{"1": {"fulltext": "f", "height": "3376", "width": "2075", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ",cO^.^;:. ^^o ./\\\\v;^,X .c^ .^t.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f\u00c2\u00bb A**\\ni, 0\\\\\\n0^\\nr.\\nj;\\nN\\nr^0\\n^^r^\\ns", "height": "3183", "width": "1898", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "-n-o^\\n0\u00c2\u00b0 .^J^\\n4 o\\nv^.\\n0^ J^:^ \u00c2\u00b0o\\nA^", "height": "3212", "width": "1831", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3183", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3207", "width": "1785", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "1\\nJ52 S3? j\\ne\u00c2\u00a3\u00c2\u00a3 nsi^\\n-^JEL^JJ\\n.__- ---^^HMBIggj\\n-^fl\\n.dl^^B^B^^BHl^^^^ftaH\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0cj^ j^B^^B^JIp-SSSB ip^B ^^^B^^^l\\n?p^Sf y^yffS fr ^^^iM^Bfl^B\\n-^^^Hjj^H\\n^rafl\\nX\\n^i-^i", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF CANDIA.", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP CANDIA:\\nONCE KNOWN AS-\\nchamingfaee;\\nWITH NOTICES OF\\nSOME OF THE EARLY FAMILIES,\\nBY F?^B. EATON\\nV\\\\\\n.-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0,vv\\nMANCHESTER, N. H.:\\nPRESS OP THE GRANITE FARMER,\\nJAMES 0. ADAMS, PRINTER.\\n1852.", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "v\\nV", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Prefatory.\\nOn the Fourth of July. 1848, it fell to my lot, by invitation, to read to a few\\nof my fellow townsmen, a sketch of the history of Candia.\\nA copy was requested for publication. Being by no means satisfied with the\\ninformation which a few weeks labor had collected, I thought proper to de-\\ncline the request.\\nFour years have since passed, during which time I have, as opportunity\\noffered, given attention to the subject, and as it seems now to be the very\\ngeneral wish of the citizens of Candia that something of the history of\\nthe town should be published and placed within their reach, I have not felt\\nat liberty to disregard those wishes.\\nThe events related, however trivial and common-place they might seem to\\nstrangers, I am sure will possess a certain degree of interest to every native\\nborn dweller in Charmingfare. Although few in number compared with\\nwhat one would wish to see, yet the facts here offered were difficult of attain-\\nment, and the indulgence of the reader is asked towards any errors which may\\nbe discovered.\\nI take this occasion to express my sincere and most hearty thanks to those\\nwho have manifested an interest in this matter, and who have aided and\\nencouraged me in its prosecution. Their number, only, prevents the insertion\\nof their names in this place.\\nFor the time devoted to this matter, and the expense necessary for its com-\\npletion, I shall feel amply compensated if by any exertion of mine a small\\npart even of the early history of my native town be preserved from the forget-\\nfulness into which it is fast passing.\\nF. B. EATON.\\nManchestek, May 1st, 1852.", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "HISTORY.\\nThe precise time Tvhen the first log cahin was erected\\nwithin the limits of what is now called Candia, cannot he\\nknown. While the fish yet swam in the streams, and the\\ndeer with his shaggy coated fisllows roamed at pleasure\\nover the hills, or through the forests yet untouched by the\\naxe, and long deserted by the Indian, the wanderer, half\\ncivilized and half savage, always to be found on the fron-\\ntier, made his way hither. During the summer months,\\na couch of skins, and the covering of the sky, was all ho\\nasked; but when the snows of our rude northern clime\\nbegan to cover the ground, when the music of the streams\\nwas hushed, and the ice hung in pendants from the huge\\nlimbs of the fathers of the wood, some more fitting\\nlodging must be had. So there are found to this day\\ncertain old cellars, once covered with rude walls, respecting\\nwhose occupants tradition has hardly a story.\\nIt is told that a party of hunters, weary with a long\\nday s chase, near nightfall shot a large fine deer. In a\\ntrice their glittering knives carved out what was to be\\ntheir evening s repast, and as the choice morsels slowly", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "y HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nroasted over a fire of crackling boughs, they sat in the\\ndeepening twilight telling their adventures. In due\\nseason they partook of the venison, which by unanimous\\nconsent was pronounced to be charming fare so that part\\nof Chester north of a line drawn from Healey s Mountain\\nto what is now the south-west corner of Candia, came to\\nbe called Charmingfare. For many years its dwellers\\nwere few and far between. About the year 1743, David\\nMcCluer came from Chester center, and settled where\\nRufus E. Patten now lives, a little south of the line of\\nCharmingfare. The frame house which he built a few^\\nyears after is still standing. It is beyond much doubt\\nthat the first settler north of the line described above,\\nwas William Turner, who in the year 1748, built his\\ncabin where Moses Turner, his grandson, now lives. At\\nthis time, one hundred and twenty-eight years after the\\nlanding of the Pilgrims, and one hundred and twenty-five\\nyears after the settlement of Dover, Candia was a part\\nof the original township, or grant of ten miles square,\\nmade to certain persons froni Portsmouth and Hampton\\nin 1720, in what was then known as the chestnut country.\\nThis grant the proprietors called Cheshire. Within a\\nyear or two of Mr. Turner, Benjamin Smith, Enoch\\nColby, Mathew Ramsey, Na,than Burpee, Obededom Hall,\\nand Jacob Sargent, came into the place. As we Avalk in\\nspring time over our pleasant fields, we can hardly form\\nan estimate of tlie toil which has made them what they\\nare. The polish of the arts and the refinement of the", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ITS EARLY SETTLERS. 9\\nschools was not for the early settlers. They endured a\\ndiscipline so stern and hardj, that all their institutions\\nhave the impress of force. The labor of a generation,\\nwith little tinje save to eat and sleep, was required to fit\\nthis place for a posterity of less strength and hardihood.\\nWe have outgrown their simple and honest fashions, and\\nlive in an age that the vision of prophecy could hardly\\nhave unfolded to them.\\nThe great distance from the more populous settlement,\\nthe want of many necessaries of life, the lack of mills\\nnear at hand, as well as the destitution of religious and\\nother instruction, was felt for many years to be a great\\nevil. Accordingly so soon as a sufficient number of peo-\\nple came into the vicinity, measures were taken to obtain\\nthe privileges of a separate Parish.\\nFor fifteen years the population does not seem to have\\nmade much increase. What few lived in the settlement\\nwere brave men and women, not easily daunted or dis-\\ncouraged. There are few now-a-days who would ride\\nthrough the woods, infested by bears and wolves, as did\\nMrs. Turner, when she cantered away merrily to town\\nthrough the bridle-path by David McCluer s, carrying the\\nplough-irons to the blacksmith, out of which the white oak\\nstumps and the rough stones had broken many a notch.\\nIn March, 1762, by desire of the dwellers in Charming-\\nfare, the people of Chester signified their assent in town\\nmeeting, for the incorporation of another Parish. Where-\\nupon the following petition was sent to the General Court", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "10 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nPROVINCE OF To his Exccllencj Benning Wentwortli\\nNEw-iiAMPsniRB. E\u00c2\u00abq. Captain General Governor and\\nCommander-in-Chief in and over his MajestiG s province\\nof Newhampshire in xTew England to the Honorable\\nhis Majestie s Council and house of Representatives in\\ngeneral Assembly Convened:\\nThe Humble Petition of us the Subscribers Inhabitants\\nof the North Westerly part of Chester in the province\\nafore- Most Humbly Sheweth that the Situation of the\\nplace wliere we live is such tliat we cannot ^Yithout much\\nDifficulty attend the publick worship of God with our\\nfamiljs in good Weather, and at many limes in the year\\nnot at all. And the Town of Chester being sensible of\\nour Difficulties have passed a Vote in their Annual Meet\\ning the 2oth of March 1TG2 that we should be set off from\\nthem as a Distinct parish about five INIiles and a half in\\nLength and about four Miles in Breadth as followeth (viz)\\nBounding Notherly upon Notingham line Easterly on the\\nold Hundred acre lots So Called. Southerly on the Longe\\nMeadow parish, as that is Voted off already, and West-\\nerly on the forty acre lotts. Wherefore we pray that we\\nmay be Incorporated into a parish agreeable to the above\\nMentioned Bounds and be Invested with all those prive-\\nlidges that other parishes have within this province. The\\ngranting of which we Humbly Conceive will be a great\\nbenefitt to your Humble petitioners and our familys.\\nAnd your petitioners as in Duty Bound Shall ever pray,\\nChester March 22tZ Anno Domini 1763.\\nBenjamin Batchelder, Wilham Turner,\\nSamuel Mooers, Winthrop Wells,", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "i*ETrriOX for INCOKPORAtlON.\\n11\\nJonathan Hills,\\nAbraham Fitts,\\nSamuel Towle,\\nSherburne Rowe,\\n/Nicklus Smith,\\nAsel Quimby,\\nJonathan Towle,\\nGillman Dudley,\\nNathaniel Ingalls,\\nZachariah Clifford,\\nTheophilus Clough,\\nEnoch Colby,\\nJohn Karr,\\nMoses Smart,\\nThomas Chretchet,\\nNath- Emerson,\\nSamuel Eastman,\\nJohn Sargent,\\nJohn Clay,\\nJonathan Been,\\nMoses Baker,\\nBenj- Smith,\\nTheop- Sargent,\\nJames McCluer,\\nStephen Webster,\\nStephen Palmer,\\nJoseph Smith,\\nJacob Sergant,\\nJeremiah Beau,\\nIchabod Robie,\\nZebed Barey,\\nElisha Been,\\nPhineas Towle,\\nDavid Hills.\\nIn Council June 2^^ 1763.\\nRead and ordered to be sent down to the Hon\u00e2\u0080\u0094 House.\\nT. ATKINSON, Jun., Sec y.\\nThis copy was taken from the original document in the\\noffice of the Secretary of State at Concord, and probably\\nhas upon it the name of every voter at that time within\\nthe hmits described.\\nHere is given also a copy of the action of the House of\\nRepresentatives, and of the Council, in regard to the\\npetition.", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "l3 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nPROVINCE OF In the Mouse of llepreseniatives^\\nNEW-iiAMP^. i June 2^ 1763.\\nThis lietition being read\\nOrdered That the petitioners be heard thereon the\\nsecond day of the sitting of the General Assembly after\\nthe first day of August next and that they cause the\\nSubstance of this petition and order of Court thereon In\\nthe New Hampshire Gazette three weeks successively that\\nany persons Concerned May Appear and shew cause if\\nany they have Avhy the prayer thereof should not be\\ngranted.\\nA. CLARKSON, Clerk.\\nIn Council. Eadem Die.\\nRead and Examined.\\nT. ATKINSON, Jun. Sec y.\\nPROVINCE OF In the House of Representatives,\\nNEw-HAMP^. i Dec. 2^ 1763.\\nThis petition being Read\\nVoted that the prayer thereof be granted and the peti-\\ntioners have liberty to bring in a bill accordingly.\\nA. CLARKSON, Clerk.\\nEadem Die. In Council.\\nRead and Concurred.\\nTHEOD. ATKINSON, Jun., Sec y.\\nFollowing is the act of incorporation^ as taken from the\\ntown record", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ACt of INCORPORATIUN. lo\\nAfino Regni Regis G-ewgii Tertii Magncv Brittanniiv\\nFrancice et Hibemice Quarto\\n^-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0k-k^-^ An Act for Erecting and Incorporating a New\\nJf-f-f-^J Parish in the North Westerly part of the\\nTown of Chester in this Province.\\nWhereas a Petition has been Exhibited to the General\\nAssembly by a Number of the Inhabitants of Chester\\nAforesaid Setting Forth, that it would be Very Conven-\\nient for them to be Incorporated into a New Parish as\\nthey lived a Considerable Distance from the Parish in\\nsaid Town to Avhich they belonged and there was a Num-\\nber in the same situation Sufficient to make a New Parish\\nto Avhich the town had Consented of which due Notice\\nhaving been given and no Objections made and the Peti-\\ntioners praying to be so Incorporated by the Bounds and\\nLimits agreed to by the town^\\nIt is therefore Enacted By The Governor, Council and\\nAssembly that there be and thereby is a New Parish\\nErected and Incorporated in the Town of Chester by the\\nfollowing Boundaries, (viz.) Beginning at the North East\\nCorner of said Parish on the Line of the Township of\\nNottingham at a Hemlock tree at the head of the old\\nHundred acre Letts, then runs South twenty Nine Degrees\\nWest joining to said lotts as they are Entered on the\\nProprietors Records about four miles to a stake and stones,\\nthen West North West to a Maple Tree being the North\\nEast bounds of the Lott Number forty three In the Sec-\\nond part of the Second Division, and Continuing the same\\ncourse by towerhlll pond to a stake and stones what com-\\npleats five miles and a half tipon this course, then North\\nTwenty Nine Degrees East to a Pitch Pine which is the\\nSouth West Boundary of the Eighty acre lott in the", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "14 lilStOBY CF CANDIA.\\nThird Division Number one hundred twenty tliree, then\\nNorth twenty Nine Degrees East to Nottingham Line and\\nthen on that Line to the Hemlock Tree first mentioned.\\nAnd all the Inhabitants Dwelling or that shall dwell Avithin\\nthe said Boundaries, and their Estates are hereby made a\\nParish by the name of CANDIA and Erected into a Body\\nPolitick and Corporate to have Continuance and Succes-\\nsion for Ever, and are hereby Invested with all the Powers\\nand Enfranchised with all the Priviledges of any other\\nL^arish within this Province and are Chargable with the\\nDuty of maintaining the Poor that do or shall Inhabit\\nwithin said Parish. Repairing all High Ways Within the\\nSame and Maintaining and Supporting the Ministry and\\nPreaching of the Gospel, with full power to manage and\\ntransact all Parochial Affairs as fully to all Intents and\\nPui poses as any Parish in said Province may legally do.\\nAnd the Said Inhabitants are hereby Exonerated from\\npaying any Taxes That Shall hereafter be Assessed in the\\nsaid Town, With Regard to the Support of the matters\\nand things aforesaid, but Shall Continue to Pay their\\nProvince Tax in the same manner as before the Passing\\nof this Act untill a New Propotion thereof shall be made\\namong the Several Towns and Parishes within the same.\\nAnd SAMUEL EMERSON Esq: is hereby appointed\\nand authorised to call the first meeting of said Inhabitants\\nGiving fourteen Days Public Notice of the time Place\\nand Design of the meeting. And they the said inhabit-\\nants at such meeting are Authorised to Choose All Neces-\\nsary Parish Officers as at the annual meetings is done in\\nother Parishes and such Officers Shall hereby be Invested\\nwith the Same Power of other Parish officers in this\\nProvince.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "FIRST TOWN JIEETINa. 13\\nPROVIXGE OF I In the House of Represen atives^\\nNEw-HAMPSniRE. S Dgc. 1G-, 1763.\\nThis Petition havin,2; been reud three times\\nVoted, That it Pass to Be Eaactod.\\nH. SHERBURNE, Speaker.\\nIn Council, Dec: IT 1768.\\nThis Bill read a third time And Past to be Enacted.\\nT. ATKINSON, Jan., Secretary.\\nConsented to.\\nB. WENTWORTII.\\nA. True Copy. Examined.\\nT. ATKINSON, Jun., Secretary.\\nThe first town meeting under the new charter was held\\non the loth of March, 176J:. Doct. Samuel Mooers was\\nchosen Moderator and Parish Clerk, and as it may be a\\nmatter of interest to some, the names of officers chosen\\nthat day are here given from the record. It is a very\\nsignificant hint of the orderly disposition of our ancestors,\\nthat the first office filled after the organization of the\\nmeeting was that of a constable and the worthy holders\\nof that authority since may trace their genealogy to\\nWinthrop Wells, who was held worthy to exercise his\\nprerogative over the dutiful subjects of King George, iq.\\nthe Parish of Candia and Province of New-Hampshire.\\nBenjamin Batchelder, John Sargent, Jeremiah Bean,\\nSelectmen; Mathew Ramsey, Stephen Webster, Fence:", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "10 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nviewers; Stephen Palmer, Moses Smart, SaijwardS)\\nTlieophilus Clougli, Jonathan Bean, Beer Inspectors;\\nStephen Webster, Walter Rohie, Nathaniel Emerson,\\nCommittee to examine the Selectmen s accounts. The\\nnext vote of any importance was to raise \u00c2\u00a3ir)0, old tenor,\\nto hire preaching, (equal to about \u00c2\u00a37 10s. lawful money.)\\nMeetings were held in what was called Mr. Palmer s\\nLintel. This was on the place now owned by Mr.\\nNathaniel B. Hall, for Avhose present house the old mansion\\nwas removed. They raised also \u00c2\u00a3100, old tenor, or about\\n,\u00c2\u00a35, lawful money, to hire schooling. This was in April,\\nand it was voted that the preaching should commence in\\nAugust following, so that the selectmen, who were made\\na committee for that purpose, should have time to find a\\nsuitable preacher. In October of that year (1764) was\\nrecorded the laying out of the first highway, as follows:\\nBegining at a Stake and Stones at the South Side of\\nNath- Emerson s House, and Running acrost Said\\nEmerson s land By Spotted trees to a Hemlock tree\\nmarked; Then Bounding upon said Emerson s land to\\nthe Lett No. 124; then Running acrost said Lett to\\nthe Beaver Dam, So Called; then acrost the Lett No.\\n125, straight to the North West Corner Bounds of the\\nLett No. 126, then following the Rode as it Now Runs\\nto Moses Baker s house, then South upon said Baker s\\nland to the Reserve, then following the Reserve to the\\nRode that leads from Thomas Patten s to Benjamin\\nRowel s. The Highway lays upon the North side of the", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A HOUSE OF WORSHIP. 17\\nmarked Trees. This is the road now leading from Mr.\\nFreeman Parker s, by Mr. Jonathan Brown s.\\nThe next year the amount raised for preaching and the\\nsupport of schools was nearly doubled, and there was some\\ntalk about building two school houses. Our ancestors\\nseem to have had much of that regard for things sacred\\ncommon to the early settlers of New-England. The old\\nLintel proving too small to accommodate the increasing\\nnumbers who resorted to it, they resolved, after having in\\nsome measure provided for their temporal necessities, to\\nbuild a convenient place of worship. No privations could\\ndeter them from this, and it is to be feared that if our\\nmodern societies were compelled to sacrifice so much of\\ntheir time, labor and money, in comparison to their means,\\nas did our Fathers, that places of worship would be few.\\nAt a meeting of freeholders, held September 8th, 1766,\\nMr. John Clay, Walter Robie, Esq., Mr. Benjamin Cass,\\nMr. Moses Baker, Mr. Jonathan Bean, Nathaniel Emer-\\nson, Esq., and Mr. Abraham Fitts, were chosen as a\\ncommittee to see that the meeting house frame be built\\nand for this purpose \u00c2\u00a360, lawful money, was to be\\nassessed on the inhabitants of the Parish, in lumber, or\\nlabor at 2s. Qd. the day. If any refused to perform a\\njust share, the committee were to report the contumacious\\nindividual to the selectmen, and the amount was to be\\ncollected by the constable in money.\\nThe frame was to be commenced on the 22d of Sep-\\ntember, and finished by the last of October. It was voted\\n3", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "18 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nthat the house should stand on the north-west comer of\\nthe Parsonage lot. There had been from time to time\\nprevious to this, labor laid out on the lot, the income of\\nwhich was devoted to the support of a minister, and here\\nthe location was chosen for a house of worship. Then\\nthe work began in right good earnest; the oaks were cut\\nin the forest and hewn to a proper shape. The labor-\\ning oxen, from many a rude path, drew their heavy\\nloads, urged on by the goads of their stout drivers, whose\\nshouts awakened echoes from hill and dale. There was\\nlabor to be done, and strong hands and willing hearts to\\ndo it. In October another meeting was called and the\\nselectmen empowered to assess a sum of money sujQBcient\\nto finish the frame, and in contemplation of that great\\nevent, a raising, it was voted that codfish, potatoes and\\nbutter be provided for supper. Here was a feast indeed.\\nOur fathers no were ascetics they undoubtedly recognized\\nthe fact that men who work must eat. Potatoes were\\nthen scarce, and in our infant settlement, butter was\\ndeemed an extravagant thing, a banquet prepared by\\nkings could have given no better enjoyment. It might\\nbe called in some sort a munificent act of the town thus\\nto indulge themselves.\\nAt length the eventful time arrived, a pleasant October\\nmorning, and long ere the rays of the sun had penetrat-\\ned the boughs of the chestnut trees, which shaded, in\\nvarious places, the hill, or illuminated the autumnal\\nrichness of the forest, the workmen were on their way.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE RAISING. 19\\nIndeed, there was hardly a man, -woman or child, in the\\nparish, whose eyes were not open on that morn, a full\\nhour earher than usual, albeit there were few laggards\\nat any time but this was surely an extra occasion\\none might not see a meeting house raised above once\\nin a life time. From every dwelling they came, men\\nhardy and vigorous in form, with their better halves, and\\nblushing daughters bright in the morning dew of health\\nand happiness. The utmost skill of the rustic toilet\\ngraced the fair wearers on this day, and, incited by their\\npresence, the young men, with as much ardor as ever\\nurged on knight of yore, doubtless achieved huge feats\\nof labor and strength. Near the destined spot, the tim-\\nbers lay scattered about, each tenon fitted, each mortise\\ncut, with the greatest care. The old men with broad\\naxes are already shaping the pins of oak and hewing off\\nthe ends of the braces, while others by dozens and half\\ndozens, lift at huge beams, straining themselves into very\\nred faces as they step cautiously over chips and stones.\\nNo one seems idle or uninterested even the dogs with\\ngreat clamor treeing imaginary game in the adjacent\\nwoods, enjoy it. The master builder with rule in hand,\\nand a grave face denoting the immensity of his cares,\\ninspects everything, gives a thousand directions, and\\nhastens about as though the fate of a nation were on his\\nshoulders. The committee of direction, each early on the\\nspot, oversee the builder, the framers, the hewers, and\\nevery body else. The sills are in their places, and at", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "20 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nlengtli one huge broadside is ready. The stout old oaken\\nframe is no trifle to be hoisted in mid air. With the word\\nof the master, it is raised from the ground it is up on all\\ntheir hands the strong pike poles are applied it creaks\\nand groans as it moves slowlv upward, and the anxious\\ncrowd, for a moment hushed as the sight greets their eyes,\\ngive utterance to a deep breathing sound of relief as it\\nsettles surely into its proper place. Then in their turn\\ncome the heavy timbers of the end, and then the last\\nbroadside, while the lookers-on watch with eager interest\\nthe runners on the dizzy spars, or laugh as the whizzing\\npins fly over the heads of those who fail to catch them.\\nEre the setting of the sun all is right the sills, the\\nposts, the beams, the braces, the rafters, the ridge-pole.\\nAnd the master builder a glad man is he that day, as\\nhe wipes the sweat from his sunburnt brow, thankful that\\nnor witch, nor wizard, or worse than this, a careless hand,\\nhad wrought him mischief. Here posterity must regret\\nthe loss of the speech which, according to the custom of\\nour ancestors, was undoubtedly delivered from the ridge-\\npole, but no word of it remains. The winds floated it\\nafar over the wild forest, and no man can decipher their\\nphonography. Twas of course worthy of the occasion,\\nand considered as the first sermon delivered from this\\nticklish ^rostrum, probably it had traits of genuine origi-\\nnality.\\nNow all are ready and impatient to do justice to the\\nsupper the codfish, potatoes and butter. How they", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "SALE OF THE PEWS. 21\\nate, and laughed, and joked until the old mansion of Col.\\nCarr fairly rung \u00e2\u0096\u00a0with merriment while the hostess with\\nflushed face and bustling air did the honors of the house,\\nand (as she lived to tell often since,) melted the clear\\nbutter for em, with not a drop of water in it; what a\\nheight of culinary extravagance.\\nIn February, 1767, ground for the wall pews was sold\\nat auction. This ground was divided into lots, and sold\\nbefore the pews were finished. At first long seats were\\nplaced in front of the speaker, the men sitting on one,\\nand the women on the other, side of the aisle. Our\\nfathers however had perhaps some misgivings about this\\ntendency to Quakerism, for soon after we find it recorded\\nin a solemn vote, that the men and women s seats shall\\nbe moved two inches nearer together; although some do\\nassert that the record means simply, that the men s seats\\nshall be moved two inches nearer together, and also the\\nwomen s seats. If this interpretation be beheved, then\\nall room for controversy respecting the sectarian tendency\\n\u00c2\u00abf the thing vanishes, and the peg on which an ingenious\\nhistorian might hang a long disquisition, is driven out of\\nsight. Be this as it may, ground enough was sold to\\nclapboard and shingle the house, and an additional assess-\\nment was laid on the members of the parish for the\\npurpose of glazing the windows. For this object liberty\\nwas given each man to cut oak timber from the Parsonage\\nlot and make hogshead staves, for which he should be", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "22 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nallowed 18 shillings per thousand, provided they were\\nbrought to the meeting house before the 16th day of\\nFebruary.\\nThe first call to the work of the ministry, was given to\\nMr. Tristram Oilman, Sept. 1st, 1768, and it was voted\\nthat for the first year he should receive \u00c2\u00a340, lawful\\nmoney, with the addition of X2 10s, each year after-\\nwards, until the salary amounted to \u00c2\u00a360. He was also\\nto have the improvement of one half of the Parsonage\\nlot; and the Parish furthermore engaged to bring twenty-\\nfive acres of the above half, under good cultivation in six\\nyears from that time, and to build a house suitable for the\\nminister to dwell in as soon as convenient.\\nIt seems that these terms did not satisfy Mr. Oilman,\\nand it was voted to increase the salary yearly until it\\nshould reach \u00c2\u00a370, and to give him the improvement of\\nthe whole Parsonage lot, but he did not accept their ofier.\\nIn the meantime a Parsonage house was commenced, a\\nwell dug, and one hundred apple trees set out on the\\nfarm, which was rented to the highest bidder for im-\\nprovement. A call was then given to Mr. Jonathan\\nSearle. This, also, was unsuccessful, and finally after a\\nday of fasting and prayer, appointed by the committee,\\nas the record has it, they pitched on Mr. David Jewett,\\nwith an offer of \u00c2\u00a350 for the first year, and \u00c2\u00a3o more\\neach year afterward, until the stipend should be X65.\\nMr. Jewett s letter of acceptance was as follows", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "MR. jewett s letter. 23\\nTo the Inhabitants of Candia:\\nChristian Friends, The serious Concern you seam\\nto manifest for the Enjoyment of the Stated Institu-\\ntions of the Gospel and in the most regular way by the\\npreparations You are making for this purpose, and have\\nproceeded so far as to give me an Invitation to settle\\namong You in the Sacred oJEfice of the Gospel ministry\\nand having voted me Such a maintainance as may be\\nSufficient, being so generally united in me and so agree-\\nably harmonizing among y-selves. Having taken these\\nthings into the most serious and prayerful consideration,\\nI Embrace this Opportunity to express my gratitude to\\nyou in having Such a Regard for me, which I trust\\nwith an Eye and aim to God s Glory has influenced you\\nto act as you have and would hereby signify to you\\nthat upon Condition a Church is incorporated in this\\nPlace in Christian love and friendship and on condition\\nthat you finish the Parsonage house by October or No-\\nvember in the year 1772, and Digg and Stone a well\\nby December next and build a barn by July next You\\nhave my consent for tarrying and should God in his\\nalwise Providence so order that I settle among you may\\nit be with an humble Dependance upon Divine Grace\\nthat I Diay be Enabled to behave agreeable to the char-\\nacter of a minister of Christ. Entreating your earnest\\nand fervent prayers at the throne of Grace, that in the\\nCourse of my ministration among you I may prove faith-\\nfull and successfuU, that I may not Run in vain, nor\\nspend my strength for naught, while holyness and Char-\\nity are our mutual and resolute Endeavours.\\nfrom your real and serious friend,\\nDAVID JEWETT.", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nThese conditions were probably complied -with, for in\\n1770 Mr. Jewett began his ministry. In 1773, a pul-\\npit was built, certainly a most elaborate piece of archi-\\ntecture, very high, grand and prison-like, over the dea-\\ncons seat, like Ossa upon Pelion. It was a queer idea,\\nthat of placing a preacher mid way between Heaven\\nand his hearers, and perhaps to the designer of such\\nhigh places, typical of the sacred office. Over the pul-\\npit was a huge sounding board, and many a time of a\\nwarm summer s Sabbath afternoon, when the buzzing of\\na fly about my nose, or a sudden pause in the sermon\\nroused me from vainly resisted slumbers, have I been\\nseized with a sort of panic, lest it should fall and dash\\nthe unfortunate incumbent to atoms. This was in boy-\\nhood s day, but never since have I seen, or thought of\\nit, but an involuntary comparison arises, between that\\nand the sword suspended by a single hair over the head\\nof Damocles, as we used to have it in the English Rea-\\nder and I know not what classic author beside. How-\\never, this sounding board, if a bubble, was a harmless\\none, and seemed by custom quite a necessary part of\\nthe sermon.\\nWhile thus quietly and peacefully engaged in the com-\\nmon and pleasant duties of life, designs were maturing\\nin the great world without, which might soon call the\\nattention of our Fathers to sterner things. The cloud\\noverhanging the country assumed a dark and threaten-\\ning aspect. The colonies by their deputies in Congress", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE REVIEW. 25\\nat Philadelphia, October 26th, 1774, recommended each\\nand every citizen to prepare himself to stand on the de-\\nfensive. In conformity with this advice, conventions\\nwere holden in many places, and one was called at Ex-\\neter, June 25, 1775. From this town Moses Baker\\nwas chosen a delegate. In the meantime Walter Robie,\\nEsq., Capt. Nathaniel Emerson, Doct. Samuel Mooers,\\nMr. Benjamin Cass, Mr. Jacob Worthen were chosen\\nas a committee to inspect all persons who should not\\nconform to the advice of the General Congress. It was\\nvoted that the Selectmen should buy one barrel of pow-\\nder, with flints and lead answerable thereto. For-\\ntunately, our Fathers were never compelled to re-\\nsist invasion so immediate as this vote seemed to con-\\ntemplate. The powder has long since been resolved into\\nits native and original elements, but the bullets still re-\\nr^ain and constitute about the only article of defensive\\nwarfare in the fortress civic of the town. Long may\\nthey rest undisturbed Capt. Emerson, Lieut. Baker\\nand Ensign Bean were directed to request all the males\\nin Candia, from sixteen to sixty years of age, to assem-\\nble at the meeting house, for reviewing with arms and\\nammunition, on the 17th day of January, 1776, at one\\no clock, P. M. It seems probable that there was about\\none hundred and fifty men assembled, for we find in\\nthe Secretary s office, at Concord, a report of the Se-\\nlectmen made in October, a copy of which is here given.\\n4", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 HISTORY OF CANDIAo\\nMales under 16, 232 from 16 to 50, 120 above 50,\\n19 gone in tlie army, 27. Females 346. Seventy-two\\nfirelocks fit for use, forty-eight wanted.\\nPowder is so inconsiderable, we thought not worth no-\\ntice. Town stock, none at all.\\nABRAHAM FITTS, Selectmen\\nWALTER ROBIE., of\\nMOSES BAKER, Candia.\\nOct. 2^, 1775.\\nThat first review must have been an occasion of no\\nordinary moment to the people of Candia. It was no\\nhoy s-play, no village muster, with its mock parade of\\nawkward soldiery. One can seem to see them now,\\nthose stern old men, here and there a few grey locks, who\\nhad seen hard service among the Rangers, or helped\\ndrag the cannon through the marshes at Louisburg,\\nthose sober young men, with scanty equipments but full\\nhearts there were startling thoughts, and purposes of\\nmighty resistance shadowed forth in the knit brow and\\ncompressed lip.\\nThat Review, what would the people of Candia not\\ngive for a complete and perfect engraving taken from\\nthe pencil of some skilful painter which should repre-\\nsent each face as it was, each manly form as they stood.\\nAlas, no cunning artist can recall from eternal sleep, the\\nfeatures and forms that few remember to have seen, the\\nfaces none might recognize. The very ground whereon\\nthey stood has been moved away, and the ashes of that", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "PREPARATIONS FOR THE WAR. 27\\nlemple in whose shadow they were, scattered to the\\nwinds of heaven.\\nIn February, a Parish meeting was called, by the pro-\\nceedings of which it appears that the comnuttee of In-\\nspection had attended to their duty. The report which\\nthey presented was not placed on record. An addition\\nof four persons was made to the Committee, viz Na-\\nthaniel Burpee, Abraham Fitts, Moses Baker, and Ich-\\nabod Robie. Tuesday May 11th, Doct. Samuel Mooers\\nwas chosen to represent the town, in Provincial Con-\\ngress, to be holden at Exeter, on the 17th inst. A com-\\nmittee of seven gave him advice and instructions.\\nMeetings of the citizens were frequent, and held at\\ndifferent houses every measure was discussed, every\\nact of the mother country watched with much anxiety,\\nand each step debated with that close attention which\\nto this day characterizes the people of Candia. When\\nfinally convinced of the justice and necessity of resist-\\nance, no people were ever more united, more ardent,\\nmore energetic. At a meeting called for the purpose,\\nNathaniel Emerson, Moses Uaker and Doct. Samuel\\nMooers, were chosen to consult with the officers and\\ncommittees of other towns as to the best manner of\\nregulating the militia of the reg^ent.\\nThe news of the hattle of Lexmgton, more powerful\\nthan the eloquence of a thousand orators, thrilled\\nthrough the veins of men. The news came to Candia at\\nmidnight, and Col. Emerson, who was first to receive", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "28 HISTOKY OP OANDlAo-\\nitj rode up to the meeting house, firing minute guns\\nas he went, to arouse the inhabitants. When there, he\\nwas soon joined by others, and they fired minute guns\\nuntil day-break, at which time every man was on the\\nground. Nine volunteered that morning, of whom Capt.\\nMoses Dusten was the first. How many others did,\\nwe are not able to tell; as no reliable record can be\\nfound, and those who remember these things are few\\nand far between. One winter s evening I talked some\\nhours with Mr. John Buswell, since deceased, about\\nthe revolutionary times. Said he, I remember as well\\nas if it were no longer ago than yesterday, when my\\nfather was called up in the night to go to Lexington.\\nI was but eight years old. He remembered the first\\nreview at which he was present, and the excitement of\\nthat day in comparison with which all days since seem-\\ned to him of little importance. He spoke of threatened\\ndisunion, and of the time he had not forgotten, when\\nthere was no Union, when food and clothing were hard\\nto procure, and only the most rigid economy, and some-\\ntimes sufiering and hardship, could enable the citizen\\nto meet the demands of Congress on his purse. It\\nwill be seen from the statistics of various kinds in this\\nlittle work, that Candia was in no whit behind her\\nneighbors in afibrding means, according to and even be-\\nyond her strength, for the prosecution of the war. Id\\nthe tax list of 1778, three years after the declaration,\\nof war, there are one hundred and sixty-four names of", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "MEPAKATIONS FOR THE WAR. 29\\nmen and on the record of soldiers who served, some\\nduring the war, and some for a less time, are one hun-\\ndred and twenty-two. Like Warren, the first great\\nmartyr, thej left their plows in the furrow, or it may\\nbe, hurried to the battle-field, When the drum beat\\nat dead of night.\\nIn 1777, 18 men were called for as the proportion\\nof Candia in the Continental Army, and it was voted\\nby the town that twenty dollars a year should be paid\\nthose who enhsted. April 8th, a committee was ap-\\npointed to ascertain how much money each citizen had\\nexpended since Concord fight, in support of the war.\\nThe only record made of that report is very incom-\\nplete as found on the town book. A copy of it fol-\\nlows.\\nConcord men. Is. per day and extra charges.\\n8 month men with Lieut. Emerson, 4 Dollars each.\\nDitto with Lieut. Dusten, 2 Dollars each.\\nWinter Hill men with Capt. Baker, 1 Dollar each.\\n1 year men to York, 8 Dollars, those to Delaware, 2\\nDollars each.\\nTyconderoga men, 13 1 Dollars each.\\nNew York men last fall, 1 Dollar each.\\nNew York men last winter, 2 Dollars each.\\nJoseph Bean to Canada, 20 Dollars.\\nThe people were always in a state of readiness at\\nhome as well as abroad, to receive an enemy. They\\nseldom went from their dweUings without arms. One\\ntime there was a report that the British had come as", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "80 HtSTORY OF CAUDIA.\\nfar as Sandown, and the greatest alarm prevailed each\\nthan inspected his small stock of ammunition and prepared\\nfor resistance. Even on the Sabbath morning, the far-\\nmer shouldered his trusty firelock as he went to the\\nhouse of God.\\nSaid Theodore Frelinghuysen in a sermon delivered\\nin Albany at the camp of the New England forces, in\\nthe time of French War, Ye people of Albany, the\\ntime was when forces came up to us on a shadowy\\nexpedition, not having the fear of God before their\\neyes. Ye now hear the sacred songs of Zion sung\\nin their camp, instead of blaspheming and profane dis-\\ncourse ye see and hear now a religious conversation.\\nThis was in some respects the character of the New\\nEngland soldier, but the camp contaminated even himi\\nThe congregation of our ancestors, armed and ready\\nfor an alarm, was a sight to be remembered. What\\nstillness reigns in that house of worship, all save the\\nvoice of the man of God. How every eye is turned\\non him, the occupant of that high carved pulpit. The\\nstern puritan demeanor of the fathers, the silent and\\nhalf frightened gravity of the children, and unwont-\\ned sight in this peaceful place the fire-arms, the Yan^\\nkee bayonets, disposed here and there, make a scene\\nworthy of description. That startled glance of woman s\\neye towards the door, as some passing gust stirs the\\nstout timbers above her head, tells volumes. Undefined\\nfears of evU to eome, of eudd^oi surprise, of terrible", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "DRESS OF THE EARLY SETTLERS. 31\\ndisaster to her loved ones, -will not let her hear the\\nsermon quietly, and when she steps out into the sun-:\\nlight, every distant hill conceals a column of British,\\nor still \u00e2\u0080\u00a2vyorse, each wood gives covert to the dreaded In-\\ndian. Ah, my enduring mother, daughter, sister of the\\nRevolution, what courage when the trial came was yours.\\nYou made the home for which our fathers fought worth\\nfighting for. This plain, hardy and vigorous race had\\nno rights to be trifled away and relished not courtly\\njesting.\\nFor the dress of those times, the men wore trowserg\\nof tow and linen, made from the looms of their indus-\\ntrious wives, with a coat of the same material. Thig\\ngarment, which was made loose and rather short, might\\nin Roman times have been dignified with the classic\\nname of tunic. There was probably some difierence in\\nthe pattern, but in the plain language of Candia it was\\ncalled a long short, and, say those who tell of olden\\ntimes, the corners of the coat were sometimes tied to-\\ngether, forming a sack around the body of the wearer.\\nIn this was placed the Sunday dinner, often in summer\\nconsisting of rye and Indian bread and cucumbers, which\\nfare was leisurely discussed during the hot noon, in the\\npleasant shade of the surrounding chestnut trees. To\\nbe sure there was occasionally seen the three cornered\\nhat, the long vest, long tailed coat and black silk stock-\\nings, with the breeches and knee buckles of the gen-\\ntleman, but the above described was the more common", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "82 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\ndress. The dress of the ladies was woven of linen,\\nsometimes striped with a figure of blue over this and\\nextending about half way down its length, was worn a\\nloose gown of some other material, not unlike the sack\\nof the present day. A gentleman and lady of our home-\\nspun olden time, might startle a modern congregation\\nhalf out of its propriety.\\nJanuary 1778, a committee was chosen to procure\\nour quota of men for the army, and money was voted\\nfor that purpose. The General Congress had drawn up\\narticles of confederation, which were presented to the\\nStates for their approval. Our Fathers in Candia took\\nespecial pains to investigate and form their opinions in-\\ntelligently in regard to whatever was to affect their own\\nor the future interests of the country. Such marks as\\nthese are good indices of the fitness of a people for free\\ngovernment, and such we suppose to have been the course\\nof all citizens generally. That year, Moses Baker was\\nchosen representative to the Provincial Assembly. Fol-\\nlowing is a copy of the instructions given him by the\\nparish, and in connection with it, those articles in the\\nold form of confederation which seemed to them objec-\\ntionable, with the exception of the 9th, which is too\\nlong for insertion here, and Avhich relates chiefly to the\\npowers of Congress in war, and so forth, and to the\\nmode of settling differences between the several states\\nIt is the voice of the people of said Candia that the\\nEighth article in tlie Confederation aGrreement is not ex-", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. 83\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2pressed so plain to our understanding as that it, should\\nnot admit of an exception we think that the States\\nought to be taxed according in some measure at least\\nto their real and personal Estate and number of Polls\\nand not particularly by lands and Buildings; as to the\\nNinth and tenth articles we think there ought be a\\nproviso that one or more of the New England States\\nbe of the nine mentioned, as to the other things we\\nhave no exception that appear to us so material but\\nthat we approve of the same.\\nAnd Likewise it is the voice of the People of S- Can-\\n.dia, that you use your influence in the General assembly\\nat the Next Sessions to appoint and Call a full and free\\nrepresentation of all the people of this State to meet in\\nConvention at Some time and place as Shall be thought\\nproper by Said assembly for the Sole purpose of framing\\nand laying a plan or System for the future government\\nof this State that it may be handed Down to posterity\\ninviolate.\\nArt. 8- of the Confederation. All charges of war\\nand all other expenses that shall be incurred for the com-\\nmon defence or equal welfare and allowed by the United\\nStates in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a\\ncommon treasury, which shall be supplied by the several\\nstates in proportion to the value of all lands within each\\nstate grafted to or surveyed for any person as such land\\nand the buildings and improvements thereon shall be\\nestimated. According to such mode as the United\\nStates in Congress assembled shall from time to time\\ndirect and appoint. The taxes for paying that pro-\\nportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and\\ndirection of the legislatures of the several states within\\n5", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "84 HISTORY OF CAXDIA.\\nthe tirae asTeed unon ])v the United States in Conm css\\nassembled.\\nArt. 10--. Tiic committee of the states or anv nine\\nof them shall be authorized to execute in the recess of\\nCongress, such of the powers of Congress as the United\\nStates in Congress assembled, by the conseat of nine\\nstates shall from time to time think expedient to vest\\nthem with, provided that no power be delegated to the\\nsaid committee for the exercise of w^hich, by the articles\\nof confederation the voice of nine states in the Congress\\nof the United States assembled is requisite.\\nIt is perhaps not necessarj for me to say that this\\ncommittee referred to in Art. 10, was during; the recess\\nof Congress, the only executive power, the first govern-\\nment not vesting that authority in any one person as\\nchief. Want and destitution now prevailed to some\\nextent over the land, and many families of those soldiers\\nwho v^-ere fighting the battles of their country, were in\\nconsequence unable to provide for themselves. Here,\\nas in other places they vrere relieved at the public ex-\\npense, and a committee of three vrere chosen To take\\nin consideration and make inquiries, into the families of\\nthose men,, commissioners and private soldiers, as have\\nengao-ed in the Constitutional service, for the Parish for\\nthree years, or during the war, and supply them with\\nthe necessaries of life as the law directs. In August\\n1779, the following vote was taken,. That Ave will\\nadopt measures similar to the town of Portsmouth, and\\nuse the utmost of our power in reducing the prices of", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "MR. JEAVETT S DISMISSION. o5\\nthe necessities of life and gain the credit of our coun-\\ntrj. Capt. Sargent and John CUfford, -svcre chosen td\\nattend the convention at Concord, for the purpose of\\nadopting some plan regarding this. In October follow\\ning Mr. John Lane, Lieut. Samuel Towle, Lieut. Jacob\\nWorthen, Mr. Caleb Brown, Mr. John Clifibrd, Lieut.\\nBenjamin Bachelder and Edward Robie, were chosen to\\nstate prices on those articles which had not been named\\nbj the convention, and also to carry into execution its\\nrecommendations. All means were taken by the people\\nof Candia to aid the government; men, money and ra-\\ntions, were voted with great cheerfulness, and no people\\nwere ever more willing and desirous to maintain their\\nfull share of the credit and welfare of the Avhole country\\ntheir votes, their instructions, show that they acted\\nwith a knowledge of the great events in which they\\nwere concerned.\\nAbout this time there was a growing dissatisfaction\\nwith Mr. Jewett. There was much difficulty in regard\\nto his removalj owing to the mode iu which the civil con-\\ntract between pastor and people was made there were\\nseveral offers to Mr. Jewett to induce him to ask a\\ndismission, without success. Reference was once made\\nto Judge Weare for a settlement, and by his advice\\ncommittees were chosen for mutual conference, and\\nagreement if possible finally after many plans, the\\nmatter was referred to the Hon. Matthew Thornton\\nwith some others and settled. The Parish paid certain", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "Sef mStORY OF CANDIA\u00c2\u00ab-\\nelaims of Mr. Jewctt and he agreed to leave the ministry\\nm the place. Time has left us nothing in regard tc\\nthe merits of the controversy Avhich will justify any\\ncomments.\\nIn May 1781, a meeting was called, for the following,\\namong other purposes: to choose one suitable persons\\nto represent them in Convention at Concord, on the first\\nTuesday of June next, to aid in forming a plan of gov-\\nernment, and to see if the Parish Avould intrust a sum\\nof money which had been contributed, to the hands of\\nthe deacons that they might procure preaching. The\\nfirst named object was negatived -the second agreed\\nto. January 7th 1782, deacon Nathaniel Burpee being\\nmoderator, it was voted that deacon Stephen Palmer,\\ndeacon J. Hills, and Mr. Eleazer Knowles, should be\\na committee to treat with the Rev. Mr. Prince,-\\nconcerning the term of time he will preach with us,\\nand on what condition. After this vote there was an\\nadjournment of ten minutes, when the committee re-\\nported that Mr. Prince would preach with us six or\\nseven years for the improvement of the Parsonage, and\\na hired hand six months each year, putting the build-\\nings and Parsonage in repair. An agreement was\\nentered into with Mr. Prince accordingly. On the\\ntv/enty-first day of the same month, a vote was taken\\non the reception or rejection of the plan of government\\ndrawn up at Concord. There were sixty-six votes-\\nagfiinst, and none for it. A committee of seven wa^", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "State goverMient. 37\\ntlien cliosen to draw up some reasons upon the plari\\nof government and send to the convention at Concord.\\nLieut. Abraham Fitts was made a delegate to present\\nthese reasons, to the convention. In cold weather the\\ntown meetings were held at Col. Carr s tavern, there\\nbeing no way of warming the meeting house, so that\\nmany of these deliberations took place there. The judg-\\nment and wit of the freeholders may have been\\nconsiderably sharpened by occasional draughts of the\\nColonel s good cheer. Another meeting Avas called in\\nrelation to the form of a State government, to the cus-\\ntomary notice for which was appended this postscript\\nIt is desired, if you have any regard for your own\\ngood, or the good of your posterity, you would univers-\\nlly meet on said day.\\nThe architects who coitstructed the Parsonage house;\\not the mason who built the chimneys, did not do it\\nOn the most scientijBc principles, so that the occu-\\npant was subjected to that unpleasant thing, a smoky\\nhouse. And it follows that the chimneys had to be\\nrebuilt a vote having been passed for the pur-\\npose. In July 1783, some action was taken in regard\\nto finishing galleries in the meeting house, and it was\\ndirected that the committee should build a pew in the\\nfront galleries from pillar to pillar, for the use of the\\nsingers. Here were those ancient tunes performed, the\\nproductions of Billings, of Whitaker, of Clarke, and of\\nKendall. One can almost now hear the fudtive strains", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "B8 liiSTORY QV CANt)IA.\\nPhasing one another, pursuing and pursued, through the\\nwhole compass of the vocal pipes from the deepest base\\nto the shrill treble.\\nSomewhere about this time, steps were taken bj the\\nauthorities of the town, to erect at some suitable place\\n^Yithin its limits, that most proper and desirable of pub-\\nlic edifices, a pound, whoso high walls and impregnable\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ate, should be a terror to all evil disposed, and unruly\\nCattle such as were in the habit of rambling unprontab lj\\nabout the roads, or devising predatory incursions into\\nthe newly sown grass land, or the luxuriant corn fields\\n01 the unlucky farmer. For this worthy object, Lieut.\\nAbraham Fitts, Col. John Carr, and Mr. John Clay\\nwere chosen a cormnittee, with full power to act in the\\npremises. It was voted that it should be built of tim-\\nber if so, it must one day have been rebuilt, for the\\nonly thing of the kind existing of late years, was of\\nstone and in the furor of modern improvement, its\\nvery foundations have been removed to make way for\\nSheds, so that where the cattle of a former genera-\\ntion did penance for their misdoings, the horses of to\\nday, are sheltered from the noon-day sun, or the winter s\\ncold, while their masters hard by tend church, or delib-\\nerate on affairs of State. Col. Carr was the first pound\\nkeeper, and became to bad cattle what the tithing-man\\nof yore was to naughty little boys at meeting. The\\noffice was held in the family until the dismantled walls\\nof the rustic prison ceased to be of use to the town", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CALL TO .^IR. RE.MIX(;T0N. 39\\nand indeed, since my recollection it served only tq\\nafford greater facilities, in reaehin i; the ehovrio^! which\\ngrew near it.\\nAbout this time the monetary alTairs of the country\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were in a very bad state, and what with the scarcity of\\nsilver and gold, and the depreciated value of paper\\nmoney our good people -vyere almost at their wits end,\\nwhile the low price of every thing the farmer had to sell,\\nand the high price of every thing he was obliged to\\npurchase, contributed greatly to his embarrassment.\\nThe people of Candia, however, bore it as well as thev\\ncould, and contented themselves with instructing their\\nrepresentatives how to act in regard to the matter in\\nGeneral Court.\\nSome time in the year 1789, the engagement of the\\nPcirish with the Rev, Mr. Prince, having terminated,\\na Mr. Howe was hired to preach for six months, on\\ntrial at the expiration of this time, no agreement was\\nmade with him by the Parish, and the Rev. Jesse Rem-\\nington commenced preaching. At a meeting held in\\n1790, it was voted to give him a call to the ministry,\\nif he would accept their terms, which were as follows\\nTo give Mr. Reroington the use and improvement of\\nthe Parsonage lot and buildings, during his ministry\\namong us, and sixty pounds lawful money, annually, and\\nlikewise twenty cords of wood yearly hauled to the Par-\\nsonage house, eight or twelve feet long. Said Avood is\\nto be cut and hauled to the Parsona2;e house, or where", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OP CAXDIA.\\nthe selectmen shall order. Likewise, voted thcit Mr.\\nRemington have liberty to cat what wood Avill be need-\\ned in addition to the above twenty cords, to support\\nthe fires in the Parsonage house yearly, and no more\\nand timber to maintain the fences about said Parson-\\nage. These terms being suitable, Mr. Remington serjt\\na letter of acceptance, of which this is a copy.\\nBrethren and Friends It having Pleased God\\nSince I have Preached among you as a Candidate to\\nincline your hearts to unite in proposing my Settlement\\n^-r- to this purpose the Church and Congregation met on\\nJuly 12- and being happily united as I was informed in\\nCompleting a Call having Seriously Considered of the\\nCall and of the union and friendship which appeared to\\nSubsist, think it my Duty to Express my approbation and\\nacceptance of it. Acknowledging at the Same time\\nwith gratitude your good Opinion of my fidelity and\\nfaithfulness in the Proposals of my taking the Pastoral\\nCharge and Care of you in the Lord and also the Re-\\nspect and friendship you have Shown me both in Publick.\\nand Private since our first acquaintance Desiring your\\nSincere and Daily Prayers to God that I may be Enabled\\nto perform Every incumbent Duty as a minister and\\nPreach so as by Divine assistance, to Save not only my\\nSelf but them that Hear me.\\nWith Affection I am your Devoted friend and Brother\\niji the fellowship of the Gospel.\\nJESSE REMINGTON.\\nCandia, August 20^ 1790.\\nAt the tmo when Mr. Remington entered on the", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "RETROSPECT. 41\\nduties of his sacred office, tlie settlement wanted five\\nyears of being half a century old, and twenty six\\nyears had passed since its incorjDoration. These had\\nbeen no common years. Through the sufferings inci-\\ndent to new settlements in frontier places, the people of\\nCandia had struggled on into something like prosperity\\nat the commencement of the war. To this new bur-\\nden they did not hesitate to offer their willing shoulders,\\nand though few in number, sent their full share of men\\nto the battle field. They suffered for what we enjoy.\\nThey experienced those bitter sensations, which God\\ngrant we may never feel, when reverse after reverse\\nfell thick and fast on American arms, when the South-\\nerner was driven to the fastnesses of his inaccessible\\nswamps, and the Northern army lay perishing amid the\\nsnows of Valley Forge. They too felt that joy which\\npaid an hundred fold for all endurance, when the world\\nsaw the disgrace of British policy and the triumph of\\njustice and the American cause. When the flush of\\nvictory had subsided, they helped endure the burdens\\nof a Nation impoverished and weak, commencing its\\ngreat experiment of self government.\\nTheir industry and thrift in all this time had not for-\\nsaken them, and they had both abihty and disposition\\nto support decently their minister and schools, and to\\nconduct civil affairs in a prosperous manner. They\\nwere not rich, but well enough off, as the saying is the\\nyearly tax at this time, (period of Mr. Remington s set-\\n6", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\ntlementj) from less than two hundred and twenty five\\npayers, being about seven hundred and thirty dollars,\\nfour-fifths of which was for religious instruction, and for\\nschools. The people of Candia were, and to this day\\nare, a church going people. The sound principle and\\nlove of good order, the regard for things sacred which\\ncharacterized the first Parish committee in their day of\\nfasting and prayer, on account of the difficulty of pro-\\ncuring a suitable preacher, has not left them now. In\\nrespect to schools, it is but just to say that they have\\nbeen for many years, in advance of all in their imme-\\ndiate vicinity.\\nMarch 9th 1802, the people being well united in\\nMr. Remington, and prosperous in worldly affairs, bC\\ncame desirous of building a steeple to their meeting\\nhouse, not being content with the plain and simple\\nstructure their fathers had built a quarter of a century\\nbefore so they proceeded to add to it a porch and\\nsteeple, Avhich, indeed, made a very fine appearance.\\nOn its dizzy, towering top rested that bird of birds\u00e2\u0080\u0094-\\nnot the American eagle, but the weather cock, whose\\nwatchful eye admonished, like a sentinel from his tur-\\nret, of the coming storm. Many a little boy firmly\\nbelieved, that he crowed whenever he heard the morn-\\ning salutations of his friends and kindred in the humbler\\nwalks of life. It was voted then to assess on those\\nwho paid a minister tax, the sum of one hundred and\\ntwenty five dollars, which in addition to that already", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE BELL. 43\\nSubscribed, should be used for the purchase of a bell.\\nThis bell was of a beautiful tone, as all who ever heard\\nit, well know. It was rung three times a day, viz at\\neight in the morning, twelve at noon, and nine at nighty\\nexcept the nights of Saturday and Sunday, when it was\\nrung at eight. Mr. Nathan Fitts bid off the ringing\\nthe first year, for twenty four dollars and twenty five\\ncents. The next year it was rung by Mr. Joseph Carr,\\nby whom it was kept for many years. There Avas some-\\nthing attractive, even in the very rattle of that old bell\\nrope as it came through its long pine tube down to the\\nfloor, and jerked backward and forward, occasionally\\ntaking a little boy by the heels, when Avithout fear of\\nthe sexton before his eyes he ventured too near, of a\\nSunday noon. The old sexton, with his peculiar gait\\nand somewhat stooping form, as with the church key\\nswinging in his hand, he moved daily to his task, is im-\\npressed strongly among the memories of boyhood, and\\nto all my Sabbaths the presence and services of Mr.\\nCarr, seemed indispensable as those of the minister\\nhimself.\\nThe object of this brief notice of our father s doings\\nis nearly accomphshed. Whatever could be obtained\\nfrom the records, or the voice of tradition, has been\\nfaithfully written here. It is much to be lamented that\\nthe work had not been undertaken at an earher period\\nwhen there were more among the living who could have\\nimparted valuable information on the subject.", "height": "3202", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44 nisiOiiY OF cAKi)iA.\\nIt was not mj purpose in commencing this sketch,\\nto continue it as a narrative beyond the time when the\\ntown and parish ceased to be one in action. That may\\nbe the work of some future pen, when time shall have\\nthrown around such events the charm of novelty. In\\nthis respect the memories of men and women in Candia\\nwill give them the history better than I can do it,\\nwhile the full and complete records, since then kept\\nof political and ecclesiastical action in town, will give\\nshould they not be destroyed by accident or neglect,\\nsatisfactory intelligence to the future seeker after\\ninformation.\\nEvery thing which in addition to this sketch, it vfas\\nthought could illustrate or give it interest, is contained\\nin the statistical part of this little volume. One event\\nwithin all our memories is worth recording here.\\nOn the morning of the 25th of January 1838, awak-\\nened by some noise, I saw on my chamber wall an\\nuncertain and glimmering light, as of one passing with\\na lantern. While gazing dreamily upon it, the cry of\\nfire so startling to unaccustomed ears, was heard. The\\nlight on the wall grew brighter, as with a beating heart\\nI sprang to the floor and threw open the window. A\\ncrazy column of smoke was pouring from the church,\\nnot a stone s throw distant. A neighbor on his steps\\nwas dressing by the light of the fire every line of his\\ncountenance visible as he poured forth from stentorian\\nlungs shout after shout. Some few people were already", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE FIRE. 45\\nastir. Contributing a small share to the increasing\\nnoise, I dressed, rushed out of doors, and down the\\nwalk in the rear of the meeting house. The flames\\nwere bursting from the eastern porch. The rosj red\\nof the morning was just coming up in the cold grey\\nsky, when the bell began to sound its last alarm. In\\ntwenty minutes the whole town was in motion. Men,\\nwomen and children, as four score years before, their\\nfathers came to its building, came now in haste to its\\ndownfall. Household goods that for many years had\\nreposed in unmolested (juiet, were dragged from endan-\\ngered dwellings, and piled in the roads and fields. Wet\\nblankets were hung on the roofs of sheds, and pails of\\nwater spilled over all the floors. Men staggering under\\nenormous burdens, jostled and ran against one another\\nin all sorts of narrow and impossible passages clocks\\nwere carried off without respect to time babies seized\\nby strange mothers, and in short everything was con-\\nducted with the admirable precision and Avisdom peculiar\\nto people unused to fires. Nothing was steady in its\\nprogress, except the destroying element. Fortunately, iii\\nthis usually windy region, the air was still, and the as-\\ncending flames wreathed to the very steeple s top\\npresented a spectacle of the utmost sublimity. A church\\nof molten gold glittering against the sky, there it stood.\\nI looked in at the front door which had been torn from\\nits hinges above, around and below, all was fire, leap-\\ning and darting in forked tongues on the dry and", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 UISTORY OF CANDIA.\\ncombustible maierial. The sacred book frotn which SO\\nmany a message had been dehvered to erring man by\\nhps now cold in death, lay upon the cushioned desk,\\nwaiting its fate, while the flames like demons were\\ncreeping stealthily up and around to destroy it. I\\nstepped back from impending danger. Hundreds of\\nillumined faces were turned towards the burning stee-\\nple, while groups of men, with pails and tubs of water,\\narmed with iron bars and levers, stood about the nearest\\ndwelling, lest its tottering length of flame should fall in\\nthat direction. In such a case, their efibrts might have\\ndone little good, but a kindlier fortune interposed. The\\nblazing shaft for a moment wavering, fell inward.\\nThat bird, emblem of all inconstancy and fickleness^\\nyet true to one central point, through sunshine and\\nstorm bravely fronting the northern snows or the\\ngentle gales and vernal showers of a milder clime\\nponderous weather cock, by height diminished to a very\\nchick, took its last flight earthward, and with beak and\\nhead buried in the groundj, seemed to bewail its occu-\\npation gone.\\nThe bell whose silvery tones had echoed so many\\ntimes over the hills and valleys of Charmingfare\\nwhich so many times had sung a requiem over age and\\nyouth, now With one sad cry faintly heard amid the\\ncrash of falling timbers tolled its own, and was silent\\nevermore. So in one poor hour perished the monu-\\nment of our fathers strong hands.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE XEW HOUSE. 47\\nNotice was given that morning from the burning ru-\\nins, for members of the society to meet in the evening\\nat the hall of Mr. Peter Eaton, to take measures for\\nthe construction of a new house of worship. There the\\nnecessary arrangements were made, a committee chosen,\\nand in due time a house finished. It Avas located where\\nit now stands, some rods south Avest of the old spot.\\nIn the course of time nothing will remind us of the\\npast, save the moss grown tomb stone.\\nBeneath those rugged elms, that yew tree s shade,\\nWhere heaves the turf in many a mouklering heap,\\nEach in his narrow cell forever laid\\nThe rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.\\nThe breezy call of incense breathing morn,\\nThe swallow twittering from her straw built shed,\\nThe cock s shrill clarion or the echoing horn,\\nNo more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.\\nFor them no more the blazing hearth shall burn,\\nOr busy housewife ply her weary care.\\nNo children run to lisp their sire s return.\\nOr climb his knee the envied kiss to share.\\nThe houses they builded have decayed or are remov-\\ned the trees they planted, grown old and fallen before\\nthe wind. The forests which surrounded them are cut\\ndown, and when a hundred years shall have passed,\\nwhat mark will tell of us There are monuments\\nwhich even towns and small communities may raise,\\nmore enduring than costliest marble. It is not alone", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "48 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nthe splendor of great actions, or the renown of battle\\nfields within our border, which can entitle us to the\\njust regard of posterity. We probably shall have no\\noccasion to throw our lives into the balance of our\\ncountry s fortunes, or see renewed the days of Seventy\\nSix. Other duties not less important are to be per-\\nformed. The legacy of the fathers cannot remain\\nwithout interest, and if in our hands it be not so\\nenlarged as to meet the demands of a progressive age\\nposterity may call us to account for the sura we hold\\nin trust.\\nAs one in the grand association which goes to form\\nthe body politic, the office of a town is by no means\\nunimportant or vaguely defined. Specific responsibili-\\nties rest upon it. The firm foundation laid by the early\\nmen of Candia, still remains. It has secured the en-\\njoyment of a wise civil and religious polity. It has\\npreserved from visionary speculation, and moral bank-\\nruptcy.\\nBe ours the duty to enlarge and build upon that\\nfoundation. Where the struggling settler planted one\\nmonth s school, we should have ten; where churches\\nand societies were founded by toil and sacrifice, be\\nours the task to preserve them in their pristine vigor\\nand purity. So living by the great golden rule, that\\nwhen the passer by points to the mound that shall coy-\\ner us at last, it may not be said we have misused the\\nbirthright of American citizens.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "lOTICES OF EAELY FAMILIES.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES.\\nANDERSON, THOMAS\\nCame to Candia about 1751. He was a native of\\nIreland, and in 1756 married Jane Craige, of Lon-\\ndonderrj. They had nine children John, William,\\nThomas, Joseph, Allen, Samuel, David, Agnes, Mar-\\ngaret.\\nMr. Anderson first moved on to the place now\\noccupied by Mr. Levi FUnt, and built his log house\\nnear what is now the west side of the orchard.\\nHe was a very strong and courageous man, and\\nonce killed two bears with a pitch wood knot. While\\nat work in the woods one day, one of the boys was\\nsent out with the dinner in a pail a rough coated\\nfellow, led by his keen scent to the spot, presented him-\\nself in the path, as the boy attempted to return. The\\nfather being called on, hastened to where the bear lay\\ncrouched, and swinging his faithful shillalah in air,\\nsoon terminated the contest. There said he to the\\nson, now run along.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "52 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nThe sons, with the exception of WilUam and Samuel;\\ndid not settle in Candia. Joseph is (in 1852,) living in\\nFayette, Me., David in Lebanon, N. H. John died\\nin Springfield, Ohio, Thomas in Chester, now Auburn,\\nN. H., Allen in Holden, Mass.\\nSamuel Anderson, deceased in 1850, was widely\\nknown by the traveUing pubhc, as an excellent land-\\nlord. No man kept better cheer, a more open house,\\nor could tell a better story, than Mr. Anderson. He\\nwas in some respects of uncommon ability, gifted with\\na kind of natural eloquence, which, added to his rather\\npecuhar appearance, never failed to secure him the at-\\ntention of his audience, be it in his bar room, or at\\nthe town meeting. Years have passed since he was\\nin his prime, and the travel that once thronged the\\nturnpike, is diverted into other channels.\\nIn 1791 Mr. Anderson married Anna Sargent they\\nhad eight children, seven of whom Sally, Samuels-\\nJane, Nancy, Thomas, Mary and Eliza are living,\\nsome in Candia, and some in other places. Mrs. An-\\nderson died in 1817, after which he married Mary\\nSargent, a sister of his first wife, by whom he had\\nthree children.\\nIn early life Mr. A. went with his brother Allen\\ninto Worcester County, Mass., and learned the cooper s\\ntrade. He was afterwards persuaded to return, and\\ncommenced keeping tavern in 1805. Oct. 1821, the\\nblock of buildings was burned. The alarm was given-", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMtLIES. 53\\nat 12 o clock, at night, and in an hour and a half,\\nevery thing was fiat 23 horses and 11 swine were de-\\nstroyed, with nearly every article of furniture in the\\nhouse. The lass was estimated at six or seven thousand\\ndollars, sixteen or seventeen hundred of which was made\\nup to them in cash and provision by the contributions\\nof townsmen and on Christmas day, they moved into\\ntheir rebuilt house. In prosperous times the business\\nof the hotel was very good, averaging over forty horses\\nthe night, to be put up.\\nBEAN, DAVID.\\nAbout the year 1755, David Bean settled in the\\neastern part of this town, at a place called the Island.\\nHe was a native of Kingston, N. H., from which\\nplace he removed to Epping, where his newly erected\\nbuildings were consumed by fire. He then moved to\\nRaymond, and soon after to Candia. Here he built a\\ndwelling house and mills, which in a few years he had\\nagain the misfortune to lose by fire. He died in Can-\\ndia in 1793, at the age of 68. Two only of his eleven\\nchildren, Abraham and Reuben, settled in town, where\\ntheir descendants now reside, to the fifth generation.\\nBROWN, AARON\\nWas the son of Jonathan Brown and Mercy Clough, of\\nKensington. He married Shuah Thurston, they had", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 HISTORY Oi CANDIA.\\nfour children. He came iilto High Street, to the place\\nnow occupied by Mr. Aaron Brown, a few years after\\nMr. Hubbard, A story is related of his once tree-\\ning a bear in his garden, or near it, on a tall pine.\\nWhereupon he ran to one of the neighbors in such a\\nhurry for a gun, that he could not say a word for\\neome minutes, except the hurried ejaculation, JC gun!\\nK gun After he had succeeded in making his wishes\\nknown, they went to the spot and the game was cap-\\ntured. The Brown family in Candia are all lineal de-\\nscendants of John Brown, who was born in London,\\nand came to Ipswich, Mass., 1635 or 36.\\nBROWN, CALEB,\\nSon of John Brown and Ruth Kelley, from Hamp-\\nton Falls, came to Candia about 1762, and settled near\\nwhere Joshua Fitts now lives. He married Mary Ly-\\nford, of Somersworth, they had ten children David,\\nElisabeth, Caleb, Abigail, Mary, Ruhama, Daniel, Dor-\\nothy, Sarah and Hannah. He moved on to the place,\\nin 1770, where Caleb Brown, his son, now lives, built\\na log camp, covered the top with poles, kept his cow\\nand calf in one end, and himself and family in the oth-\\ner. Mr. B., in his young days, went to learn the shoe-\\nmaker s trade, with a Mr. Thurston, of Epping Corner,\\nbut before his time was out, he enUsted in the French\\nWar, after which he came to Candia. Of the children,", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OP EARLY FAMILIES. 55\\nCaleb kept the home farm, and at an advanced age,\\nhas a very clear recollection of past days. He tells a\\nstory of Mr. Nicholas Smith, who had a very neat\\nwife, and while at work with his neighbors on the burnt\\nland, they observed that he was very careful not to\\nget his white shirt blacked bo they, for mischief, often\\ncontrived to let some very black stick fall against him^\\nfor which he doubtless was duly reprimanded at home.\\nIt is said of this Nicholas Smith, that at one time, he\\nwas almost the only man left on High street, they hav-\\ning gone to the wars, and one day Mr. Henry Clark\\ncame riding up with news that the British were in\\nRaymond woods advancing on the town. Mr. S. s gun\\nwas gone, but he had a powder horn with powder in\\njt, seizing which he boldly started out to meet the enemy.\\nBROWN, NEHEMIAH\\nWas the son of William Brown and Ann Heath, of\\nKensington. He married Ann Longfellow, had three\\nsons William, Sewell and Nathan. They came to Can-\\ndia about the year 1765. Mr. B. had three sisters\\nwho married and had thirteen children each. Nathan\\nmarried Ann Currier, and had seven children: Nancy,\\nSally, Polly, Dolly, Nehemiah, Nathan, Jonathan. Sew-\\nell married Susanna Turner they had twelve children,\\nWilliam married Mary Sandborn, they had four chil-\\ndren.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "56 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nBURPEE, NATHANIEL\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acame to Candia about the year 1753, from Rowley,\\nMass. He married Esther Roth, of the same place,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthey had eight children Jeremiah, Nathaniel, Nathan,\\nEzra, Mehitable, Sally, Esther, Patty. He bought the\\nplace now occupied by Jonathan Brown, his grandson,\\nof Winthrop Wells, who, it seems, had been there a\\nshort time previous. Mr. Turner and Mr. Obed Hall\\nwere then the only neighbors there was no road ex-\\ncepting a bridle path turning in where Mr. B. s barn\\nnow stands, and so up by the brook to Mr. Hall s.\\nMr. Burpee seems to have been a man of note, for\\nhe was not only one of the first deacons, cotemporary\\nwith Dea. Palmer and Dea. Hills, but was a tailor and\\nteacher of singing. His schools Avere in his own house,\\nwhere the young people of that day assembled to learn\\nthe melodious trills that so charmed our grandfathers.\\nThe house then stood in the orchard north of the brook.\\nIt was burned and another was erected where the pres-\\nent one now stands.\\nDea. B. was out in the old French War, and at the\\nseige of Cape Breton. He died in 1815, at the age\\nof 94. His son Nathaniel married Dorothy Currier,\\nand settled on the old place. They had four children:\\nNathaniel, Jonathan, Sally, Molly. He was a soldier\\nin the Revolution, and fought at Bunker Hill and Sa-\\nratoga,", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 5t\\nI)ea. Burpee s wife is said to have been a very smart\\nwoman, and helped to raise Mr. Turner s barn. No\\ndoubt hands were scarce and she was a woman equal\\nto the demands of the times.\\nBUSWELL, SAMUEL\\nCame to Candia from Salisbury, Mass., about 1763, and\\nthe next year married Betsey Underbill, of Chester.\\nThey had eight children John, Moses, Sarah, Richard,\\nSamuel, William, Hannah and David. John staid on\\nthe home farm, married Mehitable McCluer in 1792,^\\nthey had five children who attained years of maturity\\nSamuel, Jacob, Mahala, Nancy, Richard. He died\\nin the summer of 1851, aged 84. His wife during\\nthe past season received a visit from her only surviv-\\ning sister, who came alone from a distance of over\\neighty miles, at the age of 81. The two then took the\\nstage and visited some friends in Raymond. Moses, a\\nphysician, died in Maine, Sarah in Chester, Richard\\nwas drowned, William was, when last heard from, in\\nCanada, supposed to have died there. Hannah lives\\nin Canterbury, and David in Bradford.\\nMr. Samuel Buswell was a carpenter by trade, and\\nbefore he had served out his time enlisted in the French\\nWar, and was at Cape Breton. He is said to have\\nbeen very small, not weighing over ninety pounds,\\nbut was as brave as many bigger men. He afterwards\\n8", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "^8 HISTORY OF CASDIA.\\nserved in the War of the Revolution, where he became\\nacquainted with Gen. Stark, and after the peace help-\\ned finish off his house iii Derrjfield. One time, hav-\\ning occasion to carry a grist to mill, he visited the\\nGeneral. He was received with cordiahty^ and the cus-\\ntomary hospitality of the times was by no means neg-\\nlected. Mrs. Stark, with busy hand, sat plying her\\nwheel, while the General and his old comrade sipped\\ntheir beverage and cracked jokes on olden times.\\nI ve been a thinking, says John, looking on his\\nbetter half, that if my wife should ever die, I should\\nbe obliged to have her coffin made large enough to put\\nin her linen wheel, or she would never stay contented.\\nAnd what do you think, was the quick reply, that\\nI should do for John? I ve been a thinking that\\nhis coffin should be made large enough to put in a keg\\nof rum! or he would never stay.\\nGARR, JOHN\\nWas bom in Chester in 1737. His father was a na-\\ntive of Ireland, and we here give a copy of a certifi-\\ncate still preserved in the house.\\nThat John Ker and his wife Elisabeth Wilson lived\\nwithin the bounds of this Congregation from their Infancy\\nbehaving themselves Soberly honestly and piously free of\\nany Public Scandall, so that they may be received as\\nmembers of any Christian Congregation or Society where", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 59\\njod in Providence may order their Lott is certified at\\nBallywoUon June 23, 1736\\nby Ja Thompson.\\nJohn Carr married Mary Wilson, of Chester, and\\ncame to Candia in 1764, where he built the house still\\noccupied by Mr. Nathan Carr, supposed to be the old-\\nest inhabited house in town. There was no clearing\\nwhen he came, so that there was some work to be done.\\nDuring the Revolution, he served three years, and\\ncame home with silver enough in the lining of his coat\\nto pay for his farm. In his absence the family were\\nexposed to some hardships the wolves and bears some-\\ntimes destroyed their corn and took away their sheep.\\nAt night they barricaded their doors and windows.\\nSometimes of an afternoon they had a social gathering\\nto which dames Turner, Ramsey and Rowell came and\\nbrought their work. It was a tea party, with this dif-\\nference, that instead of tea they had a huge bowl of\\nsweetened water, with the accompaniment of rye bread\\nand butter. This bowl was of stone ware curiously\\nfigured, and when in after days the Colonel kept tav-\\nern, it occupied a conspicuous place as a punch bowl.\\nIt seems to have been a sort of heir-loom and fell to\\none of the daughters. The family was one of some\\nwealth in Ireland, and the name has changed from Ker,\\nKerr and Karr, to Carr, of the present day.\\nTowards the close of the war, Mr. Carr was chosen\\npaptain of the Alarm List, composed of old men and", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "60 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nretired soldiers, Ayho held themselves ready in case of\\nneed, and was ever after called Colonel. He died in\\n1813, and his wife in 1827. Of their six children,\\nnone of whom are now living, Joseph married Nancy\\nBrown, and kept the home farm, where he died in 1842.\\nCASS, BENJAMIN\\nWas the son of Jonathan Cass, of Kensington, and the\\nyoungest of a family of seven, one of whom, Joseph, was\\ngrandfather of Hon. Lewis Cass. He came to Candia\\nin 1759, and settled on the place now owned by True\\nFrench, Esq. He was a tanner and shoemaker by trade,\\nbut farmed mostly after coming to this town. He was\\na soldier in the War of the Revolution, and served in\\nRhode Island.\\nSamuel, son of Benjamin, married Dorothy, daughter\\nof Lieut. Abraham Fitts, by whom he had nine chil-\\ndren: Daniel, Samuel, Moses, Betsey, Sarah, Polly,\\nAaron, Benjamin and Dorothy. Daniel lives at Bridge-\\nwater, N. H., Moses at Roxbury, Mass., Betsey at\\nHebron, N. H., Sarah died at Roxbury, where Aaron\\ni^ow lives Dorothy died young.\\nAbout 1793, Mr. Cass moved into the northwest part\\nof the town and commenced a clearing on the farm\\nnow owned by Mr. Tyler Merrill. The neighborhood\\nwas then somewhat infested with rattle snakes, and it\\nis told that once on a time when the children were", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 61\\nsmall, as Mrs. Cass and a few friends were having a\\nsocial chat, one of these unwelcome visitors intruded his\\nhead as if meditating an attack, but Mrs. C, nothing\\ndaunted, threw the sifting stick at him, and her hus-\\nband fortunately coming from the field, despatched the\\ncritter with his hoe. Mr. Cass was a deacon of the\\nchurch under the Rev. Mr. Jones, and until his death,\\nin 1820. His widow married Dea. Samuel Nay in 182\\nand died in 1836, in Raymond.\\nCLARK, HENRY\\nCame to Candia about 1763 he was a native of New-\\nburyport, bought his place of widow Mary Batchelder,\\nwhere Gilman Clark now lives. He married Keziah\\nBricket she dying he was married a second time to\\nCatharine Bean, whcm he survived, and for his third\\nwife married Abigail Francis. He had twelve children\\nStephen, Joshua, who died young, Nathaniel, Samuel,\\nHenry, Enoch, Joshua, John, Ebenezer, Mary, Abigail,\\nKeziah.\\nIt is said of the father of Henry Clark, that within\\na few days of each other, his eldest son, wife and three\\ndaughters died of the throat distemper. The sad event\\nwas chronicled by some poet of the time, in a mourn-\\ning strain of eighteen verses, commencing thus\\nWe mortals are but lumps of clay\\nWhen God doth take our breath away.\\nAll born to die, none can here stay,\\nThe fairest flower may soon decay.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nHenry and John were in the War of the Revoiu?\\niion at Bunker Hill and in Rhode Island. We give here\\na letter written bj John Morrison to Henry Clark, in\\nwhich will be seen some familiar names of Candia lads\\nand lasses of the olden time. The note will be found\\nas expressive and spelled as well as that sent by many\\na gallant knight on the battle field, or in the holy cru-\\nsades, to his sighing ladie love at home, although, per-\\nhaps, not so romantically worded. The original letter,\\nnow in my possession, is folded in a very intricate fash-\\nion, and directed to Mr Henery Clark Juner in Can-\\ndia.\\nForte Woshingtun June 27 day ye 1777.\\nSir I rite to you to let you now how we all do, we are\\nwell and in good helth at Present, a short note concerning\\nLove. John Clark remembers his love to mrs marthe pa-\\nton. Isaac worthen remembers his love to mrs dorothy\\nbagley. Theophylus Clough remembers his love to mrs\\nmary rowel, wiginge Evens remembers his expressive Love\\nto mrs albina Langue.\\nSir I hear very bad news about you and if the news be\\nso I am afraid it will never do for I heir that the chief you\\ndo is gallanting the garls, and if this be the case I am\\nshewer its very bad and if you would but leive of your\\nbad tricks I shud be glad So no more at Present.\\nJOHN MORRISON.\\nThe girls above named were all young at the time,\\nalthough John applies the term mrs to them no doubt\\nthrough mistake. The -^piter was probably much satis-.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES.\\n63f\\nfied, as he folded the note ainong his merry comrades/\\ntvlth the severe rallying he had given Henery, on\\nhis undue attentions to the fair sex.\\nCOLBY, ENOCH\\nCame to Candia about 1750. His grandfather, whose\\nname was also Enoch, came over at an early period\\nfrom England in the Mayflower, which vessel was em-\\nployed several times in bringing over passengers after\\nher first famous voyage with the Pilgrims. He at first\\nSettled In Salisbury, Mass., and died soon after moving\\nto Chester, N. H. His father, named Enoch, married\\nSarah Sargent, and died in Chester. He married Ab-\\nigail Blaisdell, by whom he had nine children John,\\nEnoch, Nehemiah, Jethro, Abner, Samuel, Abigail, Wil-\\nliam, Mary Clemens.\\nJohn, Enoch and Jethro were soldiers in the Revo-\\nlution. The first named died at Valley Forge, sinking\\ntinder the hardships of that memorable winter, having\\nserved four years from the commencement of the War.\\nJethro was in Rhode Island and died in 1780, on the\\ndark day, six months after his return home.\\nEnoch married Lydia Worthen, of Amesbury, Mass.,\\nand moved to Thornton, N. H., where he for some\\nyears was a member of the House of Representatives\\nand of the State Senate. It is told of John that be-\\ning one of the first of his division at the battle of Still-", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nWater to attack the enemy, he jumped oh a piece of\\ncannon which had been so heated by repeated dis\\ncharges as to burn his feet.\\nNehemiah married Mary Rowe, and settled on the\\nhome farm. He died in 1840, aged 82. Abner mar-\\nried Ruth Cheney, of Thornton, N. H. Samuel mar-\\nried Ruth French, and carried her behind him on horse-\\nback to Derby, Vt., then a -wilderness, where he died\\nleaving a family in prosperous circumstances. William\\ndied in Ohio, in 1846. Abigail married John Colby\\nof Amesbury, Mass. Mary died in 1780.\\nDEARBORN, THOMAS, Lieut.,\\nCame from Chester, not far from 1764, and bought\\nhis farm where Mr. N. B. Hall now lives. He mar-\\nried Mary Morrison, who was brought up in the fam-\\nily of Major Baker. They had four children: David,\\nJohn, Thomas, Samuel. David died in the State of\\nNew York, John in Sandbornton, N. H. Mr. Dear\\nborn enlisted into the army in 1778, and was made a\\nLieutenant in Col. Peabody s [Regiment, in Rhode Is-\\nland where our forces were waiting to cooperate with\\nthe French fleet.\\nOn the 28th of August, 1778, he was killed by a\\nBritish cannon ball, while eflfecting some movement with\\nhis men. The gun which he carried at the time is in\\npossession of Hon. Abraham Emerson, and the sword", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OP EARLY FAMILIES. 65\\nis at the house of Mr. Isaac Fitts, on High Street,\\nrcHcs more interesting from the associations connecte(J\\nwith them, than from any real worth.\\nDUDLEY, SAMUEL\\nCame to Candia from Raymond, in 1812. He learned\\nhis trade, as a tanner, of Elder Moses Bean. Five\\nyears after, he went into business where he now is,\\nand ever since has contributed much to the advance-\\nment of the village, and of the church in which he is\\na deacon. He is a descendant in the sixth genera-\\ntion of Gov. Thomas Dudley, of the Massachusetts Bay.\\nHe married Judith Pillsbury, a sister of Benjamin\\nPillsbury, Esq., and as his second wife, Sally Mars-\\nton. Deacon Dudley has carried on the tanning and\\nshoe business for thirty-five years.\\nDUNCAN, WILLIAM\\nWas the son of John Duncan and Hannah Henry, born\\nin Londonderry in the year 1771. He came to Candia,\\nOct. 2, 1798, and bought a store of John Wason, at\\nthe Corner. After remaining there about five years, he\\nmoved on to the place where John D. Patterson, Esq.,\\nnow resides. Mr. Duncan was a man of eccentric hab-\\nits, and extensively known as a merchant. His business\\nin country produce was at one time very large. He mar-\\nried Mary McMurphy, of Londonderry, had two sons,\\n9", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "66 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nthe youngest of whom, James, died at an early age.\\nThe eldest, William H. Duncan, Esq., now resides at\\nHanover, N. H. Mr. D. married a second time Nao-j\\nmi McMurphy, of Londonderry. She lived but a few\\nyears and he was a third time married to Elisabeth\\nPatterson. For some years previous to his death, which\\ntook place in 1849, he was confined to his room froni\\nthe effects of a broken hmb.\\nIt is said that Robert Henry, the grandfather of Mr.\\nD., sent to Londonderry, in Ireland, by one Capt. Rani-\\nsey, for Miss Charity Ash Thompson, who was his des-\\ntined bride. The captain, on arriving at Boston, although\\nhe had received his passage money, sold the young wo-\\nman to service, pretending ^he had received no pay.\\nAfter a time, the news reached the ears of Mr. Hen-\\nry, the expected wife was found, and the perfidious\\ncommander did not escape punishment.\\nDUSTEN, MOSES*\\nCame to this town about the year 1768. He was the\\nson of Nathaniel Dusten and Triphena Haseltine, of\\nHaverhill, Mass., and the great grandson of Thomas\\nDuston, and Hannah Emerson, of Haverhill, Mass., who\\nwas the renowned heroine of Indian warfare, whose prow-\\ness was rewarded by a grant of fifty pounds from the Mas-\\nsachusetts Legislature. He was born in Haverhill, Mass.,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Spelled Dustin and Purtpn", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 6t\\nm 1744, and in 1776 married Mary Buck, by whom\\nhe had ten children: Jonathan, Lydia,* Polly,* Moses,\\nHannah, George W., Nathaniel, Betsey,* Sally, and\\nLydia.\\nMr. Dusten was a blacksmith by trade. When the\\niiews of the battle of Lexington came to Candia, he\\nthrew his apron upon the anvil, and as is stated in\\nthe first part of this work, was the first man to volun-\\nteer, following drummer Hill up and down the street\\nuntil enough fell in to make a respectable company.\\nHe was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in Col.\\nNathan Hale s Regiment, and afterwards made a Captain,\\nwhich rank he held until the close of the War, serving\\nthe whole seven years. The watch which he carried\\nduring the time is now in possession of R. E. Patten,\\nEsq. Capt. Dusten died in 1795, aged 51 his wife\\nsurvived him thirty-two years, and died in 1827, aged\\n77 years.\\nEATON, EPHRAIM\\nWas the son of Henry Eaton and Mary True, of Salis-\\nbury, Mass. In 1768 he married Abigail Perkins, who\\nlived but a short time after the birth of her first child,\\nAbigail. In 1772 he married Sarah Stevens, of\\nSalisbury, by whom he had five children Molly, Sallyj\\nHenry, Hannah and Peter. The eldest daughter^\\n*Died young.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nwent to Andover, N. H. Molly, -whose name the fash-\\nion of the times changed to Marj, married Dr. Jacob\\nBajley Moore, of Andover, N. 11., son of Dr. Coffin\\nMoore, the first physician in Candia. Henry married\\nHannah, daughter of Maj. Jesse Eaton and Sarah Wor-\\nthen. Hannah married Moses Patten, Peter married\\nHannah Hale, daughter of Dea. Ezekiel H. Kelley and\\nHannah Hazelton, of Chester. Sally died unmarried in\\n1836, aged 61. Mr. Eaton came to Candia in the\\nSpring of 1773, and bought his farm of Benjamin\\nBatchelder. The deed, witnessed by Nicholas French\\nand Isaiah Rowe, was made out before Caleb Cushing,\\nJustice of the Peace, in Sahsbury, Mass., in 1772.\\nMr Eaton was an active man, often employed in\\ntown affairs, ready in the support of religious institu-\\ntions, of good judgment and strong common sense, and\\nof rather a taciturn disposition. He died in the year\\n1826, aged 81 years. His wife died in 1822 at the\\nage of 74.\\nSince the above notice was penned, it has become a-\\nsad duty to record here the death of Henry Eaton,\\nEsq., which occurred in the month of March, 1852, in\\nthe 75th year of his age. He was a man of excellent\\njudgment, planning all his business with much precis-\\nion and foresight, and prompt in the discharge of every\\nobligation. An estimable and worthy man, a valuable\\ncitizen, an upright and conscientious christian, thus has\\nclosed the years of a long and active life.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EAKLY FAMILIES.\\nEATON, PAUL\\n6S?\\nWas the son of Jabez Eaton and Sally True came to\\nCandia from Seabrook, N. H., before 1770 he bought\\nhis farm of Isaiah E.owe, it being the same noAv occu-\\npied bj the heirs of the late Col. Henry T. Eaton.\\nHe married Molly Tilton about 1765 they had five\\nchildren: Molly, Anna, Henry T., John, Sally. His\\nfirst -wife died not far from the year 1775, and in 1778\\nhe married Hannah Emerson, of Haverhill, Mass., by\\nwhom he had two children: Lydia and Luke.\\nPaul Eaton was in Rhode Island and various other\\nplaces, in the Revolution. He is said to have been\\na man of extraordinary strength, and it is told on good\\nauthority, that once he moved, by means of a chain\\nand lever placed across his thighs, a log which a smart\\nyoke of steers could not start. His son. Col. H. T.\\nEaton, succeeded to the old place, married Ehsabeth,\\ndaughter of Nathaniel Emerson, Esq., who died in 1818.\\nHer husband, surviving her thirty-three years, died in\\n1851. Mr. Paul Eaton died in 1830, aged 90 years,\\nhaving surtited his second wife eleven years.\\nEMERSON, MOSES\\nCame to Candia about 1761 and [settled on the place\\nnow owned by his son, Hon. Abraham Emerson. He\\nmarried Lydia, daughter of Lieut. Abraham Fitts, by\\nwhom he had nine children Moses, Lydia, Susan, Jon", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "YO HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nathan, John, Sarah, Abraham, Thomas, Dorothy. The\\nsecond, fifth, sixth and last named settled in Steuben\\nCounty, N. Y. Thomas hves in Manchester. N. H.,\\nDorothy died in 1842, the others (in 1852) are all liv-\\ning.\\nMr. Emerson was a son of Samuel Emerson, of Ches-\\nter, and half brother to Col. Nathaniel Emerson. The\\nfamily is traced back to Michael Emerson, who marri-\\ned Hannah Webster and settled in Haverhill, Mass., in\\n1652. Their daughter married Thomas Duston in 1677,\\nand was no other than the celebrated Mrs. Duston,\\nwho killed the Indians. Jonathan, son of Michael, was\\nfather of Samuel, who came to Chester. What is here\\nstated in regard to the family in connection with that\\nof Mrs. Duston, was obtained from Rufus E. Patten^\\nEsq. Mr. Emerson died at the age of 84.\\nEMERSON, NATHANIEL.\\nA better notice of this once influential citizen cannot be\\ngiven, than by inserting in this place an obituary, which\\nappeared in the New Harbpshire Repository, a religious\\npaper, published at Concord, bearing date May 24th,\\n1824. The article was written by John Lane, Esq.\\nDied in Candia, April 80, Col. Nathaniel Emerson,\\naged 83. He was the son of Samuel Emerson, Esq.,\\none of the first settlers in Chester, a man, who through\\n*i long life was eminent for usefulness and J)iety. He", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OP EARLY FAMILIES. 71\\nwas born May 2, 1741, removed to Candia about the\\nyear 1761 was married Nov. 15, 1764, to Miss Sa-\\nrah Tilton,* a woman who through hfe was remarkable\\nfor piety and all the social and domestic virtues. He\\nhas been called to public stations perhaps more than\\nany other individual who ever lived in Candia.\\nHe served as an ojfficer in the militia under King\\nGeorge HI., from 1763 to 1775, when he was appoint-\\ned Lieutenant Colonel of the 17th Regiment of New\\nHampshire mihtia. He was also appointed by General\\nWhipple, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army in 1778,\\nwas a volunteer in the service of his country, in the\\nWar of the Revolution, and was in 1777 with the brave\\nStark at the memorable battle at Bennington and af\\nter the Revolution he was Colonel of the 17th Regi-\\nment eight or ten years.\\nHe has been no less distinguished in civil than mili-\\ntary stations. In 1764, at the first meeting of the\\ntown after its incorporation, he was, at the age of 23\\nyears, chosen to some important office, which he held\\nfor many succeeding years. In 1762, being chosen by\\nthe town for that purpose, he was a member of the As-\\nsembly which formed the first Constitution of New Hamp-\\nshire, and from that time till the year 1798, excepting\\nthree or four years, he was the only representative from\\nThey had ten children: Jonathan, Anna, Samuel, Sarah, Nathaniel,\\nRichard, Elisabeth, Hannah, Lydia and Nabby. Iwo only of the family\\nare now living; Nathaniel, and Nabby, widow of the late John Lane, Esq.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "T2 HISTORY OF GANDIA.\\nthe town in the State Legislature. He also held ths\\ncommission of a justice of the peace, for the term of\\ntwentj-five years. He was a firm supporter of rehgious\\norder and religious institutions. In September, 176G,\\nwhen the town voted to erect a meeting house, he was\\nxjhosen to superintend the work.\\nHe was among the members of the church in Candia,\\nwhen it was formed, and was a zealous advocate for a\\nsettled ministry. He forsook not God s house and pub-\\nlic worship so long as he had strength to walk or ride\\nto the place. But his days are not only numbered,\\nbut finished the place that so long and constantly knew\\nhim, will know him no more forever. But we would\\nfondly hope that he is gone to be with those who shall\\nbe in everlasting remen^brance, and although dead, yet\\nspeaketh.\\nThe following letters, found among the papers of Col.\\nEmerson, although not of great importance, may yet\\nbe read with interest.\\nChester, Dec. 24, 1776.\\nCol. Nathaniel Emerson:\\nSir, I must request of you\\nthat you notify the men that are enlisted in Candia to go\\nto New York, that they appear at my house next Satur-\\nday, at ten of the clock forenoon, all complete fit to march.\\nOf the men s names that listed, are Paul Eaton, John\\nClark, Amos Knowles, John Clay, Jun.\\nSir, in complying with the above you will oblige, yours,\\nJOH^ WEBSTER.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "i^OTlCES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 78\\nExeter, March 22, 1777.\\nCol. Emerson:\\nInclosed are orders for raising men, and as\\nI am not at home, neither can be very soon, I must entreat\\nand require of you, that you take the utmost care and\\npains, as fast as possible to get men, and that you call\\nupon the other town officers to assist, and also upon the\\neelectmen, if need be, and to inform them that it is the\\nopinion of the court that the shortest notice for a town or\\nparish meeting in this case will be sufficient. In case the\\npeople are notified, it may happen there will be no occa-\\nsion for meetings.\\nI think it will be best to get the officers together, as\\nsoon as possible, to make a proportion of all the men to be\\nraised with each captain, and I could be glad, that if tis\\na,greeable to you, you might meet nest Tuesday. As our\\ntown meeting is next Thursday, it may be some advantage\\nto our town in raising their proportion. In complying with\\nthe above and using your best endeavors, will be very\\npleasing and greatfully acknowledged by yours,\\nJOHN WEBSTER, Col.\\nThe inclosed orders referred to were written by\\nJosiah Bartlett, from Exeter, in which the most urgent\\nrequest is made for men.\\nCol. Emerson: Sir,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nYesterday received order from Gen,\\nFolsom, a copy of which I have enclosed to you. I hope\\nyou will use your best endeavors that your proportion of\\nall the men to be raised in Candia, be procured as soon\\np,s possible, and that you call upon all officers and soldiers\\n10", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "f4 HISTORY OP GANDIA,\\nunder you and also the selectmen of the town to aid and\\nassist you, as you -will see by the inclosed orders to me di-\\nrected, that the importance of the case calls for all possi-\\nble despatch, and that a list of men raised in Candia be\\nmade out to me as soon as may be, in order that I may be\\nable to make a return to the Committee of Safety agreea-\\nble to my order from Gen. Folsom.\\nSir, I hope you will exert yourself, for sure I am if Ti-\\nconderoga should be lost for want of men, we shall be\\nobhged to send twice the number of men that is now call-\\ned for.\\nGiven under my hand at Chester, this 21st day of April,\\n1777. JOHN WEBSTER, Col.\\nHere follows the enclosed letter.\\nSir,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nI am called upon by the supreme authority of this State\\nto repeat the orders to the colonels or commanding officers\\nof the several Regiments of Militia in this State to raise\\nand forward their several quotas of men to Ticonderoga\\nwithout loss of time.\\nBy express from Gen. Schuyler, it was expected that the\\nenemy would take the earliest opportunity to cross the\\nlake, as there is no doubt they know perfectly well the\\nsmall number of troops we have at that important pass.\\nTherefore as you love your country, as you are a friend\\nto the great, the glorious cause, the cause of Liberty in\\nwhich we are all embarked, I trust you will loose no time in\\nraising and forwarding the men proportioned to your Reg-\\niment.\\nGiven under my hand at Exeter, this 16th day of April,\\n1777. NATH L FOLSOM, Maj. Gen.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "MOTtCES 0^ EARLY iPAMtLIES. W.\\nP. S. You are desired to make a return of the rncri\\ni aised as soon as may be, to the Committee of Safety, i6\\nCol. John Webster.\\nA true copy by me,\\nJOHN WEBSTER, Col.\\nLieut. Col. Emerson having been dispatched for the\\nprotection of some storcis belonging to the army of Stark^\\nwas not at Bennington, until the second day of\\nthe engagement. There are those tv-ho remem-\\nber to have heard him tell, how, on crossing the field\\nof action with some message, the blood spattered on his\\nboots and upon his horse s sides. We give the follow^\\ning notes from Gen. Stark, as of some interest.\\nTo Lieut. Col, Emerson, in Camp.\\nGen. Stark s compli-\\nments to Col. Emerson would be very glad he would in-\\nform him by the bearer whether or no he found any coffee\\nwhen gone to Otter Creek^ if so what be did with it, or\\nunto whom he delivered it.\\nBy Gen. Stark s order,\\nAug. 31, 1777. JOHN CASEY, A. 1). C.\\nTo THE Commanding Officer of the GtJARD.\\nYou are hereby\\nordered to send the prisoners under your care in the guard\\nhouse upon Maj. Rensselaer s request, without any furthei\\norder, as fast as he Avants them for examination, under-\\nstanding them to be reputed tories.\\nBy order of Gen. Stark,\\nJOHN CASEY, A. D. C.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "t6 HISTORY OV CANiii.\\nExeter, June IGtli, 1780j\\nSir, There is orders for raising of six hundred men-\\nin this State for about six months, to join the army our\\nproportion of which is 22. I should be glad that you\\nwould meet with the rest of the field officers at my house\\nin Chester, upon I\\\\Ionday next at one of the clock in the\\nafternoon, in order to devise means to raise and proportion\\nthem, as they must be got ready without loss of time. If\\nthe Captain in Candia will eome with you, I shall be glad\\nto see him. I am, sir, yours to serve,\\nJOHN WEBSTER, Col.\\nTo Lieut. Col. Emerson.\\nExeter, June 24, 1780.\\nSir, We are to be called upon to raise more men. I\\nhave not got my orders yet, but expect them the begin-\\nning of next week. Our proportion will be 43, and as the\\nmen must be got without delay, it will be necessary that\\nthe field officers meet next Friday at my house in Chester^\\nat one of the clock in the afternoon,- in order to proper^\\ntion the men, and as there must go one captain and one\\nensign out of the Regiment, I should be glad that the cap-\\ntains should also meet at the same time and place, and I\\nshould be glad that you would see your ensign and know\\nif he incline to go, and let me know at the time appointed\\nfor to meet. By order of me.\\nJOHN WEBSTER.\\nTo Lieut. Col. Emerson.\\nFrom all that can be gathered concerning the his^\\ntory of Col. Emerson, the praise bestowed on him\\nWas not unmerited. He even went to the extent of", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "SfOliCES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 71\\nJ3ajing money out of his own pocket for the enlistment\\nof men, for which he never asked or received any re-\\nmuneration.\\nHe was for many years a surveyor of land, and his\\nfather, Samuel Emerson, Esq., was the original surveyor\\nof the town of Candia into divisions and lots.\\nFITTS, ABRAHAM\\nCame to Candia about 1763 he Avas born in Sahsbu-\\nry in 1736. He married Dorothy Hall, of Chester,\\nthey had ten children Lydia, Dorothy, Daniel, Moses^\\nRfeuben, Sarah, Samuel, Elisabeth,- Abraham, Nathaui\\nHe was a blacksmith by trade, and there being none-\\nin Candia at that time, he was induced to come here\\nby the offer of thirty acres of land made by some of\\nthe settlers. He brought with him his stock of tools^\\nconsisting of a bellows, anvil, vice, two sledges and a hand\\nhammer. He settled where Dr. R. H. Page now lives^\\nand had his land from the lot of Mr. Enoch Colby.\\nHe used to take his pay for work in labor on his\\nland, at the rate of two days work for a hoe, c. It\\nis said that a neighboring shoemaker, being rather un-\\nskilled in farming, and the ground somewhat rocky withal,\\nused his hoe nearly up in the two days labor required\\nas pay. Mr. Fitts, by his industry, acquired a respect-\\nable competence and settled his sons on farms in vari-^\\nous parts of the town. Moses, in early life disabled\\nby rheumatic complaints from active labor, commenced", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "^8 titSTORt 0^ CANDIA.\\ntrading just the other side of the road from his fatlis\\ncr s. The Lieutenant, it is said, brought up from Ne-vt*\\nburyport, Avhere his sons used to team, four dollars worth\\ndf pins, needles, tape, c., as a first investment. At\\nthat tiq;ie a Mr. Holjoke and Major Moore had beeil\\nthe only traderis. This proving successful, succeeding\\nyears saw a gradual increase in the business, until it\\nreached a very respectable extent.\\nMaster Fitts^ as he was called, is said to have own-\\ned the first chaise in town. None of the children of\\nAbraham Fitts are now living, except Abraham, in Can-\\ndia, and Nathan, in Manchester, N. H. We here giv6\\na genealogy of the Fitts family, said to have been pro-\\ncured by the Hon. Daniel Webster.\\nSir John Fitts, of Fitzford, in Devonshire, England, an\\neminent barrister at law, at Lincoln s Inn, London, had\\ntwo sons, Walter and Robert. Walter dying without\\nmale issue, the estate and titles went to Robert, Avhd\\nhad two sons, Walter and Robert. Walter took the es-\\ntate and titles, which became extinct at ths death of\\nSir John. Walter dying without male issue, his daugh-\\nter, who married into a noble family, undertook to con-\\nvey the estate to her husband s heirs. Robert came\\nto Ipswich, Mass., in 1635. His wife was named Grace.\\nThey had one son, Abraham, who had three sons, Abra-\\nham, IsaELC and Richard. Richard moved to Salisbury,\\nMass., and married Sarah Ordway. They had four\\nchildren: Nathaniel, Daniel, Richard and Jerusha. Je-\\nrusha married Roger Eastman, and had one daughter^", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "FOTIOES OP EARLY FAMILIES. T9\\nnamed Nabby, who married Col. Ebenezer Webster,\\nand was the mother of Daniel Webster. Daniel Fitts\\nAvas father of Abraham Fitts, who came to Chester ancj\\nto Candia.\\nThe following is an account of the town of Candia,\\nfound an^ong the papers of Lieut. Abraham Fitts, sup-\\nposed to have been written by him.\\nIt was settled at first by a number of men from Lon?\\ndonderry, Chester and Brentwood, by the name of Mc-\\nCluer, Turner, Ramsey, Bean, Clay, Rowell, c., and\\nEastman, from Kingston, built a saw mill, which went by\\nthe name of Eastman s for thirty or forty years after.\\nThey were hard laboring men, the land being new they\\nfared pretty hard for some years. They paid their taxes\\nto Chester till they were incorporated into a Parish by the\\nname of the Parish of Candia.\\nIn the year the inhabitants, tho few in number,\\nbeing weary of paying taxes at Chester, and eight or nine\\nmiles to go to meeting to Chester, where they paid taxes\\nto Mr. Flagg and Mr. Wilson, they met together and\\nchose a committee to petition to Chester, and from thence\\nto the General Court, to be incorporated into a Parish by\\nthemselves. Accordingly they had their request granted\\nboth by Chester and the General Court, and the bounds\\nfixed as above, and Samuel Emerson, Esq., of Chester,\\nwas appointed to call the first meeting, which was held in\\nthe house Mr. Joseph Palmer now lives in, it then stood\\nnot far from where the meeting house now stands. Dr.\\nSamuel Moores was chosen moderator, then Esq. Emerson\\nquit his seat. Dr. Moores -vyas chosen Parish Clerk, ^ev?", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "80 HISTORY OF OANDIA.\\ncmiah Bean, Capt. John Sargeant, Lt. Batclielder chosen\\nSelectmen. There was sixty-three ratable polls at 16\\njears old, the first.\\nFOSTER, SAMUEL\\nWas born of English parents in Billerica, Mass. He\\npanic to Candia in 1789, in which year he married\\nMary Colcord, of Brentwood. They had ten children\\nSamuel, M-ho married Iluldah Lund, of Nashua, where\\nhe lived and died Ebsn C, who married Betsey Ad-\\n^ms, daughter of Dr. Adams, of Pembroke, and lives\\nin Manchester Moses, who married Abigail Huntley\\nPolly, who died in Brentwood Franklin, who married\\nMercy Huntly, sister to Abigail, and both of Lowell,\\nMass.; Hannah, who married Nathaniel Chase, of Brent-\\nwood Lydia B., living at Nashua Lucinda, who mar-\\nried Samuel McQueston Sally, who married Stephen\\nFrench and Betsey, who married Phinehas French, all\\nof Bedford, where Betsey died.\\nDr. Foster served three years in the army during the\\nWar of Independence, and was at the battle of INIon-\\nmouth. He used to live in the Parsonage house, which\\nwas torn down for the building now occupied by Dr.\\nIsaiah Lane, where he for a time boarded Mr. Rem-\\nington. He afterwards built the house where Mr. Eben\\nEaton now lives. In 1812 he removed to Canterbury,\\nfind returned in 1815. He died in Brentwood, ip^\\n1826,", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "NOtiCES OF EARLY FAMILIES. Sl\\nHis widow still living Avitli her son, Mr. Franklin Fos-\\nter, of Nashua, at the age of 87, retains, to a remark*\\nable degree, her memory of past events.\\nHALL, OBEDEDOM\\nWas born in Chester, N. H., in 1745, and came to\\nCandia about 1776. He was the first settler in the\\nnorthwesterly part of the town. It is said of his wife,\\nthat on one occasion when Mr. Hall was confined by\\nsome injury, or sickness, to the house, she threshed\\nout enough of the newly harvested rye for a grist, and\\nthen with a child in her arms, caught the horse in the\\nwoods. Putting saddle, bridle, the rye and herself,,\\nupon his back, she rode to Trickling Falls, a distance\\nof some twenty miles, to mill. Mr. Hail died in 1805.\\nHis wife died in 1790.\\nHILLS, JOHN\\nCame to Candia from Chester about 1765, and settled\\nwhere Mr. Parker Hill now lives. He married Mary\\nMorse, of Chester, they had seven children Mollys\\nSusanna, Eliza, Edward, Josiah, John, Parker.\\nMr. Hills was at Concord, at the battle of Bunker\\nHill, and at the taking of Burgoyne. When at Bun^\\nker Hill, laying down while he loaded his gun, with\\nhis back to the field and his feet to the foe, a bul^\\nlet finding its way through the fence, struck him on th6\\n11", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "82 HISIORY OF CANDiA;\\nfoot he picked it up with the intention of returning if\\nto the rightful owners, but it was too large for his\\ngun, so putting it in his pocket, he brought it home as\\na token of the first decisive struggle. Mr. Hills was\\none of the three first deacons.\\nHILL, JETHRO\\nCame to Candia froin Stratham, in 1765, and settled\\nwhere John Fitts now lives. He married Mehitable\\nJewett, of Stratham. Thej had ten children: James,*\\nwho died in Minot, Me., Reuben, who went to New\\nPortland, Me., Kachael, Phebe, Mehitable Wiggin be-\\ncame an extensive merchant in Bangor, Me.; Sarah died\\nin Sebec, Me.; Joshua lives in Sheffield, Yt. It is some-\\nwhat remarkable that Mr. Hill and his wife both met\\nwith a verj tragical death he falling and being burned\\nwhile clearing land, and she escaping from the house\\nin a state of insanity, wandered away in winter, and\\nwas found dead in the snow some miles from home.\\nHUBBARDj BENJAMIN.\\nin the good old days of yore, says tradition, was borni\\nIn England, one Richard Hubbard, probably of a family\\nin easy circumstances, if not wealthy. An uncle, living\\nin France, offered to make Richard his heir. Accord-\\ningly his passage was paid across the channel by his\\nfather, but fortune had determioed otherwise thai* that-", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 88\\nlie should become a citizen of France, where his de-\\nscendants might have lost their heads in the chances\\nof revolution. The captain of the vessel proving to be\\n.a rogue, our young voyager was carried to the West\\nIndies, and sold for his passage money. There he was\\nbound apprentice to a blacksmith. After serving his\\ntime, the New World, then the El Dorado of all adven-\\nturous spirits, attracted his attention, and he came to\\nBoston. He was there married and had two sons, one\\nof whom moved to Salisbury, Mass., and was the auT\\n.cestor of Benjamin Hubbard, who came to Candia in\\n1772, and bought the place of James McCluer, on High\\nStreet, where Benjamin H., his grandson, now resides,\\nHe married Mary Pike, of Salisbury, in J771. They\\nhad three children Joshua, who married Sarah, daugh-\\nter of John Robie, and settled where he now lives,\\nJoseph, who married Sally Stevens, of Salisbury, Mass.,\\nand lived on High Street, where Elias P. Hubbard now\\nis, died in 1821, and his wife in 1851 Sally, who\\ndied at the age of 20.\\nMr. Hubbard enlisted for a short time during the\\n^evolution and afterwards went to Bennington, as a vol-\\nunteer under the gallant Stark. It is said that after\\nm engagement in which a number of British were tak-\\nen prisoners, a Col. Welch was ordered to guard them\\nto Boston, and he had the address to make some of\\nthe volunteers, whose term of service had expired, be?\\n}ieve that tbey were obliged to go with him. Among them", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "84 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nwere Mr. Hubbard, Lieut. Fitts, and some other men\\nfrom Candia. As may be supposed, they were not over-\\nfond of their rations of salt beef, and on one occasion,\\ncoming to a fine garden of vegetables, owned by a fat\\nDutchman, they eagerly offered their money for the food,\\nbut the old fellow, it seems, preferred the hard cash of\\nthe prisoners to the continental bills of the soldiers,\\nand they were denied. Lieut. Fitts was set as sentinel\\nover the garden to see that no one plundered. The\\nrest of them, not on duty, determined in spite of guards,\\nto have, at least, one meal of vegetables. So they se-\\nlected Mr. Hubbard, who, doubtless, was a man who\\nknew how to talk when occasion required, to engage\\nthe attention of the sentry, while they procured the\\nwished for articles. The scheme worked well, and when\\nall was done, and the supper cooked, they asked the\\nLieutenant to partake with them. He saw into the\\nthing at once, but such was his honesty that not a\\njnouthful would he eat. No doubt the soldiers were\\nright in taking food for their necessity, and the sturdj\\nblacksmith right in sticking to his duty.\\nWhen Mr. Hubbard came to Candia, he had, of\\ncourse, but few neighbors besides the bears and wolves,\\nagreeable company enough Avhen seen in a menagerie,\\nbut not particularly pleasant in one s door-yard. Once\\non a time, he went to Pembroke to mill, with a sled\\nand oxen. On his return, as he got along by White-^\\nhall, a place \\\\yhere Mr. Davis had built his cabin, it", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES, 85\\nbegan to grow dusldsli. Davis endeavored to persuade\\nhim to stay all night but he, being very courageous,\\nlaughed at his neighbor s fears and drove on. He had\\ngot down by Talford s, now Sawyer s mills, when a dis-\\ntant cry struck on his ear. The mists of night, mean-\\nwhile, had settled down on all the scene the mournful\\nechoes of that cry died over the snow clad trees of the\\nswamp, the startled partridge whirred away right and\\nleft, as he cheered on his oxen but again and again\\nthe cry is repeated. He needs not stop to hear, for\\nnow from a turn in the path, bursting into full chorus\\ncome the wolves in that long exhaustless gallop which\\nnever fails or tires. The affrighted oxen strained every\\nnerve, while the driver seated on the front of the sled,\\nwith his axe in his hand, heard, in the intervals of their\\ndeafening howls, the snapping teeth of his relentless pur-\\nsuers. Four miles away from any dwelling and alone with\\nsuch companions then did the hardy settler wish, too\\nlate, he had taken his neighbor s advice. He had sel-\\ndom known fear, but then, said he, my hair stood on\\nend. Fortunately for him, it was decreed of Provi-\\ndence, that instead of being food for wolves, he should\\nlive to a good old age, and so he escaped.\\nThe wolves were very troublesome for a long time, and\\noften killed the sheep near the house, and even came into\\nthe cowyard, from whence they were driven by Mr. H,\\nAn old sheep, which was bitten through the windpipe\\n\\\\n three places, lived for several years afterwards,", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "86 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nOnce a couple of bears were treed near the house,\\nand Mr. Brown, a near neighbor, getting word of it,\\ncame up with his gun. At the first discharge, one of\\nthe critters was dislodged and came tumbling down.\\nThe second time the guns missed fire they snapped\\nand snapped, for a long time to no purpose, and at\\nlength both guns went oflF together, but bruin was n t\\nhit The sportsmen were undoubtedly somewhat exci-\\nted, so the bear, if we do not mistake, succeeded in\\nscrambling off into the woods again. Guns were often\\nset in the corn, which, when green and juicy, was much\\ndestroyed by the bears. Going out one day to pick up\\nthe fallen and traippled ears, Mr. H. found an old she\\nbear munching away in broad day light, with much\\napparent satisfaction. Not having the wherewith in\\nhand to dispatch her, she escaped.\\nThese stories serve, with others of a like nature, to\\nillustrate the border life, and are undoubtedly true, as\\nthey differ only in their dress, from those told by Mr.\\nJoshua Hubbard, who remembers often to have hearcl\\nthem from his father s lips.\\nLANE, JOHN\\nWas a native of Poplin, N. H., born in 1771. He\\ncame to Candia at the age of 23, and bought the place\\nwhere Mr. Ezekiel Lane now resides. He married Han^\\nnah Godfrey, by whom he had eleven children Ruth,\\ngusapnah, Joseph, Josiah, John, Hannah, Joshua, Eze^", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "HOliCES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 87\\nkiel, Sally, Isaiah, and Abigail who all settled in town,\\nwith the exception of Joseph, who died in 1842, at\\nMilledgeville, Ga., Josiah, who went to Ogden, N. Y.,\\nand Sally, now living in Charlestown, Mass.\\nMr. Lane was a carpenter and cabinet-maker, by\\ntrade. He held a Justice commission, and was for\\nmany years town clerk, and within the memory of maiij\\nnow living, used to cry candidates for matrimonial\\nhoiiors, in meeting on the Sabbath. He was a man of\\nmuch influence in town affairs, and was retained in office\\nuntil the time of his death, which took place in 1822^\\nat the age of 72 years. His wife, having survived him\\n22 years, died at the age of 89. A memoir of Dea^\\nJoshua Lane, (grandfather of John Lane,) who was\\nkilled by lightning while standing in the door of his\\nhouse, was puWished. It has not, however, been the\\nwriter s fortune to meet with it.\\nJohn Lane, Esq., son of the gentleman whose name\\nstands at the head of this notice, married Nabby,\\ndaughter of Nathaniel Emerson, Esq., and settled on\\nthe north road, about one-fourth of a mile west of the\\nhomestead.\\nIt is with a fcehng of sadness that I am here called\\nto notice his sudden death, in the summer of 1851.\\nSeldom have the people of Candia been more striking-\\nly reminded, by the removal of one of their number,\\nof the uncertainty of life. For fifty years had he been\\nof more than ordinary note in town affairs, and at the", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "B8 ifliSTORV 01^ dAMDiAi\\nage of sixtj-eiglit, was taken from a large circle of\\nfriends, while his usefulness was yet unimpaired bj ap-\\nproaching infirmity.\\nEsquire Lane erjoyed, in a high degree, the con-\\nfidence and respect of a numerous acquaintance with\\nwhom he was brought in contact, in the discharge of\\nhis duties. He was Justice of the Peace throughout\\nthe State, in which capacity he was often and largely\\nemployed, and by his pacific advice, frequently saved\\na resort to law.\\nHe was an extensive reader, intelligent in regard\\nto pubhc afiairs, a supporter of social order, an able\\nteacher and superintendent in the sabbath school. As\\na man and a christian he leaves a void which will\\nlong be felt by the community in which he lived.\\nMARTIN, MOSES\\nCame to Candia about 1777. He was born in Ames-\\nbury, Mass. The family came from England to Ips-\\nwich, from thence to Amesbury and Candia. Mr.\\nMartin s father was out in the French War. His wife\\nbeing a woman of slender constitution was rendered\\nvery nervous from the frequent alarms of war in\\norder to escape from which, they removed, by advice\\nof a physician, to Candia, intending to have built a\\nhouse in town, but as it happened, so near were they\\nto the line, that all save the door-step was in Deer-\\nfield.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "iTOTICES OP EARLY FAMILIES. o\\\\}\\nMcCLUKE,* DAYID\\nCame to Boston from Edinburgh, or vicinity, about\\nthe year 1720. His marriage to Martha Glenn, ten\\nyears after on the 11th of June, Avas the first nuptial\\nceremony performed by the Rev. Dr. Morehead, after\\nhis ordination as Pastor of the first Presbyterian, nov/\\nFederal Street, Church. Most of their children were\\nthere born and baptised. The mie, of the noble race\\nof Scotch Covenanters, was a brave Avoman, and fled\\nfrom Papal persecution in the land of her fathers.\\nAbout the year 1740, Mr. McClure and his wife\\nmoved to Chester, N. IL, at a time when fear of\\nthe Indians compelled the inhabitants to seek the se-\\ncurity of a garrison. It so happened, on a certain\\noccasion, that the men were obliged to be absent, leav-\\ning the women and children alone. No one among\\nthem, but the courageous Martha Glenn, dared to act\\nas sentry. With the confidence which inspired her,\\nwhen she offered up her prayer to God, among the\\nmisty mountain caves of Scotland, she kept the dan-\\nserous watch with a loaded musket. It turned out\\nthat the place was actually reconnoitered for an attack.\\nThe spy is said to have reported, Me see nothing\\nbut de one white squaw. A superstitious fear, or\\nthe hand of Providence, kept the Indians from their\\ndesign. Mr. JMcClure moved into the limits of what\\nSpelled MaCUiie and McCluer.\\n12", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "90 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nis now Candia, about 1773, bouglit lot No. oO, in the\\nsecond part of second division, in the original right of\\nMichael Whidden. Near the centre of this lot he built\\na log house. The well which he dug and the remains\\nof the cellar wall are still to be seen.\\nIn a few years this structure was removed for a more\\ncommodious dwelling, glazed with very green French glass,\\nand having an enormous stone fire-place, with mantel-\\ntree of pine three feet through. This house, the oldest\\nin town, is standing on the farm of R. E. Patten, Esq.\\nMr. Turner used to come down here to borrow fire.\\nMr. McClure once contrived to fall a large tree on his\\nonly cow, at v/hich he Avas so much disheartened, that\\nhe would have given up his location, had it not been\\nfor the persuasion of his wife.\\nBears and wolves greatly infested the place, and rat-\\ntle snakes were plenty. In later days, a grandson of the\\nfamily killed an enormous wild cat, after the creature\\nhad destroyed a whole flock of sheep in the barn now\\nstanding. Mr. McClure was past middle age when he\\ncame to Candia. About the winter of 1770, while re-\\nturning, an old man, from a visit to his daughter, in\\nRaymond, he became bewildered in a severe snow storm,\\nand sunk exhausted but a few rods from the path he\\nhad lost. His voice, borne by the fitful gusts over the\\ndrifting hill sides, was heard at a mile s distance. Ere\\nhe was found, he had perished. A pine, at whose\\nfoot he fell, had the bark bruised off as far as the", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "i^OTlCES OP EARLY i^AMILIES. 01\\nold man could reach, in the vain effort to keep oiT\\nthe chill Avhich bound his aged limbs in death.\\nSuch Avas the melancholy fate of the first settler in\\nCandia. So perish multitudes whose restless spirits send\\nthem, in advance of civilization, to encounter the dan-\\ngers of the frontier, or plunge into the unexplored re-\\ncesses of the wilderness.\\nHere in this book, when he, seventy years agonc, has\\nfallen to be forgotten, is his only epitaph, written by a\\nstranger\\nDAVID McCLURE,\\nAN OLD MAN,\\nA NATIVE OF SCOTLAND AND THE FIRST SETTLER OF t ANDlA,\\nFELL AND FEEISHED BY THE WAYSIDE,\\nABOUT THE WINTEK OF\\n1770.\\nMOORE, ANDREW\\nWas the only son of John Moore, who was killed in\\nthe American Army, in 1778, leaving him at two years-\\nof age in the care of his mother.\\nHe grew up, not a man of close and rigid business\\nhabits, but with rather more than a fair share of wit and\\nhumor, which often found its way out in the shape of\\npractical jokes. Many a time did he perplex me. when\\njust aspiring to the dignity of trousers, with sundry\\nquestions concerning the growth of my calves. He", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "92 llISTORY OF Cx^NDlA.\\nwas a man of large frame, and great muscular strength\\nstooped a little and had a slight limp when walking,\\nthe result of a fractured thigh when a young man.\\nIn the time when the turnpikes ivere turnpikes, when\\nAnderson kept a tavern known far and wide, and\\nDuncan received the produce of half Up Country,\\nwhen a brisk business was done at the Corner, at\\nMaster Fitts and at Capt. Eaton s, when every oth-\\ner man in town was a cooper, and the road to New-\\nburyport was crowded with loaded teams, then Uncle\\nAndrew was in his prime. One night while on the\\ntoad, it so happened that six or eight teamsters were\\nstowed aAvay in one room. Two of them, weary with\\ntraveling and laden with over-much supper, fell asleep\\nand snored so prodigiously that no one else could close\\nan eye. Uncle Andrew having turned and twisted for\\nan half hour or so, in vain, finally revolved the mat-\\nter in mind, and arrived at a satisfactory result. Ris-\\ning, he softly placed a chair under each foot at the\\nbottom of the obnoxious bed, upon which the nasal ca-\\ndence gave place to some most extraordinary variations,\\ngrowing thick and short by degrees, and beautifully\\nshorter, until the climax was reached, in one inde-\\nscribable snort, as both sleepers landed on the floor.\\nThe chairs were removed, and the author of the dis-\\nturbance in bed before their astonished faculties could\\nassign a cause for the trouble.\\nMr. Moore was provided with an exhaustless fund of", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EASLY i AMILIES. 9e\\nanecdotes, mostly from personal experience, which, could\\nthej be written as he used to tell them, would be\\nworth the reading. He died at the age of 69 years,\\ngenerally respected, and was a man who held a pleas-\\nant place in the memories of most who knew him.\\nMOORE, COFFIN\\nWas a native of Stratham, N. II., and came to Can-\\ndia about 1760. He married Comfort Weeks, by whom\\nhe had seven children William, John, Coffin, Jacob\\nB., Patty, Polly and Comfort. Jacob B. married Ma-\\nry, daughter of Ephraim Eaton, by whom he had four\\nchildren: Jacob B,, formerly of Concord, N. H,, now\\nPostmaster at San Francisco; Henry E., a musical\\nProfessor of deserved distinction, at Concord, N. H.,\\nwho died at Cambridge, Mass.; Mary, widow of the\\nlate Dr. Thomas Brown, of Manchester, widely known\\nfor his exertions in the temperance cause and John\\nW., formerly editor of the Bellows Falls Gazette, and\\nPostmaster at Bellows Falls, Vt.\\nPatty married Dea. Prince. Polly died in Stan-\\nstead. Dr. Moore was the first physician who prac-\\nticed in Candia. He is reputed to have been a very\\nskilful practitioner, but was a little too much addict-\\ned to the prevailing folly of the times, drink. Both\\nhe and his wife were persons of excellent education,\\nand it is said that when Mrs. Moore had occasion\\nto talk to her husband for his occasional misdemeanors,^", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "Ol llISTOKY OF CANi)iA\u00c2\u00bb\\nshe used the French language, so that the children\\nmight not understand what was said. He died in\\nStephen Palmer s house, in 1768.\\nMOOERS, SAMUEL\\nAVas a man of much influence in the earlj times of\\nthe town. He came from Hampstead and lived at\\nthe Corner, where Mr. John Bean now hves,\\nmarried a Miss Ingalls, by whom he had five chil-\\ndren Peter, Samuel, Timothy, Nathaniel and Josiah\\nnone of whom, nor their descendants, are now living\\nin town.\\nHe is said to have been a man of remarkable tact\\nin settling all troubles and disputes among the people.\\nIndeed, said the old gentleman who told me about him,\\nEsq. Mooers and Lieut. Fitts used to rule the town.\\nAt town meetings, nothing was ever done till Esq.\\nMooers got there. He sometimes, before a physician\\ncame into the place, used to pull teeth, if oqcasion re-\\nquired, and perform some of the lesser surgical opera-\\ntions hence he was called Doctor while his wife was\\none of those useful women, whose services were absolutely\\nindispensable at the auspicious events, which usually\\ntake place prior to a christening.\\nPALMER, STEPHEN\\nCame to Candia from Epping, in the month of April,\\nwhen the snow was over all the fences, although", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OP EARLY FAMILIES. 95\\nthe year is not certainly knoAvn. He vras one of the\\nfirst three deacons. He married a Miss Hojt, of Strat-\\nham, and they had eight children Joseph, Stephen,\\nTimothy, Patience, Jemima, Abigail, Hannah and Sa-\\nrah. He first moved on to the place where Capt. John\\nPillsbury now lives, and afterwards to the north road,\\nwhere he died. His son, Joseph, married the widow\\nof Lieut. Thomas Dearborn, by whom he had five chil-\\ndren Moses, Joseph, Polly, Lydia and Salome. Ste-\\nphen married widow Abigail Brown, and had five\\nchildren Olive, Josiah, Lucy, Betsey and Polly. He\\ndied on the old place.\\nJosiah, grandson of Dea. Stephen Palm,er, married\\nBetsey Carr, of Raymond, by whom he had seven\\nchildren Nathaniel, Sally, Stephen, Asahel, Elisabeth\\nand Abigail. He also died on the old place,\\nPATTEN, ROBEPvT\\nA native of Boston, Mass., came to Candia about the\\nyear 1774, and bought his farm of Zebulon Winslow,\\nthe same now occupied by Mr. Willis Patten. He mar-\\nried Catharine Carr, of Chester. There is a story re-\\nlated in the family, in regard to this Catharine Carr s\\nhistory. It is said that she was the daughter of John\\nCarr and Betsey Smith, who came from Ireland. John,\\nit seems, was a person of fine appearance, so that ho\\nwon the affections of the daughter of a noble family.\\nShe married him, and in consequence was banishec]", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "93 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nfi om her home. He took her to the Emerald Isle 5\\nthere thej endured all the hardships of the siege of\\nLondonderry, at which place thej were at that time,\\nand soon after cams to seek their fortunes in America.\\nRobert and his Avife had nine children of whom\\nWilliam kept the old place. One day, being out hunt-\\ning in the vicinity of long meadows, Mr. Patten got\\ntreed bj the wolves, in which pleasant position he was\\nobliged to remain all night, before his tormentors would\\nleave him. William married Abigail Turner, a daugh-\\nter of the first settler of Charmingfare. They had two\\nchildren Willis and Lucy. After the death of his first\\nwife, he married, in 1779, Abigail Clark. They had\\nfive children Francis, Keziah, Betsey, Abigail and Me-\\nlinda.\\nPATTEN, THOMAS\\nCame to Candia in 1754, and bought a part of the\\nfarm owned by Mr. David McClure, whose daughter,\\nMary, he had naarried two years before.\\nHe was a son of Dea. Ptobert Patten, born in Boston,\\nin 1725, on what is now called Common Street. He was\\nbaptised by the Rev. Dr. Morehead, as were most of his\\nyounger brothers and sisters. There he attended school\\nuntil about the age of 15, on Pemberton Hill, when\\nthe flimily v^ ent to Exeter, N. H., from which place\\nthey, in a few years, removed to the long meadows,\\nfoo called, now Auburn, where Dea. Robert died in 1754 o", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "ilOTICES OF EARLY EAMIUES. 97\\nThis last named gentleman came from Edinburgh, Scot-\\nland, about 1724. lie was a stone mason by occupa-\\ntion, and Avas employed by the colonial government on\\nthe fortifications in Boston Harbor.\\nThomas vfus father of fourteen children, two of whom\\ndied young. Elisabeth married John A^arnum, and, af-\\nter his death, Moses Clark, of Deerfield Thomas died\\nunmarried Mary married Simon Norton Jean mar-\\nried Joshua Moore, of Chester Martha married Joseph\\nL. Seavy, of Kye Sarah married Benjamin Wadleigh\\nRachael married Samuel Dimon Margaret marriect\\nJacob Sargent I Hannah married Ephraim Fullington,\\nof Raymond, and moved to Cambridge, Vt.; Ruth mar-\\nried Andrew Moore Samuel married Lydia, daughter\\nof Nathaniel Emerson, Esq.; Moses married Hannah^\\ndaughter of Ephraim Eaton.\\nMr. Patten was of the race of Scotch covenanters,\\nand strongly attached to his religious ideas. He main-\\ntained family worship by reading the scriptures, singing\\nand prayer, so long as he w as able to perform those\\nduties. He would deacon the hymn himself, and re^\\nquired the whole family to sing, always using the samd\\ntune which embraced one line only, and which he would\\nso twist that it went well and came out right in all\\nmetres I\\nWhen a boy, he was one day in pursuit of a decr^\\nthen plenty on the shores of the Massabesic, in com-\\npany with a Mr. McGregor; Espying a fine animal\\n13", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "98 HISTORY OF CAi^ OIA.\\nnear the Avater, he fired, the shot took effect, but thd\\nposition and peculiar state of the atmosphere, caused\\nthe report of the gun so to echo and reecho, in a\\nthousand thunders over the lake, so said the old man^\\nas to make mj hair stand on end.\\nSome years after Coming to Candia, there happened\\none of those severe snow storms not unfrequent in our\\nclimate, when the house was buried so deep in a hard\\ndrift that the good people Avere obliged to get out at the\\nchamber window, a:nd dig an arch through to the door.\\nThe hog having been driven from his cpiarters, medi-\\ntating, doubtless, on the discovery of an antarctic con-\\ntinent, began a voyage of exploration over the crust\\nto the ridge-pole of the house. Savory fumes from the\\nfrying pan Avere wafted to his delighted olfactories from\\nthe chimney, as with many an aldermanic grunt he\\nproceeded onAvards, but nlas for piggy as he Avas ar-\\nriving at the acme of his hopes, like many an other\\nphilosopher he stepped on the treacherous arch-Avay, fell\\nwith dismal squeak into the path, and bounced in upon\\nthe astonished kitchen!\\nOn the easterly part of the farm, lies the dead\\npond, so called. The country Avas in former times\\nmuch infested Avith rattle snakes. A dog belotiging to\\nthe family, Avas once bitten by one of these creatures,\\nand Avent off apparently to die, but it Avas afterwards\\nfound that he had buried himself in mud, all save the\\nend of his nose, Avhich caused a complete cure^", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "XOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 99\\nMr. Patten survived his wife one year, and died\\nJn 1816, aged 91 years, the two having lived together\\nas man and wife more than sixty years.\\nROWE, ISAIAH\\nCame to Candia about 1762, from Haujpton Falls, and\\nbought a farm on what is called the Pine Ilill road.\\nlie married Sarah Healey in 1704 they had eleven\\nchildren Jonathan, Susanna, Elisabeth, Lydia, Na-\\nthaniel, Sarah, Mehitable, Olive, Lucy, Dolly, xibigail.\\nAfter the two oldest children were born, Mr. Rowe\\nbought a tract of land of David McGregor, of Lon-\\ndonderry, in the original right of James Boyd, and\\nmoved on to it, the same now occupied by Capt. John\\nRowe.\\nMr. Isaiah Rowe was out in the French War, and\\nthere is now in the house an old military chest and\\na powder horn brought from Cape Breton on the lat-\\nter is marked Samuel Dalton, his horn, 1756. As\\nto the chest, there are no marks about it to indicate\\nthe wars it has passed through, but it serves in the\\nabsence of other things as a memento of past times.\\nDaniel Rowe, and Abigail Stockman, his wife, pa-\\nrents of Isaiah, seem to have come with him into town.\\nThey lived in a small house a little Avest of the farm\\nhouse of Isaiah, on the north road. He sometimes\\ntaught school, and in his own house instructed the\\nneighbors children to read. It is iiT the memory of", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "100 UliTOHY OF CAXDTA.\\nsom3 still living, how lie used his fesque to point out\\nthe letters with. Ha died about 1783, his wife outlived\\nhim 25 years, Mr, Isaiah Rowe died in 1810, aged\\nabout GT, his wife died in 1821, aged 71. Nathaniel\\nIvept the old place Jonathan settled in town, near bj\\njieither of whom are now living.\\nROBIE, WALTER\\nGame to Candia from Chester, about 1762, and settlccj\\nwhere his grandson, John Robie, now lives, in the south\\npart of the town. He married Susy Hall, of Chester,\\nin 1763. Thej had eight children: Walter, Edward,\\nPollj, Jonathan, Sally, Lydia, Susan and Nancy.\\nWalter married Dorothy Tilton, one of a family of\\neleven children ten of whom are now living the two\\noldest, twins, are now 88 years old, the youngest, 68.\\nThere are two other twin sisters aged 81. This is a\\nremarkable instance of longevity in one family, the\\nwhole amounting to over 700 years,\\nEdward and Jonathan went to Corinth, Susan to Bel-\\nfast, Me. Walter and his wife had eleven children\\nMary, who died young, Dorothy, Lucy, John, Huldah,\\nSally, Mary, Walter, Nancy, Elizaj^and Lydia.\\nWhen Mr. Robie came to town, Mr. Anderson was\\nthe only settler in his neighborhood, and about the same\\ntime came Samuel Buswell, Moses Sargent and Dca.\\nJohn Hills. Mr. Robie set about making a clearing,\\ni^nd l:)uilt hiuj a camp, against a large rock \\\\x\\\\ sight from", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "NOTICES 0|? EABLY FAMILIES. 101\\nthe present liouse, which served as a fire-place. Sq\\nsoon as a suitable dwelling could be erected, he brought\\nhis wife to. share with him the hardships of the new\\ncountry. He was, as will be seen from the records, q,\\nman much employed and trusted in the business of the\\ntown, having filled many of its civil offices with honor\\n|;o himself and to the satisfaction of his fellow citizens.\\nHe died in 1809, at the age of 93, one year after the\\ndeath of his wife, aged 88.\\nROBIE, JOHN\\nBrother of Walter, came to Candia about 1761, and\\nsettled where Dea. Francis Patten now lives the house\\nwhich he built being still standing. He married Mehit-\\nable Hall. They had ten children: Anna, William,\\nMehitable, Sarah, Priscilla, John, Ichabod, Ebenezer,\\nNaomi. William married Keziah Clark, in 1797, and\\nremaining on the home farm, died in 1850. Ichabod\\nand Jonathan live in Corinth, Ebenezer in Burlington,\\nVt. Priscilla went to Stanstead, L. C.\\nThere is a large oak just across the road from the\\nold house, which from its size and age is an object wor-\\nthy of attention. It is one of the very few old set-\\ntlers, beneath whose branches the deer may have sported\\nor the Indian loitered away the summer hours. Within\\nit is a hollow of sufficient dimensions to afford a play\\nhouse for children, and it is not in the memory of man\\nto say when it was not an old tree. It once served a^", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "102 HISTORY or candia.\\na gate post, and the story runs that the Millers, who\\nteamed in those parts and were famous for running\\nagainst both sides of the gatewa}^, did actuallj overturn\\nthe old tree, which of course thej were obliged to make\\nas good as new. This story should be received with\\ncaution, however, as the gentleman who related it to\\nthe writer, and who is a most worthy and veracious man,\\nsaid that he did n t much believe it\\nSARGENT.\\nThere lived in Chester, prior to 1739, Jacob Sargent\\nand his wife, Judith. They had seven children Win-\\nthrop, Jacob, John, Theophilus, Judith, Sarah, and\\nTabitha. All the sons, except Winthrop, came to Can-\\ndia. Theophilus and John settled near Candia Corner.\\nWinthrop married Phebe Ely, and two of their sons,\\nMoses and John, came to Candia, one in 1763, the lat-\\nter in 1769.\\nMoses married Sarah Varnum, and settled on the\\nplace where Mr. Charles Smith now lives. They had\\nsix children Anna, Samuel, Abigail, Sarah, Moses and\\nMary. Mr. S. was a soldier in the War of the Revo-\\nlution. He died in 1826, his wife in 1843.\\n,Tohn married Molly Turner, oldest daughter of Wil-\\nliam Turner, said to have been the first female child born\\nin town. They lived where Josiah Sargent now resides,\\nand had four children Sara, Josiah, Moses, and ono\\nv/ho died young.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "KOTICES Oi^ EARLY FAMILIES. 1Q3\\nSMITH, BENJAMIN\\nt!arae to Canclia about 1749 or 50, from Exeter raai--\\nried Sarah Hojt, of Seabrook. They had nme children\\nBenjamhi, Nathaniel, Nicholas, John, Dolly, Betsev,\\nLjdia, Hannah. Benjamin, Jr., married Nancy Robie\\nand settled on tlie home farm. They had seven chil-\\ndren Jonathan, who died at Seabrook, Mehitable, Sal-\\nly, John, True, and Nancy and Mary, twins. Nathan-\\niel and Jonathan Avent to the State of Maine Nich-\\nolas died in town. When Mr. Smith first came he\\nbought the place now occupied by Capt. John Smith,\\nhis grandson, who also has grand children living with\\nhim, thus m^aking the fifth generation living on the same\\nfarm, an incident worthy of notice in these times.\\nHe built a log cabin just back of the present house.\\nThat same spring an apple tree came up near his door,\\nwhich, for one hundred years, has continued to bear\\nfruit, and, last season, produced a barrel of very pleas-\\nant apples, soine of which were tasted by the writer\\nAvhile gathering facts for this notice. It is undoubt-\\nedly the oldest tree in town bearing fruit. At the time\\nof Mr. Smith s coming, Mr. Turner and Mr. McClarc\\nare supposed to have been the only persons within the\\nlimits now comprising the town. The door of his log\\nhouse, instead of swinging on hinges, was raised against\\nthe opening, and barred up at night, to keep out the\\nbears and wolves.\\nMrs. Smith, like her f)rc3t neighbors, was a womail", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "101 HISTOiir OF CANDiA.\\nbf courage, and, it is said, used to go for the cow ill\\ntlie woods, where she frequently saw bears prowUng\\nabout. At sucli times, she held on to the tail of the\\ncow and came home Avith good speed. This was quite\\na novel and original method bf getting along. There\\nis a bear skin tanned with the hair on, now in the house\\n\\\\vith a couple of bullet holes through it, which was worn\\nhj some surly fellow, probably too fond of nice green\\ncorn and vegetables from the garden, to have a pru^\\ndent regard for his own safety. Mr. Smith used to set\\nguns for these intruders, and at one time came near\\nlosing his own life, and disabled two of his fingers by\\naccidentally discharging one of them.\\nThere is a storj said to have been told by Mr.\\nSniith, in regard to the raising of Mr. Turner s barn,\\nWhere and on which occasion it appears that new rum,\\nafterward so plenty, Avas very scarce. The builder was\\nable to furnish only about a pint, and the workmen had\\nrecourse to the very ingenious expedient of dipping in\\nand then sucking it from their fingers, whereupon, one\\nm.an having a rag on his finger, and not being used\\nto hard drinking, got quite drunk.\\nMr. Benjamin Smith died at the advanced age of\\n99 years.\\nSMITH, OLIVER.\\nIn 17T1, three brothers, Oliver, Biley and Jonathan,\\nmoved into the neighborhood of Mr. Obed Hall. Oli-", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "NOTICES OF EARLY FAMILIES. 105\\nver brought the first framed house into to:^ n. It was\\nset up on the farm now owned by Mr. Alfred French.\\nMrs. Judith Smith, daughter-in-law of Oliver, now lives\\nat the old place, retaining most of her faculties to a\\nremarkable degree, for so old a lady. There is pre-\\nserved the powder horn carried at Bunker Hill, hold-\\ning more than a pound, which, says Mrs. Judith, I\\nheard him say he fired all away in one battle.\\nBiley Smith was also out in the war. He had a\\ngood deal of military spirit, and is said to have been\\nquite anxious to enlist in 1812, although more than the\\nallotted period of life had passed over his whitening\\nlocks.\\nThe anecdotes related in connection with these no-\\ntices, are preserved on account of no intrinsic worth,\\nand it is not imagined that they will possess any\\nvery great interest, unless it be to those immediately\\nconcerned. Each family has its own store, however\\nmeagre, of household words, and the most trivial\\nincident derives its value, to them, fron; the fact that\\nits simple story came from loved and honored lips of\\nsire or mpt)ier, long since sleeping in t}ip dust.\\n14", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "iOG HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nIt is a matter of regret that the iuformatiou in\\nregard to many of the earlj settlers is not more full\\nand satisfactory in its nature. The time in which this\\ninformation was obtained, the impossibility of submit-\\nting it in form of manuscript, or proof, to those from\\nwhom it came, must be a sufficient Qxcuse for any\\nerrors which may be detected.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "GENERAL NOTICES\\nMINISTERS.\\nBavid JiAVETT graduated at Harvard in 1769. He\\nwas settled in 1771, and dismissed in 1780, after which\\nhe removed to Witithrop, Me., where he died in 1788^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0aged 34.\\nJoseph Prince was a native of Boston, Mass., born\\nin 1723. He was not settled, being prevented from\\ndischarging many of the more active duties of a pas^\\ntor by blindness, but was [hired for a term of seven\\nyears. He died January 15, 1791, and his mortal\\nremains are entombed in the same vault with those of\\nWhitfield, in Newburyport. His immediate descendants\\nwere for some time inhabitants of this town, but are\\nnow in Boston and other places, with the exception of\\nSarah, a grand-daughter, who married Capt. Jesse Ea-\\nton.\\nJesse Remington graduated at Harvard, in 1784,", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "108 iliSTORY OF CAJ^DIAc\\nRespecting Avhom we can do no better than to give the\\nfollowing extract from a sermon preached on the occa-\\nsion of his funeral bj the Rev. Mr. Prentice, of North-\\nwood, March 6th, 1815:\\nThe Rev. Jesse Remington was born in Abington,\\nMass., in 1760. In early life he had serious impressions.\\nA little before he entered College, I think he once told me,\\nhe became a hopeful subject of renewing grace, which\\ngave a new turn to all his views of divine things, and en-\\ngaged his heart to the work of the christian ministry. In\\n1790 he was ordained to the great work of the gospel min-*\\nis try in this place, where he has continued little more than\\ntwenty-four years. He was indeed an evangelical preach-\\ner, sound in the faith, remarkably clear in the doctrines\\nof grace, a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men,\\nholding forth the faithful word.\\nHe was solemn and impressive in his manner, evidently\\nrealizing the weight of his own responsibility to his Lord\\nand Master. He felt those truths himself which he ex-\\nhibited to others. He declared the ^Vhole counsel of God,\\nwas by no means a man-pleaser\\nIn his death, his bereaved family, the church and reli-\\ngious society in this place, and at large, have sustained a\\ngreat loss indeed. A loss of his pious instructions, his\\nardent and fervent prayers, should be received as an awful\\nfrown of heaven.\\nHe Avas in the 55th year of his age at the time of\\nhis death, and now sleeps in the church yard surround-\\ned by many members of his flock. Near him are the", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "GENERAL NOTICES. 10{)\\nremains of a Son, -who was cut off by the untimely\\nhand of deathj in the first flush of manhood.\\nIt is to be hoped that the people, who owe so much\\nof their character to the influence of his instructions,\\nwill erect some more suitable monument over his final\\nresting place, to tell those who shall come after, of his\\nvirtues, although it should by no means be said that\\nthe tomb stones procured by the people of his charge\\nwere not, at the time, ample testimonials of their re-\\ngard for him. The old stone and inscription should be\\npreserved, whatever else be done.\\nAbraham Wheeler was born in Holden, Mass., in\\n1779^, graduated at Williams College in 1810, was Set-\\ntled January 13th, 1819, and dismissed in 1832. He\\nhas since taken orders and become a preacher of the\\nEpiscopalian denomination in Grafton, Ohio.\\nCharles P. Russell, a native of Greenfield, Mass.,\\nsettled Dec. 25, 1833. He combined in an unusual\\ndegree the qualities of the scholar and the gentleman j\\nand has a lasting place in the affection of many of the\\nchristian people of Candia. His health interfering with\\nthe discharge of his pastoral labors, he asked and re-\\nceived a dismission in 1841, and has since resided in\\nWashington, D. C.\\nWilliam Murdock is a native of West Boylston,\\nMass., born in 1813. He graduated at Amherst Col-\\nlege, in 1837, and at the Andover Theological Semi*", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "1\\nliO History of candIa.\\nnary, in 1841, in the December of whicli year he was\\nsettled. On the closing Sabbath of the past year, h6\\npreached his first decennial sermon, and continues to\\ndischai ge his duties as a christian minister to the ac-\\nceptance of his people.\\nPHYSICIANS.\\nCoffin Moore priacticed in Candia-, from 1760 until\\nhis death, in 1768.\\nDr. Kelley came about 1770, built a house where\\nDea. Josiah Shannon now lives, practiced eight or ten\\nyears.\\nSamuel Foster studied at Woodstock, Conn., prac*\\nticed in Candia from 1789 to 1812.\\nNathaniel Wheet practiced in town from 1809,\\ntwenty-four years. More than a passing notice is here\\ndue to Dr. Wheet, who has now retired from the prac-\\ntice of his profession, and is living at Manchester.\\nHe was a successful and esteemed practitioner, always\\nready to go at the call of suffering and distress, espe-\\ncially Avhen there was no prospect of pay. Not only\\nfor so many years were his services thus valuable as a\\nphysician, but he was influential in other respects. The\\nfirst great temperance movement, which was the means\\nof making Candia one of the most temperate towns in", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "GENERAL NOTICES. Ill\\nthe state, owed much to his untiring eiForts. He had\\nan uncommonly fine voice, and a good taste for vocal\\nmusic, and was first induced to come to Candia as a\\nteacher of singing. Much of the musical taste for\\nwhich Candia has been famous, was, doubtless, owing\\nto the Doctor s influence aud example. He was, at one\\ntime, President of the New Hampshire State Musical\\nSociety, which then embraced among its members some\\nfine musicians.\\nDr. Wheet is a native of Canaan, N. H., and af-\\nter coming to Candia, married Sally, daughter of Moses\\nFitts, Esq. He studied his profession with Dr. J. B.\\nMoore, of Andover, N. H,\\nDr. Shaw practiced from 1807, two years.\\nJohn Brown practiced ong year and died in I8O80\\nDr. Spear practiced from 1808, one year.\\nDr. Kittredge practiced from 1811, one year.\\nDr. Bagley practiced from 1817, seven years, and\\ndied in 1823.\\nDr. Pillsbury practiced from 1823, three years.\\nIsaiah Lane has practiced from 1824 to the pres-\\nent time.\\nSamuel Sargent practiced from 1833, seven years.\\nJoseph Eastman practiced from 1840, six years.\\nRichard H. Page has practiced from 184G to the\\npresent time.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "112 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nFranklin Fitts, son of Moses Fitts, Esq., attended\\nMedical Lectures at Hanover, having previously read\\nwith Dr. Isaiah Lane, and Dr. Carter, of Concord. He\\ncommenced practice in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1835, and\\nbade fair to have become eminent in his profession.\\nHe married Emily, daughter of Jesse Eaton. Scarce\\na twelvemonth passed, when contracting a fever from\\nover-exertion in rescuing some sufferers from the effects\\nof an inundation, he died. His wife returned to Can-\\ndia, and did not long survive his loss.\\nThomas Wheet, a graduate of Jefferson Medical\\nCollege, Philadelphia, commenced practice in Manches-\\njfcer, in 1847., where he holds a worthy rank in his\\nprofession.\\nGRADUATES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.\\nWe do not know that any one ever received a col-\\nlegiate education from Candia, prior to 182T,\\nDavid Pillsburt, 1827. Attorney at law, Chester,\\niKF. H.; has been a member of the State Legislature.\\nWilliam Henry Duncan, 1830. Attorney at law,\\nHanover, N. H.; member of the State Legislature.\\nMoses Hall Fitts, 1831. For some years a very\\nsuccessful Teacher, and School Commissioner, in the\\nState of New York. Now Postmaster at Lewiston\\nFalls, N, Y.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0GENERAL NOl:iCES. 11^\\nEphraim Eaton, 1833. Attorney at law, Concord;,\\nN. H.\\nJesse Eaton Pillsbury, 1833. Teacher in Buffalo,\\nN. Y.\\nRichard Emerson Lane, 1841. Died suddenly at\\nLewiston, N. Y., in 1842, -where he had taken charge of\\nan Academy. He was much lamented, and at the re-\\ncent decennial meeting of the members of his class, it\\ncame to be known, that his influence Avhile in College\\nhad been the means of the Conversion of more than\\none of his associates, some of whom are now eminent\\nin the ministry.\\nLorenzo Clay, 1843. Attorney at law, Augusta,\\nMaine.\\nMoses Patten, i850. Teacher in Gloucester, Mass.\\nIN COLLEGE.\\nJohn Dolber Emerson, Senior Class.\\nJonathan C. Brown, Senior Class.\\nDaniel Dana Patten^ Sophomore Class.\\nThere will, perhaps, be no impropriety in saying\\nthat the citizens of Candia, who have left to seek their\\nfortunes in other places, have generally been success^\\nful in their undertakings, and are characteriaed by i\\n15", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "114 iriSTTORY OF CASTDIA;\\nspirit of intelligent activity and enterprise, alike hon-\\nable to themselves and the home of their childhood.\\nTo Candia is the neighboring city of Manchester in-\\ndebted for two of her Mayors Hon. Jacob F. James\\nand Hon. Frederick Smyth.\\nHon. Jacob B. Moore, whose talents as a writer are\\\\\\nctvell known, spent most of his childhood in Candia.\\nWilliam H. Duncan, Esq., of Hanover, holds an hon-\\norable place, as a scholar and attorney, and, were he\\nthus inclined, might well look for political preferment.\\nMoses H. Fitts, Esq., worthily distinguished for hi^\\nsjeal in the cause of education, has not wanted, in the\\nstate of New York, flattering testimonials of his mer-\\nits, at the hands of the people and government.\\nHenry Eaton Moore had achieved, at his early deathy\\na reputation as a musician and composer.\\nE. K. Eaton, of Boston, holds a high station among\\nAmerican composers of military music, and as such\\nhas received the approval of the first musicians in the\\ncountry.\\nHundreds there are, no doubt, steadily pursuing their\\navocations, good citizens wherever they are, sons and\\ndaughters, of whose prosperity and happiness Candia\\nyfill always rejoice to hear.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "A WALK ABOUT TOWN.\\nMany a day and many a year, perhaps, has passed\\nsince you, who in some distant region turn the leaves\\nof this book, by chance brought to your door, like\\nThe adventurous boy that asks his little share,\\nAnd hies from home with many a gossip s prayer,\\nleft the rugged boundaries of your native town to re-\\nturn no more.\\nA score of winters snows and summers suns have\\nfrozen and warmed the hills and valleys of the old-time\\nCharmingfare since you were there.\\nTime does not always efface the memory of one s\\nnative soil, and I make no doubt that some of all the\\nthousand pleasant fancies of your childhood still linger\\namong the unforgotten things of yore. At all events,\\nif you are blessed with patient disposition, and can get\\non with me in a somewhat tedious, it may be, but well\\nintentioned chapter, why, then, townsman of niine^", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "116 HISTORY OP CANDtA.\\nlend me your ears, or walk with me, I care not which 5^\\nso we but get well on together.\\nYou may somewhat marvel at my taste, but let me\\ntake you to the low and almost buried pond, called\\nKinicum. It is the only thing, so far as I know, this\\nand the surrounding swamp, which has an original In-\\ndian name. And this sad type of the ancient owners\\nof the soil is fast disappearing. T is a slow and toil-\\nsome process, this penetrating the swamp, but brushing\\naside the rough spruce twigs, and crowding through\\nthe brakes, over whose tops one can hardly see, ever\\nand anon falling into a hole in this place, productive\\nof staging poles from time immemorial, at length ap-\\npears the pond, its black waters now reduced to the\\ncircumference of a few rods, while on the tough and\\nelastic lichen slowly overgrowing it, you can approach\\nnearly to the water s edge. As one steps here and\\nthere among the fox-gloves, sinking and rising with the\\nfibrous soil, if soil it may be called, a pool, dark and\\ndeep enough to have engulfed a rebellious tribe, seems\\nbelow. The dense and sombre vegetation of the swamp\\nmeets above your head bright red and poisonous ber-\\nries cluster around. The tall huckleberry peers up\\namong the brakes, and perchance an owl sits wink-\\ning and Winking at you, from some day retreat.\\nHere are always sohtude, shade and silence at noon-\\nday, unless broken by some adventurous rambler like\\nourselves. There are na merry birds to enliven us with", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "A WALK ABOUT TOWN. IIT\\n\u00c2\u00bbongs. They are mostly of the solitary kind, who take\\nrefuge here. Yon moping owl has surely no music\\nin his composition.\\nThe pond appears once to have been of large cir-\\ncumference, but when, or how long it has been in\\ngrowing over, no one can tell. As we tug and push,\\non our way out, we may startle from his cover an\\nawkward hopping rabbit, or a partridge suddenly flies\\nin air, and the startled jay calls and screams from the\\ntree tops.\\nHaving got out and walked through several pastures\\nand fields, we hit on an unfinished road, or rangeway.\\nIt is overgrown with grass and encumbered with stones\\nso as not to be passable for pleasure carriages, but is\\nnevertheless a good place to walk. To our right, as\\nwe go on, is the railroad track, through Brown s cran-\\nberry meadow, connecting the seaport of New Hamp-\\nshire with its Capital. A railroad, you ask, in Can-\\ndia, which enjoyed a stage coach and mail once a\\nweek so respectable, quiet and dozy a place, be\\nvisited by railroads Most certainly what else can\\none expect when a city has come and settled down\\nnot a dozen miles from us. While you are growing\\nold, and, it may be, rheumatic, Charmingfare grows\\nyoung and lends a hand to the progress of the age.\\nTrue, there were some who were loth to see the\\nbeauty of their ancient possessions spoiled, and their fine\\nfarms cut into unseemly triangles, by this utilitarian", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "118 HISTORY OP GANDIA.\\nmonster. But the public weal cannot always stop to\\nconsult private notions, and the owners of the soil may\\none day be agreeably surprised to find its value in-\\ncrease with the spoiling of its beauty.\\nWe go on by an old cellar, where once lived Na-\\nthaniel Wormwood, an early inhabitant of the towi\\nand the first settler on this road. We are now in a\\nwitching locality where an old lady lived, who enjoy-\\ned the reputation of dealing in the black art, and to\\nwhose magic spells many a mischance among the neigh-\\nbors was attributed. Loads of hay were marvellously\\nupset on level ground, churns and cheeses innumerable\\nare said to have borne witness to her power. Some\\nhonest farmer, who had incurred her dipleasure, beheld,\\nto his dismay, his revolving wheels part company with\\nhis wagon, or saw the sufferings of a favorite cow, all\\nno doubt owing to the subtle influence of magic. Eve-\\nry town has had its witch, and Charmingfare can, by\\nno means, be supposed to have escaped these ancient\\nfavors.\\nOne wonder-loving negro, who sometimes was hired\\nby various farmers in the neighborhood, as a day la-\\nborer, is said, on his own authority, to have seen no\\nless a personage than the Evil One himself. Be this\\nas it may, the spirits that our colored friend evoked,\\nfrom the vasty bottom of his quart measure, inclined\\nhim, at particular times, to narrate the event with great\\nminuteness and apparent belief.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "A WALK ABOUT TOWN. 119\\nIn another part of the town, was an old gentle-\\nman of rubicund visage and jovial temperament, who\\ncame in earlj times from some of the eastern seaport\\nplaces. One evening when the clouds hung in thick\\nmasses in the sky, and a sudden gust of wind\\nnow and then shook his house to its foundations,\\nsuddenly there came a tapping at our friend\\ndoor, on going to which, he saw, standing on the step,\\na tall and swarthy individual. The old gentleman ob-\\nserved that his eyes were like coals of fire. Half\\nsuspecting who his visitor was, he asked him in, and\\nwith an extreme sense of propriety, invited him to\\ndrink. A mug of flip, hissing hot, slipped down his\\nthroat, as though he was used to it, and he left seem-\\ningly in a high state of satisfaction. There is said\\nto have been a strong smell of brimstone about the\\npremises for some time after. Of course the reader\\ninust judge how much of this story is true, and how\\nmuch owing to the excited imagination of the worthy\\nold gentleman, who took a drop now and then.\\nThe enchantments of other generations are passing\\naway, and although some very respectable and good\\nold people do now carry witch-wood in their pockets,\\nOr avail themselves of the never failing protection of\\na horse shoe, ^fet these practices are, by no means,\\ncommon. True it is, that the mediums and other\\nmodern notions bring to mind the diablerie of old Sa^\\nkm, when ottr fathers were so sorely tried but they", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "120 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\ndo n fc go for much except as a means of speculation\\nin money matters.\\nIn the olden time when ail the world believed in\\nwitches, ghosts and enchanted castles, the inhabitants\\nof frontier settlements, it seems to me, were just the\\npeople to indulge such fancies.\\nThere were wild haunts from which the elves and\\nfairies had never been driven. When Night threw its\\ndark shadow over the great wood, and the wind sighed\\nmournfullj through its many branches, the most untu-\\ntored imagination found little difficulty in peopling it\\nwith unheard of forms. Giants stalked among the grim,\\nhuge bodies of the oaks. Jack o lanterns hurried away\\namong the treacherous swamps, and withered old crones\\ncharged in battallions through the tops of the pines,\\non those never failing servitors, the broomsticks. Many\\na one-eyed, prowling cat has had numerous misdeeds\\nlaid ^t its door, and inspired more terror than would\\nthe monarch of the forest. In good faith, we have\\nlittle reason to laugh at these notions of our ancestors.\\nWe have lost their fear of witches, and, it may be,\\ntheir reverence for many better things.\\nLet us go on, and in time of year when Charming^\\nfare looks best, when dame Nature jauntily displaying\\nher green mantle, bedecked with the |;olden dandelion\\nand the modest violet, t is no unpleasant place in which\\nto walk.\\nThe gentle slopes cosily spreading out to the morn", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "A WALK ABOUT TOWN. 121\\ning sun, invite us to linger. We cross the fields, the\\nmeadows, the brooks and the flowing mill streams, which\\nunder an Itahan skj would have been called rivers and\\nrendered sacred bj countless legends. Anon rough\\ngranite boulders and countless pieces of sparkling mica\\nmeet the eye. Here sharp and bristling little hemlocks\\nskirt the hill sides, or sturdy beeches are putting forth\\ntheir tender acid leaves, while in the distant meadows\\nthe elm waves its graceful limbs. Yonder awkward\\nbird of the marshes, slowly working his way southward\\nthrough the air, is an ill-favored specimen of the heron\\ntribe, sometimes yclept stake-driver.\\nWe are now approaching Fiddlers Green, on the\\neastern extremity of the town, whose dwellers are bor-\\nder men, and whose limits have been the scene of many\\na hard fought battle in the mad militia days of yore, ere\\nthe glory was shorn from the brows of Mars or univer-\\nsal sanction taken from the potent cask. It was in\\nsuch a time that the keeper of a diminutive hostelrie,\\na man in size somewhat the smallest, was called to his\\ndoor before the dawn of day one muster morn, seized\\nby a stout trooper not unknown in Charmingfare, and\\ncarried full three miles across the saddle-bow, all thinly\\nclad as he was, at a furious pace, and then dropped,\\nto pick his way home, over the sharp stones, as best\\nhe might.\\nPeace to thy bones, Jeremy, thou whilom the butt\\nfor cruel jokes, and caterer for dry stomachs, thy cabin\\n16", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "12^ HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nin the Burrough would hardly withstand a charge oi\\nhorse now-a-days, as when they galloped over thy\\nfences and incontinently demolished pig-pen and carrot\\nbed.\\nThe best place one can find hereabouts for sight-\\nseeing, is Patten s hill. It costs no trouble to get to\\nthe top of it, for we are already on it. Before us lies\\nthe Green around among the hundred hills, that rise\\nbetween us and the horizon, are nestled many towns\\nand villages. One could stand here for hours and gaze\\non the inimitable display. The pretty ponds, the sol\\ntary winding road, and even the moss-covered stone\\nwall at our feet, each contributes a share of beauty to\\nthe scene.\\nThe top of that cabin or shanty, which you can just\\ndiscern, tells that soon the silence of the groves will\\nbe broken by the shrill scream of the steam horse, and\\nthat these rough hills give no check to the builders\\nof railroads.\\nThe Green, -does it not bring to your mind dim\\nnotions of Gretna and its renowned blacksmith, of run-\\naway matches, of joyous country dances, and merry\\nMay-days Alas with all its beauty of appearance\\nneath this morning sun and clear sky, it would be\\nhazardous to attempt to throw over it the veil of ro-\\nmance, and so we will even leave it and walk on. We\\nclimb the wall, and the road soon brings us into the\\nyicinity of the first settlement in town. A hundred", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "A WALK ABOUT TOWR. l^S\\n.years ^nd eight have passed away since this old cellar\\nwas scooped out of the earth. The owner of this place^\\nI dare say, would rather lose the coat from his back\\nthan these old foundation walls from his farm. If there\\nwas more of such reverence for the rehcs of olden\\ntime, Charmingfare would never need go begging for\\nmaterials to fill a history a history of common every\\nday Hfe, such as one sees in his neighbors, such as one\\nwishes to know about his fathers.\\nWe find as we go on in this vicinity that the ground\\nis ledgy in places, and broad strips of stone peer out\\non the surface. We go down the hill, cross the mill-\\nstream, and up the next height, and soon come upon a\\nfine view of the Kttle church and neatly painted houses\\nof the village of Deerfield South Road, and its three\\nplaces of worship, with the old and first built church\\nlifting up its weather-beaten walls like an ancient cas-\\ntle. Sometimes I have seen that old house, when some\\ndense and heavy thunder cloud seemed to Hft, with its\\nfantastic mists, the hills behind it into very Alps for\\nsize, suddenly loom up Hke a thing enchanted.\\nEastward the scene is bounded by the abrupt and\\ncircular eminences, Saddleback and Tuckaway around\\nwhose bases are heard in quiet summer days subterra*\\nnean thunders, not unlike those rolhng sounds, which\\nawakened Rip Van Winkle among the crew of Hen-\\ndrick Hudson, in the heights of the Donderberg, to\\nthe great fear and perplexity of divers good people*,", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "l24 HISTORY OS CANl)iA.\\nlest their places become like Pompeii and ttercuIaneuiOj\\nmonuments to be unearthed in some future age. West-\\nward, toward the region of the grand Monadnock, whose\\nhoary head is visible in some clear days, our vision is\\nlost among th6 hills, some bearing in a few scattered\\nfields the marks Of human toil, others in the wild ma-\\njesty of rock and forest.\\nAt the next corner, we turn our backs to the setting\\nsun. The road we are on runs through the town in a\\ndirection a little south of east. We soon turn to the\\nleft alternately, on the one side and the other, fields^\\npasture land, rocky steeps grown with shrubs and trees,\\nmeet the view.\\nNow we see a small, round, gravel hill then catch\\na glimpse of water and a roof or two, and a thriving\\nand busy little village rushes out upon you. The\\nclear stream, pouring from the mill-courses, over its\\npebbly bed through the rich verdure below, hurries\\nand fidgets along with an air of great importance,\\nwhile the noise of hammers, the whizzing of saws, and\\nthe hum of the grist-mill give quite a thriving appear-\\nance to the place. What unlucky utihtarian ever chris-\\ntened it Slab Island, I know not although such a name\\nmay, perhaps, indicate the industrial pursuits of its in-\\nhabitants, a prettier one would do quite as well. A\\nlittle way from this, on the left of the road as you\\ngo towards Raymond, is a small wood-crowned eminenccj\\nof no great height, bvrt with masses of granite rising", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "A WALK ABOUT TOWN. 1^5\\nIrom its sides and near its top, like the palisades of\\nthe Hudson, or the walls of some ruined castle. A\\nfew steps beyond, on the right, is a small burial place.\\nLet us now wheel to the right about, and, pass-\\ning again the grist-mLll, walk toward the Village.\\nIn a tangled thicket by the road side, swollen and im-\\nportant with the spring rains, like some little man elate\\nwith the pride of station, a turbulent and roaring\\nbrook hurries along. We soon espy a sheep cote, a\\nschool house, and a post guide, each of no small im-\\nportance in its place. Every thing here has a quiet\\nand secluded aspect, all around are little wood or rock\\nCovered hills, with green shady dells and glens, with\\ncow and then a farm house or cottage. The scenery\\nfor a mile or two is pretty much of the same char-\\nacter, and we soon come in sight of the village from\\nthe northeast, with an occasional glimpse of the meet-\\ning house cupola on the hill, about which we have\\nmade a sweep of nearly ten miles. Quite a walk for a\\nYankee, who never goes on foot if he can ride, but just\\na fair morning s excursion for an English tnan or wo-\\nman, so do n t complain of being tired at this loiter-\\ning rate, we shall hardly get round by night.\\nAhead of us is a long low belt of swampy landj\\nwhich drainage aud cultivation will some day convert\\ninto fine meadows and green fields. There the north\\nbranch of the Lamprey winds its dark and crooked\\nfolds along, covered with weeds and lilly pads. From", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "i2C HISTORY OF CANDIAi\\nthe brow of this hill, we walk on into what seems lik^\\nthe bed of an ancient stream, whose giant banks stretch\\nfar and wide on either hand. The road is narrow and\\nfringed with alders, and it is but a few rods to the\\nlittle bridge over the branch of the Lamprey. We\\nkeep on up to the Walnut Hill, where if it were in\\nthe Fall of the year, one might see plenty of walnuts\\nhalf hidden in the splendid green foliage of the tree,\\nwhich is one of the prettiest ornaments of an Ameri-\\ncan forest. The nuts, when gathered and dried, are\\nvery sweet, and are brought from the garret in the\\nlong winter evenings. Both walnuts and jokes are crack-\\ned by huge roaring fires, and swallowed together at the\\nrisk of choking the merry partakers.\\nI once remember to have heard some account of a le-\\ngend about buried treasure concealed near this hill, but\\nall I could learn only served to excite my curiosity.\\nThe veraci S old lady who heard it related, some forty\\nyears ago, in the days when stories were stories, and\\ngreat fire-places, with whole loads of wood in them,\\nopened one s heart to the behef of any thing marvel-\\nous, can only tell that there was money found, and\\nstrange men concerned in the business. This much is\\nsure, that some men by digging about that hill and\\nits vicinity, have found money, and do continue to\\nfind it unto this day.\\nLook down here through the trees into the valley\\nf the Lamprey branch. This is as nice a summef", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "A WALK ABOUT TOWN. 127\\nretreat as one would wish. It is said that long time\\nago, the valiant artillery company, which had a gun\\nand gun-house near the meeting-house, with 17th Reg.\\nN. H. Militia, inscribed on a semicircular board\\nover the door, once marched up the hill, very much as\\nthe king of France marched up another hill. Before\\nmarching down again, however, the worthy captain, full\\nof courage, charged the brass four pounder with a wood-\\nen plug, and began a bombardment of the parade ground\\nthey had left. Fortunately nobody s brains were knocked\\nout by the hair-brained experiment, and the block was\\nnever heard from again.\\nYonder is the school house, where many a rising\\ngenius has made his or her debut at teaching. Who\\nknows but you, now mayhap surrounded by children of\\nyour own, with a grey hair now and then starting out\\namong its darker fellows on your head, who knows, I\\nsay, but you once kept school on Walnut Hill, and\\nboarded round. How your knees smote together, as\\nyou thought of the examination, your first, perhaps, when\\nthe doctor and the minister, dignitaries of the town, sat\\nin awful state, in the desk, and some half dozen fathers\\nand mothers came in to witness the astonishing per-\\nformances of their children, with a sprinkling, perhaps,\\nof teachers from other districts to see that they were\\nnot beaten. What a shout was there when school was\\ndone and the rewards of merit duly distributed Char-\\nmingfare was always rather proud of its schools, and", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "J 28 HISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nno doubt with reason few towns in the vicinity could\\nboast of better. As the eye from this hill follows the\\nroad westward, another and a higher meets the view\\nthough the ascent be somewhat toilsome, we will even\\ntry it. There are good farmers along the way, who\\nturn out great oxen and sleek horses strong hard-\\nworking men, who live well and tell good stories.\\nThis is the vicinity of the first settlement in this\\nsection of Charmingfare. Not far ahead is another\\nschool house, and a post guide, for the school house,\\nmind you, is geometrically situated on a triangular\\npoint of land bounded by two roads. If we take the\\none leading to the right, it will take us where all the\\nthunder storms came from when you and I went to\\nthe summer school, down at No. Two, say twenty years\\nago. Then turning left through a cowyard, for the\\nromance of the thing, we get up in a very puffy an(J\\nexhausted state, to the top of what they call Hall s\\nMountain, once known as Beech Hill. It is said to\\nbe the highest ridge of land between the Merrimack\\nRiver and the ocean. Be this as it may, we can dis-\\ncern the snowy summits of the White Mountains, hke\\nclouds of silver against the clear sky, while the golden,\\nand flashing waves of the Atlantic gleam along the hor-\\nizon, eastward, like the burnished spears of an advan-\\ncing host. Around, for many miles, are nestled the\\nsnug villages and quiet towns of old Rockingham. At\\na distance on her river banks, is the Capital of our", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "A WALK ABOUT TOWN. 129\\nYankee Switzerland, fairy like in the blush of the set\\nting sun, while in almost every direction, a church spire\\nrears its form. With a tolerably good glass, one may\\nwatch the chance of invasion from Gosport, or spy out\\nthe clippers and smacks from the Isle of Shoals, with,\\nperhaps, especially if aided by a good imagination, a\\nglimpse of the bristles on the back of Hog Island.\\nAround, at our feet, as it were, are farms, irregy-\\nlarly shaped pieces of woodland, small streams, and some\\npretty ponds that, for instance, which you can see\\nover your right shoulder, is Sawyer s pond. There are\\nmany strips of meadow, covered with waving grass.\\nIt is said that people used to come a great distance,\\nto get this coarse hay, which they stacked and remov-\\ned in the winter on sleds. Deer were sometimes found\\npurloining the hay, which no doubt rightfully belonged\\nto them.\\nWhile sitting here on this ledge, kicking about with\\ncareless feet the little pieces of crystal, or shying\\nstones down into the tree tops below us, our lengthen-\\ning shadows warn us that twiUght approaches. We\\nhear the tinkling of distant sheep bells, the cow boys\\nwhistling hasten along the winding path, driving their\\ncattle faster than they would, if under the farmer s eye.\\nThat dog, away to the left, seems certainly to have\\ntreed a squirrel the frogs are singing, and we shall\\nhave little time to talk, ere the dew begins to fall.\\nNot many years since, and the whole scene before\\n17", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "130 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nUS was one dense forest. Just over there, where we\\npassed, on the right, a large square house, with a flock\\nof fat geese near the wall, there was a house and small\\nclearing nigh a hundred years ago, with no neighbors\\nuntil you get down a mile or so, where among the\\nwoods and the hills was another house. A brisk little\\nbrook ran by it and an acre or two of land was clear-\\ned. There lived Deacon Burpee, who had been a ran-\\nger in the French War, while the former location was\\nsettled by Mr. Obed Hall.\\nOne morning very early, when the Deacon s eldest\\nson Avas going out to fodder the cattle, he thought he\\nheard a voice crying for help. Listening a moment,\\nhe became convinced that it was Mrs. Hall. Calling\\nhis father, the two, with dog and gun, hurried away,\\nto ascertain the cause of trouble. As they came to\\na cross path, Mr. Jethro Hill and Mr. Sherburne Rowe,\\nthen living on High Street, joined them. They, it seems,\\nhad heard the alarm, and were on their way to give\\nassistance. As the four men, breathless from their ex-\\nertions, neared the house, they beheld Mrs. Hall stand-\\ning in the door, calHng loudly for help, while an old\\nbear and two cubs were trampling down and destroy-\\ning the corn. Mr. Hall was away from home. They\\nsoon drove out the troublesome animals, and one of\\nthe cubs, being an unwieldly traveler, fell behind, and\\nwas attacked by the dogs. Mr. Jethro Hill, who was\\npretty ambitious, and a n^ighty hunter, ran up and", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "A Walk about Down. i3i\\ngot upon his back then laying hold on the ears, he\\ndirected them to call off the dogs. It was no sooner\\ndone than bruin, not having been trained a la Van-\\nAmburgh, brushed off the hands, with his fore paws^\\nand scrambled into the bushes, leaving his rider on the\\nground, whose comrades were altogether too much ex-\\nhausted -with laughter to afford any help.\\nThe twilight deepens as we rise to descend the moun-\\ntain s side the distant hills grow indistinct and dim\\nhere and there a star struggles into sight, and it is\\nfairly evening. It is said that some fifty years ago,\\nthe people on this road, a mile below where we now\\nare, were one day seriously frightened, by the appari-\\ntion of a strangely constructed vehicle rumbling along\\nthe road. The geese flew screaming to the wood, the\\ndogs were in a storm, the hens, startled by a gruff\\nnote of warning from their leader, ran for hfe and all,\\ndear reader, was caused by the advent of a modern\\n(to them) invention. Some gallant swain from the towns\\nbelow had come up in a chaise to see his lady love,\\nand that was the first chaise ever seen in these\\nparts.\\nAs we lag wearily along, let us summon to our aid\\nimagination, and, flying over bog and ditch, stump and\\nstone, where many a Jack-o -lantern has been before us,\\nalight down on the turnpike, at the head of High Street.\\nThere have been some changes on this road since the\\nfirst settlers came. How strangely would one, could he", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nawaken from his sleep of half a century, walk down the\\nway, no welcome and well known door to receive him.\\nThe boys he left are now stout men the stout men\\nhe remembers are palsied with age, or no more seen\\namong their fellows. In the place of one or two log\\ncabins, or small framed houses, built a century ago, many\\na neat building meets his eye. Moss has overgrown a\\nfew roofs, some orchards are going to decay, and new\\nones taking their places.\\nOnce, when the fields we may see before us were\\nhardly cleared, a couple of worthies were overseeing the\\noperation of a coal-pit scarcely had night come over them,\\nwhen the melancholy howl of the wolf struck on their\\nears, as they sat in the camp soon a pack of the\\ncreatures surrounded them. One of the men, expect-\\ning momentarily to be devoured, fell to praying, while\\nthe other, equally terrified but less devout, began swear-\\ning. The singular trio of men and beasts was kept up\\nuntil the day drove the wolves to their dens whereupon\\nthe swearing man was thrown into a state of great\\nperplexity not knowing whether he should ascribe his\\nsafety to his own exertions or those of his companion.\\nWe stand upon the hill where once the spire of the\\nold meeting house pointed up to heaven. There is\\nhardly a more beautiful landscape than that which\\nstretches away south and east. The Massabesicj like a", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "A Walk about town. 13^\\nmirror, hangs before us, amid its surrounding hills and\\nforests, in the bosom of the old West Parish. There,\\ntoo, the Devil s Den rears its bristly back, -while west-\\nward rise the Uncannoonucs, the New Boston hills, and\\nwhere sky and earth bend into one, the eye can just\\ndiscern, eastward, in the fairest of days, Wachusetb\\nand the hoary head of Mount Tom. Over the left\\nshoulder, as we stand, are the Saddleback and Tucka-\\nway hills, from whose bases, the scene, for two-thirds\\nthe circle of the horizon, seems a heaving ocean, rol-\\nling away from us on some far distant shore.\\nNot far from where we stand, low roofed and red,\\nwas the old school house. There, you and I, mayhap,\\nmade the grand entrance, with all the solemnities of\\nbirch and ferule, into the mysteries of learning. There\\nwe together tugged through the blue covered spelhng\\nbook, blundered upon the English Reader, and had\\nfearful struggles with that remorseless bluebeard, Lind-\\nley Murray. There we got lost in a wilderness of\\nfractions, armed with no better weapons than quill\\npop-guns. There, in the summer days, were the yel-\\nlow butterflies on the thistle blows, and there were\\nblows we sometimes caught, on which the birds and\\nbutterflies never came. There were commercial trans-\\nactions, when we exchanged the products of neighbor-\\ning orchards for a due amount of flogging. There were\\nimmense maritime excursions, to sundry islands in the\\nfrog-pond, and numberless stars evolved through un*-", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134 HiSTORir of candIa.\\nlucky heads, from its frozen surface in winter. There, of\\nold, met the Battle Axe Club, renowned in the annals\\nof temperance. There were debating societies, the high\\nschools, and the singing schools. There, on the quiet\\nSabbath afternoon met those who seemed to us old men,\\nto hold prayer meetings, when we heard words of ad-\\nmonition and advice, which, perhaps, might have been\\nbetter followed by all of us. All is gone now.\\nMute is the bell that rang at peep of dawn,\\nQuickening my truant feet across the lawn\\nUnheard the shout that rent the noontide air,\\nWhen the slow dial gave a pause to care.\\nUp springs, at every step, to claim a tear.\\nSome little friendship formed and cherished here\\nAnd not the slightest leaf, but trembling teems\\nWith golden visions, and romantic dreams\\nSchool house and scholars, all scattered to the end^\\nof the earth. In the West, in the sunny South, on the\\ngolden shores of California, on the ocean s wave, in\\nthe cities by the seaboard, under the green turf in the\\nnear church yard, or in their last resting place by some\\nfar lake or river, many leagues from home and the\\nscenes of youth, are they.\\nGod grant you, reader, pleasant memories of the\\npast, and golden hopes for the future. We must stop\\nthis chapter, dedicated with sincere good will to thoscj\\nonce citizens of Charmingfare, who have wandered to\\nother places and found other homes.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nTOPOGRAPHY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CENSUS STATISTICS.\\nCandia is situated in longitude 6\u00c2\u00b0 20 East from Washington;\\nlatitude 43\u00c2\u00b0 8 It is in form nearly a parallelogram, the southern\\nbpundary line 6 miles 223 rods in length, running North 65\u00c2\u00b0 10 West;\\nits eastern, 4 miles 122 rods, South 31\u00c2\u00b0 45 West; bounded North by\\nDeerfield, South by Chester, 1 mile 118 rods, and Auburn, 5 miles 105\\nrods, East by Raymond, and West by Hooksett.\\nIt is 18 miles southeast from Concord, about 35 miles west from\\nPortsmouth, and }0 miles northeast frpm the city pf Manchester,\\nThe soil is hard of cultivation, the land rough an4 uneven, The\\ntown was laid out in squares, and many of the rqads intersect eacl\\npther at right angles. The thoroughfares are convenient and gen-\\nerally kept in good repair. The Portsmouth and Concord Railroad\\nruns through the town in a direction varying not much from East to\\nWest, affording rapid communication with the seaboard on the one\\nhand, and the Capital on the pther. In the westerly part pf the town\\nis a ridge of land, one elevation of which is called Jlall s Mountain.\\nThis is said to be the highest point of land between Merrimack river\\nand the ocean. Near this ridge two branches of thp Lamprey rivp).\\ntake their rise, and supply water for a considerable niimbcr of sa- v\\nand grain mills, besides carrying other machinery. There are 11 mills\\ndriven by water for the iijanufactpre of various articles from wopd 4\\ngrain mills 1 tanning and currying establishment 4 stores.\\nThe town is divided intp 14 school districts, in most of which a\\nschool is supported during half the year. For many years past there\\nhas also been kept, near the center of the town, a high, or select\\nschool, during three months in the Fall, with an average attendance of\\nfifty scholars, with but one or two exceptions all residents in town,\\ny^here the preparatory studies of a college course can be pursued.\\n18", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "138 HISTORY OP CANDIA.\\nTlicrc is a circulating library containing about four hundred vol-\\numes, the owners of which were incorporated in 1824 by the name of\\nof the Candia Literary Library Association.\\nThe population, at different times, was, in 1767, 363; in 1775, 744;\\n1790,1040; 1800,1186; 1810,1290; 1820,1273; 1830,1362; 1840,\\n1430; 1850, 1486.\\nFrom notes found in tlie Secretary s office at Concord, it seems that\\nin 1767, four years after the incorporation, there were 27 unmarried\\nmen between the ages of 16 and 60 68 married men 99 boys under\\n15 100 unmarried females 68 married females, and 1 ^yido^v.\\nBy the census of 1840, it appears that there wei e produced 6,220\\nbushels of corn, 20,320 bushels of potatoes, 2,175 tuns of hay, 2,287\\nlbs. of wool. In 1850, the value of manufactured articles, consisting of\\nshoes, hats, wagons, saw frames, bedsteads, c., was estimated at\\n$66,170, hay 2,100 tuns, potatoes 11,500 bushels, bttter 25,175 lbs.,\\ncheese 15,000 lbs. There were 149 farms producing to the value of\\n$100 a year, and over; 454 cows, 149 yoke of oxen, 142 hqrscs. Val-\\nuation of estate, real and personal, 8^425,965.\\nThe name of Candia is said to have been given by Gpv. Benning\\nWcntworth, who was once a prisoner on the Island of Candia, in tlie\\nMediterranean. Moore s and Hayward s Gazetteers both give ih\\\\s as\\ntlie origin of the name. Some suppose that the name might have\\nbeen suggested by the narrative of Robert Knox, who was detained\\nmany years in captivity by the King of Candia in Ceylon, so that he\\nlearned their language, and gives an interesting account of their man-\\nners and customs. He gravely relates how great a noise the devil\\nmade in the woods of Candia, and of the frequent opportunities he\\nhad of hearing him. This was published about the middle of the 17th\\ncentury, and attracted much attention at a time when travelers stories\\nwere not so plenty as now. We do not believe, however, that there\\ncould have been much similarity between the two places, and perhaps\\nit may be as well to adopt the first statement in regard to the name.\\nAbout two and a half miles from Dcerfield line, in the northerly\\npart of the town, and about the same distance from Raymond line, is\\nwhat is called Candia village. A bi-anch of the Lamprey river, taking\\nits rise in Dcerfield Pond, runs through the place, furnishing the mo-\\ntive power to a saw and grist mill, as well as various other kinds of\\nmachinery. There is a church built by the Free- Will Baptist Society,\\nin 1846, at which time the old house, erected by Elder Moses Bean, in\\n1815, was torn down. The society was incorporated in 1816, as the\\nUnion Baptist, there being at that time Baptists of other denomina-\\ntions who* chose to unite for the purpose of sustaining preaching.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Al i ENDIX.\\n139\\nElder Bean continued to preach nntil 1835, wlicn he Avas succeeded by\\nEkler Manson, who remained four years; Elder Fernakl, from 1839,\\ntwo years Atwood, one year Davis, one year Whitney, two years\\nCaverno, three years; since 1848, Eklcr Atwood, until 1852. The\\nsociety has, for most of the time, sustained regular preaching.\\nEkler Bean was a man of much enterprise and energy, and was for\\nmany years, of note in town. Two of his sous are extensive mer-\\nchants in New-York, and his daughter the accomplished instructress\\nof the Broadway Seminary, in that city.\\nThere are in the village two stores, a blacksmith s shop, and quite a\\ncollection of houses, which, wlien seen from the adjacent hills, have a\\npicturesque appearance.\\nFarther down, on the same branch, is another and smaller collection\\nof dwellings, known as the Island. Here is a saw mill, grain mill,\\nand various kinds of machinery. As may be seen in the notices of\\nfamilies, the Island was first settled in 1755, by David Bean, and has\\nbeen a thriving settlement ever since.\\nAt the annual town meeting, held March 10, 1852, it was voted that\\na map of Candia be procured by the town clerk, and a survey be made\\nfor tliat purpose, if necessary, for the use of this history.\\nThanks are due to H. M. Eaton, Esq., Col. R. E. Patten, Mr. Aus-\\ntin Cass, and Mr. Thomas Lang, Jr., for their assistance and encour-\\nagement in this and other parts of this work.\\nAs the town has ever been more than commonly interested in the\\nsubject of education, a few extracts from the records may nof be un-\\nprofitable, to give an idea of what the fathers thought it necessary\\nto do.\\nNames of School Teachers, and money paid thc\u00c2\u00abi for services\\n1. s. 1.\\n40 00\\n1764.\\nDoct. Moore,\\n1765.\\nDaniel Rowe,\\nMrs. Zach. Clifford,\\n176G.\\nMaster Ilazelton,\\nIsaac Clifford s wife,\\nZach. Clifford s wife,\\nMrs. Bowen,\\n1767.\\nMaster Sha-^, so. q.\\nEsq. Mooers, cen. q.\\nNath l Emerson,\\nIsrael Oilman s wife,n.e.q. 18\\n1768.\\nMaster Hazeltine, s.e.q. 2 18\\n9\\n3\\n6\\n16\\n6\\n2\\n17\\n12\\n1\\n6\\n9\\n3\\n15\\n5\\ni2\\n1\\n14\\n6\\nMaster Jewett, ccn.q.\\nMaster Jewett. w q.\\nZach. Clifford s wife,\\nRichard Clifford s wife,\\n1769.\\nPaul Jewett,\\nSamuel Buswell, so.q.\\nEzekiel Worthen,\\n1770.\\nPaul Jewett, w. c.q.\\nWalter Robie, so.q.\\nEzekiel Worthen,\\nElizabeth Smitli, s.e.q.\\n1776.\\nLieut. Fitts,\\nWilliam Dowlcu,\\nEben Eaton,\\n3\\n15\\nj\\n3\\n13\\n1\\n9\\n;j\\n19\\n6\\n4\\n4\\n3\\n3\\n10\\n13\\n10\\n7\\n9\\n2\\n1\\n19\\n1\\n18\\n6\\n7\\n5\\n5\\n8\\n19\\n2\\n6", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "140\\nHISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nThe school districts were called quarters. So late as 1791, there\\nwere ten, and the following sums of money allowed each fOr schooling\\nEast quarter,\\nSouth quarter,\\nNorth quarter,\\nN. N. East quarter,\\nNorthwest quarter,\\nCenter quarter.\\n13\\n1\\nWest quarter.\\n9\\ni\\n6\\nSouthwest quarter.\\n8\\n6\\nSoutheast quarter,\\n3\\n14\\nNortheast quarter,\\n4\\n1\\n2\\n4\\n8\\n5\\n9\\n3\\n3\\n6\\nASSOCIATION TEST.\\nIn April, 1776, the Committee of Safety in New-Hampshire, acting\\nin accordance with the wishes of the Continental Congress, sent to\\neach town a circular, a copy of which is given below\\nSelect Men of Candia.\\nIn Committee of Safety, April 12, 17/6.\\nIn order to carry the underwritten Resolves of the Hon ble Conti-\\nnental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all males\\nabove twenty-one years of age, (lunaticks, idiots and Negroes ex-\\ncepted,) 10 sign to the declaration on this paper; and when so done,\\nto make return hereof together with the name or names of all who\\nshall refuse to sign the same, td the General Assembly or Committee\\nof Safety of this Colony.\\nM. WE ARE, Chairman.\\nIn CdNGRESS, March 14th, 1776.\\nResolved, That it be recommended to the several Assemblies, Con-\\nventions, and Councils, or Committees of Safety, of the United Colo-\\nnies, immediately to cause all persons td be disarmed within their,\\nrespective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of\\nAmerica, or who have not associated, and refuse to associate, to defend\\nby arms, the United Colonies against the hostile attempts of the\\nSritish fleets and armies.\\nExtract from the minutes.\\n(Copy.) CHARLES THOMPSON, Sec y.\\nIn consequence of the above resolution of the Hon. Continental\\nCongress, and to show our determination in joining our American\\nbrethren in defending the lives, liberties, afid properties of the inhabit-\\nants of the United Colonies,\\nWe, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise, that\\nwe will to the utmost of our power, at the risque of our lives and\\nfortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British\\nfleets and armies against the United American Colonies.\\nWilliam Baker,\\nThomas Dearborn.\\nJames Eaton,\\nEzekiel Knowles,\\n^ath l Maxfield,\\nThomas Emery,\\nJohn Clay,\\nJonathan Pillsbury,\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nWalter Robie,\\nMoses Baker,\\nBenjamin Batchelder,\\nSamuel Dearborn,\\nEnoch Rowel,\\nSamuel Mooers,\\nAbr m Fitts,\\nNicholas Smith,\\nEnoch Colby,", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "i^^m", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n141\\nJohn Lane,\\nJohn Sargent,\\nThomas Patten,\\nHenry Clark,\\nZachariah Clifford,\\nBenjamin Cass,\\nJohn Colhy,\\nWilliam Turner,\\nRobert Smart,\\nDavid Bean,\\nObadiah Smith,\\nJames Miller,\\nBenjamin Rowell,\\nNatii l Burpee,\\nJeremiah Burpee,\\nNicholas French,\\nIsaiah Eowc,\\nStephen Palmer,\\nNehemiah Brown,\\nSamuel Worthen,\\nSewell Brown,\\nStephen Palmer, jun.\\nJohn Prescott,\\nRichard Clough,\\nObededom Hall,\\nBenjamin Fellows,\\nBiley Smith,\\nJonathan Smith,\\nJoseph Palmer,\\nBenjamin Hubbard,\\nElijah True,\\nSatnuel Brown,\\nJonathan Brown,\\nAaron Brown,\\nJcthro Hill,\\nSherburne Rowe,\\nJoseph Fifield,\\nStephen Fifield.\\nThebphilus Clough,\\nJonathan itills,\\nSamuel Morrill,\\nWilliam Hills,\\nJohn Cammet,\\nSilas Cammet,\\nSamuel Clough,\\nDavid Jewett,\\nJohn Carr,\\nJames Prescott,\\nJonathan Bagley,\\nZebulon Win slow,\\nAmos Knowles,\\nJesse Eaton,\\nJohn Sargent,\\nEphraim Eaton,\\nRobert Wilson,\\nJames Varnum,\\nSamuel Buswell.\\nJohn Clark,\\nDaniel Hall,\\nJohn Hills,\\nWilliam Eaton,\\nObadiah Hall,\\nMoses Sargent,\\nThomas Anderson,\\nEbenezer Eaton,\\nRobert Wason,\\nPaul Eaton,\\nDavid Hill,\\nSamuel Towle,\\nJohn Robie,\\nSimon French,\\nBenaiah Colby,\\nDaniel Dolber,\\nJohn Moor,\\nHugh Medellan,\\nJonathan Ring,\\nJoshua Moore,\\nStephen Clark,\\nJohn Clifford,\\nJonathan Cammet,\\nJacob Bagley.\\nThe original document, of which the above, with the signatures, is\\na copy, was found among the papers df Nathaniel Emerson, Esq., who\\nin 1776, was one of the selectmen. It bears no indications of ever\\nhaving been returned to the Committee of Safety, and no copy can be\\nfound in the records of the State department.\\nNo names are set down as having refused to sign, and it probably\\nhas every name of the required age, then in town. A few months\\nbefore, the whole number of men over sixteen was one hundred,\\nand thirty-nine, and twenty-seven were in the army, so that there\\nwould not have been more than ninety-nine over twenty-one years\\nbf age.\\nNames of Soldiers who served at various times during the War of In-\\ndependence, from Candia, some of which were found on the Town\\nRecord, and others taken from the Army Rolls\\nWilliam Anderson,\\nDavid Bagley,\\nJacob Bagley,\\nSamuel Bagley,\\nMoses Baker,\\nJonathan Bean,\\nNathan Bean,\\nPhineas Bean,\\nJohn Batchelder,\\nJames Bragdon,\\nSewell Brown,\\nNathan Burpee,\\nMoses Bursiel,\\nSamuel Buswell,\\nWilliam Burleigh,\\nMichael Blazo,\\nPeter Cammet,\\nThomas Capron,\\nBenjamin Cass,\\nMoses Cass,\\nJohn Caldwell,", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "142\\nHISTORY OF CANDIA.\\nWalter Clay,\\nSamuel Clay,\\nHenry Clark,\\nJohn Clark,\\nJohn Clark, jun.\\nSteplicn Clark,\\nJacob Clifiord,\\nJohn Clirtbrd,\\nTheophilus Cloiigh,\\nJohn Colby,\\nEnoch Colby,\\nJethro Colby,\\nBenjamin Critclict,\\nEdward Currier,\\nGideon Currier,\\nJoseph Dearborn,\\nSamuel Dearborn,\\nThomas Dearborn,\\nMoses Dustiu,\\nAlexander Eaton,\\nBenjamin Eaton,\\nEben Eaton,\\nEbcn Eaton, jun.\\nJames Eaton,\\nJesse Eaton,\\nJonathan Eaton,\\nPaul Eaton,\\nWilliam Eaton,\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nWiggins Evans,\\nAbraham Fitts,\\nHenry Gotham,\\nIsrael Griffin,\\nJonathan Green,\\nObadiah Hall,\\nJason Hazard,\\nJohn Hills,\\nDavid Hill,\\nRobert Holland,\\nBenjamin Iltjbbard\\nParker Hills,\\nJohn Kent,\\nHenry Kimball,\\nAmos Knowles,\\nJohn Knowles,\\nNehemiali Leavitt,\\nDaniel Libbey,\\nJames Libbey,\\nJohn Loverin,\\nJoseph Marston,\\nNathaniel Merrifield,\\nAVilliam Miller,\\nJohn Mitchel,\\nJohn Moores,\\nJoshua Moore,\\nSamuel Mooers,\\nSamuel Mooers, jun.\\nPeter Mooers,\\nIsaac Morse,\\nPhilip Morse,\\nSamuel Morrill,\\nJohn Morrison,\\nJonathan Norris,\\nMoses Norris,\\nJoseph Palmer,\\nThomas Patten,\\nWilliam Patten,\\nJonas Perry,\\nAsa Peirce,\\nJonathan Pillsbury,\\nJohn Prescott,\\nAshahel Quimby,\\nEleazer Quitnby,\\nJacob Quimby,\\nEnoch Powell,\\nEnoch Rowell, jun.\\nIsaiah Howe,\\nBenjamin Sandborn,\\nJohn Sargent,\\nMoses Sargent,\\nJames Siel,\\nSamuel Shannon,\\nBiley Smith,\\nEzekiel Smith,\\nOliver Smith,\\nJohn Taylor,\\nAntony Towle,\\nBenjamin Towle,\\nJeremiah Towle,\\nMoses Turner,\\nJames Varnum,\\nJohn Varnum,\\nThomas Wason,\\nNat Wadley,\\nRobert Wilson,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nWilliam Wilkins,\\nEbenezer Williams,\\nZebulon Winslow,\\nIsaac Worthen.\\n[Army Roll, 23d p., vol. 10.]\\nA Return of Soldiers in the Continental Army, belonging to the\\nParish of Candia:\\nDaniel Libbee, engaged in 1779;\\nJohn Caldwell,\\nMichael Poor,\\nCandia, Eeb y y 15, 1782.\\nABRAHAM EITTS,\\nNATII L EMERSON,\\nBEN J CASS,\\nJohn Anderson, engaged in 1779;\\nJohn Lovren,\\nJohn Kent, 1778.\\nSelectmen\\nof\\nCandia.\\n[Paje 27.]\\nState of In Comjuittee of Safety,\\nNew-Hampshire. J Exeter, May 4th, 1778.\\nThis Certities, that John Dudley, Esqr., has paid into the Treasury\\nthree hundred and ninety pounds ten shillings st ng, in part for four\\nContinental Soldiers which were enlisted and returned by Col Noah", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n143\\nLovewell, (viz.) Ebcnezer Williams, William Wilkins, Thomas Cnp-\\nron and James Siel, which Soldiers are set to the Parish of Caiulia.\\nColo. Lovewell paid for the hire of the aforesaid men. three hundred\\nand ninetv-eiaht pounds.\\nPaid by Col Lovewell, 398\\nHec d of John Dudley, Esq., 390 10\\n7 10\\nE. THOMPSON,\\nCha n P. T.\\nCol. Hercules Mooncy s Reg. at Rhode Island, 1779.\\nPhineas Bean,\\nJo.\u00c2\u00abeph Marston,\\nCandia,\\nErom Col. Webster s Regiment.\\n[Army Rolls\\nvol. 4, r. 53.]\\nHenry Gotham,\\nEzek l Smith,\\nJune 19.\\nNat AVadlev,\\nJon a. Norris,\\nJuly 2.\\nDavid Baclev,\\nPeter Cammet,\\nJuly 2.\\nWilliam Patten, 1782\\nEbenezer Eaton,\\nDan i Lihhee,\\nMoses Norris,\\nJuly 5.\\nJohn Caldwell,\\nJohn Moore,\\nJuly 5.\\nJohn Lovren,\\nBenj. Sandborn,\\nJuly 5.\\nJohn Kent,\\nJason Hazard.\\nJuly 8.\\nBounty afterwards deducted from the depreciation, Jan. 1780.\\n[Vol. 4, p. 190.]\\nJonathan Green,\\n22\\n8\\n6\\nJohn Mitchel,\\n25\\n5\\n1\\nIsaac Morse,\\n22\\n8\\n6\\nEbenezer Williams,\\n25\\n10\\nJohn Colby,\\n18\\n4\\nWilliam Wilkins,\\n3\\n16\\nEleazer Quimby,\\n20\\n8\\nJames Siel,\\n23\\n4\\nNehemiah Leavitt,\\n6\\n17\\n14\\nJohn Kent,\\n16\\n16\\n207\\n13\\n1\\n1782, July 3. Gave a certificate to J. Dudley, Esq.\\nFrom a Return of New Levies, joined the Ilampsliire line and muster-\\ned in Camp by Major William Scott, 1780.\\n[Retuvacd by Col. Moses Nichols of the 5tli Kcj., Mnrcli lOtli, 1779.]\\nA?e\\nBenjamin Eaton,\\nSam l Clay,-\\nSam l Shannon,\\n21\\n20\\n18\\nCandia.\\ndo.\\ndo.\\nAlex r Eaton,\\nJno. Eaton,\\nEdward Currier,\\n18\\n17\\n19\\nCandi\\ndo.\\ndo.\\nMen Enlisted into Col. Webster s (I7th) Roj\\nJonatlian Green,\\nJohn Colby,\\nIsaac IMorse,\\nEleazer Quimby,\\nJohn Taylor.\\nNehemiah Leavitt,\\nJames Bragdon,\\nDavid Hill.\\nJohn Kent,\\nRob t Holland,\\nJones Perry,\\nAsa Pierce,\\n1778, for three years.\\nHenry Kimball,\\nJohn Mitchel,\\nEben r Williams,\\nWm. Wilkins,\\nTho s Cayiron,\\nJames Siel.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "144\\nHISTORY OF CANPIA.\\nPAID CANDIA POn BOUNTIES.\\n[Army Rolls, p. 5, bouk P.J\\nLexington Alarm.\\nWinj^ate s Reg., Canada. 12 men.\\nContinentals. 5 men, at 30\u00c2\u00a3.\\nContinentals. 5 men.\\n4 men.\\ni 4 men.\\nMooney s Reg., R. Island. 2 men\\nNew Levies, 6 mos. 6 men a 34 10 each.\\nNichals Bartlett s Reg. 10 men\\nReynold s Reg. 4 men a 18\u00c2\u00a3 eacl\\nNew Levies, 6 mos. 4 men a 45 10 each\\nContinentals. 8 men.\\nStark s Brigade. 21 men.\\n\u00c2\u00a31937 19 3\\nIn all amounting to 84 men, besides the Lexington volunteers, the\\nnumber of whom is not known.\\nAp l,\\n1775.\\n45 18\\nJuly\\n1776.\\n36 00\\nMay\\n1777.\\n150 00\\nFeb.,\\n1778.\\n308\\n10\\n1\\nAp l\\n1778.\\n382\\n00\\n^515 2 3\\nMay\\n1778.\\n398\\n.00\\nach.\\nach.\\n1779.\\n1780.\\n1780.\\n1781.\\n1781.\\n1782.\\n1777.\\n19 12\\n207 00\\n195 00\\n72 00\\n182 00\\n452 7\\n63\\nCONTINENTAL RATE, 1778,\\nBEING THE AMOUNT OF TAXES PAID AT THAT\\nTIME.\\nFrom Co\\n1. s.\\nJohn\\nd. f.\\nZnTi B Tax Book.]\\n1.\\nd. f.\\nLt. Abr m Fitts,\\n4 11\\n8\\nCharles Sargent,\\n14\\n9\\nAmos Knowles,\\n3 8\\n7 3\\nWd. David Jewett,\\n3\\n10 3\\nAmos Knowles, jun.,\\n14\\n9\\nDavid Been,\\n2\\n18\\n3 2\\nAaron Brpwn,\\n2 14\\n6\\nDavid Hills,\\n6\\n9 i\\nArthur Lebbee,\\n1 13\\n3 2\\nDean Woodleth,\\n2\\n6\\n3 3\\nAbijah Pilsbury,\\n3 5\\n1 3\\nDavid Hall, Chester,\\n1\\n11 2\\nAlexander Stevens,\\n14\\n9\\nEdward Critchet,\\n1\\n3\\n4 1\\nWd. Annar Robie,\\n2 3\\n1\\nEnoch Colby,\\n3\\n5\\n8 Q\\nWd. Ann Quimby,\\n1\\n9 3\\nEnoch Colby, jun..\\n14\\n9\\nWd. Anne Whitcher,\\n19\\n3 1\\nElisha Towle,\\n18\\n9\\nWd. Abigail Brown,\\n1 15\\n1 3\\nEzekiel Knowles,\\n2\\n1\\n1 Q\\nDr. Benj. Page,\\n13\\n1 1\\nEdward Robie, Esq.,\\n15\\n9 2\\nBenj. Brown,\\n15\\n5 3\\nEphraim Eaton,\\n3\\n4\\n6 2\\nBenaiah Colby, jun..\\n1 9\\nEbenezer Eaton,\\n2\\n14\\n3 2\\nBiley Smith,\\n1\\n9 3\\nWd. Eliza th Quimby,\\n1\\n3\\n4 1\\nBenj. Towle,\\n1 15\\n7 3\\nEnoch Rowel,\\n18\\n5\\nBenj. Smith,\\n2 18\\n7 1\\nOilman Dudley,\\n6\\n8 q\\nLt. Benj. Batchelder,\\n1 19\\n5 1\\nHumphry Hook,\\n12\\n3 2\\nBenj. Rowel,\\n2 18\\n4 3\\nHenry Clark,\\n2\\n14\\n4 3\\nLt. Benj. Cass,\\n3 6\\n1\\nHenry Clark, jun.,\\n18\\n2\\nBenj. Fellows,\\n1 13\\n9 3\\nJohn Sargent, Capt.,\\n4\\n3\\n8 1\\nBenj. Pike,\\n12\\n6\\nJohn Wiggens,\\n1\\n2\\n3 q\\nBenj. Hubbard,\\n2 9\\n9 2\\nJacob Sargent,\\n1\\n19\\n9\\nBenj. Carr,\\n1 13\\n9 3\\nJames Miller,\\n3\\n9\\n4 1\\nBenj. Rowe, Esq.,\\n17\\n2 2\\nJacob Bagley,\\n3\\n3\\nBenj. Lang,\\n2 4\\n3\\nJeremiali Quimby,\\n2\\n8\\n1 3\\nCaleb Brown,\\n1 15\\n10 1\\nJohn Clit!brd,\\n1\\n2\\n9 q\\nCaleb Shaw,\\n1 2\\n5 1\\nJacob Cliflbrd,\\n1\\n5\\n10 Q\\nWd. Cath ne Cammet\\n19\\n5 3\\nJoseph ^pman.\\n1\\n5\\n11 q", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Jeremiah Been,\\n1.\\n1\\ns.\\n5\\n(1.\\n6\\nr.\\n3\\nmix.\\nCol. Nalh l Emerson,\\n1,\\n3\\n19\\n145\\nd. f.\\n9 3\\nEus. Jonath n Been,\\n6\\n15\\n10\\nDea. Nath l Burpee,\\n2\\n12\\n11 2\\nJoseph Been,\\n3\\n12\\n1\\n2\\nNicholas Smith,\\n1\\n18\\n1 1\\nJoshua Moore,\\n3\\n17\\n7\\n3\\nNicholas French,\\n1\\n15\\n3\\nJames Libbee,\\n15\\n4\\n3\\nNehemiah Brown,\\n14\\n6\\n8\\nIsaac Ecndal,\\n1\\n15\\n2\\nNathaniel IJall,\\n4\\n5\\nJoseph Palmer,\\n1\\n5\\n11\\nNath l Burpee, jun.,\\n1\\n7 1\\nJohn Eobie,\\n3\\n2\\n3\\n2\\nNathan Burpee,\\n15\\n4 2\\nIsrael Dolber,\\n2\\n7\\nio\\n1\\nObediah Smith,\\n3\\n11\\n3 2\\nJesse Eaton,\\n1\\n11\\nG\\n3\\nOliver Smith,\\n1\\n11\\n11 2\\nDea. John Hills,\\n2\\n10\\n4\\n3\\nObededom Hall,\\n4\\n12\\n6\\nJames Eaton,\\n1\\n11\\n6\\n3\\nObediah Hall,\\n11 2\\nJon. Sargent, jun.,\\n4\\n4\\n9\\n3\\nPaul Eaton,\\n2\\n19\\n10\\nJohn Karr,\\n3\\n15\\n1\\n1\\nCap. Phin. Bachelder,\\n1\\n4\\n7\\nJohn Clay,\\n4\\n5\\n1\\n2\\nPeter Moor,\\n2\\n11 3\\nLt. Jacob Worthen,\\n2\\n6\\n5\\nPaul Jewett,\\n7\\n4 2\\nJames McCluer,\\n1\\n9\\n6\\nRobert Willson,\\n2\\n4\\n8\\nJonathan Brown,\\n3\\n5\\n1\\n3\\nRichard Clough,\\n1\\n11\\n1 3\\nJethro Hills,\\n3\\n6\\n4\\n2\\nRobert Smart,\\n1\\n6\\n9\\nJoseph Fyfield,\\n4\\n11\\n3\\nRichard ClitTord,\\nI\\n16\\n11 3\\nJonathan Cammet,\\nI\\n19\\n3\\nReuben Been,\\n1\\n16\\n16 2\\nJonathan Hills,\\n3\\n15\\n7\\n1\\nRobert Wason,\\n1\\n10\\n5 2\\nEns. Jona. Baggley,\\n5\\n5\\n6\\n1\\nRobert Patten,\\n19\\n8\\nWd. Jane Moor,\\n2\\n11\\n2\\nDea. Stephen Paliner.\\n1\\n13\\nJames Prescott,\\n2\\n10\\n2\\n2\\nSam l Clough,\\n2\\n2\\n3 3\\nJeremiah Burpee,\\n1\\n3\\n8\\nSam l Brown,\\n2\\n6\\n1 1\\nIsaiah Rowe,\\n3\\n9\\n9\\nSherburn RoWe,\\n3\\n12\\n8 3\\nJonathan Woodman,\\n3\\n4\\n1\\nStephen Fyfield,\\n3\\n9\\n4 1\\nJonathan Ring,\\n2\\n10\\n2\\nSilas Cammet,\\n1\\n16\\n10 2\\nJohn Prescott,\\n1\\n2\\n5\\n1\\nSam l Morrill,\\n2\\n13\\n7\\nJonathan Pilsbury,\\n3\\n7\\n1\\n1\\nLt. Sam l i3usf/ell.\\n2\\n6\\n11\\nJohn Lane,\\n1\\n13\\n7\\n1\\nSimon French,\\n9\\n6\\n5\\nJonathan Smith,\\n1\\n11\\n8\\nLt. Sam l Towle,\\n2\\n6\\n5\\nJohn Cammet,\\n1\\n6\\n10\\n1\\nSam l Dearben,\\n2\\n11\\n1 2\\nJeremiah Towle,\\n19\\n1\\nSam l Bagley,\\n2\\n8\\nJames Rendalls,\\n19\\n6\\nStephen Clark,\\n1\\n2\\n5 1\\nJoseph Bean, jun..\\n1\\n3\\n11\\n3\\nSam l Colcord;\\n3\\n3\\n6 1\\nJames Philbrook,\\n6\\n5\\n2\\nSam l Mboers,\\n4\\n9\\n6 2\\nJohn Morrison,\\n3\\n8\\n10\\nSam l Worthen,\\n1\\n18\\n1 I\\nJohn Colby,\\n1\\n6\\n2\\n3\\nSam l Been,\\n19\\n8\\nIsaac Moss,\\n5\\n1\\nStephen Palmer,\\n1\\n7\\n8\\nJonathan Currier,\\n19\\n4\\n2\\nStephen Marden,\\n15\\n5 2\\nJohn Clay, jun..\\n1\\n6\\n4\\nTho s Dearben,\\n4\\n11\\n3 1\\nJonathan Brownrig,\\n1\\n6\\n2\\nTho s Andcrsbn,\\n4\\n11\\n9 2\\nJoseph Fitts,\\n16\\n3\\n2\\nTho s Patten,\\n5\\n7\\n11 3\\nMoses Baker, Esq.,\\n.5\\n8\\n5\\n2\\nTho s Wason,\\n2\\n4\\n5 2\\nMorris Hobbs,\\nG\\n10\\n2\\nTho s Critchet.\\n1\\n10\\n1 2\\nMoses Sargent,\\n3\\n15\\n3\\n2\\nTho s Sargent.\\n3\\n6\\n9 2\\nLt. Moses Dusten,\\n1\\n6\\n10\\n1\\nTho s Clough,\\n3\\n8\\n5 1\\nMoses French,\\n1\\n10\\n8\\n3\\nTho s Emery,\\n1\\n8\\n1\\nWd. Miriam Rowe,\\n1\\n2\\n4\\nTho s Wilson,\\n1\\n7\\n8\\nMoses Buswell,\\n1\\n4\\n7\\nTho s Sanborn,\\n7\\n9 2\\nMoses Emerson,\\n2\\n1\\n9\\n3\\nWilliam Eaton,\\n3\\n6\\n3\\n19", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "146\\nHISTORY OF OANDIA.\\n1.\\nd,\\nWilliam Clifford,\\n2\\n8\\n19 2\\nWalter Robie,\\n3\\n9\\n10 2\\nWilliam Turner,\\n4\\n5\\n4\\nWilliam Eavens,\\n1\\n9\\n6\\nWilliam Anderson,\\n18\\n5 1\\nWilliam Willson, 17 8 3\\nWilliam Wormwood, 15 5 3\\nWilliam Severance, 15 11 3\\nZcbulon Winslow, 17 13\\nZachcriah Clifford, 2 3 6 2\\nEEPRESENTATIVES TO THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS\\nAT EXETER.\\nDoct. Samuel Mooers, May 1775\\nMoses Baker, Dec. 1775\\nDr. Samuel Mooers, 1776\\nMoses Baker, 1777\\nWalter Rohie,\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nEzekiel Knowles.\\nUNDER THE NEW CONSTITUTION.\\nPeter Eaton,\\nMoses Bean,\\nJohn Lane,\\nHenry T. Eaton,\\nJohn Moore,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nAbraham Emerson,\\nOilman Richardson,\\nJoseph Richardson,\\nRufus E. Patten,\\nJames Smith,\\nJonathan Martin,\\nJoseph C. Langford,\\nAustin Cass,\\nRufus E. Patten,\\nSamuel Dudley.\\nAbraham Pitts,\\n1784\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\n1785-86\\nStephen Eifield,\\n1787-88\\nVoted not to send,\\n1789-90\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\n1791-92\\nSamuel Morrill,\\n1793-94\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\n1794 to 98\\nThomas Wilson,\\n1798 to 1804\\nJesse Eatoti,\\n1804^05\\nRichard Emerson,\\n1 806\\nJohn Taylor,\\n1807\\nMoses Pitts,\\n1809-10\\nJohn Taylor,\\n1811-12\\nSamuel Andorsoti,\\n1813 to 15\\nJohn Lane,\\n1816 to 18\\nMoses Bean,\\n1819\\n1780-81\\n1782\\n1783\\n1820-21\\n1822\\n1823 to 28\\n1829 to 32\\n1833-34\\n1835\\n1836-37\\n1838-39\\n1840\\n1841-42\\n1843-44\\n1845-46\\n1847-48\\n1849\\n1850\\n1851-52\\nThe following names are found on record as having served at various\\ntimes during the Revolution as committees of safety, inspection,\\nthe procuring of soldiers, c., c.\\nJune 14th. Capt. Sargent,\\nNathaniel Emerson, Isaiah Rowe,\\nMoses Baker, Lieut. Cass,\\nDr. Samuel Mooers. Col. Emerson,\\nApril 3d, 1777. Walter Robic.\\nCaleb Brown, April 25th.\\nJames Miller, Samuel Towlc,\\nLieut. Bachelder, Nathaniel Emerson,\\nLieut. Towle, Thomas Dearborn.\\nTheophilus Sargent, May 19th.\\nDeac. Hills, Major Baker,\\nJeremiah Bean. Walter Robic,\\nApril 8th. Lieut. Pitts,\\nAbraham Pitts, Isaiah Rowe,\\nMoses Baker, Benjamin Cass.\\nJan. 3d, 1775.\\nWalter Robie,\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nSamuel Mooers,\\nSenjamin Cass,\\nJacob Worthen.\\nMay nth.\\nMoses Baker,\\nAbraham Pitts,\\nWalter Robie,\\nSamuel Towle,\\nStephen Palmer,\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nJacob Worthen.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n147\\nAugust 3, 1778j Committee to provide for destitute families of soltlicrs.\\nWalter Robie,\\nJonathan Br.own,\\nJohn Lane.\\nJune 26th, 17S0.\\nBenjamin Cass,\\nLieut. Bagley,\\nEnsign Smith,\\nLieut. Towle,\\nJoshua Moore,\\nCapt. Sargent,\\nLieut. Fitts.\\nJuly 10th.\\nJeremiah Bean,\\nSilas Cammct,\\nWalter Robie,\\nZebulon Winslow.\\nFebruary 5th, 1781.\\nJohn Carr,\\nWalter Robie,\\nJeremiah Bean,\\nDavid Bean,\\nEdward Robie.\\nFebruary 19 th.\\nWalter Roliie,\\nZebulon Winslow,\\nJoshua Moore.\\nApril 29th, 1782.\\nZacheriah ClilFord,\\nTOWN CLERKS.\\nJohn Hills,\\nJohn CliiVord,\\nSamuel Buswell,\\nJohn Carr,\\nNov. nth.\\nAbraham Fitts,\\nSamuel Buswcll,\\nJohn Lane,\\nSamuel Moocrs,\\nJoshua Moores,\\nZacheriah Clifford,\\nJohn Clifford.\\nI^Sam l Moocrs, from 1763, 30\\nSam l Moocrs, jun., 1793, 5\\nWalter Robie, 1798, 8\\n*Richard Emerson, 1806, 8 mo\\nJohn Lane, from Oct. 1806, 14\\nPeter Eaton, from 1820, 11\\nFrederick Fitts, 1831, 1\\nS. A. Sargent,\\nJohn Moore. 3d,\\ntDr. Sam l Sargent,\\nJRufus E. Patten,\\nAbraham Emerson,\\nJosiah S. Shannon,\\nHenry M. Eaton,\\nfrom\\n1832, 2\\n1834, 2\\n1836, 4\\nf840,\\n1840, 5\\n1845, 2\\n1847.\\nSELECTMEN FROM 1764 TO 1850.\\n1764.\\nBenjamin Bachelder,\\nJohn Sargent,\\nJeremiah Bean.\\n1765-66.\\nSamuel Mooers,\\nJonathan Hills,\\nMoses Baker.\\n1767-68.\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nAbraham Fitts,\\nIchabod Robie.\\n1769\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nIchabod Robie,\\nDr. Samuel Mooers.\\n1770.\\nWalter Robie,\\nAbraham Fitts,\\nBenjamin Cass.\\n1771.\\nMoses Baker,\\nTheophilus Sargent,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Nathaniel Burpee.\\n1772 to 75.\\nMoses Baker,\\nWalter Robie,\\nAbraham Fitts.\\n1776.\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nWalter Robie,\\nMoses Baker.\\n1777.\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nWilliam Baker,\\nTheophilus Clough.\\n1778.\\nJonathan Brown,\\nJohn Lane,\\nWalter Robie,\\n1779.\\nNathaniel Emorson,\\nAttraham Fitts,\\nIsaiah Rowe.\\n1780.\\nNathaniel Emcrsoti,\\nAbraham Fitts,\\nJohn Lane.\\n1781.\\nAbraham Fitts,\\nNathaniel Emerson,\\nBenjamin Cass.\\n1782-83.\\nSamuel Buswcll,\\nJohn Hills,\\nEphraim Eaton.\\n1784 to 87.\\nEphraim Eaion,\\nJohn Clifford,\\nSamuel Morrill.\\n1788.\\nJonatlian Bagley,\\nJohn Lane,\\nAbraham Fitt.s.\\n1789 to 91.\\nJohn Lane,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Anil was succeeded nt his death by John Lane. tResijned Fth. 3, 1840.\\nI Until March, I month, by appointment of the Selectmen.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "148\\nniSTOIiY OP CANDIA,\\nJonathan Brown,\\nEphraiin Eaton.\\n1792 to 94.\\nEphraim Eaton,\\nJonathan Brown,\\nWalter llobie.\\n1795.\\nWalter Robie,\\nEpliraira Eaton,\\nThomas Wilson.\\n1796.\\nJohn Clay,\\nAbraham Fitts,\\nNathan Brown.\\n1797-98.\\nWalter Robie,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nJesse Eaton.\\n1799.\\nJesse Eaton,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nJohn Lane.\\n1800-01.\\nJohn Lane,\\nSamuel Morrill,\\nJohn Clay.\\n1802.\\nJohn Lane,\\nWalter Robie,\\nMoses Fitts.\\n1803.\\nDaniel Fitts,\\nJonathan Currier,\\nTheophilus Clough.\\n1804.\\nJohn Clay,\\nJonathan Currier,\\nTheophilus Clough.\\n1805.\\nJohn Clay,\\nJohn Lane,\\nHenry Eaton.\\n1806.\\nJoseph C. Smith,\\nJonathan Currier,\\nSimon Ward.\\n1807.\\nDaniel Fitts,\\nHenry Eaton,\\nJoseph Hubbard.\\n1808.\\nDaniel Fitts,\\nHenry Eaton,\\nTheophilus Clongh.\\n1809.\\nHenry Eaton,\\nMoses Bean,\\nMoses Colby.\\n1810.\\nHenry Eaton,\\nMoses Bean,\\nJohn Lane, jun.\\n1811-12.\\nJohn Lane, jun.,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nJonathan C. French.\\n1813.\\nJohn Lane, jun.,\\nHenry Eaton,\\nDaniel Fitts.\\n1814-15.\\nJohn Lane,\\nDaniel Fitts,\\nThomas Hobbs.\\n1816.\\nJacob Libbee,\\nPeter Eaton,\\nJonathan Currier.\\n1817.\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nPeter Eaton,\\nJonathan Currier.\\n1818.\\nPeter Eaton,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\n]\\\\lo,scs Bean.\\nl819.\\nPeter Eaton,\\nJohn Lane,\\nNathaniel Whcet.\\n1820.\\nJohn Lane,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nMoses Bean.\\n1821.\\nJohn Lane,\\nNathaniel Whcct,\\nJacob Lil bee.\\n1822.\\nJohn Lane,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nNathaniel Whect.\\n1823.\\nPeter Eaton,\\nNathaniel Whoet,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury.\\n1824.\\nPeter Eaton,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nEzekicl Lane.\\n1825.\\nPeter Eaton,\\nEzekiel Lane,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury.\\n1826.\\nEzekiel Lane,\\nSimon French,\\nDaniel Fitts.\\n1827-28.\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nPeter Eaton,\\nSimon French.\\n1829-30.\\nJohn Lane,\\nSanjuel Dudley,\\nFrancis Patten.\\n1831.\\nJohn Lane,\\nSamuel Dudley,\\nCoffin M. French.\\n1832-33.\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nAbraham Emerson,\\nJonathan Martin.\\n18.34.\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nDudley Bean,\\nJames Smith.\\n1835.\\nJ udley Bean,\\nJames Smith,\\nB. P. Colbv.\\n1836.\\nB. P. Colby,\\nJohn Moore,\\nBenjamin Hubbard.\\n1837.\\nBenjamin Hubbard,\\nSamuel Tuck,\\nRufus E. Patten.\\n1838-39.\\nRufus E. Patten,\\nJoseph Bean,\\nBiley Smith.\\n1840.\\nJohn Moore,\\nParker Hill,\\nLeonard Dearborn.\\n1841.\\nJohn Moore,\\nLeonard Dearborn,\\nParker Hill.", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n149\\n1842.\\nJohn Moore,\\nAbraham Emerson,\\nHenry M. Eaton.\\n1843-44.\\nHenry M. Eaton,\\nNehemiah Colby,\\nJonathan Currier.\\n1845.\\nAbraham Emerson,\\nJoseph C. Langford,\\nJohn Prescott, jun.\\n1846.\\nJoseph C. Langford,\\nJohn Prescott. jua-,\\nElias P. Hubbard.\\n1847.\\nJohn Prescott,\\nElias P. Hubbard,\\nCarr B. Haynes.\\n1848.\\nFrancis Patten,\\nCharles 3. En;crson,\\nJesse R. Eitts.\\n1849.\\nCharles S. Emerson,\\nJesse R. Fitts,\\nFrecnaan Parker.\\n185Q.\\nNehemiah Colby,\\nHenry S. Eaton,\\nStephen B. Fjtts.^\\nSCHOOL COMMITTEES.\\n1816.\\nRev. Isaac Jones,\\nNathaniel Whoet,\\nElijah Smith,\\nDaniel Fitts,\\nMoses Sargent, jun..\\nCotton Ward,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nJoseph Hubbard,\\nMoses Dearborn,\\nMoses Bean,\\nThomas Towle,\\nJonathan Currier.\\n1817.\\nJohn Lane,\\nSamuel Cass,\\nWilliam Robie,\\nJonathan Bean,\\nRev. Isaac Jones,\\nElijah Smith,\\nDaniel Fitts,\\nMoses Sargent, jun..\\nCotton Ward,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nMoses Dearborn,\\nJonathan Currier.\\n1818.\\nRev. Isaac Jones,\\nEld. Moses Bean.\\n1819.\\nRev. Abrh ra Wheeler,\\nDaniel Fitts,\\nMoses Bean,\\nJohn Lane. jun.\\n1820.\\nRev. Abrh m Wheeler,\\nMoses Bean,\\nBenjamin Pillsbury,\\nAnthony Langford,\\nJohn Lane,\\nDaniel Fitts,\\nJohn Wason,\\nDavid Harriman,\\nNathan Brown,\\nTimothy Currier,\\nSamuel Cass,\\nSimon French,\\nMoses Sargent.\\n1821.\\nJohn Lane,\\nDaniel Fitts.\\n1822 to.2.Ti.\\nRev. Abrh m Wheeler.\\n1826.\\nRev. Abrh m Wheeler,\\nIsaiah Lane,\\nMoses Bean.\\n1827 to 30.\\nFrancis Patten,\\nIsaiah Lane,\\nNathaniel Whcet,\\nJohn Moore.\\n1830-31.\\nRev. Abrh ra Wheeler,\\nIsaiah Lane,\\nJohn Moore,\\nDaniel Fitts.\\n1832.\\nEld. Jesse Meader,\\nJohn Moore,\\nFrancis Patten.\\n1833 to 37.\\nFrancis Patten,\\nRufus E. Patten,\\nAlfred M. Colby.\\n1837.\\nRev. Chas. P. Russell,\\nEld. B. S. Manson,\\nSamuel Sargent.\\n1841-42.\\nIsaiah Lane,\\nAbraham Emerson,\\nJoseph Eastman.\\n1813.\\nIsaiah Lane,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nRev. Wm. Murdock.\\n1844.\\nSamuel Cass,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nRev. Wm. Murdock.\\n1845.\\nFrancis Patten,\\nRev. Wm. Murdock.\\nli. R. Davis.\\n1846.\\nRev. Wm. Murdock,\\nAlfred M. Colbv,\\nEdmund Hill.\\n1847.\\nFrancis Patten,\\nEdmund Hill,\\nRichard H. Page.\\n1848.\\nAbraham Emerson,\\nAlfred M. Colby,\\nFrancis B. Eaton.\\n1849.\\nAlfred M. Colby,\\ni*rancis Patten,\\nIsaiah Lane.\\n1850.\\nIsaiah Lane,\\nAlfred M. Colby,\\nJohn Moore.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "150 HISTORY OF CAND]:^.\\nNOTES.\\nThe name of Frederick Parker, a graduate fram !Partmouth CpU\\nlege, in 1828, should have been inserted at its proper phice, on pagp\\n112. lie was supposed by the writer, to have entered college from\\nBedford, N. IL, of which place ho was a native, and the mistake\\n^as not discovered until too late. lie commenced the practice of\\nlaw, and died in Bangor, Me., in 1834.\\nIn Family Notices, page 53, under the name of Brown, Aaron, the\\nnames of his children were by accident omitted, and were as follows\\n.Mercy, who lives at the house of Capt. Jesse Eaton; Hannah, who\\nmarried Samuel Cass, Esq. Shuah, who died soon after her mijrriage\\n^yith David Norton; Aaron, who married Abiel Brown and settled\\npn the home farm.\\nOf the children of the Rev. Mr. Prince, Caleb settled in town and\\nwas deacon of the church for some years before removing to Port-\\nland, lie married Martha Moore; they had five children, viz John,\\nJoseph, Caleb, Sarah and Martha. Caleb is not living. Tiic two\\nother sons reside in Chelsea, and do business in Boston, Mass. Mar-\\ntha married Mr. Eliphalet Webster, and lives in Portland, Me.\\nKINNECUM.\\nThis name, put down on the map of the town as Cunningham, on\\nthe evidence of certain deeds of adjacent property, may bo of\\nIndian origin. The shape of the pond, as I think from personal ob-\\nservation, was qnce long and narro^y. Hence, the nanic invariably\\nderived by the Indians, from the characteristics of the pli cc. Quinne\\nsignifying long, and asrjuam, or atjuam water. In compound words\\nthe prefix of the final syllable wj^s dropped when necessary for eu-\\nphony, giving Qainnecjuam or Quinneciuain, corrupted into Kinnecum,\\nmuch nearer to the true name than is the usi^al fate of the Indian\\nappellations among us. The meaning of this was ascertained since\\nthe map was finished, from Hon. C. E. Potter, who is probably\\nbetter versed in Indian lore than any other man in the State.\\nH\\n7 ep^ 3^ j", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 151\\nI^ATTEN S HILL.\\nA very extensive view may be had from this hill, no less than thir-\\nteen meeting houses being visible. Among the hills which arc said\\nto be seen from here, by good eyes in a fair day may be named\\nPowow, Breakfast hill in Rye, celebrated in Indian warfare Tucka-\\nway and Saddleback, Agamenticus in Maine Gunstock Mts. in Gil-\\nford the Cardigan hills. Rugged Mts., Kearsarge and Sunapee, Jo\\nEnglish, and the Uncanoonucs. The Grand Monadnock, and by the\\naid of a glass, Ascutney in Vt., and the silver summit of Mount\\nWashington.\\nFor quite a distance on the eastern horizon the line of the ocean\\nIs seen when lighted up by the rays of the sun. The smoko of the\\nengine on the Portsmouth Concord Railroad, is visible for more\\nthan thirty miles on its route.", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nEarly Settlers,\\nIncorporation,\\nHouse of Worsliip,\\nCall to Mr. Jcwett,\\nPreparations for War,\\nMr. Jcwett s dismission,\\nState Government,\\nCall to Mr. Remington,\\n10\\n17\\n22\\n25\\n35\\n36\\n40\\nBurning of the Meeting House, 44\\nNotices of Ministers, 107, 139\\nPhysicians, 110\\nGraduates, 112, 150\\nNatives of Candia abroad, 114, 139\\nWalk about town, .115\\nAppendix, 137\\nINDEX OF FAMILY NOTICES.\\nAntiei sb n, 51\\nBean, 53\\nBrown, 53,150\\nBurpee, 56\\nBuswell, 57\\nCurr, 58\\nCass, 60\\nClark, 61\\nColby, 63\\nDearborn, 64\\nDudley and Duncan, 65\\nDusten, 66\\nEaton, 67\\nEmerson, 69\\nFitts, 70\\nPage\\nFoster, 78\\nHall, 81\\nHills and Hubbard, 82\\nLane, 86\\nMarten, 88\\nMcClure, 89\\nMoore, 91\\nMooers and Palmer, 94\\nPatten, 95\\nPrince, 150\\nHowe, 99\\nRobic, 100\\nSargent, 102\\nSmith, 103", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3178", "width": "1731", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3150", "width": "1744", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "k\\no V\\n.0-\\n//is^v.\\\\ /.c:^.% .**..i^ X c\u00c2\u00b0", "height": "3163", "width": "1825", "jp2-path": "historyofcandiao00eat_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "V.\\nk -r.-^ir./t, -^r, c^\\nv^ ^^e^ls}^/\\n-i^JZ--^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2c\u00c2\u00bb\\nt^i\\nN. 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