{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3213", "width": "2054", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2984", "width": "1877", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2995", "width": "1883", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2984", "width": "1877", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2995", "width": "1883", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2984", "width": "1877", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2995", "width": "1883", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "p*\\n1\\nw\\nSanborn,\\nJ. J^. Jewett, JA. p.", "height": "2974", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\nB ARNSTE AD,\\nFIRST SETTLEMEISTT\\nBy JEREMIAH P. JEWETT, M. D.\\nSince his Decease Revised, Enlarged and Published by\\nROBERT B C A V E R L Y\\nI\\nOF THE MIDDLESEX BAR.\\nLOWELL, MASS.\\nHARDEN ROWELL, PRINTERS,\\n1872.", "height": "3000", "width": "1826", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by\\nRobert B. Caverly,\\nIn the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Wasliington,", "height": "2974", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TO T H\\nHON. MARSHALL P. WILDER,\\nPRESIDENT OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC\\nGENEALOGICAL SOCIETY,\\nV ENERABLE IN FAITH AND GOOD WORKS,\\nh i 8 ll? 1 u ni e\\nIS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED.\\nR. B. C.", "height": "3000", "width": "1826", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "B A R N S T E A D\\nAND THE\\nANNALS OF ITS INHABITANTS.\\nIt is wise for us to recur to the history of our ancestors. Those, who\\ndo not look upon themselves as a link connecting the past with tlie future,\\nlo not i prform tlu-ir duty to the world. Danikl Wkbstkr.", "height": "2974", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "PEEFACE.\\nI undertook the revision and publication of tliis History\\nunder many discouragements. Dr. Jewett liad in liis leisure\\ncollected most of its materials, and had hastily arranged them\\nbut early in 1870 disease came upon him, of which he soon\\nafterwards died, leaving the manuscript in a mixed condition\\nyet he had anxiously desired me to obtain the means, revise\\nand publish it.\\nThe town of Barnstead, Ijeing involved in a w ar-debt,\\nrefused to aid its publication, and thereby the whole burden of\\nthe outlay, as well as the work itself, was thrown upon its\\neditor, living at a distance and encumbered with other cares.\\nYet many thanks are due to a citizen of the town, Dr. John\\nWheeler, who, in sight of the embarrassment, generously vol-\\nunteered, and has given me much service and good advice in\\nobtaining the means of covering its cash expenses, and in col-\\nlecting and furnishing a large amount of materials which have\\nbeen used in the work.\\nThanks, also, to Mary by whose kind hand the\\nbrief record of a hundred grave-yards has been copied, com-\\nmunicated, and included in these pages. Grateful acknowledg-\\nments are also due to many others who have favored us,, and\\nwhose names will be found in the appendix.\\nAi^ to my own labor, for which no pay is had, performed\\nmostly late at night, outside the business of a busy profession,\\nI give and bequeath it to the generations as yet unborn.\\nMany things here recorded shall be novel to them shall\\nbe sought for, and shall be carried down to the coming ages as\\nmementos of the past, and as gathered from the graves as well\\nas from the fire-sides of the fathers, at the dawn, and in the\\nmidst of a new world.\\nR. B. C.\\nCentralville, Loicell, Mass., August, 1872.", "height": "3000", "width": "1826", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nThe New Wouli), 9\\nNew England, its First Adventurers, 10\\nKing Massasoit and Samoset, 11\\nTisquantuni, alias Squanto, 12\\nNew Hampshire and its Land Titles, 13\\nIndian Tribes. 19\\nPassaconaway and Eliot, 23\\nWonalancet. Jlajor STaldron, 25\\nWar of 1722, 27\\nIndian Pastimes, 30\\nIndian Traces and Remains, 32\\nOrigin and Habits of the Red-man, 34\\nThe 5Iassacluisetts Colony, 36\\nCourt Tiuals and Decisions, 37\\nCurious Court Records, 38\\nCustom of wearing long hair (barbarism), 41\\nMoney Coined in Massachusetts, first, 41\\nQuakers and their Persecutions, 42\\nWitch-craft, 43\\nThe Wars, 45\\nBarnstead, its First Grantees, 49-72\\nSettlements, First, 50\\nMeeting-House, First Built and its Dedication, 51\\nMceting-House, Second Built, 52\\nEli Bunker, his Donation, 53\\nDedication of Second Meeting-House, 54\\nMeeting-House, Third Built, 54\\nThe North, the Freewill Baptist, and the Centre Meeting-Houses, 56\\nElder David Knowlton, First Minister, 57\\nRev. Enos George, Second Minister, 58\\nClergymen generally, gl\\nFashions in attending Church, 64\\nAn Incident, g^\\nFreewill Baptist Denomination, its Origin, 67\\nBenjamin Randall, yg\\n.Joseph Boody, sen., go\\nEarly Land Sales, 7j\\nNames of First Proprietors, 73\\nFirst Settlers,\\nFirst Families, 74 gt)", "height": "2974", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nDimensions of the Town, its Charter, c., lOO\\nStreams. 101\\nFishing and Hunting, and First Records, Ki\\nProvince Road, 103\\nSoldiers in the Old Frencli War, IKj\\nThe Revolution, 104-107\\nSoldiers of the Revolution, 116-120\\nRecords, 108-116\\nMason Title, 108\\nFirst Town Jleeting, 109\\nTown Roads, 112\\nTown Records, miscellaneous, 113\\nOld French War, Soldiers of, 110\\nRevolutionary Soldiers, 117\\nFonds and Rivers, 121\\nLocalities, the Parade, c., 122\\nChocorua, 123\\nRoads and Records, 127\\nSchools and School-Houses, 129-135\\n*i Marriages, 130\\nThe First Grist Mill, 137\\nFirst Mail, 138\\nFirst Stage Coach, 139\\nSocial Library, 140\\nWar of 1812 and its Soldiers, 141\\nMexican War, 144\\nLawyers and the Law, 144\\nPhysicians of Barnstead, 151\\nCollege and other Graduates, 157-103\\nPhysicians of Adjoining Towns, 159\\nMerchants, 105\\nManufacturing, Hand Labor, c., 107\\nBricks, 169\\nFirst Saw Mill, 169\\nShoes, 170\\nTown Pound, 171\\nTown Hall, 172\\nSheep Marking, 172\\nRepresentatives to the Legislature, 173\\nSelectmen, 174\\nTown Clerks, 177\\nPost OfHces and Post BTasters, 178\\nJustices of the Peace, 179\\nHara^ests and Huskings, 179\\nNative Fruits, 182\\nApple Trees, 183", "height": "3000", "width": "1826", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "vni\\nCONTENTS.\\nPears, Peaches, Cherries, c.. is3\\nThe Potato, IS^\\nGeology,\\nEarthquakes, 1^*^\\nCLIMATK. EXTKEJIES OF HEAT AND COLD. 189\\nSanitary Influences, 192\\nSeptember Gale of 1815, 19^\\nLongevity. 19\\nCasualties. 19\u00c2\u00ab\\nBones, an Incident. lO\\nComets, their ArrEAKAxcES, c 199\\nBirds, their Coming and Habits, 201\\nMilitary, 204\\nAn Old Fashioned Training, 20fi\\nOld Style and New, 209\\nProjiinent Events (Chronology). 209\\nModern Synchronology, 213\\nPopulation and Location, 218\\nThe Great Kcbellion. Soldiers, c., 219\\nMarch of Improvement, 223\\nBurial ol the Dead, 228\\nAppendix.\\nBiography of J. P. .Tewett. 231\\nNecrology, 233\\nCharter of Barnstead, 242\\nAn old Contract of a First Proprietor. 248\\nTest List, from the Kevolntion, 251\\nCatalogue of Patrons to tliis work. 253\\nA Jlonth Among tlie Tombs (an Epic), 257\\nILLUSTRATION S\\nI. Portrait of Dr. J. P. .Tewett,\\nII. Samoset s Welcome to the English,\\nIII. Death of King Philip,\\nIV. A Conflict with tlie Indians.\\nV. Portrait of Rev. Enos George,\\nVI. Portrait of E. S. Nutter, Esq.,\\nVII. Indians Crossine the Suneook,\\nVIII. A Wheel of the Olden Time,\\nIX. An Old Homestead,\\nX. The War Horse,\\nXT. Portrait of the Editor,\\nFront\\nspieee.\\n10\\n24\\n44\\nCO\\n92\\n120\\n168\\nISO\\n218", "height": "2974", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "HISTOEY OF BARNSTEAD.\\nNEW ENGLAND.\\nOur New World, when first found by the white man,\\nwas full of wonders. Scarcely less wonderful were the\\nvaried events that followed its discovery. Events that\\nwrought out to us the coming of the Pilgrims, the settling\\nof New England by a generous manhood perpetuating\\nprogress in agriculture, civilization, and the arts, and\\naffording to history its noblest, proudest chapter. The\\nlandscape here, as our fathers first found it, was but little\\nelse than a vast solitude, an unbroken forest, extending\\nfrom the sea to an unknown north and west.\\nThis domain, vast as it was, served as a boundless\\nhaunt for ferocious beasts of prey, and for scattered, wan-\\ndering tribes of savages. An eternal stillness pervaded\\nthe land broken only occasionally by the bowlings of the\\nstorm, and by the boisterous roar of the ocean wave. Oh,\\nhow different was it then from now\\nThe bleak hoarse winds ceased not at misery s moan.\\nTo the shivering heart no pitying hand was raised\\nCheerless and cold an angry winter howled\\nImbittered was the night, and lonely was the day.\\nSuch was the New World when Columbus, in 1492, on the\\n11th of October, at midnight, discovered it.", "height": "3000", "width": "1826", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10 HISTORY OP BARNSTEAD.\\n1492\\nAfter this, and up to the time of the landing of the\\nPilgrims at Plymouth, December 11, (O. S.), 1620, vari-\\nous adventurers from the Old World visited the coasts of\\nNew England some for the purpose of making liiscover-\\nies some to make trades with the natives and some\\nwith an intent of establishing settlements here, and for\\nother purposes.\\nThe first of these voyagers was Sir Francis Drake,\\nwho, in 1586, visited these shores while on his adventurous\\nvoyage around the world.\\nThe privations which attended the first settlers in\\nNew England were great indeed; yet there seems to have\\nbeen a providential design in their creation, and in the\\npreparation of their adventurous minds for such a pur-\\npose.\\nTo fulfil such a destiny it was theirs to advance civiliza-\\ntion, to fell the forests, to make the rough places smooth,\\nand to fill the laud with fair fields and green pastures. By\\ntheir faithfulness, force and endurance, towns, cities and\\nSlates, as if by magic, came into life, exerting an influence\\nto the utmost bounds of the American Continent, and\\nbeyond the seas.\\nIn our day it is entertaining and useful to contemplate\\nthe result of a beginning so benign and successful,\\nfraught as it proved to be with so much of hardships, en-\\ndurance, and self-sacrifice. They have gone to their ac-\\ncount yet their histor}^ is written on the countenances of\\nan enlightened, progressive people of all men it may be\\nread on the bright folds of our national flag whenever and\\nwherever the sun s rays fall upon it, as it bears on high to\\nthe nations of the world the emblems of unity, inde-\\npendence, prosperity and beauty.", "height": "2974", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "S A M O S E T.", "height": "3000", "width": "1826", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2989", "width": "1773", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "16^0 NEW ENGLAND. 11\\nThe early pioneers, after landing at Plymouth, estab-\\nlished a code of moral laws, wliieh, coupled with the\\nreligion they taught, proved salutary, and which, though\\ntwo centuries have come and gone, still exist, taking deep\\nroot and which are destined forever to live, directing and\\ninspiring the coming generations of men.\\nTheir absence from a native home, and former friends,\\ntheir privations in the severe winters, their sutferings for\\nthe want of shelter, food and clothing these, and their\\nmany other trials, served but to increase their trust in that\\nGod who had sustained them, and whom they devoutly\\nworshipped. To make this land a fit place for the enjoy-\\nment of their puritanical faith was the general design of\\ntheir ambition and to this end they lived and labored.\\nThe first voyagers to New England had discovered\\nmany things new, curious and strange. Among the native\\nsavages which the Pilgrims found here in 1621, who had\\nbeen spared to survive the plague of 1617-18, were two\\ndistinguished natives, iSamoset, and Tisquantum alias\\nSquanto. They were loyal to their King, Massasoit, and yet\\nwere entirely friendly to the Pilgrims, who in turn treated\\nthem kindly. Samoset, as he came from the wilderness\\nto meet them, has been described thus\\nFrom thence Sajioset comes with heart and hand\\nTo welcome Englishmen, and grant them land;\\nHis visage dark, with long and raven hair.\\nNo treacherous marks his beardless features bear,\\nWith frame erect, and strangely painted o er.\\nBelted around his loins, a Sagamore,\\nWhose bony arm a bow and arrow held,\\nA heart unsoiled his tawny bosom swelled\\nTo generous deeds. He broken English spake.\\nAnd talked anon of men, of Francis Drake,\\nThat gallant white man, years before, who came,\\nAnd gave New England her historic name", "height": "3000", "width": "1826", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1622\\nOf Captain Smith who since surveyed the coast.\\nAnd other voyagers, now a scattered host;\\nOf former days some history tried to give,\\nAnd lay of land where rambling red men live.\\n[From li. B. Caverlij s Merrimac. page2i.\\nSome of the Indians (so-called) which the voyagers\\nfirst found here, were from time to time taken and con-\\nveyed by their captors to various parts of the Eastern\\nWorld, and were oftentimes exhibited there as objects of\\nwonder and curiosity. Among the many who were thus\\ntaken away, was Tisquantum, (previously named), whose\\nbrief history may be of interest in this place.\\nHe was conveyed to England by the adventurers Way-\\nmouth and Hunt. But after a considerable time had\\nelapsed, he obtained a passage back to this country and\\nprior to 1617-18 had become chief of the Patuxet tribe.\\nAnd, as it happened, war with the Tarratines and the\\nplague of those years had destroyed that entire tribe, with\\nthe exception of this same Tisquantum, its chief, leaving\\nhim here alone in the wilderness, daily witnessing but little\\nelse than the unburied bones of his race. When the Pil-\\ngrims came he joined their church, became their inter-\\npreter, and during the remainder of his life (two years)\\nmade himself useful to them. He died in December, 1622.\\nThis event has been poetized thus\\nSquanto meanwhile who d served a peaceful end.\\nAnd in the Pilgrim s God had found a friend,\\nBereaved and worn by care of bygone years\\nIn mazy pathways through a vale of tears.\\nFall* sick and as by fever low depressed,\\nAnd life in doubt, to Pilgrims thus addressed\\nHis sovereign will This hunting-ground is mine\\nThe lakes, the vales, those mountain-heights sublime.\\nThe green-grown banks where Merrimac bright glows.\\nAnd all the hills far as man s vision goes.", "height": "2989", "width": "1773", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "1625 NEW HAMPSHIRE. 13\\nThese spacious wilds my kindred, now no more,\\nIn full dominion held and hunted o er\\nThen dying, all their titles thus descend\\nTo me, TiSQUANTUM, now so near, tliis end\\nOf life. To thee, my Tilgrim friends, I give\\nThis broad domain here may the white man live\\nMy bow and arrow, too. I give thee all.\\nHence let me go, obedient to the call\\nOf Angel Death. Adieu I\\nThus gracious dies\\nThe last red man beneath Patuxet skies,\\nAnd thus the English sole possession share\\nBy will from Squanto, all these regions fair.\\nForever thence to lay the forest low,\\nTo fence fair fields, and drive the crooked plow,\\nTo waste the wigwams which for ages spread\\nThe wild, and build broad mansions in their stead.\\nSchool-houses neat, each in its needful place.\\nAnd sacred temples to their God of grace.\\n[Caverly s Merrimac, page 26.]\\nThe destruction of the Patuxet tribe was regarded\\nby the Pilgrims as a special interposition of Providence\\nin opening a space for their colony in New England.\\nNEW HAMPSHIRE.\\nIn 1620 Captain John Mason obtained from the Ply-\\nmouth colony a grant of land extending from the river\\nNaumkeag around Cape Ann to the river Merrimake,\\nand up these rivers to the farthest head thereof; then to\\ncross over from the head of the one to the head of the\\nother. The territory thus included was called Mari-\\nanna.", "height": "3000", "width": "1826", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "14 HISTORY OF BARNSTKAD. 1629\\nThe next year (1621) a grant was made of other ter-\\nritory jointly to Gorges and Mason, of all the lands\\nbetween the rivers Merrimake and Sagerdahock,\\n(now known as the Kinnebec), extending hack to the\\ngreat lake and river of Canada and this tract was\\ncalled Laconia.\\nUnder this grant Gorges and Mason, in conjnnction\\nwith others, styled themselves The Com^Kiny of Laco-\\nnia^ and commenced the settlement of a colony at\\nPiscataqua. At Little Harbor they established salt\\nworks.\\nIn 1629 Captnin Mason procured a new patent under\\nthe seal of Pl^aitiouth, for the land from the middle of\\nPiscataqua river, and up the same to the farthest head\\nthereof; and from thence northwestward until sixt}\\nmiles from the mouth of the harbour were finished. Also\\nthrough Merrimack river to the farthest head thereof,\\nand so forward up in to the land westward until sixty miles\\nis finished and from thence to cover over land to the end\\nof the sixty miles accounted from Piscataqua river, to-\\ngether with all the islands within five leagues of the coast.\\nThis tract of land was called New Hampshire. It took\\nits name from HarnjisMi-e, a county in England.\\nThis territory appears to have included the whole of what\\nwas called the Wheelwright purchase, and this patejit\\nwas obtained, as may well be supposed, for the purpose of\\nfortifying Mason s first title to the same tract of country,\\nwhich had been obtained by him and Gorges seven years\\npreviously.\\nAlso, in the year 1629, some of the few planters on the\\nMassachusetts Bay, being desirous of making a settle-\\nment in the neighborhood of Piscataqua, and following the", "height": "2989", "width": "1773", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "1630 NEW HAMPSHIRE. 15\\nexample of those of Plymouth who had purchased their\\nlauds of the Indians, and recognizing the validity of\\nIndian titles, notified a general meeting of the tribes at\\nSwampscott Falls, at which the}^ obtained a deed of Passa-\\nconawa} Sagamore of Peuacook, Runawick of Pentucket,\\nWahangowit, of Swampscott, and Rolls of Newchannock\u00c2\u00bb\\nwherein they express their desire to have the English come\\nand settle among them as in Massachusetts and whereby\\nthey hoped to be strengthened against their enemies, the\\nTarratines. Accordingly with the universal consent of\\ntheir subjects, for what they deemed a valuable considera-\\ntion in coats, shirts and kettles, they sell to John Wheel-\\nwright of Massachusetts, minister, Augustus Storer, Th.\\nWright, William Wentworth and Thomas Leavitt, All\\nthat part of land bounded by the river Piscataqua and the\\nriver Merrimacke, and up said river to the Falls of Pa-\\nLucket to begin at Newichewannok Falls in Piscataqua\\nriver, and down said river to the sea, and along said shore\\nto the Merrimack, and from the Northeast line of the Mer-\\nrimack at the Falls twenty English miles unto the woods,\\nand from thence upon a straight line northeast till it\\nmeets with the main river from the falls to Newichewan-\\nnok falls aforesaid.\\nThe northwest line here described ends within the\\ntowaiship of Amherst, and the northeast line crosses the\\nriver Merrimac at Amoskeag Falls, and passes through\\nChester, Nottingham, Harrington, Rochester, intersecting\\nNewichewannok River ten miles above Salmon Falls.\\nThe conditions of this grant were, that Wheelwright\\nshould have ten years to begin a plantation at Swamp-\\nscott Falls that other inhabitants should have the same\\nprivilege with him that no plantation should exceed ten", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1631\\nmiles square that no lands should be granted but in\\ntownships that these should be subject to the Massachu-\\nsetts Colony, until they acquired a settled government\\namong themselves that for each township there should\\nbe paid one coat of frocking cloth as an annual acknowl-\\nedgement to Passaconaway or his successor and two\\nbushels of corn to Wheelwright and his heirs the Indians\\nreserving the riglit and liberty of Ashing, fowling, hunt-\\ning, and planting within said limits.\\nBy deeds like these the English inhabitants within this\\nterritory obtained titles from the native proprietors of the\\nsoil.\\nPrevious to the conveyance aboA^e named. Captain\\nJohn Mason had a deed which he and his heirs held for\\nmany years, annoying the inhabitants, retarding their prog-\\nress, and ending in disputations, and which was settled\\nat last by legislation.\\nLaconia had been explored by adventurers, and de-\\nscribed as containing divers lakes, and extending back to\\nthe great lake and rivers in the countrj^ of the Iroquois.\\nThe lake was said to be fair and large, containing many\\nbeautiful islands the air pure and salubrious the coun-\\ntry pleasant, having some high hills, with loftj forests,\\nfair valleys and fertile plains, abounding with vines, and\\nwith chestnuts, walnuts and many other sorts of fruit.\\nThe rivers were represented to be well supplied with fish\\nand as environed with spacious meadows thick-set with\\ntimber-trees.\\nIn the great lake, as they said, there were four islands\\ncovered with pleasant woods and meadows, having in\\nthem stags, fallow elk, roebuck and other game. These\\nislands were described to be commodiouslv situated for", "height": "2989", "width": "1773", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "1632 NEW HAMPSHIRE, 17\\nhabitation and traffic in the surroundings of a fine lake,\\naffording the most delicate fish for the household.\\nIn 1631 Neal, the agent of Mason, with several others,\\nset out on fopt to visit the beautiful lake and settle a\\ntrade with the Indians. They calculated the distance to\\nbe less than a hundred miles.\\nIn the course of their travels they visited the White\\nMountains, describing them to be a ridge extending a\\nhundred leagues, on which snow Ij eth all the year. On\\none of these mountains they report as having found a\\nplain of a da3 s journey, whereupon nothing grows but\\nmoss and at the end of this plain a rude heap of many\\nstones, one on the top of another, a mile high on which\\none might ascend from stone to stone like a flight of wind-\\ning stairs, at the top of which there was another level of\\nabout an acre, with a pond of clear water. This summit\\nthey desci ibed to be far up above the clouds. That from\\nhere they beheld a vapour like a vast pillar drawn up by\\nthe sun-beams out of the vast lake into the air, where it\\nwas formed into a cloud.\\nThe country beyond these mountains northward was\\ndescribed to be full of rocky elevations as thick as mole-\\nhills in a meadow, and clothed with infinite thick woods.\\nThey expressed the hope of finding precious stones on\\nthese mountains and something like crystals being picked\\nup, these elevations took the name Chrystal Hills.\\nFrom here these adventurers continued their search for\\nthe lake until finding their provisions nearly spent, and,\\nthe forests of Laconia yielding no supply, they were\\nobliged to return and at a time when they supposed\\nthemselves within a day s journey of the lake itself.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1641\\nBy the death of Mason in 1635 many a visionary\\nscheme, for speculation, aggrandizement, and power,\\nwaned away and failed. Governor Winthrop in his jour-\\nnal of 1636, says The last winter Captain Mason died.\\nHe was the chief mover in all attempts against us. But\\nthe Lord in mercy taking him away, all the business fell\\nasleep.\\nIt would seem that the Colony of Massachusetts never\\nhad much respect for Mason, nor for his religion, nor for\\nhis method of doing business.\\nAfter the death of Mason, New Hampshire was, by\\nhis will, lotted out to his heirs in portions to suit its pro-\\nvisions. There were however several churches and schools\\nwhich were remembered in his legacies.\\nBoth Mason and Gorges did much in tlie settlement of\\nthis part of the country, but lost a considerable portion of\\ntheir estates in the undertaking. Piscataqua and many\\nother towns, having at this time no regular government,\\nthought best to join with Massachusetts for aid and pro-\\ntection. And in 1641 the Court on the part of Massachu-\\nsetts consented that these towns should be admitted and\\nallowed to enjoy the same privileges with the rest of the\\nColony, for whom the Court was empowered to act. Under\\nthis arrangement these towns were allowed to send two\\nDeputies to the General Court. The freemen had a right\\nto vote in town affairs, although not church members. By\\nsuch annexation Essex County was made to extend over\\nall the English neighborhoods of New Hampshire.\\nFrom this time a new impetus was given to settlements,\\nespecially in the lower towns. Mason was dead. His\\ntitles to this large tract of territory were not acknowledged\\nby Massachusetts. His heirs soon laid claim to it, and", "height": "2989", "width": "1773", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "1642 INDIAN TRIBES. 19\\ndeeded away numerous townships. Still their titles were\\ndoubted, and after a lapse of more than half a century a\\nrenewal of questions of law relating to the old Mason\\ntitles created much anxiety among the settlers. Suits\\nwere brought settlers were ejected and for more than\\na hundred years this old title was at issue, creating much\\nexpense and trouble among the settlers. Legislative ac-\\ntion however settled it finally, and restored to the parties\\npeace and quietude.\\nTHE INDIANS.\\nIn the early part of the 17th century the country along\\nthe coasts of New England was divided and claimed by\\ndifierent tribes of Indians, all speaking nearly the same\\nlanguage.\\nCaptain John Smith, a voyager in 1614, gives a minute\\naccount of them. Most of these tribes occupied the same\\npositions for nearly a century after the country was being\\nsettled by the English. The Penobscots were represented\\nto have been the most powerful nation in New England.\\nThey were under the control of a Bashaba, or chief, who\\nheld all the tribes in the district of Maine subjected to\\nhim as allies.\\nHe was at war with the Tarratines, a warlike nation,\\nwho from the north often invaded him, sometimes secretly,\\nand who at length slew him and murdered his family. The\\nparticulars of this war are not fully known. But as tra-", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 HISTORY OI BARNSTEAD.\\n1643\\ndition has it, the sachem above referred to, had his prin-\\ncipal seat upon a small hill, or rising upland, in the midst\\nof a body of salt marsh in the township of Dorchester,\\nnear to a place called Squantum.\\nAfter the death of their chief by the Tarratines a\\ndivision arose between them in the choice of their next\\nBashaba, of which the Tarratines took advantage, and\\nsoon over-powering them, waged a war of extermination\\nall along the coast of Massachusetts.\\nHand in hand, as it were, with the perpetrators of\\nthese deeds of bloodshed, the pestilence of 1617-18, or\\nthe plague as it was called, came upon them, so that in\\n1620 the tribes upon the sea-coast from the St. Croix to\\nCape Cod had become greatly reduced in numbers, and in\\nsome regions almost entirely extinct. And thus the hills\\nand vales, and banks of the New England rivers were\\nmade white with their bones. Such was the situation when\\nthe Pilgrims came.\\nThey meet old Squanto wandering here alone,\\nWho, sore depressed bereaved of friends and home\\nRecounts events which true tradition brought,\\nOf Indian life, what sad experience taught.\\nHow far and near the dead unburied lay.\\nHis own Patuxet tribes all swept away\\nYet nations seaward deep in woods afar.\\nSpared from the scourge of pestilence and war.\\nStill thrive. There Massasoit, whose power maintains\\nThe peace of tribes, in full dominion reigns.\\n[Caverly s Merrimac, l)age 23.]\\nCaptain Smith says They had three plagues within\\nthree years, extending about three hundred miles on the\\ncoast. It is certain, he says, there was an exceed-\\ningly great plague among them for where I have seen", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "1644 INDIANS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 21\\ntwo or three hundreds, within three years afterwards there\\nremained no more than thirty. Speaking of the Paw-\\ntuckets, a powerful nation on the Merrimac River, who\\nbefore that war with the Tarratines could muster 3,000\\nwarriors, he says scarcely as many hundreds remain-\\nThey overawed the Peuobscots and Pawtuckets, leaving\\nthe land strewed with the victims of their revenge.\\nWhatever the disease above referred to may have\\nbeen, it appears to have extended south as far as Cape\\nCod, and yet wherever it went, was extreme in its viru-\\nlence, destroying almost all, so that the Pilgrims at their\\nlanding, and for many years afterwards, had but little to\\nfear, as from the strong tribes which for years previously\\nhad inhabited this part of New England. Yet they had\\nto use much precaution and vigilance as against the south-\\nern tribes and others of the interior who had been less\\nafflicted of disease and war.\\nINDIANS AS FOUND HERE.\\nThe first explorers of New Hampshire found the natives\\nfriendly. Generally they were entertained by them with\\na generous feeling, seldom if ever doubting their sincer-\\nity and truth. But when instead of being masters of their\\nown soil, they found themselves in the attitude of degraded\\nservants, through the indiscreet invasions of the white\\nman, some of them became implacable enemies, quick at\\nresentment, and reckless in revenge.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1645\\nAmong the most powerful tribes were the Pnwtuckets\\nand Penacooks. They were ruled and led by the Saga-\\nmore, Passaconawa3\\\\ He was a noted chief whose dominion\\nextended over a very large part of New England. Nearly\\nall the difficulties that arose among his people were sub-\\nmitted to his consideration and decision. His territory\\nextended from the sea to the mountains, and from the\\nPenobscot to the Merrimac River. His places of resi-\\ndence were at Pawtucket, Piscataqua, and at Penacook.\\nThomas Morton in his New England Canaan, writes of\\nhim thus Papsiquimo, the Sachem or Sagamore of\\nthe territories near Merrimack River, is a man of the best\\nnote and estimation in all these parts and (as mj coun-\\ntr^anan, Mr. Wood, declares in his prospectus) a great\\nnecromancer. We infer from an account of him in Win-\\nthrop s journal, that Passaconaway was a clever juggler as\\nwell as warrior. In full belief of his supernatural powers,\\nhis tribes were held in awe of him, and their destinies\\nwere controlled in a great degree by this as well as by his\\nwise councils. They believed he could make a dry leaf\\nturn green that he could make water burn, and then\\nmake it turn to ice that he could hold the rattle-snake in\\nhis hands without danger of hurt or harm.\\nOn the 17th of June, 1629, he, with his three subordi-\\nnate Sagamores, sold all the lands extending from the\\nPiscataqua to the Merrimac Rivers, and from the line of\\nMassachusetts thirty miles into the country, to the Rev.\\nJohn Wheelwright and his associates.\\nBy this conveyance Passaconaway seems to have\\nstrengthened his line of defence as against his eastern\\nenemies by cherishing the friendship .which had ever\\nexisted between him and his English neighbors, and", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "1650 INDIANS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 23\\ncreating in tliem an interest to assist him if occasion\\nmight require it in defending his own cherished hunting-\\ngrounds.\\nBut in 1642 a suspicion arose among the English that\\na conspiracy was being formed by the Indians to crush\\nout the white man. Thereupon men were sent out to\\narrest some of the principal chiefs and forty of them\\nwere directed to arrest Passaconaway, but he escaped by\\nreason of an intervening storm. His son, Wonalancet,\\nnot being so fortunate, was takea, but his squaw escaped.\\nAs Winthrop relates it, they barbarously and insultingly\\nled Wonalancet away by a rope that he loosened the\\nrope and escaped from them, but was finally retaken.\\nFor such a wrong Passaconaway was afterwards dis-\\ntrustful of his English advisors. For this, in 16 i7, he\\nrefused to see his friend Eliot, while both were giving\\nattendance to the fishing season at Pawtucket Falls. Being-\\nfearful that the English would kill him, he regarded their\\nreligion, which seemed to tolerate such invasions upon the\\nrights of the red man, to be unworthy of his attention. But\\nin 1648, when Eliot again visited Pawtucket Falls at the\\nfishing season, Passaconaway was then pleased to hear his\\npreaching. To the assembled Indians Eliot then preached\\nfrom this text\\nFrom the rising of the sun even to the going down of the\\nsame, my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every\\nplace incense shall be ofiered unto my name, and a pure oflering\\nfor my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord\\nof hosts. Malachi, i xi.\\nThe Indians paid respectful attention, and after the\\ndiscourse was closed proposed many questions.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1660\\nAt length Passaconaway arose amid the most pro-\\nfound attention and announced his belief in the God of\\nthe English. Says Eliot He said he had never heard\\nof God before as he now doth and that he would per-\\nsuade his sons to do the same, pointing to two of them\\nwho were present.\\nPassaconaway was doubtless sincere in his belief,\\nand as it appears, so continued until his death. We have\\nbut little else of this chief until 1660, when he had be-\\ncome old, he was at Pawtucket Falls, on the Merrimac,\\nat a great assemblage of Indians, where, as Captain Goo-\\nkin says, they had a great feast.\\nThe old Sagamore then and there made a farewell ad-\\ndress to his tribes. His raiment was plain but somewhat\\ngaudy and beautiful. He was full of sorrow, being deeply\\naffected his utterances were tremulous yet musical.\\nStanding erect before that assembled multitude, he said\\nHearken to the words of your Father! I am au old oak\\nthat has withstood the storms of more than a hundred winters\\nLeaves aud branches have been stripped from me by the winds\\nand frosts My eyes are dim my limbs totter I must soon\\nfall\\nWhen young no one could bury the hatchet in a sapling be-\\nfore me. My arrows could pierce the deer at a hundred rods.\\nNo wigwam had so many furs, no pole had so many scalp-locks\\nas Passaconaway s. Then I delighted in war. The whoop of\\nthe Peuacooks was heard on the Mohawk, and no voice so loud\\nas Passacouaway s. The scalps upon the pole in my wigwam\\ntold the story of Mohawk suffering. The English came they\\nseized the lauds they followed upon my foot-path. I made\\nwar on them; but they fought with fire and thunder my\\nyoung men were swept down before me wheu no one was near,\\nthem. I tried sorcery against them, but they still increased and", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0039.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0040.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "IC,7C INDIANS. IN NKW HAMPSHIRE. 25\\nprevailed over me and mine; and I ,!j,ave place to them and\\nretired to my beautiful Island, Naticook. I, that can make the dry\\nleaf turn green and live again; I, that can take the rattle-snake\\nin my pahn as I would a worm without harm I, that have had\\ncommunication with the Great Spirit, dreaming and awake 1\\nam powerless before the pale faces Tliese meadows they shall\\nturn witli the plow these forests shall fall by the axe the pale\\nfixces shall live upon your hunting-grounds, and make their vil-\\nlages tipon your fishing-places\\nThe Great Spirit says this, and it nuist be so We are few\\nand powerless before them. We must bend before the storm\\npeace with the white man is the command of the Great Spirit,\\nand the wish the last wish of Passa ^onaway.\\nSoon after this, his mantle fell ui)oii his son Wonalan-\\neet, who continued Sagamore of the Penaeooks for several\\nyears, yet he was always at peace with the English.\\nAt the breaking out (.f King Phili[) s war he was\\nstrongly besought by the neighboring tribes to engage in\\nit, but he continued friendly, iis did also the Ossipees and\\nPequawkets. Many of the Indians who had joined Philip\\nagainst the English had returned into the wilderness and\\nunited with the Penaeooks, the Pequawkets and Ossipees.\\nhoping thereby to be taken as belonging to those peaceful\\ntribes, and thus avoid danger.\\nIn 1676 there came to Cocheco (now Dover) Wonalan-\\ncet, and with him and through his influence about four\\nhundred Indians. These had the promise of good usage,\\nand had the advice of iMajor Waldron been followed they\\nwould have been treated ditferently, and good faith would\\nhave been kept with them. But the result proved other-\\nwise. Major Waldron, as has been alleged, sometimes\\nmay have been unfair in his dealings with the Indians in\\nthis, that his fist may have been made somewhat heav-", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0041.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1C80\\nier than a pound weight in the purchase of furs yet\\ngenerally he had been their friend. There had been\\nvarious troubles l)y which many of the Indians had be-\\ncome hostile to the English. Consequently an order had\\nbeen issued to capture and secure all the Indians as they\\nwere then gathered at Cocheco. Tlu^ English got up a\\nmilitary parade there and as had been previously con-\\ncerted, the Indians had been furnished with cannon mounted\\non wheels, which pleased them. The gunners were sup-\\nplied from the English the Indians managing the drag-\\nropes, and a sham-figh: commenced. As if by accident,\\none of the canuons exploded in the direction of the line of\\nIndians, killing some and wounding others at the\\nsame time the English infantry by a preconcerted manoeu-\\nvre enclosed the Indians on all sides, securing and disarm-\\ning them without loss or injury on their part.\\nWonalancet and the friendly Penacooks, Pequawkets\\nand Ossij^ees were dismissed to their homes, while the\\nothers to the number of 300, known to l)e fighting men,\\nwere taken to Boston, seven or eight of them hanged, and\\nthe rest of them sold into slavery.\\nOh, God forgive our Saxon race\\nBlot from thy book, no more to trace\\nFraternal wrath infernal;\\nThat taints the atmosphere we breathe\\nThe sky above, and earth beneath.\\nLike dearth and death eternal I\\n[Curcrli/ s Poems, vol. 2. p. 17.]\\nWonalancet, although he had lost all faith in the\\npromises of the English settlers, still adhered to the\\nadvice given him by his father. He sought peace and\\nwas in the habit of giving notice to them of danger\\nwhenever there was occasion for it.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0042.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "168G INDIANS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 27\\nIn 1686 he sold out all his tracts of land in New\\nHampshire and Massachusetts, not previously disposed\\nof, and left the pale faces and the graves of his fathers\\nforever, and obtained a distant home in the dense forest\\nwhere no intruder could come to disturb the peace and\\nquiet of his old age.\\nThe Pawtuckets, after his departure, began to diminish\\nand gradually vanished away, through the over-powering\\nnumbers and influence of their white neighbors, who as it\\nseemed, continually intruded upon their hunting grounds,\\nand otherwise became more and more offensive.\\nFinally the Indians of New Hampshire for many years\\nroamed quietly, and gradually diminished in numbers\\nyet they obeyed the injunction of their old Sachem, and\\nthe example of his son, who had ever proved true and\\nfriendly to the English.\\nThe encroachments of the English upon the lands of\\nthe Indians, often and continually made, had everywhere\\nin New England become a source of much discontent.\\nThe French, many of whom had settled in the north\\nand east, were inclined to take sides with the natives,\\nand doubtless did much to fan the flame of impending\\nhostilities. Mad, with revenge, the Indians soon made\\nwar upon their English neighbors, by killing their cattle,\\nby burning their hay-stacks, and by violence in almost all\\nthe forms which a savage could invent.\\nThe English of course imputed most of this trouble to\\nFrench influence and charged much of the blame to one\\nSebastian Ralle, a French Jesuit who resided among the\\nIndians at Norridgewock. Father Ralle, as they called\\nhim, had resided there some thirty years, had built a\\nchapel, and was the religious teacher of many of the", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0043.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1730\\nIndians that wandered in the valley of the Kennebec and\\nelsewhere. For wrongs on the part of Ealle the English\\nsought to arrest him and in 1722 a deputation of armed\\nmen under Colonel Thomas Westbrook were sent to catch\\nand imprison him, but anticipating th\u00c2\u00ab ir approach, Ralle\\nescaped. Yet in Ralle s strong box, (as it was called)\\nthey found certain letters from the French Governor in\\nCanada, which tended to prove with much certainty that\\nRalle had been one of the leaders in exciting the Indians\\nto violence upon the English.\\nFor these proceedings against their spiritual adviser\\nthe Indians became still more exasperated, and an attack\\nupon the settlement at Merry Meeting Bay soon fol-\\nlowed then an attempt was made to take St. Geoige s\\nFort, and then in this same year (1722) raids were made\\nby the Indians on various villages in New Hampshire.\\nThereupon proclamations by the Governors of Massa-\\nchusetts and New Hampshire were made, declaring war\\nagainst them. Companies of soldiers were raised and\\nbodies of armed men were sent in pursuit of the savages\\nl)ut the effort *vas attended vvith very little success. The\\nIndians still sought revenge; and the fall of 1724 was\\nmarked by more than ordinary depredations and violence.\\nFear and consternation prevailed in the frontier towns as\\nwell as at the older and larger places on the coast.\\nThe government was poor and inefficient. It was\\ndifficult to raise men. Great excitement i)revailed.\\nAbout this time attacks were made upon Dunstable,\\na part of which is now Nashua. During this year the\\nfamous battle at Pequawket was fought by Lovewell.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0044.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "17(10 INDIANS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 29\\nThe Indians assailed the English garrison-houses, took\\nwhole families prisoners, killing and scalping many, and\\ncarrying off others into Canada.\\nThese depredations inducing war and bloodshed, con-\\ntinned for many years, making it dangerous for the\\nEnglish to labor in their fields, or even to attend public\\nworship on the Sabbath.\\nExeter, Cocheco, Penacook. Contoocook, Suncook, and\\nmany other places were often made fields of carnage and\\nl)lood. Carnage over which the Indian was in the habit\\nof exulting with complacent ^merriment even when his\\nvictim was dying by cruel tortures, such as none but a\\ndemon could devise or inflict.\\nHis warfare was secret. He sought the ambush to\\ngain knowledge of the numbers and strength of the place\\nto be assailed, and then to murder and scalp his victim,\\nand set fire to his dwelling-house. It was thus that the\\nthen small villages of New England, always in fear, were\\nsometimes laid waste.\\nOn some occasions these Indian raids were attended\\nand aided by Frenchmen from Canada England and\\nFrance at that time being at war. Thus many years\\ntranspired, attended with more or less of carnage. About\\nthe year 1760 the Indian wars began to cease. The Eng-\\nlish had become too numerous to be conquered. The\\nnatives thereupon left their old haiuits and retreated to\\ntheir more dense forests. Their tribes had become feeble\\nand the French and English had concluded a treaty of\\npeace. After this the Indians were in the habit aniuially\\nof returning back to their old fishing and hunting-grounds,\\nand were thus permitted to visit the homes of their youth,\\nand the graves of their fathers.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0045.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1762\\nPEQUAWKETS.\\nThe tribe next to the Penacooks toward the east, were\\nthe Pequawkets, that wandered beyond the eastern shores\\nof Lake Winnipesaugee they were, liowever, subject to\\nthe Penacooks, the same as those further north.\\nSCALPING.\\nThis feat was performed by the savage as follows\\nHe places his foot upon the neck of his prostrate enemy,\\ntwists the fingers of his left hand into the scalp-locks,\\ncutting with a knife in his right hand a circular gash\\naround the lock, he tears the scalp from the head, and\\nfastens it to his girdle with a yell of triumph, victory and\\nsuccess. The scalps upon their belts on public occasions\\nwere worn to designate the warriors.\\nINDIAN PASTIMES.\\nAn Indian was always at leisure. He knew no over-\\ntasking of the brain had no trouble in extensive trade\\nno taxes to pay no rents nor national debts. All his", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0046.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "1765 INDIAN PASTIMES. 31\\nsurroimdings were free to him. Each had a share in the\\ncool hunting-grounds and in tiie best fishing-places. His\\ncorn-fieltls were where he sowed liis seed. His tobacco\\nwas liis constant luxury, and his fishing and hunting his\\nfavorite pastime. His wants being few were easily sup-\\nplied. His bow, arrow and fishing-i od afforded him a\\ncompetence in food and raiment. These instraments were\\nsubstantially the implements of his toil. With his squaw,\\nwho often wandered from the wigwam in company with\\nhis tribe, Ise was usually happ3^ His home was filled with\\ntlie song and dance, and smoking of the pipe, or in\\ndrinking tlie pipe, as they sometimes termed it. The\\nMerrimac. the Suncook, and their tributaries aftbrded him\\nmany of his best fishing-places. These rivers were grand\\nhighways that brought ihem at every returning spi ing a\\nfull supply of salmon, alewives and shad. At that day\\nno dams or bars being in the way to impede the advent or\\nprogress of the finny tribes, they came in vast numbers,\\nand ever proved a source of wealth to the Indian. At the\\nforks of the Merrimac the salmon, which always seek the\\ncoldest climes, generally took the cold water and went up\\nthe Pemigewaset, while the others took to the warm\\nwater and followed the Winnipesaugee to the lake or into\\nthe smaller streams. From these rivers and their tribu-\\ntaries the thirty thousand Indians that used to trail along\\nthese valleys obtained a very large share of their support.\\nFor thousands of years tlie waters of our rivers had\\nafforded the red man an abundant supply. Salmon weigh-\\ning thirty pounds were connnon here. There were then\\nno gates to close up nature s highway, no dashing wlieels\\nto frighten back the fish, nor was there then any need of\\nartificial steps or fish-ways to lead the finny tribes (as are", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0047.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 177t\\nnow invented, but as yet in vain) over liigb dains into the\\nponds above. Kind nature hail given to tlie red man the\\nwaierS of these rivers to run freely down as from the\\ncreation they liad run and had given to the fish a counuon\\nhighway to advance upward in them. Yet, b} what is now\\ntermed the progress of civilization, the tribes of fish as\\nwell as the tribes of red men have become almost extinct\\nin this region.\\nSturgeons used to be caught in the Merrimac. As this\\nkind of fish passed up the river, two Indians, the one to\\nscnil the boat, and the other to throw the weapon, would\\nspear them. Many a noble sturgeon from year t(* year\\nINDIAN TRACES AND REMAINS.\\nSoon after the close of the Frent h war, the Indians\\nwithdrawing from their rivers and ponds and from their\\nhunting and trapping-grounds in New Hampshire, grad-\\nually vanished away. This opened the way to English\\nsettlers, who ventured further into the forests thus vacated,\\nand sequestering and taking possession of the lands,\\nbuilt houses and otherwise made progress, sometimes\\naggressively excluding the red man, until at length he\\nbecame unknown in this part of New England.\\nIn his departure he left behind him not the ruins of\\ndesolated cities caused by destructive wars, not the ruins\\nof lofty castles, nor of world-renowned monasteries", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0048.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "1765 INDIAN TRACES AND REMAINS. 33\\nhe left nothing absolutely nothing but now aud\\nthen a sample of his bow and arrow, his chisel and his\\nmortar.\\nHis foot-steps fondly dwelt where now we trace\\nPrimeval heir-looms of the human race\\nThe chisel smooth aud tomahawk, tirst made\\nOf stoue, ere Art had formed the iron blade;\\nWhere from a narrow dock with native crew\\nHe launched in naval pride his first canoe.\\nAnd plowed the Suncook fair. His dripping oar\\nRipples the waters never pressed before,\\nBestirs the scaly tribes to nervous fear\\nFor rights most sacred thus invaded here.\\nAs if by instinct they the chieftain knew\\nTo be a tyrant and a glutton too.\\nIntent on native beast, on bird or fish\\nBy slaughter dire tp fill a dainty dish;\\nWhose webs are nets from bark of trees alone,\\nAnd mills that grind are mortars made of stone.\\nWho clfljfcd his tribes, if clad they e er appear\\nIn raiment plundered from the bounding deer;\\nWho maketh treacherous hooks from guiltless bones.\\nAnd drags a deadly net o er sacred homes.\\nThe Merrimac, b7/ R. B. C.p. 21.]\\nThe Indian was no artizau. His wigwam and birch\\ncanoe evinced the best skill in architecture which he ever\\nhad. His paintings were extravagant and gaudy, his\\ncolors brilliant. The flesh side of skins taken by the\\nIndian hunter was gen^-ally used by the painter. These\\nhe spotted in curious fantastic hues, and often with high\\ncolorings such as none but a wild man could make, con-\\ntrive or invent. He knew but little, and sought for im-\\nprovements in nothing.\\nLo, the poor Indian I whose untutored mind\\nSees God iu clouds, and hears Him in the wind;\\nHis soul proud science never taught to stray\\nFar as the solar walk or milky way.\\n[Pope.]", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0049.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1765\\nORIGIN OF THE RED MAN.\\nThe origin of the natives of this new world is like a\\nsealed book. All speculations in reference to it are\\nattended with extreme doubt and uncertainty. No theory\\nis satisfactory. These benighted sons, of themselves\\nknew nothing, and had no definite idea of the paternity\\nof their race and in this perhaps we are no wiser than\\nthey. Many have believed them to be of Asiatic origin\\nand that they had crossed over here upon the ice that\\ncovers the northern coast of America. Yet. opposed to\\nsuch a theory is the fact that there is a vast dissimilarity\\nnow existing between the Asiatics and tJ^ North Amer-\\nican Esquimaux and other Indians. Reason would seem\\nto warrant the belief that in the absence of proof to the\\ncontrar} the same race of men that our forefathers first\\nfound, had always been here. That the New World had\\nexisted for thousands of 3 ears without having a race of\\nmen upon it, would seem but little short of a rash pre-\\nsumption. That it had been left to accident, that it had\\nbeen left to be peopled by the passing of a tribe from\\nAsia, over an unknown Arctic region, too cold for human\\nexistence to get to it, would seem to be a presumption\\nquite as rash. On the whole we can but perceive that the\\nwild forests of America when discovered by the white\\nrace were as well suited to the Indian as the Indian was\\nto the forests. And that the Indian here was no more a\\nmatter of accident than was the forest itself; and that both\\nwere but parts of one and the same great design, would\\nseem to be the most reasonable theory.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0050.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "1765 ORIGIN OP THE RED MAN. 35\\nIn discoursing upon his origin, c., a modern writer\\nhas speculated as follows\\nThen next from curious germ beneath the sod,\\nNow blest of needful care of nature s God,\\nWhose eye all-seeing here began to scan\\nThe strange invention of mysterious man;\\nBy A igorous tlirift. as fell the beaming rays\\nOf Phebus, fitly felt on vernal days.\\nCame forth an Indian s* form divine.\\nFirst spawn of nuinliood on the stream of time,\\nBasking in valleys wild, earth-formed, earth-fed\\nFor ripened age, by native reason led\\nAnd chief o er beast and bird in power became\\nA fitful terror to the timid game.\\nIncreased at length by nature s self-same laws\\nTo numerous tribes prolific men and squaws\\nFrom artful wigwams new, spread o er the land,\\nFirst skill evinced in architecture grand.\\nHe wanders wild, belted with arrows keen.\\nAnd blest with knowledge right and wrong between,\\nA stately priest at peace. Provoked to strife\\nHe wields a hatchet and a scalping knife\\nWith dire revenge. E er true to self and squaw,\\nHe knows no faith, no code, but nature s law.\\n[Carerly.]\\nAnd so it was the manners and habits of the native\\nIndians for ought we know, had always been the same as\\nnow. Tradition affords us nothing otherwise. They are\\nknown only as they were lirst found by the adventurer\\nfrom the Old World. Their history, circumscribed as it is,\\nwithin the limits of their short existence with the white\\nman, comprises the record of their race for all time.\\nProbably for thousands of years they had been nothing\\n*The natives were called Indians by Columbus through mistake, who\\nat first supposed he had arrived on the eastern coast of India, by which\\nerror they took their name.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0051.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 HISTORY OF BAKNSTEAD. 1765\\nbut wild hunters^ with manners and habits the same\\nunimproved Unchanged.\\nAnd thus o er land and stream for ages long,\\nA race of red men, vagrant plod along.\\nWith language taught from rustic nature s throne,\\nAnd habits each peculiarly their own;\\nOn growth spontaneous fed, content with prey.\\nWhat serves the purpose of a single day.\\nTheir God is seen afar at rise of sun;\\nTheir life in heaven is hunting here begun;\\nBy laws un-written sachems rule the tribes.\\nAnd lead the host, wherever ill betides.\\nTo fatal war. By force of arrows hurled.\\nThey reigned sole monarchs in this Western World.\\nCaverly^s Merrimac, p 22.]\\nIt is asserted that when the Puritans iirst landed, there\\nwei e then about twenty nations or tribes of Indians in\\nNew England. These nations were distinct from e ach\\nother, but united sometimes for mutual protection and for\\nthe purposes of war. In every tribe there was a chief or\\nsagamore, to which all the others paid deference. But as\\nhas already been stated, the Indian wars and the plague of\\n1617-18 had greatly reduced their numbers.\\nMASSACHUSETTS COLONY.\\nBefore the soil of New Hampshire took to itself a dis-\\ntinct name it had been included as belonging to the Mas-\\nsachusetts Colony.\\nThe first General Court in this Colony was held at\\nBoston, in 1630. It was made up of the freemen of\\nthe corporation at large.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0052.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "1765 THE PURITANS. 37\\nBeing desirous to establisli a religious Commonwealth,\\nthey ordained, among other things, that none but church\\nmembers should be admitted to the freedom of that body\\npolitic, or enjoy the privilege of voting.\\nUp to the year 1640 there had arrived here in two\\nhundred and ninety-eight ships, twenty-one thousand and\\ntwo hundred passengers.\\nMost of these emigrants were from England. They\\nhad left their former happ}^ homes with the hopeful intent\\nto find in their distant New England, freedom to wor-\\nship God.\\nTheir creed was strictly puritan, and, during the first\\nyear of their landing, they established the Plymouth\\nColony on the same faith and on the liberty of faith\\nwhich had been denied them at home.\\nCOURT TRIALS.\\nThe courts, before any regular codes of laws were\\nestablished, in New England, adhered to the laws of\\nMoses to some extent, as well as to the old English laws,\\nso far at least as such laws were believed to have a\\ntendenc}^ to good manners and morals.\\nCURIOUS DECISIONS.\\nIn 1649 Josiah Plaistowe, for stealing four baskets\\nof corn from the Indians, is ordered to return them eight\\nbaskets to be fined five pounds and hereafter to be\\ncalled Josias, and not Mr. as formerly he used to be.\\nCapt. Stone, for abusing Mr. Ludlow and calling\\nhim Just-ass., is find one hundred pounds, and prohibited\\nfrom coming within the patent without the Governor s\\nleave, upon pain of death.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0053.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "38 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1765\\nIntemperance was emphatically a plague at the\\ntime of the early settlements more so, if possible, than\\nat the present day.\\nAmong the hundreds of ships then freighted for the\\nNew World was always to be found that bane, called\\nflre-water, ockuby, and other Indian names, by\\nwhich they chose to designate it.\\nIt was shipped from England and sold to the Indians\\nfor furs and other articles of merchandize obtained in\\nreturn.\\nIntemperance then, as ever since, led to many otfences.\\nHence it appears\\nJohn Wedgeivood, for being found in the company\\nof drunkards, was ordered by the court to be set in the\\nstocks. And Sargent Perkins was ordered to carry\\nforty turfts to the fort for being drunk.\\nMISCELLANEOUS COURT RECORD.\\nEdward Palmer^ for his extortion in taking two\\npounds thirteen shillings and four pence for the wood-\\nwork of the Boston stocks, is fined five pounds and\\nordered to sit one hour in the stocks.\\nCapt. LoveJl is admonished to take heed of light\\ncarriage.\\nThomas Pet it for suspicion of slander, idleness and\\nstubbornness, is censured to be severely whiped, and to\\nbe kept in the hold.\\nCatherine^ wife of Richard Cornish, was found suspi-\\ncious of incontenency, and is sereously to take heed.\\nDaniel Clark, found to be an immoderate drinker,\\nwas fined forty shillings.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0054.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "1765 COURT RECORD. 39\\nRobert Shorthase, b} the blood of God, was sentenced\\nto have his tongue put into a cleft stick, and to stand for\\nthe space of half an honr.\\nIt is ordered by the conrtthat laborers shall not take\\nmore than 1 2d per day for their work, and Gd with meat\\nand drink, under pain of x s.\\nGeorge Palmer having committed folly with Margery\\nRnggs, through her allurements because he confessed\\nvoluntarily, lie was only set in the pillory and so dis-\\nmissed.\\nMargery Euggs, for enticing and alluring George\\nPalmer, was sentenced to be severely whiped.\\nElnor Pierce, her husband was bound 10 for her\\ngood behaviour, and to bring her to stand in the market\\nplace, next market day, with a paper, for her light\\nbehaviour.\\nJane Hawkins, the wife of Richard Hawkins, had\\nliberty till the beginning of the third month, called May,\\nand the Majestrates, (if she did not depart before) to dis-\\npose of her, and in the meantime she is not to meddle\\nin Surgery, Physicks, drinks, plasters, or ogles, nor to\\nquestion matters of religion, except with the elders for\\nsatisfaction.\\nIt is ordered by the court that the worshipfuU Tho.\\nGeorges and Edward Godfrey, Counsellors of this Prov-\\nince, shall order all the inhabitants from Pascataqne to\\nKennibonke, which have any children unbaptized, that as\\nsoon as a minister is settled in an^^ of their plantations,\\nthey shall bring their said children to Baptism, and if any\\nshall refuse to submit to said order, that then the persons\\nso refusing shall be summoned to answer this their con-\\ntempt at the next general court to be holden in this Prov-\\nince.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0055.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1765\\nIt is ordered at this court that all juries between\\nparty and party shall have for their fees 8 d per man for\\nevery action above 40 s. if the action be under 40 s. we\\nallow them 5 d. per man.\\nThomas Smith, at the last court holden here, being\\narrested for slandering Mr. Arthur Brown and Mr. Robert\\nSauke} for saying they have stolne a pigg, the matter was\\nputt to arbitracion and ended.\\nIn 1651: We (the Grand Jury) present Goody\\nMendum for saying to Tho. GuUison and John Davis ye\\nDivells fined 2 s. 6 d. for swearing.\\nWe present the wife of Abraham Cumley, for giving\\nreproachful speeches against ye Majestrates, in saying she\\nthought they were come about one foolery or other.\\nOrdered to find l)onds of 20\\nWe present Joane Andrews, the wife of John Andrews,\\nfor selling a furkin of Butter to Mr. Nicholas Davis which\\nhad two stones in it, containing fourteen pounds 2 oz. in\\nweight.\\nThis presentment is owned by Joane Andrews, and\\nJohn Andrews, her husband, is bound in a bond of five\\npounds that Joane, his wife, shall stand in a Towne meet--\\ning at Yorke, and in a towne meeting at Kittery till two\\nhours bee expired, with her offence written upon a paper\\nin capetall letters pinned upon her forehead. This injunc-\\ntion fulfilled at Yorke, according to order and att Kittery\\nin the same manner.\\nIn 1666 Wee present Julean Cloyse, wife to John\\nClo^ se, for a tale bearer from house to house, setting dif-\\nferences between neighbors.\\nJulian Cloyse upon the court s examination is found\\nguilty of ye offence and is bound to her good behaviour", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0056.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "1765 BARBARISM. 41\\nunto the next Court of Pleas, at Casco, in a bond of five\\npounds.\\nWee present William Thompson for rebellion against\\nhis father and mother-in-law.\\nWee present Mr. Thorpe, for scandalizing Mr. Nor-\\nton, and say that hee held forth false doctrine in a booke\\nset forth by Mr, Norton. Admonished, and paying officer s\\nfees, is discharged.\\nWe present Miss Sarah Morgan for striking her\\nhusband. The delinquent to stand with a gagg in her\\nmouth halfe an hoiu-e at Kittery at a Publique Towne Meet-\\ning, and the cause of her sentence writ upon her forehead,\\nor pa}^ 50 s. to the countr3^\\nBARBARISM.\\nThe custom of wearing long hair, after the manner of\\nthe barbarous Indians, as Governor Endicott used to term\\nit, was at that period deemed contrary to the word of God,\\nwhich saj s It is a shame for a man to wear long-\\nhair.\\nThe rule in the Colony was that men should not wear\\ntheir hair below their ears.\\nIn a clergyman, long hair was extremely offensive^ as\\nthey were expected at all times to observe circumspec-\\ntion with open ears.\\nMONEY.\\nThe first money coined in the Massachusetts Colony\\nwas made in the year 1652. The court ordered that all\\npieces should have on the one side Massachusetts, with a\\ntree in the middle on the other, New England, 1652.\\n6", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0057.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "42 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1765\\nA very large sum was coined, and the mint-master, it is\\nsaid, made a great profit from it, as be iiad fifteen per\\ncent, out of every twenty shillings for coining.\\nQUAKERS.\\nIn 1656 the Quakers were greatly persecuted. Mary\\nFisher and Anna Dustin were the first to avow their\\nprinciples openly.\\nOn the 8th day of September, being brought before\\nthe court, they atfirmed that they were sent of God to\\nreprove the people of their sins and being questioned,\\nafter a pause replied that they had the same call that\\nAbraham had to go out from his own country. (They\\ncame from Barbadoes.)\\nA great number of the books which they had brought\\nwith them were seized and reserved for the fire, and some\\nof the men and women were committed to prison.\\nAt this time no special laws had been enacted for the\\npunishment of Quakers. But they were taken by virtue\\nof a general law then in force, which had been made for\\nthe punishment of heretics. And the Court passed sen-\\ntence of banishment upon them all.\\nAfterwards several laws upon this subject were\\nenacted, among which were the following\\nAny Quaker after the first conviction, if a man, was\\nto lose his ear, and for the second offence the other ear.\\nA woman-, each time, to be severely whipped. And for a\\nthird time, being a man or a woman, to have the tongue\\nbored through with a red-hot iron.\\nIn October, 1658, a law was passed punishing with\\ndeath all Quakers who should return into this jurisdic-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0058.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "1765 WITCHCRAFT. 43\\ntiou after banishment. Under this Uxw four persons were\\nexecuted.\\nMuch censure has been passed upon the New England\\nColonies on account of their enactments as against the\\nQuakers and perhaps to a certain extent justly. But\\nit must be remembered that the Quakers of those early\\ntimes were not the Quakers of the joresent time, who,\\nthough few in numbers, prove to be a generous, inoffen-\\nsive, influential people.\\nThese laws wei-e passed to rid the Colony of certain\\nfanatics who called themselves b}^ that name, and who\\nconstantly made themselves offensive under the garb of a\\nreligious notion or creed, and appeared to have been better\\nsubjects for a mad-house than for a Christian church.\\nThey often entered into the churches without right, as\\nthey did at Hampton, Salem, and Newbury, and were in\\nthe habit of declaring the preacliing to be an al)omination\\nto the Lord.\\nThomas Newcomb w^ent into the meeting-house in\\nBoston with tw^o glass bottles, and broke them before the\\ncongregation, and declared thus will the Lord break you\\nin pieces. Under such delusion Deborah Wilson\\nadvanced on foot through the streets of Salem naked. In\\nvarious ways the}^ became offensive, oftentimes making\\nthemselves violators of the public peace. But it will not\\nbe pretended that any such offences could justify incon-\\nsiderate, unjust, or oppressive legislation.\\nWITCHCRAFT.\\nThe first instance of a trial for witchcraft in Massa-\\nchusetts occurred in 1648, when Margaret Jones, of\\nCharlestown, who being indicted as a witch, was found", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0059.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. Iv65\\nguilty, and uudev the laws of Euglaiitl agaiust such sup-\\nposed crime, was executed. 8he was charged of having\\nsuch a malignancy that if she laid her hands on man,\\nwoman or child in anger, they were seized presently with\\ndeafness, vomiting or other sickness, or other violent\\npains.\\nIn 1G92 a great excitement was again revived on\\naccount of its supposed prevalence. It commenced at\\nthis time in the town of Danvers, then a part of Salem,\\nabout the last of February. Several children at first\\nbegan to act in a curious, unaccountable manner. Their\\nstrange conduct continuing for several days, their friends\\nbetook themsehes to fasting and pra^ er. During relig-\\nious services the children were still, but after the service\\nthey would renew their former unaccountable conduct.\\nThis was deemed sufficient evideucti that the} were\\nmoved by an evil hand, and every exhibition of the sort\\nwas then regarded as witchcraft. AfteV a while these\\nchildren began to bring accusations against divers indi-\\nviduals in that vicinity, being severally charged of bewitch-\\ning them. Unfortunately the children were credited, and\\nthe suspected persons were arrested and imprisoned.\\nFrom that time the contagion spread rapidly over the\\nneighboring towns, and soon appeared in several parts of\\nEssex county as well as cases now and then in Middlesex\\nand Suffolk. Individuals at Andover, Ipswich, Glouces-\\nter, Boston and other places, were accused and held for\\ntrial.\\nFor some time those who were accused were persons\\nof the low^er class. But at length accusations were\\nextended even to persons of high rank and distinction.\\nThis delusion had now become fearful. Before the close", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0060.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0063.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0064.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "17G5 WAB. 45\\nof September of that year nineteen persons had been\\nexecuted for witchcraft. Among the victims was one\\nGiles Gory, who was pressed to death for refusing to\\nput himself on trial before the Jnry.\\nMost, if not all of these persons died declaring them-\\nselves innocent of the crime laid to tlieir charge.\\nAt length the courts began to be convinced tliat their\\nproceedings had been rash, and their judgments withont\\nany just foundation. A special session of the court was\\nthen holdeu on this subject, and lifty persons then being\\nheld for trial, were acciuitted. Others were reprieved by\\nthe Governor. These proceedings were followed by a\\nrelease of all who were then in prison.\\nIt ought to be said, perhaps, that if human testimony,\\ncoming from credible witnesses, is to be credited, many\\nthings happened at that time inducing a belief in witch-\\ncraft, which even to many people of our day have never\\nbeen satisfactorily explained.\\nA war by the French and Indians commenced about\\nthe year IGDO. It harrassed the English settlements here\\nall along the frontier nearly the whole time np to its close,\\nSeptember 11, 1G97.\\nIn a few years another war broke out in Europe,\\nwhich gave rise to other hostilities in America.\\nSo that in 1707 Massachusetts, New Hampshire and\\nRhode Island despatched a military force against Port\\nRoyal, in Nova Scotia, but the expedition failed.\\nIn 1710 New England, with the mother country, suc-\\nceeded with a fleet, in reducing the place. This was in", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0065.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "46 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1765\\nthe reign of Queen Anne, and they changed its name to\\nAnnapolis, in honor of her name.\\nEnconraged by this snccess, Nicholson, the com-\\nmander, visited England, and proposed an expedition\\nagainst Canada.\\nHis proposition was adopted, and in Jnne, 1711,\\nAdmiral Walker, with a Heet of fifteen sliips of war and\\nforty transports, bringing an army of veteran troops,\\narrived in Boston. They sailed for Quebec abont the last\\nof Jnly of that year. At tlie same time General Nichol-\\nson repaired to Albany to take command of the forces\\nthat were to proceed by land.\\nWhen the fleet had advanced ten leagnes np the St.\\nLawrence the weather became fogg} and tempestnons.\\nNine of the transports perished. Weakened by this\\ndisaster, the admiral returned to England, and the New\\nEngland troops to their homes. General Nicholson hav-\\ning learned the fate of the fleet, returned with his troops\\nto Albany.\\nIn 1713, March 31st, peace was concluded between\\nFrance and England, at Utrecht.\\nIn 1744, March 29tli, war again broke out between\\nFrance and England, and the Colonies here were again\\ninvolved in its calamities.\\nThe English commerce and fisheries had suffered great\\ninjuries from privateers, fitted out at Louisburg, then a\\nstrong fortress on the Island of Cape Breton. That place\\nhad been considered one of the strongest in America its\\nfortifications had been five years building, and had cost\\nthe French five and a half millions of dollars.\\nAn armament of 4000 men from Massachusetts, New\\nHampshire and Connecticut under the command of Gen-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0066.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "1765 WAR. 47\\neral Pepperell staled from Boston for the conquest of that\\nplace, attended by four ships of war, under Commodore\\nWarren, from the West Indies. The troops arrived at\\nLouisburg about the first of May, 1745, and commenced\\nthe siege. For fourteen nights successively the New\\nEngland troops, knee deep in mud, manned and pushed\\nforward their cannon through a swamp two miles in length,\\nmanifesting the most extraordinary valor and endurance,\\nand assailed the garrison with so much fortitude antl brav-\\nery that on the 17th of June it surrendered.\\nFrance, smarting with resentment against the Colo-\\nnies, in the following summer sent a powerful fleet to lay\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0waste and ravage the coasts of New England, and to\\nrecover Louisburg.\\nBut an unconnnon succession of disasters, as if it were\\nan interposition of Pro\\\\-idence, attended the undertaking,\\nand entirely defeated it. The French fleet was delayed\\nand damaged by storms fevers prevailed among the\\ntroops, and some of the ships were lost. Such was the\\nfortune of the expedition that two of the admirals, stung\\nby disappointment and chagrin, committed suicide.\\nIn 1748, this war was ended l)y a treaty of peace at\\nAux-la-Chapelle, by which all prisoners on both sides\\nwere restored without ransom.\\nScarcely had the Colonies begun to reap the benefits\\nof peace, when they were again thrown into troul)le by\\nanother war between England and France.\\nThis was commenced in 1754, though not formally\\ndeclared nntil some time afterwards. Four expeditious\\nwere planned, one against the French in Nova Scotia,\\nanother against the Fj-ench on the Ohio, another against\\nCrown Point, and a fourth against Niagara.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0067.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "48 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1765\\nThe expedition against Nova Scotia consisted of 3000\\ntroops from Massaclinsetts and New Hampshire, led by\\nGenerals Monckton and Winslow. These sailed from Bos-\\nton on May 20th, 1756, for the Bay of Fundy, where the}\\nwere joined by three hnndred regular British troops. They\\nthen proceeded against Fort Beau-Sejoiu which surren-\\ndered to them after a siege of four days. Other Forts\\nwere taken, and Nova Scotia was entirely subdued. The\\nexpedition against Niagara was given to Governor Shir-\\nley, of Massachusetts, whose force was two thousand five\\nhundred men. The war continued with varied success till\\nthe conquest of Qnebec, under General Wolfe, in Septem-\\nber, 1759, and the final reduction of Canada, in 1760.\\nThis event caused great and universal rejoicing in the\\nColonies, and was followed with public thanksgivings.\\nThe treat} of peace was signed at Paris in 1763.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0068.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "1765 FIRST GRANTEES. 49\\nBAR:N^ STEAD\\nTHE PROPRIETORS.\\nTlie charter of Barn stead, a copy of which is appended\\n(marked A,) was granted to the Rev. Joseph Adams, of\\nNewington, and others, by Lieutenant Governor Went-\\nworth, on the 20th of May, 1727. Yet there was much\\ndelay in its settlement, made so by Indian hostilities.\\nSo that no lots were sold, nor permanent houses built\\nprior to the year 17G5.\\nThe expense of surveying the lands had laid a tax on\\nthe lots, and as the titles purchased were in the hands of\\nheirs, and in no w^ay remunerative, they were at ditferent\\ntimes sold at auction, and mostly at nominal prices.\\nThe sales were made at Newington, and at Ports-\\nmouth. At these sales Mr. Adams bought several lots\\nin Barnstead aud about the same year, members of his\\nchurch made extensive purchases within its limits.\\nThese investments eventually proved profitable to him\\nand to them.\\nMr. Adams waf born at Braintree, Massachusetts,\\nJanuary 4, 1688 or 89, and was the eldest son of Joseph\\nand Hannah (Bass) Adams. His lather was grandson of\\nRev. Henry Adams, of England, who came to this country\\nwith his family about 1630, and settled in Braintree (now\\nQuincy). John Adams, second President of the United\\nStates, was the eldest son of John Adams, the next\\n7", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0069.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "50 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1 65\\nyounger brother of Rev. Joseph Adam^. The said\\nJoseph Adams graduated at Harvard College, in 1710.\\nDuring his college course he kept school in Newiugton,\\nN. H. and after taking his degree, he was invited by the\\npeople to become their minister. He accepted and Avas\\nordained in June, 1715.\\nA written contract between him and his people upon\\nthe subject of his salary, c., is on record at Newiugton.\\nIt may be of interest to our ministry of the present day\\nand is appended, marked B. Under this contract Mr.\\nAdams lived with his church and people sixty-eight years.\\nHe became the oldest pastor in New England, and died\\nMay 26th, 1783.\\nTHE FIRST SETTLERS.\\nAt the beginning of settlements in Barnstead, a few\\nIndians would be seen now and then wandering in the\\nforests, or loitering about their wigwams along the lakes,\\nponds and rivers. Previousl3- they had been more numer-\\nous. Dense forests, as from the beginning, covered the\\nsoil and the wilderness continued to be invested by the\\nbear, tlie wild deer, the cariboo, the wolf, the wild-cat,\\nand other wild animals, as well as by these remnant tribes.\\nThis part of New Hampshire had been, and loas, a thor-\\noughfare from the great lake to the shore towns, made so\\nboth by the French and Indians. As \u00e2\u0080\u00a2against the unbri-\\ndled encroachments of these savages the first English set-\\ntlers had to arm themselves. Out of fear from their hos-\\ntilities and depredations, the settlement of Barnstead had\\nbeen delayed Irom its commencement nearly forty years.\\nIn 17C8 peace was declared, and the settlements then\\nbeoan to advance. Yet hostile invasions would some-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0070.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "1765 FIRST SETTLERS. 51\\ntimes be made upon the settlements, whenever the Indian\\nreturned to his ancient corn-plat, or when he came to\\nvisit his long-loved Suncook, or to ramble once again\\nthrough the halcyon hunting-grounds of his youth, then\\nbeing disfigured and laid waste by the white man. About\\nthis time etlbrts began to be made to christianize them.\\nEliot, the apostle, came. He learned their language,\\nand translated the Bible and New Testament into it.\\nVisiting the ditterent tribes from place to place, he\\npreached to them. Tiiey listened to him, but his etlbrts\\nproved to be of but little avail.\\nGooKiN also came. His residence was in Boston\\nEliot s in Roxbury.\\nCotton Mather, of Boston, the learned divine of that\\nday, had much to do and nnich to say in his time of these\\nsons of the forest. Discoursing on their origin he says\\nWe do not know when or how these Indians tirst\\ncame inhabitants of this mighty country. Yet we may\\nguess that probably the Devil decoyed those mizerable\\nsalvages hither in hopes that the Gospel of the Lord\\nJesus would never come here to disturb his empire over\\nthem. But our Eliot was on such ill terms with the Devil\\nas to alarm him with sounding the silver truvqjet of heaven\\nin his territories, and make some noble and zealous\\nattempts, ousting him of his ancient possessions here.\\nthe meeting-iiouse.\\nIt was a condition in the charter made to the proprie-\\ntors in 1727, that there should be a house for public wor-\\nship built in town within the period of three years therein\\nspecified. Accordingly, about the year 1760, the Indian\\nconflicts having subsided, Rev. Joseph Adams came from", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0071.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "52 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1 *J9\\nNewington to Barnstead, and selected a lot of land for\\nthe cbnrch. It was in a valley near a stream of water,\\nabout a mile north of Strafford line. Then, with his com-\\npanions, he built the meeting-house of logs, and when it\\nwas finished he called together the rude hunters of the\\nforest that were there wandering, and the wtn kmen and\\nthe hunters, kneeling at the altar, constituted his audi-\\nence. He preached a sermon to them sang hymns of\\npraise and then and there dedicated his new made meet-\\ning-house to the God of their fathers.\\nPARADE MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThis was erected about the 3^ear 1788. It was the\\nsecond in order of time, but the first framed church edifice\\nin Barnstead. In size it was 40 liy 60, with posts 24 feet.\\nIt stood on the north side of the common, which had been\\ndedicated to the public for church and other purposes by\\nthe liberalit}^ of P^li Bunker. Eli was a son of John\\nBunkev, and is ever to be remembered for his moral\\nworth and benevolence. This meeting-house was not\\nwholly linished until some time in the year 1799, when,\\nby the voluntary contributions of the Parade people,\\nin labor and otherwise, it was completed. It was\\nneat, well proportioned, and its architectural design yvtxs\\nin good taste. It had a porch at each end for an entrance\\nand a stairway also a door in the centre of the house\\nwhich fronted to the south. The body of the house on\\nthe outside was painted yellow the roof red. The pulpit\\nstood opposite to the front door was high up, rather\\nnarrow, and had a large window in the rear. It had an\\noctagon sounding-board a few feet above it. The purpose\\nof a sounding-board was to give the language of the", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0072.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "1800 PARADE MEETING-HOUSE. 53\\nspeaker a more impressive utterance. This sounding-\\nboard was lilie the pulpit, a clay color. The pews were\\npanel finished, were square, with a railing, and had the\\ncapacity of seating twelve persons each. There were\\nseats on three sides of the pew. They had a hinge joint,\\nand were made to be turned up to make more space for\\nstanding iniime of prayer for at that day, not to stand\\nup In time of pra3er, would have been regarded in the\\nhouse of God as unbecoming and almost nnpardonal le.\\nAll stood erect, and at tlie close of each prayer down\\ncame the seats with a reverberation. The younger part\\nof the audience usually suught to bring them down in a\\nmanner evincing a special interest in that work and for\\nthe space of half -a minute the noise of seats was not\\nunlike the clatter of a windmill, or the swell of a hallelu-\\njah chorus.\\nThe site for this church was given l)y Eli Bunker, as\\nwe have previously stated. The deed runs as follows\\nThis may certify that I, the subscriber, promise to give\\nCliarle.s Hodgdon, Kufas Evans, Jonathan Young, and Joseph\\nBunker, a committee chosen by a body of men for the purpose\\nof erecting a meeting-lioiise in the north part of Banistead, as\\ncommittee men for said proprietors, a deed of a piece of land\\ntor the use of said meeting-house, any time when said meeting-\\nhouse is liiiilt, and a parade 27 rods by Dr. Jewett s, and running\\nback from said road so far as 25 rods toward tlie river,\\nwhich is to be left as a sciuare for said parade on whicli is not to\\nbe erected any building excepting for the use of said church, or\\nmeeting-house, any time when said committee shall demand it,\\nwhich is to be free as their property so long as there is a meet-\\ning-house to stand there.\\nAs witness my hand, Barustead, May 1, 179G.\\nEli Bunker.\\nBenjamin Nutter,\\nBenjamin Hodgdon.\\nRecorded, 1821. Enos George, Town Clerk.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0073.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "54 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1803\\nThe dedication of tliis cliurcli took place September\\n16, 1799, and was attended by a large crowd. They had\\ncome long distances. Among the items of expenses as\\nappears, the following named persons paid to Jeremiah\\nJewett the sums set against their names, it being for\\nthe ministers and their attendance on that day.\\nRichard Sinclair, for myself and Major John\\nNutter 3 shillings.\\nChai-les Ilodgdou 3\\nRufus Evans 3\\nMoses Rand 3\\nJoseph Bunker 3\\nLemuel Bunker l-G\\nEnoch Bunker 1-G\\nAaron Cheslej 3\\nJames G. Carr 1-6\\nJohn Bickford 1-0\\nThe Selectmen of the Town to Jeremiah Jewett, Dr.\\nFor twelve dinners, four Ixnols of punch and three\\npints of rum, being for the ministers; also, din-\\nners for the singers, and horse keeping, and\\ndrinls $8.17\\nSept. IG, 1799. Rec d pay.\\nJeremiah Jewett, Taverner.\\nTHIRD MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThis was called the Second Congregational Meeting-\\nhouse. It was built in 1803.. It stood upon land pre-\\nsented by Joseph Taslcer, Esq., and near his residence\\nwas boarded and shingled, but not finished.\\nTlie society who sustained its erection were actuated\\nto some extent by a spirit of competition, claiming that\\nits location was more central than that at the parade.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0074.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "1820 -THIRD MEETING-HOUSE. 55\\nr ut after the settlement of Rev. Enos George, at\\nBanistead, the conflicting interests of its inhabitants\\nrapidly diminished.\\nThis church structure continued unfinished up to the\\nyear 1820, and then it was removed and located at\\nWinkley s Corner. Its removal was superintended by\\nCol. John Bickford, and the building was drawn to its\\nfinal location by a team of tivo hioulred oxen. John\\nPeavey, Esq., took an active i)art, and expended much in\\nthis matter.\\nThe house was spacious two story windows al:)ove\\nand below, with glass 7 by 9, and vvith seventy-two lights\\nto the window. It had a high pulpit. The work was\\nmostly completed, its outside, however, vvas never painted.\\nTo pay the expense of finishing and-furnishing it, and\\nto raise funds to assist in the support of a preacher, they\\nresorted to a public sale of the pews.\\nAt the auction there was a large assembly. The auc-\\ntioneer opened the sale by announcing that he woidd\\ndispose of the pews severally on the lower floor of the\\nhouse r.sf. And then from the deacon s desk, lio .ding\\nup a full bottle of braiirh/, he commenced by further an-\\nnouncing to the crowd, taat each bid would entitle the\\nbidder to a fresh drink.\\nAccordingly all the i)ews were disposed of in a hurry,\\nthe centre ones first, then those under the galleries,\\n(as the bidders waxed warm) at a great price, and so on\\nuntil the whole were sold. Some of these pe\u00c2\u00abvs were sel-\\ndom if ever occupied.\\nThe reader will doubtless note a marked difli erence\\nbetween the habits and fashions of that day, and the cus-\\ntoms of this our day of terapcn ance pledges, church levees,\\nmissionary fairs, and Sabbath school gatherings.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0075.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 HISTORY OP BARNSTEAD. 1825\\nWhen the house was dedicated the fathers and\u00c2\u00abnothers\\ngathered themselves together and bowed with reverence and\\nhumility at its altar. Preaching was had here according\\nto the denomination for which it was built, most of the\\ntime and yet, oftentimes, it was open on the Sabbath\\nfor any and all ministers who might be disposed to occu-\\npy it.\\nAs time advanced it began to decay and at length\\nbecame a monument of neglect. The small lights became\\ntargets for the boys, until the last one was seen, as if to\\nsigh in its loneliness.\\nIn the 3 car 1848 this house was taken down and its\\ntimbers were turned to other uses.\\nNORTH MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThis is a very neat, modern building, and was erected\\nby the Congregational society of Barnstead in 1820, at the\\nnorth part of the town, near the residence of Samuel G.\\nWebster, Esq. It was repaired in 1853 has been kept\\nin repair, and still remains an ornament to that locality.\\nFREEVriLL UAPTIST MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThis is a very respectable edifice. It was built and\\nhas been generally occupied by the denomination from\\nwhich it takes its name. It is kept in good repair, and is\\nbetter for Christian use and service, than for great show,\\nor for a specimen of architectural design.\\nCENTRE MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThis house was erected in 1840. It is modern in its\\nstructure has a tower has been kept well repaired, and\\ngenerally is well sustained. The first Congregational", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0076.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "1803\\nITS FIRST MINISTER. 57\\nchurch of Banistead at first had an interest in it, the\\nParade chnrch being a branch of tlie cluirch organization\\nin this loealit} tiicy more or less, for a considerable time,\\noccupied it. But it is now snpplied for the most part by\\nclergymen from other denominations.\\nHIS OKDINATION AND FUNERAL.\\nDavid Kisigwlton, a Freewill Baptist, was ordained in\\n1803. Being the first settled minister, he therel)y would\\nhave been entitled to the lands allotted by the charter of\\nBarnstead to its first settled minister.\\nBnt Knowlton, believing that pay for preaching ought\\nnot to lie exacted by ministers of the gospel, refused to\\nclaim the land by right of priority, and at or before his\\nordination, executed a release of all title acquired, or\\nwhich he might acquire to said lands at his ordination or\\nsettlement in Barnstead as its first minister.\\nElder Knowlton was a son of the Rev. David Knowl-\\nton of Pittsfield. He was but twenty-seven years of age\\nat his installation, and died about two years afterwards.\\nHis funeral was at Pittsfield. Rev. Benjamin Randall\\npreached the sermon. Text: Num. xxiii 10\\nLet ine die the death of the riirhteoiis, and let my last\\nend be like his\\nSix ministers bore him to the grave. One of them\\nsupported the afHicted widow on the Avay, and nearly one\\nthousand people attended them to the last resting place\\nof the first settled minister of Barnstead. So died the\\ngood man, beloved and deplored.\\nSETTLEMENT OF THE SECOND MINISTER.\\nRecord. 1801. Dec. U. The following committee\\nwas chosen to confer wdth the Rev. Mr. Balch respecting", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0077.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "58 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1803\\na settlement James Tasker, Riifus Ewers, Moses Rand,\\nJohn Nutter, John Bunker, Joseph Bunker, David Drew,\\nDoct. Jeremiah Jewett, James G. Canu, Benjamin Nutter,\\nStephen Dudley, Ebenezer Nutter, James Allard, John\\nBickford, Sen.\\nVoted, The above committee confer with the Rev.\\nMr. Balch, and make a report at the adjournment of this\\nmeeting.\\nVoted, To adjourn till the last Monday in October, at\\nthe westerly meeting-house.\\nSabil. Nelson, Town Clerk.\\nREV. ENOS GEORGE.\\n1803. Nov. 10. The town chose a committee to\\nconfer with Rev. Enos George respecting his settlement\\nas a teacher. The following committee was chosen\\nMajor John Nutter, Charles Hodgdon, Joseph Tasker,\\nEsq., Lemuel Bunker, Stephen Jones, Rufus Ewers, Jere-\\nmiah Jewett.\\nThe committee reported favorable to the town.\\nThe town then voted $1000 settlement, and a sal-\\nary. This is on condition that said Rev. Enos George\\ngive to the town a quitclaim deed of the ministerial right\\nin said town. However, the ministerial right or the\\n$1000, is at his option provided the said George chooses\\nthe said right, it is his. But if the $1000 instead, all\\nshall remain unpaid until the next meeting. If he is taken\\naway by death, it shall be at his disposal or if continu-\\ning with us ten years it shall be his but if he leaves\\nbefore the ten years, he shall refund as many hundred dol-\\nlars as it lacks of the ten years. He is to preach in two", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0078.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "1803\\nKEV. ENOS GEORGE. 59\\nmeeting-houses, and some other phices, that shall be\\nagreed upon by said town. Mr. George reserves three\\nSabbaths in the year.\\nCharles Hodgdon,\\nIII hi Iialf of the Committee of the Tnv^n.\\nThe installation of Rev. Enos George over the First\\nCongregational Church in Barnstead, took place Sept. 20,\\n1804. The season was pleasant, the day delightful.\\nThe sun shone upon the green foliage, and the silvery\\nwaters of the Suncook reflected the beautiful legacies left\\nto hei- by the departed summer. The people far and near\\ngave heed to the occasion, and the gates of the temple\\nwere crowded.\\nThe ordination sei-mon was by Rev. Stephen Hull of\\nthe First Church in Amesbury, Mass. Text 2 Cor.\\nv:10. The charge was b}^ Rev. John Kelly of Ham-\\nstead. Right hand of fellowship, by Rev. J. Tucker of\\nLoudon. Rev. Enos George read the 116th Psalm, sec-\\nond part, C. M.\\nMr. George had been invited to this pastorate by a\\nunanimous vote and at his installation he became legall}^\\nentitled to the ministerial lands of the town, awarded in\\nthe original charter to its first settled minister.\\nIn his ministry he was influential and successful.\\nHis open social qualities entitled him to the respect and\\nesteem of all, and led the way to his long life in useful-\\nness to the church of God and to the people of Barnstead.\\nHe had held meetings in various parts of the town during\\nthe winter previous to his ordination, and ever afterwards\\ncontinued to preach alternately at the north, east and\\nwest houses, until^ by the infirmities of age, he was com-\\npelled to resign his charge, and leave the field to other", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0079.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF I5ARNSTEAD.\\n181G\\nlaborers, Ilis undeviating- luithrulness and good manners\\nduring his ministry brought him many friends. Tlieir\\nannual visits to him and to his household, and the boun-\\nteous gifts which they from year to year awarded to him,\\nwill long be remembeix d. The fame of Rev, Enos George\\nas a man and a minister, will not be lost sight of in all\\nthe coming generations at IJarnstead,\\nAside from his ministerial duties, Mr, George found\\ntime to do great service, and to accomplish much for the\\ncommunity. From ilie year 1805 up to the year 1824,\\nthrough the winter montlis, he served as a teacher of\\nyouth in the village school at the Parade ami there is\\nmany a man who proliteil by his wise teachings and\\nadmonitions, and who still lives to honor him and to\\ncherish his memory.\\nFrom the year 181(3 up to the year 1850, forty years,\\n(and of course by forty annual elections), Mr. George\\nperformed the duties of Town Clerk, The town records\\nof those long years, evini-ing his legal knowledge, his\\ngood penmansliip, and his faithfulness to duty, will con-\\nstantly remain to him a monument of praise,\\nMr, George had much distinction as a public speaker.\\nHe had served as chaplain to the New Hampshire Legis-\\nlature, In his address he was ready, prompt and\\nelociuent as an elocutionist he always made the\\nmost of whatever he undertook to read. In form Mr.\\nGeorge was perfect his height about 5 feet 10 inches\\nhis weight about 150 pounds his complexion sandy his\\nhair almost red, worn long, combed back, and nearly\\nerect it faded but little in old age. His dress Avas\\nusually of the finest black, neat long coat, hat rather\\nwide brimed. His a[)parel in early days, was a dress-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0080.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "f\\nS.-", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0083.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0084.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "1824 ITS CLERGYMEN. 61\\ncoat, after the fashion of those times. old-fashio)ied\\nbreeches, long boots, with red tops, and with tassels\\nswinging in front a wliite cravat tied in a bow. He\\nalways wore a donble-ringed watch chain, which held a\\nke3% set witli a fine cornelian stone, red and beautiful, and\\na large gold seal. In snauner he was often seen having\\non a long calico gown tied in a knot behind and if not\\nin his study, might generall} be found in his garden, in\\nwhich he took great delight, busily at work.\\nRev. Knos George was the son of Enos George, and\\ngrandson of Miah George. Mis more remote ancestor\\nwas Fi ancis George, who came from the south of Eng-\\nland about IGSO. The R;n Enos was born June 2d,\\n1781. His mother was Dorothy, I he daughter of Barnes\\nJewell, an Englishman.\\nIn 1801, July 10, Miss Sophia Chesley, a lad} of much\\nmerit, became his partner in marriage. She was the\\ndaughter of Jonathan Chesley, of Barnstead, previously\\nof Durham, N. II. Her life was domestic, 3 .et full of\\nbenevolence and kindness. She died February 13, 1858,\\nat the age of 76. Very soon afterwards, October 2 Jth,\\n185 J, at the age of 78 years, Mr. George died. He left\\nthe world as he had lived, in the triumph and belief of a\\nglorious immortality Their remains rest l)ut a few rods\\neasterly of the Parade churcli, in which he had so often\\nand so eloquentl} preaclicd the Gospel to the people of\\nBarnstead. His many friends, with becoming generosity,\\nhave erected a monument to his memory.\\nJIINISTERS.\\nAmong the Clergymen who, at the early part of the\\npresent centur^^ had occasionally preached in Barnstead,\\nother than Joseph Adams, Knowlton, and George, may", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0085.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "62 HISTORY OF BARXSTKAL). 1S5G\\nbe mentioned the Rev. William Balch, from 1784 to 1801,\\nllev. Joseph Buckminster, Rev. Joseph Haven, Rev.\\nWilliam Parsons, Rev. Peletiah Tingley, and others,\\nalso occasionally.\\nElder Nathaniel Wilson, a Freewill Baptist, was\\nordained here in 1805 resided in the first framed house\\never erected in Barnstead preached 35 years, and died\\nin 18.43. His wife was Fanny Proctor, of Loudon. Thoir\\nchildren were Fanny, afterwards the wife of Elder Wil-\\nliam Demeritt, of Durham Samuel, who emigrated to\\nthe west among its first settlex s and Pantliea, who mar-\\nried James Woodhouse. Panthea, with her liusband,\\ncontinued to reside at tlie old homestead, and sent out\\nnine sons and daughters, eight of whom were teachers,\\nand among whom was Betsey T., wife of the late Captain\\nHenry Savage, of Alton, who fell among many others at\\nthe terrible battle of Chancellorville. Mrs. Savage now\\nresides in Boston.\\nThe following Clergymen were cotemporaries with\\nEnos George as occasional laborers, and are entitled, at\\nleast, to a brief notice\\nRev. E. H. Caswell, a Congregationalist he gradu-\\nated at Middlebury College in 1844, and from the Theo-\\nlogical Seminary, at Andover, Massachusetts, in 1847,\\nand preached in Barnstead in the years 1853 and 1854.\\nRev. Thomas Goodwin preached here in the years\\n1855 and 1856, and about that time perhaps some others.\\nRev. William O. Carr, a Congregationalist, was a\\nnative of Deny, New Hampshire, was a graduate of\\nDartmouth College, and from the Andover Seminaiy. Mr.\\nCarr was settled over the Parade church in 1861, and still\\nremains in the same field of labor, much respected and", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0086.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "18(51 ITS CLERGYMEN, 63\\nmuch beloved. He was ordained at Centre Barnstead,\\nFebruary 13, 1861, and by this ordination he then became\\nthe acting Pastor of its Congregational churches.\\nThe ordination services were as follows\\nSERMON,\\nBy the Rev. Joshua S. Gaj of Chichester.\\nORDAINING PRAYER AND RIGHT HAND OE FELLOWSHIP,\\nBy the Rev. Luther Towuseiid, of Loudou.\\nCHARGE TO THE CANDIDATE, AND ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE,\\nBy the Rev. J. A. Hood, of Pittsfleld.\\nRev. Amos Blanchard, of Lowell, was to have preach-\\ned the ordination sermon, but his attendance, as well as\\nthe presence of some other clergymen, was prevented by\\nan intervening snow-storm.\\nOf late, the west, the centre, and north parts of the\\nTown have made separate and distinct organizations for\\nthe support of public worship, and generally each church,\\nfor the most part of the time, is supplied with a Pastor.\\nElder Hecter Caufield has had the care of the\\nchurch at the Centre, at least, for a considerable portion\\nof the time since 1866.\\nThe North church has been supplied from its early\\ndate by Ministers, as follows by Elder Peletiah Ting-\\nley, a Freewill Baptist, in 1777, and since then. Elder\\nDavid Moulton, jr., in 1803\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he died in 1809 Elder John\\nBuzzell Elder Joseph Boody, sr. Elder John Caverly\\nElder Nathaniel Wilson Elder David Garland, and Elder\\nHaskell.\\nElder Jonathan Nelson, a Freewill Baptist, born in\\nBarnstead in 1785, ordained here in 1823, preached\\nmostly in Vermont.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0087.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "64 HISTORY OF BAKXSTEAD. 1863\\nElder Samukl Lord, a son of William, boni in Barn-\\nstead in 17.S0. ordained in 1820, died in 1849 resided\\nmostly in Vermont.\\nElder Daniel jMoultox, a native of Pittsfiold, b. in\\n1780, ordained in 1803, died in 1805.\\nElder .John C ayerly, of Stratford, i). in 178 J, onlained\\nin 1827, died in LSO- i, often preached here.\\nElder David L. Edgerlv, a Freewill Baptist, preach-\\ned at the Parade and at Clarktown, al)out 18G0.\\nElder Moses A. Quimisy, a Ereewill l^aptist, from\\nEpsom, preached occasionally at the Centre House.\\nElder Joskpii IIaryey, an Adventist, from Pittsfield,\\nhas of late preached in North Barnstead.\\nRev. J. Blakk, a Congregationalist, ordained in 1838,\\ncontimied here more or less up to 18G1.\\nRev. A. W. EiSKK, a Congrcgationalist, from Fisher-\\nville, preached at the Centre and at North Barnstead one\\nyear, np to 18G7.\\nMETHODISTS.\\nElder F^benezer Gerry, and Folder Thomas Tread-\\nwell, Methodists, have each in turn preached in the\\nNorthwest part of Barnstead, bnt as late as 1870 they\\nhad no church edifice.\\nadventists.\\nThis people have a church edifice in what is commonl}-\\ncalled the Proctor neighborhood. Rev. William Bodge\\nhas been their minister.\\nattending church.\\nIn the olden time, on the Salibath morning in summer,\\nthe roads and cross-paths of the town became dottetl with", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0088.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "1863 ITS SABBATH DAYS. 65\\npedestrians. The economical fasliions of that day ought\\nnot to be forgotten. Among others we well remember the\\nfollowing before arriving at the church each lady would\\nexchange her thick shoe for a more comely one, while the\\ncast-offs would be consigned to some old log fence, or\\nother safe place, until her return. This hal)it has been\\ndescribed thus\\nThen when the week hath turned its toil away,\\nHow mild and silent is the Sabbath day I\\nThe modest maiden churchward as she goes,\\nProud in good looks, and go-to-meeting clothes.\\nAcross the glen, untouched of dust or dews,\\nBears in her hand her nice embroidered slioes\\nHer stockings, too, home-knit, of purest white,\\nNow, near the temple, pulls them on aright;\\nThen in the precinct of that holy place.\\nWhere loud the Parson, grave, dispenses grace,\\nShines forth a beauty flounced there seated down\\nThe belle of all the beauties in Barnstead Town.\\n[Caverly.]\\nThe wants of the inhabitants were few, and well\\nsupplied they neither desired nor sought the luxuries\\nof life, nor the wasteful frivolities or follies of the cities.\\nThe stillness of the Holy Sabbath came and went without\\nought to break its quietude no bell sent its booming\\nswells through the old forests, as if to start the wild deer\\nfrom his coy retreat, nor to toll the church-going inhabi-\\ntants to the sacred -eltar. Who, of that day, does not\\nlove the church of his childhoood the greetings of men\\nand womeu from afar, their kindnesses, their sweet saluta-\\ntions and smiles, while they gathered to the gates of the\\nsacred sanctuaiy? At this date the recollection of the\\nSabbath scenes are still vivid to the memories of many.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0089.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "66 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18C3\\nHow quaint to be seen, the two coming togetlier,\\nOn the steady old nag, enjoying one mind.\\nUnheeding the pathway, tlie wind or tlie weather;\\nWhile closely she sticks to the pillion behind.\\nIt was with slow and quiet tread that the entrance\\nto the sanctuary was approached. All were well dress-\\ned in good home-made cloth the men were circum-\\nspect, the boys strong, and the girls were florid with\\nthe bloom of health and beauty. The Deacons had\\nseats near the communion table, and there from Sab-\\nbath to Sabbath, constantly on duty. Deacons Nutter\\nand Hodgdon officiated for many years. The aged and\\nwealthy were seated on the broad aisle, and there you\\nwould find Captain Eliphalet Nutter, Eli Bunker, Charles\\nHodgdon, Benjamin Hodgdon, Aaron Chesle}^, Abraham\\nBunker, and others of an equal grade. The boys and\\npeople of less mejins took accommodations in the gal-\\nleries. The tythingman was held to a strict account.\\nIt was within his province to keep good order under his\\norders, no dog was permitted to rove in the aisles, the\\ncanine race being held to prompt obedience within the pews\\nof their masters. The church service was from the hours\\nof ten to twelve o clock, and in the afternoon from one to\\nthree. This Parade meeting-house for the first thir-\\nty years of its existence had in winter no warming\\napparatus other than a common foot-stove the fires in it\\nwere usually started by a brand from the fireplace of a near\\nneighbor. The hours of intermission were spent in the\\nneighboring houses, in social chat, at which all the news\\nof the week would be well learnt and the guests while\\nresting at the recess would usually be treated to apples,\\npies or doughnuts, as the convenience of the family sup-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0090.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "1863 RELIGION. 67\\nplies would warraut, until at the stated hour of service\\nall were again in their places. Such were the habits\\nof our Fathers in fulfilling the duties of a New England\\nSabbath.\\nAN INCIDENT.\\nIt happened one day Avhen the congregation was still,\\nlistening to the last sentences of the sermon, as we well\\nremember, a small boy alarmed us by getting his head\\ncaught between two ballusters at the top of a pew. All\\neyes were at once turned to the scene of commotion the\\npreacher could not be heard the hearers arose to learn\\nthe cause of the uproar the minster stopped and stood\\nmute the tythingmau and others advanced to the rescue.\\nThe boy had pushed his head between the banisters,\\nand to his surprise, the same power which crowded\\nhis head in there would not force it out again, and he\\nroared most lustily the mother coaxed him the tything-\\nmau scolded but all to no purpose. It seemed that the\\nbanisters were even uearer together than when his head\\nfirst went in at length, by a few cuts with a jack-knife,\\nthe boy s head was disengaged, the outcry abated, and\\nquietude was restored to a troubled people.\\nTHE FREEWILL BAPTISTS.\\nAs Barnstead was near the great head and origin of\\nthis religious order, it may not be inappropriate in this\\nconnection, to speak of the principal men connected\\nwith it, who had preached more or less in this town, and\\nwho were the leaders in laying a foundation for this now\\nprosperous and influential denomination of Christians.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0091.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "8 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1803\\nBenjamin Randall, its originator, was an advocate in\\nbehalf of the doctrines of a general atonement, condi-\\ntional election, free communion, and a voluntary support\\nof the ministry. With these characteristic principles, he\\nfounded a denomination upon the apostles and prophets,\\nJesus Christ being the chief corner stone.\\nThe first church of the order was organized at New\\nDurham, N. H,, June 30, 1780. It consisted of seven\\nmembers. Their names were as follows Benjamin Ran-\\ndall, Robert Boody, Nathaniel Buzzell, Joseph Boody,\\nJudith Cartell, Margaret Boody, and Mary Buzzell.\\nFrom this beginning in 1780, the denomination now\\n(1868) numbers 127G churches, and 1221 ordained minis-\\nters, and about 59,211 communicants.\\nIts founder, Benjamin Randall, was born at Ports-\\nmouth, N. H., Feb. 7, 1749. His education was from\\nthe common schools. At the age of twenty-one he was\\nawakened at the preaching of George Whitfield, and met\\nwith a change in a few days afterwards by hearing of the\\ndeath of that celebrated divine. Whitfield died Sept. 30,\\n1770, at Newburyport.\\nRandall finally settled in New Durham, where he con-\\ntinued to reside during the most part of his thirty years\\nof ministerial labors. His free and open doctrines to a\\nconsiderable extent, were favoral)ly received in New Dur-\\nham, Barrington, and Barnstead, and adjoining towns,\\nwhenever and wherever Randall and his preachers from\\ntime to time held forth.\\nRandall died at New Durham, of consumption, Octo-\\nber 22, 1808, aged 59 years. The funeral services were\\non the 26th. The sermon was by Elder John Buzzell.\\nText, Timothy iv 7-8\\nI have fousht a ffood fielit.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0092.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "1863 RELIGION. 69\\nSeveral ministers were present. Six of tlie oldest\\nbore liim to liis final rest. It is said the assembly of\\npeople was such as had nevei- Ijefore been seen at a funer-\\nal, in that part of the coiiutry and that the scene was\\nsolemn and impressive.\\nAfter the lapse of flfl^y years, and after most of his\\nco-laborers had gone hence, the connection, in its\\nappreciation of his heroic an*.! saintly labors, erected to\\nhis memory a monuuient of marble.\\nJoseph Bood_y, above mentioned, was Joseph, senior,\\nwho, after aiding Randall in the formation of the first\\nchurch, and in the taking of the preliminary steps towards\\nthe organization of theii then new denomination, settled\\nin the north part of Barrington (now Strattbrd), adjoining\\nBarnstead, and there, and in the neighboring towns,\\npreached for over thirty years. His tall person, dignified\\nappearance, and heav}^ voice, were prepossessing his\\ngreat wit, severe sarcasm, and peerless independence,\\nrendered him a successful antagonist as well as orator.\\nThough he was not without his faults, he did much during\\nhis ministry as a co-worker witli Randall in laying the\\nfoundatiou for that denomination of Christians which\\nthe} had originated, and which is now becoming widely\\nextensive, influential, and prosi)erous. He was born in\\nBarrington, May 16, 1752, and died at his residence in\\nStraftbrd, January 17, 1824, aged 72 years.\\nFREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCHES.\\nThis denomination soon became somewhat numerous\\nin Barnstead, yet more so in Barrington, Pittsfield, Gil-\\nmanton, and New Durham. As they increased, churches", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0093.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "70 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nwere formed and preaching was had without money and\\nwithout price. They relied more on Bible doctrines and\\npuritan principles, than upon rigid rules or creeds in a\\nchurch government.\\nUp to the year 1804, they had scarcely been recog-\\nnized as a Christian denomination. At that time their\\nburden of taxation was changed by the Legislature of\\nNew Hampshire, and tbey thereby became a distinct sect\\namong the denominations of New England.\\nAs at first they had no meeting-houses, they were con-\\nstantly subjected to great inconveniences, such as at the\\npresent day are entirelj^ unknown. For the want of\\nchurches, dwelUng-hoiises, barns, orchards, and groves,\\nwere often made to take the place of them. The rations\\nof a soldier, to them at their yearly meetings, and\\nquarterly conferences, were regarded as ample fare,\\nwith which all were satisfied. Beds were provided for\\nthe aged or feeble, while others found contentment and\\nrest without convenient couch or covering.\\nAn eye witness says At a quarterly meeting at\\nPittsfield in 1802, Elder Knowlton filled every bed in his\\nhouse, and then twenty of us lay on the floor, and as\\nmany more slept in the barn.\\nIn 1816 there was a great revival among them. Tliis\\nwas a cold, dreary year. Business was dull, the crops\\nwere light, and in many places proved a failure. Yet\\nthej^ did not seem to see it. Their revival advanced, and\\nthe extension of their churches seemed to inspire them to\\nfaithfulness and to prosperit}\\nIn 1819 the yearly meeting at New Durham is said to\\nhave been one of many blessings. About that time a\\ncloud of mercy visited Barnstead, Gilmanton and Pitts-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0094.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "1863 LAND SALES. 71\\nfield all sharing it which soon Ijccame more and more\\nmanifest, extending far and wide.\\nThere were two cases of death by spotted fever in\\nBarnstead that yeav.\\nLAND SALES.\\nHaving previonsly recorded a brief account of the\\nbuilding of the first meeting-house and of other churches,\\nas well as of the ministiy who have hitherto preached in\\nBarnstead, we now return to its early land sales. These\\nlands were for a considerable time held by its original\\nproprietors, yet at an early day many of the lots had\\nbeen disposed of to others and that too, before any\\ngeneral survey of the town had been made. Thus selling\\nand re-selling went on up to the period when a general\\nsurvey was had, at which time the ranges were defined,\\nand each man s land was allotted to him. The farms\\nwere laid out, some of them sixty aci es, and others one\\nhundred acres space for a range-road was left between\\nevery tier of lots. Homesteads adjoining Pittsfield were\\npurchased first most of these were obtained of the\\nAdams s, who had bought them at the auction sales. The\\ntown generally was well timbered with a heavy growth\\nof pine, oak, maple, beech, birch, hemlock and spruce\\nyet out of this timber the old charter excepted and reserv-\\ned to the Crown, all mast-trees growing on said tract of\\nland for the better order, rule and government of said\\nTown.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0095.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "72 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1S63\\nThe first record of au}^ sale, after the survey of the\\ntown, is in the Kockingham Registiy this lot was bought\\nin 16G7 by Benjamin Nutter of Newington, of Hatevil\\nNutter of the same phice. It is now a farm, situated on\\nthe rise of ground south of the Parade, containing one\\nhundred acres. The lot numbered tliirtjxseven, was\\npurchased as being on the Province road, and was after-\\nwards occupied ]jy Benjamin Nutter until his death.\\nNathaniel Nutter was his son. This farm is now owned\\nand occupied as a liomestead by Charles S. George,\\nEsquire.\\nOn September 17, 1772, Richard Downing, Esquire,\\nsold to Benjamin Colebatii, of Barustead, several pieces\\nof land as appears, in consMeration of one hundred and\\nforty -five pounds lawful money to us in hand from the\\nsaid Colebath. These lands were mostly on the Province\\nroad, uuml)ered fj, 5, 4 and 3, and were sold generally\\nfor the payment of the proprietor s del)ts.\\nIn 1772, Benjamin Colebath, of Durham, bought of\\nMark Hunking Wentworth lot numbered 4 in the first\\ndivision of lots.\\nIn the same year, Winthrop Smart bought of Rev.\\nJoseph Adams sixty acres of land in the same first divi-\\nsion of lots. This deed was given at Newington, and\\nwas witnessed bj^ Benjamin Adams, James Adams and\\nCaleb G. Adams. This same lot was originally owned\\nby Mark Aj ers, having been bought at public vendue.\\nJohn Tasker, September 17, 1772, at Newington,\\npurchased several lots of land of the proprietor s committee.\\nA record of these deeds is in the Dover Registry. Tlie\\nlands sold generally at the price of about \u00c2\u00a317 per lot,\\nlawful money.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0096.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "1863\\nFIRST FAMILIES\\n73\\nJohn Nutter, the 4tli blacksmith of ye Province of\\nNew Hampshire, bought of Matathias Nutter, of Newing-\\nton, at 20 two lots of one hundred acres each, being in\\nthe first and second division of lots.\\nNAMES OF FIRST PROPRIETORS.\\nMany of the names of the prirae\\\\al settlers are still\\nfamiliar, yet there were some whose names are scarcel^y\\nknown in these da3 s, evincing the fact that in tlic absence\\nof a written history, five generations may pass, leaving\\nthe fifth with little or no knowledge of the third. Our\\nonly record from which to call up those lost families in\\nour native town is in the imperfect memories of our ven-\\nerable inhabitants, and who are last vanishing awa3\\\\ By\\nthese facts we are admonished to diligence in preserving\\nthe facts material to the histoiy of our fathers, and in\\nstriving to save from oblivion at least a part of what we\\nhave constantl}^ been loosing. The following are the sur-\\nnames of settlers from 17G8 to 17 JO\\nAdams.\\nCiiiclair,\\nEvans.\\nAyers,\\nClark,\\nGarland,\\nAvery,\\nCaswell,\\nGreen,\\nBimker,\\nColebath,\\nHodgdon\\nBlake,\\nDennett,\\nHuckins,\\nBachelder,\\nDudley,\\nHayes,\\nBerry,\\nDaniels,\\nHill,\\nBrowu,\\nDockbam.\\nHatch,\\nBabb,\\nDavis,\\nJacobs,\\nBickford,\\nDrew,\\nKaime,\\nChesley,\\nEdgerly,\\nLougee,\\nCollins.\\nElliott,\\nLocke.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0097.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "74\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n1863\\nLord,\\nParshley,\\nTibhetts,\\nMuncy,\\nPendergast,\\nSeward,\\nMuclgett,\\nPlace,\\nUres,\\nMason,\\nPitman,\\nWilliams,\\nNelson,\\nShackford,\\nWalker,\\nNutter,\\nTasker,\\nWiggiu.\\nPickering,\\nTuttle,\\nFIRST SETTLERS.\\nEbenezer Adams was the first person who with a\\nfamily settled in Barnstead lie removed here from New-\\niugtou aud located himself on a lot near the north line\\nof Barrington, and near the log cabin, which had been\\ndedicated by his father as the first meeting-house in this\\nthen wilderness.\\nColonel Richard Cinclair came from Newington and\\nestablished himself upon a lot of land where Elder Na-\\nthaniel Wilson afterwards lived and died it was about\\nsix miles from the log church. Cinclair was the second\\nsettler. A story is often told here, that Mrs. Cinclair, in\\nthe absence of her husband, wearing snow-shoes, brought\\nhay from Newington to Barnstead, (thirty miles) on a\\nhand-sled, with which to feed and preserve the life of her\\ncow. It has also been stated that this same lady, at one\\ntime on her way home from abroad, among the trees\\nencountered a deer, drove him into the deep snow, and\\nkilling him with her jack-knife, took him home.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0098.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "1863 FIRST FAMILIES. 75\\nSuch New England mothers are not common in these\\nour days.\\nJames Dealing was our third settler he located\\nhimself in the wilderness his mansion was according to\\nthe fashions, a log house it stood where Arthur Bickford\\nnow lives. Adams, Ciaclair, and Dealing, all came from\\nNewington, had families, and were the first settlers of the\\nforest.\\nThey usually felled the trees in a lot large enough for\\na small field, burned the ground over, and then planted it\\nto corn. Dealing, at one time, had a corn field near his\\nhouse, Avhich had been invaded by the bears, and having\\nbusiness at Newington, some thirty miles away, he tied\\nhis dog in his field to frighten them away. This scheme\\nworked vvell enough at first, but the master was de-\\ntained too long from home, and the dog starved.\\nTradition does not tell us whether the bears starved\\nor not. They probaljly inherited the corn at the decease\\nof the dog.\\nJohn Bickford commenced a residence here in 17C5.\\nHe owned the Dealing farm, employed workmen, and being-\\nlame, used to superintend it on horseback. He was\\nfrom Newington, and on the way to Barnstead, his son,\\nJohn, (afterwards Colonel,) then eight years old, drove\\nthe team, but rode all the way on the tongue of the\\nsled for fear of the bears.\\nFIRST TOWN MEETING.\\nThe first meeting of the town as a corporation was\\nheld here, at John Bickford s. He died in 1804.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0099.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "76 HISTORY OV BAUXSTEAD.\\n1863\\nAfterwards the son, Colonel John Bkkford, took the\\nlocation where the house of Charles Ilodgdon, Jr., stood,\\nand where Mr. Clark s house now stands. He built the\\nHodgdon house and then removed to the Old Lyford\\nhouse at the Dennett Place, now occupied by Arthur\\nBickford, where he contiimed to reside up to 1815, at which\\ntime he removed to the Captain John Chesley farm and\\nthence to Cinclair s Mills, rebuilt them, and resided there\\nuntil his decease in 1851.\\nColonel Bickford lived to the age of 85 years. He left\\ntwo sons, Arthur and Daniel, both having families, and\\nboth residing in Barnstead. The Colonel was industri-\\nous, was generous, lived respected, and died much\\nlamented.\\nArthur Bickford, his son, still resides on the old\\nfarm.\\nIn a letter he says When mj father lived on the old\\nChesley Place he lost a sheep, killed by some wild beast.\\nNot knowing what it was, I procured a trap and set it be-\\nside the carcass. One day I went for the trap and it was\\nnot there. I followed the trap for a considerable distance\\nthrough the woods, among the uprooted trees heard the\\nrattle of the chain, aud saw the animal, such as I had\\nnever seen before. I procured a cudgel, and the animal\\nshowed fight. I had to keep at a proper distance,\\naway, outside the upturned roots but sometimes got\\nnear enough to give her a side-winder. After a long\\nfight I fetched her, and took her to the house. It was\\nthere decided to l)e a wild cat, a Siberian lynx. I set my\\ntrap again, and in a few days caught another and in a\\nfew days more I caught another. There was a bounty on", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0100.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "18G3\\nFIRST FAMILIES. 77\\nthem, three dollars each. The pelts brought a dollar\\napiece. B^- this time you d better think, I felt pretty well.\\nHere ends my wild-cat stoiy.\\nFarms near to the Great Road, then being built, in\\nthe south part of the town, were regarded and sought for\\nby the first settlers as most desirable of any. The set-\\ntlers of them, for the most part, were active business\\nmen, and all well worthy, at least, of a brief place in this\\nwork.\\nCharles Hodgdon, Esquire, Sen., was from Newing-\\nton and settled on the Province Road in 17G8. His\\nwas the first two-story, well-finished house. It stood on\\nthe south side of the road, nearly opposite the house\\nsince built by his son. He was a deacon of the church,\\na Justice of the Peace, and f\u00c2\u00a9r several years a member\\nof the Convention. The first chaise used in town was\\nowned by him it had a square, standing top, lined with\\nEnglish calico. Charles, Senior, had two sons, Benjamin\\nand Charles, both of whom, in their day, were prominent\\nmen; he died in 1815, much lamented, aged seventy-\\nfive.\\nJonx Elliott lived in the north he settled here\\nabout the j^ear 1774. He was a man of much endurance.\\nTradition says he bought his corn at Durham that at\\none time he brought a bushel of it home upon his shoul-\\nders, some twenty-five miles that he had to ford the\\nBranch river (Suncook). But the river had swollen so\\nthat he could not cross it, he however staid all night in the\\nwoods, not far from his own house but the storm abated,", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0101.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "78 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nin the morning he forded the river and arrived home\\nwith his corn, there in sweet contentment to enjoy\\nit.\\nMajor John Nutter settled here in 17G8. He was\\nfrom Newington was a descendant of Anthony Nntter\\nof Dover (1GG2), and who was a conncillor in 1G82.\\nHatevil Nutter, one of his ancestors, was an inhabitant\\nof Dover in 1G69.\\nMajor John was an officer in the Revohition, and filled\\nmany prominent offices in town, such as Moderator, Se-\\nlectman, and the like. He was gentlemanly in manner\\nand was a ready speaker he took pride in the military,\\nand was an efficient officer. He died at the age of eighty\\nyears upon his original homestead, leaving a large family.\\nSamuel Kaine, Esquire, married his daughter.\\nJoseph Bunker, in 1770, took for his homestead a\\nlot on the Range, about half a mile on the north-east of\\nthe parade it contained a heaA\\\\y growth of pine and oak\\ntimber. He was from Dover his son, Joseph, inherited\\nthe place, and after the decease of Joseph, Jr., Enoch,\\ntlie grandson, inherited it.\\nEnoch was a Free-will Baptist for many years meet-\\nings were held at his house. He removed to the State of\\nMaine was a deacon of the church was a good man,\\nand did much for his favorite denomination.\\nJoseph, Jr., lived eighty years and upwards. His\\nmother, Aunt Sarah as she was called, died in 1815, aged\\n105 years. Joseph, her son, at the age of eighty, as it is\\nsaid, was addressed by his minister reminding him of the", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0102.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "1863 FIRST FAMILIES. 79\\nuncertainty of life God bless you, said Joseph,\\nme die my old mother is living- 3 et\\nMoses Dennett s homestead was on the high ground\\non the Province Road, towards Gilmanton he came\\nfrom Portsmouth about the 3 ear 1769, was by trade a\\ntailor. His house was of logs and stood upon the spot\\nnow occupied by his descendants. Mr. Dennett for a\\nconsiderable time brought his provisions from Dover on\\nhorse-back, following the spotted trees. His house stood\\nin the deep, dark woods, and in his absence he usually\\nleft a small boy with his wife. At one time the boy be-\\ncoming tired of a secluded life, deserted the house and\\nwent to his home in Dover, leaving the wife for several\\ndays and nights alone in her cabin, to, be entertained by\\nthe voices of howling wolves and the bleak storms of\\nwinter. Mr. Dennett had an excellent farm it has\\ndescended to the fourth generation, who are still living\\nthere.\\nJohn Bunker, the miller, settled in Barnstead in\\n17G9. His ancestors wore from Maiden; he came from\\nDurham, N. H., had five sons and two daughters. His\\nland extended from Dodavah Bunker s hill (since Pitts-\\nfield), following the first range, taking in all the land on\\nthe east side of the river, to, and beyond the Province\\nRoad, including the mill privilege and land on the north\\nside of the river, and including the lands where the Pa-\\nrade Village stands.\\nMr. Bunker built his house on the high ground now\\nowned by Dr. John Wheeler traces of the old cellar are\\nstill there. He built the first mill its timbers are of oak.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0103.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "80 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nlarge and strong. Mr. Bunker was nuicli respected, had\\nserved as Town Clerk, Moderator, and Selectman, and\\nlived to the age of fonr-score years his widow, then sur-\\nviving him, lived to the extreme old age of ninety-five.\\nP]li Bunker. The mantle of John fell on Eli, and\\nEli inherited the mill, being the eldest son. They were\\nall industrious business men, all had families Eli carried\\non the mill business, was inventive, was always seeking\\nimprovements, and was wealthy and generous.\\nHe was emphatically a man of inventions he erected\\na mill on dry ground, sui)posing he could make it operate\\nb} the power of weights, and without steam, wind, or\\nwater. His greatest fear was not that his mill would not\\ngo, but that he might not be able to stop it after it had\\nstarted to go.\\nThe mill at length was finished, but being on high\\nground it would not budge an inch. The grain was\\npnt into the hopper, but no meal wonld come out yet\\nafter a while he added horse power to it, and it oi)erated\\nvery well. This mill for half a century at least stood\\nthere, under the appellation of Eli s perpetual motion.\\nHe had a large family. The male descendants of\\nJohn and Eli have all left town, or have died P^li lived\\nto the age of eighty years. His two youngest sons, by\\nan Act of the Legislature, took the name Bauchor.\\nTwo of his grandsons are in Boston, viz\\nJohn F. Banciior, Esquire, who resides at No. 50 East\\nSpringfield street, is a gentleman in extensive trade, and\\nhas done much to encourage the publication of the annals\\nof Banistead.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0104.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "1863 FIRST FAMILIES. 81\\nGeorge S. Banciior, who resides at No. 23 High\\nstreet, is also a, merchant in a prosperous business,\\nevincing most clearly, at least in this instance, that\\nthe spirit of enterprise Avliich inspired the forefixthers is\\nnot lost in the sons, nor bleached out b_y the years of\\nmany generations. The original settlers from whom they\\ndescended were Joseph, John, Dodapher, and Jonathan.\\nThey were from Dover, and we think all of them are\\nfrom the same stock.\\nAs early as 1034 there was one l)y that name at IMal-\\nden he was there in 1037, and died in 1038. Benjamin,\\nthe son of George, had a son who graduated at Harvard\\nin 1038 and died in 1070. His brother John died at Mai-\\nden in 1072 a descendant by tlie name of William is\\nnow a resident in Lowell. They are usually men of tem-\\nperate habits, health} well-proportioned, size large, aver-\\naging about two hundred pounds, and generally have\\nlived to a profitable old age.\\nJacob Pickering resided on the elevated land about\\none mile north of the Parade he was a good f-irmer,\\nreared a large family many of his descendants were busi-\\nness men, l)ut like many others have left the town of\\ntheir cliildhood, and have sought business and located\\ntheir homes elsewhere. This family probably originated\\nfrom John Pickering, a carpenter, who came to New Eng-\\nland in 1030, who lived in Ipswich in 1034, and after-\\nwards in Salem.\\nJohn Peavey, Esquire, early settled at Barnstead Cen-\\ntre, purchased Tasker s Mills and lands adjoining. He", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0105.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "82 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nenlarged the mills, sold land, and greatly faeilitated busi-\\nness in bis neigbborbood. His native place was Bar-\\nrington in beigbt he was six feet four inches, was well-\\nproportioned, kept a pul)lic house and a store of goods in\\nconnection with his mill-business. He was ever active in\\ntown affairs, represented it in General Court, and\\nserved often as a selectman, and moderator. In Jackson s\\ntime be was the bearer of the Presidential vote of New\\nHampshire to Washington, was a Captain in the Militia,\\nand was active in aid of tlie government in the war of\\n1812. He died at the age of eighty years, leaving one\\ndaughter to inherit the homestead she is the wife of Mr.\\nDaniel Bickford.\\nISAAC GARLAND.\\nHe early settled at North Barnstead was the son of\\nJohn Garland of Dover. He built a log cabin here,\\nand lived in it many years it had neither door,\\nwindow, glass, nor chimney. He lived a long life\\nin this locauty, and died here at the age of ninety. His\\nyears of marriage were seventy-two his wife died at the\\nage of eighty-seven. They had six sons and three\\ndaughters. In his last years Mr. Garland was blind, yet\\nalways patient and cheerful. He was a reader, and some-\\ntimes a writer of poetr3\\\\ The following is from the pen\\nof his old age, written on his birthday\\nMy years now number eighty-four,\\nHow can I ask the Lord for more?\\nI ll lay my head upon His breast,\\nHow peaceful there twill be to rest\\nThe following items of charge were taken from his ac-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0106.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "18G3 FIRST FAMILIES. 83\\ncount book of fifty years ago, evincing tlie prices current\\nof that (lay\\nOne day s work, liaying $0.50 Making pair of boots $1.50\\nMaid, one week .50 One busliel of wlieat 1 50\\nOne 4 weeks old pig .50 One busliel of corn 100\\nUse of horse .50 One busliel rye .75\\nUse of wagon, 15 miles .50 One busliel flax seed 1.00\\nMaking a plow .50 One busliel barley .75\\nWood for same .50 One ,1/ good boards 5 50\\nMaking pair shoes .50 One .1/good shingles 2.00\\nOne cord hemlock wood 2.50\\nSeventy-five years ago the wild boar had not disap-\\npeared in tliis locality, and the settlers sometimes used to\\nset guns for thera in their corn-fields. In doing this, a\\nlong line was attached to tlie gun, at one end, and fastened\\nat the other and tlic liear was invited to shoot himself\\niu crossing it.\\nAt one time, in Mr. Garland s absence from home, a\\nneighbor had set a gun in his cornfield; on his return,\\nin the evening, Mr. Garland, not knowing what had been\\ndone, went out to visit his corn, and feeling vigorous\\nstarted upon the run, the line caught liis shoe-buckle,\\nthe gun discharged itself wdth a loud report and the balls\\nwent whistling into a log close beliind hiui. Mr. Gar-\\nland s vigorous movement, as he thought, preserved his\\nlife, as by the favor of an over-ruling Providence iu whom\\nbe believed and had ever trusted.\\nRichard Garland was a son of Isaac, lived in P^ast\\nBarnstead, and was a most useful and exemplary citizen.\\nHe was a thorough English scholar, a teacher of schools\\nat least for a quarter of a century, and an excellent farmer.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0107.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "84 HISTORY OF BAKNSTEAI). 18CS\\nAt the age of forty he made himself master of the\\nGreek and Hebrew languages, so far, at least, as to be\\nable to read the Old and New testaments in their original\\ntongues. He had a large library had served twice as a\\nrepresentative to the General Court had filled the offices\\nof County Commissioner, and Selectman was cautious\\nand exact was self-taught, and was highly respected for\\nhis piety and virtue. He fell in his field ])y a sun-stroke,\\naged sixty-eight years.\\nNathaniel Adams, tlie son of Dr. Joseph, and grand-\\nson of the Rev. Joseph Adams, lived on the new road,\\nnear Beauty Pond, and on the old homestead originall}\\nsettled b} his father he had a nephew settled near him.\\nHe was a man social in his manners, as were the most of\\nhis kindred he was a Church member, much devoted,\\nneither cold nor storm kept him from church on the Sab-\\nbath even in the midst of a tempest Uncle Nat was\\nsure to come, and Aunt Nabby by his side well pro-\\ntected from the cold. The old erect, red sleigh and grey\\nhorse, jingling at least one bell, brought them safely and\\nthe happy pair were always well received. He lived to\\nmore than his fourscore, and died leaving one son.\\nJohn Keniston. Where is the boy in town that has\\nnot heard of him He came from Newington at an earl3\\nday, and pitched his tent near the shore of the Branch\\nriver, and near its junction with the Suncook. He was a\\ngreat hunter and trapper the otter, the beaver, and the\\nfoxes the mink, the musk-rat, the wild goose, and the\\nduck, all had occasion to fear his weapons of death,\\nand to keep aloof from his hidden traps and deceptive\\nboats.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0108.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "18G3 FIRST FAMILIES. 85\\nBeneath a bunch of pine or hemlock boughs, Keniston\\nwould sometimes secrete himself, and floating down the\\nstream thus disguised, would deal death upon large flocks\\nof unwary ducks, or whatever else might be decoyed or\\ndeceived by him.\\nKeniston lived fourscore years and upwards was a\\ngood citizen, and left children who inherited his estate.\\nPitt Lougee settled on the south side of the Suncook,\\nopposite Bunker s Mill. He built a good farm-house, and\\nalso a mill for coloring and dressing cloths. This was\\nour first coloring and clothing mill the same site is now\\nowned and occupied by J. M. Babcock, Esquire, for the\\nsame purposes, yet A ory much enlarged and improved.\\nThe old fulling mill was a small building, and part of\\nit remained unfinished a long time. The cloth was fulled\\nand colored here, and then it was carried to a small build-\\ning near the dwelling house, there pressed and finished.\\nThe press was of oak, and was large according to the old\\nfashions.\\nMr. Lougee came from Barrington, near Dover. In\\nperson he was tall and erect, his hair white, tied in a cue\\nhe was quick in motion, always industrious the tones of\\nhis voice were feminine and youthful, Avhile his silvery\\nlocks indicated advanced old age.\\nHe returned at length to his native Barrington, where\\nhe died at the age of ninety years.\\nPelatiah Daniels settled in the south-east of Barn-\\nstead. He was here early was prominent in town af-\\nfairs was intelligent, lived to a good old age left chil-\\ndren, but none of them remain.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0109.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "86 HISTORY OF liAKNSTEAD. l\\nSamuel Caswell was here as early as 1785, took an\\nelevated lot on the high groniids at Beanty Hill, which\\nconnnanded a beautiful view from the White Hills to\\nPortsmouth Harbor.\\nHe came from Nottingham, was a temperance rnnn,\\nand was ()i)po.setl to the use of tobacco as well as to ar-\\ndent spirits. His strictly temperance hal)its prol)ably\\nadded n.any, many years to his long life. He was at all\\ntimes industrious, quiet, and contented and, as has been\\nsaid, was never seen fifteen miles from home. He died in\\nl sr 5, aged one hundred and seven years. He reared a\\nlarge family one of his sons inherited the homestead.\\nCai)tain John Dkeav. He resided on tlie Province\\nRoad his jjlace was the same, since occupied by Benja-\\nmin Hodgdon.\\nCa[)tain Drew had been an officer in the Revolution,\\nand settled here innnediatel}^ afterwards. His land ex-\\ntended from the Pittsfiehl line to the Range parallel, and\\nonward north of the Province Road, containing both val-\\nley and rolling lands. He at once felled the trees and\\ncleared several acres of it for planting. After living a\\nwhile in a cabin, he built a large framed house, also a barn\\non the opposite side of the road this house he occupied\\nas a ta\\\\ern.\\nHis manner of life was singular; he was in the habit\\nof dressing in furs, and in various rustic garbs and for\\nmost of the time made tlie deep woods his dwelling place.\\nHe often wandered far back into Canada, supplying himself\\nwith game from the forest and when that failed, he fed\\nhimself on domestic animals, such as he could find on the\\nway. Thus wandering he lived many years, sometimes", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0110.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "1863 FIRST FAMILIES. 87\\nhowever trading in horses and cattle with the Canadians.\\nOccasionally he would return home, but his stay at liome\\nwas usually of short duration. At length, on one of his\\nreturns, he sold his house and all his lands to one Collins,\\nreserving only a small lot in the orchard next to the\\nstreet, and near the west end of the barn for his burying-\\nground.\\nSeveral j-oars had elapsed when the old Captain re-\\nturned and after being supported a considerable time, at\\nthe town s expense, he died, and was buried in the or-\\nchard. A rude stone is left there to mark his resting\\nplace.\\nSubsequent to Drew s decease, as well as before, there\\nwere many strange stories afloat in reference to him, but\\nwhether true or false will perhaps never be known. There\\nwere several circumstances which tended to rouse sus-\\npicion and give currency to the reports then in circula-\\ntion.\\nDrew s was a tavern house, and a stranger (whom\\nthey called a peddler), one evening, had been seen riding\\nthat way. The next day, near by, a horse was found\\nfeeding by the road side, and there being no owner for\\nhim, he was taken to Drew s barn and, according to the\\nlaws or fashions of that time, a birch withe was tied about\\nthe neck, and the horse was cried as an astray on all the\\nroads in town, but no owner came for him then or ever\\nafterwards. This matter rested for a time, but soon sus-\\npicions and surmises took wing, until the story of Drew\\nand the Peddler was common to all the neighborhood.\\nSome time afterwards a cave was discovered near the\\nsame old house, to the east of it, Avliich was covered in,\\nand had been kept most adroitl}^ and being found after", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0111.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "88 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAT). 1*^G3\\nthe old man had gone hence, tended to perpetnate those\\nsuspicions and surmises as against the good faith of its\\noriginal proprietor, and paved the way for ghosts and\\nhobgoblins in that neighl)orhood.\\nCollins continued to dwell there, but the old barn, as\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0they would have it, was haunted with the midnight ghosts\\nof the departed the barn floor even appeared to be\\nmoved b}^ tliem the planks with which it was laid could\\nnot be kept down at night they would be torn up Col-\\nlins would nail them down, but they could not be made to\\nstay there and such was the faith of this man as to the\\nwicked works which had been done in that old barn, and\\nin the uneartldy spectres which seemed to follow and in-\\nhabit it, he at length became induced to tear it down.\\nThis being done he built one on the opposite side of the\\nroad and by that act, and from that day, for aught we\\nknow, the anger of the ghosts became appeased.\\nThis was many years ago since then we are not\\naware that any such spectral demonstrations have been\\nwitnessed there.\\nAaron Ciiesley came from Durham in 1771, and\\nbought the land bordering on the Suncook, west of it,\\nand not far from the Parade. This proved to be well-\\nwooded, abounding with heavy timber, and productive\\nHe soon became a prosperous farmer annuall}^ he filled\\nhis large barn with hay and grain his numerous stock of\\ncows, fat oxen, and horses, amply rewarded his industry,\\nhis faithfulness and toil. He raised much fruit, and an-\\nnually made from twenty-five to thirty hogsheads of cider.\\nThis being stored in his cellar, would in the course of\\nthe year be brought up in mugs, to be consumed as a bev-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0112.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "1863 FIRST FAMILIES. 89\\nerage by the family, and by workmeu employed on the\\nfarm.\\nMr. Chesley owned a part of the new saw-mill which\\nstood on the south side of the Snncook, opposite the\\nmills. Uncle Aaron, as he was called, was thick set,\\nhead inclining forward, with long white locks he was\\nquick in movement as well as in wit.\\nWhile passing the village doctor s door one day, he\\nwas saluted,\\nHow are ye, Mr. Chesley?\\nI am right up and down, like a dog s fore leg.\\nYes, said the doctor, and you re a right up and\\ndown dog all over.\\nThey were always friendly, yet ready for a joke, try-\\ning to make life cheerful.\\nMr. Chesle3^ was a descendant of Philip Chesley who\\nlived in Dover in 1642. Aaron died in 1820 his family\\nwas large, and his descendants still occupy the old home-\\nstead.\\nRichard Sinclair was the son of Maj. Richard Sinclair,\\nof Gilmanton, who was one- of the petitioners for the first\\nTown-meeting of that town.\\nRichard Sinclair of Barnstead, was born in Newing-\\ntou his wife was the daughter of Charles Hodgdou,\\nEsquire he was the first trader in Barnstead, and did\\nmuch in raising men for the service of the Revolution.\\nIn town affairs he was active, and evinced a taste for in-\\nternal improvements. His business habits often called\\nhim from home at length he left home, apparently as\\nusual, but never returned, and never afterwards was\\n12", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0113.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "90 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\ntraced. His wife was a Puritan, wlio lived much beloved,\\nand died lamented.\\nHis son, Charles G., was a soldier in the war of 1812,\\nand eventualh- died of disease caused by a wound re-\\nceived in that service.\\nTheir descendants do not appear to be numerous in\\nBarnstead, yet one grandson, John G. Sinclair, Esq., is\\nprominently known, at least politicall}-, is valiant in the\\ndemocratic faith of his ancestors, and is one of the brave\\nsons of New Hampshire. He has extended favors to\\nus in the publication of these annals.\\nJohn Tasker, Esquire. He lived in the East ptirt of\\nBarnstead, on the same premises now occupied by his\\ndescendants was a smith by trade, and a native of New-\\nington. He had purchased at auction large tracts of laud,\\nprices varjdng from \u00c2\u00a310 to \u00c2\u00a317 by tlie hundred acres.\\nThis land was sold in the pa^ ment of taxes mostly to\\ncancel expenses of the Province Road. Mr. Tasker was\\na man of considerable wealth and influejice was a farmer,\\nand occasionally filled the offices of selectman and mod-\\nerator and other places of public trust. He lived to the\\nage of nearly fourscore. His son Joseph inherited the\\nhomestead, and lived to a good old age, and died leaving\\nsons and grandsons still to inherit the soil.\\nMoses Rand, a native of New^buryport, located him-\\nself in 1772, on tlie high grounds then uncultivated, but\\nfertile, towards Beauty Hill. He died in 1825 at an\\nadvanced age, leaving a fine farm to his surviving family.\\nHe had three sons, Samuel, Wentworth and Jonathan.\\nThe two latter were soldiers in the war of 1812. These", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0114.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "18G3 FIRST FAMILIES. 91\\nboth died in iiovtheni N(?w York. Samuel married, and\\nlived and died here, leaving a large family. His son still\\noecnpies the homestead. One of the grandsons is a\\nphysician in Vermont, and proves to be an honor to the\\nname. A daughter of Moses became the wife of John\\nShannon, who was a mail carrier, and who brouglit the\\nfirst mail into Barnstead. Afterwards the same mail came\\nconstantly freighted wnth that celebrated journal, The\\nNew^ Hampshire Patriot, which has ever worked wonders\\nin shaping the politics of Barnstead, and of the state.\\nFor many years its editor was Isaac Hill. Moses Rand\\nwas a good citizen. Dr. IMark Walker of North Barn-\\nstead is a descendant in the fourth generation, and is\\na worth}^ member of his profession.\\nThe Rands are descendants from Francis Rand of Pis-\\ncataqua 1G23.\\nWilliam Loud, in 1780, settled on Lord s Hill near\\nthe Parade. This settler was noted for his devotional\\npiety although the long words which he brought into\\naction at religions gatherings were not veiy instructive\\nnor entertaining, yet Uncle Lord, (as they called liim,)\\nwas alwa_ys respected. He lived the life of an honest\\nman, and died the death of a Christian, aged 85 years.\\nLemuel Hates, the son of Paul Hayes of Barrington,\\nw^as born in 1777. In 1800 he married Abigail Bennett,\\ndaughter of John Bennett, Esq., and settled in Barnstead,\\na farmer. His was a fine location of rolling wood-land in\\nthe north-east corner of the town, near the Alton line.\\nThis farm proved to be one of the best, and for many\\nyears Mr. Ha^ es cultivated it with success. He lived", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0115.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "92 HISTORY OF BARXSTEAD. 1863\\nhere to see bis large family of seven sons and two\\ndaughters reared to full age, and trained for the active\\nand useful duties and business of life.\\nLate years, this farm lias been owned by the town,\\nwho have made it a residence for the unfortunate poor\\nand from 3 ear to 3 ear, as they become objects of pul)lic\\ncharity, they are left here, most of them in their last\\ndays, to enjoy as well as they may, the sweets of an\\nagreeable, pleasant home.\\nThe sons of Lemuel ILxyes, still living, are George\\nW., in Dover, N. H. Stephen in Worcester, Mass\\nJesse, in Ilolston Alvin, in Cambridgeport and\\nJoseph R. Hayes, in Lowell, Massachusetts.\\nDr. J. R. ILayes settled in that city about 25 years\\nago has had a successful business constantly keep-\\ning a large store of medicines, and, becoming wealthy\\nand influential, has accomplished much good in his day\\nand generation.\\nHis wife was Miss Leah D. Hayes, daughter of Paul\\nHayes, Esq., of Alton, N. H.\\nIt was by the friendly aid and encouragement of Dr.\\nHayes that the editor of this historical work was at ftrst\\ninduced to undertake the arduous but agreeable task of\\nits revision and publication.\\nEliphalet Notter, Esquire, was a son of Major John\\nNutter. He lived in the southeast section, was an owner\\nof real estate to a large amount. In 1807 he married\\nLovey Locke, a daughter of James Locke, a first settler,\\n(she had seen the bears in this then wilderness,) with\\nwhom he lived many years, and then dying left several\\nchildren. He was active in business. He was a justice", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0116.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "^.Jta^^", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0119.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0120.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "18G3 FIRST FAMILIES. 93\\ntried causes as such, was an overseer of the poor, was\\noften a selectman, and moderator in town meeting. In\\nhis time he was the principal trial justice at Barnstead,\\nand to him the people applied to obtain a redress of their\\nsmall grievances which were comprised within his immedi-\\nate jurisdiction. He built a saw-mill near his house, and\\nfurnished much lumber to the inhabitants was pious,\\nsocial, pleasant, and full of merriment. lie died full of\\nyears, much lamented, leaving a large family.\\nHis son follows in the foot-steps of his honored father,\\nstill occupying the old homestead.\\nAnother son, E. S. Nutter, Esquire, (b. Nov. 26, 1819)\\nwas for many years in a successful trade at Barnstead.\\nWas postmaster here under two administrations. In\\n1855 he removed to Concord, N. H. has since been en-\\ngaged in a lucrative business at home and abroad, and\\nof late has retired on the fruitful accumulations of his\\nindustry. He is President of one of the New Hampshire\\nRailroads. His wife was Miss vSylvania M. Blanch ard\\nof Lowell, Mass.\\nTheir only daughter, Ada R., an accomplished young\\nlady, died at the age of 17, much beloved.\\nMr. Nutter is one of the men who have favored a pub-\\nlication of the History of Barnstead.\\nCHARLES IIODGDON, ESQ.\\nHe was the son of Chides Hodgdon, senior, who was\\nan early settler, and a deacon of the church.\\nCharles, junior, w^as its representative in the New\\nHampshire legislature not less than nineteen years. He\\nwas an active justice of the peace, was constant at church\\nand liberal to the minister. He reared a large family, and\\ndevoted much of the fruits of his industry to their educa-", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0121.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "94 HISTORV OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\ntion. He prospered, had faithful servants, built liis house\\nlarge, and his many barns were well filled with hay and\\nstock. His fine horses and carriag es were ever ready at\\nhis call and few were the travellers who passed that way\\nwithout greeting him.\\nA clergyman, the Rev. J. G. Adams, of Lowell, Mass.,\\nwho, when young, made a visit to this, his honored uncle,\\nhas favored ns with the following communication\\nA VISIT AT IIODG don s FORTY YEARS AGO.\\nI have quite a vivid remembrance of my first visit\\nto Barnstead, in iny boyhood. I had never before been\\nso far awa}^ from my native seaport town (Portsmouth),\\ninto the country. And it was the country, real!} to me\\nand country life did I there realize in all its positiveness\\nand exuberance. M3 home for tlie most of the time\\nduring m}^ visit was at my uncle s, Charles Hodgdou, Esq.\\nHis house was of ample dimensions, and answered the\\nthreefold uses of home, law-office, and hotel. Such a\\nkitchen as I was ushered into in the earlj^ evening, after\\na sleighride of long hours from Portsmouth, I had not\\nseen before. That crackling fire in the immense chimney\\nplace, where a little less than a foot of long wood was\\nablaze the big table on the opposite side of the room,\\nwith its large circular leaf turned back, and its under\\nframe answering for a chair r the sturdy cook, Betsy\\nMeader, with her glowing face, preparing supper before\\nthat fiery glare where the oak and maple were consum-\\ning the hearty welcome of cousins and other friends, all\\nnew faces to me the equall}^ welcome supper of substan-\\ntial ham and sweet brown bread, and what a waggish son", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0122.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "1863 FIRST FAMILIES. 95\\nof the Granite State once called the treat of all other\\ntreats doughnuts and apple sauce and the cheerful\\nchatting of the family and neighbors and friends, and the\\nsinging of some of the olden tunes by the musical mem-\\nbers of that household band these realities are almost\\nas freshly in mind now as when more than forty 3 ears\\nago they were first and indelibly written into 1113^ memory.\\nMy uncle Charles was a man of much mental vigor,\\nalthough his bodily powers were affected by a palsied trem-\\nulousness which followed him through most of his life.\\nHe had good business talents, a generous heart and a\\nstrong will. He was justice of the peace and quorum,\\nstoi-e-keeper, settler of estates, and adviser in general to\\nall who sought counsel of him. His wife, my father s\\nsister, was one of the worthiest of women, a frugal house-\\nwife, a devoted mother, and a faithful and trusting Christ-\\nian. The family were all singers, and the children, older\\nand 3-ounger, made one of the most musical of choirs. I\\nfirst heard them sing Luton together, around that\\nlarge fire-place, Charles, Mary, Elizabeth and Nancy,\\neach taking a part and they sang it with a will and a\\nrichness that I have never _yet heard, that is, just as it\\nsounded to me then. Luton since has always been a\\nfavorite tune with me.\\nThe store of my uncle was a mixed one of dry and\\nWest India goods and groceries. As was usual then in\\ncountry stores, some of the staple articles in the West Li-\\ndia goods line were sugars, molasses, salt fish, and Santa\\nCruz. New England, or White Eye, was the democrat-\\nic, Santa Cruz the aristocratic, beverage although in not\\na few instances they became strangely intermixed.\\nCider, my uncle used to say, was a puncher. That", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0123.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "9G HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nwould be often sought in the house, after the stronger\\npotation had been furnished at the store. It is a matter\\nfor congratulation that the Granite State has somewhat\\nmore light in reference to th ese drinking usages now than\\nit had forty j-ears ago and still there is need of an in-\\ncrease of it.\\nLaw cnses were attended to at ray uncle s, and I\\nremember meeting there often, my uncle s brother, Ben-\\njamin, of the Parade, as a writer and reader of depo-\\nsitions. Of plaintiffs, defendants, and witnesses, there\\ncomes up before me some rather comical reminiscences,\\nbut the groupings are a little too nebulous for me to\\nbring out distinctly with the pen.\\nI have spoken of my uncle s home as a kind of hotel.\\nThat is, he usually kept open house for such travelling\\npeople as were on their way to and from the lower towns\\nin the winter season, and who would rather tarry with him\\nthan at the tavern houses, some miles below or above\\nhim. As his accommodations, house and stable were\\nample, and his hired and other help an efficient force,\\nalways, he was in readiness for such applicants as might\\noccasionally present themselves.\\nIt was during my visit here that I had a most agreea-\\nble experience in the district school, then taught by Rev.\\nEnos George. The old school-house was well ventilated,\\nwith artificial if not artistic openings, and the room, in those\\ncold winter days, was always warmest just before we were\\nin readiness to leave it. But we had good times there.\\nOur spelling bees and exercises in grammar were\\nspecially enjoyable, and our worthy village master, the\\ntown s minister, although careful in the maintenance of", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0124.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "1863 FIRST FAMILIES. 97\\nhis authority, was one of the most considerate of teach-\\ners. Blessings on his memory\\nSuch are some of the recollections of ni} first visit to\\nBarnstead. But what changes have been wrought there\\nin those forty years now gone\\nJOHN PITMAN.\\nHe was born in Lee, N. H., May 7. 1732, and in\\nMarch, 17 S!), settled in Barnstead, as did also his brother\\nSamuel. His lands were in the east part of Barnstead,\\nwhere no clearing had been previously made, and no\\npul)lic road had been opened in that neighborhood. He\\ncommenced by cultivating one acre at a time.\\nThe bears and wolves troubled his flocks and planta-\\ntions. Mau}^ difficulties he had to contend with. Yet\\nbj industry and frugality he overcame all obstacles. He\\nwas a man of stern integrity accordingly he trained his\\nchildren to be faithful to their calling, honest in their\\ndealings, and charitable to the afflicted.\\nMay 7, 1832, on his hundredth birthday, Mr. Pitman\\nstill enjoyed good health. On that day, he sent for his\\nclei gyman. Rev. Enos George, who baptized him, and\\nthey i)artook of the Lord s supper together. It seemed\\nto the old man like the beginning of a new life.\\nAbout that time he procured a set of teeth, white,\\nstrong and fashionable, which was in truth a wonder in\\nthe neighborhood, and he began to look young again.\\nHe lived to the age of 101 years, 9 months, and 21\\ndaj s died Feb. 28, 1834, and was buried in the field\\nwhere a plain stone bears record of his name and age.\\nHis wife, Susannah, died March 6, 1835, aged 95\\n13", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0125.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "98 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18G3\\nyears. His sons, to the fourth generation, still occupy\\nthe homestead.\\nSarah Leighton, the centre of seven generations, still\\nresides in Barnstead. She has lived to see them all, as\\nfollows Hannah Small, the wife of Edward Small^ aged\\n100 years Sarah Small, wife of Samuel Pitman\\nElizabeth Pitman, wife of Benjamin WinkleA Sarah\\nWinkley, wife of James Leighton Varnum H. Leigh-\\nton, the son of James Leighton Charles H. Leighton, the\\nson of Varnum H. Leighton, and Frank AV. Leighton,\\naged 6 years, of the 7th generation, son of Charles H.\\nLeighton.\\nShe has had two grandfathers, two uncles, one brother,\\nand twelve cousins, all by the name of Samuel. This\\nlady is now in her seventy-flfth year.\\nEbenezer Nutter was from Newington born Dec.\\n10, 1756. His wife was Temperance Colebath of Ports-\\nmouth. In 1783 they came from Newington on horseback,\\nwith a child in their arms, and plodded their way to North\\nBarnstead, guided by spotted trees. Their log-cabin was\\nfour miles from their nearest neighbor but it was a\\npleasant elevation of land, commanding a pleasant view\\nof the surrounding country.\\nMr. Nutter had been a soldier in the Revolution, and\\nwas a pensioner.\\nThe first grass seen on his farm was from a turf brought\\nhome by Mrs. Nutter Irom her nearest neighbor.\\nMr. Nutter was an honest, upright man, and filled\\nthe office of deacon more than fifty years. He had eleven\\nchildren seven sons, and four daughters.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0126.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "1863 FIRST FAMILIES. 99\\nTlie first cleat li was that of his eldest daughter, aged\\nnineteen. She had anticipated it, and had expressed a\\ndesire to be buried beneath lier favorite birch tree. The\\nsame tree is now standing. It still remains, true to cast\\nits summer shade, and to scatter its autumn leaves upon\\nthe ashes of that dear one who had seemed to seek and to\\nimplore its genial presence more than sixty years ago.\\nThat tree is now nine feet in circumference, and is the\\nonly one of the old growth now remaining upon the\\nold homestead.\\nDeacon Nutter had resided here seventy years had\\nlived to see how the generations come and go. At the\\nage of ninety he rested from liis labors.\\nThe third and fourth generations still live there.\\nSolomon Pendergast, as a deacon, was the successor\\nof Deacon Nutter. He resided at the north part of Barn-\\nstead, and officiated in that office for many years. He\\ndelighted in hunting, and was sometimes successful in\\ncatcliing bears. He lived to the age of seventy-five years\\nand bid farew^ell to earth and all its scenes, seeking a rest\\nin that as yet undiscovered haven best known to that God\\nwhom he served. He left a family of sons, upon one of\\nwhom the mantle of tlie hoi} order still rests.\\nDeacon John Pendergast, the son, is still a resident\\nhere.\\nWilliam Kelley, an Irish tailor, came here in 1814.\\nOn his passage to this country he was wrecked on the\\nshore of the Bay of Fundy, and after being a wanderer\\nfor some months in Maine, he found his way to Barn-\\nstead, where, from house to house, he became useful to", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0127.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "100 HISTORV OF BARXSTEAD.\\n1863\\nits inhabitants in his vocation as a tailor. He was the\\nonly Irishman who had resided there up to that time,\\nlie entertained a favorable idea of his own country men\\nas tailors, but could not endure the rude fashions of the\\nYankees, and insisted that in Ireland no Yankee would\\nbe permitted even to heat the goose of a tailor. Kellej^\\nwas a o ood workman. lie died here.\\nHaving given a brief account of the first settlers of\\nBarnstead so ftir as our tradition traces them, we now\\nreturn to the circumstances of its being chartered.\\nThe town at that period was laid out six miles square.\\nThere were no settlements eastward nor towards the\\ngreat lake. The forest was dense, and it was with con-\\nsiderable difficulty that the pioneers, when absent from\\nhome, found their way back to their cabins.\\nTheir foot-ways and their bridle-paths in the wilder-\\nness were indicated by spotted trees yet in the dark-\\nness of night these guide-posts became of little use.\\nThe great lake, Winnipesaugee, was only six miles\\nnorth, but very little was then known of it. It had been\\nexplored only by the land-sui-veyors, who had represented\\nit as abounding with fish, surrounded with a spacious\\nforest fruitful in game.\\nThe Indians built their camp-fires there, having been\\ndriven forth from their more southern hunting-grounds,\\nand about the lakeshore they seemed more secluded and\\nmore at peace.\\nThe cariboo, the otter, the beaver and fox, as well as", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0128.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "1SG3 PONDS AND STREAMS. 101\\nthe more ferocious beur, had often bit the dust here,\\nsmitten by the stealthy arrow of tlie red man.\\nStanding upon that beautiful lakeshore, we can but\\ndepict those sturdy sons of the forest those tall, copper-\\nfaced, beardless natives of the new world, erect in man-\\nliness, and dressed in the gaudy plumage of variegated\\nbirds, and in the furs of wild beasts, while they breathed\\nthe pure air from the gentle ripple that laves the shore,\\nor joined in the giddy dance, or sought the game that\\ngathered there.\\nThis to him was indeed a happy shore it had been\\nthe home of his fathers. As if bequeathed to his ances-\\ntors by the Great Spirit, it had come down to them and\\nto him, from the beginning of the world, through count-\\nless generations.\\nThis dense, wide spread forest was sacred to him no\\nwonder then, that by his own right arm, in many a mur-\\nderous conflict, it was sought to be defended.\\nS T R E A ]M S\\nThe rivers take their rise from the ponds in tlie north.\\nThere are several of them, rolling their crystal waters\\nover pebbly foundations they meander through our six\\nmiles square of territory, affording considerable power\\nfor saw and grain mills, as well as for manufacturing\\npurposes.\\nWithin these six miles there are no less than eight\\nponds, all of which afford a good supply of fish, yet the", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0129.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "102 HISTORY OF BARXSTEAl). 1803\\nfinny tribes, as well as the game of tlie forests, are greatly\\ndiminished by the lapse of years and the uiareh of civil-\\nization.\\nFISHING AND HUNTING GROUNDS.\\nThe Snncook river, which passes through the town\\nat its centre, is the grand channel which receives\\nand bears away its tributaries, and the bright waters\\nwhich descend directly from the ponds heretofore named.\\nIn this stream, as well as in the ponds, are the pickerel,\\nspeckled trout, and perch, which for richness of flavor,\\nnothing of the finny tribe is more excellent.\\nThe early hunters found in the forests here, the black\\nbear in great numbers, the wolf, the deer, the wild cat,\\nthe fox, the otter and beaver these were valuable for\\ntheir skins, and were taken in large numbers.\\nThe beaver had his house and his dam his dams\\nwere built with so much sagacit} and strength, that many\\nof them remain almost entire to this day, and we are told\\nthat now and then a solitary beaver is seen wandering\\nnear, as if to visit once again his ancient homestead, long\\nlost and now going to decay.\\nTHE FIRST RECORDS.\\nUp to the year 1772, the registrj^ of all the sales of\\nrertl estate in New Hampshire was made in Rockingham", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0130.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "l ^63 PROVINCE ROAD. 103\\nCounty it was kept at Exeter. After that year the\\nrecords were removed and kept at Dover, in tlie County\\nof Strafford. (In the appendix is a copy of one of the\\noriginal deeds, marked c.)\\nPROVINCE ROAD.\\nIn the 3 ear 1770 this road was ordered to be built b}^\\nthe General Court. It was intended as a great thorougli-\\nfare from Portsmouth to Canada and passed through the\\ntown on or near the range of the first tier of lots. The\\nland at that time being all, or nearly all, in the hands of\\nthe proprietors, a road tax was assessed upon each owner.\\nThis outlay, although it would work a great conven-\\nience to actual settlers, proved burdensome, and many\\nsurrendered their rights to the land rather than i)ay the\\ntax thus imposed upoii them.\\nThereupon man} of the lots were sold by the oflicei-s\\nof the Crown the sales being made at Dover, Newingtou\\nand Portsmouth.\\nThe road was made under a contract Avith the propri-\\netors by Jonathan Chesley, who after finishing the road,\\nremoved to Barnstead. His homestead was about a mile\\neast of the centre. His daughter, Sophia, afterwards\\nbecame the wife of Rev. Elnos George.\\nPrevious to the building of this road, the inhabitants\\nhad great labor and inconvenience in obtaining their\\nprovisions thus far into the woods. Their nearest ])laces", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0131.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "104 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nof supply were Dover and Diirliani, the way being traced\\nby spotted trees, throngb a rough hilly wilderness, and\\nover nnbridged streams, bearing the burden on foot or on\\nhorseback.\\nThe road when finished, as of course would tend to\\nincrease the number of settlers, and at the same time\\nwould give much strength and encouragement to the\\noriginal land holders still then residing in Barnstead.\\nTROUBLE WITH THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.\\nSoon after the treaty of peace with Erance, the colo-\\nnists were greatly irritated by an attempt of the English\\nParliament to increase their revenues by an increase of\\ntaxation upon the colonies.\\nTo this end, an act had been })assed laying a duty on\\nall paper, vellum, or parchment used in America, and\\ndeclaring all writings on unstamped paper materials to\\nbe null anil void.\\nThis was called the Stamp Act, and received the ro3\\\\al\\nassent to it March 22, 1765.\\nWhen the news of this act reached here, the people\\neverywhere manifested alarm, and a determination to\\nresist its execution.\\nThe assembly of Virginia at once and decisivel}\\ndeclared its opposition to the Act b}^ spirited resolutions.\\nMassachusetts also protested against the Stamp Act, and\\ntook the lead at this important crisis. In Boston such", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0132.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "1863 WAR WITH ENGLAND. 105\\nwas the indignation against the measure, that houses, in\\nsome instances, were demolished over the heads of such\\ntis favored the measure. And as if to render the opposi-\\ntion complete, the Boston merchants met and resolved\\nnever to import any more goods from Great Britain,\\nduring the existence of the Stamp Act.\\nDeputies from nine of the colonies met, agreed on a\\ndeclaration of rights, and sent a petition to the King, and\\na memorial to both Houses of Parliament, in which their\\nopposition to such a law was fully set forth.\\nIn Parliament, Mr. Pitt was eloquent against such\\noppression; fiually, on the 18th of March, 17G(3, the\\nStamp Act was repealed.\\nStill the British Ministry would not abandon their\\ndesign of increasing their revenue by extraordinary tax-\\nation in America.\\nIn 1767 an act was passed by Parliament imposing\\nduties on glass, painters colors, and on cotfee and tea\\nimported to the colonies. These duties were small in\\nthemselves, yet the principle on which they were imposed\\nwas olfensive.\\nFrom this, another association was formed for sus-\\npending the importation of all goods ou which duties\\nwere charged.\\nThis opposition, supported by petitions and remon-\\nstrances, procured the abolition of all duties except three\\npence on every pound of tea but the colonists still re-\\nsisted.\\nThe British Government finding mild efforts unavailing\\nin sustaining such laws, sent to Boston four regiments of\\ntroops to be stationed there to enforce them.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0133.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "106 HISTORY OF BAKNSTEAU. 18(53\\nEarly in 1774 Parliament ordered the refractory col-\\nonists to be pnnislied, and appointed General Gage to\\ntake charge of tlie troops of Boston and execnte its\\nmandates. It ordered the port of Boston to be closed\\nfrom all commerce, and thns all intercourse with the town\\nby water was suspended.\\nThe colonial government, tlie public records, and\\noffices were removed to Salem.\\nAll this could but serve to irritate the American\\npeople.\\nIn May, 1774, General Gage arrived in Boston, com-\\nmissioned as Governor of Massachusetts and Commander\\nin Chief of the British forces. He notified the assembly\\nto meet him in convention at Salem, but on fin ther reflec-\\ntion countermanded the summons.\\nThe counter order, however, being deemed illegal,\\nthe meeting was held in the Governor s absence. They\\nthen and there organized themselves into a Provincial\\nCongress, formed a plan of defence, appointed general\\nofficers, and adopted measures to collect supplies and\\nmilitary stores, at Concord and Worcester.\\nThis Massachusetts assembly, after a short adjourn-\\nment, again met, and voted to raise twelve thousand\\nsoldiers, and sent agents to tlie neighboring colonies\\nsoliciting their co-operation.\\nThereupon the neighboring colonies sent their commit-\\ntees, and agreed witli the assembly on a i)lan of opera-\\ntions.\\nAt about the same time, on April 19, 1775, the British\\narmy opened the war of the Re^ olution, b} taking a\\nmarch from their encampment in Boston to Lexington", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0134.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "ISfi;^ WAR WITH ENGLA^ D. 107\\nand Concord, with the intent to take or desti-oy military\\nsupplies.\\nThe battle at Bunker s Hill, on the 17th of June, then\\nnext followed. The American or rebel army (so called)\\nwas stationed at Cambridge. All were ou the alert at the\\ncommon cry of war. The farmer, the fisherman, and men\\nof every grade and occupation, repaired to Cambridge\\nwith whatever of weapons they had, until the}- became an\\narmy numbering fourteen thousand men.\\nOn the \u00e2\u0080\u00a22nd of July, 1775, General fxeorge Washing-\\nton appeared at Cambridge and took command. He\\nI ound the troops, many of them without equipments and\\npooi ly clad yet they were filled with the blood of\\npatriots, and were alive to obey his orders. Within\\nthiee miles, at Boston, were the British army, then\\nnumbering twent} thousand well trained troops.\\nThe pay allowed to his army was one shilling per day\\nto each man. The dress was brown osnaburgs, something\\nlike a shirt, double-caped over the shoulder, in imitation\\nof an Indian garb, and bearing upon the breast of it, in\\ndistinct letters, Liberty or Death.\\nThus commenced the war of the Revolution, to which\\nBarnstead contributed its just share, thereby encouraging\\nthe colonies to become free and independent. It is\\nworthy of remembrance that, when by order of Congress,\\nthe Test List was taken, there was no one found in\\nBarnstead who would not, at the risk of his life and\\nfortune, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British\\nfleets and armies. (See Test List, appendix d.)\\nSoon after tlie commencement of the war of the Rev-\\nolution a new arrangement in its affairs was established\\nin Barnstead. The town chose its own officers, collected", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0135.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "108 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n]8()3\\nits own taxes, :iik1 the proprietors were at once relieved\\nfrom duties which iiad i)revioiisly devolved upon them.\\nR i C R D s\\nThe following is the copy of a deed in 1 777. conveying\\nlot nnniber )3, for non-payment of taxes from Hatevil\\nNntter, junior, to the purchaser. Benjamin Nutter:\\nTown Collector, Stephen Pickering, of Barnstead. in the\\nCounty of Stratford and State of New Hampshire, yeoman,\\nCollector of Town, Comity and State Tax for the Town. 1777,\\nand in consideration of thirty-six shilliusis lawful money paid by\\nBenjamin Nutter of Barnstead, aforesaid gentleman, he being\\nthe lowest bidder at the public vendue sale, according to the\\nterms of the vendue for the sale of lands We confirm unto\\nhim and his heirs, in the third range of lots, number 33, being\\npart of a one hundred acre lot originally, in the right of Hatevil\\nNutter, junior.\\nJohn Taskeu,\\nJustice of the Peace.\\nWitness: Wintukop Smart,\\nJohn Tasker.\\nMASON TITLE.\\nAbout this time, and previously, there had been a\\ngreat embarrassment to the settlers, in consequence of a\\nclaim set up against their titles by the Mason heirs. This\\nclaim was transferred to persons in Portsmouth, alleging\\nit to have come through the agency, or in behalf of the", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0136.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "1S63 TOWN RECORDS. 109\\nBritish Govenmieiil. It covered all the hinds in Barn-\\nstead, and settlers began to fear the loss of all their\\ntitles, which had been earned through much toil, and\\npurchased in good faith many years previously.\\nThis claim extended back to 1G21, and purported to\\nbe from the Plyniouth company. At the death of Mason\\nit fell to his son, John Tafton Mason, and then to his\\ndaughter Jane.\\nIn 17. )8 this claim had been t) ansferred to Theodore\\nAtkinson, Hunking Wentworth, and others of Portsmouth.\\nAt this time, settlers by paying a small fee, became\\nreleased from the long and wearisome vexation of this\\nclaim.\\nThis John I^. INIason was from Hami)shire C(niuty,\\nEngland, and from this Count}* New Hampshire took its\\nname.\\nFIRST TOWN MKETINc;.\\nOf record, it a])pears that on November 22, 1775, the\\nvoters were called together f(M- the choice of State and\\nCounty officers. This appears to have been the first meet-\\ning for such a purpose it was called in comiection with\\nthe voters of the inhabitants of Oilman ton, and was\\nholden at the house of William Parsons, junior. At this\\nmeeting Joseph Badger was unanimously elected to the\\noffice of an assembly man, (representative,) to attend at\\nthe meeting of the Legislature in December of that year,\\nat Exeter. Votes also were cast for a Councillor for\\nthe County. At the assembly M. Weare of Hampton\\nFalls, presided, a plan of Government was adopted, and\\na resolution was passed, recommending a continuation of\\nthe war.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0137.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "110 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAl). 1803\\nThe more immediate action of Barnstead in the war\\nof the Revolution is of record.\\nFrom this it appears that in the 3 eai- 1775 the popuhi-\\ntion of the Town was 252 males under IG years, 82\\nfrom 16 to 50, 53 over 50, 4 females, 111 in the arm}^\\n2 fire arms, 2.S wanting, 25 powder, none. It seems\\nthat this first census was taken by order of the Conven-\\ntion, to ascertain the numl)er which would l)e held to bear\\narms in defence of the colonies.\\nAt a town meeting held April 26. 1775,\\nVoted, Captain Ricluird Siucliiir, 1 lis. Gel lawful\\nmoney, for his and the men s exrpenses in going down below for\\nthe defence of onr country.\\nAugust 22, 177G, the town voted to pay four men\\nfort} -eight shillings each for a bounty to go to Crown\\nPoint.\\nVoted, .John Tasker and Samuel Pltiuaii a couniiittee\\nof safety.\\nAt a meeting holden by the town in the same year, at\\nwhich John Bunker presided,\\nVoted, Six hundred dollars to four men to serve at Crown\\nPoint.\\nThe town s proportion of corn for the army was 3885\\npounds.\\nVoted. December 12, 1776, $52 bounty for everj man who\\nwould go to Crown Point on the expedition the present year.\\nJune 17, nil, Voted. $600 to the men to serve at Crown\\nPoint.\\nVoted, That all the money paid by tlie sundrj^ persons for\\nthe one and three year s men should be paid by the towu.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0138.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "1863 TOWN RECORDS. Ill\\n1778, FotoZ, Richard Ciuclair and Benjamin Nutter be a\\ncommittee to hire soldiers at the best rate they can, as tliey may\\nbe sent for tlie present year, to go into tlie service.\\nVcitcd, That Joliu Elliott should gather the corn we are to\\nfurnish tlie army, and that he shall have four bushels for every\\none hundred he raises.\\nVoted, To pay Kichard Ciuclair two hundred dollars for\\nletting out Stephen Hood to the service.\\n17HI, Voted, That we will raise men to go into the army\\naccording to their worth and wealth.\\nVoted. That silver money be paid to one three year s num\\nand no more.\\nSome of the soldiers above referred to belonged ir.\\nBanistead others were hired from other places.\\nThe products of the land were plenty corn was\\nabundant, but gold and silver were exceedingly scarce.\\nPaper money issued by the new Government began to\\ndepreciate and became valueless. This continental money\\n(as it was called) was flooding the town, but could not be\\npassed ofl to any good purpose, and many lost by it.\\nThis long and tedious war of seven years at length\\ncame to an end, and great was the rejoicing of the people.\\nTaxes had been, and still continued to be, burdensome\\nbut these were nothing in the sight of an independent,\\nenergetic community.\\nTOWN HKCORDS.\\nThe records of Barnstead have generally been kept\\nwith neatness and safety yet a part of them of late have\\nbeen mislaid, perhaps lost. The volume commencing in\\n1774, eight years subsequent to the first settlement, is,\\nhowever, well preserved and in good, condition.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0139.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "112 HISTORY OF UARNSTEAD. 18G3\\nIt may be of interest herein to make a few more\\nextracts, as indicating the action of former da3s.\\nTOWN ROADS.\\nMarch 29, 1774. At a Meeting of the Town, at the House\\nof Benja. Nutter,\\nVoted, Beujamin Nutter, Moderator.\\nPittsflekl Road laid out from near Suncook hridge on the\\nProvince Road, on the south side of the road near the river, as\\nthe trees are now spotted through the land.\\nVoted, For a mill privilege, land by way of spotted\\ntrees thi ough Dodovah Bunker s land, by his liouse on the hill.\\nSaid road to be three rods wide. Dated this fourteenth year of\\nhis Majesty s reign.\\nJohn Tasker, j)\\nBEX.r.vMiN NuTTKR, Selectmen.\\nThomas Edgki:ly.\\nProvince oe New Hampshire, Strafeord ss.\\nBy appointment unto us, the subscribers, by the Freeholders\\nof Barnstead, to lay out a road, in consideration of said appli-\\ncation, at tlie westerly end of Barnstead, we have laid out said\\nroad. Beginning at the Province road, so called, at the south-\\neasterly side of Jethro Bachelder s, and Capt. Richard Cinclair s,\\nrunning north-east between said Bachelder s land and Capt.\\nRichard Cinclair s land to the Range thence south-easterly as\\nthe Range road was left then as far as John Mudget s, three\\nrods wide, and mailing exchange with Capt. Richard Cinclair,\\nallowing said Cinclair one rod of the land left for said road by\\nthe Proprietors, as fiir as his land extends.\\nAnd we liave laid out said Road, ye 29tli day of September,\\nin the year of Her Majesty s Reign, Anno Domini, 1774.\\nJohn Tasker,\\nBenjamin Nutter, Selectmen.\\nThomas Edgerly.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0140.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "18C3 TOWN RECORDS. 113\\nTown Meeting holdeu at Benja. Nutter .s House, April 111.\\n177-i, By a number of Inhabitants,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nVoted, One liuudred dollars to repair roads this j-ear.\\nVoted, Twenty dollars for necessaries.\\nVoted, Capt. Samuel Pitman six per cent, for what money\\nhe collected, for his pains for gathering.\\nVrjted Six shillings for each of the selectmen, for making\\nrates and settling accounts.\\nVoted, Assessors twenty-five cents each.\\nVoted, Three shillings for laborer at road making.\\nBarnstead, Dec. 30, 177-1. Notice is hereby given to j e\\ninhabitants of ye town of Barnstead, that a meeting is to be\\nheld at Benjamin Nutter s, on Monday, ye Kith day of January,\\nat 10 o clock, A. M., for ye purpose as followeth\\nFirst, to choose a modei-ator; 2nd, to choose a Deputy\\nCommittee to meet the Committee at Exeter, to choose a man\\nto go to Philadelphia.\\nJohn Tasker,\\nBi:x.ja:\\\\iin Nutter.\\nAgreeable to the above Call a meeting Avas held at the\\nHouse of Benjamin Nutter, on ye 16th day of January, 1775.\\nVoted, to send no man as a committee to yonr Exeter\\ncomite.\\nMeeting dissolved.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Amount of money raised in 1774, 11\u00c2\u00a3 13s 4d\\nThe following amounts were appropriated and paid\\nTo County Treasurer 3\u00c2\u00a3 4s 7d\\nProvince Tax, 1\u00c2\u00a3 12s Od\\nSelectmen, laying oiit roads, 0\u00c2\u00a3 18s Od\\nCarrying down John Nutter to Newing-\\nton, 0\u00c2\u00a3 Gs Od\\nPaid for Town book, 0\u00c2\u00a3 4s Od\\n15", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0141.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "114 HISTORY OF liARXSTEAU.\\n1863\\nPaid Assessors, 0\u00c2\u00a3 Is (k\\\\\\nPaid Esquire Thompson, for notification\\nfor calling meeting for al)atenient of\\nHats 0\u00c2\u00a3 7s Id\\nBarnstead. April 20, 1775. At a Town Meeting liolden\\nthis day at the House of Benjamin Nutter,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nVoted, The selectmen four shillings a day for laying out\\nhighways.\\nVoted, That no money should be raised for the defence\\nof our country.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Town meeting, March 28, 177.5. At a Town meeting\\nholden on this day,\\nRichard Cinclair was voted Moderator.\\nBenjamin Nutter. Town Clerk.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Capt. Richard Cinclair, Winthrop Smart, Benjamin Nut-\\nter, Selectmen.\\nThomas Edgerly, Constable.\\nJonathan Emerson, John Bunker, Samuel I*itman, Assess-\\nors.\\nJoseph Bunker, Simeon Hatch, Francis Blake, John Tas-\\nker, Highway-men.\\nDodovah Bunker, John Hawkins, Tything-men, Hogreaves\\nand Fence-viewers.\\nIn 177(3 John Bunker petitioned to have !i, bridge built\\nover the Branch river near his mill.\\nThe town voted not to build it.\\nAugust 22, 1776, Voted, Winthrop Smart 12 s, Thomas\\nEdgerly 12 s, for constables.\\nVoted, To build abridge over the mcetiug-house Branch.\\nThe Siincook river, as known now, was at first called\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The Branch. Bunker s mill was built several years", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0142.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "1863 TOWN RECORDS. 115\\nprevious to the building of the above named bridge. The\\nmill was built on the north side of \u00c2\u00bbthe river its entrance\\nwas from the ledge.\\n1777. The town voted that John Cinclair be recom-\\nmended as a suitable person to receive the commission of\\nJustice of the Peace.\\nMarch 20, 1777, Voted, To pa_y five shillings per day\\nfor labor on the highway.\\nVoted, Not to raise any mone^ for schools.\\nAnnual town meeting holdeu at the house of Benja-\\nmin Nutter, March, 1778. Benjamin Nutter was chosen\\nModerator John Tasker, Clerk Benjamin Nutter, Win-\\nthrop Smart and William Brown, Selectmen Samuel Ches-\\nley, Constable John Tasker, Richard Cinclair, Assessors\\nJonathan Elmerson. Stephen Pickering, Committee John\\nBickford, Daniel Jacobs, T^ thingmen Jonathan Banker,\\nThomas Swett, Hog-reaves.\\n1778. May 18th, Voted, That John Bunker s grist\\nmill was not rated any more than was just and right.\\nVoted, That in consideration of Peace, to a,bate\\nBunker s mill two pounds eight shillings and three pence,\\nand make tender ol the same and he refused.\\nVoted, John Tasker to stand trial against John Bun-\\nker for his mill -tax in behalf of the town.\\n1780. The Selectmen sent John lilliott, Constable,\\nwith a warrant to warn out Juda Jenness, who was with\\nchild, for fear she would be a town charge, she and her\\nchild to be lawfully warned out of Barnstead.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0143.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "116 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n18G3\\nAt a meeting of the town bolden for the purpose of\\nconsidering John Elliott s vendue, the town voted to have\\nnothing to do with John f^lliott.\\n1783. The town voted 20\u00c2\u00a3 lawful money for preach-\\ning in the town.\\nVoted, That John Tasker, Esq., and Charles Hodg-\\ndon be a committee to agree with a man to preach.\\n1785. John Sullivan received 48 votes, and George\\nAtkinson 1 1 votes for President.\\nS O L D I E R S\\nIN THE OLD FRENCH WAR.\\nJohn Aikiu. He served in this war, and returned and\\nwas left at rest on the Jacob Aikin farm. He had served,\\nalso, in the Revolution. His age was a hundred years,\\nand upwards.\\nCol. Joseph Sinclair. He sleeps at his homestead, on\\nthe farm of the late Elder Wilson. The grave is un-\\nmarked.\\nJoseph Bunker is left to repose on the Deacon Bunker\\nFarm, J. B. is there inscribed on a rude stone.\\nSOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION.\\n[Records from the tomb.]\\nEbenezer Nutter, on the homestead in North Barn-\\nstead. Inscription on slate stone Deacon P^benezer", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0144.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "18G3 SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. 117\\nNutter, died April 18, LS-iO, aged 8G years, 8 months,\\n8 days.\\nJohn Clark rests in the Clark burying ground. In-\\nscription on eoniinon granite: J. C, d. 1799. From\\nhim the Clarks of Barnstead descended.\\nMajor John Nutter is in the Parade grounds. In-\\nscription on slate stone John Nutter, b. May 1, 1757\\ndied Nov. 8, 1840, aged 83 years, 8 months.\\nJeremiah Jewett, in the old Parade lot. Inscription\\non slate stone In memory of Dr. Jeremiah Jewett, who\\ndeparted this life April 22, 1836.\\nAnthony Nutter, on N. Langley farm. Grave not\\nmarked nor enclosed.\\nJoseph Place, on Captain Chesley s homestead. His\\ngrave is unmarked and unenclosed. He served on the\\nland and on the sea. His wife, Anna C, died in 1871,\\naged 102 years. John, his only son, served in the war\\nof 1812, and rests in the same ground. John s three sons\\nserved against the rebellion one of them was lost.\\nValentine Chapman rests at Centre Barnstead. His\\ngrave has no monument.\\nJoseph Tasker is buried in the lot opposite the Union\\nMeeting House. Inscription In memory of Joseph\\nTasker, esq., died July 5, 1833, aged 77 years, 8 months.\\nHe proved himself a good soldier, a friend to the Gospel\\nand the poor. At the last he rested in peace.\\nWilliam Nutter rests on the plains at the homestead.\\nInscription on white marble: William Nutter, Feb. 15,\\n1811, aged 55 j^ears. He served in the United States\\nNavy.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0145.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "118 HISTORY OF CARNSTEAD. 1863\\nThomas \\\\Ycleh. This veteran of Banistead, after the\\nclose of the Rcvohitionary war, removed to Thornton,\\noccupying the John M. Young farm. He died there.\\nPeletiah Penny rests in the Eben Jones field, in\\nSnackerty.\\nJoseph Patterson Dame. He rests in a burying\\nground opposite Master Kelley s pLace, on the Province\\nroad, marked by rough granite, not inscribed.\\nJames Davis, after serving in the Revolution, died in\\nthe war of 1HV2.\\nSamuel Davis, a brother of James, rests in Clark-\\ntown. The exact locality cannot be traced.\\niLbenezer Adams rests at his homestead, on the\\nProvince road. A granite stone marks the place, but\\nthere is no inscription.\\nDavid Jacobs is in the old Tuttle burying ground, on\\nthe William A. Pierce place. The grave is without marks.\\nJonathan Young is somewhere on Beauty Hill.\\nEphraim Tebbetts is buried by the North road.\\nHatevil Nutter was left in the old Nutter burying\\nground, on C. S. George s farm.\\nCapt. Jonathan Chesley reposes on his old homestead.\\nA rude stone is there, without an inscription.\\nCapt. John Drew remains in the grounds at his old\\nhomestead, near the old Hodgdon tavern. There is no\\ninscription.\\nThomas Brown, after the Revolution ended, removed\\nfrom Barnstead and fell asleep at Stratham.\\nWilliam Lord. The stone at his grave is uninscribed.\\nIt is at the homestead on the Province road.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0146.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "1863 SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. 119\\nJoseph Sanborn, on his I eturn from the war, went from\\nthe Province road to Maine, and is snpposed to have died\\nthere.\\nCaptain Joseph Kaime died at Somersworth, being\\nthere on a visit, and remains there\\nSamnel Eastman. His grave is withont marlc or\\ninscription.\\nColonel Nathaniel Pease sleeps on the Moses Hodgdon\\nfarm, without any stone to designate his resting place.\\nRobert Tebbets rests at his late homestead, near the\\nProvince road.\\nSamnel Jenness lived near Lougee s pond. His grave\\nis there, but cannot be traced.\\nRalph Hall lived on the Glidden farm. He died of\\nsickness or was killed in the war.\\nJoseph Huckins is in the Morrill bur3dng-ground, near\\nSeward s hill.\\nJohn Welch is on the Welch farm. There are no\\ngrave stones.\\nRichard Sinclair left town about the year 1800. His\\nresting place is unknown.\\nNathan Nutter was a brother of Ebenezer, lived at\\nJethro Nutter s, died in prison at Halifax, Nova Scotia,\\nand remains there.\\nEli Ham was last seen somewhere in Gilmanton.\\nJohn Pitman rests at the Pitman burying ground in\\nSnackerty.\\nPerry Ilixon is buried on Crockett s hill, at Locke s\\ncorner.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0147.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "120 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nWiuthrop Ayevs rests from bis labors at his horaestearl\\nin the Peacham neighborliood.\\nJohn Aiken reposes beneath the white oaks on Jacob\\nAiken s farm.\\nAvery, who resided on tlie Tliomas P. Ilodg-\\ndon farm, went, but never returned, from tlie war of the\\nRevohition.\\nWilliam Hill is at rest on the homestead farm of Mr.\\nJefferson Emerson.\\nThomas Ayers served his country in this war, and now\\nreposes on the Crockett liill place, at Locke s corner.\\nJames Harden served and returned, and was buried at\\nthe Centre.\\nJonathan Emerson also returned, and rests on the\\nhomestead of Mr. J. Emerson.\\niSamuel Pitman also escaped the casualties of the\\nRevolution, and now reposes at the homestead of a friend\\nand relative, Samuel J. Pitman.\\nThey sleep their last sleep\u00e2\u0080\u0094 they have fought their last* battle.\\nNo foe shall awake them to glory again.\\nNote. We are indebted to the researches of our\\ngood friend, Mr. Samuel Winkley, through whose\\ninstrumentality our heroes of the Revolution from\\nBarnstead have found a brief place in these annals, so\\nthat the venerable dust of at least some of them may not\\nentirely vanish from the world, nor be forgotten y the\\nadvancing generations that follow them. Thanks to Mr.\\nWinkley and thanks to our friend, Dr. J. Wheeler, who\\ntransmitted the materials for this record.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0148.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "iff KS\\nt ill! F s", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0151.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0152.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "1863 WATER SUPPLY. 121\\nPONDS AND RIVERS.\\nWlien the settlers first located their lots, the Indians\\nhad left and gone northward, and the names which they\\nhad given to ponds, lakes and rivers, were either lost or\\ndiscarded b} the white man, as he seemed to have had\\nan antipathy to everything Indian. Yet the Suncook\\nwas seen in its beanty coursing its way, winding through\\na then dense forest of timber trees which covered the\\nlevel surface of the town, as it glided onward towards the\\nocean. It still bears its original Indian name, Suncook,\\nAvhich in the Indian language is said to mean the same as\\nwild goose in English or, in its more extensive meaning,\\nthe place where the wild goose rested.\\nThis river rises in Guilford, taking its waters from\\nGunstock and Grey-lock mountains in (Tilmanton, and\\nconveying it through a valley until it reaches the pond\\nthence through a narrow channel into the second Suncook\\npond thence passing along in its enlarged and l)eautiful\\nfl)rm, adorning the vales and feeding the mills of Barn-\\nstead.\\nThe ponds, save the two Suncooks, all took English\\nnames, to wit Half Moon, Brindle, Lougee,\\nBeauty, Adams, Wild Goose, and Pinkham s,\\nnumbering nine in all.\\nIt is is to be regretted that the Suncook is about the\\nonh^ original Indian name which now remains in Barn-\\nstead of all the past and that we are entirely unable,\\neven at this early day, to recall the past and to give to\\nthe coming generations the primeval names of these beau-\\ntiful sheets of water.\\n16", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0153.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "122 HISTORY OF liARNSTEAD. l^CS\\nThe small streams that enter the Suneook river from\\nvarious parts of Barnstead, are the Parade brook, Proctor s\\nriver, the Mill-stone brook, Walker s brook, Clark s brook,\\nBranch river and Crooked run. Many of these streams\\ntake their rise from the ponds. After receiving these\\nfountains, the Suneook passing on, empties its waters into\\nthe Merrimac at Pembroke.\\nAll the waters of the town are carried off b^ the Sun-\\ncook, and as it passes on its way southerly it affords\\npower to drive machinery, by which many citizens find\\nbusiness and employment, on the way as it goes.\\nThe drainage by the Suneook is so complete that it\\nleaves no bogs nor meadows to emit pestilence or to gen-\\nerate contagious diseases.\\nTo this cause in a great degree may be attributed the\\ngeneral good health and long lives incident to the inhab-\\nitants of Barnstead.\\nLOCALITIES.\\nBEAUTY HILL.\\nThis name is given to that high rolling land in the\\nnorthwestern part of the town. The soil is superior;\\nformerly it sustained a heavy growth of oak, but under a\\nsuccessful cultivation it now sustains an intelligent, ener-\\ngetic class of farmers. The air here is salubrious. This\\nelevation in a clear day affords a view of the silvery lake", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0154.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "1863 LOCALITIES. 123\\n(Winnipesaugee), northerly five miles distant, as well as\\na view of the whitened sails upon the ocean wave, away\\nin the distance southeastward. Here the sun rises early\\nand sets late, giving health and long life to its inhabitants.\\nNear by and in sight are the Bluehills and Catamount\\nfarther off, yet still in view, are the White mountains and\\nold Chocoiua.\\nChocokua oh, what clusters of historical incidents\\nseem to rally around that name Pardon us, for a\\nmoment, if we digress from this narrative\\nChocorua (pronounced Chec-cor-ruah), was the last\\nchief commanding the tribes of New Hampshire. He\\nused to wander in these woods. His squaw died, and\\nwas buried by the brook-side where he had first found\\nher. His little Indian boy still continued to follow at\\nhis heels, in this then wilderness. One day, at the house\\nof one Campbell (a white settler), the boy got poisoned,\\nand came home to the wigwam and died. Cliocorua\\nthought he was poisoned purposely.\\nSoon afterwards Campbell left home, and when at\\nnight he returned, his family were all dead in the house.\\nA few days elapsed, and the white settlers followed Cho-\\ncorua into that mountain which now bears his name, and\\nwhich stands al)out fifteen miles north of the lake, in\\nBurton, now Albany. Campbell discovered him on the\\npinnacle of the mountain cliff, and comgianded him to\\njump off Ah, said the Indian, the Great Spirit gave\\nChocorua his life, and he will not throw it away at the\\nbidding of the white-man. Campbell shot him, and\\nwhile dying he pronounced awful curses upon the\\nEnglish.\\nIn describino- that scene Mrs. L. Maria Child, in a", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0155.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "124 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n18G3\\nvigorous legend, gives tlie words of Chocorua s curse\\nthus\\nA curse ou ye wliite-nieu May tlie Great Spirit\\ncurse ye when he speaks in the clouds and his words are\\nfire Chocorua had a son and ye killed him when the\\nsky look.d bright Lightnings blast your crops winds\\nand lire destroy your dwellings The Evil Spirit breathe\\ndeath on your cattle Your graves lie in the pathway of\\nthe Indian Panthers howl and wolves fatten over your\\nbones\\nThe prophet sank upon tlie ground still uttering\\ninaudible curses. They left his bones there.\\nEver since that day, the want of vegetation in and\\nabout that mouutain, all its dearths, and all the diseases\\nupon the cattle and upon the inhabitants of that region,\\nhave been attributed to that curse of Chocorua.\\nThe faithfulness of Keoka, Chocorua s squaw, has been\\nbriefly celebrated in a verse, which we copy, inscribing\\nit to the young mothers of Barn stead\\nWith truth and trust and patient pride.\\nAt morn, at noon, or eventide,\\nshe calmed the cloudy hour;\\nHer heart was full of love and song.\\nShe cheered Chocorua s life along;\\nShe brought him many a flower.\\nSuch was the life Chocorua sought;\\nSuch were the charms Keoka brought.\\nUnselfish, unpretending:\\nKings of tlie earth, I d envy not;\\nGive me to know Chocorua s lot.\\nSuch faith, such favor blending I\\n[Caverly^s Poems, vol. 2, p. 10.]", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0156.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "1803 LOCALITIES. 125\\nSNACKERTY.\\nThe extreme northeast part of Barustcacl at an\\nearl}^ day took this name. It is a sort of an arctic, snowy\\nregion, which borders on the north of the Bhie hills in\\nStratford, and is near the line of that town. The hinds\\nare of a snlphureons quality. Formerly (and perhaps\\nnow), snow shoes were quite common there. Whenever\\nany of its inhabitants came to the centre of the town or\\nto the Parade, it was called Coming out.\\nThe first settlers in this locality, as it is said, were\\nfrom Schenectady, New York if this be true, Snackerty\\nmay have been adopted as a corru})tion from that name.\\nThis is a fine field or plat of ground in the southwest\\npart, made common to the puljlic through the numificence\\nof Eli Bunker, one of the inhabitants of Barustead, whose\\ngenealogy is given elsewhere. A parade ground or train-\\ning field was one of the purposes for which this level lot\\nof land was dedicated to the public, and The Parade\\nhas ever since been used as a name, indicating the end to\\nwhich the gift was chiefly appropriated, and is sutficiently\\ndescriptive of that section of the town.\\nThis is a \\\\nllage, on the Suncook, containing several\\nstores, a church, a town-house, a postoflice and tavern.\\nIt is near the middle of the town, and is central as to\\nbusiness.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0157.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "126 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18C3\\nCLARK TOWN.\\nThis is in tlie southeast part of Barnstead, and takes\\nits name from the great number of Clarks, intelligent and\\nindustrious, that inhabited that locality.\\nTCTTLEBORO\\nBetween the Centre and Beauty Hill were several fam-\\nilies of Tnttles, all or nearly all descending from one\\nJolui Tnttle, an original settler. Hence it derived its\\nname. Many of the Tnttles took wives from a Jacobs\\nfamil}^, who were also quite numerous.\\nPEACHAM.\\nThis locality is in the north, but whether it took its\\nname from that of individuals residing there, or from\\nsome other source, must at this time be left untold.\\nLOCKe s CORNER.\\nThe northeast part takes this name. It had been first\\nsettled by one John Locke, and has ever since been peo-\\npled for the most part by his descendants.\\nNORTH BARNSTEAD.\\nHere are a few stores, a church, a post office, and manj\\ndwelling houses. One of the main roads leading from\\nDover to Gilmanton passes through it, and more and more\\nit becomes a thriving village.\\nSOUTH BARNSTEAD.\\nThis is a place of considerable trade, and is favorably\\nknown for its thrifty farmers and fat cattle.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0158.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "18G3 ITS SECOND MEETING-HOUSE. 127\\nROADS AND RECORDS.\\nIn 1786 a Petition to lay out a road from the\\nprovince road to Bunker s Mill, was signed by\\nRichard Cinclair, Winthrop Colebath, SamuelJacobs,\\nJohn Bickford, Aaron Chesley, Jacob Daniels, Samuel\\nAvery, James Brown, Benjamin Nutter, Eliplialet Tib-\\nbetts, Samuel Drew, Jr., Dodovah Bunker, Joseph Bunker,\\n-John Nutter, Jr.\\nThe town voted to lay out a Rhode through John\\nBunker s land, where it formerly was to go, to Jo.\\nBunker s mill.\\n1786. At a public vendue holden at the inn of\\nCharles Ilodgdon, 17th of May, for the sail of one cow\\ntaken by destraint from John Bunker, for his delinquency,\\nin paying his part affixed, in money or labor, on the high-\\nways, and the articles of sail is such, that said cow be\\nsold to the highest bidder for cash.\\nJoseph Tasker had her struck off to him for 1 13s Od.\\nERECTION OF A MEETING-HOUSE,\\nAND OTHER MATTERS.\\n1788, May 25th. The town voted to build a meet-\\ning-house.\\nVoted, Capt. Drew, Col. Cinclair, Lew Mason, Ensign", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0159.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "128 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nEvans, Kicholas DiuUe^ Thomas E^dgerly, John Tasker,\\nEsquire, be a committee to agree on a place to build said\\nmeeting-house, and make a report to said town.\\nVoted, To give 3\u00c2\u00a3 I)onnly on a hade of a gray wolf,\\nand \u00c2\u00a31 10s on a hade for a whelp, caught within the bounds\\nof the town.\\nIn the 3^ear 17H4 there was, as appears, a large sale of\\nlots of land at public vendue, by reason of the non-pay-\\nment of State, County, and war taxes.\\nIn the year 1787 a petition for a road through North\\nBarnstead to Dover was signed .by vSamuel B. Mason,\\nEbenezer Nutter, Israel Averv, William Green, Moses\\nAvery, Benjamin Avery, and Samuel Avery. The road\\nwas commenced near half-moon pond.\\nThe meeting house last named having been erected as\\ncontemplated, it remained as finished up to the year 1830,\\nwhen it was repaired and a stove placed in it. In build-\\ning the stone chimney, Joseph Bunker fell from the roof\\nof the house and was killed.\\nIn 1858, the church being again out of repair, the pew\\nholders relinquished their rights, and b^^ subscription pro-\\nceeded to make permanent improvements.\\nThe old pews were changed to slips and were modern-\\nized the porches were taken oti the main entrance was\\nopened at the end of the house its windows were enlarged\\nand improved and the general appearance of the structure\\nunderwent an entire change.\\nIn 1866 the house Avas again repaired, and improved\\nby the erection of a tower on its westerly end, and b^^\\nplacing in it a neat, fine-toned bell, of 1200 pounds.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0160.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "1863 SCHOOLS. 129\\nThis enterprise involved tlie expenditure of a consid-\\nerable sum of money, even more, as it turned out, than\\ncould easily be raised in this small village. But, as fortune\\nhad it, Mrs. Temperance Jewett, then in her ninety-sixth\\nyear, was receiving a visit from her nephew, Hon. George\\nPeabody, the London banker. He happening to see their\\nfinancial difficulty, called upon the master workman of\\nthe house, and ascertaining that the sum of $450 would\\nbe the amount required, paid it over at once as a donation\\nfrom his old aunt so that the widow s mite was made to\\ncomplete the meeting-house.\\nMr. Peabody since then has gone to his last account.\\nThe church edifice i-emaius as it was when finished;\\nand the venerable lady, at the age of more than one\\nhundred years, still lives to hear, at least a few times\\nmore upon earth the sweet tones of that church-going\\nbell, coming as if to cite her upward and onward to\\nthat celestial a])ode, where dwells the immortal spirit of\\nher faithful friend and patron.\\nSCHOOLS\\n1792, March 15. At a town meeting then held,\\nVoted, To have Agents in each school district, to\\nbuild a school-house in each district.\\nChose Samuel Nelson, Dependence Colbath, Chas.\\nHodffdon.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0161.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "130 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n18G3\\nThe disadvantages under which our first settlers\\nlabored in establishing their common schools were great.\\nThey had migrated from the old towns on thS seacoast,\\nwhere most of them had been taught reading and writing\\nand the rudiments of arithmetic. But now they were\\nlocated in the wilderness their school-houses, if they\\nhad any, must necessarily be rude and far apart, exposing\\ntheir children to the ravages of wild beasts that often\\nlurked around their lonely cabins. To support a teacher\\nfor any considerable time could not, to them, be otherwise\\nthan extremely burdensome. Under such circumstances\\ntlie faithful dog or the old Queen s arms were often\\ndepended on, in difficult emergencies. Thus were they\\nsituated at the beginning and up to the year 1784 each\\nfamily acted as its owif teacher. Previously, the town,\\nbv reason of adversity, had not voted to raise any money\\nfor the support of common schools. The Revolution had\\nnow but just terminated, there was but little money,\\ncontinental scrip had become worthless, silver and\\ngold had in a great degree fallen into the hands of the\\nmiser, these and other attendant difficulties, delayed\\nthe progress of education in Barnstead.\\nThe first settled teacher employed by the town was\\nhad in 1784. His name was Cornelius Kirby. He was\\nof Scotch descent had been educated in Scotland. At\\nfirst he settled in Portsmouth, and thence came here, and\\nbecame our first school master.\\nHis school was in a private house, there being then no\\nschool-house in Barnstead.\\nThis school was kept at Wm. Newall s. It was in the\\nsouth part of the town. Newall atone time was an inn\\nkeeper. He afterwards lived in the west part, on the", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0162.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "18G3 SCHOOLS. lai\\nProvince road, not far from the former residence of Di\\nAdams and more recently Nathaniel Adams.\\nMaster Kirby had taiight school in Portsmonth.\\nHe was miildle ag-ed, thick set, rather short; his iiat,\\nthree cornered, buttoned. His shoes were of heavy\\nleather, high cnt, and a large sized bntton of steel on\\nthe instep. His coat was rather of the long-jacket style\\nwith massive pockets ontside, and a standing collar. His\\nbreeches buckled snng at the knee, were of corduroy,\\nhis stockings long and inclined to the snnff color. His\\nvest was of vast proportions, buttoned snug at the neck,\\nand made of Ijlack and white wool. Snugly ensconced\\nwas his bulls eye under its right hand fold. His three\\ncornered hat much of the time covered the glistening\\nbaldness of his pate, while his frosted locks gathered\\nand tied in the rear, hung in a graceful queue, ornament-\\ning the collar of his coat, npon his spacious round\\nshoulders. His pleasant and graceful bearing bespoke\\nthe trnthfulness of his early training, and his dialect\\nindicated a nationality of which he was alwa3^s prond.\\nHis books were his Bible, arithmetic and spelling\\nbook. These, as property, were held dear to him, and on\\nthe fly-leaf of each was legibly written in coarse hand the\\nfollowing old conplet\\nCornelius Klrby is my name\\nScotland is my nation\\nBarnstead my place of toil and fame,\\nAnd Christ is my salvation.\\nThere are people still living who remember Master\\nKirb}^ and who learned of him the rndiments of their\\nearly English. He for several years resided in Barnstead\\nas a teacher, and then returned to Scotland. For one", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0163.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "132 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAl). 1863\\nterm at least he had kept in the Ilodgdon District.\\nThough sometimes petulent, JVIaster Kirby left behind\\nhim, for upriglitness of character and faithfulness in his\\nmoral and religious life, a name unblemislied. By him\\nthe boys of Barnstead had been trained to remove their\\nhats, and the girls to drop a graceful courtesy on meeting\\ntheir superiors at tlie school, or on the highway. Indeed,\\nmay we nsk, would it not be well to have, at least, a smat-\\ntering of this sort of training for our girls and boys of the\\npresent daj\\nMaster Kirby, while here, resided most of the time\\non the Province road, near the place of INIajor John Nut-\\nter. The Major was an earl^- settler, and one of Kirby s\\nintimate friends. Kirby at one time contemplated the\\nbuilding of a barn, and was contracting Avith Mr. Nutter\\nto build it for him. The Major asked him for the dimen-\\nsions of it. Kirby said he Avanted the posts sixty feet\\nhigh, and the tie-up in the roof, so that there would be\\nno digging away of the manure. Nutter says to him,\\nHoAv will the cattle get up there? Oh! jabbers,\\nsays he, running his fingers through his hair, that will\\nbe their lookout.\\nThe first record of money raised in town for school\\npurposes, is found in the year 1785, when \u00c2\u00a330 were voted\\nto that end. In 1792 the town voted an agent in each of\\nfive districts to build as many school-houses, within two\\nyears.\\nNext, after the commencement of a school in the\\nNutter District, one was started at the Parade then one\\nin the southeast section, and then one in the north. For\\nseveral years thereafterwards, small appropriations were", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0164.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "1863 SCHOOLS. 133\\nmade, not every year, but as the ability of the inhabitants\\nwould seem to warrant, to each of the then five districts.\\nIn 1800, or about that time, Barnstead had built five\\nschool honses. After this, a man was employed as a\\nteacher in each of them, some two or three months in the\\nyear, mostly in the winter season, and a female teacher\\nnearly as long in summer. And so it was, up to the year\\n1817, when the school honses had increased to the num-\\nber of eleven. In these houses were taught at this time,\\nEnglish grammar, geography, arithmetic and sometimes\\nLatin and Greek.\\nThe schools of that day, although supported with the\\nutmost economy, were highly proficient, and it may well\\nbe doubted, if in that regard they would suffer in compar-\\nison with the schools of the present da}-.\\nIf we may judge from appearances, the country school\\nboy of 1830 who attended school but four or five months\\nin the year, obtained a better and more available fund of\\ninformation than the scholar of 1870 who attends school\\nthe year round.\\nThe text books then used needed, as it would seem to\\nus, little or no change. Murray s Grammar, English\\nReader, Adams s Aritlnnetic, the Columbian Orator, and\\nWebster s Spelling Book were in use. most of them at\\nleast, for more than a quarter of a century. They are\\nnow among the things that were. Yet to us it is quite\\ndoubtful if the books now. used instead of them are any\\nbetter. Too often it is that boys and girls of the present\\nday graduate from school having but little knowledge of\\nthe world, or of human nature, without any suitable train-\\ning for the daily duties, economies and courtesies neces-\\nsary for marriage relations and oftentimes almost entirely", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0165.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "134 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAU.\\n1803\\ndeficient in practical good manners, such as all ought to\\nhave in order to insure faithfulness, industrj economy\\nand a general good will to the generations as they shall\\ncome and go.\\nIt has been intimated that a graduate of a high school\\nat the present day has less of practical knowledge, and far\\nless of practical good manners than the boy with a short\\nJacket of 1817, who had woiked his way to manhood\\nthrough the dearth stricken, dreary winters of that time.\\nBe that as it may, let us say to the inhabitants of Barn-\\nstead Be economical, but build your school houses nice,\\nconvenient and warm. Plant thrifty shade trees all\\naround them, permanently boxing and protecting them\\nmake them indeed welcome dwelling places for your de-\\nscendants. Go further always raising as much money\\nas you can possibl}^ afford, for the support of your schools.\\nGo still further be always in the hal)it, from time to\\ntime, as your means will allow, of storing your dwelling\\nhouses with useful books, each farmer taking pride in his\\nown lil)rary at home. Do this faithfully and ardently\\nand what shall be the result? In less than ten years your\\nbest boys shall begin to stay at home. No more, no\\nlonger will they wander abroad for an education or to\\nseek a livelihood elsewhere. Stay at home they will\\nnot because of any necessity, but because in that home\\nthere is a fountain of intelligence, as well as endearments\\nof early scenes and parental love. Thus j^our farming\\ncommunity will be made up of the best blood of your\\ntown. Your spacious farms, from year to j^ear, will\\ngreatly improve, affording ample encouragement to the\\nhusbandman, whereby all the expenses of a thrifty gen-\\neration, as well as what is now called the burden of tax-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0166.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "1863 SCHOOLS. 135\\nation, will be easily and cheerfully paid. Let it be borne\\nin mind, that every intelligent lad or lass, wlio can be in-\\nduced to remain at houie, and who earns more than his or\\nher living, is a source of wealth to Barnstead.\\nThen, don t allow your best men, who have large ftim-\\nilies, to leave town, for the want of ample facilities to\\nschool their children. Have a care for all this. Adhere\\nto it generously, energetically, and religiously, and in the\\nfuture years you shall see its effects in the countenances\\nof the coming generations. You shall see it in your old\\nage, and look back upon what you have done with a sweet\\ncomposure of spirit. You shall feel the effect of a work\\nthus well done, in every finger of the hand, in every toe\\nof the foot, and in every vein through which the blood of\\nyour Jioble manhood shall course. You shall hear of it\\nfrom abroad.\\nYour neighboring towns, less wise, and less energetic,\\nshall send here for their teachers. Your counties shall\\ncome here to obtain their judges and other noble and im-\\nportant ofiicers. Your gallant state shall, to a great\\nextent, depend on Barnstead for its governors. Nay, do\\njust this, and almost every other good thing shall follow\\nit. Other towns shall profit by your example your sons,\\nus they rise up shall call you blessed, and when you\\nare far away, they will award to you a noble history a\\nhistory second to none, save that which records the valor,\\nthe faithfulness, and the endurance of your noble ances-\\ntors.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0167.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "136 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nMARRIAGES.\\n1777, Samuel Nelson was married to Abigail Ting-\\nley, January 3, by Rev. William Parsons.\\n1777. Jonathan Jacobs was married in April to Han-\\nnah Black, by Rev. Peletiah Tingley.\\n1777. Samuel Williams was married to Sobriety Bunk-\\ner, by Rev. William Parsons.\\n1777. Bradbury Cinclair was married to Sarah Bunk-\\ner, by Rev. William Parsons.\\n1777. Henry Tibbets was married to widow Sarah\\nCinclair, by Rev. William Parsons.\\n1776. John Drew was married to Lois Tasker, by\\nJohn Tasker, Esq.\\n1778. Benjamin Nutter was married to Mercy Task-\\ner, by Joseph AdaiBS of ^^ewington.\\n1779. Benjamin Hawkins was married to Susan\\nBunker, by Rev. William Parsons.\\n1779. Moses Avery was married to Elizabeth Col-\\nbath, by Rev. Joseph Buckminster.\\n1781. Benjamin Nutter was married to Mary Walker,\\nby Rev. Joseph Adauis.\\n1784. Jethro Nutter was married to Polly Elliott.\\n1784. John McDuffee was married to Lois Tasker.\\n1807. Abraham Bunker was married to Polly Cin-\\nclair, by Rev. Enos George.\\n1807. Nathan Collins was married to Ruth Chesley,\\nby Rev. Enos George.\\n1808. Eliphalet Nutter was married to Lovey Lock,\\nby Rev. Enos George.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0168.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "1863 ITS FIRST MILL. 137\\n1805. Rev. Enos George was maiTied to Sophia\\nChesley of Dover, by Rev. Joseph Langdon.\\n1805. Daniel Bunker was married to Lovey\\nby Rev. Enos George.\\n1809. Joseph Piclcering was married to Polly Lyford,\\nby Rev. P^nos George.\\n1771. In New Market, Jonathan Kenniston.\\n1772. lu Portsmouth, George Seward.\\nBUNKER S MILL\\nJohn Bunker, from Dover, settled here about the year\\n1769. His was the first grist mill. It was situated on\\nthe north side of The Branch, this at that time being\\nthe name of the Suncook river and near a ledge. A\\nplank walk was constructed, extending from the top of\\nthe ledge to the door of the mill. The building waslar^e\\nand stood endwise to the stream. All the corn and\\ngrain centred here for many miles around and this mill\\naftbrded much profit to its owner, as well as to our thrifty\\n3 eomanry, in the production of the best of meal and flour.\\nBunker was, himself, the miller, and his meal-covered\\ncoat, his boots, and the red knit cap which he wore, has\\nbeen held in remembrance these many years.\\nIn the next place, he erected a saw mill, the first in\\nBarnstead. This took the place of the axe, and was of\\ngreat utility in shaping the lumber, as it came from the", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0169.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "138 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18G3\\nforest, making it into timber, boards, c., which were\\nextensivel}^ used at home, as well as in foreign markets.\\nAt his decease, these mills, with occasional improvements,\\ndescended to his son Eli, and then to Timothy, and then\\nto Abraham. The eternal years have wrought changes\\nthe Bunkers are not. Their mills are iiriudina; still.\\nMAILS.\\nThe first mail was brought into Barnstead by one\\nBragg, on horseback, on his route from Dover to Ply-\\nmouth, a distance of sixty-five miles. His saddle-bags\\ncontained oats for his horse, as well as the news of the\\nday. Sometimes he used but three pints of oats in the\\nwhole distance. One day Bragg was interrogated thus\\nHow did 3 ou get along in using so few oats? Ah\\nsaid he, I dealt them out with discretion.\\nThe first postmaster in Barnstead was Charles Hodg-\\ndon, Jr. His office was kept in his private house, on the\\nProvince road.\\nIn 1808 another mail route was established. The driver\\ncarried it in saddle-bags and on horseback. It started\\nfrom Gilmanton Ironworks on Mondaj s, and returned on\\nTuesdays of each week.\\nOn this route the first mail carrier was John S. Shan-\\nnon of Gilmanton. His wife was a daughter of Moses\\nRand. His saddle-bags were full of newspapers none,\\nhowever, could obtain papers other than subscribers. At\\nfirst the New Hampshire Patriot was the only paper. After-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0170.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "1803 MAILS. 139\\nwards the New Ilampshife Statesman made its appearance.\\nAt the winding of the liorn, crowds would cluster around\\nShannon to learn the news the old saddle-bags would be\\nunstrapped, and the news, foreign, domestic and political,\\nwould be nnfolded. Subscribers were supplied for the\\nweek, and a newspaper was regarded as one of the great\\nluxuries of the age. Shannon, independent of his papers,\\nwas well versed in what was going on from abroad he\\nalways had great news for the crowtl, and a good word for\\nall who came to make inquiries.\\nAfter a while the mail route was extended from Dover\\nto Concord, through Barnstead, when Shannon, instead\\nof going on horseback, droA^e a horse and wagon. News-\\npapers began to increase. The New Hampshire Patriot,\\nedited by Isaac Hill, continued to be the principal political\\nmedium by which the democracy of Barnstead were edu-\\ncated and trained. Shannon also acted as our first ex-\\npress man in the transmission of the mails and newspa-\\npers, and in the doing of errands, and sometimes carried\\na passenger. John I. Tuttle, Samuel G. Berry and\\nothers, were the successors of Shannon in this business.\\nAt Barnstead Centre, a second post office was soon af-\\nterward established, with John Peavey as postmaster.\\nAnother, also, was started at North Barnstead, of which\\nS. G. Webster was the keeper.\\nTHE STAGE COACH.\\nThe first coach was started here May 23, 1823, and\\nrun from Portsmouth to Meredith Bridge, up one day and", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0171.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "140 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18G3\\nGown the next. It was drawn by four horses provisions\\nwere made for them on the way by the shareholders. The\\nname of the driver was Bean. When it started off the\\nroad was lined with men and boys to witness its exit, and\\ncheered it at the crack of the whip, when the first mud\\nturned up to bespatter its polished wheels. It was, in-\\ndeed, a novelty in Barnstead to see a coach drawn by\\nfour horses, winding over the hills and at the speed of\\nseven miles an hour. The same stage route is con-\\ntinued to this day, varying the route only by touching\\nat the Parade, and passing around by tlie way of Pitts\\nfield. Other mail and passenger routes have since been\\nopened to meet the railroad cars at Alton Bay, and at\\nConcord. A railroad is now opened to Pittsfield. Its\\nsteam whistle reverberates along the valley of the Sun-\\ncook, and it is hoped one Avill sooner or later find its way\\nwithin the lines of Barnstead in such form as to super-\\nsede the stage coach in that locality almost altogether.\\nTHE SOCIAL LIBRARY.\\nThis was incorporated in 1807, under the aame of the\\nBarnstead Social Library. It at first contained about\\nthree hundred volumes, all in good, strong binding. Its\\nAvorks were miscellaneous, historical, biographical, poeti-\\ncal and religious. Whether this Town Library ,%hich had\\nso good a beginning, has of late been replenished and\\nenlarged, or not, we are unable to state. If it has not,\\nwe most fervently pray that it may be.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0172.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "1863 WAR. 141\\nWAR OF 1812.\\nWhen this war broke out, a recruiting officer, by the\\nname of Neall} a sergeant from the regular army,\\ncame to Barnstead, and opened an office. His only\\nassistant was a youth by the name of Grant. Grant\\nwas skilful on the violin in playing the vSoldier s\\nJoy and Yankee Doodle. His music, which inspired\\nthe rustic dances in that recruiting service, is well re-\\nmembered. To facilitate this enterprise, the enrolled\\nmilitia company was called out at the Parade. They\\nformed in front of the church, were drilled, and at\\nlength were drawn up into line were applauded and\\ntreated copiously. Sergeant Neallj b}- permission, then\\nadvanced and addressed them thus\\nFellow soldiers, attention It alfords me the high-\\nest gratification to witness the discipline and good order\\nin this large and noble company of citizen soldiers. The\\ntown of Barnstead has reason to be proud of her defend-\\ners. Fellow soldiers Your beloved country is engaged\\nin a bloody war with Great Britain we must, as valiant\\npatriots, go forth to maintain her honor and support her\\nflag. Will you help in this crisis? All those who will\\nvolunteer in their country s cause will, at the word march,\\nadvance three paces to the front. Forward, march\\nAll eyes were upon the officer but not a soldier moved.\\nAt length, old Wiggins Jacobs, although a little lame,\\nhobbled to the front, with measured step, gun erect, and\\nwith a determined visage, just as if he meant war.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0173.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "142 HISTORY OF DARXSTEAD. 1863\\nThe uniform of this recruit was rather of the oriental\\nstyle. His long coat was of the swallow-tail fashion, and\\nout a little at the elbows his boots were short, not quite\\nmeeting the legs of his pants at the knee. His fire-lock,\\nwithout a flint, was somewhat laden with rust. And his\\nold slouched hat was minus about one half of its brim.\\nStill, our hero was the observed of all observers. He\\nstood forth as the champion, on whom Barnstead was to\\ndepend, in that bloody war. B}^ the determination of his\\ncountenance and the flash in his e3 e, all were given to\\nunderstand tliat John Bull and his hosts were not long to\\nremain upon these shores that in the face of such valor,\\nBritain would be nowhere.\\nThe gallant recruiting officer, although well pleased\\nwith the valor evinced in this instance, was not quite\\nsatisfied with the numerical strength which his patriotic\\neloquence had called forth.\\nHe, however, rallied a second time, in a different man-\\nner, and at length had no difficult}^ in obtaining his requi-\\nsite number of recruits, who gallantly represented Barn-\\nstead in that war.\\nSOLDIERS OF 1812.\\nAmong the men who served were\\nCapt. John Peave} John Kaime,\\nJeremiah Davis, Chandler Peavey,\\nFranklin Cheslej-, Silas Bunker,\\nDearborn Bunker, Timothy Bunker,\\nPaul Ct. Hoit, James Davis,\\nJoseph Foye, Gardner T. Barker,\\nJonathan Rand, John Place,\\nWinthrop Rand, Weutworth Rand,\\nThurston Conner.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0174.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "1863 WAR. 143\\nOf the above soldiers, Franklin Chesley served near\\nthe lines of Canada, and died in the service. He was the\\nson of Jonathan Cheslej was a man of much culture.\\nHe left a wife and one child. T. Bunker, who served in\\nthe same company, returned. He was a son of John, and\\nis said to have been a great mimic and wit, Hoit served\\non the northern frontier, but whether he fell there or not\\nwe are not informed. He was a lieutenant.\\nOn the frontier, Barn stead was well represented b}^ its\\nregulars, and on the seacoast by its militia. Captain\\nJohn Peavey, with a company of militia, was stationed\\nfor some months at Fort Constitution, in Portsmouth.\\nJoseph Foye was in several battles, was wounded, but af-\\nterwards lived to a good old age. Jonathan and Win-\\nthrop Rand were on the frontier, but neither returned.\\nKaime served as a sergeant. He never returned. Chand-\\nler Peavey served on the frontier and returned. He was\\nin several battles. S. Bunker was among the enlisted,\\nserved through the war, and returned home unharmed.\\nGardner T. Barker, h. at Lee, who married Martha W.\\nHuntoon of Gilmanton, served, returned, and afterwards\\nresided a considerable time in Barnstead. Thomas E.\\nBarker, Colonel of the 12th N. H. Regiment in the rebel-\\nlion, was his son. John Place was a son of Joseph, of\\nthe Revolution. Thurston Conner died at Barnstead\\nJuly 13, 1872, aged 85.\\nOf God-like man 1 if thus he e er appears,\\nTis when his truth outlives declining years.\\nWho ventures all in strength of youth or age,\\nIn deeds divine, his energies engage\\nWho with one hand sustains a falling brother,\\nYet grasps his country s tlag firm in the other;\\nTo flaunt its folds on freedom s towering height,\\nUe onward bears it, battling for the right.\\n[Caverli/ s Merrimac,p, 73.]", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0175.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "144 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nMEXICAN WAR.\\nNicholas Kenison served there. He was a brave sol-\\ndier, but was killed in battle.\\nAlfred T. Munsey, also served in the Mexican war.\\nHe returned uninjured, and afterwards served as an officer\\naaiainst the rebellion.\\nLAWYERS\\nSince the year 1825, Barnstead has given to lawyers\\nbut little support. Previously, w hen lumbering was the\\nchief employment of laborers, Avhen the products of the\\nforest and the wages of laborers were low, and when New\\nEngland rum was a common beverage, it was then that\\nthe traders in merchandise would entangle the lumbermen\\nin long lists of credits, and before they were aware of the\\ndanger, the law would begin to be enforced upon them.\\nIt was not uncommon for a neighboring lawj^er to\\nissue half a dozen writs against one debtor. The deputy\\nsheriff having them in charge would then come to Barn-\\nstead and proceed to attach his real estate and put all his\\npersonal property under the care of a keeper. On a\\nforced sale the property, in some instances, would not be\\nmore than enough to cancel the costs of suit and then\\nthe farmer s real estate would be subjected to an oppres-\\nsive mortgage or his body to a disgraceful imprisonment.\\nSuch were some of the results of the law as administered\\nby the country lawyers fifty years ago.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0176.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "1S63 LAWYERS. 145\\nIn these times, as appears, there is in the law a dilter-\\nent practice. The debtor has rights, as well as the cred-\\nitor. A man s homestead is usually protected, and his bod}-,\\nfor debt, is seldom arrested or imprisoned. In this, the\\nlapse of half a century has wrought an important im-\\nprovement.\\nCaleb Merrill, Esq., was the first lawyer settled, and\\niu practice, in Barnstead. His ofHce was at the Parade.\\nHe was from Chester, and commenced practice here in\\n1811. He was a man less disposed to obtain riches than\\nto impart professional advice gratuitously. He never en-\\nticed his clients into ha.stj- litigation, but proved true to the\\nhonor of his calling, in cooling the passions of the con-\\ntending parties, and in bringing them to amicable settle-\\nments.\\nMr. IMerrill was a good citizen, a sound lawyer, and\\ncommanded a respectable business. In 1819 he removed\\nto Pittsfield, where he resided until his death. He left a\\nwidow and children.\\nISAAC O. BARNES, ESQ.\\nMr. Barnes commenced practice herein 1822. He was\\na graduate of Middlebur^^ College, and had been a law stu-\\ndent from the office of Titus Brown, Esq., of Fran-\\ncestown. He was a native of Bedford. In form Mr.\\nBarnes was tall, and when first at Barnstead was thin\\nand in slender health but the change of place and the\\ncoming in to a more invigorating atmosphere, soon im-\\nparted to his countenance a more healthy hue, and restored\\nhim to vigorous health. The lady wdiom he afterwards\\nmarried, was a sister to Gov. Woodbury and being a\\ndemocrat, he sought and obtained of the government va-", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0177.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "14G HISTORY OF BAUNSTEAI). 18G3\\nrions offices, which from time to time he hekl uutil his\\ndeuth. He practised hxw in Banisteud about nine years,\\nand tlien went to Lowell, Mass. In 1833 he removed to\\nBoston, and very soon was appointed Naval Agent for that\\nport. Afterwards, under the Bankrupt act of that time\\nhe was made Commissioner for Massachusetts. At one\\ntime he held the office of United States Marshal at Bos-\\nton, and for a time was President of the Lafayette Bank,\\nand at last obtained the office of United States Pension\\nAgent at Boston, and continued in that position until\\nhis death.\\nWhile in practice Mr. Barnes resided in a cottage at\\nSouth Barnstead, but cared less for the law than for\\npolitics was always cheerful arid happy enjoyed\\nthe society of his friends took an active part in all\\ngood works, except temperance, and was usual!} full of\\nwit and sarcasm.\\nAt Boston he boarded at the Bromlleld House for\\nmany years. His evenings were mostly spent with a\\ncircle of listeners, deeply entertained Avith his fund of\\namusing anecdotes. One of his jokes has been poetized\\nas follows\\nNO PRECEDENT.\\nA jolly old fellow was Isaac O. B..\\nVery large, very fat, very fond of a spree.\\nVery foud of his glass, very fond of a smoke,\\nlint fonder by far, than all these, of his joke.\\nTo a political b;iibecue Isaac once went.\\nAnd with other good fellows the day gaily spent.\\nIn eating and drinking, which did not agree\\nWith the spacious interior of Isaac O. Ji.\\nYet on arriving at home and going to bed,\\nWith stomach o erloaded, and very light head,\\nHe was soon taken ill, and was so short of breath.\\nThat he thought he was called by the grim angel. Death.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0178.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "1863 ISAAC O. BARNES, ESQ. 147\\nSo he sent for a doctor, renowned for his skill,\\nWho, hearing that Isaac was ftitally ill.\\nDid not tarry a moment, but unto him sped.\\nAnd found the old gentleman groaning in bed.\\nWith feet very hot, and his face very red,\\nAnd crying out. surely, I soon shall be dead.\\nOhl nonsense!\u00e2\u0080\u0094 pooh\u00e2\u0080\u0094 pooh I said the skilful 51. I).,\\nYour case is not hopeless, my dear Mr. B.\\nIn fact tis quite simple. The cause is quite plain.\\nAnd you ll soon be as right as a trivet again.\\nNo, doctor, groaned Isaac, I m stricken by death.\\nHe s got me now, sure oh I haven t got breath\\nTo tell how I suifer. Oh come now, sir, come,\\nSaid the doctor; tis plain you must suffer some.\\nBut your pulse is not high, you ll come to no harm.\\nFor no man ever died, with his feet like your s, w.vk.-m.\\nI know of a case, gasped Isaac O. B.,\\nSo your statement does not at all reassure me\\nI know of a man. and his name I ll repeat,\\nJohn Rogers, the martyr he died with warm feet.\\nOne other story of tliis hero will finish our account\\nof him.\\nAt the time when President Jackson removed the de-\\nposits from the old United States Bank, the Lafaj ette\\nBank in Boston had been recently chartered, with Isaac\\nas President. It became, among others, what was then\\ncalled a pet bank, which, by the government, was regarded\\na much safer institution in which to deposit the public\\nmoneys, than the old United States Bank, which was\\nthen called a monopoly. Consequently nearly a million\\nof dollars from the government fell into this bank for safe\\nkeeping the old bank, which had been the medium, and\\nwhich had sustained the merchants of the country was to\\nbe crushed out, and consequently the merchants of Bos-\\nton, many of them, at least, must necessarily tail and\\ncome to want.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0179.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "148 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18G3\\nIII a little time the financial affjiirs of the countiy be-\\ncame unsettled, merchants began to tremble in their boots,\\nand at length the financial trouble was seen coming, as it\\nsoon did come, with a crash.\\nMany of these merchants were the political friends of\\nIsaac, and when their distress came they applied to his\\nbank for relief, and true as the stor^^ goes, through his ten-\\nder mercies they did not apply in vain they were sustained.\\nThis crisis came in 1837-8, and thereupon the govern-\\nment had occasion to send a committee to this bank to\\ninvestigate its standing and to count up its thousands\\nthat had been deposited there.\\nWhen the Committee arrived Isaac, the President, re-\\nceived them in his usual manner with jovial good cheer\\nand after hearing as they did many of his best anecdotes,\\nthe Committee cautiously informed him of their business,\\nand desired him to pilot them in investigating the affairs\\nof tlie Bank.\\nHe welcomed them to the Bank, and appeared happy iu\\nthe extreme. But says he Gentlemen, I ll give ye the\\nke3 s, I hope you will be successful. I ve tried long to\\nferret out this matter. If 3^ou can find any money there,\\n3 ou ll do better than I can.\\nAn investigation of several days was had the Commit-\\ntee returned home about as wise as they came the de-\\nposits were gone, and all the bills had become worthless,\\nconsequently their favorite Bank at once came to an end.\\nMoses Norris, Esq. He was a graduate from Dart-\\nmouth in 1828, studied law with Isaac O. Barnes, and in\\n1832 became his successor in practice at Barnstead.\\nNorris was a good scholar, a well-read lawyer, and stood\\nhigh in the profession, although much of the time was de-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0180.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "1863 LAWYERS. 149\\nvoted to politics and other matters. In 1834 he removed\\nto Pittsfield, his native town, and opened an office.\\nThere he became one of its representatives, and was\\nspeaker of the House of Representatives in the years\\n1840-41. Afterwards he was chosen a Representative to\\nCongress, and in 1850 was elected by the Legislature\\nUnited States Senator. He afterwards removed to Man-\\nchester, where he resided until his death in 1858. He was\\nrather slack in his business habits, seemed unambitious,\\n3et he was honest and generous to a fault. He left a\\nwidow and three children, but as yet no stone marks the\\nplace where he rests. His son in the rebellion took sides\\nwith the confederac}^ and served as a soldier in the rebel\\narmy\\nJeremiah Elkixs, Esq. In 183G Mr. Elkius came to\\nBarn stead, where he resided until his decease in 1845.\\nHe was a graduate of Bowdoin College, and of the class\\nof 1820. He spent the first years of his professional life\\nin Washington, D. C, and in a successful practice. Leaving\\nthere he opened an office in Laconia, where he continued\\nfor some time previous to his removal to Barnstead. At\\nhis decease he left a widow, and two daughters by a former\\nmarriage.\\nAlbert E. Hodgdox, Esq., was born here, read law\\nwith Mr. Norris and Judge Perley, practised some time\\nin Barnstead, and died here in 1847. He was the son of\\nCharles Hodgdon, Esq.\\nBenjamin WI^^vLEy, Esq., was the son of Benjamin\\nWinkley, Senior. He practised law in Barnstead from\\n1847 to 1849.\\nCharles Smith George, Esq., being educated to the\\nlaw was admitted to the bar in 1845. He however pre-", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0181.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "150 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nferrecl agriculture to the business of the forum, and is now\\nengaged in that most healthful and interesting employ-\\nment. He was a son of Rev. Enos C4eorge, and indeed\\nis a chip of the old block. In truth we may say of\\nhim, he is a good lawyer, a ready speaker, and an honest\\nfarmer. His wife Almira, was the daughter of Zechariah\\nBoody Waldron, who was a descendant of the famous\\nMajor Waldron, who was slain at Dover, b^ the Indians,\\non the night of June 27, U!.sO.\\nHis son, Enos George, Jr., has contributed nmcli by\\nway of encouraging the publication of this history, and his\\ngenerous kindnesses will long be remembered by its\\neditor.\\nCharles R. Rogers, Esq., was admitted to the bar in\\n1818. lie practised law here about two years. His office\\nwas at the Centre. He left town some time in the year\\n1850.\\nH. B. Leavitt, Esq., practised law in Barnstead in the\\nyears 1853-4. In 18G1 he enlisted in the 7th Regt. N. H.\\nVols., and afterwards was appointed to the command of a\\ncompany. At the charge on Fort Wagner, Charleston, 8.\\nC, he fell at the head of his company. He was a brave\\nofficer.\\nthe law.\\nReason and the experience of the past would seem to\\nteach that law was not made so much for the honest as for\\nthe depraved. Such have been the improvements in Barn-\\nstead, of late, in brotherly kindness, temperance, and fair\\ndealing, that at this time no lawj er appears to be needed\\nin this locality. Confident we are that its honest 3 eomanry\\nhave appropriated to themselves a sufficient knowledge of", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0182.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "18G3\\nPHYSICIANS. 151\\nthe law, at least so far, as to be admoiiished to keep out of\\nit, and to avoid its penalties. However\\nWe must not make a scare-crow of tlie law,\\nSetting it up to fear the birds of prey.\\nAnd let it keep one shape till custom make it\\nTheir perch and not theij- terror.\\n[ShaJ:es2}enre.]\\nPHYSICIANS.\\nDk. Joseph Adams, was our first physician. He was\\nan original permanent settler. He was a son of Rev.\\nJoseph Adams, of Newington, was born in 1727, and was\\neducated at Harvard. His father had schooled hiin for\\nthe ministry, but the son preferred physic rather than the-\\nology. In 1792 he came to Barnstead and settled on the\\nProvince road, near Gilmanton line, on a farm owned by\\nhis father. It was an elevated location, overlooking\\nBeauty Pond. His wife was Joanna Oilman, daughter of\\nMajor Ezekiel Gilman, of Exeter.\\nDr. Adams was quite advanced in age when he settled.\\nHis farm pleased him and he continued to reside here to\\nthe end of his days.\\nHis children were Ezekiel Oilman, Joseph, Ebenezer,\\nDudley, John, Benjamin, Nathaniel, and two daughters,\\nBetsey and Abigail the one married John and the other\\nWilliam Janvrin, both of Seabrook, in 1784. These Jan-\\nvrin families are now numerous in Newbuiyport and vici-\\nnity. One of the boys, Joseph A. Janvrin, a name-sake of\\nDr. Adams, has been a sea captain, is now in trade, and", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0183.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "152 HISTORV OF BARXSTEAD. 18G3\\nresides in the city of Lo^vell. Tlie descendants of Dr.\\nAdams are some of them, at least, intermingled by marriage\\nwith the Hodgdon family. The^ at this day are qnite\\nunni(ii ons and are generally much respected. Rev. Jolm\\nG. Adams of Lowell, is one of them.\\nOf Dr. Adams we read the following from the Diary of\\nJohn Adams, late President of the United States, wherein\\nhe refers to him thus\\nJune, 1771. At Tilton s in Portsmouth, I mot with\\nmy cousin Joseph Adams, whose face I was once as glad\\nto see, as I should have been to see an angel. The sight\\nof him gave me a new feeling. When he was at College\\nhe used to come to Braintree with his brother Ebenezer.\\nHow I used to love him? He is broken to pieces with\\nrheumatism and gout now to what cause is his ruin to be\\nascribed?\\nDr. Jeremiah Jewett, Sr., was from Rowley, Mass.,\\ncame in the j^ear 1792, being then a young man. Pre-\\nviously he had taken a circuit to the great lake, to Wolfi?-\\nboro and to Merideth, with the view of settling in that\\nneighborhood. But on his return he accepted a cordial\\ninvitation, which had some time before been extended to\\nhim to make Barnstead his home. The contrast between\\nthe old county of Essex, his former place of residence, and\\nthis then new place with its sparse population, its bad\\nroads, and with its otherwise discouraging aspects, was\\nvery great. Yet a spirit of enterprize pervaded the people\\nthey were about to erect a church and promised many\\nother irapi ovements. He found a boarding place on the\\nhigh ground near the Mill, at the house of John Bunker,\\nand at once commenced the business of his profession\\nAvhich soon extended beyond Barnstead into Acton, Bar-\\nrington, and other towns. His mode of conveyance was", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0184.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "1863 PHYSICIANS. 153\\non horse-back, carrying medicines in saddle-bags. In\\n1795 he purchased five acres of land, bordering on the\\nParade, lying on each side of the brook and thereupon\\nbuilt a dwelling house. This was the second house erected\\nat the Parade, the first being Ben. Ilodgdon s, the same\\nnow owned by Samuel Kaime.\\nDr. Jewett married Temperance Dodge, of Rowley.\\nFor a quarter of a century he was the only ph3 sician in\\nBarnstead. lie had received his education at the common\\nschools and at Dummer Academy, in Newbury, and had\\nstudied medicine with Doctors Torrey and Spottbrd of\\nE.owle3^ Like many other ph3-siciaus he was fond of\\nmaking long visits, never in a hurry, delighted in conver-\\nsation, was rather slack in his habits, and had little or no\\ndetermination to accumulate property.\\nIn stature he was five feet ten inches, thick set, dark\\ncomplexion, his hair tinged with gray, was quick in his\\ngait and in his manner of speaking. He had served a few\\nmonths in the army of the Revolution, under Gen. Wash-\\nington, and at one time was a guard over the prisoners\\nthen quartered at Cambridge. His house at Barnstead\\nwas quite central the selectmen often held their meetings\\nin it and from this circumstance he was approbated a tav-\\nerner. Consequently he had a large saving-sign painted\\nblue on this was the picture of a dolphin, with a spear\\naimed at it, and under it were the words Catch a Dol-\\nphin on the other side was the picture of an anchor and\\nunder it were the words Cast Anchor,\\nJeremiah Jewett, 1799.\\nThe design of this inscription was impressive intend-\\ned perhaps to induce the traveller to cast anchor and\\nturn in to partake of the repast then about being prepared\\nfor him. 20", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0185.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "154 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nThe Doctor was surgeon of the 10th Regt. for many\\nyears. On paratle days he wore a cockade and was\\nequipped with a sword. He alwa^ s had the most intimate\\nrehxtions with Parson George. On tliis account, at his\\ndecease, Mr. George declined to take part in the funeral\\nexercises, but took a seat in the midst of the mourners.\\nDr. Jewett died at the old homestead in the year 1836,\\nApril 22, aged 79. He left three children, Spofford D., a\\nclergyman, Jeremiah P., a physician, Jjine, wife of Hazen\\nWheeler, Esq., each having a family. His widow still sur-\\nvives him, being one hundred years old the 4th day of\\nApril, 1872.\\nDr. Noah J. T, George. Dr. George settled at the\\nParade in 1822. He was a democrat, and aside from pro-\\nfessional practice he wrote for the press and published a\\nlife of Gen. Jackson, a Gazetteer of the State of Vermont,\\nand a small book entitled Multum in Parvo, and others.\\nHis wife was a daughter of William Ayers. He died of a\\nlingering disease of the spine in 1849. One son and one\\ndaughter survived him.\\nDr. Simon P. Woodward. Commenced practice at\\nCentre Barnstead in 1824. He was well-read, was ener-\\ngetic and had a good business here. About the year 1836\\nhe removed to New Market. He died in 1854 leaving\\nchildren.\\nDr. William Grover. Settled at the Centre where he\\nhad an extensive practice, was a leader in the church,\\nrepresented the town in the State Legislature, and was a\\nmember of the State Medical Society. In the sick cham-\\nber his kind word and cheerful countenance failed not to\\ninspire a salutary hope in the hearts of his otherwise weary\\nand desponding patients. He died suddenly in 1853 of", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0186.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "18G3 PHYSICIANS. 155\\nan abscess on the liver. His wife, who was a Miss N. P.\\nTaylor, of Hampton, and one daughter, survived him. The\\ntown deeply mourned his loss.\\nDr. Charles Whittle. Commenced business in the\\nsouth part of the town in 1830. He previousl} had had\\nsome practice elsewhere, but continued here but aboul two\\nyears he then left for some other field of labor.\\nJohn Wheeler, M. D. Was born in Barnstead, Sept.\\n15, 1828 was grandson of Dr. Jewett, Sr. He fitted for\\ncollege at Gilmanton Academy, and graduated at Dart-\\nmouth College in 1850, studied medicine with Dr. J. P.\\nJewett, of Lowell, Mass., and with C. T. Beri}^, of Pitts-\\nfield, N. H,, attended Medical Lectures at Bowdoin, Bos-\\nton, and Berkshire Medical Schools, and graduated at the\\nlatter in 1852.\\nHe immediately succeeded Dr. Grover in Barnstead,\\nwhere he has been in practice ever since, with the excep-\\ntion of four years at Pittsfield, and a while in the army.\\nMany medical students, more than twenty, have pursued\\ntheir studies, either a part or the whole of the usual term,\\nunder his direction.\\nDr. William Walker. Was the son of Joseph A.\\nWalker. He graduated at Jefferson College, and died at\\nBarnstead in 1855.\\nDr. George W. Garland. Was a medical student at\\nBowdoin and graduated from there in 1837. He studied\\nmedicine also with Dr. Dixi Crosby at Hanover, and\\ncommenced practice at North Barnstead, at which place he\\ncontinued up to 1848, a skillful practitioner, and in a suc-\\ncessful business. Since then, as ever, he has prospered\\nwith an extensive practice, residing in the city of Law-\\nrence, Mass.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0187.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "156 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nDr. Mark Walker. Graduated in 1854, and settled\\nin the nortli part of Barustead. He still continues liis\\npractice in this and the neighl)oring towns, and proves to\\nbe one of Barnstead s best pliysicians.\\nDr. Bettox W. Sargent. Resided here in practice\\nfrom 1848 to 1853, and then went to the far West. During\\nthe Eebellion he served as a surgeon on the staff of Major\\nGeneral Thomas. He read with Dr. Knight of Franklin,\\nand now resides at Eochester, N. H. His wife was the\\ndaughter of Dr. Farrington, of Rochester, formerly a\\nmember of Congress.\\nDr. Albert G. Weeks. Resided in practice at North\\nBarustead in the year 1851 and up to 1853. He had been\\na student at Dartmouth and at Harvard College, was a\\ngentleman and a scholar. He died in 1853.\\nDr. Alvin Jenkins, was an M. D., from Dartmouth in\\n1862, opened an office at Centre Barnsteal in 1863. He\\nremoved to Great Falls, N. H., where he now remains in\\nbusiness.\\nDr. S. S. Wentwortii. From Dartmouth College in\\n1863, practised in his profession at Centre Barustead in\\n1864, and then left aud settled in EUenburg, New York.\\nDr. jERE:MiAn Blake, once a student at the medical\\nschool at Yale College, resided and practised medicine\\nhere at the Parade, about two years. In 1862 he removed\\nto Gilmanton Iron-works, where he still remains.\\nWhile at Barustead he married Mrs. Elkins, the daugh-\\nter of Abram Bunker. The* Doctor for a while was in the\\nministry with good success, and whether as a physician or\\na divine he has ever proved himself industrious, prompt\\nand efficient in every good word and work.\\nDr. Dana Buzzell commenced here about the year\\n1839, but did not remain.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0188.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "1803 PHYSICIANS. 157\\nDr. John P. Elkins also practised here from 1844 to\\n1848.\\nDr. James Emerson, a native of Barnstead, and a\\ngraduate of Dartmouth Medical School, was in the prac-\\ntice of his profession at the Centre from 1858 to 1862.\\nSince then he has practised in New Ipswich, N. H., in\\nAshby, Mass., in Claremont, Minnesota, in Pittsfield, N.\\nH., and last of all in Gardner, Mass. Thus having\\nconnected his practice with the geography of his country,\\nthe Doctor now remains steadfast and is doing a spacious\\nbusiness.\\nGRADUATES.\\nThe following is a list of College Graduates who are\\nnatives of Barnstead, and who have located themselves in\\ndifferent sections of the United States\\nSpofford D. Jewett, Eev. (now of Middlefield, Conn.),\\nwas the first college graduate. He preferred the minis-\\ntry, and after preaching the gospel thirty-six years, in\\n1866 retired by reason of declining health, thereafter\\npreaching onl}^ occasionally.\\nGeorge F. George, son of Rev. Enos, studied medicine\\nin Georgia, settled in Shady Valley, Ga., where he still\\nresides.\\nFranklin T. Ilarwood, a graduate of the Harvard\\nMedical School, of the class of 1851, settled at Great\\nFalls, N. H.\\nJohn Wheeler, M.D., A.B., from Dartmouth and from\\nthe Berkshire Medical School in 1852.\\nGeorge W. Garland, M. D., from Bowdoin, in 1837,\\nnow at Lawrence, Mass.\\nWilliam Walker, M.D., from Jefferson Medical School,\\nin 1853, died in Barnstead, in 1855.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0189.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "158 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18C3\\nMark Walker, M.D., from Jefferson Medical School, in\\n1854, now in Barnstead.\\nJames Emerson, M.D., from Dartmouth Medical\\nSchool, in 1858.\\nCaleb W. Hanson, M.D., from Dartmouth Medical\\nSchool, in 1858, now in Northwood.\\nJohn Hanson, from Dartmouth College, 1859, now in\\nbusiness in the West.\\nJoseph B. Rand, M.D., from Dartmouth College, in\\n1858, now at White River, Vt.\\nJohn P. Elkins, M.D., from Bowdoin, in 18G2, now in\\nWilmot.\\nAugustus C. Walker, M.D., from New York Medical\\nCollege, in 18^3, now in Roxburj\\nLaban M. Saunders, M.D., from Dartmouth College,\\nin 1864, died in Barnstead, in 1867.\\nArthur C. Newall, M.D., from Ohio Medical College,\\nin 1865, now in Farmington.\\nJeremiah P. Jewett, was the first in Barnstead who\\ntook a degree as an M.D., his biograph} will be found in\\nthe appendix.\\nHanson C. Canney, M.D., from Dartmouth College, in\\n1865, settled in Auburn.\\nPhineas H. Wheeler, M.D., from Dartmouth College,\\nin 1865, settled in Alton.\\nNath. W. Woodhouse, M.D., from Dartmouth College,\\nnow in Wilton, Iowa.\\nGeorge H. Towle, M.D., from Harvard College in 1865,\\nsettled in Deerfield.\\nI. Lysander Eaton, M.D., St. Louis Medical School,\\nsettled in St. Louis, Mo.\\nDarius M. Edgerly, M.D., from New York University.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0190.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "1^ 3 PHYSICIANS. 159\\nNote. Doctors Eaton, Saunders, P. H. Wheeler, A.\\nC. Walker and Newall, were all Acting Assistant Sur-\\ngeons in the United States Armj^ during the Rebellion of\\n18G1.\\nPHYSICIANS OF THE NEIGHBORING TOWNS.\\nPITTSFIELD.\\nAbel Blanchard began his practice in 1803. He\\nwas a bachelor at one time he offered Pittsfield $500\\ntowards founding an academy there, but that good people\\nthought it would make their sons and daughters proud and\\nlazy and therefore rejected the offer. He left the town\\nin 1807 and went to Bembroke, and disposed of his money\\nin the building of an academy there. Pittsfield has since\\nhonored herself in her schools of learning as well as in her\\nimprovements in manufacturing, in agriculture, and in tlie\\narts.\\nDr. Thomas Shannon came to Pittsfield when Dr.\\nBlanchard left. Dr. Shannon was of the old school, edu-\\ncated under Prof. Nathan Smith. In 1827, soon after\\nfounding the Medical School, Dr. Smith removed to Moul-\\ntonboro and died there, aged 80 years.\\nHon. R. p. I. Tennev, M.D., was a son of Dr. Wm.\\nTenne} late of London, and succeeded to his father s\\npractice in that town, but afterwards located himself in\\nPittsfield, since greatly increased in thrift and beauty,\\nwhere he found an extensive field for his professional skill,\\nand where he still lives, a leader in his profession, and a\\nfriend to all mankind. He lives in the midst of a happy\\nfamily. He married Miss H. A. Sanborn, of Gilmanton,\\nN. H. They have an amiable daughter bj^ the name of\\nAbbie. The Doctor was a Councillor to the Governor of\\nNew Hampshire daring the Rebellion, and at that time did", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0191.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "160 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1803\\nvaliant service for his country iu raising and transmitting\\ntlie New Hampshire regiments to the armies of the North.\\nLong life to him\\nJeremiah Blake, M.D., was a native of this town,\\ncommenced practice here in 1826 and continued in this\\nten 3 ears studied theology and then went into the minis-\\ntry. He still continues his medical practice, residing at\\nGilmanton Iron Works.\\nEnoch Barnes, M.D., practised here.\\nJohn S. Elliott, M.D., had an office here for several\\nyears, and then went to Manchester.\\nLOUDON.\\nAbraham Silver, M.D., an early settler in L., but\\nremoved to Gilmanton.\\nBenjamin Kelley, M.D., practised here in 1787, re-\\nmoved to Lower Gilmanton.\\nAnthony Sherburne, M.D., settled in L., removed to\\nGilmanton in 1807, but soon died.\\nJedediah Tucker, M.D., a Congregational preacher as\\nwell as physician, died in 1825.\\nWilliam Tenney, M.D.,was from Newburyport. He\\nsettled in Loudon in 1800 had a great practice, was\\nsocial and kind. He died in 1826, aged about sixty years,\\nmuch lamented.\\nR. P. I. Tenney, M.D., was the successor of Dr. Wil-\\nliam Tenney, his father, but afterwards removed to Pitts-\\nfield, where he still remains in practice.\\nALTON.\\nJohn Morrison, M.D., one of its first settlers, still in\\npractice, at the age of of seventy-five.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0192.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "1863 NEIGHBORING PHYSICIANS. 161\\nDr. Curry was in practice in Alton, in 1828-9. He\\neiied in 1830.\\nDrs. Nathaniel Dorman and A. W. Lougee also prac-\\ntised in Alton.\\nBARRINGTON.\\nRobert Woodbury, M.D., was early in Barrington, his\\nfame was wide, he was a school-mate with the late Presi-\\ndent John Quincy Adams, had a practice of more than\\nfifty years, and died in 1856.\\nJohn S. Furnald, M.D., practised nearly thirty years\\nand died while yet in his strength of manhood.\\nDavid McDaniel and William Waterhouse, also, were\\nlocated in Barrington.\\nNEW DURHAM.\\nDaniel Mowe, M.D., a celebrated physician, was here\\nmany years. He removed to Lowell, where he lived with\\nprofessional honor, and died Nov. 3, 1860, aged 71.\\nJohn Elkins, M.D., was skilful, and had an extensive\\nfield of labor in New Durham.\\nNORTH WOOD.\\nJohn Smith, M.D., an earl3r settler, read with Dr. Kel-\\nly and had much practice in Northwood.\\nBenjamin Kelly, M.D., was in Northwood from 1780\\nto 1791, and then he settled in Gilmanton.\\nJohn Starr, M.D., had several years practice in North-\\nwood, but died early.\\nThomas Tuttle, M.D., was a native of Barrington, set-\\ntled in Northwood, and has had a respectable practice.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0193.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "1G2 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18C3\\nCHICHESTER.\\nAmasa Kelly, M.D., one of the first in his profession\\nin Chichester, came in 1799, became blind and died in\\n1845, aged seventy-five.\\nSamuel Sargent, M.D., of South Chichester, died in\\n1842.\\nEPSOM.\\nSamuel Morrill, M.D., practised here and then removed\\nto Concord.\\nDavid L. Morrill, M.D., resided here a while, moved\\nto Concord and was subsequently Governer of New Hamp-\\nshire.\\nJosiah Crosby, M.D., practised in lipsom at first, and\\nthen at Manchester, and is now residing there.\\nJames Babb, M.D., a native of Chichester, twenty years\\nin practice, died in 1843.\\nHanover Dickey, M.D., served in his profession in\\nEpsom, was a native now in Lowell, Mass., and is still\\nin practice.\\nJohn Proctor, M.D., also practised in Epsom.\\nGILMANTON.\\nWilliam Smith, M.D., was the first doctor in Gilman-\\nton. Came from East Kingston in 1778. He died in\\n1830, aged ninety-eight years.\\nJonathan Hill, M.D., settled in Gilmanton, in 1778.\\nHe was a native of Stratham.\\nObadiah Parish, M.D., a native of Canterbury, married\\na Miss Badger, came to Gilmanton in 1790, died in 1794,\\naged thirty.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0194.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "1863 GRADUATES. 163\\nAbraham Silver, M.D., came to lower Gilmantou, and\\nwas in his profession in Gilmanton some years.\\nSimon Foster, M.D., a native of Andover, Mass., came\\nto Gilmanton in 1800 practised thirty years.\\nDaniel Jacobs, M.D., born at Mansfield in 1764, grad-\\nuated at Dartmouth College in 1787, came to Gilmanton\\nin 179G, had a good practice, died in 1814, aged fifty-one.\\nBenjamin Kelley, M.D., came to Gilmanton in 1801,\\nwas a fellow of the New Hampshire Medical Society, died\\nin 1839, aged seventy-five.\\nNote. Dr. Kelley had a son by the name of Hall\\nJ. He was a teacher in Boston, but hearing the\\nstory of the great West, he shouldered his pack and o-vni\\nand, on foot, took a bee line westward. After many weary\\ndays he lost sight of all settlements, having reached and\\ntraversed vast prairies and spacious forests on the way.\\nAt length he found himself among savages, three thousand\\nmiles away from home, in Oregon. At that time he had\\nnot seen the face of a white man for two long years. The\\nstory of events on the way, the wild experiences in the\\nmidst of a new country, his manner of life among the\\nwestern Indians, c.,were often related by him with thrill-\\ning interest. His travels were published.\\nThere were several physicians other than those above\\nnamed, who from time to time did good service in Gilman-\\nton, and other neighboring towns, and who of course some-\\ntimes visited Barnstead professionally, among whom were\\nDoctors Asa Crosby, Nathan C. Tebbetts, Otis French,\\nand others.\\nCOLLEGE GRADUATES.\\nSpofford D. Jewett, now a clergyman settled in\\nConnecticut, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1826.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0195.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "164 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 18G3\\nHe was the first college graduate at Barnstead, studied\\ntheology at Andover, Avas the son of Dr. J. Jewett of Barn-\\nstead, had been thirty-six years in the gospel ministry up\\nto 1866, when on account of failing health he retired from\\nhis field of labor.\\nGeorge Franklin George. Esq., from Dartmouth College,\\nnow in practice at Shady Dale, Georgia, a son of Rev.\\nEnos George, deceased.\\nAlbert Elisha Hodgdon, Esq., a son of Charles, from\\nDartmouth College in 1842, opened a law-office in Barn-\\nstead, but died in 1847.\\nJohn P. Newell, Esq., at Dartmouth College, was the\\nfirst scholar in his class, read law, and then took charge\\nof the High School in Manchester. His wife was the\\ndaughter of Charles Jas. Bell. Mr. Newell is far known\\nand much respected.\\nHorace Webster, L.L.B., from Dartmouth College in\\n1849, and a graduate of Harvai d Law School. His wife\\nwas the daughter of Rev. Amos Blanchard, of Lowell.\\nHe died in 1867. His wife soon followed him to the spirit\\nland.\\nJohn Wheeler, M.D., from Dartmouth College in 1850,\\nand now in full practice in Barnstead.\\nCharles A. Bunker, from Dartmouth College in 1864,\\nnow teaching in Peacham Academy.\\nNathaniel L. Hanson, from Dartmouth College in 1864,\\nengaged in teaching.\\nDavid M. Edgerly, M.D., from Dartmouth College in\\n1864, in medicine, graduated at New York Universit3^\\nLewis W. Clark, Esq., a native of Barnstead, gradu-\\nated at Dartmouth College in 1850, read law and settled\\nin Pittsfield, thence to Manchester, N. H., is in a large", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0196.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "1863 MERCHANTS. 165\\npractice. He has a generous heart and a strong mind.\\nHe is now (1872) Attorney-General of New Hamp-\\nshire\\nAlonzo H. Quint, D.D., from Dartmouth College in\\n1846, and from Andover afterwards, was chaplain in the\\nSecond Mass. Regiment during the Rebellion wrote its\\nhistory and now is pastor of a church at New Bedford.\\nLuther E. Shepard, from Dartmouth College in 1851,\\nread law, and is now in practice, doing a successful busi-\\nness in Lowell, Mass.\\nNote.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Augustus C. Walker, William Walker and Ar-\\nthur C. Newall, are natives of Barnstead, and were\\nstudents at Dartmouth College for the term of two years.\\nMERCHANTS\\nThe traders in Barnstead have advanced about in the\\nfollowing order\\nRichard Cinclair, commencing in 1774, on Province\\nRoad, was the first.\\nPaul G. Hoyt.\\nMoses Styles, from Kingston.\\nNathaniel Goodhue, in 1814. Second store at Parade\\n(barter trade).\\nCharles G. Cinclair, from Bethlehem Goodhue s suc-\\ncessor.\\nJohn Kelly commenced in 1817. From Gilmanton\\nkept at Parade.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0197.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "166 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nNathaniel D. Chamberlain, in 1821 from Alton,\\nJohn Berry, from Pittsfield kept at South Barnstead.\\nCommenced in 1819 was here several years. Returned\\nto Pittsfield.\\nJohn Kent was Berry s successor.\\nSamuel Webster, at North Barnstead commenced in\\n1820.\\nGeorge Nutter was Webster s successor and a success-\\nful merchant.\\nEbenezer Hall commenced at Parade in 1822 several\\nyears here removed to Concord.\\nSamuel J. Edgerly and P. Hodgdon were in trade\\nseveral years. Hodgdon removed to Ossipee.\\nJohn Peavey, Esq., opened the first store at the\\nCentre, and traded many years.\\nEliphalet S. Nutter, Esq., was in trade at Barnstead\\nParade a considerable time, and proved one of its most\\nsuccessful merchants. He removed to Concord in 1855.\\nThe stores of these men, for the most part, were filled\\nwith West India and dry goods, for which they often took\\npay in lumber, c., such as ship-timber, boards, shingles,\\nfirkins, corn, potatoes, oats, butter, eggs, tow-cloth, c.\\nKelly, Goodhue and Webster were extensive traders,\\nand were the purchasers of all such articles. Beyond this,\\nWebster went largely into the lumbering business. The\\nfine forests of pine and oak then standing, began to yield\\nto the woodman s axe, furnishing for the market many a\\nstately mjfet and much ship timber, as well as an abundance\\nof the finest boards and shingles. He was from Gilman-\\ntouand was in trade here a quarter of a century was an\\nindustrious worker, and, as the farmers would say, died\\nin the harness.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0198.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "1863 HAND LABOR. 167\\nAt the first settlements, and for more than forty years\\nup to 1812, manufacturing iu this and the adjoining\\ntowns was all done by hand labor. Every article of\\nwearing apparel, every article of household furniture, all\\nfarming utensils, and all kinds of implements used by this\\ncommunity were wrought out without the aid of machinery,\\nthrough the ardent, exhausting toil of men and women\\nat hand labor.\\nThe farm produced the flax, and the variegated flocks\\nafforded an abundance of white and black wool. The\\nflax was at first rotted and dried then it was subjected\\nto the break, which was worked by hard hand labor then\\nit was swingled and combed, when it became nice, smooth\\nand shiny, and fit for spinning or for the market.\\nThe linen and the large wheel then stood ready to\\nassist in preparing it for the web, and the old clock reel\\nto transfer it into skeins, and to count it into knots.\\nThe old-fashioned loom then took it, and the rattle of\\nthe shuttle and treadles, and the reverberation of the\\nlathe in driving the threads, were heard afar while, at\\nthe same time, the health of the industrious housewife was\\ninvigorated in this process of manufacturing cloth through\\nhand labor. Be it remembered that life, through such an\\nindustry, was made the more profitable, cheerful and\\nhappy.\\nThe use of most of the cloth in various ways made of\\nflax, wool and cotton, was for the home consumption.\\nFabrics thus made and thus used administered to the im-\\nmediate comforts of the household, and at the same time\\ntended to inspire it with a complacent self satisfaction.\\nThe first attempt to improve the old Scotch wheel was\\nin the patent head. This was intended to increase the", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0199.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "168 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\nrevolutions of the spindle, and lessen the revolutions of\\nthe wheel itself, and thereby to save labor. Cotton was\\nscarce, and commanded a high price, being imported from\\nIndia, and usually in very small quantities.\\nThe old linen wheel, with its foot power and pine\\ndistaff, were the same from time immemorial. Any sug-\\ngestions with the view of improvements in them would\\nhave been looked upon with distrust, and as being in\\nvain. So it was during the first fifty years of our history.\\nFemale labor was plenty and cheap. It was common\\nfor the girl to work by the week, three shillings being the\\nusual wages for that term of service, and the spinning of\\nfive skeins of yarn constituted her legal clay s work.\\nMany families were in the habit of manufacturing tow\\ncloth, which was used to clothe the negro slaves of the\\nSouth, and which sold here at the country stores for about\\nten or twelve cents per yard.\\nSometimes a fabric was made up of a linen warp and\\nhair yarn filling. This was woven in colors, checked,\\nstriped, and plain it was quite thick and coarse, and was\\nreadily sold at the stores in the early years when cotton\\nfirst began to be successfully raised in our own country.\\nVery soon this material began to be spun by machinery,\\nand sold by the pound in yarn, numbered according to the\\nsize of its thread, or its numlier of skeins to the pound.\\nThis was then bought and sold for warp, while linen\\nwas used lor filling it, producing a durable home-made\\ncloth.\\nBut the years of manufacturing the home supplies of\\nraiment, which evinced the industr}^, economy, and enjoy-\\nment of our primeval race, have passed away. The Indus-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0200.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "THE WHEEL OF THE OLDEN TIME.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0203.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0204.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "ISeS FIRST SAW MILL. 169\\ntry of our old mothers in this regard lias been described in\\nverse as follows\\nMen of my age we liall that highland glee\\nThat cheered the homes, the hearts of you and me.\\nOf yore. Ye matrons too, whose childhood prime\\nIs merged in memories of the olden time.\\nCall up that hour 1 and bear me witness too\\nOf what in early life you used to do;\\nHow then ou tip-toe cotton yarn you spun.\\nHow buzzed the band, and how the spindle run,\\nHow moved the thread around the handy reel.\\nHow dear old motlier whirled the linen wheel,\\nAVhile at her knee the prattling baby stands.\\nProvoking grandma with his little hands.\\nTo feel the forked distaff s flaxy curl\\nOr ferret out the curious whiz and whirl\\nOf wheel and spool; heedless of frown or fliers.\\nOr flax comb keen. So fondly he admires\\nThe enchanting scenes of childhood s joyful day,\\nWe cherish still, though fled like flowers of May.\\nIn truth, alike, the habits had of yore\\nThat linen wheel and loom are known no more.\\n{Caverly^s Merrimac, p. 60.]\\nBRICKS.\\nThese were made in Barnstead at an early period, clay\\nbeds from which to make tiiem being common, and very\\nsoon bricks began to take the place of rude unshapely\\nstones, with which were built the chimneys of the ancient\\nhouses. They were then burnt in kilns no machinery\\nbeing used, as now, in preparing them for the burning\\nprocess.\\nFIRST SAW MILL.\\nThis was situated on the Suncook. It carried an up and\\ndown saw and made but one cut at every revolution of the\\nwater wheel, but it furnished sufficient of boards and\\nplanks to supply the demands of this then scattered", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0205.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "170 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1863\\npeople. Their clapboards and shingles were rived from\\nthe rude but more clear forest material, mostly of the old\\nyellow centered pine, having neither wane nor knot for\\nman} feet of its length.\\nLabor was cheap, there being but little to do, which,\\nwould bring an immediate return in money. Yet they had\\nbut to work and wait as the farm and the forest, oper-\\nated upon by an economical industry would favor them,\\nand soon did yield to them a full supply and a cheerful\\nlivelihood.\\nFrom 25 to 40 cents would pay a laborer for his da^^ s\\nwork corn would bring but about 50 cents per bushel\\nhay S5 per ton a cow from $5 to $8 a horse from S20\\nto $40. Clothing was cheap, being home-made as above\\nstated, yet even at these low rates all enjo^-ed a compe-\\ntence none seemed to be in want.\\nIn later years the lumbering business increased, and\\nthe various products of the forests were from time to time\\nin different forms borne awa} to the market at the tide-\\nwaters or elsewhere, and these in time brought to the\\nfarmer a more competent cash return. The manufacturing\\nof barrels, firkins, pails, tubs, c., was by no means a\\nsmall business in the early days of Barnstead, as it brought\\nto its inhabitants a constant income, sometimes in articles\\nuseful to the household and sometimes in cash.\\nSHOES.\\nWithin the last thirty years much has been accom-\\nplished in this vicinity in the manufacture of shoes. The\\nmaterial stock being cut out, and boxed, in Lynn and other\\nlarge manufacturing towns, it is then transported here,", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0206.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "1863 TOWN POUND. 171\\ngiving employment to many men and women to a good\\nprofit.\\nAll this constituted a part of the home industry of\\nBarnstead, and although taken together, it has not always\\nafforded the most advantageous income, yet it has been\\nproductive of sweet contentment and a vigorous health,\\nsuch as is not often found in the mammoth mills of\\ncrowded cities, where such work is done under the labor\\nsavins inventions of later and more modern times.\\nTOWN POUND,\\nThe following record is on the town book in the year\\n1817:\\nIt was proposed to build a circular Pound, forty feet\\nin diameter, with a six-foot wall, seven feet high, to be\\nlocated near the brook by John Tasker s mill.\\nIt was put up at auction and bid off by Nathaniel\\nTasker at forty dollars and a bond was given to the\\nSelectmen by Tasker for a faithful performance of the\\nwork.\\nUnfortunately Tasker was taken sick and died. His\\nwidow petitioned for a release from the contract. The\\ntown voted not to exempt the widow Sally from building\\nthe Pound agreeable to the bond given to the Selectmen.\\nIt was therefore set up at auction again and bid off by\\nJoseph Pickering for $49. He afterwards fell back, and\\nMs forfeit was one dollar. It was again put up at auction", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0207.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "172 HISTORY OF BARXSTEAU. 1863\\nand was bid off by David Jacobs for $60. His bid was\\nalso given up, the one dollar being paid. It was again\\nset up, and was bid off by John Peavey, Esq., for $60,\\nwho o;ave his bond and built the Pound.\\nTOWN HALL.\\nThis is located at the Centre. It was erected in LS47,\\nand ever since the business of the town has been transacted\\nin this building. Pre\\\\ iousl3 the Selectmen had held their\\nmeetings in the different sections, mostly at private houses.\\nThe Town Hall has proved to l)e not only a great con-\\nvenience to the corporation as a public building, but as\\notherwise affording to the public acconnnodatious for the\\nvarious gatherings which are connnon to a country village.\\nSHEEP MARKING.\\nFormerly a farmer would have been regarded as neg-\\nlectful of duty, and destitute of econonn^ if he did not\\nraise his own wool, and manufacture his own cloth. Hence\\nevery farmer must necessaril} support a large flock, and\\nb}^ statute law he was held to keep his sheep properly\\nmarked. The marking was done by tlie barbarous fashion\\nof mutilating the ears. Thus for instance, in 1812, the", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0208.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "1872 ITS REPRESENTATIVES. 173\\nsheep-niark of Samuel Bickford, as appears on record,\\nwas a piece cut ott the right side of each ear, the ear\\nsharpened from each side of each ear thereof.\\nEach farmer had a different mark upon the ears of his\\nflock, so that if any were to stray from his fold and mingle\\nwith others, they might easily be identified and obtained.\\nREPRESENTATIVES TO THE LEGISLATURE.\\nCharles Hodgdon is the first on record and served from\\n1797 to 1821 inclusively, excepting the years 1800, 1801,\\n1802, 1803, 1815, 1817, 18U).\\nJohn Nutter in 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803.\\nNathaniel Wilson in 1815, 1816, 1817.\\nWilliam Walker, Jr., in 1819, 1822, 1824, 1827.\\nHereafter there was to be two Representatives annually.\\nJohn Peavey, Esq., 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826, 1828.\\nCharles Hodii don, 1823, 1845 Joshua B. Merrill, 1851, 1853\\nJohn Kaime, 1825, 1826 Wm. Jenkins, jr., 1852\\nJohn Kent, Esq., 1828 Thomas Proctor, 1851, 1852\\nIsaac O. Barnes, 1829, 1830 Isaac Garland. Jr.. 1853, 1854\\nSamuel Webster, 1829, 1830 John L. Nutter, 1854, 1855\\nGeorge Nutter, 1831, 1832 Seth Shackford, 1855, 185(5\\nWilliam H. Newall, 1831, 1832 Josh. M. Babcock, 1856, 1857\\nThos. P. Hodgdon, 1833, 1834 Joseph Nutter. 1857, 1858\\nSamuel Kainie, 1833, 1834 Alfred Bunker, 1858, 1859\\nSamuel G. Berry, 1835, 1836 Jacob B. Locke, 1859, 1860\\nWilliam S. Hill, 1835, 1836 Charles S. George, 1860, 1861\\nTimothy Dow, 1837, 1888 John McNeal, 1861, 1862\\nRichard Garland, 1837, 1838 Geo. W. Emerson, 1862, 1863", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0209.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "174 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nJoseph A. Walker, 1839, 1840 John Dorr, 1863, 1864\\nJoseph Jenkins, 1839, 1840 Horace N. Colebath, 1864\\nStephen Young, 1841, 1842 Daniel F. Davis, 1865, 1866\\nSamuel Rollins, jr., 1841, 1842 Charles H. Dorr, 1865, 1866\\nJonn Walker, 1843, 1844 Mark Walker, 1867, 1868\\nEnos George, 1843, 1844 Jona. M. Tasker, 1867, 1868\\nChas. Hodgdon, jr., 1845, 1846 William Proctor, 1869\\nJohn H. Collins, 1845, 1846 Jacob W. Evans, 1869\\nWilliam Grover, 1847, 1848 No Election in 1870\\nCharles Dudley, 1847, 1848 John F. Holmes, 1871, 1872\\nRobert S. Webster, 1849, 1850 Dau l E. Tuttle, 1871, 1872\\nEnoch Clark, 1849, 1850\\nSELECTMEN.\\nJohn Tasker, 1774, 1776, 1783\\nThomas Edgerly, 1774, 1776\\nBenjamin Nutter, 1774, 1775, 1777, 1778, 1780, 1782, 1783\\nRichard Ciuclair, 1775, 1777, 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1784\\nWiuthrop Smart, 1775, 1778, 1782\\nAndrew Drew, 1776\\nSamuel Pitman, 1777\\nWilliam Brown, 1778, 1781\\nJohn Drew, 1779\\nJonathan Emerson, 1779, 1780, 1784\\nRufus Ewers, 1781, 1794, 1795, 1798, 1799\\nCharles Hodgdon, 1783, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1792\\nEphraim Tebbetts, 1784\\nJonathan Chesley, 1785, 1788, 1789, 1791\\nJohn Nutter, Jr., 1785, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1891, 1792, 1793,\\n1794, 1800, 1809\\nLemuel Bickford, 1785\\nSamuel Nelson, 1786, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1797,\\n1800, 1801", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0210.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "1872 ITS SELECTMEN. 175\\nEbeiiezer Adams, 178G\\nMoses Rand, 1787\\nDependence Colebath, 1790\\nEphraim Tebbetts, 17!\u00c2\u00bb0\\nBeiijamiu Nutter, 1793, 1803\\nDauiel Drew, 1795, 1797. 1798, 1799\\nEzekiel Edgerly, 1796, 1800, 1808\\nCharles Hodgdon, Jr., 179G, 1802, 1803. 180G, 1817, 1822,\\n1824, 1826, 1827, 1828\\nJohn Jenkins, Jr., 179G, 1805, 1806, 1807, 1809\\nJames Lock, 1800, 1801, 1803\\nPeletiah Daniels, 1804:\\nJoseph Tasker, 1804, 1805, 1808\\nJames Brown, 1804, 1805\\nMoses Chesley. 1807, 1808, 1810\\nNathaniel Tasker, 1807, 1809, 1814, 1815\\nBenjamin Hodgdon, 1810, 1811\\nIsaac Garland, 1810, 1811\\nEliphalet Nutter, 1811, 1812, 1813, 1816, 1820\\nNathaniel Wilson, 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1820, 1821, 1823\\n^Villi im Walker, Jr 1812, 1813, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818,\\n1820, 1821, 1825\\nNoah Robinson, 1816, 1817, 1818\\nJohn Kaime, 1818, 1819, 1822\\nJohn B. Swasey, 1819\\nJeremiah Dow, 1819\\nSamuel Rollins, 1822, 1823\\nJohn Daniels, 1823, 1824, 1825, 1826\\nGeorge Nutter, 1824, 1825\\nThomas P. Hodgdon, 1826\\nSamuel J. Edgerly, 1827, 1828, 1834, 1835\\nTimothy Dow, 1828, 1829, 1830\\nRichard Garland, 1829, 1830\\nBenjamin Hoitt, 1830, 1831\\nSamuel G. Berry, 1831, 1832\\nWilliam S. Hill, 1831, 1832\\nOliver Demerit, 1832, 1833\\nDauiel McNeal, 1833, 1834", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0211.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "176 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nWilliam Nutter, 1833, 1834\\nJeremiah Clark, 1835, 1863\\nJacob Sauuders, 1835\\nCharles Dudley, 1836, 1837\\nJoseph Jeukius, 1836, 1837, 1838, 1847, 1848\\nArthur Bickford, 1836, 1837\\nSamuel Webster, 1838, 1839, 1840\\nStephen Young, 1838, 1839\\nSamuel Kaime, 1839, 1840, 1858, 1859\\nSewall Cilley. 1840, 1849\\n^ohu Walker, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1863, 1864\\n_Joseph Walker, 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844, 1857, 1858\\nDaniel Bickford, 1841\\nWilliam Berry, 1843\\nHazen Pickering, 1843, 1844\\nJoseph A. Walker, 1844\\nEnoch Clark, 1845, 1846\\nIsaac Garland, 1845, 1846\\nGeorge S. Roberts, 1845, 1846\\nJoshua B. Merrill, 1847, 1848, 1849\\nJosiah R. Shackford, 1847, 1848\\nJacob B. Locke, 1849, 1850\\nJohn L. Nutter, 1850, 1851\\nSamuel Bickford, 1850, 1851\\nSeth Shackford, 1851, 1852\\nHazen Wheeler, 1852, 1853\\nThomas Emerson, 1852, 1853\\nJohn Dow, 1853, 1854, 1867, 1868\\nCaleb Willey, 1854\\nCharles S. French, 1854, 1855\\nJohn McNeal, 1855, 1856\\nGeorge W. Emerson, 1855, 1856\\nSamuel D. Nutter, 1856, 1857\\nWilliam Proctor, 1857\\nWilliam S. Nutter, 1859. 1860, 1871, 1872\\nJacob W. Evans, 1859, 1860\\nNathaniel S. Nutter, 1860, 1861, 1871, 1872\\nJoseph D. Proctor, 1861, 1862", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0212.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "1S72 TOAVN CLERKS. 177\\nJohn N. Hoitt, 1861, 1862\\nHoratio G. Willey, 1862, 1863\\nCharles S. George, 1864, 1865\\nJoel S. Hall, 1864, 1865\\nGeorge W. Hodgdon, 1865, 1866\\nDavid H. Evaus, 18()6\\nPlumer Garland, 1866\\nJohnW. F. Locke, 1867, 1868, 1869, 1870\\nCharles E. Walker, 1867, 1868\\nJohn F. Holmes, 1869, 1870\\nJoseph P. Blaisdell, 1869, 1870\\nJohn F. Garland, 1871, 1872\\nTOWN CLERKS.\\nThe first Town Clerk of whom we have ai\\\\y record\\nwas Benjamin Nutter, elected in 1775. The record is in\\na fair liand. He remained in office up to 1781. Ilis suc-\\ncessors were\\nSanniel Nelson, from 1781 to 1784, inclusive.\\nJonathan Bunker, from 1785 to 1786, inclusive.\\nBenjamin Hodgdon, from 1787 to 1799, inclusive.\\nCharles Hodgdon, Jr., from 1800 to 1805, inclusive.\\nJeremiah Jewett, in 1806.\\nCharles Hodgdon, Jr., from 1807 to 1815, inclusive.\\nEnos George, from 1816 to 1858, inclusive.\\nCharles S. George, acted as Town Clerk in 1859.\\nHorace N. Colebath, in 1860.\\nCyrus W. Blauchard, in 1861.\\nCharles E. Walker, from 1862 to 1864, inclusive.\\nLevi C. Scrutton, in 1865.\\nJohn H. Hill, in 1866.\\nJohn E. Pendergast, from 1867 to 1868, inclusive.\\nGeorge Emerson, from 1869 to 1872, inclusive.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0213.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "178 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 187:\\nPOST-OFFICES.\\nTheir locatious are designated Barnstead, South\\nBarustead, Centre Barnstead, and Nortli Barnstead.\\nPrevious to about tlie year 1814 there had been no\\nPost-office here. The first was established on the Province\\nRoad, near the southwest corner of the town.\\nCharles Hodgdon, was the first Postmaster. He\\nwas succeeded by Charles Hodgdon, Jr., Charles J. Hodg-\\ndon, Noah Robinson, Samuel D. Nutter, but perhaps not\\nall in the same localit}-.\\nBARNSTEAD (pARADe) POST-OFFICE,\\nThe Postmasters have been Hazen Wheeler, Eliphalet\\nS. Nutter, Jonathan M. Tasker, Daniel Chesley, Joseph\\nP. Russell, and Cyrus W. Blanchard.\\nBARXSTEAD CENTRE POST-OFFICE.\\nPostmasters, Isaac O. Barnes, John Kent, Jeremiah\\nElkins, John Peavey, Dauiel Bickford, Noah C. Hun-\\ntress, E. C. Drew, Laban M. Saunders, Seth Tasker,\\nand Thomas M. Huse.\\nNORTH BARNSTEAD POST-OFFICE.\\nPostmasters, Samuel Webster, Thomas P. Hodgdon,\\nRobert S. Webster, Charles E. Walker, and William C.\\nBerry.\\nSOUTH BARNSTEAD POST-OFFICE.\\nPostmasters, Edward Walker, Charles Reynolds.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0214.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "1872\\nHUSKINGS.\\n179\\nJUSTICES OF THE PEACE.\\nJohn Cinclair,\\nJohn Tasker,\\nCharles Hodgdon,\\nJohn Nntter,\\nBenjamin Nutter,\\nBenjamin Hodgdon,\\nCharles Ilodgdon, jr\\nJoseph Tasker,\\nJohn Peavey,\\nCaleb Merrill,\\nWilliam Walker,\\nWilliam S. Hill,\\nHazen Pickering,\\nCharles S. George,\\nJohn W. P. Locke.\\nJohn Dow,\\nSamuel Webster,\\nIsaao 0. Barnes,\\nJei emiah Elkins\\nThomas P. Hodgdon,\\nJohn Bickford,\\nEliphalet Nutter,\\nMoses Norris,\\nGeorge Nutter,\\nPeletiah Daniels,\\nJohn II. Collins,\\nSamuel Kaime,\\nReuben Edgerly,\\nGeorge W. Ewers,\\nEichard Garland.\\nHUSKINGS.\\nFormerly as now, one of the largest crops produced in\\nNew Hampshire, was that of maize, known as Indian\\nCorn, as it has been called, the same being believed to be\\na native of this country. It was fonnd by the first settlers,\\nas raised b3 the Indians, and as seen by Columbus and\\nothers at their first landings. In New England it has ever\\nsince been more extensively^ cultivated than any other\\narticle. It cannot be raised in England to anj^ great\\nprofit, but in Asia and Africa the soil and climate for the\\nmost part is well adapted to its growth.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0215.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "180 HISTORY OF BAUNSTEAD.\\n1872\\nIn all countries it is now more or less used in various\\nways constituting a substantial diet. Almost everywhere\\nit is consumed in the feed of Iiogs, horses, and cattle, and\\noften takes the i)lace of fuel in some parts of the great\\nwest. It is raised there in largo quantities and at the\\nsmall cost of a few cents per bushel. The new lands of\\nthe country are well suited to its growth, and no article of\\nproduce affords an abundant return with more certainty\\nthan a crop of corn. Of this the poor in our early days\\ncould always obtain a supply, as it grew abundantly, and\\na little labor would command it. How common it was\\nthen to see peering through the log cabin from six to ten\\nrosy, red cheeked urchins with tangled hair, all in the\\nbloom of health, living daily as they did almost entirely\\non this most nutritive diet, and from month to month\\nscarcely knowing a change from the corn and pork which\\nthe father had raised and fattened. All over the large\\nfields,- then, in the montli of October, could be seen the\\nbeautiful ears of yellow corn enveloped with dry husks\\nfully ripe and fit for the garner.\\nIt was the work for the husbandman for days, to gather\\nthe harvest of these fields, and to deposit the unhusked\\ncorn in huge piles along the spacious floors of his barn.\\nThis being done, the farmer, as if to join in a general\\nthanksgiving, would extend to the old, the young, and the\\nmiddle aged, an invitation to come to his husking.\\nAt the evening appointed, they would come from afar\\nby the scores, and after the common greetings were passed\\neach would be conducted to the great pile, the same being\\nlighted up brilliantly, usually with wooden chandeliers\\nfilled with candles. The young men and the modest young\\nmaidens usually appropriated to themselves such seats as", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0216.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "THE OLD HOMESTEAD,", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0219.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0220.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "1872 HUSKINGS. 181\\nseemed most agreeable to them, while the older and more\\nsedate would seat themselves., men and women, promiscu-\\nously at the heaviest part of the heap, all working their\\nfingers energetically, and all amusing themselves in con-\\nversation, story, and song, which usually increased to a\\nnoisy liilarit} as the heap diminished.\\nThe boys and girls will of course crack their jokes.\\nAnd when a red-ear was husked, then b}^ the laws of the\\ncraft, the finder had a right to greet his favorite lady with\\na kiss. This law was usually promptly enforced, although\\nour lads of the ruder class would sometimes incur the\\npenalty of a box on the side of the head, or of being buried\\nup in the husks.\\nAfter all the heaps are husked, then all the guests\\nrepair to the mansion, where tlie old tashioned fire-place\\nis ablaze with a rousing fire, and where long extended tables\\nare set, standing upon the sanded floors, and upon which\\nthe various viands that make up a sumptuous feast are\\ndisplayed and devoured, and Avhich alwa3 s follow the husk-\\ning out of the corn.\\nThen the lively reel and contra dance succeed, well-\\ntimed by the fiddler, suspended, liowever, occasionally, to\\nhear a story of the olden time from tlie experience of age,\\nor to listen to a song from some fair maiden, all enjoying\\nthe occasion, and each contributing a share to its enter-\\ntainment thus on until the striking of the old clock,\\nannouncing the short hours of the night, admonishes the\\ncompany that the pleasures of the husking season are post-\\nponed to the next succeeding year.\\nThe harvest and the husking of the corn have been\\ncelebrated thus", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0221.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "182 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21872\\nMeanwhile the field assumes a spiky form.\\nThe time hath come to gather in the corn\\nOn hand the laborers, on hand the cart,\\nThe lads are all aglee to take a part\\nFor now they know when eve approaches near\\nTwill bring that joyful husking of the year.\\nAll now one purpose faithfully fulfil,\\nThe rustling ears are luinied from the hill\\nWith ardent zeal; and flushed with hopeful joys.\\nAbove the standing stalks both men and boys,\\nHigh on their shoulders crowded baskets wield.\\nThe heavy harvest carted from the field.\\nThey pile in heaps within the grating door\\nThroughout the spacious barn and kitchen floor\\nAt eve there then the guests all seated down,\\nFrom every cottage home in all the town,\\nSome old, some young, and some quite lately born\\nVie with each other husking out the corn\\nIn social chat and merry song they keep\\nThe golden ears fast flying from the heap,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0While startled oft the seated crowd appear\\nAt lucky swains who find a crimsoned ear;\\nFor in such luck, tis never deemed amiss\\nTo go the rounds and give the maids a kiss.\\nThe sprightly boys with bending baskets borne,\\nRemove the husks and bear away the corn.\\nThen comes the hour that gathers large supplies.\\nOf apple-dowdies and of pumpkin pies.\\nThen bends the board with viands, fruit and wine.\\nAll hail that gleeful hour, the olden time\\n{Caverly s 3Iei-rimac, p. 57-8.]\\nNATIVE FRUITS.\\nLong before the white man invaded the Indian haunts\\nalong these valleys, bountiful crops of fruits and berries\\nseldom failed. Berries in profusion and in great varieties", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0222.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "1872 NATIVE FRUITS.\\n183\\nsupplied the natives, and fed myriads of birds that enliv-\\nened the dark forest with the melody of their songs.\\nAPPLE TREES.\\nThe apple grew spontaneously, affording in its varie-\\nties some of its choicest specimens. Then, as now,\\naltliough in a much less degree, it flourished and was\\nknoAvn throughout New England. Yet its production\\nhere is always subject to great fluctuations. The apple\\ncrop in the valley of tlie Suncook since the year 1829, has\\nvery much declined. The once beautiful orchards of that\\nlocality, then of thrifty growth, bearing well, have given\\nway, and much less of fruit is obtained. Apple trees in\\nthe woods sometimes grew to the height of sixty feet, but\\nin the open orchard, well cultivated, they expand into\\ntheir natural dimensions and produce more fruit.\\nMuch has been done within the last fifty years in graft-\\ning upon the old stocks nature s best varieties, so that the\\ntown is now very well supplied with the choicest kinds\\nof this, the best of all fruits, though on the whole not in so\\ngreat an abundance as formerl}\\nPEARS, PEACHES, CHERRIES, C.\\nPeaches will not flourish here, the climate being too\\ncold for them. Pears, plums, cherries, native grapes, and\\nnuts flourish well generally. The blue-berry, black-berry,\\nstraw-berry and rasp-berry are natives to this soil and\\ngrow in profusion. Chestnuts and walnuts are less abun-\\ndant. The oak with its burden of acorns is attractive to\\nthe chip, the red, and the gray squirrel, to which they in\\nthe fall resort for a supply to their varied favorite winter\\nquarters.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0223.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "184 IIISTOKY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nThe low blue-berry bush grows upon the rocky hillside,\\nand in other waste places, and yet it is filled with rich and\\nearly fruit. These berries are often gathered in large\\nquantities and sent to the city markets, where the^ usually\\nfind a profitable sale. This fruit gathering tends to inuure\\nthe women and children to habits of industry and economy,\\npromoting health and leading to long life. During the\\nfruit season hundi eds of bushels of berries are thus collected\\nand sent to the city markets, by which a rough pasture in\\nsome instances, is made (juite as profitable as the culti-\\nvated field.\\nTHE POTATO.\\nThe first account had of this plant was of some roots\\nfound in Virginia, in 1597, and which were, as a curiosity,\\nsent from there to England and planted in a gentleman s\\ngarden. It is said Sir Walter Raleigh on his return from\\nthis country, at about that time introduced them in Ireland.\\nThe Irish were slow to introduce them, having at first an\\nunfavorable estimation of their value, but afterwards be-\\ncame great admirers of them. In England they were still\\nmore tard} in introducing them.\\nOne writer said they were nearly like the Jerusalem\\nartichoke, but not so good nor so wholesome that they\\nshould be roasted and sliced and might be eaten with sauce\\ncomposed of wine and sugar. The more wealthy were in-\\nclined to regard them as food for the poorer classes who\\nhad not the means of obtaining the more common and\\ncostly articles.\\nColumbus, in his early voyages, carried them into Spain\\nand was the means of planting them there at an early\\nperiod. Although of slow introduction, the uses and im-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0224.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "1872 GEOLOGY. 185\\nportance of this tuber, has given it a wide spread, far\\nbe3^ond all other esculents, so that it has now become one\\nof the great crops of England, Ireland, Spain, and Russia,\\nand is raised more or less in almost every other country.\\nIf no other benefits had accrued to the old world by the\\ndiscovery of the new, the corn and potatoes found here\\nwould have afforded to the adventurer a full and complete\\ncompensation.\\nThe dry soil of Barnstead is well adapted to the pro-\\nduction of this most healthy and cheap diet, in all of its\\nbest and most bountiful varieties. It supplies itself, and\\nfrom 3 ear to year affords large quantities to various mar-\\nkets of the seaport towns.\\nGEOLOGY.\\nThere is no mountain range passing through this town,\\nnor is there any direct up-heaving of the earth s surface,\\nindicating volcanic eruptions, by which the baser metals\\nare sometimes made discoverable, but as it seems the\\naqueus element in primeval times settled here, concealing\\nat least to some extent many of the more prominent\\nmaterials often found in New England by explorers in\\nGeology.\\nDr. Charles T. Jackson, in his geological survey made\\nseveral years since, represents Barnstead as being rough\\nand hilly, but as having a good soil, its rocks being alter-\\nnations of a very coarse feldspathic granite, with gneiss\\nand mica slate, loose masses of basaltic trap rock on its\\n24", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0225.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "186 HISTORY OF I5ARNSTEAU. 1872\\nmain road leading through it from Pittsfield. Speci-\\nmens of phimbago were obtained as fonnd in the ledges,\\non the farm of Jonathan Keniston. Also on the Tuttle\\nfarm, one-fourth of a mile west from Centre Barnstead, a\\nbog iron ore is found beneath the turf, covering nearl}^ an\\nacre of ground.\\nAlso in the east part of the town oii the land of\\nSamuel Garland, bog iron ore is found on the slope of a\\nhill forming a crust of two or three inches in thickness\\nand interlaid by hard pan.\\nIt is not sufficiently abundant for a furnace but serves\\nwell when ground for paint. Yellow ochre is found on tlie\\ntown farm, but whether any attempt to collect and work\\nthese ores would l)e profitable is a question of much uncer-\\ntainty.\\nThere are now and then in Bai nstead granite boulders,\\nwhich, according to the theory of Agassiz and others, were\\ndropped where they now rest by the immense icebergs\\nwhich were thrown over the country from North to South,\\nleaving on the way also great (quantities of trap and otlier\\nmaterials. Much of our soil is pebbly and sandy l)ogs\\nand claj-ey soils do not abound. In the four towns bor-\\ndering on this are the Blue-hills, Catamount and Gunstock\\nMountains, which are much higher than any part of Barn-\\nstead, and these high mountain ranges loom np, making it\\nan uneven valley between them, through which the beautiful\\nSuncook and its trilnitaries wind their way onward to the\\nMerrimac and to the ocean.\\nEARTIl-QUAKES.\\nPerhaps no greater shaking of the earth has been felt\\nin this vicinity than on Nov. 28, 1814. It was in the", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0226.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "1872 EARTH-QUAKES. 187\\nevening, there was about two inches of snow upon the\\nground, the weather was fair and cold, not a cloud being\\nin sight to cover the glittering light of the stars. We\\nwere sitting in tiie kitclien of the farm house, the fire fair\\nblazing in the old fashioned chimney. In front of it sat two\\nyoung ladies reading by tlie light of a candle, and a small\\nboy six years old leaning over the back of his chair nearly\\nasleep. These were all, and silence prevailed.\\nAll at once a distant rumbling is heard, like wheels over\\nfrozen ground it seemed to approach nearer, the rumb-\\nling became louder, witli a gushing noise lilve a mighty\\nwind, shaking the house, the long row of pewter plates\\nstanding on edges, and crockery rattling and shaking,\\nevery door seeming as if some one was at the latch trying\\nto get in, and the windows apparently trying to get open.\\nSuch a terrible clatter startled the two ladies from their\\nseats, who took for the street in the shortest route, and\\nthence to the nearest doorway of a neighbor.\\nThe boy in his friglit landed in the midst of the nearest\\nwood-pile of brush, and being hurt bellowed vociferously,\\nso that he might have been taken as the counterpart to the\\nearthquake. The villagers were all out viewing the stars,\\nand earnesth telling each other what tlie^ heard and how\\nthe shake appeared to them severally, all acting as if in\\na momentary expectation of another \u00e2\u0096\u00a0earth-shaker. At\\nlength all returned to their houses, which had been vacated\\nthus unceremoniously, and to this day the inhabitants of\\nthe Suncook Valley have not forgotten the shake of that\\nnight.\\nThe great earthquake of 1727, nearly a hundred years\\nearlier, was described in a sermon by Rev. Nath. Gook-\\nin, who then resided in New Hampshire. He says", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0227.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "188 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nTlie shake was heard and attended by a most terrible\\nnoise, somewhat like thunder, the liouses trembled some-\\nthing as if they were falling, divers chimneys were cracked\\nsome had their tops broken off.\\nWhen the shake was beginning some persons observed\\na flash of light at their windows, and one or two saw\\nstreams of liglit. The sea was observed to roar in an\\nunusual manner. The earth broke open near the south\\nbounds of the town (as it did in other divers places) and\\ncast up a very tine and blue sand. It is hard to express\\nthe consternation that fell on both man and beast at the\\ntime of the great shock. The brute creation were roaring\\nabout the fields as in the greatest distress and making\\nnoises much surprised and some of them as if in great\\nterror.\\nAnother writer describes this earthquake of 1727 thus\\nOct 30. At 10 o clock at night. The earthquake\\nshook both ye land and ye water, the islands and the seas\\nat that degree that several doors were shook otf ye latch.\\nIn our village (Nantucket) ye hearth stones grated ye one\\nagainst the other, and that Carr the boat-builder run out\\nof his house, got into ye boat for fear 3 e island would sink.\\nIt is generall}- understood that earthquakes are the result\\nof explosions within the earth, and that they proceed from\\nthe pent-up melted materials within it, which sometimes\\nupheave and ventilate, creating excavations or cracks in\\nits outer crust. In some localities they are felt ranch more\\nsensibly than in this latitude, proving at times destructive\\nto life and property, even to the shaking down of a whole\\ncity or ingulfing it in its ruins.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0228.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "1872 ITS CLIMATE. 189\\nCLIMATE.\\nAt all seasons in this latitude the weather is variable\\nso that a constant change of clothing is necessary at almost\\nall times in order to insure good health.\\nThe husbandman, though generally well compensated\\nfor his industiy, has nuich with which to contend. The\\nextreme droughts of June and July sometimes trouble him\\nin this valley as well as fatal frosts, which sometimes in-\\nvade his domain in the early autumn, and to a consideraljle\\nextent lay waste his fields of vegetation. The season of\\nplanting is from the tenth of May to the first of June, and\\nsometimes the copious rains of spring extend into this\\nperiod and greatly retard the work and diminish his pros-\\npects of a fruitful harvest.\\nThe year 1769 was a cold season. It very much dis-\\ncouraged the settlers. Frosts were seen in every month\\nof the year. But little hay was raised and generally there\\nwas but little vegetation. Corn, the principal cereal, was\\nnearly all killed in its vigor, and the hopes of the husband-\\nman were made faint.\\nIn 1770, the year next after the cold summer, winter\\ncame in intensely cold, and so remained with very deep\\nsnows for forty days in succession.\\nIn 1806 on the 16th of June at 10 o clock, A. M., a\\ncold chill visited New England, caused by a total eclipse\\nof the sun the only one it can have during the present\\ncentury. The darkness that then covered the face of the\\nearth was impressive, that day became night, stars made\\ntheir appearance in the heavens, domestic fowls perched\\nthemselves upon their roosts, the conscious cattle forsook", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0229.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "190 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nthe pastures in quest of home, and all nature appeared to\\nclothe itself in a serene solemnity.\\nJanuar}- 19, 1810, was what has been termed the cold\\nFrida3\\\\ Previously there had been a succession of cold\\ndays, the snow being deep and in drifts. On this da} the\\nwind was bleak, blowing strong from the northwest,\\ncreating a cold too intense for man to endure with ordinary\\nclothing.\\n1815.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The winter of this year was memorable for its\\ndeep snows. In some parts of New England it fell in the\\nwoods to the depth of eight feet. It held on late, and on\\nthe 19th of May snow fell to the depth of eight inches and\\nthe atmosphere at the time was quite cold.\\n181 G. During this 3 ear frosts now and then were\\nfound in the valle} of the Suncook all summer. There\\nwas a snow storm in June. This year in its cold and\\ndearth was very much the same as 1769. There was no\\ncorn and but little ha} so that in winter the cattle died\\nand the inhabitants were covered deep in dearth and dis-\\nappointments. The price of corn then was two dollars per\\nItushel, hay thirty dollars per ton, and every other needful\\nthing was held in about the same proportion.\\nThe cheapest food was souglit. A pint of beans with\\nsix quarts of water well boiled, was called bean por-\\nridge. This was one of the best dishes of that da}\\nThose who could afford it, however, sometimes added to it\\na small piece of beef, for in many instances their cattle\\nhad to be killed to prevent starvation. This year many a\\nfamily went without bread for weeks in succession. In\\nsome parts of Vermont on June 7, 1816, it began to snow\\nand continued until the 9th, when it froze all day. At\\nsunset icicles were three feet in length. On September 9,\\nfollowing, water froze half an inch thick.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0230.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "1872\\nTHE WEATHER.\\n191\\n1819. Very different was the winter of tliis 3^ear. It\\nwas without snow, there was plenty of rain anJ many mild\\ndays. Farmers plowed and sowed their fields in February\\nand March.\\nIn 182G provisions were again scarce and prices ranged\\nhigli. On Dec. 30, the mercur} ranged 25\u00c2\u00b0 below zero.\\nJanuary 30, 1830, proved to be the coldest day in New\\nEngland since the cold Frida}^ of 1^10.\\nThe year 1832 was productive of much good sleighing.\\nThe extremes of heat and cold for a series of years\\nwere as follows\\nABOVE ZERO. FIRST FR08T.\\nHELOW ZERO.\\n.July 20, 92\\nJuly 0, 92\\nJuly 11, 93\\nJune 30, 92\\nJuly 12, 95\\nNumber an(l depth of snows from 1831 to 1839 inclu-\\nsively\\n1821, January 25, 20\\n1822, January 2-1, 20\\n1823, January 7, 14\\n1824, February 5, 25\\n1825, December 13, IS\\nSeptember 29,\\nSeptember 18,\\nSeptember 22,\\nSeptember 20,\\nSeptember 20.\\nNO.\\nFT.\\nIN.\\n1831,\\n53,\\n0,\\n4,\\n18.32,\\n54,\\n6,\\n3,\\n1833,\\n53,\\n9,\\n11,\\n1234,\\n51,\\n10,\\n9,\\n1835,\\n68,\\n11,\\n4,\\nNO.\\nFT.\\nIN\\n183C,\\n9,\\n0,\\n4,\\n18.37.\\n:i,\\ns.\\n0,\\n18.38,\\n60,\\n4,\\n5,\\n18.39,\\n57,\\n5.\\n9,\\n1843,\\n0.\\n0.\\nIt is believed the coldest day in New England within\\nthe memory of man was Saturda}^ January 24, 1857.\\nThe day next before it had been even colder than the cold\\nFriday of 1810, but this Saturday for its degree of inten-\\nsity surpassed them both. At Dover, N. II., the mercury\\nat sunrise stood 31\u00c2\u00b0 below zero, at Lowell, Mass., 25\u00c2\u00b0 be-\\nlow, at Tyngsboro Mass., 31\u00c2\u00b0 below, at Bangor, Maine,\\n44\u00c2\u00b0 below, at White River Junction, and AVoodstock, Vt.,\\n43\u00c2\u00b0 below, at Calais, Me., 39\u00c2\u00b0 below, and at Montpelier,", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0231.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "192 HISTORV OF BAHXSTEAD. 1872\\nVt., the mercury fell to 50\u00c2\u00b0 below and congealed. But\\nthe weather moderated during the day.\\nThe hottest da}- in New England is supposed to have\\nbeen Wednesday, July 15, 18G8. At Lowell, Mass., the\\nmercury rose to 101\u00c2\u00b0 in the shade and remained nearly as\\nhigh during the da}\\nSANITARY INFLUENCES,\\nHealth, bri^ditest visitant of Heaven,\\nWith tliee oil let me rest.\\nIn thy allotted years of nature given.\\nBe thou my constant guest.\\nThe Suncook River from its source in the Guustoek\\nMountain range on the west side of Winnipesaugee Lake\\nto its terminus in the Merrimac, is some more than fifty\\nmiles in length. It runs at the rate of three miles per\\nhour so that in less than twenty-four hours its waters are\\nchanged and a new supply is constantly approaching. In\\nits onward course it passes through Gilford, Gilmanton,\\nLower Gilmanton, Barnstead, Pittsfield, Epsom and Pem-\\nbroke, after receiving the contents of the various ponds,\\nand all the springs from the highlands, it moves on and\\noperates as a complete drainage to the counties of Belknap\\nand Merrimac.\\nIn its approach to Barnstead from the northwest enter-\\ning the thirty-six square miles of its territory, it meanders\\nonward forming in it two beautiful ponds of water, cover-\\ning a thousand of its acres, making a narrow inlet between\\nthem then leaving the ponds it takes a circuitous sweep\\naround through the centre of the vale, thence onward to\\nthe great river Merrimac and to the sea.\\nThe flow of the stream is quite uniform, its banks being\\ngi avell} and free from stagnant pools no impurities are", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0232.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "1872 SANITARY INFLUENCES. 193\\nleft upon the landscape to engender disease or to load the\\natmosphere with unpleasant effluvia. The soil along its\\nbanks is for the most part a gravelly loam, laden in some\\nplaces with loose granite boulders which the half frozen\\naqueous currents from the north at some day had dropped\\nthere.\\nThe valley of the Suncook in the north part of the town\\nwas formerly covered with dense forests of oak, and the\\nmore southern parts were shaded with pines of mammoth\\ndimensions. Its timbeis in times past have been of great\\nuse in the furnishing of masts and in the building of ships.\\nAside from these, the original growth in many places was\\nmade up of beach, birch, maple, spruce and hemlock. But\\nthe valley of tlie Suncook has long since been sliorn of its\\nrich groves. The woodman s axe is no longer heard there.\\nYet the plow and the sickle at this day encourage the\\nfarmer with their constant returns his heart is made glad\\nby the bleatings of his flocks as well as by the voice of the\\nmeandering, beautiful Suncook.\\nHealth and long-life are common to Barnstead. Its\\nfirst settlers cultivated the spirit of toil, endurance, and\\ncontentment, to which may be attributed the general\\nlongevity that attended them. Up to the j ear 1830 the\\nrate of mortality here was far below4he common average.\\nIn 1819 and 1820, however there were a few cases of spot-\\nted fever, of which two brothers by tiie name of Hall\\ndied. These young men on the da}- before they fell sick,\\non coming from the barn to tlie house, said they discovered\\na strange odor in the atmosphere.\\nConsumption carries off generally at least one tliird\\npart of the inhabitants of our towns and cities, but in this\\ntown such disease is much less frequent.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0233.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "194 HISTORY Ol BAKNSTEAD. Ib72\\nIn 1853 the population of Barn.stead was 1870 aud at\\nthat time there were then living in it seventy-seven per-\\nsons whose ages averaged 8-i j-ears.\\nSEPTEMBER GALE.\\n.Sept. 2o^ 1815, Barnstead was visited with the greatest\\ngale in the midst of rain and storm, ever known there.\\nMen and houses were injured, sheds were unroofed, fences\\nblown down, and in many places the tall pines were laid\\nlevel to the earth. The old primeval forest, some of which\\nto that time had remained, which had stood the storms of\\ncenturies, and had been the resting places of the summer\\nbird in the far by-gone years, were at once laid prostrate\\nwith up-turned roots. Hundreds of acres of valuable lum-\\nber along the valley of the Suncook fell in this gale. In\\nmany places it had to be burned and wast.ed in order to\\nrid the soil of its incumbrance.\\nAt that time there was but little call for boards, clap-\\nboards or shingles i^ the market for this reason they\\nwere of but little profit, except for home use. The best of\\nclear boards here at that time brought about $4 per M, at\\nDover or Durham $8, and clear rived shingle only about\\n$1.75. Hence this gale brought much damage to the lum-\\nbermen. It appeared in its greatest severity along the\\ncentral part of New Hampshire, doing much damage all\\nthe way, as it swept onward from south to north.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0234.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "1872\\nITS LONG LIFP:,\\nl9o\\nLONGEVITY\\nIn the year 1853 the following (76) persons were then\\nliving in Barnstead, all of whom, as appears, were 7; years\\nof age and upwards\\nSamuel York, 82\\nCharles Hodgdon, 89\\nMoses Hodgdon, 76\\nMrs. M. Hodgdon, 80\\nJosiali Pendergast, 83\\nSolomon Pendergast. 77\\nMrs. S. Pendergast, 70\\nMiss Sally Pendergast. 89\\nMoses Cliesley. 79\\nMrs. M. Chesley, 77\\nJohn Peavey, 79\\nIsaac Garland, 80\\nMrs. I. Garland, 79\\nJohn Colebath, 87\\nJonathan Keniston, 77\\nMrs. J. Keniston, 75\\nLevi Clark, 79\\nMrs. L. Clark, 78\\nJeremiah Clark, 81\\nMrs. J. Clark, 80\\nJacob Willey. 86\\nMrs. J. Willey, 80\\nMoses Bickford, 89\\nJeremiah Davis, 90\\nJacob Canney, 89\\nJethro Nutter, 90\\nIsaac Willey, 78\\nJohn Pitman, 88\\nSamuel Hill. 77\\nMrs. S. Hill, 75\\nEbenezer Muucy, 81\\nMrs. E. Muncy, 7\\nStephen Hnzzj 75\\nMi S. S. Huzzy, 75\\nJohn Nutter, 75\\nThomas Snell, 77\\nNathaniel Adams, 82\\nJoseph P. Nutter, 76\\nJohn Tebbetts, 82\\nSamuel Bunker, 80\\nMrs. S. Bunker, 79\\nSimeon Lougee, 76\\nSamuel Caswell, 90\\nMrs. S. Caswell. 88\\nMrs. T. AVilson, 82\\nMrs. Eunice Straw, 77\\nMrs. Hitty Drew, 80\\nMrs. Deborah Rollins, 84\\nMrs. Lydia Shackford, 83\\nMrs. Oliver Daviy, 90\\nMrs. Betsey Littlefield, 87\\nMrs. Sally Drew, 84\\nMrs. Betsey Jacobs, 75\\nMrs. Lovey Bunker, 76\\nMrs. Nancy Bickford, 78\\nMrs. Dorothy Edgerly, 86", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0235.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "19fi mSTOKY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nJonah ritmau, 7G Mrs. Betsey Newall, 89\\nMrs. J. Pitmau, 75 Mrs. Patty Drew, 94\\nJohu Saiiboru, 78 Mrs. Hannah Bcri-j-, 7C\\nMiss Ann Davis, 83 INIrs. Esther Durgin, 89\\nMiss Jane Muncy, 76 Mrs. Nancy Place, 82\\nMiss Sally Nutter, 76 Mrs. Susan Babb, 77\\nMiss Elsey Pitman. 75 Mrs. Dorothy Nutter, 87\\nMrs. Mary Hodgdon, 76 Mrs. Mary Pickering, 87\\nMrs. Tempereuce Jewett, 82 Mrs. Elizabeth Roberts, 86\\nMrs. Abigail Ayers, 77 Mrs. Susan Durgiu, 89\\nMrs. Joseph Bunker died in 1817, aged 107 years, and\\nSamuel Caswell died in 18G5, aged 107 years.\\nOf this number forty were over fourscore years, five\\nwere over ninety, forty-six were females, twenty-seven\\nwere widows, three were maiden ladies, and sixteen had\\nhusbands.\\nOf the males thirtj -seven were married, and one a\\nbachelor. Five of them averaged 102 years the eldest\\nwas 107, the youngest 99. It is believed no town in New\\nEngland for health and longevity sustains a better record.\\nCASUALTIES.\\n1790. A murder is surmised, a stranger is missing,\\nhis horse feeds by the way-side near John Drew s barn,\\nbut the rider is lost, and never found.\\n1808. Benjamin Brown, from Collins boat, upset in\\nthe Suncook, and was drowned.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0236.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "1872 CASUALTIES. 197\\n1812 The house and barn of Wm. Lord in a cold night\\nis consumed bj^ fire.\\n1813. Samuel Rand s house takes fire and is consumed.\\n181-1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nov. 28, a great earthquake happens.\\n1815. The bones of a supposed murdered man are\\nfound near Centre Barnstead.\\n1815. The great -September gale unroofs our dwell-\\ning houses and destroys the pine forest.\\n1818. Mrs. P. Young, while on horseback, fell from\\nthe saddle and was killed by the fall.\\n1820. Mrs. J. Clark, residing in the east of the town,\\nwas killed by lightning.\\n1824. A child of Timothy Bunker was drowned in a\\npool of water.\\n1826. Mrs. J. Bunker committed suicide in her own\\nhouse.\\n1828. Joseph Peavey,the only son of John, was killed\\nat his father s grist mill. The revolving mill-stone split\\nin two pieces, was thrown upon him, killing him instantly.\\n1829. Isaac E. Goodwin hanged himself in Nutter s\\nwoods. Eight months elapsed before the body was found.\\nThe joints in this time had extended, increasing its length\\nnearlj^ a foot and a half. He is said to have been insane.\\n1832. John Sanborn, the son of Frank, from Gilman-\\nton, leaving his team here, jumped into a well and was\\ndrowned.\\n1834. Capt. George Chesley fell under the wheels of\\na hea^y ox-cart and was killed instantly.\\n1834. A man by the name of Davis drowned himself\\nin the Suncook, near the Parade.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0237.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "198 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\n1840. The house, barn, and out-buiklings of Rev.\\nEnos George, together with the house, barn, and shop of\\nJohn Kaime, were consumed by fire, at mid-day. The fire\\ntook from a flash of lightning.\\n1842. George Stevens drowned himself in the Sun-\\ncook. _\\n1,S45. A son of the late Timoth3^ Bunker fell into a\\nwheel-pit at Manchester, and was killed.\\n1850. The old Robinson Tavern house, owned by S.\\nD. Nutter, with all its stables and sheds, was consumed\\nby fire.\\nBONES.\\nAbout the yetxv 1812, while the farmers were at work\\non the highway extending its width, they plowed up a\\nskeleton. A man had obA-iously been buried there not\\nlong previously by a murderer, who had sought conceal-\\nment in that tliicket by the waysifle.\\nThis event caused much excitement, the bones were\\nnot re-buried, but were taken to the porch of the Parade\\nChurch, and being deposited under its stairs, remained\\nthere for identification for many months. They served in\\nthe mean time as a common bugbear to the people of the\\nneighborhood, impressing them with tragical adventures\\nand bloody deeds and for a long time the bludgeon of the\\nmurderer, the dying groan, and the spirit of the dead man\\nstill seemed in sight, hovering over these tragic bones.\\nIn the course of a 3xar or two this skeleton w^as ob-\\ntained by a lady from abroad whose husband had disap-\\npeared mysteriously at about the time of the supposed\\nmurder, and who had uever returned. Many years will\\nelapse e er the bones beneath the stair-way will cease to be\\nremembered.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0238.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "1872 ASTRONOMICAL. 199\\nCOMETS.\\nComets are aseertained to be large opaque bodies\\nmoving around the sun in various directions and in very\\neccentric orbits. Tliey are wonderful in their motion\\nand appearance, coming and going some returning but\\nonce in 75, some in 100, and some in 1.50 years, there\\nbeing no particular uniformity as to their times of return-\\ning. Formerly the} were regarded l)}^ the superstitious as\\nbeing the harbingers of pestilence, war or famine, filling\\nthe timid mind with fearful forebodings for the safety of\\nthe state, the throne, or the nation. But in our day they\\nare viewed difterently. In the time of Nero one was visi-\\nble at Rome, appearing in the heavens as large as the sun\\nitself. It was said also by the Astronomer Hevelius, that\\na comet appeared in 1652, which in size was not less than\\nthe moon, though its light was pale and dim. There are\\nsome hundreds of them. Their orbits though more ellip-\\ntical than those of the planets, can be calculated with some\\ndegree of certainty. The tail of the comet sometimes ex-\\ntends an immense distance across the heavens, but does\\nnot thus continue for many da3 s. Its length, however, ap-\\npears longer or shorter, according to the location from\\nwhich it is viewed.\\nThe comet of 1664 was visible three months, and cre-\\nated many superstitious apprehensions among our New\\nEngland settlers. Although the coming of the comets, as\\nthe world grows older, brings less of surprise, yet they\\nalwaj s are, and probably always will be looked at with", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0239.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "200 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nwonder, each of itself, as it approaches, atfording to the\\nworld a subject of curious speculation.\\nThe comet of 1843 was seen in the day time by the\\neditor of this work, at Limerick Village, Maine. The fol-\\nlowing is copied from his note book of that date\\nFeb. 28, 1843. The great comet makes its appear-\\nance east of the sun at 11 o clock, A. M. It is seen by\\nthe naked eye and its train is very conspicuous. In the\\nevening it is seen from 7 to 9 o clock, its tail extending\\nfrom the west (as it followed the sun down), towards the\\nsoutheast, a distance of nearly 70\u00c2\u00b0, the nucleus or body\\nof the comet not being seen, having gone down. This\\ntrail extending back, each succeeding evening as above\\ndescribed, is seen up to April 5, 1843. The motion of this\\ncomet in passing around the sun was from west to east.\\nNoah Webster saj^s When the Comet is westward of\\nthe sun and rises or sets before it, the light appears in the\\nmorning like a train, beginning at the bod^ of the Comet,\\nand extending westward and diverging in proportion to its\\nextent. Thus the comet of 1769, (which lie saw), when\\nit rose in the morning presented a luminous train that ex-\\ntended nearl}^ from the horizon to the meridian.\\nThe comet of November, 1680, first seen in Boston,\\nexhibited a long trail and continued visible until the 24th\\nof January, 1681. The record which the colonists then\\nmade of it runs as follows\\nSince it is that those things are not sent for nothing,\\nthough man cannot say particularly for what they are\\nthought by most people to be fore-runners of evil coming\\nupon the world, though some think, otherwise.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0240.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "1872 ORNITHOLOGICAL. 201\\nBIRDS.\\nVernal songsters all In chorus,\\nWarbling through the matin hour.\\nPerhaps there is no place where these almost domestic\\nand beautifully plumaged choristers can be found in great-\\ner profusion than along the verdant banks of the Suncook,\\nand around the wooded recesses of the ponds of Barnstead.\\nBLUE BIRD.\\nThe blue bird coming about the middle of March is the\\nharbinger of Spring. The robin follows soon, and then in\\nflocks they come, until the groves are made joyfully vocal\\nwith the melody of their music. How oft have we waited\\nthere, how oft have we listened, entranced by their ten\\nthousand warblings, chanting their lovely notes as if upon\\na double quiver scale, in solo, in duett, and in chorus, they\\nhad been trained of angels\\nROBIN.\\nAt morn the robin red-breast is early awake he is con-\\nstantly a favorite, seeking our shade-trees and orchards\\nis always prone to feast on our bounty, never failing as if in\\na returned favor to make us his melodious, friendly calls,\\nawakening us to the inspirations of the day, and leading us\\nby a noble example, to the varied duties incidental to a\\nhappy and cheerful life.\\nWHIP-POOR-WILL.\\nAt eve we are often moved almost to sadness, at the\\nlovely, lonely, never-tiring song, of the Whip-poor-will.\\n26", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0241.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "202 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nSometimes he takes bis stand on the barn or shed, or on a\\nlow tree, repeating over and over again for three or four\\nhours together his plaintive note. At early morn be re-\\ntreats to the forest, and through the da}^ remains unseen.\\nBut soon as the evening shades appear he skims low, darts\\nout and after obtaining his repast, again takes his stand,\\nand the landscape is again made vocal l\\\\y the same old\\nsong.\\nWe are not aware that any harm has ever come to\\npoor Will, notwithstanding he has apparently been so\\noften threatened to be whipped.\\nBLACK MARTIN.\\nThe black martin is an annual visitant, coming always\\n(as it is said) on the 11th of April. His domestic habits\\nbring him about our dwelling-Iiouses, and his song is brief\\nbut pleasant. His ijote is clear and ma}- be heard from\\nearly morn until evening. He disappears early in the fall\\nand is seen no more here until the precise day which ap-\\npears to have been appointed for his return.\\nMost of the birds come in May, build their nests, raise\\ntheir young, and leave, some of them, as earlj as the last\\nof July.\\nTHE ORIOLE.\\nThe Oriole with his choice musical notes stag s much\\nlonger. Who of us have not been delighted with his song,\\nwhile he stands waiving in his high colored beautiful\\nplumage, on the top of a lofty elm? All at once he turns\\nand darts into his beautiful wrought hanging nest, at the\\nend of a high-up limb, and our entertainment for the time", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0242.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "1872 ORNITHOLOGICAL. 203\\nbeing is thus abruptly brouglit to an end. Such enchant-\\nments are indeed productive of interest and tend to fill the\\nveins of our hearts with joy and health, and at the same\\ntime elevating our conceptions of the wisdom and sublimity\\nof Nature s God. The notes used by birds as well as the\\nvoices of animals are doubtless the same now as in the\\nearliest days. Birds use language according to the condi-\\ntion which attends them. Their mating call, their moan\\nof danger, and their shriek of alarm cannot easily be mis-\\nunderstood. These little tenants of the air, as they\\nbring to us yearly profitable lessons and entertainments,\\nare entitled to our most tender regards and protection\\nyet, jiow often are their rights invaded by heedless hands.\\nThe following story is in point and may prove profitable\\nA matron wood-thrush built a nest,\\nAnd then sat down to take her rest,\\nWhile sitting there upon her eggs,\\nA snare was tetliered l#her legs.\\nYe heartless dogs that did the deed.\\nShall rue it for your cruel greed,\\nTo cheat and rob the feathered tribe\\nOf eggs and all they have beside.\\nTo them, as favorites from above.\\nTo rove the air, to live and love.\\nTo cheer all nature with a song.\\nBoth life and liberty belong.\\nThis bird by no means injured you.\\nWith her or hers you d nought to do.\\nCursed be the heart, the hand, the twine.\\nThat steals away that right divine 1\\nSuch right most dear your mother knows\\nWhen to her ear this story goes,\\nShe ll make you dance upon your pegs,\\nWith the ile of birch about the legs.\\nIn caution kind a lesson take,\\nOh, never prove yourself a rake,\\nBut live to learn and try to make\\nThe world more happy for your sake\\n[Caperli/^s I oems, Vol. 1, p. r?.]", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0243.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "204 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nMILITARY.\\nImmediately after the war of the Revohitiou, a military\\npride pervaded most of the towns in New Hampsliire. As\\nBarnstead increased in population, its soldiers became\\nnumerous and seemed to have been inspired of a laudable\\nambition in the performance of military duty. Yet there\\nwas a law with a penalty requiring all able-bodied men\\nbetween the ages of 18 and 45 j^ears to be called out, and\\nto perform that service, well armed and equipped, the train-\\nings being at least three days in a year. Barnstead,\\nGilmanton, and Gilford constituted the 10th New Hamp-\\nshire Regiment. The battalion drill was often held on\\nBarnstead Parade, even before a full regiment had been\\norganized. At that time ^he company of cavalry was\\nquite numerous and imposing. The red coats, the butf\\npants, the stove-pipe hat begirt with red silk, the two ends\\nof the silk hanging down on the shoulders, the white\\nfeather with its red top, the bear-skin holsters on the front\\nof the saddle holding heavy pistols, and the long sword\\nhanging by the side, gave to both men and officers an ap-\\npearance war-like and majestic emphatically did a hundred\\nof these warriors so appear when seen on the parade,\\nmoving at the rate of a double quick. These, together\\nwith the light infantry, artillery and infantry, always\\nproved themselves the pride of the crowds of men, women,\\nand boys, that usually surrounded the field on parade days.\\nA noble specimen of an officer was Capt. George Ches-\\nle} of the artillery, with his Napoleon hat, long blue coat^\\nblue pants faced with red, and long sword. His select", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0244.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "1872 MILITARY. 205\\ncompaii}^ of larp;e men, six feet two, all at the drag-ropes\\nmoving their six ponnders the rattle of the heavj wheels\\nof artillery, and the frequent explosions of fire and thunder\\nfrom the cannon, often brought fear as well as amusement\\nto the surrounding spectators.\\nWhen the general officers on their prancing steads were\\nescorted to the field, they were received with martial\\nsalutes and then there was music in the words of com-\\nmand as well as from the bands that received them.\\nAfter the militia of these three towns was concentrated\\ninto one regiment, the Regimental Musters were usually\\nheld at Tilton s Field, in Gilmantou, that being the most\\ncentral locality. Officers were usually selected from the\\nbest men, among whom were Col. Bickford, Col. Peavey,\\nCol. Hoitt, Col. Dow, Col. Moulton, Col. Walker, and\\nothers of the grade of Lieut. Colonels, Captains, and\\nsubalterns, long to be remembered, but too numerous\\nto be mentioned in this work. The military spirit, disci-\\npline and efficiency of officers of the olden time, were\\nalways instructive and interesting. For example, the\\norders given by the chief in command, loud and distinct,\\nwere at once caught and repeated, each word by itself,\\nfrom one officer to another, and thus were they telegraphed\\nand they were clearly understood by every soldier, so that\\nat the last word march every foot in the Regiment\\nmoved like clock-work.\\nThe old Tenth Regiment consisted of one company of\\ncavalry numbering 150, and seventeen companies of foot,\\nin all about 1500 men. Some of the officers and soldiers\\nabove named had served in the war of 1812.\\nThe trainings were attended by wrestling parties,\\nnumerous shows, auctions, circuses, and monkeys and", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0245.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "206 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nwere ahvays enlivened b} music and dancing, with occa-\\nsional drinks.\\nParade daj^s, like those, are at this period unknown in\\nNew Hampshire. Yet they are remembered. One of them\\na few years since Avas truthfully described in a local ne\\\\vs-\\npaper bj a lad} who resides at the Parade. The pro-\\nduction being regarded as valuable for its historic as well\\nas poetical interest, we copy it\\nTHE GLD-FASHIO^ ED TRAINING.\\nIn tlie halcyou days of the olrlen time,\\nAVbeu our jolly grandfathers were in their prime,\\nWhen lieroic deeds were so valiantly done.\\nAnd when bloodless battles were fought and won.\\nThere were few gayer scenes, I have often heard said.\\nThan were those at the trainings on Barnstead Parade.\\nThey came from .all quarters the young and the old,\\nThe eager-eyed boy and the officer bold;\\nAnd the women and girls in their Sunday trim,\\nIn those funny old bonnets that looked so prim.\\nWith the round ruffled cape and the work-bag, too.\\nAnd the narrow gored dress and tlie high-heeled shoe.\\nWhen the red-coated troop dashed over the green.\\nIn the brightest of colors that ever were seen;\\nWhile banner-like waved the long plumes that they wore.\\nAnd the horse-pistols shone in their holsters before;\\nAVhile music was wringing from bugle and horn,\\nOil! it was like magic to those looking on!\\nThe artillery in blue coats, faced with red,\\nAVith heavy-plumed, crescent-shaped caps on each head.\\nBrought their old six-pounder, that thundered so loud.\\nSpreading terror and dread througli the startled crowd.\\nHow the echo resounded, still higher and higher.\\nLike a hostile army returning their fire.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0246.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "1872 THE OLD-FASHIONED TRAINING. 207\\nWith what stately step the light infantry came\\nThe garments they wore are still living in fame\\nThe white pants and blue coats, the bell buttons and all,\\nAnd those stiff-leather caps that were terribly tall;\\nAnd the long, snowy plumes that were tipped with red.\\nAnd nodded and halted in time with their tread.\\nThree, too, were the flood-wood the slam-bang corps.\\nThat numbered a hundred and oftentimes more;\\nSome were tall, some wore short, some crooked, some straight,\\nSome were prompt to keep step, and some halting in gait;\\nUn-uniformed men, and with no taste for war,\\nThey came to tl^e training obeying the law.\\nVII.\\nTheir weapons were brought from the workshops and farms,\\nThey were fowling-pieces and old Queen s arms,\\nSome were long, some were short, some were old and some new\\nBut all were well cleaned for th inspector to view\\nAnd each man brought, as the law did require.\\nHis two spare flints, and a brush and priiuing-wire.\\nTill.\\nO, the drummers of those days drummed with a will.\\nAnd the tones of the old-fashioned fifes were shrill\\nIn a minor key they would rattle away.\\nThrough solemn old marches and quicksteps gay.\\nAdams and Liberty, and Hail to the Chief,\\nWere popular airs that stood out in relief.\\nWhen the sergeants had formed the long line with care.\\nAnd every man stood in his proper place tliere\\nWhen the roll had been called and all had said Here,\\nWhile each pompous captain was bustling near;\\nOn a prancing steed, with an escorting band.\\nMajor Nutter rode on to take the command.\\nX.\\nWhat authority dwelt in his resolute face\\nAnd what dignity shone in his stately pace I\\nHow his sword gleamed and flashed in the sunlight fair\\nHow his high-toned voice rang out on the air\\nAt-tkntiox, Bat-talion! Each man of the host.\\nWitli closely clasped weapon, stood firm at his post.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0247.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "208 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 187i\\nXI.\\nThey shouldered arms, carried arms, right-faced and wheeled;\\nThey marched and they counter-marched over the field;\\nThey went double-quick, and they halted and fired,\\nAnd marched in platoons till they must have been tired.\\nAnd, often, before they broke ranks for the night,\\nLines of battle were formed and they had a sham fight.\\nThe spectators, waiting round all the while.\\nFound varied amusements, the time to beguile.\\nThere was swapping of horses and trying their pace;\\nSome were wrestling, some fighting, some running a race.\\nAnd around the side tents there would always be some.\\nEating crackers and fish and drinking new rum.\\nAnd there in some nook would be veteran Joe Place,\\nWith violent gestures and angry red face.\\nRepeating the stories, we may be assured.\\nOf dangers encountered and hardships endured,\\nWhen they fought those rascally red-coats to kill.\\nAt White Plains and Monmouth and on Bunker Hill.\\nXIV.\\nAmidst the confusion of noises so queer.\\nThe squeak of a fiddle might fall on the ear;\\nAnd some merry group would be found standing by,\\nTo hear the gay fiddling of black Herman Tye;\\nWhile two, with coats oft and with faces aglow,\\nWould be dancing a break-down with both heel and toe.\\nWhen the twilight came on, the training was done.\\nAnd the trainers went homeward, one by one\\nEach with his bundle of ginger-bread tied\\nIn a bandana handkerchief close by his side;\\nAnd many a footstep would stagger astray,\\nWhen the music had died in the distance away.\\nGone is the brave major, and gone nearly all\\nThe voices that answered the ancient roll-call.\\nAnd many are silently sleeping alone,\\nIn old corner graveyards, unmarked and unknown.\\nWhile the tramping of troops and warlike sound\\nAre heard no more on the old Parade ground.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0248.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "1872 CHRONOLOGICAL. 209\\nOLD STYLE. (O. S.)\\nPrior to 1752, the years commenced on the twenty-\\nfifth of March.\\nAs time had been reckoned up to that year, its com-\\nputation during a long period laad by degrees carried the\\nWinter a considerable distance into the Spring.\\nTo remedy this irregularity. Parliament, on January 22\\n1752, passed an Act ordering eleven days to be dropped out\\nfrom the calendar, so that September 3rd, of that year,\\nshould be called the 14th and this they denominated\\nNew Style (N. S.).\\nPROMINENT EVENTS.\\n1492 Columbus discovered America.\\n1586 Sir Francis Drake visited the New England\\nshores.\\n1600 Canada was settled by the French.\\n1607 Virginia was settled by the English.\\n1614 Capt. John Smith explored this part of the New\\nWorld.\\n1620 A Dutch ship brought negro slaves to Virginia.\\nPilgrims landed.\\n1623 New Hampshire had settlements at Dover and\\nat Little Harbor.\\n1624 First ca tle imported to New England.\\n1628 The foundation was laid for the Colony of Mas-\\nsachusetts Bay.\\n1635 Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts\\nBay.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0249.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "210 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\n1G38 June 1st. There was a great earthquake iu\\nNew England.\\n1G39 First printing in New England.\\n1641 The use of tobacco was prohibited in Massachu-\\nsetts.\\n1G42 First Commencement at Harvard College nine\\ngraduated.\\nGreat training in Boston 1200 men, and none drunk.\\n1642 Darby Field, bewildered, was lost on Mt. Wash-\\nington.\\n1643 James Britton and Mary Latham are executed,\\ncharged witli adulter3\\\\\\n1644 Ana-baptists are banished.\\n1652 First money made at Boston.\\n1658 Death penalty as against Quakers.\\n1659 Wm. Robinson and M. Stevenson executed on\\nBoston Common.\\n1662 Children of respectable parents although non-\\nprofessors allowed baptism.\\n1663 The Indian Bible, by Eliot, is printed in Cam-\\nbridge.\\n1663 Baptists are imprisoned for holding meetings.\\n1670 The title Reverend is first applied to clergjanen.\\n1675 Phillip s war commences, 650 settlers in New\\nEngland lose their lives.\\n1675 First public fast is held in New England.\\n1677 Fine and imprisonments is imposed for attend-\\ning Quaker Meetings.\\n1677 Price for labor \u00c2\u00a310 per year, for a woman s\\nwork \u00c2\u00a34.\\n1679 New Hampshire is made a separate government\\nby a commission from England.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0250.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "1872 CHRONOLOGICAL. 211\\n1G80 Baptists are forbidden to hold meetings in\\nBoston, the doors ot the church are nailed up by the mag-\\nistrates.\\n1680 Major Waldron killed in Dover, by the Indians.\\n1681 Mason comes and asserts his title to lands in\\nNew Hampshire, but is resisted and leaves the state.\\n1682 New Hampshire has four towns and 4000 in-\\nhabitants.\\n1692 -Twenty persons are executed at Salem, for\\nwitchcraft.\\n1693 First post-office is established in Boston, and\\ncommon drunkards are posted there.\\n1696 There are thirty Indian churches in New Eng-\\nland.\\n1701 Kidd, the pirate, is sent to England to be exe-\\ncuted.\\n1702 Small-pox prevails in Boston, 500 die.\\n1704 The News-Letter, the first newspaper in Amer-\\nica is printed.\\n1712 Paper money is made a legal tender.\\n1715 Singing books are introduced here for the first\\ntime.\\n1715 Population of New Hampshire, 9500. It issues\\n\u00c2\u00a315,000 in paper money.\\n1719 Potatoes were first raised at Andover.\\n1720 Tea was first used in New England.\\n1721 Inoculation for smallpox was first practised.\\n1724 The highest tides in the midst of a violent storm.\\n1725 A reward is off ered for Indian scalps.\\n1730 Seven million dollars in goods are imported to\\nNew England.\\n1731 George Washington was born.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0251.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "212 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\n1735 All epidemic, a putrid sore tliroat, prevails in\\nNew Hampshire.\\n1739 George Whitfield visits America, and is the\\nleader in a great revival.\\n1746 Concord was invaded by Indians.\\n1750 Paper money is discarded. New Hampshire has\\n24,000 inhaV)itants.\\n1752 Benjamin Franklin experiments with electricity.\\n1756 War between the French and English.\\n1759 Sept. 13, Quebec is taken by the English, and\\nWolfe and Montcalm are both killed.\\n1759 George n dies, and George III succeeds him.\\n1765 The stamp act was passed. Boston had 15,500\\ninhabitants.\\n1768 British troops arrive in Boston.\\n1770 Several are killed at the Boston Massacre. Tea\\nis no longer in general use.\\n1773 Tea is destroyed in the Boston harbor.\\n1774 Shakers increase. Ann Lee was their leader.\\n1774_Popalation of New England was 102,000.\\n1775 Fight at Lexington, April 19.\\n1775 Battle at Bunker s Hill, June 17.\\n1775 Washington takes command of the arm} at\\nCambridge, July 2.\\n1775 Paper inone} was issued by Congress.\\n1775 Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster\\nGeneral.\\n1776 The British evacuate Boston.\\n1777 LaFayette joins the Americans in their struggle\\nfor independence.\\n1777 General Burgoj ue surrendered.\\n1778 The Sandwich Islands were discovered by Capt.\\nCook.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0252.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "1872 SYNCHROLOGY.\\n213\\n1779_Siege of Charleston, S. C.\\n1 780 Charleston surrenders.\\n1780 Major Andre is executed as a spy.\\n1781 New London was burnt b}^ the British,\\n1781 Yorktown, by Lord Cornwallis, is surrendered to\\nWashington.\\n1782 A provisional treaty with the United States,\\nsigned b}^ England at Paris.\\n1783\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Independence of the United States acknowl-\\nedged by Sweden Feb. 25, by Denmark March 24, by\\nSpain.\\n1783\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The American army is disbanded.\\nSYNCHROLOGY MORE MODERN.\\n1860.\\njsTov. 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the\\nUnited States.\\nNov. 10.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 South Carolina takes measures to raise ten\\nthousand troops, and proposes secession.\\nNov. 18.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Georgia Legislature votes $1,000,000 to arm\\nthe state.\\nDec. 20. Tiie South Carolina Convention adopts a\\nsecession ordinance unanimously.\\n1861.\\nJan. 2. Georgia troops seize Fort Pulaski, c., and\\nGov. Ellis of North Carolina takes possession of Fort\\nMacon.\\nJan. 4. Gov. Moore of Alabama, seized Fort Morgan\\nand the U. S. Arsenal at Mobile.\\nJan. 9. The Star of the West is fired on by the rebel", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0253.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "214 HISTORY Oi^ BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nbatteries in Charleston Harbor, and driven back. On\\nthis day the Mississippi Convention passed an ordinance\\nof secession.\\nThe Florida Convention did the same on the\\n10th, Alabama on the 11th, Georgia on the 19th, Louisiana\\non the 26th, North Carolina on the 30th, Texas on the 4th\\nof March, and Virginia on the 17th of April then next\\nfollowing.\\nFeb. 9. Jefferson Davis and A. H. Stevens are elected\\nprovisional President and Vice-President of the Southern\\nConfederacy.\\nApril 15. President Lincoln calls for 75,000 volun-\\nteers.\\nApril 16. The Governors of Kentuck}-, Virginia, Ten-\\nnesee, and Missouri, refuse to furnish troops to quell the\\nrebellion.\\nApril 19. The 6th Mass. Regiment in passing through\\nBaltimore were attacked b3 a mob, and several soldiers\\nwere slain on the one side and citizens on the other.\\nMay 3. President Lincoln calls for 60,000 Volunteers\\nfor the Army and Navy, for three 3 ears.\\nMay 10. Major General Robert E. Lee assumes com-\\nmand of the Rebel forces in Virginia.\\nJune 13. Queen Victoria issues a Proclamation of\\nNeutrality.\\nJuly 21.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Battle of Bull Run.\\nAug. 15. Jefferson Davis orders all Northern men to\\nleave the South in fort} days.\\nSept. 21. John C. Breckinridge, late Vice-President\\nof the United States, openly joined the Rebels.\\nOct. 29. Great Naval expedition under Commodore\\nDupont General T. W. Sherman, in command of land\\nforces, leaves Fortress Monroe.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0254.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "1872 SYNCROLOGY. 215\\nNov. 1. Lieutenant General Scott resigns the com-\\nmand-in-chief of the Union armies, and General McClellan\\nappointed in his place.\\n1862.\\nFeb. 8. Battle of Roanoke Island.\\nFeb. 16. Fort Donelson captured.\\nFeb. 22. Jeff. Davis re-inaugurated President of the\\nC. S. A., at Richmond.\\nMarch 9. Engagement between the Monitor and\\nMerrimac, in Hampton Roads.\\nApril 6. Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing.\\nApril 7. Surrender of Island No. 10.\\nApril 10. Surrender of Port Pulaski.\\nMay 3. Yorktown evacuated by the Rebels.\\nMay 31. Battle of Seven Pines and Fair Oaks.\\nJune 26. Commencement of seven days battle before\\nRichmond.\\nJuly 1. President Lincoln calls for three hundred\\nthousand men. Battle of Malvern Hills, and close of the\\nseven days struggle.\\nAug. 4. President Lincoln calls for three hundred\\nthousand nine months troops.\\nAug. 9. Battle of Cedar Mountain.\\nAug. 29. Second battle of Bull Run.\\nSept. 14. The battle of South Mountain.\\nSept, 17. Battle of Antietam.\\nOct. 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Battle of Corinth.\\nNov. 7. General McClellan relieved of the command\\nof the Army of the Potomac by Gen. Burnside.\\nDec. 13. Battle of Fredericksburg.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0255.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "216 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\n1863.\\nJan. 1. President Lincoln issues his Emancipation\\nProclamation.\\nMa_y 3. Battle of Chancellorsville.\\nMay 10. Stonewall Jackson died at Richmond.\\nMay 18. General Grant invests Vicksburg.\\nMay 28. The first Colored Regiment from the North\\nleft Boston.\\nJune 15. Rebels invade Pennsylvania. President Lin-\\ncoln calls for one hundred thousand more men to repel in-\\nvasion.\\nJuly 3. Third and last day of the battle of Gettys-\\nburg, Pa.\\nJul} 4. Vicksburg surrenders to Gen. Grant.\\nJul} 8. Surrender of Port Hudson to General Banks.\\nJuly 13. Commencement of the great Draft Riot in\\nNew York.\\nJuly 14. Draft Riot in Boston.\\nAug. 12. ^Robert Toombs publishes a letter exposing\\nthe bankruptcy of the Southern Confederacy.\\nAug. 17. Grand bombardment of Fort Sumter com-\\nmenced by the Yankees.\\nOct. 17. President Lincoln calls for three hundred\\nthousand more men.\\nOct. 19. Dedication of the National Cemetery at\\nGettysburg.\\nOct. 28. Battle of Lookout Mountain.\\nNov. 25. Third and last day of the battle of Chatta-\\nnooga results in the complete rout of the enemy.\\nDec. 4. Long-street s retrea,t from Knoxville, Teuu.\\nDec. 8. President Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proc-\\nlamation.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0256.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "1872 SYNCHROLOGY. 217\\n18G4.\\nFeb. 1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Draft ordered for 500,000 men.\\nMarch 9. Major General Grant receives his commis-\\nsion as Lieutenant General from President Lincoln.\\nMarch 12. General Grant appointed Commander-in-\\nChief of the United States Army.\\nMarch 15. President Lincoln calls for two hundred\\nthousand more men.\\nMay 11. General Grant proposes to fight it out on\\nthis line.\\nMay 27. Lee retreats towards Riclimond.\\nMay 28. Great battle between Sherman and Long-\\nstreet.\\nJune 19. Pirate Alabama sunk by the U. S. S. Kear-\\nsarge.\\nJune 22. House of Representatives resolved to abolish\\nSlavery.\\nJuly 13. Rebel General Forrest defeated infiveditier-\\nent battles in three days.\\nJul}^ 22. Hood attacks Sherman s lines around At-\\nlanta Rebel loss, 20,000.\\nAug. 5. Farragut s great victory in Mobile Bay.\\nSept. 1. General Hood evacuates Atlanta.\\nOct. 7. The Pirate Florida captured by U. S. S. Wau-\\nchusett.\\nOct. 19.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Battle of Cedar Creek.\\nNov. 5. General Butler assumes command in New\\nYork City, to meet existing emergencies.\\nNov. 8. President Lincoln re-elected. Gen. McClellan\\nresigns his commission.\\nNov. 9. Sherman begins his march through Georgia.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0257.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "218 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\n1.SG5.\\nJan. 15. Capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington Harbor.\\nFeb. 18.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charleston, S. C, occupied.\\nMarch 2. Sheridan defeated Early, and captured over\\na thousand of his men.\\nApril 2. Assault along the whole line in front of\\nPetersburg twelve thousand prisoners and fifty pieces of\\nartillery captured.\\nApril 3. The Union forces under General Weitzel\\noccupy Richmond.\\nApril 9. Surrender of General Lee and his whole arni}^\\nto General Grant.\\nApril 14. Assassination of President Lincoln by J.\\nWilkes Booth, an actor, and attempted murder of W. H.\\nSeward, Secretary of State.\\nApril 15. Death of President Lincoln.\\nApril 2G. J. Wilkes Booth is killed, and PLarrold, an\\naccomplice, is taken. Surrender of Gen. Johnson and all\\nthe troops in his department to Gen. W. T. Sherman.\\nMay 10. Jeff. Davis captured under peculiar circum-\\nstances.\\nPOPULATION.\\nBarnstead, as we have seen, was Chartered in 1727;\\nwas incorporated in 1727 is in Belknap County, N. H.\\nis 18 miles northeast of Concord, and 500 miles from\\nWashington City. Its population in 1840 Avas 1,945 in\\n1850 it was 1,848 in 18G0 it was 1,885 in 1870 it was\\n1,544.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0258.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0261.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0262.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "1872 WAR AGAIN. 219\\nTHE GREAT REBELLION.\\nThis conflict was prompted by an inordinate ambition\\nin tlie slave state leaders, who songht to extend and per-\\npetnate their pecnliar institution, an institution on which\\nthey had for many j^ears been combined and confederated,\\nand who, by force of it, undertook to overturn the Govern-\\nment and to make tliemselves conquerers,\\nBarnstead was not indifferent to the public weal in\\nsuch an emergency. In the war of the Revolution her\\nsons had acted well their part. It is worthy of praise that\\nb} the test list of that day, not a man could be found\\nwithin the lines of Barnstead, who was not ti ue to the\\nConstitution, and ready to help fight the battles of his\\nconntrj (See Appendix, C.) 80 it was in the conflict of\\n1812, and so it has ever been, and thus, as we trust, it\\never will Ije. The soldiers of Barnstead who gave battle\\nagainst the Rebellion were as follows\\nTHREE months MEN.\\nFirst Regiment, N. H. Vols. VVra. B. Aikin, Frank\\nSleeper, George H. Bridges, Dudley.\\nFirst Regiment, N. H. Heavy Artillery, (3 3 ears).\\nWilliam Brimage.\\nFourth Regiment, N. H. Vols. (3 3 ears). Enos Geo.\\nHodgdon, killed in battle.\\nTHREE years MEN.\\nEighth Regiment, N. H. Vols. Henry H. Huse, Captain\\nat first, then a Major. John H. Greenwood, Sergeant at", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0263.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "220\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n1872\\nfirst, then a Lieutenant, killed in battle. Samuel J.\\nSmart, Sergeant at first, then a Lieutenant, died in camp.\\nDaniel D. Hanscoin, re-enlist-\\ned.\\nFrank Sleeper, re-enlisted.\\nLewis M. Jackson, died of\\nwounds received in battle.\\nRufus Clark.\\nJames E. Bunker.\\nSmith Davis, re-enlisted.\\nThomas M. Huse.\\nJohn S. Hill, re-enlisted.\\nDaniel Lewis, re-enlisted.\\nJames E. Moses, re-enlisted.\\nBenjamin R. Munsey, died.\\nJohn T. G. Smart, died in camp.\\nSamuel G. Shackford.\\nChas. H. Williams, re-enlisted.\\nAlbert Davis, re-eulisted.\\nWilliam B. Aikin, re-enlisted.\\nDavid A. Littlefield.\\nJohn M. Smart, died in camp.\\nThis regiment left New Hampshire in January, 1862\\ntheir service Avas in Louisiana.\\nTwelfth Regiment, N. IL Vols, (o years). Colonel,\\nThomas E. Barker. First enlisted in Co. B, 2d N. H.,\\nwas in all the battles of his regiment, except Gettysburg,\\nwas captured at Bull Run, was ten months in Salisbury\\nprison, N. C, and afterwards recruited a comiian}- in Barn-\\nstead and Gilmanton in six days, commanded it, and was\\nthen promoted to the command of his regiment, was\\nwounded at Chancellorsville, served during the war and\\nwas discharged with his regiment in 1865 resides now at\\nLynnfield, Mass.\\nBenjamin F. Chesley.\\nCalvin Pitman.\\nJonathan McNeal.\\nWinsor P. Huntress, killed in\\nbattle at Chancellorsville.\\nJoseph W. Hill, died of wounds\\nreceived at Cold Harbor.\\nJohn S. Hayes, died of wounds\\nreceived at Chancellorsville.\\nArthur C. Newall, a medical ca-\\ndet, then assistant surgeon.\\nThomas Moore, wounded.\\nJohn L. Garland, killed in bat-\\ntle.\\nCalvin Chesley.\\nGeorge W. Pitman.\\nJohn L. Piper.\\nGeorge W. Aiken, died.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0264.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "1872\\nTHE REBELLION.\\n221\\nJoseph N. Bimker, killed at Cold\\nHarbor.\\nThomas J. Pierce, died of\\nwounds received at Cliaucel-\\nlorsville.\\nJoseph Peudergast, died.\\nAlviu D. Hall.\\nSolomon W. Young.\\nWilliam T. Knight, killed at\\nGettj sburg.\\nMoses Bickford.\\nJ. M. Tasker, a color-bearer,\\nwounded at Chancellorsville,\\nand then a Lieutenant, trans-\\nferred to the Invalid Corps.\\nDavid Sackett.\\nHem-y H. Emerson.\\nMelvin Jenkins.\\nJ. H. Edgerly.\\nHorace M. Parshley.\\nArthur L. Bickford.\\nGeorge Jones.\\nSolomon Clark.\\nJoseph C. Russell.\\nWm. H. Berry, died of wounds\\nat Chaucellorsville.\\nGeo.T.Munsey, died of wounds\\nat Chaucellorsville.\\nNoble Sackett.\\nCharles H. Pickering.\\nC. H. P. Young.\\nWm. LI. Shaw.\\nHorace Edgerly, a private,\\nthen a Lieutenant.\\nHorace Munsey, died in tlie\\nservice.\\nTbe above regiment served in Virginia from Sep-\\ntember, 1SG2, up to tlie close of the war.\\nThirteenth Regiment, N. H. Vols. (3 years).\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lafay-\\nette Place.\\nNINE MONTHS MEN.\\nFifteenth Regiment, N. H., Vols.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas M. Huso,\\nFirst Lieutenant Christopher C. Pickering, Second Lieu-\\ntenant.\\nAVilliam A. Frye.\\nGeorge W. Blake.\\nJeremiah E. Emerson.\\nGeorge H. Emerson.\\nHanson H. Young.\\n.James M. Jones.\\nJohn F. Chesley.\\nJohn Hill, died.\\nD. L. Huse, died.\\nCharles W. Adams.\\nOrrin F. Chesley.\\nJ. F. Parker.\\nRoyal Boyuton.\\nAlbert S. Buzzell.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0265.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "222 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nTimothy Blake, Jr. Jobu C. Mason, died,\\nWilliam A. Chesley. Hazeu D. Nutter, died.\\nJaeob Lord.\\nThis regiment did service in Louisiana. It left New\\nHampshire for the seat of war in October, 18(52.\\nOXE year s men.\\nEighteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers.\\nHoratio G. Shackford. Charles Kaime.\\nSamuel H. Clark. Horace Cough.\\nGeoi ge W. Blake. James C. Kaime.\\nEli H. Foss. Noble Sackett.\\nAlvah O. Adams. Nathaniel Blaisdcll.\\nWm. F. Hauscom. James C. Ham.\\nThis regiment left New Hampshire in September, 18G4,\\nfor Virginia, and served through the war.\\nNAVY.\\nCharles Hill of Barnstead served in the United States\\nNavy, and was one of the crew of the Kearsarge. He par-\\nticipated in that fitmous onset which destroyed and sunk\\nthe Alabama.\\nSURGEONS.\\nDuring the Rebellion Barnstead furnished surgeons as\\nfollows: John Wheeler, M.D., Acting Assistant Surgeon,\\nU. S. A. Thomas H. Wheeler, do., Laban M. Sanders, do.\\nMiss Harriet P. Dame served against the rebellion.\\nShe was the daughter of James C. Dame of Barnstead,\\nwent to the seat of war in June, 18G1, and continued there", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0266.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "1872 THE REBELLION. 223\\na friend to the sick and wounded, advising and assisting\\nthem as a nurse up to its final end. A part of the time\\nshe acted as an agent in the receipt and distribution of\\nsupplies to the sick and wounded soldiers of New Hamp-\\nshire.\\nThis town, in the year of the rebellion, sent to the war\\none hundred and seventy enlisted men, a fraction more\\nthan one to every ten of its inhabitants.\\nIn view of the patriotism, endurance, and self-sacrifice,\\nevinced by such a record, we are vividly reminded of the\\nnoble hero referred to in Pope s Homer\\nThe gallant man, though slain in fight he be,\\nYet leaves his country safe, his nation free.\\nEntails a debt on all the grateful state.\\nHis own brave friends shall glory in his fate;\\nHis wife live honored, and all his race succeed,\\nAnd late posterity enjoy the deed.\\nMARCH OF IMPROVEMENT.\\nFrom the landing of the pilgrims to within the last\\nfifty years there had been but little change in the order of\\nthings generally, except Avhat the revolution had inaugu-\\nrated. There had been but few inventions and but few\\nimprovements. Old Time had jogged on as ever before\\ntaxes were low, the country was becoming populous, peace\\nand prosperity abounded, and there appeared to be no in-\\nclination to diverge from the beaten track of the ancient\\nfathers. Parents and children alike were taught to revere", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0267.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "224 HISTORY OF BARXSTEAI). 1872\\ntheir Maker, their Bible, and their minister, and to Iveep\\nthe Sa1)bath holy. Noah Webster s Spelling-book and a\\ncopy of the New Testament were the primitive books, and\\nall that were deemed necessary for the scholar in which to\\nliecome a good reader.\\nThe old-fashioned school-house, with its large open fire-\\nplace, was then thought to be sufficiently commodious for\\nthe youths of that day. The simple friction match, now\\neverywhere used, was then unknown. If the fire went out\\nat night, it must be procured at the nearest neighbor s, or\\nobtained from the steel-and fiint Ijy casting a spark upon\\nl)urned tinder, or by flashing fire from the old gun into tow\\nor flax suspended above it, and thus to catch and kindle\\nit. There were no stoves, nothing but the huge fire-place,\\nin which to place a large back-log and liack-stick with a\\nfore-stick resting on iron dogs, and the smaller combus-\\ntibles filled in between them. The cooking was done on\\nthe fire, the potatoes sometimes being, roasted in its em-\\nbers. The baking was in the great brick oven, though\\noccasionally it was done in the old Dutch-oven over the\\nfire or in pewter plates in front of it.\\nThe farmer s wood was green, usually unhoused, lying-\\nin piles about the doorwaj^ Green wood, though slow to\\nkindle, was preferred to the dry, as it made the hotter fire.\\nAt the fireside on a winter s evening groups of children,\\nand often the more aged neighbors, would gather, and en-\\njoying the fire fair blazing, would amuse themselves\\nwith stories and riddles, or otherwise discourse upon the\\nA aried incidents of the day.\\nAmong the middle-aged conversation would sometimes\\ntake direction to their business affairs, their nice houses\\nand fat oxen, and now and then to the telling of a bear", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0268.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "1872 MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT. 225\\nstory, 01 perhaps some heroic or tragical event of the revo-\\nlution. Lights for the evenings of that period were usually\\nthe old tallow candle, generally home-made, manufactured\\nby the mother of the family, by dipping the wicks into\\nwarm tallow, and repeating the process until the candle\\nwas of sufficient size for use. No one at that time knew\\nof a better light. The first oil-lamp used was of tin, hold-\\ning a pint. It had a nozzle like a teapot, from which the\\nwick extended. A pair of smiffers sometimes attended\\nthese lights, but they were somewhat rare.\\nSince then more than a half a century has elapsed, the\\nold spelling book and the capacious fire-place are no more\\nthe use of the white flint stone from the field and the tin-\\nder, the flint-lock to the gun, the Dutch-oven, the pewter\\nplates, the tallow candle and the oil lamp, are all hence-\\nforth to be reckoned among the things that were. The\\nwhirl of the great wheel at the hand of the fair maiden\\nthat whistled music like the north \\\\find, and that old linen\\nwheel which operated as playing second fiddle to it, are\\nknown only to the experience of old age, consigned as they\\nhave been to the flames, or to take places in the attics\\nof the old farm-houses. No more is the homespun fulled-\\ncloth used in clothing the family, nor in these days is the\\nlinen or tow cloth manufactured by the busy house-wife.\\nHow great the change\\nThe mammoth mills of modern erection have diverted\\nthe industry of the people. The livelihood and economy of\\nthe happy homes of former days, by the creation of man-\\nufacturing towns and by recent inventions, have taken a\\ndiflerent channel. The farmer s sons and daughters, lured\\nby the new order of things, have left him to take up their\\nabodes in cities and villages, tending to his discourage-", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0269.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "226 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 3872\\nment, yet his progress is facilitated by new and improved\\nimplements of the workshop and of husbandry, obtained\\nthrough the artful inventions of the present day. By the\\ninvention of the cotton gin, the power loom, the loco-\\nmotive, the telegraph, e., and by the spirit of enterprise\\nthat followed the introduction of them, a new and more\\nprogressive life has been inaugurated and is still pro-\\ngressing.\\nAnon advance the riper years of art,\\nIn which inventions take decisive part,\\nWlience generous genius prosecutes the plan,\\nTo overcome the drudgery of man\\nMalces lifeless things, impelled at his control,\\nTo do the duty of a living soul.\\nHence cotton gins and spinning-jennies fine.\\nOut-run the wooden wheels of olden time.\\nHence power of steam, applied on sea or land.\\nExpelling labor with a heavy hand.\\nWork startling wonders through mechanic skill,\\nTo move the car, the steamboat, or the mill.\\n[(See the Merrimac, by Ti. B. Carerbj,p. 01, 62.]\\nIndeed how strangely different is our mode of travelling\\nfrom that of the early times. Instead of the saddle and\\nthe pillion which were first in use, and of the old wagon,\\nchaise, gig, and stage coach, which came into use at a\\nlater period, the railroad car runs in every direction,\\naffording vast fjxcilities for travel and transportation\\nthroughout the land. To make way for the locomotive,\\nthe valleys have been sought, the rivers have been spanned,\\nand the hills have been made low and level.\\nPerhaps not less strangely different is our present art\\nin painting or taking pictures. Some of us at this day\\ncan well remember the old Profile Taker as he passed,\\nfrom house to house with his neat little box which con-\\ntained his picture frames, his black paper, c., and his", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0270.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "A872 MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT. 227\\nscissors, and with which to take a side view of the face\\nand all at the small price of one shilling and sixpence.\\nYet even that art then was rare, so that nearly all of the\\nfirst settlers of Barnstead, when they left the world, left\\nto their descendants nothing in the shape of a likeness.\\nBut now, through the channel of inventions, daguerreotype\\nand photograph pictures are common to this people as they\\nare to the whole earth. Quite as strange, also, has been\\nthe change in the making of garments, shoes, and other\\narticles, facilitated as all this kind of work has been through\\nmodern inventions. The number and extent of the New\\nEngland manufactnrers, increased in power and facilitated\\nas the}^ are in the vast productions of their enterprises by\\nnumerous successive modern inventions, tend, at all times,\\nto excite wonder and admiration.\\nThe process of manufacturing under modern improve-\\nments has been briefly described as follows\\nThe wheels, within the wheel, with one consent\\nFly round and round, each on its duty sent;\\nTen thousand spindles in their places spin.\\nTen thousand spools fast wind their fibres in,\\nTen thousand shuttles shoot across the web.\\nFed by the mules, slow back and forward led\\nFast roll the fabrics from the rolling beam.\\nComplete in beauty, true in thread and seam.\\nThe sheeting white, the listed broadcloths fine,\\nNeat satinet, and carpets superfine.\\nThe gaudy prints and blankets plainer made,\\nFor realms remote, for home or foreign trade;\\nWorkshops with throngs the vills environ,\\nMagic in power o er wood, o er steel and iron\\nAlive in thought, and helping one another.\\nOnward in handy art advancing further.\\nEmbracing all the works that man can do.\\nThrough labor fruitful and inventions new.\\n[From R. B, Caverhfs Merrimac, p, 63.]", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0271.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "228 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nBURIAL OF THE DEAD.\\nHither let luxury lead her loose-robed train,\\nHere flutter pride ou purple painted wings,\\nAnd from the moral prospect learn how vain\\nThe wish that sighs for sublunary things.\\nIt was nearly a century after the first settlements before\\nan}^ spot of land was obtained here and designated as a\\npublic burying ground. Strange as it may appear, up to\\nthat period there seemed but little concern in the minds of\\nour inhabitants upon this subject. While other towns not\\nvery far distant were fencing their grave-yards, were con-\\nsecrating them, were strewing them with flowers at each\\nreturn of the spring season, and every year were improv-\\ning their repositories with shade trees to invite the pilgrim\\nand the sweet songster, how strange it now seems that\\nours had been so long, so generally delayed.\\nUp to the year 1850 there had beeu no public burying\\nground in Barnstead, its first settlers and their immediate\\ndescendants many of them having beeu left to slumber\\neven to the fourth generation in its fields, pastures, lanes,\\ngardens, orchards, and other isolated places, where the\\ncruel plow in the course of time may or may not invade\\nthem. Some are honored with a rude unlettered stone.\\nSome have none, and though there are many who have re-\\nspectable monuments with historic inscriptions, still there\\nare scores whose resting places are lost, never again to be\\nwatered by aftection s tears, and never more to be traced.\\nSuch a seeming neglect, however, may well be attributed\\nto causes common to a new country, particularly to the\\nhardness of the times, wherein from necessity often times\\nthe future had to be burdened with the duties of the pres-", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0272.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "1872 BURIAL OF THE DEAD. 229\\neut. At that time a fashion seemed to prevail whereby\\neach farmer was led to believe that some corner in his own\\nfield was, of all others, the most appropriate place for his\\nvenerated dead.\\nOf late it has been seen that there is no duty more\\nimperative, and in fact more praise-wortliy, than to cherish\\nwith becoming decency the memories of those who have\\nbeen with us and who have left us. It is becoming to a\\ngenerous people to give their dead a place in the highlands,\\nor in the shady dell, wliere the cypress and the maple shall\\ncast their shadows, and where the soft sound of the pine\\ntree and the warblings of the wild bird shall be borne on\\nthe breeze both at morn and eve there let the lily spring\\nup in its beauty, and let tiie wild-rose bloom there in its fra-\\ngrance forever. To such a repository tlie pilgrim shall\\ncome, and here shall we learn the way that makes glad\\nthe city of our God. Here, also, the human heart taking\\ninspiration from the God of nature, shall learn wisdom\\nand while it seeks to contemplate the frailties of this life,\\nit shall be led to anticipate with serene delight the tran-\\nscendant glories of that which is to come.\\nTo cherish an affection for departed worth, to place\\nover the dust of dear ones a sprig of acacia, or to adorn\\nthe grave with a forget-me-not, ever serves to strengthen\\nthe tie between the li^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ing and the dead. Tis thus the\\nkind mother, the dutiful wife, and the affectionate child,\\nthough dead, are called back to commune with us in the\\nchambers of love and in beautiful visions.\\nOld time, as we have seen, has levelled the turf upon\\nthe graves of many of the old fathers, yet they rest in peace.\\nThe breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,\\nThe swallow s twitt riug from the straw -built shed,\\nThe cock s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,\\nNo more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0273.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "230 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nFor them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,\\nOr busy house-wife ply her evening care,\\nNo children run to lisp their sire s return,\\nOr climb his knees the envied kiss to share.\\n[Gray s E2egy.]\\nAt the Parade there was a private burial lot, owned\\nfli st by John Bunker and afterwards bj^ his son Eli, next\\nby his son Abraham, which still exists in the right of the\\nfifth generation. This ground, as if by common consent\\nof its proprietors, has from time to time been used for\\nburials by a few families for nearly a hundred years.\\nThere is now and then a marble slab in it. Being private\\nproperty, however, it is ever exposed to the liability of\\nbeing invaded, neglected, discontinued or desecrated.\\nImprovements are progressing. Since 1850 four public\\ncemeteries have been established, one at the Centre, one\\nat North Barnstead, one at Clarktown, and one at the\\nParade.\\nIn that j ^ear a large circle of ladies obtained the means\\nand established the cemetery situated on Lord s Hill, about\\nfifty rods east of the Parade Church, fenced it, divided it\\ninto lots, ornamented it with shade trees, and left it alone\\nto await and receive the advancing generations.\\nAll honor to the ladies of that hour long life to those\\nof them who still live and peace, sweet peace, to the\\nashes of those who sleep\\nQuite a number of the dead from the old grounds have\\nalready been taken to the new, where many of the lots\\nhave been purchased and ornamented as becomes a gener-\\nous, pious people.\\nSoft is the peace of saints, in peace they lie\\nThey rest in silence, but they never die I", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0274.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nBIOGRAPHY.\\nJeremiah Peabody Jkwett, who collected the material\\nand started this history, had been for many years a mem-\\nber of the New England Genealogical Society. A brief\\naccount of his father s family will be found on page 152.\\nThey descended from Joseph Jewett, one of the first set-\\ntlers of Rowle} Mass. The father, as we have seen, was\\none of the first settlers of Barnstead, and died there in 1836.\\nHis mother. Temperance (Dodge) Jewett, was a sister to\\nJudith Dodge, the mother of George Peabody, well-known\\nto the world as a banker in London. The mother is still\\nliving at the age of a hundred years and upwards.\\nDr. Jewett obtainec J his common school education at his\\nnative village, and in 182G-7 attended PhiUips P^xeter\\nAcadem3^ His principal instructor there was John Adams.\\nAfterwards he read medicine with his father. Then, for a\\nyear or two, he was the medical student of Dr. J. Spoffbrd,\\nof Groveland, and in the years 1831-2 he was a student\\nin the medical department of Dartmouth College, under", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0275.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "232 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nthe instruction of Messrs. Muzzey and Oliver. He received\\nhis diploma there, and in March, 1833, made Lowell his\\nplace of residence and practice. He was a Fellow of the\\nMassachusetts Medical Society, and was for a considerable\\ntime President of the Medical Society of The Middlesex\\nDistrict. For many years he was special coroner in the\\ncitj of Lowell, sometimes represented it in the Massachu-\\nsetts legislature, and sometimes in the branches of its own\\ncity government.\\nMrs. Jewett was Miss Harriett E. Loomis, of Windsor,\\nConnecticut. Their sons and daughters now living are\\nEmma L., Henrietta A., Thomas P., Joseph D., and Alice\\nA., the youngest at the age of five years.\\nThe Doctor s health began to decline in the autumn of\\n1868. He suffered of dropsy, of which he died June 23,\\n1870. His funeral was attended on the 27th by a large\\nconcourse of people. And then b} the old residents of\\nhis adopted town he was borne away to the banks of the\\nold Concord, and to a peaceful rest in the shades of the\\nLowell Cemetery.\\nBrisk blow, ye bleak winds, bring a song,\\nCelestial vespers, sweet and clear,\\nWave wide ye bending woods along,\\nIn love to lay your garlands here I\\nAnd you, ye wild birds, often sad,\\nIn little songs if not in tears.\\nForget ye not my honored dead,\\nAs wane away the eternal j ears.\\nLet lilies fragrant fill the ground.\\nLovely for age shall live the sod I\\nFor here, indeed, a friend is found,\\nA man, the noblest work of God.\\nJitne 27, 1870. R. B. C.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0276.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "1872 OF ITS DEAD. 233\\nt\\nNECROLOGY.\\nThrough the generous aid of a lady, Mrs. M. H. W.,\\nwe have ol)tained quite an elaborate account of the dead\\nof Barnstcad. It covers nearly the whole period of the\\nexistence of the town, and details to a certain extent the\\nout-goings of its young men and maidens as well as of\\nits old men and matrons and while it bears upon its pages\\nthe names both of citizens and soldiers, it does not lose\\nsight of its wizards and witches.\\nThe ashes of Old Peggy are still found to be\\nreposing upon the Drew farm, and old Aunt Nabby\\nas of yore, sleeps silently beneath a pine tree near\\nthe Suncook bridge. Though witches they were, yet\\nin our faith they at this hour occup}^ a place as high at\\nthe throne of Heaven as the kings and queens of their\\ntime.\\nIt is a significant caution to the pride of earth, that at\\nthe grave, all are intended to be made equal.\\nAnd this is all vain wealth may fry\\nTo rear her monuments on high.\\nIn gorgeous grandeur, clever;\\nBut where the balmy woodlands sigli,\\nAnd the dead are equal far and nigh,\\nBest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 rest is sweeter, never\\nThe said Peggy in her day, as tradition tells us, was\\ngreatly troublesome to her neighbor, that she prevented\\nhis cow, that would not give good milk that she forbade\\nthe cream, and it refused to turn to butter, and the like.\\nTradition also informs us that at the same moment when", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0277.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "234\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n1872\\nour poor old Nabby was c )nsignecl to the earth, a spacious\\nflock of crows flew rapidly over her, and that a tempestu-\\nous gale of wind followed them.\\nAt this day it is pleasant to know and feel that the\\ncredulous years that followed New England witch-craft in\\nits terrible dream, are forever at an end.\\nPrior to 1803 Barnstead had no record of interments.\\nAfter this date, up to 18G0, in an account kept by Parson\\nGeorge, the number given is 1320. Since then, by a\\nrecord as kept by Rev. William O. Carr, 282 deaths have\\nbeen added to the list, which in the whole, as taken,\\nnumbers 1G02.\\nIn the following table we are mostly confined to those\\nwhose ages and dates of death are giveu\\nDate.\\nAge.\\nDate.\\nAge.\\n1777\\nSamuel Clark,\\n1811\\nWilliam Nutter,\\n55\\n1784\\nPeter Edgerly,\\n21\\nAnna, his widow.\\n1795\\nSamuel Avery,\\n76\\nin 1813,\\n53\\n1796\\nJohn Pendergast,\\n15\\nHetty Pickering,\\nJonathan Buuker,\\n67\\nwife of Stephen,\\n71\\nSarah, his widow.\\nMoses Dennett,\\n57\\nin 1825,\\n96\\nBetsey, his widow,\\n1797\\nStephen Pendergast\\n68\\nin 1852,\\n90\\nBetsey, his widow,\\n1812\\nSamuel Nelson, jr..\\n24\\nin 1836,\\n99\\n1814\\nDavid Rand,\\n70\\nJohn Tasker,\\nThomas Edgerly,\\n85\\n1798\\nDorothy Edgerly,\\nDatharuah,his wife.\\nwife of Samuel,\\n26\\nin 1808,\\n78\\n1799\\nJohn Clarlv,\\nDavid Drew,\\n30\\nDr. Joseph Adams,\\n78\\n1814\\nLieut. James Brown\\n50\\n1804\\nDavid Jacobs,\\n48\\nPatience, his widow.\\nMolly, his widow.\\nin 1828,\\n52\\nin 1848,\\n92\\n1815\\nMrs. Bunker, mother\\n1805\\nJames G. Kaime,\\n40\\nof Joseph,\\n106\\nHannah, his wife.\\n1817\\nCharles Hodgdon,\\n75\\nin 1795,\\n29\\nHannah, his wife,\\n1810\\nMoses Eand,\\n70\\nin 1790,\\n57\\n1811\\nThomas Emerson,\\n37\\nAbigail, his widow.\\nHenry Munsey,\\n75\\nin 1830,\\n83\\nSamuel Nelson,\\n73\\nMrs. Joseph Bunker\\n107", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0278.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "IAT2\\nNECROLOGY.\\nDato.\\nAge.\\nDate.\\n1817\\nNathaniel Tasker,\\n63\\n1828\\nSally, his widow, 1837\\n56\\n1819\\nThomas Salter,\\nMrs. Salter, his wife,\\n1829\\nSamuel Oilman,\\n89\\nJoseph Hawkins,\\n83\\nDaniel Hall,\\n17\\nSolomon Hall,\\n15\\n1820\\nCapt. Ebenezer Ad-\\nams,\\n35\\n1822\\nJames Locke,\\nAbigail, his widow.\\n38\\nin Lsr\u00c2\u00bb9,\\n82\\n1830\\nBenjamin Emerson,\\n77\\n1823\\nAaron Cheslej%\\n69\\nRuth, his wife, 1818,\\n63\\nSarah Jacobs, wife\\nof Isaac,\\n21\\n1831\\n1824\\nSusan Hall, wife of\\nBenjamin R.\\n21\\nJonathan Roberts,\\n55\\n1825\\nJohn Cheslej\\n83\\n1832\\nJohn Kenistou,\\n21\\nAaron Chesle.v.\\n40\\nStephen Pickering,\\n85\\nJonathan Emerson,\\n76\\nSarah, his wife, 1810\\n68\\nEnoch Clark,\\n57\\nSusannah, his wife,\\nin ISU,\\n39\\nSamuel Pitman,\\n89\\nSarah, his widow.\\n88\\n1826\\nJonathan Clark, jr..\\n29\\nSamuel Clark,\\n32\\nThomas Bunker,\\n95\\nDeborah, his wife,\\nin 1824,\\n91\\n1833\\nJonathan Cheslev,\\n90\\nMark Walker,\\n21\\nSarah Bunker,\\n96\\n1827\\nJohn B. Parshley,\\n84\\nSarah, his wife, 1823\\n77\\nJohn Tuttle.\\n75\\nDolly, his wife, 1825,\\n73\\nStephen Pendergast,\\n57\\nMrs.EzekielEastman,91\\nSolomon Muusey,\\n82\\nMrs. M., his wife,\\n80\\n235\\nAge.\\n29\\n23\\n27\\n62\\nThomas Penny,\\nNoah Pitman,\\nDr. Wm. Walker,\\nSamuel Garland,\\nAbigail, his widow,\\nin 1839, 74\\nTemperance Nutter, 70\\nJoseph Place, 75\\nAbigail Goodwin,\\nwife of David. 32\\nEsther Nutter, wife\\nof Hatevil, 77\\nCapt. John Daniels, 35\\nMercy Nutter, wife\\nof Benjamin, 81\\nJoseph Bunker, 47\\nOlive, his wife, 1830, 46\\nEleanor Colebath,\\nwife of Dependence, 81\\nSamuel Jacobs, 43\\nWiDiam Muncy, 86\\nEl)enezer Adams, 79\\nTimothy Muncy, 83\\nMary, liis wife^ 1830, 80\\nJoseph Bunker, 38\\nJames Locke, 80\\nMary, his widow, in\\n1844, 86\\nCharles J. Hodgdon, 26\\nTimothy Muusey, 83\\nMary, liis wife, 1830, 80\\n~Wm. Walker, 73\\nElizabeth, his wid-\\now, in 1843, 82\\nBetsey Towle, 68\\nBenjamin Nutter, 88\\nPeletiah Daniels, 63\\nMrs. Anna Lyford, 75\\nJohn Jacobs, 55\\nMercv Jacobs, wife\\nof b. Wiggins, 40\\nJoseph Tasker, 77\\nSallv. his widow, in\\n1834, 78\\nDaniel Jacobs, 74\\nMargaret, his wife,\\nin l819, 57\\nCapt. George Chesley, 51", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0279.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "236\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n187\\nDate.\\n1833\\n1834\\n1835\\n183G\\n1837\\n40\\n65\\n102\\n95\\n41\\n42\\n43\\n79\\n70\\n70\\n85\\n85\\n82\\n1838\\nAge.\\nNancy Jenkins, ^Yife\\nof Joseph,\\nJohn Dnclley,\\nJohn ritniaii,\\nSusanna, his widow,\\nin 1835,\\nChaiies G. Sinclair,\\nJoanna Kaiine, Avife\\nof John,\\nAdonijah Keniston,\\nOlive, Ills widow, in\\n1872,\\nTheodore Willey,\\nAbigail Bicldord,\\nwife of Moses,\\nCharles Hodgdon, jr. (Jl\\nTemperance, his\\nwidow, in 1842,\\nJosiah Snell,\\nWm. Munsey,\\nAnna Dockham,\\nDr. Jeremiah Jewett, 79\\nIra Tasker, 37\\nMiss Betsey Header, 7G\\nJohn Davis, 50\\nLyman Hodgdon, 23\\nGeorge Hop Nutter, 35\\nSamuel Kand, (JO\\nMarv, his widow, in\\n1852, 78\\nEeubeu Sanl)orn, C3\\nDea. Ezelviel Edgerly, 72\\nMary Hatch, wife of\\nHosca, 51\\nAaron Merrill, 02\\nAbigail, his widow,\\nin 1841, 55\\nJoseph Fay, 03\\nOlive, his widow, in\\n1854,\\nLois Hoitt, wife of\\nCol. James,\\nJohn Beri-y,\\nHannah, his widow,\\nin 18G4,\\nWm. Scriggius, 72\\nSally, his wife, in\\n1811, 41\\n87\\n39\\n59\\n88\\nDate. Age-\\n1838 Wm. Garland, 42\\nLois Brown, wife of\\nRobert, 69\\nEdward Avery, 58\\nDependence Colebath,90\\n1839 Simon Dow, 77\\nAbigail, his wife, in\\n1820, 55\\nRuth, his second\\nwife, in 1829, 59\\nJohn Judkins, 60\\nAbigail, his widow,\\nin 1^48, 75\\nSamuel Edgerly, 71\\nBetsey, liis widow,\\nin 1847, 87\\nMollyMuncy, 89\\nAbigail rickering, 72\\n1840 Mrs^ Noah Robinson, 65\\nTimothy Bunker, 41\\nMargaret, his wid-\\now, in 1804, 06\\nMajor John Nutter, 83\\nBetty, his wife, in\\n1817, 02\\nBetsey Hodgdon,\\nwife of Lieut.\\nRichard Sinclair, 78\\nDennis Pendergast, 76\\nHannah, his wife, in\\n1840, 69\\nJosiah Tebbetts, 56\\nEunice, his widow,\\nin 1867, 82\\nEphraini Tebbetts, 86\\nJacolj B. Locke, 40\\n1841 Jonathan Durgin, 69\\nSusan, his Avidow,\\nin 1855, 82\\nLydia Bachelder, 88\\nSolomon Emerson, 24\\nJohn Bunker, 80\\nPolly, his widow, in\\n1844. 84\\nPaul Edgerly, 82\\n1842 Robert Tebbets, Esq., 83\\nhis widow, ju\\n1845, 88", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0280.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "1872\\nNECROLOGY.\\n237\\nDate. Age.\\n1842 James Harden, 89\\nMi s. Aaron Leathers, 83\\nSamuel Ayers, 80\\nEli IJunkeV, 82\\nAnna, his wife, 79\\nOilman Louijee, 27\\nCapt. Daniel Bunker, G9\\nLovey, his witlow,\\nin ISGO, 83\\nJohn Clark, 76\\nJohn Hanscom, 57\\nHannah, hiswido-v,\\nin 1S.32, G8\\nJohn Ilodgdon, 23\\nDavid Drew, 84\\nMartha W., his wid-\\now, in 1855, 95\\nHannah Drew, wife\\nof James, 43\\nPaul Emerson, 21\\nPeletiali Penny, ,s5\\nMary, his wife, in\\n1840, 81\\n1843 Dea. Ebenr. Nutter, 87\\nTemperance, his\\nwife, in 1829, 70\\nAnthony Nutter, 79\\nAnnie, his widow,\\nin 1844, 8G\\nDollie Drew, 51\\nOlive Stevens, GO\\nCapt. Seth Walker, 28\\nJosiah Shackford, 77\\nLydia, his widow,\\nin 1859, 86\\nSamuel Walker, 43\\nEuth, his widow, in\\n1852, 49\\n1844 Hannah Rand, sec-\\nond wife of Moses, 80\\nJoseph Hall, 76\\nMary, his widow, in\\n1845, 71\\nMary Langley, wife\\nof Josepii, 79\\nWm. Walker, jr., 58\\nBetsey, his widow,\\nin 1851, 64\\nDate. Age,\\n1844 Valentine Chapman, 8G\\nPatience, his wid-\\now, in 1845, 70\\nAbigail Towle, wife\\nof Roby, 33\\nPrudence Emerson,\\nwife of Eliphalet, 53\\nLevi Davis, 87\\nJoseph P. Nutter, ir. 28\\nPolly L. Pickering,\\nwife of Joseph, 57\\n1845 Dr. Noah J. T. George, 50\\nDaniel Clark, 45\\nNancy, his wife, in\\n1837, 40\\nEben Pitman, 58\\nAbigail, his widow,\\nin 1856, 61\\nJohn Matt. Nutter, 26\\nSamuel Rollins, 76\\nDe))orah, his wid-\\now, in 1857, 52\\nJohn Hill, 59\\nSallv, his widows in\\n1857, 62\\nDaniel Clark, 44\\n1846 Cyrus F. Oarland, 29\\nEmily, his Avidow,\\nin 1850, 27\\nJohn K. Kaime, 30\\nJohn Bodge. 81\\nMary, his widow, in\\n1851, 9o\\nCharles Poster, 48\\nAljigail, his widow,\\nin 1868, 7X\\nRichard Libby, 2,s\\n1847 Alljert E. Hodgdon, 25\\nRev. Robert Allen, 55\\nAbigail Rollins, wife\\nof Samuel, 58\\nSamuel Chesley, 39\\nJohn Aikiu, 93\\nHannah, his wife, in\\n1843, 84\\nMrs. Sarah Durgiu, 78\\nJohn Nutter, 42\\nComfort Chesley, 86", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0281.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "238\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n1872\\nDate. Age.\\n1848 Moses Bunker, 35\\nMargaret Wallace,\\nwife of Capt. Wm. 45\\nJoanna Snell, GS\\nTimothy Muncy, 24\\nJosepli Drew, 4C\\nAbigail Hall, his\\nwidow, in 1872. 02\\nEichard Collins, 79\\nPatience, his wife,\\nin 1845, 70\\nJames Langley, 47\\nSusan, Ills widow,\\nin 18G(), 74\\nSally Tuttle, wife of\\nThomas, 70\\nSamuel Eaton, 71\\nJoseph Norris, 80\\nHannah, his widow,\\nin 1852, 87\\nPhineas Young, 72\\nDolly, his widow, in\\n18(52, 80\\n1849 Beuj. Hodgdon, Esq., 82\\nPolly, Ills widow, in\\n1858, 82\\nNath. Nutter, 91\\nDorothy, his widow,\\nin 1S55, 89\\nSampson Babb, 80\\nWiuthrop Ayers, 80\\nEuth, his widow, in\\n1855, 91\\nDaniel Pickering, 75\\nLois Davis, wife of\\nJosiah, 79\\nMiss Sally Pickering, 73\\n1850 Wm. J. Stiles, 23\\nJohn Brown, 49\\nSolomon Munsey, jr. 72\\n1851 Permelia Kaime,\\nsecond wife of John, 49\\nJoseph E. Nutter, 44\\nBenjamin Winkley, 79\\nElizabeth, his Avife,\\nin 1841, GO\\nBetsey, his widow,\\nin 1803, 85\\nDate. Age.\\n1851 Mary IIodgdon,Avife\\nof Wm.^A., 24\\nJohn Bickford, 83\\nAndrew Bunker, 67\\nEel)eeca.his widow,\\nin 1853, 07\\nJoseph Tuttle, 77\\nPhebe, his wife, in\\n1848, 07\\nWm. B. Wentworth, 50\\nAnna, his widow,\\nin 1S07, 72\\nJohn Holmes, 62\\nNancy Peudergast, 84\\nJoseph S. Ayers, 49\\nAndrew Pickering, 70\\n1852 Samuel B. Proctor, 30\\nJames B. Peavy, 74\\nHannah, his widow,\\nin 1S55, 71\\nLevi hase, 82\\nLvdia, his wife, in\\n1845, 71\\nJoshua Pickering, 35\\nSolomon Hall, 83\\nLydia, his wife, in\\n1845, 73\\nLois Wel)ster. wife\\nof Nathaniel, 09\\nMarv Ann Hall, wife\\nof Alfred, 37\\nJacob Saunders, 02\\nDaniel W. Thurston, 20\\nAbigail Langley,\\nwife of Henry, 09\\nMrs. Mary Welch, 97\\nEunice Lyford, wife\\nof Eev. Frank H., 20\\nMrs. Jeremiah Davis, 86\\nWidow Paul Edgerly, 87\\nJacob Pickering, 87\\n1853 Nathaniel Adams,\\nsou of Dr. Joseph, 82\\nMrs. Betsev. Newell, 89\\nLevi Clark, jr., 44\\nJacob Willey. 85\\nSallv, his widow, in\\n1855, 89", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0282.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "1872 NECROLOGY.\\nDate. Age.\\nDate,\\n1853 Wni. Grover, M.D.,\\n50\\n1855\\nEbeu IVIunsey,\\n80\\nCharles Hodgdon. jr.\\n89\\nBetsey, his wife, in\\n1825,\\n42\\nMary Muncy,\\n70\\nChester H. Nutter,\\n26\\n(inCal),\\n2G\\n1854 Elizabeth Roberts,\\n87\\nMary A. Dauiels,\\n28\\nJonathan Clark,\\n90\\n1856\\nTemperance, his\\nwife, in 182(],\\n56\\nMrs. Sally Nutter,\\n76\\nBenjamin Chesley,\\n64\\nCol. John Tuttle,\\n70\\nSally, his wife, in\\n1825,\\n39\\nJonathan Keniston,\\n83\\nSally, his widow, in\\n18G1,\\n82\\nRev. Jacob Davis,\\n68\\nLouise, his wife, in\\n1839,\\n48\\nSamuel York,\\n82\\nBetsey, his wife, in\\n18-15,\\n72\\nAbigail M. Ayers,\\n68\\nMary Chesley, wife\\nof Henry,\\n56\\n1857\\nJeremiah Davis,\\n91\\nJohn Tebbetts,\\n89\\nDorothy, his wife.\\nin 1832,\\n68\\n1855 David F. Eaton,\\n49\\nEleanor, his wife.\\nin 1827,\\n32\\nSam l Webster, Esq.\\n62\\nEliphalet Nutter,\\n70\\nLovev, his widow,\\nin lsGI,\\n75\\nJethro Nutter,\\n91\\nMary, his widow, in\\n18G0,\\n81\\n1858\\nJeremiah Clark,\\n85\\nSally, his widow, in\\n1857,\\n78\\nJacob Canney,\\n82\\n239\\nAge.\\nThomas Snell, 82\\nThomas Emerson, 40\\nWm. Walker, M, D., 27\\nSimeon Lougee, 88\\nMai-y, his Avife, in\\n1811, 38\\nMary E., his second\\nAvife, in 1850, 72\\nLois Barbour, 80\\nFrancis P^lliott,\\nIsaac Willey, 79\\nJohn Peavey, Esq., 8o\\nDeborah, his wid-\\now, in 1865, 87\\nThomas Proctor, 77\\nMartha, his wife, in\\n1825, 41\\nComfort, his second\\nwife, in 1847, 66\\nJohn Pitman, 86\\nShuah, his wile, in\\n1850, 79\\nPerkins Ayers, 72\\nMary Morgan, wife\\nof Reuben, 71\\nJonathan Moore, 58\\nCharlotte, his wife, 54\\nNathaniel Pickering, G3\\nPolly his wife, 44\\nBetsev Webster,\\nwife of Robert, 36\\nLillis Runnels, wife\\nof Israel, G2\\nLeonard Clark, 28\\nHenry Nutter, 75\\nSarah, his wife, in\\n1853, 73\\nJenny Muusey, 82\\nIt^iaac Kenney, 38\\nWm. Berry, 57\\nTamson, his widow,\\nin 1872, 69\\nStephen Hussey, 79\\nWm. A. Hoitt, 27\\nCharles F. Bunker, 29\\nEbenezer Munsey, 80\\nMary, his wife, in\\n1858, 69", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0283.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "240\\nHISTORY OF BARN STEAD.\\n1872\\nDate. Age.\\n1858 Josiah Pitman, 83\\nSusan, liis wife, iu\\n1858, 82\\nSarali Pcndergast, 90\\nLoiiUK l Bimker, 85\\nSallv, his wife, in\\n1857. 82\\nEliza Webster, wife\\nof Caleb, 43\\n1859 Nath. Blaisdell, G2\\nAbigail Hall, wife of\\nof Eben, 54\\nRev. Enos George, 78\\nSoi)hia, his wife, in\\n1858, 70\\nEliphalet Berry, 61\\nSolomon Clark, 7G\\nSarah, his widow,\\nin 18G8, 75\\nJohn Sanliorn, 82\\nPolly G. Pierce,\\nwife of Ilarve} 53\\nJohn Thurston, GG\\nHannah, his widow,\\nin IS{;8, 75\\nLucy Drew, second\\nwife of James. GO\\nWm. H. Elliott, 52\\nMoses Bicklord. 93\\nKsiiO Thomas P. Hodgdon, GO\\nAbi am Bunker, 75\\nPolly, his widow, in\\n1870, 81\\nJonathan Pitman, 44\\nJoseph Pendergast, 86\\nNancy Bickford,\\nwife of John, 84\\n18G1 Gen. Timothy Dow, 64\\nMarv, his widow, in\\n1871, 76\\nGeorge Nutter. 68\\nWni. Shaw, 71\\nNancy, his wife, in\\n1872, 80\\nJohn Colebath, 95\\nLettice, his wife, in\\n1852, 85\\nJohn Garland, 56\\nDate.\\n1861\\n1862\\n1862\\n1863\\n1864\\nAge.\\nMary E. Pierce, 35\\nJohn M. Nutter, 62\\nJonathan Young, 62\\nMoses Hodgdon, 83\\nCharles AV. Dow, 22\\nPolly Nutter, 81\\nLeyi Clark. 89\\nBetsey, his wife, in\\n1857, 78\\nThomas Pendergast, 78\\nMary Nelson, his\\nwidow, in 1865, 86\\nSilas Tuttle, 78\\nMoses Chesley, 86\\nMrs. Drew, 90\\nRev. Dayid Garland, 71\\nAbiaail. his wife,\\nin^l850, 58\\nThomas J. Pierce,\\n(soldier), 24\\nDaniel Drew, 67\\nJoseph Pendergast,\\n(soldier), 37\\nLydia, his wife, in\\n1850, 20\\nGeorge F. Muusey, 24\\nWm. H. Berrj-, (sol-\\ndier), 24\\nHorace T. Munsey, 27\\nAlice Foss, wife of\\nJonathan. 72\\nGeorge xiikin, (sol-\\ndier), 22\\nCharles Hodgdon, jr. 64\\nSamuel York, jr. 65\\nMrs. Moses Hodgdon, 91\\nJoseph A. Walker, 63\\nAbigail; his wife, in\\n1856, 58\\nStephen Pendergast, 65\\nAnn, his wife, in 1855, 61\\nPliebe, his Ayidow,\\nin 1869, 64\\nCorp. Joseph Hill,\\n(a soldier wound-\\ned at ColdHarljor),29\\nLois Garland, wife\\nof Samuel, 64", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0284.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "1872\\nNECROLOGY\\nDate\\nAg.-.\\nDiite.\\n1864\\nAaron Drew,\\nElizn))c th, Ins wife,\\n71\\n1867\\niu 1856.\\n68\\nJosepli Hall,\\n18\\nLorenzo Hall,\\nSarali Dow, wife ol\\nJacol),\\ndi)\\nTimothy Emerson\\nHodiidou,\\n56\\nHarried Shackfoid,\\nwife of Soth,\\n51\\nJoseph rickering.\\n77\\nMary Marshall, wife\\nof Andrew.\\n68\\nE. Clarke Drew.\\n45\\nxVaron Chesley,\\n36\\n1SC5\\nDea. Solomon Pen-\\nderga,st,\\n84\\nRebecea, his wife.\\nin 185C\\n86\\nSamuel Caswell\\n107\\nBenjamin Hoitt,\\n71\\nMeliital)le. his wife.\\nin lsy3.\\nm\\n1868\\nJudith Clark, wife if\\nWm. S..\\n60\\nJames M. Cilley,\\n31\\nEdward Pitman,\\n57\\n18(30\\nElijah Emerson,\\nNal)by, his wife, in\\n88\\n1S64,\\n83\\nSamuel B. Clark.\\n53\\nAnnie DaA is, first\\nchild l)orn in B..\\n96\\nEsther Duryin.\\n09\\nNancy Pendergast,\\nwife of Dea. John,\\n58\\nJeremiah Bodge,\\n76\\nOliver Dennett.\\n75\\n1869\\nDodivah Kaime,\\n62\\nSamuel Caswell,\\n103\\nMrs. C, his wife, in\\n1866.\\n93\\nSamuel Rollins,\\n73\\n867\\nDr. Laljau M. Saun-\\nders,\\n34\\nMary Allen, wife of\\nRev. Levi,\\n62\\n241\\nAge.\\n92\\nIsaac Garland,\\nLydia, his wife, iu\\n1865.\\nJohn Clark,\\nHenry C. Prime,\\nJohn Place,\\nDorathy, his widow,\\nin 1870,\\nThomas Trickey,\\nAsa Clark.\\nHannah, his wife, iu\\n1863.\\nMary Shackford, wife\\nof Josiah, Jr.,\\nCapt. Wm. Nutter,\\nHauuah, his widow,\\nin 1869,\\nNathaniel Blaisdell,\\nSophia, his wife, iu\\n1867,\\nSamuel Durgiu,\\nSally Hill, wife of\\nRobert S..\\nRichard Garland,\\nSolomon Emerson,\\nDeborah, his wife,\\nin 1843.\\nSamuel Pickering,\\nJohn J. Emerson,\\nNathan Collins,\\nRuth, his widow, iu\\n1871.\\nPhebe Collins,\\nCol. John Aikin,\\nHenry Munsej^,\\nJames Adams,\\nMrs. Samuel West,\\nMollv Greeuleaf,\\nWm. Nutter,\\nEnsign John Nutter,\\nBenjamin Trickey,\\nJohn R. Jenkins,\\nAzariah Holmes,\\nMoses L. Grace,\\nGeorge A. Hall,\\nWilliam Nutter,\\nEleanor, his widow,\\nin 1871, 81\\n89\\n48\\n28\\n75\\n67\\n37\\n43\\n44\\n71\\n78\\n75\\n27\\n28\\n70\\n82\\n75\\n77\\n70\\n72\\n70\\n75\\n71\\n74\\n83\\n27\\n58\\n64\\n30\\n76", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0285.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "242\\nHISTORY OF I5ARNSTEAU.\\n1872\\nDate.\\nlaoo\\n1870\\n1871\\nAge.\\nPatience Parshlej\\nwife of Joshua, 77\\nSarah Clou.iih. wife\\nof Caleb, 77\\nMartha Nutter,\\nJames Foss.\\nElizabeth Clark, wife\\nof John D..\\nCharles II. Tuttle,\\ndied of great tu-\\nmors,\\nSamuel Ayers,\\nNathaniel Nutter,\\nDolly, his widow, in\\n1872,\\nPolly Emerson, wife\\nof Moses,\\nAnna Place, wife of\\nJoseph,\\nAaron vSnell,\\nNathaniel G. Brown,\\nSally Foss, wife of\\nSolomon,\\nEliphalet Locke,\\nGeorge D. Hill,\\nBetty Drew, wife of\\nJacob,\\nDorothy Foss, wife\\nof Simon,\\n20\\n50\\n83\\n89\\n90\\nc,s\\n102\\nG\\n45\\n(15\\nG\\n53\\n92\\nDate.\\n1871\\n187\\nJoseph Clark,\\nIra Varney,\\nMary, his wife,\\nCaroline Webster,\\nsecond wife of Ca-\\nlel),\\nDavid Wiggins Ja-\\ncobs,\\nBetsey, his wife, in\\n1868.\\nMary Berry, wife of\\nSamuel B., Esq..\\nBetsey Tutler, wife\\nof John J.\\nEnoch Locke,\\nCurtis C. Tuttle,\\nRev. John H. Nutter.\\nJoseph Avers,\\nSamuel Hill,\\nHannah Nutter, wife\\nof Wm. P..\\nJohn E. Bunker.\\n70\\n70\\nr,9\\n79\\n57\\n83\\n71\\n9i;\\nGO\\nG5\\nMr. John Bradley, of Con-\\ncord, N. H., lived and died\\nhere, leaving six children, one\\nof whom is the wife of Charles\\nWhitney, Esq., of Lowell,\\nMass.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0286.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "1872 TOWN CHARTER. 24^\\n(A.)\\nCHARTER.\\nGEORGE BY THE GRACE OF GOD,\\nOF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND,\\nKING. DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, C.\\nTo all people to wliom tJiese presents shall come:\\nGreeting\\nKnow ye that we of our special knowledge and mere\\nmotion for the due encouragement of settling a new Plan-\\ntation, by and with the advice and consent of our Council,\\nhave given, granted, and by these presents as far as\\nin us lies, do give and grant, in equal shares, unto\\nsundry of our beloved subjects, whose names are entered\\nin a schedule hereunto annexed, that inhabit or shall in-\\nhabit within the said grants, within our Province of New\\nHampshire, all tliat tract of land within tlie following\\nbounds, viz To begin on the head of the town of Barring-\\nton, on the southwest side of the town of Coulrane, and\\nrunning by the said town of Coulrane eight miles, and\\nfrom the said town of Coulrane to run on the head of Bar-\\nrington line southwest forty-two degrees six miles, and\\nthen northwest eight miles, and then on a straight line to\\nthe head of the first eight miles, and that the same be a\\nTown, corporate by the name of Barnstead, to the persons\\naforesaid forever. To have and to hold the said land to\\nthe grantees and their heirs and assigns forever, and to\\nsuch associates as they shall admit, upon the following\\nconditions", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0287.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "244 HISTORY OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\n1st. That every proprietor buiM a dwelling-liouse\\nwithin three years and settle a family llierein, ami break\\nup three acres of ground, and plant and sow the same\\nwithin three years, and pay his proportion of the town\\ncharges when and so often as occasion shall require tlie\\nsame.\\n2nd. That a meeting-house be built for the public\\nworship of God, within the term of f(jur years.\\n3rd. That upon default of any particular proprietor in\\ncomplying with the conditions of this cliarter, upon his\\npart, such delinquent proprietor, shall forfeit his share to\\nthe other proprietors, which shall be disposed of according\\nto the major vote of the said proprietors, at a legal meeting.\\n4th. That a proprietor s share be reserved for a par-\\nsonage, and another lor the lirst minister of the gospel that\\nis there settled and ordained, and ahother proprietor s\\nshare for the benefit of a school in the town.\\nProvided, nevertheless, that the peace witli the Indians\\ncontinues for the space of three years. But if it should\\nhappen that a war with the Indians should commence be-\\nfore the expiration of the aforesaid term of three years,\\nthen the said term of three years shall be allowed to the\\nproprietors, after the expiration of the war, for the per-\\nformance of the aforesaid conditions, rendering and paying\\ntherefor to us, our heirs and successors, or such officer or\\nofficers as shall be appointed to receive the same, the an-\\nnual quit-rent or acknowledgement, of one pound of hemp,\\nin the said town, on the 20th day of December, yearly,\\nforever, (if demanded), reserving also unto us, our heirs\\nand successors, all mast trees growing (jn said tract of\\nland, according to the acts of Parliament in that case\\nmade and provided, and for the better order, rule and", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0288.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "1872 CHARTER. 245\\ngovernment of the said town. AVe do by these presents\\nfor ourselves, our heirs and snecessors, grant unto the said\\nmen and inhabitants, or those that shall inhabit tlie said\\ntown, that yearly and every year, upon the last Tuesday\\nin the month of March, forevei-, shall meet to elect and\\nchoose by the major part of tliose present, constables,\\nselectmen, and other town otiicers, according to the laws\\nand usages of our aforesaid Province, and for the calling\\nand notifying the first town meeting, we do hereby ap-\\npoint John Downing, Jr., John Fabius and John Knight,\\nto be the first selectmen, and they to continue in said\\nrespective offices as selectmen nntil the last Tuesday in\\nthe month of March, which shall be in the year of our Lord\\n1728, and until other selectmen shall be chosen and ap-\\npointed in their stead, in such manner as is. in these\\npresents expressed.\\nIn Witness whereof, we have caused tlie seal of\\n[l. s.] our said Province of New Hampshire to be\\nhereunto affixed.\\nWitness, John Wentwouth, p]s(j., our Lieutenant-\\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief in and over our said\\nProvince, at our town of Portsmouth, in our said Province\\nof New Hampshire, the twentieth day of Ma} in tlie thir-\\nteentli year of our reign, anno domhii, 1727.\\nJ. WENTWORTH.\\nBy order of his honor, the Lieut. C4overnor, with advice\\nof Council.\\nRichard Waldron, Clerk of Council.\\nRecorded according to original, under the Province\\nseal, this 28th day of March, 1761.\\nTheodore Atkinson, Secretary.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0289.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "246\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n1872\\nSCHEDULE OF THE PROPRIETORS OF THE\\nTOWN OF BARNSTEAD.\\nKev. Josepli Adams,\\nJohn Downinii Jr.,\\nJames Pickerina\\nJohn Walker,\\nRiehard Downing.\\nJohn Xutter.\\nThomas Pickering.\\nSanuiel Nutter.\\nJohn Fabius,\\nJames Xutter.\\nJohn Fabius, Jr..\\nMathias Nutter.\\nJoshua Pickering.\\nJohn Knight.\\nJohn Thompson,\\nBenjamin Walton.\\nMoses Drew,\\nHarrison Downing.\\nJohn Walliniil ord.\\nIlenrv .Vllard,\\nSeth Ping.\\nThomas Leighton,\\nJoseph Rollins.\\nJosiah Downing,\\nShadraeh Walton.\\nBenning Wentw jrth,\\nHunkiiig Went worth,\\nJon. Wentworth. Jr.,\\nDavid Wentworth,\\nBenjamin Wentworth.\\nJames Jeil rey. Jr.,\\nGeorge Jeft rey, Jr.,\\nRichard Wibird, Jr.,\\nRichard Waldrou, Jr.,\\nEbenezer Weare.\\nJeremiali JMiller.\\nHatevil Nutter,\\nHatevil Nutter, Jr.,\\nHenry Nutter,\\nJohn Trickey,\\nEleazer Coleman.\\nRobert Anthmuty.\\nJohn Dam.\\nJohn Dam. Jr.,\\nZebulon Dam.\\nRichard Dam.\\nElnathan Dam.\\nJethro Bickford.\\nMark Ayers,\\nHatevil Nutter,\\nJohn Zindge,\\nNathaniel Morrill.\\nThomas Ayers, son of Tom.\\nJohn Brock,\\nJoshua Downing. Jr..\\nSamuel Hunt,\\nJohn Hunt,\\nThomas Gerrish, Jr.,\\nSamuel Shackford,\\nJohn Shackford,\\nWilliam Fur))er,\\nSamuel Fal)ius,\\nMoses Furber,\\nBenjamin Downing,\\nJohn Decker.\\nJohn Knight, Jr.,\\nThomas Trickey,\\nCyprean JertVy,\\nJohn Walton,\\nAndrew Peters,\\nJethro Furl)er, 12 n. ton\\nThomas Bickford,\\nSamuel Thompson,\\nClem. Messerve,\\nPeter Weare, Jr.,\\nJohn Plaisted,\\nJames Davis,\\nJdhn Gillman, Esq.,\\nAndrew Wiggiu,\\nCapt. John Downing.\\nWilliam Fellows,\\nCapt. John Gillman,", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0290.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "1S7\\nPROPRIETORS.\\nJoseph Downing,\\nLemuel Bickford,\\nGeorge Walton,\\nSamuel Walton,\\nJonathan Downing.\\nJoshua Downing,\\nGeorge Walton, Jr.\\nJohn Hodgdon,\\nJoseph Fabius,\\nFrancis Jenness,\\nSampson Sheaffe,\\nMatt. Plants,\\nSamuel Gerrish,\\nSanauel Tiljbetts.\\nEphraim Demerit.\\nTheodore Atkinson,\\nJohn Sanl)orn,\\nEbeiiezer Stevens.\\nEieliard James,\\nJames JettVy.\\nNathaniel Showers.\\nGill ;\\\\Iaepheadis,\\nBenjamin Clark.\\nEbenezer Wentworth.\\nADMITTED AS!?OCIATE\\nHis Excellency and Honor, John Wentworth, Esq.,\\nSamuel Shute, Esq.\\nEach of them 500 acres and a home lot.\\nCol. Mark Hunking,\\nGeorge Jeffrey,\\nRichard Wil)ird.\\nThomas Westbrook,\\nArchibald Macpheadis,\\nJohn Frost.\\nJotham (^tdiome.\\nEach a Proprietor s Share.\\nEntered and recorded from the original Schedule of the\\nProprietors of the Township of Barnstead, as the same was\\ncertified by Richard Waldron, Clerk of Council, this 28th\\nMarch, 1801.\\nAttest,\\nTheodore Atkinson, Secretary.\\nSecretary of Statk s Office,\\nAugust 18, 1871. i\\nA true copy of the record.\\nAttest, J. E. Lang,\\nDeputy Secretary of State.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0291.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "248 HISTORY OF BARN STEAD. 1\\n(B.)\\nCHURCH CONTRACT,\\nOF A FlIiST PROPRIETOR.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Contract. The Record that I took of the aorefinent\\nthat I made June the 20th, 1715, with the Committee that\\nwere chosen to agree with me about settling in the minis-\\ntry at Newington Articles 1 That my saUarey be\\nninety Pounds, but as they pleaded the Poverty of the\\npeople, and the great charges they had been at in building\\nthe meeting-house, I consented to accept 86 Pounds for\\nseven years and withal I Promised on their request.\\nThat in case I lived a Bachelder and had not a family I\\nwould abate also the G Pounds and so accept of 80 Pounds\\nfor 7 years aforesaid. 2 That I ^vas to have my Sallary\\nagreed upon paid in money, and That at 2 payments,\\nThat is one half on the last of July as my Sallery began\\non the 1st of Feb. 1714-15, and the other half on the last\\nof January and so yearly.\\n3 It was agreed that I should have the strangers\\ncontribution.\\n4 That I should have the Parsonage Cleared fit for\\nthe Minister s use and Benefit, that is partlj^ cleared as is\\nconnnon in such cases and all fenced with a good and\\nsufficient fence and also to Remain for his use and Ben-\\nefit Dure his natural life.\\n5 That they would give me GO pounds to help me in\\nbuilding my house Together with a Tract of Land lying\\nnear Stoney Hill viz, Behind one William Withain s", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0292.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "1872 CHURCH CONTRACT. 249\\nLands wch they Promised to give ine a Deed of. That\\nis upon consideration of my settling and being ordained\\nin the ministry at Ncwington.\\nIn Testimony of wch agreement we all have signed\\nour names as followetli\\nJoseph Adams,\\nPastor by agreement.\\nJohn KniCxHT, John Knight, Jr.\\nWilliam Shackford, John Fabyan,\\nJohn Bickford, John Doavning,\\nJohn Nutter.\\nWe find the following account of Mr. Adams given by\\nbis nep.hcw, John Adams (afterward President), in his\\nauto-biography, published some years since by his grand-\\nson, Hon. Charles Francis Adams. Under date of June\\n30, 1770, the diary reads\\nArose not very early, and drank a pint of new milk\\nand set off; oated my horse at Newbury, rode to Clark s\\nat Greenland meeting-house, when I gave him hay and\\noats, and then set otf for Newington turned in at a gate\\nby Col. Marches and passed through two gates more\\nbefore I came into the road that carried me to my uncle s.\\nI found the old gentleman in his eighty-second year,\\nas hearty and alert as ever, his sous and daughters well,\\ntheir children grown up, and everything strange to me. I\\nfind I had forgot the place it is seventeen years, I pre-\\nsume, since I was there. My reception was friendly and\\nardent, and hospitable, as I could wish took a cheerful\\nand agreeable dinner, and then set off for York over", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0293.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "250 HISTOia OF BARNSTEAD. 1872\\nBloody Point Ferry, a way I never went before, and\\narrived at Woorlbridge s half an hour after sunset.\\nThrough the same distinguished aiedinm we get a\\nslight view of him as a preacher and a citizen. In a\\nletter to David Sewall, so late as 1821, President Adams\\nsays of him\\nMy father s eldest brother, Joseph Adams, (was)\\nminister of that town. My uncle had been a great ad-\\nmirer of Dr. Mather, and was said to affect an imitation\\nof his voice, pronunciation, and manner in the pulpit.\\nHis sermons, though delivered in a powerful and musical\\nvoice, consisted of texts of scripture, quoting chapter and\\nverse, delivered memoriter^ and without notes. In con-\\nversation he was vain and loquacious, though somewhat\\nlearned and entertaining.\\nRev. Joseph Adams took an active and generous\\ninterest in public affairs. As early as 1758 he was one\\nof the eight clergymen selected by the congregational\\nconvention to apply to Governor Wentworth for a charter\\nfor a college within the province of New Hampshire,\\nwhich was granted in 1769, and was the leading spirit in\\nthe settlement of Barnstead.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0294.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "1872 TEST LIST OF THK REVOLUTION. 251\\n(C.)\\nTEST LIST.\\nTo the Selectmen of Barnstead, Colony of Neio Hamp-\\nshire.\\nIn Cosimittee of Safety,\\nApril 12th, 1776.\\nIn order to carry the underwritten resolve of the Hon-\\norable Continental Congress into execution, you are\\nrequested to desire all males above twenty-one years of\\nage (lunatics, idiots and negroes excepted) to the decla-\\nration on this paper and when so done, to make return\\nliereof, together Avith the name or names of all who shall\\nrefuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly or Com-\\nmittee of Safety of this Colony.\\nM. Weare, Chairman,\\nIn Congress, March 14th, 1776.\\nResolved, That it be recommended to the several\\nAssemblies, Conventions and Councils, or Committees of\\nSafety, of the United Colonies, immediately to cause all\\npersons to be disarmed within their respective colonies,\\nwho are notoriously disaffected to the cause of America,\\nor who have not associated, and refuse to associate, to\\ndefend by arms the United Colonies against the hostile\\nattempts of tlie British fleets and armies.\\nExtract from minutes.\\n(Copy.) Charles Thompson, Sec ry.\\nIn consequence of the above resolution of the Con-\\ntinental Congress, and to show our determiuation in", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0295.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "252\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n1872\\njoining our American brethren in defending the lives,\\nliberties and properties of the inhabitants of the United\\nColonies\\nWe, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and\\npromise that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the\\nrisk of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hos-\\ntile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against\\nthe United American Colonies.\\nSamuel Pitman,\\nJonathaii Bunker,\\nThomas Snell,\\nDepeudauce Colbath,\\nJoliii Elliott,\\nJohn Furber,\\nJohn Nelson,\\nJoseph Bimker,\\nJoseph Sanborn,\\nBenjamin Edgerly,\\nJohn Mugate,\\nJohn Sanborn,\\nHis\\nDaniel x Jacobs,\\nMark.\\nDaniel Bickford,\\nJohn Tasker,\\nJohn Sanborn,\\nHis\\nTimothy x Davis,\\nMark.\\nHatevil Nutter,\\nJonathan Emerson,\\nAugust 18, 1871.\\nAttest\\nBenjamin Emerson,\\nRichard Sinkler,\\nBenja. Nutter,\\nWilliam Lord,\\nWinthrop Smart,\\nJohn Iluckens,\\nIsaac Iluckens,\\nNathaniel Pease,\\nJohn Bickford,\\nSamuel Drew,\\nJohn Mudget,\\nJoseph Bryant,\\nHis\\nJoseph X Mugate,\\nMark.\\nBenjamin Brown,\\nEdward Sanborn,\\nHis\\nSamuel x Stephens,\\nJlark.\\nHis\\nX Bunker.\\nMark.\\nA true copy of the original.\\nJ. E. Lang, Dep. Sec y of State.\\nNote. I do not find any return by the selectmen of\\nthe names of any disloyal men in Barnstead. j. e. l.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0296.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "TTI E\\nFRIENDS AND PATRONS\\nOF THIS WORK.\\nBARNSTEAD.\\nNo .Vols.\\nNo.Yols\\nHannah Adams,\\nGeorge \\\\V. Ayers,\\nCharles Adams,\\nJohn Adams,\\nJ. F. Aikius,\\nDavid E. Avery,\\nJoseph Ayers,\\nJoshua W. Ayers,\\nC. W. Blanchard, Esq.,\\nJ. M. Babcock, Esq.,\\nJoseph P. Blaisdell,\\nJeremiah Bodge,\\nDaniel Bickford,\\nGardner T. Bunker,\\nC. A. Bunker,\\nHenry D. Blake,\\nA. Bickford,\\nA. H.Boody,\\nJ. P. Bickford,\\nSamuel (i. Berry, Hon.\\nDennis liablo, Esq.,\\nJolni Blake,\\nIra L. Berry,\\nFreeman Berry,\\n\\\\V. O. Carr, Rev.,\\nMoses J. Canney,\\nGeorge Colbath,\\nDaniel Chesley,\\nC. C. Chesley,\\nJohn B. Chesley,\\nB. F. Chesley,\\nJames H. Colbath,\\nSamuel D. Caswell,\\nWilliam A. Chesley,\\nIsaac H. Clark,\\nJoel Clark,\\nEnoch Clark,\\nJohn H. Clough,\\nJoseph AV. Clark,\\nHorace N. Colbath,\\nSolomon Clark,\\nReuben H. Clapp,\\nIsaac Chesley,\\nCharles L. Chesley,\\nJudith Caswell,\\nJames R. C. Davis,\\nDaniel F. Davis,\\nDavid Drew,\\nCliarles H. Dow,\\nJohn Dow,\\nJohn H. Davis,\\nHerbert C. Downs,\\nG. W. Emerson, M. D.,\\nTimothy Emerson,\\nR. P. Emerson,\\nIteuben Edgerly,\\nCliarles F. Emerson,\\nGeorge W. Emerson, Esq..\\nS. H. Emerson,\\nAndrew J Emerson,\\nDavid H Evans,\\nJacob \\\\V. Evans,\\nEli H. Elliott,\\nMoses Edgerly,\\nOscar Foss,\\nWm. I. Foss,\\nCharles A. Foss,\\n.Tames L. Foss,\\nJames A. Foye,\\nLevi F. French,\\nAsa Garland,\\nJohn B. Garland, Esq.,", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0297.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "254\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n1872\\nNo. Vols.\\nCharle.s S. Grace,\\nDavid Goodwin,\\nChas. S. George, Esq.,\\nEnos George,\\nJoseph Hill,\\nN. E. Huntress,\\nD. B. Hanson,\\nJ. X. Hoitt,\\nHatch Glidden,\\nWilliam J. Hall,\\nJohn F. Holmes, Esq.,\\nChas. A. Hodgdon,\\nSamuel Hall,\\nEben Hanson. Esq.,\\nNellie HaustMinie,\\nNathaniel Hanson,\\nMrs. Jlahala Holmes,\\nli. F. Hauscom,\\n(ieorge A. Hall,\\nJliriam Hodgdon,\\nJohn B. Hussey,\\nWm. A. Hurd,\\nGeo. L. Hall,\\nJ. H. Jenkins,\\nFrank S. Jenkins,\\nWilliam A. Jenkins, Esq.\\nJohn W. Jenkins,\\nWilliam Jenkins,\\nOrran J. Jenkins,\\nEbenezer Jones,\\nLewis Jenkins.\\nCalvin Jenkins,\\nGeorge W. Jenkins,\\nJames Kaime,\\nSamuel Kaime,\\nJohn O. Kenisou,\\nGeo. F. Kentson,\\nGeo. W. Keniston,\\nJoseph F. Kaime,\\nDavid E. Eougee.\\nHorace W. Lord,\\nW. N. Langley.\\nJohn W. V. Locke, Esq.,\\nPhineas Locke,\\nThomas Moore,\\nDaniel Moore,\\nJ. D. Marshall,\\nW. Muusey,\\nJames Nutter,\\nN. S. Nutter, Esq.,\\nS. D. Nutter,\\nWilliam Nutter,\\nJohn L. Nutter, Esq.,\\nJames Nutter,\\nWm. S. Nutter, Esq.,\\nEleanor P. Nutter,\\nSarah J. M. Neal,\\nNo.Yols.\\nA. P. Nutter,\\nG. F. Nutter,\\nMiranda E. I arsons,\\n.I.e. I ickcring,\\nT. U. I ickering,\\n1. M. Pickering.\\nJonathan Pickering.\\nWilliam H. Peiree,\\nH. C. l^alnier.\\nJohn Pendergast,\\nHenry IMtman.\\nSamuel G. Pendergast, Esq.\\nHiram T. Pitman,\\nT. O. Pitman.\\nDaniel I arshley,\\nJ\\\\ Iv. I roctor, Esq.,\\nWm. I roctor,\\n.foseph D. Proctor.\\nChristianna Pendergast,\\nJane Pendergast,\\nHiram Rand,\\nHannah Randett,\\n.Lames M. Rowe,\\nCharles Reynolds.\\nL. C. Scruton.\\nThomas S. Straw,\\nNoble Salkott.\\nA. W. Shackford,\\nAnsel C. Smart,\\nJosiah R. Shackford,\\nSeth Shackford, Esq.,\\nFrank Slceiier,\\nDaniel Sargent,\\nGeorge W. Sargent,\\nCharles H. Straw,\\nSamuel G. Shackford,\\nAlbert F. Shackford.\\nFred A. J. Smart, Esq..\\nDaniel E. Tuttle. Esq.,\\nAVm. Tuttle.\\nSamuel M. Tuttle.\\nOrran W. Tibbetts,\\nJohn AVheeler, M. D.,\\nJ. M. Winkley,\\nJoseph Walker,\\nCaleb Willev,\\nJohn W.Welch.\\nMark Walker. M. D.,\\nAugusta W. Walker,\\nJohn Walker.\\nAmbrose J. Wentworth,\\nSamuel Winkley, Esq.,\\nOliver H. P. Young,\\nJohn M. Young,\\nJohn IL Young,\\nAcanthus Young,\\nSamuel P. Young,", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0298.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "18:\\nFRIENDS AND PATRONS.\\n255\\nLOWELL, MASS.\\nNo. Vols.\\nNathan Allen, M. D..\\nOtis Allen, Esq.,\\nJohn G. Adams, Rev.,\\nA. L. Brooks, Esq.,\\nCol. Jeflerson Bancroft,\\nJohn A. Buttrick, Hon.,\\nWilliam Bunker,\\nIra Caverly,\\nDaniel Caverly,\\nJohn E. Dame, Rev..\\nHanover Dickey, M. D.,\\nGeorge JI. Elliott, Esq.,\\nWilliam Fiske,\\nAlansdii I olsom,\\nCyrus M. Fiske. M. D.,\\nIsaac A. Fletcher, Esq.,\\nStephen Fiflekl,\\nD. P. Gage, M. D..\\nJohn W. Graves, Hon.,\\nJohn O. Green, M. D.,\\nJoseph R. Hayes, Dr.,\\nRufus B. Hilliard,\\nGeorge Hertriek,\\nMoses Howe, Esq.,\\nAndrew F. Jcwett, Esq..\\nMrs. H. E. Jewett,\\nNo.Vols.\\nJoseph A. Janvrin, Capt.,\\nE. O. Kingsley, Esq.,\\nG. Kimball, M. D.,\\nJ. A. Knowles, Hon.,\\nAndrew Leighton, Esq.,\\nDr. Jos. A. Masta,\\nDr. Geo. C. Osgood,\\nF. C. Plunkett, M. D.,\\nDr. John W. Pearson,\\nS.N. Proctor,\\nSamuel Rand,\\nRob t K. Runnels,\\nGeo. S. Richardson,\\nChas. A, Savory, M, D.,\\nJoel Spaulding. M. D.,\\nMrs. S. Spaulding,\\nMrs. C. Whitney,\\nDavid Wells,\\nH. Wright,\\nAlbert Wheeler,\\nSamuel Horn, Esq.,\\nE. B. Patch, Hon.,\\nDr. James C. Ayer,\\nJIarden Rowell, Pub.,\\nSamuel T. Manahau,\\nGeo. W. Adams,\\nI lTTSFIELD, N. II.\\nWm. C. Adams, Esq.,\\nP. H. Adams,\\nA. W. Adams,\\nJohn Berry,\\nLewis Bunker,\\nOwen Brock,\\nS. H. Clark,\\nJeremiah Clark,\\nCharles F. Collins,\\nCharles French,\\nR. L. French,\\nAbraham French. 2d,\\nC. S. French,\\nO. F. Ham,\\nJoseph Jenkins,\\nMelvin J. Jenkins,\\no\\nJ. L. Marsh,\\n1\\nJ. P. Nutter,\\n2\\nF. C. Nutter,\\n1\\nDaniel T. Neale,\\n1\\nH. H. Pierce,\\n1\\nAC. Pierce,\\n1\\nG. S. Ring,\\n1\\nG. H. Sanborn,\\n1\\nR. P. J. Tenney, Hon.,\\n5\\nH. A. Tattle,\\n2\\nThomas H. Thorndike,\\n1\\nF. \\\\V. White,\\n1\\nAndrew J. Young,\\n1\\nEverett Jenkins,\\n1\\nA. C. Smith,\\n1\\nBOSTON, MASS.\\nJohn F. Banchor, F^sq.,\\nGeo. S. Banchor,\\nBoston Public Library,\\nCol. Thos. E. Barker,\\nSamuel G. Drake, Hon.\\nFred. F. French, Esq.,\\nD. B. Gove, Esq.,\\nWm. Parsons Lunt, Esq., C\\nWm. E. Nutter, 1\\nSamuel P. Riddler, Esq., i\\nMrs. L. M. Standish, 2\\nMrs. B. T. Savage, 1\\nMiss E. F. Wallace, 1\\nJames L. Woodhouse, 1", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0299.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "256\\nHISTORY OF BARNSTEAD.\\n1872\\nCONCORD, N. H.\\nNo.Vols.\\nAndrew Bunker, Esq.,\\nMrs. Wm. A. Chesley,\\nCharles Dennett,\\nGeo. S. Dennett,\\nJoseph French, Esq.,\\nMrs. J. P. Hill,\\nHoward F. Hill, Esq.,\\nE. S. Nutter, Esq.,\\nG. L. Nutter, Esq.,\\nNo.Vols.\\nC. D. Newell,\\nI. L. Pickering,\\nMrs. N. P. Rines,\\n]Mrs. Stary H. .Smart,\\nMrs. L. A. Smith,\\nL. D. Stevens, Esq.,\\nWm. Shackford,\\nMrs. R. S. Webster,\\nGeo. E. Pendergast,\\nMANCHESTKR, N. H.\\nLewis W. Clark, Att. Gen.,\\nM. V. B. Edgerly, Esq.,\\nJohn C. French, Esq.,\\nSeth T. Hill, Esq.,\\nH.D. Lord,\\n5\\nC. H. Marshall, for City Library,\\n1\\n5\\nJ. P. Newell, Esq.,\\n5\\n1\\nC. W. Stanley,\\n1\\n1\\n1\\nJ. K. Stevens, Esq.,\\n1\\nOTHER FLACKS.\\nJ. AV. Pickering, Charlestovvn, Ms.\\nJohn Connell, Gilmauton, N. H.,\\nJeremiali Blake, M. D.\\nCharles A, Hatch,\\nIsaac G. Piper,\\nThos. Coggswell, Esq.,\\nMrs. John Kent, Portsmouth, N.H.\\nJohn A. George, Esq.,\\nDaniel Marcy, Hon.,\\nLafayette Newall,\\nE. P. S. Sherburne, Esq.,\\nC. Drew, Esq., Lawrence, Ms.,\\nG. AV. Garland, M. D.,\\nEbenezer Nutter, Lynn. Mass.,\\nA. F. L. Norris, Es\\nJohn Huckins, Strafford, N. H.,\\n.lohn C. Peavey, Esq.,\\nMrs. Joseph Caverly,\\nMrs. R. B. Peavey,\\nWm. Hale, Esq., Barrington, N.H.\\nDaniel Caverly, Esq.,\\nMrs. Nancy Cox, Holderness, N.H.\\nJ. Pi Bunker, Karson, Minn.,\\nH. C. Canney, Auburn, N. Hi,\\nN. B. Edwards. M. D., Chelms-\\nford. JIass.,\\nPublic Library, Exeter, N. H..\\nA.( .Newall, jr. D.,Farmington, Me.,\\nFrank Emerson, Esq.,\\nCharles H. Pitman,\\nEben James, Esq.,Tyngsboro Ms.,\\nJohn P. Dennett, Gloucester, Ms.,\\nHerbert E. Dennett,\\nNatt Head. Esq.. Hook.sett, N. H., 1\\nLyman Hodgdon. Dover, N. H.,\\nGeorge G. Lowell,\\nJackson Newall,\\nGeo. P. Demerett,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Tohn F. Hayes,\\nDr. C. M. Murphy,\\n.1. H. Pickering, Salem, Mass..\\nJohn Pierce, Esq., Portland, 3Ie..\\nW. F. Home, Rochester, N. H.,\\nMrs. Ellen Lougee,\\nJ. P. Rand, M. D., Hartford, Vt,,\\nSpoflbrd D. Jewett, Rev., Middle-\\nfield, Conn., 2\\nDavid F. Kaime, St. Louis. Mo.. 1\\n.Tames Kaime. Canterbury, N. H., 1\\nGeorge Montgomery, Newbury-\\nport, Ms., 1\\nJ. D. Nicliols, M. D., Tewksbury,\\nMass., 1\\nA.H.Quint.Rev..New Bedford, Ms., 1\\nCharles Ridler, Maplewood, Ms., 1\\n.John G. Sinclair, Hon., Littleton,\\nN.H., 6\\nMary G. Sanborn, South New Mar-\\nket, N. H.,\\nAlbert G. Thompson, N. Y. City,\\nDr. P. H. Wheeler, Alton, N. H.,\\nOliver Waldron, Madbury, N. H.,\\nJoseph C. Russell, Laconia, N. H.,\\nGeo. W. Woodliouse,\\nMrs. Mary J. Clogston,", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0300.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "^rk, J\\n(^ai ~e L", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0303.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0304.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "OBLIVION.\\n[a search FOli THE RECORD.]\\nO, thou unfettered, unforbidden foe\\nTo man s proud purpose, history or fame\\nThou art a bane to all who live below,\\nFearful forslumberings, that never wake again.\\n2\\nIn stealth for aye ye creep creation o er\\nWith a midnight cloud to cover all below it,\\nWhere generations stood that lived of j ore\\nIn story brave man never more shall know it.\\n3\\nHigh in the hills I stand beneath the gloom.\\nThat bilges pendent o er a bleaky brow.\\nTo cast a flower on many a crumbling toml).\\nFor hearts heroic half forgotten now.\\n4\\nGive me thine aid, ye Gods of earlj date,\\nOr native nymph, or spirit from above!\\nSnatch from the fangs of unrelenting Fate\\nThe fading memories of paternal love I\\n5\\nHalf halting there, beseeching and bes.iught,\\nWith harp unstrung in tuneless silence laid.\\nA gallant lady to my vision In-ought\\nThe grave-yard gates of Barnstead s honored dead.\\n33", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0305.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "258 APPENDIX. l\\n6\\nSing now, said she, tlie deeds of other days.\\nWake once again thy tired strings anew\\nOur fathers old, tlieir rude and rustic ways,\\nTlieir frugal, faithful pilgrimage review.\\n7\\nThen straightaway, while dawn in lovely light,\\nUoth come to gild the pui ple hills with gold\\nWhile mild October from the forest bright\\nDisplays proud colorings beauteous to liehold,\\n8\\nShe turns, meanders, where departing night\\nll.ath spread the vales in pathless peai ly dews\\nAnd where old Time had cast his baleful Ijlight\\nIn da3 s of yore, sweet garlands there she strews.\\n9\\nDown thence afar, in all the varied fields,\\nIn valley low, in upland fresh and fair.\\nWild, at her feet the nodding floweret yields\\nObeisance grateful to her presence there\\niO\\nWhere long ago, advancing sad and slowly,\\nTrocessious came, dark, winding ou the way.\\nFrom plaintive prayer, and exhortations holy,\\nThey bore their kindred tenderly away.\\nM*\\nDeep there she dwells, where now the sainted dead,\\nNeath mossy mound, or sod with briers set.\\nIn pent-up lanes, or careful corners laid,\\nLong, tardy years in loneliness have slept.\\n12\\nTo trace rude records, latent, there beclouded,\\nA line of love, a stanza quaint, sublime.\\nOr some old text, which nature hath beclouded,\\nBeneath the tears of overwhelming Time.\\n*See page 2.33.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0306.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "WE SEEK THE SAINTS. 2. )i)\\nFull forty days her faithful lingers gather\\nFrom granite gray or sable slab of old,\\nIn uncouth rhymes, yet sentimental i-ather,\\nThe last sad tale which fond attection told;\\n4\\nTold from the soul when fettered in affliction,\\nBeneath a cloud high from the heavens hung\\nNor prayer, nor faith, nor bounteous beuedictiou\\nAssuaged the grief that clustered where it clung.\\n15\\nHere many a neighbor, curious at the call,\\nHolding a helping hand, came, gathered near,\\nAnd priest and people, draped in homespun, all\\nBrought regal honors to a rugged bier.\\niG\\nHere stood a father, deep in sorrow, mild,\\nA mother bending o er her manly boy,\\nA lonely daughter led a little child,\\nAnd left a tear to a true departed joy.\\n17\\nHere stood the soldier, strong in revolution,\\nWhose heart, it failed not, firm in battle, brave\\nFor freedom fair, forj od and constitution.\\nValiant for aye, it faltered at the grave.\\n18\\nO, God, that gives us sympathetic tears.\\nThat fosters love in the kingdoms all around.\\nWhy should the page of patriotic years\\nBe lost, forgotten, never to be found?\\n19\\nWhy, like the works of distant boundless ages,\\nWhile rambling red-men wandered through the wold.\\nWhose only record lingers on the pages,\\nLeft brief from hearsay, of the English old,", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0307.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "2G0 APPENDIX.\\n1872\\nShould that be lost forgotten, shall they vanish.\\nPrhiieval deeds of brave New England days\\nO give me pinde. a cultivation clanish,\\nA filial faith, to pen heroic praise\\n21\\nShame on the cur, unworthy of a collar,\\nLured of a lie, holds never his master s place\\nYet not unlike him, he that hugs the dollar.\\nNor spares a dime for the annals of his race.\\n22\\nThen let the luckless day that l)ore^iim perish!\\nLet the night that bred him deep in darkness lie\\nFor him no charm shall Nature deign to cherish,\\nNo balm of earth, nor bliss from God on high\\n23\\nWhere shall he rest, who knows no tliought paternal,\\nNor has a heed for anything Init self\\nWith aspirations fruitless, frail, infernal;\\nFavored of heaven, yet pants for paltry pelf!\\n24\\nMake him a grave in some old boggy meadow,\\nIn a desert drear, beyond the hooting owl,\\nWhere the summer cloud shalLnever show a shndow,\\nUnseen of the l)ird, abhorred of beasts that prowl\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n25\\nAnd bury him low let solitude attend him\\nNo star for the night, no genial dawn of day,\\nNor sight nor sound let Nature deign to lend him.\\nSave from the jackal digging for his prey\\n26\\nKindness to him who shows it is but just;\\nEarth s charities are favored of the skies\\nHer sinful self must sink to sordid dust\\nHer rich rewards are waiting for the wise.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0308.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "I ^Ta THEY COME IN A CLOUD. 261\\nGive me the man that has a soul within hun,\\nA heart for heaven, a hand for a noble deed\\nThat lives to learn, and learns to carry in him\\nGod s golden rule, the emblem of his creed\\n28\\nReturn me hence, from unreserved digression.\\nTo the vale below, where, faithful to a vow,\\nThat lady wandering strives to give expression\\nTo unique phrase, time-worn, half hidden now.\\n29\\nThe grave-gato turns its hopeful hinges fair,\\nAs if to help a welcome heart within;\\nThe dead are heedful angels have a care\\nTo such a mission, true they work to win.\\n30*\\nFor, now while twilight l)nrns the western sky,\\nDown from a cloud that hovers o er the tomb.\\nSprite voices come I seem to see them nigh\\nAnd one Lone Star to dissipate the gloom.\\n3\\nAm I asleep, and am I ilreamiug now?\\nIs there no God to move the spheres above?\\nNo angel voice to breathe a tender vow,\\nNo sainted soul to teli us of his love\\n32t\\nIndeed, 1 see them in the sabled cloud,\\nThe manhood meek of earthy olden time,\\nOf Mary, there, they whisper long and loud.\\nFrom heaven all, and equally divine.\\nSure he is there, whose Ijanner l^right unfurled,\\nBore on its folds that beauteous beaming Star;\\nWho preached salvation to a dying world.\\nAnd left it better than he found it, far.\\n*Uev. 1:7. tPage 5. JPage 00.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0309.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "262 APPENDIX. IS72\\n34*\\nI see the soul that followed many a day,\\nThe miry beasts that dragged the plow along,\\nThe frugal heart in all its rustic way\\nThat cheered these vales with piety and song.\\n35\\nNote there, the youths so brief in earth s career,\\nWho brought rich harvests to the help of age,\\nWhose noble natures l)rave, fraternal, dear,\\nBequeathed to the Avorld a pure historic page.\\n36t\\nNote thei e, the sprite of fated Indian life,\\nWhose arrow clings to the farthest distant cloud.\\nWhose vengeance flashes in the heavens rife,\\nBeyond the mountains nuirnuiring yet aloud.\\n37j\\nNote there, the pilgrim, first of all that came,\\nW^ho led the white-man, trained him for the skies.\\nIn all this earthly round, who fanned the flame\\nThat fired a nation s faith, and made it wise.\\n38\u00c2\u00a7\\nNote there, a daughter, sainted, favored, free.\\nHeld once beloved, angelic always found.\\nWho sought the shades of yonder towering tree.\\nThere to recline the eternal j^ears around.\\n39\\nHigh on these hills, she d wandered in her childhood.\\nBriefly to dance sweet summer days along.\\nAnd oft in tlowery A ale, or waving wild-wood.\\nInspired the ))Iue-bird with her little song.\\n40\\nThere, long ago, beneath green branches youthful,\\nThey thither laid her, true, more tender never.\\nStill, still that old birch tree is heavenward, truthful.\\nBearing brave honors to that loved one, ever,\\n*Page 74 to 98. tPage21. J Page 10. Page 99.", "height": "2974", "width": "1763", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0310.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "1872 THEY VISIT Maggie s tree. 263\\n41\\nKind spirits flit witliiu its a.j^ed l)ouglis\\nBright night hatli come to lave its leaves with tears\\nSoft zephyrs sigh their wonted tender vows\\nTo Maggie, faithful, slumbering fifty years.\\nTen thousand days briglit dawn lias lit upon it.\\nTen thousand nights sweet stars soft glittering there,\\nTen thousand wild birds, lovely, warbling on it,\\nHave b) ought oblations to my Maggie fair.\\n43\\nEarth s tardy years are nothing in His sight.\\nWho rolls the spheres in majesty above;\\nWhose sun. on high, is but a candle light\\nTo lead frail mortals to a throne of love.\\n44\\nVet have these years worketl wonders in tlieir way,\\nBright links they ve formed in the eternity of time;\\nThey ve laid the Pilgrim old, earth-loved away.\\nThey ve given to God the patriot pure, divine.\\n45\\nBrave heaven-taught hosts, our fathers, mothers, all I\\nI hail their presence in the purpled air!\\nDeep in the vale approvingly they call\\nKind connuendation. true, to Mary there.\\n46\\nCalmly they scan her late benighted wanderings.\\nHer faith in God, her truth in every duty.\\nHer care for kindred, her penciliugs and ponderings.\\nEarth s fovored form, and life s transcendent beauty.\\n47\\nWhile turning now tlie fmislied field away.\\nTen times they thank her in that mission free\\nTen times they chant a soft angelic lay.\\nSweet, like the zephyrs in that ancient tree.", "height": "3000", "width": "1790", "jp2-path": "historyofbarnste00jewelc_0311.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "264 APPENDIX. 1872\\nAh What a change Fair tlawu hath lost her light\\nThe murky shades have mantled Earth and Main\\nYet soon afar the gentle Queen of Niglit,\\nHigh on the mountains, lights them up again.\\n49\\nOh, what a world of glor.y sliines al)Ove us\\nWliat boundless realms, what beauty beams below!\\nWhat constant faith, and care from llim who loves us I\\nAnd all for what? Frail nature ne er can know\\n50*\\nYe stately heights, that stand against tlie sky\\nYe ocean waves, that dash a boundless shore\\nFrom Beauty-hill I scan ye now on high.\\nEternal there, majestic as of yore\\n5\\nThine were the tribes of vast uncounted years,\\nThe wigwam wild indeed was thine alone\\nThine was the pride of pilgrim pioneers,\\nThe white-man s hamlet and the halcyon home\\n52\\nHail happy hills, and valleys lovely green.\\nFair flocks in pastures which the fathers trod\\nOld Suncook rolls, sweet flowery flelds between.\\nHer mountain peaks are pointing up to God\\n53\\nAwake, ye sons and favored daughters true!\\nTo faith and works there is a treasured crown\\nA glorious morn is breaking bright for you.\\nWhile at your door I lay your annals down.\\n54\\nFarewell! my long-loved, native hills, for aye!\\nYour own bright waters never more I ll see\\nI ll l)ear your beauty in my soul away.\\nWhere Jewett slumbers, waiting but for me\\n*Page 122.\\nR. i$. 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