{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3281", "width": "1827", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "A\\n0\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3312", "width": "1898", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "^M\\nf o\\nV-^\\nS\\nv^-^^\\n^v J\\n^yi%^: _^v -.jo^-.*\\nA\\n^0^\\n^o^\\n/^i] X\\n.0 -.--^i^/\\n.7s A", "height": "3312", "width": "1898", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "From 1732 to 1820.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "A\\nCHRONOLOGICAL REGISTER\\nor\\nBOSCAWEN,\\nIN THE COUNTY OP MERRIMACK, AND STATE OF\\nNEW-HAMPSHIRE,\\nFROM THE FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE TOWN TO 1820.\\nIN THREE PARTS\\n\u00c2\u00a9rscrijjttijf, lUCstorfcal $c i^iscrllanrcus.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2OMPILED BY AN ORDER OF THE TOWN, PASSED MARCH, 1819.\\nBY EBENEZER PRICE, A. M.\\nI\\nPASTOR OE THE SKCOND CHURCH IN SAID TOWN.\\nOn* generation shall prawethy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.\\nThou Shalt raise up the fouiidntions of msny generations, und thou ihmt be called tht\\nHepairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in. Itaiah.\\nCONCORD:\\nTRINTED BY JACOB B. MOORE.\\n1823.\\n|wv/.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "DEDIC iTION.\\nThis compilation, the result of much lahor, has\\nbeen carefully made, and is now presented to the\\ninhabitants of the town of Boscawen and to their\\nposterity, for a perpetual memorial, of the very\\ninteresting events of antiquity, wrested from ob-\\nlivion,\\nV By their sincere friend, and\\nB*^ very humble servant,\\nEBENEZER PRICE.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PART I.\\nSituation of the town extent boundaries orig inal name\\nsoil, and its varieties drain-wells in use rivers ponds water\\nmachinei y bridges and their extent roads climate villages\\ndwelling-houses public buildings inns and stores education,\\nhow promoted ^societies professional characters post oflfiice\\ncivil officers population number of militia minerals produc-\\ntions of the soil fruits and fruit-trees currants cultivated the\\nbreed of cattle sheep improved their number wool manufac-\\ntured silk wrought staple commodities market towns chur-\\nches revivals of religion concluding obsei vations.\\nPART II.\\nSection 1. Grant to whom character of the proprietors.\\n2. First meeting of the proprietors survey of plantation\\nJiumber of rights first division laid out and drawn.\\n3. First settlers their enterprize first labor, ,c.\\n4. Meeting at Conioocook log town-house built preaching\\nferry.\\n5. 2d division laid out and drawn log meeting house built.-\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nsettlers alarme.l by lndi: .u* log lort built petition to the King^-\\nMr. Stevens ordained, c.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "6 CONTENTS.\\n6. New-Hampshire becomes a province Gov. Wentworth\\n3d division laid out, c.\\nI. Indians molest the inhabitants Louisburg taken-first inhab-\\nitants killed or taken captive.\\n8. Mason s claim described land proprietors title of the town\\nobtained indemnity to Mr. Stevens, c.\\n9. Provision for a 2d fort Indians of St. J rancis Conduct of\\nBowen and Morrill some taken captJve, c.\\n10. Rev. Mr. Stevens dies Great Earthquake last proprie-\\ntors meeting before Incorporation new petition granted re-\\nduction of Louisburg Quebeck taken Inliansat peace, c.\\nII. Plantation incorporated name 1st charter 1st town\\nmeeting 1st Justice, c.\\n12. Proprietors assist in settling a minister Mr. Robie Mor-\\nrill ordained inhabitants leave the fort for thv ir farms.\\n13. 4th division laid out and drawn town charter renewed.\\n14. Stamp act province road laid out Rev. Mr. Morrill dis-\\nmissed new meeting house begun Mr. Merrill ordained.\\n15. Pews sold D. College chartered bridge built colonies\\ndisturbed Rev. Mr. Merrill removed.\\n16. 1775, Ist Congress battles independence campaigns-\\nseveral preachers employed.\\n17. Mr. Wood settled Cornvtallis capitulated peace with\\nEngland.\\n18. Road to Warner opened delegate to state convention\\n5 selectmen parsonage sold west meeting house buiit\\nneutrality proclaimed.\\n19. Jay s treaty last meeting of proprietors evils in this\\ntown county tax.\\n20. War with France\u00e2\u0080\u0094 meeting house burnt injuries sus-\\ntained S. house consumed Rev. Mr. Wood dissolves his com\\ntract with the town.\\n21. Half the parsonage given to west meeting house small\\npox in town counterfeiters detected 2d rcii^.cua society-\\nchurch and minister total eclipse.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. 7\\n22. War with England negociation\u00e2\u0080\u0094 check list defence of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ur seaports peace restored improveoient in morals attempt-\\ned, ^c.\\n23. School and parsonage lands water-street difficulty healed\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00941816, a year of dearth seasons change review and close of\\nthe Ke\u00c2\u00a3;iiiter.\\nPART lU.\\nJ\u00c2\u00ab:\u00c2\u00abtfllinrous Articles.\\nNames of proprietors first settlers table shewing town offi-\\ncers, representatives, other officers, and money raised for the\\nyear. Lists of magistrates, post masters, ministers, deacons, at-\\ntorneys, physicians, graduates, births, marriages and deaths.\\nCommanding officers of the 21st regiment campaigns soldiers\\nout in the war with France stationed at Portsmouth in the late\\nwar with England names of those who were killed in the army\\nremarkable deaths singular deli% ^erances biographical noti-\\nces narratives of deaths and captivities by lodiaDS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kiapture and\\nimprisooment of John Flanders, ic.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Note. The town of Boscawen, at their an-\\nnual meeting, March, 1821, voted acceptance of\\nthe following Register, in manuscript appointed\\na committee of five, including the selectmen, to\\nmake an equitable compersation to the compiler,\\nand to dispose of the manuscript as should best\\nmeet the intention of the town accordingly, this\\ncommittee awarded the writer S50, and propos-\\ned the printing of the manuscript by subscription.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "?^{sitorj\u00c2\u00bb of a3o.\u00e2\u0082\u00acc.iikucn.\\nmis,m ^m%\\nDescription of the Toivti of Boscawen.\\nBoscAWEN is an inland town in the State of\\nNew-Hampshire, and county of Merrimack, plea-\\nsantly situated upon the westerly side of Merri-\\nmack river, between Concord and Salisbury and\\nits extent of territory, by grant, is seven miles\\nsquare. It is bounded eastwardly by Merrimack\\nriver northwardly on Salisbury line w^estward-\\nly on the line of Warner, and southwardly upon\\nHopkinton and Concord its southeast corner\\nmonument is near the southwardly margin of\\nContoocook river, at its conjunction with the\\nMerrimack, within a few yards of the isle on\\nwhich Mrs. Duston, of ancient fame, performed\\nthe unparalleled deed of taking the lives of her\\nsavage captors, and making her escape from captiv-\\nity, more particulai ly to be noticed in another\\nplace.\\nThe W cll known Indian name Contoocook^ was\\ngiven by the proprietors to tlieir location, and\\nwas retained until the town was incorporated.\\nThe soil of this town is very various, from the\\nmost fertile down to that which is low and poor\\nand yet there is but little land in its whole ex-\\ntent w^hich may be deemed waste land, or which\\nmay not be advantageously improved. Compar-\\ned with most of the adjacent towns, it i\u00c2\u00a7 uot\\n2", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "10 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nhilly, but the face of the town, when view ed from\\nits highest parts, appears uncommonly level.\\nThere are but few spots where stones greatly\\nabound, and no inconvenience is experienced\\nfrom morasses or stagnant waters.\\nThe territory may be divided into three general\\ndivisions, viz interval pine-plain^ and high-land^\\nrequiring a different cultivation.\\nThe interval upon the Merrimack, nearly the\\nwhole length of the town, is, in many places,\\nwidely extended, originally covered with a heavy\\ngrowth of elm, butternut, maple and bass-wood.\\nWhen cultivated, it proved very productive, and,\\neven at this period, bountifully rewards the labour\\nof the husbandman.\\nBordering on the interval westwardly are large\\nplaitis natural growth, hard and white pine\\ntrees soil thinner, but suited to the ordinary\\nproduction of rich harvests of grain, when prop-\\nerly cultivated.\\nThe high land, which comprises about five\\nsevenths of the whole town, lies in large swells\\nfar extending in a direction from north to south f\\nnatural growth, white oak and other hard wood\\nthe soil deep and very productive, affording many\\nexcellent farms most delightfully situated, and\\naccommodated generally with a suitable propor-\\ntion of pasturing, mowing and orcharding, with a\\nconstant supply of water. The convenience of\\nwater is aided by drain-wells, which are in very\\ncommon use opened upon a side hill, and the\\nwater taken from the bottom, in pipes, for the ac-\\ncommodation of houses and barns and found to\\nbe a very great saving in respect of labor, manure^\\nand in the health and growth of cattle.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 11\\nThis town is remarkably well watered. Mer-\\nrimack river laves the whole easterly border. On\\nthe west, Black-water river, parallel with the\\nMerrimack, five miles distant, runs through the\\nwhole extent of the town from north to south,\\nand empties itself into the Contoocook. This\\nriver is not large, but is very important, both in\\nrespect of its fertile fields of champaigne, and the\\nnumerous water-privileges it affords.\\nPond brook, or as generally called, Beaver-dam\\nbrook, accommodates several mills, and from its\\nmeadow^s are annually cut more than 100 tons of\\nhay runs between and parallel with Merrimack\\nand Blackwater, from Salisbury, till it unites with\\nContoocook, in the north-east corner of Hopkin-\\nton. This stream is considered as nearly equally\\ndividing the tow n east and west.\\nMill brook^ emptying into Merrimack, and\\nSchoodk^ running southw^ardly from Long Pond,\\nand uniting with Warner river, are streams fur-\\nnishing mill-seats. Beside the before-named,\\nthere are many other streams of lesser note, glid-\\ning through most of our valleys, yielding their\\nbenefits to almost every farm and some of them\\nimproved tbr water machinery.\\nThere are two ponds of note Great Pond\\nlies u\u00c2\u00ab ar the centre of the town, and is about one\\nmile long, and the same in breadth and Long\\nPond, situated in the west part of the town, is\\nabout two miles long, and 1-2 a mile wide both\\nabound with common freshwater fish, and each\\nfurnishes a mill-seat at its outlet. There are in\\nthis town seventeen saw-mills five corn-mills,\\nthree of which have two runs of stones, and all\\nfiurnished with bolts four fulling-mills five", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "IQ HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\ncarding machines two mills for grinding tanner s\\nbark one trip-hammer one mill for turning\\ncart-wheel hubs and felloes, and one for grinding\\nlead for potter s ware.\\nThe principal bridges are, two across Merrimack\\nriver, uniting Boscawen with Canterbury, built\\nby incoq orated companies. Chandler s bridge,\\nso called, over Contoocook river 7 across Black-\\nwater river 1 over Stirrup-iron brook, and 1 over\\nthe gulf, on the fourth New-Hampshire turnpike,\\nbuilt at the expense of 1000 dollars, by Lt. Ste-\\nphen Gerrish, in 1815; but just before its com-\\npletion, the contractor, after a short sickness,\\ndied, and his death deprived this town of one of\\nits most ingenious, enterprising and valuable citi-\\nzens.\\nAs shewing this town to be well watered, it is\\nestimated by judicious men, that the length of\\nplank-bridges annually maintained within its lim-\\nits is more than two miles, including their abut-\\nments.\\nThere are six public roads through this town\\nfrom Concord and Hopkinton to the town of Sal-\\nisbury viz King-street and Fish-street in con-\\ntinuation High-street^ on the 4th New-Hamp-\\nshire turnpike Water-street Battle-street^ lately\\nopened Pleasant-street^ continued on West-high-\\nway, and West Newhury-street. And crossing all\\nthe before-named streets, at right angles, except\\nBattle-street, from Fish-street to Warner line, is\\nLong-street.\\nThe Province-roach laid out by the authority of\\nGov. John Wentworth, in a direction from Ports-\\nmouth to No. 4, or Charlestown, and opened in\\n1770, is not now improved except for a short dis-\\ntance.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 13\\nThese public streets, at a very great expense,\\nare made easy for carriages of every description.\\nThe inhabitants of this tow^n have been highly\\ndistinguished in point of health. From its first\\nsettlement, there have been no extensively mortal\\ncontagions or epidemics. It is thought by men of\\nobservation, that the pure air and uniform temper-\\nature, arising from the numerous streams of whole-\\nsome water, and peculiar direction of the swells of\\nhigh land, parallel with the streams, have contrib-\\nuted to the enjoyment of this invaluable blessing.\\nThere are two villages to be noted. The prin-\\ncipal of which is situated in the eastwardly sec-\\ntion of the town, made up of about thirty dwell-\\ning-houses, through which the 4th New-Hamp-\\nshire turnpike passes, affording a spacious street,\\nnearly two miles in length, very straight and lev-\\nel. In passing through this village, the observant\\ntraveller is attracted and delighted by the fertile\\nintervals, and the serpentine course of the Merri-\\nmack in full view. Near the centre of this vil-\\nlage, on the river, are a commodious landing place\\nand lumber yard and movements are in train\\nfor extending the boating navigation of Merri-\\nmack river, as far as this place, if not further up\\nthe river.\\nThere is also a village now forming on a pleas-\\nant eminence in the westwardly part of the town,\\nnear the meeting house, promising at no very dis-\\ntant period a centre for business and extensive\\npopulation.\\nThe number of elegant and richly furnished\\ndwelling houses is as yet small, for it may be ob-\\nserved that we are an agricultural people, and\\ntherefore more attention is paid to the conveni-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nence of the farmer than to well finished and fur-\\nnished houses.\\nThere are in town two houses for public re-\\nligious worship, six miles distant, commodious and\\ndecently well finished one of which is furnished\\nwith a good bell. There are fourteen school- wards,\\nand thirteen school-houses, most of wiiich have\\nbeen lately built, and are commodious. The average\\nnumber of children to each house, both summer\\nand winter, is about thirty-five. Nine public inn?\\nsix retailing stores, and one is)^\\\\xi-pound built of\\nstone.\\nEducation is very evidently progressing, and\\nmany of our youth are good proficients. To this\\nthe early aid and unwearied labour of the Rev.\\nSamuel Wood, D. D. have greatly contributed.\\nIn the course of his residence in town, he has\\nuniformly had more or less young men under his\\ntuition, either to advance a ccmmon, or to prepare\\nthem for a public education. He has entered at\\nth different colleges between eighty and ninety\\nyoung gentlemen, of whom thirty-one have en-\\ngaged in the work of the gospel ministry. And\\nmore recentl}^ education has been greatly promot-\\ned by the town inhabitants in their strict observ-\\nance of the state law of 1808, requiring the an-\\nimal appointment of a visiting committee also,\\nby supporting select schools, under the tuition of\\nlearned and pious young men, and likewise by fa-\\nvoring sabbath schools, which have become gene-\\nral, and highly promotive of education, as well as\\ngood morals.\\nThe Boscawen Social Library Society was\\nfounded 1792, and incorporated 1797 it contains\\nabout 220 volumes.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAAVEN. 15\\nThere are two religious Societies of the congre-\\ngational order; the first formed in 1802, in con-\\nnection with the first church, and incorporated\\n1807 the second formed 1804, and incorporated\\n1810.\\nOne musical, one moral, and one agricultural\\nsociety, beside the following charitable societies\\none for educating heathen youth one auxiliary\\nto the American Education Society, and supports\\none beneficiary two Female Cent Societies two\\nFemale Gleaning Societies, to aid poor, pious\\nyoung men in acquiring an education and seve-\\nral Reading Societies among our female youth,\\nwho pay an annual tax, in aid of missions.*\\nOf professional characters, there are in town\\ntwo Congregational Ministers of the Gospel one\\nCounsellor at Law, and two Physicians.\\nA Post-Office was established Jan. 13, 1806,\\nand the present Deputy Post-Master, is Benjamin\\nH. Oak, Esq.\\nThere are five Justices of the Peace and one\\nCoroner.\\nThe present population of the town, 270 fami-\\nlies 313 rateable polls; 394 legal voters, and\\n2113 souls, of whom 1014 are males, and 1099\\nfemales.\\nMothers and their daughters have united their charities in\\naid of Domestic Missions, and the success of their efforts has\\nbeen manifested in a collection of a very valuable box of cloth-\\nings recently transmitted to the Elliot station in the Choctaw na-\\ntion of Indians. Also the Pastor of the 1st church has received\\n^40, constituting him a life-member of the American Education\\nSociety, and ^20 to constitute him a life-member of the New-\\nEngland Tract Society. And the Pastor of the 2d Church has\\nreceived ,^20 to make him a life-member of the last named soci-\\nety mostly from female beneficence in their respective congre-\\ngations.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "16 HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN.\\nThis town does not abound with mineral sub-\\nstances. That which has excited the most atten-\\ntion is the lead. It seems to be the general im-\\npression that there are very extensive mines of\\nlead, but notwithstanding the strong solicitude\\nand laborious research of numbers, as yet they\\nhave not been found.\\nThe soil is favorable to the growth of Indian\\ncorn, rye, wdieat, oats, peas, beans and potatoes\\nthe latter are raised in great abundance, and much\\nused in fattening cattle and swine.\\nMuch pains has been taken by the inhabitants\\nof this town in cultivating fruit-trees but with-\\nin a few years, orcharding has greatly decayed, and\\nthe seasons have been very unfavorable to almost all\\nkinds of stone fruit. At present, apples, pears and\\ncherries are the principal fruit. There has been,\\nhowever, a great improvement made upon our or-\\nchards by grafting, which afford a great variety of\\nfruit most delicious among which are the Pear-\\nmain, Green Russet, Woburn and Baldwin apples,\\nEnglish, Brown, Pumpkin, Sweetings and Gill-\\nflowers. Attention has been paid of late to the\\ncultivation of currants, and some have begun to\\nderive from them an excellent beverage, which in\\nflavour will equal the richest wine.\\nThe breed of cattle has been milch improved\\nwithin a few years w^hile that of horses seems\\nto have claimed but little or no attention.*\\nIn reverting to the diseases among cattle, beside those which\\nare common, may be noted,\\nThe Black-leg, which particularlj prevailed in 1814, among\\nyoung cattle and sheep, and proved mortal in a short time.\\nThe Hoof-ail, a distemper in the feet of neat cattle, of which\\n*hey rarely died but in many case^ the hoof was entirely re-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 17\\nThe wool of our sheep has been greatly im-\\nproved in quality, by mixing our native with the\\nmerino breed. The first merino sheep were\\nbrought into town by Deac. Enoch Little, in 181 2.\\nThe largest number of sheep ever owned in town\\nwas in 1816 the largest flocks from 50 to 150\\nand the quantity of wool carded, and mostly man-\\nufactured in town the same year, was about\\n1 7,500 lbs. or eight tons and three quarters.\\nThe Rev. Doctor Wood has, for the fifteen years\\npast, cultivated the silk-worm and furnished his\\nown, and some other families, with sewing-silk of\\na very excellent quality.\\nStaple Commodities. Boards, white oak plank,\\npine and oak timber, white oak staves and head-\\ning (wrought and unvn^ought), beef, pork, mutton,\\npoultry, butter and cheese of which, the great-\\nest quantity is pork and cheese, and of the first\\nquality to be found in any market.\\nThe principal market towns resorted to by the\\ninhabitants, are Newburyport, Salem, Boston and\\nPortsmouth.\\nThere are two congregational churches in town,\\ncalvinistic in sentiment. The first embodied in\\n1740. The present pastor. Rev. Samuel Wood,\\nD. D., was ordained Oct. 17, 1781, and the church\\nmoved, and in some cases the usefulness of oxen was destroyed,\\nin 1816.\\nTlie Black-tongue^ an inflammatory putrid disorder of the\\nthroat and tongue of most neat cattle, and frequently of horses,\\nprevailed very extensively in 1819. The same disease would\\nsometimes seize and spend its force upon the hoofs of horses,\\nextremely painful, and often injure or entirely remove the hoof.\\nFor this complaint when in the mouth various applications, guard-\\ning against putridity, were used but when in the hoof, immedi-\\nate bleeding in the part was found to be a great relief, if not an\\neffectual remedy.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "18 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nnow consists of about 350 members. The 2d\\nchurch was embodied in 1804. Rev. Ebenezer\\nPrice installed pastor Sept. 26, 1804, and consists\\nof 120 communicants. Between these churches\\nand the societies with which they are connected,\\nthere exists very great harmony of feeling and sen-\\ntiment.\\nWe have no account of any general outpouring\\nof the spirit of God, for the revival of religion in\\ntown, till after the settlement of Rev. Mr. Wood\\nbut since that time revivals have been numerous r\\nthe most powerful and extensive of which were\\nexperienced in the years 1815 and 1819. These\\nwere general through the two societies, particu-\\nlarly the last, whose origin, progress, character, the\\nextent and fruit of the work, evidently showed it-\\nself to be the peculiar work of God and such as\\nhas been rarely ,if ever, experienced in any place of\\nthe same population. There were admitted into\\nthe firstchurch,atone time76 at another 54; and\\ninto the second church, 30, besides smaller addi-\\ntions.\\nIt should be observed that there is a large pro-\\nportion of the inhabitants of this town,who do not\\nattach themselves to the existing congregational so-\\ncieties,but are professedly of other denominations^\\nviz. Calvinistic Baptists, Freewill Baptists, Meth-\\nodists, c. Though as yet no church has been em-\\nbodied, or society organized, or stated religious\\nteacher settled among them.\\nIn placing before you and your posterity the\\nforegoing description of the town of Eoscawen, it\\nis not merely to gratify your feelings by a com-\\nprehensive view of the present advanced state of\\nsociety, but to induce the inquiry, by what routine", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 19\\nof events in the employment of what means\\nand instruments, hatli the all-wise God produced\\nsuch a state of things in the course of 80 or 90\\nyears This laudable inquiry we hope to answer\\nin thesecoM^j;m7, by presenting a history of events\\nand facts founded on the records of the proprie-\\ntors and town, as well as on undoubted verbal tes-\\ntimony.\\nS2^(S@N^ ^Am\\nThe Chronological Register exhibiting the Pro-\\nceedings of the Proprietors and Town of Bos-\\ncaiven^from its first settlement to 1820 a pe-\\nriod of S8 years interspersed with those events\\nand facts interesting to inquirers^ and divided\\ninto sections.\\nSection 1.\\nIn 1732, the memorable year which gave birth\\nto George Washington, a number of enterpriz-\\ning men, mostly natives of Newbury, in the Pro-\\nvince of Massachusetts Bay, New-England, asso-\\nciated together with a view to settle some part of\\nthe extensive vsrilderness, should they meet with\\nproper encouragement. Accordingly, they peti-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\ntioned the General Court of Massachusetts Bay\\nfoj a township situated upon the westerly side of\\nMerrimack river, in New-Hampshire, then under\\nthe jurisdiction of Massachusetts and were suc-\\ncessful. A grant of seven miles square was made\\nout in due form, Dec. 8, 1732, in the words fol-\\nlowing, viz.\\nProvince of Masmchusetts-Bay.\\nA petition of John Coffin, of Newbury, and\\neighty others, praying the grant of a tract of land\\nseven miles square lying on the west side of Mer-\\nrimack river, adjoining to Penacook, to settle\\nthemselves or their children upon, on such con-\\nditions as this Court shall judge fit.\\nIn the House of Representatives read, and in\\nanswer to this petition.\\nOrdered, that there be, and hereby is granted to\\nthe petitioners a tract of land, seven miles square,\\nat the place petitioned for, on the west side of\\nMerrimack river, to be laid out by a surveyor,\\nand chain-men on oath, a plan thereof to be pre-\\nsented to this Court, at their next May session, for\\nconfirmation. The lands to be by them settled\\non the conditions following, viz. That within\\nthe space of four years from the confirmation of\\nthe jjlan, they settle, and have on the spot eighty-\\none families each settler to build a good conveni-\\nent dwelling-house, one story high, eighteen feet\\nsquare at least, and fence, clear and bring to, four\\nacres fit for improvement, and three acres more\\nwell stocked with English grass and also lay out\\nthree shares throughout the town, each share to\\nbe one eighty-fourth part of the said tract of land,\\none of said shares to be for the first settled minis-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 21\\nter, one for the ministry, and one for the school\\nand also to huild a convenient meeting-house, and\\nsettle a learned orthodox minister within the term\\naforesaid.\\nIn Council, read and concurred.\\nA true copy of record, as among the proceedings\\nof the General Court, on the 8th Deer. 1732, p. 336.\\nAttest, Alden Bradford, Secretary\\nof the Commonioealth of Massachusetts.\\nProvince of Massachusetts Bay.\\nA plat of a township of land granted at the\\nCourt to John Coffin and others, lying on Merri-\\nmack river, above Penacook, surveyed by Rich-\\nard Hazzen and two chainmen on oath, being\\nbounded as follows, viz. beginning at the mid-\\ndle of Contoocook river, where it empties into\\nMerrimack, where it joins on Penacook Planta-\\ntion thence running west 15\u00c2\u00b0 south adjoining\\nPennicook line, four miles, to a white-pine tree,\\nmarked for Penacook corner bounds thence\\nfurther on the same line three miles and eight\\npoles, to a Norway-pine, marked for the corner\\ni30unds thence turned at right angles, and run-\\nning north 1 5 deg. west, seven miles and eight\\npoles, to a crotched white-birch, lettered, stand-\\ning on the south-east side of a hill, which is the\\nnorth-west corner thence turned at right-angles\\nand run east, 1 5 deg. north, near seven miles and\\nan half, to a white-oak and two vvhite-pines, mark-\\ned by Merrimack river, and by said river as it\\nruns to Contoocook river to the place where it\\nfirst began. In the House of Representatives\\nread, and voted that this plat be accepted and\\nthat the lands within delineated and described, be", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nand hereby are confirmed to the within-named\\nJohn Coffin, Joseph Dole, and other petitioners,\\ntheir heirs and assigns forever, they complying\\nwith the orders and conditions in the grant, on\\ntheir petition in December last provided the plat\\ndoes not contain more than the contents of seven\\nmiles square, nor interfere with any other, or for-\\nmer grant.\\nConsented to, J. BELCHER.\\nA true copy of record, as among the proceed-\\nings of the General Court, on 6th June, 1733.\\nPage 394.\\nAttest, Alden Bradford, Secretary\\nof the Ccmmonwealth.\\nThis grant, thus confirmed, was made to eigh-\\nty-one proprietors, to whom were added ten more,\\nmaking ninety-one, whose names, for the satisfac-\\ntion of their posterity and successors are to be\\nfound in a list in the miscellany.\\nThe characters of the gentlemen composing\\nthe proprietary of Contoocook very widely differ-\\ned from modern speculators in w ild lands. It\\nwas not a mere regard to private emolument\\nwhich prompted them to engage in such an en-\\nterprize but they evidenced in all their proce-\\ndures in turning the wilderness into a fruitful\\nfield, a patriotic spirit, and a readiness to lend\\ntheir influence for the benefit of others. It is but\\na just tribute to the memory of this body of men,\\nto say, they w^ere from habit and principle moral,\\nthe friends of civil order, and the firm supporters\\nof the institutions of the gospel. Some of them\\nwere distinguished, by their influence in the most\\nimportant concerns of the State, and many of", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 23\\ntheir names are registered among the friends of\\nthe Redeemer.\\nSection. 2.\\nMay 2, 1733. By order of the General Court\\nof Massachusetts, to John Coffin, the proprietors\\nheld their first meeting in Newbury at the house\\nof Archelaus Adams.\\nLt. George Little was chosen moderator, and\\nJoseph Coffin, Proprietors clerk who was duly\\nsworn by Richard Kent, Esq. justice of the\\npeace. The clerk thus elected, afterwards Col.\\nJoseph Coffin, was a gentleman of good natural\\nabilities, a handsome common education, and a\\nvery ready scribe. Though living in Newbury,\\nhe was uniformly chosen clerk, as uniformly at-\\ntended the proprietors meetings for the term of\\ntwenty-eight years, until the town was incorpora-\\nted. The proprietors being in a capacity to act.\\nthe immediate object of their attention was to\\nprepare their plantation for settlement. At their\\nfirst meeting, therefore, they appointed a commit-\\ntee of five Joseph Gerrish, Esq. William Ilsley,\\nJohn Coffin, Joseph Noyes and Tristram Little,\\nto locate their grant, fix its boundaries, take a\\nplan of the same and make a return of their do-\\nings to the General Court assessed five pounds\\non each proprietor to defray this expence, and\\nchose Daniel Hale, Treasurer, and John Weed,\\nCollector. The committee performed this ser-\\nvice in the following month of June called a\\nmeeting of the proprietors, and presented them\\nwith a plan of the township as taken by Richard\\nHazzen, surveyor. July 4. The compensation", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nmade to the surveyor 10^ to each of the three\\nchainmeii 36s. and 10s. per day to each of the\\ncommittee for their attendance.\\nThe proprietors agreed that the township should\\nhe laid out into one hundred and four shares or\\nrights. One right to each of the ninety-one pro-\\nprietors four rights for public uses, viz. for the\\nfirst minister support of the ministry schools\\nand mills and nine rights to be conferred, one\\non each of the following gentlemen Ebenezer\\nBurrill, Esq., John Wainwright, Esq., Richard\\nKent, Esq., Mr. Samuel Bradford, John Choate,\\nEsq., Mr. Edward Shove, Mr. Benjamin Bird,\\nMr. Jeremiah Getchell, and Mr. Richard Hub-\\nbard, who had assisted the proprietors by their\\nadvice and influence.\\nIn prosecution of the plan, a new committee of\\nfive Col. Joseph Gerrish, Lt. William Ilsley,\\nBenjaminPettingell, Daniel Peirce andJohn Weed,\\njun. were appointed to lay out the first division,\\nwhich should consist of an interval lot of five\\nacres, and a liouse-lot (called home-lots) to each\\nproprietor six other gentlemen were added to\\nthis committee Oct. 9.^ to attend and advise in\\nrespect of the business, the whole to be compen-\\nsated by the proprietors.\\nThe season was somewhat advanced, the com-\\nmittee therefore, with their attendants, immedi-\\nately set about, and accomplished the business of\\ntheir appointment, so that on the 9th of Novem-\\nber they were able to report to the proprietors.\\nThe 1st division, or home lot, so called, laid out\\nby Mr. John Brown, surveyor also, three streets\\nin the first division King-street, Queen-street,\\nand Newbury-street likewise the Gentlemen s", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 25\\nFarms, so called five on the north side and four\\non the south side of the plantation each farm\\ncontaining 300 acres, but laid out inlets of 150\\nacres, two lots to tach farm, including sufficiency\\nof land for all necessary roads.\\nOn accepting the report of their committee,\\nthe proprietors appointed Henry Rolfe, Esq. to\\ndraw the home-lots, and also the Gentlemen s\\nFarms assessed 45. on each right to meet the ex-\\npense of their doings, and the present meeting.\\nAnd moreover appointed a committee to fence the\\ninterval on the plantation early the ensuing spring\\nat the expense of the proprietors.\\nThus in the short term of about seven months,\\nthe proprietors of Contoocook, in exercising the\\nenterprising spirit they possessed^ completely pre-\\npared their plantation for the reception of its first,\\nsettlers.\\nSection 3.\\nIt was early in the season of 1734, when the\\nfirst settlers, mostly natives of Newburj moved\\nto Contoocook with their families, there to fix\\ntheir own future residence and provide an inher-\\nitance for their posterity. And this was an un-\\ndertaking of no common mai^nitude in that age.\\nTo us it may seem but a light thing to leave\\nthe place of our nativity and to migrate 60 or 100\\nmiles into the interior, to bring land from a state\\nof nature into a well cultivated farm. But in\\nturning back 80 or 90 years, we find the circum-\\nstances of men greatly diflfering from ours. Their\\nviews of the country were more limited their\\n4", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nfears more numerous, and their enterprize less.\\nFor them, therefore, to leave the fields cultivated\\nby their progenitors for several generations, to es-\\ntablish a residence but a few miles in the woods,\\ndemanded a greater effort than would be needed\\nby the most of this age to plant themselves upon\\nthe far distant Missouri. But these adventurers\\nhad to encounter serious obstacles. To secure\\nthe means of life by cutting down the trees of\\nthe forest was business entirely new the place\\nof their destination was 60 ivAles distant a dis-\\ntance which but few had ever travelled should\\nthey arrive in safety to their contemplated resi-\\ndence, their domestic accommodations must, at\\nbest, be poor and there too they must feel them-\\nselves to be the farthest removed from society, as\\nbut few or no permanent settlenients were as yet\\nmade between them and Canada. The idea of\\nthe wild beasts of the wilderness was appalling\\nbut the most distressing thought was that of meet-\\ning merciless Indians, without the means of de-\\nfending their property, families or lives. So that\\nwhatever confidence they placed in the encourage-\\nment, protection, and aid proffered by the proprie-\\ntors, it was like a self-banishment from society,\\nfriends and privileges like giving up all, except\\ntheir reliance upon a merciful Providence to pre-\\nserve them from evil, and prosper them in their\\nundertaking.\\nThere is no record to be found, shewing the ex-\\nact order, or time, in which the first settlers mov-\\ned into the plantation; their names, therefore,\\nwill be found inserted in the miscellany as near\\ntheir true order as verbal information will allow.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 27\\nThe most of the first season was occupied by\\nthe settlers in preparing for and erecting their\\nhabitations cultivating some patches of inter-\\nval, and making clearings for future crops. Be-\\ning destitute of saw-mills, their houses were built\\nin the ordinary style of new countries the walls\\nof round logs, and roofs covered with large slabs\\nof spruce bark, except a small aperture for the es-\\ncape of the smoke of their fires, instead of the\\nmore expensive apparatus of a chimney.\\nThe first plough was introduced into the settle-\\nment, and used by Mr. Stephen Gerrish, upon the\\ninterval.\\nDec. 18, 1734. The proprietors met at New-\\nbury and passed several acts for the accommo-\\ndation of their settlers. Mr. Joseph Toppan was\\ndirected to provide a good grind-stone for the use\\nof the plantation raised \u00c2\u00a78100 Massachusetts\\ncurrency, for building a saw-mill, though at a sub-\\nsequent meeting the measure was objected to and\\nvaried chose Benjamin Lunt, John Moody, jun.\\nand Edward Emery, assessors, and John Coffin,\\nCollector.\\nJan, 7, 1735. The first child was born on the\\nplantation, viz. Migail daughter of Nathaniel\\nDanforth, who was married to Thomas Foss,\\nand lived to an advanced age. Sarah, daughter of\\nAndrew Bohonnon, the second child, born Jan.\\n22,1736.\\nMarch 10. After several attempts for the\\nerection of mills, the proprietors accepted a pro-\\nposal of Joseph Gerrish, Esq. and fourteen asso-\\nciates, to build a saw-m.ill at the upper end of\\nKing-street, on the small stream called Mill-\\nbrook, by the following September j and also to", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nbuild a good corn-mill, when there should be in\\nthe plantation twenty settlers, for the considera-\\ntion of a 50 acre lot adjoining the mills, and a\\nfull right of land through the town. A bond was\\ntaken of these 15 gentlemen for the faithful per-\\nformance of this service, by Robert Adams, Jo-\\nseph Morse, Sd, and Richard Hale, for the propri-\\netors.\\nvSection 4.\\nMay 19, 1736. The first meeting of the\\nproprietors held at Contoocook. After choosing\\na Clerk and other officers, in compliance with one\\nof the conditions of the grant, the proprietors ap-\\npointed Lt. Benjamin Lunt, Joseph Gerrish, Esq.\\nand Mr. John Coffin, a committee to select a suit-\\nable preacher for the settlers, and empowered them\\nto assess such a tax as would meet this expense\\nbut the name of the preacher is not recollected.\\nProvision was first made for amending the high-\\nways, and five shillings allowed for a day s work\\nan order passed that the interval should not be\\nmowed until the 10th of July and this year the\\nproprietors erected on the plantation a log-building\\nfor a town-house, and other publick uses.\\nMarch 4, 1737. Proprietors met at Newbu-\\nry, and appointed a committee to expose to pub-\\nlic sale the lands of those who were delinquent in\\npaying their proporti(m of the expense incurred in\\nbringing forward the settlement granted an\\naward of S5 to John Weed, for his former ser-\\nvice as collector and being desirous of settling a\\nminister upon the plantation, authorized tlieir", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 29\\ncommittee to employ Mr. Phineas Stevens, a can-\\ndidate, to preach on trial for settlement.\\nMay 25. At Contoocook the proprietors rais-\\ned ^210 for preaching the present year also chose\\nall necessary officers and as the number of set-\\ntlers had considerably increased, they passed an\\norder that suitable accommodations should be\\nmade in the town-house for holding meetings on\\nthe sabbath.\\nMay 10, 1738. Meeting at Contoocook.\\nThe proprietors chose their officers raised\\ns6lOO for preaching the ensuing season, and Mr.\\nStevens was again employed as their religious\\nteacher.\\nThe ferry across Merrimack river, to Canter-\\nbury was first established, and Mr. Stephen G,er-\\nrish obligated himself to keep it the term of one\\nyear for the rate of ferriage. There being no civ-\\nil officer among the settlers, the proprietors by\\ntheir committee, petitioned the General Court of\\nMassachusetts Bay for the appointment of a con-\\nstable to keep the peace.\\nSeptember 6. The proprietors finding that\\nanother division of their plantation was necessa-\\nry, appointed Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., John Coffin,\\nEdward Emery, Ensign Joseph Gerrish and\\nThomas Thorla, a committee to lay out the\\nSecond Divmon of lots, containing each 80 acres.\\nThe committee employed Mr. John Brown as\\nsurveyor, performed the service, and made a re-\\nturn of their doings, Dec. 20, with the following\\nstreets in said division laid out four rods wide, viz.\\nFish-street, High-street, Cross-street, Water-street,\\nLong-street, Battle-street, Pleasant-street, and the\\nstreet now called West-highway^, with several oth-\\ner roads. The expense of this survey amounted", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nto ^100, lOs., and was allowed by the proprie-\\ntors. Mr. Moses Smith was appointed to draw\\nthe lots for the proprietors and an order was pass-\\ned that each proprietor should pay his proportion\\nof the expense of the laying out the 2d division at\\nthe drawing, or not have his lot recorded. An as-\\nsessment also of ^100, was made to enable Joseph\\nGerrish, Esq., Lieut. Joseph Coffin and Jacob Flan-\\nders to build a meeting house upon the plantation\\nsaid house to be built of logs, 40 feet long, and as\\nwide as Rumford (now Concord) meeting house,on-\\nly two feet higher. The land of delinquent pro-\\nprietors was ordered to be set up for sale.\\nSection 5.\\nMay 16,1739. Meeting held at the town -house in\\nContoocook. Officers of the proprietary chosen.\\nMr. Phineas Stevens again employed as preacher\\nfor the settlers. ^300 old tenor raised to dciray con-\\ntingent expenses. The log meeting house com-\\npleted and occupied and the land of delinquent\\nproprietors sold, July 18.\\nBut here we must turn from the routine of bu-\\nsiness so successfully pursued by the proprietors in\\nadvancing the settlement of their plantation, to a\\nsubject very interesting and distressing to their\\nsettlers. This feeble colony, after the experience\\nof great deprivations, submitting to many hard-\\nships in planting their habitations in the wilder-\\nness and while flushed with thehope,that soon their\\ntoils would be amply rewarded with the accom-\\nmodations of life, were harrassed with fear, and\\ncalled to make defence of themselves and fami-\\nlies against the merciless hands of a savage foe.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 31\\nIn consequence of the frequent wars between\\nFrance and England, the Indian tribes in North-\\nAmerica, under the influence of the French, made\\nfrequent depredations upon the property, and took\\ncaptive, or killed, some of the N. E. colonists in\\nthe new settlements, even in times of peace. This\\nwas the evil threatened the first settlers of Con-\\ntoocook by the Canada Indians. To flee before\\ntheir enemies with their ctU^ they could not and\\nto make open defence, they had not power. And\\nwhere could they look but to the proprietors un-\\nder God for that protection, which, at this junc-\\nture, they so much needed Nor did they look in\\nvain for\\nDec. 6. The proprietors in session at NeAvbury\\nunanimously agreed forthwith to build a fort 100\\nfeet square, 10 feet high, of timber and other ma-\\nterials, for the defence of their settlers. This\\nfort to be built on the school-lot, near the meeting-\\nhouse, on King-street which was completed in\\nthe course of the winter, and for more than twenty\\nyears proved a commodious garrison for all the in-\\nhabitants. Being furnished with muskets and\\nammunition, they were able to protect them-\\nselves, while they improved their farms.\\nMay 1 6, 1 740. The proprietors met at Contoo-\\ncook, and having elected the annual officers, a com-\\nmittee was appointed, consisting of Joseph Ger-\\nrish, Esq., George Jackman, John Brown, John\\nCoffin and Edward Emery, to consult with Mr.\\nStevens respecting conditions of his settling in\\nthe work of the gospel ministry upon the planta-\\ntion, and to report at the next meeting. Raised\\n^150, bills of credit of the old tenor, for con-\\ntingent expenses and at the request of the pro-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nprietors of Baker s town (easterly part of Salis-\\nbury) opened a road from King-street, near the\\nriver, to said plantation.\\nNew-Hampshire was about this time to be or-\\nganized into a province, separate from Massachu-\\nsetts the proprietors of Contoocook, therefore,\\npresented a petition to His Majesty the King, by\\nThomas Huchinson, Esq., praying that their plan-\\ntation might still be continued to the parent-prov-\\nince. Belknap informs (Hist. 2 vol. p. 173), that\\n27 other towns made similar application by the\\nsame hand, but to no avail for it was made to\\nappear to the House of Lords by Mr. Thomlin-\\nson, agent for this colony, that the interest of\\nthe people in the province of New-Hampshire\\nrequired they be under a government distinct from\\nMassachusetts.\\nSept. 25. At a meeting held at Newbury the\\nproprietors heard and received the report of their\\ncommittee respecting the settlement of a minister,\\nand agreed to proffer Mr. Phineas Stevens the fol-\\nlowing encouragement for his support\\n1. ^135 of bills of credit, made equivalent to\\nsilver at 29s. the ounce, as his salary for the first\\nyear, and that to increase ^5 a year until it should\\namount to dgl75, which should be his stated an-\\nnual support during his ministry.\\n2. To give him a settlement of ^180 and\\n3. Should it be found on trial, that his salary\\nproved inadequate to his support, the proprietors\\nengaged to make a reasonable addition.\\nIt was at the same time to be understood that\\nthe first settled minister was entitled by grant to\\none full right of land as his own in fee simple;\\nand the improvement of the parsonage and right", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWETf. 33\\nduring his ministry. The last named committee\\nwere directed to present these Urms to Mr. Stevens,\\nas the proprietors call and should he accept them,\\nto unite with him in appointing the time of his ordi-\\nnation, and in calling in the aid of an ecclesiastical\\ncouncil. Likewise were authorized to take security\\nof Mr. Stevens, that neither he, nor any other for\\nhim, should ever claim, for the minister s right,\\nmore than the one hundred and fourth part of said\\nplantation, as his forever and for the parsonage\\nright, more than the one hundred and fourth part\\nas his during his ministry.*\\nMr. Stevens accepted the proposals made\\nordination was appointed council convened\\nthe security given. A congregational church em-\\nbodied on the Cambridge platform, and he ordain-\\ned to the pastoral care of the church and people in\\nContoocook, October 8, 1740 ;t and George\\nJackman was elected the first Deacon in the\\nchurch.\\nSection 6.\\n1741. William Shirley succeeded Gov. Belcher in\\nthe government of Massachusetts, and at the same\\ntime New-Hampshire, which had been nearly 1 00\\nyears subject to that government was erected in-\\nto a distinct province, and Benning Wentworth,\\nSuch a security was necessary because the town was laid oul\\nin one hundred and four rights, and by grant the first minister was\\nentitled to an eighty-fourth part of the plantation.\\nt An exact account of the expense of ordination was kept by\\nJohn Brown, Esq. and paid bv the proprietors, amounting to \u00c2\u00a3104.\\nN. H. old tenor, or ^46 35 our currency a rare spt ciraen of tho\\nsimplicity and economy of that age.\\n5", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nEsq. a native of Portsmouth, N. H. then in Eng-\\nland, was commissioned Governor by the Crown.\\nThe newly appointed Governor soon returned\\nfrom abroad and entered his government on the\\n12th Dec. 1741, under very liberal tokens of re-\\nspect from the populace. Should any one wish\\nfor more information respecting this transaction,\\nhe may be gratified by consulting Belknap s Hist.\\nN. H. Vol.11. Chap. 19.\\nMay 20. Meeting at Contoocook. The Pro-\\nprietors in addition to the choice of Clerk, Asses-\\nsors and Collector, appointed Surveyors of Ways,\\nFence-viewers, Pound-keeper and Hogreeves\\nraised 20/. for highways, and 200/. for contingent\\nexpenses ordered the sale of lands for delin-\\nquency in taxes, and employed Capt. Ebenezer\\nEastman to clear and plough the ministerial in-\\nterval-lot the present summer.\\n1742. Being now under the immediate gov-\\nernment of New-Hampshire, the proprietors feel-\\ning their need of governmental efficiency, sent in\\na petition to His Excellency Governor Went-\\nworth, and Council, on the 4th of Feb. and\\nanother the latter part of the same month, ex-\\npressing their desire for his favorable patronage\\nin the adoption of measures suited to the state of\\nthe settlers and as they were exposed to the as-\\nsaults of the Indians, to provide them with the\\nmeans of defence.\\nSept. 8. The proprietors raised 200/. old ten-\\nor, to meet the minister s salary, and other ex-\\npenditures of the year. And to prevent delay in\\ntheir collection, ordered that each proprietor give\\nhis note of hand for his tax to the Collector.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 35\\nMay 18, 1743. Elected the usual annual of-\\nficers raised 200/. old tenor for the ministry,\\nand contingent expenses and to expedite the\\ncollection, voted that all those who should pay\\ntheir taxes before the first day of the ensuing\\nNovember should pay nothing for collection, but\\nthose w^ho should delay payment till after that\\ntime, should pay one shilling for every pound in\\naddition an important stimulus to punctuality in\\nother times. 30^ raised for the highw^ays, and\\na committee appointed to lay it out. It w^as\\nagreed that the grass upon the undivided mead-\\now^s should be mowed by the resident proprietors\\naccording to the taxes and the remainder to be\\nequally divided among the other inhabitants.\\nSept. 14. At a full meeting of the proprie-\\ntors an order passed that a 3d Division of land\\nshould be laid out 100 acres to each proprietor s\\nshare, made equal in quantity and quality.\\nRichard Jackman, John Fowler, John Coffin, Ens.\\nJoseph Gerrish, John Brown and Thomas Thor-\\nla appointed a committee to lay out said Division\\nas soon as may be.\\nOct. 3 1 Deacon George Jackman received of\\nHenry Rolfe, jun. 4 lbs. of powder, 56 lbs. of bul-\\nlets, and 24 flints also of Benj. Pettingill 10 lbs.\\nof powder, to be used by the settlers in garrison,\\nfor their defence, as occasion should require.\\nSection 7.\\nOct. 30, 1744. At an adjourned meeting from\\nthe 1 7th inst. the proprietors provided for the ex-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\npenses of the current year, and raised 126/. old\\ntenor, exclusive of the aid of the inhabitants of\\nthe plantation, to fortify the dwelling-house of\\nthe Rev. Mr. Stevens. Ttiis became necessary,\\nbecause the hostility of the Indians v^^as increas-\\ning, and their depredations were more distressing^\\narising from the late declaration of war by Eng-\\nland against France. Though the seat of war\\nwas far distant, upon the eastern coast, yet the\\nIndian tribes in Canada, along the river St. Law-\\nrence and upon the Lakes, strongly attached to\\nFrance, both by interest and religion, sallied forth\\nupon the defenceless frontier settlements took\\nmany captive, and some they barbarously mas-\\nsacred.\\nThe committee appointed to lay out the 3d\\nDivision made their report, which was accepted.\\nJohn Brown, the surveyor, was allowed 30/. old\\ntenor, for his service, and each of the committee\\n1 2^. per day, for their attendance. And to meet\\nthe expense of laying out this division of land,\\nthe proprietors raised 122/. and appointed John\\nBrown to draw the lots for them, on their pay-\\ning each his proportion of the whole expense.\\nJune 4, 1745. The proprietors met at Contoo-\\ncook, to transact their annual business, and raised\\n250/. for the support of the ministry, and other\\nexpenditures.\\nOn the 17th of June the strongly fortified\\ntown of Louisbourg, situated on the S. E. side of\\nCape Breton, was surrendered by the French Go-\\nvernor Duchambon, to the English, after a siege\\nof 49 days. This famous expedition, which re-\\nflected the highest honor upon New-England, was", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 37\\nsaid and generally believed to have been planned\\nhy William Vanghan, of New-Hampshire.* Per-\\nmission was obtained from the Crown, by Govern-\\nor Shirley, who solicited the aid of Governor\\nWentworth, and by the united land force princi-\\npally from Massachusetts and New-Hampshire,\\nunder the command of Gen. William Pepperell,\\nand the naval force under Admiral Warren,\\nthrough a series of very remarkable providences,\\na very signal victory was attained. The expense\\nof this expedition, and paid by the crow n of Eng-\\nland, was 16,355 pounds sterling. But how^ev-\\ner signal this victory, the war w as not terminated.\\nThe Governor of Canada, encouraged and aided\\nthe Indians to make depredations upon the colo-\\nnists consequently the fields, cattle and mills of\\nthe defenceless inhabitants were destroyed, and\\nsome of them killed, and others taken captives.\\n1 746. On the 4th of May, Mr. Thomas Cook,\\nand Caesar, a man of color, were killed at Clay-\\nhill, Contoocook, and a Mr. Jones was taken cap-\\ntive and carried to Canada, and there died. This\\nwas a very alarming and distressing circumstance\\nto the rest of the settlers. The proprietors call-\\ned a meeting, (Dec. 30,) and united in a petition\\nto the Executive of the Government of New-\\nHampshire to provide for the defence of the dis-\\ntressed inhabitants of their plantation.\\nJune 30, 1747. Joseph Coffin was appointed\\nagent in behalf of the proprietors, to present a\\npetition to the Government of the Province for\\npower to collect taxes, who received 9/. old tenor,\\nfor the service.\\nSee N. H. Hist. Collections for June, 1823.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nNov, 171h. The annual business of the pro-\\nprietors was attended to at this meeting held at\\nContoocook. Raised 250/. old tenor, for the min-\\nistry and other expenses and appointed Joseph\\nGerrish, Esq. Agent to apply to the General\\nCourt for power to collect taxes and voted that\\nthe expense of the present meeting be paid by\\ntlie whole proprietors, amounting to 40-s. old tenor\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094nearly SI 50 clearly evincing the intention of\\nthe proprietors, that their whole expense should\\nbe equally borne.\\niVoy. 29, 1748. There was a meeting at Con-\\ntoocook for the choice of officers, and for the as-\\nsessment of 50.9. upon each proprietor for incident-\\nal charges.\\nSection 8.\\n1749. It is not unusual in the settlement of\\nnew countries for new sources of fear to be open-\\ned, and for real difficulties to arise, where none\\nhad been contemplated. There was about this\\ntime much excitement occasioned by the heir of\\nMason in his claim upon a very extensive territory\\nin New-Hampshire. The proprietors of Contoo-\\ncook had heard of this clairn^ and for which they\\nsupposed such arrangements were made, that from\\nit no evils need be apprehended yet now they\\nhad reason to fear that the course pursued would\\ndeeply affect their interest. Though their Plant-\\nation had been granted them by Massachusetts,\\nthey found it lying within the limits of an ante-\\nrior claim in full force.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOS C A WEN. 39\\nTo satisfy those who may inquire respecting\\nthis claim it may be observed that the grant made\\nto Mason by the Crown of England was that por-\\ntion of New-Hampshire contained in the follow-\\ning description Beginning at the sea. and run-\\nning on the westwardly line of the State 60 miles,\\nand also beginning at the sea and running on the\\neastwardly line 60 miles, and thence running\\nacross the Province from point to point, would\\ngive the complement of the grant, allowing for\\nthe curve upon the sea-shore which, as contend-\\ned for by succeeding proprietors, required a curve\\nline in the interior, greatly enlarging the claim\\nabove a straight line. The heir of Mason was in-\\nduced to give the refusal of his claim to the gov-\\nernment of the Province, for the reasonable con-\\nsideration of 1000/. New-England currency but\\nthe business was delayed on the part of the gov-\\nernment, so that before they were ready to con-\\nclude the contract, and thus hold out a lure to all\\nthose disposed to possess themselves of the unim-\\nproved lands, he sold the whole of his claim^ in\\nfifteen shares, to twelve persons, for fifteen hun-\\ndred pounds, current money, Jan. 30, 1746.\\n(^Belknap s Jlccoimt.)\\nThe persons to whom this transfer of the Roy-\\nal Grant was made, were termed Lords Propri-\\netors. They, anticipating that popular displeasure,\\nwhich would recoil on them for possessing them-\\nselves of the power of disposing of all the lands\\nwithin the limits of their purchase, on their own\\nterms, endeavoured to sooth the public excite-\\nment, by generously and prudently quit -claiming\\nSL number of the towns already granted and set-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN.\\ntied. But other settlements and grants made by\\nMassachnsetts westwardly of Merrimack river,\\nand all the non-resident lands, were held subject\\nto their exactions.\\nThis state of things induced the proprie-\\ntors of Contoocook, Feb. 1, 1749, to appoint\\na committee composed of Capt. Moses Gerrish,\\nJoseph Coffin, Captc Joseph Gerrish, and John\\nBrown, who was afterwards added, to treat with\\nthe Lords Proprietors, and if possible to come to\\nsome agreement with them respecting their plan-\\ntation, favorable to the settlement. There was\\nnothing immediately done except some encourage-\\nment given. The business thus remained in sus-\\npense, for about four years, (1753) when the\\nLords Proprietors were disposed, very honourably,\\nto lodge in the Register s Office a quit-claim deed^\\nto the proprietors of several townships on the west-\\nwardly side of Merrimack river, granted by Mas-\\nsachusetts, which secured to the proprietors of\\nContoocook the title sought, without any further\\nexpense. The before-mentioned committee were\\nalso authorized to petition the Government of the\\nProvince to incorporate their plantation into a\\ntown the petition was presented, but not grant-\\ned.\\nAbout this time peace was established with the\\nnorthern tribes of Indians, but it afforded very\\nlittle restraint upon their depredating spirit.\\nMay ^5. The proprietors having elected the cus-\\ntomary officers, on passing the vote to raise 250/.\\nold tenor,for the support of the ministry, Mr. Sam-\\nuel Fowler entered his dissent against the vote.\\nSome damage had accrued to the proprietors in\\nconsequence of unseasonably turning cattle upon", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 41\\nthe intervals, therefore a committee of seven\\nwere appointed to close and open said intervals at\\nproper times.\\nA tax of 40/. old tenor was assessed upon those\\nproprietors living on the plantation, in addition to\\nwhat they paid in equality with other proprie-\\ntors and inhabitants.\\nNov. 30. Meeting at Newbury chose a large\\ncommittee to adjust the outstanding debts of the\\nproprietors to make a particular settlement with\\nRev. Mr. Stevens, and see how much is his due,\\nas a fulfilment of the terms of his settlement,\\nand report at the next meeting.\\nMay 24, 1750. Met at Contoocook, and hav-\\ning attended to the annual business, heard the re-\\nport of proprietors committee on their account\\nwith Rev. Mr. Stevens, viz. That by reason of\\nthe depreciation of the bills of credit, in which\\nMr. S. s salary had been paid during his continu-\\nance with them, he had a just claim on them for\\nan indemnity accordingly they voted to make\\nhim the honorable remuneration of 300/. N. H.\\nold tenor. In doing this the proprietors mani-\\nfested their regard for justice, and expressed the\\nfeelings of a people, faithful to their pastor, whom\\nthey respected and loved for his work s sake. But\\nto this procedure Mr. Samuel Fowler entered\\nhis solemn protest in writing, which was duly\\nrecorded by the clerk. Mr. F. was induced to\\ndo this, not from personal dislike to the minister,\\nnor to embarrass the proceedings of the proprie-\\ntors, but for conscience s sake. He was of the\\ndenomination of Friends and while he uniform-\\nly professed a readiness to use his utmost ability", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nfor the advancement of the settlement, and punc-\\ntually to pay his proportion of all other taxes, he\\ncould not with a clear conscience help support the\\npublic worship of God in this way. For this\\nyear the proprietors abated his tax to the ministry,\\nand though taxed as usual for the five following\\nyears, yet each tax was remitted, and it does not\\nappear from record that he ever paid any thing\\nfor the support of the ministry afterward.\\nNov. 6. Again the proprietors applied to the\\nGeneral Court for corporate powers, but did not\\nsucceed.\\nSection 9.\\nMay 22, 1751.. The proprietors met and chose\\ntheir annual officers ordered a way to be open-\\ned to the upper interval directed such a tax to\\nbe levied as would meet their engagement to Mr.\\nStevens also for highways and to pay collectors.\\nAnd as some proprietors had done but little toward\\nadvancing the settlement, 1 Os. old tenor was or-\\ndered to be assessed upon the right of every such\\nproprietor.\\nMay 20, 1752. In addition to the annual bu-\\nsiness, the proprietors at this meeting voted to\\nraise 200/. old tenor, to build a second fort imme-\\ndiately, 110 feet square the same to be erected\\non Samuel Gerrish s lot, and Jacob .Flanders,\\nRichard Jackman and Stephen Gerrish were em-\\npowered to execute the order. Likewise to\\nraise 100/. to fortify Rev. Mr. Stevens house by\\nthe same committee.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 43\\nThe call for this defence was the returning hos-\\ntility of the Indians of the St. Francis tribe, call-\\ned the Jirosaguntacook tribe.\\nPreparations were making, under the direction\\nof the government of the province, for settling\\nHaverhill and Newbury, in Coos. This tribe,\\njealous of an encroachment upon their hunting\\nground, remonstrated, and threatened a retaliation.\\nThe business, for the present was intermitted, yet\\nthe Indians scoured the w^oods, and spread them-\\nselves among the settlers. Two of them, named\\nSabatis and Plausawa spent some time at Can-\\nterbury, and were considered very friendly but\\nsuddenly disappeared, and carried with them two\\nnegro men belonging to Messrs. Miles Lindsey.\\nOne of these negroes effected his escape, the oth-\\ner was carried to Crown Point, and sold to a\\nFrench officer. Belknap has noticed the event.\\nOthers about this time were taken captive in oth-\\ner places among whom was John Stark, then\\nhunting near Baker s River, afterwards distin-\\nguished in the revolution.\\nMay 30, 1753. The bills of credit of the N.\\nH. old tenor were so depreciated that it was\\nfound difficult to fulfil contracts equitably hence\\nthe proprietors raised for incidental charges, 8/.\\n(lawful) they say equal to 60/. old tenor 826,67,\\ninstead of S45,10, the original value and order-\\ned the assessors to make good their contract with\\nRev. Mr. Stevens.\\nAll fears excited by Mason s Claim, as it re-\\nspects Contoocook, were put to rest though in\\nrespect of other parts of the province there was\\nnot a final adjustment till after the Revolutionary\\nwar.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 HISTORY OF BOSCAAYEN.\\nIt is well remembered by several, that in June\\nSabatis and Plausawa, the Indians, who the\\npreceding year carried away the two negroes from\\nCanterbury were killed near Indian-bridge^ so\\ncalled, in Contoocook,* by Bowen and Morril.\\nThis was done in a time of peace, and therefore\\nthe perpetrators were apprehended and imprison-\\ned at Portsmouth, but the night before the day set\\nfor their trial, the prison was forced and they li-\\nberated. Some attempt was made to bring the\\nrioters to justice, as well as to restore the prison-\\ners, but to no avail and finally the whole result-\\ned in the public mind as deeds of merit.\\nMay 19, 1754. Proprietors met at Contoo-\\ncook made choice of annual officers, and agreed\\nto secure to Rev. Mr. Stevens ^175, equal to sil-\\nver at the rate of 29.s. per ounce, the original con-\\ntract. Six men attended this meeting, from\\nNewbury, and were compensated for their attend-\\nance, by 1 2 old tenor each.\\nThe ^300 formerly raised for building a second\\nfort, c. not having been applied, and from the\\napparent disposition of the enemy not being need-\\ned, was ordered to be equally divided among the\\nproprietors. But notwithstanding this year was\\nmarked by the very interesting and alarming cir-\\ncumstances of the captivity of Mr. Meloon s fam-\\nily, and the murder of Mrs. Call, c., to be no-\\nticed in the Narratives of Captivities.\\nBelknap from misinformation says killed in Canterbury.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "history op boscawen. 45\\nSection 10.\\n1755. At the commencement of this year the\\nChurch and people of Contoocook, as well as all\\nthe proprietors experienced a very interesting and\\nsolemn providence in the sudden death of their\\nreverend and beloved Pastor, Mr. Stevens, who\\ndied Jan. 19, 1755, in the 16th year of his minis-\\ntry.\\nWe have not the means of ascertaining partic-\\nularly the success of his labors for want of church\\nrecords but that he was very dear to the people of\\nhis charge, and his services satisfactory, are evi-\\ndenced by their united attachment to his interest\\namid the trying scenes asid sufferings, to which\\nboth he and they were calhd. And perhaps it\\nwere not necessary, if it were possible, for the\\nproprietary to give stronger proof of their confi-\\ndence, affectionate regard, and of their estimation\\nof his worth, than was done by their uniform inten-\\ntion to do him justice to procure his safety, and\\nto administer to his comfort.\\nThe army under the command of Gen. Brad-\\ndock was defeated by the French and Indians at\\nFort du Quesne, on the Ohio, in the month of Ju-\\nly. The General and a number of his brave men\\nwere killed and the retreat of the residue was\\nconducted by Col. George Washington.\\nFeb. 11. A new agency was appointed to the\\nGeneral Court for incorporate powers for this\\nthere was a special call, as their taxes and the dif-\\nficulty of collecting them increased.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nJune 1 2. At this meeting, beside choosing of-\\nficers, several committees were appointed one to\\nsettle with the administratrix of the Rev. Mr. S. s\\nestate another to provide a preacher for the sea-\\nson, and Mr. Varney was employed a 3d, to take\\ncare of the parsonage lands and a 4th, to procure\\n20 lbs. of powder, and lead and flints sufficient for\\nthe necessary use and protection of the settlers.\\nRaised ^400 for current expenses, and 90^ 17s.\\nold tenor, to meet the expense of Rev. Mr. S. s\\nfuneral.\\nFeb. 19, 1756. Mr. Varney was employed to\\npreach the ensuing season.\\nJune I, 1756. The proprietors met at Contoo-\\ncook, and it seems from the record that this was\\nthe last meeting of the proprietors before the plant-\\nation was incorporated into a town.\\nThe most of the business of the proprietors at\\ntheir meetings particularly related to the settlers,\\nand not to their own department and as the set-\\ntlers had so much increased in numbers, the pro-\\nprietors felt it to be very desirable to be relieved\\nfrom any further concern in the government of\\nthe inhabitants. They had frequently and im-\\nportunately applied to the General Court for the\\ngrant of incorporate powers to the plantation, but\\nwithout avail. Loth to wave a subject so pressing,\\nthey once more appointed an agency, composed\\nof Joseph Coffin, John Moody, and Capt. Stephen\\nGerrish, to set forth to the Court the urgency of\\ntheir request, that they might leave the inhabit-\\nants of their plantation in a capacity to enjoy and\\nimprove town privileges, and to bring their own\\nbusiness to a speedy conclusion. It was their last", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 47\\nappeal, and they were successful in it, though the\\nact of incorporation did not pass till nearly three\\nyears afterward.\\nThe proprietors of Contoocook having steadily\\npursued the object of tlieir association, wisely cal-\\nculating and ably executing their plans and\\nuniformly showing their intentions to provide for\\nthe spiritual as well as temporal interest of those\\nfor whom they acted. They closed their present\\nmeeting by an order on their treasurer for 10/.\\nold tenor, to be paid to each of six gentlemen from\\nNewbury for their attendance.\\nNote. The remaining part of the proceedings of the propri-\\netors will be noted in the Register ol the town of Boscawen, as\\noccasion may offer.\\nThe following sections exhibit the Chronological\\nHistory of the town of Boscawen from the\\ntime of its incorporation in the year 1760, to\\nthe year 1820.\\nSection 11.\\n1760. While the proprietors petition for in-\\ncorporating their plantation was before the govern-\\nment of the Province of N. H., the reduction and\\ndemolition of Louisbourg, so important to New-\\nEngland, took place. This event gave great cele-\\nbrity to the character of Admiral Boscawen and\\nGen. Amherst, and furnished the name Boscawen\\nto the plantation, grateful to the feelings of those", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nwhose past experience of sufferings, and cruelty\\nwere so closely associated with the Indian name,\\nContoGCOok.\\nThe first act of incorporation, for reasons to us\\nunknown, extended only to the term of two years\\nfrom April 22, 1760 and is here transcribed\\nPROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.\\nGeorge the Second^ by the grace of God^ of Great Britain, France\\nand Ireland, o? Defender of the Faith, he.\\nTo all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting.\\nWhereas our Xoy^X subjects, inhabitants of a tract of land within\\nour Province of New-Hampshire, known by the name of Contoo-\\ncook, have humbly petitioned and requested that they may be\\nerected and incorporated into a township, and enfranchised with\\nthe powers and privileges which other towns within our said\\nProvince by law have and enjoy and it appearing to us to be\\nconducive to the general good of our said province, as well as\\nto the said inhabitants in particular, by maintaining order and en-\\ncouraging the culture of lands, that the same should be done.\\nKnow ye, therefore, that of our special Grace s certain knowl-\\nedge, and for the encouraging the good order and purposes afore-\\nsaid, by and with the advice of our trusty and well beloved Penning\\nWentworth, Esq., our Governor and commander in chief, and of\\nour council for said Province of New-Hampshire, have erected,\\nand ordained, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and succes-\\nsors, do will and ordain that the inhabitants of the tract of land\\naforesaid, or that shall inhabit, or improve thereon, the same\\nbeing limited and bounded as follows Beginning at the south-\\nerly side of Contoocook river s mouth, where the same falls into\\nMerrimack river, running thence on a course west, seventeen\\ndegrees south, seven miles and one hundred rods, measured Irom\\na forked white pine near the mouth of Contoocook river, to a\\npitch pine and heap of stones and from said pitch pine and\\nheap of stones running north seventeen degrees west seven miles\\nto a forked beech marked and thence on a course east seven-\\nteen degrees north to Merrimack river to a heap of stones\\nthence by the river as the same runs to the mouth of Contoo-\\ncook river again where it began Shall have, and by these pres-\\nents are declared, ordained to be a town corporate, and are\\nhereby erected and incorporated into a body politic and corpo-\\nrate, to have a continuance two years only by the name of Bos-\\nc.awen, with all the powers, authorities, privileges, immunitie*", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWE!*. 49\\naurl frimchises which any other town in said Province by law holds\\nanl enjoys always reserving to us, our heirs, and successors, all\\nwnits pine trees that are, or shall be found growing, and being on\\nsaid land fit for the use of our Royal Navy, reserving to us, our\\nheirs and successors the power and right of dividing said town when\\nit shall appear necessary and convenient, for the benefit of the in-\\nhabitants thereof; Provided nevertheless., and it is hereby de-\\nclared, that this our Charter and Grant is not intended, nor shall\\nin any m mner be construed to extend to or effect the private\\nproperty of tha soil within the limits aforesaid and as the sev-\\neral towns within our said Province of New-Hampshire are by\\nthe laws thereof enabled and authorized to assemble, and by a\\nmajonty of voters present to choose all such officers and trans-\\nact such affairs as by the said laws are declared.\\nWe do by these presents nominate and appoint Col. Joseph\\nCoffin, Esq. to call the first meeting of said inhabitants, to be\\nheld within the said town at any time within sixty days from the\\ndate heraof, by giving legal notice of the time and design of\\nholding such meeting after which the annual meeting of said\\ntown for the choice of such officers, and management of the af-\\nfail s aforesjud shall be held within the same on the first Tuesday\\nof March annually.\\nIn testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of our said\\nProvince to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Benning Wentworth,\\nEsq. our Governor and commander in chief of our said Prov-\\nince of New-Hampshire, this twenty-second day of April, in the\\nthirty-third year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord Christ\\n\u00c2\u00abne thousand seven hundred and sixty.\\nBENNING WENTWORTH.\\nBy His Excellency s command,\\nwith advice of council,\\nTheodore Atkinson, Secretary.\\nProvince of New-Hampshire, Sept. 23, 1760, Recorded in the,\\nBook of Charters, page 221.\\nTheodore Atkinson, Secretary.\\nOn Wednesday, June 18, 1760, conformably to\\nthe order contained in the foregoing act of incor-\\nporation, to Col. Joseph Coffin directed, the Jirsf\\nmeeting of the freeholders and other inhabitants\\nof the town of Boscawen was convoked at the\\nmeeting-house in said town. Col. Coffin wa\\n7", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nchosen Moderator, and George Jackman, jun.\\nClerk for the year, who was re-chosen for the fol-\\nlowing thirty-five years successively.*\\nThe town beina thus organized, provision was\\nmade for erecting a town pound.\\nJuly 10. Being destitute of a settled minister,\\nthe town raised 1200 old tenor ^800 upon\\nthe proprietors rights, and ^400 upon the polls\\nand estate of the inhabitants, for preaching and\\nother expenses of the year. Also appointed a\\ncommittee to provide a preacher, and Mr. Robie\\nMorrill was employed. The pulpit had been sup-\\nplied the two preceding seasons by Mr. Stephen\\nScales. The town found it necessary to call in\\nthe arrearages of the income of the parsonage\\nand school lands.\\nGeorge Jackman, jun. was appointed the first\\njustice of the peace in the town of Boscawen, by\\nhis Majesty s authority, King George II.\\nThis was a year of great plenty, but was fol-\\nlowed by two years of great drought and scarcity.\\nSection 12.\\nMarch 3, 1761. The inhabitants of the town\\nwere desirous of re-settling the gospel ministry\\namong them. The duty of selecting the minis-\\nLest the Register of the town proceedings, and important\\nevents shotild be interrupted and obscured by naming the officers\\nchosen at the annual meetings such as moderator, Town Clerk,\\nSelectmen, Ptepresentatives, c. they are here omitted, and are\\nto be found in a compact List in the 3d Part.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 51\\nter now devolved on them, though they felt inad-\\nequate to his support without assistance from the\\nproprietary. At their annual meeting, therefore,\\nCapt. Stephen Gerrish, and Dea. George Jackman\\nwere chosen a committee to employ a preacher\\nwith a view to his settlement and Mr. Robie\\nMorrill, who for some time had preached to good\\nacceptance, was employed on probation.\\nThe town made provision for the support of a\\nschool two months the present year.\\nSept. 9. A meeting of the proprietors was called\\nby Ezra Carter, Esq. one of his Majesty s justices of\\nthe peace, and attended in Boscawen not having\\nhad a formal meeting for nearly four years, as ap-\\npears from the silence of their records. Capt. Ste-\\nphen Gerrish was chosen Moderator Deacon\\nGeorge Jackman, proprietors Clerk to succeed\\nCol. Joseph Coffin, who had served the proprietors\\nin that office with great ability, punctuality and\\nfaithfulness for more than 28 years. Other offi-\\ncers were chosen, and a committee composed of\\nJohn Flanders, Moses Call and Richard Flood to\\ncall future meetings of the proprietors on applica-\\ntion of one sixteenth part of the whole proprietary.\\nSaid meetings to be publicly notified, according to\\nlaWj at Newbury and at Boscawen. Provision was\\nmade for settling up all accounts open with former\\ncollectors and committees and for repairing their\\nmeeting-house in Boscawen. And finding the\\ninhabitants disposed to settle Mr. Morrill in the\\nministry, the proprietors voted ^300 old tenor to-\\nward defraying the expense of his ordination and\\nsupport and gave such encouragement for fur-\\nther aid, that the town proceeded to invite, and, on", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 HISTORY OF B09CATVTT J,\\nhis acceptance of their invitation, Mr. Morrill was\\nordained pastor of the church in Boscawen Dec.\\n29, 1761.\\n1762. At subsequent meetings, April 7, and\\nJune 2, 1762, the proprietors procured a right of\\nland of Maj. Samuel Gerrish, at the expense of\\nsi 1000 New-Hampshire money, and conferred\\nthe same upon the Rev. Mr. Morrill, and bis beirs\\nforever likewise, in unison with the town, vo-\\nted him an annual salary of s8700 of the same\\ncurrency one third to be assessed i pon the\\npolls of stock of the inhabitants, ond the remain-\\ning two thirds to be assessed upon the lands of\\nthe proprietors said salary to begin at the time\\nof ordination, Dec. 29th. The use of the parsim-\\nage,a matter of course. Thus they evidenced their\\ncharacteristic regard for the gospel ministry, by\\nso generously aiding in the settlement of a second\\nminister in town but Mr. Samuel Fowler was\\nexcused from paying his proportion of this benefit\\ncence, at his own request.\\nAt their meeting June 2, the proprietors agreed\\nto lay out the 4th division of their land in 45\\nacre lots and appointed Capt. Stephen Gerrish,\\nMaj. Samuel Gerrish, John Webster, Samuel\\nMoody, and John Brown, Esq. their committee\\nand Mr. Brown to be the surveyor.\\nThe war being now over, the fort, which had\\nbeen occupied by all the inhabitants for more than\\ntwenty-two years, was no longer needed as a garri-\\nson, and the proprietors gave liberty to all who\\nhad erected framed buildings therein, to remove\\nthem to tlieir several farms which they might now", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. Uu\\ncultivate unmolested, without the dreadful ap-\\nprehension of meeting savage cruelty.\\nSection 13.\\nJan, 5, 1763. A meeting of the proprietors was\\ncalled by their committee and adjourned to the\\n1st of June, when the 4th division was reported\\nas laid out by their committee and the proprie-\\ntors agreed that the lots should be drawn both in\\nB,)scawen and Newbury to accommodate the resi-\\ndent and nonresident proprietors. The expence\\nof this survey was 207/. old tenor to John Brown,\\nEsq. surveyor; 3/. 10\u00c2\u00ab. per day to each of the\\ncommittee and 3/. per day to each of the chain-\\nmen.\\nThe proprietors in favor to Rev. Mr. Morrill,\\npermitted him to choose the 45 acre lot belongin r\\nto his right and he chose lot No. 3, on Cold^\\nbrook. Likewise gave to Mr. Morrill the im-\\nprovement of the school and meeting-house lots\\nfor the term of four years.\\nProvision was made for settling with the estate\\nof the former minister, Mr. Stevens, and all oth-\\ner accounts open with the proprietors and con-\\ncluded their meeting by confirming sundry votes,\\nwhich they had past iw/orma% in the years 1758,\\n59 and 60, while their petition for incorpora-\\ntion was pending.\\nThe town of Boscawen did not hold their an-\\nnual meeting this year in March, because their\\nfirst charter, which was to continue only for two", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nyears had run out, and a new one, or confirmation\\nof the old one, had not yet been given. But\\nthrough the agency of Mr. John Webster, em-\\nployed by the town, a renewal of their town-\\ncharter was received in the month of Oct. 17G3;\\nand here follows\\nPROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.\\nGeorge the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France\\nand Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, .c.\\nWhereas our late roj al Grandfather King Georg-e the Second,\\nofc^lorious memory, did of his special Grace, and upon the peti-\\ntion of the inhabitants of a tract of land in our said Province,\\nknown by the name of Boscawen, and lor the maintaining good\\norder, and encouragjng the culture of the land thereby, his let-\\nters patent or charter under the seal of our said Provir.ce dated\\nthe twenty-second day of April in the thirty-third year of his\\nreign, and in the year of our Lord 1760, did erect and incoi po-\\nrate into a body corporate and politic, by the name of Boscawen,\\nthe inhabitants of the said tract of land, or those that shall there-\\non inhabit said Province, being butted and bounded as in the said\\npatent, or charter expi essed, and was to continue till the expira-\\ntion of two years and no longer, which time being now elapsed,\\nand the inhabitmits having again petitioned to have the said char-\\nter privileges renewed, and it appearing to us necessary to ans-\\nwer the good proposed, as well as to enable the inhabitants afore-\\nsaid to assess, and collect their rates and taxes.\\nKnow ye, that we, being willing to promote the good end pro-\\nposed, have of our fux ther grace and favour, by and with the ad-\\nvice of our trusty and well beloved Benning Wentworth, Esq.\\nour Governor, and Commander in Chief, and of our Council lor\\nsaid Province, revived and regranted, and by these presents do\\nrevive and regrant unto the said inhabitants and their successors\\non the said tract of land, all the powers, authorities, rivileges,\\nimmunities and franchises in the said charter mentioned, as they\\nenjoyed the same when that charter was in force, and to have\\ncontinuance till we shall approve or disallow the same, and sig-\\nnify much our approbation or disallowance and about any dis-\\npute that ma} arise about the authority in calling a meeting of\\nthe inhabitants, c. the selectmen or those that were appointed\\nto that office, and served therein for the last time, or the town\\nclerk, are hereby authorized iri the usual form and method to\\nnotify, and call a meeting of the inhabitants for the choice ol\\ntown officers and other affairs of the town.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 55\\nIn testimony whereof, we have caused tlie seal of our said\\nrrovince to be hereunto alfised.\\nWitness, Benning Wentworth, Esq. our Governor and Com-\\nnmnderin Chief, this seventh day of October, in the third year\\nof our reign, A. D. 1763.\\nBENNING WENTWORTH.\\nBy his Excellency s command,\\nwith the advice of Council,\\nTHEonouE Atkinson, Secretary.\\nProvince OF New-Hampshire, Oct. thesevcnih^ 1763. Kccord-\\npj\\\\ in the book of Charters, No. 1, page 2G0.\\nNov. 1,1763. Agreeably to the provisions of\\nthe foregoing renewal of the town charter, George\\nJackman, Esq. Town Clerk, called a meeting of\\nthe freeholders and other inhabitants of the town\\nof Boscawen for the choice of town officers\\nMO other business of importance was attended to.\\nJan. 9th, 1764. The town awarded Mr. John\\nWebster \u00c2\u00a382 old tenor for his time and expens-\\nes in obtaining a second permanent act of incor-\\nporation.\\nMarch 6th. At the annual meeting, after elect-\\ning town officers for the year, several committees\\nwere appointed, viz.\\nTo settle accounts with former selectmen to\\nlay out high w^ays which may be necessary to\\ntake care of the school lands to settle the line\\nbetween the Parsonage and Mrs. Varney s inter-\\nval lots to open and shut the interval, spring\\nand fall and a committee of four to proportion\\nthe fence round the upper interval to the several\\nproprietors.\\nThere was no provision made for a school the\\npresent year but the town voted to make good the\\nsalary of Rev. Mr. Morrill, the value of which\\nhad depreciated against this vote Capt. Stepheto", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN,\\nGerrish entered his dissent. The indemnity al-\\nlowed Mr. Morrill, by the town, for the two last\\nyears was 200 old tenor, at the rate \u00c2\u00a36 for\\na dollar for the 1st year, and \u00c2\u00a37 per dollar for\\nthe 2d year .And this year, George Jackman, jun.\\nEsq. was appointed Clerk of the proprietors, in\\nplace of Dea. G. Jackman.\\nSection 14.\\n1765. The stamp-act passed by the British\\nParliament furnished matter of grievance to the\\nAmerican Colonies. About this time, the Province\\nRoad was laid out by royal authority, JohnWent-\\nworth, Governor, through the Province of New-\\nHampshire, from Portsmouth to No. 4, or Charles-\\ntown. Also a bridge was built over Contoocook\\nriver, near Capt. John Chandler s, by John Flan-\\nders and Capt. Henry Lovejoy. Said bridge con-\\nstructed with king-posts and long braces.\\n1766. The Rev. Mr. Morrill had been settled\\nbut a few years but from the depreciation of the\\nvalue of his salary, and the acts of the town in\\nmaking him an indemnity difficulties arose which\\nthreatened his removal. Some of the people had\\nalready withdrawn from his support, and united\\nwith the Episcopalian church the town, there-\\nfore, at a legal meeting, after consulting upon the\\nstate of things, appointed a committee of five to\\nwait upon the Rev. Mr. Morrill, and ascertain, on\\nwhat conditions he would take a dismission.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 57\\nThe Rev. Mr. Morrill was disposed to make a\\nstatement of the terms for giving up his contract,\\nat an adjourned meeting, which the town readily\\naccepted and also voted to be at the expense of\\nentertaining the mutual council to be called, to\\ndissolve the pastoral relation accordingly, the\\nchurch, having consented to the procedure, the\\nRev. Mr. Morrill was regularly dismissed on the\\n9th diy of December, 1766 but continued in\\ntown a very useful, respectable and exemplary\\ncitizen till the day of his death which was Sept.\\n23, 1813, at the age of 77 years.\\nMtrch 3, 1767. Provision was made at the\\nannual meeting for three months schooling the\\npresent year. The selectmen were directed to\\nemploy a regular preacher, and Mr. Nathaniel\\nMerrill was employed.\\nJuly 25. The log meeting-house had become\\ngreatly impaired the town, therefore, took into\\nconsideration the building a new house, and agreed\\nthat one should be built near Ephraim Woodbu-\\nry s and that Dea. Morrill, Sinkler Bean and\\nCapt. Archelaus Moore be a committee to fix on\\nthe spot who accordingly reported, Sept. 8, the\\nplace on which it was afterwards built. Mr. Mer-\\nrill, being well received as a preacher, was em-\\nployed two months on probation for settlement.\\nThe proprietors held a meeting in Boscaweu\\nJune 3d, and it seems to have been the opinion of\\nthe inhabitants of the town that they would as-\\nsume the expense of building the contemplated\\nmeeting-house 5 but when consulted, it was found\\ntliat though willing to grant the land fixed on for\\n8", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nthe building, they were unwilling to erect the\\nhouse. A committee was appointed by the pro-\\nprietors to aid the town in recovering the non-\\nresident taxes.\\nSept. 6, 1768. After much had been said and\\ndone respecting a meeting-house, the town chose\\na committee of five, Messrs. Thomas Fox, Benja-\\nmin Eastman, Peter Kimball, Joseph Atkinson,\\nand George Jackman, Esq. to put up a frame at\\nthe town s expense who performed, immediately,\\nthe business of their appointment. Having thus\\ndisposed of the meeting-house, another object\\ndeeply affecting the interests of the town claimed\\nattention the re-settlement of a minister. The\\nlabors of Mr. N. Merrill proved so satisfactory to\\nthe church and people, that the town was indu-\\nced to offer him the following terms of settlement,\\nviz. eighty acres of land an annual salary of\\n\u00c2\u00a342 lawful money, during his ministry twenty\\ncords of wood annually, and the use of the par-\\nsonage. These terms Mr. Merrill was disposed\\nto accept the town, therefore, agreed that the\\nordination should take place on the third Wednes-\\nday of the following October appointed a com-\\nmittee to provide for the council, and voted S7\\nlawful money to defray the expense of ordination.\\nAnd Mr. Merrill was accordingly ordained on\\nthe day appointed.\\nThus we have seen the inhabitants of Boscaw-\\nen though delivered from solicitude respecting oc-\\ncurrences abroad, in the two last years, closely\\noccupied by their own very interesting concerns\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u0094the dismission of one minister, the re-settle-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "HISTORY or BOSCAWEN. 59\\nment of another and preparations made for the\\nerection of a decent house for public worship.\\nAt a meeting of proprietors, Oct. 6, 60/. lawful\\nmoney was voted to defray the expenses of the\\nproprietary. And here it may be observed, that\\nlawful money came into general use in reckoning\\nin place of the Massachusetts and New-Hamp-\\nshire old tenor.\\nSection 15.\\nJuly 25, 1769. A town meeting was held at\\nthe new meeting-house frame to the end of provi-\\nding for the completion of the building. The town\\nraised 250/. old tenor to be added to what might\\narise from the sale of the pew-ground and a vote\\npassed that this sum should be paid in work at\\n505. per day about 42 cents lawful money.\\nThe time assigned for the sale of the pews, was\\nthe 1st of August following and they were ac-\\ncordingly sold.\\n1770. The 5th of March was a memorable\\nday, on account of the bloody scene opened in\\nBoston,between several English soldiers and Amer-\\nicans. The dispute arose from the jealousy excited\\nin the breasts of our countrymen by certain ar-\\nbitrary acts of the mother country but ended in\\nthe wanton butchery of several young men. It\\nbears the descriptive name massacre.\\nMarch 6. The town employed Mr. Robie\\nMorrill to keep a school four months and com-\\npensated him by the use of the school-right, and\\nboth the house and interval lots a limited time.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nIt became necessary to open the province road\\nthrough this town to No. 4, Chariestown. The\\nproprietors, therefore, Oct. 23, raised S250 to-\\nward defraying the expense, and the town united\\nin aiding the business.\\nJune 11, 1771. To fulfil the contract made\\nwith Rev. Nathl. Merrill at his settlement, the\\ntown procured of Capt. Henry Gerrish, eighty\\nacres of land for 100 dollars.\\nMay 5, 1772. A bridge was built over Black-\\nwater river by the town and a road opened, at\\nthe expense of the proprietors, to the upper in-\\nterval.\\nAugust 30, 1772. The first grand juror called\\nfor, to attend his Majesty s superior court at Am-\\nherst, and Capt. Henry Gerrish was elected and\\nserved and received from the town 10s. lawful\\nmoney as compensation for each term.\\nFor several years the measures adopted by the\\nmother country in relation to the American col-\\nonies were deemed by them an abridgment of\\ntheir rights, and their feelings w^ere fast preparing\\nto make open resistance to the unjust exactions.\\nAlthough Parliament had repealed the odious\\nStamp-Ad^ yet, in a few months, new duties\\nwere imposed upon paper, glass, tea, c., for the\\npurpose of raising a revenue to the crown but\\nfinding that discontent existed among the colo-\\nm sts, the duties were all removed, except that on\\ntea. And this was under such management as to\\nexempt the Importer from all duty, and throw the\\nwhole weight of an enormous and perpetual bur-\\nden upon loyal subjects, without their consent", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 61\\nIt was not however the burden, but the right of\\nlaying it, which called for resistance. It was\\nviewed intolerable therefore, in December, while\\nseveral ships lying in Boston harbor, laden with\\ntea, they were boarded by a number of armed\\nmen, under the disguise of Mohawk Indians\\nwho soon discharged their whole cargo into the\\nsea. Deeds of ihe same complexion were done\\nin other American ports and most of the patri-\\notic colonists voluntarily relinquished the use of\\nthis article for several years. These acts had their\\ninfluence in preparing the way for those more effi-\\ncacious, toward the security of equal rights, and\\nthe blessings of freedom from intolerable bond-\\nage.\\n1774. The church and town of Boscawen are\\nagain deprived of the stated gospel ministry. The\\nRev. Mr. Merrill, who was settled in 1768, was\\nremoved about the first of April the present year.\\nRespecting his removal, and what led to the event,\\nno correct information can be had from any writ-\\nten record as the records of the town furnish\\nnone,and the church record was then misplaced,or\\nlost,and has never to this day been found. To sup-\\nply this blank in our history, the memories of sev-\\neral now living retain the circumstances of that\\nevent and from this source the following brief\\naccount is given.\\nFrom some cause, Mr. Merrill was led to join\\nhimself to the Grafton Presbytery and by his\\ninfluence the church was induced, in part, to\\nchange the congregational for the presbyterian\\nform of church government. This new con-\\nnexion led Mr. M. often from his flock, to supply", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6^ HISTORY OF B OS C A WEN.\\nother vacant churches in the Presbytery, which\\nwas an occasion of discontent among his own\\ncharge. The discontent was increased by some\\nsupposed, if not real aberrations observed in his\\nconduct, and proved a fatal bar in the way of his\\nusefulness. Mr. M., well aware of this, applied\\nto the Presbytery for a removal and he was re-\\nmoved, without the intervention of either the\\nchurch or town.\\nIn reference to the alteration, which had taken\\nplace in the form of church government, there\\nseems to have been a general excitement for in\\na subsequent meeting of the town, Sept. 6, a\\ncommittee of nine was appointed to confer with\\nthe church in Boscawen about the government and\\ndiscipline thereof\\nJuly 1 5. By an order from the General Assembly\\nof the Province of New-Hampshire, the town met\\nto choose a delegate to sit in convention at Exeter\\non the 21st inst. for the choice of members of\\nthe first Provincial Congress and Capt. Henry\\nGerrish was elected. The specific object of the\\nfirst Congress is thus expressed. To consider\\nwhat measures are best to be taken for the es-\\ntablishing the rights and liberties, and for the\\nrestoration of the union and harmony between\\nthe mother-country and the colonies.\\nThe harmony between the countries was inter-\\nrupted, and the rights and liberties of the colonists\\ninfringed by successive acts of the British Cabi-\\nnet in laying taxes imposing duties altering\\nthe charter of Massachusetts, and setting up a new\\ngovernment over the Province empowering the\\nGovernor to send criminals to England for trial", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 68\\nhaving already taken possession of the town of\\nBoston by an armed force removed the Custom-\\nhouse officers from the town, and shut up its port.\\nThese w^ere acts affecting the common interest of\\nthe several colonies, and required their united\\nwisdom to devise a speedy remedy, and prevent,\\nif possible, the horrors of war. Delegates were\\ntherefore elected in the then 13 colonies, and met\\nin Congress, the 5th of September, at Philadel-\\nphia.\\nNov. 1. The town of Boscawen appointed a\\ncommittee to employ immediately a gospel\\npreacher of the congregational order.\\nSection 16.\\n1775. The annals of 1775 present us with\\n3,000,000 of people born free, in general alarm,\\npreparing for war rushing to the field of battle,\\nand there Avitnessing the costly sacrifice of blood\\nand treasure, for the security of their freedom.\\nJan. 17. Capt. Henry Gerrish was again cho-\\nsen delegate to meet in convention at Exeter the\\n25th inst., to elect members for the 2d Congress.\\nOne barrel of gun-powder, Icwt. of lead, and\\n100 flints, were ordered to be procured for the use\\nof the town.\\nAlso voted, to adhere strictly to the advice of\\nthe Continental Congress, and appointed nine men\\nto act as a Committee of Safety.\\nMarch 7. Mr. *S\u00c2\u00abmMe/ who had been sup-\\nplying, was again engaged to preach the ensuing", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nseason. May 10, the town consented that a pro-\\nportion of preaching should be enjoyed in the\\nwest part of the town.\\nOn the alarm hein^^ given at Lexington, numbers\\nfrom this town volunteered, as well as from all\\nparts of New-England and several joined the\\ntroops at Cambridge,* three of whom volunteered\\nin the expedition to Quebec.\\n1776. Congress finding all attempts for are-\\nconciliation with the parent-country vain in the\\nname of the American people, whom they repre-\\nKsented, declared on the 4th of July the thirteen\\nUnited States to be Free and Independent. And\\nthis declaration gave a systematic energy to the\\nwar.\\nMarch 5. This town compensated sundry per-\\nsons, who volunteered their services on the alarm,\\nthe preceding year chose a large committee of\\nsafety, agreeably to a recommendation from Con-\\ngress provided for town schools, and gave the\\npeople liberty to resolve themselves into school\\ndistricts. Mr. Judson preached in town several\\nmonths.\\nMarch 28, 1777. By an order from the Gener-\\nal Court, the town used means for obtaining en-\\nlistments for the public service, and offered a\\nbounty of 50 dollars to those who would enlist\\nfor three years. Also appointed a committee (May\\n26) to fix the price of certain articles of living\\nit being necessary from the depreciation of the\\npaper currency. And such was the patriotism of\\nThe number of those who served in the several Campaigns,\\nin 1775-76, will be given in the Sd part, with the proceedin|p\u00c2\u00ab\\nof the town for their indemnity", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 65\\nthe people of the town, that they voted, in public\\nmeeting, not to employ Peter Green, Esq., as an\\nAttorney, or Jacob Green as Deputy Sheriff, be-\\ncause of their unfriendly feelings towards the\\ngrand cause of our country. Messrs. Judson and\\nEasterbrook were employed to preach.\\nJan. 20,1778. The town was Very desirous\\nthat Mr. Easterbrook would settle with them in\\nthe ministry. He did preach several months,, but\\ndid not consent to settle.\\nProvisions were made by the town, under the\\nauthority of the State, to supply the families of\\nthose employed in the continental service.\\nMarch 3. That part of the town, west of Bea-\\nver-Dam, were permitted to enjoy their proportion\\nof preaching, according to their tax.\\nJlpril 21. George Jackman, Esq., was chosen\\ndelegate, to meet in convention at Concord, to\\nadopt a more permanent system of state govern-\\nment.\\nJuly 7, 1779. The selectmen and Capt. Peter\\nKimball were authorized to provide 4 men for the\\ncontinental service, and 5 men for the defence of\\nRhode-Island.\\nSept. 8. The plan of state government was laid\\nbefore the town, but was not accepted. At this\\nmeeting, George Jackman, Esq., was chosen dele-\\ngate to meet in convention, to regulate the prices\\nof sundry articles of living.\\nDec. 0. Col. Henry Gerrish was chosen, to rep-\\nresent the towns of Boscawen and Salisbury, in\\nthe General Court, and to aid in the choice of\\nmembers of Congress.\\n9", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "^6 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nMarch 7^ 1780. At this time, the paper curren-\\ncy had greatly depreciated, so that a day s work,\\nupon the highway, was reckoned at i6, or 20\\ndollai-s. And to indemnify the selectmen for\\ntheir services, whose uniform compensation, annu-\\nally, had heen two dollars each, the town engaged,\\nat their annual meeting, to give to each of them\\nSi 00, paper money, and hco bushels of peas.\\nJune 22. A committee was chosen to provide\\nmen for the continental service, and authorized to\\ncompensate them. J 1000 were raised at the an-\\nnual meeting for preaching, and a committee\\nchosen to lay it out hut the record does not spe-\\ncify the person employed.\\nSection 17.\\n1781. The town of Boscawen had been desti-\\ntute of a settled minister for the seven last years,\\nthough several candidates had heen employed, and\\nseveral attempts made for a settlement. It now\\nseemed the united desire of the town, to secure\\nsuch a blessing therefore, at their annual meet-\\ning, March 6, the selectmen were directed to as-\\nsess such a tax upon the inhabitants, as would sup-\\nply them with a preacher eight months and re-\\nquested their committee to employ Mr. Samuel\\nWood four sabbatlis, whose late labors among\\nthem had been generally acceptable. And at\\nthis meeting, Lt. Enoch Gerrish was chosen\\nagent to provide the beef and men required of the\\ntown for the public service the present year.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 67\\nJuly 31. A special meeting of the town was\\ncalled, at the request of the church, to ascertain\\nthe feelings of the people in respect of the labors\\nof Mr. Wood and also, to his taking the pastoral\\ncharge of the church, in the work of the gospel\\nministry among them. And the town voted to\\ngive him an invitation to settle with them in the\\nministry, accompanied with the following encour-\\nagement for his support, viz. ^50 a year, for the\\ntwo first years, equal to silver at 6s. 8d. per ounce,\\nor in current money, of equal value, as his annual\\nsalary. After the two first yeai s, to increase ^5 a\\nyear, to ^70, which should he his stated salary, as\\nlong as he remained their minister. And also ^90\\nsettlement, equal to silver at 6s. 8d. per ounce,\\nshould he settle with them, with the use of the\\nparsonage.\\nThe committee, appointed to present the invi-\\ntation and proposals to Mr. Wood, were authorized\\nto receive his answer, and, if affirmative, to unite\\nwith him in fixing the time of his ordination, and\\nto make all necessary provision for the same.\\nMr. Wood was disposed to accept the terms of\\nsettlement, and accordingly united in the calling a\\ncouncil, and was ordained Oct. 17, 1781.\\nSept. 10. The depreciation of the town taxes\\nwas found to he so great, that the selectmen were\\ndirected to lay a new tax in silver money, and re-\\nduce the old tax to that value.\\nDec. 4. The towns of Salisl)ury and Boscawen\\nmade a trial, but could not agree, to send a repre-\\nsentative to the General Court. The land of de-\\nlinquent proprietors was sold for taxes, at public\\nauction, July 11, 1781.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\n1782. After the surrender of Lord Cornwallis,\\nou the 9th October, there seemed far less anxiety\\nin the American people, in respect of the conclu-\\nsion of the war. And as the enemy was in the\\nsouthern states, the calls for men and means, for\\nthe support of the war upon the people of New-\\nEngland, were less frequent and urgent. This\\ntown did nothing more the present year, than\\n(March 5) to re-appoint Lt. Enoch Gerrish their\\nagent, to provide the town s proportion of men,\\nbeef, c., for the army.\\nMay. The meeting house in town had been\\nbuilt several years ^but, owing to other public ex-\\npenses, it still remained unfinished. The town\\nnow took up the subject, and ordered the gallery-\\npews to be sold, and the avails of the sale to be\\nlaid out in finishing the house.\\nOn the 2d day of October, the proprietors held\\na meeting, not having been in session, before, for\\nabout 10 years. At this meeting, they agreed, that\\nall their lands, remaining common and undivided,\\nshould be sold at public auction and they were\\naccordingly sold, excepting those appropriated to\\nparticular uses. Also, the proprietors made a do-\\nnation to the town of 400 feet of glass, for the\\nmeeting house, and appointed Col. Henry Ger-\\nrish to procure the same. And at the adjourn-\\nment of the meeting, Nov. 12, they specifically\\nreserved two acres of the common land on Clay-\\nHill, as a brick-yard for the town proprietors, and\\nconcKided their meeting by the appointment of\\nGeorge Jackman, Esq., Henry Gerrish, Esq., and\\nMr. Cutting Noyes, a committee to call meetings\\nin future.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. ()9\\n1783. After the experience of the privations\\nand distresses of an eight years warfare with a\\nnation powerful in arms, a cessation of hostiUties\\nis announced, and, Feh. 4, the freedom, sovereign-\\nty and independence of the United States acknowl-\\nedged to the universal joy of the American people\\nbeing invested by Divine Providence, with the\\nrichest blessings, to be inherited by unborn gen-\\nerations.\\nMarch 4. Notwithstanding the past difficulties\\nand discouragements experienced by the inhabit-\\nants of this town, they were generally prosperous\\nin their improvements especially those in the\\nwesterly part of the town. Such was the in-\\ncrease of their numbers and property, that it be-\\ncame desirable, for their convenience, to have a\\nhouse for publie Avorship erected the town took\\nsome measures to this effect, but a nieeting house\\nwas not built till several years afterward.\\nA plan of state government was sent out to the\\npeople for adoption but a majority of the tow n\\nobjected to the offices of Gov)er7ior and Privy-\\nCouncil. and appointed Rev. Samuel Wood, Henry\\nGerrish, Esq., and Samuel Fowler, delegates to\\nthe convention, to offer the town s objections.\\n^^ug. 18. The 8th article of the Confederation\\nbetween the states was approved of by the town,\\nas recommended by the General Court.\\nSept. 29. The Upper Bridge, over Blackwater\\nriver, was ordered by the town to be built, but\\nwas not completed till the following year.\\nMarch 2, 1784. The government of the state\\nof New-Hampshire being settled, the town gave\\ntbeir suffrages for a President and two Senators.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "70 HISTORY 0\u00c2\u00a5 BOSXJAWEN.\\nDec. 9. Nonresident lands sold at auction, by\\nCutting Noyes, Collector.\\nDec. 30. An agent chosen to defend the town\\nin an action brought by Abraham T. Sweat, for\\nhis bounty as a soldier.\\nApril 9,5.^ 1785. Measures adopted, to preserve\\n{he public lands from injury.\\nSept. 3. The town defended the selectmen in\\nun action brought by John Fowler, for his minis-\\nter tax.\\nMarch 7, 1786. There being no present call for\\nwar stores, Mr. Robie Morrill was directed, by the\\ntown, to dispose of the ammunition on hand, and to\\nreserve the avails for the procurement of a future\\nstock, when needed.\\nNov. 24. From the great scarcity of money in\\ncirculation, the government of New-Hampshire\\ncalled for the public opinion respecting an emission\\nof paper and this town voted their assent, that\\nso much paper should be issued as would redeem\\nthe state securities, and under such management,\\nas to be called in within the term of 7 years.\\nIn this and the following year, 1787, the gener-\\nal tranquility of New-England was greatly in-\\nterrupted by what has been termed Shay^s Rebel-\\nlion or a formidable opposition to the state and\\nnational governments. It began, and was virulent\\nin Massachusetts, but the state of New-Hamp-\\nshire was not exempted from its portion of the\\nevil. For a while, the rich blessings for which\\nour country has fought and bled seemed jeopard-\\nized but, by wise and energetic measures, the\\nrestless spirits of the multitude were quelled", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 71\\nand this alarming evil opened the way for the\\nadoption of our present excellent form of national\\ngovernment.\\nSection 18.\\nMarch 31, 1787. The town met to choose a\\nrepresentative to the General Court hut, as shew^-\\ning their unwillingness to he represented, after\\nmuch dehate, they voted not to elect a modera-\\ntor.\\nApuil 28. A road was ordered to he opened\\nfrom Black water bridge to Warner line.\\nJune 4. Delegates were appointed to meet in\\nconvention, at Warner, on the expediency of pe-\\ntitioning the General Court, for the removal of\\nthe Courts of Sessions and Common Pleas from\\nAmherst to some town in the northwesterly ptrt\\nof Hillsborough county. A petition was present-\\ned and eventually granted, and Hopkinton was\\nmade a shire town.\\nJan. 14,1788. Capt. Joseph Gerrish was chosen\\ndelegate to the convention, for the adoption of\\nthe Federal Constitution but, through the influ-\\nence of a few, another meeting was called, May\\n23, and a majority of those present voted to re-\\nject said constitution, and elected Samuel Fowler,\\nEjiq. delegate, in room of Capt. Gerrish. The\\nprocedure, however, was viewed incorrect by\\nthe Convention, and therefore, the gentleman first\\nelected took his seat.\\nDec. 15. Members of the 1st Congress und^r\\nthe Federal Constitution^ and electors of Presir", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 HlSTOrtV OF BOSCAWEN.\\ndent and Vice-President, ballotted for in a gener-\\nal ticket. And on counting the electoral votes,\\nat the 1st meeting of Congress, March 4, 1789,\\nit was found that Gen. George Washington\\nwas elected President of the United States, by\\nthe unanimous voice of his country, and the Hon.\\nJohn Adams, Vice-President.\\nThe town was not represented in the General\\nCourt the present year.\\n^pril 14. A part of the school lands were dis-\\nposed of, in a long lease, at auction, for the sums\\nfollowing house lot, S124 interval lot, S210\\nand the eighty acre lot, 8453 these sums, making\\nS787, to be kept on interest for the sole use of\\nthe schools in town. The 100, and 45 acre lots\\nw ere not at this time disposed of.\\nMarch 3, 1790. The nonresident lands sold by\\nEdmund Chadwick, Collector.\\nThe town called for the money due for pews\\nin the gallery of the meeting house, for immedi-\\nate application. And (Dec. 10) ^x)ted that ground\\nfor four pews be sold, and built on the floor of\\nthe meeting house now occupied by seats, which\\nwas accordingly done.\\nMarch 1,1791. Much business was expected\\nto fall to the department of the selectmen the\\npresent year the town, therefore, elected Jive to\\nserve in that office.\\n^pril 6. The inhabitants, in the westerly part\\nof the town, having petitioned for the convenience\\nof a meeting house at this meeting a committee\\nof eleven was chosen, to consider and report to\\nthe town on said petition, which was immediately\\ndone and was, for substance, the following.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 73\\n1. That the town hiiild a meeting house. 2. That\\nall meetings on the sabbath, and for public busi-\\nness shall be there attended, according to tlie pro-\\nportion of taxes paid by the inhabitants, as soon\\nas the house may be occupied. And 3d, that a\\ncommittee of three, viz. James Flanders, Esq.,\\nEbenezer Webster, Esq., and Capt. Luke Wilder,\\nfix the spot for the erection of the house and\\nthe frame to be raised and the pews sold within\\none year from this date. This report was accept-\\ned by the town.\\nSept. 19. Accordingly a committee of direc-\\ntion was appointed. The town fixed on the place\\nfor the house. Mr. Samuel Jackman contracted\\nto procure a frame for 94 dollars; the workman-\\nship was so satisfactory to the town, that a con-\\nsideration was made to Mr. J. of SI 6 68 cents.\\nOct. 17. The pews were sold at public auction\\nthis day.\\n1792. As yet, very little had been done for\\nthe promotion of learning! But at the commence-\\nment of this year, (Feb. 7.) a respectable society\\nwas formed for the procurement of a Social Li-\\nbrary. And, as a further encouragement to make\\nthe education of youth an object of importance,\\nthe Rev. Mr. Wood, (March 6.) generously prof-\\nfered the town the whole avails of the parsonage\\nlands, for one year, being 44 dollars and, for this\\nbeneficence, received a cordial vote of thanks\\nfrom the town.\\nMarch 27. It was thought expedient, by the\\ntown, to dispose of the parsonage lands, and put\\nthe money on interest. The Rev. Mr. Wood, be-\\n10", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\niiig solicited, gave his acquittal, and the whole par-\\nsonage right was sold at auction, in separate lots or\\nparcels and bonds given for the payment, by the\\nseveral purchasers, amounting to 9 1 8 dollars,\\nJiiig. 27. The town voted acceptance of the\\nConstitution of the State, as revised and amended\\nby the Convention in June last,\\nMarch 5^ 1793. The annual meeting was held,\\nfor the first time, at the west meeting house.\\nMardi 4, 1794. The town compensated Geo.\\nJackman, Esq., for his past services as Town\\nClerk.\\nA large committee was chosen to unite with\\nthe selectmen in dividing the town into school\\ndistricts, and for building school houses, which was\\naccordingly done.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Wood having relinquished his\\nclaim upon the parsonage lands, that they might\\nbe sold at this meeting, the town voted that he\\nhave the annual interest on the parsonage lands,\\nduring his future continuance with tliem in the\\nministry.\\nA standard of weights and measures was or-\\ndered to be procured for the town, which was\\ndone by the selectmen.\\nThe spring of 1794 was very forward but it\\nis well remembered, that on the night of May\\n17th, was the Great Frost in New-England, which\\nblasted the very promising hope of most fruits,\\nand shortened the crops of corn and grain yet\\nthis deadly frost almost entirely delivered New-\\nEngland from the destructive ravages of the Can^\\nker- Worm.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAAVEX. 75\\nIn consequence of depredations made upon our\\ncommerce by England, at War with France, war\\nmeasures were resorted to by Congress and the\\n^tate ot iNew-Hampshire was required to furnish\\na proportion of her militia, for our country s de-\\nfence. This town encouraged enlistments to go\\nmto the service, any time within twelve months\\nand to serve three months,after arriving at the place\\nof rendezvous to be compensated with eight dol-\\nlars per month one dollar bounty, and, if called\\nmto actual service, to have one good blanket.\\nSeveral gentlemen united together, under cer-\\ntam regulations, at their own expense, to brin\\nwater, m pipes, to their several houses on Kinff\\nstreet.\\nSection 17.\\nMarch 3, 1795. At the annual meeting, some\\nalterations and regulations were made in and for\\nthe several school districts. Likewise a town pound\\nwas ordered to be built, near Capt. Peter Kim-\\nball s.\\nThis year, a treaty, called Jay s ^eat y^wsisne^\\ngociated, by Chief Justice Jay, between the\\nLnited States and England which settled all dif-\\nficulties, prevented war, and proved highly advan-\\ntageous to our common country.\\n1796. The last meeting of the proprietors of\\nBoscawen was called June 15, and adjourned to\\nAug. 30. Col. Henry Gerrish was then appoint-\\ned agent for the proprietors, to petition the General\\nCourt of Massachusetts for a township of land, in", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\ncompensation for Contoocook, formerly granted\\nthem but which, on settlement of the line of\\nthe state, fell into New-Hampshire and therefore,\\nby a plausible construction, the grant of Massa-\\nchusetts had never been verified.\\nCol. Gerrish undertook the agency at his own\\nexpense, on the proffered condition of his securing\\nto Iiimself and heirs one half of all the lands,\\nwhich might be regranted but however sanguine\\nthe expectations of the proprietors in the attempt,\\nthey were never realized.\\nAt this time, our country was subjected to the\\nordeal of internal convulsions. The conflicting\\nopinions, interests and passions of r^icn, threatened\\nthe prostration of every thing valuable, though\\nprocured by blood and treasure. In reverting to\\nthe causes of such a state of things, we readily\\nsee, that our army, disbanded after an eight years\\nwar, carried from the camp, and lodged in all the\\nchannels of society, the seeds of vice, profligacy,\\nand insubordination also, the insurrection headed\\nby Shays; the revolutionary spirit of France, actu-\\nating Americans the neutral ground taken by:\\nour executive in relation to the powers at war the\\nopen opposition made to Jay s treaty now about\\nto cliange the administration, and in full prospect\\nof a war with France for redress of our commer-\\ncial injuries were things combined, and resolved\\nthe American people into two distinct political\\nparties, decided friends or decided opposers of the\\nadministration of our national government.\\nFrom north to south, in every state, county,\\ntown and village, the impulse was felt and the", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BO\u00c2\u00abCAWEN. 77\\npeople of this town were not merely spectators of\\nthe desolating scene.\\nThough the inhabitants of this town had liv-\\ned in great harmony from its first settlement, the\\nunited promoters of good order, morals and reli-\\ngion, and had walked hand in hand, supporting\\nthe cause of their country through the w^ar yet\\nnow, instead of enjoying harmoniously the pre-\\ncious laurels of victory, in the rage of party, those\\ndeeds w ere perpetrated by some, which threaten-\\ned the extermination of every secular, social, civil,\\nor moral good. So that the name of Boscawen,\\nat a distance, was associated with contention, de-\\nstruction of property, conflagration and daring\\nwickedness.\\nDec. 19. At this meeting several motions w ere\\nineffectually made concerning a bounty tax, asses-\\nsed the preceding year, 1795, which had produced\\nmuch excitement in the collection, inasmuch, as\\nthere was no tax called for. What induced the\\nselectmen to lay this tax, was the circumstance,\\nthat, in 1794, no precept came for a county x\\nseasonably, therefore, none w^as laid but, before\\nthe year expired, an extent came for the tax, which\\nthe selectmen were obliged to provide for, on their\\nown credit. The following year, a majority of\\nthe same selectmen were in oflice, and as in the\\nother instance no call was made for laying a tax,\\nyet they thought it prudent to be in readiness, if\\none should be called for therefore, they added the\\nprobable sum to the state tax, so that it might be\\nlegally collected. But there being no county tax\\nthat year, several refused to pay the tax and to\\neiid the perplexing business in the most pacific", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "78 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nmanner, the selectmen paid the whole sum as-\\nsessed, for the county tax, with additional costs,\\nout of their own property to the town which\\nsum, amounting to nearly sixty dollars, has never\\nbeen reimbursed to this day.\\nThere was also at this meeting a large commit-\\ntee appointed, including the present selectmen, to\\nlook over the accounts of former selectmen it\\nbeing confidently asserted, and industriously cir-\\nculated, and believed by many, that large sums of\\nmoney were in their hands not accounted for.\\nThis committee did not succeed in adjusting the\\nbusines s^ but a second, soon after chosen, did, and\\ncertified to the town, that the said selectmen pro-\\nduced receipts and orders not entered upon their\\nbook, fully meeting the town s demand to their\\nsatisfaction.\\n1797. About this time, a disaffection arose\\nagainst the regular support of the gospel ministry.\\nSundry persons refused to pay, and one protested\\nagainst paying the minister tax.\\nIn consequence of damages done to the public\\nhighways, in taking up bridges, c. also, dam-\\nages done to the meeting houses the town ap-\\npointed a committee of four, July 19, and con-\\nfirmed the same, August 28, to prosecute such\\npersons who had, or should, in the course of the\\nyear, be found thus trespassing upon either the\\npublic highways, or public buildings.\\nThere had been, for some time, a very unhap-\\npy difference of opinion among those living in\\nWater-street school-district, respecting the place\\nfor setting their school house it was, therefore,\\nthought advisable by the town to appoint a com-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 79\\nmittee out of town, to settle the controversy, and\\nplace the school house accordingly, Abiel Fos-\\nter and Timothy Walker, Esquires, and Col.\\nPhilip Greeley, were chosen by the town for this\\ncommittee.\\nSection 20.\\n1798. At this time, our commerce was uuwar-\\nxantably molested by French cruisers, and the at-\\ntempt made by our ministers and envoys to nego-\\nciate proved fruitless. Congress established a.\\nprovincial army for retaliation and defence. Pres-\\nident Adams, with consent of the Senate, appoint-\\ned Gen. George Washington Lt. General and\\nCommander of all the armies of the United\\nStates and reprisals were made by our navy.\\nBut an overture was made by the French govern-\\nment the following year, and a negotiation was\\nopened, and the war terminated.\\nOn the night of the 22d of February, unhap-\\npily, for the reputation of this town, the eastward-\\nly meeting house was totally consumed by fire.\\nThe mean or instrument of this conflagration has\\nnever, as yet, been ascertained.\\nMarch 6. The former committee, to prevent\\ntrespasses upon the highways and meeting houses,\\nre-chosen.\\nMarch 26. The town of Boscawen met, to\\nadopt measures for rebuilding a meeting house, in\\nplace of the one burnt, and voted to erect a frame,\\nat the town s expense, on such spot as should be\\nagreed upon. To fix the spot, was referred to", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "80 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nJoshua Bajley, Esq., Capt. Benjamin Darling, and\\nPhilip Greeley, Esq., who reported to the town,\\nApril 1 6th, the westerly end of Woodbury plain,\\nso called, as the most convenient and equitable\\nplace for the erection of the meeting house but\\ntheir report was not accepted. Three other pla-\\nces were named and acted upon, but the people\\ncould not unite in either. It was then proposed,\\nthat six men have liberty to build a meeting house^\\nat their own cost, on the plain near the Pine-tree\\nbut the town would not consent. Several other\\ntrials were made at the adjournment to fix the\\njilace, but to no effect and the meeting dis-\\nsolved.\\nIn this time of general excitement, neither pub-\\nlic nor private property was considered safe.\\nSome individuals, who were the open and active\\nsupporters of order in society, sustained very seri-\\nous damages in, and loss of property at different\\ntimes such as apple trees peeled and c\u00c2\u00abt down\\nutensils secreted and injured horses shot lum-\\nber destroyed, c. But to conclude this unpleas-\\nant article of our history, on the night of the\\n1 6th of August, the school house, on Water-street,\\nwas destroyed by fii e an indemnity, therefore,\\nwas secured, by a civil process.\\nMarch 5, 1799. Much time was taken up, and\\nmany expedients tried at the annual meeting and\\nalso, on the 8th of April, if possible, to fix the\\nplace for a meeting house, but to no avail. A ma-\\njority wished for the house, but could not agree\\non any one nameable spot to build it, and therefore\\nthe subject was suffered to rest. The town, how-\\never, did agree, that half of the meetings, for pub-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 81\\nlie worship, should be held in some place on\\nKing-streetand the other half at the meetinghouse,\\nuntil a new house should be built.\\nill this state of things, the present meeting\\nhouse, on King-street, was built by proprietors, in\\nthe course of the season, which precluded the\\nnecessity of erecting another, and was afterward,\\n(Sept. 16,) offered by the proprietors for a town\\nmeeting house, on the town s paying for the frame\\nbut for this, a vote could not be obtained, though\\none half of the public meetings of the town\\nhave been uniformly held therein ever since.\\nThe difficulty on Water-street was amicably\\nsettled, by suffering the district to remain divided,\\nas formerly, in two parts, a school house to be\\nerected in each, one by the town, the other by\\nthe district, each to be placed by the voice of the\\ndistrict one school kept for the accommodation\\nof both alternately at each house, and all have the\\nprivilege of sending to either.\\nAgain the Rev, Mr. Wood made a donation of\\nfifty four dollars for the use of the public school.\\nFor this liberality, under present gloomy circum-\\nstances, the town conferred on him an unan-\\nimous vote of thanks.\\nFeb. 22, 1800. In memory of Gen. George\\nWashington, deceased, agreeably to a previous ar-\\nrangement, the inhabitants of Boscawen assem-\\nbled, walked in procession to the meeting house\\non King-street, both ladies and gentlemen wearing\\ntokens of mourning.and the pulpit shrouded the\\nRev. Mr. Wood delivered a discourse, from Judges\\n11", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\niii. 9, appropriate to the very interesting solem-\\nnity.\\nMarch 4. One act passed at the annual meeting\\nwa^, to give liberty to all, or to as many as should\\nchoose, living w^estwardly of the ground on which\\nthe old meeting house stood, to pay their minister\\ntax to the west meeting house, and have the pro-\\nportion of preaching there accordingly. But this\\nact was viewed, by some, as a departure from the\\nuniform conduct of the town, in providing preach-\\ning for those living in the w^est for, taking into\\nview the number of those, who would improve\\nthe liberty given, it was assigning to the west\\nmeeting more than an equitable proportion of\\npreaching, and taking from the east meeting a\\npart of their just right. And when it was con-\\nsidered, that the proprietors of the east meeting\\nhouse had, at thei.r own cost, built a house, exon-\\nerating the town from that expense, and which\\nhouse the town were ready to occupy for their\\nconvenience now for these proprietors to lose\\nby what they had done, or to have taken from\\nthem, by the authority of the town, a part of\\ntheir privilege of preaching, was deemed, by fair\\nconstruction, oppressive and unjust. And as in\\nthis act, religious characters, as well as others, were\\nimplicated, it, therefore, became every professor\\nof religion to inquire, while exercising his legal\\nright in voting in public town meeting, Jim not I\\nviolating the law of Christ?\\nIt appears from the record, that the Rev. Mr.\\nWood did not accede to the town s procedure\\nand doubtless, from the foregoing view of the sub-\\nject, he could not consistently comply. This act", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 83\\nproved embarrassing, and from it difficulties were\\npressed into the church of no common magnitude,\\nand of long continuance.\\n1801. The small pox broke out, and began to\\nspread among the inhabitants the town, there-\\nforCj erected a hospital, and gave liberty to inocu-\\nlate. Also, appointed a committee, to prosecute\\nany persons, who might be found designedly\\nspreading the disease.\\nDec. 21. The number refusing to support the\\nministry was found to increase, and measures were\\ntaken for the removal of the minister. As the\\nfirst step toward this event, a committee of 5 was\\nauthorized to wait on Rev. Mr. Wood, to see if he\\nwould unite in calling a council, to dismiss him\\nfrom his charge. The act was informal, but pre-\\npared the way for holding a special meeting, Feb.\\n1, 1802, when it was voted to be the desire of the\\ntown, that the Rev. Mr. Wood would give up his\\ncontract with the town and a new committee\\nwas appointed to present this vote, and consult\\nwith him on the terms of his taking a dismis-\\nsion.\\nMr. Wood, finding the desire of the town thus\\nexpressed, signified in writing his readiness to dis-\\nsolve the contract on equitable terms, which might\\nbe agreed on by^ the parties, and which did not re-\\nquire the intervention of an ecclesiastical council.\\nAnd on April 20, he did submit to the town by\\ntheir committee, for substance, the following pro-\\nposals, viz.\\nThat he be allowed to enjoy all the privileges\\nof a minister, such as exemption from taxation on", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN.\\neither his poll or estate, c., during his relation to\\nthe church.\\nThat the town give him annually one half of\\nthe interest of the parsonage, payable on the first\\nday of May, so long as his connexion with the\\nchurch shall continue.\\nThat during his relation to the church, all, who\\nmay contrib ete to his support, shall not he taxed,\\nby the town, for the support of the ministry eise^\\nwhere and that the tow n pay up all arrearages\\nof his salary and parsonage to the present time.\\nShould the town accept these proposals by a\\nregular vote a fair settlement be made with the\\nselectmen, as herein stated, mutually signed and\\nrecorded on the town book, the civil contract be-\\ntween him and the town shall be dissolved to all\\nintents and purposes.\\nThe town, forthwith, voted acceptance of the\\nRev. Mr. Wood s proposals, 67 to 64 and of\\ncourse, a full and final settlement made between\\nhim and the selectmen, May 7, 1802, mutually\\nsigned by\\nS iMUEL WOOD, and\\nJOSEPH COUCH.\\nNATHANIEL GREEN, V Selectmen,\\nSAMUEL MUZZY, 3\\ndissolved the contract.\\nIn looking upon this, and some other proceed-\\nings of the town of Boscawen, we see the enlist-\\nment of all those conflicting passions and inter-\\nests, whose destructive and demoralizing influence\\nhad for years been increasing, now at its zenith,\\nand spending its concentrated force. We fondly\\nhope, therefore, that, from this era, our histor.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEX. 85\\nwill disclose measures tending to peace and order\\ninviting harmony of feeling, and retrieving our\\nlost reputation, although the years of many gener-\\nations may not extinguish the remembrance of\\nthe past.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Wood remain e l pastor of the\\nchurch, and soon a society was formed in connex-\\nion therewith, for his support which was, a few\\nyears afterwards, incorporated.\\nSection 21.\\nMarch 1, 1803. The remaining half of the in-\\nterest, on parsonage bonds, was granted to the\\nwest meeting house, to be laid out under the di-\\nrection of the selectmen.\\nIn this year, the Fourth New-Hampshire Turn-\\npike was opened through this town, terminating\\nat the toll-bridge, built over Merrimack river, by\\nan incorporated company, near Col. Isaac Chand-\\nler s, the preceding year.\\nInoculation for the small pox continuing at\\nthe hospital, a committee was appointed by the\\ntown, to see that the publick should not be en-\\ndangered by the sick.\\nAbout this time a number were apprehended\\nfor counterfeiting bank notes, and putting them\\ninto circulation.\\n1804. lij an act of the General Court, the an-\\nnual town meeting to be held the second Tuesday\\nin March, throughout the state.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nJlug. 27. The town permitted four pews to be\\nsold, on the floor of the west meeting house, and\\nthe money to br laid out upon the house.\\nThe pulpit, at this house, was pretty constantly\\nsupplied, by different preachers but the expense\\nwas defrayed mostly by private subscriptions. It\\nwas not now to be expected that the town would\\nre-settle a minister therefore, numbers were de-\\nsirous of adopting some systematic method of pro-\\nviding for the preaching of the gospel. Early in\\nthe season, a society was formed, called The West-\\nerly Religious Society, in Boscawen, consisting of\\nabout 60 or 70 members and was incorporated\\nin 1810. The prominent features of the Consti-\\ntution of the Society are,\\nAny person may become a member, by sign-\\ning the constitution of the society.\\nNo person is bound for more than the term of.\\none year but, at the expiration of the year, by\\nsignifying his desire to the clerk, and paying up\\nhis proportion of all money assessed while he was\\na member, may withdraw.\\nWhen two thirds of the society are agreed, they\\nmay settle a minister and may dismiss him,\\nwhen two thirds are agreed in the measure. And\\na minister so settled may, at any time, take his\\ndismission, without violating his contract of settle-\\nment.\\nSoon after the establishment of this Religion;\\nSociety, there was a special attention to religion\\nand a small number became hopefully pious.-\\nThis event induced the society to express their de\\nsire to have the stated preaching of the gospel, b;", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 87\\nextending an invitation and proposals to the Rev.\\nEbenezer Price, to settle with them in the minis-\\ntry, who had, for several months previous, been\\nsupplying. Their proposals were conditionally\\naccepted. A small cluirch was gathered, and Mr.\\nPrice installed pastor of the second Congregation-\\nal church and society in Boscawen, Sept. 26,\\n1804. And this year, a second bridge was built\\nover Merrimack river, to Canterbury, by an in-\\ncorporated company, and a road opened by the\\ntown to meet it, from King-street.\\nSept. 10, 1805. Concord and Boscawen united,\\nby their committees, in building a bridge over\\nContoocook river, by Capt. John Chandler s, at\\nthe expense of the two towns.\\nMarch 10, 1807. A revision of the State Con-\\nstitution called for and but two voted in favor of\\nits revision.\\nDea. Enoch Gerrish, Benjamin Little and Ca-\\nleb Knight, Esqs., committee for the west meet-\\ning house, were authorized to sell two pews more\\non the floor of said house, and to give further time\\nof ninety days to former purchasers to make pay-\\nment, or their privilege should be deemed forfeit-\\ned.\\nThe selectmen were directed to request Timo-\\nthy Dix, Esq., to lay out the fine assessed by the\\nCourt, of Si 75, upon the old travelled road, above\\nPearson s mills, the money being already in the\\nhands of said Dix but, should he decline, they\\nwere authorized to make the requisite repairs up-\\non said old road. Mr. Dix did not comply with\\nthe request, of course, the town sustained the en-\\ntire loss of that sum.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nIn June, a law passed the Legislature of New-\\nHampshire, for the better regulation of schools,\\nspecifying the requisite qualilications of instruc-\\ntors, and providing an inspecting committee.\\nMarch l 4, 1809. At the opening of the annu-\\nal meeting, a very unhappy disturbance took place\\nin time of prayer but was soon quelled by the\\nmoderator and both the principal and abettors\\nwere disposed, on cool reflection, to make those\\nconcessions, which the town accepted as satisfac-\\ntory, and thus prevented a civil prosecution.\\nThe first committee for inspecting schools cho-\\nsen, in compliance with the law of the State.\\n^pril 12, A committee appointed, to see w^hat\\nalterations in school districts, and repairs in school\\nhouses were needed and at a meeting, (Sept. 1,)\\nthe town ordered several new school houses to be\\nbuilt, at the town s expense.\\n1810. On Friday, the 19th of January, was ex-\\nperienced the coldest day within the memory of\\nthe most aged. Many buildings w^ere unroofed,\\noverturned or destroyed by the wind many peo-\\nple were frozen, and not a few lives lost by the\\ncold. Much damage done to orchards, generally\\nthroughout New-England.\\nMarch The school committee made their\\nfirst report, which met the acceptance of the town.\\nSuch a report has been given, annually, ever since\\nin which, has been exhibited the state of the sev-\\neral schools by whom kept length of the terms\\nnumber of scholars general order and progress\\nof the scholars, c. A practice, which has been\\nfound to be grateful to parents an excitement to", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 89\\nour youth, and very promotive of education, and\\nmoral improvement.\\nAug. 27. Stirrup-iron bridge ordered to be re-\\nbuilt and in the execution of which, Mr. Dan-\\niel Shepherd well nigh lost his life.\\nMarch 12, 1811. The state and county officers\\nvoted for by a joint ballot, which has since been\\nthe common practice of the town.\\nSection 22.\\n1812. Our national affairs, at this time, wore a\\nvery unpromising aspect, both at home and abroad.\\nSo much so, that President Madison intimated to\\nCongress, in his Message at the opening of the ses-\\nsion, his expectation of hostilities with England\\nbefore the session should close. The attention,\\ntherefore, of the government, was mostly engros-\\nsed by war measures and on the 1 8th of June\\nfollowing, war w^as declared.\\nMarch 13, 1813. The check-list first used in\\ntown meeting, in the choice of state officers, by a\\nlaw of the state.\\nAnd this year, the first tax was laid, by the se-\\nlectmen, upon the estate of a regular settled min-\\nister of the gospel, in town and this, three years\\nbefore the wisdom of the legislature of the state\\nprovided a law for such a tax.\\n1814. The spotted fever, which in many places\\nhad prevailed the two preceding years, now ap-\\npeared among us, in its most terrific form, and\\n12", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\ncarried off a number of children, in 6, 8, 10, 12,\\nand 24 hours, after being attacked.\\n1815. In the month of February, the treaty of\\nGhent arrived at Washington, which had been\\nsigned, the preceding December, by the commis-\\nsioners mutually and was ratified, by the Presi-\\ndent and Senate, on the 17th. And thus peace\\nwas once more restored to our bleeding country,\\nand received, by all classes of people, with demon-\\nstrations of joy.\\nMarch 1 4. The town of Boscawen voted, to\\nmake the consideration of S5 to each soldier, who\\nserved at Portsmouth, and to pay their bills of\\nexpense, to and from Portsmouth, provided the\\nstate should not.\\nThe law, for the observation of the sanctity of\\nthe sabbath, was very openly and grossly violated\\nand loudly called on a christian community to\\nmake an effort, to remove the increasing evil.\\nThis town therefore appointed, at their annual\\nmeeting, nine tithingmen. And to give greater\\nencouragement to civil officers faithfully to ex-\\necute the laws, for the suppression of vice, and\\nthe promotion of virtuous habits, moral societies\\nwere about this time greatly multiplied in this,\\nand in the adjoining states. Such a society was\\nformed in this town, in April, consisting of 108\\nmembers.\\nAmidst the righteous judgments of God, with\\nwhich our land was visited, for the transgressions\\nof the people, yet the year 1815 was distinguish-\\ned, by the outpouring of the holy spirit in a gen-\\neral revival of religion, in this town. The revi-\\nval began in July, in the east parish, and spread", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 91\\nInto the west became general, and continued\\ntill the fore part of November,before any perceiv-\\nable abatement of the work and many, of every\\nage, were the happy subjects of renewing grace.\\nSept. 20. Two school districts were set off\\nfrom district No. 3, viz The branch on Pleasant-\\nstreet, and the branch on the street from Sweatt s\\nmills southwardly, and a school house was soon\\nbuilt in each.\\nSection 23.\\nMarch 12, 1816. The remaining ground occu-\\npied by seats, on the floor of the westerly meet-\\ning house, was sold for pews, and the avails order-\\ned to be laid out in repairing the house.\\nThe whole number of votes cast at one ballot-\\ning, for counsellor, was 346 a larger number\\nthan was ever carried, on any other occasion.\\nCol. Joseph Gerrish and Capt. Samuel Choate,\\nappointed a committee to examine into the state\\nof the schools, parsonage bonds, and other securi-\\nties, reported, that\\nThe whole of those lands were sold for Si 794 00\\nSecurity for the same found, to the\\namount of 1696 41\\nLeaving a balance in the hands of the\\ntown, of 97 59,\\nMay 20. On the death of Samuel W. Lang,\\nTown Clerk, Hezekiah Fellows was chosen by\\nthe town to that office.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nOct. 1. A town meeting called, on a Justice s\\nwarrant, to hear the report of their committee,\\nchosen to look into the state of Water-street\\nschool district. Their report was, for substance,\\nthat Water-street be divided into two separate dis-\\ntricts that a new school house be built by the\\ntown in the south, and that the house in the north\\nbe repaired which report the town accepted.\\nThe year 1816, though the last of ten years\\nof uncommon seasons and dearths, yet it is to be\\ndistinguished from any preceding year. The\\nwhole face of nature appeared shrouded in gloom.\\nThe lamps of heaven kept their orbits, but their\\nlight was cheerless. The bosom of the earth, in\\na mid-summer s day, was covered with a wintry\\nmantle and man, and beast, and bird, sickened at\\nthe prospect. Autumn returns, alas not to fill\\nthe arm with the generous sheaf, but the eye with\\nthe tear of disappointment On the 6th of June,\\nthe day of general election, the snow fell several\\ninches deep, followed by a cold and frosty night\\nand, on the two following days, snow fell, and\\nfrost continued. Also, July 9th, a deep and dead-\\nly frost, which killed or palsied most vege tables.\\nThe little corn, which had the appearance of ma-\\nturity, was destitute of its natural taste or sub-\\nstance and yet the providence of God was boun-\\ntiful, in supplying the article of bread from the\\ncrops of rye, which were uncommonly good.\\n1817. After the first of June, a very great\\nchange was observable in the atmosphere and\\nvegetable world. The winds were generally from\\nthe south west, for more than half a year. The\\nair became warm and natural vegetation unusu-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 93\\nally rapid, and autumn poured forth her blessings\\nin rich abundance.\\nMarch, 1818. The town appointed Lt. Daniel\\nPillsbury, Moses Coffin, and Moses Fellows a\\ncommittee, to collect the money still due for pews\\nin the west meeting house, and to lay it out upon\\nthe house.\\nAnother bridge was, this year, built over Black-\\nwater river, near Jackman s mills.\\nThe decision of the Federal Court of the Uni-\\nted States was given in February, in favor of the\\nclaims of the Trustees of Dartmouth College.\\nTwo grand jurors and one petit juror were cho-\\nsen to the Circuit Court of the United States, to\\nsit at Portsmouth, N. H.\\nMarch, 1819. The expense of services perform-\\ned by the selectmen for 181 8, and allowed by the\\ntown, 8125 a very great difference between this\\nand the compensation made the selectmen, in\\n1780. And, at this meeting, a committee of three\\nwas chosen, to furnish the town with the most\\nimportant events and facts relating to the settle-\\nment and progressive improvement of the tovsii\\nand Rev. Ebenezer Price, Rev. Samuel Wood, and\\nDea. Enoch Little, were the committee.\\nIn obedience to this appointment, the foregoing\\nregister has been attempted in behalf of the com-\\nmittee, and accepted by the town.\\nHaving retraced the period of 88 years, bring-\\ning our history down to 1820, there are now be-\\nfore the reader the most prominent events and\\nfacts, furnished from written documents and mem-\\nory, relating to the progress of the settlement of", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nthis town. In these are to be seen the inhabit-\\nants of Boscawen, alternately prospered and af-\\nflicted in war and in peace wading through\\nscenes dreadful in the retrospect, and possessing\\nenjoyments most desirable. And through the\\nw^hole detail, abundant occasion is afforded, to ad-\\nmire the righteousness and mercy of God.\\nWe therefore conclude this section, and this\\nsecond part of our work, by observing, that the\\nyear 1819 has been distinguished from every oth-\\ner year in the series, in respect to the general re-\\ngard had to the education and morals of our\\nyouth, by placing them under the tuition of well\\nqualified and pious instructors and especially\\ndistinguished, by the most extensive and powerful\\nrevival of religion, ever experienced amongst us\\nand rarely, if ever, experienced in any other part\\nof our land, as we have already more particularly\\nnoticed.\\nWell, then, may the present actors upon the\\nstage tell your children these things, and let your\\nchildren tell their children, and their children an-\\nother generation, Joel i. 3.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "^m^^ WAm,\\nJ^isccUancoujs Articles.\\nNames of the Original Proprietors of Boscawen,\\nAbraham Adams, jr.,\\nStephen Jaques,\\nJoseph Coffin,\\nRobert Greenough,\\nJoseph Morse, jr.,\\nBenjamin Lunt,\\nJohn Akers,\\nDaniel Richards,\\nDaniel Dole,\\nJohn Chandler, Esq.,\\nJoseph Tappan,\\nWilliam Ilsley,\\nJohn Adams,\\nJohn Alden,\\nJoseph Knight, Esq.,\\nJames Mitchel,\\nStephen Moody,\\nBenjamin Pettingil,\\nRichard Greenough,\\nRichard Jackman,\\nCornelius Wood,\\nJoseph Morse, 3d,\\nHenry Sevvall, Boston,\\nJohn Webster,\\nJoseph Gerish, Esq.,\\nSamuel Bagley,\\nBenj. Smithy Rowley^\\nRobert Adams,\\nRichard Kelley,\\nSamuel Gerrish,\\nJohn French, juD.,\\nJoseph Jackman,\\nNicholas Cheney,\\nJoseph Willet,\\nJacob Noyes,\\nJohn Poor,\\nStephen Dole,\\nMoses Smith,\\nCutting Lunt,\\n.fonathan Plummer,\\nThomas Peircc,\\nArcheiaus Woodman\\n.John Smith,\\nIsaac Haul,\\nEdward Emery,\\nVVillabee Feaver,\\nJacob Pilsbury,\\nStephen Emery,\\nAmos Stickney,\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nJonathan Sampson,\\nRichard Pettingil, jr.,\\nMoses Gerrish,\\nJoseph Dole,\\nJohn Plummer, jr.,\\nElizer Peirce,\\nDaniel Peirce,\\nTheoder Coker,\\nJoseph Gerrish, jr.,\\nRichard Coffin,\\nJames Allen,\\nWilliam Ripp.\\nAbraham Titcomb,\\nlohn Coffin,\\nJohn Waite,\\nWilliam Moody,\\nJohn Moody, jr.,\\nMoses Knight,\\nDaniel Coffin,\\nDaniel Knight,\\nMoses Coker, [3d,\\nEdmund Greenleaf,\\nDaniel Hale,\\nHenry Kingsbury,\\nNathan Wheeler,\\nJoshua Pilsbury,\\nThomas Woodbridge,\\nJoseph Noyes, 3d,\\nJames Merrill,\\nJames Noyes,\\nThomas Webster,\\nJoshua Hale,\\nWilliam Atkins,\\nGeorge Little,\\nJonathan Ilsley,\\nRichard Hall,\\nSamuel Sweet, jr.,\\nTristram Little,\\nJohn Noyes, 3d,\\nJohn Weed, jr.,\\nSamuel Little,\\n91 Proprietor?.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "9b\\nHISTORY OF BOSCAWtiN.\\nNames of the First Settlers,\\nStephen Gerish,\\nJacob Flanders,\\nAmbrose Gould,\\nAndrew Bohonnon,\\nJosiah Bishop,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nRichard Jackman,\\nEdward Fitz-Gei-ald,\\nJoel Manuel,\\nNathaniel Meloon,\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nMoses Burbank,\\nRichard Flood,\\nPhilip Call\\nThomas Cook,\\nNathaniel Danforth,\\nWilliam Danforth,\\nSinkler Bean,\\nDavid Barker,\\nJohn Bowen,\\nJohn Fowler,\\nWilliam Dagadan,\\nDaniel Roll^\\nEdward Emery,\\nJohn Corser,\\nWilliam Peters,\\nNathaniel Rix.\\n27.\\nBirths^ Marriages and Deaths.\\nBirths, recorded, 1348.\\nMarriages, recorded, 602.\\nDeaths, of which, but few re-\\ncorded, until 1808 since, a par\\nticular bill of mortality has been\\nkept, and the number in each\\nyear, from 1808 to 1820 inclu^\\nsive, is here presented.\\n1808, died, of all ages, 16\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009409 9\\n1810, died, of all ages, 20\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009411\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009412\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009413\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009414\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009415\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009416\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009417\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009418\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009419\\n17\\n29\\n26\\n23\\n25\\n37\\n34\\n33\\n36\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009420 32\\nTotal, 337.\\nCommanding Officers of the 21 st Regiment of\\nMilitia in New- Hampshire.\\nThis Regiment was formed in 1786, and Henry Gerrish ap-\\npointed Colonel, but never took the command. Col. Ebenezer\\nWebster, Salisbury, commissioned in 1787, took the command,\\nand was succeeded by\\nJoshua Bailey, of Hopkinton,\\nPhilip Greeley, Hopkinton,\\nJoseph Geirish, Boscawen,\\nJohn Gale, Salisbury,\\nCol. Isaac Chandler, Boscawen, in 1807,\\nBenning Smart, Hopkinton, 1813,\\nJonathan Weare, Amdover, 1815,\\nMoses Gerrish, Boscawen, 1818,\\nJonathan Bean, Salisbury,\\nJohn Greeley, Salisbury, now in command.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "KtSTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\n97\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S s\\nCo O\\n1\\n8\\n8\\n8\\nO\\nc o 8\\nfe;j 8 5\\n5 Q\\nX c\\nB\\nrt\\nE\\nK\\na\\nE\\nV jz\\nu c\\n^i-\\n^^u\\nr2 V,\\nP o c\\n4wo\\n1 2\\nj= c\\ncr\\njj\\ns\\nca\\nC\\nyd\\n6\\n-J\\na.\\nf\\no\\nIj:\\no\\n^i^\\nQ- o\\nfc\\no\\nj\u00c2\u00a3 a;\\nle c\\na) 1-5 EL\\no O.\\n2^\\nU4\\nc\\nfp\\ne\\n\u00c2\u00abn\\nt-\\nC\\nre\\no\\nt-\\n-t3\\na.\\njSw\\n3W\\no\\nSo\\n\u00c2\u00ab5\\n5,\\nIs\\nI\\n13", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98\\nHISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\no\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03\\no\\na\\n_2\\n2\\ns\\no\\no\\nk2\\n5*\\nd\\nd\\nd\\nd\\nLfi\\ns\u00c2\u00bb\\n\u00c2\u00ab^l\\n=5\\n05\\nlO\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2X)\\nCO\\nrt\\n1)\\nH\\nH\\n_-s\u00c2\u00ab\\nCO\\n\u00c2\u00b05r ^5\\n5.2;\\n5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -r\\no\\ni\\nto\\nS (0\\n\u00c2\u00b0u\\ncc\\n6^ a\\nO 2S\\n1\\n^3\\nOi 3\\nn 12\\n2\\no\\nU\\n=.5\\na o\\nla-\\n1\\no\\n1\\ni c\\nli; s\\n\u00c2\u00abl P|\\no\\no\\n^O\\n^O\\nS 2\\ng\\n0(^\\nOvi\\n1\\n.^.c\\n^s.\\nio\\ng.\\n.M o\\nfti\\nX\\n4^\\n-a\\nc-\\nC*\\nJ3 V.\\njf\\no-\\no*\\ns\u00c2\u00ab\\nC\\n2 W\\nH\\n4J\\nw\\n11\\n1\\nSeleJmen\\nign Henry G\\nDge Jackman\\n;e Flantlers.\\na\\nV\\nI o\\nM in\\n2 Oj j;\\n^11\\nC r- N\\n-a\\nf? S -S\\n111\\nS 3\\n(3 a\\nO\\n.2 c\\ni o\\nr. a^ re\\na\\na 1.\\n.2\\nbjo a\\nao4\\na. i\u00c2\u00bb\\neras:\\nu lu r\\nOCcr\\nt z o\\ni\\nr- 01\\nC S\\ni a aj\\nIII\\n1\\n1\\nV\\n1\\ns\\nS\\n1^\\n8\\n_^\\n^o\\na\\nEs\\n0^\\n3\\nt^\\nc\\nCU\\nil4\\noT\\nV\\nJ 5\\nE\\no\\na\\n__.\\n2 S\\no\\no\\n5\\n3,\\nU J.\\ni\\n*J\\nJ\\nJ^\\nu\\nq\\n1^1\\na.\\nS\\nO\\n3\\nctf\\n5*\\n5. 3\\nT! O\\nYear.\\n1767.\\nO CO t\\nC\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i c\\n5\\n1\\n1\\nf\\n1", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\n99\\nll\\nV\\na.\\no\\n1\\ns\\nC.2\\na,\\nte e\\n1\\ne\\no\\no\\nc-\\ni\\n03\\no\\nCO\\n3\\nCO\\no\\n1^\\n-1\\nO\\n6\\ni_\\n+1\\n]i|__\\nA 1\\nlIuO\\n2 3 c\\nO 3 03\\nc2\\n2 jn\\nS\\n-3\\nSX\\na\\nX\\no s S\\n2\\nc\\n5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 u\\n1\\n!is|\\ngg^s\\ni\\n5\\n5 t^\\noi 0i4\\nO\\nol\\nii\\nO 5 S\\n3 S\u00c2\u00bb\\na,\\nW 5\\na\\ncr .xj\\na,\\nu\\nOS\\n-a\\nW\\n1\\ns\\n1\\n-1\\nO\\nC3\\na.\\n2\\n5 o\\na*\\nB\\ngo g\\n2\\n4)\\n0)\\nC5\\netf\\nS\\n6*\\nc a-\\na\\nIll\\ngjc^ re\\n3 c\\nE\\nc c\\n1\\nu o\\n5 =r\\n1^\\nS.2\\na\\nc\\nZ\\neti\\nc\\n1=1\\n\u00c2\u00a3f- 3\\ng\\ns a\\no -S\\nrt\\n1) l\u00c2\u00ab\\n\u00c2\u00a3P\\no a,\\nctf\\no r: c.\\n1 C !U\\n5\\nS 5\\n2f-o. H\\nO X\\nO.S IS\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03\\nr 3.\\nill\\nIs\\na:i\\n3\\ns\\nii.2 5\\ntu ctf\\nO 3\\nlo| S\\na^ ct :e\\n.ii rt u\\nu 5J\\nX 03\\n_CJ_\\n3 JU\\nCS J\\noy W\\nooo\\nO-iC!\\n|jy\\na jca\\nOm3\\n1\\nS\\ns\\n1\\n-s\\nUl\\nIS\\nxT\\ns-i\\n1\\n(5\\nX3\\ns\\na\\nd\\n-a\\nU\\n03\\no\\no\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2o\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a23\\no\\no\\nO\\nS\\no\\ny\\n-3\\ni2\\n-0\\n03\\n?s\\ns\\nV\\ns\\na\\na\\n0)\\nCm\\na\\na,\\nI*\\n3\\na\\na.\\nu\\na,\\nu\\nd\\no\\no\\no\\nS!\\no\\nX3\\ns\\nJS\\n;j\\nU\\nU\\nO\\nU\\ny\\nU\\ny\\na 33\\n00\\n1\\no\\nSt\\nCO\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0qs\\nr-\\nt\u00c2\u00bb\\n00\\nOS\\n05\\na\\nso\\nOS oo\\ns\\nr-\\nt-\\nt-\\nt-\\nt-\\nt~ t-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "100\\nHISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\n\u00c2\u00abo\\nd\\nin\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0a\\no\\n2\\nre\\nc\\no\\nJ3\\n00\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J\\nt\\naj\\nO\\ntf\\nin\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a260\\nc\\nc\\n3\\n(W\\n)d\\n5\\nen\\nH\\no\\no\\no\\ns\\no\\nVJ\\n\u00c2\u00ab4\\nss\\n.i O\\n2i P\\na, a:\\nf-\\nc\\nS\\n.-S M\\nQ 2 c\\n2 1/ g\\nOi O\\nT\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r -V5\\nn a; u\\n2 S\\nal\\nr:\\n(43 c\\n5\\nu n\\nc o\\no Ir\\n-5\\nu\\nj:\\nc\\n_0J\\ni\\nhJ\\n:o\\ns\\nc\\nU3\\nu.\\nt.\\nf.\\na.\\n:\u00c2\u00a3i\\nLU\\nHi\\n;j:j j:\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03 (0\\n3. f*\\nQ\\n.5\\nLa Q,\\n3 ni\\no..=\\ni\\na; P c\\n-Sm.2.\\nQ. n.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a02 1- W\\ni c c\\n2 c Ji\\na, u E m (J\\nS ;2 .S\\n-O CO\\nij\\nJ .2 2\\nc S 5\\no S\\neo5\\n?o\\no -5\\n3 .-^3\\n1; a u\\nSea\\nOJO\\n5\\nc\\naT S U\\nC ij\\no \u00c2\u00a3f\\ncoo\\n(SCO)\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00c2\u00a5l", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN.\\n101\\n2\\n1\\n1\\na\\n9\\n1\\niH\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03\\na.\\n0^\\nB\\n22\\nis\\nnJ\\n-J\\nr\\nC8\\na S\\njS\\n1\\nSH\\n3\\n1\\nH\\n(U\\na\\nr-\\na\\ny\\nt^\\nS\\nJHW\\nctf\\nJ3\\nu\\n.!S\\nn: s-\\nS\\n-G r\\n5 ,j\\nS 3,\\ny 9-5\\ns^^\\ne5 .r\\nM^W\\nc\\nee\\nS\\na\\nW\\na\\nC\\nC c\\n-G\\nN^\\nS: =.-5\\nQ\\nC3 IC\\n15\\n^^1\\nII- CC tf\\no a) cB\\n2\u00c2\u00a7^\\nE i\\n2 -2\\nSo\\na s\\nSo\\nj= o\\nC 3\\n2 S\\nHen\\nO35\\no\\no S\\no\\n.20\\no\\nUU", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "102\\nHISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nd\\ncr\\nW\\nW\\nC\\nV\\ntj\\na\\no\\nJ\\nJ\\n3\\nfl\\na\\no\\ns\\nS\\nM\\nts\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00941\\n5,\\nM\\n23\\n\u00c2\u00abi\\niS-o\\nHi a\\nO) o; cA\\n3\\nS; c\\n0-C(L,\\n5i5 I a _; JS\\no::\\n.5 L^K\\na, 1,\\n1^\\n3 o\\nO)\\nJCfli\\nS t\\na-=\\nc cs rt\\nMOO\\nV i:;\\nas a C\\noow\\no^c\\nOS\\no\\nJ=\\nV\\nM\\n-a\\n0)\\n5\\nr-\\no\\na.\\nes\\no\\neiJ\\n-9\\ni-i\\nt\\no\\no\\nlo\\nU", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\n103\\ni o\\no\\no\\n1\\no\\no\\nCO\\nCO\\nIM\\nf*\\n5^\\n1 1 o ,i 1 o u 1\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-J J^\\no o\\nc\\ns\\ns^\\nio\\n-3\\nfX\\n1^\\n-a\\nU\\n3\\nS\\noT\\nCk\\n^o\\nM S\\nu\\na\\n^5\\nc\\nSi\\n1\\n52 d\\n1 o\\ns\\ns\\nS^f\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a23 -S c\\ns\\naj\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00941 3\\na) o\\nc\\n5\\nid\\n-j:5 5\\n5,30\\n9\u00c2\u00bb\\n.J2\\nw\\ns\\n01\\na\\ni^\\no\\no\\nv\\n3 J\\na\\n.2\\ne\\na\\nu\\nOl\\ni, m\\nO\\nOl\\nM\\nH\\n-J\\n(.H\\n3\\n3\\n3\\nU\\n(U\\n(U\\nlj\\nIJ\\n;j lo 1\\nqj\\n1^\\n5\\n_2\\nI. bJC.\\nfcjO\\n-3\\no o\\nbC 3\\nail\\n1\\nen\\n5\\nc\\n0) C\\n5\\nV\\nii\\na\\nq lu\\nm iJ -5\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00941 3\\n.-Ij 3 3\\n3 3\\ns -s 3\\nre i\\nn Qi 2i\\n7; 1) a;\\n~S i\\nj:d\\nS-J J O J J\\nOi; J\\n-!c\\n1\\nV\\n1\\n_\\nc\\ncr\\ns\\n3\\n[2\\na\\nt;.\\ni;-\\niS\\njj-\\n3\\n2\\nC9\\ni\\ns\\nl-=\\nJ Is\\n-2 S\\n1\\nU\\nsf\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0s\\n^3=\\nti\\nw\\nS\\no\\n1 a)\\nf3 a.\\n0)\\nS\\ni(\\na* rt\\nN\\nN OJ\\nIli:\\nao\\nMil\\nJ.\\nCO\\nr-^\\n9\u00c2\u00bb\\nI\\n1^\\n|co\\nx\\nM\\n33\\nr\\nV\\n00\\n1\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03\\ns\\n{3\\nc\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2*il\\nCO CO\\nCN ex\\nt\u00c2\u00bb\\n1\\na\\ngs\\nn\\n0)\\n3\\nX\\nSJ\\nns\\nbo\\n*3\\ncr\\n\u00c2\u00a33\\nc:\\ni\\n2\\nso\\nto\\nf\\nt^\\n?5\\nS\\n13 S\\nCO\\nrt\\nc\\nCO\\ns\\np\\nii\\nC -C\\nu\\n-s\\ng\\n-S -C\\nQ^ cS I- o3\\n6\\n-a\\n05\\n(D tH\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-0 CO\\nS5\u00c2\u00ab\\na\\n2i\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Ki\\nC 83\\nM\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03\\nIs\\ng\\nQJ\\n0)\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a23 S\\nJ\\n0) !8\\ni\\n1\\n0)\\nas\\n11\\na\\n.2\\n1\\n00\\nS t:\\n-r;\\nlis\\na c\\n11\\nS)\\n-a a\\nu a\\nW\\nCO\\nT3\\n=3\\nooo Hi^;\\n3 cS\\ni-H\\na\\n0-06\\n6 d\\na\\ng -C 03 -0 TS\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a05\\n--0-^5:3\\nC~\\ngi\\ng\\nCO IC\\n3\\n4J\\nul\\na\\ng\\na", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "104\\nHISTORY OP BOSCAWEN.\\nNames of officers and soldiers who enlisted from\\nthis town in the tvar with France in 1798.\\nCapt. Nathaniel Green,\\nLieut. Moses Sweatt,\\nSerg t. Joseph Flandei-s, Moses Corser,\\nMoses Jackman, Nathan Danforth,\\nDaniel Colby, Bernard Young,\\nBenjamin Fisk, Joshua Sawyer.\\nNames of the Soldiers stationed at Portsmouth,\\nN. H. in the late war with England drafted\\nEns\\nin Sept.^ Oct. 1814.\\nFirst draft for three months.\\nRichard Little,\\nJohn Stone,\\nMoses Call,\\nEnoch Burbank,\\nSamuel Burbank,\\nMoses Cross,\\nStephen Danforth,\\nJohn Eastman,\\nJacob Flanders,\\nJosiah Gale,\\nNicholas Gookin,\\nSimeon Jackman,\\nJoseph Moore,\\nDaniel Shepherd,\\n14,\\nSecond draft for two months.\\nCapt. Silas Call,\\nEleazer Burbank,\\nJesse Sweat,\\nBenj. Severance,\\nAmos Rolf,\\nWm. Haines,\\nGuy C. Flanders,\\nAbel Eastman,\\nSamuel Watson,\\nEph Noyes,\\nJames Noyes,\\nTheodore George,\\nEbenezer Moody,\\nAmos Sawyer,\\nSam l. Jackman, 15.\\nNames of those who died, or were killed in the\\nArmy.\\nPhilip Flanders killed at Crown Point, in the French War,\\n1756, belonging to the N. H. Rangers under Major Rogers.\\nIsaac Davis., killed at Fort Ann, in 1777.\\nJohn and Phineas Stevens, brothers and sons of the Rev. P.\\nStevens died inl776.\\nIn the late War with Eng. Edmund Day., killed.\\nBenjamin Fisk Son,, Chellis Eastman, George Liitlefield and\\nEliphalet Burpee, died in camp.\\nCapt. Silas Call died while stationed at Portsmouth and Col.\\nTimothy Dix, jun. at the French Mills, Canada.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\n105\\nNames of Magistrates, Post-Masters, t^c. accord-\\ning to their standing in office,\\n1820, Isaac Pearson, grandson\\nMagistrates.\\nGeorg-e Jackman.\\nHenry Gerrish.\\nSamuel Fowler.\\nNathaniel Green.\\nBenjamin Little.\\nTimothy Dix, jun.\\nJoseph Gerrish.\\nCaleb Knisfht.\\nDaniel Webster.\\nEzekiel Webster.\\nJoseph Muzzy,\\nHezekiah Fellows.\\nDeputy Post-Masters.\\nTimothy Dix, appointed Jan-\\nuary 31, 1806.\\nBenjamin H. Oak, Esq. in 1817\\nMinisters.\\nRev. Phineas Stevens., A. M.\\nGraduated at Harvard in 1734\\nRobie Morrill, A. M.\\nGraduated at Harvard in 1755\\nNathaniel Merrill,\\nGraduated at Harvard in 1767.\\nSamuel Wood, D. D.\\nGraduated at Dart. Coll. 1779.\\nEbenezer Price, A. M.\\nGraduated at Dart. Coll. 1793.\\nDeacons in the \\\\st Church, when\\nelected.\\n1740, George Jackman.\\n1761, Jesse Flanders.\\nBenjamin Eastman.\\nAbout Joseph Hoit, k\\n1770, Isaac Pearson.\\n1786, Enoch Gerrish, k\\nCutting Noyes.\\n1802, Samuel Jackman.\\n1817, Edmund Chadwick,\\nThomas Gerrish.\\n14\\nto the former Deacon of that\\nname, and\\nNehsmiah Cogswell, jun. has\\nbeen since elected.\\nDeacons in the 2d Church, -when\\nelected.\\n1805, Benjamin Sweatt, who\\ndied Oct. 11, 1810, and\\nEliphalet Kilborn.\\n1811, Enoch Little, jun.\\nJ\\nAttorneys.\\nPeter Green, Esq,\\nNathaniel Green, Esq.\\nHon. Daniel Webster,\\nDartmouth, 1801.\\nHon. Ezekiel Webster,\\nDart. 1804.\\nEsq,\\nEsq,\\nPhysicians.\\nDaniel Peterson\\nDaniel Peterson, jun,\\nRichard Hazeltine\\nDenison Bowers\\nJob Wilson, M. D.\\nSamuel Petei son\\nJohn Chandler, M. D. Dai*t.\\n1805.\\nElijah Rowel\\nThomas Peach\\nThomas G. Wells\\nSamuel Sawyer\\nAustin George, M. D.\\nJohn Proctor.\\nGraduates.\\nRev. Jonathan Atkinson, Dart.\\n1787\\nTimothy Call, Esq. Dart. 1 790\\nDr. Samuel Gerrish, Dart. J 79. i", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "106 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nHon. Daniel C. Atkinson, Dart\\n1806\\nRev. Samuel W. Colburn, Dart.\\n1808\\nRev. Enoch Corser, Mid. Col,\\n1811\\nSamuel Atkinson,\\nJacob Atkinson, ^P^\u00c2\u00b0^-\\nRemarkable Deaths.\\nDrozvned in Merrimack river. Samuel Davis^ turned from a load\\nof hay into the river, and was drowned. Gideon Gould^ an ap-\\nprentice, went in to bathe on Sabbath morning- and was drowned.\\nHezekiah Colby., a pauper, fell out of a boat on the Sabbath., and\\ndrowned. Jacob George, crossing the river on logs, was drown-\\ned, 1816. William Ramage, foreigner, diverting himself upon\\nthe river on the Sabbath, fell out of the boat in sight of his com-\\npanions, and drowned, 1818. Burt, a youth, drowned in\\nattempting to ride across the river. And a young lad, not named,\\nwhile bathing.\\nDrowned in Blackwater river. Jacob Garland, slipped from a\\nlog in Gerrish s mill-dam, July, 1776. Manly Danforth, while\\nbathing, Aug. 1797, aged SO.\\nDrowned in Contoocaok river. Richard Kimball and Jeremiah\\nAbbot, attempting to run the falls of the river in a small canoe,\\nperished April 23, 1812. William Corser and Son were drowned\\nin Great Pond, near the shore by the upsetting of a birch canoe,\\n1773 Asa, another son, reached the shore in safety. Daughter\\nof Tristram Bernard, aged 5 years, went to a spring for water,\\nslipped in and drowned July, 1776. A Child of Isaac Blanchard\\nfell into a tub of water and drowned. Daughter of Daniel Morse,\\n5 or 6 years old, fell into a tub of boiling water, and survived but\\na few hours. A Son of William Gage, 3 years old, drowned in\\nthe canal before the house. May 25, 1819.\\nDeaths other imse than by drowning.\\nIsaac Myric, killed by a falling tree. Bitjield Plummcr, in-\\nstantly killed by the limb of a tree, 1788, aged 46. David Car-\\nter, supposed to have been killed by the kick of a horse, and his\\nwaggon wheel passing over him. John Kilborn, killed by the\\nwheel of a loaded waggon passing over his body, 1803, aged 25.\\nSon of Joseph Couch, about 4 yeai s old, killed by oxen and cart\\nrunning over him. Daughter of Moses Calef, ,2 or 3 years old,\\nkilled by a sled falling on her. Son of Nathan Pearson, 5 years\\nold, fell from a horse in a team, and was instantly killed, by the\\ncart wheel passing over his body, Sept. 27, 1797. Rhoda Colby,\\ninsane person, suddenly disappeared, and was never found, 1785.\\nWilliam Eastman, attempting to cross on the sti ing-pieces of a\\nhigh bridge in the night, fell and broke his neck. Jesse Carter,\\nft years old, in the early settlement of the town, was killed,", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 107\\nwhile plaj ing upon a side hill, by a stump rolling over him.\\nDaughter of Nathan Chandler, killed by the fall of a wtii-sweep,\\naged 5 years. Capt. Stephen Webster t eli from his hoioe and in-\\nstantly died, April, 1794. Daniel Couch kicked by a horse in the\\nforeheid, which terminated his life in 1 i lays, 1806. Saifvuel\\nMuzzy, when ploughing,kicked by a horse and died next day, May\\n19, 1813, aged 74. Daughter of U. Nathan K. Holt, 4 years old,\\nburnt by her clothes taking lire, when at school, and soon expired,\\n1814.\\nIn the same year 1814, Mr. Samuel Jackman experienced an\\nuncommon mortality in his family by the Spotted fever, which\\nthen prevailed in many places. The substance of the circum-\\nstances, then published, is here subjoined.\\nOn Sabbath morning.Nov. 27, Mr. Jackman had seven childron in apparent good\\nhealth At 8 o clock Hannah Kimball, aged 9, and Isaac Gerrish, aged 7 years,\\nwere taken ill. The hoy died in 8, and the girl in 24 hours. Tlieir funeral attend-\\ned on Monday Discourse delivered by Rev. Mr. Wood from Prov. 27, 1 verse,\\nand both interred in one grave. H^alter Harris, 5 years old, was attacked by the\\nsame disease on Tuesday morning; died in 12hours, and was buried on Wednes-\\nday. On Friday, David Flanders, 2 years old, was in like manner seized and died\\nin 6 hours his funeral attended on Saturday Rev. Mr. Wood preached on the\\noccasion from John 6. 20 but in the time of the funeral exercise, JVancy, ahout\\n3 years old received tl e fatal attack, and died in 10 hours and was buried on the\\nSabbath. Thus a holy God whose Providence is inscrutable, took from the fond\\nparents out of seven, five lovely cliildren, in the short term of seven days\\nMedical aid was early resorted to in these cases, but the violence of the attack in\\neach case, admitted of no relief from the application of medicine.\\nWife of Jonathan Downing, instantly killed by lightning, June\\n12, 1816. Wifeoi Jeremiah Burpee, precipitated 30 feet from\\na sleigh, the horse running off the Bridge over the Gulf, and\\nsurvived but a few hours, Dec. 1817. Child of James French fell\\ninto boiling Beer, which soon terminated his life. Mary Blaisdell,\\nunder the influence of melancholy, put an end to her existence\\nby hanging, Jan. 9, 1818. James Brown committed suicide by\\nthe use of opium. May 24, 1818. Infant Son of Mr. John\\nGreenough, fell from a chair into the fire and lived but a few\\nhours, 1819.\\nProvidential escapes from death.\\nnib. John Corser, tending a saw-mill alone at the head of\\nK. street, Avhile using a crow-bar about a mill log, in an unac-\\ncountable manner, the end of the bar struck his head cut off his\\nnose took out his right eye raised the fore half of the skull-\\nbone, and left the brain bare, but not injured. In this situa-\\ntion he was soon found by William Emery. Surgical aid was ad-\\nministered, and his wounds healed. He however shortly after\\nlost the sight of his other eye but lived and enjoyed good\\nhealth for more than thirty years.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "108 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nBenjcnnin Little, Esq. when a youth, fell into the floom and\\npassed through the waste-gate of Gerrish s mill-dr.m in a jam of logs\\nand drift stuff, in the month of April, and being driven among\\nthe logs nearly a quarter of an hour was discovered, and taken\\nout much injured, but no bones broken.\\nJohn Manuel.,when barking trees, was struck on the side of the\\nhead by a falling limb, which fractured his skull, turned out his\\nleft eye, so as to destroy the sight but recovered, except the\\nloss of the sight of one eye, without any surgical aid.\\nBenjamin Fisk fell from a saw-mill carriage through the floor-\\ning of the mill tifteen feet,anel was taken up for dead but,though\\nhis jaw was broken, and greatly injured otherwise, was restored\\nto perfect health and soundness.\\nTkomas Eastrna7i was crushed by a large pile of boards over-\\nturned upon him in 1800; from which perilous situation he was\\nimmediately taken, very much bruised, but was finally restored to\\nusual health.\\nDaniel Calef, at the raising of ISTorris Gristmill, very narrowly\\nescaped death, though considerably injured in the chest, by the\\naccidental falling of one side of the Frame, 1805.\\nJacob Little, June P, 1807, 12 years old, was struck by a falling\\ntree upon the left side of his head. A concussioffwas made upon\\nthe right side, and the seam of ihe head opened nearly from ear\\nto ear. The operation of trepanning in two places being per-\\nformed by Dr. Nathan Smith, beyond all expectation, he was\\nrestored to his usual health, and strength of mind, and is now a\\nmember of Dartmouth College.\\nWells Biirbank, at ihe raising of a saw-miW fell from the plate,\\nbut his heel providentially caught in the brace below, which held\\nhim till assistance was afforded, and prevented his falling head\\nfirst nearly 20 feet upon the rocks.\\nMoses Burbank fell into the floom of Gerrish s mill-dam and the\\ngate being up, was drawn under a cross timber, which confined\\nhim under water from this dangerous situation he was relieved,\\nthough nearly exhausted, by the uncommon exertions of by-stand-\\ners.\\nJohn Elliot fell from the top of Joshua Jackman s saw-mill,\\nwhen raising, but caught the timber below and thus narrowly\\nescaped death.\\nDaniel Shepherd, in the fall of Stirrup-iron Bridge, was buried\\nin its ruins but by aid afforded was taken out with a broken\\nlimb, and other injuries and so far restored as to be active in\\nbusiness for several years.\\nAmos Stone, when boarding a barn by the heat of a summers\\nday, fainted and fell from the ridge-pole to the ground, without\\nreceiving essential injui y cither to limbs or health, July, 1818.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 109\\nBIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.\\nAmong those characters, who have been the active promoters\\nof the interest of this town, either in a secular or moral point of\\nview, the following names claim a concise tribute of respect.\\nCapt. Stephen Gerrish was one of the original proprietors, and\\nof the first settlers of the town. He was particularly prepared\\nto advance the settlement of a new country being young, robust,\\nacquainted with husbandry, entei-prising, industrious and econom-\\nical. Though his education was small, and his manners unpol-\\nished, yet his slrenglh of mind, his frankness and sympathetic\\nfeelings rendered him both useful and agreeable.\\nlie well knew the discouragements, and wants of the new set-\\ntlers of a country and to him many resorted for succour. Pos-\\nsessing both the means, and the disposition, he was liberal and\\nhospitable a friend and father to multitudes. He died 1788, at\\nthe age of 74 having lived to see hischildien settled and pros-\\nperous, and useful members of both civil and religious societies.\\nCol. Henry Gerrish^ eldest son of Capt. S. G.,at an early period\\nof life distinguished himself as an active and very useful citizen.\\nHis literary acquirements, though good for his day, were con-\\ntracted; but possessing a capacious ar.d discriminating mind, his\\nknowledge of men and things, the correctness of his opinions, his\\nindependence and decision, mild deportment and uniform moral\\nand religious habits, ensured the esteem and contidence of his\\nfellow men in every station. He was acquainted with the art of\\nsurveying, and practised that art much through life. Possessing\\na military turn, he was early promoted. In the trdnsactions of\\nthe town he was very commonly chosen to moderate their meet-\\nings for several years a selectman, and very often made one of\\nimportant committees.*\\nHe was a friend of his country, and an active supporter of the\\nrevolution. For many years, he bore a commission of the peace.\\nFrom early life he was a professor of religion, and uniformly\\ngave his support to religious society. He acquired a great es-\\ntate, and brought up a large family of children, the most of whom\\nhe lived to see well settled, and whose habits evidenced that\\nhis government over them was salutary and his house, though\\nfor many years the stranger s home, was a house of order. Col.\\nGerrish died at the age of 64, May 16, 1806.\\n*1773 Col. Gerrish was chosen the first Grand Juror to his Majesty s Sup. Court.\\n1774 Dtilcgate to the Convention for the choice of members of tlie 1st Continental\\nCongress. 1775, Delegate to the Convention for the choice of niemhers of the 2d\\nContinental Congress Also Delegate to the Provincial Congress. 1779, Repre-\\nsented the towns of Boscavven and Salisbury in the Gen. Court, and 1790 was elect-\\ned Representative of the town of Boscawen.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "110 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nCapt. Peter Kimball moved into the town of Boscawen about\\nthe year 17G5. Possessing great self-command, a sound judg-\\nment, and unwavering integrity, he soon came into public notice,\\nand was elected selectman in 1768; in which office he served\\nnine j ears. In our revolutionary struggle, he manifested a truly\\npatriotic spirit readily accepted those appointments, with others,\\nwhich involved the dearest interests of individuals and of the\\npublic. He contributed to the security of our independence, not\\nmerely by his assiduous services at home, but endured the pri-\\nvations of four campaigns in defence of his country. In one of\\nthem he volunteered as a private soldier but, in the other three,\\nhe bore a Captain s commission, and at Bennington received a\\nwound at the head of his company a precious memento of that\\nsignal battle. Capt. Kimball was a valuable citizen a much\\nesteemed neighbour and a consistant man. Though he never\\nmade a public profession of religion, he was the constant sup-\\nporter of religious society, and always attended public worship as\\nlong as health would permit. He clearly understood the doc-\\ntrines of grace, and evidenced to his pious acquaintance, that his\\nbelief in tkem was his joy and salvation. His death was sudden,\\nJune 4, 1011, at the age of 72.\\nMr. Enoch Little, a native of Newbury, Mass. moved into this\\ntown in 1774, and died 1816, aged 88 years. His name is not\\nhere inserted on account of his personal services in the public\\naffairs of society, but as the head of a numerous family, whose\\nability and influence have contributed largely to the promotion\\nof the public good and, as a man of great eqality of mind, and\\nsingular piety. The subject of this notice was made to bow to\\nImmanuel s sceptre at the age of 1 1 years and thus like Enoch\\nof old, walked with God 77 years 64 of which he was a\\ndisciple of Christ by a christian profession. He sought retire-\\nment, particularly in his advanced age, ibr that was most congenial\\nwith the habits of his mind. Here he could give free indulgence\\nto pious meditation, prayer and to reading the holy Scriptures,\\nwhich were as his meat and drink and by which he was pre-\\npared to exhibit the excellencies of his character his meekness,\\nhumility, self-loathing, faith, patience, hope and charity in the\\ndomestic circle to pious visitors, and to the church of Christ.\\nMr. Little s example had a very happy influence upon his poster-\\nity, and by them to society more generally for he lived to see\\nthem multiplied to nearly an hundred, and many of them parta-\\nkers of the same glorious hope with himself. For many years,\\nhe spoke of his being in this world a stranger and sojourner,\\nlooking for a city, which hatli. foundations, whose builder and\\nmaker is God^ The good resulting from the example and prayex s\\nof this pious man has been, and will no doubt be, for many gen-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "inSTORT OF BOSCAWEN. HI\\nrations to come, the precious seed yielding its te mporal and\\nspiritual benefits to the people of this town.\\nGeorge Jackman, Esq. was born at Newbury, Oct. 28, O. S.\\n1735, son of George Jackman, a proprietor, who became a settler\\nin town 1737, and was elected Deacon in the organization of the\\nfirst church. The character before us has been so long and so\\nabundantly employed in the transactions of this town, that, in\\nalluding to those who have contributed to its present prosperous\\nstate, the most active agent, though living, could not be omitted.\\nIn 1760, at the first meeting of the town, after its incorporation,\\nGeorge Jackman, jun. was chosen Town Clerk, and re-chosen for\\n36 years successively afterwards 2 years more, making 38 years\\nin that office. The same year, 17G0, he was appointed a civil\\nmagistrate in the reign of George II. and his commission signed\\nby Benning Wentworth, Governor of N. H. and was in\\ncommission to the year 1818, .50 years; and the oldest Justice\\nof the Peace in the state of New-Hampshire. In 176r, the pro-\\nprietors elected him their Clerk (though he had performed the\\nbusiness of the office the five preceding years for his father, who\\nwas Clerk and has kept the records, and attended to the busi-\\nness to this time, 55 years. At the same time, he served the\\ntown in the office of Selectman 22 years twice a Delegate to\\nthe State Convention four times chosen, and three times repre-\\nsented the town in the General Court; and has been a member\\nof the Church of Christ 44 years. For nearly 60 years, Mr, J.\\nhas been actively employed in public services. As a Scribe,\\nhe was ready, and kept a fair record, written Avith his left hand.\\nIn all business assigned him by the town, he was prompt and\\nfaithful and in discharging the duties of a magistrate, he mani-\\nfested an unwavering attachment to justice and impartiality.\\nHe was unil^ormly active in secaring the independence of his\\ncountry and the unshaken friend of the Constitution and Goi^ei n-\\nment, which the wisdom of the nation had adopted. In his\\nintercourse with his fellow men, his conversation and habits have\\nbeen unexceptionable. He highly prized, steadily supported and\\nconstantly attended the institutions of the Gospel. And, as a\\nchristian, his walk has been such to this day, as became his pro-\\nfession. At this advanced period of his life, nearly 85, he enjoys\\ngood health performs manual labor spends much time in\\nreading, and in the warm season of the year, is a constant attend-\\nant on the public worship of God.\\nThe notice here taken of the characters and services of some,\\nwas not intended to diminish any thing from the merits of others,\\nnow numbered either with the dead or the living, whose werthy\\ndeeds will long live in the memory of a grateful people but,\\nin a record like this, reasonable expectation could not be answer-\\ned without particularizing a lew.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nNARRATIVES of those who ivere taken captive\\nor killed by the Indians.\\nMrs. DustonPs captivity, spoken of by Belknap and other histo-\\nrians, having concern in our history, we shall offer the outlines\\nof the extraordinary story. Mrs. Duston, her infant babe, but\\nonly a week old, and her nurse, the widow Mary Niff, were\\ntaken captive by the Indians at Haverhill, Mass. March 15, 1698 j\\nwhile her husband magnanimously retreated with their seven\\nolder children, from before the enemy to a place of safety.\\nThe Indiaas soon barbarously dispatched the tender babe, and\\nconveyed the enfeebled, afflicted mother and nurse up the Merri-\\nmack river to a small island in the mouth of Contoocook river,\\nwhich forma the south-east corner of this town. Here the Indians,\\n10 or 12, for the number is variously stated, after refreshing\\nthemselves, being fatigued and fearless, lay down and readily\\nsunk into a profound, but fatal sleep. Mrs. D. viewing the\\ncircumstance as favourable to her escape, improved the moment.\\nBy the aid of her nurse and a captive youth, with the death\\nweapons of her savage enemies, instantly despatched them all,\\nexcept two, who made their escape. And in retaliation took\\nthe scalps of their captors slain, and one of their birch canoes,\\nreturned down the river to Haverhill in safety, to the unspeaka-\\nble joy and astonishment of her family and friends and was soon\\nafter generously rewarded by the Massachusetts government for\\nthis unexampled deed. This heroic exploit took place April 30,\\n1698, about 35 years before the settlement of this town.\\nJosiah Bishop was the first of the settlers, who was taken by\\nthe Indians. He was surprised and taken, v/hen at vrork in his\\nfield, at the lower end of King-street. The Indians took him in-\\nto the woods but finding him unyielding to their wishes, they\\nkilled him, as reported by other captives, who were informed\\nby the perpetrators.\\nOn May 4, 1746, several men were at work on Clay Hill, and\\nwere surprized by a party of Indians in ambush. Thomas Cook\\nand Caesar^ the negro servant of Rev. Mr. Stevens, were killed,\\nand Elisha Jones was taken captive, and carried to Canada, and\\nthere sickened and died.\\nThe following August, two others were taken captive by the\\nIndians not inhabitants of the town, but belonging to Hopkin-\\nton and it is recollected that one of them bore the name of\\nPutney, and the name of the other, a young man, Abraham Kim-\\nball.\\n1752. In April the two negroes belonging to Messrs. Miles\\nand Lindsey, were taken captive in Canterbury by Sabatis and\\nPlmisawa. And the following year 1 753, Bowen and Morrill", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN. 113\\nkilled those two Indians at Indian-Bridge, in Boscawen. See the\\naccount Section 9, page 44.\\nMay, 1754. J\\\\fathaniel Meloon and family were taken captive.\\nMr. M. had recently moved his family from the fort to Stevens-\\ntown, the westward part of Salisbury. While on his way back\\nto the fort on business, a party of Indians came upon him, and\\ntook him. They knew him where he lived, and directed hJm\\nhome. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs. M. and five child-\\nren, named Nathaniel, Rachel, John, Daniel aiiil Sarah and in\\nsurprise were ail taken captive, except their eldest son, who was\\nat work in the field in sight. The father was ordered to c-ill his\\nson, and he did but the son saw the Indians, and under, tood his\\nfathers wish for his escape, by the significancy of his voice,\\ndropped his hoe, fled to the woods, swam Biaclcwater river, ehi-\\nded the Indian s pursuit, and reaclied the fort in salety. The\\nalarm being thus given, a strong detachment marched direct-\\nly up, in hope of recovering the captives, but it was too late.\\nThe Indians had hastily taken a few things and the six captives,\\nand were out of their reach on their way toward Canada. Mr.\\nMeloon s youngest daughter, about a year old, was sick, and be-\\ning exposed grew worse The Indians took the child from the\\nparents, under pretence of appl3 ing medicine, who never be-\\nheld her afterwards. In other respects they were treated hu-\\nmanely by their savage captors, though their travel and fare\\nwere very hard. When they arrived at Canada, they were sep-\\narated, and sold to the French. Mr. M. and wife, however, liv-\\ned together, and their son Joseph, now living in Salisbury, N. H.\\nwas born in their captivity, 1755. After a servitude of more\\nthan three years in Canada, Mr. M. and wife and their three sons\\nwere shipped for France but on their voyage, near the Grand\\nBanks, were taken by the British, and safely landed at Portland,\\nMe. from whence they travelled by land, and once more re-\\ngained their home, after an ahsence of 4 long years in tedious\\ncaptivity. Their eldest daughter, Rachel, was left behind, and\\ncontinued in Canada, among the French and Indians nine years\\nwhen Samuel Fowler, Esq. employed by her parents, brought\\nher home, though much against her inclination. She afterwards\\nmarried, and had a family but always retained a partiality for\\nthe manners and habits of an Indian life.\\nAugust 15, 1754, a party of Indians came to the house of\\nPhilip Call, who had just before moved from the fort into the\\nedge of Bakerstown, now the eastwardly part of Salisbury. Mrs.\\nCall was in the house, but Mr. Call, his son and a hired man\\nwere laboring in the field. They saw the Indians, and ran to-\\nwards home but before they arrived, the barbarous enemy had\\nkilled Mrs. Call with a tomahawk, while her husband and son\\nwere bo near as to hear the fatal blow. The Indiana took her\\n15", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114 HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nscalp, and immediately retired to the woods. Mr. Call s young\\nman repaired to the fort as quick as possible to g;ve mformation\\nand to avoid the chase of the Indians, he swam the Merrimack\\nseveral times. A detachment of fourteen men well armed with\\nmuskets, marched directly on but the Indians, in the mean time,\\nsuspecting that an alarm had been given, and that they should\\nbe pursued, secreted themselves in ambush by the way side.\\nOur men had no sooner passed them, than the Indians rose from\\ntheir ambush gave the war-whoop rushed upon them and took\\nEnos Bishop. Timothy Cook, whose tather had been killed at\\nClay Hill, plunged into the river seven shots were made at\\nhim, and th\u00c2\u00ab seventh took his life. But the other twelve of the\\ndetachment made their escape, and r ^turned in safety to the\\nfort, not havmg been able, from some cause, to lire a single gun.\\nMr. E. Bishop was carried captive to Canada, and there un-\\nfortunataly, by accident, lost one of his eyes; but the next year\\nmade his escape and returned home. It seems that provision\\nwas made for his ransom, but he made his escape before it was\\napplied.\\n1756. Ezekiel Flanders and Edward Emery were killed by In-\\ndians, when hunting beaver by New-found pond, between Bris-\\ntol and Hebron, in the county of Grafton, N. H. The In-\\ndians afterward informed, that one of them was shot when skin-\\nning a beaver in the camp, and the other shot at the same time,\\nin sight of the camp, bringing in a beaver on his back.\\nMr. Moses Jackman, now living, at the age of 73, son of Rich-\\nard Jackman, deceased, was taken captive by the Indians, June\\n1757, when about 11 years old. Being on a visit at his uncle\\nC lough s in Canterbury, and, at that time hoeing in the orchard\\nwith Dorset, Mr. Clough s negro man four Indians of the St.\\nFrancis tribe unexpectedly leaped over the log fence within a\\nfew rods of them. The sight was so appalling, that Dorset caught\\nyoung Jackman by the arm, and endeavored to hide; but when\\nthe Indians had gotten within a few feet of them, they separated.\\nJackman ran toward the barn, but before he reached it he stum-\\nbled, and fell, and was taken by an old Indian and young sanop,\\nwho pursued him. He very soon made an attempt to escape out\\nof their hands by running, but was re-taken, beaten and tied\\nand to intimidate him, as it should seem, the old Indian, who\\nheld him, drew his hatchet over him as if to cleave his head\\nasunder, but stopped the blow. This was all the violent usage\\nhe experienced from his savage master. Dorset, who had Hed\\nto the woods, was pursued by the other two Indians who took\\nthe poor fellow, after he had made the most obstinate resistance,\\nand received from them much abuse, by beating his face and\\nhead vvli ch drew from him many bitter cries of master! mur-\\nder murder I", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP BOSCAWEN. 115\\nThe Indians soon joined in company with their captives, and\\nwithout rifling the house, the family having all gone drwn to the\\nfort, they sat off for Canada. They travelled through t!ie woods,\\nand crossed Merrimr\u00c2\u00abck river, at the talis, having made a light\\nraft for Dorset, who could not swim, and one carried young Jack-\\nman over upon his shoulders. Their first right s eix arr pment\\nwas by SmUh s river, .fackman being without shofs, his ieet and\\nlegs were very much injured and, for h?s relief and comfort,\\nthe Indians kindly provid-d him with moccasons and stockings.\\nHe was too young to iiotce the p\u00c2\u00ab)jiits or the distances of their\\ndaily marches, or the country or-r which they passed; but after\\nseveral days hard travel, supported mostly by the scanty game\\nthey took in their way, the Indians reached their encampment,\\nwhere they had large packs uf beaver s fur and one canoe. Here\\nthey stopped long enough to make t^otner canoe, and then em-\\nbarked with their captives and effects, ^lescended the stream,\\nwhich brought them into Lake Champlain th*nce to St. Johns\\nand to Montreal. At Montreal,Jackman and Dorset were imprison-\\ned for a fortnight, while the Indians were employed in trafficking\\noff their furs. But on their return, to the no small grief of these\\ncaptives, they were separated and Jackman never saw or heard\\nfrom Dorset afterwards.\\nThe Indians soon after this conveyed Jackman to St. Francis,\\nand sold him to a Frenchman. While on this tour, he saw Chris-\\nti, whom he had often seen in Boscawen, and knew him, and\\nwas recognized by the Indian, He lived with his new master\\nuntil 1761, after peace was settled between the French and En-\\nglish, and he regained his liberty. This was to Jackman a very\\nlong and tedious servitude, especially so the first year. He was\\namong strangers unacquainted with their language his diet\\nnew and unpleasant, and the impressive thought of home quite\\noverpowered him impaired his health,and prevented his growth.\\nHe, however, regained his health acquired such a knowledge of\\nthe French language as to speak it fluently found in his mistress\\nmuch kind indulgence, both in food and employment, which ren-\\ndered his situation tolerable though never prevented, for a mo-\\nment, the ardent desire to be restored to tiie company of his rel-\\natives. To secure to him so desirable a blessing, his widowed\\nmother employed Mr. Enos Bishop to go in pursuit of him who\\nfound him, and pilotted him home in safety, after a captivity of\\nfour years; in which term, though between the age of 11 and 15,\\nhe had grown but one inch.\\nThe foregoing is, for substance, the account which Mr. Jack-\\nman verbally gave to the writer.\\nIt may not be improper to conclude this article of captivities\\nby subjoining the ca;.ture and imprisonment of Lieut. John flatif\\nders, by the British, at Quebec, in 1775.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "IH HISTORY OF BOSCAWEN.\\nOn the alarm being given at Lexington, John Flanders, jun.\\nvolunteered his services joined the company of Capt. Joshua\\nAbbot, of Concord, N. H. with others, in April, and continued in\\nthe service till the last of the following September.\\nAt this time,the expedition to Quebec was undertaken, and Col.\\nArnold took command of the troops. Oct. 1, 1775, Flanders en-\\nlisted in the company of Capt. Henry Dearborn, since Secretary\\nof war, and commander of the U. S. army in the late war.\\nTheir march was by the way of Kennebec river, through the\\nwoods over the high lands carrying their batteaux and baggage\\nand after experiencing incalculable hardships from bad travel-\\nling, want of accommodation, the advanced season, want of pro-\\nvision, and prevailing sickness, which proved fatal to many\\nthey arrived at Point Levi^ opposite to Quebec, Nov. 9. Here\\nthey continued making prer\u00c2\u00abiations for storming the city until\\nthe 31st of Dec, when the unsuccessful attempt was made. The\\nfatal day, when the brave Montgomery fell, Arnold carried off\\nvirith the wounded, 60 killed, and 350 were taken prisoners, on\\nentering the city. Among the latter was John Flanders who\\nwas taken, imprisoned, and secured in irons. From his irons,\\nhowever, he was liberated the 1st of March, 1776, by order of\\nthe British commander, but continued iu prison until the 1st of\\nAugust following then was permitted to sign a parole, and re-\\nturn home. He shipped, and on the 25th of September landed\\nat N. York from thence he travelled on foot, and was once\\nmore welcomed by his friends in his native town, after an absence\\nof eighteen months. He was three months in the service\\nmore than seven imprisoned, two of which in irons, and nearly\\ntwo months on his passage home months of hardships, depri-\\nvations and peril From Flander s J mrnal.", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "c\u00c2\u00b0:\\nJ\\\\ V\\nO T-\\n.0 V-\\nV\\nI-", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": ".0-\\nJAN 7(\\nO", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3333", "width": "1746", "jp2-path": "chronologicalreg00price_0128.jp2"}}