{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3426", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3234", "width": "1908", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3229", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3234", "width": "1908", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3229", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3234", "width": "1908", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE\\nHISTORY OF BOSCAWEN\\nAND\\nAVEBSTER,\\nFROM 1733 TO 1878\\nCOMPILED BY\\nCHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.\\nWITH iMAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nCONCORD, N. H.:\\nPRINTED BY THE REPUBLICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.\\n1878.\\n1*1 v^", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2969", "width": "1836", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "y u", "height": "3043", "width": "1842", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "ipAciA^Zt^ GaA.^\u00e2\u0082\u00accZ^^ d\\n-L^", "height": "3234", "width": "1908", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nPage.\\nPreliminary Chapter,\\nV\\nCivil Hi.\\n3T0RY,\\n1\\nChap. I.\\nPlantation of Coutoocook,\\n1\\nII.\\nSettlement of Contoocook,\\n15\\nIII.\\nThe Second Decade,\\n28\\nIV.\\nThe Ei-ench and Indian War,\\n51\\nV.\\nThe Town,\\n81\\nVI.\\nPreparing for the Great Struggle,\\n103\\nVII.\\nBeginning of the Revolution,\\n111\\nVIII.\\nClose of the War,\\n122\\nIX.\\nUnder the Constitution,\\n136\\nX.\\nPirst Decade of the Century,\\n157\\nXI.\\nProgress,\\n172\\nXII.\\nProm 1820 to 1830,\\n188\\nXIII.\\nTemperance,\\n194\\nXIV.\\nProm 1840 to 1850,\\n203\\nXV.\\nProm 1850 to 1860,\\n211\\nWebster\\n217\\nEcclesiastical History,\\n226\\nMilitary\\nHistory*,\\n246\\nEducational History,\\n279\\nBiographical History\\n301\\nGenealogical,\\n451\\nMiscellany,\\n619", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0013.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0014.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTEATIOIN^S.\\nCharles Carleton CofRn,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nI. K. Gage,\\nMap of Boscaweu and Webster,\\nAlfred Little,\\nCrossing to Contoocook,\\nDuston, Neff, and Leonardson,\\nHezekiah Fellows,\\nS. B. Little,\\nFirst Meeting-house,\\nWilliam H. Gage,\\nAbraham Burbank,\\nNathan Pearson,\\nMoody A. Pillsbury,\\nIndian Medicine,\\nMoses Fellows,\\nHale Atkinson,\\nWilliam Temple,\\nElipbaiet Kiburn,\\nBenjamin T. Kimball\\nThomas Gerrish,\\nThomas Little,\\nWorcester Webster,\\nTown-house, Webster,\\nAbial R. Chandler,\\nBreaking and Swingling,\\nPlow,\\nHay-scales,\\nFriend L. Burbank,\\nE. K. AVebster,\\nJacob Gerrish,\\nCongregational Meeting-house, Boscawen,\\nCongregational Meeting-house, Webster,\\nCongregational Meeting-house, Fisherville,\\nMethodist Meeting-house, Webster,\\nBennington Battle-ground,\\nPlan of Bennington Battle,\\nD. E. Burbank,\\nCM. Burbank,\\nW. H. Sargent,\\nD. A Macurdy,\\nBoscawen Academy,\\nPage.\\nFrontispiece.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0015.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "VI ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPage.\\nPenacook Academy, 293\\nEnoch Little, 301\\nJohn Aldrich, 315\\nEdward Buxton, 323\\nJonas Call, 335\\nMoody Currier, 345\\nJohn A. Dix, 349\\nBirthplace of John Adams Dix, 357\\nMoses G. Farmer, 361\\nEarly Home of Prof. M. G. Fanner, 371\\nW. P. Fessendeu, 375\\nllesidence of Dea. Thomas Gerrish, 379\\nMartha Clough Gerrish, 384\\nNath l Greene, 387\\nChas. G. Greene, 393\\nD. F. Kimball, 399\\nHenry Little, 413\\nJacob Little, 421\\nJ. L. Pillsbury, 429\\nFred P. Stone, 439\\nDaniel Webster, 447\\nEzekiel Webster, 453\\nHenry Atkinson, 469\\n.Coffin Arms, 491\\nEnoch Corser, 497\\nJohn P. Farmer, 525 J\\nF. S. French, 533\\nThe Home of Enoch, Isaac, Enoch, and F. L. Gerrish, 539\\nEnoch Gerrish, 551\\nA^lmon Harris, 555\\nEnoch Kilburn, 5C3\\nPeter Kimball, 569\\nThomas Little, 577\\nCharles Little, 587\\nPeter Stone, C13\\nW. AV. Call, 621\\nB. A. Kimball, 631\\nS. B. Gerrish, 635\\nCarding and Spinning, 641\\nJ. W. Gerrish 645\\nDuston Monument, 649\\nF. L. Gerrish, 657\\nJ. E. Pecker, 659\\nA.B.Winn, 661", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0016.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "peelimi:n aby chapter.\\nThere is but one municipality in the world bearing the name\\nof Boscawen. The township, thus named for Lord Boscawen of\\nthe English navj is situated on the west bank of Merrimack\\nriver in New Hampshire. Originally it was seven miles square,\\nand, from the date of its settlement in 1733 to 1760, bore the Ind-\\nian name Contoocook, After a corporate existence of one hun-\\ndred years, from 1760 to 1860, the township was divided into two\\nparts nearly equal in area, the eastern retaining the original cor-\\nporate name, the western taking the name of Webster, in honor\\nof America s great orator, jurist, and statesman, who received his\\neducation, in part, in Boscawen, and who for three years was\\none of its honored citizens.\\nThe first movement to obtain a history of the town was inau-\\ngurated sixty years ago, by Capt. Joshua C Plummer, Henry,\\nEnoch, and Simeon B. Little, and others, at whose solicitation\\nthe work was undertaken by Rev, Ebenezer Price, pastor of the\\nSecond Congregational church. George Jackman, born in 1735,\\ntown-clerk for many years, was then living, and many other indi-\\nviduals whose memories reached back to the early years of the\\ntown s history, from whom Rev. Mr. Price obtained authentic in-\\nformation to supplement the town records. The result of his\\nlabor was the publication of a pamphlet entitled A Chronological\\nRegister of Boscawen, Merrimack county. State of New Hamp-\\nshire, from the first settlement of the town to 1820.\\nThe town voted fifty dollars to Rev. Mr. Price as compensa-\\ntion for the writing, but appropriated nothing for publishing the\\npamphlet, the expense of which was borne by the public-spirited", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0017.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Viii PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.\\nmen who started the enterprise, to their pecuniary loss. The his-\\ntory was written with much care, and, though brief, presented an\\nadmirable outline of the civil affairs, and a record of the most im-\\nportant events of the period.\\nFifty-eight years have passed since the publication of that\\nhistory, during which period great changes have taken place.\\nMany of the former citizens and their descendants are to be\\nfound upon the prairies of the West, or amid the mines of Nevada\\nand California while others have taken up their abodes in the\\nmanufacturing towns of New England, or in the cities of the sea-\\nboard, turning their attention from agricultural to mechanical or\\nmercantile pursuits. Emigration, railroads, and the employment\\nof machinery, supplanting manual labor in a great degree m\\nthe shop and on the farm, have changed society. Apprenticeship,\\nand trades once acquired under it, together have disappeared.\\nMany of the employments and occupations of fifty years ago have\\ndisappeared forever. New habits and customs have taken the\\nplaces of those of other days. The children of to-day do not stand\\nbare-headed, with cap in hand, by the roadside, and make their\\nmanners when the minister rides by. The minister is no longer\\nan oracle, nor are the town esquires embodiments of the majesty\\nof law, as in days of yore.\\nSince the publication of Rev. Mr. Price s history, the academy,\\nand the graded and normal schools, have supplemented the schools\\ntaught by the masters and mistresses of the olden time, in which\\nthe catechism was regarded as an important study. No newsboy\\nrides his weekly post-route now, as Simeon B. Little rode in those\\nfirst years of the century, carrying the Concord Gazette to his\\npatrons no canvas-covered wagons plod their way along the turn-\\npike, from Vermont to Boston; no gaily painted stage, with\\nhorses all afoam, rolls along the dusty way the tavern sign no\\nlonger swings in the wind the hospitable landlord, the bar with\\nits row of glass decanters, the generous fire flaming on the\\nhearth, the heated loggerhead, toddy-stick, flip, and punch,\\nall have disappeared.\\nThere are new methods and new forces in the civilization of to-\\nday. The railroad, the telegraph, the printing-press, and other\\nforces equally powerful, are coming in to transform society the\\ntelephone, which enables us to talk with friends far away, as if", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0018.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. IX\\nthey were by our side the phonograph, which preserves the\\nwords we speak which will bring back to us from the eternal\\nshores the voices of our departed friends, so that even from the\\nspirit land we may still hear their voices as when they were with\\nus in the flesh.\\nFifty-eight years ago, the world at large knew nothing of\\nthese forces of civilization. The reaping-machine, the sewing-\\nmachine, the multitudinous devices and arrangements of mechan-\\nical forces to make iron, steel, steam, and water-power do the work\\nof human hands, were all unknown. The period since 1840 has\\nbeen the world s great era of invention, surpassing all other pe-\\nriods in history.\\nFifty-eight years ago, when Rev. Mr. Price laid down his pen\\nas historian, the world had not heard of the men whose names\\nto-day are written large in the history of the republic. In 1820,\\nDaniel Webster was a lawyer of renown in Boston but ten years\\npassed before the nation heard of him. In that same year, John\\nAdams Dix was a student-at-law, poring over Blackstone William\\nPitt Fessenden a sophomore at Bowdoin Jacob Little a soph-\\nomore at Dartmouth Henry Little at work on his father s farm\\nMoses Gerrish Farmer an infant in his mother s arms to-day,\\nall except Rev. Henry Little and Prof. Farmer have accomplished\\ntheir life-work, and have passed on to the great Hereafter.\\nThe citizen best qualified to gather up the memorials of the past,\\nto summarize the life-work of his compeers through this period\\nof nearh three-score years, was Simeon B. Little, born in 1797.\\nHe had an inquiring mind, a retentive memory, and a compre-\\nhensive grasp of men and things. In his boyhood he talked with\\nmen whose memories ran back to the first years of the town s set-\\ntlement. His father had been a soldier at Bennington, a magis-\\ntrate, a man conversant with public affairs. Through the old men\\nof his early years he became intimately acquainted with that in-\\nvaluable history and tradition of the past, that had no record save\\nin the memories of men. Active in private and public life, he\\ncame in contact with the whole community. As moderator of\\ntown-meetings, he knew every voter as administrator of estates\\nand executor of wills, and as a magistrate, he became acquainted\\nwith the histories of individuals and families. He loved history,\\nand for many years intended to gather up the records and memo-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0019.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "X PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.\\nrials for the basis of a complete history hut, beset hy the cares of\\na busy life, he never found time to carry out his intentions.\\nIt was in 1871, after partial paralysis had incapacitated him\\nfrom labor, that I talked with him upon the subject of employing\\nsome one to write at his dictation.\\nIt is too late somebody else must do it, he said.\\nWishing to preserve what would be lost forever when his mem-\\nory failed, I made notes of his recollections, not with the inten-\\ntion of myself embodying them in a historic volume, but to turn\\nthem over to some one who might be induced to undertake the\\nwork.\\nA few months later I met Eev. Dr. Nathaniel Bouton, tlien\\nediting the Provincial Records of New Hampshire, who was\\nkeenly alive to the importance of preserving town histories.\\nYou must write the history of Boscawen, he said. No\\nother town has exercised a more potent influence for good none\\ncan show a brighter record, or such a roll of honor. If you do\\nnot undertake the work, its history never will be written.\\nImpressed by the earnest remarks of Dr. Bouton, and at the\\nsolicitation of Isaac K. Gage, Esq., and others of my native town,\\nI began the collection of materials. The field of research has been\\nwide, embracing the archives in the office of the Massachusetts\\nsecretary of state, the secretary s and adjutant-general s offices at\\nConcord, the libraries of the New Hampshire Historical, Massa-\\nchusetts Historical, and New England Genealogical and Histori-\\ncal societies, the records of the proprietors of Contoocook, and the\\nrecords of the town since its incorporation up to 1878.\\nLord Macauley, in writing his History of England, confessed\\nthat he had obtained valuable information from old almanacs, and\\nfrom the fly-leaves of books scrawled by hands that had long before\\ncrumbled to dust. Although this volume is but the history of a\\ntown instead of a period in the history of a kingdom, I may with\\nequal propriety express my indebtedness to scraps of paper found\\nin old chests and bags, to files of almanacs, diaries, account-books,\\nand other memoranda obtained from garrets.\\nThe preparation of the volume has necessitated a wide corre-\\nspondence for the sons and daughters of Boscawen are to be\\nfound in nearly every state and territory of the Union. I am\\nindebted to Gov. John A. Dix for reminiscences of his bovhood in", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0020.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. Xl\\nBoscawen; also to Hon. G. W. Nesmith, of Franklin, for valu-\\nable information relating to the Colonial and Revolutionary\\nperiods also to Levi Bartlett, of Warner, who in his earl} years\\nwas a resident of Boscawen, and whose acquaintance with the\\nchief men of the town dates hack to the early years of the cen-\\ntury.\\nIt is a pleasure to express my indebtedness to Benjamin Jack-\\nman, Enoch Pillsbury, David Sweatt, and Luke Corser, all born\\nin the eighteenth century, and who are still able to recall the\\nscenes of their early years.\\nI am under special obligations to Dea. William Temple, of\\nEast Woburn, Mass., long a resident of Boscawen, an officer of\\nthe militia and of the church, antiquary and genealogist, who has\\nenriched the volume by his contributions.\\nTo my co-laborers, Isaac K. Gage, John C. Pearson, Hon,\\nJohn Kimball, Maj. Alfred Little, and Ephraim Little, who have\\nespecially aided in the preparation of the volume, who have\\nlabored with no hope of reward except that enjoyment which\\ncomes from serving others, I express my sincere gratitude, and\\nask for them the thanks of the public.\\nThe citizens of Boscawen are indebted to Mrs. Ezekiel Webster\\nfor the portrait of her husband, and also to Mrs. Charlotte G.\\nCumston, of Boston, through whose liberality the volume is\\nadorned by portraits of her father, Col. Charles G. Greene,\\nand her uncle, Nathaniel Greene and they are under like obli-\\ngations to Hon. ]\\\\Ioody Currier, of Manchester, for his portrait\\nto Mrs. Mary G. Wood, of West Lebanon, and Mrs. Betsy Wil-\\nson, of Contoocook, for the restored view of one of the historic\\nmansions no longer existing, the birthplace of Nathaniel and\\nCharles G. Greene and William P. Fessenden. They are under\\nlike obligations to Prof. Moses G. Farmer and Mrs. C. C. Coffin\\nfor a view of their early home and to Col. Enoch Gerrish for a\\nview of his birth-place and home of his ancestors.\\nI am under obligations to Eev. Nathaniel Bouton, d. d., lately\\ndeceased, to Benjamin Chase, historian of Chester, and to Robert\\nB. Caverly, of Lowell, Mass., for illustrations, which add much\\nto the attractiveness of the volume.\\nTo those who have contributed portraits of themselves, to those\\nfilial sons and daughters who have given portraits of fathers, to", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0021.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Xn PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.\\nall who have contributed biographies and genealogies, the thanks\\nof the public are due.\\nTo Henry Rolfe, of Winchester, Mass., the citizens are indebted\\nfor the account of manufactures at Fisherville.\\nThrough the kindness of A. J. Coolidge, of Boston, the volume\\nhas been enriched by a view of Bennington battle-field.\\nI wish to express mj^ thanks to Edward A. Jenks, through\\nwhose care and watchfulness the pages of the volume are so fair\\nand free from errors. Thanks are also due to W. H. Forbes, of\\nBoston, for the care taken in printing the lithographs contained\\nin the volume.\\nTo aid the publication of this history, the town of Boscawen\\nvoted, in 1875, with great unanimity, the sum of three hundred\\ndollars. The town of Webster not having appropriated any money,\\nand it being manifest that a history worthy of the town could not\\nbe published without the cooperation of individuals, fifteen public-\\nspirited citizens obligated themselves, in the sum of eight hun-\\ndred and fifty dollars, to bear whatever expense might be incur-\\nred in the publication. The citizens signing this compact are\\nIsaac K. Gage, Peter Coffin,\\nNathaniel S. Webster, Charles J. Chadwick,\\nE. G. Wood, John C. Pearson,\\nD. E. Kimball, Geo. Little,\\nM. A. Pillsbury, Sherman Little,\\nHenry H. Gerrish, Wm. W. Burbank,\\nr. B. Sawyer, James L, Gerrish.\\nEphraim Little,\\nIt is a pleasure to record their names, for had it not been for\\ntheir public spirit the history would never have reached the\\nhands of the printer. Coming generations will accord them the\\nhonor which is their due.\\nThe citizens of Boscawen have a right to know to what uses\\nthe money voted by the town has been appropriated, and it is a\\npleasure to say that they will find the entire amount in the\\noutline map of the two towns, and in the views of the churches,\\nacademies, the Duston monument, and the portraits of Daniel\\nWebster, John A. Dix, and William P. Eessenden.\\nThe compiler of this history has given many days and nights", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0022.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. XIU\\nto the undertaking, many weeks and months, has experienced\\nmuch weariness of mind and body, without hope of any pecuniary\\nrecompense but he has the satisfaction of knowing that the\\nmemorials are rescued from oblivion, to be preserved forever.\\nMistakes there are, some of which have been corrected on the\\npage of amendments. No one can be more sensible than the\\nwriter to the incompleteness of the work, nor can any one who\\nhas not engaged iu collecting historical data understand how\\ndifficult it has been in many instances to verify information. A\\nhistorian should be unbiassed; and it has been the aim of the\\nwriter, in this respect, to divest himself of all predilection that\\nwould swerve him from correct statement concerning parties in\\npolitics and denominations in religion, and a just judgment of\\nmen and events.\\nThe volume has grown upon the compiler s hands, containing\\nsome two hundred pages more than was first contemplated and\\nyet the material at his command, statistical and documentary, of\\ngreat interest, would have swelled the volume to one thousand\\npages. The record of service in the Rebellion is limited to the\\nnames of those who enlisted. Little is recorded of their march-\\nings, their sufferings, their heroism in battle, their wounds, their\\ndeaths and space also has been wanting to set forth the services\\nof those who have been educators of the communit} a long list\\nof honorable names.\\nThe history of Boscawen covers a period of one hundred and\\nforty-five years, reaching back to the time when the colonies of\\nEngland embraced only a narrow strip along the Atlantic coast,\\nwhen by far the largest portion of the continent was under the\\ndominion of France. It covers the period of the great struggle\\nbetween those powers for supremacy in the Western world. Citi-\\nzens of Boscawen took part in those struggles, and aided to\\nsupplant the banner bearing the lilies of France for that emblaz-\\noned with the cross of St. George. From 1733 to 1756 Bos-\\ncawen was the outpost of civilization. From the log cabins on\\nKing street to the St. Lawrence there were no human habi-\\ntations, with the exception of those in Salisbury, from which the\\nsettlers were forced to flee yet, keeping watcli and ward, the\\nstalwart citizens of Boscawen boldly maintained their ground\\nagainst the savage foe. They traversed the pathless wilderness", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0023.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "Xiv PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.\\nto the upper Connecticut, or served at Ticonderoga and Crown\\nPoint against the common enemy.\\nIn the Eevolution every citizen was a patriot. Twenty men of\\nBoscawen stood unfalteringly behind the rail fence at Bunker Hill\\nwith John Stark, and gave that resistance which made the repub-\\nlic of the United States a possibility. Twenty-six of them were\\nin that storming of the enemy s works at Bennington, which, in\\nits results, made the republic a certainty.\\nIn the war of 1812, and in the Rebellion of 1861, there was no\\ndiminution of patriotism. Whenever soldiers were called for, there\\nwere men ready to enlist whenever money was wanted, there\\nwas no stint in appropriation.\\nWhoever peruses this history will notice that the first settlers\\nrecognized religion as essential to the welfare of the community\\nthat at the outset they erected a meeting-house, organized a\\nchurch, and settled a minister; that through all the proprietary\\nmeetings, the first business done was to vote the necessary sup-\\nplies for the support of their pastor that during the years when\\nthey were compelled to live in garrison, doing their work in the\\nfield with sentinels on guard, and during all the hardships of the\\nColonial and Revolutionary periods, they maintained public wor-\\nship.\\nIt will be further noticed, that during the Colonial war, when\\ntaxes were burdensome, and through the Revolution, when their\\ncurrency was worthless, they supported public schools.\\nNew Hampshire produces granite and men, was Daniel\\nWebster s answer to one who sneered at the rock-ribbed state\\nthat gave him birth. Is there any other locality in this republic\\nthat can present such a roll of honorable names as Boscawen ex-\\nhibits to the world True, Daniel and Ezekiel Webster were\\nborn just outside its corporate limits, but the influence of such a\\ncivilization as the first settlers of Contoocook inaugurated is not\\nconfined by lines run by a surveyor s compass, measured by a\\nchain, and blazed on the pines of the forest. Such a civilization\\nilluminates all the surrounding country. The early settlers of\\nSalisbury sat in its light, as did they of Canterbury, attending\\nmeeting in Boscawen. Not till 1773, thirty-three years after the\\nsettlement of Rev. Phineas Stevens, was there a minister in Salis-\\nbury. Although Canterbury was incorporated as a town in 1727,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0024.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. XV\\nand was settled in 1733, there was no clmrcli organized till 1760.\\nNot till 1772, when Rev. Eden Bnrroughs was ordained, was\\nthere a minister in Hopkinton. Throngh all those years, dating\\nback to 1738, the log meeting-house on King street was the one\\nspot between Concord and Canada where public religious service\\nwas always maintained. As upon the yielding sand we trace the\\nfootsteps of those who have gone before us, so on the pages of\\nthis history we shall see what those first settlers what Kev.\\nPhineas Stevens, Rev. Robie Morrill, Rev. Samuel Wood, those\\nearly ministers of Boscawen did for those who have succeeded\\nthem in the march of life.\\nTo Rev. Samuel Wood came Daniel Webster, at the age of fif-\\nteen, to supplement his few weeks of study at Exeter, preparatory\\nto entering Dartmouth college. In the library established by the\\ncitizens of Boscawen he found mental aliment which gave him\\nstrength in after years. To Boscawen he came to begin the busi-\\nness of life from it he went forth, with the impress of its civili-\\nzation upon him, to enter upon his great career.\\nTo the same faithful teacher and pastor came Ezekiel Webster\\nto prepare for college. He made Boscawen his home, lighting his\\ntorch at that fire kindled seventy years before by those men and\\nwomen, who, in their poverty and feebleness, estimating their\\nmoral and spiritual welfare as of greater moment than all things\\nelse, reared their meeting-house and established a church.\\nNot only these two men, but those other distinguished men,\\nwhose names are recorded in this volume, who have left their\\nmark upon the age, are the natural outgrowth of the seed sown\\nby those first settlers of Boscawen, who obtained a learned min-\\nister from Harvard college as their teacher in moral and spirit-\\nual things.\\nThe reader will be interested to see how the influence of that\\nact, like a river, having its source in an ever-flowing fountain, has\\nbroadened and deepened how it has fertilized the nation how\\nthe forces brought into action by those self-denying men and\\nwomen have been felt in the pulpit, the forum, the university in\\nthe legislative halls of states and of the nation; in diplomacy; in\\nfinance in the founding of churches and the establishment of Sun-\\nday-schools in education, science, journalism, authorship; in* the\\nmoulding of public opinion in missionary effort, felt to-day not", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0025.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "Xvi PRELIMINARY CHAPTER.\\nonly iu the United States, but in Asia and Africa Would Jacob\\nLittle have stamped the impress of his religious character upon the\\nchurches of Ohio, if there had been no church in Boscawen dur-\\ning those early years Would Henry Little have been such an\\norganizer of Sunday-schools and churches throughout the West, if\\nRev. Phineas Stevens had not been ordained pastor of the little\\nchutch in the Contoocook wilderness Would Henry 8. G. French\\nhave gone a missionary to Siam, or Myron Pinkerton to South\\nAfrica, if Joseph Gerrish, Joseph Coffin, Jacob Flanders, and\\ntheir fellow proprietors, had not reared that first meeting-house?\\nDid the life-work of Phineas Stevens, Dea. George Jackman, and\\ngodly Joanna Hale Gerrish die out in their generation Blessed\\nare the dead who die in the Lord, and their works do\\nfollow them.\\nThe reader of these pages will have occasion often to recall the\\nwords of Jacob Little to his beloved pastor, Rev. Ebenezer Price\\n(p. 434): Mr. Price, you will never die. What you have taught,\\nby precept and example, is spreading wider and wider, and going\\non to the third generation, and will keep going.\\nRev. Phineas Stevens, Rev. Samuel Wood, Rev. Ebenezer Price,\\nRev. Edward Buxton, and all who have labored for the moral and\\nspiritual welfare of the communitj are living on in the labors of\\nthose whose lives and characters have been moulded by their in-\\nstructions. Institutions that have their origin in the moral and\\nspiritual needs of men live forever. The first rude meeting-house\\ndisappeared the second was licked up by the flames four score\\nyears ago, but the church lives on. Rev. Phineas Stevens is\\npreaching still. How far that little candle, lighted by the Chris-\\ntian men and women of Contoocook, throws its beams How, as\\nthe years roll on, it will burn with ever increasing briglitness\\nNot only the white light of a spiritual life, but the pure flame\\nof patriotic devotion. The little log meeting-house was loop-\\nholed for defence. The settlers worshipped with their rifles by\\ntheir sides. Rev. Phineas Stevens marched with his flock in pur-\\nsuit of the savage. No Indian war-whoop blanched the cheeks\\nof Andrew Bohonnon, Moses Burbank, Nathaniel and William\\nDanforth, on that day when Enos Bishop was captured within\\nsight of the meeting-house, nor when Thomas Cook and Ctesar\\nwere shot down at Clay hill. The settlers of Hopkinton, Warner,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0026.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0027.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0028.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "PRELIMINARY CHAPTER. XVU\\nand Salisbury might abandon their homes, but they would not.\\nWho can measure the influence of that courage upon those who\\ncame after them If they had been pusillanimous then, would\\nLieut. Samuel Atkinson, David Burbank, Edmund Chadwick, Asa\\nCorser, David Flanders, and their comrades have stood like a wall\\nof adamant at Bunker Hill would Capt. Peter Kimball and his\\nsoldiers have stormed the heights at Bennington would John\\nAdams Dix, a century later, by a single stroke of the pen, have\\nthrilled the country with patriotic fervor, any man attempts\\nto haul doxon the American flag, shoot him on the spot f\\nMen die, generations come and go, but teachings, examples, and\\nprinciples live. So the unflinching bravery of 1746-1760, after a\\ncentury had rolled away, bloomed anew in 1860 for the preserva-\\ntion of the republic.\\nThis volume is a simple recital of hardships, sufferings, and pri-\\nvations of courage and endurance of the principles and progress\\nof a rural community. It is no ignoble record, for, numbered\\namong the citizens of Boscawen, are those who have sent their\\nnames down the advancing centuries. It is a memorial which\\nwill be of ever-increasing value as the years go by, which will be\\nan heirloom to other generations for through it the citizens of\\nBoscawen will connect themselves with those whom the world has\\nrecognized as worthy of all honor.\\nIn all ages there has been a desire among men to associate\\nthemselves with the great and good, thus manifesting their capac-\\nity and longing for immortality for greatness and goodness are\\neternal in their nature, and men possessing them can never die.\\nSaid Daniel AVebster, standing on Plymouth rock, in 1S20,\\nBy ascending to an association with our ancestors con-\\ntemplating their example, and studying their character by jjar-\\ntaking their sentiments and imbibing their spirit by accom-\\npanying them in their toils; by sympathizing in their sufferings,\\nand rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs, we seem to\\nbelong to their age, and to mingle our existence with theirs.\\nNext to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly\\nknow what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and\\nenlightened mind than a consciousness of alliance with excellence\\nwhich is departed, and a consciousness, too, that in its acts and\\nconduct, and even in its sentiments and thoughts, it may be\\nII", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0029.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "XVlll PRELIMINARY CHAPTER,\\nactively operating on the hapjiiness of those who come after\\nit.\\nSo the great orator recognized the aspiration of the liuman\\nrace to associate itself with departed greatness. To be born\\nwhere great men have had their nativity, or where they have\\nlived, is, as it were, a patent of nobility.\\nAnd of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in\\nher and the highest himself shall establish her. The Lord shall\\ncount, when he writeth np the people, that this man was born\\nthere.\\nSo the poet king of Israel sets forth the inherent nobility that\\ncomes from such a nativity. And the writer of the Epistle to the\\nHebrews takes up the theme, and pictures the exaltation that\\ncomes to the citizens of the commonwealth of Israel through those\\nwho subdued kingdoms, and wrought righteousness.\\nThis desire for an alliance with the great and good is one of\\nthe mightiest motives for human action. Over burning sands the\\nweary pilgrim of the Orient wends his way, that he may bow in\\nadoration before the tomb of Mahomet, and so prepare himself for\\nthe pleasures of Paradise. The church of Rome, recognizing this\\naspiration of the human race, canonizes its saints, and exhibits its\\nmultitudinous relics, investing them with power to heal disease,\\npreserve from harm, or to save from sin. Is there any other\\nforce that can so stir the human heart Soldiers of France\\nfour thousand years look down upon you. So Bonaparte ad-\\ndressed his soldiers, and in that one sentence lay enfolded, as it\\nwere, the victory of the battle of the Pyramids, At Plymouth\\nrock, at Bunker Hill, at Gettysburg, or wherever men have made\\ngreat sacrifices for their fellow-men, our longing for immortality\\nis kindled anew so through their devotion are we lifted to a\\nhigher plane of existence.\\nIn this volume no attempt has been made to measure the value\\nof services rendered. Omnipotence alone can gather up results.\\nPlain and simple the record, but the sons and daughters of the\\ngood old town, perusing it, shall say, God bless her in the\\nFUTURE AS He has BLEST HER IN THE PAST", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0030.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "LOCALITIES IN BOSCAWEN. XIX\\nLOCALITIES IN BOSCAWEN.\\nKING STREET.\\nThe first settlers of Contoocook manifested their loyalty to their sov-\\nerign by calling the street on which they erected their meeting-house,\\nKing street. In time it began to go by the name of The Plain.\\nAs laid out by the surveyor, it extended from the small brook emptying\\ninto the pond at the southerly end, called Town House brook in the\\nrecords, to the Hollow, through which flows Mill brook. For a\\nhalf century or more it has been known as Boscawen Plain. It was\\nlaid out wide and straight, with house lots on each side.\\nQUEEN STREET.\\nThis street, leading west from King street, was the second one laid\\nout by Mr. Brown.\\nMARLBOROUGH STREET.\\nThe third street laid out by Mr. Brown ran from Queen street north,\\nparallel with King street, extending also to the Hollow. The set-\\ntlers named it in honor of the Duke of Marlborough. It was on the\\nwest side of the Mountain, and crossed the present travelled road at\\nthe top of the hill east of Cold brook. In the records it is sometimes\\nwritten Mulbury street. A century ago it was probably quite as much\\nof a thoroughfare as King street.\\nTHE HOLLOW.\\nThere is a deep ravine at the northern end of King street, through\\nwhich flows Mill brook, upon which the first mill was erected. The\\nlocality is known as The Hollow, sometimes as The Valley of Indus-\\ntry, from the number of industrial pursuits carried on there. Forty\\nyears ago it was familiarly known as Sodom. Why so called is not\\nknown, but certainly not for any extraordinary and special wickedness\\nof the dwellers therein, whose reputation for honesty and sobriety has\\nnever been called in question.\\nTHE MOUNTAIN.\\nThe hill west of the Plain has received the name of The Mountain.\\nFrom the highest point, the Indians, during the first French and Indian\\nwar, were accustomed to look down upon the garrison, and watch for\\nopportunities to capture incautious settlers. On its highest summit the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0031.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "XX LOCALITIES IN BOSCAWEN,\\nstudents of the academy, about 1830, erected a stone platform, where\\nthey used to rehearse their declamations, sending forth incipient oratory\\nfor the benefit of the inhabitants and travellers on the street below.\\nFISII STREET.\\nThe road extending from the Hollow to Franklin received the name\\nof Fish street in 1738. How far north it was laid by Mr. Brown at\\nthat time is unknown, but it was extended to Salisbury on the petition\\nof John Sergent soon after [see Hist.].\\nTHE TURNPIKE.\\nThe highway, beginning at the bridge across the Merrimack known\\nas Boscawen bridge, and extending to Salisbury, was made a part of\\nthe Fourth New Hampshire Turnpike, in the charter of that corpora-\\ntion hence its name.\\nTHE TOLL-GATE.\\nOne of the toll-gates of the Fourth New Hampshire Turnpike was\\nlocated at the top of the hill east of Cold brook. The toll-house is still\\nstanding.\\nTHE GULF.\\nThe deep ravine through which Cold brook flows was known as The\\nGulf by the first settlers, as appears from its frequent mention in the\\nrecords, and has ever since been so called.\\nCLAY HILL.\\nThe north bank of the Gulf is a compact bed of clay, which was re-\\nserved by the Proprietors as common land for the use of the settlers,\\nand has always been called Clay hill.\\nHIGH STREET.\\nThe section of highway extending from the late residence of Col.\\nEnoch Gerrish to Salisbury line was laid out by John Brown, and was\\nappropriately named High street.\\nWOODBURY PLAIN.\\nThe small but level section of land a half mile west of the Gulf and\\neast of the cemetery was the site selected by Mr. Ephraim Woodbury,\\nan early settler, for his home, and hence became known as the Wood-\\nbury Plain. The clay deposit shows itself upon the eastern border of\\nthe plain, and bricks were at one time manufactured there.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0032.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "LOCALITIES IN BOSCAWEN. XXI\\nWATER STREET.\\nThe highway extending from the easterly end of Great pond to Salis-\\nbury, parallel with High street, was laid out by John Brown, and\\nnamed Water street.\\nEEL STREET.\\nThe street from the hotel kept by Capt. John Chandler to Boscawen\\nbridge was called Eel street. In the autumn large quantities of eels\\nwere caught there, in pots set near the mills. Recently it has been\\ncalled Commercial street.\\nduston s island.\\nAt the junction of the Contoocook with the Merrimack is a small\\nisland, wholly in Boscawen, which was the scene of the heroic deed of\\nHannah Duston and Mary Neff, in delivering themselves of their Indian\\ncaptors. The island is now crossed by the Northern Railroad and\\nupon it is the monument erected to commemorate Mrs. Duston s achieve-\\nment.\\nSTIRRUP-IRON BROOK.\\nTradition has it, that many years ago a stirrup iron, lost by Gen.\\nHenry Dearborn, of Revolutionary fame, a general in the War of 1812,\\nwhile on a visit to a sister in Salisbury, gave a name to the stream which\\nhas its source among the Salisbury hills, and which empties into the\\nMerrimack at North Boscawen.\\nINDIAN BRIDGE.\\nThe bridge across Stirrup-Iron brook bears this name in Rev. Mr.\\nPrice s history of Boscawen, so named from the killing of Sabbatis and\\nPlansawa by Bowen a few rods north of the locality.\\nLOWER INTERVALE.\\nThe intervale lands in the bend of the river, above the junction of the\\nMArimack and Contoocok, were called by the first settlers the Lower\\nIntervale lots.\\nMIDDLE INTERVALE.\\nThe wide reach of lands above the Lower Intervale and Canterbury\\nbridge is put down upon the first survey of the town by John Brown\\nas the Middle Intervale.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0033.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "XXU LOCALITIES IN WEBSTER.\\nUPPER INTERVALE.\\nThe land in the bend extending from the mouth of Mill brook to the\\nsmall pond east of the HoIIoav is recorded on Surveyor Brown s map as\\nthe Upper Intervale.\\nMUCHYEDO.\\nOn the east side of the Merrimack, in Canterbury, is a high sand-\\nbank, which is a conspicuous landmark from the summit of Kearsarge\\nmountain. Although not in Boscawen, occasional mention is made of\\nit. There are various traditions relative to the origin of the name,\\none, that an Indian, speaking broken English, exclaimed, Much-ye-\\ndo to climb it.\\nLOCALITIES IN WEBSTER.\\nCORSEK HILL.\\nThe long and high swell of land upon which the Congregational meet-\\ning-house stands bears the name of the settler David Corser, who pur-\\nchased a large tract of land upon it, and erected the first franled house\\nv/est of Beaver dam.\\nfowler s plain.\\nThe level plat \u00c2\u00a9f land east of Corser hill and west of Beaver dam was\\nso named from the settler Lemuel Fowler, who lived near Beaver Dam\\nbrook. It was originally covered with Norway pines, and in the rec-\\nords is sometimes called Norway plain. From tlie beginning of the\\ncentury to 1816, many regimental musters were held there.\\nLITTLE BROOK.\\nThe small brook west of Beaver dam, having its rise near Salisbury\\nline and flowing into Couch pond, has long borne the name of Little\\nbrook.\\ncook s hill.\\nThe rounded eminence north of Corser hill has borne the name of\\nCook s hill since 1745, when Thomas Cook built his log cabin near it,\\nwhich probably was the first house erected in what is now the town of\\nWebster. He was killed the next year by the Indians at Clay hill.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0034.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0035.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "-i/", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0036.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "LOCALITIES IN WEBSTER. XXlll\\nMUTTON ROAD.\\nThe road leading from Corser hill to Salisbury south village was laid\\nout to enable the residents of Salisbury to reach Hopkinton, which\\nprior to 1823 was one of the shire towns of Hillsborough county.\\nIt received the name of Mutton road, from the fact that some per-\\nsons had been in the habit of helping themselves to mutton which\\ndid not belong to them, from the flocks of sheep in the pastures\\nthrough which the road was located.\\nPLEASANT STRRET.\\nThe highway leading south from INIutton road was laid out by the\\nfirst surveyor of town lots, John Brown, and was named Pleasant\\nstreet by the first settlers.\\nDINGIT CORNER.\\nThe junction of several roads near the great bend of Blackwater\\nriver bears the name of Dingit corner, so named, according to tradi-\\ntion, from a little domestic turmoil. A settler lived near the local-\\nity. One day there was a difference of opinion between himself\\nand wife and the latter seized a skillet to use as an argument\\nin the case, but hesitated about throwing it. The husband, probably\\nnot having any great fear of the skillet, cried out, Ding it! ding it!\\nHence the name.\\nBATTLE STREET.\\nThe road leading from Corser hill north to Salisbury, w^est of Cook s\\nhill, was one of the original highways laid out by the proprietors, and\\nwas named by them Battle street.\\nLITTLE HILL.\\nMr. Enoch Little, an early I esident of what is now Webster, located\\non the swell of land west of Blackwater, in the north-west section of\\nthe town, and his sons settled around him, giving a name to the\\nlocality.\\nWEST NEWBURY STREET.\\nThe highway leading north over Little hill was laid out by the pro-\\nprietors, who named it West Newbury street, probably because it\\nwas the most westerly highway in the division of lots, and also to keep\\nin remembrance their former home in Newbury.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0037.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "XXIV LOCALITIES IN WEBSTER,\\nLONG POND.\\nThis pond, in Webster, is nearly two miles long, and from one half\\nto three fourths of a mile wide hence the appropriateness of the name.\\nWHITE PLAIN.\\nThe etymology of the name is unknown. It is applied to the valley\\nthrough which flows the stream issuing from Long pond westward to\\nWarner river!\\nThe region west of Little hill is known to the inhabitants of Webster\\nas Dublin. A citizen of Irish descent once lived there, and hence the\\nname of the capital of Ireland.\\nPOND HILL.\\nThe high swell of land west of Long pond.\\nThe south-western section of the town was covered with a dense\\nforest growth. There were so many great red and white oak trees,\\nthat Dea. Enoch Little, St., thought it was worthy of bearing the\\nbiblical name of Bashan, the country east of the Jordan, renowned\\nfor its oaks, mentioned in Zech. 11 -.2: Howl, O ye oaks of Bashan.\\nThe name thus given has remained to the present time.\\nRATTLESNAKE HILL.\\nWebster, in common with many other towns, has its Rattlesnake\\nhill, the highest hill in Bashan. When the first settlers erected their\\nhomes in that section, it was the haunt of rattlesnakes. Mr. Moses\\nGerrish, on one occasion, killed forty in one day. The hearts of rattle-\\nsnakes were regarded as a specific for the cure of consumption in those\\ndays, and Mr. Gerrish was employed by the Shakers to hunt the\\nreptiles.\\nKNIGHT MEADOW BROOK.\\nThe brook which runs south, west of Little hill, from Tucker s pond)\\nin Salisbury, to the stream issuing from Long pond.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0038.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Y\\nr\\nv\\no\\nz:\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholde\\nfold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at a future", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0039.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "J^\\nr\\no\\no\\nAy\\ni^\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholde\\ns fold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at a futu", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "LOCALITIES.\\nLOCALITIES UPON THE LINE BETWEEN I30SCAWEN\\nAND WEBSTER.\\nLONG STREKT.\\nFreriuent mention is made, in the records, of Long street. It is\\nthe highway leading from High street, in Boscawen, to Corscr hill,\\nand from thence by ^Vhite plain to Warner.\\nBEAVER DAM.\\nThe stream, which has its source in Salisbm-y, and which flows into\\nCouch pond, has been made the dividing line between Boscawen and\\nWebster. It was a favorite haunt of beavers, whose dams may still be\\nPOND BROOK.\\nThe brook south of Couch pond, running to Great pond, and from\\nGreat pond to the Contoocook river, bears the name of Pond brook.\\nGREAT POND.\\nThe name, undoubtedly, was given to this sheet of water by the\\nfirst settlers, as it occurs in Abner dough s journal, 1754, an extract\\nfrom which will be found in the historical section. It lies half in Web-\\nster and half in Boscawen.\\nCOUCH POND.\\nThis is the small pond north of Great pond.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "OOEEECTIOES\\nTt is almost certain that in the preparation and printing of\\nbooks there will be mistakes. In a town history, errors are un-\\navoidable. Some statements will need revision wrong dates will\\nbe given there will be errors in copying and in proof-reading.\\nThis volume is no exception to the general rule. Owing to the\\nabsence of the compiler while the sheets were passing through the\\npress, there are some errors which might have been corrected in\\nthe proof had the pages passed under his final revision. The\\nmistakes, however, are generally unimportant. The corrections\\ngiven below are placed at the beginning of the volume in order\\nthat the reader may see what they are before reading. It is rec-\\nommended that a be made at the outset, with a pen, in the\\nmargin of the page, against the corrections. kSucIi a mark will\\ndirect the attention to the proper reading.\\nPage 42. Cajit. Daniel Todd, of Exeter, should read Daniel\\nLadd.\\nPage 48. The nearest grist-mill -was situated at\\nMillville, should read xoas situated at West Concord. The\\nlater information has been obtained from Simeon Abbot, of Con-\\ncord.\\nPage 132. Carding and fulling mills were established in\\nevery town. It is a misstatement. Carding at that date, 1786,\\nwas done wholly by hand. There was no carding by machinery\\nin Boscawen, probably, till about twenty years later. Machine-\\ncarding was not invented till about the beginning of the century.\\nCloth-dressing was a, distinct occupation. Dea. Isaac Pearson\\nonly dressed cloth.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "XXVlll CORRECTIONS.\\nPage 135. Dwiglit corner should read Dingit corner.\\nPage 152. In the protest of Silas Call, the first profession,\\nalthough existing in the original document, is evidently a clerical\\nerror, and should he stricken out.\\nPage 174. In last line, foot-stones should read foot-stoves.\\nPage 208. The regiment of U. S. soldiers passing through the\\ntown should be recorded under date of 1845.\\nPage 225. Eesolved that passed 18 May, 1877,\\nshould read 1876.\\nPage 273. Abraham Burbank, its first commander, should\\nread second commander.\\nPage 278. Thurber, Joseph, should read Thurher, Joseph B.\\nPage 309. Born in Newbury, 3 June, 0. S. 1712, should\\nread 22 January, 1711.\\nPage 310. He married Elizabeth Chase, should read 3Iar-\\ntha Chase.\\nPage 324. Mrs. Lois Jewett, should read Miss Lois Jewett\\nand Mrs. Louisa Jane Dix Pillsbury, should read Mrs. Louisa\\nF rances Dix Pillsbury.\\nPage 369. A telegraph wire with a case or covering of iron\\nor steel, should read a steel wire covered with copper.\\nPage 399. Kimball, Benj. T. He died 9 July,\\n1852, should read 2 July, 1852.\\nPage 400. Kimball, Peter, was born 25 May, 1817, should\\nread 25 March, 1817.\\nPage 408. Little, Enoch, Dea., 2d, was born 1804,\\nshould read 1802.\\nPage 427. Pearson, Nathan. He died 8 Oct., 1868,\\nshould read 12 Oct., 1868.\\nPage 429. Pillsbury, Joseph L., Col. He died 10\\nJan., 1874, should read 1873.\\nPage 431. Instead of Lucy Farrer, read Lucy Farrar.\\nPage 432. Ebenezer Sewell Price, should read Ebenezer\\nSewall Price.\\nPage 437. Stone, Peter, 19 Dec, 1799, should read\\n11 Dec, 1799.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CORRECTIONS. XXIX\\nPage 455. His widow married Prof. Guthrie, of Marietta\\ncollege, should read JRev. Geo. H. Wliipple., of Oherlin.\\nPage 462. Jabez* (Janies,^ William,^ George should read\\nJabez^ Thomas^ Thomas^ George}-).\\nPage 604. Rev. Zerah H. Hawley, should read Rev. Z. K.\\nIlaioley.\\nPage 615. After Stone, Frederic P., insert m. Lovilla San-\\nhorn.\\nPage 638. Mills one near the residence of Joseph Burpee,\\nshould read 07i Beaver-dam hrooJc. The mill near Mr. Burpee s\\nwas not erected till a later date, by Capt. Abraham Burhank.\\nThat on Beaver dam was near Salisbury line, and was owned by\\nDaniel Pillsbury.\\nPage 650. Wolf\u00e2\u0080\u0094 shot by Samuel Call, should read by\\nLemuel Gall.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSOAWEN.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "CUA^j^ ^i^tt^", "height": "3110", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "1729.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\nOHAPTEE I.\\nTHE PLANTATION OF CONTOOCOOK.\\n^^HE first movement for the settlement of the territory em-\\n^S^ braced in the present towns of Boscawen and Webster was\\ninaugurated in 1729, by citizens of Andover, Bradford, Reading, and\\nWoburn, in Massachusetts. The phantatiou of Penacook (Concord)\\nhad just begun. It was known that there was a desirable tract\\nof land immediately north of Penacook, west of the Merrimack.\\nMany of the citizens of Andover, especially the Abbotts and\\nBallards, were interested in the Penacook plantation, and took\\nmeasures to secure the adjoining tract. The first meeting was\\nheld in Andover, Peb. 25, 1729, at the house of Jeremiah Bal-\\nlard. James Johnson was chosen moderator, and Thomas Abbot\\nclerk. At an adjourned meeting, held March 18, a committee was\\nchosen to view the land. The committee obtained a pilot, visited\\nthe locality, and reported at a meeting held May 20th. Pifty-\\nthree citizens of Andover, twenty-seven from Bradford, t^venty\\nfrom Eeading and Woburn one hundred in all signed a peti-\\ntion to the Great and General Court for the granting of Land\\nLaying on Marymeck Eever Begining at Pennacuck Upper Line\\nand so run eight mile up y^ Rever and Three Mile on y^ Est\\nPour Mile on y^ West side of s*^ Eever. The petitioners were\\nunsuccessful in their application. A possible reason for their\\nfailure may have been the fact that many of the grantees of Pen-\\nacook were from Andover, and the members of the General Court\\nmay have thought it not best to bestow a second grant upon the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "2 CIVIL HISTORY. [1732.\\ncitizens of that town. Other towns were apjilying for grants.\\nThere was a movement in all the sea-coast towns towards the\\nfrontier to obtain new lands. The young men were ready to\\nbrave the dangers and hardships of frontier life, for the sake of\\nobtaining lands which in a few years might be as valuable as the\\nold homesteads. Others, who were more advanced in life, with\\nchildren growing to maturity, were ready to dispose of their\\nfarms by the sea to obtain the fertile lands of the Merrimack\\nvalley, where their sons and daughters could secure their future\\nhomes.\\nBut how happened it that Massachusetts exercised jurisdiction\\nover the lands now comprised in New Hampshire A complete\\nanswer is to be found only in a study of the conflicting claims of\\nCapt. John Mason, Sir Perdinando Gorges, the Plymouth, Massa-\\nchusetts, and Laconia grants. Suffice it to say, that Massachu-\\nsetts claimed jurisdiction of all lands west of the Merrimack, and\\ncontinued its exercise of authority till the final establishment, by\\nroyal commission in 1740, of the present boundaries.\\nNEWBURY PETITIONERS.\\nIn 1732, John Coffin and eighty other citizens of Newbury pe-\\ntitioned the General Court of Massachusetts Bay for a grant of\\nland, situated on the west side of the Merrimack, adjoining Pen-\\nacook plantation. The petition was duly considered, and order\\nissued in relation to a survey of the tract, and setting forth the\\nconditions of the grant as follows\\nOrdered that there be and hereby is granted to the petitioners a\\ntract of land seven miles square at the place petitioned for on the west\\nside of Merrimack river, to be laid out by a surveyor and chain men\\non oath, a plan thereof to be presented to this court at their next May\\nsession for confirmation. The lands to be by them settled on the con-\\nditions following viz:\\nThat within the space of four years from the confirmation of this\\nplan they settle and have on the spot eighty-one families, each settler\\nto build a convenient dwelling house, one story high eighteen feet\\nsquare at least, and fence and clear, and bring to four acres fit for im-\\nprovement and three acres more well stocked with English grass; and\\nalso lay out three shares throughout the town, each share to be one\\neighty-fourth part of said tract of land, one of said shares to be for", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "1733.] CIVIL HISTORY. 3\\nthe first settled minister, one for the ministry, and one for school; and\\nalso to build a convenient meeting house and settle a learned and or-\\nthodox minister within the time aforesaid.\\nThe order was issued Dec. 8, 1732. The grantees at once pro-\\nceeded to locate the land.\\nOn the 6th of June, the following year, the plot was confirmed\\nby the General Court, with tlie boundaries thus described,\\nTHE GRANT.\\nProvince of Massachusetts Bay\\nA plot of township of land granted at [by] the Court to John\\nCoffin and others lying on Merrimack river above Penacook, surveyed\\nby Kichard Hazen and two chainmen on oath being bounded as follows:\\nviz beginning at the middle of Contoocook river, where it empties\\ninto the Merrimack, where it joins the Penacook Plantation, thence\\nrunning west 15\u00c2\u00b0 South adjoining Penacook line, four miles to a white\\npine tree, marked for Penacook corner bound; thence further on the\\nsame line three miles and eight poles to a Norway pine marked for the\\ncorner bounds; thence turned at eight angles and running North 15\u00c2\u00b0\\nwest seven miles and eight poles to a crotched white birch lettered and\\nstanding on the south east side of a hill which is the Northwest corner;\\nthence turned at right angles and run east 15 deg north, near seven\\nmiles and a half to a white oak and two white pines marked, by Merri-\\nmack river, and by said river as it runs to Contoocook river to the\\nplace where it first began.\\nIn the House of Representatives, Read, and voted that this plot be\\naccepted; and that the lands within delineated and described be and\\nhereby are confirmed to the within named John Coffin, Joseph Dole\\nand other petitioners their heirs and assigns forever, they complying\\nwith the orders and conditions in the grant on their petition in De-\\ncember last, provided this plot does not contain more than the contents\\nof seven miles square nor interfere with any other former grant.\\nConsented to,\\nJ. Bklcher.\\nA true copy, as among the proceedings of the general court on the\\n6th of June 1733, p. 394.\\nAttest Alden Bradford\\nSecretary of the Commonwealth.\\nTHE FIRST MEETING OF THE PROPRIETORS.\\nThe first meeting of the proprietors was called by John Coffin,\\nand was held at the house of Archelaus Adams, in Newbury, on\\nthe 2 of May, 1733.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "4 CIVIL HISTORY. [1733.\\nMeeting May y 2.\\nThe proprietors as grantees of the plantation lately made\\ngranted by the great and General Court of his Majestys province of the\\nMassachusetts bay in New England of a tract of land seven miles\\nsquare above Penecook on the west side of Merrimack river, John Cof-\\nfin by virtue of an order to him directed from the above said great and\\nGeneral Court did warn and give Notice to ye grantees of the above\\nsaid plantation to assemble and meet at the bouse of Mr Arclielaus\\nAdams in Newbury to chuse a moderator and clerk and to make such\\nneedful orders and rules as may be propper and needful to bring for-\\nward the settlement of said plantation according to ye said courts di-\\nrections; and according to said warning we met at said Adams house\\non the 2 day of May 1733.\\nLieut George little was chosen moderator for said meeting.\\nJoseph CofBn was chosen clerk for the above s Grantees and was\\nsworn then to the faithfull discharge of his office by richard Kent jus-\\ntice of the peace.\\nJoseph Gerrish Esq, William Tlsly, John Coffin, Joshua Noyes,\\nTristram little, were chosen a committee to take a plan of the planta-\\ntion aforesaid make return of their doings to the above s l great\\nand general Court and the committee were all so impowered to warn\\na meeting of s grantees as they should judge needful.\\nMr Daniel Hale was chosen treasurer for said proprietors.\\nMr John Weed was chosen collector for said proprietors.\\nVoted that the proprietors of the aforesaid plantation shall pay\\nfive pounds a piece towards the laying out and settling the aforesaid\\nplantation c. This was put to vote by the moderator it passed on\\nthe affirmative.\\nVoted that the aforesaid committee (viz) Joseph Gerrish Esq, Will-\\niam Ilsley, John Coffin, Tristram Little, Joseph Noyes shall have power\\nto draw the money from Mr Daniel Hale aforesaid Treasurer to pay\\nthe necessary charges that the said proprietors shall be at in bringing\\nforward the settlement of said plantation this put to vote by the mod-\\nerator and passed on the affirmative.\\nWHAT WAS KNOWN IN REGARD TO THE LAND.\\nThe Merrimack valley was well known. As earl}^ as 1628, a\\ncentury previous, an exploring party was sent out by Massachu-\\nsetts to discover the source of the Merrimack, which ascended to\\nPenacook, if not farther. In 1652, the General Court of Massachu-\\nsetts ordered a survey of the northern boundary of the colou3\\\\\\nThe survey was conducted by Edward Johnson and Simon Wil-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "1733.] CIVIL HISTORY. 6\\nlard, commissioners, and John Sherman, of Watertown, and Jona-\\nthan Ince, of Cambridge, surveyors, with Indian guides. They\\nascended the Merrimack river to Lake Winnipesaukee. John\\nEndicott was at that time governor of Massachusetts. The com-\\nmissioners left a record of their visit upon a large rock at the\\noutlet of the lake. The inscription was discovered in 1834, and\\nis as follows\\nEI SW\\nW P I H N\\nENDIC VT\\nGOV\\nAt that period one character represented the letters I and J.\\nV and U were also represented by one character. The inscrip-\\ntion therefore represents the initials of the commissioners,\\nEdward Johnson and Simon WiUard, and also Worshipful John\\nEndicott.\\nThe party ascended the Merrimack in a bote, and were ab-\\nsent nineteen days. The expense of the expedition was \u00c2\u00a384.\\nA few years later, Richard Waldron, of Dover, traded with the\\nIndians in the vicinity of Penacook. In 1675, at the time of\\nKing Phillip s war, Capt. Mosely, with about one hundred men,\\nascended the Merrimack to keep the Penacooks quiet. In 1668,\\nMr. Thomas Hinksman, with others, under a warrant from Gov.\\nBellingham, ascended the river to Waldron s trading-house, which\\nstood on the east side of the Merrimack, in Concord, to capture an\\nIndian who had killed a white man.\\nThe first historic event within the limits of Boscawen was the\\nkilling of the Indians, in 1697, by Mrs. Hannah Duston, Mrs. Mary\\nNeff, and Samuel Lannardson.\\nMRS. DUSTOI^ S EXPLOIT.\\nOn March 15, of that year, a party of twenty Indians made a\\ndescent upon Haverhill. The first house attacked was that of\\nThomas Duston, who was at work in his field. Hearing the war-\\nwhoop of the Indians, he ran into the house, and ordered his\\nchildren, seven in number, to flee. Mrs. Duston was sick, having\\ngiven birth to a child the week previous. She was attended by", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "6 CIVIL HISTORY. [1733.\\nMaiy Neff, a woman in middle life. Finding it impossible to\\nremove his wife and infant, he left them with the nnrse, monnted\\nhis horse, and overtook his children. His first thought was, to\\ntake two or three of them on his horse, and leave the others to\\ntheir fate. But he could make no choice where all were equally\\ndear, and resolved to do wha.t he could to save them all. Dis-\\nmounting from his horse, standing behind the animal, or shelter-\\ning himself behind a tree, firing with deliberate aim, he kept the\\nj)ursuers at bay while the children ran then springing uj)on the\\nback of the horse, hastened to overtake his family, with the bul-\\nlets of the savages flying past him. Upon overtaking them he\\ndismounted once more, loaded his gun, and awaited the approach\\nof the enemy, who were exceedingly wary in their advance, skulk-\\ning behind trees. Again he fired, and then galloped away, thus\\ndefending the children till they reached a place of safety.\\nA portion only of the Indians followed Mr. Duston the others\\nentered the house, took Mrs. Duston and Mrs. Neff prisoners,\\ndashed out the brains of the infant against a tree, and fired the\\nhouse.\\nNine other houses were set on fire, twenty-seven pei sons killed,\\nand eleven, besides Mrs. Duston and Mrs. iSTeff, Avere captured.\\nIt was the middle of March. In the woods there was still much\\nsnow; the streams were swollen Avith its melting; and yet, with but\\none shoe, Mrs. Duston was driven at a quick pace by the savages.\\nHer feet were torn, her steps marked with blood. Soon her fel-\\nlow captives began to tire but as soon as they lagged behind, a\\ntomahawk was buried in their skulls, the scalping-knif e encircled\\ntheir brows, and their bodies were left by the way.\\nThe route taken by the Indians was up the valley of the Mer-\\nrimack, to their canoes. It is not known where the Indians had\\ndeposited them but the liardships of the march were so great,\\nthat, before reaching them, all the Haverhill captives, except Mrs.\\nDuston and Mrs. Neff, had perished. They found a boy, Samuel\\nLannardson, of Worcester, who had been more than a year in\\ntheir hands, still a captive. He had acquired the Indian language.\\nIt is probable that on the third day the Indians reached their\\ngeneral rendezvous the island at the junction of the Merrimack\\nand Contoocook, a favorite resort for at the falls of Contoocook,\\nnear by, they could supply themselves with salmon, while the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "1733.] CIVIL HISTORY. 7\\nopen spaces on the intervale, opposite Mucliyecln, were favorite\\nfeeding-grounds for deer.\\nIt appears that after leaving their captives on tlie island, the\\nIndians, with the exception of twelve, departed on a second ma-\\nrauding expedition. The thought of being carried a captive to\\nCanada, of enduring the hardships of the march, of the almost\\ncertain fate that would await her, aroused all the heroic nature\\nof the woman who had seen her child s brains dashed out against\\na tree. Death would be preferable to life. She would strike\\nboldly for life and liberty. She laid her plan with deliberation.\\nAsk them where they strike when they want to kill a person\\ninstantly, said Mrs. Duston to the boy Lannardson. Strike\\nem here, said one of the savages, in answer to the question\\nartlessly put by the lad. The Indian placed his finger on his\\ntemple. Little did he think that his own hatchet would be bur-\\nied in his own skull by the keen-eyed woman who was watching\\nhis ever} movement. Then the savage showed the boy how to\\nrun a knife around a person s head, and hoAV to strip off the\\nscalp all of which the resolute woman noticed. She informs\\nMrs. Neff and the boy of her plot, stimulates them by her heroic\\ncourage. Night comes. There are two men, three women, and\\nseven children, all of them asleep. No one keeps watch of the\\ncaptives. There is no danger of their attempting to escape. The\\nbirch canoes are drawn up beneath the alders. The three captives\\nrise softly. Each seizes a tomahawk. Mrs. Duston and Mrs. Neff\\nstand over the prostrate forms of the men. A signal, and the\\nhatchets descend with almost superhuman strength, crushing\\nthrough the skulls and then the women and children are dis-\\npatched, all except two, who escape in the darkness. The pris-\\noners ^prisoners no longer gather up the provisions, take the\\nguns of the Indians, scuttle all except one canoe, and take their\\ndeparture down the Merrimack. A thought comes to the heroic\\nwoman. Will their friends believe them when they inform them\\nthat they have killed the Indians She will have indisputable\\nevidence. A few strokes of the paddles bring them to the island.\\nShe runs the scalping-knife around the brows of the Indians,\\ntakes their scalps, and then starting once more, guides the canoe\\nover the rippling waters at Sewall s falls, then floating on calmer\\nwaters to Garvin s, steering the bark canoe in safety down the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "8 CIVIL HISTORY. [1733.\\nrapids, landing and carrying it when they dare not trust them-\\nselves amid the whirlpools and sunken rocks, reaching Haverhill\\nwith her bloody trophies, to the astonishment of her friends.\\nThe General Court of Massachusetts voted her a present of fifty\\npounds, and many private citizens also presented her with testi-\\nmonials of their appreciation of her heroic conduct.\\nPenacook was granted in 172G, and settled in 1727. The fer-\\ntile lands of Contooeook were well known to the people of the\\nlower towns.\\nFIRST SURVEY.\\nMr. Eichard Hazen, an experienced surveyor, who had been\\nemployed by the proprietors of Penacook to survey that planta-\\ntion, was engaged to make the first survey of Contooeook. The\\noriginal plot, as laid by him, is on file in the archives of the sec-\\nretary of state, Boston.\\nproprietors meeting.\\nA meeting of the proprietors was held July 4 at John Man-\\ncher s tavern, Newbury\\nVoted Mr Richard Hazen surveyor, shall have ten pounds for his\\nservice for taking a plan of the plantation the three clianmen that\\nwere with said surveyors, six days a pice, shall have six thirty\\nshillings a man for their service in assisting him, the said surveyor, this\\nput to vote passed in the affirmative\\nVoted that the committee namely Joseph Gerrish, William Ilsley,\\nJohn Coffin, Tristram Little Joseph Noyes, they being nine days\\nwith Mr Hazen in taking a plan of the aforesaid plantation shall\\nhave ten shillings a day each man for their service, this jjut to vote by\\nthe moderator passed on the ffirmative.\\nCol Joseph Gerrish, Lieut William Ilsley, Benj\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 Pettengill, Daniel\\nPierce John Weed jr were chosen a committee to lay out the home\\nlots so called in the above tract of land put to vote passed on the\\naffirmative\\nThat the aforesaid Committee chosen to lay out the home lots so\\ncalled shall have power to lay out said lots intervale lot to shares\\nalike in quantity Quality according to the best skill and judgment\\nleaving a couveniency for highways private ways this put to vote by\\nthe moderator passed on the affirmative.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "i ^1 r ^t\\n*vr. Ci^ ^#:^-^.l\\n:y\\nDUSTIN, NEFF. AND LEONARDSON", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "1733.] CIVIL HISTORY. 9\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Voted that the men that Col Gerrish shall or have admitted into our\\nsociety may as he and they can agree draw tlieir lots with iis this put\\nto vote by the moderator and passed on the affirmative.\\nOctober 9th.\\nA meeting was held on this daj^ at the house of Archelaus\\nAdams in Newbury, at which John Coffin was added to the\\ncommittee to lay out the home lots. The associates admitted\\nby Col. Gerrish were accepted at that meeting, viz., Col. John\\nAlden, Samuel Beadford, James Alden, John Choat, Benjamin\\nBird, Ebenezer Burrill, Esq., Jeremiah Getchell, John Wain-\\nwright, Esq., Richard Kent, Esq., John Chandler, Junior, Esq.,\\nLieut. Moses Gerrish, Joseph Gerrish, Esq., Kichard Hubbard,\\nMr. Edward Shove, Mr. Henry Sewall, of Boston, Richard Coffin,\\nBenjamin Pettingill, John Akers, Daniel Dole.\\nThe proprietors at this meeting took measures to laj out the\\nvillage, or town as it was called\\nVoted: That these six men, namely, Moses Gerrish, Daniel Hale,\\nJoseph Lunt, Jonathan Poor, Thomas Torla Edward Emery may go\\nup to Contoocook with the other Com have the power to advise\\nconsult as the other committee men have the major part of them\\nshall set the town where they shall Judge most convenient these six\\nmen shall have twenty shillings a pice for their services.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Voted, that any man or men belonging to the society aforesaid see\\ncause to go to the said plantation on their own cost charge they shall\\nhave power to advise with the committee in order to the setting of the\\ntown to the best advantage.\\nThe money in use at that time was undoubtedly the old curren.-\\ncy of Massachusetts Bay. Each colony had its currency, its notes\\nor bills of credit. As nearly as can be ascertained, the pound of\\nMassachusetts at that time was worth about one dollar and thirty\\ncents, and a shilling not far from six and one fourth cents of the\\npresent currency of the United States.\\nAt a meeting of the proprietors, held Nov. 20th, it was voted\\nthat Henry Eolfe draw lots for the proprietors. Five shillings\\nwas raised on each original right, to defray expenses. It was\\nvoted that all the intervale should be fenced in, the next spring, at\\nthe proprietors cost. Thomas Thorla, John Coffin, and Jonathan\\nIlsley were appointed a committee to see that the fencing was\\nseasonably completed.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "10 CIVIL HISTORY. [1733.\\nTlie committee for dividing tlie lands reported\\nThey have laid out five farms on the northerly side of Coutoocook,\\nthe whole of said five farms are in breadth one hundred seven\\nrods two feet five inches, running from the river Merrimack, unto\\nthe westerly end on line of s tract of land which is seven mile back\\nfrom said river and also four farms on the southerly side of s tract of\\nland the whole of said four farms are in breadth eighty six rods\\nrunning from Merrimack river to the westerly side of said tract of\\nland which is seven miles from said river and the above said nine farms\\nare for these gentlemen here under named, (viz)\\nEbenezer Burrell Esq John Wainright Esqr Kichard Kent Esqr\\nM Sanii Beadford John Chote Esqr Mr Edward Shove, M- Beuja.\\nBird, Mr Jeremiah Gatchel, Mr Richard Hubbard\\nTHE GEXTLEMEX S FARMS.\\nThe tract of land thus set off to these nine gentlemen amounted\\nto twenty-seven hundred acres, or three hundred acres to each in-\\ndividual. The lots have always been known as the gentlemen s\\nfarms. When we turn to the records of the Great and General\\nCourt of Massachusetts for the period, we find that Mr. John\\nWainwright was clerk of the General Court in 1731. He was well\\nacquainted with legislative affairs, and doubtless Avas able to aid\\nthe petitioners for grants of land for a consideration. His name\\nappears as a proprietor in many of the tow^ns granted at this\\nperiod. The other gentlemen wdio aided and assisted were\\nmembers of the General Court, wdiich consisted of the Assembly\\nand Council. John Chandler was a member of the Assembly.\\nThere was a lot of land, containing about five hundred acres, set\\noff to him by the proprietors of Contoocook. The tract was one\\nhundred and fifty rods wide, and extended from the INIerrimack\\nwestward two miles. The Stirrup Iron brook ran through it. The\\nname of John Chandler appears in nearly every township granted\\nwhile he was a member. But one conclusion can be drawn, that\\nthe members of the General Court were, to use a modern phrase,\\nland-grabbers, and made use of the official position to advance\\ntheir individual interests.\\nAll of the gentlemen who thus received large tracts of land\\nwere in some way connected with the government nor was it\\nconsidered a breach of trust thus to advance their individual", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "1733.] CIVIL HISTORY.\\n11\\ninterests. Such gifts were the perquisites of office, well understood,\\nacknowledged, and acquiesced in by the entire community.\\nNo disgrace attached to a man who used his official position for\\nhis own interests. No investigating committees were appointed\\nto inquire into such transactions. In later years. Gov. Benning\\nWentworth became one of the largest landed proprietors of the\\ncountry, through the gifts, or, to use a truer term, through the\\nexactions which he imposed upon grantees upon signing the\\ngrants.\\nIn October, Mr. John Brown, surveyor, was employed to survey\\nthe intervale, which, being partially free from trees, furnished\\nvaluable mowing, pasture, and tillage lands. A lot was laid out\\nto each proprietor. He laid out four streets on the high land,\\nupon the site selected for the town\u00e2\u0080\u0094 King, Queen, Newbury, and\\nMarlborough with a house-lot for each proprietor, a lot for the\\nchurch, one for the school, and one for the minister.\\nThe proprietors manifested their loyalty to their sovereign by\\nnaming two of the streets for the king and queen, one for their\\nhome, Newbury, and one for the great Duke of Marlborough,\\nthen in the zenith of his fame.\\nMR. brown s journal.\\nOct 23d 1733. I set out for Contoocook with the committee who\\nwere to lay out ye Intervale home lotts, who were Col Gerrish, W\\nIlsley, Benj^ Pettengale Dan^ Peirce and also David Hale Benj\\nWillet, this proving a rainy day setting out late we got no farther\\nthan\\n2i Being rainy we came to Pennycook.\\n25 We came to Contoocook viewed ye land in order to find a\\nplace to settle ye Town there came also with us George Puchard\\nJackraan.\\n26. We run lines between the Intervale upland: this day came up\\nMr Moses Gerrish.\\n27 We viewed ye place to set ye Meeting House on Eun out ye\\nHighway to Lay Lotts on. Gerrish Emery went Home. Ye rest\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0went to Pennycook settlement except Pierce Myself.\\nOct 26 being friday we measured up from Pennycook line 98 rods\\nfor 4 Lotts one halfe to be left there from whence we had to the river\\n62 rods E 15 North. Tlieuce between the upland intervale we Laid", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "12\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n[1733.\\na Way running North 29 W 57 rods and on Said Way from the 98 rods\\nare laid the foUowins: Letts V iz:\\nNo 60\\n61\\n62\\n63\\n64\\nwhich are in\\nwidth on sd\\nway running\\nNo 29 Deg West\\nin Length\\nrunning down\\nin to ye Intervale\\nEast 15 Deg No\\n62 rods\\nOn the upper Line of 64 Lott is a way of one rod broad on the\\nend of the sd Lott partly on the lower end of the Q3 until it comes\\nto the 76 Lott.\\nNo\\n65\\nare in width\\n12\\nin length running\\n66\\non a way\\n12\\nE 15 D N to the 78\\n67\\nrunning north\\n1 D West\\n12\\nLott 62 rods\\nTHE HOME AND IXTERVALE LOTS.\\n[From Surveyor Brown s Book.]\\nAn account of the draft of the Intervale and home lots at Con-\\ntoocook which are as hereunder written,\\nIntervale.\\nhome lots\\nNo\\n51\\n53\\n73\\n79\\n72\\n77\\n70\\n70\\n69\\n83\\n52\\n49\\n82\\n22\\n44\\n57\\n47\\n42\\n71\\n86\\n58\\n54\\n42\\n52\\n67\\n84\\n67\\n40\\n48\\n38\\n21\\n2\\n61\\n75\\n62\\n82\\n27\\n7\\n20\\n01\\n33\\n41\\n76\\n69\\n93\\n96\\n89\\n29\\n80\\n20\\n29\\n93\\nAbraham Adams jr No\\nStephen Jaques\\nJoseph Coffin\\nRobert Greenough\\nJoseph Moss jr\\nBenja J unt\\nJohn Akers\\nDaniel Richards\\nDaniel Dole\\nJohn Chandler Esq\\nJoseph Tappan\\nWilliam Ilsley\\nJolin Adams\\nJohn Alden\\nJoseph Knight Jr\\nJames Mitchel\\nStephen Moody\\nBenja Petengill\\nRiciiard Jackman\\nRichard Greenough\\nCornelas Wood\\nJoseph Moss 3^^\\nHenry Sewell\\nJohn Webster\\nJoseph Gerrish Esq\\nSam Bailey", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "1733.]\\nCIVIL\\nBenja Smith No\\nRobert Adams\\nRichard Kelly\\nSamuel Gerrish\\nJohn French Jr\\nJoseph Jackman\\nNicholas Cheaay\\nJoseph Willet\\nJacob Noyes\\nJohn Poor\\nStephen Dole\\nMoses Smith\\nCutting Lunt\\nJonathan Plumer\\nThomas Pierce\\n,.Archelaus Woodman\\nJohn Smith\\nIsaac Hall\\nEdward Emery\\nWilloby Favor\\nJacob Pillsbury\\nStephen Emery\\nAmos Stickney\\nGeorge Jackman\\nJonathan Sampson\\nRichard Petengill\\nMoses Gerrish\\nJoseph Dole\\nJohn Plumer jr\\nElezar Pierce\\nDaniel Pierce\\nTheodor Coker\\nJoseph Gerrish\\nRichard Coffin\\nJames Allen\\nWilliam Ripp\\nAbraham Titcomb\\nJohn Coffin\\nJohn Waight\\nWilliam Moody\\nJohn Moody jr\\nMoses Knight\\nDaniel Coffin\\nDaniel Knight\\nMoses Coker\\nEdmund Greenlief\\nDaniel Hale\\nHenry Kingsbury\\nNathan Whelar\\nJoshua Pillsbury\\nThomas Woodbridge\\nHISTORY.\\nIntervale.\\ni3\\nhome lots.\\nNo\\n39\\n81\\n7i\\n85\\n78\\n16\\n06\\n31\\n91\\n68\\n19\\n60\\n88\\n40\\n87\\n31\\n02\\n23\\n86\\n01\\n11\\n32\\n83\\n53\\n95\\n14\\n15\\n84\\n55\\n43\\n73\\n36\\n59\\n08\\n03\\n90\\n94\\n09\\n12\\n92\\n17\\n45\\n18\\n79\\n77\\n04\\n28\\n22\\n10\\n07\\n63\\nNo\\n31\\n21\\n78\\n25\\n81\\n65\\n61\\n34\\n88\\n71\\n15\\n76\\n28\\n50\\n27\\n95\\n09\\n59\\n26\\n08\\n18\\n40\\n23\\n32\\n14\\n66\\n16\\n46\\n33\\n55\\n87\\n35\\n56\\n62\\n10\\n30\\n91\\n13\\n67\\n89\\n64\\n58\\n63\\n19\\n80\\n11\\n92\\n03\\n68\\n12\\n74", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "14\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n[1733.\\nJosej^h Noyes 3 No\\nJames INIorrill\\nJames Xoyes\\nThomas Webster\\nJoshua Hale\\nWilliam Atkins\\nGeorge Little\\nJonathan Ilsley\\nRichard Hale\\nSam Sweatt jr\\nTristraum Little\\nJohn Noyes S\\nJohn Weed j r\\nSam Little\\nIntervale.\\nhome lots.\\nNo\\n38\\n36\\n13\\n77\\n37\\n45\\n05\\n60\\n49\\n43\\n65\\n73\\n30\\n94\\n84\\n24\\n50\\n37\\n41\\n51\\n66\\n47\\n64\\n83\\n5\\n48\\n46\\n39\\nThe aforesaid list was returned into the proprietors of Contoocook\\nat their meeting on Nov the twentieth 1733, and was then excepted\\nand ordered to be recorded.\\nJoseph Gerrisii\\nWilliam Ilsley\\njohx coffix\\nJohn Weed jr\\nBenjamin Pettengill\\nDaniel Pierce\\nCommitteemen.\\nJoseph Coffin\\nProprietors Clerk", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "J1 c^- c N c a-C^ -cttc l^n", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "1731.]\\nCHAPTEE II.\\nSETTLEMENT OF CONTOOCOOK.\\nIflSr the spring of 1734, tlie proprietors of Contoocook made prep-\\n^1 aration to comply with the conditions of tlieir grant. Those\\nintending to settle in the plantation left their homes in April.\\nThe route was from Newbury to Haverhill, or Hampstead to Nut-\\nfield (Derry), thence to Amoskeag falls, and from thence, by tlie\\neast side of the Merrimack, to Penacook ferry, which had been\\nestablished 1731. [Hist. Concord, p. 101.] Another route, lead-\\ning from Newbury to Chester, thence to Pembroke, had been\\nblazed through the woods in 1726, but the road through Derry\\nwas the one most travelled.\\nFIRST SETTLERS.\\nDuring the year, thirty-three settlers came to Contoocook, to be-\\ngin, as it were, life anew in the wilderness. Eev. Mr. Price has\\nhanded down the names of twenty-seven only but from a deposi-\\ntion made by Moses Burbank in 1792 [Col. Henry Gerrish s pa-\\npers] the number is stated as being thirty-three.\\nBarker, David Dagodon, William\\nBean, Sinkler Danforth, William\\nBowen, John Danforth, Nathaniel\\nBishop, Josiali Eastman, Joseph\\nBohonnon, Andrew Emery, Edward\\nBurbank, Moses Fitzgerald, Edward\\nCall, Philip Elanders, Jacob\\nCook, Thomas Elood, Richard\\nCorser, John Eowler, John", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "16\\nCIVIL HISTORY. [1731.\\nGerrish, Stephen Meloon, Nathaniel\\nGould, Ambrose Peters, William\\nJaekman, Eichard Eix, Nathaniel\\nJackman, George Rolfe, Daniel.\\nManuel, Joel\\nIn imagination we see them toiling through the forest, follo\\\\y-\\ning the rude path from Nutfield (Derry) up to Suncook, across\\nthe dark plains in Concord, crossing the Merrimack just\\nabove the mouth of the Contoocook.\\nUpon the intervale are open spaces where the grass grows lux-\\nuriantly, but everywhere else tliey behold an unbroken forest.\\nAscending the high bank, they come to the blazed lines where\\nJohn Brown has laid out the new town. There is no house to\\nshelter them. The first nights they spend beneath the shelter of\\nthe trees. They select the sites for their log houses. The forest\\nresounds with the sturdy strokes of their axes. They have a single\\nplow, owned b} Stephen Gerrish. The oxen are yoked to it, and\\nthe virgin soil of the intervale, which has lain undisturbed since\\nthe morning of creation, is turned to the sun. Ere many days\\nhave passed, each man has a cabin built of logs, covered with bark,\\nor with long shingles rived from some giant pine.\\nDuring the first season the^^ must subsist upon provisions\\nbrought on horseback, or on their own backs, from Newbury, save\\nthat now and tlien their trusty rifles bring down a deer. During\\nthe spring and summer months they can add to their stock of pro-\\nvisions by spearing salmon in the river, and there is a plentiful\\nsupply of pickerel, horned pouts, and perch in the river and ponds,\\nwhile the brooks are alive with trout. The days are long and\\nwearisome. They work early and late, suffer many privations and\\nhardships but they are rearing their future homes, and the hard-\\nships are forgotten in anticipation of better days.\\nIt is not probable that many of the settlers families came in\\nthe spring, but most, if not all, were there before the close of the\\nyear.\\nproprietors meeting.\\nNov. 8. A meeting of the proprietors was held at the house of\\nArchelaus Adams in Newbury. It was voted that a saw-mill\\nshould be built at the charge of the proprietors, and Daniel Hale,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "1734.] CIVIL HISTORY. 17\\nJoseph Gerrisli, and Thomas Tliorla, weve chosen a committee to\\nattend to the matter. The same committee was empowered to\\nrectify any mistake made in the laying out of lots, and John\\nBrown, the surveyor, was engaged to go to Contoocook to show\\nthe proprietors the location of the lots.\\nFive of the proprietors, Joseph Lunt, John Coffin, Thomas\\nTliorla, Benjamin Lunt, Benjamin Coker, and Edward Emery,\\nentered their dissent in regard to the power of the committee.\\nDec. 18, another meeting was held. It was voted that the intervale\\nshould be fenced by the fifteenth of May of the following year, at\\nthe expense of the owners of the lots, and any proprietor neglect-\\ning to build his j^roportion should make satisfaction. It was also\\nvoted that Joseph Tappan should obtain a grindstone for the com-\\nmon use of the proprietors.\\nAt this meeting further action was taken towards buildin a\\nsaw-mill.\\n[From the Records.]\\nIt was put to vote by the moderator where [whether] there should be\\na grant of [land] made to those men hereafter named, of the little stream\\n[Mill brook] at Contoocook near the upper end of the lots or town,\\nand fifty acres of land laid square adjoining to the mill for commencing\\nthereof on both sides of the stream and also one whole right throughout\\nthe town or plantation on condition they build a saw mill there by\\nthe first of September next ensuing the date hereof, and a good grist\\nmill so soon as there is settled twenty families on the said plantation in\\ncase there is water enough to accommodate both mills and the mills be\\nbuilt and in the length of time by clearing the land or any other way it\\nshall be judged that there is not water to answer the end for said mill\\nor mills or that the men are obliged to raise the dam so high to save\\nwater to saw or grind so as to be judged hurtfull then the proprietors\\nshall pay the men that built the mill or mills for them the price of what\\nthey shall then be accounted worth, or else procure for the men that\\nbuilt the mill or mills the stream commonly called or known by the\\nname of [Mill brook] Contoocook the privileges thereof as was re-\\nserved as by record may appear they taking the land as it was re-\\nserved by each [of the] falls for conveuiency of the mills for part of\\ntheir rights.\\nThe above, evident^, was not drawn by the clear-headed clerk,\\nJoseph Coffin, for we find an explanatory note in his hand-writ-\\ning, as follows\\n2", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "18 CIVIL HISTORY. [1735.\\nThe true intent meaning of the above written vote is that if\\nthe nine Gentle do build mills on Contoocook river to our acceptance\\nthen the society is not to procure said stream in blank for tliose men\\nwhich built on the little stream. Those men that have undertaken to\\nbuild the aforesaid mill or mills at the above plantation are as followetli\\nto wit\\nJoseph Gerrish Esq, Mr Tristram Little, John Coffin, M Joseph\\nNoyes, y 3 Lieut William Ilsley, Cor Thomas Thorla, John Moody\\nju Daniel Coffin, Benjamin Pettengill, Lieut Benjamin Lunt, Dea\\nJames Noyes, Joseph Coffin, John Webster, Lieut Moses Gerrish, Capt\\nEdward Emery, these men above named are to give bond for their well\\nperforming their work.\\nAt that meeting Robert Adams, Joseph Morss, 3d, and Richard\\nHale, were appointed a committee to take a bond of the above\\nnamed, and Henry Rolfe was chosen to confer with them in re-\\ngard to building the mill.\\nTHE FIRST CHILD.\\nThe year opened auspiciously to the settlers, for on Jan. 7 a\\ndaughter was born to Nathaniel Danforth the first birth in the\\nplantation. The infant was named Abigail, grew to maidenhood,\\nand married Thomas Foss, whose name frequently appears in the\\nrecords of the town.\\nTHE SURROUNDING COUNTRY.\\nA survey of the settled sections of New Hampshire at this\\ntime will be of interest.\\nNorthward of Contoocook there was an unbroken wilderness\\nreaching to Canada. Hunters and explorers had passed up and\\ndown the valley of the Merrimack, but no settler had reared his\\ncabin above the Contoocook intervale. The men who set up their\\nlog houses on King street were the advance guard of civilization.\\nOn the east there was no settlement between Contoocook and\\nRochester. Dover and Portsmouth, the oldest towns in tiie state,\\nhad been settled one hundred years when the men of Newbury\\nlocated themselves at Contoocook, and yet so slow had been the\\nadvance northward from those localities, that the most northerly\\nsettlement was at Rochester, within ten miles of Dover. In\\n1732 a few settlers i^ushed westward from Dover to Barrington.\\nIn Nottingham, south of Barrington, Joseph Cilley and others", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "1735.] CIVIL HISTORY. 19\\nbuilt tlieir cabins in 1727 ])ut in the territory now comprised in\\ntlie towns of Farmington, Strafford, Barnstead, Nortbwood, Deer-\\nfield, Candia, Epsom, Pittsfield, Loudon, and Chichester, there\\nwas no settlement. Southward were the settlements on the river\\nPenacook, Chestnut Woods (Chester), which was settled in 1722,\\nK utfield (Derry), settled in 1719. West of Nuffield was John\\nCromwell s trading-house, in what is now the town of Merrimack\\nbut the first settlers of that town located there the same year\\nthat the people of Newbury moved to Contoocook. John Crom-\\nwell had been there, off and on, as early as 1679, buying furs of\\nthe Indians, doing as the old Knickerbockers of Manhattan were\\nwont to do pile the furs in one scale and put their foot in the\\nother The Indians discovered Cromwell s trick, however, of hav-\\ning a heavy foot when he bought, and a light foot when he sold;\\nconsequently he was obliged to use both of his feet nimbly in\\ngetting away. His trading-house was a ruin when the Contoo-\\ncook settlers came northward to their future homes.\\nBetween Nuffield and Penacook there was no settlement, ex-\\ncept at Suncook (Pembroke), which had been granted to Capt.\\nJohn Lovewell, and which was settled in 1727.\\nOn the west bank of the Merrimack, above Dunstable, there\\nwas no settlement except at Hollis, where, in 1731, Peter Powers\\nbegan a clearing and built a cabin none in all of the territory of\\nHillsborough countj and Cheshire, with the exception of the\\nsettlements at Winchester and Hinsdale. Josiah Willard and\\nothers had been at Winchester one year only. New Brookline\\nwas settled in 1733. The next place settled in south-western\\nNew Hampshire was Keene, in 1736. Charlestown was not set-\\ntled till 1738.\\nOf the localities arouiid Contoocook, a settlement was made in\\nCanterbury the same year as in Contoocook. Virtually it was\\none settlement, separated only by the river.\\nOn the west the first settlement was at Hopkinton, in 1740,\\nbut the inhabitants of that locality abandoned their homes in\\n1746. The first settlement in Salisbury was in 1750, by Philip\\nCall, Nathaniel Meloon, Benjamin Pettengill, John and Ebenezer\\nWebster, Andrew Bohonon. These, with the exception of Pet-\\ntengill and Webster, moved from Contoocook.\\nSo slow was the advancing wave of civilization, that in the val-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "20 CIVIL HISTORY, [1736,\\nley of the Merrimack there was no settlement above Salisbury till\\n1764, when Zachariah Parker and James Hobart settled at Ply-\\nmouth. That was a great step northward, for not till two years\\nlater were there any inhabitants between what is now Pranklin\\nand Plymouth. Thomas Crawford reared a cabin in Bridgewater\\nin 1766. The advancement on the west was quite as slow. Some\\nsettlers moved into Hillsborough in 1741, but moved out again\\nsoon after. No permanent settlement was made there till 1757.\\nHenniker was without an inhabitant till 1761, when James\\nPeters erected a log cabin. In Warner there was no permanent\\nsettler till 1762, two years after Contoocook was incoi-porated\\na town. A year later 1763 the first inhabitant moved into\\nNeAvport. There was no settlement in Sanborton till 1765.\\nPor a quarter of a century Contoocook was the out-post of civil-\\nization, maintaining its position through the Indian wars, its\\nhardy settlers never thinking of retreat.\\nACTION OF PROPRIETORS IN REGARD TO A MINISTER.\\nMay 19. The proprietors held their annual meeting at Con-\\ntoocook, several of them coming from Newbury to attend it. It\\nwas their first meeting in the plantation. Josejih Gen-ish was\\nchosen moderator, and Joseph Coffin, clerk.\\nThe first business transacted was in relation to securing a min-\\nister of the gospel and Lieut. Benj. Lunt, Joseph Geri ish, and\\nJohn Coffin were cliosen a committee to agree with a suitable\\nperson to preach at Contoocook, also to raise money to defray\\nthe expenses of the plantation.\\nOne thing is to be noted in connection, that the proprietors\\nstill living in Newbury, and who had no thought of emigrating to\\nContoocook, cheerfully taxed themselves to support a minister in\\nthe plantation, thus carrying out the provisions of the grant hon-\\norably, and acting with great liberality towards the settlers.\\nAt this meeting it was voted that there should be no meadows\\nmown before the 10th of July, when the grass was to be cut by\\nthose men that are there, in equality, each doing his portion or\\nshare of the labor.\\nIt was also voted that Edward Emery, Stephen Gerrish, Na-\\nthaniel Danford, shall cut that piece of meadow which they\\nhave found, and cut a way into for this year no longer,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "1736.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 21\\nWhere this may have been is uncertain. It is handed down\\nby tradition that there was a section of cleared meadow land lie-\\ntween Great and Little ponds, also at various places along the\\nbrooks and streams of the town.\\nIt was also voted that the highways should be mended at the\\nproprietors cost, that any person that do labores on said ways\\nto the satisfaction of y\u00c2\u00ae surveyors, shall have five shillings for his\\nservice.\\nVoted, also, to raise one hundred pounds to build a cart bridge\\nover Contoocook river. Benjamin Eolfe, William Ilsley, and\\nJohn Coffin were chosen a committee to build the same that\\nis if they can build s* bridge and keep it in good repair for the\\nspace of ten years for an hundred pounds, wdiich is already\\ngranted.\\nTOWX-HOUSE.\\nThe proprietors erected, during the year, a toAvn-house. No\\nrecord has been preserved showing where it was located, but the\\nlittle brook wdiich runs from Queen street to the pond crossed by\\nthe Northern Kailroad is frequently spoken of as Town-House\\nbrook. It is probable that this first public edifice of logs stood\\nnear the stream, and not far from the present residence of Prof.\\nJohn Jackman, or, possibly, near the residence of Mr. Hamilton\\nP. Gill.\\nProm action taken in regard to the discharge of the bond given\\nby the fifteen who obligated themselves to build the saw-mill, the\\nevidence is conclusive that the mill had been erected.\\nVoted that the bonds of the men, Avhich have built the saw mill be\\ndelivered to lay out the bonds for building said mill according to vote\\nas by record.\\nIt was the pioneer mill of this section of the Merrimack valley.\\nThe saw-mills of that period were such as any carpenter might\\nconstruct. This mill had no nigger wheel to move the car-\\nriage back after the saw had passed through the log that labor\\nwas done by a man treading upon the cogs of the ratchet-\\nwheel, labor exceedingly fatiguing. For many years it was\\nthe only saw^nill in the town, and several of the houses now\\nstanding on King street are covered with boards which were sawn\\nin this first mill.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "22 CIVIL HISTORY, [1737.\\nAt their March meeting, 1737, the proprietors voted tliat Joseph\\nGerrish, Henry Eolfe, and Joseph Stickney he a committee to\\ntreat with some suitable man a Christian learned to preach at\\nContoocook the dimming summer and in order to settle the afore-\\nsaid Gentleman if he can he rationally agreed with to serve us in\\nthe ministry. Two hundred pounds was raised for preaching, and\\nthe assessors were directed to make the town-house convenient for\\nthe use of the minister and people on the Sahbath.\\nTHE FIRST MINISTER.\\nThe committee secured the services of Rev. Phineas Stevens\\n(see Biography). This action fulfilled all the provisions of the\\ngrant, except that relating to the number of families in the plan-\\ntation. It is probable that Mr. Stevens began his ministrations\\nin May.\\nA second meeting of the proprietors was held May 10, at which\\nit Avas voted that there should not be more than Mty pounds laid\\nout on the highways during the year. A man was to receive five\\nshillings, and a yoke of oxen was to be rated at four shillings for\\na day s work.\\nTHE FIRST FERRY.\\nNo bridge had as yet been erected across the Contoocook, and\\nthe only means of communication with ?enacook and with Can-\\nterbury was by boat. Both the Merrimack and Contoocook were\\ntoo deep to be forded. It is probable that up to this i:)eriod the\\nsettlers had relied on their small skiffs, their horses and oxen\\nswimming the rivers. But the time had come for the establish-\\ning of a public ferry. At the proprietors meeting, it was voted,\\nThat Stephen Gerrish shall have six pounds paid him by the pro-\\nprietors, his building a ferry boat and keeping said boat in good re-\\npair, and giviug due constant attendance to ye proprietors to ferry\\nthemselves and their creatures over Merrimack as foUoweth (viz.) a\\nman at two pence, a man and horse at four pence, a man and one yoke\\nof oxen at six pence, a man and one cow at four pence and young\\ncreatures according to bigness; and at years end his returnitig said\\nboat to the proprietors or to whom they appoint to receive the afore-\\nsaid boat, or six pounds in bills of credit of ye old tenor.\\nThe ferry was located in the bend of the Merrimack, above its", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "CIVIL HISTORY. 23\\n1737.]\\njunction with the Contoocook. In after years a ferrj-way was\\nlaid out from King street to the bank of the Merrimack. The\\nsettlement of Canterbury was keeping pace with Contoocook, and\\nsuch a location would best suit the two communities, while it\\nwould be on the direct road to Newbury.\\nPETITION FOR CONSTABLE.\\nHenry Eolfe and Joseph Gerrish were appointed a committee\\nto petition the Great and General Court for the appointment of\\nconstable to keep ye peace. There was no evidence that the little\\ncommunity was not peaceably disposed, but a constable repre-\\nsented the majesty of the law. The very appointment would tend\\nto keep the peace.\\nAt a proprietors meeting, held September 6, it was voted that\\nthe lots, namely, the ministers, ministry school lots shall be\\npiched [pitched] and a committee be chosen to pich them.\\nThe undoubted design of this vote was the securing of the best\\nland in the town for tliat which they most prized,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the religious,\\nmoral, and educational advancement of the community. This,\\nrather than their material interests, characterized the action of\\nthe proprietors from the beginning. There was a large-hearted-\\nness in all that they did and this action was followed by its\\nlegitimate sequence,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the building up of a solid, substantial com-\\nmunity energetic, moral, religious, liberal which, till emigra-\\ntion began to draw its life blood, occupied a front rank among\\nthe purely agricultural towns of the state.\\nSECOND DIVISION OF LOTS.\\nIt was voted that there be a second division of land. Benjamin\\nEolfe, John Coffin, Edward Emery, Joseph Gerrish, and Thomas\\nThorla were appointed to make the division, and were to have nine\\nshillings a day for their services. This committee were to make\\nthe selection of the minister s and school lots.\\nFIRST MEETING-HOUSE.\\nUp to this time, the services on the Sabbath had been held\\neither in the town-house or else in the dwelling of one of the set-\\ntlers. But the conditions of the grant required the erection of a", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "2-4 CIVIL HISTORY. [1738.\\nmeeting-liouse and it was voted that a house be erected, and that\\nthe sum of one hundred pounds be raised to enable the committee\\nto go on in building a house\\nforty feet long and of the\\nj^ same width of Rumford Meet-\\n^fe ing house and two feet higher,\\n^f v ^-^!^^My^ said house to be built of logs.\\n.li^^j_t^5Jta\\\\i.j;^o^f Penacook had taken the\\nname of Rumford, a planta-\\ntion with a meeting-house and\\na settled minister. The ac-\\nN companying cut of the Rum-\\nford mceting-house, the model for that of Contoocook, has been\\nkindly loaned by Rev. is athaniel Bouton, d. d., the historian of\\nConcord.\\nJoseph Gerrish, Joseph Coffin, and Jacob Flanders were chosen\\nbuilding committee.\\nLAYING OUT OF THE SECOND DIVISION OF LOTS.\\nThe committee on a second division of land employed John\\nBrown as surveyor, laying out Fish, High, Cross, Water, Long,\\nBattle, Pleasant, and West (Little Hill) streets, four rods in\\nwidth. Upon these highways, lots containing eighty acres were\\nlocated, one for each proprietor. The expense of the survey\\namounted to one hundred pounds ten shillings.\\nUpon the completion of the survey, the proprietors assembled\\nat the town-house, in Newbury, December 20, to attend the draw-\\ning of lots. Joseph Gerrish was chosen chairman but the day\\nbeing very cold, the meeting was adjourned to the tavern of John\\nMarch (possibly Mancher), where the lots were drawn.\\nPOPULATION.\\nFrom a deposition of Moses Burbank, one of the first settlers,\\nmade in 1796, we are able to obtain the number of settlers, and\\nthe condition of the plantation.\\nThere was 33 settlers in the year 1738 and about 50 or 60\\nRights bearun in the settlement in the course of two or three", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "1739.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a025\\nyears after there was as many as 90 or 96 Rights Begun Improve-\\nment, [Found among the papers of Col. Henry Gerrish.]\\nCOMPLETIO^r OF THE MEETING-HOUSE.\\nDuring the winter of 1738-9 the meeting-house was completed.\\nThe site selected by the committee was near the center of the\\ncemetery, on the Plain. The pulpit is supposed to have been over\\nthe spot where rest the remains of Dea. Isaac Pearson, whose\\ndying request was that he might be buried on the spot where\\nthe gospel had been preached by the first minister of the town\\nand his successors. Por thirty years the edifice was used for pub-\\nlic worship and town-meetings. Upon its demolition, some of the\\ntimber was used in the construction of a stable, now owned by Mr.\\nEmerson.\\nThis first meeting-house in Contoocook was the twent^-^-seventh\\nin the state. Those erected at an earlier date were in the follow-\\ning order\\nMEETIXG-HOUSES IN THE STATE.\\n1633. Dover.\\n1638. Exeter.\\n1638. Hampton.\\n1641. Gosport.\\n1655. Durham.\\n1671. Newcastle.\\n1685. Nashua (Dunstable).\\n1706. Greenland.\\n1711. Hampton Falls.\\n1715. Newington.\\n1717. Stratham.\\n1725. Kingston.\\n1726. Rye.\\n1727. Derry.\\nIt will be seen that at this time\\nhouses west of the Merrimack at\\nand Contoocook.\\n1727. Somersworth.\\n1729. Concord (Rumford).\\n1730. Plaistow.\\n1730. South Newmarket.\\n1731. Chester.\\n1733. Dover, 2d.\\n1733. Keene.\\n1733. Winchester.\\n1734. North Hampton.\\n1737. Hudson.\\n1737. Kensington.\\n1737. Pembroke.\\n1738. Boscawen.\\nthere were only four meeting-\\nDunstable, Keene, Winchester,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "26\\nCIVIL HISTORY. [1739.\\nproprietors meetixgs\\nMay 16. Meeting in the town-liouse in Contoocook. Eev. Mr.\\nStevens was again employed to preach, and \u00c2\u00a3300, old tenor, was\\nraised to defray the expenses of the proprietors.\\nDec. 6. Meeting held at the house of John Mancher, innholder\\nin Newbury. Up to this time, the settlers of Contoocook, in com-\\nmon with those of the frontiers, had lived in peace with the Ind-\\nians but France and England were at war, and the Indians being\\nunder the influence of the French, it was feared that the settle-\\nment would be attacked. Every town established its garrison.\\nThe proprietors took prompt action to defend the settlement.\\nTHE FIRST FORT.\\nIt was voted that a fort should be erected at the expense of the\\nproprietors, the enclosure to be one hundred feet square, built of\\nhewn logs, seven feet high and eight inches thick when hewn, to\\nbe built three feet above the logs with such stuff as shall be\\nagreed upon by the committee.\\nFrom this record it may be inferred that there was an upper\\nwork, a chevaux-de-frise of pointed, projecting timbers, designed\\nto prevent the enemy from climbing over the wooden walls, which\\nundoubtedly were loop-holed for the use of musketry.\\nIt was voted to locate the fortification on the school lot.\\nThe probabilities are that it was erected a few feet south of that\\nlot, near the spot upon which the first framed house was subse-\\nquently erected by Eev. Eobie Morrill, now standing the two-\\nstoried edifice a few rods easterly of King street.\\nA spring of sweet water issued from the high bank near by,\\nfrom which the garrison could be supplied. The spring is now\\nthe well in the shed attached to the above-mentioned house. The\\nlocation was well chosen. It stood on the brink of a high bank,\\nand commanded the intervale. The Indians might look down upon\\nit from the high hill west of Town-House brook, but too far away\\nto do any damage. The spring was so near, that water could al-\\nways be obtained without danger. Barracks were erected inside\\nof the fortification for the convenience of the garrison and fami-\\nlies.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "1739.] CIVIL HISTORY. 27\\nIt being found that the enclosure was not large enough to ac-\\ncommodate the entire community, another fortification was erect-\\ned, during the winter, near the house now occupied by Prof. John\\nJackman. ISTo record has been preserved in regard to the dimen-\\nsions of this garrison, but it probably was somewhat smaller, and\\ndesigned as a retreat for the settlers on Queen street in case of\\nsudden surprise.\\nThrough the years of trouble with the Indians, these garrisons\\nserved to protect the resolute men, who, during the most exciting\\ntimes, when other frontier settlements were abandoned, never\\nthought of yielding the ground to the foe.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nTHE SECOND DECADE.\\njp||TAY 16, 1740, tlie annual meeting of tlie proprietors was lield\\nat the town-house. Among other officers chosen were two\\nfield-drivers Nathaniel Meloon and Ambrose Goold. The ques-\\ntion, whether ye hogs should run at large the year ensuing,\\nthey being well j^oked, was decided in the affirmative.\\nA committee was chosen to confer with Rev. Phineas Stevens,\\nin regard to his settlement as minister; and \u00c2\u00a3150 in bills of credit\\nwas voted for contingent expenses.\\nJohn Brown, Thomas Thorla, and Joseph Gerrish were ap-\\npointed a committee to lay out a highway through the town, to\\nBaker s town, on petition of John Sergeant others Canada\\nSoldiers, which Township is laid above Contoocook adjoining\\nto Merrimack.\\nThis has reference to the present South Franklin. The Canada\\nsoldiers alluded to were those who had been out upon the fron-\\ntier to defend the settlements from the Indians. The highway\\nwas an extension of Fish street, the southerly end of which had\\nbeen laid out by John Brown in 1738.\\nSETTLEMENT OF IlEV. MR. STEVEXS.\\nSeptember 25, a meeting was held at John Mancher s tavern,\\nin Newbury, but without transacting any business* was adjourned\\nto October 1. The projjrietors met on that day at Ebenezer\\nChoate s tavern, in Newbur}-. It was voted that the salary of\\nEev. Mr. Stevens, for the first year, should be \u00c2\u00a3135, in bills of", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "vV\\\\v\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Vv.S\\nvV\\\\v\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ yv^^iVvvv\\nA", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "1740.] CIVIL HISTORY. 29\\ncredit, eqiuvalent to silver at 29 shillings the ounce, and an in-\\ncrease of \u00c2\u00a35 a year until it should amount to \u00c2\u00a3175 per annum,\\nwhich should he his regular salary thereafter. It was also voted\\nto give him a settlement of \u00c2\u00a3180 and in case it should be found\\nthat \u00c2\u00a3175 was not an adequate support, the proprietors would\\nmake a reasonable addition.\\nThe first minister, according to the grant, was entitled to one\\neighty-fourth part of the land but, as the town was laid out in one\\nhundred and four rights, the proprietors made a stipulation that\\nMr. Stevens should not claim but one one-hundred-and-fourth\\nshare. Joseph Gerrish, John Brown, Edward Emery, John\\nCoffin, and George Jackman were appointed a committee to pre-\\nsent the terms of settlement, and to arrange for the ordination.\\nThere were not many ministers near at hand to take part in\\nthe ceremony. At Penacook was Rev. Timothy Walker at Sun-\\ncook, Rev. Aaron Whittemore. The nest nearest minister was\\nRev. Moses Hale, of Chester. There was a Presbyterian minis-\\nter at Nuffield (Derry), Rev. Wm. Davidson, just about being\\nsettled, who had married the widow of his predecessor. But\\nDavidson was a Presbyterian and the war was hot between the\\nPresbyterians and the Orthodox, as the Congregationalists were\\ncalled. There was no fello\\\\vship between the denominations.\\nThe nearest minister following down the Merrimack was Josiah\\nSwan, at Dunstable. At Exeter, the capital of the proA ince, was\\nRev. John Odlin, Avho had been preaching a third of a century\\nat Dover was Jonathan Cashing at Durham, Rev. Hugh An-\\ndrews. But it would have been a round-about way for these min-\\nisters to have come to the ordination, south to Exeter, thence to\\nCharmingfare (Candia), thence to Suncook and Penacook.\\nAt South Newmarket was John Moody at Stratham, Henry\\nRust at Plaistow, James Cushing at Kingston, Joseph Secomb.\\nThe churches at Hampton and along the sea-shore were supplied\\nwith pastors, but it is not probable that they were called upon to\\ntake part in the council nor is it probable that either of the two\\nministers in the south-west part of the state Rev. Jacob Bacon,\\nof Keene, or Rev. Joseph Ashley, of Winchester was invited.\\nThe records give no information as to who took part in the exer-\\ncises in the little loo; meetina;-house.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "30 CIVIL HISTORY. [1740.\\nOKDIXATIOX EXPENSES.\\nThe iiroprietors records contain an account of the expenses of\\nthe ordination\\nAn Accorapt of the Expenses for the Ordination of the Rev. Mr.\\nPhiueas Stevens at Contoocook Oct 29, 1740 For which Charge the\\nProprietors are indebted\\nTo Mr Edward Emery\\nFor five Bushels of Wheat at 12= per bushi \u00c2\u00a33\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\n16 lbs Pork at 18 i 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\n2 lbs Sugar 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4-0\\nfor Crainberrys Cabbage turnips 10\\nEggs 1^ G l Trouble of his house 30= 1_11_6\\nCharge he has been at 26^ Trouble 12= 1\u00e2\u0080\u009418\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\nFor bringing up the Boat 1\\n9\u00e2\u0080\u00947 \u00e2\u0080\u00946\\nThe query arises, how a boat could be used at an ordination.\\nThe answer is j)lain there was no bridge across the Merrimack.\\nThe ministers from the lower towns would come by the road lead-\\ning up the east side of the Merrimack hence the need of a boat.\\nTo Mr George Jachman,\\nFor Edward FitzGerald s Service 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nfor 2 women 2 days each 12\\na Bushel of wheat 1-2^ a Bushel of Indian 6= 0\u00e2\u0080\u009418\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHis Trouble 30= Cabbages Turnips 5= 1\u00e2\u0080\u009415\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n4\u00e2\u0080\u009411\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo Joseph Gerrish Esq\\nFor 4 Barrels of Cider 4^\u00e2\u0080\u009412= 20= for his trouble 5\u00e2\u0080\u009412\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFor 352 lbs of Beef at Gp 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\\n90 lbs of Pork at 12p 4\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n27 lbs Salt Pork 40= 6i 30 lbs of butter 2= 5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nli bushels of Wheat 18= Turnips c 6= 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n8 Turkies at 56 at 9 per lb 42=. Bringing the Boat\\n20= 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCarting 10\u00c2\u00a3 His trouble 30= 11\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n41\u00e2\u0080\u009407\u00e2\u0080\u009410\\nTo Mr John Coffin\\nFor 30 lbs of butter 60= 4 bushi of Malt 40= 5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "1740.] CIVIL HISTORY. 31\\nFor 40^: lbs Salt Pork 60^ 9! 26 lbs of cheese at 28^ 2 4 8\u00e2\u0080\u009411\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n8 Geese 51i at 8p 34:\u00c2\u00ab 4 bis trouble charge 60^ 4\u00e2\u0080\u009414\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\\n14\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\\nTo Mr John Noijes Jun\\nFor 2 Cases of Knives 40^ for 10 lbs Sugar 20= one lb\\npepper O 3 9\\nTo Mr Daniel Coffin\\nFor 10 lbs of Raisins 35= 5 lbs Currents 15= 11 lbs of loaf\\nSugar 55= 4\u00e2\u0080\u009415\\n30 lbs of Flower 10= 6 Drinking glasses 8= 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBiscake 2i)=, 1 doz Mugs 12= Carting Stores 12= 2\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n19 Gallons Rhum at 10= per Gal 8\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n10\u00e2\u0080\u009417\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo Mr John Adams\\nFor 20 lbs Sugar 36= 8i Chocolate 1^ lb 21= 9p 2\u00e2\u0080\u009418\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5\\nNutmegs 5= 6i\\\\ Allspice 4= Pipes 4 doz 8= 0\u00e2\u0080\u009417 6\\n3\u00e2\u0080\u009415\u00e2\u0080\u009411\\nTo Mr John Rolf Jun\\nFor one half barrel full bound a 4 gallon Cask 0\u00e2\u0080\u009412\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo John Brown\\nFor Spices 9= Pipes Tobacco 12= 6p 1\u00e2\u0080\u00941\u00e2\u0080\u00946\\nFor a 50 gallon cask a 4 gall bottle 7\\nFor his trouble charge 3\\n4\u00e2\u0080\u009408\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nTo Mr Eben^r Choate\\nFor Wine 1\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo Mr Moses Gerrish\\nFor 5 lbs of Sugar 0\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo Cutting Lunt\\nFor four Gallons of Molasses 1 8\\nTo Richards Sf Titcomb\\nFor Carrying up their Famls Each 20= 2\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n104- 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nA true Accompt Errors Excepted Newbury Nov 5 i 1740\\nJohn Brown.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "32 CIVIL HISTORY. [1740.\\nThis in federal currency would bo equal to $46.35. It repre-\\nsented, however, much more than that, for the purchasing power\\nof money was much greater at that period than at the present\\ntime.\\nAn ordination in those days was a jubilee, a great event, one\\nin which the whole community had an interest, and people from\\nfar and near came to attend it. That settlers from other towns\\nwere present is evident from the amount of provision prepared.\\nContoocook, in 1740, had less than one hundred inhahitants\\nprobably the number did not exceed seventy-five yet there was\\nprovision sufficient for dining a regiment. The wheat was suf-\\nficient to make 345 pounds, or a barrel and a half of flour.\\nThere were 352 pounds of beef, 173^ pounds of pork, 51^ of\\ngeese, 56 of turkey, a bushel of Indian meal, 60 pounds of butter,\\nto say nothing of the cabl ages and turnips. The beef was equiv-\\nalent to half an ox, and the pork to half a hog. Certainly there\\nmust have been many visitors from abroad. We may think of all\\nPenacook and Canterbury and Suncook as being there, and\\nprobably a goodly number of the proprietors from Newbury,\\nthinking it no hardship to ride sixty miles on horseback through\\nthe forest to visit their friends and relatives in Contoocook.\\nIt was the first week in October, when the great forest\\nwould be i:i all its glory, the maples bright with the changing\\nhues of autumn, crimson and magenta and vermeil dyes of every\\nhue the first leaves falling earthward. It was a great day for\\nthe young settlement. We may think of long lines of men and\\nwomen, on horseback, arriving on the eastern bank of the Merri-\\nmack, and being ferried across to the lower intervale, passing\\nthe fields of corn rustling in the autumn breeze. They wind up\\nthe pathway, ascend the hill to the level plain and the broad\\nhighway of King street, and come to the log meeting-house,\\nstanding on a knoll east of it. They fasten their horses to the\\ntrees, and congratulate the citizens of Contoocook on the auspicious\\nevent. They take off their hats to the reverend men in wigs, who\\nhave come to ordain Mr. Stevens.\\nThe council assembles in the house of Edward Emery. The\\ncandidate is questioned in regard to Eixed fate Eree will,\\nGod s sovereignty and man s inability. Then comes tlie ordina-\\ntion service in the log meeting-house, the invocation itself long", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "1740.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 33\\nenougli for a pra^^er, then reading the Scriptures, the longer\\nprayer, the still longer sermon, and all the other exercises long\\ndrawn, till ministers and people are sharp set for the dinner,\\nthe beef, pork, geese, turkeys, garnished with turnips and cabbages,\\nbread and butter, and dessert of cakes prepared with currants\\nand raisins. We see the reverend clergymen filling their glasses\\nwith wine, while the multitude refresh themselves from the four\\nbarrels of cider on tap, and the casks of beer, made strong with\\nthe four bushels of malt. There are bowls filled with punch, for\\nthat is the use to which the nineteen gallons of Ehum has\\nbeen put. Possibly there are mugs of egg-nog, well spiced,\\nfor the clergy, and served up smoking hot, with a heated logger-\\nhead plunged into the foaming tankards. And then, when\\nthe repast is ended, come the pipes and tobacco. The dinner is\\nserved out of doors, for there is not on King street, neither on\\nQueen street, a log house capacious enough to feast the throng.\\nThe people sit on the stumps of the old oaks, or upon the log\\nfence surrounding the meeting-house lot, and partake of the gen-\\nerous repast provided for the occasion, and talk over the event,\\npraise the sermon, the bearing of the young minister; may-\\nbe they carry on a little business, talk about swapping oxen,\\nabout friends at Newbury, and what is going on in the world, till\\nthe October sun sinks behind the Mountain. Then the Can-\\nterbury and Penacook and Suncook people take their departure\\nthe wife on the pillion behind the husband while the friends from\\nNewbury accept the hospitality of the settlers, sleeping on bear-\\nskins before the wide-mouthed fire-places in the log cabins.\\nCOLONIAL JURISDICTIOIS\\nTo whom do the settlers of Contoocook ow^e allegiance, to Mas-\\nsachusetts, or to New Hampshire It is the question of all oth-\\ners claiming their attention in 1740. Massachusetts was making\\nstrenuous efforts to extend her territory northward to the junction\\nof the Winnepisaukee and Merrimack, and to Endicott s tree,\\na large pine which stood on the bank of the river in the present\\ntown of Tilton.\\nThe line claimed by Massachusetts began at the sea, three\\nmiles north of the black rocks at the mouth of the Merrimack;\\n3", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "84 CIVIL HISTORY. [1740.\\ntlience running parallel with the river as far north as the\\ncrotch or junction of the Merrimack and Wimiepisaukee\\nthence due north, as far as a certain tree laiown as Endicott s,\\nthree miles distant from the crotch thence, as reads the char-\\nter due west to the South sea. This would have given Massa-\\nchusetts jurisdiction from the town of Franklin westward to Oregon.\\nNew Hampshire claimed, on the other hand, that the line\\nshould begin at the sea, three miles north of the middle channel\\nof the Merrimack, and from thence should run in a straight line\\nwest, until it met, in the language of one of the charters, the\\nking s other government. This other government was the\\nterritory granted h}^ Charles II to the Duke of York supposed by\\nthe people of New Hampshire to be bovinded by the Hudson\\nbut by the people of New York, at a later date, it was claimed\\nthat the Connecticut was the western boundary of New Hamp-\\nshire.\\nTo obtain a settlement of the boundary, a commission was ap-\\npointed consisting of one councillor from Nova Scotia, one from\\nNew York, one from Ehode Island, and one from New Jersey.\\nThe commissioners met at Hampton, August 1, 1737. The legis-\\nlatures of Massachusetts and New Hampshire met at the same\\ntime, the first at Salisburj the latter at Hampton Falls, five\\nmiles apart. There was mvich pomp and parade but tlie com-\\nmissioners were divided in opinion, and the question was referred\\nto London. The New Hampshire interest was placed in the hands\\nof John Tomlinson and Mr. Parris, while the attorneys of Massa-\\nchusetts were Edmund Quincy, who suddenly deceased, 1738,\\nleaving the affairs to Messrs. Wilks Patridge.\\nOn March 5, 1740, a decision was given by the King s Council,\\nmakino- the boundaries as they ever since have remained between\\nMassachusetts and New Hampshire, but making no decision in\\nregard to the western boundary of the colony, which was not then\\nin dispute.\\nBy this decision, all the towns west of the Merrimack which had\\nbeen granted to Massachusetts were transferred to New Hamp-\\nshire not only between the Merrimack and the Connecticut, but\\nwest of that river. From this time on especially during Gov.\\nBennin-T Wentworth s administration grants were made by New\\nHampshire west of the Connecticut j and that region, up to the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "1740.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 35\\nformation of Vermont as a state in 1777, was known as the New\\nHampshire Grants.\\nThe settlers of Contoocook were attached to Massachusetts.\\nThey came from Newhury. The plantation had been granted by\\nthat colony, and they desired to remain under its jurisdiction. At\\na meeting held October 1, the following vote was passed\\nVoted that there shall be a petition sent to His Most Excellent\\nMajesty Saying that we, the proprietors of Contoocook might be con.\\ntinned to this province of Massachusetts Bay, that Thomas Hutchin-\\nson Esq. be our agent.\\nJohn Brown, Capt. Moses Gerrish, and Benjamin Lunt were\\nappointed to prepare the petition. Probably, however, the peti-\\ntion never was sent, as the matter had been decided seven months\\nprevious, though the intelligence had not reached Contoocook.\\nEXTEXSIOX OF FISH STREET.\\nIn Mr. John Brown s MS. field book is the record of the run-\\nning of a line from Contoocook to Franklin.\\nMay 16 1740. Jos. Gerrish, Nath^ Danforth, Edward Fitzgerald\\nmyself Laid out a Highway of four Rods broad from King street in\\nContoocook to Pemichewasett.\\nThe line was nearly identical with the present travelled road.\\nUNDER THE NEW JURISDICTION\\nUp to this time New Hampshire had been a dependency of\\nMassachusetts, having a deputy-governor as chief executive\\nofficer; but now the colony became a separate commonwealth.\\nBeaming Wentworth was appointed governor. He was born in\\nPortsmouth, but, being in England at the time, secured the ap-\\npointment. He assumed the duties on December 12, 1740.\\nThe proprietors and settlers were desirous of continuing their\\nallegiance to Massachusetts, but cheerfully gave in their adhesion\\nto the new order of things.\\nproprietors meetings.\\nAt a meeting held in Newbury, at the tavern of Edward A.\\nRichardson, Lieut. Benjamin Lunt was chosen moderator, and\\nJoseph Gerrish, Joseph Coffin, and Capt. Moses Gerrish were", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "36 CIVIL HISTORY. [1743.\\nchosen a committee liumbly to beg the favor of His Excellency\\nBenning Wentworth, Esq., governor of His Majestie s province of\\nNew Hamjjshire, in New England, c., that he would please\\norder direct the same so as may he most advantageous both\\nto the government said proprietors.\\nMay 20. Voted to raise \u00c2\u00a3200, in bills of credit, to pay Eev.\\nMr. Stevens for his sarvice the year ensuing.\\nVoted, that a man shall be allowed five shillings a day, and four\\nshillings for a yoak of oxen.\\nVoted, that \u00c2\u00a320 be worked out on the highwa}^\\nVoted, that John Brown, Lieut. Joseph Coffin, and Ensign\\nJoseph Gerrish make sale of lands on which taxes have not been\\npaid that Capt. Ebenezer Eastman be empowered to clear\\nbrak up the ministry intervale lot the said Lot to be cleared\\nand brok up the summer following. Surveyors of highways,\\nfence-viewers, a pound-keeper, and hogreeves were chosen, and\\n\u00c2\u00a320 raised for highways and \u00c2\u00a3200 for contingent expenses.\\n1742. At a meeting held September 8, \u00c2\u00a3200 was voted to\\nmeet the minister s salary, and for other expenses and that the\\nsalary might be paid promptly, it was ordered that each propri-\\netor give a Note of hand to pay his their dues sum of said tax,\\nand those proprietors and inhabitants that are obliged by contract\\nto pay tax, are to give their notes to Ambros Gould, who is chosen\\nto Gather said tax.\\nMay 18, 1743. Josiah Bishop was chosen field-driver for the\\nmiddle intervale, Nathaniel Danford for the upper intervale, and\\nJoseph Eastman for the lower intervale. Thirty pounds was\\nvoted to the highways.\\nVoted, that the undivided meadows be divided for the 3 ear, as\\nfollows, viz., that those men who are dwellers at said planta-\\ntion, shall mow or cut their due proportion of said meadows, ac-\\ncording to their rates and the remaining part of said meadow\\nshall be divided among the inhabitants in equality.\\nSept. 14. Meeting at Contoocook John Brown moderator.\\nVoted to lay out to each proprietor a lot containing one hun-\\ndred acres of land. This was the third divisio7i. Richard Jack-\\nman, John Eowler, John Coffin, Ensign Joseph Gerrish, John\\nBrown, and Thomas Thorla were appointed a committee to make\\nthe division.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "(__^yvf ^^^^i^^t^o^y-?i fJ^^^i -^^-a^ry^Z.^^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "17i3.] CIVIL HISTORY. 37\\nGETTING READY FOR THE INDIANS.\\nFor a period of ten years the inhabitants hai lived in compara-\\ntive security, hut now the Indians, stimulated by the French,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were committing depredations all along the frontier. The citi-\\nzens prepared for defence, and laid in a stock of ammunition, as\\nwill he seen by the record. Fourteen pounds of powder, fifty-six\\npounds of bullets, and twenty-four flints were obtained by George\\nJackman for the defence of the settlement.\\n[From the Records.]\\nNewbury Oct 31, 1743. by the desire of the proprietors I make an\\nentry of the request of Dea George Jackman for the warlike stores de-\\nlivered to him as followeth Viz: we received of henry Rolfe,jr four\\npounds of gunpowder fifty-six pounds of ballets and twenty-four\\nflints, we received of Benjamin pettengiU ten pounds of powder. And\\nthe said stores are sent up by said Jackman for the use of Contoocook\\nproprietors to be kept in some secure place together untill there be an\\nOccasion for said stores to be used in a warlike manner then to be\\ndistributed out according to division of said George Jackman or some\\nother person chosen for said service.\\nJoseph Coffin\\nProp. Clerk.-\\nFIRST MILITARY ORGANIZATION.\\nThe people of Hopkinton, and of other towns, were abandoning\\ntheir homes but the settlers of Contoocook had no intention of\\nleaving. They organized themselves into a military company,\\nand petitioned the governor to appoint the officers they had\\nchosen.\\nTo His Excellency c\\nAVe the Undersigned Being Soldiers of Contoocook Do Humbly\\nDesire Your Excellency to Grant to Mr John RoUins of said town a\\nCaptain s Commission Likewise a Left Insins Commission to two\\nother Men of said town whom he the sd Rollins shall Nominate the\\nPerformance v/hereof will Greatly oblige your Humble Dutiful Ser-\\nvants.\\nContoocook Nov ye SD ^i 1743.\\nJacob Flanders Thomas Cook\\nAmbrose Goold Benjamene Dudy\\nJosiah Bishop Thomas Eastman\\nEnos Bishop Nathaniel Danford\\nJohn EUet [Elliot] Jesse Flanders", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "88 CIVIL HISTORY. [1743.\\nThomas Manuel John Flanders\\nWilliam Dagiden Moses Call\\nJohn Boin [Bowen] Sinkler Bean\\nJacob Flanders jim or Daniel Rolf\\nJohn Fowler Daniel Barker\\nEzekiel Flanders William Danford\\nRichard Flood John Call\\nJohn Johnson Nathaniel Meloon\\nWilliam Peters Samuel Emmery-\\nAndrew Bohonon William Emmery.\\nEdward Fitzgerald\\nThe name of John Eollins does not appear elsewhere upon the\\nrecords. It may he supposed that he was a new comer, quite\\nlikely had seen military service, and was selected as captain on\\nthat account. It is not probahle that he remained long in Con-\\ntoocook.\\nOct. 17. Met at Contoocook, hut without transacting any busi-\\nness, adjourned to Oct. 30.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Voied that there should be raised \u00c2\u00a3126 in old tenor exclusive of\\nthe then inhabitants to pay the charges arisen already in fortifying\\nround the Reverend Mr. Phiueas Stephens dwelling house in the year\\n1744.\\nPETITION TO GOV. WEXTWOKTH.\\nThe inhabitants sent the following petition to Governor Went-\\nworth\\nTo His Excellency Benning Wentworth c.\\nThe Petition of ye Inhabitants of a Plantation called Contoocook in\\nye s province of New Hampshire Hereby Sheweth\\nThat when as your Humble Petitioners being certainly informed of a\\nDeclaration of a war Between ye Kings of England France, and There-\\nfore Looking upon ourselves as exposed continually to ye attacks of ye\\nIndians, who are subjects to ye King of France, and we would Beg\\nHumbly to Lay our case before your Excellency:\\nMay it Please your Excellency we have Been at Great expense\\nLabor in Bringing to ye settlements in ye plantation so far as thay are\\nat this time by settling a gospel minister, erecting Houses, subduing\\nLands, and Bringing too a considerable Quantity of Wilderness in\\nerecting proper Fortifications for Defense in case of an Indian war,\\none of which was built in ye year 1739, a building of considerable ex-\\npense to ye proprietors of great consequence to ye inhabitants being", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "1744.] CIVIL HISTORY. 3.9\\n100 feet square all this to advance ye Kingdom of Christ in ye world\\nfarther to enlarge advance his Majesty s Dominions in the Ameri-\\ncan continent. We have likewise been at great expense cost in\\nerecting houses, to dwell in and in moving from our habitation, the\\nmost of us into s part in order for our security till proper help shall ar-\\nrive to us for want of Avhich many persons have Removed now are\\nRemoving from us to the Great Discouragement of those that tarry be-\\nhind and all tho we might Defend our selves in our Fortification yet we\\ncan t support our selves because we have none to guard us in our Busi-\\nness and moreover the commanding officer in the place has so far neg-\\nlected the people that they are very uneasy he never having called them\\ntogether since he Rec his commission Refusing to Repair the fort or to\\ntake any care of the people in it never setting a watch or ward so that\\nthe Inhabitants are without a leader. Yet they have constantly kept a\\nwatch ward in said fort or garrison. Those with many others are the\\nDifficultys we Labor under two many to be here Enumerated of which\\nwe Humbly Beg Redress of your Excellency in such ways an raaner as\\nyour Excellency in wisdom shall think Best your humble Petitioners\\nwill ever pray.\\nContoocook, June ye 5, 1744.\\nRichard flood William Emery\\nRichard Jackman Moses Burbank\\nJohn Cowsir [Corser?] Nathaniel Meloon\\nJoseph Easmau Ezekiel Flanders\\nJohn Fowler Josiah Bishop\\nAndrew Bohonon George Jackmaa\\nJacob Flanders Samuel Emery\\nDaniel Rolfe\\nTHE FIRST ATTACK.\\nTlie first attack of the Indians upon Contoocook was made\\nabout tliis time, tliougli the exact date is unknown. Josiah\\nBishop, who was at work in his field at the lower end of King\\nstreet, was surprised by a party of Indians. They took him into\\nthe woods, probably up the rocky hill west of the lower end of King\\nstreet. He made an outcry, and quite likely preferred death\\nto captivity. As was subsequently learned from the Indians, he\\nresisted bravely, and they dispatched him with their tomahawks.\\nThe capture naturally threw the settlement into commotion but\\nthe citizens having located their homes, determined to defend\\nthem. The summer was one of great anxiety. The families took", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "40 CIVIL HISTORY. [1746.\\nrefuge in tlie garrisons, while sentinels were ever on the watch\\nwhile the citizens were at work.\\nThe committee appointed to lay out the third division of land\\nthe one-hundred-acre lots reported that they had performed the\\nwork assigned them. One hundred and twenty-two pounds, old\\ntenor, was voted to defray the expense of the same.\\nNov. 21. Meeting at John Mancher s tavern, Newbury. At\\nthis meeting no business was transacted except the choice of\\nassessors and collectors.\\nTHE CANTERBURY GARRISON.\\nCanterbury had erected a strong garrison. The settlers of\\nthat plantation were equally determined with those of Contoo-\\ncook not to abandon their homes through fear of the Indians.\\nThe Canterbury settlement had made greater progress than that\\nof Contoocook, and was much stronger in numbers. A garrison\\nwas established, and Jeremiah Clough, one of the energetic set-\\ntlers, commissioned captain. Being on the cast side of the river,\\nand more accessible than Contoocook to Portsmouth, the residence\\nof the new governor, it became the rendezvous for all scouting\\nparties.\\nIn the month of June, Capt. Clough had a force of twenty men\\nunder him, but as the simimer waned it was reduced to six men,\\none of whom was Philip Call, whose wife was murdered subse-\\nquently, as we shall see, by the Indians. Another of his soldiers\\nwas Christo, a friendly Indian, whose wigwam once stood on the\\neast side of the Merrimack, a short distance below the falls of Amos-\\nkeag, probably not far from the spot now occupied by the Print\\nWorks in Manchester.\\nJune 4. The proprietors raised \u00c2\u00a3250 for the salary of Mr.\\nStevens and other expenses, and the usual officers were chosen.\\n1746. Early in the year the Indians began their depredations.\\nTHE OUTBREAK.\\nOn April 27, the Indians entered the garrison at Hopkinton,\\nwhich had been left insecure by some one going out early in the\\nmorning, and, finding everybody asleep, captured the entire house-\\nhold, consisting of Samuel Burbank, his sons Caleb and Jonathan,\\nand David Woodwell, wife, and three children.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "1746. j CIVIL HISTORY. 41\\nGovernor Wentworth ordered a detacliment of horse to proceed\\nto Canterbury and Contooeook. Capt. John Goffe was ordered to\\nraise fifty men. In six days he was on his way to Contooeook,\\nleaving Derry field on May 3, and reaching Penacook that night.\\nBut the Indians were ahead of him. They fell upon a party of\\nmen at work near Clay hill, and killed Thomas Cook, who had\\nbuilt a cabin on Little brook, about a mile north of the meeting-\\nhouse on Corser hill, and for whom Cook s hill was named. He\\nhad fled from that locality for fear of the Indians. Another of\\nthe party was Csesar, Rev. Mr. Stevens s slave. He was a strong,\\nathletic man, and made a brave fight, and lost his life in conse-\\nquence. Another of the party was Elisha Jones, who was taken\\ncaptive, carried to Canada, and sold to a Frenchman. He died\\nwliile a prisoner.\\nThe attack was made on Monday, May 4. The news reached\\nPenacook that evening, for we find Capt. Goffe at midnight writ-\\ning a letter to Gov. Wentworth.\\nCAPT. GOFFe s letter.\\n5 May 1746\\nMay it please your Excellency\\nI got to Pennycook on Satui day early in the morning notwith-\\nstanding I sent the Monday after I left the Bank [Strawberry Bank, or\\nPortsmouth?], yet my bread was not baked but there was about two\\nhundred fifty weight baken, which supply[ed] 20 men, which I sent to\\nCanterbury as soon as I got here, I kept the baker several\\nSoldiers to baking all Sabbath day purposed to march on Mon-\\nday as soon as possible but about midnight two men came down from\\nContooeook brought the unhappy news of two men being killed,\\nthe two men that came down told me that they saw the two men lye in\\ntheir blood, one man more that was missing, hearing that I was\\nhere, desired me to assist in making search; so that I am with all ex-\\npedition going up to Contooeook, will do what I can to see the en-\\nemy. I shall take all possible care for the protection of the frontiers\\ndestruction of the enemy. The Indians are all about our frontiers. I\\nthink there never was more need of soldiers than now. It is enough to\\nmake one s blood cold in one s veins, to see our fellow creatures killed\\nand taken upon every quarter, if we cannot catch them here, I hope\\nthe Gk;neral Court will give encouragement to go give them the same\\nplay at home. The white man that is killed is one Thomas Cook the\\nother is Mr Steven s the minister s negro. These are found Jones,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "42 CIVIL HISTORY. [1746.\\nthe soldier is not found. They having but a few soldiers at the fort,\\nhave not as yet sought much for him. I am going with all possible\\nexpedition am\\nYour Excellency s most humble most dutiful\\nSubject servant\\nJOIIX GOFFE\\nPennycook about 2 of the clock in the Morning, My 5 1746.\\nGoffe kept on the scout two weeks, but, as was afterwards\\nknown, the Indians hastened to Canada with Jones and the cap-\\ntives taken at Hopkinton. Tlie people of Contoocook little knew\\nthat all through Sunday after the attack at Hopkinton the Ind-\\nians were secreted on the Mountain/ looking down upon the\\ngarrison that they saw the people as they marched to meeting,\\neach man shouldering his gun. The Indians, in numbers, were\\nas many as the settlers, but did not dare attempt a surprise.\\nCapt. Goffe went up the Merrimack, probably, as far as Ply-\\nmouth. He was gone from Derryfield twenty days. He made a\\nsecond scout, and was gone thirteen days, but saw no Indians,\\nfor the reason that they had hastened to Canada with their cap-\\ntives.\\nThe attack at Clay hill was in the ravine near the crossing of\\nCold l)rook, but in the vicinity of the present brick-yards.\\nIn early days it was popularly supposed that the blood-stains of\\na murdered man never could be effaced and fifty j-ears ago there\\nwere persons in town who could discern the identical stains up-\\non the rocks, made by the blood of Thomas Cook. Persons of a\\ncooler temperament and less vivid imaginations never were quite\\nable, however, to distinguish the blood-stains from those produced\\nby the oxidation of the rock.\\nOn the 27th of June the Indians made an attack on Eochester,\\nkilling four men and capturing two. This attack, so near Ports-\\nmouth, produced great alarm. Capt. Drake, of Hampton, was or-\\ndered out with his company to protect Nottingham. Capt. An-\\ndrew Todd, of Londonderry, with twenty-three men, was ordered\\nto Canterbury while Capt. Daniel Todd, of Exeter, with thirty\\nmen, was ordered to Contoocook. Ladd was ordered out for\\nthree months. He marched on from Exeter on the 14th of July.\\nHis clerk, Abner Clough, kept a journal, from which we have a\\nclear account of Capt. Ladd s movements.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "1746.] CIVIL HISTORY. 43\\nABNER CLOUGh s JOURXAL.\\nThe company left Exeter July 14, reached Rumford (Concord)\\non the 19th, and on the 21st marched to Canterbury. The\\nmarches of the 23d, 24th, and 25th are thus narrated\\nOn the 23d day took 10 more men marched to Contoocook so\\nranged about the town, at night set out several scouts in near the\\nhouses near the fort, but made no discovery.\\nOn the 24th day enlisted two more men. Early in the morning\\nmarched about 2 miles discovered a fire, but as we found out was\\nmade by Contoocook men 3 days before. And we thought by the look\\nof the fire that the Indians had been there but a little while gone.\\nThen we marched about half a mile then we discovered Indian tracks\\nvery plain. And from there marched to a place called Contoocook\\npond [Great pond], scouted round about the Pond, but could\\nmake no discovery. And from thence toBlackwater falls. And one of\\nour men says he saw an Indian very plain as he was some distance from\\nthe Scout, as he saith. And we ranged about but could make no fur-\\nther discovery, then marched over several brooks low places, but could\\nmake no discovery, so marched to a river called Currier Sarge river\\nfound some camps supposed to be Indian camps, there camped in\\nthe Intervale. And it rained hard all night. This days march about\\n17 miles.\\nOn the 25th, marched to a pond called Almsbury Pond [Tucker s\\npond] ranged about said pond, made no discovery, from there\\nmarched to Contoocook falls, scouted up down the river made no\\ndiscovery and crossed the river marched to a place called Hopkinton\\n[near Hopkinton viUage] there camped about the farther end of the\\ntown that Fort where there were e ght persons taken captivated,\\nbut we could make no late discovery there, then we marched down\\nabout 2 miles towards Rumford to another garrison, where the people\\nwere deserted from there made a halt. Then scouted round a field,\\nthen went into the Garrison in a cellar found a mare and two colts,\\nwhich we took them out of the cellar alive. It was supposed by the\\nscouts in general that the said horses had been in the cellar 10 days\\nbeen put in by the Indians. We also discovered some part of a dead\\ncreature supposed to have been killed by the Indians left. At\\nnight marched to Rumford camped. This day s march about 16\\nmiles. iV. H. Hist. Soc. Col, Vol. IV.\\nThe route taken by Capt. Ladd evidently was from the foot of\\nKing street across Cold brook, and towards Great pond. It is\\nprobable that a path had been opened in that direction during", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "44 CIVIL HISTORY. [1746.\\ntlie thirteen j -ears that the town had been settled. Whether Capt.\\nLadd passed round the pond to the south, or to tlie north, or\\nwhether the Blackwater falls were those directly west of the pond,\\nor the falls at SaA eatt s mills, or b}^ Burhank s mill, can only be\\nconjectured; but the probabilities are that the falls were those\\ndirectly Avest of the pond, and the route of the company AA-as along\\nthe southern shore.\\nIt is also evident that the route from the falls AA as directly up\\nthe riA^er to West Salisbury. What stream Currier Sarge river\\nmay have been is not certain, whether the mountain brook that\\nempties into the BlackAvater through the West Salisbury mead-\\nows, or the Blackwater itself; quite likely the latter. Abner\\nClougli Avas Avholly unacquainted Avith the country, and may not\\nhave clearly understood that Blackwater falls were upon Black-\\nAvater riA^er.\\nKEARSAEGE MOUNTAIN\\nThis reference to Currier Sarge is one of the first on record.\\nThe Indians called the mountain CoxoisseioaschooJc. This name\\nis given on Captain Holland s map, printed in London, 1784, also\\nthe name Kj^ar Sargu Mt.\\nAlthough much has been Avritten in regard to the orthography\\nof the Avord, there is as yet nothing satisfactory in regard to its\\norigin. From the fact that Abner Clough Avrites it Currier Sarge,\\nit is evident that the name was well knoAvn at that early date.\\nAlmsbury pond is clearly Tucker s pond, in the north-east\\ncorner of Warner. The toAvn of Warner had been granted in\\n1735 to proprietors mainly resident in Amesbury, Mass., and the\\ngrant was called Amesbury. The plot had been survej^ed, but no\\nsettlement Avas made till 1749, when four log houses w^ere erected\\nat the present village of Davisville, but never were permanently\\noccupied. They were subsequently burned by the Indians. No\\nother attempt Avas made to settle the town till 1764.\\nThe route of Capt. Ladd from Tucker s pond Avas doAvn the\\nAmesbury or Warner river to Contoocookville, and thence to\\nHopldnton village.\\nThe Indians were accustomed to frequent the falls on the riA ers\\nto catch salmon, and hence the moA ements of Capt. Ladd to their\\nfavorite haunts.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "...cti^-^^rx^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "174G.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 45\\nCaptain Ladd went from Penacook to tlie Sun cook valley, to\\nEpsom, Nottingham, and Exeter, where he arrived July 31st, and\\ndismissed his men till the oth of August, when he started on\\na second expedition. He reached Penacook on the 10th. On the\\n11th occurred the massacre at Penacook, on the road leading to\\nHopkinton, in which Samuel Bradley, Jonathan Bradley, Obadiah\\nPeters, John Lufkin, and John Bean were killed, and Alex-\\nander Eoberts and Wm. Stickney taken prisoners. Daniel Gil-\\nman escaped, and gave the alarm at the Penacook garrison.\\nCapt. Ladd scoured the country. We quote from Clough s jour-\\nnal of his movements in Canterbury and Contoocook\\nOa tlie 17tli day on Sunday, marched to Canterbury, went to\\nmeeting some part of the day. And on the 18th day went down to the\\nIntervale in order to guard some people about some work, but it rained\\nall day.\\nOn the 19th went to the Intervale to guard some people about some\\nwork. We guarded some scouted some. And on the 20th day it\\nrained in the forenoon. And in the afternoon we scouted some in the\\nwoods but made no discovery. But Capt. Talford, with his men discov-\\nered where there had laid some Indians in ambush, also found where\\nsome Indians had roasted some corn. And on the 21st went down to\\nthe lower end of the Town, to guard some people about some work.\\nOn the 22d went down to the lower end of the Town to guard\\nsome people but made no discovery.\\nOn the 23d day early in the morning, marched away from the fort\\nin order to go to the Intervale to guard some people about some work\\nbut when we had marched about half a mile from the fort, we marched\\nacross a field found where there lay two Indians had but just gone,\\nfor the grass seemed to rise up after them. We ranged about the\\nwoods after them but found where several more lay where they run\\noff. We supposed that these two Indians lay there for spies. We went\\nto the Intervale guarded some people about work made no other\\ndiscovery.\\nAnd on the 24th day, on Sunday, marched along across the woods to\\nthe upper end of Canterbury lower Intervale there crossed the river\\nand from there to Contoocook mills, from there ranged along the\\nwoods to the backside of Contoocook mountain, And there ranged in a\\nsingle rank v. here there were several likely places for lookout for en-\\nemies\u00e2\u0080\u0094And Capt. Ladd fell down and hurt his leg\u00e2\u0080\u0094 something, But we\\ncould make no late discovery of the enemy. And at night returned to\\nCanterbury Fort.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "46 CIVIL HISTORY. [1747.\\nCapt. Lacld extended liis protection as far east as Rochester, and\\ncontinued in service till tlie close of September.\\nproprietors meeting.\\nDec. 15. Meeting of projirietors at Contoocook.\\nVoted to raise \u00c2\u00a3240 old tenor to pay ministerial and other\\nexpenses.\\nVoted to petition the great General Court of tlii.s Province\\npraying that the Honorable Court would be pleased to take our\\ndistressed case under their most prudent consideration relating to\\nthe war.\\nA fort was built, during the year 1746, on the Winnepisaukee\\nriver, near wliat is now Union Bridge, in Sanbornton, called Fort\\nAtkinson. Two forts were also built in the Connecticut valley\\nFort Dummer, at Hinsdale, and the other, No. 4, at Charlestown.\\nPETITION OF CONTOOCOOK, PENACOOK, AND CANTERBURY FOB\\nPROTECTION FROM INDIANS.\\nTo his excellency Benuing Wentworth Esq Captain General\\nGovernor Commander iu chief in over His Majesty s Province\\nof New Hampshire,\\nTo his Honorable, his Majesty s Council House of Representa-\\ntives in General Assembly Con veined the 12 th day of Sept 1747\\nThe Petition of Phineas Stevens, Ebenezer Eastman Jeremiah\\nClough in behalf of themselves the inhabitants of Contoocook, Penny-\\ncook Canterbury in said Province most humbly shews:\\nThat the said Place are frontiers lay open and exposed unto the\\nFrench Indian Enemy.\\nThat they are not able to protect defend themselves in case of a\\nvigorous attack from the Enemy, which they have reasoa to fear may\\nbe the case as soon as there shall be snow sufficient to travel on\\nsnow shoes.\\nThat unless they are protected the Inhabitants will be under a ne-\\ncessity to break up leave their habitations so consequently the fron-\\ntier will be best nearer.\\n^That your Petitioners humbly conceive it will be much better for\\nthe Province to have those places Protected than to have them broken\\nup.\\nWherefore your Petitioners humbly pray your Excellency Honor", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "1747.] CIVIL HISTORY. 47\\nto take their petition under wise consideration be pleased to grant\\nsuch a number of men for each of the before mentioned places for\\nsuch time as your Excellency Honors shall seem most and reason-\\nable, your Petitioners in duty bound shall ever pray.\\nPiiiNEAS Stkvexs\\nIn Council Nov 12, 1747\\nHead sent down to the House,\\nEbknezer Eastman\\nJeremiah Clough\\nTheodore Atkixson\\nSecy\\nPROPRIETOKS MEETIlSfGS.\\nJune 30. Josepli Coffin, Joseph Gerrisli, and Moses Gerrish\\nwere chosen a committee to lay before his Excellency Benning\\nWentworth Esq c honorable Court of his Majestie s province\\nof New Hampshire the circumstances of said plantation as soon\\nas may be convenient.\\nNov. 17. Raised \u00c2\u00a3250 old tenor for the ministry and other\\nexpenses.\\nVoted that the expenses of the meeting be paid by the whole\\nproprietors. The expense amounted to 40s. old tenor about\\n$1.50.\\nJoseph Gerrish was authorized to petition the General Court\\nto invest the proprietors with power to gather the taxes levied on\\nthe proprietors of Contoocook tliat lived on the plantation. Up\\nto this time there had been much difficulty in collecting the\\ntaxes of non-residents, and further legislation was necessary.\\nJoseph Coffin was allowed \u00c2\u00a39 10s. old tenor for his services in\\npresenting the petition of 1747 to the Great General Court.\\nPETITION.\\nTo His excellency Benning Wentworth c\\nThe Petition of the Proprietors of the Plantation called Contoocook\\nin the Province of New Hampshire humbly sheweth\\nThat your Petitioners have had a minister of the Gospel settled\\namong them for about the space of seven years. That notwithstanding\\nthe Difficulties arrising from the War he hitherto has continued at said\\nPlantation and would still continue there if supported maintained by\\nthe Proprietors. That for want of a Law to Enable and Impower the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "48 CIVIL HISTORY. [1747.\\nsaid Proprietors to Raise money Collect the same for the support of\\nthe minister there the Burden thereof lyeth on a few wherefore your\\nPetitioners most humbly pray your excellency and Honors that by a\\nspecial act they may be authorized and Iinpowered thereunto and that\\nnot only the Lands of Residents but also of the Non Resident Proprie-\\ntors may be rated towards the support of the ministry there for such\\ntime and in such Proportion as shall be judged reasonable by your ex-\\ncellency and Honors, Your Petitioners will ever pray for the Grant-\\ning of said petition.\\nJoseph Cofkix\\nfor in behalf of the Committee of said Proprietors\\nNov 13, 1747\\nIn Council read concurred and ordered to be sent down to the\\nHonorable House.\\nTheodore Atkixsox\\nSecry.\\nCONCORD GRIST-MILL.\\nThe nearest grist-mill was tliat at Eumford, owned by Henry\\nLovejoy and Baracliias Farnum, and situated at Millville. The\\ndepredations of the Indians caused its abandonment Avhereupon\\na petition was addressed to Gov. Wentworth, by the citizens of\\nContoocook, Canterbury, and Eumford, for a company of soldiers\\nto protect it.\\nTo His Excellency c\\nThe petition of the subscribers Inhabitants of Rumford Canterbury\\nContoocook Humbly sheweth\\nThat v/e especially at the two last named places are greatly dis-\\ntressed for want of suitable Grist mills that Henry Lovejoy has\\nat great expense erected a good mill at a place most advantageously\\nsituated to accommodate the three towns; that it is the only mill in all\\nthe three towns that stands under the command of the guns of the\\ngarrison that the ill consequences of abandoning the said garrison the\\nyear past has been severely felt by us; that the said Lovejoy appears\\ndesirous of residing there again provided he might be favored with such\\na number of soldiers as just to keep his garrison with a tolerable de-\\ngree of safety that as additional encouragement to us to appear as\\npetitioners on his behalf to your Excellency Honors to grant our said\\npetition, he will become engaged with all convenient sped to erect a\\nforo-e for the making of Bar Iron which may stand under the command\\nof the said garrison; which undertaking would be probably vastley ad-\\nvantar^eous to all the towns plantations up this way, as well as the\\ngeneral interest of the Province.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "1748.] CIVIL HISTORY. 49\\nThe petition was signed by 36 citizens of Eumford, 18 of Can-\\nterbury, and 17 of Contoocook. Their names are\\nStephen Gerrish, William Emery,\\nJohn Towle, Joel Manuel,\\nGeorge Jackman, John Flanders,\\nEichard Jackman, Philip Flanders,\\nEichard Flood, Stephen Call,\\nJacob Flanders, Eev. Phineas Stevens,\\nWilliam Peters, Nathaniel Malloon,\\nPhilip Caul, William Danford.\\nJohn Corser,\\nThe petition bears date Jan., 1747-8 meaning January, 1748.\\nLORDS PROPRIETORS.\\nAlthough the settlers had received their grant in due form\\nfrom the government of Massachusetts, they suddenly found\\nthemselves confronted by a prior claim, one advanced by the\\nheirs-at-law of Capt. John Mason, of England, a powerful body of\\nmen known as Lords Proprietors. It was the old question of juris-\\ndiction, not between the colonies, but between those in actual\\npossession and those who claimed possession.\\nAt a meeting held February 1, Moses Gerrish, Joseph Cofifin,\\nand John Brown were appointed to make terms with the claim-\\nants. The heirs of Mason had sold their claim to all lands in the\\ncolony to twelve persons for the sum of \u00c2\u00a31,500, and these twelve\\npersons were called the Lords Proprietors composed of some of\\nthe nobility of England. Quite likely the purchasers were looking\\nto their own aggrandizement when they made the purchase pos-\\nsibly they ma} have entertained the idea that they could compel\\nthose in possession to pay a second time for their lands but the\\nresolute attitude taken by the plantations soon dispelled all such\\nillusions, if they had been entertained. They prudently abandoned\\nall attempts to recover damages in towns east of the Merrimack,\\nbut still laid claim to those west of that stream.\\nThe committee opened negotiations, which continued till 1753,\\nwhen the lords proprietors, probably thinking that little could be\\nrecovered, honorably gave a quit-claim deed, and the settlers\\nremained in possession of the lands.\\nA cessation of hostilities had been agreed upon between France\\n4", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "50 CIVIL HISTORY. [1748.\\nand England, but the settlers relaxed none of their vigilance, in\\nregard to the Indians, during the jeav. Most of them lived in\\nor near the garrison.\\nTHE BEGIJfXING OF RELIGIOUS DISSENT.\\nAt the meeting of tlie iiroprietors, held May 25, \u00c2\u00a3250 was\\nraised for the support of the ministry. One of the proprietors,\\nSamuel Fowler, Esq., entered his dissent against such an appro-\\npriation of money. Mr. Fowler espoused the cause of the Friends,\\nand his dissent did not lie in any factious opposition to preaching.\\nHe was a w^orthy gentleman had the welfare of the settlement\\nat heart hut he was opposed to all union of church and state,\\nand conscientiously desired a separation of civil and ecclesiastical\\naffairs. He was a proprietor, residing at Newbury, though at a\\nlater period he removed to Contoocook. He entered his protest,\\nbut paid his money, and doubtless rejoiced that the people could\\nhave preaching; but he w^anted voluntary and not compulsory\\naction. Fifty years later the whole community came to the same\\nconclusion.\\njSTov. 30. A meeting of the proprietors was held at John\\nMancher s tavern, in Newbury. A committee, consisting of Ben-\\njamin Lunt, Henry Eolfe, Jr., John Brown, and Capt. Joseph\\nGerrish, was chosen to settle with Joseph Willet and Benjamin\\nPettengill, former collectors, and examine how much they have\\npaid Reverend Mr. Phineas Stevens in their collection. The\\ncommittee was empowered to settle with Mr. Stevens, and report\\nat the next meeting.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "C/c^^\\nA,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "1750.]\\nOHAPTEK lY.\\nTHE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.\\n^^HE annual meeting of the proprietors was held at Contoo-\\ncook, May 24. The chief item of interest was the report of\\nthe committee appointed in ISTovemher to settle with Rev. Mr.\\nStevens. It appears that Mr. Stevens had been paid his salary\\nin bills of credit. Technically, he had received his due but the\\nbills of credit had greatly depreciated, and the high-minded citi-\\nzens felt that he was justly entitled to remuneration. He prefer-\\nred no claim but higher than any legal claim was the moral\\nobligation to do justly. The settlers and proprietors fully recog-\\nnized it. The committee reported as follows\\nThat by reason of the depreciation of the bills of credit in which\\nMr Steven s salary had been paid he has a just claun on them for in-\\ndemnity that \u00c2\u00a3300 Old tenor be paid him.\\nho:n orable action.\\nSamuel Fowler, Esq., before mentioned, entered his protest in\\nwriting. It was, as before, a question of conscience the severing\\nof church and state with him, not of hostility to Mr. Stevens,\\nor of indifference to the claims of religion, or the benefits arising\\nfrom a settled ministry. It was a protest for a vital principle.\\nThe proprietors recognized Mr. Eowler s right of protestation,\\nand also his rights of conscience. They at once abated his tax,\\nthus showing their own liberal principles. They were in no sense\\nbigots, but in this year 1750 recognized the great j^rinciple of\\nindividual freedom, fifty years in advance of its recognition by the\\ncommunity at large.\\nMr. Fowler soon after moved from Newbury to Contoocook, and", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "52 CIVIL HISTORY. [1752.\\nbecame a useful, public-spirited, liberal citizen. Although taxes\\nfor the support of the minister were afterwards assessed upon him,\\nit was as a matter of form, in compliance with the law, and they\\nwere uniformly abated. Mr. Fowler was a lawyer the first of\\nthe profession in the town.\\nThe proprietors had already petitioned to be incorporated as a\\ntown, but the petition had not been granted. A second applica-\\ntion was made during the year, but without success.\\n]May 22, 1751. The proprietors met, and chose the usual offi-\\ncers, and voted to open a way to the upper intervale the way\\nnow used, leading from King street, a short distance south of the\\npresent meeting-house on the Plain.\\nThe proprietors were assessed ten shillings, old tenor. A tax\\nwas levied sufficient to pay the salary of Mr. Stevens for the\\nyear.\\nTHE SECOND FORT.\\n1752. The chief item of interest in the call for the annual\\nmeeting of the proprietors was the erection of a second fort. The\\nmeeting was held May 20, and the following vote was passed\\nVoted to raise \u00c2\u00a3200 old tenor to be laid out in building a garrison\\nor fort to be built forthwith and to be set on Samuel Gerrish s lot\\nwhich was originally laid out unto Richard Greenough said fort to be\\none hundred ten feet Square or otherwise as the committee shall\\nJudge allowing said building to cover the land.\\nThe sum of \u00c2\u00a3100 was raised to fortify Eev. Mr. Stevens s\\nhouse.\\nThis second fort was erected on the hill near the house occu-\\npied by Prof. Jackman. Mr. Stevens s house stood upon the site\\nof that at present occupied by Mr. Jacob Hosmer.\\nMessrs. Stephen Gerrish, Jacob Flanders, and Pochard Jackman\\nwere placed in charge of the work. It is probable that this forti-\\nfication stood on the site of the smaller fort, erected during the\\nprevious troubles, on Mr. Jackman s land.\\nSABATIS AXD PLANSAWA.\\nThe Indians accustomed to frequent the Merrimack valley were\\nthe Arosaguntacook tribe, or the St. Prancis Indians, many of\\nwhom had accepted Christianity from the Jesuit fathers, with St.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "1752.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 53\\nFrancis as their patron saint. Tlieir Christianity was not very\\ndeep it did not tonch the heart or life, hnt was an exchange of\\nMedicines. The Virgin Mary and St. Francis became their\\nnew Medicines.\\nSince 1749 they had been on friendly terms with the settlers at\\nContoocook and Canterbury, came and went at their pleasure,\\nand were kindly treated. Two of them, Sabatis and Plansawa,\\nwere frequent visitors. Their names, doubtless, are corruptions.\\nSa-batis is the Indian pronunciation of Jean Baptiste while\\nPlansawa, or, more correctly, Plawnsawa, is the Indian form of\\nFrancois. The St. Francis tribe used P instead of S, and L in-\\nstead of K, in their attempts to pronounce the names given them\\nby the Jesuit fathers. Ballard\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JSF. H. Hist. Soc, viii, U3-\\nThe settlers of the Connecticut valley were making prepara-\\ntions to occupy the rich meadows of the great ox-bow, at Hav-\\nerhill and Newbury, ascending the Connecticut from No. 4,\\nCharlestown and the Indians, jealous of what they regarded an\\nencroachment upon their domain, threatened retaliation. Sud-\\ndenly Sabatis and Plansaw^a disappeared, carrying off as pri.-^on-\\ners two slaves, one belonging to Mr. Miles, and the other to Mr.\\nLindsey, of Canterbury. One of the negroes made his escape,\\nwhile the other was taken to Crown Point, and sold to a French\\nofficer.\\nBEGINNING OF TROUBLES.\\nAt this time the sturdy frontiersmen engaged in hunting dur-\\ning the autumn and winter months. Among others who passed\\nthrough Contoocook to the upper Merrimack, and its tributaries\\nand connecting ponds, were Jolm and William Stark, of Derry-\\nfield also, David Stinson and Amos Eastman. John Stark\\nwas twent3 --six years old, having been born on August 28, 1728.\\nThe four hunters proceeded up Baker s river to the present town\\nof Rumney. They discovered an Indian trail, and decided to\\nleave the locality. John went out, on April 28, to take up his\\ntraps. While thus engaged, he found himself surrounded by Ind-\\nians. He made no attempt to escape, and gave himself up with-\\nout resistance. The Indians asked him to lead the Avay to the\\ncamp, and he took them in the opposite direction. The other\\nhunters, alarmed at his absence, started down the river. The", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "54 CIVIL HISTORY. [1752.\\nIndians, discovering the trick John had played them, hastened\\ndown the valley, and intercepted the hunters the next morning at\\ndaybreak. Eastman was on the shore, and was at once captured.\\nWilliam Stark and Stinson were in a boat. The river, though\\nswollen by melting snows, is at the best a small stream, and a\\nstroke of the paddle would carry the boat to either shore. John\\ncalled to them, and told them to leap to the other bank. William\\nobeyed, and escaped Stinson was killed while in the boat. The\\nbullet aimed at William missed him, but passed through the pad-\\ndle which he held, for John had fearlessly struck aside the gun in\\nthe hands of the Indian. William arrived in Contoocook the next\\nday, and gave the alarm. A party went up from Contoocook and\\nKumford, and found Stinson s body, stripped of its clothes, and\\nscalped. The Indians had fled. The party returned in safety,\\nbringing the paddle which had been pierced by the ball aimed\\nat William. John was taken to Canada, where, when called\\nupon to run the gauntlet, he seized a cudgel from the hands\\nof the nearest Indian, swung it right and left, and laid about him\\nso lustily that, instead of beating him, they made all haste to\\nescape his blows. Such intrepidity made him a great favorite.\\nHe was set to work with the squaws to hoe corn but he cut up\\ncorn and weeds alike, and ended the matter by throwing the hoe\\ninto the river. That pleased the Indians, and he had a light cap-\\ntivity, which ended in August following.\\nThese incursions of the Indians kept the settlement in constant\\nalarm but the season passed without an attack.\\nAPPKEXTICES.\\nAt this period, and for nearly a century thereafter, apprentices\\nwere bound to service by legal indentures. The duties and obli-\\ngations of a party taking an apprentice will be seen from an in-\\ndenture, given in this year 1752, by Nathaniel Meloon\\nContoocook Oct 19, 1752\\nI the subscriber Nathaniel Meloon Promise Engage to Use my\\nEndeavor to Instruct John Harris in Husbandry work from y\u00c2\u00ab day of\\nthe date hereof till he is of the age of twenty one years and during the\\nwhole of sd Time to provide for give to sd Harris Sufficient Meat,\\ndrink, washing Lodging Clothing also to teach or cause him to be\\ntaught to read, write Cypher if he be capable of Learning and at the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "1753.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 55\\nage of twenty one years to dismiss sd Harris give him two New\\nSuits of Apparrel Home Made from head to feet,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and upon failure of\\nany of the Above Articles do hereby bind and oblige myself to pay to\\nStephen Gerrish of Contoocook the Sam of one hundred pounds l.aw-\\nfuU Money. In confirmation of all which I have hereunto set ray hand\\nthe day year above written\\nNathaniel Meloon\\nTestis\\nPhineas Stevens.\\nNEW STYLE.\\nIn order to rectify the errors that had groAVii into the calendar of\\nthe year by the procession of the equinoxes_. Pope Gregory XIII\\nestablished a new one, October 5, 1582, in which ten days were\\nomitted. The New Style was adopted in France, Spain, Denmark,\\nand Portugal the same year; hut England, being a Protestant\\ncountry, held on to the old calendar till 1752, when by act of\\nParliament eleven days were stricken out to make the calendar\\ncompare with that of other countries, thus establishing the New\\nStyle.\\nROAD TO COOS.\\nA connnittee was appointed by the N. H. Assembly to sur-\\nvey and mark a road to Coos. It consisted of Zacheus Love-\\nwell of Dunstable, John Talford of Chester, and Caleb Page of\\nStarkstown. They hired sixteen men at Amoskeag, Penacook,\\nand Contoocook. The party was out twenty^-two days. Jonathan\\nBurbank, Benjamin Eastman, and Peter Bowen joined it from\\nContoocook. John Stark was the pilot, and one of the men was\\nRobert Eogers, afterwards the celebrated ranger.\\nTHE CURRENCY.\\nMa^y 30. Voted to raise a sum sufficient to pay Mr. Stevens,\\naccording to the original agreement.\\nVoted to raise eight pounds lawful money equal to \u00c2\u00a300 old tenor,\\nto defray necessary charges.\\nFrom this vote we are able to ascertain the value of the cur-\\nrency. This depreciation added greatly to the hardships of the\\ncolonists. The Indians were troublesome, and many families\\nwere obliged to remove to the garrison, the men going out in\\ncompanies to work on their farms.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "56\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n[1753.\\nIll connection v. itli tliis meeting there is tlie following record\\nWhereas there is several men in this Society that hath proposed to\\nwork on the highways Gratis, Jacob Flanders is choose to take a suit-\\nable time to invite said men to work on the way called Ciay hill, and\\ntake the names of them that v/orketh.\\nKotwithstanding the hardships of the time, the colonists were\\nprompt in two things, in paj ing the minister every shilling\\nin accordance with the original agreement, and improving their\\nhighways. They were also prompt in looking after the claim set\\nup l)y the heirs of Capt. John Mason. Joseph Coffin, Joseph Ger-\\nrish, and John Fowler were appointed to wait on the Lords\\nsee on what terms they will acquit their title to said township.\\nTHE KILLING OF SABATIS AND PLANSAWA.\\nI.\\nX\\nDuring the summer, Sahatis and Plansawa, who had stolen\\nthe negroes from Canterbury, made their appearance in Con-\\ntoocook with furs for sale. After\\nbeing in the vicinity for some time,\\nthey suddenly disappeared; and ru-\\nmor soon reported that Peter Bowen\\nand John Morril had killed them.\\nTheir bodies were found buried near\\nStirrup Iron brook. The Northern\\nRailroad passes over the spot. At\\nthe time of the construction of the\\nroad, in 1846, a small image was\\nthrown up by the workmen, which is\\nnow in the museum of the Essex In-\\nstitute, Salem, Mass. It undoubtedly\\nwas a Medicine or charm possess-\\ned by one of the Indians, and which\\nwas usually carried in a bag gaily\\nVj decorated with beads and colored\\n__.._^_ porcupine quills. It is hardly prob-\\nINDIAN MEDICINE. ^})\\\\q that the image is the ideal of an\\nIndian artist, but more likely that of a French Canadian priest.\\nThe Jesuits, in their Christianizing of the Indians, made use of\\nvarious instrumentahties pandering to the superstitions of the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "1754.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 57\\naborigines and tliis image, in all probability, was a Jesuit Med-\\nicine.\\nACTION OF THE GOVERNOR.\\nThe Indians were killed during a period of peace between\\nFrance and England. Eumors of the murder became wide-spread,\\nand Gov. Shirley of Massachusetts was apprehensive that the Ind-\\nians would take revenge upon the frontier. The act of Bo wen\\nbecame an inter-colonial question, resulting in correspondence be-\\ntween Gov. Shirley and Gov. Wentworth, involving legislative\\naction, the arrest of Bowen and Morril, and a general excitement\\nthroughout the community. Gov. Shirley began it, the people\\nof Massachusetts, or, rather, His Excellency, being more exer-\\ncised in regard to it than any one in New Hampshire. He sent\\na letter to Gov. Wentworth\\nBoston Feb -i 1754\\nSir\\nYour excellency may remember my letter to you dated 17 of\\nSeptember last wherein I acquainted you with an account we had of a\\nbarbarous MurOier said to be committed within the Province of New Hamp-\\nshire upon two Indians of a tribe in amity with the Encjii.sh. I was afraid\\nit had then come to the knowledge of the Indians, that complaint\\nwould Lave been made at the conference, but no notice was taken of it\\nthen. I have this day received a letter from Capt Lithgow of Fort\\nEichmond [in Maine] advising me that it is nov.- come to their knowl-\\nedge that they are determined to revenge the murtlier.\\nI shall send your excellency copy of his letter so far as relates to\\nthis affair. It will probably be attended [with disastrous] consequences\\nto the Frontier of one or both of the Provinces if this murther be not\\ndetected punished. I will send to Col. Minot v.-ho gave me the\\nfirst Information desire him to obtain all further information possible\\ntransmit it by the next Post, until when your excellency has some\\nknowledge of the Persons concerned so as to be able to secure them.\\nI doubt not you will think it prudent to keep the affair as private as\\nmay be. I am with great respect, Sir your Excy^ most Humb and\\nmost Obedient serv\\nW. Shirley.\\nOn the 9th of February, Gov. Shirley sent a second letter urging\\nthat justice be done to the Indians in this unhappy affair.\\nThe action of Gov. Shirley was based on the affidavits of three", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "58 CIVIL HISTORY. [1754.\\ncitizens of Massachusetts who had been visiting Contoocook and\\nvicinity, and who had talked with Bowen in regard to the mat-\\nter.\\nAFFIDAVITS OF THOMAS BARRET AXD EPHRAIM JONES.\\nThomas Barret Ephraim Jones, both of lawful age testify de-\\nclare that in the month of August 1753 being in the town of Rumford\\nin the Province of New Hampshire at the house of Henry Lovejoy.\\nThat two Indians one named Sabbatis the other Plansawa came\\nto said Contoocook about the beginning of June having the value of\\nabout two hundred Pounds Old Ten in Beavers other effects: that\\nsaid Sabbatis being known to be one of the two Indians who took two\\nNegroes at that settlement the year before carried one of them to\\nCanada, the other making his escape, the said Bowen procured a gallon\\nof Rum from Rumford he with one or two others, whose names I do\\nnot remember gave said Indians rum very freely took an opportunity\\nto draw the charges out of the Indian s [guns] without their knowledge\\nthen went with them into the woods getting some distance apard\\nsaid Bowen had an engagement with said Sabbatis who it is said flashed\\nhis gun at him the sd Bowen struck his hatchet in sd Indian Head\\nthen chopped him several times in the Back afterwards with a knife\\nstabbed him to death. The other Indian coming up to him begged\\nhim that he would not kill him but sd Bowen without speaking to him\\nstruck him on the head killed him on the spot leaving him by the\\nPath side till next morning it is said that Bowen with his son as it is\\nsupposed went dug a hole by the Path side threw them into it\\ncovered them with earth but so shallow that the dogs or other creatures\\nuncovered them the bones have often been seen since.\\nThomas Barret\\nEphraim Jones.\\nMiddlesex ss.\\nConcord Feb 9, 1754.\\nThen the above Thomas Barret Ephraim Jones came before me\\nthe subscriber made oath to the truth of the foregoing declarations.\\nJames Minot Justice of the Peace.\\nEleazer Melvin of lawful age testitieth declares that he heard the\\nsubstance of the foregoing Declaration or to the same purport in Aug\\nlast from iNIr. Lovejoy some others further declares that about the\\nsame time in conversation with sd Bowen he asked him concerning the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "1754.] CIVIL HISTORY. 59\\nsd Indians whether they were certainly dead he answered he would\\nwarrant it that they never would do any more mischief to the English\\nor to that effect if he killed them he did it in his own defence as he\\ncould prove.\\nEleazer Melvin.\\nLIBERATION OF THE PRISONERS.\\nUpon tlie receipt of these affidavits, Gov. Wentwortli caused\\nthe arrest of Boweix and Morril, who were taken to Portsmouth,\\nand confined in the jail. Tlie time for their trial -was fixed for\\nThursday, the 21st of March.\\nThe offence of Bowen and Morril was not so great in the eyes\\nof the citizens of Contoocook and Canterbury, as in the eyes of\\nGov. Shirley. Quite a party of them visited Portsmouth, to be\\npresent at the trial, or, rather, before the trial. During the night\\nbefore the assembling of the court, about one hundred men, armed\\nwith axes and crow-bars, broke open the jail, knocked the irons\\nfrom tlie limbs of the prisoners, and set them at liberty. What\\ncitizens of Contoocook took part in the affair is not known, ex-\\ncept that the leader was Simeon Ames, of Canterbury.\\nGOV. WENTWORTIl s MESSAGE.\\nThe governor brought the affair to the notice of the council the\\nnext morning.\\n[From the Council Records.]\\nHis excellency acquainted the Council that the high sheriff of the\\nProvince had informed him that at two of the clock in the morning of\\nthis present day a number of persons to the amount of one hundred or\\nmore made an attempt upon the Province Gaol with axes, iron crows\\nbroke open the doors of the prison rescued the prisoners indicted for\\nthe murther of two Indians said to be killed at or near Contoocook Vis\\nJohn alias Anthony Bowen John Morrel aided assisted them the\\nsaid Bowen Morrel in their escape His Excellency then desired the\\nCouncil what steps they thot necessary or proper to be taken in the affair\\nin order to the apprehending the said Bofren or Morrel or either of them\\nbringing the persons who broke open the Gaol as aforesaid or was aid-\\ning or assisting in the said breach or rescous the Council apprehended\\nthat such a number of persons as were supposed to be the authors of\\nthe rescous must be many of them known as it is suggested that some", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "60 CIVIL HISTORY. [1754.\\nof them are known may be brought to justice without offering any\\nreward but with respect to the two Prisouers Bowen Morrel that\\nhis excellency be advised desired to issue a Proclamation offering a\\nreward of two hundred pounds Old Ten to any person or persons that\\nshall apprehend the sd Bowen the like sum of \u00c2\u00a3200 in Old Ten^ to any\\nperson or persons that shall apprehend the sd Morrel bring them or\\neither of them to his Majesty s Gaol in Portsm\u00c2\u00b0 all necessary charges\\nin bringing the said prisoners or either of them to the said Gaol.\\nGov. Wentworth also sent a message to the assembly, asking\\nthat body to aid in npholding the dignity of the state.\\nTHE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY.\\nThe citizens of Contoocook and Canterbury bestirred themselves\\nto present their side of tlie story. Col. Joseph Blanchard, justice\\nof the peace in Bedford, visited Canterburj-, and took deposi-\\ntions.\\nElisabeth Miles Wife oi Josiali Miles of Canterbury in the Province\\nof New Hampshire Testifies says That some time in the month of\\nMay 1752 two St Francis Indians (as they called themselves) named\\nSabbattis Christo came to Canterbury Sabbattis made his General\\nLodging at the said Josiah s House for Eight or Ten Days was\\nTreated with all Possible Friendship Courtesy, Notwithstanding\\nthe said Sabbattis often Discovered a Restless Malicious Disposition\\nSeveral Times (Her husband being absent) with Insulting threats\\nput her in very great Fear. Constantly kept a long knife Naked in his\\nhand and on seeing any man come towards the House (of which he kept\\na constant watch) arni d himself That the evening after he went away\\na Negro man of the said Josiah s was taken (named Peer) and another\\nbelonging to James Lindsey of Canterbui-y aforesaid Named Tom and\\ncarried away said Peer of the value of five hundred pounds Old Tenor\\nat the least.\\nThat the said Peer about three days after return d pinion d\\nBound with Indian Lines and said that Sabbattis and Christo had taken\\nthem and that by accident he made his Escape.\\nThat sometime in tlie month of May 1753 she was going to the field\\nand an Indian (named Plansaway) spoke to her behind a Fence asked\\nfor her husband who was there at work close by, her husband enquired\\nwhat company he had and he said Sabbattis, he enquired what he came\\nfor or how he dare come (meaning Sabbattis) he evaded an answer,\\nher husband Desired him to go into the house (being vehemently sus-\\npicious they were designed for Further Mischief) where he kept him", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "1754.] CIVIL HISTORY. 61\\nthat night and urged the appearance of Sabbattis, Plausaway said he\\n-was afraid that he or Liudsey would kill hiui for stealing their negroes\\nthe year Before.\\nThat after assurance that if he made his appearance he should not\\nbe hurt. Next day searching in the woods found him and after a par-\\nley he came in\\nThe wife of James Liudsey a near neighbor, hearing the Indians\\nwas there came to the house (the Englishmen were all gone out to work)\\nand finding Sabbattis there said Lindsey s wife urged his ingratitude\\nthat after he had received so much kindness at their house to commit\\nsuch a Villanous Act as to Rob her of her slave- with some Few more\\nwords to the same Purpose Both the Indians immediately armed them-\\nselves with their guns Sabbattis with a long knife and Plausaway with\\na Hatchet and with a furious Gesture Insulted her holding the Hatchet\\nover her head making attempts as if he would strike and told her if she\\nsaid one word more about it he would split her brains out if he died for\\nit the next minute Sabbattis went out to her husband in the field and\\ntold liim that if he ever see the said Lindseys wife any more he would\\nkill her be the event what it would (as her husband then told her) that\\nthe said Sabbattis insisted that the said negro was Lawful Plunder the\\nDeponent sold the said Indians two shirts happened to see them when\\nthey shirted and there was next [their] skin Tyed a Number of small\\nMeturap Lines not such as are usually made for Tying Packs a collar\\nof a Length about suthcient to go around a Mans Neck and as she then\\napprehended was what is called Captive Lines\\nThat the Deponent and her husband frequently seeing them un-\\ncommon Lines Asked what Business Sabbattis and he could have there\\nas they had not brought their packs for trade at length Plausaway\\nsaid he had a kinsman (named Sabbattis) who had at Cape Sable ivilled\\nan Indian and that they agreed for his Redemption (being held by\\nthem) to pay five hundred pounds to get an English Slave.\\nThat Sabbattis being his Namesake offered to assist him in the Re-\\ndemption and said the Hunting was best this way.\\nThat the Indian must be released by the money or other ways (by\\nSummer) or he must be put to Death.\\nCanterbury May 21* 1754\\nBefore Joseph Blanciiard\\nJus of Peace/\\nOther documents relating to this affair may be found in IST. H.\\nProv. Papers, Vol. VI.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "62 CIVIL HISTORY. [1754.\\nPUBLIC SENTIMENT.\\nPublic sentiment in Contoocook .ind Canterbury sided witli\\nBowen and Morrel, though the part taken by the Latter in the\\nmurder does not appear. The people rejoiced that the Indians,\\nwho had murdered and scalped many captives, were bej ond the\\npossibility of doing further mischief. Gov. Shirley, of Massachu-\\nsetts, however, took a different view, and wrote a letter to Gov.\\nWentworth urging him to appease the Indians by giving presents\\nto the Eelatives of the deceased Indians for wiping off the\\n3lood as they term it. He also urged the re-arrest of Bowen\\nand Morrel.\\nGov. Wentworth determined to uphold the dignity of the law,\\nand the sheriff and his assistants arrested Simeon Ames, of Can-\\nterbury, as the ringleader of the liberators.\\nI will go with you, was the prompt reply of Ames when ar-\\nrested but we will have dinner first.\\nThe sheriff was pleased to accept the generous hospitality of\\nhis prisoner.\\nYou will allow me to ride my own horse to Exeter, said\\nAmes.\\nThe sheriff had no objection, as himself and assistant Avere\\nmounted. The party started, and rode till nearly sunset, reaching\\nBrentwood. The officers one on each side had enjoyed the\\nsociety of their prisoner. They were ascending a hill the offi-\\ncers horses were jaded, while Ames s was comparatively fresh,\\nand very fleet.\\nI declare, it is most sunset. Good evening, gentlemen. I\\ndon t think I will go with j^ou any further to-night.\\nIn an instant he was gone. At a touch of the rein the horse\\nwheeled, and the rider, bowing politely, disappeared. The offi-\\ncers sat upon their horses in blank astonishment, knowing that\\nit would be useless to attempt to overtake a man who was going\\nlike the wind away from them besides, public sentiment was\\non the side of Ames.\\nGov. Wentworth wisely adopted the advice of Gov. Shirley to\\nmake a present to the Indians. This was done, and no further\\nattempts were made to punish the offenders. The Iirdians were\\nappeased, and the matter dropped.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "1751.] CIVIL HISTORY, 63\\nSCOUTIXG PAKTY.\\nEarly in the spring Governor Wentwortli sent out a party un-\\nder Col. Lovewell, Maj. Talford, and Capt. Page, to explore tlie\\nUpper Cohos. John Stark was employed as guide, he having\\nbeen taken up the Connecticut when captured by the Indians.\\nThe party left Rumford March 10, reached Piermont in se\\\\ en\\ndays, spent one night on the banks of the Connecticut, and then,\\nthough no Indians were seen, made a precipitate return.\\nTROPRIETORS MEETING.\\nMay 19. Meeting at Contoocook. \u00c2\u00a3175 was voted to the\\nsupport of Mr. Stevens, at the rate of 29 per pound. Six of\\nthe Newbury proprietors attended the meeting, Samuel Pow-\\nler, Edmund Morss, Thomas Person, Samuel Gerrish, John\\nThorla, and Joseph Coffin. \u00c2\u00a312 was voted to each man as com-\\npensation for time and expense.\\nThe money voted at the meeting in 1752 for the construction\\nof a fort not having been exjiended, it was voted to divide the\\nmoney.\\nCAPTURE OF THE MELOON FAMILY.\\nBefore the month was through, the Indians began their depre-\\ndations.\\nIt was knowni that parties of Canadian savages were in the\\nvicinity their foot-prints had been discovered they had been\\nseen. Some of the settlers farthest from the fort had hastened to\\nplace themselves under the protection of the garrison. At this\\ntime Mr. William Emery had erected a log house at the foot of\\nCorser hill, a few rods west of Little brook, on land owned by Miss\\nNancy E. Couch.\\nMr. Emery knew that Indians were in the region, and, his wife\\nbeing sick, hastily abandoned his house on the 10th of May, leav-\\ning all his goods, and fleeing to the fort.\\nMr. Nathaniel Meloon, one of the flrst settlers of the town, had\\npushed five miles beyond Emery s a mile beyond the nortlierly\\nline of the town and built a home in West Stevenstown, not far\\nfrom the present West Salisbury meeting-house. Mr. Meloon s\\nfamily consisted of himself, wife, and five children, Nathaniel,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "64 CIVIL HISTORY. [1754.\\nthirteen years old, Mary eleven, Eacliael ten, John six, DavitT\\nthree, and Sarah thirteen months.\\nMr. Meloon started hefore sunrise, on the morning of the 11th,\\nfor Penacook, but was captured by the Indians probably not far\\nfrom Emery s house, which they broke oj)en and rifled. Mr. Me-\\nloon was on horseback, and the horse being of no use to them, they\\nleft it tied at Emery s. Taking their captive with them, they\\nreturned to his house about nine o clock. Nathaniel was at work\\nin the field. It would seem that the boy discovered the Indians\\nabout the same time that they saw him. He took to the woods,\\nand, although pursued by two, managed to secrete himself. At\\nthe direction of the Indians his father called him, but the tones\\nof his voice were of Avarning, and he did not come out from his\\nhiding-place till the Indians had left. He ran to the river, swam\\nit several times to elude pursuit, and hastened towards the fort,\\nbut met Stephen Gerrish, John Flanders, William Emery, and\\nothers, who were out on a scout, and returned with them to find\\nEmery s house plundered, and his father s horse at the door.\\nThey proceeded to West StevenstoAvn, and found his father s house\\nalso rifled.\\nThe attack was on Saturday, the 11th of May. On the next\\nWednesday, the 15th, Stephen Gerrish v/as in Portsmouth, lay-\\ning the case before the Governor and Council, soliciting aid for\\nthe defence of the town.\\n[From the Coiincil Records.]\\nAt a council holden in Portsmouth on Wednesday May 15 175-1.\\nPresent\\nIlis excellency the Governor\\nHenry Sherburne\\nTheodore Atkinson I\\nRichi W. bird\\nJno Downing j\\nSampson Sheaffe\\nDaniel Warner V Esqr.\\nJoseph Newmarch\\nMr. Stephen Gerrish appearing at this Board presented a petition\\nof Phineas Stevens eight others inhabitant at Contoocook setting\\nforth that the Indians had begun hostilities in that part had capti-\\nvated a family rifled the bouse of another c being examined what", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "1754.] CIVIL HISTORY. 65\\nhe knew of the affair says on Sat. the 11 Inst he saw a lad son of\\nNathaniel Malloon who lived at a place called Stevenstowu about five\\nmiles from Contoocook wlio informed him that his father family were\\ntaken as he supposed by the Indians he having seen a number of Ind-\\nians near his fathers house which occasioned him the sd lad to run into\\nthe woods by which he escaped upon which report the said Gerrish\\nsundry others went immediately to the house where they had found the\\nfeather beds emptied upon the floor the tickins carry d off Most of\\nthe meal that was in the house was carry d.\\nThey tracked the Indians some way from the house that the fam-\\nily consisting of the man his wife three children were all gone off\\nand by the said signs he imagined were all carried into captivity. The\\npetitioners therefore prayed some speedy succours to guard defend\\nthem to prevent if possible future depredations upon which petition\\ninformation his excellency asked the council what they would advise\\nin the Premises. The council considering thereof did advise His Ex-\\ncellency to give the necessary orders for enlisting or impressing twenty\\neffective men to be immediately sent to Contoocook, Canterbury\\nStevenstown to be destined as his excellency shall think most advanta-\\ngeous for guarding the inhabitants in these parts one month.\\nThe Indians were mercenary, rather than revengeful and blood-\\nthirsty. Tempting as the scalps of the captives might be, the\\nlives of the French in Canada, the rum and the blankets and\\ntrinkets which the English slaves would sell for, awakened their\\ngreed, and the caj^tive family were not inhumanly treated.\\nHer infant was sick, and the savages, under pretence of giving\\nit medicine, took it from the mother s arms, and the parents never\\nagain beheld it.\\nTHE PRISONERS IN CANADA.\\nArriving in Canada, the prisoners were sold to the French, and\\nthe family separated. A child Joseph was born, November 20,\\n1755. In 1757, Mr. Meloon, his wife, and three sons were ship-\\nped on a French vessel for France but the ship was taken by a\\nBritish man-of-war, off Newfoundland, and they were landed in\\nPortland, from whence they made their way to Contoocook,\\nand finally to their log cabin in Salisbury, where life was once\\nmore begun.\\nRachel was left behind in Canada. Being but ten years old at\\nthe time of her captivity, and living with the Indians, she took\\nreadily to their mode of life. In 1763, Samuel Fowler, Esq., un-\\n5", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "QQ CIVIL HISTORY. [1754.\\nclertook to bring her home. He found her, at the age of fourteen,\\nin her habits and predilections, an Indian. She had little inclina-\\ntion to return to civilized life, and Mr. Fowler found it necessary\\nto use great precaution on his return, for fear she might give him\\nthe slip, and make her way hack to Canada. She returned to Salis-\\nbury, subsequently married, but never wholly forgot the habits of\\nher captivity.\\nThe affidavits of William Emery, Jolin Flanders, and Nathaniel\\nMeloon, Jr., are preserved in the Provincial Records of New\\nHampshire, Vol. VI, and are of interest as picturing the event.\\nTESTIMONY OF WILLIAM EMERY.\\nWilliam Emery of Contoocook in the Province of New Hampshire\\nof Lawful age\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Testifies says\u00e2\u0080\u0094 That on the Tenth Day of May 1754\\nhis wife being ill People afraid to tarry take care of her there being\\nan Outhouse moved her into Town with the rest of the family about\\nfive miles the next morning he Returned to his House found it Plun-\\ndered what of his goods was not carried off was spoilt of the vaUie\\nto his damage Two Hundred Pounds Old Tenor at the Least the same\\ntime found Nath^ Maloon s Horse tyed at his said House which Maloon\\nhis wife Rachel Sarah son Samuel were captivated carried away\\nby the Indians of clothing Bedding Provisions of the value of two\\nhundred thirty Pounds Old Tenor at the least.\\nProvince of New 7\\nHampshire\\nContoocook\\nMay 22 i 1751 the above Named William Emery made oath to the\\ntruth of the aforesaid written Deposition before\\nJoseph Blanchard\\nJust of Peace\\nTESTIMONY OF JOHN FLANDERS.\\nJohn Flanders of Contoocook in the Province of New Hampshire of\\nLawful age Testifys says\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThat in May 1753 an Indian named Planseway came to Contoocook\\naforesaid exulting telling of his Frequent coming to that place in\\nthe war how many he killed taken [from] Merryraack in the\\n.^j^^._1 he Deponent told him that in the Fall he intended to Catch\\nsome Beaver to make him a hat asked Planseway if he would hurt\\nhim if he see him, who answered yes if he found him a hunting he\\nwould kill him earnestly repeated it several times\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "1754.J CIVIL HISTORY, 67\\nAnd the Deponent further says That on the 11 day of May 1754\\nin the Forenoon at Contoocook aforesaid William Emery came to the\\nBody of the Town Informed that somebody had that morning broke\\nopen his house taken many things spoiled others, a house his family\\nliad moved from the night Before all his clothing (his beds empty d\\nticks cut to pieces) supposed it to be Indians the Deponent others\\nImmediately went, found the house strip Plunder d to the said Em-\\nery s Damage at least Two hundred Pounds old Tenor,\\nThat they proceeded to the house of Nathaniel Meloon in Stevens-\\ntown so called which was about six miles Farther met with said Meloon s\\nEldest son who gave account of the Indians that day captivating his\\nFather Mother three children who returned with the scout to his\\nFather s house where they found it plundered strip d by the\\nbest accts the Deponent could get of the things missing broke Cutt\\nto pieces were of the value to Meloous damage at least two hun-\\ndred thirty pounds old Tenor.\\nProvince of 7 Contoocook May 22*\\nNew Hampshire) 175i\\nThe above named John Flanders made Oath to the truth of the\\naforewritten Deposition.\\nBefore Joseph Blaxchard\\njust Peace\\nA copy exam d by William Parker. Not Pub.\\nTESTIMONY OF NATHANIEL MELOON,\\n^Nathaniel Maloon the son of Nathaniel Maloon of Stevenstown in\\nNew Hampshire aged about 14 years Testifies says\\nThat at Stevenstown aforesaid on the 11 day of May 175i in the\\nmorning before sunrise his Father set out Designing to go to Penacook\\na place of about twenty miles distant whose road went by the house of\\nMr. William Emery of Contoocook. That the same morning about\\nnine of the clock the Deponent was at work in his Fathers field soon a\\nnumber of Indians he thought ten or a dozen running to the house\\ntoo took after the Deponent, but a thicket near was Quick out of sight\\nmade his escape hid not far off. Some time afterwards he heard\\nhis Father call him sundry times\\nThat after he supposed the Indians Drawn off made his escape to\\nContoocook.\\nProvince of At Contoocook\\nNew Hampshire the 22 of May 1754.\\nThe above named c\\nBefore Joseph Blaxchard\\nJus Peace.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "68 CIVIL HISTORY. [1754.\\nEXPEDITION TO THE UPPER CONNECTICUT.\\nA report that tlie Indians were building a fort on tlie upper\\nConnecticut induced the Govei-nor and Council to send out another\\nand stronger party to reconnoitre the country. It was commanded\\nby Capt. Peter Powers, of Hollis. The company assembled at\\nEumford, and on Saturday, June 15th, marched to Contoocook.\\nThe beginning of the march is given from Powers s journal\\nSat June 15 1754. This day left Kumford marched to Contoo-\\ncook which is about 8 miles here tarried all night.\\nSunday June 16 Tiiis day tarried at Contoocook went to meet-\\ning tarried here all this night.\\nHon June 17 This morning fair we fixed our packs went\\nput them on board our canoes about nine of the clock some of the\\nmen went in the canoes the rest on the shore. And so we marched\\nup the river Merrimack to the crotch or parting thereof then up the\\nPemigewasset about one mile a half camped above the carrying\\nplace, which carrying place is about one hundred rods long, the whole\\nof this days work is about thirteen miles.\\nThe route was up Baker s river. The party reached the Con-\\nnecticut at Piermont, where four of their number, being disabled,\\ndescended the Connecticut to Charlestown in a canoe, while the\\nothers pushed on up the Ammonoosuc nearly to Littleton, and\\nthen crossed a ridge of high land to the Connecticut in Dalton,\\nand from thence went as far north as Israel s river. The main\\nbody encamped there, while Powers and two men pushed up the\\nvalley to the present town of Northumberland, whence they came\\nupon a fresh Indian trail. Not deeming it prudent to proceed any\\nfarther, the company returned to their packs, which had been left\\non the Ammonoosuc, and from thence to the present village of\\nHaverhill, which they reached July 6. The leaves of the diary\\ngiving an account of the return are wanting, but in all proba-\\nbility Capt. Powers arrived at Contoocook about a week later.\\nThis was the first exploration of the upper valley of the Connec-\\nticut.\\nATTACK ON STEVENSTOWN.\\nIn August, the Indians, under Capt. John Sasup, swooped down\\nupon East Stevenstown. Philip Call, one of the early settlers of\\nContoocook, had concluded to locate himself on the rich intervale", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "1754.] CIVIL HISTORY. 69\\nof Stevenstown. He built his cabin near the JMerrimack, about\\na mile and a half bej ond the north line of Contoocook, near what\\nis now South Franklin. It was on the 15th of the month that the\\nIndians made their attack. Mrs. Call and her son s wife and in-\\nfant were in the house, while the father, son, and Timothy Cook,\\nwhose father had been killed, in 1746, at Clay hill, were at work\\nin the field. Upon the approach of the Indians, Mrs. Call, senior,\\nmet them at the door, and was instantly killed by a blow from a\\ntomahawk. She fell across the threshold. Mrs. Philip Call,\\njunior, with her infant, crawled into a hole behind the chimney.\\nShe succeeded in keeping her child quiet, and was not discovered.\\nThe father and son had seen the Indians, and attempted to get to\\nthe hoiise in advance of them, but, discovering that there was a\\nlarge party, took to the woods. Cook fled towards the Merrimack,\\nplunged in, but was shot and scalped. Philip made all haste to\\nContoocook, swimming the river several times to baffle his pursu-\\ners. The Indians, about thirty in number, rifled the house, and,\\nsuspecting that a party would be sent up from the fort, secreted\\nthemselves in the woods.\\nThe force sent out from the fort consisted of thirteen men.\\nThe Indians allowed them to pass, rose from their ambush, gave\\na whoop, made a rush, but succeeded only in capturing Enos\\nBishop, whose home was on Queen street, west of the house now\\nowned by Prof. John Jackman.\\nThe remaining twelve, disconcerted by the suddenness of the\\nattack, fled in every direction, and finally all reached the fort,\\nnot having fired a gun.\\nbishop s captivity.\\nBisho];) was taken to Canada, reaching St. Prancis village in\\nthirteen days, with Samuel Scribner and John Parker taken from\\nStevenstown. They were sold to Frenchmen.\\nIn October, Bishop found means to send a letter to Eev. Jede-\\ndiah Jewett, of Rowley, Mass.\\nMontreal, Oct. 19, 1754,\\nRev. Sir The reason of my directing these lines to you is because\\nit seems most likely that they will sooner arrive to the hands of a per-\\nson of your note than to any body else. Before I proceed I shall give\\nyou a short description of my captivity. That day Sir, in August last", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "70 CIVIL HISTORY. [1754.\\n[the 15*] that you left my house at Contoocook I was taken by the Ind-\\nians by them carried to St. Francois, where we arrived in thirteen\\ndays; after I had been with them eight weeks they sold me to a\\nFrench gentlemen for 300 livres, which sum must be paid before I can\\nbe free which looks someAvhat difficult to me. But I hope I have some\\nfriend in Rowley that will contribute that sum for my relief; I shall\\ntake it a favor with you if you will move a contribution in your parish.\\nThere will be no difficulty in my redemption if the money be paid\\nthere is no difficulty in coming at any time of the year. In the winter\\nthe people pass on the ice all the way to Albany except a few miles.\\nInform the people at Contoocook that Maloon his wife are sold to a\\nFrench minister near Quebeck, his boy in this town his oldest girl is\\nwith the Indians their youngest child died I believe at St. Francois\\nabout a month ago. Samuel Scribner who was taken at Bakerstown\\nwhere I was I hear is sold to the french at Chambly, about 12 miles from\\nthis place Robert Barker taken at the same place sold to a French-\\nman about a mile from St. Francois. They all desire release.\\nI can write no more at present only to ask an interest in your pray-\\ners beg leave to subscribe myself\\nYour most obedient humble servant\\nEnos Bishop.\\nN. B. Caution the frontier to be on their guard. If any person\\ncomes or sends for me let them repair to Col. John Lydius, of Albany\\nfor direction.\\nThe families on the outskirts of the town, and all that had set-\\ntled in Stevenstown, upon the attack of the Indians abandoned\\ntheir homes and fled to the fort. The citizens organized for de-\\nfence.\\nTHE ALARM.\\nTwo of the party sent up from the fort at the time of the attack\\nupon Philip Call were Ephraim Foster and Andrew Moor. Possi-\\nbly they were not citizens of Contoocook, as no other mention of\\ntheir names is found in any of the records or documents. It is\\nprobable that they were sent to alarm the lower towns, for we find\\nAndrew McClary, of Epsom, hastening to Portsmouth and giving\\nthe Governor and Council information concerning the attack.\\nMcClary s account is on record in tlie Council Minutes. The\\nattack was on the 15th. On the 18th, McClary was in the council\\nchamber, at the capitol, giving the following statement", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "Nl\\nM^^A ^j^c^^^o^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "1754.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. Tl\\nPortsmouth Aug 18, 1754,\\nThe said Andrew McCLiry being examined declared that Eph\\nFoster Stephen Moor acquainted the dechirant that they were at\\nStevenstown the day after the mischief was done by the Indians\\nfound the body of Mrs. Call lying dead near the door of her house,\\nscalped her head almost cutoff upon further search found the body\\nof a man named Cook dead scalped. That the Indians were supposed\\nto be about thirty in number according to the account of eight men.\\n[Mr. Price, writing from tradition, says thirteen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 possibly a misprint.]\\nthat upon hearing the news went immediately from Contoocook to Ste-\\nvenstown in that way passed the enemy who soon followed them see-\\ning the Indians too many in number to engage they parted endeavored\\nto escape. One of the company, one Bishop, stood sometime fired at\\nthe Indians, but was soon obliged to run. Cook was found dead by the\\nriver s side. Bishop supposed to be killed sunk in the river, he being\\nstill missing that there were two men belonging to the plantation at a\\ndistance working in a meadow, that as yet were not come in [Scribner and\\nBarker] And it is feared they had fallen into the hands of the enemy\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthat as the declarant had understood all the inhabitants consisting of\\nabout eight families were come down into the lower town had left\\ntheir improvements, corn, hay cattle.\\nCAPT. JOHN WEBSTER.\\nWhen the attack was made on West Stevenstown, in May, and\\nthe Meloon family captured, Gov. Wentworth ordered Capt. John\\nWebster, of Manchester, to march at once with twenty men to\\nprotect the inhabitants in the vicinity of Contoocook. The com-\\npany marched on June 24 hut no enemy being then in the vicin-\\nity, the men returned to their homes.\\nThe attack on East Stevenstown, and the disaster to the party\\nthat went up from Contoocook, created universal alarm.\\nTROOPS CALLED OUT.\\nThe Council advised the calling out of a large force. On\\nAugust 16, the following order was issued to Col. Joseph Blan-\\nchard, of Dunstable\\nTo Col Joseph Blanchard,\\nUpon the mischief done by the Indians at Stevenstown, I have or-\\ndered a detachment from Captain Odlins troop* of 24 men and officers\\nThis company was from Exeter and vicinity.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "72 CIVIL HISTORY. [1755.\\nto command, also a like number from Captain Stevens troop to guard\\nthe inhabitants in that frontier until I can relieve them by a sufficient\\nnumber of foot as your regiment lies contiguous to the frontier where\\nthe mischief was done I have thought proper to order direct that you\\nforthwith enlist and impress fifty men or more, if you think that num-\\nber is not sufficient put them under an officer you can confide in\\norder them forthwith to march to Contoocook Stevenstown to relieve\\nthe detachment of horse posted there.\\nB. Wentworth.\\nCAPT. GOFFE s company.\\nThe company was commanded by Jolm Goffe, of Derryfield.\\nRobert Rogers, afterwards the renowned ranger, enlisted as a pri-\\nvate in this company. From Contoocook were the following citi-\\nzens\\nDea. Jesse Flanders, John Flanders,\\nStephen Hoit, William Courser,\\nJacob Hoit, Joseph Eastman, Jr.\\nThe company was in service during the winter, frequently mak-\\ning long marches on snow-shoes. The head-quarters were in the\\ngarrisons of Canterbury and Contoocook.\\nDEATH OF REV. MR. STEVENS.\\nJan. 19, 1755. Tlie people of Contoocook met with a sad loss\\nin the death of Rev. Mr. Stevens, who for fifteen years had been\\ntheir minister, and who had taken an active part in all of the af-\\nfairs of the plantation.\\nRev. Mr. Price says of him, We have not the means of as-\\ncertaining particularly the success of his labors, for want of church\\nrecords but that he was ver}- dear to the people of his charge,\\nand his services satisfactory, are evidenced by their united attach-\\nment to his interest amid the trying scenes and sufferings to\\nwhich he and they were called.\\nMR. Stevens s estate.\\nThe amount of worldly effects owned by Mr. Stevens will be\\nseen from the appraisers account\\nWe the Subscribers being appointed a Committee to apprize the\\nEstate real personal of the Rev M Phiuehas Stevens, late of the Place", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "1755.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY, 73\\ncalled Contoocook within his Majestys Province of New Hampshire,\\nClerk Deceased, being first sworn to the faithful Discharge of the said\\nTrust have taken the following Inventory of the said Estate.\\nVis\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOf personal Estate\\nImprimis. To Books\\nM Pool s Synopses Criticorura in five volumes in Folio 7.10. 0.\\nOther books the whole of them 1- 5. 0.\\nItem, To a Swivel Gun 2.10.\\nitem, To Beds, Bedding Bedsteads 45.12. 6.\\nitem. To Pewter 1--10.\\nitem, To two warming pans 3. 2. 6.\\nitem, To two Looking Glasses 5.10. 0.\\nitem. To two Brass Kettles 4. 0. 0.\\nitem, To a toasting-iron Gridiron 0. 6. 0.\\nitem. To a Spit 0. 0. 0.\\nitem. To a Spool wheel 5.\\nitem. To a Cupboard 0-15. 0.\\nitem. To two Caggs 0.10. 0.\\nitem, To a great Wheel 0. 5.\\nitem, To Andirons 0. 8. 0.\\nitem, To Tongs 0. 6. 0.\\nitem. To another pair of Tongs fire shovel irons 2.10. 0.\\nitem. To an iron Kettle 0.12. 0.\\nitem. To two iron Trammels 1- 5. 0.\\nitem, To a little Pot 0.12. 0.\\nitem. To two Box irons Heater 1.10. 0.\\nitem. To five Chairs at 0.3.9. apiece 0.18. 9.\\nitem. To a Frying Pan 0. 6. 0.\\nitem, To an iron Pot J\\nitem, To a pair of hand-Bellows 0. 5. 0.\\nitem. To a brass Skillet Frame 0.10. 0.\\nitem, To another brass Skillet Frame 0.12. 6.\\nitem. To a brass Skimmer 0. 5. 0.\\nitem, To three tables at 5\u00c2\u00bb apiece 0.15. 0.\\nitem, To a Cradle 0. 2. 6.\\nitem, To hay at the Meddeo 2. 2. 6.\\nitem. To 2 Tobes 0.10. 0.\\nitem. To Iron 0. 2. 6.\\nChaffing Dish 0. 5. 0.\\nitem, To a Coat, 2. 0. 0.\\nitem. To a great Coat 0. 0.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "74\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n[1755.\\nitem, To two Gowns\\nitem, To Stockings\\nitem, To a pair of Leather Breeches\\nitem, To a Jacket\\nitem, To a Hat\\nitem, To a pair of Boots\\nitem. To Shoes\\nitem. To a Morter Pestel\\nitem, To a Kazor\\nitem, To Shirts\\nitem, To a half Bushel Sive\\nitem. To one old Saddle Bridle\\nitem, To Tea Furniture\\nitem, To two Chests\\nitem, To an old Portmantle\\nitem, To Salt\\nitem, To Glass Bottles\\nitem, To an ax\\nitem, To a Scithe to cut Bushes\\nitem. To Plow irons\\nStock.\\nTo a Mare\\nitem. To two Cows\\nitem. To a Heifer\\nitem, To a Calf\\nitem. To five Sheep\\nitem. To three Swine\\nReal Estate Buildings.\\n3.10. 0.\\n0.18. 6.\\n0.15. 0.\\n2. 0. 0.\\n0.15. 0.\\n0. 5. 0.\\n0. 7. 6.\\n0. 0. 6.\\n2. 0. 0.\\n0. 5. 0.\\n2. 0. 0.\\n0.10. 0.\\n1. 0. 0.\\n0. 5. 0.\\n0.10. 0.\\n0. 5. 0.\\n0. 5. 0.\\n0.12. 6.\\n1. 5. 0.\\n0. 0.\\n,10. 0.\\n0. 0.\\n10. 0.\\n10. 0.\\n5. 0.\\nImprimis, To the House-Lot, House Barn 90. 0. 0.\\nitem, a House in the Garrison\\nitem. To a five acre Intervale Lot\\nitem, To a House Lot adjoining to Ensign Joseph Eastman s 25\\nitem, To one eighty acre Lot, half an eighty-acre Lot, two\\nHouse-Lots all joining together\\nitem. To one hundred acre Lot\\nitem, To one common Right\\nitem, To half a hundred-acre lot, half a common Right\\nitem. To one eighty-acre-Lot in the Township of Rumford\\nAPPLICATION FOR IXCOKPORATION AS A TOWN.\\nJail. 28. At a meeting of tlie proprietors in Newbury, a tliird\\n25. 0.\\n0.\\n3 25. 0.\\n0.\\n215. 0.\\n0.\\n25. 0.\\n0.\\n7. 0.\\nIG. 5.\\n0.\\n62.10.\\n0.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "175G.] CIVIL HISTORY. 75\\nattempt was made to obtain corporate powers but in consequence\\nof the intense cold, the meeting adjourned without action to Feb-\\nruary 11.\\nFeb. 11. The proprietors met at tlie house of Daniel Clark.\\nJoseph Greenleaf and Joseph Gerrish were chosen a committee to\\npetition the Great and General Court for an enlargement of the\\npowers of the proprietors in regard to tlie collection of taxes.\\nJune 12. At a meeting in Contoooook, Benj. Lunt, Henry\\nRolfe, and Joseph Coffin were appointed to settle with the admin-\\nistrator of Rev. Mr. Stevens s estate.\\nTo defray the current expenses of the plantation, \u00c2\u00a3400 was ap-\\npropriated.\\nGeorge Jackman, Stephen Gerrish, and Jacob Flanders were\\nchosen to look after the parsonage.\\nJoseph Coffin, Benj. Lunt, and Henry Eolfe were appointed a\\ncommittee to procure twenty pounds of powder, lead, flints,\\n[or their] equivelent [and] to take care of the same.\\nNinety pounds was voted towards defra3dng the expenses in-\\ncurred at the funeral of Rev. Mr. SteA ens.\\nA committee was appointed to secure the services of another\\npreacher, and Rev. Mr. Varney was employed.\\nTHE MIXISTEll s LOT.\\nFeb. 7, 1756. The proprietors met at the meeting-house, but,\\non account of the cold, an adjournment was had to the nearest\\ndwelling-house. Capt. Stephen Gerrish, Jacob Flanders, and Dea.\\nGeorge Jackman were chosen a committee to provide further\\npreaching.\\nEzekiel Flanders and Samuel Fowler were apjjointed a commit-\\ntee to see whether a lot of eighty acres should be set off to the\\nright of the first settled minister.\\nTWO CITIZENS KILLED BY INDIANS.\\nMr. Flanders, who was thus chosen, soon after went to New-\\nfound lake, in Hebron, accompanied by Edward Emer}^, to set\\ntheir traps for beaver. While there they were waylaid by Ind-\\nians. One was shot while skinning a beaver, and the other\\nwhile carrying a beaver into camp, as was subsequently learned\\nfrom the Indians.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "76 CIVIL HISTORY. [1756.\\nTHE CHARTEK.\\nAnother attempt was made to obtain a town charter. Joseph\\nCoffin, John Moody, and Stephen Gerrish were appointed to press\\nthe claims of the plantation before the Governor and Conncil.\\nThe efforts of the committee were in this end successful, as will\\nbe seen further on.\\nESCAPE OF ENOS BISHOP FROM CANADA.\\nIn October, Enos Bishop, who had been captured by the Indians,\\nin 1754, made his escape from Canada. From a letter published\\nin the N. Y. Mercury, Oct. 25, 1756, written by an officer in the\\ngarrison at No. 4, Charlestown, we have an account of his escape\\nNo 4, Oct 4, 1756.\\nThis day arrived here one Enoch Bishop, an English captive from\\nCanada, who was taken two years since. He left Canada twenty-six\\ndaj S ago in company with two other English captives viz William\\nHair late of Brookfield enlisted in Gen. Shirley s regiment taken at\\nOswego the other name unknown taken from Pennsylvania. They\\ncame away from Canada without a hatchet, gun or fire works, with\\nno more than three loaves of bread four pounds of pork. As\\nthey suffered much for want of provisions, his companions were not\\nable to travel any farther than a Httle this side of Cowass [Coos] where\\nhe was obliged to leave them last Lord s Day without any sustenance\\nbut a few berries. Six men were this morning sent out to look for\\nthem but it is feared they perished in the wilderness.\\nSOLDIERS IN THE FRENCH WAR.\\nWe have not been aide to ascertain what citizens of Contoocook\\nenlisted in the war against the French and Indians. It is not lihely\\nthat their names would be found on the proprietors records. It is\\nknown that Philip Flanders was killed at Crown Point. He was\\na ranger in Maj. Rogers s company. He was the son of Jacob\\nFlanders, one of the first settlers, and lived at the south end of\\nWater street. He was brother of Dea. Jesse Flanders, who was\\nin one or more of the campaigns against the French and Ind-\\nians.\\nAndrew Bohonon, one of the first settlers of Contoocook, also\\nserved in one or more campaigns. He was brother-in4aw of\\nPhilip and Jesse Flanders, having married their sister Tabitha.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "1757.] CIVIL HISTORY. 77\\nSAMUEL fowler s DISSENT.\\nJune 1, 1757. A proprietors meeting was hekl, and a com-\\nmittee, consisting of Joseph Coffin, John Moody, and Capt. Ste-\\nphen Gerrish, was appointed to j^rovide some suitable gentleman\\nto preach.\\nMr. Samuel Fowler again entered his dissent, which is on\\nrecord\\n[From the Records.]\\nTo the proprietors of Coutoocook in their annual meeting assembled.\\nThe humble petition of Samuel Fowler sheweth that your peti-\\ntioner as a proprietor among you hath hitherto used his best endeavors\\naccording to his ability to promote the settlement and advantage of the\\nplantation and his estate therein has born its part to all the publick\\ntaxes thereof for that end, but as j our petitioner, which is not un-\\nknown to you is of a different persuasion from you with respect to the\\npublick worship of God among you and as he is now about to take his\\nestate into his own hands, cannot with freedom of conscience pay the\\nministerial taxes for the support of publick Worship in your way he\\nhumbly intreats your compassionate regards in that respect. And as\\nour king thro the kindness of God has been pleased to exempt those of\\nthis persuasion from such taxes you would also be pleased to free your\\npetitioner from the like tax in this place your petitioner will still be\\nwilling to use his best endeavors for the good of the plantation pay any\\nother taxes or charges which in Law reason or justice may be thought\\nequitable in any other proper way pay or bear his fidl proportion of\\ncharge for promoting the interest of the plantation that so his land\\nor interest in this place may not be sold for the ministerial taxes, which\\notherwise they will be liable to which as your petitioner upon the most\\nserious reflection on the case sees no way to prevent, and therefore\\nagain begs your favour in this respect, which will greatly oblige your\\npetitioner who on this occasion hopes he shall be ready on all proper\\nopportunities to treat you with suitable tokens of acknowledgement.\\nSamuel Fowler.\\nUp to this time Mr. Fowler had resided in ISTewbury, but dur-\\ning the year removed to Contoocook. He was an original propri-\\netor, and accepted with his associates the grant which stipulated\\nthat a minister should be supported. His associates might have\\npleaded, against his rights of conscience, that he voluntarily and\\nwithout protest accepted the grant, and was therefore debarred\\nfrom dissent but with great liberality they waived all limita-\\ntions, and passed the following votes", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "78 CIVIL HISTORY, [1757.\\nVoted that the prayer of the petitioner be granted for the year\\n1750.\\nVoted that the prayer of the petitioner be granted for 1751.\\nVoted that the prayer of the petitioner be granted for the year\\n1752.\\nVoted that the prayer of the petitioner be answered for 1753\\nalso for 1755.\\nThe committee on preaching employed E,ev. Stephen Scales,\\nwho began to preach during the summer.\\nCAPTURE OF MOSES JACKMAN BY INDIANS.\\nDuring the month of June, four Indians made their appearance\\nin Canterbury, near the house of Thomas Clough. The family\\nwere not at home. The Indians entered the house, secured some\\nmeal, and secreted themselves in the woods.\\nIn a field near by, a negro, Dorset, and Moses Jackman, son of\\nRichard Jackman of Contoocook, eleven years old, were hoeing\\ncorn. The first intimation Jackman had of the presence of the Ind-\\nians was their uprising around him. Dorset seized Jackman, and\\nstarted to run with him but they soon separated, Jackman running\\ntowards the barn, and the negro towards the woods. Jackman\\nstumbled and fell, and was taken. He once escaped, but was\\nrecaptured, and intimidated by the wielding of a tomahawk\\nover his head. Dorset was overtaken. He made a desperate re-\\nsistance, and was badly beaten about the head. He cried lustily\\nfor help, and his cries Avere heard by others it work haK a mile\\naway, who understood the meaning of it, and fled to the garrison,\\nat the house of Capt. Jeremiah Clough.\\nMrs. Thomas Clough had a narrow escape. She saw the Ind-\\nians, and made haste to the garrison. The alarm was given, but\\ntoo late to prevent them from carrying off their captives.\\nThe route taken by the savages was up the Merrimack, prob-\\nably to Franklin, where they crossed over the falls, one Indian\\ncarrying Jackman on his shoulders. They travelled fast, and at\\nnight encamped on Smith s river, in what is now the town of\\nHill. Jackman was barefoot, and the Indians kindly supplied\\nhim with moccasons. The Indians made a rapid march to Canada.\\nArriving at Montreal, the two cajitives were imprisoned for a\\nfortnight, while the Indians were trading off their furs. Jackman\\nwas sold to a Frenchman, and separated from Dorset, whom he\\nnever saw or heard from again.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "1759.] CIVIL HISTORY. 79\\nWliile in captivity, Jaclanan saw an Indian chief who had often\\nbeen in Contoocook. The Indian recognized him at once. Jack-\\nman remained in captivit}^ till 1761, when peace was declared,\\nand he was brought home by Enos Bishop, who went in quest of\\nhim. Bishop was peculiarly fitted to bring him through the wil-\\nderness, having made his escape in 1754. Jackman was kindly\\ntreated, and obtained a knowledge of the French language during\\nthe four years of his captivity.\\nCLOSE OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.\\n1758-59. The proprietors books contain no important rec-\\nords for these years but great events were taking place else-\\nwhere. On the 24th of July, 1759, Niagara was taken by the\\nBritish and colonial forces on the 27th, Gen. Amherst took pos-\\nsession of Ticonderoga. On the 13th of September the battle on\\nthe Plains of Abraham was fought, and the lilies of France gave\\nplace to the cross of St. George, in America. It was one of the\\ndecisive battles of history, one of the turning-places of human\\ndestiny.\\nFrom that day forth there were to be no more midnight alarms\\nof savage foes, no more tomahawking and scalping, no more cap-\\ntivity for settlers on the frontier, no more murdering, Inmiing, or\\nj)lundering, but peace, j)i osperity, and the beginning of a new era\\nin American history.\\nGen. WoKe, though dead, was a hero. His effigy was painted\\non tavern signs, his memory lauded everywhere.\\nA few days before the battle on the Plains of Abraham, a\\nBritish fleet under Admiral Boscawen defeated a French fleet off\\nCape Vincent, in Portugal. The engagement occurred August 20,\\nand the news reached America in September, just as intelligence\\narrived of the victory at Quebec. Wolfe, Boscawen, and Amherst\\nwere the heroes of the hour.\\nIn all of the large towns the events were celebrated with festiv-\\nities. In Newbury an ox was killed, and the quarters roasted on\\na huge gridiron, near Rev. Mr. Sewell s meeting-house. The pro-\\nprietors of Contoocook residing in Newbury shared in the enjoy-\\nments of the jubilee. Speeches were made, songs were sung, can-\\nnon fired, and men drank punch, egg-nog, and toddy to their\\nhearts content.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "[1760.\\nOHAPTEE Y.\\nTHE TOWN.\\n^^HE efforts of the committee appointed to secure a town cliar-\\nter were successful. The charter was granted on the 22d\\nof Aprih to continue two years. The reason for this limitation is\\nwholly a matter of conjecture.\\nTHE CHAIITER.\\nProvince of New Hampshire George the Second by the Grace of God,\\nof Great Britain, France Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith\\nc.\\nTo all whom these presents may come. Greeting.\\nWhereas our loyal subjects inhabitants of a tract of land within\\nour Province of New Hampshire l^nown by the name of Contoocook,\\nhave humbly petitioned requested that they may be erected incor-\\nporated into a township enfranchised with the powers privileges\\nwhich other towns within our said Province by law have enjoy and\\nit appearing to us to be conducive to the general good of our said prov-\\nince, as well as to the said inhabitants in particular, by maintaining\\norder encouraging the culture of lands, that the same should be\\ndone\\nKnow ye therefore that of Our Special Grace s certain knowledge,\\nfor the encouraging the good order purpose aforesaid, by with\\nthe advice of our trusty well beloved Penning Wentworth Esq, our\\nGovernor commander in chief of our council for said Province of\\nNew Hampshire, have erected ordained, by these presents, for us,\\nour heirs successors, do will ordain that the inhabitants of the\\ntract of land aforesaid or that shall inhabit or improve thereon, the\\nsame being limited bounded as follows\\nBegining at the southerly side of Contoocook river s mouth, where\\nthe same falls into Merrimack river, running theuce a course west sev-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "mf^\\nJj^^. f^^.^/i^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "1760.] CIVIL HISTORY. 81\\nenteen degrees south, seven miles one hundred rods, measured from a\\nforked white pine near the mouth of Contoocook river, to a pitch pine\\nheap of stones; from said pitch pine heap of stones running\\nnorth seventeen degrees west seven miles to a forked beach marked\\nthence on a course east seventeen degrees south north to the Merri-\\nmack river to a heap of stones thence by the river as the same runs\\nto the mouth of Contoocook river again where it began Shall have,\\nby these presents are declared, ordained to be a town corporate, are\\nhereby erected incorporated in to a body politic corporate, to have\\na continuance two years only by the name of Boscawen, with all the\\npowers, authorities, privileges, immunities franchises which any other\\ntown in said Province by law holds enjoys; always reserving to us,\\nour heirs successors, all white pine trees that are, or shall be found\\ngrowing, being on said land fit for the use of our Royal Navy, re-\\nserving to us, our heirs successors, the power right of dividing said\\ntown when it shall appear necessary convenient for the benefit of the\\ninhabitants thereof; Provided nevertheless^ it is hereby declared, that\\nthis our charter Grant is not intended, nor shall in any manner be\\nconstrued to extend to or affect the private property of the soil within\\nthe limits aforesaid; as the several towns within our said province\\nof New Hampshire are by the laws thereof enabled authorized to\\nassemble by a majority of votes present to choose all such officers\\ntransact such aflairs as by said laws are declared.\\nWe do by these presents nominate appoint Col Joseph Coffin Esq\\nto call the first meeting of said inhabitants, to be held within said town\\nwithin sixty days from the date hereof, by giving legal notice of the\\ntime design of holding such meeting; after which the annual meet-\\ning of said town for the choice of such officers the n)anagement of\\nthe affairs aforesaid shall be held within the same on the first Tuesday\\nof March annually.\\nIn testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of our said Province\\nto be hereunto afiixed. Witness Benning Wentworth Esq our Gov-\\nernor commander in chief of our said Province of New Hampshire,\\nthis twenty-second day of April in the thirty-third year of our reign\\nin the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and sixty:\\nBenning Wentworth\\nBy His Excellency s Command with the advice of the Council\\nTheodore Atkinson Sec\\nADMIRAI, BOSCAWEN-.\\nThere is but one otlier locality in tlie world bearing tbe name\\nof Boscawen, and that an island iu the Pacific ocean, belonging\\nto the Navigators group. Both, were named for the brave old\\n6", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "82 CIVIL HISTORY. [1760.\\nadmiral wlio Immblecl the nav}^ of France. It is probably a name\\nof French origin. The de Boscawens were an established family\\nas far back as the days of old King John, who granted the Magna\\nCharta, in 1215, at Eunnymede. The Boscawen manor-house was\\nin Cornish. From the records of old England we learn that\\nHenry de Boscawen had sons, Eobert and Allan, and a daughter\\nMirabell. There were also Ewej^ne and Osbert. One married\\nJohn de Abalanda, and another Eusada Reskyners. One de\\nBoscawen married Alice de Trevale. These are Norman names,\\ngoing to show that the de Boscawens came into England with\\nWilliam the Conqueror.\\nHugh de Boscawen was, in 1711, first Lord Viscount Falmouth.\\nHis wife was Charlotte Churchill, niece of the Duke of Marl-\\nborough.\\nIn that same year, a baby came to gladden the master and\\nmistress of the manor-house, which was named Edward de Bos-\\ncawen.\\nWhen a boy, he was always brimming over with fun, and was a\\nmimic withal. There was an old butler in his father s service\\nwho had a crick in the neck, and the boy, in mimicrj-, carried\\nhis neck in like manner, till the jest became a habit, and\\nhe had a crick in the neck through life. [Lives of English\\nAdmirals.] His father made him a midshipman at an early age,\\nand he was promoted so rapidly that, in 1737, at the age of\\ntwenty-six, he was placed in command of the Leopard, a frigate of\\nfifty guns, in the expedition of Admiral Vernon against Cartha-\\ngena. In 1742 he commanded the Dreadnaught, and captured\\nthe French frigate Media. In 1746 he commanded the Namure,\\nand captured the French frigate Intrepid, bearing despatches\\nfrom Quebec to France. In an engagement the next year he\\nwas wounded by a musket-ball in the shoulder.\\nThe next year he was selected to command the East India\\nfleet, with six ships of the line, besides frigates. In 1755 he com-\\nmanded the fleet on the North American coast, cruised off New-\\nfoundland to intercept French ships, and made several captures.\\nIn 1759 he was selected to cooperate with Wolfe and Amherst for\\nthe reduction of Canada. He sailed with a large fleet to the\\ncoast of France, and cruised off Toulon with fourteen ships of the\\nline, watching for an opportunity to cripple the last fleet at the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "1760.] CIVIL HISTORY. 83\\ndisposal of the Frencli king. He fouglit a great battle off Cape\\nVincent, came off victor, all but anniliilated the French navy,\\nand returned to England to receive the applause of his country-\\nmen. Soon after landing he was suddenly taken sick, and died\\nafter a short illness.\\nA few weeks before his death, the Hoyal Magazine contained\\na poetical panegyric upon the heroic old admiral. We give a\\nstanza\\nThis hero to the brave will favor show,\\nBut to the coward is a deadly foe;\\nStrenuous for combat, dauntless as a tar,\\nHe may be called the thunderbolt of war.\\nThe citizens of Boscawen selected an honorable name for their\\ntown. The orthography of the word has been rendered in many\\nways, as will be seen by the following list, kept by Mr. Daniel D.\\nWebster when in charge of the post-office in Boscawen\\nCopied from letters sent to Boscawen P. O., from April, 1859, to\\nMarch 15, 1861:\\n1. Boscawen. 18. Boscewine.\\n2. Bascawane. 19. Boscoine.\\n3. Bascawine. 20. Boscouin.\\n4. Bas Coeuen. 21. Boscowena.\\n5. Baskawen. 22. Boscuen.\\n6. Basquine. 23. Boscwen.\\n7. Boscauquine. 24. Boskaewen.\\n8. Boscawaen. 25. Bos Quane.\\n9. Boscawane. 26. Bos Quene Planys.\\n10. Boscaweain. 27. Bosquine.\\n11. Boscawene. 28. Bosquiues.\\n12. Bos Cawean. 29. Bosquiny.\\n13. Boscawean. 30. Boys Coyn.\\n14. Boscawiane. 31. Booscwen.\\n15. Boscawine. 32. Buscawwin.\\n16. Boscawn, 33. Buskaine.\\n17. Bosceane.\\nTHE FIRST TOWN-MEETING.\\nThe first town-meeting was called by the proprietors clerk,\\nJoseph Coffin.\\nThis may inform the Free holders other inhabitants of the plan-\\ntation formerly called Contoocook Is now by his excellency Benning", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "84 CIVIL HISTORY. [1760.\\nWentworth Esq Governor c In over His Majesty s Province of New-\\nHampshire made and Incorporated and Invested with Town privileges\\nand the nominees thereof is by His Excellency s People called Boscawen,\\nthe said Freeholders and Inhabitants are hereby notified to meet at the\\nMeeting House in said Town on the third Wednesday In June at Nine\\nof the clock before noon to choose a town clerk assessors and all other\\nTown officers for the year ensuing as the Law Directs. By order of\\nHis Excellency\\nJosKPii Coffin\\nApril 30 1760.\\nJune 18. At the meeting thus called, Joseph Coffin was chosen\\nmoderator, George Jackman, Jr., town-clerk, John Webster, En-\\nsign John Fowler, and Capt. Joseph Eastman selectmen and as-\\nsessors, Benjamin Eastman constable, Andrew Bohonon surveyor\\nof highways, and Dea. George Jackman and Moses Burbank\\nfence-viewers.\\nVoted, that the selectmen furnish a town pound.\\nCALL TO REV. KOBIE MORRILL.\\nJuly 10. A town-meeting was held this date.\\nVoted to raise \u00c2\u00a31200 old tenor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \u00c2\u00a3800 upon the Rights, and \u00c2\u00a3400\\non the Polls stakes [polls and estates] for supplying the Desk and\\nother necessary charges.\\nDea. George Jackman, Capt. Joseph Eastman, Ensign John\\nEowler, and Thomas Carter, were chosen to give a call to Rev.\\nRobie Morrill, to become the minister of the town.\\nproprietors clerk.\\nWith the election of George Jackman as town-clerk, and also\\nas clerk of the proprietors, the official connection of Joseph Coffin\\nwith the town ceased. For twenty-eight years he had filled the office\\nof proprietors clerk. He resided at Newbury, and not only at-\\ntended all the meetings there, but, from anything that appears in\\nthe records to the contrary, also attended the meetings held in\\nContoocook. The records were clearly and concisely kept. The\\npapers drawn by him were so lucid, that tliey might be compre-\\nhended by the smallest intellect. With the exception of the\\nyears from 1757 to 1760, the records are intact. Possibly no-\\nregular meeting of the proprietors was held while the petition\\nfor a charter was pending.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "1760.] CIVIL HISTORY. 85\\nGeorge Jackman, Jr., who succeeded Col. Joseph Coffin, was\\nreelected for thirty-five years in succession. Thus, for a period of\\nsixty-three years, the records were kept by two competent men.\\nTHE SETTLEMENTS.\\nThe settlements at this time were almost wholly on King and\\nQueen streets. Very few settlers had gone west of Cold brook.\\nThe only road leading west was the road through the Gulf, to-\\nwards Great pond. A road from Queen street joined it, probably\\nnot far from the old burial-ground. These highways were only\\ncart-paths. Mr. Ephraini Woodbury had taken up his resi-\\ndence on the plot of land now known as Woodbury plain.\\nThere were settlers on Fish street, and Benjamin Eastman\\nwas living on High street. Edward Emery s cabin, and pos-\\nsibly Thomas Cook s, near Little brook, Avere standing ten-\\nantless. Jacob and Jesse Flanders had begun their clearings\\nat the lower end of Water street but westward of Water street\\nthere were no settlements.\\nFRAMED HOUSES.\\nFramed houses were beginning to take the place of log cabins.\\nIt is not known who erected the first, but the house lately occu-\\npied by Mr. Franklin Morrill, by his father Benjamin Morrill, and\\nby Rev. Robie Morrill, probably is the oldest framed house now\\nstanding possibly it may have been the first erected.\\nSOLDIERS FOR THE REDUCTION OF CANADA.\\nIt would seem that some of the citizens of Boscawen enlisted in\\nthe service for the final reduction of Canada. In the Boston\\nGazette for July 11 is an advertisement showing that all had not\\njoined their company at the appointed rendezvous.\\nJuly 11, 1760\\nReturn of men enlisted by Cap Alexander McNuttiu the Province of\\nNew Hampshire for the total Reduction of Canada, who have declined\\nappearing at the Place of Rendezvous\\nWilliam Smith\\nJ3enjamin Rand J- of Contoocook\\nJoseph Atkinson\\nWhoever will take up the above Deserters or any one of them shall", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "86 CIVIL HISTORY. [1761.\\nreceive Ten Dollars for each man provided they are delivered in Boston\\nto said Captain Alexander McXutt at the sign of the Black Horse at\\nCapt Richardson s at the south end.\\nThe records of Boscawen malce no mention of William Smith\\nand Benjamin Band. It is probable that they were residents of\\nother towns, who enlisted to obtain the bounty that may have\\nbeen offered.\\nTHE FIKST SCHOOL.\\nMarch 3. At this first annual meeting after the organization\\nof the town, an appropriation of thirty pounds was made for a\\nschool, to be kept two months. The teacher employed was Mr.\\nVarney, who had preached for a short time after the death of Eev.\\nMr. Stevens. He was the first teacher employed in the town. If\\na school was taught prior to this date, it was a private affair.\\nProbably none was taught, and the instruction received by the\\nchildren was given by their parents. The hardships had been too\\ngreat, and the country too much disturbed by the frequent Indian\\nalarms and the marchings to and from Ticonderoga and Crown\\nPoint, to admit of any organized effort in educational matters.\\nIt is gratifying to know that almost the first appropriation of the\\ntown was for public instruction. It was a significant indication\\nof its future prosperity.\\nA committee was chosen, consisting of Eichard Blood and John\\nWebster, for the purpose thus set forth\\nTo call the Committee to an account what they have Don with the\\nIncome of the Parsonage and School Land Savril year Past to give\\nan account to the selectmen of the same.\\nVoted, that Joseph Eastman, John Blanders and Moses Call\\nsettle accounts with Mr. Scales for preaching.\\nVoted, that the selectmen settle with the constable pay him\\nas much upon the Bound for gathering Rates as is customary in\\nother towns.\\nSETTLEMENT OF REV. ROBIE MORRILL.\\nJune 11. It was voted in town-meeting that we Eaise one\\nhundred pounds old tenor for moving up Mr Eobie Morrill from\\nChester.\\nVoted that we raise \u00c2\u00a3200 old tenor for providing ordination.\\nVoted that we call Mr llobie Morrill to settle with us in the Gospel\\nministry.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "1762.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 8T\\nJoseph Hoit, Thomas Foss, and Moses Call were chosen a com-\\nmittee to lirovide for the ordination.\\nThe proprietors held a meeting, and took concurrent action in\\nregard to the settlement of Mr. Morrill.\\nDec. 18. The town voted that we give Mr Eobie Morrill\\nseven hundred pounds old tenor for the year from the settlement\\nat the Kate of Dollars at six pound per dollar to Rise\\nfifty pound a year till it comes to one thousand old tenor there\\nto be stated at that the privilege of the parsonage at 25 cords\\nof Good Wood at his house or place of habitation yearly from Set-\\ntlement so Longe as he shall continue to be our minister.\\nThey kept good fires in those days but the chimneys were\\nlarge, the fire-places wide, and twenty-five cords was not an ex-\\ncessive amount of wood.\\nVoted that we give Mr. Eobie Morrill a Right of Land aquivelent\\nto a right of Land for his one for ever and free from charges so Long\\nas he shall continue to be our minister.\\nThe action of the town and that of the proprietors, in thus\\nconferring upon Mr. Morrill a right of land in the town, is a\\ntestimonial of the generosity of the inhabitants but it was a\\nnest-egg which subsequently hatched out a brood of treubles, as\\nwill be seen by and by.\\nMr. Morrill was ordained December 29, but no record has come\\ndown to us of the proceedings.\\nSELECTMEN^ S ACCOUNTS.\\nThe accounts of the selectmen furnish some information in re-\\ngard to the customs of the times\\nPaid Mr Varney for keeping school 1760 \u00c2\u00a330\\nPaid Capt Gerrish for a journey after a minister 12\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo Capt Gerrish for a journey for the same 17 14\\nTo John Fowler for three Bowls of punch at a Ven-\\ndue in bidding on town s meadow 1 16\\nPaid Mr John Webster for moving up Mr Morrill 16\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nPaid to Dea Jackman for providing for ordination 1-10- 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nMR. MORRILL S LAND.\\n1762. The proprietors, at the meeting held June 2, procured\\na right of land of Maj. Samuel Gerrish, at the expense of \u00c2\u00a31,000", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "o8 CIVIL HISTORY. [1762.\\nNew Hampshire money, and conferred tlie same upon Rev. Mr.\\nMorrill and liis heirs forever. This was in accordance with a vote\\nof the town, passed at a previous meeting.\\nTOWN MATTERS.\\nIt was voted to lay out the common land, and John Brown was\\nchosen surveyor. Stephen Gerrish, Samuel Gerrish, John Web-\\nster, and Samuel Moody were appointed a committee to act with\\nMr. Brown.\\nIt was voted that Samuel Fowler should be exempted from pay-\\ning a minister s tax.\\nPAINS.\\nAt this meeting the following vote was passed\\nVoted that every man who built a Pain in the fort have liberty to\\ntake it away.\\nThis has reference to the houses erected by the settlers in the\\nfort, during the trouble with the Indians. Wlience the origin of\\nthe word pain It undoubtedly is a corruption of pent-\\nhouse a shed, standing aslope from the main wall. [Web-\\nster.] The houses would naturally have but one roof a pent-\\nroof *one whose slope is all on one side. [Webster.]\\nBOUNDAKY BETWEEN BOSCAWEN AND SALISBURY.\\nAt a special toAvn-meeting, Nathaniel Danforth, John Webster,\\nand Peter Coffin were chosen a committee to settle the line and\\nbounds between Boscawen and Salisbury. Peter Coffin, though\\na proprietor, was at the time living in Newbury, and probably\\nwas selected to rej^resent the proprietors.\\nCONSTABLE JOHN WEBSTER s ACCOUNT 1762.\\nCredit by money pd Province treasurer 601 8 8\\n121\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCredit to money paid to Rev mr Morrill 233 6 8\\nCredit by bad money on John Smith s ministers\\ntax 2\u00e2\u0080\u009412\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n[So John Smith was a citizen of Boscawen in 1762,\\nand his money was bad!]\\nCredit by money Discounted to mr webster for Sar-\\nving a warrant and charges in carrying a woman\\nout of town 3 14", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "1763.] CIVIL HISTORY. 89\\nCredit by bad money 15 13 6\\nCredit by 25 cords of Wood to Mr Morrill 175\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCredit for collecting money 56 10\\n1209\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2\\n111 the call for the aimiial meeting, held March 3, this year, was\\nan article To see if the Inhabitants Proprietors will give the\\nprivilege of a saw mill with Land convenient for the same on\\nthe brook which leads from Great Pond near the mouth of the\\nsame to any party of men who shall appear to build the same\\nalso to see what we wiU do consarning a highway which runs\\nthrough John Flanders Land to Great Pond also to see what\\nwe will do in respect of procuring a highway Into the upper Inter-\\nvale.\\nAt the meeting, the clause in regard to the saw-mill was not\\nacted upon. In regard to the highway, Capt. Stephen Gerrish\\nand Capt. John Eastman were chosen to view the highway through\\nJohn Flanders s land, and report at the next meeting. This road\\nwas that leading from the lower end of Water street to Great\\npond.\\nAt this meeting, Ensign John Flanders and Capt. Stephen Ger-\\nrish were chosen deer-keepers, and Capt. Joseph Eastman and\\nEnos Bishop hogreeves.\\nPROPKIETOKS MEETING.\\n1763. A meeting of the proprietors was held January 5, but\\nfor some cause, without transacting any business, was adjourned\\nto June 1.\\nThe original act of incorporation Avas to continue in force for\\nonly two years. The time having expired, the town petitioned\\nfor a renewal of the charter, which was granted.\\nproprietors meeting.\\nA meeting of the proprietors was held June 1.\\nIt was put to vote whether the Proprietors would give the Privelege\\nof the Great Pond brook to Mr. John Flanders for erecting a saw mill\\nthereon it was voted in the negative.\\nVoted that Mr Robie Morrill should chose the Right or share of\\nland belonging to him Cold brook No 3.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "90\\nCIVIL HISTORY. [1764.\\nThat settlements had heen extended south-west of Queen street,\\nis evident fi-om a vote passed at this meeting\\nThat John Webster be allowed to draw the Peace of land adjoining\\nto him marked with the Letter X for the Half share of the Right of\\nJohn Noj es a piece of land at the upper end of Dagodon meadow\\nfor the half of Joseph Tappau, provided he will allow a cart way-\\nthrough the first mentioned peace tvhere it now is.\\nThe town gave Eev. Mr. Morrill the privilege of using tlie\\nschool and meeting-house lots for a pasture for the term of\\nfour years.\\nThe town confirmed several informal votes, passed during the\\nyears 1758, 59, and 60, while the petition for a charter was in\\nthe hands of the General Court.\\nMr. John Webster having procured a renewal of the town char-\\nter, wliich was received in October, the regular meeting for the\\nchoice of officers was held November 1, those chosen continuing in\\noffice till the next March.\\nMr. Webster was paid \u00c2\u00a382 old tenor for his services 72 Days\\nman horse.\\nWARNING OUT.\\nThe first warning out, as it was called, in the history of the\\ntown after its incorporation, occurred this year, as per record.\\nThis may certify that John Uran with his wife and children was on\\nthe 5th Day of Feb 1763 Legally warned to Depart from the town of\\nBoscaweu within the time which the Law directs by us the subscrib-\\ners.\\nBoscaweu Feb 5. 1763\\nGeorge Jackman\\nJohn Flanders\\nSelectmen\\nMarch 6, 1764. The town met at the meeting-house, chose Mr.\\nJohn Fowler moderator and Mr. George Jackman clerk, and then,\\nit being cold, the meeting was adjourned to Capt John Powler s\\nto be held in haK an hour.\\nUpon assembling in Mr. Fowler s house, the following vote\\nwas passed\\nVoted, that Moses Call he paid ten pounds old tenor for\\nservices as constable ensuing jeav exclusive of what is custom-\\nary for gathering on the pound.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "li\\nf\\nf Y./ /^..Z^\\nI i^7^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "1764.] CIVIL HISTORY. 91\\nDea. Jesse Flanders, Oliver Fowler, and Ensign Henrj^ Ger-\\nrisli were appointed to call former selectmen to account.\\nThis is the first appearance in town affairs of Col. Henry Ger-\\nrish, who, from this time on till 1790, held many offices of trust\\nand honor at the hands of his fellow-citizens.\\nCapt. Stephen Gerrish and Capt. John Flanders were appointed\\nto set the time when the lower intervale should be opened in the\\nsj^ring and closed in the fall.\\nTAXES.\\nIt was voted that the constable should have one shilling in the\\npound for collecting the taxes.\\nThe rates charged Constable Moses Call for the year are thus\\ndivided\\nto a province tax \u00c2\u00a3171 1 6\\nto a minister s tax 822 17\\nto the town rates 111 16\\nto a wood Rate 135 00\\n12G0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nThe wood rate was for wood to be supplied to Eev. Mr. Morrill,\\nand if added to his salary makes \u00c2\u00a3957 paid for sustaining relig-\\nious privileges, against \u00c2\u00a3303 for all other town expenses, or more\\nthan two thirds of the whole Not lightly did the men of the\\ntime value their religious instructions.\\nIn the constable s account are these items\\nDiscounted Savrill Rates of Churchmen s taxes \u00c2\u00a3153 5\\nPaid to Doctor Carter for medicine to a transient\\nwoman 8\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nDoctor Carter was Dr. Ezra Carter, of Concord. There was\\nno physician in Boscawen at this date.\\nBy discounting the taxes against Friends and those who ad-\\nhered to the Church of England, the town acted honorably and\\njustly. The citizens were in no sense bigots.\\nA town-meeting was held December 27, at the house of John\\nFowler, To see if the Inhabitants will pass a vote to Defend\\nthe Constable for the present year, from Damage by Delaying to\\nColect the province Bate for som farther time as shall then be\\nagreed on.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "92 CIVIL HISTORY, [1765.\\nIt was voted not to defend the constable, Moses Call. The cit-\\nizens believed that men should be held responsible. Duty was an\\nobligation.\\nNo school was taught during the year, unless by private sub-\\nscription, the town not having made an appropriation.\\nThe paper money having depreciated, the town voted to make\\ngood the salary of Mr. Morrill, against which Capt. Stephen Ger-\\nrish entered his dissent. The indemnity was \u00c2\u00a3200 old tenor for\\ntwo years, at the rate of \u00c2\u00a36 per dollar for the first year, and \u00c2\u00a37\\nper dollar for the second year.\\nFIRST LAWSUIT.\\nJuly 17, 1765. The first action in law, in which the town was\\na party, occurred this year. At the regular town-meeting, which\\nwas held on this day, besides choosing officers, a committee was ap-\\npointed George Jackman, Jr., and Thomas Carter to answer\\nto the action commenced by Maj. Samuel Gerrish against said pro-\\nprietors, also for any other suits that maybe brought. What the\\nquestion in dispute may have been does not appear.\\nVoted to lay out a highway from Marlborough street to Con-\\ntoocook, in the most convenient jilace for building a bridge over\\nthe same.\\nCapt. Stephen Gerrish, Capt. Joseph Eastman, and Thomas\\nFoss were chosen a committee to lay out said highway.\\nThe rates charged to Constable Thomas Carter were,\\nTo a Province tax 297\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\\nTo a Ministers tax 848 1 11\\nTo a Town Rate 178\u00e2\u0080\u009412\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nTo Money or Wood 148\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\\n1472\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\\nthe same in Lawful Money 73 12\\nBRIDGE OVER THE COXTOOCOOK.\\nAthough the proprietors, soon after settling the town, had\\nchosen a committee to construct a bridge across the Contoocook\\nriver, nothing had been done in regard to it. All communication\\nbetween the towns of Concord and Boscawen was by ferry but it\\nwas now resolved to construct a bridge. Both towns engaged in\\nthe enterprise, sharing equally in the cost, although the site se-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "1765.] CIVIL HISTORY. 9S\\nlected for its construction brought it wholly within Boscawen. It\\nwas located in the bend of the river, above the Harris woollen\\nmill, near the residence of Capt. John Chandler, in 1765. The\\nbuilders were John Flanders of Boscawen, and Henry Love joy of\\nConcord.\\nThe contract specified that it was to be constructed with king\\nposts and long braces. It was the first bridge that ever\\nspanned the Contoocook.\\nMarch 4, 1766. Voted \u00c2\u00a3200 old tenor to defray town charges\\nthat all ox sleds shall be made four feet that all every per-\\nson that shall not observe this vote make their sleds accord-\\ningly, being an inhabitant of this town shall for each offence be\\nliable to pay a fine of one shilling Lawful money for each of-\\nfence.\\nVoted that there should be four days worked out on the high\\nway by each man no more except necessary.\\nCALLING THE SELECTMEN TO ACCOUNT.\\nMay 15. Winthrop Carter, Moses Morse, and Peter Kimball\\nwere chosen to settle the accoimts of the selectmen for 1761 and\\n1765, to know what the} have done with the money that has\\nbeen assessed in said year, and also to call the selectmen to an ac-\\ncount concerning the improvement of the school intervale.\\nVoted to make Rev. Mr. Morrill s salary good, agreeable to\\nthe vote in his settlement.\\nDISCOURSING VS^ITH REV. MR. MORRILL.\\nSept. 15. It was put to vote to see if said town or inhabi-\\ntants will chose a committee to discourse with Mr. Robie Morrill.\\nVoted in the affirmative.\\nThe action of the town in voting jMr. Morrill a lot of land, and\\nthe later vote to indemnify him on account of the depreciation of\\nthe currency, caused much dissatisfaction hence the above vote.\\nThe committee to discourse with Mr. Morrill consisted of John\\nFowler, Jesse Flanders, Moses Call, Oliver Hoyt, and Joseph\\nFowler, who were to see on what terms he would consent to a dis-\\nmission.\\nSept. 29. The committee reported Mr. Morrill s proposals,.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "94 CIVIL HISTORY. [1766.\\nwhich were rejected hy the town. They subsequently rej^ortecT a\\nsecond proposition from him, which was accepted.\\nMR. MOKKILL s PROPOSITIOJ^.\\n1. If the town of Boscawen vote that I shall be free from all rates\\nexcepting proprietors tax on what I do or shall possess in Boscawen\\nuntil the end of the year 1776, not exceeding 30 acres of improved land,\\nfour ratable heads of stock, no wild land not exceeding the quantity\\nof one whole right being rated by the town that my heirs be free in\\nsame manner if I decease.\\n2. That I or my heirs if I decease have the full use of the pasture\\ntwo years longer, which the proprietors voted me for the sum of \u00c2\u00a325\\nold tenor. [This was the school lot and parsonage on King street.]\\n3. That the Town pay my salary as first voted excepting their pro-\\nportion who joined themselves to the Church, this year the last ex-\\ncepting their proportion after they signed that they pay me all the\\nrest, If any leave the Church excepting what the town excuses.\\n4. That I be free from the charge of the Council.\\n5. That I have a copy of the subscriptions concerning me. If these\\nthings are this day complied with to my mind I will ask a dismission\\nthis year 176.G. R. Morrill.\\nDISMISSIOjST of rev. MR. MORRILL.\\nThe proposition was accepted, and a committee was ajipointed\\nto represent the town in dismissing Mr. Morrill, the town voting\\nto pay the expenses of the council. Pastor and people alike seem\\nto have acted fairly and honorably. Mr. Morrill remained in\\ntown, gave himself to every good work, and was respected and hon-\\nored by his fellow-citizens. He taught school many years, teaching\\nin private houses in the various districts, before the erection of\\nschool-houses.\\nJUSTICE OF THE PEACE.\\nIn Rev. Mr. Price s histor}^, it is stated that George Jackman,\\nJr., was appointed justice of the peace in 1760, by His Majesty s\\nauthority, George II. We have not been able to verify the state-\\nment. George III was now on the throne, and from the petition\\ngiven below it would seem that George Jackman received his ap-\\npointment under George III, in 1766\\nTo His Excellency Benning Wentworth c\\nWhereas the Town of Boscawen in said Province has ever since its\\nfirst settlement been destitute of a commissioned Justice of the peace", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "1766.] CIVIL HISTORY. 95\\nsuch an office being often needed (more especially since our Late favor-\\nable Incorporation by your excellency) we the subscribers and Inhabi-\\ntants of said town pray your excellency to commissionate Mr. George\\nJackman junior of said Town to be justice of the Peace, he havino- de-\\nserved well for several years Last past in the acceptable discharge of\\npublic Trust to him committed and your petitioners will ever pray\\nfor the granting of their prayer.\\nBoscawen January 29, 1766\\nEzra Carter Thomas Corset\\nJohn Fowler Eph\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 Woodbury\\nThomas Carter Jesse Flanders\\nJohn Webster Stephen Call,\\nJohn Flanders Moses Foster petitions tho\\nWilliam Emery not an Inhabitant of\\nJohn Corser Boscawen.\\nITEMS FROM THE SELECTMEN S ACCOUNT 1766.\\nPaid to the selectmen for perambulating the line between g\\nBoscawen and Almsbury [Warner] 4\\npaid Nathan Corser for wolf s head 4\\nPaid Capt Eastman for entertainment for the council at\\nMr Morrill s Dismission 1 4\\nPaid ]\\\\Ir Thomas Foss the Sum of Savin shilling for his\\nSarvice toward Laying out highways perambula-\\nting between Boscawen hopkinton 7\\nPaid mr William Jerome for preaching two Days 2 8\\npaid Capt fov/ler to expense of the town in the house\\n[Mr. Fowler s] 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nat another time paid him for two Bowls of punch 1 8\\nat another bowl of punch for the Justice 14\\npaid Capt fowler for entertaining Rev i mr ware after\\npreaching 2\\npaid him for keeping mr morrills horse some time 4\\nalso paid Capt Fowler for entertaining Som of the Com-\\nmittee that ware chosen to appoint a place for a\\nmeeting house 6\\nRemaining on his Book not settled Savrill persons Rates\\nwho call themselves churchmen the whole of the\\nmoney being 6 9 0\\nITEM FROM CONSTABLE THOMAS CARTER s ACCOUNT.\\nCredit to warning moses Danford s wife out of Town\\nreturning ye warrant 7 9 3", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "96 CIVIL HISTORY. [1766.\\nMR. MORRILL s accounts.\\nIn 1775 a committee was appointed to adjust the town s ac-\\ncounts, whicli were in arrear, going back to the incorporation in\\n1660. In connection with the settlement with Rev. Mr. Morrill,\\nthat gentleman made the entry, as below, on the records\\nMarch 4, 1766\\nThese adjusted accounts with the selectmen of Boscawen, re-\\nspecting all things but the wood rate which remains unsettled from\\nthe beginning of the world to the end of my third year s salary, which\\nended Dec 28, 1764 there was due me from the town of Boscawen\\nupon balance respecting that time, the full just sum of one hundred\\nseventy-five pounds, fourteen shillings six-pence old tenor.\\n175 14 6 RoBiE Morrill\\nThere is also the following entry by Mr. Morrill\\nThe subscriber remits to his People, and never will require the\\nInhabitants of Boscawen to make up to him, that proportion of his sal-\\nary due or to be paid the year 1765 1766 which proportion would\\nhave belonged to any Inhabitants of Boscawen to pay, if they had not\\nbeen made free from it by law, so that no Inhabitants of this town,\\nshall ever be required by me or by my heirs any more, by means of\\nany inhabitant being exempted from paying toward my salary due or\\nto be paid this year and the last\\nRoBiE Morrill.\\nThis action of Mr. Morrill undoubtedly was prompted by a\\nsincere desire on his part to allay all irritation in regard to the\\nlevying of taxes to make good the deficiency of his salary caused\\nby the depreciation of the bills of New Hampshire old tenor.\\nCapt. Stephen Gerrish, a prominent citizen, had protested at the\\noutset against indemnifying Mr. Morrill. The levying of the tax\\nhad caused several citizens to declare themselves churchmen, to\\nescape the payment of all ministerial rates. The growing dis-\\nsatisfaction had caused the dismissal of Mr. Morrill, but it was\\nso deep-seated and wide-spread, that the collector could not collect\\nthe rates levied on the proprietors, and legal proceedings were begun\\nto recover rates levied and paid for the land purchased and settled\\nupon Mr. Morrill. Under the law, the proprietors were powerless\\nto collect the rates, and they accordingly petitioned the legislature\\nfor relief", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "17G7.] CIVIL HISTORY. 97\\nTo His Excellency the Hon Banning Wentworth the Hon Council\\nHouse of Representatives.\\nThe Petition of us the subscribers hereby showeth that the Propri-\\netors of the Town of Boscawen have at their meetings from time to\\ntime voted sums of money as they thought needful to carry on their\\npublick affairs and particularly a sum of money to purchase a Riglit of\\nland in said Town of Boscawen for the encouragement of the settlino-\\na Gospel minister in the Town.\\nThe Right has been purchased given to the Rev Robie Morrill.\\nThe money has been assessed and such original Right was pro-\\nportionately Taxed. And now for the want of Legal power to collect\\nsaid money some part of said proprietors (notwithstanding their for-\\nwardness in voting said money) neglect or Refuses to pay their equal\\npart thereof for want of said money s being collected and paid in\\nthere is an action in Law commenced against said proprietors in order\\nto recover said money which is greatly to the prejudice Damage of\\nthe rest of said proprietors who have paid their full part of said money\\ntends greatly to hinder the propagation and settlement of the same.\\nTherefore we Humbly pray your excellency Honors to Invest\\nsaid proprietors with full power legal authority to collect what money-\\nhath already been or shall hereafter be voted by said proprietors for\\ntheir use by making sale of Delinquent proprietors Land or in any\\nother way your excellency Honors in your Great Wisdom shall think\\nbest your petitioners as in Duty bound will ever pray.\\nDated at Boscawen Aug 24, 1765.\\nGf.orgp: Jackman\\nThomas Cartp:r\\nCora for said Proprietors.\\nThe petition was not acted upon till 1767, when the petitioners\\nwere notified through the Boston Gazette and New Hampshire\\nGazette, printed at Portsmouth, to present their case.\\nTOWX-MEETING.\\nFeb. 3, 1767. Dea. George Jackman, George Jackman, Jr.,\\nand Jesse Flanders were chosen to supply the desk till next\\nMarch meeting.\\nIt was also voted to hegin a town school the present month.\\nEev. Mr. Nathaniel Merrill was employed as a i^reacher.\\nMarch 3. Voted to hire a school two months longer in the\\npresent year.\\n7", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "98 CIVIL HISTORY. [1767.\\nIt was also voted that \u00c2\u00a3200 old tenor be raised for town ex-\\npenses that the selectmen hire some regular preaching as\\nlong as they shall think proper.\\nVoted to clear Mr. Pelatiah Watson for taxes if he leave the\\nTown by the last of June next.\\nVoted, that the selectmen he paid after sert^ing the town one\\nyear for nothing?^\\nNEW MEETIJfG-HOUSE.\\nSept. 8. The log meeting-house on King street had been in\\nuse from the first settlement, in 1733 thirty-four years and the\\ntime had arrived for a better edifice. The population was rap-\\nidly increasing, and was extending westward and northward from\\nKing street. It was therefore voted at this meeting that a new\\nmeeting-house should be erected, and a committee was appointed\\nto select a site.\\nIt was voted that, pending the erection of the meeting-house,\\nthe meetings should be held half the time at the house of Jesse\\nFlanders (house now occupied by F. P. Atkinson).\\nThe committee appointed to select a site, reported as follows\\nBoscawen Sept 8, 1767\\nWe do hereby deliver it as our honest and impartial judgment that\\nit be erected on that sapling pine land about 10 or 12 rods from the road\\ntowards Jesse Flanders, from that knowl above Ephraim Woodbury s,\\nwhich was the last voted place, and that this meeting bouse be placed\\nfor those only that live on the Easterly side of Battle street so called,\\nand that those who live on the Westerly side of said street be exempted\\nfrom any cost in building said house.\\nAs witness our hands,\\nEzekiel Morrill\\nSinkler Bean J- Com\\nArchelaus Moore\\nFrom this it may be inferred that settlers had pushed west-\\nward to the Blackwater. Probably Mr. David Corser was living\\non Corser hill, and Mr. Day and Mr. Cass west of Blackwater\\nriver.\\nDec. 1. At a town-meeting, it was voted to give Mr. Nathan-\\niel Merrill forty-two pounds lawful money which shall be his\\nstated salary to be paid to him yearly, during the time he sus-\\ntains the character of a minister in said Town.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "1767.] CIVIL HISTORY. 99\\nSubsequently it was voted, that if this was not a sufficient sal-\\nary to support him, they would add thereto as much as should\\nbe sufficient.\\nDec. 7. At an adjourned meeting, voted that the above vote\\nadvancing Mr. Merrill s salary shall be null void.\\nIt was then voted to give Mr Merrill 80 acres of good land in\\nthe Town of Boscawen lying as near the middle of said inhabi-\\ntants as convenient as may be had for a reasonable price to be\\nhis own forever upon his settling in said town in the work of the\\nGospel ministry.\\nPOPULATIOX 1767.\\nA census of the province was taken during the year, the first,\\nso far as is known. The population of Boscawen is thus given\\nUnmarried men between 16 and 60, 17\\nMarried men, 45\\nBoys under 16, 77\\nMen 60 and above, 8\\nFemales unmarried, 83\\nmarried, 52\\nWidows, 3\\nMale slaves,\\nFemale slaves,\\nTotal, 285\\nOther towns in the vicinity-\\n-population\\nConcord,\\n752\\nSalisbury,\\n210\\nCanterbury,\\n603\\nDunbar ton.\\n271\\nNew Boston,\\n296\\nHillsborough,\\n64\\nCanaan,\\n19\\nPlymouth,\\n227\\nNewport,\\n29\\nHaverhill,\\n172\\nFrom this it will be seen that the advance of population was\\ndirectly up the Connecticut and Merrimack valleys. The popu-\\nlation of the province was about 52,000.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "100 CIVIL HISTORY. [17GS.\\nSETTLEMEJ^T OF MR. MERRILL.\\nJan. 9. At a town-meeting, held at the house of Capt John\\nFowler Innholder, it was voted to give Mr Nathaniel Merrill\\n20 cords of good wood, cut corded at liis house or place of\\nabode, yearly, together with all the income improvement of the\\nparsonage, so long as he shall sustain the office of a gospel minis-\\nter in said town.\\nVoted, that the people above the pond (Great pond) should not\\nbe free from charge in the construction of the meeting-house.\\nMarch 1. The town-meeting was held at the house of Jesse\\nFlanders, but adjourned for Sundry Reasons.\\nMarch 31. Voted, that the 15th day of June next be the\\ntime for the ordination of Mr Nath^ Merrill.\\nGeorge Jackman, Jr., Peter Kimball, Lieut. Moses Burbank,\\nThomas Foss, and Jesse Flanders were chosen to agree with\\nsome suitable person in the town to provide in a decent manner\\nfor the ministers, delegates, scliolars that should attend Mr Mer-\\nrill s ordination.\\nSeven pounds lawful mone} was raised to defray the eiq^enses\\nof the ordination; also, seven pounds and ten shillings lawful\\nmoney for the use of the town for the year.\\nOct. 5. Voted to raise one hundred dollars towards the\\nbuilding of a meeting-house. This is the first instance in the\\nrecords of the use of the term dollar, in distinction from the word\\n2yoimd.\\nOne sixth part Avas to be paid in money, and the balance in\\nlabor at two shillings per day.\\nThomas Foss, Benjamin Eastman, Peter Kimball, Joseph At-\\nkinson, and George Jackman were appointed a committee to over-\\nsee the construction of the house.\\nTAXES.\\nThe first list of ratable polls on record is for the year 1768, the\\nnumber being sixty-three. Taxes were levied for the province,\\ntown, meeting-house, ordination, minister, wood for the minister,\\nand a labor tax on the meeting-house. The labor tax was five-\\nfold the money tax.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "Pv\\n(o r?^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "7G9.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 101\\nTHE NEW MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThe site finally selected for the new meeting-house was near the\\nnorth-west corner of the cemetery, west of Woodbury s plain. The\\nframe was erected in July, and a town-nieeting held around it\\nJuly 25, to see what measures the town would take towards fin-\\nishing the house. It was perhaps the only open air meeting ever\\nheld in town.\\nVoted to Raise two hundred fifty pounds old tenor Toward De-\\nfraying the charges already arisen in building the meeting house frame\\nto be paid in Labour at fifty Shillings a Day and whoever Don t La-\\nbour when Notified or pay Stuff fit for the use of the house to pay\\nmoney.\\nVoted to begin, Go on with the finishing said meeting house as\\nfar as the pew privileges will go together with the money as above\\nvoted.\\nGeorge Jackman, Jun, Mr Joseph Atkinson, Ens Peter Kimball,\\nMr Benjamin Eastman, Deacon Jesse Flanders ware chosen and fully\\nImpowered as a committee to carry on the finishing said Meeting\\nhouse.\\nThe old tenor currency had so far depreciated that fifty shil-\\nlings was only equivalent to about forty-two cents lawful money,\\na shilling being less than one cent.\\nAug. 1. The committee appointed to appraise the pew privi-\\nleges reported the appraisal and articles of sale as follows\\n1^ The pews to be sold to the highest bidder.\\n2 The money bid is to be understood Hampshire s old tenor.\\nS*! That no person bid less than 20 shillings a bid. [About sixteeu\\ncents.]\\n4 That every purchaser shall pay one fourth part thereof in money\\nthe remainder in labor or lumber as said committee purchaser shall\\nagree, provided the same be at Cash price when wanted for the use\\nof said house.\\n5tii That Each pew be forfeited unless the purchaser pay the sum\\nfor which the same was bid oft at in the following manner, viz:\\nThe money to be paid in three months from the time said pew\\nwas bid off and the other to be paid when called for by the committee\\nfor the use of said house.\\n6. That every person shall forfeit his pew privelege except that the\\npurchaser have the same well finished within twelve months from the\\ntime said pew was bid off.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "102 CIVIL HISTORY. [1769.\\n**7. That any purchaser shall pay down or give security for one\\ntenth part of the value of what said pew was bid off at which sum\\nshall be forfeited unless the articles are fulfilled.\\n8 That any person who will pay Nails Glass at Cash price, or\\nprovide a joiner acceptable to the committee when wanted the same\\nshall answer in lieu of money.\\nVoted by the town, that no wall pew be raised more than 12\\ninches above the meeting house floor, that no body pew be raised\\nmore than six inches.\\nThere is no writing tliat sets forth the dimensions of this first\\nframed meeting-house. It was nearly square, and had a gal-\\nlery, which was not finished till several years later, even if it\\nwas ever wholly finished. There was a pile of boards in one\\ncorner of the gallery, behind which the boys used to secrete them-\\nselves, greatly to the annoyance of the tithing-man. The present\\ntown-house in Webster was modelled after this house. There\\nwas a porch at each end, and a front door. It was built after the\\nprevailing style of the time, a box-like edifice.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "1770.]\\nOHAPTEE VI.\\nPREPARING FOR THE GREAT STRUGGLE.\\npOR some reason not stated in the records, the annual town,\\nmeeting was held at the house of Rev. Mr. Merrill, near\\nMerrill corner, a half mile west of the new meeting-house. At\\nthis meeting, Capt. Peter Coffin was chosen constable. At the\\nsame time, reads the record, Captain Coffin hired Mr. Benjamin\\nEastman to serve in his stead the town did by a major vote ac-\\ncept said Eastman to take the oath serve as constable.\\nFrom this and similar votes, it would seem that the office of\\nconstable was one which a citizen could not decline. There was\\na prevailing sentiment that every citizen, if called upon, should\\nbear his part of the burdens of office.\\nPROVINCE ROAD.\\nThe proprietors held a meeting, and voted to clear a road\\nleading to No. 4, that the northern, or upper road so called\\nshall be cleared for the public road leading to No 4.\\nThis road was Long street, as laid out in the first survey by\\nJohn Brown.\\nNo. 4 was Charlestown, on the Connecticut. During the\\nFrench war, all troops marching to Lake Champlain had passed\\nthrough Massachusetts to Alban}^ but this great highway was\\nopened under the direction of the province, and was known as the\\nProvince road.\\nLi the precept issued to Constable Benjamin Eastman for the\\ncollection of taxes, he was instructed to levy upon the inhabitants\\ntwenty cords of good cord wood corded put up at Rev Mr\\nNathaniel Merrill s door.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "104 CIVIL HISTORY. [1772.\\nThe highway leading south, from the new meeting-house to\\nQueen street, was laid out during the year, to enable the inhabi-\\ntants in that section to reach the meeting-house.\\nMarch 5. The town raised fifty dollars, to be worked out on\\nthe school land, and one hundred dollars to be worked out on the\\nhighway.\\nApril 19. An adjourned meeting was held. It was put to\\nvote to see whether the town would buy a piece of land for Mr\\nMerrill at two dollars and a half per acre decided in the nega-\\ntive.\\nFrom this and other records, it may be judged that the average\\nvalue of unimproved land at this period did not exceed this price.j\\nProbably one dollar per acre woidd have been an average price.\\nJune 11. Voted to accept the highway laid out by the select-\\nmen from the intervale road to the town house In-ook so called,\\nto Marlborough street.\\nIt was put to vote to see whether the town would build a school-\\nhouse, set it near Muzzey s N. E. corner voted in the neg-\\native.\\nThis was the first movement toward the erection of a school-\\nhouse. The schools were kept in private houses. Muzzey s cor-\\nner was at the junction of Water and Long streets.\\nIt was put to vote to see if the town would purchase land of\\nMr. John Elliot, for Mr. Merrill, at one dollar per acre, and was\\ndecided in the affirmative.\\nThis vote Avas subsequently reconsidered.\\nJune 25. At this meeting, it was voted to purchase of Capt.\\nHenry Gerrish the eighty-acre lot laid out to the right of Moses\\nSmith, for Mr. Merrill. The price was eighty Spanish milled\\ndollars. The lot was on Beaver-dam brook, including a large\\nportion of meadow.\\nVoted to sell the old log meeting-house at vendue.\\nMarch 3, 1772. Prior to this date, there had been no bridge\\nacross the Blackwater. Several settlers had located west of that\\nstream, and John Elanders, Capt. Peter Coffin, and Joseph Atkin-\\nson were chosen to select a suitable place for crossing said stream,\\nand to treat with the men who own the land.\\nThe town voted not to deduct anj thing from Rev. Mr. Merrill s\\nsalary for those Sundays when he was absent ^voted, also, that", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "1772.] CIVIL HISTORY. 105\\nMr. Moses Burbank be abated so much ministerial tax as be has\\npaid to the Cburcb of Engbxnd since the settlement of Rev Mr\\nNathaniel Merrill.\\nVoted to raise one hundred dollars, to be Avorked out on the\\nhighways at tlie following rates men at two shillings, oxen at\\n2 shillings, cart wheels at 6 pence, plow 2 shillings per day.\\nFIRST SALE OF PAUPERS.\\nVoted, that Ephraim Davis and wife be clothed at the charge\\nof the town, and they shall be put to them that will take them the\\ncheapest.\\nThis is the first record of the sale of the services of the indi-\\ngent ijersons in town, which soon became the universal custom of\\nall towns.\\nThe committee on the meeting-house matters thus reported\\nThis day the committee that was chosen to build a meeting house\\nsettled with the committee that was chosen to overhaul their accounts\\nsee how they have disposed of the money find due to the town in\\nNew Hampshire old tenor \u00c2\u00a3405\u00e2\u0080\u009412^ O\\nMay 5. Voted to build a bridge over the Blackwater, at the\\nplace reported by the committee.\\nThe site selected was that now used near the town-house in\\nWebster.\\nTHE BOSTON PORT BILL.\\nThe contest between Parliament and the colonies on the ques-\\ntion of taxation was becoming intensified. In revenge for the\\ndestruction of tea in Boston, the ministry had carried a bill\\nthrough Parliament closing that jiort to all commerce. The act\\nwent into effect at noon, June 1. Prom that moment, all in-\\ntercourse between Boston and the world must be across the nar-\\nrow neck of land leading to Eoxbury. No ship could come or go\\nno fisherman pass Castle William in a dory no scow land hay or\\nwood at a wharf no market-gardener take his vegetables across\\nCharles river into the doomed town. The act aroused sympathy\\neverywhere. In retaliation, the jieople resolved to, quit using\\ngoods of English manufacture. The citizens of Boscawen, in\\ncommon with those of other towns, issued their manifesto declar-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "106 CIVIL HISTORY. [1772.\\ning their determination not to purchase such goods. The origi-\\nnal document is in the possession of James L. Gerrish, Esq., of\\nWebster. It might be truthfully called the Preliminary Decla-\\nration of Independence.\\nTHE DECLARATIOJf OF THE PEOPLE,\\nWe the subscribers Inhabitants of the town of Boscawen having\\ntaken into serious Consideration the precarious State of the Liberties\\nof North America and more especially the present distressed condition\\nof our Sister Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, Embarrassed as it is by\\nseveral Acts of the British Parliament tending to the entire Subversion\\nof their natural Charter Rights; among which is the Act for blocking\\nup the Harbour of Boston\\nAnd being fully sensible of our indispensible Duty to lay hold on\\nevery Means in our Power to preserve recover the much injured Con-\\nstitution of our Country; conscious at the same Time of no Alterna-\\ntive between the Horrors of Slavery, or the Carnage Desolation of a\\nCivil War, but a Suspension of all Commercial Intercourse with the Is-\\nland of Great Britain, do, in the Presence of god, solemly in good\\nFaith, covenant engage with each other.\\n1 That from henceforth we will suspend all Commercial Intercourse\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2with the said Island of Great Britain until the Parliament shall cease to\\nenact Laws, imposing Taxes upon the Colonies, without their consent,\\nor until the pretended Right of Taxing is dropped.\\n2 That there may be less Temptation to others to continue in the\\nsaid now dangerous Commerce; in order to promote Industry Econ-\\nomy, Arts Manufactures among ourselves, which are of the last Im-\\nportance to the Welfare Well Being of a Community; we do in like\\nManner, solmly covenant that we will not buy, purchase or consume,\\nor suffer any Person, by, for, or under us, to purchase, nor will we use\\nin our Families in any Manner whatever, any Goods, Wares, or Mer-\\nchandise which shall arrive in America from Great Britain aforesaid,\\nfrom after the last Day of August next ensuing, (except only such\\nArticles as shall be judged absolutely necessary by the Majority of the\\nsigners hereof) and as much as in us lies, to prevent our being inter-\\ncepted or defeated in this only peaceable Measure entered into for the\\nrecovery Preservation of Our Rights or the Rights of our Brethren\\nin our Sister Colony; We agree to break off all Trade Commerce\\nwith all Persons, who preserving their private Interest to the Salvation\\nof their now almost perishing Country, who shall continue to import\\nGoods from Great Britain, or shall purchase of those who import after", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "1772.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n107\\nthe said last Day of August, until the aforesaid pretended Right of\\nTaxing the Colonies shall be given up or dropped.\\n3 As a refusal to come into any Agreement which promises Deliver-\\nance of our Country from the Calamities it now feels, which like a\\nTorrent, are rushing upon it with increasing Violence, must, in onr\\nOpinion, evidence a Disposition enimical to, or criminally negligent of\\nthe common Safety; It is agreed, that all such ought to be considered,\\nshall be by us esteemed, as Encouragements of Contumacious Im-\\nporters.\\nLastly, We hereby further engage, that we will use every Method\\nin our power, to encourage promote the Production of Manufactures\\namong ourselves, that this Covenant Engagement may be as little\\ndetrimental to ourselves Fellow Countrymen as possible.\\nNathaniel Gookin\\nJohn Elliot\\nSamuel Corser\\nThomas Eliot\\nJoseph Jackman\\nMoses Call\\nEbenezer Wise\\nJedediah Danford\\nJohn Corser\\nJohn Bowley\\nHenry Gerrish\\nGeorge Jackman\\nMoses Burbank\\nSam Fowler\\nBenj^ Eastman\\nPeter Kimball\\nIsaac Pearson\\nJoseph Atkinson\\nJohn Flanders\\nSam Atkinson\\nJohn Hale\\nIsaac Noyes\\nBenjamin Jackman\\nPeter Coffin\\nMoses Burbank jr\\nSamuel Jackman\\nNathaniel Atkinson\\nRichard Ilsley\\nSamuel Muzzy\\nEzekiel Flanders\\nAaron Flanders\\nWilliam Danford\\nJohn Flanders jr\\nJohn Elliott\\nJacob Flanders\\nNathan Corser\\nJesse Flanders\\nBenj Sweatt\\nCutting Noyes\\nDaniel Richards\\nJoseph Dunlop\\nOliver Fowler\\nIsaac Fitts\\nTimothy Eastman\\nJohn Couch\\nThomas Corser\\nJohn Corser\\nJonathan Corser\\nWilliam Mirick\\nJohn Jackman\\nSamuel Jackman\\nJames Garis [Gerald?]\\nEdmund Chadwick\\nBenja Day\\nIsrael Shepherd\\nHezekiah Colby\\nDaniel Peterson\\nBenjamin Eastman\\nDaniel Shepherd\\nJohn Stevens 60", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "108\\nCIVIL HISTORY. [1773.\\nTHE FIRST PHTSICIAX.\\nDuring the year Dr. Daniel Peterson took up liis residence in\\nBoscawen the first resident ph3^sician in the town. He built\\nthe house now standing the first building north of the academy,\\non the Plain. (See Biography.)\\n1773. In the selectmen s account with Constable Winthrop\\nCarter for this jeav is tlie following\\nTo an order on Capt Henry Gerrish for Sarvice on\\nthe Country affairs \u00c2\u00a3i_16- Sp\\nAnother item\\nAn order to Ens Kimball as committee on the Country\\naffairs 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\u00e2\u0080\u009411\\nThis was Capt. Peter Kimball, who, with Capt. Gerrish, was\\nchosen to meet other towns in convention, to take into considera-\\ntion the formation of a new county. A convention of towns in\\nHillsborough county was hold during the 3 ear, but no action\\ntaken.\\nIn the selectmen s account are other items which, in the absence\\nof other records, show the progress made by the town\\nGave John Hale an order for making the buring cloth 1 2\\nThis is the first mention of a funeral pall.\\nGave an order to Joseph Couch for boarding a School Master\\nin the year 1772 .5^\\nAs Joseph Couch had taken up his residence on the farm now oc-\\ncupied by Miss Nancy Couch, it is clear that the school was held\\nin what is now the town of Webster. Without doubt, it was the\\nfirst school kept west of Beaver-dam brook. The number of fam-\\nilies west of tluit boundary probably did not exceed ten. The\\nschool was held either in Mr. Couch s house, or in tlie house of\\nJohn Corser, now occupied by Mr. Tilton, or in the house of Sam-\\nuel Corser, now occupied by Mrs. Simeon B. Little. It is not cer-\\ntain, however, tliat the last named was erected as early as 1772.\\nTOWX coRisr.\\nIn the selectmen s account is an item in relation to the town\\ncorn.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "1773.] CIVIL HISTORY. 109\\nPaid to Winthrop Carter for shelling 22 bushels and a\\npeck of the town corn and sorting and carrying up\\ngarrit 4\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 li 1*\\nHow the town happened to be carrying on agriculture in its\\ncorporate capacity, is wholly a matter of conjecture. The town\\nhad no farm. Kot till 1820 did it set up an almshouse. There is\\nnothing in the records relative to the matter. The supposition is,\\nthat some person indebted to the town made payment in corn.\\nTHE FIRST SCHOOL-HOUSE.\\nVoted that the selectmen have liberty to move the middle school\\nfrom the place stated that they place it in such place as they shall\\nfind best to accommodate the Inhabitants in said district according to\\nInterest.\\niSTo school-house had been erected, but a site had been se-\\nlected by the town for a building. It was to be the middle\\nschool. There were two other districts, the one on King street,\\nand one west of Beaver-dam. The people on Water street were\\nthe first to petition for a house. For several years their requests\\nhad l)een in the warrant for town-meeting. They felt that the\\ntime had come when the schools should be taught elsewhere than\\nin a private house, and had si;cceeded in getting a vote for the\\nerection of a school building. The site selected was at the junc-\\ntion of Long and Water streets. The building subsequently\\nerected was the first school-house built. For sevei-al years after\\nthis, the schools in other districts were taught in private houses.\\nREMOVAL OF REV. MR. MERRILL.\\nEev. Mr. Merrill, who was settled in 1768, was removocl about\\nthe first of April. Respecting his removal, says Eev. Mr.\\nPrice, no correct information can be had from the written rec-\\nord, as the records of the town furnish none, and the church rec-\\nord was then misplaced, or lost, and has never to this day been\\nfound.\\nMr. Price further states that Mr. Merrill had joined the Graf-\\nton Presbytery, and that, through his influence, the church had\\nin part changed from the Congregational to the Presbyterian\\npolity. This new connection was the cause of his being fre-\\nquently absent to supply vacant pulpits, which produced discon-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "110 CIVIL HISTORY, [1774.\\ntent in the church and congregation. The discontent was\\nincreased by some supposed, if not real, aberrations observed in\\nhis conduct, and proved a fatal bar to his usefulness. This Mr.\\nM. discovered, and applied to the Presbytery for removal. No\\naction was taken by the church or the town.\\nNov. 1. At a meeting of the town, Joseph Atkinson, George\\nJackman, and Samuel Muzzey were appointed to provide some\\nsuitable person of the Congregational order to preach the gospel\\nas soon as may be.\\nThis brings us to the close of the year 1774, a period of forty\\nyears since the first settlers reared their cabins on King street.\\nDuring this time they had fought the Indians, maintained their\\nground while other towns were deserted, and had moved steadily\\non in the path of civilization, felling the forests, cultivating the\\nsoil, maintaining from the beginning a minister, establishing\\nschools, and passing from poverty to comparative comfort in\\nworldly goods. On all questions touching their rights and liber-\\nties they were intensely patriotic, and never for one instant stop-\\nped to inquire what would best promote their material interests,\\nbut, in regard to the Stamp act, the duties on tea, the Boston\\nPort bill, and kindred matters, stood unflinchingly for the rights\\nof man. It was an intelligent, thrifty, religious, law and order\\nabiding community, standing in the foremost rank of agricultural\\ntowns, ready to share in every trial and hardship necessary to\\nmaintain their liberties.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "W^^ fi\\n^/y 7 /i^y rf/ y-^yj:^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "1774.]\\nCHAPTEE YII.\\nBEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION.\\n^rtT HE citizens of Boscawen manifested their patriotism at the\\nbeginning of the year in electing Henry Gerrish as delegate\\nto the provincial congress, which was held at Exeter, January 25.\\nHe was clothed with full powers.\\nThe attack of the British at Lexington was on April 19. The\\nnews reached Boscawen on the 20th and on the 21st, sixteen men\\nAvere on the march under Capt. Henry Gerrish. They were,\\nHenry Gerrish, Capt., Samuel Jackmau,\\nSilas Call, I^ieut., David Flanders,\\nWiuthrop Carter, Sergt., Charles Greenfield,\\nSamuel Fowler, Esq., Peter Roswell Stevens,\\nEdmund Chadwick, Israel Shepard,\\nJohn Flanders, Isaac Davis,\\nJohn Stevens, Edward Gerald,\\nNathaniel Burbank, Nathaniel Atkinson. 16\\nWe may think of them as assembling at Fowler s tavern, at\\nthe lower end of King street, with their guns and powder-horns,\\nand possibly, here and there, a citizen carried a knapsack. They\\nfill their canteens with rum at Mr, Fowler s bar, and take a part-\\ning drink with their neighbors. We see them crossing Town-\\nhouse brook, and hear the tramp of their marching as they pass\\nover Contoocook bridge.\\nThe news must have reached town on the morning of the twen-\\ntieth. Capt. Peter Coffin saddled his horse, and started for\\nExeter, where we find him on the twenty-first, in consultation\\nwith sixty-eight other delegates to consult what measures shall\\nbe thought most expedient to take in this alarming crisis.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "112 CIVIL HISTORY, [1774.\\nTHE INHABITAIS TS.\\nThe number of inhabitants in the state at this time, and at\\nother periods, may be estimated from the returns made at a later\\ndate (1792) by Joseph Pearson, secretary of state, who searched\\nthe provincial records for that purpose. The ratable polls were,\\n1742\u00e2\u0080\u00945,172 1767\u00e2\u0080\u009411,964\\n1753\u00e2\u0080\u00946,392 1773\u00e2\u0080\u009413,853\\nBeckoning five persons to a family, the inhabitants at the differ-\\nent periods would be,\\n1742\u00e2\u0080\u009425,960 1767\u00e2\u0080\u009459,820\\n1753\u00e2\u0080\u009431,960\\nThe population of the state at the breaking out of the Eevolu-\\ntion, may be estimated, therefore, at about 75,000.\\nTOWX-MEETIXG.\\nAt a meeting of the town, the following votes were passed\\nVoted to buy one barrel of Gunpowder, one hundred weight of lead\\nand one hundred flints.\\nVoted that Capt Stephen Gerrish buy the stores at as reasonable\\nprice as may be, for the use of the town.\\nVoted to adhere strictly to advice of the Continental Congress.\\nA committee was appointed to see if the aforesaid laws [of\\ncongress] be obeyed.\\nCOMMITTEE OF SAFETY.\\nThe committee of safety consisted of Benjamin Jaekman,\\nJoseph Atkinson, Ebenezer Hidden, John Elliot, Capt. Henry\\nGerrish, Lieut. Moses Call, George Jaekman, and Ensign Peter\\nKimball.\\nMarch 14. A committee was appointed to procure a preacher,\\nand was instructed to apply to Mr. Levi Frisby.\\nTwenty-five pounds was voted for school purposes and it was\\nalso voted to employ Mr. IVIorrill (Mr. Eobie Morrill) as teacher.\\nTwenty pounds was voted for preaching.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "1776.] CIVIL HISTORY. 113\\nTOWX-MEETINGS.\\nMay 10. The committee on preaching had not been able to\\nhire Mr. Frisb} and Mr. Samuel Ela was engaged.\\nVoted, that that j^art of the town lying above the pond [Great\\npond] so called have their part of preaching among them in pro-\\nportion to the tax they pay.\\nCapt. Henry Gerrish Avas again elected to attend the provincial\\ncongress at Exeter, to serve for six months.\\nSept. 21. It was put to vote whether Mr. Samuel Ela has\\nbehaved as a Christian Gospel preacher to their satisfaction\\nit was unanimously voted in the affirmative.\\nNotwithstanding this endorsement, it was thought best to in-\\nquire more particularly into Mr. Ela s history and at a subse-\\nquent meeting, held September 25, Peter Kimball was appointed\\nagent to go to the place of Mr. Ela s former residence, make\\nenquiry into the character of Mr. Samuel Ela make report to\\nthe town.\\nA committee was appointed to enquire of sundry persons who at\\npresent do not join with said town in their publick affairs know\\nthe cause of their not attending lay the same before the town\\nin order that the same may be removed.\\nThis had reference to a few individuals who had not joined in\\nthe patriotic movement.\\nMarch 5, 1776. Eobie Morrill, Peter Coffin, and Moses Bur-\\nbank were appointed a committee of inspection agreeable to the\\nrecommendation of the Continental Congress.\\nThat the town was prompt in settling with those who had vol-\\nunteered to go to Cambridge, will be seen from the following\\nvote\\nThat those men that went on the alarm in April last all others\\nwho have demands against the town bring in their accounts as soon as\\nmay be.\\nSCHOOL-DISTRICTS.\\nPrior to this date there had been no regularly defined school-\\ndistricts in town. The money that had been raised annually was\\nin addition to that arising from the school fund but now, in the\\nmidst of war, the citizens took a forward step in education, and", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "114 CIVIL HISTORY. [1776.\\nvoted to divide tlie town into school-districts, eacli district having\\nits school in proportion to its valuation.\\nTHE ASSOCIATION TEST.\\nThe continental congress sent out the following resolutions\\n111 Congress March 16, 1776\\nResolved: That it be recommended to the Several Assemblies, Con-\\nventions, and Councils or Committees of Safety of the United Col-\\nonies, immediately to cause all Persons to be disarmed within their\\nRespective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of\\nAmerica, or who have not associated and refuse to associate, to defend\\nby Aryns the United Colonies, against the Hostile attempts of the Brit-\\nish Fleets Armies.\\nCharles Thomson secy.\\nThis was submitted to the committee of safety for New Hamp-\\nshire\\nColony of New Hampshire\\nIn Committee of Safety April 12 1776\\nIn order to carry the Resolve of the Hon. ble Continental Congress\\ninto execution, you are requested to desire all Males above Twenty\\none years of age Lunatics, Idiots, Negroes excepted) to sign to the\\nDeclaration on this Paper; and when so done to make Return thereof,\\ntogether with the Name or Names of all who shall refuse to sign the\\nsame, to the General Assembly or Committee of Safety of this Colony.\\nM Weare Chairman.\\nThe paper submitted for signature is known as the Articles of\\nAssociation.\\nARTICLES.\\nIn consequence of the above Resolution of the Hon Continental\\nCongress, and to show our determination in joining our American\\nBrethren in defending our Lives, Liberties and Properties of the Inhab-\\nitants of the United Colonies\\nTFe the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we\\ntuill to the utmost of our Potver, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes,\\nwith Arms, oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Ar-\\nmies against the United Colonies.\\nThis was the people s Declaration of Independence, agreed to be-\\nfore the signing of that document issued hy the continental con-\\ngress, July 4. They put their names boldly to the paper, thereby\\ndeclaring themselves rebels.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "1776.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n115\\nEvery citizen of Boscawen, with one exception, signed it. From\\nthis document, we have the name of every male adult in town in\\nthe spring of 1776, not including those who were doing military\\nservice.\\nJoseph Hoit.\\nMoses Call.\\nMoses Morse.\\nJesse Flanders.\\nMoses Burbauk.\\nJohn Flanders.\\nDaniel Noyes.\\nDaniel Clark.\\nBenj Da)\\nKathan Corser.\\nJoseph Atkinson.\\nRobie. Morrill.\\nMoses Bnrbank, jr.\\nThomas Gardner.\\nSamuel Atkinson.\\nJeremiah Hidden.\\nCaleb Merrill.\\nDaniel Peterson.\\nBenjamin Couch.\\nJacob Flanders.\\nJohn Knowlton.\\nEben Hidden.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nDaniel Shepard.\\nIsaac Pearson.\\nWinthrop Carter.\\nSamuel Davis.\\nBenj Rolfe.\\nEzeliiel Flanders.\\nJohn Elliot, jr.\\nThomas Elliot.\\nJohn Muzay.\\nJohn Jackman.\\nJames Garies [Gerald?].\\nEnos Flanders.\\nJedediah Danford.\\nJesse Flanders, jr.\\nWilliam Danford, Jr.\\nSamuel Corser.\\nStephen Gerrish.\\nSamuel Burbank.\\nMoses Jackman.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nJohn Morrill.\\nSilas Call.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nMich^ Sargent.\\nThomas Bedel.\\nSimeon Jackman,\\nWilliam Welch.\\nMoses Call.\\nDavid Burbank.\\nSimeon Atkinson.\\nTimothy Eastman.\\nJoseph Pearson.\\nJoseph Flanders.\\nFriend Little.\\nJohn Corser.\\nEdmund Chadwick.\\nMoses Morse, jun.\\nMoses Manuel.\\nSamuel Jackman.\\nDaniel Richards.\\nDavid Coi ser.\\nAsa Corser.\\nJohn Corser.\\nEdward Garies [Gerald?].\\nJohn Manuel.\\nBitfield Plumer.\\nDavid Carter.\\nNathaniel Gookin.\\nJohn Stevens.\\nSamuel Ames.\\nThomas Corser.\\nJonathan Atkinson.\\nSamuel Clifford.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "116 CIVIL HISTORY. [1777.\\nPeter Kimball. Joseph Bean.\\nJohn Hale. John Fowler.\\nRobert Elliot. John Ilsley.\\nJames French. Peter Coffin.\\nSam^ Danford. Oliver Fowler.\\nBenjamin Jackman. John Bowley.\\nJoseph Muzzy. John Bowley, jr.\\nSamuel Muzzy. John Corser, Jan.\\nIsaac Noyes. George Jackman-\\nPeter Roswell Stevens. Samuel Agaton.\\nWilliam Danford. John Uran.\\nNicholas Elliot. George Jackman, jun.\\nCapt. Stephen Gerrish. Cutting Noyes.\\nNathaniel Atkinson. John Elliot.\\nEnoch Little. Joseph Eastman. Total, 108.\\nNathan Davis.\\nTo the honorable Council and House of Representatives for the\\nColony of New Hampshire, or Committee of Safety. This may cer-\\ntify that the within Declaration have Been offered to the Inhabitants\\nof Boscawen and unanimously signed excepting one (viz) Aaron\\nFlanders Refused to sign the same.\\nGeorge Jackman\\nCutting Noyes Selectmen\\nJohn Elliot\\nJune 3 1776.\\nIt is probable that Mr. Flanders s refusal to sign was not from\\nany hostility to the cause of liberty, nor from fear of conse-\\nquences, but from his temperament as an individual. He was a\\nperson who found pleasure in being on the side opposite the ma-\\njority, no matter what the question. It is not known that his\\nfellow-citizens abated their confidence in his loyalty from his re-\\nfusal to sign this declaration of independence.\\nThe names given are from the original document in the secre-\\ntary of state s office. It is difficult to make out some of the signa-\\ntures. The name given in the provincial papers as Garies is\\nundoubtedly Gerald, as no such name appears in contemporaneous\\nrecords, and as it is Icnown that Mr. Edward and Mr. James Ger-\\nald were residents of the town at the time.\\nMarch 4. At the annual meeting, \u00c2\u00a335 was voted for schools,\\n\u00c2\u00a335 for preaching, \u00c2\u00a320 for the town, and \u00c2\u00a34:0 for the highways.\\nMarch 28. Among the citizens of the county, who were sup-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "1778.] CIVIL HISTORY, 117\\nposed to be tories, were Peter Green, Esq., a lawyer residing at\\nConcord, also Jacob Green, a deputy sberiff and the patriots of\\nBoscawen concluded to make known their sentiments in regard\\nto tlie gentlemen in the following manner\\nVoted, that we will break off all counections with Peter Gi ceu\\nEsq, in regard to employing him as an attorney at law.\\nVoted, that we will not employ uor have any connection with Jacob\\nGreen as Deputy Sheriff.\\nOn the next day, March 29, the citizens deliberated on the\\nstate of the country, and passed the following j^atriotic votes\\nThat Capt Stephen Gerrish, Capt Peter Kimball, Samuel Fowler\\nEsq, Lieut Benj Jackman, Mr John Flanders, George Jackman Esq,\\nbe a committee to propose a plan and lay before the Town for procur-\\ning the men to go into the service of the United States of America agree-\\nably to Order of Court.\\nVoted, that the war for time past for future be maintained by a\\ntax on the Inhabitants in the same manner as the Law directs for Prov-\\nince Tax, allowing a man no more for four months service on his credit\\nin the Southern army than for three mouths in the Northern army and\\nso in proportion.\\nVoted, to give fifty dollars as a bounty or hire from this Town to\\neach man who shall engage to go into the service of this Town for three\\nyears.\\nVoted, that the selectmen provide the money to pay the men who\\nshall enlist.\\nApril 25. The citizens again assembled to take measures to\\npush on the war\\nVoted, to carry on the war by a tax in equal proportion, on the in-\\nhabitants according to interest in the same manner as for their town\\ntax.\\nA committee v^as appointed, consisting of George Jackman,\\nCapt. Peter Kimball, John Elliot, Lieut. Enoch Gerrish, Mr.\\nJohn Planders, Samuel Muzzy, Capt. Samuel Atkinson, and\\nIsaac Pearson, to enquire into the state of service already done in\\nthe war, make a just equitable estimate of each Term that\\nhas been done make report.\\nThe depreciation of the Continental currency had already\\nbegun, and prices were unsettled. The state, therefore, under-\\ntook to regulate them. In accordance with an act of the council\\nand assembly, a town-meeting was held to undertake this task of", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "118 CIVIL HISTORY. [1779.\\nmaking water run up hill, settling what never has been or can\\nbe settled.\\nCapt. Peter Coffin, Lieut. Winthrop Carter, Joseph Atkinson,\\nCapt. Peter Kimball, Lieut. Moses Burbank, Mr. Robie Morrill,\\nLieut. Moses Call, and George Jackman, Esq., were chosen a com-\\nmittee to regulate the price of sundry articles enumerated in\\nsundry acts of the General Court of New Hampshire also to\\nstate such prices as are not therein enumerated.\\nAlthough sustaining this war, the town was not unmindful of\\nthe needs of education. Upon the selectmen s accounts are the\\nfollowing items\\nPaid Capt Peter Coffin towards Schooling \u00c2\u00a316\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nPaid for Ammunition 10\\ntoward Scliool on High st 5 14\\ntoward keeping school at the lower end (King st) 9 12 1\\npd Expei ieuce Eastbrook, for preaching 21\\nPREACHIXG AT THE WEST END,\\nAt the annual meeting, in March, a petition was presented, by\\nsome of the citizens living west of Beaver-dam, praying that they\\nmight be permitted to have preaching at that end of the town,\\nin proportion to the amount of their taxes. The request was\\ngranted.\\nSMALL-POX.\\nIt appears that inoculation for small-]30x was at this time re-\\ngarded as a hazardous experiment. The question came up in\\ntown-meeting, and, after discussion, the following vote was\\npassed\\nVoted that Col Gerrish his family have the liberty to be innocu-\\nlated for the small-pox if it appear to the selectmen to be expedient\\nmay be done with safety in the town s behalf.\\nMarch 2, 1779. Notwithstanding the taxes imposed by the war\\nfor independence, the citizens did not abate any expense in main-\\ntaining preaching.\\nVoted, that the ministerial committee inform Mr. Eastabrook\\nthat it is the unanimous vote that he would supply them again as\\nsoon as his engagement is out at Londonderr}-.\\nProvision was made to supply the families of those who had\\nenlisted in the continental service.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "1779.] CIVIL HISTORY. 119\\nJohn Flanders and Samuel Atkinson were chosen to procure\\nhinges, bars lock to the meeting house, see the same se-\\ncured.\\nOne hundred and twenty pounds was raised for highways, \u00c2\u00a340\\nfor school, \u00c2\u00a330 for preaching, and \u00c2\u00a330 for the town.\\nIt was voted to make some consideration to the men who had\\nenlisted in the continental service.\\nApril 21. George Jackman was elected as delegate to the con-\\nvention called to meet at Concord on the 10th of June, to form\\na permanent place for state government. Also voted that Nich-\\nolas Davis keep the key of the meeting house.\\nAt this meeting the voters of Salisburj were present, and the\\ntwo towns agreed not to send a representative to the General As-\\nsembly. This action was not from any want of patriotism, but\\nevidently it was the opinion of the people that the convention to\\nbe held in Concord was the more important assembly, and that\\nthe old government would soon be superseded by the new.\\nMay 12. Voted to employ Rev. Experience Eastabrook three\\nmonths as preacher, and to raise \u00c2\u00a3100 for the support of the gos-\\npel.\\n[From the selectmen s accounts.]\\npaid Mr Eastabrook for one days preaching \u00c2\u00a39\\npaid Mr Ward For preaching a Day 3 12\\npaid Benj Thurston for preaching two Days 18\\npaid for keeping Mr Eastbrooks hors 5 weeks 2 5\\npaid Mr Abraham Gumming sixty six pound toward\\npreaching at Boscawen 66\\npaid Cutting Noyes for Sarvice as selectmen two years,\\nkeeping schoole Going to Salisbury for a cow 27 8\\npaid Henry Gerrish for money paid Mr Potter (minister)\\nfor Bording mr Jiidson s horse two (days) 4 19\\npaid Isaac Noyes for making two Collins 3 12\\nSAW-MILL AT THE WEST END.\\nDuring the year a saw-iiiill was erected on Blackwater river, a\\nfew rods above the mill now owned by Friend L. Burljank, Esq.\\nIt was erected by Henr}^ Gerrish. Work began May 21, and the\\nmill was finished July 19. A large number of men were em-\\nployed in its construction, their united work being 349 days.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "120 CIVIL HISTORY. [1779.\\nPAPER RAGS.\\nThe war had made paper very scarce. The liome manufacture\\nof paper was begun but rags were needed. The town, at its an-\\nnual meeting, voted,\\nThat Dea Isaac Pearson Capt Samuel Atkinson be collectors of\\nBags for the Paper Mill.\\nNeither by record nor tradition can we learn the location of the\\npaper-mill. Probably it was in some other town.\\nCol. Henry Gerrish and Capt. Peter Kimball were appointed to\\nprocure men for the service of the United States.\\nOwing to the depreciation of the currency, the town voted that\\nfiye dollars should be paid for a day s work on the highway.\\nJuly 7. At a town-meeting, held this date, the selectmen and\\nCapt. Peter Kimball were appointed to hire four Continental\\nmen, five Ehode Island men upon the most reasonable terms\\nthey can, and further to supply men from time to time as they\\nshould be called for.\\nSept. 8. The plan of government prepared b} tlie convention\\nat Concord was presented to the citizens, thirty-five of whom\\nwere present. It was read, article by article, and rejected, fif-\\nteen voting for and twenty against its acceptance.\\nNov. 3. At this meeting the town once more attempted to\\nmake water run up hill, by choosing a committee to regulate\\nprices.\\nA convention of town committees was held at Concord but\\nlaws of trade are superior to committees, and people bought and\\nsold irrespective of tariffs.\\nITEMS OF EXPENSE.\\npaid Daniel Flanders Nathan Carter Joseph hoit in\\npart for going in the Sarvice two months 49 16\\npaid John Elliot for money paid Mr Henery for keeping\\nschool 1\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\npaid John Elliot for Sarvice as selectman and Bording\\na school mistress 7 8\\nThis is the first mention of a school-mistress on the town rec-\\nords.\\nPaid Mr ITutchins for preaching 66 6\\npaid William Mirrick for Boarding school master 3", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "1779.] CIVIL HISTORY. 121\\nRETURNS OF THE INVENTORY.\\nNumber of Polls 18 years old upward 189\\nNumber of male slaves\\nFemale slaves\\nNumber of acres of Orchard Land 7|-\\nNumber of acres of arable tillage land 205\\nNumber of acres of mowing land 601\\nNumber of acres of Pasture land 358\\nNumber of Horses Mears 57\\nNumber of colts 2 years old 1 1\\nColts one year old 13\\nOxen 82\\nCows 77\\nCattle 3 years old 68\\n2 82\\nu I u 107\\nyearly reve [revenue] of mills repairs deducted \u00c2\u00a370\\nSum total of the value of all Building real estate improved\\nowned by the Inhabitants \u00c2\u00a34789\\nunimproved real estate not owned by the Inhabitants \u00c2\u00a32200\\nSum total of value of stock in Trade \u00c2\u00a3200\\nSum total of money iu hand or at interest not in the public\\nfund \u00c2\u00a3225\\nCHARGE TO LIEUT. WINTHROP CARTER, CONSTABLE.\\nTo a Continental State Rate \u00c2\u00a31575\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nTo a County Town Eate 144\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a minister Rate 121 07 1\\nTo a Continental Rate ad 2971\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\\nTo a Non Resident proprietors Rate 451 15\\nTo a War Rate 670\u00e2\u0080\u009417\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\\n\u00c2\u00a35934\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "[1780.\\nOHAPTEE YIII.\\nCLOSE OF THE WAR.\\nHE theatre of war was in the Southern states, and the militia,\\n^4^ while being always ready for service, was not called upon for\\nactive duties. The citizens, however, were compelled to manifest\\ntheir patriotism in a most-unwelcome way, the payment of heavy\\ntaxes in a currency depreciated to such an extent that one hundred\\ndollars would barely suffice to buy a pair of shoes, or pay for an\\nordinary meal. The rates charged to constable David Corser\\nwere,\\nTo a Continental Rate \u00c2\u00a314058\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nTo a Rate on the Non Residents 740\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a Town Rate 2045\u00e2\u0080\u009418\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\\nTo a School Rate 1525\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a County Kate 131\u00e2\u0080\u009416\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a Ministerial Rate 1024\u00e2\u0080\u00941.5\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a tax on the Improved land of the Nou Resident\\nProprietors 65 15\\n\u00c2\u00a319.592\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5\\nTo a Beef AYar Rate 14910\u00e2\u0080\u009404\u00e2\u0080\u009400\\n\u00c2\u00a334502\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nThe disbursements were largely on account of the war.\\nITKMS.\\nTo Mr Hutchinson for preaching 92 8\\nclothing for Jonathan Uran for the Sarvice 99 9\\npaid W\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 Jackman for Beef 189\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nfor Sarvice 259\u00e2\u0080\u009418\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nfor going into Sarvice 269 3 6\\nsame\\nsame\\n47\u00e2\u0080\u009411\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n30\u00e2\u0080\u009418\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "1780.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 123\\npaid for a pair of Stockings for Jonatlian Urau 18\\npaid for a shirt for Jonathan Urau 22 10\\npaid Capt Peter Coffin for beef 319\u00e2\u0080\u009418\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTliomas Coffin, though but four years old at the time, remem-\\nbered the transaction. The rate was levied in Continental money,\\nbut was paid in coin. He remembered the clinking of the Spanish\\nmilled dollars on the hearth, to ascertain their genuineness.\\npaid Joseph Couch for boarding Mr Noyes horse 72\\nMr. Noyes probably was a minister, the last employed before\\nthe engagement of Rev. Samuel Wood. How long he preached\\nis not known. From another entry, in 1783, paid Mr Thomas\\nNoyes for preaching 4 10 0, it may be inferred that he was an\\noccasional preacher, supplying the pulpit from time to time.\\nPaid John Flanders casting lead into Balls 26 5\\nPaid Daniel Clark for a pair of shoes for Uran 30\\npaid Joseph Hoit for going into sarvice 259\\npaid Simeon Carr 259\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\npaid Jonathan Atkinson for keeping schoole 288\\npaid Wiuthrop Carter for a hat for John Uran 21\\npaid for clothing John Uran for Sarvice 140\\npaid Jonathan Urau for going into Sarvice 90\\npaid Jonathan Uran for going to be mustered 69\\nIt is to be hoped that Jonathan Uran was a valiant soldier, for\\nit cost a great deal of money, to say nothing of the selectmen s\\nrunning here and there, to get him into the Sarvice.\\npaid Joseph Lunt for two pairs of Shoes for Jonathan\\nUran 72\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\npaid Enoch Little for his son s sarvice in the army 4G1\\npaid Cutting Noyes for cloth for Jonathan Uran 33 15\\npaid Joseph Little going into Sarvice 189\\nfor Sarvice 210-0-0\\npaid .Moses Morse for cloth for Jonathan Uran 65 11\\nKEV. SAMUEL WOOD.\\nDuring the year, Mr. Samuel Wood, of Lebanon, a graduate of\\nDartmouth, and a young theologue, was employed to preach. The\\ntown had been without a settled minister during the whole period\\nof the war. Mr. Wood being an acceptable preacher, a movement\\nwas made towards his settlement but no result was reached till\\nthe ensuing year.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "124 CIVIL HISTORY. [1781.\\nThe depreciation of the continental currency was so great, that\\na day s work on the highway was reckoned at \u00c2\u00a36, or $20. The\\nselectmen had heen accustomed to charge $2 a year for their ser-\\nvices, hut the town voted $100 instead, and two bushels of pease\\nThe pease were, probably, quite as valuable as the money.\\n1781. The selectmen were directed to assess a tax that would\\nsu2:)ply preaching for eight months, and the committee were di-\\nrected to employ Mr. Wood at least four Sundays.\\nLieut. Enoch Gerrish was chosen town agent for procuring\\nbeef for the continental army.\\nThe first record of the several school-districts gives the division\\nof the school money\\nSCHOOL-DISTRICTS.\\nProportion of school money to Each District for the year 1781\\nThe lower end school [King st] \u00c2\u00a38 3 5\\nKiver Road School [Fish st] 3\u00e2\u0080\u009416\u00e2\u0080\u009410\\nWater st School 5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\\nOver the Pond South Dist [Putney] 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\u00e2\u0080\u009411\\nOver the Pond North District [White Plain] 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\\nAtkinson District 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\\nThe districts on Corser hill, Little hill, and Battle street are\\nwanting.\\nTOWX RATES.\\nThe taxes charged to Constable George Jackman, collector,\\nshow that they were levied partly in the new emission of conti-\\nnental mone}^, and partly in hard money.\\nCALL TO REV. MR. WOOD.\\nJuly 31. A special meeting was held, at the request of the\\nchurch, to ascertain the sentiments of the town in regard to set-\\ntling Mr. Wood, and adjourned to August 13, when it was voted\\n66 to 16 to extend an invitation to Mr. Wood, with a salary of\\n\u00c2\u00a350 for the first two years, the money to be valued at 6s. 6d. per\\nounce, to be paid in coin, or its equivalent in current money.\\nAfter two years the salary was to increase \u00c2\u00a35 per annum until\\nit reached \u00c2\u00a370, which from that time on was to be his salary.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "1781. J CIVIL HISTORY. 125\\nThe town also voted \u00c2\u00a390 for his expenses of settlement, Avith\\nthe use of the parsonage.\\nA protest was signed by twenty voters, and entered upon the\\nrecords, against the proceedings of this former meetings in\\nproceeding to settle Mr. Wood in the Presbyterian way as a\\ntown.\\nTHEOLOGY.\\nTheological lines at this period were sharply drawn, in regard\\nto the doctrine of the atonement and original sin. Especially\\nwas this the case in Newbury, from whence most of the original\\nproprietors came. Dr. Murray, of that town, was an exponent\\nof what was called the limited atonement, or an atonement for\\nthe elect, while Dr. Samiiel Spring was a leader of the new\\nview, as it was called that Christ died for all. The majority\\nof the citizens of Boscawen had accepted the new view, while\\nthere was still a respectable minority who believed in the lim-\\nited atonement.\\nOut of this controversy came new names. The new view men\\nwere called Four-cornered or Square men, and the others\\nThree-cornered men. The four-cornered men arrogated to\\nthemselves more comprehensive views, and a fuller and more per-\\nfect system of doctrine, than were held by their three-cornered\\nbrothers.\\nCROWSFOOT A^ D THEOLOGY.\\nIt was about this time that tlie yellow crowsfoot, or butter-\\ncup, made its appearance in the fields and pastures. It is nar-\\nrated that a three-cornered man, while mowing the crowsfoot\\nwith the intention of exterminating it as a noxious weed, said,\\nSo am I determined to do what I can to exterminate the heresy\\nof the general atonement\\nThose who protested against the settlement of Mr. Wood were\\nthe three-cornered men. Although the opposition was so pro-\\nnounced, Mr. Wood was settled, the ordination being on the 17th\\nof October, 1782.\\nErom the first settlement of the town the gospel was the\\nfirst care of the inhabitants. No matter how difficult to obtain\\nthe necessaries of life, to clear the forests, to obtain their daily", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "126 CIVIL HISTORY. [1782.\\nbread, to protect themselves from the Indians, or to secure their\\nliberties, the gospel must be preached. It is the one distinguish-^\\ning feature of the proprietors and the town records. Without\\ndoubt, the prosperity, stability, and high character of the town, for\\none hundred and forty years, are due to this devotion to principle.\\nEev. Mr. Wood, by his urbanity and prudence, won universal\\nesteem, silenced all opposition, and remained the pastor of the\\nchurch till his death, which occurred in 1834.\\nLORDS PROPRIETORS.\\nThe lands of the proprietors who had not paid their taxes were\\nsold July 11th. Though so large a proportion of the tax had been\\nlevied in the new emission of continental money, the depreciation\\nwas so great that the taxes yielded very little revenue and at a\\ntown-meeting, held September 10th, the selectmen were directed to\\nlevy the tax anew, in silver.\\nBoscawen at this time was classed with Salisbury as a repre-\\nsentative district but the two towns could not agree upon a candi-\\ndate, and remained unrepresented.\\n1782. Though Cornwallis had surrendered, peace had not been\\ndeclared. The town still stood ready to meet any demand that\\nmight come, for men or supplies. At the annual meeting, in\\nMarch, Lieut. Enoch Gerrish was again chosen to provide men,\\nbeef, and clothing for the army, if needed.\\nThe meeting-house had been erected thirteen years, but the\\ngalleries were still unfinished. The calls for money during the\\nwar had been so frequent and urgent, that no effort had been\\nmade towards completing the edifice. At a special meeting, held\\nin May, the town voted to sell the gallery pews, and apply the\\nproceeds towards finishing the house.\\nproprietors meeting.\\nFor a period of ten years there had been no meeting of the pro-\\nprietors. Many of the proprietors, or their heirs, deemed it ad-\\nvisable to sell the lands held in common and undivided and a\\nmeeting was held, October 2d, to take the matter into considera-\\ntion.\\nIt was voted to sell the remaining estates at public auction. As", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "1782.] CIVIL HISTORY. 127\\na tokeu of their desire to aid in every public enterprise, tliey made\\na donation of 400 feet of glass for the glazing of the windows in\\nthe gallery of the meeting-house, and Col. Henry Gerrish was ap-\\npointed to procure the same.\\nCLAY HILL.\\nAt an adjourned meeting, held November 12th, the proprietors\\nsjDecifically reserved two acres of land at Clay hill, to be for the\\ncommon use of all the proprietors, thus securing forever to the\\ninhabitants of the town an interest in the excellent deposit of\\nclay at that locality.\\nFROM THE selectmen s ACCOUXTS.\\nFeb. 28.\\npaid for rum for the army 13 11 4\\npaid to Simeoa Atkinson for Banestors Hing [for the\\nMeeting House] 7^\\npaid Mehetable Hidden for keeping schoole 16\\nAlthough a female teacher was employed as early as 1779, the\\nname of IMehitable Hidden is the first of her sex on record.\\nAnother item\\npaid Wells Burbank for hording School Dame 1 1\\nMr. Wells Burbank lived on Water street, on land formerly\\nowned by Thomas Coffin now by G. W. Fisher and the chil-\\ndren of that district had therefore the benefit of Miss Hidden s\\ninstruction.\\nIn February, the selectmen settled with Eev. Mr. Wood for his\\nservices before his ordination.\\n[From the Records.]\\nFeb 28 1782.\\nThis Day reckoned and settled with the selectmen of the Town of\\nBoscawen and Received an order on Benjamin Jackman constable for\\nthe sum of Nine Pound three shillings ten pence Lawful money\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which is in Full for all the Time I have supplied the Desk in Boscawen\\nbefore the Day of my ordination\\nSamuel Wood\\nGeorge Jackman K^j^^^^^^^^\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nCuttmg JSloyes", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "128 CIVIL HISTORY. [1783.\\nSTATE AND KATIONAL GOVERNMENT.\\n1783. The plan of state government, sent to the towns for\\nadoption, was presented at the annual meeting, in March, and re-\\njected.\\nEev. Samuel Wood, Col. Henry Gerrish, and Samuel Fowler\\nwere chosen delegates to the state convention, to set forth the\\nobjections of the tovm.\\nAt a meeting, held August 18th, the eighth article of the confed-\\neration between the states was approved by the town, as recom-\\nmended by the General Court.\\nSECOND BRIDGE OVER THE BLACK WATER.\\nAt a special meeting, held September 29th, the town voted to\\nbuild the upper bridge over the Blackwater, near Dea. Eliphalet\\nKilborn s residence.\\nThe selectmen s books show the amounts of the school fund ap-\\nportioned to the several districts\\nLower End Schol [King st] 16\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nRiver Rode Schol 5 2 5\\nHighst Schol 6-2\u00e2\u0080\u00948\\nWater st Schol 12\u00e2\u0080\u009417\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\\nSouth District over Beaver Dam 10\u00e2\u0080\u009414\u00e2\u0080\u009410\\nNorth District over Beaver Dam 3 18 5\\nTOWN CENSUS.\\nThe selectmen s books also give the first town census\\nNumber of Inhabitants, buildings Land in Boscawen as taken\\nOct 178.3.\\nWhite Inhabitants 756\\nBlack ditto 1\\nDwelling houses 98\\nBarns other Buiklings 101\\nAcres of Land 25,820\\nTaken April 1783\\nNo of Polls from eighteen to seventy-five years of age 151\\nNo of negroes\\nAcres of Orcharding 15\\nArable Tillage Land 196", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "1784.] CIVIL HISTORY, 129\\nMowing Land 652\\nPasture Land 612\\nNo of Horses mares 75\\nOxen 134\\nCows 221\\nHorses cattle three years old 78\\nHorses cattle two years old 114\\nHorses cattle one year old 105\\nyearly rent of mills \u00c2\u00a350\\nvalue of all Building Keal Estate improved land \u00c2\u00a34463\\nvalue of Real Estate not owned by Inhabitants \u00c2\u00a32595\\nvalue of stock in trade \u00c2\u00a350\\nvalue of money in hand or at Interest Not in the publick\\nFunds\\nTlio town had been settled fifty years, and tliougli it contained\\n7d8 inliabitants, yet the whole anionnt of tillage, pasturage, mow-\\ning, and orcharding was only 1,475 acres, out of 25,820 com-\\nprised in the town limits. Thus slowly had civilization made its\\nway in the dense forest that at the outset covered all the terri-\\ntory.\\nMEETING-HOUSE AT THE WEST END.\\nThe people living west of Beaver-dam brook, being so far from\\nmeeting, agitated the question of the erection of a house of wor-\\nship at the West end, and a committee was chosen to select a site.\\n1784. The town during the war took care of the families of\\nthe soldiers in the service. In the selectmen s accounts are the\\nitems of clothing, provisions, and other articles furnished the fam-\\nily of Joshua Danford. It is interesting, because it sets forth the\\ndepreciation of the currency, and the peculiar hardship to the\\nsoldiers in taking their pay in a worthless currency.\\nFeb 16 1674.\\nTo one bushel of wheat Delivered you 6\\nTo answering your order by John Jarrold 4 bush corn 12\\nTo one bushel Corn bj^ your wife 3^\\nTo one bushel a half of Corn 4 6\\nTo Corn by Capt Coffin 15\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo 592 Continental Dollars 75 for one 2 7 3\\nTo 546 Continental Dollars at 100 for one 1\u00e2\u0080\u009413\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a ton of hay a bushel of potatoes 2 2\\nTo 30 lbs salt pork at 9 pence 1 2 6\\n9", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "130 CIVIL HISTORY. [1784.\\nTo two pair shoes one pair Mogersons 1 6\\nTo Rum, Sugar, Molasses Salt by Lunt 17 7\\nTo oue pair shoes 6\\nTo pasturing a cow 9\\nTo 4^ bushels of rye 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoscawen Fb 13 1784\\nKeckoned settled all accounts with Joshua Danford\\nFrom the time of His first Entering into Conti-\\nnental Sarvice up to the First Day of January A D\\n1774 allowing him at the Rate of Sixty Dollars a\\nyear as a hire or Bounty and Deducting one hun-\\ndred dollars in part of the above amount for\\namount exhibited to the state for alowauce by the\\norder find due him 6 18 7\\nJoshua Danford.\\nGENERAL WARXIXG OUT.\\nDuring the year the selectmen gave a general warning out\\nto persons not born in the town, not, perhaps, that the individ-\\nuals were likely to become paupers, but as a precautionaiy meas-\\nure. It was among the possibilities that well-to-do citizens might\\nbecome poor, and in such case a warning out would relieve the\\ntown from responsibility. It was the ethics of the time. Among\\nthe number thus notified to leave were Schoolmaster Fisk and fam-\\nily, and others, who, through life, were substantial citizens. The\\nduty was performed by Constable Edmund Chadwick.\\nROAD TO DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.\\nSettlements were pushing northward, especially up the Con-\\nnecticut valley. The rich meadows and uplands of Haverhill and\\nNewbury and other localities were exceedingly attractive, and\\nthere was a public demand for an improved road from the Merri-\\nmack to the upper Connecticut. The people of the upper towns\\npetitioned the legislature for a public road. The jjetition was\\npresented in 1784, and an act passed appointing Timothy Walker\\nof Concord, Ebenezer Smith of Meredith, and Henr}^ Gerrish of\\nBoscawen, a committee to lay out the same four roads wide, be-\\nginning at the River Road or highway (so called) in the town of\\nBoscawen in the most convenient place from thence to proceed\\nin the most direct course the situation of the land wiU admit of to", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "1786.] CIVIL HISTORY. 131\\nConnecticut river at or near Dartmouth CollegCj having respect\\nto public private interests.\\nOn the copy of the act sent to Col. Henry Gerrish are the\\nnotes,\\n1785 May 24 set out. Returned 30th d 7 Days. Adjourned to\\nSept 12th 1785 to meet at Col H Gerrish s.\\nOct 26 1785. Made a Return of said Road which [was] received\\nwas accepted by the General Court.\\nThe road left the river in the hollow at the north end of King\\nstreet, and ascended the hill, crossing the present highwaj^, and\\ndescending the steep hill to Cold brook then winding up the\\nravine past the brick-kilns, crossing the road leading to Bashan,\\nstriking across the plain to Woodbury hill thence up the pres-\\nent travelled road to Merrill corner thence to High street. So\\nfar as the town of Boscaweu was concerned, few changes were\\nmade in the then existing roads.\\nThe highway was called the College road, and after the\\nfourth New Hampshire turnpike was constructed, was known as\\nthe College old road.\\nIn the selectmen s account for the year is an item in regard to\\nBlackwater upper bridge\\npaid Silas Call for Rum to Raise Blackwater Bridge 7^ 0.\\nWhether it was the raising of a bridge, a barn, a dwelling, or a\\nmeeting-house, whether a wedding or a funeral, whether the citi-\\nzens were at home or abroad, nothing was done without the stim-\\nulus of ardent spirit.\\n^overhauling a committee.\\nMarch 7, 1786. The citizens of Boscaweu were watchful of\\ntheir interests. At this meeting, Capt. Peter Coffin, Samuel\\nFowler, and Ebenezer Hidden were appointed to overhaul and\\nsettle with a former committee that was chosen to sell the Gal-\\nlery pews in the Meeting house see how they have proceeded\\nin the matter.\\nA committee was also appointed to overhaul the selectmen s\\nbooks.\\nMaj. Enoch Gerrish and David Carr were appointed to assist\\nthe surveyor in building a bridge across Clay Hill.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "132 CIVIL HISTORY. [1786.\\nThis Lridge was intended to avoid tlie steep descent and ascent\\ntbrougli the gulf. It stood a few feet west of the present bridge.\\nMANUFACTURES.\\nThrough the war the citizens had been compelled to manufacture\\nall articles of wearing apparel. Carding and fulling mills were\\nestablished in every town. Men acquainted with the dressing of\\ncloth were in demand. Some time during the war, Isaac Pearson,\\nof Newbury, began the dressing of cloth in the hollow, and rap-\\nidly accumulated a fortune.\\nHatters were also a necessity. Wheelrights, joiners, cabinet-\\nmakers, were to be found in every town. Wagons were not at\\nthis time in use, but carts were needed everywhere. Saddlers\\nand harness-makers, and mechanics in general, were able to thrive\\nby their industry. Skilled labor commanded remunerative prices.\\nGUNPOWDER.\\nDuring the war, powder was in great demand.\\nMany stories are current of the quality of some of the powder man-\\nufactured during the war. There was a scarcity of saltpetre, and\\nstable floors were frequently taken up to obtain the earth beneath\\nfor leeching. Some of the powder manufactured was slow to ignite,\\nand of no great explosive force when ignited. It is related that\\na soldier, having some of the poor powder, flashed his gun. He\\nthought that he had forgotten to load, and had only primed it.\\nHe placed himself in position to load, when, hearing a fizzing, he\\ndiscovered that the charge had taken fire and was coming up the\\nbarrel. Being quick-motioned, he took aim once more, just in\\nseason to send the bullet into the ranks of the enemj\\nIt is stated that on another occasion a quantity of powder in a\\nkeg took fire, and nearly half of it burnt up before it could be\\nextinguished\\nThese stories, if classed among those related by Baron Munchau-\\nsen, may at least be set down as illustrative of the humor of the\\ntimes.\\nSCARCITY OF MONEY.\\nThere was great distress at this time on account of the scarcity\\nof money. Paint it in the most vivid colors, and the picture will", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "1787.] CIVIL HISTORY, 133\\nnot be overdrawn. Continental money was worthless. A hun-\\ndred dollars would not i^urchase a sjjool of thread, or a brealifast.\\nThere was no state currency there were no hanks there was\\nlittle silver and less gold in the country. The small amount of\\nsilver in circulation was of Spanish coinage, received through\\ntrade with the West Indies. There was little direct trade with\\nEurope, and what little had sprung up was against the United\\nStates, rather than in their favor. There was nothing to cause a\\nflow of the precious metals to America, hut, on the contrary, what\\nlittle was here was gradually flowing from the country and\\nthis while there was a rapid increase of poiKilation.\\nNearly all trade was by barter. The great difficulty was the pay-\\nment of taxes. A weak, inchoate, inert, lifeless confederation of\\nstates had been established, a body without a heart or head.\\nThe New Hampshire legislature called for an expression of\\npublic opinion in regard to the issuing of a paper currency by\\nthe state. The town, at a special meeting in November, gave its\\nassent to the issuing of a currency equal in amount to the in-\\ndebtedness of the state, to be redeemed at the end of seven years.\\nREBELLIONS.\\nThe discontent of the times broke into open rebellion in Massa-\\nchusetts, under Gen. Shay, the leader of the movement also in\\nPennsylvania, and in the sea-coast towns of New Hampshire.\\nThe disturbance in this state was quickly quelled by the firm,\\nenergetic, yet conciliatory measures of Maj. Gen. Sullivan. No\\nbreach of the peace occurred in Boscawen but tlie spirit of\\ndiscontent was abroad, manifest in a disregard for law and order,\\nas will be seen further on.\\nPOPULATION.\\nThe increase of population in the town may be seen from the\\nfollowing item in the selectmen s books\\nThe Number of Soles in the Town of Boscawen of Every age Seek\\nand Condition taken in the month of April A D 1786 are computed at\\n827 Soles.\\nThe town met, March 31, to choose a representative to the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "134 CIVIL HISTORY. [1787.\\nGeneral Court, but, after mucli debate, voted tbat the town would\\nnot be represented.\\nThis was due to the prevailing discontent of the times a\\ndissatisfaction with the state of public affairs, the want of cur-\\nrency, and an inability to see their way out of their troubles. The\\nconfederation and the state were supposed to be the authors of\\ntheir troubles, or at least responsible, and the majority of the citi-\\nzens desired no connection with either body.\\nMOVEME^ T FOR A NEW COUNTY.\\nProm the formation of Hillsborough county, the session of the\\ncourt had been held at Amherst but the towns in the northern\\nsection agitated the question of making a second shire town. A\\nconvention was called to meet at Warner, to which delegates were\\nelected by the several towns. Boscawen united in the effort, and\\na petition was presented to the General Court, and an act obtained\\nmaking Hopkinton a shire town.\\nFEDERAL CONSTITUTION.\\nThe federal constitution, framed in 1787, was submitted to the\\nstates for adoption. There was a large nuiiiber of people in the\\nstate ojjposed to its acceptance. Many of the citizens of Bos-\\ncawen deemed it an objectionable instrument, and regarded its\\nadoption as a surrender of their liberties.\\nAt a special meeting, held January 14, the town elected Capt.\\nJoseph Gerrish delegate to the convention called by the state. He\\nwas supposed to be in favor of the adoption of the constitution.\\nThe minority, not satisfied with the result, induced the selectmen\\nto call a second meeting, May 23. A majority of those present\\nelected Samuel Fowler, Esq., delegate, and instructed him to vote\\nagainst the adoption of the constitution.\\nThe two delegates made their appearance at the convention,\\nand Capt. Gerrish was deemed to be duly elected, and was admit-\\nted to his seat. He expressed, undoubtedly, the sentiments of a\\nmajority of the citizens, in voting for the adoption of the consti-\\ntution.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0212.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "1789.J CIVIL HISTORY. 135\\nELECTION UNDER THE CONSTITUTION.\\nDec. 15. The first election was held under the federal consti-\\ntution, when very little interest was manifested. At the JNIarch\\nmeeting, 115 votes were cast for governor, but at this meeting\\nthe highest vote for electors was 36.\\nMarch 3, 1789. Voted, that Mr E Chadwick Mr Samuel\\nMuzzy, two former Constables, ha^e the liberty to collect their\\ntaxes now due in neat stock provided they pay in the same be-\\ntween the first day of May the first day of June.\\nSALE OF SCHOOL LANDS.\\nThe town voted to dispose of a portion of its school lands, and\\nkeep the fund intact for educational purposes. Money was very\\nscarce. The federal government had issued no coin. Nearly all\\ntransactions were by barter. It was accordingly voted, that\\nStock equal to six feet oxen at twelve pounds the york, ($60),\\nwheat at five shillings per bushel, rye at four sliillings Indian\\ncorn at three shillings be taken in payment.\\nThe lots sold as follows\\nHouse lot f 124.\\nInterval lot 210.\\n80 Acre lot 453.\\nSgi787.\\nTwo other lots one of 100 acres and one of 45 acres were re-\\nserved. The amount was placed on interest, loaned to the town,\\nand has so remained to the present time, the interest being an-\\nnually appropriated to the support of schools.\\nThe school-district on Little hill and two districts west of Long\\npond were established during the year.\\nThe road from Long street south to Dwight corner, known as\\nPleasant street, and thence to Bashan and Hopkinton, and the\\nroad from High to Fish street, familiarly known as the cat-\\nhole, were opened as public highways.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0213.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "[1790.\\nOHAPTEE IX.\\nUNDER THE CONSTITUTION.\\n^HE adoption of the federal constitution, the reorganization\\nof the state government, brought order out of chaos. Then\\nbegan a period of advancement. Emigration set in. There was\\na rapid increase in popuhation, and progress in domestic as well as\\npolitical affairs. In a very short time the meeting-house accom-\\nmodation was not sufficient. A portion of the floor was occupied\\nby seats common to all but there being a demand for more\\npews, the town voted to sell space sufficient for the completion of\\nfour pews.\\nThere was dignity in sitting in a pew. The men of the period\\nestimated rank, condition, station, titles, and honor at their full\\nvalue. The minister, of all men in town, was entitled to respect.\\nThe deacons and elders occupied the seats immediately in front of\\nthe pulpit, and were treated with much respect. The town jus-\\ntice was honored in his office, and was always addressed as\\nEsquire. Colonels, captains, lieutenants, and ensigns were hon-\\nored in their military titles. The community was undergoing a\\nchange; it had reverenced the king, but now the community\\nitself was king. It had pushed monarchy from the throne,\\nand enthroned itself it had assumed the prerogatives of govern-\\nment, and was beginning to feel its power. A few years later\\ndemocracy was rampant, but at this time law and order, and an\\nadherence to old time customs, were characteristic of the citizens\\nof the town. Men who were able to own a pew in the meeting-\\nhouse were not disposed to occupy the common seats. Hence the\\nsale. The pews were bid off by\\nNathaniel Green, Esq., $66\\nJoseph Lunt, 41", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0214.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0215.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "UJi.^^-t^ ^^^^^yi^iC^C^ ^^^^-^^^Ci..-^^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0216.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "1791.] CIVIL HISTORY,\\n137\\nSimeon Atkinson, f 40\\nEnoch Gerrish, 36\\n1791. For some cause the town elected five selectmen, the first\\nand only time in its history.\\nThe committee for finishing the meeting-house were instructed\\nto extend the length of the front gallery that there be two\\npews one on each end finished at the charge of the town near\\nby six feet square that the remainder be finished for a singers\\npew.\\nVoted that the selectmen be directed to remove Tliomas Greenfield\\nfamily provided that it be according to law.\\nWhat Thomas Greenfield and family had done does not appear\\nbut the probabilities are that they stood in need of the town s aid,\\nand may not have been warned to leave. From the vote, it would\\nseem that the question before the town was one of law, rather than\\nof ethics or of sentiment.\\nThe people at the West end had made several efforts to obtain a\\nmeeting-house in that section, but not having succeeded, agitated\\nthe question of dividing the town, and prepared a petition to the\\nGeneral Court for that purpose.\\nPETITIOX FOB A NEW TOWN.\\nTo the Honerable Senate House of Representative s of the State\\nof New Hampshire in General Court Assembled:\\nTlie subscribers Inliahitants of the westerly half of the town of\\nBoscawen in said state, Humbly beg leave to show that the easterly half\\nof said Town was first settled that the meeting House built to accom-\\nmodate that part of the Town only, giving the westerly part which was\\nthen thinly inhabited encouragement for a parish whfu their numbers\\nwere sufficient, but as it is not agreeable to the laws of the state, your\\npetitioners are exposed to great inconvenience hardship in attending\\npublic worship, Town Meetings especially in the winter season it\\nbeing more than five miles from the Meeting House to the Centre of\\nthe westerly half of said Town that from the combination of Ponds,\\nHills Swamps c which lie between the easterly westerly half will\\never render it inconvenient to remain in one District in our present\\nsituation we have no redress without the aid of this court.\\nYour petitioners therefore pray that the westerly lialf of said Town\\nmaybe set off from the easterly half incorporated into a seperate\\nTown by the name of Bristol with the same privileges as other Towns", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0217.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "138\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n[1791.\\nin this state or otherways relieved as your Honors in your \u00e2\u0096\u00a0wisdom\\nshall see meet your petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever yjray.\\nBoscawen June 1, 1791.\\nJohn Thorla,\\nThos. Thorla,\\nCaleb Knight\\nBenja. Stickney\\nJeremiah Gerrish\\nMoses Coffin,\\nJames Corser\\nFriend Little\\nBenja. Little\\nJoseph Little\\nEnoch Little Jr\\nJesse Little\\nNaty Barnard\\nTristam Barnard\\nPhilip Barnard\\nThomas Barnard\\nJohn Asten\\nNathan Stevens\\nSamuel Roby\\nSamuel Beverly\\nWilliam Corser\\nThomas Corser\\nSamuel Jackman\\nJohn Jackman\\nMoses Jackman\\nSamuel Atkinson\\nJoseph Hills\\nJoseph Cass\\nBen. Cass\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nEldad Austin\\nAsa Day\\nBenjamin Day\\nSimeon Jackman\\nEdward Gerald\\nSam^ Jackman 3\\nBenj Fisk\\nJohn Gerald\\nSam^ Googin\\nStephen Corser\\nGeorge Stone\\nBenja. Sweatt\\nEnoch Easman\\nTimothy Easman\\nTlio^ Easman\\nJames Colby\\nMoses Calf\\nEliphalet Little\\nBenja Couch\\nJoseph Little\\nSam Mors-s\\nEliphalet Kilburn\\nJames Little\\nSimeon Corser\\nNath Kilburn\\nJohn Corser\\nDani Colby\\nJon a Corser\\nJedidiah Kilburn\\nJedidiah Danford\\nNicholas Severance\\nJames Trussell\\nWilliam Danford\\nBenja Asten\\nMoses Gerrish\\nNoah Little\\nJona Knight\\nSamuel Corser\\nBenja Severance\\nDavid Burbauk,\\n71\\nDavid Carter\\nIn the year 1777, there jirobahly were not more tlian ten legal\\nvoters west of Beaver-da:n. In thirteen years the number had in-\\ncreased to seventy-one so rapid was the advancement. The cir-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0218.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "1791.] CIVIL HISTORY. 139\\nculation of the petition, the unanimity with which it was signed,\\nalarmed the citizens of the east section, who did not wish to see\\nthe town divided. A town-meeting was called, wdiich was held\\nApril 26, and James Flanders, Ebenezer Webster, and Luke\\nWilder were appointed a committee to select a site for a new\\nmeeting-house. These are the names of non-residents. Eben-\\nezer Webster was Judge Webster of Salisbury, father of Daniel\\nand Ezekiel.\\nIt was voted that the frame be raised, and the pews sold durino-\\nthe year.\\nAt a meeting held Sept, 17th, it was voted that the bigness\\nof the frame be the same as that built by the town in the easterly\\npart thereof.\\nIn the Webster town-house, as it was before the east and west\\nporches were removed, we have the counterpart of the build-\\ning Avhich once stood near the burial-place in Boscawen. The\\ncommittee reported at a meeting held Oct. 17th. It is not\\nknown what locality had been selected by them, but their report\\nwas rejected, and the following vote passed\\nTHE SITE OF THE MEETIXG-HOUSE.\\n[From the records.]\\nit was put to vote if said Town would Accept the Place to Set the\\nXew Meeting House on which is Now under Cousideration on the East\\nSide of Blackwater or as near the corner of Mr. Cogswills land ia a\\nHew Phice of Stubble Ground, voted in the affirmative.\\nVoted that a meeting house Frame be built at The Charge of the\\ntown.\\nMr. Samuel Jackman contracted to furnish the frame for ^94.\\nSo satisfactorily was the contract fulfilled, that the town voted\\nhim f 16.68 additional.\\nRAISIXG THE MEETIXG-HOUSE.\\nThe raising of a meeting-house was a great event, and peo-\\nple came from the surrounding towns to aid in the work. They\\ncame early in the morning, with pike-poles and pitch-forks and\\niron bars, pike-poles and pitch-forks to lift with when the broad-\\nside should be well up in the air, and iron bars to hold against the\\nfoot of the posts to slide them into the mortises of the sills. On", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0219.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "140 CIVIL HISTORY. [1791.\\nsucli an occasion there was plenty of rum. Tlie first thing to be\\ndone was to take a drink, to give strength for the labor of the\\nday. Then came the bringing together of the timbers. The\\nsills were already laid and levelled. First the posts, then the\\ngirts and levers, and lastly the plates.\\nIt had been framed by the scribe rule each piece being fitted\\nto its place. The square rule was then unknown to country\\ncarpenters. The broadside was then pinned together. Then\\ncame the drinking of more rum, and the marshaling of the crowd,\\nthe cool-headed men hold of the iron bars, the strong and experi-\\nenced men in places of responsibility. When all were ready, the\\nmaster workman, standing in rear where he could see all that was\\ngoing on, commanded silence. We hear him say,\\nAre you ready all\\nAye! aye!\\nTake hold all\\nThe men bend, and place their shoulders beneath the posts. A\\nswarm take hold of the plate, another hold of the girts. The men\\nat the iron bars spit on their hands\\nNow, then\\nThe frame rises.\\nHeave away, my hearties\\nIt is up to their shoulders.\\nNow she rises\\nThose by the plates seize their pike-poles and pitch-forks.\\nAt each corner and in the middle are shores, with a crowd*of\\nmen and boys lifting on each.\\nHeigh my hearties\\nThey lift with all their might, and grow rod in the face. The\\npike-poles bend, the handles of the pitch-forks are ready to snap.\\nSteady there\\nNow comes the tug of war at the foot of the posts. The iron-\\nbar men are bracing with all their might.\\nHeave-ho from the master.\\nNow she goes from the men.\\nHigher, still higher, up to the perpendicular. The tenons slide\\ninto the mortises in the sills, the shore men hold back on the\\npoles, and the first broadside of the house of God stands in its ap-\\npointed place. The men wijie their brows, and take another drink", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0220.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0221.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "Town House, Webster.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0222.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "1791.] CIVIL HISTORY. 141\\nof rum. There is a congratulatory dram all around, in jDrepara-\\ntion for the opposite broadside. That, too, rises. Then come\\nthe connecting girts and plates, and then the lifting of the beams\\nfor the galleries, and the high beams, the j:)utting up of sleepers,\\nj)lanks and boards, rafters and purlins, and, last of all, the rido-e-\\npole. When the last is in its place, a crowd of men sit astride it,\\ntake full drams from the bottles of rum passed up to them, and\\nthen dash the bottles to the ground. This last is the dedicatory\\ndram.\\nSuch the scene on that day.\\nSo complete were the arrangements, so excellent the workman-\\nship of Samuel Jackman, so numerous the men, so early at work in\\nthe morning were they, that the first broadside was up before\\nnine o clock, the last dram drank before noon, and the raisin^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was over.\\nThomas Coffin, a boy of fourteen at the time, remembers the\\noccasion as one of the great events of his boyhood.\\nThe amount of rum drank at the raising is seen from the se-\\nlectmen s book\\nPaid for rum to raise the New Meeting House \u00c2\u00a33 17 2\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094nearly $20.\\nFESTIVITIES.\\nIn the evening, after the frame of the meeting-house was raised,\\nthe young men repaired to the house now owned by Henry L.\\nDodge, where the girls, who had been lookers-on at the raising,\\nwere assembled. The town had provided a generous supply of\\nfood and liquors, and all hands after supper joined in a grand\\ndance, which was kept up till past midnight.\\nThe pews were set up, and sold, and the proceeds applied to fin-\\nishing the house.\\nNo 1 Benjamin Sweatt $28\\n2 Eliphalet Kilburn 29\\n3 Samuel Jackman 22\\n4 Ezekiel Flandei s 16\\n5 Henry Gerrisli 29\\n6 eJohn Jarrokl 38\\n7 Samuel Morse 35\\n8 Joseph Gerrish 31", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0223.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "142 CIVIL HISTORY. [1791.\\n19 Friend Little\\n$21\\n10 Benjamin Stickney\\n35\\n11 Thomas Thorla\\n44\\n12 Joseph Cass\\n61\\n13 David Corser\\n48\\n14 Caleb Knight\\n45\\n15 Benja Little\\n34\\n16 Kathau Kilborn\\n21\\n17 Dr Cutting Noyes\\n34\\n18 Silas Call\\n35\\n19 John Corser\\n36\\n20 Benjamin Couch\\n33t^\\n21 Jonathan Thurston\\n24i\\n22 Samuel Morse\\n35\\n23 Moses Coffin\\n40\\n24 Minister\\n25 David Burbank\\n43\\n26 John Flanders\\n34\\n27 Jeremiah Gerrish\\n33\\n28 Benja Jackman\\n38\\n29 Nicholas Severance\\n52\\n30 Moses Calef\\n43\\n31 Joseph Atkinson\\n34-^\\n32 Daniel Pillsbury\\nm\\n33 Enos Flanders\\n37\\n34 Enoch Little\\n52\\nGallery.\\nNo\\n1 Edmund Chad wick\\n$30\\n2 Jonathan Thurston\\n11\\n3 Benjamin Knowlton\\n16*\\n4 Enoch Gerrish John Flandera\\n22\\n5 Peter Kimball\\n17*\\n6 Joshua Jackman\\n11\\n7 Benjamin Cass\\n14\\n8 David Call\\n22\\n9 Edmund Chadwick\\n21\\n10 James Corser\\n21\\n11 David Corser\\n21\\n12 Benjamin Austin\\n20\\n13 John Jarrold\\n30J\\n14 Benja Choate\\n14", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0224.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "1792.] CIVIL HISTORY. 143\\n15 Samuel Jackman $12\\n16 John Jerrold 13^\\n17 Friend Little is\\n18 John Manuel 18\\n19 Nathaniel Thurston 14\\n20 Daniel Shepard 11\\n21 John Jarrold 30|\\n22 Moses Call 24\\n23 David Carter 24\\nPOST ROUTES.\\nThe legislature, at its session this year, established four post\\nroutes through the state.\\nThe first begining at Concord thence to proceed through Weare,\\nNew Boston, Amherst, Wilton, Temple, Peterborough, Dublin, Marl-\\nborough, Keen, Westmoreland, Walpole, Alstead, Acv/orth, Charles-\\ntown, Clareraont, Newport, Lenipster, Washington, Hillsborough, Hen-\\nniker, Hopkinton to Concord.\\nThe second from Concord to Boscawen, Salisbury, Anslover, New\\nChester, Pl^ mouth, Haverhill, Piermont, Orford, Lymf, Hanover, Leb-\\nanon, Enfield, Canaan, Grafton, Alexandria, Salisbury to Concord.\\nThe other two connected the towns in the eastern part of\\nthe state with Concord and Portsmouth. Each post-rider was\\nrequired to perform his route weekly, extraordinary circum-\\nstances excepted. The riders on the first and second routes\\nwere paid twelve pounds each. They were required to reverse\\ntheir alternate trips. The postage on single letters was fixed at\\nsix pence for forty miles, and four pence for any distance less than\\nforty. Once a week, therefore, the citizens of Boscawen could\\nsend a letter to other sections of the state on the route of the\\nrider but if directed to a town on one of the other routes, from\\nsix to twelve days would be the time required.\\n1792. The town, at its annual meeting in March, voted to sell\\nthe parsonage lands, and put the money at interest. The sales\\namounted to $918. The money was loaned to the town, and the\\ninterest devoted to the support of a minister.\\nThe constitution of New Hampshire having been revised, it\\nwas submitted to the town at a special meeting, held August 27,\\nand adopted by the citizens.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0225.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "144 CIVIL HISTORY, [1792.\\nLIBEKALITY OF REV. MR. WOOD.\\nRev. Mr. Wood, liaving the advancement of the town in view, es-\\npecially in the matter of education, generously proffered the town\\nthe interest from the parsonage fund, amounting to $44, to be\\napplied to the schools. The town returned a cordial vote of\\nthanks.\\nMr. Wood s efforts to j)romote the advancement of the com-\\nmunity were also directed to the foundation of a library. He was\\nseconded in his efforts by several gentlemen. The subscription\\npaper is as below\\nTHE FIRST LIBRARY.\\nWe the subscribers hereby promise to pay tlie sums respectfully\\nset against our names To Henry Gerrish Esqi- for llie purpose of pur-\\nchasing a Library (for the use of said subscribers) in three months\\nfrom this date as witness our hands.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2August the S 1791.\\nNathaniel Green 12 s\\nJohn Chandler 12\\nEnoch Gerrish 12\\nJoseph Gerrish 12\\nJoseph Atkinson Jr 12\\nJeremiah Gerrish 12\\nJoseph Lunt 12\\nGeorge Jackraan 12\\nSamuel Fowler 12\\nIsaac Chandler 12\\nJoseph Clough 12\\nTheodore Atkinson 12\\nS -ml Gerrish 12\\nDavid Peterson Jr 12\\nPaul Clark 12\\nDavid Corser 12\\nMoses Coffin 12\\nIt will be interesting to know what class of literature was se-\\nlected by the men of the time and the catalogue, as published\\ntwenty years later, we give in full, for it was this library which\\nDaniel Webster devoured while studying with Rev. Mr. Wood.\\nA catalogue of books in the Boscawen Social Library, alphabetically\\narranged under the following heads, Theological, Historical, and\\nMiscellaneous. By a vote of the Proprietors, Oct. 7, 1811. Concord:\\nPrinted by George Hough. 1811.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0226.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^^-\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J CIVIL HISTORY.\\nBOSCAWEN SOCIAL LIBRARY.\\nTHEOLOGICAL.\\nAdams View of Religions\\nAmerican Preacher, 4 vols.\\nBaxter s Call to the Uncouverted\\nBethkol\\nBenevolence and Misery reconciled\\nBoston s Fourfold State\\nCommunicant s Companion\\nEdwards against Chauncy\\non Redemption\\non Religious Affections\\nEvidences of the Christian Religion\\nFlavel s Husbandry Spiritualized\\nNavigation ditto\\nFuller s Letters\\nGospel Sonnets\\nHervey s Meditations\\nHenry on Prayer\\nHopkins System, 2 vols.\\nHoly War, (Bunyan s)\\nKnox s Essays, 2 vols.\\nLaw s Serious Call\\nLowth on Isaiah\\nMendham Evidences\\nMason on Self-Knowledge\\nNeckar on Religion\\nNewton on the Prophecies, 2 vols.\\nOwen on Sin\\nPilgrim s Progress, (Bunyan s)\\nPrayer Book\\nRemarks on Clapp\\nRise and Progress (Doddridge s)\\nRutherford s Letters\\nSherlock on Death\\nSmith on the Prophecies\\nSermons, collected\\nBlair s, 2 vols.\\nDavies 2 vols.\\nEdwards\\n145\\n10\\nMorse s\\nParsons 2 vols.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0227.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "146 CIVIL HISTORY, [1792.\\nSermons, Sauriu s\\nWhitefleld s\\nFordyce s, to Young Men\\nto Young women\\nStrong s\\nVillage, 3 vols.\\nSpaulding s Lectures\\nToken for Mourners\\nWatts Glory of Christ\\nWorcester on Future Punishment\\nWest s Moral Agency\\nWilberforce s View of Religion\\nYoung s Night Thoughts. 65.\\nHISTORICAL.\\nAdams Modern Voyages\\nBeauties of History, 2 vols.\\nBelknap s New-IIampshire, 3 vols.\\nCarver s Universal Traveller\\nCarver s Travels in North America\\nConquest of Canaan\\nCook s Voyages, 4 vols.\\nGordon s American War, 3 vols.\\nGuthrie s Geography\\nHistory of England\\nJosephus, 6 vols.\\nIrwin s Travels\\nLife of Christ\\nBrainard\\nEdwards\\nLife of Franklin\\nCol. Gardner\\nJoseph\\nWashington, 5 vols.\\nBaron Trenck\\nModern Antichrist\\nMorse s Geography, 2 vols.\\nNew England Farmer\\nProofs of a Conspiracy\\nRamsay s Amer. Revolution, 2 vola.\\nEollin s Ancient History, 10 vols.\\nResidence in France\\nRobertson s America, 4 vols.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0228.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "1792.] CIVIL HISTORY. 147\\nUniversal History, 4 Vols.\\nWoll s History of the Martyrs, 2 vols. \u00e2\u0080\u0094GO.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nArabian Night s Entertainment, 3 vols.\\nBeccaria on Crimes\\nBlair s Morals\\nCato s Letters\\nControversial Letters\\nClerk s Magazine\\nCowper s Poems\\nCowper s Task\\nCoquette\\nDeath of Abel\\nDictionary of Arts Sciences, 4 vols.\\nDomestic JMedicine (Buchan s)\\nDon Quixot, 4 vols.\\nEconomy of Human Life\\nEmma Corbett, 2 vols.\\nEsop s Fables\\nFamily Instructor\\nFemale American\\nFerguson s Astronomy\\nFool of Quality, 5 vols.\\nForesters\\nGoldsmith s Essays\\nGospel Tragedy\\nLaws of New Hampshire\\nLetters on Courtship\\nLyric Poems\\nMoral Repository\\nMoral and Religious ditto\\nMurray s Reader\\nParadise Lost (Milton s)\\nRegained\\nPilgrim Good-Intent\\nPolite Preceptor\\nPope s Works, 6 vols.\\nReligious Tradesman\\nRomance of the Forest\\nSalem Witchcraft\\nSeneca s Morals", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0229.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "148 CIVIL HISTORY. [1794.\\nSpectator, 8 vols.\\nThompson s Seasons\\nVicar of wakefield\\nWatts on the Mind\\nLogic\\nYounff Gentleman s Instructor \u00e2\u0080\u009472\\nThe whole number of volumes 203\\nThe present number of Proprietors 71\\nThe Society was founded February 7, 1792.\\nAnd was incorporated November 30, 1797.\\n1793. The following taverners were liscensed to sell spirituous\\nliquors during the year, showing that the public were accommo-\\ndated with at least four hotels\\nSimeon Atkinson and Col. Henry Gerrish on Fish street, Capt.\\nThomas Choat on High street, and Winthrop Carter, in the house\\nnow occupied by Nathaniel Webster, on the Plain.\\nTimothy Dix, a store-keeper, was also licensed.\\nThe annual town-meeting was held for the first time at the\\nw^est meeting-house.\\nFROM THE SELECTMEX S BOOKS.\\npaid Joseph Little for a School House on Corser Hill 7\u00e2\u0080\u009416\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\npaid W\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 Danford for a school Dame Bashan 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\\nThis is the first mention of Bashan a locality containing at\\nthe time Benj. Severance, Wm. Danford, Moses Gerrish, and per-\\nhaps two or three other families.\\nFIRST STORE IN WEB.STER.\\nThe first store ever kept in what is now the town of Webster\\nwas opened during the year, by Samuel Gookin, in a house that\\nstood on the site now occupied by the residence of George Little,\\nEsq., on Corser hill.\\nBUILDING OF SCHOOL-HOUSES.\\n1794. The inhabitants of Boscawen manifested a determina-\\ntion to establish their schools on a permanent basis. Up to this\\ntime there were probably not more than four school-houses in the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0230.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "1795.] CIVIL HISTORY. 149\\ntown, and an energetic committee was appointed, consisting of\\nHenry Gerrisli, Xatlianiel Green, David Corser, Thomas Thorla,\\nSilas Call, and Capt. Peter Kimball, who, with the selectmen,\\nwere to divide the town into as many districts as they might\\njudge were necessary that each district have the liberty of locat-\\ning its school-house, which should be built at the expense of the\\ntown that such houses as were already built should be appraised,\\nand allowance made accordingly. The committee established\\neight districts.\\nTHE GRKAT FROST.\\nThe spring of 1794 was very forward, but on the 17th of May\\nocciirred what was called the great frost throughout the coun-\\ntry, which destro3 ed the grain crop for the year but, as reported\\nby Mr. Price, it also destroyed the canker-worms, which had been\\ndestructive to vegetation.\\nTROUBLE WITH EXGLAXD.\\nNov. 10. The town, in response to a call from the general gov-\\nernment, appointed a committee to devise ways means for\\nprocuring the soldiers called for.\\nThe laAvlessness of England, in committing depredations upon\\nAmerican commerce while at war with France, was the occasion\\nfor this action in preparing for a war with the mother countr}^ It\\nwas voted to pay soldiers eight dollars per month, including the\\npay from the federal government, to provide them with a suitable\\noutfit of clothing, and a good blanket. No soldiers, however, were\\ncalled for.\\nAn aqueduct probably the first in town was laid during the\\nyear, conveying water from the house-lot laid out to the right of\\nthe houses of Samuel Sweatt and Henry Kingsbury, to the houses\\nof Timothy Dix, Daniel Carter, Samuel Morrill, and Joseph Ger-\\nrisli. The water was conveyed in logs.\\n1795. The town voted to build a new pound, near Capt. Peter\\nKimball s, on Water street. It was built of stone, and is still in\\nexistence.\\nIXCREASE OF TAVERNS.\\nAt this period, there was a stream of emigration to the north-\\nern section of the state, and to Vermont. On the other hand, the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0231.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "150 CIVIL HISTORY. [1796.\\nmarkets were on the seaboard, and the whole country seemed to\\nbe in motion, settlers going north, and farmers Avho had made a\\nstart in the world going south. Numerous taverns were estab-\\nlished. In the section of the town west of Beaver-dam brook,\\nthere were three one kept by Benjamin Couch, another by\\nJames Little, on Battle street, the latter in the house now oc-\\ncupied by George Sanborn, and one kept by Jonathan Corser,\\nin the house now occupied by Franklin Shepherd.\\nThe inventory of the town for the year was made out for the\\nfirst time in federal currency. The selectmen s accounts, how-\\never, for this and the succeeding year, were in pounds, shillings,\\nand pence. From 1797 the old currency disappears from the rec-\\nords.\\nPEOPRIETOKS MEETING.\\n1796. The proprietors of the town were called together at the\\ninstance of Col. Henry Gerrish, who was appointed their agent\\nto petition the General Court of Massachusetts for a township of\\nland. Tlie ground of the petition was the fact that the legisla-\\nture of Massachusetts had already made grants of land to towns\\nwhich, on the establishing of the line betAveen Massachusetts and\\nNew Hampshire, were assigned to New Hampshire, although they\\ndesired to remain with Massachusetts. Col. Gerrish undertook\\nthe agency at his own expense, he to have one half of the territory\\ngranted if his mission was successful. He spent much time and\\nmoney, and apparently made out a strong case, but did not suc-\\nceed in obtaining a grant.\\nTHE TRANSITION PERIOD.\\nThe period from 1795 to 1800 was characterized by lawlessness\\nthroughout the country. It was a transition period. The coun-\\ntry was in an unsettled state. The success of the French Revolu-\\ntion, of license over liberty the sj)read of the infidelity of the\\ntimes the circulation of Paine s Age of Reason, and the writ-\\nings of Voltaire the political status of the country the war spirit\\nwhich had been fanned almost to a flame, and which had been\\nonly partially allayed by Jay s treaty the revolt against the the-\\nological dogmas of the time, all combined to make it a turbulent\\nperiod. Boscawen was not exempt from the general disturbance.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0232.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "179G.] CIVIL HISTORY. 151\\nThere were frequent breaches of the public peace by a band of\\nconfederates private as well as public property was destroyed, wan-\\ntonly, and with malice horses were disabled bee-benches rifled\\napple-trees girdled wagons, carts, and farming implements dam-\\naged. Some of the perpetrators were apprehended, and brought\\nbefore the courts. During the Revolutionary War, there had been\\na number of individuals who bad manifested no sympathy with\\nthe cause of liberty, and who were regarded as tories. Though no\\narrests had been made in town, they had been closely watched by\\nthe patriotic citizens, and had been under social restraints.\\nLater, they had opposed the adoption of the federal constitution\\nand now a mistake on the part of the selectmen, for the year 1795,\\nhad enabled them to enlist public opinion against the established\\norder of things.\\nIn 1794, the selectmen of the town received no precept for a\\ncounty tax prior to the making out of the other taxes, and no tax\\nwas laid but before the expiration of the year the precept was\\nreceived, and the selectmen had no alternative except to advance\\nthe money on their own account. Anticipating the same state of\\naffairs the following year (1795), Capt. Joseph Gerrish, Enoch Lit-\\ntle, and George Jackman, Esq., levied the usual tax in advance of\\nthe receipt of a requisition, which never came. The result was,\\nthat several discontented spirits refused to pay the tax, or, having\\npaid it, sued for recovery.\\nThose suing were,\\ntax sued for\\nEnoch Eastman .14 cts\\nAsa Conner .28\\nSamuel Roby .71\\nTimothy Eastman 1.38\\nJohn Gerold 1.2G\\nPhilip Barnard .53\\nDavid Carter 1.22\\nJames Little 1.71\\nEliphalet Little .99\\nMoses Jackman .31\\nEphraim Noyes .35\\nPearson Eastman .28\\nStephen Corser .51\\nJonathan Corser 2.10", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0233.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "152 CIVIL HISTORY. [1797.\\nBenjamin Cass .91\\nTristam Barnard .71\\nBenj Rolfe 2.57\\nSilas Rolfe .94\\nSilas Call\\nSamuel Gookin\\nThe selectmen paid the tax from their own purses. The politi-\\ncal antagonism was so intense, that all sense of justice and equity\\nseemed to he stifled. No reimhursement was ever made. It is\\nthe one solitary instance in the history of the town where a great\\ninjustice ,was suffered to go unrectified.\\nSEPARATION OF CHURCH AXD STATE.\\n1797. The proprietors of Boscawen, at the outset, had respected\\nthe conscientious scruples of one of their number Samuel Fowler\\nin regard to supporting the minister. The principle adhered to\\nby him had taken firm hold of the community, and many men\\nsaw that it was unjust to comj^el a man to support a minister\\nwhose theological teachings he did not accept. The time Avas ap-\\nproaching for a new order of things. After the death of Mr.\\nFowler, people without exception paid their taxes for the sup-\\nport of a minister but during this year Mr. Silas Call entered\\nhis protest.\\n[From the Records.]\\nThis may certify that I am determined not to pay the Rev. Samuel\\nWood for preaching after this date for I cannot join him in his profes-\\nsion sentiments or profession therefore you are requested to record\\nmy protest against the same.\\nMay 22 1797 Silas Call.\\nThe protest of Mr. Call was an ex2:)ression of a rapidly growing\\nfeeling that the time had come for a separation of church and\\nstate. Other citizens manifested their opposition to the existing\\norder of things in disorderly ways. There were those who utterly\\ndisregarded all religion, and who showed their dislike by break-\\ning the windows in the new meeting-house (in Webster), by\\nnailing up the pulpit door, the doors of the pews, and in the de-\\nfilement of the pulpit and pews, especially those belonging to cit-\\nizens active in town and society affairs. The houses being in part", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0234.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "1798.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 153\\nthe property of tlie town, action was at once taken. Warrants were\\nissued for the arrest of tln-ee or four lawless individuals, who were\\nput under bonds to keep the peace.\\nBUKiSriNG OF THE EAST MEETING-HOUSE.\\n1798. On the night of ^February 22d, the East meeting-house\\nwas burned by an incendiary. At the annual meeting, in March^\\nthe town appointed Col. Henry Gerrish, Nathaniel Green, Esq.\\nand John Chandler to prosecute all such persons who have or\\nshall commit any trespass on either of the public houses or high-\\nways or done any other public damage.\\nThe real incendiary was probably a non-resident. That there\\nwere citizens who were accessories to the crime is altogether prob-\\nable but the chain of circumstantial evidence was not strong\\nenough to warrant an arrest.\\nMeasures were taken to erect another building, on another site.\\nA committee, composed of citizens from adjoining towns, reported\\nin favor of a site on the Woodbury plain, a half mile east of the\\nformer building. The town did not choose to locate it there.\\nSeveral other localities were selected, and rejected in turn. Ere\\nlong, it became manifest that a majority of the citizens would not\\nvote to build a house of worship.\\nA proposition to allow six or more persons to erect a meeting-\\nhouse at their own expense, and to accept the same as a town-\\nhouse, was voted down. Further action was postponed.\\nIt was next voted that the selectmen be instructed to abate the\\nministerial tax of any person who requested it, which in their\\njudgment all things considered shall appear to them best to be\\ndone.\\nBURNING OF WATER STREET SCHOOL-HOUSE.\\nThe school-house on Water street was destroyed by fire on the\\n8th of April. It was an incendiary act.\\nThere had been some disaffection over its location but the\\nburning of the edifice was regarded as an outbreak against law\\nand order, which must be stopped. There was a sudden reaction\\nof public sentiment. The citizens manifested their disapproba-\\ntion so unmistakably, that some of the restless spirits were com-\\npelled to leave town to escape arrest, while others were put on", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0235.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "154 CIVIL HISTORY. [1798.\\ntlieir good beliavior by the action of the town in securing indem-\\nnity by civil process.\\nDuring this troublesome period, the malice of those regardless\\nof law was directed, seemingly without reason, against particular\\nindividuals in the communit3^ Those who followed the even\\ntenor of their ways, as well as those who were prominent in\\ndirecting public affairs, suffered at the hands of the lawless.\\nMr. David Corser, who lived on Corser hill, in the house now\\noccupied by Mr. Tilton, was especially annoyed. His cattle were\\nmutilated, and his house fired into at night, the bullet lodging in\\nthe roof. Mr. Corser invoked the protection of the law, and sev-\\neral parties were arraigned.\\nA deposition before the court is given, as illustrative of the\\nspirit of lawlessness prevalent at that time\\nI John Corser of lawful age testifieth saith that some time the\\nfore part of the last winter past, I was in David Corser s yard saw\\nhis turkeys as he called them with their toes cut off a bleeding on the\\nsnow he told me somebody had cut them off.\\nLAST EFFORTS TO OBTAIN A MEETING-HOUSE.\\nOnce more, those who wanted a meeting-house proposed Wood-\\nbur}^ plain as a site, which was again rejected. The proposition\\nwas made to build on the old spot. The result was a tie vote,\\n70 in favor, and TO against. Then the advocates for a new house\\nproposed to have it erected in the centre of the town, which was\\nrejected by a decisive majority.\\nAnother proposition was made, that one half of the meetings\\nfor public worship should be on the jilain on King street at such\\na place as they [the selectmen] shall provide till a new meeting\\nhouse be built.\\nAt this juncture, the meeting-going citizens of the town wisely\\ndecided to make no further efforts to secure the erection of an edi-\\nfice by the town and those living in the easterly section united\\nin building a meeting-house at the head of King street the\\noriginal of the present edifice.\\nThe time had come for a new order of things. By the adop-\\ntion of the federal constitution, all such political union as had ex-\\nisted from the first settlement of the country, between church and\\nstate, was virtually abrogated. The non-recognition of religion as", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0236.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "1798.] CIVIL HISTORY, 155\\nhaving aught to do with the state, had hecome an unwritten Law.\\nThe state laws relating to parishes were not modified till a subse-\\nquent j^eriod but in this year (1797) there was a virtual sever-\\nance of church and state in Boscawen.\\nThe school-house difficulty, on Water street, was settled by the\\npeople of the district. They proposed the erection of two houses,\\none to accommodate the north end, and the other the south end,\\nthe school to be taught alternately in each house. The north\\nschool-house was erected where it now stands the south house\\nstood where the first school-house in town, probably, was erected\\non the west side of Water street, north of Mr. Bradley Atkinson s.\\nThe site may still be recognized. The building was subsequently\\npurchased by Moses Coffin, and removed to his farm, where it was\\noccupied as a cooper s shop, and afterwards as a blacksmith s shop.\\nIt was demolished in 1874.\\nPRICES OF rilODUCE AND LABOR.\\nThe prices of farm produce and labor will be seen by the follow-\\ning extracts from the account-book of Dea. Enoch Little, who was\\nselectman in 1795-96\\nJohn Jackman joiner to Enoch Little 1790. Dr\\nS. D.\\nNov 10* To 1 bushel wheat 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a bushel rye 5 4\\nDec G To one quarter 1 4\\nTo butter tub 37 lbs 30 which I expect is\\nbutter 1 5\\n1797.\\nApr 28 i To 150 lbs pork carrying it to you 3 6\\nMay 18 h To 6 lbs butter at 9 pence 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\n30 To 33 lbs veal at 3^ pence 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\\nTo 2 casks of lime 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo 46 lbs mutton at 2 pence 7 8\\nFeb 15 For three days work self 2 hands 1 8 6\\nFor horse 2 days 8\\nTo a four feet table 1\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a clock 16\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo a chest with one drawer 1 5\\nIn another account we find the following prices\\nTo 6 lbs lard at 8 p 0\u00e2\u0080\u00944\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\nTo 8 flax at 11 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0237.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "156 CIVIL HISTORY. [1798.\\nTo 2 bush potatoes 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo i beans 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo i yd cotton linen cloth 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2\\nTo 19 lbs cheese at 5p 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nTo 12 soap grease 6\\nTo 2k galls molasses 0\u00e2\u0080\u009412\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo 18f good cheese at 10 cents SI, SB\\nTo carrying 3 bblsof pork to Newbury S3,75\\nIn the account with Moses Coffin, tailor, we have the following\\nprices\\nTo making a coat cutting a waistcoat breeches 0,87\\nTo making surtout waistcoat breeches cutting 2 75\\nTo making a jacket trousers for Abraham 1,25\\nTo calico for a gown 4,17\\nAt this time, and for many years later, enrrency was reckoned\\nin pounds, shillings, and pence. The silver money in circulation\\nwas either English or Spanish coinage. Very little federal cur-\\nrency was in use. The foreign coinage held its place for the first\\nforty years of the jiresent century, and though the keeping of ac-\\ncounts in pounds and shillings began to give place to dollars and\\ncents in speech, the old currency still held its own. Merchants\\nwere accustomed to mark the price of the articles in British cur-\\nrency. Mr. Hezekiah Fellows, trader on Corser hill, never aban-\\ndoned the practice, hut marked all his goods in pounds, shillings,\\nand pence, to the day of his death.\\nOne of the incidents of the period was the action of two men,\\nwho, having committed a trespass, came voluntarily before a jus-\\ntice of the peace, and were fined.\\nJanuary the S A. D. 1800.\\nThen Humphrey Carter Thomas Thoria both of Boscawen in the\\ncounty of Hillsborough state of New Hampshire personally came before\\nme Nath Green Esqr one of the Justices of Peace for said county\\ncomplained of themselves for being guilty of a breach of the peace in\\ntaking, stealing destroying one bee hive with a quantity of honey in\\nthe night time the property of Joseph Gerrish E ^qr at said Bfoscawen\\non or about the first day of Sept 1790, it is considered by me the said\\njustice after hearing the above confession that the said Carter Thoria\\npay a fine of one dollar each for the use of the state of New Hampshire\\nfor being guilty of a breach of the peace in so doing, which fine is paid\\nto me accordingly.\\nNath Green jus Peace.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0238.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0239.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "^^t9yiec/n", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0240.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "1800.]\\nOHAPTEE X.\\nTHE FIRST DECADE OF THE CENTURY.\\n^yHE citizens residing at the east end of the town, and who\\nassociated themselves together for the erection of a meeting-\\nhouse, entered upon the work with zeal. The building was begun\\nin 1799, and completed in 1800. The erection of this edifice by\\nvoluntary subscription brought about a marked change in the busi-\\nness transacted at the annual and special meetings of the town.\\nOne bone of contention was buried forever. There would be no\\nmore discussions of the vexed question of meeting-houses. From\\nthis time on the business related chiefly to the election of neces-\\nsary officers, the laying out of roads, and the appointment of com-\\nmittees on matters which the selectmen could not well attend to.\\nThe civil transactions, from 1800 onward, may be noticed by decades.\\nThe determination of a majority of the inhabitants to have little\\nor nothing more to do with meeting-houses is seen in the vote\\ngiven Sept. 16, 1799, when the town voted ^not to accept the\\nproposition of the new society to pay in part for the building of\\nthe frame.\\nThe society accepted the situation, and went on with the con-\\nstruction of the house.\\nMEETING-HOUSE OJiT THE PLAIN.\\nThe building stood broadside to the road, with a tower, steeple,\\nand spire surmounting the porch at the northern end. The spire\\nwas surmounted by a wooden weather-cock. The country joiner\\nwho fashioned it never having studied the rules of art, the cock\\nwas not regarded as a fitting adornment to the edifice. After the\\ncompletion of the structure, it was resolved to have it removed,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0241.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "158 CIVIL HISTORY. [1800.\\nand a gilded vane placed upon the spire. Mr. William Jackman,\\nwho was an athlete in climbing, volunteered to ascend the lightning-\\nrod from the belfry, and make the desired change. A great crowd\\nassembled to witness the feat. Mr. Jackman ascended the taper-\\ning spire without difficulty, seated himself upon the golden ball,\\nremoved the cock, lowered it to the ground, drew up the vane and\\nfixed it in its place, and then drew up a bottle of rum, took a\\ndram, and threw the empty bottle to the ground, which, to the\\nwonder and amazement of the crowd, did not break The crowd\\nmanifested their appreciation of Mr. Jackman s exploit by fre-\\nquent and hearty cheers.\\nThe cock, though degraded from its high and dignified perch,\\nhad a longer lease of service than the vane. That disappeared in\\n1839, when the house was remodelled, while the cock has watched\\nthe changes of the wind, daily and nightlj^, through all these\\nyears, as it now does, from the sign-post of S. A. Ambrose s tav-\\nern.\\nThere was a door at the front opening to the broad aisle, and a\\nporch at the south end with stairs leading to the gallerj^ The\\ninterior of the building was after the style of the period, square\\npews, seats that turned up, and which went down with a slam\\nwhen the people took their seats after prayer, wall pews, floor\\npews, a deacon s seat and an elder s seat in front of the pulpit, a\\nsounding-board, singers seats in the front gallery, and common\\nseats on the sides.\\nA pleasant-toned bell was purchased, and placed in the belfry\\nin December, 1799. It probably was the first bell in the Merri-\\nmack valley north of Dunstable. A bell, weighing six hundred\\npounds, was obtained in Chester, in 1788. The bell in the iSTorth\\nchurch, in Concord, was not obtained till 1802. The incident\\nserves to show the public spirit of the new society, which, relieved\\nfrom connection with the town, entered upon its work with great\\nzeal.\\nDEATH OF WASHINGTON.\\nThe news of Washington s death was received in Boscawen on\\nthe IGth of January, 1800, and the bell was tolled through the\\nday by George Washington Webster. The mournful knell went\\nout over hill and vale. People came riding to the meeting-house", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0242.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "1800.] CIVIL HISTORY. 159\\nto hear the news, and in obedience to the general request the select-\\nmen issued the following notice for a meeting of the town\\nTo the inhabitants of Boscawen Agreeably to a request of a num-\\nber of the inhabitants you are desired to meet at the hDwer meeting\\nhouse on Monday the 20 inst at 2 o clock P M to signify whether it be\\nyour wish to have an oration or eulogium on the memory of General\\nGeo Washington delivered at said house on a time that you may agree\\nalso to take such other measures as they may think proper to show their\\nlast respect to the Friend of their country.\\nEnoch Gerrish\\nBenj Little Selectmen,\\nTimo Dix jr\\nBoscawen Jan 18. 1800\\nAt the meeting held on the 20th, Col. Henry Gerrish, Maj.\\nEnoch Gerrish, George Jackman, Nathaniel Green, and Timothy\\nDix, Jr., were appointed a committee to consult in regard to the\\nproposed tribute of respect, and made the following report\\nThat the Rev Sam^ Wood be desired to prepare deliver an Ora-\\ntion on the 22 i of February, at eleven oclock in this house. That the\\nPulpit be shrouded with black, that the people be desired on the occa-\\nsion agreeably to the Presidents Pi-oclamation to wear a black crape or\\nribbond upon the left arm, same above the elbow, that the Females\\nof the town be requested to wear black ribbonds said mourning to be\\nworn from the Lord s day next four week s inclusive that the inhabi-\\ntants be requested to form procession at half past ten oclock on said\\nday at Mr Somersby Pearsons that a committee be chosen to make such\\narrangements as shall be thought necessary on said day.\\nTliere was a large gathering of the people on tlie day appointed,\\nand the arrangements of the committee were duly carried out.\\nThe oration of Mr. Wood took the form of a sermon, from the\\ntext, And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord,\\nthe Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who de-\\nlivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb s younger\\nbrother. Judges 3 9.\\nOn the same day, a meeting was held at the West meeting-\\nhouse, and a eulogy delivered by Eev. Ariel Kendrick V. D. M.\\nDiligent inquiry has been made in order to ascertain the mean-\\ning of the cabalistic affix appended to Rev. Mr. Kendrick s name\\nin the printed address delivered on the occasion hut the few ven-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0243.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "IGO CIVIL HISTORY. [1800.\\nerable men still living, who can remember Washington s funeral,\\nare ignorant as to their meaning.\\nSMALL-POX HOSPITAL.\\nThe small-pox suddenly made its appearance at the west end.\\nA town-meeting was called, and a committee of safety appointed.\\nThe selectmen were instructed to prosecute all who might spread\\nthe infection. The infected were removed to a pest-house, and\\nlibert} was given to private individuals to establish a small-pox\\nhospital. One was accordingly erected, in the pasture east of the\\nroad, on Water street, not far from the residence of Silas Call,\\nnow William Abbott s.\\nAt the annual meeting in March, liberty was given to all Avho\\nmight choose so to dp, who lived west of the spot where the old\\nmeeting-house stood, to pay their minister s tax in the west part of\\nthe town, and have jireaching there accordingly but the town\\nrefused to appoint a committee to see how much of the preaching\\nshould be at the east or how much at the west end. Mr. Wood\\nhad made a donation of $54 to the town for school purposes, for\\nwhich he received a vote of thanks. The generous act made the\\ntown kindly disposed towards him personally, but did not turn\\nthe citizens from the purpose of dispensing with preaching at the\\ntown s expense. There was a steady increase of those who re-\\nfused to pay a tax for the support of a minister. Suits were\\nbrought against them, which increased the discontent.\\nSUXDAY TRAVELLING.\\nThe law against Sunday travelling was enforced at this date\\nbut the town was fortunate in having a justice of the peace who\\nperformed his duties in a quiet way who preferred to write a\\nfriendly note rather than to issue a process of law. One Philip\\nColby, having travelled on Sunday, and having been complained\\nof, was thus admonished\\nBoseawen March 2i^^ 1800\\nS Mr Samuel Jackman one of the tything men of Boseawen has en-\\ntered a complaint to me against you for travailing and Giving him a\\nfalse answer on the Lord s day the twenty-third of this Instant and un-\\nless you come Immediately and pay your fine and settle the matter you\\nmay expect to be Dealt with according to Law\\nfrom your friend\\nMr Philip Colby. Henry Gerrish.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0244.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "1802. J CIVIL HISTORY. 161\\nSEVERAN CE OF THE LAST TIE BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE.\\n1801. It was discovered that in a government of the people,\\nunder a constitution which protected all religions, yet recognized\\nnone, it was impossible to force men to pay taxes for minister or\\nmeeting-house. The question of annulling the contract with Mr.\\nWood and his dismissal was discussed, and a special town-meet-\\ning held in December to take some action. A committee was ap-\\npointed to wait on Mr. Wood, and see if he would unite with the\\ntown in calling a council.\\nFeb. 1. A special meeting of the town was called, to hear the\\nreport of the committee of five who had waited on Mr. Wood, and\\nwho presented a brief and courteous communication from that\\ngentleman, as given below\\nAs it appears to be the request of the town for iiie to join with\\nthem to disannul the civil agreement between us, if the town shall re-\\nquest it shall take necessary steps for the purpose I consent up-\\non reasonable terms which we may probably agree upon finally to dis-\\nsolve the contract. As the contract was made by us, the town proposing\\nI accepting, so I see no need of an ecclesiastial council to dissolve\\nit. We may however take advice of some gentlemen from abroad as\\nto the terms.\\nThe contract was therefore amicably dissolved, he being ex-\\nempted from taxation during his relation to the church, and the\\ntown annually giving him one haK of the interest of the parsonage\\nso long as he was a minister.\\nOn the other hand, it was stij^ulated that all who might con-\\ntribute to his support should not be taxed elsewhere for preach-\\ning.\\nThe agreement was accepted 67 to 64.\\nFrom this time till 1804, the people living at the west end were\\nwithout preaching, except such as was had at the expense of indi-\\nviduals.\\n1802. During this year, a religious society bearing the title of\\nthe Universal Society was formed. The members, however,\\nwere mostly residents of other towns. It was another form of re-\\nvolt against the long received theolog3^ Its members believed in\\nthe universal salvation of men. Two of its members Mr. Tim-\\nothy and Mr. Pearson Eastman moving into Boscaweu from\\n11", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0245.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "162 CIVIL HISTORY. [1803.\\nSalisbury, brouglit witli them certificates of membersliip, wliicli\\nare on record.\\nSalisbury April 16, 1802\\nTo the Selectmen of Boscawen\\nGentlemen\\nThis may certify that Mr Pearson Eastman is a member of the\\nUniversal Society formed in January last consisting of a compact of\\ntowns in this vicinity.\\nA Whittemore clerk.\\nThis was to exempt them from taxation for the support of the\\nministry, which question had been already settled by the volun-\\ntary settlement of Mr. Wood as minister of the town but the\\nrecord serves to show the wide-spread disaffection with the old\\norder of things, and also dates the formation of the first Univer-\\nsalist society in this section of the state.\\nVENDUING THE POOR.\\nUp to this period there were few jjeople in town who could not\\nsupport themselves but with the rapid increase of population\\ncame a corresponding increase of those who needed aid from the\\ntown. The few poor people of former days had been cared for by\\ntheir friends, or by the selectmen, in a manner requiring no action\\nin town-meeting but in this year a new departure was made.\\nIt was voted to vendue off Wm. Evans to the lowest bidder,\\nfor his maintainance.\\nThe successful bidder was Levi Bean, and the price paid was\\neighty-three cents per week.\\nThis method of caring for the poor of the town continued till\\nthe purchase of the town almshouse.\\n1803. The remaining half of the interest on parsonage bonds\\nwas granted to the West meeting-house, to be laid out under the\\ndirection of the selectmen.\\nTURNPIKES.\\nThe rapid advancement of civilization northward to northern\\nNew Hampshire and Vermont, and the increasing amount of jDublic\\ntravel, called for better highways, and turnpike companies, were\\nincorporated throughout the state. Among others were the First,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0246.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "1803.] CIVIL HISTORY. 163\\nSecond, Tliird, and Fourth New Hami^shire, the Portsmouth,\\nLondonderry, Chester, Grafton, and Mayhew.\\nThe Fourth New Hampshire turnpike began at the Merrimack\\nriver, where the bridge from Fisherville crosses the Merrimack,\\nand extended to Hanover, through Salisbury, Andover, Wihnot,\\nSpringfield, Enfield, and Lebanon. The corporation had a right\\nto use existing roads, but must keep them in repair. No toll was\\ncharged to a townsman. The Boscawen toll-gate was located on\\nthe summit of the ridge east of the GruK, at Clay hill, and ia\\nstill standing.\\nEFFORT TO MAKE BOSCAWEN THE CAPITAL OP THE STATE.\\nThe growth of the state, and the development of the northern\\nsection, indicated that sooner or later the capital would be moved\\nfrom Exeter to some more central locality. The matter was\\nstrongly agitated during the year 1802-3. Pembroke, Concord,\\nBoscawen, and quite likely other towns, took measures toward\\nsecuring it. The citizens of Boscawen took hold of the subject\\nzealousl}^, as the following document shows\\nWe the subscribers promise to pay the sums set against our names\\nfor the purpose of erecting a house for the Legislature of New Hamp-\\nshire to be placed on Boscawen plain in the Senter as near as the\\nground will admitt of between Col Joseph Gerrish and Mr Somersby\\nPearson, by a committee that shall hereafter be appointed to compleat\\nthe said house provided the General Court of New Hampshire shall en-\\ngage to hold their sessions in said Boscawen in seven or ten years as\\nwitness our hand\\nDecember the 26 1803\\nJoseph Gerrish $100\\nIsaac Chandler 75\\nCaleb Putney 200\\nDennison Bowers 100\\nNathi Green 100\\nNathan Carter 150\\nSomersby Pearson 100\\nTho\u00c2\u00ab Gillmore 50\\nJoseph 11 Morrill 30\\nJeremiah Morrill 20\\nJohn Gill 25\\nJon* Hutchinson 25", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0247.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "164 CIVIL HISTORY. [1803.\\nSimeon Danforth 5\\nW G Emerson 10\\nEnocti Gerrish jr 10\\nJoshua Morse 10\\nJoshua Carlton 10\\nTimothy Dix 50\\nSaml Peterson 5\\nJames Uran 10\\nJohn S Abbott 20\\nWilliam Gill 50\\nBenj Hills 20\\nSaml Garven 50\\nJoel French 50\\nWinthrop Carter 25\\nHumphrey Webster 25\\nTho Carter 10\\nGeorge Perkins 10\\nCharles Eastman 10\\nJoseph Atkinson 15\\nEnoch Danford 10\\nHenry Gerrish 50\\nSilas Rolfe 10\\nBenj Rolfe jr 20\\nMoses Manuel 5\\nSamuel Burbank 10\\nSamuel Uran 3\\nJosiah Burbank 3\\nJohn Flanders jr 4\\nDavid Burbank 2\\nWe, a part of the above Subscribers do hereby engage to pay the\\nabove svims annexed to our names in case the Gen Court should ad-\\njourn to this place for one session only.\\nHenry Gerrish Benj Rolfe jr\\nCaleb Putney John Gill\\nJoseph H Morrill Nathan Carter\\nJeremiah Morrill Joshua Carter.\\nBenj Hills\\nHOTELS,\\nThe niim ber of hotels in Boscawen at this period is learned\\nfrom the New Hampshire Eegister for 1803, which gives the pub-\\nlic houses on the stage route from Concord to Haverhill.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0248.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "1804.] CIVIL HISTORY. 165\\nFirst was Chandler s the present Penacook House.\\nGerrish, two miles farther, kept by Col. Joseph Gerrish. The\\nbuilding was a large, long, two-storied edifice, afterwards occupied\\nby Dr. Thomas Peach, and was burned.\\nThe next was Nathan Carter s, the house now occupied by\\nMr. Caleb Hall, which has been wholly remodelled by him.\\nThen came Bohonnon s, probably the house now occupied by\\nNathaniel Webster.\\nAt the upper end of the plain was Pearson s hotel, in the house\\nnow kej)t as a public house by Samuel A. Ambrose.\\nThe route to Haverhill was up the valley of the Merrimack,\\nand the nest tavern was Atkinson s, and beyond it Col. Henry\\nGerrish s, one of the oldest hotels in the town, on the site now\\noccupied by the county buildings.\\nOn the Foxxrth New Hampshire turnpike was Choate s tavern,\\nthe large two-storied house still standing.\\nAmong the votes passed by the town in 1804 were the follow-\\ning\\nVoted to prosecute those persons who took away the Bridge near\\nJoseph Gerrish s ou the fourth New Hampshire turnpike road.\\nVoted Capt John Chandler, Col Joseph Gerrish, Daniel Carter\\nJohu Flanders, Benjamin Little Esq be a committee to examine the\\nroad between Col Joseph Gerrish s John Chandlers say when it is\\nas good as it was before the turnpike came on it.\\nVoted to give Saral Corser fifty dollars to make the hill near Col\\nJoseph Gerrish s as good as it was before the turnpike came on it.\\nFrom the above votes, it may be inferred that the turnpike\\ncompany did not keep the highway in very good repair,\\nCANTERBURY BRIDGE.\\n1804. In 1804 the Canterbury toll-bridge was constructed.\\nThe event was the occasion of much rejoicing. There was a\\ngathering at the meeting-house on the plain addresses by Rev.\\nMr. Wood, and Rev. William Patrick, minister of Canterbury\\na procession from the meeting-house, across the bridge, to the\\nresidence of Enoch Gerrish (now Mr. Chandler s), on the Can-\\nterbury side a dinner, and speeches, with liquors in abundant\\nsupply.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0249.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "166 CIVIL HISTORY. [1805.\\nRATES OF TOLL FOK CANTERBURY BRIDGE 1805.\\nFoot Passenger 1 Cents\\nHorse and Rider 6|^\\nHorse Chaise Chair Or Sulkey 12J\\nSleigh With One horse 6|-\\nSleigh With Two horse 10\\nCoach Chariot Phaeton Or Other 4 Wheel\\nCarriages 20\\nCurricle 12J\\nCart Or Other Carriage of Burthen With Two\\nBeasts 12^\\nAdditional Beasts Each J\\nHorses JS eat Cattle d 2\\nSheep Swine Each\\nTo Each Team 1 Person To pass As A Driver\\nFree Each Waggon, and horse 9\\nThe town permitted the sale of space for four pews on the\\nfloor of the West meeting-house, and the money was expended on\\nthe edifice.\\nAlthough the town had refused to have any part in the con-\\nstruction of the East meeting-house, and had no claim whatever\\nto its use, the society generously threw open its doors, and gave\\nthe town the privilege of holding its meetings in the edifice, nor\\nwas there any opposition to the use of the building from those\\nwho had manifested hostility to the old order of things.\\nWESTERLY RELIGIOUS SOCIETY.\\nAs it was decided that the town would take no action towards\\nsettling a minister at the west end, the citizens west of Beaver-\\ndam, and some east of it, united in the formation of the Westerly\\nReligious Societj^ (which see). Seventy-one citizens joined in the\\nassociation. Rev. Ebenezer Price (see Biog.), having preached\\nto their acceptance a, few Sabbaths, was called to be their minis-\\nter, and a church was formed, under the title of The Second Con-\\ngregational Church in Boscawen.\\nBRIDGE ACROSS THE CONTOOCOOK.\\nFor several years the question of rebuilding the bridge across\\nthe Contoocook had been before the town, but had been postponed", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0250.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "1807.] CIVIL HISTORY. 167\\nuntil the existing structure was deemed no longer safe. An effort\\nwas made to secure the rebuilding in another place, which in-\\nvolved the question of boundary between the towns of Boscawen\\nand Concord.\\nCommittees from the two towns were appointed to take the\\nquestion into consideration. The Concord committee consisted of\\nJonathan Wilkins, John Bradley, and Ebenezer Dustin the\\nBoscawen committee, of Enoch Gerrish, John Chandler, and\\nNathaniel Green. They reported that the old spot where the\\nBridge now stands shall be the place where a new Bridge shall\\nbe built further report that the towns of Concord Boscawen\\npetition the General Court that the centre of the River Contoo-\\ncook from the mouth be considered the line between said towns\\nuntil it reaches the present line crossing said river between said\\ntowns.\\nThe report was accepted by the town of Boscawen.\\n1806. Among the items on the selectmen s books is tlie follow-\\ning\\nPaid Daniel Webster for repairing the School House 2,87\\nThe schoolhouse was the Gulf, Mr. Webster being a resident\\nof that district, a boarder in the family of Joel French, in the\\nhouse now occupied by James GilL\\n1807. From the selectmen s books\\nPaid Daniel Webster for paying School master 2,00.\\nIn town-meeting\\nVoted that Daniel Webster S:Lt Benjamin Jackman be a commit-\\ntee to ascertain the damage on account of the road going on Timothy\\nDix land near Esqr Jackman s barn.\\nThis barn was located on Queen street, west of the present resi-\\ndence of Prof. John Jackman.\\nSELECT SCHOOL.\\nA young ladies school, not for the study of the languages,\\nscience, history, mathematics, and geography, but for instruction\\nin needlework, was advertised in the Concord Gazette.\\nYOUXG LADIE S school.\\nA school for the instruction of young Ladies in needle work, draw-\\ning embroidery, will be opened in Boscawen on the 11 day of May", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0251.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "168 CIVIL HISTORY. [1809.\\nnext. A preceptress having the proper qualifications, who will pay\\nparticular attention to the morals manners of her scholars, is pro-\\nvided to take charge of the school.\\nTerms of tuition three dollars per quarter board from one dollar\\nto one dollar and twenty-five cents per week.\\nT Dix jun\\nfor the proprietors.\\nBoscawen 10 April 1807.\\n1808. Education throughout the state was at a low ebb. The\\nschool laws were very imperfect. In many towns, little had been\\ndone to advance the interests of education.\\nA commendable public spirit had already been awakened upon\\nthe subject in Boscawen, through the influence of the two minis-\\nters Rev. Mr. Wood and Rev. Mr. Price and other citizens,\\never ready to advance the interests of the town. Though far in\\nadvance of many other towns, the citizens generally hailed with\\nsatisfaction the school law, passed by the legislature for the better\\nregulation of schools, and especially the establishing of a superin-\\ntending committee.\\nDISTURBAIS^CE IX TOWN-MEETIXG.\\n1809. The bitterness against religion which had manifested it-\\nself in bygone years, did not wholly die out with the separation of\\nchurch and state. There were still some disaffected persons who\\ndetermined to have no prayers in town-meeting.\\nMr. John Flanders, though he owned a pew in the West meet-\\ning-house, was decided in his opposition to a continuance of the\\ncustom. At the annual town-meeting in 1809, while Rev. Mr.\\nPrice was offering prayer, Mr. Flanders proceeded to renail the\\nhinges upon his pew door in the gallery, having carried hammer\\nand nails for that purpose. The ringing blows of the hammer\\ndisturbed the proceedings, and the moderator. Col. Joseph Gerrish,\\ncalling upon several citizens to serve as constables, the disturber of\\norder soon found himself being dragged down the stairs, which\\nso changed his opinions that, upon the next day, Mr. Flanders\\nmade the following acknowledgment to the town, which was\\nplaced upon the records\\nMarch 15, 1809\\nI hereby acknowledge that my conduct yesterday in disturbing the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0252.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "1809.] CIVIL HISTORY. 169\\nmeeting in the time of prayer is liiglily unbecoming, for wliich I am\\nsincerely sorry will never again disturb the harmony of any future\\nmeeting in the like manner on the like occasion.\\nJohn Flanders.\\nThe town had been insulted its dignity was assailed and the\\ntown-clerk was directed to notify certain persons, who had aided\\nand abetted Mr. Flanders, that reparation must be made.\\nThis is to give notice to those persons who aided assisted Lt\\nFlanders at the time he made his disturbance at our last annual meet-\\ning that unless they come forward give satisfaction to the Town afc\\nthe above meetiiag they will be dealt with agreeably to the vote of\\nthe town.\\nJoel French Town clerk.\\nThe following vote was passed\\nVoted that Geo T Flanders others before the sitting of the next\\ncourt shall give to the selectmen in writing an acknowledgement which\\nshall be satisfactory to them for their misconduct in the last meeting,\\nor otherwise the selectmen to commence a prosecution against them\\naccordeing to vote of said town.\\nThe offenders, finding that they stood alone that there was\\na universal condemnation of their conduct came before the town,\\nand asked the pardon of their fellow-citizens, which was freely\\ngiven.\\nVoted to forgive Thomas Eastman, Thomas Carter Jonathan\\nEastman for aiding assisting Lt J Flanders in his making a dis-\\nturbance in the last town meeting.\\nIt was the last open outbreak against order and from that\\ntime to the present there has been no attempt to disturb the pub-\\nlic peace. So strong now was public sentiment for the mainte-\\nnance of order, that many of those who had been disorderly found\\nit for their advantage to leave the town,\\nNEW SCHOOL LAW.\\nA committee was appointed in accordance with the provi-\\nsions of the new school law, to establish anew the school districts.\\nAt a meeting, held September 10, the town acted upon the report\\nof the committee, ordering several new school-houses to be built at\\nthe town s expense.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0253.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "170 CIVIL HISTORY, [1809.\\nThe first meeting of the siTporintending school committee, un-\\nder the new law, was held Ma}^ 11, at the house of Rev. Mr.\\nWood. It was composed of Mr. Wood, Mr. Price, and the select-\\nmen, Stephen Gerrish, Joseph H. Morrill, and Peletiah Peaslee.\\nThe districts were reestablished, A iz.\\nNo. 1. King street. No. 8. Bashan.\\n2. Water street north. 9. Long pond.\\n3. Corser hill. 10. Atkinson and Clay bill.\\n4. High etreet. 11. Pleasant street.\\n5. Fish street. 12. Sweat road.\\n6. Little hill. 13. South Water street.\\n7. White plain. 11. Union and Concord.\\nMILITARY SPIRIT.\\nThe prospect of a war with Prance in 1789, and the news of\\nNapoleon s victories, produced a military spirit which manifested\\nitself in the formation of volunteer military uniformed companies.\\nThe first uniformed company in the 21st regiment was the cav-\\nalry, or troop as it was then called. See Mil. Hist.) This\\nwas made up of soldiers from all the towns comprised in the\\nregiment. Diligent inquiry has not enabled us to ascertain the\\ndate of the formation of the artillery, the first uniformed company\\nin the town, but it probably was in 1808 or 1809. It was in exist-\\nence in 1809, as we learn from the selectmen s accounts for that\\nyear. The soldiers were victualled on muster days by the town.\\nITEMS FROM THE SELECTMEN S BOOKS.\\nPaid Benjamin Kimball victualing artillery 3,.50\\nPaid John Plummer for victualing troop 2,38\\nPaid Samuel W Long for rum powder 41 ,72\\nPaid Samuel Cliadwick for victualling Capt Ames Company 2,52\\nPaid iMoses Manuel for keeping Old Beedle 10,67\\nPaid Enoch Call for his swearing off his money ,61\\nWHIPPING-POSTS.\\nWhipping was one of tlie punishments prescribed by law for\\nminor offences. The public whipping-post stood near Gilmore s\\ntavern (the house now occupied by Nathaniel Webster), a few\\nrods north of the same. The only instance of a public whipping\\nof an offender occurred in 1809.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0254.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "1809.] CIVIL HISTORY. 171\\nMr. Somersby Pearson, owner of the grist-mill on Mill brook,\\ncomplained to Joseph Gerrish, justice of the peace, against Jacob\\nRichardson, that he hath reason to suspect does suspect that\\nthe said Jacob of said Boscawen on tlie 24 Inst (Feb) at divers\\nother times before had entered his grist mill in said Boscawen\\ntook conveyed away from the same divers quantities of meal\\nwith intent to steal the same.\\nA Avarrant was issued to Thomas Gerrish, constable, who ar-\\nrested the said Jacob.\\nThe Defendant being arraigned pleaded not guilty. Thereupon it\\nis considered by me the said Justic that the said Defendant is guilty\\nthat he receive on his naked back eight stripes with a cat of nine tails to\\nmorrow morning at eight o clock the Defendant be committed till\\nsentence be performed.\\nJoseph Gerrish\\nJus Peace.\\nThe sentence was executed the next morning, the culprit being\\ntied to a small tree that stood near the meeting-house, south of\\nthe residence of Mr. S. A. Ambrose.\\nThat the citizens of Boscawen were kindly disposed toward all\\nin misfortune is manifest from the following votes, passed in\\n1809\\nVoted that George T Flanders Poll tax be abated for the year be\\nwas lame by breaking his leg.\\nVoted to give Abraham Adams his taxes for two years past in con-\\nsequence of sickness.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0255.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "[1810.\\nCHAPTEE XI.\\nPROGRESS.\\nfEAELY a quarter of a century had passed since the adop-\\ntion of the federal constitution. What progress had\\nbeen made in civilization To what plane had society ad-\\nvanced\\nPeople no longer lived in log cabins. Possibly here and there\\none might have been found but those rude habitations had given\\nplace to framed structures, large, square, two-storied houses,\\nwith great chimneys, wide fireplaces, and huge ovens. The til-\\nlage and jiasture lands have increased with the population. In\\nJune, the woodman s axe is heard through the day, felling trees\\nin August, before the fall rains set in, the torch is applied to the\\nfelled forest growth, and dense clouds of smoke darken the skj.\\nThen comes the clearing, the work on the burnt ground, the\\ngathering up of half burned brands, the rolling together of logs,\\nthe harrowing in of winter vye, the farmer and his boys covered\\nwith soot. The ashes are gathered up, and sold at the potash.\\nThen comes the harvest.\\nOft did the harvest to their sickle yield,\\nTheir furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke;\\nHow jocund did they drive their teams afield!\\nHow bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke.\\nWith the gathering of the corn come the huskings an invita-\\ntion to all the neighbors, men and women, boys and girls all\\nare invited. The huskings are in the evening, and when the\\ncorn is finished, then comes the suj^per, hasty pudding, baked\\nbeans, apple and pumpkin pie mugs of cider, egg-nog, flip, and", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0256.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0257.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "Breaking and Swingling.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0258.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "1810.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n173\\nrum. In other localities, a liuskiiig not iinfrequently winds up\\nwith a dance but the people of Boscawen are staid and sober,\\nand not much given to amusement.\\nWith winter comes the threshing of grain, and the sound of the\\nflail is heard from morning till night. In the evening the farmer\\nbrings his corn from the garret, seats himself astride the bread-\\ntrough, and shells it by rasping the ears against the sharp edge\\nof a jiod-auger, or the handle of the frying-pan.\\nLater in the winter, in February and March, he breaks and\\nswingles the flax. The flax-breaker the instrument by which\\nthe wood}^ part of the plant is broken into shives is a rude\\nmachine, composed of a series of\\nwooden knives placed in the break-\\ner, which is lifted with one hand,\\nand a handful of flax stalks placed\\nbeneath it, and crushed by repeated\\nbumpings of the machine. The stalks\\nthus crushed are swingled by a\\ndouble-edged wooden sword. This\\nprocess separates the shives from\\nthe fibre. The next process is\\nhatchelling, or the drawing of\\nthe fibres through a hatchel, and\\nlastly through a comb. Twenty\\npounds of swingled flax is accounted\\na day s work.\\nWith the opening of spring comes\\nthe plowing. The plow is still the\\nsame heav} clumsy wooden and iron\\naffair, made by the carpenter and\\nblacksmith. Tristram Noyes is the\\nplow-maker of Boscawen, residing\\non the turnpike. The mould-board\\nis a curved piece of white oak, with\\nbits of old saw-plate and ox-shoes\\nnailed upon it. Sixteen oxen are\\nrequired to draw it, with one man to ride the beam and keep it\\nin the ground, and another with a breaking up hoe to dig up\\nthe baulks in the furrow. Three teamsters, one plowman,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0259.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "174 CIVIL HISTORY. [1810.\\nand two assistants, make up the complement of men. Tlie plow\\nis from twelve to fourteen feet in length. In a small field, such\\na team reaches almost the length of the furrow.\\nThe farmer uses a wooden shovel, shod with iron. His pitch-\\nfork, made by the neighboring blacksmith, is of iron, clumsy,\\nheavy, requiring his utmost strength to thrust it into the ha}^,\\nand quite as much to withdraw it. His scythe is made from a bar\\nof Kussia iron, edged with steel. The handle of the pitch-fork,\\nand his scythe-snath, are of his own manufacture, and so are his\\nox-yokes and bows. His cart-wheels are tired with strips of iron,\\nnailed upon the felloes.\\nWagons are just beginning to make their appearance. The\\nbodies rest upon the axle. They are wholly destitute of springs.\\nLeather thorough-braces are of a later date. The roads are rough\\nthe stones have not been removed and the noise made b}^ the\\nwagons in rattling over them is called home-spun thunder\\nThe citizens are obliged to take circuitous routes in getting\\nfrom one section of the town to another. The people of Bashan,\\nwishing to reach the Plain, must go from Dingit corner to the\\nlower end of Water street. Mr. Moses Gerrish, and other resi-\\ndents of Bashan who attend the West meeting, must go by the\\nway of Dingit corner and Pleasant street to Mutton road, and\\nover Corser hill. Mr. Gerrish must eat his Sunday morning\\nbreakfast by candle-light, in the winter, and start soon after\\nsunrise to reach the meeting-house in season for service and the\\nstars will be twinkling when he arrives home at night. Yet\\nsickness alone keeps him from meeting.\\nAlthough meeting-going is not universal, there are great con-\\ngregations. The day for Sunday-schools has not yet arrived, and\\nthe mornings are spent in discussing the news. People come on\\nhorseback, the women riding on pillions behind their husbands,\\nhusband and wife each with a child in their arms, and perhaps a\\nthird child hanging on by the crupper. They dismount at a horse-\\nblock. In the winter, at noon, tlie people at the East end throng\\nthe kitchens and sitting-rooms of Dea. Isaac Pearson (S. A.\\nAmbrose s house) and Joel Prench (James Gill s house). At\\nthe West end, they find bright fires blazing in the house of Paul\\nDodge, and at Samuel Morse s (William Pearson s).\\nThe women bring their foot-stones, and fill them with coals", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0260.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "1810.] CIVIL HISTORY. 175\\nfrom tlie fires in the sitting-room, eat their fried turnovers, dough-\\nnuts, cheese, and gingerbread, while the men in the kitchens, after\\neating tlieir hmcheon, fill their pipes, and enjoy the luxury of a\\nsmoke. The news, home and foreign, is discussed, and the points\\nof theology in the sermon taken up.\\nThis is the period of Dr. Thomas Worcester s defection from\\nthe received theology. He is the Salisbury minister, an able\\npreacher, who, with his brother, Noah Worcester, of Thornton,\\nhas embraced the Unitarian theology.\\nIn Dea. Enoch Little s (senior) journal, under date of Sept. 16,\\n1810, is this note All to meeting. Mr Price whipt Mr Wor-\\ncester. Possibly some other day-book kept in Salisbury may\\nhave had the record that Mr. Worcester whipt Mr. Price.\\nThe views adopted by Mr. Worcester being repugnant to some\\nof the members of the Salisbury church, we see Nathaniel Sawyer\\nand his wife riding down Battle street, to attend the preaching of\\nRev. Mr. Price. The theological sermon is discussed, not only\\naround Mr. Dodge s fireplace, but in every household.\\nParty spirit runs high, not only in theology, but in politics.\\nThe wars waged by Napoleon in Europe shake American society\\nto its foundation. The course pursued by Great Britain, in\\nsearching American vessels for British seamen, produces irrita-\\ntion. One party is ready to rush into war the other deprecates\\nan appeal to arms. So bitter is the j^artisanship, that when the\\nFourth of July comes around, each political party has its celebra-\\ntion, its own orator presenting its own political views.\\nUnder the new school law, the schools are somewhat systema-\\ntized. A new impetus has been given to education, but the stud-\\nies are all primary. In the winter the houses are crowded with\\ngrown-up boys and girls, many of whom are still plodding in sim-\\nple reading, or bewildering their brains over fractions. They\\nhave not attempted grammar. The boys wear shoes and buskins,\\nor leggins. Their shirts are made of tow. Their clothes in winter\\nare coarse cassimere, spun and woven by the women and girls,\\ndyed in the dye-pot which stands in the chimney-corner, and the\\ncover of which furnishes a seat for one of the small members of\\nthe family. The cloth is fulled at the fulling-mill, dressed by\\nDea. Isaac Pearson, cut by the tailoress, who goes from house to\\nhouse for that purpose, carrying her pressing-board, goose, and\\nbig: shears.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0261.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "176 CIVIL HISTORY. [1810.\\nTlie people eat plain food, beau porridge, hasty pudding,\\nliulled corn and milk, Indian and rye bread, hominy, potatoes,\\nbeef and pork, and sometimes make a dinner of bread and cider.\\nIn the autumn they feast on pumpkin pies, and drink liop and\\nspruce beer.\\nThe household furniture consists of table and chairs, and a\\ngreat settle with a high back, which in the daytime is pushed\\nto one side of the room, but which in the evening is wheeled\\nin front of the fire. In one corner of the kitchen is the dress-\\ner, with rows of pewter plates and platters, brightly scoured,\\nstanding on the shelves in rows, reflecting the flickering fire-\\nlight. The people eat their porridge with pewter spoons, and\\nmany families are in possession of moulds for the re-casting\\nof the spoons when bent or broken. In the sink is a piggin\\nand a keeler, wooden vessels used for the dipping of water\\nand for washing dishes. Out of doors stands the mash-tub, in\\nwhich ashes are leeched for making soap. In the cellar are the\\npork and beef barrels.\\nOnce a week the great iron pot is placed over the fire, sus-\\npended by a hook from the crane, and a boiled dinner is\\ncooked, beef, pork, and vegetables.\\nAt night the fire is carefully covered, to preserve a bed of coals\\nfor morning. If perchance it goes out, a coal is brought from the\\nneighbor s, between two chips; or, if the neighbor is too far\\naway, and the family has no tinder-box with flint and steel, the\\ngun is taken down from its hooks over the door, a pile of shavings\\nlaid, and a train of tow and powder, and the gun is flashed.\\nOnce, when Mother Hoit undertook to flash some powder,\\nshe inadvertently held the horn in her hand, which disappeared\\nup the chimney, giving rise to an expression iii common use\\nmany years after, As quick as Mother Hoit s powder-horn\\nIn one corner of the fireplace stands the Dutch oven, with coals\\nbeneath, and upon its rimmed cover. If a fire-cake is desired, the\\ndough is spread upon a tin, and placed in front of the fore-\\nstick, for bakers and tin kitchens have not yet made their\\nappearance.\\nIn the evening the fire is fed by pitch knots, which fill the room\\nwith light. In spring, summer, and fall, when a fire is not\\nneeded, the only light is a tallow candle.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0262.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "1809.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY.\\n177\\nThe women go about the house in their petticoats while doing\\ntheir work, but dress themselves up in the afternoon to receive\\nthe visits of neighbors and friends, who are invited into the\\nfront room. The word parlor has not come into use. Car-\\npets, except here and there one of home manufacture, are un-\\nknown. In summer, green pine boughs adorn the fireplace, and\\nfill the room with fragrant odors. The floor is strewn with\\nclean white sand, gathered from the shores of Great or Long\\npond, and swept into curved lines, scrolls, and Avliorls, by a\\nbroom.\\nOf books and papers, there is the Bible, and in religious\\nhouseholds, a volume, perhaps, of Dr. Smith s Sermons. The\\nalmanac hangs above the fireplace, and it is consulted daily to\\nsee what the Aveather saj s, whether the moon is right to kill\\nhogs, so that the pork will swell in the pot instead of shrinking,\\nwhether the signs are right for the cutting of alders. The moon,\\naccording to the almanac, rules the weather, and if the weather, a\\ngreat many other things.\\nOf papers, there is the Concord Gazette, published by George\\nHough, which comes once a week to give the latest news from\\nEurope, with a piece of poetry, original or selected, in one corner.\\nGeneral intelligence is advancing, and a love for literature has\\nbeen awakened. There are those in tov\u00c2\u00bb n who read Milton s Par-\\nadise Lost, who have read and re-read the Spectator, and all the\\nother volumes in the Social Library. Select schools are taught by\\nstudents from Dart-\\nmouth college, on Lit-\\ntle hill and on the\\nPlain, at which young\\ngentlemen and ladies\\ncan take up gram-\\nmar, philosopliy, alge-\\nbra, and composition.\\nSuch the general out-\\nlines of society.\\nTil ere is life on\\nKing street, which is hay scales see page 178.\\nthronged with teams from the towns farther north,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 from Han-\\nover, Haverhill, Montpelier, and all the northern section of New\\n12", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0263.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "178 CIVIL HISTORY. [1811.\\nHampshire and Yermont. The traders do a large business in\\nbarter, taking farm produce of every kind.\\nBy Capt. Benjamin Oak s stable stand the hay-scales, a pon-\\nderous contrivance of levers and pullej s and winches, by which\\nthe load is lifted and weighed.\\nDroves of cattle and sheep, on their way to Brighton market,\\nfill the air with clouds of dust.\\nThe stage has made its appearance, taking the place of the\\npost-rider. Society everywhere is on the move, feeling the vigor\\nof life.\\nTHE COLD FRIDAY.\\n1810. Friday, the 19th of January, was one of the coldest days\\never experienced in New England. The wind blew a hurricane,\\nunroofing buildings and destroying orchards. No deaths occurred\\nfrom freezing, in Boscawen, but in other localities men and cattle\\nexposed were frozen to death.\\nApplication was made by some of the citizens of Salisbury and\\nBoscawen for a road from Corser hill to Sweatt s mill. The town\\nopposed it. The court s aid was invoked by those desiring the\\nhighway. The town appointed Ezekiel Webster, who had become\\na citizen, as their agent, instructing him to make all the farce\\nhe can by himself evidence at the court. The court, however,\\nthought that the highway was needed, and it was laid out the\\nfollowing year.\\nAt the annual meeting, the school committee under the new\\nlaw made their fijst report. (See Educational History.) The\\nStirrup-iron bridge was rebuilt during the year.\\nThe first annual meeting of the New Hampshire General Asso-\\nciation of Congregational Ministers was held at the East meeting-\\nhouse. (See Ecclesiastical History.) It was an important meeting\\nin many respects, and was followed by a great religious awaken-\\ning.\\nTHE town s poor.\\n1811. That the town intended to care well for its j^oor is\\nmanifest from the conditions under which Hhe keeping of\\nSusanna Danforth s children were sold.\\n[From the Records.]\\nWhoever bids off either of the children are to furnish them with", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0264.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "1812.J CIVIL HISTORY, 179\\nsuitable sufficient meats, drinks, clothing, give them an opportunity\\nto go to school when there is one kept in the district where they may\\nlive return them to the selectmen on the second Tuesday of March\\n1813, with as good cloaths as were received. All doctors bills to be paid\\nby the town under the direction of the selectmen.\\nAs the children, with the exception of the eldest, were too\\nyoimg to be of service, the amount paid represents the price of\\nboard at that period\\nThomas 8 years old to Capt Silas Call at 17 cts per Aveek\\nMary 6, to Geo T Flanders at 36 cts.\\nPatty to Sam B Gerrish at 40 cts.\\nLaura 2, to Leonard Seuter 47 cts.\\nBASHAN MINING COMPANY.\\nIn 1812, Col. John Farmer, Abraham Burbank, Moses Gerrish,\\nWilliam Danforth, Moses Tyler, of Hopkinton, Little Burbank,\\nMoses Little, and other citizens, formed an association known as\\nthe Bashan Mining Co. It w\\\\t,s thought that lead and silver\\nwould be found on land owned by William Danforth. Ex-\\ntravagant stories were current in regard to lead mines known to\\nthe Indians. It was currently reported that the Indians knew\\na place where they could cut out the lead with their knives, and\\nthus obtain bullets. If the citizens had known aught of mineral-\\nogy, they would have rejected such fictions at once, for lead\\nnever exists, in its native state, in such a form.\\nThe first meeting of the association was at the house of Abra-\\nham Burbank, Oct. 27, 1812. Moses Gerrish was chosen modera-\\ntor, and John Farmer clerk.\\nAt the second meeting it was\\nVoted that Johu Holmes shall have a share in said mine, providing\\nthat he will show the company where the real substance of Lead is,\\nnot without,\\nVoted that application be made to Israel Diamond of Goffstown for\\nthe discovery of the mine if Holmes should fail.\\nVoted that application be made to Doctor Withs [Withem] of Ply-\\nmouth if Holmes Diamond should fail.\\nThese gentlemen Holmes, Diamond, and Withem were sup-\\nposed to be able to locate a mine by the use of witch-hazel rods,\\nwhich, when carried in the hand, would point to the precious\\nmetal.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0265.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "180 CIVIL HISTORY. [1813.\\nWhich of these located the mine is not known, but operations\\nbegan near William Dauforth s house. A hole thirty or forty\\nfeet deep was dug, but no silver or lead was found, and the mine\\nwas soon abandoned.\\nSHEEP.\\nAttention was given to sheep husbandry. Dea. Enoch Little\\nprocured some French Merinos, and was the first to introduce\\nfine wooled sheep.\\n1813. The town voted to give the soldiers in Boscawen [mi-\\nlitia] in lieu of meats and drinks thirty-four cents to be delivered\\nto the captains to be distributed to each soldier.\\nBURIAL-GROUND.\\nVoted that Mr Beiija Stickney, Lt James Giddings Capt Heze-\\nkiah Fellows be a committee to lay out the westwardly buryiug\\nground.\\nThis is the burial-ground around the Webster town-house. Up\\nto this period, the burial-place at the west end was on the east\\nside of the road leading from Mutton road south to Pleasant\\nstreet. The spot is now overgrown with large trees. Some of\\nthe graves are still to be seen.\\nsheep fever.\\nThe body politic is subject, like the human system, to epidem-\\nics. The first epidemic seizing the farmers of Boscawen was the\\nsheep fever of 1813. The war with England had stopped the im-\\nportation of all foreign fabrics. There was a great demand for\\nwoollen goods, and a consequent enhancement in the price of\\nwool and the value of sheep. Everybody went into sheep hus-\\nbandry.\\nOf the progress of the fever, we quote from the day-book of\\nDea. Enoch Little, Sr.\\nOctober 1813. A speculation begins about this time in sheej). Sold\\n15 ewe lambs at $5.50. Sold cloth at Salem to the amount of 90 dol-\\nlars.\\nNovember. The sheep speculation continues.\\nDecember. Sold a k blood ewe for 12 dollars.\\nAn extraordinary speculation.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0266.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "1814.] CIVIL HISTORY. 181\\nThe sudden closing of the war in 1815, and the rapid increase of\\nflocks, brought about a reaction and the fall in prices was as sud-\\nden and great as the rise had been, bringing disaster to those who\\nhad involved themselves in debt.\\nSWINE.\\nVoted thatswiae shall not go at large on town street [King] begin-\\nning at Mill bridge, by widow Mary Pearson s house running to the\\ntown line by Col Isaac Chandlers, from the I day of April to the last\\nday of October, under no less penalty than one dollar for each offence\\nto be recovered by any person who will sue for the same.\\nIt appears that the check-list was not in use at the annual\\nmeetings prior to 1814. At the meeting the previous year, the\\nselectmen were directed to make an alphabetical list of the legal\\nvoters some time before the next annual March meeting, that\\nthe following mode of voting be adopted The voters shall bring\\nin their votes for state county officers on the same piece of\\npaper designating the office against the persons name voted for,\\nas each person votes his name shall be called, by the moderator\\nchecked on the list of voters by the town clerk.\\nVTASHINGTOX BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.\\nAt the beginning of the war with England there was a strong\\nopposition to its prosecution, by the federal party, which was the\\ndominant party in the town. But the opposition gradually weak-\\nened. Although a Washington Benevolent society had been\\nformed in the town as in other sections of the country, a politi-\\ncal rather than a benevolent organization, the opposition gradu-\\nally weakened, and the town passed the following votes\\nTHE WAR WITH GKEAT BRITAIN.\\nVoted that the town will give each soldier detached for the defence\\nof the Port harbor of Portsmouth five dollars, if the Legislature at\\ntheir next session do not make some provision for them.\\nVoted that the selectmen pay Lt Thomas Towne his account for the\\nexpenses of the 1st detachment of soldiers in marching to Portsmouth\\nunless the Legislature make provision at their next session.\\nVoted that the last draft of soldiers be made ecpial with the first for\\ntheir expenses marching to Portsmouth.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0267.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "182 CIVIL HISTORY. [1815.\\n1815. The year -was marked by another great religious awaken-\\ning, which began at the east end and extended over the town.\\nThree-days meetings were held in the East meeting-house.\\nFrequent meetings were held in school-houses and at private resi-\\ndences, and almost the entire community was led to a higher moral\\nand spiritual life.\\nBOSCAWEX MORAL SOCIETY.\\nThe war of 1812 left its mark on society. Through the suc-\\nceeding years there was a deterioration of morals. Soldiers re-\\nturning from camp brought with them the vices of camp life.\\nProfanity was common, and there was a growing disregard for the\\nSabbath. To correct the evil, moral societies were formed in\\nmany of the towns. One was organized in Boscawen, April 12,\\n1815. The particular object of the society was set forth in the\\nsecond article\\nThe object of this Society shall be the suppression of immorality of\\nevery description, particularly Sabbath breakiug, intemperance, profan-\\nity falsehood.\\nThe duties of the members are set forth in the ninth article\\nIt shall be the duty of all the members to exert their influence to\\nsuppress immorality of every description, particularly Sabbath break-\\ning, intemperance, profaneness, falsehood; to endeavor to reclaim the\\nimmoral by friendly admonition; to aid support Tithingmen all\\ncivil officers in the faithful execution of the laws, finally to encourage\\nthe rising generation in a constant attendance on public worship in\\nthe habits of sobriety, morality industry.\\nThe Sabbath act was enforced by tithing-meu and selectmen, as\\nwitness the following receipt\\nBoscawen Dec 18, 1817.\\nReceived of Benjamin Little Esq four Dollars it being for fines for\\nthe breach of the Sabbath act against Hezekiah Fellows, Benjamin\\nPettengill 3 i Amos Couch received by us.\\nMoses Gerrish select-\\nu|;4 00 Daniel Pillsbury men\\nThe law, however, was gradually becoming a dead letter.\\nState of New Hampshire\\nHillsborough SS\\nTo Ezekiel Webster one of the justices of the Peace within for", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0268.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "1816.] CIVIL HISTORY. 183\\nsaid county complains Samuel Chadwick Tytbing mau of Boscawen in\\nsaid county on Oath against Salstonstall Sawyer Joseph Calef for\\nthat the said Sawyer Calef at said Boscawen on the eighteenth day\\nof February instant, commonly called the Lord s day, did travel with\\ntheir sleighs on said day in said Boscawen against the power of the\\nStatute in such case made and provided against the peace dignity\\nof the state.\\nWhereof he prays process may issue against them and that they\\nmay be dealt with as the law directs.\\nSamuel Chadwick.\\nHillsborough SS\\nFeb 19, 1816 Personally appearing Samuel Chadwick aforesaid\\nmade oath to the truth of the foregoing complaint.\\nEzekiel Webster\\nJus Peace.\\nState of Xew Hampshire\\nHillsborough SS\\nTo the sheriff of the county of Hillsborough or to either of his depu-\\nties or to either constable of Boscawen in said county greeting:\\nForasmuch as the foregoing complaint has been made to me you\\nare hereby commanded forthwith to apprehend the bodies of the said\\nSawyer Calef then have them before me or any other jus-\\ntice of the Peace within for said county that they may be dealt with\\nas touching the foregoing complaint as to law justice shall apper-\\ntain.\\nGiven under ray hand seal this 19 day of February 181G\\nEzekiel Webster Jus Peace.\\nHillsborough SS\\nFeb 19, 1816\\nIn obedience to this precept I have taken the bodies of the within\\nnamed Calef and Sawyer and now have them before Joseph Gerrish\\nEsq to be dealt with as the Law directs.\\nJoseph Atkinson\\nConstable.\\nReceived of the within named Calef Sawyer their fines com.\\nJoseph Atkinson\\nConstable.\\nSUNDAY-SCHOOLS.\\nDuring the year tlie first Sunday-scliools were established in\\nBoscawen. It is probable that individuals gathered some classes\\nin the school-districts for recitations of the catechism prior to this", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0269.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "184 CIVIL HISTORY. [1816.\\ndate, but tlie beginning of the system dates from tliis year. (See\\nEcclesiastical Hist.)\\nIRON AXLES.\\nUp to 1816 no iron axles for wagons or carriages had been\\nseen in the town. In the spring, Mr. Joseph Ames and Mr.\\nNathan Plummer, having taken a raft of lumber to Medford, pur-\\nchased the running part of an old stage-coach in Boston, and a\\npair of horses, loaded the team with salt, and brought into town\\nthe first iron axles in use.\\nAN UNPRODUCTIVE YEAR.\\nThere seems to have been a period, from 1808 to 1816, marked\\nby unusual climatic conditions. Mr. Price speaks of it as a period\\nof uncommon seasons and dearths. The year 1816 was preemi-\\nnently a season of climatic changes and of low temperature. Rev.\\nMr. Price says\\nThe whole face of nature appeared shrouded in gloom. The lamps\\nof heaven kept their orbits, but their Hght was cheerless. The bosom\\nof the earth in a midsummer day was covered with a wintry mantle;\\nand man and beast and bird sickened at the prospect. Autumn returns,\\nalas! not to fill the arm with the generous sheaf, but the eye with the\\ntear of disappointment! On the 6th of June the day of general election\\nthe snow fell several inches deep, followed by a cold frosty niglit;\\non the following day snow fell frost continued. Also July 9th a\\ndeep deadly frost, which killed or palsied most vegetables. The little\\ncorn Avhich had the appearance of maturity, was destitute of its natural\\ntaste or substance; yet the providence of God was bonntiful in sup-\\nplying the article of bread from the crops of rye, which were uncom-\\nmonly good.\\nFrom the day-book of Dea. Enoch Little, Sr., we have the fol-\\nlowing concise but expressive summary of the year\\nDec 31, 1816\\nGeneral observations on the year past. January was cold till the\\nlatter part, then the snow went off left the ground bare till the 18th\\nof February with very cold weather. Snowed again there was a\\nspell of sledding. The spring was very cold backward\u00e2\u0080\u0094 hay very\\nscarce a great deal of corn given to cattle which made bread scarce.\\nMay. Generally cold, but we planted as early as common but corn\\nwas slow in coming up.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0270.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "1817.] CIVIL HISTORY. 185\\nJune. Very cold. The 6 s 7 8 it snoM-ed. The grouiKl -was\\ncovered on the hight [the heiglit o\u00c2\u00a3 land between the Merrimack and\\nConnecticut] in the north part of the state it was a foot deep.\\nJune 10. A frost killed corn on frosty land. Very hot day.\\n^July 9. Frost killed both corn taters on pine land. Very dry.\\nJuly 17. A fast on account of the drouth. Our hay is very short,\\nperhaps k a crop no corn silked yet little hope of a crop.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0August. Very dry. Grain very good indeed. The woods fences\\nall on fire.\\nSept 25 tV 26. Cold dry frosty.\\nSept. 27. Killed almost all the corn in 2 ^ew England, not half of\\nit was fit to roast.\\nOct. No corn of consequence. From 4 acres I shall not get 8\\nbushels of corn fit to eat though I planted my warmest land.\\nNov. On frosty laud the orcliards were barren, but on warm land\\nthere was a moderate crop of apples. Cattle to hay early on account\\nof short feed.\\nDec. Generally cold. Sledding the 10 Sheep all to barn. The\\nprospects as to fodder are alarming.\\n1817.\\nJan. 4. A little rain warm the cattle sheep get some fodder\\nby grazing. A great deal of bare ground.\\n8. Snowy. Warm at night.\\n18. Thunder, lightning rain last night. Snowy forenoon,\\nwindy drifty afternoon.\\n19. Sabbath, cold windy drifty. Xo meeting in afternoon,\\n22. Did not dare stay in the woods for fear of freezing my\\nfeet.\\n2.3. Moderating.\\n24. Snowed six inches last night three to day.\\n27. Cold Avindy. Hay very scarce,\\n28. Coldest day.\\n30. Very cold. Began to give my sheep oil meal.\\nFeh. If.. Frozen ears are common.\\n5. Cellars freeze hard.\\n6. A little warmer.\\n13. A cold winter.\\nMarch 30. Sabbath. Pleasant. Good sleighing. People travel the\\nriver yet.\\nApril If,. Our sink has not thawed out this winter yet.\\nApril 7. Cleared my sink of ice which has not been clear this win-\\nter,\\n8, My sheep depend wholly on the barn. Some bare ground.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0271.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "186 CIVIL HISTORY. [1817.\\nSickly with typhus fever. Hay scarce dear from $20 to $4:0 per ton.\\nCorn $2 rye from S|l,50 to $2. Oats 1. Wheat $2,50 to ^3,00 cheese\\n12|- butter 25, pork 18.\\nFeb 11. Cold drifty.\\n13 Drifted some.\\n14 Very cold windy.\\n15 Shockhig cold windy last night. Cold morning.\\n17 Moderate cloudy.\\n24 Drifting snow storm.\\n25 Drifting.\\n27 Two heavy snow storms this week.\\n28 Cloudy warm.\\n3/ar 1 A great snow storm last night. Snowy to day.\\n2 Sabbath. Roads drifted full. No horse or sleigh to meeting\\nfrom this district.\\nG. Warm.\\n7 Windy thawy\\n12 Cold drifty.\\n13 Cold.\\n16 Pleasant.\\nil/ar 19. Cold drifty, bitter day.\\n_ 20 Very cold drifty.\\n_ 21 Windy.\\n22 AVarm\\n24 Snow\\n_ 25 Warm\\n26 Snowy.\\n27 Cold, windy, drifty\\n28. Snow 3 feet deep weather cold, hay scarce and dear ^30\\nper ton. Wheat !52,67 per bush, corn rye $2,00 pork beef, butter\\ncheese high people poor. A windy, drifty, blustering day.\\nApril 9. Good sleding.\\n16. Sheep out all day half fodder.\\n17 Pigeons fly by millions The snow banks go by wholesale\\nwarm.\\n18 Pigeons flew thick.\\n19 Froze hard. Snowed.\\n21 Ploughed with mittens\\n22 Froze hard. Sheep to barn night morning to grass day\\ntime.\\n24. Snowed. Ground white\\n25 Snow two inches deep.\\n30 Sowed wheat", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0272.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "1819.] CIVIL HISTORY. 187\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Man 7 Plowed for planting. A few snow banks yet. My wheat\\nsown last \\\\yednesday (1 week) is np.\\n10 The earth at length is clad in richest green\\nYet banks of snow are on the mountains seen.\\n12 Trees green.\\n13 Very cold.\\n14 Planted corn.\\nThe town instructed the selectmen to take special care that\\nthe law respecting idle persons be carried into execution, and\\nalso appointed a committee to see what has become of the money\\ntaken in iines for a breach of the Sabbath.\\n1818. Four pews had been sold in the West meeting-house, or,\\nrather, ground for four, and Daniel Pillsbviry, Moses Coffin, and\\nMoses Fellows were chosen to collect the money, and expend it in\\nrepairing the house.\\nKEV. MR. price s HISTORY.\\n1819. At the annual meeting the town ajjpointed Eev. Eben-\\nezer Price, Rev. Samuel Wood, and Dea. Enoch Little a commit-\\ntee to collate the facts in regard to the settlement and progress of\\nthe town. The result was, the publication in 1823 of a pamphlet\\nof 116 pages, prepared by Mr. Price, entitled A Chronological\\nHistory of Boscawen. (See Preface.)", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0273.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "[1820.\\nOHAPTEE XII.\\nFROM 1820 TO 1830.\\nJKKOINI the establishment of Hillsborough count}- in colonial\\n^j days, Amherst had been the county seat. The county was\\nlarge, and for several years the question of creating a new county\\nhad been agitated. The sense of the town was taken on the\\nquestion at the annual meeting in 1820. The vote was 176 in\\nfavor and 46 against the proposition.\\nAt the same meeting, several pews in the West meeting-house\\nwere sold, which had previously been sold but not paid for. The\\ntown s interest in the house was in the frame alone, and the ground\\nfor the pews. The town expended for the frame, when the house\\nwas erected, $104. The money derived from the sale of the pew\\nground had been applied to finishing the house. Here was an\\nanomalous state of affairs, and the town s interest in the house\\nwas the cause of a great deal of trouble and disturbance to the\\npeople of the west end.\\nTHE CHRISTIAN UXION SOCIETY.\\nIt has been said that Protestantism is the very genius of freedom\\nthat to be true to itself it must ever be protesting and that from\\nthis cause have come the one hundred or more denominations of\\nProtestants in religion.\\nProm the settlement of the town to the year 1820 there had been\\nno organized dissent to the theological doctrines of the Trinitarian\\nCongregational church but in every free community there will be\\ndifferences of opinion in politics and religion. In the nature of\\nthings, it cannot be otherwise. The time had come for a new\\nreligious society to make its appearance in the town.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0274.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0275.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "6v\\nH\\n^^/7^l\u00c2\u00a372Cl.\\nU\\nl9-iyYjn/i", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "1822.] CIVIL HISTORY, 189\\nThe legislature of 1819 passed a general law in regard to the\\norganization of religious societies, and during the year 1820 (see\\nEcclesiastical Hist.) the Christian Union Society was formed.\\nThe society having made application for its proportion of the par-\\nsonage money, a committee was appointed at the annual meeting\\nof the town, in March, to report what proportion belonged to the\\nnew society. Up to this time, the money had been divided be-\\ntween the Boscawen Religious Society and the Westerly Kelig-\\nious Society.\\nThe Christian Union Society also demanded their right in the\\nuse of the West meeting-house. Some of the members of the\\nsociety were pew-owners, while all the members claimed a moiety\\nunder the town s ownership of the frame.\\nThe committee reported that the Christian Union Society was\\nentitled to the use of the house one fourth part of the time for\\nsix months next ensuing and in regard to the parsonage fund,\\nthat said society was entitled to an equal share of the parsonage\\nmoney not otherwise appropriated.\\nThe town was dissatisfied with the report, and it was recom-\\nmitted for the purpose of having a report of all the facts in the\\ncase.\\n1821, At the meeting, held November 5th, for the choice of\\nelectors, the town appointed Ezekiel Webster and the selectmen\\na committee to confer with Concord in respect to building a\\nbridge across Contoocook river.\\nAt a subsequent meeting, held December 17th, the town au-\\nthorized the committee to build and su2:)port such a bridge, to be\\nlocated near the residence of Richard Elliott.\\n1822. At the March meeting the sense of the town was again\\ntaken in regard to establishing a new county, ^yeas, 196 nays,\\n37.\\nThe committee, to whom was recommitted the rejiort in reo-ard\\nto the rights of the Christian Unioii Society in the West meeting-\\nhouse, reported that the amount of money originally received from\\nthe sale of pews was $1,838 that the Christian Union Society\\nclaimed pews amounting to f 325.75, the Westerly Religious Soci-\\nety $894.75, while those not belonging to either society held pews\\nvalued at $618.25.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "190 CIVIL HISTORY. [1823.\\nA motion was made that the Christian Union Society should\\nhave their privileges in the house but the town voted to postpone\\naction till the next annual meeting.\\nAt this meeting, the selectmen were instructed to settle with\\nMr. Price for taxes, which were assessed by the town and paid by\\nhim before the statute was made providing for taxing the polls\\nand estates of clergymen.\\nFARM FOR THE POOR.\\nThe poor of the town were set up for the last time at vendue,\\nthe town voting to appoint a committee to purchase a farm. The\\ncommittee consisted of Benjamin Little, Nathan Hummer,\\nThomas Coffin, Isaac Gerrish, and John Cogswell, who were made\\noverseers.\\nThe price paid for maintenance of the poor was from 19 cents\\nto $1.00 per week.\\nThe committee purchased the farm of Mr. Joseph Sargent, on\\nHio^h street, near Salisbury, tlae first establishment of the kind in\\nthe vicinity. The price paid for it was $1,500; for stock and\\nfurniture, $638; for superintendence, $120. The cost of main-\\ntaining the poor this first year upon the farm was $292.83.\\n1823. Some of the citizens of Hopkinton, seeing the effort to\\ncreate a new county, with Concord for the shire town, made an\\neffort to throw the tide of travel tending to Concord in a new di-\\nrection. Application was made to the court for a road, beginning\\nin Andover, on the 4th New Hampshire turnpike, and following\\ndown the valley of the Blackwater through West Salisbury;\\nthence via Knight s meadow and White plain to Davisville, Con-\\ntoocookville, and Hopkinton, and thence to Manchester. The\\nproject was strenuously urged by Gen. Aquilla Davis, of Warner;\\nand the road was laid out by the court. Such a highway would\\nhave been of little benefit to the town and at a meeting held\\nJanuary 10th the matter was placed in the hands of Ezekiel\\nWebster, Esq., who succeeded in obtaining a reversal of the\\norder.\\nAt the annual meeting, in March, the town voted to equalize\\nthe school districts.\\nThe town also voted that the Christian Union Society should", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "1825.] CIVIL HISTORY, 191\\nhave tlie use of the West meeting-house one fourth part of the\\ntime. The Westerly Religious Society questioned the town s\\nright to control the house, carried the matter to the superior\\ncourt, and obtained a decision, that, where members of one or\\nmore religious societies held pews in a house, the town could not\\nexercise jurisdiction.\\nPending the decision, the Christian Union Society took posses-\\nsion of the house, on a Sunday morning. The Westerly Eeligious\\nSociety thereupon withdrew, and built the meeting-hovise on Cor-\\nser hill. (See Ecclesiastical Hist.)\\nGREAT FRESHET.\\n1824. A great amount of rain fell on the 11th and 12th of\\nFebruary. Enoch Little s day-book contains the following record:\\nFeb 11. Rained all last night part of the day by spells.\\nFeb 12. Rained all last night, snow all gone.\\nFeb IG. Ou Merrimack river one of the piers of Ilooksefc bridge\\ngone, but not rendered impassable. Concord lower bridge two stone\\npiers a part of the body of the bridge carried off. Concord upper\\nbridge new, one wooden pier about two thirds of the body carried\\noff. Canterbury carried off. Republican bridge, a new one between\\nSalisbury Sanbornton [in Franklin] gone. Smith s bridge at New\\nHampton also. On Contoocook river Four bridges in Henniker a\\nnumber of mills, among them those lately erected by R. M. Wallace at\\nan expense of $3000 carried away. Three bridges in Warner, four in\\nWeare on the Piscataquog. A number on the Connecticut White\\nrivers carried away many mills, dams other bridges damaged. Im-\\nmense quantities of timber which had been prepared carried to the\\nbank of the Merrimack were swept away by the flood.\\n1825. The town had increased in population to an extent that\\nentitled the citizens to two representatives, and a fjecond repre-\\nsentative was accordingly elected.\\nSome citizens not being satisfied with the valuations as re-\\nturned by the selectmen, twelve assessors were elected to make the\\nvaluation for the year.\\nNo action in regard to the regulation of schools was had till\\nthis year, when the following resolutions were passed\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Resolved That it shall be the duty of the school committee to ex-\\namine all teachers of schools for the towns; to recommend books to be", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "192 CIVIL HISTORY. [1827.\\nused as classick s to give direction Avlien needful for the government of\\nschools; to signify their approbation or disapprobation of the teachers\\nemployed to the district committee if required; and to give such rec-\\nommendalioiis as may tend to promote the general interests of Litera\\nture.\\nEesohml that no teacher shall be considered as qualified to instruct\\nuntil approbated by the school committee; or entitled to his wages un-\\ntil such certificate of approbation is exhibited to the collector or treas-\\nurer who pays the money.\\nREGIMEXTAL MUSTER.\\nThe muster of the 21st regiment -was held this year in the field\\nwest of the house now occupied by Mr. Tilton, in Webster. The\\nfield now (1877) is mostly overgrown with trees. The sham fight\\nwas carried on with such vigor that one of the cavalry horses was\\nkilled by running upon a bayonet.\\nTHE FRESHET OF 1826.\\nThe summer of 1826 was very dry. With the drought came\\ninnumerable grasshoppers. On Monday, August 28th, rain began\\nto fall in the forenoon occasional showers, accompanied by thun-\\nder. From three o clock till ten p. m. it fell in a continuous tor-\\nrent, more than twelve inches falling in six hours. Every bridge\\nacross the Blackwater, with the exception of that at Sweatt s\\nmills, was swept away. The water ran through the ravines west\\nof the village at Sweatt s mills, and also took the short cut from\\nthe hend near the residence of Mr. Orlando Fitts to the mills near\\nSamuel Little s. The roads were very much washed. The dam-\\nage in other towns was equally great. At the White Mountains\\noccurred the slide by which the Willey family lost their lives. It\\nhas ever been known as the great August freshet.\\nThe town voted at the annual meeting to appoint sextons to\\nhave charge of the several gravej^ards, and that all graves should\\nbe dug at the town s expense.\\n1827. Tlie town voted that the letter B be the town seal for\\nweight and measures.\\nThe town voted that cattle, sheep, or swine should not run at\\nlarge provided however that the selectmen may on application", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "1828.] CIVIL HISTORY. 193\\ngive licence to any poor person to let one milcli cow run at large,\\nwhich entirely defeated, the object of the b3^-law. Subsequently\\nthe town voted that no cattle should run at large.\\n1828. The town voted to instruct the selectmen to cause the\\nturnpike gate to be removed from the town s road.\\nAt the ballot for electors this year 420 votes were cast, one of\\nthe largest ballots in the history of the town.\\nThe taverners and store-keepers licensed to sell ardent spirits\\nwere Jacob Gerrish, Fish street, taverner; James West, Plain, tav-\\nerner Keuben Johnson, Fisherville, taverner Worcester Webster,\\nPlain, store Daniel Corser, Corser hill, taverner; John Greenough,\\nPlain, store Reuben Greeley, taverner H. M. Fellows, Corser\\nhill, store.\\nThe town suffered a great loss in the death of its foremost citi-\\nzen, Ezekiel Webster, who fell dead wliile making a plea before\\nthe Merrimack bar in the court-house at Concord, April 10th.\\nThe funeral was on the following Sunday, in the afternoon, at-\\ntended by an immense concourse of people at the meeting-house\\non the Plain. [See Biography.]\\nThe regimental muster was on the farm of Wm. Abbott, on\\nWater street, now owned by Jeremiah Chadwick. A company\\nappeared in the afternoon dressed as Indians, with war paint on\\ntheir faces and roosters feathers in their caps. They took an\\nactive part in the sham fight.\\nTwo hearse-houses were built during the year, one at the east\\nand one at the west end, both now standing (1877), and two\\nhearses procured.\\n13", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "[1830.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nTEMPERANCE.\\niPlEIOR to 1830, there was a general use of spirituous liquors\\nP throughout the country. Men took their bitters liefore\\nbrealrfast, to give them an appetite. They took a dram in the\\nmiddle of the forenoon to keep them up till dinner time. Af-\\nter dinner they drank again to settle their stomachs, and must\\nhave a night-cap before going to bed. No matter how poor a\\nman might be, in his cupboard or somewhere about his premises\\nwas a brown jug containing rum, gin, or brandy.\\nThose who had accumulated propex-ty, and were accounted pros-\\nperous farmers, furnished their cupboards with fine cut glass de-\\ncanters, and kept a generous supply of New England and West\\nIndia rum, brandy, gin, port and Madeira wines. In their cellars\\nwere kegs of cheny brandy and barrels of cider. Cider was a\\ncommon beverage, and bread and cider a common diet. A neigh-\\nbor, entering a house, felt at liberty to help himself to a drink\\nfrom the white or brown mug always standing on the table or\\nmantel-shelf, which on cold winter days was usually spiced with\\nred pepper.\\nVisitors were always treated with the best liquors and\\nwines the house afforded. No matter what the occasion, be it\\nwedding or funeral, guests and mourners alike partook of the liq-\\nuors wenerously provided. Pastor and people alike replenished\\ntheir brown jugs at the stores. Ministers, in making their paro-\\nchial calls, were presented with a glass of wine, either before or\\nafter prayer. If ministers exchanged pulpits on a Sabbath, each\\nwas careful to have the kind of liquor on hand which the other\\npreferred.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "1832.] CIVIL HISTORY. 195\\nIt is narrated, that when the General Association was about to\\nmeet in Boscawen in 1810, Eev. Mr. Wood asked Mrs. Wood,\\nwho knew the habits of the neighboring ministry, as to how\\nmuch liquor would be needed, and if she thought a gallon of rum\\nwould be sufficient. No, my dear, replied the wife, you\\nknow that Father Hidden will want a whole case bottle full of\\nrum for himself.\\nEev. Mr. Hidden was minister at Tamworth. It is not to be\\nsupposed that he drank more than his brothers in the ministry,\\nbut that Mrs. Wood knew he had a liking for that kind of liquor.\\nLiquor drinking was universal. In 1824, when the people of\\nCanterbury w^ere agitating the question of building a new meet-\\ning-house, a committee was sent to view the meeting-house on\\nCorser hill, then just completed. They were so hospitably\\ntreated that the driver of the double sleigh could not manage\\nthe team, and the entire party were so ol)livious of surrounding\\nmatters that they were upset in the ditch.\\nNo farmer thought of beginning haying without first replen-\\nishing his rum jugs. No enterprise could be undertaken without\\nliquor. The largest trade of the stores was in rum. At this pe-\\nriod, Messrs. Hezekiah Moses Fellows, store-keepers on Corser\\nhill, frequently sold a hogshead of West India rum in a week. The\\ntraders on Boscawen Plain doubtless had even a larger trade. An\\ninspection of old account books of this period shows that in a ma-\\njority of the accounts are items for liquors sold by the gallon,\\nquart, pint, and glass.\\nThe temperance movement in Boscawen liegan in 1831. Jona-\\nthan Kittredge, afterwards of Canaan, a reformed drunkard, gave\\nlectures on temperance throughout the state. Temperance meet-\\nings were held in Boscawen, Eev. Mr. Wood and Eev. Mr. Price\\nbeing earnest advocates of the movement. Many of the promi-\\nnent citizens saw the necessity of reform, and advocated it. Meet-\\nings were held in the school districts and in the meeting-houses.\\nOther citizens conscientiously opposed the movement.\\nThe Second Congregational church, Feb. 7, 1832, at a confer-\\nence meeting held at the house of Dea. Eliphalet Kilburn,\\nadopted the following pledge, all the members present but two\\nassenting to it\\n^Resolved, that the ordinary use of ardent spirits is inconsistent with", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "196 CIVIL HISTORY. [1833.\\nthe Christian character that we will entirely abstain from it except as\\na medicine. Also:\\nResolved that all persons who may hereafter unite in covenant with\\nthis church shall be admitted on the principle of entire abstinence\\nfrom the use of ardent sjiirits except as a medicine.\\nA warm discussion was had, several members, whose lives and\\ncharacters were beyond reproach, earnestly opposing it, on the\\nground that to sign a pledge was inconsistent with Christian\\nfreedom.\\nThe pledge was adopted, however, by a large majority. It was\\ncirculated through the community. On the 4th of July a temper-\\nance meeting was held at the meeting-house on Corser hill. The\\nlight infantry military company paraded, marched to Dea. James\\nKilburn s, and escorted the Martin Luther Musical Society to the\\nmeeting-house, where addresses upon temperance was made, and\\nsongs sung.\\nThe churches and the leading men in the community having\\nengaged in the reform, public drinking soon became disreputable.\\n1833. The temperance movement had not lost its force. Dur-\\ning the fall a series of evening meetings was held in the meeting-\\nhouse on Corser hill, in which temperance was publicly discussed.\\nMr. Amos Couch, a young joiner working with Mr. William\\nAbbot, advocated reform with great abilit3\\\\ The great question\\nwas, where the line should be drawn. Why shou^ld not cider be\\nincluded Men became intoxicated on cider. Many citizens\\nwere ready to cut off distilled liquors, but would not discard the\\nuse of fermented. Those opposed to the temperance movement\\npressed the argument home, that, to be consistent, the reformers\\nmust quit the use of all that could intoxicate. Some conscien-\\ntious men saw that they could not consistently ask their fellow-\\nmen to give vip rum, while they held on to cider. Both were in-\\ntoxicating when taken in excess. By no haK-way halting would\\nthey hinder the great movement they discarded cider, and cut\\ndown their apple-trees\\nOne of the first to destroy his trees bearing only cider-apples\\nwas Thomas Coffin, who had a mill in which he made nearly one\\nhundred barrels of cider per annum from his own orchards. Others\\nused the mill, which was kept running from September till Decem-\\nber; but from 1833 on, no cider was sold by its owner till it was\\nchanged to vinegar.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "1835.] CIVIL HISTORY. 197\\nA vigorous war was waged against foxes and crows. Forty-two\\nfoxes heads were presented to the selectmen for the bounty of\\ntwenty-five cents, twenty-two of them liaving been caught by\\nWilliam T. Pillsbury.\\nThe selectmen were instructed to sell the town farm, and pur-\\nchase another in a more convenient location.\\nThe toAvn voted that those who worship in the West Meeting\\nHouse should have liberty to repair the house.\\nThe selectmen were instructed not to grant to any one license\\nto retail ardent spirit. From unrestricted sale and universal\\ndrinking, in 1829, Boscawen had become a temperate community.\\n1835. The town passed a by-law to prevent cattle from run-\\nning at large, except the single cow of a poor man, who must be\\nlicensed by the selectmen.\\nThe selectmen were instructed to have the town buildings\\ninsured.\\nThe town farm having been sold, another was purchased of Mr.\\nSamuel Elliot, on Water street, for the sum of $2,000.\\nThe town voted that the Universalist Society have their pro-\\nportion of the parsonage money with other societies, according\\nto the tax.\\nThe town also voted to instruct the selectmen to put in force\\nthe vagrant law, to cause all the persons in town who are wast-\\ning their time or property by intemperance, idleness, or dissipa-\\ntion, to be placed under guardianship, or sent to the house of\\ncorrection, and to prosecute all persons in town who traffic in\\nardent spirits illegally.\\nA road having been laid out by a committee from court, avoid-\\ning the hill between the house of Mr. Hale Atkinson and Mr.\\nNathan Plummer, on Fish street, the town successfully opposed\\nits construction as laid out, and obtained a modification of the\\norder.\\nThe town voted that one fourth of the highway taxes should be\\nreserved for winter service.\\nThe town voted to accept its proportion of the surplus revenue\\nof the United States, and appointed Hezekiah Fellows agent to\\ntake care of the same, the money to be loaned to the town.\\nThe town voted against a proposition submitted by the legisla-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "198 CIVIL HISTORY, [1837.\\nture, in regard to endowing a state asylum for tlie insane, 66\\nyeas, 200 nays.\\nDuring the winter occurred a great rain, which carried off a\\nlarge body of snow, and broke up the rivers, causing great destruc-\\ntion of bridges. The Canterbury bridge, the Boscawen bridge,\\nand four bridges in Concord were swept away.\\n1837. The town appointed a committee to confer with the\\npew-owners in the West meeting-house in regard to making it a\\ntown-house. The committee consisted of Samuel Chadwick, Col.\\nMoses Gerrish, Thomas Elliot, Joseph Ames, and Richard Gage.\\nA controversy with the town of Concord in regard to the line\\nbetween the towns having arisen, the selectmen were instructed\\nto defend the town from all encroachments.\\nThis controversy arose from the construction of the factory,\\nwhich was erected in 1836, both towns claiming it.\\nCOXTROVERSY BETWEEN BOSCAWEX AXD CONCORD ABOUT THE\\nLINE BETWEEN THE TWO TOWNS.\\nThe line, as defined by the selectmen of both towns, June 2,\\n1797, was as follows\\nBegin at a stake and stones on the southerly side of Contoocook\\nriver nearly opposite the middle of the main branch where the same\\nempties into Merrimack being where a forked white pine formerly stood,\\nwhich is the southeasterly corner of Boscawen running west ]7\u00c2\u00b0 and 35\\nsouth by needle four miles to a pitch pine tree which is the northeast\\ncorner of Concord, on which is a number of letters, marks and figures\\nwhich we have newly spotted on three sides, which bounds and line we\\ndo hereby agree to ratify and confirm as the bounds and line, and to be\\nthe bounds and line between Concord and Boscawen.\\n(Signed) Winthrop Carter Selectmen\\nThomas Thorla of\\nDaniel Shepard Boscawen\\nJohn Odlin Selectmen\\nPiich i Ayer of\\nJona. Eastman Concord\\n(Henry Gerrish surveyor.)\\nIn 1830, Benjamin Kimball bought the water-power on Contoo-\\ncook river, at the upper falls, and the next year erected a grist and\\nflouring mill, which was located on the line. Mr. K. died soon", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "1837.] CIVIL HISTORY. 199\\nafter, and tlie property passed into tlie hands of F. E. Fisher,\\nof Boston, who in 1835-6 built the stone factory adjoining the\\ngrist-mill, just north of the line in Boscawen. The abundance of\\nwater-power, and the prospective increase of the manufacturing\\ninterest, made the boundary question one of moment. The dif-\\nference of opinion as to the boundary line arose from the descrip-\\ntion in the respective charters of the two towns. The colonies\\nof Massachusetts Bay, in General Court convened, at Boston,\\nJune 17, 1725, granted to the proprietors of Penacook (Concord)\\na tract of land on Merrimack river. The north boundary, west of\\nthe river, was described in the grant as follows\\nBegin where the Contoocook Eiver falls into the Merrimcack River\\nand upon a course west 17\u00c2\u00b0 south four miles.\\nThe same court. May 20, 1733, granted to John Coffin\\nCo. the plantation at Contoocook (Boscawen). The southern\\nboundary adjoining Penacook was described thus\\nBeginning at the middle of the mouth of Contoocook River where\\nit empties itself into Merrimack where it joins on Penacook Plantation\\nthence running westl5\u00c2\u00b0 south adjoining on Pennycook line four miles\\nto a white pine tree marked Pennycook corner bounds.\\nConcord was bounded by Contoocook river, in general terms\\nBoscawen, by the middle of the mouth of the Contoocook where it\\nempties into the Merrimack. By construing the latter literally,\\nthe line would be carried north one half the width of the river,\\nand would inclose all of the mill and new stone factor} in Con-\\ncord. Concord claimed that the language of the charter should\\nbe construed literally, while Boscawen insisted that the line of\\n1797, as before stated, should be continued, which would leave\\nthe factory in Boscawen.\\nAt the annual meeting in March, 1837, the town of Concord in-\\nstructed their selectmen to serve the town of Boscawen with no-\\ntice to meet for the purpose of making suitable arrangements in\\nregard to the line between the toAvns, agreeable to the provisions\\nof law.\\nBoscawen declined to meet. At the September term, 1837, the\\nselectmen of Concord presented a petition to the court of common\\npleas, setting forth that the line is and has for a long time been\\nin dispute, and praying the court to appoint a committee to", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "200 CIVIL HISTORY. [1837.\\nexamine and establish the line between the two towns. Upon\\nthis petition the court ordered that John Porter, Thomas D.\\nMerrill, and Henry B. Chase be a committee to establish a hne\\nbetween Concord and Boscawen, and renew the bounds and\\nmarks. Nothing was done until Oct. 9, 1840, when a hearing\\nwas held at the hotel of Reuben Johnson. Concord was repre-\\nsented by Samuel Fletcher, and Boscawen by George W. Nesmith\\nand Ichabod Bartlett. After a full and careful examination of\\nthe evidence presented, the committee affirmed the old line of\\n1797, with more definite description. There are those now living\\nwho attended the hearing and heard the arguments, and who\\nspeak of Mr. Bartlett as having been very eloquent, forcible, and\\nconvincing. Stone bounds were erected, and no further contro-\\nversy has arisen.\\nA neat turn was given to the argument by him. Boscawen,\\nsaid Mr. B., had in her generosity once built one half of the\\nbridge across the Contoocook for the convenience of the public,\\nalthough the river at that point vras wholly in Concord and now\\nshe would again show her generosity she would give the v^hole\\nof the bridge to Concord, and take the factory.\\nA road was laid out during the year from Battle street to Fow-\\nler s plain but the selectmen, for some cause, saw fit to delay its\\nconstruction, and it never was opened.\\nA committee was appointed, consisting of Samuel Chadwick,\\nCol. Moses Gerrish, Thomas Elliot, Joseph Ames, and Richard\\nGage, to confer with the owners of the pews in the old West\\nmeeting-house in regard to selling their rights, with a view of\\nmaking it a town-house.\\nANTI-SLAVEEY.\\nThe anti-slavery agitation which had begun, reached Boscawen.\\nOn tbe 4th of July a public meeting was held in the meeting-\\nhouse on Corser hill, and an address given by Rev. Cyrus W.\\nWallace, then a student in Gilmanton Theological Seminary, for\\nmany years pastor of the First Congregational church, Manches-\\nter. Petitions were circulated, asking congress to prohibit slavery\\nin the territories. Anti-slavery societies were formed at the west\\nand also at the east end of tbe town, but the prevailing sentiment\\nwas against any agitation of the question.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "1838.]\\nCIVIL HISTORY. 201\\nMany of the citizens favored the colonization scheme, that of\\nsending the negroes to Africa, their own country. The emanci-\\npationists retorted that America was tlieir own country. They\\nohtained papers and pamphlets. They hung up in public places\\nfigures of a negro in chains, kneeling with this appeal, Am I\\nnot a man and a brother\\nIt is not probable that there was a citizen of Boscawen who at\\nheart wished to have the negroes remain in slavery but there was\\nan intense prejudice against color, a prejudice which was shared\\nby some of the best men in the community. Several negro fami-\\nlies had taken possession of a house that stood on Fowler s plain\\nwest of Beaver-dam. They were in the Corser hill school district,\\nand the children made their appearance at school. On a Sunday\\nevening, after a prayer-meeting for the conversion of the world,\\nthe citizens tarried, and voted that they should not be permitted\\nto attend school in that district.\\nThe excluded children, however, found no barrier to their at-\\ntending school at North Water street. The great and chief fear\\nwas, that if the negroes were liberated in the South they would\\nall flock to the North. Thomas Coffin was an emancipationist\\nhis brother-in-law, Dea. ISTehemiah Cogswell, was a colonizationist.\\nTheir discussions were always friendly, though sometimes warm.\\nThe negro is a man, and is entitled to freedom, said the\\nfirst.\\nBrother, do you want all those niggers to make their appear-\\nance on Water street was the reply, often repeated.\\n1838. Hezekiah Fellows, custodian of the town for its propor-\\ntion of the surplus revenue, reported at the annual meeting that\\nhe had received three instalments, amounting to $5,518.86, which\\nwas loaned to the town.\\nThe committee appointed the previous year on a town house\\nreported that they had seen a majority of the pew-holders in the\\nWest meeting-house, and that most of them were willing to give\\nthem up for a town house, while a few wanted about the first\\ncost. The expense would be about $500. The site selected by\\nthe committee was near Aaron Flanders s corner, the southerly\\nend of Water street.\\nThe report of the committee was accepted, but nothing further\\nwas done in the premises.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "202 CIVIL HISTORY. [1839.\\n1839. The country was still suffering from the commercial\\ndisasters of 1837. There was little money in circulation. Emi-\\ngration from the East to the West still continued. Although the\\nvaluation of property on the selectmen s books was unchanged,\\nthere had in reality been a great depreciation of values.\\nThe only business out of the usual course at town-meeting was\\na vote to make the alms-house a house of correction for vagrants.\\nThis was prompted by the unusual number of tramps roaming\\nthe country some in search of work, more to sponge their living\\nout of tlie community.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "Z.X/^v^i^^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "[1840.\\nCHAPTER XIY.\\nFROM 1840 TO 1850.\\n^1 HE canvass for the election of President and Vice-President\\nduring the year was one of the most exciting in the history\\nof tlie nation. There were two great political parties, the Demo-\\ncratic and the Whig the Liberty party not then having been\\nformed. The Democratic party was in power, with Martin Van Bu-\\nren j^resident, Avhom they renominated. The Whig party nomi-\\nnated Gen. William Henry Harrison, of Ohio. The Whig party\\ncharged the Democrats with extravagance, with being respon-\\nsible for all the commercial distress. They raised the cry of re-\\nform, economy, honesty. A party enjoying a long lease of power\\nis open to attack on every side. The Whigs knew it, and made\\nthe most of their opportunities.\\nThe campaign opened June 17, on the Whig side, by a mass\\nmeeting held at Concord, a meeting remarkable for the numbers\\ncongregated in days when the only conveyance was by horses. The\\nattendance was estimated at twenty thousand. Large delegations\\nwere present from every section of the state. Many of those at-\\ntending must have been absent from home a week.\\nThe Whigs brought into use aiJj)liances never before dreamed\\nof in political campaigns. Gen. Harrison, having been born in a\\nlog cabin, was the Log Cabin candidate and cabins built of\\nlogs, drawn on wheels, with bear-traps and coon-skins hanging on\\nthe walls, were features in the grand procession. It was popular-\\nly supposed that Gen. Harrison was cradled by his mother in a\\nsap trough, and wore a coon-skin coat. The Democrats called\\nhim the coon candidate. The Whigs accepted the name, and\\ngloried in calling themselves coons. Many of the Whig news", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "204 CIVIL HISTORY. [1840.\\npapers broiiglit out wood-cuts representing a gathering of raccoons\\nplaying the chorus of victory on trombones.\\nIt was popularly supposed that Gen. Harrison had lived on\\ncoarse fare in his early life, and drank hard cider. Hence he\\nwas called by the Democrats the hard cider candidate. The\\nWhigs accepted the appellation, and at all Whig gatherings there\\nwas a supply of fermented apple-juice. The Democrats could re-\\nsort to no such appliances to win popular favor. Mr. Yan Buren\\nwas of an old New York family a life-long politician. He had\\nlived in luxury enjoyed for many years the emoluments of office.\\nGen. Harrison had distinguished himseK in the war of 1812 had\\nfought the battle of Tij^pecanoe, and in song was Old Tippe-\\ncanoe.\\nLOCO-FOCO.\\nThe campaign produced a literature peculiar to the times. The\\nDemocrats were called Loco-Focos by their opponents. In\\n1834, one John Mack opened a store in Park Row, New York, in\\nwhich he had two novelties that attracted attention. One was\\nchampagne wine drawn from a fountain the other was a self-\\nlighting cigar, on one end of which was a composition that would\\nlight itself on being rubbed. These last he called Loco-Foco\\ncigars. He patented them, the patent bearing date April 16,\\n1834.\\nIn the year 1835 a division occurred in the New York Democ-\\nracy. At a meeting held in Tammany hall a brawl occurred,\\nduring which one wing of the part} extinguished the gas-lights\\nbut the other wing, having some Loco-Foco matches, immedi-\\nately relighted the hall. The Courier Enquirer, in a notice\\nof the meeting, called that wing of the party Loco-Focos. The\\ncountry accepted the name, which during the presidential cam-\\npaign was applied by the Whigs to the whole Democratic party.\\nIn Boscawen, as in other towns, the young men who sympa-\\nthized with the Whig party organized clubs, and sang campaign\\nsongs on every possible occasion. Many of the songs were the\\nmerest doggerel, but they served to keep alive the political enthu-\\nsiasm. One was entitled", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "1841.] CIVIL HISTORY, 205\\nVAN AND THE FARMER.\\nTune The King and the Countryman.\\nA farmer there was who lived at North Bend,\\nEsteemed by his neighbors and many a friend;\\nAnd you ll see on a time, if you follow my ditty,\\nHow he took a straight walk to Washington city.\\nThe farmer walked on, and arrived at the door.\\nAnd gave such a thump as was ne er thumped before.\\nMister Van thought the rap was the sound of a flail,\\nAnd his heart beat with fear, and he turned deadly pale.\\nThe song went on to picture the consternation in the White\\nHouse, where the president and his cabinet were dining at a table\\nspread with a service of golden plates, cups, knives, and forks,\\nand ended by installing the rough-handed farmer in Mr. A^an\\nBuren s chair.\\nAnother song was entitled Rolling the Ball; or, Tippecanoe\\nand Tyler, too.\\nJohn Tyler, of Virginia, was the candidate for vice-president on\\nthe Whig ticket.\\nOh! what has caused this great commotion, motion, motion\\nOur country through?\\nIt is the ball a rolling on for Tippecanoe and Tyler, too\\nFor Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.\\nChorus\\nAnd with them we ll beat little Van\\nVan, Van, Van,\\nIs a used iip man,\\nAnd with them we will beat little Van.\\nThe enthusiasm was mainly on the Whig side. The Demo-\\ncrats, from their position, were compelled to be on the defensive,\\nand could not employ like agencies but the Whigs made noise\\nenough for both parties, singing and hurrahing through the cam-\\npaign, and burning a great deal of powder over their victory in\\nNovember.\\nTHE FORMATION OF THE BAPTIST SOCIETY.\\n1841. The political excitement of 1840 was followed by a remark-\\nable attention to religion in the fall of 1841, spreading through-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "206 CIVIL HISTORY. [1842.\\nout Boscawen and neighboring towns. The preaching of the Ad-\\nvent doctrines, as held by IMiller, who believed in the immediate\\ndestruction of the world, had aroused the attention of some who\\nhad never been interested in religious matters.\\nThere being a few individuals of tlie Baptist order in town, an\\neffort was made by them to organize a society. Eev. Mr. Pea-\\ncock, Kev. Mr. Worth, and other ministers, were employed as\\npreachers. A church was formed, and a meeting-house was erected\\non the east side of King street, between the house now occupied\\nby Mr. Caleb Hall, and the brick store then kept by John\\nGreenough. The church and society flourished for a short time,\\nbut the proximity to Fisherville, and the formation of a vigorous\\nBaptist church and society on the Concord side, ere long made it\\napparent that to attempt to build up a church in that locality\\nwould be a waste of energ}^, and it was abandoned. The edifice\\nwas sul)sequently taken down, removed to Canterbury, and\\nerected as a town-house.\\nGRAXITE MUTUAL FIKE INSURANCE COMPANY.\\nDuring the year a charter was obtained for the Granite IMutual\\nFire Insurance Company, Avhich was organized at the west end,\\nSimeon B. Little, President, and Eev. Ebenezer Price, Secretary.\\nNEW POST ROUTE.\\nProm the year 1830 there had been a post-office at Sweatt s\\nmills, and the mail was carried once a week from Hopkinton to\\nSalisbury. The post-office was of little value, most of the people\\nreceiving their mail through the office on the Plain. The citizens\\nof the west end petitioned for a change of route, and a mail tri-\\nweekly^ between Boscawen and West Boscawen, whicli was\\ngranted by the post-office department, and has remained un-\\nchanged to the present time.\\n1842. The academy had been twice used for the holding of\\nthe annual town-meeting. An effort was made at the March\\nmeeting to have the town finish off a town-house in the basement\\nof the new Baptist meeting-house but the town refused to enter-\\ntain the project.\\nThe anti-slavery agitation, which began in 1835, had been in-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "1844.] CIVIL HISTORY. 207\\ncreasing from year to year. There were many ardent supporters\\nof the cause in Boscawen, but there was a division of sentiment\\nin regard to the best methods of advancing it. The parent\\nanti-slavery society in New York had divided ola the question.\\nAs in all great projects of reform, there were extremists, who held\\nto their own measures and methods with great zeal, and were in-\\ntolerant towards those not agreeing with them. One of the most\\nzealous workers in the cause was Stephen S. Foster, a native of\\nCanteriHiry, who had taught school in Boscawen, and who em-\\nbraced the cause with all his heart. The churches not coming up\\nto his standard of action, he undertook to arouse them by inter-\\nrupting the services at the East meeting-house, on Sabbath, Feb.\\n3d, and at the meeting-house on Corser hill the next Sabbath. In\\nboth instances he was led out of doors. The affair gave rise to a\\ngreat deal of excitement in church, and subsequently in politics.\\n1843. The town voted to put a stop to the sale of spirituous\\nliquors and Benjamin F. Kimball, Thomas Elliott, and William\\nH. Gage were appointed a committee to prevent this sale.\\nDuring the year the qviestion of building a railroad from Con-\\ncord to Lebanon was agitated, but no active measures were taken\\ntowards furthering the project.\\n1844. The town at the annual meeting voted that every\\nperson should be put under oath at the time of taking the in-\\nventory.\\nThe town granted leave to the Christian Union Society to floor\\ntlie galleries in the West meeting-house. The town also voted to\\nbear half the expense of repairing the outside, and of keeping it\\nin repair so long as it was used as a town-house. The Chris-\\ntian Union Society, having obtained leave of the pew-holders, pro-\\nceeded to make the proposed alterations, thus obtaining a com-\\nmodious chapel.\\nFisherville having become a thriving village, the town voted\\n$150 towards the purchase of a fire engine.\\nTHE nortiier:n- railroad.\\nDuring the j^ear the route was surveyed for a railroad from\\nConcord to Franklin, and thence to Lebanon, a movement inau-\\ngurated by the residents of those towns. The survey was made", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "208 CIVIL HISTORY. [184:7.\\nunder tlie direction of Thomas J. Carter, civil engineer. The\\npeople of the west end, believing that they had a hetter route,\\nemployed Stephen C. Badger, Esq., of Concord, to survey a route\\nup the valley of the Blackwater.\\nThe Northern Railroad Company having been organized, the\\nsurveys preliminary to the construction of the road were begun\\nduring the summer. A route up the Merrimack, another up the\\nvalley of the Blackwater, a third up Mill brook, and a fourth via\\nLong pond, were made by the company, under the direction of the\\nchief engineer, Jonathan Adams.\\n1846. The directors of the Northern Eailroad having decided\\nto build upon tlie present location, contracted for the construction\\nof the road. The first shovelful of earth thrown out in the town\\nwas in the excavation south of the small brook emptying into the\\npond at the southerly end of King street.\\nThe large number of men employed, and the disbursement of\\nmoney for labor, gave a momentary impulse to business, and an\\nactivity surpassing that of any other period, perhaps, in the town s\\nhistory.\\nThe road was opened to Franklin in the following winter, and\\nthe numerous teams and stages that since the opening of the\\nFourtli New Hampshire Turnpike had made King street one of\\nthe great thoroughfares of the state, disappeared forever. From\\nthat day to the present, no ponderous wagon, Avith white canvas\\ncovering, drawn by eight stalwart horses, has been seen wending\\nits course along that highway no stage, with its six prancing\\nhorses, its complement of passengers, and mountain of baggage,\\nhas rolled along the road, leaving a cloud of dust behind all have\\ngone, nor will they ever be seen again.\\n1847. The selectmen were authorized to furnish printed copies\\nof their reports.\\nThe town voted that the selectmen procure a certified copy of\\nthe proprietors records, wdiich should be kept at the town-clerk s\\noffice. Hezekiah Fellows, the town-clerk, was authorized to make\\nthe same.\\nUpon the breaking out of the war with Mexico, a regiment of\\nUnited States soldiers, that had been quartered at Burlington, Vt.,\\nmarched to Boston, passing through the town, halting for a short\\ntime on the Plain by the meeting-house. Some of the citizens", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "1849. J CIVIL HISTORY. 209\\ndragged the field-piece belonging to the artillery from the gun-\\nhouse, and fired a salute in honor of this first appearance of a\\nbody of United States soldiers in the town.\\n1848. The town having no place in which to hold its annual\\nmeetings at the east end, a proposition was received from the\\nCongregational society in that section to make such alterations in\\nthe basement of the meeting-house as would accommodate the town.\\nThe following communication was received from the society\\nAt the arintial meeting of the Boscawen Religious Society, holclen on\\nthe 8 i of March, lSt7, it was voted that the town have liberty to con-\\nstruct a town house under tlie meeting house, with the understanding\\nthat said house should be at all times under the control of said society\\nexce[ t when wanted for town purposes, that the construction be un-\\nder tlie joint direction of the society town.\\nE. K. Webster, So. clerk.\\nThe ^proposition was accepted, and the house raised about four\\nfeet, thus obtaining room for a hall.\\n1849. The citizens of Fisherville feeling the need of an organ-\\nization for protection against fires, upon petition, -a fire precinct\\nwas established, extending northward to the brook at the south-\\nerly end of King street.\\nLINE BETWEEN BOSCAWEN AND CANTERBURY.\\nThe bridges on the Merrimack not having been rebuilt by the\\nproprietors, an effort was made to procure the construction of one\\non the site of the former Boscawen bridge, and one, also, on the\\nsite of the Canterbury bridge. There was at the time no free\\nbridge on the Merrimack from Plymouth to Newburyport, with\\nthe exception of one at Concord. The town refused to entertain\\nthe proposition. The line between Boscawen and Canterbury\\nwas in dispute. Was it the east or the west bank of the Merrimack,\\nor was it in the middle of the stream In order to settle the ques-\\ntion, the selectmen were instructed to petition the court of common\\npleas to appoint a committee to fix the line between the two\\ntowns. The committee so appointed decided that the centre of the\\nstream was the boundary, and so established it.\\nThe town voted to adopt ch. 133 of the Revised Statutes, rela-\\nting to the liens of mechanics.\\n14", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "210 CIVIL HISTORY. [1849.\\nNew hearses those now in use were procured during the year.\\nThe town passed the following resolutions\\nIteftolved, That the selectmen be requested to search out any place or\\nplaces in town where they have reason to think by their knowledge or\\nby information from others that alcoholic liquor is sold that they pro-\\nceed against them as is pointed out by statute at the expense of the\\ntown.\\nThe state constitution had been revised during the winter by a\\nconvention called for the purpose. But the town refused the\\nadoption of the revision, forty voting in favor and three hundred\\nand five against it.\\nCALIFORNIA EMIGRATION,\\nThe discovery of gold in California created a great excitement,\\nespecially among the young men. Ships were chartered, from\\nBoston, New York, and Philadelphia, for San Francisco via Cape\\nHorn. Other vessels sailed for the Isthmus of Panama, and voy-\\nagers worked their way up the Chagres river across the Isthmus\\nto the old city of Panama, and thence sailed northward to the\\nEldorado. Others, still more adventurous, started westward, mak-\\ning tlie long, tedious, hazardous journey across the plains, over\\nthe Sierra Nevada range of mountains, exposing themselves to all\\nthe dangers of starvation and sickness, or death at the hands of the\\nIndians. The first emigrants to California from Boscawen were\\nWilliam and Jonas Call and Bitfield P. Burhank, who made their\\nway to the land of gold by Salt Lake, suffering great hardships.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "j/^^^^^^-^^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "[1850.\\nOHAPTEE XY.\\nFROM 1850 TO i860.\\nHE construction of the Northern Kaih-oacl brought about a\\nnew order of things. The tavern signs had disappeared with\\nthe stages and teams. The store-keepers found that their trade\\nwas diminishing. No longer were tliere rafts of manufactured\\nhimber to be seen floating down the Merrimack. The river bank,\\nin rear of the academy, no longer was piled with boards to be\\nrafted to Lowell or Boston. Some kinds of property had greatly\\ndecreased in value, while in others there had been a sudden en-\\nhancement, especially in wood and timber lands. Wood, for\\nwhich there had been no market, was worth five dollars per cord\\nat the railroad. Hemlock and chestnut timber, which had been\\nconsidered of little account, rose to the former price of pine, while\\npine lumber made a corresponding advance.\\n1851. New and richer discoveries of gold in California, the\\nop ning of the Panama Railroad, the establishment of the Pacific\\nMail Steamship Line, and the marvellous stories told of the for-\\ntunes made, produced a fever of unrest throughovit the community.\\nThe young men, and many in the prime of life, started for the\\nEldorado of the Pacific shore, a few to attain the riches they\\nsought, but the majority to meet with disappointment. During\\nthe year several citizens of Boscawen, with others from the sur-\\nrounding towns, took their dejiarture for California.\\n1852. Many of the farmers had set their fences ujDon the high-\\nway, causing much trouble and expense to the town from the\\ndrifting of snow in winter, and the town, at the annual meeting,\\nvoted that all such fences be removed.\\nDuring the annual meeting, two travellers from Vermont", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "212 CIVIL HISTORY. [1863,\\nundertook to make themselves citizens, and to exercise the privilege\\nof voting. They were discovered, brought before the moderator,\\nand, having made humble apologies, were allowed to depart, after\\npaying the expenses of their arrest.\\n1853. The selectmen were authorized to purchase Colton s wall\\nmaps for each school district in town. This was the first appro-\\npriation ever made for supplying the school districts with maps or\\ncharts.\\nThe cemetery on Norway or Fowler s plain, between Bea-\\nver-dam and Little brook, was laid out during the year.\\nWood being needed for the town farm, the question was agita-\\nted in town meeting, and the proposal to purchase a wood lot was\\nrejected.\\nVoted that the selectmen be not authorized to purchase a wood\\nlot.\\nThe town passed a by-law, forbidding persons to drive faster\\nthan a walk over any bridge that cost more than $1,000. The\\npenalty for such an offence was $1.\\nTHE REBELLION.\\n1861. In all free governments there will ever be political parties.\\nWell for the human race that it is so. In the free discussion of\\ntlie great principles underlying republican government lies the\\nliberty of the nation. Previous to the outbreak of the slave-\\nholders rebellion, party lines were strictly drawn throughout the\\nnation but, with the booming of hostile cannon upon Fort Sum-\\nter and the humiliation of the flag of the nation, the citizens of\\nBoscawen and Webster, in common with the great majority of the\\npeople of the North, gave thfeir support to the government. The\\npart taken in the great struggle by the citizens of the two towns\\nis set forth in another place. [See Military Hist.]\\n1862. At a meeting held Aug. 4, the town voted $100 to vol-\\nunteers, to be paid to those enlisting in the town.\\nThe sum of $2,000 was voted in payment of the same, to be\\nassessed the following year.\\n1863. At the meeting in March, the town voted that no horses,\\ncattle, or other stock be permitted to run at large, under a penalty\\nof $2.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "18G6.] CIVIL HISTORY.\\n213\\nAt a meeting in August, the town voted to pay each conscript\\nor his substitute, when mustered into the service of the United\\nStates, the sum of $300 and the selectmen were authorized to\\nborrow a sum not exceeding Jf? 10,000 in payment of bounties.\\nWAR MEASURES.\\n1864. At the annual meeting in March, the town voted to raise\\n$3,500, and the selectmen were authorized to hire a sum not\\nexceeding $3,000 for families of soldiers.\\nThe following resolution was adopted\\nResolved, That whenever during tlie year the selectmen shall be\\nofficially notified that tlie town is required to furnish soldiers for the\\nservice of tiie United States, the selectmen be authorized to offer\\nand pay, in behalf of the town, such bounties to or for volunteers as they\\nmay deem necessary, and to take such means as they may deem expe-\\ndient to procure volunteers also, that they be authorized to borrow\\non the credit of the town a sura not exceeding one hundred thousand\\ndollars.\\nThe town purchased an iron safe, for the preservation of the\\nrecords, which was placed in the town hall, but which, from the\\ndampness of the place, proved of little value.\\n1865. At the meeting in March the selectmen were authorized\\nto hire $33,000, and to issue coupon bonds bearing interest at six\\nper cent., the sum of $2,000 to be retired each year.\\nVoted, To raise $2,000 for the payment of the interest on the town\\ndebt, and $3,000 for the fatnilies of soldiers.\\nVoted, To memorialize the legislature for a loan equalizing bounties\\npaid to towns.\\nAlthough the selectmen had been authorized in the previous\\nyear to raise a sum not exceeding $100,000, only a third of the\\namount was needed to fill the town s quota, and the indebtedness\\nof the town did not much exceed $30,000.\\nFUXDIXG THE DEBT.\\n1866. The indebtedness of the town to the amount of twenty-\\neight thousand dollars, was funded, and bonds issued in denomi-\\nnations of $50, $100, $200, and $500, dated 2d July, 1866, bear-\\ning six per cent, interest, $2,000 to be retired j^early, till the debt\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2should be extinmiished.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "214 CIVIL HISTORY. [1875.\\nThe town, at the annual meeting, voted 40 cents to each mem-\\nber of the Fire Engine Co., Eisherville, for each attendance at\\nthe monthly meeting, the company consisting of 35 men.\\nSALE OF THE ALMSHOUSE AXD POOR-FAKM.\\n1868. Merrimack county having purchased a county farm for\\nthe maintenance of the poor, the town voted to sell its farm on\\nWater street and Isaac K. Gage, Francis S. French, and Bradley\\nAtkinson were appointed a committee to dispose of the same.\\nThe sale was not consummated, however, till the following year.\\nCEMETERY OX THE PLAIIST.\\n1869. At the annual meeting, Isaac K. Gage, Dr. E. K. Webster,\\nand George Knowles were appointed a committee to lay out\\nand grade the cemetery on the Plain.\\nHIGHWAY TAX.\\n1870. The town voted to pay its taxes on highways in money,\\nand to raise the sum of one fourth of one per cent, on the valua-\\ntion, to be expended on the roads.\\nThe sense of the town on the revision of the state constitution\\nresulted, for the first time since its settlement, in an affirmative\\nvote, seventy-two in favor of revision, and twentj -three in oppo-\\nsition.\\n1871-73. No business, other than that ordinarily arising at the\\nannual meetings, was transacted during the years 1871, 1872, and\\n1873.\\n1874. The town voted $400 for the construction of a lock-\\nup at Fisherville.\\nAn article in the warrant relative to the abolishing of the sev-\\neral school districts, and placing their control in the hands of a\\ntown committee, was passed over.\\nTHE TOWX HISTORY\\n1875. The town voted a sum of $300 to be paid to Cliarles C.\\nCoffin, for the compilation of a history of the town.\\nThe sum of $250 was voted to the Fire Engine Co. at Fisher-\\nville.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "1876.] CIVIL HISTORY, 215\\nCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.\\n1870. A special meeting of the town was called June 26, to\\ntake action in regard to the celebration of the centennial anniver-\\nsary of American Independence.\\nThe following resolution was adopted\\nResolved, That the town of Boscawen will celebrate the centennial\\nFourtli of July, 1876, and that the selectmen be authorized and in-\\nstructed to appropriate out of the treasury the sum of $300 towards the\\nproper expenses of such celebration,\\nThe proceedings on the 4th of July were published in pamphlet,\\nby S. G. ]S[oyes, of Fisherville.\\n[From the History of the Centennial Celebration.]\\ncelebration op 4th of JULY, AT BOSCAWEN, 1876,\\nThe town, at a meeting of its legal voters, having voted to celebrate\\nthis centennial anniversary, and appropriated money for that purpose,\\nthe following officers and committee were appointed\\nPresident N, Butler, Esq.\\nVice Presldeuts Calvin Gage, Nath. R. Greeley, E. S. Harris, Ira\\nSweatt, Moses Morse, Abraham Ilook, A. G. Kimball, JSTath l S. Web-\\nster, Luther Gage, Peter Coffin, Wm. P. Abbott, H. P. Gill,\\nSecretaries\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac K. Gage, Charles E. Chadwick, C. M. Rolfe.\\nCommittee of Arrangements Isaac K. Gage, T. O. Wilson, Charles J.\\nEllsworth, Charles W. Webster, John E. Itines.\\nCommittee on Grounds John C. Gage, Walter E. Sweatt, Asa M.\\nGage, Joseph Chandler.\\nCommittee on Refreshments Ilarley C, Gage, Geo, A. Morse, Charles\\nW, Webster, L. W. Couch, David Abbott.\\nCommittee on National Salute Hannibal Bonney, D. E. Jones, Chas.\\nMeagher.\\nCommittee on FireworJcs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ^Yl\\\\]le H. Bonney, IST, R. Greeley, A, G.\\nKimball, W. B. Hardy.\\nCommittee on il/(wjc\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel (t. Noyes, Henry T. Foote, T. O. Wil-\\nson, John Taylor.\\nCoynmittee on Oration\u00e2\u0080\u0094lsaaa K. Gage, N, Butler, J. C. Gage, D, F.\\nKimball.\\n3\u00c2\u00a3arshals~T. O. Wilson, D. F. Kimball, E. G. Wood, S. K. Mann.\\nToast- Master\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rqv. A. C. Hardy.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "216 CIVIL HISTORY, [1876.\\nAt sunrise the bells were rung, and a national salute of thirteen guns\\nwas fired; at noon the bells were again rung, and a salute of twenty-six\\nguns fired.\\nAt 2 o clock, exercises were held in the grove east of Penacook Acad-\\nemy, as follows\\nPrayer by Rev. J. E. Burr; reading of the Declaration of Indepen-\\ndence by Rev. J. A. Freeman oration by Charles C Coffin, Esq., of\\nBoston.\\nNear the close of the oration (indications of a shower appearing) the\\naudience repaired to Academy Hall. After the oration, !-entiments\\nwere proposed by Rev. A. C. Hardy, Toast-Master, and responded to\\nas follows\\nThe Past, Present, and Future of our Government, by N. Butler,\\nEsq.\\nThe Day we Celebrate, by E. G. Wood, Esq.\\nThe Mother Country, by Rev. J. A. Freeman.\\nThe Old Folks at Home by Col. D. F. Kimball.\\nBoscawen s Son, the town of Webster, by J. C. Pearson, Esq.\\nThe Orator of the Day, by C. C. Coffin, Esq.\\nThe exercises were interspersed with singing, accompanied by an or-\\ngan and cornet, under the direction of S. G. Noyes.\\nDuring the latter part of the afternoon and early evening, sixty-one\\nguns were fired, making one hundred in all, and bells were rung at sun-\\nset.\\nAt dark a large concourse of people assembled at Penacook Square,\\nto witness the grand display of fireworks that had been procured for\\nthe occasion. The display was very fine, considering the dampness of\\nthe atmosphere, which affected their burning very much. Unfortunate-\\nly, before they were all burned, tiie rain dispersed the crowd.\\nNotwithstanding the interruption by the rain during the oration, and\\nof the fireworks in the evening, all who participated in the celebration\\nenjoyed the exercises, and will long remember the Centennial of 1876,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "[1860.\\nWEBSTEE.\\n^1 HE act jiassed bj- the legislature of 1S60, incorporating the\\n^^section west of Beaver-dam as a separate town, was approved\\nby the governor July 4th, and became a law.\\nACT OF IXCOKPORATIOX.\\nan act to divide TIIP TOW.V OF BOSCAAVEX AND CONSTITUTE THE\\nTOWN OF WEBSTER.\\niJe it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court\\nconvened\\nSection 1. That all that part of the town of Bo.scawen lying west-\\nerly of the following described line, to wit, beginning at the centre of\\nBeaver-dam brook, so-called, on the nortlierly boundary line of said\\ntown, and running thence southerly along the centre of said brook to\\nConch pond, so-called; thence in a straight line across said pond to the\\nbrook connecting the same with Great pond, so-called thence along\\nthe centre of said last mentioned brook to said Great pond thence\\nin a straight line across said Great pond to the brook running there-\\nfrom at the southerly end thereof; thence along the centre of said brook\\nuntil it strikes the southerly side of the highway near Burbank s mills,\\nso-called, leading from Ephraim Plumer s to Dodge s mills, so-called\\nthence easterly along the southerly side of said highway, to a point in a\\nline with the westerly side line of the fifth range of the forty-five acre\\nlots in the fourth division, as originally laid out thence southerly to\\nand along said westerly side line of said fifth range, and in continua-\\ntion of the same direction, to the southerly boundary line of said Bos-\\ncawen, be, and the same hereby is, severed from said town, and made\\na body politic and corporate, by the name of Webster.\\nSec. 2. All real and personal property, including all debts, claims,\\nand demands of any kind, now owned by and due to the town of Bos-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "218 CIVIL HISTORY. [1860.\\ncawen all school and other funds belonging to said town and the\\nproportion of the literary fund, which until a new apportionment of\\nstate taxes shall be payable to said towns, shall be divided between\\nthem in the proportion of five dollars to Boscawen and three dollars\\nand fifty cents to Webster and if said towns cannot agree upon the\\ndivision of any such projjerty, George W. Nesmith of Franklin, Asa P-\\nGate of Northfield, and John Abbott of Concord, upon request of either\\ntown, may make division of the same, or assign the same, or any part\\nthereof, to either of said towns, and may order the town to which\\nsuch property may be assigned to pay over such sums of money to the\\nother town as in their opinion is equitable, according to the foregoing\\npropositions, and may fix the time of payment.\\nSec. 3. All taxes assessed since March last upon the polls and estate\\nof persons residing in said Webster as hereby constituted, all non-resi-\\ndent taxes assessed since March last in said town, shall be collected by\\nthe collector to whom the same has been committed for that purpose,\\nand, after deducting therefrom the state and county taxes, sliall be by\\nhim paid over to said town of Webster in the same manner in which he\\nis directed to pay the same to the town of Boscawen before the divi-\\nsion thereof; and the treasurer of AVebster, when duly chosen and\\nqualified, shall have the same power to issue an extent against such col-\\nlector, for any neglect to comply with the provisions of this act, that he\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0would have if such collector had been chosen by said town of Webster.\\nSec. 4. All debts and liabilities heretofore incurred by said town of\\nBoscawen, and all municipal expenses of said town since the first day of\\nMarch last shall be paid by the aforesaid towns in the same proportion\\nas hereinbefore prescribed for the division of property.\\nSec. 5. All paupers now supported by, and in the actual receipt of\\nassistance from said Boscawen, shall be supported by the towns of Bos-\\ncawen and Webster, each contributing in the same proportion as herein-\\nbefore mentioned for the division of property, until such time as either\\nof said towns shall call for a division of said paupers; and if said towns\\ndo not agree upon a division, the aforesaid Nesmith, Gate, and Abbott\\nshall, upon the request of either of said towns, determine and assign to\\neach of them its proportion of said paupers, upon the same basis, as\\nnear as practicable, as that prescribed for a division of the town prop-\\nerty, and determine which of said paupers shall be supported by each\\nof said towns.\\nSec. 6. In all assessments of state and county taxes until the legis-\\nlature shall otherwise order, Boscawen, after this division thereof, shall\\npay four dollars and twenty-two cents, and Webster two dollars and\\nninety-six cents and the state and county treasurers shall issue their\\nrespective warrants accordingly.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "18G2.] CIVIL HISTORY. 219\\nSec. 7. Simeon B, Little, Jeremiah S. Webber, and Joseph L.\\nCondi, or any two of them, may call the first meeting of said town of\\nWebster, by posting up a warrant for that purpose as the law directs\\nat wliich meeting either of said persons may preside until a moderator\\nbe chosen; and at such meeting all necessary town officers may be\\nchosen.\\nSec. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.\\nApproved July 4, 1860.\\nFIRST TOWN-MEETING.\\nThe first town-meeting Avas liold Aug. 11. Simeon B. Little\\nwas chosen moderator and David E. Burhank town-clei k. The\\nhighest number of votes cast was 204.\\nNov. 6, 18(30. At the meeting for choice of electors for Presi-\\ndent and Vice-President of the United States, measures were\\ntaken to form a settlement with the town of Boscawen.\\nVoted That the selectmen be authorized to settle the division of prop-\\nerty, and all other matters contemplated by the act of tlie legislature\\nconstituting this town, with the town of Bo-cawen; provided, that said\\ntown of Boscawen shall make propositions for tliat purpose in their\\njudgment equitable and just, in \\\\yhich case they be authorized to make\\nconveyance of real or other estate, as may be necessary for a final dis-\\nposition of the matter. In default of such equitable proposition let the\\nsettlement be made as provided in said act as the final resort.\\nMarch 12, 1861.\\n^^Voted, To adopt tlie same method to repair highways as formerly in\\nthe town of Boscawen reserving one fourth of the tax for winter use.\\nVoted, Not to revise the constitution.\\nTwelve hundred dollars was raised for town expenses.\\nVoted, To refer the organization of the school districts affected by\\nthe late division to the selectmen.\\nJan. 15, 1862. The citizens of Webster manifested their pat-\\nriotism in common witli the citizens of surrounding towns, by vot-\\ning, at a meeting held Jan. 15, to support the families of those\\nsoldiers who had enlisted and the selectmen were authorized to\\nhire money for that purpose.\\nMarch 11. At the annual meeting, the town raised |1,200 for\\ncurrent expenses.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "220 CIVIL HISTORY. [1863.\\nVoted, To raise seventy-five cents on a dollar of the reduced valua-\\ntion for the repair of highways the present year, one half of which shall\\nbe reserved for winter use.\\nA code of by-la-ws Avas adopted, prohibiting cattle and sheep\\nfrom running at large.\\nPATRIOTISM.\\nAlthough there were many citizens in the town who felt that\\nthe war was unnecessary, and might have been avoided, and who\\nwere opposed to the acts of the administration, yet they acqui-\\nesced in what was done to suppress the rebellion. A few only\\nallowed their political prejudices to carry them far enough to\\noppose inducements for enlistment.\\nAug. 7. A meeting was held to see what action the town\\nwould take to encourage enlistments.\\nVoted, That the town pay one hundred dollars to each recruit who is\\nan inhabitant of this town, who will enlist before the eigliteenth of the\\npresent month for tlie term of three years, not to exceed the quota re-\\nquired of tins town, to be paid when mustered into the service.\\nYeas, 50 nays, 13.\\nVoted, That the selectmen he authorized to hire a sum not exceed-\\ning three thousand dollars, to meet the expense of paying the above\\nbounty to volunteers.\\nAnother town-meeting was called Sept. 3.\\nVoted, Tiiat the town pay to volunteers for nine months in the army\\nof the United States, one hundred dollars each, upon their being mus-\\ntered into the ^;e^vice of the United States, and the selectmen are em-\\npowered to hire money sufficient to pay tlie same.\\n1863. At a town-meeting held 7th Jan.,\\nFo/eJ, That the selectmen be instructed to pay the families of all\\nvolunteers who have left a wife, four dollars per month, and, on the\\nclaimant making a statement of her property and means of living, un-\\nder oath if required, more, if, in their judgment, the circumstances of their\\nfamilies require it; and all as [who] claim as other relatives shall make a\\nwritten statement, under oath, if required, of their property and means\\nof living, and the selectmen shall decide whether they are entitled un-\\nder the law under which they claim.\\nVoted, That the selectmen be authorized to hire such sum of money", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "1863.] CIVIL HISTORY. 221\\nas may be necessary for the support of families of volunteers, not to ex-\\nceed five thousand dollars.\\n^Voled, That the selectmen procure men to fill the town s quota on\\nthe best terms they can, and pay from any money belunging to the\\ntown not otherwise appropriated.\\nMar. 10. Twenty -live luindred dollars was voted for current\\nexpenses.\\nSept. 7. In town-meeting,\\nResolved, That the town of Webster pay to its drafted men, and all\\nthose that may be drafted, or their substitutes, the sum of tiiree hun-\\ndred dollars, in accordance with an act of the legislature passed June\\nsession, 1803, and approved July 10, 1863.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Voled, That tiie selectmen be authorized to iiire such sum of money\\nas may be necessary to pay the bounties of its drafted men, or their\\nsubstitutes, not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars.\\nNov. 13.\\nVoted, That the selectmen be instructed to fill the town s quota on\\nthe best terms they can.\\nVoted, That the selectmen be authorized to hire a sum of money not\\nto exceed five thousand dollars.\\n1864. Mar. 8. The town voted $1,500 for current expenses.\\nFo/erZ, That a bounty of three hundred dollars bo paid to its veteran\\nvolunteers, who have or may reenlist to the credit of tiie town, and\\nauthorize the selectmen to raise money for the same.\\nJune 10. A special town-meeting was called to take measures\\nto promote enlistments.\\nVoted, That the selectmen be instructed to procure nine volunteers,\\nto be credited to the town of Webster, and that they proceed fortiiwith\\nwith the business.\\nVoted, That the selectmen be authorized to hire a sum of money not\\nto exceed ten thousand dollars.\\nTown-meeting was held 8th Nov., for choosing five electors of\\nPresident and Vice-President of U. 8. A.\\nOn the question, Is it expedient that a commission be called\\nto revise the constitution the vote was, yeas, 100 nays, 55.\\nOf the foregoing votes for the proposition, ninety-five had the\\nfollowing qualification annexed", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "222 CIVIL HISTORY. [1867.\\nThe convention to be limited in its action to making provision for\\nallowing qualified voters in tlie military and naval service of the coun-\\ntry to exercise the right to vote while absent from the state.\\nDec. 14\\n^^Vote l, That the town will furnish a substitute for each enrolled man\\nwho has or may furnish the selectmen the sum of two hundred dollars.\\nThe number to be limited to a sufficient number to fill the quota of the\\ntown under a future call for 500,000 men, and that the selectmen be\\nauthorized to hire a sum of money sufficient for the purpose.\\nThe town not only filled its quota, but at tlie close of tlie war\\nhad thirteen soldiers standing to its credit.\\n1865. March 14.\\nFo/er7, To raise thirty-five hundred dollars to defray town charges\\nfor the ensuing year.\\nCOUNTY ALMS-HOUSE.\\nThe town voted that it was expedient for the county to pur-\\nchase a farm and buildings for a county alms-house. The farm\\nfirst occupied hy Col. Henry Gerrisli, on Fish street, was sub-\\nseqxiently purchased for that purpose. The town of Webster\\ntherefore never has established an alms-liouse.\\nFifteen dollars was voted to the Teachers Institute, or\\nrather to the conventions held by the teachers of the common\\nschools, from time to time, by the teachers in the county.\\nMarch 13, 1866. At the annual meeting fifteen ballotings\\nwere had for representative without an election, and the town\\ntherefore was unrepresented during the year.\\nTwo per cent, on the valuation was voted for current exj^enses,\\nthe higliest tax ever assessed.\\nThe selectmen were instructed to use all necessary means to\\nsecure the payment of a claim against the state for bounties ad-\\nvanced in 1864.\\nMarcli 12, 1867. Tbe tax levy for 1866 having proved more\\nthan sufficient for current expenses, a levy of only one and one\\nfourtli per cent, of the valuation was needed for the year. Not-\\nwithstanding the heavy burdens entailed by the war, the citizens\\nmanifested their determination to allow no deterioration of their", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "1872.] CIVIL HISTORY, 223\\neducational institutions by voting to raise one hundred and fifty\\ndollars in addition to the amount required by law.\\nMarcli 10, 1868. Voted to raise one and one half per cent, on\\nthe polls and ratable estates to defray current expenses.\\nTAXATION OF UNITED STATES BONDS.\\nShould the bonds of the United States be taxed The ques-\\ntion greatly agitated the public. Tlie loan of the United States,\\nauthorizing the issue of bonds, exempted them from taxation,\\nand every man who had money for investment became a bond-\\nholder. In consequence, a large aniount of capital escaped tax-\\nation. The exemption was felt to be a hardship on the poor,\\nand a benefit to the rich.\\nThe following question was presented to the town\\nTo see if the town will petition Congress to levy a tax on all the\\nbonds of tlie United States, not exceeding one per cent, semi-annually,\\nand make the same a lien on the coupons and interest of said bonds,\\nand set the same apart as a sinking fund, to be applied in the purchase\\nof the debt of the United States in such manner as Congress may\\ndirect.\\nThe proposition was rejected. Yeas, 31 nays, 38.\\nMarch 9, 1869. Four thousand five hundred dollars was voted\\nfor current expenses. It was voted to fund the debt of the\\ntown, and the selectmen were authorized to issue bonds to that\\nend.\\nNovember 9. A meeting was held to take action upon the\\nquestion of establishing a state police. Voted in the negative.\\nYeas, 8 nays, 45.\\nMarch 14, 1870. Five thousand dollars was raised for current\\nexpenses.\\nBUKIAL-PLACE.\\n1871. Voted to laj out a burying-place on the lot of land\\nnow occupied by William Clough and others.\\nMarch 12, 1872. Four thousand dollars was raised for cur-\\nrent expense.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "224 CIVIL HISTORY. [1876.\\nEXEMPTIOX OF MILLS FKOM TAXATION.\\nA meeting was held 18 May, to see if the town would adopt\\nan act of the legislatvire exempting mills from taxation.\\nThe following resolution was passed by yea and nay vote.\\nYeas, 33 nays, 1.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Resolved, That the town of Webster will exempt from taxation, for\\nfive years, any sum of money between eight and twenty thousand dol-\\nlars, the capital to be invested in mills and machinery, material or stock,\\nfor the manufacture of fabrics of cotton or wool, or any other material;\\nand further, that the town will exempt, for a term of ten years, any\\nsums of money between twenty and one hundred thousand dollars.\\nProvided, that such exemption shall apply only when such sums of\\nmoney shall have been expended in mills and machinery, material or\\nstock.\\n1873. INIar. 11. Five thousand dollars was voted for current\\nexpenses and interest, and for the reduction of the debt. The\\ntown thus resolutely set its face for the extinguishment of its\\nindebtedness.\\n1871. Mar. 10. Four thousand five hundred dollars was voted\\nfor expenses and interest and the selectmen were authorized, in\\ncase that amount was not sufficient, to sell so many of the state\\nbonds at par and interest as will meet the deficit.\\n1875. Mar. 9. Voted to raise $2,000 for current expenses.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Voted, That the selectmen be authorized to make such exchange of\\nits municipal war loan bonds for the unmatured bonds of the town, as\\nthey think will be for the best interest of the town.\\n1876. Mar. 14. Voted to raise .f 2,500 for current expenses.\\nHISTORY OF THE TOWX.\\nThe 9th article of the warrant was as follows\\nTo see what sum of money, if any, the town will raise towards pub-\\nlishing a history of Boscawen, including that of Webster, up to 1860,\\nby C. C. Coffin.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Voted, to pass over article 9 in the warrant.\\nThe town voted for a revision of the constitution. Ayes, 52\\nnays, 33.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "1877.] CIVIL HISTORY. 225\\nOn the 16th of August, the 99th anniversary of the battle of\\nBennington was celebrated in the Congregational meeting-house,\\nby exercises appropriate to the occasion.\\nSherman Little, Esq., was president of the day. An oration\\nwas delivered by Charles C. Coffin, of Boston, followed by ad-\\ndresses by Rev. Arthur Little, of Fondulac, Wis., Rev. E. Buxton,\\nand others, with music by a select quartette, and an original song\\nby Maj. Alfred Little.\\nNov. 7. The state having voted a convention for the revision\\nof the constitution, the town elected as its delegate Rev. Edward\\nBuxton.\\nTHE HISTOKY AGAIN.\\nThe 4th article in the warrant was to see if the town will vote\\nto raise a sum of money to assist C. C. Coffin in publishing a his-\\ntory of the town of Boscawen and the town again voted to pass\\nover the article, thus declaring that in its corporate capacity it\\nwould do nothing towards preserving its historical documents.\\n1877. Mar. 13. The sum of two thousand dollars was raised\\nfor current expenses.\\nThe following resolution was passed, yeas, 36 nays, 32\\nResolved, That the act of the town passed ISth May, 1877, exempt-\\ning certain property belonging to the Blackvvater Mill Co., so-called, be\\nrescinded.\\nThis closes the municipal records of the town of Webster. From\\nthe incorporation of the town, in 1860, through a period of seven-\\nteen years, little but routine business has been transacted at the\\nmeetings of the town.\\n15", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "[1758.\\nECCLESIASTICAL HISTOET\\nTHE FIRST CHURCH.\\ngfiraNE of the conditions of the grant to the proprietors of Contoo-\\n^^*^ook was, that one eighty-fourth part of the land should be\\nset aside for a parsonage, and one additional eighty-fourth for the\\nminister and that a learned and Orthodox minister should be\\nsettled within the space of four years. We have seen in the civil\\nhistory how, above all other things, the proprietors cared for the\\nreligious interests of the town. They were Congregationalists.\\nThey believed that the church polity, which had its origin with\\nJohn Eobinson, William Brewster, and the men of Scrooby and\\nAusterfield, in old England, which made every body of believers a\\nchurch, with power to regulate their own affairs independently of\\nbishop, priest, or pope, by a majority vote, was the polity most\\nconformable to that established by Christ and the apostles. It\\nwas the polity of the churches of Massachusetts. The church\\nwas the state. The town was under obligation to support the\\npreaching of the gospel. Any breach of that obligation, any\\nrefusal to provide for the support of the minister, would have\\nbeen a forfeiture of the charter. The minister had a claim upon\\nthe town for his salary, and could invoke the aid of the law in\\ncase of any delinquency on the part of the town. The first meet-\\ning-house in the state was erected at Dover, 1633 but so slow\\nwas the advancement of civilization, that in 1670 there were\\nonly three settled ministers in the state at Dover, Hampton, and\\nExeter. In 1700, there were but five churches.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "Congregational Meeting-House, Boscawen.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0320.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "1758.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 227\\nMINISTERS OATHS.\\nAt that time ministers were required to take the oath of alle-\\ngiance to his Majesty George II, and to swear that from their\\nhearts they abhorred, detested, abjured as impious and heretical,\\nthat damnable doctrine, that princes, excommunicated or deprived\\nby the Pope, or any authority of the see of Eome, may be deposed\\nor murdered by their subjects or any whatsoever.\\nOn the 28th of Jul}^, 1747, seventeen Congregational ministers,\\nfrom the towns in the eastern part of the state, met at Exeter\\nand formed what they called The General Convention of Minis-\\nters in the Province of New Hampshire. The whole number of\\nministers in the state was about thirty.\\nDARTMOUTH COLLEGE.\\nIn 1758 the ministers united in a petition to Gov. Penning\\nWentworth for a charter for erecting an academy or colleo-e.\\nAt that time Rev. Eleazer Wheelock was attempting to bring the\\nIndians within the pale of civilization by giving them a Christian\\neducation in a school which he had established at Lebanon Conn.\\nAmong his pupils was the son of Sir Wm. Johnson, a half-breed\\nknown in later years as Bundle of Sticks, or Brant, who took\\npart in the massacre of Wyoming. The ministers of New Hamp-\\nshire heartily endorsed Mr. Wheelock s philanthropic plan, and\\ninvited him to remove his school to some locality in the state.\\nThe Merrimack and Connecticut valleys were the most inviting\\nsections. No document is in existence to verify the statement\\nbut it has come down by tradition, that the farm now owned by\\nMrs. Francis S. French, a half mile north of the Hollow was\\nselected as a desirable and suitable location. But Mr. Wheelock\\nhad his own plans. He conceived the idea of establishino- his\\nschool on the basis of the universities of the old world, makino- the\\nschool independent of town jurisdiction, with power to make\\nits own laws. He selected the site now occupied by Dartmouth\\ncollege, and named the locality Dresden. The ministers of the\\nstate gave him their support. They had the welfare of the peo-\\nple at heart, and in 1770 resolved, in convention, to take meas-\\nures for supplying the back settlements with the gospel.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0321.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "228 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [1779.\\nPATRIOTISM OF MINISTERS.\\nDuring tlie revolution, tliey, with but one exception, ranged\\nthemselves on the side of liberty. The exception -was Eev. Ran-\\nna Cosset, of Claremont. Mr. Cosset was not, however, regularly\\nsettled in the ministry. It is not known that his disloyalty to\\nliberty extended beyond his refusal to sign the Association Test.\\nThroughout the war the ministers, by precept and example, used\\ntheir influence to sustain the cause of the people.\\nTHE PISCATAQUA ASSOCIATION.\\nThe ministers, during the war, came to comprehend that in union\\nthere is strength.\\nUp to this period each pastor had cared for the interests of his ow^n\\ncharge but with the advance of settlements they felt the neces-\\nsity of concerted action for sustaining religious institutions, and\\nunited in forming the Piscataqua Association, the first ecclesias-\\ntical organization in the state.\\nThe Haverhill Association, composed of ministers in Massachu-\\nsetts and New Hampshire, was formed Aug. 17, 1779. Those in\\nNew Hampshire afterwards took the name of Derry Association.\\nThe Northern Association on Merrimack river was formed in\\n1788, and included the ministers from Goffstown to Thornton,\\nextending west to Hillsborough. The name w^as changed to the\\nHopkinton Association in 1806.\\nThe Monadnock Association was formed 1794; the Orange,\\n1801 the Plymouth, 1806 the Hollis, 1808.\\nAt a meeting of the General Convention, at Hopkinton,\\n1807, a committee was appointed to correspond with the different\\nassociations, with a view of establishing a General Association.\\nTHE GENERAL ASSOCIATION.\\nThe correspondence resulted in the organization of what is\\nnow known as The General Association of New Hampshire.\\nThe first meeting after its organization was held in Boscawen,\\non the third Tuesday in September, 1809. In 1859 the fiftieth\\nanniversary was held in Boscawen. The sermon on that occasion\\nwas preached by Eev. Nathaniel Bouton, d. d., of Concord, who", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0322.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "1779.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 229\\ndrew the following picture of the first meeting held for business\\nin the south front room of Dr. Wood s house.\\nAbout two and a half miles westerly of the spot where we are now\\nconvened stands a humble dwelling, overshaded by a thick foliage of\\ntrees, and partially secluded from the view of the passing traveller. It\\nwas for many years the hospitable mansion of the former pastor of this\\nflock, the Rev. Samuel Wood, d. d. Fifty years ago, at this hour of\\nthe morning, there might be seen in that house, in the southeast room,\\nwhich was the study of the pastor, a little company of reverend men,\\nsome in the maturity, others in the prime of manhood, but all serious,\\nearnest, devout, animated by one spirit, and ardent in the pursuit of\\none object.\\nIn the chair, as moderator, sat the venerable Elihu Thayer, d. d.,\\npastor of the church in Kingston, eminent for learning and piety, sound\\nin doctrine according to the standard of the Puritan fathers and the\\nword of God, and iield in high repute by all his brethren. At the table,\\nwith pen in hand, sat Rev. John H. Church, pastor of the church in\\nPelham, then in the vigor of life, of spare but manly form, of serious\\nand holy aspect, his countenance beaming with grace and wisdom. He\\nis commencing a book of records, from which, for more than thirty con-\\nsecutive years, his name is never to disappear, but which, unthought of\\nby him, is to transmit his name to future generations. Sitting in thought-\\nful silence is the Rev. Jesse Remington, of the church of Candia, colleague\\ndelegate with Dr. Thayer from the Deerfield Association sound in or-\\nthodox faith, and respected as a father in the ministry. Rev. Samuel\\nWood and Rev. Thomas Worcester, of Salisbury, delegates from the\\nHopkinton Association Rev. John Kelley, of Ilampstead; Rev. Moses\\nBradford, the zealous and successful pastor of the church in Frances-\\ntown Rev. William Rolfe, pastor of the church in Groton, delegate\\nfrom the Plymoutli Association; and Rev. William F. Rowland, of the\\nfirst church in Exeter, a gentleman of courteous manners, dignified\\npresence, and eminent for his ready gifts and his ability in prayer.\\nThey were nine in number, and this was the first meeting after its or-\\nganization of the General Association of New Hampshire.\\nTRACT DISTRIBUTION\\nThe public meetings drew together a great congregation from\\nBoscawen and the surrounding towns. They continued three\\ndays. Everybody kept open doors, and there was unbounded\\nhospitality. The association thus formed, at its meeting in 1811,\\nheld at Dunbarton, took active measures for the formation of the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0323.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "230 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [1802.\\nNew Hampsliire Bible Society also measures which resulted in\\nthe founding of the Kimball Union Academy at Meriden. A\\nplan was adopted to procure religious tracts for charitable distri-\\nbution. Rev. Dr. Church was chairman of the committee, and\\nfour thousand copies of a Child s Memorial, or, The Happy Death\\nof Dinah Doudney, were distributed. The next year four thou-\\nsand copies of Prof. Porter s sermon, on the drinking of ardent\\nspirits, were distributed, also four thousand copies of a tract, the\\nGreat Criminality of Sabbath-Breaking. This movement was\\ntwo and a half years in advance of the formation of the New\\nEngland Tract Society, formed 1814. It was the first movement\\nin that direction on this continent.\\nThus we see that in Boscawen the first steps were taken which\\nled to the organized systematic Christian benevolence which\\ncharacterizes the present age.\\nIn the Civil History, we have seen the gradual progress of dis-\\nsent from the established order of things the growth of the\\nidea that there should be a severance of church and state re-\\nsulting in the request of Rev. Dr. Wood that there should be a\\ndissolution of his settlement, so far as the town was concerned.\\nBOSCAWEX RELIGIOUS SOCIETY.\\nThe contract between Rev. Samuel Wood and the town was dis-\\nsolved May 7, 1802, by mutual agreement, the town giving him\\nannually one half of the interest of the parsonage, so long as his\\nconnection with the church might continue. It was further agreed,\\nthat any persons contributing to his support should not be taxed\\nby the town for the support of any other preacher.\\nUnder such circumstances, the Boscawen Religious Society was\\norganized under the following compact\\nWe whose names are hereto subscribed believing the Institutions\\nof the Gospel ministry to be of Divine appointment, that it is our Indes-\\npensable duty as well as our greatest privilege to support it being\\ndesirous of having the Rev. Samuel Wood for our religious Instructor\\ndo hereby agree promise jointly severally to pay him or his agent\\non the first day of November 1803 one hundred dollars on the first\\nday of JNlay 1804 the further sum of one hundred dollars as a\\ncompensation to him for preaching one year from the first day of May\\n1803 we further promise to pay him a sum yearly in the mouth of Nov", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0324.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "1827.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 231\\nMay not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars not less than two\\nhundred dollars, but the sum that shall be assessed to be paid to him\\nshall be agreed on by the Rev. Samuel Wood the Assessors that shall\\nbe annually chosen having regard to the state of the society his cir-\\ncumstances while he continues a minister of the gospel among us.\\nThose signing this compact were\\nIsaac Pearson, Simeon Atkinson,\\nGeorge Jackman, James Uran.\\nHenry Gerrish, Noali Morrill,\\nTimothy Dix, Samuel Morrill,\\nDaniel Peterson, David Burbank,\\nJoseph Gerrish, Denison Bowers,\\nJeremiah Morrill, John llsley,\\nTimothy Dix, jr., Nathan Carter,\\nDaniel Carter, John Abbott,\\nJosepli H. Morrill, Timothy Noyes,\\nTiiomas Gilmore, Wm. Gill,\\nSomersby Pearson, John Gill,\\nIsaac Chandler, Joseph Atkinson, jr.,\\nNath Green, Jeremiah Burpt-e,\\nEleazer Burbank, Jeremiah Burpee, jr.,\\nJohn Chandler, jr., Samuel Uran.\\nJob Abbott,\\nGeorge Jackman was elected clerk.\\nThe officers for 1807 were Col. Joseph Gerrish, moderator\\nSomersby Pearson, clerk Daniel Webster, Joseph H. Morrill,\\nJoel French, committee to settle with former assessors.\\nVoted to apply for an act of incorporation, and elected Daniel\\nWebster agent.\\nITEMS FROM THE SOCIETY RECORDS.\\nIn 1808 Ezekiel Webster officiated as clerk. In 1822 Daniel\\nShepherd was chosen to keep order in the galleries.\\n1824. Fifty dollars was raised to repair the belfr} and steeple.\\n1827. A stove was purchased, the records having the follow-\\ning item in the proceedings of the regular annual meeting of the\\nsociety.\\nVoted to purchace at auction one cord hard pine wood 2 feet long\\nsplit for stove to be cut in the spring which was struck off to Lieut\\nNathau H. Holt at $1.50.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "232 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [1839.\\n1830. The meeting-house shingled.\\n1831. Mr. Wood s salary was raised from $250 to .f 275.\\n1832. Voted that the stove be repaired the funnel be carried\\nthrough the roof.\\nUp to this period the funnel had been carried through one of\\nthe windows. A sudden change of the wind sometiunes sent the\\nsmoke through the joints into the house, filling it with a cloud\\nthat melted to tears those in the congregation who possibly main-\\ntained a stolid indifference to the truths proclaimed from the pulpit.\\n1833. Voted, That the ringing of tlie bell, sweeping tlie raeeting-\\nhouse, shoveling paths, furnishing good dry hard wood for the stove,\\nfires made in proper season all to be done to the satisfaction of the\\nAssessors or the sexton should receive nothing for it.\\nVoted, that the Assessors get some suitable person to make an alter-\\nation remove the Deacon s seat procure a table at the expense of\\nthe society.\\nVoted, that Doct Thomas Peach be permitted to repair his pew by\\naltering the part so as not to injure the house.\\n1834. Rev. Salmon Bennet having been settled as colleague\\nwith Dr. Wood, $325 was raised for his support, and $225 for\\nthe supi^ort of Dr. Wood.\\nVoted the thanks of this society to Mr. Russell Ambrose for orna-\\nmenting the public grounds south of the meeting-house by setting out\\ntrees.\\n1838. Voted to pay the expense for removing Rev. C. B. Tracy to\\nBoscawen.\\nDea. Nehemiah Cogswell, Capt. Samuel Chadwick, and David\\nAmbrose were appointed a committee to report at the next meet-\\ning in regard to the alteration of the meeting-house.\\n1839. A committee was appointed to call upon those pew-\\nholders who have not signed to give up their pews, and ascertain\\nif they are willing to unite in building a new house. Jacob Ger-\\nrish, Jeremiah Morrill, and John Cogswell were appointed on the\\ncommittee.\\nVoted, to pay for the use of the double bass-viol.\\nDK. wood s legacy.\\nA legacy was left the society by Rev. Dr. Wood, consisting of\\nhis farm and buildings, which were sold to Moody A. KilburU;\\nupon the decease of Mr. Wood, for $1,900.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "ISiO.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\nREMODELLING THE MEETING-HOUSE.\\n233\\nThe society voted to remodel the meeting-house, and that the\\nsills of the new house shall be one foot higher than the present\\none, and that the floor shall be horizontal, and tliat the house, in-\\nside, shall be like Franklin, excepting the pulpit, and the gallery\\nfor singers shall be circular.\\nThe plan subsequently adopted was a modification of the one\\nthus accepted. At a meeting held April 29, Worcester Webster\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was appointed a committee to procure a new bell. Mr. Benjamin\\nMorrill was authorized to raise monej^ to procure an organ, if he\\ncan.\\n1840. The society voted to invest the 151,900, received from\\nDr. Wood s legacy, in the Upper Intervale, so-called.\\nFor a period of forty years the town had used the east meeting-\\nhouse every other year, for which the society had received no re-\\nmuneration, but much damage by injury done to the pews. Hav-\\ning remodelled the house, and furnished it with ciishions and car-\\npets, the society did not feel called upon to open its doors to the\\ntown for its annual meetings. The town, for two years, used the\\nacademy, and two years in succession the March meetings were\\nheld at the west end. To obtain accommodations for the town,\\nthe society consented to raise the meeting-house four feet, and to\\ngive the town the privilege of constructing a room beneath, which,\\nwhen not used by the town, should be under the control of the\\nsociety. The offer was accepted by the town, and the house\\nraised in 1848.\\nIn 1860, a number of the public-spirited citizens of Boscawen\\nfinished the basement, giving it the name of Merrimack Hall.\\nTHE FIRST CHURCH.\\nThe first church, organized Oct. 8, 1740, was established on the\\nCambridge Platform. At that time Unitarianism, as a distinct\\ndenomination, had not made its appearance. There were, how-\\never, opposing forces in theology. The conflict was between the\\nOld School and the New Lights. To which wing Eev. Mr.\\nStevens belonged is wholly a matter of conjecture. [S -e Biog.\\nof E-ev. Mr. Stevens.]", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0327.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "234 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [1853.\\nCHANGE OF POLITY.\\nThe third minister of the Boscawen church was Rev. Nathaniel\\nMerrilL horn in Newhury, and a graduate of Harvard college.\\nHe was ordained Oct. 19, 1768. Under Mr. Merrill s pastorate,\\nthe church joined the Grafton Presbytery. The change was\\nmade June 27, 1778, under the following vote\\nFo/ef/, To adopt tlie Presbj terian form of cliurch order and disci-\\npline, and also that it is the desire of the church to join in tlie Ilevd\\nGrafton Presbytery.\\nThe union of tlie church with the Presbytery was publicly de-\\nclared by Rev. Eden Burroughs, a committee of the Presbytery.\\nTHE GRAFTON PRESBYTERY.\\nThis ecclesiastical body was composed of the churches in Han-\\nover Centre, Bath, Orford, Hartford, Vt., and in one or two other\\ntowns west of Connecticut river. It was formed about 1770-1775.\\nMr. Burroughs, who acted for the Presbytery, was pastor of the\\nchurcli at Hanover Centre. The records of tlie organization are\\nsupposed to have been consumed in the burning of his house early\\nin the present century.\\nMR. Merrill s influence.\\nThat the Boscawen church changed its polity chiefly through\\nMr. Merrill s influence, cannot be doubted. He had been settled at\\nHudson as early as 1737. Many efforts were made to bring about\\nhis dismission in that town but a pastor settled by a town was not\\neasily gotton rid of, unless by mutual consent. He uniformly de-\\nclined to ask a dismission, and the town of Hudson finally chose a\\ncommittee to settle with Mr. Merrill and stand suit. [See New\\nHampshire Churches.] Mr. Merrill, seeing that the town was in\\nearnest, consented to a dissolution of the contract. During his\\npastorate there, the Hudson church became Presbyterian. Re-\\nports of some irregularities had reached Boscawen, and a com-\\nmittee was sent by the town to investigate them, but no evidence\\nwas elicited affecting his moral or ministerial character. His con-\\nnection with the Boscawen church, and his contract with the\\ntown, tenminated in April, 1774, after a pastorate of six years. It\\nappears from the records that he was absent many Sabbaths,\\nwhich created much dissatisfaction.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0328.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "1853. J ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\n235\\nRETUKX TO CONGREGATIONALISM.\\nThe Boscawen churcli nominally was Presbyterian till 1828,\\nwhen Dr. John Rogers was appointed to see what its relations\\nwere to the Presb3 tery. He could find no such organization, and\\nthe church passed a vote reiidopting the congregational polity.\\nRev. Samuel Wood, of Salem, graduate of Dartmouth, class of\\n1779 [see Biog.], was ordained Oct. 17, 1781.\\nIn 1831, Oct. 17, Dr. Wood completed a half-century of minis-\\nterial labor, and noticed the event with appropriate services. He\\nstated that he had received into the church, by 2:)rofession, 480,\\nof whom 100 had severed their relation, 119 had died, 30 had\\nbeen excommunicated, leaving a church at that time of 238\\nmembers.\\nSoon after this the work of disintegration began, through\\nemigration, steadily diminishing the number of members. He\\nremained pastor until his death, 1836. [See Biog.]\\nIn December, 1832, Rev. Salmon Bennet was installed as jun-\\nior pastor. By the terms of settlement, Mr. Bennet was to have a\\nsalary of $300 and one fourth part of the time for service else-\\nwhere, which, proving inadequate for his support, resulted in his\\ndismissal, Oct. 25, 1836.\\nSETTLEMENT OF REV. C. B. TRACY.\\nThe death of Jiev. Dr. Wood occurring soon after, the church\\nand society extended a unanimous call to Rev. Caleb B. Tracy, a\\ngraduate of Williams college, and of Andover Theological Sem-\\ninary. He was installed Sept. 12, 1837. Large additions were\\nmade to the church in 1842-3.\\nThe organization of the church in Fisherville resulted, however,\\nin the transfer, about this time, of thirteen members to that body.\\nMr. Tracy remained pastor till 1851, when he was dismissed by\\nmutual consent.\\nDuring the year 1852, the church w as under the charge of\\nRev. Mr. Slocum.\\nREV. AMBROSE SMITH.\\nIn 1853, June 15, Rev. Ambrose Smith, graduate of Dart-\\nmouth college, was installed pastor, remaining till his death. [See\\nBiog.]", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0329.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "236 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [1853.\\nKEV. M. L. SEVERANCE.\\nIn September, 1863, Rev. M. L. Severance, of Midcllebury, Vt.,\\ngraduate of Middlebury college, student of theology in Union and\\nAndover seminaries, accepted an invitation to the ministr} and\\nwas installed pastor Feb. 17, 1864. He was dismissed by mutual\\ncouncil, June 1, 1869.\\nWhile pastor of the church, fort3 -three members were received\\nthirty-eight of them on profession of their faith thirty bap-\\ntisms administered, thirty-three marriages and sixty-eight funer-\\nals attended.\\nRev. Frank Haley, Rev. Corbin Curtice, and Rev. Ambrose\\nSmith weije employed as preachers after the dismissal of Rev.\\nMr. Severance, but were not settled as pastors.\\nRev. J. A. Freeman was installed June 30, 1875, and dismissed\\nJuly 3, 1877. The church at present is without a pastor.\\nTHE WESTERLY RELIGIOUS SOCIETY.\\nThis society was formed in the spi ing of 1804, by citizens\\nliving in the centre and at the west end of the town, many of\\nthose residing on Water street, for some cause, preferring to iden-\\ntify themselves with this society rather than with the Boscawen\\nReligious Society. The number thus uniting was about 70. A\\nchurch the 2d Congregational was formed, and Rev. Ebenezer\\nPrice settled as pastor the same year.\\nThe society was incorporated in 1810, and its members attended\\npublic worship in the West meeting-house till the erection of the\\nhouse on Corser hill, 1823. The causes that led to the construc-\\ntion of the house are narrated in connection with the Christian\\nUnion Society below.\\nAt a meeting held May 19, 1823, a building committee was\\nchosen, and $500 raised towards procuring the frame of a new\\nmeeting-house, to be located on Corser hill, on land purchased\\nfrom Rev. Ebenezer Price.\\nThe committee consisted of Dea. Enoch Little, Capt. John\\nFarmer, Capt. Joseph Ames, Benj. T. Kimball, Capt. J. C.\\nPlummer, Capt. Abraham Burbank, Geo. T. Pillsbury, Samuel\\nPillsbury, Thomas Coffin, Rice Corser, John Danforth.\\nA committee was appointed to superintend the building of the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0330.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0331.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "Congregational Meeting-House, Webster.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0332.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "1853.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, 237\\nhouse, consisting of James Kilbuvn, Geo. T. Pillsbury, Geo. T.\\nKilburn, Daniel Pillsbuiy.\\nThe committee was instructed to employ those who would be\\nlikely to purchase pews to obtain as much money as they could\\nby subscription to hire money, if necessary to sell the pews at\\nauction reserving the exclusive jurisdiction of the house to the\\nWesterly Eeligious Society forever, it being understood that the\\nhouse shall never be opened to preachers of any denomination\\nor persuasion whatever, differing in religious principles from the\\nsociety and church now about to build the house, unless invited\\nby the officiating minister or assessors of the society.\\nAt a meeting held Nov. 10, Simeon B. Little was added to the\\ndirecting committee.\\nA committee on dedication was appointed, consisting of Capt.\\nJ. C. Plummer, Col. John Parmer, Pice Corser.\\nJeremiah Gerrish was appointed a committee to invite the\\nMartin Luther Musical Society to do the singing at the dedica-\\ntion. He was also empowered to provide a supper for the soci-\\nety. Mr. Henry Little was commissioned to trim the pulpit.\\nThe house was constructed with great dispatch. None of the\\ntimber for the frame was cut till the last week in May, while the\\nframe was raised on the 3d and 4th of July. The master carpen-\\nter was George T. Pillsbury. The joiner-work was done by Will-\\niam Abbot the plastering, by Moses Fellows the underpinninf^,\\nby Ezekiel Evans, of Warner,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 at a cost of $97.86. The door-steps\\nwere furnished by Benj. E. Quimbj^, of Warner, for $40.67.\\nThe house was dedicated Dec. 25, a large number of people\\nbeing present from adjoining towns.\\nITEMS FROM THE RECORDS.\\nBOARD OF MANAGERS IN ACCOUNT WITH H. M. FELLOWS.\\n1823.\\nJune 20, By Rum ^q\\nJuly 2, 58\\n3d 54 lbs sugar at Is 9 qq\\n209 lemons at 3s a doz 8.71\\n7f galls WI Rum 8 62\\n4f NERum 2 37\\nmug tumblers q ij\\nJuly 9, 1 gall rum 0.46", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0333.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "238 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [1853.\\nThe vane upon the spire was made b}^ Joseph C. Morse, which,\\nwith the liglitning-rod, cost $5.50. The sashes were made by\\nDaniel Pillsbury, 959 square lights, costing $43.15 the circular\\nsashes, $18.\\nThe pews were appraised and sold at auction. The highest\\nprice paid was by Moses Gerrish, $110. The next in value was\\nthat purchased by Thomas Coffin, $109. The lowest price paid\\nfor a pew was $5, in the gallery.\\nThe society had assessed a tax of $500 upon its members, but\\nthe sale of the pews having been sufficient to build the house, it\\nwas voted, at the annual meeting, Mar. 1st, 1824, to abate the\\nwhole amount.\\nThe society voted at this meeting that the committee get a\\nstove to i ut in, if, after adjusting all the bills, they have money\\nsufficient for that purpose.\\nIt is probable that the fimds ran short, for no stove was pur-\\nchased till 1832, and then under protest, some members of the\\nsociety objecting. To accommodate those who were prejudiced\\nagainst stoves, the society, in 1833, voted to dispense with fire\\nin the stove the first Sabbath in each month through the cold\\nseason.\\nThe one or two individuals in whose favor this vote was passed\\nimagined that they could not lireathe air heated by a stove and\\nthe congregation, wrapping themselves in overcoats and shawls,\\nby means of foot-stoves, and a vigorous thumping of their heels\\nand toes througli the long-drawn sermon, did their best to keep\\nfrom freezing.\\nThe pulpit was constructed after the architecture of former\\ndays, but was remodelled in 1844. The house has been several\\ntimes repainted, and was reshingled in 1855.\\nA deep-toned bell was purchased in 1823, but which was un-\\nfortunately cracked in 1839. It could be heard at a greater dis-\\ntance than any church bell in the surrounding towns. The first\\nbell-ringer was Daniel Corser. The present bell was obtained in\\n1839.\\nSECOND COXGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nThe Second Congregational Churcli was formed Sept. 26th,\\n1804. Letters missive, by those desiring to be organized as a", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0334.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0335.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "Congregational Meeting-House, Fisherville.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0336.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "I860.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.\\n239\\nchurch, were sent to neighboring churches, and the council on\\nthat day assembled at the residence of Mr. Paul Dodge, in the\\nhouse now occupied by Henry Dodge. The churches represented\\nwere, Dunbarton, Rev. Walter Harris Hopkinton, Rev. Mr.\\nSmith Salisbury, Rev. Thomas Worcester Tamworth, Rev. Mr.\\nHidden Honniker, Rev. Moses Sawyer Canterbury, Rev. Wm.\\nPatrick Boscawen, First Church, Rev. Samuel Wood.\\nThe public exercises were held in the meeting-house in the\\nafternoon. The exercises were, an introductory prayer by Rev.\\nMr. Hidden sermon. Rev. Mr. Harris charge, Rev. Mr. AVood\\nright hand of fellowship, Rev. Mr. Worcester; concluding prayer,\\nRev. Mr. Sawyer.\\nRev. Ebenezer Price [see Biog.] was employed as preacher,\\nand a call extended to him to become pastor of the church and\\nsociety. The installation occurred Sept. 26, 1804.\\nIn 1805, Benjamin Sweat and Eliphalet Kilburn were elected\\ndeacons.\\nIn 1806, the church voted to purchase a full set of sacramental\\ncups and flagons of the church in Hopkinton, and $8 Avas con-\\ntributed for the purpose.\\nApril liod, 1807, Fast day, a contribution was made for mis-\\nsionary purposes, the first on record, and doubtless the first in\\nthe history of the church, amounting to $14.25.\\nIn 1811, Enoch Little was elected deacon, in place of Benjamin\\nSweat, deceased.\\n1818. Sept. 20th. The church voted to accept of a i;)ewter\\nplatter for church use fi om Mrs. Elizabeth Fellows.\\nRev. Mr. Price remained pastor of the church till 1837, when\\nhe was dismissed at his own request. The church and society pre-\\nsented him with a gratuity of $865. His pastorate closed May\\n10th. [See Biog.]\\nIn December, the same year. Rev. Edward Buxton was installed\\nas pastor, witli an annual salary of |!450. His connection as\\npastor of the church continued till 1875, when, at the age of 72, he\\nresigned his charge, but, after a respite of a few months, resumed\\nhis place in the pulpit as minister, which he still retains.\\nFew churches can show such a record, two pastorates extend-\\ning from 1804 to 1875, a period of seventy-one years.\\nSince the organization of this church in 1804, four hundred", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0337.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "240 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [1860.\\nliave been added to the membership, one hundred and sixty\\nmales and two liundred and forty females. Of tliese^ fiftj-eight\\nhave joined by letter. One hundred and ninety have been dis-\\nmissed to other churches, thus showing the emigration from the\\nparish. One hundred and ninety have been removed by death,\\nand fourteen excluded from membersliip, one of the number hav-\\ning been reinstated. The jiresent membership numbers eighty-\\ntwo residents, thirty-two males, fifty females, with thirty non-\\nresident members.\\nDuring the pastorates of Revs. Mr. Price and Buxton, four\\nhundred and eighty-six children have been baptized, while, of\\nthose uniting with the church, one hundred and one have accepted\\nthe ordinance of baptism.\\nDec. 21, 1868, the church voted to change its name from the\\nSecond Congregational Church in Boscawen, to the First Congre-\\ngational Church in Webster.\\nTHE CHRISTIAN UNION SOCIETY.\\nThe legislature of 1819 passed a general law in regard to the\\norganization of religious societies, and under that law the Chris-\\ntian Union Society of Boscawen was formed, Aug. 16, 1820, at\\nthe house of Hezekiah Fellows. John Elliot, Jr., was chosen\\nchairman, and Joseph Couch, secretary.\\nThe motives for the organization are set forth in the preamble\\nto the constitution.\\nWhereas Religion and morality grounded on Evangelical principlea\\nlays the firmest foundation for happiness here and hereafter and in or-\\nder to inculcate and support this grand principle it becomes necessary\\nthat men associate together and form themselves into societies for the\\nmutual support and happiness of eacli other; and such is the lot of human\\nnature in this Imperfect state that it becomes Necessary for every society\\nto form and adopt certain rules of government for the mutual happi-\\nness of the whole Therefore with these views and Impressions We the\\nsubscribers agree to form ourselves into a society under the above pre-\\namble.\\nFifty persons joined the society thus formed.\\nAt a meeting held at the West meeting-house, March 26th,\\n1821, Voted, To pursue some Legal course until they obtain\\ntheir privilege in the West meeting-house, and also their equal\\nshare of the parsonage Money.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0338.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "1840.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 241\\nThe town had erected the frame of the meeting-house in 1702\\nhad sokl the pews, thus raising money for finishing the house.\\nThe pews were held mainly bj those who belonged to the West-\\nerly Religious Society and the Second Congregational Church\\n[see p. 189], but those who had joined the Christian Union Soci-\\net}^ believed that they were entitled to share in the use of the\\nhouse. The members of the Christian Union Society, who were\\npew-owners, believed that theirs was an equitable and valid\\nclaim, while those who were not pew-owners, but who were citi-\\nzens, believed that their claim was equally valid by virtue of their\\ncitizenship, and the town s proprietary right in the frame.\\nNegotiations were had between the two societies, and it was\\nagreed by the committees that the Christian Union Society should\\nhave the use of the house six Sundays in the year. TJie agree-\\nment, however, was not, for some cause, ratified by either society.\\nThe Westerly Religious Society offered to sell their share of the\\nhouse at 40 per cent, of the valuation, amounting to $352.27. Tlie\\noffer was accepted, but there was a disagreement in regard to the\\nnote which the Christian Union Society proposed to give for the\\namount, and no transfer of the property was effected.\\nThe difference of opinion in regard to jurisdiction was carried\\ninto the courts. The decision of the Superior Court was, that the\\ntown could not exercise sole jurisdiction over a town meeting-\\nhouse, when different societies or individuals owned pews therein.\\nPending this decision, however, the Christian Union Society\\nresolved to occupy the meeting-house, which was done June loth\\nand IGth, in connection with a session of the Christian General\\nConference. There was a large concourse of peojile from neigh-\\nboring towns, and several elders of repute, as preachers in the de-\\nnomination, were in attendance.\\nThe Christian Union Society took possession of the meeting-\\nhouse at an early hour on Sunday morning, and Elder Peter\\nYoung was occupying the pulpit, wlien Rev. Mr. Price entered the\\nhouse at the usual hour for public service. The assessors of the\\nWesterly Religious Society made a formal demand for the house.\\nThere was some confusion, but no breach of the pultlic 2:)eace.\\nThe time had gone by for a compromise between the two societies,\\nand the Westerly Religious Society resolved to erect a meeting-\\n16", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0339.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "242 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [1850.\\nhouse for themselves, thus leaving the Union Society in undis-\\nturbed and peaceable possession of the old house.\\nAs in most religious controversies, prejudices were engendered,\\nwhich died oixt only when those who were participants in the\\nevents of the time passed away. But time has worn down the\\nsharp antagonism of other days, and religious bodies, which were\\nantipodal in faith and practice at the beginning of the century,\\nnow attend the same meeting, listen to the same preacher, and sit\\nat the same communion.\\nIn 1844, the Christian Union Society voted to remodel the\\nmeeting-house, flooring over the galleries, removing the east and\\nwest porches, and making a convenient chapel of the upper story,\\nthe lower floor being reserved for a town-house. All of the slips,\\nfifty-two in number, with the exception of two, were sold.\\nThe society took on a new lease of life, and was vigorous and\\nflourishing for several years but emigration thinned its member-\\nship, and since 1869 no regular service has been held by the de-\\nnomination.\\nTHE CHRISTIAN BAPTIST CHUKCH.\\nThis church was formed in 1808, consisting of five male and\\nseven female members. It was organized June 16th under the\\nfollowing compact\\nThis Church have agreed to lay aside all the party names by which\\nprofessors are called, with all such things as are called Creeds, Cove-\\nnants, Platforms, Articles of faith, with all the Commandments of men,\\nand to consider Christ their only Master, and the New Testament their\\nonly Rule, and to be known by the name given at Antioch which is\\nChristian.\\nThe following are the names of the Brethren and sisters who were\\nBaptised June 16th and being united in love, united in the above agree-\\nment and who stand ready to receive into their Company all who are\\nwilling to unite with them in the glorious name of Christ:\\nDavid Sweatt, Martha Corser,\\nJames Corser, Meela Couch,\\nPeltiah Gookin, Martha Gookin,\\nJohn P. Sweatt, Betsey Hobbs,\\nJoseph Couch, jr., Hannah Hobbs,\\nMrs. Trumbull, Mrs. Corser.\\nAt the close of the year 1808 the church numbered twenty-five\\nmembers.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0340.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "1850.] ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 243\\nIt has not been possible to obtain the names of all those who\\nhave held the office of elder. The list embraces the names of\\nPeter Young, Wm. Blaisdell,\\nDavid Harriman, Setli Ross,\\nKimball, Moses Scribner,\\nNeheniiah Sleeper, Moses P. Favor,\\nJohn Tilton, Wm. S. Morrill,\\nMoses Polly, Simeon Roby.\\nCONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, FISHERVILLE.\\nThe Congregational Church in Fisherville was organized Nov,\\nG, 1850. Eev. Mr. Knight and other ministers were employed as\\nj)reachers till 1857, when Rev. Albert Wm. Fiske was installed\\npastor May 20, and remained in that relation till Oct. 16, 1863.\\nThe second pastor, Rev. Wm. R. Jewett, was installed Sept. 16,\\n18G.3, and dismissed Sept. 10, 1874.\\nThe third pastor. Rev. Marvin D. Bisbee, was installed Sept. 10;\\n1874, dismissed April 10, 1877.\\nBAPTIST CHURCH.\\nIn 1840 several individuals, who held to the tenets of the Bap-\\ntist denomination, started a series of religious meetings in the\\nvarious school districts. Rev. Mr. Peacock, a revivalist preacher\\nof repute, was employed as preacher. The result of the move-\\nment was an awakening on the subject of religion, resulting in\\nthe formation of a church and societj and the erection of a church\\nedifice (see p. 206). No statistics have been preserved in regard\\nto the numbers uniting with the church, which, after a brief ex-\\nistence, was merged into the stronger church of the denomination\\nin Fisherville.\\nMETHODIST CHURCH.\\nIn 1839, some of the residents of the west section of the town,\\nwho had adopted the religious tenets of the Methodist denomina-\\ntion, formed a society, and erected the present meeting-house in\\nWebster. Individuals not members of the society aided to some\\nextent and, at the dedication of the edifice, Rev. Mr. Price and\\nRev. Mr. Buxton took part in the exercises, thus manifesting\\ntheir good will towards the enterprise.\\nAt that time there was a Methodist theological school at Con-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0341.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "244 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. [18G0.\\ncord ill the old North Church, and the students of the school\\nwere relied upon to supply the pulpit. The church membership\\nincreased; but the same causes that diminished the membership of\\nthe other churches operated to weaken this, Avhich, together with\\nthe removal of the Theological Institute from Concord, made it\\nimpossible to sustain regular ministerial service. Only at inter-\\nvals since 1860 has there been preaching.\\nSUNDAY-SCHOOLS.\\nIn 1816 the first sunday-schools were established in Boscawen.\\nThey were held in the various school districts during the summer\\nmonths, in the school-house, or at private residences. The chil-\\ndren recited verses from the Bible, standing in a class with their\\ntoes to a crack, and making their manners as in the week-day\\nschool.\\nThe ^Hipils were those under fourteen years of age. An effort\\nwas made to secure a general attendance, but the community did\\nnot readily accept the idea. Some excellent Christian people were\\nopposed to having a school taught on Sunday. If not a desecra-\\ntion of the day, it was a departure from the old ways.\\nThe number of scholars in 1824 in connection with the schools\\nat the west end was ninety-seven, who recited 29,957 verses during\\nthe six months ending October 24th. ISTo schools were held in the\\nwinter. It is narrated, that one scholar of retentive memory tired\\nout the patience of his teacher, reciting chapter after chapter, and\\nwas told that he might finish the recitation on the next Sunday.\\nThe first librarj at the west end was purchased by Enoch Lit-\\ntle, Jr., costing ^10. The books were passed from district to dis-\\ntrict, and were soon worn out by constant handling.\\nThe report for 1827 gives 5 superintendents, 159 scholars, 22\\nSabbath exercises, 30,117 verses recited in the schools at the west\\nend. Kev. Mr. Price had a Bible-class of 73 members. Schools\\nwere also taught in the districts at the east end of the town.\\nIn 1831 the district system was given up, and the schools or-\\nganized into one, the sessions being held as now on Sunday noon\\nin the meeting-house, the Union Questions taking the place of\\nrecitations from the Bible.\\nNo statistics have have been preserved in relation to the school\\nconnected with the church on the Plain.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0342.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "Methodist Meeting House, Webster.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0343.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0344.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "[1746.\\nMILITARY HISTORY\\nHE military liistory of Boscawen and Webster begins witli\\n^^r tlie first French and Indian war, in 1744, and is brouglit\\ndown to the close of the Rebellion, 1865, a period of one hundred\\nand twenty-one years. The military record is one of which every\\ncitizen, and every descendant of citizens, may justly be proud.\\nIn 1744, at the outbreak of the French war, Richard Flood\\nserved the Provincial government in some capacity, in the expedi-\\ntion to Canada. It is not known tliat he went as a soldier. The\\nonly record of his service is a notice of his petition for aid fi om\\nthe government, in the records of the Provincial committee, for\\nservice rendered in the expedition to Canada.\\nThe same year Philip Call served as a scout in Capt. Jeremiah.\\nClough s company, from Jan. 21 to March 18, receiving \u00c2\u00a32 10s.\\nCapt. Clough lived in Canterbury, and was a leading citizen of\\nthat town.\\nCaptain John Clough commanded a company in Penacook at\\nthe same time, of which Xathaniel Rix was a soldier.\\nIn 1746, Captain John Goffe, of Bedford, commanded a com-\\npany of scouts, in which Joseph Eastman, Jr., Dea. Jesse Flan-\\nder.s, his brother, John Flanders, Jr., and Wm. Corser served as\\nprivates thirty-seven days, having been called out by the attacks\\nof the Indians on Penacook and Contoocook, killing Thomas Cook,\\nand capturing Ciiesar, Rev. Mr. Stevens s negro.\\nLater in the season Capt. Ladd arrived [see Civil Hist., p. 43]\\nwith a company, in which Philip Flanders, Joseph Eastman, and", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0345.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "246 MILITARY HISTORY. [1754.\\nJacob Flanders enlisted. In this company was Robert Rogers,\\nafterwards the celebrated ranger.\\nAt the same time Philip Call was doing duty in Capt. Clongh s\\ncompany, being out one hundred and lifty-four days, receiving\\n\u00c2\u00a38 13s. 3p.\\nIn 1747, Capt. Clough of Canterbury was out from the 5th of\\nJanuar}^ to the 12th of November. Philip Call and John Man-\\nuel served under him, receiving \u00c2\u00a316 10s. lOp., besides provisions\\nand ammiinition. Upon the return of this company, Capt. Eben-\\nezer Eastman, of Concord, began a winter campaign, being out\\nwith his company from iSTov. 14, 1747, to May 9th, 1748. Rev.\\nPhineas Stevens served as a private. In all probability he\\npreached on Sunday to the soldiers in camp.\\nIn 1748, Capt. Goffe was scouting the frontier with a company\\nin which William Corser served as private. At the same time,\\nCapt. Moses Fostei*, of Suncook, was ranging the frontier with a\\ncompany, of which Rev. Mr. Whittemore, minister of Pembroke,\\nwas lieutenant. Ezekiel Flanders, killed in 1756 at Newfound\\nlake by the Indians, served in this company one month, from\\nJune 6 to July 7 [See Civil Hist.]\\nPeace having been made between England and France, there\\nwas no further need of military service till 1754, when the Indians\\nagain began their depredations, killing William Stinson, and\\ntaking John Stark and Eastman prisoners on Baker s river, cap-\\nturing the Meloon family of Salisbury, and killing Mrs. Philip\\nCall and Timothy Cook, in Stevenstown. [See Civil Hist.]\\nMilitary service was no longer confined to the Merrimack val-\\nley the theatre of war was transferred to the upper Hudson\\nand the lakes. Col. Blanchard commanded a regiment, in which\\nBenjamin [Eastman, of Boscawen, enlisted under Capt. John\\nGoffe, serving from April 24th to Oct. 23d.\\nOne company was commanded by Capt. Thomas Tash, of Dur-\\nham, in which John Corser enlisted. Capt. Joseph Eastman\\ncommanded another company, in which Winthrop Carter, Moses\\nManuel, Samiiel Manuel, Joseph Eastman, Andrew Bohonnon,\\nAVilliam Jackman, and John Fowler served.\\nAnother regiment was commanded by Col. Nathaniel Folsom.\\nUpon the muster-roll is the name of Nathaniel jNIeloon, son of the\\nfirst settler of that name in Contoocook.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0346.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "1775.] MILITARY HISTORY. 247\\n111 the Crown Point expedition, Jolm Fowler, Joel Manuel, and\\nJoseph Eastman served, under Captain John Goffe.\\nIn 1758, Daniel Shepherd and Philip Flanders served in Capt.\\nLadd s company, Col. Hart s regiment, sent to Crown Point.\\nNathaniel Meloon served in Capt. Todd s company.\\nIn Eev, Mr. Price s history, it is stated that Philip Flanders\\nwas killed at Crown Point in 1756, which is manifestly an error,\\nhis name apjiearing on the muster-roll from April 21 to November\\n1, 1758, on which day he probably was killed.\\nFROM 1760 TO 1775.\\nThere is no record to show the military organization in the\\ntown from the close of the French war in 1760 to the beginning\\nof the Revolution in 1775. The law required all able-bodied men,\\nbetween sixteen and sixty, to be enrolled in the train bands. A\\ntown containing thirty-two men liable to do militaiy duty could\\nhave a military organization of its own. There being more than\\nthat number of soldiers in the town, it had a train band.\\nThe news of the battle of Lexington reached Boscawen on the\\n20th of April, and the next morning Capt. Henry Gerrish and\\nhis soldiers were on the march.\\nDIARY OF CAPT. HEXRY GERRISH.\\nFryday 21 April 1775.\\nSet out for Cambridge with Lieut Call, Sargent Carter. Esq\\nFowler, Edmund Chadwick, John Flanders, John Stevens, Natlianiel\\nBarbank, Samuel Jackman, David Flanders, Charles Greenfield, Peter\\nRoswell Stevens, Israel Shepard, Isaac Davis, Edward Gerald,\\narrived at Cambridge on Sunday all tarried till Tuesday then Esq\\nFowler set out for home, on Wensday Lieut Call, Winthrop Carter\\nNathaniel Atkinson set out for home [Nathaniel Atkinson and prob-\\nably other soldiers had joined the company between Friday and\\nWednesday] there joined our company on Wensday morning Will-\\niam Forrest, Timothy Foss, Jeremiah Gibson, Aaron Sargeant, John\\nBeen, John Rains, Abraham Fyfield, Joseph Loverin, Moses Welsh.\\nThese last were f)robably citizens of Salisbury.\\nSome of the Boscawen soldiers, in common with those of other\\ntowns, soon returned home, while others hastened to Cambridge\\nto fill their places. Those from Boscawen enlisted in Capt.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0347.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "248 MILITARY HISTORY. [1775.\\nJosluia Alibot s compan}^, Col. Stark s regiment. Capt. ALbot\\nwas a citizen of Concord, well known to the Boscawen men. He\\nhad served in the French war, and was a brave and gallant officer.\\nSamuel Atkinson [see Biography] was elected lieutenant, and\\nSamuel Corser and Nathan Davis corporals. They had all confi-\\ndence in their colonel, John Stark, who had seen hard service in\\nthe last war against the French and Indians.\\nThe term of enlistment was for eight months, beginning\\nApril 23d. Tlie regiment was quartered at Medford. On the\\nmorning of June 17th, Col. Stark received a despatch from Gen.\\nWard, ordering him to send a battalion to the relief of Col. Pres-\\ncott, who was throwing np the earthworks on Bunker hill, and\\nLieut. Col. Wyman was despatched with about 200 men, prob-\\nably three companies of sixty-six men each. The detachment left\\nMedford between nine and ten o clock. At noon, another message\\ncame, ordering the remainder of the regiment to march. It was\\nbetween twelve and one when Col. Stark started, and past two\\nwhen he reached the rail fence by the Mystic river, on the eastern\\nslope of Bunker hill, a position chosen In^ himself. His practised\\neye and knowledge of military tactics saw that the movement of\\nthe British commander wonld be to gain the rear of the redoubt\\nby marching along the Mystic.\\nCol. Reed s regiment, from the south-western part of the state,\\nhad arrived in camp three days before. The popularity of Stark had\\ngiven him twelve companies, but two of them had been transferred\\nto Eeed. Both regiments were full, or nearly so, together number-\\ning about one thousand. In addition, a company from Hollis\\nwas serving in Prescott s Massachusetts regiment [see Hist.\\nHollis]. Other citizens of Kew Hampshire were in Massachu-\\nset s service, making the total number from this state nearly\\nelev. n hundred.\\nThe advance of the British was against the rail fence. We\\nmay think of the citizens of Boscawen as stationed a few rods\\nfrom the Mystic, behind the barricade of hay which they have\\nlaid against the fence. Their commander orders them to re-\\nserve their fire till the enemy are within eight rods. Then there\\nis a iiash, a rattle, a roar the soldiers of the king go down\\nin heaps. Consternation seizes them, and they flee to their land-\\ning-place. A second time their ranks are decimated. The third", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0348.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "1775.] MILITARY HISTORY. 249\\nattack is against the redoubt, and, witli the faikire of ammunition\\non tlie part of the Americans, the British gain an entrance.\\nThe troops at the fence are tlie last to retreat. Only when the\\nday is lost do they retire, Joseph Couch and another soldier bring-\\ning off a wounded comrade.\\nBOLL OF HOXOR AT BUNKER HILL.\\nThose engaged in the battle of Bunker hill from Boscawen\\nwere\\nOP FICERS.\\nAtkinson, Samuel, Lieut. Corser, Samuel, Corp.\\nCall, Moses, Davis, Nathan,\\nPRIVATES.\\nBurbank, David Davis, Isaac\\nBuibank, Nathaniel Danforth, Joshua\\nBurbaiik, Moses, jr. Eliot, John\\nBovvley, John Flanders, John\\nChadwick, Edmund Flanders, David\\nCurser, William Flanders, Jesse, Dea.\\nCorser, Asa\\nIn Capt. Aaron Kinsman s company, John Manuel, who was\\nkilled in Capt. company, Joseph Couch, who Avas wounded\\non the retreat by a spent cannon ball.\\nThe following receipt is in possession of Luke Corser, Esq.\\nBoscawen May 24: 1775\\nRecieved of David Corser of Boscawen a Gun marked on the\\nBritch W. C. B which (iun I have Recieved for the use of the sobers\\nNow in the County Sarvice who went from Boscawen under the com-\\nmand of Capt Abbot in order to Defend the country against the Troops\\nunder General Gage Now at Boston. Recieved by me\\nSamuel Atkinson.\\nW. C. B undoubtedly means William Corser, Boscawen. He\\nwas an uncle of David Corser, who gave him 100 acres of land, on\\nPleasant street, for the gun.\\nEXPEDITION TO QUEBEC.\\nIn September, volunteers were called for to join Arnold s expe-\\ndition to Quebec up the Kennebec river, an expedition attended", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0349.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "250. MILITARY HISTORY. [1775.\\nb}^ terrible harcTsliips, resulting in failure, the capture of nearly\\nall of Arnold s command, and the death of Gen. Montgomery.\\nDea. Jesse Flanders, John Flanders, Jr., and Nicholas Davis\\nenlisted in Capt. Henry Dearborn s command, and were captured\\nin the attack upon Quebec. They were kept in irons a short\\ntime, liberated on parole in August, 1776, and reached Kew York\\nby sea September 25.\\nWhile in prison John Flanders kept a diary, which has been in\\npart preserved. It contains a record of the weather from the first\\nweek in January, 1776, to April 25, together with a few items of\\ninterest, mostly written in cypher, the key to which has been dis-\\ncovered.\\nJOHX FLAN^DERS S DIARY.\\nJeny 3d 1776\\nCloudy snowy in the morning cleared off at Night we had 1\\npint of water 1 pound of Boild Kice 1 pound of Brown Bread pound\\nPork.\\nJenuy 4 It snowed in the Morning blowy all Day we had 2 ounces of\\nButter 9 ounces pork 1 pound of l rown Bread\\nJan 5 we have very good allowance salt maccaril with Butter\\n15 a Violent Coald Snow Storm\\n16 fair weather\\n17 Snowed all Day and the Night Before\\nIS cloudy Look Likely for Snow Cold\\n19 Clondy Somthing Cold\\n20 Snowed a littel the prisnors made to ascape two was put in\\nirons\\n21 Somting Modrit But cloudy Last night six of the sogers made\\nthair acape five of the prisonrs that was Listed in thair Sarvies one that\\nBelongd to tham thay offered five Soos [souf to any Body that would\\nReturn him.\\nMarch 27 clear and cold\\n28 raw cold but Plasant sun\\n29 clear and a warm sun.\\nThe diary here begins in cypher.\\nboutat hist imew Eware desint omakeo uras Capeas w Ecouldg\\noto ti.\\n[Translation.]\\nBout at this time we ware designed to make our escape as we could\\ngo to ti (Ticonderoga).", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0350.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "1776.] MILITARY HISTORY. 251\\n31 tha yfound clou tour desin eand d\\\\v Ewar etliratne du st opu tu\\nsi niron S t ha y pu tal 1th E Sar gen sta iido opril si nirons.\\n[Translation.]\\nTliay found out our desine and we ware thratned to put us in\\nirons they put all the sargents and corprils in irons.\\nApril 1 the first day of A [April] I was put in irons with the rest\\nof my company and many others.\\nThe prisoners were released on parole, August were taken\\nto New York by ship, and arrived in Boscawen September 25.\\nIn December, 1775, additional soldiers were called for, and Nich-\\nolas Elliot, Moses Burbank, Benjamin Webster, and David Carter\\nserved during the winter in the siege of Boston.\\n177G. During the 3 ear soldiers were called for, for the defence\\nof Ticonderoga from the threatened attack of Sir Guy Carleton,\\nand twenty-three men enlisted.\\nL eut. Enoch Gerrisli, Joshua Danford,\\nThomas Carter, Isaac Davis,\\nDaniel Carter, Lt. Samuel Fowler,\\nJohn Jackmau, Dea. Joseph Iloit,\\nJames Gerald (died). Col. Henry Gerrish,\\nJoseph Pearson, Charles Greenfield,\\nJohn Muzzy, John Hale,\\nJohn Flanders, Samuel Jackman,\\nFriend Little, Phineas Stevens (died),\\nThomas Beadle, Nathaniel Burbank,\\nJoseph Atkinson, Joseph Couch.\\nNathaniel Atkinson,\\nNEW YOKK CAMPAIGN.\\nUpon the evacuation of Long Island by Gen. Washington the\\nmilitia were called out in the eastern colonies. Boscawen sent\\neight soldiers.\\nCapt. Peter Kimball, Moses Morrill,\\n*^Lt. Benjamin Jackman, Daniel Richards,\\nEns. Samuel Ames, Samuel Jackman,\\nBitfield Plummer, Cutting Noyes.\\nWINTER CAMPAIGN.\\nBoscawen furnished three soldiers for the winter campaign on\\nthe Hudson Lieut. Winthrop Carter, John Uran, Samuel Bur-\\nbank.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0351.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "252 MILITARY HISTORY. [1777.\\nCol. Henry Gerrisli was in the service of the starte obtaining\\nsupplies.\\nBoRcawen February 1, 1776.\\nReceived of Henry Gerrisli one Hundred sixty six Blankets, Fifty\\nseven tin Kittles one Barrel of spirits which I promise to Deliver Maj\\nCavis of Rumney for Col Israel Morey.\\nElisha Bean.\\nReced of Coll Henry Gerrish one Hundred ami eitrlity one pounds,\\nfourteen shillings L m [lawful money] to pay Thirty Three Men which\\nI am ordered to raise out of my Regiment to reinforce the army at New\\nYork their advance pay and Billetting, which men are to serve till the\\nfirst day of March next unless sooner discharged.\\nDecember 10 1776.\\nThomas Stickney.\\n1777.\\nPREPARIXG FOR THE CAMPAIOX.\\n3Iay. At a town-meeting held the last Monday in May, voted\\nto raise sixty pounds to pa} the four men hired by said town to\\nserve in tlie continental ami} for the term of tliree years.\\nA committee was apj^ointed to join the military officers in\\nmaking draughts of men as may be wanted from time to time for\\nthe Continental service.\\nVoted, That the selectmen raise a tax so large that there be sixty\\npounds left after the proportional part of those who have done service\\nis abated.\\nThe selectmen addressed a letter to the Committee of Safety\\nBoscawen May 17, 1777\\nGentlemen\\nIn consequence of Express orders, the Town of Boscawen is this Day\\nassembled called on by the Capt of said town that each man be im-\\nmediately a Quipt according to law and as there is found wanting a\\nNumber of Fire Arms Amnmnition c we have Imployed Capt Samuel\\nAtkinson and Mr. Joseph Gerrish to procure the same. We Desire\\nyovxr favor if thare be any guns in store to be purchased that you would\\ngive Capt Atkinson your advice assistance also a quantity of lead.\\nMr. Atkinson will be able to inform you of the Number of arms\\nQuantity of lead wanted to a Quip said Town your Favor herein will\\nGi eatly oblige your Humble Sarvents,\\nGeorge Jackman i i.\\n,,P T.T belectmen\\nCutting JNoyes\\nTo the Committee oi\\\\\\nSafety at Exeter. j", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0352.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "1777.] MILITARY HISTORY. 253\\nBENNIXGTOX CAMPAIGN.\\nOrders from Col. Thomas Stickney, -who lived in Concord,\\nreadied Capt. Kimball July 1, to be ready with his company to\\nmarch at a minute s warning to oppose Gen. Burgoyne, who was\\nadvancing from Canada to Lake Cliamplain. Cajjt. Kimball s\\ncompany marched July 4th.\\nCAPT. Kimball s diary.\\nJuly 1st 1777 orders came from Col Stickney to me to muster and\\nEquip one Quarter part of the Company to march at a minits warning\\nand in conseriuence of the same we met to git the men.\\nJuly 4 orders came to march 13 men Immediately to tie [Ticonder-\\noga].\\nsaterday we marcht to perrytown [Sutton] and Logedthare.\\nSunday G we marcht to Unity and Loged tliare.\\n]Monday 7 we marcht to Xo 4 and Loged thare drawd 4 Day al-\\nlowance.\\ntuesday 8 we marcht to Cavendysh and Loged thare.\\nWendesy 9 we marcht to No. 4 again\\nthursday lOtli we marcht to Unity and Loged\\nfryday 11 we marcht liome.\\nThe men engaged in this service were,\\nCol. Henry Gerrish, George Jackman, Jr.,\\nCapt. Peter Kimball, John Morrill,\\nCapt. Peter Coffin, Dea. Isaac Pearson,\\nLieut. Enoch Gerrish, Daniel Chirk,\\nLieut. Moses Call, Daniel Shepherd,\\nNathan Corser, John Manuel,\\nSamuel Clifford, Michael Sargent,\\nDea. Jesse Flanders, James French,\\nEnos Flanders, Benjamin Sweatt,\\nNathaniel Atkinson, Moses Jackman.\\nSimeon Atkinson,\\nMen were called for to go to Coos, and six men sent as the\\ntown s quota.\\nCapt. Samuel Atkinson, William Danford,\\nJeremiah Hidden, Jedidiah Danforth,\\nMoses Morse, George Jackman.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0353.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "254 MILITARY HISTORY. [1777.\\nThese soldiers, and hundreds of others from the adjoining towns,\\nturned about, after being out a few days, upon receipt of the news\\nthat Ticonderoga had been evacuated. They were ordered to re-\\nturn home. The astounding news confronted Col. Gerrish s com-\\nmand at Cavendish.\\nTiconderoga was evacuated on tlie night of the 6th of Julj-,\\nthe day that the Boscawen troops were passing through Unity.\\nThe next morning, when they were on their way to Charlestown,\\nthe British advance was falling upon Col. Warner at Hubbard-\\nton.\\nThe Vermont Committee of Safety, sitting at Manchester, sent\\na post-rider to New Hampshire.\\nNew Hampshire will be the frontier state if we are driven\\nout, they said.\\nThe N. H. Assembly had been in session at Exeter, but had\\nadjourned. The Committee of Safety sitting there were prompt\\nto act. The letter from Vermont was written the 8th, and on the\\n17th of July the New Hampshire Assembly was in session. What\\nwas to be done? The militia would turn out at a moment s no-\\ntice, but who would pay them? who command them? Then\\ncame the patriotic speech of John Langdon, offering all his cash,\\nall his silver plate to be melted up, all his Tobago rum, three\\nhundred hogsheads, to be sold. It set the Assembly on fire,\\nkindling anew their patriotic ardor. The militia was reorganized.\\nWhipple of Portsmouth and John Stark of Amoskeag were ap-\\npointed brigadiers. Orders were sent to Stark to take the field.\\nStark was on his farm. He had done well for his country, but\\nhad been superseded, and had retired from the service, feeling\\nthat he had not been fairl.y dealt with but he accepted the commis-\\nsion. His orders enabled him to act independently. He was to\\ndefend the frontier. Messengers carried his orders post haste to\\nhis subordinates.\\nCapt. Peter Kimball was at work on his farm at Queen street.\\nHe probably received his orders on the 22d, for his company was\\non the march on the 24th, the rendezvous being at Salisbury.\\nThe next night they reached Saville (Sunapee). The fourth\\nday they reached Charlestown. Gen. Stark was there, sending\\nforward supplies, directing the troops, as they came in, to move\\non to Manchester, Vermont. He was fretting over the want o^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0354.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "1777. j\\nMILITARY HISTORY.\\n255\\nbullet moulds. He had only one mould for tlie whole army, hut\\nthat was kept going night and day.\\nA full company consisted of 60 men. Capt. Kimball marched\\nfrom Boscawen with 22, but four others joined him, making 26\\nfrom Boscawen. The Concord soldiers, under Lieut. Richard\\nHerbert, joined him on the march. The company was thus or-\\nganized\\nCapt. Peter Kimball,\\nLieut. Richard Herbert,\\nEnsign Andrew Pettengil,\\nSegt. Jesse Abbot,\\nSegt. Abner Flanders,\\nSegt. William Danforth,\\nSerg. Nathan Davis,\\nCorp. Richard Flood,\\nCorp. Lavid Burbank,\\nCorp. John Abbot,\\nCorp. Theodore Farnum,\\nFifer Ellas Abbot,\\nDrummer Asa Corser,\\nPRIVATES.\\nStephen Abbot,\\nEzra Abbot,\\nBenjamin Ambrose,\\nJonathan Ambrose,\\nPeter Blanchard,\\nWells Burbank,\\nThomas Beedle,\\nPhilbrick Bradley,\\nJonathan Corser,\\nDavid Corser,\\nDaniel Carter,\\ni/ Nathan Carter,\\nAbner Chase,\\nSimeon Danforth,\\nElknah Danforth,\\nTimothy Danforth,\\nReuben Diamond,\\nBenjamin Elliot,\\nJames French,\\nJesse Flanders,\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord.\\nSalisbury.\\nConcord.\\n(.1\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord.\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord.\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord.\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord.\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord.\\nBoscawen.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0355.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "256\\nMILITARY HISTORY.\\n[177\\nEphraim Fisk, Jr.,\\nIsrael Glines,\\nSolomon Gage,\\nDavid George,\\nCliarles Greenfield,\\nJohn Hutcliins,\\nSamuel Ilickson,\\nAbial Hall,\\nJedidiah Hoit,\\nTimotliy Jackman,\\nWilliam Jackman,\\nJohn Jackman,\\nTimothy Johnson,\\nBenjamin Little,\\nFriend Little,\\nSamuel Morse,\\nIsaac Pearson,\\nJohn Peters,\\nAnthony Potter,\\nPhineas Stevens,\\nWilliam Symonds,\\nSimon Trumbull,\\nDaniel Uran,\\nGilman West,\\nConcord.\\nti\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord.\\na\\nBoscavven.\\nConcord.\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord.\\nBoscawen.\\nConcord. [57]\\n]\\\\[ancliester, west of the Green ^Mountains, was the rendezvous\\nand the Boscawen troops reached that town on Thursday, July\\n31st. Col. Stickney arrived on the 3d of August, and Gen. 8tark\\non the 6th.\\nA large number of the people of western Vermont were loyal to\\nthe Crown, and the property of Tories was liable to confiscation.\\nGen. Stark accordingly despatched Lt. Col. Emerson with a bat-\\ntalion to Rutland to obtain cattle and other sujiplies. Capt. Kim-\\nball s company formed a part of the battalion.\\nThe expedition started on the 8th of August, marched to Eut-\\nland, secured two hogsheads of rum, a quantitj of maple sugar,\\nand a herd of cattle.\\nEvents were ripening. Burgoyne was at Stillwater, on the\\nHudson, flushed with success, and wanting only horses to enable\\nhim to push on. He accordingly directed Col. Baum to move\\nacross the state to Cliarlestown, go down the Connecticut to Brat-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0356.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0357.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "o\\no\\n03\\nm", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0358.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "1777.] MILITARY HISTORY. 257\\ntleborough, and return through Massachusetts, and join him at\\nAlbany. His Tory friends informed him that the inhabitants\\nwere loyal, and that on the appearance of the troops they would\\ndeclare their allegiance.\\nOn the morning of the 12th, while the Boscawen troops were at\\nRutland, fifty-five miles north of Bennington, the expedition of\\nCol. Baum started from Stillwater, and marched a short distance.\\nBurgoyne s whole force was on the east bank of the Hudson.\\nBaum s command was composed of Hessians, British, Canadians,\\nTories, and Indians, and numbered about 800 in all. He marched\\non the 13th to Cambridge, sixteen miles from the Hudson. He\\nsent out a party, who captured fifteen Vermont men, who were tak-\\ning supplies to Gates, cattle, horses, and carts, which he sent to\\nBiirgoyne, with the information that eighteen hundred rebels\\nwere at Bennington. This was an exaggeration, Stark s force at\\nthat time being less than fifteen hundred.\\nStark was ignorant of the advance of Baum. The ten men\\nwho escaped reported seeing only Indians and Tories and Stark,\\non the 14th, sent Lieut. Col. Gregg towards Cambridge with two\\nhundred men, to stop the marauders.\\nOn the morning of the 14th, the Boscawen troops were ten\\nmiles north of Manchester, fully thirty-five miles from Benning-\\nton, marching southward with their rum, sugar, and cattle. At\\nthe same time Baum was breaking up his encampment at Cam-\\nbridge, and moving on to Bennington. Gregg at the same time\\nwas going with his two hundred men to Cambridge.\\nBaum reached Van Schaik s mill about 8 o clock, and encoun-\\ntered Gregg. A few volleys were fired, and Gregg fell back, hav-\\ning first broken down the bridge across the Walloomsic, which\\nBaum was obliged to rebuild. He sent a despatch to Burgoyne\\nI will proceed so far to-day as to fall on the enemy to-morrow\\nearly.\\nIntelligence of what was going on reached Stark, who advanced\\nto support Gregg but not finding a good place to make a stand,\\nhe fell back to Bennington.\\nBaum selected a position on a hill, and went into camp, send-\\ning a messenger to Burgoyne for reinforcements, who detached\\nCol. Breyman with five hundred of his best troops and two pieces\\nof artillery, to aid him.\\n17", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0359.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "258 MILITARY HISTORY. [1777.\\nOn the evening of the 14th, while Baum is in camp, the Bos-\\ncawen troops are at Manchester, twenty-five miles distant. The\\nremnant of Col. Warner s Vermont regiment, which fought nobly\\nat Hiihbardton, is also at Manchester, though Warner himself is\\nat Bennington. At this same moment, a few Berkshire militia\\nahont 150 under Symonds, accompanied by Rev. Mr. Allen of\\nPittsfield, are on the march from Williamstown.\\nAugust 15. The rain pours in torrents, but the Boscawen men\\nare making the twenty-five miles between Manchester and Ben-\\nnington. We may imagine them toiling along the forest road,\\nreaching Bennington at night, hungry, weary, drenched. Almost\\nat the same time the Berkshire troops arrive, and Parson Allen\\nhastens to Gen. Stark s tent.\\nGeneral, says the bluff preacher, the people of Berkshire\\nhave frequently been called ujjon to fight, but never have had a\\nchance and we have resolved, if you will not let us fight now,\\nnever to turn out again.\\nDo you want to go now, in the rain, at midnight\\nNo.\\nWell, if the Lord gives us sunshine once more, and I don t\\ngive you fighting enough, I won t ask you to turn out again.\\nThe morning of the 16th was calm and serene, the sky without\\na cloud. The Boscawen soldiers dried their clothes, and prepared\\nfor the battle.\\nStark, Warner, and Ashley reconnoitre Baum s position.\\nWarner is a citizen of Bennington, and is familiar with every\\nlocality.\\nNoon comes. Stark is a mile or more east of Baum s entrench-\\nment, on the east side of the Walloomsic river. He sends Stick-\\nney and Hobart with two hundred men to attack one hundred\\nTories, entrenched on a hillock by the river to hold the bridge\\nwhich crosses the stream.\\nHe sends Col. Herrick with three hundred men to the rear of\\nBaum, to attack from the west. Col. Nichols marches with three\\nhundred men to attack from the north. Stickney and Hobart\\nwill attack from the south, and Stark himself from the east.\\nThree o clock. Herrick has made a long march through the\\nwoods, but has reached his position. Stickney, with the Bos-\\ncawen, Concord, Loudon, Salisbury, Hopkinton, and Henniker", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0360.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "L 1^ i\u00c2\u00bb r\u00c2\u00bb ia\\n*=^^T- s- ;f \u00e2\u0096\u00a07) ;\u00c2\u00b0.t--\\nrrj^f \u00e2\u0080\u00a2c .rr", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0361.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "260 MILITARY HISTORY. [1777.\\ntroops, is emerging from the woods in front of the Tories. Each\\nman has a corn-husk in his hat, for the Tories, like themselves,\\nare in citizens dress, and every man with a corn-husk in his hat\\nis a friend all others are foes.\\nBeyond Stickney are the Pl3 mouth, Eridgewater, and New\\nChester men, under Hohart.\\nThen comes a rattle from Herrick s guns. Nichols takes it up.\\nThe Boscawen men, emerging from the cornfield, confront the\\nTories behind the breastwork by the bridge. Stark, with the\\nmain body, comes out into an open field. We hear his laconic\\nspeech There are the red-coats. They must be ours before\\nnight, or Molly Stark sleeps a widow\\nNo need to repeat the household story how the battle waxed\\nhot and fierce how Stickney drove the Tories from their shelter.\\nhow the patriots pressed on, undaunted by the roar of Baum s\\ncannon how, at last, destitute of bayonets, they charged up the\\nhill, leaped over the breastworks, seized the cannon, overwhelm-\\ning the Hessians, trampling them beneath their feet\\nOn what page of history can there be found a counterpart to\\ntheir heroism? farmers, knowing nothing of war, destitute of\\nbayonets, armed only with muskets and fowling-pieces, charging\\nthe veteran troops of England and Germany in their entrench-\\nments\\nThe troops disperse to collect plunder. Only a handful of the\\nenemy have escaped. Baum is mortally wounded. The troops\\nare exulting over the victory. They are filling their canteens\\nwith rum, from a cask which Stark has ordered up, when there is\\na sudden change of scene. Breyman, with his five hundred fresh\\ntroops and two pieces of cannon, appears, stung to the quick\\nover the disaster. They open with their cannon. Not a regi-\\nment nor a company of Stark s command is in line. But there\\nis quick rallying. Men do not stop to find their companies, but\\nfall in where they are. The battle begins, fiercer than ever. The\\nAmericans are driven but at last Warner s men, one hundred and\\nforty in number, appear upon the field. They are smarting over\\ntheir defeat at Hubbardton. Their coming turns the scale.\\nThe British ranks waver, and finally break. A panic seizes the\\nsoldiers, who flee, throwing away their guns and equipments.\\nThe Americans follow them till night, and then return to gather\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2up the spoils.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0362.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "1777.] MILITARY HISTORY, 261\\nThe British loss is two hundred and seven killed and woixnded,\\nseven hundred prisoners, seven hundred stand of arms, four can-\\nnon, and a great amount of plunder, in all, a loss of about one\\nthousand men. The American loss was thirty killed and forty\\nwounded.\\nHistorians, in these later years, recognize Bennington as the\\nturning-point of the American Revolution. Burgoyne s fate was\\ndecided there. With the failure of his expedition came the alli-\\nance of the United States with France, resulting in the inde-\\npendence of the colonies.\\nSo, on that historic field, twenty-six citizens of Boscawen aided\\nin securing to the world the right of man to self-government.\\nCAPT. TETEK KIMBALl s DIARY.\\nJuly 24th raarcht to Salsbury with 22 men and Loged in order for\\nNo. 4 [Cliarlestown].\\nfryday 25th we marclit to sevil and Loged thare.\\nSaturday 2Glh we marclit to Mr. Grout s at No 4 Loged thare.\\nSunday 27th we niarcht to town [Charlestown] and Drawd 4 Days\\nallowance.\\nMonday 28 we marcht about 4 mile and Loged at Rockingham.\\ntuesdy 29 we marcht to Kent and Loged thare.\\nWendsdey30 we marcht to Brumley Loged at Capt Kelleys.\\ntliiirsdey 31 we marclit over the green mountains to manchester to\\nHead Quarters Loged thare.\\nfryday august 1st we Drawd 2 days allowance. Nothing extraor-\\ndinary hapened this Day.\\nsaterdy 2 the scouts beat in a Drove of cattle. A rainy Day.\\nSunday 3(1 Col Stickney came into camp in the Rain,\\nJVIondey 4th nothing extraordinary hapened this Day. Abner Chace\\njoined our company.\\ntuesdy 5th sim Danford come in and joined us.\\nWendsdy 6th general Stark come in.\\ntiiursdy 7 orders came for a scout to go to the crick [Otter Creek].\\nLt Col [Emerson] 1 Capt [Kimball] 4 sub 83 officers [privates?] en-\\ncluded paraded at the generals at 7 o clock evening. Dismist ordered\\nto meet at 7 oclock in the morning.\\ntrydy 8th marcht about lOO men for the crick. Col Emerson com-\\nmanded, niarcht 10 or 12 miles campt at Danbury.\\nSaterdy 9tii marcht about 3 miles and Brakfast at a tory house then\\nmarcht to Dedham campt.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0363.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "262 MILITARY HISTORY. [1777.\\nSundy 10th we marcht to Rutland took 2 hogsheads of Rum\\nmarcht b.ick to Dedham and Loged tliare.\\nmonday 11th sent a party found 2 barrels of rum some whugar\\ntuesdy 12th we marcht to fisks and Loged. Alarm was made.\\nWendsdy 13 we marcht and campd with the Drove and cargo.\\nthursdy 14th we marcht to Manchester\\nfrydy 15 we marcht to Bennington\\nSaterday 16 we formed the Brigade liad a battle with the enemy\\nin whicii I Received a slite wound.\\nSandy 17 I went viewed the ground where the Battle was re-\\nturned to camp, and Laid in camp all Day.\\nMondy 18 we Lay in the camp sent out scouts Berried some Dead\\ntuesday 19th I went to town to see the sick wounded. Rote a\\nLetter to send home.\\nwensday 20 we Lay in our camp I v/ent viewed the ground\\nwhere the battle was.\\nThursdy 21 we left tlie Lines marcht about 2 mile Quartered\\nin a liarn at one abbots.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fryday22 we Lay in the barn. Notl)ing extraordinary hapened\\nthis Day.\\nSaterdey 23 I went to town to see the sick and wounded.\\nSunday 2-ith I went to see the sick to town the afternoon went to\\nmeeting.\\nmonday 25th I went to town to the Vandue of the plunder.\\ntuesday 26 sarch was made for plunder in the company.\\nWensday Aug 27 I went to Vandue.\\nthursday 28 Nothing extraordinary hapened this day.\\nfry day 29 I went to Vandue.\\nSaterday 80 I went to see the ground where the battle was witli Lt\\nCenter Dr flanders, the soldiers come in from Boscawen [another\\ncompany that arrived after the battle].\\nSunday 31 major Head Died about Sun Rise. Burried at Evening.\\nSept Monday 1st we built a Booth to drink tody in.\\ntuesday 2 timothy Johnson had a disciiarge from the army\\nwensday, 3d timothy Johnson went of home\\nthursday 4th I went to Vandue bot a hatian [Hessian] gun for\\n49 shillings\\nfrydey 5 ordered to be ready to march to Ranzelers mills, and I\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0went 10 town and saw the Bayraen [Breymen prisoners] march for\\nmanchester.\\nSaterdey 6 we marcht to st Coyce Barrickt [barracked] thare.\\nSunday 7th I went to Head Quarters and Drank some whiskey at\\nRanclyes seller [Rensselaer s cellar].", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0364.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "1777.] MILITARY HISTORY. 263\\nMonrlay 8th nothing extraordinary hapened this Day.\\ntue^dey 9th orders came to hold ourselves in Rediness to march to-\\nmorrow morning by Sun Rise for Still water.\\nweiidsdey Idth we marcht to Cambridge and Loged\\nthursday 11 we marclit to Still water and canipt the East side of\\nNorth River Thare I saw Nehemiah Carlton\\nfryday 12 we marcht over the River and campt on the West side.\\nsaterdey 13 orders came to march and we swung our packs and\\nmarcht about 3 miles joined the continental army campt in the\\nwood.\\nSundy 14th I went through the Encampment to see my acquaint-\\nance, thare I saw Nehemiah Carlton and in the afternoon Mr. Ilibbert\\npreacht a sermon.\\nMondey l-5th orders came to parade the Regt accordingly we was\\nparaded Col Ashley told us that it was the Desire of Genl Gates that\\nwe should stay one month Longer he would give ten Dollars a man\\nthe men seemed Not inclined to stay on that consideration at night\\nGeneral Stark came into camp.\\ntuesdey 16th Nothing extraordinai-y Hapened this Day.\\nWendsday 17 we Lay in our camp\\nthursdy 18 I Left the camp marcht to Benningtown Loged at\\nMr Abbot s.\\nfrydey 19. I went to town gut the plunder money for the com-\\npany \u00c2\u00a31 13 7 which was in the Benningtown fight of my com-\\npany\\nSaterdey 20th marcht to Shaftsbury gut Brakfast from thence to\\nManchester gut dinner then to the mountains Campt\\nSundey 21 marcht to Capt Ritty s gut Brakfast then to Kint\\n[Kent?] at Dr aeons oged thare\\nmondey 22d we marcht to No 4 Loged at Col Hunts.\\ntuesdy 23d I marcht to Unity and Loged at Capt Huntoon s\\nWensd} 24 I marcht to Perrytown and Loged thare.\\nThursdy 25 I gut home.\\nThe plunder money at Bennington Divided to 2250 men.\\nA Return of the killed wounded General Starks Brigade in ye ac-\\ntions at Benningtown.\\nCol Hubbert Regt 3 killed 7 wd\\nCol Nichols Regt 9 killed 13 wd\\nCol Stickney Regt 2 killed 18 wd\\ntotal 14 killed 38 wd", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0365.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "264 MILITARY HISTORY. [1777.\\nITEMS.\\nCharlestown July 28 1777\\ns. p.\\npaid for clove water for the company 10 6\\npaid for brandy 9\\nLieut Harbert paid for Bread 1\\nCapt paid for Bread 1\\nBenningtown August 31\\nCapt Webster Dr to 0\u00e2\u0080\u009412\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\nPaid to Daniel Uran.\\nThis was Capt. Ebenezer Webster of Salisbury, father of Dan-\\niel and Ezeldel.\\ns.\\nPaid for Sargt Abbot 0\u00e2\u0080\u00943\u00e2\u0080\u00940\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\nElk. Dan ford Dr 0\u00e2\u0080\u00943\u00e2\u0080\u00946\\nAsa Corser Dr 6\\nWm Jackman Dr 6\\npaid for Lieut Harbert 1 1\\npaid Ensign Bohonnon Lieut. Harbert 9\\nBenningtown 5 1777\\nthis Day settled our mess find that our expenses at mr Abbot is\\n13\u00e2\u0080\u00942, paid by Lieut Harbert.\\n11 Batches of Bread Baking 16s. 6 for the company 2s.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to each\\nmess of the [regiment?]\\nfor Baking 8\u00e2\u0080\u00945-7-0\\n4 Bakings 0-6-0\\nSept 1777 s\\nLent to Elknh [Elkanah] Danford 12\u00e2\u0080\u00946\\ns\\nLent to Capt Webster 0\u00e2\u0080\u00941\u00e2\u0080\u00940\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\nAlthough Boscawen had sent twenty-six men to Bennington,\\nalthough several of the citizens were in the Continental line, there\\nwere others ready to leave at a moment s notice. The news of\\nthe victory was soul-stirring. There is no evidence that any\\norders were received for additional troops, only the general re-\\nquest for everybody to turn out. On the 24th of August, twelve\\nmen started for Bennington, to join Capt. Kimball s company.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0366.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0367.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "Q /ycA^o-L..^-x/u- e^~-^-i^n^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0368.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "1777.]\\nMILITARY HISTORY.\\n265\\nNathaniel Burbank,\\nBitfield Plumer,\\nBenjamin Atkinson,\\nJoseph Pear.son,\\nJohn Flanders,\\nDavid Flanders,\\nJoseph Flanders,\\nEzekiel Flanders,\\nJeremiah Eastman,\\nJeremiah Hidden,\\nNathan Cor.ser,\\nCapt. Peter Coffin.\\nLieut. Col. Henry Gerrisli was not in the battle. He raised a\\nbattalion, wliich went into service a few days later under General\\nStark.\\nAt a sale of plunder, held at Battenkill, October 18. 1777, Col.\\nHenry Gerrish was chosen clerk, and Capt. Sears, vendue mas-\\nter. Capt. Sears Avas undoubtedly Capt. Sears of Bennington.\\nWhere the plunder was obtained is not quite clear. There\\nwas a large amount of dry goods, watches, knives, and clothing.\\nThe note-book of Col. Henr} Gerrish is badly blurred. A few ex-\\ntracts are given\\nAt a vendue held at Battenldll Octob 1S 1777 Henry Gerrish\\nchosen Clerk Capt Moulton[?] to assist him Capt Sears Vendue Mas-\\nter: Capt Ford the Highest bidder\\n1 gun\\n1 gun\\nJob Moulton one white horse\\nCol Henry Gerrish one watch\\nCapt Ford 1 watch\\nCajat Sear Sword\\nDavid Danford 1 coat\\nJohn Coffin 1 set curtains\\nEnsign Morrill cambrick\\nEnoch Coffin white Holland\\nDavid Danford two towels and remnant of\\nHolland\\nJoseph Tales pair slieets\\nMark Currier 19 yds Lawn\\nSamuel Hopkins Indian stockings\\nAlex Bar check*! Linen\\n\u00c2\u00a33\\ns p\\n3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\\n3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\\nG\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n8_U\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n11\u00e2\u0080\u009414\\n3\u00e2\u0080\u009418\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n15\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n4\u00e2\u0080\u009413\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n2\u00e2\u0080\u009411\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n2\u00e2\u0080\u009411\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n16\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n2\u00e2\u0080\u009415\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe sale of plunder amounted to \u00c2\u00a3298 Is. 6d.\\nFALL CAMPAIGN.\\nThe town had fifteen soldiers in the fall campaign. In a note", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0369.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "266 MILITARY HISTORY. [1777\\nin Col. Henry Gerrisli s book, we find the number of soldiers\\nfrom adjoining towns in this campaign\\nConcord 32\\nIlopkinton 22\\nBoscuwen 15\\nHillsborough 7\\nBow 6\\nWarner 4\\n86\u00e2\u0080\u00946\\nThe annexed 6 is explained below.\\nCharlestown Oct 4 1777.\\nJohn Church Esq\\nS please to Deliver the Bearer 22| lb of Powder for 86 men of my\\nRegiment six men of Col Even s Regiment\\nHenry Gerrish Lt Col.\\nIt is quite probable that the plunder of the Battenkill sale\\ncame from the vicinity of Fort Edward, and was taken by the\\nNew Hampshire troops, who were in the rear of Burgoyne.\\nConcord Nov 7, 1777\\nRecieved of Henry Gerrish my share of Plunder money taken\\nabove Fort Edward also the shares of John Evens, Stilson Eastman\\nEnoch CofBii, Moses Abbot, Philip Abbot, Amos Abbot, John\\nFarnum the whole being seventy four dollars two thirds Recieved by\\nme Joshua Abbott,\\nCapt.\\nThe rally to the defence of the country was wholly independent\\nof Congress. It was a state affair. The men who fought the\\nbattle of Bennington were citizens, and they declined to put\\nthemselves under Continental authorit}^ Upon the surrender\\nof Burgoyne they wished to leave for home. The letter of thanks\\nfrom Gen. Gates shows how highly the services rendered b}^ them\\nwere appreciated:\\nCamp at Saratoga Oct 18 1777\\nSir, I desire you will acquaint the volunteers of New hampshire of\\nthe High sense I have of their merit service in the Defence of the\\ncommon cause of the alacrity spirit with which they have stept\\nforth at this critical ajid Important season to the Deliverance of their\\ncountry. They have now my Leave to return home with their Honor-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0370.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "1777.] MILITARY HISTORY. 267\\nable Dismission convinced tliey will be ready upon every Important Oc-\\ncasion to join the Northern Army.\\nI am sir your affectionate Humble Servant\\nHoratio Gates\\nHonble Brigad Gen Whipple,\\nCopy\\nTo Col Gerrish\\nCONTINEXTAL SOLBIERS.\\nThree regiments were raised by the state at the beginning of\\nthe war for the Continental service. The muster-rolls of Stark\\nthe first give the names of six citizens of Boscawen, with the\\ndate of enlistment and discharge\\nBatchelder William Enlisted 10 Jan 1777, Dis 1 Jan 1780\\nBishop Enos Enlisted 1 Jan 1777 died 8 Aug 1778. He was cap-\\ntured by the Indians 15 Aug 1754, taken to Canada [see p. 69].\\nEvans Edward Enlisted 7 Feb 1777, Discharged 1 Dec 1781\\nFlanders Philip Enlisted 1 Jan 1777, Discharged 1 Jan 1782\\nIlalcomb Matthew enlisted 1 Jan 1777, Deserted 9 July 1777\\nStevens Peter Roswell enlisted 1 Jan 1777 Discharged 1781.\\nThese, with the exception of Halcomb, took part in the battle of\\nStilhvater, September 19, and of Saratoga, October 7. In the fii*st\\nbattle, three Xew Hampshire regiments, and Dearborn s battalion\\nof 250 Xew Hampshire troops, were attached to Morgan s rifle-\\nmen, and with them did all the fighting from one o clock till nearly\\nfour in the afternoon, sustaining the brunt of the battle. The 62d\\nBritish regiment of 600 men was nearly annihilated by their\\nwithering fire.\\nKHODE ISLAND CAMPAIGN.\\nThe call for troops during the year was for the defence of Rhode\\nIsland. Below are the names of the soldiers who served in that\\ncampaign\\nFROM THE selectmen s BOOKS.\\nThe Men Hereafter Named have Recieved the Savrill sums set\\nagainst each of thare Names in Consequence of thare going to Rhode\\nIsland at the Request of the Committee of Safety. s p\\nEnoch Gerrish 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJoseph Gerrish 10\\nDaniel Shepard 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0371.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "268 MILITARY HISTORY. [1798.\\nJoseph Flanders ic\\nMoses Biirbauk 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThomas Gordon 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nNathan Davis 10\\nJohn Fhinders In\\nIsaac Pearson 10\\nWells Burbank 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHumphrey Jackman 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSamuel Morrill ]i (i\\nJedediah Hoit 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (I\\n180\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo the Treasurer of the state of New Hampshire,\\nSir please to alow Winthrop Carter Constable for Boscawen the\\nabove sum of one hundred thirty pound out of the State Tax for\\nBoscawen assessed to order of the committee of safety\\nGeorge Jackman Selectmen\\nCutting Noyes j for Bo.-cawen\\nBoscawen Sept 3. 1778\\nThe war liaving been transferred to the Soutliern states, there\\nwas no further call for the militia. Several citizens enlisted in\\nthe Continental service, but their names are not known, except\\nthose serving in the 1st regiment.\\nIn 1798, in consequence of the interference of French war ships\\nwith American merchantmen, serious trouble was apprehended\\nbetween the United States and France. Congress established a\\nprovisional army of eighty thousand men, and appointed Wash-\\nington lieutenant-general.\\nNathaniel Green, Esq., was commissioned a captain, with Moses\\nSweat, of Concord, first lieutenant, and Israel W. Kelley, of Con-\\ncord, second lieutenant. Eight citizens of Boscawen enlisted\\nSergt. Joseph Flanders, Moses Corser,\\nMoses Jackman, Nathan Danforth,\\nDaniel Colby, Bernard Young,\\nBenjamin Fisk, Joshua Sawyer.\\nThe company assembled at Concord, having their quarters for\\na few days at Osgood s tavern, and from thence marched to Oxford,\\nMass., the rendezvous for the New England troops. Negotiations\\nwere entered into, and a war averted, and the soldiers dis-\\ncharged.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0372.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0373.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "f, ^y^^/UV/ o.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0374.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "1812.] MILITARY HISTORY. 269\\nWAR OF 1812.\\nThere are no rolls in the adjutant-general s office showing what\\ncitizens enlisted in the service of the United States during the\\nwar of 1812-13.\\nCol. Timothy Dix commanded a United States regiment on the\\nfrontier, and died in the service [see Biographj^].\\nSeveral British ships of war made their appearance on the\\ncoast, and it was supposed that Portsmouth would be attacked.\\nThe militia was called out to defend it. There were two drafts,\\none for three, and the second for two months.\\nThose serving under the first draft W ere,\\nEnsign Richard Little, John P^astman,\\nJoiin Stone, Jacob Flanders,\\nMoses Call, Josiah Gale,\\nEnoch Burbank, Nicholas Gookin,\\nSamuel Burbank, Simeon Jackman,\\nMoses Cross, Joseph Moses,\\nStephen Danforth, Daniel Shepard. [14]\\nUnder the second draft for two months,\\nCapt. Silas Call, who died in Abel Eastman,\\nservice, Samuel Watson,\\nEleazer Burbank, Ephraim Noyes,\\nJesse Sweat, James Noyes,\\nBenj. Severance, Theodore George,\\nAmos Rolf, Ebenezer Moody,\\nWilliam Haines, Amos Sawyer,\\nGuy C. Flanders, Samuel Jackman. [15]\\nOf those enlisting in the regular service, the names of a few\\nonly are known.\\nBenjamin Jackman, Fisk, died,\\nMoses Jackman, Chellis Eastman, died,\\nEdmund Day, killed, George Littlefield, died,\\nBenjamin Fisk, died, Eliphalet Burpee, died.\\nTHE MILITIA.\\nNo records exist to tell us when the first military company was\\norganized in Boscawen. Through the Indian wars every man\\nwas a soldier. It is known that a company existed in Boscawen\\nas early as 1769, and that Peter Coffin was captain, his commis-\\nsion having been granted by Benning Wentworth.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0375.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "270 MILITARY HISTORY. [1812.\\nHis successors in command were Capt. Samuel Atkinson, Col.\\nHenry Gerrish, Capt. Peter Kimball.\\nHow long Capt. Kimball commanded, or who succeeded liim, is\\nnot known.\\nIn 1792 the militia of the state was reorganized. Each regi-\\nment was composed of two battalions, the regiment being com-\\nmanded by a lieutenant-colonel, and the liattalions by majors.\\nThe 21st regiment was thus constituted\\nFirst Hattalion. Boscawen, Salisbury, Andover, New Lon-\\ndon, Kearsarge Gore (Wilmot).\\nSecond Battalion. Hopkinton, Warner, Sutton, Fishersfield,\\nBradford.\\nSECOND INFANTRY.\\nA second infantry company was formed prior to 1794, including\\nthose liable to military duty west of Beaver-dam brook. The\\nofficers were Benjamin Little, captain, Nathan Kilburn, lieu-\\ntenant, Jeremiah Gerrish, ensign, Capt. Little continued in\\ncommand probably three years.\\nThe military rations on a muster day for a jiortion of the regi-\\nment, the battalion commanded by Maj. Joseph Gerrish, will\\nbe seen from a bill found among his papers\\nMaj Joseph Gerrish to Nathl Noyes Dr Oct 15 1795\\nTo 15 Gals 3 qts 6 Gils WI Rum delivered the companies 5 11 7\\nTo 3 Quarts ditto to Lt Webster 5\u00e2\u0080\u00943\\nTo 3 Quarts Brandy ditto 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094 IJ\\nTo 33 D Gingerbread 5\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\n\u00c2\u00a36-8\u00e2\u0080\u009411^\\n(men) GalQgilla\\nCapt Chandler s Company 89 2 3 1\\nPetingales 70\u00e2\u0080\u00942\u00e2\u0080\u00940\u00e2\u0080\u00946\\nGale 55\u00e2\u0080\u00941\u00e2\u0080\u00942\u00e2\u0080\u00947\\nClement 07- 2\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3\\nLittle 93\u00e2\u0080\u00942\u00e2\u0080\u00943\u00e2\u0080\u00945\\nScribner 86\u00e2\u0080\u00942\u00e2\u0080\u00942\u00e2\u0080\u00946\\nCliandler the troop 50\u00e2\u0080\u00941\u00e2\u0080\u00942\u00e2\u0080\u00942\\n15_3_6\\nErrors excepted\\nNathl Noyes", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0376.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "1812. J MILITARY HISTORY. 271\\nThe Ttli Infantry, commanded by Capt. Benj. Little, was so\\nnumbered till the division of the regiment in 1821, when it be-\\ncame the 6th company, but subsequently it was changed to the\\n2d Infantry of the regiment as well as the 2d in the town.\\nTHE CAVALRY.\\nThe 1st Cavalry of the 21st regiment was organized at an early\\ndate. It is known to have been in existence prior to 1787. It was\\ncalled the troop. In the military organization of the state, it\\nwas contemplated that there should be one companj of cavalry\\nconnected with each regiment. The uniform consisted of white\\npants, red coats with bell buttons, a black leather cap ornament-\\ned with an eagle on a white shield, with chains and tassels, and a\\nred and black plume.\\nTo be a trooper sometimes required hard riding and hard drink-\\ning. All new members were crowned when admitted. From\\nthe private papers of Joseph Couch, who was farrier to the troop,\\nand upon whom was laid the duty of crowding the new mem-\\nbers, we obtain an insight of the military customs of the early\\npart of the century. The new soldier being brought before the\\ncompany, the master of ceremonies made an address, first to the\\nofficers, then to the soldiers, followed by the giving of the right\\nhand of fellowship, the singing of a song, and the drinking of a\\ngreat deal of grog.\\nSONG.\\nTune Lady Washington.\\nCome, thou brave horseman! my hand I will give you,\\nAnd will help you to join with the strong.\\nYou re welcome here to dine,\\nAs our company you ll join,\\nAnd we all will unite in the song.\\nHail, mighty trooper! submit to your captain\\nAnd he ll lead you, we trust, in the way\\nIn the way that you should go,\\nAs we trust that you do know,\\nAnd we all will unite in the main.\\nHark! hear the trumpet: you, my brave soldiers.\\nWhile that you re clad in the red,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0377.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "272 MILITARY HISTORY. [1812.\\nThe sword is at your side,\\nIn my hand you may confide,\\nWhile the wings of the eagle are spread.\\nThe soil that s enriched by the blood of brave men,\\nShall ne er be oppressed by the slave.\\nThen let traitors vaunt their pride,\\nIn our captain we ll confide,\\nWhile this red coat is honored as brave\\nTHE CHARGE.\\nBrother soldiers You look like hardy sons of freedom, in whom\\nour confidence may with safety repose. Then how unspeakably great\\nis your privilege, seeing the eyes of all who have suffered in the cause\\nof virtue have earnestly looked towards the privilege you may now en-\\njoy, and have justly expected with you to receive the crown of liberty,\\nand with you to drink the water of freedom through our happy land!\\nSince a charge you demand, I can t say you nay,\\nBut feeling quite sure I have little to say\\nI must task my invention to bring it in rhyme,\\nWith all my endeavors to make it combine.\\nTo take a sprig of Fashion s part.\\nYou Volunteers with all your heart\\nTo every wit the gauntlet throw.\\nWho dares assail or give a blow;\\nAnd each one of this little gang\\nWill give a whack for every bang;\\nReceive a jeer for every gibe\\nThat s aim d against the trooping tribe.\\nChorus\\nFill while we may,\\nFor that s the right way;\\nThe night will be on\\nWhile we drink down the day.\\nTHE ARTILLERY.\\nThe Artillery company was the second vokinteer company in the\\nregiment, organized about the year 1809, and was supplied by\\nthe state with a four-pound field-piece. It was a vigorous com-\\npany for many j -ears, but its fortunes began to wane with the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0378.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0379.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "7", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0380.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "1812.] MILITARY HISTORY. 273\\ngeneral dec,\\\\y of the military system, and was disbanded in 1849.\\nNathaniel Thurston was its last eommander.\\nLIGHT IXFANTllY.\\nThe Boscawen Light Infantry company was formed in 1811.\\nMoses Gerrish, afterward colonel, was chosen captain, Abraham\\nBurbank, lieutenant, and James Giddings, ensign. A uniform\\nwas obtained the next year. It was the third in the regiment of\\nvolunteer companies. From that time to the abandonment of the\\nmilitary system throughout the state, it was known as an efficient,\\nenergetic, and well-drilled compan}-. Just before the downfall of\\nthe S3^stem, the company obtained the rich and costly uniform of\\nthe New England Guards of Boston. Its last appearance on the\\nmuster-field was one of its best, at the brigade muster at Henni-\\nker, in 1850. The ranks were full, and the soldiers under a high\\ndegree of discipline, with an efficient commander, Capt. David E.\\nBurbank, son of the first lieutenant of the company, Capt. Abra-\\nham Burbank, its first commander.\\nTHE RIFLE COMPANY.\\nAlthough there were two volunteer companies in town, besides\\none third of the cavalry, the military spirit was high enough to\\nbring into existence a volunteer rifle compan}^, which was formed\\nin 1839, with Fitz Heiuy Boyden as captain. The natural sup-\\nposition would have been, that a young and energetic organization,\\nably officered, would have overshadowed the existing corps, the\\nLight Infantry but the men in the Light Infantry, instead of\\nyielding their prestige, put forth new efforts, and the two or-\\nganizations, composed almost wholly of men residing in the west-\\nern section of the town, maintained their respective positions, in\\ngenerous rivalry, till the abandonment of the military system.\\nMUSTERS.\\nMilitary musters were great events in the olden times. The\\nmilitary spirit was high. Ever}^ able-bodied citizen, between the\\nages of 18 and 45, was called vipon to do military duty. Men are\\nmartial by nature. They love to march after\\nThe ear-piercing fife and spirit-stirring drum.\\n18", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0381.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "274 MILITARY HISTORY. [1812,\\nThere was a healthful rivalry between the different volunteer\\norganizations, each company desiring to appear with full ranks,\\nand to show its superior efficiency in drill and discii)line. Every\\nsoldier of the volunteer companies looked forward to muster-\\nday with unalloyed pleasure. The approaching event Avas for\\nweeks the theme of conversation. Everybody went to muster\\nthe soldier, to perform his duty his wife, to admire him his chil-\\ndren, to eat gingerbread and candy, to drink egg-nog, and explode\\nfire-crackers.\\nThere was little sleep the night preceding muster-day. Each\\nsoldier deemed it his privilege to salute his officers by firing be-\\nneath his windows, shattering the glass by his heavy charges.\\nThe salute was acknowledged by an invitation to the soldier\\nand everybody else to step in and help themselves to rum, gin,\\nwhiskey, or brandy and, if the officer was married, to sit down to\\nbaked Indian pudding and beans.\\nThe day began with a carouse. By sunrise every road leading\\ntoward the muster-field was swarming with men, soldiers on foot,\\non horseback, or in wagons, with troops of boys, and peddlers of\\nevery description.\\nThe volunteer companies took pride in being first on parade, to\\ndisplay their marching before the regimental line was formed.\\nThen began the drum-beat, the long roll, the formation of the\\ncompany by the corporal, the reception of the officers, the com-\\nmand of the captain, By sections, right wheel march. Then\\nthe fifes and clarinets and bugles began, and the soul-stirring\\nstrains floated out on the morning air, and the soldiers, with full\\nstomachs and steady steps, moved across the fields, to the delight\\nof the admiring spectators. For an hour or more each company\\nmarched, countermarched, wheeled, in section, in battalion, filed\\nright and left, passed defiles and obstacles, changed front, and dis-\\nplayed itself to the best advantage.\\nThen came the formation of the regimental line, the inspection\\nand review, and dismissal for dinner, when each man ate as he\\nnever ate before. On this one day he gorged himself. Did he\\nnot pay for his dinner? Then he was entitled to all he could eat.\\nDid the state furnish him with a dinner? Then he would have\\nall he could get.\\nThrough the forenoon lie drinks several glasses of grog. He", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0382.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "1861.] MILITARY HISTORY. 275\\ntakes another glass after dinner. In the afternoon comes the\\nsham-fight, when muskets bhize and cannon roar. The soldier s\\nlegs are getting weary, and he takes more grog to give him\\nstrength.\\nWhile the sham battle is going on, there is a crowd upon the\\nfield. Peddlers are hawking their wares, showmen exhibiting\\ntheir two-headed calves, and pigs with eight feet. A sleight of\\nhand performer is pulling ribbons out of his mouth, or chewing\\ntow and spitting fire.\\nThe sham battle is over. The regiment is in line once more,\\nthe rear rank has been called before the colonel and thanked\\nfor the soldierly appearance of the troops, and the regiment is dis-\\nmissed.\\nEach company moves away, some with broken ranks, some\\nwith soldiers who are unsteady on their legs. The drummer gets\\nhis rub-a-dubs mixed, and does not quite know whether he is play-\\ning common or compound time, while the fifer gets Yan-\\nkee Doodle confounded with On the Road to Boston. Soldiers\\nare firing their last guns, hucksters disposing of their last sheets\\nof gingerbread, and the bibulous crowd taking their last drinks of\\ngrog. The sun goes down through the murky cloud of the sliam\\nbattle, the cannon, with sulphurous lips, is limbered up and taken\\naway, and the field gradually becomes deserted.\\nWAR OF THE RKBELLION.\\nThe citizens of Boscawen and Webster were not behind their\\nfellow-citizens in manifesting their patriotism at the breaking out\\nof the Rebellion, and from the beginning to the end maintained\\ntheir determination to preserve the country one and indivisible\\nforever. The quotas of both towns were kept full, and all calls\\nfrom the state promptly answered.\\nREGIMENTS.\\n1st. Col. M. W. Tappan, 3 months.\\n2d. Col. Gihnan Marston, 3 years.\\n3d. Col. E. Q. Fellows,\\n4th. Col. Thos. J. Whipple,\\n5th. Col. Edward E. Cross,\\n6th. Col. Nelson Converse,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0383.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "276 MILITARY HISTORY. [18G3.\\n7tli. Col, H. S. Putnam, 3 years.\\n8th. Col. Hawkes Fearing,\\n9th. Col. E. Q. Fellows,\\n10th. Col. M. T. Donahue,\\n11th. Col. Walter Harriman,\\n12th. Col. Joseph H. Potter,\\n13th. Col. Aaron F. Stevens,\\n14th. Col. Robert Wilson,\\n15th. Col. J. W. Kingman, 9 months.\\n16th. Col. James Pike,\\n17th. Col. Henry O. Kent,\\n1st Battalion Cavalry, D. B. Nelson, 3 years.\\n]st Co. Heavy Artillery, C. H. Long,\\n2d Co. Heavy Artillery, J. M. Burton,\\n1st Light Battery, Geo. A. Gerrish,\\nCo. E, 1st Sharpshooters, A. B. Jones,\\nCo. F, 2d Sharpshooters, H. M. Caldwell,\\nCo. G, 2d Sharpshooters, Wm. D. McPherson,\\nThe ITtli Regiment was consolidated with the 2d.\\nIt has been a matter of no little difficulty to obtain an accurate\\nand authentic list of those who served during the four years, who\\nwere citizens of the towns.\\nThe list of soldiers from Boscawen is given as per record in\\npossession of Isaac K. Gage, which varies materially from the re-\\nport of the adjutant-general, published by the state. The list as\\ngiven below is the record by which the final settlement with the\\nstate was made, and may be accepted as correct.\\nThe records of the movements of the various regiments may be\\nfound in the reports published by the state, and in possession of\\nthe town clerk.\\nSOLDIERS FROM BOSCAWEN.\\nRegt. Eegt.\\nAmes, Fisher, Co. E, 7 Brown, John H., Co. F, 9\\nAyer, Henry H., Co. B, 3 Bidwell, Cyrus B., Co. E, 7\\nAbbot, Daniel C, Co. E, 7 Bidwell, George F., Co. E, 7\\nAtkinson, Edmund W\\\\, Co. E, 16 Baker, Lt. Henry W., Co. E, 7\\nBent, James AV., Co. F, Ballard, Lt. AVm. W., Co. B, 2\\nSharpshooters. Brannan, Thos. Navy\\nBrannan, Wm. H., Co. H, 4 Chandler, Samuel, Co. E, 7\\nBoynton, Jonas T., Sharpshooters. Clancy, John, Co. E, 7", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0384.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0385.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "J\u00c2\u00bb/^^j\\nx", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0386.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "o\\n1863.] MILITARY HISTORY. 277\\nRegt. Regt.\\nClancy, Patrick, Co. K, 9 Perry, Wm. II., 8\\nChase, Aloiizo, Co. I, 4 Pritcliard, Dexter, Co. E, 7\\nChadwick, Edwin H.. Sharpshooters. Pierce, John, Co. E, 7\\nCoffin, George, Co. E, IG Pettengill, John H.,\\nCall, George, Co. H, U Heavy Artillery.\\nChadwick, Hale, Co. C, 17 Riley, Charles, Co. A, 5\\nCrane, Albert J., 22dMass. Raymond, Liberty G., Co. E, 7\\nColby, John P., Cavalry. Reardoii, Michael, Co. G, 4\\nDuffy, Nicliolas, Co. G, 2 Reynolds, Martin, Navy.\\nDanforth, Nathan C, Co. A, 5 Raley, Walter S-, Co. E, 3\\nDuckworth, William, Co. E, 7 Sheehan, Jeremiah, Co. C, 3\\nDanforth, Horace II., Cavalry. Shepard, Chas. P., Sharpshooters.\\nDanforth, Sylvanus E., Co. A, 5 Shepard, Peter R., Co. E, 16\\nDamon, George, Co. I* 2 Smart, Horace, Co. E, 16\\nDay, George, 2d Heavy Artillery. Stevens, Alexander S., Co. E, 7\\nDay, Wilson, 2d Heavy Artillery. Story, Wm. H., Co. E,\\nEvans, Isaac C, Co. E, 7 Sweatt, Joseph S., Co. E, 2\\nFlanders, Curtis, Co. I, 10 Simonds,CalvinW., Sharpshooters.\\nFlanders, David A., Co. E, 10 Smith, Curtis, 7\\nFavor, Fred II., 3 Simonds, Joseph, Co. E, 7\\nFlanders, Josiah H., Cavalry. Sewell, William, Navy.\\nFlanders David J., Navy. Spearman, Franklin,\\nGage, Hiram, Co. B, 3 Spellman, John,\\nMayher, John, Co. C, 7 Thurston, Nathaniel,\\nMitchell. John, 3 Sharpshooters.\\nMuzzey, Jolin, Co. E, 2 Tyler, James S., Sharp. ^hooters.\\nMorse, Charles Thornton, Barnard, Co. A, 5\\nMorrill, Hiram J., Heavy Artillery. Tewksbury, Sumner P., Co. K, 3\\nMoulton, Charles, Navy. Tewksbury, Samuel F.. Co. G, 8\\nMorse, Daniel, Sharpshooters. Thornton, John C, Co. G, 8\\nMcEvely, Herbert, Co. H, 10 Thurston, John P., Co. F, 4\\nMorrison, Benj., Sharpshooters. Wooley, Matthew, Co. E, 7\\nPaige, Alonzo, Co. D, 11 Wooley, Samuel, Co. A, 5\\nPearson, Henry, Sharpshooters. Woodward, Albert B., Co. K, 4\\nPierce, William M., Co. K, 9 Whitney, Charles S., Navy.\\nBOSCAWKX ENROLLMENT.\\nCitizens liable to do military duty April 30, 1865, 140\\nTotal quota under all calls, 71\\nSoldiers in service, volunteers, and substitutes, 85\\nSurplus, 14", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0387.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "278\\nMILITARY HISTORY.\\n[1863.\\nSOLDIERS FROM WEBSTER.\\nThe record is from the papers in tlie town-clerk s office, and\\nfrom the reports of the adjutant-general, neither of them giving\\nin full the company and regiments.\\nRegt. Regt.\\nBurbank, Calvin M., Co. B, 2 Ladd, Joseph M.\\nBurbauk. Lt. David E., Co. E, 16 Lock, Warren F.\\nBurbank, Ezekiel W., Co E, 16 Little, Ci)arles, Surgeon,\\nNavy.\\n10 Macurdy, Capt. David A., Co.\\n14 H, 14\\n14 Macurdy, Mattliew, Co. H, 14\\n14 Page, Tristram S., Co. E, 16\\nRoby, Gardiner\\n16 Roby, Geo. S., 14\\n16 Sanders, Henry A.\\nSweatt, Sumner J.\\n8 Sweatt, Blaisdell, Co. H, 4\\n16 Stone, Lt. Frederick P., Cavalry.\\n16 Searles, Jefferson, 7\\n2 Sanborn, James O., 4\\n14 Sanders, Josepli E., Co. C,\\n16 Sharpshooters.\\n16 Sargent, Lt. Walter IL. Co. H, 14\\n16 Sargent, Isaac P., Co. E, 16\\nSargent, John, Heavy Artillery.\\n16\\nBlanchard, Carter F., Co. E,\\nCall, George,\\nCorser, Hamilton P.,\\nCorser, David S.,\\nCouch, Calvin P.\\nChase, George C, Co. E,\\nChase, John B., Co. E,\\nFisk, Charles AV.\\nFellows, George S.,\\nFlanders, Daniel F., Co. E,\\nGerrish, James L., Co. E.,\\nHeath, Charles N.. Co. B,\\nJeffers, Edward F., Co. H,\\nJack, Hiram A., Co. H,\\nJones, Willard W., Co. H,\\nJackman, Jesse M., Co. II,\\nKilburn, Daniel P., Co. C,\\nSharpshooters. Story, Warren A., Co. E,\\nKelley, Andrew J., Co. C, Thompson. Hiram, 14\\nSharpshooters Titcomb, Luther C, Co. E, 16\\nKilburn, Lucien M., Co. E, 16 Thurber, Joseph, Co. E, 16\\nLibbe, W. H., Co. H, U Whittier, John\\nLibbe, Frank, Heavy Artillery. Whittier, David J., Co. E, 16\\nLadd, George W., Co. II, 14\\nWEBSTER ENROLLMENT.\\nCitizens liable to do military duty, April 3, 1865, 63\\nTotal quota under all calls, 36\\nSoldiers in service, 46\\nSurplus, 10\\nGeorge S. Fellows is not credited to Boscawen. He was a\\nformer resident, hut enlisted from ISTashua.\\nEev. Arthur Little served as chaplain of the 16th Vermont.\\nIf the terms of service and the casualties can be correctly ob-\\ntained, they will be given at the end of the volume.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0388.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0389.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "Boscawen Academy.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0390.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "[1761.\\nEDUCATIONAL HISTORY.\\n^|;l HE proprietors of Contoocoolv were required to set aside one\\n^4 eiglity-fourtli part of the land in their grant for .school pur-\\nposes, though there was no stipulation in regard to establishing\\nschools. Whether a public school was established prior to the in-\\ncorporation of the town is doubtful. The burdens of the proprie-\\ntors were great. They had to support a minister, fight the Ind-\\nians, maintain a garrison, open roads, build their houses, cut down\\nthe forest, clear the land, and rear their families. Although the\\nland had been freely granted, the outlay far exceeded the income.\\nMany of the proprietors, weary of paying money where there was\\nno prospect of a return, allowed their proprietary rights to be sold\\nfor taxes, and it is not probable that they taxed themselves as\\nproprietors to maintain public schools. The records are silent in\\nregard to any appropriation. Probably the instruction received\\nby the children of the first settlers was wholly from their parents.\\nIn 1761, the year after the incorporation of the town, thirty\\npounds was appropriated for a public school, and Eev. Mr. Var-\\nney, who had been supplying the pulpit, was employed as teacher.\\nThe school was kept two months, probably in Mr. Varney s house\\non King street.\\nThe next teacher was Eev. Robie Morrill, who taught in 1766.\\nHe had been dismissed as minister on the 9th of December, that\\nyear, and engaged at once in teaching. [See Biog.]\\nIn 1768, the name of Moses Morse appears upon the records.\\nThe appropriation of money was sufficient to employ him three\\nmonths.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0391.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "280 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1782.\\nThe records convey no information in regard to schools from\\n1768 to 1777.\\nIt is altogether probable that schools were taught for a com-\\nmunity so keenly alive to progress as that of Boscawen would not\\nwillingly deprive themselves of educational facilities.\\nIn 1777, though nearly all the able-bodied men were in the\\narmy, and the women had to do a large share of the work in the\\nfields, a school was taught by Nathaniel Atkinson.\\nIn 1778, Nathaniel Atkinson and Mr. Henry were employed as\\nteachers. The amount paid for schools shows a liberal appropria-\\ntion, when the circumstances of the time are taken into account.\\nIn 1771), a school-mistress was employed, the first in town but\\nthe name of the lady does not appear upon the records.\\nIn 1782, Mehitable Hidden began service as a teacher. She\\nwas a resident of Boscawen, living on Fish street. Of her sex, hers\\nis the first name on the record. It is not known that she taught\\nmore than one term. Possibly she could not manage the roystering\\nyouths, who would be more intent upon kicking each others shins,\\nor pulling out handfuls of hair, than in giving attention to study.\\nIt was not in the nature of things that there should be much\\nconning of books, for few of the scholars were in possession of text-\\nbooks, or even a spelling-book. One reading-book served for a whole\\nclass. Then arose a teacher, Rev. Caleb Bingham, boi-n in Con-\\nnecticut, 1757, a graduate of Dartmouth, 1782, and established a\\nschool for young ladies in Boston, 1785, who felt the need of\\nschool-books. He set himself to work to provide a series, and is-\\nsued six in all, which had a remarkable sale. The Young La-\\ndies Accidence passed through twenty editions, and there were\\nissued not less than one hundred thousand copies. Of the\\nChild s Companion, about one liundred and eighty thousand\\ncopies were sold of the American Preceptor, six hundred and\\nforty thousand of the Columbian Orator, about one hundred\\nand ninety thousand of the Youthful Catechism, one hun-\\ndred thousand of Juvenile Letters, twenty-five thousand in\\nall, one million two hundred and fifty thousand. Prior to the\\npublication of these volumes there were no school-ljooks worthy\\nthe name.\\nNot only were books wanting, but school-houses. Apartments\\nin private houses were used. There were no desks, and the seats", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0392.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "1783. J EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 281\\nwere planks, resting on blocks of wood, without backs or other\\nsupport. The school-rooms often were lighted by one window\\nonly. It required a firm hand to deal with sixty or more stal-\\nwart young men.\\nThe wonder is, that any womaii had the courage to attempt the\\ntask. Quite likely the citizens did not consider school-marms\\na success, for no other female name appears till 1791, when Miss\\nPhebe Knight, a young lady who had just moved into town from\\nNewbury, taught the school on Little hill. Tliat she was a suc-\\ncessful teacher is evident from the fact that she continued to teach,\\ntill her marriage to Mr. ISTicholas Moody.\\nFrom that day to the present, female teachers have done their\\nfull share in educating the successive generations. During the\\nremaining years of the century, the school dames were Phebe\\nKnight, Lydia Varney, Mary Thurston, Mary Stiekne} jSTabby\\nJackman, Olive Bakci-, and Sally Gerrish.\\nThe educators of a community occupy a responsible position.\\nThey mold character; they do much towards making or marring\\nthe future man. They take charge of the mind and the heart at\\ntheir most plastic period. They are mind-builders. They hold\\nthe future well-being of the community in their hands and in a\\nhistory of a town which has moved steadily ujjward to a higher\\nplane of civilization they should have honorable mention. It\\nhas not been possible, however, to obtain more than a partial list\\nof names. Those teaching prior to the year 1800 Avere,\\n1761. Rev. Mr. Varney [see Civil Hist.].\\n176G. Eev. Eobie Morrill [see Biog.],\\n1767. Eev. Nathaniel Merrill [see Civil Hist.].\\n1768. Moses Morse.\\n1777. Nathaniel Atkinson.\\n1778. Mr. Henry.\\nCol. Joseph Gerrish [see Gen.].\\n1779. A school-mistress.\\n1780. Moses Burbank.\\nJonathan Atkinson.\\n1782. Mehitable Hidden.\\nEichard Morse.\\n1783. Jonathan Thurston.\\nJames Tillan.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0393.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "282 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1790.\\n1784. Ephraim Wood, of Lebanon, on King st.\\nJosiah Burbauk, on Water st.\\nWilliam Fisk, Putney dist.\\nJonathan Atkinson, on High st.\\nJames Tillan.\\n1785. Ephraim Wood, King st.\\nJosiah Burbank, Water st.\\nMaster Brown, on Corser hill.\\nJoseph Wood, Fish st.\\nWilliam Fisk.\\nTristram Sayers, Battle st.\\n1786. Nathaniel Knight, King st. and Water st.\\nJosiah Burbank, Battle st.\\n1787. Eev. Eobie Morrill, King st.\\nMaster Graham, Water st.\\nMaster Carpenter.\\nNicholas Elliot.\\nNathaniel Knight.\\nEphraim Wood.\\nSomersby Pearson.\\nDaniel Bm-bank.\\nMaster Evans.\\nThe last named was from Warner, and was a strict disciplina-\\nrian.\\nSCHOOL MONEY,\\nLower School Dist \u00c2\u00a320\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2\\nFish st (3\u00e2\u0080\u009417\u00e2\u0080\u009411\\nWater st 17\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\u00e2\u0080\u009411\\nCorst-r Hill 12\u00e2\u0080\u00941.5\u00e2\u0080\u009410\\nPleasant st 5\u00e2\u0080\u009419\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8\\nWest of Bliickwater .5\u00e2\u0080\u009414\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7\\nLong Pond 3\u00e2\u0080\u009416\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\\nHigh st 7\u00e2\u0080\u009410\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\\n1789. Josiah Burbank, Corser hill.\\nEliphalet Little, Battle st.\\nEnoch Little, Corser hill [see Biog.].\\nEnoch Little, Putney.\\nJoseph Atkinson, Water st. [see Gen.].\\n1790. Moses Kelley, King st., of Salisbury.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0394.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "1793.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 283\\nMaster Webber.\\n1791. Kev. Robie Morrill.\\nPhebe Knight [see Biog.], Little hill.\\nSally Pearson, of B., High st.\\nOliver Davis, Corser hill, of Warner. He was a fine bass sing-\\ner, and sat at the head in the singers seats. After teaching\\nmany years, he opened a store in the house now occupied by Geo.\\nLittle.\\n1792. Hannah Jackman, King st.\\nEdmund Carleton, Water st. Born in Haverhill, Mass., grad-\\nuated Dartmouth, physician at Haverhill, N. H. Married Anna,\\ndaughter Capt. Peter C. Coffin. School was taught in the north-\\nwest corner room of Capt. Coffin s house, Water st., now owned\\nby Mr. Colby.\\nEnoch Little, Little hill.\\nMary Thurston, Little hill.\\nOliver Davis, Corser hill.\\nEufus Anderson, High st. He was father of Kev. Rufus An-\\nderson, of Boston, for many years secretary of American Board of\\nForeign Missions.\\nLydia Varney, High st.\\nSomersby Pearson, Fish st.\\nSilas Stickney.\\nStephen Pottei*.\\nMoses Kclley, of Salisbury, Corser hill.\\nPhebe Knight, White Plain.\\n(From selectmen s book.)\\nPaid Saml Corser for use of school room 16 6\\nThe first appropriation for Bashan was made this year, \u00c2\u00a32\\n10s.\\nPaid Daniel Cass for the use of his house to keep school in\u00e2\u0080\u0094 18\\nshillings.\\nPaid John Jackman for boarding School Daim South end Long\\nPond 1\u00e2\u0080\u00944\u00e2\u0080\u00940\\nThe names of Hannah Jackman and Phebe Knight appear as\\nschoor daims the first after Mehitajjle Hidden in 1782.\\n1793. Daniel Burbank, White Plain.\\nMary Thurston, Little hill.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0395.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "284 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1797.\\nEnoch Little, Little hill.\\nOliver Davis, King st.\\nDavid Quimby, Fish st.\\n1794. Mary Stickney, Little Hill.\\nMoses Coffin, Little Hill. He resided in the house now occu-\\npied by Jabez Abbott.\\nHannah Little [see Gen.].\\nSchool Dame Foster.\\nDaniel Burbank.\\n1795. Ezra Carter, Corser hill.\\nLydia Varney.\\nOliver Davis, High st.\\nDavid Qniniby.\\nMary Stickney.\\nPolly Varney, Little hill.\\n1796. Oliver Davis, High st.\\n]S abby Jackman, Water st.\\nMoses Coffin.\\nLydia Varney.\\n1797. Oliver Davis, King st.\\nOlive Baker.\\nDavid Quimby, Water st.\\nNabby Jackman, North Blackwater.\\nAnna Danforth, Bashan.\\nMoses Thurston, Little hill. He taught many j^ears, and was\\nknown through life as Master Thurston. He was a severe\\ndiscijilinarian. One of his instruments for maintaining discipline\\nwas a leather ferule, composed of two pieces of hammered sole-\\nleather, with sheet lead stitched between them. On one side he\\npunched four holes, on the other five. He usually asked a culprit\\nwhich he would have, four holes, or five. If the trembling urchin\\nsaid four. Master Thurston usually gave this reply\\nFor fear of making a mistake I will give you both.\\nEach stroke left an arraj of blisters, the size of the holes, on the\\naching palms.\\nHe taught several years in West Salisbur3^ It was a turbulent\\nschool, and it i^sed to be jocosely said that the surrounding farms\\nnever would have been cleared of alders if Master Thurston had\\nnot been employed as teacher.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0396.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "1809.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 285\\nSucli severity of punishment as was administered by Moses\\nThurston was a part of the system of the time. Not every master\\nwas so severe, but the scholars were rude and turbulent, and a mas-\\nter who could not wield the ferule stood little chance of success.\\n1798. Master Evans, King st.\\nOliver Davis, Corser liill.\\nLydia Varney, White Plain.\\nNabby Jackman, Little hill.\\n1799. David Story, Fish st.\\nMaster Howe, King st.\\nKufus Anderson, High st.\\nMaster Hoyt, Water st.\\nMaster Sawyer, Little hill.\\nKev. Moses Sawyer, of Salisbury, graduated Dartmouth col-\\nlege, settled in Henniker, and in Saugus, Mass., died in Ipswich,\\nMass.\\nSally Gerish, Little hill.\\nThomas Shepard, Putney.\\nLydia Varney, Corser hill.\\nDavid Quimby, N. Water.\\nPhilip Colby, Corser hill.\\nTHE KEW SCHOOL LAAV.\\nNot till 1809 was there any general improvement in the schools\\n[see p. 169]. The appointment of a superintending committee,\\nthe great interest taken in education by Eev. Mr. Wood, Rev.\\nMr. Price, Ezekiel Webster, Nathaniel Green, and others, gave\\na new impetus to the cause of education. Select schools were\\ntaught by young gentlemen from Dartmouth college. The old\\ntheor} that a man must be a master, gave place to the new idea\\nthat he must be a teacher. Rewards of merit were found to be\\nmore potent than the ferule to stimulate the scholar. There was\\na marked improvement during the second and third decades of\\nthe century. The schools, the whole community, moved to a\\nhigher plane.\\nUnder the new law the schools were placed under the control\\nof a superintending committee, consisting of Rev. Samuel Wood,\\nRev. Ebenezer Price, and the selectmen, Stephen Gerrish, Jo-\\nseph H. Morrill, and Peletiah Peaslee.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0397.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "286 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1809.\\nThe committee voted to visit tlie schools the second Tuesday\\nafter their commencement, and the Tuesday preceding their close,\\nand to this end public notice shall be given the Sabbath before\\nsuch visit.\\nIn the estimation of that generation, education and religion\\nwere closely allied. Men must be intelligent to be good citizens\\nand Christians.\\nVoted that three of the committee (tliere being five) shall attend\\neach visit, extraordinaries excepted. And should the case happen that\\nbut two, or one, shall be able to attend, after such public notice, it\\nmust be considered as the proper visit, and no new appointment can be\\nmade.\\nAs no person can be permitted to engage in a school without certifi-\\ncates of his or her qualifications and good moral character, it is the\\nunited opinion of this committee that while some reputable grammar\\nschool master and minister of the Gospel, or Preceptor of an Academy,\\nc., certify his or her qualifications in the various branches of litera-\\nture, the selectmen are the proper body to certify the Moral character\\nof the person; and we shall therefore govern ourselves accordingly.\\nThe first visitation of the committee was made May 16, 1799,\\nto School District No. 6, Little hill.\\n1809. May 16. No. 1.\\nTuesday, the committee according to public notice visited the\\nschool district No. 6 Little Hill under the care of Miss Mary Gerrish 32\\nchildren. Books, Spelling book. Preceptor, Geography, Grammar,\\nBible Catechism.\\nThe catechism of the Westminster Assembly of Divines was as\\nmuch a text-book as grammar. It was found in the New Eng-\\nland Primer.\\nMay 23 i No 2\\nTuesday visited the School in No 2 Water street under the\\ncare of Mrs Sally Martin, 35 children Books, Spelling book Preceptor,\\nGeography, 1 in Grammar 1 writer. The bible not used catechism\\nnot yet introduced. This School under disadvantages.\\nMay 30 No 7.\\nTuesday A. M visited School at White Plain under the care of Miss\\nSally Pillsbury, 25 children, Books, Spelling book, Testament Cate-\\nchism The scholars young, but ambitious very observant of order.\\nNo 3\\nSame day A. M. visited School on Corser Hill under the care of\\nMiss Phebe Thurston, 50 children 35 girls. Books, Columbiau Ora-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0398.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "1809.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 287\\ntor, Geography, Testament Catechism, some writers, but none in gram-\\nmar.\\nMay 31\\nVisited the School on King street under tlie care of IMiss Eunice\\nMorrill M cliihlren, 2-4 girls, Spelling book, Preceptor, Geog, Gram-\\nmar. Bible catechism some writers.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2June 5 No 5. Visited the School on Fish street under the care of\\nMiss Apphia Gerrish 13 children. Books, Three in Geog, one in Gram-\\nmar, Rest in Spelling, Catechism used but none in the Bible. This\\nSchool is young backwa -d.\\nNo 4\\nSame day visited High street School under the care of Miss Betsey\\nAVorcester 26 children. Books Spelling Websters 3 Preceptor,\\nGeog y, Bible, Catechism, 1 in grammar mostly young.\\nJune 13 No 9\\nVisited Long Pond School under the care of Miss Mary Parker 37\\nchildren Books, Spelling B. one in Webster s 3 P one in the Bible.\\nNo Grammar, Geog y or Catechism or writers. A pleasant num-\\nber of schollars who have been under the disadvantages of poor instruc-\\ntors a miserable government want of books.\\nSame day P M No 8\\nVisited Bashau School, under the care of Miss Abigail Allen 13\\nchildren Books, Spelling Bo. Webster s 3 P Catechism. None in\\nGrammar Geogy, or writing, the School well governed the children\\nambitious.\\nThis day the committee compleated the first course of visits. In\\nthem they have endevored to ascertain the real state of each school at\\nits commencement; to make those observations propose those excite-\\nments to the children, which would be most likely to jwomote their fu-\\nture improvement; also to counsel advise the several Instructresses\\nwhen needed to that government mode of instruction which would\\nbe most useful.\\nWe found in the several schools 268 children, as yet not accommo-\\ndated with suitable school books; but generally well provided with\\ncapable Instructresses under that order tuition which promises\\nmuch advantage to the children great satisfaction to their Parents\\nat once shews a very wise aj^propriation of 2 )roperty for the educa-\\ntion of children under the sanction of law.\\nEben Price\\nScribe.\\nThese were summer schools, attended only by tlie youngest\\nchildren. It will be noticed that arithmetic is not mentioned\\namong the text-books. Mental arithmetic was not introduced till", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0399.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "288 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1809.\\nalDout the year 1830. Its introduction produced great excite-\\nment. Many of the parents opposed it, on the ground that it\\nwould confuse the minds of the children, and would lead to insan-\\nity The geography in use was that published hy Rev. Jedediah\\nMorse.\\nThe winter schools were attended hy the boj^s, who in summer\\nwere obliged to work on the farm. Many of them were stalwart\\nyoung men. A true view of the state of education at the time\\nmay be obtained by comparing the summ er and winter terms.\\nWINTER TERMS.\\nDec 4 No 2\\nTuesday. Visited Water street. Jacob Sanborn Master children\\n43. 1 in abK, 14 in spelling book, 11 in Preceptor, 8 in Geog, 12 writ-\\ners, 3 in arithmetic 3 in grammer. The Bible not introduced. Good\\norder in the School the Master well recomended.\\nDec 5 No 9\\nVisited Long Pond School, Charles Parker INIaster. Children 32.\\nWell provided with suitable books, 1 in letters 3 in 2 syllables, 13 in\\neasy lessons 9 in Preceptor 6 in Geog, 2 parsed Grammar, 1 in arith-\\nmetic. The Master very modest. The School not quite reduced to\\norder.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Dec 12 No 4\\nVisited lligli street James Chadwick master. Children 30. Some\\ndeficiency in books, 1 in letters, 1 in 2 sylables, 2 in plain reading, 5 in\\n3 sylables, 8 in Preceptor 13 in Geog, 14 writers, 1 in Arithmetic 1\\nparsed English. The Master very easy in instruction government.\\nSayne dni/ No 5\\nVisited Fish street ]\\\\Iiss Mary Eames Instructress. Children 16,\\n1 in Abs, 4 in two sylables, 2 in plain reading, 3 in Preceptor, 6 in\\nGeog, 1 in Grammar, 6 writers, 1 in Arit! metic. None in the Bible.\\nThe scliool not yet organized, the School Mistress capable.\\nDec 19 No 1\\nVisited King street School. 58 children, Enoch Corser Master.\\nThe School not quite organized, 24 read in Geog well except 7, 19 in\\nPreceptor generally backward. The above 43 read Bible once a day, 4\\nin three sylables dull, 3 parsed correctly 2 beginners, 26 writers\\nmostly good, 5 in Arithmetic forward.\\nDec20 No 8\\nVisited Bashan School: 20 children Dan Smith Master. The\\nSchool not as yet formed to order, 10 writers very good, 2 in abs, 1 in\\nmonosylables, 2 in three sylables, 1 ditto better, 2 in 2 sylables very", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0400.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "1827.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 289\\nwell, 1 read the Hist of Indian Wars acceptably, 2 in Preceptor new\\nSchollars backward, 4 in English reader too fast, 4 in the Art of\\nReading well 1 committing grammar 2 parsed accurately, none in\\nArithmetic. The Master s deportment good.\\nJan 15 No 3\\nVisited School Corser Hill 61 children 20 girls 41 boys, Benjamin\\nGookin Master.\\n1^ Class 15 in Geog.\\n2^1 C 6 in Webster 3 P.\\n31 C 12 in Preceptor.\\n4 h C 4 in Testament.\\n5 C 11 in Spelling, 4 Syl. well.\\n6 C 9 in 4 sylables\\n1 in 2 sylables\\n2 in letters\\n20 writers, 10 in arith 3 in Grammar. School well arranged\\ngoverned.\\nFeb 14 No 6\\nVisited School Little Hill .52 Schol. Well arranged in a new\\ncommodious School house under the care of Mr Smith\\n1 class 3 in 2 sylables\\n4 in 3\\n4 in Poetical lessons Spell B. well.\\n10 in Preceptor\\n4 in English Reader well\\n27 in Geog some too fast, others slow.\\n17 parsed grammar.\\n33 Spelt in Dict y, Girls better than boys\\n4 in Arithmetic.\\n26 in writing.\\nThis School promises fair.\\nFeb 9 No 10\\nVisited this School under the care of Mrs Sally Martin 16 children\\nThis School is backward, being quite a new District, but well arranged\\nvery ambitious.\\nSUMMARY.\\nYour Committee are presented with a very pleasing prospect, in\\nthe recommendment of the several Schools in town in the winter term-\\nThere are two Instructresses and seven Instructors whose qualifica-\\ntions are very apparent in the order arrangement of the schollars as\\nwell as in the variety of studies introduced.\\nIn those schools where books were very deficient now a good\\nsupply of new suitable books are introduced.\\n19", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0401.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "290 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY, [1829.\\nWe observe a change of schollars, many young men women in\\nthe pLace of Smaller ones who cannot attend. In this course of visits\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0we have room to believe the winter term will be satisfactory to the dis-\\ntricts greatly to the advantage of schollars both great small.\\nThe reports of the superintending committee from year to year\\nshow a marked progress. Arithmetic becomes a fundamental\\nstudy. Morse s Geography, instead of being a reading-book, is\\nused as a separate study. The English Reader takes the place\\nof the American Preceptor. The Catechism disappears. The\\nEnglisli Reader, Thomson s Seasons, Young s Night Thoughts,\\nand Paradise Lost, become parsing books.\\nDuring the second and third decades of the present century,\\nselect schools were kept on Corser hill. Little hill, and the\\nPlain. Students from Dartmouth college were usually employed.\\nThus gradually the plane of education advanced.\\nBOSCAWEN ACADEMY.\\nThe need of permanent educational facilities of a higher grade\\nwas keenly felt, and measures were taken to establish an acade-\\nm^^ The sum of $1,136 was subscribed for the erection of a\\nsuitable building. Joseph Chadwick gave tlie land upon which\\nthe building was erected, conveying it to the following named\\ngentlemen, who had consented to act as trustees Rev. Samuel\\nWood, Rev. Ebenezer Price, John Gi^eenough, Henrj^ Gerrish,\\nIsaac Gerrish, Thomas Coffin, Hezekiah Fellows, Simeon B. Little,\\nJohn Parmer;\\nMarch 29, 1827. At a meeting of the trustees, it was voted to\\napply to the legislature for an act of incorporation. Academy\\nbuilding was erected during the year. Rev. Dr. Wood, beside\\nmaking a generous donation, gave the shingles covering it,\\nshaved by his own hands.\\nThe bell was the gift of Daniel Webster. Ezekiel Webster\\ngave liberally to aid in the construction of the building, which\\nwas erected by Capt. William Abbot.\\nThe school went into operation the last Wednesday in April,\\n1828, Miss Sarah Crocker, j^receptress, whose compensation was\\n$3.50 per week.\\nFeb. 11, 1829. The trustees voted that the committee proffer\\nan instructor $150, and the tuition of the male dej^artment. The", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0402.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "1856.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 291\\ncommittee made a contract with Mr. Jarvis Gregg as Principal\\nfor four 3 ears on the above terms, the tuition being fixed at $3 a\\nquarter, he providing fuel and his own board.\\nEev. Mr. Wood, Eev. Mr. Price, and Ezekiel Webster, Esq.,\\nwere chosen a committee to fix upon the solid branches of learn-\\ning.\\nOct. 28, Voted, that the approbation of the trustees be given\\nto Miss Crocker, at the close of the public examination, and that\\nit be conveyed to her in writing.\\nMiss Crocker tauglit a female department in the spring of 1828.\\nThe male department was opened by Mr. Gregg in either the sum-\\nmer or fall term, tliere being two terms during the year. The\\nnumber of pupils during the term was eighty-six.\\nJan. 19, 1829. The trustees voted unanimously, that the\\nthanks of the Board be presented to the Hon. Daniel Webster for\\nhis very generous donation of a suitable bell for our academy, and\\nthat the President communicate the same in the manner he shall\\ndeem the most respectful.\\nIn 1830, Mr. Gregg was released from his contract, and was\\nsucceeded by Mr. Charles Kittredge.\\nLIST OF IICSTRUCTORS.\\n1828. Miss Sarah Crocker.\\n1829. Jarvis Gregg.\\n1830-32. Charles Kittredge, Miss Sarah Crocker.\\n1833. Miss Parker.\\n1834. Miss Axtell.\\n1835. Mr. Breed Batchelder.\\n1836. Mr. Breed Batchelder, Miss Sarah Poster.\\n1837. Miss Gray.\\n1838. Mr. Nathan Ballard.\\n1840. Joseph L. Lord.\\n1841. Spaulding.\\n1856. Jonathan Tenney.\\nThe trustees, in 1856, voted to loan the building to Mr. Tenney\\nfor a term of twenty j^ears, the lessee having the right to make\\nsuch alterations in the building as he might deem necessary. Ex-\\ntensive alterations were made, and the school became widely", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0403.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "292 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1872.\\nknown as the Elmwood Institute. In 18G8 the lease was can-\\ncelled by mutual agreement.\\nIn 1870, the building was rented by the trustees to School Dis-\\ntrict No. 1, on annual rental of $125. In 1872, it was voted that\\nin the opinion of the trustees it is for the interest of all concerned\\nthat the academy building and grounds be disposed of, the avails\\ninvested, and the increase appropriated for educational purposes.\\nVoted to sell the building and grounds for $2000, with the\\ncondition that the bell shall not be disposed of, but kept in the\\nbuilding as at present.\\nThe funds thus obtained were invested in 1874 in the Penacook\\nSavings Bank, the principal never to be Avithdrawn without the\\nconsent of a majority of the district.\\nPENACOOK ACADEMY.\\nThe citizens of Fisherville, feeling the need of better educa-\\ntional privileges than those furnished by the towns, in the winter\\nof 18GG established the Penacook Academy.\\nThe first meeting for organization was held January 26. The\\nfollowing week the stockholders voted to proceed with the erection\\nof suitable buildings. Hon. William H. Gage generously con-\\ntributed a large lot of land.\\nThe school was ojiened November 6, the same year. The\\nfirst board of instruction consisted of M. Weed, A. M., Mrs.\\nMary A. W^eed, and Miss Eliza T. Moore. Prof. Weed died\\nJune 28, 1867, and was succeeded by A. C. Stockin, A. m., who\\nwas succeeded in the spring of 1869 by J. F. Fielding, A. m. In\\nthe summer of 1870, Hiram B. Lawrence, A. m., was elected prin.\\ncipal. Prof. E. C. Allen succeeded to the principalship in the fall\\nof 1872. In the spring of 1875, A. C. Hardy, A. m., took charge\\nof the school, changing its name, to specify its design and plan^\\nto Penacook Normal Academy. Its curriculum was made very\\nmuch broader, and the course of study greatly enlarged; and the\\nacademy was put upon a footing that made it the peer of any\\nschool of its class in New England. The school was arranged in\\nfive departments, Preparatory, Normal, Business, Scientific, and\\nClassical. The board of instruction was enlarged from three to\\nnine. Competent teachers were employed.\\nThus, by the liberality and energetic action of the trustees of", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0404.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0405.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "o\\no\\nflH", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0406.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "1712.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY, 293\\nthe institution, the people are in the enjoyment of superior edu-\\ncational 2 rivileges.\\nMUSICAL EDUCATION.\\nThe education of a community does not embrace merely those\\nbranches of learning taught in the public schools and academies\\nit includes the general culture of the communit} the advance-\\nment of art. Music has been classed in times past as one of the\\nfine or \u00e2\u0080\u00a2polite arts, but in these later days it has come to be\\nrecognized as a branch of general education.\\nPrevious to the present century, music had made little progress in\\nAmerica. The Pilgrims brought with them Ainsworth s Version\\nof the Psalms, which was used in the church at Plymouth from\\n1620 to 1732. The Psalms, as translated by the divines sum-\\nmoned by King James, and the paraphrase as made by Ains-\\nworth, were printed in pai allel columns. The first Psalm was\\nthus rendered\\nKing James s Version.\\nPsahn I.\\nBlessed is the man that doeth\\nnot walk in the Counsell of the\\nwicked nor Stand in the way of\\nSinners; nor sit in the seat of the\\nscornfull.\\n2 J5ut hath his delight in the\\nlaw of Icdiovah and in his law\\ndoeth meditate day night.\\nAinsworth s Paraphrase.\\nPsalm I.\\n10 Blessed that doth not in\\nthe wicked s counsell walk; nor\\nstand in sinner s way; nor sit\\nin the seat of scornfull folk.\\n2 But setteth in Jehovah s law,\\nhis pleasureful delight; And in\\nhis law doth meditate by day\\neke by night.\\nIn 1640 the Bay State Psalm Book was published, which was\\nin use for more than a century. The metrical structure of the\\nPsalms was nearly the same as in AinsAvorth. The 133d was\\nthus rendered\\n1 How good and sweet to see\\nit s for brethren to dwell\\ntogether in uuitee:\\n2 It s like choice oyle that fell\\nthe head upon,\\nthat downe did flow\\nthe beard unto\\nbeard of Aron", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0407.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "294 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1712.\\nThe skirts of his garment\\nthat unto them went down.\\n3 Like Herman s dews descent\\nSion s mountains upon,\\nfor there to bee\\nthe Lord s blessing\\nlife aye lasting\\ncommandeth hee.\\nThis book Avas a great favorite. It was revised and reprinted,\\nin 1758, Ly Eev. Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South Church,\\nBoston and it is almost certain that the first settlers of Boscawen\\nwere accustomed to sing such poetry in their Sunday service.\\nIt is probable that those who came to Contoocook from New-\\nbury were acquainted with Eev. Mr. Tufts s music-book, as Mr.\\nTufts was pastor of the Second church in ISTewbury, and in 1712\\npublished a book containing twenty-eight tunes with rules. It\\nbore the following title\\nA very plain and Easy Introduction to the Art of Singing Psalm\\nTunes; With the Cantus or Trebles of Twenty-eight Psalm Times Con-\\ntrived in such manners as tliat the Learner may attain the Skill of\\nSinging them, with the greatest Ease and Speed imaginable.\\nInstead of notes, the first letter of each syllable was printed on\\nthe staffs,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 f for/\u00c2\u00ab, 1 for la. People sang by rote, and in conse-\\nquence the melodies underwent many transformations.\\nRev. Mr. Walters, a Avriter of tlie period, thus portrays the\\nsinging of his time\\nSinging sounds like five hundred different tunes roared out at the\\nsame time. The singers often are two words apart, producing noises\\nso hideous and disorderly as is bad beyond expression. The notes are\\nprolonged so that I myself have twice in one note paused to take\\nbreath.\\nAs there were no rules, all sang as they pleased, without regard\\nto time. Some of the ministers saw that a reform was impera-\\n^tive that to have anything like uniformity in singing, there\\nmust be rules governing the rhythm and regulating the time\\nthat people must learn to sing by rule instead of by rote. Eev.\\nMr. Tufts, Eev. Cotton Mather, of Boston, and Eev. Mr. Walters,\\nwere zealous advocates for a reform. The attempt to bring about", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0408.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "1770.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 295\\na new order of things produced great disturbance, and the excite-\\nment was at its height at the time the settlers of Contoocook be-\\ngan their plantation. Ministers and people alike took sides upon\\nthe all-important question, the young people advocating a reform,\\nand the old ones opposing it. Various were their objections. It\\nwas a new way it was not as good as the old way there were so\\nmany tunes in Rev. Mr. Tufts s book twenty-eight that no one\\ncould ever learn them. The new way would make a disturbance\\nin the churches. It grieved good men, exasperated them, and\\nmade them behave in a disorderly manner. The new way was\\npopish it would lead to the introduction of instruments. The\\nnames of the notes, fa, sol, la, were blasphemous The old way\\nwas good enough the new way was a contrivance for designing\\njiersons to obtain money. The new way required a great deal of\\ntime to learn the rules it made the young disorderly it kept\\nthem from proper influences in the family.\\nThese and many other equally weighty objections to Mr.\\nTufts s method were gravely set forth in sermons preached by the\\nconservative ministers of the old school, for in those days, as now,\\nand as will be to the end of time, there Avere the old and the new\\nschools.\\nThe first settlers of Boscawen sang psalms. Not till a later\\nday was there hymnology. In 1741, seven years after the settle-\\nment of Contoocook, Benjamin Franklin published an edition of\\nWatts s Psalms and Hymns. About the same time Tait Brady s\\nBook of Psalms Metre was published.\\nIn 1764, Josiah Flagg, of Boston, published a book containing\\none hundred and sixteen tunes and two anthems, the first book\\nprinted in America with the music in four parts.\\nIn 1770, Mr. Billings published his first book, which became\\nvery popular. From that date to 1820 the musical compositions\\nwere in the style of Billings, Holden, Swan, and Reed.\\nThe first settlers of Boscawen knew very little in regard to\\nmusic. It is probable that the best singer among them could not\\nsing more than a dozen tunes, the Old Hundredth and Windham\\nbeing two of the number.\\nWe may think of Dea. George Jackman, or Dea. Jesse Flan-\\nders, as sitting in front of the pulpit in the old log meeting-house,\\nand reading a line of Ainsworth s Paraphrase, and the congre-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0409.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "296 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1807.\\ngation singing it the air. That finished, a second line is read\\nand sung, and so on through the psalm.\\nDuring the closing decade of the last century, hymn-books were\\nintroduced, and with them came the bass-viol and other instru-\\nments. Those who opposed the new method introduced by Rev.\\nMr. Tufts, argued correctly in regard to the use of instruments.\\nBefore the introduction of the viols, a pitch-pipe was used for\\nsetting the tune. The introduction of stringed and wind\\ninstruments produced a second excitement akin to that which\\nagitated the churches a half century previous. Those who had\\nthe hardihood to play a viol were contemptuously called fiddlers.\\nAn eccentric citizen. Doctor Eaton, a veterinary practitioner, who\\nlived in the Hollow, never became reconciled to their use. He\\ncalled them wooden and catgut gods, and they who used them\\nwere serving the devil\\nThe first teacher of music in Boscawen, probably, was Dea.\\nEnoch Little, whose efforts in that direction are set forth in\\nanother place [see Biog.]. Soon after, about 1795, Master Elagg,\\nteacher in the common schools, taught singing on the Plain.\\nMaster Buell was another teacher of music.\\nBOSCAWEN MUSICAL SOCIETY.\\nAt the close of the last century, or at the very beginning of the\\npresent, the Boscawen Musical Society was formed. It was in\\nexistence in 1801, as we know from an order given on the treasurer,\\nMr. Jeremiah Gerrish\\nBoscawen, Jan. 29th, 1801.\\nMr. Jeremiah Gerrish\\nTreasurer for Boscawen Musical Society. Please to pay Mr. Som-\\nersby Pearson two dollars fifty-eight cents for Bass viol strings\\nClarrinet Reed.\\nJoshua Morse,\\nfor Comittee\\nIn 1807 the society appears to have been in a flourishing condi-\\ntion. Thomas Cox was employed to instruct the members in\\nsinging.\\nBoscawen Feb. 25, 1S08\\nLt Jeremiah Gerrish Treasurer for Boscawen Musical Society please", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0410.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "1809.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 297\\nto pay Thomas Cox Twenty Eight dolhxrs for teaching a singing school\\nand tax on Singing Books.\\nSoraersby Pearsons\\nBeiij Clark Com.\\nJoshua Morse\\nTwo of the members of the society were Daniel and Ezekiel\\nWebster both contributed to the funds. Daniel purchased a\\nbassoon, and waited a long while for his pay, as will be seen by\\nthe following paper\\nOROER.\\nLieut J Gerrish Treas of tlie IMnsical Society in Boscawen please to\\npay Mr Daniel Webster Esq, thirty-four Dollars a compen.^ation for a\\nBazoon by order.\\nSomersby Pearson\\nJoshua Morse Com.\\nBenj Clark\\nMay 21st 1807\\nReced Twenty-three Dollars on this order\\nD. Webster\\nJanuary 18, 1811 Reed of Lt Jere Gerrish eleven dollars in full on\\nthis order.\\nE Webster for\\nD. AVebster.\\nIn 1810 we find Ezekiel Webster one of the committee of man-\\nagement, as per the following order\\nORDER.\\nLt Jeremiah Gerrish Treasurer of the Boscawen Musical society.\\nSir, Please to pay Samuel W. Lang Twelve dollars out of the funds of\\nthe society it being for cash paid by him for Clarionett.\\nSomersby Pearson\\nEzekiel Webster I\\nIn 1809, Mr. Joseph S. Garman was employed to teach singing-\\nschool, and the society purchased of him a bass-viol, paying $14.\\nIn 1812, John Kinney was instructor, and in 1815, Moses Win-\\ngate. The funds of the society were obtained by annual tax and\\nsubscription.\\nUnder this organization singing greatly improved. The Vil-\\nlage Harmony was the book generally used. At the west end,\\nunder the energetic leadership of Dea. Enoch Little, followed by", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0411.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "298 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1821.\\nJoseph Kimloall and Samuel Little, musical culture had a rapid\\nadvance. Isaac Noyes, living on Water st., hut attending meet-\\ning at the west end, hecame a proficient on the hass-viol. The\\nchoir under Dea. Little numhered ahout sixty. David S^Yeatt,\\nstill living, remembers a meeting of the choir on Corscr hill, and\\nthe singing of a select piece,\\nLord, what is man, poor feeble raau,\\nBorn of the earth at first V\\nHis life s a dream, an empty show,\\nStill hastening to the dust.\\nIt was the best singing he ever heard.\\nMusical culture was advancing throughout the state. Rev. Dr.\\nMcFarland, of Concord, took great interest in its advancement,\\nand through his instrumentality the Central Musical Society\\nwas formed, composed of the best singers and instrumental per-\\nformers in Concord, Boscawen, Hopkinton, Dunbarton, and ad-\\njoining towns.\\nMARTIX LUTHER SOCIETY.\\nOn Dec. 4, 1S21, the prominent singers of the town met at the\\nhouse of Benj. T. Kimball, on Water street, and organized a soci-\\nety for the cultivation of music of a higher order than had been\\nattempted up to that time. The leading spirits in the enterprise\\nwere Benj. T. Kimball, Dr. John Rogers, Capt. J. C. Plummer,\\nHenry Little, S. B. Little, Henry Little, Jr., Enoch Little, Stephen\\nSweat, Benj. Morrill, Nathaniel Morrill, Jeremiah Gerrish, of Bos-\\ncawen, and Wm. G. Emerson. They applied for an act of incorpo-\\nration, which was granted July 3, 1822. Dr. John Rogers, a prom-\\ninent physician, was elected president and leader. The society\\npurchased the Old Colony Collection of Anthems, the Handel\\nand Haydn Collection, and the Social Harmony, collections\\ncontaining music of a high order from Handel, Haydn, Mozart,\\nBeethoven, and an oratorio, The Intercession, by King. The\\nmusic required a much higher degree of culture than the music\\nof b^^-gone da3 s. Under the able leadership of Dr. Rogers the\\nsociety made great progress, and soon brought about a revolution\\nin the style of music used on the Sabbath. The fugues, that for a\\nthird of a century had been the delight of the people, gave place to", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0412.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "1833.] EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. 299\\ncompositions richer in liarmony, tlie productions of the masters\\nwhose compositions still have power to charm the human ear.\\nFrom 1822 to 1830 the society maintained its vigor. It num-\\nbered about fifty members, male and fernale. It was reorganized\\nin 1837, at the house of Alonzo C. Chadwick, who was elected pres-\\nident, and who was succeeded by J. H. Coffin, now of Portland\\nbut emigration was telling upon the community, and other forces\\nwere at work to disintegrate the society, and the members, after a\\nwliile, ceased to meet.\\nThe bassoon jJ^n chased by Daniel Webster, the bass-viol by\\nEzekiel Webster and Joshua Morse, from the old Boscawen so-\\nciety, were handed down to this organization, and quite likely may\\nstill be in existence in some garret.\\nDuring the tAvo decades, 1820 to 1840, the choirs in town\\nwere accompanied by a variety of stringed and wind instruments\\nbass and double-bass viols, violins, flutes, clarionettes, bugles,\\nand French horns.\\nAt the east end, John Jackman, Dr. John Rogers, Alonzo C.\\nChadwick, and Charles J. Chadwick played the viols, Jacob Gerrish\\nthe flute, J. H. Coffin the trombone, which Eev. Mr. Price, not\\nfor the moment remembering the name, once appropriately^ called\\na shoveration.\\nAt the west end, Moses Thurston, Henry Little, Frederick\\nPrice, F. W. Coffin, and Enoch Coffin were violists, Sullivan\\nJackman played the bugle, Moses Bailey, M. G. Farmer, and\\nBitfield P. Little clarionettes.\\nIn 1837, at the installation of Eev. E. Buxton, J. H. Coffin\\nplayed a melodeon, an instrument moved by the arm, just\\nthen invented, manufactured by Charles Austin, of Concord, who\\nalso began the manufacture of seraphines. Dea. Jeremiah Gerrish,\\nlong the. leader of the choir, an ardent lover of music, purchased\\nthe first instrument of this class maniifactured in America. Miss\\nPolly L. Gerrish, his daughter, endowed in a remarkable degree\\nwith musical genius, soon became an efficient and cultivated\\nplayer. The introduction of this instrument soon led to the\\npurchasing of one of greater power for the choir, supplemented\\nat a still later date by the instrument now in use.\\nIn 1833, E D. Gould, of Boston, taught a juvenile school at\\nthe academy, also one for adults. He was a composer as well as", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0413.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "300 EDUCATIONAL HISTORY. [1850.\\nteacher, and some of his contributions are still in use, especially\\nthe tune Woodland, to the words,\\nThere is a home for weary souls,\\nBy sin and sorrow driven\\nWhen tossed on life s tempestuous shoals,\\nWhere storms arise and ocean rolls,\\nThere s nothing true but heaven.\\nThe refined taste of Dea. Gould had a marked influence upon\\nthe singers of the period.\\nAt the east end, Prof. John Jackman, at an early date, ob-\\ntained a seraphine. In 1840, Benjamin Morrill began the\\nmanufacture of musical instruments in the house now occupied\\nby Charles E. Chadwick.\\nThe same year the choir at the west end employed Wm. D.\\nBuck, then of Concord, later, physician at Manchester, to teach\\n.music. He was an energetic instructor, an organist, and far bet-\\nter acquainted with the science of music than any one that had\\npreceded him. He taught, also, at the west end in 1841, and at\\nthe same time at the cast end. He introduced the Boston Acad-\\nemy collection of sacred music, and established the choirs in both\\nchurches on a new foundation. He was followed at the east end\\nby J. C. Cram, and other teachers, while at the west end, or at\\nBashan, Enoch Coflfin, Enoch Little, J. P. Farmer, Jeremiah Kun-\\nnels, and C. C. Coffin taught, followed, in later years, by James L.\\nGerrish and Henry Pearson. At the east end, Prof. John Jack-\\nman has supplemented the labors of his jiredecessors.\\nFrom 1840 to 1850, several of the singers of Boscawen attend-\\ned the annual sessions of the Boston Academy of Music.\\nIn musical culture Boscawen and Webster have ever maintain-\\ned high rank. The impetus given by Dea. Enoch Little, from\\n1790 to 1800, never has lost its force. Successive leaders have\\nlighted, as it were, their torches by the fire kindled by him, in\\nthe house of Henry L. Dodge, nearly a century ago, and given\\nto the towns a standing in musical culture unequalled by any\\nother rural community.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0414.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0415.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "4*\\n^-r\\n^f!-\\n/7?i^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0416.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "BIOGEAPHIOAL HISTOET-\\nHE men wlio lay the foundation of society, and tliose wlio\\nrear the superstructure of a Christian civilization, are worthy\\nof all honor. In all ages, in every land, by every people, they\\nwho do great things for their fellow-men are held in honorable re-\\nmembrance. The Assyrians placed their heroes in the heavens,\\nenthroning them amid the stars. We behold their warrior Nimrod,\\nthe Orion of the Bible, nightly making the circuit of the heavens,\\nthe briglitest constellation of the northern sky. The Greeks\\nfound j)laces for their heroes in the Pantheon, amid the gods.\\nThe people of China guard with reverential care the halls of their\\nancestors, and, in their reachings after immortality, picture to\\nthemselves the filial devotion of dutiful sons, who will rear tablets\\nto their memory in the halls of their fathers. It will be the con-\\nsummation of eternal bliss to be held in remembrance by their\\nsons for their virtuous acts. The Norsemen pictured to them-\\nselves a Valhalla, where the great and good should live forever.\\nAnd, to-day, Germany rears her Hall of Fame, where those who\\nhave served, their country well shall be forever held in remem-\\nbrance. So we rear our memorial structure to commemorate the\\ndead.\\nThe recital of what men have done for their fellow-men is ever\\nan incentive to right action, and the narration of the events of an\\nhonorable and virtuous life is a stimulus to those still toiling\\nalong the weary way. So we make record of those who have hon-\\nored the town that gave them birth, or that may claim them as her\\nsons. Only brief outlines of their lives can be given. What\\nother locality can present such a roll of honor as Boscawen and\\nWebster", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0417.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "302 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nFirst in lionorable mention we place those who laid the founda-\\ntions, who cleared the forests who reared their humble homes in\\nthe wilderness who braved the dangers of a frontier life through\\na dark and gloomy period, when vigilance was the price of life\\nthe preservation of themselves and those whom the} held most\\ndear who established the church and the school who were un-\\nswerving patriots Avhen Liberty called them. Through the trials,\\nhardships, and devotion of the first settlers of Contoocook through\\ntheir religious convictions, making the maintenance of relig-\\nious institutions their first duty through the patriotism of the\\nmen of the Revolution, all subsequent events became possible.\\nWhatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. There is\\nno grander law in nature. No community can reap a harvest of\\nmen, without sowing the seed that produces men. The settlers\\nof Contoocook comprehended this divine law they sowed good\\nseed, and, lo, the harvest\\nFIEST SETTLERS.\\nBARKER, DAVID.\\nNothing definite is known in regard to this settler. His name\\ndoes not appear upon the proprietors records. He was not a\\nproprietor. It is probable that he did not long remain.\\nBEAN, SINKLER.\\nThis settler, the first of the name of all those of the Merrimack\\nvalley, so far as is known, came with the first party in 1734. He\\nremained in Contoocook till the settlement of Salisbury, when he\\nbecame a resident of that town, where many of his descendants\\nnow reside. His name appears frequently upon the records, ap-\\npointed on committees in positions of trust and honor. He was a\\nleading and influential citizen in Salisbury.\\nBOWEN, JOHN.\\nDiligent research fails to discover whence this settler came.\\nIt is probable that he was related to Anthony and Henry Bowen,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0418.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 303\\nof Penacoolc, and in-obably a brother of Peter, wlio killed Sabbatis\\nand Plansawa. He served as a ranger, and had a great antipathy\\nto the Indians.\\nEOHONNOX, ANDREW.\\nHe was a native of Ireland. It is not known what year he em-\\nigrated to America. He was unmarried in 1734, when he became\\na settler in Contoocook, marrying Tabitha Flanders, daughter of\\nDea. Jacob Flanders, who was born April 7, 1711. Fle became\\nan active citizen. He was a man of great energy and endurance.\\nIn 1755 he enlisted for six months in Col. Blanchard s regiment,\\nfor an expedition against Crown Point. The regiment had its\\nrendezvous at South Franklin, on the Webster farm, now the\\nHome for Orphans. Several weeks were spent in building\\nboats, in which the regiment was to ascend the Merrimack and\\nBaker s river to Warren, transport the boats to the Connecticut,\\nand from thence ascend some branch of that stream which would\\ntake them to Lake Champlain so little understood was the geog-\\nraphy of Vermont at that time. When it was discovered that\\nsuch a route was impossible, the regiment descended the Merri-\\nmack to Nashua, and from thence marched to Worcester and\\nAlbany.\\nAt this date Bohonnon probably resided on land now owned by\\nMrs. Farnum Coffin, at the southerly end of Water street, but\\nsoon after removed to Salisbury, settling near the south village.\\nHe was active in the public affairs of that town. During the\\nEevolution he was a devoted patriot, and served as lieutenant in\\nCapt. Ebenezer Webster s company in the battle of Bennington.\\nHe had several sons, who were also actiA^e patriots Jacob, who\\nwas a private in Capt. Webster s company Annaniah, who en-\\nlisted for three years, in 1780, in Capt. Gray s company, Scammel s\\nregiment. Continental troops; Stephen, another son, who was a\\nsoldier at West Point at the time of Arnold s treason, and was\\nsentinel at Washington s head-quarters the night after the discov-\\nery. He stated that Washington spent the entire night in\\nwriting.\\nAndrew Bohonnon died in Salisbury, at an advanced age.\\nBISHOP, JOSIAH.\\nOf the parentage of Josiali Bishop, nothing is known. It is", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0419.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "304 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY,\\nprobable that he came from Newbiny with his family in 1733. He\\nlived at the southerly end of King street. Upon the outbreak of\\nhostilities with the Indians in 1746, he was captured while at\\nw^ork in the field, and taken into the woods. [See Civil Hist.] He\\nwas determined not to go to Canada a prisoner, and resisted the\\nIndians, who buried their tomahawks in his skull, as was after-\\nwards ascertained.\\nBITRRAXK, MOSES, CAPT.\\nHe came from Bradford. The records of the proprietors make\\nno mention of his being elected captain over any military organi-\\nzation in Contoocook, and it may be inferred that he received his\\ntitle before moving into the town. In 1746, at tlie time of\\nthe Indian outbreak, the settlers formed themselves into a\\nmilitary band, and Capt. Eollins was elected coinmander but\\nthere is no evidence that he remained long in town. It is known\\nthat the military organization was kept up during the Indian\\ntroubles, and it is possible that Capt. Burbank was the com-\\nmander. He resided on Queen street, on what has since been\\nknown as the Clark farm. He married Sarah Emery, prob-\\nably sister of Edward Emery. He reared a family of six sons and\\nthree daughters, and was the progenitor of the Burbank family in\\nBoscawen and vicinity. His name frequently appears upon the\\nrecords as a piiblic officer, and as member of committees. The\\ndate of his birth is not known, nor his death, but he was in the\\nfull possession of his mental powers in 1792, when he gave his\\ndeposition to Col. Henry Gerrish, stating the number of settlers\\nin the town in 1733, and the number of proprietors rights partially\\nimproved.\\nCALL, PHILIP.\\nOne of the most active of the first settlers upon the outbreak of\\nIndian hostilities, in 1744, was Philip Call, who had moved to\\nContoocook 1733. His name appears upon the roll of Capt. Jere-\\nmiah Clough s company as a scout, from September 26 to Decem-\\nber 18 of that year, receiving as wages, \u00c2\u00a33 10s. for provisions,\\n\u00c2\u00a33 3s. He was out with Capt. Clough again in 1745, from Jan-\\nuary 21 to March 18 and again in 1746, from July 4 to Decem-\\nber 4 and again in 1747, from June 5 to November 12.\\nAfter the close of hostilities in 1749, he moved up the Merri-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0420.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 305\\nmack, a little more than a mile beyond the line of Contoocook, to\\nthe fertile intervale of Bakerstown (South Franklin), and beo-an\\na clearing on the Webster farm. While living there, in 1754, the\\nIndians made a descent upon the jjlace, and killed Mrs. Call as\\nalready narrated in the journal of events. It is supposed that\\nPhilip Call lived and died in Salisburj and that he was buried in the\\ncemetery at South Franklin but no stone marks his resting-place.\\nIt is not unlikely that the Indians were well acquainted with Philip\\nCall. He was a good Indian lighter, and possibly they took particu-\\nlar pleasure in making a descent upon his place. His son Stephen\\nwas one of the first selectmen of Salisbury, upon the organization\\nof the town in 1768. He served in Capt. Webster s company,\\nCol. Nichols s regiment, in the Ehode Island campaign, 1776,\\nThe Call family of Franklin and Hill are descendants of Philip.\\nCOOK, THOMAS.\\nThis enterprising settler, soon after moving into town in 1733,\\ninstead of remaining at the town on King street, pushed north-\\nwest, and built a cabin near Mutton road, leading from Corser\\nhill to Salisbury. It stood near Little brook, from which he\\nobtained water. The place is now marked by the stump of a large\\npine, which was felled a few years since by Mr. Luther Titcomb.\\nThe reason which prompted Mr. Cook to push six miles beyond\\nhis fellow-citizens was undoubtedly the desire to be conveniently\\nnear a locality where he could obtain an abundance of fresh meat.\\nThere were patches of meadow around Couch pond, and on\\nBeaver-dam brook, which were favorite resorts for deer, and by\\nlocating in the vicinity Mr. Cook would have his provisions near\\nat hand.\\nUpon the breaking out of hostilities in 1746, Mr. Cook deemed\\nit prudent to leave his cabin. He was at work near Clay hill,\\nwith others, on the 4th of Muy, 1746, when the Indians fired up-\\non the party, killing him and a negro\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cfesar, slave to Eev. Mr.\\nStevens. [See Civil History.] It is stated that Ciesar, though\\nwounded, fought with great bravery, and was only despatched\\nafter a fearful struggcle.\\nBy building his cabin so far in advance of his neighbors, Mr.\\nCook has given a name to the eminence north of the place where\\nit stood, Cook s hill.\\n20", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0421.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "306 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nCORSER, JOHN.\\nTradition has it, that this settler came from Scotland to New-\\nbury about 1690, at the age of fourteen. It is more probable, how-\\never, that he came to Newbury from Boston or vicinity. He\\nmarried in Newbury. The records of Newbury have the following\\nJolmCorser Tabitha Kenny of Newbury were married March\\nye 8 hl716|17.\\nIn 1735, he moved to Contoocook with his family of seven chil-\\ndren. His eldest son, John, Jr., had then settled in Kingston,\\nN. H. He resided for several years on King street, and, with\\nothers, erected the first saw-mill. While tending it he met with\\nan accident which deprived him of his sight. His death is sup-\\nposed to have occurred in 1776.\\nHis son John came from Kingston to Boscawen about 1764, and\\nsettled on Corserhill, on the farm now owned by Mr. Tilton. Other\\nfacts concerning the first settler, John, will be found in the gene-\\nalogy of the Corser family.\\nDAGADOX, WILLIAM.\\nHe was a settler of 1733, and located his farm between Queen\\nstreet and Contoocook river, west of Fisherville, near Concord\\nline. His name appears in the proprietors records as Dagadon,\\nDigodon, Dagodon, and Dogodan. The small brook which emp-\\nties into the Contoocook west of Fisherville bears his name. It\\nis not known that he took any active part in the affairs of the\\ntown.\\nDANFORTH, WILLIAM.\\nHe was probably a son, possibly grandson, of William, who was\\nborn in London in 1653, and who came to Newbury about 1667.\\nHe took an active part in all matters pertaining to the good of\\nthe settlement. He married Flood, a sister of Bichard\\nFlood, one of the first settlers. He aided in the erection of the\\nfirst saw-mill.\\nDANFORTH, NATHAXIEL.\\nWhether he was a brother or cousin to William is not quite\\nclear. He came to Contoocook in 1733. Probably he was then", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0422.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 307\\nmarried. His daughter Abigail, born Jan. 1, 1735, was the first\\nchild born in the town, who married Thomas Foss, and resided\\non Fish street. Nathaniel Danforth s son Alkanner served as\\na soldier during the Revolution.\\nWilliam and Nathaniel Danforth were men of decision and\\nfirmness, characteristics that have been transmitted to their de-\\nscendants.\\nEASMAN, JOSEPH.\\nIn the proprietors records, the name now spelled as Eastman\\nis given as above. Rev. Mr. Price has recorded the name of\\nJoseph Eastman as one of the first settlers. Later inquiries indi-\\ncate that he did not come as a permanent settler till a year or\\ntwo later, though it is possible he began his improvements in\\n1733.\\nHe was grandson of Roger Eastman, the first of the name in\\nAmerica, and who came from Wales to Salisbury in 1640. He\\nwas a prominent citizen. His son Joseph was captain of a com-\\npany of rangers in the French and Indian wars.\\nEMERY, EDWARD.\\nThe ancestor of Edward Emery probably was John Emery, who\\ncame from Hants, England, to Newbury in 1635. He died in\\nNovember, 1683. He had sons, John, born in England about\\n1629; a daughter, who was named Ebenezer, Sept. 16, 1648.\\nThe Newbury records have this concerning her birth Born\\nMonday morning, two hours before day. He had a son, Jona-\\nthan, born May 13, 1652. John married Marj^ Webster, of Ips-\\nwich, widow of John Webster, and reared a large family.\\nJonathan married Mary Woodman, and had children, Mary\\nC, Sept. 25, 1677 Jonathan, Feb. 2, 1679 David, Sept. 28,\\n1682 Anthony, Nov. 13, 1684 Stephen, June 13, 1687, died\\n1688 Sara, Dec. 18, 1688 Stephen, again, June 24, 1692 Ed-\\nward, Nov. 10, 1694.\\nThe youngest son removed to Contoocook in 1733. He was an\\nactive, influential citizen, and took a prominent part in all the\\naffairs of the plantation.\\nDuring the peace which followed the first outbreak of hostili-\\nties with the Indians, Mr. Emery, thinking to obtain his veni-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0423.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "308 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nson near at hand, on tlie favorite haunts of the deer, erected a\\nhouse on land now owned by Miss Nancy Couch, at the foot of\\nCorser hill. It stood on the south side of the road, near the brook\\nrunning to Couch pond. It was, after Thomas Cook s cabin, the\\nfirst house erected in what is now the town of Webster. Mr. Em-\\nery was occupying it at the time of the second Indian outbreak,\\nbut moved his family to the fort the daj^ before the Indians\\nmade their appearance in the vicinit}^ [see Civil History]. It was\\nrifled by the Indians. There is no evidence that Mr. Emery ever\\nreoccttpied it.\\nHe was one of the most influential citizens, and his name fre-\\nCjuently appears in the records as one often selected to transact\\npublic business. In 1756 he accompanied Ezekiel Flanders to\\nNewfound lake to hunt beaver, where both were killed by the Ind-\\nians.\\nFITZGERALD, EDWARD.\\nOne of the most active and influential of the settlers of 33 was\\nEdward Fitzgerald, who was born in Ireland, but who emigrated\\nto America at an early age, and lived in Newbury, where he\\nmarried Mehitable XJran. He settled on Queen street, where his\\nwife died May 16, 1808, aged 90. They had a family of two sons\\nand eight daughters. The family name has undergone many\\nchanges, it appearing in the records as Fitz Gerald and Fitz Ger-\\nauld. About the year 1775 the prefix was dropped, and the name\\nappears as Gerald, Gerould, Gerauld, Jareld, Jerald, Jerril, Jeril,\\nand Geruld.\\nFLOOD, RICHARD.\\nIn 1680, Philip Flood, of Guernsey, England, came to America,\\nand settled in Newbury, where his son Eichard was born Feb. 25,\\n1696. His name appears frequently in the proprietor s records.\\nHe came to Contoocook in 1734. He was active in the defence\\nof the town against the Indians in 1744, when he went out on a\\nscouting party. His son Kichard married Farnum, of Con-\\ncord, and became a citizen of that town, serving as a soldier dur-\\ning the Revolution. His sister married William Danforth.\\nFLAKDERS, JACOB.\\nHe was grandson of Stephen Flanders, the first and only emi-\\ngrant of that name, who came from England to Salisbury, with", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0424.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 309\\nhis wife Jane, between 1640-164G, and was one of the first\\nsettlers of that town. The grandson was born Aug. 5, 1689, in\\nSalisbury, and consequently was forty-five years of age when he\\ncame from South Hampton to Contoocook, with his wife Mercy\\nClough. He was one of the first settlers, and it is not strange\\nthat he was looked up to as a leading spirit. He was one of the\\ncommittee to build the first meeting-house, and his son Jesse was\\nelected the second deacon of the church. His son Ezekiel was\\nkilled by the Indians while hunting beaver at Newfound lake,\\n1756. His son Philip served in several campaigns against the\\nErench and Indians, and was killed at Crown Point the same\\nyear. The eldest daughter, Tabitha, married Andrew Bohonnon\\n[see above], and lived to an advanced age.\\nHis sons, Dea. Jesse and John, enlisted in Capt. Henrj^ Dear-\\nborn s company in Arnold s expedition to Quebec, 1776, and\\nendured all the hardships of that terrible campaign.\\nEev. Dr. Bouton, in the History of Concord, alludes to the\\nFlanders family of Boscawen as men of great muscular strength\\nand endurance.\\nThe descendants of Jacob Flanders and Mary Clough may be\\nreckoned by hundreds, if not by thousands.\\nFOWLER, JOHN,\\nCame from Newbury, and lived on Queen street. He prob-\\nably was married at the time of his settlement in Contoocook.\\nHis second wife was Mrs. Anna Bamford, whose maiden name was\\nAnna Ellison, whose brother was grandfather of Hon. Benjamin\\nE. Butler, of Lowell. His name frequently appears in the records\\nas an active citizen.\\nGEERISir, STEPHEN.\\nOne of the leading men among the first settlers was Captain\\nStephen Gerrish. It is probable that none of them had a\\nlarger estate to begin with than he, for they were begin-\\nning life, with little more than their own strong hands and reso-\\nlute wills. He was born in Newbury, June 3, 0. S. 1712, and\\nwas but twenty-two years of age when he came to Contoocook,\\nwith his ox team and plow^ the first in the town.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0425.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "310 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nHe was a leading spirit, took an active part in all matters per-\\ntaining to the welfare of the community, and was often appointed on\\ncommittees by his fellow proprietors. He established the first\\nferr}^, was thrifty, and accumulated a large estate. Eev. Mr.\\nPrice says of him,\\nHe was particularly prepared to advance the settlement of a\\nnew country, being young, robust, acquainted with husbandr}\\nenterprising, industrious, economical. Though his education was\\nsmall and his manners unpolished, yet his strength of mind, his\\nfrankness, and sympathetic feelings, rendered him useful and\\nagreeable. He well knew the discouragements and wants of a\\nnew settlement, and to him many resorted for succor. Possessing\\nboth the means and the disposition, he was liberal and hospitable,\\na friend and father to multitudes. He died 1788, having lived\\nto see his children settled and prosperous, and useful members of\\nboth civil and religious societies.\\nMr. Gerrish resided at the loAver end of King street, and for a\\ntime, near the close of his life, he lived upon one of his farms in\\nCanterbury, on the intervale below Muchyedo.\\nHe married, first, Elizabeth Chase, probably of Newbury, who\\ndied some time between 1734 and 1740, leaving no children. His\\nsecond wife was Joanna Hale, of Newbury, to whom he was mar-\\nried in 1741, Avho became the mother of five sons and one daughter,\\nHenry, Samuel, Enoch, Joseph, Stephen, and Jane, from whom\\nhas descended a numerous posterity [see Genealogy].\\nAlthough a citizen of sterling worth, and a supporter of civil\\nand religious institutions, it appears that he was habitually pro-\\nfane. One of his descendants, Eev. Jacob Little, in a biographi-\\ncal notice of his mother, Mrs. Martha Gerrish Little, while quot-\\ning the eulogium pronounced by Rev. Mi*. Price, says, The only\\nwords of his which have come down are a profane oath sworn on a\\npublic occasion.\\nAside from this one blemish, Captain Gerrish seems to have\\nbeen in every other respect worthy of honor. He was residing in\\nCanterbury in 1774, where he made his will, which is as follows\\nCanterbury October ye 13tli 1774\\nThis may certify -whom it may concern that I Stephen Gerrish of\\nCanterbury in the county of Rockingham and Province of New Hamp-\\nshire, Having the Day of the above Date, Settled my Estate by Deeds", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0426.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, 311\\namong my Children cepting ray Stock Household furniture XJten-\\ntials for Husbandry, of which I hear leave as my Request Desire and\\nit is my will that they may be Disposed of in the following manner:\\nfirst that my Beloved wife Joanna have out of my stock one horse\\nsaddle bridle one Cow and five Sheep and also the one half of my\\nhousehold furniture to be her own forever.\\nSecondly it is my will that the Remainder of my stock my uten-\\ntials for Husbandry be equally Divided between my two sons Joseph\\nand Stephen.\\nthirdly it is my Avill that the remaining half of my Household fur-\\nniture be Equally Divided between my five sons, Henry, Samuel,\\nEnoch, Joseph Stephen.\\nfurthermore it is my will and Desire that my Debts be paid my\\nDues Recieved of what name or Nature Soever Equally by and amongst\\nray five sons, Henry, Samuel. Enoch, Joseph, and Stephen.\\nWitness by Stephen Gerrish\\nGeorge Jackman Joanna Gerrish\\nJeremiah C lough.\\nGERRISH, JOAXXA HALE, MRS.\\nMrs. Joanna Hale Gerrish, a supposed descendant of Sir Mat-\\nthew Hale s family, granddaughter of Rev. Joseph Hale, of Bev-\\nerly, and daughter of Samuel and Ajiphia (Moody) Hale, was\\nborn in Newbury, June, 1715, and was married to Capt. Stephen\\nGerrish in 1741. She was a woman of strong character, and deeply\\nreligious, in this respect differing widely from her husband, who\\nwas habitually profane, but who in all other respects was a kind\\nand agreeable companion. Rev. Jacob Little says of her,\\nShe was eminently pious, left the Episcopal and joined the Congre-\\ngational church to find Spirituality, brought her branch of the Ger-\\nrish family within the covenant. The only words of hers which have\\ncome down, are an expression which in extreme old age daily were uttered\\nin her secret devotion. They were reported by an old lady who in\\nchildhood slept with her. This was the expression, Bless ray children\\nto the latest generation. She was instrumental in turning the current\\nin the family, her children, early pious, and her hundreds of descend-\\nants have generally embraced religion in youth united with the\\nchurch of her choice.\\nMrs. Gerrish died in 1792 at the age of 77, beloved and re-\\nspected by all in the community.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0427.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "312 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nJACKMAN, GEORGE.\\nHe was born in Newbuiy, 1706-7. It is doubtful if he became\\na permanent settler in 1734, though it is probable that he began the\\nimprovements on his farm at that time. He married Hannah\\nBishop in 1728, and lived on the premises now owned by Prof. John\\nJackman. Upon the organization of the church he was elected\\ndeacon. He was an intelligent and influential citizen, greatly\\nrespected. His son George was first town-cleric and justice of\\nthe peace [see Biography].\\nJACKMAN, RICHARD.\\nHe was brother of George, born in Kewbury, Oct. 17, 1709.\\nHe married Martha Call, daughter of Philip Call, who was a vigi-\\nlant citizen during the war with the Indians. Mrs. Jackman s\\nmother was killed by the Indians at South Franklin [see History].\\nMANUEL, JOEL.\\nLittle is known in regard to this settler. Diligent search has\\nfailed to discover anything concerning his nativity. He came\\nto Contoocook in 1734, and his name appears in several places as\\nmember of committees. His son John resided on High street,\\nnear the residence of Gen. E. G. Wood. The family is nearly if\\nnot quite extinct.\\nMELOON, NATHANIEL.\\nPatient research has not thrown much light upon the origin of\\nthis name, and nothing whatever is known of the nativity of this\\nsettler. It is supposed that he was of French or Flemish origin.\\nThe name is sometimes written Malon, Maloon, and IMelloon.\\nFrom the frequent appearance of his name upon the records, it is\\nevident that he was an influential citizen. He served as a soldier\\nin scouting parties during the Indian troubles.\\nIn 1754, he moved to West Salisbury, to avail himself of the ex-\\ntensive meadow lands in that vicinity. His nearest neighbor was\\nEdward Emerj^, near Couch j)ond, four to five miles distant.\\nThere he was surprised, and with his family captured all except\\none son by the Indians [see History year 1756].", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0428.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 313\\nUpon his return from captivity lie reoccupiecl his premises, and\\nbecame one of the active citizens of Salisbiuy, being frequently\\nelected to town offices was selectman in 1791, when he was\\nwell adv anced in life. His name is appended to the following\\npaper\\nVANDUK.\\nTo be set up at public Vandue on Monday the 21 Day of Nov next\\nat three Oclock P M. one Sarah Veza for Boarding, to be struck off to\\nthe lowest bider at the house of Stephen Webster\\nNov ye 10, 1791\\nNathi Meloon\\nJoel Eastman\\nSelectmen of Salisbury.\\nPETERS, WILLIAM.\\nHe was one of the settlers of 1733, but it is not known whence\\nhe came. He was sergeant in Capt. John Goffe s company in\\n1748, employed in scouting, enlisting May 28, discharged Oct. 5,\\nhis wages being \u00c2\u00a313 16s. 5d. Caleb Emery, Joseph Eastman,\\nand William Courser, citizens of Contoocook, were in the same\\ncompany.\\nRIX, NATHANIEL.\\nHe appears to have been a settler in Contoocook. but it is prob-\\nable that he soon removed to Concord, as the name of Nathaniel\\nKix appears u];)on the records of that town, and does not appear\\nin the records of Boscawen. Nothing is known of him.\\nKOLF, DANIEL.\\nTlie name is sometimes written Rolfe. It is probable he was\\nrelated to the citizen of Concord of the same name, and to Benja-\\nmin Rolfe, not a first settler but nothing definite is known in\\nregard to him.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0429.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "314 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nGENERAL BIOGRAPHY.\\nALDRICH, JOHN.\\nJolm Aldricli was born in Sniitlifield, R. I., Jan. 20, 1785. He\\nmarried Harriet, daughter of Samuel Smith, Jan. 18, 1810, and\\nmoved to Mendon, Mass., wliere he resided till 1830, -when he\\nmade Boscawen his home, purchasing a farm on High street, near\\nSalisl)ury line. He was a member of the Society of Friends.\\nThrough life, Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich manifested the frank, honest,\\nsincere traits of character which are inculcated by the Friends.\\nThey were progressive in their religious views, earnest in\\ntheir efforts to do good, ever ready to help the poor, guided by a\\nsimple faith and trust which ever led them to a higher spiritual\\nlife. They were industrious and frugal, simple in all their tastes,\\nand patterns of neatness. They lived quietly and unostentatiously,\\nbeloved and respected by their friends and neighbors. Mr.\\nAldrich passed to the better life, March 19, 1865, and Mrs. Al-\\ndrich, May 13, 1872. Their children were, Armenia Smith, born\\nNov. 1, 1817, married Nathaniel White, of Concord, Nov. 1, 1836;\\nJohn, born Nov. 9, 1825, married Olive French, of Pemliroke,\\nand who resides in Framingham, Mass.\\nAEEY, ISAIAH H.\\nIsaiah Hatch Arey was born on Cape Cod, 1827. His father\\nmoved to Boscawen when he was a lad, and settled on the farm\\nsouth of the Woodbury plain. The son, after his father s death,\\nbuilt the residence now standing south of the cemeterj^ He\\nmarried Miss Terry, of Boscawen, was elected town-clerk from\\n1861 to 1864, and was holding that official position at the time of\\nhis death, Oct. 16, 1870.\\nMr. Arey possessed a sj-mpathetic nature, and was endowed\\nwith fine feelings, which he well knew how to express by word\\nand act. He was also an ingenious and skilful mechanic, and for\\nthe last fifteen 3 ears of his life devoted much time to the man-\\nufacture of violins and guitars. Of the former he is known to", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0430.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0431.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "t^t n\\ny^o^v", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0432.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 315\\nhave made eighty-six, and of the latter thirty-seven. These instru-\\nments are now highly prized. For purity of tone and elegant\\nworkmanship, perhaps they are not excelled by any made in this\\ncountry.\\nOle Bull, the eminent Norwegian violinist, recognized Mr.\\nArey s talents, and assisted him with original drawings and valu-\\nable information. Erom a letter written by Ole Bull to Mr. Arey\\nin 1857, the following extract is given\\nAllow me to congratulate you on the achievement of your violin,\\nan instrument that no artist or amateur Avould hesitate to take\\nto his bosom, and electrify by the breath of his inspiration. I sincerely\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2wish tliat those further results of my experience, which I have commu-\\nnicated to you, will prove a benefit to yourself, and a blessing to those\\nwho take your children to their hearts.\\nYour success will always be sincerely felt and appreciated by your\\nfriend,\\nOle Bull.\\natkixsox, samuel,\\nWas the son of Dea. Joseph Atkinson, of ISTewbury. He took\\nan active part in town affairs, and during the Revolution was\\nlieutenant in Stark s regiment, at the battle of Bunker hill, and\\nwas employed by the committee of safety for the state on several\\nimportant occasions.\\nUpon the records of the committee of safety, Jan. SO, 1776, is\\nthis entry\\nOrdered the Reciever General to pay Samuel Atkinson for bis\\ntime Expenses in going after Col Bedell \u00c2\u00a31 lis.\\nCoL Bedel was in command of a regiment doing duty on the\\nConnecticut river.\\nApril 9, 1776.\\nOrdered the lleciever General to pay Lieut Samuel Atkinson Four-\\nteen pounds Thirteen Shill Eleven pence for expense of Transport-\\ning the Indians sent from Exeter from Boscawen to Plymouth.\\nNo contemporary record throws any light upon this service. For\\nwhat purpose the Indians were sent to Plymouth is unknown.\\nDuring the summer of 1776, upon the advance of Gen. Carleton\\nand Gen. Burgoyne to Lake Champlain, there was great conster-\\nnation in all the upper towns of New Hampshire and Vermont, on\\nthe Connecticut. It was rumored that a large body of Indians was", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0433.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "316 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nto invade that section. Lieut. Atkinson started as a A-olunteer\\nfor the defence of the frontier. The condition of affairs is set\\nforth in a letter from Col. John Hurd, found in Provincial Papers\\n(Vol. 8, p. 306).\\nHe visited Exeter, to report in person the state of affairs, and\\nreceived an order to forward two small cannon, which belonged to\\nthe state, and which were in Canterbury, to Haverhill.\\nHe was captain of a company enlisted to join Gen. Sullivan at\\nTiconderoga.\\nIn IMay, 1777, Capt. Atkinson was employed by the town to\\nobtain fire-arms and equipments and the committee of safety for\\nthe state conferred authority upon him to raise men to serve\\nunder Gen. Stark, after the battle of Bennington.\\nIn 1779-80, he was employed by the committee of safety to\\nprocure supplies, and rendered efficient aid to the government\\nduring the w^ar.\\nHe was honored and trusted by his fellow-citizens, and was an\\nardent patriot.\\nATKINSON, HALE,\\nWhose likeness is here presented, was born March 3, 1799,\\non the homestead which he inherited from his father, situated\\non the river road, where his grandfather settled when he moved\\nfrom Newbury, Mass., in 1767. He was an obliging aiid kind\\nneighbor, a lover of books, sustaining schools and the institu-\\ntions of religion with cheerfulness, and always fulfilling the du-\\nties of a good citizen. In early life he had a fondness for military\\nparade, and at one time was captain of the cavalry company in\\nthe 21st Regiment. His political views did not accord with those\\nof the majority in town, but he was often chosen to office, the\\nduties of which he performed faithfully and impartially. He was\\nselectman in 1847, 1849, 1850, 1852, 1853, and 1857. He was\\nunmarried died April 15, 1874.\\nATKINSON, HARVEY,\\nSon of Joseph Atkinson, was born in Boscawen, July 19, 1806\\n[see Gen.]. He attended the district school, receiving instruction\\nfrom Mrs. Sally Kimball Martin, one of the renowned female", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0434.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 317\\nteacliers of the town, Susan Pearson, Abigail Dix (sister of Gen.\\nDix), Martha Holt, Francis Danforth, Joseph Morrill, Samuel\\nChamberlain, Erastus Torrey, and Peabody Atkinson. He was a\\nstudent at the opening of the male department of Boscawen Acad-\\nemy, under the tuition of Jarvis Gregg, and also a student at\\nFranklin Academy. He became an instructor, teaching in his\\nown district\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Gulf\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in 1828-29, also in 1829-30 and in\\n1830-31 at Horse hill in Concord.\\nIn November, 1831, he moved to Ohio, where he taught four\\nyears, returning to Boscawen in 1835. During the following\\nwinters he taught on Little hill, at High street, and at the Gulf.\\nMr. Atkinson s father had the power of great concentration of\\nthought in mathematical calculation, and possessed a retentive\\nmemory. He once calculated mentally the number of barleycorns\\nrequired to encircle the globe, allowing three to an inch, and put\\nthe answer down upon his slate. To verify his calculation he\\nwent through the problem by w^riting the figures, and arrived at\\nthe same result.\\nMr. Harvey Atkinson, since 1837, has resided on his farm, giv-\\ning his attention to agriculture.\\nBAKER, HENRY W., LT.\\nAt the breaking out of the war in 1861, Henry W. Baker was\\nat work making household furniture, in the Hollow, in Bos-\\ncawen. He was a young man of ardent temperament, a lover of\\nliberty, a true citizen, and an earnest patriot. He offered his\\nservices to his country, and was commissioned Second Lieuten-\\nant, Co. E, 7th Kegiment, Nov. 12, 1861.\\nThe rendezvous of the regiment was at Manchester. On Jan.\\n14, 1862, it broke camp, and was ordered to New York, where it\\nremained till Eeb. 13, when it embarked on sailing vessels for the\\nDry Tortugas, where it remained till June 16th, when it was or-\\ndered to Port Royal, and from thence to St. Augustine, subse-\\nquently to Eernandina, and again to Hilton Head.\\nOn June 18, 1863, it joined the forces under Gen. Gilmore, and\\nwas employed during the month in arduous duties. On the morn-\\ning of July 18, the troops designed to make an assault upon Fort\\nWagner were drawn up on the beach. During the night the 7th\\nEegiment had been under arms doing fatigue duty. A terrific", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0435.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "318 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ntliuncler-storm had raged, and tlie soldiers were drenclied with\\nrain. The regiment had heen so reduced by sickness, that but\\nfour hundred and eighty were in the ranks.\\nThrough the entire day a terrible cannonade was kept up by\\nthe Union batteries and ironclads, which was responded to from\\ntime to time by the guns of Fort Wagner. All through the weary\\nhours, the soldiers of the 7th lay behind their entrenchments be-\\nneath the blazing sun.\\nThe command had been entrusted to Gen. Trueman H. Seymour,\\nwho determined to make an assault. He knew nothing of the\\nconstruction of Fort Wagner. No information of the impedi-\\nments to be overcome had reached him. Col. Putnam, of the 7th,\\ncommanding the second brigade, opposed the contemplated move-\\nment.\\nI do not think that we can take the fort, he said and when\\nGen. Sej-mour reiterated his determination to make the attempt.\\nCol. Putnam said, We shall go like a flock of sheep.\\nThe sun set, and the twilight faded. The soldiers were ordered\\nto remove the caps from the nipples of their rifles, and were told\\nthat they must depend upon the bayonet alone. In the 100th N.\\ny., which formed behind the 7th, this order was neglected.\\nIn the darkness, the assaulting column moved forward. The\\nironclads and the Union batteries opened a heavy tire, wdiich\\nwas continued till the column was so near that further firing\\nwould endanger it, when, at a signal, all the Union batteries\\nbecame silent. In an instant. Port Wagner was aflame. Its\\nheavy siege guns, howitzers, and forty-two pounder carronades\\nburst forth, pouring a stream of shot and shell into the advancing\\ntroojis. And now, in addition, the parapet of the fort swarmed\\nwith men, who, through the terrible cannonade of the day, had\\nbeen lying securely beneath the bomb-proofs. Mingled with the\\nroar of the cannon were their volleys of musketry.\\nThe first brigade had the advance. Its ranks went down like\\ngrass before the mower. Some of the soldiers fled, panic-stricken.\\nThe second brigade, led by the 7th N. H., pressed on and filled\\nthe decimated ranks. Suddenly they found themselves confront-\\ned by a ditch fifty feet wide and ten feet deep, with four feet of\\nwater flowing into it. Only at the south-eastern angle was it\\ndry. It was enfiladed by howitzers. Into the ditch leaped the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0436.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 319\\nsoldiers. Grape and canister mowed tliem down, but others\\ncrowded on. The 7th N. H., led by Lt. Col. Joseph C. Abbott,\\nmade its waj^ iinfalteringly into the ditch, througli it, and np the\\nslope of the parapet. Cannon and musketry blazed in their faces\\nand now there was a flash behind them the 100th N. Y., not\\nhaving removed their caps, Avere firing into the dark mass, not\\nknowing who was friend, who foe. All was confusion. All or-\\nder disappeared. In the darkness no one could be recognized.\\nAmid the groans of the wounded, the shouting of officers, the rat-\\ntle of rifles, the roar of cannon, the bursting of shells, it was im-\\npossible to maintain discipline. Col. Putnam, a few of his sub-\\nordinates, and one or two hundred men entered tlie fort. The\\nenemy cliarged, but were driven. Col. Putnam was killed one\\nofficer after another went down. Tlie reserve, which should liave\\nrushed up, did not come. The assault had lost its force. Like\\nsheep the Union soldiers fled as best they could through the dev-\\nastating fire, leaving a ghastl}^ heap of dead and wounded in the\\nditch, and on the parapet of the fort. Among the killed Avas Hen-\\nry W. Baker. By his side were Dexter Pritchard, Liberty G.\\nRaymond, and Alexander F. Stevens, from Boscawen, and of his\\ncompany, also killed. Among the wounded was Samuel McEvely,\\nand among the prisoners Avas John Clancy, who died in prison at\\nE/ichmond.\\nIn his first battle. Lieutenant Baker gaA^e his life to his country.\\nThose who serA ed under him speak of him with affection. He\\nwas cool and brave, and eA er mindful of his duties. He Avas\\nburied Avhere he fell, Avith his commander, Col. Putnam, and his\\nsubordinates, Pritcliard, Raymond, and SteA ens. He Avas the\\nlast of his family, his elder brother, J. C. Baker, m. v., of Abing-\\nton, Mass., deceased, being his only near relative. Those Avho\\nloiew him best will CA^er hold him in affectionate remembrance.\\nBALLARD, WILLIAM WALLACE,\\nWas born in Peterborough in 1828. His father was I^athan Bal-\\nlard, of Peterborough, Avho married Sarah D. Clement, of Bos-\\ncawen. He was left an orphan at an early age, but Avas adopted\\nby Benjamin Walker, Mrs. W. being his aunt. He learned the\\ntrade of stone-cutting, but spent most of his time with Mr. Walker,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0437.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "320 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nattending the district scliool Water street, south. He was of a\\nquiet, gentle nature, and in boyhood showed none of those stei ling\\nqualities of character which revealed themselves in after life.\\nIt is altogether probable that the flame of patriotic ardor, whicli\\nat the breaking out of the war in 1861 induced him to be one of\\nthe first to enlist, was kindled by Mr. Eliakim Walker, Revolu-\\ntionary pensioner, who never was weary of rehearsing the story of\\nBunker hill and, without doubt, the flame was intensified by the\\nuncompromising hostility of Mr. Benjamin Walker to slavery.\\nWhen the second regiment of N. H. volunteers was organized,\\nyoung Ballard enlisted in the Goodwin Rifles, of the 2d Regiment.\\nThe regiment, on its way to the seat of war, was entertained at\\nBoston, in Music hall, where Mr. Harrison D. Clement, of Law-\\nrence, uncle to Ballard, had a conversation with him.\\nI did not suppose that you had any great military ardor, was\\nthe remark of Mr. C.\\nI have not, but the call is urgent. I have no family I can\\ngo. Military life has no attractions for me but I owe a duty\\nto my countr}^, and I shall do my best to perform it.\\nIt is out of such men that heroes are made.\\nHis regiment was in the first battle of Bull Run, where Bal-\\nlard acted with conspicuous coolness and deliberation. After the\\nengagement, he informed his uncle that he had several fair shots at\\nthe enemy, at half the distance of which he was sure of his mark.\\nA few weeks subsequent to the battle he was sent to Washing-\\nton to perform some duty, and, upon his rejoining the regiment,\\nfound a second lieutenant s commission awaiting him, the j)romo-\\ntion having been made wholly without his knowledge. A sword\\nand uniform were presented him by his brother officers.\\nHe commanded the company at the battle of Williamsburg, and\\nthroughout nearly the entire Peninsula campaign, in which the\\n2d Regiment took an active part [see Adgt. Gen. Report].\\nDuring the seven days fighting, his clothes were pierced several\\ntimes, and he was slightly wounded on the forehead, which filled\\nhis eyes and covered his face with blood but he maintained his\\nplace, leading the men into action while thus disfigured.\\nDuring one of the battles, while in the thick of the fight, he\\ndragged a wounded soldier behind a tree, and himself took shelter.\\nWhile they were there the tree was struck seventeen times.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0438.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 321\\nTlie regiment, at Gettysburg, was attached to the 3d. corps, com-\\nmanded by Gen. Sickles. During the march from the Rappahan-\\nnock, Lieut. Ballard was taken sick, and though entitled to ride in\\nthe ambulance, resolutelj^ maintained his place ^yith the company.\\nAlthough he had the surgeon s certificate in his pocket, excusing\\nhim from duty, he not only made the march, but Avas seen carrying\\nthe guns of his worn-out soldiers, and even the tent-pole, on his\\nshoulder. On the morning of July 2d, the surgeon and officers,\\nknowing how exhausted he was, tried to dissuade him from taking\\npart in the engagement, but in vain.\\nThe regiment was stationed in Sherfey s peach orchard, and\\nwas one of the first to feel the blows inflicted by Longstreet s ad-\\nvance.\\nIn the first shock, nine of the officers were killed or wounded.\\nThe captain of Company B being one of the number, the com-\\nmand devolved upon Lieut. Ballard. Not long after, he was mor-\\ntally wounded b} a ball passing through his hips and bowels,\\nbut did not fall till, unable to move, he was knocked down by a\\nbattery wheeling into position. So close was the fighting at this\\nmoment, that when his sword flew from his hand it fell close\\nto the rebel line, so near, that one of the soldiers of the\\nregiment, in attempting to recover it, was taken prisoner.\\nLieut. Ballard was taken to the rear, and lingered five days, re-\\nceiving all the care that was possible to give in the over-crowded\\nhospitals. He knew that his wound was mortal, and calmly\\nawaited the coming of death, sending this message to his friends\\nSliould I leave any property after paying my debts, I desire that it\\nmay be given to the soldiers who have suffered for their country.\\nHis remains were taken to Boscawen, and interred in the\\ncemetery, near the site of the old meeting-house. His funeral\\nsermon was preached by his old chaplain, Prof. Parker now of\\nDartmouth college in the Congregational church on the plain,\\nwhich was filled by a great concourse of people, who had known\\nhis sterling qualities, and wliich were thus set forth\\nIn the prime condition and obligation of life, which conies up to us\\nmost forcibly in life s adieu, and beside the grave, your life, dear friend\\ndid you regard and employ it as yours for God? How happy to be\\nable here to-day to make mention of the fact, that, at the early ao-e of\\n21", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0439.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "o22 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nfourteen, he made public profession of tlie Cliristian faith, and conse-\\ncrated himself forever to the cross and service of the Redeemer.\\nOf the consistency of all the years of his Christian life, I do not\\nknow how faithfully he fulfilled the obligations of his Christian profes-\\nsion I cannot fully testify; but this I do know: his soldier s career\\nwas singularly free from the vices of army life. I never knew any de-\\nparture in his conduct from the strict line of principle and virtue. His\\ncharacter seemed as upright as his tall frame.\\nHe was one with whom, in the army, I had ever pleasant inter-\\ncourse aud strong congeniality of feeling. I can see him even now, accom-\\npanying his men, as was so invariably his custom, to our regimental\\nSabbath services; or, as he often sat within my tent, conversing upon\\nthemes which showed alike his excellent sense and excellent principles.\\nIt was no ordinary testimony to the esteem in which he was held by\\nthe noble company of which he was a member, when from a private,\\nwithout ever having worn a corporal s stripes upon his arm, he was\\npassed over all the intermediate grades at a step, and made a lieuten-\\nant by common consent.\\nThe respect he had among you here at home, for his character and\\nworth, he never lost in the army; and had he been permitted to return\\nto live once more among you, it would have been to have enjoyed your\\nincreased regard, I doubt not, as a man and a Christian.\\nAnd now Lieut. Ballard, at the early age of thirLy-four, sleeps in\\ndeath! IS^o more campaignings, no more hard-fought fields: the march\\nand battle of life are over!\\nThat noble spirit of his, whicli animated him to the performance of\\nduty at whatever cost or hazard, Avhich forbade his shrinking from any\\nperil, finally urged him forward with his men to the battle, although\\ndebility and disease warranted inaction, and demanded rest; and his\\nsick and weakened frame was unable to sustain the shock and effect of\\nthe wound then received.\\nI might have expected all this, so often have I heard him say that,\\nif he could move, nothing should ever keep him from accompanying the\\nregiment when a battle was to occur.\\nBrave soldier, noble officer, excellent young ni an, dearly beloved\\nfriend, we leave thee. Thy life was thy country s: she has it; and\\nnow thy name is thy country s: she will keep it!\\nWas it a lasting honor to have fought with our Revolutionary\\nfathers to found this government? Then is it enduring fame like\\nthee to have fought and died to sustain it!\\nHas no land ever more merited a patriot s love than thine Then,\\nthan thine, no patriot s devotion ever more merited gratitude; no pa-\\ntriot s death more merited honor.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0440.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0441.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0442.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, 323\\nAnd so we leave thee, heroic soldier, true-hearted patriot. Chris-\\ntian young man, esteemed, beloved friend. With many tears, and yet\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with hearts beating to a deeper love of country, and a higher estimate\\nof the true citizen, of manly worth, of virtue, of right, of freedom, and\\nof religion, we consign these battle-torn remains to the grave, and thy\\nsoul to God, thankfully trusting that the victory of the Christian life\\nand conflict is thine, martial strains exclianged for the music and mel-\\nodies of angels, the sword for the harp of gold, the soldier s laced and\\nplumicd attire for the robes of heaven and the crown of life and immor-\\ntality!\\nBUXTON, EDWARD, REV.\\nThe second pastor of the Congregational church in Webster,\\nKev. Edward Buxton, was born in Reading, Mass., Aug. 17, 1803,\\nthe youngest son of Benjamin and Hannah (Flint) Buxton,\\nwho subsequently removed to New Boston. j\\\\Ir. Buxton desired\\nthat one of his sons should enter the ministry; but in child-\\nhood the son was subjected to a fright which produced an im-\\npediment of sj)eech, and the father gave up all expectation of ever\\nseeing him engaged in the ministry. But the son adopted a\\nrigid course of discipline, by which he overcame, in a good de-\\ngree, his stammering, so much so, that in 1829 he began the\\nstudy of medicine. He gave himself so thoroughly to study, how-\\never, that sickness intervened, and he was compelled to relinquish\\nfor a time his chosen pursuit.\\nEecovering his health in some degree, he engaged in teaching\\nin New Boston, and, to perfect himself as a teacher, attended\\nExeter academy, then under Benjamin Abbot, the preceptor who\\ncould count Edward Everett, Alexander H. Everett, and many\\nother distinguished men of the century, as his pupils.\\nUpon leaving the academy, Mr. Buxton became preceptor of the\\nacademy in Greenland, N. H., where he found congenial society\\nin the person of Rev. Wallace Clark, pastor of the Congregational\\nchurch. The 3 oung preceptor became superintendent of the Sun-\\nday-school, and whenever the pastor was absent was selected to\\nconduct the public exercises upon the Sabbath.\\nSo acceptable were his services, that neighboring parishes, with-\\nout a minister, called upon the preceptor at Greenland to occupy\\ntheir pulpits. Thus gradually, and almost without any plan for\\nhis future life, Edward Buxton became a preacher, teaching by", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0443.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "324 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nday in the academy, studying theology by night in the house of\\nhis friend, Kev. Mr. Clark. His studies, rather, were in the\\nearly morning, for during those years he formed the habit of light-\\ning his fire and lamp before the first glimmerings of dawn were\\nseen in the east a habit that has adhered through life, and ena-\\nbled him to accomplish much which otherwise never woi;ld have\\nbeen done.\\nHe was ordained at Greenland in 1836, and was employed in\\npreaching at Rochester for a few months, then at Dorchester and\\nWhitefield, until called to Webster, in August, 1837.\\nHe was installed pastor of the church December 13 the same\\nyear, succeeding Rev. Mr. Price, who had resigned the pastorate\\nin the spring of 1836. From that date to the present, with the\\nexception of a few months in 1876, he has preached to the people\\nof Webster, preaching his 4()th anniversary sermon in December,\\n1877. He is the oldest pastor in the state. His term of office em-\\nbraces an important period in the history of the country. Since\\nhis settlement, the nation has passed through a great civil war.\\nPrevious to the breaking out of the conflict was the period of ex-\\ncitement incident to the agitation of the anti-slavery question.\\nThe church in Webster, in common with most of the churches,\\nwas conservative. slow to act, and regarding with distrust the\\nmethods of many of the earnest anti-slavery reformers. Dur-\\ning the years of excitement, the pastor of the church manifested\\nthat equipoise of judgment and calmness of disposition which\\ncarried him safely through a period in which many pastorates\\nwere dissolved.\\nMr. Buxton, like his predecessor, has performed arduous duties\\nas superintending committee of schools, and has taken great inter-\\nest in the cause of education, giving individual instruction to\\nmany young ladies aiad gentlemen.\\nHe has been thrice married, first, to Elizabeth McParland,\\ndaughter of Rev. Asa McParland, d. d., of Concord second, to\\nMrs. Lois Jewett, of Laconia third, to Mrs. Louise Jane Dix\\nPillsbury, widow of Gen. Moody A. Pillsbury, and daughter of Col.\\nTimothy Dix, of Boscawen.\\nIn 1876, Mr. Buxton was elected delegate to the convention for\\nthe revision of the state constitution.\\nBy his fidelity as a pastor, his high character, liis consistent", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0444.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 325\\nlife, his devotion to dutj-, and liis regard for the welfare of the\\nwhole community, he has won the respect and affection of the\\npublic in a remarkable degree. It falls to the lot of but few men\\nto be so universally esteemed.\\nThough past the age allotted to man, he still ministers to the\\njieople, and maintains the studious habits of his early j^ears.\\nHe is an ardent lover of music, and is in full sympathy with\\nthe progressive spirit of the age, endearing himself alike to old\\nand j^oung, with the sports and pleasures of childhood, as well as\\nwith the graver duties of maturer years.\\nBURBANK, ABRAHAM, CAPT.\\nOne of the prominent business men of Boscawen was Abraham\\nBurbank, eldest son of David Burbank, and grandson of Capt.\\nMoses Burbank, one of the earl}- settlers of the town. He was\\nborn Nov. 16, 1781, learned the trade of blacksmith of his father,\\nand carried on blacksmithing on Little hill with Jesse Little.\\nHe was an adept in making axes, giving them a shape much liked\\nby the woodchoppers at the beginning of the centur} and of such\\nkeen temper that Abe Burbank s axes were Avidely known,\\nand had a ready sale.\\nHe married Mary Call, and, second, Polly M. Jackman, settled\\nin Bashan on the farm now owned by his son, Mr. Azro Sheridan\\nBurbank, and engaged in lumbering.\\nWith his son. Friend L. Burbank, he became proprietor of the\\nmills on Blackwater river; also, a mill on Knight s Meadow\\nbrook also, one on Pond brook. At one time, nearly every mill\\nin Boscawen was employed in sawing his lumber, which was sent\\ndown the Merrimack river to Lowell and Boston.\\nHe was greatly respected by his fellow-citizens, and was re-\\npeatedly elected to represent them in the legislature. He was a\\ncheerful supporter of religious and charitable organizations, and\\nalive to all interests affecting the public welfare.\\nHe died in 1856, aged 75 an active, energetic, honored citizen\\nto the last year of his life.\\nBURBAXK, LITTLE,\\nSon of David, was born in Boscawen [see Genealogy]. He settled\\nin Bashan, on land now owned by William Huntoon, at the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0445.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "326 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ncorner of the road leading west to the cemetery, hut suhsequently\\npurchased the farm now owned hy F. F. Wm. Fisk. He early\\nengaged in lumhering, sending masts, spars, and oak timber to\\nMedford, and other kinds to Lowell. He was a man of great\\nindustry, working early and late, and employing many men. He\\nwas a public-spirited citizen, a steadfast supporter of civil and re-\\nligious institutions, a consistent member of the Congregational\\nchurch, and a respected member of society.\\nBURBAXK, CALVIN M.,\\nYoungest son of Little Burbank [see Genealogy], at the begin-\\nning of the war enlisted in the Goodwin Rifles, Company B, 2d\\nE-egiment, commanded by Col. Gilman Marston, of Exeter, and\\nattached to the brigade commanded by Gen. Burnside. The regi-\\nment was conspicuously engaged in the first battle of Bull Run,\\nin which Mr. Burbank displayed that undaunted bravery which\\nanimated him in all subsequent engagements. Upon the retreat,\\nhe carried a comrade Holmes on his back for a long distance,\\nand after leaving him in the hospital, picked up the rifles thrown\\naway by others, having at one time five on his shoulders.\\nDuring the fall of 1861 the regiment was stationed at Chika-\\nmoxen. In the Peninsular campaign it took part in the battle of\\nWilliamsburg. In a letter to his brother he gives an account of\\nthe engagement\\nWe started at sunrise, and pushed r.apidly forward, our corps tak-\\ning the central route, Keyes on our right and Sumner on our left.\\nOur division took the lead, and at six o clock we were in sight of the\\nrebel entrenchments before AVilliamsburg. The action soon com-\\nmenced, and as the day progressed grew hotter, till by noon it was ab-\\nsolutely terrific. Our division, the rest of the corjis failing to come up,\\nhad to withstand the whole force of the enemy s centre; and right val-\\niantly did they do it, as the record of tlie day s fight will show. Four\\ntimes were they driven back, and as many times did they rally, and re-\\ncover the ground they had lost. Thus the battle raged till four o clock,\\nwhen reinforcements so long looked for at last arrived, and decided the\\nbattle in our favor, when the enemy, being driven hard into their en-\\ntrenchments, and darkness settling over the earth, ended hostilities for\\nthe day.\\nTo add to our hard fighting, it rained in torrents all day, and the\\nmen were completely drenched. Many of the men when they went", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0446.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 327\\ninto the fight threw away their knapsacks, and without any shelter you\\nmay judge that our situation was not to be envied. Still, the men\\nwere resolute in their determination to commence the fight the next\\nmorning.\\nYesterday afternoon I took a stroll over the battle-field, and the\\nsight that met my eyes was sickening in the extreme. Friend and foe\\nlay side by side in scores. Evidences of the fierceness of the fight were\\neverywhere visible, and it was easy to trace the progress and success of\\nthe fight by the too visible marks of the strife. Language fails me to\\ndescribe the appearance of a battle-field after the contest is over. It\\nmust be seen to be realized to its full extent.\\nFor gallantry at Williamsburg, lie was made a corporal.\\nEndowed with a strong constitution, lie passed tlirough all tlie\\nhardships of the Peninsular campaign, doing his duties whenever\\ncalled upon, notwithstanding the malaria of the Chickahominy.\\nHe was in the tliick of the fight at the second Bull Eun battle, in\\nwhich the regiment suffered severely. Defeat had followed de-\\nfeat. The soldiers had lost confidence in the management of the\\nami} But there was no faltering of patriotism.\\nIn a letter written Oct. 30th, 1862, is this outburst of loyalty\\nI, for one, nm getting heartily sick of this war, and the way it is\\nconduated. The fact is, there has been blood enough spilled and lives\\nenough sacrificed to have put down the Rebellion ere this if rightly\\nmanaged; yet I do not wish to see it settled in any other way, and\\nwillingly devote the term of my enlistment to attain the end for which\\nthe war was commenced. And yet, there are recreants North who\\nwould advocate a compromise, or peace on any terms, who would even\\nconsent to sever this glittering chain of strength and glory. There are\\ntraitor knaves who would lift their sacrilegious hands to break that\\nwhicli God hath united, which man must not sever. Is there a man\\nnow who dares to advocate a disunion of these blood-brightened links?\\nPalsied be his tongue to the very roof of his mouth, ere he can croak\\nout one word of disunion\\nPardon tliis flight of words; but I feel that all the hindrances are\\nowing to this class of persons.\\nHe was in the battle of Fredericksburg, in Franklin s corps,\\nwhere the regiment suffered severely. In the battle of Gettys-\\nburg, the 2d K. H. was, at the heginning of the action on the\\nsecond day, stationed in Sherfey s peach orchard, behind a rail\\nfence. Upon the advance of Longstreet s corps, it w^as almost", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0447.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "328 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY,\\nthe first regiment to open fire. Mr. Burbank fired twice at the\\nadvancing skirmishers. After the second sliot, he jumped upon\\nthe fence to see its effect, Avhen a hall went through one of his\\nthighs, shattering the bone, and he fell to the ground. The en-\\nem} was close at hand 30,000 men advancing rapidl} The\\nwhole of Sickle s line, in which was the 2d N. H., was forced\\nhack, and Burbank was left upon the field. During the whole of\\nthe contest, he was exjjosed to the fire of both armies. His\\nclothes were pierced with bullets. A wounded comrade, Ij ing\\nnear him, had his head taken off bj^ a cannon ball. During\\nthe night of Thursday he was in the enemy s hands but they\\nhad so many of their own wounded to care for that they could\\npay no attention to the Union wounded.\\nThrough the contest of Friday he lay there upon the ground,\\nexposed to the terrible storm of shot and shell. On Saturday\\nafternoon he was exposed to a thunder-shower. The rain })oured\\nin torrents. He soon found himself in a pool. The water ran\\ntill it covered his body, and he could only keep from drowning by\\npropping up his head with his knapsack. The water assuaged\\nthe terrible fever that had set in from his wound, and quite likely\\nsaved his life, as mortification ere long must have set in. Upon\\nthe retreat of the enem}-, Saturday night, he was taken up by the\\nambulance corps, having lain where he fell from Thursday after-\\nnoon, with nothing to eat but the few crackers in his knapsack.\\nHe was taken to the hospital at Brattleborough, Vt., where he\\nremained till his wound was healed. He was impatient to join\\nhis regiment. He applied to be sent back, but the surgeon\\nwould not give him permission, thinking he was not well enough.\\nOne day he was found missing, and deserter was written\\nagainst his name. The return was sent to the colonel of the regi-\\nment but before it reached there, Burbank was doing his duty in\\nthe ranks as picket, having voluntarily retiirned. His colonel or-\\ndered him into his presence, and condemned him to have an addi-\\ntional stripe sewed upon his right arm, advancing him to tlie rank\\nof sergeant. Nothing but an impediment of speech debarred him\\nfrom receiving a commission. He was in all of the battles of the\\nWilderness campaign in which the 2d N. H. took part.\\nOn the ICth of May, 1864, the regiment was engaged with the\\nenemy in front of Richmond, when Burbank, who was in adA ance", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0448.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 329\\nof the skinnisli line, found himself confronted by a rolxd. They\\nwere but a few rods apart. Both raised their guns and fired at\\nthe same instant. The rebel fell dead, with a bullet through his\\nbrain, while the ball from the rebel s gun passed through Bur-\\nbank s cheek, making a fearful wound, and disfiguring that side\\nof liis face. He was taken to the hospital, and mustered out of\\nservice, June 21, 1864, having taken part in more than thirty\\nengagements.\\nWithout any disparagement to the valor or bravery of others,\\nit may be said that he was one of the bravest of the brave. He\\nserved his country from motives of pure patriotism, and has left\\nan imperishable record.\\nHis death, which occurred in Ma_y, 1866, was very sad. It was\\nfrom small-pox, in the hospital at Manchester. Strangers only\\ncould care for him in his last hours on earth.\\nHe married IMiss Louisa Nichols, who died before the war,\\nleaving one child, a daughter, now living.\\nBURBAXK, FRIEND L.\\nFriend Little Burbank, eldest son of Capt. Abraham and\\nMary (Call) Burbank, was born in Boscawen, Jan. 29, 1806. He\\nmarried Dorothy Jackman, daughter of Joshua Jackman, of Bos-\\ncawen. He engaged with his father in the occupation of lumber-\\ning. Through life he has followed that calling, manufacturing\\nmany millions of feet in the mills that now bear his name.\\nHis fellow-citizens have honored him by electing him repeat-\\nedly to manage the affairs of the town, and to represent them in\\nthe legislature [see Town Affairs\\nBURBAXK, DAVID E.\\nDavid Emery Burbank, son of Capt. Abraham and Polly\\n(Jackman) Burbank, was born in Boscawen, May 16, 1822. He\\nmarried Mary Elliot, of Canterbury, in 1845, and followed the oc-\\ncupation of merchant at Sweatt s mills for several j^ears. He\\nwas a prominent member of Boscawen Light Infantry, and was\\ncaptain of the corps when the military system of the state was\\ndisbanded, in 1849-60.\\nUpon the organization of Webster he was elected town-clerk,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0449.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "330 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nand was serving in tliat capacity when lie entered the military ser-\\nvice in 18G3.\\nUpon the organization of the 16th N. H. regiment, he was\\ncommissioned first lieutenant, Company H, a position Avhich he\\nfilled with honor to himself and his fellow-citizens. His commis-\\nsion was issued Nov. 4, 18G2. The regiment was ordered to the\\nDepartment of the Gulf under Gen. Banks, and, though not en-\\ngaged in any great conflict, performed arduous duties on the\\nMississippi, at Port Hudson and other localities. Lieut. Bur-\\nbanlv, in common with many of the regiment, was prostrated by\\nsickness. The -post physicians could hold out no hope for his\\nrecovery in that climate, and advised his return to the North as\\nhis only chance for recovery. The regiment had nearly filled its\\nterm of enlistment, and he accordingly resigned his commission,\\nJuly 18, 1863.\\nHe reached home, prostrated by disease. The fatigues, hard-\\nships, and malaria had so undermined a hardy constitution,\\nthat many months passed before he regained his health. He was\\nappointed postmaster at West Boscawen before the war, and\\nwhile absent Mrs. Burbank performed the duties of the office, and\\nconducted the business of the store.\\nHe subsequently moved to Norwich, Vt., where he still lives,\\nengaged in milling.\\nBURBANK, EZEKIEL W.\\nEzekiel Webster Burbank, son of Capt. Abraham and Polly\\n(Jackman) Burbank, was born in Boscawen, June 16, 1829. He\\nmarried Martha Ann Pillsbur}^, daughter of Enoch Pillsbury, and\\nresided with his brother on the homestead in Bashan.\\nUpon the organization of the 16th N. H. regiment he enlisted\\nin Company H, of which his brother, David E., was second lieu-\\ntenant. He served with honor, was faithful in all his military\\nduties, as in everything else. He soon fell a victim to the mala-\\nria of the Mississippi, and died at Brashea Cit} May 27, 1863.\\nHis was a character that won respect and confidence. He was a\\ntrue citizen and an earnest Christian.\\nCALL, OLOFF HANSON, REV.,\\nA native of Warner, became a resident of Boscawen in 1840. H!^e\\nwent through the academical course at Tilton Conference Semi-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0450.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ool\\nnary, and tlie theological course at tlie Concord seminary, and\\nbecame a member of the New Hampshire Conference in 1854.\\nUnder appointment from that body, he preached at Haverhill, Bath,\\nBenton, Warren, Marlow, Seabrook, Salem, Londonderr} New-\\nmarlvet, and at Amesbury, Mass. He moved to Kansas in 1875,\\nwhere he is still engaged in the ministry.\\nCALL, ^rATHAX, M. D.,\\nSon of Silas Call, was born in Boscawen Sept. 25, 1827. He attend-\\ned the common school on North Water street, but, aside from a terra\\nor two at an academ}-, had no other literary course. He began the\\nstudy of medicine with Dr. E. K. Webster on the Plain, Feb. 20,\\n1851, attended two courses of lectures at Hanover and one at\\nBrunswick, graduating at Hanover in 1854. He attended one\\ncourse of lectures at the New York Medical College, studied dis-\\nsection with Dr. E. H. Parker, then of Concord, and began prac-\\ntice with Dr. Webster in March, 1855, when he was appointed\\nassistant physician at the N. H. Asylum for the Insane, at Con-\\ncord, under the superintendence of Dr. J. E. Tyler. His duties\\nwere acceptably discharged while in that official position. In\\n1859 he returned to Boscawen and resumed practice, where\\nhe remained till 18G4, when he removed to Suncook. He was\\nmarried in 1855 to Miss Charlotte M. Colby, of Contoocook, was\\nelected secretary of the N. H. Medical Society in 1862, retaining\\nthe position till 1866. He died at Suncook, June, 1875, after a\\nbrief illness, greatly lamented. In early life he connected himself\\nwith the Christian Baptist church, and lived a life consistent\\nwith his profession. As a citizen he was highly esteemed, and as\\na physician occupied a high rank.\\nCALL, WILLIAM W.\\nWilliam Walker Call, son of Lemuel Call, was born Jan. 13,\\n1822. He worked on his father s farm till arriving at majority,\\nhaving no educational advantages except those of the district\\nschool. In the fall of 1848, while residing at Lawrence, Mass.,\\nhe read in the Boston Journal the first report of the discovery of\\ngold in California. During the winter, as the reports of the richness\\nof the deposits were confirmed, he determined to seek his fortune\\nin that land. In company with his brother Jonas and Mr. Bit-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0451.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "332 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nfield Burbank, he started from Boscawen May 11. Beaching\\nNew York he found tliere %Yas little prospect of going to Cali-\\nfornia by the Isthmus of Banama. He could not think of the long\\nocean voyage around Cape Horn, and determined to push west\\nacross the plains. At three o clock on the day after his arrival in\\nNew York he was on the train, with his companions, for Bitts-\\nburgh. Beaching that city, he took passage on the steamer Ben\\nWest, which left the next day for St. Louis. The Ben West\\nwas a new boat, making her first trip. At Cincinnati a fast\\nsteamer, also bound for St. Louis, came alongside, and attempted\\nto pass the Ben West. The result was a race the entire dis-\\ntance, the captains, reckless of consequences, feeding the furnaces\\ntill the flames spouted from the tops of the chimneys. The new\\nboat won the race by several hours. Mr. Call was quite will-\\ning to make so quick a passage, as it bore him so much the faster\\non his journey.\\nAt St. Louis, he and his companions purchased a few articles of\\ntheir outfit, and embarked by steamer up the Missouri. The boat\\nwas crowded with Mormons. The cholera broke out, and the l)oat\\nstopped several times to burj^ the dead. Thirty-one passengers\\ndied in two and one half days between St. Louis and Independ-\\nence. The party from Boscawen had the wisdom to remain on\\nthe hurricane deck most of the time, and thus escaped the con-\\ntagion.\\nAt Independence they purchased a wagon and four mules,\\nand loaded the wagon with provisions. In New England they\\nhad been accustomed to using oxen and horses, and knew nothing\\nof the nature of mules l;)ut ere long they discovered that a mule\\nhas a nature of his own a peculiar nature, a propensity to kick\\nwagons into kindling-wood, to stoji when he is so inclined, to\\nset firmlj^ back in the harness at times. The mules were unbrok-\\nen. To control them, ropes were tied around the necks of the\\nleaders, and two of the party walked by their side. They\\nstarted Ma}^ 22. At the descent of the first hill, the mules, in-\\nstead of holding back, broke into a run. In vain the efforts of the\\nmen holding the ropes to stop them. Down the hill the}- went,\\nmaking good time towards California, till one fell, and the others\\npiled on top of him, and the wagon above them all. Then the\\nheels flew. In a few seconds there were some kindling-wood and", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0452.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 333\\nstrips of harness lying around loose. With much labor the jjile\\nwas disentangled, and the party was astonished to find no damage\\ndone to the mules, who shook tliemselves, and meekly gazed upon\\nthe scene as if nothing in particular had happened.\\nKnowing from experience that oxen were conservative in their\\nnature, and would exercise a healthful influence upon such a, team,\\none of the party returned to Independence, purchased a yoke of\\nwell-trained steers, hitched them to the team, and there were no\\nmore stampedes nor settings back in the harness.\\nThe party joined a great train of fellow-travellers, experienced\\nall the hardships of the long journey, lasting one hundred and\\ntwo days, when they reached Pleasant valley in California on\\nSept. 2.\\nMr. Call and his companions took up a claim near Weaverville,\\nand worked till driven out by the fall rains, when they made their\\nway to Sacramento. The yield of gold was about $20 a day.\\nAs no business offered at Sacramento, the party proceeded to San\\nFrancisco, and pitched their tent at the foot of Mission street, ob-\\ntained a boat, boarded ships as they arrived, and purchased flour,\\npotatoes, and other provisions, which they retailed at a good prof-\\nit, returning to the mines in the spring.\\nAfter a year and a half of absence, Mr. Call visited Boscawen,\\nand removed his family to San Francisco, where he still resides.\\nCALL, JOXAS,\\nThe third son of Lemuel Call, was born in Boscawen, April\\n24, 1826. He attended the district school, and by dint of hard\\nlabor was able to attend Blanchard academy, Pembroke, ten\\nweeks.\\nArriving at his majority, he began the battle of life taught\\nschool in winter, and worked at various occupations in summer.\\nWhen the news was received of the discovery of gold in Cali-\\nfornia, he was in Maine. Upon the receipt of a letter from his\\nbrother William, at Lawrence, requesting his opinion in regard\\nto a trial of their fortunes in the land of gold, the younger brother\\ninstead of replying by letter, answered in person, ready to start\\nat once.\\nSome of the incidents of the journey are set forth in the bio-\\ngraphical notice of his brother William.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0453.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "334 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nMr. Jonas Call, while in the mines, discovered that the profits\\nof a boarding-house especially one for miners, where the hoarder\\nsettled his account promptly were quite as great in the long\\nrun as rocking the mining-cradle and he turned his attention to\\nthat business. He was also successful in mining. He saw, also,\\nthat San Francisco was destined to be a great metropolis, and\\nsecured a plot of land in the suburbs, which has greatly in-\\ncreased in value.\\nHe visited the East after an absence of several years, and mar-\\nried Miss Mary A. Stone, of Acton, Mass., and returned to Cali-\\nfornia.\\nMr. Call again visited the East, and took up his residence for\\none season on the old homestead, enjoying rest and relaxation\\nafter years of business activity.\\nHe returned to California in 1873, and embarked in a new\\nmining enterprise, which has yielded large returns.\\nDuring the reign of the vigilance committee in San Francisco,\\nwhen the law-and-order-abiding citizens took possession of the\\ncity government, which had fallen into the hands of a set of\\nthieves and murderers, Mr. Call was on the side of law. He shoul-\\ndered his rifle, took his place in the ranks, and aided in purging\\nthe body politic.\\nCASS, JOXATHAX.\\nOne of the first houses built west of Blackwater river was\\nerected by Jonathan Cass, father to Hon. Lewis Cass. He moved\\nfrom Exeter to Boscawen, and settled near Long pond, on the\\nfarm now occupied by the venerable David Sweat. The cellar is\\nnear Mr. Sweat s house. Mr. Cass was a blacksmith, and did all\\nthe smithing for the entire region. He was an upright and hon-\\norable man, a good workman and citizen.\\nHon. Lewis Cass was born in Exeter, and never lived in Bos-\\ncawen. Mr. Cass s wife died in Exeter, and he having married\\na second time moved to Boscawen, where he had a son, Barnard,\\nborn to him, who moved to Muskingum, Ohio.\\nCOFFIX, PETER, CAPT.\\nHe was born in Newbury, May 21, 1722, son of Jolm and\\nJudith (Greenleaf) Coffin, and was a nephew of Col. Joseph Coffin,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0454.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0455.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "on^aA\\n^oJl", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0456.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 335\\nclerk of tlie proprietors of Contoocook. He married Eebecca\\nHaseltine, of Chester, moved to Concord in 1766, and to Boscawen\\nin 1768-69. He settled on Water street, erecting the house oc-\\ncupied through life by his son Thomas.\\nAt t]iat time there were but two, or, at the most, three, houses\\nin what is now the town of Webster. His house became the con-\\nvenient stopping-place for all new settlers. Capt. Coffin soon\\nhad corn to sell and no matter liow scarce the grain, or how\\nhigh the current price, he never made a man s necessity his own\\nopportunit3\\\\ He was known as the poor man s friend.\\nHe had no desire for public office, and when chosen constable,\\nwhen the town would not accept his declination, hired Benjamin\\nEastman to perform his duties.\\nHe was an ardent patriot during the Eevolution, and although\\nthere is no record of his election as delegate to the Provincial\\ncongress, held at Exeter, April 21, 1775, yet his name appears on\\nthe list as a member of that all-important body. He served\\nin the campaign of 1777, upon the approach of Burgoyne.\\nHe was ever ready to support the religious institutions of the\\nday, was a liberal, large-liearted man, respected and beloved. He\\ndied suddenly, Dec. 15, 1789.\\nCOFFIX, REBECCA H.\\nEebecca Haseltine, wife of Capt. Peter Coffin, was born in\\nChester, IST. H. She was married in the fall of 1768. Dur-\\ning the summer Capt. Coffin had erected the frame of a house\\nnow occupied by Mr. Colb} on Water street. The masons had\\nconstructed the chimney, the boards and shingles were on the\\nsides and roof, and the south-west corner room had been parti-\\ntioned off, when the young bride, seated on a pillion behind her\\nhusband, reached her future home. Their house was on the fron-\\ntier of civilization. Possibly two individuals had gone l;)eyond\\nthem, to Corser hill and Blackwater, but the only road was a cart-\\npath over the rocks and hillocks, corduroyed upon the marshy\\nplaces.\\nThe newly married couple were beginning life. They had few\\nhousehold articles, a bed, kettle, frying-pan, wooden or pewter\\nplates, a knife and fork each, and a few other household articles,\\nall of which were packed upon a led horse but they had strong", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0457.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "336 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nhands, and were undaunted by the hardships and trials before\\nthem.\\nWhile the husband was making the woods bow before his\\nsturdy strokes, the wife kept the wheel humming or the loom in\\naction from morn till night. She was a thrifty woman, looking\\never after the savings as well as the earnings. She was at the\\nsame time liberal and kind, relieving the wants of those who were\\nhaving a hard time iii life.\\nDea. Enoch Little, who often when a boy ate a bowl of bread\\nand milk in her house, was accustomed to say, that if it had not\\nbeen for the kindness of Capt. and Mrs. Coffin, his father s family\\nwo;ild have found it hard to get through their first year in\\nBoscawen.\\nMrs. Coffin was intenselj patriotic, and when the stamp act im-\\nposed a duty on tea, she resolutely put away the few ounces in\\nher caddy, and would not have any of it used until the act was\\nrepealed.\\nIn 1777, when the order came for Capt. Peter Kimball s com-\\npany to march to Bennington, there were two soldiers who had\\nno shirts to wear. Mrs. Coffin had a web partially woven in the\\nloom. Seizing her shears she cut out Avhat she had woven, sat\\nup through the night, and made two shirts and in the morning\\nthe soldiers, thus provided for, took their places in the ranks.\\nThat was on the morning of July 4th. On the 15th of the\\nsame month she gave birth to her second son, Thomas. A month\\npassed. On the 16tli of August the victory of Bennington was\\nwon. Messengers brought the glad news, and Capt. Coffin, who\\nhad been out in a previous campaign, started once more, leaving\\nhis energetic wife with five children, the oldest a boy of seven\\nyears, the youngest an infant of five weeks.\\nThe wheat was dead ripe the birds were devouring it the\\nwinds were scattering the grains. It must be gathered but who\\ncould gather it, when nearly every able-bodied citizen was hasten-\\ning to drive back the enemy She remembered that Enoch\\nLittle, who had moved to Little hill a few months before, had sev-\\neral sons, for she had supplied them with bread and milk the\\nprevious summer, while Mr. Little was rearing his cabin. Pos-\\nsibly she might obtain one of the boys. She leaves the four old-\\nest children at home, in the care of the eldest, Enoch, the boy of", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0458.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 337\\nseven years, mounts the mare, takes Iier infant of five weeks in\\nher arms, rides through the forest, along the bhized path, fording\\nBeaver-dam brook, climbing Corser hill, fording the Blackwater,\\nmaking her way to the log cabin of Mr. Little, to find that the\\nthree eldest sons are in the army, that the oiily boy who can\\naid her is Enoch, fourteen years old.\\nEnoch can go, but he has no clothes, is the answer of Mrs.\\nLittle to Mrs. Coffin s request.\\nThe boy has no coat, vest, hat, stockings, or shoes. His only\\ngarments are a ragged pair of tow-and-linsey pants, and a rag-\\nged shirt.\\nI can provide him with a coat, is the reply.\\nThe boy leaps upon the pillion, and the mother, with the infant\\nin her arms, rides back through the forest to her home.\\nEnoch Little is no ordinary boy. He hears the birds in the\\nwoods, but he has work to do, and plies the sickle, while Mrs.\\nCoffin, in the house, is making him a coat. She has no cloth, but\\nshe has a meal-bag; and cutting a hole for his head, two holes for\\nhis arms, and, sewing on the legs of a pair of her own long stock-\\nings for sleeves, the garment is complete\\nThen going into the field, she \\\\njs her infant beneath the\\nshade of a tree, and binds the sheaves So she serves her coun-\\ntry so does what she can for human freedom.\\nShe survived her husband many years. She was a woman of\\ngreat energy of character, and trained her sons to prize character\\nabove everything else. All honor to her memory.\\nCOFFIIS CHARLES CARLETOX,\\nWas born in Boscawen July 26, 1823, son of Thomas and Hannah\\n(Kilburn) Coffin. His education, beyond the advantages of the\\ndistrict school, Avas obtained at the academy on the Plain, and\\none term at Blanchard academy, Pembroke. During the winter\\nof 1842, more for pastime than from any plan for the future, he\\nstudied land surveying and the rudiments of civil engineering.\\nThe time soon came when the slight knowledge thus obtained\\ncould be turned to account. He joined the engineers corps\\nin the preliminary surveys of the Northern Eailroad in 1845, and\\nwas employed upon its construction in 1846, also upon the pre-\\n22", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0459.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "338 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nliminary survey of the Concord Portsmouth road, and later\\nupon the Concord Claremont.\\nHe was married Feb. 18, 1846, to Miss Sallie Russell Farmer,\\ndaughter of Col. John Farmer, and sister of Prof. Moses G. Far-\\nmer. He purchased a farm on Pleasant street, now owned by\\nMr. Tyler Sweatt, but health failing, decided to turn his attention\\nto other pursuits. This determination was brought about by the\\nfavor with which some fugitive contributions to the newspapers\\nof the day were received by the public. His first article was pub-\\nlished in 1845, in the Congregational Journal., published in Con-\\ncord. He contributed to the Granite Farmer, printed at Man-\\nchester, and to the New Hampshire Statesman was one of the\\nfounders of the N. H. State Agricultural Society, and an active\\nmember.\\nIn the fall of 1849, Mr. Coffin constructed a telegraph line con-\\nnecting the Astronomical Observatorj^ of Harvard College in Cam-\\nbridge with the telegraph lines in Boston, for the purpose of put-\\nting it in connection with other observatories and in 1851 had\\ncharge of the construction of the telegraphic fire-alarm for the city\\nof Boston, under the care of Prof. M. G. Farmer, and gave the\\nfirst alarm ever given by telegraph, April 29, 1852.\\nWhile performing these duties he found time to continue his\\ncontributions to the press. Some stories entitled The Old Man s\\nMeditations, contributed to the Boston Traveller, may be found\\nin Littell s Living Age, 1852. Some lines, Death at Sunset,\\ncontributed to the Knickerhocher have become one of the\\nselections of lyceum readers. Many of his contributions at this\\ntime were to the Boston Museum, a literary journal. He occa-\\nsionally reported meetings and agricultural fairs for the daily\\npress, and was employed as assistant editor of the Practical Far-\\nmer, an agricultural journal conducted by Col. Wm. S. King.\\nFrom 1854 to 1860 Mr. Coffin was employed on several of the\\nnewspapers published in Boston, the Journal, Atlas, Traveller,\\nBee^ and Transcript, and during the winter of 1860-61 was\\nemployed as night editor of the Boston Journal. The Southern\\nstates were then seceding, the peace congress was in session, and\\nMr. Coffin, during the long hours of the night, had time for\\nreflection upon the events of the hour, and saw, what all men did\\nnot see, that a conflict of arms was approaching. He was then a", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0460.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 339\\nresident of Maiden, and, the morning after the surrender of Fort\\nSumter, took measures for the calling of a public meeting of the\\ncitizens of that town to sustain the President, one of the first\\nof the meetings held throughout the country.\\nUpon the breaking out of the war, Mr. Coffin became a corre-\\nspondent of the Journal, writing over the signature of Carleton,\\nwas present at the first battle of Bull Run, reached Washington\\nduring the night, and sent a full account of the action on the fol-\\nlowing morning.\\nIn the fall he joined the Army of the West, sent an account of\\nthe taking of Fort Henry, which was republished in the papers of\\nNew York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, before any other account\\nwas published. Comprehending the craving of the public for\\ninformation, and the importance of having his correspondence\\nappear before any other, he took the first train from Cairo, wrote\\nhis account in the cars, which when completed was placed in the\\nhands of an express messenger, while the Avriter returned to his\\npost of observation. By adopting this method, the Boston Jour-\\nnal was placed ahead of all its contemporaries, and published the\\naccount two days before any other paper in the country heard\\nfrom its correspondent.\\nMr. Coffin was at the surrender of Fort Donelson, reported the\\nmovements of the Army of the West from Pittsburg Landing to\\nCorinth, the operations at Island No. 10, New Madrid, Fort Pil-\\nlow, and the battle of the gunboats at Memphis, viewing it from\\nthe deck of one of Admiral Davis s vessels.\\nReturning to the Army of the Potomac, he witnessed the battles\\nof Antietam and Fredericksburg. Knowing that a powerful fleet\\nof monitors was on its way to attack Fort Sumter, he visited the\\nDepartment of the South, and witnessed the attack and repulse,\\nand also the failure at Fort McAllister.\\nDuring twelve days of the Gettysburg campaign, Mr. Coffin rode\\nbetween 250 and 300 miles in the saddle, more than 900 in the\\ncars, was on the battle-field three days and nights, and wrote a full\\nand elaborate account, which was republished in many papers\\nthroughout the country, and was translated and copied by the\\npress of Berlin and Paris.\\nWhen Gen. Sherman reached the sea-coast Mr. Coffin hastened\\nSouth, and the information that the flag of the Union was once", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0461.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "340 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nmore floating over Sumter was first given to the world through\\nthe Journal, and was telegraphed over the country before any\\npaper in New York had possession of tlie intelligence.\\nIn the campaign of 18G4, the JournaV s correspondent was an\\neye-witness of everj^ engagement from the Wilderness to Peters-\\nburg, and of nearly all the battles around Petersburg and Rich-\\nmond, which city he entered upon its occupation by the Union\\ntroops.\\nThe correspondence of Mr. Coffin was accepted by the public\\nas authentic, and gave the Boston Journal a wide circulation.\\nThe edition containing the account of the battle of Gettysbixrg ex-\\nceeded one hundred and twent}^ thousand copies, while the daily\\ncirculation not unfrequently reached eighty thousand. His letters\\nwere regularly read by more than a quarter of a million of people.\\nUpon the breaking out of the war between Austria, on the one\\nside, and Prussia and Italy on the other, in 1866, Mr. Coffin, ac-\\ncompanied by Mrs. Coffin, sailed for Europe but Austria, having\\nbeen crippled by the single battle of Konnigratz, a truce was de-\\nclared. Mr. Coffin remained abroad, however, writing a series\\nof letters on current events. He visited Italy saw the occupation\\nof Venice by the Italians reported the Paris exhibition of 1866\\nreported the scenes in the House of Parliament in England on\\nthe reform bill; was present at the coronation of the empe-\\nror of Austria as king of Hungary made the acquaintance\\nof many of the public men of Europe visited Greece, Turkey,\\nSyria, Palestine, and Egjq^t embarked at Suez for Bombay\\ntravelled across India, before the completion of the railroad vis-\\nited Malacca, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai sailed up\\nthe Yang-tse six hundred miles visited Japan crossed the Pa-\\ncific to California and crossed the plains before the completion of\\nthe Pacific Eailroad, having been absent two years and five\\nmonths. His corresjiondence dui-ing these years was widely read.\\nOf books, Mr. Coffin has published My Days and Nights on\\nthe Battle-Eield, issued 1863; Following the Flag, 1865;\\nWinning his Way, 1865 Pour Years of Fighting, 1866\\nOur New Way Eoimd the World, 1869; The Seat of Empire,\\n1871; Caleb Krinkle, 1874; The Boys of 76, 1876. Another\\nvolume, The Story of Liberty, will be issued in the spring of\\n1878.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0462.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n341\\nThe honorary degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by\\nAmherst college in 1870. He is an active member of the New\\nEngland Genealogical and Historical Society, and has contributed\\nto the library of that institution many valuable manuscripts re-\\nlating to the late Rebellion. He has been elected a member of the\\nAmerican Geographical Society, honorary member of the N. H.\\nHistorical Society, and member of the American Association for\\nthe Advancement of Science.\\nHe has made many addresses on public occasions, and given\\nmore than five hundred lectures before lyceums. He gave the\\ncentennial oration in his native town, July 4, 187G, and at the\\nrequest of his fellow-citizens has compiled the history of Boscawen\\nand Webster.\\nCOFFIN, NEHEMIAH C.\\nNehemiah Cogswell Coffin, son of Moses and Susanna (Farnum)\\nCoffin, was born March 24, 1815. He prepared for college at\\nMeriden academy, graduated at Dartmouth in 1836, taught the\\nacademy at Wolfeborough two years, studied theology at Andover,\\nMass., and at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati, was ordained pastor of\\nthe Presbyterian church. Fearing, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1843. From\\nthence he removed to Bremen, Ohio, where he preached two years,\\nand from thence to Hebron, Ohio, where he remained six years.\\nIn 1851 he became connected with the female seminary at\\nGranville, and was pastor at Piqua, Ohio, from 1852 to 1860.\\nHis health failing, he removed to Marblehead, near Sandusky,\\nand gave his attention to the cultivation of the grape, thinking\\nby rural occupation to regain his health. He married Miss Susan\\nRust, of Wolfeborough [see Gen.]. He died Jan. 9, 1868, after\\na life of much usefulness, lamented by all who knew him.\\nCOKSER, REV. ENOCH,\\nWas born in Boscawen Jan. 2, 1787. He was the son of David\\nCorser, and great-great-grandson of John, who (as is believed) was\\nborn in Scotland in 1678, emigrated to this country about 1690\\n[see Gen.].\\nPossessing an active intellect and a natural fondness for study,\\nEnoch Corser early decided to obtain a liberal education. After\\na term of study at Salisbury academy, he completed his pre-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0463.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "342 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nparatory course under the tuition of Rev. Samuel Wood, was ad-\\nmitted to Middlebury college, Vt., 1807, and graduated in 1811.\\nUl^on leaving college he opened a grammar school in Danvers,\\nMass., following the occupation two and a half years, Avhen he be-\\ngan the study of theology with Rev. Walter Harris, d. d., of\\nDunbarton, and in the following year, 1815, was licensed to\\npreach. After some months of labor at Middleton, Mass., and\\nColebroolv, N. H., he began preaching in Loudon, where he was\\nsettled in March, 1817. In the following May he married Miss\\nSally Gerrish, daughter of Col. Joseph Gerrish, of Boscawen.\\nHe remained in Loudon till 1837, when, after preaching a short\\ntime at Meredith Village, he accepted a situation with the church\\nat Sanbornton Bridge, preaching jis stated supply, teaching\\nalso a part of the time in the academy till 1843. During the fol-\\nlowing year he supplied the church at Plymouth, and at Lyndon,\\nVt. In 1845 he began pastoral labor at Epping, where he re-\\nmained till 1848, when he removed to Boscawen, supplying the\\npulpit at Fislierville and other places.\\nIn 1850, while fulfilling an engagement at Warner, he was\\nprostrated by paralysis, but from which he recovered, and began\\npreaching again in his old parish in Loudon, where he remained\\ntwo years, till prostrated by sickness. He continued to reside\\nin Boscawen till his death, Jan. 17, 1868.\\nHe was a man of great intellectual ability, rarely wrote his dis-\\ncourses, was earnest, forcible, and at times eloquent in the pre-\\nsentation of truth, an excellent pastor, and beloved by those who\\nattended upon his ministrations.\\nCORSER, CALEB B., COL.\\nHe was the second son of David and Judith (Burbank) Corser,\\nand was born in Boscawen Oct. 14, 1803. His father s family\\nemigrated to western New York, 1821, and settled first near\\nCanandaigua, and from thence removed to Ogden, Monroe county.\\nHe was united in marriage, 1828, to Henrietta S. Spencer, of\\nSpencerport, who died in 1840. His second wife was R. Maria\\nChapman, of East Haddam, Conn., who survives him.\\nHe was a farmer, but was elected a magistrate, and during his\\nterm of office, which continued for more than twenty years, none", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0464.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 343\\nof liis decisions were overruled by a higher court. One marked\\nfeature was his promptness in the discharge of every duty. His\\nword was as good as his bond. He was alive to all progressive\\nmovements, plain in his manner of life, and liberal in his benefac-\\ntions.\\nDuring the outbreak upon the Canadian frontier he commanded\\na regiment of riflemen, but there was no occasion for actual ser-\\nvice. He was often called upon to serve the public as a member\\nof the state assembly. In 1863 he settled in Rochester, where\\nhe died \u00e2\u0080\u00a2April 26, 1875, honored and respected by his fellow-\\ncitizens.\\nCHANDLER, ABIEL R.\\nAbiel Rolfe Chandler was born in Boscawen Aug. 25, 1805, son\\nof Nathan and Jane (Rolfe) Chandler. He married Eliza J. Mor-\\nrison, of Boscawen, and settled on a farm west of Fisherville. He\\nwas several years selectman and representative [see Town Offi-\\ncers]. In 1852 he moved to Lawrence, accepting a situation in\\nthe employ of the Essex company, where he still resides [see\\nGen.].\\nCOGSWELL, JOHN C,\\nCame to Boscawen at the date of his first marriage, N ovember,\\n1821, purchased the place now owned by T. P. Raymond, and es-\\ntablished himself in the business of tanning and currying, in which\\nhe was eminently successful. He was a vahiable and highly\\nes.teemed citizen, holding during his life several town offices of re-\\nsponsibility. His death occurred Jan. 14, 1841. He was a lineal\\ndescendant of Lord Humphrey Cogswell, an English nobleman of\\nthe fifteenth century, and of John Cogswell, a London merchant,\\nwho came to this country in 1635, and settled in Essex, Mass.,\\nthen called Chebacco, where many of his descendants now reside.\\nCURRIER, MOODY, HON.,\\nWas born in Boscawen, April 22, 1806. At an early age his\\nparents moved to Dunbarton, and thence to Bow, where his early\\nyears were passed on a farm, attending the district school about\\nsix weeks during the winter. He had an insatiable desire for", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0465.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "344 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ninformation, and devoured all the books lie could lay liis hands on,\\nreading through the long winter evenings Ly the light of a pitch-\\npine knot, or a tallow candle.\\nHe fitted for college at Hopkinton academy, and graduated at\\nDartmouth in 1834.\\nSoon after leaving college he taught school in Concord, and, in\\ncompany with Plon. Asa Fowler, edited the Neio Hampshire Lit-\\nerary Gazette. He w^as afterwards principal of the Hopkinton\\nacademy for one year, and in 18.36 became principal of the higli\\nschool at Lowell, Mass. He held that position for five y(#ir3, and\\nin 1841 removed to Manchester, where he has since continued to\\nreside. During his residence at Hopkinton and Lowell he stud-\\nied lav and on going to Manchester was admitted to the bar,\\nand became a law partner with Hon. George W. Morrison. In\\n1842 he purchased an intei-est in a Aveekl}^ newspaper, the Man-\\nchester Democrat, and devoted a part of his time to editorial\\nlabors for about a year. His partnership with Mr. JMorrison was\\ndissolved in 1843, but he continued in the practice of his profes-\\nsion independently until 1848. In that year the iVmoskeag Bank\\nwas organized, and he became its cashier, and has continued in\\nthe banking business since that time.\\nUpon the organization of the Amoskeag Savings Bank, in 1852,\\nhe became its treasurer, and still holds the office. When the\\nAmoskeag National Bank was orgaiiized to succeed the old Amos-\\nkeag Bank, in 1864, he became its president. He has been a di-\\nrector in the People s Bank at Manchester since it was organized,\\nin 1874 a director in the Blodgett Edge Tool Company during\\nthe existence of the corporation president and treasurer of the\\nAmoskeag Axe Company since its organization, in 1862 a direc-\\ntor in the Manchester Gas Light Company since 1862 a director\\nin the INIanchester Mills since the organization of the corporation,\\nin 1874 treasiirer of the Concord Portsmouth Railroad Com-\\npany since 18o6 treasurer of the Concord Railroad Compan}^ in\\n1871 and 1872 and is now treasurer of the New England Loan\\nCompany, and president of the Eastern Railroad Company in New\\nHampshire.\\nHe was clerk of the New Hampshire senate in 1843 and 1844,\\nand was elected a member of that body from the third district in\\n1856 and 1857, and was president of the senate in the latter", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0466.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0467.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0468.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 345\\nyear. He was elected councillor in ISGO and 1S61, and was chair-\\nman of the war committee of the council during the first fifteen\\nmonths of the war of the Rebellion. In that position he exhib-\\nited great ability and energy, and rendered efficient service to the\\nstate and the nation. He entered with his whole soul into the\\nbusiness of raising and equipping troops, and won great praise\\nfrom all parties for his efforts in this direction. Tlie first eight\\nregiments of infantry, the 1st New Hampshire Battery, together\\nwith four companies of cavalry and three companies of sharp-\\nshooters, were organized, equipped, and sent to the front with the\\nutmost despatch, while Mr. Currier was at the head of the Avar\\ncommittee. In compliment to him, the rendezvous of the Sth Reg-\\niment at Manchester was named Camp Currier.\\nMr. Currier has been three times married. His first wife was\\nMiss Lucretia Dustin, to whom he was married December 8, 1836.\\nHis second wife, to whom he was married September 5, 1847, was\\nMiss Mary W. Kidder. He was married to Miss Hannah A.\\nSlade, his present wife, November 16, 1869.\\nHe has had three children, one of whom, Charles M. Currier,\\nsurvives, and is the teller of the Amoskeag National Bank.\\nMr. Currier has an ardent temperament, and versatile talent.\\nHis practical judgment is shown in the success of the banking in-\\nstitutions which he has managed for many years, and also in the\\nsuccess of the various other enterprises with which he has been\\nconnected in an official capacity. He is methodical and cautious\\nin his habits, and has always sustained the reputation of being\\nhonorable and upright in all his business relations.\\nHe maintains a high rank as a scholar, and, unlike many other\\nmen who have enjoyed the advantages of a liberal education, he\\nhas throughout his whole life taken a strong interest in the study\\nof literature, science, and philosophy. He retains a taste for the\\nancient classics, and is quite familiar with the French, German, and\\nseveral other modern languages he has Avritten many pieces of\\npoetry, at intervals of leisure, which are very creditable in taste\\nand composition. He is an independent thinker upon all sub-\\njects, and, though he is decided in his convictions and frank in\\nthe avowal of his opinions, cherishes a tolerant spirit, and en-\\ntertains the highest respect for those with whom he is obliged to\\ndiffer.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0471.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "346 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nBy industry and prudence lie has acquired a handsome fortune,\\nand ]iis residence is a model of taste. He is liberal in his\\ngifts to worthy objects, and especially to those which relate to in-\\ntellectual culture. In 1876 he presented to the Manchester city\\nlibrary upwards of seven hundred volumes of valuable boohs,\\nstandard, classical, illustrated, ecclesiastical, and scientific. These\\nbooks were numbered and classed in the catalogue of the library\\nas the Currier donation. In acknowledgment of this generous\\ngift, resolutions of thanks to Mr. Currier were passed in both\\nhranches of the city government, and by the hoard of trustees of\\nthe city library.\\nHe has been for many years a member of the Unitarian society\\nof Manchester, and one of its most liberal benefactors.\\nDIX, TIMOTHY, LIEUT.-COL.\\nThe subject of this notice, after having passed several years as\\na clerk in the mercantile house of Col. Means, at Amherst, N. H.,\\nsettled in Boscawen with his father, Timothy Dix, and his grand-\\nfather, Jonathan Dix, about the year 1790. The latter died in\\nBoscawen at the age of 94 years, and his son at Pembroke,\\nin 1824, at the age of 73. Timothy Dix, Sr., the father of\\nCol. Dix, was for several years post-master on Boscawen Plain,\\nand is noticed in the historical collections of the state as distin-\\nguished for integrity, faithfulness, firmness, promptitude, deci-\\nsion, and strong attachment to the cause of his country.\\nHe raised a company of soldiers during the Revolutionary war,\\nand was familiarly known during his life as Lieut. Dix.\\nCol. Timothy Dix was a man of great activity and enterprise,\\nand gave a vigorous impulse to improvements in the town, and\\nparticularl} in the village of his residence, known as Boscawen\\nPlain.\\nThe character of the district school, which was far in advance\\nof most others at that period, was largely due to his earnest and\\npersevering efforts. The teachers were usually engaged by him,\\nand were selected with a careful regard to their talents and social\\nstanding. Among them were Gen. Fessenden, of Portland, Me.,\\nfather of the late senator from that state, and the accomplished\\nGrace Fletcher, the first wife of Daniel Webster.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0472.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n347\\nWhile Col. Dix was engaged in mercantile transactions, on an\\nextended scale for a country merchant, he purchased a township\\nin the northern part of the state, which hears his name, and\\nwhich has recently hecoine renowned for its hold and romantic\\nscenery. By the terms of the sale, he was to make certain im-\\nprovements within a given time but in consequence of severe\\nlosses in his business, caused chiefly by the embargo during the\\nadministrations of Jefferson and Madison, he was unable to fulfil\\nhis engagements, and the ownership of the town passed into other\\nhands.\\nAt the commencement of the war of 1812, he was appointed a\\nmajor in a New Hampshire regiment, and was soon afterwards\\ntransferred to the 14th Regiment of U. S. Infantry, a battalion of\\nwhich was recruited under his superintendence, in Maryland.\\nEarly in the spring of 1813 he marched from Baltimore to\\nSackett s Harbor with the troops he had raised, and in the fall of\\nthat year he was pi-omoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, the\\ncolonel having been captured by the enemy on the Niagara fron-\\ntier. He took command of the entire regiment.\\nHe had been prostrated by fever during the summer, and was\\noffered the command of Sackett s Harbor by Gen. Wilkinson, when\\nthe latter was organizing his expedition down the St. Lawrence\\nagainst Montreal, and though strongly solicited by physicians to\\nremain, he refused to give up command of his regiment, which\\nformed a part of the expedition.\\nIn the descent of the St. Lawrence it constituted the rear\\nguard of the army, which was encamped on the Canadian bank of\\nthe river, near Chrystler s fields, on the 10th of October. Early in\\nthe morning it was attacked by a fleet of British gunboats, which\\nhung upon the rear of the American forces, and brought on the\\nbattle on the 11th. He had the day before been seized with a vio-\\nlent inflammatory attack of pneumonia, and was borne by his\\nson, John A. Dix, and two other officers of his regiment, under the\\nfire of the enemy, to his boat, in which he died two days after-\\nwards.\\nCol. Dix Avas not onlj^ a man of excellent business capacity, of\\nunconquerable determination in all he undertook, and of indefati-\\ngable industry, but he was an accomplished draughtsman, a taste-\\nful musician, and a leader among his fellow-citizens in all intel-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0473.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "348 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nlectual pursuits and undertakings. His descendants have inher-\\nited his fondness for mental and personal accomplishments, and\\nsome of them have acquired a distinguished reputation in the\\nfield, in the forum, in literature, and in the fine arts. He was a\\nman of fine presence, of remarkably courteous and gentlemanly\\nbearing, and carried into his intercourse with others a degree of\\nfrankness and freedom from assumption which won for him the\\nkind feeling of those with whom he was associated. He was for\\nseveral years the representative in the legislature of the town\\nwhich he had greatly benefited by his enterprise and by the special\\nexertions which he made to promote the interests of education.\\nDIX, JOHX ADAMS, GOV.\\nJohn Adams Dix was born in Boscawen, IST. H., on the 24th day\\nof Jul} A. D. 1798. His father, CoL Timothy Dix, Jr., was one of\\nthe most enterprising citizens of the town. His grandfather, Timo-\\nthy Dix, is still remembered hj some of the survivors of the period\\nas an u])right and intelligent man, and as post-master for many\\nyears. His great-grandfather, Jonatlian Dix, died in tlie village\\nat the age of 94.\\nJohn Adams Dix, when ten years of age, was placed under the\\ntuition of the Rev. Dr. Wood, by whom many of the first 3 oung\\nmen in the state of New Hampshire were trained in classical lit-\\nerature for college. The following year he was sent to Salisbury\\nacademy, of which Col. Long, afterwards an eminent topographical\\nengineer in the service of the United States, was preceptor. In\\n1810 he became a student at Exeter academy, during the presi-\\ndency of the Rev. Dr. Abbot, and there continued his classical\\nstudies. In both those institutions he gave promise of the dis-\\ntinction which he gained in after years as a public speaker. At\\nthe commencement of the year 1811 his father sent him to a col-\\nlege in Montreal, for the purpose of acquiring the French language,\\nwhere he remained until July, 1812. In that month all Americans\\nupwards of fourteen 3 ears of age were ordered to leave Canada, in\\nconsequence of the declaration of war by the United States against\\nGreat Britain. From July to December he continued his studies\\nunder private tutors in Boston, and made rapid progress in Latiu;\\nGreek, Spanish, mathematics, and elocution.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0474.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0475.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "v^\\nM.- vJ GE^ JUHN A DIX", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0476.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 349\\nIn December, 1812, he received his first commission in the army,\\nand was ordered to report to his father, who was then in Maryland,\\nraising the 14th Regiment of Infantry. In March, 1813, lie re-\\nsigned his cadet s appointment, received the commission of ensign\\nin his father s regiment, and in the following month joined the\\narmy at Sackett s Harbor. His father, being then in command\\nof the 14th Infantry, w^as attacked by severe illness, which in-\\ncreased to such a degree that he was unable to walk; and he\\nwas borne, by his son and a brother officer, under the fire of the\\nenemy, on the morning of the battle of Chrystler s fields, to a boat\\non the St. Lawrence, in which he died as the army was landing at\\nFrench Mills. During the war, young Dix, who, before he was\\nfifteen years of age, was acting adjutant of an independent battal-\\nion of the regular army, commanded by Major Timothy Upham,\\nfilled several staff appointments, and was afterwards for several\\nyears aide-de-camp to Major-General Jacob Brown, when the lat-\\nter was at the head of the American army. While holding these\\nappointments, with a view to returning to private life he com-\\nmenced the study of the law, under William Wirt, then attorney-\\ngeneral of the United States. On resigning his commission in\\nthe army, he was admitted to the bar in the city of Washington.\\nIn 1828, at the village of Cooperstown, N. Y., Mr. Dix com-\\nmenced the practice of the law. In 1831, he received the ap-\\npointment of adjutant-general of the state, and removed to xilbany.\\nIn 1833, he was made secretary of the state. While adjutant-\\ngeneral, he made a report on the militia system and while secre-\\ntary of state, he made a report on the education of common-school\\nteachers, and another on the geology of the state. These papers\\nare marked by extraordinary ability, and have ever been regarded\\nas standards in those departments of knowledge. He was called\\nupon, without previous consultation with him, by the legislature,\\nto report a plan for a geological survey, in the spring of 1835\\nand, without any previous knowledge on the subject, he prepared\\nhimself, by indefatigable labor during the summer, for the per-\\nformance of the service, and was able to present his report at the\\nopening of the session of the legislature in the ensuing January.\\nIt was adopted, and made the basis of the important work, whose\\nrecord, in some twenty quarto volumes, is well known to the sci-\\nentific community.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0479.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "350 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nGeneral Dix went to Europe in the year 1842, and returned in\\n1844. In January, 1845, he was chosen a senator of the United\\nStates in place of Silas Wright, who had been elected governor\\nof the state of New York in the month of November j^receding.\\nHis first effort was a speech on the Oregon question, delivered in\\nthe senate, Feb. 18 and 19, 1846. It placed him at once in the\\nfront rank of public orators and statesmen. When he took his\\nseat. Col. Benton, the veteran senator from Missouri, rose and\\nsaid,\\nI propose to speak to a branch of this question not the\\nbranch of it on which the senator from New York on my right [Mr.\\nDix] has spoken. If I had intended to speak on that branch,\\nI should have given up the design after hearing his speech\\nof yesterday and to-day. It has left nothing for me to saj^ on the\\npoint of title, familiar as I have been with that subject for thirty\\nyears. He has placed the American title to the Columbia and to\\nthe coast north of it on ground from which it can never be re-\\nmoved, and which must put an end to the argument wherever that\\nspeech is read. A speech more perfect in its proofs, better sus-\\ntained by history, more crowded with material pertinent to the is-\\nsue, more satisfactory to all lovers of truth and justice, more\\njudiciously conceived and vigorously executed, I have never\\nheard delivered and I make my congratulations to that senator\\non the service he has rendered to his country, and the honor he\\nhas gained for himself by its delivery.\\nThe position thus acquired was in no resjjiect imjiaired by his\\nsubsequent service in the senate. In his speeches on the ware-\\nhouse system, French spoliations, the Mexican war, the Roman\\nmission, slavery, and other questions, he displayed the same abil-\\nity and thorough mastery of his subjects. Charles Sumner once\\nsaid, to a friend, that he should recommend to any young man, pre-\\nparing himself for public life, to study the speeches of Gen. Dix\\nin preference to any others, as models of ability, eloquence, and\\nsenatorial dignity.\\nIn the year 1853, at the urgent request of President Pierce, he\\naccepted the office of assistant treasurer in the city of New York,\\nand was relieved, at his own solicitation, at the end of six months,\\nafter having received and disbursed some sixty millions of dollars.\\nEarly in 1860, the postmaster in the same city having absconded", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0480.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, 351\\nwitli $150,000 of the public money, Gen. Dix was called upon by\\nPresident Buchanan to take that office. He held it until January,\\n1861, when, on the occurrence of another and a far more urgent\\nemergency, his services were again in request, and he was ap-\\npointed secretar}^ of the treasury after the desertion of Cobb, who\\nbecame one of the leaders in the movement to overtlirow the gov-\\nernment. It was while in that position that Gen. Dix gave the\\nremarkable order, which sent a thrill through the l:)reasts of all\\nAmerican patriots, when the secessionists were taking forcible\\npossession of the mints, forts, arsenals, and revenue cutters of the\\nUnited States. Having been advised by his agent that a captain\\nof one of those cutters refused to obey his orders, he directed the\\nlieutenant to arrest him, and treat him as a mutineer if he resist-\\ned, closing his dispatch with the command, which will be remem-\\nbered as long as the nation endures, If any one attempts to\\nhaul dovm the American flag^ shoot him on the spot^\\nOn the 16th of May, 1861, General Dix was appointed major-\\ngeneral of U. S. volunteers and, after superintending the raising\\nof eleven regiments in New York, he was assigned to the com-\\nmand of the department embracing the states of Pennsylvania,\\nDelaware, and Maryland, and established his head-quarters at Bal-\\ntimore. Maryland was at that time in a state of semi-rebellion,\\nand there is little doubt that an ordinance of secession would have\\nbeen passed if the leaders in the legislature had not been arrested.\\nGen. Dix immediately proceeded to fortify the city, and, by a judi-\\ncious combination of firmness and conciliation, the state was car-\\nried in the ensuing fall by a majority of thirty thousand for the\\nUnion. This important service was followed by a successful expe-\\ndition, which he organized and sent to the eastern shore of Virgin-\\nia, dispersing the secessionist forces, and restoring that important\\ndistrict to the Union. In the following year he was ordered to\\nFortress Monroe, and succeeded Gen. McClellan in the command\\nof the Department of Virginia. His chief services in this depart-\\nment were in the defence of Suffolk, after an investnient of a\\nmonth by a greatly superior force, and his movement against\\nRichmond, which contributed to the sudden return of Gen. Lee s\\narmy to Virginia, after the battle of Gett3-sburg. He was imme-\\ndiately afterwards ordered to New York during the riots got up\\nto defeat the draft, and, after completing it, was continued in com-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0481.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "352 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nmancl of tlie Department of the East until Gen. Lee s surrender\\nto Gen. Grant, when he resigned his commission in tlie army, and\\nreturned to private life.\\nIn October, 18G6, he accepted for a few weeks tlie appointment\\nof naval officer of the port of New York, and was appointed min-\\nister to the Hague. He did not accept the latter appointment\\nand in Novemljer was appointed minister to France. In 1869\\nhe resigned, and returned to the United States. During his dip-\\nlomatic sojourn at the French court, he contributed greatly by\\nhis courtesy and friendly offices to remove the unkindly impres-\\nsion which had grown out of the expedition of Napoleon III to\\nMexico, and to restore the traditionary friendship between France\\nand the United States. His diplomatic correspondence with the\\nFrench government embraces, among other matters, the impor-\\ntant questions of extradition and exj^atriation and should they\\nbe published, they will be found worthy of his fonner reputation\\nfor research and solid reasoning.\\nThe last public service of Gen. Dix was rendered as governor\\nof the state of New York, an office to which he was elected\\nagainst his wishes and remonstrances. It may justly be said,\\nthat the affairs of that state have not for fifty years been more\\nabl} faitlifuUy, or successfully administered. He found the\\ntreasury defrauded, in violation of the constitution of the state, of\\nmore than six millions of dollars and during his administration\\nof two years he succeeded in replenishing it. His whole course\\nwas marked by freedom from partisanship and selfishness, and by\\nan earnest devotion to the best interests of the people of the state.\\nThis jDraise has been freely conceded to him, even by his political\\nopponents.\\nGen. Dix has never been an applicant for office. The positions\\nhe has filled were always tendered to him without solicitation on\\nhis part, and more than once against his earnest protest. He\\nwas never a favorite with politicians. They were never able to\\nuse him, and they knew it, and instinctively disliked their moral\\nsuperior. The government and the people have usually had re-\\ncourse to him when they needed aid. It was so when he was\\ncalled to the offices of post-master of New York and secretary of\\nthe treasury. His predecessors had proved faithless to their\\ntrusts, and his experience and integrity were needed to carry out", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0482.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 353\\nindispensable reforms. His name lias earned witli it those ele-\\nments which the public require in time of danger, and which, in\\nprosperity, they are prone to pass over till some fresh disaster puts\\nthem once more in demand.\\nJSTo sketch of the life and services of John A. Dix would be com-\\nplete which did not make mention of him as a student and a\\nscholar. Throughout an official career of nearly half a centurj^,\\nwith occasional intermissions, he has devoted all his leisure mo-\\nments to literary pursuits, and esj^ecially to the classics. The\\ncountry has very few men so conversant as he with the Latin\\nauthors, in the study of whose works he takes unceasing delight.\\nHis translations are remarkable. That of the Dies Irne, the\\ngreat mediaeval hymn of the Christian church, is ranked by the\\nmost distinguished critics as among the best renderings of that im-\\nmortal production.\\nThe following translation was made by Gen. Dix, at Fortress\\nMonroe, Va., in 1863, when in command of the Department of\\nVirginia. He prefaces it with the following remarks\\nDIES IR.E.\\nI have recently seen in the periodical press several new translations\\nof this noble canticle the best produced by the Middle Ages, perhaps\\nby any age.\\nAmong the English versions, that of the Earl of Roscommon seems\\nto have caught more of the inspiration of the original than any I have\\nseen. It is, nevertheless, a paraphrase rather than a translation. Tliis\\nis a serious fault, notwithstanding its high poetic merit. A production\\nuniversally acknowledged to have no superior of its class, should be as\\nliterally rendered as the structure of the language into which it is trans-\\nlated will admit. Moreover, no transhation can be complete which\\ndoes not conform to the original in its rhythmic quantities. The music\\nof the Dies Irpe is as old as the hymn, if not older; and with those wlio\\nare famiUar with both they are inseparably connected in thought. To\\nsatisfy tlie exactions of such minds, the cadences must be the same.\\nWith full knowledge of what has been done and attempted in our\\nlanguage, and of the difficulty of doing better, I have nevertheless ven-\\ntured on a translation having in view the two ends which I have point-\\ned out musical notation, and literal rendering to the extent that is\\nattainable.\\nIt is the fruit of leisure moments gained from the hard service of\\nthe camp, on rebel soil, but within Union entrenchments. If, in the\\n23", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0483.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "354\\nBIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nages of paganism, the strings of the Lesbian lyre might be, not un-\\nworthily, swept by hands inured to arms,\\nQui ferox bello, tamen inter arnia.\\nLiberum, et Musas, Veneremque, et illi\\nSemper liaerentem piierum canebat,\\na soldier in a Christian age may not less worthily find relief from the as-\\nperities of war in themes more congenial with the higher dispensations\\nwhich he is, by the providence of God, permitted to share,\\nuport Va., June 17, 1863.\\nDIES IR^.\\nDies ira?, dies ilia\\nSolvet sicclum in favillS,\\nTeste David cum Sibylla.\\nDIES IR^.\\n1.\\nDay of vengeance, lo that morning\\nOn the earth in ashes dawning,\\nDavid with the Sibyl warning.\\nQnantus tremor est futurus,\\nQuando Judex est venturus,\\nCuucta strict^ discussurus\\nAh what terror is impending,\\nWhen the Judge is seen descending\\nAnd each secret veil is rending.\\nTuba, mirum spargens soniim\\nPer sepulcra regionum,\\nCoget omnes ante thronum.\\nIV.\\nMors stupebit, et natura,\\nQuum resurget creatiu a\\nJudicauti responsura.\\nV.\\nLiber script us proferetur.\\nIn quo totum continetur,\\nUnde mundus judicetur.\\nJudex ergo quum sedebit,\\nQuidquid latet .apparebit,\\nKil inultam remauebit.\\nTo the throne, the trumpet sounding,\\nThrough the sepulchres resounding.\\nSummons all, with voice astounding.\\n4.\\nDeath iind Nature, mazed, are quaking,\\nWhen the grave s deep slumber breaking,\\nMan to judgment is awaking.\\n5.\\nNow the written book containing\\nRecord to all time pertaining\\nOpens for the world s arraigning.\\n6.\\nSee the Judge his seat attaining,\\nDarkest mysteries explaining,\\nNothing unavenged remaining.\\nQuid sum miser tunc dicturus..\\nQuern patronum rogaturus,\\nQuum vix Justus sit securus?\\nVIII.\\nRex tremendoD majestatis,\\nQui salvandos salv.as gratis,\\nSalva me, fens pietatis\\nIX.\\nRecordare, Jesu pie,\\nQuod sum causa Tuas via\\nNe me perdas ilia die\\nWhat shall I then say, unfriended,\\nBy what .advocate attended,\\nWhen the just are scarce defended?\\n8.\\nKing of majesty tremendous.\\nBy Thy saving grace defend us\\nFount of pity, safety send us\\n9.\\nJesus, think of Thy wayfaring,\\nFor my sins the death-crown wearing\\nSave me, in that day, despairing.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0484.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n355\\nX.\\nQuEerens me sedisti lassus,\\nRedemisti, crucein passus;\\nTautus labor iioii sit cassiis!\\nXI.\\nJuste Judex ultionis,\\nDonuni fac remissionis\\nAnte diem rationis!\\nXII.\\nIngemisco tanquam reus,\\nCulpa rubet vultus mens\\nSupplicanti parce, Deus\\nXIII.\\nQui Mariam absolvisti,\\nEt latronem e.xaudisti,\\nMihi quoque spem dedisti.\\nPreces mea; non sunt dignse,\\nSed Tu bonus fac benign^,\\nNe perreni cremer igue\\nInter oves locum pra sta,\\nEt ab ha dis me sequestra,\\nStatuens in parte dextra\\nXVI.\\nConfutatis maledictis,\\nFlammis acribus addictis,\\nVoca me cum benedictis\\nXVII.\\nOro supplex et acclinis,\\nCor contritum quasi cinis:\\nGere curam mei finis!\\nXVIII.\\nLacrymosa dies ilia\\nQua resurget ex favilla\\nJudicandus homo reus\\nHuic ergo parce, Deus\\n10.\\nWorn .and weary Thou hast sought me,\\nBy Thy cross and passion bought me\\nSpare the Iiope thy labors brought me.\\n11.\\nRighteous Judge of retribution,\\nGive, O give me absolution\\nEre that day of dissolution.\\n12.\\nAs a guilty culprit gi-oaning,\\nFlushed my face, my errors owning.\\nSpare, O God, Thy suppliant moaning!\\n13.\\nThou to Mary gav st remission,\\nHeard st the dying thief s petition,\\nBad st me hope in my contrition.\\n14.\\nIn my prayers no worth discerning,\\nYet on me Thy favor turning,\\nSave me from that endless burning!\\n15.\\nGive me, when Thy sheep confiding\\nThou art from the goats dividing.\\nOn Thy right a place abiding\\n16.\\nWhen the wicked are rejected,\\nAnd to bitter flames subjected,\\nCall me forth with thine elected!\\n17.\\nLow in supplication bending.\\nHeart as tliough with ashes blending;\\nCare for me when all is ending.\\n18.\\nWhen on that dread day of weeping\\nGuilty man in ashes sleeping\\nWakes to his adjudication.\\nSave him, God! from condemnation!\\nGen. Dix is as much at home in modern as in ancient langua-\\nges. During his residence in Paris, while minister to the court\\nof France, he was present at a meeting of one of the literary soci-\\neties of that capital, and, on being introduced to the company,\\naddressed them in an elegant and effective speech in the French\\nlanguage, to the delight of all the listeners.\\nHis summers are spent at Seafield, his re.sidence at West\\nHampton, on the southern side of Long Island, about seventy", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0485.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "356 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nmiles from New York. The fame of tlie old general as a keen\\nsportsman and dead shot has gone through all that region and\\nthere, in congenial pursuits, and surrounded hy a loving and de-\\nvoted family, he passes, serenely and happily, the closing years of\\na life ^Yhich has heen full of good service to God and his country,\\nand on which rests no cloud of dishonor. A state or town is\\nhonored in hringing forth such citizens, and the men are happy\\nwho leave such a name after them, for the comfort and encourage-\\nment of future generations.\\nDIX, ROGER SHERMAX, MAJ.,\\nWas horn in Boscawen in 1810, son of Timothy Dix, Jr., and\\nyounger brother of Gen. John A. Dix. He fitted for college at\\nPhillips academy, Andover, and entered Dartmouth when he\\nwas fourteen, where he remained hut one year, going from there\\nto West Point as a cadet. He graduated in 18.32, and was at-\\ntached to one of the infantry regiments, and stationed at Little\\nEock, in Arkansas. He was appointed to the quartermaster s\\ndepot, and subsequently transferred to the paymaster s depart-\\nment.\\nUpon the breaking out of the Mexican war, he was attached to\\nthe army under Gen. Taylor and at the battle of Buena Vista\\nserved as volunteer aid.\\nThe signal service rendered l\u00c2\u00bby Maj. Dix in this battle is nar-\\nrated by Capt. James H. Carleton, of the 1st Dragoons. The 2d\\nIndiana volunteers had given way, and the moment was most\\ncritical. An effort was made by several officers to rally the fugi-\\ntives. The part taken by Maj. Dix is thus set forth\\nNone were so successful in arresting their flight as the intrepid\\nMajor Dix, of the pay department. Having ridden rapidly among\\nthem, he seized the standard of the 2d Indiana volunteers, and then\\ncalled to the men, and asked them if they would desert tlieir colors.\\nHe told them that they had sworn to protect them, and now, if they\\nwere still determined to do so, they must return with him to the fight.\\nHe swore to them that with God s help he would not see the state of\\nIndiana disgraced by having her flag carried out of battle until it could\\nbe carried out in triumph and that back into it again it should go, if\\nhe had to take it there and defend it alone. This touched the hearts of\\nmany of those who were within the sound of his voice. It seemed to", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0486.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0487.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "Birthplace of John Adams Dix.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0488.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 357\\nbaiiisii tlie panic which had fallen on them: they were themselves\\nagain. Tliey rallied, thought of their homes, gave three cheers for\\nIndiana, and again gathered around the flag. Captain Linnard, of the\\ntopographical engineers, who had been very active in seconding Maj.\\nDix in his appeal, now got a drum and fife, and directed the national\\nquickstep to be played, when the word was given to move on. Maj.\\nDix then led off with the flag, while the gallant captain brought up the\\nrear; and those thus gathered went back again into battle.\\nMaj. Dix died suddenly, in Pennsylvania, of cholera, while on\\na journoy from Tennessee to Washington, in 1849. He was bur-\\nied in the little town of Hannock, near the summit of the Alle-\\nghanies.\\nEASTMAN, JOSEPH, CAPT.\\nHe was son of Joseph and Abigail (Merrill) Eastman, of Salis-\\nbury, born in 1720. He moved to Contoocook in 1746. He\\nserved as a soldier in Col. Blanchard s command in 1754, after the\\nattack of the Indians upon Stevenstown (South Franklin). In\\n1757 lie enlisted as a ranger in Robert Rogers s battalion, and con-\\ntinued in service till the close of the war.\\nHe was in one of the severest contests ever fought on Ameri-\\ncan soil, on the shore of Lake George, Jan. 17, 1757, lasting from\\ntwo in the afternoon until dark. The rangers numbered seventy-\\nfour tlie Frendi and Indians more than two hundred and fifty.\\nOf the rangers, fourteen were killed, six wounded, and six taken\\nprisoners while of the French and Indians, one hundred and six-\\nteen were killed and wounded.\\nIn 1760, Gen. Amherst, at Crown Point, wished to communi-\\ncate with Gen. Murray, at Quebec, the distance being nearly three\\nhundred miles through almost a pathless wilderness, in possession\\nof the French and Indians. Gen. Amherst offered fifty pounds\\nto any four men who would undertake the journey. Sergeant\\nBeverley, who had been a prisoner in Canada, Luxford Goodwin,\\nJohn Shute, and Joseph Eastman, volunteered to accomplish the\\nundertaking.\\nShute was from Concord, and all were rangers, accustomed to\\nthe wilderness. They took despatches and letters, and were\\nescorted to Missisquoi bay, on Lake Champlain. They struck\\nnorth-east, and came to the St. Francis river. Tliat stream\\nwas a great Indian higliway and the question was, whether to", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0489.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "358 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ncross by daylight, or wait till night. They concluded to run the\\nrisk of getting across during the day, and, collecting driftwood,\\nconstructed two rafts.\\nThey cast lots to see who should first attem^it to cross the tur-\\nbulent stream. The lot fell to Eastman and Shute. They had\\nonly two poles. The current swept them down stream. They\\nsaw that the raft would go over a swift fall, and they managed to\\nsave themselves by leaping upon a rock with their guns and packs,\\nand thence reached the shore.\\nThe other two were less fortunate. They were swept over the\\nfalls. Goodwin and Beverley barely escaped with their lives, los-\\ning their coats, provisions, guns, and the letters entrusted to their\\ncare.\\nIt was a wet, swampy wilderness through whicli they trav-\\nelled. They had little to eat, but pressed on, steering north-east.\\nOn Sunday morning they heard a bell, and found themselves\\nclose to a village. Proceeding cautiously, they came to a log\\nhouse, found that the familj were at church, and helped them-\\nselves to provisions and clothing.\\nStarting on their way, they came to a second log house, in the\\nwoods. A ladder rested against the gable end, leading to a door\\nfastened with a padlock. They broke open the door, found a\\nchest filled witli clothing, and took whatever pleased them. They\\nwere in the enemy s country, and it was expected of a ranger that\\nhe would do all the harm he could to the enemy. Tliey avoided\\nall roads. At night they came to a farm-house, entered a barn,\\nand found a calf, which they killed. Each ranger shouldered a\\nquarter of veal, and took the skin along, kindled a fire in the\\nwoods, smoked the meat to preserve it, made moccasins of the\\nskin, and continued their journey.\\nFour days later they came in sight of the St. Lawrence, and dis-\\ncovered a large encampment of troops. They were uncertain as\\nto whether they were French or English. Beverley decided to\\napproach the encampment. If they were French, he was to make\\na signal for the other three to take care of themselves., He ap-\\nproached the camp. Eastman and his companions saw him stop-\\nped by a sentinel. After a short parley, they shook hands.\\nUpon this, Eastman, Shute, and Goodwin approached, and were\\nheartily welcomed. They were twenty miles above Quebec, but", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0490.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 359\\nwere at once sent to the city. Arriving there at midnight, they\\nwere taken to Gen. Murray s quarters, slept on the floor in the\\nkitchen till morning, when they were taken into a large hall,\\nwhere Gen. Murray and a hundred officers of various grades were\\nassembled to hear their story. Gen. Murray treated them to the\\nvery best of liquor, such, said Shute, as I never have tasted\\nbefore nor since, nor have I ever drank anything so good in my\\nlife. They were separately examined, and all had but one story\\nto tell. Gen. Murray was so well pleased with them that he would\\nnot let them return, but kept them to pilot the army, giving them\\nfour guineas extra pay.\\nA few days later the army was in motion up the river to join\\nAmherst; and they had the satisfaction of being present at\\nMontreal, Sept. 8, 1760, when the domain of New France was\\nsurrendered to the English.\\nCapt. Eastman married Elizabeth Jackman, daughter of George\\nJackman [see Genealogy]. He moved to Concord probably in\\n1769, as he was a voter in Boscawen in 1768 but his name does\\nnot appear at a later daj^ upon the records. He was a man of\\ndecided character and energ)-, capable of enduring great liard-\\nships, and an esteemed citizen in both towns. He died in 1815,\\nat the age of 95.\\nFARMER, JOHN.\\nCol. John Farmer was born in Billerica, Mass., December, 1791\\n[see Genealogy], moved to Boscawen with his mother about 1810,\\nand engaged in farming but, being of a mechanical turn of mind,\\nhe gave his attention to the im2)rovement of mills for the manufac-\\nture of shingles, laths, and clapboards. He invented a simple\\nmachine for smoothing the side of a block of wood. It was, in\\nreality, a planing machine, one of the first ever brought into use.\\nHe evinced considerable skill in the contriving of implements that\\nwould save labor on the farm.\\nQuite early in life he began the manufacture of lumber, which\\nwas rafted down the Merrimack to Lowell, and taken to Boston\\nthrough the Middlesex canal.\\nHe married Sally, daughter of Moses Gerrish, in 1819 [see\\nGenealogy]. He had great energy and decision of character, and\\nhis influence was felt throughout the community for good, and\\nmore especially after he became a member of the church.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0491.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "360 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nHe was elected to the legislature in 1828-9, and again in\\n1834-5. He was often called iipon to preside in town-meeting.\\nHe had a quick, judicial, discerning mind, was an early advocate\\nof the temj^erance reform, of the anti-slavery movement, and had\\nthat coolness of judgment that held an even course between both\\nradical and conservative parties. He was kind and liberal in all\\nhis views and acts, giving largely of his means to sustain benevo-\\nlent and missionary organizations. He was captain of the light\\ninfantry, and colonel of the 21st Regiment.\\nThrough his business operations, which becarae very extensive,\\nhe was widely known, and no man in the section occupied a more\\nfavorable position than he for political advancement. He died in\\nthe full vigor of life, from typhoid fever, July 17, 1836, at the\\nage of 45.\\nFARMER, MOSES G., PROF.\\nMoses Gerrish Farmer, eldest child of Col. John and Sally Ger-\\nrish Farmer, was born in Boscawen, N. H., Feb. 9, 1820. In early\\nlife he attended the district school in that town also the academy\\non Boscawen Plain.\\nHe entered Phillips academy, Andover, Mass., in the autumn\\nof 1837. At that time music was with him an all-absorbing pas-\\nsion, and other studies were often neglected in consequence of it.\\nOne day, while seated at the organ when he should have been\\npreparing his lessons for the morrow, the door suddenly opened,\\nand the calm, stern face of Dr. Taylor Avas before him. Farmer,\\nyou are disappointing the best hopes of jour friends, were the\\nonly words that fell upon the ear of the boy musician, and the door\\nclosed between them. Great Avas the influence of those words\\nupon the man Avho has ever found in duty his highest pleasure.\\nHe entered Dartmouth college in 1840, where he remained three\\n3 ears, and then Avas obliged to leave on account of ill health. (The\\ndegree of a. m. Avas conferred upon him ])y the faculty of Dart,\\nmouth in 1853.)\\nA few months after leaving college, he became preceptor of El-\\nliot academy, Me., and was married in that toAvn Dec. 25, 1844, to\\nMiss Hannah T., daughter of Richard Shapleigh, of Berwick, Me.\\nHe remoA-ed immediately to DoA er, N. H., as he then had charge\\nof the Belknap school in that town, Avhere he taught until the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0492.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0493.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "A/lir\u00c2\u00b1.^ 7 ^4//7T^.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0494.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 361\\nsummer of 1847, when lie turned liis attention wholly to scien-\\ntific pursuits, which were much more congenial to his tastes than\\nschool-teaching.\\nDuring these years he found his recreations in the study of\\nmusic. His fondness for mathematics, together with his love for\\nmusic, made him a thorough harmonist. The following anecdote\\nsets forth the versatility of his talents A church in a neighbor-\\ning town was about to settle a pastor, and the leader of the choir,\\nwishing to made the musical service unusually attractive, organ-\\nized an orchestra, with clarinet, flute, violin, and other instruments,\\nbut had no performer for the double-bass viol. He was informed\\nthat a gentleman in Dover was an excellent musician, and doubt-\\nless would be able to render good service. Upoii visiting Dover,\\nthe conductor found, to his great gratification, that the musician\\nwas a fellow-student at Dartmouth, who at once consented to j^lay\\nthe viol.\\nThe evening came. INIr. Farmer was late, and only entered the\\norchestra as the opening piece was to be performed. He snapped\\nthe strings of the instrument to ascertain if it was in tune, and, as\\nhe drew the bow across them, thus whispered to the conductor\\nI never played a double-bass in my life. The leader was aston-\\nished at the intelligence. What are you going to sing? Mr. F.\\nasked. The leader laid the score before him. I never saw it\\nbefore, he whispered.\\nEverything went well till the choir was about half through the\\npiece, when choir and audience were startled by a crash, and, to\\ntheir horror, saw that the })ile of books upon which rested the\\nscore of the violist had tumbled to the floor. Put there was no\\ninterruption, for his knowlege of harmony enabled him to render\\na fitting accompaniment to the end.\\nHe began his experiments in electricity in 1845, inventing at\\nthat time an electro-magnetic engine. In 1846 he constructed a\\nsmall electro-magnetic locomotive, also a small railroad track, and\\nexhibited the same in various towns and cities, lecturing upon the\\nsubject of electro-magnetism and its applications, showing also\\nhow it could be adapted to the use of torpedoes and sub-marine\\nblasting. His first lecture was given in Dover, and one of his\\nexperiments was made with a miniature shij), placed in a wash-\\nbowl of water. The ship was blowai up by electricity, and, com-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0495.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "362\\nBIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ning down, stniclc on the top of tlie lecturer s head. This was,\\nperliaps, the reason why tlie experiment was never repeated before\\nanotlier audience hut the circumstance is often recalled now, as\\nships nia_y so quickly he turned into kindling-wood hy the torpe-\\ndoes which he uses at the present day.\\nIn 1846 he invented the hook or sickle-shaped climber, for the\\nuse of repairers of telegraph lines in climbing poles, and came near\\nlosing his life in showing how easy it was to use them\\nAbout this time Mr. Farmer made the accjuaintance of Hon. F.\\n0. J. Smith, who was then one of tlie most prominent men in all\\ntelegraphic matters, which finally resulted in Mr. Farmer s leaving\\nDover, in December, 1847, and taking up his residence in South\\nFramingham, Mass., where he opened a telegraph office in the de-\\npot, and also had charge of the line between Boston, Worcester,\\nand Springfield. While here he tried the experiment of telegraph-\\ning by the use of a current from an induction coil, using a com-\\nmon medical machine for tlie purpose. Early in the winter of\\n1848, Mr. Smith, president of the Portland line of telegraph, and\\nMr. L. L. Sadler, superintendent of the Boston and New York\\nline, were one day talking over the possibilities of the telegraph\\nsystem, and the uses to which it could be applied and Mr. Smith\\nsuggested that an alarm of fire might be given by it, and\\nasked, Where is the man who can devise the machinery that\\nwill be needed to do it? Mr. Sadler replied, I have an opera-\\ntor in my employ now, who can do it if anybody can, for he is the\\nmost ingenious man I ever saw. He is in the Framingham office,\\nand his name is Farmer. I know him, said Mr. Smith; yes,\\nlie can do it, if it can be done. Mr. Farmer s attention was at\\nonce called to the subject, and he asked for a week in Avhich to\\nconsider it. At the end of that time he showed them what he had\\ndone. He took the striking part of an old clock, and invented the\\nelectrical part necessary to construct a miniature machine, which\\nclearly demonstrated the thought in a visible form. This was the\\nfirst machine in the world for giving an alarm of fire by electricity.\\nMessrs. Smith and Sadler were perfectly satisfied with it, but\\nwere too full of care in regard to their telegraph interests to do\\nanything further at that time, and the work was not resumed for\\ntwo years. Kot so with Mr. Farmer. If this were sometliing\\nthat could be done, and the world needed it, the time would come", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0496.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 363\\nwhen it could be carried into operation, and he was constantly\\ndevising ways and means hy which to accomplish it. This was of\\ngreat help to him when he was called to the work in ISal.\\nHaving conscientious scruples about the work required of him\\non the Lord s day by the New York Telegraph Co., he was re-\\nleased from his engagement there. He removed to Salem, Mass.,\\nJuly, 1848, and took charge of the telegraph office in that city,\\nalso of temporary repairs on the line between Boston and New-\\nburyport.\\nIn the autumn of the same year he received an order from the\\ncity of Boston to construct two small machines for striking alarms\\nof fire on church bells, the machines to be made according to the\\n2:\u00c2\u00bblans which he had previously submitted to Mr. Smith. The ma-\\nchines were constructed at once by Messrs. Howard Davis, the\\nwell knowni clock-makers of Eoxbury, Mass., and were exhibited\\nin Boston, December, 1848. One was placed on the top of the\\ncourt-house, and the other in the office of Mr. Sadler, the superin-\\ntendent of the New York line of telegraph. These machines\\nwere connected by a wire, and were operated by a circuit of the\\nmain New York line, and the bells to Avhich tliey were attached\\nwere both struck simultaneously by an operator in New York\\ncity, two hundred and fifty miles away. The experiment was\\nperfectly satisfactory to all who witnessed it, and accounts of the\\nwonderful event were published in the newspapers at the time.\\nMayor Quincy s term of office expiring soon after, and the next\\nmaj^or not feeling the necessity of further action on his part, the\\nsubject was not resumed that year, and Mr. Farmer continued his\\nexperiments in other directions.\\nSoon after this he devised an automatic circuit-closing appara-\\ntus, in which the weight of the hand broke the switch branches\\nof the main circuit, but this immediately closed itself upon the\\nremoval of the hand.\\nDuring the year 1849 he contrived an electro-magnetic clock,\\nwith dead-beat escapement, and wdth continuity-preserving circuit-\\nbreaker. This clock had only three wdieels, each wheel sixty teeth;\\nthe second hand moved each second, the minute hand each min-\\nute, the hour hand each five minutes. This was patented in 1852,\\nand one was in use in the fire-alarm office in Boston for several\\nyears after the introduction of the system into that city.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0497.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "364 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nIn 1849, Mr. Farmer left the telegraph office in Salem, Mass.,\\nto oj)en some of the new offices on the Vermont and Boston tele-\\ngrapli line, commencing svith Manchester, N H. While there he\\ninvented the open-circuit automatic repeater, as he found some\\nsuch device needful. This line was worked on the Bain, or chem-\\nical system.\\nIn May, 1S50, he was appointed superintendent of the line from\\nBoston to Burlington. During the 3 ear he applied automatic\\nrepeaters to six or seven intermediate stations, antl the line was\\nextended to Ogdensburgh, IST. Y. Wires were also run south to\\nNorthampton, Mass.\\nIn February, 1S51, he received a note from Dr. Wm. F. Chan-\\nning, of Boston, of whom he had never heard before, requesting\\nan interview, as he desired to use the machines which Mr. Farmer\\nhad devised and exhibited for giving an alarm of fire by electricity.\\nDr. Channing had published an article upon this subject in 1845,\\nalthough Mr. Farmer had never heard of it, nor had he ever seen\\nthe Avriter until he met him in his (Mr. Farmer s) office on State\\nstreet. Dr. Channing had constructed no machinery by which his\\nidea could be demonstrated, and Mr. Farmer consented to the use\\nof the machines which had been exhibited two years before, and\\nalso promised to assist Dr. Channing in the use of them.\\nThe experimental trial satisfied the city government of Boston\\nof the feasibility of the plan, and an appropriation of $10,000 was\\nmade to carry it into effect. Mr. Farmer was immediately ap-\\npointed superintendent of the construction, and entered upon his\\nduties in Jnly, 1851, resigning his position of superintendent of\\nthe Vermont line for this purpose. The work was no sooner un-\\ndertaken, than he found himself at sea without chart or compass.\\nThe system, which had looked so beautiful on paper, was only a\\nform, which must now be clothed before it could become an obedient\\nservant. How to do it engrossed every thought. Theorizing and\\npractical work were now found to be two very different things. Ma-\\nchinery must be invented at every step. Each bell-tower required\\nits peculiar adaptations. The position of the machinery, its size,\\nand tlie weight to be attached to it, all had to be taken into ac-\\ncount. Difficulties met the young inventor at every turn. Means\\napplicable to an ordinary telegraph line were of no hel}) here,\\nbut his absolute faith in final success bridged over every one of", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0498.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 365\\nthe many difficulties, and the work of construction went steadily\\non, until every dollar of the first appropriation had heen ex-\\npended. The fire-alarm committee, never doubting his ability\\nto accomplish the work he had undertaken, made another ap-\\npropriation, and tlie task before him was pursiied with tlie same\\nuntiring energy and wonderful fertility of invention, until suc-\\ncess was attained. Mr. C. C. Coffin had charge of the men em-\\nployed in its construction. The first trial took place April 28,\\n1852, and the first alarm was given by Mr. Coffin in the evening\\nof the 29th.\\nDaily use of the system brought to light its many defects,\\nand for the next three or four years it required on Mr. Farmer s\\npart almost sleepless vigilance to overcome the obstacles to\\nits complete and triumphant success. During the first fif-\\nteen months after it went into operation, he spent forty-three\\nnights in the fire-alarm office in Boston, considering it unsafe to\\nleave it long enough to return to his home in Salem. Twice he\\nwas sent for to return by carriage in the night. Once, in a ter-\\nrific storm, he found it almost impossible to obtain a horse or\\ndriver. Being told that the storm was too terrible for man or\\nbeast to be out in, he simply replied, If I am willing to risk my\\nlife, j^ou certainly ought to be willing to risk one of your horses.\\nThe request was granted, and he reached his office in Boston past\\nmidnight to find his worst fears more than realized. Every line\\nconnected with the main office had been broken by the storm.\\nThe oj^erators were at their posts of duty, but almost despair-\\ning what to do. If a fire had broken out that night the ^vhole\\ncity of Boston would have been at the mercy of the flames.\\nStrange as it may seem at the present day, the firemen were\\nthen the bitterest enemies of the system, and they lost no oppor-\\ntunity to find fault with it, or to prevent its successful introduc-\\ntion. At that time the fire department was a voluntary organiza-\\ntion; fire companies were clubs, in some instances political organ-\\nizations. False alarms were frequent, as it was very easy to start\\nthe cr} of Fire. The telegraphic system proposed to do away\\nwith all this, prevent false alarms, and consequently much of\\nthe excitement hence the opposition of the firemen. With Mr.\\nFarmer, however, there was no such word as fail and the labor\\nwent steadily on. He never laid down his care of it until 1859.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0499.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "366 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nThen lie felt that it was old enough to be wholly committed to the\\ncare of others. He generously gave the system to the city, waiv-\\ning all his rights under the patent law. He resigned his position\\nof superintendent in August, 1855, but was still in daily com-\\nmunication with those having charge of it for the next four years,\\nand they had the benefit of his skill and experience upon which\\nto rely in every emergency.\\nThis was the fire-alarm telegraph of the past. To-day it is\\nin use in almost every large town in the United States and Can-\\nada. If this had been his life work, it would have been worth\\nliving for but it was only the beginning.\\nIn 1855 he successfully deposited aluminum from its chlo-\\nride solution, which never had been accomplished before. He\\nalso succeeded in depositing copper in a condition both hard\\nand brittle a great achievement in electro-metallurgy. In 1856\\nhe commenced the business of electrotyping, and produced the\\nfirst undercut electrotype in this country from a gutta j^ercha\\nmold. He also made a sheet of copper one eighth of an inch thick,\\nbrittle as glass This was another wonder in electro-iiietallurgj^\\nIn this year he also devoted much attention to electric repeat-\\ners, electric clocks, and printing telegraphs, and constructed for\\nthe Dudley observatory, at Albany, N. Y., a chronograph and sys-\\ntem of electric clocks. He invented, in conjunction with A. F.\\nWoodman, a closed circuit-repeater, which proved to be very\\nuseful. In 1856 he constructed and sold a great many gyroscopes,\\nto one of which he applied an electro-magnetic engine, by which he\\nkept it in continual rotation. As early as the year 1852, Mr.\\nFarmer s attention was directed to the subject of multiplex teleg-\\nraphy. Between this time and 1855, he devised and constructed\\nan apparatus by which he was enabled to transmit four messa-\\nges simultaneously over a single wire. In November, 1855, he\\nshowed to Joseph B. Stearns the apparatus he had then con-\\nstructed, and explained to him his theorj^ of the manner in which\\nthis could be accomplished. This was twelve years before Mr.\\nStearns brought out his ap^^aratus known as the Stearns du-\\nplex. About this time Mr. Farmer devised a printing telegraph,\\nand was probably the first to make use of what is known as the\\nunison stop. He was also undoubtedly the first to suggest the\\nuse of the continuity-preserving key in the duplex telegraph.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0500.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 367\\nThis was the earliest form of a duplex which made use of inde-\\npendent current reversals in sending messages. He pei fected\\ndouble transmitters with reversed currents and constant resist-\\nance worked double transmission on a telegraph line between\\nBoston and Worcester in 1856, both instruments being in the\\nBoston office, and two messages were sent simultaneously in op-\\nposite directions.\\nIn 1852-3, permission was granted to Capt. Cliarles Wilkes,\\nU. S. Navy, to use the circuits of the fire-alarm system, to deter-\\nmine, experimentally, the velocity of sound. Stations at Charles-\\ntown Navy Yard, Watertown Arsenal, Salem, Cambridge, South\\nBoston, and at Fort Independence were connected with the\\ncentral office in Boston. Mr. Farmer constructed an especial\\nchronograpli for this purpose, and many experiments were made,\\nthe results of which were duly published by Cajjt. Wilkes.\\nPrevious to this time, at the request of Prof. Bache, of the\\nU. S. Coast Surve}^, Mr. Farmer had constructed a short line of\\ntelegraph, connecting the observatory at Cambridge with the\\nNew York and Boston line of telegraph.\\nIn 1852 he devised one or more closed circuit-repeaters also\\ncommenced the construction of apparatus for the simultaneous\\ntransmission of four messages upon one wire, in the same or op-\\nposite directions. In 1852-3 he made many experiments uj)on\\nrheostats, voltometers, and magnetometers. In 1853 he received\\na patent on an improved porous cell for galvanic batteries. In\\n1854 he experimented largely on magneto-electric machines, and\\ndeposited copper on several cells in series, and endeavored to\\nascertain the mechanical power required to accomplish it. He\\nalso employed magneto-electric machines instead of a galvanic\\nbattery, for the purpose of striking the bells of the fire-alarm tel-\\negraph, and also applied water-power apparatus instead of weights\\nto raise the bell-hammers. He contrived and constructed a resist-\\nance coil, with electro-static capacity, produced by winding sheets\\nof tin-foil between each layer of wire. In the same year he made\\nimprovements in diaphragm water-meters. In 1855 he invented\\nimprovements in fire-alarm signal apparatus, making use of a cur-\\nrent in one direction to give one signal, and in the reverse direc-\\ntion to give another and different one. The same year he ex-\\nperimented on dial telegraphs also on telegraphs for double", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0501.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "368 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY,\\ntransmission in the same direction made experiments on elec-\\ntric signals for railroads invented a printing telegraph made\\nexperiments looking to the construction of apparatus whereby\\ntwo operators could send simultaneously, over one wire, from Wash-\\nington to New York, reports in short-hand of congressional\\nsjjeeches. In the winter of 1855-6 he made successful experi-\\nments on the electro-deposition of aluminum.\\nIn the summer of the same year he read a paper on ^Multiplex\\nTelegraphy before the American Association for the Advancement\\nof Science, and was elected a member at their annual meeting.\\nDuring the winter of 1855-6 he continued his experiments in\\nduplex and printing telegraphs. In 1857-8 he made a great\\nmany experiments with double transmitters. At that time\\nhe applied for an Englisli patent on a combination of the\\nduplex and printer. He also constructed a duplex printing\\ntelegra^^h, driven by an electro-magnetic motor. In 1858 Mr.\\nFarmer devised electro-magnetic apparatus, to show the height\\nof water in steam boilers, tanks, reservoirs, \u00c2\u00abS:c. He also in-\\nvented an automatic regulator, for controlling the distribution\\nof electricity to numerous electric lamps. During the jeav 1858\\nhe began a series of investigations upon the production of\\nlight by electricity, and invented an automatic regulator, by\\nwhich the light can be kept at a uniform intensity for any\\nlength of time. During the month of Jul} 1859, he had one\\nof the rooms of his house, in Salem, Mass., lighted every even-\\ning by this subtle agent. The light was very beautiful, and\\nattracted a great deal of attention from the many visitors who\\ncame to see it. The cost of the light was the only hindrance to\\nits coming into general use.\\nDuring the years 1860, 61, 62, and 63, he bestowed much at-\\ntention upon the manufacture of alloys of aluminum, with copper\\nand other metals. One of the alloys produced by him so closely\\nreseml)led 18-karat gold, as to deceive any one but an expert.\\nBetween the years 1864 and 1868 he devoted a good deal of\\ntime to perfecting a thermo-electric battery, and in 1868 con-\\nstructed the largest one ever built. This was used for the deposi-\\ntion of copper upon steel, in the production of what is known as\\nthe American compound telegraph wire. This wire was a joint\\ninvention of himself and Mr. G. F. Millikin, of Boston, Mass.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0502.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 369\\nImprovements in the manufacture of this wire have now readied\\nsuch a stage, that it can be furnished more cheaply tlian\\nan iron wire of equal conductivity. The invention is thus de-\\nscribed A copper telegraph wire, with a case or covering of\\niron or steel, steel being used for its great tensile strength, and\\ncopper for its great conductivity.\\nDuring the latter part of 18(39, Mr. Farmer was employed to\\nexamine and report upon the electric condition of the land lines\\nand of the cables of the N ew York, Newfoundland London Tel-\\negraph Co. and, as a result of these investigations, he invented\\na new insulator, of which he furnished over thirty thousand to\\nthat company, and they have given the highest satisfaction.\\nEarly in the year 1871, his attention was again turned to the\\nimprovement of electro-magnetic machines and during that and\\nthe following years he manufactured a large number for depositing\\ncoi^per and other purposes. He has made many valuable improve-\\nments in the construction of these machines, especially in the one\\ncontrived for the firing of torpedoes. This invention has been\\nadopted by the United States government, and the machines are\\nnow supplied to every ship in our navy. Some have been sold to\\nforeign governments, and doubtless they will soon find their\\nway into all navies. They are also used quite extensively for\\nblasting, in the mines of Colorado and Nevada.\\nIn October, 1872, Mr. Farmer accepted the professorship of\\nelectrical science at the U. S. Naval Torpedo Station, established\\nin 1869, at Newport, K. L, for the instruction of the officers of the\\nnavy in electricity and chemistry, as applied to the arts of war\\nand since his connection with the department, the station has\\nbeen supplied with the best known magneto-electric machines and\\nappliances to be found in this or any other country.\\nDoubtless, ere long, an electric light will be furnished to the\\nsteam marine of the country and, without question, there is no\\nman in the country, if in the world, who has devoted so many\\nyears of almost continuous thought to the subject, or who has\\nconducted so many experiments, which are now on record, as\\nProf. Farmer.\\nThe investigations begun in 1858 have never been wholly relin-\\nquished. While he has so long and patiently contributed time,\\nstrength, and brains to this work, he has always taken especial\\n24", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0503.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "370 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\npains to say that his life-long friends, Messrs. Smith and Bates\\nof Boston, Mass., have, with the utmost generosity, supplied him\\nwith most of the means with wliich to carry on his experiments\\nin this direction.\\nIn all of Prof. Farmer s experiments and investigations, the out-\\nside world has always been allowed to look on and note what he\\nwas doing but the eyes of the curious have failed to follow him\\nsince his engagement at the torpedo station, as much of the work\\ndone there is purposely kept secret but enough is seen at the\\nannual exhibition of tlie class under instruction to show that he is\\ngiving the result of his life-work for tlie good of his country.\\nHis highest ambition has been to bring out and develop all the\\ninA^entive talent and genius there is in the officers who are sent\\nthere from year to year, either as instructors or students, and his\\npride has been to show Avhat they can do, rather than what he\\ncan do himself. The keenest observer would not discover a spirit\\nof jealousy or self-seeking in Prof. Parmer and this abnegation\\nof self has been one of the charms which have drawn all hearts to\\nhim during the many eventful years of his life, since it has been\\nhis privilege to be a benefit to the Avorld through his rare and\\nwonderful mechanical gifts, Avhich haA e always been at the com-\\nmand of friend or foe. To the higliest and lowest he is alike\\naccessible, and the advice and information, so constantly asked on\\nall subjects, is never withheld. His profession requires deep re-\\nsearch and profound thought, and he finds his reward in search-\\ning after hidden things in science, that he may utilize them for\\nthe good of the hi;man race.\\nHe stands in the foremost rank of scientific men and it may,\\nperhaps, be truthfull}^ said, that as an electrician he is without a\\npeer on this side of the Atlantic, while among the scientists of Great\\nBritain, Prance, and Germany his opinions are quoted as authority.\\nHis reputation is world-wide, and his inventions everywhere known.\\nHe is often called as an electrical expert in the United States courts,\\nwhere his statements are never questioned. He has taken out a\\ngreat many different patents, of which the world has now the ben-\\nefit. An eminent electrician said of him recently, Mr. Parmer has\\nundoubtedly done more real and lasting good to the world through\\nhis abandoned inventions, than through those which he has per-\\nfected for the former are seed-thoughts scattered over the world,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0504.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0505.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "Early Home of Prof. M. G. Farmer.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0506.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 371\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wliicli many will gatlior Tip, and from them reap a harvest after\\nhis life-work is over. As a man and citizen, Prof. Farmer s in-\\nfluence has ever been on the side of right. To the poor he has\\nbeen ever a friend to the weak, a helper.\\nUnlike many scientists of the day, whose speculations lead them\\nto doul t the existence of a Deity, and of a divine revelation,\\nProf. Farmer sees in all the works and laws of nature a divine\\nmind. Each new discovery, to him, is one of God s thoughts, and\\nwith him religion and science go hand in hand. Hence his is a\\nChristian .household, and there are few happier homes than his.\\nNot many men have done more for the present and future genera-\\ntions than Moses Gerrish Farmer.\\nFESSENDEN, WILLIAM PITT.\\nHe was son of Gen. Samuel Fessenden of Portland, Maine,\\nand Ruth Greene, of Boscawen, and was born 16 Oct., 1806, in\\nthe house subsequently owned by Dea. Thomas Gerrish. The\\nchild was christened after the Episcopal service, Daniel Webster\\nbeing godfather. He graduated from Bowdoin college in 1823,\\nwith distinguished honors, receiving his degree of A. b. before he\\nhad attained his seventeenth year. Such precocity has had few\\nparallels one is that of Edward Everett another, the great com-\\nmoner of England for whom he was named William Pitt.\\nDuring his college days he taught school in Lewiston, Me.,\\nthen a small village, where he employed his winter evenings in\\nreading the books in the village library, consisting of about fifty\\nvolumes, such as Bigland s History of the World, Rollin s Ancient\\nHistory, and Plutarch s Lives.\\nMr. Fessenden studied law with his father and Hon. Charles S.\\nDavis, of Portland, and was admitted to the bar at the age of\\ntwenty-one, opening an office in 1827 at Bridgeton, an insignifi-\\ncant town, remaining tliei e two years, and then moving to Port-\\nland, into his father s office. From thence he went to Bangor,\\nbut returned to Portland and settled permanently in 1832, asso-\\nciating himself with Hon. William Willis.\\nHe was elected the same year to represent the city in the state\\nlegislature. He was also offered the Whig nomination to con-\\ngress, but declined being a candidate. He was chosen delegate\\nto the national convention which nominated Henry Clay. De-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0507.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "372 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ndining a reelection to the legislature, he devoted himself wholly\\nto his profession from 1832 to 1839, when he was again elected\\nto the legislature. He was a Whig, hut the majority of the\\nlegislature were Democrats yet so highly was he esteemed that he\\nwas made chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1840 he was\\nnominated to congress by the Whigs, and was elected, outrun-\\nning the strength of his party. Although he was then but thirty-\\nfive years of age, he made a very favorable impression by his\\nspeeches. He declined a renomination in 1843, and returned to\\nhis profession, receiving the votes of his party for U. S. senator.\\nProm 1845 to 1852 he gave himself wholly to his profession, with\\na constantly extending practice and reputation. During this\\nperiod he attracted great attention by his argument before the\\nsupreme court at Washington, by which he succeeded in reversing\\na decision by Judge Story.\\nIn 1840 he was a member of the national convention that nom-\\ninated Gen. Harrison for the presidency in 1848, a member of\\nthe convention that nominated Gen. Taylor, in which he support-\\ned the claims of Mr. Webster in 1850 he was a candidate for\\ncongress, but unwillingly. He was believed to be elected, but\\nthe seat being given to his competitor, he declined to contest it.\\nIn 1852 he was a member of the convention that nominated\\nGen. Scott in 1853 elected to the U. S. senate by one branch\\nof the legislature, but a concurrent vote was required, and\\nthere was no choice. In 1854 he was again elected to the\\nlegislature, which was Democratic in both branches. The Kan-\\nsas-Nebraska question operating as a disturbing element, he was\\nelected U. S. senator on the first ballot, by a union of the Whigs\\nand Free Soil Democrats. This signalized the formation of the\\nEepublican party in Maine, in which Mr. Fessenden remained\\never after a leading exponent.\\nHe took his seat in the senate on the 23d of February, and on\\nthe night of March 3d made one of the most eloquent and effective\\nspeeches delivered against the Kansas-Nebraska bill. This effort\\nat once made him a leading member of the senate, and his voice\\nwas heard whenever any important question was in order. He\\nintroduced the French spoliation bill, opposed a bill for increasing\\nthe army, discussed the bill for protecting United States officers,\\nspoke on our relations with England, Kansas affairs^ on the Iowa", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0508.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 373\\nsenatorial election, etc., etc. He reviewed President Buchanan s\\nmessage on the Kansas question in the most severe manner.\\nDuring this time he was a leading member on the finance com-\\nmittee. In 1859 he was elected to the senate for six years, and\\nwas made chairman of the finance and library committees, and\\nregent of the Smithsonian Institute. The year before, Bowdoin\\ncollege conferred on him the degree of ll. d., and Harvard paid\\nhim the same compliment in 1864. In 1861 he was appointed a\\nmember of the peace congress which met in ^ebruar3^\\nThroughout tlie war Mr. Fessenden, in his character as senator,\\nwas a firm friend and ally of the Union cause, giving it the\\nassistance of his logic, eloquence, and counsel, and as chairman of\\nthe finance committee aiding the secretary of the treasury in\\nmaintaining the national credit. In 1864, on the 30th of June,\\nMr. Chase resigned the secretaryship of the treasury. An instant\\npanic ensued, and gold, that subtle index of public feeling, rose\\nfrom 90 premium on June 30th, to 185 premium July 11th. The\\nnew secretary would be expected to quiet this storm, and Mr.\\nFessenden was chosen by Mr. Lincoln as the new secretary. He\\nhesitated to accept, his health was so delicate, and the responsibil-\\nity difficult and overwhelming. Senators and cabinet officers\\nurged, however, and he entered on his duties the 5th of July,\\nThe wliole country looked to him for aid. The paper dollar was\\nworth only thirty-four cents. The sale of new loans had been\\nprovided for, but they found comparatively few purchasers. Ger-\\nman} Holland, and Switzerland were our foreign markets, and\\npolitical bankruptcy seemed at least possible. Mr. Fessenden\\nthen found it liis duty, and a duty as imperative as it was arduous,\\nto raise at once the large sums necessary for carrying on the war,\\nand at the same time to enhance the value of the securities already\\nafloat. He appealed to the people, and, by withholding any fur-\\nther immediate issue of greenbacks, he induced the banks of the\\ncountry to adopt the national banking system. So successful was\\nhe, that, on his resigning the secretaryship to take his seat again\\nin the senate, to which he had been reelected, on the 4th of\\nMarch, 1865, gold had receded to 99, and on the 11th of May fol-\\nlowing it was quoted at 30. While secretary he urged ujDon con-\\ngress a more effective system of taxation.\\nIn the spring of 1868 the trial of President Johnson began.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0509.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "374 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nContrary to the hopes of many ardent members of the Republican\\nparty, Mx-. Fessenden voted against impeachment. He gave his\\nreasons clearly and explicitly. A storm of abuse was showered\\nupon him, but he braved it all, and before his death regained in a\\ngreat measure the confidence and esteem of those who had been\\nmost bitter.\\nIn some resjjects Mr. Fessenden was the foremost senator dur-\\ning his long i^eriod of service. In many critical stages of legisla-\\ntion his word was decisive, and few were the measures of con-\\ngress which did not bear the marks of his acute intellect and his\\nsturdy devotion to public interests. This honorable distinction is\\nnot due so much to his learning, or to any striking originality of\\ngenius, as to the singular harmony of his powers for the legisla-\\ntive arena. He was equally quick and cool. No assault could\\ndisturb his equanimity, and his attack was as adroit as vigorous.\\nHe had a great faculty for condensation, of going straight to\\nthe point, of using none but the most direct and lucid English.\\nWhen he was transferred to the senate, he was the best follower\\nthat Webster ever had there in clear and compact statement. But\\nwhat particularly gave force to his words was the high character\\nof the man.\\nHe was long a sufferer from dyspepsia, and for many years\\nwas an invalid, yet by force of will going on with his work.\\nHe was of medium height, frail in person, but erect always,\\nwhether sitting or standing. His clear gray eyes looked out over\\nfinely drawn features, that seldom changed, even under his most\\nfervid oratory. To those who did not know him, he may have\\nbeen classed as stern and unyielding but beneath a cold exterior\\na warm heart was beating.\\nOnce an estrangement occurred between Mr. Fessenden and a\\nsenator, from words spoken in debate. After a few days of cold-\\nness, the page of the senate laid a note on ]Mr. Fessenden s desk,\\nsent by the senator, who said, If I have offended j ou, I ask\\nyour forgiveness if you have offended me, I have forgotten it.\\nIn an instant Mr. Fessenden was on his feet. He crossed the\\nchamber, and with tears in his eyes, reached out his hand to his\\nold friend.\\nMr. Fessenden, in debate, once dropped a word which was\\nthought to be an insult to Mr. Seward. When informed of it,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0510.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0511.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "M^ cA/t/Wc.^^^^\\nHOll. V.ILLIAM PITT FESSENDEN.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0512.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n375\\nand seeing tliat a wrong construction might be placed upon it, he\\nwent instantly to Mr. Seward and said,\\nMr. Seward, I have insulted 3 ou. I am sorry for it. I did\\nnot mean it.\\nThe apolog)^, so prompt and frank, delighted Mr. Seward, who,\\ngrasping the offered hand, replied,\\nGod bless you, Fessenden I wish you w-ould insult me\\nagain\\n]\\\\Ir. Fessenden was an able debater. his style clear, forcible,\\nconcise, direct his language simple and natural. There was a\\nstriking resemblance between him and Hon. William E. Glad-\\nstone, of England, the same methods and manner, force, earnest-\\nness, tenacity of pur})ose, clearness of statement, precision and\\nelegance of diction.\\nHe died suddenly, Sept. 8, 1869, after a week s illness.\\nFRENCH, HEXRY S. G., REV.,\\nWas the son of Mr. Joel French, a trader of Boscawen, with whom\\nDaniel Webster boarded a part of the time during his residence\\nin Boscawen. He was born in the house now occupied by Mr.\\nJames Gill, nearly opposite the Congregational meeting-house,\\n27 April, 1807. Upon the death of Mr. French, the son became an\\napprentice as printer to George Hough, in Concord. He greatly\\ndesired to obtain a collegiate education, and by industry and econ-\\nomy prepared himself for college, and graduated at Yale in 1833.\\nHe spent three j^ears in the Andover Theological Seminary, grad-\\nuating in 1836. He married Sarah C. Allison, of Concord, and\\nsailed to the East Indies as a missionary, preaching at Singapore\\na few months while acquiring the Siamese language.\\nHe was of slender frame, and unable to withstand the enervat-\\ning influences of a tropical climate. He died at Bangkok, capital\\nof Siam, 14 Feb., 1842. [See Gen.]\\nFELLOWS, HEZEKIAH.\\nHe was born in Salisbury, 22 Dec, 1782 settled in Boscawen,\\non Corser hill, and with his brother, Moses, engaged in trade,\\ndoing a large business, for a country store, from 1820 to 1830.\\nHe was elected town-clerk in 1817, and continued to fill the office", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0515.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "376 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nto 1855, wlieu, under the general sweep of the Know Nothing\\nor Native American party, which had a sudden rise and quick de-\\ncline, he failed of an election. He was elected representative with\\nEzekiel Webster in 1820 again in 1824 and 1825.\\nHe was a man of great probity of character. His word was as\\ngood as his bond. His fellow-citizens trusted him implicitly, nor\\ndid he ever do an act to forfeit their confidence. He was a jus-\\ntice of the peace and, in the daj-s when men resorted to litiga-\\ntion for settlement of their difficulties, Esquire Fellows was the\\nmagistrate who would decide without fear or favor to either party,\\nbut on the merits of the case.\\nHe dealt honestly with all men. His prices of whatever he\\nhad for sale were plainly marked on his goods. He had no cypher\\nto represent the cost or the price. Be the purchaser the most re-\\nspected citizen of the community, or one low down in society,\\nthere was the same line of conduct. A child would drive just as\\ngood a bargain as the shrewdest adult.\\nHe was kind, genial, patient, endowed richly with common-\\nsense, and sense that is not always common. When the Congre-\\ngational meeting-house was erected in 1823, he presented the\\nsociety- with a large Bible for the pulpit. He was a constant at-\\ntendant at church, occupying the pew nearest the pulpit at the\\nright hand.\\nPrior to 1835, it was the custom of town-clerks to make public\\nannouncement of those intending marriage, which was done by\\nEsquire Fellows upon the pronouncement of the benediction, at\\nthe close of the afternoon service. The congregation waited to\\nhear the crying, as it was termed, and possilil} allowed the pub-\\nlishing of the bans to usurp the place of the sermon in their minds,\\nas they smiled and nodded one to another.\\nEsquire Fellows was simple in all his ways. He had many warm\\nfriends in Boston, Avhich city he used to visit twice a year to pur-\\nchase goods, for which he always paid cash [for family, see Gene-\\nalogy]. He resided in the house now standing opposite the resi-\\ndence of Mrs. Simeon B. Little. He died, 10 Oct., 1861, honored\\nand respected by all.\\nFELLOWS, MOSES.\\nCapt. Moses Fellows, son of Moses Fellows, brother of Hezekiah,\\nwas born in Salisbury, 26 Jan., 1786. He learned the trade of", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0516.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 377\\njoiuei and settled in Boscawen, in the house now the residence\\nof Rev. Mr. Buxton, to which he added a second story ahout\\n1835 or 1836. He was elected selectman in 1825, 26, 27, 28,\\n29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, and without douht would have\\nbeen again and again entrusted with the affairs of the town\\nhad he not removed to Salisbury. He was elected represent-\\native an 1832 and 1835, and was repeatedly moderator. He was\\nenergetic in business, and gave the same fidelity to his public\\nduties that he gave to his private interests. He was a superior\\nmechanic, and made the model for the covered bridge across the\\nBlackwater, now standing. Like his brother, he was endowed\\nwith that sense which goes b}^ the name of common, but which is\\nunderstood to be superior to the sense of. most men. He was de-\\ncided in his convictions of what was right and what was best, nor\\ndid he ever hesitate to make them known. He was a supporter\\nof civil and religious institutions, and his influence was ever on\\nthe side of right. His removal to Salisbury was felt to be a loss\\nto the town. He died in Salisbury, 1864.\\nGAGE, WILLIAM H.\\nHon. William Haselton Gage was born in Sanbornton, 21\\nMarch, 1791 removed to Boscawen in 1804, and entered the em-\\nploy of Col. Isaac Chandler, on the farm occupying the south-\\neastern corner of the town, which upon the death of Col. Chandler\\ncame into his jjossession. After remaining with Col. C. four years,\\nhe returned to his native town, and learned the business of dress-\\ning cloth of Jonathan Chase, returning to Boscawen in 1812,\\nwhere he began the businesses of lumbering, wool-carding, and\\ncloth-dressing. These occupations engrossed his attention to 1833.\\nThe building in which he began business now forms part of the\\nHarris manufactory.\\nMr. Gage in his political views differed from a majority of the\\ncitizens of the town, and though a Democrat, such was his probity,\\nso universally was he esteemed, that party lines were forgotten,\\nand the man, not the politician, was elected as representative in.\\n1833, and again in 1836. He served frequently as selectman,\\nwas elected road commissioner for the county in 1841-2, and\\na member of the senate in 1846, 47, and 48.\\nHe was social and kind to all, given to hospitality, and a firm", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0517.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "378\\nBIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nsupporter of religious aud educational institutions. Ilis life was\\nprolonged to see the little neighborhood, of a few dwellings in\\n1804, increase to a thrift_y village.\\nHis earl_y educational advantages were limited a want keen-\\nly felt, and which awakened a desire to do what he could to\\npromote the education of his children and the community. He\\nwas active in the establishment of Penacook academy, conveying\\ntwo acres to the institution as a free gift, and contril uting liber-\\nally towards the erection of the buildings. In this connection, it is\\nworthy of notice that Wm. H. Gage and his brother Eichard\\noccuj^ied a large property jointly twenty-seven years, and when\\nthe children of both arrived at manhood, a separation was accom-\\nplished in the same spirit in which the brothers had lived quietly\\nand satisfactorily. Mr. Gage married Polly, daughter of P rad-\\nbury Morrison, of Sanbornton, 25 Jan., 1814. He died 26 Sept.,\\n1872. His wife died 15 Feb., 1833 (see Gen.).\\nGAGE, ISAAC K.\\nIsaac Kimball Gage, son of Wm. H. and Polly (Morrison) Gage,\\nwas born 27 Oct., 1818, obtained his education at the district\\nschool and one year at Pranklin and Boscawen academies. In\\n1841 he succeeded Jeremiah Kimball as partner in trade with\\nLuther G. Johnson, in Fisherville, in the store opposite his present\\nresidence. He remained in trade till 1850, when, desiring a more\\nactive and profitable employment, he moved to Lawrence, Mass.,\\nand entered the service of the Essex Co. In 1852, upon the or-\\nganization of the first city government, he was elected to the com-\\nmon council, and in 1853 was president of that body.\\nEetiirning to P)0scawen in 1854, he became one of the firm of\\nGage, Porter Co., in the manufacture of saws, which has been\\nsince carried on. He has frequently been chosen to till ofifices in\\ntown, was treasurer of the New England Agricultural Society\\nfrom 1865 to 1860, was member of the convention to revise the\\nconstitution in 1876, and is president of the Penacook Savings\\nBank.\\nMr. Gage married Miss Susan Johnson, daughter of Eeuben\\nJohnson, 27 Oct., 1842 [see Gen.].", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0518.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0519.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "Residence of Dea. Thomas Gerrish.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0520.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 379\\nGERIMSH, THOMAS.\\nDea. Thomas Geu risli, sou of Col. Henry Gerrish, was born\\n12 Se})t., 1786. He married (1) Betsey Gerrish, daughter of Col.\\nJoseph Gerrish, his cousin (2) Elizabeth Patrick, sister of Rev.\\nWm. Patrick, of Canterbui-y. He settled on Boscawen Plain,\\nj)urchasing the estate formerly occu[)ied by Nathaniel Greene, Esq.,\\na view of which is given in this volume. He was an admirer of\\nhorses, especially those adapted to farui work, and had a span so\\nwell trained that he never tired of them. On Sunday, before the\\nmeeting-house was repaired, when, at the close of the service, the\\nseats went down with a bang, the horses, knowing that they were\\nneeded, were accustomed to back out of the shed and move to the\\ndoor-step, ready for their kind-hearted master, knowing that oats\\nwere in waiting at home. When threshing machines came into\\nuse Dea. Gerrish purchased one, and employed his horses profit-\\nably from August till mid-winter, threshing for the farmers\\nthroughout the county.\\nHe was energetic, an early riser, and prompt in all his actions.\\nThe energy which characterized his daily business was manifest\\nin his religious life. He was an earnest Christian, a [)illar in the\\nchui-ch, and was deacon for many years. He was kind and\\ngenial, and was not only honored and respected, but was regarded\\nwith affection by all who knew him. He was elected representa-\\ntive two years [see Officers].\\nDuring the last j^ears of his life he resided with his son Thomas\\nin We])ster. His old age was beautiful, through his resignation,\\nhopefulness, and expectation of a better life beyond the present.\\nHe died 19 Feb., 1875.\\nGERKISH, HEXRY, COL.\\nCol. Henry Gerrish, the eldest son of Capt. Stephen Gerrish,\\none of the first settlers, was born in Boscawen, 2 IMay, 1742.\\nHe was active in public affairs tlirough life, possessing all the\\nqualities of character to make him a leader in any community,\\nand especially in a community like that of Boscawen.\\nIn 17GG, at the age of tw^enty-four, he was an ensign in the\\nmilitia, and a selectman. He was often elected moderator of\\nthe town-meetings. He was elected delegate to the first state", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0521.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "380 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nconvention, in 1774 again, in 1775, representing Boscawen and\\nSalisbury again, in 1779 and 80.\\nHe was a land surveyor, and liis services were called for in\\nevery direction, not only by the citizens of Boscawen, but of the\\nsurrounding towns. He was called upon to lay out roads.\\nBeing a justice of the peace, he was often selected as the fair-\\nminded and judicious magistrate and arbiter, to settle the diffi-\\nculties between the citizens of the town and county.\\nHe was captain in the militia at the breaking out of the Revo-\\nlution, and marched with the minute-men to Medford, upon the\\nreceipt of the news of the battle of Lexington. He was lieuten-\\nant-colonel of Stickney s regiment at the time of the Bennington\\ncampaign, but, having been detailed to other duty, was not in\\nthe battle. He was present at the surrender of Burgoyne, being\\non the left flank of Burgoyne at Battenkill, where he acted as\\nclerk at the sale of some of the plunder taken from the British.\\nThe mess-book used on that occasion is still in existence. He\\noften acted as the town s agent during the Bevolution, perform-\\ning the duties assigned him with the same care and energy that\\ncharacterized the management of his private affairs.\\nHe lived on Fish street, and was owner of a large tract of land,\\nnow the county farm. His house stood near the present build-\\nings. He was a blacksmith as well as land-surveyor, and forged\\nmill-cranks and made mill-saws in his forge and on a common an-\\nvil. He kept a tavern, and his house was known as the Travel-\\nlers Home. Many people, too poor to pay for a bed, passed the\\nnight under his roof, sleeping on bear-skins before the generous\\nfire in the large old-fashioned fireplace in his bar-room.\\nIt is narrated that the settlers from iSTew Chester (Hill), Bris-\\ntol, Bridgewater, and other towns up the Merrimack, when the\\ncorn-mill at the head of King street was the nearest to their homes,\\nwere accustomed to leave home in the morning, reach Col. Gerrish s,\\nspend the night in his bar-room, purchase a grist, carry it to the\\nmill on their backs, get it ground in season to return to the hos-\\npitable home at night, where they would make a Johnny-cake,\\nor hasty-pudding, for supj)er and breakfast and on the third\\nmorning, with the bag on their backs, start for their distant\\nhomes.\\nCol. Gerrish became an extensive land-owner. At that time, large", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0522.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n381\\ntracts of land in the northern part of the state could be had at\\nlow rates, and he became proprietor of many thousand acres.\\nEev. Mr. Price says of him, that from early life he was a pro-\\nfessor of religion, and uniformly gave his support to religious so-\\nciety. He acquired a great estate, and brought up a large family\\nof children, the most of whom he lived to see well settled, and\\nwhose habits evidenced that his government over them was salu-\\ntary and his house, though for manj^ years the stranger s home,\\nwas a house of order.\\nGERRISH, FKANK L.,\\nOnly son of Col. Enoch and Miranda (Lawrence) Gerrish, was\\nborn 19 May, 1855, educated at Phillips academy, Andover,\\nMass., and at the Chandler Scientific School, at Hanover. He\\nafterwards served a year in the New Hampshire Savings Bank\\nin Concord, and is now preparing himself for agricultural pur-\\nsuits, to which he is devotedly attached.\\nGERRISH, EXOCH, COL.,\\nOnly son of Isaac and Caroline (Lawrence) Gerrish, was born at the\\nold homestead, on High street, 28 July, 1822. He obtained his\\neducation at the academies in Boscawen, Franklin, and Meriden.\\nOn the death of his father he inherited a large portion of his\\nestate, and with it, at the age of twenty, came the care and man-\\nagement of an extensive farm. An addition of more than one\\nhundred acres made it one of the largest in Merrimack county.\\nFor twenty years he devoted his time to the cultivation and im-\\nprovement of his soil, successfully developing its resources by\\nraising live stock, hay, and wool, when its heavy growth of wood\\nand timber attracted the attention of the lumber manufacturer,\\nto whom it was sold in 1865.\\nPossessing a love for military parade and drill, he was jjro-\\nmoted from the lowest rank to that of colonel of the 21st Regi-\\nment N. H. Militia.\\nHe was often elected to fill the various offices in town, the\\nduties of which were well performed. A friend to the church\\nwhere his ancestors worshipped, and to religious institutions gen-\\nerallj^, he manifested an interest in all measures that contributed\\nto their usefulness.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0523.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "382 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nHe moved to Concord after tlie sale of liis farm, where his\\nsound judgment, particularly in matters of finance, was diily ap-\\njjreciated, as is shown by his appointment as one of the trustees of\\nthe New Hampshire Savings Bank in Concord, and of the Rolfe\\nRumford Asylum.\\nGERRISH, ISAAC.\\nIsaac Gerrish, who resided on the homestead inherited from his\\nfather, at the foot of Gerrish hill, on High street, was horn 27\\nNov., 1782. By his untiring industry and frugality he from time\\nto time added to the old homestead, so that he was the possessor\\nof the largest cultivated farm in town, which was devoted to stock-\\nraising, and manufacturing hutter and cheese. The products\\nof the dairies of Boscawen were well and favorably known in the\\nmarkets of New England. His dwelling and out-huildings were\\nburned 1 May, 1824. The same year he built a new set of build-\\nings, which at that time were the largest and most commodious in\\ntown. His services and advice were frequently sought for in\\nmaking deeds, wills, and other papers, usually executed by a jus-\\ntice of the peace. Being a neighbor of Bev. Dr. Wood, his at-\\ntachments to him, and the church of which he was pastor, were\\nver}^ strong, and his place at the meetings was seldom vacant. A\\nkind neighbor, strongly attached to friends, given to hospitality^\\nhis house Avas open and the pleasant firesides in the large rooms\\nof his dwelling will be long remembered by the many who have\\nenjoyed them. He died 22 Aug., 1842.\\nGERRISH, ENOCH, MAJ.\\nMaj. Enoch Gerrish, third son of Capt. Stephen, one of the first\\nsettlers, was born in Boscawen 23 Jan., 1750. When eighteen\\nyears of age he built his log cabin on the east side of the road\\nnow called High street, where he cleared five acres of land, being\\npart of the homestead where he and his posterity have since re-\\nsided. Chestnut rails, split by him one hundred and ten years\\nago, are now in a good state of preservation on the farm. Al-\\nthough his principal occupation was the care and improvement of\\nhis land, he had a fondness for mechanical labor, and framed\\nmany of the buildings in town, including the churches. The first\\nbridge across the Merrimack, at the Plain, was built by him. He", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0524.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 383\\nhad a love for militaiy parade, as his title indicates. During his\\nlife, he was chosen to fill the offices of moderator, selectman, and\\nrepresentative to the general court. A man strictly religious, he\\njoined Dr. Wood s church in 1781, and was elected deacon in\\n1783, an office which he held until his death, 1 May, 1821.\\nGERRISH, JACOB,\\nThe fifth son of Col. Henry and Martha (Cloiigh) Gerrish, was\\nborn at the old homestead on the river road, now the Merrimack\\ncounty almshouse, 10 Nov., 1779. His father was a large land-\\nowner, and was able to give to each of his sons, as they became of\\nage, a quantity of land suitable for a farm. The portion assigned\\nto Jacob is situated just north of the homestead. He married\\nSarah, daughter of David Ames, of Canterbury, 15 April, 1803,\\nsettled upon his land, and continued the labor of clearing the rich\\nintervale, surrounding himself with the comforts of home. The\\nfarm extended westerly nearly one mile, from the river to the saw-\\nmill built by Benjamin and John Kimball, comprising, in addition\\nto the intervale, the low lands drained by Stirrup Iron Brook,\\nand the high land beyond known as light-gains. The intervale\\nwas covered with a growth of large pine trees, which in clearing\\nwere rolled into the river to get rid of them.\\nOn this farm he reared a large famil} He subsequently added\\nto his estate on the east side of the river, in Northfield and Can-\\nterbury, so that he was able to sub-divide and give to each of his\\nthree sons a valuable farm. On the completion of his new and\\nsubstantial dwelling, now standing near the railroad depot, he\\nopened it as a hotel, which he kept for many years. His house\\nwas often the head-quarters of the lumbermen from the north,\\nwho were engaged in driving logs down the Merrimack to be\\nmanufactured into lumber at the mills near the mouth of the Con-\\ntoocook. He was kind and hospitable to strangers, indulgent to\\nhis family, a good neighbor, active in sustaining schools and the\\ninstitutions of religion, and ready to aid in every effort to advance\\nthe prosperity of the town. He died 22 Ma} 1861.\\nGERRISH, MARTHA C, MRS.,\\nDaughter of Jeremiah Clough, Esq., of Canterbury, N. H., was\\nborn 10 Nov., 1742. She married Col. Henry Gerrish, of Bos-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0525.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "384\\nBIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ncawen, 10 Nov., 1763, and was the worthy mother of seven sons\\nand four daughters. Tlie united ages of these eleven children\\namount to over 850 years, average age exceeding 77.\\nHer early j ears were thrilled\\nwith the events of Indian wars\\nand block-house life, the family\\nresiding for a time in the fort at\\nCanterbury, of which her father\\nwas commander. Endowed with\\na vigorous constitution, and in-\\nured to the privations and hard-\\nships of frontier life, she was a\\npattern of industry and frugal-\\nity, working willingly with her\\nhands. Like the model wife de-\\nscribed in Prov. 31, she was also\\nskilful and ingenious and there\\nis now in the possession of one\\nof her grand-daughters a skirt\\nof home-made cloth, embroidered\\nin colors from natural flowers by\\nMartha Clough in 1763. In\\nthose days it often became neces-\\nsary for women to assist their\\nhusbands and brothers on the\\nfarm. Said one of her sons, My mother, when twenty years of\\nage, would mow all day in the field, and keep up with the men.\\nAnother son remembered seeing his father ride on horseback\\nthree miles to church, with his wife sitting on a pillion behind\\nhim, each with a child in arms. On showing her profile (see\\nengraving) to Dea. Thomas Gerrish, her youngest son, only five\\nweeks before his death, he said,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 That looks like my mother s\\nface and then added, I remember of her riding to meeting on\\nhorseback, while I, a boy of fifteen, sat on behind. Mrs. Ger-\\nrish died 15 Oct., 1826.\\nGREENE, NATHANIEL.\\nNathaniel Greene was born in Boscawen, 20 May, 1797. He\\nwas christened Peter; but having great respect for the mem-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0526.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 385\\nory of his father, by permission of the legislature of Massachu-\\nsetts he took the name of ISTathaniel.\\nEducational advantages at the beginning of the century were\\nlimited to eight or ten weeks of schooling in winter, and a term\\nof about the same length in summer. Two of his teachers were,\\nMiss Lucy Hartwell, who afterwards became the wife of Col.\\nTimothy Dix, and Rev. Henry Coleman, then a young man, who\\nsubsequently was a minister in Salem, Mass., and who distin-\\nguished himself as a writer on agricultural subjects. One of Mr.\\nGreene s schoolmates was John Adams Dix. Together they\\nstood Avith their toes to a crack in the floor, their spelling-books\\nin their hands, and made their manners when Lucy Hartwell\\nsaid, Attention\\nAt the age of ten he went to Hopkinton, and became a clerk in\\na store. While there he had some three months additional school-\\ning.\\nThe death of his father when he was but eleven years of age,\\nleaving an embarrassed estate, compelled him to begin the strug-\\ngle of life under adverse circumstances. He was a great reader,\\nand devoured all books that came in his way, and which he could\\nfind time to read. By chance he read a memoir of Franklin,\\nwhich awakened in him a desire to be a printer, and especially to\\nbecome an editor. The idea took complete possession of his\\nyouthful mind. He thought of it by day, and dreamed of it by\\nnight.\\nAt this time 1809 a new paper made its appearance in Con-\\ncord the Neio Hampshire Patriot, established by Isaac Hill.\\nOn the 4th of July he walked from Hopkinton to Concord, and\\noffered himself to Mr. Hill as an apprentice, and took his place at\\nthe case. That, however, was not the end of his ambition, but\\nonly the beginning. It was not to give other men s thoughts to\\nthe world, but his own.\\nHaving left Mr. Hill, he became connected in 1S12 witli the\\nConcord Gazette, published by Jesse Tuttle. This was the be-\\nginning of his editorial career. The newspaper at that time usu-\\nally contained a ponderous article on some j)olitical topic, the\\nlatest news from Europe, the victories of the French armies or of\\nthe Prussians, but very little local information. There were no\\nreports of meetings, no gathering up of home incidents. The\\n25", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0527.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "386 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\npaper was issued weekly, and there was abundant time for an edi-\\ntor to prepare liis thunderbolt to launch at the opposing political\\nparty.\\nIn 1814 Mr. Greene moved to Portsmouth, and became con-\\nnected with the Nem Hampshire War Journal, published by\\nBeck Foster. He remained there onl}^ a year, when he removed\\nto Haverhill, Mass., and became connected with the Haverhill\\nGazette, published by Burrell Tileston. In this situation,\\nalthough but eighteen years of age, he had the sole editorial su-\\npervision of the paper.\\nIn 1817, at the age of twenty, he became his own publisher,\\nand started the Essex Patriot. The vigor and energy of his\\nwriting had already attracted the attention of the public, and he\\nwas invited by some of the Democratic Republican politicians to\\nstart a paper in Boston and, complying with the request, he issued,\\non 6 Feb., 1821, the first number of the Boston Statesman, a weekly,\\nstill in existence. At that time there was a triangular contest for\\nthe presidency, and the Statesman advocated the election of W.\\nH. Crawford but the result of the election the elevation of John\\nQuincy Adams to the presidential chair and the great and in-\\ncreasing popularity of Gen. Jackson, made it apparent to the\\nfar-seeing young editor that the succeeding election would bring\\nGen. Jackson prominently before the public. Mr. Greene labored\\nearnestly to bring about the nomination and election of the hero\\nof New Orleans and the triumph of the party, in 1828, paved\\nthe way for Mr. Greene s future political success.\\nHe was appointed post-master of Boston in 1829, and occupied\\nthat official position until the accession of Gen. Harrison to the\\npresidency, when he was succeeded by Mr. George Wm. Gordon;\\nand although this was one of the first public removals of the new\\nadministration, yet one of the last measures of President Tyler\\nwas to reinstate Mr. Greene in the same office, which he occupied\\nuntil after the election of Zachary Taylor, in 1849. Mr. Greene\\nhad the reputation of conducting this department to the entire ap-\\nproval of the national executive, and, by his urbane and concilia-\\ntory deportment, to the satisfaction of the public in Boston.\\nWhile thus absorbed in official and editorial duties, he found\\ntime to acquire the French, Italian, and German languages. The\\nFrench was taken up without much difficulty, as was also the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0528.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0529.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "y^ C^yi^^,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0530.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 387\\nItalian and in a few weelcs he was able to read tliem. He pub-\\nlished, in 1836, a history of Italy, translated by himself from the\\nItalian and subsequently, as a birth-day present to his niece,\\nhe translated Undine from the German into the Italian. This\\nwork Avas read by Signor Monte, at that time jjrofessor of\\nItalian at Harvard college, who pronounced it admirably done,\\nand requiring very little alteration to be ready for publication.\\nIn 1836, at the suggestion of a friend, he began German,\\npurchasing a dictionary, a grammar, and a set of Van der Velde s\\nworks. Taking them home, he sat down in the evening, and be-\\ngan with the title-page. The first word was c^te, which, on\\nreferring to the dictionary, he found to be the definite article\\nthe. He wrote down the word, and went on to the next, which\\nwas iciecler taufer. He turned to the dictionary, but could\\nnot find it. Hecollecting that many words in German are com-\\npounds, he looked for wieder,^ and found that it meant again.\\nThen looking for tanfer,^^ he found that it meant baptiser\\nand said to himself that loieder taufer must mean the re-bap-\\ntiser, or Anabaptist. This was the title-page. He thus began\\nwith the first sentence of the text, and before retiring to rest\\ncompleted the first period of a line and a half.\\nThis was about Christmas time. Every evening during the\\nAvinter he went on with his translation, and about the first of May\\nfollowing published the results of his labor in two duodecimo vol-\\numes, entitled Tales from the German. He translated about\\nfifty volumes, many of which have been published. Such literary\\nperseverance has few parallels.\\nMr. Greene had a fine poetic fanc3\\\\ Many of his contributions\\nhave been given to the public over the signature of Boscawen,\\nchoosing the place of his birth as his nom deplume. His stanzas\\nentitled Petrarch and Laura, published in \\\\\\\\i Boston Tran-\\nscript, are marked by smoothness of rh} thm and delicate sen-\\ntiment\\nTETRARCII AXD LAURA.\\nOh! deem not Petrarch all iinblest,\\nIn that he Laura never knew;\\nThat no fond word liis ear caressed,\\nIn fair return for love so true\\nThat no response he ever heard\\nTo lays in which his love was told\\nIn sweeter strains than love s own bird\\nIn grove or forest ever trolled.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0533.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "388 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nThough Laura might disdain to liear\\nTlie music from his heart-strings wrung,\\nTliose strains now reach the listening ear\\nIn every land and every tongue.\\nThough made the subject of her scorn,\\nFrom which in life he suffered long,\\nThei-e s many a maiden, then unborn,\\nWho since hath loved him for his song.\\nNot unrewarded nor unblest\\nThe sorrows he in song deplored\\nHis sonnets oft relieved the breast\\nFrom which the strains divine were poured.\\nThey won for him undying fame,\\nWhich brightens with the lapse of time,\\nAnd eternized fair Laura s name.\\nEmbalmed in choice Italian rhyme.\\nAfter retiring from public life, Mr. Greene spent a long period\\nabroad, travelling through Europe. While in Paris, in 1852, he\\nreceived intelligence of the death of a beloved daughter, who died\\nat Panama, while on her way to San Francisco to establish a\\nHome of the Sisters of Charit} to which order she had liecome at-\\ntached. The father s heart, wrung with grief, found expression\\nin the appended feeling tribute to her memory\\nTO MY DAUGHTER IX HEAVEN.\\nI had on e.irth but only thee\\nThy love was all the world to me\\nAnd thou hast sought the silent shore\\nWhere I had thought to go before\\nAway from thee, in sad exile,\\nMy lips had long unlearned to smile\\nBright wit might flash, red wine might pour,\\nBut I, alas could smile no more\\nThy death in these my fading ye.ars,\\nHath sealed and seared the fount of tears\\nMy heart may bleed at every pore,\\nBut I, alas can weep no more\\nAh! how thy loss my soul doth rend,\\nMy only daughter, sister, friend\\nOf thee bereft, all joy is o er.\\nAnd I, on earth, can hope no more.\\nBut in those realms beyond the sun.\\nIn that bright heaven thy faith hath won,\\nW^here thou and kindred spirits reign.\\nThere haply shall we meet again.\\nParis, Sept, 20th, 1852.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0534.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, 389\\nMr. Greene married Miss Susan, daughter of Kev. Wm. Batch-\\nelder, of Haverhill, Mass. His son, Wm. B. Greene, was edu-\\ncated at West Point, and served as lieutenant in the U. S. Army\\nhut resigning his commission he entered the ministry, and settled\\nin Brookfield, Mass. He married a daughter of Rohert G. Shaw,\\nEsq., of Boston. At the breaking out of the Eebellion he was\\nliving abroad. At the news of the attack upon Fort Sumter he\\nhastened home, and offered his services to the government. He\\nwas appointed colonel of the 14th Mass. Volunteers, which he\\nably drilled as a heavy artillery regiment, and commanded the\\nline of fortifications on the Potomac, serving with distinction.\\nMr. JSTathaniel Greene died 29 Nov., 1877, at the age of eighty\\nyears and live months. From among many of the obituary\\nnotices of him we quote the following Another of Boston s\\nold and distinguished citizens has been added to the vanished\\nthrong. Few names have been more closely identified with the\\nlife and interests of this city than that of Nathaniel Greene. He\\nwas eminently a successful man. He handled the elements that\\nlay before him with judgment and with vigor. For half a cen-\\ntury his career was one of great activity, and it yielded results\\nupon which he might well pride himself. He was a controlling\\nspirit, a progressive force, in those circles wherein he moved, and\\nhis name will be remembered as long as the events of the Boston\\nof this nineteenth century are written about or spoken of.\\nGREEXE, CHARLES GORDOX, COL.,\\nThe youngest son of Nathaniel Greene, Esq., Avas born in Bos-\\ncaweu July 1, 1804. His opportunities for obtaining an early edu-\\ncation were as limited as his brother s. In 1811 he accompanied\\nhis parents to Virginia. In the succeeding year, his father hav-\\ning died, his mother, bearing a double burden of sorrow her\\nbereavement and an embarrassed estate returned to New Hamp-\\nshire. Three years passed, when Nathaniel, having become con-\\nnected with the Haverliill Gazette, took charge of his younger\\nbrother, and placed him in the Bradford academy. His preceptor\\nwas the famous Benjamin Greenleaf, who has been characterized\\nby Horace IMann as a huge crystallization of mathematics. In\\n1817, when his brother established the Essex Patriot, Charles, at\\nthe age of thirteen, began to learn the art of printing; and sub-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0535.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "390 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nsequently he served one year in the office of Mr. Lamson, at Exe-\\nter. In 1822 he went to Boston (to which city his brother had\\nremoved and was pnblisliing the Boston /Statesman) and was em-\\nployed in this establishment until 1825, when lie settled at Taun-\\nton, and published The Free Press one year, upon contract,\\nand upon which he began his editorial career, at the early age of\\ntwenty-one.\\nUpon the closing of his contract he returned to Boston, and\\npublished The Spectator, a literary journal edited by Charles At-\\nwood, Esq. But the Spectator, after a brief independent exist-\\nence, was united with another publication, and Mr. Greene was\\nagain engaged upon the Statestnan, but only for a short time, for\\nin 1827 he became a partner with James A. Jones, of Philadel-\\nphia, in the puljlication of the National Palladium of that city,\\nthe first daily paper published in Pennsylvania, advocating the\\nelection of Andrew Jackson to the presidency. When he with-\\ndrew from that jiaper, in December, 1827, the United States\\nGazette remarked of him that he was an able champion of his\\nparty, greatly endeared by his conciliatory and imoljtrusive de-\\nportment. The warmth of his zeal in favor of the election of\\nAndrew Jackson to the presidency is evinced in this glowing and\\neloquent passage from an oration delivered 4 July, 1831 His\\nrace is run out. Not a drop of his blood will be left flowing when\\nhe is gone not a lip to sa}^, I glory in his memory, for he was\\nmy kinsman. Is it not, my friends, is it not a spectacle to\\nmove and toucli the very soul If there be moral sublimity in\\nanything, it is in unmingled self-devotion to one s country and\\nwhat but this could have arrested, on the very threshold of the\\ntomb, the feet of him who, though he turns to bless his country at\\nher call, sees no child nor relative leaning forward to catch the\\nmantle of his glorj-.\\nIn 1828 Mr. Greene was engaged in the office of the United\\nStates Telegraph at Washington, owned and conducted by Gen.\\nDuff Green, where he remained until after the election of Gen.\\nJackson to the presidency. Keturning to Boston, he succeeded\\nhis brother Nathaniel as joint proprietor and publisher with\\nBenjamin True of the Statesman. The latter s interest he pur-\\nchased in a few years, and he became sole owner and on 9 No-\\nvember, 1831, the Boston Morning Post made its appearance from", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0536.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n391\\nthe office of the /Statesman, published and edited by Mr. Greene.\\nIt was a small sheet of sixteen columns, but quite as large as the\\ntimes warranted. Mr. Greene labored with untiring diligence to\\nmake the paper worthy of public confidence. His editorials were\\nsharp and incisive, but at the same time there was a geniality and\\ncourtesy which won the respect and esteem of political opponents.\\nIt was the period of the first secession manifestation, when Hayne\\nand Webster were the gladiators in the senate of the United\\nStates. The Post sustained the administration, pronouncing\\nagainst the new doctrine of state rights as set forth bj^ the\\nSouth Carolina school of politicians. It soon became the leading\\nDemocratic journal of New England. It was an authorit}^, and\\nits voice was potent in the party, and by its generous spirit\\nbecame a powerful influence over young men. The T ost was\\nfamous for its effective witticisms. We have seen the puns of\\nthis daily as sensibly affect the risibles of the sedate old man of\\neighty as they do the merry j^ouths of sixteen, says Mr. Loring,\\nin The Hundred Boston Orators. On the occurrence of its for-\\ntieth birth-day the colonel thus happily spolce of it Forty years\\nago to-day the Boston I*ost shed its first effulgence upon an ad-\\nmiring world, dispelling the darkness thereof, and diffusing joy\\namong all people of the American species. From 9 ISTovember,\\n1851, to this morning, it has risen with the sun each week day,\\ngiving light, warmth, and comfort to all ready to receive its bless-\\nings. It is not for us, who acted as accoucheur at its birth, to\\nboast of the promise it gave at its first breath, or of its sturdy\\nyouth, or of the power and activity of its present manhood. All\\nthese pleasant little matters of fact will be freely admitted by\\ngenerous contemporaries, with whom it has fought and shaken\\nhands hundreds of times and after contests of two-score years, it\\ncan truly say it harbors no unkind thought towards one of them.\\nThe Democratic party in the state and in Boston was in the\\nminority, but Col. Greene was so much esteemed by men of all\\nparties that he was elected representative to the Massachusetts\\nlegislature, and in 1848 was an aid to Gov. Morton, on account of\\nwhich position he received his title of Colonel. Upon the acces-\\nsion of President Pierce, Col. Greene was appointed naval officer,\\nwhich position he held for eight years. Upon his retirement it was\\nsaid of him that he had discharojed the duties of the office with", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0537.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "3.92 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nadmirable efficienc}^ and promptitude, tlaougli quietly, unostenta-\\ntiously, and without j)olitical proscription. His i^olitical associates\\noften selected him as their candidate for mayor and member of con-\\ngress. He was frequently mentioned for other positions, such as\\npostmaster-general, minister abroad, c. Upon the breaking out\\nof the Eebellion, he took the side of the loyal states with all his\\nheart. Though the editorial pen often criticised the conduct of the\\nAvar and the methods of the administration, Col. Greene stood un-\\nflinchingl} for the union of the states and the crushing out of\\nsecession. At various meetings held in Boston, in 1862, to take\\naction in regard to the call of the President for troops, Col. Greene\\nmade many 2) itriotic and eloquent speeches in favor of promptly\\nresponding to the call, and exerted himself zealously in favor of\\nenlistments. He was chairman of the general committee which\\nheld its sessions on the Common, in 1862, to ^^romote recruiting\\nand his substantial aid to wounded soldiers and their families, un-\\nostentatiously administered, brought comfort to many of our brave\\nmen. The following extract from a letter written by Mr. Greene to\\na New York committee, in 1861, inviting him to be present at a so-\\ncial meeting, will serve to show his sentiments The rebellion of\\nthe Southern states was totally unjustifiable it is a deep sin, which\\ncan only be expiated by suffering and repentance but the disre-\\ngard of the provisions of the constitution, by those placed in pow-\\ner as its servants and its guardians, is as fatal to its perpetuity as\\nthe enmity of its armed repv;diators. In such an alarming com-\\nplication of political affairs, the salvation of the country would\\nseem to depend upon the conduct of those Avho have resolved to\\nresist both extremes, enamel} those men whose madness has\\narrayed them in rebellion against a benign government, and those\\nAvhose sordid and wicked ambition has led them into transgressions\\nand usurpations hardly surpassed by undisguised treason. And\\nagain, at a banquet given in honor of Capt. Winslow, of the\\nimmortal Kearsarge, Col. Greene, in response to a call from the\\npresident, said, No man, no class of men, can monojjolize the\\nstarry flag of the Union it is the nation s banner, the emblem of\\na nation of freemen its triumphs are national glory. It is meet,\\ntherefore, that Ave express our thanks in gloAving Avords to those\\nwho beneath its folds contribute to the treasury of our common\\nhonor. In the present festivities may we forget the family jars", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0538.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0539.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "-^::s^\\nAcO-^n^je^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0540.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 393\\njust passed, and, like a band of brothers, only see in the event we\\nnow celebrate, new lustre and iuci eased strength given to our\\nfather s house, the great temple of liberty erected by their\\nvalor, cemented with their blood, and preserved by the bravery\\nof their children. Would to heaven, sir, that the echoes of the\\napplause we now offer for gallant deeds were for such a victory as\\nwould draw cheering responses from each of the thirty-five states\\nof this great country that no pang should agonize one American\\nheart that the blow struck was like unto that which taught a\\nforeign foe the might that slumbers in a freeman s arm. But,\\nunhappily, most unhappily, such is not the case. The present\\nnecessity for spreading death over sea and land is an aAvful, a\\nlamentable one, a necessity that has arrayed in terrible combat\\none portion of our house against another portion but, like the\\nEoman father, the government, while it administers justice with\\nthrobbing heart and weeping eyes, cannot withhold chastisement.\\nIts integrity must be vindicated, its authority must be sustained,\\nits constitution must be i^erpetuated, and the union of the states\\nmust be reestablished, at whatever cost. Therefore, sir, I offer\\nas a toast, The JSTavy and Army of the United States. May the\\none drive piracy from the water, and the other treason from the\\nland.\\nOn the 24th of October, 1827, Col. Greene was married to Miss\\nCharlotte E., daughter of Capt. Samuel Hill, of Boston, a lady of\\nfine education and talents, whose prose and poetical contributions\\nhave often adorned the columns of the Post, and who, in the ear-\\nlier days of that publication, wrote many of the book reviews,\\nthereby saving for the home library valuable works from the\\ndesecrating scissors and pencils of less careful reviewers. Their\\nfamily consisted of six children, three of whom now survive, all\\nhaving inherited a share of their parents literary ability. Charles,\\nthe eldest son, has contributed many valuable articles to Sears s\\nQuarterly lievieio, besides letters and shorter articles to various\\nperiodicals and newspapers, which have been highly commended\\nby those competent to judge of such matters. Nathaniel, the sec-\\nond son, ably assisted his father for more than a dozen years as\\nmanaging editor of the Post, and during an extended foreign tour,\\nunder the nom de jylume of Flaneur, wrote a series of most\\namusing and instructive letters to that paper.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0543.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "89-i BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nCol. Greene s popularity in a social way is illustrated Ity the\\nfollowing extract from the Boston Journal, 21 June, 1875\\na well deservkd compliment.\\nThe parlors of the Central Club on Saturday evening last were the\\nscene of a little incident .so agreeable to all who participated, that we\\nmay be pardoned for making a public record of the pleasant occasion.\\nAmong the original members of the club, Col. Chas. G. Greene, editor\\nof the Boston Po.si, was enrolled. lie accepted the position of vice-\\npresident at the first organization, declining of late years to hold any\\noffice, though continuing one of its most interested members. His\\ngenial presence and fund of pleasant reminiscences contribute so fre-\\nquently to the pleasure of a chance hour passed beneath its roof that\\nmany of his associates desired to make some permanent recognition of\\ntheir regard. An excellent photograph of Col. Greene was reproduced\\nin crayon, and hung upon the walls.\\nAt the quarterly meeting held on Saturday evening, the donors pre-\\nsented the admirable portrait to the club. The president, in acknowl-\\nedging the receipt of the communication, alluded in pleasant terms to\\nthe gratification which the club must feel in receiving a gift so accepta-\\nble to all, and, with many pleasant allusions to the past, introduced Col.\\nGreene, who was not aware of the delicate compliment which had be^en\\npaid to him. Tlis remarks we cannot reproduce, but this testimonial\\nof regard drew from him a speecli replete with kindly sentiment most\\neloquently expressed. The club has honored itself in honoring one\\nwhose absence in every social circle is a loss, and whose presence pro-\\nmotes good fellowship and kindly regard.\\nCol. Greene is esteemed as much for candor as for affability.\\nThe Honorable David Henshaw said of him, He is the self-\\nmade, self-taught man, the energetic and polished writer he\\nshows the superiority of real worth over fictitious greatness.\\nHis name, said a contemporary, is a sj^ionj m for all that is\\ndeemed estimable in a private citizen or politician his ability is\\nunquestioned he has never forgotten the dignity of his profes-\\nsion has always known where he stood, always manfully main-\\ntained what he believed to be right, and never smirched his fair\\nfame by having to do with tricksters and jobbers. No editor in\\nthe country stands higher as a gentleman than Charles Gordon\\nGreene.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0544.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 395\\nGREENOUGH, JOHN.\\nJohn Greenougli, Esq., eldest son of Ebenezer and Mary\\n(Elagg) Greenough, was born in Haverliill, Mass., 5 April, 1780.\\nHis father moved to Canterl:)nr3 in 1793, and commenced trade\\nthere, emplojdng his son Jolm as clerk. Two j^ears later, at the\\nage of sixteen, he purchased the business, and carried it on success-\\nfully from that time. Success from so early an age was due to\\nhis ability, promptness, and systematic habits. In ISOo he mar-\\nried aSTanc} daughter of Hon. Abiel Foster, of Canterbury. Their\\nchildren were one daughter and five sons. She died in 1819.\\nIn 1814 he removed to Boscawen, having purchased the house\\nand store previously owned and occupied by Col. Timothy Dix.\\nHis business requiring larger accommodation, in 1818 he built\\nthe brick store now standing, locating it a short distance north of\\nhis residence. In this store he continued business during the re-\\nmainder of his life. His second wife was Mary Bridge, daughter\\nof Samuel Bridge, Esq., of Billerica, Mass. Their children were\\nthree daughters and one son. In early life he connected himself\\nwith the Congregational church, and was always a willing and\\ngenerous supporter of benevolent and religious institutions. He\\nwas ever interested in education. He did much towards building\\nthe academy on the Plain, and sustaining it. He was one of the\\noriginal trustees, an office which he held through life, and\\nmost of the time was chairman of the board. His public spirit\\nand sound judgment made him j)rominent in town affairs. He\\nheld the office of justice of the jjeace, was several times represent-\\native in the legislature of his state, and he was often consulted in\\nlegal matters and called upon to draw up legal instruments. He\\nalways took an interest in everything tending to advance the\\nprosperity of Boscawen, and was ever ready to help, by counsel\\nor pecuniary aid, those who were trying to help themselves. He\\ndied at the age of 82 j^ears, retaining to the close of life his men-\\ntal and ph3^sical faculties.\\nJACKMAX, CALEB,\\nWas born 5 July, 1794, and resided in Boscawen until 1845,\\nwhen he removed to Canterburj^, and in 1850 to Concord. He\\nwas married to Martha Burpee, daughter of Kathaniel Burpee,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0545.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "396 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nwho, after being a most faithful and devoted wife and mother\\nfor fifty-four years, was, at tlae age of 75, called to her rest.\\nHe had one son and one daughter, Enoch and Emily. He was\\nengaged in the business of farming, which he followed with\\nmarked activity and energy to an advanced age. The vigor of\\nhis constitution was not impaired by the use of tea, coffee, or any\\nother warm drink, and at the age of nearly 84 years he had not\\nbeen confined to liis room, for a whole day. at any one time in his\\nlife.\\nHis bvotliers were, Moses, David, John, and Enoch and his\\nsisters, liuth, Sarah, and Martha. His fatlier, Moses Jackman\\n(taken captive by the Indians), was son of Richard Jackman, a\\nfirst proprietor, from Newbury, and married Martha Morse,\\ndaugliter of Moses Morse, also a first proprietor, from Newbury.\\nKILBUKX, ELIPHALET, DEA.\\nHe was born in Rowley. In 1775, on the 19th of April, he\\nstarted for Lexington, and enlisted for eight months in Capt.\\nJacob Gerrish s company, which was quartered at Cambridge,\\nCol. Moses Little s regiment, and was at Charlestown Neck at\\nthe time of the battle of Bunker Hill.\\nHe reenlisted in the same company and under the same colonel\\nin 1776; was stationed at Cambridge when the British evacuated\\nBoston. He hired a man to take his place in the ranks, while he\\nwent home to Howley.\\nHe enlisted in the northern army the same year for six months,\\nin Capt. Wm. Rogers s company. Col. Wigglesworth s regiment,\\nGen. Bricket s brigade, and proceeded to Ticonderoga.\\nIn 1777 he enlisted as sergeant in Capt. Benjamin Adams s\\ncompany, Col. Johnson s regiment, for six months. He was at\\nMount Independence, opposite Ticonderoga. At Saratoga the\\nregiment was placed in Boor s brigade. He was in the battle of\\nthe 19th of August and 9th of October, and at the surrender of\\nBurgoyne. He was honorably discharged upon the expiration of\\nhis enlistment.\\nIn 1778 he enlisted for six months as sergeant in Capt. Enos s\\ncompanj Col. s regiment, and was under Gens. Sullivan\\nand Lafayette at Rhode Island a liard and hazardous campaign.\\nIn 1779 he enlisted for four months as sergeant in Capt.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0546.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 397\\nStephen Jenkins s company, Col. J. Gerrish s regiment, a.nd\\nmarched to Greenbush, iST. Y., bnt was discliarged. with the regi-\\nment after about two months service. His entire term of active\\nservice was about thirty mouths, most of the time as sergeant.\\nKILBURX, JR., ELIPHALET,\\nWas born in 1804, and resided through life upon the homestead,\\nnear Bhickwater river. He enjoyed no educational privileges\\nother than those of the district school, but ever made most of his\\nopportunities for acquiring information. He Avas large-hearted,\\nliberal in his ideas, and enthusiastic in his support of everything\\nin which his sympathies were enlisted. He was foremost in ad-\\nvocating temperance and anti-slavery reforms, and was ever a\\nfriend to the needy, exemplifying in every station to which he\\nwas called those virtues which go to make up the earnest Chris-\\ntian, the active citizen, and the honest man.\\nKILBURX, EXOCH.\\nEnoch Kilburn and his twin sister Hannah were born in 1786,\\nchildren of Dea. Eliphalet and Mary (Thorla) Kilburn. He had\\nfew advantages for obtaining an education. He married (1)\\nElizabeth Morse, of Boscawen, (2) Elizabeth Cogswell, of Derry,\\nand settled on Battle street, in a house which was torn down\\nin 1875. Upon the removal of Henrj- Little to Illinois in 1835,\\nlie purchased the farm then owned by him, now owned by Capt.\\nWilliam George from thence he removed to Andover, where he\\nresided the remainder of his life.\\nHe earl}^ engaged in the business of drover, purchasing cattle\\nand sheep in the vicinity, eventually extending his operations to\\nthe northern section of the state and to Vermont, selling his\\nflocks and herds in Brighton. He conducted his business on\\nan extensive scale, and became familiarly known to a very large\\nnumber of people. He possessed a remarkable memory, and\\nthrough life remembered minute transactions that had taken\\nplace, even the weight, appearance, color, and shape of oxen\\nwhich he had sold years previous. This faculty of memory\\nenabled him to keep in mind from month to month the cattle\\nthat would be ready for market, and their probable weight and\\ncondition.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0547.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "398 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nThe business of drover was not what the raih-oad now makes it,\\nhut was a tedious journej of two weeks from Grafton county to\\nBrighton. Through cold and lieat, sunshine and storm, lie fol-\\nlowed his business. No falling market disturbed him. If he\\nmet with loss it was but a stimulant to induce him to retrieve\\nhis fortunes, his sanguine temperament ever leading him on.\\nHe was an earnest supporter of religious institutions, a member\\nof the church, and earnest and zealous in his advocacy of what he\\nbelieved to be right. He was genial, kind, benevolent, and hon-\\nest, and would suffer wrong rather than do wrong. He died in\\n1876. [See Gen.]\\nKIMBALL, PETER, CAPT.\\nCapt. Peter Kimball moved from Bradford, Mass., aboiit 1765,\\nand settled on Queen street. He was a man of strong character.\\nRev. Mr. Price says of him, Possessing great self-command, a\\nsound judgment, and unwavering integrity, he soon came into\\npublic notice, and was elected selectman in 1768, in which office\\nhe served nine years. In our Revolutionary struggle he mani-\\nfested a truly patriotic spirit, readily accepted those appointments\\nwith others which involved the dearest interests of individuals\\nand of the public. He contributed to the security of our inde-\\npendence, not merely by his assiduous services at home, but en-\\ndured the privations of four campaigns in defence of his country.\\nIn one of them he volunteered as a private soldier but in the\\nother three he bore a captain s commission, and at Bennington\\nreceived a wound at the head of his company a precious memen-\\nto of that signal battle. Caj)t. Kimball Avas a valuable citizen, a\\nmuch esteemed neighbor, and consistent man.\\nThe diary kept by Capt. Kimball in the campaign of 1776, and\\nat Bennington, is given in the body of this volume, in connection\\nwith the events of the Revolution, from which it will be seen that\\nhe was a prompt, efficient, and brave soldier. He barely men-\\ntions that he was wounded in the battle of Bennington, leaving\\nit to others to speak of his bravery.\\nHe moved from Queen to Water street after the Revolution,\\nand continued till his death, at the age of 72, a useful and hon-\\nored citizen. It may be said that Capt. Peter Kimball and Col.\\nIJenry Gerrish were leading spirits in the town during the Revo-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0548.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0549.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": ".^ish-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0550.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 399\\nlutionary period. Both were military officers and the prompt-\\nness Avith which tliey ordered out their commands when called\\nupon, attests their efficiency.\\nKIMBALL, BENJAMIN T.\\nThe youngest son of Capt. Peter Kimball, Benjamin Thurston\\nKimball, was born in Boscawen, 4 May, 1784. He had no op-\\nportunity for education except the meagre instruction of the dis-\\ntrict school. He resided on the homestead where he was born,\\nand built the house now occupied hy Mr. Wade. He was an in-\\nfluential citizen, and a member of the Congregational church and\\nsociety. He was an early advocate of anti-slavery, and cast his\\ninfluence and his vote in its behalf. He longed for the day when\\nthe slave would be a freeman, a consummation he was not per-\\nmitted to see. He died 9 July, 1852. He was hospitable, kind\\nto the poor, and charitable to those who differed from him in\\nopinion. [See Gen.]\\nKIMBALL, DAVID F., COL.,\\nOldest son of Benjamin T. Kimball, was born in Boscawen, 24\\nDec, 1811, at the old homestead, and lived there until 1845. He\\nwas married in 1837 to Mary P. Kilburn, daughter of Enoch\\nKilburn, of Boscawen. [See Gen.] At the age of 19 he was\\nappointed ensign in the first company of light infantry, when the\\nNew Hamjishire militia was in its glory. The next year he was\\nranked to captain, commanding the company for three years.\\nProm captain he was ranked to the colonelcy of the 21st Kegi-\\nment, which he commanded for four years, then was honorably\\ndischarged.\\nIn 1846 he moved to Salisbury, K H., and engaged in the tan-\\nning business, which he carried on successfully for ten years\\nmoved to Beloit, Wis., in the spring of 1856 Avas in the grain\\ntrade for nearly three years then moved to Chicago, 111., where\\nMrs. Kimball died. He married again, in 1859, Mrs. Emily P.\\nBurke, daughter of Dea. George T. Pillsbury, of Boscawen. He\\nremained in Chicago in the grain and commission business eight\\nyears.\\nDuring the war, Colonel and Mrs. Kimball, with seventy others,\\nwent to the army after the battle of Pittsburg Landing, to care", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0551.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "400 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nfor the sick and wounded soldiers. He there contracted the dis-\\nease of the army, and after struggling with poor health for sev-\\neral years, returned east and settled in Concord, N. H. resided\\nthere for five years, engaging in the same business as at Chicago.\\nIn 1871 he moved to Fisherville, N. H., where he now resides.\\nKIMBALL, PETER,\\nWas horn 25 May, 1817, in Boscawen, son of Benjamin and Mary\\n(Kilhurn) Kimball. He remained at home till his majority, then\\nentered the store of Greenleaf Co., Salisbury. It was before\\nthe construction of the Northern Eailroad, when the Fourth Kew\\nHampshire Turnpike was a great thoroughfare, and Salisbury a\\ncentre of trade. After acquiring a knowledge of mercantile busi-\\nness, he married Miss Xancy A. Adams, daughter of Cyrus Adams,\\nof Grafton, and removed thither, where he has since resided, giv-\\ning his attention to agriculture. He takes great interest and\\npride in his calling, is one of the prominent farmers of the state,\\nand active in promoting the state and county agricultural socie-\\nties.\\nKIMBALL, JOHK, HON.,\\nSon of Benjamin, born in Canterburj^, 13 April, 1821, moved to Bos-\\ncawen with his parents in the spring of 1824. His education was\\nsuch as the town school afforded, and one year (1837) at the acad-\\nemy in Concord. Next jeav he was apprenticed with his father s\\ncousin, William M., serving four years, constructing mills and\\nmachinery. His first work after attaining his majority was to re-\\nbuild the grist and flouring mills, in the valley near the north\\nend of tlie Plain, in 1842, which are still in use. Afterwards he\\nfollowed the same business in Suncook and Manchester, and in\\nLowell and Lawrence, Mass. In September, 1848, he was em-\\nployed b}^ the directors of the Concord Railroad to take charge of\\nthe new machine and car shops then building at Concord pro-\\nmoted to master mechanic, 1850. He retained this position ten\\nyears, at which time circumstances rendered it desirable for him\\nto relinquish mechanical labor for other pursuits.\\nAs a mechanic Mr. Kimball has few superiors and his sound\\njudgment and skill were in constant requisition in the res])onsible\\nposition held for so many years at the Railroad shops in Concord.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0552.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 401\\nThe experience and training of those early days have also been of\\nunquestionable value to the city and state for the knowledge\\nthen acquired has contributed, not unfrequently, to the solution of\\nthe knotty mechanical and scientific questions which have con-\\nstantly arisen in connection with the state and municipal offices\\nhe has been called upon to fill.\\nHe was elected to the common council from Ward 5, in Con-\\ncord, in 1856, 57 was president the last year; member of the\\nlegislature from the same ward 1858, 59, and chairman of Com-\\nmittee on State Prison collector of taxes, and city marshal, 1859,\\n60, 61, 62 appointed by President Lincoln, in 1862, collector of\\ninternal revenue for the second district of Xew Hampshire, includ-\\ning tiie counties of Merrimack and Hillsborough, an office he held\\nseven j-ears, during which time he collected and paid over to the\\ntreasurer of the United States nearly seven millions of dollars\\nelected moderator of Ward 5, 1861, ^nd reelected ten successive\\nyears. On the organization of the Merrimack County Savings\\nBank, in 1870, he was elected its treasurer, an office he now holds.\\nHe was elected mayor in 1872, 73, 74, 75 during the time was\\none of tlie water commissioners to supply the city with water\\npresident of the board, in 1875 appointed in 1877 for three\\nyears. He was member of the constitutional convention of 1876,\\nand chairman of the Committee on Finance. In August, 1877,\\nwas appointed by Gov. Prescott one of the commissioners to build\\na new state prison. At the first meeting of the commissioners, he\\nwas unanimously chosen chairman, and is now engaged with the\\narchitects in making preparation for prosecuting the work during\\n1878.\\nMr. Kimball possesses rare business and financial ability, and\\nhis integrity is as firm as the everlasting hills of his native state.\\nIn his management of public affairs he has ever displayed en-\\nlarged and progressive views, sound judgment, and conscientious\\nmotives and in private life he is a devoted friend, kind neighbor,\\nesteemed citizen, and a charitable, tolerant, self-reliant, manly\\nman, who alike honors his native town and the city of his adop-\\ntion.\\nKIMBALL, BENJAMIN AMES,\\nYoungest child of Benjamin and Euth (Ames) Kimball, was born\\nin Boscawen (Fisherville) 22 Aug., 1833 learned the trade of\\n26", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0553.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "402 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nmachinist of his brother John. After siiitable preparation at Prof.\\nHildreth s academy in Derrj, he entered the Chandler Scientific\\nDepartment of Dartmouth college in 1851, from which he gradu-\\nated in 18o4 immediately entered the Concord Eailroad machine\\nshop as draftsman and machinist after two years was made fore-\\nman of the locomotive department 1 Jan., 1858, succeeded his\\nbrother as master mechanic, where he labored successfully until\\n1 April, 1865, when he resigned to become a member of the firm\\nof Ford Kimball, manufacturers of car wheels and brass and\\niron castings.\\nMr. Kimball is not inclined to seek political positions, but has\\nfilled several offices to the general satisfaction of his constituents.\\nHe was member of the legislature in 1870, but, owing to Irasiness\\nconsiderations, declined a reelection in 1871. He was appointed\\none of the water commissioners at the organization of the board\\nin 1872, and is now serving the sixth year, and is its president..\\nThe complete success of this undertaldng is no doubt largely due\\nto his untiring and persistent labor, his ripe mechanical judgment,\\nand his superior executive ability. He was returned as one of\\nthe members of the constitutional convention of 1876, from the\\nsixth ward.\\nAfter the financial embarrassment of the National (now Con-\\ncord) Savings Bank, he was named as one of the new trustees, and\\n15 Oct., 1874, was elected its president. This position he resigned\\nin 1877, and now (1878) is travelling with his family in Europe.\\nLITTLE, EXOCH,\\nWas bom in Newbury, 21 May, 1728, son of Tristram Little and\\nSarah (Dole) Little. He married Sarah Pettingill, of Newburj-,\\n19 Feb., 1755, who died 10 March, 1758, the mothei- of two chil-\\ndren, Friend and Mary. He married for his second wife Han-\\nnah Hove} of Newbury, 5 June, 1759. He was a weaver, and\\nalso learned to make shoes. He moved from Hampstead to Bos-\\ncawen, April, 1774, a poor man with a large family. He passed\\nthe year in a house on the Hale Atkinson farm. Fish street,\\ncarrying on land on High street, near Salisbury line also\\nbuilding a log house his future home on land now owned\\nby his great-grandson, Sherman Little. He moved to his new\\nhome on the 2d of September, 1774. His house had no floor.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0554.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 403\\nThe fireplace, in all probability, was made of svicli stones as he\\ncould conveniently obtain. The wliole surrounding region was\\na dense forest. Two other houses only had been erected west\\nof Blackwater, the Day house, on land owned now by\\nHenry L. Dodge, and the Cass house, on the farm occupied by\\nMr. David Sweatt, near Long pond. Mr. Corser was living on\\nCorser hill. Capt. Peter Coffin s, and perhaps one or two t)ther\\nhouses, had been erected on Water street. With neighl)ors so far\\naway, in an unbroken forest, Mr. Little reared his humble home.\\nEev. Mr. Price, in a biographical notice, says that he became a\\nChristian at tlie age of eleven, and, like Enoch of old, walked\\nwith God seventy-seven years, sixty-four of which he was a dis-\\nciple of Christ by a Christian profession. He sought retirement,\\nparticularly in his advanced age, for what was most congenial\\nwith the habits of his mind, giving himself to the reading of\\nthe scriptures and prayer. He was the ancestor of numerous\\ndescendants, many of whom have entered the ministry. He died\\n21 Oct., 1816.\\nLITTLE, ENOCH, DEA.,\\nThe second of the name in Boscawen, was the son of Enoch Little\\nand Hannah (Hovey) Little. The incidents of his life are learned\\nin part from an autobiographical sketch found among his papers.\\nEnoch Little, born Jan. 17, 1763, in Newbury, Mass.\\n1706. Moved to Ilampstead at 3 years and 3 months old lived\\nthere s years.\\n1774. April, moved to Boscawen at 11 years and 3 months old.\\n1785. At the age of 22 took my land wild and began to clear.\\n1786. Went to school at Atkinson.\\n1787. Kept school on Corser hill in winter, and worked on my land\\nin summer.\\n1787. Built my first barn.\\n1788. Kept school on Corser Hill. Hired Oliver Clement 7 months\\nthis summer for 42 dollars. Cleared 6 acres on the liill, and by tlie low-\\nest side of the new barn field.\\nKept school in Jo s house this winter, and carried on my farm alone\\nthis summer, and in the fall began to cut timber for my house.\\n1790. Prepared boards and shingles, bricks c., for my house this\\nwinter. Raised my house in June, made my cellar, covered my house,\\nbuilt my chimneys this fall, and married the last day of Nov.\\nMoved into ray house Feb. 22, 1791.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0555.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "404 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nMr. Little early in life identified himseK with the cause of re-\\nligion, became a prominent member of the church, and was elected\\ndeacon to succeed Dea. Benjamin Sweatt.\\nHe kept a day-book for many years. Although his entries are\\nbrief, and almost phonographic, yet they are so terse that from\\nthem we get, now and then, a complete picture of the times. He\\nwas a natural poet, and many of his notes are in rhyme.\\nSat. 9 May, 1807.\\nThe ground is chiefly dressed in green,\\nBut still some banks of snow are seen.\\n1810, Tues. July 31.\\nMy corn is yet exceeding low,\\nAlthough it now begins to grow;\\nThe field I travelled wholly through\\nTo find one spindle in the blow.\\n1812, Jan. 21.\\nThe Northern blast for three full weeks\\nHas reign d triumphant thro the land\\nThe frost each narrow crevice seeks,\\nThe brooks in iron fetters chained\\nPropitious Heaven! in mercy speak,\\nAnd bid the Southern breezes wake.\\nThe next day we find an entry in rhyme indicating that the\\nweather has grown milder.\\n1812, Jan. Sat. 25.\\nNow Sol, propitious, condescends to pay\\nA longer visit each succeeding day\\nAnd as he runs his journey from the east,\\nComfort administers to man beast.\\nIn 1813, in the month of December, occurred an exceedingly\\ndisastrous fire at Portsmouth, the light of which was seen in\\nBoscawen. His book contains these notes\\n1813, Dec. 25. Cold and windy. Went to Salisbury. Paid $5.00\\nto those who sufi ered by fire.\\nThe fire seen last Wednesday night,\\nAVhich burned so long and shone so bright,\\nIn Portsmouth dreadful havoc made,\\nAnd wide its desolations spread;\\nAbove an hundred dwelling-houses burned,\\nAbove 1000 people out of doors are turned.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0556.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 405\\nMr. Little delighted in abbreviating words. He was naturally\\na ijbonographer, and almost invariably wrote taters instead of\\npotatoes, and lasses for molasses.\\nOct. 8, 18U.\\nThe tater tops are green as yet,\\nBut very soon they must be bit.\\n1815, Ap. 22.\\nOur sheep have left the barn to-day,\\nTook up with grass and left the hay.\\nI ve turned them out for good all,\\nAnd fondly hope they ll stay till fall.\\nOn his fifty-third birth-day, in four lines he throws a glance\\nbackward over the buried years and onward to the close of life.\\nA pathetic minor chord runs through the stanza\\n1816, Jan. 17. 53 years old to-day.\\nMy years are swiftly rolling on\\nAnd most of them are past\\nSome one must end this mortal life,\\nAnd this may be my last.\\nIn April the notes are ludicrous. During the month a\\nwoman partially insane suddenly disappeared from one of the\\nneighbors houses, and the neighborhood joined in searching for\\nher. Hence the allusion\\nApril 11. Strayed from Mr. Stickney s a large girl 16 hands high.\\nApril 12. Snowy day. Hunted for Sal Stickney.\\nThe winter of 1819 was an open one. These are some of the\\nnotes\\nDec. 20.\\nMy hogs are fat and fit to go.\\nBut yet the price is very low.\\nI wait awhile for better times,\\nAnd spend ray time in making rhymes.\\nFeb. 10.\\nNo sleighs have gone to market this year.\\nStock is high and hay is low;\\nThe ground is wholly void of snow.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0557.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "406 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nThe following prayer is remarkable for comprehensiveness and\\nfelicitous expression. Dea. Little often repeated it, and taught it\\nto his children and grandchildren.\\nAN EVK^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ING prayp:r,\\nLord, thou hast kept me through the day,\\nFor which to Tliee my thanks I pay\\nO keep me safely through the night,\\nAnd bring me to the morning light.\\nForgive my sins, renew my heart,\\nWisdom and grace to me impart;\\nGrant me an interest in thy love,\\nAnd raise my thoughts to Thee above.\\nHis opportunities for obtaining an education were exceedingly\\nlimited. It is probable that during the eight years he lived at\\nHampstead he learned to read, but he left there at the age of 11.\\nThe next year, 1774, was taken up with the removal of the fam-\\nily to Boscawen, to the house on Fish street, and in getting the\\nlog cabin started on Little hill, and a patch of ground cleared.\\nHis father and his older brothers went up from Fish street at the\\nbeginning of the week chopping trees, and stayed till Saturday.\\nEnoch, then 12 years old, and one of his brothers, had to keep\\nthem supplied with provisions. The house of Capt. Peter Coffin\\non Water street was the half-way place, where they rested, and\\nate a bowl of bread and milk which Mrs. Coffin gave them. Mr.\\nCoffin had been several yeai-s in town, had quite a patch of\\nground cleared, raised corn and rye, and was getting on in the\\nworld.\\nIn the fall of 1775 his father moved into his log cabin, and dur-\\ning the long winter evenings Enoch employed his time in learning\\nto wi ite, by lying on the split floor before the pitch knot fire,\\nwith strips of birch bark for paper and a charred stick for a pen.\\nThe family was very poor. There were many mouths to feed.\\nNothing had been raised. Corn was scarce and high, but there\\nwas one man to whom they could look for help, Capt. Peter Cof-\\nfin, who never took advantage of his opportunity, but who supplied\\nthem with corn at the regular pi-ice, on ci-edit. There were so,\\nmany to be provided for, that in midwinter some of the children\\nwere obliged to go with bare feet. Enoch often was obliged to", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0558.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 407\\nwrap Ills feet in swingling tow, and stand on a cliip while cutting\\ndown trees in midwinter.\\nHe w^ent to Atkinson academy one term in 1786, when he was\\n23 years of age. There he made the acquaintance of a pleasant\\ngirl, Polly ISToyes, 15 years of age, whom he asked to be his wife,\\nand wlio accepted the offer, agreeing to wait till he could get\\nstarted a little in life. Her parents were prudent people, and the\\nfather was not quite sure whether or not the young man from the\\nbackwoods would succeed in getting a living and so, when he\\nwent down to claim his bride, in 1790, the father informed him\\nthat the kettle, frying-pan, feather-bed, and quilts, which made\\nup the daughter s outfit, were loaned to him. The young husband,\\nflashing up, proposed not to take them. He would sleep on the\\nfloor, and cook his porridge as best he could. The pluck displayed\\npleased the father-in-law, and in November, 1790, with his bride\\nseated on a pillion behind him, and all her outfit packed on a led\\nhorse, he rode from Atkinson to Little hill, and began married\\nlife on the farm now occupied by Dea. Francis B. Sawyer.\\nBefore his marriage, as learned from his autobiography, he\\ntaught school on Corser hill, in the south-west corner room of the\\nhouse occupied by Eev. Mr. Price, and later by S. B. Little, Esq.,\\nand then owned by Samuel Corser. The seats were of plank,\\nwithout any backs. There were no desks. The only window was\\nhalf a sash of six lights. He taught reading, spelling, and arith-\\nmetic. The school district embraced the whole of what is now\\nthe town of Webster. There were about forty boys, and a few\\ngirls. jMany of the lioys were from eighteen to twenty-four years\\nof age, and it required tact, diplomacy, and dignity to preserve\\norder but the young man was equal to the occasion, and proved\\nhimself a competent master.\\nHe was the first teacher of music in the town. His first school\\nwas taught in the house now owned by Henry L. Dodge. Mr.\\nLittle was at that time tending the saw-mill near by. He studied\\nhis arithmetic while the saw was going through a log, and in the\\nevening taught music gratuitously one term, but charged a shill-\\ning seventeen cents an evening the second term.\\nIn regard to his knowledge of music, he said, I knew but lit-\\ntle about music, but I guess I knew more at that time than any\\nother man in town.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0559.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "408 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nThe rules were in rhyme some of his own making. He liad\\nthe idea that triple time M as suited to pensive music.\\nHe was a man of remarkable vigor, physically and mentally,\\nlived in advance of his age, took long looks ahead, predicting\\ngreat things in the future, of the advancement of society in\\nknowledge, and in the a^jplication of science to practical life. He\\never kept pace with the times, and was the first to produce mer-\\nino wool in the town, if not in the county.\\nHe was long an officer of the church, and was decided in his\\nown convictions, hut tolerant of the opinions of others. His later\\nyears were devoted to the study of the Bible, in which he took\\ngreat delight. He was kind, genial, witty, a natural poet, a good\\ncitizen, an earnest Christian, and an honor to his age and genera-\\ntion.\\nLITTLE, 2D, ENOCH, DEA.,\\nSon of Enoch, deacon, the third of the name, resided on Little\\nhill. He was horn in 1804, and acquired an academic education\\nat Pembroke, under the tuition of Rev. Amos Burnham. He\\ntaught school in Boscawen and other towns, and settled on\\nthe homestead with his father. He gave attention to music, and\\nfor a long period was leader of the choir connected with the\\nWebster Congregational church taught singing-school in Web-\\nster and Salisbury had a high sense of the value of sacred\\nmusic as a means of public worshiji, and sung, not for the enjoy-\\nment that came from singing merely, but as an act of devotion\\nand a religious duty.\\nHe was a man of strong convictions, a diligent student of\\nthe Bible, a constant attendant upon church services, and for\\nabout thirty years an officer of the church also one of the\\nfirst to engage in Sunday-school work, beginning as a teacher\\nwhen but eighteen years of age, and remaining to the close of\\nlife a constant attendant.\\nHe was a prominent member of the Martin Luther Musical\\nSociety, a town organization, and also of the Central Musical So-\\nciety, which flourished from 1820 to 1830 also a member of the\\nBoston Academy of Music. He never sought public life, but rep-\\nresented the town one year. He was an active member and pres-\\nident of the Merrimack County Agricultural Society, and took", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0560.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 409\\ngreat interest in tlie advancement of agriculture and sheep lius-\\nbandry.\\nHe was ever ready to give to charitable and benevolent objects,\\nand was a strong pillar in the Webster Congregational church.\\nHe had a vigorous mind, and was tenacious of his own convictions\\nof duty and obligation. He died in the full hope of Christian im-\\nmortality, honored and respected by all, October, 1875.\\nLITTLE, SIMEON B.\\nSimeon Bartlett Little, son of Benjamin Little, Esq., was born\\nin Boscawen, 16 Dec, 1797. His education was acquired at the\\ncommon school. In early life he was a news-carrier. The postal\\nfacilities were of little account, especially for news})apei-s, and he\\nsupplied the people of Hopkinton, Boscawen, Salisbur}^, and An-\\ndover with the Concord Gazette, printed by George Hough.\\nStarting from home early on the morning of its publication, he\\nrode to Concord on horseback, filled his. saddle-bags with papers,\\nthen riding through Hopkinton, reached home at night, and on\\nthe second day made the round of Salisbury and Andover. In\\ncold or stormy weather, three da^ s were given to the distribution.\\nBesides carrying papers he executed errands. By this means he\\nacquii ed his first money.\\nIn all communities there are men who come into active life\\nwithout effort of their own, wlio are recognized as possessing\\nqualifications for leadership. Simeon B. Little was such a man.\\nHe was selectman ten j^ears, two years a member of the legisla-\\nture, and a delegate to the convention for the revision of the con-\\nstitution. Between the years 1839 and 1858 inclusive, with but\\ntwo exceptions, he was elected moderator at the annual town-\\nmeeting. He was endowed with a judicial mind, and held through\\nthe active years of life a magistrate s commission. He was ad-\\nministrator of between thirty and forty estates, and was con-\\ncerned in the settlement of nearly as many more. He received\\nnearly twenty appointments as guardian for minors or insane\\npersons, and held a large amount of funds in trust.\\nHis business as a conveyancer of deeds was very large, nearly\\none thousand. Men who wished to make their last wills and\\ntestaments called upon him for counsel, and he wrote a large\\nnumber. If parties came with complaints, desiring litigation, he", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0561.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "410 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nacted the part of peace-maker. My docket, lie said, near tlie\\nclose of life, had but one criminal and two civil cases.\\nHe was frequently chosen by parties, or was appointed by the\\ncourts, as referee. Six times he served as juror. He learned land-\\nsurveying at an early date, and surveyed many farms. He was\\nfor about fifteen 3^ears president or director of the Granite Fire\\nInsurance Company, and for fifteen 3 ears or more director and\\nsecretary.\\nMr. Little was one of the leading members of the church and\\nreligious societj^, giving his time, his counsel, and of his means\\nto sustain what he conceived to be for the vital interests of the\\ncommunity. In speaking of the part he had taken in public life,\\nlie once said, I have been elected more times to some responsi-\\nble office in town by ballots, from 1828 to 1860, than there are\\nyears, and I can say what many cannot, that I never, directly or\\nindirectly, solicited a nomination or vote.\\nMr. Little s strong common-sense, his habits of thought, and\\nstudy of good models, gave him every facility in the use of lan-\\nguage. He wrote many articles for the press, on a great variety\\nof subjects. His contributions were noted for their strength,\\nclearness, and incisiveness. He greatly deplored his lack of edu-\\ncation. His attendance at the district school closed when he was\\nseventeen. His academical instruction was limited to eight\\nweeks. Mentally and physically he was sturdy and honest. It\\nis not easy to estimate the influence of such a man, one who\\nstood with all his might for tlie maintenance of his convictions\\nof truth and justice. He had no sj mpathy with anj thing that\\nin any way tended to debase the tone of society.\\nMr. Little was naturally conservative, and his fears that radi-\\ncalism might overturn the foundations of society led him to resist\\nall innovations. He was a Puritan of the eighteenth century.\\nSuch men make mistakes, but they are errors of the head and not\\nof the heart and their fellow-men will overlook any error of judg-\\nment when they see that it is error and not fraud or hyj^ocrisy.\\nMen who opposed him politically, who dissented from his views,\\never acknowledged his integrit} the honesty of his intentions, and\\nhis sterling worth.\\nDuring his last years he suffered partial paralysis that incajiaci-\\ntated him for labor, but, even while the fires of life were djdng", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0562.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 411\\nout, he manifested a desire to do what he could for the good of\\nhis fellow-men. [See Gen.]\\nLITTLE, THOMAS, CAPT.,\\nSon of Jesse and Martlia (Gerrish) Little, was born in Boscawen,\\n2 Jan., 1802. He had no educational advantages other than\\nthose furnished hy the district school. He remained at home\\nupon the farm now owned by Mr. Clifford, while two of his elder\\nbrothers, Jacob and Henry, entered college and studied for the\\nministry, and another elder brother, John, became a dresser of\\ncloth. He married M3^ra, daughter of Capt. Joseph Ames, 1829\\n[see Gen.], and moved to West Creek, Ind., 1854, where he resided\\ntill his death.\\nHe was kind, genial, warm-hearted, and had an overflow of\\ngood nature which made him everywhere welcome. He loved\\nchildren, and was beloved by them. He was a good citizen, was\\nseveral times elected selectman, and was as faithful in public as\\nin private life. He was hearty in his support of the religious and\\ncharitable institutions of the day. His influence was ever for\\ngood, and he was respected and honored by all who knew him.\\nHe died at West Creek, 19 Aug., 1877.\\nLITTLE, HOKACE,\\nSon of Richard and Mary (Pillsbury) Little, was born 17 Sept.,\\n1832. His father dying when he was but eight years of age, de-\\nprivecf him of parental care and help. He attended the district\\nschool, and went to Pennsylvania in 1851, where he has since re-\\nsided. His present home is at Eidgeway. He was emjiloyed for\\nseveral years as a land-surveyor, and while thus engaged had an\\nopportunity of making observations of the value of real estate in\\nthe lumber regions, Avhich he has since turned to good account.\\nHe has been a large operator in land and lumber. He married\\nLucy A. Taylor, of Pennsylvania, and has five children. [See\\nGen.]\\nLITTLE, CHARLES HERBEKT,\\nWas the youngest son of Benjamin and Rhoda (Bartlett) Little.\\nHe was born in Boscawen, 5 Dec, 1804, and prepared for college\\nunder the tuition of Eev. Daniel Lancaster and Eev. Samuel", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0563.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "412 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nWood. After graduating in 1827 lie completed the course at\\nAndover Theological Seminary in 1830. Hoping to find a more\\ncongenial climate, he passed most of the two subsequent years as\\na teacher in a private family, and in a female academy- in South\\nCarolina. He returned to New Hampshire in August, 1833, and\\nbecame joint editor and proprietor of the Neio Han^yshire Ob-\\nserver, a religious paper printed at Concord. He resigned the\\neditorship in February, 1835, on account of gradually failing\\nhealth. He returned to his home, lingered till 1 Jan., 1836,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0when he calmly passed away. His disease was consumption.\\nLITTLE, CHARLES, M. D.\\nCharles Little, son of Capt. Richard and IMary C. Little, was\\nborn at Little hill. West Boscawen, 14 Feb., 1837. At the age\\nof fifteen he united with the Congregational church. He fitted\\nfor college at Andover, Mass., entered Dartmouth in 1856, and\\nwas graduated in 1860. He began at once the study of medicine.\\nLiberty4oving and eager for the service of his country, he enlisted\\nas hospital steward with the 15th Regiment Vt. V. M. in 1862.\\nHe was earnest and faithful in his work, enduring much hardship\\nupon the march and in care of the sick, often acting as nurse, and\\nwatching through the long nights alone, with men who were too\\nsick to be moved when the orders came to strike tents. It was\\nsaid of liim, that among the sick he had the touch of a woman.\\nHe took his medical degree at Hanover, N. H., October, 1863,\\nand in ISTovember entered the U. S. Navy as acting assistamt sur-\\ngeon. He was appointed to the Winona, a vessel of the block-\\nading fleet off Charleston harbor, S. C. He had the medical care\\nof about one hundred men until the close of the war in 1865.\\nLife at sea was sometimes monotonous, but subject at all times,\\nnight and day, to sudden and intense excitements, keeping clear\\nof torpedoes, sighting strange-looking craft, with now and then a\\nhot pursuit for a prize. The one grand, joyful event to them was\\nthe receiving of the mail. Shut out as they were from the world,\\nthe suspense was sometimes terrible, so words from home and\\nnews of the progress of the war were eagerly received. The longed-\\nfor news came at length. He says, in his diary, 15 April, 1865,\\nThe Canonicus came in with the certain information that Gen.\\nLee has surrendered. Glory to God", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0564.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0565.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "Iv\\n(ffjz^?-iy -i^ X^^^^^z^\\n^l-^S T^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0566.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 413\\nUpon his discharge from service he continued the study of med-\\nicine six months at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New\\nYork city. June 11, 1866, he married the only daughter of Har-\\nris Cowdrey, M. D., of Acton, Mass., and hegan in that town the\\ngeneral practice of his jjrofession. He entered upon his work\\nwith zeal and ambition, and with such success as to give promise\\nof high rank among physicians.\\nHe died of consumption 16 Nov., 1869, aged 32 years and 10\\nmonths. His career was brief, but it was eventful and manly.\\nLITTLE, HEXRY, D. D.,\\nSon of Jesse and Martha (Gerrish) Little, was born in Boscawen,\\n23 March, 1800. At the age of 15 he united with the church\\nover which Rev. E. Price was pastor, and, with Enoch Kilburn,\\nSimeon B. Little, and other young men, sustained a young peo-\\nple s prayer-meeting every Saturday evening for five years.\\nAt 17 and 18 he taught school at Canterbury, N. H., and at\\n19 the school on Water street, Boscawen, in which fourteen of\\nhis scholars became Christians. In the reformation that winter,\\nhe took an active part in the meetings, visited from house to\\nhouse, and helped twelve men to commence family worshi2).\\nThis revival settled the question in regard to entering the min-\\nistry, and near his twentieth birthday he began to fit for college,\\nstudj ing with Samuel Wood, d. d., of Boscawen, at Salisbury\\nacademy, and at Hanover. He graduated at Dartmouth college\\nin 1826, at Andover Theological Seminary in 1829, and was or-\\ndained as an evangelist the next day, 34 Sept., in Park Street\\nchurch, Boston, with fifteen other home and foreign missionaries,\\nby the Presbytery of Newburyport, Mass.\\nWhile a senior at Andover, Dr. Porter gave Mr. L. the credit\\nof bringing twenty from the two classes below him in college to\\nthe seminary. His influence over so many students induced Dr.\\nPorter and the other professors, with Dr. Cornelius, then secre-\\ntary of the American Education Society, to select him as agent\\nfor that object, which position he filled for about two years in\\nNew England and the West, commencing in New Hampshire and\\nMassachusetts. Continuing in the same work, lie visited the\\nWestern States, travelling on horseback over western Pennsyl-\\nvania, western Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennes-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0567.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "414 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nsee also through a part of Illinois and Michigan. He soon\\naccepted a call from the Presbyterian church at Oxford, Ohio\\n(June, 1831), where in less than two 3 ears 297 were added to its\\nnumber. His pastorate closed in April, 1833.\\nAbout this date, the American Board of Foreign Missions and\\nthe American Home Missionary Society, with the American Tract\\nSociety and the American Education Society, all had a branch of\\ntheir work for the great West at Cincinnati, Ohio, each of them\\nwishing him to be their secretary and general agent. He soon\\nreceived the appointment of secretary and agent for the Board of\\nAgency of the Western States for the American Home Missionary\\nSociety.\\nThus located at Cincinnati, the whole country west of the Alle-\\nghanies was his field, and his zealous, constant, and efficient labors\\nwere crowned with success. He had not yet given up the idea of\\nbeing pastor, and had a successful pastorate of two years in Mad-\\nison, Ind. (from Nov., 1838, to 1840), during which time sixty\\nunited with the church.\\nHe once turned aside to beg $50,000 for Lane Theological Sem-\\ninary, and once $10,000 for the Western Female Seminary at Ox-\\nford, Ohio but his main life-work has lieen that of home missions.\\nIn many of the past years, between the fall and spring pres-\\nbyteries, he has preached as often as once a day for five or six\\nmonths, and has seen thousands become Christians.\\nDr. Little has ever been an earnest Sabbath-school worker, be-\\nginning at Boscawen, when such schools were first formed in that\\ntown. The graded school system, and its adoption by the state of\\nIndiana, found in him an earnest advocate and in the Indiana\\nCentennial School Report, Dr. Henry Little s name is given as\\nthe originator of the first graded school in that state.\\nDr. L. has twice had applications to be a professor in college,\\nhas received invitations to settle over churches in St. Louis, Louis-\\nville, Cincinnati, Lowell, Mass., and other places but, after en-\\ntering the home missionary work the second time, in 1840, it\\nseemed his duty to continue in it the rest of his life. He married,\\n19 Sept., 1831, Miss Susan Norton Smith, of Hatfield, Mass., a\\npupil of Miss Grant and Miss Mary Lyon. Of his eight chil-\\ndren, four are sons, all ministers, and settled over Presbyterian\\nchurches at Washington, D. C, New Albany, Ind., Mankato, Minn.,\\nand St. Louis, Mo.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0568.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 415\\nAn article in the Independent, 9th May, 1867, written by the\\npresident of Wabash college, Rev. Dr. Tuttle, sets forth tlie Labors\\nof Dr. Little\\nDuring a brief pastorate, many scores were converted, and some of\\nthese till places of great usefulness in the church and state. There is\\nuo labor he shuns, in prosecuting his work as a sort of home missionary\\nbishop. Along the Miami, the Scioto, the Muskingum, the White,\\nand the AVabash, in the heats of summer and the tremendous discom-\\nforts of a AVestern winter, he pushes his work, now in the gra;id old\\nwoods, now in the log school-house or private mansion, or in the hum-\\nble meeting-house, telling men of Christ. He has rode four contin-\\nuous days oti horseback, in the luud and rain, to reach an appoint-\\nment.\\nFrom ]\\\\Iarietta to Evansville, from Cleveland to La Porte, this\\nman has gone, planting churches, building up waste places, encourag-\\ning home missionaries, searching out the scattered sheep, holding pro-\\ntracted meetings, everywhere welcomed, honored, and loved. Thirty-\\nsix years has he been at this ivork, until he has publicly addressed more\\naudiences, visited more churches, worked directly in more revivals in\\nOhio and Indiana, talked to more people, seen more changes in commu-\\nnities and persons, than any man that can be named.\\nGo where he will, he meets those who owe everything to him as\\nGod s instrument, those who have been encouraged by him, those who\\nhave caught the best impulses of life from him and now, in this year\\n1867, this blessed man has preached fourteen times in eight days in one\\npulpit, preaching the gospel in such a cheerful light that his hearers\\nexclaim, Would to God we could love it as he does!\\nThe above was written in 1867. E-ev. Dr. Little is still en-\\ngaged in the work of planting churches, making, since his ordina-\\ntion in 1829, more than forty-eight years of continuous labor.\\nHe is now superintendent of missions for the state of Indiana.\\nThe honorable title of D. d. was conferred on him by Wabash\\ncollege in 1865.\\nLITTLE, ALFKED, MAJ.,\\nSon of Henry and Susan Little, and grandson of Enoch and\\nJesse Little, was born in Boscawen, 3 June, 1823. At six years\\nof age a partial parah^sis disabled one limb, obliging liim to use a\\ncrutch. In May, 1836, the family moved to Peoria, 111., where a\\nsevere attack of rheumatic fever in part destroyed the use of his\\nother leg. After the death of his father (who died suddenly,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0569.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "416 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n29 April, 183S) lie returned to Boscawen, in May, 1840, and in\\nthe autumn of the same year commenced to work in the melodeon\\nand seraphine shop of Mr. Charles Austin, at Concord, N. H., one\\nof the very earliest manufacturers of reed instruments in America.\\nNoted from a child for his musical talents and correct ear, he\\nsoon became tuner of these instruments, being among the first to\\nintroduce various improvements in the voicing and tuning of\\nreeds, which have since been adopted by his brother craftsmen\\nthroughout the country.\\nTwo serious faults of the early instruments of this description\\nwere, first, slowness of speech, and, second, a crude and reedy\\nquality of tone. To obviate these defects, Maj. Little soon found\\nthat a material change could be made by bending and shaping\\nthe reeds, divesting them of their harsh and unpleasant sound,\\nand giving to them a tone more round and mellow. By this\\nmethod, an even tone of the same quality throughout the scale\\nwas produced, and with greater freedom of vibration, causing\\nthem, in tuner s language, to speak quick.\\nThe 3fusic Trade Jievieic, New York, of 3 Sept., 1877, con-\\ntains an article, entitled Who was the original inventor of the\\nart of voicing reeds in which the following extract of a letter\\nfrom J. D. Cheney, tuner and manufacturer of cabinet organs at\\nStevens Plain, Me., is given\\nI was at A. Prescott s, Concord, N. II., from the winter of ISio-G\\nto 1850, and I am sure that Alfred Little, who was then tuning for\\nCharles Austin, used to bend the points of the reeds, as he said, to\\ntalce away a part of the snarl P\\nThis was previous to Mr. Carhart s improved tube-board, and\\nwas done in connection with the old style force-bellows, round-keyed\\nmelodeon.\\nAt a Mechanic s Fair, held in Boston, the attention of Dea.\\nTimoth}^ Gilbert, piano-maker, was called to the peculiar quality\\nand pure tone of an instrument tuned by Ma,j. Little, and he ever\\nafter procured his reeds of Mr. Austin for the J^^olian attach-\\nment to his pianos.\\nMaj. Little claims to be the first tuner in America who regular-\\nly set the equal temperament on reed instruments, and in this was\\nseveral years in advance of his contemporaries. For his first\\nefforts in this direction, he was greatly indebted to the late Prof.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0570.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 417\\nGeorge Wood, the sweet singer of Concord, N. H. It is probably\\ntrue that he tuned the first double-reed instrument in this coun-\\ntry, a seraphine, made by Charles Austin. He also tuned\\nmelodeons for Dearborn Bartlett, of Concord, N. H., continu-\\ning in the business until 1852. At this date he invented and\\nmanufactured, for his own use, an instrument of considerable\\npower, and yet of remarkable sweetness, which has been his\\nconstant companion to the present day. On listening to its\\ntones, an eminent musical critic pronounced it a miniature or-\\nchestra, which suggested its name, the Orchestral Melodeon\\n[see engraving]. For its versatility of musical effects, its inimi-\\ntable tremolo, and the dynamical expression of which it is capa-\\nble, this instrument is unsurpassed.\\nThe round-keyed melodeon, in use from 1838 to 1850, has almost\\nwholl}^ disappeared, having been succeeded by the cabinet organ.\\nThe original melodeon (as seen in engraving) was blown by the\\nleft arm, a movement awkward to most men, and giving a limited\\nuse of the left hand. Maj. Little soon attained wonderful skilful-\\nness in the manipulation of this instrument, and as a player of\\nthe round-keyed melodeon he is without a peer in the world.\\nPossessing the rare gift of improvisation, seemingly without\\nany study he calls forth from his instrument many a gem of mel-\\nody and harmony, which to hear once is to wish to hear again.\\nEndowed with a voice of great sweetness and pathos, though not\\nof remarkable compass, and having a high appreciation of the\\nbeautiful in poetry as well as in music, he became popular as a\\nconcert giver. His first musical entertainment was in Pantheon\\nhall, Fisherville, N. H., March, 1846. Since then he has given\\ndelight to hundreds of thousands in New England, Ohio, Indiana,\\nand Illinois.\\nEver ready to respond with voice and instrument to the calls of\\ncharity and patriotism, cheering the patient on his bed of suffer-\\ning, or teaching a Sabbath-school song to children, he has made\\nfriends everywhere and many a wayfarer has been aided by his\\nhelping hand, or cheered by his buoyant sympathy.\\nHe was appointed fife-major of the 21st N. H. Regiment by Col.\\nJoseph L. Pillsbury, receiving the honorary commission at the\\nhands of Gov. N. B. Baker.\\nNature does not always endow her poets with an exquisite\\n27", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0571.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "418 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nsense of melody, or enable them to produce her harmonies in\\nmusic hut she has made an exception in the person of Maj.\\nLittle; he is both musician and poet. Few men have a pro-\\nfounder appreciation of the melodies of Haydn, or the soul-inspir-\\ning harmonies of Handel and Beethoven, than he and there are\\nfew Avho take greater delight in the study of Milton and Shake-\\nspeare.\\nThat Maj. Little has poetic talent is manifest by the following\\nsong an apostrophe to a fine group of trees still adorning the old\\nhomestead, now owned by Capt. William D. George\\nMY MERRY MAPLE GROVE.\\nThere is a spot to mem ry dear,\\nWhere oft in childhood I would rove,\\nThe merry wildbird s song to hear\\nIt was my Maple Grove.\\nHow fair the view on every side\\nThe church on yonder hill,\\nKearsarge in all its lofty pride,\\nThe pond so clear and still.\\nAnd then the moss-grown rock I d climb,\\nTo pick the berries ripe and red\\nWhile squirrels scattered from the limb\\nTheir nutshells on my head.\\nTwas there I hammered from the ledge\\nBright garnets hued like wine,\\nOr gathered from its western edge\\nThe nodding columbine.\\nDear Maple Grove I see thee now,\\nEnrobed in dress of flowing green\\nThere stands my boyhood s home below,\\nWith grassy lane between.\\nThough fairer scenes perchance may be\\nTo win a poet s love,\\nYet thou art ever dear to me.\\nMy merry Maple Grove.\\nThere s not a tree that braves the gale,\\nOr towering rock or purling rill,\\nBut telleth each its simple tale\\nOf recollection still.\\nThough flowers may fade and friends may die,\\nThough far away I rove,\\nYet oft shall winged mem ry fly\\nTo thee my Maple Grove.\\nLITTLE, JACOB, D. D.,\\nSon of Jesse and Martha (G-errish) Little, was bom in Boscawen,\\nN. H., 1 May, 1795. At the age of eleven years he became a", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0572.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 419\\nChristian, and united with the Congregational church of Bos-\\ncawen, West Parish, 25 June, 1815. He fitted for college under\\nSamuel Wood, D. d., of Boscawen, and at Meriden academy grad-\\nuated at Dartmouth in 1822 and at Andover Theological Semi-\\nnary in 1825. He was ordained as an evangelist, at Goffstown,\\nN. H., and first preached six months at Hoosick, N. Y.\\nIn 1826 he entered the employ of the AVashington County\\n(Ohio) Missionary Society, reaching Belpre (near Marietta) June\\n80. His lahors in this and other towns within the county con-\\ntinued about one year. Here, and in neighboring places, Bible-\\nclasses (the first in that section) were formed here, also, he\\npreached his first temperance sermon.\\nHe commenced his labors at GrauA ille, Licking county, Ohio,\\n1 June, 1827, and at the end of six months was settled over the\\nCongregational church in that place, where he continued as pastor\\nuntil 4 Dec, 1864, a period of thirty-seven and one half years.\\nIn this charming town of central Ohio, long noted for its cul-\\ntured men and women, its churches and various institutions of\\nlearning. Dr. Little, with his shrewd good sense and pious exam-\\nple, led the people for nearly forty years.\\nPrevious to his removal to Granville, an unhappy quarrel had\\nsplit the church into factions but with the most consummate tact\\nhe was the very prince of Christian tacticians he brought\\nthese factions together, and became the pastor of the now reunited\\norganization. In this, and in other matters connected with his\\npeople. Dr. Little showed himself to be by nature a commander,\\nin knowing what ought to be done, and how to do it. Blessed\\nare the peace-makers, and he and his people were soon blessed\\nwith a revival of wonderful power, the first of thirteen great re-\\nvivals during his ministry.\\nHis labors were so eminently successful that the church at\\nGranville soon became the most noted religious organization in\\ncentral Ohio. The parish was six miles square, but the pastor\\nsystematically visited every family belonging to his congregation,\\norganizing conference and prayer meetings as well as Bible-\\nclasses in every district, which were conducted with astonishing\\nefficiency. In teaching and explaining the scriptures he took\\ngreat delight, and spent much time in fitting himself for this im-\\nportant duty.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0573.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "420 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nDr. Little had the rare faculty of setting everybody to work.\\nThere was hardly a male member in his church that did not pray\\nin imblic, and a large part of them exhorted publicly in the con-\\nference meeting. He soon became known as the plain preacher\\nthe man who dared to speak boldly in condemnation of vice.\\nHis New Years Sermons, on the first Sunday in January, were\\nalways reviews of the year, and on that day every seat and aisle\\nin the meeting-house was occupied. Several of these sermons\\nwere published. A letter in the New York Tribune, 29 July,\\n1854, gives the following sketch of Dr. L.\\nThe most remarkable man in Granville, if not in the whole county,\\nis the Rev. Jacob Little, pastor of the Congregational church. He is\\na graduate of Dartmouth college, and keeps his polite studies bright by\\npractice. He is extremely plain in his appearance, and in the pulpit\\nhas none of the mannerisms of his profession. In style he is perfectly\\nsimple, and yet there is such robust good sense in all that he does, and\\nsuch sagacity of judgment, rarely in error, accompanied by a rare purity\\nand integrity of character, that it may be said he stands among the\\nforemost ranks of his profession in this great state. His goodness is so\\ngood as to amount to genius, and his simplicity of manner and style at\\ntimes produces the effects of the highest eloquence. He has a wonderful\\npassion for statistics connected with his own locality, and can tell you\\nhow many get drunk, how many drink intoxicating liquor, how many\\nuse tobacco, how many have died since he was in Granville, and at what\\nage and of what disease, how many attend church, and who visit and\\ntravel on Sundays, c., c.\\nThe following is an extract from Dr. Little s new year s ser-\\nmon of 1849\\nThis township has 411 families and 1,376 adults. It has 37 drinking\\nfamilies, 119 drinking adults, 21 drunkards, and during the past year\\nhas consumed 4,153 gallons of intoxicating Hquor, The families having\\nno altar are 219; reading no religious papers, 223; children between six\\nand twenty-one attending no Sabbath-school, 179; adults who visit,\\nwork, or journey on the Sabbath, 183; neglect public worship, 113;\\ncannot read, 22; use profane language, 189; use tobacco, 364; play\\ncards, 83; attend balls, 40; supposed to be impenitent, 777. The send-\\nino- 150 persons to Botany bay would blot from our history most of the\\nabove number.\\nDuring Dr. Little s pastorate at Granville, there were added\\nto his church 1,041 members, of whom 664 were received upon", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0574.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0575.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "^^^Jcs^ mL", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0576.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, 421\\nprofession of their faith. In these j^ears he preached about 5,000\\nsermons, and more than 1,000 persons are supposed to have been\\nled to a religious life through his ministry.\\nHis kind and genial nature secured the love and confidence of\\nchildren and youth, who ever felt free to come to him for needed\\nsympathy and counsel. His varied duties as pastor and preacher led\\nhim to be systematic and exact. Says a writer in the New York\\nEvangelist, I never saw Jacob Little oif duty and at leisure.\\nHis industry was restless, and his method un3 ielding as iron\\nbands. As a writer, he was simple and plain, preferring force to\\nelegance, choosing to have his sentiments rather than his sen-\\ntences remembered.\\nIn 1863, Dr. Little delivered a course of lectures at Lane Theo-\\nlogical Seminary, on Pastoral Theology; and from January, 1867,\\nto July, 1869, furnished a column each week for the Christicm\\nHerald, published at Cincinnati, entitled The Pastor. Besides\\nthe New Years Sermons, he published several other discourses,\\nas well as many delightful and valuable articles in the religious\\nnewspapers. Perhaps his most important work is the History\\nof Granville, published in fifty-nine numbers of the Ohio Ob-\\nserver, at Hudson, about the year 1845.\\nThe male academj^ and the female seminary of Granville (of the\\nlatter of which he was trustee) owed their existence and much of\\ntheir prosperity to his efforts. For a number of years he was\\ntrustee of Western Eeserve college, and of Central college, Ohio.\\nHe also served as trustee of Marietta college from 1845 to 1870.\\nIn person, Dr. Little was a large man, and jiossessed great phys-\\nical activity and endurance. For thirty years his average weight\\nin the winter was 200 pounds. For thirty-five years he never\\nlost a Sabbath from ill health. This he attributed largely to his\\nregular and temperate habits, using neither tea, coffee, nor tobacco.\\nAt the close of 1864, Dr. Little resigned his pastorate over the\\nchurch at Granville, and removed to his farm near Warsaw, Ind.,\\nwhere he resided until 1874, preaching to unsupplied churches\\nabout one third of the time. His strength beginmng to fail, he\\nthen removed to the home of his son, Eev. Charles Little, at\\nWabash, Ind., where he passed to his rest, 17 Dec, 1876, aged\\n81 years, 7 months, and 16 days.\\nIn 1855, the degree of d. d. was conferred on him by Marietta", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0577.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "422 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ncollege. He married, 1st, Lucy, daughter of Capt. Joseph Ger-\\nrish, of Canterbury, K. H., 1 June, 1826, who died 5 Oct., 1834\\n2d, Ann Dorothy, daughter of Hon. T. M. Thompson, of Gran-\\nville, Ohio, 23 March, 1836. Four children, one son by his first\\nand two sons and a daughter by his second marriage, are now liv-\\ning, the three sons being ministers of the Presbyterian church.\\n(See Gen.)\\nMACUEDY, DAVID A., CAPT.,\\nEnlisted as a private, with his brother Matthew, 11 Aug., 1862,\\nin the 14th Regiment [for movements of which see Adjutant-Gen-\\neral s Eeport, state of New Hampshire]. During the fall and\\nwinter the regiment was on duty at AVashington and along the\\nPotomac, picketing the river for a distance of forty miles, endur-\\ning great hardships. The summer of 1863 was passed in doing\\nguard duty from Harper s Perry to Portress Monroe. In the\\nspring of 1864, the regiment was ordered to the Department of\\nthe GuK, and came near being shipwrecked on the voyage to New\\nOrleans. After a short service on the Mississippi, the regiment\\nreturned to the Potomac, and was ordered to the Shenandoah,\\njoining Sheridan s corps, Aug. 18.\\nOn the 19th of Sept. occurred the battle of Perryville. The reg-\\niment was on the march at 2 A. M. The artillery fire began be-\\nfore daylight, but the battle did not become general till 11 o clock\\nin the forenoon. The 14th N. H. was on the extreme right of\\nSheridan s infantry line. The advance of the Union troops was\\nso impetuous that the enemy were driven at every point, but in\\nthe ardor of pursuit the line became confused. The artillery of\\nthe enemy opened with deadly effect. The order was given to\\nfall back. While the movement was being executed, Capt. Ma-\\ncurdy s younger brother, Matthew, was instantly killed, and\\nthe captain himself (then lieutenant) wounded. The loss to\\nthe regiment was thirteen officers and one hundred and thirty\\nprivates killed and wounded. After his wound had healed, Capt.\\nMacurdy rejoiijed his regiment, which was ordered to Savannah\\n1 Jan., 1865, where it remained till the close of the war. Capt.\\nMacurdy was commissioned first lieutenant 27 May, 1864 pro-\\nmoted to captaincy 22 Nov., 1864 and mustered out 8 July, 1865.\\nHe has been honored by his fellow-citizens with the offices of", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0578.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 423\\nselectman and representative [see Town Officers]. He lias fol-\\nlowed the occupation of trader in Webster, Concord, and again in\\nWebster.\\nMOKRILL, ROBIE, REV.\\nThe second minister of Boscawen was Rev. Eobie Morrill, son\\nof Abraham Morrill, of Salisbury, Mass. [see Gen.], where he was\\nborn 28 Aug., 1734, the year in which the first band of settlers\\nreared their log cabins in Contoocook. He graduated at Harvard,\\n1755, studied theology, and was ordained minister 29 Dec, 1761.\\nHe preached about five years, and then, owing to some disaffec-\\ntion [see Civil Hist.], resigned his ministerial office. He never\\nagain engaged in preaching, but became a teacher, and taught\\nmany years during the closing decades of the last century. He\\nwas a useful citizen, a gentleman of the old school, punctilious\\nin dress, yielding never to the changes of fashion, but wearing to\\nthe close of life his wig, his black silk stockings, silver shoe and\\nknee buckles. He was small of stature, and was bald-headed, but\\nthe loss of hair was supplied by a wig and cue, which the roguish-\\nly inclined, roystering school-boys had the temerity to dandle at\\ntimes, not unfrequeiitly paying for it with aching palms.\\nRev. Mr. Morrill was erratic in his ways. Tradition reports\\nthat he once selected for his text the pronoun it that once\\nhe astonished his congregation by exclaiming, There goes a\\nmouse But if erratic, he was possessed of a rich vein of humor.\\nSome of tlie members of his congregation not unfrequently fell\\nasleep during his long-drawn sermon, and disturbed the preacher\\nby their snoring. On a Sunday Mrs. Morrill dropped asleep,\\nwhereupon her husband paused in his preaching and thus ad-\\ndressed one of his wakeful hearers My friend, won t you please\\npunch that man who snores so loud, for if he goes on at that rate\\nhe will wake up my wife.\\nMr. Morrill erected the house now standing near the site of the\\nancient fort, the oldest framed house in the town. He was a man\\nof sterling character, and in the formative period, during the Rev-\\nolutionary war and the first years of the republic, when society\\nand political institutions were undergoing a change, his influence\\nwas ever on the right side. He died in 1813, greatly respected\\nby his fellow-citizens.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0579.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "424 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nMOODY, PHEBE K., MRS.\\nPhebe Knight, daughter of Caleb Knight, came to Boscawen\\nwith her father in 1792, from Newbi;ry, Mass. She was employed\\nas a school-teacher, one of the few female teachers of the last\\ncentury. She was united in marriage to Nicholas Moody, who\\nresided in a secluded locality west of Little hill. Mrs. Moody,\\nthough bound down by the prosaic occupations of a farmer s\\nhousehold, and cut off from associations generally deemed neces-\\nsary to literary culture, found time to throw off, now and then, a\\npoetical effusion for her friends. At the close of the last century\\nthere were few newspapers, and fewer magazines nevertheless\\nsome of her poetical scraps found their way into print, and were\\ngreatly admired. She was endowed with native poetic talent of a\\nhigh order, a delicate appreciation of the beautiful, and rare fa-\\ncility of expression, as will be seen by the few fragments that\\nhave been preserved\\nPOETICAL EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND.\\nDear Miss\\nYour friend has requested a letter for you,\\nBut at present I Icnow not what theme to pursue,\\nUnless of my dwelling I give you a view.\\nI m of the earth, earthly; and therefore my mind\\nTo things of small moment is mostly inclined.\\nMy time and my tlioughts are employ d in my dairy.\\nThough sometimes I scribble when of tliat I m weary.\\nMy writing, you ll notice, is none of tlie best.\\nThough perhaps not so coarse as my genius and taste.\\nBut enough of this preface I now will proceed\\nTo draw you a landscape if you it can read.\\nIn this lonely vale, half a mile from the road,\\nShut out from the world, is my rural abode.\\nA mile to tlie west you may houses discern\\nBut here quite alone stand my cottage and barn\\nAnd around it are sporting the flocks and the herds,\\nThe turkeys and chickens, the squirrels and birds.\\nAnd here is my garden, but we ll pass and not heed it;\\nLike my heart, tis uncultured\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I ve neglected to weed it.\\nBut the fields and the orchards, that ask not my care,\\nAi e teeming with good fruit, and look very fair.\\nSee yonder the ridge and the wood-cover d hill,\\nAnd down in the hollow there ripples a rill\\nIn pleasing meanders it plays through the wood,\\nTill it meets and unites in a neighboring flood.\\nThe wide-spreading meadow, the sweet-flowing fountain.\\nThe tall dusky forest, the high lofty mountain.\\nThe steep craggy rock, and the grove and the brook,\\nThe prospect is pleasant wherever you look.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0580.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, 425\\nOn all sides are blooming the beauties of spring\\nClad with corn and with clover, the vales shout and sing;\\nThe sweet-scented briers that deck this green bud,\\nThe soft fragrant zephyrs that play round my head,\\nTlie sweet little songsters that carol above.\\nAll, all I have uam d are the offspring of love\\nOur God s name is Love, and love is his nature.\\nHe rules us, he governs all worlds and each creature.\\nWhatever he formed his goodness protects.\\nAnd his tender mercies are o er all his works.\\nBut man is his best lov d, man s nature he took;\\nThat wonderful story we read in his Book,\\nHow for us he suffer d, obey d, liv d, and died,\\nTo make of us, rebels, his children and bride.\\nAnd now to this Jesus, whose name we adore,\\nBe blessing, and honor, and glory, and power:\\nTo Jesus Jehovah, the Ancient of Days\\nBe blessing, and honor, and glory, and praise.\\nTwo natures united in our dearest Lord,\\nFor the Word was made flesh, and the Word it was God.\\nHe s God in tlie Father and God in the Son,\\nAnd God in the Spirit, and these three are one\\nOh, wonders on wonders what myst ry is here\\nWhat heights and what depths in our Jesus appear!\\nThe Creator and creature in unison join\\nHow blest are the branches of Jesus the vine\\nWhat though modern Pliarisees say he s not God,\\nAnd treat with indignity our dearest Lord,\\nYet, yet it is written, that Jesus the Lamb,\\nIs God over all, the eternal I Am.\\nSeducers are saying, lo liere, and lo there\\nIs Jesus the Saviour, but let us beware;\\nFor, though these false teacliers will many deceive,\\nOur Jesus forbids us their lies to believe.\\nThe things are f ultilling that Jesus foretold,\\nThe signs of his coming we clearly behold\\nFalse Christs and false prophets now swarm all around,\\nAnd faith uncorrupted is scarce to be found\\nOf blaspliemous errors, behold what a flood\\nDenying the Saviour, who bought them with blood\\nBut Jesus will come in his glory ere long.\\nAnd by his own power will silence each tongue\\nThat now speaks against him, perverting his word:\\nOn such daring sinner have mercy, dear Lord!\\nMY COTTAGE.\\nIn this retreat, remote and still,\\nMy fav rite solitude I find;\\nThis little cot beneath the hill\\nH,aa charms congenial to my mind.\\nHow gracious, Heaven, art thou to me.\\nIn answ ring thus my early prayers\\nFrom youth I ever wished to be\\nFar from the world and all its cares.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0581.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "426\\nBIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nFar from the world of noise and strife,\\nWith quiet here I ll pass uiy days\\nIn this sequester d vale of life,\\nI ve found that peace which ne er decays.\\nAnd from this humble shade ere long,\\nTo heaven, my home, I hope to rise,\\nBorne on the balmy wings of love,\\nTo fairer mansions in the skies.\\nThere Jesus sits, that God of love\\nHis glorious throne s exalted high\\nThough once he groan d and bled and died\\nTo save such guilty worms as I.\\nAnd is it not worth dying for,\\nTo see my Heavenly Father s face.\\nWho sav d me from destruction s jaws,\\nAnd bid me seek superior bliss?\\nA FRAGMENT.\\nTHE PEN.\\nHow great is my use cries the quill of a goose;\\nWho duly my merits appraise?\\nMy praises resound the world all around,\\nI make even fools to be wise.\\nTHE NEEDLE.\\nHold liold prating goose, for I m of most use,\\nAlthough I am shorter and slimmer\\nBy my little head many thousands are fed.\\nWhilst your scribble won t purchase a dinner.\\nTHE WHEEL.\\nAnd what were your head were it not for my thread\\nSo, then, independent Miss Steel,\\nJust acknowledge thy due to the wheel.\\nTHE LOOM.\\nAnd what were your worth were it not for my cloth?\\nThe loom, looking largely, replied.\\nBoth needle and thread might beg for their bread.\\nIf I did not keep them employed.\\nTHE AXE.\\nMr. Axe raised his head, and to them he said,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCome, yield the precedence to me\\nFor to me you must know your being you owe.\\nFor I hewed you out of the tree.\\nIn this dispute among the tools.\\nWe see how much we look like fools\\nAVhen pride begins to swell and rise,\\nAnd makes us great in our own eyes.\\nShall human tools contend with God,\\nAnd boast as if they were no wood\\nWe are his clay, formed by his hand,\\nFor his own use, at his command.\\nLet not curst pride our hearts deceive,\\nFor what have we we ve not received?", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0582.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 42T\\nPEAKSON, NATHAN,\\nSon of Nathan Pearson, was born in Boscawen, 22 Sept., 1802.\\nHe had no special advantages for obtaining an education, being\\nlimited to the meagre instruction furnished by the district school.\\nHe married Eliza Couch, daughter of John Couch, of Salisbury,\\nand settled on the homestead now owned by Ephraim Little.\\nMr. Pearson was a man of few words, who did his own thinking,\\nand was independent in his opinions. He was a good friend\\nand citizen, a constant attendant upon public worship, and en-\\ndeavored to supply, by reading and observation, the lack of oppor-\\ntunities for education in his early years. He was elected select-\\nman in 1841 and 1842, and representative in 1843 and 1844.\\nUpon the division of the town, he was elected chairman of the\\nboard of selectmen for Webster. He died 8 Oct., 1868.\\nPECKER, J. E., COL.,\\nPor several years a citizen of Boscawen, is a son of the late Jere-\\nmiah Pecker, Jr., and great grandson of Capt, John Chandler,\\nand was born in East Concord, 28 May, 1838. He attended the\\nFranklin Hall school in Concord, and graduated from tlie Chand-\\ndler Scientific Department of Dartmouth college in 1858. Sub-\\nsequently he engaged in teaching, and for a number of years was\\nprincipal of the Eisherville high school. He then read law, but\\nabandoned the idea of that profession to become a correspondent\\nand reporter of the Boston Journal, upon which paper he has\\nbeen regularly employed since 1862.\\nIn 1865 he was historian in the military department of the\\nstate government, and aided largely in the preparation of the\\nextended reports issued that year by the adjutant-general.\\nHe is now manager of the New Hampshire News Bureau of\\nthe Boston Journal^ having charge of its interests in this state.\\nAs a newspaper correspondent, he has travelled extensively in\\nCanada and the provinces, and in the Western and Southern\\nstates.\\nIn 1877 he was commissioned aide-de-camp on the military staff\\nof Gov. Prescott, with the rank of colonel. He is biographical\\nsecretary of the Chandler Alumni Association of Dartmouth\\ncollege.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0583.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "428 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nPETERSON, DAXIEL, M. D.\\nThe first physician in Boscawen was Dr. Daniel Peterson, who\\nbuilt the house afterwards occupied by Benjamin Oak and by\\nJames West as a hotel, and now occupied by Mr. Dow. He\\nmoved into town about 1770, and was a surgeon in the Bennington\\nand other campaigns. He was a physician of the old school\\nindeed, there was no other school. Bleeding, blistering, cup-\\npings, calomel, and jalop were its characteristics. The school\\nbelieved in an active treatment.\\nDr. Peterson had an extensive practice in Boscawen, Salisburj^,\\nSanbornton, Canterbury, Warner, Wilmot, and other towns, rid-\\ning as far north as Haverhill, always on horseback, with his sad-\\ndle-bags stuffed with medicines.\\nHe married a sister of Nathaniel Greene, Esq., and was uncle to\\nthe late Senator Fessenden.\\nOne of his fellow-physicians was Dr. Long, of Hopkinton.\\nTogether Drs. Peterson and Long rode to Haverhill, N. H., and\\nwere present at the execution of a negro who had committed a\\nheinous crime, and who had sold his body to the two physicians\\nfor dissection. Dr. Long skinned the body after the execution, had\\nthe skin tanned, and a pair of boots made from it. Dr. Peterson,\\nfrom his service in the army, became widely known, and was\\nregarded as one of the best surgeons of his time.\\nPILLSBURY, JOSEPH L., COL.,\\nSon of Dea. Joseph and Martha (Little) Pillsbury, was born in\\nBoscawen, N. H., 10 Feb., 1829. At the age of twelve years he\\naccomp^,nied his father to Pennsylvania, where he spent one sum-\\nmer with a surveying party, acting as chain-bearer. He was\\nnot a robust youth, but life in the woods improved his health,\\nand he early matured to a vigorous manhood.\\nAt the age of sixteen he displayed a military spirit, making\\nhimself familiar with tactics and drill exercises. At eighteen he\\nwas captain, and at twenty-one was colonel of the 21st N. H. Regi-\\nment. He commenced the study of medicine, which he soon af-\\nter abandoned, and in 1851 went to Pittsburgh, where for about\\nthree years he acted as paymaster of the Ohio Pennsylvania\\nRailroad. Possessing a mathematical and scientific mind, he", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0584.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0585.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "1^_", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0586.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 429\\nqualified himself for the duties of civil engineer, which calling\\nhe followed for about twenty years.\\nIn 1854 Col. Pillsbury commenced as contractor and builder of\\nrailroads in the South and West, doing an extensive business\\non the Mobile Girard, Fort Wayne Chicago, and also on a\\nroad running west from Dubuque, Iowa. Associated with him in\\npart of these contracts was his brother, Henry W. Pillsbury.\\nSubsequently Col. Pillsbury was engaged in the oil business\\nin eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, where a number of oil\\nwells were bored by him. He was also superintendent of the\\nDeep Oil Mining Company, in northern Ohio.\\nCol. Pillsbury excelled as a hydraulic engineer. His first im-\\nportant work in this direction was the building of the Canton\\n(Ohio) water-works, in 1869, 70. He was also advising hydravilic\\nengineer for various cities in the West.\\nThe last great labor of his life was at Columbus, Ohio, where\\nin 1870 he was employed as chief engineer to su^^ply that cap-\\nital with water from the Scioto river. During the progress of this\\nenterprise his health was seriously impaired, and soon after its\\nsuccessful completion he returned with his son and daughter to\\nBoscawen, where he died, 10 Jan., 1874.\\nCol. Pillsbury was a man of positive character, indomitable en-\\nergy, and of great nobility and kindness of heart. In writing, he\\nhad the happy faculty of exjiressing himself Avith fluency, and\\nto the point. From his youth he was an extensive reader\\nof books that required thought, whether in j)oetry or prose was a\\ndiligent student, and greatly interested in mechanical and scien-\\ntific pursuits. In the study of geology he took great delight, and\\nin this, as well as in other departments of science, his mind was\\na rich storehouse of useful and interesting facts. He invented\\nseveral valuable improvements pertaining to his various fields\\nof labor, and secured a patent on a hydrant for city water-works.\\nCol. Pillsbury was an active and esteemed member of the Epis-\\ncopal church, at Canton, Ohio, and was always ready to do his\\npart in every good word and work. He married, 18 May, 1854,\\nMary Anna Ely, of Wooster, Ohio, daughter of Col. Daniel Ely,\\nof Owego, K. Y. She died at Delaware, Ohio, 18 Aug., 1867.\\n[See Gen.]", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0587.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "430 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nPILLSBURY, MOODY A., GEJf.\\nGen. Moody Adams Pillsbury, son of Daniel and Eunice\\n(Thorla) Pillsbury, was born in Boscawen, 4 May, 1794. His\\neducational advantages, like those of most boys of his time, were\\nthose of the district school. Upon arriving at his majority he\\nsettled in Bashan, upon the farm where he lived through life,\\ngiving more attention to his saw-mill than to his farm. Bashan\\nwas a new section, densely timbered, and his mills became a\\nsource of profit.\\nHe became an officer in the militia, was colonel of the 21st\\nEegiment for several years, and rose to the rank of brigadier-\\ngeneral.\\nGen. Pillsbury took an active interest in the events of his\\ntime. He was a constant attendant upon the public religious ser-\\nvices of the Sabbath, gave liberally to the support of benevolent\\nobjects, and was long a member of the church. He was one of\\nthe first to espouse anti-slavery principles, and gave to the\\ncause of freedom his whole heart. He was a kind neighbor, a\\nfriend to the poor, and a genial companion. He married, first,\\nMiss Rachel Dix, sister of Gen. John A. Dix second. Miss Louisa\\nFrances Dix, her sister. He died 8 Jan., 1863.\\nPILLSBURY, GEORGE T.,\\nSon of Daniel Pillsbury, was born in the house now occupied by\\nMiss Sarah Pillsbury, on Water street. He learned his father s\\ntrade that of carpenter and built the house near the school-\\nhouse, on Little hill, where he resided a few 3 ears. He erected many\\nbuildings in Concord, and began the erection of the South Congre-\\ngational meeting-house in that town in 1835, in partnership with\\nCapt. Wm. Abbott. He received an injury in one of his legs,\\nwhich was followed by mortification and death in 1836. He was\\na man of decided convictions, and active in all matters relat-\\ning to religion and temperance. He was elected deacon of the\\nchurch in Webster, to succeed Dea. Enoch Little, 2d. His\\ndeath cast a gloom upon the community, and his funeral was\\nnotably one of the largest ever attended in Webster. He died\\nas he had lived, in the full triumph of Christian faith.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0588.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 431\\nPRICE, EBENEZER, REV.,\\nThe first pastor of the Congregational cliureli in Webster, was\\nborn in Newburyport, 14 Sept., 1771, and was the youngest child\\nof William Price [see Gen.]. His parents, from his birth, de-\\nsigned that he should receive a collegiate education. He began\\nhis preparatory studies at the age of seventeen, in Moore s Charity\\nSchool, Hanover, then under the tuition of Rev. Daniel Dana. He\\nentered Dartmouth in 1789, and graduated in 1793. His sister\\nhad married Rev. Mr. Hidden, of Tamworth, with whom he passed\\nseveral months after graduating, where he made a public profes-\\nsion of religion, 24 Aug., 1794. Deciding to enter the ministry,\\nhe placed himself under the theological instruction of Rev. Elihu\\nThayer, d. d., of Kingston. He was licensed to preach, January,\\n1795, by the Deerfield association of ministers, and began his labor\\nas a minister of the gospel in Belfast, Me., March, 1796, and was\\nordained pastor of the church in that place on the 26th of Decem-\\nber following. He was married 20 Jan., 1799, to Miss Lucy\\nFarrer. eldest daughter of Humphrey and Lucy Farrer, of Hano-\\nver, ]Sr. H. He remained in Belfast till the 22d of September,\\n1802, a period of six years.\\nThe burning of the meeting-house at the east end of Bos-\\ncawen, the refusal of the town to build a second edifice, and the\\nerection of a building by a society on the Plain, brought about an\\nabnormal state of affairs. The town owned the frame at the\\nWest end, and individuals owned the pews. There was no church\\nor society. At the invitation of the citizens of this section,\\nMr. Price began his labors. His preaching was followed by a\\nmanifest increase of attention to religion on the part of the\\npeople. The Westerly Religious Society was organized in Janu-\\nary, 1804, and a church of eight members formed the 10th of\\nSeptember following. Mr. Price accepted a call to become their\\npastor, and was installed on the 26th of September. He main-\\ntained this pastoral relation thirty-three years, the connection\\nbeing dissolved by mutual council, 10 May, 1837.\\nDuring his pastorate, there were several marked seasons of\\nreligious interest. The whole number added to the church dur-\\ning his pastorate was 262. The greatest number in any one year\\nwas 60, in 1838. The greatest number of members on the church\\nrolls at any one period was 198.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0589.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "432 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nMr. Price continued to reside in the town, and became superin-\\ntendent of the Sahbath-school, which position he held for eleven\\nyears.\\nUpon the formation of the Granite Mutual Fire Insurance Co.,\\nhe was elected secretary, which office he held till he removed to\\nBoston, in 1859, to live with his eldest son, Ebenezer Sewell Price,\\nwhere he died in 1863, aged 92.\\nHe took a lively interest in every benevolent or other move-\\nment looking to the welfare of the community. He was a genial\\nman, a perfect gentleman, respecting the rights of all, and exceed-\\ningly courteous. He dignified his office as a minister of the gos-\\npel, and adorned it by an exemplary life. Those most prejudiced\\nagainst religion could find no word of fault against it on account\\nof any dereliction of duty on his part. Being one of the super-\\nintending school committee from 1809 to 1835, he became ac-\\nquainted with nearly all the children in town and if they stood\\nin awe of him on account of his official position, they learned to\\nlove and respect the man who placed his hands on their heads\\nso benignantly, smiled so genially, and overlooked their short-\\ncomings in the kindness of his nature.\\nHe was fond of riding on horseback, and no gentleman of the\\nold school ever sat more gracefully than he in the saddle.\\nHe was settled in town at a time when liberty gave place to\\nlicense, when there was an uprising of some of the worst elements\\nin society; and in the middle period of his ministry came the\\nstruggle for possession of the West meeting-house. But those\\nwho dissented from his religious opinions respected him as a man,\\nand welcomed him heartily to their homes. His influence was\\never on the side of law and order, justice and right. After his\\nretirement from the ministry, his fellow-citizens manifested their\\nregard for him by twice electing him to represent them in the\\nlegislature.\\nIn 1820 Mr. Price collected materials for a chronological his-\\ntory of the town. Much of his information in regard to the\\nearly settlement of the tow-n Avas obtained from George Jack-\\nman, Esq., and from conversation with the oldest inhabitants.\\nIt was printed in 1823, by Jacob B. Moore, of Concord. The\\ntown appropriated fifty dollars as compensation. It was pub-\\nlished by private subscription. His sermons preached at the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0590.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 433\\nfuneral of Dea. Benjamin Sweatt, and upon the cleatli of Rev. Dr.\\nWood, were published by request. He was the author of the let-\\nter to Hon. Daniel Webster, which elicited his reply to his iSTew\\nHampshire neighbors. The letter and repl}^ are to be found in\\nthe published cori-espondence of Mr. Webster.\\nHis relations to the church and society, and especially to his\\nsuccessor in the ministry, Rev. Edward Buxton, were always frater-\\nnal and helpful. As a pastor, he was ever mindful of the wants\\nof his people, sympathizing with them in their bereavements and\\nafflictions, and entering as heartily into all their joys. He was so\\nmindful of all classes, that in his public prayers the aged, the\\nmiddle-aged, the young, the youth, the infants, were all remem-\\nbered. His desire to leave nothing undone, to neglect no class,\\nto fill the full measure of his own responsibility, not infrequently\\nmade his prayers and sermons of u:ndue length. On special occa-\\nsions his prayers sometimes exceeded his sermons in length, occu-\\npying from fifty to seventy minutes.\\nIn this respect he did not stand alone. In tlie ministry at that\\nperiod, brevity was the exception, length the rule. At the begin-\\nning of the century, people expected a service to occupy at least\\ntwo hours. During the short days of winter, those who lived\\nfarthest from meeting sometimes saw the sun disappear behind\\nthe Warner hills before they reached home. Nor were they rest-\\nless under a sermon that occupied an hour in the delivery. They\\nexpected a long sermon, and would have found fault with the\\nbrevity of the sermon of the present day.\\nHis last years were marked by serene peace and composure. He\\nwas an attendant at Mount Vernon church, in Boston, and listened\\nwith delight to the preaching of Rev. Dr. Kirlc, who looked upon\\nhim as a father in the ministry. His influence for good never\\ncan be measured, for under his preaching such men as Rev.\\nEnoch Corser, and Revs. Jacob and Henry Little, were led to\\nenter the ministry and through their instrumentality thousands\\nhave been brought to a religious life.\\nThe night before his death. Father Price called his son Sewell\\nand wife to his bedside, and, taking their hands in his, thanked\\nthem for their continued kindness to him, and trusted tliat in\\ntheir last days they might be cared for as tenderly. Sewell asked\\nhis father how he felt in regard to death. Oh that was all fixed\\n28", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0591.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "434 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY,\\nyears and years ago. I committed myself into the hands of my\\nMaker he has taken care of me hitherto, and I liave no fears for\\nthe future.\\nRev. Jacob Little, in a sermon preached in Granville, Ohio,\\nand published in the Church Union, 20 May, 1876, thus alludes\\nto Rev. Mr. Price\\nA good man never dies. His good works follow\\nhim, and he lives in them.\\nReady to return from a New England visit, I called to say good-by\\nto my pastor, who had outlived his years of preaching. With tearful\\neyes he said, I shall never see you again. You will again visit your\\nfriends, but before that time I shall die. Wishing to cheer him, I re-\\nplied, Mr. Price, you will never die. I have received from you doc-\\ntrines, precepts, feelings, and ways of doing good, and in central Ohio\\nam impressing them on a great people. Sabbath teachers and preach-\\ners are coming up in my congregation to scatter what I have received\\nfrom your lips, and pass it to the next generation. In Indiana, Bro.\\nHenry is doing the same thing on a larger scale, and so are others who\\nhave gone from your congregation. What you have taught by exam\\npie and precept is spreading wider and wider, and going to the second\\nand third generations, and will ever keep going, so that you will never\\ndie.\\nROGERS, JOHN, M. D.\\nMaj. William Rogers was born in Newbury, Mass., 1741, and\\nmarried Abigail Worth of the same town. He was a lineal de-\\nscendant of John Rogers, who was burned at the stake in Smith-\\nfield in 1555. He was drowned at the mouth of Merrimack river,\\n25 Sept., 1786. They had five children.\\nJohn was born 24 May, 1787, at jSTewburyport, Mass. His\\nmother married Moody Chase, and moved to Chester, E H.\\nBefore preparing for college, he learned the art of dressing cloth\\nof William Hesalton, of Suncook. He graduated at Dartmouth,\\n1816, studied medicine with Dr. Chadbourne, of Concord, grad-\\nuated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth college in\\n1819, commenced the practice of medicine in Chester, and re-\\nmoved to Boscawen in 1821 or 1822. He lived in the large dwell-\\ning-house (shown in the cut) near the church, where he practised\\nmedicine until his death, 5 Jan., 1830. He married Sarah,\\ndaughter of Caleb Knight, of Boscawen, in May, 1825. Their", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0592.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 435\\nchildren were, Sarah, born 23 Sejjt., 1826, married W. H. Har-\\nlow, of Everett, Mass. John, born 23 Sept., 1826, died Sep-\\ntember, 1828 Abbie, born 6 Feb., 1828, who resides with her\\nsister.\\nSAKGEXT, WALTER H.,\\nSon of Isaac and Rebecca (Farnum) Sargent, was born in Bos-\\ncawen in 1825. He enlisted in 1862, in Co. D, 14th N. H. Eegi-\\nment, was appointed sergeant, and on account of a fracture of one\\nof his legs was appointed recruiting officer, and enlisted fourteen\\nsoldiers from Webster and vicinity. The regiment was on duty\\nalong the Potomac during the fall and winter of 1862-3, and he\\nwas detailed at Georgetown to prevent the smuggling of liquor\\nand other contraband articles into camp, a position requiring the\\nclosest scrutiny and circumspection.\\nFrom Georgetown he was detailed with fifty-seven men to do\\nguard duty at the old capitol prison. It was in midsummer. The\\nofficers and soldiers were ordered to appear at all times in regula-\\ntion dress, an order of the regulation martinet, who sacrificed the\\nhealth of the detachment to sustain military red-tape. Broken\\ndown in health, Lieut. Sargent was ordered to New Hampshire\\nupon recruiting service, where he remained till the last of January,\\n1864.\\nWhile on duty near Harper s Ferry he fell upon the ice and\\ninjured one of his legs one that had previously been broken\\nwhich became exceedingly painful. While suffering from the\\nfall, he commanded a scouting party of twenty men, reconnoiter-\\ning the country as far south as Snicker s Gap.\\nOn the 20tli of March, 1864, the regiment sailed from New\\nYork, on steamer Daniel Webster, for New Orleans. The vessel\\ncame near foundering in a terrific storm, which carried away\\nwheel-houses and bulwarks. The steam-pipe burst. The steamer,\\nhowever, reached Hilton Head, was refitted, and the regiment\\nfinally reached Carrollton, a suburb of New Orleans, Aj)ril 12.\\nAfter service on the Mississippi the regiment returned to Fortress\\nMonroe, joined the army under Gen. Grant at Petersburg, was\\njoined to the 14th Army Corps, sent to the Shenandoah, and was\\nin the battle of Perryville, in the thick of the fight. The regi-\\nment charged across an open field, driving the enemy. A rebel", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0593.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "436 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nfired at Lieut. Sargent from behind, a tree, Liit missed him where-\\nupon Lieut. Sargent rushed ujjon him, and the man threw down\\nhis gun, and surrendered. A second rebel drew up his gun to\\nfire, but a stroke from the lieutenant s sword induced him to\\nchange his mind, and both were brought into the lines prisoners.\\nIn the retreat which the regiment was compelled to make, Lieut,\\nSargent was knocked down by a piece of shell. In the melee\\nwhich followed the charge of the enemy, he was wounded in the\\narm, Avhile a second bullet struck him above the right eye. His\\nclothes were riddled, and he fell forward upon his face. The\\nenemy rushed over him. A rebel surgeon came to take his sword.\\nLieut. Sargent gave him his revolver, but refused to surrender\\nliis sword except to an officer of tlie line. The surgeon took him\\nto a major, and the sword was given up.\\nWith other prisoners he was taken up the Shenandoah valley.\\nWatching an opportunity he secreted himself in the bushes at\\nnight, but was discovered. He ran through a piece of woods,\\ngained the river, plunged in, dived beneath a pile of drift-wood,\\nand managed to get his head above the water amid the brush, but\\nwas discovered and delivered to the provost guard. He was close-\\nly watched. From being chilled he came near dying, but was\\ncompelled to march day after day. He had nothing to eat for\\nseveral days except raw corn, and a bit of bread which a rebel\\nofficer gave him from his own rations. His arm was fearfully\\nswollen, and his lame leg was exceedingly painful, Avhile his feet\\nwere worn to the bone. He could go no farther. His guard or-\\ndered him to move on, and stated that his orders were to shoot\\nhim if he did not move. I shall not move, and you will not dare\\nto shoot me, was the fearless reply. The soldier cocked his gun\\nand levelled it, but did not dare to fire. He was put in an ambu-\\nlance, taken to Libby prison, and endured its horrors till 7 Oct.,\\nwhen he was paroled. On the 15th of January following, he was\\nhonorably discharged.\\nLieut. Sargent resides in Bridgewater, N. H. He is fond of\\nhunting, and is renowned for his success in that line.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0594.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 437\\nSHEPARD, FOREST, PROF.\\nProf. Forest Sliepard, son of Daniel and Ann (Forest) Shep-\\nard, was born in Boscawen, 31 Oct., 1800. He graduated at\\nDartmoutli college, 1827, and studied theology at New Haven.\\nProf. Sliepard early manifested a love for science, especially\\ngeology and mineralogy. He lias been connected with the vari-\\nous geological surveys of the United States and Canada, and his\\nobservations have been extended over a large area. In Canada\\nhe explored the region occupied by the Hudson s Bay Company.\\nHe has visited England, and made the acquaintance of the scien-\\ntists of that country. His explorations have been extended to\\nPanama, Cuba, New Grenada, Mexico, and California. He has\\nmade many important discoveries of mines. He has filled the\\nchair of natural science at Western Reserve college, Hudson, Ohio,\\nand at other institutions. He married Miss Sophia W. Storer, of\\nRutland, Vt. His present residence is in Connecticut.\\nSTONE, PETER.\\nDea. Peter Stone, son of George and Hannah (Lovering) Stone,\\nwas born in Boscawen, 19 Dec, 1799, and has always resided upon\\nthe old homestead. He married Ruth Call, daughter of Silas Call,\\nof Boscawen. He was an active member and officer of the Cln-is-\\ntian church and society, while that denomination maintained pub-\\nlic worship, and when emigration and change made it impossible\\nlonger to sustain a church of his order, with a catholic spirit he\\nbecame an attendant upon the Congregational church. He has\\nbeen an exceedingly industrious man, laboring early and late, not\\ncompelled by necessity, but doing it as a duty and pleasure, carry-\\ning into his daily life the scriptural injunction, Whatsoever thy\\nhand findeth to do, do it with thy might.\\nSTONE, FREDERICK P., CAPT.\\nCapt. Frederick P. Stone, son of Peter, was born 24 March,\\n1841. He remained on his father s farm until the breaking out\\nof the war, when he enlisted in the cavalry [see Military Hist.],\\nCo. 1, 17 Dec, 18G1. He was promoted to first sergeant 1 March,\\n1863, reenlisted 5 June, 1864, promoted to first lieutenent Co. D,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0595.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "438\\nBIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n15 April, 1864, and captain 10 June, 1865.\\nlowing engagements\\nWarrenton Junction,\\nRappahannock,\\nCedar Mountain,\\nNorth Rappahannock,\\nCatlett station,\\nRappahannock station,\\nSulphur spring,\\nGroveton,\\nSecond Bull Run,\\nChantilly,\\nWhite s Ford,\\nMountville,\\nHazel Run,\\nFredericksburg.\\nHartwood church,\\nRapidan river,\\nEllis ford.\\nBrandy station,\\nMiddlebury,\\nWarrenton,\\nAuburn,\\nBristow station.\\nHe ^Yas in the fol-\\n16 April,\\n1862,\\n18\\n9 Aug.,\\nii\\n21\\nit\\n23\\nti\\n26\\nii\\n28\\na\\n30\\na\\n1 Sept.,\\nu\\n12 Oct.,\\nu\\n31\\nu\\n16 Nov.,\\n(1\\n13 Dec,\\na\\n25 Feb.,\\n1863.\\n1 May,\\n4\\nu\\n9 June,\\n17\\nit\\n12 Oct.,\\nii\\n14\\n14\\nSome of these engagements were between small parties, others\\nwhere the enemy was in force. At Groveton, a valuable horse\\nwhich Capt. Stone had taken from Boscaw^en was shot beneath\\nhim. At Chantilly he was near Gen. Kearney when he fell. At\\nMountville he was one of six that escaped, out of a party of sixty\\nthat w^ere captured. At Middlebury, which was one of the sharp\\ncavalry engagements of the war, he was taken prisoner and im-\\nmured in Libby prison, Richmond, and at Belle Isle was kept in\\ndurance thirty-five days.\\nAfter his reenlistment his regiment w-as attached to Sheri-\\ndan s command in the valley of the Shenandoah. At the battle\\nof Winchester, fought 21 Sept., 1864, he was again captured,\\nwas again sent to Libby, thence to Salisbury, N. C, and thence\\nto Danville, Va., in all, five months. He reached Washing-\\nton in season to join the corjps that hunted down the assassins", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0596.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0597.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "ry,^..,^ /P c/^^^^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0598.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n439\\nwho were engaged in the plot to murder President Lincohi and\\nSecretary Seward.\\nHe was mustered out of service 15 July, 1865, was married to\\nMiss Lovilla Sanborn, daughter of Joseph K. Sanborn, of Web-\\nster, and sailed for California 22 Oct., 1865, since which time he\\nhas been connected with the great publishing house of Bancroft\\nCo., of San Francisco, holding a position of honor and profit, en-\\njoying in a great degree the confidence of his employers, and the\\nrespect of his fellow-citizens.\\nSULLIVAN, MARIAN M., MRS.\\nShe was daughter of Col. Timothy Dix. After his death she\\nmoved to Littleton, Mass., where she married John W. Sullivan,\\nEsq., a merchant of Boston. During her early married life she\\nwrote for the press, particularly for the New England Magazine,\\nand for Mrs. Hale s Ladies Magazine. She early gave her at-\\ntention to music, and became a teacher of the piano-forte and guitar,\\nand a composer of ballads. The Blue Juniata and the Field\\nof Monterey became immensely popular. Her genius for musi-\\ncal composition led to the publishing of two volumes of music,\\nthe Juniata Ballads and Bible Songs.\\nNot merely as a writer and composer will she be remembered,\\nbut as a woman of rare virtues, sweet, gentle, sympathetic, quick\\nin her perceptions of the beautiful in nature, keenly alive to want\\nand suffering, ever ready to aid where help and sympathy were\\nneeded, visiting the homes of the poor, caring for the widow ai;id\\norphan. By such virtues as these she endeared herself to all. Her\\ndeath occurred in 1860.\\nSMITH, AMBROSE, REV.,\\nWas born in Ossipee July 9, 1820, son of John and Sally (Am-\\nbrose) Smith. He graduated at Dartmouth, 1845, studied theol-\\nogy at Andover, graduating there in 1849. He was ordained as a\\nminister at Northfield, 9 Jul}^, 1850, and was installed at Bos-\\ncawen, 15 June, 1853. He died in office, greatly beloved by his\\npeople. His style was clear, forcible, and impressive. He had\\ngreat excellence of character, and his loss was deeply felt. He\\nmarried Cynthia Maria Edgerton, of Hartford, Vt.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0601.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "440 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nWEBSTER, JOHN, CAPT.\\nOne of the proprietors of Boscawen, Capt. John Webster, was\\nfrom Kingston. His name frequently appears on the proprietors\\nrecords. He took an active part in promoting their interests.\\nWhen the Indian troubles broke out, in 1745, he joined Capt.\\nJohn Chandler s company, and scouted around Penacook and\\nContoocook, in midwinter, from 21 Jan. to 16 Feb.\\nHe enlisted in Capt. John Goffe s company, 1 Jan., 1746, and\\nwas in service till the 7th of April. Dea. Jesse Flanders, John\\nFlanders, Jr., and Wm. Corser enlisted in the same comj^any in\\nMarch. They scoured the woods all the country round.\\nIn 1748 he was lieutenant of Cajit. Goffe s company from 28\\nMay to 5 Oct. The company consisted of 54 men, and kept a\\nvigilant watch of the frontier.\\nIn 1754 began -what is known as the French and Indian war.\\nThe Indians began hostilities by capturing Nathaniel Meloon s\\nfamily at West Stevenstown. Gov. Wentworth at once ordered\\nout a company, and gave the command to John Webster, whose\\nenergy, efficiency, and experience admirably fitted him for the\\nplace. His command consisted of twenty men, who served about\\nsix weeks, returning home 24 July. The next week the Indians\\nkilled Mrs. Call in East Stevenstown (Franklin), and Gov. Went-\\nworth ordered out a full company of sixty-two men, under Capt.\\nBlanchard, to do service in the Merrimack valley. This enabled\\nCapt. Webster and his men to rest.\\nIn 1755 New Hampshire sent a regiment of six hundred\\nmen, under Col. Joseph Blanchard, of Dunstable, against Crown\\nPoint. In this expedition Capt. Webster served as a pi-ivate in\\nCapt. Joseph Eastman s company. This was the regiment that\\nmade its rendezvous on the Webster farm at South Franklin, and\\nbuilt boats to pass up the Merrimack river and into the Connecti-\\ncut by water, so little was the countiy between the two rivers\\nknown. It finally marched across the state to No. 4, and then to\\nAlbany and Crown Point.\\nThe next year, 1756, another expedition was sent against Crown\\nPoint, and the energetic John AVebster enlisted, this time in\\nCapt. Doe s company. Col. Meserve, of Portsmouth, commanded", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0602.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 441\\nthe regiment. He enlisted 1 May, and was in service till 21\\nSept.\\nIn 1757 another expedition was sent out. Col. Meserve was ap-\\npointed a second time to the command, and John Webster enlist-\\ned in Capt. Emery s company. serving from 7 March to 5 Nov.\\nThe regiment was at Fort William Henry when it surrendered,\\nand suffered terribly in the massacre that took place.\\nUpon the close of the war Capt. Webster was instrumental in\\nobtaining a charter for the town, and was one of the first select-\\nmen in 1760. The succeeding year he was chairman of the lx)ard.\\nThe proprietors of Stevenstown, in 1759, granted him one hun-\\ndred acres of land for the building of a saw-mill. There was no\\nobligation, no contract, but the mill was built on Punch brook,\\non land owned by Ebenezer Webster, father of Ezekiel and\\nDaniel, and not far from their birthplace. The foundations of\\nthe dam are still visible, and the rude stones of the grist-mill are\\nstill lying by the brook.\\nCapt. Webster remained a citizen of Boscawen till about 1764,\\nwhen he removed to Salisbury, and became one of the leading\\nspirits of that town, as he had been of Contoocook. He was one\\nof its best citizens, and exercised a wide influence for good. The\\none hundred acres of land granted him by the Stevenstowu\\nproprietors is the land upon which tlie West village in Frank-\\nlin is now located. Capt. Webster died in 1788, aged 77.\\nDANIEL WEBSTER, HOX.,\\nAmerica s greatest statesman, j^repared for college and began his\\npublic life in Boscawen. He was a citizen of the town for about\\nthree years, identified himself with its interests, voted at town-\\nmeeting, paid taxes, enrolled himself as a member of the religious\\nsociety, and took part in the district school meetings. It was\\never a pleasure to him to return to the place, not alone to visit\\nhis brother Ezekiel, but to renew his acquaintance with the peo-\\nple. The history of the town would be incomplete if no allusion\\nwere made to his residence here.\\nHe came to Dr. Wood s in Februar}-, 1797, at the age of fifteen.\\nHe had been to Exeter acadertiy, where he had spent six months,\\nand had seen a little of the world, for Exeter was the capital, and", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0603.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "442 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nthere was more life there than in the quiet Salisbury home. Of\\nhis residence with Dr. Wood, Mr. Webster thus speaks in his\\nautobiography\\nIn February, 1797, my father carried me to the Rev. Samuel Wood,\\nin Boscawen, and placed me under the tuition of that most benevolent\\nand excellent man. On the way to Mr. Wood s, my father first inti-\\nmated to me his intention of sending me to college. The very idea\\nthrilled my whole frame. He said he then lived but for his children,\\nand if I would do all I could for myself he would do all he could for\\nme, I remember that I was quite overcome, and my head grew dizzy.\\nThe thing appeared to me so high, and the expense and sacrifice it was\\nto cost my fatlier so great, I could only press his hands, and shed tears.\\nExcellent, excellent parent! I cannot think of him now without being\\na child again.\\nMr. Wood put me on Virgil and Tally, and I conceived a pleasure\\nin the study of them, especially the latter, which rendered application\\nno longer a task. With what vehemence did I denounce Catiline! With\\nwhat earnestness struggle for Milo! In the spring I began the Greek\\ngrammar, and at midsummer Mr. Wood said to me, I expected to\\nkeep you till next year; but I am tired of you, and I shall put you into\\ncollege next month. And so he did But it was a mere breaking-in. I\\nwas indeed miserably prepared, both in Latin and Greek. But Mr.\\nWood accomplished his promise, and I entered Dartmouth college as a\\nFreshman, August, 1797. At Boscawen I found a circulating library,\\nand read many of its volumes. I remember especially that I found\\nDon Quixote in the common translation, and in an edition, as I think,\\nof three or four duodecimo volumes. I began to read it, and it is liter-\\nally true that I never closed my eyes till I had finished it; nor did I\\nlay it down for five minutes, so great was the power of that extraordi-\\nnary book on my imagination.\\nWhile he was at Dr. Wood s, his father sent for him in July, to\\nhelp at haying.\\nMy father put me to work to turn hay. It was pretty lonely there,\\nand after working some time I found it very dull; and as I knew ray\\nfather was gone awa}\\\\ I walked home, and asked my sister Sally if she\\ndidn t want to go and pick some whortleberries. She said yes. So I went\\nand got the horses, put the side-saddle on one of them, and we set off.\\nWe did not get home till pretty late, and I soon went to bed. When\\nmy father came home he asked my mother where I was, and what I had\\nbeen about. She told him. The next morning, when I awoke, I saw\\nall my clothes that I had brought from Dr. Wood s tied up in a small", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0604.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY,\\n443\\nbundle again. When I saw my father, he asked me how I liked hay-\\ning. I told him I found it pretty dull and lonesome. Well, said he,\\nI believe you may as well go back to Dr. Wood s. So I took my\\nbundle under my arm, and on my way met Thomas ^Y. Thompson, a\\nlawyer in Salisbury. He laughed heartily when he saw me. So,\\nsaid he, your farming is over, is it?\\nA yoinig man named David Palmer, a senior of Dartmouth col-\\nlege, was employed by Dr. Wood to teach him Greek. He had\\nless than six weeks to prepare in.\\nMr. Palmer was from Windham, Conn., studied theology, and\\nwas minister at Townsend, Mass., from 1800 to 1831. He died\\nin 1849.\\nDuring the spring and summer months, while keeping np his\\nstudies, getting so far in advance of his associates that Dr. Wood\\nwas tired of him, Daniel found time to visit Mill brook, with\\nhis fish-hook and line, and, cutting fin alder for a rod, obtain fine\\nstrings of trout, which doubtless were always acceptable at Dr.\\nWood s table.\\nHe wrote thus in regard to his college life\\nMy college life was not an idle one. I^esides the regular attendance\\non prescribed duties and studies, I read something of English history\\nand English literature. I even paid my board for a year by superin-\\ntending a little weekly newspaper, and making selections for it from\\nbooks of literature and from the contemporary publications.\\nProm Benjamin Clark, who -was in college with Daniel, we\\nlearn that collegians then were not much different from collegians\\nof all time ever ready to play pranks upon the faculty and upon\\neach other. There were strong ties between Daniel and his asso-\\nciates, so enduring that practical jokes never sundered them. It\\nis related that these friends and brothers, as they called them-\\nselves, occupied adjoining rooms, and, in order to facilitate social\\nenjoyments without the cognizance of the Paculty, so fixed the\\npanels in the ceiling that there was free jD^ssage from room to\\nroom.\\nThey had all things in common. The first to rise in the morning\\ndressed himself in the best which the united apartments afforded, and\\nso of the rest successively but woe to the latest riser, whose equip-\\nments might have been furnished at Rag Fair!\\nMr. Clark, who was from Princeton, Mass., who afterwards", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0605.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "444 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nlived in New York, and was known as the Honest Quaker, was\\nthe fortunate possessor of a new beaver hat which cost some eight\\nor ten dollars, and was the envy of the college. One day it was\\nmissing. He searched high and low, but could not find it. He\\nfound an old slouch felt hat, which lie was obliged to wear. Sev-\\neral Aveeks passed. Daniel Webster was absent from college,\\nkeeping school. He returned at length, and with him came the\\nbeaver hat, whicli he had borrowed for a few weeks He and\\nClark shook hands over the joke, and were better friends than\\never.\\nMr. Webster graduated in August, 1801, and studied law with\\nMr. Thompson, of Salisbury (Franklin), a near neiglibor. His first\\ncase not in court, but outside of it occurred while he was\\nwith Mr. Thompson. A trader in New Chester (Hill) had failed,\\nand his Boston creditors thought it was a voluntary suspen-\\nsion, with the intention of making money. They placed their\\naccounts in the hands of Mr. Thompson, who sent Daniel to Kew\\nChester with the sheriff to investigate affairs. They found the\\nstore closed shutters up and door locked and a process served\\nupon the goods. Daniel pondered the situation, then seized a\\nheavy log of wood and hurled it against the door. The lock gave\\nway, and the door was open. He was careful not to put his foot\\ninside the door, for that would have been breaking and enter-\\ning, a criminal affair whicli would have sent him to Hopkinton\\njail for a term of j^ears but breaking was only a trespass, a mat-\\nter of damage to the door and lock, an affair of a dollar or two.\\nThe sheriff could not batter down the door. That would be mal-\\nfeasance of office, and would send him to the jail but seeing the\\ndoor was open he could go in, and serve his attachments. It is\\nrelated that the Boston creditors were well pleased with the result.\\nAfter teaching school at Fryeburg, and studying in Mr. Gore s\\noffice, in Boston, after declining the tempting offer of the clerk-\\nship of Hillsborough county, he came to Boscawen, in March,\\n1805, and opened his first office, in the house now occupied by\\nMr. Meader, in the north-west corner chamber. The furniture\\nconsisted of a pine table, a few shelves for books, and some chairs.\\nHe remained in Boscawen till September, 1807, and then removed\\nto Portsmouth, turning over his business to his brother Ezekiel.\\nHow many cases he had in court is not known. At the April", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0606.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 445\\nterm, 1S07, lie liad the suit of Jacob Martiu against Benjamin\\nCarter, for debt. IVIr. Martin was a shoemaker, and his account\\nruns from 1802 to 1806\\nBenjamin Carter to Jacob Martin Dr\\n1802 s p\\nDec. To pare of shoes for your Dafter\\nTo pare of shoes for one children 4 6\\nTo Gaping and tapin your Boys shoes 3 6\\nTo pare of shoes for your Littel gall 4\\nJanuary\\n1803 to mending your shoes 1 10\\nFebry to mending your galls shoes 2 6\\nMarch To mending mikels shoes 3 9\\nTo mending your shoes 3\\nJune To mending pare of pumps for your Dafter 4 6\\n26 To hoing one Day 3^ to making you a pare of\\nshoes 4 7\\nTo Bushel of turnops 2* to pare of shoes for\\nyourself 9 11\\nNov To making pai-e of shoes for your Wife 11\\nTo making a pare of shoes for Betsey one\\npare for Naty 6\\nTo making a pare of shoes for mik 3\\nTo onions 7 6 to making pare of shoes 3 6 11\\n23 To making pare of shoes for you 3 6\\nDecember to making a small pare of shoes 2 4\\n1804 to making you a pare of shoes 4 6, to mend-\\ning 1\u00e2\u0080\u00943 .5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9\\nAug To 4 days of Mr Conor 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 0\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nto mending a small pare of shoes 1 6\\nTo mending miks shoes 9\\nTo making your gal a pare of shoes 3 9\\nTo mending your Boots 1 4\\nKov 2 To making your wife a pare of shoes 3 6\\nTo Cash 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6\\nTo mending pare of shoes 2 6\\nJan 1805 to making your wife a pare of shoes, 3 6\\nto mending your shoes, 3\\nTo Baral of Cyder 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo making Jeremiah pare of shoes 4\\nTo pare of shoes for Doley 5\\nTo your shoes 3", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0607.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "446 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\ns\\nP\\nL 1895 To mending your Wifes\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTo galand of Cydar\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nto half Bushel of Corn\\no\\n6\\nG To keeping your mare\\n5\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n6\\nTo Quarter Lam\\n2\\n7\\nTo House Rent\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u009416\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00c2\u00a310\u00e2\u0080\u009412\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n5\\nErros excepted\\nJacob\\nMartin\\n[In Mr. Webster s -writing] Dols\\n35.41\\nlo h April 1807\\nfor service 23\\ntravel 9\\nThere are many anecdotes extant of Mr. Webster during the\\ntwo and a half years he resided in Boscawen. He loved to hunt\\nand fish. He knew every brook and pond, the best places for\\ntrout, the choicest spots among the lily-pads for pickerel.\\nOne of his companions on his hunting expeditions was ISTehe-\\nmiah Clark. It was currently reported that one day, while gunning,\\na gray squirrel secreted himself among the thick foliage of a tree,\\nand that Clark climbed the tree to rout him from his hiding-place.\\nI see him, shouted Webster, from the ground, raising his\\ngun to fire.\\nDon t you slioot me said Clark.\\nNo, I won t 5 ou just keep still and I will bring him down.\\nThe story runs that the charge entered Mr. Clark s knee, and\\nlamed him for life, which probably is an exaggeration. It is quite\\nprobable that a scattering shot hit Clark, but his lameness arose\\nfrom other causes. Mr. Webster never lost his friendship for\\nClark, but was accustomed to call upon him whenever he visited\\nBoscawen.\\nWhile a citizen of the town he had a volunteer military com-\\npany. At that period a large business was done in the mak-\\ning of staves, and there was an extensive coopering establish-\\nment on the west side of King street, where a dozen or more men\\nwere employed. These were Mr. Webster s soldiers, with others", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0608.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0609.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "HJjr\\n^^^^^^^5^ ^^^/^^^L^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0610.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 447\\non the street. In moonlight evenings, with hoop-poles for weap-\\nons, they were marshalled hy the young law_yer, then twenty-\\nfour years of age, who wlieeled, marched, and countermarched\\nthem up and down the street to the music of the fife and drum.\\nAbout the time of his coming to Boscawen, he sent $85 to\\nBoston to purchase law books, by a Mr. of Salisbury, who\\nlost the money but Mr. Webster did not allow the loss to\\ntrouble him. In a letter to Ezekiel, he writes, under date of April\\n30, 1805,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nMr. s family felt pretty sensibly Jonathan s misfortune, but\\nI believe are now reconciled to it.\\nFol de dol, dol de dol, di dol\\nI ll never make money ray idol\\nFar away our dollars will fly all.\\nWith ray friend and my pitcher\\nI ra twenty times richer\\nThan if I raade money ray idol\\nFol de dol. dol de dol, di dol\\nOn the 30th of April he wrote to Ezekiel,\\nMy residence here is tolerably pleasant. I live with ]\\\\Ir. French\\n[Mr. Joel French, who lived in the one story house north of the present\\nparsonage]. Some little business is done here, and I get a part. In\\ntime, perhaps, I shall gratify my moderate rational wishes.\\nTo his classmate, Mr. Bingham, at Lempster, he writes\\nBoscawen, May 4, 1805.\\nDear Bingham: You must know that I have opened a shop in this\\nvillage for the manufacture of justice writs. Other mechanics do pretty\\nwell here, and I am determined to try my luck, among others. March\\n25, 1 left Boston with a good deal of regret, I assure you. I was then\\nbound for Portsmouth, but I found my father extremely ill, and little\\nfit to be left by all his sons; and, therefore, partly through duty, partly\\nthrougli necessity, and partly through choice, I concluded to make my\\nstand here. Some little business is doing in this neighborhood, and of\\nthat little I hope to get a little part. This is all T at present can say of\\nmy prospects. For one thing I ought to be thankful. If poverty\\nbrings me so near to the wind that I cannot stay here in duty to my\\nstomach, I have only to take my hickory and walk. The disagreeable\\nincumbrances of houses, lands, and property need not delay me a mo-\\nment. Nor shall I be hindered by love, nor fastened to Boscawen by\\nthe power of beauty.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0611.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "448 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nThat Mr. Webster had started well is evident from a sentence\\nin a letter written by Ezekiel\\nBoscawen, May 10, 1805.\\nDear Daniel: Before Mr. French [Mr. French was a trader, and\\nvisited Boston to furnish goodsj had given me your letter, I had for-\\nwarded your trunk, with the blank books you so much need for the en-\\ntry of your fourteen actions.\\nHe had been in Boscawen five weeks, .and had fourteen cases.\\nHis sister Sally came from Salisbury to see him in his new\\nquarters, and wrote to Ezekiel in regard to him,\\nDaniel is at the other end of the room filling out a blank; he looks\\npleasant. I suppose he intends to get a dollar for it, towards the\\neighty he has lost. It has been remarked that a bad beginning makes\\na good ending. If that is the case, I think he will undoubtedly have a\\ngood end.\\nDaniel to Ezekiel\\nSunday, June, 1805.\\nDear Zeke: I got home alive last evening, although most killed by\\nhot weather. Have not seen our folks, but hear they are well. Pray\\nsend me a pair of gaiters like Fifield s. In going to church to-day, I\\nfeel that man is dust, and can think of nothing to guard against sand\\nbetter than they do.\\nAdieu, which is a very affectionate term from the French a-dieu,\\nand is synonymous with I commend you to God.\\nOn the 4th of July Mr. Webster gave an oration at Salisbury\\nsouth village. Party spirit was running high. He spoke to the\\nEederalists, while Mr. Pettingill addressed his fellow democrats\\nat the centre village, a mile distant. The last of July Mr. Web-\\nster wrote to Ezekiel,\\nI shall make as many entries at the next court as I expected to, per-\\nhaps a few more. I pick up, however, but very little cash, hardly laying\\nmy hand on a single dollar.\\nIn a letter to his classmate Bingham, dated Jan. 19, 1806, we\\nget a glimpse of his business\\nIt is now eight months since I opened an office in this town, during\\nwhich time I have led a life which I know not how to describe better\\nthan by calling it a life of writs and summonses. Not that I have dealt\\ngreatly in those articles, but that I have done Httle else. My business", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0612.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 449\\nhas been Just about so, so; its quantity less objectionable than its qual-\\nity.\\nI shall be able at the end of the year to pay my bills, and pay per-\\nhaps sixty pounds for books. I practise in Hillsborough, Rockingham,\\nand Grafton. Scattering business over so much surface is like spilling\\nwater on the ground. I make no poetry, five lines to D. Ab-\\nbott are the Alpha and Omega of my poetical labors for the year. In\\nthis particular I mean to reform. How would it do, think ye, to write\\nwrits in verse? For instance, let one be clausum in his verbis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ilvdi is to\\nsay, being interpreted, wrapt up in these words,\\nAll good sheriffs in tlie land\\nWe command\\nThat forthwith yon arrest John Dyer,\\nEsquire,\\nIf in your precinct you can find him,\\nAnd bind liini c., c., c.\\nHe removed to Portsmouth in September, 1807, transferring\\nliis business in Boscawen to his brother Ezekiel.\\nDaniel Webster s entrance upon public life was not of his own\\nseeking. Samuel Batchekler, of Cambridge, Mass., still living at\\nthe age of 94, was formerly a resident of New Hampshire, and\\nwas instrumental in securing Mr. Webster s first nomination to\\ncongress. He furnishes the following statement\\nFor several years previous to 1812, the Democratic parly was a ma-\\njority in the state of Kew Hampshire; but in 1812 the Federalists be-\\ngan to have hopes that by the nomination of a strong list of candidates\\nfor members of congress, who were chosen by a general ticket, they\\nmiglit carry the election. For this purpose Judge Timothy Farrar\\nwas induced to consent to head the list. The judge had never been an\\nactive politician, and was not ambitious of distinction, having been a\\njudge for more than thirty years, and at one time had resigned a place\\non the bench of the Supreme Court in order to take a place as judge of\\nthe Court of Common Pleas.\\nIn the course of the year 1812 political feeling was undergoing such\\na change that the Federal party felt confident of success, and there was\\na strong disposition to send Mr.Webster to congress and it was known\\nthat Judge Farrar had consented very reluctantly to his own nomina-\\ntion, and would be glad to have Mr. Webster take his place, on account\\nof friendship for him as well as for his father, who was a judge on the\\nsame bench with himself. Accordingly a meeting was held at Concord\\nduring the session of the legislature, in June, and a committee was ap-\\npointed, consisting of Judge Jeremiah Smith, Ezekiel Webster, and\\n29", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0613.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "450 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nmyself, to consult Judge Farrar, and make arrangements such as were\\nknown would be agreeable to him.\\nThe committee agreed upon a day to meet at New Ipswich and at-\\ntend to their duty; and Judge Smith took the stage by way of Boston,\\nand Ezekiel Webster got into my chaise and proceeded with me to New\\nIpswich, and arrangements were made with Judge Farrar to the satis-\\nfaction of all parties. Accordingly a meeting was held at Brentwood,\\nin August, at which the famous Rockingham memorial and resolutions,\\ndrawn by Mr. Webster, were adopted. Mr. Webster s name was\\nplaced at the head of the list for congress, and Judge Farrar was nom-\\ninated one of the electors of president.\\nWEBSTER, EZEKIEL, HON.\\nEzekiel Webster, elder brother of Daniel, was born in Salisbury,\\nApril 11, 1780. The first nineteen years of his life were spent on\\nhis father s farm, and it was settled in the mind of Judge Web-\\nster that he was to remain at home and be a farmer, while Daniel,\\nwho had less physical strength in childhood, who seems to have\\nhad little inclination for farming, was to be educated to one of the\\nlearned professions.\\nDaniel entered college in 1797. It troubled him, however, to\\nthink that Ezekiel was at home plodding on the farm while he\\nwas obtaining an education. He says in his autobiography,\\nI soon began to grow uneasy at my brother s situation. His pros-\\npects were not promising, and he himself felt and saw this, and had as-\\npirations beyond his condition. Nothing was proposed, however, by\\nway of change of plan, till two years later.\\nIn the spring of 1799, at the May vacation, being then a sophomore,\\nI visited my family, and then held serious consultation with my brother.\\nI remember well when we went to bed we began to talk matters over,\\nand that we rose after sunrise without having shut our eyes. But we\\nhad settled our plan.\\nHe had thought of going into some new part of the country. That\\nwas discussed and disagreed to. All the pros and cons of the question\\nof remaining at home were weighed and considered, and when our coun-\\ncil broke up, or, rather, got up, its result was that I should propose to\\nmy father that he, late as it was, should ,be sent to school, and also to\\ncollege. This we knew would be a trying thing to my father and moth-\\ner and two unmarried sisters. My father was growing old, his health\\nnot good, and his circumstances far from easy. The farm was to be\\ncarried on, and the family taken care of; and there was nobody to do", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0614.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 451\\nall this but him who was regarded as the main stay, that is to say, Eze-\\nkiel. However, I ventured on the negotiation, and it was carried, as\\nother things often are, by the earnest and sanguine manner of youth. I\\ntold him that I was unhappy at my brother s prospects. For myself\\nI saw my way to knowledge, respectability, and self-protection, but as\\nto him, all looked the other way; that I would keep school, and get\\nalong as well as I could be more than four years in getting through\\ncollege, if necessary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 provided he also could be sent to study.\\nHe said, at once, he lived but for his children that he had but little,\\nand on that little he put no value, except so far as it might be useful to\\nthem; that to carry us both through college would take all he was\\nworth; that for himself he was willing to run the risk, but that this\\nwas a serious matter to our mother and two unmarried sisters; that we\\nmust settle the matter with them, and if their consent was obtained he\\nwould trust to Providence and get along as well as he could.\\nThe father laid the case before tlie mother. The farm is al-\\nready mortgaged, and if we send Ezekiel to college it will take all\\nwe have but the boys think they can take care of us, he said.\\nIt did not take the strong-hearted, sagacious woman long to de-\\ncide the matter We can trust the boys.\\nThe question was settled. Daniel went back to Hanover, while\\nEzekiel went, bundle in hand, to Dr. Wood s, and began the study\\nof Latin. He spent two terms at a school kept at Salisbury,\\nSouth Road village, and returned again to Dr. Wood s, where his\\nexpenses were about one dollar per week.\\nWhile thus studying and taking recreation beneath the magnifi.\\ncent beeches that stood before the house, he kept up a frequent\\ncorrespondence with Daniel at Hanover. Ezekiel distrusted his\\nability to get on. Daniel makes this reply to him, in a letter\\nwritten April 25, 1800\\nYou tell me that you have difficulties to encounter which I know\\nnothing of. What do you mean, Ezekiel? Do you mean to flatter?\\nThat don t become you. Or do you think you are inferior to me in\\nnatural abih ties? If so, be assured you greatly mistake. Therefore,\\nin the future say in your letters to me, I am superior to you in natu-\\nral endowments; I will know more in one year tlian you do now, and\\nmore in six than you ever will.\\n1 should not resent the language, I should be very well pleased in\\nhearing it; but be assured, as mighty as you are, your great puissance\\nshall never insure you a victory without a contest.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0615.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "452 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nWitli such words Daniel endeavored to clieer the struggling elder\\nbrother.\\nIn November, 1802, Daniel was at home in Salisbury, while\\nEzekiel was struggling with povert}^ at Hanover. Funds were\\ngetting low in the Webster homestead. Daniel writes under date\\nof Nov. 4th\\nNow, Zeke, you will not read half a sentence, no, not one syllable\\nbefore you have thoroughly searched this sheet for scrip but my word\\nfor it, you ll find no scrip here. We held a sanhedrim this morning on\\nthe subject of cash. Could not hit upon any way to get you any.\\nJust before we went away to hang ourselves through disaj^pointment,\\nit came into our heads that next week might do. The truth is, father\\nhad an execution against Hubbard of N. Chester for about one hun-\\ndred dollars. The money was collecting and just ready to drop into\\nthe hands of the creditors, when Hubbard suddenly died. This, you\\nsee, stays the execution till the long process of administering is\\ncompleted.\\nI have now by me two cents in lawful federal currency. Next\\nweek I shall send them, if they be all. They will buy a pipe; with a\\npipe you can smoke; smoking inspires wisdom; wisdom is allied to for-\\ntitude; from fortitude it is but one step to stoicism; and stoicism never\\npants for this world s goods; so perhaps my two cents, by this process,\\nmay put you quite at ease about cash.\\nWe are all here just in the old way, always behind and lacking.\\nBoys digging potatoes with frozen fingers, and girls washing without\\nwood.\\nTwo daj s later Ezekiel writes to Daniel. It is not an answer\\nthe letters doubtless j)assed each other on the waj. Ezekiel, after\\ngiving a just criticism on the writings of Horace, thus closes his\\nepistle\\nThese cold frosty mornings very sensibly inform me that I want a\\nwarm great-coat. I wish, Daniel, it might be convenient to send me\\ncloth for one, otherwise I shall be necessitated to purcliase one liere. I\\ndo not care what color it is, or what kind of cloth it is anytliing that\\nwill keep the frost out. Some kind of shaggy cloth, I think, would be\\ncheapest. Deacon Pettingill has written, offering me fourteen dollars a\\nmonth [to keep school]. I believe I shall take it.\\nMoney, Daniel, money! As I was walking down to the office after\\na letter, I happened to have one cent, -wdiich is the only money I have\\nhad since the second day after I came on. It is a fact, Dan, that I was", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0616.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0617.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "#^^i^^.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0618.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 453\\ncalled on for a dolLir where I owed it, and borrowed it, and have bor-\\nrowed it four times since to pay those I borrowed of.\\nFrom a paragnipli in a letter, written by Daniel to his class-\\nmate, Bingliam, of Lempster, it would appear that Ezekiel taught\\nschool in Sanbornton in December, 1803\\nZeke is at Sanbornton. He comes home once in a while, sits down\\nbefore the kitclien fire, begins to poke and rattle the andirons. I know\\nwhat is coming, and am mute. At length he puts his feet into the\\noven s mouth, places his right eyebrow up on his forehead, begins a\\nvery pathetic lecture on the evils of poverty. It is like church service.\\nHe does all the talking, and I only say Amen! amen!\\nEzekiel s funds failed iu the spring of 1804, and by permission\\nof the Faculty he left Dartmouth, went to Boston, where he pur-\\nchased the good-will of a private school, which he taught with\\ngreat success till April, 1805. He was graduated at Dartmouth\\nmeanwhile in 1804, having .spent but three years in college.\\nWhile earning a livelihood by teaching, he studied law with\\nGov. Sullivan, then attorney-general of Massachusetts. In 1806\\nhe studied with Parker Noyes, Esq., of Salisbury, next door to\\nJudge Webster s house. Daniel having decided to leave Bos-\\ncawen and take up his residence in Portsmouth, turned over his\\npractice to Ezekiel, who entered upon* his profession as a lawyer\\nin Boscawen in the month of September, 1807. His legal knowl-\\nedge and moral worth soon became known, and acquired for him\\nan extensive business. He was not ambitious to excel as an orator,\\nand it was only the urgent appeal of duty or the imperative obliga-\\ntion to his profession that overcame his instinctive aversion to a\\ncrowd, and called forth his highest powers of eloquence. He never\\nencouraged litigation, but ahvays used his personal influence to\\nbring about a private adjustment of most of the contested matters\\noriginating in the town. He repeatedly represented the town in\\nthe legislature. He was educated a Federalist by his father, a\\nWhig of 177G. He was old enough to remember the administra-\\ntion of Washington, and believed with all his heart in the politi-\\ncal principles adhered to by the Federal party, Avhicli was in a\\nminority in the state after he came into public life. This adher-\\nence to political principle prevented his election to congress, and\\nfrom holding other offices in the gift of the people.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0619.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "454 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nAlthough devoted to his profession, he loved agriculture, and\\nretained the homestead at Salisbury after his father s death, which\\noccurred in 1806. He was one of the projectors and an active\\nmember of the Merrimack Agricultural Society, and was active in\\nadvancing improved methods of husbandry.\\nHe Avas simple in his tastes, kind, genial, polite, and a jierfect\\ngentleman. He attended to all the details of life, served as asses-\\nsor in the religious society, and as committee-man for the school\\ndistrict. He looked upon Dr. Wood as a loving child looks upon\\na devoted parent. A member of the bar, S2:)ending a Sabbath\\nwith Mr. Webster, and hearing Dr. Wood, took occasion to dis-\\nparage the sermon. Mr. Webster replied pointedly and with\\nspirit, that he doubted the gentleman s ability to appreciate the\\nperformance. He was ever Dr. Wood s confidential friend and\\nadviser. Together they planned the establishing of Boscawen\\nacademy. Mr. Webster contributed fully $300 to the institution,\\nand by his heartiness and zeal stimulated his fellow-townsmen to\\ncarry on the project, while Daniel, then almost in the zenith of\\nhis fame, contributed the bell.\\nHe was an exemplary member of the church, and his influence\\nwas ever on the side of right. He was a constant attendant upon\\nreligious services, and alwa^ s maintained religious devotions in\\nhis home.\\nOn the 10th of April, 1829, he was making a plea before the\\nMerrimack bar at Concord. He was standing erect. The court-\\nroom was crowded, for whenever the lawyer from Boscawen made\\na plea the people flocked to hear him. The court, jurors, lawyers,\\nand audience were listening to his words, and noticing the play\\nof his clear cut features and the manly dignity of his command-\\ning presence. He was speaking with vigor and earnestness. His\\nperiods were rounded as usual, his utterance clear, his enuncia-\\ntion perfect. He closed one branch of his argument, uttered the\\nconcluding sentence and the final word, distinctly and with his\\naccustomed cadence, his form erect as ever, his eye clear and\\nbright, his arms hanging naturally by his side, and then, without\\na murmur, a groan, a lisp, raising not a hand, clutching at noth-\\ning, with no bending of a joint or quivering of the eyelids, he fell\\nbackward upon the floor dead With the quickness of the light-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0620.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 455\\nning s flash, from the full vigor of a manly life, at the age of 49,\\nhe died one of the most remarkable deaths on record.\\nHis funeral was attended on the following Sunday by a vast\\nconcourse of people, and he was mourned by the entire com\\nmunity.\\nA writer in a public journal describes his appearance\\nHe was nearly six feet in height, finely proportioned, with a very\\ncommanding presence. His was a magnificent form, crowned with a\\nprincely head, that in his last years was thickly covered with snowy\\nhair. His complexion was just the opposite of Daniel s. His counte-\\nnance was open as the day; his heart was warm and afl ectionate; his\\nmanners kind and courteous.\\nDaniel, in a letter written in 184G, thus spoke of him\\nHe appeared to me the finest human form that ever I laid eyes on.\\nI saw him in his coffin, a tinged cheek, a complexion clear as the heav-\\nenly light.\\nOne who saw him at church, on a cold day the winter before,\\nspeaks of his appearance. It was before the introduction of a\\nstove. Mr. Webster came in, wearing a jacket, or Spencer, as\\nthe garment was called, over his coat, bringing a foot-stove in his\\nhand, which with princely politeness he placed at the feet of Mrs.\\nvVebster, and then took his seat, and joined reverently in the\\nworship.\\nHe held important trusts, was trustee of Dartmouth college\\nfrom 1819 till his death, and repeatedl_y represented the town in\\nthe legislature. He married (1) Alice Bridge, of Billerica, Mass.,\\n13 Jan., 1809 (2) Achsa Pollard, of Concord, 1825. He left\\ntwo daughters, Alice Bridge, who married Jarvis Gregg, Jan-\\nuary 1, 1836, the first preceptor of Boscawen academy from 1828\\nto 1830. He was son of Dea. James and Betsey (Hopkins)\\nGregg, of Londonderry studied theology at Andover ordained\\nas minister, 1835 and became Professor of Natural Philosophy and\\nRhetoric at Western Reserve college, Hudson, Ohio, 1835, where\\nhe died. His widow married Prof. Guthrie, of Marietta college.\\nHis second daughter, Mary Ann, married Prof. Edwin D. San-\\nborn, LL. D., of Dartmouth college, 11 Dec, 1837. He is son of\\nDavid E. and Harriet (Hook) Sanborn, and was born at Gilman-\\nton in 1808. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1832, studied theol-", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0621.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "456 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nogy at Andover, became tutor at Dartmouth in 1835, professor of\\nLatin and Greek from 1835 to 1837, and professor of Latin from\\n1837 to 1859. He became president of Washington University,\\nSt. Louis, from 1859 to 1863, but returned to Hanover, where\\nhe now is professor of oratory and belles-lettres.\\nWEBSTER, ELIPHALET K.,\\nSon of Eev. Josiah Webster, was bom in Essex, Mass., 3 May,\\n1802. His father removed to Hampstead in 1808, Avhere he was\\ninstalled pastor of the Congregational church, continuing the rela-\\ntion till his death, in 1837. He had several other sons, one?\\nGen. J. J). Webster, of Chicago, chief of Gen. Grant s staff in the\\nearly campaigns of the war; another is president of Olivet college,\\nMich.\\nEliphalet K. was educated at Hampton academy, and at Phil-\\nlips academy, Exeter. He began the study of medicine with Dr.\\nFarley of Erancestown, continued with Dr. Ramsey, of Greenfield,\\none year. He graduated at Dartmouth in 1829, began practice\\nat Hill, then New Chester, in February, 1833. He married\\nEmily Webster, daughter of Col. Ebenezer Webster, of Salis-\\nbury, youngest sister of Daniel, August, 1833.\\nDr. Webster moved to Boscawen in 1844, and engaged in a\\nlucrative practice. He Avas post-master from 1854 to 1862, super-\\nintending school committee for a period of twelve years, was\\nelected secretary of the JST. H. Medical Society for many years,\\nand was honored by being elected president of the society in 1861.\\nHe removed to Billerica, Mass., in 1870, where he still resides.\\nWIXN, ABNER BOWMAN,\\nSon of Reuben, was l; orn in Hudson, 10 October, 1816 married\\nFrances M., daughter of Jonathan Harvey, of Surry, Mass.,\\nMarch 18, 1837, and moved to Boscawen in December, 1838. He\\nwas the first in Fisherville to set in motion machinery for making\\ncloth, commencing in the lower story of the stone factory (erected\\nin 1836), and continued in the same and similar business until his\\ndeath, 16 Sept., 1855.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0622.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n457\\nHe was a skilful mechanic, mucli devoted to his occupation, a\\nkind husband and neighbor, open and generous in his disposition,\\nand held the confidence of all his associates. He was elected to\\nthe legislature in 1855, but next year declined a reelection.\\nWOOD, REV. SAMUEL, D. D.,\\nWas born in Mansfield, Conn., 11 May, 1752, and was the old-\\nest of thirteen children. In his childhood he suffered from a\\nsickness which retarded his growth and strength. At an early\\nage he became religious, and had a desire to be a minister of the\\ngospel. His father removed to Lebanon, N. H., in 1766, being\\none of the early settlers of the town. There were no schools, nor\\nadvantages of any kind for obtaining an education. It was a\\ngreat trial to a lad who had an ardent thirst for knowledge. He\\nworked hard to help his father clear his newly acquired land.\\nHe united with the Lebanon church at its formation, four\\nyears later, under the pastoral care of Rev. Mr. Potter. The long\\ndesired opportunity for the acquisition of an education came, per-\\nhaps sooner than he expected. Dartmouth college was estab-\\nlished in 1769, within six miles of his home. He entered that\\ninstitution in August, 1775, at the age of 24. He was obliged to\\nexercise a rigid economy while going through his college course-\\nHe graduated in 1779, giving the valedictory on that occasion,\\nshowing his high standing as a student, the class numbering sev-\\nenteen. His theme on that occasion was, The Importance of\\nEducation.\\nDuring his senior year, having the ministry in view, he gave\\nattention to the study of theology and having been licensed to\\npreach, gave his first sermon at Lebanon, 13 October, of the\\nsame year. His text in the morning was from John 12 21,\\nSir, we would see Jesus. At the close of the service two men\\ncame to him inquiring the Avay of salvation. In the afternoon\\nhe preached from John 9 27, Will ye also be his disciples\\nDuring the remainder of 1779 he preached in the surrounding\\ntowns.\\nOctober 17, 1780, he married Miss Eunice Bliss, youngest\\ndaughter of Hezekiah Bliss, of Lebanon, who had moved from\\nConnecticut with his large family of twelve children six sons", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0623.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": "458 BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\nand six daughters. Miss Bliss was twenty-five, Mr. Wood\\ntwenty-nine years of age and tlie marriage thus consummated\\nwas a ha2:)py union that continued fifty-six years.\\nIn the fall after his marriage Mr. Wood visited in Connecticut,\\nand received an invitation to settle there, hut declined it. In\\nthe spring of 1781 he received an application from the town of\\nBoscawen, to preach six months and his ministry was so accept-\\nable that he was ordained as pastor of the church and minister\\nof the town, 17 October, the same year.\\nAt tlie time of his settlement [says Rev. Mr. Price, in Dr. Wood s\\nfuneral sermon] he felt himself alone, as there were but three ministers\\nwithin forty miles who united with him in religions sentiment. The\\nothers were either Armenians, or so loose in sentiment that he could\\nnot exchange labors with them without sacrificing principle; and to use\\nhis own words, I was a speckled bird. j^ great revival\\nof religion was enjoyed at the opening of the spring of 1782. It was\\nthe first ever experienced in the town, and it was a wonderful event to\\nall the people in all the region. Among the suljects of this work of\\ngrace were between thirty and forty heads of families.\\nDr. Wood s civil contract with the town was dissolved, 7 May,\\n1802, though his pastoral relation with the church still continued.\\nIn 1804, the Second church was organized, in the western sec-\\ntion of the town, and Rev. Ebenezer Price settled as its pastor.\\nBev. Mr. Wood, during these years, prepared a number of young\\nmen for college. Among them was Daniel Webster. Four were fit-\\nted for the ministry that did not go through college, four received\\ntheir entire help from him to carry them through college, while\\nfifteen others were aided in part. The last pupil fitted by him\\nentered the class of 1830 a promising young man from Dunbar-\\nton, by the name of Wilson, who died before completing his course.\\nNearly fifty j^oung men and women were prepared as i^achers\\nin the public schools.\\nFrom 1809 he was actively engaged in promoting the cause of\\neducation, and acted as visiting committee for twenty years.\\nAs early as the year 1797 he endeavored to secure the estab-\\nlishment of an academjr, but, failing in that, was the means of\\nstarting a library. Thirty years later the project of an academy\\nwas revived, and through the energy and liberality of Hon. Ezekiel\\nWebster, and the hearty cooperation of the citizens. Dr. Wood", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0624.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY.\\n459\\nhail the gratification of seeing the realization of his early plans.\\nHe contributed liberally to establish the institution, giving the\\nshingles, ^yllich he had shaved with his own hands. His salary\\nduring the first twenty years of his ministry was $!233.34, and the\\nj)arsonage income, amounting to a few dollars. During the last\\nthirty-five years of his ministry it was $230 and exemption from\\ntaxation. He delighted in husbandly, and took great pains to\\nobtain choice varieties of fruit. At one period he gave his atten-\\ntion to the production of silk. He never neglected his parochial\\nduties, and during a period of fort3Miine years lost but nine Sab-\\nbaths on account of sickness.\\nDuring a period of a half century there were ten revivals of re-\\nligion. Under his ministration 480 were added to the church by\\nprofession. There were 825 baptisms and 212 marriages solemn-\\nized by him. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by his\\nAlma Mater, Dartmouth, in 1820. He took an active and lead-\\ning part in all the benevolent institutions of the day, and his\\ngenial and kindly disposition, and his ability as a preacher, gave\\nhim great influence. He was ever highly respected and honored.\\nHe did much towards forming j^ublic sentiment in the town, and\\nhis influence will be felt for good far and wide through coming\\ni:jenerations.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0625.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0626.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL.\\n^^HE compilation of the Family Records in connection with\\nthe History of Boscawen has been attended by many difficul-\\nties. With the utmost painstaking it has been impossible to obtain\\ncomplete and accurate genealogies. The change from the Old to\\nthe New Style, by which, in 1752, eleven daj^s were stricken\\nfrom the Calendar, wrought great confusion of dates. Years\\nelapsed before the ISTew Style came into general use hence\\nthe contradictory records between the births and deaths, as pre-\\nserved in family Bibles and in the town records. Man}- families\\nliaving no written record, have supplied names and dates from\\nmemory, an unsatisfactory record being the result.\\nThe genealogies being prepared by different individuals vary\\nin method. The only practicable method is that which adheres\\nstrictly to the family name. The system which gives the families\\nof female members after marriage leads to confusion lience the\\ncompilers have endeavored, as far as practicable, to present the\\ngenealogies by the system which experience teaches is the best.\\nAbbreviations\\nb.\\nborn.\\nd.\\ndied.\\nm.\\nmarried.\\ndau.\\ndaughter.\\ns.\\nson.\\nB.\\nBoscawen,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0627.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "462 GENEALOGICAL ABBOT.\\nABBOT.\\nCompiled by Jolin Kimball.\\nGeokge^ came from England 1640, was ancestor of tlie Abbot\\nfamilies of Andover, Mass., Concord, and Boscawen,\\nd. 5 Oct., 1681.\\nJames^ (William,^ George- came to Concord in 1735 lived on\\ntlie farm now the homestead and residence of Simeon\\nAbbot.\\nEeubex* (James,*^ William,- George^) settled in Concord, west\\nof Long pond reached a more advanced age than\\nany other man that ever lived in Concord saw his\\ndescendants of the same name to the fourtli genera-\\ntion occupying the same house d. 13 May, 1822,\\naged 99.\\nEzRA^ (Eeuben*) m. Mary Walker had nine children. Two\\nof his sons, Timothy and Job, settled in B. also a\\ndan., Ruth, who m. Samuel Ellsworth.\\nTimothy (Ezra^), b. 21 Dec, 1788 m. Rhoda, dan. Jonathan\\nJohnson, and granddau. of Renben,* 8 Aug., 1818.\\nHe settled on Contoocook river, near the lower falls.\\nFor several years, in company with his brother Job\\nand. others, he carried on the lumber business, and at\\none time owned a share in the mills near his resi-\\ndence d. 6 Jan., 1847.\\nCAor/e.s-, b. 29 July, 1822.\\nJob* (Ezra^), b. 14 Nov., 1790; lived in the house with his brother\\nTimothy m. Lydia, dau. of John Morrison, of San-\\nbornton, 9 May, 1816 d. 20 Sept., 1876.\\nSamuel TF., b. 9 March, 1817; d. 18 Feb., 1819.\\nEzra M., b. 18 Jan., 1819; d. 22 Feb., 1819.\\nMan) Esther, b. 12 June, 1820; d. 17 June, 1832.\\nJudhh E., b. 31 March. 1822; d. 23 Sept., 1827.\\nAbigail, b. 29 March, 1824; m. James Tallant.\\nEmetine, h. 19 Nov., 182G; m. B. W. Jewett.\\nJudith, b. 12 Jnly, 18:^9.\\nLydia Ann^ h. lo Nov., 1831 ni. Isaac N- Farley.\\nAchmh ir., b. 12 Nov., 1833; d. 31 Oct., 1854.\\nAugui^tus P., b. 9 Dec, 1835; m. Rose L. Withers.\\nJabez* (James,^ William,- George,^) with two brothers, settled\\nnear Sewell s falls, in Concord; m. Phebe, dau. of\\nEdward^ Abbot, and had four children.\\nJoseph, b. 5 Aug., 1759.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0628.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL ABBOT. 463\\nJoseph^ (Jabez*) served in the war of the revolution, in Col.\\nPeabody s regiment in 1791 purchased the N. W.\\ncorner lot in B., now Webster; m. Molly Melloon, of\\nSalisbury, 3 April, 1794. She was granddau. of Na-\\nthaniel, who, with his family, was taken captive by\\nthe Indians, 16 May, 1753.\\nPhehe, b. 17 Dec, 1791; d. 27 March, 1790.\\nNathaniel, b. 17 Aug., 1796.\\nJoseph, b. 2-2 April, 1798.\\nJubez^h. 3 July, 1800.\\nClarissa, b. 3 Jan., 1803 d. 21 Sept., 1801.\\nPhebe, 2d, b. 26 Feb., 1805; m. Jason D. Watkins, of Warner.\\nira, b. 10 Sept., 1807.\\nNathan, b. 7 Feb., 1811.\\nNathaniel*^ (Joseph^) m. Mary Fitts, of Sandown d. at Fisher-\\nville, 28 Feb., 18651\\nHorace, b. 23 Nov., 1829; merchant at Fisherville d. 28 June, 1865.\\nIlarj/ J., b. 5 June, 1831 d. 1 Oct., 1831.\\nMaria F., b. 28 March. 1833; d. 5 Aug., 1851.\\nJulia A.,h. 22 May, 1831.\\n3Iary J., 2d, b. 7 Jan 1836.\\nGeorge W., b. 13 March, 1837.\\nJoseph (Joseph^) m. Mary Elkius, of Hampton lived in B.\\nmoved to Oakland, Cal.\\nJohn E., b. 18 Nov., 1831; lawyer at Vallejo, Cal.\\nJoseph E., b. 23 Sept.. 1836; lives in San Francisco.\\nOliver B., h. 26 July, 183S; served in the Union army d. July, 1885.\\nCharles If., b. 11 May, 1813; lives at Oakland, Cal.\\nJabez^ (Joseph^), farmer, now living in Webster, on Little hill\\nm. Eunice K. Moody.\\nHarriet, b. 12 Dec, 1829.\\nEllen K., b. 8 Dec, 1831 teacher.\\nElmira, b. 11 March, 1833; d. 5 April, 1831.\\nLivonia, b. 11 March, 1831 d. 22 Aug., 1851.\\nCharles M., b. 6 March, 1836; d. 18 April, 1852.\\nWarren, b. 20 March. 1838; teacher, lives in Webster,\\nJoshua P., b. 3 March, 1840; lawyer in California.\\nJane, b. 5 April, 1816.\\nIra*^ (Joseph^) m. Almira Elkins, of Sanbornton d. 25 March,\\n1877.\\ni?/r//a .1.. b. 22 Oct., 1838.\\nAlmira, b. 4 Jan., 1812.\\nSeth, b. 25 Jan., 1815.\\nMary C, b. 5 May, 1818; d. 21 Jan., 1875.\\nNathan\u00c2\u00ae (Joseph^), m. Janette C. Eyan lives in Fisherville.\\nLucrelia M., b. 4 Nov., 1839 d. 10 Jalv, 1868.\\nLuannah M., b. 27 March, 1848,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0629.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "464 GENEALOGICAL ABBOT.\\nGeokge W. (IsTatlianieP) served three years in the Union army,\\n7th Eegt. iST. H. V. was wounded at the battle of\\nOhistee, Florida resides at Fisherville m., 1st, Al-\\nmira, dau. of James I. Tucker, of Boston 2d, Addie\\n(Morrill) Batchelder.\\nHarry S., b. 12 May, 1866; d. 29 Aug., 1867; child of Almira.\\nMyra il/., b. 27 Oct., 1872 child of Addie.\\nCharles^ (Timothy, Ezra,^ Keuben^) m., 1st, IMartha, dau. of\\nEenj. Haselton, of Springfield 2d, Sarah E., dau. of\\nEben Haselton, of Springfield.\\nRosette, b. 6 Sept., 1846; d. 6 Sept., 1848.\\nMartha E., b. 26 Jan., 1848; m. Rufus Cass, 14 Nov., 1867.\\nNahum b. 6 Aug., 1850; m. Fanny LI. James, 27 July, 1872.\\nWillie, b. 29 May, 1861.\\nChildren of Sarah E.\\nDan G., b. 21 Nov., 1862; d. 15 Oct., 1867.\\nLena M., h. 26 May, 1867.\\nFred S.,h. 17 June, 1869; d. 4 Sept., 1870.\\nWilliam, Col.* (Nathan,^ Eeuben,* James,^ William,^ George^),\\nb. 23 Aug., 1793, m. Dorcas, dau. of Ephraim Carter,\\n7 March, 1820, joiner and carpenter. Settled in B.,\\non Water st. erected house now occupied by Jere-\\nmiah C. Chadwick. He built churches at Somers-\\nworth, Cornish, Wentworth, Unity, Thornton, Hen-\\nniker, and West Concord; also man}- residences,\\nthat of the late Henry and Abial Gerrish, being a part\\nof the Merrimack county almshouse, burned^ March\\n12, 1878, and that now occupied by Mr. Raymond.\\nHe was a liberal, energetic man, given to hospitality,\\nactive in every good work, ready to assist in all pub-\\nlic enterprises designed for the good of the commu-\\nnity. He went through all grades of ofificial position,\\nfrom sergeant in the 1st Company of Infantrj to en-\\nsign, lieutenant, captain, major, lieutenant-colonel,\\nand colonel of the 21st Eegiment. He emplo3^ed a\\nlarge number of workmen, and his joiners sho]),\\nwhich stood between the residences of Jeremiah C.\\nChadwick and L. M. Chadwick, was ever an active\\nplace of business. It was burned in 1833, or about\\nthat time, but, through the kind-heartedness of his\\nneighbors and his own indomitable energy, workmen\\nwere hewing the timber for a new shop the same after-\\nnoon. He took an active part in the temperance ref-\\normation. At the time of the erection of the meeting-\\nhouse at West Concord, in 1832, the question came up\\nas to the use of ardent spirits at the raising. Those", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0630.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL ABBOT. 4G5\\nwlio still advocated moderate drinking urged the use\\nof rum the temperance people opposed its use. The\\nargument of the moderate drinkers was, that no meet-\\ning-house had ever been raised without rum, and pre-\\ndicted that it would not be possible to rear the frame\\nwithout liquor. If there are not temperance men\\nenough in Concord to raise it, I will try and find\\nthem otherwheres, was the quiet reply of the ener-\\ngetic builder. Send me down a dozen or more good\\nmen, was the message sent to Thomas Coffin, who\\nhad zealously espoused the temperance movement.\\nThe messenger who brought the verbal request en-\\nlarged the same, and thought that fifty men would be\\nneeded whereupon Mr. Coffin rallied the temperance\\nmen of Boscawen, and so many were ready to go that\\nthe volunteers swelled the number to fully one hun-\\ndred, who were on the ground at an early hour, and\\nreared the frame with a zeal and alacrity that amazed\\nthose who had predicted that it would not be possible\\nto raise it without the stimulus of rum. Mr. Abbot\\nd. at Concord, 3 Feb., 1837.\\nJulia Ann P., b. 17 Oct., 1823; m. Henry C. Wade, of Lowell;\\nresides on Water street, B.\\nWilliam P., b. 15 Dec, 1824.\\nEmily E., b. 1 Jan., 1827; ni. Leonard Gerrisli, of Xortbfield [see\\nGerrish gen.].\\nGeorr/e W.,h. 23 Jan., 1831.\\nCharles C, b. 13 Feb., 1833; resides in Worcester.\\nRogers A., b. 15 July, 1835; ni. Anna Yarney; resides in Wor-\\ncester.\\nWilliam P.^ (William, Col.,*^ Xathan,^ Eeuben^) m. Emily E.\\nUran.\\nFrank W., b. May, 1854; d. 1 April, 1859.\\nGeorge ^Y. (William, Col.\u00c2\u00ab) m. Elvira Wlnttemore.\\nCharles M., Freddie, George II.\\nCharles C. (William, Col.,*^ Nathan,^ Eeuben-*) m. Dorinda B.\\nStevens.\\nCharles E., Arthur, William S., Dora, Edmund S., Florelle.\\nJames Buswell, m. d.^ (Elias,^ Reuben*), b. 24 June, 1799 m.,\\n1st, Nancy B. Rogers, of Northfield, 15 Nov., 1827,\\nwho died 11 Nov., 1837; 2d, Elizabeth B. Rogers,\\nsister of Nancy, 2 Oct., 1838, who died 27 Nov.,\\n1842; 3d, Sarah, dau. of Capt. Joseph Gerrish, of\\nCanterbury, 22 March, 1843 [see Gerrish genealogy].\\nHis father moved to Northfield, 1801. James B.\\n30", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0631.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "466 GENEALOGICAL AMES.\\nbegan his studies for tlie medical profession with Dr.\\nEnos Hoyt, of Northfield, and received the degree of\\nM. D., at Dartmoutli, in 1826. He began practice in\\nCanterbury, removed to Loudon, but settled in B.\\nin 1837, living in the house now occupied by S.\\nB. G. Corser. In 1832 he was elected Fellow of the\\nN. H. Medical Society and represented the society in\\na national convention at Baltimore. He died at San-\\nbornton, 6 Jul}^, 1870, where he had been a prac-\\ntising physician for several years.\\nChildren of Elizabeth\\nJames H., b. 3 Oct., 1839 d. 29 Feb., 1840.\\nJames Henry White, b. 30 May, 1842; d. 12 Jan., 18G5.\\nChild of Sarah\\nJoseph Gerrish, b. 4 Oct., 1845.\\nAMES.\\nCompiled by .John Kimball.\\nThe Ames families of Boscav/en and Canterbury probably came\\nfrom Amesbur}^, and were related to those of Bridgewater and\\nEaston, Mass. The name in early records is sometimes spelled\\nAmos, Emos, and Eames.\\nJacob^ was the earliest of the family known.\\nSamuel,- b. 1724, and his wife Hannah, came to Canterbury.\\nDied 16 Jan., 1803. Hannah d. 23 Jan., 1804.\\nSamuel, b. 1745.\\nDavid, b. 27 May, 1749.\\nSamuel (Samuel,-^ Jacob^) came from Canterbury to B. m.\\nJane, only sister of Col. Henry Gerrish, and settled\\non High street. He served in the revolutionary war,\\nat the battle of Stillwater, under Gen. Gates. Tra-\\ndition says that his wife and son Joseph carried on\\nthe farm while he went to the war against Bur-\\ngoyne was chosen one of the selectmen in 1791. A\\nnoted hunter. Died l Sept., 1825. Jane, his wife, d.\\n30 March, 1814.\\nJoseph, b. 31 May, 1771.\\nHannah, h. 14 Jan., 1776; m. Stephen Gerrish, 7 Feb., 1796; d.\\n18 Nov., 1834. [See Gerrish gen.]\\nSarah,h. 15 Nov., 1780; m. Nathan Plummer, 14 June, 1804; d.\\n25 Feb., 1842.\\nPolly, b. 1783; d. 7 Dec, 1843, unmarried.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0632.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL AMES. 467\\nDavid^ (Samuel,- Jacob^) remained at Canterbuiy m. Phebe\\nHoyt. They lived near the meeting-house, and after-\\nward moved to a large farm in the Borough, which\\nis now in the possession of his descendants. Five of\\ntheir daughters m. and settled in B. He d. 22 Sept.,\\n1812. His wife d. 30 Oct., 1838.\\nHannah, b. 11 Aug., 1775; ni. Joseph Ames; d. 18 June, 1827.\\nThomas, b. 6 Oct., 1777; m. Lucy Foster; d. 19 Nov., 1810.\\nSarah, b. 9 Dec, 1781 m. Jacob Gerrish d. 23 Oct., 1818.\\nSamuel, b. -Id July, 1781; m. Myr;i Ayers d. 30 June, 1870.\\nMarif, b. 11 Jan., 1786 m. Josiah Haines d. 7 Sept., 1872.\\nDavid, b. 15 May, 1788; ni. Fisk d. July, 1870.\\nJMip-a, b. 28 Sept., 1792; m. Samuel Tilton: d. 7 Mar., 1857.\\nPhehe, b. 21 Jan., 1795; m. Charles Moody; d. 6 Sept., 1862.\\nRuih, b. 29 July, 1797 m. Benj. Kimball d. 22 Oct., 1871.\\nRhoda, b. 20 Dec, 1799: m. 1st, Ira Elliott; 2d, Laban Morrill;\\nd. 10 Sept., 1869.\\nJoseph* (Samuel,^ Samuel-) m. Hannah, dau. of David,^ of Can-\\nterbury, and resided on High street, where he kept a\\nhotel a man highly esteemed was selectman 1812,\\n13, 14 d. 15 June, 1851. His wife d. 18 June, 1827,\\npe. 48.\\nMyra, b. 4 Jan., 1801; m, Thomas Little, 2 June, 1829 d. 17\\nJune, 1869.\\nJoseph, b. 29 June, 1806 d. 20 Sept., 1826.\\nLucn, b. 13 Sept., 1808; d. 30 Nov., 1810.\\nDavid, b. 20 Dec, 1810 lives West Creek, Ind.\\nSamuel, b. 11 July, 1813.\\nNathan Plummer, b. 16 June, 1816.\\nStephen, b. 16 June, 1816 d. 1 Oct., 1826.\\nPhehe Jane, b. 22 Dec, 1819 d. 6 Aug., 1830.\\nSamuel^ (Joseph,* Samuel, Samuel-) m. Lizzie Hubbard lived\\nfor a time on the Walker farm, in Concord moved to\\nWest Creek, Ind. represented his district in the leg-\\nislature of that state 1875, 76.\\nEdward Payson.\\nLizzie.\\nNathan P.^ (Joseph,* SamueP) m. Elvira, dau. of Thomas Cof-\\nfin, 18 Feb., 1841 resided for a time on the old\\nhomestead inherited from his father, and moved to Chi-\\ncago, 111. was colonel of the 21st Regt. K H. Mili-\\ntia.\\nLivonia Coffin, b. 18 April, 1813 m. Geo. W. Ware, Worcester,\\nMass.\\nCharles Henrv, b. 5 Feb., 1817 graduated at Amherst College,\\n1870.\\nLucia Jane, b. 5 May, 1856.\\nClara Preston, b. 13 May, 1859.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0633.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "468\\nGENEALOGICAL ATKINSON.\\nFisherS (Tliomas, David,^ Samuel,- Jacob^), b. in Canterbury,\\n18 Oct., 1814 m. Mary, dau. of Nathan PlummeT,\\n15 Feb., 1844; resided on Fish street for a time;\\nnow lives in Fisherville.\\nSara P.. h. 10 Jan., 1845.\\nHe7v^ij Gerrlsh, b. 16 Sept., 1848; m. Emily L. Robie, 3 July, 1873:\\n1 child, Grade Brown, b. 9 Dec, 1875; d. 27 July, 1876.\\nATKINSON.\\nCompiled l)y Sauniel Barnard Elliot, Pataskaln, O.\\nThomas/ elder brother of Theodore Atkinson, of Boston, ances-\\ntor of the distinguished statesman of the pro^dnce of\\nNew Hamjishire, came from Bury, Lancashire, Eng-\\nland, and settled in Concord, Mass. He took the free-\\nman s oath 7 Dec, 1630, and d. in Nov., 1646.\\nRebecca, b. 1638; ni. John Hayward, of Concord.\\nJohn, b. 1G40.\\nSusanna, b. 28 April, 1641; m. Caleb Brooks, 10 April, 1660; d.\\n19 Jan., 1669.\\nHannah, b. 5 March, 1644; ra. Caleb Brooks, 1670.\\nJoHN^ (Thomas^), b. in Concord, Mass., 1640. After tlie death\\nof his father, he was adopted by his uncle Theodore,\\nof Boston, of whom he learned the hatters trade, and\\nsettled in Newbury, INIass. m., 1st, Sarah INIyrick,\\nwho was mother of all his children 2d, widow Han-\\nnah Cheney, 3 June, 1700. She d. 5 Jan., 1705.\\nSarah, h. 27 Nov. 1665 ui. Stephen Coffin, of Newbury, Mass.,\\n1685.\\nJohn, b. 1667.\\nThomas, b. 27 Dec, 1669; grad. H. C, 1691.\\nTheodore, b. 23 Jan., 1672 drowned 24 July, 1685.\\nAbigail, b. 8 Nov., 1673.\\nSamuel, b. 16 Jan., 1676.\\nNalhaniel, b. 29 Nov., 1677.\\nElizabeth, b. 20 June, 1680.\\nJoseph, b. 1 May, 1682 killed by Indians in Maine, 1706 unmar-\\nried.\\nRebecca.\\nJoHX^ (John,- Thomas^), b. 1667 m. Sai-ah, dau. of Jonathan\\nWoodman. They joined the Congregational church\\nof Newbury, 1710.\\nThomas, b. 16 March, 1694.\\nJohn, b. 29 Oct., 1695.\\nTheodore, b. 8 Oct., 1698.\\nSarah, b. 6 Nov., 1700.\\nHannah, b, 21 Jan., 1703.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0634.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL ATKINSON. 469\\nm. Deborah\\n]ongre,sra-\\nXathaxiel (John,- Thomas^), 1 29 Nov., 1677 m.\\nKnight, 22 Jan., 1707. She joined the C\\ntional churcli, 1729.\\nMan/, I). 1708.\\nSarah, b. 1710.\\nMargaret, h. 1712.\\nNathaniel, b. 19 Marcli, 1717.\\nJoseph, h. 28 l^ov., 1718.\\nXathaxiel* (Nathanie]^ John, Thomas^), h. at jSTewbuiy, Mass.,\\n19 March, 1717; ni., 1st, Elizabeth Greenleaf, 30\\nNov., 1738. They joined the First Congregational\\nchurch of Newbury, 1741. She d. in 1755. M., 2d,\\nSarah Morse, 1756. He moved to B. hate in 1769,\\nand d. there 26 Oct., 1794.\\nChildren of Elizabeth\\nParker, b. 1 Feb., 1739.\\nMichael.\\n3Ian/,h. 18 ^May. 1742; ni. Moses Coffin died soon after.\\nStephen, b. 15 Dec, 1714; published to Mercy Clark, 15 Dec,\\n1770.\\nElizabeth, b. 10 Aug., 1747; m., 1st, Jos. Adams; 2d, Kowe\\n3d, Jonathan Morse.\\nSumnna, b. 11 Aug., 1750; died 5 Oct., 1753.\\nNathaniel, h. 12 Dec, l75o.\\nChildren of Sarah\\nJonathan, b. 30 Dec. 1756.\\nJoseph, b. 28 April, 1758.\\nJohn, b. 30 Oct., 1759; unmarried; d. 21 Dec, 1815.\\nBenjamin, b. 7 Jan., 1761.\\nSarah, b. 8 Jan., 1763; m. Samuel Morrill, 28 April, 1785; d. 27\\nFeb., 1844.\\nMary, b. INIay. 1764; m. Daniel Carter, 15 April, 1784; d. 15\\nSept., i854, set. 90.\\nJudith, b. 1765: m. Joseph H. Morrill, 24 June, 1790; d. 3 Dec,\\n1797. ret. 32.\\nEunice, b. 1767; m. Joseph Kimball.\\nHannah, d. young.\\nTheodore, b. 30 Sept., 1769.\\nJoseph* (Nathaniel,^ John, Thomas^), b. in Newbury, Mass., 28\\nNov., 1718 m., 1st, Hannah, dau. of Samuel Hale, of\\nNewbury, Mass., 23 June, 1745. She was b. 24 Jan.,\\n1720 d. 7 April, 1790. Her children were first\\ncousins to Nathan Hale, the martyr spy, in the war\\nof Independence. He moved to B. in 1767, and m.,\\n2d, :Mrs. I^Iary Couch, who d. 14 Dec, 1818, ret. 92.\\nHe d. 29 Aug., 1801, a?t. 82.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0635.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "470 GENEALOGICAL ATKINSON.\\nSamuel^ b. 24 Sept., 1748.\\nSimeon, b. 30 March, 1754.\\nSusanna, b. 15 June, 1758 m. Edmund Cliadwick, 27 June, 1778.\\nShe d. 10 March, 1829.\\nHannah,h. 15 Julv, 17G0 m. Joseph Pearson, of Haverhill, and\\nd. 7 Oct., 1839.\\nSarah, b. 11 May, 1764 m. Michael Johnston, of Haverhill.\\nNathaniel^ (Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,^ Jolm, Thomas^), b. in\\nNewbury, Mass., 12 Dec, 1753 m. Abigail Bradley,\\n24 Sept., 1782 she was b. in Haverhill, Mass 10\\nMay, 1760, and d. in B. 31 Oct., 1836. He d. in B.\\n4 March, 1841.\\nElizabeth, h. 1 Sept., 1784 )n. Timothy Copp.\\nIsaac, b. 8 Dec, 1786.\\nMari/, h. 10 Aug. 1788; m. Bean, of Salisbury; d. 22 Aug.,\\n1834.\\nHannah, b. 19 March. 1791; m. Hubbard, of Canterbury, and\\nd. 17 July, 183.5.\\nBenjamin, b. 10 Aug., 1792; moved to Maine; unmarried.\\nAbigail, b. 2 March, 1798; m. Laws d. in Peterborough, 4\\nOct., 1832.\\nJonathan^ (Nathaniel, Nathaniel,^ John,- Thomas^), b. in New-\\nbury, Mass., 30 Dec, 1756 grad. at D. C. m. Bet-\\nsey Pettingill, 6 Feb., 1794, and was ordained pastor\\nof the Congregational church in Limington, Me., 15\\nOct., same year d. 27 March, 1837.\\nJonathan, b. 16 March, 1795, in Limington, Me., and d. in Lowell,\\nMas.?., 11 March. 1852.\\nNathaniel, b. 16 Aug., 1796; d. IS Oct., 1796.\\nNathaniel, b. 10 Aug., 1797, in Limington, Me., and d. there, 29\\nMarch, 1834.\\nRichard P., b. 5 April, 1799.\\nJoseph^ (Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,^ John,- Tliomas^), b. in New-\\nbur}-, Mass., 28 Ajn-il, 1758; ni. Anna Atkinson,\\ngrand-dau. of his uncle Joseph. He moved to B. v\u00c2\u00bbith\\nhis father in 1769, and d. 20 March, 1830.\\nPeahody, b. 30 Dec, 1804.\\nHervey, b. 19 July, 1806; unmarried; resides on the old homestead\\nin B.\\nSusan, b. 12 March, 1808; m. Geo. Jolinston, of Haverliill.\\nHenry, b. 10 July, 1809; m. Mary, dau. of his uncle Theodore, and\\nd. 5 April, 1864.\\nAnn, b. 30 July, 1812; m. ]Michael Jolmston, of Haverhill; d.\\nApril, 1859.\\nBenjamin^ (Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,^ John, Thomas^), b. 7 Jan.,\\n1761 m. Jane Varney 8 Jul}^, 1784 lived in B.\\nSarah, b. 19 July, 1785; m. Dyer Abbot, of Henniker.\\nJames Varney, b. 9 Dec, 1787; d. 1875, in Lowell, Mass.\\nJa7ie, b. 30 June, 1791; d. in Rochester, N. Y.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0636.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0637.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "^cw\\n\\\\A^L4d-rh", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0638.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL ATKINSON. 471\\nTheodore^ (Nathaniel,* Nathaniel/ John,^ Thomas^), b. in New-\\nbury, Mass., 30 Sept., 1769; m. Abiah Kimball, 4\\nSept., 1803; lived in Boscawen, and d. 30 Sept., 1828.\\nPeter Kimball, b. 20 July, 1804; d. 20 March, 1817.\\nFanny b. April, 1807; ra. Sullivan Jackinan, 1837; d. 1844.\\nGeorge W., b. March, 1810; unmarried.\\nMary, b. April, 1S14; m. Henry Atkinson, Dec, 1842.\\nRuth, b. 1818; d. 1822.\\nAbiah, b. 1821; m. Henry Rolfe.\\nSamuel^ (Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John,- Thomas^), b. in NeAvbury,\\nMass., 24 Sept., 1748, and lived in B. He served as\\na lieutenant and captain in the war of Independence\\nm. Sarah Bamford, of Sanbornton, 1777 d. 4 Oct.,\\n1796. She d. 30 Jan., 1843, cTt. 87.\\nJoaeph, b. 6 Dec, 1777.\\nSusanna, b. 30 Oct., 1779; d. 1804.\\nAnna, b. 18 April, 1782; m. Joseph Atkinson.\\nNathaniel Peahndy, b. 15 Jan., 1785.\\nSamuel, b. 27 Sept., 1788.\\nJacob, b. 30 Dec, 1790; unmarried; grad. at Brown University;\\nd. 13 Feb., 1836.\\nSimeon^ (Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John, Thomas^), b. in Newbury,\\nMass., 30 March, 1754 moved to B. with his father,\\nand settled on Fish street, in 1767 m. Phebe Clark,\\n23 April, 1781 d. 24 Feb., 1827. She d. 2 April,\\n1830.\\nSilas, b. 28 Dec, 1781.\\nDaniel Clark, b. 8 Sept., 1784.\\nSimeon, b. 10 Feb., 1791; unmarried; d. 20 Aug., 1865.\\nHannah, h. 8 July, 1795; m. James H. Gill, 12 Aug., 1830; d. 22\\nJuly, 1850.\\nHale, b. 3 March, 1799; unmarried; d. 15 April, 1874.\\nIsaac* (Nathaniel,^ Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,^ John, Thomas^), b. 6\\nDec, 1786; m. Bean d. 27 Jan., 1858.\\nBradley, b. 10 May, 1810.\\nPeabody*^ (Joseph,^ Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,^ John,- Thomas^), b.\\nin B. 30 Dec, 1804 m. Marenda Elliot, of B., 31\\nOct., 1831 moved to Ohio, and settled in Licking\\nCo. He d. at Pataskala, 8 July, 1863. She d. 3 May,\\n1866.\\nMary Frances, b. 4 Nov., 1832.\\nWiliiam Henry, b. 26 Nov., 183G; d. 25 July, 1839.\\nJoseph, h. 23 Jan., 1839.\\nGeorcjc Johnston, b. 22 Feb., 1841.\\nSamuel Peabody, b. 24 Nov., 1843; grad. D. C, 1866; m. Irene\\nSchobe; lives in Champaign Co., 111.\\nAnnie Louisa, b. 16 Nov., 1847; d. 5 July, 1848.\\nNettie Eliza, b. 9 Jan., 1852; d. March, 1856.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0639.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": "472 GENEALOGICAL ATKINSON.\\nJoseph*^ (Sauiuel,^ Joseph,^ Nathaniel,^ John,^ Thomas^), b. in B.,\\n6 Dec, 1777; m. Sarah Blaisdell, 1807. He was\\ncolonel of the 21st Eegt. N. H. Militia. He d. 28\\nFeb., 1845.\\nHiram Lang, b. 1807.\\nFranlcUn Peabodi/, b. 6 June, 1810; m. Irene Hosiner; no cliildren.\\nAmanda, h 12 Dec, 1812; m. Dr. James Ewing, of Hebron, O.,\\nNov., 1835. She d. 1815.\\nNathaniel Peabody (Samuel,^ Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John,^\\nThomas^), b. in B. 15 Jan., 1785 m. Betsey D., dau.\\nof Michael and Sarah Atkinson Johnston, 8 Oct., 1827\\nlived in Ohio Co., W. Va. d. 13 Nov., 1868.\\ndiaries Peahody, b. 8 Oct., 1828.\\nHale Johnston, b. 31 Jan., 1830; d. 25 Aug., 1832,\\nSarah Johnston, b. 26 Jan., 1834.\\nJulia Amanda, b. 25 Nov., 1835.\\nAugusta Hale, b. 25 Sept., 1838; d. 13 Feb., 1810.\\nSamuel B., b. 24 Aug., 1840; d. 30 July, 1844.\\nEdward Melancthon, b. 3 May, 1842.\\nHelen Maria, b. 14 April, 1845.\\nHamuei/ (Samuel,^ Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John,- Thomas^), b. in B.\\n27 Sept., 1788 grad. at Brown University m., 1st,\\nLucy Moulton, 13 May, 1819 2d, Mary Chase\\nMoulton, 22 July, 1822 3d, Maria Withington, 17\\nMarch, 1825. Resided in Chillicothe, 0., Wheeling,\\nW. Va., and Pataskala, 0.\\nLucg Moulton, b. in Chillicothe, O., 13 Dec, 1820; m. Dr. Wm-\\nW. Sanger, 28 Dec, 1849.\\nCharles Hammond, b. 26 Jan., 1824; d. 19 Aug., 1824.\\nMary Moulton, b. 31 July, 1827 d. 20 July, 1828.\\nSarah Ann, b. at Wheeling, W. Va., 11 Feb., 1829; d. 15 Feb.,\\n1840.\\nWilliam Edgerton, b. at Wheeling, W. Va., 25 June, 1832.\\nMary TF., b. 11 May, 1835; m. Jonas Aylsworth d. at Attica,\\nInd., 9 Sept., 1877.\\nSamuel Peahody, b. 9 Dec, 1836; d. 23 July, 1838.\\nHenry Martyn, b. 9 Sept., 1838.\\nSusan Lamlxlin, b. 8 Jan., 1841 d. young.\\nMaria Sumner, b. 5 June, 1843; d. 20 Dec, 1844.\\nSiLAS^ (Simeon,^ Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John, Thomas^), b. 28\\nDec, 1781; m., 1st, Dorothy Shepard 2d, Sally\\nHutchins. He d. at Sanbornton, 25 Sept., 1837.\\nDorothy, h. 28 March, 1812; m. Samuel A. Ambrose, 23 Nov.,\\n1836; d. 23 Mny, 1870.\\nAtherates,h. 14 Feb., 18^5.\\nAsenath H., b. 17 March, 1817 m. John M. Whicher, of North-\\nfield, 19 Nov., 1840.\\nAlexander Wellington, b. 1 Feb., 1819; d., at Youiiers, N. Y., 23\\nMarch, 1839.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0640.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL ATKINSON. 473\\nHoratio Nelson, b. 20 July, 1832.\\nHanndi, b. 7 Sept., 1827; drowned 25 Aug., 1830.\\nSimeon Aristides, b. 25 Sept., 1830.\\nDaniel Clakk^ (Simeon,^ Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John,^ Thomas^),\\nb. 8 Sept., 1784. His talents, early developed, in-\\nduced his father to jdace him under the instruction of\\nEev. Dr. Wood, where he was fitted for and entered\\nDartmouth college, in 1802. His college life was\\ncharacterized by industry, sobriety, and fidelity, and\\nin 1806 he graduated with a full share of the honors\\nof his class. Soon after, he entered tlie law office of\\nDaniel Webster, of Boscawen, as a student, to receive\\nthe guidance and instruction of that distinguished\\nlawyer and civilian, then in the morning of his intel-\\nlectual superiority. Eemaining there until Mr. Web-\\nster removed to Portsmouth, he continued his legal\\nstudies with Parker Noyes, of Salisbury (now Frank-\\nlin). After three years pre^jaration with Mr. Web-\\nster and Mr. Noyes, he was admitted to the bar in\\n1809, when he opened an office at Sanbornton Bridge\\n(now Tilton), which he occupied until his death. He\\nwas elected to the senate and council for successive\\nyears, when he was appointed by Gov. Morrill judge\\nof probate for old Strafford county, comprising what\\nis now Strafford, Belknap, and Carroll counties an\\noffice he held until 1839. His public services cover a\\nperiod of nineteen years. After his death, Hon. Ly-\\nman B. Walker said of him, His heart and hand\\nwere unaffectedly^ open as day to melting charity.\\nWhere can the poor man, the widow, and the orphan\\nnow find a living heart so feeling and ready to relieve\\nas was his To the traveller long accustomed to pass\\nthrough that interesting village, what can he see that\\ndoes not remind him of Daniel Clark Atkinson? Is\\nit the Academy? He obtained its charter, and more\\nthan helped to build that institution. Is it the two\\nchurches to be seen there? In them, too, he lives as\\nfirst patron. With most there seen is mingled the\\nmemory of his originating, devising, and helping hand,\\nto bring them into sight and usefulness. The doors\\nof his house and heart were never closed against the\\noppressed and suffering, b}^ night or by day. His\\nsurviving neighbors, few, very few, of his acquaint-\\nance, can withhold the tribute of a tear to moisten the\\ncypress that waves over his tomb. M., 1st, Mahala\\nTiltdn 2d, Mehitable, her sister. He d. 5 April,\\n1842.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0641.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "474 GENEALOGICAL ATKINSON.\\nChild of Mahala,\\nNapoleon Bonaparte, b. 14 April, 1819.\\nCliildren of Mehitable\\nMahala T., b. 26 Feb., 1833: d. 12 Dec, 1851.\\nJosephine B.,h.2o Oct., 1835; m. John H. Goodale; resides in\\nNashua; three children, one, Charlotte Atkinson, living.\\nCharlotte, b. 29 Dec, 1837 music teacher in Concord.\\nRichard^ (Jonathan,^ jSTatlianiel,* Nathaniel, John,^ Tliomas^),\\nh. and lived on the old homestead, in Limington, Me.;\\nm. Alice Gerry, 15 Oct., 1837 d. 2 Dec, 1865.\\nNathaniel, b. 17 Oct.. 1838 d. 12 May, 1873, at Cincinnati, Ohio.\\nJohn P., b. U Dec, 1810; d. 9 Nov., 1802, Leesburg, Va., while in\\nthe service of liis country.\\nWilliam II., b. 29 Jan., 1812.\\nElizabeth, b. 27 Jan., 1841; m. Ezra Miles, Jr., of Limington, ]Me.\\nAnna J., b. 31 Oct., 1851 ni. P. S. Griffith, of Boston.\\nBradley (Isaac,\u00c2\u00ae Nathaniel,^ Natlianiel, Nathaniel, John,\\nThomas^), b. 10 May, ISIU m., 1st, Hannah Tucker,\\n19 Dec, 1838, who \\\\l. 1850 2d, Sugan S. Thurston,\\n11 May, 1852 resides in Boscawen.\\nElvira C. b. 8 Nov., 1839.\\nEdmund W., b. 10 Jan.. 1843.\\nEdwin B., h. 3 May, 1817.\\nGeorge C, h. 22 May, 1858.\\nJoseph^ (Peabody,\u00c2\u00ae Joseph,^ Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,^ John,-\\nThomas^), b. 23 Jan., 1839 m. Julia C, dau. of Dr.\\nJames Ewing, of Hebron, 0., 10 Oct., 1872. He re-\\nsides on the homestead, from which his father cleared\\nthe primeval forest, near Pataskala, 0.\\nCharles Ewing, b. 20 July, 1873.\\nFlorence Elliot, b. 14 April, 1875.\\nFrank Peahody, b. 1 April, 1877.\\nGeorge Johnsto^^ (Peabody,*^ Joseph,^ Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,^\\nJohn,- Thomas^), b. 22 Feb., 1841; grad. at Marietta\\nCollege, 18G4 attorney-atdaw, Columbus, 0. m.\\nMadge R. McGeah, 12 Sept., 1872.\\nJohn Guy McGeah, b. 9 Sept., 1873.\\nEthel Elliot, b. 13 Feb., 1876.\\nHiram Lang (Joseph,*^ Samuel,^ Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John,\\nThomas^), b. in B., 1807; resided in Licking Co., 0.\\nm. Elizabeth Beach, April, 1839 d. Dec, 1840, She\\nd. Feb., 1841.\\nMartha Beach, b. June, 1840; d. 1864.\\nWilliam Edgerton (Samuel,\u00c2\u00ae Samuel,^ Joseph,* Nathaniel,\\nJohn,^ Thomas^) b. at Wheeling, W. Va., 25 June,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0642.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL ATKINSON. 475\\n1832; m. Mary Frances, dau. of Pealjody Atkinson,\\n28 Dec, 1857 resides in Newark, 0.\\nAlice WitJdnfjfon, h. 6 Nov., 1858.\\nSamuel McClellan,} d- 1 Nov., 186:1.\\nThomas Peahody, j ^^P 1^ d. 17 Oct., ISGo.\\nNathaniel Peabo li/, h. 11 Oct., 18G4.\\nWilliam Harry, b. 9 Jan., 1870.\\nHenry Martyn (Samuel, 8amnel,^ Josepli, ISTatlianiel,^ Jolm,\\nThomas^), b. at Wheeling, W. Va., 9 Sept., 1838 m.\\nKate, dan. of Hon. Thomas W. Tipton, of Brownville,\\nNeb. He is now surveyor-general of the territory of\\nISTew Mexico, and resides at Santa Fe.\\nAlice.\\nAtharates (Silas,* Simeon,^ Joseph,^ Nathaniel,^ John,- Thom-\\nas^), b. in B., 14 Feb., 1815 m. Martha Jane Fort, of\\nMilledgeville, Ga., 25 Dec, 1839 resides in Madison,\\nCla.\\nCharles Bacon, b. 21 Sept., 1840.\\nAlfred Overton, b. 13 Dec, 1811.\\nMarcellus, b. May, 1843.\\nAlexander Wellington, b. 22 Jane, 1814.\\nHelen Oleliea, b. 22 Sept., 1815.\\nSilas Fort, b. 12 July, 1847.\\nHale Arisddes, b. 14 Nov., 1818.\\nEugene Judson, b. 13 June, 1850.\\nEverett Gill, b. 11 April, 1852.\\nCora Virginia, b. 12 Oct.. 1853.\\nRom Bell, b. 22 Sept., 1855.\\nMillard Fillmore, b. 15 Oct., 1856.\\nPaul Foster, b. 18 Sept., 1858.\\nBeatrice May, b. 26 Jan., 1860.\\nHoratio Nelson (Silas, Simeon,^ Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John,-\\nThomas^), b. in B. 20 July, 1822 ni. Susan Pearson\\nDurgin, 10 Nov., 1846 resides in Tilton.\\nFrances Maria, b. 28 Oct., 1849: d. 10 July, 1863.\\nLeroy Samuel, b. 31 March, 1852.\\nSimeon Aristides (Silas,^ Simeon,^ Joseph,* Nathaniel,^ John,\\nThomas^), b. in Sanbornton, 25 Sept., 1830 m. Mary\\nEtholinda Potter, of Madison, Ga., a native of St.\\nCroix, W. I., 8 Oct., 1851.\\nFrank Hale, b. in Marietta, Ga., 6 July, 1852.\\nAlice Louisa, b. in Marietta, Ga., 25 Dec, 1854; d. 4 March, 1875.\\nSally Hutchins, b. in Augusta, Ga., 7 June, 1857.\\nLeora Etholinda, b. in Augusta, Ga., 15 Sept. 1859.\\nSimeon Arthur, b. in Augusta, Ga., 15 Jan., 1862.\\nMarie Eddrienne, b. in Madison, Ga., 4 Sept., 1864.\\nKatie Lena, h. in Athens, Ga., 27 Nov., 1871.\\nCoraAdelia, b. in Mount Vernon, N. Y., 15 Jan., 1875.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0643.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "476 GENEALOGICAL BISHOP, BURBANK.\\nNapoleon Boxapaete (Daniel Olark, Simeon,^ Joseph,* Na-\\nthaiiiel,^ John,- Thomas^), b. in Sanhornton, 14 April,\\n1819 m. Zapharine Robinson, of Sanbornton re-\\nsides in Madison, Ga.\\nMary Ella, b. 23 March, 1855; d. 24 July, 1855.\\nWilliam H.^ (Richard P.,* Jonatlian,^ Nathaniel,* Nathaniel,^\\nJohn,^ Thomas^), b. 29 Jan., 1842 ni. Mary H. Cui-\\nrier, 9 Jan., 1868 resides in Chelsea, Mass.\\nGeorqe T., b. Nov., 18G8.\\nArtlmr P., b. 21 Nov., 1870; d. 4 Jan., 1876.\\nLouisa F., h. 27 June, 1873.\\nBISHOP.\\nBishop, Josiaii.^ One of the first settlers of B. He was cap-\\nured by the Indians in 1740, at the south end of King\\nst., while at work in his tield, taken into the woods,\\nand killed. [See Civil Hist.]\\nExos,- son of Josiah, ni. Elizabeth Bel]an\\\\y, of Newbury, 21\\nNov., 1749. In 1754, when the Indians attacked the\\nhouse of Philij) Call, at South Franklin, he was one Ox\\nthe party sent in pursuit of the savages, and was cap-\\ntured [see Hist.] and taken to Canada, from whence\\nhe made his escape enlisted in Revolutionary service.\\nCol. Cilley s reg t was in battles of Saratoga and\\nStillwater d, in the army, 8 Aug., 1778.\\nJonah, b. 7 Oct., 1750.\\nSusannah, b. 5 Dec, 1753.\\nJohn, b. 10 Dec. 1757; son of a second wife, Anna.\\nElizabeth, b. 31 Jan.. 17G0.\\nSarah, b. 31 Jan., 1762; ni. Ezekiel Flanders.\\nHannah, b. 17 May, 1761.\\nBenjamin, h. 22 Oct., 1766.\\nEnos, b. 21 Nov., 1769. The family moved to Lisbon, N. II., in\\n1769.\\nBURBANK.\\nJoseph^ came to America in the ship Abigail, from London, 1635.\\nHe spelled his name Barebanke. He is registered as\\nbeing 24 years old at the time. It is not known\\nAvhere he settled.\\nJoHN,^ of Haverhill, probably was his son. He married 15 Oct.,\\n1663, Susanna, dau. Nathan Morrill. He moved from\\nHaverhill to Sulfield, 1680.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0644.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL BURBANK. 477\\nMoses/ Capt. It is supposed tliat he was grandson of John.\\nHe was one of the first settlers of B., and came from\\nBradford, Mass., 1733. He m. Sarah Emery, probably\\nsister of Edward Emery, a first settler of B.\\nMoses, h. 26 June, 1741; m. Sarah Danfortli.\\nSamuel, h. Ang.. 17-45; m. Eunice Pettingill.\\nNnlhanlel, b. 14 Dec. 1747; m. Mary Durgin.\\nMolly, b. 22 Feb., 1749 m. Cutting Noyes; resided in B.\\nDavid, b. 4 July, 1754; d. 4 Nov., 1815.\\nWells, b. 8 Aug., 1756. He lived at one time on Water st., in a\\nlog house, on land now owned by G. W. Fisher taught\\nschool.\\nSarah, b. Sept., 1758; ra. Benjamin Blanchard.\\nBeiti/, b. 1 Dec, 1760; m. Benjamin Bolter.\\nEleazer, h. 19 Jan., 1763; m. Abigail Burbank.\\nMosES^ (Moses,* Capt.), b. 1741; m. Mary Danf orth.\\nJosiah,h. 30 June, 1761 probably taught school in West Bos-\\ncawen, 1784.\\nNathaniel, h. 1 Sept., 1763.\\nJonathan, b. 29 May, 1765; m. Salome Cass.\\nDaniel, b. 4 Jan., 1767; m. Hannah Eastman. He was school\\nteacher in 1788.\\nStephen, b. 3 Feb., 1768; d. same year.\\nStephen, b. 1769; m. Mary Garvcn.\\nSilas, b. 10 Marcli, 1771 d. in the army.\\nPriscilla, h. 8 April, 1773; m. Jedediah Danfortli.\\nHazen, b. 18 Oct., 1775.\\nHannah, b. 12 April, 1779.\\nMoses, h. 4 Jan., 1781.\\nSamuel^ (Moses,* Capt b. Aug., 1745 m. Eunice Pettingill.\\nJoseph, b. 23 Aug., 1771; unmarried.\\nSarah, b. 28 Aug., 1773; m. Caleb Colman.\\nEunice, b. 2 May, 1775.\\nSamuel, b. 25 March, 1777; m. Molly Jackmau.\\nMoses, b. 12 Oct., 1778.\\nJudith, h. 25 Sept., 1780; m. David Corser.\\nJosiah, b. 11 July, 1782; ni. Chandler.\\nJonathan, b. 11 April, 1784.\\nNathan, b. 24 Feb., 1786.\\nElizabeth, b. 6 June, 1788.\\nCaleb, Rev., b. 12 Aug., 1792; m., 1st, Elizabeth Gillet, Kingsville,\\nO., 1830; 2d, Delphia Harris, Florence, O., 1833.\\n:N athanielS (Mose.s,* Capt.), b. 1747 m. Mary Durgin.\\nJohn, b. 10 Aug., 1778.\\nDavid^ (Moses,* Capt.), b. 4 July, 1754 m., 1st, Mary Little,\\ndau. of Enoch Little 2d, Dorothy Lowell. He built\\nand lived in the parsonage on Boscawen Plain, moved\\nfrom thence to Bashan, to the farm now owned by\\nI ol", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0645.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "478 GENEALOGICAL BURBANK.\\nAzro S. Burbank, thence to the house now occupied\\nby Friend L. Burbank, thence to Schoodic, in War-\\nner, where he d.\\nChildren of Mary\\nSarah, b. 9 Feb.. 1779; m. Moses Smitli, Salisbury.\\nAbigail, b. 20 jiarch, 1780 d. 18 July, 181^5.\\nAbraham, b. IG Nov., 1781; d. U Jan., 1856.\\nEliezer, b. 1 Jan., 1785 m. Dru.silla Flanders, of B.\\nLittle, b. 2 Feb., 1787; d. 17 Nov., 1870.\\nJesse, b. 13 June, 1790; d. in U. S. Navy.\\nEnoch, b. 20 July, 1793 moved to Michigan.\\nJudith, b. 10 July, 1798 m. Benj. Carter, of B.\\nChildren of Dorothy\\n2Iicah,m. Mary Eastman.\\nMary, m. True Jone.*.\\nWells^ (Moses/ Capt.), b. 1756.\\n3Iolh/,h. 2 Sept., 1784.\\nBetsei/, b. 2G Feb., 1787.\\nEiiezer, b. 13 Nov., 1788.\\nAbraham^ (David^) m., 1st, Mary Call 2d, Polly, dan. of Benj.\\nJackman, of B. [See Biog.]\\nChildren of Mary\\nFriend IJllle, b. 29 June, 1800.\\nJoanna Call, h. 5 Marcli, 1808; d. 19 Feb., 1843.\\nMary Little, h. 16 Nov., 1809 m. Woodman Jackman, of B.\\nSophronia Gerrish, b. 25 Aug., 1812; d. 22 Feb., 1847.\\nJudith Call, h. 2 Nov., 1815; m. J. Warren Jackman d. 21 Nov.,\\n1847.\\nChildren of Polly\\nGeorge Washington, b. 29* June, 1819; d. 16 May, 1873.\\nDavid Emory, b. 16 May, 1822.\\nBitfield Plummer, b. 1 March, 1824; d. in Cab, 1860.\\nAbraham Pettingill, b. 2 Nov., 1825; m. Augusta Itunnels, of B.\\nresides in Cal.\\nAzro Sheridan, b. 29 Aug., 1827.\\nEzeJciel Webster, b. 16 June, 1829 m., 1st, Martha A. Pillsbnry,\\nof B. 2d, Emelie Hunkins, of Sanbornton volunteer 16th\\nN. n. Reg t; d. on the Mississippi, 1863.\\nAmanda Jane, b. 11 June, 1831 m. Horatio N. Webber, of B.\\nLittle/ Capt. (David, Moses,* Capt.) m. Judith C, dan. of Joshua\\nJackman. [See Biog.]\\nLucretia Little, b. 13 April, 1819 d. 12 Dec, 1838.\\nHannah Farmer, b. 27 Sept., 1821 d. 19 Feb., 1842.\\nEmulous Warren, b. 20 Nov., 1825.\\nCalvin 3Iorris, b. 16 Juue, 1832; d. May, 1860.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0646.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL BURPEE. 479\\nFriend Little (ALi-aliam, DavicF) m. Dorothy Jacknian, of B.\\n[See Biog.]\\nLucretia Little, h. 21 i\\\\[ay, 1840; d. 10 Auo-., 1861.\\nWilliam Wirt, b. 13 Sept., 1842.\\nJoanna Clough, b. 22 June, 18i6; d. 23 Dec., 1848.\\nIrvin Abram, b. 18 April, lSi i.\\nAlmon Friend, h. 17 Oct., 18r 7.\\nDavid E.^ (Abraham,^ David^) ra. Mary Elliot, of Canterbury\\nresidesat ]STorwich,Vt. Lieut. 16th K. H. A^^Iunteers.\\n[See Biog.]\\nAlma M., b. 1 Jan., 1847; m. William Walton, Phila.\\nEmily, b. 23 Sept., 1848 m. AVm. T. Strout, Manchester, N. H.\\nAnn M.. h. 24 May, ISoO.\\nWinfidd S., h. 27 Jan., 1852 d. 13 Feb., 1852.\\nCharles E., b. 19 Jan., 1856 d. 19 Nov., 1857.\\nWilliam E., b. 19 June, 1860.\\nAlfred P., b. 26 Feb., 1863; d. 15 May, 1877.\\nCora E., b. 8 Nov., 1864.\\nAzKO Sheridan (Ahraham,\u00c2\u00ab David^) m. Emeh ne S. Burpee, of\\nB. resides in Webster.\\nCarrie Maud, b. 6 Jan., 1865.\\nEffa Aden, b. 28 April, 1869.\\nEmulous W.^ (Little,\u00c2\u00ab David^) m. Mary A. Eunnels resides in\\nLawrence, Mass.\\nAlvin H., b. 30 July, 1851 ra. Ella Hustus, of Lawrence, Mass.\\nAnna Aufjusta, b. 19 Oct., 1861 d. 6 Dec. 1861.\\nErnest Wilcox, h. 29 Oct., 1863.\\nCalvin Morris^ (Little,\u00c2\u00abDavid5) m. Louisa Kichols. [See Biog.]\\nLouisa Nichols, b. 29 June, 1856.\\nWilliam Wirt^ (Friend L.,\u00c2\u00ab Abraham m. Ellen I\\\\L Dow, of\\nConcord.\\nEllen Lucretia, b. 12 June, 1867.\\nSarah Chandler, b. 2 June, 1869.\\nAlice Mabel, b. 4 June, 1871.\\nBUKPEE.\\nCompiled by Augustus Burpee, of New llamptou.\\nJeremiah,! b. inCandia, 1748 m. Elizabeth, dau. of Max-\\nfield; settled first in Sandwich, afterwards in Epping;\\nmoved to B., 1792, on to a farm since owned by Solo-\\nmon Arey. He w^as a brickmaker by trade.\\nBetsey, d. young.\\nJeremiah, b. 1781.\\nNathaniel, b. 1783.\\nBetsey.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0647.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": "480 GENEALOGICAL BURPEE.\\nEliphalet, d. at French Mills, Ca.\\nEsther, m. Jolm Jackinan d. G Dec, 1850.\\nMartha^ m. Caleb Jackman.\\nJeremiah- (Jeremiah^) m. Nancy Wells, of Loudon, 1804 set-\\ntled near the Gulf, on the turnpike, where he car-\\nried on the pottery and brick-making business until\\nhis death, 16 Nov., 1862. His wife was thrown from\\nthe Gulf bridge and killed, 27 Dec, 1817. He m., 2d,\\nSally D., dau. of William Gill, 28 April, 1818.\\nChildren of Nancy\\nEliza, b. 4 Feb., 1805 m. John Knowlton.\\nJudith W., b. 8 March, 1807; ni. Reuben Goodwin, of Concord.\\nJoshua W.,h.28 April, 1809; m. Mary Ann Webster, of Salis-\\nbury, 1 JaT)., 1833; d. 23 Dec, 1839.\\nLeivis, b. 1811; d. 10 Nov., 1813.\\nAugustus, b. 12 July, 1812; ni. Sarah, dau. of Benjamin Robinson,\\nof New Hampton, 25 Sept., 1837, where they now reside.\\nMember of the legislature, 1875. Three cliildren.\\nRoxa, b. 3 Feb., 1815; m. James II. Peabody, of Methuen, Mass.\\nMary .S., b, 9 Feb., 1817 m. Hiram Simpson, 24 March, 1836.\\nChildren of Sally\\nWelL i, b. 29 Dec, 1818; d. 22 Feb., 1819.\\nRuth, b. 4 July, 1820; d. 10 Dec, 1833.\\nSamuel G.,h. i Aug., 1822; m. Betsey E. Patch.\\nJeremiah, b. 20 July, 1824; m. Ann E. Reed.\\nSail]/ Anji., h. 15 Oct., 1827; m. Levi Carter, 19 Dec. 1860; d. 6\\nAug., 1806.\\nJames G., b. 3 June, 1830; m. Rebecca E. Jackson, 6 March, 1863;\\nd. 27 July, 1876.\\nJohn G., b. 1 Aug., 1832: d. 15 March, 1859.\\nGrace Ann, b. 28 Feb., 1835; d. 1840.\\nInfant, b. and d. Nov., 1836.\\nDaniel Webster, b. 8 June, 1838; d. 1839.\\nMartha J., b. 4 Oct., 1811; m. Geo. L. Raymond, 14 Dec, 1861.\\nNathaniel,^ b. 27 Eeb., 1782 m. Catharine Griffin, of Deer-\\nfield, 1803 moved to Cambridge, Mass., in 1825 d.\\nthere 4 Aug., 1868.\\nThomas G., b. 16 Oct., 1805; d. 22 April, 1807.\\nJoseph E., b. 1 Feb., 1807; m. Belinda Woodbury, 8 Jan., 1835.\\nFanny G., b. 17 Nov., 1H09; d. Marcli, 1877.\\nNathaniel, b. 21 April, 1812; d. 19 Oct., 1836.\\nEliphalet, b. 25 Feb., 1814 m. Jane Masterman.\\nCatharine, b. 23 Feb., 1817; d. 14 Feb., 1819.\\nSally G., b. 1 March, 1819; d. 5 Nov., 1822.\\nSamuel W., b. 8 April, 1821 d. 4 June, 1876.\\nMartha T. J., b. 19 Sept., 1823.\\nAbigail b. 6 July, 1827", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0648.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL BUTLER, BUXTON. 481\\nBUTLER.\\nNehemiah, lawyer, descended from the first settlers of Pelliam,\\nwas born in that town 22 Feb., 1824 received his ed-\\nucation at the common schools in his native town,\\nat Pinkerton academ_y, in Derry, and at Pembroke\\nacademy studied law at the law school at Harvard\\nUniversity, and in the office of Hon. Asa Fowler, in\\nConcord was admitted to the Merrimack county bar\\nin March, 1848, and soon after commenced the busi-\\nness of his profession in B. He married Mary Ma-\\ngoon, dau. of Kichard Gage, 14 JSTov., 1849. Ii/lSrov.,\\n1852, he was appointed clerk of the Superior Court of\\nJudicature, and Court of Common Pleas for the coun-\\nty of Merrimack, succeeding Hon. N. B. Baker, and\\nmoved to Concord, where he resided and held said\\nclerkship until 1860, when he returned to B. and re-\\nsumed the practice of law. In March, 1862, he was\\nelected a county commissioner, and held tlnit office\\nuntil April, 1868. Upon the decease of Hon. J. D.\\nSleeper, he was reappointed clerk of the courts for\\nMerrimack county, and held that office one year. In\\n1869 and 1870 he represented the town of B. in the\\nlegislature. During the late war he was agent of the\\ntown to furnish its quota of soldiers and attend to the\\nfinancial affairs connected therewith. He also served\\nin the capacity of selectman and town treasurer seven\\nyears. July 2oth, 1876, he was appointed judge of\\nprobate for the county of Merrimack, which office he\\nnow holds.\\nCharles Nehemiah. b. 26 April, 185-3.\\nGeorge Gage, b. 31 March, 1854; d. 27 July, 1851.\\nSusan Olive, b. 17 June, 18.55; d. 5 Aug., 1856.\\nJohn Gage, b. 1 Dec, 1856.\\nBenjamin Franklin, b. 30 Oct., 1858.\\nCalvin Gage, b. 8 Feb., 1865.\\nBUXTON.\\nEdward, Rev., pastor Cong, church, Webster b. in New Boston\\n[see Biog.] m., 1st, Elizabeth McFarland, of Con-\\ncord 2d, Lois Jewett, of Laconia od, Mrs. Louise\\nFrances [Dix] Pillshury, of B.\\nChildren of Elizabeth\\nElizabeth McFarland, h. 2 April, 1839. Preceptress Female Acad-\\nemy, Zanesville, O.\\nEdward, b. 25 May, 1811; d. 6 Dec, 1814.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0649.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "482 GENEALOGICAL CARTER.\\nCARTER.\\nThe Carter family of Boscawen descended from\\nThomas^ and Mary Carter, who were among the early settlers ot\\nSalisbury, Mass.\\nJoHN,2 |j_ 18 May, 1650 m. Martha\\nThomas,^ h. 9 March, 1683 m. Ann\\nThomas, b. 29 Oct., 1707 m. Juda, b. 1714, who d. 13 Jan.,\\n1761. He went first to South Hampton, thence to\\nB. Children recorded\\nWinthrop, b. 1736; d. 8 June, 1808.\\n./esse, b. 29 Oct., 1750. AVhen 9 years old, was killed wliile play-\\ning upon a side hill, by a stump rolling over liini. [Price s\\nIli.st. ]3osc.awen.]\\nDavid, b. 5 Jan., 1753. Supposed to have been killed by the kick\\nof a horse, and his wagon wheel passing over his body.\\nLevi.\\nAnne, m. William Corser, who, with his son, was drowned in Great\\nPond.\\nAYiXTHROP,^ Lieut. (Thomas,* Thomas,^ John m. Susanna, dau.\\nof Joseph and Dorothy Eastman, 1757. She d. 9\\nMarch, 1828. Lieut. Carter held various offices of\\ntrust, was a large landliolder in Boscawen and Canter-\\nbury, licensed as inn-keeper 12 Oct., 1790, kept tav-\\nern in house nov\\\\^ occupied by N. S. Webster, the\\nfront part of which he built, and planted the elm\\nstanding near.\\nJesse, b. 17 Aug., 1758; d. 17 Aug., 1828.\\nDaniel, b. 19 Dec, 1759 d. 4 March, 1840.\\nNathan, b. 6 April, 1761 d. 25 Sept., 1810.\\nDorothy, b. 1762; ni. Josiali Eastman, Bradford, Yt.\\nJeremiah, b. 26 Ai)ril, 1761; m. Hannah Gerrish, 27 May, 1795; d.\\n28 July, 1801.\\nJiulilh, b. 1766 d. 1785.\\nSarah, b. 6 Aprd,l769; m. Joshua Jackman; d. 12 May, 1796.\\nJJumphrei/. b. 1771 went from home and never heard from.\\nMary, h. 7 May, 1773; m. John Gill; d. 27 March. 1859.\\nBelsei/, m. Abnor Flanders, Warner; d. at Hyde Park, Vt.\\nNaomi, h. 9 April, 1780; m. Caleb Putney; d. 12 Aug., 1852.\\nSusanna, b. 25 May, 1782; m. David Elliott; d. 2 Feb., 1858.\\nDaniel,*^ Lieut. (Winthrop,*^ Thomas enlisted at 16; served un-\\nder Gens. Stark and Sullivan was at the battles of\\nBennington, Stillwater, Bemis Heights, and Saratoga\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0*^as wounded in R. I. Married Polly Atkinson, 15\\nApril, 1784. She d. 25 Sept., 1854.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0650.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CARTER. 483\\nDanld, h. 10 March. 1785 d. 10 Sept. 1873.\\nMan/, b. 2(3 Jan., 1787; ra. John Osboine, Loudon, son of Jacob\\nand Abigail 0.-;borne. 21 May. 181G; d. 16 Nov., 1856.\\n.S c7%, b. 27 April, 1790; d. 7 Sept., 1873.\\nXatiian (Winthrop,^ Thomas kept tavern at the pUice now\\noccupied by C. C. Hall ni. Sarah Farnum, West Con-\\ncord.\\nJwUlJi, h. 15 Dec, 1787; ui. John French; d. 13 Jan., 1871.\\nMoses, h. Auij., 1790; d. :;0 Mav, 1851.\\nJohn, b. 10 Dec., 1797; d. June, 1850.\\nJeremiah, h. 20 Feb., 1803; d. 19 Nov., 1871.\\nNathan, b. 4 Feb., 1807 d. 10 Feb., 1875.\\nDaxiel (Dauiel,*^ Lieut., Winthrop^) m. Mrs. Sally Flint.\\nElbridge G.. b. 4 Dec, 1808.\\nJohn (Nathan,*^ Winthrop^) ni. Lydia Gill lived in Canterbury.\\nDradliurij G., b. 3 Feb., 1827; m. Asenath Spiller, Concord resides\\nthere.\\nLuther, b. 2-i Au 1829.\\nJohn. b. 25 March, 1882; d. 25 Aug., 1833.\\nJohn, b. 15 March, 1834.\\nSarah R., b. 4 Oct., 1838; 2d wife of Robert G. Morrison, Concord.\\nWilliam, b. 20 Dec, 1842; m. Mattie C. Wheeler, Canterbury.\\nJehemiah (Nathan,^ Winthrop^) lived at [N owbuiyport m., 1st,\\nSally Woodman 2d, Mary X. Young.\\nChildre]! of Sally\\nWilliam H., b. 4 Oct, 1828.\\nJeremiah, h. 2 March, 1830; d. in Newburyport.\\nSherman J., b. 25 Oct., 1831.\\nXalhan, b. 5 Jan., 1833; m. Lucy Grafton; resides in Stanwall\\nEast, Australia.\\nSarah C. b. 2 Oct., 1831; ni resides in Lynn, Mass.; d.\\n9 Nov.. 1869.\\nJohn S., b. 25 Feb., 1836; ni. Annie W. Haskell, Gloucester, Mass.;\\nresides there.\\nZuc?/ ir.. b. 1 May, J 838; m. Moses Davis, Newburyport; resides\\nin Lynn, Mass.\\nChildren of \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Marj-\\nRichard r., b. 20 Jan., 181L\\nEllen J., b. 30 June, 1842; ni. Calvin Marden, Newburyport, re-\\nsides in Canton, Mass.\\nGeorgianna, b. 3 Dec, 3 843 resides in Newburyport.\\nWalter I., b. 21 May, 1815; d. in infancy.\\nNathan (iSTathan,\u00c2\u00ae Winthrop\u00c2\u00ae) resided at i^ewburyport 20 years\\nwas conductor Newburyport Georgetown Railroad\\nuniversally beloved and respected m. Mary A. Pear-\\nson.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0651.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "484 GENEALOGICAL CARTER. v,\u00c2\u00bbi\\nMary A., b., 11 Nov., 1832; ni. Charles A. Todd; resides in\\nLynn, Mass.\\nSarah E., b. 2 April, 1834; m. John T. Burrill; resides in New-\\nburyport.\\nNatJian P., h. 27 April, 1836.\\nCaroline E., h. 20 Jan., 1838; m. Charles C. Stockman; resides in\\nNewbnryport.\\nLi/dia P., b. 4 Nov., 1841; m. Albert J. Atkinson; resides in\\nNewbnryport.\\nEllen J., b. 2 Oct., 184(3; d. 19 Aug., 1848.\\nEdward T., b. 17 Oct., 1848.\\nElbridge G.,^ (Daniel, Daniel,* Lieut.) agent for U. S. Can-\\nada Express, Concord, for many years resides at\\nConcord; m. Sarah S. Hook, Concord.\\nMary 0., b. 10 Dec, 1836 m. L. E. Warren, Littleton, Mass.,\\nProfessor of Mathematics, Colby Uuiversitv, Waterviile,\\nMe.\\nGeorge W., b. 18 July, 1842.\\nLuther^ (John, Nathan* m. Mary A. Coffin, ISTewburyport re-\\nsides there.\\nMary C, b. 1 Dec, 18.j. 5.\\nLillian F., b. 12 May, 1858.\\nLuther E., b. 1 May, 1865; d. 1 Aug., 1865.\\nJOHN^ (John/ Nathan*) m. Julia F. Bryant, Madrid, Me.\\nFrank L.,h. 14 Feb., 1860.\\nWesley, h. 20 April, 1864.\\nJennie E., b. 20 Oct., 1874.\\nWilliam H.,** (Jeremiah, Nathan m. Ann W. Nowell, New-\\nburyport.\\nGeorge IF., b. 17 Aug., 1855.\\nJoh7i, h. 27 Oct., 1865.\\nGeorgianna, b. 5 July, 1874.\\nSherman J.^ (Jeremiah, Nathan*) m. Emma A. Dow; resides in\\nGloucester, Mass.\\nSherman, b. 26 April, 1851.\\nJohn D., b. 3 July, 1856.\\nFred O.. b. 28 Sept.. 1860.\\nEmma F. A.,h. 16 Sept., 1863.\\nEiCHARD T,^ (Jeremiah, Nathan*) m. Annette Johnson, Ells-\\nworth resides West Thornton.\\nMary A., b. 29 June, 1871.\\nNathax P.^ (Nathan, Nathan*) m. Caroline rvlcc, Boston re-\\nsides in Brooklyn, N. Y.\\nBertie, b. 12 Nov., 1866, at St. Louis; d. in infancy.\\nHattie S.. b. 12 July, 1868, at St. Louis.\\nEugene J., b. 25 Oct., 1871, at Astoria, N. Y.\\nWillie N., b. 23 March, 1876, at Brooklyn, N. Y.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0652.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CHADWICK. 485\\nCHAD WICK.\\nCharles was h. in England, 1596 came to America in 1630\\nsettled at Watertown. The Chadvvicks of B. are\\nwithout doubt his descendants.\\nEdmund^ lived in Bradford, Mass. His children were,\\nAlar I/, Abigail, James, Samuel, Sarah, William, Ehenezer, Dorotlnj,\\nElizabeth.\\nJames, b. 14 Dec, 1724 m. Mary Thurston.\\nHannah, b. 22 June, 1752; m. Jonathan Bhincliard, of Canterbury.\\nEdmund, h. 2 April, 17.54; m. Susanna Atkinson; dea. of the\\nchurch in B.; d. 20 Aug., 1819.\\nEdmund, b. 2 April, 1754; m. Susanna Atkinson.\\nSamuel, b. 27 May, 178); m. Sarah Morrill, of Cai.terbury; lived\\non Water st.\\nJames, b. 1 June, 1782, in. Betsey Morrill, of B.\\nHannah, h. 15 Abxrch. 1781; m. James Watson, of 15.\\nJoseph, b. 19 July. 1787 m., 1st, Judith Morrill, of B.; 2d, Eunice\\nBliss, of Lebanon. He was a clock-maker, lived in house\\nnorth of academy, gave the land fur that edifice. His shop\\nstood on spot now occupied by P.O., and it is now stand-\\ning on the opposite side of the street. Died in B.\\nManj, b. 2 Oct., 1791 m. Silas Call, of B.\\nCi/rus, b. 1 Oct., 1800; m. Eliza A. Nichols; moved to Ohio; d. in\\nNewark, 10 May, 1870.\\nSamuel* (Edmund^), b. 27 May, 1780 m. Sarah Morrill, of Can-\\nterbury.\\nSusan, b. 16 May, 1801; m. Bitfield Plummer.\\nCaroline, b. 17 Dec, 1805; m. 1st, H. Foster, of Canterbury;\\nmoved to O. 2d, Barrows.\\nLaban Morrill, b. 13 May, 18(^7; m. Eliza Hale, of Franklin; lives\\non Water st.\\nEdmund Smith, 10 Mar., 1809; m., 1st, Elizabeth Sanborn, of\\nKingston; 2d, Emily Sanborn (sister). Published JSf. H.\\nObserver at Concord; subsequently a trader in Concord;\\nnow living at Beloit, Wis.\\nAlbert Galatin, b., 8 Nov., 1810; m. Helen Martin; learned print-\\ning published Spirit of Inquiry at Concord established\\nCaledonian at St. Johnsbury, Yt. d. St. Juhnsbury, 6\\nAug., 1863.\\nJeremiah Clough, b. 4 July. 1812; m., 1st, Abby Cate, of North-\\nfield; 2d, Pillsbury, of B. learned printing; re-\\nsides on Water st.\\nPeter Morrill, b. 24 April, 1815; m. Mary Hanson, of Warner re-\\nsided at Irasburg, Vt. lives in B.\\nMaria, b. 4 March, 1817; d. 27 June, 1833.\\nSnrah Ann,h. 15 Feb., 1821; m. Dr. Thomas Currie, of North-\\nfield, practitioner in Webster; now residing at Lebanon.\\nEouisa, b. 3 May, 1823; d. 5 March, 1846.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0653.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "486 GENEALOGICAL CHADWICK.\\nJames^ (EdmuncF), h. 1 June, 1782 m. Betsey Morrill.\\nAlonzo C, 10 Feb., 1810 m. Fitts, of Ciuidia.\\nLouisa M., 12 April, 1812; d. 13 April, 1813.\\nCynthia, 9 Dec d. in infancy.\\nCharles, 9 Sept., 1815; d. 5 April, 1816.\\nCharles Johnson, 11 Sept., 1821; m. 1st, Eliza J. Moore, of Lou-\\ndon; 2d, Mrs. Lucretia E. Chandler, dau. of Joseph\\nMorse, of B. lives iu B. \\\\,6\\nJoseph* (EdmiuKF), h. 19 July, 1787 m., Ist, Betsey Morrill\\n2d, Eunice Bliss.\\nCalvin M., b. 15 July, 1813.\\nEunice, 17 July, 1822; m. Royce.\\nJoseph\\nCyrus (Edmund^), h. 1 Oct., 1800 d. 10 May, 1870.\\nManj, 3 Sept., 1835; Charles, 20 Feb., 1837; yl/?;er/, 22 March,\\n1839 Buron, 21 April, 1810 Sarah A., IS Sept., 1843;\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nliving in O.\\nLaban M.5 (Samuel,* EdnnuuP) b. 13 May, 1807 m. Eliza Hale.\\nHale, 3 Oct., 1841.\\nJohn, 24 April, 1843.\\nHarriet, 27 April 1845.\\nAlonzo C.^ (James*), b. 10 Eeb., 1810; m. Eitts of Candia;\\nlives in Lawrence, Mass.\\nFitts Henry. h. 24 April, 1840; m. Hattie B. Wheaton, of Boston;\\nlives in Lawrence.\\nGeorge Whitefield, IS Nov., 1854.\\nChakles J.^ (James*), b. 11 Sept., 1821 m., 1st, Eliza J. Moore\\n2d, Mrs. Lucretia Chandler (Morse).\\nChildren of Eliza\\nCip-us TF., 23 June, 1851.\\nEmilii M., 26 Dec, 1855 d. 27 June, 1858.\\nEmma A., 7 July, 1859.\\nElmer A., K _ j^ j_ j^^ infancy.\\nDaughter,\\nFitts Henry*^ (Alonzo C.^) m. Hattie M. Wheaton.\\nJulia E.. 22 Nov., 1869.\\nHenry M., 1 Aug., 1871.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0654.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CHANDLER. 487.-\\nCHANDLER.\\nWilliam^ and his wife Aunis came from England; 1637, and\\nsettled in Eoxbuiy.\\nThomas,^ Capt., m. Hannah Brewer, of Andover, Mass., and re-\\nsided there.\\nJoHN,^ Capt., m. Hannah Abbot, of Andover.\\nJohns Ensign, m. Hannah Erye, of Andover.\\nJoHX,^ Capt., m. Tahiatha Abbot, of Concord, N. H. He was\\none of the original proprietors of that town.\\nJoHN, Capt., b. 1731 m. Mary Carter, of Concord.\\nJohn,h. 11 Dec, 1752; m. Naomi, dau. of Epbraim Farnum, of\\nConcord; d. 21 Jan., 1825.\\nNathan, h. 28 April, 1751; m. Susan Ambrose, of Concord d. 13\\nApril, 1781.\\nIsaac, b. 18 April, 1758; m. Mary, dau. of Capt. Peter Kimball, of\\nB. lie served in Ticonderoga campaign, 1777, was colonel\\n2lstReg1 owned the farm now owned by sons of Wm. H.\\nGage, Esq. He was universally esteemed. Died, 1826.\\nJeremlali, b. 1761; m. Judith, dau. of Ephraim Farnura, of Con-\\ncord resided in house now occupied by John C. Gage;\\nmoved to Lovell, Me., where he d. 12 Feb., 1829. He had\\ntwo children.\\nJoHiSr, Capt. (John,* Capt.), b. 11 Dec, 1752 m. Naomi Ear-\\nnum.\\nJohn, b. 25 Oct., 1780; m. Priscilla, dau. of Capt. Peter Kimball,\\nof B. physician d. 6 March, 1859.\\nNalhan, b. 15 April, 1782 m. Jane, dau. of Nathaniel Rolfe d. 1\\nApril, 1835.\\nEphraim P., b. 4 Sept., 1784; ni. Tabiatha, dau. of Theophilus\\nCurrier, of Warner; d. 12 March, 1837.\\nMart/, b. 3 Sept., 1786; m. Jonathan Eastman, of East Concord;\\nd. 27 Feb., 1872.\\nSusannah F.,h.7 Dec, 1788; m. Richard Gage.\\nJudith H., b. 19 March, 1793; m. Reuben Johnson, of B. A\\nwoman of rare worth. Died 3 Nov., 1843.\\nRJioda C, m. Josephus Chandler; resides west.\\nJonx,\u00c2\u00ab Dr., b. 25 Oct., 1780 m. Priscilla Kimball grad. D. C,\\n1805 practised medicine in Hebron, Methuen, Pem-\\nbroke, Loudon, and North Eryeburg. He d. of apo-\\nplex} in Goffstown, 6 March, 1859.\\nRoxanna, b. 1808; d. in infancy.\\nPriscilla, b. 27 Sept., 1809; m. John S. Drake, of Chichester.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0655.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "488 GENEALOGICAL CHANDLER.\\nSarah K., h. 1811 d. in Loudon, 1832.\\nJohn S., b. 1813; d. 1816.\\nIsaac W.. b. 1815 m., 1st, Fanny Crowell, of Xewark, N. J.; 2d,\\nJoanna Hinds, of Chichester; resides in Epsom. Child of\\nFanny, Eddie, b. 1861; child of Joanna, Willie.\\nMary Ann, b. 18 Dec, 1817; m. Samuel C. Evans, of Fryeburg,\\nMe.\\nJohn B. W., h. 30 July, 1820; m., 1st, Elizabeth Godfrey, of Man-\\nchester: 2d, Lucretia, dau. of Joseph Morse, of Webster\\nd. 1865.\\nPeter Kimball, b. 4 July, 1823; m. Maria E. Harville, of Bedford;\\nresides in Manchester; dea. 1st Contr. church.\\nGeorge P., b. 12 March, 1826 d. 13 June, 1827.\\nNathan^ (John b. 15 April, 1782 m. Jane Eolfe. He resided\\nin B. bnilt the house now occupied by the widow of\\nEphraim Plumnier was selectman 1812, 13, 16. In\\n1829 he moved to Concord, settling near the present\\nrailroad station d. 1 April, 1835.\\nAbial Rolfe, b. 26 Aug.. 1805 m. Eliza J. Morrison, of B; resides\\nin Lawrence. [See Biog.]\\nJudith Walker, b. 5 Aug., 1807; m. Enoch H. Dow, of Concord.\\nNaomi Farnnm, b. 5 Dec, 1809; m. Asa H. Morrill, of Fisherville.\\nNathan, b. 12 June, 1812 m. Louisa W. Ferrin, of Concord; resides\\non homestead; was representative 187-1, 7.5.\\nHarriet, b. 10 July, 181.5.\\nSarah B., b. 10 Aug., 1817; d. 16 Feb., 1811.\\nWilliam P., b. 27 Oct., 182(1; m. Sarah E. Kimball, of Orange;\\ncivil engineer lives in 111. was the first to develop the\\nextensive coal mines of Danville, in that state. Entered\\nU. S. army; was Lieut. Col. 35th 111. Reg t; commanded\\nit two years; participated in the battles of Pea Ridge,\\nCorinth, Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission\\nRidge, and others was twice taken prisoner.\\nEphraim F., b. 4 Sept., 1784 m. Tabiatha, dau. of Theophilus\\nCurrier, of Warner lived in B. d. 12 March, 1837.\\nPhilip J., b. 21 Oct., 1814: went to sea when 18; never heard from.\\nSarah C, b. 19 June, 1816; m. Luke Eastman.\\nJonathan Eastman.\\nAbial Eolfe\u00c2\u00ab (Nathan,^ Jolm b. 25 Aug., 1805 m. Eliza J.\\nMorrison. [See Biog.]\\nHennj Walker, b. 2 Aug., 1830; d. 15 Aug., 1850.\\nKate Frances, b. 4 Dec, 18;i)l m. W. A. Kimball, of Lawrence,\\nMass.\\nAnnie Rebecca, b. 11 April, 1837.\\nNathan^ (Nathan,^ John^), b. 12 June, 1812; m. Lovisa W.\\nEerrin.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0656.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CHOATE.\\n489\\nEdward Wehsler^ b. 11 Dec, 1811 m. Frances Ferriu, of Concord;\\nresides in Minonk, 111.; three children.\\nSarah. B., b. 15 June, 181o; n\u00c2\u00bb. James L. Gerrish, of Webster.\\nFrederic G., b. 31 Dec, 1815 m. Mary S. Abbott; resides atFisli-\\nerville.\\nWilliam P., b. 30 Nov., 1849; m. Alice Boyce, of Fisherville; one\\nchild.\\nJohn W.\u00c2\u00ab [Jolin,\u00c2\u00ab Dr., John b. 30 July, 1820, m., 1st, Eliza-\\nbeth Godfrey 2d, Lucretia Morse.\\nChildren of Elizabeth\\nJohn Franklin, b. 1846; m. Alice Fitz.\\nSarah H., b. 1847; d. 4 Feb., 1876.\\nEmma,h. 1849; d. 1867.\\nHatlie G., b. 1854; m. Cotton; d. April, 1875.\\nWillie Irving, b. 1853; d. 1854\\nJosEPHUs Chandler, another branch of the Chandler family, of\\nEryeburg, Me., married Ehoda C, dau. of Capt. John\\nChandler, of B. They lived in Eryeburg, and moved\\nto Primrose, Wis., where he d. IT Eeb., 1859.\\nCatherine, b, 7 Sept., 1830; ni. Charles Thompson; lives in Wis.\\nCaroline, \\\\h. 7 Sept., 183ii; successful school teacher in the West\\nd. in Monticello, la., 1870.\\nJohn A.,m. Maria A. Grundy, of Monticello, la. Three children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nCharles H., Elmer E., Catharine C.\\nGeorge W., soldier in 5th Wis. Reg t; fought in battles of Army of\\nPotomac.\\nWilliajn Henri/, engaged in mining in Montana.\\nCHOATE.\\nThe first ancestor of the Choate family in this country (given\\nname unknown), being pressed into the English navy,\\ndeserted from the man-of-war Lion, while on the\\nAmerican coast, and settled in Essex, Mass. He had\\na son, IIumvphTey, there.\\nHumphrey^ (deserter).\\nThomas, b. 1716, at Essex, Mass.; d. 1798, at B.\\nHumphrey (grandfather of Hon. Rufus Choate).\\nThomas^ (Humphrey-), m. Dolly Proctor, of Essex, Mass. was a\\ncaptain of Mass. militia under George II came to B.\\nin 1788 settled on High street, where Samuel Choate\\nnow resides.\\nJacob, Thomas, Solomon, Susan, Miriam, Mrs. Lowe, Anner.\\nBenjamin, Col., h. 8 Sept., 1766 m. Mehitable Plummer, of B.; d.\\n7 April, 1859, at Enfield.\\nSamuel, b. 18 March, 1769 d. 12 June, 1847.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0657.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "490 GENEALOGICAL CHOATE.\\nSamuel* (Thomas,^ Capt., Humphrey m., 1st, Betsey Kimball\\n2d, Nancy Jackman od, Mary Loomis, of Thetford,\\nVt.\\nChild of Betsey\\nIsaac C, b. 15 Aug., 1791 d. 6 Jan., 1860.\\nCliildren of Nancy\\nRoyal, b. 12 June, 1796.\\nBetsey, h. 9 Dec, 1797 d. 7 Jan., 1826.\\nA7iner, b. 13 April, 1800; m. Samuel Choate, Enfield.\\nIf aria, b. 12 Aug., 1802; m. Thomas Clioate, Enfield.\\nNancy, b. 22 Oct., 1801 m. Jonathan Currier, Candia.\\nChildren of Mary\\nMarjj, b. 1810 d. 7 Jan., 1827.\\nSojihla, d. 1818, aged 18 mouths.\\nSamuel, b. 1815; d. same year.\\nIsAAC^ (Samuel,* Thomas,^ Humphrey m. Hannah Noyes, He-\\nbron.\\nSamuel K., b. 5 Nov., 1820; m., 1st, Martha Jane Waldrou, of\\nHopkinton 2d, Mary M. Moore, of Calais, Me. lives in\\nConcord.\\nBetsey, b. 1821; d. 1826.\\nKOYAL^ (Samuel,* Thomas,^ Humphrey m., 1st, Hannah Sawyer,\\nSalisbury 2d, Mrs. Eliza Mewers, Gilmanton.\\nChildren of Hannah\\nDavid S., b. 28 Nov., 1827; d. 22 Feb., 1833.\\nSamuel, b. 21 Feb., 1830.\\nNancy J., b. 5 Nov., 1832; m. Moses C. Sanborn, Concord.\\nChildren of Eliza\\nRoyal, b. 25 April, 1846 m. Nettie Webster, Manchester.\\nLucy A., b. 3 Oct., 1849; m. John F. Colby.\\nSamuel^ (Koyal,^ Samuel,* Thomas m. Caroline M. Perkins,\\nGeorgetown, Mass.\\nMary IL, b. 20 July, 1863.\\nLizzie M., b. 10 Jan., 1865.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0658.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0659.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "r\\nV\\nI ^r-y^\\n1 ^:^_t\u00e2\u0080\u009e AAA.^ ^Aa.-\\n^w^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0660.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL COFFIN. 491\\nCOFFIN\\nIn the Worthies of Devonshire/ by Prince, tlie Coffin family\\nof Portledge is spoken of as having occupied an estate ever since\\nthe ]SJ ornian conquest. Sir William Coffin, of Portledge, was an\\nofficer of high state in the reign of Henry VIII. The Coffins of\\nAmerica are descendants of the Portledge family.\\nPeter CoffijST,^ of Brixton, near Portledge, died 1628. His widow,\\nJoanna Thember Coffin, with her children, Tristram,\\nMary, and Eunice, emigrated to Salisbury, Mass., in\\n1642, settled in Newliury, and finally moved to Nan-\\ntucket. She d. in May, 1661, aged 77. She was a\\nwoman of remarkable strength of character.\\nTristkam^ (Peter, of Brixton,), b. in England in 1609 m. Dionis\\nStevens, of Brixton came to Salisbury in 1642, with\\nfive children moved to Haverhill, thence to Newbury,\\n1648, to Salisbury again, 1654. In 1659, with others,\\nhe purchased nineteen twentieths of the island of\\nNantucket, whither he removed in 1660, with several\\nof his children. He d. there 2 Oct., 1681. He had\\nnine children. His second son was Tristram.\\nTristram^ (Tristram,^ Peter^), b. in England in 1632 m. Judith\\nGrreenleaf, of Newbury was ancestor of all the Cof-\\nfins originating from Newbury. His last and tenth\\nchild was Nathaniel.\\nNathaniel* (Tristram,^ Tristram,- Peter^), b. in Newbury, 22\\nMarch, 1669 m. Sarah, widow of Henry Dole name\\nbefore marriage, Sarah Brocklebank, of Powley re-\\nsided in the house erected by his father, and still\\nstanding, 1878. He had eight children.\\nJolin, b. 1 Jan., 1694; m. Judith Greenleaf, of Newbury; d. 30\\nSept., 1762.\\nEnocli,\\\\ 7 Feb., 1696.\\nAppUa, b. 9 June, 1678 d. 8 Oct., 1715.\\nSamuel Brocklebank, h. 24 Aug., 1700; a minister.\\nJoseph, Col, b. 30 Dec, 1702 grad. Harvard clerk of proprietors\\nof Contoocook, 1733-1760; m. Margaret Morse; d. 12\\nSept., 1773.\\nJane, b. 1 Aug., 1705.\\nEdmund, Dr., b. 19 March, 1708 d. 29 Jan., 1789.\\nMoses, b. 11 June, 1711; d. 22 Feb., 1793.\\nJoHN^ (Nathaniel, Tristram^), b. 1 June, 1694 m. Judith Green-\\nleaf.\\nRichard, b. 22 Nov., 1713; m. Abigail Hale; d. 9 March, 1773.\\nNathaniel, b. 7 Sept., 1716; m. Patience Dole; d. in Portland, in\\n1766.\\n32", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0661.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "492 GENEALOGICAL COFFIN.\\nAhlyail, h. 8 Nov., 1718 m. Eev. Aaron Whittemore, of Pem-\\nbroke; d. 11 May, 1803.\\nManj, b. 23 July, 1720; d. 25 Nov., 1737.\\nPeter, Capt., b. 11 May, 1722; moved to Concord in 1706; to B.\\nin 1768; ni. Rebecca Hazeltine, of Chester; d. 15 Dec,\\n1789. [See Biog.]\\nApphia. b. 13 April, 1721; m. Icliabod Jones.\\nWilliam, h. 3 July, 1726; m. Sarah Hazeltine, of Chester; resided\\nin Concord, near present north scliool-house; d. 18 Oct.,\\n1815.\\nSamuel, b. 23 Nov., 1728; m. Anna Pettingill; d. 29 June, 1818.\\nJudith, b. 3 Sept., 1732; d. 2 Nov., 1737.\\nSarah, b. 26 Sept., 1735; d. 1 Nov., 1737.\\nPeter,\u00c2\u00ab Capt. (Jolin,^ Nathaniel*), h. 11 May, 1722 m. Eebecca\\nHaseltine. [See Biog.]\\nPeter, b. 29 April, 1770; d. 30 April, 1779.\\nRebecca, b. 20 Oct., 1771 d. 17 May, 1787.\\nJoanna, b. 11 April, 1773; m. Dr. Edmund Carlcton, of Haverhill,\\nN. H. d. about 1834.\\nAbigail, b. 26 March, 1775; d. at Haverhill, N. H., 28 Feb., 18.36.\\nThomas, Lieut., b. 15 July, 1777; m., 1st, Hannah Kilburn; 2d,\\nHannah Bartlet d. 19 April, 1853.\\nMoses, Capt., b. 22 July, 1779; m. Susannah Farnum, of Concord;\\nd. 5 Sept., 1851.\\nApphia, b. 8 Aug., 1791; m. Nehemiah Cogswell, of B. d. 17 Dec,\\n1839.\\nThomas/ Lieut. (Peter/ Capt., John^), b. 15 July, 1777; m.,\\n1st, Hannah Kilhurn, dau. of Dea. Eliphalet Kilburn,\\nof B. 2d, Hannah Bartlet, dau. of Dea. David Bart-\\nlet, of Campton, N. H., his cousin. He lived on\\nWater st., in the house built by his father, now owned\\nby Mr. Colby. He was elected selectman in 1810,\\n1811, representative in 1831. He was kind, genial,\\npublic-spirited, and universall} respected. He contrib-\\nuted liberally towards the erection of the Congrega-\\ntional meeting-house in Webster; was an early advo-\\ncate of temperance in 1831, abolishing ardent spirits\\nfrom his house, and refusing to make cider for sale.\\nHe was foremost in the anti-slavery cause, and circu-\\nlated petitions for the abolition of slavery in the ter-\\nritories, when there was a strong prejudice against\\nany interference with the institution. He was a con-\\nsistent member of the church, and gave liberally to\\ncharitable objects.\\nChildren of Hannah Kilburn\\nEnoch, b. 20 April, 1808; d. 13 Oct., 1S15.\\nJohn, h. 2 Sept., 1809; d. 9 Sept., 1809.\\nApphia Cogswell, b. 6 Dec, 1810; m. Enoch Little, Jr., of B.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0662.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL COFFIN. 493\\nMary Kilhurn, b. 12 Nov., 1812; m. Edmund Carleton, Littleton,\\nN. H.\\nFrederick William, b. 28 May, 1815; m. Harriot Clioate, of Derry\\nCol. 21st Reuc t resides in Chicago.\\nEnoch, b. 5 March, 1817; ni. Emily Gerrish, dau. of Jacob Ger-\\nrish resides in Beloit, Wis.\\nLwonia,\\\\h. 8 Aug., 1819; d. 6 Sept., 1820.\\nElvira, j b. 8 Aug., 1819; m. Nathan P. Ames; d. at West Creek,\\nInd., Jan., 1861.\\nCharles Carleton, b. 26 July, 1823; m. Sallie R. Farmer, dau. of\\nCol. John Farmer. [See Biog.]\\nMoses/ Capt. (Peter,\u00c2\u00ab Capt., Joliu^), b. 22 July, 1779 m. Susan-\\nnah Farnum, of Concord lived in house erected by\\nhimself east of Water st., on road leading to Bos-\\ncawen plain, now occupied by widow Farnum Coffin.\\nHe was an energetic citizen, respected, and a consis-\\ntent member of the Cong, church. Educated one of\\nhis sons for the ministry. His wife, Susannah, d. 4\\nMay, 1843. He d. 5 Sept., 1854.\\nRebecca, b. 13 March, 1801; m. John Sanborn, of B. d. Nov.,\\n1871.\\nLucy Jane, h. 1805; m. Samuel Allen, of Reading, Mass.\\nPeter, b. 26 March, 1808; m. Eunice Couch, of B. lives in B.\\nJudith, b. 17 May, 1810; d. Jane, 1842.\\nFarmi7n,h. 13 March, 1813; m. Judith Gerrish, of Canterbury;\\nlived in B. d. Sept., 1856.\\nNehemiah Cogswell, Rev., b. 24 March, 1815; m. Susan Rust, of\\nWoUeborough d. in Sandusky, O., 9 Jan., 1808.\\nSusannah, b. 24 Nov., 1818; m. Enoch Morrill, of B., 24 Nov.,\\n1843.\\nEsther, b. 1821 m. Henry G. Peach, of B.; d. July, 1843.\\nFrederick William,^ Col. (Thomas,^ Lieut., Peter, Capt.), b. 28\\nMay, 1815 m. Harriet Choate, of Derry; settled in B.\\nmoved to Derry, thence to Chicago was captain of\\nBoscawen Light Infantry colonel 21st Reg t.\\nWarren Choate, b. 25 Feb., 1844; m. Sarah Ilanna, of Castile,\\nN. Y.\\nHarriet Newell, h. 25 Sept., 1846; d. at Beloit, Wis., 23 Feb.,\\n1861.\\nHenry Russell, b. 15 Aug., 1851; d. 9 Oct., 1870, at Chicago.\\nEnoch^ (Thomas, Peter, Capt.), b. 5 March, 1817 m. Emily\\nGerrish, of B. lived on homestead deacon of Cong,\\nchurch moved to Beloit, Wis., 1859.\\nEdtvin Dwiqht, b. 12 Sept., 1843.\\nWilliam Henry, b. 26 Feb., 1849.\\nSarah uimes, b. 9 Jan., 1851.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0663.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "494 GENEALOGICAL COFFIN.\\nPeterS (Moses/ Capt., Peter,\u00c2\u00ab Capt.), h. 26 March, 1808 m.\\nEunice Coucli, of B. living in B.\\nSarah, b. 3 April, 1836; d. 1837.\\nGeorge, b. 9 Dec, 1837; enlisted in 16th N. H. Volunteers, in\\n1863; ordered to service under Gen. Banks, at New Or-\\nleans; d. of disease at Port Hudson,\\nSarah E.,h. 9 Dec, 1811.\\nEsther Peach, b. 15 Dec, 1843; m. G. W. Fisher; resides in B.\\nFarnum^ (Moses,^ Capt., Peter,\u00c2\u00ab Capt.), k 13 March, 1813 m.\\nJudith Gerrish, dau. of Joseph Gerrish, of Canter-\\nbury resided on homestead d. Sept., 1856.\\nJohn.h. 9 Jan.. 1816; m. Nellie Sleeper, of Bristol; resides ia\\nIowa; has two children.\\nClara A., h. 18 Jan., 1850.\\nJoseph, I b. 1853; d. 6 June, 1858.\\nHenri/, b. 1853 resides in B.\\nNehemiah Cogswell,^ Rev. (Moses, Capt., Peter,\u00c2\u00ab Capt.), b. 24\\nMarch, 1815 grad. at Dartmouth, 1837 studied the-\\nology m. Susan Rust, of Wolfeborough preached at\\nCircieville, Piqua, and Sandusky, 0. d. at Sandusky,\\nJan., 1865, respected and beloved. He was an earn-\\nest preacher and faithful pastor.\\nEllen M., b. 2 April, 1844; m. B. F. Stewart, of Hardwick, Vt.\\nJohn W., b. 8 Feb., 1846 d. April, 1846.\\nLucy b. 5 Jan., 1849; d. 5 Dec, 1874.\\nHenrrj F., b. 16 Oct., 1850.\\nMaryL.,h. 20 Nov., 1852.\\nHarriet M., h. 15 Nov., 1861.\\nElizabeth R., b. 20 Jan., 1864. The family resides at Marblehead,\\nOhio.\\nWARRE^- Choate^ (Frederick W.,^ Col.), b. 25 Feb., 1844 m.\\nSarah Hanna resides in Chicago professor of music.\\nHennj Warren, b. 6 Jan., 1874; d. 2 Aug., 1874.\\nFrederick York, b. 12 Dec, 1874.\\nJoHN^ (Farnum,8 Moses b. 9 Jan., 1846 m. Nellie Sleeper, of\\nBristol lives at Clear Lake, Iowa.\\nLura, b. 25 March, 1873.\\nGeorge Henry, b. 10 Dec, 1875.\\nMoses Coffin, another branch of the Coffin family of Newbury,\\nson of Joseph, b. in Newbury, 9 Sept., 1767. His\\nfather d. when he was an infant. He was cared for\\nby his uncle Joseph (Col.), one of the original pro-\\nprietors, and town-clerk of B. He was a tailor moved\\nto B. at the age of 21 settled on land now owned by\\nJabcz Abbot m., 1st, Hannah Little, dau. of Enoch", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0664.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL COGSWELL. 495\\nLittle, first of the name in B.; 2d, Ann Webster,\\nof Salisbury, N. H. He subsequently lived on the\\nplace now owned by Mrs. Mary Morrill. He d. 3\\nSept., 1843. He was for many years clerk of the\\nWesterly Religious Society.\\nChildren of Hannah\\nPolly,h. 23 All?., 1794; d. 14 Jan., 1813.\\nJudith, b. 22 Oct., 1795; d. Oct., 1825.\\nChildren of Ann\\nJoseph Hale, b. 11 July, 1815; m. Betsey Varney, of B.; resides in\\nPortland, Me.\\nJeremiah Webster, b. 8 March, 1817; d. 22 Feb., 1842.\\nFrances Brown, b. 30 Oct., 1818; d. 30 Oct., 1825.\\nCOGSWELL.\\nCompiled by Alfred Little.\\nJohn C. was b. of English parentage, in Essex, Mass., 28 Nov.,\\n1793. His father, Joseph Cogswell, moved to Derry,\\nN. H., with his family the following year. From\\nthat place John C. removed and settled in B.,\\n1821, where he resided till his death, 14 Jan., 1841.\\n[See Biog.] He m., 1st, Eliza W. Kimball, Hanover,\\n13 Nov., 1821, who d. 25 Aug., 1832 2d, Polly C.\\nAdams, Castine, Me., who d. 3 June, 1836 3d, Cyn-\\nthia Knox, Pembroke, 3 Oct., 1837, who d. 9 June,\\n1848.\\nChildren of Eliza\\nAbigail C, b. 20 Aug., 1822; m., 1st, Enoch Gerrish, Canterbury,\\n7 Jan., 1840 [see Gerrish jj;en.] 2d, John O. Wishard, St.\\nBernice, VermiHion Co., Ind., 21 April, 1864.\\nCharles E., b. 29 Jan., 1824.\\nHarriette P., b. 15 April, 1827; m. James C. Taylor, Derry; d. 15\\nNov., 1853.\\nCaroline P., b. 26 Aug., 1830; m. John Dickey, Londonderry.\\nChild of Cynthia\\nJohn Cleveland, b. 24 March, 1839.\\nCharles E.^ (John C.^) resides in Haverhill, Mass. m., 1st,\\nClarissa Campbell, Windham 2d, Lydia A. Knowles,\\nChester.\\nChildren of Clarissa\\nClara E., b. 5 Dec, 1851 m. George W. Noyes, Windham, 22\\nFeb., 1875.\\nMary A., b. 5 July, 1856.\\nCharles R., b. 13 Feb., 1859.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0665.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "496 GENEALOGICAL COGSWELL.\\nChildren of Lydia\\nAbby E., b. 11 July, 1867; d. 8 March, 1868.\\nMarlha C, b. 20 July, 1871.\\nJohn Cleveland^ (John C.^) resides in Haverhill, Mass. m.\\nJane A. Kenniston, of that city.\\nLizzie a, b. 22 July, 1800.\\nAddie3f., b. 14 Dec, 1862.\\nEdward P., b. 22 Sept., 1866.\\nAlice B., b. 22 April, 1870 d. 17 April, 1872.\\nJane M., b. 22 March, 1877.\\nFrancis resided on Corser hill lawyer hy profession m. Eliza-\\nbeth moved to Minn.\\nSophia, b. 7 June, 1822.\\nAmos, b. 29 Sept., 1824. Before reaching his majority, with no\\nadvantages except those furnished by the school on Corser\\nhill, he began the study of law with Franklin Pierce, of\\nConcord, and with Asa Fowler. Upon being admitted to\\nthe bar he went to Michigan, where he supported himself\\nby teaching school, with an occasional case in the courts.\\nHis first fee of five dollars he sent as a gift to his mother.\\nHe began practice in Hebron, 111. Engaged in political\\nspeaking, in company with his cousin, John Wentworth, of\\nChicago, espousing the cause of the Democratic party.\\nUpon the election of Franklin Pierce to the Presidency he\\nwas appointed examiner of pensions, which he held for a\\nshort time only; returned to 111.; practised law in Wood-\\nstock, and became editor of the Woodstock Republican\\nmoved to Minn., 1855; was elected delegate to the consti-\\ntutional convention, member of the first house of repre-\\nsentatives, and elected speaker of that body, and has been\\nelected several times to the state senate. He resides at\\nOwatona.\\nLydia C, b. 19 June, 1827; d. 2G Dec, 1829.\\nGeorge IF., b. 3 June, 1829.\\nLydia B.,h. 7 March, 1832.\\nFrances Annette, b. 6 June, 1834.\\nJoseph, S., b. 29 Oct., 1836; went to California; engaged in min-\\ning for a short time; left the spade and taught school; re-\\nturned to N. H. in 1863; m. Miss Mary F. Darrah, of\\nBedford. He entered the theological seminary, Bangor,\\nMe., and graduated in 1868; moved to Minn. became pas-\\ntor of the Cong, church, Zumbrota. Mrs. C. d. Nov.,\\n1868. Mr. C. was settled pastor of the Cong, church at\\nHolden, Me., and pastor of church at Strong, Me., 1873,\\nand West Auburn. 1874, where he is still engaged in\\nministerial labor. He m. Miss Ellen N. Hart, of Holden,\\n1870. He is a frequent contributor to the newspaper\\nand magazine press.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0666.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0667.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0668.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CORSER. 497\\n.COESER.\\nCompiled by S. B. G. Corser.\\nJOHN,^ tlie first of the name in B., was Lorn, as is supposed,\\nin Scotland, about 1678. He was probably connected\\nwith the family of William Courser,* of Boston, who\\ncame over in 1635, some of whose descendants, in the\\nfemale line (family of D. C. Colesworthy, bookseller\\non Cornhill), still reside in that city. Emigrating to\\nthis country at an early age, he settled in Newbury,\\nMass., marrying Tabitha Kenney, of that place, 8\\nMarch, 1716 or 1717 removed to B. in the early set-\\ntlement of the town (the exact date is not known),\\nwhere he tended a saw-mill till disabled by a terrible\\naccident (1745, says Price s History), which deprived\\nhim of sight; lived afterwards with his son John on\\nCorser hill, where he d., at a very advanced age, in\\nthe autumn of 1776. His wife is believed to have d.\\nin Newbury, prior to his removal to B.\\nJohn, b. about 1718.\\nNathan, m. Susan Daiiforth; no issue; d. ia B. about 1800. His\\nwidow d. in Tlietford, Yt.\\nTabitha, m. Peter Flood, of B.\\nPolly, m. Ezekiel Flanders, of Kingston, N. H.\\nSarah, m. Samuel Davis, of B.\\nWilliam, b. about 1730.\\nHannah, m. John Bowley, of B.\\nJoHN^ (John^), b. about 1718 settled on a farm in Kingston\\nlived afterwards in Chester moved to B. in 1764,\\nlocating on Corser hill, afterwards so called, where he\\nd. about 1791, aged 73. Married, 1st, Jane Nichols,\\nof Newbury, Mass. 2d, Mrs. Hepsibah Chase, of\\nDunbartou, 1789.\\nChildren of Jane\\nThomas, b. 1743.\\nSamuel, b. about 1716.\\nJonathan, b. about 1747.\\nJohn. b. IB May, 1751.\\nDavid, b. in Kingston, 27 Jan., 1754.\\nJane, b. Jan., 1756; d. in Mich., 23 Dec, 1836, aged 80; m., 1772,\\nNathan Davis, of Conway; had 7 children.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6This mode of spelling the name is not uncommon in the earlier records. The true\\nform, however (see description of family arms in English works of heraldry), is C o?--\\nser, represented originally by the Latin Cursor (from cim-o, to run), a Roman cogno-\\nmen, and, at a later stage, Viy the corresponding Italian form, Corstere (by translation,\\nCourxer), of which the name, as adopted by the reputed Italian founder of the family,\\nat Edinburgh, may be regarded as an abbreviation.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0669.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "498 GENEALOGICAL CORSER.\\nWilliam, b. about 1758.\\nAhbyneezer.h. about 1760; m., 1775, Lieut. Edward Fitz Gerald,\\nof B., who d. 11 Dec, 1817, aged 66. She d. 11 Oct.,\\n1836, aged 76; 15 children.\\nMolly, b. in B., 24 May, 1765; m. Capt. Silas Call, of B., 9 Feb.,\\n1785; d. 11 Oct., 1839, aged 74; 10 children.\\nWilliam^ (John^), b. about 1730 m. Anne Carter, of B. was\\ndrowned, witli liis son William, in Great pond, 1773.\\nAm, b. 26 June, 1754.\\nWilliam (or Jesse), b. 16 April, 1756 drowned in Great pond,\\n1773.\\nMary, b. 4 Aug. 1759 d. 14 April, 1834, aged 74 m., 1779, James\\nUran, of B., who d. 18 Nov., 1845, aged 88 had 4 chil-\\ndren.\\nSimeon, h. 10 July, 1763.\\nJudith, b. 29 Jan., 1766 ra. Philander Carter, of Canterbury.\\nAnne, b. 21 Feb., 1771.\\nThomas^ (John,^ John^), b. 1743; farmer; lived in B. m., 1st,\\nAnn Dunlap, of Cliester 2d, 1782, Mrs. Mary Down-\\ning, of Kingston, who d. 6 March, 1840, aged 95\\nserved in the Ticonderoga campaign was drowned in\\nLong pond, 11 Dec, 1829, aged 86.\\nChildren of Ann\\nJames, b. 12 Xov., 1764.\\nPolly, b. 24 Aug., 1766; ni. John Fitz Gerald, 16 Nov., 1786; had\\n6 children.\\nJane, b. 23 Oct., 1768; d. 13 Feb., 1821, aged 52 m. David Call\\n9 children.\\nJonathan, b. 9 Nov., 1770; d. 30 Nov., 1821, aged 61; m. Nancy\\nBadger. 31 May, 1792; children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jf /m, Oilman, a farmer\\nof Colebrook, and 2 daughters.\\nAnna (or Nancy), h. 15 June, 1773; m. Jonathan Downing, of B.,\\n21 June, 1792; was killed by lightning, 12 June, 1816; 8\\nchildren.\\nThomas, h. 12 May, 1775; moved to Thetford, Vt. m. Abigail\\nHolcomb, 8 Oct., 1798; children, Benjamin, True, Lavina,\\nand Holcomb.\\nSarah, b. 17 March, 1777.\\nTabitha, b. 7 Sept., 1779; m. Nicholas ElUot, 11 May, 1802.\\nMoses, b. 25 Sept., 1781.\\nChildren of Mary\\nElsey,h. 28 March, 1783; d. 12 Sept., 1843, aged 60; m. Amos\\nThorla, of B., 1803 had 7 children.\\nCaleb, b. 3 Sept. 1785 d. 15 Nov., 1825, aged 40.\\nDolly, m. Josiah Jackman, 1800; family moved to Sandusky, O.\\nMiriam, m., 1st, Samuel Corser, 1806 2d, Samuel Roby 1833.\\nSamuel^ (John,^ John^), b. about 1746 farmer in B., Avhere he\\nd., 1 Nov., 1826, aged 80 m., 1st, Sarah Fitz Gerald,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0670.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CORSER. 499\\n1766 2a, Betsey Colby, 1808 fought at the battle\\nof Bunker Hill.\\nChildren of Sarah\\nStephen.\\nJanc^ m. Moses Jackman, 12 Oct., 1790.\\nSarah.\\nSamuel, stone-cutter; m. Miriam Corser, 1800; had -SaraZi, who\\nm., 1829, John L. Pressy, of Canaan.\\nJames, m. Betsey Aunis, of Warner, 1807; moved to jSTew York\\nhad Friend, Charles, and others.\\nRachel; m. Samuel Gookiu, 28 Sept., 1791; 3 children.\\nJoifATHAN^ (John,- John^), b. about 1747 farmer in B., whence\\nhe removed to Vershire, Vt. m. Lucy Foster, of Ips-\\nwich, Mass. fought at the battle of Bennington; d.\\nin Concord, Vt., 1831, aged 84.\\nJonathan, b. 29 Auij., 1771.\\nThomas,h.in B., 4 Oct., 1773; m. Mercy Bennett, of Tlietford,\\nVt. moved to New York; had Erastus, Phebe, and Caro-\\nline.\\nLucy, b. 14 June, 1776; d. 1853, aged 77; m. Jonathan Bartlett,\\nof Norwich. Vt., 19 Jan., 1801; 2 cliildren.\\nJosiah, b. 2 July, 1781.\\nPolli/, b. 11 April, 1784; m. Ephraim Heath, of Salisbury, 1801\\n6 children.\\nBenjamin, b. in B.. 4 Oct., 1787; moved to Minn., where he d. in\\n1873, aged 85; m. Sarah Gove, of Wilmot had chil-\\ndren, Susan, Friend, Charles A., shoe dealer in Hol-\\nyoke, Mass., George, and others.\\nFriend, b. 18 April, 1791.\\nJoHN^ (John, John^), b. 13 May, 1751 farmer and inn-keeper\\nin B. d 19 Oct., 1838, aged 87 m. Rachel Blasdell,\\nof Salisbury, Mass., who d. 12 May, 1828, aged 76.\\nDaniel, d. in infancy.\\nDaniel, h. 28 Feb., 1775.\\nJohn, b. 24 May, 1777.\\nDavid, h. 15 March, 1779.\\nRachel, b. 9 April, 1781; d. 19 Nov., 18.54, asjed 73; m. Jedediah\\nDauforth.of Salisbury, 22 Oct., 1801; had 8 children.\\nRice, b. 29 Sept., 1783.\\nJoseph, h. 7 Feb., 1786.\\nTimothjj,h. 9 Marcii, 1788.\\nEdward, b. 18 Aug., 1790; m. Sarah Cass; went West.\\nRichard, b. 16 Aug., 1792.\\nDavid^ (John,- John^), b. in Kingston, 27 Jan., 1754; farm-\\ner; lived in B., Avhere he d. 23 Aug., 1828, aged\\n74; m., 17 March, 1776, Ruth Blasdell, of Salisbury,\\nMass., who d. 27 May, 1844, aged 88 fought at the\\nbattle of Bennington.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0671.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "500 GENEALOGICAL CORSER.\\nBetsey, b. 19 March, 1777; d. 24 April, 179G, aged 19.\\nRuth, b. 10 March, 1779; m., 1st, Daniel Gookin, of B., 1797; 2d,\\nJames Corser, of B., 1828; d. in Webster, 17 Sept., 1874,\\naged 95; had 6 children.\\nDavid, b. 22 March, 1781.\\nHannah, b. 2 Feb., 1783; m. William Adams, of Salisbury, Mass.,\\nwho d. 26 July, 1816. She d. in Amesbury, Mass., 1829,\\naged 46; 5 children.\\nPollij, b. 20 Dec, 1784; m., 20 June, 1803, Nathan Davis, of Or-\\nford, deceased; d. in Grautville, Mass., 8 Oct., 1867, aged\\n82 6 children.\\nEnoch, Rev., b. 2 Jan., 1787.\\nSilas, b. 14 Jan., 1789.\\nJane, b. 11 Jan., 1791; d. in Amesbury, Mass., 1863, aged 72 m.,\\n1st, Joseph Wadleigli, of Salisbury, Mass., 12 Oct., 1813;\\n2d, Richard Allen; no issue.\\nLuke, b. 10 March, 1793.\\nBliss, b. 30 Aug., 1795.\\nBetsey, b. 4 June, 1798; m. 13 Feb., 1822, Joseph Morse, of Brad-\\nford, deceased; res. in Manchester; 7 children.\\nRachel, b, 21 Sept., 1800; m., 25 Jan., 1829, Daniel G. Runels, of\\nWarner, deceased d. in Warner, 14 July, 1839, aged\\n38; 3 children.\\nWilliam (John, Joliii^), b. about 1758; settled in Salisbury;\\nenlisted in the war of 1812, and d. the same year\\nat Plattsburg, N. Y. m. Abigail Gordon.\\nWilliam, lived in Sebec, Me. d. about 1860; had issue.\\nAbigail, d. unmarried, in Salisbury, 15 Sept., 1858.\\nNathan, m. and went to Penn. There are descendants of Nathan\\nCorser, who m. Ann Freeman, resident in Kansas.\\nSally, m. William Bailly, of Salisbury; had issue.\\nEliphalet, d. in the West Indies.\\nJeremiah, d. in the army.\\nJohn.\\nSusan, d. young.\\nJane.\\nElias, m. Davis lived in Sebec, Me.\\nBetsey, d. unuiarried, in Salisbury, 7 March, 1865.\\nLewis.\\nOrrin^h. 1803; lived in Salisbury, where he d., March, 1877; ra.\\nTucker; children, Eliphalet, of Franklin, William,\\nJohn, Charles W., Nathan F., Abbie, and Mary Ann.\\nAsA^ (William,- John^), h. in B., 26 June, 1754 m. Jane Fitz\\nGerald; was drummer in Capt. Kimball s company\\nat the battle of Bennington moved to Thetford, Yt.,\\nwhere he d.\\nSusan, m. David Manuel, of Derby, Yt.\\nMehitable, m. Edmund Hardy, of Pelham.\\nWilliam, m. Ani^e, da.u. of Simeon Corser; res. in Thetford, Yt.\\nhad Benjamin, Mary, Persis, Charles, Nicholas, and others.\\nSally, m. in Stanstead, C. E.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0672.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CORSER.\\n501\\nSiMEON=^ (William; Johni), h. in B., 10 July, 1763 moved to\\nThetford, Vt., and thence to Stanstead, C. E., where\\nhe d. ni. Lois Severance, 19 Jan., 1782.\\nA7me, m. William, son of Asa Corser; d. iu Thetford, Vt.\\nNicholas.\\nNathan.\\nJesse.\\nClarissa.\\nJames* (Thomas,^ John,- John^), b. in B., 12 Nov., 1764 d.\\nthere, 23 Aug., 1852, aged 87; farmer; m., 1st, Mar-\\ntha Fitz Gerald, 12 March, 1786; 2d, Mrs. Ruth\\n(Corser) Gooldn, 24 July, 1828.\\nChildren of Martha\\nRebecca, b. 24 Oct., 1787; d. 8 Dec, 1815, aged 28; m. Jeremiah\\nEastman, 29 Nov., 1804; had 2 children.\\nJohn, b. 13 July, 1791; d. young.\\nAiuos, b. 15 July, 1793.\\nMoses* (Thomas,^ John,^ John^), b. in B., 25 Sept., 1781 d. 19\\nA]Dril, 1830, aged 48; m., 1st, Ruth Clough, of War-\\nner, 1804 2d, Betsey Burgess, of Chelsea, Vt. en-\\nlisted from B. in the war with France, 1798.\\nChildren of Ruth\\nMittie, m. Davenport.\\nMartha.\\nSally, deceased; m. Charles W. Spaulding, of Lowell, Mass.; 2\\nchildren.\\nRoxena, m. Ilolden, of Lowell.\\nWilliam B. (Courser), b. 1814.\\nCharlotte, m. Alva Fife.\\nBenjamin.\\nChildren of Betsey\\nBetsey, deceased m. Sumner Pratt, of Lowell.\\nMercy, m. West.\\nBenjamin F., m. Burnham lived iu Lowell.\\nRuth E.\\nStephen* (Samuel,^ John,- John^), b. in B. m. Sarah Goohin,\\nof B., 30 June, 1789.\\nNathaniel, b. about 1790; m. and settled in Vt. d. 1807, aged 77;\\nchildren,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C/ar^-,b. about 1817, and Willard, of Waukegan,\\n111.; Austin, of Ontonagon, Mich.; and George IF., of Bar-\\nron, AVis.\\nHiildah\\nWashington, m. Mehitable Fitz Gerald.\\nDolly.\\nJudith.\\nThomas.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0673.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "502 GENEALOGICAL CORSER.\\nJonathan* (Jonatlian,^ John,- Jolm^), b. 29 Aug., 1771 farmer;\\nsettled in Thetford, Vt., where he d. 1 Jan., 1860,\\naged 88 m. E-hoda, dau. of Samuel Jackman, of B.,\\nwho d. 1863, aged 89.\\nWard, b. 22 Aug., 1798; res. in Thetford.\\nRhoda, b. 25 May, 1800; res. in Thetford.\\nCyrus, h. 13 March, 1802.\\nClark, b. 19 June, 18()4.\\nJonathan, b. 17 Maj% 1806.\\nMartha, b. 22 April, 18(18; m., 1st, William Howard; 2d, Caleb\\nStrong, of Strafford, Vt., deceased; has children.\\nSubmit, b. 4 April, 1810; d. 8 June, 1863, aged 53.\\nProctor, b. 10 May, 1812; res. in SufReld, Conn.\\nOliver, d. young\\nMary Ann, b. 21 June, 1815; d. 1865, aged 50; m. George M. Saw-\\nyer, of Norwich, Vt. 10 chiklren.\\nRuth, b. 4 March, 1817 ra. Newton Smith, of Suffield, Conn., de-\\nceased.\\nHannah, b. 20 July, 1819; d. 1853, aged 34; ra. Jacob Bartlett, of\\nSalisbury, Mass.; 3 children.\\nLucia A. J., b. 23 June, 1822; m. Horace Stebbens, of Painesville,\\nO.; 3 children.\\nJosiAH* (Jonathan,^ John,^ John^), b. in B., 2 July, 1781 m.\\nPrudence Heath, of Salisbury moved to Canada, and\\nthence, about 1812, to Vermont d. in Chester, Vt., 14\\nSept., 1854, aged 73.\\nRutJi, m. Joseph Farnum, of Lancaster.\\nOrinda, b. 6 Dec, 1810; d. 6 May, 1869, aged 58 m. Daniel Shaw,\\nof Springfield, Vt.\\nErastus Thomas, b. 26 Jan., 1812.\\nSusan, d.\\nJamison, m. Eben York, of Peterborough.\\nAngeUne, m. Mills Webb, of Lancaster.\\nEmetine, m. John M. Spaulding, of Lancaster.\\nFriend* (Jonathan,^ John,- John^), b. 18 April, 1791 black-\\nsmith m. Eachel Joan Kidder d. in Fitchburg,\\nMass., Aug., 1849, aged 58.\\nLucy A., b. 17 Aug., 1815; m. Cyrus Beal, of Keene; 4 children.\\nPhebe J., h. 22 June, 1817; deceased.\\nRosaline D., b. 22 July, 1819 m. Luther Keyes; 6 children.\\nEmmaranza,h. 16 Nov., 1822, deceased; m. Albert Danforth, of\\nDanville, Vt. 4 children.\\nSamuel Azro, h. 6 Dec, 1824; m. Luthene Frost; res. in West\\nChesterfield, Mass.; children, Ida, Ada, Lizzie, and George\\nA.\\nGeorge Azor, h. 23 Dec, 1826; m., 1st, Diantha J. Danforth; 2d,\\nMaria J. Trask res. in Leicester, Mass. children,\\nLuella J. and Georgianna M.\\nAdelia L., b. 3 July, 1829, deceased m. John A. Nims.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0674.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CORSER. 503\\nJosephine i., b. 2{] Dec, 1831 m. William Fletcher, of San Frau-\\ncisco, Cal.: 2 children.\\nFriendly b. 10 Feb., 1836; ni. E. E. Johnson, of Chicago, 111.;\\n2 children.\\nDaniel (Jolm, John,- Jolin^), b. in B., 28 Feb., 1775 d. in\\nPortland, Me., 28 Jul} 1853, aged 78 m., Jan., 1801,\\nLucy Taft, of Upton, Mass. farmer and inn-keeper\\nsettled in Tlietford, Vt. lived afterwards in B., where\\nhis wife d., 15 Jan., 1834, aged 54.\\nLucy Fisher, h. 13 Feb., 1802; m., 3 April, 1810, Daniel M. Winch,\\ndeceased; res. in Pepperell, Mass.\\nSolomon Tafl, b. 24 Dec, 1805.\\nHarvey Fisher (Courser), Col., b. 20 Jan., 1809.\\nJohn* (John,^ John,- Johni), b. in B., 24 May, 1777 d. there, 21\\nDec, 1860, aged 89; farmer; m., 1801, Mehitable,\\ndau. of Daniel Clark, who d. 17 April, 1837, aged 62.\\nBernice, b. 21 July, 1802 m., 7 Nov., 1827, John Danforth, of B.,\\nwho d. 1850, aged 65; 2 children.\\nMehitable C, b. 18 Oct., 1804; d. 7 Oct., 1829, aged 24.\\nMary, h. 23 July, 1807 res. in Concord.\\nJohn, b. 15 Oct., 1809.\\nPhehe IF, b. 15 May, 1812 d. 21 July, 1812.\\nPaul C, b. 25 June, 1813 d. 21 Jan., 1816.\\nPhebe, b. 26 April, 1816 d. 22 Dec, 1855, aged 39.\\nEunice W., h. 17 May, 1818; ni., 12 Nov., 1845, George C. Lan-\\ncaster; lived in Concord, where she d. 19 Feb., 1873, aged\\n54 5 children.\\nDavid* (Jolin,^ John,^ John^), b. in B., 15 March, 1779 m. Abi-\\ngail Kilburn. 30 Jan., 1805 farmer in B., where he\\nd. 26 Dec, 1863, aged 84.\\nFreeman, b. 28 April, 1806.\\nMary Ann, b. 1810: d. 30 May, 1836, aged 26; m., 16 Aug., 1835,\\nB. F. Locke, of Lowell, Mass.\\nRuth K., b. 18 Dec, 1817 m., 17 Aug., 1810, William Green, of\\nWaterford, Me.\\nEiCE* (John,3 John,2 Johni), b. in B., 29 Sept., 1783 d. there,\\n12 May, 1852, aged 68 tanner and farmer followed\\nthe sea from 1810 to 1821, spending some years in\\nChina, and suffering shipwreck off the coast of Hol-\\nland m., 1st, 19 Feb., 1826, Abigail 0. Stickney, of\\nBrownfield, Me., who d. 11 May, 1835, aged 39 2d,\\n26 May, 1836, Irene Greeley, of Salisbury.\\nMarcia Q.,h. 27 Feb., 1827; d. 18 Aug., 1850, aged 23.\\nOctavia E., b. 27 March. 1830; d. 11 May, 1853, aged 23.\\nSarah J., b. 22 March, 1832 d. 30 March, 1818, aged 16.\\nElizabeth J., b. 6 Jan., 1834; d. 13 July, 1854, aged 20.\\nAbba S.. b. 31 May, 1838; res. in Salisbury.\\nEdwin G., b. 17 April, 1810.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0675.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "504 GENEALOGICAL CORSER.\\nJohn b. 7 May, 1843; d. 11 July, 1843.\\nRice V.,\\\\). 29 Nov., 1844; d. 21 April, 1848.\\nRice H., b. 26 July, 1847; d. 5 Sept., 1848.\\nJoseph (John,3 John,^ John^), b. in B., 7 Feb., 1786 d. 6 Jan.,\\n1873, aged 86 farmer in B. m., 1st, Elsey Down-\\ning, ISio 2d, Lydia Butman, 1849.\\nCliildren of Elsey\\nJudith P., b. 9 Nov., 181.5 m. Moses G. Downing, IG June, 1833;\\nres. in Lowell, Mass.\\nRice,h. 26 Jan., 1818; farmer in Webster; m. Sarah J. Page,\\n1844; ch\\\\\\\\c]ren,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ursula, IJzzie, Emma, Frank B., Joseph\\nII., and Elmer E.\\nUrsula, b. 25 Oct., 1820; m. Harvey Newton, of Orange, Vt., 11\\nNov., 1838.\\nNanci/ A., b. 29 Sept., 1823; m. William E. Shattuck, 184-5.\\nTimothy* (John,^ John, Jolini), b. in B., 9 March, 1788 d.\\nthere, 6 Sept., 1819, aged 81 m. Abiah Eastman, of\\nriopkinton, 15 Feb., 1815.\\nAnn E., b. 1 April, 1816; m. May, 1830, John J. Coffin, deceased;\\nres. in Wis.; 6 children.\\nLouisa, b. 2.5 Dec, 1818; m., 2 June, 1841, Solomon B. Greeley,\\nof Salisbury; 7 children.\\nKiCHAKD* (John,^ John,- John^), b. in B., 16 Aug., 1792 m. Khoda\\nShepherd, 19 Aug., 1817 moved to Canandaigua, N.\\nY., where he d., 20 Aug., 1845, aged 53.\\nDaniel B., b. in B., 8 Oct., 1818.\\nAustin G., b. in B., 1 March, 1820.\\n.4/mil/., b. 21 July, 1827.\\nCharles H., b. 3 June, 1829.\\nMary b. 20 Sept., 1831.\\nLucretia S., b. 5 Oct., 1833.\\nDavid* (David,^ John,^ John^), b. in B., 22 March, 1781 farmer;\\nmoved to New Yorli about 1821, settling in Ogden,\\nnear Rochester; m., 12 Jan., 1801, Judith, dau. of\\nSamuel Burbank, of B. d. May, 1850, aged 69.\\nGardiner, b. 29 Dec, 1801.\\nCaleb B., Col., b. 14 Oct., 1803.\\nRuth, b. 2 Aug., 1805; m. Hiram Hubbard, of Canandaigua, N. Y.,\\ndeceased 6 children.\\nFrancis S., h. 2i June, 180S; fitted for college; d. 26 Nov., 1831,\\naged 23.\\nEunice P., h. 25 Nov., 1810; m. Hewes, of Canandaigua, N. Y.\\nHarriet L., b. in New York, 3 March, 1824; m. Henry C. Church,\\n12 Nov., 1844; res. in Lowell, Mass.; 3 children.\\nEnoch,* Eev. (David,^ John,- John^), b. in B., 2 Jan., 1787;\\ngrad. at Middlebury College, 1811 preached at Lou-\\ndon (1817--37), Northfield and Sanboruton Bridge", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0676.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CORSER. 505\\n(1838- 43), Epping (1845-48), and other places re-\\nmoved to B. in 1848, wliere he d. 17 June, 1868,\\naged 81. He m., 29 May, 1817, Sally, dau. of Col.\\nJoseph Gerrish, of B., who d. 1^ Jan., 1851, aged 64.\\nSamuel B. G., b. 1.5 Nov., 1818; farmer in B.; grad. at Dart. Coll.,\\n1841; teacher for several years.\\nEllzaheOi M. b. 4 Jan., IS- l res. in\\nLucrefia jL. F.^ b. 10 Sept., 1823 res. in B.\\nSiLAs^ (David, John,2 John^), h. in B., 14 Jan., 1789 m., 1st,\\n1 Nov., 1810, Sarah Annis, of Warner 2d, Eveline\\nKeeler moved to New York, where he d. 19 March,\\n1848, aged 59.\\nChildren of Sarah\\nElhridge B., b. in B., 18 Jan., 1812.\\nEmeline, b. in B.. July, 1814; in. Wright, deceased; res. in\\nAlbion, N. Y.\\nRutJi, b. 13 Oct., 1816.\\nHenry H., b. 12 Nov., 1818 res. in Cal.\\nSusanna, b. 31 Dec, 1822.\\nChildren of Eveline\\nHenrietta L., b. 16 May, 182^5.\\nSarah Jane, b. 28 March, 1828.\\nAlartha M., h. 8 Feb., 183\\nDavid W., b. 2.5 March, 1833.\\nElizabeth, b. 23 June, 183.5.\\nHelen A., b. 17 March, 1838.\\nRuth, b. 15 June, 1840.\\nLuKE^ (David,3 John,- John^), h. in B., 10 March, 1793; m., 1st,\\n1824, Mary Clougli, of Loudon, who d. 25 Feb., 1854\\n2d, Mrs. Elizabeth (Whitney) Bills farmer in AVeh-\\nster.\\nChildren of Marj^\\nJoseph C, b. 23 Nov., 1824: d. while a student at Gilmanton acad-\\nemy, preparing for college, 13 Oct., 1843, aged 18.\\nFrancis H., b. 10 Jan., 1827; d. in Canterbury, 2.5 Feb., 185(j,\\naged 29 ni., Feb., 1850, Sarah Perkins, who d. 30 March,\\n1863; had Clara, h. in B., 16 Dec, 1850, who m., 11 Jane,\\n1874, Frank C- Cliurcliill. of Lebanon.\\nDavid W., b. 19 Aug., 1829; d. 25 May, 1833.\\nDavid i b. 21 Sept., 1835; mechanic in Concord; m. IMary E.\\nCarter, of Concord, 24 May, 1860; has one son, Francis\\nHenri/, b. 15 Feb., 1862.\\nBliss^^ (David,3 John,2 John^), h. in B.^ 30 Aug., 1795; m., 1st,\\n1 Julv, 1824, Hannah, dau. of Col. John Farmer, of\\nB., who d. in Portage, N. Y., 4 Feb., 1852 2d, Pru-\\ndence Parmelee, deceased; farmer and inventor; res.\\nin Fairview, Penn.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0677.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "506 GENEALOGICAL COKSER.\\nBliss W., b. in B., 29 May, 1826; millwright; res. in East Sagi-\\nnaw, M:ch. m. INIargaret Gould, of Oswego, N. Y. has\\none son. Charles F., b. 1857; train-despatcher at Battle\\nCreek, Mich.\\nJohn F., b. in Brighton, N. Y., 30 Nov., 1834; shoe merchant in\\nTowanda, Peiin. m. Hattie E. Smith, 4 Sept., 1861;\\nchildren,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7/rt7vy P., h. 13 April, 1864; Archie F., b. 27\\nJuly, 1868 and John B., b. 14 Oct., 1873.\\nAmos^ (James,^ Thonias,^ John,- Johii^), h. in B., 15 Jnl} 1793,\\ndeceased m. Betsey Bean, of Salisbury, 1819 farm-\\ner res. in B.\\nEUzaheth B., b. 8 Aug., 1820; m. Cyrus Fitz, 1843; res. in Web-\\nster 6 children.\\nNewell J., b. 1824; d. 1829.\\ni?e5ecca .4., b. 31) July, 1827, deceased; m. Wilham Pearson, 3\\nJan., 1819 res. in Webster; had one sou.\\nWilliam B.^ (Courser) (Moses,* Thomas,^ Jolin,^ John^), b.\\n1814 res. in Warner m., 1st, Nancy Morey, 1836\\n2d, Mary Ann Whipple.\\nChildren of Nancy\\nThomas b. July, 1837 m., 1st, Sarah E. Todd, of New London;\\n2d, 1876^ Addie E. Marden, of New Boston; farmer in\\nWebster; had by Sarah, Emma J.. George TF., and Fred.\\nNancy, b. Nov., 1838 m. George Hand, of Warner.\\nChildren of Mary\\nWilliam M., b. Aug., 1843 grocer m. and lives in Dover.\\nJames H., b. Nov., 1846, deceased ra. Abbie Ticknor.\\n3 Iari/ F., b. 1849: m. George Parker, of Springfield.\\nElla J., b. Sept., 185;; m. John Sawtelle, of Warner.\\nAnna, h. March, 1859.\\nCykus^ (Jonathan,* Jonathan,^ John,- John^), b. in Thetford, Vt.,\\n13 March, 1802 farmer m., 1st, Marcia Clough 2d,\\nLucretia Heath, deceased res. in Thetford.\\n3Iarcia b. 1841 d. 1874, aged 33.\\nEdith, b. 1844.\\nEllen A., h. 1845; d. 1863.\\nAlphonzo, b. 1851 d. 1863.\\nOmer B., b. 1854.\\nClark^ (Jonathan,* Jonathan,^ John,^ John^), b. in Thetford, Vt.,\\n19 June, 1804 m., 1st, Caroline Preston 2d, Mercy\\nWest, deceased farmer in Norwich, Vt.\\nHersey C. P., b. 5 Dec, 1835 foreman in a boot factory, Spencer,\\nMass.; m, Cynthia E. chihhen, \u00e2\u0080\u0094Imogene E.,\\nEdgar P.. and George H.\\nLeon W., b. 10 Feb., 1850; res. in Royalston, Mass.; m. and has\\nchildren.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0678.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CORSER. 507\\nJonathan^ (Jonathan,* Jonathan,^ Jolm,^ John^), h. in Thetford,\\nVt., 17 May, 1806 m., 1st., Clarissa Woodwortli 2d,\\n1847, Salome Shores, deceased farmer in Suffield,\\nConn., where he d., 1869, aged 63.\\nMartha J., b. 2 Aug., 1840; m. David P. Beebe; res. in Buck-\\nlin, Mo.; has 4 children.\\nAlbert J., h. 21 Oct., 184S res. in Suffield m. Mrs. Elizabeth P.\\nLeach, 26 Aug., 1874.\\nHarriet L., h. 8 March, 1851; drowned, 1856.\\nAzro B., b. 21 Feb., 1853; m. Julia Cook, 15 March, 1876.\\nMary J., h.l Feb., 1855; ni. Eleazer Lyman, of Suffield; d. 25\\nNov., 1872; 1 daughter.\\nEiiASTUS Thomas^ (Josiah,* Jonathan, John,^ John^), b. in\\nCompton, C. E., 26 Jan., 1812 m., 1st, Harriet\\nEvans 2d, Laura Grow 3d, Xancy Ayer 4th, Lucy\\nAyer; farmer; residence (since 1867) in Dummers-\\nton, Vt.\\nChildren of Harriet\\nGuy T., b. 15 Feb., 1835; paper-maker; m. Ellen M. Gould; has\\nseveral children.\\nCharles D., b. -1 May, 1838; machinist; res. in Fitchburg, Mass.;\\nm. Priscilla R. Upton; children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mar?/, Ilattie L., and\\nWilliam C.\\nHenry C, b. 31 May, 1839; d. 16 Oct., 1862, aged 23.\\nCellna A., b. 29 April, 1841; m. Frye B. Hopkins, of Springfield.\\nVt.; 1 daughter.\\nChild of Nancy\\nMaria A^., b. 10 Oct., 1851 m., 3 Nov., 1877, Nelson W. Stevens,\\nof South wick, Mass.\\nChildren of Lucy\\nFrank E., d. young.\\nAlfred, d. young.\\nAdelhert M., b. 30 June, 1863.\\nGeorge E., b. S July, 1865.\\nMary E., b. 5 July, 1868.\\nEtta C, b. 17 May, 1873.\\nSoLOMOi^ Taft^ (Daniel, John,^ John,^ John^), b. in Thetford,\\nVt., 24 Dec, 1805 res. in Portland, Me. formerly\\nsuperintendent of the G. T. E. R., and more recently\\ncollector of customs at Portland m. Margaret E\\nSawyer, 1 Jan., 1829.\\nHarriot X., b. 15 Feb., 1830; m. Dr. John M. Cummino-s, of Port-\\nland, 1 March, 1848; 2 children.\\nGeorye H., b. 11 Nov., 1831 d. 31 Aug., 1850, aged 18.\\nDavid F., h. 14 Jan., 1835 m. Annie E. Brazier res. in Port-\\nland; children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G eo/v/e H., b. 13 Jan., 1863, and Arthur\\n/.,b. May, 1866.\\n33", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0679.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "508 GENEALOGICAL CORSER.\\nMargaret E., h. 27 IMarch, 1845; m. Rev. David A. Easton, a\\nclergyman of Danbury, Conn., 7 Dec. 1869; 1 daughter.\\nHakvey Fisher-^ (Courser), Col. (Daniel,* Jolin,^ Johii,^ John^),\\nb. in Thetford, Vt., 20 Jan., 1809 merchant in Nash-\\nua m. Maria Estey, of Nashua, 14 May, 1839.\\nLucy A., h. 3 April, 1840; m. William H. Greenleaf, 12 Sept.,\\n1865; res. in Nashua; has 2 children.\\nGeorge A., b. 12 Oct., 1842; d. 1 Sept., 1843.\\nCaroline L. E., b. 16 July, 1848; d. 10 Aug., 1849.\\nJoHN^ (John,* John,3 John,^ John^), h. in B., 15 Oct., 1809 fit-\\nted, for college, and completed one term at Dartmouth\\ncarpenter hy trade .settled in Bristol, where he ni.\\nMary A. Greenough, 1838 d. in Fisherville, 21 Aug.,\\n1872.\\nWilliam C, b. 29 Aug., 1839; deceased.\\nBrackett G., h. 5 Sept., 1841 merchant tailor in St. Jolinsbury.\\nVt. m. Mary G. Hyde, of Meriden, 18()2; children,\\nLulu G., h. 10 July, 1865, and William H., b. 24 Dec,\\n1867.\\nMary M., b. 4 April, 1843; m. Leroy C. Shear, of New York city.\\nNorman De F., b. 24 Aug., 1845; merchant tailor in Fi; herville\\nserved in the w^ar of the Rebellion; ra. Emma E. Session;\\nchildren,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Z////fm G., b. 9 April, 1870; Harry E., h. 13\\nAug., 1871; and Herbert b. 17 July, 1873.\\nFreeman^ (David,* John,^ John, John,^), h. in B., 28 April,\\n1806; m. Harriet Crowell, who d. 19 Feb., 1874, aged\\n62 farmer in Webster.\\nAriadne A., h. 24 Oct., 1834; m. Edson A. Eastman; res. in Con-\\ncord 4 children.\\nSarepta, b. 20 Sept., 1836 d. IG May, 1858, aged 21.\\nHamilton, b. 17 Aug., 1838; served in the war of the Rebellion;\\nres. in Nevada.\\nHamlet, b. 13 May, 1843; res. in Webster.\\nDavid S., h. 6 Aug., 1847; attorney-at-law. Concord; served in (he\\nwar of the Rebellion.\\nJohn C, h. Feb., 1849; res. in Nevada.\\nEdwin G.^ (Eice,* John,^ John,- Jolmi), b. in B., 17 April, 1840;\\nsettled on a farm in Illinois, whence he removed to\\nConcord, where he d. 9 May, 1875, aged 35 m., 25\\nNov., 1862, Bella Pilkington, of Ellsworth, 111.\\nLizzie L, b. 6 Oct., 1863.\\nWillie E.,h. 12 Aug., 1865.\\nHarry T.,h.l March, 1868.\\nMarcia 0., b. 23 April, 1870.\\nJudith A., b. 29 May, 1873.\\nGardiner^ (David,* David,^ Jolm,^ John^), b. in B., 29 Dec,\\n1801 farmer res. in Gates, N. Y., where he d. 4", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0680.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL CORSER. 600\\nJuly, 1840, aged 38 m. Mercy Ann Thomas, of Og-\\nden, K Y., 11 Jan., 1825.\\nCJmrles A., b. 25 Sept., 18-25; d. 20 Jan., 1828.\\nLewis b. 11 Marcli, 1827 m. Sarah E. Wells, .of Ogden, N. Y..\\n22 Feb., 1S.5U children, Arabella and Warren G.\\nLaura A., b. 19 July, 1828: m. Lewis J3at;ley, of Pembroke, N. Y.\\nFrances b. 10 Sept., 1830; \\\\n. Edmund Carroll, of Pembroke,\\nN. Y.\\nCharles A., b. 14 April, 1833; in. Sallie Friedline, of Petnbroke,\\nN. Y., 4 July, 1853; children, Franklin S., Nelson A.,\\nLeiois E., Charles E., Melvin D., and Frederic J.\\nCaroline F., b. 3 May, 1835; d. 5 Aug., 18G7, aged 32; m. Jona-\\nthan Tiionias, of Ogden, N. Y.\\nCaleb B.,^ Col. (David,* David,^ Jolin,^ Jolm^), b. in B., 14 Oct.,\\n1803 farmer settled in Gates, N. Y. removed to\\nRochester in 1863, where he d. 26 April, 1875, aged\\n71 m., 1st, 12 Oct., 1828, Henrietta L. Spencer, of\\nSpencerport, jST. Y. 2d, 1841, E. Maria Chapman, of\\nE. Haddam, Conn.\\nChildren of Henrietta\\nHelen L., b. 22 Dec, 1829; m. George R. Poulton, deceased; res.\\nin Spencerport, N. Y.\\nFrancis S.,h. 13 July, 1833 res. in Rochester, N. Y.\\nElwood S., b. 3 Oct., 1835.\\nChildren of E. Maria:\\nFrederic G., b. 12 June, 1849; architect; res. in Minneapolis, Minn.\\nCaleb E., b. 1851 d. in infancy.\\nHenrietta M., b. 1853 d. in infancy.\\nElwood S.\u00c2\u00ab (Caleb B.,^ David,* David,^ John,^ John^), b. in\\nGates, K Y., 3 Oct., 1835; resides in Minneapolis,\\nMinn. real estate dealer, and member of the city\\ngovernment has an lionorable record as a soldier\\nin the war of the Eebellion, serving in Co. B., 93d\\nEeg t N. Y. Vols., from Oct., 1861, to May, 1864, in\\nthe various grades from private to compan^^ com-\\nmandant, and receiving a severe wound at Spott-\\nsylvania Court House, 12 May, 1864, which ended\\nhis service m. 18 Oct., 1861, Mary A. Eoycraft.\\nMarrj E.,h.8T ec, 18(33.\\nHelen b. 13 July, 18G5.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0681.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "510 GENEALOGICAL COUCH,\\nCOUCH.\\nCompiled by Ephraim Little.\\nJoseph^ emigrated from Wales about 1740, and settled first in\\nNewljuryport, but removed to Boscawen, probably in\\n1768. His name first appears on the tax-list for 1769.\\nHe resided where Miss Nancy E. Couch now lives.\\nDied 1784. Married, 1st, Elsie Kowell 2d, Mrs.\\nMary Webster; 3d, Mrs. Muzzey.\\nChildren of Elsie\\nJohn,h. 1749; d. July, 1837.\\nElsie, in. John Sawyer, Hopkinton.\\nBenjamin, b. 25 June, 1753; d. 26 April, 1816.\\nJoseph, b. Dec, 1755; d. 7 Feb., 1821.\\nChild of Mary\\nMary, b. 22 March, 1761 m. Friend Little; d. 14 May, 1834.\\nJoHN^ (Joseph^), m. Polly Gordon settled on Battle st. moved\\nto Springfield, where he lived seven years moved to\\nSalisbury. When he moved to Springfield he was\\nobliged to draw his goods upon a hand-sled for the\\nlast seven miles, using snow-shoes. Mrs. Couch fol-\\nlowed in his track, carrying an infant in her arms.\\nOccasionally she would sink so deeply as to be com-\\npelled to lay the child down on the snow in order to\\nextricate herself. Mr. Couch was an expert with the\\nrifle, and shot three bears near his house in Salisbury\\nthe last that were killed in the vicinity. He was\\nalso an expert in throwing stones, killing in one day\\nfourteen partridges in that manner.\\nWilliam, b. 19 Oct., 1775; d. 11 April, 1856.\\nElsie, m. Nathaniel Ware; settled in Whitefield.\\nJohn, d. in infancy-\\nJohn, b. 7 May, 1780 d. 7 Oct., 1866.\\nPolly, m. Enoch Colby. j\\nDaniel, killed by a kick from a horse.\\nJoseph, d. young.\\nAbigail, m. Bagley Colby.\\nAmos, b. in Salisbury, 11 May, 1790.\\nRachel, m. Caleb Watson, Salisbury.\\nSamuel, d. 8 Jan., 1866.\\nSally, d. in infancy.\\nBenjamin, d. in infancy.\\nBenjamin (Joseph^) m. Rachel Heath, of Hampstead settled\\non Battle st. soldier at Bunker Hill, and was wounded.\\nNathaniel b. 5 Nov., 1777; d. 10 July, 1844.\\nJose2}h, b. 10 Jan., 1780; d. 1 Aug., 1832.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0682.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL COUCH. 511\\nPolly P., b. 10 May, 1782; m. William Clough, Ilopkinton d. 24\\nJan., 186.5.\\nBenjamin, b. 8 March, 1785; d. 8 Aug., 1835.\\nSamuel, b. 25 Jan., 1789 d. 1 March, 1858.\\nSally, b. 5 Feb., 1796 m. Ebed Lewis, Newburyport; d. 3 March,\\n1827.\\nJoseph- (JoseiA^) was soldier in Revolution, enlisting from New-\\nburyport m. Sarah Pillsburj^, of that city lived on\\nhomestead, now residence of Miss Nancy E. Couch.\\nEnoch, b. 23 Nov., 1785; d. 18 Aug., 1789.\\nSally, b. 23 Aug., 1787; m. Samuel Little; d. 5 June, 1852.\\nJos^epli, Capt., b. 23 May, 1789; d. at ISTashua, 1851.\\nEnocli, b. 12 April, 1793 d. 23 April, 1867.\\nPhehe,h. 2 July, 1798; m. Hershal Green, of Salisbury.\\nEunice T., b. 4 July, 1810; m. Peter Coffin, of B.\\nWilliam^ (John,^ Joseph^) m., 1st, Polly Quimby; 2d, Sally\\nLittle.\\nChildren of Polly\\nSally, b. 6 June, 1799; m. Daniel C. Sargent, Warner.\\nSophronia, b. 8 Nov., 1801; m. John Greeley, Salisbury; d. 26\\nApril, 1876.\\nSimeon, b. 15 Jan., 1804 d. April, 1836.\\nHannah, b. 29 May, 1806; m. True Flanders, Salisbury.\\nAbigail, b. 21 Jan., 1809; m., 1st, John Currier; 2d, Joseph L.\\nCouch.\\nDaniel TF., b. 16 Oct., 1812.\\nAlbert b. 9 March, 1814.\\nMary, h. 31 Oct., 1816 m. Humphrey Jacknian, Warner.\\nEmily M., b. 29 April, 1827 m. Alfred S. Hilliard.\\nJoHN^ (John,2 Joseph^) m. Lydia Bean, Salisbury.\\nSally, b. 21 Jan., 1804 m. Paul Pearson, of B. d. 27 Nov., 1875.\\nEliza, h. 8 Dec, 1807; m. Nathan Pearson, of B. d. 17 Aug.,\\n1877.\\nMiriam, b. 11 March, 1810; m., 1st, Nathaniel Webster, Salisbury;\\n2d, Jonas jNlerriam, Concord.\\nJohn, b. 4 Aug., 1814.\\nAmos^ (John,2 Joseph^) lived in Salisbury moved to P., 1821\\nm. Hannah Pay, Henniker, 20 March, 1814, who d.\\n24 July, 1853.\\nHale, b. in Salisbury, 26 May, 1814 d. 29 Aug., 1853.\\nEunice, b. in Salisbury, 15 March, 1818.\\nCharles R., b. in B., 22 Oct., 1823; d. 1 Aug., 1824.\\nCharlotte, b. in B., 12 April, 1826 m. Moody A. Pillsbury, Jr.\\nSamuel^ (John,^ Joseph^) m., 1st, Susan Call, of B. 2d, Sally\\nMoody, of B. J J", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0683.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "512 GENEALOGICAL COUCH.\\nCliililren of Susan\\nHenry C, b. 28 July, 182L\\nMartha, J., b. 7 May, 1823; d. 28 Oct., 18-16.\\nGeorcje W., b. U Aug., 1825; d. 13 July, 1867.\\nLevi IF., b. 19 Sept., 1827.\\nCharles, b. 18 Oct., 1829.\\nAdaline, b. 23 April, 1833; m. Nathan Tucker, Salisbury.\\nI^ATHANiEL H.^ (Benjamin,^ Joseph^), m. Elizabeth Calef, Salis-\\nbury.\\nNancy A., b. 15 Jan., 1801; m. Amos Stone d. 2 Nov., 1874.\\nPolly, b. 8 Dec, 1805 d. 27 Dec, 1823.\\nJohn G., b. 26 April, 18(j9.\\nJoseph^ (Benjamin, Joseph^), a prominent school teacher; one\\nof the founders of the Christian Union Society m.\\nMeele Howard, Salisbury.\\nSamuel Dana, b. 30 Jan., 1806; d. 30 March, 1872.\\nJoseph Lancj, b. 19 Feb., 1810. He was for many years an instruc-\\ntor of youth, having taught fourteen terms in B., besides\\nteaching in a neighboring town. Enjoys in large measure\\nthe confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens. Has been\\nmany years justice of the peace and quorum. Married\\nMrs. Abigail Currier.\\nEliza, b. 8 Jan., 1814; m. Samuel L. Couch.\\nBenjamin, b. 3 April, 1817; m. Lydia S. Currier, Hill; moved to\\nWarner.\\nSarah, h. 4 Feb., 1820; ni. Erastus Bugbee d. in Chelsea, Yt., 3\\nApril. 1860.\\nGerrish, b. 2 July, 1825; d. 20 Nov., 1846.\\nBenjamin^ (Benjamin,^ Joseph^) m. Sally Morse, of B.\\nPrescott, b. 17 May, 1809 d. 4 April, 1837.\\nJames S., b. 7 May, 1811; d. 21 June, 1877.\\nAmos A., h. 23 June, 1815; ni. Abigail S. Remick.\\nPlummer, h. in B., 8 Feb., 1818; d. 20 April, 1859, Peoria county,\\n111.\\nPiachel, b. 20 May, 1820 ni. Stephen Blaisdell, Goffstown.\\nBenjamin Calvin, b. 19 Sept., 1822; ni. INIartha J. Calef, Salis-\\nbury; lives in Tiskilwa, 111.\\nHarriman, b. 22 Mav, 1825; m. Phebe A. Parslial, 111.\\nCaleb Kniqht, b. 11 June, 1829; m. Sophia H. Hall, 111.; d. 4 Feb.,\\n1867.\\nSamuel^ (Benjamin,- Joseph^) m. Eunice Howard, Salisbury.\\nSamuel L., b. 29 Jan., 1815; d. 2 July, 1872.\\nHiram il/., b. 16 Feb., 1818; d. 13 Dec, 1862 physician in George-\\ntown, Mass.\\nIra Harris, b. 17 July, 1821.\\nElhridge D., b. 27 July, 1825.\\nEllen 21., b. 5 April, 1835.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0684.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL COUCH. 513\\nJoseph^ (Joseph,- Joseph^) m. Mehitable Pettiiigill, of Salisbury,\\n1816. She d. Sept., 1874.\\nEnoch P., b. 26 Jan., 1819 m. Clarinda E. Kirk, 1844.\\nJoseph, b. 1821 d. 1828.\\nEnoch^ (Joseph, Joseph^) m., 1st, Nancy Eastman 2d, Jane 0.\\nStickney.\\nChildren of Jane\\nNancy E., b. 12 Feb., 1835.\\nJoseph, h. 22 March, 1837; d. 14 IMarcli, 1872.\\nMart/ S., b. 12 June, 1844; m. Orlando Whitney; d. 17 April,\\n1876, leaving one child, Herbert C, h. 16 Nov., 1867.\\nSimeon* (William, John, Joseph^) m. Eosamond Colby, of War-\\nner.\\nEdgar 0.. h. 2 Jan., 1834 soldier in war of It^bcUion died in\\nisebel prison at Danville, Va., 16 Jan.. 1865.\\ndiaries H., b. 22 Jan., 1836; m. IVIarinda Morrill.\\nSimeon A., b. June, 1838; m. Mrs. Barr.\\nDaniel W.* (William,^ John,^ Joseph^) m., 1st, Mary A. Davis,\\nNew London 2d, Ednor J. Austin, Sutton.\\nChildren of Islary\\nEdmond D., b. 24 July, 1840.\\nSarah J., b. 7 Jan., 1842.\\nEmlli/ il/., b. 24 June, 1844; d. 11 April, 1875.\\nKate P., b. 18 Aug., 1846; d. 3 March, 1861.\\nCharles H., b. 20 July, 1848.\\nLaura A., b. 14 March, 1850,\\nJohn T., h. 10 May, 1853.\\nChildren of Ednor\\nDaniel A.,h. 31 Oct., 1857.\\nFrank IF., b. 21 July, 1861.\\nCora E.,h. 13 May, 1865.\\nAlonzo, b. 23 June, 1871.\\nAlbert J.* (William,^ John, Joseph^) m., 1st, Ruth Sargent,\\nWarner 2d, Abbie B. Smith, Weare.\\nChildren of Ruth\\nCalvin P. b. 2 Sept., 1835.\\nRetire il/., b. 5 April, 1839; m., 1st, Minnie Leavitt 2d, Sarah\\nGoodrich.\\nMarietta L., b. 31 March, 1841 d. 3 Nov., 1873.\\nEllen il/., b. 16 May, 1843; ra. Cyrus Dow, Warner.\\nAlbert R., b. 20 Sept., 1848; d. 20 Nov., 1851.\\nChildren of Abbie\\nAbbie B., b. 23 Dec, 1855; m. Leroy C. Stevens, Manchester.\\nLizzie K., b. 14 Aug., 1857; d. 14 March, 1858.\\nWintJirop 5.,b. 1 Oct., 1859.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0685.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "514 GENEALOGICAL COUCH.\\nJoH (John, Johu,- Joseph^) in., 1st, Almeda Greeley, Frank-\\nlin 2d, Maria Pickering, Barustead.\\nCliildren of Almeda\\nBenjamin Warren^ b. 15 Aug., 1837.\\nClara A., b. 4 Jan., 1840; m. Charles Rowell; d. 8 May, 1867.\\nEliza J., b. 15 Aug., 1842; m. Edward Clougli, Canterbury.\\nHale* (Amos,^ John, Josepli^) m. Adeline Hale.\\nHorace, b. 4 Nov., 1846; m. Clara F. Burpee; d. 19 Aug., 1872.\\nHenry C* (Samuel,^ Jolin,^ Joseph) m., 1st, Sarah J. Melvin, of\\nWeare 2d, Emily C. Page, of Warner.\\nChild of Sarah\\nFrank il/., b. 24 Dec, 1850; d. 25 June, 1851.\\nChildren of Emily\\nSara7iJ.,h. 7 Nov., 1857.\\nClarence E., b. 4 Aug., 1859.\\nIda E., b. 13 March, 1861.\\nEllaF., b. 16 July, 1864.\\nCarrie E.,h.S Sept., 1866.\\nEddie, b. 28 Sept., 1872.\\nGeorge W.* (Samuel,^ John,- Joseph^) m. Mehitable Eastman,\\nWarner.\\nFrank S., b. 17 June, 1857.\\nWilliam O., b. 18 Aug., 1860.\\nHerbert G., b. 23 Sept., 1863.\\nSamuel M,, b. 4 April, 1866.\\nLevi W.* (Samuel,^ John,^ Joseph^) m. Mary J. Abbott.\\nArthur v., b. 24 Aug., 1860.\\nAlice v., b. 4 May, 1864 d. 19 Sept., 1865.\\nAnnie L., b. 26 April, 1867; d. 27 April, 1867.\\nCarlos I., b. 16 July, 1869.\\nJIary H., b. 31 Oct., 1874.\\nCharles* (Samuel,^ John,- Joseph^) m., 1st, Lucretia M. Abbott,\\nof Plymouth 2d, Mrs. Judith Bullock, of B.\\nChild of Lucretia:\\nLevant M., b. 27 Jan., 1868; d. 21 Sept., 1872.\\nJohn Gilman* (Nathaniel H.,^ Benjamin,- Joseph^) m. Eliza Calef.\\nInfant, b. 10 Mav, 1844; d. 11 May, 1844.\\nDavid N., b. 23 July, 1846.\\nJohnB.,h.2Q Aug., 1849.\\nSamuel Dana* (Joseph,^ Benjamin,- Joseph^) m. Hannah Stone.\\nHenry J., h. 23 April, 1831.\\nGeorge S., b. 22 Sept., 1833.\\nWaller S., b. 22 Sept.. 1837.\\nClam J., b. 17 Aug., 1844; m. John M. Meserve, Lawrence, Mass.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0686.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL COUCH.\\n515\\nPrescott* (Benjamin,^ Beujamin/- Joseph^) la. Jane W. Sliat-\\ntuck.\\nGeorge P., b. 10 Feb., 1835 d. 15 July, 1837.\\nJames S.^ (Benjamin,^ Benjamin/- Josepli^) m. Mary .Eastman,\\nHopkinton.\\nRaclid C, b. 23 April, 1815; m. Luke Call, Jr.\\nPlummek/ Rev. (Benjamin,^ Benjamin-) moved to Illinois was\\nMethodist minister tliere tn. Clarissa Brooks, Elm\\nGrove, Tazewell county. 111., 26 Sept., 1839.\\nCalvin B., b. 10 Nov., 1840.\\nManj E., b. 9 Nov., 1812; m. Rev. T. S. Fowler, Limestoue, 111.,\\nDec, 1876.\\nSarah.h. 18 March, 1815; d. 29 April, 1815.\\nLulher, b. 3 June, 1816.\\nLewis C, b. 29 July, 1818; d. 20 Feb., 1859.\\nClara E.,h. 8 May, 1851; m. Veeder Vanpetter, Limestone, 111.,\\n1870.\\nElla M., b. 22 Oct., 1853; d. 22 March, 1856.\\nThomas B., b. 16 Nov., 1855; m. Mary Branson, Kingston, 111., 19\\nMarch, 1877.\\nFm\u00c2\u00ab/.:P., b. 3 Sept., 1857.\\nFrancelia E., b. 22 Sept., 1859.\\nSamuel Lyman^ (Samuel,^ Benjamin/-^ Joseph^) m. Eliza Couch.\\nWarren, b. 7 July, 1811.\\nJoseph, b. 18 Feb., 1843.\\nSilas W., b. 5 Jan., 1816.\\nCalvix P.5 (Albert J.,* William^) m. Martha Kennedy, Concord,\\nNov., 1865.\\nJustin D, b. 11 Aug., 1866; d. 27 May, 1872.\\nItoswell S., b. 13 Dec, 1867.\\nMaud A., h. 6 Nov., 1872.\\nBexjamin Warken^ (John,* John,* John m. Susie C. Wood-\\nAvard, Hartland, Vt., 3 March, 1864.\\nJohn H., b. 15 June, 1865.\\nBenjamin W., b. 19 Aug., 1873.\\nHexry J.^ (Samuel D.,* Joseph,^ Benjamin-) m. Mary E. Davis,\\n1 Jan., 1857.\\nCharles H., b. 30 Sept., 1858.\\nArthur D., b. 30 Sept., 1861; d. 17 Jan., 1863.\\nAlfred G., b. 21 Aug., 1863; d. 26 Aug.. 1863.\\nOmar E., b. 2 Dec, 1864.\\nGrace Ina, b. 1 Oct., 1866; d. 17 Oct., 1866.\\nGeorge S.^ (Samuel D.,* Joseph,^ Benjamin^) m., 1st, Susan B.\\nWebster, 11 Jan., 1860 2d, Helen E. Davis.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0687.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2516 GENEALOGICAL DANFORTH.\\nChildren of Susan\\nHerhert W., b. 23 June, 1861; d. 30 Nov., 1861.\\nAlmon W., b. 2 Jan., 1863.\\nLilian M., b. 22 Feb., 1867.\\nWalter S.^ (Samuel D.,* Josejih/ Benjamin^) m. Sarah J,\\nWebster.\\nAlbert I., h. 12 July, 1867.\\nCalvin B.,^ Rev. (Plummer,* Benjamin^) m. Mattie K. Zoll, Ver-\\nmont, Fulton Co., BL, 22 Oct., 1867.\\nWillie A., b. 23 April, 1870.\\nFrank H., h. 20 J i\\\\]y, 1873.\\nDANFORTH.\\nWilliam^ was born in London, probably 1653. He was a resi-\\ndent of Newbury, 1667. His first wife died 18 Oct.,\\n1678, leaving no children. He married, 2d, Sarah\\nThorla.\\nWilliam.\\nMary.\\nRichard, b. 31 June, 1080.\\nJohn, b. 8 Dec, 1681; d. Oct., 1772.\\nJonathan, b. 18 May. 1685.\\nThomas, b. 11 Sept 1088.\\nFrancis, b. 15 March, 1691.\\nJoseph, b. 12 May, 109^.\\nNatHxINIel,^ grandson of the above, was one of the first settlers\\nof B., came 1733.\\nAbigail, b. 7 Jan., 1735 the first child born in B. She m. Thomas\\nFoss.\\nElkannah, in. Mary Flanders, dan. of Jacob; he lived on Fish st.;\\nhad son, Joshua, who took the name of Joshua Carleton.\\nWilliam,^ probably brother of Nathaniel, a grandson of William^\\nm. Flood came to B., 1733 owned at one\\ntime the mill at head of King st.\\nWilliam, b. 18 Aug., 1748; m. Olive Elliot; d. 13 Oct., 1838.\\nJedediah, m. Rix, dau. o\u00c2\u00a3 Nathaniel Rix.\\nMarij, m. John Johnson.\\nSusan, m. Nathan Corser.\\nWilliam* (William b. 18 Aug., 1748 m. Olive Elliot.\\nPolly, b. 22 Nov., 1772; m. Folsom Bean,\\nRuth, b. 20 Feb., 1777 m. Seth Conner.\\nEnoch, b. 19 Oct., 1774; m. Hannah Haines.\\nWilliam, b. 22 Jan., 1780; ra. Betsey Putney; d. 24 Sept., 1846.\\n.John, b. Aug;., 1784; d. in infancy.\\nJohn, b. 18 iDec, 1785; m. Bernice Corser; d. 18 Feb., 1850.\\nEdmund, b. 8 July, 1791; m. Rhoda Cloagh; d. 24 Oct., 1854.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0688.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL DANFORTH. 51T\\nWilliam^ (William^), h. 22 Jan., 1780 m. Betsey Putney d.\\n24 Sept., 1846.\\nJohn Putney, h. ii Oct., 1811; m. Susan S. ruhiey.\\nPolly, h. 3 Feb. 1815; m. Nathan Kilhinn.\\nTainson, b. 1 March, 1817; in. Josepli W. Jackman; lives in B.\\nAlbert, h. 21 Dec, 1819; m., 1st, Mary A. Fitts ^d, Elizabeth\\nNichols; Sd, Rosanna E. Sanders.\\nWilliam, b. 2 May, 1823 m., 1st, Martha Sever 2d, Lncia Nichols;\\nlives in Minn. civil enyineer.\\nOrplm, b. 22 Jan., 1827; d. U Aug., 1818.\\nEdmund^ (William*), h. 8 July, 1791 m. Elioda Clougli.\\nHannah, b. 21 Dec, 1819; m. Daniel Milton.\\nRhoda, b. 3 Sept.. 1821; d. 21 June, 1834.\\nEnoch, b. 4 May, 1825; m.,lst, Melissa Colby; 2d, Lydia Fisk; lives\\nin Hopkinton.\\nGeorfje Sullivan, b. 6 May, 1827; m., 1st, Maria Colby; 2d, Susan\\nGwiu; lives in San Francisco.\\nReuben C, b. 17 Aug., 1829 m. Anna M. Dow; lives in Concord.\\nCharles S.. b. 14 Nov., 1831 m. Fanny W. Wallace; lives in Con-\\ncord.\\nEdmund, b. 12 Jan., 1834; m. Mary Safferty; lives in Cal.\\nRhoda Roseita, b. 11 March, 1843 m. Josiah C. Shaw,\\nJoHN^ (William*), b. 18 Dec, 1785 m. Bernice Corser.\\nOrin, b. June, 1831 m. Abra Morrill lives in Gloucester, Mass.;\\ncliildren, Arthur, JSlary M(n-rill.\\nEtta (christened Mehitahle),h. 16 Oct., 1834 m. A. P. Bennett; d.\\n27 May, 1876.\\nPvEUBEJf C.\u00c2\u00ab (Edmund,MVilliam,* William^), b. 17 Aug., 1829;\\nm. Anna M. Dow, of Concord, 20 June, 1860.\\nMarian Elena, b. 8 June, 1862 d. 1 Feb., 1863.\\nMarian Louisa, b. 25 April, 1864.\\nCarrie L., b. 26 July, 1867 d. 29 Oct., 1867.\\nHarry b. 1 Jan., 1876.\\nEnoch\u00c2\u00ab (Edmund^), b. 4 May, 1824 m., 1st, Melissa Colby 2d,\\nLydia Fisk.\\nNancy A., Edward Everett, Edmund.\\nGeorge Sullivan\u00c2\u00ae (Edmund^), b. 6 May, 1827 m., 1st, Maria\\nColby 2d, Susan Clwin.\\nEdmund, Harry.\\nEdmund\u00c2\u00ae (Edmund^), b. 12 Jan, 1834 m. Mary Safferty four\\nchildren.\\nJohn Putney\u00c2\u00ae (William^) m. Susan Putney.\\nHenry P., b. Nov., 1845.\\nEmily J., b. June, 1848.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0689.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "518\\nGENEALOGICAL DLX.\\nAlbert* (William^) m., 1st, Mary Ann, dan. of Ri.liard Fitts,\\nof B. 2d, Nancy Elizabeth Nidiols 3d, Mrs. E. E.\\nSanders.\\nChildren of Mary Ann\\nFltts Albert, b. 7 June, 1810.\\nMary Ann, infant d. 9 Feb., 1851.\\nChildren of Nancy Elizabeth\\nLucius Nichols, b. 2 April, 18.51.\\nManj Lizzie, b. 18 Oct., 1857.\\nChild of R. E. Sanders\\nEmma Lucinda, 22 Feb., 18G1.\\nWilliam (William^) m., 1st, Martha Sever; 2d, Lncia Nichols.\\nChildren of Lucia\\nWilliam, b. 1861.\\nLucia, b. Sept., 1865.\\nDIX.\\nCompiled by Alfred Little.\\nEalph,! one of the early settlers of Ipswich, Mass. a fisherman\\nremoved to Eeading, 1662; m. Esther died\\nthere 24 SejDt., 1688.\\nJohn, b. 1659; d. 12 March, 1745.\\nSamuel, b. 1661.\\nStephen, b. 1664; d. young.\\nStejihen, b. 1672.\\nSarah.\\nJohn- (Ealph^) lived on the homestead at Eeading; m., 1st, Ly-\\ndia 2d, Anna, widow of Joseph Fitch, 1700.\\nChildren of Lydia\\niS;,^. and d. 1693.\\nLydia, b. 1695; d. 1709.\\nSarah, b. 1697.\\nElizabeth, b. 1699.\\nChildren of Anna\\nAnna. b. 1702.\\nSamuel, b. 1706.\\nMary b. 1708.\\nJonathan, b. 11 April, 1710.\\nJames, b. 1712.\\nEdson, b. 1714. [See Hist. Reading.]", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0690.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL DLX.\\n519\\nJoxATHAN^ (Jolin,^ Ealph^), h. at Reading was a tanner at Lit-\\ntleton, Mass. removed to B. died there at the resi-\\ndence of his son, Timothy, 24 Dec, 1804, aged 94\\nyears, 8 months, 13 days was member of church\\nmore than 75 years m., 1st, Sarah, dan. of Eev. Ben-\\njamin Shattuck, of Littleton, Mass., 28 June, 1739,\\nwho d. there 30 Sept., 1775, aged 55 years, 9 months,\\n17 days [see Shattuck Memorial]; 2d, Miriam Le-\\nland, of Hollis, Jan., 1779, who d. there about 1833,\\naged nearly 90.\\nOne of Sarah s children was\\nTlmothi, b. 7 Dec, 1743; d. 1824.\\nChild of Miriam\\nj\\\\Iiruiin, d at LloUis, aged about 30.\\nTimothy* (Jonathan,^ John^) settled in B. was post-master for\\nmany years removed to Pembroke, where he died.\\nMarried, 1st, Eachel Burbank, of Bow, 13 Aug., 1769\\n2d, Mrs. Brown 3d, Mrs. Eliza Cunningham,\\nof Pembroke.\\nChililren of Rachel\\nTiwolJi!/, d. at French Mills, C. E., 14 Xov., 1S13.\\nJusicih Brown, d. iu chililhood.\\nTimothy,^ Col. (Timothy, Jonathan^) was merchant in B. [see\\nBiog.] m., 1st. Abigail Wilkins, of Amherst, 20\\nMarch. 1792, who d. 3 Dec, 1808 2d, Lucy Hart-\\nwell, of Littleton, Mass., 3 July, 1809; who d. 30\\nDec, 1863.\\nChildren of Abigail\\nAbigail WilJdn:^, b. 19 Nov., 1792; d. 9 Mav, 1852 m. Gen. Moody\\nA. PiUsbury, of B., 1 Oct., 1818.\\nRachel Durhanl; b. 18 April, 1794; d. 15 Jan., 1827, at Malta; m.\\nRev. Daniel Temple, of Reading, Mass., 4 Dec, 1821.\\nWere missionaries at Malta, for which place they sailed 2\\nJan., 1822.\\nTimollni Fuller Shattuck, b. 11 Feb., 179G d. 16 Oct., 1808.\\nJohn A lam b. 24 July, 1798.\\nSoj hla Wilkin. b. 1 May, 1800; d. 26 Jan., 1835, Portland, Me.\\nm. Joshua C. Plummer, of B., 25 Dec, 1828.\\nMarion Means, b. 17 April, 1802 d. July, 1860, iu Brookline,\\nMass.; m. John \\\\Y. Sullivan, 15 Dec, 1825.\\nLucy Jane, b. 8 April, 1804; d. 9 Feb.. 1858, in Bradford, Pa.; m.\\n1st, Philip H. Webster, of Bristol, 31 May, 1826, mer.\\nchant at Danbury, who d. 7 Dec, 1830; 2d, Col. Leavitt C.\\nLittle, formerly of B., 30 June, 1837; lived at Bradford, Pa,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0691.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "520 GENEALOGICAL DURGIN.\\nLouisa Frances, b. 22 July, 1S06; m., 1st, Gen. Moody A. Pills-\\nbury, of B., 25 Nov., 1852; 2d, Rev. Edward Buxton, of\\nWebster, 29 Dl^c., 1871.\\nMartlia Sherman, h. 16 Oct., 18U8; d. 11 Jan., 1809.\\nChildren of Lucy\\nRoger Sherman, b. 7 June, 1810; d.7 Jan., 1819, Hillsborough, Pa.\\nTimothy Broivne, b. 21 Jan., 1812.\\nCatherine Hartwell, b. 19 May, 1813; m. Hon. John A. BoUes,\\nWashington, D. C.\\nJoHX A.,\u00c2\u00ae Gen. (Timothy,^ Col., Timothy*), m. Catharine Morgan,\\nof New York city, 29 May, 1826. [See Biog.]\\nMorgan, b. 1 Nov., 1827, in New York; rector of Trinity church,\\nof that city; m. Emily Woolsey Souther, of New York\\ncity, 6 June, 1874.\\nBaldwin, h. 28 Nov., 1829, at Cooperstown, N. Y.; d. 1852, New\\nYork city.\\nJohn Will-ins, b. 8 Dec, 1832, at Albany, N. Y.; d. 21 April, 1877,\\nin New York city.\\nElizabeth Morgan, h. 7 May, 1835, at Albany; m. Charles F. Blake,\\nNew York city, 11 April, 1860.\\nCharles Temple, h. 25 Feb., 1838, at Albany; m. Camilla Ottalie\\nWatson, in Loudon, Eug., 9 March, 1868; d. at Rome,\\nMarch, 1872.\\nCatharine Morgan, b. 14 Jan., 1843, in Madeira; m. Thomas Walsh,\\nin Paris, 16 April, 1868.\\nAnna Maria, b. and d. July, 1847, East Hampton, N. Y.\\nEoGER SiiEUMAiS-,* Licut. Col. (Timotliy,^ Col., Timotliy*), m.\\nMrs. Mary Dean. [See Biog.]\\nCatharine Morgan, Emma Sherman^ Fannij Beall.\\nTimothy Browne (Timothy,^ Col., Timothy*) m. Caroline L.\\nGibbs, Dec, 1847.\\nFlorence.\\nEvelyn.\\nRoger Sherman, b. 10 Dec, 1861.\\nDURGIK\\nCompiled by Mrs. E. W. Durgin.\\nWilliam- came from England with a brother, 1690, and settled\\nin Mass.\\nWilliam,^ b. 1717 m. Hannah Elliott had seven sons and fire\\ndaughters settled in Epping moved thence to San-\\nbornton, 1768 d. 1787.\\nJoHN,^ b. 13 Aug, 1756 m. Lydia Morrison had eight children\\nd. 16 Oct., 1848.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0692.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL EASTMAN. 521\\nSamuel Morklsox,* b. 20 July, 1790 moved to B., 1812, 13\\nm. Hannah, dau. Capt. Joseph Pearson, of Haverhill\\nsettled in the valley near the church erected building\\nnow occupied by Charles J. Chadwick and son, for\\ndressing cloth and carding wool. He manufactured\\nhand spinning and linen wheels carried on carriage-\\nmaking and wheelwright business. He was deputy\\nsheriff for many years, and selectman, and held vari-\\nous other offices of trust. He was a kind neighbor\\nand an excellent citizen. He d. 19 June, 1874. His\\nwife, b. 1 Jan., 1788, d. 15 Feb., 18G9.\\nHorace Johnson, b. 20 June, 1817; m. Jane, widow of Simeon\\nStevens, of Andover, I\\\\Iass.; resides in Lawrence, Mass;\\none child, Maria, b. 19 Nov., 1850.\\nSusan Pearson, b. 19 May, 1820; m. H. N. Atkinson; d. 10 May,\\n1869.\\nSarah Ann, b. U May, 1822.\\nIsaac Pearson, b. 8 June, 1826.\\nEzekiel Webster, b. 15 June, 1831.\\nIsaac Pearson^ (Samuel M.*) m. Eliza J., dau. of James M.\\nMitchell, 26 Dec, 1851.\\nPlumie A., b. 18 Sept., 1853; d. 4 Oct., 1853.\\nAnnie C, b. 24 Jan., 1855; d. 7 June, 1865.\\n3Iary S., b. 15 June, 1857.\\nWillie L, b. 29 Aug., 1859.\\nEddie C, b. 31 Dec, 1863.\\nEzekiel W.^ (Samuel M.*) m. Mary A., dau. of Lysias Emerson,\\n25 Dec, 1866.\\nEverett W., h. 23 Sept., 1867.\\nSarah Edith, b. 20 Jan., 1871.\\nMary Alice, b. 11 June, 1872.\\nFrank H., h. 13 March, 1875.\\nEASTMAN.\\nCompiled by William Temple.\\nE/OGER^ came from England in 1640 settled at Salisbury.\\nJoseph^ (Benjamin,^ Eoger^) was the youngest son of Benjamin\\nand I^aomi (Flanders) Eastman b. in Salisbury,\\nMass., 17 July, 1700 m., 24 Sept., 1724, Mrs. Doro-\\nthy (Lindsey) Quimby.\\nElizabeth, b. 1 May, 1725.\\nSarah, b. 24 Nov., 1726.\\nNaomi, b. 17 Dec, 1728; m. Joseph Long, of Chester.\\nBenjamin, b. 9 Sept., 1730; lived where Hamilton P. Gill now\\nlives.\\nElenor, b. 16 April, 1732.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0693.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "522 GENEALOGICAL EASTMAN.\\nTimnfJuj, m. Hannah Richardson, d. 1820, aged 87.\\nSusanna, m. Winthrop Carter, of B.; d. 1828, aged 90.\\nJeremiah, b. in B., 5 Feb., 1740. The other children were b. in\\nSalisbury, Mass.\\nJoseph, C;ipt. (Joseph,^ John,^ Roger^) m., 1st, Elizalx th Jack-\\ninau, dau. of George Jackman 2d, Abigail Eastman,\\nof Coiicord. He was captain N. H. Rangers; moved\\nto Concord; d. 1815, aged 95. [See Biog.]\\nCliilclren of Elizabeth\\nWillianh b. 12 Feb., 1708; ra. Phebe Elliot; settled at Horse Hill.\\nElizabeth, b. 19 Sept., 1761; d. young.\\nChildren of Abigail:\\nIlenrtf, h. 12 July, 17G5.\\nJame^, b. 5 Aug., 1707.\\nDoroth/j. b. 7 Aug., 1769.\\nNathan, h. -W July, 1772.\\nNaomi, b. 1 1 Feb., 1775.\\nPolli/, b. 15 Oct., 1780.\\nSarah, b. 30 Ju]y,178o.\\nBexjamin* (Joseph^) m. Snsannah Jackman resided in B. till\\n1781 moved to Newport.\\nJeremiah, b. 2 July. 1758.\\nJohnson, b. 15 JMarch, 1704.\\nSusannah, b. Aug.. 1766.\\nEzra, b. 4 Jane,l7(i9.\\nEnoch, b. 26 Oct., 1772.\\nAmos, b. 18 Dec, 1774.\\nHannah, b. IS March, 1777.\\nBenjamin, b. 22 June, 1781.\\nSusannah, b. 6 March, 1784.\\nTiMOTHV* (Joseph^), h. 1733 m. Hannah Richardson, of Chester.\\nSarah, b. 2 Jan., 1760; ni. Moses Morse; d. 16 July, 1837.\\nHannah, b. 9 May, 1761 m. Daniel Burbank.\\nPriscilla, h. 2 May, 1763 m. Abraham Sweat.\\nThomas, b. 1 Nov., 1764; m. Lois Baker.\\nLydia, b. 25 Aug., 1766; m. Jonathan Ball.\\nEnoch, b. 31 INlarch, 1770; m., 1st, Betsey Bartlett; 2d, Judith\\nAdams.\\nPearson, b. 8 Oct., 1772; ni. Martha Sweat.\\nJeremiah, b. 29 Dec, 1774; m. Rebekah Corser.\\nTimothy, b. 2 Dec, 1776; m. Dorothy Hunt.\\nJonathan, b 17 Sept., 1778; ra. Susan Vale.\\nPolly, m. David Wilharas.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0694.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL ELLIOT. 623\\nELLIOT.\\nCompiled by John Kimball.\\nJoseph^ moved from Newtou to the Borough/ in Concord, 19\\nFeb., 1778. He m. Lydia Goodwin, M ho was b. in\\nNewton, 30 Jan., 1753, and d. 6 June, 1856 [see His-\\ntory of Concord, p. 651]. On the one hundredth an-\\nniversary of her birth, interesting services were held at\\nthe house of her son, David Elliot. She was m. in 1773.\\nSalli/, m. Hezekiah Hiitcliins, Rumford, Me.\\nPoll//, m. Leonard Whitney.\\nDacifl, m.Mehitable Farnum; resided at the Borough, in Con-\\ncord.\\nJoseph, m. Dorcas Farniuu.\\nFrederic, m. Nancy Colby.\\nJacob.\\nSamuel, m. Emma Sargent, Kumford.\\nBenjamin, b. 20 April, 1789.\\nJudith, ni. David Colby, Rumford.\\nEleanor, m. Jacob Lufkin, Rumford.\\nLydia, m. Nathaniel Simpson, Concord.\\nBenjamin^ (Joseph^), born at the Borough, in Concord;\\nm. Judith Colljy, whose father lived on Dagody hill.\\nThey settled first in Concord, and afterwards at the\\nbend of the Contoocook river, in B., near the resi-\\ndence of Calvin Gage d. July, 1865. His wife, b.\\nApril, 1794, d. Sept., 1842.\\nRlwda, b. 22 Sept., 1813; m. Enos Hntchins.\\nParney,h. 20 Aug., 1815; m., 1st, Chase Fowler; 2d, Alplieus\\nClough.\\nJoseph, b. 23 Sept.. 1817; m. Phebe Hutchins d. 22 Feb., 1853.\\nSarah, b. 5 July, 1819 lives in Oregon.\\nBenjamin, b. 8 June, 1821; m. Mary Putney; d. Aug., 1868.\\nPhebe J., b. 6 June, 1823 m. Samuel K. Blanchard.\\nDorcas C, b. 28 Aug., 1825 m. Cyrus F. Fletcher, of West Con-\\ncord.\\nFreeman. b.l9 Sept., 1827.\\nLucy, b. 8 Sept., 1829 d. 8 May, 1831.\\nAlfred, b. 5 Sept., 1832.\\nJonathan^ (another family) m. Naomi Swett.\\nMoses.\\nLois, resided in the house now occupied by Luther Gage m.\\nEnoch Gerald.\\nMosES^ (Jonathan^), b. at Newton grad. at Dart, college 1808\\nm. Sarah Parsons, of Newbury, Mass.; was at one\\ntime settled as a Congregational minister in Beading,\\nVt. resided on Queen street (South) d. at Temple-\\nton, Ma.ss., 9 May, 1849.\\nLuther C, Milton, Milton, Henry M., Maria, Elijah P., Snphronia\\nMoses, Sarah, Jonathan, Mathew P., Richard, Lois.\\n34", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0695.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "524 GENEALOGICAL ELLS\\\\YORTH, FARMER.\\nELLSWOETH.\\nSamuel m. Paith, dau. of Ezra Ahhot. of Concord [see Abbot], 24\\nMarch, 1829 d. 6 Sept., 1872.\\nWlllinm G., h. 14 Feb., 1830 d. 8 ]\\\\Iay, 1854.\\nJeremiah L., b. 1:^ March, 1831 d. 5 June, 1881.\\nCharles J., b. 3 Dec, 1833; m. Henrietta O. Swett.\\nJohn T., b. 10 Feb., 1835; d. 6 Oct., 1867.\\nAmanda H., b. 8 Jan., 1846 d. S Nov., 1863.\\nEAEMER.\\nCompiled by Mrs. C. C. Coffin.\\nThe Earmers of America came from the vicinity of Ansley,\\nWarNYicksliire, England, of \\\\Yhich place John Farnner was a sub-\\nstantial citizen in 1604.\\nJoHN,^ of Anslejr, probably son of the above, married Isabella\\nBarbage, of Great Parkinston. He died in Ansley\\nin 1669. His widow, Isabella, came to Mass., with\\nsome of her children, and settled in Billerica. She\\nsubsequently m. Elder Thomas Wiswall, of Cambridge,\\nnow Newton. She d. in Billerica, Dec, 1683, very\\naged.\\nEdwakd- (John^), b. at Ansley, 1641, came to Mass., 1670-1673\\nsettled in Billerica admitted to town privileges 11\\nJan., 1673. He lived a short time in Woburn held\\noffices of trust and honor m. Mary d. in\\nBillerica, 27 May, d.727, aged 86. His homestead has\\nremained in the family for seven generations.\\nSaroh, b. in England; m. her cousin, Thomas Pollard, of Coven-\\ntry, England, who came to Billerica. She d. 3 May, 1725.\\nJohn, b. 19 Aug., 1071; m. Abigail d. 9 Sept., 1736.\\nEdward, b. 22 March, 1674; m. Mary Richardson; d. 17 Dec,\\n1752.\\nil/any, b. 3 Nov., 1675. _^\\nBarberry, b. 26 Jan.. 1677.\\nEUzahelh, b. 17 May, 1680; m. William Green, of Maiden.\\nThomas, b. 8 Jan., 1638; m. Sarah Hunt; d. in Hollis, 1767.\\nOliver^ h. 2 Feb., 1686; m. Abigail Johnson, of Woburn; d. 23\\nFeb., 1761, at Billerica.\\nOliver^ (Edward,^ John^), b. 2 Feb., 1686 m. Abigail Johnson.\\nAbigail, b. 22 Dec, 1717: d. 1718.\\nAbigail, h. 14 Jan., 1719 m. Jonathan Richardson, of Billerica.\\nMary, b. 26 Aug., 1721 m. WiUiam Baldwin, of Billerica; d. Sept.,\\n1803.\\nSarah, i,, -n i-oq. S Edward Jewett, Rowley; d. 1819.\\nRebecca, ^^c, 1 -d, j j^^_ Samuel Rogers, of Billerica d. 30\\nAug., 1809.\\nOliver, b. 31 July, 1728.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0696.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0697.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "S\\nx\\n^C^zC", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0698.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL FARMER. 625\\nIsabella, b. 2 March, H^il; m. Benjamin Warren, of Billerica; d.\\n28 Feb., 1761.\\nEilward, b. 24 Feb., 1734: m. Sarah Brown d. 19 Aug., 1811.\\nJolin^ b. 7 Dec, 1787; m., 1st, Hannah Davig; 2d, Mrs. Sarah\\n(Russell) Adams.\\nJohn* (Oliver,^ Edward,^ Jolini), b. 7 Dec, 1737 ra., 1st, Hannah\\nDavis 2d, Mrs. Sarah (Russell) (Bowers) Adams.\\nSarah Russell was directly connected with the Russell\\nfamily, so long prominent in English history, Lord\\nWilliam Russell, beheaded in the tower a woman of\\nrare virtues and character. She was born in Dracut,\\nMass. m., 1st., Bowers 2d, Adams\\n3d, John Farmer. Upon the death of her third hus-\\nband, she came to B. with her children, John and\\nHannah, to be near her children by her first marriage,\\nwho had become citizens of B. She lived to the age\\nof 95, in possession of all her faculties, with the excep-\\ntion of sight, of which she was deprived for more than\\n30 years. She d. in Pembroke, March, 1846.\\nChildren of Hannah\\nHannah, Rebecca^ Abigail^ Polhj^ John, Lucy.\\nChildren of Sarah\\n/o/;/i, Col., b. 11 Dec, 1791; m. Sally Gerrish, dau. of Moses Ger-\\nrish, of B. d. 17 July, ISof). [See Biog.\\nHannah, b. 15 Dec, 1794; m. Bliss Corser, of BT; d. 4 Feb., 1852,\\nPortage, N. Y.\\nJoHN,^ Col. (John,* Oliver,- Edward,^ John^), b. 11 Dec, 1791;\\nm. Sally Gerrish, 11 Feb., 1819. [See Biog.]\\nMoses Gerrish, Prof., b. 9 Feb., 1820; m. Hannah T. Shapleigh\\nresides in Newport, R. I. [See Biog.J\\nPage French, b. 28 June, 1821; d. 27 July, 1822.\\nJohn Page, b. 24 Sept., 1823; m. Martha Locke, Great Falls; re-\\nsides in Minn.\\nSallie Russell, b. 30 Aug., 1826; m. Charles C. Coffin: resides in\\nBoston.\\nJane Greg, b. 7 June, 1828; ni. Ephraim Little, of Webster;\\nd. 27 June, 1867.\\nJeremiah Otis, b. 7 June, 1S28; d. 6 Dec, 1828.\\nMoses Gerrish\u00c2\u00ab (John,^ Col, John,* Oliver, b. 9 Feb., 1820\\nm. Hannah T. Shapleigh, of l^lliot. Me. [See Biog.]\\nSarah Jane, b. 22 July, 1847.\\nClarence, b. 26 May, 1860; d. 27 May, 1860.\\nJ OHN Page\u00c2\u00ab (John,5 Col., John, Oliver^), b. 24 Sept., 1823 m.\\nMartha Locke, Great Falls.\\nJohn Quincg, b. 23 Feb., 1848 d. 8 May, 18.57.\\nMartha Jane, b. 17 June, 1851; d. 10 March 1857.\\nMary White, h. 22 March, 1853.\\nCharles Russell, b. 11 March, 1855.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0699.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "526 GENEALOGICAL FELLOWS.\\nFELLOWS.\\nTlie Eellows familj^ of Boscawen and Salisbury are descend-\\nants of\\nJoHN,-^ of Kingston.\\nMosES was born in Kingston, 9 Aug., 1755; settled in Salis-\\nbury m. Sarah, daii. of Reuben Stevens, of Plais-\\ntow d. 1846.\\nHezekiah, b. 22 Dec, 1782 d. 1783.\\nHezekiah, b. 18 June, 1784; m. Pamelia F. Senter. [See Biog.]\\nMoses, h. 26 Jan., 1786; m., 1st, Miriam Bean; 2d, Meliitable\\nEastman, of Salisbury 3d, Lucia J]astman, sister of Me-\\nhitable; d. in Salisbury, 20 March, 1804. [See Biog.]\\nReuben, b. 12 Oct., 1789.\\nEbenezer, b. 21 June, 1790; m. Elizabeth Carr; d. 21 Jan., 1867.\\nJames Senter, b. 7 Nov., 1791.\\nSarah, h. 4 Dec, 1793.\\nSamuel, b. 28 Nov., 1795 m. Betsey D. Williams; lives in N. Y.\\nElizabeth, b. 14 Sept., 17.97.\\nPolly, b. 8 Feb., 180i) d. Feb.. 1803.\\nMeele, b. 3 April, 1802 d. 20 Oct., 18.53.\\nAdonijah, b. 17 Marcli, 1804.\\nPierce, b. 3 July, 1S J7 d. April, 1862.\\nHezkkiah (Moses^), b. 18 June, 1784 m. Pamela F. Senter.\\nSalome, b. 26 July, 1807; d. 23 Jan., 1823.\\nA sou. b. 11 July, 1809 d. 30 Sept., 1809.\\nCatharine, b. 30 Sept., 1810; d. 8 March, 1813.\\nEbenezer Senter, b. 1813 d. 21 Oct., 1829.\\nJohn,h.7 Oct., 1815; grad. Dart, coll., 1841; studied medicine;\\npractitioner at Loudon; m. Leonora Ilosmer, of B.; d. at\\nConcord, 1873.\\n3foses, h. 11 March, 1818; d. 14 July, 1819.\\nCatharine Ann, b. 6 May, 1820; m. Horace Gleason, of Boston, 23\\nFeb., 1837.\\nLucy Senter, b. 27 May, 1822; d. 4 Oct., 1846.\\nGeorge Riley, b. 19 April, 1824; ni. Fanny B. Wheeler, of Nash-\\nua; enlisted in Co. A, 8th N. H. Reg t d. at Carrollton,\\nLa., 13 Dec, 1862.\\nSalome, b. 25 Aug., 1827; m. D. A. Macurdy.\\nMosES^ (Moses,^ John^),b. 20 Jan., 1786; ni., 1st, Miriam Bean;\\n2d, Meliitable Eastman; 3d, Lucia Eastman.\\nChildren of Meliitable\\nMiriam, m. Hiram Gage.\\nCaroline, m. Fry W. Gile, of Littleton; lives in Kansas.\\nCharles W., m. Piebecca Eastman, of Salisbury; merchant in Bos-\\nton.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0700.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL FITZGERALD, FLANDERS. 527\\nFITZGERALD.\\nEdward [see Eirst Settlors], b. in Ireland m. MeliitaWe Uran,\\nsister of John Uran.\\nJane, b. 12 Jan., 1742; m. Asa Corser [see Corserl.\\nMary, b. 24 Jan., 1744.\\nSarah, b. 14 Feb., 1746; m. Samuel Corser; d. 1 Jan., 1808.\\ni I b. 10 Aug., 1748; I %f ^\\\\f Ticonderoaa.\\nKehekah, m. Oliver Plovt; moved to Concord.\\nEdward, b. 24 Oct., 1751; m. Corser; d. 21 jSTov., 1817.\\nSusanna, b. Oct., 1753.\\nDorcas, b. 15 Ma} 1756; m. David Carter; d. 13 Feb., 1846.\\nRachel, b. 9 July, 1758; m. Samuel Morse; d. 7 Feb., 1837.\\nJohn, b. 10 July, 1761.\\nMartha, b. 10 June, 1766; m. James Corser; d. 16 Feb., 1828.\\nFLANDEES.\\nStephen/ the only emigrant of the name, so far as is known,\\ncame to Salislnuy, IMass., with his wife Jane, between\\n1640 and 1640, and was one of the first settlers of that\\ntown. He d. 21 June, 16S4.\\nStephen, b. 8 March, 1646; m. Abigail Carter; d. July, 1744.\\n]\\\\Iary.\\nPhilip, b. 14 June, 1652.\\nSarah.\\nNaomi, m. Joseph Eastman.\\nJohn, b. 11 Feb., 1659; m. Elizabeth Sargent; d. at South Hamp-\\nton, 1745.\\nJohn- (Stephen^), b. 11 Feb., 1659; m. Elizabeth Sargent.\\nJacob, h. 5 Aug., 1689; m. Mercy Clough; John, Ezekiel, Josiah,\\nPhilip, Jonathan, Tamson, Hannah.\\nJacob^ (John,2 Stephen^). An early settler of B. One of the\\ncommittee to build the log meeting-house, 1738. He\\ncame from South Hampton m. Mercy Clough.\\nTahitha, b. 7 April, 1711; m. Andrew Bohonon.\\nJacob, b. 5 Aug., 1715; in. Naomi Darling; lived on Fish st.\\nJesse, Dea., m. Rath Webster, of SaUsbury.\\nEzekiel, m. Sarah Bishop.\\nJohn, m. Eunice Jaciiman.\\nPhilip, killed at Crown Point [see Military Historj\\nBetsey, m. Daniel Rolfe.\\nRuth, m. John Elliot.\\nHannah, m. John Knowlton.\\nJSIehitable.\\nJacob* (Jacob,^ John, Steplien^) m. Naomi Darling.\\nMercy, b. 17 May, 1745.\\nJoseph, b. 27 July, 1753.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0701.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "528 GENEALOGICAL FLANDERS.\\nMary^ b. 13 May, 1755; m. Elkannah Danforth,\\nO/tesi/phorus, b. 20 Dec, 17G1 m. Sarah Foster.\\nJesse* (Jacob,^ John,- Stephen^), Jeacon of B. church soldier at\\nBunker Hill, Canada, c. [See Military History.]\\nMarried lluth Webster, of Salisbury resided in house\\nowned by F. P. Atkinson.\\nMoses, h. 20 Jan., 1749; d. young.\\nHannah, b. 17 May, 1754; m. Aaron Flanders; d. 13 Dec, 1844.\\nJesse, h. 13 Aug., 1755 m. Elenor INIorey.\\nDavid, Csipt., b. 19 Jan., 1758; m. Hannah Kimball; d. 31 Dec,\\n184 2. He was in battle of Banker Hill lived on Water\\nSt., at corner of road leading to Great Pond, near Bradley\\nAtkinson s residence d. in Franklin.\\nSarah, b. 21 Feb., 1760; d. young.\\nMercy, b. 28 March. 1702.\\nil/o.se.s, b. 2 June, 1767; m. Hannah Clark.\\nSarah, b. 12 Oct., 1769 m. Charles Collins.\\nEzEKiEL (Jacob,^ John,^ Stephen^) m. Sarah Bishop lived at\\ncorner below South school-house, on Water st. killed\\nby the Indians while hunting beaver at Newfound\\nlake, 1756.\\nEzekiel, b. 1743; ni. Jerusha Goodwin; d. 1 Jnue. 1825.\\nEnos, b. 8 Feb., 1745; lu. Sarah Laugley, of Durham.\\nSarah, b. 2 Dec, 1747.\\nSusannah, h. 2 Nov., 1740.\\nAphia, b. 3 March, 1752 m. Colby.\\nJemima, b. 9 April, 1754; m. Simeon Danforth; d. 15 May, 1812.\\nBenjamin, b. 8 Aug., 1856; lost at sea.\\nJohn* (Jacob,^ John,^ Stephen^) m. Eunice Jackman lived\\nwhere his grandson Jacob now lives, near corner of\\nroad leading to east end of Great Pond.\\nAaron, b. 5 Aug., 1750; m. Hannah Fhinders.\\n/o/i/i, Lieut., b. 13 Oct., 1752; m. Elizabeth, widow of John Ste-\\nvens, dan. of George Jackman, E.sq. served iu Revolution.\\n[See Biog.]\\nBetty, b. 13 June, 1755; m. Nicholas Elliot.\\nDaniel, b. 18 June, 1758; d. young.\\nLois, b. 16 Feb., 1760; m. Joseph Kuowlton.\\nDaniel, b. 16 Sept., 1762; m. Greeley.\\nJyunice, h. 9 Jul3% 1765; m. Peter Bean.\\nJacob, b. 11 April, 1768 m. Margaret Rogers.\\nJackman, b. 9 Aug., 1773.\\nJoseph, m. Relief Brown.\\nPatience.\\nEzEKiEi/ (Ezekiel,* Jacob,^ John,- Stephen^), b. 1743; m. Jerusha\\nGoodwin, of Concord built house on town poor-farm,\\nWater st.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0702.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL FLANDERS.\\n529\\nManj, b. 20 N ov., 1766; in. Samuel Robie.\\nSarah, b. 13 Feb., 1768; m. Samuel Hemphill.\\nMartha, b. 23 Sept., 1769; m. Joseph llule.\\nSusannah, h. 6 Aug., 1771; m. Thomas Austin,\\nAnna, b. 3 June, 1774; m. Eliphalet Holmes.\\nEzel-lel.\\nLi/c/ia, b. 20 June, 1777; m. Jeremiah Webber.\\nIsrael, b. 13 Nov., 1780; m. Sally Carr.\\nBenjamin, b. 19 Aug., 1782; m. Polly, dau. of Eliakim Walker.\\nEnos^ (Ezeldel, Jacob,^ John,^ Stephen^), b. 8 Feb., 1745 m.\\nSarah Langley, of Durham moved to Vershire, \\\\t.\\nEnos. h. 17 July, 1770.\\nSamuel, b. 7 Feb., 1773.\\nJohn, b. 11 Aug., 1777 m. Polly Brewer.\\nBetsei/, b. 20 Dec, 1778.\\nBenjamin, m. Sarah Funnell.\\nAarox^ (.John,* Jacob,^ Johu, Stephen^), b. 5 Aug., 1750 m.\\nliannali Fhxnders lived at corner of Water st., lower\\nend d. 13 Feb., 1846.\\nAaron, b. 15 July, 1773; m. Betsey Fellows, of Dorchester; d. in\\nHudson, N. Y.\\nHannah, b. 3 Jan., 1775 m. Phineas Flanders; d. 13 June, 1856,\\nMehitahle, b. 11 Jan., 1776 d. April, 1867,\\nSophia, b. 25 June, 1778 d. 5 Oct., 1799.\\nJesse, b. 18 July, 1779 m. Lydia Quimby, of Springfield d. 20\\nSept., 1850.\\nJohn, b. 13 .Jan., 1781 m. Hannah Haines, of Dorchester; d. at St.\\nAlbans.\\nDrusilla, b. 18 Feb., 1782 m. Eleazar Burbank, of St. Albans.\\nMoses, b. 24 Sept., 1783 m. Eunice Flifnders; d. at Ypsilauti, Mich.\\nJacob, b. 18 .Jan., 1785; m. Betsey Colt; d. at Cambria, N. Y.\\nRuth, b. 10 July, 1786; d. 1799.\\nWebster, b. 25 May, 1788; m. Olive Foster; d. at St. Albans.\\nRebecca, b. 12 Sept., 1790 m. John Hart d. at Pomfret, Yt,\\nCharlotte, b. 31 March, 1792.\\nApphia Coffin, 7 Nov., 1793; m. Samuel C. Flanders; d. 1846.\\nZilphia, K lOMnreh 1705- Joseph Burpee; d. 1807.\\nExperience, m, Sam l Sanborn, of Dorchester.\\nSamuel C.^ (Johnj^Phineas-*), b. 28 Feb., 1793 m. Anna C, dau.\\nof Aaron Flanders d. 1866.\\nGuy C, b. 1 Jan. 1818; d. 1837.\\nPlumn Ann, b. 25 May, 1819 d. 3 Nov., 1841.\\nElizabeth J., b. 11 Dec, 1820; m. Phineas Flanders; resides in\\nWebster.\\nHannibal W., b. 21 April, 1822; m. Ann Regan; resides in B,\\nJoh7i S., d. in infancy.\\nJohn S., b. 2 Sejjt., 1826; d, at Tiffin, O.\\nLouisa M., b. 2 Aug., 1828; d. Aug., 1841.\\nSamuel S., h. 25 Feb., 1830; m. Rebecca Regan d, at Clyde, O.\\nLucien G., b. 8 Dec, 1834; d. 25 Dec, 1841.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0703.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "530 GENEALOGICAL FLANDERS.\\nJoHx/ Lieut. fJolm/ Jacob^), b. 13 Oct., 1752 soldier of Eevo-\\nlution [see Military History] m. Elizabeth, widow of\\nJohn Stevens d. 1 April, 1827.\\nJohn S., b. 15 Nov., 1781.\\nGeorge b. 10 Aug., 1783; m., 1st, Polly Call 2(1, Cyuthia Ash-\\nley, of Owego, N. Y.\\nPhineas, b. 5 Jane, 1789; in. Charlotte, dan. of Aaron Flanders.\\nElizabeth, b. 18 May, 1791 m. Samnel B. Bailey.\\nSamuel C, b. 28 Feb., 1793; m. Anna C.,dau. of Aaron Flanders.\\nPhilip, h. 29 Feb., 1797.\\nGw/ C, b. 18 March, 1798 d. at sea.\\nJoseph, b. 27 July, 18 0.\\nEunice, b. 26 Sept., 1802; m. Moses Flanders.\\nPhineas (John,^ Lieut.) m. Charlotte Flanders.\\nCharlotle,h. 17 June, 1815.\\nMehitaUe, b. 6 May, 1816.\\nPhineUe,h. 1818; d. young.\\nPhineus, b. 1 July, 1820; m. Elizabeth J., dau. of Samuel C. Flan-\\nders.\\nLaoote, b. 21 April, 1822 d. young.\\nPhi sEAs (Phineas m. Elizabeth J. Flanders resides in Weh-\\nster.\\nLiicienP.,h. 17 Sept., 1851.\\nLottie A.,h. 16 Oct., 1856.\\nLouisa J., h. 18 Jan., 1861.\\nHanxibal W.^ (Samuel C., John,^ Lieut.), b. 21 April, 1822\\nm. Ann Ryan.\\nLeanderR.. h. 31 An?., 1857.\\nAnn M.,h. 4: Feb., 18-55.\\nEdgar H., b. Oct., 1864.\\nSamuel S. (Samuel C.,\u00c2\u00ab John,^ Lieut.), b. 25 Feb., 1830 m.\\nRebecca Regan d. in Clyde, O.\\nEmma J., b. 22 June, 1854.\\nJohn S., h. 1 Jan., 1856.\\nThomas J., b. 2 Sept., 1857.\\nGeorge S.\\nOliver H.\\nMattie A.\\nJacob^ (Jolm,^ JacoF), b. 11 April, 1768 m. Margaret Rogers;\\nlived in house now the residence of Jacob C.\\nSamuel R., m. Margaret Burnhani, of Bow.\\nJacob C, m. Louisa, dau. of David Jackmau.\\nSamuel R.* (Jacob^) m. Margaret Burnham.\\nMargaret, Jacob, Samuel.\\nJacob C.*^ (Jacob ^j ra. Louisa Jackman.\\nDavid, who enlisted in the U. S. service, supposed to have been\\nkilled in battle.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0704.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL FOWLER.\\n531\\nFOWLER.\\nSamuel,^ lb. probably in Newbury m. Abigail\\nSarah, b. 3 Jan., 1726; m. John Hale.\\nOlive, h. 23 Sept., 1728.\\nLemuel, b 28 Oct., 1730; d. 8 Ansj., 1730.\\nSamuel.} ,0 ^.f 17-0. S F\u00c2\u00abb., 1733.\\nAbigail, ^J d. 12 Aug., 1730.\\nSamuel, b. 13 Sept., 1734.\\nLemuel h. 4 Sept., 1730.\\nAnna, b. 2 Marcli, 1739; m. Samuel Jackman.\\nLucy, in. Ephraini Woodbury.\\nLemuel (Samuel^), b. 4 Sept., 1736 m. Mary lived\\nnear Beaver Dam brook.\\nSa7miel, b. 9 Feb., 1758.\\nAntia. b. 20 Nov., 1759.\\nMolii/,h. 24 Nov., 1701.\\nRoyal, b. 9 July, 1763.\\nNathaniel, b. 23 July, 1765.\\nElizabeth, b. 11 Jan., 1768.\\nAbif/ail, b. 22 Dec, 1771.\\nOlive, h. 21 Sept., 1773.\\nLemuel, b. 18 Oct., 1770.\\nSamuel, b. 21 Oct., 178U; m. Eunice, dan. of Eliphalet Kilhurn, of B.\\nSamuel,^ (Lemuel,- Samuel^), b. 21 Sept., 1780; ra. Eunice Kil-\\nburu, of B. lived on Corser liill.\\nCejiha.^, b. 7 Feb., 1702.\\nRufus, b. 20 Feb., 1804.\\nMary, in. Jedediah Danforth.\\nEunice, b. 27 Aug., 1808; m. Wm. T. Pillsbnry, of B.\\nStanton P., b. 30 April, 181 1 m. Jane Hallock.\\nSarah K., b. 20 June, 1814; m. James Howe.\\nHarriet, b. 10 Feb., 1817; m. Aaron Brown.\\nNathaniel, b. 12 March, 1819.\\nElizabeth^ b. 2 Aug., 1824; m. Nicholas Sheik.\\nLemuel^ (Lemuel/^ SamueP), b. 18 Oct., 1796.\\nRoyal, b. 23 June, 1798.\\nSamuel, b. 20 May, 1801.\\nBenjamin, h. 16 July, 1805.\\nMilbury, b. 15 Oct., 1807.\\nOily, b. 13 Oct., 1809.\\nLemuel, b. 24 June, 1815.\\nSta^^tois Peektice* (SanuieP), b. 30 April, 1811 m. Jane N.\\nHallock.\\nStanton P., b. 20 Aug., 1850; d. Jan., 1859.\\nCharles Augustus, b. 16 Feb., 1848.\\nCephas, lives in Fisherville.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0705.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "532 GENEALOGICAL FRENCH.\\nJohn, b. 2 Dec, 1772; an early settler in B., cousin j)robably\\nof Lemuel. He built a house on Queen st. His sec-\\nond wife was Mrs. Anna (Ellison) Eamford.\\nSamuel came from ISTewbury, probably the first lawyer and tav-\\nern-keeper in B. His second wife was Mrs. Carter,\\nAvidow of Dr. Ezra Carter, of Concord, whose two\\ndaughters married Nathaniel Green, Esq., and Dr.\\nDaniel Peterson. He was a prominent and influen-\\ntial citizen.\\nFEENCH.\\nCompiled by Alfred Little.\\nJoEL,i |j_ .^t Tewksbury, Mass., 24 May, 1779 d. 27 Se])t., 1826\\nwas merchant in B., 1801 to 1811, and town-clerk,\\n1807 to 1809. He, in connection with William G.\\nEmerson, and Col. Joseph and X. Peabody Atkinson,\\nset out the elm trees now standing on west side of the\\nstreet, between his house (now owned by Mrs. Daniel\\nY. Bickford) and the Ambrose hotel. He m. Susan-\\nnah, dau. of Col. Henry and Martlia (Clough) Ger-\\nrish, of B., 29 March, 1804. She d. at K ashua, 2 Jan.,\\n1867.\\nJohn S. .1., b. 1.5 Feb., 1805; d. 26 Jnlv, 1871, in Nashua.\\nHenry S. G., b. 27 April, 1807; d. 14 Feb., 1842, in Bangkok,\\nSiam.\\nEnoch C. G., b. 25 June, 1809. Followed the sea. First voyage\\nwas on a wlialing vessel cruising in the Southern ocean.\\nlie d. 20 May, 1827, on a return voyage from Rotterdam,\\nwhile sailing through the English channel, and was buried\\nat sea off Portsmouth, England.\\nImac S. P., b. 27 Sept., 18U.\\nMartha G., b. 12 Dec, 1814; d. 30 Dec., 1877, in Nashua.\\nSamuel W. Z., b. 28 July, 1817.\\nStephen L. G., h. 11 Nov., 1821; deacon of 1st Congregational\\nchurch, Nashua.\\nJohn S. A. (JoeP) removed from B. to Nashua m. Mary K.\\nEverdean, of Gloucester, Mass, 18 Feb., 1836.\\nHelen IF., b. at B. 2 Feb., 1838; ni. John C. Cochran, New Bos-\\nton, 18 May, 1861; resided at St. Louis, Mo. She d. at\\nNashua.\\nJohn A., b. at B., 28 March, 18-10; m. Emily W. Leavitt, of Flush-\\ning, N. Y., 14 Sept., 1870. He grad. at Williams college,\\n1862 licensed^o preach by tlie Presbytery of Brooklyn,\\nN. Y., 1866; settled in Morristown, N. J., 1868; settled\\nover the 4th Presbyterian church in Chicago, April, 1877.\\nJoseph H., b. at B., 19 Oct., 1812.\\nMan/ F., h. at Nashua, 2 March, 1849.\\nFrederic S., h. at Nashua, 8 July, 1854.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0706.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0707.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0708.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL FRENCH.\\n633\\nHenry S. G., Eev. (JoeP), was ordained at C ;mcord for the for-\\neign missionary service, 19 Sept., 1838 m. Sarah C.\\nAllison, of Concord, 9 April, 1839. They sailed as mis-\\nsionaries for Siam, 8 July following; arrived at Singa-\\npore in Oct., where he remained six months. During\\nthis time he was engaged in the study of the Siamese\\nlanguage, and in type-cutting. He reached Bangkok\\nin May, 1840, and became superintendent of the Mis-\\nsion })rinting department. [See Biog.]\\nHenry A., h. Bangkok, Siain, 10 May, 18-il; learned the printers\\ntrade at Concord; now editor and proprietor of the Colo-\\nrado Sun, published at Greeley, Col.\\nIsaac S. P.- (Joel^) resides in Lynn, Mass. m. Lucinda Brazer,\\nof Charlestown, Mass., 28 Nov., 1838.\\nRlartlia b. at Charlestown, 16 Jan., 1842.\\nHenry IF., b. at Charlestown, 21 Dec, 1843.\\nHenry W.^ (Isaac S. P., JoeP) resides in Lynn, INIass. m. Mary\\nE. Eichardson, of Lynn, 20 Sept., 1871.\\nMary P.. h. 14 July, 1872.\\nGrace P.,h. 25 Nov., 1876.\\nFRENCH.\\nCompiled by Joliu Kiuiball.\\nJames^ moved from Rindge to B. in 1809 settled on Fish st.\\nm., 1st, Cassell, of Rindge 2d, Olive Sawyer,\\nof Canterbury d. 1 Sept 1822.\\nChildren of Olive\\nFrancis S., b. 31 May, 1810; m. Asenath Sawyer; d. 4 April, 1870.\\nOlive, b. 1 Feb., 1812; m. Stewart Noyes, Canterbury.\\nAsa M., b. 3 Oct., 1814; d. 8 Feb., 1819.\\nFrancis S. (James^), h. 31 May, L870. A citizen prominent in\\npublic affairs. [See Biog.]\\nAnna M.. b. 2 May, 1839; grad. at xMerideu academy, 1857; m. D.\\nM. Tenney. of Groton, 1872.\\nEmma, b. 6 May, 1814: d. 19 Aug., 1845.\\nJames F., b. 14 Jau., 1848; ra. Sarah E. Vnggin, 1875.\\nAsa M., b. 14 March, 1850; grad. Dart. College, 1872 a civd en-\\ngineer, Texas.\\nWillie A., b. 6 Dec, 1854; drowned in Merrimack river, 17 July,\\n1870.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0709.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "534 GENEALOGICAL GAGE,\\nGAGE.\\nCompiled by Isaac K. Gage.\\nThe Boscawen branch of the Gage family is descended from\\nTHADDEUSj ^whose two sons, E-ichard and William, settled in B.\\nKiCHAKD- (Thaddeus^), b. in Methuen, Mass., 11 Dec, 1776; m.\\nSusannah, dan. of Capt. John Chandler, 6 Feb., 1805.\\nHe moved into B. previous to 1804 settled near the\\nlower falls on the Contoocook, and subsequently in\\ncompany with his brother acquired a large landed es-\\ntate, including water T)rivileges and mills, and carried\\non the lumbering business, which has been continued\\nby his sons. He represented the town in the legisla-\\nture in 1838, 39. Died 18 May, 1855.\\nHh-nm, b. 1 Dec, 1807: d. IS May, 181.5.\\nLuther, b. 19 Aug., 1800; d. 27 Nov., 1813.\\nCalvin, b. 17 Nov., 1811.\\nJohn Chandler, 11 April, 1811.\\nHiram, b. 2.5 July, 1816.\\nLnlher, b. 5 June, 1820.\\nManj Magoon, h. 11 Aug., 1822; m. Nehemiah Butler, 15 jSTov.,\\n1849.\\nInfant, b. and d. July, 1824.\\nB. FranUin. b. 7 Nov., 1827.\\nRichard, h. 13 Sept., 1831.\\nCalvin^ (Richard, Thaddeus^) m., 1st, Eebecca, dau. of Isaac\\nPearson, 21 Sept., 1835. She was b. 12 Nov., 1815\\nd. 22 July, 1835. Two children. Married, 2d, Eliza-\\nbeth E., dau. of Isaac Ej-an, of Plymouth, 29 April,\\n1846. She was b. 4 July, 1818. Ten children. He\\nhas lield nearly all of the offices of trust in town\\nmember of the legislature in 1849, 50. In company\\nwith his brother, John C, he carried on an extensive\\nbusiness in the manufacture and sale of lumber, near\\nthe waterfalls of the Contoocook, a business estab-\\nlished by their father and uncle.\\nHannah Pearson, b. 13 June, 1836 d. 6 July, 1852.\\nMartha A., b. 10 May, 1840; d. 19 July, 1846.\\nGeorge W., b. 30 Jan., 1847; d. 8 April, 18,54.\\nRebecca P., b. 2 May, 1848; m. George D. B. Prescott, of Con-\\ncord, 12 Oct., 1871. Que cliild, Dana G., b. 27 Oct., 1S74.\\nAnnie D.,h. 18 Feb., 1850.\\nHarley C, b. 24 Oct., 1851.\\nHannah P., b. 5 Sept.. 1863.\\nMary H.,h. 8 May, 18.56.\\nNeAtie A.,h.2\\\\ April. 18.58.\\nJohn F., b. 3 Mav, I860.\\nGeorqe M., b. 23 Dec, 18G3.\\nSjncer R., b. 21 Oct., 1866.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0710.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GAGE. 535\\nJohn Chan^dler^ (Richard,^ Thaddeus^) m., 1st, Elizabeth S.,\\ndau. of Samuel Sargent, of Canterbury, 29 Nov., 1843.\\nShe was b. 21 March, 1821, d. 26 Feb., 1853. Three\\nchildren. Married, 2d, Hannah C, dau. of Andrew\\nStevens, of Loudon, 27 Dec, 1853. Four children.\\nHe has frequently been called to fill places of trust in\\ntown, and represented it in the legislatures of 1853\\nand 54.\\nMartlia A., b. IS July, 1816 m. Geo. Gleason.\\nDan W., h. 20 Sept., 18o0 d. 24 May, 1857.\\nFred V., b. 14 Feb., 1853 d. 11 Oct., 1860.\\nLizzie M., b. 29 Nov., 1855.\\nMabel C, b. 28 July, 18-58.\\nArthur A., h. 27 July, 1862.\\nKate L., b. 10 Sept., 1865; d. 16 July, 1868.\\nHiRAM^ (Richard,^ Thaddeus^) m. Miriam, dau. of Moses Fellows,\\n26 Jan., 1843. His wife was b. 16 March, 1819, d.\\n11 Oct 1875. They reside in Clinton, Iowa.\\nSusa7i J/.,b. 14 April, 1844; m. 1st, John Wayne, of Kansas, 1869;\\n2d, M. E. S. Storer. of Kansas, Oct., 1873.\\nWilliam H. H., b. 27 June, 1845; served in armv.\\nCharles F., b. 3 Nov., 1846 d. 20 Oct., 1818.\\nCaroline A., h. 7 Sept., 1848; m. G. R. Cole, of Kansa.s.\\nLucia E., b. 21 Sept., 1850; d. 11 Nov., 1860.\\nCharles F., h. 21 Marcli, 1855; d. 21 Oct., 1860.\\nJesse b. 6 Feb., 18.57.\\nHiram, h. 3 June, 1860; d. 19 Oct., 1865.\\nLuther^ (Richard, Thaddeus^) m., 1st, Sarah J., dau. of Philip\\nCross, of Northfield. She was b. 1 May, 1824, d. 18\\nSept., 1857. Four children. Married, 2d, Priscilla,\\ndau. of Ephraim Plummer, 2 March, 1859. One\\nchild. He was at one time engaged in trade at\\nthe south part of the town, where he now resides. He\\nhas held the office of selectman and town treasurer,\\nand was member of the legislature in 1861, 62.\\nEdwin il/., b. 18 Oct., 1847 d. 12 Nov., 1848.\\nSarah P., b. 11 Oct., 1819.\\nNathan S. M., b. 2 Oct., 1852.\\nLuther C, b. 4 Aug., 1856.\\nMaurice P., b. 2 May, 1863 d. 27 Sept., 1863.\\nB. Fraxklin^ (Richard m. Amanda, dau. of Bickford Lang, of\\nPembroke, 8 Oct., 1854. She d. 8 Oct., 1867.\\nLizzie Eudora, b. 20 July, 1855.\\nMadella J., b. 20 April, 1859.\\nRichard^ (Richard m. Nancy, dau. of Daniel Mansfield d.\\n6 Oct., 1876. His wife, b. 13 May, 1831 d. 17 July,\\n1866.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0711.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "536 GENEALOGICAL GAGE.\\nEdward Everelf, b. 28 June, 1852.\\nJulia IF., b. 16 July, 1854; m. Oscar F. Smith.\\nGeorge b. 7 Nov., 1856.\\nThaddem 0., h. 1 Aus., 1858.\\nAddkonF., b. May, 1800.\\nHerbert C, b. 25 Aug., 1862.\\nWilliam Haseltiis-e (Thaddeus^), h. in Sanbornton, 21 March,\\n1791; moved to B., 1804; m., 1st, Polly, dau. of\\nBradbury Morrison, of Sanbornton 2d, Sarah, dan. of\\nSamuel Sargent, of Canterbury. [See Biog.]\\nCliildren of Polly\\nSophronia S., h. 21 Jan., 1815; m. John O. Russ, Nov., 1835; d. 23\\nMay, 1811.\\nElcander Wood, b. 11 July, 1816; drowned in canal near Coutoo-\\ncook river, 25 May, 1817. The body was recovered nine\\ndays later in the jNIerriniack, seven miles distant.\\nIsaac Kimball, b. 27 Oct., 1818; m. Susan G., dau. of Reuben\\nJohnson. [See Biog.]\\nAsa Morrison, b. 8 Aug., 1820; m. Sophia W., dau. of John Cald-\\nwell, of B.\\nPhehe Prescntt, b. 23 Sept., 1822; m. Andrew J. Russ, d. 9 Aug.,\\n1853. Three children.\\nRosilla Morrison, b. 8 Aug., 1821; d. 28 Oct., 1827.\\nChild of Sarah\\nPolly Rosilla, b. 1 Aug., 1838; m. Samuel R. Mann. One child,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWilliam H. Gage.\\nIsaac K.^ (William H Thaddeus^) m. Susan G. Johnson. [See\\nBiog.]\\nFrederick Johnson, b. 42 Sept., 1843; m. Ilattie A. Morse.\\nGeorgianna Judith, b. 16 Sept., 1848; m. Abial W. Rolfe. Two\\nchildren,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 i/\u00c2\u00abn-^ Gage, b. 5 July, 1872; Herbert Wilson, b.\\n14 May, 1875.\\nMarij Morrison, b. 28 Dec, 1849 m. Milton W. Wilson one chdd,\\nFlorence Lee, b. 9 Jan., 1877.\\nCharlotte Hubbel,h. 13 March, 1852 d. 26 June, 1866.\\nLucy Kimball, h. 11 June, 1858.\\nIsaac William, b. 1 Sept., 1861.\\nAsa M.3 (William B.,^ Thaddeus^) m. Sophia W. Caldwell.\\nFrank Henry, b. 20 April, 1804; m. Lucy Ann Smith, of Warsaw,\\nKy. lives in Troy, N. Y.; two children, Edwin Asa, h.\\n8 Feb., 1872; Fanny Atkinson, b. 27 Feb., 1874.\\nHelen Sophia, b. 13 Oct., 1817; m. Horace H. Danforth; one child,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Maud Evelyn, b. 21 Oct., 1870.\\nEdwin Asa, b. 5 Aug., 1848; d. 21 Sept., 1871.\\nIda May, b. 8 Nov., 1851.\\nFrederick Johnson* (Isaac K,^) m. Ilattie A. Morse resides\\nin Boston.\\nBlanche, b. 24 Nov., 1869.\\nLottie H, b. 22 Feb., 1873.\\nFred Healey, b. 20 Oct., 1874.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0712.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GERRISH, 537\\nGEEEISH.\\nCompiled by Alfred Little.\\nWilliam/ Capt., was b. in Bristol, Somersetshire, England, 20\\nAug., 1617, where he is said to have been educated in\\nthe mercantile house of Percival Lowle Co. came\\nto New England as early as 1639, and settled that\\nyear in Newbury, Mass. [see Coffin s History of New-\\nbury] was the first captain of the military band in\\nthat town, and representative 1650- 54 in., 1st, Jo-\\nanna, widow of John Oliver, of Newbur}-, IT April,\\n1645, who d. 14 June, 1677, aged 58 removed to\\nBoston, 1678, and there m., 2d, Ann, widow of John\\nManning was the owner of No. 3, Long wharf, where\\nhe carried on business. At the semi-centennial anni-\\nversary meeting of the town of Boston, 14 March,\\n1686, Capt. Gerrish opened and closed the exercises\\nwith prayer. He d. at his son Benjamin s house, Sa-\\nlem, Mass., 9 Aug., 1687.\\nChildren of Joanna\\nJohn, b. 15 May, lOiO; d. 1714; settled at Dover; m. there Eliz-\\nabeth, dau. of Maj. R. Waldron was a captain, sheriff,\\nrepresentative, counsebor, and judge of the supreme court\\nof N. H.\\nW dliam, b. 6 June, KUS was a physician at Charlestown, Mass.;\\nd. there 10 M;iy, 168:3.\\nJoseph, b. 23 March, 1640; d. 6 Jan., 1720; ra. Ann, dau. of Maj.\\nR. Waldron, Dover; grad. at Harvard college, 1669; was\\nminister at VVenham, Mass.\\nBenjamin, b. 31 Jan., 16.51 was collector of his majesty s customs\\nat Salem: d. 2 April, 1713.\\nEUzaheth,h. 20 Sept., 16.34; d. 1.9 Nov., 1678; m.^Capt. Stephen\\nGreenleaf, of Newbury, Mass., 23 Oct., 1676.\\nMoses, b. 9 May, 1656; d. 4 Dec. 1694.\\nManj, b. 1 April, 1658 m. Dr. John Dole, of Newbury, Mass., 23\\nOct., 1676.\\nChild of Ann\\nHenr;/, b. in Boston, 21 ]March, 1679 d. without issue.\\nMosES,^ Col. (William,^ Capt.), lived in Newbury, Mass. m. 24\\nSept., 1677, Jane, dau. of Rev. Plenry Sewall, and sis-\\nter of Chief Justice Sewall, of Mass. She was b. afc\\nBadesly, England, 25 Oct., 1659, and d. 29 Jan., 1717.\\nJoanna, b. 3 0ct. 1678.\\nJoseph, b. 20 March, 1682 d. Jan., 1765, aged 82 years, 9 months,\\nand 20 days.\\nSarah, b. 25 Dec, l683.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0713.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "638 GENEALOGICAL GERRISH.\\nElizabeth, h. 27 Dec, 1685.\\nMary, b. 28 Oct., 1687.\\nJohn, b. 2 April, 1695; m. Judith Coker.\\nJoseph,^ Col (Moses,^ Col., William,^ Capt.), lived in Newbury,\\nMass. was member of the colonial legislature 20\\nyears, and often elected by that body to his majesty s\\ncouncil, and as often rejected by the English governor\\nbecause he was not supjile; was elected to a seat in\\na provincial congress. Says Rev. Jacob Little,\\nCol. Joseph Gerrish had such muscular power, that\\nhe swam the Merrimack river, near its mouth,\\nevery year till he was past 70. The weight of four\\nof his children was 1,200 pounds. He m. Marj^, dau.\\nof Moses and Lydia (Coffin) Little, of ISTewbury pub-\\nlished 26 Feb., 1703, 4. She was b. 13 Jan., 1086.\\n3Ioses, b. 15 April, 1706; m. Mary Moody, IS April, 1728; lived\\niu Newbury (Byfield), Mass.\\nJoseph, b. 10 Sept., 17US; d. 26 May, 1776; was a colonel; m.\\nCatherine Brown, of Reading, Mass. settled iu Newbury\\n(Bvfield.)\\nStephen, b. 22 Jan., 1711 d. 1788, in B.\\nMary, b. 10 Sept., 1714; m. Griggs, of Roxbury, Mass.\\nJane, b. 12 Oct., 1717 m. Rev. Phineas Stevens, first minister at\\nB., 24 Nov., 1741.\\nElizabeth, b. 5 March, 1720 m. Stephen March, of Portsmouth, 14\\nJune, 1753.\\nSarah, b. 18 July, 1722; was adopted by Judge Samuel Sewall m.\\nMoses Newell.\\nJudith, b. 7 Jan., 1724; m. Col. Thurston, of Bradford, Mass.\\nSamuel, b. 8 April, 1728 m. Sarah Johnson; lived at West\\nNewbury.\\nRebecca, h. 29 Oct., 1732 m. Joshua March, 1 Jan., 1752;\\nlived in West Newbury.\\nThree others d. young.\\nStephen,* Capt. (Joseph,^ Col., Moses,^ Col.), b. 22 Jan., 1711, in\\nNewbury, Mass. d. 1788, in B. [see Biog.] was a\\nresident of Canterbury at date of his first marriage,\\nin 1738, and of Contoocook (B.) when m., 2d, in\\n1741. [See Newbury Records.] Married, 1st, Mar-\\ntha Chase, of Newbury, Mass., 21 July, 1738 2d, Jo-\\nanna Hale, 15 July, 1741, who was b. June, 1715, and\\nd. about 1792 [see Biog.]. She was dau. of Samuel\\nHale, of Newbury, and sister of Richard Hale, the\\nfather of Capt. Nathan Hale, the martyr spy, in the\\nAvar of American independence.\\nNote. The names and birth-dates of the children of Cupt. \\\\ViUiam,i Col. Moses,^\\nand of the first eight children of Col. .Josepli Gerrish, have been coiiied for the\\ncompiler from the early records of Newbury, Mass., by William Little, Escx., town-\\nclerk.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0714.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0715.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0716.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GERRISH. 539\\nHenry, b. 3 May, 1742 d. IP May, 1806.\\nJane, b. 20 April, 1745; d. 30 March, 181i m. Lieut. Samuel\\nAmi S, of B., who d. 1 Sept., 1825.\\nSamue b. 20 xipril, 1718; d. 10 Nov., 1825.\\nEnoch, b. 16 Jan., 1750; d. 1 May, 1821.\\nJoseph, b. 17 Sept.; 17-53; d. 21 Nov., 1817.\\nStephen^ b. 1750; d. 24 Aug., 1777.\\nHexky,^* Col. (Stephen,* Capt., Josepli,^ Col.), m. Martha, dau. of\\nJeremiah Clough, of Canterbury, 10 Nov., 1763. She\\nwas b. 10 Nov., 1742 d. 15 Oct., 1826. [See Biog.]\\nJeremiah, b. 8 Aug., 1764; d. 23 April, 1830; in., 1st, Sarah, dau.\\nof Joseph Gerrish, of West B., 6 March, 1788; m., 2d,\\nMary, dau. of Nehemiah Cogswell, of B., 20 Nov., 1817\\nwho Avas b. 29 Feb., 1784. He was a gunsmith and re-\\npairer of clocks and watches, and made cut-nails (prior to\\n1804, it is said) while living in the house now owned by\\nCharles D. Glitten, at Webster, cutting them out of hoop-\\niron with large shears driven by horse-power; built the first\\nsaw-mill at the outlet of Long pond, in Webster; willed\\nhis homestead to the Congregational society at B. for the\\nsupport of a minister.\\nSarah, b. 3 April 1766 d. 21 Aiig. 1839; m. Capt. Joseph Wood,\\nof Lebanon, 15 Jan., 1784. He was b. in Mansfield, Ct.,\\n8 Nov., 1759, and d. 17 Dec, 1859 a centenarian, aged\\n100 years and 39 days; was one of the last surviving sol-\\ndiers of the Revolution.\\nMoses, b. 17 Feb., 1768; d. 24 Nov., 1854.\\nStephen, b. 16 April, 1770; d. 11 Nov.. 1815.\\nHenry, b. 29 May, 1772; d. 11 Sept., 1862.\\nHannah, b. 14 Aug., 1774; d. 2.5 June, 1855; m., 1st, Jeremiah\\nCarter, of B., 27 May, 1795 2d, Jacob March, of Sauborn-\\nton, 4 April, 1802.\\nMartha, h. 14 May, 1777; d. 28 Aug., 1855, at New Buffalo, Mich.;\\nm. Jesse Little, of B.\\nJacob, b. 10 Nov., 1779; d. 22 May, 1861.\\nSusannah, b. 28 Feb., 1782; d. 2 Jan., 1867, at Nashua; m. Joel\\nFrench, of B., 29 March, 1804.\\nJoseph, b. 25 March, 1784; d. 25 May, 1851.\\nThomas, b. 12 Sept., 1786; d. 19 Feb., 1875.\\nNote. The Gerrisli meeting originated in tlie family of Col. Henry Gerrish, but\\nincluded others of the name. His eleven children (with their families), living at differ-\\nent points between Nashua and Lebanon, were accustomed for many years to meet an-\\nnually at their various homes for a family reunion, the last one occurring in 1849.\\n*A part of the inscription on his gravestone at B. is incorrect, viz., Joseph Ger-\\nrish, captain of the life-guard of G. R., 1st. It shoitld read thus: William Gerrish,\\nfirst captain of the Military Band at Newbury, Mass", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0717.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "540 GENEALOGICAL GERRISH,\\nSamuel^ (Stephen/ Capt., Joseph,^ Col.) settled first on High\\nstreet, B. removed in 1776 to Canterhury, his farm\\nl3 ing on the IMerrimack river; m. Lucy Noyes, of He-\\nbron, Jan., 1773, Avho d. 1818, aged 6G.\\nEnoch, b. 1775; m.. 1st, Judith, dau. of Nathan Chandler, of Con-\\ncord, who d. at St. Arniand, L. C, 18-2o; 2(\\\\, Martha Fos-\\nter, of Canterbury, who d. at Montre.il, 18;;3. lie was a\\nmerchant in B.; removed soon after 1820 to St. Arniand,\\nwhere he d. LS56.\\nJosepJi, h. 19 IMarch, 1777; d. 31 July, 1839.\\nStephen, h. 1789; d. 1811.\\nEnoch,^ Dea. (Stephen,* Capt., Joseph,^ Col), m., 1st, ISIary E.,\\ndan. of Dea. Isaac Pearson, of B., Feb 1772 she\\nwas b. 3 Oct 1753 d. May, 1784;\u00e2\u0080\u0094 m., 2d, Hannah\\nKilburn, of B., 8 Dec, 1784. who d. 14 Jan., 1792\\n3d, Mary, dau. of Joseph Gerrish, of B., 2 July, 1792,\\nwho d. 3 May, 1829.\\nChildren of Mary E.\\nSamuel, b. 7 July, 1773; was a physician at Sanbornton d. there\\n31 Oct., 1809.\\nEnoch, b. 30 April, 1775; d. 24 Aug., 1831.\\nStephen, h. 5 March, 1778; d. 1781.\\nSal/u, b. 1 March. 1780; d. 10 March, 1811; m. Rev. Lemuel Bliss,\\nof Bradford, 17 Jan., 1806.\\nIsaac,}, o- AT 17QO S i. 22 Aug., 1812.\\nAnna, C d. 22 Sept., 1815; m. Joseph B. Smith,\\nof Eaton, L. C, 21 Jan., 1812.\\nChildren of Hannah\\nIlanj, b. Oct., 1785; d. 26 March, 1871 m. Capt. Ephraim Wood,\\nof Lebanon, 29 Feb., 1816, who was b. 21 Aug., 1787, and\\nd. 23 April, 1874.\\nHannah, b. 4 Jan., 1792; d. Jan., 1821; m. Dea. Isaac Pearson, of\\nB., 1 June, 1814.\\nJoseph,^ Col. (Stephen,* Capt., Joseph,^ Col.), was a prominent\\nman, and held various offices in town for many years\\nwas also delegate to convention for adoption of the\\nFederal constitution m. Mary Bartlett, of Newbury,\\nMass., Oct., 1779, who was b. May, 17()2, and d. 18\\nJan., 1827.\\nJudith, h. 12 July, 1780; d. 19 Dec, 1859 m. Dea. John Clough,\\nof Canterbury, 31 March, 1802.\\nSamuel Bartlett, b. 12 Dec, 1782 d. 7 Dec, 1866, at Lebanon.\\nMary, b. 17 Oct., 1784; d. Oct., 1825 m. Rev. Wm. Patrick, of\\nCanterbury, 15. Aug., 1805.\\nSally, b. 19 Aug., 1786; d. l7 Jan., 1851; m. Rev. Enoch Corser,\\nof B., 29 May, 1817.\\nBetsey, h. 31 Dec, 1787; d. 11 Oct., 1821; m. Dea. Thomas Ger-\\nrish, of B., 19 Sept., 1805.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0718.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GERRISH. 541\\nMosES^ (Henry,5 Col., Stephen,* Capt.) settled in tlie south-western\\nj)ai t of B., at Bashan, named thus by Dea. Enoch\\nLittle, Sen., from the many oaks which grew there.\\nHis house has ever been the abode of liospitality. He\\nm. Sarah Ilsley, dau. of Enoch Little.\\n5\u00c2\u00ab%, b. 26 Oct., 1790; d. 1 Sept., 18(31; ra. Col. John Farmer, of\\nB.,11 Feb., 1810.\\nJeremiah, b. 1 Jan., 1791; d. 30 Oct., 1813.\\nStephen, Lieut. (Hemy,^ Col., Stephen,* Capt.), lived on High\\nstreet Avas a man of great inventive talent. The at-\\ntachment of the screw to the pod-auger, and also the\\nfirst practical auger for boring logs and wooden\\npumps, are said to have been his inventions. With\\nhis father, he made mill-saws and cranks on a common\\nforge. He was one of the first in this state to make\\ncut-nails, his nail-mill on High street being on the\\nsouth fork of Stirrup-iron brook he also built the\\nGulf bridge, but d. before its completion. He m.\\nHannah, dau. of Lieut. Samuel Ames, of B. She d.\\n18 Xov., 1834.\\nSalhi.h. -20 July, 1796; d. 11 Jan., 1819; m. Edmund Dearborn,\\nof Northfield, 19 June, 1821.\\nJane, b. -20 July, 1798; d. at Elldiorn, Brown Co., III., 22 April,\\n18-14; m. Jonathan Dearborn, m. d., Northfield, 14 Oct.,\\n1823; removed to Elkhorn, 111., March, 1837, where he\\nd. 15 March, 1875.\\nMartha, b. 14 Sept., 18()0; d. at Elkhorn, 111., 10 Feb., 1868; m.\\nStephen Kendrick, Lebanon, 21 Sept., 1826.\\nSam, b. 2 Nov., 1803; d. 4 Nov., 1845, at Elkhorn, 111.\\nHannah, b. 20 April, 1806; m. Baxter Clough. of Canterbury, 19\\nJuly, 1832; removed to Solon, O.. 1831, and thence to\\nNorth Amherst, 1853, where he d. 30 Nov., 1872.\\nSewalU b. 18 March, 1809.\\nHarriet, b. 21 March, 1812; d. at Elkhorn, 111., 2 Sept., 1874; m.\\nAbsalom Gerrish, Northfield, 5 June, 1839.\\nHenry, b. 31 July, and d. 2 Aug, 1814.\\nHenkt\u00c2\u00ab (Henry,^ Col., Stephen,* Capt.) first settled on High st.,\\nand afterwards on the homestead at Fish st., B. m.\\nMary, dau. of Hon. Abiel Foster, Canterburv, 6 June,\\n1796. She was b. 1 Oct., 1774; d. 23 Sept., 1869,\\naged about 95.\\nSusanna, b. 15 June, 1797; m. Dr. Thomas Peach, of B., 2 Feb.,\\n1815; residence in AVest Creek, Ind.\\nInfant dau., b. 9 and d. 21 Dec, 1799.\\nJacob, b. 29 Dec, 1801; d. 28 Oct., 1858; m. Maria Ames, Can-\\nterbury, 25 Sept., 1824; removed to New Buffalo, Mich.\\nSept., 1835.\\nLucy, b. 30 Sept., 1803 m. Ephraim Plumer, of B., 11 Jau\\n1821.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0719.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "542 GENEALOGICAL GERRISH.\\nAbid, h. 7 March, 1806.\\nMary, b. 9 Feb., 1808 d. 14 March, 1836 m. Jamea Little, of\\nB., 15 Dec, 18i 9; removed to New IJuffalo, Mich., 1835.\\nEUzahelh, b. 21 July, 1813; d. 7 Nov., 1812; m. Joseph G. Ames,\\nBerrien Co., Mich., 4 Sept., 1839.\\nJacob^ (Heiiry,^ Col., Stephen,* Capt.) m. Sarah, dau. of David\\nAmes, Canterbury, 15 A})ril, 1803 lived on Fish st.,\\nB. [See Biog.]\\nAppJiia, b. 27 April, 1804; m. Rev. Phannel W. Wavrener, Canau-\\ndai^ua. N. Y., 28 Sept., 1829.\\nMarlJia, b. 26 Nov., 1805; d. 17 April, 18G7; m., 1st. Samuel Cham-\\nberlain, Loudon, 24 Oct., 1824, who d. 3 Nov., 18;;8 2d,\\nRuel Walker, Loudon, 20 Nov., 1840, who d. 6 July, 1872,\\naged 80.\\nJoseph, b. 22 June, 1807; d. 17 D^^c, 1850, at Fislierville; m. Me-\\nhitable Plumer, of 15., 11 Nov., 1830.\\nCalvin, b. 31 May, 1809.\\nLuther, h. 30 Aug., 1812; d. 1 Mav, 1821.\\nDavid A., b. 6 Feb., 1816.\\nStephen, b. 17 Dec, 1817; d 17 April. 1818.\\n.S ara/t,b. 1 Feb., 1819; m. George AV. Choate, Enfield, 13 Jan.,\\n1841.\\nEtnUi/, h. 6 April, 1821; m. Dea. Enocli Coffin, of B., 20 Oct., 1842;\\nresides in Beloit, Wis.\\nJoseph^ (Henry,^ Col., Stephen,* Capt.) settled in Northfield about\\n1804, his land (now a part of FranHin) lying on Mer-\\nrimack river, and opposite Daniel Webster s residence\\n^Yas an extensive farmer and dealer in real estate m.\\nSusan Hancock, of North Held, who Avas b. 13 Jnly,\\n1791 d. 26 Nov., 1849.\\nAhsniom, b. 22 June, 1809.\\nMilton, b. 29 Nov., 1811.\\nCynthia A., h. 8 Feb., 1813; m. Jacob K. Moore, of Canterbury,\\nAug., 1835; removed to Griggsville, 111., 1819.\\nAbnira S.,h. 13 March, 1815; d. 23 Feb., 1854; m. Charles H.\\nAvers, Canterbury, 4 Oct., 1838.\\nLouisa, ^.28 Jan., 1817; d. 29 Dec, 1848; m. Dea. Nathan B.\\nStearns, Lebanon, 19 March, 1845.\\nLucien, b. 8 Feb., 1819 d. 26 July, 18.59.\\nStephen, b. 29 Nov., 1821. Col. Stephen Gerrish remained on the\\nhomestead for several years; now resides in Franklin vil-\\nlage; m. Mrs. Alice B. Hammond, March, 1855.\\nLeonard, b. 11 June, 1823.\\nSusan, h. 25 July, 1825; d. 3 Sept., 1869, at Lebanon; m., 27 Jan.,\\n1852, Luther C. Bean, m. D.,of Fisherville, now practising\\nin Chicago.\\nJoseph, h. 2 May, 1827: resides in Minn.\\nAlfred A., h. 9 July, 1829; physician at Lowell, Ind.\\nCarlos E., b. 17 April, 1831; went by overland route to Cal., 1852.\\nEllen M., b. 19 Oct., 1833; m. Charles IL Ayers, Canterbury, 15\\nOct., 1854.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0720.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GERRISH. 543\\nThomas,^ Dea. (Heniy,^ Col., Stephen, Capt.), lived on Boscawen\\nPlain elected deacon of 1st Congregational cliurcli\\nin B. removed to Webster, March, 1867 m., 1st,\\nBetsey, dau. of Col. Joseph Gerrish, of B., 19 Sept.,\\n1805 2d, Elizaheth Patrick, of Weston, Mass., Oct.,\\n1822, who d. 26 Feb., 1869. [See Biog.]\\nChildren of Betsej^\\nMary, b. 1806; d. in infancy.\\nJoanna Eliza, b. 22 Aug., 1807; m., 23 Feb., 1800, Adams Shep-\\nherd, of Canterbury, a teacher; removed to Orio, Wabash\\ncounty, 111\\nHenrii, b. 30 May, 18 9; d. at Patoka, Marion county, TIL, 19\\nFeb., 1875. His father d. same day, at Webster, JST. H.\\nJoseph, b. 7 Marcli, 1812; d. 15 April, 1816.\\nMary B.^ b. 24 March, 1815; m., 1st, Hon. Jefferson G. Thurber,\\nof Monroe, Mich., 6 March. 1834, who d. May, 18.57 2d,\\nDea. Samuel Wood, West Lebanon, 5 Sept., 1871.\\nHarlan P.. b. 6 June, 1818; d. in Clay City, 111., 13 April, 1876.\\nThomas, 5S^ t 1S- 0-\\nElizabeth, P j ni. Jeremiah V{. Wilson, m. d., Hop-\\nkinton, 31 March, 1847.\\nJosEi H,\u00c2\u00ab Cai)t. (Samnel,^ Stephen, Capt.), lived on the homestead,\\nCanterbury m., 1st, Sarah, dau. of ]S athan Chandler,\\nConcord; 2d, Sarah, dau. of Dea. John Church, Dun-\\nbarton, 1813. She was b. 9 June, 1784 d. 2 Feb.,\\n1855.\\nChildren of Sarah Chandler\\nJudith, b. 22 Feb., 1802; d. 24 Sept., 1820.\\nLucu, b. 24 Jan., 18u4 d. at Granville, O., 5 Oct., 1834; m. Rev.\\nJacob Little, of B., 1 June, 1820.\\nMary, b. U April, 1807; m. Rev. Henry Shedd, Leominster, Mass.,\\n28 Sept., 1829; went as home nussionaries to O., where\\nshe d. 12 March, 1835.\\nNathan, b. 28 Oct., 1811; d. 1 June, 1825.\\nChildren of Sarah Church\\nJohn, b. 26 April, 1814.\\nSurah, b. 2 March, 1810 m. Dr. James B. Abbott, of B., 22 March,\\n1813.\\nEnoch, b. 16 Feb., 1818; d. 30 March, 1858.\\nSusan, b. 1 Feb., 1820; m. Capt. True O. Furnald, Canterbury, 3\\nFeb., 1841; resides in Manchester.\\nCharles, b. 1 March, 1822.\\nJudith, b. 21 May, 1824; m. Farnum Coffin, of B., 24 Nov., 1842.\\nNeioell, b. 23 Feb., 1826; went to Cab, 1849, thence to Port Towu-\\nsend, W. T.\\nExocH, Adjt. (Enoch,5 Dea., Stephen, Capt m., 1st, Elizabeth,\\ndau. of Hon. Abiel Foster, of Canterbury, 10 March,\\n1800 she d. 18 July, 1803, aged 25 2d, Kuth,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0721.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "544 GENEALOGICAL GERRISH,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0widow of Abner Clough, Loudon, March, 1810, who\\nd. 10 Dec, 1833, aged oO.\\nChildren of Elizabetli\\nSteplien, b. 4 Jan., 1801; d. 2 Feb., 1810; m. Martha A., dan. of\\nJoseph B. and Anna (Gerrish) Sinitli, of B., 2-2 Sept.,\\n1884. She m., 2d Gen. Enoch Gerrish Wood, 9 Oct.,\\n1844.\\nElizahetk, b. 14 Jan., 1803; d. 24 Aug., 1824.\\nChildren of Ruth\\n3Iarij A.,h. 14 March, 1811 d. 30 June, 1827.\\nRebecca P., b. 24 Sept., 1812; d. 29 June, 1845; m. Francis W.\\nAme.=;, of Canterbury, 8 May, 1838, who d. 30 Aug., 1838;\\n2d, W. W. Brown, M. d., Chester, 8 Oct.. 1839.\\nCaroline L.,h. 24 Aug., 1814; d. 23 Sept., 1838; m. W.\\nBrown, m. d., Chester, 8 May, 1838.\\nIsAAC^ (Enoch,^ Dea., Stephen,^ Capt.) m. Caroline Lawrence, of\\nCanterbury, 1 June, 1S15, who wash. 16 Nov., 1797,\\nand d. at West Lebanon, 25 Oct 1870.\\nTwins, d. in infancy.\\nXy/(\u00c2\u00ab, b. 28 June, 1818; ni. Dea. Samuel Wood, of West Leba-\\nnon, 24 Oct., 1838; d. 8 June, 1860.\\nEnoch, b. 28 July, 1822.\\nElizabeth, b. 12 Jan., 1826 d. 15 April, 1828.\\nSamuel Bartlett,^ Capt. (Joseph,^ Col., Stephen,* Capt.), was\\ninn-keeper at B. about 16 years removed to ILart-\\nland, Vt., 1829, from thence to Lebanon m. IMary,\\ndau. of Capt. Joseph Wood, of Lebanon, 2 Sept., 1806.\\nShe was b. 16 Aug 1789 resides at Lebanon.\\nSarah T7., b. 8 Aug., 1808; d. 2 Feb., 1861; m. Orlando Sar-\\ngent, Woodstock, Vt., 8 July, 1829.\\nJoanna H.,h. 27 Sept., 1812; d. 29 Aug., 1866; in., 1st, John\\nCurrier, Lebanon, 28 April, 1840; 2d, George H. Gates,\\nPomfret, Vt., 17 March, 1851; 3d, Humphrey Wood, Leb-\\nanon, 13 April, 1859.\\nSusan, b. 22 Dec, 1814; ni. Humphrey Wood, Lebanon, 7 June,\\n1868.\\nIlnry P., b. 19 April, 1819 resides at Lebanon.\\nJoseph W., b. 25 March, 1825.\\nSamuel 31., h. 5 March, 1827 d. 30 Jan., 1854; m. Clara T. Dear-\\nborn, Lebanon, 28 Nov., 1850.\\nGeorge L., b. 29 July, 1829; m., 1st, Clarissa M. Wliittier, 31\\nMarch. 1856; 2d, Eveline J. Marsh, Faribault, Minn.; re-\\nsides at Waverly, Minn.\\nCharles H., h. at Hartland, Vt., 27 Oct., 1832.\\nJeremiah, Dea. (IMosos,*^ Ilenry,^ Col.), lived on the homestead at\\nBashan succeeded George T. Pillsbury, deceased,\\nas deacon of the Congregational church at West Bos-\\ncawen, and was leader of the choir about nin\u00c2\u00ab3teen", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0722.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GERRISH. 545\\nyears. He purchased, 26 Marcli, 1838, the first sera-\\npliine made by Charles Austin, of Concord. This was\\na reed instrument blown bj pedals, and is remarkable\\nas bein^ one of the earliest in America. He m. Jane,\\ndan. of Dea. Enoch Little, of B., 8 March, 1821.\\nPolly Z., b. 27 June, 1823; d. 26 Dec, 1813.\\nJeremiah Edwin, b. 19 May, 1826; d. 7 Nov., 1818.\\nSarah b. 11 Jan., 1830; d. 21 June, 1872; in, Georo;e Little, of\\nWebster, 19 Nov., 1867.\\nHenry H.. b. 21 Feb., 1833; m. Sarah J., dan. of Col. Paul Pear-\\nson, of Webster, 11 Nov., 1856; lives on the homestead\\nwas chosen deacon of Congregational church, at Web-\\nster, to succeed Dea. Enoch Little, resigned.\\nJamcAL.^ b. 11 j\\\\Iay, 1838.\\nSam (Stephen,* Lieut., Henry,^ Col.) removed from B. to Solon,\\n0., Nov., 1831, and to Elkhorn, Brown county, 111,\\njMarch, 1837 m., at Solon, Betsey Clough, of Canter-\\nbury, 17 Jul} 1835.\\nJohn C, b. 22 May, 1836; d. 20 Jan., 18.51.\\nStephen, b. 6 June, 1839; d. 18 Sept., 1843.\\nElizabeth, b. 19 and d. 24 Nov., 1841.\\nLucien, b. 19 July, 1842; d. 24 Aug., 1869.\\nJane E., b. 22 March, 1844; m. John B. Clough, Sept., 1866.\\nSam, b. 25 Feb., 1846.\\nSEWALL (Stephen, Lieut., Henry,^ Col.) removed from B. to\\nElkhorn, Brown county, 111., Sept., 1836 m. there\\nElizabeth Groves, 8 Jan., 1846.\\nHannah, b. 20 July, 1848; m. Frank F. Winnaker, 26 Nov., 1871.\\nHarriet, b. 18 Feb., 1850; m. Sam Gerrish, 8 July, 1867.\\nStephen, b. 12 Dec, 18.51; d. So Jan., 1855.\\nMartlia J., b. 9 Feb., 1853; m. George E. Richardson, 23 April,\\n1875.\\nSamuel S.. h. 18 July, 1855.\\nMarin J., h. 14 Jan., 1857.\\nJacob D.. b. 12 March, 18(51.\\nCynthia A., b. 15 May. 1866.\\nMary E., b. 4 April, 1868.\\nAbiel (Henry,\u00c2\u00ae Henry,^ Col.) lived in Canterhury, and after-\\nwards on the homestead, since occupied as the county\\nfarm removed to West Creek, Lake country, Ind.,\\nwhere he now resides m. Eliza, dan. of Paul Dodge,\\nof B., 18 Jan., 1830.\\nMaria, b. in Canterbury, 15 April, 1831; m. -Joseph Barnard, Jr.,\\nof Contoocookville, 26 Oct., 1849.\\nMartha, b. in Canterbury, 5 Nov., 1832 m. William S. Freed, of\\nDundas, Out., Canada, 18 Aug., 1862; d. 16 Dec, 1875.\\n3Iary, b. in Canterburv, 22 Aug., 1834; m. Joseph A. Little, West\\nCreek, Ind., 1 Nov., 1859.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0723.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": "546 GENEALOGICAL GERRISH.\\nJames Z., b. in B., 15 Nov., 1836.\\nJane P., b. 9 July, 1841; m. Thomas Stroud, of Wheeler, lad., 31\\nDec, 1863; resides at Saliiia, III.\\nAnn E., b. 10 Feb., 1847 m. David B. Brush, Waveland, Ind., 22\\nSept., 1868.\\nCalvin (Jacob,\u00c2\u00ae Henry,^ Col.) resides in Concord; m. Ann S.\\nFifield, of Franklin, 1 Dec 1836.\\nSusan Augusta, h. 4 Auf?., 1838; m. Hiram K. Dewey, Waterford,\\nVt., 1 March, 1866 resides iii Barton, Vt.\\nHiram F., b. 27 Sept., 1839.\\nDavid A. (Jacob,\u00c2\u00ae Hemy,^ Col.) lived on the homestead filled\\nvarious offices of trust removed to Letonia, 0., A|)ril,\\n1869 m. Elizabeth Putnam, Warren, Mass., 11 Oct.,\\n1841.\\nFrances E., b. 17 Jan., 1847 d. 26 July, 1865.\\nAdaline D.,h. 9 Jan., 1850.\\nAbsalom (Joseph,\u00c2\u00ae Henr^^,\u00c2\u00ae Col.) settled at Elkhorn, Brown co.,\\n111., in 1836 m. Harriet, dau. of Lieut. Stephen Ger-\\nrish, of B., 5 June, 1839.\\nJosepTi A., b. 7 Oct., 1844; d. 6 Oct., 1876, was greatly interested\\nin the study of natural history, commencing when a boy\\nto collect geological and other specimens. His museum of\\ncuriosities became famous throughout the comity.\\nMilton, Capt. (Josepli,\u00c2\u00ae Henry,^ Col.), lives on the paternal estate,\\nFranklin m. Hannah Dimick, West Hartford, Yt., 28\\nOct., 1839.\\nClara i., b. 28 June, 1842; m. Henry W. Boutwell, of Lynde-\\nborough, 3 May, 1872; resides at West Medford, Mass.\\nFrank J/., b. 20 June, 1848 resides in Manchester.\\nCharles F., b. 10 Oct., 1850.\\nLuciEN (Joseph,\u00c2\u00ae Henry,^ Col.) lived at Sanbornton Bridge (now\\nTilton) m. Mary J. Dimick, West Hartford, Vt., 2\\nOct., 1846.\\nSarah F., b. G Sept., 1847; m. Samuel W., son of Rev. Joseph T.\\nLewis, 21 Aug., 1866; resides in Cincinnati, O.\\nLeonard (Joseph,\u00c2\u00ae Henry,^ Col.) resides on the paternal estate,\\nFranklin m Emily A. Cerrish, Fisherville, 15 March,\\n1849.\\nJoseplilne M., b. 17 Oct., 1851.\\nHelen X., b. 6 Aug., 1858.\\nHenky (Thomas,\u00c2\u00ae Dea., Henry,^ Col.) lived in Sandoval and Pa-\\ntoka, 111. m. Eunice Couch, of Friendship, N. Y., 21\\nOct., 1841.\\nHarlan T., b. 11 Sept., 1842.\\nJacob E. R., b. 9 Dec, 1843; d. 15 Dec, 1861.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0724.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GERRISH. 547\\nMarij E., b. 2-1 Jan., 1846 m. Samuel Britt, 2 Nov., 1809.\\nLfiui b. 11 March, 1848; in. Susan Parker, 14 Sept., 1873.\\nSimeon S., h. and d. 1 Jiin., 1850.\\nSarah E., b. 27 Dec, 1850; d. 10 Sept., 1862.\\nAlbert il/., b. 4 April, 1853.\\nHiram E., b. 28 Aug., 1855; d. 3 March, 1866.\\nHarlan P. (Thomas, Dea., Henry, Col.) removed to 111., 1854\\nwas merchant at Sandoval retired to a farm at Clay\\nCity, 1871 m., 1st, Almira C. Gault, of Hooksett,\\nJune, 1846 2d, Mrs. Avelin D. Wood 3d, Mrs. Ma-\\ntilda E. Devore, of Clay City, Aug., 1871.\\nChildren of Almira\\nJohn C, b. 2 Mav, 1849; resides at Coffeysburg, Daviess county,\\nMo.\\n/c .\u00c2\u00abe G., h. 10 Sept., 1851 d. 28 Dec, 1852.\\nChildren of Matilda:\\nD;iug1iter, b. 1872; d. 1877.\\nSon, h. June, 1875; d. March, 1876.\\nThomas (Tliomas,*^ D.ea., Henry,^ Col.) resides in Webster; m.,\\n1st, Susan M. Colby, of Hopkinton, 3 Sept., 1856\\nra., 2d, Caroline H. Lewis, of Newport, 30 Aug., 1870.\\nChild of Susan\\nFranl- b. 17 April, 1881.\\nChildren of Caroline\\nAlhert E., b. 23 Nov., 1872; d. 2 Feb., 1875.\\nMan, E.,h.9 Jan., 1875.\\nEdifh M., h. 17 Oct., 1876.\\nJohn, Eev. (Joseph, Cajit., SamueP), entered Dart, college,\\n1832, but from ill health was obliged to leave the same\\nyear went to Canada in 1836 ehtered Theo. Sem.\\nat Bangor, Me., 1843, and was there licensed to preach,\\nAug., 1845 was ordained by Crawfordsville Presby-\\ntery, April, 1847, at Rob Roy, Ind. preached in Ver-\\nmillion county, Ind., seven years was installed pas-\\ntor at New Washington, Clark county, Ind., 1853, and\\nremained nine years also over the church at Homer,\\nMich., June, 1866, where he continued about twelve\\nyears was settled over the Presbyterian church, at\\nWashington, Davies county, Ind., 1878 received the\\nhonorable degree of A. m. from AYabash coll. in 1860\\nm. Ehoda B., dau. of Eichard Little, of B., 14 Jan.,\\n1837.\\nRichard, b. 13 Nov., 1837; d. 17 May, 1839.\\nLucy, b. 7 Sept., 1840.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0725.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "548 GENEALOGICAL GERRISH.\\nEnoch (Joseph, Capt., Samuel^) went to St. Arinand, Canada,\\nin 1839 lived there six years, then at Thetford, Vt.\\nremoved to Helt townshij), Vermillion county, Ind.,\\nSept., 1852 Avas an elder of Presbvterian church\\nm. Abbie C. Cogswell, of B., 7 Jan., 1840.\\nCharles, h. 2 July, 1841, in L. C; enlisted in 18th Regt. Ind. Vol.\\nInfantry; was at the battle of Pea Ridge; served eleven\\nmonths; returned home and d. of disease contracted iu the\\narmy.\\nLiicien,h. 2(3 Feb., 1843, in L. C; served in the 71st Ind. Reg t\\nthree months; was in the battle of Richmond, Ky.; re-\\nturned home, and d. from disease brought on by exposure\\nand cam]) life, 7 Oct., 1862.\\nJohi O.. b. 1 iMarch, 1848. in B. d. 24 Oct., 18(12.\\nMar)/ E., b. 21 July, 1849, Thetford, Vt.; m. Rev. Henry M. No-\\nlan, 17 Sept., 18G8, EdL ar county. 111.\\nHattie 31., h. 20 Feb., 1851. Tlietford, Vt.; m. Samuel S.Mar-\\nshall, In Aug., 1873; resides in Helt township, Vermil-\\nlion county, Ind.\\nEdward, b. 14 Jan., 1853; m. Almira Slddmore, 29 Feb., 1872;\\nresides in P^dgar county. 111.\\nJames L., b. 24 Jan., 1856.\\nCharles, Hon. (Joseph,\u00c2\u00ae Capt., SamueP), removed from Canter-\\nbury to Minn., 1855 resides at St. Charles is presi-\\ndent of the Dover Bank, Minn. wa.s Eep. delegate\\nto the constitutional convention of Minn. m. Olive\\nW. Dimick, 1 8 March, 1845, West Hartford, Vt.\\nAnen,h. 19 Dec, 184.5.\\nAdah, b. 13 Sept., 1849 m. Alvano B. Dyar, 18 Nov., 1809, at St.\\nCharles, Minn.\\nEUa v., b. 8 Sept., 1858.\\nNewell (Joseph,\u00c2\u00ae Capt., SamueP) went to Cal. in 1849, from\\nthence to Port Townsend, W. T., where he m., and\\nhas two children.\\nHenry, Ci/nthia A.\\nExocH. Col. (Isaac,\u00c2\u00ae Enoch,^ Dea m. Miranda 0., dau. of Joseph\\nS. Lawrence, of Lee, 23 Ma} 1854, who was b. 15\\nJune, 1829. [See Biog.]\\nErardc L., b. 19 May, 1855. [See Biog.]\\nLizzie M., b. 14 June, 1800.\\nJoseph W. (Samuel B.,\u00c2\u00aeCapt., Joseph,^ Col.) resides in Lebanon;\\nm Eunice M, Hewes, of Lyme, 6 Feb., 1855. [See\\nBiog.]\\nCharles IF., b. 25 Xov., 1855.\\nErnUy b. 8 Sept., 18G1.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0726.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GERRISH.\\n549\\nCharles H. (Samuel B., Capt., Joseph,*^ Col.) resides in Leba-\\nnon m., 1st, Anna Foster, 13 Nov., 18G6 2d, Lydia\\nA. Gates, 14 Feb., 1875, both of Lebanon.\\nChildren of Anna:\\nCharles F., h. U Aug., 1870 d. G March. 1873.\\nEugene B., h. 4 Oct., 1872.\\nAnna M., b. 25 July, 1874 d. 16 Sept., 1874.\\nJames L.^ (Jeremiah, Dea., Moses*^) resides on the homestead at\\nWebster is justice of the peace, and has filled vari-\\nous offices of trust was the first in town to enlist un-\\nder Lieut. David E. Burbank, in Co. E (of which he\\nwas corporal), 16th Eeg t iN H. V. M. At the capture\\nof Fort Burton. Butte La Eose, La., 20 April, 1863,\\nhe was a sharpshooter on the gunboat Clifton, and\\ntook part in that engagement. He m. fSarah B. Chand-\\nler, of Fisherville, 22 Dec, 1864.\\nEilirin Chandler, b. 4 July, 1867.\\nIlary Imogen, b. 21 Aug., 1872; d. 31 Aug., 1873.\\nLuciEN^ (Siim. Stephen,^ Lieut.) m. Mar,y J. Scantland, Nov.,\\n1865.\\nNora Agnefi, b. 8 July, 1867.\\nSam (Sara, Stephen,^ Lieut.) m. Harriet Gerrish, of Elkhorn,\\nBrown county. 111., 8 Jul}^, 1867.\\nNettie May. b. 15 May, 1868.\\nHenrij Z.. b. 26 Sept., 1870; d. 15 IMarch, 1872.\\nEmma E., h. 22 Feb., 1873; d. 13 Aug., 1875.\\nHam/ E., b. 16 Jan. 1875.\\nJoseph II., b. 9 May, 1877.\\nJames L.^ (Abiel, Henry* resides at West Creek, Ind m.\\nLena D. Dyer, of Wheaton, 111., 15 Feb., 1806.\\nHenry, b. 13 Feb., 1867.\\nir lb. 24 Sept., 1872.\\nLame,\\nKittle 7^., b. 16 May, 1874.\\nHiram F.\u00c2\u00ab (Calvin,^ Jacob* enlisted in Co. B, 2d Reg tN. H. V.,\\nMay, 1861 served in various departments of the\\narmy four years and nine months, in which time he\\npassed through the different grades from private to\\nthe rank of major, was also brevetted Major. He\\nparticipated in the following battles First Bull Run,\\nFair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Chancellors-\\nville. Fort Harrison, Gettysburg, and Petersburg.\\nAfter Lee s surrender, Maj. Gerrish took charge of\\nthe railroad from Appomattox to Farmville, Va., and", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0727.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "550 GENEALOGICAL GERRISH.\\nrun the first engine over tlie road after it came into Fed-\\neral possession was afterwards stationed at Fred-\\nericksburg as chief quarter-master, district of north-\\neastern Virginia is now connected with the internal\\nrevenue dejjartment, Dover m. Edith A. Eaton, of\\nConcord, 28 Aug., I8G0.\\nHerbert, b. 28 May, and d. 10 Aug., 1SG9.\\nEllen A., b. 23 April, 187G; d. 27 Dec, 1877.\\nHaulax T.^ (Henry, Thomas,^ Dea.) m. Marv A. C Flint, 20\\nMarch, 1S64.\\nLarlhi II., b. 11 Feb., 18(35; d. :\\\\rarch. 1800.\\nMary C. A., b. 11 April, and d. 22 Mav, 1807.\\nGeorge i., b. 10 June, 1868; d. 29 March, 1870.\\nWilliam S., b. 21 Jan., 1871.\\nInfant s^on, b. ami d. 8 March, 1873.\\nLida E., b. 30 March, 1874.\\nAllen* (Charles, ITon., Josepli. Capt.) resides in St. Charles,\\nMinn.; m. Ida A. Hill, Oct.,1866.\\nIna A., h. 28 July, 1867.\\nLilt/ J., h. 8 June, 1869.\\nCharles W., h. 15 Aug., 1873; d. in infancy.\\nThe family of Joseph Gerrish, Newbury, INIass., who settled on\\nthe Blackwater.\\nMoses,* eldest son of Joseph^, Col., and Mary (Little) Gerrish, of\\nNewbury, INIass., b. 15 April, 1706; m. Mary Moody,\\n18 April, 1728 lived in Newbury (Bj-field) was a\\nfarmer.\\nSarah, b. 1729 d. 16 March, 1773; m. Dea. Isaac Pear.^nn (his 1st\\nwife) 28 Nov., 1751; he was a miller and settled in B.\\nJoseph, b. in Newbury; d. in B. 10 Dec. 1802.\\nPaul, a farmer; lived at Townsend, Mass.\\nSamuel.\\nWilliam.\\nBelsetj, d. young.\\nJoseph^ (Moses, Joseph,^ Col.) removed from Newbury, Mass.,\\nto B., 1779, and settled on the Blackwater river, near\\nthe present residence of Henry L Dodge. Tlie next\\nyear he bought of Col. Henry Gerrish the saw-\\nand grist-mill erected by the latter about 1774, the\\nfirst mill built in West B., and situated a few rods\\nabove the one now owned by F. L. Burbauk Son\\nAvas a miller and farmer m. Mehitable Currier, of\\nAmesburv, Mass., 1 Jan., 1761, who d. at B. 10\\nMarch, 1*819, aged 78.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0728.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0729.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "^iz,.^^^^ fSy^c-^i^i--i^-^^-^^iy", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0730.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GILL. 551\\nMary, b. 24 Oct., 1701; d. 3 May, 18-29: m., 1st, Dea. Enoch Ger-\\nrish, of B. (his 3d wife), 2 July, 1792; 2d, Col. David\\nMcCiillis, of Canterbury, 17 Oct., 1822.\\nJane. h. i Dec, 1703; d. 9 Oct., 1840.\\nSarah, b. 27 Aug., 17G8; d. 21 Dec, 1810; m. Jeremiah Gerrish,\\nof B., 6 March. 1788.\\n3Ioses, h. 18 July, 1772; d. 7 Dec, 1851.\\nMoses,\u00c2\u00ae Col. (Joseph, Moses*), lived at West B., in the house\\nnow owned by Charles D. Glitten; m., 1st, Susanna\\nClougli, of Canterbury, who was b. 16 March, 1776,\\nand d. 25 June, ISoO 2d, Mrs. L^ dia Lovejoy, of\\nLebanon, March, 18o2.\\nChildren of Susanna\\nBetset/, b. 18 Nov., 1790; d. 1859; in. Henry G. Wood, of Leba-\\nnon, 8 Jan., 1810.\\nJeremiah, b. 18 May, 1798; d. 9 April, 1830.\\nSarah, b. 28 May, 1800; m., 1st, Daniel Biaisdell, of B., 28 May,\\nJ 839 2d, Joshua George, of Warner, 2 July, 1815.\\nMary,\\\\). 19 June, 1809; ni. Jolm Noyes. of Lebanon, 11 June,\\n1815.\\nJoseph S., b. 19 April, 1817 d. 12 June, 1843.\\nGILL.\\nCompiled by Elizabeth P. Gill.\\nWilliam,^ a citizen of Newmarket, was the ancestor of the Gill\\nfamilies of B,, Concord, and Hopkinton d. about the\\nyear 1810, at the dwelling of his son, on the Plain.\\nSumnnaJi, b. May 22. 1704; m. John Kimball, of Hopkinton.\\nWilliam, b. 8 Feb., 1760.\\nBradbury, b. 7 April, 1768.\\nMoses, b. 14 Oct., 1770; lived and d. in Portsmouth.\\nJohi, h. 21 July, 1774.\\nLucy, b. 28 Feb., 1780; m. Isaac Shute, of Concord; d. March,\\n1828; eleven children.\\nWilliam^ (William^) m. Puth Haselton, of Concord, and settled\\non the Plain, nearly opposite the academy. He plant-\\ned the elm tree now standing near the old residence,\\nwhich being measured, 15 Jan., 1878, by his son,\\nJames H., was fourteen feet in circumference four feet\\nfrom the ground, and its branches spread one hundred\\nand fifteen feet. For the beautiful elm trees on the\\neast side of the highway, between the academy and\\nBridge street, the town is indebted to him and his\\nbrother Jolin, who planted them nearly ninety years\\nago.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0731.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "552 GENEALOGICAL GILL.\\nSusan B., b. 28 July, 1793: d. July, 1834.\\nRuth, b. 24 Aug., 1791; m. Benj. Dearborn, of Plymouth; d.\\nSept., 1838; nine children.\\nMary, b. 24 Aug., 1790; m. Natli. Draper, of riyniouth; d. Dec.,\\n1S3S; six children.\\nSally, h. 20 Dec, 1797; ni. Jeremiah Burpee; d. Nov., 1872 [see\\nBurpee family.]\\nWilliam, b. 4 Jan., 18U0; m. Eliza Bartlett, 1820; d. Sept., 1853;\\nfive children.\\nSamuel, b. 10 Aug., 18 -3 d. Sept.. 1819.\\nHannah, h. 13 July, 1805 m. Charles F. Gage, of Methnen, Mass.,\\n4 iMay, lS3n three children.\\nHarriet, h. 13 July, 1805 m. Robert Cochran, of Plymouth d.\\nJan., 18G(3; six cliildren.\\nJames H.,h. 12 Oct., 1807.\\nJohn H., b. 16 Sept.. 1809.\\nEliza, b. 26 Oct., 1812 d. Oct., 1817.\\nJudith, b. 29 Dec, 1815; d. Oct., 1817.\\nBradbuky- (William^) m. Eebecca Straw, ami settled in Hop-\\nkiiiton; d. March, 1812.\\nMoses, b. 31 Oct., 1797.\\nLyiUa, b. 17 Nov., 1799; ni. John Carter, 1826 five cliildren.\\nBetsey, b. 19 Jan., 1804 d. Nov., 1819.\\nBradbury, b. 10 Feb., 1806; m. Hannah Farnnm two children.\\nRebecca, b. 8 April, 1809 m. Mr. Atkins, of Gardiner, Me.\\nJohn (William^) m. Polly Carter, and lived in the house now\\nstanding nearly opposite the residence of Nathaniel\\nS. Webster.\\nA son; Judith.\\nJames H.^ (AVilliam,^ William^) m. Hannah, dau. of Simeon At-\\nkinson, Aug., 1830, and settled on the river road, near\\nthe paternal homestead of his wife. Subsequently he\\nmoved to the Plain, opposite the church, where he re-\\nsides with his daughter.\\nElizabeth P., h. 8 May, 1831.\\nJoHX H. (William,^ William^) m. Otessa Blodgett, of Plymouth,\\nDec, 1832, and is now living there.\\nMosES^ (Bradhury,2 William\\\\) m. Harriet Putney, 18 Dec, 1825,\\nand settled on the Plain, where their son now lives for\\na time he was superintendent of the city farm in Con-\\ncord, where he and his wife gained many friends, and\\ntheir labors in caring for the poor were duly appreci-\\nated.\\nHamilton P., b. 26 Oct., 1826.\\nRebecca S., b. March, 1830; d. Sept., 1831.\\nRebecca S., b. 27 Dec, 1831; m. Andrew Jackson.\\nHamilton P^ (Mose.s,^ Bradbury- William m. Lydia A. Davis,\\nof Concord, 12 Sept., 1850 resides on the homestead\\ninherited from his father.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0732.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL GREENOUGH. 553\\nHarriet E., h. 1 Aug., ]8ol; d. 7 March, 1S(37.\\nHenrij H., b. 7 July, 1855.\\nE,^ther b. If) Jan., 1858.\\nMood// C, b. 17 July, 18G0,\\nGREEXOUGir.\\nEbenezeu,-^ h. in Haverhill, Mass. m. Maiy, dau. of Eev. Ebene-\\nzer Flagg, of Chester moved to Canterhurj, 1793.\\nTlieir children were seven sons and four daughters.\\nJohn, only, settled in B.\\nJohn, h. in Haverhill, JMass., 5 April, 1780 moved to Canter-\\nhur} with his father, and was emploj^ed in his store\\nas clerk and partner until he moved to B. m. iSTancy,\\ndau. of Hon Ahiel Foster, of Canterbury, 1803. He\\nmoved to B., Jan., 1814, and purchased the house for-\\nmerly the residence of Col. Timoth} Dix opened a\\nstore adjoining his house for the sale of goods, and\\ncontinued in the same business there until he removed\\nto his new brick store, a few rods north, about 1820.\\nHis business increased in the new location so that at\\none time he kept one of the largest stocks of goods in\\nN. H. He continued in business until liis death, 3\\nSept 18G2. [See Biog.] Mrs. Greenough d. 28\\n]\\\\[arch, 1819. He m., 2d, Mary, dau. of Samuel\\nBridge, Esq., of Billerica, Mass., 1820.\\nCliildren of Nancy\\nMary, b 1 July, 1801; m. Dea. Nehemiah Cogswell, 11 June, 1841,\\nFrederick William, b. 2 April, 1800; m. Emily, dau. of Kins-\\nman, of Pembroke, 4 Nov., 1846; settled in Ohio.\\nElbridfje Flagg, b. 30 Feb., 1808; m. Elizabeth R., dau. of Moses\\nEastman, Esq., of Salisbury, 18 June, 1846; d. 31 May,\\n1875.\\nHenry, b. Aug., 1812; d. 9 May, 1817.\\nJohn Brid(/e, b. 8 Feb., 1816 m. Susan Hall, adopted dau. of Dea.\\nWilliam Temple, May, 1847; d. 17 Jan., 1864.\\nSamuel F., b. 22 March, 1819; d. in infancy.\\nChildren of Mary\\nEllen Noyes, b. 9 Aug., 1821; ra. Rev. D. R. Brewer, June, 1845;\\nd. 2 April, 1852.\\nAnn Foster, b. 19 July, 1823 m. John W. Sullivan, of Boston,\\n18 Nov., 1863.\\nLucia Maria, b. 11 Oct., 1826; m. Charles W. Web.ster, of Boston,\\n5 Jan., 1853. They now reside on the homestead of his\\nfather, Worcester Webster, formerly the mansion of Hon.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nHenry Pollard, b. 15 Dec, 1831; d. 13 Dec, 1852.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0733.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "554 GENEALOGICAL HARRIS.\\nHAERIS.\\nCompiled by E. S. Harris.\\nBethuel,^ of Scottish origin, resided in Nelson, and became cel-\\nebrated as a manufacturer of woollen goods.\\nAlmon (BetbueP), b. 29 Aug., 1800 lived with his father until\\n1821 went to Watertown, Mass., and worked at the\\nbusiness carried on by his father five years, returning\\nto Nelson, and m. Phebe, dan. of Ezra Sheldon, 26\\nJune, 1826 moved to Marlow, and erected mills for\\nsawing lumber, grinding grain, carding tv ool, and\\ndressing cloth. In 1832 he moved on to a farm in\\nWinchester. Evidently he was not satisfied with an\\nagricultural life, for in three years he returned to Nel-\\nson and carried on the manufacture of woollen goods\\nuntil 1847. The good facilities for transportation,\\nand tlie excellent water-power on the Contoocook,\\nwith other natural advantages, induced him to remove\\nthere, and estaldish his business on a larger and more\\npermanent basis. He purchased of Messrs. Gage the\\nwater-power and mill-site which had long been occu-\\npied by their ancestors, and erected thereon the Dus-\\nton Island AVoollen IMilLs, which he and his sons suc-\\ncessfully operated until his death, 15 Sept., 1876. He\\nwas regarded by his townsmen as a substantial busi-\\nness man, and was frequentl}^ called to fill the office\\nof selectman. He was chosen to represent the town\\nin the legislatures of 1864 and 1865, was a member of\\nthe Congregational church fort^ -four years, deacon and\\nsuperintendent of the Sabbath-school, in the towns\\nwhere he resided, many years.\\nEzra Sheldon, h. 27 Nov., 1827.\\nBethuel Edwin, b. 18 May, 1829.\\nAlmo7i Ainger, b. 29 Dec, 1832.\\nEzra Sheldon^ (Almon,^ BethueP) m., 1st, Cassandra Androm-\\nache, dau. of Nathan B. Greene, 20 June, 1860. She\\nd. 5 Nov., 1865. Married, 2d, Sarah Amelia, sister of\\nCassandra, 12 Oct., 1867.\\nChildren of Cassandra\\nGrace Greene, b. 14 Oct., 1863.\\nRobert Lincoln, b. 3 May, 1865.\\nChildren of Sarah\\nHarry Sheldon, b. 24 Aug., 1868.\\nAlmon Greene, b. 24 Jan., 1870.\\nLucy Cassandra, b. 3 Nov., 1874.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0734.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0735.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0736.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL HOSMER. 555\\nBethuel Edwin^ (Almoir) m. AbLie M., clau. of diaries T.\\nEamos, of Milford, Mass.\\nBethud Edwin, b. U Nov., 1866.\\nAmelia Cla/lin, h. 7 April, 1868.\\nFrank Sheldon, b. 19 Nov., 1871; d. 22 July, 1873.\\nHelen, h. 14 March. 1875.\\nMartj Capen, b. 5 Nov., 1877.\\nAlmoin Ainger^ (Almoii^) m. Eliza Jane, dau. of Ira Sweatt, 11\\nSept., 1855.\\nCharles Naudine. b. 23 Aug., 1873; d. 7 Sept., 1874.\\nIlari/ Isabel, b. 1 Oct., 1877.\\nEzra and Almon settled in B. (Fislierville) and still continue\\ntlie business established by their father and themselves under the\\nname of E. S. Harris Co.\\nHOSMEE.\\nCompiled by Jacob E. Hosmer.\\nJames^ came from England to Mass. became a freeman 17 May,\\n1637 d. in Concord, Mass., 7 Feb., 1685.\\nJames- m. 8arah White was killed at the Sudbury fight.\\nThomas,^ b. 6 Jul}-, 1672 m. Hannah Hartwell.\\nJames,* b. 1708.\\nSamuel,^ b. 12 May, 1734 m. Anna Parlin, 5 June, 1755.\\nJames,*^ b. in Concord, Mass., 1761 m. Ehoda G., daii. of Capt.\\nEbenezer Eastman, of Concord, N. H., 1784 d. Aug.,\\n1835. Ehoda d. at B., 23 Nov., 1839.\\nJames, h. 1785; d. in New Orleans, Feb., 1831.\\nJacob, b. 25 Aug., 1787.\\nSamuel, b. 5 May, 1791; d. in Enfield, 25 Aug., 1836.\\nNano/, b. 1798; d. same vear.\\nNathaniel, b. 1 April, 1800; d. in Orford, 1865.\\nReuben, b. 1802; d. in New Chester (now Hill), 1814.\\nAlbe Cadi/, b. 1804; d. iu Texas.\\nJacob (James,\u00c2\u00ae Samuel,^ James,* Thomas,^ James, James^) m.\\nCatherine Wellington, in Concord, Mass., 16 Oct.,\\n1808 moved to Concord, K H., 1812 went to Ports-\\nmouth a volunteer in the war of 1812, remained 21\\ndays, when the war closed moved to B. in 1815, and\\npurchased of Ezekiel Webster the house and lot next\\nnorth of the cemetery on the Plain, where he success-\\nfully carried on the manufacture of fur hats an esti-\\nmable man and good citizen d, 21 June, 1868. His\\nwife d. 25 Jan., 1876.\\n36", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0737.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "556 GENEALOGICAL JACKMAN.\\nLucy Ann Augusta, h. 10 July, 1809; m. Dr. Stejilien M. Emery,\\n22 Nov., 1838; resided at Fiaherville d. 8 April, 1878.\\nCharlotte Maria, h- 2.5 Jane, 1812; m. 1st, James K. Brickett. 30\\nSe] t.. 1855; 2d, Jolni Putiiev, of East Concord, 10 May,\\n1802.\\nWilliam Henr;/, b. 13 June, 18M.\\nLenora Wdlit ir/ton, b. 11 Oct., 1810; m. Dr. John Fellows; d. 14\\nFeb.. 1877.\\n3Iar Catherine, b. 3 Dec, 1818; d. 21 Dec, 1818.\\nJacob Eastman, b. 23 April, 18-iO.\\nNancy Pamelia, b. 7 July, 1822.\\nil/flr?/ Frances, m. Asa L. Drew, 2 Dec, 1854.\\nCharles Frederic, b. 23 ]\\\\Iay, 1827; d. 21 Sept., 1831.\\nGeorge Franklin, b. 27 Oct., 1829; d. U Aug.. 1832.\\nCharles Frederic, b. 1 Jan., 1832; d. 23 Jan., 1839.\\nWilliam Henry^ (Jacob m. Mary Jane Sanborn, of Sanborn-\\nton, who d. 7 March, 1863; studied medicine with\\nDr. Thomas P. Hill, of Sanbornton grad. at Dart.\\nMed. Coll., July, 1838 resides at Fisherville. Mar-\\nried, 2d, Julia Eastman (Dunlap), 15 June, 1865.\\nChildren of Mary\\nMary Frances,h. 25 Sept., 1842; m.,lst, Capt.William Fosgate,who\\nwas killed at Winchester, Va., June, 1804; 2d. John E.\\nAbbot, of Vallejo,Cal.; two children, B alph Hosmer a.nd\\nFrank Brown.\\nCarrie Elena, b. 28 Oct., 1848; d. 19 April, 1850.\\nElla Jane. b. 15 Nov., 1851; ni. John Chad wick two children,\\ntwins, Julia and Jennie.\\nJacob Eastmax^ (Jacob m. Lucretia Adele Gillet, 25 May,\\n1847 resides at the homestead on the Plain inherited\\nfrom his father.\\nCharles Enrerij, h. 8 Sept., 1855.\\nStella Adele, b. 8 Sept., 1859; d. 1 April, 1800.\\nJACKMAN.\\nCompiled by Enoch Jackman.\\nJames^ came from Exeter, England, with his wife, Jemima, and\\nsettled in Newbury. Their children were Sarah, Es-\\nther, James, Joanna, and Richard The last named\\nwas ancestor of the Jackmans of B. His son, Rich-\\nard, m. Elizabeth Majors, whose sons, George^ and\\nRichard,^ settled in B. in 1737.\\nGeorge^ m. Hannah Bishop, 1728 was chosen deacon upon or-\\nganization of the church. [See Civil Hist.]\\nMehitahle, m. Moses Call; d. 19 Oct., 1809.\\nEunice, b. 25 Nov., 1730; m. John Flanders; d. 17 June, ISIS,\\nWilliam, b. 25 March, 1733; d. in Hartford, Conn., 1820.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0738.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL JACKMAN.\\n557\\nGeorge, b. 28 Oct., 1735.\\nSu.wnnalu (m. Benj. Eastman moved to New-\\nb. 29 April, 17o9 port.\\nElizabeth, (m. Capt. Joseph Eastman; moved\\nto Concord.\\nBenjamin, h. 7 May, 1743.\\nHannah, b. 1745: d. youiijj.\\nEiCHARD,^ b. in Newbury, 1709 brother of George m. Martha\\nCall, lau. of Philip Call, of Salisbury, whose mother\\nwas killed by Indians. [See Civil Hist.\\nRichard, b. 6 Oct., 17-10.\\nJ hn,h. 21 Aac;., 1743.\\nMoses, b. 26 April, 1746.\\nSamuel, b. 17 March, 1749.\\nSarah, h. 11 Sept., 1751 d. in infancy.\\nSarah, b. 29 Sept., 1755; m,Benj. Sweat (one of the first deacons\\nof the ciiurch in Webster) d. 20 March, 1845.\\nGeorge/ Esq. (George, Dea.), b. in Newbury, 28 Oct., 1735 m,,\\n1st, Martha Webster 2d, Thompson elected\\nfirst town-clerk, 1760.\\nElizabeth, b. 4 July, 1758; m., 1st, John Stevens 2d, John Flan-\\nders; d. 1834.\\nWilliam, b. 16 Nov., 1759 m. Betsey, dau. of Robie Morrill.\\nHumphreii,h. 16 July, 1761; m. Judith Pettengill d. 28 Aug.,\\n18)3.\\nHannah, b. 19 March, 1763 m. Joseph Morrill.\\nMartha, b. 10 June, 1765; m. Ephraim Wood, of Lebanon.\\nGeorge, b. 14 April, 1767 m. Marion Elliot d. 6 Feb., 1803.\\nRuth, b. 7 Marcli, 1769; m. Joseph Morrill\\nNathan, b. 21 Feb., 1771; m. Catherine Elliot lived in Bradford.\\nJohn, b. 80 March, 1773 m. Hannah Pettengill d. 26 May, 1793.\\nSusannah, b. 19 March, 1775 m. Stephen Farnum d. 5 March,\\n1797.\\nStephen, h. 30 April, 1777; m. Sarah Bamford d. July, 1829.\\nSal.li/, b. 14 Jan., 1779 m. Robert Greenough.\\nMehitaUe, b. 11 Sept., 1780 d. 18 Sept., 1780.\\nMehitable, m. Ephraim Wood, of Lebanon.\\nBenjamin/ Lieut. (George m. Jane AVoodman d. 26 Nov.,\\n1836.\\nBenjamin, b. 8 Sept., 1764; d. March, 1789.\\nJosInia,h. 11 Jan., 1766.\\nJane, b. 20 Dec, 1767 m. Ezra Abbot, of Concord; d. 2 May,\\n1847.\\nWilliam, b. 6 April, 1870 d. 18 Aug., 1825, in Illinois.\\nGeorge, b. 13 Oct., 1772; m. Hannah Heath; d. 18 March, 1839.\\nAnna, b. 23 Oct., 1774; d. 28 Sept., 1856.\\nHannah, b. 31 Oct., 1776; m. John Plummer; d. 24 Aug., 1824.\\nJonathan, b. 1 Sept., 1780; m. Martha Goodwin; d. 24 March,\\n1838.\\nMehitable, b. Oct., 1782; m. David Goodwin; d. 8 March, 1839.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0739.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "558 GENEALOGICAL JACKMAN.\\nBetsey, b. 4 March, 1785 d. 4 Dec, 1850.\\nPolly M., b. 2G March, 1787; m. Abraham Burbank; d. 21 Sept.,\\n1858.\\nJoshua^ (Benjamin,* George-^), b. 11 Jan., 1766 m., 1st, Sally\\nCarter 2d, Dorothy Sweat.\\nBenjamin, b. 14 Aug., 1789.\\nJeremiah, b. 20 Aug., 1791.\\nJudith, b. 10 Xov., 1793: m. Little Bnrbank.\\nSamuel, b. 28 Sept., 1798.\\nJoshua Woodman, b. 1 Feb., 1801.\\nHollis, b. 22 June, 1803 m. llutli Bugbee.\\nSally, b. 12 Sept., 1807 m. Isaac 15ngbee.\\nNancy, b. 2 June, 1810; m. Eddie Tracy.\\nJoseph Warren, b. 22 June, 1812.\\nDorothy, b. 21 Nov., 1815; m. Friend L. Burbanlc.\\nBenjamin\u00c2\u00ae (Joshua,^ Benjamin,* George^) ra. Betsey Beverley.\\n(Living in Webster, 1876.)\\nJeremiah, b. 27 April, 1819 ni. ]Mary Doe.\\nJohn, b. June, 1822.\\nJehial b. 27 July, 1826; m. Ann Mullin.\\nJoshua Woodman\u00c2\u00ae (Joshua^) m. Mary Burbanlc; d. in Chelsea,\\nVt.\\nPolly.\\nJoseph Warken (Joshua m., 1st, Judith Burbank 2d, Tam-\\nson Danforth.\\nGeorge B., b. 7 May, 1846; d. 8 May, 1865.\\nWilliam W., b. 25 June, 1851.\\nCharles T., b. 15 June, 1853.\\nJudith M., b. 19 Aug., 1857.\\nElCHARD* (Richard^) m. Ruth Straw. The family moved to\\nTamworth, 1771. Richard Jackman was one of the\\nfirst four settlers of that town. He subsequently\\nmoved to Maine. [See Hist, Tamworth.]\\nBicliard, b. Aug., 1764.\\nHenry, b. 23 June, 1766.\\nJohn* (Richard^), m. Mary, dau. of William Danforth d. March,\\n1813.\\nNehemiah, b. 4 July, 1764; ni. Ruth Flanders; d. Oct., 1845.\\nSamuel, b. 23 Dec, 1766.\\nMoses, h. 1 Jan., 1769; m., 1st, Corser; 2d, Cass;\\nd. 18 April, 18.56.\\nMary, b. 1 Aug., 1771: ra. Dr. Benj. Knowlton.\\nSusannah, h. 17 May, 1774; m. Nathaniel Thurston.\\nElizabeth, h. 28 Feb., 1779 m. Jolin Elliot, Jr.\\nOlive, b. 7 Dec, 1781; ni. Samuel Page.\\nJosiah,h. 6 April, 1784; m. Dorothea Corser.\\nWilliam, b, 13 April, 1787; ra, Huntoon.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0740.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0741.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "y^ f", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0742.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL JACKMAN.\\n559\\nMoses* (RicLartP), captured by the Indians [see Civil Hist.]\\nm. Martha Morse d. 8 Dec, 1838.\\nRuth, b. 1 May, 177i m,, 1st, Ezekiel Eastman; 2d, MaciahMoul-\\nton.\\nCloses, b. 14 Jan., 1776; m., 1st, Khoda Collins; 2d, Betsey\\nBeecher; d. 24 Nov., 1801.\\nDavid, b. 25 March, 1779 ra., 1st, Naomi Elliot; 2d, Mary Flan-\\nders; d. 14 May, 1875.\\nSarah, b. 6 Nov., 1780 m. Samuel Oilman; d. 20 April, 1841.\\nMartha, b. 12 Nov., 1780; m. Jeremiah Noyes; d. 5 March, 1858.\\nJohn, b. 4 Julv, 1790.\\nCaleb, b. 5 July, 1794.\\nEnoch, b. 11 July, 1797 d. 4 Sept., 1825.\\nJoHN^ (Moses m. Esther Burpee d. 20 Sept., 1860.\\nEsther.\\nJohn, b. 21 July, 1823; m. Sarah Boynton; professor of music;\\nresides in B. one son, Joseph Henry, b. 23 March, 1861.\\nCaleb^ (Moses*) m. Martha Burpee lives in Concord [see Biog].\\nEmily, b. 13 May, 1841; m. Henry M. Elliot.\\nEnoch, b. 7 May, 1828; m. Mary Elizabeth Moody; lives in Con-\\ncord.\\nSamuel* (Richard^^), m. 1st, Submit Brown 2d, Hannah Wins-\\nlow a joiner. He erected the frame of the town-\\nhouse in Webster [see Hist.] moved to Vt., thence\\nto Concord, where he d. 20 Aug., 1845. He was called\\nJoiner Jackman, to distinguish him from Samuel\\nJackman, the blacksmith. He was a man of marked\\nability and sterling integrity, and of great strength;\\nan athlete he could climb trees feet foremost.\\nRhoda, b. 22 May, 1774.\\nSamuel, h. 20 April. 1776 d. same year.\\nMartha, b. 3 Jan., 1778.\\nSamuel, h. 15 Feb., 178 i m. Lydia Shattuck d. 16 Oct., 1852.\\nMolli/, b. 1 March, 1782; m. Samuel Barbank.\\nRoTjal.\\nExocH\u00c2\u00ab (Caleb,^ Moses*) m. Mary Elizabeth Moody.\\nMartha E., b. 22 Jan., 1869.\\nJJllie Idella, 29 Auo;., 1871.\\nEsther Burpee, b. 23 April, 1877.\\nSamuel (nephew of Dea. George), blacksmith, came from New-\\nbury about 1770 ni. Anna Fowler, of Newbury. He\\nlived near Millbrook, west of the late residence of\\nIsaac and Col. Enoch Gerrish. His son Samuel, in\\n1814, lost five children in one week by spotted (scar-\\nlet) fever. Eev. Mr. Price has the following para-\\ngraph in regard to the mortality On Sabbath", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0743.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "560\\nGENEALOGICAL JOHNSON.\\nmorning, Nov. 27, Mr. Jackman had seven children\\nin apparent good health. At eight o clock Hannah\\nKimball, aged nine, and Isaac Gerrish, aged seven\\nyears, were taken ill. The hoy died in eight and the\\ngirl in twenty-four hours. Their funeral attended on\\nMonday, discourse delivered by Rev, Mr. ^Vood,\\nfrom Prov. 27, 1st verse, and both interred in one\\ngrave. Walter Harris, five years old, was attacked\\nby the same disease on Tuesday morning died in\\ntwelve hours, and was buried on Wednesday. On\\nFriday, David Flanders, two years old, was in like\\nmanner seized, and died in six hours, his funeral at-\\ntended on Saturday Ilev. Mr. Wood preached on the\\noccasion from John, 0:20 but in the time of the fu-\\nneral exercises, Nancy, about three years old, received\\nthe fatal attack, died in ten hours, and was l)uried on\\nthe Sabbath. Thus a holy God, whose jDrovidence is\\ninscrutable, took from the fond parents, out of seven,\\nfive lovely children, in the short term of seven dajs.\\nMedical aid was early resorted to in these cases, but\\nthe violence of the attack in each case admitted of no\\nrelief from the application of medicine.\\nSimeon, a brother of Samuel, the blacksmith, came to B. from\\nNewbury, 1774, and erected a saw-mill on Blackwater\\nriver.\\nJOHNSON.\\nCompiled by Jolin Kimball.\\nJonathan,^ b. 31 Dec, 1753 m. Ehoda, dau. of Eeuben Abbot,\\nof Concord, 8 Jan 1778 (see Abbot family); nearly\\nall of their descendants settled in B. d. IG Sept.,\\n1821. His wife, b. 31 Dec, 1756, d. 3 Aug., 1839.\\nThey settled on Horse hill, in Concord, near tlie line,\\nand had twelve children.\\nPJiehe, b. 10 Sept., 1778; ni. Eleazer Davis; d. 23 Sept., 1S1.9.\\nTimothy, h. 10 Jan., 1780; m. Melindii Swett.\\nElanoi, h. 10 Oct., 1781 d. at B. 29 Jan., 1849.\\nlihofhi, b. 7 Nov., 1783; m. Timotliy Abbot; d. 28 Sept., 1804.\\nHannah,h. 13 Mny, 1785; m. Ezekiel Eastman; moved to Ver-\\nmont; d. 2h Miirch,l859.\\nJnhi, b. 11 Feb.. 1787 d, 2 Dec, 1790.\\nReuben, b. 12 Jan., 1789; ni. Judith II Chan ller.\\nSarah Carter, b. 15 May, 1791 d. at B., 29 April, ISGl.\\nJohn, b. 1.5 Jan., 1793 m. Sophia Abbot; d. 2ii Nov., 1871.\\nPhiUi^ C, b. 9 Marcii, 1795; ni. Mary Chandler.\\nButh, b. 24 Aug., 1797 d. at B., Feb., 1875.\\nObadiah C, b. 11 July, 1801 ni. Betsey Charles.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0744.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL JOHNSON. 561\\nEeuben- (Jonathan^) m. Judith H., dau. of Capt. John Chandler,\\n1811, and for a time lived and carried on the wool-\\ncarding and cloth-dressing business at West Concord;\\nmoved to B. in 1818, and succeeded Capt. Chandler in\\nthe hotel at the south part of the town (now the Pen-\\nacook house), which he kept until a few years before\\nhis death, 16 March, 1852. His wife d. 1 Nov., 1843.\\nLucy Jane, b. 31 Aug., 1812; m. Wm. M. Kimball. 8 Jan., 1835.\\nLuther Gage, b. 13 Nov., 1813; m. Cornelia, dau. of Hon. Ezekiel\\n]\\\\Iorrill, 21 Jan., 1847; resides in Miuiiea[)oli.s, Minn.\\nTwin, d. ill infancy.\\nCharlotte, b. 9 Oct., 1815; drowned 23 July, 1824.\\nClarissa, b. 3 Dec, 1817; m. J. C. Smith, of Salisbury, 2G May,\\n1841 resides in Salisbury.\\nSusan Gar/e, h. 5 July, 1820; m. Isaac K. Gage [see Gage family].\\nJohn C, h. 11) Feb., 1825; d. 12 March, 1826.\\nJohn Chandler, h. 23 Sept., 1827 m. Ann, dau. of Jeremiah Til-\\nton, of Sanbornton, 3 Sept., 1851; resides in Minneapolis,\\nJ\\\\linn.\\nCharlotte, h.d Xov., 182.9; m. S. D. Hubbard, March, 1851; d.\\n9 Feb., 1852.\\nMarij Xaomi. h. 17 May, 1832; m. W. B. Cogswell, 31 Jan., 1856;\\nd. 28 July, 1877, at Mine La Motte, Mo.\\nAnnette Eastman, b. 1 March, 1837 d. 9 March, 1838.\\nJoHX^ (Jonathan^) m. Sophia, dau. of Nathan Abbot, of Concord,\\n28 Aug., 1817. Tbey settled on Queen st., near the\\nsouth part of the town, where he carried on the busi-\\nness of builder and carpenter until his death, 20 Nov.,\\n1871.\\nLorenzo, b. 17 Oct., 1819 d. 1 Sept., 1820.\\nCatherine C, b. 9 Dec, 1820 d. 5 Nov., 1857.\\nLorenzo, b. 16 Nov., 1822 m. Adaline Fiske, 6 Jan., 1847.\\nLucretia, b. 9 i\\\\Iay, 1825; m. Eben Howe, 20 Oct.. 1855.\\nFrancis, b. 24 June, 1827; m. ]\\\\Iary J. Nutter, 1850.\\nTimothij, b. andd. 15 April, 1831).\\nJohn, b. 25 April, 1831; d. 9 March, 1833.\\nSophia, b. 15 Sept., 1834; d. 15 Jan., 1851.\\nJohn, h. 10 Oct., 1837; m. 1st, Amanda M. Stewart; 2d, Judith\\nKnowlton, of Concord.\\nWarrex, another branch of the Johnson family, was b. in North-\\nwood, 5 Feb., 1800 moved to B. in the spring of\\n1825 m., 1st, Mercy Sanborn, of Sjjringfield, 14 June,\\nX 1825. They settled on the brow of the hill overlook-\\ning the falls of the Contoocook, where he built a shop\\nand carried on the blacksmith business, having pre-\\nviously learned the trade of edge-tool making at\\nNorthwood. He possessed superior skill as a worker", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0745.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "562 GENEALOGICAL KILBURN.\\nof iron, and soon added to his business the manufac-\\nture of mill work, iron axle-trees, and iron-work gen-\\nerally for carriages and manufacturing jiurposes. He\\nwas the first in town who put in operation the lathe\\nfor turning iron, and other labor-saving machinery at\\nthat time new, but now common. His shop was de-\\nstroyed by fire in 1836, and rebuilt in 1837, where he\\ncarried on business till 1843 resides in Fisherville.\\nHis wife, b. 1 Sept., 1803, d. 18 July, 1840. Married,\\n2d, Sarah Ann Sargent, 1 Sept., L841.\\nChildren of Mercy\\nMaliala, b. 1 April, 1826; d. 24 March. 1827.\\nAlkander G., b. 23 Dec, 1827; d. 12 April, 1829.\\nJonathans., b. 11 Jan., 1830; lives in Lawrence, Ma?s.\\nWnrr/J^T 14 March, 1825 f Lawrence Mass.\\nWarren H.,^ Uves in Marion, Iowa.\\nChildren of Sarah\\nMartha F., b. 15 Aug., 1843 d. 13 Nov., 1861.\\nMillard F., b. 27 Oct., 1850; grad. at Brown University a Bap-\\ntist clergyman.\\nFlora C, b. 21 May, 1851; resides at Fisherville.\\nKILBUEN.\\nThomas^ was b. in the parish of Wood Ditton, Cambridgeshire,\\nEngland, 1578. His children Avere Mwr/eiret, Thom-\\nas, Jilizabeth, George, Mary, Lydia, Frances, and\\nJohn. He sailed from England on sliip Increase,\\nwith five of his children, at the age of fifty-five, and\\nsettled in Weathersfield, Conn., 1639. It is known\\nthat Thomas, the eldest son, came in the ship Eliza-\\nbeth, 1638 and it is proliable that George came\\nwith him, and settled in Koxbury, Mass., where he is\\nregistered as a member of the church the same year.\\nGeorge^ in 1640 was living in Rowley, and is registered as a\\nfreeman. His wife s name was Elizabeth.\\nMary, Joseph, Jacob, Samuel, Isaac, Elizabeth.\\nSamuel^ (George,- Thomas^), b. 1 Sept., 1656 m. Mary Foster\\nd. 22 April, 1722. His will is in the Ipswich probate\\noffice.\\nHannah, Samuel, David, Marcia, Jedediah, Eliphalet.\\nJedediah (Samuel,^ George,^ Thomas^), b. 20 April, 1699 m.\\nSusanna Fiske, of Ipswich. He is put down as cor-\\nnet, 4 Feb., 1759.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0746.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0747.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": ",n-^.^^cyA^\\nC^ 7^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0748.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL KILBURN. 563\\nNathan, b. 1750.\\nEliphalet, h. 1752 d. 11 Dec, 1844.\\nLucy^h. 1751; lu. Win. Southwick settled in Dauvers.\\nMercy, b. 175(J m. Daniel Abbot, Concord.\\nJedediah, b. 1792; Newburyport a seaman.\\nNathaniel, b. 17G1 settled in B. moved to Thetford, Vt.\\nSusan, d. young.\\nEliphalet,^ Dea. (Jedediah*), b. in Eowley served in the Revo-\\nlution m. Mary Thorla, of Rowley moved to B.,\\n1780. [See Biog.]\\nEunice, h. 11 April, 17S1; m. Samuel Fowler, of B.\\nGeorge T., h. 1781.\\nEnoch, ^r-o^ f\\nHannah, m. Thoraaw Coffin, of B. d. 20 Aug., 1833.\\nMary, b. 1787; m. Benj. T. Kimball, of B.\\nSusan, b. 1789; m., 1st, Geo. T. Pillsbury, of B.; 2d, Saw-\\nyer, of Warner.\\nBetsey, b. 1792; m. Joseph Stone, of Salisbury.\\nClarissa, h. 1800; resides witli her sister, Mrs. S. B. Little, in Web-\\nster.\\nSally, m. Benj. T. Kimball lives on Water street.\\nPhebe, b. 26 Sept., 1801; m. Simeon B. Little, of B.\\nEliphalet, b. 1801.\\nMoody A., b. 1807; m., 1st, Lurana Bliss, of B.; 2d, Caroline B.\\nFi field, of Salisbury.\\nGeorge T.\u00c2\u00ab (Eliphak t^), b. 1784 m., 1st, Abigail Allen 2d,\\nMary Morse.\\nChildren of Abigail\\nSamuel N., b. 1816; d. 1826.\\nHarriet N., b. Dec, 1818.\\nElliot W., b. Feb., 1820.\\nEnoch G., b. May, 1822; resides in Waltham, Mass.\\nFrancis W., b. 25 Dec, 1821.\\nJohn A.,h. Sept., 1826.\\nFran-CIS W. (George T.*^) m. Eliza A. Lougee lives in Con-\\ncord.\\nAdele, b. 31 Oct., 1856; d. March, 1858.\\nNellie F., b. 12 Jan., 1860.\\nJohn A. (George T.* m. Frances M. Brichett, of Fisherville\\nlawyer; d. 20 Is ov., 1860.\\nWillie E., b. 10 April, 18.38; d. Feb., 1860.\\nHelen M.,h. 28 Oct., 1859.\\nEliphalet* (Eliphalet,^ Dea.) m. Mehitable Foster, of Canter-\\nbury. [See Biog.]\\nGalen Foster, b. 7 May, 18:31.\\nSarah Jane,h. 5 Aug., 1836; d. 3 Nov., 1855.\\nLucien Moody, b. 20 Jan., 1812.\\nCharles Harrison, b. 11 Dec, 1817.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0749.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "564 GENEALOGICAL KILBURN.\\nGalex Eoster (Eliplmlet, Eliphalet/ Dea.)^ May, 1834\\nresided at home till 1857. His educational advan-\\ntages were the common school and a few terms at an\\nacademy. In 1857 he went AVest and settled at Des\\nMoines, Iowa taught school studied law with J. E.\\nJewett and C. C. Cole, the last since chief-justice of\\nIowa; began j^ractice at Eontanelle, Adair county,\\nJan., 18G0 was elected representative, 1867 took a\\nprominent part as a legislator elected trustee State\\nAgricultural College. In 1876 he removed to Creston,\\nwhere he now resides, devoting himself to his profes-\\nsion. Married, 1st, Jennie A., dau. of Eev. Joseph\\nMathes 2d, Emilie C. Baker.\\nChildren of Jennie\\nLucien M., h. March, 1861.\\nEllen A., b. July, 18(j;3.\\nEdmund, b. Dec, 18(30.\\nFannie L., b. Jan., 1870.\\nWinnie, b. Nov., 1875.\\nLucien M.^ (Eliphalet* m. Lizzie Peet.\\nCharles W.. b. July, 1872.\\nGeorge G^., b. Jan., 1871.\\nEnoch^ (Eliphalet,^ Dea.), h. 7 Feb., 1784 m., 1st, Betsev Morse\\n2d, Elizabeth Cogswell; d. at Andover, 24 Feb., 1875.\\n[See Biog.]\\nChildren of Betsey\\nMary P., h. 1813; m. D. F. Kimball, of B.\\nJudith A., b. 1815; m. Moses Farnum, of Concord; d. 1869.\\nGilbert T., b.l819.\\nEnoch, b. 1821 d. young.\\nLivonia C, b. 1823.\\nEnoch G., b. 1826; d. 1871.\\nBenjamin Franklin, h. 1828.\\nChildren of Elizabeth\\nHennj W., b. 26 Sept. 1837.\\nJoseph C, b. 5 July, 1839.\\nElizabeth S.. h. 1842.\\nJohn C.,26 March, 1843; m. Nancy Bussell, of Andover; one child,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094B. Franl:\\nGilbert T.^ (Enoch,\u00c2\u00ab Eliphalet,^ Dea.), b. 1819 m. Abby Scrib-\\nner; lives in Concord.\\nGeorge T., Ben S.\\nEnoch G.^ (Enoch\u00c2\u00ab), b. 1826; m., 1st, Clara Fletcher; 2d, Sybil\\nV. Hoyt; d. 1870.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0750.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL KILBURN. 565\\nCliiklrcii of first wife\\nMary^ Gerrish.\\nBenjamin F.^ (Enoch\u00c2\u00ae), b. 1828 m. Jane E. Haley, of Andover\\nlived in Concord d. 1872.\\nWilliam H., Ella M., Frederick.\\nHenry W.^ (Enoch,* Eliphalet,^ Dea.), h. 26 Sept., 1837; m.\\nSophronia Herse3 of Hill.\\nAnson Hersey, b. 26 March, 18(30.\\nSidney Gerrish, b. 19 Nov., 1871.\\nJoseph C (Enoch* b. 5 July, 1837 m. Abby Hawkins, of San-\\nbornton lives in Henniker.\\nWalter Edward.\\nThomas* (Joseph,^ George, Tliomas^), 1). 3 Sept., 1753 m. Anna\\nPlumei of Newliury.\\nDaniel.\\nAblqail, b. 7 Sept., 1783 ni. David Corser, of B.\\nRuih, h. 14 Dec, 1790; m. Wm. Warren, of Waterford, Me.\\nThomas, b. 1792 m. Lj dia Warren, of Waterford, Me.\\nJohn.\\nJoHN^ (Thomas*), b, 12 Nov., 1794 m. Mary Butler, of Essex,\\nMass. d. 1875.\\nWilliam TF., b. G Sept., 1820; m. Louisa McClnre.\\nThomas, h. 26 Feb., 1826 m., 1st, Dearborn 2d, Elizabeth\\nMcCurdy.\\nDaniel, h. 11 Dec, 1830.\\nJohn, b. 2 Sept., 1837 m. Finette Flanders.\\nDaniel^ (Thomas*) m., 1st, Uran 2d, Butler.\\nAlbert Plummer.\\nCharles, b. 16 June, 1814 d. 12 March, 1839.\\nAlbeiit p. (DanieP), b. 1 In ov., 1810 m. Abigail Tuttle.\\nNancy, m. Hiram Little.\\nCharles P., b. 21 Jan., 1840; d. 9 Aug., 1842.\\nDaniel P., b. 15 March, 1845; member U. S. Sharpshooters; cb 16\\nMarch, 1864.\\nCharles A., b. 5 March, 1849 d. 29 Sept., 1857.\\nFlora Ella. b. 10 March, 1851; d. 1857.\\nCharles Albert, b. 16 Dec, 18.37.\\nNathan^ (Jedediali,* Samuel,^ George,^ Thomas^), b. 1750; m.\\nSarah Plummer, of Newbury settled in B., 1794.\\nJohn.\\nJames, b. 17 ISTov., 1783; m. Elizabeth Thurston, of Newbury; d.\\nU Dec, 1869.\\nNathan, d. young.\\nSarah, d. young.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0751.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "566\\nGENEALOGICAL KIMBALL.\\nJambs (Natlian\\nEllzaheth, b. 9 Sept., 1808 m. Dr. Peter Carleton;d. 10 April, 1827,\\nin Ind.\\nJuilllh T., b. U March, 1810 rl. April, 1831.\\nEdnah, b. 18 Jan., 1812 d. 1 Sept., 1838.\\nNathan, b. 2 Marcli, 18M.\\nEunke. b. 13 .July, 181 G m. John T. Dole.\\nJudith Frances, b. 28 Sept., 1832; m. Oscar F. Lawrence, 111.\\nNathan (James^), b. 2 Marcli, 1813 m., 1st, Polly Danforth\\n2d, Harriet IST. Huntoon.\\nChildren of Polly\\nAlbert, b. 15 Auff., 1810; d. Dec, 1874.\\nSarah C, b. 2.5 June, 1842.\\nAngelia, h. 22 Sept., 1847.\\nManetta, b. 27 June, 1851.\\nKIMBALL.\\nCompiled by Joliii Kimball.\\nJoseph,^ b. in Exeter in 1728; moved to Canterbury in 1793.\\nSome of his descendants settled in B. He had seven\\nsons and four daughters. Sarah, John, and Joseph\\ncame to Canterbury the next year. During a severe\\nsickness in early life he became blind. He never\\nlooked upon the town ot Canterbury, where he resided\\ntwenty-one years, and never saw six of his children.\\nHe d. 6 NoV., 1814.\\nJoHX^ (Joseph^), b. in Exeter, 20 Nov., 1707 m. Sarah, dau. of\\nBenj. Moulton, of Kensington, 21 Nov., 1793 moved\\nto Canterhur} 17 Feb., 1794, and settled on their\\nhomestead, just north of Shaker Village, where they\\nresided nearly sixty years. After tlie death of his\\nwife, 30 April, 1853, he lived with his son until his\\ndeath, 26 Feb., 1801. Their children were six sons\\nand three daughters, of whom Henjamin and John\\nsettled in B.\\nJoseph^ (Joseph^), b. in Exeter, 23 Maj;, 1772 moved to Can-\\nterbury, and m. Polly Hall they settled near the\\nmeeting-house at the centre of the town; their chil-\\ndren were four sons and six daughters. He d. 19\\nJune, 1863. Jeremiah and William Moody settled\\ninB.\\nBenjamin^ (John,^ Joseph^), b. in Canterbury, 27 Dec, 1794\\nm. Euth Ames, dau. of David Ames, 2 Feb., 1820\\nmoved to B. in the spring of 1824, and settled on the", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0752.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL KIMBALL.\\n567\\nfarm known as the Frost place, High st. resided\\nthere until Nov., 1830, when they removed to the\\nsouth part of the town, now Pisherville d. 21 July,\\n1834. He w^as an active and influential husiness man.\\nIn 1831 he erected the dam across the Contoocook\\nriver, and the brick grist- and flouring-mill now stand-\\ning near the stone factory and afterwards, with his\\ncousin, William M., carried on the business of manu-\\nfacturing lumber. He took an active part in all that\\nwas essential to the general and religious welfare of\\nthe town. In March preceding his death he was\\nelected to represent the town in the legislature, but\\nhis health was so impaired he was not able to take\\nhis seat.\\nJoJin,h. 13 April, 1821.\\nElizabeth b. 12 April, 1825; d. 20 Sept., 1810.\\nJoseph A., b. 8 Oct., 1826 d. 20 Feb., 1827.\\nLucy A., b. 28 Aug., 1829; d. 25 Aug., 1832.\\nBenjamin A., b. 22 Aug., 1833.\\nJOHN^ John^), b. in Canterbury, 31 May, 1798 m. Sally S.,\\ndau. of John Peverly, 24 Oct., 1826 moved to B. the\\nnext day, and settled on the farm known as the EoKe\\nplace, liigh st. They resided there until his death,\\n30 Sept.,^lS29. Their child, John P., b. 23 Dec,\\n1827, with his mother, returned to Canterbury soon\\nafter, where they now reside. She afterwards mar-\\nried David Morrill.\\nJeremiah^ (Joseph b. in Canterbury, 30 Nov., 1799 educated\\nat Phillips Exeter Academy m., 1st, Julia, dau. of\\nTimothy Gleason, in 1826; 2d, Kate, dau. of M. N.\\nBrown, 4 Jan., 1869. After following the business\\nof a merchant in Canterbury and Northfield ten years,\\nhe removed to B. in 1836, and formed a business con-\\nnection with Luther G. Johnson. They were the first\\ntradesmen who opened a store for the sale of goods in\\nthe south part of the town. He remained here and\\ncarried on the same business nearly twenty years,\\nwhen he removed to Concord, wdiere he is an active\\nbusiness man, at the age of seventy-nine.\\nWilli 4.M Moody^ (Joseph-), b. in Canterbxiry, 4 Dec, 1809;\\nmoved toB. in 1832, and associated himself m business\\nwith his cousin Benjamin; m. Lucy Jane, dau. of\\nEeuben Johnson, 8 Jan., 1835. He has been repeat-\\nedly elected to fill various offices in town, for which he\\nwas well qualified. At one time he was owner in the\\nlarge and valuable water-pow-er now the basis of the", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0753.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "5G8 GENEALOGICAL KIMBALL.\\nflourishing village of Fislierville. In early life he was\\nsuccessfully engaged in building mills and machinery\\nin various parts of the state, for which he and others\\nof the same family became celebrated. Yov a time he\\nwas employed by one of the large manufacturing com-\\npanies in the city of Lawrence, Mass. Tliey removed\\nto Minneapolis in 1857, their present residence. Dur-\\ning the war he served as quartermaster of Sibley s ex-\\npedition against the Sioux Indians, a difficult posi-\\ntion, requiring great energy and despatch.\\nWiUinm S.. h. 31 March, 1837.\\nM. EUzahelh, b. 28 Dec, 1838; m. Hon. E. M. Wilson, of Mume-\\napobs, Minn., G Sept., 1865.\\nHelen, h. 17 Aujr., 1849; d. 27 Dec, 1851.\\nEdward.T.. b. 20 Nov., 18.52; m. Emily, dau. of Winthrop Young,\\nof MinneapoH.s, Minn., 22 Aug., 1877.\\nJohn* (Benjamin^), b. in Canterbury moved to B. with his par-\\nents in the spring of 1824 m. Maria H. I hillips, of\\nKupert, Vt., 21 May, 1846.\\nClara Maria, b. 20 ]March, 1848; m. A. R. Ayres, 4 June, 1873;\\nchilJren, Ruth Ames and John Kimball. [See Biog.]\\nBenjamin Ames* (Benjamin*^), b. in B., 22 Aug., 1833; m. Myra\\nTilton, dau. of Ira Elliott, 19 Jan., 1861.\\nHenry Ames, b. 19 Oct., 18(34. [See Biog.]\\nJohn P.* (John^), b. in B. m. ]\\\\Iary Eliza, dau. of Samuel Hill,\\n3 June, 1852 settled in Canterbury.\\nGeorge E., b. 23 Sept., 1856 d. 16 May, 1863.\\n^-Jf- lb. 13 May, 1859.\\nGeorgiana, b. 19 Oct., 1867.\\nWilliam Smith* (William M.- b. in B. educated in the pub-\\nlic schools of Lawrence, Mass., Prof. Hildreth s acad-\\nemy. Derry, and at the Rensselaer Pol3 technic Insti-\\ntut ej Troy, N. Y. studied to become a mechanical\\nengineer m. Marion, dau. of Eufus Keeler, of Roch-\\nester, N. Y., 7 Oct., 1858, where he settled. During the\\nwar, 1862 and 1863, was in charge of the U. S. Naval\\nmachine shops at Port Royal, S. C. He has become,\\nby his enterprise, prudence, and industry, one of the\\nmost successful manufacturers in the city of Roches-\\nter.\\nCharles Harold, b. 5 March, 1801.\\nMargaret Keeler, b. 25 March, 1864; d. 25 Aug., 1864.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0754.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0755.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0756.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL KIMBALL. 569\\nKIMBALL.\\nEichakd/ at tlie age of thirty-nine, with his wife Ursula, came\\nto America in the ship Elizabeth; embarked at Ip-\\nswich, 10 April, 1G34, with Henry, 15, EUzaheth^ 13,\\nlUchard, 11, 3Iary, 9, Martha, 5, John, 3, Tho^nas,\\n1. Settled in Watertown, Mass. moved to Ipswich,\\n1637. The B. family is descended from\\nHenry,^ the oldest child, who lived at Ipswich, and had a son,\\nKiCHARD,^ wlio was b. at Ipswich, 1648 moved to Bradford\\nwas one of the first settlers of that town m. Sarah\\nShefford, supposed his second wife, Sept., 1682. He\\nhad a son,\\nJoseph,* b. 29 Dec. 1701 m. Abigail Peabody; lived at Brad-\\nford.\\nPeter,^ Capt. (Joseph,* Richard,^ Henry, Richard^), b. 1 Sept.,\\n1739 m. Elizabeth Thurston resided a short time\\nin Haverhill; moved to B., 1765. [See Biog.]\\nHannah, b. at Haverliill, 2 Aug., 1763.\\nMolly h. 30 Aug., 1705 m. Isaac Chandler; d. 21 Jan., 1847.\\nJoseph, b. -24 Nov., 17G7.\\nJudllh, b. 23 Nov., 1709; d. 7 Oct., 1850.\\nBelli/, b. 24: April, 1772; m. Samuel Choate, of B.\\nAhluli, b. 20 Jlay, 1774; m. Theodore Atkinson; d. July, 1859.\\nFrances, b. 9 Aug., 1776; m. Rev. Moses Sawyer.\\nSally, b. 31 Dec, 1778; m. Solomon ]\\\\Lartiu.\\nPriscilla, b. 7 Aug., 1781; m. John Chandler; d. March, 1868.\\nBenjamin Thurslon, b. 4 May, 1784; d. 2 July, 1852.\\nJoseph*^ (Peter,^ Capt.), b. 24 Xov., 1767; m., 1st, Eunice Atkin-\\nson 2d, Polly Fisher, of Newport moved to New-\\nport was one of the leading singers of B. at the be-\\nginning of the century d. at Newport, 1848.\\nChildren of Eunice\\nPeler, b. 5 March, 1793 became a minister; preached in the West;\\nm. Mary Wilcox, of Newport.\\nBetsey, b. 1 Sept., 1796; m. Charles Comstock, of Newport.\\nMllUm, b. 20 Feb., 1799 minister at Augusta, lib d. in 1865.\\nPhila, b. 10 June, 1801; m. Blanchard; d. at Rochester, N. Y.,\\nJune, 1877.\\nChildren of Polly\\nJesse W., b. 16 June, 1805; m. Emily Cotton, of Claremoiit d. at\\nGalesburg, 111., Aug., 1877.\\nEunice, b. 20 Dec, 1807; m. GrifEu, of Galesburg, 111.\\nSolon, b. 6 Oct., 1809.\\nSophonia, b. 12 Dec, 1811; d. young.\\nLycurgus, b. 14 April, 1814; became a minister; d. at Galesburg,\\n111.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0757.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "570 GENEALOGICAL KIMBALL.\\nBenjamin T.* (Peter,^ Capt.), b. 4 March, 1784 m., Ist, Maiy,\\ndau. of Dea. Eliphalet Kilburn 2d, Sally, lier sister.\\n[See Biog.]\\nAblah, b. 6 Oct., 1806; d. IS Oct., 182.3.\\nRoxy Ann^ h. 22 Dec, 1809; ni. Calvin Craue; lives in Portland.\\nDavid Flanders, b. 24 Dec, 1811.\\nPeter, h. 25 March, 1817.\\nCaroline, b. 30 Oct., 1819; m. JNIoses K. Sawyer, who d. in Port-\\nland, Jan., 1875.\\nAustin George, h. 24 Feb., 1821.\\nDavid F. (Benjamin T.\u00c2\u00ab) m., 1st, Mary P., dau. of Enoch Kil-\\nburn 2d, Mrs. Emily Burke, dau. of Geo. T. Pills-\\nbury. [See Biog.]\\nBenjamin Rush, b. 29 July, 1838; m. Carrie F. Jackman lives in\\nBlooniins;ton, 111.\\n^nn, b. 22 Feb., ^1811.\\nPeter W., b. 11 Dec, 1812; d. 11 April, 1860.\\nLivonia Coffin, b. 18 Nov., 1814.\\nPetepJ (Benjamin T. b. 25 March, 1817 m. Nancy A. Adams,\\nof Grafton. [See Biog.J\\nMary A.^ h. 6 June, 1852.\\nCyrus A., b. 30 April, 1855; d. 20 Aug., 1856.\\nCarrie A., h. 8 Jan., 1857.\\nCyrus A., b. April, 18t51.\\nGeorge B., b. 28 Jan., 1865.\\nHarry C, h. 26 May, 1872; d. 26 Jan., 1876.\\nAustin Geokge (Benjamin T.\u00c2\u00ab),b. 24 Feb., 1821; m. Ellen, dau.\\nof Isaac Hale, of Franklin.\\nMary E.,h. 8 July, 1846; m. Thomas M. Lang, of B., 1869.\\nElla G., b. 5 Sept., 1818; m. George jNIorse, of Fisherville, 1871.\\nGeorge E., b. 26 July, 1850 m. Mary E. Nelson, of Fisherville,\\n1871.\\nEmma J., b. 28 Jane, 1851.\\nHannah S., b. 12 March, 1858.\\nPeter W., b. 29 Dec, 1860.\\nWillie H, b. 29 March, 18G7.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0758.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LANG, 571\\nLANG.\\nCompiled by Jolin Kimball.\\nStephen^ resided in Loudon m. Abigail, dau. of Hon. Mesliech\\nWeare,* of Hampton Falls.\\nSamuel Weake- (Stephen^), b. 26 May, 1784; settled in East\\nConcord, and was employed in the store of Stephen\\nAmbrose till he was twenty-one years old moved to\\nin 1805, and associated himself in business with\\nJoel French in the sale of goods, in a building now\\nstanding opposite the meeting-house on the plain m.\\nMar} dau. of Jonathan Eastman, sen., of Concord, 9\\njMay, 1809. He was frequently elected to fill the va-\\nrious offices in town, and held that of town-clerk until\\nhis death, 26 April, 1816.\\nEsther Johnson, h. 12 May, 1810; m. Robert E. Pecker, 6 May,\\n1832; d. 9 April, 1817.\\nJonathan Eastman, b. 27 Aug., 1811 m. Sophia M., dau. of Jere-\\nmiah Tilton, 29 Oct., 1838; d. 17 Oct., 1876.\\nWilliam, b. 1 Nov., 1812 d. in infancy.\\nMary Chandler, b. 27 June, 1816; m. Charles H. Clough,24 Sept.,\\n1840.\\n*3Iesl)ech Weave was bom ill Hamptoa Falls, 16 June, 1713. He was an active\\nleader of the friends of liberty, and his name is associated with the most important\\ntransactions in New Hampshire through the whole of the Revolutionary war and the\\nperiod of the formation of the general and state governments. He held almost every\\nimportant position in the state, and had maintained an untarnished reputation in all.\\nHe was in the public service forty-live years; died 15 Jan., 1786.\\n37", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0759.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "572 GENEALOGICAL LITTLE.\\nLITTLE.\\nCompiletl by Alfred Little.\\nGeokge,^ a resident of Unicorn st., London, by occupation a\\ntailor, came to Newbury, Mass., in 1640. He seems\\nto have been a man of enterprise and good judgment,\\nand soon acquired some of the most productive land\\nin that town, of which a large part has ever since\\nbeen owned and occupied by his lineal descendants.\\nHe also bought land at Saco, Me., at Stonington and\\nQuinnebaug, Conn. also in N. H. and N. J. The\\nsite of his last house, built in 1679 or 1680, is now\\nmarked by the residence of Dea. Joseph Little, at\\nNewbury. He was a Christian man and good citizen\\nd. between 15 March, 1693, and 27 Nov., 1604 m.,\\n1st, Alice Poore, of Newl)ury. She, at the age of 20,\\nwith her brothers Samuel and Daniel, came to that\\nplace with Mr. Stephen Dummer, on his second voj\\nage to N. E., in tlie Bevis, Capt. Eobert Batten,\\nwhich sailed from Southampton, England, IMay, 1638.\\nShe d. 1 Dec, 1680, aged 62. He m., 2d, Eleanor,\\nwidow of Thomas Barnard, of Amesbury, JMass., 19\\nJuly, 1681, who d. 27 Nov., 1694.\\nChildren of Alice\\nSarah, b. 8 May, 1652; d. 19 Nov., same year.\\nJoseph, Capt., b. 22 Sept., 1653; d. 6 Sept., 1740; m. Mary, dan.\\nof Tristram CotBn, Esq., of Newbury, Mass., 31 Oct.,\\n1677.\\nJohn, b. 28 July, 16.55; d. 20 July, 1072.\\nMose.^, b. 11 March, 1657; d. 8 March, 1691.\\nSarah, b. 24 Nov., 1661 m. Joseph llsley of Newbury, 3 March,\\n1682.\\nMosES^ (G-eorge^) lived on the homestead at Newbury. His es-\\ntate was returned to probate court, 3 Nov., 1691, as\\namounting to \u00c2\u00a31065.6 m. Lydia, dau. of Tristram\\nCoffin, Esq., of Newbury.\\nJohn, b. 8 Jan., 1680; d. 25 March, 1753.\\nTrhtram, b. 9 Dec, 1681; d. 11 Nov., 1765.\\n5aro/i, b. 28 April, 1684; d. 10 Dec, 1710; m. Thomas Pil^e, 3\\nJan., 1710.\\n3fary, b. 13 Jan., 1686; m. Col. Joseph Gerrish, of Newbury; date\\nof marriage pviblishment, 26 Feb., 1703-4.\\nElizabeth, h. 25 May, 1688 d. 17 March, 1719; ra. Anthony Morse,\\n21 Jan., 1718.\\nMoses, b. 26 Feb., 1691; d. 17 Oct., 1780; m. Sarah Jaques, 12\\nFeb., 1716.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0760.jp2"}, "747": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LITTLE. 573\\nTristram^ (Moses,- George^) was a farmer. Tlie house which\\nhe erected on the paternal estate still stands, and is\\nnow the residence of William Little, Esq., town-clerk\\nof Newhury m. Sarah, dan. of Henry Dole, of New-\\nbury, Mass., 30 Oct., 1707, who was h. 12 Feb., 1689.\\nSarah, b. 6 Aug., 1708; m. James Noyes, 30 May, 1729; lived in\\nAtkinson.\\nHenri/, b. 31 Dec, 1710; m. Lydia Little, 7 Dec, 1738; d. Dec,\\n1786.\\nSamuel,h. 18 Feb., 1713; d. 29 Sept., 1792; m. Dorothy Noyes,\\n18 Feb., 1736 lived in Atkinson.\\nAppliia, baptized 1715; d. 1.5 Feb., 1713.\\nJane b. June, 1718; m. Eduuind Knight, 25 May, 1741.\\nElizabeth, b. 20 Nov., 1720; d. 15 April, 1818; m. Humphrey\\nNoyes, 22 Nov., 1743; lived in Atkinson.\\nNathaniel, b- 24 May, 1723; d. before Louisburg, C. B., 13 Nov.,\\n1745.\\nllichanlh. 6 June, 1725; d. 13 Feb., 1806; m. Jaue Noyes, 17\\nSept., 1754.\\nEnoch, b. 21 May, 1728; d. at R., 21 Oct., 1816.\\n3Iary, b. 4 Feb., 1731 d. young.\\nJohn,h. 14 July, 1735; d. 25 Aug., 1800; m. Hannah Noyes, 27\\nOct., 1767.*\\nE^ OCH\u00e2\u0096\u00a0* (Tristram,^ ]\\\\Ioses,- George^) lived near the Upper\\nGreen, at Newbury, Mass., where liis first seven\\ncliildren were born removed to Hampstead in April,\\n1766, and to B. in April, 1774. At the age of 11\\nyears, while listening to the preaching of Whitefield\\nin Newbnryport, he became a Christian, and united\\nwith the Old South church in that place, 7 Aug., 1773,\\nwhile living at Hampstead. After his removal to B.,\\nuntil enfeebled by age, he went to Newbnryport every\\nyear (over 60 miles) to be present at the August com-\\nmunion. He m., 1st, Sarah Pettengill, of Newbury,\\nMass., 19 Feb., 1755, who was b. 6 Sept., 173:1,\\nand d. 10 March, 1758 2d, Hannah Hovey, of New-\\nbur}^, Mass., 5 June, 1759, who was b. 27 Feb., 1734,\\nand d. 15 March, 1801. [See Biog.]\\nChildren of Sarah\\nFriend, b. 19 Jan., 1756; d. 19 Nov., 1836.\\nMary, b. 19 Sept., 1757; d. 25 July, 18o7 m. David Burbank, of\\nB., 20 April, 1778.\\nChildren of Hannah\\nBenjamin, b. 13 April, 1760; d. 30 Aug., 1846.\\nJoseph, b. 30 May, 1761; d. 26 March, 1843.\\n*In giving tlie families of Geoege.i Moses,^ and Tristkaji,- tlie compiler ia\\ngreatly indebted to the Geuealogy of tlie Little Family, by George T. Little, pub-\\nlished ill 1877.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0761.jp2"}, "748": {"fulltext": "574 GENEALOGICAL LITTLE.\\nEnoch, b. 17 Jan., 1708; d. 31 March, 1848.\\nHannah, b. 3 Sept., 17G4 d. 17 Oct., 1764.\\nNoah, b. 1 Nov., 1765 d. in Cass county, Mich., 14 Aug., 1837.\\nJesse, b. 30 July, 1767; d. 19 Aug., 1840.\\nPhehe, b. 19 Feb., 1769; d. 7 June, 1769.\\nSarah llsley,h. 2i) April, 1770; d. 10 Dec, 1836; m. Moses Ger-\\nrish, of B.\\nJohn H., b. 12 March, 1772; d. 29 Au 1773.\\nHannah, b. 10 April, 1775; d. 4 Nov., 18 11; m. Moses Coffin, of B.,\\n25 Dec, 1792, who was b. at Newbury, Mass., 9 Sept.,\\n17G7, and d. at Salisbury, 3 Feb., 1843.\\nFkiend^ (Enoch,* Tristram^) lived on Little hill, then at Bashan,\\nin B. a soldier of the Revolution was at the battle\\nof Bennington brought the first apple-trees to Little\\nhill; m. Mary Couch, G Feb., 1781.\\nSa7nuel, b. 7 Dec, 1781; d. 24 Aug., 1840.\\nMoses, h. Nov., 1783; d. 5 June, 1871.\\nSalli/, b. 12 Sept., 1785; d. 4 Aug., 1869; m. Wni. Couch, of Hop-\\nkinton, 12 May, 1836.\\nJoseph, h. 1 Aug., 1787 d. 28 Oct., 1847.\\nJudith, b. 4 April, 1789; d. 29 April, 1858; m. Stephen Sweatt, of\\nB., 1 March, 1814, who d. at Pittsfield, 11 Dec, 1851.\\nMary, b. 19 Sept., 1791; d. 26 Nov., 1869.\\nHannah, h. 24 April, 1798; ni. i\\\\.sa Kimball, of Ilopkinton, 30\\nDec, 1819.\\nBenjamin,^ Capt. (Enoch,* Tristram^), lived on the homestead\\nat the age of 17 was a soldier in the battle of Ben-\\nnington He was a man of sound judgment, and pos-\\nsessed in a high degree the confidence of his fellow-\\ncitizens, being chosen selectman eight years, and\\nrepresentative four years was the fifth man in town\\nto receive a magistrate s commission. Married, 1st,\\nRhoda Bartlett, of Warner, 25 Nov., 1790, who was\\nb. 13 April, 1768, and d. 27 Aug., 1814. She was\\nniece of Dr. Josiah Bartlett, of Kingston, a signer of\\nthe Declaration of Independence, and first governor\\nof N. H. nnder its free constitution. Married, 2d,\\nPersis Herbert, of Concord, 5 March, 1816.\\nChildren of Ehoda\\nRichard, b. 27 Nov.. 1791; d. 29 Oct.. 1840.\\nJohn, b. 30 June, 1794; d. 17 Jan.. 1797.\\nSimeon Bartlett, b. 16 Dec, 1797; d. 29 Dec, 1874.\\nRhoda, b. 14 April, 1801; d. at Windham, 15 Aug., 1852; m. Rev._\\nCalvin Cutler, 3 June, 1824, who was a beloved pastor of\\nthe Presbyterian church at Windham for many years.\\nCarrol Cutler, president of Western Reserve college, is\\ntheir son.\\nCharles Herbert, Rev., b. 5 Dec, 1804; d. 1 Jan., 1836. [See\\nBiog.]", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0762.jp2"}, "749": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LITTLE. 575\\nJoseph,^ Lieut. (Enocli,* Tristram^), lived on Little hill; was a\\nsoldier of the Revolution enlisted on his seventeenth\\nbirthday in Capt. Spnrr s company, Col. Nixon s regi-\\nment, Mass. Line served nine months also two\\nother terms of two months each was with Washing-\\nton at White Plains was stationed at West Point at\\nthe time of Arnold s treason, and saw Andre led to\\nexecution. Married Anna, dan. of Rev. Robie and\\nElizabetli Morrill, of B., 30 Nov., 1784, who was b. 20\\nOct., 1763, and d. 17 Nov., 1839.\\nElba, b. 7 April, 1787; d. 17 Feb., 1835.\\nPhebe, b. 26 Jan., 1789; d. 8 Dec, 18.\u00c2\u00a5), at Rochester, N. Y.\\nJane, b. 23 Aug., 1791; d. 21 Feb., 1836, at Jerseyville, 111. m.\\nRev. Amos P. Brown, of Campton, 11 Feb., 1817, who was\\nafterwards missionary in the VVest for many years, and d.\\nat Riishville. 111.. 16 April, 1859, aged 67.\\nJeremiah, b. 1 Sept., 1794; d. 5 April, 1853, at Rochester. N. Y.\\nSarah, h. 18 April, 1800; d. 30 Sept., 18.56, at Rochester, N. Y.\\nCaroline, b. 8 June, 1803 resides with her nephew. Rev. John M.\\nBrown, at Highland, Doniphan county, Kansas.\\nEnoch,^ Dea. (Enoch, Tristram^), lived on Little hill m. Polly,\\ndau. of Capt. James Noyes, of Atkinson, 30 Nov,\\n1790, who was b. 15 March, 1771, and d. 14 July,\\n1833. [See Biog.]\\nHennj, b. 1 Jan., 1792; d. 29 April, 1838, at Peoria, III.\\nJane, b. 1 June, 1796; d. 27 Oct., 1796.\\nPoll}/, b. 11 Nov., 1797; d. 3 Feb., 1820.\\nJane, h. 2 Feb., 1800 d. 9 April, 1877 m. Dea. Jeremiah Gerrish,\\nof B., 8 March, 1821.\\nEnoch, b. 8 Nov., 1802; d. 13 Oct., 1875.\\nJames, b. 3 Aug., 1804 d. 8 Sept., 1836 m. Mary Gerrish, of B.,\\n15 Dec, 1829; removed to New Buffalo, Mich., in 1835.\\nNoAH^ (Enoch,* Tristram^) lived in B. for a time, then at the\\nGore, in Warner was a man of observation and\\nintelligence travelled extensively through various\\nstates of the Union m. Ascenath Elliot, of B., who\\nd. 8 June, 1808, aged 41.\\nJohn, b. in B. 19 March, 1788 d. 11 Sept., 1832.\\nElsey, b. 9 Oct., 1789; m. Samuel Wells, of Warner; lived there,\\nalso at Lisbon, where she d. about 1830.\\nSilas, h. 29 Jan., 1791 settled at Cleveland, O.: d. 22 May, 1821;\\nni. Adelia Doan, who d. in 1820; had four children, who\\nd. young.\\nEnoch,h. 11 Sept., 1796; d. about 1824; was a hatter; removed\\nto the state of N. Y. m. and had one child, who d. in\\ninfancy.\\nLaura, b. 23 June, 1799; d. 25 Aug., 1838.\\nDavid, b. 11 Oct., 1801 d. 13 May, 1875, in Adams county, Iowa.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0763.jp2"}, "750": {"fulltext": "576 GENEALOGICAL LITTLE.\\nHannah Lucia, b. 25 Aug., 1803; d. 1 March, 184:6 m. Joseph\\nStory, April, 1826 Hved at Bashan.\\nHarriet, b. 25 May, 1806; m. Richard Webber, of B., 24 ^sTov.,\\n1829; who d. 11 March, 1835, aged 30.\\nJesse (Enoch,* Tristram^) built and resided in the house on Lit-\\ntle hill now owned by Hiram Clifford was a consist-\\nent Christian and good citizen, beloved and respected\\nby all was a good thinker, and his mind was a store-\\nhouse of useful and entertaining information. He m.\\nMartha, dau. of Col. Henry Gerrish, of B., who was b.\\n14 May, 1777, and d. at New Buffalo, Mich., 28\\nAug., 1855.\\nJacol), b. 1 May, 1795; d. at Wabash, Ind., 17 Dec, 187G.\\nJohn, b. 25 Nov., 1796; d. 15 Feb., 1829.\\nSumn,\\\\). 23 March, 1798; m., 1st, Henry Little, of B.. 7 Dec.\\n1815; 2d, Dea. Timothy M. Rose, of Granville, O., 28\\nApril, 1858.\\nHenry, b. 23 March, 1800.\\nThomas, b. 2 Jan., 1802; d. at West Creek, Ind., 19 Aug., 1877.\\nMartha, b. 2 June, 1803; m. Dea. Joseph Pillsbury, of B., 19 May,\\n1825.\\nLeavitt C, b. 24 Feb., 1805; d. at Buffiilo, N. Y., 23 March, 1S5L\\nInfant son.b. 13 and d. 15 March, 1807.\\nEmma, b. 1 May, 1808; d. in Belpre. O., 11 Aug., 1830; m. Addi-\\nson Kingsbury, d. d., of North Coventry, Ct., 27 April,\\n1830.\\nSarah G., b. 7 Aug., 1810; in. Rev. Ilervey O. Higley, of Castle-\\nton, Vt., 29 Sept., 1829. who was b. 14 July, 1801, and\\nd. 4 April, 1878. Prof. E. H. Iligley, of Middlebury col-\\nlege, is their son.\\nSamuel^ (Friend,^ Enoch*) was a surveyor; justice of the peace\\nsucceeded Dea. Enoch Little, Sen., as chorister, and\\nled the choir at West B. 20 years m. Sally Couch, of\\nB., 23 June, 1811, who d. 7 June, 1852.\\nHiram C, b. 19 Feb., 1813; d. 4 Dec, 1869.\\nRhoda B., b. 16 July, 1815 d. 21 July, 1822.\\nSamuelh. 29 Nov., 1817.\\nSarah P., b. 2 June, 1820 m. Jonathan K. Pillsbury. 21 Nov.,\\n1850.\\nJoseph C, b. 21 April, 1822 d. 29 Dec. 1850.\\nMary, b. 8 Aug., 1826 d. 21 June, 1853; ni. Albe Cady Sweatt,\\nof B., 17 May, 1849.\\nEnoch C b. 16 July, 1829; d. in San Francisco, Cal., 16 Jan.,\\n1870.\\nMoSES^ (Eriend,^ Enoch*) was a farmer; resided for a time at B.,\\nand d. there m. Sally Call, of Warner, 15 Jan., 1818,\\nwho was b. 24 July, 1787, and cl. 28 Sept., 1866.\\nMary C, b. at B., 9 Dec, 1819 d. 3 Oct., 1851; m. Capt. Hiram\\nScribner, of Salisbury, 14 Nov., 1849.\\nMoses C, b. 11 June, 1824.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0764.jp2"}, "751": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0765.jp2"}, "752": {"fulltext": "c/y^\\nQ/yflyt^ ^T-^^^/\\n^C x^tX^-", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0766.jp2"}, "753": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LITTLE. 67T\\nJoseph^ (Friend,^ Enocli^) lived on the homestead at Bashan\\nwas a farmer m. Sarah Burns Seavy, of Milford (a\\nsecond cousin of Robert Burns, the Scottish poet), 12\\nMarch, 1812, wlio was b. 28 Jan., 1786, and d. 22\\nJune, 1869.\\nAdaUne T., b. 19 Jan., 1813; m. William Trussell, of B., 27 June,\\n1850.\\nMan/ S., b. 6 and d. 23 Feb., 1811.\\nJosJi ua P., b. 31 May, 1815; d. lU April, 1818.\\nJoshua P.,b. 23 June, 1819; d. 20 Nov., 1850.\\nCharks B., b. 26 June, 1822.\\nRichard,^ Capt. (Benjamin,^ Capt., Enoch*), resided on Little\\nhill; an officer in the war of 1812; was stationed at\\nPortsmouth in 1814. He was a man of few words,\\nbut of clear thoughts and decided convictions was a\\nfaithful friend, a valuable citizen, and a consistent\\nChristian man. Married, 1st, Priscilla Plumer, of B.,\\n7 Dec, 1815 2d, Mary C. Pillsbury, of B., 22 May,\\n1827.\\nChildren of Priscilla\\nRlioda b. 9 Dec, 1810; m. Rev. John Gerrish, of St. Armand,\\nL. C, 11 Jan., 1837.\\nBitfield Plumer, b. 15 Auo;.. 1818; d. at Brandy Camp, Elk county,\\nPa., 2 May, 1863.\\nEphrabn, b. 11 Api il, 1820 lived on Pleasant st. present resi-\\ndence near tlie Blackwater, on the farm formerly owned\\nby Nathan Pearson, in Webster; ra. Jane (b-ey, youngest\\ndan. of Col. John Farmer, of B., 22 Dec, 1817, who was\\nb. 7 June, 1828, and d. 27 June, 1867.\\nLurana C, b. 30 June, 1822; d. 15 Nov., 1813.\\nCharles, b. 13 Jan., 1825; d. 9 Oct., 1835.\\nChildren of Mary\\nCalvin, h. 29 Feb., 1828; resides on the homestead. Though only\\n12 years of age at his father s decease, after the first year\\nhe took charge of the farm and managed it with succe.ss,\\ngreatly assisting his younger brothers and sisters in ac-\\nquiring an education, and getting a start in life.\\nLevi, b. 18 July, 1830.\\nHorace, b. 17 Sept., 1832.\\nEmihj, b. 10 Jan., 1835 d. 3 Dec, 1817.\\nCharles, b. U Feb., 1837; d. 16 Nov., 18G9 was a physician at\\nActon, Mass., and there m. Helen E., dau. of Harris Cow-\\ndrey, M. D., 11 June, 1866. [See Biog.]\\nPriscilla, b. 30 Jan., 1839; grad. at Mt. llolyoke Seni. has been a\\nsuccessful teacher in N. E. and Pa.\\nSiMEOX B.,* Esq. (Benjamin, Capt., Enoch*), lived on the home-\\nstead, then on Corser hill, in Webster ra., 1st, Har-\\nriet Boyd, of Antrim, 16 Sept., 1824, who was b. 17", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0767.jp2"}, "754": {"fulltext": "578 GENEALOGICAL LITTLE.\\nSept., 1798, and d. 3 Oct., 1850 2d, Phebe Kilburn,\\nof B., 20 Oct., 1851. [See Biog.]\\nChildren of Harriet\\nGeorge, b. 23 Aug., 1825.\\nAlice, b. 30 Dec, 1829 d. 31 Oct., 1835.\\nNarcissa^h. 25 Dec, 1831; d. 8 Feb., 1832.\\nEveline, b. 13 Dec, 1832.\\nSherman, b. 6 Feb., 1835.\\nt S; }^-24May,1837; ,9 j^,^^ .g^g.\\nJeremiah^ (Joseph,^ Lieut., Enoch^) lived in B. was a merchant\\non Corser hill for several years removed to Roches-\\nter, N. Y., in Sept., 1830 m. Elizabeth, dan. of Capt.\\nJoshua Pillsbury, of B., 5 March, 1816.\\nJoshua P., b. 19 ISTov., 1817; d. 5 Feb., 1840; learned the printers\\ntrade in Concord, and worked as journeyman in the States-\\nman office.\\nHexry^ (Enoch,^ Dea., Enoch*) resided on the farm now owned\\nby Capt. William D. George built the liouse after-\\nwards occupied by Enoch Kilburn and John Shaw,\\nwhich was burned 10 Nov., 1856 was a farmer, sur-\\nveyor, and owned the saw-mill situated on the Knight\\nmeadow brooh was a school-teacher for several years,\\nbefore and after marriage, in various towns in IST. H.\\nand Mass. excelled as a player on the bass-viol was\\nthe first president of the Martin Luther Musical Soci-\\nety, and its secretary for many years removed West\\nin Sept., 1835, and settled in Peoria, 111., May, 1836;\\nwas a genial, kind, and Christian gentleman m. Su-\\nsan, dau. of Jesse Little, of B., 7 Dec, 1815.\\nAlbert Gerrish, b. 27 Sept., 1817.\\nPolly, b. 7 May, 1820 d. 6 March, 1821.\\nAlfred, b. 3 June, 1823. [See Biocr.]\\nEmma Kingsbury, h. 27 Sept., 1830; grad. at Granville Female\\ncollege, O., in 1818 a faithful and succef5sful music\\nteaclier; m. Rev. Joseph Little (son of Jacob Little, d. d.)\\n15 Aug., 1854.\\nEnoch,^ Dea. (Enoch,^ Dea., Enoch*), lived on the homestead;\\nm. Apphia C, dau. of Lieut. Thomas Coffin, of B., 18\\nNov., 1829. [See Biog.]\\nMary Frances, b. 28 Jan., 1831 d. 15 June, 1849.\\nEllen, b. 27 Feb., 1833; d. 5 Oct., 1870: m. Dea. Francis B. Saw-\\nyer, of Salisbury, 11 Sept., 1851, who was b. 14 April,\\n1823.\\nHenry Lyman, b. 28 March, 1835 d. 26 March, 1836.\\nLouisa, b. 1 Dec, 1836; d. 19 April, 1866; m. Geo. Little, of B.,\\n29 Nov., 1855.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0768.jp2"}, "755": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LITTLE. 579\\nJoHN^ (Noah,^ Enocli^) settled in Sanbornton lived, afterwards\\nat Plymouth and Meredith m. Nancy Hoit, of San-\\nbornton, who was b. 13 Ma} 1797.\\nMary A. II., b. 5 March, 1S15 m. Ruel West, of Concord, 9 March,\\n185i.\\nJohn E., b. 11 March, 1817.\\nHenry, b. 28 April, 1819.\\nHarriet TF., b. IG April, 1822; d. 21 March, 1811.\\nNoaKh. 31 May, 1821.\\nMartha J., b. 29 July, 1827; d. 22 July, 1829.\\nGeorge TF., b. 21 Feb., 1830.\\nDavid\u00c2\u00ae (Noah,^ Enoch*) lived in Cleveland, 0., then in Cass coun-\\nty, Mich. removed thence to Minn., near Blue Earth\\nCity m. Mary Hulbert, of Granville, 2 Aug.,\\n1825, who was b. in Vt., 13 Sept., 1801, and d. in\\nMinn., 25 Aug., 1866.\\nJarne^, b. 9 Oct., 182(3 [1827?]; m. Ruth Pitts, of Elkhart, Ind.;\\nresides in Adams county, Iowa.\\nAlonzo G., b. 29 Marcii, 1829.\\nInfant son., b. and d. in 1831.\\nEliza,}). 12 Sept., 1832; m. Thomas Fitzgerald, 11 Sept., 1856;\\nresidence near Avondale, Adams county, Iowa.\\nHarriet, b. 2 Oct.. 1835 [183G?]; d. 1 April, 1857; m. James Dob-\\nson, 2 Feb., 1851.\\nAdaline, b. 30 June, 1838 m. James Dobson, 1 Dec, 18.59 [I860?];\\nresides at Winnebago City, Minn.\\nJacob,* d. d. (Jesse,^ Enoch*) was pastor at Granville, Ohio, 37\\nyears m., 1st, Lucy, dau. of Capt. Joseph Gerrish, of\\nCanterbury, 1 June, 1826 2d, Ann D., dau. of Hon.\\nT. M. Thompson, of Granville, 0., 23 March, 1836.\\n[See Biog.]\\nChildren of Lucy\\nJoseph, Rev., b. 1 Nov., 1828 resides at Hanging Rock, O.; grad.\\nat Western Reserve college in 1852 m. Emma K. Little,\\nat Liverpool, 111., 15 Aug., 18.51*; grad. at Lane Theologi-\\ncal Seminary, 10 May, 1860; was licensed to preach 13\\nJune, 1860, at Granville, O. He engaged in the Home\\n]\\\\Iissionary and Sabbath-school work, March, 1861, in the\\nfurnace regions of Lawrence county, O. entered the\\nUnion army 19 Nov., 1862, as chapbain of 5th Va. Vol.\\nInfantry; subsequently of 1st West Va. Vol. Veterans,\\nand continued Wd the close of the war in that capacity, till\\nhis regiment was discharged at Wheeling, W. Va. lu\\ncaring for the wounded and thirsty soldiers on the battle-\\nfield, in holding meetings and schools for them in camp,\\nor in leading them in song with voice and melodeon, he\\nproved himself to be a faitliful and efficient chaplain.\\nAlfred, b. 3 Sept., 1831; d. near North Berne, Fairfield county,\\nO., 21 May, 1865.\\nGeorge, b. 8 Oct., 1833; d. 22 Sept., 1831.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0769.jp2"}, "756": {"fulltext": "580 GENEALOGICAL LITTLE.\\nCliildren of Ann\\nLucy A., b. 27 Oct., 1837; d. 8 Sept., 1838.\\nGeorge A., b. 6 March, 1839.\\nWilliam r., b. 27 Dec, 1810; d. 9 Oct., 18r)6.\\nLucy, b. 29 Jan., 1843; crrad. at Granville Female college, in\\n18G2; m. James II., son of Hon. William Williams, of\\nWarsaw, Ind., 21 Dec, 1865; resides at Washington,\\nD. C.\\nInfent son, b. 21 and d. 28 Nov., 1811.\\nCharles, Rev., b. 1 Dec, 1815; grad. at Marietta college, 20 June,\\n1867 taught in public schools of that place two years; grad.\\nat Lane Theo. Sem. 9 Mny, 1872; licensed by Athens\\nPresbytery, July, 1871 ordained by Muncie Presbytery, 10\\nApril, 1878, and installed same year over the Presby-\\nterian church in Wabash, Ind., of which he is now pastor,\\nm. j^dyra M. Rico. 2 Sept., 1873, who d. 1 June, 1871.\\nMariha E., b. 23 Aug., 1819; d. 29 Dec, 1854.\\nJohn* (Jesse, Enoch was a clothier lived in Bristol m.\\nMiriam Lovejoy, of Concord, 10 Sept., 1824, wlio d.\\n8 Dec, 1865, aged 61.\\nJohn A., h. 21 May, 1826 d. 31 Aug., 1810.\\nEmma A., h. 5 June, 1828; m. -John L. Challis, of Mancliester, 27\\nOct., 1852; resides in Chicago.\\nHenry/ d. d (Jesse, Enocli^), is superintendent of missions for\\nthe state of Indiana; resides in jNEadison m., 19 Sept.,\\n1831, Susan Norton Smitli, of Hatfield, Mass., who\\nwas b. 22 May, 1810. [See Eiog.]\\nSarah M., b. 19 April, 1833.\\nJoseph B., b. 25 Oct., 1835.\\nHenrij S., h. 28 IMarch, 1837.\\nGeorge O., h. 2 May, 1839.\\nMary E., h. 6 Oct., 1811; grad. at the Western Female Seminary,\\nOxford, O., July, 1863; m. Joseph E., son of Leverett\\nGriggs, I). D., of Bristol, Ct., 3 Jan., 1807.\\nCornelia, h. 10 Jan., 1844; grad. at the Western Female Seminary,\\nO.xford, O., July, 1862; m. Rev. Leverett S.. son of Lev-\\nerett Griggs, T I)., of Bristol, Ct., 13 July, 1861; resides\\nin Terryville, Ct.\\nElizabeth F., b. 2 June, 1816.\\nCharles IL, h. 20 Sept., 1848.\\nThomas/ Capt. (Jesse,^ Enocli*), lived on the homestead; re-\\nmoved to West Creek, Lak\u00c2\u00bb county, Ind., in 1855 m.\\nMyra, dau. of Capt. Joseph Ames, of B., 2 June, 1829,\\nwlio d. 17 June, 1869. [See Biog.]\\nJoseph A., h. 21 May, 1830.\\nSarah H., b. 29 Aug., 1833; d. 19 Feb., 1874.\\nLucy J., b. 30 March, 1837; m. Thomas H. Bouham, of Elizabeth-\\ntown, O., 2 Aug., 1860.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0770.jp2"}, "757": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LITTLE. 581\\nLeavitt C., Col. (Jesse,^ Enoch*), first commenced business with\\nPhilip H. Webster, in a store at Danbury afterwards\\nestablished himself at Cincinnati, and was engaged for\\nseveral years in selling patent scales in Ohio, Ind.,\\nand Ky. In 1837 he removed to Pa., and became res-\\niclent agent of the U. S. Land Co., of Boston, for a\\nlarge tract of land situated in McKean and Elk coun-\\nties, remaining in that position through life. The\\nvillage of Bradford, in which he built the first house,\\nhas recently become one of the principal oil cities of\\nPa. Col. L. took a prominent part in organizing the\\nMcKean County Agricultural Society, and was its\\nfirst president. Foremost in every good word and\\nwork, in the church, Sabbath-school, and as a citizen,\\nhe will long be remembered with gratitude and affec-\\ntion. He m. Lucy Jane, Avidow of Philip H. Web-\\nster, and dau. of Col. Timothy Dix, of B., 30 June,\\n1837.\\nEllen, b. 6 ]\\\\Iay, 1838; m. Emmctt Mix, of Columbus, O., 9 March,\\n1805.\\nJoin S., b. 29 Dec, 1839.\\nSusan, b. 15 Ancr., 1811; m. Rev. Chas. W. Wallace, of Jackson-\\ntown, O., 23 Dec, 1863; resides in Monroeville, O.\\nSarah G., b. 22 Sept., 1843; m. Robert Davis, of Mahomet, 111., 14\\nSept., 1876.\\nHiram C (Samuel,Triend^) lived in Webster; m. there Nancy\\nA. Kilborn, 20 Nov., 1856.\\nHiram P., d. 6 Dec, 1861, aged 4.\\nJosrph A., b. 15 Sept., 1858.\\nMary E., b. 11 May, 1860.\\nSamuel (Samuel, Friend^) is a farmer; resides in Webster; m.\\nJane S., widow of Lewis Sturtevant, 8 April, 1859.\\nJohn P., b. 2G July, 1860.\\nEnoch C^ (Samuel, Friend^) lived at Fisherville removed to\\nCalifornia, Oct., 1867 m., 1st, Martha J. Sargent, of\\nHopkinton, 24 Nov., 1853, who d. 14 May, 1863 2d,\\nBetsey J. Jackman, of Franklin, Nov., 1864, who d.\\nin San Francisco.\\nChildren of Martha\\nAlia Maria, b. 17 March, 1855 d. 29 June, 18C0.\\nAddie M., b. 12 Oct., 1856; resides in Franklin.\\nHelen E., b. 14 Sept., 1859; resides in Franklin.\\nChild of Betsey\\nMahel, b. 3 May, 1869; d. 17 Jan., 1870.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0771.jp2"}, "758": {"fulltext": "582 GENEALOGICAL LITTLE,\\nMoses C (Moses/ Erienc?) resides in Louisiana, Pike county,\\nMo. received an academic education. In the autumn\\nof 1844, he commenced work in the engineering de-\\npartment on the N. R. R., remaining there titl its\\ncompletion was next employed in a survey of the\\nVt. Central R. R. went to Mo., March, 1850, and\\ncommenced engineering for the county of St. Louis,\\nhaving charge of the new system of roads (plank and\\nMacadam), continuing these improvements until 1858.\\nIn 1860 he accepted a position in the city engineer s\\noffice of St. Louis was superintendent of special\\nwork in the sewerage department, and built tlie largest\\nsewer in the U. S remained in this position 7 years,\\nand then received the appointment of road commis-\\nsioner for Pike county, Mo. From 1869 to 1873 he\\nwas chief engineer of the Louisiana Missouri River\\nR. R. constructed 100 miles of the most difficult por-\\ntion of the road, including one crossing of the Mis-\\nsouri river was also employed in other railroad work.\\nSubsequently he was engaged in making plans and\\nspecifications, and doing contract work, on drainage\\nand reservoirs for the State Lunatic Asylum at Ful-\\nton, Mo. He m. Julia N. Southard, of St. Louis. Mo.,\\n14 April, 1858.\\nWillie M. C, b. 2 Mav, 1859; d. 27 Sept.. 1859.\\nMan, J., h. 17 Aug., 18(32 d. 19 April, 1805.\\nAnnie, h. 20 Jan., 1874.\\nCharles B. (Joseph,\u00c2\u00ae Friend^) lives on the homestead in Web-\\nster; m., 1st, Susan J. Smith, of B., 23 May, 1850,\\nwho d. 17 March, 1863 2d, Emeline B. Harvey, of\\nHopkinton, 6 April, 1864.\\nChildren of Susan\\nCaleb P., b. 14 April, 1851.\\nAdaline T., h. 26 March, 1853.\\nGeorge B., h. 12 June, 1855.\\nCharles E., b. 10 June, 1858.\\nChild of Emeline\\nEmma J., b. 8 March, 186G.\\nBitfield Plumer (Richard,\u00c2\u00ae Capt,, Benjamin,^ Capt.) went to\\nPa. in 1840 as a surveyor, and settled at Brandy\\nCamp, Elk county was afterwards land agent, anil\\nextensively engaged in the lumber business m.\\nLydia A. Manson, of St. Armand, L. C, 4 Aug., 1854,\\nwho was b. 30 March, 1825.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0772.jp2"}, "759": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0773.jp2"}, "760": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0774.jp2"}, "761": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LITTLE. 583\\ni^rawciV, b. 3 Sept., 1855; at present date (1878), students in\\nElwln, I). 18 May, 1859; Western Reserve college.\\nHeber, b. 20 Sept., 1861.\\nLevi, Eev. (Eicliard,\u00c2\u00ae Capt., Benjamin,^ Capt.), resides at Wa-\\nquoit, Mass. grad. at Dartmoutli college in 1854,\\nand at Andover Theological Seminary in 1857 was\\nlicensed to preach, by the Ilopkinton Association, in\\nApril, 185G ni. Susan A. Bourne, of Falmouth, Mass.,\\n5 Jan., 1860.\\nFuchard 77., b. 22 Dec, 1860.\\nAndrew F.,h. 7 Nov., 1862.\\nDora, b. 13 Oct., 1864; d. 20 June, 1869.\\nEdward A.,h. 15 Nov., 1866.\\nCharles, b. 30 Nov., 1869.\\nEdith M., b. 3 Jan., 1873.\\nEllen F.,h.-i Feb., 1875.\\nHorace (Richard,* Capt., Benjamin,^ Capt.) resides in Eidge-\\nway. Pa. m. Lucy A. Taylor, of Fox township, Elk\\ncounty. Pa., 30 May, 1857. [See Biog.]\\nArOiur 7?., b. 22 March. 1858.\\nMary M., b. 15 March, 1861.\\nHelen, b. 25 Sept., 1803.\\nBenjamin P., b. 2 ]\\\\Iay, 1868.\\nLouise v., b. 3 Aug., 1873.\\nGeokge (Simeon B.,^ Benjamin,^ Capt,) is a merchant on\\nCorser hill, Webster, in the store so long occupied\\nby Hezekiah Fellows, Esq. m., 1st, Louisa, dan.\\nof Dea. Enoch Little, of Webster, 29 Nov., 1855;\\n2d, Sarah J., dan. of Dea. Jeremiah Gerrish, 19 Nov.,\\n1807 3d, Lucy A. Sawyer, of Salisbury, 15 Oct.,\\n1873.\\nChildren of Louisa\\nHenry Z., b. 9 Aug., 1857.\\nLuther B.,h. 7 July, 1859.\\nMary Alice, b. 21 May, 1861\\nCharles H., h. 10 Oct., 1861 d. 8 May, 1865.\\nSherman (Simeon B.,\u00c2\u00ae Benjamin,^ Capt.) remains on the home-\\nstead is a business man and influential citizen\\nm. Mary A., dau. of Dea. Eldad Austin, of Webster,\\n8 Sept., 1859.\\nHarriet B., b. 30 Sept., 18G0.\\nArthur C. b. 22 April, 1862.\\nEllen A., h. 19 Aug., 1863.\\nMi/ra A., h. 11 June, 1865.\\nJohn E.,b.2 March, 1867.\\nCharles S., b. 12 Feb., 1869.\\nClara M., b. 6 June, 1872.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0775.jp2"}, "762": {"fulltext": "684 GENEALOGICAL LITTLE.\\nArthue/ Rev. (Simeon B..\u00c2\u00ae Benjamin,^ Capt.), grad. at Dart-\\nmouth college in 18G0 stutlied theology at Ando-\\nver and Princeton received the appointment of chap-\\nlain for the 1st Vt. Heavy Artillery, and was ordained\\nfor this office at Webster, 16 IMarch, 1863 was mus-\\ntered out of service 7 July, 1865; commenced his min-\\nistry over the Presbyterian church in Bedford, Oct.,\\n1865, and remained three years settled in Nov.,\\n1868, over the 1st Congregational church at Fond du\\nLac, Wis. was dismissed 12 Feb., 1878, and the same\\nmonth became pastor of the N. E. Congregational\\nchurch at Chicago, 111. m. Laura E., dau. of Benja-\\nmin Frost, of Thetford, Vt., 15 Aug., 1863.\\nMary Brant, b. 19 June, 1867.\\nAlbekt G? (Henry,^ Enoch,^ Dea.) first settled at Liverpool, and\\nafterwards at Altona, Knox county. 111., where he now\\ndwells is a carpenter, and dealer in musical instru-\\nments has been justice of the peace, and held vari-\\nous offices in town and county m., 1st, Deborah, dau.\\nof Nehemiah and Margaret (Maxfield) Brush, of\\nLewistown, 111., 10 Kov., 1842, who was b. in Pa. in\\n1821, and d. 11 April, 1850 2d. Jane, dau. of Charles\\nand Emeline Steel, at Liverpool, 111., 5 Dec, 1850,\\nwho was b. in Ind., 8 Oct., 1829.\\nChildren of Deborah\\nCaroline Amanda, b. 2 Nov., 184:3; m. Henry Loranz. treasurer of\\nPage county, Iowa. 18 Feb., 1869; resides at Clarinda.\\nMary Emma, b. 4 Dec, 1841; grad. at Elm wood Institute, at B.,\\nNov., 1863; m. Charles^M. Morton, State Sec. of Y. M. C\\nAssociations of 111., 4 Dec, 1866; resides in Chicago.\\nPhebe,h. 3 April, 1816; grad. at Steubenville, O. ni. Jesse J.\\nPursell, 12 i\\\\Iarch, 1872; resides at Brinifield, 111.\\nSusan,h. 28 Feb., 1818; m. Charles Brush, of Haverhill, 0., 10\\nJune, 1875.\\nAlice, b. 25 Aug., 1849; d. 25 July, 1850.\\nChildren of Jane\\nHenry, h. 23 Jan., 1852; d. 29 Feb., 1852.\\nMary Ellen, h. 10 Aug., 18.53; d. 21 Aug., 1854.\\nMartha, b. 17 Dec, 1854; has been a successful music teacher in\\n111. and Iowa.\\nCharles Coffin, b. 23 May, 1856; d. 5 Oct., 1858.\\nAnn Cora, b. 14 Feb., 1858 d. 30 Jan., 1859.\\nElla, b. 17 Dec, 1859.\\nJennie, b. 27 May, 1861.\\nCharles Alfred, b. 4 Aug., 1864; d. 17 Aug., 1865.\\nOlive, b. 24 Oct., 1865.\\nSamrny S., h. 5 Jan., 1868; d. 26 July, 1868.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0776.jp2"}, "763": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LITTLE. 585\\nJohn EJ (Jolm,^ Noali^) resides in Lacouia m. Lettice A. Eob-\\ninson, of Meredith Village, 4 Nov., 1843.\\nHarriet W., b. 13 An 1814; in. Osman Baker, of Ilolderness, 10\\nMarch, 18G6.\\nNell)/ B., b. 8 Jan., 1851; m. Abraham Morrison, of Sanbornton,\\n20 Sept., 1871; resides in Franklin.\\nMary E.,h. 20 Oct., 1854; ni. Frank Rollins, of Sanbornton, 6\\nApril, 1877.\\nNancy H.^ b. 5 June, 1857.\\nLettice R., h. 9 May, 1859.\\nHexey (John,* Noah^) resides in Concord m., 1st, Harriet S.\\nPerkins, of that city, 24 Nov., 1846, who d. 16 Sept.,\\n1863; 2d, Hannah* B. Winch, of Marshiield, Vt., 24\\nNov., 1864.\\nChildren of Harriet\\nWilliam H., b. 7 June, 1850.\\nAddle G., b. 1 Aug., 1854.\\nHarriet b. 3 Oct., 1858 m. Fred Sanborn, of Concord, 26 Nov.,\\n1876.\\nRose E., b. 13 March, 1863; d. 12 Aug., 1863.\\nNoah (John,\u00c2\u00ae Noah^) is a manufacturer and dealer in blank-\\nbooks at Boston, Mass. m. Marv E., dan. of Capt.\\nNathan Call, of Concord, 31 May, 1846.\\nGeorge W., b. 23 March, 1847.\\nFrank b. 16 Sept., 1852.\\nGeorge AV. (John, Noah^) resides in Phnnouth in. Helen H.\\nHolden, of Kumney, 29 Nov., 1854.\\n3Ielzena E., b. 17 Aug., 1856.\\nAlonzo G. (David,\u00c2\u00ae Noah^) resides in Wichita, Sedgwick coun-\\nty, Kansas m. Jane Mitchell, near Elkhart, Ind., 16\\nNov., 1856.\\nAlbert A., b. 17 Aug., 1857.\\nEmellne E., b. 7 Jan., 1860.\\nAndrew D., b. 5 April, 1864.\\nClara J., h. 25 Oct., 1866.\\nCharles 0., b. 25 Feb., 1876.\\nAlfred, Dea. (Jacob,\u00c2\u00ae d. d.. Jesse^) was teacher in common,\\nacademj and high schools successively; also taught\\nvocal and instrumental music m. Sarah C, dau. of\\nDea. Josepli Little, of Newbury, Mass., 31 July, 1855,\\nwho d. at Granville, 0., 25 March, 1863.\\nAnna T., h. 19 June, 1856 resides in Newbury, Mass.\\nGeorge A., Rev. (Jacob,\u00c2\u00ae r c, Jesse^) enlisted in the spring of\\n1862 was taken prisoner at Harj^er s Ferr}^, Va.,\\nsame year grad. at Marietta college, 2 July, 1863, at", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0777.jp2"}, "764": {"fulltext": "586 GENEALOGICAL LITTLE.\\nLane Theological Seminary, 1866 licensed to preach\\nh}^ the Cincinnati Presbyter}^, 5 April, 1865 was or-\\ndained in 1866, and preached one year at Massillon,\\n0., and nearly seven years at Oconto, Wis. was set-\\ntled over the Presbyterian church, at Plymouth, Ind.,\\n1 Dec 1875 m. Sarah C. Dangler, of Massillon, 0.,\\n14 Kov., 1867.\\nWilliam,h. 10 Sept., 1808; d. 5 xVng., 1869.\\nMar7j B., b. 24 June, 1870 d. lo Oct., 1876.\\nFrank, b. 25 Jan., 1873.\\nJoseph P)., Pvev. (Henry, d. d., Jesse^) grad. at Amherst college\\nin 1860, at Lane Theological Seminary in 1863 was\\nordained at Madison, Ind., 8 Sept., 18( )3; is pastor of\\nPresbyterian church, at ]Mankato, Minn. m. Mrs.\\nMary A. Cromwell, of Lima, 0., 27 Nov., 1866.\\nHerman G., b. 26 Sept.. 1807 d. 19 July, 1868.\\nGeorge B., b. 4 May, 1869.\\nManj P., b. 18 Nov., 1871.\\nDajjton C, b. 28 Sept., 1873 d. Sept., 1871.\\nHeney S., Rev. (Henry,* d. d., Jesse^), grad. at Wabash college in\\n1863, at Lane Theological Seminary in 1866 was or-\\ndained at Rising Sun, Ind., 11 April, 1866 is pastor\\nof the Presbyterian church at Carondelet, South St.\\nLouis, Mo. m. Anna H dan. of Rev. William H.\\nMcCarer, of Evansville, Ind., 29 May, 1866.\\nHenry, b. 21 March, 1867.\\nWilliam il/., b. 5 Sept., 1868 d. 2 Feb., 1869.\\nSarah M., b. 21 Nov., 1869.\\nCornelia, b. 13 Sept., 1871; d. 5 Sept., 1872.\\nCharles H.. b. 16 March, 1873 d. 30 May, 1874.\\nSusan N.,h. 27 Dec, 1875.\\nGeorge 0., Rev. (Henry, d. d., Jesse^), grad. at Amherst col-\\nlege in 1860, at Lane Theological Seminary in 1863\\nwas ordained 8 Sept., of same year, at Madison,\\nInd. is pastor of the Assembly s church (Presby-\\nterian) at Washington, D. C. m. Mattie H., dau. of\\nJetliro Mitchell, Esq., of Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, 0.,\\n3 Sept., 1863.\\nArthur M., b. 10 April, 1865.\\nEdward iV., b. 21 Sept., 1867.\\nNorton M., b. 3 Jan., 1873.\\nEdith, b. 11 Sept., 1874.\\nCharles H., Rev. (Henry,^ d. d., Jesse^), grad. at Wabash coll.\\n1870, and at Lane Theological Seminary in 1873\\nwas ordained at Richmond, Ind., 8 April, 1874 is", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0778.jp2"}, "765": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0779.jp2"}, "766": {"fulltext": "11\\neLy^^ax^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0780.jp2"}, "767": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL LITTLE. 587\\npastor of the 2d Presbyterian church, at New Albany,\\nInd. m. Lettie R., dau. of Tliomas W. Fry, M. D., of\\nLafayette, Ind., 23 Feb., 1873.\\nThomns W., b. 28 Oct., 1874.\\nCharles F., b. 15 Dec, 1877.\\nJoseph A. (Thonias,\u00c2\u00ae Capt., Jesse^) is an extensive farmer and\\nst )ck-raiser at West Creek, Lake county, Ind. m.\\nMary, dau. of Abiel Gerrish, of West Creek, Ind., 1\\nNov., 1859.\\nLems b. 21 Feb., 18G1.\\nbifant dau., b. 20 Nov. and d. 30 Dec, 1862.\\nJames H.,b. 27 Nov., 1863.\\nEllen, h. 31 Jan., 1866.\\nJesse, b. 17 Jan., 1868.\\nMyraA., h. 26 April, 1872.\\nMar// E., b. 4 April, 1877.\\nJoHx Sullivan (Leavitt,^ CoL, Jesse^) resides in Bradford,\\nMcKean county, Pa. ni. Louise H. Mathews, of\\nMarshall, 111., 26 Aug., 1875.\\nDix M., b. 28 Nov., 1876.\\nWilliam H.^ (Henry, John* resides in Concord; m. Ida M.\\nVincent, 9 Dec, 1869.\\nFrank B., h. 27 Sept., 1870.\\nWillinm M., b. 30 May, 1872.\\nArthur W.,h. 9 April, 187-i.\\nCora M., b. 12 Feb., 1877.\\nFrank II. (Noah,^ John\u00c2\u00ae) resides in South Boston, Mass.; ni.\\nLottie J, Pearson, of Boston, 8 Oct., 1864.\\nGeorge yilfred, b. 3 Aug., 1875.\\nJennie C, b. 30 Nov., 1876.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0781.jp2"}, "768": {"fulltext": "588 GENEALOGICAL MORRILL,\\nMOEKILL.\\nAbraham^ came from England in 1632.\\nIsaac,- b. 10 May, 1646; d. 17 Oct., 1713.\\nAbraham,^ b. 21 June, 1671.\\nAbraham,* b. 22 Nov., 1705 d. at Salisbury, ^lass.\\nEoBiE,^ b. 28 Aug., 1734 grad. at Harvard coll. 1755 ordained\\nminister of B. 27 Dec, 1761 [see Biog.] m. Elizabeth\\nHobson d. 13 Sept., 1813.\\nSamuel^ b. at Salisbury, ]Mas?.; d. in B., 14 Oct., 1816.\\nElizabeth, b. 31 July, 176 2; in. Wm. Jacknian, of B.\\nAnna, b. 20 Oct., 17(3o: m. Joseph Little, of B. d. 17 Nov., 1839.\\nJoseph Hobson, h. 15 June, 1765; m. Anna Jackinan; d. 4 June,\\n1858.\\nJeremiah, b. 18 Jan., 1775.\\nSallij, b. 30 May, 1777 d. 20 April, 1859.\\nJane, b. 26 Dec, 1768; d. 30 Sept., 1832.\\nSamuel,^ (Robie^), b. 5 Jan., 1761.\\nBelsey M., b. 8 March, 1787; ni. James Chadwick, of B.; d. 17\\nNov., 1851.\\nEunice, b. 4 April, 1788; d. 19 March, 1828.\\nNathaniel, b. 8 Sept., 1789.\\nJudith, b. 13 Dec, 1792; m. Joseph Chadwick, of B.; d. 12 March,\\n1821.\\nBenjamin, b. 16 Jan., 1794.\\nAnna Hobson, h. 11 Sept., 1797 ni. Dr. Merrill, Ilopkin-\\nton, Mass.\\nJoseph H.* (Robie,^ Rev.), b. 15 Jan., 1765 m., 1st, At-\\nkinson 2d, Lunt d. 21 March. 1858.\\nJoseph, b. 23 May, 1793.\\nJudith, b. 29 Nov., 1797; m. Nehemiah Cogswell; d. 19 Nov., 1810.\\nCalcin, b. 6 Dec, 1805; m. Mary Clark, of B.; d. in AVebster, 14\\nMay, 1875.\\nJeremiah (Robie,^ Rev.), b. 18 Jan., 1875 m. Anna Jackman\\nd. 4 June, 1858.\\nNancy, b. 9 Oct., 1800; m. Moses Foster, of Canterbury.\\nReuben Prentice, b. 12 April, 1808; ni. Forbes.\\nHarrison Otis, b. 20 May, 1810.\\nMarij, b. 11 Dec, 1812; ui. Sewell Fifield.\\nRoger Sherman, b. 25 Dec, 1815; d. 9 Sept., 18G1.\\nI^ATHAXiEL^ (Samuel,^ Robie,^ Rev.), b. 8 Sept., 1789 m.\\nMorrill lived in Canterbury.\\nMary Emily, b. 3 March, 1821; m. Fitts d. 23 Oct., 1845.\\nCatherine, b. 27 Aug., 1823; d. 14 Oct., 1841.\\nReuben, b. 11 May, 1825.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0782.jp2"}, "769": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL MORRILL. 589\\nSamuel Atldnson, h. 26 May, 1827.\\nCharles Franklin, b. 27 May, 1829.\\nE72och, b. 16 Sept., 18:33.\\nElizabeth C, b. 7 March, 1831; d. 24 April, 1832.\\nBenjamin^ (Samuel,\u00c2\u00ab Robie,^ Rev.), b. 16 Jan.. 1794 m., 1st,\\nEastman 2cl, Clioat, of Deny lived on\\nB. Plain, in bouse owned by S. B. G. Corscr, also in\\ntbe house erected by bis grandfather, Rev. Robie. He\\nwas a clock- and scale-maker, a man of great ingenu-\\nity. At one time about 1840, 45 he manufactured\\nmelodeons and seraphines. He d. 21 April, 1857.\\nLua-elia, dau. 1st wife, m. Donaldson lives in 111.\\nFranklin C, b. ]\\\\Iarcli, 1835.\\nManj Frances, b. 2-1 Aug., 1843.\\nJoseph^ (Joseph H.,*^ Robie,^ Rev.), b. 23 May, 1793 m.\\nLunt d. 5 Jan., 1844. He taught school many years\\nwas representative two years; an earnest Christian;\\nfor many years superintendent of Sunday-school\\nlived on the Plain with his father.\\nMary TF., b. 1819; d. 27 Nov., 1835.\\nEnoch Lunt, b. 9 Oct.. 1820.\\nJoseph Hobson, b. 15 June, 1828.\\nEnoch L.^ (Joseph,^ Joseph H.,\u00c2\u00ab^ Robie,^ Rev.), b. 9 Oct., 1820\\nm. Susannah Coffin d. 2 Dec, 1874.\\nEmma Adelaide, h. 1818; d. 1851.\\nElizabeth, b. 11 June, 1850.\\nEdward P., b. 9 April, 1852.\\nEnvmdtee, d. in infancy.\\nMalvina, d. in infancy.\\nElmer F., b. 2 Dec, 1861; resides in ]Manchester.\\nJoseph Hobson^ (Joseph, Joseph H.,* Robie,^ Rev.), b. 15\\nJune, 1828 m. 0. A. Munroe lives in Concord.\\nMarij Ella, b. Sept., 1854.\\nHarrison O. (Jeremiah,^ Robie,^ Rev.), b. 30 May, 1818 m.\\nRichardson.\\nWilliam^ Emma, Edward. Everett.\\nReuben P.^ (Jeremiah m. Forbes.\\nWarren, Jeremiah.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0783.jp2"}, "770": {"fulltext": "590 GENEALOGICAL MORRISON, NOYES.\\nMORRISON.\\nCompiled by Abiel R. Chandler.\\nJoHX H.- (Abner^), b. in Derry, 4 June, 1779 m. Maiy, dan. of\\nDavid Paul, of Deny settled in B. just below the\\nPlain, in 1803 d. 11 Aug., 1858. His wife d. 14\\nJuly, 1863.\\nMary Holmes, b. 27 Jan., 1802; d. 11 Oct., 1812.\\nEliza Jane, h. 1 Oct., 1803; m., 1829, Abiel W. Chandler, of B.\\n[See Chandler Biog.]\\nGeorge, h. 15 Dec, 18U5 m. Sally Randall, of Great Falls; d. 1\\nFeb., 18GU.\\nLeonard, b. 7 Oct., 1807: m. Sally Cole, of B.\\nPersis, b. 5 Oct., 1800; m. Edward B. Kimball, of Hanover, and\\nsettled in Qoincy, 111.\\n]\\\\Iar)/,h. 6 Jan., 1812; m, Charles Stoby, of Quincy, 111.; d. 21\\nAug., 1876.\\nSylcia Ann, b. 13 Dec, 1813; m. Charles Ford, of Brookliue,\\nMass.; d. 1 Sept., 1875.\\nLouisa Maria, b. 26 Jan., 1816 m. Jonathan P. Howe, of B.\\nJohn Sherman, b. 19 Jan., 1819 d. 9 March, 1819.\\nSamuel Wood, Anril 18O0-\\nNancy Wingate, ^P j d. 3 May, 1820.\\nNOYES.\\nCompiled by William Temple.\\nNicholas^ and Rev, James, brothers, came from Wiltshire, Eng.,\\n1638, and were among the first settlers of Newbury.\\nThe B. branch is descended from Nicholas, who had\\na son,\\nTimothy,- who had a son,\\nJames,^ m. Sarah Coffin, of Ne\\\\vbur3\\\\\\nIsaac, b. 14 July, 1719.\\nDaniel, b. 30 Jan., 1723; perhaps others.\\nIsaac* (James^), b. 14 July, 1719 m. Sarah Pettingill, 24 Nov.,\\n1743 moved to B., 1768.\\nCutting, b. 2 June, 1745.\\nAmos, b. 19 Feb., 1749.\\nElizabeth, h. 7 July, 1750.\\nSarah, b. 2 May, 1755.\\nCutting (Isaac,* James,^ Timothy,- Nicholas^), b. in Newbury,\\n2 June, 1745 came with his father to B. settled on\\nfarm owned in 1876 by L. M. Chadwick, Esq. m.\\nMolly Burbanlv was elected selectman, 1776, 77, 78,\\n81, 88 elected deacon of the church, 1786 moved\\nto Newport, 1794.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0784.jp2"}, "771": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL NOYES. 591\\nIsaac, b. 15 Aug., 1772.\\nMoses, b. 21 Dec, 1774.\\nSarah, b. 8 Oct., 1776.\\nSamuel Muzzt/, b. 21 Aug., 1778.\\nJudilh, b. 16 Mav, ]78[).\\nDorcas, b. 17 Feb., 1782.\\nAmos, b. 19 Dec, 1783.\\nEnoch, h. 16 Nov.. 1785.\\nBenjamin, b. 9 June, 1787.\\nAbigail, b. 20 Jan., 1793.\\nDan^iel^ (Jnmes,^ Timothy,- Nicliolas^), b. in Newbury, 30 Jan.,\\n1723 came to B.. 17G1 lived on the farm occupied\\nat one period by Mr. Solomon Arey, hxter by Daniel\\nFlint; ra. Anna Chase, of Haverhill, Mass., 1745.\\nMarij, b. 15 April, 174(i la. Nicliolas Davis; d. 10 June, 1829.\\nJoanna, b. 27 March, 1710; m. Richard Carr.\\nSarah, b. 29 IMarch, 1752; d. young.\\nJames, b. 22 May, 1751; d. young.\\nTristram, b. 7 March. 1759.\\nIsaac, b. 19 June, 1702; m., 1st, Phebe Goodwin; 2(1, Mrs. Sarah\\nBoardman; d. 9 April, 184].\\nDaniel, b. 26 Jan., 1705; ni. Polly Marston; d. 21 Jan., 1852 stud-\\nied medicine with Dr. Daniel Peterson, of B. settled in\\nEnfield; moved to O.\\nTristram^ (Daniel, James b. 7 March, 1759 m. Miriam East-\\nman, of Salisbury, Mass. He was a carpenter and\\nplow-maker, an ingenious mechanic; d. Aug., 1824.\\nIlanj, b. 20 Aug., 1785; m. Peter King; d. 28 Aug., 18G6.\\nJeremiah, b. 28 JNlarcIi, 1788.\\nJane,h. 28 Jan., 179U; m., 1st, Eben Hall; 2d, Isaac Atwood; d.\\n2 Feb., 1857.\\nCltasch. 8 Feb., 1792; m. Nancy Kempton d. May, 1862.\\nNanct), b. 14 March, 1794; d. young.\\nButh, b. 25 Aug-., 1790 m. Jabez Ilannaford; d. 14 Aug., 1800.\\nEnoch, b. 10 Jan., 1799 d. 10 Sept., 1819.\\nMarif, m. Obed Kempton.\\nSusanna, h. 4 Dec. 18 Jo; m. Wm. Temple; living, 1870, at East\\nWoburn, Mass.\\nJeremiah^ (Tristram,^ DanieP), b. 28 March, 178S m. Martha\\nJackman lived in house occupied by Prentis Fowler,\\n1876, south end King st. surveyor, wheelwright in-\\nheritor of his father s mechanical ingenuity select-\\nman justice of the peace d. 7 Nov., 1868.\\nMartha L., b. 6 June, 1812; d. 15 Sept., 1836.\\nSarah Jackman, b. 1 Sept., 1815; m. Moody M Pinkertou.\\nMary King, b. 22 Sept., 1817.\\nEnoch Russell, h. 27 April, 1820.\\nEsther Jackman, h. 6 Jan., 1823; m. Geo. Allison.\\nSamuel Gilman, b. 12 Oct., 1827; ra. Achsah J. Brown.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0785.jp2"}, "772": {"fulltext": "592 GENEALOGICAL PEARSON.\\nEphraim,^ another brancli of the Noyes family, h. in ISTewbuiy\\nm. Molly, sister of Nathaniel Thurston, of B. settled\\non Corser hill d. 13 May, 1856, aged 92.\\nJane Pearson, b. 5 Oct., 1796; d. 20 Sept., 1819.\\nElizabeth IF., b. 9 Aucr., 1798.\\nEdna Adams, b. 13 May, 1801.\\nJudith Stickneij, b. 20 Aug., 1803 ra. Whicher, of Rowley.\\nNicholas Moodij^h. 24 Oct., 1806; m. Phebe Kelley; one son,\\nIIe7irij.\\nPEAESO:^T.\\nJoHN^ came from England to Eowley, Mass., in 1643 or 1645,\\nand erected a mill for dressing cloth.\\nBenjamin- (John^), b. 1648 m. Hannah, dan. of Daniel\\nand Anne (Pell) Thurston.\\nBenjamin,^ fourth child of Benjamin,- b. 12 Aug., 1690 m.\\nDorothy Moody.\\nIsaac.\\nJeremiah.\\nIsaac, Dea., b. 21 Oct., 1728; m., 1st, 28 Nov., 1751, Sarah\\nGerrish, who d. 16 JMarch, 1773, aged 44 years 2d,\\nAnna Plumer, 11 Jan., 1774, who d. 2 April, 1789,\\nwithout issue 3d, Mary Eaton, 1789, who d. 30\\nMarch, 1848, aged 96, without issue. He was chosen\\ndeacon of the church of B. about the year 1770 was\\nalso elected deacon of the church in the east part of the\\ntown in the year 1786 d. 8 March, 1805, aged 77.\\nChildren of Sarah\\nMoses, b. 21 Nov., 1752; d. 8 Dec, 1752.\\nMary Elisehelh^h. 3 Oct., 1753; in. Mnj. Enoch Gerrish.\\nJoseph, b. 17 Aug., 1755; m. Hannah Atkinson; moved to Haver-\\nhill, N. H.\\nJane, b. 1 Dec, 1757 d. 20 May, 1758.\\nJane, b. 10 ]\\\\Iay, 1759; d. 4 July, 1759.\\nIsaac, b. 7 Aug., 1760; m. Sarah Allison; Uved in Northfield; d.\\nwithout issue.\\nSomershy, h. 27 Aug., 1763.\\nMoses, h. 12 Dec, 1705; d. 31 Jan., 1767.\\nSOMERSBY,^ Capt. (Isaac, Dea.), b. 27 Aug., 1763; d. 12 July,\\n1811, aged 48 m. Judith, dan. of Joshua and Ee-\\nbeeca (Gerrish) March, who d. 9 Dec, 1820, aged 50.\\nIsaac, h. 14 May, 1792.\\nMary, b. 7 April, 1794; m. John Cogswell; d. 5 April, 1823, aged\\n29.\\nRebecca, b. 1799; d. 4 May, 1812, aged 13.\\nJudith, b. 18u3; d. 17 April, 1819, aged 16.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0786.jp2"}, "773": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL PEARSON.\\n593\\nIsAAC\u00c2\u00ab (Somersby,5 Q^^pt.), b- 14 May, 1792 d. 4 March, 1824,\\na^ ed 32 years m. Hannah, dau. of Major Enoch\\nGerrisli, 1 June, 1814, who d. 29 Jan., 182i.\\nRebecca, b. 12 Nov., ISL); d. 22 .July, 18ii; m. Calvin Gage, of\\nB.; children, Hannah Pearxnn, b. 13 June, lSo6; d. 5\\nJuly, 1852, aged 16; Mariha Ann, b. 10 May, 1840; d. 19\\nJuly, 184(3.\\nThe family of Capt. Somersby Pearson is extinct.\\nJeremiah (Benjamin,^ Benjamin, John^) m. Elizabeth Pearson.\\nNathan, b. 17G().\\nSamuel, h. 28 Nov., 1771.\\nPoll//, m. Paul Dodge.\\nKathan^ (Jeremiah^) m. Elisabeth Thurlow d. Jan., 1850\\nmoved to B. from Xewbury, Mass., 1795.\\nPoll//, h. 17 July, 1787; m. Isaac Ilale; d. 14 Nov., 18(35.\\nBetsey, b. 25 April. 1790 m. Isaac Hale d. 9 Jan., 1832.\\nPaul, b. 10 July, 1792; d. 27 Sept., 1797.\\nPaul, b. 19 Oct., 1798.\\nNathan, b. 22 Sept., 1802.\\nSamuel^ (Jeremiah*), b. 28 Nov., 1771; m. Mary B. Lane;\\nmoved to B. from Newbury, 179G; d. 20 Nov., 1843.\\nAnnie, b. G Sept., 1797; d. 27 Jan., 1800.\\nLyilia, b. 24 July, 1799 d. 11 Dec. 1800.\\nAnnie, b. 14 March, 1802 d. 9 April, 1804.\\nMan/, b. 23 Nov., 1805: m. Plunimer R. Stevens.\\nNanc/i, b. 25 Jan., 1808; d. 20 Nov., 1856.\\nPaul^ (Nathan,^ Jeremiah*) m. Sarah Couch member of the\\nlegislature 1856, 1857.\\nWilliam, b. 5 March, 1827.\\nCharles, b. 17 Aug., 1829.\\nSarah J., b. 22 Dec, 1835; m. Henry II. Gerrish.\\nHenry F., b. 23 July, 1839.\\nNathax (Nathan^) m. Eliza Couch, d. 12 Oct., 1SG8 [see Biog.]\\nJohn C.,h. 25 May, 1835.\\nWilliam (Paul\u00c2\u00ae) m. Rebecca Corser.\\nClara, b. 3 Jan., 1859 d. 22 June, 1859.\\nCharles, b. 23 April, 1861.\\nCharles (PauP) m. Eanny Prescott d. March, 1856.\\nLizzie F., b. 18 Jan., 18.53; ra. D. B. Badger, of Boston.\\nHenry F. (PauP) m. Henrietta Bills.\\nEdwin H., b. 9 Feb., 1863.\\nGeorge L., b. 34 March, 1865.\\nJessie E.,^. 30 July, 1869.\\nHenry F.,}^.^ Oct., 1873.\\nHenrietta,", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0787.jp2"}, "774": {"fulltext": "594 GENEALOGICAL PILLSBURY,\\nJoHST C (ISTathan\u00c2\u00ae) m. Elizabetli S. Colby member of legislature\\n1871, 1872; resides at Fislierville.\\nCarrie i/., b. 23 Dec, 1857.\\nEdward iV., b. 7 Sept., 1859 in Dart, coll., class 1881.\\nJohn Walter,]). 17 Feb., 1862.\\nHarloiv C, b. 27 Nov., 1872.\\nPILLSBUKY.\\nCompiled by Alfred Little.\\nWilliam-^ (the name originally called Pillesburgh, see Coffin s\\nHist, of Newbury) was b. in Staffordsbire, England,\\n1605; came to Newbury, Mass., in 1641, tbeiice to\\nDorcbester tbe same year m. Dorothy Crosby of that\\ntown, in 1642; returned to Newbury in 1651\\nwhere he d. 19 June, 1686. He bought bis farm of\\nEdward Kawson, secretary of state, which has ever\\nsince been owned by his lineal descendants, and is\\nnow occupied by Joshua Pillsl)ury of High st., New-\\nburyport. He was a man of wealth owned a large\\ntract of land, and had money to let, which tradition\\nsays he kept secreted under the eaves of his thatched\\nbarn.\\nJoh, b. in Dorchester, Mass., IG Oct., 1643.\\nMoses.\\nAbel b. 1652.\\nCaleb, b. at Newbury, Mass., 28 Jan., 1651; d. 4 Julv^lGSO.\\nWilliam, h. 27 July, 1650.\\nExperience, b. 10 April, 1658.\\nIncrease, b. 10 Oct., 1660.\\nThankful, b. 22 April, 1662.\\nJoshua, b. 20 June, 1674.\\nJoB^ (William^) m. Katharine Gavet, 5 April, 1677.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Daniel, b. 20 Sept., 1678.\\nJosiah,h. 17 April, 1686.\\nDaniel^ (Job, William^). In 1700, he built the Pillsbury house\\non High St., Newburyport, which has ever since been\\noccupied by his descendants m. Sarah Allen, 18 Jan.,\\n1703.\\nJoshua, b. 11 Feb., 1704; d. 21 March, 1788.\\nJoshua* (Daniel,^ Job-) m. Mary Somersby, of Newbury, Mass.,\\n1731, who d. 16 April, 1794, aged 87.\\nJoshua, b. 23 March, 1738; d. 6 April, 1798.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0788.jp2"}, "775": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL PILLSBURY. 595\\nJo SHU A^ (Joslma,* DanieP) m. Kebeckali Witham, of Peppers-\\n1)oro (Wells), Me., 1764, who d. 28 June, 1819, aged\\n77.\\nDaniel, b. 15 April. 1765; d. at C S Dec, 18^4.\\nJos/ma, b. 1769 d. at B., 15 Aug., ISll.\\nlie had also several other children, daughters.\\nDaniel,* Lieut. (Joshua,^ Joshua*), m. Eunice Tliurlow, of New-\\nburyport, Mass., 5 Feb., 1788 who was b. 5 May, 1765,\\nand d. 27 Oct., 1847. Soon after his marriage he re-\\nmoved to B. and settled on his father s farm on Water\\nSt., which he subsequently purchased was a carpen-\\nter and mill-wright. Thougii a man of medium stat-\\nure, yet the united heights of his 7 sons amounted to\\n42^ feet.\\nDanid, b. 20 March, 1789; d. 19 July, 1872.\\nEnoch, h. 14 Aug., 1790.\\nGeorge T., b. 7 Feb., 1792; d. 16 May, 18-36.\\nMoody A., h. 4 May, 1794; d. 8 Jan., 1863.\\nRebecca, b. 29 April, 1796 d. 5 Oct., 1874; m. Jeremiah Titcomb,\\nof Deny, 29 April, 1823 lived in B.\\nPaulP.,\\\\). 9 Nov., 1797.\\nJoseph, h. 7 Aug., 1799; d. 14 :\\\\lay, 1861.\\nEunice, b. 22 Sept.. 1803; d. 2 Nov.. 1843.\\n3Ian/, h. 6 Feb., 1805; d. 7 April, 1813.\\nSarah, b. 4 Nov., 1806; resides on the homestead.\\nWilliam T., b. 24 Aug., 1809 d. 27 Aug., 1845.\\nJoshua, Capt. (Joshua,\u00c2\u00ae Joshua m. Elizabeth Wood, of New-\\nburvport, Mass., 1793, who d. 1 Dec, 1816. He re-\\nmoved to B. in 1809.\\nEnoch, b. 7 Jan., 1795; d. at Nashua, 26 Jan., 1S57.\\nJoshta, b. 13 Aug.. 1796.\\nElizabeth, h. 1 Aug., 1798; d. 16 Oct., 1825; m. Jeremiah Little, of\\nB., 5 March, 1816.\\nNathaniel, b. 13 Sept.. 1800; d. 14 April, 1863.\\nEunice, b. 2 Jan., 1803; d. in Lawrence, Mass., 1 Aug., 1872 ra.\\nSimon Brown, of Derry, in 1828.\\nMary C, b. 20 ]March, 1805; d. 25 July, 1809 m. Capt. Richard\\nLittle, of B., 22 May, 1827.\\nPhebe, b. 21 ]May, 1807; m. in 1829.\\nCaroline, b. 10 July, 1811; m. 1831.\\nDaniel, Capt. (Daniel,* Lieut., Joshua\u00c2\u00ae), removed to West New-\\nbury, Mass m., 1st, Dorothy Searles, of New Ches-\\nter, 26 Nov., 1812, who d. 4 June, 1819; 2d. Betsey\\nBurleigh, of Franklin, 9 Nov., 1820, who d. 19 Sept.,\\n1868.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0789.jp2"}, "776": {"fulltext": "696 GENEALOGICAL PILLSBURY.\\nChildren of Dorothy\\nEhura D., b.25 June, 1815; d. 7 Aug., 1821.\\nAlelvin, b. 11 July, 1818.\\nChildren of Betsey\\n3IaryA., b. 10 Sept., 18-21 d. 2 July, 1831.\\nJoseph B., b. 19 June, 182:5; d. 23 Dec, 1833.\\nBenjamin D., b. 25 Oct., 1821.\\nEnoch (Daniel, Lieiit., Joshua was a soldier in the war of 1812\\nresides in Webster ni. Martha Burleigh, of Franklin,\\n6 Dec, 1822.\\nE7ioch IIilton,h. 5 May, 1821; d. 23 Dec, 1857.\\nMartha A. ,h. 26 Jan., 183G; d. 22 Sept., 18G0; m. Ezekiel W.\\nBurbauk, of Webster, in 1851.\\nGeorge T., Dea. (Daniel,* Lieut., Joshua^), lived in B. was a\\nmill-wright and carpenter, and the first man in town\\nto frame buildings by square rule m. Susannah, dau.\\nof Dea. Eliphalet Kilburn, of B., 16 June, 1813, who\\nwas h. 16 Eeb., 1790, and d. in Chicago, 111., 31\\nMarch, 1861. [See Biog.]\\nEmihj, b. 2G Sept., 1811; was a successful teacher in N. E. and at\\nthe South; ni., 1st, Rev. A. B. Burke, in Alexander,\\nBurke county, Ga., 19 Dec, 1818, who d. 10 May, 1849\\n2d, Col. D. F. Kimball, of Chicago, 111., 19 Sept., 1859\\nresides in Fisherville.\\nCatharine, b. 22 Sept., 1820 d. 19 Oct., 1813; m. Sewell noit,of\\nConcord, 20 Jan., 1837.\\nMoody A., Gen. (Daniel, Lieut., Joshua^), lived at Bashan m.,\\n1st, Abigail AV., dau. of Col. Timothy Dix, of B.,\\n1 Oct., 1818, who d. 9 May, 1852; 2d, Louisa F. Dix,\\nsister of Abigail, 25 Xov., 1852. [See Biog.]\\nChildren of Abigail\\nMooilij Adamt^, b. 20 Sept., 1820; m. Charlotte Couch, of B., 15\\nMarch, 1847; resides in Webster.\\nGeorge, b. 17 Oct., 1823.\\nCharles W., 1). 7 June, 1820; d. 17 May, 1828.\\nCharles ,S b. 14 April, 1828.\\nPaul P., Capt. (Daniel, Lieut., Joshua^), resides at Andover,\\nMass. ni., 1st, Hannah Frost, 2 May, 1825, who d.\\n27 Sept., 1847, aged 52 years, 5 months; 2d, Sarah\\nA. Stephens, of Andover, Mass., 10 Jan., 1848, who d.\\n5 Feb., 1868, aged 52 years, 10 months.\\nChild of Hannah\\nSolomon i^., b. 8 June, 1829; d. 29 Aug., 1847.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0790.jp2"}, "777": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL PILLSBURY.\\n597\\nChildren of Sarali\\nSolomon B., b. 14 Dec, 1848.\\nGeorge P., b. 22 Nov., 1851.\\nInfant, b. and d. 12 May, 1855.\\nJoseph/ Dea. (Daniel, Lieut., Joshna^), received a common-\\nschool education, which was improA^ed by judicious\\nreading and association with people of intelligence.\\nHe, as well as five of his brothers, held a captain s\\ncommission. In early life he experienced religion,\\nand united with the Congregational church, of which\\nhe was ever an active and consistent member was\\nchosen deacon of Eirst Congregational church in B.\\nHe first settled on a farm at East B. In 1831, he\\naccepted the position as agent and overseer of a large\\nfarm, containing 1,500 acres, in Jackson, Me., owned\\nby Thorndike,, Sears Co., of Boston. Here he re-\\nmained five years, filling this place of responsibility\\nwith satisfaction to his employers. He returned to\\nB. in 1836, and settled on the Mt. Pleasant farm,\\nwhich he occupied through life. In 1840, 41, and\\n42, he was employed by the U. S. Land Co., oi Bos-\\nton, as inspector and appraiser of their lands in west-\\nern Pa. He was well known as a progressive and\\npractical agriculturist. While a young man he re-\\nceived an injury that resulted in a chronic disease of\\nthe stomach, from which he was a sufferer till death.\\nHe possessed a genial, social nature, and his life was\\nfilled with deeds of kindness. For a description of\\nhis character, see Titus, 1st, 8th. He m. Martha, dan.\\nof Jesse Little, of B., 19 May, 1825.\\nHenrjj Tl^, Col., b. 27 June, 1827; was a young man of promise in\\nthe church and Sabbath-scliool. Durini,^ the years 1849\\nand 1850 he was employed by Col. L. C. Little, in the lum-\\nber business, on the Allegliany and Ohio rivers. In 1853\\nand 1854 he became overseer, and furnislied lumber supplies\\nfor the Chicago Fort AVayne R. 11.; subsequently was\\nin company with his brotlier, Col. J. L. Tillsbury, as con-\\ntractor on the INIobile Girard 11. R.; was last engaged\\nin railroad work at Dubuque. Iowa, where he d. 12 Dec,\\n1857.\\nJoseph Z., b. 10 Feb., 1829; d. at P.., 10 Jan., 1873.\\nGeorge T., b. 20 March, 1833; d. 11 Oct.. 1834.\\nMartha S., b. 15 Feb., 1836; m. Daniel D. Webster, of B., 24\\nApril, 1867.\\nGeorge i., b. 17 May, 1839.\\nWilliam T.,^ Capt. (Daniel, Lieut., Joshua^), lived in Solon, 0.,\\nfor several years returned to N. H. and settled on", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0791.jp2"}, "778": {"fulltext": "598 GENEALOGICAL PILLSBURY.\\ntlie mountain farm in Salisbury was a noted\\nhunter; m. Eunice Fowler, of B., 10 Jan., 1833, who\\nwas b. 27 Aug., 1808.\\nElvira, h. 26 April, 18:39.\\nEUenette, b. 4 June, 1842.\\nExoch (Joshua, Capt., Joshua^) lived in B., afterwards re-\\nmoved to Nashua m. Margaret, dau. of Caleb Knight,\\nEsq., of B., 22 Feb., 1816, wlio was b. 2 Jan., 1795,\\nand d. at Nashua, 19 Sept., 1845.\\nChildren of Margaret\\nJonathan /v., b. 21 Feb., 1817; d. at Walpole, Mass., 9 Dec, 1876.\\nSarah Elizabeth, b. 21 IMiirch, 1819.\\nPhebe A b. G April, 1821; d. at Nashua, 21 Jan., 1815.\\nMargaret A., b. 23 April, 1823; d. at Maiden, Mass., U Aug.,\\n18(36.\\nCaleb K.,h. 30 Dec, 1821.\\nEunice W.,h. 19 Feb., 1827; m. Wni. G. Baib\\\\y, of Weymouth,\\nMass., 30 Nov., 1851; resides at J everly, N. J.\\nJoshua P., b. l Jan., 1830; d. at Woonsocket, E. L, 28 Oct., 1877.\\nSophia F., b. 12 July, and d. 21 Aug., 1833.\\nRebecca D., h. 19 Oct., 1831; m. James Wood, of Lebanon, 21 Oct.,\\n1855.\\nCatherine B., b. 14 April. 1837; m. Rev. Jesse K. Hragg, 25 Dec,\\n1861, who (1. at Norfolk, Mass., 14 June, 1874.\\nJoshua (Joshua, Capt., Joshua^) resides in tlie liouse built by\\nDaniel,^ on the farm purchased by AVilliam,^ situated\\non High St., Newburyport. He m. Sarah D. [Polfe,\\nof that city, 24 July, 1821.\\nSamuel R., b. 8 May, 1822; d. Jan.. 1842.\\nHannah R., b. 21 April, 1824; m. Hubbard Getchell, of Sanford,\\nMe., Nov., 1848; resides iu Newburyport.\\nJoahua, b. 2() AprU, 1828.\\nGeorge, b. 5 March, 1832; d. 17 July, 1851.\\nSarah J., b. 1 Aug., 1838; d. 17 Nov., 1865.\\nNathaniel (Joshua, Capt., Joshua^) lived in Newburyport\\nm., 1st, Hannah Giddings, of Derry, 1824, who d.\\nAug., 1839; 2d, Martha A. Huse, of Windham.\\nChildren of Hannah\\nFrancis E., b. Feb., 1825.\\nJohn TF.. b. 1828.\\nGeorge W., h. 1832; d. May, 1843.\\nChildren of Martha\\nEmilg W., Mary E., Ilarvey II., all married.\\nMelvin^ (Daniel,^ Capt.. Daniel, Lieut.) resides in Newbury-\\nport is a macliinist m., 1st, Mary J Craig, of Read-\\nfield, Me., 2 May, 1839, who d. 13 April, 1854; 2d,\\nMary H. Marling, in Danvers, Mass., 6 March, 1868.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0792.jp2"}, "779": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL PILLSBURY. 599\\nChildren of Mary J.\\nHenrietta R.,h. 12 Feb., 18i0; d. 4 May, 186G; m. Thineas W.\\nPerrin, in Aurora, 111., 28 March, 1866.\\nGeorgiannn D.,h. 17 Feb., ISio; d. at Oakland, Cal., 12 July,\\n1875; m. Clinton Gushing, M. d., of Turner, 111., 4 May,\\nI860.\\nElla F., b. 28 May, 1845; d. 18 March, 1850.\\nChild of Mary H.\\nFrank M., b. 17 July, 1869.\\nBexjami^t D.,^ Rev. (Daniel, Capt., Daniel,\u00c2\u00ae Lieut.), is presiding\\nelder in the Methodist church, at Middletown, Ct.\\nm. there Maria Chandler, April, 1848.\\nChandler, h. 10 Aug., 1854.\\nMinnie, h. 1857; d. 1874.\\nGeorge,^ Dea. (Moody A., Gen., Daniel, Lieut.), is a farmer\\nresides at Tewkshur}^, INIass. m. Lydia A. Marshall,\\nof that town, 1 April, 1852.\\nAhhy M., b. 3 Sept., 1855.\\nGeorr/e E., b. 26 July, 18.57 is a civil engineer.\\nLouisa F., h. 2 Sept., 1859.\\nCharles .4.. b. 21 Sept., 1862.\\nArthur M.,h. 17 Oct., 1865.\\nHerbert IF., b. 7 June, 1868.\\nCharles S.^ (Moody A., Gen., Daniel, Lieut.) lives in London-\\nderry is a fanner, justice of the jK^ace, and has filled\\nvarious offices in town m. Mary C. Runnels, of War-\\nner, 24 Dec, 1863.\\nCharles G., b. 15 Feb., 1865.\\nAdams D., b. 23 March, 1808; d. 3 May, 1877.\\nJohn A., b. 26 Aug., 1872; d. 17 Jan., 1873.\\nJoseph L.,^ Col. (Joseph, Dea., Daniel,* Lieut.), m. Mary A.\\nEly, of Wooster, 0., 18 May, 1854. [See Biog.]\\nMary E., b. 1 May, 1855; resides in Wooster, O.\\nGeorye H., b. 18 Aug., 1857 d. 21 March, 1865.\\nCharles D., b. 19 Nov., 1859.\\nGeorge L.^ (Joseph, Dea., Daniel, Lieut.), carpenter resides\\nat B. m. there Lucina T. Quimb}^, 2 Dec., 1873.\\nJoseph Henry, b. 23 Nov., 1875; d. 20 March, 1876.\\nMary Agnes, b. 15 Dec, 1876.\\nJonathan K.* (Enoch, Joshua,\u00c2\u00ae Capt.) lived at Xashua, after-\\nwards at AValpole, Mass. m. Sarah P. Little, of B.,\\n21 Nov., 1850.\\nMary E., b. 31 Oct., 1853; m. Juhus Guild, of Walpole, Ma^s, 9\\nSept., 1875.\\n-^\u00c2\u00ab7*\\\\^- |b. 30Aug.,lS56.\\nAddie L., j", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0793.jp2"}, "780": {"fulltext": "600 GENEALOGICAL PINKERTON,\\nCaleb K.^ (Enoch, Joshua, Capt.) resides in Lawrence, Mass.\\nm. Ellen B. Smith, of Andover, Mass., 18 Sept., 1862.\\nAnnie S., b, 15 March, 1864.\\nLucretia S., b. 20 Jan., 1868.\\nJoshua P.,^ Capt. (Enoch, Joshua,* Capt.), lived at Woon-\\nsocket, R. I. m. there Celia M. Jencks, 8 Nov., 1860.\\nSherivin J., b. 23 Oct., 1863.\\nBertha, b. 16 July, 1865.\\nJoshua^ (Joshua, Joshua,* Capt.) m. Ahbie J. Sargent, of Law-\\nrence, Mass., Nov., 1854.\\nGeorge S., h. 18 May, 1856.\\nChaiies J., b. 19 Marcti, 1859.\\nHelen A., b. 18 Dec, 1868.\\nEraxcis E.*^ (Nathaniel, Joshua,\u00c2\u00ae Capt.) resides in Newbury-\\nport, Mass. m. Ahby Lunt, of that city, May, 1852.\\nFra }Ic 0., b. 27 March, 1853; m. Florence A. Ellis, of Walpole,\\nMass., 25 April, 1878.\\nJohn AV.^ (Nathaniel, Joshua, Capt.) m. Hannah B. Merrill, of\\nNewburj port, Jan., 1852.\\nHelen A., h. May, 1854.\\nMattie, h. Feb., and d. Oct., 1863.\\nLizzie G., h. 1866.\\nPINKERTON.\\nCompiled by David rinkerton.\\nDavid,^ son of Matthew Pinkerton. was born in Londonderry, 17\\nJime, 1775 m. Susannah, dai;. of Dea. Griffin, of\\nLondonderry; moved to B. in 1817, and settled on\\nthe river road near Salisbury (now Eranklin) line.\\nJohn M.,h. 15 June, 1800; ni. Rebecca Hastings, of Littleton;\\nlived and d. at Lockport, N. Y.\\nJane L b. 20 Nov., 1802; m. Israel Webster, of Manchester; d.\\n1872.\\nHannah D., b. 3 Feb., 1806; d. in 1862.\\nSarah J., b. 12 Nov., 1808; ni. J. B. Robertson; moved to Iowa;\\nd. 1876.\\nDavid, b. 3 Nov., 1813; graduated at Dartmouth college; studied\\ntheology at Andover Seminary; grad. 1843; sent to Wis.\\nby Home IMiss. Society; m. Mary Ann Hitchcock, of\\nGalesburg, 111., in 1845; resides at Grinnell, I. Mary, the\\noldest, is a teacher in the Zulu mission.\\nMoody M., b. 9 Dec, 1815; m. Jane Clark, of Portland, Me. QVo\\nsons, Myron, the oldest, b. in B., 18 July, 1843 grad.\\nat Ripon college, Wis., July, 1868, and at Chicago Theo.\\nSem., April, 1871; sailed for Zulu mission, 9 Aug., 1871,\\nwith his wife, dau. of H. H. Byington, Chicago, 111.\\nJames, b. 24 Oct., 1818; m. Mary E. Ilowser, of Salisbury Mills,\\nN. Y. lives in Wis.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0794.jp2"}, "781": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL PLUMMER. 601\\nPLUMMEPv.\\nCompiled by Helen Elizabeth Plummer.\\nTlie Plummer families of B. were Jescendants of\\nPrancis/ who came from England in 1633. He was a -linen\\nweaver, and settled in Newbury, Mass., 1635. His\\nfirst wife, Euth, d. 18 Aug., 1647. He m., 2d, Ann\\nPalmer, who d. 18 Oct., 1665; 3d, Beatrice, widow of\\nWilliam Cantlehury, of Salem, Mass., 29 Nov., 1665\\nd. 17 Jan, 1673. The land owned by him is still\\nheld in the family.\\nSamuel, b. 1619.\\nJoseph, b. 1630.\\n]\\\\[ary.\\nSamuel- (Francis^) m. Mary d. Jan., 1702.\\nSamuel, b. 26 April, 1647; m. Joanna Woodbury.\\nManj,h. 8 Feb., 16.j0.\\nJohn, b. 11 May, 16o2.\\nEphrnim, b. 16 Sept., 1655.\\nHannah, b. 16 Feb., 16.57.\\nSilvanus, b. 22 Feb., 1658.\\nRuth, b. 7 Aug., 1660.\\nEllsabe/h,h. 19 Oct., 1662.^\\nDeborah, h. lo March, 1665.\\nJoshua, b. 2 July, 1668 m. Elizabeth Dale.\\nLydia, b. 2 July, 1668.\\nBathshlna, b. 31 July, 1670.\\nEphraim (Samuel,^ Francis^) m. Hannah Jaques, 15 Jan., 1680.\\nMarij,h. 19 Feb., 1681.\\nHannah, b. 12 Oct., 1682.\\nSamuel, b. 27 Oct., 1681.\\nElizabeth, b. 21 Nov., 1686.\\nJohn, b. 7 Nov., 1688.\\nRuth, b. 5 Nov., 1690.\\nDaniel, b. 10 March, 1693.\\nRichard, b. 3 Aug., 1695.\\nBitjield, b. 12 June, 1697.\\nSarah, b. 26 July, 1699.\\nEmma, b. 21 June, 1701.\\nSamuel* (Ephraim,^ Samuel,- Francis^) m. Elizabeth\\nJohn, b. 5 Feb., 1722.\\nJoHN^ (Samuel,* Ephraim^) m. Hannah\\nBitjield, b. 11 Feb., 1742.\\nBitfield^ (John,^ Samuel,* Ephrainv m. Pri.scilla Eichardson,\\nof Chester, Oct., 1769 came from Newbury to B.\\nsettled on land still held by his descendants; was\\nkilled by a falling tree, 19 Nov., 1788.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0795.jp2"}, "782": {"fulltext": "602 GENEALOGICAL PLUMMER.\\nEphrahn, b. 1771.\\nJohn, b. 10 Aug., 1774.\\nPriscilla. b. 12 Jan., 1786; ui. Hichard Little, 7 Dec, 1815; d. 24\\nFeb., 1825.\\nEphraim (Bitfield,* Jolin,^ Samuel*) m. Eacliel, davi. of Nehe-\\niiiiali Cogswell, 31 JVIay, 1792 lived on the home-\\nstead d.^6 May, 1793.\\nEphrahn, b. 29 Aug., 1793.\\nEphkaim^ (Ephraim, Bitfield* m. Lucy, dau. of Henry Geri^h,\\n11 Jan., 1821, and resided on the homestead inherited\\nfrom his fatlier afterwards removed to the south part\\nof the town a man of strict integrity, and an excel-\\nlent citizen d. 20 July, 1872.\\nPolly Utile, b. 23 Nov., 1821; m. Henry L. Dodge, 17 June, 1841.\\nAUel G.,h. -24 May, 1824.\\nPriscilla P., b. 28 May, 1826 m. Luther Gage, 2 March, 1859.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Helen Elizabeth, b. 26 March, 1834.\\nFrances Ann, b. IS Nov., 1837 m. Albert Reed, 26 Nov., 1864.\\nAbiel^ (Ephraim,^ Ephraim m. Kate Baughman, 5 June, 1855\\nresides at West Creek, Ind.\\nFrank B.,h. 16 Jan., 18.58.\\nAlbert R., b. 14 March, 1863.\\nEdwin, b. 19 Aug., 1864.\\nJohn (Bitfield m. Hannah Jackman, 1 Jan., 1799 d. 24 Feb.,\\n1827.\\nBitfield, h. 9 Nov., 1799.\\nNanoj, b. 7 Sept., 1801: ni. Daniel Emerson; d. 11 IMarch, 1858.\\nJeremiah, b. 8 Oct., 18ii3; d. 1 July, 1867, at Lancaster, Pa.\\nMary, b. 25 Aug., 1805; m. Charles Abbot, of Lowell, Mass. d.\\nDec, 1868.\\nHannah, b. 31 March, 1807 d. 9 Sept., 1823.\\nFrederick T., b. 15 Sept., 1809 d. 24 March, 1815.\\nGeorge W., b. 29 July, 1814; d. 10 July, 1841.\\nFrederick T., h. 26 July, 1817; d. 25 Nov., 1853.\\nNathan, b. 21 July, 1821; d. 2 Nov., 1873.\\nBitfield^ (John,^ Bitfield m. Susan Chadwick, 2 Nov., 1835 d.\\n23 Oct., 1875.\\nHannah M., b, 5 Sept., 1836 d. 13 June, 1838.\\nFrank J.,h. 16 Feb., 1844.\\nJeremiah^ (John, Bitfield m. Electa Day, of Springfield, Mass.,\\n23 April, 1843; d. 13 July, 1867.\\nElizabeth Hamlin, b. 14 June, 1845; m. William Fowler, 25 Dec.\\n1869.\\nGeorge W., b. 26 Aug., 1846; d. 4 Aug., 1849.\\nMary Frances, 7 to t\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e loio 1 ^1- Aug., 1850.\\nFrank, T j d. 20 June, 1849.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0796.jp2"}, "783": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL PLUMMER. 603\\nMary Frances, h. 30 May, 1854.\\nJeremiah, d. from injuries received by a boiler explosion, 18 July,\\n1867.\\nFrank J.\u00c2\u00bb (Bitfield/ John in. Abbie D. Knowles, 17 Sept., 1868.\\nHannah Louise, b. 27 Feb., 1872.\\n3fary Ahhie, b. 20 Dec, 1873.\\nCharlotle M.,h. 4 April, 1875.\\n^eo;r/.i5./ W,?^_23Aug.,1876.\\nInez hvn,\\nSarah Angenette, b. 4 Nov., 1877.\\nAnotlier branch of the Plummer family canie from Newbury,\\nMass. The first Avas\\nJoseph\\nBEJf JAMIJS- m. Mary Wood.\\nNathax, b. in Rowley, Mass,\\nNathan* moved from Newbury, Mass. m. Elizabeth Dustin, 18\\nOct., 1771; d. on B. Plain, 1773.\\nMehitahle, b. 25 Feb., 1772; m. Col. Benj. Choate, 20 Nov., 1793;\\nd. at Enfield, 17 Dec, 1858.\\nNathan, b. in B., 2 April, 1774.\\nNathan^ (Nathan,* Nathan,^ Benjamin,- Joseph^) m. Sarah, dau.\\nof Samuel Ames, 14 June, 1804, and settled on Fish\\nstreet. A persevering and energetic business man.\\nTo the care of his farm he added the business\\nof lumbering. A good citizen, and highly esteemed\\nrepresented B. in legislature two terms d. 7 April,\\n1848. Sarah d. 25 Feb., 1842.\\nMehitahle, b. 14 June, 1806; m. 1st, Joseph Gerrish, 11 Nov., 1830;\\n2d, Thomas Lyford, of Sanbornton, 16 Nov., 1854: d. at\\nFisherville. 15 Feb., 1877;\\n3Iari/, b. 16 Jan., 1810; m. Fisher Ames, of Canterbury, 15 Feb.,\\n1844. [See Ames Gen.]\\nEliza Jane, b. 31 Oct., 1814; m. Dearborn Glines, 11 June, 1846;\\nd. 2 Sept., 1877.\\nAnother branch of the Plummer family\\nJoshua C, Capt., son of Samuel and Dorcas (Coffin) Plummer,\\ncame to Boscawen from Newbury, Mass., while a youth,\\nand lived with his uncle, Caleb Knight, Esq after-\\nwards settled upon the Knight homestead, the farm\\nnow owned by Capt. George W. Stone. He is re-\\nmembered as a man of culture, of gentlemanly bearing,\\n39", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0797.jp2"}, "784": {"fulltext": "604 GENEALOGICAL PRICE.\\nand one who was active in the promotion of religion\\nand good order. Removed to Bangor, Me, 1829; d.\\nthere 10 Dec, 1844. He m., 1st, Eunice Knight, 21\\nMarch, 1816; 2d, Sophia W. Dix, 25 Dec, 1828.\\nChildren of Eunice\\nCalel K., b. 5 Dec, 1816; d. 28 Oct., 1818.\\nCharles F., b. 4 Jan., 1819; d. 4 Sept., 18-20.\\nLucretia A., b. 22 Aug., 1820; d. Dec, 1864; m. Charles Tem-\\nple.\\nLouisa.h. 26 Aug., 1822; d. 12 Julv. 1876.\\nWilliam L., b. 11 May, 1824 d. 17 Dec, 1874.\\nCatharine K., b. 29 April, 182G; d. 26 Nov., 1828.\\nEunice, b. 16 Sept., 1827; d. 10 Jan., 1828.\\nChildren of Sophia\\nGeorge D., b. 8 March, 1830; d. at Memphis, Tenn., 12 Oct., 1873.\\nFreddie,\\nT, 7 d. HI niiancy.\\nEddie, S\\nFrances M. P., b. 23 Dec, 1833 ra. Edward L. Pickard.\\nLucy H.,h.G July, 1836; m. Chapin, Otsego, Mich.\\nEdward D., d. Feb., 1814.\\nJohn A., h. 4 May, 1841.\\nKatherine M.,h. 29 April, 1845.\\nPRICE.\\nEbenezer,- Rev., son of William and Sarah Price, was b. in\\nNewburyport, 14 Sept., 1771; m. Lucy Fari;er; d. 19\\nFeb., 1864. [See Biog.]\\nMary F., b. 26 Dec, 1804; m. Rev. Addison Kingsbury, d. d.; re-\\nsides in Zanesville, O.\\nLucij Ellsworth, b. 17 Jan., 1808; d. 20 March, 1859.\\nEinily Preston, b. 25 Oct., 1809; m. Rev. Zerah H. Hawley; lives\\nin Memphis, Tenn.\\nEhenezer Sewall, b. 1 Feb., 1812 m. Elizabeth Wilson, of Boston,\\nMass. He was trained to mercantile pursuits, which he\\nfollowed in B., and afterwards in Boston; and subsequent-\\nly for nearly 20 years was in the U. S. revenue service in\\nBoston, Mass.\\nFrederic C.,b. 6 Aug., 1815 was educated at Dartmouth; removed\\nto the West; m. Mary Belt; practised as a physician.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0798.jp2"}, "785": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL PUTNEY. 605\\nPUTNEY.\\nCompiled by Jliss Ida Putney, of Webster.\\nTlie Putney familj^ came from Scotland. The B. branch are\\ndescendants of a family that settled in Dunbarton. In 1752, Sam-\\nuel Putney^ and a citizen by the name of Kimball were captured\\nby Indians, who also undertook to surprise the settlement at\\nContoocook, but who were themselves surprised by the set-\\ntlers near the Mountain. In their haste to escape they left\\nyoung Putney behind. He settled on Putney hill, in Hopkin-\\nton. His sons were Joseph, William, Enoch, Samuel, Stephen.\\nStephen^ (SamueP), b. 12 Peb., 17G5; enlisted as soldier in the\\nKevolution, served one year and three months. In\\n1795 he purchased a piece of land of Wm. Coffin, of\\nNewbury, Mass., and cleared his farm, now occupied\\nby his son, Charles E. Putney m., 1st, Sally East-\\nman, of Ilopkinton, who d. 1809 2d, Susan Eastman\\n3d, Sail} Eastman,-^three wives of the name of East-\\nman, and the first and third named Sally. The record\\nof six of the twelve children of Sally, 1st, is wanting.\\nStephen Putney was the father of 22 children. He\\nwas an industrious man, and an estimable citizen. He\\nd. 18 Feb., 1847.\\nChildren of Sally\\nyelson, b. 10 Aug., 178(3.\\nEnoch, h. 15 July, 1788.\\nTrue, b. March, 1800.\\nPlwna.\\nHannah.\\nStephen.\\nChildren of Susan\\nClarissa.\\nSarah.\\nDavid, b. 5 Aug., 1812.\\nLucy, b. 2 July, 1814.\\nAzariah.\\nChildren of Sally\\nCharles Monson, b. 1 Oct., 1820; d. 15 Sept., 1821.\\nMartj Angaline, b. 6 July, 1825; d. 20 July, 1825.\\nCharles E., b. 10 June, 1827 m. Susan, dau. of John Sanborn\\nlives in AVebster.\\nSemantha S.,h. 3 Aug., 1829; m. Dustia Spauldiug resides in\\nContoocook.\\nNelson^ (Stephen/^ SamueP), b. 10 Aug., 1786; m. Sally Whit-\\ntier; moved to Woodstock, Vt. d. 20 April, 1872.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0799.jp2"}, "786": {"fulltext": "606 GENEALOGICAL PUTNEY,\\nLouis S., b. 17 July, 1810; d. 1 Dec, 1839.\\nThomas Elliot, h. 5 Jan., 1816.\\nHannah, b. 12 July, 1817; d. 17 April, 1833.\\nThomas E.* (Nelson,^ Stephen^), b. 5 Jan., 181G m. Lucretia\\nHoyt, of Concord.\\nSarah H., b. 26 July, 1818 m. Marsh.\\nBenjamin F., b. 9 Oct., 1815; d. 12 May, 1867.\\nTrue Nelson, h. Nov., 1847.\\nRoxa Ann, b. 5 July, 1850; m. Leonard.\\nJason i., b. 6 March, 1853.\\nRhoda E., b. 16 March. 1857 d. 25 Nov., 1870.\\nMaria H., b. 30 April, 1862.\\nEnoch^ (Stephen^), b. 15 July, 1788 m. Sally Carlton settled\\non the place now owned byErancis S. Putney, in W.\\nd. 2 March, 1853.\\nFrances S., b. 20 Oct., 1818.\\nMoses, b. 14 Dec, 1820 d. 10 Nov., 1841.\\nClarissa, b. 21 Sept., 1824; d. 3 June, 1816.\\nErancis S.4 (Enoch,= Stephen, SaniueP), b. 20 Oct., 1820; m.\\nNancy Sibley.\\nWillie, b. 23 Sept., 1844 d. 11 Feb., 1844.\\nFrank, b. 12 April, 1847; d. 23 Dec, 1849.\\nWillie, b. 24 March, 1840 ni. Jennie, dau. Wra. D. Call, of B.\\nClara, b. 28 Sept., 1850; d. 1878.\\nMary Anna, b. 25 Dec, 1852; m. Sheldon Scribner.\\nJosephine, b. 16 Dec, 1854; d. 26 Dec, 1857.\\nOri(ien,h. 20 Dec, 1850.\\nLuther, b. 26 July, 1859.\\nFrecLh. 21 Jan., 1866.\\nTrue3 (Stephen,^ SamueP), b. Nov., 1800; m. Hester Ann Caull,\\nof Cambridge, Md. stone-mason. The firm of Sweatt\\nCo., of wliich he was a member, laid the first track\\non the Baltimore Ohio Railroad, from the Relay\\nHouse to Ellicott s Mills, six miles in six weeks. At\\nthat time (1830-1835) railroad engineering required\\nstone ties, or longitudinal blocks of granite to which\\nthe rails were spiked. He also laid a longitudinal\\ntrack of stone from Ellicott s Mills to Morrillsville,\\nten miles, requiring 100,000 cubic feet of stone\\nalso a track from Erenchtown to Newcastle, in Dela-\\nware also track upon other roads in Maryland. In\\n1836- 37 he supplied the government with stone for\\nthe public warehouse in Baltimore. In 1838- 39 he\\nfurnished stone for the government in Washington.\\nIn 1855 he was appointed master-mason on the new\\ntreasury building, Washington, holding the position", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0800.jp2"}, "787": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL QUIMBY. 607\\ntill 1864. That massive building has risen wholly\\nunder his superintendence. He resides in Washing-\\nton.\\nPlummer, SaraJi, George, Benjamin^ Lucy, all d. young.\\nDavid^ (Stephen,- SamueP), b. 5 Aug., 1812; settled in Mary-\\nland.\\nStephen, Georrje, True, Lucij, Scmanllia.\\nCharles E.^ (Stephen,^ Samuel,^), b. 10 June, 1827; m. Susan\\nSanborn.\\n7r/\u00c2\u00ab/., b. 21 Oct., 1851.\\nCharles H., b. 19 Feb., 1853.\\nJoh7i S., b. 27 Jan., 185.\\nCorn E., b. 29 Sept., 1858.\\nBertha May, b. 6 July, 18(58.\\nQUIMBY.\\nIsaac,! b. at New Chester (Hill), 1 Nov., 1784; d. 7 Feb, 1848;\\nm. Polly Sargent, of New Chester, Nov., 1812, who\\nwas b. 31 Oct., 1781, and d. 29 Dec., 1844.\\nTirzah J., h. 12 Sept., 181. 5; m. Luther Winchester, of Providence,\\n11. I.\\nJoh7i S., b. 28 June, 1823; d. 8 Sept., 1876, at B.\\nJoHjS^ S.^ (Isaac^) settled in B. in 1852; m. Jane B. Dustin, of\\nHill, 27 Nov., 1845; who was b. 31 July, 1825. She\\nis the sixth gen. in descent from Hannah Dustin.\\nAndrew E., b. 4 Jan., 1817.\\nMary J., b. 30 Nov., 1818: m. Charles II. Weeks, of West Thorn-\\nton, 13 March, 1867.\\nLucina T., b. 11 June, 1851; m. George L. Pillsbury, of B., 2 Dec.\\n1873.\\nGeorge Z., h. 8 Nov., 1853.\\nJohnC. b. 16 July, 1856.\\nAnnie M., b. 17 April, 1859; d. 15 Oct., 1863.\\nEdward IF., b. 7 Oct., 1864.\\nMattie H., b. 5 April, 1868.\\nAxDREW E.^ (John S.,^ Isaac^) is station agent at North B. m.\\nAlice N. Page, of Thornton, 10 Dec, 1873.\\nGeorge A.,}). 11 Oct., 1874.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0801.jp2"}, "788": {"fulltext": "608 GENEALOGICAL ROLFE,\\nEOLFE.\\nCompiled by John Kimball.\\nThe ancestors of tlie Eolfe families in B. and Concord were\\ntwo brothers, who came from England and settled in Newhury,\\nMass., about 1635. The tradition was, that these brothers were\\nthe ancestors of all the Eolfes in this country but the records of\\nIpswich, Mass., show that in 1640 there were two men in that\\ntown by the name of Daniel and Ezra Eolfe: so this tradition is\\nerroneous.\\nHenky,^ with his wife Honour, and his brother John, with his\\nwife Esther, were in Newbury before 1642.\\nJohn, Benjamin^ and two daughters.\\nJohn- (Henry^) m. and lived a short time in Newbury, then\\nmoved to Nantucket, and from there to Cambridge.\\nHe had 14 or 15 children. Five of his sons went to\\nWoodbridge, N. J. Their descendants generally spell\\ntheir name Eolph.\\nBenjamin- (Henry^) m. Apphia, only daughter of Thomas Hale,\\nan early settler in Newbury, and the ancestor of the\\nHales in New England and New York.\\nJohn, Benjamin, Henry, Nathaniel, Samuel, and four daughters.\\nJoHN^ (Benjamin,^ Henry^) Avas the ancestor of the families of\\nthat name who settled in B.\\nJohn.\\nBenjamin^ (Benjamin-) was the minister killed by the Indians\\nin their attack at Haverhill, Mass., in 1708.\\nHenry^ (Benjamin^) was the ancestor of the Eolfe families of\\nConcord.\\nNathajiiel.\\nJohn* (John,^ Benjamin,- Henry^) m. Judith Dole, 7 Oct., 1713.\\nBdchard, b. 14 Feb., 171G; d. 23 Dec, 1735.\\nJohn, b. 10 Feb.. 1718; d. young.\\nHannah, b. 25 Dec. 1720; m. Nathaniel Eolfe.*\\nEnoch, b. 25 Feb., 1725 or 1726; m. Ruth llsley.\\nBenjamin, b. 25 Dec, 1731.\\nBenjamin^ (John,* John,^ Benjamin,- Henry came from New-\\nbury, Mass. m. Lydia Pearsons, 25 Dec, 1760 set-\\ntled on High street; d. 1823.\\nJohn, b. 27 July, 17G2.\\nElizabeth, called Betsey, b. 20 Feb., 1765 d. June, 1853.\\nSilas, b. 8 Jan., 1767; d. 1846.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0802.jp2"}, "789": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL ROLFE. 609\\nJudith, b. 31 Dec, 1769 d. April, 1817.\\nAmos, d. young.\\nBenjamin, b. 20 Jan., 1773.\\nJoHN^ (Benjamin^ settled on Battle street cl. Sept., 1833.\\nJohn, b. 9 May, 1785; m. Rosanna Burbank, 31 May, 1814.\\nAmns. h. 12 April, 1787; d. 27 Jan., 1811.\\nLydia, b. 25 Sept., 1791; d. Feb., 1875.\\nMichael, b. 10 Feb., 1793; d. 28 Jan., 1810.\\nEliza, b. 29 July, 1797.\\nJwVuh, b. 13 Feb.. 1799.\\nPaul, b. 27 Oct., 1802 d. Sept., 1824.\\nNancy, b. 25 Sept., 1806; d. 27 ]\\\\larch, 1830.\\nSusan P., b. Sept., 1808; d. 17 Oct., 1877.\\nJeremiah, b. 8 Jan., 1812.\\nSiLAS\u00c2\u00ab (Benjamiir m. Nancy Perkins; moved to northern K Y.\\nSarah, h. 5 April, 1791.\\nAmos, b. 7 July, 1795.\\nPearson, b. 20 Sept., 1798.\\nBenjamin, b. 15 March, 1800.\\nBE^fjAMiN*^ (Benjamin^) succeeded to the homestead of his father;\\nni. Margaret, dau. of Rev. Jonathan Searle, of Salis-\\nbury. He had a fondness for mechanical labor and\\nin addition to the cares of his farm employed himself\\nmaking wood aqueducts and pumps. Nearly all of\\ntliat kind of business in the east part of the town was\\ndone under his direction. Many of liis pumps made\\nfrom the old iohite pine are now in iise, and are pre-\\nferred by some to the modern inventions. He d. 19\\nJan., 1857.\\nThree children, d. voung.\\nEnoch Sanborn, b. 12 May, 1819.\\nHenry Pearsons, b. 13 Feb., 1821.\\nCharles Benjamin, b. April, 1823; d. 1 Oct., 1851.\\nAmos (John,^ Benjaniin,^) m. Fanny Burhank, 18 Nov., 1813.\\nDaml C.,b. 17 Feb., 1815.\\nLouisa, b. 5 Sept., 1816; m. N. Colby; d. 11 Nov., 1848.\\nWilliam, b. 8 Aug., 1819; d. 13 Feb., 1844.\\nRosannah, b. 7 Nov., 1821; m. Lugby Sherwood.\\nAlbert, b. 3 June, 1824.\\nHiram, b. 10 May, 1827; d. 24 Aug., 1854.\\nHarriet, b. 1 Feb., 1829 d. 11 July, 1849.\\nMelissa, b. 7 March, 1832; d. 23 June, 1867.\\nJeremiah (John,\u00c2\u00ae Benjamin^) m. Lucy Ann, dau. of Caleb\\nSmith, 4 Oct., 1843. In early life he manifested a\\nlove for mechanical labor. In manhood his services\\nwere in demand by bridge-builders, mill-owners, and", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0803.jp2"}, "790": {"fulltext": "610\\nGENEALOGICAL ROLFE.\\ncarpenters, from whom he obtained constant emploj--\\nnient and good compensation. Declining health com-\\nj^elled him to return to his farm on High strt ct.\\nJohn Smith, b. 11 Feb., 1850; drowned in Merrimack rivor, 17 Julv,\\n1870.\\nKate EuL-ie, b. 10 May, 1S5G d. 1 July, 1865.\\nHenry Pearsoxs (Benjamin educated at New Hampton In-\\nstitution, and entered Dartmouth coll. graduated in\\n1848 studied law in the office of Asa Fowler, of Con-\\ncord; admitted to practice, ISol, forming a co-partner-\\nship with the late A. S. Marshall elected to the leg-\\nislature from Concord, 1858, and after the city was\\nincorporated, from Ward 5, 1863, 1864; appointed\\nU. S. district attorney for IST. H., by President Grant,\\n1869, an office he held till 1874; m. Marv Rebecca,\\ndau. of Eobert H. Sherburne, 22 Nov., 1853.\\nMarshall P., b. 29 Sept., 1851; d. 6 Aug., 1862.\\nManjaret F., b. 12 Jan., 1857 d. 2 May, 1857.\\nHenrietta M., h. 17 Jan., 1801 d. 22 Sept., 1862.\\nBoJjert Henry, b. IG Oct., 1863.\\nGeorge Hamilton, b. 21 Dec, 1866.\\nDavid C.^ (Amos m. Mary E. Smith, June, 1856.\\nGeorge, b. 31 May, 1857.\\nFrank, b. 11 Nov., 1861.\\nLewis, b. 2U-Scpt., 18G4 d. 15 Sept., 1877.\\nAlbert^ (Amos m. Mary Alexander, Claremont.\\nAngle, b. 17 Dec, 1859.\\nThe Rolfe families of Concord were connected with those of\\nB., viz.\\nNathaniel* (Heniy,^ Benjamin married\\nHannah^ (John,* John,^ Benjamin-) had nine children. They\\nmoved to Concord, and settled on what is now the\\ncity farm in Ward 3.\\nNathaniel^ (Nathaniel*) m. widow Judith Chandler, dau. of\\nRev. Timothy Walker, and settled near the mouth of\\nContoocook river; d. 15 Nov., 1829.\\nAhiel, b. 6 April, 1781; unmarried; d. 19 Feb., 1840.\\nJane, b. 21 Jan., 1782; m. Nathan Chandler.\\nHenrg, h. 31 Aug., 1785; m. Deborah Carter.\\nBenjamin^ (Nathaniel,* Henry,^ Benjamin,^ Henry^), b. in Hav-\\nerhill, Mass., 31 May, 1752; m. Molly Sweatt, and\\nhad six children. The youngest,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0804.jp2"}, "791": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL RUSS, SLEEPER.\\n611\\nBenjamin,^ b. in Rumford, Me., 10 Feb., 1796; m. Mary K.\\nElanders, dau. of Mrs. David Jackman, of B., 28 Dec,\\n1820 lived at the toll-house at B. bridge for a time\\nsettled in Concord; d. 12 Jan., 1807.\\nHarriet, b. 8 July, 1822 ra. John W. Brown.\\nHiram, b. 24 Dec. 1825; m. Georgianna Coombs.\\nMary Ann, b. 30 Nov., 1828 m. A. C. Osborne d. 3 Feb., 1854.\\nCharlotte, b. 20 Sept., 1833; m. Jonathan C. Harvey.\\nDavid Jackman, b. 29 April, 1838; m. Adelia Carner.\\nEliza Newell, b. 4 Feb., 1842 d. 30 Sept., 1864.\\nEUSS.\\nJoiix m. Sophronia S., dan. of Wm. II. Gage.\\n/.saac Gage. b. 2 Sept., 1836.\\nJohn Franklin, b. 29 June, 1839.\\nWilliam G., h. May, 1844; d. in infancy.\\nIsaac Gage^ (John O.^), b. 2 Sept., 1836; m., 1st, Semantha R.\\nLang; 2d, Betsey Stevens 3d, Ann Dickey.\\nChild of Betsey\\nSoplironia G., b. 24 Aug., 1869.\\nJoiix Franklin^ (John 0.^), b. 29 Jan., 1839 ni. Augusta J.\\nPlumer.\\nHarnj, h. 7 Sept., 18(55.\\nErnest, b. 19 .June, 1876.\\nSLEEPER.\\nNehemiah D.,- Rev. (Thomas^), b. in Andover, 3 July, 1793; m.\\nCharlotte, dau. of James Taylor, of Sutton, 31 Jan.,\\n1S22; moved to B. in 1835, and became minister of\\nthe Christian Union Religious Society, remaining till\\n1842. He resided in the house now occupied by\\nHorace Simpson. His wife d 1 Dec, 1839. His\\npreaching was acceptable to his church, and he labored\\nzealously while in town. He resides at Contoocook.\\nCaroline,}). IS May, 1826; m. Chas. 11. Jackman; moved to Maine.\\nJoseph T., b. 7 Dec, 1834; m. Helen R. Dole, 17 Jan., 1860; re-\\nsides in Concord.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0805.jp2"}, "792": {"fulltext": "612 GENEALOGICAL SMITH, STONE.\\nSMITH.\\nAmbrose,^ Rev., b. in Ossipee, 9 July, 1820 m. Cynthia M.\\nEdgerton. [See Biog.]\\nFrancis E., b. in Northfield, Vt., 8 April, 1851; m. Eliza A.\\nCurrier, 13 May, 1873; farmer; lives in Hartford, Vt.\\nL7/ndo7i A., in B., 15 July, 1854; member of the class of 80,\\nDartmouth collefre.\\nJuslin Harvei/, b. in B., 13 Jan., 1857; grad. at Dart, coll., 1877.\\nHe was one of live who have obtained perfect marks in\\nDartmouth since its founding, in 1769; appointed private\\nsecretar)^ to the superintendent of schools of Boston, and\\nwas principal of the Keponsct evening school. In 1878\\nwas appointed literary assistant to Hon. John D. Phil-\\nbrick, superintendent of the United States educational ex-\\nhibit at the Paris Exposition of 1878.\\nSTONE.\\nCompiled by Alfred Little.\\nGeorge,^ Capt., was b. at Lexington, Mass., 21 ]March, 1760, and\\nd. at West B., 8 Dec, 1834. He was a soldier of the\\nEevolution, enlisting at the age of 15, and served five\\nyears participated in the battles of Brandywine,\\nStillwater, and other engagements witnessed the sur-\\nrender of Burgoyne endured the suffering and priva-\\ntion of the Avinter encampment at Valley Forge and\\nwas wounded at the battle of IMonmoutli. On the re-\\nturn of peace, he settled in B., but the depreciation of\\nContinental money left him so poor that he had only\\ntwenty cents to begin life with. By industry he was\\nsoon able to j^urchase twenty acres, upon which he\\ncommenced farming, and in time acquired land suffi-\\ncient to give each of his eight children a homestead.\\nHe m., 1st, Hannah Lovering, of Kingston, about\\n1788, who d. 27 Dec, 182G, \\\\aged 65; 2d, Abigail\\nCurrier, of Canterbury, in 1830, who d. 18 April,\\n1849, aged 66.\\nChildren of Hannah\\nSarah, h. 28 Dec, 1789; d. 9 Jan., 1858; m. Moses Call, of Salis-\\nbury, iu 1829, who d. 1 May, 1848.\\nJohn, b. 28 Feb., 1792 d. 25 Jan., 1870.\\nAmos, b. 20 June, 1794 d. 5 Feb., 1875.\\nPoUi/, b. 27 May, 1797; m. Benj. C. Swasey, of Cantei bury, 1831.\\nPeter, h. 11 Dec, 1799.\\nGeorr/e IF., b. 5 Sept., 1802.\\nHannah, b. 14 Feb., 1801; d. 27 Nov., 1804; m. Samuel D. Couch,\\nof AVest B..2G April, 1830.\\nEoyal, b. 27 July, 1807.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0806.jp2"}, "793": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0807.jp2"}, "794": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0808.jp2"}, "795": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL STONE.\\n61{\\nJoHN^ (George/ Capt.) lived on Battle st., Webster was drafted\\nill 1814 for three montlis, and stationed at Forts-\\nmoutli m. Submit Sweatt, of West B.\\nBenjamin S.,h. 16 June, 1815 lives on Battle st.; in. Frances C,\\ndan. of Z. G. W- hitman, Esq., West B., 2S July, 1840.\\nHiram G., b. 24 May, 1822.\\nAmos (George/ Capt.) lived on Battle st., afterwards at Canter-\\nbury m. Nancy A. Couch, of West B., 31 Dec, 1818,\\nwho d. 22 Nov., 1874.\\nMary A.,h. 1 Aug., 1819; m., 1st, Geo. W. Shackford, of Bar-\\nrington, 27 Nov.. 1842; 2d, Frank C. Smith, of Con-\\ncord, 13 March, 1855.\\nEliza C.,h. 14 Oct., 1820; m. Benj. F. Call, of Salisbury, 27\\nNov., 1815.\\nGilman C, b. 11 March, 1823.\\nIra A., h. 13 June, 1825; d. 15 Oct., 1846.\\nJoseph Warren, b. 10 Oct., 1827.\\nHannah A., b. 12 April, 1830; m. John B. Sanborn, of Concord, 2\\nApril, 1856.\\nHenn/ F., b. 20 Aug., 1833.\\nRoijal H, b. 15 June, 1837; d. 9 March, 1842.\\nNaiicy b. 13 Oct.. 1839; d. 13 March, 1842.\\nMijro n H., b. 18 March, 1843.\\nPeter/ Dea. (George,^ Capt.), resides at the homestead on Prov-\\nince road, near the Blackwater m. Ruth Call, of B.,\\n27 Dec, 1824, who was b. 31 Dec, 1802 [see Biog.].\\nPhehe C, h. 24 Sept., 1825; d. 22 July, 1863; m. John A,\\nMcClure, of B., March, 1848.\\nCharles J. F., b. 21 April. 1827 d. 19 April, 1860.\\nHannah E., b. 12 Dec, 1828; d. 26 Oct., 1865; m. Geo. T. San-\\nborn, of West B., 13 Jan., 1850.\\n,S7/a,s C, b. 14 Nov., 1830.\\nMarj/ b. 18 Sept., and d. 22 Nov., 1832.\\nMarij J., b. 3 Nov., 1833; m. Moses F. Heath, of West B., 25\\nJune, 1852.\\nButh E., b. 18 Dec, 1835; d. 23 March, 1841.\\nCharlotte A., b. 25 Feb., 1839 m., 1st, John Sawyer, of Concord\\n2d, Joshua Surgent, of San Francisco, Cai., Aug., 1865.\\nFrederick P., b. 24 March, 1841.\\nNathan b. 11 June, 1843.\\nEmma R., b. 6 July, 1845; m. Frank II. Svvett, of Audover, 9\\nOct., 1863 resides in Santa Rosa, Cal.\\nGeorge W.,^ Capt. (George,^ Capt.), resides in Webster, on the\\nfarm formerly owned by Caleb Knight, Esq. ni. Julia\\nA. Sweatt, of West B., 13 May, 1833.\\nCaroline, b. 4 March, 1834; d. 4 Sept., 1842.\\nCatharine, b. 20 Oct., 1838 d. 19 Feb., 1863 m. Joseph Warren\\nStone, of West B., 29 Nov., 1855.\\nCurusA., b. 10 Jan., 1812.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0809.jp2"}, "796": {"fulltext": "614 GENEALOGICAL STONE.\\nMarcia A., b. 4 April, 1844; d. 7 :N ov., 1862.\\nElla F., b. 26 Nov., 1846.\\nGeorge Henrj/, b. 17 Feb., 18-50; m. Lottie J. Seavey, of B., 3 Jan.,\\n1877.\\nMarietta, b. 17 Aug., 1852; m. Beiij. Pettengill, of Salisbury, 13\\nMay, 1870.\\nJulia Augusta, b. 18 May, 1856.\\nRoYAL^ (George,^ Capt.) settled in Andover; m. Eutli Currier,\\nof Canterlnuy, who was b. 19 Sept., 1821.\\nChristiana C, b. 1840 m., 1st, Richard Davis; 2d, Man-\\nuel, of Franklin.\\nGeorge R., h. 16 May, 1843 grad. at Dart. coll. practised law at\\nLynn, Mass.; m. Ella M. Chandler, of Me.\\nHiram G.^ (Jolin,^ George,^ Capt.), resides on Battle st., Web-\\nster has been successful as a writer, farmer, and or-\\nchardist m., 1st, Mary Ann C. Ticknor, of Lebanon,\\n26 Jan., 1847, who d. 10 Nov., 1856 2d, Lucinda\\nLane, of Epsom, 5 Dec, 1857.\\nChildren of Mary Ann\\nIlelvin 2 b. 28 July, 1854.\\nMar?/ Ann T., h. 18 Aug., 18.56 d. 21 Sept., 1870.\\nChild of Lucinda\\nIna M., b. 29 Sept., 1868.\\nGiLMAN C.^ (Amos,- George,^ Capt.) resides in Webster is a car-\\npenter m. Mary F. Boutelle, of Hopkinton, 29 Nov.,\\n1855.\\nIra Francis, b. 8 July, and d. 21 Oct., 1862.\\nArthur IF., b. 23 Oct., 1865.\\nJoseph Warren-^ (Amos,- George,^ Capt.) resides in Canterburv\\nm., 1st, Catharine Stone, of West B., 28 Nov.. 1855;\\n2d, Mary J. Lovering, of Loudon, 19 Feb., 1864.\\nChildren of Mary\\nGate J., b. 7 Jan., 1865.\\nCarrie N., h. 7 Marcli, 1868; d. 28 July, 1871.\\nIra W., h. 1 Dec, 1873.\\nHenry F.^ (Amos,^ George,^ Capt.) lives in Manchester m.\\nAdelia A. B. Sanborn, of West B., 11 Oct., 1855.\\nOscar P., h. 24 Sept., 18.58.\\nClarence P., b. 11 Nov., 1863 d. 12 Oct., 1877.\\nMyron H.^ (Amos,^ George,^ Capt.) lives in Manchester; m.\\nHannah Moore, of Canterbury, 28 July, 1869.\\nLeona G., b. 18 July, 1870.\\nLeon M., b. 13 Aug., 1871.\\nBertha L., b. 15 March, 1876,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0810.jp2"}, "797": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL STONE. 615\\nCharles J. F.,^ Esq. (Peter,^ Dea., George,^ Capt.), was a mem-\\nber of the military academy at ISTorwicli, Vt. after-\\nwards studied law with Austin F. Pike, Esq., at\\nFranklin, and at the Cambridge Law School was ad-\\nmitted to the bar and practised law at Plymouth m.\\nAbby A. Weare, of Andover, 20 Sept., 1855.\\nGeorge TF., b. 11 Nov., 1857 graduates of Dart, coll., class of\\nCharles TF. b. 6 Aug., 1859; 1878.\\nSilas C.,^ Dea. (Peter,^ Dea., George,^ Capt.), resides at West\\nEoxburj Mass. a successful teacher is now master\\nof the Sherwin school, Boston m. Julia A. Pattee, of\\nGoffstown, 6 Feb., 1854.\\nAlaric, b. 28 Jan., 1855.\\nS. Abbie, h. 10 July, 1861.\\nAnnie F. S., b. 3 Aug., 1867.\\nFkederick P.,^ Capt. (Peter, Dea., George,^ Capt.). [See Biog.]\\nCharles F., h. 22 Nov., 1868.\\nJosephine L., b. 7 Feb., 1870.\\nHubert H. B., b. 2-1 Sept., 1871.\\nDoraB.,h. 1873; d. 1874.\\nNathaj;- J.^ (Peter, Dea., George,^ Capt.) resides in Santa Eosa,\\nCal. was for several years clerk in the bookstore of\\nthe Bancrofts, at San Francisco travelled extensivel}\\nfor them in the territories, Cal., and the Atlantic\\nstates also in Europe, for a firm in Yokahama, Japan,\\nwhere for the last five years he has been engaged in\\nmercantile business m. Annie Call, of San Francisco,\\nCal.\\nInfant son, b. 16 and d. 17 May, 1876.\\nInfant dau., b. 19 and d. 20 Jan., 1878.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0811.jp2"}, "798": {"fulltext": "616 GENEALOGICAL TEMPLE.\\nTEMPLE.\\nCouiiiiled by Dea. Wm. Temijle, Woburn, Mass.\\nThe name of Temple dates back in English history to the 11th\\ncentury. The first of the name in America was\\nEgbert,^ of Saco, Me. According to tradition, he was killed by\\nthe Indians in 1675, and the family moved to Lynn or\\nBoston.\\nRichard,^ one of the sons, was indentured to Dea. Thomas Ban-\\ncroft, of Reading, ancestor of the historian, Hon. Geo.\\nBancroft. He m., in 1693, Deborah, dau. of Thomas\\nParker, and reared a family of ten children.\\nJoxATHAX,^ the third child, was b. 1698 or 1699, and m., 1st,\\nSarah Harndon, 1734; 2d, Sarah Damon, in 1759.\\nHe d. 20 May, 1789. Had six children.\\nDaniel,* the youngest, b. 4 Aug., 1767; m., 17 Oct., 1788, Sarah\\nBeard.\\nDaxiel,^ b. 23 Dec, 1789; grad. Dartmouth coll., 1817, and An-\\ndover Theological Seminary, 1821 ordained mission-\\nary of the American Board at Bridgewater, Mass., 3\\nOct., 1821; m. Eachel, dau. of Col. Timothy Dix, of\\nB., 4 Dec, 1821, missionary at Malta d. in Read-\\ning, 9 Aug., 1851.\\nDaniel, h. 13 Nov., 1822; m. Louisa M. Newlin.\\nCharles, h. 20 July, 1824; m., 1st, Lucretia, dau. of Joshua Pluin-\\nraer, of Bangor, formerly of B. 2d, Ursula E. Chapin\\nlives in Otsego, Mich.\\nCntherine, b. 24 Dec. 1825; d. 16 April, 1827.\\nWilliam, b. 30 Dec, 1826; d. 8 March, 1827.\\nJoHX,^ fifth child of Richard,- b. 21 Oct., 1704 m. Rebecca,\\ndau. of Ebenezer Parker had seven children.\\nWilliam,* b. 3 Jan., 1745; m. Rebecca Weston; had three\\nchildren.\\nWilliam,^ b. 5 June, 1773 m. Zerviah, dau. of Zebulon Rich-\\nardson, of Woburn; d. 27 April, 1802.\\nWilliam,* b. 15 Sept., 1801 only child of William.^ Learned\\nblacksmithing; m. Susanna Noyes, 12 June, 1823;\\nsettled in B., where he carried on blacksmithing many\\nyears has resided at East Woburn since 1865 was\\ncaptain of artillery deacon of Congregational church\\nhas been much interested in histoiy and genealogy\\nwas one of the original subscribers to the N. E. Gen.\\nRegister an ardent advocate of anti-slavery, temj)er-\\nance, and other reforms.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0812.jp2"}, "799": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL WEBSTER. 617\\nWEBSTER.\\nWilliam^ descencled from the Websters of Hampstead settled\\nin Salisbury, N. H.\\nNaihaniel, b. 15 Feb., 1781.\\nEhenezer, b U Aug., 1787.\\nWorcester, b. 1791.\\nBenjamin^ d. at Haverhill.\\nWilliam, d. in Canada.\\nRuth, d. at Hill.\\nMary, b. 1779; d. at B., 25 Dec, 1847.\\nAmos, d. at Crescent City, 111.\\nNathaniel^ (William^) m. Betsey, dau. of Moses Sawj^er, of\\nSalisbury, 1 Nov., 1815 d. 8 Aug., 1828.\\nBetseij S., b. 11 Feb., 1817 d. 8 Sept., 1825.\\nNaihaniel S., b. 11 May, 1818; m. Lucy Ann Lord, 2 July, 1846\\nrepresentative in 1876 and 1877. Two children, Julia\\nA., and Charles I.\\nWilliam, b. 20 Feb., 1821 d. 8 Aug., 1826.\\nAnn Ruth, h. 26 Nov., 1823; m. Rev. Horace Eaton, d. d., Pal-\\nmyra, N. Y. Three children living.\\nEbenezer, Col. (William^), b. 14 Aug., 1787 m. Sarah, his\\ncousin, dau. of Hon. Ebenezer Webster, and sister of\\nDaniel and Ezekiel engaged in trade in Hill from\\n1815 to 1846, when he removed to B., where he d. 3\\nJune, 1861. He was colonel of militia.\\nEmily, b. 12 Feb., 1809; m. E. K. Webster, m. d., of Hampstead.\\nWokcester (William^), b. 1794; m., 1st, Polly Pettengill, of\\nSalisbury 2d, Mary Jane, dau. of Hon. Silas Betton,\\nand grand-daughter of Matthew Thornton, one of the\\nsigners of the Declaration of Independence.\\nCharles Williams, b, 14 Sept., 1826; m. Lucia M., dau. of John\\nGreenough, of B.\\nGeorge Worcester, b. 1831; d. June, 1860.\\nMary Ann, b. July, 1839 m. Cbas. E. Johnson; resides in Brook-\\nline, Mass.\\nEliphalet K., son of Eev. Josiah, of Hampstead, b. 3 May,\\n1802; m. Emil}^, dau. of Col. Ebenezer Webster, of\\nSalisbury. [See Biog.]\\nDaniel Dana, h. 11 Feb., 1835 ra. Martha Susan, dau. of Dea.\\nJoseph Pillsbury, of B. resides in Middlebury, Vt.; one\\ng\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Alice Emily, b. 1 Feb., 1870.\\nSarah Elizabeth, b. 3 Sept., 1837; m. Alfred Livingston, si. d., of\\nLowell, Mass.; one child.\\nEmily Maria, b. 17 Jan., 1844.\\nEditii, b. 24 Oct., 1868.\\nEdward Knight, b. 5 Aug., 1848; merchant at Pittsfield, N. H.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0813.jp2"}, "800": {"fulltext": "618 GENEALOGICAL WEBSTER.\\nWEBSTEE.\\nCompiled by Charlotte (Webster) Mace.\\nEbekezer, b. in Newbury, Vt., in 1778, on the ox-bow farm\\nm. Betsey, dau. of Eben Wells, of New Hampton, in\\n1802; moved to B., April, 1816 lived on Fish street,\\nand afterwards near the church. In 1823 he built a\\nhouse near the Gulf, and lived there till 1847; d.\\nin Piermont, 26 Sept., 1850. His wife, b. 1786, d. at\\nB. 29 Dec, 1863. They had eight children.\\nParker^ b. 1803 d. in infancy.\\nParker, b. 21 June, 1805 m. Hannah, dau. of Elisha Drew, of\\nPortsmouth, 10 May, 1827 d. in Concord, 13 Dec, 1863.\\nEphraim, b. 30 March, 1807 m. Elisabeth Stevens, of Manchester,\\n1831; d. 23 June, 1851.\\nFreeman, b. 12 Aug., 1809 m. Nancy, dau. of Nathan Emery, of\\nCanterbury; resides in Concord.\\nBetsey, b. 13 Sept., 1811 m. Wm. Campbell, of Manchester, 31\\nAug., 1812.\\nWalter, h. 12 Sept., 1813; m. Catharine Stevens, of Plymouth,\\n1838.\\nMarilla B., b. 11 Sept., 1815; m. D. F. Lane, of Gilmanton, 3\\nJuly, 1812.\\nMary P., b. 11 Aug., 1820; m. John Adams, April, 1818; d. 23\\nApril, 1S72.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0814.jp2"}, "801": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANY.\\nOFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n^1 HE corporate existence of Boscawen began in 1760; that of\\n^T Webster in 1860. In its centennial year the town was\\ndivided. The causes that brought about the division were many.\\nThe geographical features made a division practicable. Beaver\\ndam, entering tlie town from the north and running due south,\\nparallel with the eastern and western boundaries, would be a nat-\\nural dividing line.\\nThe changes brought about by the construction of the Northern\\nand Concord Claremont railroads, the changes of trade, those\\nliving in Bashan doing their trading at Concord, those west of\\nLong pond having more in common with Contoocook, or with\\nWarner, than with Boscawen Plain, were influences tending to\\na division.\\nThere was no bond of union, no centralizing force. The\\nmeeting-house question had been a disturbing element as early\\nas 1791 [see p. 137], when 71 citizens, living west of Beaver dam,\\nhad petitioned for a new town. The remodelling of the meeting-\\nhouse on the Plain in 1840, making it necessary to hold the\\nannual meetings at the West end two years in succession, brought\\nup the question of a division once more.\\nIn civil history, important events are sometimes the outcome\\nof insignificant causes. An influence more potent than those\\nalready cited was the purchase of a fire engine, to be located at\\nPisherville. Some of the voters of the West end were much\\n40", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0815.jp2"}, "802": {"fulltext": "620 OFFICIAL HISTORY.\\nincensed at such a disposition of the public funds. They com-\\nplained that the vote was carried through after the majority had\\ngone home.\\nThe growth of Fisherville, the increase of taxable property, the\\nfeeling of property-holders at the East end that the large number\\nof bridges across the Blackwater was a burden, were influences\\nthat had weight with residents of the East end, who believed that\\nit would be for their interest to have the town divided.\\nPolitical and geographical considerations and party ascendency\\nwere disturbing elements. Erom 1824, when the po])ulation was\\nsufficient to entitle the town to two representatives, the proper\\ndistribution of public offices among political aspirants was a\\ndisturbing element in political parties. Each section claimed\\nits share. Sectional rivalries and personal jealousies wei e engen-\\ndered.\\nThese and other causes combined, finally resulted in a petition\\nto the legislature from the residents, mainly at the East end, for\\na division, they retaining the name and the records. The peti-\\ntion was resisted. It was felt to be a hardship by the majority\\nat the West end to be thrust out in such a manner; to be cast off\\noffensively to have a name forced upon them not of their choos-\\ning to be deprived of their inheritance in the historic fame of\\nBoscawen, which had maintained its position during the Indian\\ntroubles of the colonial period, when other frontier towns, Ho]d-\\nkinton, Warner, and Salisbury, were abandoned; to be cut off\\nfrom a town that could number among its citizens men who had\\nwritten their names large on the roll of honor.\\nWhether the action of the petitioners was wise or unwise,\\nwhether the material interests of the communitj^ as a whole\\nwould be advanced or retarded, men did not stop to consider;\\npassion crowded out reason the time had come for a division. In\\ncommunities as well as in families, from the time of Abraham and\\nLot to the present day, separation is sometimes better than union.\\nPossibly the citizens of the West end thought that their fellow-\\ncitizens of the East end did not emulate the example of the\\npatriarch of the Hebrew race in bringing about the division and\\nnow, that time has thrown its mellowing influences over the trans-\\naction, citizens of the East end may possibly see that a division\\nmight have been brought about with less irritation and bitterness.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0816.jp2"}, "803": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0817.jp2"}, "804": {"fulltext": "r", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0818.jp2"}, "805": {"fulltext": "OFFICIAL HISTORY. 621\\nSo, after one hundred j^ears of corporate existence, Boscawen\\ncut off one half of its territory and established the town of Web-\\nster.\\nIt has been characteristic of the people^ from the first set-\\ntlement, to select good men to conduct their public affairs. Sin-\\ngularly fortunate has been their selection of town-clerk. Of all the\\noriginal proprietors, not one probably possessed higher qualifica-\\ntions for that office than Joseph Coffin, and when the plantation\\nbecame a town, the man best qualified for the office, George Jack-\\nman, was chosen, holding it from 1760 to 1796.\\nEqually well qualified was Joel French, who held the office from\\n1807 till his death in 1810. His successor, Samuel W. Lang,\\nwlio held the position from 1810 to 1817, was the equal of his\\npredecessors. From 1817 k) 1856, Hezekiah Fellows, a magis-\\ntrate who understood forms, pains-taking, methodical, a fair pen-\\nman, kept the records. Thus, by choosing, in the main, compe-\\ntent men for this office, the records of Boscawen have been pre-\\nserved almost intact.\\nIn the selection of selectmen the citizens have, with but few\\nexceptions, chosen men who were competent to transact the busi-\\nness, aaid who were animated by a sincere desire to promote the\\ninterests of the town rather than their own aggrandisement.\\nThere has been but one notable exception, which occurred at the\\nclose of the last century, when all the worst elements in the com-\\nmunity united to obtain power. The leaders, Winthrop Carter\\nand Thomas Thorla, were able men, and, through the influence\\nthey exercised, directed the affairs of the town during 1796 and\\n1797. The first year, however, they were checkmated at every\\nstep by Enoch Little, the second of the name in the town,\\nwho was elected third selectman. In 1797, Carter, Thorla, and\\nDaniel Shepard were elected, and managed as they pleased. Their\\naccovints became confused, and there was a deficit which they could\\nnot explain. They were arraigned not only at the bar of public\\nopinion, but before a committee of investigation. It was the old\\nstory the men who had seized the ship could not manage it, and\\nthey were ignominiously thrown overboard the next year. With\\nthis exception the affairs of the town have been conducted with a\\nfidelity that presents a pleasing contrast to the municipal man-\\nagement of many other localities in these later years.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0819.jp2"}, "806": {"fulltext": "622\\nOFFICIAL HISTORY.\\nThe men who have been selected to represent the towns have\\nbeen citizens of high character. CoL Henry Gerrisli, George Jack-\\nman, Capt. Joseph Gerrish, Maj. Enoch Gerrish, and Capt. Ben-\\njamin Little, were tfie representatives of the last century. These\\nfive men represented the town from 1760 to 1801.\\nDuring the first quarter of the present centur^^, such men as\\nTimothy Dix, Caleb Knight, Ezekiel Webster, Joseph Little,\\nJeremiah Gerrish, Maj. Enoch Gerrish, and Col. Isaac Chandler,\\nacted as legislators. Their successors in the next quarter were\\nsuch men as Hezekiah Fellows, Col. John Farmer, Capt. Joseph\\nAmes, John Greenough, Moses Fellows, Thomas Coffin, William\\nH. Gage, Benjamin Kimball, Nathan Plummer, Abraham Bur-\\nbank, Richard Gage, Simeon B. Little, Joseph Morrill, Rev.\\nEbenezer Price, Elbridge F. Greftiough, Abiel R. Chandler,\\nNathan Pearson, Jr., Thomas Gerrish, Luke Corser, Caleb Smith,\\nand Calvin Gage.\\nOf these, all but three are numbered among the dead, their\\nlife-work over, and the historian may freely speak of them.\\nThey were men who honored the town, who sought its welfare,\\nwho allowed no private interest or personal ambition to interfere\\nwith their public duties as legislators. This may be said with\\nequal truth of those who since 1850 have represented the towns.\\nThe official record is a roll of honor.\\nTOWN OFFICERS.\\nM., moderator C, clerk; S., selectmen Del., delegate; Rep., representatives.\\n1760.\\n17G2\\nM.\\nJoseph CofBn.\\nM.\\nJoseph Eastman.\\nC.\\nGeorge Jackraan.*\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\ns.\\nJohn Fowler,\\nJohn Flanders,\\nJohn Webster,\\nJoseph Holt.\\nJoseph Eastman.\\n1761.\\n1763.\\nM.\\nJohn Webster.\\nM.\\nJohn Fowler.\\nS.\\nJohn Webster,\\nS.\\nJoseph Hoit,\\nEnos Bishop,\\nEphraim Plummer,\\nGeorge Jackman.\\nThomas Foss.\\nFrom 1760 to 1796 he was reelected.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0820.jp2"}, "807": {"fulltext": "OFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n623\\n1764.\\nM. John Fowler.\\nS. George Jackman,\\nJesse Flanders,\\nOliver Fowler.\\n1765.\\nM. John Fowler.\\nS. George Jackman,\\nJohn Fowler,\\nJesse Flanders.\\n1766.\\nM. Joseph Eastman.\\nS. Moses. Burbank,\\nMoses Call,\\nHenry Gerrish.\\n1767.\\nM. Jesse Flanders.\\nS. Henry Gerrish,\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nJesse Flanders.\\n1768.\\nM. John Fowler.\\nS. Henry Gerrish,\\nPeter Kimball,\\nOliver Fowler.\\n1769.\\nM. Moses Morse.\\nS. Capt. Henry Gerrish,\\nMoses Morse,\\nGeorge Jackman.\\n1770.\\nM. Rev. Robie Morrill.\\nS. Moses Morse,\\nHenry Gerrish,\\nPeter Kimball.\\n1771.\\nM. Moses Morse.\\nS. Winthrop Carter,\\nMoses Call,\\nMoses Morse.\\n1772.\\nM. Capt. Henry Gerrish.\\nS. George Jackman,\\nDea. Jesse Flanders,\\nSamuel Muzzy.\\n1773.\\nM. Henry Gerrish.\\nS. Ebenezer Hidden,\\nSamuel Gerrish,\\nGeorge Jackman.\\n1774.\\nM. Peter Coffin.\\nS. Samuel Muzzy,\\nPeter Kimball,\\nJesse Flanders.\\nDel. State Convention,\\nHenry Gerrish.\\n1775.\\nM. Stephen Webster.\\nS. Moses Call,\\nEnoch Gerrish,\\nGeorge Jackman.\\nDel. State Con.,\\nHenry Gerrish.\\n1776.\\nM. Robie Morrill.\\nS. George Jackman,\\nCutting Noyes,\\nJohn Eliot.\\n1777.\\nM. Henry Gerrish.\\nS. George Jackman,\\nJohn Eliot,\\nCutting Noyes.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0821.jp2"}, "808": {"fulltext": "624\\nOFFICIAL HISTORY,\\n1778.\\nM.\\nS.\\nDel.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nGeorge Jackinan,\\nLieut. Enoch Gerrish,\\nCutting Noyes,\\nGeorge Jackman.\\n178i.\\nM.\\nS.\\nPeter Kimball.\\nEnoch Gerrish,\\nPeter Kimball,\\nGeorge Jackman.\\n1779.\\n1785.\\nM.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nM.\\nEbenezer Hidden.\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nS.\\nLieut. Enoch Gerrish,\\nEnoch Gerrish,\\nBenjamin Sweatt,\\nSamuel Muzzy-\\nGeorge Jackman.\\nDel.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nRep.\\nGeorge Jackman.\\n1780.\\n1786.\\nM.\\nPeter Kimball.\\nM.\\nSamuel Fowler.\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nStephen Webster,\\nBenjamin Sweatt.\\nCutting Noyes.\\nLieut. Benjamin Jackman\\nEep.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nRep.\\nGeorge Jackman.\\n1781.\\n1787.\\nM.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nM.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nS.\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nCutting Noyes,\\nPeter Kimball,\\nCapt. Peter Kimball.\\nBenjamin Little.\\n1782.\\n1788.\\nM.\\nPeter Coffin.\\nM.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nS.\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nJoseph Jackman,\\nCutting Noyes,\\nDavid Corser.\\nPeter Kimball.\\nRep.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nDel. to Convention,\\nHenry Gerrish.\\n1783.\\n1789.\\nM.\\nEbenezer Hidden.\\nM.\\nPeter Coffin.\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\ns.\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nIsaac Pearson,\\nPeter Kimball,\\nDavid Corser.\\nBenjamin Little.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0822.jp2"}, "809": {"fulltext": "OFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n625\\n1790.\\n1796.\\nM.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nM.\\nS.\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nC.\\nPeter Kimball,\\ns.\\nBenjamin Little.\\nRep.\\nHeury Gerrish.\\nRep.\\n1791.\\n1797.\\nM.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nM.\\nS.\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nC.\\nGeorsre Jackman,\\nS.\\nSamuel Ames,\\nDavid Corser,\\nNathaniel Green.\\nRep. ITeury Gerrish.\\nDel. to revise State Constitution,\\nNathaniel Green.\\n1792.\\nRep.\\n1798.\\nM.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nM.\\nS.\\nBenjamin Little,\\nC.\\nEnoch Gerrish,\\nS.\\nLieut. John Chandler.\\nRep.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nRep.\\n1793.\\n1799.\\nM.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nM.\\nS.\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nC.\\nBenjamin Little,\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman.\\nRep.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nRep.\\n1794.\\n1800,\\nM.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nM.\\ns.\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nC.\\nBenjamin Little,\\nS.\\nGeorge Jackman.\\nRep.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nRep.\\n1795.\\n1801\\nM.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nM.\\nS.\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nC.\\nEnoch Little,\\ns.\\nGeorge Jackman.\\nRep.\\nBenjamin Little.\\nRep.\\nThomas Thorla.\\nTristram Noyes.\\nWinthrop Carter,\\nThomas Thorla,\\nEnoch Little.\\nBenjamin Little.\\nThomas Thorla.\\nTristram Noyes.\\nWinthrop Carter,\\nThomas Thorla,\\nDaniel Shepard.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nEnoch Gerrish,\\nTimothy Dix, Jr.,\\nJoseph Little.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nMaj. Enoch Gerrish.\\nGeorge Jackman.\\nEnoch Gerrish,\\nTimothy Dix, Jr.,\\nJoseph Little.\\nMaj. Joseph Gerrish.\\nThomas Thorla.\\nSamuel Choate.\\nBenjamin Jackman,\\nJoseph Couch,\\nCaleb Knight.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nNathaniel Green.\\nSamuel Choate.\\nBenjamin Jackman,\\nJoseph Couch,\\nCaleb Knight.\\nTimothy Dix, Jr.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0823.jp2"}, "810": {"fulltext": "626\\nOFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n1802.\\n1808.\\nM.\\nNathaniel Green.\\nM.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nc.\\nPhinehas Bailey.\\nC.\\nJoel French.\\ns.\\nJoseph Couch,\\nS.\\nCapt. Somersby Pearson,\\nNathaniel Green,\\nEzekiel Morse,\\nSamuel Muzzy.\\nStephen Gerrish.\\nEep.\\nTimothy Dix, Jr.\\nRep.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\n1803.\\n1809.\\nM.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\nM.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nC.\\nJoseph Couch.\\nC.\\nJoel French.\\nS.\\nNathaniel Green,\\nS.\\nStephen Gerrish,\\nNathan Davis,\\nJoseph H. Morrill,\\nBenjamin Jackman.\\nPeletiah Peasley.\\nRep.\\nTimothy Dix, Jr.\\nRep.\\nEnoch Gerrish.\\n1804.\\n1810.\\nM.\\nNathaniel Green.\\nM.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nC.\\nJoseph Couch.\\nC.\\nSamuel W. Lang.\\ns.\\nBenjamin Jackman,\\nS.\\nStephen Gerrish,\\nIsaac Chandler,\\nJoseph Little,\\nJoseph Little.\\nThomas Coffin.\\nRep.\\nTimothy Dix, Jr.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\n1805.\\n1811.\\nM.\\nCol. Joseph Gerrish.\\nM.\\nCol. Joseph Gerrish.\\nC.\\nCaleb Putney.\\nC.\\nSamuel W. Lang.\\ns.\\nBenjamin Jackman,\\nS.\\nThomas Coffin,\\nJoseph Little,\\nBenjamin Little,\\nMaj. Isaac Chandler.\\nJoel French.\\nRep.\\nCaleb Knight.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\n1806.\\n1812.\\nM.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nM.\\nIsaac Chandler.\\nc.\\nSamuel Choate.\\nC.\\nSamuel W. Lang.\\nS.\\nJoseph Little,\\nS.\\nNathan Chandler,\\nDaniel Pillsbury,\\nJoseph Ames,\\nJoseph H. Morrill.\\nCapt. Moses Gerrish.\\nRep.\\nBenjamin Little.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\n1807.\\n1813.\\nM.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nC.\\nJoel French.\\nC.\\nSamuel W. Lang.\\nS.\\nDaniel Pillsbury,\\nS.\\nCapt. Moses Gerrish,\\nRep.\\nJoseph Little,\\nCapt. Somersby Pearson.\\nBenjamin Little.\\nRep.\\nJoseph Ames,\\nNathan Chandler.\\nEzekiel AVebster.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0824.jp2"}, "811": {"fulltext": "OFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n627\\n1814.\\n1820.\\nM.\\nEzekiel AYebster.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nC.\\nSamuel W. Lang.\\nS.\\nNehemiah Cogswell,\\ns.\\nCapt. Moses Gerrish,\\nSamuel Little,\\nJoseph Ames,\\nIsaac Gerrish.\\nIsaac Grerrish.\\nRep.\\nIsaac Chandler.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\n1815.\\n1821.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nC.\\nSamuel W. Lang.\\nS.\\nSamuel Little,\\nS.\\nIsaac Gerrish,\\nMoses Gerrish,\\nJesse Little,\\nIsaac Pearson.\\nJosepli II. Morrill.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nHep.\\nJoseph Little.\\n1 816.\\n1822.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nc.\\nSamuel W. Lang.\\ns.\\nSamuel Little,\\nS.\\nMaj. ]\\\\[oses Gerrish,\\nMoses Gerrish,\\nDaniel Pillsbury,\\nIsaac Pearson.\\nNathan Chandler.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nRep.\\nJoseph Little.\\n1817.\\n1823.\\nM.\\nEnoch Little.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nC.\\nHezekiah Fellows.*\\nS.\\nCol. Moses Gerrish,\\nS.\\nMaj. Moses Gerrish,\\nJohn Farmer,\\nDaniel Pillsbury,\\nThomas Gerrish.\\nNehemiah Cogswell.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nRep.\\nJeremiah Gerrish.\\n1818.\\n1824,\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nS.\\nCol. Moses Gerrish,\\nS.\\nJohn Farmer,\\nNehemiah Cogswell,\\nSamuel B. Gerrish.\\nRep. Jeremiah Gerrish.\\n1819.\\nM. Ezekiel Webster.\\nS. Nehemiah Cogswell,\\nJoseph Couch,\\nDaniel Pillsbury.\\nRep. Isaac Chandler.\\nRep.\\n1825.\\nM.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nNehemiah Cogswell,\\nMoses Fellows.\\nEzekiel Webster,\\nHezekiah Fellows.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nJohn Farmer,\\nMoses Fellows,\\nWilliam II. Gage.\\nEzekiel Webster,\\nHezekiah Fellows.\\nFrom this date to 1854 he was reelected.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0825.jp2"}, "812": {"fulltext": "628\\nOFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n1826.\\n1832.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nS.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nWilliam H. Gage,\\nJoseph Couch, Jr.\\nRep.\\nHezekiah Fellows,\\nJoseph Ames.\\n1827.\\nM.\\nJohn Farmer.\\nS.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nWilliam H. Gage,\\nJoseph Couch, Jr.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster,\\nJohn Farmer.\\n1828.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nS.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nReuben Johnson,\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nRep.\\nEzekiel Webster,\\nJohn Farmer.\\n1829.\\nM.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nS.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nSimeon B. Little,\\nThomas Gerrish.\\nRep.\\nJohn Farmer,\\nJohn Greenough.\\n1830.\\nM.\\nJohn Farmer.\\nS.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nRep.\\n1831.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nSimeon B. Little,\\nThomas Gerrish.\\nJohn Greenough,\\nMoses Fellows,\\nJohn Farmer,\\nMoses Fellows,\\nSimeon B. Little,\\nThomas Gerrish.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nThomas Coffin.\\nM.\\nJohn Farmer.\\nS.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nWilliam H. Gage,\\nWyatt Boyden.\\nRep.\\nMoses Fellows.\\n1833.\\nM.\\nJohn Farmer.\\nS.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nWilliam H. Gage,\\nWyatt Boyden.\\nRep.\\nWilliam H. Gage.\\n1834.\\nM.\\nJohn Farmer.\\nS.\\nWyatt Boyden,\\nAbraham Burbank,\\nHale Atkinson.\\nRep.\\nJohn Farmer,\\nBenjamin Kimball.\\n1835.\\nM.\\nJohn Farmer.\\nS.\\nAbraham Burbank,\\nHale Atkinson,\\nMoses Fellows.\\nRep.\\nJohn Farmer,\\nMoses Fellows.\\n1836.\\nM.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nS.\\nSimeon Little,\\nMoses Fellows,\\nJohn C. Cogswell.\\nRep.\\nNathan Plummer,\\nWilliam H. Gage.\\n1837.\\nM.\\nMoses Fellows.\\nS.\\nSimeon B. Little,\\nRep.\\nMoses Fellows,\\nJohn C. Cogswell.\\nNathan Plummer,\\nAbraham Burbank.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0826.jp2"}, "813": {"fulltext": "OFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n629\\n1838.\\n18M.\\nM.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nMoses Fellows.\\nSimeon B. Little,\\nJeremiah Noyes,\\nWilliam M. Kimball.\\nAbraliam Burbank,\\nRichard Gage.\\n1839.\\nThomas Elliot,\\nWilliam H. Gage.\\nRep. Abiel R. Chandler,\\nNathan Pearson, Jr.\\nM.\\nS.\\nRep.\\n1845.\\nM.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nM.\\nS.\\nWilliam M. Kimball,\\nMoses Fellows,\\nThomas Little.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nRichard Gage,\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nRep.\\n1840.\\n1846.\\nM.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nM.\\nS.\\nThomas Little,\\nWj^att Boyden,\\nAbiel R. Chandler.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nSimeon B. Little,\\nJoseph Morrill.\\nRep.\\n1841.\\n1847.\\nM.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nM.\\nS.\\nWyatt Boyden,\\nAbiel Chandler,\\nNathan Pearson.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nJoseph Morrill,\\nRev. Ebenezer Price.\\nRep.\\n1842.\\n1848.\\nM.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nM.\\ns.\\nAbiel R. Chandler,\\nNathan Pearson,\\nWyatt Boyden.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nRev. Ebenezer Price,\\nElbridge F. Greenough.\\nRep.\\n1843.\\n1849.\\nM.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nM.\\nS.\\nBenjamin F. Kimball,\\nS.\\nRep.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nCaleb Smith,\\nSamuel M. Durgin,\\nFriend L. Burbank.\\nNathan Pearson, Jr.,\\nAbiel R. Chandler.\\nMoody A. Pillsbury,\\nCaleb Smith,\\nThomas Elliot,\\nEliphalet Kilburn.\\nThomas Gerrish,\\nLuke Corser.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nCaleb Smith,\\nSamuel M. Durgin,\\nFriend L. Burbank.\\nThomas Gerrish,\\nLuke Corser.\\nSimeon B. Little-\\nHale Atkinson,\\nSamuel M. Durgin,\\nCalvin Gage.\\nAbraham Burbank,\\nCaleb Smith.\\nCaleb Smith.\\nEliphalet Kilburn,\\nAbiel R. Chandler,\\nFriend L. Burbank.\\nAbraham Burbank,\\nCaleb Smith.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nHale Atkinson,\\nAbiel R. Chandler,\\nAlbert Danforth.\\nCalvin Gage.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0827.jp2"}, "814": {"fulltext": "630\\nOFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n1850.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nS. Hale Atkinson,\\nAbner Sargent,\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nRep. Calvin Gage,\\nPaul Pearson.\\n1851.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nS. Simeon B. Little,\\nDan S. Balch,\\nDavid A. Gerrish.\\nRep. Paul Pearson,\\nAbiel Gerrish.\\n1852.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nS. Simeon B. Little,\\nDavid A. Gerrish,\\nHale Atkinson.\\nRep. Abiel Gerrish,\\nFriend L. Burbank.\\n1853.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nS. Simeon B. Little,\\nDavid A. Gerrish.\\nHale Atkinson.\\nRep. Friend L. Burbank,\\nJohn C. Gage.\\n1854.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nS. Abner Sargent,\\nCaleb Smith,\\nHale Atkinson.\\nRep. John C. Gage,\\nEnoch Little.\\n1855.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nC. Franklin P. Atkinson.\\nS. Francis S. French,\\nMoses Whittier,\\nIra Sweatt.\\nRep. Albert Runnels,\\nAbner B. Winn.\\n1856.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nC. Franklin P. Atkinson.\\nS. Francis S. French,\\nMoses Whittier,\\nIra Sweatt.\\nRep. Albert Runnels,\\nAbner B. Winn.\\n1857.\\nM. Enoch Gerrish.\\nC. George W. Stevens.\\nS. Abner Sargent,\\nHale Atkinson,\\nCaleb Smith.\\nRep. Francis S. French,\\nWilliam M. Sweatt.\\n1858.\\nM. Enoch Gerrish.\\nC. David E. Burbank.\\nS. Moses Whittier,\\nEnoch Gerrish,\\nDavid A. Gerrish.\\nRep. Francis S. French,\\nWilliam M. Sweatt.\\n1859.\\nM. Enoch Gerrish.\\nC. David L. Burbank.\\nS. Enoch Gerrish,\\nMoses Gill,\\nJeremiah S. Webber.\\nRep. Moses Whittier,\\nThaddeus O. Wilson.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0828.jp2"}, "815": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0829.jp2"}, "816": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0830.jp2"}, "817": {"fulltext": "OFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n631\\n18G0.\\nM, Enoch Gerrisli.\\nC. David E. Burbank.\\nS. Enoch Gerrish,\\nJeremiah S. Webber,\\nAhiion Harris.\\nRep. Moses Whittier,\\nThaddeus O. Wilson.\\n1865.\\nM. Franklin C. Morrill.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nCalvin M. Chadwick.\\nNehemiah Butler,\\nGeorge Knowles,\\nSamuel Choate.\\nDavid A. Gerrish.\\n1861.\\n1866.\\nM.\\nIsaac K. Gage.\\nM.\\nFranklin C. Morrill,\\nC.\\nIsaiah H. Arey.\\nC.\\nCharles Smith.\\ns.\\nAlmon Harris,\\nS.\\nEnoch G. Wood,\\nFrancis S. French,\\nHealey Morse,\\nIlale Atkinson.\\nJames H. Gill.\\nRep.\\nLuther Gage.\\nRep.\\nDavid A. Gerrisli.\\n1862.\\n^I. Nathan B. Greene.\\nC. Isaiah H. Arey.\\nS. Almon Harris,\\nFrancis S. French,\\nPeter Coffin.\\nRep. Luther Gage.\\n1867,\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nIsaac K. Gage.\\nCharles Smith.\\nEnoch G. Wood,\\nHealey Morse,\\nJames H. Gill.\\nFranklin C. Morrill.\\n1863.\\n1868.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nJonathan Tenney.\\nIsaiah H. Arey.\\nNehemiah Butler,\\nPeter Coffin,\\nGeorge Knowles.\\nAlmon Harris.\\n1864.\\nM. Franklin C. Morrill.\\nC. Isaiah H. Arey.\\nS. Nehemiah Butler,\\nGeorge Knowles,\\nSamuel Choate.\\nRep. Almon Harris.\\nM.\\n0.\\ns.\\nRep.\\n1869.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nFranklin C. Morrill.\\nCharles E. Chadwick.\\nNehemiah Butler,\\nEzra S. Harris,\\nBradley Atkinson.\\nFranklin C. Morrill.\\nFranklin C. Morrill.\\nCharles E. Chadwick.\\nEzra S. Harris,\\nLuther Gage,\\nBradley Atkinson.\\nNehemiah Butler.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0831.jp2"}, "818": {"fulltext": "632\\nOFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n1870.\\n1874.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nThaddeus O. Wilson.\\nCharles E Chadwick.\\nNehemiah Butler,\\nHamilton P. Gill,\\nJoseph G. Eastnaan.\\nNehemiah Butler.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nKep.\\nDavid F. Kimball.\\nCharles E. Chadwick.\\nNehemiah Butler,\\nMarcus K. Howser,\\nSamuel B. Chadwick.\\nMarcus K. Howser.\\n1871.\\n1875.\\nM.\\nThaddeus 0. Wilson.\\nM.\\nDavid F. Kimball.\\nC.\\nJohn Seavey.\\nC.\\nCharles E. Chadwick,\\nS.\\nCalvin Gage,\\ns.\\nNehemiah Butler,\\nJohn E. nines,\\nJoseph G. Eastman,\\nEnoch G. Wood.\\nAustin G. Kimball.\\nRep.\\nEnoch G. Wood.\\nRep.\\nMarcus K. Howser.\\n1872.\\n1876.\\nM.\\nC.\\ns.\\nR(^.\\nDavid F. Kimball.\\nCharles E. Chadwick.\\nDavid F. Kimball,\\nMarcus K. Howser,\\nSamuel B. Chadwick.\\nDaniel Y. Bickford.\\nM.\\nC.\\ns.\\nRep.\\nCalvin Gage.\\nGeorge A. Morse.\\nJohn C. Gage,\\nEnoch G. Wood,\\nCaleb C. Hall.\\nNathaniel S. Webster.\\n1873.\\n1877.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nDavid F. Kimball.\\nCharles E. Chadwick.\\nDavid F. Kimball,\\nMarcus K. Howser,\\nSamuel B. Chadwick.\\nDaniel Y. Bickford.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nThaddeus O. Wilson.\\nCharles E. Chadwick.\\nJohn C. Gage,\\nCaleb C. Hall,\\nLuther Gage.\\nNathaniel S. Webster.\\n1878.\\nM.\\nC.\\ns.\\nRep.\\nDavid F. Kimball.\\nCharles E. Chadwick.\\nLuther Gage,\\nCharles W. Hardy,\\nMarcus K. Howser.\\nPeter Coffin.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0832.jp2"}, "819": {"fulltext": "OFFICIAL HISTORY.\\n633\\nTOWX OFFICERS OF WEBSTER.\\nThe act incorporating the town of Webster was passed at the\\nJune session of the legiskture, LS60, Jeremiah S. Webber and\\nJoseph L. Couch being empowered to call the first town-meeting,\\nwhich was held August, 1860.\\n860.\\nM. Simeon H. Little.\\nC. David E. Burbank.\\nS. Nathan Pearson,\\nJeremiah S. Webber,\\nAlbert Runnels.\\n1861.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nDavid E. Burbank.\\nJereiniali S. ^Vebber,\\nAlbert Runnels,\\nGeorge Little.\\nAlbert Runnels.\\n1862.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nC. David E. Burbank.\\nS. George Little,\\nAVriliam D. Call,\\nDavid A. JVlacurdy.\\n1863.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nC. Atherton Sweatt.\\nS. George Little,\\nWilliam D. Call,\\nJohn C. Pearson.\\nRep. Jeremiah S. Webber.\\n1864.\\nM. Simeon B. Little.\\nC. Atherton Sweatt.\\nS. WiUiam D. Call,\\nJohn C. Pearson,\\nHiram G. Stone.\\nRep. George Little.\\n1865.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\n1866.\\nM.\\n1867.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\n1868.\\nM.\\nC.\\ns.\\nRep.\\n1869,\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nEep.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nJohn C. Pearson,\\nHi ram G. Stone,\\nHenry H. Gerrish.\\nGeorge Little.\\nSimeon B. Little.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nHi rain G. Stone,\\nHenry H. Gerrish,\\nSherman Little.\\nNo Rep.\\nJoseph L. Couch.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nJohn Colby,\\nJohn Sanborn,\\nD. C. Hubbard.\\nWilliam D. Call.\\nDavid A. Macurdy.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nSherman Little,\\nWilliam W. Austin,\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nAViUiam D. Call.\\nDavid A. Macurdy.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nSherman Little,\\nWiUiam W. Austin,\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nDavid A. Macurdy.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6After\\nmany ballots for representative without choice, the town voted not to send.", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0833.jp2"}, "820": {"fulltext": "634\\nOFFICIAL HISTORY,\\n1870.\\nM. David A. Macurdy.\\nC. Atherton Sweatt.\\nS. Charles E. Kimball,\\nJoseph L. Couch,\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\n1874.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nEep.\\nSherman Little.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nAVilliam W. Burbank,\\nCharles C. Kimball,\\nGeorge Little.\\nAlbee C. Sweatt.\\n1871.\\n1875.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nDavid S. Corser.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nCharles E. Kimball,\\nP. F. S. Clark,\\nC. Sweatt.\\nJohn C. Pearson.\\nM.\\nC.\\ns.\\nRep.\\nSherman Little.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nCharles C. Kimball,\\nHiram G. Stone,\\nJames L. Gerrish.\\nSherman Little.\\n1872.\\n1876.\\nM.\\nC.\\ns.\\nRep.\\nDavid S. Corser.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nAlbe C. Sweatt,\\nP. F. S. Clark,\\nWilliam W. Burbank.\\nJohn C. Pearson.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nSherman Little.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nCharles C. Kimball,\\nJames L. Gerrish,\\nJames M. Snyder.\\nSherman Little.\\n1873.\\n1877.\\nM.\\nC.\\ns.\\nRep.\\nSherman Little.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nAtherton Sweatt,\\nP. F. S. Clark,\\nWilliam W. Burbank.\\nAlbee C. Sweatt.\\nM.\\nC.\\nS.\\nRep.\\nSherman Little.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nJames L. Gerrish,\\nJames M. Snyder,\\nWilliam W. Austin.\\nCharles C. Kimball.\\n1878.\\nM.\\nC.\\ns.\\nRep.\\nSherman Little.\\nAtherton Sweatt.\\nJames M. Snyder,\\nWilliam W. Austin,\\nMoody A. Pillsbury.\\nCharles C. Kimball.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0834.jp2"}, "821": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3099", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0835.jp2"}, "822": {"fulltext": "(fh.^jtxjiZ^", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0836.jp2"}, "823": {"fulltext": "POPULATION ELEVATIONS. 635\\nPOPULATION.\\nThe first census of the town was that of 1767 [p. 99], 285\\ninhabitants. In 1783, when the first census after the Kevolution\\nwas taken, the number was 756 [p. 128]. The first census of the\\ngeneral government was in 1790. Tlie returns are as follows\\n1767,\\n285\\n1830,\\n2003\\n1783,\\n756\\n1840,\\n1965\\n1790,\\n1108\\n1850,\\n2063\\n1800,\\n1414\\n1860,\\n1458*\\n1810,\\n1829\\n1870,\\n1637\\n1820,\\n2116\\nWEBSTER.\\n1860, 817 I 1870, 689\\nELEVATIONS.\\nThe Geology of New Hampshire, by Prof. C. H. Hitchcock,\\nvol. 1, contains a chapter on altitudes in the state, that have been\\nobtained accurately by the various railroad surveys, others less\\naccurately by barometrical measurements made by the Geological\\nSurvey, and by the trigonometrical measurements of the United\\nStates Coast Survey. The measurements are aboA^e tide-water,\\nand those along the Northern Railroad are made on the top of the\\nrail at the various localities. They are given in feet and hun-\\ndredths of feet\\nFeet.\\nFisherville bridge, leading to Duston island, 267.89\\nBoscawen depot, 273.89\\nNorth Boscawen depot, 290.01\\nThe altitudes along the Blackwater were obtained by surveys\\nmade in 1845, and again in 1871\\nFeet.\\nMast Yard (in Concord), 374.57\\nDingit corner, 479.90\\nBlackwater river, near mill above Dingit corner, 442.96\\nBank of river on level land near residence of Orlando Fitts, 508.80\\nBank of river above Blackwater mills, 555.00\\nNorth hne of Webster, 568.72\\nTown divided\\n41", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0837.jp2"}, "824": {"fulltext": "636 HEALTH.\\nThe United States Coast Survey, by trigonometrical measure-\\nments made from the station on Kearsarge mountain, gives two\\nmeasurements in Webster\\nFeet.\\nBlackwater mills, 555.00\\nCorser bill meeting-house, 786.00\\nThe highest land in Webster is the liill west of the residence of\\nCajjt. William D. George, which probably has an elevation of be-\\ntween 900 and 1,000 feet. Mount Washington is plainly seen\\nfrom that point in a clear atmosphere. The AVhite Mountains\\nmay also be seen from the residence of Peter M. Chadwick, in\\nBoscawen, and probably from other localities.\\nAs the Merrimack foi ms the eastern and the Contoocook skirts\\nthe southern boundaries, the lowest elevation is at the junction of\\nthe two streams, 267.89 feet above tide-water. Nearly all the ter-\\nritory all except the intervale of the Merrimack has an elevation\\nexceeding 300 feet; while Clark s hill. Upper High street, K orth\\nWater street. Cook s hill. Little hill, and Sanborn s hill, have ele-\\nvations approaching 1,000 feet.\\nHEALTH.\\nA territory like that comprised in the seven miles square grant-\\ned to the proprietors of Contoocook, diversified by hills and vales,\\nwith a primitive geological formation, with an altitude varying\\nfrom 300 to 1,000 feet above the sea, with pure water flowing\\nfrom innumerable springs and everywhere obtainable, never will\\nbe subject to malarial disease, or epidemic of any kind, if proper\\nattention be given to hygienic laws.\\nA record of mortality was kept by Eev. Ebenezer Price from\\n1808 to 1837, and is preserved in the records for 1841. The least\\nnumber of deaths in any one year was in 1809, when there were\\nbut nine deaths in a population of 1,800. The greatest mortality\\nwas in 1825, when the deaths numbered 57 in a population of\\nabout 2,200. The average number of deaths per annum was 27.\\nOne third of the deaths during the period were of children under\\nfive years of age, and one half of the deaths were of persons under\\n25. The disease most prevalent among adults was consumption,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0838.jp2"}, "825": {"fulltext": "INDUSTRIES. 637\\nwhich from 1822 to 1837 had an increasing ratio, 110 persons\\nhaving died of that disease, or one eiglith of the total number of\\ndeaths. Persons arriving at the age of 55 had a prospect of lon-\\ngevity. In 1836 and 1837 seven persons died whose united ages\\namounted to 590 years, an average of 81 years. In 1838 there\\nwere living in town 20 jiersons between 80 and 94 years of age,\\nwhose united ages amounted to 1,716 years, an average of nearly\\n87 years per individual.\\nINDUSTRIES.\\nBoscawen and Webster are classed as agricultural towns, but\\nthey have also had a fair share of industrial pursuits. Rev. Mr.\\nPrice, writing in 1820, thus speaks of the industries of the town\\nat that period\\nThere are in this town seventeen saw-mills, five corn-mills, three\\nof which have two runs of stones, and all furnished with bolts, four\\nfulling-mills, five carding-machines, two mills for grinding tanners\\nbark, one trip-hammer, one mill for turning cart-wheel hubs and felloes,\\nand one for grinding lead for potters ware.\\nLUMBER.\\nA chief industry from the first settlement of tlie town was the\\nmanufacture of lumber. The original forest growth was very\\ndense, consisting of white and Norway pine, white and red oah,\\nchestnut, ash, white, red, and brown elm, hemlock, poplar, bass,\\nmaple, and other woods. Of pine lumber thousands of masts,\\nspars, and bowsprits were rafted down the Merrimack, or turned\\nadrift in the Contoocook, to run the falls during the periods of high\\nwater. The Mast Yard station on the Concord Claremont\\nRailroad has derived its name from the fact that the bank of the\\nContoocook at that point was a place of deposit for the many\\nmasts drawn thither from the pine woods of Bashan, and the ad-\\njoining territory of Concord and Hopkinton.\\nThe sawed lumber was rafted at different points along the Mer-\\nrimack, especially in the bend above Canterbury bridge. For a\\nperiod of more than half a century the ground now occupied by\\nthe main and side tracks of the Northern Railroad was jiiled, in\\nwinter, with lumber, round logs, oak and pine ship-timber, masts\\nand spars, that were rafted to Medford in summer, the same", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0839.jp2"}, "826": {"fulltext": "638\\nINDUSTRIES.\\nground was covered with huge piles of planks, boards, shingles,\\nclapboards, and laths. The planks and boards were rafted in\\ncribs, suitable for passing the locks at various points, and the\\nshingles, clapboards, and laths were taken as top-loading. The\\nmarkets were Lowell and Boston.\\nEarly in the century a large business was done in the manufac-\\nture of staves for sugar and molasses hogsheads, and beef and\\npork barrels. They were made up into shooks, each shook\\ncontaining the staves of a single barrel or hogshead. The mar-\\nket, before the construction of the jMiddlesex canal between the\\nMerrimack and Boston, was at NewburyjDort. A culler of\\nstaves was an important town officer, annually elected, who in-\\nspected the shocks. The shooks were taken down the Merri-\\nmack as top-loading on rafts. Coopering, from the Revolution to\\nthe year 1830, was a distinct industry, furnishing emjiloyment to\\na large number of persons.\\nMILLS.\\nThe saw-mills existing in 1820 were thus located One on the\\nContoocook at Fisherville one on j\\\\Iill lirook one in the Hollow,\\non the site of the first mill erected in the town one on the site\\nnow owned by Hannibal Flanders one near Long street, on land\\nnow owned by Jeremiah C. Chadwick one on Pond brook one on\\nthe site of the second mill erected in town, south of Great pond\\none near the residence of Joseph Burpee one owned by Gren. M.\\nA. Pillsbury one by Enoch Pillsbury and one on the site now\\nowned by Harvey Chase. At North Boscawen was a mill on the\\nbrook emptying into the Merrimack south of the county farm,\\nand one on Stirrujj-iron brook. On the Blackwater was one on\\nthe site near the residence of Samuel Little one a mile north of\\nDingit corner one on the site now occupied by F. L. W. W.\\nBurbank one on Knight s Meadow brook and one at the out-\\nlet of Long pond. On Cold brook there was a mill with a large\\novershot wheel, the flume supplying it being carried over the\\nhighway leading south from the cemetery to Queen street. It\\nwas built by David Jackman.\\nThe corn-mills, existing in 1820, were located, one in the\\nHollow one on the site now owned by Hannibal Flanders\\nSweatt Gookin s, on the Blackwater; and a mill with one run of\\nstones, on Pond brook, owned by Gen. M. A. Pillsbury.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0840.jp2"}, "827": {"fulltext": "INDUSTRIES.\\n639\\nThe fulling and clotli-dressiug mills were Gage s, at Fislierville,\\nDurgin s, in the Hollow, the first established in town, hy\\nDea. Isaac Pearson, and Sweatt s, on the Blackwater.\\nThe carding-machines were in the same localities. The first\\ncarding-machine in the United States was set up by Arthur\\nScolfield, a machinist who came from England and settled in\\nPittsfield, Mass., in the year 1800. England at that time was in-\\ntent upon building up her manufacturing industries, and prohib-\\nited the carrying out of that country machinists tools. The\\nbaggage of every passenger was rigorously searched, so that Scol-\\nfield came without his tools but being ingenious, and possessing a\\nretentive memory, he made his tools as he needed them, and built\\na machine for carding. At that time all carding was done by\\nhand; and men and women during the long winter evenings spent\\ntheir time in carding, seated around the wide-mouthed fireplaces.\\nThe Pittsfield Sun, of ^NTo. 2, 1801, contains the following adver-\\ntisement of the first machine in the United States\\nArthur Scolfield respectfully informs the inhabitants of Pittsfield\\nand the neighboring towns that he has a carding-machine half a mile\\nwest of the meeting-house, where they may have their wool carded into\\nrolls for twelve and a half cents a pound; mixed, fifteen cents per\\npound. If they find grease and pick the grease in, it will be ten cents\\na pound; and twelve and a half for mixed.\\nMixed has reference to black and white wools, and picking\\nthe grease in has reference to the lubrication of the wool, neces-\\nsary for carding and spinning. Carding by machinery soon su-\\nperseded hand carding to a great extent, though the compiler of\\nthis history can recall the days of hand carding, and once saw\\nKev. Dr. Wood using the cards and studying at the same time his\\nnext Sunday s sermon.\\nThe first carding-machines in Boscawen were probably set up\\nabout 1810-1812. A carding-mill was a building, which, besides\\nits machinery, contained a large pile of wool done up in blankets,\\nold counterpanes, and rugs, and a pot containing the unsavory\\ndye, which must be kept in a warm place to bring it to perfection.\\nSPIXXING AND WEAVING.\\nSpinning was done by hand. Twelve to fifteen skeins per day\\nwas considered a good day s work, though there were housewives", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0841.jp2"}, "828": {"fulltext": "640 INDUSTRIES.\\nwho could spin twenty. Thirteen skeins were equivalent to three\\nand eight one hundreths miles of thread, in spinning which the\\nspinner walked about five mi4es. Having spun the wool into\\nyarn, that designed for the warp was placed upon the reel and\\nwound upon large spools, which were in turn placed in a form,\\nand from thence transferred to the warping bars. As many\\nspools were used as there were threads in the proposed warp.\\nFrom the bars the \\\\farp was transferred to the loom, wound\\nupon the beam, and drawn through the harness and the reed,\\nand was ready for the weaver.\\nThe filling or weft was spun differently from the warp, with\\nmore or less hardness, according to the quality of cloth desired.\\nIt was transferred from the skein to quills made from elder\\nstocks, which were used in the shuttle. The preparation of the\\nweft was far less arduous work than the preparation of the warp.\\nTo weave checks and stripes, much care was required in the prep-\\naration of both warp and weft, and in the weaving. The produc-\\ntion of a web of cloth was quite an event in the household. Dyed\\nclothes were dyed in the wool, in the skein, or in tlie web. Cloth\\ndyed in the wool usually held its color best. The aphorism in\\ncommon use, in regard to a man whose. principles are fixed, that\\nhe is dyed in the wool, had its origin in this process of dyeing.\\nSPINNING BY MACHINERY.\\nEarly in the century, between 1810 and 1815, Mr. Benjamin\\nPritchard established a new industry, the spinning of cotton yarn.\\nHe erected a building on the mill-site now owned by Hannibal\\nFlanders, and spun yarn by machinery. The building was subse-\\nquently moved to a site north of Ambrose s tavern, and was used\\nas a shop for the manufacture of carriages, and is now a dwelling-\\nhouse in Fisherville. The yarn spun by Mr. Pritchard was used\\nfor warp by the housewives in the manufacture of satinets.\\nThe establishment of manufactures of cotton and woollen goods\\nby machinery throughout the country brought about an entire\\nchange in the domestic industries. The spinning-wheel and loom\\ndisappeared from the household the bumping of the fulling-mill\\nno longer was heard the dye-pots were banished from the hearth-\\nstones and the carders and cloth-dressers were forced to turn\\ntheir attention to new occupations.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0842.jp2"}, "829": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0843.jp2"}, "830": {"fulltext": "Carding and Spinning,", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0844.jp2"}, "831": {"fulltext": "INDUSTRIES.\\nPALM-LEAF HATS.\\n641\\nTlie industry that in part took the place of spinning and weav-\\ning was the braiding of pahn-leaf hats. The pahn-leaf was pur-\\nchased in bales by the traders, who supplied it to families who\\nsplit and braided it into hats. The industry was not a universal\\none. The merchants paid cash only in part, making, of course, a\\nlarge profit on the goods sold. Families in comfortable circum-\\nstances would not engage in an employment in which they would\\nbe at the mercy of the merchant, who, though he might be scru-\\npulously honest, yet could fix his own profit and their measure of\\no-ain. It was a jug with only one handle, and that in the hands\\nof the merchant. Notwithstanding this drawback, the industry\\ngave employment to a large number of women and girls, who\\notherwise had little chance of earning money.\\nSHOES.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Following this industrj^, was the manufacture of shoes. This\\nenterprise, which had long been a leading industry in Massachu-\\nsetts and along the sea-coast towns of New Hampshire, did not\\ngain a foothold in Boscawen till about 1842. The leather, upper\\nand sole, cut into desired patterns, with linings and bindings,\\nwas taken into the farmers houses, and shops. The stitching and\\nbinding were done by women and girls, and the bottoming by the\\nmen and boys, who purchased their shoe-pegs by the peck, and\\ntheir nails by the pound. Many farmers, who never had learned\\nanything of shoe-making, turned their attention to pegging shoes\\nbut the trade demanded better work, and it was discovered that\\nsystem was necessary to secure the best results in manufac-\\nture hence a change in the industry. About 1850, the manu-\\nfacture, instead of being carried on by the community at large,\\nbecame concentrated, and the workmen were brought together in\\nshops. For a few years Boscawen Plain was a shoe manufactur-\\ning village but the introduction of machinery into the manufac-\\nture in Massachusetts, and the distance of Boscawen from the\\ngreat centre of New England trade, operated to break down the\\nindustry, which never has revived.", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0845.jp2"}, "832": {"fulltext": "642\\nINDUSTRIES.\\nHATS.\\nThe manufacture of beaver and felt hats in the early decades of\\nthe century gave employment to many men in the community at\\nlarge. There were two hat establishments in Boscawen, Mr.\\nJacob Hosmer s, on the Plain, and Mr. Columbus George s, White\\nPlain. They purchased mink and muskrat skins of the farmers,\\nand also made silk and wool hats, finding a market at the countr}\\nstores, or manufacturing to a citizen s order. The compiler of this\\nhistory has a distinct recollection of having a hat made to order\\nand fitted to his head in the shop of Mr. Hosmer.\\nPOTTEKY.\\nQueen s-ware was manufactured for many years in Boscawen\\nby Jeremiah Burpee. His establishment stood on the spot now\\noccupied by the residence of John Eines. During the bright\\nsummer days, travellers on the turnpike were accustomed to see a\\nwhite horse going his rounds, attached to the sweep of the clay-\\nmill, while through an open window of the shop they saw Mr.\\nBurpee and his sons fashioning milk-jars and cream-pots and jugs\\nupon the swiftly revolving wheels. Upon long boards on the\\nsouthern side of the shop were rows of manufactured articles\\ndrying in the sun. Later in the season, at midnight, the shop\\nwas all aglow with the light of the flame of the kiln. The ware\\nfound a market among the farmers of the country.\\nCUT NAILS.\\nThere was a time when all nails were manufactured of wrought\\niron, by hand. The blacksmiths of the country, when not engaged\\nin other labors incident to their occupation, engaged in making\\nnails, knowing that the time would come when they would be\\nwanted.\\nIn 1795, five years after the passage of the patent law, Josiah\\nG. Pearson, of jSTew York, patented an invention for cutting nails.\\nWhether nails had been manufactured by cutting before that, is\\nnot known. The next year (1796) eleven patents were issued for\\nmethods of making nails, brads, and tacks, the greater part of\\nthe machines having reference to cutting and heading. The\\nmanufacture of nails and tacks soon became a widespread indus-\\ntry. Mr. Jeremiah Gerrish engaged in the business on the farm", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0846.jp2"}, "833": {"fulltext": "INDUSTRIES.\\n643\\nnow owned hj Charles Glitten. The manufacture was also car-\\nried on in the Hollow by water-power. At what date the man-\\nufacture began in the town is not known, nor how long it was\\ncontinued. The machinery was rude, and probably gave place to\\nthe greatly improved machinery which appeared about 1809, in-\\nvented by James Eeed, of Maiden, Mass., which cut and headed\\na nail at a single operation.\\nCLOCKS.\\nBoscawen at one time had two establislnnents for the manufac-\\nture of eight-day clocks, which also exhibited on the dial the days\\nof the week and the changes of the moon. The cases were usu-\\nally made of cherry, and ornamented with brass rings and knobs.\\nThey were excellent time-keepers. Mr. Chadwick s shop was a\\none-storied building, which stood on the spot now occupied by the\\npost-office. It was subsequently moved across the street, a second\\nstory added, and is now a dwelling-house. Mr. Morrill s shop is\\nnow the residence of Charles E. Chadwick.\\nUpon the introduction of the more modern time-piece, Mr.\\nChadwick retired from business, and removed to Vermont. Mr.\\nMorrill accommodated himself to the new order of things, and\\nmade time-pieces but machine-made clocks soon su})planted the\\ntime-pieces, and Mr. Morrill engaged in the manufacture of coun-\\nter scales. In 1841, upon the appearance of the new musical\\nreed instruments, he engaged in the manufacture of melodeons\\nand seraphines.\\nTANNING.\\nThe great abundance of oak and hemlock bark gave an oppor-\\ntunity for the tanning of leather. There were three tanneries in\\ntown, that of John C. Cogswell, now occupied by Mr. Raymond;\\none owned by John Plummer, at the junction of Water and Long\\nstreets and one owned by John Stevens at Sweatt s mills. Mr.\\nCogswell and Mr. Stevens used water-power for grinding the bark\\nand working their rude machinery. Mr. Plummer used horse-\\npower. They purchased hides of the farmers, or tanned them\\non hire.", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0847.jp2"}, "834": {"fulltext": "644 MANUFACTURING AT FISHERVILLE,\\nMANUFACTURING AT FISHERVILLE.\\njSTo attempt was made to utilize the water of the Contoocook\\nriver till 1787, when a saw-mill was built at the Burrough on\\nthe Concord side. Not long after, a saw-mill was built on the\\nBoscawen side near the Merrimack, on the site of the present\\nmill. This was followed by the carding-mill and cloth-dressing\\nestablishment of William H. Gage. The manufacture of cotton\\nand woollen goods at length made a demand for water-power to\\ndrive that machinery. This power attracted the attention of cap-\\nitalists and in 1823 or 1824 a gentleman of the name of Varney,\\nfrom the vicinity of Dover, made a purchase of the power and the\\nland on the north side of the river now owned by the present com-\\npany. He built a dam where the upper dam now is but for some\\nreason his project fell through, and nothing more was done until\\n1830, when the Yarney purchase was conveyed to Benjamin Kim-\\nball, Esq., by the Hon. Jeremiah Mason, acting for the L^nited\\nStates Bank, into Avhose hands it had passed.\\nMr. Kimball built the dam at the lower falls, on his purchase,\\nand erected the grist-mill adjoining the Contoocook mill. He died\\nin 1831 and the property was sold to JNtessrs. Calvin Gage and\\nWilliam M. Kimball, being deeded to them by Mr. Kimball about\\nthree weeks before his death. They obtained the charter for the\\nContoocook Manufacturing Company, and sold to the Messrs.\\nFisher, of Boston, whose heirs now own all, or nearly all, of the\\nstock. In 1836, the Contoocook mill was erected. It is 100 feet\\nby 50, five stories high, and was built of granite. In consequence\\nof the financial revulsion in 1837, this mill stood idle, or nearly\\nso, till 1842. It was then leased by Messrs. IT. H. J. S. Brown,\\nof Attleborough, Mass. They fitted the mill with machinery, and\\nset the wheel in motion. Then the village began to grow, and the\\nUnion district became Fisherville.\\nThe company not long after purchased the land on the south\\nside of the river, and in 1846 built the Penacook mill. This\\nmill is 300 feet by 52, three stories high, with a wheel-house at\\neach end 36 feet by 30. It is built of stone. This mill was\\nleased b}^ the Messrs. Brown, and run in connection with the Con-\\ntoocook mill. Both mills manufacture print cloth, and have", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0848.jp2"}, "835": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0849.jp2"}, "836": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0850.jp2"}, "837": {"fulltext": "BRIDGES.\\nbeen run all or nearly all the time by the Messrs. Brown, either\\nin partnership or separately.\\nIn 1847, Almon Harris, of Harrisville, purchased the site of the\\nold grist- and clothing-mill near the Merrimack, and built a stone\\nedifice 75 feet by 40, three stories high, and commenced the man-\\nufacture of woollen goods. As the manufacture of cotton and\\nwoollens always draws in other industries, it was not long before\\nthe saw factory and the flouring-mill were erected near the Mer-\\nrimack, and in the centre of the village. Buildings for the man-\\nufacture of furniture and various kinds of iron and wood products\\nwere erected, so that to-day Fisherville can exhibit a variety of\\nmanufactures. Fisherville has now about three thousand inhab-\\nitants, is pleasantly situated on both sides of the Contoocook and\\npartly on the Merrimack rivers. That portion of it that lies in\\nConcord constitutes Ward One of that city. The portion in Bos-\\ncaw^en embraces the most densely populated part of the town. It\\nhas the usual number of churches and school-houses, of stores and\\nshops, that are usually found in such villages, mainly located on\\nthe Concord side.\\nBEIDGES.\\nCANTERBURY BRIDGE.\\nThe first bridge between Boscawen Plain and Canterbury was\\nerected in 1804 [Civil Hist., p. 165]. Toll was exacted till 1816,\\nwhen the proprietors allowed persons to pass free of charge, at their\\nown risk, the bridge not being considered safe. The great freshet\\nof 1819 swept the structure away, whereupon the proprietors\\nerected a new bridge, under the supervision of Col. Isaac Chandler\\nof Boscawen, and Jacob Blanchard of Canterbury. It was com-\\npleted in the summer of 1820, Init was washed away in a great\\nwinter freshet in the month of Februar}^, 1824.\\nThe third bridge was built by Benjamin Kimball, of Boscawen,\\nfor the proprietors, in 1825, which remained till January, 1839.\\nThere was a great body of snow upon the ground. There came a\\nwarm rain, which poured continuously nearly 36 hours. The\\nconsequence was a breaking up of the ice, which had an average\\nthickness of about two feet. Every bridge on the Merrimack,\\nsouth of Franklin, with the exception of the Hooksett and the", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0851.jp2"}, "838": {"fulltext": "646\\nBRIDGES.\\nAmoskeag falls bridge, was swept away. The proprietors once\\nmore constructed a bridge, a portion of which was carried away\\nin the winter of 1848.\\nThe construction of the Northern and Montreal railroads had\\nrevolutionized affairs in Boscawen. The highways were no longer\\ncrowded with teams. The tavern-keepers cut down their signs.\\nThe merchants no longer had a throng of customers from other\\ntowns. The tide of travel between Boscawen and Canterburj^ was\\ngreatly diminished, and there was no inducement for private indi-\\nviduals to invest their money in a bridge.\\nUp to this time there had been but one free bridge across the\\nMerrimack, from Camj^ton to the sea that erected in Concord in\\n1839, which had been carried away in 1841, and rebuilt, and again\\nseriously injured. The town of Concord had voted, in 1842, that\\nin the opinion of the legal voters the bridge ought not to be main-\\ntained at the expense of the town. It was argued that the\\ntown ought not to support it for the benefit of the general public,\\nbut that it ought to be a county affair. The other towns in the\\ncounty opposed it on the plea that it was no concern of theirs, as\\nthey had little or no occasion to use it.\\nWhile Concord was thus discussing the question, citizens of\\nBoscawen and Canterbury petitioned the county commissioners to\\nerect a bridge to be supported by the two towns. This was re-\\nsisted by both towns, till 1857. Meanwhile the public had been\\neducated up to the idea of free bridges, the Boscawen bridge\\nhaving been built meanwhile. The petitioners were finally suc-\\ncessful in their efforts and the present covered structure was\\nerected in the autumn of 1857, by Mr. E. L. Childs, of Concord,\\nunder the supervision of Mr. John Abbott, of the same place.\\nBOSCAWEX BRIDGE.\\nThe bridge across the Merrimack, at its junction with the Con-\\ntoocook, was built by a company incorjiorated in 1802, and was\\nconstructed the same year. The capital stock consisted of 29\\nshares, the par value of which was $29. The stock was taken by\\ncitizens of Boscawen and Concord. Col. Isaac Chandler was the\\nlargest stockholder, subscribing for six shares. It was some-\\ntimes called Chandler s bridge.\\nAt that time Portsmouth and Newburyport were important", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0852.jp2"}, "839": {"fulltext": "BRIDGES.\\n647\\ncommercial towns, and tlie travel was largely in that direction.\\nFor a few years the bridge was remunerative to the proprietors,\\nbut the selection of Concord for the capital, and the opening of\\nthe Middlesex canal, with boating to Concord, turned the travel\\nin a new direction. The original structure stood till 1839, when\\nit was swept away by the great ice freshet which destroyed many\\nbridges on the Merrimack. A chain-ferry served the piiblic till\\n1853, when the present bridge was built by Boscawen and Can-\\nterbury\\nSECOND CONTOOCOOK BRIDGE.\\nThe second bridge across the Contoocook was built in 1805, on\\nthe site of the first bridge, in the bend of the river, east of Pen-\\nacook hotel. The contract was taken by Lieut. John Flanders,\\non 2 September, 1805, to be completed 1 October, the same year.\\nThe original document is in existence. The bridge was to be\\nof good pine timber, 20 feet wide to be three and one half feet\\nhigher than the old bridge at the ends, and five feet higher in the\\nmiddle. The piers were to have four posts each 16 inches square,\\na good mud-sill, and a cap 16 by 20 inches, and two braces 16 inches\\nsquare, as long as may be necessary. There shall be a pier on\\neach side of the old box, with good mud-sills and four posts to each\\npier, the end-posts to be 17 by 20 inches square, and the middle\\nposts shall be 13 by 10 inches square. The two piers shall be\\nbe planked with good plank to within two feet of low water, and\\nup within four feet of the cap. Said bridge shall be planked with\\ngood plank three and a half inches in thickness. There shall be\\nbolts of iron one inch square through the string piece in the same\\nmanner as in the old bridge. The bridge was constructed by the\\ntowns of Boscawen and Concord.\\nCONTOOCOOK RIVER BRIDGE CONTROVERSY.\\nPrevious to 1823 the highway leading from the tavern of Capt.\\nJohn Chandler to Concord was laid easterly by the residence of\\nNathan Chandler, down the steep hill to the right, crossing the\\nContoocook river at the narrow gorge below the falls, thence\\nsouth across the line between the towns by the school-house and\\nhomestead of Winthrop Elliot (a house now standing) to the\\nmain road. The large amount of transportation over this highway", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0853.jp2"}, "840": {"fulltext": "648 THE DUSTON MEMORIAL.\\nhy teams from the nortli required a road that would avoid the\\nsteep hill on the north bank of the river. For the .better accom-\\nmodation of the public, the court of sessions, in the year 1821,\\nwhich by the law of 8 Feb., 1791, had the power to lay out public\\nliighwaj^s in certain cases, laid out a road from the tavern before\\nmentioned in Boscawen, in a straight line across Contoocook\\nriver to what is now Washington square in Concord, upon condi-\\ntion that the town of Boscawen should give security to maintain\\none half the bridge over the Contoocook, which bridge was part of\\nthe road so laid out. This change would remove the bridge from\\nthe town of Boscawen to Concord. The bond is in the hand-\\nwriting of Ezekiel Webster, and bears date 12 Jan., 1822.\\nBy this arrangement the bridge was built in 1823, and the\\nagreement adliered to until 1839, when a controversy arose be-\\ntween the towns in regard to the boundary, when the town of\\nBoscawen neglected to carry out the provisions of the contract en-\\ntered into in 1822. The town of Concord, being aggrieved at the\\naction of the town of Boscawen in this matter, commenced a suit\\nagainst Boscawen, upon the bond, in the court of common pleas,\\nwhich was afterwards transferred to the superior court, of which\\nHon. Joel Parker was chief-justice. The case was conducted by\\nFranklin Pierce and Asa Fowler for Concord, and Ichabod Bart-\\nlett for Boscawen. At the Dec. term, 1845, a decision was ren-\\ndered by Judge Woods in favor of Boscawen, who said that the\\ncontract by which they undertook to bind themselves to raise\\nmoney for building the bridge was not founded upon such a con-\\nsideration as to create a debt, and thus give the town a power to\\nraise money. Since 1845 this bridge has been maintained by\\nConcord.\\nTHE DUSTON MEMORIAL.\\nOn the island at the mouth of the Contoocook river stands the\\ngranite memorial erected to commemorate the achievement of\\nMrs. Duston, Mary Neff, and Samuel Leonardson, in liberating\\nthemselves from captivity. The statue was erected mainly through\\nthe efforts of Eobert B. Caverly of Lowell, and E. S. Nutter of\\nConcord. The first step to that end was the conveyance, by\\nMessrs. John C. and Calvin Gage, to Eev. Nathaniel Bouton, E.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0854.jp2"}, "841": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0855.jp2"}, "842": {"fulltext": "ksc4^\\nDustin Monument.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0856.jp2"}, "843": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT HOUSES, G49\\nS. Nutter, and R. B. Caverly, in trust, all of the land lying east\\nof the Northern Railroad, iipon the island, for the purpose of es-\\ntablishing a memorial. Funds to the amount of ^6,000 were\\nraised by subscription. Tlie statue and pedestal are of Concord\\ngranite, after a design by William Andrews, of Lowell. The\\nsculptors were Andrew Orsolini, James Murray, and Charles H.\\nAndrews, the builder Porter E. Blanchard.\\nThe monument was unveiled 17 June, 1874, with appropriate\\nceremonies. There was a large gathering of people. Addresses\\nwere made by Rev. N. Ronton, of Concord R. B. Caverl} Esq.,\\nof Lowell Hon. G. W. Nesmith, of Franklin Maj. Gen. S. G.\\nGriffin, of Keene D. 0. Allen, of Lowell Hon. B. F. Prescott,\\nof Epping Col. J. H. George, of Concord Rev. Elias Nasou, of\\nBillerica Charles C. Coffin, of Boston Rev. W. T. Savage, of\\nFranklin Ex.-Gov. Onslow Stearns, of Concord, and others.\\nGov. James A. Weston accepted the deed in trust for the state.\\nANCIENT HOUSES.\\nThe oldest house now remaining in Boscawen is that standing\\nnear the site of the old fort, occupied by the second minister of\\nthe town. Rev. Robie Morrill [see Civil Hist.], who became a cit-\\nizen in 1761. The building probably was erected by him.\\nThe house next in age, probably, is the residence of Mr. Frank-\\nlin P. Atkinson, which was occupied by Dea. Jesse Flanders, and\\nwas built by him before 1765.\\nThe residence of Mr. Colby, on Water street, was built in 1768,\\nby Capt. Peter Coffin.\\nThe house of G. W. Fisher, formerly the residence of Peter\\nCoffin, son of Capt. Moses, was built about 1770, by George Jack-\\nman.\\nThe house of Mr. Silver next west of Mr. Franklin P.\\nAtkinson s, formerly stood near the residence of Mr. Jacob C.\\nFlanders. It was built by Andrew Bohonnon, and possibly is one\\nof the oldest in town.\\nIn 1775 there were but two framed houses west of Beaver Dam\\nbrook, neither of which is standing. They were the houses of\\nJonathan Cass and Benjamin Day.\\nThe oldest house in Webster is the residence of Mr. Tilton, on\\nCorser hill, built by David Corser.", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0857.jp2"}, "844": {"fulltext": "650 WILD ANIMALS CHARACTERS.\\nThe house of Dr. Graves, on Boscawen Plain, was built by Dr.\\nDaniel Peterson, and it has been occupied for many years bj^ phy-\\nsicians. Dr. Peterson, Dr. Warren E. Chase, Dr. E. K. Webster,\\nand Dr. Graves, all have resided there.\\nThe residence of Mr. C. W. Webster was built in 1798 by John\\nJackman, who also did most of the work on the meeting-house.\\nThe house owned by Mr. James Gill was built by Mr. Gregg\\nEmerson, earl}^ in the century.\\nThe parsonage of the Congregational society, Boscawen, was\\nbuilt by David Burbank, whose blacksmith-shop stood near by.\\nIt was the residence of Mr. Jeremiah Gerrish, who presented it to\\nthe society in his last will and testament.\\nWILD AITIMALS.\\nWolves were abundant when the town was first settled. The\\nlast wolf killed in Boscawen was shot about 1831- 32 by Samuel\\nCall, near Cook s hill.\\nBears were also abundant, and as late as 1810- 15 were fre-\\nquently seen in town.\\nBeavers were numerous on all the streams. The compiler can\\nrecall several dams which were distinctly recognizable in his boy-\\nhood, around Great pond and the Water street meadows.\\nWhen the town was first settled rattlesnakes abounded, es-\\npecially on the rocky hills of Bashan. Moses Gerrish, one of\\nthe early settlers of that section, killed more than 50 in one day.\\nEmpirics in medicine prescribed the oil of rattlesnakes hearts as\\na specific for consumption, and tlie oil thus obtained hy Mr. Ger-\\nrish was sold to the Canterbury Shakers for such use. Two rat-\\ntlesnakes were killed by Gen. M. A. Pillsbury on his farm about\\n1840, and Mr. Bitfield Burbank despatched one at a still later\\ndate, about 1847.\\nCHABACTEKS.\\nThis history would be incomplete if no mention were made of\\nthe characters, or the peculiar men, numbered among the citi-\\nzens. In every community such men may be found. Their\\nneighbors call them odd sticks. They are wits, jesters, sat-\\nirists, or possessed of some idiosyncrasy that distinguishes them", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0858.jp2"}, "845": {"fulltext": "CHARACTERS. 651\\nfrom their neighbors. Tliey may be wliolly uneducated, but yet\\nmake up in mother-wit any lack of acquired knowledge. They\\nmay be stupid in some things, and exceedingly brilliant in others.\\nThey are usually men abounding in good nature, who rarely take\\numbi-age at any mistake or blunder that may be made, who are\\nkeenly alive to fun, who appreciate a joke, who utter ludicrous\\nsayings without knowing it, or who coin words not to be found in\\nany lexicon.\\nOne of the latter class was Mr. Amos Blanchard, whose ac-\\nquaintance with books was limited, who possibly never conned a\\npage of Webster s Unabridged Dictionary, but who nevertheless\\nsometimes coined words that expressed his ideas quite as well as\\nan}- from Greek or Latin roots. He invariably used ascertain\\nas a synonym for thinJc or comprehend. I should ascertain\\nthat it was going to rain, was a common form of expression.\\nIf the weather was lowering, he used duberous for dubious.\\nA winter s day, when the wind was blowing a gale, and the air\\nfilled with drifting snow, was boistorious and fluergent. Is\\nthere a word in common use that better describes such a day\\nAnother character was Thomas Corser, who was accustomed to\\ntravel through the town with medicinal herbs, distributing them\\nto the housewives. He usually had a large bundle of catnip, fever-\\nbush, golden-rod, etc., which were much used the first third of the\\ncentury. He charged nothing for these herbs. He had great\\nfaith in their efficacy. He once called at the house of Mr. Joel\\nFrench, whose child was sick, and urged the mother to steep\\nsome of his herbs.\\nDo it, do it, if you want to save his life Do it If it kills\\nhim I ll pay for it\\nMr. Corser lost his life by attempting to cross Long pond on\\nthe ice before it was sufficiently strong to bear him.\\nMr. James West, who for manj 3 ears kept tavern on the Plain,\\nin the house occupied by Mr. Dow, was a genial man, a popular\\nhost with the travelling community, good at telling a story,\\nand who delighted in a joke. About the close of the first third\\nof the century. Potter, a sleight-of-hand performer, of xindover, for\\nwhom the station Potter Place was named, gave an entertain-\\nment on the Plain. One of the performances of the evening was\\ncooking eggs in a hat. The prestidigitateur borrowed a hat from\\n42", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0859.jp2"}, "846": {"fulltext": "652 CHARACTERS,\\nsome one in the audience, broke several eggs into it, seemingly,\\nthen pronouncing some cabalistic words, and shaking the hat, pro-\\nduced from this novel frying-kettle eggs nicely cooked, which\\nwere passed around to the audience, and the hat also, without a\\nstain upon its lining. Of course no eggs were broken into the\\nhat it was all deception.\\nOn the evening after the performance, the usual circle of\\nloungers of the bar-room were discussing the marvellous trick\\nover their grog, and among them was one who expressed some\\ndoubt about the ^performance. The landlord saw a chance to\\nplay off one of his practical jokes, and said,\\nI ll bet a quart of rum that I can do that trick.\\nI ll take that bet I Avas the quick response of the wearer of\\nthe new hat.\\nDone I then give us your hat, said jMr. W., taking it from\\nthe wearers head, and deliberately breaking several eggs into\\nit.\\nThe loafers crowded around the bar to see the performance.\\nAn essential part of the 2 erfonnance was the use of high-\\nsounding gibberish, which Mr. West gave, ending with the words,\\nPresto, change meanwhile shaking the hat.\\nI declare, they don t sizzle yet, he said, looking into the hat,\\nand then repeating the gibberish, and shaking it once more, till\\nthe inside was well splashed with the yolk.\\nThey don t cook, that s a fact. I ve lost my bet. Here, take\\nyour rum.\\nA roar of laughter from the crowd set the winner to thinking\\nthat it was his hat which the landlord had been using for a fry-\\nkettle. The landlord had his joke, but he was not a man to in-\\ndulge his humor at the pecuniary expense of another, and made\\nample satisfaction.\\nAnother character was Mr. David Heath, more familiarly\\nknown as Jester Heath, from his jests and jokes. If the}^ were\\nsomewhat coarse, there was also at times rare humor in them.\\nThere was a period when hoop-poles w^ere an article of commerce,\\nand Mr. Heath was not always particular in regard to boundaries\\nwhen engaged in cutting poles.\\nIf you never will cut any more on my land, I will give you a\\npig, was the offer of Capt. Little Burbank.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0860.jp2"}, "847": {"fulltext": "CHARACTERS. 653\\nIf you will not cut any more on mine, I will give you a sheep,\\nsaid Capt. Abraham Burbank.\\nI am much obliged to you, gentleman, but a man can t afford\\nto sell everything, was the reply.\\nAnother character was Mr. Nathan Hunt, whose natural\\nendowments were by no means of an inferior order, but who by\\nindulging in drink became a wreck of his former self, and earned\\na precarious living by making baskets and bottoming chairs. He\\nwas an excellent workman. No better baskets were ever made*\\nThey were strong, evenly woven, and of symmetrical form. What-\\never he did was well done, though his customers, especially those\\nwho had paid for their wares, were greatly troubled by his pro-\\ncrastination. He had a keen sense of humor. During sickness\\nhe was attended by Dr. Long, of Hopkinton. Those were the\\ndays when calomel was given in large doses, and so much was ad-\\nministered to the patient that his teeth were loosened in the\\ngums. After his recovery Mr. Hunt made payment in hand-\\nrakes. One may imagine the inward chuckling of the rako-\\nmaker, as he shaved the teeth and head of the implements from\\nunseasoned wood how in a few days the teeth would loosen and\\ndrop from their sockets.\\nThe rakes were speedily finished after being ordered. The\\ndoctor was surprised at the unwonted promptness of the maker.\\nThe rakes were beautiful to the eye, smoothly shaven the handles,\\ntight and firm the teeth. The doctor admired them.\\nA few days passed. The workmen used the implements in the\\nsummer sun, when, lo the rakes were toothless.\\nEvery tooth has come out of those rakes which you made,\\nsaid the irate physician to Mr. Hunt.\\nAh, doctor, you have been giving them calomel, I reckon,\\nsaid Mr. Hunt.\\nThe physician appreciated the joke, and told it with a relish.\\nNo man ever walked the highways of Boscawen who had so\\nhearty a laugh as Mr. Hunt. When anything pleased him he\\nlaughed all over, with a heartiness that was contagious. He be-\\ngan with a haw-haw-haw, deep, resonant, to be written large, if\\nexpressed in writing, accelerating the haw-haw, catching his\\nbreath, beginning over again, repeating, changing to ho-ho-ho,\\nfor several minutes.", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0861.jp2"}, "848": {"fulltext": "654 CHARACTERS.\\nOnce his supper was hasty-pudding and milk, and he ate\\nheartily, ate till the platter was clean. It was in the days when\\nfire-places were used, and he laid down upon the floor to enjoy\\nits genial warmth, and soon fell asleep. Some young men, who\\nhad dropped in, thought it an excellent opportunity to play a joke\\nupon the sleeper, and, creeping up stairs and raising a board, they\\ndropped a pumpkin in the last stage of mellowness plump upon\\nthe prostrate form. They were roystering fellows, who did not\\nstop to reflect upon the indecency. Mr. Hunt awoke, and in\\nlugubrious tones thus upbraided his wife\\nThere, wife, now see what you have done. What did you\\ngive me all that pudden for You might have known I would\\neat it all, even if there was a bushel of it. Here I am, busted T\\nAnother character was Mr. Obadiah Elkins, Avhose oddity may\\nhave been intensified by a disappointment of the affections. He\\nwas a builder of many houses. They were not spacious, or lofty,\\nbut of small size. He would obtain permission from some kind\\nneighbor to put up a cabin, and with much diligence add room\\nafter room at all sides. When weary of residing in that locality\\nhe would dispose of them for a small sum, and begin again in\\nanother place. He resided chiefly in Bashan.\\nOnce he grew weary of life, and resolved to commit suicide. He\\nmade his way to Pillsbury s mill-pond, and plunged in, held his\\nhead beneath the water awhile, and then waded to the shore. In\\nrehearsing what he had done, he said he couldn t hold his breath\\nlong enough to drown. He did not see the absurdity of the re-\\nmark, and even wondered at the laughter it created.\\nAgain, when sick, he wished to shufile off this mortal coil.\\nI have tried to die, he said. If I were to die, I couldn t try\\nany harder\\nWhile prostrated by sickness, Kev. Mr. Price called upon him\\nto offer the consolations of religion, praying not alone for the sick\\nman, but giving wide scope to his supplication. INIr. Elkins was\\nrestored to health, and, wishing to show his appreciation of Mr.\\nPrice s kindness, determined to make him a present of a half\\nbushel of beans. He showed a grim humor by obtaining from the\\nneighbors several varieties, white and speckled, cranberry and\\npink-eyed, bush and pole, large and small.\\nI notice, Mr. Elkins, that you have all sorts of beans in your", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0862.jp2"}, "849": {"fulltext": "CHARACTERS. 655\\nbasket, was the remark of tlie reverend gentleman, when he\\nthanked the donor for the gift.\\nWell, sir, you prayed all sorts, aiid I thought I would give\\nyou all sorts, was the witty reply. The humor was keenly rel-\\nished by the recipient.\\nConvinced in his own mind that he was not going to live long,\\nhe resolved to have his coffin made, that his friends might not be\\nburdened by such a dut^ and carried the boards to a joiner, who,\\nupon measuring them, said to Mr. Elkins\\nThe boards are not long enough.\\nOh I can scrooch up a little, was the reply.\\nHe lived in the days when men drank liquor. He usually\\ndrank in moileration, but when his brain was excited Ijy alcohol,\\nthere was a delicious incongruity in his humor. He called one\\nday at the house of Col. John Farmer, where the good wives of\\nthe neighborhood had assembled for a quilting. He seated him-\\nself before the fire, and taking a clean shirt from a package, pro-\\nceeded to change his clothing, whereupon Mrs. F. told him that\\nhe could have the use of the adjoining room.\\nOh, I can shut my eyes was the reply.\\nOnce, when having been refused a mug of cider by the same\\nlady, he politely expressed his anger, not by wishing she were\\ndead, but wishing that she were nicely in heaven.\\nHis house and the grounds around were ever a pattern of neat-\\nness. He v/as kind-hearted, and ever ready to oblige his neigh-\\nbors. Nature was not niggardl^^ in her endowments, but a bitter\\ndisappointment blighted his life and made him what he was.\\nKind-hearted men were they all, and they made the town\\nmerry with their wit.\\nOne of Doctor Elijah Blaisdel s female patients was noted for\\nher econoni} never permitting anything to be wasted. There had\\nbeen sickness in the family, and there was a good suj^ply of pills\\nand powders on hand, after the recovery of the children.\\nIt s too bad to have them wasted, said the mother, who,\\nmixing jalop, calomel, ipecac, all in one mess, swallowed the\\nmixture The results may be imagined.\\nAnother woman, who never had travelled, but who contem-\\nplated a visit to distant friends, fearful that she might be ill, sat\\nup through the night, and drank so much herb tea that in the", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0863.jp2"}, "850": {"fulltext": "656 V. D. M. TREES.\\nmorning she was prostrated with sickness, and the journey never\\nwas made.\\nV. D. M.\\nOn page 159, mention is made of the eulogy upon Washington,\\ndelivered by Rev. Ariel Kendrick, v. D. M., with the statement\\nthat none of the oldest inhabitants knew the meaning of the cab-\\nalistic letters. Since the page has been printed, it has been as-\\ncertained that they stood for Veterinary Doctor of Medicine or,\\nin other words, that Rev. Mr. Kendrick, in addition to his calling\\nas a preacher, united that of cow doctor.\\nTREES.\\nThe first trees transplanted in Boscawen, probably, were those\\nset out by Rev. Phineas Stevens, none of which remain except\\npossibly the tree standing near the residence of Jacob Hosmer.\\nOne of those set out by Rev. Mr. S. stood in front of the hat-shop\\nof Mr. Jacob Ilosmer, senior; it was blown down in 1834.\\nThe large elm opposite the academy was set out by William\\nGill about 1790 [see Gill Gen., p. 551].\\nThe elms standing on the west side of King street, between the\\nresidence of James H. Gill and Mr. Bickford, were set out by\\nJoel French, Wm. G. Emerson, Col. Joseph and N. P. Atkin-\\nson, some time during the first decade of the century [see p. 5-32].\\nThose on the opposite side of the street, south of the meeting-\\nhouse, were set out by Russell Ambrose, 1834 [see p. 232], for\\nwhich he received the thanks of tlie Congregational society.\\nThe largest elms in the academy yard were transplanted in\\n1829 by David K. Jones, a student at the academy. He went\\nWest, and died in Michigan. The maple near the entrance was\\nset out by Charles C. Coffin, in 1839. He set out others, but that\\nalone survived, owing to the rude treatment to which all were sub-\\njected from being used as hitching-posts.\\nThe first damask rose in town, probably, grew on a bush\\nbrought from oSTewbury (Byfield parish), Mass., by Henry Little,\\nabout 1815. He obtained it from the garden of Hon. Gorham\\nParsons. It was transplanted in Dea. Enoch Little s front yard,\\nand flourished for many years.\\nThe lilac trees standing in front of the residence of H. H.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0864.jp2"}, "851": {"fulltext": "COLLEGIATE AND PROFESSIONAL RECORD,\\n66i\\nPrice, Frederic, grad. Dart, 1838; physician in Ohio [see Gen.].\\nRowELL, Elijah, physician on Corser hill, 1816-1820.\\nEoLFE, Henuy p., grad. Dart. 1818; attorney in Cdnoord [see Gen.].\\nSawyer, Samuel, physician mentioned by Rev. Mr. Price.\\nSawyer, Ben.tamin, physician on Corser hill, 1810-1843.\\nSeverance, M. L., Rev., grad. Middlebury minister Cong, church,\\n1861-1869, now at Orwell, Vt.\\nShepard, Forrest, Prof., grad. Dart.,. 1827 [see Biog.].\\nSleeper, Nehemiah, Rev., minister Christian Union church, 1835-\\n1810 [see Gen.].\\nSmith, Ambrose, Rev., grad. Dart. 1815; minister Cong, church,\\n1853-1862 [see Biog.].\\nSmith, Justix H., grad. Dart., 1877 [see Gen.].\\nStone, Silas C, teacher; master Sherwin school, Boston [see Gen.].\\nStone, C. J. F., attorney at Plymouth; died 18G0 [see Gen.].\\nStevens, Phineas, Rev., grad. Harvard; first minister in Boscawen\\n[see Biog.].\\nStevens, Bradford N., Hon., grad. Dart., 1835; attorney at Prince-\\nton, 111.; member of Congress.\\nTenney, Jonathan, grad. Dart., 1813; teacher Pembroke Academy,\\n1814-1819; Pittsfield, 1850-1853; Manchester, 1853-1856; Elm-\\nwood Institute, 1856-1868 [p. 291] connected with N. Y. State\\nBoard of Education; Librarian of Young Men s Christian Asso-\\nciation at Albany.\\nTilton, John, Rev., minister Christian Union church.\\nTiTCOMB, G. P., physician in Salisbury.\\nTracy, Caleb B., Rev., grad. Williams; minister Cong, church, 1837-\\n1851 [see Ecclesiastical Hist.].\\nTucker, William J., d. d.. Rev., grad. Dart., 1861; minister Frank-\\nlin St. Cong, church, Manchester, now of Madison Square Pres-\\nbyterian church. New York.\\nWalker, Silas C, grad. Dart., 1829; attorney in Virginia, INIississip-\\npi; died in Arkansas, 1858.\\nAVebster, Daniel, Hon., grad. Dart., 1801; attorney [see Biog.].\\nWebster, Ezekiel, Hon., grad. Dart., 1804; attorney [see Biog.].\\nWebster, Eliphalet K., physician [see Biog.].\\nWells, Thomas, physician on the Plain, 1795-1800; moved to IIop-\\nkinton.\\nWhitman, Z. G., grad. Harvard; attorney on Corser hill, 1831-1810.\\nWilson, Job, physician; resided on Water st., afterwards in Franklin.\\nWood, Samuel, Rev., grad. Dart., 1779; minister in Boscawen [see\\nBiog.].", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0865.jp2"}, "852": {"fulltext": "662 ministers wives.\\nMINISTERS WIVES.\\nIn addition ta those citizens of Boscawen and Webster who\\nliave entered the ministry, are the Avomen whose names are here\\ngiven, who have married ministers, and have thus been influential\\nin moulding society\\nBridgp:, Emily, dau. Samuel, of Billerica, Mass.; resides in B. m.\\nRev. Henry Jewett, Cong, minister in Maine.\\nCoGSWKLL, Ruth, dau. Nehemiah, sen.; m. Rev. Samuel W. Colburn\\n[see Professional Record].\\nDix, Raciikl B., dau. Col. Timothy; m. Rev. Daniel Temple, of Read-\\ning, Mass. missionary to Malta [see Gen.].\\nDix, Louisa Frances, dau. Col. Timothy; m. Rev. Edward Buxton,\\nof B. [see Gen.].\\nGreenougit, Ellen, dau. John; m. Rev. D. R. Brewer, minister\\nEpiscopal church.\\nGeruisii, Sally, dau. of Dea. Enoch ra. Rev. Samuel Bliss [see Gen.].\\nGerrisii, Sally, dau. of Col. Joseph; m. Rev. Enoch Corser [see Ger-\\nrish and Corser Gen.].\\nGerrish, Mary, dau. Col. Joseph; m. Rev. Wm. Patrick, of Canter-\\nbury [see Gen.].\\nGerrish, Apphia, dau. Jacob; m. Rev. Phannuel Warriner, ofCanan-\\ndaigua, N. Y. resides in Texas [see Gen.].\\nKnight, Catharine, dau. of Caleb; m. Rev. Nathaniel Barker, Cong,\\nminister at Wakefield for many years.\\nLittle, Ruoda, dau. Benjamin m. Rev. Calvin Cutter, Presbyterian\\nminister at Windham. Her eldest son. Rev. Charles, is Cong,\\nminister in Oliio her second son, Rev. Carrol, is president West-\\nern Reserve College, Ohio [see Gen.].\\nLittle, Jane, dau. of Joseph; m. Rev. Amos P. Brown, of Campton,\\nhome missionary for many years in 111. [see Gen.].\\nLittle, Emma, dau. Jesse; m. Rev. Addison Kingsbury, of Putnam,\\nO. [see Gen.].\\nPatrick, Mary, dau. of John, and great-granddaughter of Col. Jo-\\nseph Gerrish, is missionary to Turkey, residence at Constanti-\\nnople.\\nPrice, Mary P., dau. Rev. Ebenezer; m. Rev. Addison Kingsbury, of\\nPutnam, O.\\nPrice, Emily P., dau. Rev. Ebenezer; m. Rev. Z. K. Hawley, Cong,\\nminister of Conn.; resides in Memphis, Tenn.\\nPlummer, Lucretia a., dau. Capt. Joshua C; m. Rev. Charles Tem-\\nple.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0866.jp2"}, "853": {"fulltext": "ministers wives. 663\\nSwEATT, Flora, dau. Isaac T. lu. Rev. H. Ilartwell, minister Meth-\\nodist church.\\nSwEATT, Emily, dau. Isaac T. m. Rev. Greenleaf Warner, minister\\nMethodist church.\\nSwEATT, Arietta, dau. George; m. Rev. G. W. Smitli, minister\\nMethodist church.\\nWebster, Alice, dau. Hon. Ezekiel; m., 1st, Rev. Jarvis Gregg, pro-\\nfessor at Western Reserve college, O. 2d, Rev. Geo. B. Whip-\\nple, of Oberlin.\\nWebster, Mary Ann, dan. lion. Ezekiel; m. Prof. Edwin D. San-\\nborn, of Dartmouth college.\\nWebster, Ann R., dau. Nathaniel; m. Rev. Horace Eaton, d. d., min-\\nister at Palmyra, N. Y.\\nWorcester, Betsey, niece of Rev. Samuel Wood; m. Rev. Stephen\\nBliss, Cong, -ninister.", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0867.jp2"}, "854": {"fulltext": "GEJ^EEAL I:NDEX.\\nAciuleruy, Boscaweu 200, 291.\\nPenacook, 292.\\nAdmiral Boscawen, 79, 81, 84.\\nAinsworth s Psalms. 293.\\nAlcoholic liquors 210.\\nAbus-house, town, 190.\\ncounty, 222.\\nAmes. Simeon, arrest of, G2.\\nAncient houses, 049.\\nAuti-slavery, 200, 201, 206, 207.\\nApprentices, 54.\\nAssociation, ministerial, 228.\\nAssociation test, 114, 115.\\nBattle of Lexington, 247.\\nBaptisms, 240.\\nBaptist society, 205.\\nchurch, 24.3.\\nBashan iSIining Co., 179.\\nBay State Psalm Book, 293.\\nBennington campaign, 253.\\nbattle, 257.\\nsoldiers, 255, 265.\\nanniversary, 225.\\nBennet, Salmon, Picv., 232, 2.35.\\nBishop, Josiah, killed by Indians, 39.\\nEnos, captured by Indians, 69, 7C.\\nBiographical history, 301.\\nBoscawen, how spelled, 83.\\nBoston, Fort hill, 105.\\nBoscawen Musical Society, 296.\\nBonds, taxation of, 223.\\nsale of, 224.\\nBounties for soldiers, 223.\\nBridges\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Boscawen, 198, 64G.\\nBlackwater, 104, 105, 128, 131.\\nCanterbury, 165, 166, 198, 645.\\nCliandler s. 046.\\nClay hill, 131.\\nContoocook, 21, 92, 160, 1S9, 647.\\nBrown, John, journal, 11.\\nBuxton, Edward, Rev., 239, 323.\\nBunker hill s(ddiers, 248.\\nBurial grounds, 180, 223.\\nCambridge platform, 233.\\nCampaign of 1777, 2.52.\\nCall, Pliilip. Mrs., killed by Indians, C9.\\nCalifornia emigr.ation,210.\\nCassar killed by Indians, 41.\\nCanterbury garrison, 40.\\nCentral Musical Society, 298.\\nCelebration at Newbury, 79.\\nCentennial celebration, 215.\\nCharacters, 650.\\nCheck-list, 181.\\nChurcli and state, 152, ICl.\\nCliurch difficulties, 241.\\nChurches in New Hampshire, 216.\\nChristian Baptist cliurch, 242.\\nUnion society, 188, 191, 206, 240,\\n242.\\nClocks, 643.\\nClough, Abner, journal, 43, 45.\\nClougli, Jeremiali, 40, 78.\\nCollegi.ate record, 657.\\nCoos soldiers, 253.\\nCoos, road to, 55.\\nCold Friday, 178.\\nColonial jurisdiction, 33, 35.\\nConstitution of N. H., 143, 221, 224.\\nCook, Thomas, killed bj Indians, 41.\\nCounty almshouse, 222.\\nCoffin, Peter, Capt., Ill, 113.\\nCorrespondence between Gov. Wentworth\\nand (iov. Shirley, 67, 62.\\nCommittee of Safety, 112.\\nCommercial distress, 202.\\nCorser hill meeting-house, 236.\\nContinental soldiers, 267.\\nCongregational church in Fisherville, 243.\\nCongregationalism, return to, 235.\\nCut nails, 642.\\nCurrency, 55, 101,117, 119, 129, 132, 156.\\nCustoms, 174, 194, 195.\\nCrows, 197.\\nDartmouth college, 227.\\nroad to, 131.\\nDay-book of Dea. Enoch Little, 184.\\nDebt, funding of, 213.\\nDestitution, 184.\\nDiary of Col. Henry Gerrish, 247.\\nLieut. John Flanders, 250.\\nCapt. Peter Kimb.all, 253, 261.\\nDisturbance in town-meeting, 168.\\nDivision of the town, 619.\\nDollars, first use of the word, 100.\\nDuston, Mrs., 5.\\nDuston I li-morial, 648.\\nDutch ovens, 176.\\nEastabrook, Samuel, Rev., 118.\\nEarly singing, 294.\\nEcclesiastical history, 226.\\nEducational history, 279.", "height": "3110", "width": "1851", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0868.jp2"}, "855": {"fulltext": "GENERAL INDEX.\\n665\\nEla, Samuel, Rev., 113.\\nElmvvood Institute, 291.\\nElevations, 635.\\nEndicott, Gov., 5.\\nExpedition to Upper Connecticut, 63.\\nFederal soldiers, 20S.\\nconstitution, 1.34, 135.\\nFestivities, 141.\\nFelt liats, 642.\\nFerry, 22.\\nFirst law-suit, 92.\\nsettlers, 1.5.\\nminister, 22.\\ntown-meeting, 83.\\nelection under tlie constitution, 135.\\nmilitary company, 37.\\nsaw-mill, 17, 21.\\nciiild, 18.\\nFire precinct. 209.\\nengine, 207.\\nFoxes, 197.\\nFort, 20, 52.\\nFrench war, 51, 76, 79.\\nFramed houses, 85.\\nFreshets, 191, 192, 198.\\nGates, Horatio, thanks to Koscawen sol-\\ndiers, 266.\\nGentlemen s farms, 10.\\nGolfe, John, 41. 72.\\nGoing to meeting, 174.\\nGrant to Contoocook, 3.\\nGrafton Presbytery, lOS, 234.\\nGrist-mill in Concord, 48.\\nGrist-mills in Boscaweu, 638.\\nGunpowder, 132.\\nHay-scales, 177.\\nHearse horses, 193.\\nHealth, 636.\\nHighway obstructions, 2 1.\\nHistory of the town, 214. 224, 225.\\nHonorable action of proprietors, 52.\\nHousehold furniture, 73, 176.\\nHudson River campaign, 251.\\nIllegal voting, 211.\\nImplements, 1;4.\\nIndustries, 637.\\nInsurance company, 208.\\nIndians, 37, 39, 40, 41,42,53,63,64,65,68,\\n69, 70, 71, 75, 78.\\nIron axles, 184.\\nJackman, Mases, captured by Indians, 78.\\nJustice of the peace, 94.\\nKearsarge mountain, 44.\\nLexington, battle of, 111, 115.\\nLegacy of Rev. Samuel Wood, 232.\\nLine between Boscawen and Cauterburv,\\n209.\\nLine between Boscaweu and Concord, 198.\\nMass. and X. H., 34.\\nLibrary, 144.\\nLicenses, 143, 193.\\nLien of mechanics, 209.\\nLots, 12, 14, 23, 24, 88.\\nLords proprietors, 49, 120.\\nLumber, 210, 637.\\nMartin Luther Musical Society, 298.\\nManufacturers, 132, 644.\\nMap for schools, 210.\\nMerrimack valley settlements, 19.\\nhall, 2.33.\\nMerrill, Nathaniel, Rev., 97, 99, 100, 101,\\n102, 104, lOf^, 234.\\n;Meloon family captured, 63, 65, 66, 67.\\nMethodist church, 243.\\nMeeting-houses, 23, 25, 98, 101, 105, 119, 129,\\n131, 136, 137, 13i 140, 141, 153, 157, 187,\\n188, 200, 226.\\nMilitary history, 245.\\nspirit, 170.\\nprej)arations, 263.\\nreceipts, 252, 266.\\ncampaigns, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273,\\nlills, 17, 21, 224, 225, 638.\\nMinisters, 657.\\nMinister s lot, 75.\\npatriotism, 228.\\noaths, 227.\\nwives, 662.\\nMiscellany, 619.\\nMoney, scarcity of, 132.\\nMother Hoit, 176.\\nMoral society, 182.\\nMorrill, Robie, Rev., 84, 86, 87, 88, 91, 93,\\n94, 96, 113.\\nMusters, lb2, 193, 273, 274, 275.\\nMusical societies, 196.\\neducation, 293.\\ninstruments, 296.\\nNewspapers, 177.\\nNew style, f 5.\\nNew lights, 233.\\nNew county, 134, 188, 189.\\nNew York campaign, 251.\\nNorway plain, 212.\\nNotices of tirst settlers, 302.\\nOccupations, 173, 174, 175.\\nOrdination of Rev. Phineas Stevens, 29,30,\\n31, 32.\\nOverhauling a committee, 131.\\nOfficial history, 619.\\nPalm-leaf liats, 641.\\nPatriotic action, 117, 219, 220.\\nParsonage lands, sale of, 143.\\nI ains, 88.\\nPaper rags, 120.\\nParty spirit, 174, 202, 203.\\nPaupers, 105, 162. 178.\\nPeuacook academy, 292.\\nI enalties, 312\\nPeople s declaration, 106, 107.\\nPetitions of citizens of Andover and other\\ntowns, 1.\\nPetition of citizens of Newbury, 3.\\nPetitions of citizens of Contoocook, 23, 37,\\n38, 47, 48, 64, 74, 94, 97.\\nPetition for a new town, 137.\\nPhysicians, 108.\\nPlunder, sale at Battenkill, 265.\\nPound, 149.\\nPost routes, 143, 200.\\nPottery, 642.\\nPolls, 100.\\nPopulation, 24, 99, 112, 128, 133, 191, 635.\\nProgress, 172.\\nProfessional record, 661.\\nPrisoners, liberation of, 59.\\nProduce, prices of, 1.55.\\nProvince road, 103\\nPrice, Ebenezer, Rev., 187, 236.", "height": "3094", "width": "1841", "jp2-path": "historyofboscawe00lccoff_0869.jp2"}, "856": {"fulltext": "666\\nGENERAL IXDEX.\\nrroprietors records, 208.\\n^^c3Po f*?f .1, 3 8 16, 17, 20, 20,\\n150 ^3 5 8\\nProprietors clerk, 84.\\nPreaching at tbe West eiul, 118.\\nQuebec expedition, 249.\\nRaising tlie meeting-house, 1 18\\nRailroads, 207, 208, 211.\\nRecord of mortality, C3G.\\nRevivals, 1^2.\\nReceipt for gun, 249.\\nRebellion, 212, 213. 217, 219.\\nReligious society records, 230.\\ncontroversy, 174.\\ndissent, 50, 51, 77.\\nReduction of Canada, 85.\\nRhode Island campaign, 207\\nRoll of honor at IJuiiker hill, 249\\nRoad to Hopkinton, lyo.\\nSaw-mills on the Blackwater, 119\\nSabatis and Plansawa, 63, 50, 57\\n^ale of almshouse, 214.\\nScouting party, 03.\\nSelectmen s accounts, 87, 88, 81, 93 94 ins\\n118, 119, 120, 121. 122, 123, 148, 170.\\nSettlements, 85, 90.\\nSeraphines, 2dd.\\nSecond Cong, church, 238, 239\\nSchools, 86. 92, 97, 104, 108, 109, lio in\\n116,118.124, 128, 129, 135 148; IL; 167;\\nSchool lots, 1.35.\\nlaw, 169.\\nShay s rebellion, 1,33.\\nSheep, 180, VJ3.\\nSinging-schools, 299, ,390.\\nSoldiers in Indian wars, 244, 245.\\nin Revolution, 247, 249 5] -\u00e2\u0096\u00a0jq\\n255, 263, 207.\\nSoldiers in war with Great Rritain 69\\nI l the Rebellion, 270, 277,278\\nSmith, Ambrose. 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