1871\\nuntil 1881, sixteen terms in all, when he was elected to the\\nState Senate. He has been frequently the Democratic candidate\\nfor United States senator, and a member of the State constitu-\\ntional convention in 1876. Mr. Bingham is unmarried, attends\\nthe Episcopal church, has been the standard-bearer of the Dem-\\nocratic party on many a hard-fought field, and is a lawyer, orator,\\nand statesman of national reputation.^\\nDuring the session of the legislature in the summer and fall\\nof 1887 the railroad question was very thoroughly discussed, the\\ncontest arising between the Concord Railroad and the Boston and\\nMaine Railroad, for the possession of the roads in the central\\npart of the State.\\nDuring the extended hearing before the Railroad Committee,\\ncertain interesting historical facts were developed. From the\\naddress of Hon. Samuel C. Eastman, speaker of the House in\\n1883, are taken the following\\nWhen railroads were first chartered the Democratic party,\\nwhich then controlled the legislature of the State, was exceed-\\ningly jealous of all corporations. It refused for a long time to\\nrecognize the public necessity there was for the incorporation of\\nrailroads and it was only when they had declared that they\\nshould be public cflrporations and should be compelled to\\ndischarge their duties as public corporations, that the legisla-\\nture decided to charter one of them. The Concord Railroad,\\none of the first chartered, it was feared might be a monopoly.\\nIt was also feared that there mioht be a temptation to abuse\\nH. H. Metcalf.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0815.jp2"}, "764": {"fulltext": "690\\nHISTORY OF NEW llAMPSIi I RE.\\n[1887\\nthe power that had been conferred upon it by the State and tc\\nplace more money in the pockets of the stockholders than\\nwas right therefore two limits were placed upon its powers, for\\nthe purpose of protecting the public. One of thcn\\\\ was\\nvision that at any time, after a certain period, the State\\nhave the right to take the property of the railroad, payin;\\nstockholders the amount of money thev liad invested in\\na pro-\\nshould\\ny to its\\nbuild-", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0816.jp2"}, "765": {"fulltext": "I887J SINCE THE KEUELLION. 691\\ning the road and an annual dividend of ten per cent, on the\\namount they liad so invested, provided it had not already been\\npaid them out of the earnings of the corporation. Tiie other\\nrestriction was, in case the corporation should, after a period of\\nlive years, earn more money and pay to its stockholders more\\nmoney than ten per cent, per annum, the legislature should\\nhave the right to adjust their tariff so as probably for the next\\nfive years to bring their income down to the limit of ten per\\ncent. These two provisions seem very important indications\\nboth of the intention of the legislature and of the State in\\nchartering the railroads, for the provision was incorporated in\\nother railroad charters.\\nThe paternal system of the management of railroad corpora-\\ntions was in force in the State down to 1883, when the general\\nrailroad law was passed. At that time it was proposed to prac-\\ntically abandon the paternal system of the State exercising\\njurisdiction over railroads, as a father over the actions of his\\nchildren but leave them to the management of their own\\naffairs in just such a way as seemed best to them, subject of\\ncourse still to certain general regulations. And if any railroad\\nshould ask permission to destroy its own existence or transfer\\nits powers to another corporation, the legislature no longer\\nthought it necessary for them to intervene. The law did not\\naccomplish what was expected, for the court decided that the\\nlegislation was insufficient.\\nThe Concord Railroad has accumulated a large surplus, not\\nnecessarily divisible nor due to the State. The management\\nhave done nothing with their surplus which was not legitimate,\\npraiseworthy, and commendable, devoting it to the development\\nof their ability the better to discharge their public duties to the\\nState.\\nFor various reasons, which the inquisitive antiquarian may\\ndiscover by consulting the dusty files of contemporary news-\\npapers, the so-called Hazen bill, said to have been in the inte-\\nrest or to the liking of the Boston and Maine Railroad, having\\npassed the legislature, was vetoed by the governor. The Athcr-\\nton bill, which was supported by the friends of the Concord", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0817.jp2"}, "766": {"fulltext": "692 HISTORY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. [1887\\nRailroad, was killed in the House of Representatives. The\\nsupporters of the two bills were not divided according to their\\npolitical creeds. The members of both the House and the\\nSenate had the advantage of much interested advice from\\nattorneys and local political magnates, assembled at Concord\\nfrom every section of the State. Feeling ran very high, charges\\nand counter-charges were made, but after adjournment the dis-\\nputed points were referred to the Supreme Court of the State.\\nProminent in railroad circles for many years has been Mr. J.\\nW. White, of Nashua.\\nJeremiah Wilson White, son of Jeremiah White of Pittsfield\\n(a leading farmer of the town, and one of the founders of the\\nPittsfield Academy), was born in Pittsfield, September i6, 1821\\nreceived his education at the Pittsfield Academy, of which James\\nF. Joy was at the time principal entered a drug store in Bos-\\nton, and served an apprenticeship and in the summer of 1845\\nsettled in Nashua, and embarked in business for himself. From\\nthe first his habits of industry, his sound business judgment,\\nbis foresight, and his rare knowledge of men, insured success,\\nand he soon became one of the solid and substantial business\\nmen of Nashua. To his efforts are due some of the finest busi-\\nness blocks of that city and the establishment of the Second\\nNational Bank of Nashua. For many years he has been an ex-\\ntensive dealer in coal and in 1876 became prominently identi-\\nfied with the management of the Nashua and Lowell Railroad.\\nBy prompt, daring, and aggressive measures Mr. White obtained\\ncontrol of the corporation, and secured a recognition of the\\nvalue of the railroad, and caused its stock to be greatly enhanced\\nin value. Although a Whig and later a Republican, Mr. White\\nhas never been active in politics. At the breaking out of the\\nRebellion private business had necessitated his presence in\\nCharleston, S. C, where he was granted an interview with his\\nfriend Captain, afterwards General, J. G. Foster, U. S. A., who\\nwas second in command at Fort Sumter before the bombard-\\nment. In a subsequent interview with General Scott he ex-\\npressed the opinion that it would require a force of ten thousand\\nmen to relieve the fortress, while the authorities considered two\\nthousand men an ample force.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0818.jp2"}, "767": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0819.jp2"}, "768": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0820.jp2"}, "769": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0821.jp2"}, "770": {"fulltext": "(^C^c^^-Ci^^^\\nC-^^-CtyLt^ {^y/cG^l/^.", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0822.jp2"}, "771": {"fulltext": "1 NCK THE RELEI,LION. rxj3\\nMr. Wliite is treasurer of the Nashua and Lowell Railn. \u00e2\u0080\u009el\\ntreasurer of the Nashua Savings Bank, president of the Sccon.i\\nNational Bank of Nashua, and president of the White Mountain\\nFreezer Company and of the Nashua Electric Light Company\\nIf any one family may be said to have been identified with\\nthe inception and growth of the railroad system of the State\\nit is the Spalding family of Nashua. Isaac Spalding Dr\\nEdward Spalding, E. H. Spalding, and John A. Spalding are^\\nnames well known in railroad circles.\\nDr. Edward Spalding, president of the Peterborough Rail-\\nroad, and one of the most respected citizens of Nashua, was\\nborn in Amherst, September 15, 1813. He was the son of\\nDr. Matthias and Rebecca Wentworth (Atherton) Spalding,\\nand a descendant of the pioneer Puritan, Edward Spalding of\\nBraintree, Mass., in 1632, Edward Johnson of VVoburn, and\\nJoshua Atherton of Amherst. He graduated at Dartmouth\\nCollege in 1833, studied medicine with his father, and settled in\\nNashua in 1837. He practised his profession for twenty years,\\nuntil gradually he was obliged to relinquish it to care for impor-\\ntant financial trusts confided to him. President of the Nashua\\nSavings Bank, of the Indian Head National Bank, and of the\\nPennichuck Water-works, a director of each of the two cotton\\nmanufacturing companies of Nashua, a trustee of Dartmouth\\nCollege, of the Agricultural College, and of the Nashua Public\\nLibrary, and a patron of literary, historical, and genealogical\\nenterprises, overwhelmed with cares and trusts, he has yet fountl\\ntime to serve his fellow-citizens in important offices. He was\\nmayor of Nashua in 1864, and a delegate to the Baltimore con-\\nvention the same year, a member of the constitutional conven-\\ntion in 1876, and a councillor in 1878 and 1879.\\nDr. Spalding was manied June 23, 1842, to Dora Everett Barrett. Of\\ntheir three children, a son, Edward Atherton Spalding, died in boyhood, and\\ntwo daughters are living.\\nAfter the establishment of railroads and manufacturing enter-\\nMr. White was married in 1846 to Caroline G. Merrill, of Pittsfield, who died in iSSo. He inai\\nried, second, Mrs Ann M. Prichnrd, of Bradford, Vl. .A daughter died in infancy. His son Jaine\u00c2\u00bb\\nWilson White died in January, 1S76, aged 26 years.", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0823.jp2"}, "772": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0824.jp2"}, "773": {"fulltext": "1^88] SINCK Till: KEIJI-.l.I.ION. ,r\\nprises throughout the State, a new industry was developed.\\nthe entertainjnent of summer guests. Such arc the attractions\\nof the seaside, mountain, and rural scenery, that a constantly\\nincreasing throng of tourists have sought through the summer\\nmonths to enjoy its advantages and sumptuous hotels have\\neverywhere been erected to meet the demands of the travelling\\npublic. They are built on mountain summits, in deep gorges,\\nin the valleys, on the hillsides, by the rivers, and on the borders\\nof beautiful lakes. The sea-coast of the State is fringed with\\nhotels and private summer residences.\\nFrom an agricukural State, New Hampshire has become a\\nmanufacturing centre of great importance, the Merrimack\\nriver turning more spindles than any other stream of water in the\\nworld. In its fall of five hundred feet from Lake Winnipi-\\nsiogee to the ocean it is nearly every where fettered in its course\\nand the Lake, a reservoir of over seventy square miles, is of the\\ngreatest service to commerce. Manchester, Nashua, Dover.\\nConcord, Portsmouth, and Keene, are all manufacturing cities,\\nExeter, Rochester, Farmington, Newmarket, Epping, Deering,\\nFranklin, Tilton, Laconia, Bristol, Claremont, Newport, Peter-\\nborough, Lebanon, Lisbon, Littleton, Plymouth, and Berlin,\\nare important manufacturing towns. Suncook, Great Falls, and\\nLake Village, are flourishing manufacturing communities. Mills\\nand factories are on every stream which affords power and\\nshops are in every village.\\nIn Concord, early in the century, Louis Downing and J.\\nStephens Abbot were making wagons and coaches; the Abbot\\nDowning Co. continued the work. James R. Hill made bar.\\nnesses, and was succeeded in the business by George H. Emery\\nand E. Dwight. Belting, leather hose, grarfite work, silver\\nware, churns, furniture, musical instruments, shoes, machinery,\\nstoves, tools, and many other articles, are manufactured at\\nConcord.\\nIn the State are made cotton and woollen cloths, locomotives,\\nstockings, glassware, and a thousand other things.\\nGeorge Henry Emery is a descendant of Anthony Emery,\\nof Newburv. Mass., in 1640. and later of Dover; of James-", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0825.jp2"}, "774": {"fulltext": "696\\nHISTORY OF NEW HAMI SHIKK.\\n[1888\\nEmery, a representative to the General Court in 1676; of Job\\nEmery of Kittery in 1699 of Joseph Emery, of Job luiiery, of\\nIchabod Emery, and of Joseph Emery of Stratham, his father,\\nwho was a skilled machinist and a farmer. George H. Emery\\nwas born in Stratham, May 12, 1836, received his education in\\nGEORGE HENRY EMEh\\nthe public schools of Concord, and in boyhood v/ent West.\\nHe became a professor in Bell s Commercial College in Chicago.\\nDuring a visit to his old home in Concord in 1859 he was\\noffered a situation, and accepted it. His energy, sagacity, and\\nexecutive ability were soon recognized. In 1865 he was admitted\\nas a member of the firm, and became the senior iii 1884. .He", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0826.jp2"}, "775": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2430", "width": "1498", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0827.jp2"}, "776": {"fulltext": "CgS Hisronv ok new hampsiiiiu;. [1888\\nwas married September 12, 1861, to Abbie W. Clark. Tiiree\\ndaughters grace his home.\\nMr. Emery is a representative of the active and enterprising\\nyounger business men who have been building up and sustain-\\ning manufacturing enterprises, and reaching for a market for\\ntheir products to the uttermost parts of the world. He directs\\na great industry with apparent ease, and finds time to devote\\nto the amenities of life and to social duties.\\nThe writer has endeavored to condense into one volume the\\nhistory of a great commonwealth from its first beginnings at\\nLittle Harbor in 1623 to the year 1888, a period of two hundred\\nand sixty-five years. That he has omitted much of interest will\\nnot be denied. The task of enlarging upon historical facts and\\nplacing them on record will be continued in the pages of the\\nGranite Mo7itIily. New Hampshire is a charming place to live\\nin. The air is bracing, dry, and salubrious the climate is in-\\nvigorating the scenery is everywhere attractive, in places\\ngrand the water is pure the drainage is perfect the women\\nare fair and pure minded the men are honest and honorable. In\\nno other State of the Union, perhaps, is a deeper interest mani-\\nfested in the doings of the pioneers. The people of every com-\\nmunity live and build as if they were satisfied with the State as\\na home and did not expect to move on. The Commonwealth for\\nover a century has been a nursery of men and women who have\\ngone forth into other States to build up and imjirove the homes\\nof their adoption. The West is full of them.\\nPf.l lI.A\\nrioN- 01\\nXkw\\nIIV.MP\\nSlIIRP..\\nCOUNTIF.S.\\niSSo.\\n1S70.\\n1S60.\\n.S50.\\n1X4...\\n1^30.\\n1S20.\\niSio.\\nBelknap.\\n17.971\\n17,681\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a08.549\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a07.721\\nCarroll.\\n18,291\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a07.332\\n20,465\\n20,157\\nCheshire,\\n28,846\\n27,265\\n27,434\\n30,144\\n62,429\\n27,016\\n45,376\\n4o,9SS\\nCoos,\\n.8,615\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a04,932\\n.3,.6,\\n..,853\\n9.849\\n8,38s\\n4,549\\n3.99\\nGraf ion.\\n38,802\\n39. 103\\n\u00c2\u00ab,26o\\n62,140\\n42,343\\n42,3\\n38,682\\n32,989\\n28,462\\nHillsborough,\\n75,583\\n64,238\\n57.478\\n42.494\\n37.724\\n53.884\\n49,249\\nMerrimack,\\n46,291\\n42,151\\n41,408\\n40.337\\n36,253\\n34,614\\nRockingham.\\n49,110\\n47.297\\n50,123\\n49. 94\\n45,77\\n44,325\\n55. 107\\n50,175\\nStrafford,\\n35.593\\n30.243\\n3 ,493\\n29.374\\n61,127\\n58,910\\n5^. 7\\n41,595\\nSullivan,\\n18,162\\n18,058\\n19.042\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a09.375\\n20,340\\n19,669\\nTotal,\\n.147,3\\n318,300\\n326,073\\n317,976\\n284,574\\n269,32s\\n244,022\\n214,46", "height": "2448", "width": "1487", "jp2-path": "colonyprovincest01mccl_0828.jp2"}, "777": {"fulltext": "I N D H X.\\nAbbott 307.\\nBenj. 433 666.\\nEphraim 132.\\nT. C. 612624.\\nc. A. 23 ,33.\\nJ. Stephens 693.\\nJoshua 339 341.\\nAbenakis 306.\\nAbercrombie, Gen. 236 24 5 246 2\\nAberdeen, Scotland 362.\\nAbigail, Squaw 141.\\nAbolitionist 607.\\nAcadie 79 117.\\nAckland, Major 3S;.\\nACWORTH2S1, 333 390.\\nAdams 276 657 669 670.\\nAcademy 654.\\nEphraim 40S.\\nHugh 176.\\nJames a 655-\\nJohn 142, 176353.\\nJohn 4S1 507 541.\\nJohn Q 491.\\nJoseph 135.\\nNathaniel 650.\\nPhlnehas 533 542 553.\\nSamuel 303 305 334 371.\\nWinbom 3S7.\\nAdjutant-Gen, 335 495 496 611-\\nAdmiralty Court 300.\\nAdvent 642.\\nAfrica 520.\\nAfrican 420.\\nAgamenticus Mt. 40.\\n(ship) 614.\\nAgiQchook 669.\\nA^caltural Coll. 525.\\nAiken, Andrew 339,\\nAiken, Jam\u00c2\u00ab ,42 2,2.\\nJohn 145 147 14S.\\nNathaniel 142.\\nWalter 671.\\nAix la Chapelle 230.\\nAlabama 582 611.\\nAlbany 281.\\nAlbany, N. Y. 63 162 231 233\\n241 34S 365 3S1 3S9 443\\nAlbee, John 3S 125.\\nAldrich 276.\\nUeorge 334.\\nAlexander Col. 3v--\\nJames 142.\\nJohn 633.\\nRandel 142.\\nAlgonquin 21.\\nAllen, C. W. 212.\\nDaniel 132.\\nJohn 132.\\nJosiah ,37.\\nSamuel 107 121 12 12S 13^ 1\\nStephen 212.\\nThomas 133.\\nWilliam 1,1.\\ni.i ,ii7 4S\\nAliin, Kdward .,9.\\nAllison, Samuel 142.\\nAlmonie, Robert 100.\\nAusTKAU 261 27, 290 334 3S7.\\nCentre 261.\\nAmazeen 128.\\nAmbrose, Alice 61.\\nHenry 4S.\\nAnicnca So 103 140 152 ,75 .q,\\n200 219 239 24S 250 252 29s\\n344 348 354 36S 39S 402 419\\n4:4 471 4S3 4SS 501 507 597\\n604 631 635 636 640 641 645\\n664.\\nAmencan 201 203 205 227 233 250\\n252 291 299 31S 320 321 322\\n325-327 328 331 339 340 346\\n35S, 360 364 378 3S1 3S3 406\\n423 453 48S 491 501 507 535\\n552 571 605 612 63s 636 640\\n642643644645652.\\nAcademy of Arts 29S 375.\\nArmy 2S9 3S5,\\nI Colonies 2 (O 240.\\nI Palu\u00e2\u0080\u009el4-~o. I\\nAmcsbuiy, Mass. 113 146 422 42S I\\n677 6S1. I\\nAmhkrst 66 70 167 176 206264\\n453462499527539621622623.\\nCabinet 4.S0 50S 574 655.\\n(ieneral 246 247 291.\\nAmmonoosuc R. U. 574.\\nver 233 332 333 335 33S 33940S.\\nAmong the Clouds 669.\\nAmoskeag 149 208 233 39S 476 477\\n530 531 532 533 553 563 596 j\\n597-\\nFalls 89 .39 557 647.\\nHotel 557.\\nManuf. Co. 65S.\\nVeterans 613.\\nAmran, Rev. S. 148.\\nj Anabaptist 41 49 54.\\n!36 I Anasagunticook 307.\\nf7i -Anderson, Allen 142.\\n1 James 142.\\nJohn 142.\\nRobert 612.\\nAni)dveR454 52o576.\\nMass. 145 156 159 164 167 197\\nAndre, Major 392.\\n-\\\\ndrew8689.\\n.Sergt. 338.\\n.\\\\ndros. Sir Edmund 79 90 103 106\\n107 110 123.\\n-Androscoggin iS .S7 117.\\nAngel Gabriel 635.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a05. -Annals of I-ynn 195.\\nAnnapolis, I\\\\ Id. 623.\\nI -Antietam 618 621 623 625.\\nI Antifederalist 416 417.\\nCompiled by .lolin T- iin.l ll hvnnl V. McClint\\nAnluiomi,\u00c2\u00abiS40 4i49,\\nAntrim loS 182 462 554 6ai 6jj\\nApollo 359.\\nApostles 52J.\\nAppeal to kmg 65.\\nApplcbce 276.\\n-Appledore 60.\\nAppleton, Dr. 552.\\nAcademy 654.\\nJesse 70.\\nAp|)lelon s Cyclopedia 686.\\nAppomatox 643.\\nAi Tl(OR|.279 3o2 304414.\\n.Atiuadahian 55.\\nAiljuckel, Robert 142.\\n-Arcadians 231.\\nj -Archibald, John 142 196.\\nArdell, Wm. 130,\\nj Ardra, Ireland 356.\\nArgus and Spectator 655.\\nArlington 219.\\n.Armenia, Turkey 520.\\n.Armour, Andrew 196.\\nAinistrouE, John 196.\\nArmy of the Gull 625-627-628.\\nof the James 6t6 619 620 624 626\\n*27-\\nof the Potomac 616 621 623 626.\\nof the United States 346.\\nAniold, Benedict 345 365 386 39c\\n3 )2.\\nArticles of Confederation 4 S.\\nAsh 276.\\n-Ashburton Trtiaty sR\\nAshland 663 66S.\\n.AsIjIcv, Sam. 279 2^.\\n-Ashuelot Bank 599\\nR R. 574.\\nRiver 391.\\nAssembly 95-97 101 104 117 12S-\\n132 134 37 mS 162 17s 176\\niSo 182 189 198 204 211 252\\n253 267 26S 291 300 301 342\\n346 349-35 363 37S 420 428\\n5 \u00c2\u00bbl-\\nAsten, Abiel 156 159.\\nAthenian 381.\\nAthens 344.\\nAtherlon 441.\\nCharles 394.\\nCharles G. 594 598 600.\\nCharles H. 467651.\\nloshua 417 552.\\nBill 601.\\nAtkin.son 2S7 373 406 654.\\nAcademy 461.\\nGeorge 403 407.\\nSamuel 339.\\nTheodore 125 126 12S 130 1\\n74 75 205 2 355 .3 i i\\n423 424 425 426 554\\n\\\\tlantic 18 20 1S4 185 230 266 55\\nSt. I-awrencc R. 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L. 571.\\nPeter 100.\\nBallard, Ebenezer 275.\\nJohn 207.\\nJoseph 275.\\nBallock, n. W. 622.\\nBaltimore 577 643.\\nBancroft, Geo. 320329383 399 66f).\\nBandfield, Jno. ioo.\\nBannister, Warner 261.\\nBaptist 71 J95 197 260 261 364 277\\n4SS 490 505 522 523 530 559\\nBarbadoes 61 64 105 287.\\nBarclay, Capt. 317 350.\\nBerber, Daniel 281.\\nBarefoote, Walter 5i 96 i\\nBarker, T. E. 616 627.\\nT. A. 628.\\nBarnard, Jeremiah 176.\\nBarlow, Geo. 48.\\nBarnett, John 142.\\n566.\\nMo\\n142.\\nBarney, Humphrey 99.\\nBarnstable 41 195.\\nBarnstead 173 211 569633.\\nBarnum, P. T. 262.\\nBaron de St. Castine 1 10.\\nDieskan 233.\\nBarr, John 142.\\nBarr, Samuel 142.\\nBarrett 276.\\nKARElNCiTON 143 149211 251 537.\\nBarron, Ellas 156 159 160.\\nMicah 464.\\nBarry, J. E. 644.\\nThorn. 634.\\nBarstow, Geo. 516 527.\\nBakti.ett, 433.\\nBradbury 502 514 515 546 fjoo.\\nC harles H. 678 679.\\nIchabod, 564 566 56S too r.^i\\nJohn 100.\\nJ. 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C. 651.\\n.Sinclair 553.\\nBeard, Joseph 99.\\nWm. 85.\\nRobert 208.\\nBell, Charles H. 366 376 378 450\\n553 651 661 674-676684.\\nEnsign 3S7.\\nFred 3S7.\\nJames 257 600 605 606,\\nJohn 142 450611 675.\\nJonathan 526.\\nJoseph 57S.\\nLouis 6i2 619 620.\\nPersis T. 675.\\nSamuel 448 511 514 515 s.-i 525\\n5=6 533 553 570 595 6.-0 675.\\nSamuel Dana 651 675.\\nTuck 675 6S2.\\nBelletre, Mons. 248.\\nBellingham, Rich. 54 74.\\nBellona 557.\\nBellows, Benjamin 219 417.\\n1 Herbert A. 613.\\nChief Justice Henry A. 577\\nFalls 462.\\nBelmont 256 257 569.\\nBelvidere 83.\\nBemis Hciiihts 346 388.\\nStation 661.\\n274.\\nTho\\n*47-\\nBeaver River 196.\\nBeaufort 619.\\nBeckwith, Eben 260.\\nBedel, Haien 600\\nJohn 588 59961S619 656.\\n^Ioody 4S9 494 505 5S8 61S.\\nTimothy 378 409 61S.\\nBedford 2 14 239 240 241 337 633.\\nBeede, Daniel 459.\\nBelcher, Jonathan 173 174 175 176\\n17S1S3 1S4 1S7 188423.\\nBelfast, Me. 356.\\nBelknap, Jeremy 21 23 24 25 26 36\\n3738.3905 57 58 75 99 2 4\\n268-303 363 379 430 432.\\nCo. 626\\nGeo. E. 630.\\nWilliam 276.\\nBell, 128.\\nVt. 372 382 383 384 391 407 412\\n419481 545 668672.\\nBenton 279.\\nJacob 678.\\nJames 408.\\nBehi.in 287 288 483 48?;.\\nBermuda 501.\\nBerry, James 132.\\nJoseph 132 163.\\nNathaniel 132.\\nNathaniel S. 576 617.\\nWilliam 47.\\nBerwick, Me. I X5 161 356 360 361.\\nBethel 535.\\nBethlehem 414 660.\\nBelton, James 408.\\nBelts 639.\\nBeverly, Mass. 540.\\nBible 171 255.\\nBiblical Journal 258.\\nBickford, John 99.\\nWilliam 210.\\nBicknall, N.athaniel 263.\\nBiddeford, Me. 161.\\nBill 276.\\nBillerica, Mass. 156 262 322 469\\n657-\\nBillines, John 47.\\nBillv 5^0.\\nKilbbv, Enu. 41.\\nBingham 436.\\nElisha 263.\\nHarry 6S7 689.\\nBird, S,- miiel2i3.\\nBishop 27b.\\nElder 263.\\nThomas 323.\\nBixby, Phin. P. 623.\\nBlack, Israel 133.\\nBrook 531.\\nPoint 89 iiS.\\nRocks 85.\\nBlackbourne 293.\\nBlackstone 453.\\nBlackwater River 553.\\nBlaine, J. G. 60S.\\nBlair, H. 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