{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3427", "width": "2137", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00b0o\\nr-^ \u00c2\u00b0MMMS\\n^oV^\\no o\\n0^ o o.\\n^*1 ci.\\no o A^\\nC ,V ^^V.", "height": "3318", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "aO-\\nv^\\nV-\\no o\\n7\\nv", "height": "3318", "width": "2044", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "From WM. B. TOWNE, Milfurd, N. II.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "J", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Bern Oct 12 :b10^", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "HISTORICAL ADDRESS,\\nDELIVERED IN THE TOWN HALL,\\nAT AMHERST, JANUARY 19, 1874,\\nON THE OCCASION OF THE\\nHUNDEEDTH ANNIVERSARY\\nBeing an historical sketch of the territory embraced in the first parish in\\nMilford, an account of the origin of the parish, then a part\\nof Amherst, the organization of the church,\\nand the services of its ministers.\\nBY WILLIAM B. TOWNE, A. M.,\\nMember of the New England Historic, Genealogical Society, corresponding\\nmember of the New York Historical Society, the Penn-\\nsylvania Historical Society, and the state\\nHistorical Society of Wisconsin.\\nCONCORD, N. H.:\\nPRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.\\n1874.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "a little later, an enactment to the end that learning may not\\nbe buried in the graves of our forefathers, every township, after\\nthe Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty house-\\nholders, shall appoint one to teach all cliildren to write and\\nread and where any town shall increase to the number of one\\nhundred families, they shall set up a Grammer school, the\\nmasters thereof being able to instruct youth, so far as they may\\nbe fitted for the University. Here we have a distinct recog-\\nnition of the idea of education for tlie whole people. In these\\nmeasures, says the historian,! especially in the laAvs establish-\\ning common schools, lies the secret of the success and character\\nof New England. Every child, as it was born into the world,\\nwas lifted from the earth by the genius of the country, and in\\nthe statutes of the land received, as its birthright, a pledge of\\nthe public care of its morals and its mind.\\nWithin thirty years of their settlement we find this people\\nsurveying land, and laying out farms in the valley of the Souhe-\\ngan, regarding it as within their province. And such a conclusion\\nwas not strange. Gosnold, Pring, Waymouth,^ and Smith,\\nof Virginia fame, an escaped Turkish slave, whose life seems\\nto have belonged more to a mythical age than to that century,\\nwith others of less celebrity in the mother country, had explored\\nthe coast, its bays and its rivers but of the interior but little\\nColonial Laws 74, 186.\\nt Bancroft s History of the United States, vol. 1, p. 459.\\nI Waymouth entered the Penobscot or Kennebec river, and in a shallop, brought in\\npieces out of England, ascended not much less than three score miles, and kidnapped\\nand carried away five of tlie natives. One, standing before, carried our bo.x of mer-\\nchandise, as we were wont when I went to traffic with them, and a platter of pease,\\nwhich meat they loved; but before we were landed, one of them, being so suspiciously\\nfearful of his own good, withdrew himself into the wood. The other two met us on\\nthe shore side to receive the pease, with whom we went up the cliff to their tire, and\\nsat down with them; and while we were discussing how to catch the third man that\\nwas gone, 1 opened the bo.\\\\ and shew them trifles to exchange, thinking thereby to\\nhave banished fear from the otlier, and draw him to return. I?ut when we could not\\nwe used little delay, but suddenly laid h^nds upon them, and it was as much as five or\\nsix of us could do to get them into the light horseman (boat); for they were strong, and\\nso naked as our best hold was by their long hair on their heads. Mass. Hist. Coll.,\\nvol. 28, p. 144-5.\\nII Smith made a rude map of the coast, superior, perhaps, to any that had preceded it,\\nand was the first to give the country the name of New England. He declared that\\ntruth was more than wealth, and industrious subjects more available to a king than\\ngold.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "was known, Tlie marvellous accounts of the explorers, and the\\nreligious condition of the country favored colonization and be-\\ntween 1621 and 1G31, including both years, there were not less\\nthan twenty charters granted for the purpose of settlement or\\ncommerce on tlie coast of New England.* The grant of Capt.\\nJohn Mason, in 1622, extended on the coast from where the wa-\\nters of the Naurakeag discharge themselves into the ocean to\\nthe river Merrimack, extending inland to the sources of these\\nstreams. The same year Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges\\nobtained a grant from the Merrimack to the Kennebec river,\\nbounded by the ocean, and extending back to the great river of\\nCanada. In 1G28 Sir Henry Roswell and others received a grant,\\nin width from three miles north of the Men-imack river to\\nthree miles south of the Charles, bounded on the Atlantic, and\\nextending back to the western ocean and it was under this\\ngrant that the Massachusetts settlers held their possessions.\\nThe next year, 1629, John Mason received a grant extending\\nfrom the middle of Piscataqua river and up the same to the\\nfarthest head thereof, and from thence north-westward, until six-\\nty miles from the mouth of the harbor were finished; also\\nthrough Merrimack river to the farthest head thereof, and so\\nforward up into the land westward until sixty miles were fin-\\nished and from thence to cross overland to the end of the sixty\\nmiles accounted from the Piscataqua river; together with all\\nislands within five leagues of the coast. f Now it is obvious\\nthat grants so profuse and inconsistent could not all stand, and\\nout of the two last mentioned grew the controversy between\\nNew Hampshire and Massachusetts, which lasted nearly a cen-\\ntury, and Avas renowned for its acrimony and bitterness. A\\ngeneration passed away, a new generation took it up, and thus\\nit was carried along till terminated by royal authority. I have\\nalready stated that within thirty years of their arrival the in-\\nhabitants of the Massachusetts colony were surveying land and\\nlaying out farms in the valley o\u00c2\u00a3 the Souhegan. Witliin the\\nperiod mentioned, settlements had extended up to Groton and\\nChelmsford. From 1655 to 1665 the country was at peace with\\n*Palfrey s History of New England, vol. 1, pp. 397-8.\\nt Farmer s edition of Belknap, p. 8.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "6\\nthe aborigines, and the tide of population rolled onward rapidly.\\nIn addition to those on the Souhegan, grants were made on both\\nsides of the Merrimack river, on the Nashua rivei on Salmon\\nbrook, on Penichuck pond, on Penichuck brook, and in other\\nlocalities, and, with their continuance, the grantees, and those\\nwho desired to settle on the farms granted, felt the need of the\\nprivileges and immunities of an incorporated township. In ac-\\ncordance therewith, in 1673, they petitioned the General Court\\nand Avere incorporated, the township being named Dunstable,*\\nand deriving its name from Dunstable in England, some of the\\nproprietors being from that place. It must have been some-\\nthing like fifteen miles from its eastern to its western boundary,\\nand more than twelve miles from its northern to its southern, as\\nit embraced the city of Nashua, the towns of Hudson, Hollis,\\nTj ngsborough, all of Amherst that lies south of the Souhegan,\\nall of Milford on the same side of that river, except a strip a\\nmile in width on the west side of the town, contiguous to the\\ntowns of Wilton and Mason, all of Merrimack on the same side\\nof the same river, most of the town of Litchfield, and portions\\nof the towns of Londonderry, Pelham, Brookline, Pepperell,\\nand Townsend. At this time the north-western corner of the\\ncounty of Middlesex, Massachusetts, was on the south bank of\\nthe Souhegan river, a few rods below the bridge recently erected\\neast of the Pine Valley Corporation, and the county maintained\\nits jurisdiction till 1741, when the boundary line between\\nMassachusetts and New Hampshire was determined, severing\\nDunstable, and bringing about two thirds of the township\\n*The following; year the plantation was surveyed and its boundaries were as follows:\\nIt lietli upon both sides Merrimack river on the Nashua river. It is bounded on the\\nsouth by Chelmsl ord, by Grotonline, and partly by country land. The westerly line runs\\ndue uorth until you come to Souhegan river, to a hill called Dram-cup hill, to a great\\nplue near to the said river at the north-west corner of Charlestown school farm, bound-\\ned by Souhegan river on the north; and on the east side of the Merrimack it begins at\\na great stone which was supposed to be near the north-east corner of Mr. Breuton s\\nfarm, and from thence it runs south-south-east six miles to a pine tree marked F, stand-\\ning within sight of Beaver brook; then(;e it runs two degrees west of south four miles\\nand a quarter, which reached to the south side of Henry Kimball s farm at Jeremie s\\nhill; thence from the south-east angle of said farm it runs two degrees and a quarter\\nwestward of the south near to the head of the long pond which lieth at the head of\\nEdward Colburn s farm. And thus it is bounded by the said pond and tlie head of said\\nColburn s farm, taking in Captain Scarlett s farm so as to close again; all of which is\\nsufficiently bounded and described, Proprietor s Records,", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "within the jurisdiction of New Hampshire. This was very dis-\\ntasteful to many; nevertlieless, with the settlement of the prov-\\nince line there was an improved condition of things.\\nConfidence was strengthened, the tide of settlers moved on-\\nward, real property was in demand, and with the increase of\\npopulation petitions were numerous for a division of the New\\nHampshire part of old Dunstable. Accordingly, in Ajjril, 1746,\\nthe legislature of New Hampshire divided it, incorporating the\\nnew town of Dunstable,* also Hollis, Merrimack, and\\nMONSON.\\nThis last named town embraced within its limits most of the\\npresent populous part of Milford on the south side of the Souhe-\\ngan river, all of Amherst on the same side of that river, and a por-\\ntion of the north-west part of Hollis. Col. Joseph Blanchardf\\nwas authorized to call the first meeting of the inhabitants, Avhich\\nwas held May 1, only thirty days after the date of the act of in-\\ncorporation. At a subsequent meeting, held on the 27th of the\\nsame month, Col. Joseph Blanchard, James Wheeler, and Rob-\\nert Colburn were chosen a committee to make the bound be-\\ntween the town of Hollis and the town of Monson. At the\\nsame meeting it was also voted that there be a pound created\\nand built near to the house of William Nevins upon the most\\nconvenient piece of ground. The following petition from the\\ninhabitants was presented to the general assembly of New\\nHampshire, under date of May 13, 1747. The petition of the\\ninhabitants of the town of Monson, hereto subscribers, humbly\\n*In 1837 thfi name was changed to Nashua. In 1842 the town was divided, and the\\nnorth portion incorporated by the name of Nashville. In 1853 Nashville and Nashua\\nwere consolidated and chartered as the city of Nashua.\\nt Col. Joseph Blanchard was son of Capt. Joseph and Abiah (Hassell) Blanchard was\\nborn at Dunstable Feb. 11, 1704; married llebecca Hubbard; was an accomplished land\\nsurveyor, and for several years was agent of the Masonian proprietors; was in 1740, by\\nmandamus, appointed one of the councillors of New HampsTiire, which position he sus-\\ntained till his death; commanded a regiment in the French war, and was in 1755 sta-\\ntioned at Fort Edward, Washington county, New Vork, one company of his command\\nbeing the famous Kogers rangers was also judge of the superior court from 1749 to 1758.\\nHe died April 7, 1758, and his widow April 17, 1774. They had thirteen children, among\\nwhom was Augustus Blanchard, Esq., who died in 31ilford in 1809, having been clerk of\\nthe south-west parish ten years, town clerk for the tirst ten years alter the town was in-\\ncorporated, and a representative of the town to the general court.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8\\nslieweth, that the said town is lately begun to settle, and but\\nabout fifteen families tliere that they are one of the frontier\\ntowns west of iMerriniack river, and the most northerly one al-\\nready incorporated lying between Ilollis and the new plantation\\ncalled Souhegan West; that could we be assisted by soldiers,\\nsuch competent number as might enable us to defend ourselves,\\nshall cheerfully endeavor to stay there, by which we shall serve\\nas a barrier in part to HoUis, Merrimack, and Dunstable that\\nthe last year we were favored by soldiers from Massachusetts*\\nthat prevented or drawing off; that should the war be j^ur-\\nsued by the enemy as vigorously as -last year (unless we are\\nfavored by some assistance from the government), we humbly\\napprehend it would be too great presumption to venture our-\\nselves and families there that it will be very ruinous to your\\npetitioners to leave their settlements and tlie frontier widened,\\nand for a necessary defence will require a greater number of\\nsoldiers than to assist us there. Wherefore your petitioners\\npray that a guard for two garrisons and a small scout on our\\nfront may be granted to us. James Wheeler, William Nevens,\\nWilliam Colburn, Robert Colburn, Jonathan Taylor, Samuel Le-\\nman, Samuel Leman, jr., Abraham Leman, Thomas Nevens,\\nBenjamin Hopkins, Isaac Farwell, Stephen Haselton, John\\nBurns, Thomas Murdow.\\nUpon the foregoing petition, and a similar one from Souhegan\\nWest, the assembly gave orders for enlisting or impressing fif-\\nteen good effective men, under proper officers, to scout and\\nguard Souhegan West and Monson till the twenty-third day of\\nOctober next if need be, and that said men be shifted once a\\nmonth.\\nIn 1748, Dunstable, Merrimack, Hollis, Nottingham, and Mon-\\nson united in the choice of a representative to the general as-\\nsembly, the session to be holden at Portsmouth on the third day\\nof the next January. The town this year voted to raise \u00c2\u00a360\\nold tenor for the use of highways, one half to be done in June,\\nat twenty shillings per day for a man and eight shillings per day\\n*It seems from the tenor of this petition tliat Massacliusetts granted military aid to\\nthis infant settlement five years after it had been adjudged within the jurisdiction of\\nNew Hampshire.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "for a pair of oxen the otlicr lialf to be done in September, at\\nfifteen sliillings per day for a man, and the same price as in June\\nfor a pair of oxen.\\nIn 1749 the annual meeting was at the house of Mr. Tliomas\\nNevins. Tlie fifth article in the warrant was to see if the town\\nwill agree to tax the lands within the whole township for the\\nuse of preaching. At the meeting the town voted to dismiss\\nthis article. At the same meeting a road two rods wide\\nwas laid out from opposite Souhegan bridge, commonly called\\nLyon s bridge,* up the river through the farms of Madam Tall-\\ner, Col. Joseph Blanchard, Benjamin Hopkins, and others. f\\n1750. At the annual meeting this year, Benjamin Hopkins,\\nRobert Colburn, and Nathan Hutchinson were chosen a com-\\nmittee to adjust the boundary line between Monson and HoUis,\\nand the town again declined to tax the lands within the whole\\ntownship for the support of preaching.\\n1751. Voted that the road from Nathan Hutchinson s land\\nto Mr. Ho] (kins house be discontinued, or shut np for a time,\\nwithout the inhabitants please to put np good gates or good\\nbandy bars.\\n1753. At the annual meeting this year the second article in\\nthe warrant was to see if the town would raise a sum of money\\nfor a school the third, to see if it would tax the lands for build-\\ning a meeting-house; and the fourth, to raise money for the sup-\\nport of highways, all of which articles were decided in the\\nnegative. The boundary line between the town and Hollis\\nseems not to have been settled, as at this meeting the matter\\nwas referred to the selectmen.\\nThe following petition, in substance, was presented to the\\ngeneral assembly of New Hampshire by the selectmen\\nWhereas, the inhabitants of Monson have received a late\\norder to render into tlie oftice of the secretary of state an\\ninvoice of their polls and estates in order for apportioning the\\n*In the early settlement of the country the bridge over the river near the Amherst\\nrailroad station was called Lyon s bridge, and derived its name from Ebenezer Lyon,\\nwho lived near it as early as 1748, and who died in 1798, aged 88 years.\\nt Widow Abagail Tailer, of Boston, at this time owned a farm of 300 acres in the\\nneighborhood of the East Milford railroad flag station, Col. Joseph Blanchard another\\nbetween that and where the present village in Itlili ord is now located, and Benjamiu\\nHopkins owned the Charlestown school farm.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10\\ntaxes, Avliich we liave done, and would further beg leave to re-\\nmonstrate our infancy and inability to bear any part of the pub-\\nlic burden at present that there is but thirty-six polls in the\\nwhole, several of them being transiently hired to labor for a\\nshort space of time that there are but twenty-one houses, chief-\\nly small cottages, only for a present shelter, the charge of build-\\ning yet to come that the householders are all plain men,\\ndwelling in tents, husbanding their employments, their im-\\nprovements very small, their lands unsubdued, their progress\\nmuch retarded by their necessity to Avork out of town during\\ntlie prime of the year, or at other business to procure provisions,\\nand, though the town is a part of old Dunstable, it has till now\\nbeen a portion and remained a total wilderness; that till within\\na few years the owners were under no obligation to settle the\\nlands that were very recently granted to gentlemen in farms,\\nby which means the few settlers are scattered all about the\\ntown, and that much labor has and must be spent in opening\\nand making roads, bridges, c., that are of present necessity a\\nburden too lieavy for the small, weak number that is there; that\\nin the late war they were at the expense of garrisoning, scouting,\\nand defending themselves, besides many other charges they\\nmust have and must go through so therefore apprehend them-\\nselves utterly unable to bear any part of the public taxes as yet;\\nbut hope their small beginning in time may become useful, if\\nthey may be nursed and favored now in their infancy. Where-\\nfore your petitioners pray that they may be considered in their\\ninfant and chargeable state, and that they may not be taxed till\\nthey are of ability to go througli their own necessary charge,\\nand when that shall be, they will cheerfully contribute accord-\\ning to their power.\\n1754. This year John Shepard,* William Peabody, Andrew\\nBradford, Israel Towne, Archelaus Williams, Richard Gould,\\nThomas Williams, John Hutchinson, John Edmonds, and others,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6John Shepard then resided within the present limits of the village in Milford,onthe\\nnorth side of Souhegan river, wliere Mr. John Marvell now lives; William Peabody on\\nthe old Peabody farm, farther up the river on tlie same side, late the property of the\\nlate T T. Farnsworth and Israel Towne, within tlie present limits of Amherst, on the\\nfarm owned by Abel and Frank W. Chase. The iirayer of the petitioners would have\\nannexed to Monson a strip of territory about seven miles in length by two in width,\\nand would have included nearly the whole of Amherst plain.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "11\\npetitioned the governor and council to be annexed to Monson.\\nThey represented themselves substantially as inhabitants of a\\ntract of land north of and adjoining Monson, lying within no in-\\ncorporation, town, or district; that the town of Monson is situ-\\nated in length, east and west, near eight miles, in breadth but\\nabout four miles, and is bounded on the northerly side by Sou-\\nhegan river, both sides of which river are generally fruitful and\\nprofitable land for corn and grass that if the town of Monson\\nwere enlarged on the north so as to add and include the follow-\\ning tract of land beginning at the north-east corner of Monson,\\non Souhegan river, and running north by the line of Merrimack\\ntwo miles, then begin the west station at the north-west corner\\nof Monson and run thence north two miles, then in a straight\\nline to the end of the two miles first mentioned which would\\nbe an addition of about seven thousand acres, and would make\\nthe town about five and one half miles in width generally that\\nthe said river is small that many bridges are now and must\\ncontinue to be kept in repair, so that the river is no incon-\\nvenience to this union that it will be for the accommodation of\\nMonson, and that several of the petitioners have for many\\nyears been settled here, and have made their improvements at\\nheavy expense that they have not had the benefit of any in-\\ncorporation in any town, nor do they see any present prospect\\nof incorpoi ation unless they are annexed to Monson.\\n1755. At the annual meeting this year the question of taxing\\nthe land for building a meeting-house was again agitated, and\\nagain decided iit the negative.\\n1756. At this annual meeting the question was again raised,\\nand again decided in the negative, and an effort to raise a sum\\nof money for a school part of the year was also decided in the\\nnegative. Before the close of the year, however, a special meet-\\ning was called to fix upon a place for locating the meeting-house,\\nand it was decided to set it in the most convenient place, near\\nthe centre of the town.*\\n1758. The annual meeting this year was held at the house of\\nArchelaus Towne, innholder. The third article in the warrant\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Tradition points to a locality on the northerly slope of Duncklee hill as the place\\nfixed upon, and it still retains the name of the meeting-house lot.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "12\\nwas to see if the town will vote to tax the lands of residents\\nand non-residents for building a meeting-house, which question\\nat the meeting was decided in the negative. The fifth article\\nin said warrant was to see if the town will come into any\\nagreement with Capt. Shepard concerning the one half of his\\nbridge, or allow him some satisfaction for the same. On this\\narticle it was voted to allow Capt. Shepard some satisfaction for\\none half of his bridge, and James Wheeler, Benjamin Ilerrick,\\nand Nathan Hutchinson were chosen a committee to adjust\\nthe matter. At a subsequent meeting this year it was voted to\\nraise \u00c2\u00a3250 old tenor for the use of highways, \u00c2\u00a370 to pay Capt.\\nShepard for one half of his bridge over the river at his mill, and\\n\u00c2\u00a31G to William Jones for plank put on said bridge. The \u00c2\u00a3250\\nfor highways was never raised, the inhabitants at a later meet-\\ning reconsidering the vote.\\n1759. Tlie town again voted not to tax the lands for building\\na meeting-house. Chose William Jones and Josiah Crosby to\\ninspect the deer.\\n1760. Voted to petition the governor and council of the\\nprovince to set off or annex the land on the south side of Mon-\\nson to Hollis, and to annex such part of Souhegan West to the\\nremainder of Monson as will be sufficient to maintain the gos-\\npel, and other charges incident to towns.\\n1761. Voted to raise \u00c2\u00a3100 old tenor to defray town charges\\ndeclined to tax the lands for building a meeting-house; voted to\\ngrant the petition of Hollis that a mile and one half, or there-\\nabouts, be set off agreeable to the petition of said Hollis; and\\ndismissed the article relative to fixing a place to locate the\\nmeeting-house.\\n176o. Benjamin Hopkins, John Burns, Joseph Gould, John\\nBurns, jr., Thomas Burns, and George Burns, at the annual\\nmeeting, protested against a division of the town. The voters,\\nhowever, sustained their former position also, voted to raise\\n\u00c2\u00a3300 old tenor for the support of preaching; each person to pay\\ntheir money where they hear.\\n1764. Voted to sink the \u00c2\u00a3300 old tenor raised last March for\\nthe support of preaching. The fourth article in the warrant\\nthis year was to see if the town would agree to build a meet-", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "13\\ning-hoase, and fix upon a place to set it, which artyjle was de-\\ncided in the negative. The fifth was to see if the town would\\nraise a sum of money to hire preaching, which was also decided\\nin the negative. The sixth was to see if the town would raise\\na sum of money in order to make satisfaction to the towns of\\nHollis and Amherst for the privilege of worshipping with them.\\nFor this purpose it was voted to raise \u00c2\u00a3400 old tenor. The\\nseventh article was to see if the town would provide one or\\nmore burial-places in the town, which article was dismissed*\\nThe tenth article was to see if the town would be at the charge\\nof making another road where Mr. Benjamin Hopkins has flowed\\nthe town road, or take a course of law with him for damages.\\nUpon this article the town voted to take a course of law, and\\nappointed the selectmen to prosecute the suit. On the 12th of\\nSeptember this year another town meeting was held, at which\\nit was voted to build a meeting-house, to petition the general\\ncourt for a tax upon the lands of residents and non-residents for\\nbuilding the same, and Benjamin Hopkins, Nathan Hntchinson,\\nand Josiah Crosby were chosen a committee to carry the matter\\nto the general court.\\n17G5. At the annual meeting this j ^ear the fourth article in\\nthe M arrant was to see if the town will vote to tax the lands of\\nresidents and non-residents to build a meeting-house and settle a\\nminister, and if not, to nullify and make void the former vote for\\nthat purpose. The proposition to erect a meeting-house and\\nsettle a minister was not sustained. The town this year voted\\nto raise \u00c2\u00a3250 old tenor to defray town charges.\\n1767. The town voted this year that the money raised in the\\nyear 1764, and assessed for the towns of Hollis and Amherst,\\nshould not be collected.\\n1769. The town declined to raise money for the support of\\nhighways.\\n1770. On the ninth day of April a special meeting was called,\\nwhen it was voted that the town be divided between Hollis and\\nAmherst, both of these towns having assented to the arrange-\\nment. The division was as follows, viz. Beginning at the\\nnorth-east corner of Monson, and running south by the line of\\nMerrimack two miles, then due west to the west line of Monson,", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14\\nthen nortlt to Souhegan river, then down said river to the\\nbound first mentioned to be annexed to Amherst, the remainder\\nto Ilollis. By this arrangement Amherst acquired its first ter-\\nritory on the south side of tlie Souhegan river. Tlie reason\\nassigned fi^r a division in the petition of Monson* to the govern-\\nor and council was, that the hind in and about the centre of\\nsaid Monson is so A-ery poor, barren, broken, and uneven, as can-\\nnot admit of many settlers, so that those families that are in\\ntown are almost all planted in the extreme parts of it. We\\ntherefore conceive that if a division were made, as above men-\\ntioned, the interest and good of the people in it would be much\\npromoted thereby, especially as we have no prospect of ever\\nbuilding a meeting-house, in the centre or elsewhere, any way,\\nto accommodate us, by which difiiculty we think the gosi)el will\\nnot be settled amongst us while in the present situation. Thus\\nwas Monson blotted out, after an existence of twenty-four years.\\nFor the last tw^elve years of her continuance, her annual\\n-TOWN CLERKS AND SELECTMEN OF THE TOWN OF MONSON.\\n1746.\\n1747.\\n1748.\\n1749.\\n1750.\\n1751.\\n1752.\\n17.53.\\n1754.\\n1755.\\n1756.\\n1757.\\n1758.\\n1759.\\n1760.\\n1761.\\n1762.\\n1763.\\n1764.\\n1765.\\n1766.\\n1767.\\n1768.\\n1769.\\n1770.\\nTown Clerk.\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenjamin Kenrick.\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nArclielausTovvne,\\nArchelaus I owne,\\nArchelaus Towne,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nFirst Selectman.\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenjamin Keniick,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenjamin Kenrici:,\\nNathan Hutchinson\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenjamin Hopkins,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nArchelaus Towne,\\nArchelaus Towne,\\nArclielaus Towne,\\nBenjamin Kenrick,\\nSecond Selectman.\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nBenj. Hopkins,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nIJobert Colburn,\\nRobert Nevins,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nJohn Brown,\\nBenjamin Kenrick\\nJolin Blown,\\nJonathan Taylor,\\nBenj. Hopkins,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nDaniel Kenrick,\\nNat n Hutchinson,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nRobert Colburn,\\nJosiah Crosby,\\nJoseph Gould,\\nWilliam Nevins,\\nTliird Selectman.\\nWilliam Nevins.\\nWilliam Nevins.\\nSamuel Leman.\\nSamuel Leman.\\nNathan Huichinson.\\nNathan Hutchinson.\\nWilliam Nevins.\\nBenjamin Farley.\\nWilliam Nevins.\\nWilliam Nevins.\\nWilliam Jones.\\nJohn Brown.\\nWilliam Nevins.\\nThomas Nevins.\\nBenjiimin Kenrick.\\nNatlian Hutcliinson.\\nRobert Colburn.\\nJosiah Crosby.\\nWilliam Nevins.\\nBenjamin Kenrick.\\nNatlian Hutchinson.\\nJosiah Crosby.\\nDaniel Kenrick.\\nThomas Burns.\\nJosiah Crosby.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "15\\nmeetings were held at the house of Archelaus Towne inn-\\nholder.\\nShe had no public structure except a pound. She resolutely\\nrefused to raise money for the support of schools, and while she\\noccasionally, at a special meeting, voted in favor of the first\\nsteps towards public religious instruction, at her annual meet-\\nings she invariably negatived such vote. A century has passed\\nsince her demise, and but for the recent findingf of a portion of\\nher records, but few j^ersons of to-day would know that she ever\\nexisted.\\n1771. Tlie harmony that prevailed last year, when annexation\\nwas so popular, was not of long continuance, for in January of\\nthis year about thirty of the most prominent of those tlint were\\nlast year annexed petitioned the governor and council for a\\ndivision of Amherst. They recite in their petition, Tliat the\\ntown of Amherst is about nine miles in length, by reason that\\nabout half the town of Monson was of late annexed to it, and\\nis capable of being divided into two towns or parishes without\\nprejudice to or spoiling the same; that many of us live in that\\npart of Amherst which was lately Monson, and our being an-\\nnexed to said Amherst was contrary to our desire and interest\\nthat we are so remote from the centre of Amherst that it is,\\nand ever will be, with great expense, inconvenience, and diffi-\\nculty to us and our families to attend public worship, by reason\\nof the distance that many of our estates are not so valuable\\nby reason of our being annexed to Amherst, for before that our\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Archelaus Towne, son of Israel and Grace (Gardner) Towne, was born at Topsfield,\\nMass., in 17.34; came to Souhegau West with his father at the a{;e of about six jears;\\nmarried Martha, born July 24, 1737, daughter of Ephraim Abbott. They resided in\\nMonson, at what is now known as Dauforth s Corner, in Amheist, where he kept a tav-\\nern for several years. They had seven children. His wife died in 1773, after which he\\nraised a company, took command of it, joined tlie continental army, and died at Fish-\\nkill, N. y., in November, 1779. He was a man large of stature, of great physical\\nstrength and power ot endurance, fond of the hardship and excitement of frontier life,\\na natural leader, and one that commanded the confidence of his associates. Narrative\\nof Jonathan Towne, wh\u00c2\u00bb died at Milford Dec. 31, 1842, in the 89th year of his age.\\ntThe Hon. Samuel T. Worcester, of Nashua, being engaged in the preparation of an.\\narticle upon the early history of Hollis, was informed by his brother, tlie Hon. John N.\\nWorcester, of Hollis, that there formerly existed, in the town clerk s office of that\\ntown, records relating to Monson. This led the former to procure the nearly worn out\\nvolume, have what remained of it bound, and put in condition to prevent further im-\\nmediate waste.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "16\\nsituation was nigh the centre of Monson, and on that account\\npurcliased our binds at a dear rate, and Monson being annihi-\\nlated, our situation is more inconvenient than before.\\nAmherst folloAved with a counter petition, in wliicli it was\\nstated, Tliat for more than twenty years bast past a number\\nof persons living on those lands lately known l)y the name of\\nMonson, but more lately joined to Amherst, not having a min-\\nister settled among them nor accommodation sufficient for that\\npurpose, as they said, very constantly attended the worship of\\nGod with us in said Amherst, not doing anything with us\\ntowards our meeting-house, nor towards the support of our\\nminister, except some small private donations made to our\\nminister. However, they repeatedly requested our town to\\nconsent to receive them, promising to meet at any place that\\nthe major part of the people should fix to build a house on,\\nwhereupon our town, after repeated solicitations to receive\\nthem, gave their consent. And your excellency and honors,\\nsome time in July last, saw fit to aggregate about one half of\\nsaid Monson to said Amherst. Soon after, our town saw it nec-\\nessary to build a meeting-house, and voted to do it, our present\\nmeeting-house being small and insufficient for the old town and\\nsaid new addition. The most of the people of the new addition\\nwere present, and some voted in the affirmative, some in the\\nnegative but they began to think that the charter subjected\\nthem to the same duties with us of the old town, tliat they\\nmust defray some part of the charges of building and so forth,\\nand not only so, but must do sometliing towaixls supporting\\nour minister. These reflections aiFected some of them very\\nsensibly. They had not been acquainted with anything of the\\nkind. They were ready to construe it as a degree of persecu-\\ntion and the like. And to remedy this evil they are about peti-\\ntioning to have our town, as it now lies, divided into two\\nl^arishes, which we think can not be done without a manifest\\ninjury to more than three quarters of the town. A very consid-\\nerable quantity of land in our town is barren ^nd poor, and will\\nnot admit of two parishes besides, it lies in such a situation by\\nI eason of a river and hills, that the whole of tlie people may\\nmore conveniently meet at one jilace, the place pitched upon,\\nthan at any two places in the town.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "17\\nNo action was taken by the state authorities upon cither of\\nthese petitions, and quiet seems to liave been restored. The\\nnew meeting-house was built and dedicated, tlie Avorshi})pers\\ngathered in this new sanctuary froni all parts of the town, and\\nthe continuous exercises of yesterday and to-day, after the lapse\\nof a century, are a fitting recognition of that event.\\nTHE SOUTH-WEST PARISH.\\nIn the year 1782 forty-seven persons, as follows, viz..\\nNathan Hutchinson,\\nAndrew Bradford,\\nJosiah Crosby,\\nSampson Crosby,\\nJames Gilman,\\nThomas Burns,\\nIsaac Abbott,\\nElisha Hutchinson,\\nBenjamin Hutchinson,\\nJosiah Crosby, Jr.,\\nJohn Wallace,\\nStephen Crosby,\\nAugustus Blanchard,\\nJohn Burns,\\nWilliam Crosby,\\nJoiin Bradford,\\nThaddeus Grimes,\\nIsrael Burnham,\\nJohn Grimes,\\nNathan Hutchinson, Jr.,\\nBartholomew Hutchinson,\\nDavid Burnham,\\nArthur Graham,\\nWilliam Wallace,\\nEbenezer Averill,\\nMoses Averill,\\nJoshua Burnham,\\nStephen Burnham,\\nJonathan Hutchinson,\\nAbner Hutchinson,\\nWilliam Peabody,\\nElijah Averill,\\nEbenezer Hopkins,\\nJonathan Grimes,\\nGeorge Burns,\\nWilliam Grimes,\\nDarius Abbott,\\nSamuel How,\\nJonathan Towne,\\nPlenry Codman,\\nWilliam Melendy,\\nSamuel Dodge,\\nBartholomew Towne,\\nBenjamin Hopkins, Jr.,\\nBenjamin Conant,\\nBenjamin Hopkins, 3d,\\nSamuel Graham,\\nwere constituted the third or south-west parish in Amherst,\\nfor transacting ministerial affairs only. The reason assigned\\nby the incorporators for the formation of this parish was, that\\ntheir local situation rendered it impracticable for some of them\\nand many of their children to give a general attendance at the\\n2", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18\\netated place of public worship, and, furtlier, that they conceived\\nthey could well be spared, there being about three hundred\\nratable polls taxed to the first parish. There was no boundary\\nto the new parish, neither were the members exempt from\\nformer obligations, one condition being, that nothing in its or-\\nganization should be construed to exempt any of said ])arish-\\nioners, their polls or estates, from paying their just proportion of\\nall ministerial charges already arisen in said town of Amherst,\\nnor from the future support, according to contract, of the Rev.\\nDaniel Wilkins, the late minister of said town then living.*\\nThe date of incorporation was November 23, and the first meet-\\ning was held at the house of Thaddeus Grimes, on the four-\\nteenth day of the next January. At this meeting Capt. Nathan\\nHutchinsonf was chosen moderator; Augustus Blanchard, cl\u00c2\u00abrk\\nand treasurer Augustus Blanchard, Lieut. Thomas Burns, and\\nCapt. John Bradford, assessors; and Benjamin Hutchinson, col-\\nlector; and it was voted to build a meeting-house of the same\\nsize and bigness the nortli-west parish hath built, except the\\nporches, and that Lieut. Darius Abbott, Capt. Josiah Crosby,\\nand Capt. Andrew Bradford be a committee to provide timber,\\nboards, and shingles, and let the same out at public vendue to\\nthe lowest bidder. At the first annual meeting of the parish,\\nliolden at the house of Thaddeus Grimes, iunholder, on the\\nfourth day of March, 1783, it was voted to raise \u00c2\u00a332 4s. to dis-\\ncharge the expense of the parish being set off, \u00c2\u00a395 to be laid\\nout in purchasing timber, boards, shingles, and other materials\\nfor building the meeting-house, \u00c2\u00a315 to pay for preaching the\\ncurrent year, and that Capt Nathan Hutchinson, Lieut. Thomas\\nBurns, and Capt. John Bradford be a committee to hire preach-\\ning. Later in the same year another meeting was called to\\n*The Rev. Daniel Wilkins at this time was aged and infirm, had been settled up-\\nwards of forty years, and lived only three months after the formation of this parish,\\ndying February 11, 1783, in the seventy-third year of his age.\\nt Capt. Nathan Hutchinson, a very active and etiicient man in town and pari.sh\\naffairs, was son of Benjamin and Sarah (TarboU) Hutchinson, of Bedford, Middlesex\\ncounty, Mass., and married Rachel Stearns. In 1744 he purcliased of Benjamin Hop-\\nkins one hundred acres of land, near the centre of the Charlestown school farm,\\nbounded north by the river, south by the south line of said farm, of equal width at\\neach end, also bounded by a black oak on Saddle hill. He came here from Billerica\\nin June, 1748, located on Elm street, where B. D. Searles now resides, and died June 12,\\n1795, aged 78 years. His widow died on the 25th of July, in the same year, aged\\n76 years.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "19\\nmake choice of a place Avhere the meeting-house should be\\nerected, and make provision for clearing the same. After ad-\\njourning from the house of Mr. Grimes to the place regarded as\\nthe most desirable location, it was voted that the house should\\nstand about twenty rods south of Shepard s bridge, on a rise of\\nground. This vote would have located the meeting-house on\\nwhat are now the premises of Doctor S. S. Stickney. At a meet-\\ning held still later this year, Capt. Nathan Hutchinson, John\\nWallace, and John Burns were chosen a committee to ])rocure\\nstone for underpinning the meeting-house, and Joshua Burnham\\nwas authorized to purchase a parish book.\\nAt the annual meeting, holden March 2, 1784, it was voted to\\nproceed with the meeting-house, and to begin to frame it the\\nfirst Monday in June, and raise it as soon as possible. Cnpt.\\nNathan Hutchinson, Capt. Josiah Crosby, and Capt. Andrew\\nBradford were chosen a committee to see that the meeting-house\\nis framed, underpinned, and raised. It was also voted to raise\\n\u00c2\u00a330 towards the expense of the meeting-house \u00c2\u00a320 to pay for\\npreaching; that three shillings per day be allowed each man for\\nwork on the meeting-house, the laborer to board himself; and\\nthat any person who shall hei-eafter join the parish, shall be\\nexempt from any tax raised, to raise, board, and shingle the\\nmeeting-house. For some reason, not discernible at this time,\\nthe location that had been fixed upon did not prove satisflictory,\\nfor, at a special meeting held on tiie 15th day of June, it was\\ndecided that it should be located about ten rods north-west from\\nthe former place, between two pitch pine stumps; that Augustus\\nBlanchard, Lieut. Thomas Burns, Joshua Burnham, Capt. John\\nBradford, and Lieut. Benjamin Hutchinson, be a committee to\\ncarry on the work, and that said committee provide one barrel of\\nrum, two barrels of cider, and one quarter of sugar for the rais-\\ning. Thus, it would seem that the meeting-house was raised in\\nthe summer of 1784, for, on the second day of September of this\\nyear, a special meeting was called, and the second article in the\\nwarrant was to see if the parishioners would board, shingle, or\\nfinish any part of the meeting-house frame, when it was A Oted\\nto board and shingle it; that it be boarded with square edged\\nboards, and that the boarding and shingling be let to the lowest\\nbidder at vendue. At the same meeting, it was voted to raise", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20\\n\u00c2\u00a340 to defray the expense of furthur finishing the meeting-house\\nand Lieut. Thomas Burns and Lieut. Darius Abbott were chosen\\na committee to wait upon Governor Hopkins, and get the dona-\\ntion he hath offered to procure the nails. It was common among\\nour ancestors in Enghxnd, and continues to the present time, of\\ndenominating the chief man, or the man at the head of promi-\\nnent movements or estabhsliments, as the governor;* and the\\ntitle, in this case, must liave been derived in this way. In\\n1659, the general court of Massachusetts granted to tlie town\\nof Charlestown 1,000 acres of land, from the unappropriated\\nlands of the province, for the support of a school. The next\\nyear it was surveyed by that celebrated land surveyor, Jonathan\\nDanforth, of Billerica, and described thus: Laid out, for the\\nuse of the school of Charlestown, one thousand acres of land,\\nmore or less in the wilderness, on the western side of Merrimack\\nriver, at a place commonly called by the Indians, Sowheaganucke,\\nbeginning at the foot of a great hill, and so extending eastward\\nabout two miles down said rivei and bounded by the river on\\nthe north, and by land laid out for Mrs. Anna Cole on the east,\\nthe wilderness elsewhere surrounding according to marked\\ntrees, all of wliich are sufficiently bounded with C, and is more\\nfully demonstrated by a platt taken of the same. f The title of\\nIndians was extinguished by deed, dated July 14, 1671.$ The\\nnorth-west corner of this tract of land was on the south bank of\\nthe river, a few rods below the new bridge at Jones s crossing,\\nand was identical with the north-west corner of Old Dunstable,\\nthe north-west corner of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, for\\nmore than sixty years, and the north-west corner of the late\\ntown of Monson. This tract extended down the river to the\\npresent east line of the farm of William Ramsdell, and no more\\nattractive piece of land of the same magnitude exists in this\\nregion. The town of Charlestown continued to own it till\\nMay, 1743, when it was purchased by Benjamin Hopkins, of\\nBillerica, for \u00c2\u00a3375, and as early as 1745 he resided on it. A\\nsaw-mill is a necessity in a new settlement, and he early built\\nTilt translators of the Bible observed it, in James 3:4.\\nt Mass. General Court Records.\\nX Middlesex County Registry of Deeds.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "21\\none upon Whitehall brook, a little west of where the house of\\nMoses Proctor now stands and, if any one will proceed into\\nthe field, about fifty rods northerly of the house of Luke Smith,\\nto a little point of land on the border of the brook, overlooking\\nthe river and the intervale, and remove the turf, he will occa-\\nsionally find in the soil a small piece of brick or stone that has\\nonce been in a chimney, a wall, or a fire-place, indicating that a\\ndwelling once stood there. It was on this spot in the wilder-\\nness, with nothing to guide him but marked trees, that Mr.\\nHopkins erected his bullet-proof dwelling a kind of fort, built\\nof timber, to protect himself and family from the fierce beasts of\\nthe forest, and fiercer men. On the north side of the river lived\\nWilliam Peabody, John Shepard, and Israel Towne; on the\\nsouth side his nearest neighbor was in the west parish of Dun-\\nstable, now Hollis; and his oldest son married Anna Powers,\\nthe first white child born in that town* Such is a brief out-\\nline of one who had, by universal consent, acquired the title of\\nGovernor,! and who, after a residence of upwards of forty years in\\nthe neighborhood, was making a donation to purchase the nails\\nfor the new meeting-house. At a subsequent meeting, in No-\\nvember, it was voted to provide clapboards, door-steps, boards\\nfor the lower floor, sashes, suitable stuff for window-frames,\\nand glass, and that Capt. Nathan Hutchinson, Capt. William\\nPeabody, and Capt. Josiah Crosby be a committee to provide\\nthe materials voted, and see that they are delivered at the meet-\\ning-house.\\nAt the annual meeting holden on the 1st day of March, 1785,\\nit was voted to raise \u00c2\u00a350 to be laid out on the meeting-house,\\nand to raise \u00c2\u00a330 to hire preaching and defray parish charges.\\nOn the 7th day of the same month there was a special\\nmeeting called, and the second article in the warrant was to see\\nif the parishioners will build porches to the meeting-house, or\\nlet any person or persons build the same for the ground the\\nsame may save in the house. At this meeting it Avas voted to\\nbuild porches, and a committee was chosen for that purpose,\\nNarrative of the venerable John Hopkins in 1840.\\nt He died June 11, 1787, aged 85 years; and his widow died July 30, 1792, aged 93\\nyears.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22\\nand instructed to have the work done as soon as tlie other out-\\nside work on the house was completed. At tlie same meeting\\nWilliam Peabody, Benjamin Hopkins, and Joshua Burnhani\\nAvere chosen a committee to hire preaching the current year.\\nAt another special meeting, held on the 25th of* April, Nathan\\nHutchinson, Augustus Blanchard, and Thomas Burns were\\nchosen a committee to sell the pew-ground in the meeting-\\nhouse, at public vendue, to the highest bidder, and give proper\\nconveyances to the purchasers, and that the money arising from\\nthe sale be laid out in further finisliing the meeting-house. It\\nwas also voted to put in all the joist and braces in the meet-\\ning-house not already in, and that John Burns be allowed 23\\nshillings lawful money for doing the same.\\nA still further special meeting was held on the 5th of Septem-\\nber, when it was voted to lay the lower floor, and to let the\\nsame out at vendue to the lowest bidder, and it was struck off\\nto Thomas Boynton at thirty-nine shillings. Thomas Burns,\\nNathan Hutchinson, and John Wallace were chosen a commit-\\ntee to procure projier floor nails, see that the sills were properly\\nunderpinned, and the floors laid in a good workmanlike man-\\nner. On the 25th day of December, another special meeting\\nwas held, when it was decided to have the sashes, window-\\nframes, doors, body seats, and stuff for the body seats, put up at\\nvendue, to be bid off by the lowest bidder. Nathan Hutchinson,\\nCaleb Jones, and Josiah Crosby Avere chosen a committee to\\nvendue the work off, to procure at the expense of the parish all\\nthe necessary materials for doing the work, and to see that it\\nwas done in a good workmanlike manner, the work to be com-\\npleted by the first day of next June. The sashes were bid ofl\\nby Thomas Boynton, at 15s. 2d. old tenor; the window frames, by\\nDavid Chandler at 8s. lid.; front door, by Benjamin Conant at\\n20s.; the body seats and stufl for the same, by Nathan Hutch-\\ninson.\\nA warrant was issued for an annual meeting to be held on the\\n7th day of March, 1786; the fourth article therein being to see\\nif the parishioners would finish the outside of the meeting-house\\nor any part thereof; and the fifth was to see if they would have\\nthe \u00c2\u00a340, voted at the last annual meeting to be laid out on the", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "23\\nmeeting-liouse, assessed and collected but the records contain\\nno reference to this meeting. There was, however, a special\\nmeeting held on the fourth of September in this year, when it\\nAvas voted to acce|)t the plan of Tem])le meeting-liouse porches\\nand build in the same form, and also voted to procure glass and\\nglazing materials for the meeting-house. At the annual meeting\\nin Miirch, 1787, there was no allusion to the meeting-house, but\\n\u00c2\u00a330 was voted for the su])port of preaching. At a meeting in\\nSeptember of this year, a committee was chosen to get the glass\\nset, and the sashes put in the window-frames, and \u00c2\u00a310 was voted\\nto set the front-door steps, clear round the meeting-house, and\\nlevel the ground before said house.\\nThe year 1788 was an eventful one in parish affairs. William\\nCrosby gave the parish the following described pieces of land,\\nviz. Beginning at the south-west corner of Shepard s bridge,\\nthence running southerly on the west side of the road leading\\nfrom said bridge to my house,* until it comes to the main road\\nthat leads from my house to Wilton, to a stake and stones\\nfrom thence westerly on the north side of said road about eight\\nrods to a white oak stump thence northerly to a black oak\\ntree marked, standing on the bank of Souhegan river; from\\nthence by said river to the place of beginning, being the land\\nthe meeting-house stands on. Also, one other piece, to be ap-\\npropriated for a burying-ground, on the west part of my farm,\\nbounded as follows, viz. Beginning at a large white pine tree\\nstanding on the bank of the river a few rods north of the ditch\\nbridge (so called) from thence east thirteen rods to a stake\\nand stones from thence south twelve rods to a stake and\\nstones from thence west until it comes to the river and from\\nthence by the river to the bound first mentioned, containing\\nabout one acre. These were parts of a tract of land of 500\\nacres granted in October, 1659, by the General Court of Massa-\\nchusetts to Mrs. Anna Cole. The record reads thus: In\\nconsideration of the liberal tjifts to the country in the will of\\n*The first house erected on Union square\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was raised in 1783, was occupied early in\\nthe present century by Dr. Robert Fuller, was known for many years as the old Fuller\\nhouse, stood where the town hall now stands, and was removed to make room for that\\nstructure.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24\\nCapt. Robert Keayne,* the whole court met together and voted,\\nc. At the date of the grant she was the widow of Capt.\\nKeayne, but the next year became the wife of Samuel Cole.\\nThis tract was bounded on the north by the river 350 rods, and\\nextended from the west line of the present farm of Matthias F.\\nCrosby on Elm street down the river, near to the steam-mill of\\nDavid Heald. In 1780, Josiah Crosby, in consideration of three\\nhundred bushels of grain, two thirds Indian corn and one third\\nrye, purchased 113 acres in the north-east corner of this tract,\\nextending on the river from near the steam-mill, before men-\\ntioned, up a little above the west corner of the old cemetery.\\nIn 1782 he sold the same to his son William, and in the first of\\nthese conveyances it is referred to as part of the tract belonging\\nto Mather Byles.f\\nRobert Keayne, merchant of London, came over in the ship Defence in 1635, aged\\n40 years, with his wife Ann, aged 33 years, and son Benjamin, aged 16 years. He is\\ncharacterized by Winthrop as a man of eminent parts, an ancient professor of the\\ngospel, coming over for its advancement and for conscience salve, as wealthy, given to\\nhospitality, very useful to the country, and a large cofitributor to its free schools. He\\nwas one of the founders and the first captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery\\nCompany, was four times a representative of the town of Boston, and once speaker of\\nthe House of Deputies. Notwitlistanding his virtues and usefulness, he became obnox-\\nious on account of selling dearer than the law allowed, for which offence, after solemn\\ntrial, he was convicted and fined .\u00c2\u00a3250. His will occupies 148 folio pages of the probate\\nrecords of Suffolk county, Massachusetts, in which he vindicates his character with a\\npathos indicative of a keen sense of the injustice to which he had been subjected,\\nadding that though he had suflered enough from the public to tie up both his hands,\\nyet being desirous to requite evil with good, and though lie cannot forget, being willing\\nto forgive, and deeming it a want of gratitude to God for prosperous men to leave all\\nto wife, children, or relatives, and nothing to the public or to charity, he proceeds to\\ngive il20) to objects of public use or private charity, included in which were i;250 to\\nHarvard college.\\nt Mather Byles was born in Boston, March 26, 1706, and on his mother s side was\\ndescended from Richard Mather and John Cotton was graduated at Harvard Univer-\\nsity, in 1725, and ordained the first pastor of Hollis Street church in 1733. His first\\nwife was a niece of Governor Belcher, the second a daughter of Lieutenant-Governor\\nTailer, and it is probable this land came to him by inheritance. He continued his pas-\\ntorate till 1776, when, on account of disloyalty, the connection was dissolved and never\\nrenewed. The next year he was denounced in town meeting, subsequently tried,\\nfound guilty of attachment to the royal cause, sentenced to confinement, and with his\\nfamily to be sent to England. This sentence was never enforced, and he died in Bos-\\nton, July 5, 1788, having received the degree of D. D. from Aberdeen University in\\n1765.\\nHe was distinguished among his contemporaries for his wit, his solid learning, and\\nhis excellent literary taste. Pope, Lansdowne, and Watts were his correspondents, and\\nmany of his witticisms have come down to us. On one occasion, when required to\\nremain in his house under guard, he persuaded the sentinel to go on an errand for", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "25\\nThe month following the gift of tlie land, the parisli voted\\nto ceil round the meeting-house as high as the windows; to\\ncase, make, and hang the end-doors, lay the platforms for the\\npews on the lower floor, and case tlie lower windows; and the\\nsouth-west corner, from the front to the west door, including the\\nwest door, ceiling, casing, and laying the platforms, was let to\\nJoshua Burnham for 39s. the south-east corner, from the front\\ndoor to the east door, including the east door, the ceiling, cas-\\ning, and laying the platforms, was let, to Josiah Crosby for 41s.;\\nfrom the east door to the west door round the north side, the\\nceiling, casing, and laying the platforms was let to John Wal-\\nlace for 51s.; the platforms for the pews in the inside square was\\nlet to Jotham Shepard for 19s., the work being let by vendue to\\nthe lowest bidder, the boards and nails for all the work and the\\nhinges for the doors to be found by the parish. At a special\\nmeeting called in September, the parish further voted to finish\\nthe whole meeting-house and Augustus Blanchard, Thomas\\nBurns, and Josiah Crosby were chosen a committee of tlie pew-\\nground in the galleries, and lay the same before the parisli on the\\n29th inst., to which time the meeting was adjourned. At the ad-\\njourned meeting, the plan of the committee was accepted, and\\nthey were authorized to sell the pews at public vendue to the\\nhighest bidder, and apply the proceeds to the further finishing of\\nthe house; and as it might be necessary to give the committee fur-\\nther instructions, the meeting adjourned to the 13th of October.\\nAt this meeting the pews were sold, and the stuif and material\\nfor finishing the house vendued to the following persons, they\\nbeing the lowest bidders, namely, to Josiah Crosby, jr., 2 M\\nlaths at 7s. each, and 1 M feet merchantable boards at 18s.;\\nAugustus Blanchard, 2 hhds. lime at 24s. 6d. each Joseph Wal-\\nlace, 2 M laths at 7s. each Stephen Crosby, 3 M laths at 7s.,\\nhim, promising to perform sentinel s duty in his absence. To the great amusement of\\nhis neiglibors he gravely marched before his own door with musket on his shoulder\\ntill his keeper returned, and when inquired of in relation to his occupation, said he\\nwas guarding Mather Byles. After his trial, in alluding to the fact that he liad been\\nput under guard, the guard removed, and then again replaced, he observed tliat he had\\nbeen guarded, re-guarded and disregarded. In 1780, on the celebrated dark day, a\\nlady who resided near the doctor sent her young son to him to know if he could\\naccount for the uncommon appearance. His reply was, Give my compliments to\\nyour mamma, and fell her I am as much in the dark as she is.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26\\n1 M feet boards at 18s., and 2 hhds. lime at 24s. each Isaac\\nAbbott, 2 M latlis at 7s. each, 3 hhds. lime at 24s.; Andrew\\nBradford, jr., 1 M laths, 7s.; Caleb Jones, 1 M feet 1^ in. white\\npine boards, 1 M feet incli do. do. clear stuff for .the work in-\\ntended; Daniel Johnson, 1 M feet merchantable boards, 18s.;\\nJosiah Osgood, 1 M do., 18s., 2 corner girths, 12 by 14 inches;\\nJoshua Crosby, one half M white pine boards for ceiling, 9s.\\nJacob Hale, .500 feet pine plank 2 in. thick 14 in. wide, IGs. 100\\nfeet pine plank, 3 in. thick, 14 in. wide, at 4s. 400 slitwork, 3 by\\n4 in., at 8s., and hhd. lime, 25s.; hewed white pine timber, 6 by\\n7 in., suitable length for the gallery breast- work, sills for the\\nseats and studs at 8s. 6d. Thomas Burns, 2 hhds. lime, 25s. each.\\nIn December the parish voted to agree with Mr. Thurston or\\nsome other minister to preacli six months during the year next\\nensuing.\\nAt the annual meeting, in 1789, it was voted to raise \u00c2\u00a336 to\\npay for jn-eaching and defray parish expenses; that twelve feet\\nin the front of the gallery be appropriated for a pew for the\\nsingers that ten pounds be laid out in work round the meeting-\\nhouse, and that John Burns, Caleb Jones, and Benjamin\\nConant be a committee to see the work done. In October it\\nwas voted to enlarge the singers pew, and that it be seventeen\\nfeet, and no longer. At the annual meeting, the next year, it\\nwas voted to build and sell two pews of six feet front each, at\\neach end of the singers pew in the gallery, and that the pews\\nbe built at the ex]iense of the parish.\\nIn January, 1791, at a special meeting, the question of having\\nthe parish set off by lines was agitated, and a committee was\\nappointed to treat with the first parish for the following lines,\\nviz., Begin at the north-east corner of Ebenezer Averill s\\nland, and running southerly, including Andrew and John Brad-\\nford s intact, William Peabody s, the widow Shepard, Jotham\\nand Daniel Shepard and John Shepard, Esq., until it comes to\\nSouhegan river, then down said river to Merrimack west line,\\nincluding all belonging to Amherst, on the south side of said\\nriver. At the annual meeting this year, it was voted to raise\\n\u00c2\u00a340 to pay for preaching, and to defray parish expenses but\\nthere was nothing in the warrant relative to the parish being", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "27\\nset off by lines. In June, however, a special meeting was\\ncalleil, when not only the question of the parish being set off by\\nlines was agitated, but the question of being set oif as\\na separate town was considered, and it was voted to petition\\nthe General Court, as soon as may be, to be set oft by lines or a\\nseparate town and a committee, consisting of Joshua Burnham,\\nJosiah Crosby, Augustus Blanchard, Thomas Burns, and Porter\\nLuramus, were appointed for that purpose, and \u00c2\u00a312 appropriat-\\ned to pay their expenses.*\\nAt the annual meeting, in 1792, it was voted to raise \u00c2\u00a360 to\\npay for preaching, and defray parish expenses, and in June, of\\nthis year, the parish was incorporated, by the name of .the south-\\nwest parish, in Amherst, and boundaries fixed thereto. In\\nOctober, it was voted to sell the remaining pews at public ven-\\ndue, apply the money arising from such sale to the i)ainting\\nand further finishing the meeting-house, and a committee was\\nappointed to give a title to the pews sold. At the annual meet-\\ning, the next year, the parish voted to raise \u00c2\u00a355 to pay for\\npreaching, and to defray parish expenses, and that the funds\\nof former collectors be applied to the further finishing and\\npainting the meeting-house,\\nThus we see that it took upwards of ten years of continuous\\nstruggle for the parishioners to complete their house of worship,\\na struggle that we of to-day can scarcely comprehend. Nearly\\nforty years since, a venerable man then living, one of the found-\\ners of the church and an active worker in this enterprise, was\\nasked by the speaker what year the meeting-house was com-\\npleted, to which he replied, We scarcely knew when it was\\ncompleted ourselves, for at no time during the work did we have\\nany clear conception of what would constitute a finished house.\\nWe worshipped in Col. Shepard s barn,t and when the meeting-\\n*The parish not only took this step to be set olT, but in October, 1793, voted to peti-\\ntion the General Court in connection with the mile slip, Duxbury school larm, and a\\npart of Uollis, to be set otT as a separate town, and in Jan., 1794, these several parcels\\nof territory were made a separate town, and incoiporated by tlie name of Milibrd.\\nt To us, worshipping in the comfortable if not luxurious houses of to-day, holding a\\nmeeting in a barn seems an absurdity, yet an inquiry into the practices of the early\\nsettlers shows that this was no uncommon thing; and a sermon preached in the barn of\\nMajor Cole, of Mont Veruou, by Kev. Mr. Coggin, of Clielmsford, Mass., upon the\\nimportance of building a meeting-house iu that parish, was an effective instrumentality\\nin accomplishing that work.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28\\nhouse was so far finished that we could hold meetings in it, we\\nthought we had accomplislied a great work. We were poor, our\\nmeans necessarily limited, frequently divided in council, and\\nnothing but the privilege, for ourselves and our children, of wor-\\nshipping God in his sanctuary could have held us together and\\ninduced us to complete the work. Truly was it said yesterday,\\nin the excellent historical discourse to which most of us listened,\\npeople do not move into the forests, clear for themselves home-\\nsteads in the solitudes of the wilderness, and take on themselves\\nthe burden of building meeting-houses and sustaining ministers,\\nwithout deep convictions of the value of the gospel.\\nCHURCH ORGANIZED,\\nThe church in this parish, denominated the third church in\\nAmherst, was organized by an ecclesiastical council, Nov. 19,\\n1788.* The council consisted of Jonathan Livermore,t Abiel\\nFiske,t John Bruce,|| Moses Putnam, Ebenezer Rockwood, Rich-\\nard Ward, Daniel Mansfield, and William Bradford.\\nIn the proceedings of the council twelve persons are named\\nas constituting the church, viz.\\nOrganized.\\nOrganized,\\n1763\\nHancock,\\n17S8\\n1769\\nWilfoid,\\n1788\\n1771\\nWeare,\\n1789\\n1771\\nDee ring,\\n1789\\n1772\\nGreenfield,\\n1791\\n1772\\nBrookline,\\n1796\\n1773\\nPeterborough,\\n1799\\n1780\\n*Tlie clmrclies organized in Hillsborough county, previous to the commencement of\\nthe present century, are as follows:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOrganized.\\nNashua, 1685 Wilton,\\nHudson, 1737 Hillsborough,\\nAmherst, 1741 Goffstown,\\nLitchfield, 1741 Temple,\\nHollis, 1743 Merrimack,\\nPelliam, 1751 Mason,\\nLyndeborough, 1757 Francestown,\\nNew Ipswich, 1761 Mont Vernon,\\nfRev. Jonathan Livermore, a native of Northborough, Worcester county, Mass.,\\nborn in 1739, was graduated at Harvard college in 1700; was the first minister of\\nWilton, being ordained there in 1703. He sustained tlie pastoral relation in that place\\nabout fifteen years, when he was dismis.sed, but did not leave town, remaining till his\\ndeath, which occurred July 20, 1809, aged 79 years.\\ntRev. Abel Fiske was born at Pepperell, Mass., May 28, 1752; was graduated at\\nHarvard college in 1774; taught the Grammar school, and studied divinity at Concord,\\nMass.; was ordained at Wilton in November, 1778, and was pastor of the church till his\\ndeath, which took place April 21, 1802, at the age of 50 years.\\nllRev. John Bruce, the first minister in Mont VernoUj was born at Marlborough,\\nMass., in 1757; entered Dartmouth college at the age of about twenty years; was gradu-\\nated in 1781; was settled in 1785, and continued his pastorate till his death, which\\noccurred March 12, 1809.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "29\\nSteplien Buniiiam, Thomas Burns,\\nCaleb Jones, Jonatlian Townc,\\nElisha Hutcliinson, Benjamin Conant,\\nJohn Wallace, Benjamin Hutchinson,\\nJoseph Wallace, William Melcndy,\\nNathan Hutchinson, Jonathan Jones.\\nAttached to the covenant are seven additional names, viz.:\\nJames Wallace, Letitia Wallace,\\nHannah Bradford, Mary Wallace,\\nMary Burnham, Betsy Wallace.\\nSarah Hutchinson,\\nThe first meeting was held at the house of William Crosby\\nsoon after the organization, when Elisha Hutchinson was chosen\\nClerk, which office he held till his death. f At this meeting an\\nexamining committee was chosen, and it was decided that\\napplicants for admission might relate their religious experience\\nverbally or in writing, and that no persons should be admitted\\nwho would not come up to the standard of full communion.\\nThe next year several meetings were held, but they related\\nsolely to the discipline of a member. Then follows a period of\\nnearly six years in which no meeting seems to have been held,\\nat the expiration of which time the church and town concurred\\nin giving Mr. Kiah Bailey a call, the vote in the joint body\\nbeing forty-nine for, and thirty against. Subsequently, the\\nWilliam Crosby, the benefactor of the parish, whose house seems to have been open\\ntor parish, church, and other meetings, whenever business vital to the welfare of the\\nbody politic was to be considered, was a descendant of Simon Crosby, aged 26 years,\\nwho, with his wife Ann, aged 25 years, and tlieir sou Thomas, aged 8 weeks, and came to\\nthis country in the ship Susan and Ellen in 1635 Founders of New England, page 22),\\nsettled in Cambridge, near where Harvard college is now located, and was the son of\\nJosiah and Sarah (Fitch) Crosby, who came here from Billerica in 1753, and located on\\nthe opposite side of the road near wliere the late Frederic Crosby lived. He was born\\nJan. 29, 1758; married Sarah, daughter of John Shepard; and died esteemed and\\nrespected, May 12, 1831, aged 73 years. His younger brother Asa, who was born July 15,\\n1765, and who died at Hanover, April 12, 1836, was the father of Hon. Nathan Crosby\\nof Lowell, Dr. Josiah Crosby of Manchester, the late Dr. Dixi rosby of Hanover,\\nProf. Alpheus Crosby of Salem, and the late Trof. Thomas Russell Crosby of Hanover.\\nt Elisha Hutchinson, grandfather of the famous Hutchinson family of vocalists,\\nwas the son of Joseph and Hannah (Richardson) Hutchinson was born at Middleton,\\nEssex county, Mass., Dec. 6, 1751; married Sarah, daughter of Amos and Mary Buxton\\nof Danvers; settled here, in 1779, on the farm, in the north part of the town, now in\\npossession of Dodge G. Hartshorn, and died Oct. 12, 1800, aged 49 years.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30\\ntown rion-concuned in the movement. The next year, 1796,\\ntlie cliurcli and the town concurred in giving Mr. Phincas Ran-\\ndall a call to settle with them in the work of the ministry, but\\nMr. Randall did not accept. Then follows a period of nearly\\ntwo years, when no meeting was held, after which Rev. Abel\\nFiske, of Wilton, Avas elected Standing Moderator, and a com-\\nmittee chosen to give information to the members whenever a\\nchurch meeting should be appointed by the moderator. About\\nthis time the town voted, seventy-six to thirty-one, to give Mr.\\nNath l II. Fletcher* a call, but the church did not concur. At this\\ntime the church had been organized nearly ten years, but\\nits existence must have been merely nominal. It could only\\nhave lived in name, as no deacons had been chosen, nor mem-\\nbers admitted either by letter or by the profession of their\\nfoith, and there is no record indicating that a communion season\\nhad been observed. In March, 1798, the question of receiving\\nmembers by letters from other churches was considered, and in\\nApril it was decided in the affirmative, and nineteen members\\nwere thus received, five being from the church in Amherst, two\\nfrom the second church in Amherst, six from the church in\\nWilton, three from the church in Billerica, two from the church\\nin Dracut, and one from the church in Durham. It was also\\nvoted at the same meeting to have the sacrament of the Lord s\\nSupper administered twice during the coming season, and two\\npersons were appointed to wait on the table. Two additional\\npersons were also chosen for the purpose of conversing with\\nthose who should apply for admission, and the moderator was in-\\nstructed to call a meeting at any time, at the request of\\nany seven members. In August, 1799, a meeting was held to\\nconsider the question of giving Mr. Micah Stone a call, but it\\nNathaniel Hill Fletcher, son of Deacon Abel and Abigail (Hildreth) Fletcher, was\\nborn at Boxborough, Middlesex county, Mass., April 16, 1769; was graduated at Har-\\nvard University in 1793; received the honorary degree of A.M. at Brown University\\nin 1799; was settled at Wells, Me., in ISOO; was married February 8, 1801, to Sarah,\\ndaughter of John Storer, of the same place; and, after a ministry of 27 years, resigned\\nhis pastorate and returned to Boxborough, where he died Sept. 4, 1834. Several of\\nhis sermons were publislied, among whicli was one delivered at Deerfleld, in this state,\\nin 1812, at the ordination of Kev. Nathaniel Wells; a Thanksgiving sermon, delivered in\\nMassachu.setts, in November of the same year; one delivered at the funeral of Rev.\\nPaul Cofliu, D. D., of Buxton, Me., June 8, 1821; and one on Christian communion,\\nia 1827.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "31\\nwas regarded as inexpedient. In the year 1800 ^ho clnirch,\\nfifteen of the nineteen members present, voted to invite Mr.\\nThomas Beede to become their pastor, and the town concurred,\\nproposing $566 as a settlement to be paid within one year after\\nthe ordination, an annual salary of $383 while he supplied the\\ndesk, and |110 annually during his residence in town, after he\\nshould be unable to supply the desk and the next year a\\nunanimous call of the church was extended to Mr. Joshua Lane.\\nIt would be interesting at the present time to know what were\\nthe hindrances to the settlement of the various candiilates, and\\nhow the matter in each case was treated by the parties in in-\\nterest but the I ecords are silent on the subject.\\nIn March, 1802, the church, nineteen members being present,\\ninvited Kev. Humphrey Moore to settle with them in the gospel\\nministry. The town concurred, in April, and chose a commit-\\ntee of fifteen to determine what settlement and salary was\\nproper to offer Mr. Moore for his services in the ministry. This\\ncommittee, after the consideration of the matter for one hour,\\nreported $600 as a settlement to be paid, or to become due in\\none year after the ordination, $400 as an annual salary, and a\\ngratuity of ^100 jier annum while he should remain their minister,\\nand be unable, through infirmity or old age, to sup])ly the desk.\\nIn August, Mr. Moore gave an answer in the afiirmative, and\\non the 13th day of the following October he was ordained, the\\nexercises on the occasion being,\\n1. Anthem.\\n2. Introductory Prayer, by Rev. Ebenezer Hill, of Mason.\\n3. Sermon, Luke ix, 60, by Rev. Elijah Dunbar, of Peterboro\\n4. Ordaining ]-*rayer, by Rev. Jacob Burnap, of Merrimack.\\n5. Charge, by Rev. Jeremiah Barnard, of Amherst.\\n6. Concluding Prayer, by Rev. Lemuel Wadsworth, of Brook-\\nline.\\n7. Benediction by the pastor.\\nWith the settlement of the new pastor, a brighter day dawn-\\ned upon the church. The month following, a confession of faith\\nwas adopted, deacons chosen,* and stated communion seasons\\nMoses Tovvne and Benjamin French were chosen, neither of whom accepted, and at\\nthe next meeting, holden in May, 1803, John Wallace and William Lovejoy were chosen,\\nand entered upon their duties.", "height": "3354", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "historicaladdres00lctown_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "SQ\\nagreed upou steps indicating faithful, earnest work. At the\\ntime of the ordination, the church had been in existence about\\nfourteen years, but liad had no additions except on one occasion,\\nand then by letter. The subsequent year witnessed the mem-\\nbership doubled, thirty-two being added on profession of their\\nfaith, and seven by letters from other cliurches.\\nOf the pastorate of Mr. Moore, extending over a third part\\nof a century, I need not speak.* It is in part if not in whole\\nwithin tlie memory of many present. The 335 additions to the\\nchurch during his ministry testify to the diligence and faithful-\\nness of his labors, and are evidence of consecration to his chosen\\nwork. And in conclusion, let me add tliat, in what I have said\\nto-day, I have endeavored to let the fathers speak in their own\\nlanguage, revealing their characters in their own words, supply-\\ning no motives, and purposely abstaining from comments, that\\nwe might, unprejudiced, commend what was commendable and\\nnoble in their lives and if, amid their trials, their sufferings, and\\nsacrifices, we discovered mistakes in method, what was little in\\ncharacter, or want of devout affection for one another, it might\\nbe earnestly deplored, and avoided in our own experience.\\n*Eev. Humphrey Moore was dismissed March 9,1836; remained in the parish, and\\ndied Apiil 8, 1871, in the 93d year of his age. The following named pastors have suc-\\nceeded him\\nRev. J. W. Salter was installed April 27, 1836; dismissed Oct. 24, 1838.\\nKev. Abnbk B. Warner was ordained Feb. 6, 1839; dismissed Oct. 27, 1846.\\nKev. Ltcurgus p. Kimball was installed May 19, 1847; dismissed Aug. 7, 1849.\\nKev. E. N. Hidden was installed Nov. 21, 1849; dismissed April 7, 1858.\\nRev. S. C. Kendall was installed April 7, 1858; dismissed Oct. 15, 1860.\\nRev. F. D. Ayer was ordained May 1, 1861 dismissed Sept. 8, 1867.\\nRev. Geo. E. Freeman was installed Dec. 23, 1868; dismissed Dec. 14, 1871.\\nRev. 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