{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3551", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "(Ilass\\nBook\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "I\\ne^^", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD,\\nFROM ITS\\nFIRST GRANT IN 1725,\\nTO THE\\nORGANIZATION OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT IN 1853,\\nWITH A HISTORY OF\\nTHE ANCIENT PENACOOKS.\\nTHE WHOLE INTERSPERSED WITH\\nNUMEROUS INTERESTING INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES,\\nDOVrS TO THE PRESENT PERIOD, 1855;\\nEMBELLISHED WITH MAPS;\\nWITH\\nPORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS, AND VIEWS OF ANCIENT\\nAND MODERN RESIDENCES.\\nThis shall be written for the generations to come.\\nBY NATHANIEL B,OUTON,\\nPastor of the Firat CoDgregatioual Churoh in Concord.\\n/ill\\nCONCORD:\\nPUBLISHED BYBENNING W. SANBORN.\\n1856.\\nMoFARLAND JENK8, PKINTERS.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1855,\\nBy Nathaniel Bouton,\\nIn the Clerk s Office of the District Court of New Hampshire.\\n.C788", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TO\\nTHE INHABITANTS OF CONCORD\\nIN general;\\nTO THE DESCENDANTS OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS.\\nAND TO ALL WHO FORMERLY HAD RESIDENCE HERE,\\nBUT ARE NOW LOCATED IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF OUR COMMON COUNTRY,\\nTHIS HISTORY\\nIS VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,\\nBT THEIR FRIEND,\\nTHE AUTHOR.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "LIST AND LOCATION OF ENGRAVINGS.\\n1. PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, (facing title page.) page.\\n2. MAP OF CONCORD, (unbound following title page.)\\n3. FIRST SURVEY OF HOUSE AND HOME LOTS, 121\\n4. FAC-SIMILE OF PETITION, 1744, 152\\n5. THE BRADLEY IMONUMENT, 167\\n6. PLAN OF RU:\\\\IFORD AND BOW, 207\\n7. VIEW OF LOG MEETING-HOUSE, 1727 230\\n8. PLAN OF MAIN STREET, 1798, 297\\n9. THE OLD TOWxN-HOUSE, 306\\n10. THE OLD NORTH MEETING-HOUSE, 341\\n11. THE FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH, 407\\n12. JUDGE UPHAM S HOUSE, 410\\n13. METHODIST xMEETING-HOUSE, 413\\n14. SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE, 437\\n15. ST. PAUL S CHURCH, 443\\n16. FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH 447\\n17. NORTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE, 451\\n18. MAJ. DANIEL LIVERMORE S, OR DR. BOUTON S HOUSE, .517\\n19. JACOB HOYT S HOUSE, 519\\n20. SNOW-SHOES, 527\\n21. OLD HAY-SCALES, 539\\n22. HOUSE OF SAMUEL COFFIN, ESQ. THE ELM TREE, 548\\n23. VIEW OF THE STICKNEY HOUSE AND ELMS, 549\\n24. VIEW OF THE ANCIENT WALKER MANSION, .557\\n25. COUNT RUMFORD S BIRTH-PLACE, WOBURN, MASS., 570\\n26. PORTRAIT OF THE COUNTESS, 572\\n27. THE GAMBREL ROOF, OR BRADLEY HOUSE, 576\\n28. PORTRAIT OF REV. ASA McFARLAND, D. D., 582\\n29. PORTRAIT OF JONATHAN EASTMAN, ESQ., 590\\n30. PORTRAIT OF COL. WM. A. KENT, 593\\n31. PORTRAIT GOV. ISAAC HILL, 600\\n32. PORTRAIT OF MR. ABEL HUTCHINS, 603\\n33. VIEW OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, 611\\n34. VIEW OF PLEASANT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, 618\\n35. PORTRAIT OF ISAAC DOW, ESQ., 644\\n36. PORTRAIT OF CAPT. JOHN EASTMAN, 647\\n37. PORTRAIT OF OLD MRS. ELLIOT, 651\\n38. PORTRAIT OF MR. BENJAMIN GALE 663\\n39. THE HERBERT HOUSE, 665\\n40. PORTRAIT OF MR. RICHARD HERBERT, 668\\n41. PORTRAIT OF DEA. JOHN KIMBALL, 675\\n42. PORTRAIT OF MR. WILLIAM LOW, 678\\n43. PORTRAIT OF MR. ARIEL WALKER, 690\\n44. COL. BENJAMIN GROVER S HOUSE, 743", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "TO THE READER.\\nIn preparing this History, I have availed myself of all the information I\\ncould gather from -n hatever source during a residence and ministry in\\nConcord of more than thirty years. ]\\\\Iy attention was first directed to the\\nsubject of a historj- of the town, while collecting materials for a centennial\\ndiscourse 2)reached in November, 1830. Many of the facts embodied in\\ntills History were treasured up at the time of their occurrence others have\\nbeen carefully collected from the recitals of aged citizens and others, well\\nacquainted with the affairs of the town, and from newspapers of the current\\nperiod but the greater part was derived from original records and docu-\\nments in the office of the Town Clerk, the Secretary of State, or in the\\narchives of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, and from choice family\\npapers which have been generously placed in my hands. For the aid and\\nencouragement I have had in prosecuting the work, I acknowledge my obli- 9\\ngations to my feUow-citizens, for the liberal appropriation of three hmidred\\ndollars, in March, 1853, towards the pubUcation of portions of the original\\nProprietors and Town Records. I am under especial obligations to the\\nCommittee, at that time appointed, viz. Hon. Nathaniel B. Baker, Jona-\\nthan Eastman and Joseph B. Walker, Esqrs., for their coimsel and coojje-\\nration also, to his Honor the first Mayor, General Joseph Low, and the\\nCity CouncU, for appropriating the sum of one hmidred and fifty dollars, to\\nprocui-e maps and engraraigs for the illustration of the work. I hereby\\nexpress my particular obligations to all those who have communicated to\\nme, verbally or in MTiting, information on various topics. Especially I am\\nindebted to Richard Bradley and Nathan Stickney,* Esqrs., and General\\nRobert Davis, for valuable information relative to the civil affairs of the\\ntovm, with which they have long been intimately acquainted to Capt.\\nBenjamin Parker and Stephen C. Badger, Esq., two experienced surveyors,\\nfor the exact description they have given of localities and distances to\\nthe latter of whom belongs the honor of the beautiful and accurate ^lap of\\nthe City, which accompanies this History. I am greatly obHged to Moody\\nKent, Esq., for an account of the ancient trees which are the ornament of\\nMr. Siickney deceased Oct. 29, 1855 an eminently useful, respected and honored citizen.\\nSee List of Officers.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Z TO THE READER.\\nour main village, and for many imjjortant facts respecting professional men\\nwho are deceased to William Prescott, M. D., for his contributions to the\\nchapter upon Physical History; to Jacob Hoyt and George Abbot, Esqrs.,\\nMr. Simeon Abbot and Mr. Benjamin Ilolfe, for the entertaining incidents and\\nanecdotes they have furnished relative to ancient times and to the gentle-\\nmen who have aided me in the difficult work of preparing the genealogy of\\nfamiHes, whose names I have the honor to mention in that connection.\\nThe genealogy of the Eastman family was chiefly prepared by Rev. Daniel\\nLancaster, who also aided in preparing the account of lawyers, physicians\\nand graduates. My acknowledgments are due to Hon. Chandler E. Potter,\\nof Manchester, for friendly aid in furnishing me copies of original docu-\\nments, and even more to a young lady of our own city, for results of her\\ncareful researches into our Indian history, and for her cheerful services in\\nexamining and copying ancient papers and records. I owe many thanks to\\nGeorge Kent, Esq., of Bangor, Me., for some entertaining reminiscences of\\nancient men, who have passed off the stage, but whose words and\\nworks live after them. As I am, personally, so are all the readers of\\nthis History, indebted to the individuals who have gratuitously furnished\\nviews of residences or portraits of the distinguished citizens that adorn the\\npages of the volume. The cost of all the engravings executed expressly\\nfor this History and presented for insertion in it, amounts to more than\\nseven hundred dollars. I have the honor to acknowledge the liberal dona-\\ntion of James F. Baldwin, Esq., of Boston, of twelve hundred lithographic\\nprints of the Rumford House, in Woburn, Mass., and also an equal\\nnumber of copper-plate portraits of the Countess, lately deceased.\\nWhatever value may be attached to the engraving in front of the title,\\nmust be accredited to ladies of the parish, at whose request and by Avhose\\ngenerous subscription it was jn ocured. This volume is said to be the larg-\\nest and most costly original work ever issued from a New-Hampshire press.\\nA discerning public need not be told to whom they are indebted for the\\nsuperior style of typography in which the volume is presented to them.\\nLast, but not least, the author is grateful to the compositors, for their\\npatience and skill in decyphering much bad copy.\\nIn the arrangement and execution of the work, I have aimed at perspi-\\ncuity, precision, impartiality and accuracj That no errors will be found in\\nit, would be almost presumptuous to expect. Some have already been\\ndetected, and marked as errata, which the reader is desired at once to cor-\\nrect. The work is arranged so as to correspond with the changes in the\\nname and civil relations of the to\\\\^Ti, while the chronological order is\\nobserved. Each portion of the History is designed to be complete in\\nitself. For example, the Indian History, the Proprietary History, the Bow\\nControversy and the Revolutionary Period, form each a distinct chapter\\nand so of the rest. It will also be perceived that in the several decennial\\nperiods I have given in each chapter, 1. The Ci\\\\i\\\\ History of the Town,\\nauthenticated by records 2. Miscellaneous matters, and, 3. A list of town\\nofficers within the same period.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "TO THE READER.\\nIn preparing the index of names at the end of the voknne, I have in-\\ntended to put down every name mentioned in the body of the work, from\\nthe Indian History to the beginning of the Genealogical Section, p. 619,\\nexcept those in the List of Officers. If a reader wishes to ascertain what\\nOFFICE a particular person held in the town, he must examine the list per-\\ntaining to the period in which the person was engaged in the duties of civil\\nlife or, if one wishes to find a particular family name, he must turn to\\nthe Genealogy, and examine it in its alphabetical order. So of Lawyers,\\nPhysicians and Graduates. The Table of Contents in the first part of the\\nvolume will exhibit the leading subjects of each chapter and section.\\nI have only to add, that as the preparation of the M ork has cost much\\nlabor, in addition to the duties of my profession, so it will afibrd me great\\npleasiu-e, should it meet the reasonable expectations of my fellow-citizens\\nespecially, should it enhance our estimate of the privileges and blessings\\nderived from the original proprietors and settlers of the town, and attach\\nus more strongly to the moral and religious principles and habits which\\ndistinguished them. Verily, Our lines are fallen unto us in pleasant\\nplaces yea, we have a goodly heritage. Be it our aim, with the Divine\\nblessing, to transmit it to future generations\\nNathaniel Bouton.\\nCon-cord, N. H., 1855.\\nNote. Upon a careful revision of the printed pages of this History, the\\nauthor has discovered a number of errors some of which it is very impor-\\ntant to correct. They are all noted as errata, on the last pag e of the\\nvolume, before the Index, to which readers are respectfully requested to\\nturn and make the necessary corrections. Should readers discover other\\nerrors, they are requested to make them known to the author. His chief\\nfear is, that he may be censured for the omission of facts of which he had\\nno means of knowledge.\\nIn transcribing the Proprietors Records, a few, mostly imimportant, mis-\\ntakes occurred, which will also be found corrected on the last pao-e. The\\ncertificate from Jonathan Eastman, Esq., Proprietors Clerk, entitles the\\nprinted Records to authority, as legal evidence.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nThe author begs leave to introduce the His-\\ntory of Concord to ills readers, by rcquesling\\ntheir attention to the beautiful and accurate\\nilap which accompanies it, and to observe\\nthe boundaries, prominent localities and ob-\\njects tiiere laid down, a brief explanation\\nand description of which here follows.\\nPenacook was the ancient name of a tract\\nof country extending along the Merrimack\\nriver about ten or twelve miles on both sides,\\nfrom the Soucook, or perhaps Suncook, to the\\nContoocook river, but of undefined width\\nfrom east to west.* The name in ancient re-\\ncords and documents is variously spelled\\nfor example Penny Ciiokc, Penny Cook, Pen-\\nnecooke, Pennecook, Pcnnicook, Peniconk, Pen-\\nkook. The late John Farmer, Esq., uniformly\\nwrote it Penacook, and as the name, thus\\nspelled, is now incorporated into various pub-\\nlic works f of standard value, I have adopted\\nthe same orthograpliy.\\nCoNcoKD, the modern name for the ancient\\nPenacook, is at this time a city; the sl)ire\\ntown of Merrimack County, and Capital of\\nthe State of New-Hampshire. It is situated\\nnear the centre of the State from east to west\\nabout fifty miles from tlie Atlantic coast, and\\ntlie same distance to the Connecticut river.\\nIts latitude is 43\u00c2\u00b0 1-2 north longitude 5\u00c2\u00b0 47\\n3P east from Washingtun city, and sixty-\\ntwo miles north, 22\u00c2\u00b0 west of Boston. Its\\nboundaries and extent, as laid down on the\\nmap, are as follows: Commencing at the\\nnorth-west corner, thence north 75\u00c2\u00b0 east, on\\nBoscawen, 4 miles and 91 rods to the south-\\neast bound of Boscawen thence, commenc-\\ning at the south-west bound of Canterbury,\\non the east bank of the IMerrimack river,\\nnorth 72\u00c2\u00b0 east, 3 miles and 124 rods thence,\\non Canterbury line south 18\u00c2\u00b0 east, 192 rods, to\\nLoudon line thence, the same course on Lou-\\ndon line, 2 miles and 3 rods, to the ancient\\nBow gore thence, south 45\u00c2\u00b0 east, 2 miles and\\n284 rods, to the Soucook riverj thence, the\\nmiddle of said river to its junction with the\\nSee Document for Chap. II., No. 1 com-\\npare with p. 55.\\nt See Farmer s edition of Belknap s Hist, of\\nNew-Hampshire his Genealogical Register,\\n.C.\\nX Some surveys make this line a few rod.s\\nmore, and some a few rods less.\\nMerrimack thence, following vp the Merri-\\nmack river to the old Rumford line, about two\\nmiles and a half; thence on Bow, south 72\u00c2\u00b0\\nwest, 4 miles and 134 rods thence, on Bow\\nnorth, 18\u00c2\u00b0 west, 328 rods thence north, 17\u00c2\u00b0\\nwest, on Hopkinton line, 3 miles and 251 rods,\\nto Beach Hill road tlience north 16)^\u00c2\u00b0 west,\\n2 miles and 2i)l rods, to Contoocook river;\\nthence north 15\u00c2\u00b0 west, 234 rods, to the first\\nbound. More concisely, Concord is bounded\\nnorth-westerly by Boscawen and Canterbury\\nnorth-east by Loudon south-east by Pem-\\nbroke south by Bow south-westerly by\\nHopkinton, and contains about 40,000 acres.\\nLOCALITIES,\\nWHICH ARE FREflUENTLY REFERRED TO ly\\nTHE COURSE OF THE HISTORY.\\nJVames and description of Localities on the west\\nside of Merrimack river.\\n1. HoRsE-HiLL, is the name of the territory\\nincluded in School District No. 1, lying north-\\nerly of Contoocook river so called from the\\npractice, in early times of the settlement, of\\nturning young horses and cattle there to pas-\\nture, in spring and summer. Oliver Hoit was\\nthe first settler there, in 1772.\\n2. Mast-yard, on the Contoocook river,\\nabout a mile and a half from Horse-hill bridge\\nso called from the heavy timber that used to\\nbe hauled thither from adjacent forests and\\nrolled into the river, to be floated thence into\\nthe Merrimack and down to the Atlantic\\nocean. Opposite Mast-yard, about a mile\\nsoutherly, is Broad Cove, in School District\\nNo. 4.\\n3. Dagody, or Dagodon Hill and Brook,\\non or near the northerly boundary line be-\\ntween Concord and Boscawen; so called\\nfrom a man named Dagodon, who formerly\\nresided there. The brook is famous for trout\\nfishing Lieut. Marshall Baker, when a young\\nman, on a fishing excursion to this brook, in\\nliis haste to catch a large mess, took off his\\npants, tied a string around the bottom of the\\nlegs, buttoning the waist-band and opening\\nthem with sticks, set them for a fish-pot at\\nthe mouth of a little dam which he threw\\nup then driving the fish down the stream,\\nhe cauglit in a short time about ninety fine\\ntrout, one weighing over three pounds.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\n4. Within the Horse-liill territory, partly in\\nBoscawen, is a Little Pond, sometimes call-\\ned Catamount, abounding more with snakes\\nand turtles than with fishes.\\n5. The Borough, School District No. 2,\\nsettled originally by the Elliots now the res-\\nidence of old Mrs. Lydia Elliot, at the ago of\\n102 years. Among the ancient men distin-\\nguished in this locality in former times, and\\nknown by their honorary titles, were Gov-\\nernor Elliot, Lawyer Elliot, and Judge\\nBaker, grandfather of His Excellency Na-\\ntlianiel B. Baker.\\n6. Host s Brook, which crosses the road\\nto Boscawen, about one mile south of Fisher-\\nville.\\n7. Beaver-meadow Brook, about a mile\\nsouth of Hoyt s Brook. Near this is Beaver-\\nmeadow hog road to Horse-hill.\\n8. Sand-banks, about a half mile easterly\\nfrom Hoyt s brook, where logs and timber\\nwere rolled into Merrimack river. Capt. Jo-\\nseph Pratt, of Orford, with a two-horse sleigh,\\ndrove off this bank one night, by accident,\\nand, though precipitated to the bottom, es-\\ncaped without material injury.\\n9. HonsEiNG-DowNs, was the name given\\nto a long, narrow neck of land, lying at the\\nfoot of sand-banks, on the east side, as the\\nriver formerly run, but since cut off by turning\\nthe river for the track of the Nortliern rail-\\nroad better known now as Ooodioin s Point.\\n10. Dustin s Island, at the mouth of Con-\\ntoocook river\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the scene of the famous exploit\\nof Mrs. Hannah Dustin, who killed and scalp-\\ned her Indian captors.\\n11. Sewall s Island and Falls, so called\\nfrom Judge Samuel Sewall,of Massachusetts,\\nwho formerly owned the (iremises.\\n12. Rattlesmake Brook, running from\\nLong Pond through West village.\\n13. Rattlesnake Hill, so called on ac-\\ncount of the snakes of this species that for-\\nmerly had their dens here\u00e2\u0080\u0094 well known now\\nas Oranite Hill, about two miles north-west-\\nerly from the main village.\\n14. Parsonage Hill, so called from the\\neighty acre lot laid off to the parsonage right,\\nwest of Isaac Farnum s.\\n15. Long Pond. [See ponds, page .542.]\\n16. Pine Hill, belonging to the farms of\\nNathan K. and Jeremiah S. Abbot, west of\\nLong Pond is estimated to be the highest\\npoint of land in Concord.\\n17. South and westerly of Long Pond is a\\nrange of hills, of which the highest is Jer-\\nry s Hill, so called from Jerry, or Jeremiah\\nBradley, who formerly owned the land. From\\ntlie summit of this hill a grand and pictur-\\nesque view is had far to the north and east,\\ntaking in the Franconia Alountains, White\\nHills, Red Hill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and on the south-west the\\ngrand Monadnock. North of Jerry s is a hill\\nhaving a large and curious cave on the south-\\nwest side of it.\\n18. Little Pond, or District No. 6, is\\nso called from a small pond, situated north-\\neast of Nathan Ballard s, Esq. This neighbor-\\nhood was settled about 1789, by Nathan Bal-\\nlard, Nathan and Henry Chandler, and Eben\\nFisk, on farms bought of the estate of Col.\\nPaul Rolfe.\\n19. Beach Hill, on the westerly line be-\\ntween Concord and Hopkinton so called\\nfrom the abundant beach wood there found.\\n20. Dimond s Hill, about four miles west-\\nerly of the main village, on Hopkinton road\\nso called from Ezekiel Dimond, a large land-\\nowner, who formerly resided on or near the\\nplace where Joseph S. Abbot now lives. In\\n1828 Mr. Nathan Call moved a two-story\\ndwelling-house, thirty by forty feet, on wiieels\\nwith forty yoke of oxen, from Hopkinton to\\nConcord.* In descending this hill, then much\\nsteeper than at the present time, he put three\\nyoke of oxen before, and the remainder be-\\nliind, to hold back. It took four days to move\\nthe house the distance was about five miles.\\n21. Ash Brook, running at the foot of Dil\\nmond s hill, through the farm of Atkinson\\nWebster, Esq., into little Turkey pond.\\n22. FusH Market, on the Hopkinton road,\\nthree miles from Main street origin of name\\nnot known. Long distinguished for excellent\\nbrick and earthen ware there manufactured.\\n23. Powell s Hook at the ravine near the\\nupper mills, in Millville so called from one\\nPowell, a drummer, who lived near there.\\n24. Millville, a name recently given to\\nthe settlement where Aloses Shute, Esq., re-\\nsides, including the house and land of Dr.\\nGeo. C. Shattuck, of Boston whicli house\\nwas the first of brick in Concord, and was\\nbuilt by Jacob Carter, father of Jacob Carter\\nnow Post-master. This house and farm were\\nrecently given by Dr. Shattuck for the pur-\\npose of a School, to be called St. Paul s\\nSchool.\\n25. Runnells Mills, were situated on the\\nstream from Great Turkey to Little Turkey\\npond, on the road to Stickney s Hill. For-\\nmerly well known, these mills have fallen\\ninto entire decay. Stickney s Hill, about\\na mile south-west of Runnells mills, so call-\\ned from settlers of that name.\\n26. Bog Road, running from Concord thro\\nthe bogs of Turkey Pond to James Hall s\\nthence to Dunbarton. Before reaching Mr.\\nHall s this road crosses Tury brook aiid Pe-\\nter s or .BcZa brook, \u00e2\u0080\u0094the latter so called from\\nformer owners of land.\\n97. Rum Hill, including the high land\\nN. westerly of road to Hopkinton, owned by\\nBenjamin Gale and others, about a mile and\\na half from the Slate House so called from a\\ndrunken carousal and fight which took place\\nthere in early times, at a coal-pit.\\n28. Eleven Lots, extending, according to\\nthe first survey, from the residence of the late\\nCountess of Rumford to near the old Bow line.\\n29. The Bend, (that is, in Merrimack riv-\\ner,) near the southern boundary line, and tak-\\ning in a small section of Bow. On the bank at\\nthis bend is a beautiful view, north, of the\\nMain village.\\n30. Iron Works, south-west part of the\\ntown, including Sch. District No. 18. In the\\nRevolutionary War the Iron Works were\\nowned by Daniel Carter, Daniel Gale and Dr\\nPhilip Carrigain. A forge was built in the\\nlot easterly of the bridge which now crosses\\nTurkey River, where iron was wrought from\\nnative ore.\\n31. Frog Ponds, on the interval east of the\\nresidence of the late Gov. Hill, who owned\\nthe premises and made various experiments to\\nimprove them. Name derived from the se-\\nrenades of their principal inhabitants.\\n32. Hale s Point, the extreme point of land\\non Ferry Road, by Richard Herbert s\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nnamed from Joseph Hale, who in early times\\nowned the land. From the Point across\\nThis house now stands on the east side of\\nState street, second house south of Pleasant\\nstreet.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nthe river was formerly a ferry, extensively\\nknown as Kimha .Ps Ferry. Hale s point was\\ncut off by a great freshet about 1831, and the\\nferry is discontinued since the opening of the\\nFree Bridge road.\\n33. Fort Eddy, about half a mile north of\\nHale s Point, on land owned by Richard Brad-\\nley\u00e2\u0080\u0094opposite Sugar Ball. According to tra-\\ndition this was the location of an old Indian\\nfort.\\n34. The Fan, a tract of land bordering the\\nriver, north of Fort Eddy valuable for natu-\\nral mowing, and derivingits name from a fan-\\ncied resemblance in shape to a lady s fan.\\nChiefly owned by the late Abiel Walker.\\n35. Wattanvmmon s Brook, the princi-\\npal feeder and outlet of Horse Shoe Pond on\\nthe east\u00e2\u0080\u0094 crossed by a bridge, and so called\\nfrom the name of an Indian chief* who owned\\nand cultivated the land adjacent. There is\\nan outlet from both ends of the Pond.\\n36. Horse Shoe Pond, at the head of Main\\nstreet. [See Ponds.]\\n37. Wood s Brook, the little stream from\\nlittle pond, crossing the Boscawen road\\nnorth of Richard Bradley s, and formerly\\nturning the dry saw mill, which was built\\nthere; deriving its name from David Wood,\\noriginal proprietor.\\n38. P/.RADisE, about forty rods northerly\\nfrom Wood s brook\u00e2\u0080\u0094 so named from a beauti-\\nful grove and the scenery around it, including\\na charming view of the interval and meander-\\ning of the river on the east. It was owned\\nby Capt. E. S. Towle. The grove being re-\\ncently cleared away, it may be called Para-\\ndise lost.^\\n39. Blossom Hill, a pleasant eminence,\\ncovered with a fine growth, opposite Para-\\ndise.\\n40. The Gulf, or steep hill bridge, on the\\nmain road to Boscawen, about tvventy rods\\nsouth of the railroad crossing, near Benjamin\\nFarnuni s. East of this Gulf is Farnum s\\nEddy, so called from a current or whirl in the\\nriver.\\n41. West s Brook, formerly Meetmg-\\nhouse Brook, rising in swamp land west of\\nthe State Prison, crossing Main street near\\nthe house of the late John West, senior\\nwhence the name. The space between this\\nbrook and Tan-yard Brook was neutral\\nground between the north and south end\\nboys.\\n4-2. Clav-Pits, and tan yard brook, which\\nruns (under the road,) in the valley by Mr.\\nIvory Hall s house. The late Capt. Richard\\nAyer carried on an extensive tannery on the\\nwest side of the road and clay of good qual-\\nity was formerly dug here. Opposite the tan-\\nyard stood the old hay-scales,] and here was\\nthe great elm tree, marked on the Plan of\\nMain street.\\n43. Bow Brook, partly flows from Little\\npond, runs along by the new Jail and the In-\\nsane Asylum, and empties into Turkey river.\\n44. Free Bridge and Free Bridge Road,\\nacross the Merrimack and interval, nearly\\nopposite Center street.^ This road was first\\nopened and bridge built in 1839.\\nOften spelled Waternummon. See Chap.\\n1., Indian History.\\nt See Chapter of Ancient Matters, p. 539.\\nX See Free Bridges, p. 741.\\nLocalities on the east side of the River, begin-\\nning on the northern line at Canterbury.\\n1. Burnham s Brook, running from Canter-\\nbury by Chandler Choate s to Merrimack\\nriver, opposite the eastern point of Rolfe s in-\\nterval.\\n2. ITackett s Brook, so called from a man\\nof that name who once leaped across it, and\\nthen turning around, said to himself I ll\\nbet a mug of flip you can t do that again,\\nHackett. Then attempting to leap it again,\\nas his feet struck the opposite bank, he fell\\nbackwards into the brook. The brook has its\\nprincipal source in Hot Hole pond, easterly\\non the Loudon line; empties into the Merri-\\nmack just north of Sewall s Falls bridge.\\nOn this stream is situated Lovejoy s Mills, so\\ncalled, and also a saw-mill near its mouth.\\n3. Snow s Pond, [see Ponds.] Oak Hill is\\na high eminence east of Snow s pond, or north-\\nerly of Turtle pond. [See page 543, 544.]\\n4. Hot Hole Pond, [see Ponds.]\\n5. SNAPTo\\\\vN,thesection comprising School\\nDistrict No. 14. in the north-easterly part of the\\ntown, near Loudon line. The origin of the\\nname is uncertain. One tradition is, tliat it is\\nderived from a man by the name of Blanch-\\nard, who had a habit of snapping his eyes,\\nor winking quick on which a woman re-\\nmarked, that she should think all the chil-\\ndren in the neighborhood would snap.\\nAnother tradition is, that an early settler in\\nthe locality, thinking himself croicded by oth-\\ners who moved in within half a mile of him,\\nwas cross, or snappi.ih.\\n6. The Mountain, comprising School Dis-\\ntrict No. 21, and extending from the dwelling-\\nhouse of Jacob Hoit to the residences of Abra-\\nham Bean and John L. Tallant.\\n7. Bowen s Brook, crossing the road to the\\nMountain in the valley near Meshech Lang s\\norigin of name not ascertained.\\n8. Turtle-town, comprising School Dis-\\ntrict No. 15, derives its name from the large\\npond in that vicinity, which abounds with\\nturtles. See Ponds, page 543.\\n9. Apple-town, southerly of Turtle pond,\\nsupposed to derive its name from the abund-\\nance and excellence of apples there raised.\\n10. Leather-lane, the section from the\\nfork of the road to Apple-town, to the old\\nburying-ground in the East village.\\nli. The Fort\u00e2\u0080\u0094 including the East village-\\nderiving its name from the Irish Fort, or\\nfrom the garrison of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman,\\nwhich stood directly west of the residence of\\nIsrael W. Kelly, Esq.\\n12. Squaw Lot, westerly of Federal bridge.\\n[See Indian History.]\\n13. MiLL-BRooK, the outlet of Turtle pond,\\naffording a fine water power in the East vil-\\nlage, on which the first saw and grist-mill\\nwere built, in Concord, 1729.\\n14. Death s Hill, on the Portsmouth turn-\\npike, near the school-house on Dark Plain,\\na short, steep ascent, which the road now\\nruns around on the south and east side, de-\\nrived its name from the circumstance that\\na traveller, with a loaded team from Ports-\\nmouth, was killed in going over it by a hogs-\\nhead of molasses rolling from his wagon.\\n15. Sugar Ball, the first prominent sand\\nblutf northerly of Kimball s Ferry, or Sam-\\nuel ClitTord s residence, and opposite Fort\\nEddy. On this, according to invariable tradi-\\ntion, stood the old Penacook fort.\\n16. Mount Pleasant, a high and steep", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nsand bluff, about eighty rods north-westerly\\nof Sugar Ball, recently so called from the ex-\\ntensive and beautiful view it aff6rds of the\\ninterval of the Merrimack, and the main vil-\\nlage of hills of the West parish, and scenes\\nmore distant.\\n17. Garvin s Palls, formerly the residence\\nof tiie Garvin family, including a portion of\\nthe southern Bow gore. In the ancient re-\\ncords it is known as the Penny Cook Falls,\\nand not, as on the map, Soucook Falls.\\n18. Head s JIills, on the Soucook river,\\nnear the old line of Concord, a little north of\\nthe old road to Pembroke, about two miles\\nfrom Concord bridge.\\n19. Placer, a favorite place of resort\\nin the summer, at a great bend in Soucook\\nriver.\\nVillages.\\nBesides the foregoing localities, the reader\\nwill please observe that in Concord are four\\nvillages, or principal settlements, of which\\nthe first is the Main viUa re, frequently called\\nthe Street, from the circumstance that for-\\nmerly the houses were all built on one main\\nstreet, extending, as may be seen by the map,\\nnearly one mile and a half. This village is\\nthe central place for business containing, by\\nestimation, a population of about 6,500 souls.\\nHere, also, are the princij)al public buildings:\\nten churches, post office, seven taverns, sev-\\neral of which are reckoned among the largest\\nand best kept in the State. Here, also, are\\nthe principal stores for trade, and shops for\\nalmost every variety of mechanical pursuit.\\n2. IVest, or West Parish Village, about three\\nmiles from the State House, is a place of con-\\nsiderable manufacture of flannels and blank-\\nets, and has a thrifty population. Here is a\\nstation of the Concord and Claremont railroad,\\nmeeting-house, two school-houses, a post of-\\nfice, and near the village, southerly, is the\\ntown farm and poor-house.\\n3. The East Village, extends from Federal\\nbridge, north, to the vicinity of the meeting-\\nhouse. Here is a station of the Boston, Con-\\ncord and Montreal railroad, two stores, a\\nmeeting-house and two sciiool-houses, with\\nan industrious population of about three hun-\\ndred.\\n4. FishervilU, lies chiefly in Concord, about\\nsix miles from the Main village, on both sides\\nof the Contoocook river, near its junction\\nwith the Merrimack. It derives its name\\nfrom the Messrs. Fisher, of Boston\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Freeman\\nand Francis who own the larger portion of\\nthe water power. It 1840 the population did\\nnot exceed one hundred it is now estimated\\nat about fifteen hundred. In 1836 the Fishers\\nerected the first mill, called the Contoocook\\nmill, of stone, ninety-six by forty-two feet, five\\nstories high. In 1846 the Penacook mill was\\nbuilt, three hundred by forty-eight feet, three\\nstories high including the two wheel-houses,\\nthe entire length is three hundred and seventy\\nfeet. In 1847 Dea. Almon Harris erected a\\nstone mill on the north side of the river, sev-\\nenty-five by forty feet, three stories, for the\\nmanufacture of woolens, c. The village is\\nthrifty and growing; here are small factories\\nand machine shops of various kinds a post\\noffice, two large school-houses, one on each\\nside of the Contoocook river here, also, is a\\nBaptist, Congregational, Methodist, Christian\\nand Universalist Society, with suitable edi-\\nfices or halls for worship. On the Concord\\nside, east of the main road, the land was for-\\nmerly owned chiefly by the Rolfe family.\\nRev. Edmund Worth, pastor of the Baptist\\nchurch, was settled there in 1845, and still re-\\nmains. At this time there is no other settled\\npastor.\\nPUBLIC BUILDINGS.\\nRespecting the public buildings, some of\\nwhich are also distinctly marked upon the\\nmap, the following description may here suf-\\nfice, beginning at the north end of main street.\\nThe Methodist General Biblical Insti-\\ntute, established and incorporated in 1847,\\noccupies the Old North Church, which\\nwas fitted up by the liberality of citizens of\\nConcord, at a cost of about ^-3000, in 1846,\\nand conveyed to the trustees of the Institute\\nfor the purposes of instruction. The first\\nProfessors in this Institution were Rev. John\\nDempster, D. D., Rev. Osmon C. Baker, D. D.,\\nnow a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch, and Rev. Charles Adams. The pres-\\nent Board of Instructors are Rev. Stephen M\\nVail, A. M., and Rev. J. W. Merrill, D. D\\nand Rev. D. Patten, D. D. The number of\\nstudents has steadily increased from year to\\nyear; in 18.54 it was sixty-eigiit.*\\nThe old Town Hall and Court Hoitse was\\nfirst built in 1792, and enlarged in 1823. This\\ntogether with the County building of brick)\\nbuilt in 1844, is soon to give place to the new\\nand splendid City Hall, on the same location.\\nThe State Prison, near the north end of\\nMain street\u00e2\u0080\u0094 first built in 1811-12, but greatly\\nenlarged and improved\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is mainly sustained\\nby the labor of the convicts. The number in\\nprison in 1854 was one hundred and five. Its\\npresent warden is William W. Eastman. [See\\nannual reports of wardens.]\\nThe State House, which was commenced\\nin 1816, and completed in 1819, stands about\\nthe middle of Main street. The grounds, ex-\\ntending from Main to State street, contain\\nabout two acres, beautifully ornamented with\\na variety of shade trees. The center of the\\nbuilding is fifty feet in front by fifty-seven in\\ndepth the wings are each thirty-eight feet\\nin front by forty-nine in depth the whole\\nmaking a parallelogram of one hundred and\\ntwenty-six feet in length, by forty-nine in\\nwidth, with the addition of a projection in\\nthe center of each front of four feet. The\\noutside walls are of hammered granite. The\\nlot on which it stands is enclosed on two sides\\nwith a solid wall of lianimeied stone, about\\nfive feet high the front fences and gates are\\nof iron castings, with stone posts and sills.\\nThe expense of building, including the land,\\nthe fence, and the furniture of the house\\namounted to .$82,000.\\nIn this building are a chamber for the Rep-\\nresentatives, with an arched ceiling rising\\nthirty feet from the floor; the Senate cham-\\nber, eighteen feet in height the Council\\nchamber, and offices for the secretary and\\ntreasurer, the adjutant and attorney-generals,\\nwith a spacious room occupied as the State\\nlibrary.!\\nThe Countf Jail, located near the junc-\\ntion of Pleasant and Washington streets,\\nabout one mile west of the State House, was\\nerected in 18.52, at a cost of $11,000. fSee\\npage 492.\\n*See Appendix to Prof. Vail s book on Min-\\nisterial Education, p. 231.\\nt See p. 366. In J^ote, for Miscellaneous\\nread Introductory.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nThe New-Hampshire Astlum foiithe In-\\nsane is situated on Pleasant street, upon an\\neminence half a mile south of tlie State House.\\nAs enlarged and improved since its first erec-\\ntion in 1841, it is a nobleedifice\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an ornament\\nto the city and an honor to the State. The\\nwhole number of patients admitted since the\\nopening of the institution in 1842, to June 1,\\n1855, is 1-284. The present Superintendent is\\nJohn E. Tyler, M. D.\\nThe Railroad Passenger Depot, located\\neast and near the centre of Main street, is a\\nlarge and commodious building, erected in\\n1849. In the second story is a spacious hall,\\ntogether with convenient and even elegant\\nrooms for oflices. Near this building on tlie\\nsouth is an extensive Freight Depot, and in\\nthe immediate vicinity are all the necessary\\nbuildings for engines and cars, and for ma-\\nchine and repair shops. At this general depot\\nthe following Railroads centre, viz.:\\nThe CoNcoBD Railroad, extending from\\nNashua to Concord, 34 i miles opened in\\nSept., 1842 whole :ost, $1,450,000.\\nThe Northern Railroad, from Concord\\nthrough Franklin, to Connecticut river, 69\\nmiles. The first section of it opened in 1846,\\nand the residue in 1847 and 1848. The capi-\\ntal stock amounts to $2,770,000.\\nBoston, Concord and Montreal Rail-\\nroad, chartered in December, 1844, extends\\nfrom Concord to tlie Connecticut river, through\\nHaverhill, to Woodville, opposite Wells Riv-\\ner, in Vermont. Tliis road was first opened\\nas far as Sanbornton Bridge May 10, 1848\\nnext to Plymouth, and then on to Warren\\nand its present terminus, 99}^ miles from\\nConcord. Capital paid in, $2,271,478. Every\\ntrain in summer connects at the Weirs with\\ntlie steamer Lady of the Lake, Capt. Win.\\nWalker.\\nConcokd and Claremont Railroad, was\\nincorporated in 1848. It extends to Bradford,\\na distance of 29% miles. Amount expended\\nto April, 1853, was $698,258. Contoocook\\nValley Railroad connects with the Concord\\nand Claremont at Contoocookville.\\nPortsmouth and Concord Railroad, in-\\ncorporated in 1845. Length of road, about\\n48 miles.\\nBANKS IN CONCORD.\\nMerrimack County Bank, first incorpo-\\nrated in 182G; renewed in 1845, with a capital\\nof \u00c2\u00a780.000. Francis N Fisk, President E. S.\\nTowle, Cashier. Directors, 1855\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Francis N.\\nFisk, Samuel Coffin, Nathan Stickney, Rich-\\nard Bradley and Joseph B. Walker.\\nMechanicks Bank, incorporated in 1834.\\nCapital, $100,100. Joseph M. Harper, of Can-\\nterbury, President Geo. Minot, of Concord,\\nCashier. Joseph M. Harper, Seth Eastman,\\nJosiah Minot, D. M. Carpenter, Ezra Carter\\nand George B. Chandler, Directors in the\\nyear 1855.\\nState Capital Bank, incorporated in 1852\\nhas at this time a capital of $150,000. Samuel\\nButterfield, President; Edson Hill, Cashier.\\nThe present Directors are Samuel Butter-\\nfield, Enos Blake, Abraham Bean, Hall Rob-\\nerts, Asa Fowler, Robert N. Corning and\\nEbenezer Symmes.\\nNew-Hampshire Savings Bank, in Con-\\ncord, was incorporated in June, 1830. Its\\nbusiness is under the direction of eighteen\\ntrustees. Samuel Coffin, President Samuel\\nMorril, Treasurer. In 1855 there were 7.824\\ndepositors, and the means of the bank\\namounted to $402,704.\\nThe valuation of estates in Concord, made\\nin the returns of the United States Census in\\n1850, was\\nReal estate,\\nPersonal estate,\\nTotal,\\n$3,015,286\\n573.624\\n$3,588,910\\nThe growth of Concord in business and\\npopulation since 1816, has been steady and\\nhealthful. The population ia\\n1767\\nwas\\n759\\n1820 was 2838\\n1775\\n1052\\n1830 3702\\n1790\\n1747\\n1840 4903\\n1800\\n2052\\n1850 8584\\n1810\\n2398\\n1855 estiraat.. 10.500\\nThe number of names on the check-lists of\\nthe several wards of the city, as first laid out\\nin 1853, was as follows\\nWard 1.\\n1\\n184\\nWard 5.\\n509\\nt)\\n289\\n6.\\n436\\n3\\n136\\n7.\\n301\\n4.\\nTetal,\\n2325", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nINDIAN HISTORY.\\nPAGE.\\nFive Principal Nations, 17\\nPenacooks Fight with Moliawks, 18\\nPassaconaway, 21-26\\nWonalancet, 27-30\\nWanuchus Montowampate, 30-34\\nTahanto, 34\\nKancamagus, 37\\nHope-Hood, 39\\nWattanummon Anecdote of Capt. Eastman, 40\\nFight at Baker s River, 41\\nMrs. Dustin, 42\\nMr. Dustin The Father s Choice, 44\\nSquaw Lot Peorawarrah s Gun, 46\\nPehaungun The Last of the Penacooks, 48\\nCHAPTER n.\\nPENACOOK BEFORE SETTLEMENT BY THE WHITES.\\nSources of the Merrimack River, 1638, 49\\nSurvey, 1652 Inscription on Rock at The Weares, 50\\nPetition from Dover and Newhury, 51\\nOrder of Court, 52\\nPetition from Chelmsford from Salem, 53\\nPetition from Inhabitants of Essex County, 1721, .53\\nSurvey, 1722 Petition, 1725, 55\\nL-ish People, 56\\nCHAPTER III.\\nPL.INTATION OF PENACOOK. 1725 TO 1733.\\nProprietors Records, 57-121\\nOrder of the Great and General Court, 57-64\\nAdmission of Settlers, 1725, 59\\nLetter of Rev. Christopher Toppan, 60\\nLetter of Rev. Samuel Phillips, 61\\nSurvey of House and Home Lots, 62\\nJournal of Committee, 64\\nAdditional Grant, 1728, 64\\nList of Settlers, 68\\nSurveyors at Penacook, 66\\nCommittee of New-Hampshire WarnOlT, 68\\nOrders and Rules of Settlement, 70\\nSee Document, for Chapter II., p. 745.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "10\\nTABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nFACE.\\nHouse and Home Lots drawn, 72\\nOpposition from New-Hampshire Government, 77\\nLetter from Henry Newman, Agent, 82\\nBuilding a Block House, 80-85\\nSecond Division of Interval surveyed, 81-86\\nCapt. Eastman s. Team, driven by Jacob Slmte, 88\\nGrant of Bow, by New-Hampshire, 88\\nSamuel Aver and Team, 89\\nRights forifeited Delinquents, 86-90-98\\nCommittee to agree v.itli a Minister, 86-100\\nFirst Saw-mill and Grist-mill, 89-97\\nCall to Rev. Timothy Walker Salary, c., 95-106\\nLaying out Burying-ground, 98\\nFerry, by John JMerrill, 90-1 02\\nBlacksmith Cutting Noycs, 101-114\\nBenjamin Rolfe, Clerk, 102\\nPetition for Town Rights Order of Court, 95-104\\nSchool Money raised for, 106\\nGrist-mill and Saw-mill on Turkey River, 109-113\\nMills on Mill-brook Nathan Simonds, 112\\nMill on Rattlesnake Brook, 114\\nHenry Rolfe s Petition for Incorporation, 115\\nNames of Pro])rietors, 122\\nExplanation of First Survey, c., 121\\nof Second Survey, 125\\nof Twenty Acre Division, 127\\nof Emendation Lots, 128\\nof Eighty Acre Division, 128\\nSpecial Grants, 128\\nState of Settlement, 1731. Expenses, 128\\nBrief Notices of Proprietors, 132\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nRUMFORD I^ COR^ORATED. 1733 TO 1742.\\nAct of Incorporation, 141\\nSchool. Various Proceedings, 142\\nA House for Rev. Mr. Walker, 142\\nEssex County Meeting-house repaired, 144\\nGarrison around Rev. Mr. Walker s House, 144\\nControversy between New-Hampshire and Massachusetts, 1740, 145\\nThe Crotch Meeting of Commissioners, 145-146\\nDecision of His Majesty, 148\\nCHAPTER V.\\nRUMFORD A DISTRICT. 1742 TO 1750.\\nIndian Hostilities Jonathan Eastman s Wife taken, 151\\nFrench War Louisburg, 152\\nPetition facsimile Garrisons, c., 125-6\\nThe Massacre, 1 740, 157\\nNotices of Persons massacred, 162\\nThe Monument, Erection, Procession, c., 166\\nGarrisons New Arrangement, 174\\nCapt. Lovejoy s Mill Petition, 175\\nAnecdotes Philip Eastman, Estabrooks, c., 177\\nDr. Ezra Carter s Petition Aimer Hoyt, 177\\nBenjamin Abbot, Joseph Pudncy, c., 178\\nReuben Abbot Stephen Farrington, 180\\nCapt. Lovejoy Depositions, c., 181\\nList of Officers from 1763 to 1749, 182", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS. 11\\nPAGE.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nFRENCH AND INDIAN WAKS, IN WHICH THE INHABIT.^ TS OF EUMFORD\\nTOOK AN ACTIVE PART. 1754 TO 1760.\\nRobert Rogers, John and William Stark, 189\\nCapt. John Chandler, 1754 Capt. Joseph Eastman, 189\\nCapt. John Goff s Company, 17.56, 191\\nAmos Eastman, Bcnj. Bradley, Stephen Hoit, 192\\nFight at St. Francis, 1759, 19.3\\nDavid Evans, Nathaniel and Stilson Eastman, 194\\nJohn Sliute and Joseph Eastman, 196\\nBill Phillips, Daniel Abbot, 202\\nMr. Nutter, Enoch Bishop, 204\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nCONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 1750 TO 1762.\\nGrant of Bow Associates Plan, c., 205-6\\nSuit against John Merrill Defence, 20S\\nAssessment on Bow Selectmen Petition, 212\\nRev. Mr. Walker first sails for England, 213\\nPetition to the King\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Second Visit, 214-216\\nBow Act Inhabitants (Zoomef/, 217\\nInventory by Selectmen of Canterbury, 219\\nLetter from Rev. Mr. Walker, 1762, 220\\nKing s Decision, 222\\nSettlement of Canterbury bounds, 226\\nMiscellaneous, Items, Anecdotes, c., 230-38\\nLetters from Rev. Mr. Walker, 1754, 55, 231\\nIron Crane, 231\\nTimothy Walker, Jr. s License to Preach, 232\\nAndrew McMillan s Store Old Ledger, 232\\nA Young Fawn Wolves Rattlesnakes, 236-38\\nCHAPTER VIIL\\n1765 TO 1775,\\nIncorporation of the Parish of Concord, 239\\nBow Gores, Concord Name, 242\\nFirst Legal Meeting, 243\\nThe School Phineas Virgin, 244-45\\nPetition of Selectmen of Bow, 245\\nCensus of Concord Town Proceedings, 246\\nAddress to Gov. Wentworth, 248\\nRumford, in Maine, 249\\nMiscellaneous Facts and Anecdotes Slaves Bears Militia Town\\nAccounts, 249-59\\nList of Officers from 1766 to 1775, 259-62\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nPERIOD OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.\\nBenjamin Thompson Battle of Lexington, 263-64\\nCongress at Exeter Battle of Bunker Hill, 264\\nCapts. Hutchins, Abbot and Kinsman, 265\\nCensus of Concord, 266\\nNew-Hampshire Declaration of Independence, 267\\nPrisoners of War Committee of Safety, 268-69\\nAssociation Test Signers, 269\\nOliver Hoit Gun-powder Tories arrested, 272\\nCol. Hutchins Soldiers for Bennington, 274\\nConvention to form a Plan of Government, 276", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "12 TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nPAGE.\\nCurrency another Convention, 277\\nArticle Eighth of the Confederation Peace, 281\\nMiscellaneous Items and Anecdotes.\\nSmall Pox Andrew Stone s House Lottery, 282\\nRichard Potter and Dr. Carrij^ain, 283\\nDeath of Rev. Mr. Walker, 1782, 284\\nMeeting-house General Court, 285-87\\nAnnexation to Concord Change of Name, 288\\nThe New Constitution, 178.3, 288\\nList of Town Officers, c., 289\\nCHAPTER X.\\n1785 TO 1795.\\nTucker s Ferry Call to Jonathan Wilkins, 293\\nLaying out Main street Plan Map, 295\\nPaper Money Federal Constitution, c., 298\\nCall to Rev. Israel Evans, 303\\nSchool Lot Town House Anecdote, 304\\nWarning Out Revision of the Constitution, 307\\nRev. Mr. Evans Minute-men, 308\\nMiscellaneous Items and Anecdotes.\\nDauphin of France Concord Herald, 309-10\\nPost-riders Clothes make Men, 310\\nSacred Music\u00e2\u0080\u0094 School Stages, 312\\nList of Town Officers, 314\\nCHAPTER XI.\\n1795 TO 1805.\\nSinging Society Rev. Mr. Evans resigned, 319\\nCall to Rev. Mr. McFarland, 320\\nAnecdote of Capt. Aver Oxford War, 322\\nScliool Districts a Bell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Meeting-house, 324\\nAnnexing part of Bow to Concord, 325^^,\\nBurying-ground at Horse-hill, c., 325-6\\nMiscellaneous Items and Anecdotes.\\nConcord Bridge Federal Bridge, 326\\nPersons drowned Thunder Storm Library Fire, 329\\nBlazing Star Lodge Mill burnt Post Office, 330\\nList of Town Officers, 330\\nCHAPTER Xll.\\n1605 TO 1815.\\nNew Map Concord Bank School Districts, 337\\nA Bell Meeting-house State street, 1809 Swine, 340-41\\nWashington Street laid out State Prison, 342\\nExtinguishment of Fires War of 1812, 343\\nDisturbance at Town Meeting Col. Kent, 344\\nScarlet Fever Deaths Lieut. Marshall I3aker 345-\\nSoldiers Volunteers Exempts, e., 347\\nMiscellaneous Incidents.\\nMaj. Chandler s House burnt Mad Dog, c., 349\\nExtraordinary Calf Fire Marriage Capt. Roach, 350\\nEourth of July, 1811 Shipping Memoranda Post-rider, 351\\nCapt. Charles Emery s decease Hannah Shapley Fire, c., 353\\nConcord Price-current F^phraim Earnum s son killed, 354\\nMoral Society Concord i emale Charitable Society, 3.54\\nFrancis Thompson drowned, 355\\nList of Town Officers, c., from 1805 to 1815, 355", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS. 13\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\n1815 TO 1835.\\nPACE.\\nIntermission One Hour September Gale, 363\\nState House Location Ballots Hearses, 363\\nSchool Committee Timothj- Abbot s Land Temperance Bridges, 366\\nTown Expenses Support of Poor Lancasterian School, 367\\nCows and Sheep Town House f/a??n!(/;ec; Suit, 368\\nPremium to Engine-men Lease of Parsonage Lot, e., 369\\nA new County\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Schools A History of the Town, c., 370.\\nToll on the Sal)bath New-Hampshire Turnpike, 371\\nMiSCELLAVEODS ItEMS AND ANECDOTES.\\nMiddlesex Canal\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cold Summer White Beans, 371\\nBenj. Thompson drowned President Monroe s Visit, 372\\nMrs. Mary Calfe Abigail Kimball Hannah Bradley, .373\\nEbenezer Chickering drowned Earthquake Abel Hutchins\\nHouse burnt, 374\\nMad Dog Transportation to Portsmouth Fire Engine, 375\\nEreshet Eagle on the State House Sunday School, c., 37.5-6\\nSteamboat Dark Days Col. McNeil, c., 376\\nCard of Thanks Episcopal Chapel Meteor, c., .378\\nPres. Tyler s Election Sermon Death of Mrs. Abigail Hoyt, c., 381\\nCelebration of Fourth of July Thunder Storm, c., 382\\nDeath of Rev. Joshua Abbot Deaf and Dumb, 383\\nLarge Hogs Deaths in 1824 Notes, 384\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\n1825 TO 1835,\\nDr. McFarland s Resignation Call to Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, 385\\nSale of Parsonage Lands Meeting-house Fourth of Juh^, 386\\nSecurity against Fires Poor Farm Rocky Pond Lot, 389\\nTown Funds Fire Buckets Schooling for Poor Children, .391\\nBridewell Horse-sheds Cholera, 392\\nLaying out and naming Streets, 395\\nConcord Directory, 1834 List of Stages, 397\\nMiscellaneous Items and Anecdotes [too numerous to be all men-\\ntioned, hut to be read.]\\nVisit of Gen. LaFayette, 399\\nDedication of First Baptist Church Lic{uorR, 401\\nGen. Jackson s Victory Death of Mrs. Harriet S. Bouton, 403\\nDeath of Ezekiel Webster Ordination of Rev. M. G. Thomas, 405\\nPark street Judge Upham s house Last Election Sermon, 410\\nFour Days Meetings Revival of Religion Col. Ambrose killed, 412\\nMethodist Meeting-house Escape of Convicts, 412\\nVisit of Gen. Jackson Death of John Estabrook, 414\\nMrs. Elizabeth Haseltine s death Lj dia Farnuni s, 418\\nMechanicks Bank Prescott s Trial for Murder, 421\\nDeath of old Mrs. Willey New Prison, 422\\nCHAPTER XV.\\n1835 TO 1845.\\nSpeculation in Land Security against Fires 423\\nSchools Small-pox West Parish Burying-ground, 424\\nRailroad Stock Insane Hospital Surplus Revenue, 425\\nLocation of Insane Hospital Railroads, c., 427\\nConcord Bank Failure Cemetery Keeping the Peace, 428\\nLot for Burying-ground, by Charles Smart Police Regulations, 430\\nCommittee before Legislature Reservoirs, 431\\nQuestion on abolishing Capital Punishment, 432\\nH", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14 TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nPAGE.\\nAltering the Constitution Parsonage Lot sold, 432\\nMiscellaneous Items and Anecdotes, numerous, entertaining and of great\\nvariety 433-462\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\n1845 TO 1853.\\nFire Department Bowling-Saloons Town Funds, 463\\nUnion School Districts Support of Poor, 464\\nHall Burgin s Estate Burying-ground, East-Concord, 465\\nNuisances removed Burying-ground, Millville, 465\\nProhibiting the sale of Spirituous Licpiors, 465\\nCol. Palmer s llesolutions Resci-voirs Sickness, 1849, 466\\nRailroad Crossings Fire Engine Hearse, c., 467\\nDelegates to Constitutional Convention, 468\\nTolling of Bells Night Watch License, c., 469\\nReservoirs New Town House Public Library, 470\\nCity Charter Last Town Proceedings Town History, 471-2\\nMiscellaneous items and anecdotes relative to the period from 1845 to\\n1853, 472-498\\nCity of Concord.\\nCity Charter Vote on its adoption First Election of City Officers, 499\\nOrganization of City Government, 501\\nAddress of the Mayor, c., 502\\nList of principal Town Officers and Representatives from 1815 to 1853, 505-9\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\nANCIENT MATTERS.\\nGrave-Stones Burials Monuments Vehicles, 510-13\\nOld Clocks Dwelling-houses Customs, 514\\nMaj. Livermore s House Ancient Wells, 517\\nJacob Hoyt s House Anecdote Food Drinks, 517\\nCider Flip Toddy Egg-nog Liquors Reformation, 522\\nAncient Furniture Dress Snow-shoes, 524\\nWork of Females Hours of rising and retiring, 527\\nGoing to Meeting Old Men s Seat Intermission, 528\\nAncient Horse-block Singing Musical Society, 530\\nBaptisms Visiting Amusements Raisings, .533\\nAncient Travel Masting Pork Barrels, 536\\nAncient Pear-tree Old Hay Scales, 538\\nDESCRIPTIVE AND PERSONAL,\\nIN SECTIONS.\\nNo. 1.\\nPHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nRivers Merrimack, Contoocook, Soucook, 540\\nPonds Turkey, Horse-shoe, Long, Little, Turtle, Snow, 542\\nIntervals Dark Plains Up-lands, 543\\nGranite Anecdotes Iron Clay, 544\\nQuadrupeds Birds Reptiles Fishes, 549\\nPruit Ornamental Trees Elms F orest Trees, 549\\nClimate and Temperature, 550", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "TABLE OF CONTENTS. 15\\nNo. 2.\\nBIOGRAPHY,\\nIK THE ORDER OF DECEASE.\\nPAGE.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Eastman, 551-3\\nDr. Ezra Carter, 553\\nBcnjan)iii Rolfe, Esq., 555\\nRev. Timothy Walker Note The Walker House, 556\\nJohn Stevens, 563\\nJacob Sluite, Andrew McMillan, Mother Osgood, Florence McCauley, 5G5-G\\nRev. Israel Evans, 567\\nEphraim Colby, the Wrestler 569\\nSir Benjamin Thompson, or Coimt Eumford, 570\\nSarah, Countess of Kumford, 572\\nHon. John Bradley His Grandfother s Will House, 573\\nJoseph Wheat, the Stage.driver Reuben Abbot, 577\\nHon. Timothy Walker, 579\\nRev. Asa McFarland, D. D., 582\\nNathaniel Haseltine Carter, Esq., 584\\nGeorge Hough, Esq., 587\\nCapt. Richard Ayer, 589\\nJesse Carr Tuttle Jonathan Eastman, Esq., 590\\nStilson Eastman, 591\\nJohn Farmer, Esq., 592\\nCol. William A. Kent, 593\\nPhilip Carrigain, Esq., 596\\nGov. David Lawrence Morril, 598\\nAbiel Chandler, the Donor of Dartmouth College, 599\\nGov. Isaac Hill, 600\\nMr. Abel Hutchins, 603\\nNo. 3.\\nECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY,\\nIN THE ORDER OF ORGANIZATION.\\nFirst Congregational Church, 604\\nFriends Meeting Ejuscopal Church, 606\\nMethodist Episcopal Church, 609\\nFirst Baptist Church, 610\\nSecond Congregational, or LTnitarian Church, 612\\nWest Congregational Church, 613\\nSouth Congregational Cimrch, 614\\nEast Congregational Church Universalist Society and Church, 616\\nFreewill Baptist Church, 617\\nPleasant Street Baptist Church, 618\\nChristian Baptists, 619\\nSecond Advent Society, 619\\nBesides the foregoing, there is a Baptist, Congregational and Methodist\\nChurch in Fisherville also a Universalist Society.\\nNO. 4.\\nGENEALOGICAL.\\nHISTORY OR REGISTER OP FAMILIES THAT SETTLED IN CONCORD, MOSTLY\\nPREVIOUS TO 1800, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED IN TWO CLASSES, VIZ.\\nFirst Class, furnished wholly or in part by individuals, 619-701\\nSecond Class, copied from Town Records, 701-17\\n[These names are too numerous to be repeated. Any particular name must be looked for\\nunder the family head.]", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "16 TABLE OF CONTENTS.\\nNo. 5.\\nPROFESSIONAL HISTORY,\\nPAGE,\\nIncluding, (1.) The names of all the Lawyers who are known to have\\npracticed in Concord, arranged in the order of their graduation, or of\\nentering their profession, 718-723\\n(2.) The names of all Physicians who have resided or practiced in\\nConcord, 724-729\\nNo. G.\\nThe names of Graduates at College from Concord, 729-736\\n[As tlio List of Professional Men and Graduates may be easily referred to and examined,\\nit is deemed unnecessary to repeat them, either hero or in the Index of Names.J\\nNo. 7.\\nMiscellaneous Matters, 737-745\\nPrinting, 737 Election Day, 738\\nMinisters who have preached the Election Sermon, 739-40\\nConcord Literary Institution Boating Company, 740-41\\nFree Bridges Col. Grover s House, 741-42\\nCarriage Manufacture, 742\\nContest about an old Gun, 744\\nIndian remains remarkable discovery, 745\\nNo. 8.\\nDocumentary and Statistical Chapter, 745\\nDocument for Chap. II., (see p. 56,) 745\\nDocuments for Chap. III., IV., V., VI., VIL, VIII., 746-47\\nAct of Incorporation of the Parish of Concord, 747-49\\nNames of Grantees of Rumford, Me., 749-50\\nDocuments for Chap. IX., Prices of Articles, c., 750-51\\nNames of Concord Men in the Revolutionary War, 751-53\\nBounties paid to Soldiers in the Revohitionary War, 753\\nSoldiers killed, or who died in the War, 754\\nSoldiers who lived aiul died in Concord, belonging to other towns, 754\\nDocuincnts for Chap. IX. and X., 755\\nNames of Men from Concord in the War of 1812-15 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Doc. No. 1,\\nChap. XII., p. 347, Doc ts for Chap. XIII., pp. 369, 547, 550, 755\\nCatalogue of Fishes, 56\\nSTATISTICS.\\nMonies raised at different periods, 756\\nRatefor Rev. Mr. Walker s Salary, 1755-6, 757\\nTown Rates for 1778, \u00c2\u00bb8\\nTable of Division of Parsonage Fund, from 1830 to 1853, 760\\nSchool Statistics for 1855, J61\\nSchools and School-masters, 62\\nPost-masters in Concord Military and Field Officers, 763\\nCaptains in Military Companies, ^6-t\\nAdjutants with the rank of Captain, 765\\nTable of Mortality in Concord, 1825 to 1853, 766\\nDeaths by Consumption, J^\\nPersons deceased eighty years of age or upwards, 767-69\\nCriminal Statistics of Concord for the year ending February 1, 1854, 770\\nReport of the Police Justice, 770\\nExtracts from a Diarv kept by Benjamin Kimball, 771-72\\nExtracts from the Meteorological Register, kept by Wm. Prqfecott, M. D., 773\\nThe Dark Dav, Friday, May 19, 1780, 773\\nSnow that fell iii Concord, from September, 1841, to June, 1853, 774\\nErrata Proprietors Records, 774\\nIndex of Names,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "INDIAK HISTORY.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nThe history of the Penacooks, a powerful Indian tribe that\\nformerly occupied this soil, is full of interest. Our sources of\\ninformation concerning them are much more reliable than is\\ncommonly supposed. Some things are merely traditionary\\nothers are authenticated by ancient historians, and by official\\ndocuments on record or on file, both in the Secretary s office of\\nMassachusetts and of New-Hampshire.\\nAt the first settlement of New-England, there were five prin-\\ncipal nations of Indians. 1. The Pequots, of Connecticut; 2.\\nThe Narraganseits, of Rhode-Island 3. The PawhmnaivJcuts,\\nin the south-eastern parts of Massachusetts, including Nantucket\\nand Martha s Vineyard 4. The 3IassacJtusetts, situated about\\nthe Bay and, 5. The Paivtucketts, which, says the historian\\nDaniel Gookin, 1674, was the last great sachemship of Indians.\\nTheir country lieth north and north-east from the Massachusetts,\\nwhose dominion reacheth so far as the English jurisdiction or\\ncolony of the Massachusetts doth now extend and had under\\nthem several other smaller sagamores as the Pennakooks,\\nAgowames, Naamkeeks, Pascataways, Accomintas, and others.\\nThey were a considerable people heretofore, about three thousand\\nmen, and held amity with the people of Massachusetts. But\\nthese were almost totally destroyed by the great sickness that\\nprevailed among the Indians, (about 1612 and 1613,) so that at\\nthis day they are not above two hundred and fifty men, beside\\n2", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "18 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nwomen and cliiklren. This country is now inhabited by the\\nEnghsh, under the government of Massachusetts.\\nThat the Penacooks occupied the soil which is now Concord,\\nall historians and public documents agree. The name itself is\\nthought to indicate the locality for Penacook means, the\\ncrooked place, j having reference to the broad sweeps and wind-\\nings of the Merrimack as it flows through the township. Here,\\nwhen first known by the English, were the head-quarters of the\\nPenacooks, under a powerful chief whose name was Passacona-\\nVVAY, and who extended his dominion over subordinate tribes,\\nalong the river, from the Winnepisslogee to Pawtucket Falls, and\\nas far east as the Squamscots and Piscataquay. J In 1G31, Gov.\\nThomas Dudley, in his letter to Lady Lincoln, estimates the\\nIndians under Passaconaway, along the Merrimack, at four or\\nfive hundred men. On the east side of the river, upon a bluff\\ncalled Sugar Ball, northeast of the main village, and in full\\nview, was an ancient Indian fort. Tradition has so preserved\\nand fixed the identity of this location with Sugar Ball, that it\\nis presumption, at this time, to call it in question. Near the fort,\\na little to the north, is the spot which probably was their ancient\\nburying-ground as a considerable number of human skulls and\\nbones have been dug and ploughed up, or washed away by the\\nrains, and been picked up on the side or at the bottom of the\\nbank.\u00c2\u00a7\\nx\\\\t this fort, according to tradition, there was once a terrible\\nfif ht between the Penacooks and Mohawks. The traditionarv\\n*Gookin s Hist, of Indians. JIass. Hist. Coll., vol. 1, p. 147-9. 1st series.\\nfFroni Pennaqui, (crooked,) and Auke, (place,)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a name strikingly appropriate to their\\nfertile grounds embraced within the folds of the Merrimack at Concord. Hon. C. E.\\nPotter.\\nJ For a more minute notice of Passaconaway, the curious reader is referred to Hon. C. E.\\nPotter s account, in the Farmers Monthly Visitor, vol. 12, No. 2. He there shows that Passa-\\nconaway s name is on the famous Wheelwright Deed of 1729, and which Sir. P. does not\\nbelieve to be a forgery. In the same article Mr. P. adventures the opinion that tl)e Concord\\nIndian fort was on the south side of Sugar Ball intervale\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an opinion whicli wo cannot\\nentertain for a moment, in opposition to clear, unbroken, invariable tradition. The widow\\nof the late Benjamin Kimball, now 88 years of age, who has lived on the said interval moro\\nthan sixty years, points to the north bhilT as the only supposable location of the fort. Ptohert\\nBradley, Esq., of Fryeburg, a native of Concord, now 83 years of age, says, tlie tradition\\nalways and invariably was, that the old Indian fort stood on Sugar Ball,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Sand Blurt on\\nthe east side, nearly opposite his brother Richard s house.\\nSeveral of these skulls and bones arc now in the possession of Hon. Chandler E. Potter,\\nof Manchester, a native of Concord, who has made diligent researches into our Indian history.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE PENACOOKS. 19\\naccount of this fight accords so exactly with what Gookin says\\nof the Mokawks, that its correctness can hardly be questioned.\\nIn his history, 1674, he says These 3Iaquas are given to\\nrapine and spoil they had for several years been in hostility\\nwith our neighbor Indians, as the Massachusetts, Pawtucketts,\\nPennacooks and in truth, they were in time of war so great a\\nterror to all the Indians before named, though ours w^ere far\\nmore in number than they, that the appearance of four or five\\nMaquas in the woods would frighten them from their habitations\\nand cornfields, and seduce many of them to get together in forts\\nby which means they were brought to such straits and poverty\\nthat had it not been for the relief of the English, doubtless many\\nof them had suffered famine. rpj^g Maquas manner\\nis, in the spring of the year, to march forth in parties several\\nways, under a captain, and not above fifty in a troop. And\\nwhen they come near the place that they design to spoil, they\\ntake up some secret place in the woods for their general rendez-\\nvous then they divide themselves into small parties, three, four\\nor five and go and seek their prey. They lie in ambushments\\nby the path-sides in some secure places, and when they see pas-\\nsengers come, they fire upon them with guns and such as they\\nkill or wound, they seize on and pillage, and strip their bodies\\nand then with their knives take off the skin and hair of the scalp\\nof their head, as large as a satin or leather cap and so, leaving\\nthem for dead, they pursue the rest, and take such as they can\\nprisoners, and serve them in the same kind.\\nThe tradition of the bloody battle between the Penacooks and\\nMohawks is substantially this The Mohawks, who had once\\nbeen repulsed by the Penacooks, came with a strong force, and\\nencamped at what is now called Fort Eddy, opposite Sugar Ball,\\non the west side of the river. Thence they watched their prey,\\ndetermined either to starve the Penacooks, by a siege, or to\\ndecoy them out and destroy them.\\nHaving gathered their corn for the season, and stored it in\\nbaskets around the walls of their fort, the Penacooks, with their\\nwomen and children, entered within and bid defiance to their\\nfoes. Frequent skirmishes occurred between individuals of the\\nparties. If the Penacooks went out of the fort, they were sure", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nto be ambushed if a canoe was pushed off from one bank of the\\nriver, others from the opposite side started in pursuit. Some time\\nhad thus passed, and no decisive advantage was gained by either\\nside. The Penacooks dared not adventure a fight in the field,\\nnor the Mohawks to attack the fort.\\nAfter a day or two of apparent cessation from hostihties, a\\nsolitary Mohawk was seen carelessly crossing Sugar Ball plain,\\nsouth of the fort. Caught by the decoy, the Penacooks rushed\\nout in pursuit the Mohawk ran for the river. Band after band\\nfrom the fort joined in the chase, till all were drawn out and\\nscattered on the plain, when the Mohawks, who had secretly\\ncrossed the river above, and by a circuitous route approached in\\nthe rear, suddenly sprung from their hiding-place and took pos-\\nsession of the fort. A shriller war-whoop than their own burst\\non the affrighted Penacooks they turned from the chase of the\\nsolitary Mohawk, and long and bloody was the battle. The\\nPenacooks fought for their wives and children for their old men\\nfor their corn for life itself; the Mohawks for revenge and\\nfor plunder. On which side the victory turned, none can tell.\\nTradition says the Mohawks left their dead and wounded on the\\nground and that from that fatal day the already reduced force\\nof the Penacooks was broken into fragments, and scattered. A\\ndiversity in the sculls which have been dug up in the ancient bury-\\ning-ground has induced the belief, that in it the dead of both the\\nsavage tribes were promiscuously buried.\\nWhat remains to be said of the Penacooks can best be nar-\\nrated in connection with the biography of their principal chiefs\\nor sagamores, as gathered from authentic historical documents.\\nOver the track of the Concord and the Northern Railroad, at\\nthis time, (1853,) are daily seen running three powerful engines,\\nnamed Passaconaway, Wonalancet and Tahanto. A stran-\\nger to our history reads these names with wonder, and asks their\\norigin. We are almost proud to answer. They are the names of\\nthree of the noble chiefs of the Penacook tribe tried friends of\\nthe English in prosperity and in adversity and one of them a\\nbold advocate of temperance, against lawless traffickers in rum.\\nThese names are almost the only visible mementos of the race\\nthat has perished from our soil.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "PASSACONAWAY.\\nThis name is supposed to mean in the Indian tongue, the\\ncJdld of the hear^ from Papoeis, child, and Kunnaivay, a bear.\\nHow far the name corresponds with the character of the famous\\nsagamore, must be judged by the sequel.*\\nThe ancient historians, Wood, Thomas Morton, and Hub-\\nbard, all agree that he was regarded with the highest venera-\\ntion by the Indians, on account of the wonderful powers which\\nhe possessed. He was a Poivoiv, sustaining at once the office of\\nchief, priest and physician, and having direct communication\\nwith the Great Spirit. Wood, in his New-England Prospect,\\nsays The Indians report of one Passaconnaw, that hee can\\nmake the water burne, the rocks move, the trees dance, meta-\\nmorphise himself into a flaming man. Hee will do more for in\\nwinter, when there arc no green leaves to be got, he will burne an\\nold one to ashes, and putting those into the water, produce a new\\ngreen leaf, which you shall not only see, but substantially handle\\nand Carrie away and make of a dead snake s skin a living\\nsnake, both to be seen, felt and heard. This I write but upon\\nthe report of the Indians, who confidently afiirm stranger things.\\nThomas Morton writes If we do not judge amisse of these\\nsalvages in accounting them witches, yet out of all question we\\nmay be bound to conclude them to be but weake witches such\\nof them as wee cal by the name of Powahs,t some correspon-\\ndency they have with the Devil, out of al doubts, as by some of\\ntheir accions in which they glory is manifested Papasiquineo,\\nHon. C. E. Potter, on Indian names. Farmers Visitor, (Language of Penacooks,) Vol.\\n13, No. 11.\\nt Powahs are said to be witches, or sorcerers, tl)at cure by the lielp of the devil. After\\nRev. Mr. Elliot began to preach to the Indians with success, divers sachems and other\\nprincipal men amongst them, met at Concord, Ms., in the end of Feb. 1G46, and agreed that\\nthere shall be no more Potmcoicmg amongst the Indians. And if any shall hereafter Powwow,\\nboth he Ihat shall Powwow and lie that shall procure him to Powwow shall pay 20^-. apiece.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "^2 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nthat sachem or sagamore, is a Powah of great estimation amongst\\nall kinde of salvages there hee is at their Revels (which is\\nthe time when a great company of salvages meete from severall\\nparts of the Country, in amity with their neighbours) hath\\nadvanced his honor in his feats or jugling tricks, (as I may right\\ntearme them,) to the admiration of the spectators whome he\\nendeavored to persuade that he would goo under water to the\\nfurther side of a river too broade for any man to undertake with\\na breath, which thing hee performed by swimming over and de-\\nluding the company with casting a mist before their eies that see\\nhim enter in and come out, but no part of the way hoc has been\\nscene likewise by our English, in the heat of summer, to make\\nIce appear in a bowle of faire water first having the water set\\nbefore him, he hath begunne his incantations according to their\\nusual accustom, and before the same has bin ended a thick cloAvde\\nhas darkened the aire, and on a sodane a thunder clap hath bin\\nheard that has amused the natives in an instant hee hath showed\\na firme piece of Ice to flote in the middle of the bowle in the\\npresence of the vulgar people, which doubtless was done by the\\nagihty of Satan, his consort. Such was the reputation of Pas-\\nsaconaway, when first known by the English.\\nHe seems to have exercised his powers in vain against the\\nEnglish, on his first acquaintance with them at least, he had the\\nsagacity to perceive that opposition would be not only useless but\\nruinous and hence he showed himself friendly, and sought in\\nvarious ways to conciliate their favor. In 1632, he delivered up\\nan Indian who had killed a white man by the name of Jenkins,\\nwho went into his country to trade. In 1642, upon an alarm of\\nan Indian conspiracy from Connecticut, the government of Mas-\\nsachusetts sent a force of forty men to disarm Passaconaway.\\nFailing to reach his wigwam, on account of a violent rain, they\\nentered that of Wonalancet, his son, and seized him, together with\\nhis squaw and child. Tying him with a rope, thej^ led him along\\nbut Wonalancet, watching his opportunity, slipped the rope and\\nmade his escape into the woods. The court fearing that this\\nrmjust assault upon the family of Passaconaway would provoke\\nhis displeasure, sent a messenger to apologize to him and invite\\nhim to come to Boston and speak with them whereupon he", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE PENACOOKS TASSACONAWAY. 23\\nmade the manly reply Tell the English, when they restore my\\nson and his squaw, then I will come and talk with them.\\nNotwithstanding this provocation, Passaconaway cherished no\\nresentment but desirous of peace, about a fortnight after, he\\nsent his son and delivered up his guns to the authorities. In\\n1G44, Winthrop says, Passaconaway and his son desire to come\\nunder this government. He and one of his sons subscribe the\\narticles and he undertook for the other. Soon after this,\\nWinthrop again records, Passaconaway, the Merrimack sachem,\\ncame in and submitted to our government.\\nAt this period Passaconaway was an old man his age vari-\\nously estimated from eighty to one hundred. Hitherto he had\\nstood aloof from Christian instruction, and from all the usages of\\ncivilized life. But the famous John Elliot, known as the\\nApostle of the Indians, had previous to this gathered companies\\nof praying Indians in various places in Massachusetts, and in\\npursuance of his apostolic labors, in 1G47, he visited Pawtucket\\nFalls, (now Dracut,) where he met Passaconaway with two of his\\nsons. The result of this and a subsequent interview in 1648, is\\nthus told by Elliot himself, under date of Nov. 12, 1648. This\\nlast spring I did there meet old Papassaconnaway, who is a great\\nsagamore, and hath been a great witche in all men s esteem, (as\\nI suppose yourself have often heard,) and a. very politic, wise\\nman. The last year he and all his sons fled when I came, pre-\\ntending feare that we would kill him But this year it pleased\\nGod to bow his heart to hear the word I preached out of Mal-\\nachi 1 11, which I thus render to them: \u00e2\u0096\u00a0From the rising of\\nthe sun to the going down of the same, thy name shall be great\\namong the Indians and in every place prayers shall be made to\\nthy name, pure prayers, for thy name shall be great among the\\nIndians. ^fter a good space this old Papassacon-\\nnaway speak to this purpose That indeed he had never prayed\\nunto God as yet, for he had never heard of God before as now\\nhe doth and he said further, that he did believe what I taught\\nthem to be true and for his own part, he was purposed in his\\nheart from henceforth to pray unto God and that he would per-\\nswade all his sonnes to do the same, pointing at two of them who\\nwere there present, and naming such as were absent. His sonnes", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "24 INDIAN HISTORY.\\npresent, especially his eldest sonne, (who is a sachem at Wad-\\nchusett,) gave his wilHng consent to what his father had prom-\\nised, and so did the other, who was but a youth And this act\\nof his was not only a present motion that soon vanished, but a\\ngood while after said that he would be glad if I would come and\\nlive in some place thereabouts and teach them and that if any\\ngood ground or place that hee had would be acceptable to me, he\\nwould willingly let me have it.\\nAgain, 1649, Elliot writes Papassaconnaway, whom I men-\\ntioned unto you the last yeere, who gave up himself and his\\nsonnes to pray unto God, this man did this year shew very great\\naffection to me, and to the word of God he did exceedingl}-\\nearnestly, importunately, invite me to come and live there and\\nteach them he used many arguments, many whereof I have for-\\ngotten but this was one, that my coming tJdtJier hut once in a\\nyeere did them hut little good, hecause they soone had forgotten\\nwhat I taught, it heing so seldom, and so long hetwixt the times\\nfurther he said, That he had many men, and of them many\\nnought, and would not believe Jdm that praying to God was so\\ngood, but if /would come and teach them, he hoped they would\\nbelieve me He further added, That I did, as if one should\\ncome and throw a fine thing among them, and they earnestly\\ncatch at it, and like it well, because it looks finely, but they can-\\nnot look into it to see what is within it, and what is within, they\\ncannot tell whether something or nothing, it may be a stock or a\\nstone is within it, or it may be a precious thing but if it be\\nopened and they see what is within it, and see it precious, then\\nthey should believe it so, (said he,) you tell us of praying to\\nGod, (for so they call all Keligion,) and we like it well at first\\nsight, and we know not what is within, it may be excellent, or it\\nmay be nothing, we cannot tell but if j^ou would come unto us,\\nand open it unto us, and show us what it is within, then we\\nshould believe that it is so excellent as you say.\\nSuch elegant arguments as these did he use with much grav-\\nity, wisdome and affection and truly my heart much yearneth\\ntowards them, and I have a great desire to make an Indian\\nTowne that way.\\nOf Passaconaway we hear but little more till 1G60. He", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE PENACOOKS PASSACONAWAY. 25\\nseems to have been at the Penacook fort, ^vhich was visited by\\nMaj. AValdron, of Dover, in 1659 but in 16G0 he met the\\nIndians subject to his authority, with their sachems, at Pawtucket\\nFalls, and there made to them his farewell speech. An English-\\nman was present, probably Daniel Gookin, who was much\\nconversant with Indian affairs along the Merrimack, and who\\nwas a witness of the scene. The substance of the speech, as\\nreported by Hubbard, was this I am now ready to die, and\\nnot likely to see you ever met together any more. I will now\\nleave this word of counsel with you, that you may take heed how\\nyou quarrel with the English for though you may do them much\\nmischief, yet assuredly you will all be destroyed and rooted off\\nthe earth, if you do for I was as much an enemy to the Enghsh\\non their first coming into these parts, as any one whatsoever\\nand I did try all ways and means possible to have destroyed\\nthem at least to have prevented their sitting down here but\\nI could no way effect it, [meaning by his incantations and sorce-\\nries,] therefore I advise you never to contend with the English\\nnor make war with them.\\nWith a freer rendering of this Farewell Speech of the Great\\nSachem, we may imagine that the venerable old man, tremulous\\nwith five score years, stood in a circle of a thousand of his chil-\\ndren and said Hearken to the last words of your dying father\\nI shall meet you no more. The white men are sons of the morn-\\ning, and the sun shines bright above them. In vain I opposed\\ntheir coming vain were my arts to destroy them never make\\nwar upon them sure as you light the fires, the breath of Heaven\\nwill turn the flames to consume you. Listen to my advice. It is\\nthe last I shall ever give you. Remember it, and live\\nIt is a sad conclusion of the noble old chief s history, that two\\nyears after this his tribe reduced and scattered his possessions\\nencroached upon on every side, his physical force abated, and\\nwaiting only to die, he was obliged to petition the General Court\\nof Massachusetts in tliese humiliating terms\\nThe humble request of yr petitionr is that this honord Courte\\nwolde pleas to grante vnto vs a parcell of land for or comforta-\\nable cituation, to be stated for our Injoyment as also for the\\ncomfort of oths after vs as also that this honerd Court wold", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "26 INDIAN HISTOKY.\\npleas to take Into yr serious and grave consideration the condi-\\ntion and also the request of yr pore suplicant, and to a poynte\\ntwo or three persons as a Committee to [assist] sum one or two\\nIndians to vew and determine of some place and to Lay out the\\nsame, not further to trouble this honored Assembly, humbly crav-\\ning an expected answer this present session I shall remain yr\\nhumble servante\\nWherein yu Shall commando\\nBoston, 9 3 mon. 1662.\\nPapissecoxewa.\\nThe order of the Court upon this petition is as follows, viz,\\nIn answer to the petition of Papisseconneway, this Court judg-\\neth it meete to grant to the saide Papisseconneway and his men,\\nor associates about Naticot, above Mr. Brenton s lands, where it\\nis free, a mile and a half on either side Merrimack river in\\nbreadth, three miles on either side in length, provided he nor\\nthey do not alienate any part of this grant without leave and\\nlicense from this Court first obtained.\\nThis grant included two small islands near Thornton s Ferry,\\nnow known as Reed s Islands. The -whole tract afterwards\\nreverted to the government, and was granted in 1729 to John\\nRichardson, Jos. Blanchard, and others.\\nHere, however, probably Passaconaway closed his long and\\neventful life, in weakness and poverty, but a firm friend to the\\nEngUsh, and praying to God. The date of his death is unknown.\\nDrake says, there can be no doubt that he was dead some years\\nbefore Phillip s war. His son Wonalancet was chief of the Pen-\\nacooks in 1669, and his dying charge as this son testified\\nwas Never he enemies to the Emjlish hut love them and love\\ntheir God also, hecause the God of the English ivas the true God,\\nand greater than the Indian gods.\\nPassaconaway left four sons and two daughters, viz. Nana-\\nmocomuck, sachem of the Wachusetts Wonalancet, sachem of\\nthe Penacooks Unanunquoset Nonatomenut a daughter that\\nmarried Nobhow, and a daughter that married the sachem of\\nSaugus.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "WONALANCET.\\nThough Wonalancet was the successor of Passaconaway as\\nsagamore of the Penacooks, yet his history belongs as much to\\nAmoskeag, Chelmsford or Pawtucket as to Concord.* In his\\npacific temper and friendliness to the English, he resembled his\\nfather but his life seems to have been one of trial, disappoint-\\nment and sorrow. He was wronged by the whites distrusted by\\nthe Indians a wanderer in the wilderness, in unknown but re-\\nmote places from Penacook at one time a prisoner at Dover\\nfor many years under the watch and supervision of Col. Tyng,\\nof Chelmsford and at last he died, like his father, in poverty.\\nThe first notice we have of him, as connected with Penacook, is\\nin 1670 He moved to Pawtuckett and built a fort on the\\nheights southeast of the river. Hutchinson thus notices this\\nevent The Penacooks have come down the river and built a\\nfort at Pawtuckett Falls. They tcere opposed to Christianity,\\nand obstinately refused to pray to God. They joined in the\\nexpedition against the Mohawks, and were almost all destroyed.\\nSince that time the Penacooks were several of them become pray-\\ning Indians.\\nIn 1674, AYonalancet embraced the Christian faith. His con-\\nversion was regarded as an event of great importance, of which\\nGookin gives the following account May 5, 1674, Mr. Elliot\\npreached from Matt. 22 1-4, the marriage feast. We met\\nat the wigwam of one called Wonnalancet, about two miles from\\nthe town, near Pawtucket Falls, and bordering on Merrimack\\nriver. This person Wonnalancet is a sober and grave\\nperson, and of years between fifty and sixty. He hath always\\nbeen loving and friendly to the English. ]Many endeavours have\\nbeen used several years to gain this sachem to embrace the\\nSee Hon. C. E. Potter s notice of Wonalancet, in Farmers Visitor, 1852.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nChristian religion but he hath stood ofif from time to time, and\\nnot yielded up himself personally, though for four years past he\\nhath been willing to hear the word of God preached and to keep\\nthe Sabbath. A great reason that hath kept him off, I conceive,\\nhath been the indisposition and averseness of sundry of his chief\\nmen and relations to pray to God yhich he foresaw would\\ndesert him, in case he turned Christian. But at this time. May\\n6, 1674, it pleased God so to influence and overcome his heart,\\nthat it being proposed to him to give his answer concerning pray-\\ning to God, after some deliberation and serious pause, he stood\\nup, and made a speech to this effect\\nSirs, you have been pleased for four years last past, in your\\nabundant love, to apply yourselves particularly unto me and my\\npeople, to exhort, press and persuade us to pray to God. I am\\nvery thankful to you for your pains. I have all my days used to\\npass in an old canoe, (alluding to his frequent custom to pass in\\na canoe upon the river,) and now you exhort me to change, and\\nleave my old canoe, and embark in a neiv canoe, to which I have\\nhitherto been unwilling but now I yield up myself to your\\nadvice, and enter into a new canoe, and do engage to pray to\\nGod hereafter.\\nBrother Elliot was desired to tell this sachem, that it may be,\\nwhile he went in his old canoe, he passed in a quiet stream\\nbut the end thereof was death and destruction to soul and body\\nBut now he went into a new canoe, perhaps he would meet with\\nstorms and trials but yet he should be encouraged to persevere,\\nfor the end of his voyage would be everlasting rest. Since\\nthat time, says Gookin, I hear this sachem doth persevere, and\\nis a constant and diligent hearer of God s word, and sanctifieth\\nthe Sabbath, though he doth travel to Wamesit meeting every\\nSabbath, which is above two miles and though sundry of his\\npeople have deserted him since he subjected to the gospel, yet\\nhe continues and persists.\\nDuring the period of Phillip s War, as it is called, 1675, Won-\\nalancet, to avoid being involved in any way in the war, withdrew\\nwith his men from the banks of the Merrimack into the woods,\\nwhich excited the suspicions of the English and messengers\\nwere dispatched to search him out and invite him back. The", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE PENACOOKS WONALANCET. 29\\nCourt of Massachusetts assured him of a safe pass, if he would\\ncome back but he could not be persuaded on to return, but\\ntravelled up into the woods still further, and kept about the\\nheads of Connecticut river all winter, w^here was a place of good\\nhunting for moose, deer, and other wild beasts, and came not\\neither to the English, or his own countrymen, our enemies.\\nGookin says, that about the time Wonalancet withdrew into\\nthe woods, Capt. Mosely, with a company of about one hundred\\nsoldiers, was sent to Penacook, where it was reported there was\\na body of Indians but it was a mistake, for there were not\\nabove one hundred in all of the Penacook and Namkeg Indians,\\nwhereof Wonalancet was chief. When the English drew nigh,\\nwhereof they had intelligence by scouts, they left their fort and\\nwithdrew into the woods and swamps. But under these circum-\\nstances Wonalancet evinced his friendly disposition to the Eng-\\nlish for he would not allow his men either to lie in ambush,\\nnor in any case to shoot at them, although the English burned\\ntheir wigwams and destroyed some dried fish.\\nReturning from his retreats, in 1676 he went to Dover, and\\nsubmitted himself, with his men, to Maj. Waldron. He also\\nbrought back from captivity six English captives a Widow\\nKimball and her five children, of Bradford whom, it seems, he\\nwas the means of saving alive, after they had been condemned\\nto death, and fires made ready to burn them. This year, also,\\nWonalancet and his men were, according to order of the court,\\nplaced near Mr. Jonathan Tyng s, at Dunstable, and under his\\ninspection. He also resided next 3^ear awhile on land which had\\nbeen granted him, at Chelmsford, and there he conducted him-\\nself, says Gookin, like an honest Chi istian man, being one that\\nin his conversation walks answerably to his knowledge. He\\nprays in his family, and is careful of keeping the Sabbath loves\\nto hear God s word, and sober in conversation. Being par-\\nticularly friendly to the minister of Chelmsford, Rev. Mr. Fiske,\\nit is said that Wonalancet called on him after his return, at the\\nclose of the war, and asked him if the town had suffered much\\nfrom the enemy. Mr. Fiske replied, they had not, for which\\nhe desired to thank God. Jie next^ said Wonalancet, \\\\Yith a\\nsmile, concious of the influence he had exerted.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nThe last wc hear of Wonalancet was in 1697, when he was\\nagain pLicecI under the care of Jonathan Tjng, and the General\\nCourt allowed \u00c2\u00a320 for keeping him. The time and place of his\\ndeath is unknown. But he never committed an act injurious to\\nthe English.\\nWANUCHUS,\\nTHE DAUGHTER OF PASS AC ON A VV AY OR,\\nTHE BRIDAL OF PENACOOK.\\nThe following story is related by Thomas Morton, in his New\\nEnglish Canaan, 1632:*\\nThe Sachem, or Sagamore of Sagus, made choise, (when\\nhee came to man s estate,) of a Lady of noble discent, Daughter\\nto Papasiquineo, the Sachem or Sagamore of the territories neare\\nMerrimack River a man of the best note and estimation in all\\nthose parts, (and as my Countryman, Mr. Wood, declares, in his\\nprospect,) a great Nigromancer. This Lady the younge Sachem,\\nwith the consent and good liking of her father, marries, and\\ntakes for his wife. Great Entertainment hee and his receaved\\nin those parts at her father s hands, where they weare fested in\\nthe best manner that might be expected, according to the Cus-\\ntome of their nation, with reveling, and such other solemnities as\\nis usuall amongst them. The solemnity being ended, Papasi-\\nquineo causes a selected number of his men to waite upon bis\\nDaughter home into those parts that did properly belong to her\\nLord and husband where the attendants had entertainment by\\nthe Sachem of Sagus and his Countrymen. The solemnity being\\nended, the attendants were gratified.\\n*See Hist. Tracts, by Peter Force, vol, ii., 1838,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE BRIDAL OF PENACOOK. 31\\nNot long after, the new married Lady had a great desh-e to\\nsee her father, and her native country from whence shee came.\\nHer Lord, wilUng to pleasure her, and not deny her request,\\n(amongst them) thought to be reasonable, commanded a selected\\nnumber of his owne men to conduct his Lady to her Father,\\nwhere, with great respect, they brought her and having feasted\\nthere a while, returned to their owne country againe leaving\\nthe Lady to continue there at her owne pleasure, amongst her\\nfriends and old acquaintance where she passed away the time\\nfor a while, and, in the end, desired to returne to her Lord\\nagaine. Her father, the old Papasiquineo, having notice of her\\nintent, sent some of his men on ambassage to the younge Sa-\\nchem, his sonne-in-law, to let him understand that his daughter\\nwas not willing to absent her selfe from his company any longer\\nand, therefore, (as the messengers had in charge,) desired the\\nyounge Lord to send a convoy for her but hee, standing upon\\ntearmes of honor, and the maintaining of his rejmtatio, returned\\nto his father-in-law this answere that when she departed from\\nhim, hee caused his men to waite upon her to her father s terri-\\ntories, as it did become him but, now shee had an intent to\\nreturne, it did become her father to send her back with a convoy\\nof his own people and that it stood not with his reputation to\\nmake himself or his men so servile to fetch her againe. The old\\nSachem, Papasiquineo, having this message returned, was in-\\nraged, to think that his young son-in-law did not esteeme him at\\na higher rate than to capitulate with him about the matter, and\\nreturne him this sharpe reply that his daughter s bloud and\\nbirth deserved no more respect than to be so slighted, and,\\ntherefore, if he would have her company, hee were best to send\\nor come for her.\\nThe younge Sachem, not willing to under value him selfe,\\nand being a man of a stout spirit, did not stick to say that he\\nshould either send her, by his owne Convey, or kecpe her, for\\nhee was not determined to stoope so lowe.\\nSo much these two Sachems stood upon tearmes of repu-\\ntation with each other, the one would not send her, and the other\\nwould not send for her, lest it should be any diminishing of honor\\non his part, that should seeme to comply, that the Lady (when I", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32 INDIAN HISTORY.\\ncame out of the Country) remained still with her father which\\nis a thinge worth the noting, that Salvage people should seeke to\\nmaiataine their reputation so much as they doe.\\nThe poet Whittier has made the above story the foundation of\\na beautiful poem, called the Bridal of Penacook, whom he\\nnames Weetamoo and the Sagamore-groom he calls Win-\\nnipurkett. The real name of the bride was WenucJius, or\\nWanunchus, and of her husband, Montowampate. His English\\nname was James^ brother of John, of Lynn. Governor Dudley,\\nin his letter to the Countess of Lincoln, March 12, 1631, says\\nVpon the river of Mistick is seated Saggamore John, and vpon\\nthe river Sawgus, Saggamore James, his brother, both so named\\nby the English. John is a handsome young [a line missing,]\\nconversant with us aflFecting English Apparell and howses, and\\nspeaking well of our God. His brother James is of a perworse\\ndisposition, yet repaireth often to us. Both theis brothers com-\\nmand not above thirty or forty men, for aught I can learne.\\nNear to Salem dwelleth two or three families, subject to the\\nSaggamore of Agawam. This Saggamore is himself tributary\\nto Saggamore James having been before the last yeare in his\\n[James minority. This determines the age of the Saugus-\\ngroom to be about twenty.\\nHow long his bride was absent, or how she got back, is\\nmatter of conjecture. Whittier, with poetic license, represents\\nher as leaving her father s home at Penacook in the spring,\\nalone, in a canoe. She was seen going over the Falls of Amos-\\nkeag, where her frail bark was dashed in pieces, and the bride\\nseen no more.\\nSick and a-weaiy of her lonely life,\\nHeedless of peril, the still faithful wife\\nHad left her mother s grave, her father s door,\\nTo seek the wigwam of her chief once more.\\nDown the white rapids, like a sear leaf whirled,\\nOn the sharp rocks and piled up ices hurled,\\nEmpty and broken circled the canoe.\\nIn the vexed pool below But where was Wetamoo V\\n*See New English Canaan, by Thomas Morton, 1632, in second volume of Tracts, by\\nPeter Force, 1838, pp. 27, 28.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE BRIDAL OF PENACOOK. 33\\nThen follo^YS the responsive dirge, chanted by the Chikireu\\nof the Leaves\\nThe dark eye has left us,\\nThe spring bird has flowu\\nOn the pathway of spirits\\nShe wanders alone\\nThe song of the wood-dove has died on our shore\\nMat wonck Kunna-monee We hear it no more\\nOh, dark water spirit\\nWe cast on thy wave\\nThese furs which may never\\nHang over her grave\\nBear down to the lost one the robes that she wore\\n31at iconck Kunna-monee We see her no more\\nOh mighty Sowanna t\\nThy gate-ways unfold,\\nFrom thy wigwam of sunset\\nLift curtains of gold\\nTake home the worn spirit whose journey is o er,\\nMat wonck Kunna-monee! We see her no more\\nThis is indeed beautifal poetry; but the fact is, that We-\\ntamoo, alias WanueJms, found means to get back alive to her\\nsagamore lord. The remaining incidents in her history, and that\\nof her husband, James, are thus related by ancient historians\\nOn the 8th of August, 1632, about one hundred Tarrotines\\nlanded from their canoes, at Ipswich, in the night, and killed\\nseven of Masconomo s men, wounded Monohaquaham and 3Ion-\\ntowampate, who were on a visit to that place, and carried away\\nWanuchus^ the wife of Montowampate, a captive. Hubbard\\nsays About the same time, [5th of August, 1632,] came a\\ncompany of Eastern Indians, called Tarrotines, and, in the\\nnight, assaulted the wigwam of the sagamore of Agawam.\\nThey were near a hundred in number, and they came with\\nthirty canoes. They slew seven men, and wounded John and\\nJames, two sagamores that lived about Boston, and carried others\\naway captive, amongst whom was the wife of the said James,\\nwhich they sent again (that is, returned,) by the mediation\\nof Mr. Shurd, of Pemaquid, that used to trade with them and\\nIndian phrase Wc shall sec her no more, f The south-west Heaven.\\n3", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nsent word by him that they expected something in way of ran-\\nsom. On the 4th of September following, there is recorded a\\nsentence of the court on Richard Hopkins, of Watertown, for\\nselling a gun and pistol, with powder and shot, to Montowampate,\\nthe Lynn sagamore to be severely whippt, and branded\\nwnth a hot iron on one of his cheekes. Winthrop writes, De-\\ncember 5, 1633 John Sagamore died of the small-pox, and\\nalmost all his people above thirty buried by Mr. Maverick, of\\nWiniscemit, in one day. James, Sagamore of Saugus, died\\nalso, and most of his folks.\\nBut what finally became of Wanuchus, the Bridal of Pena-\\ncook It is unknown but possibly, after the death of Mono-\\nwampate, in 1633, she returned to her aged father for that she\\nhad two grand-daughters living at Penacook, in 1686, appears\\nfrom the following testimony: September 17, 1686. Thomas\\nGuakusses, alias, Capt. Tom, now living at Wamesit, neare Paw-\\ntucket Falls, aged about seventy-five years, testifieth and saith\\nI know two squaws were living about Pennicooke, one named\\nPahpocksit, and the other s name I do not know and I knew\\nthe grandmother of these squaws, named Wammchus. She was\\na principal proprietor of those lands about Naumkeage, now\\nSalem.\\nTAHANTO.\\nIn the first notice we have of Tahanto, he stands before us\\nthe earnest opposer of the rum traffic. In the summer of 1668\\nan Englishman, by the name of Thomas Dickinson, was mur-\\ndered at Penacook by a drunken Indian. The particulars of the\\nmurder, with the evidence relative thereto, are detailed in official\\npapers published in the third volume of the N. H. Historical\\nCollections. The summary of the afiair is this By virtue of a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2History of Saieni, by Felt.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE PENACOOKS TAHANTO. 35\\nwarrant from Gov. Bellingliam, of Massachusetts, Thomas Hinks-\\nman, with a sufficient aid, the 18th of August, 1668, repaired\\nto the trucking house of Capt. Eichard Walderne, at Penny-\\ncooke, to make enquiry concerning the kilhng of an Englishman\\nat the said trucking house, and, also, of what strong liquors have\\nbeen sold there, and by whom, and when, taking the Indians\\nevidences therefor, about and concerning the same. Among\\nothers examined by Mr. Hinksman, was Tahanto, sagamore,\\nand Pchaungun, sagamore and they say that one Thomas\\nPayne and the Englishman that is slain, sent several Indians to\\ntheir masters, Capt. Walderne s and Mr. Peter Coffin s, to Pis-\\ncataque, who told those Indians that they should bring from them\\nguns, powder, shot and cloth but instead thereof, Capt. Wal-\\nderne, and the said Peter Coffin returned those Indians back to\\nPennycooke, loaded only with cotton cloth and three rundletts of\\nliquors, with which hquors there were at least one hundred of the\\nIndians drunk for one night, one day and one half together in\\nwhich time of their being so drunk, the Examinants say, that all\\nthe Indians went from the trucking house except one, who re-\\nmained there drunk, and who killed the Englishman the other\\nEnglishman being at the same time in the fort.\\nThe Indians who were examined, further testified, that an\\nIndian, hearing the slain Englishman cry out, he swam over the\\nriver, and went to the trucking house, where he found the\\nEnglishman dead and presently after he saw the Indian who\\nkilled the Englishman going towards the fort with his knife\\nbloody in his hand. The murderer being examined why he had\\nkilled the Englishman, said that he was much sorry, and that lie\\nliad not done it had he not been drunk. When told that they must\\nkill him for it, the murderer answered, he was willing to die for it,\\nand that he was much sorry for the death of said Englishman.\\nThe Indians then belonging to the fort held a council Avhat\\nto do with the said murderer, who, after some debate, passed\\nsentence that the said murderer should be shot to death which\\nsentence was accordingly performed the then next ensuing day,\\nabout noon. The said murderer died undauntedly, still saying\\nthat he was much sorry for the Englishman s death.\\nIn further investigations, it was testified by John Page, Kobb.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nParris, Thomas Tarball and Joseph Blond, October 27, 1668,\\nThat going to Pennycooke on or about the month of June\\nlast, and riding to the fort there, they were told that an Eng-\\nlishman was killed by an Indian, and that all the Indians were\\ndrunk, else it had not been done. And further, they testify,\\nThat Tahanto, a sagamore, being afraid that we had hrougltt\\nliquors to sell, desired us, if we had any, that we woidd pour it\\nupon the ground, for it tvould make the Indians all one Divill.\\nIn the sequel it appeared that the chief blame in this mur-\\nderous affair was thrown upon Thomas Payne, who was in Peter\\nCoffin s employ, and upon his associate, Dickinson, who was\\nmurdered. Capt. Walderne cleared himself, upon his oath, of\\nhaving any participation in it but Peter Coffin, who, it seems,\\nwas licensed to trade with the Indians though he must do it\\naccording to law was so far implicated with his man Pajme,\\nthat he confessed his grief for the miscarriage, and more\\nespecially for the dishonor of God therein; and I doe, there-\\nfore, cast myself upon the favor of this honored court, to deal\\nwith mee therein as in pytie they shall see cause. Accordingly\\nthe court, finding that said Coffin hath traded liquors irreg-\\nularly, and contrary to Law, do therefore Judge that he shall\\npay as a fine to the Country the smn of fftg piounds, and all\\ncharges which hath accrued thereby. The next year. May,\\n1669, it appears from the court record that Thomas Pajnie,\\ntrader among the Indians at Pennecook, confessed he sold rum\\nto the Indians said he did this when Thomas Dickinson was\\nkilled by an Indian, and was fined X30.\\nIn honor of Tahanto, for his noble-hearted remonstrance against\\nthe rum trade, a temperance society was formed in Concord, in\\n1835, under the name of Tahantoes, and his fame celebrated in\\nthe following stanzas, written by George Kent, Esq.\\nChieftain of a wasted nation\\nThine no ivords of promise were\\nBut, in hour of dark temptation,\\nThine to do, and thine to dare!\\nWiicn tlic white man, hovering round thee,\\nTempted oft thy feet to stray,\\nIndian shrewdness nobly bound thee\\nTo the straight and nan ow way.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE PENACOOKS KANCAMAGUS. 37\\nWith Jire-ivater when invaded,\\nThine the evil to foresee\\nNature s light alone pervaded\\nMinds tliat ranged the forest free\\nBut shame on thy Christian brother!\\nHe, with light of life endow d,\\nSought, with liquid fire, to smother\\nLife s true light in death s dark shroud.\\nWhen approaching with temptation,\\nThine to see and shun the snare\\nThine to utter, from thy station,\\nPirmly the prevailing prayer\\nWere, of liquor, they the vender,\\nOn the ground at once to pour\\nFor the Indians it would render\\nAll one devil, o er and o er,\\nHonor to the chieftain ever\\nHigh his name by fame enroU d\\nFrom his bright example never\\nBe our own departure told\\nMeet for Pcnacook to rally\\nUnder his tee-total name,\\nWhose resolve, in her fair valley,\\nQuench d the demon s liquid flame\\nKANCAMAGUS.\\nKancamagus, known by the English name John ITogkins, or\\nHawkins, was the last sagamore of the Penacooks. lie was\\na grandson of Passaconawaj, and probably son of Nanamoco-\\nmuck. He is first mentioned in 1685, when some of the Pena-\\ncooks, who had been to Albany, reported, on their return, that\\nthe Mohawks threatened to destroy all the Indians from Narra-\\ngansett to Pechypscot, in Maine. He seems to have possessed\\nsome of the worst traits of Indian character cunning, deceit,\\ntreachery and revenge. Conceiving himself slighted by Gov.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "ob INDIAN HISTORY.\\nCranfield, on his report against the Mohawks, he ever after\\neven amid professions of friendship, and when begging protec-\\ntion cherished a spirit of revenge against the Enghsh. He\\nseems to have acquired some education, and Avas able to write.\\nSome letters, reputed to have been written bj him, are pre-\\nserved;* the first of which the following is a copy, addressed\\nto Gov. Cranfield, of New-Hampshire\\nMay 15, 1685.\\nHonour Governor, my friend,\\nYou my friend I desire your worship and your power, because I\\nhope you can do som great matters this one. I am poor and naked,\\nand I have no man at my place because I afraid allways Mohogs he\\nwill kill me every day and night. If your \\\\yorsbip when please pray\\nhelp me, you no let Mohogs kill me at my place at Malamake river,\\ncalled Pauukkog and Nattukkog, I will submit your worship and\\nyour power. And now I want powder and such alminisbon, shott\\nand guns, because I have forth at my bom, and I plant theare.\\nThis all Indian baud but pray do you consider your humble\\nservant, -r\\nJohn Hogkins.\\n[Signed also by fourteen other Indians.]\\nUnder pretence of fear of the Mohawks, Hogkins removed, in\\nthe fall of the same year, with the Penacooks, to the eastward\\nand soon after, together with the Saco Indians, entered into a\\ntreaty with the Council of New-Hampshire, of mutual aid and\\nprotection against the Mohawks and all other enemies, agreeing,\\nalso, to return and live near the English. Yet, with the old\\npoison of revenge rankling in his bosom, he entered into a con-\\nspiracy with other Indians, in 1689, to make the attack on Dover,\\nwhich ended in the death of Maj. Waldron and about twenty\\nothers. Through the friendship of tAvo Pcnacook Indians, Maj.\\nHinksman, of Chelmsford, had notice of this conspiracy, and in-\\nformed the government of Massachusetts, who hastily dispatched\\na letter to Maj. Waldron, giving him warning but unfortunately\\ndetained on the way, it was too late to save him from savage\\nrevenge. In this letter they say there is a report of a gath-\\nering of some Indians in and about Penecooke, with designe of\\nmischiefe to the English. Among the said Indians one Hawkins\\nis said to be a principal designer and that they have a particular\\nSec Apiiciuiix, Belknap s Hi:^t. of N. II., Farmer s ed., vol. i., p. 508.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE PENACOOKS HOPE-HOOD. 39\\nclesigne against yourself and Mr. Peter Coffin, wliicli the Council\\nthought it necessary presently to despatch advice thereof, to give\\nyou notice, that you take care of your own safeguard they\\nintending to betray you on a pretention of trade.\\nNext we hear of Hawkins in a fort on the river Androscoggin,\\nat a place (Pechypscott) which was attacked the 12th of Sep-\\ntember, 1G90, by Maj. Benjamin Church and a body of soldiers,\\nand was taken and burnt. Several Indians were captured,\\namong whom was a brother-in-law of Kancamagus, and a sister\\nof his was slain. On the 29th of November, 1G90, a truce or\\ntreaty of peace was made by the government of IMassachusetts\\nwith the eastern Indian enemy, sagamores, among whom was\\nJohn Hawkins. The sagamores, six in number, covenant,\\npromise and agree for themselves, and all the eastward Indians\\nnow in open hostility with the English from Pennecook, Win-\\nnepesseockeege, Ossipe, Pigwocket, Amoscongin, Pechepscut,\\nKennebeck river to keep the peace, c. This treaty was\\nsigned and sealed, interchangeably, upon the water, in canoes, at\\nSackatehock, (Maine,) when the wind blew and this is the\\nlast we know of Kancamagus\\nHOPE-HOOD,\\nThe name of this Indian is connected with the Penacooks, not\\nas one of the tribe, but as acting with them in hostilities to the\\nEnglish, in 1685, and afterwards. In April, 1689, Col. Bar-\\ntholomew Gidney, of Salem, is instructed by the Council of\\nMassachusetts to dispatch a messenger to Penacook, to ascertain\\nthe number and situation of the Indians there, and to concert\\nmeasures for securing Ho pe-TIood^ and other hostile Indians.\\nHe is described as one of the most bloody warriors of the\\nMass. Hist. Coll., 3(1 series, vol. i., pp. 112-114.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40\\nINDIAN HISTORY.\\nage. A tiger, killing, burning and destroying in every\\nplace where he found the people unguarded, He was killed, in\\n1690, in a fight with an Indian party, which he mistook for\\nhostile Indians, but who were his friends and confederates.\\nAfter this the Penacooks continued to exist as a distinct tribe\\nfor many years, but their power was gone. They are mentioned\\nin Penhallow s Indian Wars, in 1703, in a conference held by\\nGov. Dudley, at Casco, with delegates from several tribes.\\nThose of them who were hostile to the English probably mixed\\nwith the eastern Indians, between whom and the Penacooks was\\na close affinity. As the Governor of Canada had encouraged\\nthe Indians who inhabited the borders of New-England to re-\\nmove to Canada, it is likely that some of them went thither, and\\nwere incorporated with the tribes of St. Francis. But those who\\ncontinued friendly to the English of whom there had always\\nbeen a small number remained here until 1725, and after,\\nand were highly useful to the first inhabitants supplying them\\nwith food in the winter, when almost in a state of starvation.\\nWATTANUMMON.\\nWattanummon is the name of an Indian chief who, at the\\ntime the first settlers came to Penacook, lived in a wigwam on\\nthe knoll or rise of ground on the south side of the brook which\\nis the outlet of Horse-shoe Pond where the Concord and\\nMontreal Railroad now crosses. He was a friendly Indian, and\\nowned the land which lies east of said brook, from its junction\\nwith the Merrimack, westward, to what is called Farnum s Eddy.\\nThis brook and field are called by his name. A tradition is M ell\\npreserved, that soon after Capt. Ebenezer Eastman came hither,\\nin the summer of 1726, he crossed over from the east side with\\nhis men, and began to cut tlie grass on Wattanummon s field:", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE PENACOOKS WATTANUMMON. 41\\nSeeing which, the old Indian went forth with a gun and two of\\nhis sons, to prevent the trespass. As he approached, Eastman\\nand his party ceased their labor and saluted him How do\\nhow do His reply, in broken English, was My land my\\ngrass! No cut! no cut! and drew up his gun. Eastman\\nreplied Yes, this is your land, and your grass. Come, boys,\\nput aside your tools and rest. Sitting down under a shade, the\\nlunch and the bottle were brought forth and offered to the old\\nchief. Won t yon take a drink Yes, yes; me drink!\\nCapt. Eastman drank a little himself, and then offered a cup to\\none of Wattanummon s sons. The old Indian interposed, sajing,\\nHe no drink and taking the cup himself, drank it, exclaim-\\ning Hugh good By this time the old Indian began to be\\nvery generous and friendly and, stretching forth his arms, ex-\\nclaimed My land my grass all mine every thing You\\nmay cut grass all you want After this friendly interchange\\nof property rum for jrass Capt. Eastman and Wattanum-\\nmon hved in peace on opposite sides of the river. What finally\\nbecame of old Wattanummon is unknown.\\nSome interesting facts are related, either of him or another of\\nthe same name, previous to this period. In May, 1689, mention\\nis made of Watanum, one of the chief captains of Wonalancet.\\nIn 1689, March 5th, a company of thirty or forty Indians\\nmade an attack on Andover, and killed five persons; and Col.\\nDudley Bradstreet and family were preserved by the friendly\\ninterference of Waternummon, an Indian who lived at New-\\nbury, In June, 1703, Waternummon is mentioned as one of\\nthe chiefs of Penacook and Pigwacket who was at the conference\\nin Casco.\\nAbout the year 1720, (or 1712?) Capt. Thomas Baker, of\\nNorthampton, Massachusetts, set off with a scouting party of\\nthirty-four men passed up Connecticut river, and crossed the\\nheight of land to Pemigeswasset river. He there discovered a\\nparty of Indians, whose sachem was called Wafernmnmus, whom\\nhe attacked and destroyed. Baker and the sachem levelled and\\ndischarged their guns at each other at the same instant. The\\nball from the Indian s gun grazed Baker s left eye-brow, but did\\nhim no injury. The ball from Baker s gun went through the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "42 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nheart of the sachem. Immediatelj upon being wounded, he\\nleaped four or five feet high and then fell instantly dead. The\\nIndians fled, but Baker and his party pursued and destroyed\\nevery one of them. This aifair took place, it is said, at the\\nconfluence of a small river with the Pemigewasset, (between\\nPlymouth and Campton,) and hence has ever since had the\\nname of Eaker s river. If the above story is correct, the\\nWaternummus above named, said to have been killed in 1720,\\nor earlier, could not be the Wattanummon of Penacook, 1726.\\nIt seems, however, probable that the person mentioned as one\\nof the chief captains of Wonalancet, in 1689, and the one\\nfriendly to Col. Bradstreet, of Andover, was the old sagamore-\\nfarmer who lived, in 1726, on the bank of the s eam, and culti-\\nvated the field that bears his name.*\\nMRS. DUSTIN\\nAt the junction of the Contoocook river with the Merrimack,\\non the north line of Concord, and near where now is the flour-\\nishing village of Fisherville, is an island, known by common\\ntradition as the scene where the captive woman from Haverhill,\\nMrs. Hanxaii Dustin, performed the daring exploit of killing\\nand scalping ten Indians, and making her escape. The Northern\\nRailroad now passes directly across this island, and by many a\\ntraveler it is looked at as an object of strange curiosity. A\\nmonument ought to be erected on the island, to commemorate\\nthe deed of the heroic woman.\\nA part of the history of Mrs. Dustin belongs to Haverhill yet,\\nas the scene of her exploit lies chiefly in Penacook, we are re-\\nquired to give it a conspicuous place.\\nThe attack on Haverhill was made by the Indians on the 15th\\n-*See Hon. C. E. Potter s notice in tlic Farmoi s Visitor, Vol. 13, No. 9.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "MRS. DUSTIN. 43\\nof March, 1697. Mrs. Hannah, wife of Mr. Thomas Dustin,\\nwas confined to her bed with an infant child, seven days old, and\\nattended by a nurse, Mary Neff. Hearing the w^ar- whoop of the\\nsavages as they approached, Mr. Dustin ran from the field\\nwhere he was at work, to his house, and ordered his children\\nseven in number to flee while he seized his gun, and finding\\nit impossible to remove his wife and infant, mounted his horse\\nand rode after his children defending them airainst the savages\\nwho were in pursuit. Supposing it impossible to save them all,\\nhis first thought was to catch up one of them even the one that\\nhe loved the most and save that but he was unable to make\\na choice and, keeping in their rear, he retreated and fired,\\nsometimes with fatal effect, till the Indians gave over their\\npursuit.\\nIn the meantime a small party of Indians entered the house,\\ntook Mrs. Dustin and nurse prisoners, and set the house on fire.\\nThe babe was snatched from the arms of the nurse, and its\\nbrains dashed out against an apple tree. Feeble, and with but\\none shoe on, Mrs. Dustin was compelled to travel through\\nthe wilderness, in this inclement season, till they reached\\nthe home of her Indian captors, on the island above named.\\nThe Indians on the island were twelve in number two men,\\nthree women, and seven children and with them an English\\nboy, named Samuel Lannardson, who was taken prisoner about\\na year before at Worcester.\\nAfter a few days the women were informed by the Indians\\nthat they would soon start for a distant settlement, and when\\nthey arrived there would be obliged to submit to Indian customs\\nof which one was to run the gauntlet, naked, between two\\nfiles of Indians. On learning this, Mrs. Dustin formed her\\ndeadly plan. She told the boy Lannardson to ask his master\\nivhere he would strike a man if he wished to kill him instantly,\\nand hoiv he would take off a scalp. The Indian laid his finger\\non his temple Strike em there, said he; and then in-\\nstructed the boy how to scalp. Engaging the nurse and the\\nboy in her plot, they waited the midnight hour for executing it.\\nWith tomahawks in hand they struck the fatal blows on the\\nheads of the Indians as they lay fast asleep. Ten were killed at", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44\\nINDIAN HISTORY.\\nonce. Mrs. Dustin killed her master, and Samuel Lannardson\\ndespatched the very Indian who told him where to strike and\\nhow to take oif a scalp. A favorite Indian boy was spared, and\\none of the squaws whom they left for dead, jumped up and ran\\ninto the thicket. Mrs. Dustin, gathering up what provisions\\nthere were in the wigwam taking the gun of her dead master,\\nand the tomahawk with which she killed him, and, to prevent\\npursuit, scuttling the Indian canoes, except one she embarked\\nin that, with the nurse and boy Lannardson, on the waters of the\\nMerrimack, to seek their way to Haverhill. They had not pro-\\nceeded far, however, when Mrs. Dustin, perceiving that they had\\nneglected to take the scalps, and fearing lest her neighbors\\nshould she ever arrive at her home would not credit her story,\\nhastened back with her companions to the scene of death, took\\noif the scalps of the slain, put them into a bag, and, with these\\nbloody witnesses of their feat, hastened again on their downward\\ncourse to Haverhill. There they safely arrived. On the 21st\\nof April following, Mrs. Dustin and her two attendants went to\\nBoston, carrying, as proofs of their exploit, the gun, tomahawk,\\nand ten scalps, and received as a reward from the General Court,\\nfifty pounds, besides many valuable presents from others.*\\nMr. Dustin s heroism in defending his children has been com-\\nmemorated by Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, editor of the Ladies Mag-\\nazine, in beautiful stanzas, called the Father s Choice.\\nNow fly, as flies the rushing wind\\nUrge, urge thy lagging steed\\nThe savage yell is fierce behind,\\nAnd life is on thy speed.\\nAnd from those dear ones make thy choice\\nThe group he wildly eyed\\nWhen father burst froni every voice,\\nAnd child his heart replied.\\nThere s one that now can share his toil,\\nAnd one he meant for fame\\nAnd one that wears his motlier s smile,\\nAnd one that bears her name.\\n*See a more detailed and very interesting narrative of tlie wliole affair in llerick s- Hist, ol\\nHaverliill.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "MRS. DUSTIN. 45\\nAnd one will prattle on his knee,\\nOr slumber on his breast\\nAnd one whose jojs of infancy\\nAre still bj smiles exi^ressed.\\nThe} feel no fear while he is near\\nHe 11 shield them from the foe\\nBut oh his ear must thrill to hear\\nTheir shriekings should he go.\\nIn vain his quivering lips would speak\\nNo words his thoughts allow;\\nThere s burning tears upon his check,\\nDeath s marble on his brow.\\nAnd twice he smote his clenched hand\\nThen bade his children fly\\nAnd turned, and e en the savage band\\nCower d at his wrathful eye.\\nSwift as the lightning, winged with death,\\nFlashed forth the quivering flame\\nTheir fiercest warrior bows beneath\\nThe father s deadly aim.\\nNot the wild cries that rend the skies,\\nHis heart of purpose move\\nHe saves his children, or he dies\\nThe sacrifice of love.\\nAmbition goads the conqueror on;\\nHate points the murderer s brand\\nBut love and duty, these alone\\nCan nerve the good man s hand.\\nThe hero may resign the field,\\nThe coward murderer flee\\nHe cannot fear, he will not yield,\\nThat strikes, sweet love, for thee.\\nThey come, they come he heeds no cry\\nSave the soft child-like wail,\\nOh, father, save My children, fly\\nWere mingled on the gale.\\nAnd firmer still he drew his breath,\\nAnd sterner flashed his eye,\\nAs fast he hurls the leaden death,\\nStill shouting Children, fly!", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "46 INDIAN HISTORY.\\nNo shadow on his brow appeared,\\nNor tremor shook his frame,\\nSave when at intervals he lieard\\nSome trembler lisp his name.\\nIn vain tlie foe those fiends unchained\\nLike famished tigers chafe\\nThe sheltering roof is near d, is gain d\\nAll, all the dear ones safe\\nIt may here be added that Mrs, Dustin was the daughter of\\nMichael and Hannah Emerson, and the eldest of fifteen children.\\nShe was horn December 2-3, 1657, and married to Thomas\\nDustin December 3, 1677. She had thirteen children. She\\nwas forty years of age when captured by the Indians. Her\\ndescendants of the name of Dnstui, and also her family con-\\nnections of the name of Emerson^ are numerous in New-Hamp-\\nshire. Mr. Thomas Dustin, of Ilennikcr, N. H., a descendant\\nwho has retained the name, is said to have in possession the\\nidentical gun which his heroic maternal ancestor took from her\\nIndian captor.\\nSQUAW LOT.\\nOn the east side of Merrimack river, due west from Federal\\nbridge, and bordering the river, is a lot known as the Squaw\\nlot. The eastern bound a dark stone maybe seen, close\\nto the fence, on the road that runs by the house of Mr. George\\nW. Moulton, and about one hundred paces from said house.\\nThe western bound of the lot a stone is also visible, about\\nforty rods further on the same road. The lot now belongs to\\nthe heirs of the late Jeremiah Pecker, Esq. The tradition\\nrespecting this lot is, that soon after the first settlement of Pen-\\nacook, an Indian chief, named Peorawarrah, enamoured of the\\nwife of another Indian, ran away with her from a settlement", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "squaw lot. 47\\nbelo^y Penacook and passing up the Merrimack In a bark canoe,\\nhad lodged for the niglit on Sewall s Island. Missing his wife,\\nthe Indian, jealous of the cause, with his gun in hand, started in\\npursuit. Assured that he w^as on the track of the guilty pair, he\\nsped his way on foot till near night fall, when he discovered the\\ncanoe, and saw the place of their landing on the island. Secret-\\ning himself In the bushes directly opposite, on the east side of\\nthe river, and near the late residence of Henry S. Thatcher, Esq.,\\nhe Impatiently waited the dawn of morning, to execute his pur-\\npose. At early dawn, Peorawarrah pushed off his canoe, to\\npursue their flight up the river. The revengeful husband\\nwatched his opportunity, and as a current In the river turned\\nthe course of the canoe, the guilty pair were brought within\\nthe range of his deadly aim. He fired, and both were killed\\nfell overboard and sunk. The report of the gun was heard by\\none of the settlers tradition says, Ebenezer Virgin who\\nafterwards met the Indian who had satiated his revenge. The\\nIndian told him what he had done, and said \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Peorawarrah\\nhad good gun: A few days after, the body of the squaw, with\\nthe mark of a bullet shot on it, was found washed up on the\\nshore of the river. It was burled on the adjacent land, and\\never since the lot has been called the Squaw lot.\\nTradition further says that Ebenezer Virgin made search in\\nthe river for Peorawarrah s gun, and found it that at his death\\nthe gun descended to his son John then to his grandson John*\\nfrom whom it was obtained, by exchange for another gun, by\\nJonathan Eastman; Esq., about forty years ago, and is still in his\\npossession, as fit for good service as ever. This gun, bearing\\nmarks of antiquity, identically the same good gun, except\\nthe stock, as when in the hands of Peorawarrah the writer has\\nseen and handled, and has no doubt of the substantial truth of\\nthe tradition. It is carefully kept, though in frequent service,\\nby Esq. Eastman, now seventy-two years of age, and called\\nPeorawarrah s gun. f\\n*This was the Old John Virgin wliose life and death are noticed in another place.\\nt Mr. Eastman informed mo that he intended the gun should go, after his death, to his\\ngrandson, Jonathan Eastman Pecker.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "THE LAST OF THE PENACOOKS.\\nPEHAUNGtJN.\\nTradition says that the last Penacook who died here was\\nnamed Pehaungun, a celebrated warrior, whose wigwam and\\nplanting grounds were on the east side of the river, upon the\\nland afterwards owned and occupied by Stilson Eastman\\nsubsequently, by John Miller; then by the late Mr. Samuel\\nBlake, and now by two of Mr. Blake s sons. Pehaungun is\\nmentioned in connection with Tahanto, at the trial of the Indian\\nfor the murder of Thomas Dickinson, in 1668. He is there\\ncalled an ancient Indian.^ He is supposed to have died about\\n1732, at the advanced age of one hundred and twenty years or\\nmore. The tradition respecting his death is, that the Indians\\nhad a big drunk at his wigwam that they drank from\\nthe bung-hole of a keg of rum. Capt. Eastman, hearing the\\ndrunken revel and outcries, went to see what was going on, and\\nwas invited to drink but, hoisting the keg to his mouth, he let\\nmore run out than ran in; seeing which, Pehaungun threatened\\nto kill him. Capt. Eastman withdrew, and the next morning this\\nancient Indian was found dead. The Indians who partook\\nof the revel feared that the spirit of the old warrior would come\\nback and punish them therefore, in burying him, they placed\\nhis body in a hollow trunk of pine, covered over with a slab\\nbound it round with withes, and, laying it in the ground, threw\\nin dirt, and then stamped it down hard crying out, He no\\nget out he no get up They then stuck up willow boughs\\nabout the grave some at the same time dancing, wailing, howl-\\ning and tearing their hair. The whole ceremony was concluded\\nwith another big drunk, which laid them all low on the\\niiround.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nNOTICES OF PENACOOK PREVIOUS TO ITS SETTLEMENT BY THE\\nWHITES.\\nBy virtue of her original charter, obtained in 1628, Massa-\\nchusetts claimed all that part of New-England lying between\\nthree miles to the northward of Merrimack river, to the source\\nof the same, and three miles to the southward of Charles river\\nand in length, within the described breadth from the Atlantic\\nocean to the South sea. Accordingly, in 1638, men were sent\\nto discover the sources of the Merrimack, and found some part\\nof it above Penacook to lie more northerly than forty-three and\\na half degrees.\\nIn 1652 the General Court of Massachusetts ordered a survey,\\nto ascertain the northern bound of the colony and for this pur-\\npose appointed Captains Edwakd Johnson and Simon Willard\\ncommissioners. Capt. Johnson, accompanied by John Sherman^\\nof Watertown, and Jonathan Ince, of Cambridge, surveyors,\\ntogether with several Indian guides, went up the river Merri-\\nmack, to find the most northerly part thereof, which the Indians\\ntold them was Aquedocktan, the outlet of lake Winnepissiogee.\\nCapt. Johnson was the author of The Wonder- Working Provi-\\ndence of Zion s Saviour. John Sherman was the ancestor of\\nthe distinguished Roger Sherman, of Connecticut; and Jonathan\\nInce was a graduate of Harvard college. The surveyors, on the\\n1st of August, 1652, decided the head source of the Merrimack\\nwhere it issues out of the lake called Winnapusseakit, to be\\nin latitude forty-three degrees, forty minutes and twelve sec-\\nonds, besides those minutes which are to be allowed for the three\\nmiles north which run into the lake. At this point, which is", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "50\\nHISTORY OF PENACOOK\\nnow called the Wea7-es, a rock was discovered, a few years since,\\nwith its surface but little above the water, and about twenty\\nfeet in circumference, on which the following letters were found\\nsculptured\\nEI\\nS W\\nWP lOHN\\nENDICVT\\nGOV\\nCol. Philip Carrigain, of Concord, who carefully examined\\nthese letters in 1834, gives the following explanation: The\\nE I, are the initials of Edward Johnson S W, of Simon Wil-\\nlard the two commissioners. W P are on the same line, and\\nimmediately precede lOHN ENDICVT, and it is not improbable\\nthey stand for worshipful a title often given, in those Puritan-\\nical times, to the governor and magistrates, The surveyors on\\nthis expedition passed through Penacook in a Bote, and occu-\\npied nineteen days; and the whole expense attending it was\\nabout \u00c2\u00a384:*\\nAccoiimpt of Disbursments about Jorney to the head of the iMerriineck\\nIpr. for makeing the Bote Ores, with all the Boards Stutf,\\nfor one man for the Jorney his worke in preparing levall,\\nfor 5 pound of powder 4 pond of shott matcli and Indian flowes,\\nfor 3 yooke of oxen and a horse,\\n[f. to James Prentise for the jorny,\\n01\\n03\\n12\\n11\\n00\\nd.\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n02 17\\n00\\n07 10\\n00\\n00 16\\n00\\n08 06\\n00\\nDaniel De\\nNISON.\\nReseaved in parte of this Accoumpt,\\nIpr. for the Sayles, pieces of Rope two Blockes tlie Bote some\\nRufl c, that were left,\\nRemaynes to me still on tliis Accoumpt,\\nDuo to Good. Bull tor carting\\nSum total due to apt. Johnson,\\n\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abTh9 Deputies consent this bill should be satisfyed to Capt. Johnson.\\nJ\\nThe Deputies consent that Capt. Jolinson be paid for his Jouniey, 13 6 8\\nDaniel Denison.\\nThe Magists. consent liereto. Edward Rawson, Secrct y.\\nConsented to by the deputyes. Wm. Torret, Clerk.\\nTiie Magists. desire these accompts may by the Auditor and the psons concern d drawne\\nput into such a way as may stand on record. Edw. Rawson, Secr ij.\\nIn the other account are cliarged, among otlier things, 6 gal. 3 quarts of liquers 38%\\nlbs. of Bacon; payd one of our pilatts paid two other Indians, and payd for ells in our\\njorny c., c. The whole expense of the expedition could not be less than \u00c2\u00a384 10*. lOd.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "BEFORE SETTLEMENT. 51\\nWhile Massachusetts ^Yas thus fixing the bounds of her colony\\nat the head waters of the Merrimack, the General Court of New-\\nHampshire also had an eye on the same, and claimed that the\\nsaid territory was within their patent and jurisdiction. This\\nclaim of New- Hampshire was founded on a patent obtained by\\nCapt. John Mason, in 1629, under the common seal of the\\nCouncil of Plymouth, which conveyed the land from the\\nmiddle imrt of Merrimack river and from thence, northward,\\nalong the sea coast, to Piscataqua river, and up the same to the\\nfarthest head thereof; and from thence, north-westward, until\\nsixty miles from the first entrance of Piscataqua river and also\\nthrough Merrimack river to the farthest head thereof; and so\\nforward up into the land westward, until sixty miles were fin-\\nished and from thence, to cross over land to the end of the\\nsixty miles accounted from Piscataqua river, together with all\\nislands and islets within five leagues distance of the premises.\\nThis territory was called New-Hampshire. But, owing to the\\nunsettled state of affairs, the towns settled at this period in New-\\nHampshire agreed, for their better defence and security, to place\\nthemselves under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts which con-\\ntinued from 1641 till 1680. Hence, being under one govern-\\nment, in 1659 a petition was presented to the General Court of\\nMassachusetts, by inhabitants of Dover and Newhury, in the\\nwords following\\nTo the Honcrd Generall Coiirte, now assemhlcd at Boston\\nThe humble petecyon of us whose names are underwritten, beinge\\ninhabytants of this jurisdiction, and beinge senseable of the need of\\nmultiplyinge of towneshippes for the inlargeuient of the contrey, and\\naccommodateinge of such as want opportunity to improve themselves,\\nhave taken into consideration a place which is called Peunecooke,\\nwhich by reporte is a place fit for such an one. Now the humble\\nrequest of your petitioners to this honred Courte is, that we may\\nhave the grant of a tracke of land their to the quantity of twelve\\nmiles square, which, being granted, we shall give up ourselves to be\\nat the cost and charge of vewinge it, and consider fully about it,\\nwheather to proceed on for the settlinge of a towne or noe, and for\\nthat end shall crave the liberty of three yeares to give in our reso-\\nlution and, in case that wee doe proceed, then our humble request\\nis, that we may have the grant of our freedome from publique charge\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6See Belknap s Hist., vol. i., p. 39, Farmer s edition.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52\\nHISTORY OF PENACOOK\\nfor the space of seaven yeares after the time of our resolution given\\nin to this Honcrd Courte for our encorragement to settle a plantation\\nsoe furre remote, as knowinge that many will be our inconvenyences\\n(for a long time,) which we must expeckt to meet with, all which\\ndesires of ours beinge ansered, your petetioners shall ever pray for\\nthe happyness of this Honred Courte, and rest your humble pete-\\ntioners.\\nRichard Walderne, John Bayley,\\nVail: Hill, John Cheiuey,\\nPeter Coffin, Nathaniel Weare,\\nJohn X Hird, Robard Coker,\\nWilliar Ffurbur, l ^7\\nRoger Plaisteed, 5\u00c2\u00b0^^^ ^^S^^^\\nEdward Woodman, Edward Richardson,\\nJohn Pike, William Cotton,\\nAbraham Toppan, John Wolcott,\\nBenia Swett, John Bond,\\nGeorge Little, William Titcomb.\\n18 (3) 59 [that is 18^/i 3fai/, 1659.] The Committee do judge\\nmeet that the petitioners be granted a plantation of eight miles\\nsquare, upon condition that at the sessions of the General Court, to\\nbe held in Octo., 1660, they make report to that Court of their reso-\\nlution to p secute the same with a competent no. of meet persons\\nthat will ingage to carry on the work of the said place in all civill\\nand eclesiasticall respects, and that within two years then nest en-\\nsuing there be 20 families there settled. x\\\\lso, that they may have\\nimunity from all publique charges (excepting in cases extraordinary)\\nfor seven yeares next ensuing the date hereof.\\nTho Danforth,\\nEdavard Johnson,\\nEleazar Lusher.\\nThe Deputies approve of the returne of the Committee in answer\\nto this petition, with reference to the consent of the honored magis-\\ntrates thereto. ,-rr m .-\u00c2\u00bb7\\nWilliam Torrey, Glenc,\\n6, 3: 1662 [that is May 6, 1662.] Upon informacon that\\nPenicooke is An Apt place for A Township, and in consideration of\\nthe lord s great blessing upon the countrie in multiplying the inhab-\\nitants and plantations here and that Allmost All such places are\\nAllreadie taken up Tis ordered by this Court, that the lands at\\nPeniecook be reserved for a plantation till so many of such as have\\npetecioned for lands there or of others shall present to settle A plan-\\ntation there.\\nThe Deputies have past the same desiring the consent of the\\nHonob magistrates thereto. -nr m ^t\\nWilliam Torrey, Cleric.\\nMass. Col. Records.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "BEFORE SETTLEMENT. 63\\nIt appears, also, from the records of the Massachusetts colony,\\nthat a petition was presented, in 1G63, by inhabitants of Chelms-\\nford, for the grant of a township at Penacook. In October, 1663,\\nthe court granted the inhabitants of Salem a plantation of six\\nmiles square at Pennicook, if getting twenty families on it within\\nthree years.\\nThe conditions not being fulfilled, the foregoing grants, it\\nwould seem, were forfeited. In June, 1714 fifty-one years\\nafter their first petition the people of Salem again petitioned\\nthat the grant of a plantation of six miles square to them at\\nPennecook, in October, 1663, may be confirmed to them. They\\nstated that since the first was made, they had been embarrassed\\nby Indian wars, and that some of the inhabitants of the town\\nhad erected a trading house at Pennicook forty years since.\\nWhether this trading house was the same as that of Waldron\\nand Coffin, in 1668, is not clear but, from the concurrence in\\nthe dates, most likely it was. One trading house, it is believed,\\nstood on the east side, on or near the farm of Judge Sewall.\\nPETITION FOR PENNYCOOK 1721.\\nTo his Excellency, Samuel Shute, Esq* Caj/- Gen^^ and Govern in\\nChief in and over His Majesty^ s Province of the Massachusetts Bay;\\nand to the Hon^^ the Council and House of Rejjrcsentatives in\\nGen^ Court assonhled, this 31* day of May, Anno Domini 1721.\\nThe Petition of the suhscnhers, Inhabitants of the County of\\nEssex\\nHumbly sheweth, That y^ Petif-^ being straitned for Accommo-\\ndations for themselves and their posterity, have Espied a tract of\\nLand, scituate on the River of Merrymake, (the Great River of the said\\nCountry,) whereon they are desirous to make a Settlement and form\\na Town, if they may obtain the favour and countenance of this\\nGreat and HonWe Court therein Y pete s therefore humbly pray\\nthis Great and Gen Court to grant them, under such Restrictions,\\nand on such Conditions as y Excellency and Honours shall think fit,\\na Tract of Land for a Township, which lies at the lower end of Peu-\\nniecook to beginn three miles to the Eastward of Merrimake River,\\nat the place nearest to the mouth of Conduncook [Coutoocook] River\\nto extend to Merrimake River, and over it, to and up Conduncook\\nRiver, eight miles from thence, to run Southerly seven miles, par-\\nrellel with Merrimake River; and at the End of the s** seven miles,\\nto run directly to the mouth of Sun coot River and then up Sun\\ncoot River till it comes to the distance of three miles from 3Ierri-\\nmake River; and then to, on a Strait Line, to the first mentioned", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "64\\nHISTORY OF PEXACOOK\\nbound and Station Which Tract of Land is Computed to Contain\\nabout the quantity of Eight miles Square, wh^ i Request your peti-\\ntioners are the more Imboldened and necessitated to make, inasmuch\\nas They are informed the Three Townships last Granted are all laid\\nout and Taken up, and They cannot be accomodated in either of\\nthem.\\nAnd y pef^ shall, as in Duty Bound, ever pray.\\nStephen Barker,\\nBis\\nJohn X Granger,\\nSami Phillips,\\nJohn Osgood,\\nTimothy Johnson,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nJoshua Bayley,\\nJames Fales,\\nWilliam White,\\nHis\\nDavid X Kimbel,\\nmark.\\nMoses Day,\\nJohn Hall,\\nni3\\nSam X Runills,\\nJerath Hug,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nJohn Chandler,\\nStephen Abbot,\\nJames Black,\\nBenjamin Stephens,\\nWilliam Marten,\\nStephen Osgood,\\nThomas Bhmchard,\\nEben Lovejoy,\\nThomas Abbot,\\nJohn Wright,\\nJoseph Parker,\\nJames Stephens,\\nJames I3ayley,\\nJohn Astin,\\nSame Kimbel,\\nJona. Chadwick,\\nBenja- Calton,\\nNehemiah Calton,\\nNathaniel Clemens,\\nJohn Mulcekin,\\nSamf* Hazeltine,\\nRich Hall,\\nJames Smith,\\nWilliam Wickar,\\nMatthias Cowdry,\\nTho s Scihegsar,\\nJoseph Work,\\nNicholas White,\\nSam*- White,\\nEben Thornton,\\nJohn Saunders,\\nElezar Crocker,\\nNath Lovejoy,\\nJohn Merrill,\\nSam\u00c2\u00ae Chandler,\\nRobert Kimbell,\\nJob Hiukley,\\nJonathan Clark,\\nJohn Sandars,\\nHenry Wook,\\nBenjamin Gage,\\nHis\\nTim X Hogg,\\nAndrew Allin,\\nDavid Stephens,\\nWilliam Barker,\\nEben Stephens,\\nAnnaniah Barker,\\nJohn Barker,\\nSamel Barker,\\nNathan Barker,\\nJames Parker,\\nJohn Foster,\\nAaron Foster,\\nChristopher Colton,\\nRobard Pesley,\\nDaniel Astin,\\nJohn In gals,\\nJon^ Gage,\\nDan\u00c2\u00ae Jaques,\\nRichard Jaques,\\nWilliam Gutterson,\\nJonathan Rolando\\nZebediah Barker,\\nTho! Page,\\nNathi Page,\\nJohn X Mattis,\\nmark.\\nDavid Cragg,\\nSam Aires,\\nJames Barker,\\nEben Barker,\\nEd. Clark,\\nSamel Clark,\\nSam Granger,\\nJohn Pecker,\\nJohn Loel,\\nWm. Davis,\\nJoseph Davis,\\nNehemiah Heath,\\nSamel Kimbal,\\nAbraham Coole}\\nJohn Goterson,\\nSamel Borbank,\\nAndrew Mitchell,\\nJon J Page,\\nEphraim Farnon,\\nJohn Hastins,\\nSamel Davis,\\nEphraim Davis,\\nNathaniel Morrill,\\nStephen Morill,\\nThol Kiugsbery,\\nJohn Bayley,\\nSame Granger,\\nNathe Sanders,\\nSam Ela,\\nEben-- Gill,\\nBenj^ Smeth,\\nJoseph Page,\\nStephen Emerson,\\nJohn Morden,\\nJon J Corlis,\\nMoses Aboott,\\nJohn Osgood,\\nNathe Peaslev.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "BEFORE SETTLEMENT. 55\\nIn the House of Representatives, June 9 1724.\\nRead and Ordered, that Captain Shipley, Co Buckminster and\\nM^ Winslow, be a Committee to view the said Land, and to make\\ntheir Report y\u00c2\u00ae next Session.\\nCopy Examined per j SecY\\nIn May, 1722, however, a survey was made of Penacook by\\nWilliam Ward and John Jones, according to the direction of\\nthe committee appointed by the Honorable House of Repre-\\nsentatives in y former sessions comprising in the whole\\n69.500 acres of land. The interval land was 2.000 acres.\\nThis survey a copy of which I have from the original plan\\nin the Secretary s office, Massachusetts was as follows\\nThe south line, crossing the Merrimack river at its junction\\nwith Shoo-Brook [Soucook,] was eleven miles, viz. 1530\\nperches east, and 1990 Avest side.\\nThe north line, crossing the Merrimack at the river called\\nContucuk or Conduncook 1450 perches east, and following\\nthe course of the Contucuk west.\\nThe east line, drawn from the eastern terminus of the south\\nline to the eastern of the north line, was ten miles.\\nThe ivest line, drawn from the western terminus of the south\\nline, northerly, till it struck the Contucuk, was 2930 perches, or\\nnine miles and fifty rods.\\nAnother petition was presented June 17, 1725\\nTo the Hon Wm. DuMMER, IJsc/., Lieut. Governor, and Com-\\nmander in Chief in and over His Majesties province of y^ Mas-\\nsachusetts Bay, in New England, to the Hon^^ His Majesties\\nCouncil and House of Representatives in Gen. Court or Assembly\\nconvened at Boston, June 17 1725.\\nThe petition of Benj^ Stephens, Andrew Mitchel, David Kimball,\\nEbenezer Eastman, John Osgood and Moses Da} a Committee\\nappointed by and in behalf of the petitioners formerly for a Tract\\nof Land at a place called Pennycook\\nHumbly sheweth, That whereas y petioners have at two sev\u00c2\u00ae\\ntimes petitioned the Great and Gen^i Court for a grant of the afore-\\nsaid tract of Land at Pennycook, with resolutions fully inclined to\\nmake a speedy settlement there, w they conceive, under the divine\\nprotection, they are able to go on and through with and the Hon\\nHouse of Representatives having been pleased twice so far to take\\ntheir petition under consideration as to grant the prayer under such", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "56 HISTORY OF PENACOOK.\\nconditions as by y\u00c2\u00ae vote of the s** Hon House may more fully ap-\\npear, which conditions, though they be expensive, yet y petitioners\\nhave well weighed the same, and would willingly have undertaken\\nthe settlement, if it had been the pleasure of the Ilon Board to\\nhave concurred in the aforesaid vote. ]^ut as y petitioners are in-\\nformed it did not meet with a concurrence Wherefore, y petitioners\\nare emboldened, with ejreat submission, to renew their pet to y Hon-\\nour, and this Great and Gen Court, that you would please to take\\nthe premises again into y wise and serious consideration and as the\\nbuilding a Fort there will undoubtedly be a great security within and\\non Merrimack River, and y^ your petitioners are still willing to build\\nand maintain it as afore propos d, at their own cost, y^ they may\\nhave the countenance and authority of this Court therefor, and that\\nthey woud pledge to make them a grant of it accordingly.\\nY petif^ wou d also suggest to y Honnours, that many applica-\\ntions have been made to the Government of New Hampshire for a\\ngrant of the s Land, which, though it be the undoubted right and\\nproperty of this Province, yet it is highly probable that a parcel of\\nIrish people* will obtain a grant from New Hampshire for it, unless\\nsome speedy care be taken by this great and Hon Court to prevent\\nit. If that Government should once make y a grant, tho the pef^\\nconceive it wou d be without right, as in the case of Nutfield, yett it\\nwou d be a thing attended with too much difficulty to pretend to root\\ny* out, if they shou d once gett foot hold there. Your petitioners\\ntherefore pray that the vote passed by the Hon** House may be\\nrevived, or that they may have a grant of the Land on such other\\nterms and conditions as to the wisdom of this Court shall seem best.\\nAnd for y Hon as in duty bound, y petitioners shall ever pray, c.\\nBenj Stephens,\\nAndrew Mitchell,\\nDavid Kimbel,\\nEben Eastman,\\nJohn Osgood,\\nMoses Day.\\nIn the House of Representatives, June 17 1725.\\nRead, and the question was put whether the House wou d revive\\ntheir vote above refer d to\\nResolved in the affirmative.\\nCopy examined per j ^r\u00e2\u0080\u009e^j_^^^^\\nIrish people, as they were called, from Nutfield, had already built a fort on tho cast\\nside of the river, as will fully appear in the sequel.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK,\\nThe period had now arrived, in the order of Divine Providence,\\nwhen the territory which had so long been desired and sought for\\na settlement, should become the abode of civilized life when\\nthe wilderness should be made glad, and the desert become\\nvocal with the praises of God. In this chapter we shall narrate\\nall the measures that were adopted for the settlement of the\\nplace, and detail every incident of importance that attended\\nthe enterprise. While, for the general reader, we give a con-\\nnected narrative of events, with original documents, anecdotes\\nand illustrations, we would direct particular attention, also, to\\nthe Records of the Proprietors,* which were kept with great\\naccuracy and care, and which are exactly copied and transferred\\nto the printed page, except, in some cases, the notifications of\\n^PROPRIETORS RECORDS.\\nTHE ORDER OF THE GREAT AND GENERAL COURT.\\nThe committee appointed to consider what is proper for this Court to do on\\nthe petition of Benjamin Stevens and others, are humbly of opinion, that it will\\n1)0 for the interest and advantage of this Province that part of the lands peti-\\ntioned for by the said Benjamin Stevens and company, be assigned and set apart\\nfor a township provided, that the same be done in a good, regular and defensi-\\nble manner, to contain seven miles square, and begin where Contoocook river\\nfalls into Merrimack river, and thence to extend upon a course east seventeen\\ndegrees north three miles, and upon a course west seventeen degrees south four\\nmiles, to be the northerly bounds of the said township and from the extreme\\nparts of that line to be set off southerly at right angles, until seven miles shall\\nbe accomplished from the said north bounds. And that the petitioners may be\\nencouraged and fully empowered to prosecute their intended settlements Or-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "58 THE TLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nmeetings are left out. The records embraced in this chapter\\nextend through the period about seven years that Penacook\\nwas a plantation, and until incorporated into a township. It will\\nbe perceived that the (iates of the records are according to the\\nold sti/Ie, when the year commenced the 25th of March instead\\nof the 1st of January.\\nThe petition of June, 1725, it appears, was successful. On\\nthe 17th of January following the Great and General Court\\ndecided that it will be for the interest and advantage of this\\nProvince, that part of the Lands petitioned for by the said Ben-\\njamin Stevens and Company be assigned and set apart for a\\nTownship provided that the same be done in a good, regular\\nand defensible manner and to contain seven miles square.\\nA committee of nine, of whom the Hon. William Tailer, Esq.,\\nLieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, twenty-seven years, was\\nchairman, and John Wainwright, Esq., clerk, was at the same\\ntime appointed by the court to take special care that the rules\\nand conditions on which the grant was made should be punctually\\nobserved and kept by all such as shall be admitted as settlers\\nparticularly that the land be allotted and divided into one hun-\\ndred and three equal parts and shares, as to quantity and quality,\\nand that one hundred persons or families such only as in the\\njudgment of the committee shall be well able to pursue and bring\\nto pass their several settlements should be admitted. Each\\nsettler to pay five pounds for his lot be obliged to build a good\\nhouse for his family within three years break up and sufficiently\\nfence in six acres of land within the same time that the houses\\nshould be erected within twenty rods of each other, on the home\\nlots, and in a regular and defensible manner and that a con-\\nvenient house for the public worship of God should be completely\\ndered, That the Hon. William Tailer, Esq., Elisha Cooke, Esq., Spencer Phipps,\\nEsq., William Dudley, Esq., John Wainwright, Esq., Capt. John Shipley, Mr.\\nJohn Saunders, Eleazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder, (any five of whom\\nto be a quorum,) be a committee to take special care, that the following- rules\\nand conditions be punctually observed and kept by all such as shall be admitted\\nto bring forward the proposed settlements, namely\\nThat the aforesaid tract of land be allotted and divided into one hundred and\\nthree equal parts and shares, as to quantity and quality and that one hundred\\npersons or fomilies be admitted, such only as in the judgment of the committee", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 59\\nfinished within the three years. The settlers were also to pay\\ntwenty shillings each for the privilege of admittance, and to\\ndefray the whole expense of cutting a road through the wilder-\\nness to the plantation of laying out the land into lots by sur-\\nveyors and chainmen, and also the charges of the committee\\nof the Great and General Court. The remainino; three rishts\\nwere reserved one for the first settled minister one for a par-\\nsonage, and one for the use of the school forever.\\nThe grant of the township being made, the next object was to\\nbegin and carry forward the settlement safely, but as expedi-\\ntiously as possible. Accordingly, on the 2d of February, 1725,\\nthe committee of the General Court met at the house of Mr.\\nEbenezer Eastman, in Haverhill, for the purpose of admitting\\nsettlers. In this matter they proceeded with great care and\\ncaution. Persons were not admitted merely because they had\\npetitioned for it but the committee inquired into their character\\nand their ability to fulfil the conditions. To aid them in this\\nthey officially invited some of the principal inhabitants of the\\ntowns to which the generality of the petitioners belonged, to\\nattend and give the committee information of the circumstances\\nof the petitioners and others, in order to the admitting of such\\nas shall be thought most suitable After such careful inquiry\\nand examination, the requisite number one hundred was\\nadmitted. Among this number, as appears in the list on record,\\nwere the Rev. Samuel Phillips, of Andover, Rev. Bezaleel Top-\\npan, son of Rev. Christopher Toppan, of Newbury, and Rev.\\nEnoch Coffin, then a young preacher, also of Newbury. The\\nshall be well able to pursue and bring to pass their several settlements on the\\nsaid lands within the space of three years at fiirthcst from the first day of June\\nnext That each and every intended settler to wliom a lot, M ith the rights and\\nprivileges thereto belonging, shall be assigned, shall pay into the hands of the\\ncommittee, for the use of the Province, at the time of drawing his lot, the sum\\nof five pounds, and be obliged to build a good dwelling-house, fit comfortably to\\nreceive and entertain a family who shall inhabit the same and also break up\\nand sufficiently fence in six acres of land for their home lot, Avithin the term\\naforesaid And that the first fifty settlements shall be begun and perfected upon\\nthe eastern side of said river Merrimack, and the several houses shall be erected\\non their home lots not above twenty rods the one from the other, where the land\\nwill possibly admit thereof, in the most regular and defensible manner, the com-\\nmittee, in their best prudence, can project and order the houses and home lots", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "60 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nfollowing letters from Rev. Mr. Toppan and Rev. Mr. Phillips\\nwill evince the deep interest which was felt in respect to the\\nadmission of settlers.\\nLETTER OF REV. CHRISTOPHER TOPPAN, OF NEWBURY.\\nNewb: Febr: 2, 1726.\\nMay it please your Honors\\nIt was my design to have waited on your Honours and the other\\nGentlemen appointed to be a Committee for Granting Lotts at Penny-\\nCooke, but being at present bodily Indisposed, durst not venture so\\nfar from home, have thei efore sent my Sons to wait on you, and, in\\nmy name, to Request y* you d be pleased to Grant me or them a\\nLott amongst the Rest, and the Conditions of y^ Grant shall be per-\\nformed by my Self or them. And if your Honours would give\\nme leave, I mention a few things relating to the Affair now before\\nyou, as\\n1. That it seems Just y Consideration be had to one Town as well\\nas another, and that there be some Proportion, in that respect, as to\\nthe Number of Persons in each that the Lotts are granted to.\\n2. That those who have at any time before had Lotts allowed them\\nin any JNcw Township, should be excluded now.\\n3. That the Persons to whom the Lotts are granted be obliged [if\\nit may be] to keep their Lotts and not sell y to others, at least not\\nwithout the leave of the maj part of the Society to whom the rest of\\ny\u00c2\u00ae Lotts belong. Some, no doubt, will desire Lotts under no other\\nview than to make gain by Selling of y afterwards, [and tis pitty\\nsuch should have any.] Besides, if the Lotts should be presently\\nbought and sold, it will be likely some of y\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 at least may fall into\\nthe hands of Persons very iindesirable for the first Settlement of a\\nplace.\\n4. That the Persons to whom the Lotts are granted be obliged, at\\ntheir first Settling on the place, to build a Garrison or Block-House\\nfor their defence, and so live as near it as with Convenience may be\\nfor it will be very unsafe at first for enny oue to build and dwell on\\nhis own Lott. This will too much expose y to y^ Indians, in whom\\nlittle trust is at any time to be putt besides, we may expect they 1\\non each side of the river to be alike snhjected unto the above-mentioned condi-\\ntions. That a convenient house for tlie public worship of God be completely\\nfinished witliin the term aforesaid, for the accommodation of all such as shall\\ninhabit the aforesaid tract of land, upon such part thereof as shall be agreed\\nupon by the aforesaid Committee, for the ease of the community; and that there\\nshall be reserved, allotted, and laid out to the first minister that shall be lawfully\\nsettled among them, one full right, share, and proportion of and in the aforesaid\\ntract of land, with all rights and privileges thereto belonging his house lot to\\nbe laid out next adjoining to the land whereon the meeting-house shall stand.\\nOne other full right, share, and proportion of and in the aforesaid tract of land,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 61\\nnot a little resent it, when yy come to understand that we are Settling\\nupon a former noted Settlement of theirs.\\n5. That in case the Tract of Land at Penny-Cooke [the Settlement\\nwhereof is Designed] was formerly purchased of y* Indians [as I have\\nheard it was, tho I know not by whom,] it seems hut Just that He\\nor They so purchasing, should have reasonable allowance made y out\\nof the Lotts that shall be granted, as shall be to their satisfoction\\nfor that Kight I take to be the best in y^ Eye of Concience, what\\never it be in the Eye of the Law; besides, I know not how the Title\\ncan fairly be Justifyed against the Indians, if at any time they should\\ndemand it, but under the consideration of a former purchase.\\nMany other things might have been added, but tis not for me to\\ndirect your Honours. Begging therefore pardon, for my boldness in\\noffering what I have, I take leave, so Subscribe my Self your Hon-\\nour s most humble and obedient Servant,\\nChristopher Toppan.\\nHEV. SAMUEL PHILLIPS LETTER FOR ADMITTANCE.\\nFor his Honour WiLLlAM Tailor, Esq a7id if other HonornUc\\nGentlemen of ij Committee for Pcimecook, note at HaverJiill.\\nFor the Honorable members of y\u00c2\u00ae Board and House w constitute\\nthe Committee for y\u00c2\u00ae Settlement of Pennecook, now Convened at\\nHaverhill\\nGentlemen,\\nHaving Intelligence y^ the Great and General Court have allowed\\nof y Settlement of Pennecook, and made choice of your Honours to\\nEffect and Complete the Same; and I the Subscriber, being one of\\ny^ Petitioners [and having Expended somew already,] humbly pray\\ny* your Honours will please to Enter me one of y\u00c2\u00ae Proprietors.\\nI have Sons* growing up, and the Land w I am here setled upon\\nis Parsonage land.\\nThe Articles I hope to fulfill, altho I may not be an Inhabitant\\nthere.\\nto be appropriated for the use of the school forever and one other ministerial\\nlot of equal value with the rest the home lot appertaining thereto affixed near\\nto the meeting-house. And for the better enabling the intended settlers to per-\\nfect what they are hereby enjoined, and empowering them to remove all such\\nlets and impediments as they may meet with in their progress and lawful under-\\ntaking, that when and so soon as there shall be one hundred persons accepted\\nand allowed by the Committee to go on and improve those lands for the ends\\nand uses above specified, upon application made to the aforesaid Committee, it\\nshall and may be lawful for them to notify the undertakers to meet at some con-\\n*Two of these sons, John and Samuel, were founders of Andover Academy, and the former\\nwas tho founder of Exeter Academy and of the Pliillips Professorsliip of Divinity in Dart-\\nmouth College.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "G2 TflE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nPray Excuse my not waiting upon your Honours in person, being\\noblige this day to cattend part of y Duty and Business of my office.\\nIntreating that y\u00c2\u00ae Direction and Benediction of Heaven may al-\\nways accompany you, I ask Leave [Gentlemen] to subscribe my Self\\nyour Honours most humble and\\nObedt ServS\\nAndover, Feb: 2: 1725/6. Samuel Phillips.\\nThe persons who had the honor of being admitted on such\\nconditions as settlers, proceeded with energy, and with entire\\nunanimity, to forward their object. To save the committee of\\nthe General Court the trouble and expense of coming again\\nfrom Boston, upon application of the admitted settlers, another\\nmeeting was held on the 7th of February, at which, with the\\napproval of the committee, the settlers unanimously agreed and\\nresolved to fulfil all the conditions and orders of the Court re-\\nspecting the settlement; and in case of any settler failing to\\ncomply with said conditions and orders within two years and a\\nhalf from the 1st day of June next, such settler shall absolutely\\nforfeit the lot or lots by him drawn, with all the improvements\\nthereon, to the other settlers. Also, it was agreed and resolved\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Hhat no alienatmi of any Lott shall he made ivitliout the cojisent\\nof the Community on penalty of forfeiting the same. This\\nregulation was in accordance with the suggestion of Rev. Chris-\\ntopher Toppan, and probably with special reference to the\\nexclusion of the Irish people^^^ against whom a strong preju-\\ndice then existed.\\nAt this meeting, moreover, the committee of the court voted\\nto appoint surveyors, and chainmen to attend them Avhen they\\nshould go, to allot the said tract of land into one hundred and\\nthree shares, according to order to meet at Dunstable, on the\\nvenient time and place, they being seasonably notified of such meeting, who,\\nwhen assembled, shall make such necessary rules and orders as to them shall be\\nthought most conducible for the carrying forward and eftecting the aforesaid\\nsettlement provided, tliat three fourth parts of the persons present at such\\nmeeting are consenting to what rules or orders shall be then proposed and\\nagreed upon, two or more of the Committee to be present at such meeting, who\\nshall enter into a fair book, to be kept for that purpose, all such rules, orders,\\nand directions agreed on as aforesaid, and give out copies thereof when re-\\nquired the whole charge of the Committee to be paid by the settlers. And\\nthat when they shall have performed the conditions above expressed, provided it", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 63\\n5th of April next, at the house of Col. Tjng, in order to proceed\\nthence to Penacook to lay out the land into lots that Col. Tyng\\nbe desired to prepare fifteen days provisions for twenty men, and\\nthat the settlers be notified to pay the sum of forty shillings for\\ndefraying the charges of the committee, and that the money he\\nready at Col. Tyng at Dunstable, on or before the bth day of\\nApril next.^\\n1726.\\nOn account of engagements as members of the General Court,\\nthe committee found it necessary to postpone the laying out of\\nthe lands at Penacook until the second Tuesday (10th) of May,\\n172(3. They then started from Haverhill, with surveyors and\\nchainmen, and a number of admitted settlers attending them,\\nand proceeded to Penacook and laid out one hundred and three\\nhome lots, or divisions, on the west side of the river, instead of\\nthe east side, as at first proposed. This was done with consent\\nof the General Court, for reasons assigned, viz. That upon view\\nand strict survey of the Lands on the East side of Merrymack,\\nwe find that there is little or no water the Land near the River\\nextream mountainous and almost impassible, and very unfit for\\nand uncapable of receiving fifty families, as the Court has or-\\ndered more especially, considering that near the centre of the\\nTown, on the East side of the River Merrymack, the Honourable\\nSamuel Sewall, Esq., has a farm of Five Hundred acres of good\\nbe within the space of three years, as before limited, tliat then tlie said Commit-\\ntee for and in behalf of this Court execute good and sufficient deeds and con-\\nveyances in the law, to all such settlers for t!ie aforesaid tract of land, with all\\nthe rights, members, profits, privileges and immunities thereon standing, grow-\\ning or being, for the sole use of them, their heirs and assigns forever, with a\\nsaving of all or any former grant or grants.\\nBy order of the Committee. N. BrriELD.\\nIn Council, January 17 th, 1725. Read and ordered that this Report be ac-\\ncepted. Sent down for concurrence.\\nJ. WiLLARD, Sec n/.\\nIn the House of Representatives, January 17, 1725. Read and concurred\\nAVm. Dudley, Speaker.\\nConsented to- W,j. Dummer.\\n*See Documentary Chapter Endicot Grant, fee., No. 1, chap. iii.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "64 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nLand, formerly granted by tins Court and laid out to Gov. En-\\ndicot. This description refers chiefly to the high banks and\\nbluiFs that border the Interval on the east side of the river.\\nJudge Sewall s farm embraced the island known by that name,\\nand the intervals, with some upland east of it, including the\\nfarms now owned by Mr. Samuel B. Larkin, Samuel B. and\\nJohn Locke, and what is known as the Thatcher farm.*\\nThe first survey and laying out of the house and home lots,\\nwith the incidents connected therewith, are graphically related in\\nthe journal kept by John Wainwright, Esq., clerk of the General\\nCourt s committee, of which the following is an exact copy\\nevery word of which is interesting to read.\\nA Journal of the proceedings of the Committee appointed hy the\\nGreat and General Court or Assembly to lay out a New Township\\nof seven miles square, at Penny Cook, on each side of Merrimack\\nRiver\\n1726. Tuesday, May 10*/ This Day, the Committee met at the\\nHouse of Ebenezer Eastman, in Haverhill, in order to go to Penny\\nCook to lay out the Township according to order.\\n^yednesday, May \\\\V[ Present The Hon William Tailer,\\nEsqr, Jn*? Wainwright, Esq Cap*. Jn? Shipley, Eleazer Tyng, Esqf,\\nand M^ Joseph Wilder. This day, the Committee received of several\\nof y* Setlers forty shillings each, a list where of was taken being to\\ndefray the charge of surveying the Lands, c. and prepared the\\nnecessary provisions for their Journey and their Attendants to Penny\\nCook. Lowry Weather, with some rain.\\nThursday, May 12 Early this Morning, the Committee above\\nnamed, with i\\\\P. John Sanders, one other of the s Committee, begun\\ntheir Journey from Haverhill, in order for Penny Cook, being at-\\ntended by twenty sis persons, including the Surveyors, Chainmen,\\nand such of the intended Settlers as were disposed to take a view of\\nthe Lands. About half ways between Nutfield and Haverhill, at a\\nADDITIONAL GRANT TO PENNY COOK, AUG T 1, 1728.\\nAt a Great .ind General Court, or Assembly, for His Majesty s Province of\\ntlie Massachusetts Bay, in Ncw-EnglancI, began and held at Boston, upon\\nWednesday, the twenty -ninth of May, 1728, and continued by prorogation to\\nWednesday, the twcnty-fourtli of July following, and then met August 6, 1728\\nIn the House of Representatives, upon a motion made and seconded in behalf\\nof the Penny Cook settlers Resolved, That in consideration of the five hun-\\ndred acres of land formerly confirmed by this Court to satisfy a grant made to\\nthe late Governor Endicott, which falls within their boundaries, the settlers be\\n*For plan of the farm, see large Map.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 66\\nplace called Providence Brook, we bated About clevcu or twelve of\\nthe Clock we arrived at Nutfield, alias Londonderry, and refreshed\\nOur Selves and Horses with our own provisions at the House of one\\nJohn Barr, an Irish Tavern keeper, as we were informed but we\\nhad nothing of him but Small Beer. Expenccs for our Trouble at\\ny\u00c2\u00ae House, 5^. About one or two, we proceeded on our Journey. This\\nafternoon we forded two Brooks or liivuletts, call Great and little,\\nwhich proceeded from Great Massa Beseck and little Massabeseck\\nPonds and Empty themselves into Merrimack and about Five a\\nClock we arrived at a place called Amoskeeg Falls, on Merrimack\\nRiver, and there Encamped that night.\\nAt Amoskeeg Falls we found several Irish people catching fish,\\nwhich that place affords in great abundance. We travelled in a Cart\\npath from Nutfield to Amoskeeg, but it was very indifferent travelling.\\nCloudy Weather.\\nFriday/, Mai/ lo This morning we proceeded on our Journey.\\nVery Hilly and Mountainous Land. About Eight a Clock we pass d\\nby a Fall called Oanahookline, in Merrimack lliver, which is taken\\nfrom a Hill of the same name. About Nine a Clock we forded a\\npretty deep Brook or Rivulett, called [a blank,] and soon after we\\ncame upon a large Tract of Intervale Land, joining to Suneook lliver,\\nwhere we baited and refreshed our Selves and Horses. About ten or\\neleven a Clock we forded Suneook lliver, which is a rapped Stream,\\nand many loose stones of some Considerable Bigness in it, making it\\nand hereby arc allowed and empowered, by a surveyor and chainman, on oath,\\nto extend the south bounds of that townshijj one hundred rods, the full breadth\\nof their town, and the one hundred rods of land is accordingly granted and con-\\nfirmed unto them as an equivalent for the aforesaid five hundred acres.\\nIn Council read and concurred.\\nConsented to W. Burnett.\\nA true copy\\nExamined by Thad. Mason, Deputy Sec rij.\\nA true copy\\nExamined by Benja. Rolfe, Proprietors Clerk.\\nAt a meeting [held in the Council Chamber in Boston, tlie eighteenth day of\\nJanuary, Anno Domini 1725,] of the Committee of the Great and General\\nCourt or Assembly, appointed at their session began and held at Boston, upon\\nWednesday, the third day of November, 1725, Anno y R. Georgii. Mao-. Brittan-\\nniae, c. duodecimo, for bringing forward and settling a tract of land at a place\\ncalled Penny Cook, on each side of Merrimack river, to begin where Contoo-\\ncook empties itself into Merrimack\\npresent,\\nThe Honorable William Tailor, Esqr., Elisha Cook, Esqr., William Dudley,\\nEsqr., John Wainwriglit, Esq., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders, Eleazar\\nTyng, Esqr., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.\\nVoted, That John Wainwright, Esq., be Clerk.\\n5", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "G6 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\ndifficult to pa?s. One of our men going over, having a heavy load\\non his Horse, was thrown off into the River, and lost one of the\\nl^aggs of provisions, which we lost, not having time to look after it.\\nAnother of our men fell into y River. Here we met with two men\\nCoh Tyng sent up before us with some stores, [Benj^ NiceoUs and\\nEben^ Virgin, two of y\u00c2\u00ab setlers;] and about one a Clock we passed\\nPenny Cook River, \\\\_olias Shew Brook or Sow Cook pretty deep\\nand very rocky. Here one of our Men tumbled into the River. In\\na short time after we came up as far as Penny Cook Falls, on Merri-\\nmack River, and then we steered our Course North, and travelled\\nover a large pitch pine plain, [indifferent Land,] about three miles at\\nleast in Length, and proceeded on our Journey and about five\\na Clock, afternoon, we arrived at Penny Cook, and Encamped on a\\npiece of Intervale Land or plain called Sugar Ball plain, which takes\\nits name from a very high Head or Hill, called Sugar Ball Hill,\\nwhereon was the first Indian Port, as we were informed, which the\\nIndians in old times built to defend themselves from the Maquois\\nand others their Enemies. Just as we were making up our Camp,\\nVoted, That a book be bought for entering the votes and orders of the com-\\nmittee, and for the use of the community.\\nVoted, That the committee meet on Wednesday, the second day of February\\nnext, at tlie house of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, inn-holder, in Haverhill.\\nVoted, That tlie clerk prepare advertisements of the above said meeting of the\\ncommittee, in tlie words following, viz.\\nPursuant to an order of the Great and General Court, or Assembly, at a\\nsession began and held at Boston, upon Wednesday, the third day of November,\\n1725, appointing a committee to bring forward a settlement of a tract of land at\\na place called Penny Cook\\nPublic Notice is hereby given that the said committee have appointed to\\nmeet at the house of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, inn-holder, in Haverhill, on\\nWednesday, the second day of February next, to treat with a number of per-\\nsons, petitioners for the said tract of land, and others, in order to bring forward\\na settlement thereon according to the directions of the General Court.\\nBy order of the Committee,\\nJohn Wainavright, C. Clerk.\\nDated at Boston, 18th day of Jan ry, 1725.\\nAt a meeting of the committee of the General Court for bringing forward the\\nsettlement of a tract of land at Penny Cook, begun and held at the house of\\nEbenezer Eastman, in Haverliill, the second day of February, 1725\\nPresent, John Wainwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Sanders,\\nEleazar Tyng, Esqr., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.\\nThere being but just a quorum of the committee present, and Mr. Chairman,\\nwith the remainder of the committee, being detained on the road by reason of\\nthe extremity of the weather, Ordered, That the meeting be adjourned till to-\\nmorrow morning, ten o clock.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 67\\nthere came up a smart Thunder Shower, and we had enough to do to\\nsave our Bread from the llain. This Sugar Ball plain is a pretty\\nlarge Tract of Land, encompassed on all parts with very high and\\nmountainous Land, as steep as the Hoof of an House ordinarily:\\nonly where the River runs round it, which encompasses the other\\nparts of it. It is altogether impracticable for a Team, or indeed\\nHorse Cart to get on y^ plains, y land is so mountainous round it\\nand there is no Spring on it, as we could find.\\nSaturday, May 14 This Morning Early we got together the\\nSurveyors and Chainmen, and set them to Survey the Township ac-\\ncording to the General Court s order. M Jonas Houghton, Sur-\\nveyor, with Jonathan Shipley, Josiah Cop, Moses Hazzen and Benji^\\nNiccolls, Chainmen, being first Sworn truly and faithfully to discharge\\ntheir respective Duty and Trust in taking the Survey, were sent to\\nrun the line of the Township, according to y^ Court s Grant to\\nbegin on y^ East side the River, where Contoocook falls into Merri-\\nmack. M*; Josiah Bacheldor, Surveyor, with John Ens. John\\nChandler, Chainmen, being first duly sworn, were appointed to\\nSurvey the Interval, on the East side of the River; M*; Richard\\nHazzen, Junf, Surveyor, with John Ayer, John Sanders, Jun^, Chain-\\nThursdaj/, Feb ry 3d, 1725. At a meeting of the committee\\nPRESENT,\\nThe Honorable William Tailer, Esqr.,Elisha Cook, Esqr., John Waimvright,\\nEsqr.. Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders, Eleazar Tyng, Esqr., Spencer\\nPhipps, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder\\nAgreed and Voted, That some of the principal inhabitants of the towns to\\nwhich tlie generality of the petitioners belong, be desired to attend the commit-\\ntee, and inform them of the circumstances of the petitioners and others, in order\\nto the committee s admitting such of them as shall be thought most suitable for\\nbringing forward the settlement of Penny Cook. Capt. John White, Mr. Oba-\\ndiah Ayer and Capt. Joshua Bayley, of Haverhill Capt. Benjamin Stevens,\\nMessrs. John Chandler and John Osgood, of Andover Messrs. Moses Day and\\nDavid Kimball, of Bradford, did accordingly attend the committee.\\nThen the committee adjourned till to-morrow morning, ten o clock.\\nFriday. Feb ry ^th, 1725. At a meeting of the committee Present the same\\nas yesterday.\\nThe committee proceeded to inquire further into the circumstances of the\\npetitioners and others who appeared and were desirous to be admitted to bring\\nforward the intended settlement, and admitted several of them.\\nThen the committee adjourned till to-morrow morning, ten o clock.\\nSaturday, Feb. 5th, 1725. At a meeting of the committee Present as before.\\nThe committee further proceeded to admit settlers, and completed the number\\naccording to the order of Court. A list whereof follows, each of whom paid", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "68\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nmen, being first duely Sworn, were appointed to survey tlie Intervale\\non y West side of the River Merrimack, in -wliich Service they sev-\\nerally proceeded. About Twelve of the Clock this day, Mess NathJ\\nWeare, Richard Waldron, Junr, and Theadore Atkinson, a Com-\\nmittee appointed by the L*. Gov and Council of New Hampshire,\\ncame up to our Camp, [being attended with about half a score Irish\\nmen, who kept some Distance from the Camp,] and acquainted us\\nthat the Governm of New Hampshire, being informed of our Busi-\\nness here, had sent them to desire us that we would not proceed in\\nappropriating these Lands to any private or particular persons, for\\nthat they lay in tbeir Government and our Governments making a\\ntwenty shillings to Mr. Chairman, upon their admittance to pay and defray the.\\ncharge of the committee, viz.\\nZebediah Barker,\\nJohn Osgood,\\nBenjamin Parker,\\nMoses Day,\\nJohn Sanders,\\nRobert Kimball,\\nNathaniel Abbott,\\nStephen Osgood,\\nJohn Wright,\\nEbenezer Stevens,\\nThomas Page,\\nRobert Peaslee,\\nJohn Grainger,\\nTimothy Johnson,\\nWilliam White,\\nSamuel Reynolds,\\nNatli l Lovejoy,\\nJohn Saunders, jun.,\\nJohn Chandler,\\nThomas Blanchard,\\nJoseph Parker,\\nNathan Parker,\\nJohn Foster,\\nEphraim Parnum,\\nMr. Samuel Phillips,\\nEben r Eastman,\\nDavid Kimliall,\\nNicholas White,\\nJohn Merrill,\\nSamuel Grainger,\\nBenja. Stevens, Esqr.,\\nEben r Lovejoy,\\nWilliam Barker,\\nJames Parker,\\nCliristopher Carlton,\\nJohn Austin,\\nSamuel Kimball,\\nNath I Clement,\\nSamuel Ayer,\\nJosepli Davis,\\nNehemiah Heath,\\nNath I Sanders,\\nAbraham Foster,\\nNath I Barker,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nSamuel Toppan,\\nAmmi Ruhamah Wise,\\nJonathan Pulsepher,\\nJohn Ayer,\\nThomas Perley, for\\nNath I Cogswell,\\nDavid Dodge,\\nBenja. Carlton,\\nNath I Page,\\nEdward Clark,\\nEphraim Davis,\\nStephen Emerson,\\nAndrew Mitchell,\\nBenja. Gage,\\nNath I Peaslee,\\nWilliam Gutterson,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nRichard Urann,\\nEphraim Hildreth,\\nThomas Colman,\\nDavid Wood,\\nJoseph Hale,\\nNehemiah Carlton,\\nJohn Mattis,\\nWilliam Whittier,\\nJoseph Page,\\nJohn Bay ley,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nBenjamin Niccolls,\\nJohn Jaques,\\nBezaliel Toppan,\\nNathaniel Jones,\\nEben r Virgin,\\nThomas Wicomb,\\nJohn Pcaliody,\\nJona. Huiibard, for\\nDaniel Davis,\\nJacob Eames,\\nJoshua Bayley,\\nRichard Coolidge,\\nIsaac Walker,\\nJames Simonds,\\nJohn Coggin,\\nJacob Abbott,\\nMoses Hazzen,\\nMoses Bordman,\\nNathan Fiske,\\nZerobbabel Snow,\\nNathan Blodgett,\\nJohn Pecker,\\nRichard Hazzen, jr.,\\nIsaac Learned,\\nJonathan Shipley,\\nEdward Winn,\\nNathan Simonds,\\nObadiah Ayer,\\nHenrv Rolfe. 100.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS.\\n69\\nGrant might be attended with very 111 Consequences to the Settlers,\\nwhen it appeared the Lands fell in New Hampshire Government\\nand then they delivered a Copy of an order pass d by th Honour,\\nthe L Gov and Council of New Hampshire, respecting the Setting\\nof the Land at Penny Cook, to which we refer. We made them\\nanswer. That the Government of the Massachusetts Bay had sent us\\nto lay the Lands here into a Township that they had made a Grant\\nof it to some particular men, and that we should proceed to do the\\nBusiness we were come upon, and made no doubt but our Govern-\\nThe committee received the following application from the admitted settlers,\\nviz.\\nTo the Honorable Committee of the General Court, for bringing forward the settle-\\nment of Penny Cook.\\nWe, the subscribers, being admitted settlers at Penny Cook, and being very\\ndesirous that the settlement may be brought forward with the greatest expedi-\\ntion, according to the rules and directions of the General Court, do therefore\\nrequest that the community may be notified to appear at the house of Mr.\\nEbenezer Eastman, in Haverhill, on Monday, the seventh day of this instant,\\nFebruary, at twelve of the clock in said day, in order to make such necessary\\nrules and orders as shall be thought most conducible for the bringing forward\\nour intended settlements, agreeable to the order of Court.\\nBenjamin Stevens,\\nJonathan Hubbard,\\nRobert Kimball,\\nAmmi Khuhamali Wise,\\nThomas Pearley,\\nSamuel Reynolds,\\nEphraim Hildreth,\\nJohn Sanders,\\nJoseph Hale,\\nObadiah Ayer,\\nJohn Pecker,\\nThomas Wicomb,\\nJoshua Bayley,\\nNathan Blodgett,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nEdward Clarke,\\nThomas Colman,\\nNathan Simonds,\\nAndrew Mitchell,\\nEnocli Coffin,\\nJames Simonds,\\nZerobbabel Snow,\\nNchcmiah Carlton,\\nJacob Abl)ott,\\nJohn Coggin,\\nBezaliel Toppan,\\nJohn Jaqucs,\\nJohn Peabody,\\nNehemiah Pleath,\\nBenjamin Gage,\\nStephen Emerson,\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nNathaniel Page,\\nHenry Rolfc,\\nWilliam Barker,\\nJacob Fames,\\nWilliam White,\\nSamuel Kimball,\\nBenja. Carlton,\\nDavid Dodge,\\nIsaac Walker,\\nSamuel Ayer,\\nJohn Grainger,\\nJohn Osgood,\\nNath l Barker,\\nEbenezer Stevens,\\nThomas Page,\\nJoseph Page,\\nBenja. Parker,\\nSamuel Toppan,\\nNath l Clement,\\nJohn Mattis,\\nRichard Hazzen, jun r,\\nDavid Kimball,\\nMoses Hazzen,\\nNathaniel Sanders,\\nEdward Winn,\\nJoseph Davis,\\nJohn Foster,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nEphraim Davis,\\nJohn Merrill,\\nNathan Parker,\\nNath l Peaslee,\\nJohn Chandler,\\nNicholas White,\\nNath l Lovcjoy,\\nMoses Day.\\nAnd the committee having considered thereof, and for the avoiding considera-\\nble charge to the settlers, did concede to make the following order, viz.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "70 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nment would be always ready to Support and Justifie tbeir own Grants,\\nand that it was the Bisness of the publick and not ours to Engage in,\\nin order to determine any Controversy about the Lands. We sent\\nour Salutes to the L Gov of New Hampshire, and the Gent took\\ntheir Leave of us and w homeward this afternoon. The Surveyors\\nand Chainraen returned to us in Safety about Sun down. Fair\\nAVcather.\\nSahhath daij, Mui/ 15 This day M Enoch Coffin, our Chaplain,\\nperformed divine Service both parts of the day. Fair and Cool.\\nAt a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny\\nCook\\nPRESENT,\\nThe Honorable William Taller, Esq., Elislia Cook, Esq., Spencer Phipps,\\nEsq., John Wainwright, Esq., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders, Elcazar\\nTyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.\\nAgreed and Voted, That proper notifications be given to the intended settlers\\nnow admitted, to assemble and convene in order for the making the necessary\\nrules and orders, and at the time and place as within mentioned and requested.\\nAttest John Wainwright, C. Cleric.\\nDated at Haverhill, Feljruary ye 5th, 1725.\\nThen the clerk published the said order to the settlers. Then the committee\\nadjourned till Monday, ye 7tli curr t, at 10 o clock before noon.\\nMondmj, Fehiiiar)/ ije 1th, 1725. At a meeting of the committee present,\\nthe same as last.\\nAgreed and Voted, That there be two surveyors and four chainraen to attend\\nthe committee upon the next adjournment, to allot out the said tract of land\\ninto one hundred and three equal parts and shares, according to the order of\\nthe General Court.\\nThe settlers came into the following orders and rules for their future regula-\\ntion and proceedings in their intended settlement, viz.\\nAt a meeting of the subscribers, admitted settlers of the land at Penny Cook,\\nheld at the house of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, in Haverhill, the seventh day of\\nFebruarj 1725, the committee of the General Court for bringing forward the\\nsaid settlement being present, and the subscribers being duly notified, the follow-\\ning rules and oi ders were unanimously agreed on and resolved, viz. Tiiat the\\nsettlers will well and truly fulfil the conditions and orders of the Great and\\nGeneral Court for bringing forward the settlement at Penny Cook to all intents\\nand purposes and for the effectual accomplishing the same, it is agreed and\\nresolved. That such and so many of the intended settlers as shall fail of plowing,\\nfencing or clearing of one acre of land within twelve mouths from the first day\\nof June next, shall each of them forfeit and pay to the community or settlers\\nthe sum of five pounds, to be used and employed for their service as they shall\\ndirect and order.\\nIn case of fiiilure of complying with the aforesaid article for bringing forward\\nthe intended settlement within two years from the said first day of June, and of", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 71\\nMonday, May IG This morning at Sun Eisinrr, according to\\nNotification, we choose a lleprcsentative, nem. con., viz!, M Jn 8aa-\\nders. Early this morning the Surveyors and Chaiumen went out to\\ntheir Business respectively. Four of the Company that came out\\nwith us returned to Haverhill this day. At night the Surveyors\\nreturned. M Ilougton s Company brought in a Bever, M Haz-\\nzen s acquainted us they had caught a Hedge Hogg. Fine clear\\nWeather.\\nTuesday, May IT This morning Early M^. Houghton and Com-\\npany went over to the West side of the Biver, in order to run the\\nLine of the Town on that side, and took two days provision. M[\\nBacheldor and Company went on with Surveying the Interval on\\ny\u00c2\u00ae East side of the Biver. M i Hazzen and Company went on with\\nSurveying y^ Interval on y^ West side of y^ Biver. At Night the\\ntwo last Surveyors and their Companys returned, and gave an acco^\\nthat they had Surveyed the Interval on eacli side of the Biver.\\nM^. Bacheldor informed the Committee that he was of opinion that\\nGrov Endecott s Grant of 500 Acres of Land claimed by the Hon\\nJudge Sewall, lay on y Interval on the East side the Biver that he\\ndiscovered an Island in y Biver very much like that in the plan of\\ny^ s* 500 acre Grant. Fair pleasant Weather.\\neach settler having a sufficiency of timber felled, hauled, and adapted for build-\\ning his house within six months after the direction of the committee of the Gen-\\neral Court for building the same, such defective settler or settlers shall forfeit\\nand pay the sum of ten pounds each, to be used and employed as aforesaid.\\nAnd in case of any settler or settlers failing to comply with the orders and\\ndii-cctions enjoined liim or them respectively, by the General Court, for bringing\\nforward and effectually completing the settlement within two years and a half\\nfrom the said first day of June next, such settler or settlers shall absolutely for-\\nfeit the lot or lots by him or them drawn, with all the improvements that shall\\nbe made thereon to the other settlers and in such case it shall be in the power\\nof the other settlers, with the consent of the committee of the General Court, to\\nappoint and admit such person or persons to liring forward the settlements or\\nallotments of the deficient persons as aforesaid, as may be judged will effectu-\\nally bring forward the settlements according to the Court s order.\\nAgreed and Resolved, That no alienation of any lot shall be made without the\\nconsent of the community and if any of the intended settler or settlers shall\\nalienate his or their lots or settlements, to any person or persons, without the\\nconsent of the community first had and obtained, such sale shall be declared\\nvoid of itself, and the settler that shall so pretend to alienate his lot shall forfeit\\nthe same to the community.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Messrs. Timothy Johnson, Moses Day and Joshua\\nBayley be a committee, in the name of the settlers, to wait on the Honorable\\nCommittee of the General Court for giving out notifications proper for the set-\\ntlers to assemble and convene for tlie future, as shall hereafter be thought neces-\\nsary.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer be desired and empowered, in the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "72\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nWednestlai/j Mai/ if 18 This morning Early some of j^ Com-\\nmittee went over to y^ West side of the Kiver with M Hazzen and\\nCompany, and some of thom with M Batcheldor and Comp*}, to lay\\nout the Home Lotts according to the order of y^ General Court. On\\nWest side the Committee and Surveyor met with Great DitRculty\\nto find a tract large enough to lay out the Number of Lotts and their\\ncontents agreeable to the Court s Act, but at length agreed they\\nshould be lay d out on the Great Interval, over against Sugar Plain\\nand the Land nest adjoining thereto, having first made a Beginning\\non the Upland next adjoining to the Interval but found it imprac-\\nticable if not impossible to lay out the Land there into Six Acre\\nLotts so as to be fenced and broken up within Three Years the con-\\nname of the settlers, to examine the General Court s Records, and see if there\\nbe any former grant made of any of the lands now granted and ordered to he\\nsettled at Penny Cook, and report to the settlers at their next meeting.\\nBenjamin Stevens,\\nJolm Peabody,\\nBezaliel Toppan,\\nHenry Rolfe,\\nJohn Sanders,\\nWilliam Gutterson,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nBenja. Carlton,\\nNicholas White,\\nEdward Clark,\\nSamuel Kimball,\\nThomas Wicomb,\\nStephen Osgood,\\nAndrew Mitchell,\\nThomas Page,\\nZcrubbabel Snow,\\nJoshua Bayley,\\nJohn Grainger,\\nTimothy Johnson,\\nNathan Blodgett,\\nNath l Abbott,\\nWilliam Barker,\\nThomas Blanchard,\\nEbenezer Lovejoy,\\nJohn Osgood,\\nJames Simonds,\\nMoses Hazzen,\\nDavid Kimball,\\nRobert Kimball,\\nNathan Lovejoy,\\nJoseph Davis,\\nEpliraim Farnum,\\nHi9\\nNathan Parker,\\nDavid Dodge,\\nSaml. X Reynolds,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nAmmi Rhuhamah Wise,\\nmark.\\nRichard Hazzen, jun..\\nJonathan Shipley,\\nJohn Chandler,\\nNath l Sanders,\\nRichard Urann,\\nMoses Day,\\nJoseph Hale,\\nThomas Colman,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nSam l Grainger,\\nHi3\\nJoseph Page,\\nJohn Pecker,\\nEdward X Winn,\\nEbenezer Stevens,\\nIsaac Walker,\\nmark\\nBenjamin Parker,\\nNath l Clement,\\nJohn Saunders, juur..\\nJohn Merrill,\\nJohn Wright,\\nNathan Simonds,\\nNath l Barker,\\nJohn Austen,\\nJohn Coggin,\\nRobert Peaslee,\\nStephen Emerson,\\nObadiah Ayer,\\nBenja. Gage,\\nHis\\nJohn Jaques,\\nNehemiah Carlton,\\nAbraham X Posters,\\nWilliam White,\\nEphraim Hildreth,\\nm^pk.\\nJonathan Hubbard,\\nJSTath l Page,\\nJacol) Eames,\\nJoseph Parker,\\nNath l Peaslee,\\nNehemiah Heath,\\nJohn X Mattis,\\nSamuel Ayer.\\nA true copy of the origi\\nnal. Attest Johx Wainwrigut, C. Chrh.\\nThen the committee adj(\\njurned till to-morow morning, ten o clock.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. /O\\ntents being too large wholly to be lay d out there. Towards Evening\\nM Houghton and Company returned to y Camp from the Line on\\nthe West side of the River, and at Evening the other two Surveyors\\nand Compel returned. M Bacheldor informed they had taken y Copy\\nof Gov Endicott s Grant, and been upon the Laud they supposed to\\nbe the Land laid out formerly and Surveyed to satisfie the s (Jrant;\\nthat it agreed Exactly with the plan, and cousisted principally of In-\\nterval L^nd, and that the Grant extended down the lliver within\\nEighty pole of the place where the Irish people had lately built a\\nTnesdaj/, Februari/ ije Sth, 1725. At a meeting of the committee present,\\nthe same as before.\\nMr. Wainwright, clerk to the committee, was sworn to the faithful execution\\nof his office.\\nCoram Eli sua Cooke, J. Pads.\\nA true copy of the original\\nExamined l y Johx Wainweigut, C. Clcrl:\\nAgreed and Voted, That the committee meet at the liouse of Col. Tyng, at\\nDunstable, on Tuesday, the fiftli d.ay of April next, in order to proceed to Penny\\nCook, to lay out the land into lots, according to the Court s order.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Col. Tyng be desired to prepare fifteen days provis-\\nions for twenty men.\\nOrdered, That the clerk put up notifications that the committee expect and\\ndirect each of the intended settlers to pay into the hands of the committee they\\nhave appointed for application for calling of meetings, the sura of forty shillings,\\nfor defraying the charge of the committee, the money to be ready at Col.\\nTyng s, at Dunstable, on or before the fifth day of April next.\\nAttest John Wainwkight, C. Clerk.\\nMarch ye 2 h, 1726. Upon advice from Mr. Chairman, that the General\\nCourt would sit on the thirteenth of April next, and the committee being mem-\\nbers of the Court, notifications were given out that the committee could not\\nmeet at the time proposed to go to Penny Cook.\\nAt a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny\\nCook, held at the house of Francis Holmes, in Boston, April 14, 172G\\nPRESENT,\\nThe Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., Spencer Phipps, Esqr., William Dud-\\nley, Esqr., John Wainwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Sanders,\\nEleazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the committee proceed to Haverhill on the second\\nTuesday of May next, in order to go to Penny Cook to lay out the lots and\\nsettlements, agreeable to the General Court s order.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Mr. Wilder provide one surveyor and Mr. Wain-\\nwright provide the other.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the settlers committee, viz., Messrs. Timothy John-\\nson, Moses Day and Joshua Bayley, be desired to notify the settlers to get ready", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nfort so that there remained but a small quantity of Interval, which\\nwould accommodate not half a score Home Lotts so they had not\\nlaid any Lotts out that side the River. This day, fine pleasant\\nWeather. It may be observed that divers Rattle Snakes were killed\\ndayley by the several Companys in Surveying, but Thanks be to God\\nno Body received any Harm from them.\\nTltursdaij, Ma// 10 This Morninp; the Com agreed to send\\n^P. Houghton and iM Ilazzen, withy Chainnien, (some of the Com-\\nmittee concluding to be with them,) to finish the laying out the Lotts\\nfifteen days provision for the committee and tlicir attendants, which will be\\nabout twenty persons, with the committee.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the settlers committee be desired to notify the settlers\\nthat the committee expect and direct each of them to pay forty shillings to their\\nCommittee, to be ready at Iluverhill on the second Tuesday of May next, which\\nis to defray the charge of the committee, surveyors and chainmen, c.\\nAttest: John Wainwrigiit, C. Cleric.\\nAt a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at Penny\\nCook, held at Haverhill the tenth day of May, Anno Domini 172G\\nPRESENT,\\nTlic Honoralde William Taller, Esqr., John Wainwright, Esqr., Capt. John\\nShipley, Mr. John Sanders, Eleazar Tyng, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.\\nTiic committee, with the surveyors and chainmen, and a number of the\\nadmitted settlers attending them, proceeded to Penny Cook, and laid out one\\nhundred and three home lots or divisions on the west side of the river, in equal\\nproportion, according to quantity and quality, as near as the land would admit\\nthereof, agreeable to the order and last direction of tiie Great and General\\nCourt, and then they returned to Haverhill, to receive the payment of two hun-\\ndred pounds, to defray the charges of the survey of the town and laying out the\\nhome lots, as above said, and the said committee defrayed the said charges\\naccordingly.\\nTlie settlers of the township at Penny Cook are hereby notified and warned\\nto assemble and convene at the house of Mr. Francis Crumj)ton, at Ipswich, on\\nTuesday, the sixth day of September, at eleven of the clock before noon, to\\ndraw their respective lots according to the General Court s order, and raise the\\nsum of one iumdred pounds, to defray the charge of laying out a way to the\\ntownship, and other necessary charges, which may be thought reasonable to be\\nallowed. By order of the committee\\nJohn Wainavbight, C. Clerk.\\nBoston, August ye 27th, 1726.\\nAt a meeting of the committee for bringing forward tlie settlement at Penny\\nCook, held at the house of Mr. Francis Crumpton, at Ipswich, the seventh day\\nof September, Anno Domini 172G\\nPRESENT,\\nThe Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., Spencer Phipps, Esqr., John Wain-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETAEY RECORDS. 75\\non the West side the Eiver, agreeable to the Court s order. About\\nSix of the Clock Col Tailer, M-; Wainwright and Col Tyng, with\\nMf Coffin and 13 others, took their Leave of y remaining part of the\\nCommittee and set out on their Journey back to Haverhill. Cloudy\\nWeather and some small Showers. We baited on the Intervale to\\nthe Eastward of Suncook River, a few minutes, and then steered our\\nCourse for Amoskccg Falls, where we arrived about Eleven a Clock,\\nand found abundance of Irish men catching fish. By the account\\nwe could get of them, we supposed they killed in the season Seven or\\nWright, Esqr., Capt. Jolin Shipley, Mr. John Sanders and Eleazar Tyng,\\nEsqr.\\nThe settlers came into the following orders and rules for the bringing forward\\nand eft ecting the settlement which the committee received from them, viz.\\nAt a meeting of the proprietors of the town of Penny Cook, assembled at\\nIpswich, September ye 7th, 1726\\nAgreed and Voted, That Capt. Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., be and is appointed\\ntreasm-er, to receive of the Honorable General Court s committee the money\\nwhicli they have received from said admitted settlers, and not expended in\\ndefraying their own charges, the said money to l)e disposed of in marking out\\nand clearing a way to Penny Cook.\\nAgreed and Voted, That there shall be three men chosen a committee to go out\\nand clear a sufficient cart way to Penny Cook, the nighest and best way they\\ncan from Haverhill. For said committee were chosen, Ensn. John Chandler, of\\nAndover; John Ayer, of Haverhill, and Mr. William Barker, of Andovcr.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the said committee be paid out of the money which\\nmay be in tlie treasurer s hands, so far as that will go, [for their said service,]\\nthe remainder, if any be wanting, to be defrayed by the community.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer be paid out of tlie treasury forty\\nshillings, money for his service in searching the province i-ecords, in order to\\ntind out any former grant of Penny Cook.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Mr. Obadiah Ayer make application to the Honorable\\nGeneral Court at their next session in behalf of the admitted settlers of Penny\\nCook, in order to have the five hundred pounds abated, and the five hundred\\nacres, [being an equivalent for Mr. Sewall s farm,] added to said township.\\nThe settlers completed their payment of twenty shillings eacli, making in the\\nwhole the sum of one hundred pounds to Mr. Chairman, inclusive of what\\norders were given to their treasurer for the delinquents to pay him.\\n1 7 9 G\\nAt a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement at the\\ntownship lately granted at Penny Cook, held at the Council Cliamber in Bos-\\nton, the third day of January, Anno Domini 1726\\nPRESENT.\\nThe Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dudley, Esqr., John Wain-\\nwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Eleazar Tyng, Esqr., and Mr. Joseph Wilder.\\nAgreed and Voted, Tliat the charge of the settlers hitherto necessarily arising", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nEight hundred Barrells of Shad. After some short tarry we set out\\nfor Nutfield, and in our way there we over took abundance of the\\nIrish with loaded horses returning from Amoskeeg, and met a many\\nof them going to the Falls for their Loads. About two a Clock, af-\\nternoon, we arrived at Johny Barr s, at Nutfield, where we refreshed\\nour Selves and our Horses, and made a considerable tarry there, and\\nthen sot out for Haverhill. We stoped a little while at Providence\\nBrook, and about Sun down we arrived at M Eastman s in Safety, by\\nDivine protection. M Bacheldor, the Surveyor, came back with us.\\nfor laying out a cart-way from Haverhill to the aforesaid township, c., and be laid\\nbefore the committee appointed by the settlers, viz. Lt. Timothy Johnson and\\nothers, for their perusal and examination, and that they report their opinion to\\nBenjamin Stevens, Esqr., of Andover, treasurer to the settlers, what charges\\nought to be allowed and paid, who is hereby ordered and directed to pay the\\nsame accordingly out of the settlers money in his hands.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dud-\\nley, Esqr., and John Wainwright, Esq., be desired to meet at the dwelling-house\\nof Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., in Andover, on Tuesday, the seventh day of Feb-\\nruary next, in order to receive of each settler a bond, with sufficient surety, for\\nthe sum of five pounds, that so they may draw their respective lots, and proceed\\non the premises granted, and effectually bring forward the said settlement,\\naccording to the grant of the General Court.\\nAttest John Wainwkight, C. Clerk.\\nAt a meeting of the committee for bringing forward the settlement of the\\ntownship at Penny Cook, held at Andover, the 7th and 8th of February, 1726\\nPRESENT,\\nThe Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., William Dudley, Esqr., John Wain-\\nwright, Esqr., Capt. John Shipley, Mr. John Saunders.\\nThe committee proceeded to take a bond of five pounds from each -of the\\nadmitted settlers, under hand and seal respectively, for tlie payment of five\\nhundred pounds for the use of this province, when the General Court shall order\\nthe committee to demand the same of them, on pcralty of forfeiting their title\\nand interest, c., in and to the lands respectively, as by the said bonds lodged in\\ntlie hands of Mr. Chairman, and the clerk may fully appear, reference being there-\\nunto had.\\nThe committee then allowed the settlers to draw their lots, which was accord-\\ningly done, as appears by the following list of their names and the lots entered\\nto them\\nEnoch Coffin, N. 36, 26.\\nJohn Peabody, N. 37, 27.\\nRichard Urann, 42, 6, 3d range.\\nAndrew Mitchell, N. 19, 13.\\nMr. Samuel Phillips, N. 25, 38. 2d range.\\nSamuel Ayer, N. 5, 9, island range.\\nJohn Grainger, N. 1 02, 2d range.\\nHenry Eolfe, N. 45, 9, 3d range.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 77\\nThe Andover men parted from us after we refreshed our selves at\\nJohny Barr s, at Nutfield.\\nFrida//, Mai/ if 20 This Morning cloudy, Lowry Weather, and\\nvery Sultry hot Wind Southerly. We sent for M^, Browne, the\\nMinister of y^ Town, to dine with us. M i Bacheldor, the Surveyor,\\nwas Employed in making a fair plann of the Interval on y East side\\nof the River, which he surveyed.\\nSaturday, Mai/ y IVj- Fair Weather.\\nThe order of the Council of New-Hampshire, referred to in\\nthe foregoing journal, with other proceedings respecting Pena-\\ncook, will be read with interest in the following documents, viz.\\nExtracts from the 3Iessage 0/ Lieut. Gov. Wentwortii to the General\\nAssembly, held at Portsmouth, April 11, 1726.\\nThe Massachusetts are daily encroaching on us. A late instance\\nwe have in voting a Township should be erected and settled at Pen-\\nnycook, which will certainly be in the very bowels of this Province,\\nand which will take iu the most valuable part of our Lands.\\nI would therefore recommend this matter to your mature consid-\\neration and am pursuaded that you will consult such measures that\\nJohn Sanders, junr., N. 21, 15.\\nThomas Page, N. 3, 49.\\nWilliam Barker, N. 36, ig, 3(1 range.\\nIsaac Walker, N. 28, 33, 2d range.\\nJoseph Davis, N. 44, 8, 3d range.\\nJohn Coggin, N. 10, 71, 3d range.\\nBenjamin Parker, N. 37, 1, 3d range.\\nEdward Clarke, N. 7, 4, island range.\\nStephen Osgood, 8, 3, island range.\\nBenjamin Gage, N. 8, 0, lowest range.\\nMoses Day, N. 25, 19,\\nDavid Kimball, 24, 18.\\nBenjamin Stevens, Esqr., N. 1, 5, island range.\\nJohn Chandler, N. 7, 68, 2d range.\\nEbenczcr Virgin, N. 6, 10, island range.\\nJohn Pecker, 23, 17.\\nMoses Hazzen, N. 31, 37.\\nWilliam Gutterson, N. 27, 21.\\nJoseph Hale, N. 29, 45.\\nEphraim Davis, N. 10, 2.\\nJohn Wright, N. 33, 29.\\nJacob Eanies, N. 33, 40, 2d range.\\nJacob Abbott, N. 12, 47.\\nChristopher Carlton, N. 5, 7.\\nNathaniel Page, N. 34, 28, 2d range.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nmay be not only serviceable, but for the honour of His Majesty s\\nProvince, v/hich I assure you I shall cheerfully embrace.\\nI have lately represented this affair to the Lords Commissioners\\nfor Trade and Plantations, and have transmitted the best and exactest\\ndraught of this Province, Merrimack River and situation of Penni-\\ncook to their Lordships, praying their f^ivour in obtaining a settlement\\nof the lines, giving instances where in it highly concerns the interest\\nof the Crown.\\nThe General Assembly, in reply to this part of the Governor s\\nmessage, say\\nAs to the settling the lines between the Governments, we shall\\ntake it under our serious consideration.\\nPro OF At a Council held at Portsmouth, llmj W 1726.\\nN. HaMP. I PRESENT,\\nHis Honour Jno Wentwortii, Esq., L^. Gov\\nMark Hun king, Eich\u00c2\u00b0 Wibird,\\nGeo Jaferey, Esq^. Joth 0j:)I0Rne.\\nShad* Walton,\\nIt being reported to the board that in Pursuance of a late vote of\\nthe Gen Assembly of the Province of Mass^ sundry persons are go-\\ning or gone to lay out and take possession of and settle upon some of\\nSamuel Kimball, N. 18, 103, 2d range.\\nNathan Simonds, N. 31, 31, 2d range.\\nDavid Dodge, N. 4, 48.\\nRobert Peaslee, N. 26, 20.\\nRichard Coolidge, right drawn by Sam l Jones, N. 39, 3, 3d range.\\nThomas Wicomb, N. 14, 55, 2d range.\\nRobert Kimball, N. 43, 7, 3d range.\\nJohn Saunders, N. 13, 54, 2d range.\\nNathaniel Clement, N. 6, lowest range.\\nEbenezer Lovcjoy, N. 4, 8, island range.\\nJohn Osgood, N. 11, lowest range.\\nZerobbabel Snow, N. 35, 61, 3d range.\\nEbenezer Eastman, N. 9, 70, 2d range.\\nJonathan Shipley, N. 5, 66, 2d range.\\nJohn Austin, N. 7, 5.\\nEdward Winn, N. 34, 25.\\nEbenezer Stevens, N. 17, 58, 2d range.\\nJoseph Page, N. 29, 32, 2d range.\\nSamuel Davis, N. 46, 10, 3d range.\\nEphraini Hildreth, N. 10, lowest range.\\nJames Parker, N. 28, 22.\\nNathan Lovejoy, N. 22, 16.\\nSamuel Reynolds, N. 16, 10.\\nJohn Foster, N. 20, 14.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 79\\nhis Majesty s lands within the limits of this Province, at or near a\\nPlace called Pennecook, without the consent of this Goverum for so\\ndoing; which is not only unneighborly, but unjustifiable, and has a\\ntendency to the destroying the mast trees fit for Flis Majesty s ser-\\nvice that may be growing thereon which the Lieu Gov^. and Council\\nin faithfulness to His IMajesty, and in discharge of the trust reposed\\nin them, cannot pass by without bearing testimony against It is\\ntherefore\\nOrdered, That a Committee in behalf of this Govern*, viz. Messrs.\\nNath Weare, Theo Atkinson and Ftichard Waldrou, jun., immedi-\\nately repair to s Pennecook, and forewarn any persons whom they\\nmay find there or thereat from laying out, taking possession of, or\\nsettling at or near the place called Pennecook, or presuming to ap-\\npropriate any other of His Majesty s lands within this Province, till\\nthey shall have the countenance and grant of this Govern* for so\\nJames Simonds, N. 41, 5, 3d range.\\nJoseph Parker, N. 24, 39, 2d range.\\nNatlian Fisk s right drawn by Zech. Chandler, N. 4, 65, 2d range.\\nZebediah Barker s right drawn by Edw d Abbott, N. 16, 57, 2d range.\\nJohn Bayley s right drawn by Samuel White, N. 14, 8.\\nWilliam Whittier, N. 6, 6.\\nJoshua Baylcy, N. 33, 24.\\nAmmi Ehuhamah Wise, N. 26, 35, 2d range.\\nWilliam White, N. 7, lowest range.\\nNathaniel Peaslee, N. 1, lowest range.\\nThomas Colm.an, N. 8, 4.\\nJohn Jaques, N. 17, 11.\\nObadiah Aver, N. 5, lowest range.\\nAbraham Fostei% N. 3, 64, 2d range.\\nJohn Mattis, N. 20, 43, 2d range.\\nJohn Merrill, N. 27, 34, 2d range.\\nThos. Pearley, for Nath l Cogswell, N. 38, 2, 3d range.\\nDavid Wood, No. 9, 2, island range.\\nNathaniel Abbott, N. 12, 53, 2d range.\\nJohn Ayer, N. 2, 6, island range.\\nNathan Blodgett, N. 15, 56, 2d range.\\nBenja. Carlton, N. 18, 12.\\nJona. Hubbard, for Daniel Davis, N. 30, 36.\\nEphraim Farnum, N. 15, 9.\\nStephen Emerson, N. 9, 3.\\nTimothy Johnson, N. 10, 1, island range.\\nNath l Barker s right drawn by Solomon Llartin, N. 19, 44, 2d r.\\nNehemiah Heath, N. 3, 7, island range.\\nNathaniel Sanders, N. 32, 30, 2d range.\\nNathaniel Jones, N. 6, 67, 2d range.\\nSamuel Grainger, N. 22, 41, 2d range.\\nThomas Blanchard, N. 21, 42, 2d range.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "80 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\ndoing and to direct them in an amicable way fortliwitli to withdraw\\nthemselves from the s land, and their Pretensions to it by virtue of\\nthe aforesaid vote of the Gcn Assembly of the Massachusetts.\\nR. Waluron, Clerk Conns.\\nIn obedience to an order of His Hon., the Lieul GovF, and the\\nnon e the Council, made the 10^ Instant, appointing us a Com-\\nmittee, with directions to repair immediately to Pennccook and\\nforewarn any persons whom we might find there from laying out or\\nsettling upon that place or any other of His Majesty s lands within\\nthis Govern^, as by the s order will more at large and fully appear.\\nWe have been at s\u00c2\u00abi Pennecook, where we found his Hon., CoK Will.\\nTailer, Esq., Jn Wainwright, Esq., and Col Elea Tyng, Esq., with\\nsundry others, (mostly unknown to us,) to the number of near forty\\nmen, who were felling the trees and laying out the lands there\\nWhereupon we presented them with the order of Court aforesaid,\\nand assured them that their proceedings were highly displeasing to\\nthe Government which sent us thither, and that their prcsisting\\nNicholiis White, N. 3, lowest range.\\nJonathan Fulsepher, N. 4, lowest range.\\nKichard Hazzen, junr., N. 9, lowest range.\\nSamuel Toppan, N. 2, 63, 2d range.\\nMoses Bordman, right drawn by Josiah Jones, N. 32, 23.\\nBezalicl Toppan, N. 11, 52, 2d range.\\nThomas Learned, N. 40, 4, 3d range.\\nJoseph Hall, N. 2, lowest range.\\nNehemiah Carlton, N. 13, 46.\\nBenja. Niecols, N. 11, 1.\\nMinister s lot, N. 1, 51\\nMinisterial lot, N. 2, 50.\\nSchool lot, N. 11, 60.\\nN. Parker, N. 8, 69, 2d range.\\nLots in number, 103.\\nThe settlers came into the following orders, votes and rules, for the more\\nspeedy bringing forward and securely effecting the settlement, which were pre-\\nsented to the committee for their consideration, and allowed and approved of\\nby them.\\nAt a general meeting of the intended settlers of a tract of land called Penny\\nCook, held at Andover the eighth day of February, Anno Domini 1726,\\nAgreed and Voted, That a block house of twenty-five feet in breadth and forty\\nfeet in length, be built at Penny Cook for the security of the settlers.\\nAgreed and Voted, That John Chandler, Moses Hazzen, Nehemiah Carlton,\\nNathan Simonds and Ebenezer Stevens, be a committee, and they are hereby\\nempowered to build, either by themselves, or to agree with workmen to build, a\\nblock house of twenty-five feet in breadth, and forty feet in length, as in their\\njudgment shall be most for the security of the settlers.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Benjamin Stevens, Esq., be treasurer for the settlers.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 81\\ntherein would be at their peril for that they might depend upon it\\nwhen the controversial boundary between the two Provinces should\\nbe determined, the poor misled people who might be induced to settle\\nthere under the colour of a Mass. Grant would be dispossessed of the\\nsaid lands, or suffer some other inconveniences equally grievous, and\\nthat the message on which we were sent, and the fair forewarning\\nthey had by us, would take away all occasions of complaint when they\\nshould be compelled to leave the s lands and lose the benefit of their\\nimprovement.\\nTo which the gentlemen above named were pleased to reply, that\\nas we were sent by the Govern of N. Hampshire, so were they by\\nthe Govern^ of Mass., and that when they returned home they shall\\nlay before their Gen. Assembly the order of Coun. which we had\\ndelivered them, who without doubt would pass thereon, as they, the\\nsaid Gen Assembly, should think proper.\\nNats Weare,\\nRich Waldron,\\nTheodore Atkinson.*\\nDated at Portsmouth, the IS h May, 1726.\\nOn the 28th June, 1726, Mr. Dummer, agent in London, was\\ninstructed by the government of Massachusetts to take care and\\nanswer any complaint that New-Hampshire might send home\\nagainst the grant of Penacook, lately made and he was furnished\\nAgreed and Voted, Tliat Timotliy Jolinson, Jolm Osgood and Moses Day, be\\nchosen, appointed and empowered to examine tlie charges that siiall arise in\\nImilding a block house at the place called Penny Cook, or any other charges that\\nshall arise in the bringing forward the settlement, and to allow, as in their judg-\\nment shall be just and equal, and also to draw money out of the treasury for\\nthe defraying of said charges.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the sum of one hundred pounds be raised and paid by\\nthe settlers into the hands of Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., treasurer for defraying\\nthe charges that arc past, or that shall necessarily arise in bringing forward the\\nintended settlement, to be paid in to said Benja. Stevens, Esqr., by the first day of\\nMarch next, in equal proportion.\\nEnoch Coffin dissented.\\nAgreed and Voted, That a committee of five persons on oath, three whereof to\\nbe a quorum, be chosen out of the number of the intended settlers, to lay out\\nthe remaining part of the interval at the place called Penny Cook, that is not yet\\nlaid out, so that the whole of the interval already laid out, or to be laid out to\\nthe settlers, shall be equal in quantity and quality.\\nAgreed and Voted, That John Chandler, Henry Rolfe, William White, Rich-\\nard Hazzen, junr., and John Osgood, be a committee, chosen and empowered to\\nlay out the interval at the place called Penny Cook, that is not yet laid out, so\\nDocuments for Chap. HI., No. 2 E.xpenses, c.\\n6", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nwith the necessary papers. And, on the 8th of August, Mr.\\nHenry Newman, agent of New-Hampshire, addressed the fol-\\nloAving letter\\nTo the Right Honorable, the Lords Comm ^f of Trade and Plantations.\\nMay it please your Lordships\\nI have just now received Letters from New-Hampshire complaining\\nof the encroachment of the Massachusetts Province, hy selling, grant-\\ning and laying out great quantities of land near the centre of the\\nProvince of New-Hampshire, at a place called Peunecook.\\n1 have some time since lodged in the Council Office, to he laid be-\\nfore his Majesty, a Memorial, requesting that the boundaries of these\\nProvinces may be settled, so as to prevent any future disputes be-\\ntween their respective governments, which I presume will be referred\\nto your Lordships but as that may require time to be considered, I\\nhumbly beg your Lordships would be pleased, in the meanwhile, to\\ninterpose your authority for securing his Majesty s interest in the\\nProvince of New Hampshire, from any detriment by the grants al-\\nready made, and for suspending all grants of land on or near the\\nboundaries in dispute, till his Majesty s pleasure therein shall be\\nI am, with the greatest respect,\\nYour Lordship s most obedient.\\nMiddle Temple, ^^^^^VJ^\\n8 August, 1726.* H^^^^ Newman.\\nthat the whole of the interval already laid out or to be laid out to the settlers\\nshall be equally divided among them as to quantity and quality.\\nAgreed, That Jonathan Hubbard be admitted a settler in place of Daniel\\nDavis, who was admitted a settler of Penny Cook by the Honorable General\\nCourt s Committee, appointed to admit persons to settle Penny Cook.\\nAgreed arid Voted, That three pence per tail for every rattlesnake s tail, the\\nrattlesnake being killed within the bounds of the townsliip granted at Penny\\nCook, be paid hy the intended settlers the money to be paid by tiie settlers\\ntreasurer, upon sight of the tail.\\nBy the Committee of the General Court Agreed and Voted, That Mr. Rich-\\nard Hazzen, junr., be desired to draw a plan of the township of Penny Cook, at\\nthe charge of the settlers, to be annexed to the town s book, for the use thereof.\\nThe committee adjusted the accounts of the sum of four hundred pounds they\\nreceived of the settlers, the balance of which, being forty-nine shillings and five\\npence, was lodged in the hands of the clerk.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the settlers petition to the General Court about set-\\ntling on the west side, founded on the report of the committee with the order of\\nCourt thereon, allowing their settlement on the west side of the river to be re-\\ncorded, which is in the words following\\nThe committee appointed by the Great and General Court, in their session\\nFrom the original in the Secretarj s office.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 83\\nAt a meeting held at Ipswich, on the 9th of September, 172G,\\nEns. John Chandler, John Ayer and William Barker were chosen\\na committee of the proprietors to go out and clear a sufficient\\ncart-way to Penny Cook the nighest and best way they can\\nfrom Haverhill. Richard Hazzen, also, was one who went to\\nsearch out a way from the place where Chester meeting-house\\nstands to Penny Cook, and mark the same. This way was\\npartly cleared during the fall, and, according to tradition, several\\npersons, among whom were Henry Rolfe and Richard Urann,\\npassed the winter of 1726 in the settlement suffering severely\\nfrom the cold, and for want of suitable provisions and that they\\nwere relieved by the aid of friendly Indians who still dwelt\\nthere.\\nIn January, 1726, (the reader will bear in mind that this is\\nold style the year then commencing the 25th of March,) the\\ncommittee of the Court, having taken a bond of five pounds from\\neach of the admitted settlers for their lots, to be paid on demand,\\nbegun and held in November last, to bring forward a settlement and admit one\\nhundred persons therein on a tract of land lying on Merrimack river, at a place\\nthere known by the name of Penny Cook, and having given sufficient notice for\\nany persons that were ready and would engage in the settlement, to meet the\\ncommittee at Haverhill, the first week in February last. The committee at that\\ntime and place admitted one hundred persons or grantees into the said tract or\\ngrant, giving preference to the petitioners that appeared to us the most suitable\\ntherefor. And in May last we proceeded to the place, in oi der to lay out the\\nwhole township, and the lots directed in the order of the General Court, begin-\\nning at the mouth of Contoocook river, where that joins Merrimack river, and\\nthence run a line east seventeen degrees north, three miles, and upon a course\\nwest seventeen degrees south, four miles, and so at right angles at the extremes\\nof each of the aforesaid lines, seven miles southerly each, and thence from the\\ntermination of the seven miles which complete the grant, and is according\\nthereto and upon view and strict survey of the lands on the east side of Mer-\\nrimack, we find that there is little or no water, the land near the river extreme\\nmountainous and almost impassable, and very unfit for and incapable of receiv-\\ning fifty families, as the Court has ordered more especially considering that\\nnear the centre of the town on the east side of the river Merrimack the Honor-\\nable Samuel Sewall, Esqr., has a farm of five hundred acres of good land, for-\\nmerly granted by this Court, and laid out to Gov r Endicott. The committee,\\ntherefore, with submission to the Honorable General Court, thought it advisable,\\nand accordingly have laid out one hundred and three lots of land for settlements\\non the west side, contiguous to each other, regularly, and in a defensible man-\\nner, as by the plat of them and of the whole grant, [which is hereby presented,]\\nwill appear and inasmuch as the generality of the land answers not the grantees", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nthen allowed the settlers to draw their lots, which resulted as\\nstated in the list presented above in the records. The figures\\nrepresent the house and six acre home lots. Thus Enoch\\nCoffin, N. 36, 26, means that Enoch Coffin drew house lot\\nnumber thirty-six, and home lot six acres number twenty-\\nsix. All the house and home lots recorded in the list were\\non the west side of the river. By reference to the map at the\\nclose of this chapter drawn from original plans, and carefully\\narranged by Stephen C. Badger, Esq. the primitive house\\nand home lots may be identified, and their exact location deter-\\nmined. The ranges such as 2d range, Island range,\\n3d range, Lowest range, c. are explained on the map.\\n17 2 7.\\nThe lots being drawn, the proprietors, at a meeting in An-\\ndover, on the 8th of February, 1726, voted to build a block-\\nexpectation, and five hundred acres laid out as aforesaid, humbly offer that the\\nlike number of acres of the unappropriated lands adjacent to the township may\\nbe made to the settlers as an equivalent therefor.\\nAll which is humbly submitted.\\nSigned by order of the Committee, Wm. Tailek.\\nIn Council, June 15th, 1726. Read and sent down.\\nIn the House of Representatives, June 15th, 1726. Read and ordered, Tiiatthis\\nreport be so far accepted as that the settlers or grantees be and hereby are em-\\npowered and allowed to make their settlements on the western side of the river\\nMerrimack, according as it is proposed in the said report, and projected in and\\nby the said plan the former order of Court notwithstanding, and the said\\ncommittee are directed to proceed accordingly.\\nSent up for concurrence. Wji. Dudley, Speak r.\\nIn Council, June 2Uh, 1726. Read and concurred.\\nJ. WiLLARD, Sec ry.\\nConsented to Wm. Dummer.\\nA copy from file composed and examined from the original.\\nBy J. WiLLARD, Sec ry.\\nA true copy. Examined by John Wainwright, C. Clerk.\\nAttest John Wainwright, C. Cleric.\\nPROVINCE OF THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY.\\nTb John Wainwright, ^s^.. Clerk to the Committee for bringing forward the\\nsettlement at Penny Cook\\nAt the desire of the admitted settlers of the said town, these are to empower\\nand direct you to set up a notification in the towns of Andover, Bradford and", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 85\\nhouse, twentj-fivc feet in breadth and forty feet m length, -which\\nshould serve the double purpose of a fort and a meeting-house.\\nThen, to meet and defray all expenses as they went along or,\\nrather, in advance, they agreed to raise and pay into the hands\\nof their Treasurer, Benjamin Stephens, Esq., the sum of one\\nhundred pounds by the first day of March, in equal proportion\\nchose a committee to lay out the remainder of the interval that\\nis not yet laid out including all on the east side, and a portion\\nalso on the west side. In the records this is called The Second\\nDivision of Intervale at Fenni/ CooJc. This division was sur-\\nveyed and laid out in May, 1727, by Richard Ilazzen, Jr.,\\nsurveyor, and was accepted by the Court s committee in the\\nfollowing March. The division on the east side comprised\\nTwenty-four lots on the Mill Brook Interval, first range\\nTwelve lots on the Mill Brook Interval, second range\\nSixteen lots on the Sugar Ball Plain\\nTwenty-eight lots on the Middle Plain\\nWhich lots were numbered from the upper end dotvn Merri-\\nmack river.\\nHaverhill, warning them to assemble and convene at the house of John Gi iffin,\\nin Bradford, inn-holder, on Wednesday, the sixth day of March next, at ten of\\ntlie clock before noon, then and there to receive the return of the committee of\\nthe settlers to lay out a way, c., from Haverhill to Penny Cook, and to settle\\naccounts with the treasurer, and to take effectual measures to oblige any settlers\\nto pay the arrears of any former grants of money for the bringing forward the\\nsettlement, if any such there be, and generally empowering the settlers at said\\nanniversary meeting to come into such good and wholesome rules, votes and\\norders for the speedy and effectual settlement of the said town, agreeable to the\\nconditions of the grant thereof from tlie General Court, as they may then judge\\nproper and necessary provided there l)e two at least of the General Court s\\ncommittee present at the said meeting, and approving of the votes the settlers\\nshall then pass before they are entered in the town book.\\nGiven under our hands at Boston, the twenty-sixth day of January, Anno\\nDomini 1727.\\nWm. Tailee,\\nSpen r Phipps,\\nWii. Dudley,\\nJohn Wainwright,\\nEleazar Ttng.\\n[The meeting of the admitted settlers was held at the house of John Griffin,\\nin Bradford, agreeable to notification, March 6, 1727.]\\n*See Records, Mar. 7, 1727-8, and explanation at the close of tliis cliapter.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nThe division of the Lowest Interval, on the east side, in which\\nthe lots were numbered from the town Hne up Merrimack\\nriver, consisted of thirtj-one lots, with a drift-way of three rods\\nwide through the westerly end of the thirty-first lot.\\nIn the same Second Division were included seventeen lots\\non Rattle-snake Plains, numbered iqj the river sixteen lots\\nat Frogg Ponds, together with lots to several individuals, as\\nappears in the record. No plan being found of the lots in the\\nSecond Division, they cannot easily, if at all, be identified. By\\nreference to the annexed list the quantity of lands and their\\nlocality, as designated by particular names, may be seen.\\nThe section called Rattle-snake Plains included the interval\\nlands from Farnum s Eddy, so called, to the hills and bluffs\\nwhich border the river, north-east of West Parish village. The\\nAgreed and Voted, That Solomon Martin be admitted a settler in the place of\\nNathaniel Barker s right, who, refusing to pay his proportionable charge, the\\nsame was paid by the said Solomon Martin to the treasurer, the 8th of Feb ry\\nlast.\\nAgreed and Voted. That the sum of twenty -six pounds be allowed and paid\\nout of the settlers treasury to the persons to whom the same is respectively due,\\nto discharge the account of laying out the second division of interval.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the sum of one hundred and thirteen pounds seven-\\nteen shillings be allowed and paid out of the treasury to the persons to whom\\nthe same is respectively due, for building the block house, making canoes, c.,\\nin full discharge of said accounts.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Ebenezer Eastman, Joseph Hall and Abraham Foster\\nlie a committee appointed and empowered to amend the new way to Penny\\nCook from Haverhill, and to fence in all the first division of interval, the said\\nfence to begin at the corner of John Peabody s house lot next the river, and\\nso to run along the foot of the home lots to Horse Shoe Pond, where a gate is\\nto hang; tlien to begin at the corner of David Wood s house-lot by the pond,\\nand thence to the upper end of Walter Nummons field, along by the hill side,\\nand tliere hang a gate, or leave a pair of bars, each proprietor to have\\nliberty to fence in his proportion, or else to pay the committee for doing it,\\nwhich fence shall be erected and finished by the last day of May next. The\\neleven lots in the lowest interval are excepted out of this vote, and any person\\nwho neglects to make up his proportion of fence by the aforesaid time, he shall\\npay ten shillings per day to the committee who makes it up.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the committee aforesaid shall set out each settler s\\nproportion of fence by the middle of May next.\\nAgreed and Voted, Tiiat Messrs. Joseph Hall and John Pecker be a com-\\nmittee empowered to agree with a minister to preach at Penny Cook the year\\nensuing, to begin the service from the fifteenth day of filay next. The said\\ncommittee are directed to act with all prudence, and not assure tlie gentleman", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 87\\nhill west of this interval was formerly called Rattle-snake Hill\\nnow more commonly known as Granite Hill. Three pence per\\ntail was offered as a reward by the settlers for every rattle-\\nsnake s tail that should be killed within bounds of the township\\nto be paid upon sight of the tail.\\nRichard Hazzen, Jr., who surveyed the Second Division,\\nwas desired by the committee of the General Court to draw a\\nplan of the Township of Penny Cook, at the charge of the\\nsettlers, to be annexed to the Town s Book but no such plan\\nis now to be found. The tradition is, that he drew the plan,\\nbut, on account of some misunderstanding about the pay for it,\\nhe burnt it up. In a deposition given by Mr. Hazzen, in 1752,\\nhe says That during the time he was laying out said lots\\nthere was constantly near fifty of the Proprietors of said Plan-\\ntation at work, or persons whom they hired, as he understood\\nmore than after the rate of one hundred pounds per annum for his services, and\\nto make report of their proceedings to the settlers.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the sum of one hundred pounds be forthwith raised\\non the settlers in equal proportion, and put into the hands of the treasurer for\\ndefraying the necessary charges that have already ai-isen, or which shall hereafter\\narise for effecting the settlement.\\nAdjourned to three o clock, post meridian.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Ebenezer Stevens, Moses Hazzen, John Coggin and\\nBenjamin Carlton, be, and are herebj- empowered, appointed and chosen col-\\nlectors, to demand and receive of the settlei s respectively, as soon as may be, all\\nsuch sum and suras as have been raised on said settlers and not paid by them\\nor any of them, according to the grants for raising the money and the said\\ncollector or collectors are hereby constituted and appointed attorney or attor-\\nneys respectively, if need be, in the name and behalf and for the use of the set-\\ntlers, to sue for and recover in the law the sum or sums raised on any settler or\\nsettlers as aforesaid, who shall neglect to pay the same and the said collectors\\nare directed to pay the money they collect unto the treasurer, the charge of col-\\nlection to be paid by the settlers.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Deacon John Osgood be chosen treasurer, and is\\nhereby empowered to adjust accounts witli Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., the former\\ntreasurer, and receive of him any money which he has received of any settler or\\nsettlers, and not yet paid out.\\nAgreed and Voted, To pay Deacon Osgood and Capt. Rolfe, out of the treas-\\nury, twenty shillings for the charge in preferring a petition to the General Court\\nin behalf of settlers.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the treasurer be empowered and directed to pay to\\nJohn Wainwright, Esqr., clerk to the committee, according to law, for recording\\nall the votes of this present meeting, upon his certificate of the charge.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "88\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nfrom them. Some were building the Meeting House; some\\nwere clearing and fencing in their lots, and others were plowing\\nup their land: and that Ebenezer Eastman, one of the Pro-\\nprietors, worked constantly in said Plantation during the whole\\ntime he was there, laying out lands. According to tradition,\\nEbenezer Eastman s team six yoke of oxen, with a cart\\nwas the first that crossed the wilderness from Haverhill to Pena-\\ncook. It was driven by Jacob Shute, who, in order to get safely\\ndown Sugar Ball bank, felled a pine tree and chained it, top\\nforemost, to his cart, to stay the motion of it down the precipice.*\\nWhile the proprietors of Penacook were thus vigorously bring-\\ning forward their plantation, under the auspices of the Great and\\nGeneral Court of Massachusetts, the government of New-Hamp-\\nshire, on the 20th of May, 1727, made a grant to Jonathan\\nWiggin and others, of the tract comprised within the following\\nThe consideration of the ferrv and mills is referred to the adjournment of this\\nmeeting.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the treasurer be directed to pay to John Wainwright,\\nEsq., for his service and expense in attending at the meeting of the Penny Cook\\nsettlers, according to the usual custom.\\nArjreed and Voted, That the treasurer be directed and empowered to pay Mr.\\nJohn Sanders fifteen shillings, for his service and expense in attending on the\\npresent meeting.\\nA coptj of the Settlers Discharge to the General Court s Committee for the first four\\nhundred pounds.\\nReceived of John Wainwright, Esqr., clerk to the committee of the General\\nCourt, appointed to bring forward the settlement of Penny Cook, March 7th,\\n1727, the sum of two pounds, nine shillings and five pence, being the balance of\\nan account of four hundred pounds paid by the said settlers of Penny Cook at\\nsundry times to the said committee, which account was adjusted at a meeting of\\nthe settlers, held at Andover, the 8th of February, 1726, and the said balance\\nwas then lodged in tlie said Wainwright s hands, as appears by the Penny Cook\\nbook.\\n^2, 9, 6. John Osgood, Trcasr to tje Settlers.\\nA true copy of the original receipt.\\nAttest: John Wainweight, C. Clerk.\\nThis meeting is adjourned to Wednesday, the fifteenth of May next, at ten\\no clock, to be held at the block house in Penny Cook.\\nAttest: John Wainwright, C. Clerk.\\n*Seo further notice of Jacob Shute in Biograpliical Chapter.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 89\\nbounds, viz. Beginning on the south-east side of the town of\\nChichester, and running nine miles bj Chichester and Canter-\\nbury, and carrying that breadth of nine miles from each of the\\naforesaid towns, south-west, until the full complement of eighty-\\none square miles are fully made up. This grant, covering the\\ngreater part, both of Concord and Pembroke, and a part of IIop-\\nkinton, gave rise to a vexatious controversy between the claim-\\nants under each grant, which was continued from 1750 till 1762,\\nof which we shall speak in full hereafter.\\nRobert Bradley, Esq., of Fryeburg, relates that his grand-\\nfather, Samuel Ayer, when a young man of eighteen years of\\nage, drove a team of six or ten pairs of oxen from Plaverhill to\\nPenacook, with a barrel of pork that on reaching Sugar Ball\\nhill, he took off all but the hind team, and let the cart down the\\nhill by fastening to it a pine tree, which was cut down and\\nAt a meeting of the admitted settlers to bring forward the settlement of the\\ntownship of Penny Cook, began and held at the house of John Griffin, inn-\\nholder, in Bradford, the 6th day of March, Anno Domini 1727, and from thence\\ncontinued by adjournment to Wednesday, the fifteenth day of May, then next\\nfollowing, at ten of the clock, and held at the block house in Penny Cook\\nCapt. Henry Rolfe, moderator, being present,\\nVoted, That Capt. Henry Rolfe, Messrs. Ebenezer Eastman and James Mitch-\\nell be a committee to agree with some person or persons to build a saw mill at\\nPenny Cook, at some suitable place for a mill, and to oblige the persons who\\nshall build the same to .supply the town with good merchantable boards of yellow\\npine at thirty shillings per thousnnd, and good merchantable white pine boards\\nat forty shillings per thousand, or else to saw of each sort to the halves the\\nsaid mill to be ready to go and cut within six months and to agree with some\\nperson or persons to erect and build a grist mill at Penny Cook, in some place\\nconvenient for the same, and to oblige the persons with whom they shall agree,\\nto grind the town s corn of all sorts, well and free from grit, for the usual toll\\nsaid mill to be ready to go and grind within one year from this day, or as much\\nsooner as they can. The said committee are to indent and agree with persons\\nto build said mills upon the conditions following, viz. That as soon as said\\nmills are built, fifty pounds in bills of credit shall be paid by the community to\\nthe builders of the saw mill, and fifty pounds more to the builders of the grist\\nmill and, secondly, to lay out fifty acres of land to the said saw mill, as con-\\nvenient as may be, and also fifty acres more to the said grist mill, to be laid\\nout as convenient as may be. And lastly, that the persons that shall build said\\nmills shall be entitled to the said lands and also the stream or streams upon\\nwhich the said mills shall stand and be, so long as they are kept in good repair,\\nand the end and design of the town in having said mills built answered. And\\nin case the said committee cannot find persons that will undertake to build the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "90 THE PL.\\\\NTATION OF PENACOOK.\\ntrimmed so tliat tlie sharp and stubby limbs dragging behind\\nwould retard the motion of the cart. In swimming the oxen\\nacross the river to the Avest side, one ox was drowned, but was\\nimmediately dressed for beef. Young Ayer is supposed to be\\nthe first person who ploughed a field in Penacook. He started,\\non his return to Haverhill, at sunrise, and did not arrive there\\ntill midnight. It is conceded that Ebenezer Eastman s family\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was the first that settled in Penacook in 1727.\\nThe proprietors were exact in requiring each one to bear his\\npart of expenses, as they were incurred and in case of refusing\\nto do this, the right to a settlement was forfeited. Hence Solo-\\nmon INIartin was admitted a settler in place of Nathaniel Barker\\nand, subsequently, (1730,) WiUiam Whitcher, Nathaniel San-\\nders, Thomas Coleman and Thomas Wicombe, forfeited their\\nrights, and their lots were taken by Joseph Gerrish, Henry\\nsaid mills as aforesaid, tlien they are desired to proceed and build the said mills\\nat the cost and charge of the community, as soon as may be, not exceeding the\\ntime above-mentioned.\\nAgreed, That the undertakers to Imild the saw mill and grist mill shall be\\nentitled to said lands of fifty acres to each mill, and the stream or streams, in\\ncase the mills arc built as aforesaid and providentially consumed, that then not-\\nwithstanding, the builder or builders shall be entitled to the stream or streams, or\\nlands.\\nAgreed upon and Voted, That Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, Mr. Abraham Foster\\nand Mr. Joseph Hall shall be a committee to agree with some suitable person to\\nkeep a ferry on Merrimack river at Penny Cook, in the most convenient place\\nthey can find for that purpose and that they lay out and clear the best way\\nthey can to the ferry place, and after they have stated the place where the\\nsaid ferry shall be kept, that the ferry-men shall have and receive the prices\\nfollowing, viz. For ferrage of each m.an and horse, six pence for each horned\\nbeast, four pence and this establishment to remain and be in force for six\\nyears.\\nAgreed upon and Voted, That Capt. Henry Rolfe, Mr. Ebenezer Eastman and\\nJames Mitchell be empowered to exchange Samuel Jones s house lot to some\\nmore convenient place, there being no conveniency for water where the lot is\\nnow laid.\\nAgreed upon and Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the house of Mr.\\nGriffin, in Bradford, on the last Tuesday of October next, at nine of the clock\\nin the forenoon.\\nHenky Rolfe, Moderator.\\nA true copy Attest\\nJohn Wainwright, C. Clerk.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 91\\nRolfe, Esq., Nathan Webster and Joseph Parker they paying,\\nseverally, five pounds for said lots.*\\n172 8.\\nThe spring of 1728 opened upon the new plantation with most\\nfavorable auspices. Eager to fulfil the conditions of their grant,\\nand to become settled in their chosen home, a large number of\\nthe propi-ietors were early engaged in building houses clearing,\\nfencing and plowing their lands. The block, or meeting-house,\\nwas finished canoes constructed for navigating the river the\\nnew-way to Pennycook from Haverhill was improved, and the\\nFirst Division of interval ordered to be completely fenced by the\\nlast of May. Messrs. Joseph Hale and John Pecker were\\nchosen a committee to agree with a minister to preach at Pen-\\nnycook to begin the 15th of May, but they were not to\\nAndover, December the lOth, 1728.\\nTo the Honorable Committee for Penny Cook\\nWhereas those men which liave been empowered for building the meeting-house\\nat Penny Cook, and laying out land, are kept out of their money, arc in want\\nof it, and they can t come at it\\nWe, the subscribers, humbly pray that a meeting be appointed for the\\ncommunity and society of Penny Cook, to consult some way and method how\\nevery man may come by his just dues, and also to see if they can come into\\nsome way and method to preserve their corn, we received great damage the\\nlast year in our corn for want of fence, and also to see whether those men that\\nfirst went to wait upon the Honorable Committee to Penny Cook may have\\nallowance for their sei-vice therein, and to do such other matters as may be\\nthought necessary for the interest of the settlers.\\nTiMOTHT Johnson, John Foster,\\nJohn Chandler, John Osgood,\\nWiLLiAsi Barker, Abraham Foster,\\nEbenezer Stevens, Joseph Abbott.\\nDue notification being issued upon this petition. 1729, N. S.\\nAt a meeting of the settlers of Penny Cook, regularly assembled at Andover,\\nthe 8th day of January, Anno Domini 1728, at the said meeting were present\\nthe Honorable William Tailer, Esqr., John Wainwright, Esqr., and Mr. John\\nSaunders, of the General Court s Committee.\\nVoted, That Ens n John Chandler be moderator of this meeting.\\nVoted, That Bcnja. Stevens, Esq., be chosen and empowered to prefer a peti-\\ntion to the Honorable Genei-al Court in behalf of the settlers of Penny Cook,\\nSee Document for Chap. III., No. 3.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "92 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nassure the gentleman more than after the rate of one hundred\\npounds per annum for his service.\\nIn answer to a petition presented by John Osgood, in behalf\\nof the settlers, prajing that an allowance might be made\\nthem for the five hundred acres formerly laid out to the right\\nof Gov. Endicott the General Court, on the 6th of August,\\nthis year, authorized them to extend the south bounds of the\\ntownship one hundred rods, the full breadth of their town, and\\nthe same was confirmed to them as an equivalent for the afore-\\nsaid five hundred acres.\\nArrangements were also made for building a saw-mill within\\nsix months, a grist-mill within one year, and to establish a ferry\\nat the most convenient place. The first grist-inill stood at or\\nnear the bark-mill now owned by Robinson Morrill, in the\\nEast Village, and the saw-7niU, on the same stream, about half a\\nmile above. The mill-crank was brought upon a horse from Ha-\\nthat they will be pleased to declare the said township to lie in the county of\\nEssex, or some county.\\nl^ oted, That the sum of six pounds he allowed and paid out of the settlers\\ntreasury to the Honorable Col. Tailer, and Col. Wainwright, Esqrs., for their\\nservice in the Penny Cook affair, January 8th,l 728-9, and Deacon John Os-\\ngood, the present treasurer, is directed to pay the same accordingly.\\nVoted, That the meeting be adjourned to the house of Mr. John Griffin, in\\nBradford, to Wednesday, the twelfth day of March next, at nine of the clock\\nbefore noon.\\nAttest John Wainavright, C. Clerk.\\nUpon adjournment on the twelfth day of March, 1728, the proprietors and\\nsettlers of the lands called Penny Cook met at the house of Mr. John Griffin,\\nin Bradford, and tlie moderator, Ensign John Chandler, opened the meeting.\\nVoted, That a good and substantial fence, according to law, be made, so as to\\nenclose the great interval, and secure the corn and mowing grass from the en-\\ncroachment of cattle, horses, c., and that the said fence be made at the charge\\nof the proprietors in said field in equal shares or parts, except Mr. John Ayer,\\nwho is excused for that he has no improvable land on the west side of the river,\\nand that the said fence be made up and finished, completely finished, on or before\\nthe fifteenth day of Jlay next.\\nVoted, That Messrs. Ebenezer Eastman, Ebenezer Stevens, John Chandler,\\nJohn Pecker and Nathan Simonds, be a committee to view the fence and see\\nthat the same be made sufficient, according to law, and maintained accordingly\\nand in case any one shall refuse to make and maintain his part of the fence,\\nit shall and may be in the power of the committee to hire the fence made at the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 93\\nverhill. Soon after commencing operations the crank was broken.\\nHow to remedy the evil they knew not, as there was no black-\\nsmith nearer than Haverhill. One of the men, who had once\\nbeen in a blacksmith s shop and seen them work, undertook to\\nmend it. Collecting together a quantity of pitch-pine knots for\\na fire, they fastened the crank with beetle rings and wedges, and\\nthen welded the disjointed parts. The crank was afterwards\\nused many years. For the grist-mill fifty pounds Avere allowed,\\nand fifty acres of land granted to Nathan Symonds, as near to\\nthe mill as was convenient.\\n1729-1T30.\\nIt appears from the records that Rev. Bazaleel Toppan and\\nRev. Enoch Coffin, both of whom were proprietors, had been em-\\nployed to preach to the settlers. The first was allowed and paid\\nthirty shillings in full discharge for his services and the heirs\\ncharge of the delinquent, and every such delinquent shall pay ten shillings per\\ndiem for eveiy laborer who shall be employed and hired by said committee to\\nmake or repair such delinquent s fence.\\nVoted, That fourteen pounds, two shillings, be allowed and paid unto the sev-\\neral men who have laid their account before us for mending the highways to\\nPenny Cook, in full discharge of said accounts.\\nVoted, That Mr. Bezaliel Toppan be allowed and paid out of the proprietors\\ntreasury, for preaching and performing divine service at Penny Cook, thirty\\nshillings in full discharge.\\nVoted, That the sum of four pounds be allowed and paid unto the heirs of the\\nReverend Enoch Coffin, deceased, for his preaching and performing divine ser-\\nvice at Penny Cook, in full discharge.\\nThen the proprietors by unanimous vote desired the moderator to adjourn the\\nmeeting to this place, to the first Tuesday of May next, at nine o clock, which\\nwas accordingly done. To which time this meeting stands adjourned.\\nCopy. JouN Chandler, Moderator.\\n1799.\\nAt a regular meeting of the settlers of Penny Cook, begun and held at Ando-\\nver, the eighth day of January, Anno Domini 1728, and from thence continued\\nby sundry adjournments to the house of John Griffin, in Bradford, to the sixth\\nday of May, Anno Domini 1729, and then met.\\nEnsign John Chandler, Moderator.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "94 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nof the Rev. Enoch Coffin, deceased, were allowed and paid four\\npounds for his services. But as the settlers were resolved to\\nhave a minister permanently established among them, in Oc-\\ntober, 1729, thej voted to raise one hundred pounds towards\\nthe support of an orthodox minister; and, October 14, 1730, in\\nobedience to the order of the General Court s committee, voted,\\nWhereas several persons the last year lost their corn which was growing at\\nPenny Cook, by reason of sundry disorderly persons who failed in bringing\\nforward their settlements as was proposed, and by reason of several other\\ninconveniences we labor under therefore,\\nVoted, That Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., Messrs. John Pecker and Jolin Osgood\\nbe a committee to lay our grievances before the General Court s Committee, in\\norder to prefer a petition to the General Court at the next session for relief in\\nthe affair.\\nVoted, That ]\\\\rr. William Barker, Lieut. Timothy Johnson and Mr. Nicholas\\nWhite lie a committee to make a ford-way over Sow Cooke river, and clear a\\nway from thence to Merrimack river, against the eleven lots, to be done at the\\ncharge of the community by the 1 6th of May current.\\nVoted, That Mr. Nehemiah Carlton be desired to build a ferry boat of about\\nnineteen feet long, and of a suital)Ie breadth, to be well timbered, and every way\\nwell built, workmanlike, at the charge of the community, and to be done by the\\n20th of May current. Said boat to be delivered at Penny Cook for the use of\\nthe society. And a pair of good and suitable oars to be made by said Carlton,\\nfor said boat, said boat to be well and sufficiently caulked, pitched or turpentined,\\nand finished fit to carry people and creatures.\\nVoted, That Messrs. John Osgood and John Pecker be desired to procure a\\nminister to preach at Penny Cook, to the community there, the charge to be paid\\nby the community.\\nVoted, That there be a floor of plank or boards laid in the mceting-liouse, at\\nthe charge of the community of Penny Cook, and that Lieut. Timothy Johnson\\nand Mr. Nehemiah Carlton be a committee to get the floor laid as soon as may\\nbe conveniently.\\nVoted, That the sum of seven pounds, eighteen shillings and six pence, paid\\nby several persons and several subscriptions, to the sum of forty-one shillings\\nand six pence, be put into the treasurer s hands, and by him paid to Mr. Nehe-\\nmiah Carlton for the ferry boat when it is finished, which was accordingly\\ndelivered to the treasurer.\\n(Copy.) John Chandler, J/o rator.\\nJune 25th, 1729. The settlers of Penny Cook met at Mr. John Griffin s, at\\nBradford, taverner, and then chose Henry Eolfe, Esqr., moderator, and Mr.\\nObadiah Ayer, clerk for the present meeting.\\nThe company met at two, afternoon, and immediately adjourned for half an\\nhour. At five, afternoon, met again and chose Messrs. Deacon John Osgood,\\nJohn Pecker, John Chandler, Ebenezer Eastman, Nathan Simonds, William", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 95\\nby tlie admitted settlers, that we will have a mniister, and\\nthat the Rev Mr. Timothy Walker shall be the IMinister of\\nthe Town. A committee was also appointed to agree with\\nMr. Walker upon terms of settlement. Mr. Walker was a\\nnative of Woburn, Massachusetts. He was then about thirty\\nyears of age a graduate of Harvard College, in 1725. How\\nBarker, Joseph Hall, to be a committee to call and agree with some suitable\\nperson to be a minister of the town of Penny Cook, and pay him such salary as\\nshall hereafter be agreed upon by the companj of settlers.\\nVoted, Tliat the minister of said town shall be paid by the community one\\nhundred pounds per annum for his preaching and performing divine service\\nthere.\\nVoted, and allowed to Mr. Henry Rolfe five pounds for his building a ferry\\nboat for the carrying the community and company over the river Suiicook.\\nThe following persons paid, viz. Deacon John Osgood, 11 shillings; John\\nPecker, 3s. Nath l Lovcjoy, 3s. Obadiah Ayer, 3.5. Joseph Hall, 3s. David\\nKimball, 5s. Nathaniel Page, 3s. Ebenezer Eastman, 5s. Nicholas White, 4s.;\\namounting in the whole to 40s.\\nVoted, That one hundred pounds be allowed and paid out of tlie company s\\ntreasury for and toward the settling of tlie first minister of Penny Cook, as an\\nencouragement for settling as their minister, and taking the pastoral charge\\namong them.\\nThe moderator then adjourned to the last Wednesday in August next, at ten\\no clock in the forenoon.\\nAttest Obadiah Ater, Clerk.\\nThe within votes were passed by the settlers of Penny Cook regularly assem-\\nbled as within mentioned.\\nHenry Rolfe, Moderator.\\nConcordat cum originali.\\nAttest John Wainwright, C. Clerk.\\nBradford, Au(just 27th, 1729. At a meeting of the settlers of Penny Cook at\\nthe house of Mr, John Grifhn, held by adjournment from a meeting of said set-\\ntlers at the house of the above-said Griffin, on the 25th day of June, last past,\\nwhen Henry Rolfe, Esqr., was chosen moderator. At the present meeting Mr.\\nNathaniel Coffin was chosen clerk for the present meeting.\\nHenry Rolfe, Esqr., was chosen to join with Benjamin Stevens, Esqr., and\\nMr. John Pecker to petition the General Court [as soon as may be] for to em-\\npower the settlers of Penny Cook to raise money to pay public charges by mak-\\ning that settlement a township, invested with powers and privileges, c., or other-\\nwise, as may be thought proper.\\nVoted, That Ensign Chandler and Mr. Ebenezer Eastman are desired and\\nempowered to alter the way to Penny Cook in some places, if they can do it to\\ngood advantage, and also to mend said way as they think best on the proprie-\\ntors charge.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "96 THE PLANTATION OF TENACOOK.\\nlong a term he had preached before he was called to settle is\\nunknown. The call seems to have been mianimous, and\\nMr. Walker s answer to it in the affirmative. They agreed to\\npay him, as a salary, one hundred pounds for the first year\\nthen to increase forty shillings per annum till it came to XI 20\\ntogether with the use of the parsonage. The salary was to be\\nIt was Voted, That this meetuig shall be adjourned to the 14th day of October\\nnext, at nine of the clock in the forenoon, at the house of Mr. John Griffin.\\nWliat is above written is a true and just memorandum of the votes passed at\\nthe meeting on the day above written.\\nWitness my hand Nathaniel Coffin, Clerk.\\nHenry Rolfe, Moderator.\\nConcordat cum originali.\\nAttest John Wainwright, C. Clerk.\\nTuesday, October \\\\Uh, 1729. The intended settlers met by adjournment at\\nMr. John Griffin s, in Bradford, and chose Mr. Obadiah Ayer for this present\\nmeeting their clerk.\\nVoted, That every proprietor or intended settler of Penny Cook shall forth-\\nwith pay or cause to be paid into the hands of John Osgood, of Andover, the\\ncompany s present treasurer, the sum of twenty shillings toward the support of\\nan orthodox minister, and to preach at Penny Cook aforesaid for this current\\nyear, the same to be by him paid in proportion to his preaching and perform-\\ning divine service at Penny Cook.\\nVoted, That the sum of fifty pounds be forthwith raised and paid into the\\nhands of the company s treasurer that is to say, ten shillings to be forthwith\\npaid by each proprietor toward paying for a grist mill at Penny Cook, when\\nthe same shall be finished according to contract.\\nWhereas sundry persons who have been admitted intended settlers at Penny\\nCook have refused to pay in their respective proportion of charges that have\\nnecessarily arisen in order to bring forward the settlement according to the\\ncondition of the grant, which very much tends to hinder and discourage the\\nsame\\nVoted, therefore. That Messrs. Henry Eolfe, Esqr., and Deacon John Osgood,\\nof Andover, be empowered to make due inquiry who or what persons are in\\narrearage, and that then Deacon John Osgood, or some meet person, be by him\\nemployed to call upon all such as are behind hand in their payments, forthwith\\nto pay in the same to tlie company s treasurer and upon their refusal or non-pay-\\nment, to return their names to the General Court s Committee, praying that their\\nhonors would proceed with them with the utmost rigor and severity.\\nVoted, That Messrs. John Johnson, Ebenezer Stevens and John Pecker be a\\ncommittee to view the saw mill and grist mill at Penny Cook, and see whether\\nthey be well built and finished according to contract, and so as to answer the\\ncompany s design in granting the stream or streams, e., and upon their report-\\ning that the said mills are so built, that then Mr. Osgood, our treasurer, be", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 97\\npaid in whatever shall be the medium of trade for the time\\nbeing in this Province, at silver, seventeen shillings per ounce.\\nThe late John Farmer, Esq., estimated Mr. Walker s salary of\\n\u00c2\u00a3100 at;$130,67; adding \u00c2\u00a320 it would be $156,83. In\\naddition to this, ,\u00c2\u00a3100 w^as paid to Mr. Walker to enable him\\nto build an house and he also had, in his right, the lot laid out\\ndirected to pay unto Mr. Simonds and company the sums heretofore granted for\\nbuilding said mills. Then\\nVoted, That Mr. Moderator be desired to adjourn this meeting to this place to\\nthe last Tuesday in March next, at ten of the clock in the morning, to which\\ntime and place the moderator accordingly adjourned the meeting.\\nAttest 0. Ayer, Clerk.\\nConcordat cum originali.\\nAttest John Wainwrigiit, C. CUrk.\\nWe, the subscribers, being chosen a committee at a meeting of the admitted\\nsettlers to bring forward the settlement of the town of Penny Cook, begun and\\nheld at the house of John Griffin, inn-holder, in Bradford, the sixth day of March,\\nAnno Domini 1727, and from thence continued by adjournment to Wednesday,\\nthe fifteenth day of May, then following, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, and\\nheld at the block house at Penny Cook, this twenty-third day of July, A. D.\\n1730, have, according to the best of our skill or knowledge for the good of the\\ntown and the conveniency of the mills, that is to say, the saw mill and grist\\nmill, or for the builder thereof, have laid out the hundred acres of land, fifty at\\nor for each mill, according to the vote passed at the aforesaid meeting, in two\\nparts or parcels, the first bounded as follows, viz. beginning at a poplar,\\nwhich is Chandler s and Stevens bounds at the head of the intervals, and run-\\nning southeasterly about sixty-five poles, to a stake between Eastman and Cog-\\ngen thence northeasterly, upon the head of the interval to a white oak, called\\nChandler s bounds thence northeast and by north, about one hundred poles, to\\na stake thence northerly, about eighty-six poles, to a black oak marked thence\\nsouthwesterly, about one hundred and forty poles, to a pitch pine marked thence\\nsouthwesterly, thirty poles, to the poplar first mentioned. The second piece is\\nas follows, viz. beginning at a white oak marked, thence northwesterly, about\\neighty poles, to a black oak marked thence soutliwesterly, about eighty poles, to\\na white oak marked, and from thence to the white oak first mentioned, allowing\\na highway four rods wide from the saw mill so down by the grist mill to the\\nwhite oak, which is Ensign John Chandler s bounds of his addition lot also, a\\nhighway from the corn mill northwesterly to the common land.\\nHenry Rolfe,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nJames Mitchell.\\nA true copy of the original return, recorded and examined by\\nJohn Wainwright, C. Clerk.\\n7", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "98 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nto the first minister. It was, however, expressly stipulated that\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2if Mr. Walker ly extrcam old age shall he disenabled from carry-\\ning on the whole loorh of the Ministry, that he shall abate so much\\nof his salary as shall be rationaV^\\nThe 18th of November was appointed as the day for ordi-\\nnation. The council invited and present, so far as known, were\\nRev. John Barnard, of North Andover, Rev. Samuel Phillips,\\n17 3 O.\\nAt a legal meeting of the settlers of Penny Cook by acljournment from Octo-\\nber Utii, 1729, to March 31st, 1730, Henry Eolfe, Esqr., moderator. Mr. Jus-\\ntice Wainwright appointed clerk to said settlers, [l y the Honorable Committee\\nof the General Conrt,] being absent, Joshua Bayley \\\\yas chosen clerk by a full\\nvote for said day.\\nVoted, That Messrs. John Osgood, John Pecker, Ebenezer Eastman, John\\nChandler, William Barker, Josejih Hall and Nathan Simonds, be a committee\\nto agree with the Eev. Mr. Timothy Walker, in order to his carrying on the\\nwork of the ministry in Penny Cook for the year ensuing, and to treat with the\\nsaid Mr. Walker in order to his settlement in the work of the ministry in said\\nplace, and to make report to the next meeting.\\nVoted, That Mr. John Merrill be added to Messrs. Timothy Johnson and\\nNathan Simonds, in order to a speedy repairing the present meeting-house at\\nPenny Cook, at the settlers cost.\\nVoted, That Messrs. John Cliandler, Ebenezer Eastman and Ebenezer Virgin\\nbe a committee to amend and repair the way between the twenty mile tree and\\nPenny Cook in what is necessary, not exceeding thirty pounds, at the settlers\\ncost.\\nVoted, That Messrs. John Pecker, Ebenezer Stevens and Abraham Bradley\\nbe a committee to amend and repair the necessary roads in Penny Cook, accord-\\ning to their discretion, for the year ensuing, at the settlers cost, and also to build\\na good bridge over Sow Cook river, as soon as may be, at the cost of the settlers\\nalso.\\nVoted, That Henry Rolfe, Esqr., Mr. John Pecker and Mr. John Chandler be\\na committee to lay out a suitable place for a burying-place in the township of\\nPenny Cook and if the said burying-place should happen to be on any man s\\nlot, and the owner willing for the same, that the said committee are hereby\\nempowered to lay out an equivalent in undivided lands in some other place, to\\nhis satisfaction.\\nVoted, That Messrs. Ebenezer Eastman, John Pecker, John Chandler, Eben-\\nezer Stevens and William Barker be a committee to take effectual care that the\\nGeneral Fence at Penny Cook be made up according to law by the 20th of April\\nnext, and that the proportion of fence be ordered to each proi)netor that Avas\\nappointed the last year, and the delinquents shall pay ten shillings per day for\\neach day s work that shall be done by the appointment of the above-said com-\\nmittee.\\nVoted, That Messrs. John Pecker, Ebenezer Stevens and Abraham Bradley be", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 99\\nof South Andover, and Rev. John Brown, of Haverhill, Massa-\\nchusetts. A church, consisting of eight members, including\\nRev. Mr. Walker, was organized on the same occasion. The\\nexpenses for providing for the ordination, which were after-\\nward allowed and paid, amounted to thirty-one pounds, ten\\nshillings. The next week after ordination Mr. Walker went to\\nWoburn for his wife, and she came to Penacook on horse-back,\\naccompanied by four or five other women, wives of settlers.\\nDuring the year 1730 measures were taken for fencing the\\ngreat interval John Pecker, Ebenezer Stevens and Abraham\\nBradley appointed highway surveyors to mend and repair\\nthe necessary roads according to their discretion, and also to\\nbuild a good bridge over Soucook river. Henry Rolfe, Esq.,\\nJohn Pecker and John Chandler were appointed to lay out a\\na committee to build a suitable jiouiid in the township of Penny Cook, at the\\ntown s cost.\\nVoted, Tliat David Barker and Jacob Shutc be field drivers for the year ensuing.\\nVoted, Tliat Henry Rolfe, Esq., and Mr. John Pecker, be a committee to\\napply themselves to the General Court, at a suitable time, for the end a])pointed\\nthe last year.\\nVoted, That John Merrill shall have the ferry at Penny Cook, and that said\\nMerrill shall have twenty acres of land near the ferry of said town said Mer-\\nrill being to allow an equivalent in lands in some of his first division now to\\ncome. The said Merrill shall have four pence for a horse, two pence for a man,\\nfour pence for a beast that in twenty years the said Merrill is to carry the in-\\nhabitants of Penny Cook, at Penny Cook, at one penny per man and three pence\\nper horse, and other beasts at three pence per head the said ferry to be kept\\nby the tenth day of April next, with a good boat and constant attendance, and\\nto be regulated by such laws as the ferries are subject to the said Merrill to\\nhave said ferry and lands forever, provided said Merrill fulfills each article above\\nmentioned otherwise, said Merrill being to forfeit all the privileges that arise\\nto him with the ferry.\\nVoted, That the said committee, under oath, shall be empowered to lay out\\nthe above-said twenty acres to said Merrill.\\nVoted, That one himdred pounds be raised to defray the above-said charges.\\nVoted, That one hundred pounds be raised for the use of the minister.\\nVoted, That the sum of three pounds be paid to Mr. John Sanders, in part of\\npay for his service as one of the General Court s Committee for the settlement of\\nPenny Cook.\\nThe present meeting was adjourned to the second Tuesday in September,\\nat ten of the clock in the morning, at the house of Mr. John Gritfin, in\\nSi adford. Joshua Batlev, Cleric.\\nA true copy. Examined by John Wainwkight, C. Clerk:", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "100 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nburying-place. In pursuance of which it is understood that\\nthe Old Burjing Ground, as it is called, west of the Biblical\\nInstitute, was laid out for that purpose.\\nJohn Merrill was agreed with to keep a ferry across Merri-\\nmack river to have four pence for a horse, two pence for a\\nman, and four pence for a beast, for the first twenty years\\nafter that, to carry the inhabitants of Penacook at one penny\\na man, three pence for a horse, and other beasts at three pence\\nAt a meeting of the General Court s Committee for bringing forward the\\ntownship of Penny Cook, the 23d of September, 1730\\nOrdered, That the proprietors or grantees of said town be and hereby are noti-\\nfied and warned to assemble at the meeting-house there, on Wednesday, the\\nfourteenth day of October next, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon, then and\\nthere to choose a minister for and settling him in the said town and upon his\\nacceptance of the choice, to agree upon a time for his ordination and each pro-\\nprietor is hereby more especially notified to prepare the sum of five pounds,\\nordered by the General Court in the grant of the township, and that they do\\nrespectively pay the same to the said committee, who have agreed to assemble\\nand meet for receiving the same, at the liouse of Mr. Stedman s, taverner, in\\nCambridge, on Wednesday, the twenty-first of said mouth, at ten o clock before\\nnoon, as they will avoid the trouble and charge of having their bonds put in suit\\nat the next court and the said proprietors are also directed and required, at the\\nsaid meeting to be held tlie 14th of October, to pay the whole arrearages of the\\nsum granted by and levied upon them for defraying the necessary charges of\\nsaid town and to consider of and do any other business that may be thought\\nproper for the more speedy settlement of the town.\\nWm. Tailer,\\nSpencer Piiipps,\\nWm. Dudley,\\nJohn Wainwbight,\\n(Copy.) John Sanders.\\nAt a legal meeting of the admitted settlers or grantees of Penny Cook, con-\\nvened the 14th of October, 1730, at the meeting-house in said township\\nVoted, That Ensign Jolm Chandler shall be moderator for the present meet-\\ning.\\nVoted, That Benjamin Eolfe shall be clerk for said meeting.\\nVoted, By the admitted settlers, that they will have a minister.\\nVoted, That the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker shall be the minister of the town.\\nVoted, That Deacon John Osgood, Mr. John Pecker, Ensign John Chandler,\\nLieut. Timothy Johnson, Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, Mr. William Barker and Mr.\\nEbenezer Stevens, be a committee to agree with the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker\\nupon terms for being our minister.\\nVoted, That Mr. Timothy Walker shall have one hundred pounds for the year", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 101\\nper head. In consideration of this service, he was allowed\\ntwenty acres of land near the ferry, and, in case he fulfilled\\nall the articles of agreement, was to have said ferry and land\\nforever. This ferry crossed the river south-east of the lower\\nend of Main street the road running down the hill to the\\ncrossing east of the present road. The old track is still visible.\\nMr. Merrill s twenty acres of land were laid out on the hill-side\\nwest of the crossing, and his house was built at the point where\\nensuing, and then rise forty shillings per annum till it comes to one hundred and\\ntwenty pounds, and that to be the stated sum annually for his salary.\\nVoted, That the aforesaid sums relating to the salary shall be paid in whatever\\nshall be the medium of trade for the time being in this province at silver, seven-\\nteen shillings per ounce.\\nVoted, That the one hundred pounds formerly voted for the ministei to enable\\nhim to build a house, shall be paid in eighteen months time from the date hereof,\\nprovided, and it is to be hereby understood, any thing to the contrary above\\nmentioned notwithstanding, that if Mr. Walker, by extreme old age, shall be\\ndisenabled from carrying on the M liole work of the ministry, that he shall abate\\nso much of his salary as shall be rational.\\nVoted, That Deacon John Osgood, Mr. John Pecker, Mr. Benjamin Niccolls\\nand Mr. Ebenezer Eastman be a committee to discourse with Mr. Walker about\\nthe time of his ordination, and to appoint the day and that the said committee\\nsend to such chnrches as they think proper, to desire them to send their minis-\\nters and messengers to assist in ordaining Mr. Walker and the said committee\\nis to appoint suitable entertainment for them whilst here.\\nVoted, That Mr. Cutting Noyes shall have fifty acres of land in the township\\nof Penny Cook ten of which shall be laid out against Mr. Pecker s lot, to be\\nsixteen rods n-ont, and to extend back from the highway till the ten acres be\\naccomplished, and the other forty acres to be laid out in some of the after divis-\\nions, provided the said Noyes shall do the blacksmith s work for the town for ten\\nyears from the date hereof\\nVoted, That there be two men chosen to go to the General Court s Committee,\\nto Cambridge, on the twenty-first of this instant October, to pray their forbear-\\nance with the proprietors relating to the five pounds due from each of the pro-\\nprietors to the province and that Mr. Pecker and Ensign Chandler be the com-\\nmittee.\\nVoted, That Ensign Chandler and Mr. Niccolls be a committee to make up\\naccounts with Mr. Sanders, as he is one of the General Court s Committee, and\\nto give an order to the treasurer to pay what is due to him for his service.\\nVoted, That this meeting be adjourned to the tenth of November next, at four\\nof the clock in the afternoon, at the meeting-house in Penny Cook.\\nAttest Benjamix Rolfe, Clerk.\\nJohn Chandler, Moderator.\\nA true copy.\\nExamined by John Wainwkight, C Clerk.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "102 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nthe roads novr part, at the lower end of Mahi street, and where\\nthe origmal well still exists, with good water in it.\\nFifty acres of land were voted to be given to Mr. Cutting\\nNoyes, provided he shall do the blacksmith s ivork of the town\\nfor ten years.\\n1731.\\nAt this period it appears that John Wainwright, Esq., clerk\\nof the committee of the Great and General Court, resigned his\\noffice the last record in his hand being the answer of Rev. Mr.\\nWalker to his call for settlement. Benjamin Holfe, Esq., then\\na young man, and a graduate of Harvard College, was chosen\\nclerk for the settlers and grantees of Penny Cook.\\nPenny Cook, October 14tli, 1730.\\nTo the Admitted Settleis or Grantees of Penny Cook:\\nWhereai?, formerly, l y .i committee you Imve invited mc to settle in the minis-\\ntry in the said township, upon which invitation I have advised with learned,\\npious and judicious divines in the ministry, Avho have jointly advised me to take\\nup with your invitation, provided you vote a sufficient maintenance for me, and\\nyou having this day renewed your invitation to me, and done what satisfies me\\nupon the account of salary I, therefore, being deeply sensible of the impor-\\ntance of the charge, and my own insufficiency to discharge the duty of the same,\\ndo accept your call, humbly relying upon the all-sufficient grace of God, which\\nalone can enable mc suitably to discharge the same, earnestly desiring your\\nprayers, as well as of all other of God s people, that such plentiful measures of\\nHis grace may be afforded to mc as may enable mc to discharge tlie duties of so\\nsacred a function to His acceptance and to your edification,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 so that both you\\nand I may rejoice together in the day of our Lord Jesus.\\nTimothy Walker.\\nConcordat cum originali.\\nJohn Wainwhight, C. Clerk.\\n1731.\\nAgreeable to notification given, at a legal meeting of the settlers and grantees\\nof Penny Cook, on Monday, the 29th day of March, 1731 Henry Eolfc, Esqr.,\\nbeing appointed moderator by the General Court, Benjamin Kolfe was chosen\\nclerk. For assessors were chosen Mr. Nathaniel Albott, Mr. Jeremiah Stick-\\nney and Mr. John Chandler, jr. Mr. Stephen Farriugton was chosen collector\\nof the rates and taxes levied on the settlers of Penny Cook.\\nMr. Samuel Kimball and I\\\\Ir. Christopher Carlton were chosen collectors of\\nthe rates and taxes that shall be levied on the grantees of Penny Cook that are\\nnon-residents.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 103\\nThe conditions of the original grant of the plantation having\\nbeen complied with, the proprietors were now anxious to have all\\nthe rights and privileges of a town. For this they petitioned the\\nGeneral Court: in answer to which the following order was\\npassed\\nOrder of the General Court fur a Meeting f the Settlers and\\nGrantees of FenacooA; 1731, Mareh 29\\nAt a Great and General Court or x\\\\ssembly for His IMajesty s Prov-\\nince of the Massachusetts Bay, iu New England, begun and held\\nat Boston, upon Wednesday, the tenth of February, 1730 being\\nConvened by His Majesty s Writs\\nSaturdai/, Mareh G 1730.\\nA Petition of the Proprietors of Peunicook, Setting forth that\\nthey have paid into the Hands of the Committee of the General\\nCourt the Consideration money for their Lots there that they have\\nbeen at very great Charge for building a Meeting House and setling\\na 31inister, making Highways, c., and that they are like to meet\\nwith difficulty in gathering the money they have thus laid out; And\\ntherefore praying that they may be made a Township, and have the\\nPriviledges of other Towns within this Province; and that the Court\\nwould order that One hundred Pounds, or more, of the money they\\nhave paid in as aforesaid may be reimbursed them for the Extraor-\\ndinary Charges they have been at.\\nMr. Joseph Eastman was chosen constable.\\nFor fence-viewers, were cliosen Deacon Jolin Merrill, Mr. Ephraira Farnuni\\nand Mr. David Barker.\\nVoted, That the hogs may go at large.\\nEor hogreves were chosen Ebenezer Virgin and Edward Abbott.\\nVoted, That Abraham Bradley, Mr. Ebenezer Eastman and William Barker,\\njr., be a committee to mend the highways in Penny Cook at the grantees cost.\\nVoted, That Ensign Chandler, Henry Kolfe, Esq., and Mr. Ebenezer East-\\nman, be a committee to lay out another division of land, and to exchange some\\npieces of land belonging to the grantees with some of tlie proprietors, where it\\nmay be for the community s advantage, and also to measure and proportion the\\nfence of the general field to each of the proprietors in the said field.\\nEor field drivers, were chosen Nathaniel Abbott and Ezekiel Walker.\\nVoted, That the above-mentioned assessors be a committee to build a pound in\\nPenny Cook at the cost of the community.\\nVoted, That the fence be made up round the general field by the fifteenth of\\nApril next, and all creatures kept out of it after the said day.\\nVoted, That the general field be broken the fifteenth of October next.\\nVoted, That Nathaniel Abbott be pound-keeper.\\nVoted, That two hundred pounds be raised by the grantees for the payment of\\nthe minister, and defraying other necessary cjiarges of the town.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "104 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nIn Coimn I Read aud Ordered that this Petition be refer d to the\\nSession of this Court in May next, and that in the mean time Henry\\nRolfe, Esqf, give Sufficient Warning, by notifications at Pennycook\\nand Elsewhere, to the Inhabitants and Grantees of the said Tract of\\nLand, to Assemble at their Meeting House on the Last Monday [be-\\ning the twenty-ninth] of this Listant March, by ten of the Clock in\\nthe forenoon then and there to chuse a Clerk to enter all their\\nVotes, Elections, Orders and Rules by the Inhabitants made; to\\nchuse Assessors and Collectors of all such Ministerial Rates and\\nTaxes granted and agreed on by the Setlers and Grantees, and any\\nother Rates and Taxes that may be thought necessary for the well\\nbeing of that Plantation; who are impowred hereby there unto;\\nall the rates and taxes to be Levied Equally on all the Lotts, Except\\nthe Ministry and School Lots, and paid into the hands of the As-\\nsessors by them to be disposed of for Defraying the Ministerial and\\nother Charges of the Plantation, as the Setlers shall agree; to chuse\\na Constable, Fence Viewers and Hogreves all to be sworn to their\\nrespective Offices by the said Henry Rolfe, hereby appointed Mode-\\nrator of the said Meeting; that the said Henry Rolfe take an Exact\\nAccount of what is done in each Lot in fencing, building and Im-\\nproving, and lay the same before this Court at the next May Session.*\\nThat the Committee for the Settlement of this Plantation be fully\\nImpowred to Grant a new any Lots the Grantees whereof have not\\nVoted, That the before-mentioned assessors be a committee to clear the minis-\\nter s and ministry s six acre lot, at the charge of tlie community.\\nVoted, That this meeting be adjourned to four o clock in the afternoon on\\nWednesday, the 31st of this instant March, to the meeting-house in Penny\\nCook. Attest: Bexja. Eolfe, Cleric.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk.\\nAt a legal meeting of the settlers and grantees of Penny Cook by adjourn-\\nment, on Wednesday, the 31st of March, 1731 Henry Eolfe, Esq., moderator.\\nVoted, That ten pounds be levied on the grantees for to be laid out for the\\ninstructing of tlie diildren in reading, c.\\nVoted, That the school shall be kept in two of tlic most convenient parts of\\nthe townsliip.\\nVoted, That Mr. Ebenezer Eastman and Mr. Timotliy Clement be a commit-\\ntee to lease out the six acre lot belonging to the school to David Barker for the\\nterm of four years from the date hereof.\\nVoted, That Mr. Timothy Clement be surveyor for the grantees.\\nVoted, That this meeting be adjourned to the thirteenth day of May next, to\\nten of the clock in the forenoon, and it Avas adjourned accordingly by the mod-\\nerator. Attest Benjamin Eolfe, Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk.\\n*See Addenda to tliis Chapter State of Plantation, c.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 105\\ncomplied, nor shall comply by the first of June next, with the Terms\\nof their Grants and the Orders of this Court, to such other persons\\nas shall speedily and effectually fulfil the Conditions of their re-\\nspective Grants; and that the said Henry llolfe do notify all the\\nSettlers and Grantees of this Order for Impowering the Coniniittoo,\\nand that the said Plantation be and hereby is declared to lye in the\\nCounty of Essex.\\nIn the House of Representatives Read and Concurred, with the\\nAmendment.\\nIn Council .Head and Concurred.\\nConsented to- J. Belcher.\\nA true Copy as of Record- q^^^,^^^\\nIn pursuance of the foregoing order a Legal Meeting of\\nthe proprietors was held on the 29th of March, 1731, at which\\nHenry Rolfe, Esq., acted as moderator, by appointment of the\\nGeneral Court, and, as the record shows, all necessary officers\\nappointed. At this meeting the names of Mr. Jeremiah Stichiey\\nand Mr. Stephen Farrington appear in the proprietors records\\nAt a legal meeting of the settlers and grantees of Penny Cook, by adjourn-\\nment, on Thursday, the 13th day of IMay, 1731 Henry Rolfo, Esq., being ap-\\npointed moderator by the General Court\\nVoted, That there be a committee chosen to examine and adjust the accounts\\nwith the treasurer and collectors, and all other persons that have any accounts\\nwith or against the settlers of Penny Cook.\\nVoted, That Henry Rolfe, Esq., Ensign Chandler and Mr. Jei-emiah Stickney\\nbe the committee to examine and adjust the accounts with the persons aforesaid.\\nVoted, That the committee for examining and adjusting the accounts, when\\nthey have examined and adjusted them, shall give order to the treasurer for the\\npayment of what is due to the several persons with whom they account.\\nVoted, That the account which the committee allowed Mr. Eastman for pro-\\nviding for the ordination, be accepted, and that the sum of thirty-one pounds,\\nten sliilUngs, be paid to the said Ebenezer Eastman by the treasurer, in discharge\\nof the said account.\\nVoted, That this meeting be adjourned to the twenty-first day of October next,\\nat one of the clock in the afternoon.\\nAttest Ben.ta. Rolfe, Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benja. Rolfe, Clerk.\\nAt a legal meeting of the settlers and grantees of Penny Cook, liy adjourn-\\nment, on Thursday, the twenty -first day of October, 1731 Henry Rolfe, Esq.,\\nbeing appointed moderator by the General Court\\nVoted, That the four pounds which John Wainwright, Esq., and Mr. John\\nSanders gave order to the treasurer of Pennj- Cook to pay to Mr. Ebenezer\\nEastman for their expenses, be accepted and paid by the treasurer.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "106 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nthe former as one of the assessors, and the latter as collector of\\nthe rates and taxes levied on the settlers at Penny Cook. Both\\nwere then young and enterprising men, and became useful and\\ndistinguished in the community.\\nAt an adjourned meeting, the 31st of March, the proprietors\\ntook the first step toward establishing a Scliool Voted that\\nten pounds be levied on the grantees, for to be laid out for the\\ninstructing of the children in reading, c.,and that the school\\nshall be kept in two of the most convenient parts of the town-\\nship. Thus commenced our system of free schools, which has\\nbeen sustained till the present time.\\nHenry Rolfe, Esq., continued moderator of the proprietors\\nmeetings held by adjournment till October, 1731.\\n1732.\\nUpon application to BieJiard Kent, Esq., of Newbury, one of\\nhis Majesty s Justices of the Peace for the County of Essex,\\nVoted, Tliat two hundred pounds Lc raised ]iy the settlers and grantees, for\\ndefraying tlieir necessary charges.\\nVoted, Tliat there be a committee oliosen to settle the hounds of the farm\\ncommonly called Sewall s farm.\\nVoted, That Ensign Chandler, Deacon Osgood, Mr. Nathaniel Ahhott, Mr.\\nJeremiah Stickncy and Deacon Farnum be the committee for settling the bounds\\nof the farm aforesaid.\\nVoted, That this meeting be adjourned to the twenty -fourth day of Novem-\\nber next, at two of the clock in the afternoon.\\nAttest Benja. Rolfe, Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Eolfe, Clerk.\\n17 3 3.\\nEssex ss. To J\\\\Ir. Nathaniel Abbott, of Penny Cook, intlie\\nCountji of Essex, yeoman\\nWhereas application has been made to me, the subscriber, one of His Majesty s\\njustices of the peace for the county aforesaid, liy Jeremiah Stickncy, Edward\\nAbbott, George Abbott, Nathaniel Abbott and Stephen Farrington, five of\\nthe proprietors of Penny Cook, for a warrant for calling a meeting of the pro-\\nprietors of said Penny Cook, for to choose a clerk for said proprietors to\\nchoose a committee to examine and adjust the account or accounts which any\\nperson or persons hath or have against said proprietors, and to give order for\\nthe paying of the same to choose an attorney or attorneys to prosecute any\\ntrespasses that shall be committed on the common or undivided lands belong-\\ning to said proprietors, by any person or persons that is or arc not a proprie-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 107\\njSTathaniel Abbot was authorized to call a meeting of the pro-\\nprietors, to be held at the meeting-house, in Pennycook, Sep-\\ntember 14,1732 at which meeting it was voted, That, at\\ntor or proprietors of tlie same to agree upon and order one or more division\\nor divisions of land, and to choose a committee to make the same, and also\\nto agree upon and appoint some ways or method of calling or summoning\\nmeetings of said proprietors for the future\\nThese are therefore to require you, in His Majesty s name, to notify tlie propri-\\netors aforesaid, as the law directs, to assemble and meet at the mccting-house in\\nPenny Cook aforesaid, on the fourteenth day of September next, at two of the\\nclock in the afternoon, then and there to choose a clerk, and to pass such votes\\nand orders concerning the premises as they shall think fit.\\nDated at Newbury, the tenth day of August, 1732.\\nRichard Kent, Justice of the Peace.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk.\\nEssex ss. By virtue of the within warrant I have notified the proprietors\\nof the within meeting, setting a notification of said meeting at the meeting-\\nhouse door, in Penny Cook, as the law directs.\\nPenny Cook, September 14, 1732. Nathaniel Abbott.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk.\\nUpon due notification as above mentioned, at a legal meeting of the proprie-\\ntors of Penny Cook on the fourteenth day of September, 1732, Mr. Ebenezer\\nEastman was chosen moderator Benjamin Rolfe was chosen clerk for the\\naforesaid proprietors\\nVoted, That Mr. Nathaniel Abbott, ]\\\\Ir. Jeremiah Stiekney and Mr. John\\nChandler be a committee to examine and adjust the accounts which any person\\nhath with or against the proprietors, and to give order for the paying of the\\nsame.\\nVoted, That Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, Mr. Abraham Bradley and INIr. Timo-\\nthy Clement be attorneys for the proprietors of Penny Cook, to prosecute any\\ntrespasses that shall be committed on the common land belonging to said pro-\\nprietors by any person or persons that is or are not a proprietor or proprietors\\nof the same.\\nVutcd, That at the request of ten of the proprietors, in writing nnder ,their\\nhands, the clerk of said jiroprietors shall warn a meeting of the proprietors by\\ngiving fourteen days warning of the meeting and the cause thereof.\\nVoted, That Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, Mr. John Cliandlcr, Mr. Edward Abl)Ott,\\nMr. Jeremiah Stiekney, Mr. Timothy Clement and Benjamin Rolfe, be a com-\\nmittee to lay out a first division of upland to each grantee of Penny Cook, con-\\nsisting of twenty acres in quantity and quality, in one or moi e pieces, as it shall\\nbe thought to be most convenient by the committee, and to make return of their\\ndoings thereon to the proprietors at or before the first Tuesday of January next.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "108\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nthe request of ten of the proprietors in \u00e2\u0080\u00a2writing, under their\\nhands, meetings should thereafter be warned bj the clerk. bj\\ngiving fourteen days notice, and of the cause thereof.\\nVoted, That tlic aforesaid committee for the laying out of the division of hmd\\nabove mentioned, shull leave land for convenient highways to the land they shall\\nlay out. Attest Benjamin Kolfe, Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk.\\nTo BenjAxMin Eolfe, Proprietors Clerk for Penny Cook:\\nWe, the subscribers, jDroprietors of Penny Cook, desire you would warn a\\nmeeting of said proprietors, on the third day of October next, at three of the\\nclock in the afternoon, for to consider of what is proper to be done concerning\\nbuilding a mill, and to agree with some man or men to do the same, by grant-\\ning of him or them such privileges in land, or streams, or money, as shall be\\nthought convenient or by agreeing with him or them in any other way that\\nshall be thought best for the proprietors, and also to raise one hundred pounds\\nfor the support of tlie Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker, and to do any other business\\ntliat sliall be i)roper at said meeting.\\nPenny Cook, September the 18th, 1732.\\nNathaniel Abbott, Edwakd Abbott,\\nJoseph Eastman, Abner Hoyt,\\nEpiieaim Farnum, Eichaed Urann,\\nJeremiah Stickney, George Abbott,\\nJohn Chandler, William Barker.\\nA true, copy. Examined by Benjamin Eolfe, Clerk.\\nThe notifications, being contained in the warrant, are omitted.\\nAt a legal meeeting of the proprietors of Penny Cook on the tenth day of\\nOctober, 1732, by adjournment Mr. Jeremiah Stickney, moderator\\nVoted, That Henry Eolfe, Esq., Deacon John Merrill, Mr. Joseph Eastman,\\nMr. Abraham Bradley, Mr. Edward Abbott, Mr. Jolm Chandler and Mr. Jere-\\nmiah Stickney, be a committee to view any place that shall be proper for build-\\ning of a mill, and to see upon what terms any man will build the same, and to\\nmake report of their doings at the adjournment of this meeting.\\nVoted, That one hundred pounds be raised for the support of the Rev. Mr.\\nTimothy Walker.\\nVoted, That this meeting be adjourned to the nineteenth day of October cur-\\nrent, at four of the clock in the afternoon.\\nAttest Benja. Eolfe, Proprietors Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Eolfe, Clerk.\\nAt a legal meeting of the proprietors of Penny Cook, by adjournment, on the\\nnineteenth day of October, 1732 Mr. Jeremiah Stickney being moderator\\nVoted, That any person that is agrecalile, and shall be accepted of by the pro-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 109\\nThis year a division of twenty acres of upland was ordered to\\nbe made to each grantee, and arrangements made for building a\\nprictors of Penny Cook, that will build a grist mill on Turkey river, in Penny\\nCook, for the use of the proprietors, shall have one hundred acres of land con-\\nvenient to the mill, and the benefit of the whole stream of said Turkey river\\nfrom the place where the mill shall be built to the great pond on Turkey river,\\nto him, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns for ever, and liberty of\\nflowing any swamp that is adjoining to said stream during the term of twenty\\nyears, and after the term of twenty years the owner of said stream shall conform\\nhimself to the province laws relating to mills, and the damages occasioned\\nthereby, and also forty pounds in money or forty pounds worth of work, when\\nthe builder of said mill shall call for it.\\nlooted, That Mr. Timothy Clement, Mr. Joseph Eastman, Mr. Jeremiah Stick-\\nney, Mr. Edward Abbott, Deacon John Merrill, Mr. Abraham Bradley and Mr.\\nEbenezer Virgin be a committee to approve of a person to build the mills before\\nmentioned, and to agree with said person upon proper terms for the well-regu-\\nlating said mill for the benefit of the proprietors.\\nVoted, That tliis meeting be adjourned to the second day of November next,\\nat one of the clock in the afternoon.\\nAttest Benjamin Rolfe, Proprietors Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benja. Rolfe, Clerk.\\nTo Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk for the Proprietors of Penny Cook\\nWe, the subscribers, proprietors of Penny Cook, desire you would warn a\\nmeeting of said proprietors on the second day of November next, at three of the\\nclock in the afternoon, for to agree upon and order another division or divisions\\nof land, and to choose a committee to make amendments to the interval lots in\\ninterval land, or in other land, and to do any other tiling that the committee\\nwliich was appointed by the General Court s Committee was to do, if tlie com-\\nmittee appointed by the General Court s Committee do not come up and proceed\\nupon the business before the first day of Noveml)Cr next, and also to choose a\\ncommittee to see if Mr. Nathan Simonds hatli complied with his obligations to\\nsaid proprietors in building of a grist mill and saw mill, and in keeping of them\\nin repair, and to prosecute said Simonds if he hath not complied with his bargain,\\nand to clioose a committee to exchange the house-lot belonging to the school\\nright for such land as may be thought best.\\nDated at Penny Cook, the 19th of October, 1732.\\nHenry Rolfe, Abraham Bradley,\\nTimothy Clement, Joseph Eastman,\\nJohn Merrill, George Abbott,\\nJeremiah Stickney, John Chandler,\\nEdward Abbott, Isaac Walker.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benja. Rolfe, Clerk.\\n[Agreeably to a notification, a legal meeting of the proprietors of Penny Cook\\nwas held at the meeting-house, Nov. 2, 1732.]\\nMr. Ebenezer Eastman was chosen moderator.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "110 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\ngrist-mill and saw-mill on Turkey river, on very liberal con-\\nditions. The conditions were taken up by Henry Lovejoy and\\nVoted, That Mr. Abraham Brailley, Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, Mr. Timothy\\nClement, Mr. Joseph Eastman and Mr. Ebenezer Virgin be a committee to make\\namendments to tlie interval lots in interval land or other land, and to do any\\nother business which the committee \u00e2\u0096\u00a0which was appointed by the General Court s\\nCommittee was to do.\\nVoted, That Capt. John Chandler, of Andover, Mr. Ebenezer Virgin, and\\nMr. Jeremiah Stickney, be a committee to see if Mr. Nathan Simonds have\\ncomplied with liis obligations to said proprietors, in building of a grist mill and\\nsaw mill, and in keeping of them in repair and to prosecute said Simonds if\\nhe hath not complied with his bargain.\\nAttest Benja. Eolfe. Proprietors Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk.\\n[Upon the request of proprietors, and agreeably to a notification, a legal meet-\\ning of the proprietors was held at the meeting-house, 7th Dec, 1732.]\\nVoted, That Deacon Ephraim Fai num be moderator of the present meeting.\\nVoted, That any person or persons that is agreeable, and shall be accepted of\\nby the proprietors, that will build a grist mill and saw mill on Turkey river, in\\nPenny Cook, for the use of the proprietors of said Penny Cook, shall have the\\nwhole stream of said Turkey river in Penny Cook and forty acres of land\\nadjoining to tlic mills, and one hundred acres of land that shall be accounted\\ngood land, in tlie judgment of a committee tliat shall lay out the same, which\\nland shall be within a mile or two of the mills, and forty pounds in money, or\\nforty pounds wortli of work, wlien the builder of said mill shall call for it.\\nVoted, That IMr. Timothy Clement, Mr. Joseph Eastman, Mr. Jeremiali Stick-\\nney, Mr. Edward Abbott, Deacon John Merrill, Mr. Abraham Bradley and Mr.\\nEbenezer Virgin, be a committee to agree with a man or men to build the mills\\nbefore mentioned, and to agree with said man or men ujion j^roper terms for the\\nwell-regulating said mills for tlie benefit of the proprietors.\\nAttest Benja. Kolfe, Proprietors^ Clerk,\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Eolfe, Clerk.\\n1733.\\n[Upon the request of proprietors, a meeting was notified as follows\\nBy virtue of an order from under the hands of ten of the proprietors of Penny\\nCook, these are to notify the proprietors of Penny Cook to assemble and meet\\nat the meeting-house in Penny Cook, on Monday, the twenty-sixth day of March\\ncurrent, at eleven of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to approve of the\\nmen which the committee have agreed with to build the mills also, to make\\nsuch additions to the grants which are already made for encouragement to any\\nperson or persons that shall build the mills in lands or streams or ponds for\\nmills, or for making such satisfaction to said persons that build said mills for\\nthe improvement which said person or persons shall make on the forty acres", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "PKOPRIETARY RECORDS. HI\\nBaracldas Farnum, and the mills in due time ^Ycre built at what\\nis now called Millville, at the lower falls at present owned bj\\nDr. George C. Shattuck, of Boston.\\ngranted them, as the proprietors shall think fit, in case said persons sliall ever\\nforfeit said forty aeres to the proprietors, or to act or transact any thing that\\nshall be thought proper by the proprietors for the encouragement of building\\nmills in Penny Cook also, to choose a committee to lay out such lands as shall\\nbe granted to said persons for building mills also, to consider what shall be\\nproper to be done with the meadow belonging to said proprietors tliat is now\\ncommon, and to pass such votes concerning it as the proprietors shall think fit\\nalso, to give the committee which was chosen to lay out a twenty acre division\\na longer time to do it in also, to dispose of the addition which is laid out to the\\nschool lot for the year ensuing, as it shall be tliought best by the proprietors.\\nDated at Penny Cook, the tenth day of March, 1732/3.\\nBenja. Rolfe, Clerk for the Proprietors of Penny Cool:.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Cleric.\\nAt a legal meeting of the proprietors of Penny Cook, on Monday, tlie twen-\\nty-sixth day of iMarch, 1733, Capt. Ebenczcr Eastman was chosen moderator of\\nthis present meeting.\\nVoted, That Mr. Henry Lovejoy and Mr. Barachias Parnum be accepted and\\napproved of for building of mills on Turkey river, in Penny Cook.\\nVoted, That in case the above-said Henry Lovejoy and Barachias Farnum, or\\ntheir heirs or assigns, shall ever forfeit the mills above-mentioned unto the pro-\\nprietors, the proprietors shall pay the said Lovejoy and Earnura, or their heirs\\nand assigns, the value of the one half of the iron work and stones of the said\\nmills, as they sliall be valued when the mills shall be forfeited.\\nVoted, That the aforesaid Lovejoy and Farnum, and their heirs and assi -ns\\nshall have liberty to floAv as much swamp as they can for a mill pond, [so long\\nas they keep the before-mentioned mills in good repair,] betwixt the first and\\nsecond fiills below the lowest pond on Turkey river in Penny Cook.\\nVoted, That Mr. John Chandler, Dea. John Merrill, Mr. Edward Abbott, En-\\nsign Jeremiah Stickncy, and Mr. Timotliy Clement, be a committee to lay out\\nthe hundred acres and the forty acres of land which is voted as encouragement\\nto build mills in Penny Cook, as soon as they can with convenicncy, and make\\nreturn of their doings at the next meeting after the land is laid out.\\nVoted, That the before-mentioned Lovejoy and Farnum shall not be obli ^-ed\\nto tend the grist-mill on any days in the week except Mondays and Fridays,\\n(provided they grind all the grain that shall be brought to the mills on said\\ndays,) during the term of ten years from the date hereof\\nVoted, That the Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker shall have the improvement of the\\naddition to the school lot for the year ensuing.\\nVoted, That the committee which was chosen to lay out a twenty acre divis-\\nion shall have a longer time to do it in, viz. till the first day of December next.\\nVoted, That Lieut. John Chandler, Mr. Abraham Bradley and Ensign Jere-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "112 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nCommittees were also chosen to settle the bounds of Sew all s\\nfarm, and to lay out emendation lots, in interval or other\\nlands, and to see whether Nathan Simonds hath built the mills\\nmiah Stickney, shall be a committee to let out the common meadow belonging\\nto the proprietors, (which shall not be laid out to particular persons,) to the\\nhighest bidder for the year ensuing.\\nAttest Benjamin Kolfe, Proprietors Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Eolfe, Cleric.\\n173 4.\\n[Upon the request of proprietors, a meeting was notified as follows\\nNotice is hereby given to the proprietors of the common and undivided land\\nin the township of Ruraford, to assemble and meet at the meeting-house in said\\nEumford, on Wednesday, the ninth day of June current, at one of the clock in\\nthe afternoon, then and there to order the proprietors clerk to put the house\\nlots and six acre lots belonging to said proi)rietors in said township upon record.\\nAlso, to receive the report of the committee which was chosen to lay out a\\ntwenty acre division also, to receive the report of the committee which was\\nchosen to make the emendation to the interval lots, and to order the land which is\\nlaid out by the said committees to be recorded also, to choose a man or men to\\nbe with the clerk whilst he is recording said land also, to choose a committee to\\nmake sale of some of the common land belonging to said proprietors, to pay the\\nproprietors debts, or else to raise money for the paying of said debts and defraying\\nthe necessary charges of the proprietors also, to choose assessors, collector and\\ntreasurer for said proprietoi S also, to make a grant of a tract of land to John\\nWainwright, Esq., his heirs, c., for the services which said Wainwright hath\\ndone for said proprietors, (as he was one of the General Court s committee for\\nbringing forward settlement here,) and for his being a clerk to said committee,\\nand for his recording of some of the land which is laid out here also, to choose\\na committee to lay out such land as shall be granted to said Wainwright, his\\nheirs, c. also, to see if the proprietors will change the house lot laid out to the\\nschool right with Mr. Abi-aham Bradley for other land also, to choose a man\\nor men to prosecute any person or persons that shall commit any trespass or\\ntrespasses upon the common or undivided land within this township saving\\nand reserving a liberty to the proprietors for cutting fire-wood and timber for\\ntheir own use within this town also, to choose a committee to allow of propri-\\netors debts, and to give an order to the treasurer for the paying of the same\\nalso, to choose a committee to lay out the land which was formerly granted to\\nMr. Cutting Noyes, for his encouragement to live and do the blacksmith work\\nhere.\\nDated at Eumford, the third day of June, 1734.\\nBy order of ten of said proprietors, in writing\\nBenjamin Eolfe, Clerk for the Proprietors of Rttmford.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Eolfe, Clerk.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 113\\non Mill brook according to bargain, and to prosecute in case of\\nfailure.\\nAt a legal meeting of the proprietors of the common and undivided land in the\\ntownship of Riimford, on the nineteenth day of June, 1734\\nVoted, That Capt. Ebenezer Eastman be moderator of the present meeting.\\nVoted, That the proprietors clerk shall record the house lots and six acre lots\\nbelonging to the proprietors within this township.\\nVoted, That the land which is laid out by the committee which was chosen at\\na legal meeting of the proprietors of Penny Cook, on the fourteenth day of Sep-\\ntember, 1732, to make a first division of upland to each grantee of Penny Cook,\\nconsisting of twenty acres in quantity and quality, shall be accepted, and the\\nproprietors clerk is hereby ordered to record the same.\\nVoted, That the land which is laid out by the committee which was chose at a\\nlegal meeting of the proprietors of Penny Cook, on the second day of Novem-\\nber, 1732, to make emendation to the interval lots, shall be accepted and re-\\ncorded by the clerk and that the said committee be further empowered to make\\nthe interval lots belonging originally to James Simonds, Jonathan Pulsifcr and\\nStephen Osgood, equal in quantity and quality to any other lots belonging to\\nany of the proprietors of Rumford.\\nVoted, Tliat Lieut. John Chandler and Mr. Timothy Clement be a committee\\nto be with the clerk whilst he is recording the land, and to sec that he makes a\\nfair record of the same.\\nVoted, That one hundred and fifty pounds be raised for paying the proprietors\\ndebts, and defraying the necessary charges of the proprietors.\\nVoted, That Mr. James Osgood, Mr. Nathaniel Abbott and Deacon John Mer-\\nrill, be assessors for the proprietors.\\nVoted, That Mr. Aaron Stevens be collector.\\nVoted, That Mr. Edward Abbott be treasurer for the proprietors.\\nVoted, That one hundred acres of land, within the township of Riimford, be\\ngranted by the proprietors of Rumford to John Wainwright, Esq., his heirs and\\nassigns, in consideration of and in full for the services which said John Wain-\\nwright, Esq., hath done for said proprietors, as he was one of the General\\nCourt s Committee for bringing forward the settlement here, and for his being a\\nclerk to said committee, and for recording the land which was laid out here and\\nis already recorded.\\nVoted, That Mr. Nathaniel Abbott, Mr. David Kimball and Mr. Ebenezer\\nVirgin, be a committee to lay out the hundred acres of land granted to John\\nWainwright, Esq., his heirs and assigns, and that the committee make return of\\nthe laying out said land to the proprietors.\\nVoted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Capt. Ebenezer Eastman and Mr. Abraham\\nBradley, or either of them, be attorneys or attorney for the proprietors of Rum-\\nford, to prosecute any person or persons that shall commit any trespass or tres-\\npasses on the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, saving\\nand reserving a liberty to the proprietors for cutting fire-Avood and timber for\\ntheir own use within this township.\\nVoted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Richard Haseltine and Lieut. John Chandler, be", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "114 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nStill, however, the proprietors did not deem themselves in full\\npossession of town rights and privileges. Hence, in December,\\na committee to allow of proprietors debts, and to give an order to the treasurer\\nfor the pajiiig of the same.\\nVoted, That the committee that was chosen to lay out the land voted to Col.\\nWainwright, Esq., shall lay out forty acres of land to Mr. Cutting Noycs, for\\nhis living here as a blacksmith the said committee to make return of their\\ndoings to the next proprietors meeting for their acceptance.\\nAttest Benja. Kolfe, Clerk.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Clerk.\\nTo Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Clerk for the Proprietors of Eumford:\\nWe, the subscribers, proprietors of Rumford, desire you to warn a meeting of\\nsaid proprietors on Tuesday, the 11th day of March 1734/5, at three of the\\nclock in the afternoon, then and there to give Lieut. John Chandler liberty to\\nbuild a saw mill on Rattle Snake brook, and liberty of a convenient yard for\\nhis logs and boards, and liberty to flow the great pond called Rattle Snake\\npond the said Chandler to pay what damages he shall do to the proprietors by\\nflowing the pond the said Chandler to enjoy said privileges during the term of\\nfifteen years from the date hereof also, to accept of the return which the commit-\\ntee that was chosen to lay out one hundred and forty acres of land for the encour-\\nagement of building mills on Turkey river, in said Rumford, hath made, and to\\norder the said land to be recorded by the clerk also, to choose a committee to\\nlet out the common meadow belonging to said proprietors for such a term as\\nthe proprietors shall think proper.\\nDated at Rumford, the 24th day of February, 1734.\\nEbenezer Eastman, Jeremiah Sticknet,\\nEphraim Farnum, John Chandler,\\nRichard Haseltine, James Osgood,\\nNath l Abbott, Edward Abbott,\\nGeorge Abbott, Jeremiah Bradley.\\nA true copy. Examined by Benja. Rolfe, Proprietors Clerk.\\nNotification was given agreeably to this desire.\\n1735,\\nAt a legal meeting of the proprietors of Rumford on Tuesday, the 11th day\\nof March, 1734/. 5, Ensign Jeremiah Stickney was chosen moderator.\\nVoted, That John Chandler shall have liberty to build a saw mill on Rattle\\nSnake brook, and liberty of a convenient yard for his logs and boards, and\\nliberty to flow the great pond called Rattle Snake pond, the said Chandler to\\npay what damages he shall do to the proprietors by flowing the pond the said\\nChandler to enjoy said privileges during the term of fifteen years from the\\ntwenty-fourth day of February, 1 734.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 115\\n1732, Henry Rolfe, Esq., in behalf of the settlers, presented the\\nfollowing petition\\nHENRY ROLFE S PETITION AB PENNYCOOK, DECEM 1732.\\nTo His Excellency Jonathan Belcher, -E* /f, Captain General\\nand Governor in Chief. TJie Ilonorahlc Council and Repre-\\nsentatives in General Court assemhled.\\nThe Humble Petition of Heury Rolfe on Behalf of the Setlers at\\nPenny Cook\\nHumbly Siieweth, That your Excellency and Honours were\\nPleased the Last year to order the Inhabitants and Setlers at said\\nVoted, That the return which the committee that was clioscn to lay out one\\nhundred and forty acres of land for building of mills on Turkey river, shall be\\naccepted and recorded by the clerk, which was as followeth, viz.\\nWe, the subscribers, being chosen a committee at a legal meeting of the pro-\\nprietors and freeholders in the township called Penny Cook, also Rumford, on\\nthe 26th day of Marcli, in the year 1733, to lay, for the encouragement of build-\\ning of a grist mill and a saw mill, one hundred and forty acres of land, at or\\nnear the place where the said mills are to be set on the river called Turkey river,\\nwe have, by the desire of the owners of said mills Mr. Barachias Farnum and\\nMr. Henry Lovejoy laid out one hundred and forty acres in two pieces, and\\nis bounded as follows, viz. The first, containing forty acres, and begins at a\\nwhite oak, marked, near the road that leads from the meeting-house to said\\nmills thence southeasterly, about thirty-eight poles, to a stake and stones\\nthence westerly, about one hundred and ten poles, to an elm, marked, by Turkey\\nriver thence by said river, about one hundred and eight poles, to a maple,\\nmarked thence southwesterly, about thirty poles, to a crotched white oak,\\nmarked thence northwesterly, about ninety poles, to a pitch-pine, marked\\nthence westerly, about eight poles, to a crooked pitch-pine, marked, by the mill\\npond thence northwesterly, about thirty poles, across the mill pond, to a white\\noak thence north, about thirty-five poles, to a white oak marked thence north-\\neasterly, about twenty -eight poles, to a white oak, marked F. L. thence easterly,\\nabout one hundred and ten poles, to the road and bounds first mentioned.\\nThe second, containing one hundred acres, and is adjoining to the other forty,\\nand bounded as follows, viz.: Beginning at a pitch-pine, marked F. L., by the\\nroad that leads from the meeting-house to the mill on Turkey river thence\\nwesterly, about forty-eight poles, to a white oak marked F. thence southwest-\\nerly, about twenty-seven poles, to a white oak, being a bound of the forty acres,\\nand thence southeasterly, about thirty-eight poles, to a stake and stones thence\\nwesterly, about one hundred and ten poles, to an elm by Turkey river thence\\nby the forty acres laid out to the mill before mentioned, about one hundred and\\neight poles, to a maple by said Turkey river, standing in a bend of said river\\nthence crook, as the channel of said river runs that being the bound of the\\nsoutheasterly side of said hundred acres of land about one hundred and thirty\\npoles, to a large hemlock on the river s bank, marked F. L. thence southeast-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "116 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nPenny Cook to Raise money for the necessary Charges within said\\nPlantation; to Choose Officers for the Levying and Collecting the\\nerly, about nineteen poles, to a beach marked F. L. thence northerly, about one\\nhundred and seventy poles, to the bounds first mentioned.\\nPenny Cook, July the 9th, 1733.\\nTimothy Clement,\\nJeremiah Sticknet,\\nJohn Merrill,\\nJohn Chandler,\\nEdward Abbott,\\nCommittee.\\nA true copy of the original return, recorded and examined by\\nBenja. Rolfe, Proprietors Clerk.\\nVoted, That Lieut. John Chandler, Mr. Nathaniel Abbott and Mr. James Os-\\no-ood, shall be a committee to dispose of the common meadow within this town-\\nship, for the year 1735, as they shall think most for the benefit of the proprie-\\ntors.\\nAt a letral meeting of the proprietors of Rumford, regularly assembled at the\\nmeeting-house in Eumford, on the twenty-third of Feln-uary, 1735,\\nVoted, That Capt. Ebenezer Eastman be moderator of tliis present meeting.\\nVoted, That the proprietors clerk shall record the house or home lots belong-\\ning to the proprietors of Rumford, as they are numbered in the proprietors\\nbook, unless some of the lots have been laid out anew since the first draft for\\nthe conveniency of building, and in such case the proprietors clerk is ordered\\nto record them as they were laid out last.\\nVoted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Lieut. John Chandler and Mr. Abraham\\nBradley, be a committee to measure the six acre lots of interval belonging to\\nthe proprietors of Rumford, and to erect new bounds wliere the old ones are\\nremoved or gone, and to take a new plan of said lots, with a north and\\nsouth line upon each plan, and to take an exact and true account of the\\nbounds of each lot, and to deliver the plan or plans so taken, with an account of\\nthe bounds, to the proprietors clerk and the proprietors clerk is hereby desired,\\nempowered and ordered to record said lands, agreeable to such plan or plans as\\nshall be delivered to him by said committee, and also to enter a true copy of\\nsaid plan or plans in said proprietors book.\\nVoted, That Lieut. John Chandler shall be chosen and desired to assist the\\nproprietors clerk in recording the house-lots and interval six acre lots, and to\\nsee that the clerk makes a true record thereof.\\nVoted, That the return which the committee which was chosen to lay out one\\nhundred acres of land for John Wainwright, Esq., hath made shall be accepted,\\nand recorded by the proprietors clerk, which is as follows, viz.\\nWhereas at a legal meeting of the proprietors of the common and undivided\\nland in the township of Rumford, on the nineteenth day of June, 1734\\nWe, the subscribers, Avere appointed a committee and empowered to lay out\\none hundred acres of land in said township of Rumford, for John Wainwright,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 117\\nSame, and Did Invest them with Certain Powers, as per the order of\\nJanuary, 1731, herewith also Presented, may appear. But so it is,\\nEsq., his heirs and assigns, in consideration of and in full for the services which\\nsaid John Wainwright, Esq., hath done for said proprietors, as he was one of\\nthe General Court s Committee for bringing forward the settlement here, and\\nfor his being a clerk to said committee, and for the recording of the land which\\nwas laid out here and is already recorded, as by vote of said proprietors may\\nfully appear, have accordingly attended the service, and laid out said hundred\\nacres of land, being bounded as foUoweth, viz. Beginning at a pitch-pine\\nmarked W., standing by the road that leads from Eumford meeting-house to\\nContoocook thence running northwesterly by said road, about one hundred\\npoles, to a pitch-pine marked J. W. thence southwesterly, about one hundred\\nand sixty poles, to a pitch-pine marked J. W. thence southeasterly, about one\\nhundred poles, to a white oak marked W. thence northeasterly, about one hun-\\ndred and sixty poles, to the bounds first mentioned.\\nRumford, February 20th, 1735. Nathaniel ^i^i^ott, /-r^^^^-^^^^\\nEbenezer Virgin, j\\nA true copy of the original return, recorded and examined by\\nBenja. Rolfe, Proprietors Clerk.\\nVoted, That the return which the committee which was chosen to lay out forty\\nacres of land for Mr. Cutting Noyes, shall be accepted and recorded by the\\nclerk, which is as follows, viz.\\nWe, the subscribers, being chosen a committee at a legal meeting held by the\\nproprietors of the town of Rumford, on the 19th day of June, 1734, to lay out\\nfor Mr. Cutting Noyes forty acres of land in the township aforesaid, we have\\nlaid the same on the east side of the river, adjoining to land now in the posses-\\nsion of David Barker, which is bounded as followcth, viz. Beginning at a pitch-\\npine tree marked B. thence southeasterly, by a highway, about sixty-eight\\npoles, to a white oak marked B. thence northeasterly, about one hundred and\\nforty-five poles, to a white oak marked B. thence northwest-and-by-north,\\nabout twenty-three poles, to a stake and stones, it being the northeasterly\\nbounds of said Barker s land thence about one hundred and sixty poles, by\\nsaid Barker s land, to the bounds first mentioned.\\nFebruary the 10th, l73blG. Nathaniel Abbott, r -t,\\nT-, TT Committee.\\nliiBENEZER Virgin,\\nA true copy of the original I cturn, recorded and examined by\\nBenja. Rolfe, Proprietors Cleric.\\nVoted, That any man that has any lot or lots of land in Rattle Snake Plain,\\nor Water Nummons field, or Sugar Ball, or the Middle Interval, or the Ferry\\nPlain, that joins upon the mountains or hills, shall have leave to extend his lot\\nor lots to the brow of the hill, or edge of the pine plain where the land now\\nlies common or undivided but in case there is any hollow or gully of land\\nagainst their lots that runs back into any of the pine plains, then said lots are\\nto extend as far back as the lots adjoining to said lots shall extend.\\nDissented Edward Abbott, Nathaniel Abliott and Ebenezer Virgin.\\nVoted. That the committee that was chosen to measure the six acre lots, shall", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "118 THE PLANTATION OF TENACOOK.\\nthere being no Person ordered or Impowred to Call the first meeting\\nof the Inhabitants to Do the acts in said order Directed to, whereby\\ntake care and provide, at tlie proprietors charge, a good surveyor to measure\\nand plan said lots.\\nBy desire of Ebenczer Eastman, John Chandler, George Abbott, Jeremiah\\nStickney, Edward Abbott, Nathaniel Abbott, Ephraira Farnum, James Abbott,\\nAaron Stevens and Joseph Eastman, a meeting, duly notified, was assembled.\\n173 6.\\nAt a legal meeting of the proprietors of the common and undivided lands in the\\ntownship of Rumford, regularly assembled at the meeting-house in said Rum-\\nford, on Monday, the fourteenth day of March, Anno Domini 1736, Capt.\\nEbenezer Eastman was chosen moderator of this present meeting.\\nAgreed and Voted, That a committee of three persons on oath two whereof\\nto be a quorum be chosen to lay out a division of the common and undivided\\nland in the township of Rumford, the said division of land to be as large as the\\ncommittee shall think the good land will allow of, and to be laid out to each\\ngrantee or proprietor of said Rumford, in one or more pieces, as the committee\\nshall think best, so that the said committee in their judgment shall make the lot\\nor lots of land that shall be laid out to each grantee or proprietor of Rumford\\nequal in quantity and quality, and the said committee to make return of their\\ndoings to said proprietors as soon as conveniently may be, for said proprietors\\nacceptance.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Lieut. John Chandler and\\nCapt. Ebenezer Eastman, be a committee chosen and empowered to lay out a\\ndivision of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, the\\nsaid division of land to be as large as the committee shall think the good land\\nwill allow of, and to be laid out to each grantee or proprietor of said Rumford,\\nin one or more pieces, as the committee shall think best, so that the said com-\\nmittee, in their judgment, shall make the lot or lots of land that shall be laid\\nout to each grantee or proprietor of Rumford, C(iual in quantity and quality,\\nand the said committee to make return of their doings to said proprietors as\\nsoon as conveniently may be, for their acceptance.\\nAgreed and Voted, That Benjamin Rolfc, Esq., Lieut. John Chandler and\\nCapt. Ebenezer Eastman, shall have ten shillings a day each for laying out the\\naforesaid division of land, provided said committee shall attend said business at\\nall convenient seasons.\\nVoted, That Mr. Joseph Hall, Deacon John Merrill and Mr. Ebenezer Virgin, be\\na committee chosen and empowered to sell such pieces of the common and un-\\ndivided land belonging to the proprietors of Rumford, as they shall think proper,\\nto defray the charges of laying out and recording of land for said proprietors\\nthe sale of said land not to be valid till allowed of by said proprietors.\\nVoted, That Benja. Rolfe, Esq., Ens. Jeremiah Stickney and Mr. James Osgood,\\nbe a conmilttcc to exchange some of the common and undivided land belonging\\nto the proprietors of Rumford with Lieut. John Chandler, for his house or home\\nlots, the said exchange not to 1)6 valid till allowed of by said proprietors.\\nVoted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Lieut. John Chandler and Cajit. Ebenezer", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 119\\nthey are under inan}^ harelsliips aucl Difficultys Wbereforc your\\nPetitioners humbly Pray your Exccllcucy and Honours will appoint\\nand Impower some meet Person to Call the first meeting of the said\\nInhabitants for the Ends and Purposes aforesaid.\\nAnd, as in Duty Bound, Shall Ever Pray, c.\\nHenry Rolfe.\\nLi Council, Deccviher 20*^ 1732\\nRead and ordered that M Benjamin Rolfe, one of the Principal\\nE.astman, be empowered to hire a surveyor .ind chainmen at the proprietors\\ncost, to lay out the aforesaid division of land.\\n17 3 7.\\nAt a legal meeting of tlie proprietors of tlie common and undivided land in\\nthe township of Rumford, regularly assembled at the meeting-house in said\\nRumford, on Monday, the 19th day of September, 1737,\\nVoted, That Mr. Joseph HaU, De.acon John Merrill and Mr. Ebenezor Virgin,\\nbe authorized and empowered to give a deed or deeds of such pieces of land as\\nthey have sold or bargained to sell, unto Deacon Ephraim Earnum, Mr. Bara-\\nchias Earnum, Timothy Bradley and Lieut. John Chandler, agreeable to a vote\\nof said proprietors at a legal meeting of said proprietors, on the 14th day\\nof March, Annoque Domini 1736, and to pay such sum or sums of money as\\nthey have or shall sell such pieces of land for, unto Mr. Edward Abbott, treas-\\nurer for said proprietors.\\nVoted, That this meeting be adjourned unto Monday, the 17th day of October\\nnext, at two of the clock in the afternoon.\\nAttest Benja. Rolfe,\\nProprietors Cleric.\\n[This adjourned meeting does not appear to have been held.]\\nTo Benjamin Rolfe, Usq., Clerk for the Proprietors of Rumford:\\nWe, the subscribers, proprietors of the common and undivided land in the\\ntownship of Rumford, desire and order you to warn a meeting of said proprie-\\ntors, at the meeting-house in said Rumford, on Thursday, the second day of\\nFebruary next, at eight of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to accept of\\nthe return of the committee that was chosen at a legal meeting of said proprie-\\ntors, [on Monday, the 14tli day of March, Annoque Domini 1736,] to lay out a\\ndivision of the common and imdividcd land belonging to said proprietors, and\\nto order the same to be recorded, and to order the plans of said division of land\\nto be put in the proprietors book, and to choose a man or men to assist the pro-\\nprietors clerk in recording said division of land, and putting said plans into the\\nproprietors book, and to see that the clerk makes a true entry thereof, and\\nalso to accept of the sale of such pieces of land as the committee that was cho-\\nsen at said meeting hath sold, and to order said committee to give deeds of such\\npieces of land as they have sold, or to order that such pieces of land as said\\ncommittee hath sold shall be entered in tlie proprietors book also to receive", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "120 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nInhabitants of the Plantation of Pennycook, be and hereby is fully\\nInipowred to assemble and Convene the Inhabitants of said Planta-\\ntion to Choose Officers, and to Do other matters, in Pursuance of an\\nthe report of tlie committee that was chosen at said meeting, to exchange some\\nof the land belonging to said proprietors with Lieut. John Chandler, for his\\nhouse or home lots, and to order said committee what to do further thereon.\\nDated at Kumford aforesaid, the 18th day of January, 1737.\\nEbenezer Eastman, Jeremiah Stickney,\\nTimothy Walker, Ephraim Farnum,\\nJames Abbott, Joseph Eastman,\\nNathaniel Abbott, David Kimball,\\nEdward Abbott, James Osgood,\\nBarachias Farnum, John Merrill,\\nBenjamin Rolfe, Daniel Chase.\\nJoseph Hall,\\nA true copy. Examined by Benjamin Rolfe, Proprietors Clerk.\\nNotification being issued agreeably to this desire At a meeting of the pro-\\nprietors of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, regu-\\nlarly assembled at the meeting-house in said Rumford, on Thursday, the 2d day\\nof February, 1737\\nMr. Barachias Farnum was chosen moderator of this present meeting.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the return of the committee that was chosen at a legal\\nmeeting of said proprietors of the common and undivided land in the township\\nof Rumford, on the 14th day of March, Annoque Domini 1736, to lay out a di-\\nvision of land for said proprietors, be accepted, which is as follows, viz.\\nWhereas, at a legal meeting of the proprietors of the common and undivided\\nland in the township of Rumford, regularly assembled at the meeting-house\\nin said Rumford, on Monday, the 14th day of March, Annoque Domini\\n1736\\nWc, the subscribers, were chosen a committee, and empowered to lay out a\\ndivision of the common and undivided land in the township of Rumford, as by\\na vote of said proprietors may fully and at large appear, have accordingly at-\\ntended to the service, between the said 1 4th day of March and the last day of\\nDecember, Annoque Domini 1737, and laid out as foUoweth, viz.\\n[First lot to 107.J\\nThis division of land was made between the 14th day of March, Annoque\\nDomini one thousand seven hundred and thirty-six, and the last day of De-\\ncember, Annoque Domini one thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven, ac-\\ncording to our best judgment, and agreeable to the vote of the proprietors.\\nBy us: Benjamin Rolfe,! r\\n-t Committee.\\nJohn Chandler,\\nThe aforegoing report of the division of land being read and duly considered\\nat a meeting of the proprietors, regularly assembled at the meeting-house in\\nRumford, on Thursday, the 2d day of February, Annoque Domini one tliousand\\nseven hundred and thirty-seven, it was", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 121\\norder of this Court at their Session begun and held at Boston, the\\nfirst Day of December, 17o2, which officers, when Chosen, arc to\\nStand until the anniversary Meeting in March next.\\nSent down for Concurrence, t ^^T^r\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r a\\nIn the House of Representatives, Decern 20 1732.\\nKead and Concur d, J. Quincy, SjjcK\\nDec 21, 1732. Consented to, J. Belchee.\\nCopy Examined per J. Willard, SecWy.\\nAgreed and Voted, That the same be accepted aud recorded by the proiirictors\\nclerk.\\nConcordat cum oriy;inali.\\nAttest Benja. Rolfe, Clerk for the Proprietors of Run ford.\\nVoted, That the plans of the several lots of the afore-going division of land\\nshall be entered in the proprietors book by the clerk. [This was the 80 acres\\ndivision. See original records.]\\nADDENDA TO CHAPTER III.\\nNo. 1.\\nEXPLANATION\\nOF THE FIRST SURVEY AND DIVISION OF HOUSE AND HOME LOTS ON\\nTHE WEST SIDE OF MERRIMACK RIVER.\\nThis survey was made in May, 1726.\\nI. The house lots contained one acre and a half, more or less, and were laid\\noff in the following ranges\\n1. The first range, on the east side of Main street from Pond Ilill, (Rev. Tim-\\nothy Walker s where Joseph B. Walker, Esq., now lives,) to the hill on the\\nnorth side of the present Gas Works numbering 37 lots. Nos. 6 aud ^5 in\\nthis range are vacant.\\n2. The second range, on the west side of Main street, from Pond Hill, and of\\nthe same extent, and parallel with the first range numbering 34 lots. Xo. 30\\nin this range is vacant.\\n3. The third range was west of the Biblical Institute, extending from the road\\nrunning west, (by Richard Bradley s, Esq.,) to Washington street numbering\\n11 lots. In this range No. 39 is vacant, and was subsequently laid out for a\\nburying-place. The road between the second and third range was ten rods\\nwide.*\\n*Tlie original width still appears at the north end of State street; but from the late .lames\\nBiiswell s, south, it is but tliree rods, as subsequently laid out. The space between Ilie old\\nHopkinton road and Washington street not being improved as a road, was laid out to Joshua\\nBailey as a part of his twenty acre lot.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "122\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\n4. The Island Range lay along the high land on the west side of Horse-shoe\\nPond, and extended up to what is called Wood s Brook numbering 9 lots.\\nNote. Besides the above, lots were laid out west of the north end of the third range, to\\nTimothy Johnson, William Whitrlier, Richard Coolldge and the School which lots were\\nbounded on the north by the road that formerly lead to Boscawen, and seem to have been in\\nl)lace of the vacant lots before mentioned. These lots are not numbered on the record.\\nII. The Six Acre, or Home Lots, were laid out in the following order\\n1. The Eleven Lots, or Lowest Interval, comprised both house and home\\nlots a highway four rods broad, saved and reserved through the aforesaid\\neleven lots.\\n2. Wattanummon s Field still known by that name contained ten lots.\\nA highway, two rods broad, saved and reserved on the southeasterly side of the\\nfirst lot in this division, and also a highway, two rods broad, through the last\\nmentioned ten lots.\\n3. The Great Plain comprised the whole interval on the west side of the\\nriver lying east of Main street from Wattanummon s Field to Frog Ponds,\\nand numbered 72 lots, including the lot numbered 103.\\nN. B. The several highways through these lots are marked with sufficient\\ndistinctness on the accompanying Plan, by double lines. In addition, however,\\nto the principal highways so marked, (L) A highway, two rods in breadth, is\\nsaved and reserved through the 20th, 21st and 22d lots. (2.) A highway,\\nthree rods wide, through the easterly end of lots 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 103, as\\nnigh to Merrimack river as may be with convenience and a highway of two\\nrods wide through the easterly end of the 36th, 37th and 38th lots. (3.) A\\nhighway, two rods broad, saved and reserved through the 59tli lot, where it is now\\nused to go over Wattanummon s Bridge, so called.\\n4. Horse-shoe Island comprised ten lots.\\nTHE NAMES OF PROPRIETORS\\nALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, WITH THE HOUSE AND HOME LOTS LAID\\nOUT IN MAY, 1726, AND SEVERALLY DRAWN IN 1727.\\n[by reference to the accompanying plan, the exact location of\\nEACH settler MAY BE ASCERTAINED.]\\nNames, alphabetically ar-\\nranged.\\nAbbot, Nathaniel\\nAusten, John\\nAyres, Samuel\\nAyres, John\\nAbbot, Jacob\\nAyers, Obadiali\\nBarker, Zebcdiah, alias Ed-\\nward Abbot,\\nBlanchard, Tiiomas\\nBarker, William\\nBarker, Nathaniel, alias Solo-\\nmon Martin\\nNumber, Quantity and\\nRange of House Lots.\\n9.69\\nIV,\\nSecond Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nIsland Range.\\nIsland Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nL w st Range.*\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nThird Range.\\nSecond Ran2;e\\nSix-Acre, or Home\\nLots, and Range.\\nNO.\\nQUAN.\\nRANGE.\\n53\\n8.74\\nGreat Plain.\\n5\\n5.128\\nGreat Plain.\\n9\\n5.\\nIsland.\\n6\\n9.16\\nIsland.\\n47\\n6.126\\nGreat Plain.\\n57\\n6.20\\nGreat Plain.\\n42\\n5.150\\nGreat Plain.\\n59\\n6%\\nGreat Plain.\\n47\\nGreat Plain.\\nThe Lowest Range was The Eleven Lots, and (9 acres C9 poles) included House and\\nHome Lots.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS.\\nTHE NAMES OF PROPRIETORS CONTINUED.\\n12*\\nNames, alphahetically ar-\\nranged.\\nBayley, Joshua\\nBoardmaii, Moses, alius Jo-\\nsiah Jones,\\nBIo(l ;;ett, Nathan\\nBaylev, John, alias Samuel\\nWhite,\\nClement, Nathaniel\\nChandler. John\\nCarlton, Benjamin\\nCarlton, Ciu-isto]ilier\\nCarlton, Xehemiah\\nCoolidge, Richard, alias Sam-\\nuel Jones,\\nCoggin, Jolin\\nClark, Edward\\nCoffin, Enoch\\nColeman, Thomas\\nCogswell, Nathaniel\\nDay, Moses\\nDavis, Joseph\\nDavis, Samuel\\nDodge, David\\nDavis, Ephraim\\nEastman, Ebenezer\\nEames, Jacob\\nEmerson, Stephen\\nFoster, Jo!iu\\nEaruum, Epliraim\\nFoster, Abraham\\nFisk, Nathan, alias Zachariah\\nChandler\\nGrainger, John\\nGrainger, Samuel\\nGage, Benjamin\\nGutterson, William\\nHeatli, Nehcmiali\\nHildreth, E])hraim\\nHale, Joseph\\nHazzen, Moses\\nHazzen, Richard\\nHubbard, Jonathan, alias Dan-\\niel Davis,\\nHall, Joseph\\nJohnson, Timothy\\nJaijues, John\\nJones, Nathaniel\\nKimball, Robert\\nKimball, Samuel\\nKimball, David\\nLovejoy, Nathaniel\\nLovejoy, Ebenezer\\nLearned, Thomas\\nMattis, Jolin\\nMerrill. John\\nNumber, Quantity and\\nRange of House Lots.\\n33 1). First Range.\\n11.,\\n9.54\\nll-.\\n1}-\\n1 1.\\n11^ First Range.\\n11.\\n115\\nIK\\n1 U\\n\\\\H\\n\\\\U\\nIH\\n11 S\\n1)1\\nIK\\nIK\\nIK\\nIK\\ni\\nIK\\nIK\\nKK\\n9.33\\nIK\\nm\\nIK\\nii.\\n9.107\\n2\\nIK\\nIK\\n13^\\nll\\niKi\\nIK\\n1 1.\\nii.\\nFirst Range.\\nSecond Range,\\nFirst Range.\\nLow st R nge.*\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nSix-Acre, or Home\\nLots, and Range.\\n24 6.104 Great Plain.\\n17\\n6\\n43\\n18\\n24\\n22\\n4\\n40\\n20 1 iK\\n27 nZ\\nSecond Range\\nIsland Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nThird Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nThird Range.\\nThird Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nSecond Range,\\nSecond Range\\nSecond Range\\nSecond Range,\\nEleven Lots.\\nFirst Range.\\nIsland Range.\\nEleven Lots.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nEleven Lots.\\nFirst Range.\\nEleven Lots.\\n6.96\\n6.\\n5.130\\n6.66\\n5.110\\n5.128\\n6.94\\n10.\\n7K\\n1 1 1.,\\n7.10~4\\n5.128\\n8.50\\n4.100\\n6.93\\n61.,\\n5.7 3\\n5.32\\n5\\n5.r28\\n5.1051\\n5.130\\n4.50\\nFirst Range.\\nSecond Range\\nThird Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nIsland Range.\\nThird Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond Range.\\n65 4.152\\n62 7.60\\n41 4.96\\n5.93\\n2.114\\n6.\\n6.27\\n36\\nll5;f\\n2\\n1\\n5.138\\n11\\n5.130\\n62\\n6.20\\n7\\n6.66\\n103\\n6.50\\n18\\n6.50\\n16\\n5.95\\n8\\n4.64\\n4\\n7.50\\n43\\n34\\nlOlOO\\n8.100!\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nWat num. s.\\nGreat Plain.\\nIsland.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nWat num. s.\\nGreat Plain.\\nWat num. s.\\nWat num. s.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nIsland.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nIsland.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nWat num. s.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nIsland.\\nWat num. s.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\n*The Lowest Range was The Eleven Lots, and included House and Home Lots.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "124\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PKNACOOK.\\nTHE NAMES OF PROPRIETORS CONTINUED.\\nNames, alphabeticalli/ ar-\\nranaed.\\nNtuiiher\\nRange\\nl?f0.1qUAN.\\nQiiantilij and\\nof House Lots.\\nMitchell, Andrew\\nMinister,\\nNichols, Benjamin\\nOsgood, Joiin\\nOsgood, Stephen\\nPiuker, Benjamin\\nPage, Thomas\\nPeaslee, Robert\\nParker, Joseph\\nParker, Nathan\\nPage, Nathaniel\\nPhillips, Samuel\\nParker, James\\nPulsipher, Jonathan\\nPeaslee, Nathaniel\\nPecker, John\\nPage, Joseph\\nPeabody, John\\nParsonage,\\nReynolds, Samuel\\nRolt e, Henry\\nSanders, John\\nStevens, Ebenezer\\nSanders, John, Jr.,\\nSanders, Nathaniel\\nStevens, Benjamin\\nSimonds, James\\nSimonds, Nathan\\nShipley, Jonathan\\nSnow, Zorababel\\nSchool,\\nToppan, Samuel\\nToppaii, Bezaleel\\nUrann, Richard\\nVirgin. El)cnezer\\nWright, John\\nWhite, William\\nAVhite, Nicholas\\nWise, Anuni Ruham\\nWalker, Isaac\\nWood, David.\\nWhittier, William\\nWicoml), Thomas\\nWinn, Edward\\nMill Grant on Turkey\\nNoyes Cutting Grant,\\nMill Grart to Nathan Simonds\\n1 2\\n1\\nIM\\nIK\\nl i\\nIK\\n9^i\\nIV,\\ni3i\\n1%\\ni\\nnl\\n]}4\\nlil\\n\\\\^4\\n1)1\\ni\u00c2\u00a5\\n\\\\^2\\n\\\\U\\ni i\\n13^\\niK\\nm\\n9.3.5\\nIM\\ni}i\\n2\\nli.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range, j\\nFirst Range.\\nEleven Lots.* i\\nIsland Range.\\nThird Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond ]-?ange.\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nEleven Lots.\\nEleven Lots.\\nFirst Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nThird Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nThird Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nIsland Range.\\nFirst Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nThird Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nThird Ivange.\\nIsland Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nEleven Lots.\\nEleven Lots.\\nSecond Range.\\nSecond Range.\\nIsland Range.\\nSix-Acre, or Home\\nLots, and Range.\\nSecond Range\\nFirst Range.\\n5.110\\n6.90\\n3.70\\n6.62\\n5.16\\n6.20\\n6i.\\n1.V28\\n7.50\\n7.40\\n22 6.48\\n4\\n1\\n17\\n5.90\\n32: 6.120\\n27 j 6. 120\\n50 6.90\\n10 5.130\\n97.\\n54 6.20\\n58 7.140\\n15 5.100\\n30; 8.\\n5:51/,\\n5 8\\n31 6.140\\n66 63,(\\n61I6.28\\n60,534\\n63,5.36\\n52 6.104\\n6,8.\\n10 5.128\\n29 7.\\n7\\n3|\\n35,81.;\\n33;63|\\n2:5.70\\n6 5.128\\n55 6.\\n25 6.107\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nIsland.\\nWat num. s.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain,\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nWat num. s.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nIsland.\\nWat num. s.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nWat num. s.\\nIsland.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nIsland.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\nGreat Plain.\\n140 acres on Turkey River. [Main street.\\n40 acres, east side of river, and 10, 2d Range,\\n100 acres on the east side.\\nTlic Eleven Lots iiichided House and Home Lots", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "J. KUioJuUtr Ik \u00c2\u00a3rc IrA- Sostt", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS.\\n125\\nEXPLANATION\\nOF THE SECOND DIVISION OF INTERVAL, MOSTLY ON THE EAST SIDE\\nOF THE MERRIMACK RIVER, SURVEYED BY RICHARD HAZZEN, Jr., IN\\nMAY, 1727, AND LAID OUT BY JOHN CHANDLER, RICHARD HAZZEN, Jr.,\\nAND WILLIAM WHITE, COMMITTEE.\\nThe phin of tliis survey is not preserved, but the localities mentioned are un-\\nderstood by tradition the several names given in the record being still applied\\nto them.\\n1. The Mill Brook Interval designates tlie lands which lie in the vicinity\\nof the brook that runs from Turtle Pond through the East Village, and empties\\ninto the Merrimack easterly of Federal Bridge. Tliis was divided into two\\nranges, which included the whole interval west and north of the bridge.\\n2. Sugar Ball Division lies in the valley south of the Sugar Ball Hill, in\\nthe vicinity of Samuel Clift ord s present residence.\\n3. The Middle Plain includes the interval immediately north and south of\\ntlie Free Bridge Road, extending up to Sugar Ball Plain and down to the curve\\nin the river, near the house of the late William Davis.\\n4. The Lowest Interval includes the lands from the ancient town line, this\\nside of Turkey Falls, upwards, till it meets the Middle Plain.\\n.5. Rattle-snake Plains lie on the west side of the river, from what is called\\nFarnum s Eddy, northward, to the high banks north-east of the West Village,\\nor as far as the interval extends in that dii-ection.\\n6. Frog Ponds include the section of interval still well known by that\\nname though the course of the river has greatly changed the original bounds\\nof some of the lots.\\nThe following table shows where the several lots, as laid out originally, were\\nlocated, and, also, the quantity of land to each. It will l)e observed that in\\nseveral cases two parcels were allotted to the same person, in different localities.\\nThe record of this Second Division is in Vol. I. of Proprietors Records,\\npp. 29-43.\\n1. MILL BROOK INTERVAL FIRST RANGE.\\nVO. ACRE?.\\n1. Edward Abbot, 2i.,\\n2. John Foster, 2^o\\n3. Nehemiah Heath, 2 i^\\n4. Ebenezer Lovejoy, .21.,\\ni. Samuel Ayer, 2i.,\\n6. Steplien Osgood, 2}7-,\\n7. David Wood, 4\\n8. Jolm Grainger, 5\\n9. William Barker, 4h,\\n10. Timothy Johnson, 4\\n11. Ebenezer Virgin, 4}:^\\n12. Nathaniel Abbot, 4^\\n13. John Chandler,\\n14. Bezaleel Toppan,\\n15. Jolm Coggin,\\nl(j. Ehcnezcr Eastman,\\n17. Samuel Davis,.\\n18. Nathan Parker,\\n19. Edward Clark,\\n20. Benjamin Stevens,\\n21. Nehemiah Heath,\\n22. John Foster,\\n23. Jonatlian Shipley,\\n24. Natlianiel Jones,\\nMILL BROOK INTERVAL SECOND RANGE.\\nACRES.\\n4\\n41..-\\n4)/,\\n4i.\\n417.\\n6\\n6\\n3U\\n3\\n4 14\\nNO. ACRES.\\n1. Abraham Foster, 5\\n2. John Sanders, 5\\n3. Thomas Wieomb, 5\\n4. Nathan Blodgett, 5\\n5. Minister, 6\\n6. Parsonage, 6\\nNO. ACRES.\\n7. School, 5\\n8. Zerobbabel Snow, .5\\n9. Edward Al)bot, 2)^\\n10. Ebenezer Lovejoy, 2}^\\n11. Samuel Ayer, 2j\\n12. Stephen Osgood, 2)^", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "126\\nTHE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\n1. Benjamin Niccolls,\\n2. E))Iiraim Farnum,\\n3. Nathaniel Lovejoy,\\n4. Joiiii Jaijues,\\n5. Benjamin Carlton,\\n6. Andrew Mitchell,\\n7. Stephen Emerson,\\n8. Thomas Colman,\\n1. Tliomas Coleman,\\n2. E])liraim Davis,\\n3. Benjamin Niccolls,\\n4. Stephen Emerson,\\n5. Epln-aini Farnum,\\n6. Nathaniel Lovejoy,\\n7. John Jaques,\\n8. Benjamin Carlton,\\n9. Andrew Mitchell,\\n10. Joiin Sanders, Jr.,\\n11. John Pecker,\\n12. James Parker,\\n13. Kohert Peaslee,\\n14. Joseph Parker,\\n2. SUGAR BALL PLAIN.\\nACRES. NO. ACRES.\\n.3 I 9. Ephraim Davis, 2\\n2, 10. Samuel Reynolds, 5\\n2}^ 11. John Aver, 6\\n2io,12. SamuerWhite, 5\\n2 i 13. David Kimball, 5\\n2ij|l4. Moses Day, 5\\n15. John Pecker, 2%,\\n16. John Sanders, 2\\n91.,\\nMIDDLE PLALV.\\n2K,\\n21\\n21.\\n1^\\n5\\n5\\n5\\n15. Jacob Eames,\\n16. Samuel Grainger,\\n17. John Mattis,\\n18. John Osgood,\\n19. Ephraim Hildreth.\\n20. Bichard Hazzcn, Jr.,\\n21. Benjamin Gage,\\n22. William White,\\n23. Nathaniel Clement,\\n24. Obadiah Ayer,\\n25. Jonathan Pulsepher,\\n2G. Nicholas White,\\n27. Joseph Hall,\\n28. Nathaniel Peaslee,\\nACRES.\\n5\\n5\\n5\\n3\\n3\\n3\\n3\\n3\\n3\\n3(?)\\n3\\n3\\n3\\n3\\nAll the foregoing lots are numbered from the upper end down Merrimack\\nriver.\\n4. LOWEST INTERVAL\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE RIVER.\\nLots numbered from the town line up Merrimack river.\\n1. Nathaniel Peaslee,\\n2. Joseph Hall,\\n3. Nicholas White,\\n4. Jonathan Pulsipher,\\n5. Obadiah Ayer,\\n6. Nathaniel Clement,\\n7. William White,\\n8. Benjamin Gage,\\n9. Richard Hazzen, Jr.,\\n10. Ephraim Hildreth,\\n11. John Osgood,\\n12. Joseph Hale,\\n13. John Peabody,\\n14. Edward Winn,\\n15. Josiah Jones,\\n16. Joshua Bayley,\\nACRES.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a24|4\\n4 4\\n^h\\n43*4\\n.43,\\n4:^4\\n4.^4\\n5\\n234\\n21.4\\n21^\\n2V,\\nACRES\\n014\\nNO.\\n17. Jonathan Hubbard,.\\n18. Ammi Ru i Wise, 2%\\n19. Thomas Blanchard, .2%\\n20. Moses Hazzen, 2)|\\n21. Isaac Walker, 2%\\n22. Nathan Simons, 2%\\n23. Josej)h Page, 2%\\n24. Nathaniel Sanders, 2)|\\n25. John Wright, 2}Z\\n26. Nathaniel Page, 2)1\\n27. Nathan Fisk, alias Zachariah\\nChandler, 5\\n28. Solomon Martin, 5\\n29. Samuel Kemball, 5\\n30. William Gutterson, 5\\n31. John Merrill, 5\\nNT. B. There is to run a drift-way of three rods through the westerly end of\\nthe thirty-one lots last mentioned, as nigh to Merrimack river as may be with\\nconvenience.\\n5. RATTLE-SNAKE PLAINS.\\nThese lots arc numbered up Merrimack river.\\n1 David Dodge,\\n2. Samuel Toppan,\\n3. Christopher Carlton,\\n4. Nehemiah Carlton,\\nACRES.\\n5\\n5\\n5\\n5\\nNO. ACRES-\\n5. Jacob Abbott, 5\\n6. William Whittier, 5\\n7. Thomas Page, 5\\n8. John Austin, 4", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 127\\n1*0. ACRES,\\n9. Henry Rolfe, 4\\n10. Benjaniiu Parker, 4\\n11. Thomas Perley, for Nathaniel\\nCogswell, 4\\n12. Samuel Jones, 4\\nNO. ACRES\\n13. Thomas Larned, 2}X\\n14. James Simons, 2\\n15. Robert Kimball, 2}.\\n16. Joseph Davis, 2}Z\\n17. Richard Urann, 3\\nNO.\\nACRES.\\n9.\\nMoses Hazzen,\\n10.\\nThomas Blanchard,\\n2X\\n11.\\nAm mi Ruli Wise,\\n2\\n12.\\nJonathan Hubbard,\\n.2)^\\n13.\\nJoshua Bayley,\\nA\\n14.\\nJosiah Jones,\\n2K\\n15.\\nEdward Winn,\\n2V,\\n16.\\nJohn Peabody,\\n.2 2\\nN. B. There is allowance in these lots for a highway to run through them\\ntill it comes to Urann s lot.\\n6. DIVISION AT FROG PONDS.\\nNO. ACRES.\\n1. Enoch Coffin 5\\n2. Samuel Phillips, 5\\n3. Nathaniel Page, 2)^\\n4. John Wright, 2}^\\n5. NathanielSanders, 2Kj\\n6. Nathan Simons, 2^.,\\n7. Joseph Page, 2i.\\n8. Isaac Walker, 2\\nLaid out to Nathaniel Abbot, all that swamp betwixt his first division of\\ninterval and Merrimack river, containing one acre and a quarter, more or less.\\nTo Joseph Hale, two acres of swamp adjoining Abbot s.\\nTo David Wood, one acre of swamp adjoining Hale s.\\nTo Benjamin Niccolls, one acre of swamp adjoining Wood s.\\nTo John Austin, one acre of swamp adjoining Niccolls\\nTo Ebenezer Stevens, four and a half acres of land, bounded on Benjamin\\nParker s lot, on one side, and Horse-shoe Pond and the brook that runs out of\\nit, on the other.\\nTo William Barker, all that land lying betwixt the highway that runs by his\\ninterval lot, and the brook that runs through Horse-shoe Pond, containing thirty-\\nfive poles, more or less.\\nTo Ebenezer Virgin, the land tetwixt his first division of interval and the\\nbrook that runs out of Horse-shoe Pond forty poles.\\nTo Timothy Johnson, the land lying betwixt his first division of interval and\\nHorse-shoe Pond brook one acre and a half\\nEXPLANATION OF THE TWENTY ACRES DIVISION.\\nThis division of land was made between the 14tli of September, 1732, and\\nthe 18th of June, 1734, agreeable to a vote of the proprietors, according to our\\nbest judgment, by Ebenezer Eastman, John Chandler, Jeremiah Stickney, Jo-\\nseph Eastman, Edward Abbott, Benjamin Rolfe, committee.\\nNo plan has been preserved of this division. The lots were laid off in differ-\\nent parts of the township. The original bounds are recorded in the Proprietors\\nRecords, Vol. II., but only a part of them can at the present time be recognized\\nby the description there given. Ten twenty acre lots were laid off north of what\\nwas called the Contoocook [Boscawen] road extending from the north end of\\nMain street into the neighborhood of the West Village. Ten more were laid\\noff on the Hopkinton road, in the vicinity of the new jail, westward, beyond the\\nmonument. Several were laid off west of the second range, on Main street.\\nIn many cases, however, the original lots are known only by tradition, and by\\nrecords of conveyances, c.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "128 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nEMENDATION LOTS.\\nThese lots were laid out in different quantities, and frequently in different\\nsections, in order to make the interval lots belonging to the proprietors equal\\nas to quaniity and quality. The bounds are recorded in Proprietors Records,\\nVol. 11., but must be recognized mainly, at this time, by family tradition, and by\\n-written conveyances. This division was made between the 14th of November,\\n1732, and the 1st of December, 1734, by vote of the proprietors, and according\\nto our best judgment, by Ebenezer Eastman, Abraham Bradley, Joseph East-\\nman, committee.\\nEIGHTY ACRES DIVISION.\\nA division of common and undivided land was ordered (14th of March,\\n173G,) to be made to the several grantees, as large as the committee shall think\\nthe good land will allow of to be laid out in one or more pieces. This is\\ncalled the eighty acres division, though the lots varied from eighty acres to\\none hundred and fifty, or even more, according to quality. The lots were laid\\noff, in many cases, in different pieces, remote from each other. Phms of these\\nlots are preserved among the Proprietors Records, Vol. III., with the roads and\\ndrift-ways reserved which ran througli them. The division was made by Benja-\\nmin Rolfe and John Chandler, committee.\\nSpecial grants of land were made as follows\\nTo Nathan Simonds mill grant, one hundred acres, on the east side of the\\nriver.\\nTo Cutting Noyes, for doing l)lacksmith work, forty acres, on the east side of\\nthe river, and ten acres on the west side, opposite Lot No. 23, first range of\\nhouse lots.\\nTo Henrv Lovejoy and Barachias Farnum mill grant on Turkey river\\none hundred and forty acres.\\nTo Col. John Wainwright, for services as clerk, one hundred acres.\\nTo John Merrill, for keeping ferry, twenty acres.\\nNo. 9.\\nTHE STATE AND CONDITION OF THE SETTLEMENT\\nIN OCTOBER, 1731.\\n[copied, alphabetically, from the original report.]\\nNathaniel Abbot. He had a house built and his family there.\\nJacob Abbot. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nJohn Austin. lie had a house built and inhabited.\\nSamuel Ayer. He had a house framed, and twelve acres of land fenced,\\nmowed and ploughed.\\nObadiau Ayer. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nJohn Ayer. He had a house inhabited.\\nJohn Bayley. He had a house erected, but not finished.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 129\\nNathaniel Barker. He had a house built, and the lot impvoved by James\\nVarnum, an inhabitant.\\nZebediah Barker. He had a house and barn well finished and inhabited.\\nWilliam Barker. He had a house well finished and inhabited, and a good\\nbarn.\\nJoshua Batlet. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nThomas Blanchard. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nMoses Boardman. He had a house built, but not quite finished, but tenant-\\n.ablc six aere lot fenced in and under improvement.\\nNathan Blodgett. He had a house inhabited.\\nChristoi Her Carleton. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nBenjamin Carleton. He had a house built, and the order of Court com-\\nplied with by Jeremiah Stickney, an inhabitant.\\nNehemiah Carleton. He had a house erected, and the order complied\\nwith by Abner Hoit, an inhabitant.\\nJohn Chandler. A house built and inhabited the order fully complied\\nwith.\\nNathaniel Clement. He had no house and no inhabitant three acres\\nploughed.\\nJohn Coggin. He had a house erected, but not finished twelve acres of\\nland fenced and improved.\\nEdward Clark. He had a house built not finished a man inhabiting\\nthere twelve acres within fence, mowed and ploughed.\\nEnoch Coffin. He had a house built, and the order complied with by Jon-\\nathan Danforth.\\nThomas Colman. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nKi CHARD Cooledge. Hc had no house, but land improved, and order oth-\\nerwise complied with by Ens. John Chandler.\\nJoseph Davis. He had a house built and well finished.\\nEphraim Davis. He had a house built, and the order was complied with by\\nhis son.\\nSamuel Davis. [Blank.]\\nMoses Day. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nDavid Dodge. Hc had a house built not finished.\\nJacob Eames. He had a good dwelling house six acre lot fenced in and\\nbroke up.\\nEbenezer Eastman. He had six sons on the spot six men in his family.\\nHe paid the charge of building a corn-mill and he has broke up, cleared and\\nmowed upward of eighty acres of land, and had very considerable buildings,\\nout-houses, barns, c., there.\\nStephen Emerson. He had a house built, and the order complied with\\nno inhabitant.\\nEphraim Earnum. He was an inhabitant and had a house built.\\nNathan Fisk. He had a house built and inhabited, and the order complied\\nwith by Z. Chandler.\\nAbraham Foster. He had a house Imilt and inhabited.\\nJohn Foster. He had a house built, and (he order complied with by his\\nson.\\nBenjamin Gage. Hc had a house built and inhabited.\\n9", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "130 THE PLANTATION OF TENACOOK.\\nJohn GR.WGEn. He had a house built and finished order complied with\\nhy John Russ, inhabitant.\\nSamuel Grainger. He had a house built order complied with by George\\nAbbot.\\nWilliam Gdtterson. He had a house built, and the order complied with\\nby John Merrill.\\nJoseph Hale. He had a frame standing on the house lot.\\nJoseph Hall. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nMoses Hazzek. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nRichard Hazzen, Jun. He had a house built, and the order complied with\\nby Dea. Osgood.\\nNeiiemiaii Heath. [Blank.]\\nEphrai.m Hildreth. He had a frame, not raised, but ready, and laud\\nploughed.\\nJonathan Hubbard, for Daniel Davis. He had a house built and inhab-\\nited.\\nJohn Jaques. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nTimothy Johnson. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nNathaniel Jones. He had a house built, and order complied with by his son.\\nDavid Kimball. He had a house built an inhabitant.\\nRobert Kimball. He had a house the order complied with his son an\\ninhabitant.\\nSamuel Kimball. He had a house built not finished the order com-\\nplied with by his son.\\nIsaac Learned. He had a house man dead.\\nEbenezer Love.toy. He had a house, but uninhabited.\\nNathaniel Lovejot. He had a house erected not finished.\\nJohn Mattis. He had a house and bam, and inhabited.\\nJohn Merrill. He had a house built an inhabitant.\\nAndrew Mitchell. He had a house erected not finished twelve acres\\nfenced and ploughed.\\nBenjamin Nichols. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nJohn Osgood. He had a house built and inhal)ited.\\nStephen Osgood. He had a house ten acres fenced and mowed cleared\\nnothing ploughed.\\nThomas Page. [Blank.]\\nJoseph Page. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nNathaniel Page. He had a house built, finished and inhabited.\\nJoseph Parker. He had a house, but not finished orders otherwise com-\\nplied with by Ezekiel Walker, an inhabitant.\\nNathan Parker. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nBenjamin Parker. He had a house partly covered ten acres fenced and\\nimproved by ploughing and mowing.\\nJames Parker. He had no house the land ploughed, mowed and fenced\\nby Lt. Farrington, an inhabitant.\\nJohn Peabodt. He had a house up negro man, inhabitant orders oth-\\nerwise complied with.\\nNathaniel Peaslee. He had a house order complied with by John\\nMerrill.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 131\\nRobert Peaslee. lie had a house and inhabited.\\nJohn Pecker. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nRev. Samuel Phillips. He had a house up not finished order for im-\\nprovement complied with by William Peters.\\nJonathan Pulsipher. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nThomas Perlet, for Nathaniel Cogswell. He had a house built and\\nwas an inhabitant.\\nSamuel Reynolds. He had a house erected, but not finished, and land\\nfenced and improved no inhabitant.\\nHenry Rolfe. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nJohn Sanders. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nNathaniel Sanders. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nJohn Sanders, Jr. He had a house built land ploughed, mowed and\\nfenced.\\nJonathan Shipley. [Blank.]\\nJames Simonds. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nNathan Simonds. [Blank.]\\nEbenezer Stevens. He had a house and barn built, finished and inhabited.\\nZerobbabel Snow. He had a house up, inhabited by Isaac Walker.\\nBenjamin Stea ens, Esq. He had a house and barn improved by Ebene-\\nzer Stevens.\\nBezaleel Toppan. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nSamuel Toppan. He had a house inhabited order complied with by\\nDanforth.\\nRichard TJran. He was an inhabitant, and had land mowed, ploughed and\\nfenced.\\nEbenezer Virgin. He had a house and inhabited it.\\nIsaac Walker. He had a house up not finished was an inhabitant,\\nwith his family twelve acres fenced, mowed and ploughed.\\nWilliam White. No house frame ready three acres ploughed that s all.\\nNicholas White. Frame raised possessed by Call, an inhabitant\\nthere.\\nThomas Wicomb. He had a house built, and had a man there.\\nWilliam Whittier. No house nor inhabitant.\\nEdward Winn. He had a house up not finished.\\nJohn Wright. He had a house almost finished an inhabitant.\\nAmmi Ruhamah Wise. He had a house built and inhabited.\\nDavid Wood. He had a house and a man on the spot ten acres fenced,\\nmowed and ploughed.\\nTotal\u00e2\u0080\u0094 100.\\nThe above is the account of the present state and circumstances of the Plan-\\ntation of Penny Cook, taken there by as careful a view as we could, and the best\\ninformation of the principal settlers and inhabitants.\\nJohn Wainwbight,\\nOctober 20, 1731. Jno. Sanders.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "132 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nNo. 3.\\nA STATEMENT\\nOF EXPENSES INCURRED Bi THE SETTLERS, FROM 1725 TO 1733.\\ns.\\nFor the privilege of admittance, 20s. each, 100 00\\nFor right to a lot, .\u00c2\u00a35 each, 500 00\\nTo Obadiah Ayer, for examining records, 2 00\\nFor expense of committee, surveyors, c. first division 40s. each, 200 00\\nFor laying out second division of interval, 26 00\\nFor block-house and. canoes, 11317\\nFor preferring a petition to the General Court, 20\\nTo Mr. John Sanders, for his services, in part, 15\\nFor mending the highways to Penacook, 14 02\\nTo Rev. Bezaleel Toppan, for preaching, c., 1 10\\nTo heirs of Kev. Enoch Coffin, 4 00\\nTo Mr. Hemy Rolfe, for a ferry-boat over Suncook river, 5 00\\nFor and toward settling the first minister, 100 00\\nFor a grist-mill, (10s. each,) 50 00\\nTo Mr. John Sanders, in part pay for his services, 3 00\\nI or ordination expenses, 31 10\\nTo Jolm Wainwright and John Sanders, for services, 4 00\\n\u00c2\u00a31157 14\\nAbated, 500 00\\nIt appears, however, that \u00c2\u00a3500 toward which each settler gave a bond of\\n\u00c2\u00a35 for his right to a lot was, upon petition, abated. Beside these expenses\\nwhich, it would seem, were promptly met each settler met his own charges in\\nbuilding his house, clearing and fencing his land and, after Rev. Mr. Walker s\\nsettlement, paying his salary and other current expenses of the community\\nall which shows that they were, in general, men of substance, and well able\\nto prosecute their noble and hazardous enterprise.\\nBRIEF NOTICES\\nOF THE PROPRIETORS AND EARLY SETTLERS, IN THE ORDER OF\\nTHEIR NAMES.\\nABBOT.\\nNathaniel Abbot, sou of Nathaniel, son of George, the ancestor of the Abbots,\\nof Andover, Massachusetts, was born in Andover in 1696, He married Penelope\\nBallard; was about thirty years of age when he came to Penacook. They had\\nthirteen children. His house lot was No. 12, second range where the North\\nCongregational Church now stands. He was the first constable of Penacook,\\n(1732/3,) an efficient, enterprising, useful citizen, and member of the church.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 133\\nAt the commencement of the French war, (1744,) he entered the service, and\\njoined the rangers under Maj. Robert Rogers. He held a lieutenant s commis-\\nsion in 1755, in Capt. Joseph Eastman s company, in the expedition against\\nCrown Point, and was a lieutenant in Capt. Richard Rogers company of\\nrangers, in Fort William Henry, at the time of the massacre, 1757. In 1746\\nhe had command of a company in defense of the town against the Indians. He\\ndied in 1770, aged 74. [See Register of Abbot family.]\\nEdward Abbot, cousin of Capt. Nathaniel; son of Timothy, son of George.\\nof Andover, married Dorcas Chandler was one of the first selectmen of\\nRumford. In 1746 his house was a garrison that stood on the spot where\\nDr. Thomas Chadbourne now lives south-east corner of Montgomery and\\nMain streets. Edward, his son, was the first male child born in Penacook,\\n(7th of January, 1731,) and Dorcus the first female child. [See Town Register.]\\nJacob Abbot, cousin of Nathaniel and Edward son of Benjamin, son of\\nGeorge, of Andover. He died in the French war, 1760.\\nAUSTIN.\\nJohn Austin, probably a descendant of Tlmnas Austin, from Andover, where\\nwas Samuel Austin (1714,) who died 1753, aged eighty-three.\\nAYERS.\\nObadiah, Samuel and John Ayers, or Ayer, were from Haverhill. Ohadiah was\\na graduate of Harvard College, 1710 was employed to examine the General\\nCourt s records, to see if there be any former grant of the township was one\\nof the principal inhabitants of Haverhill. Samuel and John were of the same\\nfamily young men and were among the most active and enterprising settlers.\\n[See Family Register.] They were all descendants oi John, who was of Salis-\\nbury, 1640, of Ipswich, 1648, and at Haverhill, 1657.\\nBLA.f^CHARD.\\nThomas Blanchard, from Andover, was a son or grandson of Samuel Blan-\\nchard, who came from England, in 1639, with his father, Thomas, on the ship\\nJonathan, and settled in Charlestown. Thence Samuel removed to Andover, in\\n1686, and died April, 1707, aged seventy-seven. Thomas, the proprietor of\\nPenacook, died in 1759, aged eighty-five.\\nBARKER.\\nWilliam, Nathan and Zehediah Barker came from Andover. William, son of\\nRichard Barker, one of the founders of the church in Andover, 1645, was\\nuncle to Nathan and Zebediah the one, son oiEbenezer, and the other of Stephen\\nBarker, brothers of William. [See Family Register.]\\nBAYLEY.\\nCapt. Joshua Bayley is named in the Proprietors Records as one of the prin-\\ncipal inhabitants of Haverhill. Probably came to Haverhill from Newbury\\nborn the 30th of October, 1685, and a descendant of John Bayley, who came\\nfrom Chippenham, England, (a weaver,) and settled in Newbury, 1650. [See\\nCofiin s Hist, of Newbury, App., p. 294.]\\nBOARDxMAN.\\nMoses Boardman unknown.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "134 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nBLODGETT.\\nJVathan Blodgctt was probably from Woburu.\\nCLEMENT.\\nNathaniel Clement was from Haverhill.\\nCH.\\\\NDLER.\\nJohn Chandler, son of Capt. John Chandler, of Andovcr, who died in 1721,\\nand grandson of Cajit. Thomas Chandler, who died in 1703, was a leading and\\ninflnential man. Zechnriah Chandler was a cousin of John, son of William, son\\nof Capt. Thomas. The first Capt. John was a powerful, athletic man, of great\\nmuscular strength and cool, indomitable courage. The late Nathan Chandler,\\ngreat-grandson of Capt. John, used to relate, that on one occasion, when his\\nancestor, Capt. John, of Andover, went to Newburyport, he was impressed by\\nthree of the king s officers saying to him, as they laid hands on his shoulder\\nThe king needs your service. He wished to be e.Kcused saying that his\\nfamily required his care and attention, c. to which the reply was We can-\\nnot help that the king needs your services you will go with us. Apparently\\nyielding, he walked quietly along with them till they reached a spot where a\\nhouse had been burned down, and where was a deep cellar with ashes and half\\nconsumed timber. Turning quickly around, he seized them one by one, and\\nthrew them into the cellar, where he left them and went on his way.\\nC.VRLTON.\\nThe Carltons Benjamin, Nehemiah and Christopher were relatives, proba-\\nbly from Andover and Haverhill. Mirick, in his History of Haverhill, says,\\nChristopher Carlton was among the original proprietors of Penacook but\\nthe late John Farmer, Esq., said that Christopher Carlton was son of John Carl-\\nton, of Andover. The name was common in both places.\\nCOOLIDGE.\\nRichard Coolidge unknown.\\nCOGGIN.\\nJohn Coggin is believed to have been of Woburn. None of the name are now\\nin Concord.\\nCLARK.\\nEdward Clark was from Haverhill.\\nCOFFIN.\\nRev. Enoch Coffin was son of the Hon. Nathaniel Coffin; born at Newbury,\\nMassachusetts, February 7, 1695/6; graduated at Harvard College in 1714;\\ndied August, 1728. He received a call to settle in Dunstable, N. H., as suc-\\ncessor of Rev. Thomas Weld, but declined it on account of his health. Mr.\\nCoffin accompanied the honorable Committee of the Court and surveyors when\\nthey came to Penacook to lay out the land, in May, 1726, and preached twice on\\nthe Sabbath after their arrival, in a tent, on Sugar Ball Plain. His father,\\nNathaniel, was son of Tristram Coffin, of Newbury, whose fivther, Tristram\\nCoffin, was born in Brixham Parish, town of Plymouth, England, in 1609. In\\n1642 Tristram Coffin came to this country with his mother, Avife, two sisters, and\\nfive children Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, James and John. Peter Coffin, son\\nof this Tristram, was born in 1630; resided the principal part of his life in", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 135\\nDover, N. H., and was concerned in the trucking house, in Penacook, in 1G68.\\nHe died the 21st of March, 1715, at Exeter, aged eighty-five. Tristram Coffin\\nwas the ancestor of a numerous race, to which helong Samuel Coffin, Esq., of\\nConcord, and those of the name in Boscawen. [See Coffin s Hist, of Newbury.]\\nThe first settlers of the name in Concord, after the death of Rev. Enoch, were\\nWilliam and Peter, sons of John, of Newbury. Peter afterward settled in Bos-\\ncawen, from whom those of that name tliere have descended.\\nCOLEMAN.\\nTliomas Coleman was of Newbury, probably a descendant of Thomas Coleman,\\nor Coultman, as he wrote it, (laborer.) who was born 1602, in Marlborough,\\nWiltshire, England, and came to Newbury in the James, 1G35. He died at\\nNantucket, 1685, aged eighty-three. Coleman forfeited las lot, by not paying,\\nto Henry Rolfe, Esq.\\nCOGSWELL.\\nNulhaniel CogsweU s right was drawn and carried on by Thomas Perley.\\nPerley was, and still is, a common name of Boxford, Massachusetts.\\nDAY.\\nMoses Day was from Bradford. One of the same name was deacon of the\\nchurch in the West Parish of Bradford, 1730, and also 1750. Probably one\\nof them was the proprietor in Penacook. [Sec Rev. G. B. Perry s sermon,\\nDecember 12, 1820.]\\nDAVIS.\\nEpliraim, Joseph and Saimiel were from Haverhill. Ephraim was the only one\\nwho finally settled in Concord. He was born the 20th of March, 1697 son of\\nEphraim, son of John, a descendant of Thomas, who was of Marlborough, Eng-\\nland, and was in Newbury, 1641 then in Haverhill, 1642, where he died in 1683,\\naged eighty. [See Family Register.]\\nDODGE.\\nDavid Dodge not known from whence he came none of the name now\\nresident here.\\nEASTMAN.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Eastman vf as from Haverliill; one of the most enterprising and\\nuseful of the proprietors. He settled on the east side of the river. His house\\nwas a garrison in 1746 situated west of the present residence of Robert East-\\nman. On the old house lot, wliich is now divided by the track of the Boston,\\nConcord and Montreal Railroad, several ancient apple trees are still standing,\\nwhich Capt. Eastman set out with his own hands. [See biographical notice.]\\nEAMES.\\nJacob Eanies was from Andover.\\nEMERSON.\\nStephen Emerson was from Haverhill.\\nFOSTER.\\nJohn and Abraham Foster were from Andover descendants of Andrew Foster,\\none of the first settlers in Andover, who came from England, and died 1685,\\naged one hundred and six years. John was son of Ephraim, who died 1746,\\naged eighty-eight. Abraham was probably a cousin of John.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "136 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nFAR NUM.\\nEphraim Farmim, from Amlovcr, was son of Ephraim, son of Ralph rarnum,\\nwho married Elizabeth Holt, in 1658. He drew house lot No. 15, which was the\\nspot where the house of the late Dr. Green stood. He afterward settled on\\nthe land now owneil hy Dca. Benjamin Earnum and by Moses H. Farnum,\\nwho are descendants. Ephraim Farnum was chosen deacon of the church Au-\\ngust, 1731. How long he served is unknown. But, desiring a dismission from\\nthe office, at a church meeting, he was dismissed, and George Abbot chosen in\\nhis room. He died in 1775, aged about eighty. His descendants in Concord\\nare many. [See Farnum Family.]\\nGRANGER.\\nJohn and Samuel Granger were brothers from Andover sons of John Granger,\\nwho was born in 1655, and died in 1725, aged seventy who was probably a son\\nof Lancelot Granger, of Newbury, ancestor of the late Gideon Granger, Post-\\nmaster General of the United States.\\nGAGE.\\nBenjamin Gage was from Bradford.\\nGUTTERSON.\\nWilliam Gutterson was from Andover son of John Gutterson probably a\\ndescendant from an early fivmily in Ipswich.\\nHEATH.\\nNehemiah Ueath was from Haverhill.\\nHILDRETH.\\nEphraim ITddreih was probably from Chelmsford, where many of the name\\nhave resided.\\nHALE.\\nJoseph Hale was from Newbury probably son of Joseph, a descendant of\\nThomas Hale, (glover,) who, with his wife Tamosin or Thomasinc, came to\\nNewbury in 1635, and died December, 1682, aged seventy-eight.\\nHAZZEN.\\nMoses and Pochard Razzen, Jr., were from Havcrliill. Pvichard was a graduate\\nof Harvard College in 1717; surveyor in Penacook in 1726 and 1727 repre-\\nsentative from Haverhill in 1742. Both Moses and Richard were connected with\\nthe Bradley family. [See Genealogical List\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ch., Bradley Famihj \u00e2\u0080\u0094nei-\\nther settled in Concord.] Richard Hazzen was one of the surveyors appointed\\nby New-Hampshire to i-nn out and mark the boundary line fixed by the king, in\\n1740, between New-Hampshire and Massachusetts. [Sec Belknap s History,\\nFarmer s ed., vol. i., p. 259.]\\nHALL.\\nDea. Joseph Hall, from Bradford. One of the same name was deacon in the\\nWest Parish church of Bradford, in 1730. He drew one of the Eleven Lots,\\n(No. 2,) for his house and home lot, and settled there. July 5, 1736, he married\\nDeborah Abbot, sister of Edward and George Abbot, by whom he had five\\nchildren. [See Family Register.] He was deacon of the church in Concord\\nmore than forty years a benefactor to the poor, and an example of Christian\\nvirtues. Durin the hostilities of the Indians his house was a garrison. He", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 137\\nelicil April 8, 17S4, aged seventy-seven. Deborali, Iiis wife, was a ])atlern of\\nindustry, economj^ charity and piety. She rose, summer and winter, as early as\\nfour o clock. In the early settlement of the town, going one day from her\\nbrother Edward s to her brother George s, she turned from the path to pick\\nberries, near where the State House now stands, and lost her way. In her\\nninety-fifth year she fell and injured her limbs so that she could not walk.\\nJOHNSON.\\nTimothy Johnson is said by Mirick, in his history of Haverhill, (p. 246,) to\\nhave been from that place. John Farmer, Esq., reckons him as from Andover\\nson of Timothy, who died in 1719, aged eighty-eight.\\nJAQUES.\\nJohn Jaques is believed to have been from Bradford none of the name arc\\nnow in town.\\nJONES.\\nNathaniel Jones unknown.\\nKIMBALL.\\nRobert, Samuel and David Kimball were from Bradford. Probably the latter\\nonly finally settled iu Concord. He was the father of Capt. Reuben Kimball,\\nwhose name often occurs in our history. He died November 20, 1745. [See\\nFamily Register.] Thomas Kimball was an early settler in Bradford, and was\\nshot by the Indians, May 3, 1676, and his wife and five children taken captive,\\nwho were afterward returned by the friendly offices of Wonalancet of Penacook.\\n[See History of Haverhill.]\\nLOVEJOY.\\nNathaniel and Ebenezer Lovejoy were brothers, and sons of John Lovejoy, of\\nAndover, who died in 1690. Some of the family still live In Concord. Several\\nof them have been distinguislied for longevity.\\nLEARNED.\\nThomas Learned was probably from Woburn.\\nMERRILL.\\nJohn Merrill, deacon, is believed to have come from Ilavcrhill, (West Parish,)\\nprobably a descendant of Nathanid, brother of John Merrill, one of the first\\nsettlers in Newbury. Dea. Merrill s house was built on the hill at the lower end\\nof Main street, where the roads part. The original well still remains, with good\\nwater in it. He was chosen deacon December 17, 1730. He kept the first ferry\\nover the Merrimack river. [See Family Register.]\\nMATTIS.\\nJohn Mattis. His origin is not known probably not a permanent settler.\\nMITCHELL.\\nAndrew Mitchell was from Newbury believed to have been a descendant of\\nWilliam Mitchell, who died in Newbury in 1654.\\nNICHOLS.\\nBenjamin Nichols. His origin is not certainly known. There was a Nicholas\\nNichols, of Andover, in 1702.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "138 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nOSGOOD.\\nJohn and Stephen Osgood were cousins, from Andover the former son of\\nJohn, and the hitter son of Stephen Osgood both descendants from John Os-\\ngood, one of the founders of the church in Andover, October, 1645, who came\\nfrom Andover, Engknd; born July 23, 1595, and died October, 1651, aged\\nfifty-six.\\nPARKER.\\nBenjamin, James and Nathan Parker were brothers, from Andover sons of\\nJohn Parker, who was born in 1G53, and died in 1738, aged eighty-five\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and\\ngrandsons of Nathan Parker, one of the founders of the church in Andover, in\\n1645 born in England, and died in 1685.\\nJoseph Parker was son of Joseph Parker, son of Joseph who died in 1678 one\\nof the founders of the church in Andover (1645.) This family went from New-\\nbury to Andover. It is not improbable that Joseph and Nathan were brothers.\\nThe descendants of these families still live in Concord. [See Family Register.]\\nPAGE.\\nNathaniel Page was from Haverhill, and, probably, Thomas and Joseph also.\\n[See Mirick s Hist., p. 146.] Several of the name still remain in town.\\nPEASLEE.\\nNathaniel and Robert Peaslee were from Haverhill probably did not settle\\nhere. Nathaniel Peasley was representative from Haverhill in 1737,1739 to\\n1742 1 746 to 1749 1752 and 1753. In 1739 he was one of the General Court s\\ncommittee on the disputed question of the boundary line between the provinces\\nof Massachusetts and New-Hampshire.\\nPHILLIPS.\\nRev. Samuel Phillips was minister of the South Parish church in Andover\\nborn February 28, 1690; graduated at Harvard College in 1708; ordained at\\nAndover October 17, 1711, and died June 5, 1771. His right in Penacook was\\ncarried on by William Peters. His two sons, Samuel and John, were distin-\\nguished men the latter as founder of E.xeter Academy and of the Phillips\\nProfessorship of Divinity in Dartmouth College now filled by Rev. Daniel J.\\nNoyes, first pastor of the South Congregational Church in Concord. Rev. Mr.\\nPhillips wus one of the council that ordained Rev. Timothy Walker at Pena-\\ncook, November 18, 1730, and gave him the charge.\\nPULSIPHER.\\nJonathan Pulsipher s origin is not known. None of the name now resident in\\nConcord.\\nPECKER.\\nJohn Pecker is believed to have come from Haverhill. He was a leading and\\nuseful man in town supposed to be the ancestor of the late Jeremiah Pecker,\\nEsq., who deceased August 12, 1843, aged seventy-one. James and Jeremiah\\nPecker, both of Haverhill, were graduates of Harvard College 1743 and 1757.\\nPEABODY.\\nJohn Peahodij was probably from Salisbury, Massachusetts. None of the\\nfamily now in Concord.\\nREYNOLDS.\\nSamuel Reynolds. Whence he came to Concord, unknown.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "PROPRIETARY RECORDS. 139\\nROLFE.\\nHenry Rolfe, Esq., was from Newbiuy a descendant of Henry, son of Hon-\\nour Rolfe, who came to Newbury among the first settlers, and died in 1643.\\n[See Family Register.] Henry Rolfe, Esq., was one of the commission ap-\\npointed by Massachusetts, in MZl on the question of the boundary line between\\nMassachusetts and New-Hampshire. [See Belknap s Hist., note, p. 243, 1737.]\\nSANDERS.\\nJohn Sanders, John Sanders, Jr., and Jonathan Sanders the two former,\\nfiither and son, were from Haverhill probably, also, Nathaniel Sanders. John\\nSanders was representative from Haverhill from 1720 to 1726, and was one of\\nthe Committee of the Great and General Court for the settlement of Pena-\\ncook. Nathaniel Sanders forfeited his rights to Nathan Webster, Esq., of Ha-\\nverhill.\\nSTEVENS.\\nBenjamin and Ehenezer Stevens were brothers, from Andover sons of John\\nStevens, son of John, a member of Rev. Mr. Dane s church in Audover, and who\\ndied in 1662. Capt. Benjamin Stevens, one of the principal inhabitants of\\nAndover, who died in 1730, aged seventy-three, was also son of the first John,\\nand uncle of Benjamin and Ebenezer.\\nSIMONDS.\\nJames and Nathan Simonds were probably from Woburn.\\nSNOW.\\nZerohbabel Snow. From whence he came is unknown. The name is not found\\nat present in Concord. He owned a lot on what is now called the Borough, and\\nfor him is named Snow s Pond.\\nSHIPLEY.\\nJonathan Shipley. Whence from not known.\\nTOPPAN.\\nBezaleel and Samuel Toppan were from Newbury. Rev. Bezaleel Toppau was\\nborn March 7, 1705, and was son of Rev. Christopher Toppan, pastor of a\\nchurch in Newburj who died July 23, 1747, in his seventy -sixth year. Bezaleel\\nwas a graduate of Harvard College in 1722 preached a while at Penacook was\\nsettled in Salem, Massachusetts, and died in 1762, aged fifty-seven. Samuel\\nToppan was born November 24, 1702, and was son of Samuel, son of Dr. Peter\\nToppan, and cousin of Rev. Bezaleel. Their common ancestor was Abraham\\nToppan, who came to Newbury in 1637.\\nURANN.\\nRichard Urann, it is believed, was from Newbury. The name still continues\\nin Concord.\\nVIRGIN.\\nEbenezer Virgin. His origin is uncertain, though, probably, he came from\\nSalisbury.\\nWRIGHT.\\nJohn Wright.\\nWHITE.\\nNicholas and William White were from Haverhill. John White was repre-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "140 THE PLANTATION OF PENACOOK.\\nsentativc from Havcrliill in 1715 and 1716, and again in 1719. William White\\nwas representative in 1733 and 1734.\\nWISE.\\nRuhamak Wise. He may liave been connected with Rev. John Wise, minister\\nof a parish in Ipswich.\\nWALKER.\\nIsaac Walker was from Woburn a relative of Rev. Timothy Walker, from\\nthe same place. Isaac Walker was fatlier of Isaac, Jr., grandfather of Abiel,\\nlately deceased, who lived on the spot where his grandfather built his log house.\\nIsaac Walker, (Jr.,) died on the same day that Rev. Timothy Walker died.\\n[See Town Records.] In 1746 the house of Timothy Walker, Jr., that stood\\nabout where George Hutchins now lives, was a gamson. He was a son of Isaac\\nWalker, Sen.\\nWOOD.\\nDavid Wood. This is a Newbury name. He had a house lot at or near the\\nbrook north of the late George Arlin s, and hence the brook is called Wood s\\nBrook.\\nWHITTIER.\\nWiUiam Whitiier was from Haverhill. He forfeited his right, by not paying,\\nto Joseph Gcrrish, Esq.\\nWICOMB.\\nThomas Wicomb forfeited his right to Joseph Parker, of Andover.\\nWINN.\\nEdward Winn is believed to have been from Woburn.\\nBRADLEY.\\nAbraham Bradley was not an original proprietor, but came to Penacook as\\nearly as 1729. His name first appears on the Proprietors Records March 31,\\n1730, as one of a committee to amend and repair the necessary roads in Penny\\nCook, and, also, to build a bridge over the Sow-Cook river as soon as may be,\\nat the cost of the settlers. He had but little education, and he usually made\\nhis mark for his name. He Avas, however, a man of sound judgment, and be-\\ncame one of the most enterprising and useful citizens.\\nFARRINGTON.\\nStephen Farrimjton not an original proprietor, but an early settler came\\nto Penacook from Andover; bought of Daniel Rolfe, (1734,) lots laid out to the\\noriginal right of Thomas Blanchard afterward bought lots laid out to Na-\\nthaniel Pcaslee and Robert Peaslee. He married Apphia, a daughter of Abra-\\nham Bradley, and was an enterprising, useful citizen.\\nSHUTE.\\nJacob Shufe came to Penacook with Capt. Ebenezer Eastman. [See biograph-\\nical notice.]\\nSTICKNEY.\\nJeremiah Stickneij came from Bradford about 1731 not an original proprietor,\\nbut became a valuable citizen. His descendants have held prominent offices in\\ntown. [See Family Register.]", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nRUMFORD INCORPORATED.\\nFrom 1731 till 1733 the settlement at Penacook was in a\\ntransition state from a plantation to an incorporated town. The\\npetition of Henry Rolfe, Esq., Dec. 1732, was so far successful\\nthat, as we have seen, the inhabitants of Penacook were\\nallowed to hold legal meetings, for the choice of officers, and to\\nraise money for necessary town purposes. But they were under\\nthe immediate direction of the Great and General Court, who\\nappointed the moderator of the meetings. This state of things\\ncontinued till near the close of the year 1733 4, when the Act\\nof Incorporation for the township by the name of Rumford, was\\nobtained.* The origin of this name we have been unable to\\ndetermine. It is supposed to have been given from that of a\\nparish in England, from which some of the proprietors origin-\\nated but which of them, we cannot tell.\\nTlic proceedings preliminary to the Act of Incorporation were as follows\\nSamuel Game, Esq., brought down a petition of Henry Rolfe, Esq., for him-\\nself and the other grantees of the plantation of Penny Cook, praying that they\\nmight be heard to make it appear to the Court that they have fulfilled the con-\\nditions of their grant, and that thereupon they may be allowed to bring in a bill\\nto erect the plantation into a township, for the reasons mentioned.\\nPassed in council.\\nFebruary 8, 173.3, i?eac? and Ordered, Thiit Thomas Gushing and Edward\\nGodard, Esqrs., with such as shall be joined by the honorahlc house, be a com-\\nmittee to consider of this petition, and report, as soon as may be, what may be\\nproper for this court to do thereon.\\nSent down for concurrence.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "142 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nThe proceedings of the inhabitants while in transition from\\na plantation to a to\\\\ynship, are not otherwise important than\\nas illustrating the order and resolution with which the inhabit-\\nants carried forward their enterprise. Capt. Ebenezer Eastman\\nwas moderator twenty shillings were offered for encourage-\\nment of killing wolves in the township, and six pence for rat-\\ntle-snakes, provided that the destroyer of such snakes shall\\nbring in a black joint of the tail, or with the tail, to the select-\\nmen; also, a penny for killing of black-birds the head\\nbeing brought to the selectmen, or any of them, and burnt.\\nIn December, 1733, thirty pounds were voted to be drawn out\\nof the treasury for the use of the inhabitants and freeholders of\\nthe plantation also, a sum sufficient to pay all just debts, and\\nsixteen pounds for to pay a school for this present winter and\\nspring following and that the selectmen shall find books for the\\nuse of the inhabitants and freeholders, on the town s cost, so far\\nas they shall think necessary.\\nIn January, (16,) 1733-4, fifty pounds were appropriated to\\nRev. Mr. Walker, for building of him a dwelling-house in Pen-\\nny Cook, provided he gives a receipt that he has received in full\\nRead and concurred. Capt. Hill, Mr. Hobson and Mr. Hall are joined in the\\naffair.\\nFebruary 9, 173.3. The committees reported thereon that the petitioners had\\nleave to bring in a bill.\\nAll Act for erect mg a neio town icilh m the County of Essex, at ajilantation called\\nPenny Cook, by the 7iame of Riunford.\\nWhereas, the plantation of Penny Cook, so called, of the contents of seven\\nmiles square, and one hundred rods, extending on the south bounds the full\\nbreadth of said plantation, which has by this court formerly been [and hereby\\nis] declared to lie in the County of Essex, is competently filled with inhabit-\\nants who have built and finished a convenient meeting-house for the public\\nworship of God, and some time since have settled a learned Orthodox minis-\\nter among them and have, to full satisfaction, complied with all the articles\\nand conditions of their grant respecting their settlement, and thereupon have\\naddressed this court to be erected into a separate and distinct township, and hold\\nand enjoy equal powers and privileges with the other towns in the province\\nBe it enacted by His Excellency the Governor, Council and Representatives,\\nin General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That the planta-\\ntion of Penny Cook, in the County of Essex, as the same is hereafter bounded\\n*See list of officers, at the close of this chapter.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF RUMFORD. 143\\nfor his salary in times past, until this day, for the decay of\\nmoney it not being equal to silver at seventeen shillings the\\nounce.\\n1734.\\nFrom this period the affairs of the new town proceeded with\\nregularity and safety, till 1737. The proprietors books and\\npapers, that had been faithfully kept by John Wainwright, Esq.,\\nwere dehvered into the hands of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., who was\\nboth proprietors and town clerk. May 10, 1735, Mr. John\\nChandler, town treasurer, was ordered to make the several col-\\nlectors that are in arrears, forthwith to pay in what was due\\nand Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., was appointed attorney in behalf of\\nthe town, to sue for and recover in the law, any sum or sums\\nof money which Mr. John Chandler, treasurer, is indebted to\\nthe town. In September, money was i-aised for building a\\nbridge over Suncook river, one third part of the expense of\\nbuilding said bridge to be at the cost of the town. Deacon\\nJohn Merrill and Mr. James Abbot, or either of them, were\\nempowered to hire a man to keep school four months the next\\nwinter and spring and Capt. John Chandler, Benj. Rolfe, Esq.,\\nDea. Merrill and Abner Hoit, appointed a committee to take\\ncare that the bridge over Suncook be well done.\\n17 3 6.\\nFifty pounds were granted to Rev. Mr. Walker, to enable him\\nto clear a pasture and bring it to English grass thirty pounds\\nand described, be and hereby is constituted a separate and distinct townsliip, by\\nthe name of Rumford the bounds of said township being as follows, viz. Be-\\nginning where Contoocook river falls into Merrimack river, and thence to extend\\nupon a course east seventeen degrees north three miles, and upon a course Avest\\nseventeen degrees south four miles, which is the northerly bounds of said town-\\nship and from the other parts of that line, to be set off southerly at right\\nangles until seven miles and one hundred rods shall be accomplished from the\\nsaid northern bounds and the inhabitants thereof be and hereby are vested and\\nendowed with equal powers, privileges and immunities that the inhabitants of\\nany of the other towns within this province are or ought by law to be vested or\\nendowed with.\\nPassed in Council, February 22d, 1733.\\nSent down and read a first time. Bill passed, February 27, 1733.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "144 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nof the said fifty pounds to be paid in 1736, and twenty pounds\\nin the year 1737. Henry Rolfe, Esq., was authorized to use\\nproper means to get the County of Essex divided into counties,\\nEdward Abbot was empowered to repair and fit up the seats\\nin the meeting-house, and make a door to the pulpit, and put up\\nthe windows. On the 18th of May the question of sending a\\nKepresentative to the Great and General Court in Boston, was\\ntried in town-meeting, and decided in the negative. The same\\nquestion was decided in the negative the 7iext year, and still\\nagain in 1738.\\n1739.\\nThe school was ordered to be kept from the 20th of October\\nto the 20th of April, 1740. Seventh of November, Voted,\\nThat there shall be a good and sufficient garrison built around\\nthe Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker s dwelling-house, as soon as may\\nbe conveniently, at the town s cost. Benj. Rolfe, Esq., Dea.\\nMerrill, Dea. Ephraim Farnum, Lieut. John Chandler and Ed-\\nward Abbot, to build the said garrison, at the town s cost, as\\nthey shall think best. Five pounds were also granted to Mr.\\nBarachias Farnum, to enable him to build a flanker to defend his\\nuiiHs, provided he give security to the town that in case he\\nshall not keep a garrison at his dwelling-house, the town shall\\nhave liberty to take said flanker, and convert it to their use.\\nMr. Farnum s mill was on Turkey river, and his house also in\\nthat neighborhood.\\nMr. James Scales,* afterward minister of Hopkinton, was\\nallowed liberty to build a pew in the one half of the hinder-\\nmost seat at the west end of the meeting-house, that is next the\\nwindow.\\nTo the Church of Christ in Rumford, the First Church of ChrUt in Boxford sends greeting\\nReveraid and Beloved: We dhmisa from our to your holy communion, our beloved and\\nworthy brother, Mr. James Scales, desiring you to receive him as becometh saints, and pray\\nfor us. Your brethren in Christ,\\nJoHjf Rogers, Pastor,\\nwith ye consent of the brethren.\\nBoxford, July 3, 1737.\\nRumford, July ye 17, 1737. This dismission and recommendation was read to the Cliurch,\\nand thereupon Mr. Scales was received to full communion here.\\nTiMOTHT VValeeb, Pastor.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "fflSTORY OF RUMFORD. 145\\nJoseph Eastman and Lieut. John Chandler were appointed\\nto inform of all breaches of an act for the better preservation\\nand increase of deer within the province, and to take care that\\nthe violators thereof be duly prosecuted and punished.\\nAt this early period there appears to have been a ferry across\\nthe Merrimack from Hale s Point in a Great Boat, and a road\\nwas laid out from the landing-place along the bank of the river\\nto the old fort, through land of Mr. Nathaniel Abbot and\\nWilliam Barker.\\n1740.\\nJune 11, Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., was elected and deputed to\\nserve for and represent the town in the Great and General\\nCourt in Boston, and empowered, in behalf of the inhabitants,\\nto prefer a petition to His Majesty, that they may be quieted in\\ntheir possessions, and remain under the jurisdiction of the Massa-\\nchusetts Bay, or for any thing that may be proper or convenient.\\nIn order to understand the ground and reasons for the dis-\\nquiet implied in the foregoing, it is needful to refer, briefly,\\nto the controversy at this time going on between Massachusetts\\nand New-Hampshire respecting their boundary lines.\\nThe point in controversy between the governments of the two\\nprovinces, so far as aifected Rumford, was the southern bound-\\nary line of New-Hampshire, or which is the same, the northern\\nboundary line of Massachusetts. The latter by virtue of her\\ncharter and grants claimed to hold and possess all the lands\\non the southerly side of New-Hampshire, beginning at the sea,\\nthree English miles north from the Black Rocks, so called, at the\\nmouth of the river Merrimack, as it emptied itself into the sea\\nsixty years ago thence running parallel with the river, as far\\nnorthward as the crotch, or parting of the river thence due\\nnorth, as far as a certain tree, commonly known for more than\\nseventy years past by the name of Endicott s tree, standing three\\nmiles northward of said crotch or parting of Merrimack river, and\\nthence due west to the south sea which they said they were\\nable to prove, by ancient and incontestable evidence, were the\\nbounds rightfully belonging to them and within their jurisdiction.\\nThe crotch above spoken of was the point of confluence of\\n10", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "146 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nthe Pemigewasset and Winnepissiogee rivers at Franklin, on the\\nsoutheast side of the home-farm of George W. Nesmith, Esq.\\nthe Endicott tree, standing three miles north, which cannot\\nbe identified at this time, must have been near to Sanbornton\\nBridge a line thence duo west to the south sea or Pacific ocean,\\nmight have taken in some of the gold mines of Cahfornia, as\\nwell as the rich interval lands of Penacook\\nOn the other hand, New-Hampshire claimed that the south-\\nern boundary of her province should begin at the end of three\\nmiles north from the middle of the channel of Merrimack river,\\nwhere it runs into the Atlantic ocean and from thence should\\nrun on a straight line west, up into the main land, (toward the\\nsouth sea,) until it meets His Majesty s other governments\\nthat is, until it should reach New- York.\\nAt this time New-Hampshire and Massachusetts, as provinces\\nof His INIajesty, were so far united that they were under one\\nGovernor, Jonathan Belcher, who resided in Massachu-\\nsetts, and was supposed to be in her interest while David\\nDunbar, Esq., was Lieutenant Governor of New-Hampshire,\\nwho, with a majority of the Council and of the House of Repre-\\nsentatives, was opposed to Governor Belcher and to the Massa-\\nchusetts claim.\\nIn order to settle the conflicting claims as to boundary, appeal\\nwas finally made to His Majesty, and a royal order obtained,\\nconstituting a board of commissioners, to be selected from\\nthe counsellors of the neighboring provinces Nova Scotia,\\nNew- York, New-Jersey and Rhode-Island, with power to settle\\nthe contested lines. This commission first met at Hampton, Au-\\ngust 1, 1737. Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., then and afterward of\\nRumford, was appointed one of the clerks. Arrangements had\\nlikewise been made for a meeting at about the same time, Au-\\ngust 10, for the legislative assemblies of the two opposing prov-\\ninces that of Massachusetts at Salisbury, and of New-Hampshire\\nat Hampton-Falls five miles apart. This was done in order\\nthat the claims of each might with greater facilities be repre-\\nsented before the commission, and that the Governor, who\\nprofessed to be equally the father of both, might seem to dis-\\ncharge his duty in the premises with entire impartiaUty. This", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF RUMFORD. 147\\ngreat occasion was conducted with pomp and parade. Governor\\nBelcher was escorted from Boston by a troop of horse, and met\\nat Newbury by another troop, who, joined by three more at the\\nsupposed divisional line, conducted him to the George tavern,\\nat Hampton-Falls, where he made a speech to the assembly of\\nNew-Hampshire.\\nNo doubt this procession, with the Governor riding in state,\\nattended by members of the Great and General Court, was an\\nimposing spectacle but such was the temper of the times, that\\nit was made the subject of burlesque in true Hibernian style.\\nDear Paddy, you ne er did behold such a sight,\\nAs yesterday morning was seen before night\\nYou, in all your born days saw, nor I did nt neither,\\nSo many fine horses and men ride together.\\nAt the head, the lower house trotted two in a row,\\nThen all the higher house pranced after the low\\nThen the Governor s coach gallop d on like the wind\\nAnd the last that came foremost were troopers behind\\nBut I fear it means no good, to your neck or mine,\\nFor they say, tis to fix a right place fur the line\\nWhile the assembhes were in session, and the commissioners\\nwere devising to settle the disputed claims, Gov. Belcher, with a\\nselect company, made an excursion of three days to the falls of\\nAmoskeag an account of which was published in the papers,\\nand concluded in the following manner His Excellency was\\nmuch pleased with the fine soil of Chester, the extraordinary im-\\nprovements at Derry, and the mighty falls at Skeag.\\nAmong the questions which puzzled the commissioners, and\\nwhich it required all their wits to settle, were, Whether Merri-\\nmack river, at that time, emptied itself into the sea at the same\\nplace where it did sixty years before Whether it bore the same\\nname from the sea up to the crotch and tvhether it loere possi-\\nble to draw a jMrallel line three miles northward of every part of\\na river the coarse of ivhich was in some places from north to\\nsouth The first and second questions might be settled histori-\\ncally, or by competent Uving witnesses, but the last must have\\nrequired wiser heads than Solomon s to decide\\nSee Belknap s Hist. N. H., 1737. Note.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "148 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nThe commissioners at tliis session evaded the main point on\\nwhich the controversy turned, which was, Whethei the charter\\nof WilUam and Mary granted to Massachusetts all the lands\\nwhich were granted by the charter of Charles the First If\\nthe former, then the claim of Massachusetts must be granted\\nif not, then it must fail. Making, therefore, an evasive decision,\\nthe commission adjourned, and left the parties to pursue their\\ncontentions as best they could, by means of agents, before His\\nMajesty s Council in England. The New-Hampshire interest\\nwas represented by John Tomlinson, Esq., who employed a Mr.\\nParris as solicitor a man of shrewdness, penetration and art-\\nful address Massachusetts employed as her agent Mr. Edmund\\nQuincy, who died in 1738, and afterward the affair was in the\\nhands of Wilks and Partridge neither of whom understood so\\nmuch of the controversy as Tomlinson, nor had the address of\\nParris. The latter drew up a petition of appeal to His Ma-\\njesty s Council, in which all the circumstances attending the\\ntransaction from the beginning were recited and colored in such\\na manner as to asperse the Governor and assembly of the vast,\\nopulent, overgrown province of Massachusetts while the\\npoor, little, loyal, distressed province of New-Hampshire, was\\nrepresented as ready to be devoured, and the king s own prop-\\nerty and possessions swallowed up by the boundless rapacity of\\nthe charter government.*\\nTo those who would look further into the merits of the ques-\\ntion, I must refer to original documents, or to the condensed\\nview in Belknap s History, It suffices my purpose to say, that\\nafter the agents of the respective governments had exhausted\\nall their ingenuity and address to accomplish their objects, the\\nwhole subject was decided by His Majesty, in Council, on the\\n5th of March, 1740, on principles of equity and common sense\\nat least, so far as respects the course of the Merrimack river\\nwhich, at the date of the original charter of Massachusetts, was\\nunknown, viz. It was determined, That the northern bound-\\nary of the province of Massachusetts be a similar curve line,\\npursuing the course of Merrimack river at three miles distance,\\non the north side thereof, beginning at the Atlantic ocean, and\\n*See Belknap s Hist., Ch. 17, year 1737.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF RUMFORD. 149\\nending at a point due north of Pawtucket Falls and a straight\\nline drawn from thence due west, till it meets with His Majesty s\\nother governments. The northern boundary line of New-\\nHampshire was fixed as it remains essentially to this day.\\nBy this decision of His Majesty all the towns that had been\\nlaid out by Massachusetts west of the Merrimack river, above\\nPawtucket Falls, and those bordering the river, and embraced\\nwithin the three miles north of the river, which Massachusetts\\nclaimed, fell within New-Hampshire.\\nIn pursuance of this decision, the next thing was to run the\\nline. Gov. Belcher received orders, 1741, to apply to the gov-\\nernments of both provinces, to join in appointing surveyors to\\nrun out and mark the lines and that if either should refuse,\\nthe other should proceed ex parte. Massachusetts failed to com-\\nply. New-Hampshire appointed three surveyors, one of whom\\nwas Ilicliard Hazzen surveyor of the interval lots at Penacook\\nwho surveyed and marked the west line from Pawtucket Falls\\nacross Connecticut river to the supposed boundary line of New-\\nHampshire.*\\nThis decision respecting the boundary awakened deep concern\\nin the inhabitants of Rumford. Strongly attached to the Massa-\\nchusetts government, they were anxious, if possible, to retain their\\nconnection. On the 11th of June, 1740, in obedience to a pre-\\ncept from the General Court of Massachusetts, they elected\\ntheir first representative, Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., and instructed\\nhim to prefer a petition to His Majesty, that the inhabitants\\nmay be quieted in their possessions, and remain under the\\njurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay also, to petition the Gen-\\neral Court to use their influence with His Majesty in that behalf.\\nAt a meeting, also, September 26th, the town being informed\\nthat by the determination of His Majesty in Council, respecting\\nthe controverted bounds between the province of Massachusetts\\nBay and New-Hampshire, they were excluded from the former\\nprovince, to which they always supposed themselves to belong\\nVoted, unanimously, to prefer a petition to the king s most ex-\\ncellent Majesty, setting forth their distressed estate, and praying\\nto be annexed to the said Massachusetts province.\\nBelknap, 1741.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "150 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nAt the same meeting, Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., agent of\\nMassachusetts, was empo^Yered to present the said petition to\\nHis Majesty, and to appear and act fully in behalf of the town,\\nwith respect to it and in ease he declined, Benjamin Rolfe\\nwas authorized to act in the matter, according to his best dis-\\ncretion.\\nAll, however, was to no purpose. In accordance with the\\ndecision of His Majesty, New-Hampshire extended her jurisdic-\\ntion over all the inhabitants within her bounds, and on the 18th\\nof March passed what was called the District Act, including a\\npart of Salisbury and Almsbury a part of Methuen and Dra-\\ncut, Litchfield, Nottingham- West, [Hudson,] part of Dunstable,\\nand Rumford.* By this act the inhabitants of these several\\ndistricts were subjected to taxation without representation.^\\n*See Document for Cliap. IV., No. 1.\\nt Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., be hereby desired and empowered, in the name and\\nbehalf of said inhabitants, to prefer a petition to His Excellency our Governor, or to the Gen-\\neral Assembly of tliis province, that they may be empowered to make choice of some suita-\\nble person to serve for and represent them in every session of the General Assembly from\\ntime to time, within this province. Rcc, 1744.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nRUMFORD AS A DISTRICT FROxM 1742 TO 1750.\\nWe have now reached a period of tragical interest in our\\nhistory. From 1742 to 1754 scenes of anxiety, alarm and\\nterror were of frequent occurrence. The Indians, whose hos-\\ntihties are related in this chapter, were not, so far as known, of\\nthe Penacook tribe for as long as any of the Penacooks\\nremained in this section of country, they were friendly to the\\ninhabitants, and especially so to the minister. Rev. Mr. Walker.\\nBut the Indians who committed depredations and massacres\\nin Rumford and vicinity, were mostly from Canada instigated\\nby the French, who then had possession, and who, from 1744\\ntill 1762, were most of the time at war with England and her\\ncolonies.\\nEntirely unmolested by Indians, great progress had been made\\nby the inhabitants in their settlement, in clearing and cultivating\\ntheir lands, improving the roads, and in the structure of their\\nhouses. But in 1739 apprehensions of danger were entertained,\\nand the town, by vote, ordered that a garrison should be built\\nround the house of Rev. Mr. Walker, and that five pounds\\nshould be granted to Barachias Farnum, to enable him to build\\ndbfiariker, in order to defend his mills on Turkey river.\\nAbout the year 1742, according to tradition, the wife of\\nMr. Jonathan Eastman who resided on the Hopkinton road,\\nopposite the house of Mr. Aaron Shute was taken by a party\\nof Indians and carried to Canada. She was, however, soon\\nredeemed by her husband, and restored to her family.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "152 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nThe opening of the French war, in 1744, greatly increased\\nthe alarm and anxiety which pervaded the colonies and, par-\\nticularly, the frontier towns which were most exposed. As one\\nmeans of removing or allaying these fears, the expedition against\\nLouisburg, on Cape Breton which was the strong-hold of the\\nFrench was projected, and triumphantly executed by the\\ndaring enterprise of the New-England colonies. In this expe-\\ndition Capt. Ebenezer Eastman was commander of a company\\nraised in these parts, and was engaged in the assault made on\\nthat strong-hold the following year.* Before he set out, he signed\\na petition, with sixty-two others, to the General Assembly of\\nNew-Hampshire, for assistance against the French and Indians.\\nThis petition was drawn up by Rev. Mr. Walker, of which the\\naLimexed facsimile will be examined with interest.\\nIn the company which Capt. Eastman commanded were Na-\\nthaniel Abbot, Isaac Abbot, Obadiah Peters, one Chandler, and\\nprobably others whose names are not known. The late aged\\nJoseph Abbot said he always understood that his uncle Isaac\\nwas killed at Cape Breton, and that one Mr. Chandler from this\\ntown also died there. Capt. Eastman went to Cape Breton\\ntwice. He first set out from Rumford, March 1, 1744-5, and\\nreturned November 10th, the same year. The next year he\\nwent again, and returned home July 9, 1746.1\\nThe reduction of the fortress at Louisburg only changed the\\nscene of war. The Indians, the more instigated by the French,\\npoured forth from Canada upon the frontier towns, and, Avith\\nhorrible barbarity, carried on the work of destruction. The\\ninhabitants of Rumford felt the general shock, and sought for\\nmeans of defence and safety. At each parish meeting, from\\n1744 to 1747, they chose some person to represent to the gov-\\nernment, cither of New-Hampshire or Massachusetts, or both,\\nthe deplorable circumstances they were in, on account of their\\nbeing exposed to imminent danger, both from the French and\\nIndian enemy. The language which they instruct their agents\\nRumford, June 22, 1744. Received of Capt. John Clwmiler, five ixmnds of powder, which\\nI promise to pay the said powder or the value in money, to tlie said Capt. Chandler, on\\nhis demand as witness my liand. Ebenezer Eastman.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f Minutes from Rev. Mr. Walker s Notes.\\nJ See copy of said petitions Uocuments for Chap. V., Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nThis fold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at a|\\nfuture date.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nThis fold-out is being digitized, and will be insertec\\nfuture date.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "INDIAN HOSTILITIES. 153\\nto use is We request of them such aid, both v\\\\-ith respect to\\nmen and mihtary stores, as to their great wisdom may seem\\nmeet, and which may be sufficient to enable us, with the Divine\\nblessing, vigorously to repel all attempts of our said enemies.\\nIn answer to these petitions, early in 1745 two small com-\\npanies of scouts were raised, by authority of Gov. Wentworth,\\nunder the direction of Col. Benjamin Rolfe, of which Capt. John\\nChandler, of Rumford, had command of one, consisting of ten\\nmen, and Capt. Jeremiah Clough, of Canterbury, of the other,\\nconsisting of five men.* The Massachusetts government also\\nsent a small detachment of men from A^ndover, and another from\\nBillerica, who were stationed here in 1745. In 174G precau-\\ntionary measures were taken by the proprietors for the preserva-\\ntion of their records. f Under authority of Gov. Wentworth,\\ngarrisons were established at different points in the town, and\\nmen, with their families, assigned to them, as was most con-\\nvenient.\\nThe garrisons, or forts, were built of hewed logs, which lay\\nflat upon each other the ends, being fitted for the purpose,\\nwere inserted in grooves cut in large posts erected at each\\ncorner. They enclosed an area of several square rods were\\nraised to the height of the roof of a common dwelling-house,\\nand at two or more of the corners were placed boxes where\\nsentinels kept watch. In some cases several small buildings\\n*See Documents for Chap. V., No. 5.\\nt At a meeting of the proprietors, the 19th of March, 1746 Voted, That Benjamin Rolfe,\\nEsq., clerk for said proprietors, be directed and ordered to carry the iiroprietors books of\\nrecord to tlie town of Newbury, or any other town where he sliall judge they may be kept\\nsafest.\\nVoted, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., be desired and ordered to purchase suitable books, at\\nthe proprietors cost, and copy all the Proprietors Records therein, for \u00c2\u00a3100, old tenor, to be\\npaid him by the proprietors.\\n17 4 7.\\nFebruary 0, 174G. Voted, That Dr. Ezra Carter l)e clerk for this meeting Benjamin Rolfe,\\nEsi]., the clerk for said Rumford, being out of the province.\\nVoted, Tliat two men be chosen to represent the difficult circumstances of tlie inliabitants\\nof said Rumford to the Great and General Court, at Portsmouth, respecting the danger we\\nare exposed to, botli from the French and Indian enemy, and to request of them such aid or\\nprotection as they in their great wisdom shall think meet.\\nVoted, That Capt. Ebenezer Eastman and Mr. Henry Lovejoy be chosen to make the afore-\\nsaid representation.\\nX A part of one of the main posts of the garrison round the house of Rev. Mr. AValker is\\nstill preserved, and may be seen in the room of the N. 11. Historical .Society. It was pre-\\nsented to the society by Joseph B. Walker, Esq.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "154 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nerected for the temporary accommodation of families were\\nwithin the enclosure. Houses not connected \\\\Yith garrisons were\\nall deserted by their owners, and the furniture removed. In the\\nday-time men went forth to their labor in companies, always car-\\nrying their guns with tliem, and one or more of the number placed\\non guard. If the enemy was discovered approaching, alarm\\nguns were fired, and the report answered from fort to fort. On\\nthe Sabbath the men all went armed to the house of worship\\nstacked their guns around a post near the middle, and sat down,\\nwith powder-horn and bullet-pouch slung across their shoulders,\\nwhile their revered pastor who is said to have had the best\\ngun in the parish prayed and preached with his good gun\\nstanding in the pulpit.\\nThe following official document was found among old papers\\nin the hands of Jonathan Eastman, Esq., and presents an exact\\nview of the state of the settlement in the summer of 1746.\\nGARRISONS IN 1746.\\nProvince of\\nNew Hamp?\\nWe, the subscribers, being appointed a Committee of Militia for\\nsettling the Garrisons in the frontier Towns and Plantations in the\\nsixth Regiment of Militia in this Province, by bis Excellency,\\nBenninq Wentworth, Esq., Governor, c., having viewed the\\nsituation and enquired into the circumstances of the District of\\nllumford, do hereby appoint and state the following Garrisons, viz.\\nThe Garrison round the house of the Reverend Timothy Walker\\nto be one of the Garrisons in s Rumford, and that the following in-\\nhabitants, with their familys, viz.\\nCapt. John Chandler, Nathaniel Rolfe,\\nAbraham Bradley, Joseph Pudney,\\nSanuiel Bradley, Isaac Walker, jun.,\\nJohn Webster, Obadiah Foster,\\nbe, and hereby are, ordered and stated at that Garrison.\\nAlso, the Garrison round the House of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman,\\n[on the east side of the river,] to be one Garrison, and that the fol-\\nlowing inhabitants, with their familys, viz.\\nEbenezer Virgin, Jeremiah Dresser,\\nEben Eastman, jun. Phillip Kimball,\\nPhillip Eastman, Nathan Stevens,\\nJeremiah Eastman, Judah Trumble,\\nTimothy Bradley, Joseph Eastman, jr..", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "ESTABLISHMENT OF GARRISONS. 155\\nNathaniel Smith, William Curey,\\nDaniel Annis,\\nbe, and hereby are, ordered and stated at said Garrison.\\nAlso, that the Garrison round the house of Mr. Henry Love.joy,\\n[in the West Parish Village, where Levi Hutchins now lives,] be\\none Garrison, and that the following inhabitants, with their fam-\\nilys, viz.\\nHenry Lovejoy, Ephraim Earnum,\\nJames Abbot, Zebediah Faruum,\\nJames Abbot, jun., Joseph Farnum,\\nReuben Abbot, Abiel Chandler,\\nAmos Abbot, James Peters,\\nbe, and hereby are, stated at said Garrison.\\nAlso, the Garrison round the house of Mr. Jonathan Eastman,\\n[on the Mill Road, opposite the house of Mr. Aaron Shute,] be\\none Garrison, and that the following inhabitants, with their fam-\\nilys, viz.\\nJonathan Eastman, Abner Hoit,\\nAmos Eastman, Jacob Hoit,\\nJeremiah Bradley, Timothy Burbanks,\\nSeaborn Peters, Isaac Citizen,\\nbe, and hereby are, ordered and stated at said Garrison.\\nAlso, that the Garrison round the house of Lieut. Jeremiah\\nStickney, [where Joseph P. Stickney now lives,] be one Garrison,\\nand that the following inhabitants, with their familys, viz.\\nJeremiah Stickney, Joseph Carter,\\nNathaniel Abbot, Edward Abbot,\\nEphraim Carter, Aaron Stevens,\\nEzra Carter, George Hull,\\nJoseph Eastman, Edward West,\\nSamuel Eastman, Sampson Colby,\\nJoseph Eastman, od, James Osgood,\\nWilliam Stickney, Timothy Clemens,\\nThomas Stickney, Jacob Pillsberry,\\nNathaniel Abbot, jun., Stephen Hoit,\\nbe, and hereby are, ordered and stated at that Garrison.\\nAlso, that the Garrison round Joseph Hall s house, [where the\\nlate Dea. Jonathan Wilkins lived,] be one Garrison, and that the\\nfollowing inhabitants, with their familys, viz.\\nCol. Benjamin Rolfe, Joseph Pudney,\\nJoseph Hall, William Pudney,\\nEbenezer Hall, Henry Pudney,\\nDavid Foster, John Merrill,\\nIsaac Waldron, Thomas jMerrill,\\nPatrick Garvin, John Merrill, jun.,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "156 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nMoses Merrill, Jacob Potter,\\nLot Colby,\\nbe, and hereby are, ordered and stated at that Garrison.\\nAlso, that the Garrison round Timothy Walker, jun. s, house,\\n[near where Mr. George Hutchins now lives,] be one Garrison, and\\nthat the following persons, with their familys, viz.\\nTimothy Walker, jun.,* Kichard Hazelton,\\nDavid Evans, George Abbot,\\nSanuiel Pudney, Nathaniel Piix,\\nJohn Pudney, jun., Benjamin Abbot,\\nMatthew Stanly, Stephen Farrington,\\nIsaac Walker, Nathaniel West,\\nAbraham Colby, William Walker,\\nJacob Shute, Aaron Kimball,\\nDaniel Chase, Samuel Gray,\\nDaniel Chase, jun., James Rodgers,\\nAbraham Kimball, Samuel Rodgers,\\nbe, and hereby are, stated at that Garrison.\\nAnd, inasmuch as the inhabitants who reside in the Garrison\\nround the house of Mr. George Abbot ;f the Garrison round the\\nhouse of iMr. Edward Abbot, and the Garrison round the house of\\nMr. James Osgood, f have, as yet, made no provision for house-room\\nand conveniences in the respective Garrisons where they are placed,\\nfor themselves and familys, and the season of the year so much de-\\nBianding their labor for their necessary support that renders it diffi-\\ncult to move immediately Therefore, that they, for the present,\\nand until January next, or until further order, have leave, and be\\ncontinued in the several Garrisons in which they now are, and so\\nlong as there stated to attend the necessary duty of watching, ward-\\ning, c., equally, as if the same had been determined standing\\n^^ons. j^g^pjj Blanciiard,)\\nBenjamin Rolfe, Co7n% c.\\nZacheus Lovewell, j\\nRumford, May 15th, 174G.\\nSuch was the state of the settlement in the summer of 1746.\\nIndians were now in the vicinity and an attack was daily feared.\\nAt the earnest solicitation of the inhabitants, a company of\\nsoldiers, under command of Capt. Daniel Ladd$ and Lieut.\\n*Not the lato Judge Walker.\\nt George Abbot lived in the anrient house, now on Fayette street, west of Mr. Samuel\\nFarrington s. Edward Abbot lived where Dr. Thomas Chadbourne s house now stands a\\npart of the old house still remains. James Osgood lived where Hosea Fessendeu s house\\nwas recently burnt down.\\nX See muster-roll of Capt. Ladd s company Document for Chap. V., No. G. Also, see the\\npart of Clough s journal which follows.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE MASSACRE. 157\\nJonathan Bradlej, had been sent bj the Governor, from Exeter,\\nfor the defense of Rumford and the adjacent towns. This\\ncompany had been ranging in the woods and scouting in the\\nvicinity about three weeks previous, and a part of them were in\\nRumford on the Sabbath, August 10th. On that day it ap-\\npears that the Indians had meditated an attack upon the inhab-\\nitants while engaged in worship, and the night previous had\\nsecreted themselves in the bushes adjacent to the meeting-house,\\nto await the favorable moment. One party of them was con-\\ncealed in a thicket of alders back of the house where Dr.\\nSamuel Morril now lives another was hid in the bushes, north-\\nwest, between the meeting-house and where Ebenezer S. Towle,\\nEsq., now lives. Some few of the Indians, it is said, were seen\\nin the time of worship by a little girl Abigail Carter, sister of\\nthe first Dr. Ezra Carter but she did not make known the\\ndiscovery until the meeting closed, when the people marched out\\nin a body with their guns. The presence of Capt. Ladd s com-\\npany, it is believed, prevented the Indians from making the\\ndesigned attack. Thus thwarted in their bloody purpose, they\\nretired and lay in ambush till next morning, in a deep thicket,\\nabout a mile and a half south-west of the main village, in the\\nvalley a few rods beyond where the Bradley Monument now\\nstands.\\nTHE MASSACRE,\\nAUGUST 11, 1746.\\nFor the particulars of the tragic scene which now follows, we\\nare indebted to the journal of Abner Clough^ clerk of Capt.\\nLadd s company, which is published in full in the fourth volume\\nof the Collections of the New-Hampshire Historical Society, and\\nto the story related by the aged Eeuben Abbot, five years before\\nhis death, which was taken down in writing by Hon. Samuel A.\\nBradley and Richard Bradley, Esq., grandsons of Samuel Brad-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "158 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nley, who was one of the killed. The manuscript is now in the\\nhands of Richard Bradley. It was taken August 29, 1817,\\nwhen Mr. Abbot was in the ninety-fifth year of his age.\\nFROM ABNER CLOUGH s JOURNAL.\\nCapt. Ladd came up to Rumford town, and that was on the\\ntenth day [of August,] and, on the eleventh day, Lieut. Jona-\\nthan Bradley took six of Capt. Ladd s men, and was in company\\nwith one Obadiah Peters, that belonged to Capt. Melvin s com-\\npany of the Massachusetts, and was going about two miles and a\\nhalf from Riimford town to a garrison and when they had gone\\nabout a mile and a half, they were shot upon by thirty or forty\\nIndians, if not more, as it was supposed, and killed down dead\\nLieut. Jonathan Bradley and Samuel Bradley, John Luf kin and\\nJohn Bean [and] this Obadiah Peters. These five men were\\nkilled down dead on the spot, and the most of them were\\nstripped. Two were stripped stark naked, and were very much\\ncut, and stabbed, and disfigured and Sergeant Alexander Rob-\\nerts and WilUam Stickney were taken captive. Jt\\nwas supposed there was an Indian killed where they had the\\nfight for this Daniel Oilman, who made his escape, saith that\\nhe was about sixty rods before these men* when they were shot\\nupon, and, he says, the Indians shot three guns first. He says\\nhe thought our men shot at a deer he says that he run back\\nabout forty rods upon a hill, so that he could see over upon the\\nother hill, where the Indians lie, and shot upon the men and, he\\nsays, as ever he came upon the hill so as to see over upon the other\\nhill, he heard Lieut. Jonathan Bradley speak and say, Lord,\\nhave mercy on me: Fight P In a moment his gun went ofi\\nand three more guns of our men s were shot, and then the Indians\\nrose up and shot a volley, and run out into the path, and making\\nall sort of howling and yelling, and he did not stay long to see\\nit, he saith. It was supposed that John Luf kin was upon the\\nfront, and Obadiah Peters on the rear and they shot down this\\nLufkin and Peters the first shot, as they were in the path, about\\ntwelve or fourteen rods apart and they shot Samuel Bradley,\\nTradition says that Gilnian went on ahead to shoot a hawk, and the Indians, seeing him\\nalone, let him pass.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "THE MASSACRE. 159\\nas lie -was about twelve feet before where this Obadiah Peters\\nlaj, and wounded [him] so that the blood started every step he\\ntook. He went about five rods right in the path, and they shot\\nhim right through his powder horn, as it hung by his side, and so\\nthrough his body and there lay these three men, lying in the\\npath and Lieut. Bradley run out of the path, about two rods,\\nright in amongst the Indians. He was shot through his wrist.\\nIt was supposed he killed the Indian it was supposed that he\\nfought, (as he stood there in the spot where he was killed,) till\\nthe Indians cut his head almost all to pieces and John Bean\\nrun about six rods out of the path, on the other side of the way,\\nand then was shot right through his body so that there were\\nnone of these men that went one or two steps after they were\\nshot, excepting this Samuel Bradley that was shot as above said.\\nAnd there seemed to be as much blood where the Indian was\\nshot as there was where any one of the men were killed. It was\\nsupposed the men laid there about two hours after they were\\nkilled, before any body came there. We did not go till there\\ncame a post down from the fort,* three quarters of a mile beyond\\nwhere the men lie and were killed. The reason we did not go\\nsooner, was because we did not hear the guns. I suppose the\\nreason that we did not hear the guns, Avas because the wind\\nwa nt fair to hear. We went up to the men, and ranged the\\nwoods awhile, after these captives, and then brought the dead\\ndown to town in a cart, and buried the dead men this day.\\nThese men, when they went away in the morning, said they in-\\ntended to be at home about twelve o clock, in order to go to\\nCanterbury in the afternoon, or, at least, to get fit to go. It\\nwas supposed that these men, some of them, rid double on horses\\nwhen they were killed. On the twelfth day, early in the morn-\\ning, went up and took the blood of the Indian, and followed\\nalong by the drag and blood of the Indian about a mile, very\\nplain, till we came within about fifteen rods of a small river, and\\nthen we could see no more sign of the Indian but we tracked\\nthe Indians along down the river, about twenty or thirty rods,\\nand there were falls where they went over. It was\\nsupposed there could not be less than fifty or sixty Indians.\\nJonathan Eastman s fort, on the rocky knoll opposite Mr. Aaron Shute s.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "160 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nNARRATIVE BY MR. REUBEN ABBOT,\\nWho drove the cart that contained the dead bodies, from the place of\\nmassacre to James Osgood s yarrison.\\nI, with Abiel Chandler, was at work in the Fan, near\\nSugar Ball, making hay, on Monday morning, August 11, 1746,\\nthen in my twenty-fourth year. We heard three guns fired at\\nParson Walker s fort, which were the appointed signal of alarm\\nat the approach or apprehension of the Indians. On hearing\\nthe alarm guns we ran up to the garrison, and found the soldiers\\nwho were stationed there, and such men as could be spared, had\\ngone to where the men were killed. We followed on, and took\\nthe foot-path [by Capt. Emery s, near the prison,] and arrived\\nat the spot where the bodies lay as soon as those did who went\\nround on the main road. When we arrived near the brook that\\nruns through the farm formerly owned by Mitchell, on the\\neast side of the brook we found Samuel Bradley, stripped\\nnaked, scalped, and lying on his face in the road, within half a\\nrod of the bridge over that brook. He was shot through the\\nbody, and supposed through his lungs the ball struck and spoiled\\nhis powder horn, which the Indians left. He was not otherwise\\nwounded by the Indians than shot and scalped. Jonathan Brad-\\nley lay about ten feet out of the road, on the south side, and\\nabout two rods east of the brook. He was lieutenant in Capt.\\nLadd s company, from Exeter, and a number of years older than\\nSamuel. He was not wounded by the Indians in their fii-e, and\\nimmediately after the Indians had first fired he ordered his men\\nto fight them. As but few of the Indians fired the first time, Jon-\\nathan supposed that he and his six men could manage them, and\\nthey fired at the few who had risen up from their ambush. Im-\\nmediately the whole body of the Indians, about one hundred in\\nnumber, rose up and fired. Jonathan, seeing their number and\\nreceiving their fire, ordered his men to run and take care of them-\\nselves. By this time, Ohadiah Peters, John Bean, John Liifkin\\nand Samuel Bradley, were killed. The Indians then rushed upon\\nJonathan Bradley, William Stickney and Alexander Roberts\\ntook Stickney and Roberts prisoners, and offered Jonathan Brad-\\nley good quarter. But he refused to receive quarter, and fought", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE MASSACRE. 161\\nwith his gun against that cloud of Indians, until they struck him\\non the face repeatedly with their tomahawks, cut a number of\\ngashes in his face, one large gash running obliquely across his\\nforehead and nose down between his eyes another on the side\\nof his head, and one on the back part of his head, which entered\\nhis skull and brought him to the ground. The Indians then des-\\npatched him, took off his scalp, and stripped him nearly naked.\\nObadiah Peters we found shot through the head. Bean and\\nLuf kin were shot, and ran from the brook toward the main road\\nabout six rods, and fell within a rod of each other, on the north\\nside of the road as now travelled. Four of the Indians were\\nkilled and two wounded, who were carried away on biers.*\\nThe soldiers from the garrisons were too late to avenge the\\nlives of these brave men. Before their approach the Indians\\nfled like cowards, leaving many of their packs and various\\nthings, which the soldiers took.\\nMr. Abbot further related that the bodies of the dead\\nmangled, bloody, and some of them naked were laid side by side\\nin a cart which had been sent up with a yoke of oxen to convey\\nthem down to the main street. As all others refused, Mr.\\nAbbot himself drove the team down to Mr. James Osgood s\\ngarrison. There a great multitude of men, women and children\\ncollected to see the dreadful sight they wept aloud. Mothers\\nlifted up their young children to see the dead bodies in the cart.\\nThe late Mr. Joseph Abbot, who died January 20, 1832, aged\\n90, then about four years of age, said his mother lifted him up\\nand he see the bodies dreadfully mangled. Next day they\\nwere all buried in two graves, near what was then the northwest\\ncorner of the old burying-ground. The Bradleys were buried in\\none grave, and Luf kin, Peters and Bean in another the spot\\n*Some of these particulars were obtained from Roberts, who returned after about a year s\\ncaptivity among the Indians.\\nNote. JVovember 30, 1747, it was put to vote whether or no they would raise any sum or\\nsums of money for tlie hiring or maintaining of a school for the present year in Rumford,\\nand it passed in the negative.\\n1748.\\nFelrruary 5, 1747. Voted, To choose a man to make application to the General Assembly\\nfor a suitable number of men to guard the inhabitants of Rumford the year ensuing.\\nVoted, That Lt. John Webster make application to the General Assembly for a suitable\\nnumber of men to guard the inhabitants of Rumford the ensuing year.\\nU", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "162 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\ncannot now be exactly identified, but it was very near tbe place\\nnow enclosed and occuijied as the burial-plat of the Bradley and\\nAyer family.\\nNOTICES OF THE PERSONS WHO WERE MASSACRED, AND OF\\nTHE CAPTIVES.\\nLieut. Jonathan Bradley was a son of Abraham Bradley,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2who came from Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Penacook, in 1730.\\nHe married Susanna Folsom, of Exeter, who at first settled on\\nthe farm with his father, but afterward disposed of his property\\nin Penacook and moved to Exeter, a year or two before the time\\nof the massacre.* He was Lieutenant in Capt. Daniel Ladd s\\ncompany, and only two weeks before, as appears from Clough s\\nJournal, had been very sick, and w^as not yet entirely recov-\\nered. He was a brave man, about thirty years of age, and\\nwhen he met the Indians would neither flee nor fall alive into\\ntheir hands. The ancestors and relatives of Mr. Bradley, in\\nHaverhill, had had a bitter experience of Indian cruelty. Dan-\\niel Bradley was killed there, August 13, 1689. Isaac Bradley,\\nat the age of fifteen, was captured in the fall of 1695. f Daniel\\nBradley, (son of Daniel,) and Hannah his wife, and two of their\\nchildren, Mary and Hannah, were killed, Mai ch 15, 1697, when\\nMrs. Dustin was made prisoner and Joseph, INIartha and Sarah\\nBradley, children of Joseph Bradley, were slain at the same\\ntime. The house of Joseph Bradley, grandfather of Lieutenant\\nJonathan, was burnt by the Indians, February 8, 1704, and his wife\\ntaken prisoner a second time, and her infant child, born in cap-\\ntivity, was sacrificed by her barbarous captors. The story of this\\nMrs. Bradley s captivity and sufferings, (grandmother of Jonathan\\nand Samuel,) is so intensely interesting as to justify a place in\\nthis narrative. It is abridged from Mirick s History of Haverhill.\\nOn the 8th of February, 1704, about three or four o clock\\nin the afternoon, a party of six Indians attacked the garrison of\\nJoseph Bradley, which, unhappily, was in an unguarded state\\neven the sentries had left their stations, and the gates were open.\\nThe Indians approached cautiously, and were rushmg into the\\nSee account of his family in the Bradley Genealogical Record.\\nfSee narrative in Mirick a Hist, of Haverhill, pp. 78\u00e2\u0080\u009484.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "THE BRADLEYS. 163\\nopen gates before they were discovered. Jonathan Johnson, a\\nsentinel, who was standing in the house, shot at and wounded the\\nforemost and Mrs. Bradley, who had a kettle of boiling soap over\\nthe fire, seized her ladle, and filling it with the streaming liquid,\\ndischarged it on his tawny pate a soa/ orific that almost\\ninstantly brought on a sleep, from which he has never since\\nawoke. The rest of the party immediately rushed forward,\\nkilled Johnson, made prisoner of the intrepid woman and some\\nothers.\\nMrs. Bradley was in delicate circumstances and in slender\\nhealth. The weather was cold, the wind blew keenly over\\nthe hills, and the ground was covered with a deep snow yet\\nthey obliged her to travel on foot and carry a heavy burden, too\\nlarge even for a man. In this manner they proceeded through\\nthe wilderness, toward Canada and Mrs. Bradley informed her\\nfamily, after she returned, that for many days in succession\\nshe subsisted on nothing but bits of skin, ground-nuts, the bark\\nof trees, Avild onions and hly roots.\\nWhile in this situation in the midst of a thick forest she\\ngave birth to a child. The Indians then extended their cruelties\\nto the babe. For the want of proper attention it was sickly\\nand when it cried these remorseless fiends showed their pity by\\nthrowing embers into its mouth. They told the mother that if\\nshe Avould permit them to baptize it in their manner, they would\\nsuffer it to live. They took it from her, and bajjiized it by\\ngashing its forehead with their knives. Not long after, while\\nshe was absent for a short time from the child, they seized it and\\npiked it upon a pole, where the mother saw it dead.\\nWhen they arrived in Canada Mrs. Bradley was sold to a\\nFrench master for eighty livres. She was treated kindly. It\\nwas her custom, morning and evening, when she milked her\\nmaster s cow, to take with her a crust of bread, soak it with\\nmilk and eat it. With this and with the rations allowed her by\\nher master, she eked out a comfortable subsistence.\\nIn March, 1705, her husband, hearing she was in Canada,\\nstarted on foot with a small sled, accompanied only by a dog, and\\nsucceeded in redeeming her.\\nKnowing, as Lieut. Bradley doubtless did, the story of these", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "164 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nsufferings which his immediate ancestors experienced, it is no\\nwonder that he refused to receive quarter from the Indians,\\nand that he chose death rather than captivity.\\nSAMUEL BRADLEY.\\nSamuel Bradley, brother of Jonathan, resided at Rumford\\nwith his father Abraham, after Jonathan removed to Exeter.\\nHe married Mary Folsom, sister of his brother Jonathan s wife,\\nby whom he had two children, viz., JoIlti, born February 13,\\n1743, and 3Metabel, born January 16, 1745. In Rev. Mr.\\nWalker s notes is the following February 19, 1744, baptized\\nJohn, son of Samuel Bradley, and Anne, daughter of Jona.\\nBradley. Dec. 22, 1745, baptized Mehetabel, daughter of Sam.\\nBradley. Mr. Bradley was a young man of great enterprise\\nand promise. The anguish of his wife on hearing of his massa-\\ncre, and seeing his mangled body, was intense and overwhelm-\\ning. His little son John, then less than four years old, was\\nshown the bloody bodies of the slain, as they lay together at\\nOsgood s garrison, and retained through life a lively impression\\nof the scene. Indeed the impression was so strong, that a terror\\nof the Indians haunted him for many years afterward, and his\\ngrandfather s faithful servant, Pompey^ used to accompany him,\\nas a sort of life-guard, and to carry him, when quite a large\\nboy, on his back. Mrs. Bradley afterward married Robert\\nCalfe, Esq., of Chester, and died at Concord, in the family of her\\ngrandson, Richard Bradley, Esq., August 10, 1817, aged ninety-\\neight. She was a woman of remarkable powers. In the latter\\nyears of her life she used to speak with great affection of the\\nhusband of her youth, and of his tragical end to relate many\\nlittle incidents of his life, and to repeat expressions which she\\nsaid he used in the last prayer he offered in his family also, the\\nlast chapter which he read in the Scriptures.\\nOBADIAH PETERS\\nWas of Rumford, son of Seaborn Peters, one of the first settlers.\\nHe had been out in the Louisburg expedition, and was at the\\n*8ee further notice of Samuel Bradley s family in the Genealogical Record of the Bradley\\nfamily", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "THE MASSACRE. 165\\ncapture of Cape Breton the year before his death one of\\nCapt. Ebenezer Eastman s company. About the tune he was\\nkilled he appears to have been a soldier in the Rumford com-\\npany of militia, commanded by Capt. Nathaniel Abbott, as he is\\nnamed in his muster roll, and his death there recorded. Peters\\nfather and family lived near Eastman s fort, to which the party\\nwas going at the time they were attacked and massacred by the\\nIndians.\\nJohn Bean was from Brentwood, and John Lufkin from\\nKingston.\\nWilliam Stickney, who was taken captive, was son of Capt.\\nJeremiah Stickney, of Rumford, and a brother of the late Col.\\nThomas Stickney. After about one year s captivity in Can-\\nada, he found means to escape with a friendly Indian, and\\nproceeded on his way home to within about one day s journey of\\nthe white settlements, when they fell short of provisions. The\\nIndian directed Stickney to hght a fire and encamp, while he\\nwould go in quest of game. After Stickney had prepared his\\ncamp, he also went out to hunt, and in attempting to cross a river\\non a log, fell in and was drowned. This was the story the\\nIndian told when he came to Rumford but from the circum-\\nstance of his being dressed in Stickney s clothes, many were\\nled to doubt the truth of it.\\nAlexander Roberts, who was one of Capt. Ladd s company,\\nmade his escape from captivity, after being carried to Canada.\\nOn his return to Rumford, next year, Roberts stated that four\\nIndians were killed and several wounded two mortally, who\\nwere conveyed away on litters, and soon after died. Two they\\nburied in the Great Swamp, under large hemlock logs, and two\\nothers in the mud, some distance up the river, where their bones\\nwere afterwards found. Roberts claimed a bounty from govern-\\nment, for having, as he said, killed one of the Indians at the time\\nof the attack, whose bones he afterwards found. On the 19th\\nof November, 1747, the General Assembly of New-Hampshire\\npassed the following resolution, which was approved by the Gov-\\nernor\\nWhereas Alexander Roberts arid, others have been carefully\\nexamined upon oath, of and concerning a human skull-bone,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "166 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nwhich said Roberts and company found at or near the place\\nwhere said Roberts supposes he killed an Indian man, and\\nwhere he saw said Indian buried and inasmuch as it appears\\nto the House, upon the evidence produced, that the said skull\\nis really the skull of the aforesaid Indian Therefore,\\nVoted, That there be paid out of the money in the public\\ntreasury, unto the said Alexander Roberts and company, the sum\\nof seventy-five pounds, in the following proportions, viz. To the\\nsaid Alexander Roberts, fifteen pounds to Daniel Gilman, seven\\npounds ten shillings to the widows of Jonathan and Samuel\\nBradley, each eleven pounds five shillings and to the heirs or\\nlegal representatives of Obadiah Peters, John Luf kin, John Bean\\nand WilHam Stickney, each seven pounds ten shillings.\\nThe Assembly also, April 3, 1747, Fo^^cZ, That there be\\nallowed to John Osgood twelve shillings sixpence for expense for\\ncoflBns, c., for the men killed at Rumford last year.\\nThe initials of the names of the persons who were massacred,\\nsoon after were marked on a large tree which stood near the\\nfatal spot, and which remained as the only monument of the event\\nfor many years, when the tree was cut down. But it was fit\\nthat an event of so much tragic interest should be commemo-\\nrated by a monument, that should stand for succeeding genera-\\ntions to behold.\\nThe MONUMENT which the annexed engraving well repre-\\nsents bears the inscription beneath it.\\nTo the House of Representatives\\nGents. I desire that your honors do allow to Abiier Clough what expense and charge he\\nwas at on the account of burying them five men that were killed last year at Ruinford,\\nnamely, Lieut. Jonathan Bradley, Samuel Bradley, and John Luffkin, John Bean and Oba-\\ndiah Peaters.\\nTo bords for making of 5 coffins, and making of 5 coffins, \u00c2\u00a31 10\\nTo expense for drink for the peopel, 1 00\\nIn old tenor, \u00c2\u00a3-2 JO\\nJames Osgood,\\nWarrant to pay Clough, July 7tli, 1747.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE MONUMENT.\\n167\\nThis Monument is\\nin memory of\\nSamuel Bradley,\\nJonathan Bradley,\\nObadiah Peters,\\nJohn Bean and\\nJohn Lufkin,\\nWho were massacred Aug. 11, 1746,\\nby the Indians.\\nErected, 1837, by Richard Bradley, son\\nof the Hon. John Bradley, and\\ngrandson of Samuel Bradley.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "168 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nThe followino; notice of the erection of this Monument, and the\\nevent it commemorates, appeared in the New-Hampshire States-\\nman and State Journal, August 26, 1837.\\nTHE MONUMENT.\\nOn Tuesday last, the 22d instant, corresponding with the 11th\\nof August, O. S., the ceremony of raising the Monument in com-\\nmemoration of tlie massacre of the Bradleys and otlicrs, on that day,\\n1746, was attended near the scene of the event, in this town, hy a\\nlarge concourse of people. The procession was formed under the\\ndirection of Col. Stephen Brown, Chief Marshal, at the residence\\nof Mr. B. H. Weeks, in the following order.\\nTeachers and Scholars of the several Public and Private Schools.\\nChief Marshal.\\nMusic.\\nCommittee of Arrangements.\\nOrator.\\nNew-Hampshire Historical Society.\\nDescendants of the persons killed in 1746.\\nHis Excellency the Governor.\\nOfficers of the State Government.\\nPast Oificers.\\nCitizens generally.\\nThe procession moved to the ground on which the Monument was\\nto be erected, when it was raised into its place after which the pro-\\ncession moved in the order above to the grove of oaks on the south side\\nof the road, when the following order of exercises was observed\\n1. Hymn, by the Kev. John Pierpont, of Boston, and sung\\nunder the direction of Mr. Wm. D. Buck.\\nNot now, God, beneath the trees\\nThat shade this vale at night s coUl noon,\\nDo Indian war-songs load the breeze,\\nOr wolves sit howling to the moon.\\nThe foes, the fears our fathers felt,\\nHave, with our fothers, passed away\\nAnd where in death s dark shade they knelt.\\nWe come to praise thee and to pray.\\nWe praise thee that thou plantcdst them,\\nAnd mad st thy heavens drop down their dew\\nWe pray, that, shooting from their stem,\\nWe long may flourish where they grew.\\nAnd, Father, leave us not alone\\nThou hast been, and art still our trust\\nBe thou our fortress, till our own\\nShall mingle with our fathers dust.\\n2. Prayer, by Ptev. N. Bouton.\\n3. Address, hy Mr. Asa McFarland.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "THE MONUMENT. 169\\n[This highly appropi iate and well written address was published\\nin the New-Hampshire Statesman, the following week, and was\\nrepublished, nearly entire, in the sixth volume of the New-Hamp-\\nshire Historical Collections, 1850, pp. 112 121, to which we refer\\nthe reader.]\\n4. Ode, by George Kent, Esq.\\nOn this devoted spot\\nNever to be forgot,\\nTill time shall end\\nManhood s high hopes Averc orush d,\\nAnd mercy s voice was hush d,\\nWhile blood in torrents gush d\\nFrom foe and friend.\\nPas conawaii s kindly aid,\\nThat erst had been display d,\\nWas now withdrawn\\nAnd Wonalancet s skill.\\nReady each feud to still,\\nAnd cultivate good will\\nA hope forlorn.\\nMild Kanramagm* too,\\nWith love could not imbue\\nHis recreant sons\\nBut IIope-Hood s hostile art\\nPossess d each mind and heart,\\nAnd led them to depart\\nFrom peace at once.\\nNo council fires around\\nTold of the battle s sound,\\nOr signal gave\\nBut by the white man s path,\\nSudden as lightning s scath,\\nThe red man in his wrath\\nAmbush d the brave.\\nFive gallant yeomen fell\\nWhile loud the Indian yell\\nEchoed the deed\\nPeters, Lufkin and Bean,\\nWith Bradleys bold, were seen,\\nStaining with blood the green,\\nWithout remead.\\nNot unaveng d was done\\nThe work of death, begun\\nIn treachery base\\nFour of the tribe lay low.\\nTo bleach in winter s snow\\nUnstrung for aye, the bow;\\nUnjoined the chase.\\nHallow the memory, then,\\nOf the devoted men\\nThe poet mistook the character of Kancamasiis.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "170 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nWho bravely fell\\nLoiifT may this stone display,\\nIn the broad liuht of day,\\nThe deeds tlieir children may\\nWith honor tell.\\n5. Readino;, by Richard Bradley, Esq., of an orii2;inal petition\\nof the inhabitants of Riunford, to the Governor, Council and Assem-\\nbly, for succor against the Indians, with autographs of the orig-\\ninal settlers after which a conveyance of the Monument and grounds\\nwas presented to the New-Hampshire Historical Society, by Mr.\\nBradley, [which was received by Rev. N. Bouton, in behalf of said\\nsociety, and, being duly recorded, was deposited in the society s\\narchives.]\\n6. An Historical Ballad, by Miss Mary Clark, of Concord, read\\nby Mr. T. D. P. Stone,* entitled, A Ballad commemorating the fall\\nof the Bradleys, Peters, Bean and Lufkin, near this spot, on the\\n11th of August, 1746, 0. S., ninety-one years ago this day.\\nI sing a tale of days of old.\\nWhen Pcnacook was yountj,\\nA tale that often has been told,\\nBut never yet was sung.\\nIt was a mournful tragedy,\\nMost doleful to relate\\nHow five young men all suddenly\\nMet with a horrid fate.\\nThe settlement at Penacook\\nWas girt with forests then.\\nWhere savage beasts a shelter took.\\nAnd still more savage men.\\nEngland and France a cruel war\\nHad with each other waged\\nWoe to the colonies for there\\nIts bloodiest contests raged.\\nThe fierce Canadians, (Frenchmen they,)\\nHad set the Indians on\\nTwas sad to see for many a day\\nThe mischief that was done.\\nHouses were burnt and cattle slain,\\nAnd smiling fields laid waste\\nTo seek tlic lurking foe was vain,\\nHis steps might not be traced\\nFor the dark, trackless woods concealed\\nIlim, issuing whence, he seized\\nThe unwary laborer in tlie field,\\nA captive, if he pleased\\nTimothy Dwiglit Porter Stone, from Andover, Mass., then Trincipal of tlie Concord Lit-\\nerary Institution and Teachers Seminary.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "THE MONUMENT. 171\\nOr else, more merciful, despatched\\nIlim at a single blow\\nThen his defenceless home attacked,\\nAnd laid his loved ones low\\nOr led into captivity\\nThe children and the wife.\\nIn hardship, pain and misery,\\nTo drag a weary life.\\nSuch scenes as these, we understand,\\nWere acted o er and o er,\\nBeginning first at Westmoreland,\\nNot far from Number Four.*\\nIn both those towns, in Keene likewise.\\nWere killed and taken some\\nAnd then eight persons, by surprise,\\nThey took in Hopkinton.\\nIn Eumford, alias Pcnacook,\\nThe people all alarmed,\\nThemselves to garrisons betook,\\nNor ventured out unarmed.\\nOh faces gathered paleness then,\\nHearts trembled with dismay\\nFor foes without and fears within,\\nDisturbed them night and day.\\nA hundred Indians, near about,\\nBlood-tliirsty, fierce and strong,\\nSeen now and then in straying scout,\\nAs they had passed along\\nIn August, 46, came down\\nDirect from Canada\\nBent to destroy the embryo town,\\nIf in their course it lay.\\nYet did the people not forget\\nThe holy Sabbath day\\nIn their log meeting-house they met\\nTo hear, and praise, and pray.\\nEach carrying his gun, went in.\\nFor fear what might betide\\nAnd Parson Walker there was seen.\\nWith musket by his side.\\nNo prayer from feigned lips arose\\nWith death and danger near,\\nTheir cries to Heaven, we may suppose.\\nWent up from hearts sincere.\\nHid in an alder thicket, nigh\\nThe meeting-house, the foe\\n(A little girl did them espy,)\\nWere laid in ambush low.\\nNow called C harlestown.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "172 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nA militaiy company\\nHad rome tlic place to guard,\\nYet truly might the people say\\nTheir help was from the Lord\\nFor not a single hand was raised\\nTo harm them on that day\\nThey safely came unto the place,\\nAnd safely went away.\\nBut ah the morrow comes, and then\\nIn Penacook was seen\\nSuch slaughter of their bravest men\\nAs never yet had been.\\nEight of the men set out to go\\nTo Eastman s garrison\\nFull two miles off but did not know\\nThe risk they were to run.\\nArriving early at the spot\\nWhere now secure we stand,\\nTwo fell beneath a fatal shot\\nFrom unseen Indian hand.\\nThey wounded Samuel Bradley, too\\nAt every step he bled\\nAnother shot his body through.\\nLaid him among the dead.\\nLieutenant Bradley cried out, Lord,\\nHave mercy on me Fight\\nHe fired but as he spake the word\\nThey rush d on him outright.\\nBut stoutly he resisted, still\\nRefusing proffered life\\nThey, horrid mangling him, until\\nDeath closed the unequal strife.\\nAs they rush d out, the echoing woods\\nWith Indian yells they filled\\nAnd kept their work of death and blood\\nTill three more men were killed.\\nThen seizing tlie remaining two,\\nThey quickly left the place\\nA dreadful siglit it was to view\\nThose bodies in such case.\\nSome of the foe were slain, tis said.\\nHow many, is not known,\\nFor leaving there the other dead,\\nThey bore away their own.\\nAnd thus did end this dire affray\\nThe names of all who fell,\\nI need not in these verses say,\\nFor yonder stone will tell.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "THE MONUMENT. 173\\nOne of the men, it seems, went on\\nSome rods before the rest,\\nAnd safely reached the garrison,\\nWhich they did not molest.\\nBut sad the news he carried there,\\nFor he had seen the fight\\nAnd sad were they who stood to hear,\\nO erwhelmed with grief and fright.\\nAnd having gathered what he knew,\\nA man was posted down\\nTo bear the woeful tidings to\\nThe people of the town.\\nAnd there were sounds of keen distress,\\nAnd hurryings to and fro,\\nSo deep is human tenderness,\\nSo bitter human woe.\\nWhen speedily a cart, prepared\\nThe bodies to convey,\\nWas sent, attended by a guard,\\nAlong the fearful way.\\nThe rustic hearse came heavily\\nO er the uneven ground\\nReturned, their slaughtered friends to see,\\nThe people gathered round.\\nOh what a day for Penacook\\nThe widow what a day\\nA long, a last heart-rending look,\\nAnd in the earth they lay.\\nThe Bradleys were distinguished men\\nBrothers, they were, so brave.\\nAnd many a tear was shed for them.\\nLaid in untimely grave.\\nEach left a mourning family,\\nSamuel, an only son,\\nrather of him whose piety\\nThat monumental stone\\nHas raised the sorrowful event\\nThus to commemorate\\nGo read their names, and then lament\\nTheir melancholy fate.\\n7. Concluding prayer, by Rev. E. E. Cummings, [of the Baptist\\nChurch.]\\nBut to resume the narrative of Indian troubles After the\\nmassacre, as above related, the Indians withdrew for a short\\ntime from the immediate vicinity. The inhabitants, however,\\nwere in constant anxiety and alarm. On the 13th of August,\\nClough, in his journal, says Eumford people said that they", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "174 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nheard several guns, early in the morning, some distance from the\\ntown. They supposed that the Indians had killed some cattle,\\nas they [had,] about a month before, killed two oxen. In\\nanswer to repeated petitions, a guard was kept stationed here\\nmost of the time, at least for the two following years.* In the\\nmean time, some new arrangement was made concerning the\\ngarrisons, as appears from the following official document\\nProvince of\\nNew Hamp^ District of Rum/ord, March y^ 21s;, 1746/7.\\nWe, the subscribers, Committee of Militia, c., at the request of\\nsundry of the inhabitants of Rumford afores representing their\\nuneasiness with the orders not being coiuplycd with and the pressing\\nof the enemy having compelled two of the stated Garrisons to break\\nup, and, by that means, apprehending a further view and settlement\\nto be necessary\\nHave, therefore, repaired to Rumford afores d and reviewed their\\ncircumstances, and do still continue the following Garrisons, as at\\nfirst, viz. The Garrison round the house of the Rev Mr. Timothy\\nWalker, with the inhabitants stated there, excepting Obadiah Foster,\\nwho is removed and ordered to attend and do his duty at the Gar-\\nrison round the house of Mr. Joseph Hall.\\nAlso, the Garrison round the house of Mr. Jeremiah Stickney\\nand have further ordered that the house of Mr. Edward Abbot, being\\nnear and convenient to make one joynt defence with s Stickney s\\nGarrison, be likewise garrisoned both which housen to be looked\\nupon, and in all Garrison priviledges and duties, to be one Garrison\\ntheir keeping, in times of necessary watching and warding, a watch\\nand ward in each house and that the inhabitants before ordered and\\nstated at s*^ Stickney s, be as equally, as with convenience may be,\\napportioned to each house, as best accommodates them, under the\\nregulation of Capt. John Chandler excepting Ephralm Carter and\\nJoseph Carter, Lt. Isaac Chandler and his son Isaac, who are ordered\\nto remove and do their duty at the Garrison round the house of the\\naforesaid Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker.\\nAlso, that the Garrison round the house of Mr. Timothy Walker,\\njun., be continued, with the inhabitants ordered there, excepting\\nStephen Farrington and Benjamin Abbot, who are hereby ordered\\nto remove to, and do their duty at the Garrison round the house of\\nthe aforesaid Jeremiah Stickney and Edward Abbot.\\nAlso, the Garrison round the house of Mr. Joseph Hall be con-\\ntinued, with the inhabitants before ordered there; and that the Gar-\\nrison round the house of Mr. Henry Lovejoy, and the Garrison at\\nJonathan Eastman s house, f be thrown up and not kept, until the\\n*Doc. for Chap. V., No. 8, 9 and 10.\\nf These garrisons were out of the main settlement one at West Parish Village the other\\nnear what is now called Millville.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "INDIAN TROUBLES. 175\\ninhabitants posted at these Garrisons, or either of them, shall have\\nfurther assistance and be willing to return, and then to be invested\\nwith the same Garrison privileges as before but not till then- and,\\nin the mean time, they arc I cspectivcly ordered to the following Gar-\\nrisons, as most convenient for them, viz. James Abbot, Amos\\nAbbot, Amos Eastman, Henry Lovejoy, Abiel Chandler and Joseph\\nFarnum, to do duty at the garrison stated round the house of the\\nRev. Mr. Timothy Walker and that Ephraim Farnum, Seaborn Pe-\\nters, Timothy Tytus and Jacob Hoyt, to do duty at the garrison stated\\nround the house of the aforesaid Jeremiah Stickney and Edward\\nAbbot and John Burbank to do duty at the garrison stated round\\nthe dwelling-house of Mr. Timothy Walker, jun. which four gar-\\nrisons, in our judgment, is as many as can be admitted for the\\ninterest and safety of the inhabitants, and the places well situated for\\nthe defence of the town. Joseph Blanch ard,\\nBenjamin FtOLFE, y Com\\nZacheus Lovewell, 3\\nHenry Lovejov s garrison, at the West Parish, [where Mr.\\nLevi Hutchins now Hves,] it seems had been broken up and as\\nthere had been a grist mill, it subjected the inhabitants in that\\nsection, and also in Boscawen and Canterbury, to serious incon-\\nveniences, as appears from the following joint petition\\nTo IIi x Excellency Benning Wentworth, Esq., Captain General\\nand Governor of Ills Majestij s Province of Nev Hampsliire To the\\nHonorable His Majesty s Council and Assembly of said Province:\\nThe Petition of the Subscribers, Inhabitants of Rumford, Canter-\\nbury and Contoocook\\nHumbly sheweth. That we, especially at the two last mentioned\\nplaces, are greatly distressed for want of suitable Grist Mills that\\nMr. Henry Lovejoy has, at great expense, erected a good mill at a\\nplace the most advantageously situated to accommodate the three\\ntowns that it is the only mill in all the three towns that stands under\\nthe command of the guns of the garrison That the ill conse-\\n(juences of abandoning the said garrison the year past has been\\nseverely felt by us That the said Lovejoy appears desirous of\\nresiding there again, provided he might be favored with such a num-\\nber of soldiers as just to keep his garrison with a tolerable degree of\\nsafety J and that, as an additional encouragement to us to appear as\\npetitioners on his behalf, and to your Excellency and Honours to\\ngrant our said petition, he will become engaged, with all convenient\\nspeed, to erect a forge for the making of Barr Iron,* which may also\\n*Thi3 forge was erected by Capt. Lovejoy, and was in operation many years. Mr. Levi\\nHutchins says the forge was situated about forty rods westerly of his Iiouse, on the stream\\nthat flows from Long Pond, and that old cinders of ore are still visible there. The ore was\\nobtained from the banks at the deep bend of the river, just above the Concord Bridge. Iron\\nore was also found in the south part of the town.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "176\\nRUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nstand under the command of the said garrison which undertaking\\nwould probably be vastly advantageous to all the towns and planta-\\ntions up this way, as well as to the general interest of the Province.\\nWe therefore pray, as well on behalf of ourselves as the said\\nLovejoy, that your Excellency and Honours would take the premises\\ninto your wise consideration, and grant unto the said Lovejoy such a\\nprotection as may encourage him to reenter and possess his at pres-\\nent abandoned garrison, for the ends and purposes above mentioned\\nand your Petitioners shall, as in duty bound, ever pray.\\nJohn Chandler,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nEzra Carter,\\nNath. Abbot,\\nIsaac Waldron,\\nAmos Eastman,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nIsaac Chandler,\\nJames Osgood,\\nSeborne Peters,\\nAbraham Kimball,\\nJoseph Pudney,\\nStephen Gerrish,\\nJohn Towle,\\nGeorge Jackman,\\nRichard Jackman,\\nRichard Hood,\\nJacob Flanders,\\nJames Scales,\\nJeremiah Clough,\\nWilliam Miles,\\nWilliam Forest,\\nThomas Clough,\\nJosiah Miles,\\nBen. Fifield,\\nJacob Hoyt,\\nJohn Burbank,\\nCaleb Burbank,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nJohn Chandler, jun.,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nDaniel Chase,\\nHenry Lovejoy,\\nJeremiah Stickncy,\\nAaron Stevens,\\nWilliam Peters,\\nPhilip Caul,\\nJohn Corser,\\nWilliam Emery,\\nJoel Manuel,\\nJohn Flanders,\\nJohn Gibson,\\nArchelaus Moor,\\nMoses Danforth,\\nJames Head,\\nBenjamin Blanchard,\\nJames Gipson,\\nRumford, January 2d, 1747-8.\\nStephen Farrington,\\nStephen Hoyt,\\nGeorge Hull,\\nSamson Colbe,\\nEben r Eastman, jr.,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nJeremiah Eastman,\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nDaniel Anis,\\nNathan Stevens,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nOf Rumford.\\nPhilip Flanders,\\nStephen Call,\\nPhiueas Stevens,\\nNathaniel Malloon,\\nWilliam Danford,\\nOf Contoocooh.\\nWilliam Moor,\\nWilliam Forest, jr.,\\nSamuel Shepherd,\\nJohn Forrest,\\nThomas Danforth,\\nSamuel Moor,\\nOf Canterbury\\nANECDOTES.\\nThe following traditionary anecdotes relative to this period\\nhave been received by the author from sundry individuals, and\\nmay be relied on as substantially correct.\\nPhilip Eastman, son of Capt. Ebenezer, married Abiah", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "ANECDOTES. 1 i t\\nBradlej, sister of tlie Bradlejs who were killed, and in 1746\\nlived on the farm where John L. Tallant, Esq., now lives. When\\nthe news of the massacre reached them, Mr. Eastman hastily\\nsaddled his horse, rode up to his door, and said, Come, Abiah,\\nlet us go. She replied, I am ready, and at a single bound\\nsprung upon the horse s back, behind her husband and then\\nthey rode on full canter down to Capt. Eastman s fort. It was a\\ncommon saying in those times, It takes a hard hloiv to kill a\\nBradley I C. E. Potter.\\nOn the 10th of November, 1746,* a Mr. Estahrooks, of Hop-\\nkinton, was killed by the Indians on the road leading from Con-\\ncord to Hopkinton, and about one fourth of a mile eastward of\\nwhere the Bradleys were killed. The circumstances, as related\\nby Mr. Benjamin G-ale, now in his eighty-fifth year, and in full\\npossession of his faculties, are as follows My grandfather, Dr.\\nEzra Carter,! lived in a house which stood where Sanborn s\\nbook-store now is he pastured his horse in Dea. George Abbot s\\nlot, where the late Timothy Chandler lived. Mr. Estabrooks\\ncame into town, and called on Dr. Carter, but was in great haste\\nto return to Hopkinton before night. Dr. Carter said, I have\\na call to make on the same road, and will accompany you\\nthen taking his bridle and saddle bags in hand, he went to the\\npasture to catch his horse but, what was very unusual, the\\nhorse could nt be caught. The doctor, therefore, standing in the\\nfield, waved his hand to Mr. Estabrooks, who was waiting, and\\nsaid, Go on. Estabrooks proceeded about three quarters of a\\nmile on the road, to where the watering-trough now is, at Rum-\\nHill, (so called,) when he was fired at and killed. The report\\nof the gun was heard in the street, and in half an hour after-\\nPETITION OP DE. EZRA CARTEB.\\nOctober ye 23d, 1747.\\nTo His ErccUency Benning Wentworth, Esq., 4 C.\\nThe Petition of Ezra Carter, in behalf of the inhabitants of the town of Ruinford, shevv-\\neth, that they are destitute of soldiers, and very much exposed both to the French and Indian\\nenemy, and daily expect, by experience of last year, invasions by them, by reason of their\\nKILLING ONE MAN ON THE TENTH OF NOVEMBER LAST and OH the nineteenth of said No-\\nvember they were discovered by their tracks in a small snow and pray your Honours to\\nconsider our dangerous circumstances, and grant us such protection as you in your groat wis-\\ndom shall think meet. Ezra Carter.\\njMr. Gale s father, Daniel, son of Benjamin, from Haverhill, married Ruth, daughter of\\nDr. Ezra Carter.\\n12", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "178 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nward Estabrooks was found dead on the spot. Dr. Carter s\\nescape was considered very providential.\\nJacob Iloyt, Esq., residing on the east side of the river, (on\\nthe Mountain, so called,) now in the eighty-third year of his\\nage vigorous both in body and mind relates that his father,\\nJohn^ son of Abner, who came to Penacook from Salisbury, Mas-\\nsachusetts, about 1728, and lived in a house where Dr. Samuel\\nMorril now lives, was said to have been the second male child\\nborn in Penacook. He married Abigail Carter, the little girl who\\nsaw one Indian or more in the bushes on the Sabbath before the\\nmassacre. His grandfather, Abner, was in Mr. Jonathan East-\\nman s garrison, and at this time owned land where Mr. B. Hub-\\nbard Weeks now lives. On one occasion his daughter Betsey\\nwent out to milk the cows, just at twilight. She was accompa-\\nnied by a soldier named Roane, for a guard. While she milked\\nthe cows, Roane sat on the fence but instead of looking out for\\nIndians, his eyes were attracted toward Betsey. She, observing\\nhis gaze, said, Roane, you better look the other way, and see\\nif there are any Indians near. Turning round at that mo-\\nment, he saw an Indian with tomahawk in hand, creeping slyly\\ntoward him. Roane screamed, leaped from the fence, and run,\\ngun in hand, leaving Betsey to do the best she could for her-\\nself. Fortunately, however, Betsey regained the garrison in\\nsafety.\\nMr. Hoyt further relates as what he had often heard his\\nfather say that at this time Indians were constantly lurking\\nabout, so that people had to go out in companies to do work in\\nthe field that Benjamin Abbot had a large field of rye on what\\nis now called the Bog Road, which the Indians watched with a\\ndesign to kill the men who went out to reap it. But at the\\nproper time, the people turned out in such force that the rye was\\nall harvested and carted home early in the forenoon, so that the\\nIndians were disappointed whereupon they gratified their re-\\nvenge by killing as many cows, oxen, sheep and horses as they\\ncould, at pasture, in the vicinity of Turkey Pond. They also\\nfired at and wounded an old Mr. Pudney, who was carrying a\\nwooden bottle of beer from one of the garrisons to men at work\\nat the Eleven Lots. The ball broke his arm, so that he dropped", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "ANECDOTES. 179\\nthe bottle, and ran back to the garrison, [round Timothy Walk-\\ner, junior s, house.]\\nIn the fall of 17471 a large party of Indians made their ap-\\npearance in the southwest part of the town, and for several\\nweeks continued ranging about the woods, destroying cattle,\\nhorses, c. Jeremiah Bradley, (who lived near where Mr.\\nCharles Hall now lives,) had a fine field for fall grazing, and\\ninto this many of the citizens had turned their sheep and neat\\ncattle. Reports from the guns of the Indians were frequently\\nheard, and numbers of the cattle were destroyed. The inhab-\\nitants at length rallied, and a strong party, armed, proceeded\\ncautiously in two divisions toward the enemy. In the woods,\\nnear the field, one of the party found numerous packs, c., be-\\nlonging to the Indians, and concluded to await their approach in\\nconcealment. As they were approaching, one of the men,\\nthrough accident, or an eager desire to avenge his losses, fired\\nhis musket, and alarmed the Indians, who, observing the smoke\\nSee Joseph Pudney s petition, as follows\\n174S.\\nPROV. OF NEW-HAMP,\\n2o His Excellency Benning AVentavorth, Esq., Gov t, Sj-c.\\nThe Petition of Joseph Pudney, of Rumford, most humbly sheweth\\nThat your petit r, the last summer, at Rumford afores d, while in His Majes-\\nty s service, Avas wounded by the Indians, who by their shot bi oak. his arm, and\\nthe bones much shattered that altho the wound is healed up, yet he is unable\\nto do any work to earn his livelyhood, and his arm so weak that he is unfit for\\nscouting, c. that he is able to do the duty of a garrison soixldier, and as such\\nare wanted in the sd town of Rumford, he humbly conceives in that body he\\nmight be so far serviceable as to earn his living. Wherefore your pet r most\\nhumbly prays that he may be held in His Majesty s service, and posted at the\\nsd town as a garrison souldier. And yr pet r as in duty bound shall CA^er pray.\\nJoseph Pudnet.\\nMay 17, 1748.\\nIn the House of Representati\\\\-cs, 28th May, 1748,\\nVoted, That in ansAver to ye within petition, ye Avithln mentioned Joseph Pud-\\nney be posted as a soldier at ye garrison at sd Rumford, til ye last of Septem-\\nber next. D. Pierce, Clerk.\\nIn Council, eodem die, read and concuiTcd.\\nTiiEOD. Atkinson, Sec y.\\nEodem die, consented to. B. Wentavorth.\\nf Moore s Annals of Concord, p. 271.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "180 RUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nof the gun, filed off in an opposite direction. The whole party\\nthen fired, but with little injury to their tawny adversaries. The\\nbody of an Indian was, however, sometime afterward found\\nsecreted in a hollow log, into which, it is supposed, having been\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2wounded by the fire of the party, he had crawled and expired.\\nThere was a garrison though probably at a somewhat later\\nperiod situated on what was called Rattlesnake Plain, just\\nacross the road southwest of Mr. Simeon Abbot s house, near\\nthe track of the Concord and Claremont Railroad. Belonging\\nto and defended by the garrison, were four houses, built of logs,\\nthe cellars and foundations of which are visible to this day.\\nHere were James Abbot, James Abbot, jun., Reuben Abbot,\\nAmos Abbot, and Joseph Farnum. There is a story that the\\nyoung folks from the Abbot garrison were very fond of going\\nout, of an evening, to visit the Farnums, who lived some eighty\\nrods distant, and that the old people were much concerned lest\\nthey should be waylaid by the Indians. As the young folks did\\nnot heed the cautions given them, Mr. Reuben Abbot, (the same\\nwho lived to his hundredth year,) undertook to cure their temer-\\nity. Accordingly, one evening, when the young folks were at\\nEphraim Farnum s, he, dressed in Indian style, secreted himself\\nin the bushes by the road -side, and Avaited their return. As\\nthey approached the spot, he made a rustling noise, grunting\\nlike an Indian, and partially showed himself when the young\\npeople fled with terror to the garrison. After that they never\\nwished to go out again in the evening, but they kept the cause of\\ntheir fright a secret.\\nSamuel Farrington, grandson of Stephen Farrington, who\\nmarried Applda, daughter of Abraham Bradley, relates that on\\none occasion, in the time of Indian troubles, her grandmother,\\nwho, like others of the Bradley race, was a fearless woman, went\\ninto the field where her husband and others had gone to mow,\\nand she found them reclining under a tree, after dinner, asleep,\\nand their guns stacked near by. She took one of the guns\\nof the kind called Queen Anne s muskets and discharged it\\nvery near them. The gun rebounded and nearly kicked her over.\\nThey sprung upon their feet with great consternation, supposing\\nthat Indians were upon them when INIrs. Farrington, recover-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "ANECDOTES. 181\\ning also from the unexpected shock, laughingly signified that\\npossibly they might receive a worse fire than from a woman, if\\nfound asleep again\\nCapt. Henry Lovejoy once had a narrow escape from the In-\\ndians. Returning from Osgood s tavern to his garrison, on horse-\\nback, in the evening, he apprehended that Indians might way-\\nlay him, and that they would be likely to do it in the gully, south\\nof Ephraim Farnum s. As he approached the crossing-place, he\\npretended to have command of men, and cried out, Rush on,\\nmy boys be ready to fire and then galloped over with full\\nspeed. On reaching home he went to turn his horse into pas-\\nture on the north side of Rattlesnake hill letting the bars down,\\nhe noticed an alarm and stir among the cows. Inferring that\\nIndians were near, he turned toward the garrison, and hid\\nhimself under a large wind-fall tree. Immediately two Indians\\nwith guns trotted over the tree in pursuit. He lay still till they\\nreturned and went off, and then regained the fort.\\nIn a deposition given relative to the Bow controversy, 1757,\\nIsaac Chandler and Jacob Pilsberry, of Rumford, state, That\\nthere was no way for the people, in their power, to defend them-\\nselves against their [Indian] enemies, but by assembhng together,\\nby common agreement, as many families as conveniently could,\\nand first erecting a fort or garrison sufficient to contain them, and\\nthen building within the same a house for each family to screen\\nthem from the inclemency of the weather. And all this they\\ndid at their own expense. Moreover, by being obliged to keep\\nwatch and ward, and to work together in large companies for the\\ngreater safety during the summer and their being frequently\\ncalled from their business either by some assault, or the dis-\\ncovery of the Indians and other avocations occasioned by the\\nwar, the deponents really believe that the said inhabitants lost\\nnear one half of their time during the most busy and valuable\\npart of the year for all which they never, as the deponents\\nheard of, had any allowance or consideration.\\nAnd that notwithstanding all these discouragements, they have\\nstood their ground against the enemy supported themselves\\nwith all the necessaries of hfe and also yearly spared consider-\\nable quantities of provisions to the neighboring villages in the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "182\\nRUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nsaid province, which must have suflfered verj much if they\\nhad not had their assistance.\\nAnd that they have been always ready, upon notice of dis-\\ntress or danger among their neighbors, during the war, to go to\\ntheir relief, many times in considerable companies, to places at a\\ngreat distance, all at their own expense beside the losses they\\nhave sustained, not only of human lives, but also in their stocks\\nof cattle, many scores of which were destroyed in one day by\\nthe enemy, beside what were destroyed at other times.\\nIsaac Chandler,\\nJacob Pilsberry.\\nLIST OF OFFICERS\\nIN THE PLANTATION OF PENNYCOOK AND RUMPORD,\\nFROM 1732 TO 1749.\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nAssessors,\\nCollector,\\nSurveyors of High\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nHogreeves,\\nTreasurer,\\nFence-viewers,\\naijs,\\nJanuary, 1732-3.\\nCapt. Ebenezer Eastman,\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nCapt. Ebenezer Eastman,\\nDea. John Merrill,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nDea. John Merrill,\\nEdward Alibot.\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nEns. Jeremiah Stickncy,\\nLt. John Chandler,\\nDavid Kimball,\\nJoseph Ilall,\\nIsaac Foster,\\nLt. John Chandlei\\nj Aaron Stevens,\\nJames Farnum,\\nMarch G, 1732-3.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nTimothy Clement.\\nf Ebenezer Eastman,\\nI John Chandler,\\nJeremiah Stickney,\\nI Joseph Eastman,\\nl_ Edward Abbot.\\nAbraham Colby.\\nJeremiah Stickney.\\nJohn Merrill,\\nJohn Riiss.\\nWilliam Barker,\\nDavid Kimball.\\nDavid Kimball.\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nJose])h Davis,\\nRichard Urann.\\nJohn Chandler,\\nr Joseph Hall,\\nJ Samuel Pudnev,\\n1 David Barker,\\nIsaac Foster.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "OFFICERS.\\nField-drivers,\\nModerator,\\nTown Clerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nCollector,\\nAssessors,\\nJames Farnum,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nMarch U, 1733-4.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nBenjamin Eolfe.\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nDea. Epliraim Farnum\\nAbraliam Bradley\\nSurveyors of Ili(jhways,\\nTythingnien,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-vieivers,\\nFence\\nSealer of Leather,\\nTreasurer,\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nPoiind-lceeper,\\nSurveyor of Flax and Hemp.\\nSealer of Weights and Meas.\\nSelectmen.\\nJeremiah Stickney,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nDaniel Chase,\\nJohn Webster.\\nEdward Abbot,\\nJohn Russ,\\nRichard Hazeltine.\\nAaron Stevens,\\nJames Osgood,\\nJames Farnum,\\nWilliam Barker,\\nEbenezer Virgin.\\nDavid Kimball.\\nLt. John Chandler.\\nJames Osgood,\\nSamuel Pudney,\\nJei-emiah Dresser,\\nAaron Stevens.\\nJacol Shute,\\nDavid Barker,\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nModerator,\\nTown Clerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nMarch 9, 1735-6.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nJeremiah Stickney.\\nSelectmen.\\nAssessors,\\nConstable,\\nSurveyor of Hemp and Flax, Nathaniel Abbot.\\n(David Barker,\\nAbraham Bradley,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nTythingmen,\\nFence-viewers,\\nDaniel Chase.\\nJames Abbot,\\nJames Farnum,\\nf Richard Hazeltine,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nIsaac Foster,\\nEphraira Farnum,\\nJohn Russ.\\nJacob Shute,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nAaron Stevens,\\nj Ebenezer Virgin,\\nTimothy Clement,\\nJohn Russ.\\nMarch, 1734-5.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nJeremiah Stickney,\\nJohn ]\\\\Ierrill.\\nEdward Al)bot.\\nEdward Abbot.\\nSelectmen.\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nJames Osgood,\\nLt. John Chandler.\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nGeorge Abbot.\\nAbraham Bradley,\\nDaniel Chase,\\nIsaac Foster,\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nJoseph Eastman.\\nJeremiah Stickney.\\nJohn Chandler.\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nTimothy Walker.\\nDavid Barker,\\nZebediah Farnum,\\nBenjamin Abbot.\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nEdward Abbot.\\nMarch 15, 1736-7.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nJames Osgood,\\nJoseph Hall.\\nSelectmen.\\nj Richard Hazeltine,\\nI also Collector.\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nJames Abbot,\\nJeremiah Stickney,\\nBarachias Farnum,\\nDaniel Cbase,\\nEbenezer Virgin.\\nEdward Abbot,\\nJohn Merrill.\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nNathaniel Rolfe,\\nDaniel Rolfe,\\nJohn Russ,\\nDavid Barker.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "184\\nRUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nField-drivers,\\nIlogreeves,\\nSealer of Leather, Jeremiah Stickney.\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nDavid Kimball,\\nZebadiah Farnum,\\nJonathan Bradley,\\nEbcnezcr Eastman, Jr\\nSamuel Puduey.\\nJacob Shute,\\nIsaac Walker, Jr.,\\nAbraham Colby, Jr.,\\nOnesiphorus Page.\\nSealer of Weights and Meas. Edward Abbot.\\nTreasurer, Lt. John Chandler.\\nMarch 29, 1738.\\nModerator, Jeremiah Stickney.\\nTotem Clerk, Benjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nSelectmen, Lt. John Chandler,\\njiichard Hazeltine.\\nAssesso7-s, Selectmen.\\nConstable and Collector, Joseph Eastman.\\nSurvei/ors of Ilighivaijs,\\nTgthintjmen,\\nFence-\\nJames Abbot,\\nJeremiah Stickney,\\nJose[\u00c2\u00bbh Hall,\\nBarachias Farnum,\\nIsaac Foster.\\nWilliam Barker,\\nEbcnezcr Virgin.\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nJames Farnum,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nJames Abbot,\\nDavid Barker.\\nJeremiah Stickney.\\nSeeder of Leather,\\nSealer of Weights and Meas. Edward Abbot.\\nTreasurer, Benjamin Rolfe.\\nIlogreeves,\\nField-drivers,\\nPhilij) Kimball,\\nWilliam Walker,\\n1 George Al)bot,\\nAbraham Kimball,\\nEbenczer Eastman, Jr.,\\nPhilip Kimball,\\nWilliam Walker,\\nDaniel Chase.\\nSurvey rs of Timber, Planh Daniel Chase,\\nand Boards, Nathaniel Abbot.\\nPound-lceeper,\\nSurveyor of Hemp and Flax, Nathaniel Abbot.\\nMarch tlO, 1739-40.\\nModerator, Ebenczer Eastman.\\nTown Cleric, Benjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nLt. John Chandler,\\nEbenczer Eastman.\\nAssessors, Selectmen.\\nJeremiah Stickney.\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nAl iraham Colby, Jr.,\\nWilliam Barker,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nJohn Russ.\\nDaniel Chase,\\nAaron Stevens,\\nJoseph Farnum.\\nEdward Abbot.\\nMarch 15, 1738-9.\\nBarachias Farnum.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nBarachias Farnum,\\nEbenczer Eastman.\\nSelectmen.\\nJames r)sgood.\\nf James Abltot,\\nI David Kimball,\\nJeremiah Stickney,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nj Baracliias Farnum,\\nIsaac Foster.\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nGeorge Abbot.\\nStephen Farrington,\\nDavid Barker,\\nJeremiah Dresser,\\nJames Farnum,\\nSamuel Puduey.\\nDavid Kimball.\\nEdward Abl)Ot.\\nBenjamiu Rolfe.\\nWilliam Walker,\\nPhilip Kimball,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nJacob Shute.\\nf Benjamin Abbot,\\nI W^iUiam Walker,\\nI Jonathan Bradlee,\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nNathaniel Rolfe,\\nI Jeremiah Dresser,\\ny Ebenezer Virgin, Jr.\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nMarch 1740-1.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nJohn Chandler.\\nSelectmen.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "OFFICERS.\\n185\\n(Barucliias Farnum [refusing 1\\nto sei^-e, paid his fine of \u00c2\u00a35, j jj^^,j_\\nand Ehcnezer Virgin was\\nchosen.] J\\nf James Abbot, James Abbot,\\nJeremiah Stickney, Jeremiali Stickney,\\nDavid Kimball, David Kiml)all,\\nBarachias Farnum, Barachias Farnum,\\nj Joseph Hall, Joseph Hall,\\nI David Barker, Ebenezer Eastman.\\nl^ Ebenezer Eastman\\nj Aaron Stevens.\\nEdward Abbot.\\nSuTvei/ors of Highways,\\nTythingmen,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nNathaniel Rolfe,\\nFence-vieicers, Daniel Chase,\\nAbiel Chandler,\\nIsaac Foster,\\nSealer of Leather, David Kiml all.\\nSealer of Weights and Meas, Edward Al)bot.\\nTreasurer,\\nHogreeves,\\nField-drivers,\\nModerator,\\nTown Clerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nAssessors,\\nConstable,\\nTreasurer,\\nCollector,\\nSurveyors of Highways,\\nTythingmen,\\nFence-viewers,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Weights and Meas.\\nHogreeves,\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nJohn March,\\nWilliam Walker,\\nJacob Sliiite,\\nJiidah Trumble.\\nJohn March.\\nWilliam Walker,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nJeremiah Dresser\\nLot Colby,\\nEbenezer Eastman, Jr.\\nMarch 31, 1742.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Ivolfe,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nJeremiah Stickney.\\nSelectmen.\\nGeorge Abbot.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nGeorge Abliot.\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nBarachias F aruum,\\nNathaniel Aljbot,\\nJames Osgood,\\nDaniel Chase,\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nIsaac Walker, Jr.,\\nSamuel Piitnee,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nJames Abbot,\\nJonathan Bradley,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nAbraham CoUiy.\\nDavid Kimball.\\nEdward Abbot.\\nWilliam Walker,\\nNathaniel West,\\nJudah Trumble.\\nJames Osgood,\\nGeorge Abbot.\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nJames Farnum,\\nAbraham Bradley,\\nLt. John Chandler,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nEben r Eastman, Jr.\\nDavid Kimball.\\nEdward Alibot.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nWilliam Walker,\\nIsaac Walker, Jr.,\\nDavid Barker,\\nLot Colby.\\nWilliam Walker,\\nJames Farnum,\\nJonathan Bradley,\\nEben r Eastman, Jr.\\nMarch :il, 1743.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nJeremiah Stickney.\\nSelectmen.\\nDaniel Chase.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nDaniel Chase.\\nDavid Foster,\\nAbiel Chandler,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nBarachias F arnum,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nDavid Kimball.\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nJames Abbot.\\nSamuel Putneo,\\nAbrahani CoIIjv,\\nJonathan Bradley,\\nJeremiah Dresser.\\nDavid Kimliall,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nSamuel Grey,\\nAbiel Chandler,\\nAbraham Colbee,\\nJudah Trumble.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "186\\nRUMFORD AS A DISTRICT.\\nfWilliam Walker, Timothy Walker, jr.,\\n(Daniel Chase, David Chandler,\\nJoseph Farnum, Obadiah Eastman.\\nEdward Abbot,\\nOltadiah Eastman.\\ntt^ Nathaniel Abbot and David Kimball were chosen Ebenezer Eastman,\\nto take care that the laws relating to the preservation of jun., and Sam l Grey,\\ndeer be obseiwed, c. do.\\nModerator,\\nTown Clerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nAssessors,\\nConstable,\\nTreasurer,\\nMarch 28, 1744.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nBarachias Farnum,\\nCapt. John Chandler.\\nSurveyors of Uighways,\\nTytJiingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Weights and Meas\\nFence-vieiuers,\\nField lrivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nNathaniel Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBarachias Farnum,\\nJeremiah Bradley,\\nJacob Shute,\\nStephen Farrington,\\nJames AT)bot,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nEbenezer Virgin.\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nDavid Chandler.\\nDavid Kimball.\\nEdward Abbot.\\nEns. Nathaniel Abbot,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nEbenezer Eastman, Jr.\\nAbiel Chandler,\\nAbraham Colbee.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.,\\nJames Abbot, Jr.,\\nJonathan Bradley,\\nJeremiah Eastman.\\nJonathan Bradley,\\nLot Colbee,\\nNathaniel Rix,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nEbenezer Hall.\\nMarch Z\\\\, 1746\\nModerator, Capt. John Chandler.\\nTown Clerk, Benjamin Rolfe.\\nC Benjamin Rolfe,\\nSelectmen, Capt. John Chandler,\\nJeremiah Stickuey.\\nAssessors, Selectmen.\\nMarch 8, 1745.\\nCapt. Jno. Chandler.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nCapt. John Chandler,\\nJeremiah Stickney.\\nSelectmen.\\nEzra Carter.*\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nAbraham Bradley,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nDavid Kimball,\\nJeremiah Bradley,\\nJacob Shute.\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nAbraham Colbee.\\nEdward Abbot.\\nDaniel Chase,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nAbiel Chandler,\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nSamuel Gray,\\nLot Colbee,\\nJeremiah Eastman,\\nJames Abbot, jun.\\nSamuel Bradley,\\nIsaac Waldron,\\nSampson Colbee,\\nPhilip Kimball.\\nConstable,\\nTreasurer,\\nSurveyors of Highways,\\nEzra Carter.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nAbraham Bradley,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nJacob Shute.\\nMarch 19, 1747.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nEzra Carter.\\nJohn Chandler,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nRichard Hazeltine.\\nEzra Carter.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nEdward Abbot,\\nEbenezer Virgin.\\nVoted, That Mr. Samuol Pudiiey bo excused from serving as constable, and that Dr. Ezra\\nCarter be constable.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "OFFICERS.\\n187\\nrr ^T Daniel Chase,\\nTiithngmen, j Benjamin Abbot,\\nSealer of Weights and Meas. Edward Abbot.\\n(Joscpli Faninm,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nAaron btevens,\\nDaniel Chase.\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nModerator^\\nTown Clerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nSamnel Grey,\\nJ Nathan Stevens,\\n1 Abiel Chandler,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr\\nSamuel Grey,\\nSam[)Son Colbee,\\nJudah Trumble.\\nMarch 2t, 1748.\\nEbenezer Eastman.\\nEzra Carter.\\nEzra Carter,\\nCapt. John Chandler\\nRichard Hazeltine.\\nAssessors, Selectmen.\\nConstable, Elienezer Eastman, Jr.\\nCollector, Ebenezer Eastman, Jr.\\nC Ebenezer Viriiin,\\no r TT- 1 Timothy Bradley,\\nSurveyors of Ilujhways, ^y,,,^^,,^^^ Kimball,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\n.7 Daniel Chase,\\nTythngmen, j j^.^.es Abbot.\\n{Joseph Eastman,\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nLot Colbee,\\nAmos Eastman.\\nJeremiali Dressei\\nField-drivers, Amos Abliot,\\nSampson Colbee.\\nSealer of Weights and 2Ieas. Edward Abljot.\\nJeremiah Eastman,\\nHogreeves, William Walker.\\nEbenezer Hall.\\nDea. George Abbot,\\nAbraham Kimball,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nDaniel Chase,\\nLt. Nathaniel Abbot,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nI Joseph Hall,\\n(_ Amos Eastman.\\nTimotliy Bradley,\\nJohn Pudney,\\nEben r Eastman, jr.\\n{Lot Colbee,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nSamuel Grey,\\nEns. Jos. Eastman.\\nMarch 29, 17-19.*\\nJohn Chandler,\\nEzra Carter,\\nJohn Chandler,\\nEzra Carter,\\nLt. Jere. Stickney,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nHenry Lovejoy.\\nSamuel Grey.\\nJames Abbot,\\nJeremiah Dresser,\\nDea. George Abbot,\\nAaron Stevens,\\nJacob Shute,\\nAmos Eastman.\\nAbout this time the rights and privileges guaranteed by the District Act ceased, and Rum-\\nford, already involved in cuntroversy v.ilh the proprietors of Bow, was destitute of govern-\\nment. There is a cliasra in the records till 1765.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nFRENCH AND INDIAN WARS, IN WHICH THE INHABITANTS OF\\nRUMFORD TOOK AN ACTIVE PART/^\\nBy wliat was called the Treaty of Aix la Chapellc, in 1748,\\nbetween France and England, tliere was a suspension of hostil-\\nities for a few years. The border towns, however, were con-\\nstantly exposed to Indian depredations and massacres. Hence\\ngarrisons were kept up, and the people continued to go out,\\narmed, in companies, to their work in the fields. The war,\\nhowever, between France and England was renewed in 1754,\\nand continued till 1762.\\nThis long, bloody and savage war, which involved England\\nand her colonics on the one side, and France, with her Indian\\nallies on the other, arose out of unsettled boundaries.!\\nIn these wars New-Hampshire bore a conspicuous part, and\\nRumford contributed her full share of men and means. The\\nNew-Hampshire troops were distinguished above most others\\nfor bold and daring enterprise, hardihood, expertness in shooting,\\nand especially for their knowledge in all the arts of Indian war-\\nfare. They were, therefore, for the most part employed as\\n*See Documentary and Statistical Chapter.\\nf By the construction of charters and grants from the crown of England, her colonies\\nextended indefinitely westward from the Atlantic coast. The Frencli, however, had settle-\\nments in Canada and Louisiana, and tliey meditated to join these distant colonies by a chain\\nof forts and posts, from the river St. Lawrence to the Mississippi, and to extend tlie limits of\\nCanada as far eastward as to command navigation in the winter, when the St. Lawrence is\\nimpassable. These claims of territory, extending, on the one part, from east to west, and,\\non the other, from north to soutli, necessarily interfered. Belknap.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS. 189\\nrangers and scouts to lay in ambush to make sudden attacks\\nupon the enemy to clear roads through woods, and, in short,\\nto perform all the most difficult and dangerous services. Many\\nof them were rangers under those fearless leaders, Robert\\nRogers, John Stark and William Stark. Others were in\\nmore regular service under the command of Col. Joseph Blan-\\nchard, of Dunstable, and Col. Nathaniel Meserve, of Portsmouth.\\nSoldiers from Rumford were in the first expedition to Crown\\nPoint in 1755 at Fort Edward, and in the terrible scene at Fort\\nWilHam Henry, in 1757. Some of them were also with General\\nAmherst, under the command of Colonel Zaccheus Lovewell, at\\nthe reduction of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, in 1759, and\\nshared in the glory of the victory at Quebec, when the brave\\nGeneral Wolfe was slain.*\\nGreat pains have been taken to ascertain the names of all the\\nsoldiers from Rumford, engaged in the French and Indian wars,\\nfrom 1754 till the peace in 1762. From the different muster\\nrolls, found in the office of the Secretary of State, and from\\nother sources, we have been able to collect the following.\\n1754.\\nIn September, 1754, Capt. John Chandler had command of a\\ncompany of nine men, in His Majesty s service, for eight days\\nonly, viz. from the 8th to the 17th of September. Probably\\nthey were engaged in a scouting service in the neighboring\\ntowns. The men were\\nJohn Chandler, Captain, (charge,) \u00c2\u00a31 2 10\\nObadiah Maxfield, sentinel, 15 8\\nPhineas Virgin, do., 15 8\\nMoses Eastman, do., 15 8\\n*]n regard to tho geographical position of the several places above mentioned, it may\\nbe noted, that (1.) Crown Point was at the southern extremity of Lake Champlain (2.) Ti-\\nconderoga, near tlie junction of Lake George witli Lake Champlain, and about ten miles\\nsouth of Crown Point; (3.) Fort William Henry was at the southern end of Lake George\\n(4.) Fort Edward was about fifteen miles southeast of Fort William Henry, near the head\\nwaters of the Hudson river. (5.) St. Francis Village, where a terrible fight took place, 1759,\\nbetween the Rangers, under Rogers, and the Indians, was on the river St. Francis, near the\\nThousand Isles in the river St. Lawrence, and some thirty or forty miles from the head\\nwaters of the Connecticut river.\\nIn 1759, tho troops from New-Hampshire cut almost a straight road from Charlestown No.\\nFour to Ticonderoga.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "190 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nEdward Abbot, jun., sentinel, 15 8\\nJacob Potter, do., 15 8\\nDavid Kimball, do., 15 8\\nJohn Iloyt, do., 15 8\\nJonathan Fifield, do., 15 8\\nThomas Merrill, do., 15 8\\n8 3 10\\nFor subsisting the above men, at Is. of?, per day, \u00c2\u00a35\\nFor furnishing ammunition, 7 6\\n13 11 4\\nWhich account was allowed and paid bj the General Court of\\nNew-Hampshire, February 24, 1756.*\\n1755.\\nIn 1755 Capt. Joseph Eastman, third son of Capt. Ebenezer\\nEastman, had command of a company of sixty-five men in Col.\\nJoseph Blanchard s regiment, which was raised for the expedi-\\ntion against Crown Point. f This company was ordered to pro-\\nceed to the Coos country, toward the head waters of the Con-\\nnecticut, and to build a fort there and thence to proceed to\\nCrown Point, supposing that to be the most direct route. They\\nfirst marched to Baker s Town, (now Franklin,) where they\\nbegan to build batteaux, with which to navigate the waters,\\nand cross rivers betwixt that place and Crown Point. Thus,\\nmuch time was consumed and provisions spent to no purpose.\\nThey afterward performed a fatiguing march through the wilder-\\nness, over the height of land, to Number Four, Charlestown,\\nand reached Albany. Gen. Johnson, Avho had command at Lake\\nGeorge, ordered the New-Hampshire Regiment to Fort Edward,\\nwhere they remained for some time, but subsequently were em-\\nployed mostly as rangers.\\nThe men in this company from Concord, were Joseph East-\\nman, captain Nathaniel Abbot, lieutenant David Copps, ser-\\ngeant Moses Eastman, sergeant Nath l Morse, clerk David\\nMuster roll, found among old papers.\\nt Muster roll in Secretary s office. See Document No. 1 for Chap. VI., in Documentary\\nand Statistical Chapter.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS. 101\\nEvans, corporal Obadiah Maxfield, sentinel Nath l Rix, Jona-\\nthan Chase, Ebenezer Copps, Asa Kimball, Ebenezer Virgin,\\nEbenezer Simonds, James Farnum, Judah Trumble, Isaac Walker,*\\nJohn Webster, Reuben Simonds, Joseph Eastman, sentinels.\\nThe company under Capt. Eastman were mostly in service\\nfrom April to October. The journal kept by Nath l Morse, the\\ncompany s clerk, will be read with interest.f\\n1756.\\nIn Captain JoTin Goffe s company, of Col. Nathaniel Me-\\nSERVe s regiment, raised for the Crown Point expedition, were,\\nfrom Rumford\\nEntered. Time of service.\\nMos. Days.\\nThomas Merrill, 2d lieutenant, April 16, 88\\nJoseph Eastman,\u00c2\u00a7 sergeant, May 12, 7 10\\nJohn Straw, sentinel, May 1, 6 11\\nJonathan Fifield, May 1, 66\\nJames Blanchard, May 12, 7 10\\nPaul Fowler, May 1, 7 22\\nIsaac Walker, 2d, May 1, 7 10\\nZebediah Farnum, May 1, 7 17\\nIn Capt. John Shepard s company, of Col. Meserve s regi-\\nment, 1756, Ezekiel Steel is enrolled as of Rumford.\\nJoshua Abbot, son of Lieut. Nathaniel Abbot, John Shute,\\nDaniel Abbot, Benjamin Hannaford, Amos Eastman, Nathaniel\\nEastman, Joseph Eastman, Benjamin Bradley, Stephen Hoit,\\nDavid Evans, Stilson Eastman and Philip Kimball, and no doubt\\nothers, for some time, were engaged in the French and Indian\\nwars, either in the regular service or as rangers. But, as Bel-\\nknap truly remarks, The history of a war on the frontiers can\\nbe little else than a recital of the exploits, the sufferings, the\\nescapes and deliverances of individuals, of single families or\\nsmall parties, so I shall proceed to give details of individual\\ndaring, hardihood and sufferings, which have been gathered from\\npublic documents or from family traditions.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Son of William, a minor, f Doc. No. 1, for Chap. VI. J See muster roll, Secretary s office.\\nPerhaps of Boscawen.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "192 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nAMOS EASTMAN.\\nOn the 28th of April, 1752, Amos Eastman,* of Rumford, son\\nof Jonathan Eastman, (whose garrison was on the mill road,) in\\ncompany with John and William Stark, of Derryfield, (now Man-\\nchester,) and David Stinson, of Londonderry, was on a hunting\\nexpedition near Baker s river, in Rumney. The company had\\nbeen very successful, estimating their furs, c., at \u00c2\u00a3560 old\\ntenor. Here they fell in with a party of ten Indians, of the St.\\nFrancis tribe. It being a time of peace, danger was not at first\\napprehended. But towards evening the Indians made prisoner\\nof John Stark, who had separated from the rest, to collect the\\ntraps. Suspecting mischief, the party was proceeding down\\nthe river William Stark and Stinson in a canoe, and Eastman\\non the bank when the Indians came upon them, took Eastman\\nprisoner, shot into the canoe and killed Stinson, who was after-\\nward stripped and scalped William Stark escaped through the\\nintrepidity of John, who struck up the Indians guns when they\\nwere leveled at his brother. Eastman and John Stark were car-\\nried captives to St. Francis, which they reached on the 9th of\\nJune.f Here they were compelled to undergo the ceremony of\\nrunning the gauntlet. The young Indians of the settlement\\nranged themselves in to two lines, each armed with a rod, to strike\\nthe captives as they passed along. Eastman was severely whip-\\ned but Stark snatched a club, and made his way through the\\nlines, knocking the Indians down, right and left, whenever they\\ncame within his reach, and escaped with scarcely a blow. East-\\nman was sold to a French master, and was kindly treated as\\nwas also Stark, who became a favorite among the Indians. Both\\nwere redeemed, after about six weeks, by a Mr. Wheelwright,\\nfrom Boston, and Capt. Stevens, from Charlestown, who were\\nsent from Massachusetts for the purpose of obtaining the release\\nof prisoners. Stark paid for his redemption one hundred and\\nthree dollars, and Eastman sixty. They returned home by way\\nof Albany 4\\nWhen the news of the capture of Eastman and Stark reached\\nAmos Eastman married Mchctobh. daughter of Abraham Bradley, Jan. 9, 1743.\\nt See Document No. 2, for Chap. VI.\\nX See life of Gen. Stark, pp. 172 4.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS. 193\\nRumforcl, a party was raised,* who proceeded to Baker s river,\\nfound and buried the body of Stinson in the woods, and brought\\nhome one of the paddles of the canoe, which was pierced with\\nseveral shot holes. It Avas preserved a long time by the Virgin\\nfamily.\\nBenjamin Bradley, son of Timothy, son of Abraham Brad-\\nley, was one of Rogers rangers. He was with Rogers in the\\nterrible fight at St. Francis, October 3, 1759. The particulars\\nof this bloody scene are substantially these The Indian village\\nof St. Francis, which lay some thirty miles above the source of\\nthe Connecticut, was the head-quarters of the savages who com-\\nmitted the worst depredations on the border towns of New-Eng-\\nland. Upon the reduction of Ticonderoga and Crown Point,\\nMajor Robert Rogers was despatched from the latter place, by\\nGen. Amherst, with about two hundred rangers, to destroy the\\nvillage of St. Francis. After a fatiguing march of twenty-one\\ndays, over mountains and through swamps, they reached the\\nplace in the evening, and found the Indians engaged in a wed-\\nding froHck. Arranging his forces, he waited till near morn-\\ning, when the Indian revelry had ceased, and all were asleep\\nthen the fatal attack was made. Some were killed in their\\nhouses others were shot or tomahawked, as they attempted to\\nflee. In the morning the rangers discovered about six hundred\\nscalps hanging upon poles over the doors of the wigwams, that\\nthe Indians had taken, and also found great quantities of plunder\\nfrom the English settlements. These were taken about two\\nhundred Indians were killed, and the whole village laid in ashes.\\nAmong the articles brought away were two hundred guineas, a\\nsilver image, weighing ten pounds, and a large quantity of wam-\\npum and clothing. The rangers also rescued five English pris-\\noners, and took twenty Indians captive. In this fight it is related\\nthat Lieut. Jacob Farrington.) of Andover, Massachusetts, and\\nBenjamin Bradley, of Rumford two of the stoutest men of\\ntheir time headed one of Rogers parties. Coming to the\\ndoor of the house, where the dance had taken place, they pushed\\nagainst it so violently that the hinges broke, and Bradley fell in\\nJacob Hoyt, Esq., says that in this party were Pliineas Virgin, Joseph Eastman, (called\\ndeacon^) and Moses Eastman.\\n13", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "194 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nhead-foremost among the sleeping Indians. Before they could\\nmake resistance, all the Indians in the room were killed. In\\nreturning, wearied, exhausted, cold and almost destitute of pro-\\nvisions from this expedition, the rangers struck Connecticut river,\\nin the month of November, at the upper Coos, which they mis-\\ntook for the lower Coos. Here they parted. Bradley took a\\npoint of compass which, from the lower Coos, would have brought\\nhim to the Merrimack but at the upper Coos, would bring him\\nout near the White Hills. He remarked on starting that if he\\nwas in his full strength, he would be at his father s house in\\nthree days. He started, tradition says, with a party of four or\\nfive men, but they never reached home. It is supposed they all\\nperished with hunger and cold amid the snows of the wilderness.\\nIn the following spring a party of hunters found the bones of a\\nman in Jefferson, near the White Hills. Near by were three half\\nburnt brands piled together, and a quantity of silver broaches\\nand wampum lay scattered about. The hair was long, and tied\\nwith a ribbon such as Bradley wore. No arms were with him,\\nnor any signs of his companions.* Bradley was only twenty-one\\nyears of age.\\n]Mr. Jacob Hoit relates that his uncle, Ste])hen Hoi% was with\\nBradley when they started from upper Coos, and that the follow-\\ning spring some clothes and other things were found on an island\\nin the Winnepissiogee lake. Among them was a snuff-box, marked\\nStephen Hoit, found by Capt. Archelaus Miles, of Canterbury.\\nDavid Evans, of Rumford, was one of the rangers who was\\nin the fight at St. Francis. He was a sergeant, and led a party\\nfrom upper Coos down the Connecticut to Number Four. He\\nstated that the rangers at times suffered every hardship which\\nmen could endure that one night, while the men of his party\\nwere asleep in the camp, his own cravings for food were so in-\\nsupportable, that he awoke from a sleep, and seeing a large\\nknapsack belonging to one of his comrades, opened it, in hopes\\nof finding something to satisfy his hunger that he found in it\\nthree human heads that he cut a piece from one of them, broiled\\nand ate it, while the men continued to sleep but said that he\\nSee Rem. of French War and Stark s Life, app.j p. 160, 161.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS. 195\\nwould sooner die of hunger than do the like again. He observed\\nthat when their distresses were greatest, they hardly deserved\\nthe name of human beings.\\nNathaniel Eastman, fourth son of Capt. Ebenezer, was in\\nthe battle fought at Lake George, in September, 1755, between\\nGen. Johnson s forces on the one side, and the French Baron\\nDieskau s troops and Indians on the other. Mr. Eastman was\\nin Col. Williams regiment of twelve hundred men, who, nearly\\nsurrounded by the French, fought with the utmost desperation.\\nEastman was wounded in the knee. He, however, continued to\\nfire at the enemy, till he was left almost alone by the retreat of\\nthe advanced guards. He then limped through the woods, and\\njoined his company. Gen. Dieskau was wounded and taken\\nprisoner. He praised the valor of Johnson s troops, saying,\\nthat in the morning they fought like brave hoys at noon, like\\nmen but in the afternoon like devih f\\nStilson Eastman, a grandson of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman,\\nwas a ranger under Lieut. John Stark, and was in the bloody\\nfight near Ticonderoga, in January, 1757 when Major Rogers\\nwas twice wounded, and the command devolved on Lieut. Stark.\\nEastman said that on receiving his second wound. Major Rogers\\nadvised a retreat but Stark, taking the command, declared he\\nwould shoot the first man that fled, and that he would fight the\\nenemy till dark and then, if necessary, retreat. While Stark\\nwas speaking, a ball broke the lock of his gun at the same time,\\nobserving a Frenchman fall, he sprang forward, seized his gun,\\nreturned to his place, and continued the fight.\\nAt Crown Point Gen. Amherst had command of the army.\\nThe General was so fond of milk that he kept a cow in camp,\\nwhich had liberty to run at large, to find the best feeding ground.\\nIt so happened after a while that the cow was missing, and could\\nnot be found soldiers were sent in various directions, but could\\nnot find her. At length Eastman was sent with others, and he\\nfound her, to the great joy of the General, who, as a reward,\\nordered Eastman s canteen to be filled. Eastman at this was as\\nwell pleased as the General, for no one loved the good crater\\nRem. of French War and Stark s Life, app., p. 162.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f Reminiscences of French War, app., p. 143.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "196 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nbetter than he. The cow had strayed away into a piece of\\nmeadow, where she found good feed. Well, for the sake of get-\\nting the good crater, he occasionally drove the cow to the same\\nby-place, where no one could find her but himself, and whenever\\nhe brought in the cow he got his pay in the canteen.*\\nJohn Siiute and Joseph Eastman, both from Rumford, be-\\nlonged to Eogers rangers. They were mess-mates through the\\nFrench war, equally distinguished for their enterprise, hardihood\\nand trustworthiness. John was the son of Jacob Shute, and\\nEastman, born May 20, 1720, was probably a nephew of Capt.\\nEbenezer, and son of Joseph, of Salisbury. In 1760, General\\nAmherst, at Crown Point, wished to send despatches to General\\nMurray, at Quebec the distance through the wilderness being\\nestimated at five hundred miles. Major Rogers was directed to\\nselect men to bear the despatches and on account of the difficult\\nand dangerous nature of the service, a reward of fifty pounds\\nwas offered to any four who would volunteer to perform it.\\nSergeant Beverly, who had been a prisoner of war, and escaped\\nfrom Canada the preceding year, with John Shute, Joseph East-\\nman and Luxford Croodwin, volunteered for the hazardous en-\\nterprise.\\nHaving received particular instructions and orders from Major\\nRogers, as to the route, they took the despatches, and also nu-\\nmerous letters from officers at Crown Point to their friends in\\nQuebec, and first proceeded under a convoy to Missisqui Bay.\\nThence they were to travel on foot to Quebec, taking the route\\nby St. Francis, which the rangers under Rogers had travelled\\nthe year before. In relating the incidents of this journey, as\\nMr. Shute often did, in after life,t he says\\nWith these instructions, they left the Bay, and procGeding many\\ndays through wet, marshy grounds, where they could scarcely find a\\ndry spot to encamp upon at night, they reached the St. Francis one\\nSunday morning, striking the river just above a rapid. They now\\nconsulted whether it was better for them to disobey orders, and cross\\nimmediately, or to wait until night. They came to a conclusion that\\nTradition by Jonathan Eastman, Esq. For further notice of Stilson Eastman, see Bio-\\ngraphical Chapter.\\nI This account was taken down form Mr. Shute s lips, by Samuel A. Kimball, Esq., about\\nthe year 1820.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS. 197\\nthey were far enough from the army to be their own masters, and\\ndetermined to cross the river as soon as possible. For this purpose,\\nthey collected a quantity of driftwood and constructed two rafts, at\\nsome distance above the falls, in order that two of the party might\\nfirst cross, and if they found no cause of alarm, notify the others to\\nfollow with the letters. By casting lots, it fell upon Shute and\\nEastman to cross first, who immediately pushed ofi but as they had\\nno better instruments than poles with which to work the raft, the\\ncurrent proving stronger than they expected, carried them some\\ndistance down stream, and they saved themselves by leaping upon a\\nrock, just at the head of the falls, against the point of which their\\nraft struck. They saved their guns and knapsacks, with all their\\nprovisions and ammunition.\\nAfter reconnoitering, and finding no traces of the enemy, they\\ncalled to the others to come over, warning them to attempt the passage\\nhigher up the stream but, not sufiiciently regarding this caution,\\ntheir raft was suffered to enter the current, where it soon became\\nunmanageable. Finding that they must go over the falls, they threw\\ndown their poles and cried for mercy. Shute and Eastman told them\\nto throw oft their clothes and sit down, which they did and the raft\\nwent down the rapids. From a tree which overlooked the stream,\\nShute and his companion watched their descent, as they alternately\\nappeared and disappeared, passing through a rapid of nearly an eighth\\nof a mile in extent. They then ran down to the foot of the fall,\\nwhen they found Beverly climbing up the bank, and Goodwin\\nclinging to a press of driftwood, whom they extricated from his per-\\nilous situation. By this disaster, two of the party had lost their\\narms, clothing, and provisions, together with all the letters. Shute\\nand Eastman here divided their clothing and provisions with the\\nother two, and the whole party again consulted as to the expediency\\nof going forward, or returning. They considered that if they should\\nfall into the enemy s hands without their papers, they would be in\\ndanger of being hanged as spies and if they went back Rogers\\nwould call them cowards, and traitors, who had made up a false and\\nimprobable account, to excuse their own imbecility. They con-\\ncluded rather to take their chance of the cruelty of the enemy, than\\nmeet the reproaches of Rogers, and proceeded on their journey.\\nFrom this place they proceeded through a wet, swampy country, with\\nscarcely any provisions for several days, until one Sunday morning,\\nwhen they heard the sound of a bell. They followed the sound, and\\ncame in sight of people going to a Catholic Chapel. Concealing\\nthemselves until the services had commenced, and all was quiet, they\\nentered a house whose occupants were at church, helped themselves\\nto provisions and clothing, and retired.\\nFrom this they followed a foot path into the woods, which, at a\\nquarter of a mile s distance, brought them to a log house, against the\\ngable end of which a ladder rested, leading to a door fastened with a\\npadlock, which, breaking open with their hatchets, they discovered\\na large chest, filled with female clothing of the richest quality.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "198 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nHelping themselves to a share of the plunder they pursued their\\nmarch in the woods, avoiding all roads, until nearly night, when they\\nventured again to approach the settlements. After the village people\\nhad retired to rest, they entered a barn in quest of a hog for provi-\\nsion. As they opened the door, a calf ran out, which they killed\\nand divided into four parts. Tlien proceeding to the garden of a\\ngentleman s house, they rifled it of what vegetables they had occa-\\nsion for, and after doing all the mischief they could in the garden, it\\nbeing part of the rangers creed to do their enemies all the damage\\nin their power, retreated. Eetiring with their booty about four miles\\ninto the woods, they kindled a fire, refreshed themselves with part of\\ntheir provision, dried the remainder in the smoke, and made mocca-\\nsins of the skin.\\nPursuing their march three or four days, they ascended a high bill,\\nthe top of which exhibited memorials of an Indian encampment the\\nwinter before.\\nFrom this eminence they saw, for the first time, the river St. Law-\\nrence, and a large encampment of regular troops upon the bank.\\nThis was about twenty miles above Quebec. The party were here\\nin doubt whether the troops were French or English but sergeant\\nBeverly determined, against the consent of the others, that he would\\nascertain whether they were friends or foes and, if foes, would make\\na signal, that they might take care of themselves. His companions\\nwatched his progress, saw him stopped by the sentinel, and after a\\nmoment s pause, enter the camp, where several of cers shook hands\\nwith him upon this, they all followed and were received with open\\narms by the English. After stating their business to the com-\\nmander, he put them on board a boat, to proceed to head quarters at\\nQuebec, where they arrived at midnight, and were conducted to Gen-\\neral Murray s kitchen. There they slept upon the floor until morn-\\ning, when they were severally conducted into a large hall, lined with\\nmirrors, in which were about one hundred officers. There, says Mr.\\nShute, each man received a glass of liquor, such as I have never\\ntasted before nor since, nor have I ever drank any thing so good^ in\\nmy life. After this they were directed to tell their several stories,\\nwhich, as they had previously agreed upon a statement of facts, coin-\\ncided very well, although they were separately examined. The Gen-\\neral and the soldiers made them welcome, and invited them to\\nremain as long as they pleased. After resting a few days they\\napplied to the General for leave to return, who told them to wait a\\nfew days longer, and they should move with the army toward Mont-\\nreal, and that he would give them four guineas each, extra pay.\\nThey did so, and joined their own corps at Montreal, in September.\\nRogers arriving soon after there, they witnessed the surrender of\\nCanada, September 8, 1760.\\nGeneral Murray is represented by Mr. Shute as a small, active\\nold gentleman, prompt and decisive in all his movements, and a great\\nShute made himself a frock of one of the gowns, and brought home another, of the finest\\nsilk.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "FRENCH AND Il!lDL\\\\N WARS. 199\\nfavorite with the soldiers. While he commanded the garrison at\\nQuebec, after the surrender of that city to the English, some time\\nbefore his advance to IMontr ^al, Monsieur Levi made an attempt to\\nrecapture Quebec. Gen. Murray advanced to meet him at Sillery,\\nwith three thousand men a severe action took place, and the Eng-\\nlish were driven back to the city, which they defended against the\\nsubsequent siege of the French Crencral who, after several attacks\\nand ineffectual cannonade, drew oif his troops, and retired toward\\nMontreal.\\nAfter the war, Mr. Shute was accustomed to go on hunting\\nexcursions to the northern parts of New-Hampshire and Maine,\\naccompanied only by his dog. One day,* when the snow was\\non the ground, he discovered that a catamount was on his\\ntrack and knowing, from the habits of the animal, that he\\nwould be likely to have an encounter, he went immediately to\\nhis camp and built a large fire, so that the catamount could not\\nreach him without passing through the fire. Shute and his dog\\nthen lay down in the camp. The catamount soon made his ap-\\npearance before the camp, and walked forward and back several\\ntimes, growling frightfully. At length he stood up on his hind\\nlegs, and screamed terribly (as Mr. Shute expressed it, yelled\\nlike a sarpent jumped through the fire into the camp, seized\\nthe dog, and turned to jump out. At that instant Mr. Shute\\ndischarged his gun into the bowels of the beast, which fell dead\\nupon the fire. The dog was so injured by the teeth of the cata-\\nmount and the fire, that he could do but little service afterward.\\nAt one time Mr. Shute brought home furs from a hunting excur-\\nsion, sufficient, with the additional value of a heifer, to build him\\na barn. One of the double-spring steel traps which he used in\\nhunting beaver is now in the possession of his nephew, Moses\\nShute, Esq. A sword which he owned was also preserved for\\nmany years by the same gentleman, but was taken from his\\nhouse by some person unknown, and all trace of it lost.f\\nbill PHILLIPS.\\nOne of Rogers rangers, who spent several years of his life in\\nConcord, was William Phillips, called lieutenant, and familiarly\\nknown as Bill Phillips. He was part Indian his father\\nTradition, as related by Rev. Ephraim Abbot, who heard the story from Mr. Shute himself.\\nt See further account in obituary notice of John Shute, 1829.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "200 HISTORY OF mjaiFORD.\\nbeing of French or Dutch extraction. He came from the region\\nof Albany, and enlisted in Rogers company in 1755 soon after\\nbecame a sergeant, and after the battle on Lake Champlain,\\nJanuary 21, 1757, he received a lieutenant s commission, which\\nwas signed by the Earl of Loudon.* In the bloody fight at\\nLake George, March 13, 1758, when Phillips and his company\\nof about twenty men were nearly surrounded by about three hun-\\ndred Lidians, he said to Rogers, if the enemy would give good\\nquarters, he thought it best to surrender otherwise he would\\nfight while he had one man left to fire a gun He and his\\nparty were all taken, and then fastened to trees by the Indians,\\nfor the purpose of being shot or hewn to pieces. Phillips got\\none hand loose, took a knife from his pocket, which he opened\\nwith his teeth, cut the strings that bound him, and escaped.f He\\nwas in the fight at St. Francis, in 1759. On retreating from\\nthat place, he had command of a small party, which, one tradi-\\ntion says, separated from Lieut. Benjamin Bradley, at the\\nUpper Coos Phillips following the Connecticut river down as\\nfar as Haverhill, or Lower Coos thence he and his party\\nstruck across till they reached the Merrimack river, which they\\nfollowed, and arrived safely at Rumford. But, on the other\\nhand, the late Mr. Isaac Shute says My father, John Shute,\\nalways said that Lieut. Phillips led a party from St. Francis to\\nCrown Point, and that he afterwards came to Concord. This\\nagrees with what Rogers says in a note to his journal, (p. 94,)\\nafter the fight at St. Francis Upon our separation on the\\nshores of Memphremagog lake, some of the parties were ordered\\nto make Crown Point, that being the best route for hunting.\\nOne party, conducted by Phillips, an Indian, reached\\nhome without the loss of a man returning by the route which\\nI went to St. Francis. On the way, however, the party sub-\\nsisted on bark and buds of trees chewed the straps of their\\nknapsacks, powder-horns and pouches, and some fed upon lumps\\nof tallow. They were reduced to such extremity that they\\ndetermined to kill and eat a captive boy they had brought from\\nThis commission, says Hon. C. E. Potter, I have seen a hundred times yes, per-\\nhaps a thousand times for it was tlie first I ever saw, and I used to creep slyly to Uncle\\nPhillips drawer, get it and peruse it with an eager curiosity.\\nt Tradition.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS. 201\\nSt. Francis, but fortunately shot a muskrat, which, cooked and\\ndivided among them, appeased for a time the gnawings of hunger.*\\nAfter the French war, Phillips hved for some time in Eum-\\nford formed an acquaintance with Miss Eleanor Eastman,\\ndaughter of Ebenezer Eastman, jr., whom he married on sl forged\\nlicense. Tradition says that the marriage took place in Lieut.\\nJohn Chandler s tavern, which is the identical building now\\noccupied by Mr. Cyrus Farrar, as a silk dye-shop in the East\\nVillage. Instead of the parish minister, the marriage service\\nwas performed by a justice of the peace Samuel Fowler, Esq.,\\nof Boscawen.f Phillips and his wife lived together a while in a\\nsmall house which stood on the corner opposite ]Mr. John M.\\nDearborn s store. They had one son. About the year 1784\\nPhillips wife left him and joined the Shakers at Canterbury,\\nwho had held meetings or dances, as they were called, at\\nPhillips house, in which his wife joined but Phillips said he\\ncouldn t dance, and would not join. He afterward led a\\nroving, unsettled life fishing, hunting and stealing sometimes\\nworking at the blacksmith s trade, of which he knew a little, and\\nat other times working at days labor. He Hved a while with\\nhis wife s brother, Stilson Eastman, but at length became a pau-\\nper, and, according to usage of the times, was bid off, to be\\nsupported at the town charge. He hved several years in the\\nfamily of Eichard Potter, of Anthony Potter, of Joseph Potter,\\nand of Ebenezer Tenney, on the Loudon road. At length it was\\ndiscovered by the selectmen that Phillips had once resided in\\nNorthfield, as a blacksmith, where he had gained a residence\\nand he was put upon that town, where he died about the year\\n1819, supposed to be nearly a hundred years of age. Phillips\\nwife, Eleanor Eastman, died at the Shaker settlement in Canter-\\nbury, November 17, 1816, aged seventy.^\\nTradition, as related by C. E. Potter.\\nt Tills Esq. Fowler was a Quaker. In 1750 lie entered his protest against paying the min-\\nister of Boscawen, not from personal dislike, but for conscience sake.\\nEsteemed Friend: t Shaker Village, N. H., October 10, 1853.\\nEleanor Eastman died of consumption, November 17, 1816, aged seventy years. She lived\\nin Concord, near the fort, and was once married to a man by the name of Phillips. She\\nresumed her maiden name after she united with the society of Shakers.\\nMiriam Eastman, sister of Eleanor, died of dropsy, June 1, 1813, aged fifty-seven years.\\nShe was never married. With perfect respect.\\nRev. N. BouTON, Concord, N. H. David Parker.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "202 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nDaniel Abbot, son of Dea. George, enlisted in March, 1759,\\nthen not quite twentj-one years of age. He was breaking flax\\nin his father s barn, in the forenoon, when a recruiting officer\\ncame along, and he enlisted, unknown to his parents, and went\\naway to the rendezvous at one of the garrisons at the north end\\nof JNIain street. Being soon missed, his friends feared he had\\nbeen taken off by the Indians but, as he returned at night,\\ntheir fears were allayed. Soon after, he marched with his corps\\nto join the army at Quebec. Arriving at or near the Canada\\nline, they judged from the appearance of the country that a\\nlarge body of Indians was in the vicinity. The company to\\nwhich he belonged was sent out on a scout, and stopped for the\\nnight but the commander ordered every man to stand upon his\\nfeet with his gun in his hands, ready for action in case of neces-\\nsity. About noon, next day, Mr. Abbot used to relate, on\\nour way back to the army, the captain, not perceiving any\\ndanger, gave orders to have us form into two ranks and He\\ndown to rest about an hour. We soon fell into a sound sleep\\nand, while quietly reposing, the captain hallooed, and waking up,\\nwe saw two Indians and two Frenchmen standing in about the\\nmiddle of the two ranks, with their tomahawks and knives ready\\nto commence the work of death but we sprung upon our feet\\nand made prisoners of them. They were surly and stubborn,\\nand the captain gave orders to shoot them through if either of\\nthem stepped out of the ranks.\\nOne day Daniel s turn came to go on a scout with another\\nman. The night before he dreamed that he saw the Indians\\nroasting meat and dancing and whooping around him. In the\\nmorning he told the man who was to accompany him that, ac-\\ncording to his dream and the dream-booh, he should be taken by\\nthe Indians that day. Well, said the man, if you are taken\\n/shall not be taken. When ready to start the man drank health\\nto Daniel. About noon, as pigeons were flying very plenty, the\\nman said Come, let us sit down and rest, and shoot a few\\npigeons for our dinner. In about five minutes afterward, the\\nIndians fired and hallooed. Daniel ran for an old ivind-faU,\\nwhere he thought he might hide and then run back to the army\\nbut, as he jumped over it, four Indians seized him and led him", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS. 203\\nback to his comrade, who was shot in the thigh. The poor fellow\\ncried and begged for his life, but the Indians killed, scalped,\\nstripped him, and left the body naked on the ground. Daniel\\nwas taken to the Indian village, where he met several of his\\nacquaintances, prisoners, who said Daniel, we are glad to\\nsee you, but not to see you here. The old Indian chief, who\\nhad lost a son, adopted Daniel and treated him well. Sometimes\\nhe would be sent out to work but he pretended not to know\\nhow to work saying he was a minister s son and never\\nlearned how to work. At one time they told him to cut\\ndown a large tree that shaded the corn. He hacked it down\\nafter a long while, but it fell into the corn-field. When hoeing\\ncorn he hoed up corn and weeds together.\\nWhile a prisoner he was a witness to the savage barbarity of\\nthe Indians. Several Enghsh prisoners were killed by torture.\\nThe Indians dug holes in the earth about three feet deep, put\\ntheir victims in, pressing them down, and then filled up the holes\\nwith dirt till they were suifocated. Some they stuck full of\\nsplinters of pitch-wood and set them on fire. Others had logs\\npiled up near them and set on fire, and were roasted to death.\\nSome vfere jointed, as they called it that is, they begun at one\\nof the little toes, and cut off one joint a day until all the toes\\nwere cut off something being put on to stop the blood. Next,\\nthe fingers were cut off in like manner then the wrists, c.,\\ntill the poor victim died. An old Indian warrior that was taken\\nfrom the Enghsh was put to death by being roasted alive on a\\nlarge rock, which was heated for the purpose.\\nYoung Abbot remained in captivity about a year was then\\nsold, with six or eight others, to the French, and exchanged for\\nFrench prisoners that had been taken by the English. On their\\nway to the English army they killed a heifer and cut off pieces\\nof meat, but were afraid to stop to cook it until night. Kindling\\nfire at night they placed their meat around it to roast, but they\\nwere so overcome by fatigue that they fell asleep, and on awak-\\ning found the meat all burnt up. When they reached the Eng-\\nlish army the doctor told them it was a good hit to them that\\ntheir meat did burn up for, having been without meat or salt so\\nlong, you would eat enough to have killed the whole of you.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "204 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nDaniel soon afterward returned to his friends in Concord. He\\nsettled on a farm on the west side of Long Pond, where his\\nyoungest son, Nathan K. Abbot, now lives.*\\nA Mr. Nutter, a soldier in the French war, in returning, came\\nverj near starving to death. When he came to Contoocook river,\\nat the Mast Yard, he was so weak that he was unable to walk.\\nHe got a few old sticks of what is called drift-wood, and suc-\\nceeding in getting upon them, he floated down the river. When\\nhe got below Broad Cove, he crawled from his raft to shore, and\\nthen crept perhaps one fourth of a mile, and became exhausted,\\nand laid down bj the side of a small bank, and expected to die\\nthere but some person came along and discovered him, and had\\nhim carried to Mr. Enoch Webster s, where he soon after died.\\nThe Nutter brook, so called, is upon the farm formerly owned and\\noccupied by Lieut. Ezra Abbot. Mr. Enoch Webster lived near\\nwhere Capt. Samuel Knowlton s blacksmith shop now stands.\\nMr. Webster s house was afterward destroyed by fire.\\nENOCH BISHOP.\\nExtract of a letter from an officer in Charlcstoion, otherwise called\\nNumher Four, in the Province of New-Hamjnhire, dated Octo-\\nher 4, 1756\\nThis day arrived here one Enoch Byshop, an English cap-\\ntive from Canada, who was taken from Contoocook about two\\nyears since. He left Canada twenty-six days ago, in company\\nwith two other English captives, viz. WiUiam Hair, late of\\nBrookfield, entered into General Shirley s regiment, and taken\\nat Oswego the other, (name unknown,) taken from Pennsylva-\\nnia. They came away from Canada without gun, hatchet, or\\nfire-works, and with no more than three loaves of bread and four\\npounds of pork. As they suffered much for want of provisions,\\nhis companions were not able to travel any further than a little\\non this side Cowass, where he was obliged to leave them last\\nLord s day, without any sustenance but a few berries. Six men\\nwere this evening sent out to look for them, but it is to be feared\\nthey perished in the wilderness.\\nFamily tradition, collected by George Abbot, Esq. See further notice of Daniel Abbot in\\nMiscellaneous Chapter ancient houses, customs, c.\\nt Copied from tlie New-York Mercury of October 25, 1756, in the library of the N. Y. Hist.\\nSociety, by John L. Sibly.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nCONTROVERSY WITH BOAV.\\nIn giving the history of the controversy between the pro-\\nprietors of Rumford and of Bow, in regard to the title to their\\nlands, I shall aim to make an impartial statement of facts, with\\nreference to such official documents as are on hand. Long, ex-\\npensive and vexatious as was the litigation at the time, yet, since\\nthe settlement of it by the proper judicial authority, there is no\\nfurther occasion for acrimony on either side. The present inhab-\\nitants of both towns for the most part ignorant of the nature\\nof the contest are living in good neighborhood, which we trust\\nwill never more be interrupted.\\nThe reader will bear in mind that Penacook was granted by\\nMassachusetts^ January 17, 1725, on the ground of her claim\\nto the lands lying three miles north of the Merrimack river,\\nfrom its mouth to the sources thereof. This claim was disputed\\nby New-Hampshire and when the surveyors from Haverhill, in\\nMay, 1726, came to lay off the lands in Penacook, they were\\nmet and warned to desist by a committee from the government\\nof New-Hampshire. May 20, 1727, a grant of a township was\\nmade by New-Hampshire to one hundred and seven proprietors\\nand their associates, bounded as follows Beginning on the\\nsouth-east side of the town of Chichester, and running nine miles\\nby Chichester and Canterbury, and carrying that breadth of nine\\nmiles from each of the aforesaid towns, south-west, until the full\\ncomplement of eighty-one square miles are fully made up, and\\nthat the same be a town corporate, by the name of Bow, to the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "206 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\npersons aforesaid and their associates forever. This grant, as\\nwill be seen by the annexed Plan,! covered about three fourths of\\nthe township of Penacook, and also the greater part of Suncook,\\nor Pembroke, and extended even into Hopkinton4\\nThe Associates composed the government of New-Hampshire,\\nviz. His Excellency and Honorable Samuel Shute, Esq., and\\nJohn AYentworth, Esq., each of them five hundred acres of land\\nand a home lot Col. Mark Hunking, Col. Walton, George Jaf-\\nfrey, Richard Wibird, Col. Shad. Westbrook, Archibald McPhea-\\ndres, John Frost, Jotham Odiorue, Esquires,\u00c2\u00a7 each a proprietor s\\nshare Peter Wear, John Plaisted, James Davis, John Oilman,\\nAndrew Wiggin, Capt. John Downing, Capt. John Gillman,\\nSamuel Tibbcts, Paul Gerrish, Ens. Ephraim Dennet, John San-\\nburn, Theodore Atkinson, Ebenezer Stevens, Richard Jennes,\\nCapt. WiUiam Fellows, James Jeifery, Joseph Loverin, Daniel\\nLoverin, Zah. Hanahford, Joseph Wiggin, Pierce Long.jl To\\nSee Documents for Chap. VII., No. 1.\\nt EXPLANATIOxN OF THE ANNEXED PLAN.\\n1 Ruinford laid out by Massachusetts, seven miles square and one hundred rods on\\nthe south, is represented by thick black lines.\\n2. Suncook laid out also by Massachusetts, south of Rumford, is on both sides of the\\nriver.\\n3. Bow laid out by New-Hampshire, represented by double lines nine miles square,\\nand is apparent on the plan covering, like a wide sheet, nearly the whole territory, both of\\nRumford and Suncook.\\n4. Tlie dotted line on the east represents the three miles north of the Merrimack river\\nclaimed by Massachusetts.\\n5. Canterbury, Chichester, Epsom and Bow, were all granted by New-Hampshire, May 20,\\n1727, as is believed, without previous actual survey.\\ng^-The Plan although not drawn with perfect accuracy is sufficiently clear to show\\nthe grounds of tlie long controversy.\\nX The purambleatinn of the Lines of the To7cn of Bow as Surveyed by me, the subscriber, on or\\nabout the year 1749.\\nI began at the Reputed Bound of the Town of Chichester, at the head of Notingham, and\\nfrom thence run north-west four miles to the head of Epsom then there marked a maple\\ntree with the word Bow and sundry Letters, and from said tree, whicli I called the East Cor-\\nner of said Bow, I run north-west, four miles, to the West Corner of Chichester; y north-\\neast, one mile, to Canterbury South Corner; then north-west, five miles, on said Canterbury\\nyD south-west, nine miles, which runs to north-west of Rattle-snake Hill and most of the\\nPond that lays on the north-west side of said hill and said Line crosses Hopkintown Road, so\\ncalled, and takes part of said Town in then we marked a tree and run south-east, fivo\\nmiles, and marked a tree y one mile south-west then south-east, four miles yo north-\\neast, nine miles, to where we began. Walter Bryawt.\\nP. S. I crossed Merrimack River within two mile of Canterbury Lino, and found all the\\ninhabitance to the south of Canterbury and east of Merrimack which arc in Rumford to be\\nin Bow.\\n5 Members of the Council. Members of the Assembly.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "PLAN OF RUMFORD AND BOW.\\n207", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "208 HISTORY OF EUMFORD.\\nthese, sixteen others were added by order of the lieutenant gov-\\nernor and council making in all, one hundred and forty-four.\\nIn 1733 Penacook was incorporated by Massachusetts into a\\ntownship by the name of Rumford. In 1737 the king deter-\\nmined the boundary line between Massachusetts and New-Hamp-\\nshire, so that Rumford fell under the jurisdiction of the latter.\\nAfter the expiration of the District act, (1748,) a petition was\\npresented by Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., January 24, 1749, to the\\nGovernor and Council of New-Hampshire for the incorporation\\nof Rumford by its original bounds.* To this a counter petition\\nwas presented by the selectmen of Bow, February 7, 1749-50.1\\nIn November, (14,) 1750, a suit was commenced against\\nDea. John Merrill by the proprietors of the common and undi-\\nvided lands lying and being in the town of Bow, in an action of\\nejectment, wherein they demand against the said John Merrill\\neight acres of land, more or less, with the edifices and appurte-\\nnances thereof, lying and being in Bow aforesaid. J This seems\\nto have been the beginning of the litigation the test of the\\nright of the proprietors of Bow to the lands claimed by them^\\nand included in the original grant of Penacook. Many other\\nsuits, it appears, were afterwards instituted but this against\\nMerrill involved the principle on which all the cases were finally\\nsettled.\\nIn defending the title to their lands the proprietors of Rum-\\nford had to contend, not so much with individual inhabitants of\\nBow as with the government of New-Hampshire for most of\\nthe original proprietors of Bow had forfeited their rights by\\nnon-fulfilment of the conditions, and the township had fallen into\\nthe hands of the associates, who, as before observed, consti-\\ntuted the civil authority of the Province. Hence it was that an\\nimpartial trial seemed impossible for the government was itself,\\nfor the most part, the tribunal before which the case was tried\\njudges, jurors, counsellors, and all, were in the New-Hampshire\\ninterest.\\nHappily the proprietors of Rumford wore united in their pur-\\npose to maintain and defend their rights, and to stand by each\\nother at whatever cost and sacrifice through the contest. Hence,\\nDoc. No. 2, A. t Doc. No. 2, B. J Doc. No. 3.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "CONTROVERSY AHTH BOW. 209\\nApril 23, 1750, they Voted^ That the proprietors will be at the\\ncost of defending John Merrill, one of said proprietors, in the\\naction brought against the said John by the proprietors of Bow,\\nfor the recovery of part of said John s homestead j^ ovided,\\nsaid John Merrill shall pursue and defend said action agreeable\\nto the orders of said proprietors. Also, Voted, That the pro-\\nprietors will be at the cost and charge of supporting and defend-\\ning the just right and claim of any of said Proprietors or their\\ngrantees, to any and every part of said township of Rumford,\\nagainst any person or persons that shall bring a writ of trespass\\nand ejectment for the recovery of any of said lands provided\\nthe said proprietors or grantees that shall be trespassed upon, or\\nthat shall be sued, shall pursue and defend their rights or claims\\nagreeable to the orders of said proprietors of Rumford.\\nAt the same time, Capt. John Chandler, Col. Benjamin Rolfe,\\nLieut. Jeremiah Stickney, Mr. Ebenezer Virgin, and Dr. Ezra\\nCarter, or the major part of them, were appointed a committee\\nfor said proprietors, to advise and order Dea. John Merrill how\\nhe shall pursue and defend the action brought against said Mer-\\nrill by the proprietors of Bow also, to advise and order any\\nother person or persons that shall be sued or shall sue in order\\nto support and defend their rights or claims, what method they\\nshall pursue for the purposes aforesaid.\\nIn order to meet the expenses incurred on these suits, in\\nsubsequent years, till the settlement of the controversy, the\\nproprietors, from time to time, ordered the sale of so much of\\ntheir common and undivided lands as would be necessary for\\nthe purpose.!\\nIn 1760 sundry of the proprietors gave their notes, for \u00c2\u00a315\\nProprietors Records.\\nf At a meeting of the proprietors, June 28, 1759 j Capt. John Chandler, Ezra Carter, Esq.,\\nMr. Ebenezer Virgin, and Mr. Joseph Hall, were appointed a committee to layout and\\nsell so much of the common and undivided lands as shall bo sufficient to raise a sum of fif-\\nteen hundred Spanish dollars, over and above the cost and charge of laying out, selling and\\nrecording said lands said sum to be applied for the defence of the said proprietors title to\\ntheir township, against the claims which any person or persons shall or may lay to the same\\nor any part thereof, eitlier in any of His Majesty s courts of justice in this Province, or in\\nforwarding of an appeal to His Majesty in Council, according to such directions as said pro-\\nprietors have or may give.\\nMarch 13, 1758, Mr. Joseph Hall, Mr. Ebenezer Eastman and Mr. Peter Coffin, were ap-\\npointed a committee to dispose of so much Iron Ore belonging to the proprietors as they\\nshall think proper for the benefit of said proprietors.\\n14", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "210 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\neach, as security or indemnltj for expense of agents employed by\\nthem which, however, were afterwards recovered. And in 1766,\\nbefore the final adjustment of the controversy, they agreed and\\nvoted to raise \u00c2\u00a3400 steriing, and a committee was appointed to\\napportion said sum on the proprietors and their grantees.\\nIn the course of the trial various depositions were obtained,\\nshowing the preoccupancy of the lands by inhabitants of Eum-\\nford, even before the grant of Bow was made. Ricliard Hazzen\\ndeposed, December 14, 1752, that he surveyed the house and\\nhome-lots in Penacook in May, 1726 and again another divis-\\nion of lands in May, 1727 and that there were near fifty of\\nthe proprietors at work there, or persons whom they hired, dur-\\ning the time he was laying out said lands. Edward Abbot\\ndeposed,* that on 8th of May, 1727, he, with many others, set\\nout from Andover on their journey to a new township called\\nPenacook, in order to erect a house which had been some time\\nbefore begun, which was designed by the settlers for a meeting-\\nhouse for the public worship of God that about the same time,\\nin said month, a considerable number of settlers about forty\\nwent up to the said place, and that John Merrill, one of the said\\nsettlers, moved his family up to the said plantation in June, 1730,\\nhaving made considerable improvements there the three preced-\\ning years. Mr. Abbot also deposed and said, that he had\\nbeen well acquainted with the circumstances of the plantation of\\nPenacook from its first settlement to this day, and that he never\\nknew any of the proprietors of Bow, as such, their agents or\\ndelegates, settle upon, manure, or occupy any part of the said\\ntownship or plantation. Jacob Sliute deposed, that in the fall\\nof the year 1727 he assisted in moving up the first family that\\nsettled at Penacook that he then found a meeting-house built,\\nconsiderable hay cut and cured, and corn planted, and that in\\nthe month of June, 1730, John Merrill moved his family up to\\nthe said plantation, having made considerable improvements there\\nin the three preceding years. Joseph Abbot deposed, that\\nsome time in the month of April, 1727, he went to Penacook,\\nand assisted in felling and hewing timber for a meeting-house\\nthat there were then eighteen persons assisting in said business\\nOriginal deposition, among papers of the late Rev. Timothy Walker.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 211\\nand that during their stay there they turned their horses to some\\nstacks of hay said to be cut there by some of the admitted set-\\ntlers the year before and that John Merrill, one of the admitted\\nsettlers, was at Penacook in the month of INIay, and worked some\\non said house, and some at clearing of land. The deponent\\nfurther saith, that he is well knowing that from this time the\\nplantation increased so fast, that in the fall of the year 1730\\nthere was a church gathered and a minister ordained. Jere-\\nmiah Kimball made a similar deposition.\\nWhile the trial of this case was going on, a warrant was issued\\nby the government of New-Hampshire, May 30, 1753, for\\nraising an assessment of sixty pounds on all polls and estates\\nratable by law within the township of Bow and another warrant,\\nJuly 26, 1753, for raising thirty-one pounds, four shillings, to be\\ncollected and paid in on or before the 25th of December next\\nensuing.* The persons on whom these taxes were to be assessed,\\nwere, with perhaps three or four exceptions, inhabitants of Rum-\\nford.\\nUp to this time a town-meeting had never been held by the\\ninhabitants of Bow proper and on the 30th of June, 1753, a\\nspecial act was passed, appointing Daniel Pierce, Esq., to warn\\n*The tax was to be paid in bills of credit, according to their several denominations, or\\nin coined silver at six shillings, eight pence per ounce, Troy weight, of sterling alloy, or in\\ncoined gold at four pounds, eighteen shillings per ounce or in the following sorts and species\\nof goods, being of the produce or manufactures of said Province, at the price to each sort and\\nspecie herein respectively atiixed, namely\\nMerchantable hemp, per cwt., \u00c2\u00a32 15\\nWinter and first fare Isle Sable cod-fish, per quintal, 15\\nTurpentine, per barrel, 1 10\\nTanned sole leather, ICO\\nBar iron, per cwt., 200\\nBarley, per bushel, 040\\nIndian corn, per bushel, 040\\nBeef, per lb., 003\\nMerchantable white pine boards, per M., 2 5\\nBeeswax, per lb., 1 6\\nPitch, per barrel, 150\\nBayberry wax, per lb., 013\\nTar, per barrel, 100\\nFlax, per lb., 010\\nRye, per bushel, 050\\nWheat, per bushel, 060\\nPeas, per bushel, 080\\nPork, per lb,, 004\\nJoist, per M., 200\\nWhite oak two inch plank, per M., 8 0", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "212 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nand call a meeting of the inhabitants of Bow the preamble to said\\nact setting forth that the inhabitants had never held a meeting\\nas a town. The meeting -was accordingly notified and held, July\\n25, 1753. But unexpected difficulties were here encountered,\\nproperly set forth in the following petition, October 2G, 1753.\\nPROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.\\nTo His Excellency Benning Went worth, Esq., Cajyfain General,\\nGovernor, c.\\nWc, the subscribers, humbly beg leave to inform your Excellency\\nand Honors, that at a meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of\\nthe town of Bow, in said Province, held the 25th day of July last\\npast, pursuant to a special act of this General Assembly for the call-\\ning said meeting, we were chosen selectmen for said town for this\\ncurrent year and that since that time we have received two several\\nwarrants from this Province treasurer the first dated May 30th,\\n1753, and the other dated the 2Gth day of July, 1753 by the first\\nof which we arc commanded in His Majesty s name to assess the sum\\nof sixty pounds on said inhabitants, and by the other the sum of\\nthirty-one pounds, four shillings and though we are ready, [and\\nthat with cheerfulness,] to obey every order of government, yet that\\nwe are at a loss as to the boundaries of said Bow, and consequently\\ndo not know who the inhabitants are that we are to assess said sums\\nupon. That the proprietors of Bow, in running out the bounds of\\nsaid town, have, as we conceive, altered their bounds several times\\nand further, that oue of those gentlemen that purchased Capt. Tuf-\\nton Mason s right to the lands in said Province, has given it as his\\nopinion that said proprietors have not as yet run out the bounds of\\nsaid town agreeable to their charter, but that their southeast side line\\nshould be carried up about three quarters of a mile further toward\\nthe northwest and there is lately [by his order,] a fence erected\\nalong some miles near about said place, designed, [as we suppose,]\\nas a division fence between said Bow and land yet claimed by said\\npurchasers.\\nAnd that, on the other hand, the inhabitants of Pennycook, for-\\nmerly erected into a district by a special act of the General Assembly\\nof this Province, [though they object nothing against submitting to\\norder of Government,] refuse to give us an invoice of their estates,\\n[that is, such of them as we have asked for the same,] alleging that\\nthey do not lay in Bow, and that this said Assembly did as good as\\ndeclare in said district act.\\nSo that, upon the whole, we humbly conceive, [unless the pleasure\\nof this court is first made known relating to the aforesaid afiairs,]\\nthat should we proceed to assess the aforesaid sums on such as we\\nmay have conceived are the inhabitants of said Bow, that many would\\nt See Act on record in Secretarj s office.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 213\\nrefuse to pay the sums that should be so assessed on them, and con-\\nsequently that we should be thrown into so many law suits, as would,\\nin all probability, ruin us as to our estates. Therefore we humbly\\ncrave that your Excellency and Honors would take the aforesaid\\naffairs under 3^our wise and mature consideration, and fix the bound-\\naries of said Bow, or otherwise give us such directions as you shall\\nthink proper. And so submitting the whole affair to your Excel-\\nlency and Honors to do as you in your great wisdom shall think fit,\\nnot doubting that you will give us such directions as, if followed by\\nus, we may obey tlie commands laid on us by this court without the\\nleast detrimf Tit to ourselves.\\nAnd your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.\\nBow, October ye 26th, 1753.\\nMoses Foster,\\nJohn Coffin,\\nElCHARD EaST^IAN,\\nDavid Abbot,\\nWilliam Moor,\\nSdectmen.\\n[The House granted a hearing on the 31st of January, and on\\npetition deferred it till the Friday after the 20th, 1754.]\\nThe next step, February 12, 1753, on the part of the inhab-\\nitants of Rumford, was to appoint Rev. Timothy Walker and\\nBenjamin Rolfe, Esq., to represent to the King s most Excel-\\nlent Majesty in Council, the manifold grievances they labored\\nunder,* by reason of the law suits commenced against them by\\nthe proprietors of Bow, and by being for several years past\\ndeprived of all corporation privileges: in August following, a\\npetition was preferred to the Massachusetts government, repre-\\nsenting their grievances and asking such relief as in their great\\nwisdom they should see fit to grant. In answer to which latter\\npetition one hundred pounds were granted.\\nDeputed as an agent for the proprietors of Rumford, Rev. Mr.\\nWalker sailed for England in the fall of 1753,1 and presented\\n*Doc. No. 4, A and B.\\nt Whereas tlie Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker, of Rumford, one of our brethren, has informed\\nus that he has some thoughts of going to England, and lias desired a recommendation from\\nus, we do hereby signify and declare that be is not only a gentleman of a liberal education,\\nbut a worthy and regular minister of ye gospel, and a member of this convention and we do\\nhereby freely and heartily recommend him to the charity and good esteem of all our Chris-\\ntian friends and brethren in England.\\nVoted, That the moderator and clerk sign the above within recommendation in the name\\nof the convention. Records of Convention of JVeio-Hampshire Ministers, Hampton- Falls, Octo-\\nber 9, 1753.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "214 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nto the King s most Excellent Majesty in Council, the following\\npetition, drawn up, as appears, by himself, every word of which\\nshould be read.\\nA PETITION OF TIMOTHY WALKER AND OOL. ROLFE TO THEIR\\nMOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN.\\nTo the King s 3Iost Excellent Majesty in Council\\nThe petition of Benjamin Eolfe, Esq., and Timothy Walker, clerk,\\ninhabitants of a town called Rumford, in the Province of New-\\nHampshire, in New-England, for themselves, and in behalf and at\\nthe request of the other inhabitants of said town, most humbly\\nsheweth\\nThat the lands contained in said town of Rumford were granted\\nby the government of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay, in the\\nyear 171^5, and were supposed, according to the construction of the\\nMassachusetts Charter aud the determination of His Majesty King\\nCharles the Second, in 1G77, to lay wholly within the said Province,\\nthough bounded on New-Hampshire, seeing no part of said lands\\nextended more than three miles from the river Merrimack towards\\nNew-Hampshire. Your petitioners and their predecessors very soon\\nengaged in bringing forward the settlement of the above granted\\nlands, though in the midst of the Indian country, and near thirty\\nmiles beyond any English plantation, and have defended themselves\\nmore at their own cost than at the charge of the public, through the\\nlate war with y\u00c2\u00b0 French aud Indians and from a perfect wilderness,\\nwhere not one acre of land had ever been improved, they have made\\na considerable town, consisting of more than eighty houses, and as\\nmany good farms; and your humble petitioner, Timothy Walker,\\nwas regularly ordained the minister of the church and parish in said\\ntown in the year 1730, and has continued there ever since.\\nYour petitioners beg leave further to represent to your Majesty,\\nthat at the time of the aforesaid grant they had no apprehension\\nthat their bounds would ever be controverted by the Province of\\nNew-Hampshire; but it has so happened that by your Majesty s late\\ndetermination of y\u00c2\u00ae boundary line between y two Provinces, the\\nwhole of the aforesaid township falls within the province of New-\\nHampshire. Soon after the aforesaid determination, your petitioners\\nmade their humble application to your Majesty in Council, that they\\nmight be restored to your Province of the Massachusetts Bay, which\\nyour Majesty was pleased to disallow but your humble petitioners\\nhave dutifully submitted to the government of your Majesty s Prov-\\nince of New-Hampshire ever since they have been under it, and with\\nso much the greater cheerfulness because they were well informed\\nyour Majesty had been graciously pleased to declare that however the\\njurisdiction of the two governments might be altered, yet that the\\nprivate property should not be affected thereby.\\nBut notwithstanding this your Majesty s most gracious declaration,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "CORTROVERSY WITH BOW. 215\\nyour poor petitioners have for several years past been grievously ha-\\nrassed by divers persons under color of a grant made by the govern-\\nment and council of New-Hampshire in the year 1727, to sundry\\npersons and their successors, now called the Proprietors of Bow\u00c2\u00bb\\nYour petitioners further humbly represent, that the said grant of\\nEow was not only posterior to that of Rumford, but is likewise ex-\\ntremely vague and uncertain as to its bounds, and its being very\\ndoubtful whether it was the intent of the Governor and Council of\\nNew-Hampshire that it should infringe upon the Massachusetts grant\\nof Rumford and notwithstanding the grant of Bow has now been\\nmade so many years, there are but three or four families settled upon\\nit, and those since the end of the late French war the proprietors\\nchoosing rather to distress your petitioners by forcing them out of\\nthe valuable improvements they and their predecessors have made at\\nthe expense of their blood and treasure, than to be at the charge of\\nmaking any themselves. But your petitioners greatest misfortune is,\\nthat they cannot have a fair, impartial trial, for that the Governor and\\nmost of y^ Council arc proprietors of Bow, and by them not only y\\njudges are appointed, but also y^ oflBcers that impannels y jury, and the\\npeople also are generally disaifected to your petitioners on account of\\ntheir deriving their titles from the Massachusetts and all the actions\\nthat have hitherto been brought are of so small value, and, as your\\npetitioners apprehend, designed so that by a law of the Province\\nthere can be no appeal from the judgments of the courts to your\\nMajesty in Council and if it were otherwise the charges that would\\nattend such appeals would be greater than the value of the land, or\\nthan the party defending his title would be able to pay and without\\nyour Majesty s gracious interposition your petitioners must be com-\\npelled to give up their estates, contrary to your Majesty s ftivorable\\ninterposition in their behalf.\\nYour petitioners further beg leave humbly to represent, that, while\\nthey were under the government of IMassachusetts Bay, they enjoyed\\ntown privileges by an act specially made for that purpose in the year\\n1733, and expressly approved of by your Majesty in the year 1737;\\nbut the utmost they could obtain since their being under New-Hamp-\\nshire has been the erecting them into a district for a short term only\\nwhich term, having expired near four years ago, they have been with-\\nout any town privileges ever since, notwithstanding their repeated\\napplications to the Governor and Council and they are not able to\\nraise any moneys for the support of their minister, and the necessary\\ncharges of their school and poor, and other purposes nor have they\\nhad any town officers for the upholding government and order, as\\nall other towns in both the Provinces of New-Hampshire and the\\nMassachusetts Bay usually have. Under these our distresses we\\nmake our most humble application to your Majesty, the common\\nfather of your subjects, however remote, entreating your gracious\\ninterposition in our behalf; and that your Majesty would be fileased\\nto appoint disinterested, judicious persons to hear and determine our\\ncause, that so we may have a fair and impartial trial, and that the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "216 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nexpense wliicli otherwise must attend the multiplied law suits, as they\\nare now managed, may be prevented, or that your Majesty would be\\npleased to grant us such other relief as to your great wisdom and\\ngoodness shall seem meet and your most bumble petitioners, as in\\nduty bound, shall ever pray,\\n[Within presented in 1753.]\\nWhile in England the first time, Mr. Walker succeeded so far\\nas to obtain a hearing of the case before His Majesty, which\\nshould take place the ensuing winter. He engaged Sir William\\nMurray, afterward Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, as his counsel-\\nor and advocate, with whom, it is said, he formed a particular\\nacquaintance. But it was necessary for him to go again. Ac-\\ncordingly, in October, 1754, Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., presented a\\npetition to the General Court of Massachusetts, in which he\\nacknowledges the receipt of one hundred pounds sterling, the\\nprevious year, and asks for still further aid. He says, That\\nthe prosecution of the affair thus far has not only exhausted the\\nsaid grant of this government, but brought your petitioners con-\\nsiderably into debt that they are so impoverished by yc accu-\\nmulated charges occasioned by these lawsuits as they have been\\nmanaged in yc courts of New-Hampshire, as also by yc troubles\\nfrom the Indians, which have drove many of them from their\\nhabitations, and taken all of them from their husbandry in y^ most\\nbusie season of y^ year, and employed them in building garrisons\\nfor ye defence of themselves and families, and also being at great\\ncost during yo absence of their minister to procure a meet per-\\nson to administer yc Avord and ordinances among them that\\nthey are very unable to furnish their agpnt with ye monies neces-\\nsary to enable him effectually to proceed in the said affair.\\nWhile the proprietors of Rumford sought pecuniary aid from\\nthe government of Massachusetts, the proprietors of Bow also\\napplied for the same purpose to that of New-Hampshire, and\\nobtained a grant of XlOO to aid them in carrying on the suit.*\\nIn the spring of 1765 Jona. Lovewell was appointed by the\\nGeneral Court of New-Hampshire to warn a town meeting in\\nBow, 22d of April, for the choice of officers, c., which he\\naccordingly did, and subsequently made return that he warned\\nthe meeting and attended as moderator, at the place and time\\nDoc. No. 5.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 217\\nappointed but that there ivas hut one inhabitant of said Boiv\\nthat attended. This apparent disregard of their authority seems\\nto have been resented by the government for, at the very next\\nsession they passed what was called the Bow Act, for assess-\\ning and collecting taxes in the refractory town in which they\\nset forth that in contempt of the law, and in defiance of the gov-\\nernment, the said town of Bow refused to meet at the time and\\nplace appointed, c. As a remedy for this it was enacted,\\nThat Ezra Carter and Moses Foster, Esqs., and John Chandler,\\ngentleman all of said Bow be assessors to assess the polls\\nand estates within the said town of Bow, the sum of five\\nhundred and eighty pounds and sixteen shillings, new tenor bills\\nof public credit. They were required to give ten days notice\\nbefore making the assessment, that all persons may have oppor-\\ntunity to give in a true list of their polls and ratable estates.\\nThose who refused so to do were to be doomed to pay an\\nadditional sum to meet costs. Timothy Walker* and John Noyes\\nwere appointed collectors, to collect and pay in the sums on their\\nrespective lists, on penalty of forfeiting and paying the said\\nsums themselves and if the assessors should fail or refuse to\\ndo their duty, the Province treasurer was authorized and required\\nto issue his warrant of distress, directed to the sheriff, to levy\\nthe said sum of \u00c2\u00a3580 16s. on their goods and chattels and\\nlands and in want thereof, on their body As an encour-\\nagement and stimulant to assessors and collectors to do their\\nduty, the former were entitled to receive, each, \u00c2\u00a31 10s. new\\ntenor, and the latter \u00c2\u00a315 new tenor, each. f\\nIn February, 1756, the inhabitants of Rumford, feeling them-\\nselves oppressed by this act, and doomed beyond just measure,\\npetitioned for forbearance and redress of grievances. The peti-\\ntion, drawn up by Ezra Carter and John Chandler, set forth\\nThat one half of the time was elapsed before we had sight of\\nthe act, and it was then the most busie season in the whole year, and\\nthe cattle on which part of the taxes was to be laid, were out in the\\nwoods, and not known whether living or killed by the enemy, which\\nrendered it almost impracticable for us to comply with the letter of\\nthe act. For the remedying of these inconveniences, and also in\\nhopes of obtaining some alterations beneficial to us and the people\\nI suppose, brother of Isaac not son of the minister, f See Act in Secretar s office.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "218 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nwe were to tax, wc should have addressed the Greneral Assembly\\nlong before now, but our distance is such that we seldom hear of the\\nadjournment and prorogations thereof before it is too late several\\ntimes were pitched upon for said purpose, but before they arrived the\\nAssembly was adjourned. And now, having an opportunity to lay\\nthe alFair before your Excellency and Honours, we humbly hope that\\nyou will take our case into your consideration, and in your wisdom\\nand goodness compassionate our circumstances. As to our paying\\nour part of publick charges of the government, we can uprightly\\nanswer for ourselves, and have reason to believe that we speak the\\nunited sense of the people of Eumford, that we ought to do it, but\\nhumbly pray we may have the priviledges of a town or district, viz.,\\nto raise money for the maintenance of our minister, school and poor;\\nthe repair of highways, c., for the want of which for several years\\npast the inhabitants there have been great suSerers.\\nThat we ajjtprehend we are doomed much beyond our just propor-\\ntion of the public charge, which has happened as we conceive for\\nwant of a true list of our poles and estates, which we believe was\\nnever laid before the Assembly.\\nThat we have been unavoidably subjected to great loss of time\\nalmost every year for several years past by disturbances from the\\nIndians, and particularly for the two last years past. About a quarter\\nof our inhabitants have been drove from their settlements during the\\nbusie season of the year, and the whole of them obliged to desist\\nfrom their husbandry, in order to repair their garrisons and provide\\nfor the safety of their families.\\nWherefore your petitioners most humbly pray that their circum-\\nstances may be considered, that they and the inhabitants aforesaid\\nmay be relieved against the penalties and rigour of said act that a\\nproper method may be prescribed to have a true list of the poles and\\nestates aforesaid laid before the General Assembly, so that they may\\npay no more than their proportion, considering their situation that\\nthey may, be incorporated to all the purposes of a town, and that the\\nassessors aforesaid may have a further time allowed to perform the\\nbusiness assigned in assessing and the collectors in levying the sum\\nthat shall be finally determined must be paid by said inhabitants.\\nAnd your petitioners, as in duty bound, shall ever pray.\\nEzra Carter,\\nJohn Chandler.\\nWhile the inhabitants of Rumford were thus complaining of\\ngrievances and struggling with their difficulties, the i3roprietors\\nof Bow proper became sensible that the controversy in which\\nthey were involved was detrimental to their interest, and, to\\nsave the great expense which inevitably attends contention,\\n*Tliis petition was unsuccossful, and was followed by .inothor from Dr. Ezra Carter, July\\n15, 175 which may be seen in the Secretary s office.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 219\\nthej proposed terms of accommodation and agreement, having\\nrespect, however, chiefly to settlers of Smicook.*\\nIn 1761 an order was issued for taking an inventory of the\\npolls and ratable estates in the Province, which order, for\\nBow, was delivered to Col. Jeremiah Stickney, of Eumford.\\nOn the 19th of March, 1761, Col. Stickney addressed a letter\\nto Capt. Thomas Parker, of Litchfield, then a member of the\\nGeneral Court, excusing himself, and apologizing for not taking\\nthe inventory saying, We never understood we had power\\nto act to ordinary purposes under the incorporation of Bow, in\\nwhich, if we were mistaken, it was our unhappiness.\\nIn April, the same year, Ezekiel Morrill and Thomas\\nClough, selectmen of Canterbury, were appointed to take an\\ninventory of the polls, stocks and improved lands in the town-\\nship of Bow, which they accordingly did, and made the fol-\\nlowing return thereof to the General Court of New-Hampshire.\\nIt will be borne in mind that nearly the whole of their invoice\\nrelated to the inhabitants of Rumford, who, at this time, were\\ncomprehended in Bow. The document is valuable as exhibiting\\nthe state of the settlement at that time, and the amount of the\\nassessment.\\nAn Invoice of the Polls, Stocks and Improved Lands in the Township\\nof Bow taken hy us, the suhscrihcrs, according to the lest of our\\nknowledge\\nPolls, 154\\nHouses, 91\\nPlanting ground, (acres,) 341\\nMowing land, (acres,) 498\\nOrcharding, (acres,) 16\\nOxen, 160\\nCows, 222\\nCattle, three years old, 85\\nDitto, two years old, 90\\nDitto, one year old, 103\\nHorses, 77\\nDitto, three years old, 12\\nDitto, two years old, 13\\nDitto, one year old, 10\\nPasture land, (acres,) 150\\nNegroes, 6\\nSix mills, yearly income, \u00c2\u00a3125\\n*Doc. No. 6. fDoc. No. 7.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "220 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nVALUATION.\\nPolls, \u00c2\u00a32770 00\\nLand, 502 10\\nHorses, 231 00\\nOxen, 480 00\\nCows, 444 00\\nThree years old, 145 10\\nTwo years old, 103 00\\nOne year old, 56 10\\nSlaves, 96 00\\n4828 10\\nDoom, 1000 00\\n\u00c2\u00a35828 10\\nEzEKiEL Morrill,\\nThomas Clough,\\nSelectmen for Canterhury.\\nWe suppose the above assessment was never collected. But\\nhappily, the controversj which had been so long waged was now\\ndrawing to a close. In the courts of New-Hampshire every\\ncase brought to trial, touching the title to their lands, had been\\ndecided against the proprietors of Rumford but the Rev. Mr.\\nWalker and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq. the men to whom the pro-\\nprietors had entrusted their cause confident of its justice,\\nwere neither baffled nor discouraged. With a firmness of pur-\\npose worthy of all praise, and sustained by the unanimous will\\nof the people, the Rev. Mr. Walker persevered in his agency.\\nIn the fall of 1762 he visited England for the third time, to\\nattend the trial of the cause, which was still pending. He had\\nformed valuable acquaintances among ministers of religion, mem-\\nbers of Parliament, and members of His Majesty s Council. Sir\\nWilliam Murray, his learned counselor and advocate in the first\\ntrial, was now Lord Mansfield, chief justice of the King s Bench.\\nAfter long and anxious suspense the trial came on, and Mr.\\nWalker announced the result in the following letter, dated\\nLondon, Decemb 23, 1762.\\nDear S^\\nLast Friday, y^ 17* inst., we had our Tryal; have obtained judg-\\nment in our tavour, viz. that the judgment against us shall be\\nreversed and the particulars whereof I now send you, so far as my\\nmemory serves. Mr. DeGrey, my Council, had proceeded but little", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 221\\nway in opening the cause, wlien L Mansfield interrupted liim by\\nsaying we had in our printed cases prepared a large field for argu-\\nmentation that it would take two days to goe thro y\u00c2\u00b0 whole but\\nhe had a mind to narrow the case that there were but two points\\nworth insisting on, viz. y\u00c2\u00ae false laying out of 13ow, which he called\\na nonsuit, and the order of the King respecting private property.\\nHe began with the former, on which he said our former case turned,\\nwhen [by the way] he observed it was not as the Repp had alledged\\nin their printed case, that we were drove from every other point, c.,\\nfor, in truth, there was no other point considered that the L*^^, not\\nbeing clear as to the other point urged merely out of tenderness to\\npossession and cultivation, which, they said, in America was almost\\nevery thing they laid hold of that and determined as they did, but\\ncame to no determination upon the other, viz. the order of the King\\nin Council, c., which he called the great point. The first he de-\\ntermined roundly against us. I suspected by the manner of his\\ntreating it that he determined it should have no weight in the present\\ndecision, and, therefore, would hardly allow it the force it deserved.\\nI was, therefore, not much concerned at my Council s submitting the\\npoint. L Mansfield then said he was now come to the main point,\\nviz.: the order respecting private property, which, he said, must\\nmean, in cases like ours, where both sides claimed and made grants.\\nWhoever settled under a grant from either side, if he happened to\\nbeon the wrong side of the line when it came to be settled as he\\nwas precluded from defending himself by his grant his possession\\nshould be his title and, in this case, he said that possession with\\na grant from the Mass Bay was as good as possession with a grant\\nfrom New-Hampshire. Mr. Yorke, y^ Eepp^^ Council, allowed\\ny*, but alledged ours was not a Lona fide possession that we had\\nbeen warned, c. L** Mansfield said he had read those depositions\\nas they were printed, where it appeared Bow had chose Committees\\nto warn people from trespassing, kc, [which he seemed to speak with\\na sneer;] but he said the sum was this: Mass people were strong\\nwent on and settled, and Bow claimed. As to what is possession,\\nL Mansfield distinguished between possession and property. With\\nrespect to the Royal order, he said the words were not private pos-\\nsession, but private property. His design most certainly was to carry\\ny\u00c2\u00ae idea of property further than actual improvement. The sum of\\nwhat he said was to this effect, viz. What a man claimed under a\\ncertain title, part whereof he actualy improved, was his property.\\nWhat is done, and what was said in the case, if truly represented\\nby any body whom Bow will believe, will, I am persuaded, eS ect-\\nually discourage them from any further attempts, even against\\nSuncook much more against Rumford yet I suspect their lawyers\\nwill urge them on to further tryals with what success time must\\ndiscover.\\nTours, c., rp ^_\\nThe following is the decision of His Majesty in Council, upon", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "222\\nHISTORY OF RTBIFORD.\\nthe several cases -R-hich were then on trial all involving the\\nsame principle.\\nAt the Court of St. James, the 2d(h day of Decemher, 17G2.\\nPRESENT,\\nThe King s Most Excellent Majesty\\nEarl of Huntington, Viscount Falmouth,\\nEarl of Halifax, Mr. Vice Chamberlain,\\nEarl of Northumberland, George Grenville, Esq.,\\nEarl of Egremont, Henry Fox, Esq.,\\nEarl of Delaware, Welbore Ellis, Esq.\\nUpon reading at the Board a Report from the Right Honorable the\\nLords of the Committee of Council for hearing appeals from the\\nPlantations, dated the 17th of this instant, in the words follow-\\ning, viz.\\nYour Majesty, having been pleased by your order in Council of\\nthe 15th of February, 17 to refer unto this Committee the humble\\npetition and appeal of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Daniel Carter, Timothy\\nSimonds, John Evans, John Chandler, Abraham Colby and Abraham\\nKimball, setting forth, amongst other things, that, in 1721, Benja-\\nmin Stevens and others petitioned the General Court or Assembly of\\nthe Massachusetts Bay for a grant of land at Pennicook, upon the\\nriver Merrimack, which petition, having been referred to a committee\\nof both Houses, and they reported in favor of the application, that it\\nwould be for the advantage of the Province that part of the land pe-\\ntitioned for should be assigned and set apart for a township, to con-\\ntain seven miles square, and to begin where Contoocook river falls\\ninto Merrimack river. And they appointed a committee to bring\\nforward the said settlement, and laid down several special directions\\nwith regard thereto. And, amongst others, that the lands should be\\ndivided into one hundred and three lots or shares; and that one hun-\\ndred persons or families, able to make their settlement, should be\\nadmitted, and each settler to pay for his lot five pounds for the use\\nof the Province, and be obliged to build a good house for his family\\nwithin three years, and break up and fence in a certain quantity of\\nland, and the houses and lots to be on each side the river; and that\\na meeting-house should be erected and finished, which was to be as-\\nsigned for the use of the minister and for the school, and the charge\\nof the committee was to be borne by the settlers; which Report was\\nagreed to by both Houses of the Council and Assembly of that\\nProvince, and concurred in by the Governor. That, in 1726, the\\ntown of Pennicook was laid out and divided into lots amongst the\\nproprietors, who began and carried on a settlement there with great\\ndifficulty and cost, it being above twenty miles up into the Indian\\ncountry beyond any English settlement then made, and being a\\nperfect wilderness, having not the least sign that human foot had\\never trod the ground there, and notwithstanding the difficulties they", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "CONTROVERSY WITH BOAV. 223\\nwere under in establishing a new town in so remote a desert, they\\npursued their undertaking with such industry and pains, clearing the\\nland, building houses, sowing corn, c., that, within a few years, a\\ntown was erected, and the place capable of receiving their families,\\nwho were then removed up there.\\nThat, on the 6th of August, 1728, in consideration that five hun-\\ndred acres of land, which had, prior to the aforesaid Pcnnicook grant,\\nbeen granted to Gov. Endicott, fell within the Pennicook boundaries,\\nthe Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay came to a resolution, Avhich\\nwas concurred in by the Governor and Council, that the Pennicook\\nsettlers should be allowed and empowered, by a surveyor and phain-\\nmen upon oath, to extend the south bounds of their township one\\nhundred and thirty rods the breadth of their town, and the same\\nwas accordingly granted and confirmed to them as an equivalent for\\nthe said five hundred acres of land and in a few years they had so\\nfar erected and settled a town that, in 1733, the Governor, Council\\nand Assembly of the Massachusetts Bay passed an act for erecting\\nthe said plantation of Pennicook into a township by the name of\\nRumford; which act was confirmed by his late Majesty in council\\nand the settlers having ever since, at great costs and labor, gone on\\nimproving the lands within the said township of Rumford, by build-\\ning, cultivation, and otherwise, and having been in continual posses-\\nsion thereof for above thirty years past, and the same is now become\\na frontier town on that part of New-Hampshire.\\nThat, on the 6th of August, 1728, David Melvin and William\\nAyer petitioned the General Court or Assembly of the Massa-\\nchusetts Bay, for themselves and others, who had served as volun-\\nteers under Capt. John Lovewell, praying a part of the Province\\nland might be granted to them for a township, in consideration of\\nthe service they had done, and the great difficulties they had under-\\ngone in the war which petition being read in the House of Repre-\\nsentatives, it was resolved that six miles square of land, lying on\\neach side of Merrimack river, of the same breadth from Merrimack\\nriver as the township of Pennicook, and to begin where Pennicook\\nnew grant determines, and from thence to extend the lines of the\\neast and the west bounds on right angles, until the six miles square\\nshould be completed, be, and it is thereby granted to the forty-seven\\nsoldiers, and the legal representatives of such of them as were de-\\nceased, who marched with Capt. Lovewell, (himself included,) when\\nhe engaged the enemy at Pigwacket. That on the 9th of July, 1729,\\nthe said David Melvin and others petitioned the Assembly of the\\nMassachusetts Bay, setting forth that they had caused the said tract\\nof land to be surveyed and platted, and praying a confirmation\\nthereof, and that the grantees might be empowered to assemble and\\nchoose a clerk, pass votes, and be empowered to admit the persons in\\nCapt. Lovewell s first march, to be associated with him and the\\nsurvey or plan of the said tract, which is annexed to the petition,\\nand mentions it to begin at the south-east corner of the said other\\ntown of Pennicook, and from thence to run out according to the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "22-4 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\ngrant. It was ordered that the land described in the plan should be\\nconfirmed to the petitioners and their associates, and their heirs and\\nassigns forever, provided it exceeded not six miles square, nor inter-\\nferred with any former grant. And the Assembly, on the 23 d of\\nSeptember following, ordered a preference to be given to those sol-\\ndiers who were actually with the captain in the engagement when he\\nkilled several of the Indians, and the said resolutions of the As-\\nsembly were concurred in by the Governor and Council.\\nThat the Suncook proprietors carried on their said settlement\\nwhich adjoined to Pennicook, otherwise Rumford, in like manner as\\nthe Pennicook or Piumford settlers had done and, in 1737, had a\\nminister settled there, and by their industry, labor and charges, it\\nbecame a good parish, filled with inhabitants.\\nThat some years since, upon a dispute about the boundary line be-\\ntween the provinces of the Massachusetts Bay and New-Hampshire,\\nhis Majesty was pleased to issue a commission to mark out the divid-\\ning line between the said Province of New-Hampshire and Massa-\\nchusetts Bay, but with an express declaration that private property\\nshould not be aifected thereby. And upon hearing the report of the\\ncommissioners appointed to settle the said boundary. His Majesty\\nwas pleased, by his order in Council, made in 1740, to adjudge and\\norder that the northern boundary of the said Province of the Massa-\\nchusetts Bay are and be a similar curve line, pursuing the course of\\nMerrimack river at three miles distance on the north side thereof,\\nbeginning at the Atlantic ocean, and ending at a point due north of\\na place called Pautucket Falls, and a straight line drawn from thence\\ndue west, cross the said river, till it meets with His Majesty s other\\ngovernments by which determination two third parts at least of the\\nsaid river Merrimack, with the lands and settlements thereon, and\\namong the rest the said towns of Pennicook, or Paimford, and Suncook,\\nwould lay upon the said river considerably above the said Pautucket\\nfalls, were excluded out of the said Province of Massachusetts Bay,\\nin which they had before been thought and reputed to be, and thrown\\ninto the said other Province of New-Hampshire. That notwithstand-\\ning His Majesty had been pleased, at the time of issuing the said\\ncommission, to fix the said boundary, to declare the same was not to\\naffect private property yet, certain persons in New-Hampshire,\\ndesirous to make the labors of others an advantage to themselves, and\\nto possess themselves of the towns of Pennicook, otherwise Rumford,\\nand Suncook, as now improved by the industry of the appellants and\\nthe said first settlers thereof, whom they seek to despoil of the ben-\\nefit of all their labors, did, on the 1st of November, 1759, by the\\nname of the proprietors of the common and undivided lands, lying\\nand being within the township of Bow, bring an ejectment in the\\ninfei-ior court of common pleas, holden at Portsmouth, in New-\\nHampshire, against the appellants, by which ejectment the re-\\nspondents, under the general denomination aforesaid of the pro-\\nprietors of Bow, demand against the appellants the possession of\\nabout one thousand acres of land, alleging the same to lie in Bow", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "CONTROVERSY WITH BOW. 225\\naforesaid, and to be described and bounded as therein mentioned and\\nset forth in the ejectment, their grant of the town of Bow, dated the\\n20th of May, 1727, from John Wentworth, Esq., Lieutenant Gov-\\nernor of New-Hampshire and that by force thereof they were seized\\nin fee of the lauds thereby granted, to the estent of eighty-one\\nsquare miles, and they had afterwards entered thereon, pursuant\\nto their grant, and were seized thereof, and alleged they were en-\\ntitled to the one thousand acres of land sued for, as part of the said\\neighty-one miles square of land, and that the same lay within the\\nsaid town of Bow; but that the appellants had entered therein\\nand ejected the respondents, and withheld the same from them.\\nTo which action the appellants severally pleaded not guilty, as\\nto so much of the lands sued for as were in their respective pos-\\nsessions.\\nThat, on the 2d of September, 1760, the cause was brought on to\\ntrial in the said inferior court, when the jury gave a verdict for the\\nrespondents, and judgment was entered up accordingly, with costs,\\nfrom which the appellants prayed, and were allowed an appeal to the\\nnext superior court. And on the second Tuesday in November,\\n1760, the cause was brought on again to trial in the superior court,\\nwhen the jury gave their verdict for the respondents, and the judg-\\nment was thereupon entered up, affirming the said judgment of the\\ninferior court, with costs. That the appellants, conceiving themselves\\nto be thereby greatly aggrieved, prayed, and were allowed an appeal\\ntherefrom to your Majesty in council, and humbly pray that both the\\nsaid verdicts and judgments may be reversed, and that they may be\\notherwise relieved in the premises.\\nThe Lords of the committee, in obedience to your Majesty s said\\norder of reference, this day took the said petition and appeal into\\ntheir consideration, and heard all parties therein concerned, by their\\ncouncil, learned in the law, and do agree humbly to report as\\ntheir opinion to your Majesty, that the said judgment of the in-\\nferior court of common pleas of the Province of New-Hampshire, of\\nthe 2d of September, 1760, and also the judgment of the supe-\\nriour court of judicature of the 2d Tuesday in November, 1760,\\naffirming the same, should be both of them reversed, and that the\\nappellants should be restored to what they have lost by means of said\\njudgments.\\nHis Majesty this day took the said report into consideration, and\\nwas pleased, with the advice of his privy council, to approve thereof,\\nand to order, as it is hereby ordered, that the said judgment of the\\ninferior court of common pleas of the pi ovince of New-Hampshire,\\nof the 2d of September, 1760, and also the judgment of the superior\\ncourt of judicature, of the 2d Tuesday in November, affirming the\\nsame, be both of them reversed, and that the appellants be restored\\nto what they may have lost by means of the said judgments, whereof\\nthe Grovernor or Commander-in-chief of His Majesty s Province of\\nNew-Hampshire, for the time being, and all others whom it may con-\\ncern, are to take notice and govern themselves accordingly.\\n15", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "226 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nBut notwithstanding His Majesty s decision, the controversy\\nhad become so complicated, and involved so much personal inte-\\nrest and feeling, that many years elapsed before its final settle^\\nment. The difficulty with the government of the Province in\\nrespect of taxes, was terminated by a charter of incorporation\\nas the next chapter will show but conflicting personal interests\\nhad to be compromised. The prudence, decision, and readiness\\nfor reconciliation on just principles, which distinguished the pro-\\nprietors in .all their subsequent proceedings, appear from their\\nrecords. The controversy was finally terminated in 1772. The\\ncommon lands which had been reserved were divided and laid oflF\\nto the respective proprietors and grantees.*\\nSETTLEMENT OF CANTERBURY BOUNDS.\\nWhile the controversy was pending between Rumford and\\nBow, an attempt was made on the part of Canterbury to have\\nthe gore of land lying on the southwesterly side of Canter-\\nbury, and between the Canterbury and Bow line, (as claimed,)\\nannexed to the former township. This gore included the nortli-\\nAt a meeting of the proprietors, October 8, 1771, Capt. John Chandler, Mr. Philip East-\\nman and Mr. Abiel Chandler were chosen a committee to take a plan, and survey the com-\\nmon and undivided land, and lay out the same to each proprietor his or their equal proportion\\nin a just and equitable manner. That the said committee in the first place lay out as much\\ncommon land as to make whole Mr. Phillips two eighty acre lots and likewise Mr. James\\nFarnum s, which was given away to complete the settlement with Bow.\\nN. B. Mr. Philip Kimball entered his dissent against the vote passed to lay out the\\ncommon land.\\nJiihi 27, 1772. Andrew McMillan was chosen agent to petition the General Court to em-\\npower the proprietors to raise six hundred pounds, lawful money, by an equal assessment on\\nall the lands within the township of Rumford, in order to complete a settlement between\\nsaid proprietors and the proprietors of Bow, Mason s Patent and Canterbury.\\nVoted., That Mr. Benjamin Emery, Ensign Reuben Kimball and Mr. Daniel Gale, be a\\ncommittee to examine and see how much land has been sold by their former committees\\ntowards paying fifteen hundred dollars voted at a former meeting.\\nN. B. Voted, by way of direction to the committee, that the late Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., his\\nestate be chargeable with all the lands recovered within the bounds of the township formerly\\ncalled Suncook.\\nBy examination of the Plan of the town, it will at once be seen that the original south line\\nof Rumford run across the Merrimack and Soucook rivers, and took in a considerable section\\nof land that was afterwards laid off to Pembroke. (Several lots lying in that section were\\nlaid off to the settlers of Rumford, of which by the foregoing it appears some were recov-\\nered. See Proprietors Records, April 22, 1773. The case was referred to Jlatthew Thorn-\\nton, Esq., Londonderry Capt. Moses Little, of Newbury, and Mr. Moses Gerrish, of Can-\\nterbury, finally to determine what sum of money the estate of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., de-\\nceased, shall pay towards carrying the case of the Bend of the River (so called) to Great\\nBritain.\\nIn a notification for a meeting, November 21, 1772, the proprietors say that the trouble-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "CANTERBURY BOUNDS. 227\\neast part of Rumford, and seems to have extended up the Merri-\\nmack river so as to take in the interval farm of Stephen Gerrish.*\\nAt a legal meeting, held at Canterbury August IG, 1759,\\nVoted, That Capt. Miles refar a petition to the Grate and General\\nCorte, and prosecute the same in order to have that gore of land\\nlying between Canterbury and Bow annext to Canterbury aforesaid.\\nppey EzEKiEL Morrill, Toum Clerk\\nIn pursuance of the above, Capt. Josiah Miles presented a\\npetition to the General Assembly of the Province, February 7,\\n1760, setting forth that there is a gore of land lying on the\\nsouth-westerly side of said township, between that and Bow, on\\nwhich several of the home lots of said Canterbury are laid out\\nby mistake of the boundary on that side, on which there are sun-\\ndry families settled, and when an invoice was returned to regu-\\nlate the proportions of the towns to the Province tax, those\\nfamihes were returned, supposing they were within said town-\\nship but upon running the line afterwards they were found\\nwithout since which they have refused to pay any tax\\nto said town that the people are willing to be annexed to Can-\\nterbury, as it would be more convenient for them than to be joined\\nto any other township, and there is no prospect or rather possi-\\nbility that it should ever make a township, considering the situa-\\ntion, the shape, the quantity by estimation about fifteen hun-\\ndred acres and the quality of the land.\\nOn this petition a hearing was ordered at the February session,\\nsome and expensive controversy which has so long subsisted between them and other claim-\\ners of their land, we rejoice to find now happily closed.\\nAt a meeting, March 15, 1773, Mr. William Coffin was chosen proprietors treasurer, to\\npay the money as he receives it to the committee formerly chosen to make a settlement with\\nthe proprietors of Bow. Voted, That Sewall s Farm, (so called,) be assessed to pay an\\nequal proportion for quantity and quality with the rest of the town towards the settlement with\\nthe proprietors of Bow, c., and that the estate of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., deceased, reim-\\nburse towards defraying the charges of carrying the cause to England, wherein the bend of\\nthe river, (so called,) was sued for, not being within Rumford claims.\\n_N. B. That Mr. Peter Green wait upon Mr. Be/tjamin Thompson to Portsmouth, to repre-\\nsent the above case to the judge in behalf of the proprietors.\\nBenjamin Thompson, afterwards Count Rumford, married the widow of Benjamin Kolfe,\\nEsq., Mrs. Sarah, daughter of Rev. Timothy Walker. Hence we infer he was married pre-\\nvious to this date.\\nThe Bend in the River is understood to be that on the southern line of the town, em-\\nbracing part of the Interval Farm of the late Col. John Carter. The Bend is so great that\\na strip of land north of the river now falls within the line of Bow.\\nA Plan of the land claimed is now in the archives of the N. H. Hist. See, which see.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "228 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\n1761. In the mean time remonstrances to said petition were\\npresented from various quarters. (1.) A remonstrance from\\ninhabitants of Rumford, authorizing Dea. Joseph Hall to repair\\nto Portsmouth as soon as may be, and do what he can to hinder\\nthe prajer of said petition being granted stating among other\\nreasons their hope that the township would soon be incorporated,\\npursuant to a petition before the Assembly, then on file and\\nthat we hope and expect that the validity of our title to our\\nsaid township, which is soon to be decided by His Majesty, will\\nissue in our favor, and therefore that the matter may be at least\\nsuspended whilst that event is known. This was signed by\\nJohn Chandler, Jeremiah Stickney, Timothy Walker, jun., Ben-\\njamin Osgood, Jacob Shute, Daniel Chase, Moses Merrill, Nath I\\nAbbott, Richard Hasseltin, George Abbott, John Merrill, Ben-\\njamin Abbott, and Ebenezer Hall. (2.) From John Webster\\nand Samuel Osgood, February 16, 1761, stating that they had\\nlately purchased the farm commonly called Kent s farm, contig-\\nous to Rumford, of the claimers of the right of John Tufton\\nMason, Esq., and that it would be more convenient for them to\\nbe annexed to Boscawen than to Canterbury, on account of the\\ndistance from the meeting-house, and the badness of the road,\\nand not agreeable to their interest, connexions or inclination,\\nto be annexed to Canterbury. This farm contained three hun-\\ndred acres, and lay north of Rumford line, on the east side of\\nthe Merrimack river. (3.) A remonstrance from Stephen Ger-\\nrish, February 14, 1761, whose farm was still further north on\\nthe Merrimack stating, among other reasons, that the meet-\\ning-house in Boscawen is within a mile of my house that my\\ninterest is in several respects closely connected with that of Bos-\\ncawen that I largely contributed to the settlement and support\\nof their late minister, Mr. Stevens, as long as he lived as also\\ntowards procuring what occasional preaching they have had since\\nhis death. But the two strongest remonstrances came from\\nJoseph Man and Will. Gault, of which the following are\\nexact copies\\nTo Ms Excellency the Governor and House of Assembly\\nThese are to inform you that I live on the Common Lands Near\\nCanterbury, and that Capt n Miles is trying to have me Corperated", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "CANTERBURY BOUNDS. 229\\nto them, whicli I have no Desire to, be Cause they Intirely Eefused\\nme of all town Privileges altogether Whereupon I would humbly\\npray your honors to set me of to Some other Christian People, for if\\nI am Set over to them I expect Nothing but oppression.\\nWill. Gault.\\nThese are to Inform His Excellency the Governor and the honorable\\nAssemhly of Portsmouth,\\nThat I Live in The Common land and Near to the town of Can-\\nterbury, and the Select men of the town has rated me every year,\\nI have paid Piates this five years past to them. Which I think Very\\nhard of Whereas they have a grate Entervail that they have the\\nCheef of their liveing Every year, Never pays no Kates for it,\\nWhich makes me think they use no Conscience, or they would Rate\\ntheir own Common land as Smart as they doe others. Seeing that\\nMr. Parsons laid out and Incroaehcd on Severall Eacers of my land,\\nand has taken it into his farm, I Requested of them to lay out my land\\nin Canterbury, as they Reserved a tract of land to make good the\\nhome lots that fell out of the town in the Commons. But it was\\nSaid yt I should have no other land than I had Gotten for my Part\\nI am aifraid to be Corporated to Canterbury for fear of oppression,\\nand for these reasons I would pray his Excellency and the Honorable\\nAssembly of Portsmouth, that they would be pleased to Corporate me\\nto Some other Christian people. t i\\nJoseph man.\\nFinally, on the 13th of June, 1765, after the bounds of Con-\\ncord were determined by the new incorporation, the Canterbury\\npetition was, in part, granted that is, a strip of land lying\\nnorth of the original Rumford line, and extending up the Mer-\\nrimack river, was annexed to Canterbury. The bounds were as\\nfollows Beginning on the easterly side of Merrimack river,\\non a course north, seventy-three degrees east, from the mouth of\\nthe Contoocook river from thence, continuing the same course\\nabout six hundred and six rods, to Canterbury south-west side\\nline from thence, north-west, by said Canterbury side line, to\\nMerrimack river from thence, down the said river, to the place\\nbegun at; and all the lands, polls and estates taken by said\\nboundaries are hereby added to said Canterbury and made a\\npart thereof.\\nHence it appears that the original west side line of Canterbury\\nwas six hundred and six rods from the river, and that it run\\nalong on the upland without taking in the interval. The interval\\nbetween the river and Canterbury line belonged to what was", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "230 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\ncalled Mason s Patent, and the farms of Stephen Gerrish and\\nRichard Kent, on the east side of the river, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0were included in the\\nstrip of land annexed to Canterbury, while none of that asked\\nfor between Canterbury and the Bow line, Tyhich belonged to\\nRumford, was granted.\\nMISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE\\nTO THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1750 AND 1765.\\nNEW MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThe garrison-house, forty\\nfeet in length and twenty-five\\nin breadth, built in 1727, near\\nWest s brook, had served the\\na vS^ V^^^i inhabitants for a meeting-house\\nabout twenty-four years but\\nthe increase of population and\\ndecay of the old house ren-\\ndered it necessary to build a\\nHH MLi UNO iioL -L new one for public worship.\\nNot being in a capacity to act as a town, the work was under-\\ntaken by a number of individuals, called Proprietors of the\\nMeeting-house. A new location was chosen, and the main body\\nof the house was erected in 1751, on the spot where it still stands*\\nnow the Methodist Biblical Institute. Its timbers were of\\nthe best white oak. According to tradition there was a large\\ngathering of people at the raising, which commenced the 12tli\\nof June and took three days. But while the men were so laud-\\nably employed, the women of the parish afforded material aid\\nand comfort by cooking and providing victuals for them on the\\nspot. The meeting-house was sixty feet long, forty-six wide, and\\ntwo stories high. It was without porches or gallery. The only\\nThe various changes it lias passed through will be noticed hereafter.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 231\\nentrance was at the door in front, on the south side. The seats\\nwere coarse benches, arranged on each side of the broad-aisle,\\nand east and west of the pulpit, which was on the north side.\\nThe men sat on the west, and the women on the east side. The\\nminister had a i^eiv near the pulpit, and the deacons sat together\\ndirectly in front of the pulpit, facing the congregation. Thus\\nunfinished the house remained till after the Revolutionary War.\\nA LETTER FROJI REV. MR. WALKER TO HIS DAUGHTER.\\nWhile in London, on his first visit, Rev. Mr. Walker wrote as\\nfollows to his youngest daughter, Judith, then about nine years\\nof age\\nLondon, March 13th, 1754.\\nWhile I am addressing myself to each of my children, Judith\\nsurely must not be forgotten, which, altho the youngest, yet is none\\nthe less dear to her tender hearted Father upon that account. My dear,\\nI hope you have not forgotten your prayers and pretty verses which I\\nused to hear you say over when you went to bed; but as you grow in\\nyears, you will advance iu every endowment, both natural and spir-\\nitual for I can have no greater joy than to hear that my children\\nwalk in y truth. Fear God and keep his commandments, which is the\\nwhole duty of man. Honour your Father and Mother, which is the\\nfirst commandment with promise. Be courteous and affable to your\\nbrother and sisters let there be no family strife or contention, but\\nremember that where envy and strife is, there is confusion and every\\nevil work. J ^.gj^^jjj y^^^j. j^^.j^g Father,\\nTimothy Walker.\\nIn 1755, on his second visit, Mr. Walker wrote to his brother-\\nin-law, Mr. Joseph Burbeen, of Woburn, a letter, which has been\\npreserved, in which he says The fate of Europe, as to peace\\nor war, as yet remains doubtful. Vigorous preparations have\\nbeen and still are making but many are confident matters will\\nsubside but I expect, at least, that the poor frontiers in New-\\nEngland will have a troublesome summer. I am in pain for my\\nfamily as well as other friends exposed.\\nTHE FIRST IRON CRANE.\\nThe first iron crane used in a chimney fire-place in Rumford\\nwas put up by Stephen Farrington, in 1757. Mr. Farrington\\nbuilt and lived in the house where ]Mr. David G. Fuller now", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "232 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nlives recently owned by the late Widow Huldah Evans. The\\noccasion was as follows Heating water one day to scald hogs,\\nthe lug-pole, upon which the kettles were suspended, was burnt\\noff and the hot water was spilt, seriously endangering the\\nchildren who were playing on the floor. This so alarmed the\\nfamily that Mr. Farrington determined to have an iron crane\\nand, having business at Portsmouth, he there purchased a bar\\nof iron and brought it to Rumford on horse-back, where he\\nhad it made into a crane. The date (1757) is marked on\\nit. Before putting it into the chimney they made a trial of\\nits strength by chaining it to a tree and suspending on it a\\nbarrel of water a wager being laid that the crane would not\\nbear it. It stood the test, and it was afterwards used in the\\nfamily for more than ninety years. This crane was deposited in\\nthe rooms of the New-Hampshire Historical Society in June,\\n1853, by Mr. Samuel Farrington, it having been used a long\\ntime previously by the descendants of Stephen Farrington for a\\nboot-jacJc a part of the brace being taken out.*\\nTIMOTHY WALKER, JR s., LICENSE TO PREACH.\\nAt an Association Meeting, at the House of the Rev4 M^. Barnard,\\nin Haverhill, September 11, 1759,\\nM Timothy Walker, jun., having appl/d to us for encourage-\\nment to preach, and having receiv d from him a specimen of his\\nministerial abilities, do heartily approve of him, and recommend him\\nto the Churches of Christ as well furnished for the service of the\\nsanctuary, ardently wishing to him the presence and blessing of the\\ngreat Head of the Church in all his future ministrations.\\nJoseph Parsons, Samuel Bacheller,\\nWilliam Balch, Edw. Barnard,\\nJames Gushing, Abner Bayley,\\nEbenezer Flagg, John Tucker,\\nWilliam Johnson, William Symmes.\\nANDREW McMillan s store.\\nThe principal store in Rumford, at this time, was kept by\\nAndrew McMillan, Esq.f The following charges, found in his old\\nledger, will serve to illustrate the state of the currency at that\\nFacts furnished by Samuel Farrington.\\nfFor a more particular notice of tliis gentleman see Biograpliical Sketches. His store was\\nkept on the corner of Main and Pleasant streets.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 233\\ntime, and also, somewhat, the habits of the people. They show\\nwhat was the price of articles then in common use, and hence\\nenable us to compare the same with prices as they arc now. We\\nmay be surprised to observe how large a portion of family ex-\\npenses was for spirituous liquors and, in this regard at least, we\\nmay mark an improvement in our favor. The charges, it will be\\nseen, are carried out mj)ounds, sUllings fmdi pence; yet it is not\\nstrictly either oZc7 tenor or ^^new^ but \\\\hid pounds are put for\\nsUllings, and shillings for pence. Thus, as will appear, \u00c2\u00a36\\nmeans six shillings, or one dollar; X3 are three sUllings, or half\\na dollar; \u00c2\u00a312, 10s., are tzoelve shillings and ten jJf^nce, or two\\ndollars and nearly fourteen cents. As specimens of this book\\naccount I transcribe the following\\nEev. Mr. Timothy Walker, junior,* Dr.\\n1762. a.\\nDecemb. To lb. of coffcy, 1 06 00\\n1 scain of silk, 14 00\\nf yd. of bear-skin, at 8s 6 00 00\\nh gall, of wine, at 9s., 4 10 00\\nJ gall, of W. I. rum, 3 00 00\\nJan. 10. 1 lb. of coffee, by John Colby, 1 06 00\\n12 pipes, 12 00\\n18- 1 comb, 20s., 1 00 00\\nh lb. of tea, at 12s., 6 00 00\\n1 quire of post paper, at 50s., 2 10 00\\nFeb. 9. 4 lbs. of sugar, at 14s., 2 16 00\\nMar. 6. 1 quart mug, at 50s., 2 10 00\\n9. 1 pint of brandy, by John Colby, 24s., .1 04 00\\nMay. J a yd. of long lawn, by Judith, 4 00 00\\n1 handkerchief, by Judith, 8 00 00\\n1 pint \\\\Y. I. rum, 15 00\\nJuly. 1 gall. W. I. rum, by John Colby, 6 00 00\\ni lb. of powder, by John Colby, 1 05 00\\nDeacon Far num. Dr.\\n1763. s. d.\\nJan. 15. To sundries brougbt from old ledger, p. 196, 211 11 06\\ngall, and pint of N. E. rum, 2 19 00\\n1 lb. of coffey, at 26s., 1 06 00\\n1 glass of brandy, 04 00\\n1 qt. of wine, at 25s., 2 05 00\\nAfter Timothy Walker, Jr., was licensed to preach, Sept. 11, 1759, he remained in Concord,\\nand was a wh.le in company with Andrew McMillan. See biograpliical notice.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "234\\nHISTORY OF RUJIFORD.\\nFeb. 1. To gall, of brandy, 4 10 00\\n1 pint of brandy, 1 04 00\\n1 olass of brandy, 03 00\\n8. 2 tbs. of brown sugar, at 14s., 1 08 00\\n16. 1 glass of brandy, 04 00\\nMar. 1. V gall, of brandy, at 9s., 4 10 00\\ni tb. of raisons, 1 00 00\\n14. 5 pare of men s gloves, at 50s., 12 10 00\\n2 pare of woman s black do., at 50s., 5 00 00\\n1 pare of woman s white do., 2 13 00\\n3 yds. of hat crape, at 50s., 7 10 00\\nContra. Rum/on?, January 15, 1763. Cr.\\nBy sundrys brought from old ledger, .156 08 08\\nApril 5. cash, 124 17 00\\nJune 6. cash, in full, 94 00 10\\n]^YQ3 Ezra Carter, Doctor, Dr. s d\\nJan. 21. To sundries brought from p. 11, 492 15 06\\n22. i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00\\n26. i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00\\n27. i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00\\n28. i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00\\n29. i gall, of brandy, 4 10 00\\n31. gall, of brand [for medicine?] 4 10 00\\n5 tbs. of sugar, 2 10 00\\nFeb. 4. i- gall, of brandy, 4 10 00\\n8. 5 nots of thread, at 3s., 15 00\\n6 sheets of paper, at Is. 6(7., 09 00\\n}j gall, of snakerut, 4 05 00\\n11. 1 gall, of W. I. rum, 3 00 00\\naall. of clove water, 3 15 00\\n12. h gall, of W. I. rum, half a dollar, 3 00 00\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u009epr John Chandler, Dr.\\nJ. uO. s. d.\\nJune 13. To 4 buttons, 1 00 00\\nbowl of tody, 07 00\\nMar. 11. ii yds. of blue broad cloth, 17s., 25 10 00\\n2 doz. buttons, at 30s., 3 00 00\\n8 jacket do., 10 00\\n1* yds. of blue eamblet, 6 00 00\\n1 qt. of rum, at 24s., and 2 bowls of tody, 2 12 00\\nJuly 22. 1 gall, of W. I. rum, 6s., 6 00 00\\nTr-nr, Rev. Timothy Walker, Dr.\\nDec. 9. To the balance of your account, .26 15 00\\n3 yds. of red shoe-binding, by Judith, 09 00", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 235\\nDec. 8. To IJ lb. of cbalk, at 40s., 2 10 00\\n2 qts. of rum, 3 00 00\\n1764.\\nJan y 2. lb. of popper, ISs., IS 00\\nFeb y 2. 1 quart of W. I. rum, 35s., 1 15 00\\ni of buckram, 12 00\\n16. 1 gall, of W. I. rum, by Mr. Tim., 6 00 00\\nJune 2. i yd. of cambrick, by Judith, at lis., .1 08 00\\n1 punch bowl, at 15s., 15 00\\n1 yd. of eauze, and to skein of silk, 1 04 06\\n2 qts. of mm, 3 00 00\\nAug. 9. sundries paid Mr. Paul Burbeen, 50 00 00\\n11. 1 gallon of rum, at 6s., 6 00 00\\nThe foregoing are fair specimens of the charges in the old\\nledger against various persons. It must be noticed that in the\\naccount against Dr. Ezra Carter, the price of half a gallon of\\nrum is half a dollar, which is carried out three pounds\\nand this explains all the charges. The pounds were so many\\nshillings, and six shillings^ made a dollar. We must in\\ncharity suppose that the kind-hearted Dr. Carter bought his\\nbrandy for medicine; but whether the same will apply to the\\nothers we presume not to say. Unquestionably the custom of\\nthe times allowed a greater liberty in that regard then, than\\nwould be thought consistent with temperance now.\\nEunice Chase, mother of Mrs. Abigail, widow of the late\\nBenjamin Kimball, of Sugar Ball, when a girl was gathering\\nberries on a hill on the east side of the river, when she discov-\\nered a young fawn asleep under the shade of some bushes.\\nTaking off her apron, she threw it over the fawn, and, clasping\\nit in her arms, carried it home. She sold it to Andrew McMil-\\nlan for six pounds of sheep s wool.*\\nWOLVES.\\nJerry Farrington, son of Stephen Farrington, when a mere\\nlad was one day out near his father s house and heard the geese\\nmaking an unusual noise. He caught his gun and started to\\nascertain the cause. He found the geese in a small brook near\\nwhere Capt. Philip Watson s house now stands, and judging from\\nRelated by Mrs. Kimball.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "236 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nappearances that some enemy had been among them, he went on\\nin pursuit as far as what is called the Whale s Back, where\\nhe saw a large wolf facing him. His gun was loaded with fine\\nshot. He therefore took aim directly between the wolf s eyes,\\nfired, and put them both out. The wolf thus wounded raised a\\ntremendous yell and ran confusedly about until other persons\\ncame to Jerry s help, and the wolf was killed. f\\nBenjamin Rolfe, who came to this town at the age of sixteen,\\n(about 1758,) and who lived on the Rolfe farm, so called, (now\\nFisherville,) often told his children how the wolves would come\\ndown at night to the high sand-banks south of his residence,\\nand set up a terrible howling. The cattle, conscious of danger,\\nwould collect together in some corner of the field, and when they\\nlay down the young cattle would lie in the middle and the old\\nand strong ones outside, for defence.\\nRATTLE-SNAKES.\\nIn the early settlement of the township particular sections of\\nit were greatly infested with snakes of various kinds, and espe-\\ncially with rattle-snakes. These latter were most numerous on\\nand in the vicinity of Rattle-snake, or, as it is now called,\\nGranite Hill, and along the shores of Long Pond. A reward\\nwas oifercd, and paid by the town for many years, for killing\\nthese snakes, and some, it is said, even made it a profitable busi-\\nness being able thereby to pay all their town taxes. Tradition\\nsays that the inhabitants used to go snake hunting on good\\nsnake days, as still, sunny days in the spring and autumn were\\ncalled. Their weapon consisted of a white oak or white ash\\nstick, from six to eight feet long and about an inch round, with\\na hook fastened in one end, to be used in drawing the snakes\\nfrom their holes and from cracks in the ledges. Thus armed,\\nthey repaired to the snake ground, treading slowly and softly,\\nto prevent the snakes from hearing them. Generally the snakes\\nwere found lying in the sunshine, near their dens, asleep. Some-\\ntimes they were so numerous as to form a large heap. If they\\nheard any noise, the snakes gave the alarm by shaking their\\n*Tlie ridgo of land west of Mr. Abel B. Holt s, f Tradition from Samuel Farrington.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 237\\nrattles, which made a fine buzzing noise then they run into holes\\nor under rocks for safety. The rattle-snake was easily killed\\na well directed blow with the stick above described was sufficient\\nfor the purpose. Their motion was slow, and they v. ould usually\\nretreat from the presence of a man yet the hunting of them\\nwas dangerous, for, if overtaken and provoked, they were very\\nferocious. Coiling up in a small ring, and emitting a fine buzzing\\nnoise with their rattles their bodies rising and falling like a\\nbellows their parti-colored skin rough and sparkling the\\nupper jaw thrown nearly back upon the neck, and their eyes,\\nlike a fiery flame, which would suddenly change to a greenish\\ncolor they would suddenly dart on their foe, strike their fang,\\nand, at the same instant, emit a poison in the wound, which\\nusually proved fatal.\\nMany traditionary stories are related of rattle-snake hunting.\\nThe late Amos Abbot father of John and Simeon with his\\ncousin Reuben, one afternoon killed forty-nine snakes with sticks\\nand hooks but such an effluvia proceeded from the slaughtered\\nsnakes as to sicken them. Commonly the faces of the hunters\\nwould be swollen with inflammation, caused, as was supposed, by\\npoisonous effluvia.\\nThere is a tradition that a Penacook Indian undertook to re-\\nvenge himself on the nation of rattle-snakes for having bitten\\none of his family. He made a large fish-pot and set it at the\\nmouth of a den of rattle-snakes. As they came out they filled\\nthe pot, which, in the joy of his success, ho rolled away from the\\nden, and then piled around it a large quantity of brush, which\\nhe set on fire, dancing and singing to see the contortions and\\nstruggles of his conquered foe but his joy was short. Whether\\nfrom the effluvia inhaled, or some other cause, he soon sickened\\nand died.\\nOne person undertook to blow up a den of snakes. Hav-\\ning caught and fastened a large rattle-snake, he tied to his tail\\na powder-horn filled with powder putting in for a stopple a\\npiece of punk, which he set on fire and let the snake go. Re-\\nturning to his snaky companions, unsuspicious of the fate that\\nawaited them, soon the powder-horn exploded, when the whole\\nden of snakes was blown sky high.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "238 HISTORY OF RUMFORD.\\nAnother mode of destroying these reptiles, if not equally\\nsingular, was as effectual that is, the letting the hogs run at\\nlarge where the snakes wore abundant. In the autumn of the\\nyear, being fat and lazy, the snakes made a delicious morsel for\\nswinish appetites. The hogs would often kill them before they\\nhad time to coil and dart their poison.*\\nThe oil from rattle-snakes was found very useful, and was\\nused for sprains, stiff joints, rheumatism, c.\\nGeorge Abbot, Esq., relates that his father, when a young\\nman, killed an enormous fat rattle-snake, which he afterwards\\nstretched out on a flat rock, in the sun, and that the oil which\\ncame from it penetrated the rock so deeply that the marks of it\\nremain even till this time.\\nSo thorough was the war of extermination carried on by our\\nfathers against the rattle-snake tribe, that it is said not one has\\nbeen seen on Rattle-snake Hill for the last forty years.\\n*A writer in Harper s Magazine for March, 1855, says: Of all enemies with which the\\nrattle-snake has to contend, except man, the hog is the most formidable. An old sow, with\\na litter of pigs to provide food for, will hunt for the reptile with a perseverance and sagacity\\ntruly astonishing, tracing them to their hiding-places, and never letting them escape. [See\\nthe whole article, which is very interesting.]", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nFROM 17G5 TO 1775 INCORPORATION AS A PARISH IN BOW\\nBY THE NAME OF CONCORD.\\nAs the greater part of the inhabitants of Rumford were at\\nthis time comprehended in the township of Bow, to which the\\nformer were unanimously opposed, vexatious difficulties were\\nexperienced in conducting town aifairs, and particularly in\\nassessing and collecting taxes. Even some of the inhabitants\\nof Bow proper felt themselves as much oppressed as those of\\nBumford. Hence petitions were presented to the General As-\\nsembly of the Province, setting forth their respective grievances.*\\nOn the 11th of April, 1764, Rev. Mr. Walker presented a peti-\\ntion,* setting forth that the affiiirs of the inhabitants [of Rum-\\nford] have been in great confusion since 1749 that they have\\nfelt themselves greatly aggrieved by the imposition of heavy\\ntaxes and, as a remedy for the evils complained of, prays that\\nthey may be incorporated by their former known bounds. In\\nanswer to this petition the House of Representatives reaffirmed\\nby a vote, that what the town of Bow is now in arrears for the\\nProvince tax shall be collected, and that all the inhabitants\\nsettled on lands between said Bow, Canterbury and New-Hop-\\nkinton, except such as are already polled off to Pembroke and\\nNew-Hopkinton, shall be taxed and pay their proportion of the\\nsame that the inhabitants of Bow [including, of course, all in\\nRumford] should meet in Bow for the choice of officers, c.,\\n*See Documents for Chap. VIH., Nos. 1 and 2.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "240 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nand on these conditions the petitioner shall have liberty to bring\\nin a bilir^\\nIt hence appears that the government tenaciously clung to\\ntheir original purpose of giving Bow the preeminence, and of\\ndisallowing all the claims and rights of Rumford as incorporated\\nby Massachusetts.\\nFinally, however, on the 25th of May, 1765, an act of incor-\\nporation was obtained, the conditions of which were humiliat-\\ning to the inhabitants of Rumford but it was the best they could\\nget, and this was preferred to the abhorred embrace in which\\nthey had been held for more than fifteen years. For the whole\\nact I must refer the reader to the documentary chapter but\\nthe title is in the words following: ^w act for setting off a 2Jart\\nof the Town of \u00c2\u00a3oiv, together with some lands adjoining thereto,\\nwith the inhabitants thereoti, aiid makiiig them a Parish investing\\nthem ivith such privileges and immunities as Towns in this Prov-\\nince have and do enjoy. To this parish in the town of Bow\\nwas given the name of Concord. The parish comprised the\\ninhabitants who are settled on the lands herein described, viz.\\nBeginning at the mouth of Contoocook river, so called, which\\nis the south-east corner of Boscawen from thence, south, sev-\\nenty-three degrees west, by said Boscawen, four miles from\\nthence, running south, seventeen degrees east, seven miles and\\none hundred rods from thence, running north, seventy-three\\ndegrees east, about four miles, to Merrimack river then crossing\\nthe said river, and still continuing the same course to Soucook\\nriver then, beginning again at the mouth of Contoocook river\\naforesaid, from thence, running north, seventy-three degrees\\neast, six hundred and six rods from the easterly bank of Merri-\\nmack river, or till it shall come to the south-west line of Can-\\nterbury from thence, south-east, on said line, two miles and\\neighty rods from thence, south, seventeen degrees east, to\\nSoucook river aforesaid from thence, down the said river, till\\nit comes to where the line from Merrimack river strikes Soucook\\nriver.\\nThe inhabitants included within the abovesaid bounds were\\ngranted all the ordinary powers and privileges of towns, ex-\\nDocuments for Chap VIII., No. 3.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "BOUNDARIES OF THE PARISH. 241\\ncepting that when any of the inhabitants of the aforesaid parish\\nshall have occasion to lay out any road through any of the lands\\nthat are already laid out and divided by the said town of Bow,\\napplication shall be for the same to the Court of General Quarter\\nSessions of the Peace for the said Province, as in other cases.\\nProvision was also made in the act for collecting all arrearages\\nof taxes, and for assessing and collecting the taxes which should\\nbe due in 1765 and 1766. To secure all these ends more effect-\\nually, John Noyes and Edward Ptussell, of Bow proper, were to\\nbe united with the selectmen of the new parish, to assess the\\npolls and estates of all the inhabitants who were subjected to\\npay the taxes.\\nIt will be perceived that by this incorporation the bounds of\\nthe township are considerably varied from the original.* The\\nnorth line of Concord, on the west side, was changed from the\\nmiddle of the Contoocook, to the southerly side thereof.\\nThe north bound, on the east side, was run straight to the Can-\\nThe original grant of Penacook was seven miles square and one hundred rods, commencing\\nwhere Contoocook river falls into Merrimack riv^er, and thence to extend, upon a course\\neast, seventeen degrees north, tliree miles, and upon a course west, seventeen degrees south,\\nfour miles to be the northerly bounds of the said township and from the extreme parts of\\nthat line, to be set otf southerly at rig-ht angles, until seven miles sliall be accomplislied from\\nthe said north bounds. This original grant does not determine the prscise point where\\nContoocook river falls into Merrimack river where the north line shall be run whether\\nit shall be in the middle of the Contoocook, or on the northerly or southerly side. It seems,\\nhowever, to have been understood to run from the middle for when Contoocook (now Bos-\\ncawen) was granted by Massachusetts, in December, 1732, it was bounded as follows, viz.\\nBeginning at the middle of Contoocook river, where it empties into Merrimack, where it\\njoins on Penacook plantation thence, running west, fifteen degrees south, adjoining Pena-\\ncook line, four miles, to a white pine tree, marked for Penacook corner-bounds and thence,\\nfurther on the same line, three miles and eight poles, :c. [?ee original grant in Price s\\nHistory of Boscawen, p. 21.] The difference of two degrees in the line was probably owing\\nto the variation of the compass for it is manifest that the Contoocook line west, which com-\\nmences a\u00c2\u00ab the middW of the Contoocook river, where it joins on Penacook plantation,\\nran on the Penacook line four miles to its westerly corner bounds. But when Boscawen was\\nnewly incorporated by Nevv-IIampshire, in 1700, the bounds were described as follows, viz.:\\nBeginning at the southerly side of Contoocook river s mouth, where tliu same falls into Mer-\\nrimack river; running thence, on a course west, seventeen degrees south, seven miles and\\none hundred rods, c. Why this change in the starting point of the line between Concord\\nand Boscawen from the middle of the Contoocook to the southerly side thereof\\nthere are various conjectures. [See statement in Document ?vo. 4, Chapter VIII.]\\nBut the variation and change from the original bounds were far greater on the cast side.\\nOriginally the line ran straight from the mouth of the Contoocook, oast, seventeen degrees\\nnorth, three miles but by the new incorporation it was to run east, seventeen degrees north,\\nonly six hundred and six rods from the easterly bank of Merrimack river till it shall come\\nto the south-west lino of Canterbury from thence, south-east, on said line, two miles and\\neighty rods; from thence, south, seventeen degrees east, to Soucook river; from thence, down\\nthe said river till it comes to where the line from the west of Merrimack river running\\nacross strikes the Soucook river.\\n16", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "242 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nterbury line six hundred and six rods then, south-east, on the\\nCanterbury line, two miles and eighty rods thence, south, sev-\\nenteen degrees east, to meet the Soucook river, which was made\\nthe remainder of the eastern bound. The southern boundary,\\nalso, instead of being seven miles, according to the original\\ngrant, was Hmited on the east side by the Soucook, at the point\\nwhere the line from the west across the Merrimack river struck\\nit. This hne struck the Soucook river about twenty rods above\\nwhat were called Head s Mills, in Pembroke. The old bounds\\nare still visible.*\\nIn consequence of this change in the original boundaries on\\nthe east side, there were two gores of land, called the northerly\\nand southerly Bow Gores. The northerly gore, containing about\\none thousand three hundred and seventy-nine acres can be dis-\\ntinguished on the map of the town accompanying this volume,\\nlying on the east side of the township, between the Soucook river\\non the east and the original straight line, which formed the east-\\nern boundary of Rumford. This gore came to a point on the\\nhigh land north-west of the dweUing-house of Mr. John Clough,\\non the Loudon road. The house of Mr. Clough was formerly\\nowned by Mr. Benjamin Thompson, who lived in Bow Gore,\\nand who used to be complained of by his neighbors because he\\ndidnH pay taxes any zvhere. Near Mr. Thompson s, within\\nthe Gore, was a school-house, where the children of the Potter\\nfamilies, and others in Concord, attended school. This state of\\nthings continued until both Gores were annexed to Concord by\\nan act of the Legislature, December 13, 1804. f\\nIn regard to the name Concord given to the township in\\nthe new incorporation, the uniform tradition is, that it was de-\\nsi ^^ned to express the entire unanimity in purpose and action\\nwhich had characterized the inhabitants of Rumford during the\\nperiod of their controversy with the proprietors of Bow, and,\\nindeed, from the first settlement of Penacook.^\\nBy the act of incorporation, Samuel Emerson, Esq.,\u00c2\u00a7 of\\nSee Town Records, Vol. III., p. 12C. t See acts in Secretary s office.\\nJ The Rev. John Barnard, in his sermon at the ordination of Mr. Walker, charged the\\npeople always to live in Love and Peace to rejoice and strengthen the hands of their\\nMinister by their Concord. This they always did do.\\n$See Town Records.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "FIRST LEGAL MEETING. 243\\nChester, was authorized and appointed to call the first meeting\\nof the inhabitants, for the choice of town officers, on the third\\nTuesday of August, 1765 but, as the records set forth, by\\nsome accident the meeting was not duly called, and was not\\nheld at that time. Consequently, at the next meeting of the\\nGeneral Court, November 27, 1765, a special resolve and vote\\nwere passed, authorizing the said Emerson to call a meeting for\\nthe aforesaid purpose, on the third Tuesday of January, 1766.*\\nAccordingly, the first legal meeting of the freeholders and\\ninhabitants of the Parish of Concord^ was held on the 21st\\nday of January^ 1766. At this meeting it was voted that\\nLieut. Richard Hasseltine be moderator, and Peter Coffin\\nparish clerk.\\nVoted^ That Joseph Farnum, Lot Colby and John Chandler,\\njun., be selectmen.\\nVoted, That Benjamin Emery be constable.\\nVoted, That Lieut. Richard Hasseltine and Amos Abbot be\\ntythingmen.\\nVoted, That Jonathan Chase, Robert Davis and Nathaniel\\nEastman be surveyors of highways.\\nVoted, That Dea. George Abbot be sealer of leather.\\nVoted, That Lieut. Nathaniel Abbot be sealer of weights and\\nmeasures.\\nThe foregoing is the whole record of the first meeting of the\\nParish of Concord. The persons above chosen held office till\\nthe ensuing first Tuesday in March, when the first annual meeting\\nwas held.f\\nAt the first annual meeting, March 4th, Ezra Carter, Esq.,\\nwas chosen moderator, and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., clerk. J One\\nhundred pounds, lawful money, were raised for paying Rev.\\nSee Town Records.\\nfThe manner of notifying parish meetings was as follows: 1. The selectmen issued an\\norder to the constable of the parish to notify a meeting at a specified time and place, and for\\nspecified purposes. 2. The constable issued his notice by setting up a notification,\\nagreeably to the order from tlie selectmen, at the meeting-house door, days before the\\nmeeting. 3. A meeting held pursuant to such a notification was a legal meeting. From\\nthe first meeting in January, 1766, till 1784, the notice for legal meetings was given to\\nthe inliabitants and freeholders nf the Parish of Concobd subsequently, upon petition, in\\n1784, as will appear from the records, the word parish, which was always offensive to\\nthe inhabitants, was dropped, and town substituted therefor.\\nJ See full list of officers at the close of this chapter.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "244 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\n]\\\\Ir. Walker s salary from the 26th of May, 1765, to the 26th\\nof ]May, 1766, together with the other necessary charges of the\\nparish, and a committee appointed to reckon with the collectors\\nand constable that have been chosen.\\nOn the 25th of March it was Voted, That the school shall be\\nkept on the eisterly side of the river such part of the year as\\ntheir rates for the school shall come to of the polls and estates\\nthat lay to the northward of Sugar Ball also, at a place that\\nwill best accommodate those persons that live upon Contoocook\\nroad, northward of Nathan Colby s and those persons that live\\nwestward of said road, such part of the year as their rates will\\npay also, at a place that will best accommodate those persons\\nthat live upon Hopkinton road, westerly of Theodore Stevens\\nand westerly of Turkey river, such a part of the year as their\\nrates will pay and the remainder of the year it shall be kept in\\nthe town street, about the middle way from Capt. Chandler s to\\nLot Colby s.\\nCapt. Chandler, referred to in the above vote, lived in a house\\non the road which runs west by Richard Bradley s, on the spot\\nwhere a new house is just erected by Hamilton Perkins, Esq.\\nAn apple tree is now growing where the old cellar was. Here\\nhis son Daniel lived, Avho was father of Abiel, the distinguished\\nbenefactor of Dartmouth College. Abiel Walker, Esq., well\\nremembered the old Chandler house. Daniel Chandler erected a\\nframe in addition to his father s house, on the same spot, but not\\nbeing able to finish it, it fell first into the hands of John Stevens,\\ntrader, and was sold by him to Capt. Robert Davis, and moved\\non to the Davis lot, north side of Franklin street, on the rise of\\nground about ten rods from Main street. In this house lived\\nCapt. David Davis, father of Gen. Davis. Lot Colby lived at\\nthe other extreme of the main settlement, at the Eleven Lots,\\nand on the spot where the venerable Joseph Abbot died, January\\n20, 1832, aged ninety. Mr. Joseph S. Lund now lives on the\\nsame spot. The school-house was a few rods north of Gass\\ntavern. The late Richard Herbert and Abiel Walker, when\\nboys, went to school there to a Master Hogg, from Dunbarton.\\nAnother meeting of the Parish of Concord was held November\\n*See Constable s Warrant, Doc. No. 5, Chap. VIII.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "THE FIRST CENSUS. 245\\nlOtb, this year, at whicli jNIr. Phinchas Virgin was chosen sur-\\nveyor of highways in the room of Lt. Ebenezer Virgin, de-\\nceased. Phinehas was the eldest son of Lt. Ebenezer born\\nNovember 21, 1733. The father was an original proprietor\\na man of enterprise, and highly useful as a citizen. He probably\\ncame from Salisbury, Massachusetts, and built and lived in the\\nhouse still standing on the IMill Brook Interval, so called, on the\\neast side of the Merrimack, a few rods in rear of the house of\\nMr. John Jarvis. Mr. Virgin was the man who first came in\\npossession of the Peorawarrah gun, before described. He\\nwas the father of seven children, and his descendants are num-\\nerous and respectable.*\\n1767.\\nAbout this time the inhabitants of Bow, who, according to the\\ncharter of the Parish of Concord, were rated with the latter,\\nfeeling themselves greatly abused, presented the following\\npetition to the General Assembly for relief:\\nTo Ilis Excellence/ John Wentworth, Fscjicire, c.\\nThe Petition of the Selectmen of Bow, in behalf of themselves and\\ninhabitants of said Bow, exclusive of such as are set oif into\\nParishes\\nHumbly sheweth, That your petitioners have been and are\\nnow greatly abused by being rated with Concord for their Selectmen\\nare y\u00c2\u00ae major part of the Assessors, and they make the rates as they\\nsee fit Wherefore the s petitioners humbly and earnestly prays\\nyour Excellency and Honours to take their distressed curcomstances\\nunder consideration, and releave them from being rated any longer\\nwith Concord, in such manner as your Excellency and Honours shall\\nin your great wisdom and clemency see fit, and your petitioners, as in\\nduty bound, shall ever pray. o -r\\nJ i^ J Samuel Rogers,\\nSamuel Welch,\\nEphraim Moors,\\nSelectmen of JBow.\\n[August 28, 1767. Bead and ordered to be sent down to the\\nHoni^ e Assembly.]\\nThe first enumeration of the inhabitants of the Province! was\\n*See Register of Virgin Family.\\nfThe number of towns in tlie Province at tliis time was ninety-five whole population,\\n52.700. Twenty-one towns were returned as having a larger population than Concord. [See\\ncensus of 1767 Historical Collections by Moore Farmer, vol. i., p. 166.]", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "246 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nthis year made by order of the General Assembly. The fol-\\nlowing is the return for Concord\\nUnmarried men, from sixteen to sixty, 62\\nMarried men, from sixteen to sixty, 125\\nBoys, sixteen and under, 189\\nMen, sixty and above, 18\\nFemales, unmarried, 204\\nFemales, married, 126\\nMale slaves,* 9\\nFemale slaves, 4\\nWidows, 15\\nTotal, 752\\n1T68-9.\\nAt a meeting January 2, 1769, Capt. Chandler was chosen\\nand desired to notify all persons that owe any rates in this parish,\\nand use his best endeavors with them to get them to settle with\\nthe Rev. Mr. Timothy Walker, and to pay what rates they owe\\nbefore Concord was incorporated.\\nMr. Timothy Walker, Jr., was chosen, March 7, town clerk,\\nin place of Benjamin Rolfe, who appears to have been in feeble\\nhealth and the parish clerk was desired to purchase two suffi-\\ncient books for the use of the parish. Messrs. Benjamin\\nEmery, John Kimball and Robert Davis were appointed a\\ncommittee to treat with the proprietors of the meeting-house,\\nin order to purchase said house for the use of the parish.\\nThe purchase was not made till 1782.\\n1770.\\nThe parish agreed to give forty shillings, lawful money, per\\nacre for land through Joseph Farnum s field, for a road, and\\nto pay Mrs. Osgood the first cost for the burying-cloth to\\npay ten shillings for every wolf, and six pence for every crow\\nkilled within the parish the present year. The following year,\\n1771, the bounty for killing a wolf was raised to twenty shil-\\nlings, and for every crow catched in the parish, nine pence.\\nSee Facts and Anecdotes at the end of tliis chapter.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "COMPENSATION OF JURORS. 247\\nOn the 21st of December, 1771, Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., de-\\nceased,*\\nHeretofore nothing has appeared in the records respecting\\ncourts or jurors, or even the county to which Concord belonged.\\nBut a warrant was issued for a special town meeting, to be\\nheld August 24, 1772, to choose one man of those duly quali-\\nfied to serve at His Majesty s Superior Court of Judicature, to be\\nheld at Exeter, in and for the county of Rockingham, as a petit\\njuror, the first Tuesday in September next also, to see\\nwhat said parish will allow those who have served as jurors for\\nsaid parish, and what said parish will allow jurors for the\\nfuture.\\nAccordingly, at the meeting held for the above purpose, Mr.\\nLot Colby was drawn out of the box for a juror. Three shil-\\nlings were allowed Messrs. Ebenezer Hall and Joshua Abbot\\nfor each day they have served the parish as jurors; and three\\nshillings to be paid each juror per day, who shall serve the parish\\nas jurors for the future.\\nNovember 21st, this year, Andrew McMillan, Esq., was ap-\\npointed to present a petition to the Honorable General Court,\\nthat the inhabitants of Concord may have the same power and\\nprivilege of laying out roads which any other town or parish in\\nthis Province have or do enjoy and that the boundaries of said\\nparish may be made as extensive as the township of Rumford\\n(so called) formerly was t and the next year, 1773, Mr. Mc-\\nJuhj 29, 1771. At a meeting of tho proprietors Fbfct/, That Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., the\\nproprietors former clerk, deliver the proprietors books to John Kimball, the present clerk.\\nMr. Kimball was chosen proprietors clerk May 7, 1771, and took the oath of office before\\nAndrew McMillan, Esq. He held the office till October 18, 1774, when he was succeeded by\\nTimothy Walker, Jr. JVovembcr 7, 177-i Voted, That the proprietors books be delivered by\\nMr. John Kimball to Timothy Walker, Jr. that a just and equal division of all the com-\\nmon land be made, and that Messrs. Benjamin Emery, Robert Davis and Philip Eastman, be\\na committee for said purpose and that said committee make up to Ebenezer Hall and\\nJabez Abbot what land the proprietors of Eow took from the heirs of Edward Abbot, de-\\nceased -that Messrs. Benjamin Emery, Philip Eastman, Thomas Stickney, Joseph Hall,\\nJr., and Lot Colby, be discharged, and are discliarged from tho sum of \u00c2\u00a3100 3s. 5d. Iq.\\nbeing part of tho notes which they recovered of the administrators on the estate of Benjamin\\nRolfe, Esq., deceased, for the proprietors of Concord, dated March, 17G0, together with the\\ninterest for the notes dated Xovember, A. D. 1753.\\nThe division of common lands above ordered was duly made and laid ofT in one hundred\\nand three shares. A record of tho same is found in the third volume of the Proprietors\\nRecords, pp. 45C-505.\\nt As to the right of laying out roads, c., see charter of Concord.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "248 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nMillan was appointed to present a petition that the parish of\\nConcord may be annexed to the county of Hillsborough, provided\\nthat there might be an inferior and superior court held annually\\nin said parish.\\n1773.\\nPrevious to presenting the petition for the purpose just named,\\nthe inhabitants of the town made an expression of their respect\\nto the Governor in the following address, which tradition ascribes\\nto the pen of the then young but aspiring Benjamin Thompson,\\nafterward Count Rumford\\nADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF CONCORD TO GOV. JOHN\\nWENTWORTH, 1773.\\nThe Humble Address of the Inhahitcints of Concord, in the Frovince\\nof Neio-IIampshire, to His Excellency JoHN Wentworth, Esq.,\\nCciptain General, Governor, and Commander-in-Chief in and\\nover said Province.\\nMay it tlease your Excellency\\nAs good Will and Affection between Rulers and Ruled are the\\nhappy source of all well ordered Government, it gives us pleasure to\\nobserve the great Harmony and Unanimity that subsist between your\\nExcellency and the People of this Province, while those of the\\nNeighboring Colonies are daily seeking Redress, and still complaining\\nof grievances and oppression. Notwithstanding the great Difficulties\\nwhich have attended your Excellency ever since you came to the Chair\\nof this Government, and the many disadvantages this Province in par-\\nticular has, and still labors under; yet, from the best Obseiwatious we\\nhave been able to make, we Unci no Colony on the Continent in which\\ngood Order, Peace, and good Government, have more prevailed than\\nin this, or in which Officers of every kind have discharged the duties of\\ntheir respective Offices with more Prudence, Moderation and Firmness.\\nThrough your Excellency s great care and Wisdom, we find the\\nunsettled Lauds improving and settling with rapid progress, and\\nthat your Excellency is pleased to give every necessary encourage-\\nment to promote and facilitate the same, and that even by your\\nExcellency s own Example.*\\nAnd if your Excellency s wise Administration should be continued,\\nwe make no doubt in a few Years of seeing this Province not unequal\\nto those of its Neighbors, in numbers of People and Opulence.\\nWhatever Aspersions your Excellency s Character may have inju-\\nriously met with in England, from prejudiced and designing Men,\\nwith regard to your Excellency s governing this Province, we are\\nassured, and believe every disinterested person will join with us, that\\nthey are urged without any just foundation and, were those Matters\\nGov. Wentworth had began a plantation for himself, in the town of Wolf borough, on\\nwhich he expended large sums. [BcUcnap s Hint. ofJ^.II., vol. i., p. 339, Dover ed., 1\u00c2\u00bb31.]", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 249\\nrepresented in a True point of Light, wo are fully satisfied tbat your\\nExcellency would receive the Approbation of His Majesty, and the\\nApplause of the People of this Province in general.\\nAt a mectinc of the said Inhabitants of Concord, on Thursday, the\\n1st day of April, A. D. 1773\\nVoted, That the foregoing Address be immediately presented to\\nHis Excellency John Wentworth, Esq., Captain General, Governor,\\nand Commander-in-Chief in and over the said Province of New-\\nHampshire. Attest TiMO. Walker, Jr., Ton-n Clcrh.\\n177-4.\\nDuring the year 1774 the settlement of the long controversy\\nbetween the proprietors of Bow and Rumford was completed.\\nImmediatelj thereupon, and even in anticipation of it, a petition\\nwas presented by Timothy Walker, Jr., in behalf of himself\\nand his associates, to the General Court of Massachusetts,\\nsetting forth the great expense they had been at, and losses\\nincurred by the controversy with Bow, and praying that, as a\\nremuneration, a tract of land may be granted them on the\\nAmmoscoggin river, in the Province of Maine. Through the\\npoliteness of Timothy Walker, Esq., of Rumford, Maine, youngest\\nson of the late Charles Walker, Esq., and grandson of the Hon.\\nTimothy Walker, of Concord, I have been furnished with a copy\\nof the said petition, and the proceedings of the General Court in\\nrelation to it, with the names of the original grantees of the new\\ntownship; also, a copy of the record of their early proceedings\\nall of which must be interesting to the descendants of the ori anal\\nsettlers, both of Concord and of Rumford, in Maine.*\\nMISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE\\nTO THIS PERIOD.\\nSLAVES.\\nConcord, March 4, 1767.\\nReceived of Andrew McMillan the sum of forty-seven pounds ten\\nshillings, lawful money, in full consideration for my Negro Boy slave\\nnamed Ctesar, aged about eleven years, which Negro Boy I have this\\nday sold to said McMillan, and promise to warrant and defend the\\n*See Documents for Chapter VIII., No. 7.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "250 TARISH OF CONCORD.\\nproperty of said Negro Boy to Lira, tbe said McMillan,* and his heirs\\nor assigns forever, against the claims of any other person or persons\\nwhatsoever.\\nIn witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the day\\nand date above mentioned.\\nWitness I Burbeen, Benjamin Osoood-I\\nI James Osgood.\\nKnoio all Men bi/ these Presents,\\nThat I, Patrick Gault, of Chester, in His Majesty s Province of\\nNew-Hampshire, in New-England, husbandman, for and in consider-\\nation of the sum of twenty pounds, lawful money, to me in hand\\nbefere the delivery hereof, well and truly paid by Andrew McMillan,\\nof Concord, in the Province aforesaid, Esq., the receipt whereof I do\\nhereby acknowledge, have bargained and sold, and by these presents\\ndo bargain and sell unto him, the said Andrew McMillan, my Negro\\nGarl, named Dinah, aged about eight years, to have and to hold the\\nsaid Negro Garl Dinah, by these presents, to him, the said Andrew\\nMcMillan, his heirs, administrators and assigns; and I, the said Pat-\\nrick Gault, for myself, my heirs and administrators, shall and will\\nwarrant, and forever defend her, the said Negro Garl, unto him, the\\nsaid Andrew McMillan, his heirs, administrators and assigns, against\\nall the claims and demands of any person or persons whomsoever\\nand have put her, the said Negro Garl, into his, the said Andrew\\nMcMillan s, possession, by delivering her unto him, the said McMil-\\nlan, at the time of sealing hereof In witness whereof I have here-\\nunto set my hand and seal, this 24th day of May, and in the eighth\\nyear of His Majesty s reign, A. D. one thousand seven hundred and\\nsixty-eight.\\nX n f Hannah McMillan, Patrick X Gault.\\nIn presents oi us -i xt mark.\\nbam 1 JNoyes.\\nBiLLERiCA, May 2, 1761.\\nKnow all Men hy these Presents, That I, Hannah Bowers, of Bil-\\nlerica, widow, have sold unto Lot Colby, of Rumford, in the Province\\nof New-Hampshire, a mulatto Negro Boy, named Salcm, l and have\\nreceived forty-five shillings sterling, in full consideration for the said\\nboy, as witness mv hand. tt -r.\\nr Hannah Bowers.\\nTest I *^\u00c2\u00b0^^P alker,\\nI Josiah Bowers.\\n*See Biographical Notice of Andrew McMillan, Esq.\\nt Benjamin Osgood was a brotlier of McMillan s wife.\\nI That slaves were bought and sold like cattle and horses, previous to the Revolution,\\nappears from the following, taken from the Essex Journal, (Newburyport,) Jlarch 2, 1774\\nTo be sold,\\nA HEALTHY NEGRO GIRL,\\nabout twenty-three years old born in this country.\\nLIKEWISE,\\nA SERVICEABLE MARE,\\nwhich goes well in a carriage.\\nEnquire of the Printers.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 251\\nOf the subsequent history of the Negro Garl Dinah but\\nhttle is now known, except that on the removal of her master to\\nConway, in 1774, she was left, probably, in the family of Mrs.\\nMcMillan s mother, Mother Osgood, and that she married\\nand settled in the neighboring town of Canterbury, where she\\nlived to an advanced age, familiarly known as Old Dinah,\\nwhere several famihes of her descendants now reside and are\\nfrequently seen in the streets of Concord selling baskets.\\nThe Boy Ctesar accompanied his master to Conway, but\\nwas roving and unsteady in his habits, and finally absented him-\\nself from the family entirely. He married twice, and died in\\n1847 or 1848, in the ninety-second year of his age. His eldest\\ndaughter, Lois, is now living, in good health, in the family of\\nDaniel Eastman, of Conway.*\\nAaron Stevens, commonly called crowner that is, Cor-\\noner Stevens had a negro man who was the town dog-\\nwhipper it being his office to scourge dogs out of the\\nmeeting-house on the Sabbath, for which he received a few\\npennies from such as were disposed to pay him. The faithful\\ndischarge of his office affi)rded fine amusement for the children\\nduring Sabbath hours.\\nCapt. John Roach, who lived in the old Rogers house, east\\nof the late Gov. Hill s residence, owned a negro woman. She\\nhad a child, who was taken care of and supported by the town.\\nDea. Joseph Hall, senior, had a slave woman who had two\\nchildren, one named Lois and the other John Brown. John was\\ngiven to Dea. Jonathan Wilkins, who married a grand-daughter\\nof Dea. Hall. John was non conijjos, and gave the deacon so\\nmuch trouble that at last he threw him on the town for support.\\nAt one time John was put to hoeing potatoes alone but it was\\nfound he skipped over every other hill. Being asked what he\\ndid it for, said So as to keep up. He was once sent to\\nturn out calves from the stall, but, not succeeding in unfastening\\ntheir yokes, the deacon s hired man turned the calves out and\\nyoked John up.\\nOf other slaves in Concord about this time, tradition has\\npreserved some interesting reminiscences. Ephraim Farnum,\\nInformation from Dr. Chadbourne.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "252 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\ngrandfather of Moses H, Farnum, and living on the same spot,\\nowned a black boy named Ccesar. Mr. Farnum had a pen for\\nsmall pigs near his kitchen door. On looking into it early one\\nmorning, he discovered a bundle closely pinned together, which,\\non opening, he found contained an infant negro child. Pitying\\nthe little foundling, he took it from the pig-pen into his house,\\nand took care of it. Some ten years afterwards a gentleman\\nfrom Massachusetts called very privately on IMr. Farnum,\\ninquired for the boy, and made a suitable compensation for\\nthe good care that had been taken of him. Ciesar was a\\nfavorite among the white boys of about his age. Capt. Samuel\\nHerbert says he used to think it quite a treat to go up and\\nhave a good play with Ciiesar Farnum.\\nAbraham Bradley had a negro slave named Pompey com-\\nmonly called Pomp for whom he paid thirty bushels of\\ncorn. Pomp was quite a favorite in the family. He was\\nthe attendant and sort of life-guard of John Bradley in his boy-\\nhood. In his last will Mr. Bradley gave Pomp to his grandson\\nJohn, and ordered his executor to take especial care that my\\nsaid negro be not wronged by my aforesaid grandson in any\\nw\\\\ays and if he should wrong him, I give him power to do him\\njustice. Mr. Bradley also gave Pomp the use and improve-\\nment of one half acre of land, near his dwelling-house, during\\nhis natural life.*\\nCol. Benjamin Rolfe owned a negro who, in 1772, when the\\ninventory of Col. Rolfe s property was taken, was valued at\\nX55, lawful money.\\nWilham Coffin, the grandfather of Samuel Coffin, Esq., owned\\na negro woman named Lucy. Sampson, a negro belonging\\nto Archelaus Moore, of Canterbury, wanted her for his wife and\\nthere was an agreement that Sampson should work one year for\\nMr. Coffin to pay for her. A man s wages at that time were\\nabout forty dollars a year, or the price of a yoke of oxen.\\nSampson was a famous fiddler, and for many years afforded fine\\nfun for frolicsome fellows in Concord with his fiddle on election\\ndays.\\nRev. Timothy Walker had three slaves a man called Prince,\\n*See biography of John Bradley, and Abraham Bradley s will.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 253\\nand two women Luce and Violet. Prince was good natured,\\nmuch attached to his master, and faithful in taking care of horses\\nand cattle. On the adoption of the State Constitution he had\\nhis freedom, and went to Andover, where he hved with Dr.\\nThomas Kittredge. There he married. At one time he came\\nback to Concord dressed in a red coat, which he displayed with\\nmuch pride, saying I rides in the troop, I do. Prince\\nbecame very infirm, and was thrown on the town of Woburn for\\nsupport till he died. Violet married in Dunbarton. Luce died\\nin Concord.\\nLieut. Richard Herbert had a slave named Nancy, who was\\nsaid to have been born in Boston about 176G, and when nine\\ndays old was given to a man resident in Bow, who, wishing to\\nremove from the vicinity, brought her to Rumford, and, in 1768,\\nsold her to Lieut. Herbert for about five dollars. As Nancy is\\nvery well remembered by many now living, and was much\\nesteemed, the following notice of her will be interesting\\nWhen bought by Mr. Herbert she was about eighteen months\\nold, and grew up with the children of the family attended\\nschool a little learned to read and to recite the catechism.\\nShe used to say she was treated just the same as the other\\nchildren, but she supposed she did not expect so much and,\\nalso, that she was never conscious of a wish that she had been\\nbom white. The adoption of the State Constitution, in 1783,\\nwas regarded as abolishing slavery within the State. She was\\nabout fifteen years of ago, and often spoke of the fears she felt\\nlest the Constitution should be adopted. She had been told that\\nshe came from Boston, and had a notion that she must return\\nthere, and she was constantly inquiring about the city and the\\nroad thither. One day she Avas engaged in washing dishes, when\\nsome one came in and told her she was free She burst into\\ntears, exclaiming, What will become of me She supposed\\nshe must start for Boston. The family gathered round, and she\\nsaid she never was so rejoiced as when it was decided that she\\nshould remain in her old and only home. An arrangement was\\nimmediately effected as to compensation, which continued till the\\ndeath of Mrs. Herbert, senior, who made provision for Nancy in\\nher son s family through life.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "254 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nIn 1816 she became a member of the church under Dr.\\nMcFarland s ministry, and honored her profession. She was\\nfaithful, aifectionate and cheerful. The anecdotes and incidents\\nof early times, stored in her retentive memory, were a source of\\ninfinite pleasure to the children, each of whom had been in turn\\nher favorite. She read much, usually the Bible was sensible\\nand dimified in manners none knew but to esteem her. Both\\nCharles and Jonathan Herbert left her bequests by will. In her\\ncharities she felt a particular interest in the Education Society,\\nin the cause of Missions, and in all efforts for the elevation of\\nher race. The last two years of her life she was unable to walk\\nmuch, or attend church often but death came suddenly and\\nwithout terror. She died of paralysis, after an illness of two\\ndays, October 9, 1845, aged seventy-nine. The following\\nepitaph, written by the late Benjamin Gleason, Esq., of Charles-\\ntown, Massachusetts, was received too late for inscription on her\\ntomb-stone\\nAt first unknown then sold a slave\\nThen free, and loved from early youth\\nIn Christian hope, ripe for the grave\\nThis tablet but records her worth.\\nBEAR STORIES.\\nSoon after moving to his place, west of Long Pond, Mr.\\nReuben Abbot heard one of his hogs squeal, which was running\\nat large in the woods. Presuming that a bear had caught it, he\\nhastily seized his gun and went in pursuit. He came in sight of\\nthe bear, which was devouring the hog, in the field east of Mr.\\nJerry Abbot s house. He leveled his gun at the bear, but it\\nmissed fire three times. The bear then turned and ran towards\\nMr. Abbot, who, to escape, sprung upon a small tree, which the\\nbear could nt climb. In relating the circumstance, Mr. Abbot\\nused to say that the old paw of the bear just touched his leather\\nbreeches. The flint of his gun being out of order, Mr. Abbot\\nhallooed for his brother James, who came, and the bear was\\nkilled.\\nOliver Hoit was the first settler, about 1772, on Horse Hill.\\nIt was then a wilderness, and the bears and wolves were very", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. ZOO\\ntroublesome devouring his sheep when they were but a small\\ndistance from his house. He used to kill bears, some by shoot-\\ning and others by trapping. The trap was formed of heavy\\nlogs in the shape of the figure 4 the upper log falling when\\nthe bear entered to take the bait. One trap was set at a dis-\\ntance of nearly three miles from his house. On a warm day in\\nMay he rode his old mare to the trap, and found a large bear in\\nit, dead. How to get it home he was at a loss, but soon con-\\ntrived a way which proved successful. He took off his vest, and\\nbuttoned it tight round the old mare s head to blind her eyes, to\\nprevent her being frightened at the bear next, he took the\\nthroat-latch from the bridle, and buckled it tight round the old\\nmare s tail then cut a hole through the bear s nose, and put in\\na withe and fastened the other end to the strap on the mare s\\ntail mounting, he rode home, dragging the bear after him,\\nmuch amused at the success of his contrivance.*\\nMr. Zebediah Farnum, who lived where Samuel Ames now\\nlives, proposed to Ephraim, son of Deacon Farnum, to go over\\nRattle-snake Hill, to the east side of Long Pond, and see if they\\ncould shoot a bear. They crossed the brook at the outlet of the\\npond, and in a few moments their dogs began to bark. When\\nthey came to them, they found the dogs had treed a large- bear.\\nZebediah shot at it. The bear fell to the ground, and he sup-\\nposed it was dead but when the dogs came, and began to .smell\\nof the bear, the creature began to kick, and snarl, and fight the\\ndogs. Zebediah, who was very resolute and courageous, thinking\\nthat the dogs would get beaten, sprung astride the bear, and\\ntook it by the ears, while Ephraim thrust the butt of his gun into\\nthe bear s mouth. In this position the bear was held until it was\\nexhausted when Zeb. let go of one ear, and, taking his jack-\\nknife from his pocket, and opening it with his teeth, cut the\\nbear s throat, which bled to death in a few moments.\\nAt another time Zebediah Farnum killed a bear with a largo\\npitch-pine knot. He heard the bear squeal or grunt, and started\\nin the direction of the sound, near where Isaac Ferrin now lives.\\nComing near he found bruin in the act of robbing a ivasj) s nest\\nTradition, by George Abbot, Esq.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "256 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nin the ground; sticking his head in, the wasps would sting,\\nand he squeal. Zeb., creeping up unseen, and watching his\\nchance, when the bear s head was in the hole, struck him across\\nthe back with his club, and killed him.*\\nStephen Farnum, and John, his cousin, killed a bear at Horse\\nHill. While the bear was engaged in defending himself against\\nthe dog, Stephen clenched him by the ears, and John knocked his\\nbrains out with a pitch-pine knot.*\\nRev. Ephraim Abbot, now of Westford, Massachusetts, relates,\\nThat his uncle, Isaac Abbot, told him that he and his brother\\nEphraim went to the Dark Plains to get a load of candle wood,\\nand came to a large wind-fall tree that one of them struck\\nupon it with an axe, and a large bear came out of it, and was\\nabout to make an attack upon them but that they defended\\nthemselves and killed the bear with the axe and a lever. The\\nflesh weighed about four hundred pounds.\\nThe late Moses Abbot and Richard Flanders, who lived near\\nHopkinton line, west of Long Pond, employed Mr. Asa Herrick,\\nsurveyor, to perambulate the line between them. While at work\\nthey were attracted to an old root, by the barking of their dog.\\nThere they found a bear. Herrick says, Let it out Abbot\\nsays, Keep it in, and struck at the bear with the head of his\\naxe. But as bruin attempted to come out, he turned the edge of\\nhis axe, and with a well aimed blow struck it into the bear s\\nhead, and soon killed it. After drawing the bear out, Lieut.\\nHerrick seeing its huge paws, was greatly terrified being more\\nafraid of a dead bear than of a live one.*\\nThe late Richard Potter used to relate that soon after settling\\non his place, where Mr. Thomas D. Potter now lives, he\\none night heard an unusual commotion among his hogs, in a pen\\nnear the house. He got up and looked about, but saw nothing.\\nAfter carefully covering the pen with boards, he went to bed,\\nbut was soon after roused again by the squealing of his hogs.\\nOn going out, he found one of them missing being borne off\\nby a bear, which carried it on to the hill west of his house, and\\nthere devoured it. The bristles of the swine thus devoured were\\nafterwards gathered up, and preserved many years in the family.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Tradition, by Georgo Abbot, Esq.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS FACTS AND ANECDOTES. 257\\nAt another time, (soon after his settlement,) Mr. Potter heard\\na noise at the lower end of Pine Hill, southeast of his house.\\nProceeding thither, he found a bear. Bruin had mistaken a\\nwasp s nest in the roots of a tree for a honey-bee s nest, and was\\nattacking it fiercely for its supposed sweets But the attack\\nproved a hitter sweet for the wasps, stirred up at so unprovoked\\nan attack, had gone at him with waspish fury The bear would\\nrush up to the tree, thrust both paws into the nest, and then,\\ncovered with wasps paws, head and ears he would retreat\\na rod or two, uttering the most painful shrieks Mr. Potter\\nfurnished himself with a stout pitch-wood knot, and when the\\nbear rushed up to the tree to attack the wasps, he rushed up\\nbehind him, and dealt him a blow that staggered him and, re-\\npeating them with a will, he brought bruin to the ground, and\\ndespatched him.*\\nMILITIA.\\nIn 1774 there were two companies of militia in Concord, be-\\nlonging to the fifteenth regiment, of which \\\\hQ field officers were,\\nAndrew McMillan, Esq.,f Colonel Thomas Stickney, Esq.,\\nLieut. Colonel Benjamin Thompson, Esq., Major. Their com-\\nmissions were dated January 20, 1774.\\nNbn- Commissioned Field Officer James Walker, Sergeant-\\nMajor.\\nUNIFORM OF THE KEGIMENT.\\nThe officers to wear red coats, cufF d, lin d and lapel d with skj-\\nblue. Sky-blue waistcoats and breeches, all triin d with white.\\nBlack hats with silver hat-baud, button and loops, without lace. White\\nstockings, cockade, sash and white gorgets. Swords with silver hilts.\\nCaptains and Lieutenants to carry fusees. Field officers to wear\\nsilver shoulder knots.\\nBy order of His Excellency,\\nJohn Wentworth, Esq., Captain-General.\\nFebruary 15, 1774.\\nEXERCISE.\\nThe exercise or discipline ordered to be observed and practised\\nin this regiment is that composed for the use of and practised by the\\nMilitia of the County of Norfolk, in Great Britain.\\nBy order of His Excellency, c.\\nTradition, by Hon. C. E. Potter.\\nt After 1774 the name of Colonel Andrew McMillan disappears from our record. See Bia-\\ngraphical Sketclies.\\n17", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "258 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nOFFICERS OF THE FIRST COMPANY IN CONCORD.\\nJoshua Abbot, Captain, Commissioned February 21, 1774.\\nJonathan Stickney, Lieutenant, Commissioned February 21, 1774.\\nJohn Shute, Ensign, Commissioned February 21, 1774.\\nNON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.\\nRichard Haseltine, 1st Sergeant,* May 24, 1774.\\nJohn Chase, 2d Sergeant, May 24, 1774.\\nDan Stickney, 3d Sergeant, May 24, 1774.\\nNathan Kinsman, 4th Sergeant, May 24, 1774.\\nOFFICERS OF THE SECOND COMPANY, BEING THE SIXTH IN THE\\nREGIMENT.f\\nAbiel Chandler, Captain, Commissioned February 26, 1774.\\nEbenezer Virgin, Lieutenant, Commissioned February 26, 1774.\\nJonathan Eastman, Ensign, Commissioned February 26, 1774.\\nTOWN ACCOUNTS.\\nExtracts from Accounts exMhitecl and accepted, from March 5th,\\n1771, to March, 1775.\\ns. d.\\nTo Abiel Chandler, for keeping school and surveying\\nfor the parish, 55 14 2^\\nTo Jo. Emery, for keeping school, 10 6\\nPatrick Guinlon, for keeping school, 31 17 6\\nJohn Blanchard s order for boarding a school mistress, 7 6\\nRobert Hogg, for keeping school two years at \u00c2\u00a330, .60\\nDaniel Abbot, for a wolf s head, 10\\nDr. E. H. Gross, for taking care of Jacob Pilsbury and\\nwife, 2 78\\nRev. Mr. Timo. Walker, for procuring the incorpora-\\ntion of Concord, 5 5 10\\nJoseph Eastman, jr., for a wolf s head, 4\\nTimo. Walker, jr., for a set of measures, 53 crows\\nheads, articles supplied Pilsbury, and his service as\\nselectman and clerk, 7 16\\nAbiel Chandler, for surveying, 6\\nBenj. Emery s order for carrying out a lame man, and\\nhis services as selectman, 2 80\\n1772. To the Rev d Mr. Timo. Walker, for preaching\\nfrom 26th day of Jan y, 1772, to 26th Jan y, 1773, 47 1 OJ\\nTo John Kimball, for making 5 staves for the tyth-\\ning men, 63\\n*The First Sergeant was Clerk of the Company.\\njThe names of the Privates in these Companies are not to be found, but the number on\\nthe Alarm List of the two Companies was one hundred and ninety.\\nEqual to $156,83, or \u00c2\u00a3120, at silver 17s. per ounce.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "PARISH OFFICERS.\\n259\\nTo sundry articles supplied Elisabeth Russ and Sam-\\nuel Walker, ...1 73\\nTo Noah Parker, for one new weight, and sealing the\\nold ones, 12\\nTo Gilman West, for making nails for the meeting-house, 5 5\\nFROM 1774 TO 1775.\\nTo Abiel Chandler, for surveying roads and taking the\\nnumber of the people, 3 10 6\\nJohn Kimball, for mending the meeting-house, and for\\nnails for do., 13\\nAndrew McMillan, Esq., for petitioning the General\\nCourt, and assisting in settling Mr. Walker s salary, 6\\nJohn Kimball, for a coffin for the body of Samuel\\nWalker 60\\nTimothy Walker, jr., for his bill against the parish the\\nyear past, 2 13 3\\nDo. for journey to Exeter, to attend the Congress, 5\\ndays at 5s., travail 13s. 4fZ., 1 18 4\\nTo cash paid John Giddinge, for the support of the\\ndelegates at the Continental Congress, as per rec t, 6 4\\nRev d Mr. Walker, for three journeys to Exeter, to\\nattend the Congress, 3 16\\nTo cash paid John Giddinge, for the support of the\\nDelegates, as per rec t, 3 10\\nTo a horse the above four journeys, at 6s., 1 40\\nTo cash paid Mr. John Fowle, for taking care of Dr.\\nCarrigin, when sick of the small pox, as per rec t, .3\\nTo 711 feet of plank for bridges, 2 10\\nAbated Nath l Chandler Abbot, 2 6\\nLIST OF OFFICERS\\nANNUALLY CHOSEN IN THE PARISH OF CONCORD,\\nFROM 176G TO 1775.\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nTythingmen,\\nMarch 4, 1766.\\nEzra Carter, Esq.\\nBenjamin Rolfe, Esq.\\nBenjamin Rolfe, Esq.,\\nMr. Joseph Farnum,\\nMr. John Chandler, Jr\\nLot Colby.\\nLt. Richard Hasseltine,\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nAmos Abbot.\\nMarch 3, 1767.\\nEzra Carter.\\nBenjamin Rolfe.\\nLt. Rich. Hasseltine,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nAmos Abbot.\\nJoseph Farnum.\\nLt. Tho s Sticknej,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nLt.Timothy Bradley,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "260\\nPARISH OF CONCORD.\\nSealer of Leather, William Coffin.\\nSealer of Wts. and Mms., Lt. Nathaniel Abbot.\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nReuben Abbot,\\nSurveyors of Highivwjs, Robert Davis,\\nI Richard Flanders,\\ni Dca. George Abbot.\\nr Timothy Bradley,\\n1 Capt. John Chandler,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nEbenezer Hall,\\nDea. Joseph Hall.\\nf Philip Eastman,\\nj Benjamin Emery,\\nLt. Peter Coffin,\\nIsaac Chase,\\nJoseph Hall, Jr.\\nJohn Chandler, Jr.,\\nDaniel Gale,\\nBenjamin Fifield,\\nAbiel Lovejoy,\\nJames Walker,\\nSimon Trumble.\\nS John Kimball.\\nJohn Blanchard.\\nMarch 1, 17G8.\\nCapt. John Chandler.\\nBenjamin Rolt e.\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nSelectmen, Ebenezer Hall,\\nReulien Kimball.\\nConstable, Nathaniel Eastman.\\nReuben Abbot,\\nTythingmen, Robert Davis,\\nEbenezer Virgin.\\nSealer of Leather, David Hall.\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas., Nathaniel Abbot,\\nf John Chandler, Jr.,\\nFence-viewers,\\nField lrivers^\\nllogreeves.\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSurveyors of Ilir/hicaijs\\nFence-viewers,\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nDea. George Abbot\\nBenjamin Fitield,\\nEphraim Farnum, Jr.,\\nJames Walker.\\nEzekiel Diamond,\\nJoseph Farnum, Jr.,\\nDea. Joseph Hall,\\nfCapt Joseph Eastman,\\nRichard Herbert,\\nBenjamin Emery,\\nJacob Hoit.\\nJohn Bradley,\\nWilliam Virgin,\\nJoshua Abbot,\\nf Moses Eastman, Jr.,\\nI James Hasscltine,\\nJonathan Stickney,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\n[jabez Abbot,\\nJuly 4, Jacob Iloyt, Constable.\\nWilliam Coffin.\\nLt. Nath l Abbot.\\nDea. George Abbot,\\nEns. Jona. Chase,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nAbiel Lovejoy,\\nPeter Coffin,\\n[Dea. Joseph Hall.\\nf Nathaniel Eastman,\\nI William Coffin,\\nLt. Tho s Stickney,\\nI Dea. Joseph Hall,\\nI Ebenezer Hall,\\n[Ephraim Farnum.\\nJoseph Eastman, Jr.,\\nBenjamin Fitield,\\nJohn Bradley,\\nRichard Eastman,\\nDaniel Gale.\\nBenja. Hunniford.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nMarch 7, 1709.\\nCapt John Chandler.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nReuben Kimball,\\nF^benezer Hall,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nCapt. Peter Coffin.*\\nReuben Abbot,\\nRobert Davis,\\nMoses Eastman.\\nDavid Hall.\\nLt. Nathaniel Abbot.\\nLt. Timothy Bradley,\\nDea. George Abbot,\\nBenjamin Fitield,\\nEphraim Farnum, Jr.,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nEzekiel Diamond,\\nDea. Joseph Hall.\\nPhinchas Virgin,\\nRichard Herbert,\\nRobert Davis,\\nJacob Hoyt.\\n{John Bradley,\\nWilliam Virgin,\\nJoshua Abbot,\\nCh.andler Lovejoy.\\nRobert Eastman,\\nSamuel C jlby, Jr.,\\nJonathan Stickney,\\nJohn Bradley,\\nBenjamin Farnum.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "PARISH OFFICERS.\\n261\\nSitrvei/ors of Lumber,\\nPound-keeper,\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nTi/thingmen,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nMarch 6.1770.\\nAndrew McMillan.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.,\\nReuben Kimball,\\nBenjamin Emery.\\nD.auiel Carter.\\nCapt. Thomas Stickney\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nAmos Abbot.\\nDavid Hall.\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas., Nathaniel Abbot.\\nDea. Georire Abbot,\\nJohn Chandler, Jr.,\\nJoseph Hasseltinc,\\nDaniel Chase, Jr.,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nJames W.ilker,\\nRichard Eastman,\\n^urveijors of Highways,\\nFence-viewers,\\n{Pliinchas Virgin,\\nRichard Herbert,\\nEzekiel Diamond,\\nEphi aim Farnum, Jr.\\nJohn Bradlee,\\nFirld-drivers, Moses Eastman, Jr\\nJohn Chase, Abiel Chandler\\nJoseph Eastman, Jr.,\\nNathaniel Abbot, Jr.,\\nHof/reeves, Colman Hoyt,\\nNathan Colby,\\nSamuel Colby.\\nSurveijors of Lumber,\\nPound-keeper,\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nTgthingmrn,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wis. and Mea.\\nFence-\\nViewers,\\nJohn Kiml)al!,\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nMarch 3, 1772.\\nAndrew McMillan,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.,\\nJoseph Hall, Jr.,\\nPhinehas Virgin.\\nLt. Timothy Bradlee.\\nf Capt. Thomas Stickney\\nI Nathaniel West,\\niLt. John Cliandler,\\nEzekiel Diamond,\\nJosepli Farnum.\\nDavid Hall.\\nJoshua Abbot.\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nJohn Shute,\\nf Ebenezer Hall.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nHenry Martin.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nMarch .5, 1771.\\nAndrew McMillan.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.,\\nBenjamin Emery.\\nWilliam Coffin.\\nf Capt. Tho s, Stickney,\\nj Lt. Timothy Bradley,\\nj Benjamin Hanniford,\\n[Amos Abbot.\\nDavid Hall.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nWilliam Virgin,\\nAsa Kimball,\\nJacob Shute,\\nJonathan Chase,\\nJonathan Stickney,\\nBenjamin Emery,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nJabez Abbot.\\nCapt. Tho s Stickney,\\nPliinchas Virgin,\\nJames Walker,\\nEbenezer Hall,\\nj Dea. Joseph Hall,\\n1_ Ephraim Farnum, Jr.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nJonathan Men-ill,\\nRobert liastman.\\nCapt. Tho s Stickney,\\nSimon Trumble,\\nBenjamin Fifield,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nAbiel Chandler.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nSamuel Springer.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nMarch 9, 1773.\\nAndrew McMillan.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nJoseph Hall, Jr.\\nNathaniel West,\\nThomas Stickney,\\nJoseph Farnum.\\nEzekiel Diamond,\\nPhinehas Virgin.\\nBenjamin Emery.\\nJosliua Abbot,\\nf William Coffin,\\nI Rich d Hasseltinc, Jr.,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0j Ebenezer Virgin,\\nEphraim Farnum, Jr.,\\nJoseph Hasseltinc.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "262\\nPARISH OF CONCORD.\\nSurveyors of Highways,\\nField-drivers,\\nIlogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keeper,\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wis. and Mcas.\\nSurveyors of IL gliways,\\nFence-viewers,\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Liunher,\\nPound-keeper,\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nWilliam Virgin,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nHenry Beck,\\nJacob Sliute,\\nRobert Davis,\\nJohn Blanohard,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nJonathan Chase.\\ni Robert Eastman,\\nJohn Bradley,\\nJohn Chase.\\nf Simon Trumble,\\nDaniel Gale,\\nWilliam Currier,\\nEphraim Carter, Jr\\ni Philip Harriman,\\nAbiel Chandler,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nMarch 1, 1774.\\nPeter Green, Esq.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\ni Timothy Walker, Jr.,\\nEns. Reul)en Kimball,!\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nJohn Chandler, Jr.\\nThomas Stickney,\\nI Nathaniel West,\\nPJiinehas Virgin,\\nEzekicl Diamond,\\n[Joseph Farnum.\\nThomas Wilson,\\nJoshua Abbot.\\nRobert Davis,\\nEzekiel Diiimond,\\nThomas Stickney,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nNathan Abbot,\\nHenry Martin,\\nEbenezer Hall,\\nJohn Shute.\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nRichard Hasseltine, Jr.,\\nJonathan Stickney.\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nJohn Bradley,\\nEzekiel Diamond, Jr.\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nJames Hasseltine,\\nRichard Herbert.\\nDaniel Ciiase, Jr.,\\nDan Stickney,\\nStephen Farnum.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nHenry Martin.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nJacob Shute,\\nRobert Davis,\\nEzekiel Carter,\\nJabez Alibot,\\nWilliam Virgin,\\nMoses Sawyer,\\nEbenezer ilall,\\nMoses Eastman.\\nJohn Shute,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nRobert Eastman,\\nJoseph Farnum, Jr.,\\nPhilip Harriman.\\nJames Walker,\\nJoseph Abbot,\\nDaniel Chase, Jr.,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nJonathan Stickney,\\nRobert Eastman.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nPERIOD OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION FROM 1775 TO 1785.\\nAt the commencement of the Revolution the inhabitants of\\nConcord partook largely of the spirit of liberty, and of hatred\\nto the oppressive measures of the British government, that per-\\nvaded other portions of the country.\\nEarly in 1775 the popular feeling was manifested against\\nMajor Benjamix Thompson, afterwards Count Rumford. Mr.\\nThompson, then about twenty-two years of age, was a native of w-\\nWoburn, Massachusetts had been employed as a school teacher\\nin Concord for about three years previous. Having married\\nMrs. Sarah, widow of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., and daughter of\\nRev. Mr. Walker, he had visited Exeter and Portsmouth, became\\nacquainted with leading men in the Province, and attracted the\\nattention of Governor John Wentworth, from whom, in 1774, he\\nreceived the commission of major in the New-Hampshire militia.\\nBut as Gov. Wentworth was known to favor the cause of the\\ncrown rather than of the colonies, the people were suspicious of\\ntheir young townsman, because he consented to hold a commis-\\nsion under him. Another circumstance that more inflamed them,\\nwas, that two British officers, of Gen. Gage s army in Boston,\\nhad visited Concord on furlough, and been entertained at Major\\nThompson s house. These circumstances, added to the fact that\\nMr. Thompson spoke doubtfully of the American cause, were the\\noccasion of popular indignation against him. Tradition says that\\nmeasures were concerted by a number of the more zealous", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "264 TARISH OF CONCORD.\\npatriots to surround his house on a given evening, to seize his\\nperson, and then to treat him according to their judgment of his\\ndemerits but, being timely admonished, Major Thompson with-\\ndrew to his native town, where he found himself equally insecure.\\nIt is said that he in vain sought for service in the American\\ncause previous to the battle at Bunker Hill. Being every where\\nsuspected of tori/ism, he finally placed himself under the protec-\\ntion of Gen. Gage, in Boston,*\\nAs soon as the news of the battle at Lexington, April 19th,\\n1775, reached Concord, Capt. Abiel Chandler raised a volun-\\nteer company of thirty-six men, and marched to Cambridge, where\\nthey remained a fortnight. The names of this patriotic band, and\\nof others from Concord who hastened to the scene of blood, cannot\\nnow be ascertained.! But at a meeting, December 5th, it was\\nvoted, That Capt. Abiel Chandler and those that went under\\nhim to Cambridge, upon the alarm in April last, be paid by the\\nparish, at the same rate that other troops in this colony are paid.\\nIn May, 1775, a circular was received from a committee\\nappointed by the Congress at Exeter, calling for a Convention of\\nDeputies from the several towns in the Province, to meet at\\nExeter, May 17th, fully empowered and authorized to adopt\\nand pursue such measures as may be judged most expedient to\\npreserve the rights of this and the other Colonies; which\\ndeputies should hold their seats, if necessary, six months. Pur-\\nsuant to this, a town-meeting was immediately called, (May\\n11th,) and Timothy Walker, jr., elected to represent the inhab-\\nitants of Concord at the proposed General Convention for the\\nterm of six months. This Convention was composed of one\\nhundred and fifty-one delegates, and was styled the First Pro-\\nvincial Congress. J\\n*See Biographical Sketch of Count Riimford.\\nt Judge Patten, of Bedford, in his journal of April 21, 1775, speaking of the fight at Lex-\\nington the news of which he received on the 20th says:\\nOur John and John Dobbin and my bro r Samuel s two oldest sons, sett off and joined\\nDerrytiold men, and about six from Goffstown, and two or tijree more from this town, under\\nthe command of Capt. John Moores, of Derryfield they amounted to the No. of 45 in all.\\nSuncook men and two or three others that joined tliem marched in about an hour after-\\nThey amounted to 35. There was vine more went along after them, belonging to Pennykook, or\\nthere about, and I Went to McGregore s, and I got a pound of coftie on credit.\\nX See N. H. Register, 185-3, p. 40. Previous to this time both the Rev. Mr. Walker and\\nTimothy Walker, jr.. had attended a Convention at Exeter. See preceding Accounts, cfcc.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. 2G5\\nIn vain did the Governor, John Wentworth, attempt to repress\\nor control the spirit of liberty every -where awakened.\\nIn a private letter written by him about this time he says\\nOur hemisphere threatens a hurricane. I have in vain strove,\\nalmost to death, to prevent it. If I can at last bring out of it\\nsafety to my country and honor to my sovereign, my labors will\\nbe joyful. But he could do neither despairing of his efforts, and\\ndeeming his authority lost, and himself insulted by the proceedings\\nof the Provincial Assembly, in the month of September follow-\\ning he entirely withdrew from the government of the Province.*\\nThe fight at Lexington had kindled a patriotic flame all over\\nthe country. Companies were immediately formed, who hastened\\nto the scene of danger in the vicinity of Boston. Among these,\\nin the regiment commanded by Col. John Stark, were three com-\\npanies from Concord and neighboring towns, under the command\\nof Capt. Gordon Hutchins, Capt. Joshua Abbot and Capt.\\nAaron Kinsman. These all shared in the glory of the battle\\nat Bunker Hill, on the 17th of June, 1775.1\\nTradition says that in the battle Capt. Abbot s company was\\nstationed on the extreme left, without even the slight protection\\nafforded by the rail-fence, or heaps of hay, enjoyed by most of the\\nregiment.\\nThe losses sustained by the several companies from Concord,\\naccording to returns made, were estimated as follows\\nCAPT. GORDON HUTCHINS S COMPANY.\\nJt s. a.\\nDaniel Livermore, 2d Lieut., one gun, 3\\nWilliam Beard, 040\\nPratt Chase, 5 6\\nAlexander Patterson, 3\\nBenjamin Baker, 140\\nGeorge Shannon, 620\\nTotal, 10 l8 ~6\\nCAPT. JOSHUA abbot s COMPANY.\\nA s. a.\\nWilliam Mitchell, Jcilled, 7 3\\nAbiel Chandler, 2d Lieutenant, 5 2\\n12 5 ~0\\nBelknap s Hist., Ch. 24 1774 5.\\nfi^ee Muster Rolls, in Secretary s office, and names of men from Concord, in Hoc. No. 2,\\nChap. IX.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "266 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nCAPT. AARON KINSMAN S COMPANY.\\ns. d.\\nAaron Kinsman, 3\\nNathaniel Fox, 15\\nAbraham Kimball, lost a gun, 280\\nJohn Folsom, 1 16\\nThomas Frohawk, 1 18\\nAlexander Smith, 1 19\\nWilliam AVilley, 280\\nJames Aiken, 1 16\\nJohn Shirley,* 280\\nFrancis Knight, 110\\nSamuel Bean, 12\\nStephen Dudley, 030\\nEbenezer Bean, 6 12\\nJohn Manuel,-{- killed, 7 10 8\\nAlexander Shirley,* 2110\\nAdd for James Aiken, 140\\nTotal, 32 1 8\\nA census was taken this year of all the inhabitants of New-\\nHampshire, agreeably to an order of the General Assembly. In\\nConcord the enumeration was made by Abiel Chandler,^ whose\\nreturn was as follows\\nMales under sixteen years of age, 280\\nJNIales from sixteen to fifty years of age, not in the army, 186\\nAll males above fifty years of age, 36\\nPersons gone in the army, 46\\nAll females, 490\\nNegroes and slaves for life, 14\\nTotal, 1052\\nFire arms, 98.\\n*This may cartify that Alexander and John Shallery was in my company in Bunker Hill\\nfight, and Alexander Shallery lost a cot and siiapsack, to the valey of A 2 lis., and John\\nShallery lost a cot and jacket to the valey of \u00c2\u00a32 8.\u00c2\u00ab.\\nThis is a tliriie account as they to told soon after the fight. Aaron Kinsman Cant.\\nJune 10, 1776. [Copied from the original.]\\nf 1776, Jan. 30. Rec d of Timothy W alker, jr., seven pounds, ten shillings and eight\\npence, L m y, in full for my son John s loss at Bunker Hill last June also, six dollars in full\\nfor a coat and blanket promis d by the Colony of New-Hampshire.\\nVaron HIanual.\\nN. B. SaiiMManuel was in Capt. Kinsman s company. Col. Stark s regiment.\\nPaid Abiel Chandler, for surveying roads and taking the number of the people, \u00c2\u00a33 ids. 6(/.\\nTown Rec, 177.5.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 267\\nTimothy Walker, jr., was again chosen, December 5, to\\nrepresent the parish of Concord in General Congress, to be held\\nat Exeter the 21st day of December, 1775, for the term of one\\nyear, and was empowered to pursue such measures as he shall\\njudge necessary for the public good and in case there should be\\na recommendation from the Continental Congress that this colony\\nassume government in any particular form which will require a\\nHouse of Representatives, that they resolve themselves into such\\na House as the said Continental Congress shall recommend.\\n1776.\\nAt this General Congress New-Hampshire stood foremost\\namong the sister Colonies in opposition to the oppressions of the\\nBritish government. Agreeably to the trust reposed in them by\\ntheir constituents, having assumed the name and authority of a\\nHouse of Representatives, they proceeded to choose twelve per-\\nsons to be a distinct branch of the Legislature, by the name of a\\nCouncil, 9-nd adopted in fact a constitution, which, it is said, was\\nthe FiiiST adopted by any of the colonies, after the Revolution com-\\nmenced.! On the 11th of June, 1776, a committee was chosen\\nto make a draught of a Declaration of the General Assembly for\\nthe Independence of the United Colonies on Great Britain, to be\\ntransmitted to our delegates in Congress. This committee con-\\nsisted of Samuel Cutts, of Portsmouth, Timothy Walker, of Con-\\ncord, and John Dudley, who represented Raymond and Poplin.\\nOn the 15th of June the committee reported a draught of a\\nDeclaration or Independence, which was unanimously adopt-\\ned, and a copy forwarded to the Delegates from New-Hampshire\\nin Congress. Which of the committee had the honor of drawing\\nup this Declaration, we are not informed, but we claim a share\\nof the honor for our own representative.\\nThe New-Hampshire Declaration is as follows\\nWhereas it now appears an undoubted fact that notwithstanding\\nall the dutiful petitions and decent remonstrances from the American\\nDecember 27, 1775. Timothy Walker, Esq., and Samuel Hobart, Esq., were paymasters\\not the New-Hampshire troups, of the regiments commanded by Col. Stark, Poor and Reid.\\nJune 19, 1776, Colonel Walker was appointed Muster and Paymaster for Capt. Shepard s\\ncompany. Records, Secrcta7-ifs office.\\nfSee Belknap s N. H., 1776, Farmer s ed.,and X. H. Hist. Coll., vol. 4, p. 150.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "268 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\ncolonies, and the iitmost exertions of their best friends in England\\non their behalf, the British ministry, arbitrary and vindictive, are\\nyet determined to reduce by fire and sword our bleeding county, to\\ntheir absolute obedience and for this purpose, in addition to their\\nown forces, have engaged great numbers of foreign mercenaries, who\\nmay now be on their passage here, accompanied by a formidable\\nfleet to ravish and plunder the sea-coast from all which we may rea-\\nsonably expect the most dismal scenes of distress the ensuing year,\\nunless we exert ourselves by every means and precaution possible\\nand whereas we of this colony of New-Hampshire have the example\\nof several of the most respectable of our sister colonies before us for\\nentering upon that most important step of disunion from Great Brit-\\nain, and declaring ourselves free and independent of the crown\\nthereof, being impelled thereto by the most violent and injurious\\ntreatment and it appearing absolutely necessary in this most critical\\njuncture of our public affairs, that the Honorable the Continental\\nCongress, who Lave this important object under immediate consid-\\neration, should be also informed of our resolutions thereon without\\nloss of time, we do hereby declare that it is the opinion of this\\nAssembly that our delegates at the Continental Congress should be\\ninstructed, and they are hereby instructed, to join with the other\\ncolonies in declaring the thirteen united colonies a free and inde-\\npendent State solemnly pledging our faith and honor that we will\\non our parts support the measure with our lives and fortunes and\\nthat in consequence thereof they, the Continental Congress, on whose\\nwisdom, fidelity and integrity we rely, may enter into and form such\\nalliances as they may judge most conducive to the present safety and\\nfuture advantage of these American Colonies Provided, the regu-\\nlation of our own internal police be under the direction of our own\\nAssembly.\\nEntered according to the original,\\nAttest Noah Emery, Clr. D. Reps.\\nAbout this time the officers of an armed schooner belonging to\\nthe British, which had been seized, were sent to Concord as pris-\\noners of war.\\nTo the Sehxtmen of the Town of Concord, in the State of Neic-\\nIlampshire\\nExeter, January 4th, 1776.\\nGentlemen: The persons who aeconipany this, Mr. Richard\\nWillis, Mr. Joseph Hanwell, Mr. Alexander Reed Elliot, Mr. Owen\\nWilliams, and Mr. Magnus Banks, late officers of the armed schooner\\nGeorge, are now prisoners of the United States, and have given their\\nparole of honor to abide in the township of Concord, or within six\\nmiles thereof, during the present war, or until they are duly dis-\\ncharged, and that they will not, directly or indirectly, give any intel-\\nligence whatsovcr to the enemies of the Tnited States, or do or say", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "ADOPTION OF THE TEST. 269\\nany thing in opposition to or prejudice of the measures and proceed-\\nings of any Congress for the s;iid Colonies until said discharge.\\nYou are desired to see that the said gentlemen are provided with\\ngood lodgings in your town, where they can be well accommodated,\\nand if they are unable to pay the expense, this State will be answer-\\nable therefor, at a sum not exceeding twelve shillings per week each.\\nIn behalf of the Council and Assembly,\\nI am, gentlemen, your very humble serv t,\\nM. We ARE, Pre idoit.\\nSelectmen of Concord.\\nAt the meeting in March, 1776, Philip Eastman, Col. Thomas\\nStickney, Timothy Walker, Jr., Joseph Hall, Jr., and Richard\\nHarbut, were chosen a committee of safety for the parish of\\nConcord, for the year 1776.\\nThe duty of this committee was to transmit to the Congress,\\nor Committee of Safety for the Colony, the names and places of\\nabode of all such persons as they suspect to be any ways inimical\\nto this country, with the causes and evidence of such suspicions.\\nBut the better to secure the detection of all persons disaffected\\nto the cause of America, a test was recommended by the Conti-\\nnental Congress, which was adopted by the Provincial Congress\\nof New-Hampshire, and sent out to the several towns and\\nparishes for signatures. Of this, directed to the selectmen of\\nConcord, the following is a copy\\nTo the Select Men of Concord\\nCOLONY OF NEW-HAMPSniEE.\\nIn Committee of Safety,\\nApril 12, 1770. j\\nIn order to carry the underwritten Resolve of the Hon Conti-\\nnental Congress into execution, you are requested to desire all\\nMales above twenty-one years of age (Lunaticks, Idiots and Negroes\\nexcepted) to sign to the Declaration on this paper and when so\\ndone to make Return hereof, together with the name or names of all\\nwho shall refuse to sign the same, to the General Assembly, or\\nCommittee of Safety of this Colony.\\nM. We ARE, Chairman.\\nIn Congress, March 14, 1770\\nResolved, That it be recommended to the several Assemblies,\\nConventions, and Councils, or Committees of Safety of the United\\nColonies, immediateli/ to cause all Persons to be disarmed, within\\ntheir respective Colonies, who are notoriously/ disaffected to the cause", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "270\\nPARISH OF CONCORD.\\nof America, or who have not associated, and refuse to associate, to\\ndefend by Arms the United Colonies against the Hostile Attempts\\nof the British fleets and Armies.\\n(Copy.) Extract from the Minutes.\\nCharles Thompson, SecWy.\\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 and Properties of the\\nInhabitants of the United Colonies\\nWe, the Siihscrihcrs, 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.\\nReuben Kimball,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nThomas Stickney,\\nPeter Green,\\nTimy Walker, jr.,\\nBenjamin Emery,\\nJohn Bradley,\\nNathan Chandler,\\nAaron Stevens,\\nJames Walker,\\nRobert Davis,\\nBenj. Hanniford,\\nDaniel Gale,\\nDavid Hall,\\nSimon Danforth,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nNathaniel Rolfe,\\nStephen Grcenleaf,\\nSamuel Thompson,\\nJohn Gage,\\nMoses Eastman, jr.,\\nJacob Carter,\\nJohn Fowle,\\nBig\\nLevi X Ross,\\nJeremiah Bradley,\\nPeter Green, jr.,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nEphraira Farnum,\\nCornelius Johnson,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nRichard Flanders,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nRichard Haseltine,\\nJoseph Hall, jr.,\\nBenjamin Fifield,\\nReuben Abbott,\\nLot Colby,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nDaniel Chase,\\nDavid George,\\nJohn Stevens,\\nJohn Virgin,\\nPhineas Stevens,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nEbenezer Hall,\\nHenry Martin,\\nTimothy Siinonds,\\nWilliam Fifield,\\nReuben Abbot, jr.,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nTimo. Walker, [Rev.]\\nHenry Beck,\\nBenjamin Rolfe,\\nOliver Hoit,\\nTheodore Farnum,\\nEbenezer Farnum,\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nJohn Steven,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nSamuel Kinkson,\\nCaleb Buswell,\\nRichard Eastman,\\nSolomon Gage,\\nEzekiel Dimond, jr.,\\nAmos Abbot, jr.,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nJoseph Abbot,\\nJonathan Merrill,\\nJames Mitchell,\\nEzra Carter,\\nAsa Kimball,\\nJonathan Emerson,\\nTimothy Bradley, jr.,\\nJoseph Eastman,\\nPhineas Virgin,\\nWilliam Currier,\\nEbenezer Simond,\\nDan Stickney,\\nJosiah Farnum, jr.,\\nElisha Moody,\\nBenjamin Eastman,\\nJacob Green,\\nBenjamin Farnum,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nEphraim Potter,\\nEdward Abbott,\\nJonathan Stickney,\\nEph m Farnum, jr.,\\nWilliam Virgin,\\nObadiah Hall,\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nJosiah Farnum,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nStephen Kimball,\\nDaniel Hall,\\nAbner Flanders,\\nNathan Abbot,\\nJesse Abbot,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "ENLISTMENT IN THE SERVICE.\\n271\\nIsaac Abbot,\\nEphraim Abbot,\\nStephen Abbot,\\nGeorge Abbot, jr.,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nDaniel Farnura,\\nDaniel Chandler,\\nPhilip Carigain,\\nDaniel Carter,\\nJoseph Clough,\\nRichard Herbert,\\nGordon Hutchins,\\nJames Haseltine,\\nWilliam Haseltine,\\nSimon Trumbcl,\\nJohn Chase,\\nJohn Shute,\\nJacob Shute,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nJohn X Trumble,\\nmark.\\nJoseph Colby,\\nEphraim Fisk,\\nNathaniel Green,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nIsaac Walker,\\nEzra Badger,\\nRichard Flanders,\\nTimothy Farnham,\\nEzekiel Dimond,\\nJoseph Haseltine,\\nPhineas Kimball,\\nRobert Ambros,\\nBenjamin Sweat,\\nAbiel Blanchard,\\nBenjamin Elliot,__\\nJosepli Eastman, jr.,\\nRichard Potter,\\nTimothy Symonds,\\nPhilip Kimball,\\nTimotliy Kimball,\\nJohn Farnum,\\nEzekiel Carter,\\nRichard Hood,\\nHenry Lovejoy,\\nLemuel Tucker,\\nJacob Goodwin,\\nGeorge Graham,\\nJeremiah Wheeler,\\nZephaniah Pettey,\\nZebediah Farnum,\\nSamuel Goodwin,\\nAbner Farnum,\\nThomas Eaton. 156,\\nJames Stevens,\\nNot a single name was returned as disaffected still, as\\nwill appear from the proceedings next year, som were sus-\\npected, and, whether justly or not, were severely dealt with on\\nthat account.\\nMany of the soldiers in service at Bunker Hill enlisted for\\neight months, and marched this year to join the Continental\\nArmy in New- York. Capt. Joshua Abbot and Capt. Benjamin\\nEmery had command of companies.* Capt. Gordon Hutchins\\nwas promoted to lieutenant-colonel in Col. Nahum Baldwin s\\nregiment. On their march to New-York many of his soldiers\\nwere taken sick, and no medicines being provided in the public\\nstores, Col. Hutchins purchased a quantity for the use of his\\nsoldiers at his own expense being moved, as he said afterward,\\nin a petition to the General Assembly for remuneration, with\\npity and humanity towards the unhappy sufferers, and, also,\\nactuated from zeal for the public service. f\\n1777.\\nThis year, March 4th, Messrs. John Kimball, Thomas Stickney,\\nReuben Kimball, Benjamin Emery and Bichard Harbut, were\\nSee names of men from Concord in said companies in Doc. No. 2, fur Cliap. IX.\\nf March 17, 1777, Lt. Col. Gordon Hutchins was allowed and paid out of the treasury of\\nNew-Hampshire, \u00c2\u00a33 6j. Gd. in full for his account of medicines for Col. Baldwin s regi-\\nment, procured by him of Dr. Samuel Tweedy, Stamford, Connecticut, October 3, 1776.\\n[Army Rolls, vol. i., B., pp. 10, 11.]", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "272 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nappointed a committee of safety. Col. Gordon Hutchins was\\nchosen representative and a vote was passed to reconsider\\nthe former vote of the parish, passed March 7, 1775, for leasing\\nthe eighty acre lot belonging to the school right, to Oliver Hoyt\\nfor nine hundred years he paying the parish six dollars annu-\\nally and it was voted, that instead of said Hoyt paying six\\ndollars annually, the selectmen are directed to receive of him\\none hundred dollars, in full consideration for said lot; and\\nthat the selectmen be directed to lay out the one hundred\\ndollars which they shall receive of Oliver Hoyt for the eighty\\nacre lot, /or a toivn stock of ammunition.^\\nAbout this time certain prominent individuals were suspected\\nof disaflection to the American cause, notwithstanding they had\\nsigned the Association Test. Hence the following votes were\\npassed March 4th\\nVoted, That this Parish will break off all dealings with Peter\\nGreen, Esq., Mr. John Stevens, Mr. Nathaniel Green and Dr. Philip\\nCaragain, untill they give satisfaction to the Parish for their past\\nconduct and that they be advertised in the Public Prints as Enemies\\nto the United States of America, unless said Persons give said satis-\\nfaction within thirty days from this date; and that the above Persons\\nbe disarmed by the Committee of Safety untill they give satisfaction\\nto the Public.\\nVoted, That the Committee be directed to instruct Col. Gordon\\nHutchins to apply to the Courts of Judicature of this State to dismiss\\nPeter Green, Esq., from all Business henceforth and forever.\\nVoted, That if any Persons have any Dealings with Peter Green,\\nEsq., Mr. John Stevens, Mr. Nathaniel Green and Dr. Philip Cara-\\ngain, before they give satisfaction to the Public, that they be looked\\nupon as Enemies to their Country by this Parish.\\nVoted, That the Committee of Safety be directed to instruct Col.\\nGordon Hutchins to apply to Capt. Parker,, the Sheriff for the County\\nof Rockingham, to dismiss Mr. Jacob Green from the office of Deputy\\nff- A true copy-\\nExamined by Timothy Walker, Jr., Clerk.\\nIn accordance with the spirit of the above votes, some of the\\nzealous liberty men of the west part of the town meditated\\nsomething a little more personal. About nine o clock, one\\nmorning. Col. Timothy Walker had just mounted his horse to\\nride away on business, when he observed a considerable number\\nof West Parish men walking with quick steps by the meeting-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "ARRESTS FOR TORYISM. 273\\nhouse, towards Main street and behind them, at some distance,\\nJohn Bradley, Esq., with a more deliberate step, and apparently\\nin deep thought. Meeting at the corner, by Mr. Hanniford s\\nhouse. Col. Walker said Good morning, Esq. Bradley what s\\ngoing on I thought I would walk down and see, said Mr.\\nBradley. They followed on, and found the West Parish men at\\nMother Osgood s tavern, in high excitement, threatening to\\ngo at once and pull down Esq. Peter Green s house. On the\\narrival of Col. Walker and jMr. Bradley, they entered into a\\ndiscussion with the West Parisli men on the merits of the case,\\nand detained them from executing their purpose till near sun-\\ndown. Then, inviting them all into Mother Osgood s tavern,\\nthey called for bowls of punch, and treated the company liberally.\\nAll being by this time in a better mood. Col. Walker made a brief\\nspeech, which he closed by saying livery man to Ids tent,\\nIsraeli and they quietly dispersed without tearing down\\nEsq. Green s house\\nHowever, soon after this, Peter Green, Esq., John Stevens,\\nand others, were arrested, carried to Exeter, and confined in\\njail.* Liberty was granted them to take the oath of allegiance,\\nas a condition of release, which all did except John Stevens.\\nHe swore he was as good a friend to his country as any\\nwho had caused his arrest, and he never would take the oath\\nrequired. He was finally discharged from jail, by special order\\nof the Legislature, in 1778. The town also voted, March 4, 1783,\\nto reconsider the vote formerly passed to break off all dealings\\nwith Mr. John Stevens, and that said vote be made null and\\nvoid. t\\nMay 22d, a committee was chosen to carry into execution an\\nact for regulating prices of sundry ar tides.\\nJuly 5th, Lieut. Col. Gerrish, of Boscawen, raised a company\\nin Concord and adjacent towns, for the relief of the garrison at\\n1777. Dr. State of JVcw-Hampshire to Thomas Stickney.\\nMay. To apprehending Peter Green, Esq., John Stevens, Capt. Jeremiah Cloiigh [of Can-\\nterbury] and Richard Ellison, by order of the Committee of Safety 6 days, at\\n6s. to e.xpence, 36a horse, 6s., JE3 18\\nTo hiring a guard of 3 men 3 days, 6 6\\nt For further notice of Stevens, see Biographical Sketches.\\nX See Document No, 1, Chap. IX.\\n18", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "274 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nTiconderoga. Ne^N s of the evacuation of the fort soon arrived,\\nand the company was disbanded.\\nThe year 1777 is memorable on account of the battle of Ben-\\nnington, in which Gen. John Stark, with his New-Hampshire\\nvolunteers, defeated Col. Baum, and thus ultimately led to the\\ndefeat and capture of Gen. Burgoyne.\\nNever did men enter more heartily into any service than did\\nthe soldiers from Concord, who joined Gen. Stark s regiment for\\nthe purpose of cutting oflF Burgoyne in his march from Canada\\nthrough Vermont to New- York. When the news of Burgoyne s\\nexpedition reached New-Hampshire, the General Assembly,\\nwhich had closed its spring session, was immediately recalled.\\nJohn Langdon was Speaker of the House. Col. Hutchins was\\nrepresentative from Concord. The highest enthusiasm prevailed.\\nIt was understood that Gen. John Stark, who had retired to his\\nfarm in affront, because he had been superseded in the conti-\\nnental service, would take command of any volunteers that New-\\nHampshire would raise, and march at once to the scene of\\ndanger. Accordingly he received a commission of brigadier-\\ngeneral from the New-Hampshire government. John Langdon,\\nin the ardor of his patriotism, said I have X3000 in money,\\nand fifty hogsheads of rum and I will pawn my house and plate\\nfor all they are worth, if Gen. Stark will take command of the\\nNew-Hampshire troops to cut off Burgoyne adding, If we\\no-ain our independence I shall be repaid if not, it matters not\\nwhat becomes of my property. As soon as it was decided to\\nraise volunteer companies and place them under command of\\nGen. Stark, Col. Hutchins mounted his horse, and traveling all\\nnight, with all possible haste, reached Concord on Sabbath after-\\nnoon, before the close of public service. Dismounting at the\\nmeeting-house door, he walked up the aisle of the church while\\nMr. Walker was preaching. Mr. Walker paused in his sermon,\\nand said Col. Hutchins, are you the bearer of any message\\nYes, replied the Colonel Gen. Burgoyne, with his army, is\\non his march to Albany. Gen. Stark has offered to take the\\ncommand of New-Hampshire men and, if we all turn out, we\\ncan cut off Burgoyne s march. Whereupon Rev. Mr. Walker\\nsaid My hearers, those of you who are willing to go, better", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON. 275\\nleave at once. At which word all the men in the meeting-house\\nrose and went out. Many immediately enlisted. The whole\\nnight was spent in preparation, and a company was ready to\\nmarch next day. Phinehas Virgin said I can t go, for I\\nhave no shoes to which Samuel Thompson, a shoe-maker,\\nreplied Do n t be troubled about that, for you shall have a\\npair before morning, which w\\\\as done. The late Jonathan East-\\nman, senior, Esq., was in similar want of shoes, and a new pair\\nwas also made for him before morning.*\\nBelonging to Stark s brigade at Bennington were twenty-eight\\nmen from Concord. They did not, however, all arrive in season\\nfor the fight, which issued in so glorious a victory. Col. Thomas\\nStickney, Lieut. Richard Herbert, Jesse Abbot, John Abbot,\\nElias Abbot, Abner Flanders, Samuel Kinkson, John Peters and\\nTimothy Johnson were in the battle. Col. Stickney particularly\\ndistinguished himself. His regiment was ordered to attack the\\nbreast-work which the tories had thrown up. Gen. Stark thus\\nspeaks of him in his official dispatch to the Legislature of New-\\nHampshire, August 18th: The 16th, I was joined by this\\nState s militia, and those of Berkshire county. I divided my\\narmy into three divisions, and sent Col. Nichols, with two hun-\\ndred and fifty men, on the rear of their left wing. Col. Ken-\\ndrick, on the rear of their right, with three hundred men, was\\nordered, when joined, to attack the same. In the mean time I\\nsent three hundred more to oppose the enemy s front, to draw\\nthe attention that way. Soon after I detached the Colonels,\\nHubbard and Stickney, on their right wing, with two hundred\\nmen, to attack that part, all which plans had their desired effect.\\nOur people behaved with the greatest spirit and bra-\\nvery imaginable had they been Alexanders or Charleses of\\nSweden, they could not have behaved better.\\nCol. Gordon Hutchins, who raised a volunteer company of\\nabout thirty men, in Concord, hastened as fast as possible towards\\nBennington, but did not arrive in time to share in the battle.\\nThe names of the volunteers in his company cannot be definitely\\nascertained.\\nCapt. Joshua Abbot had command of a company in Col. Ger-\\nTradition related by Jacob Hoyt, Esq.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "276 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nrisli s regiment, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0v^ hIcll company marched from Concord and\\ntowns adjacent, to reinforce the Northern Continental Army at\\nSaratoga, September, 1777.\\nAmong the men enrolled in Capt. Abbot s company was ^Vil-\\nliam Clement, from Bradford, who was also in the Bennington\\nbattle, in Col. Stickney s regiment, which attacked the tory\\nbreast-work. As he rushed up to the works, a tory thrust a bay-\\nonet at him he struck it aside, and drove his own through his\\nopponent s eye and head with such force, that the bayonet came\\noff, and remained in the tory s head. When they buried the slain,\\nthe soldiers told Clement to take his bayonet out of the man s\\nhead but he declared he would never touch it again, and the\\nbody was buried in that condition.*\\nThe tories who were taken captives in the Bennington battle\\nwere ordered to be tied in pairs, and these pairs connected by\\na rope, to which a horse was harnessed with a postillion mounted\\nto lead them away. The ladies of Bennington dismantled their\\nbeds to furnish cords for the purpose, and rendered other services\\nequally patriotic\\nOn the 8th of September, this year, the selectmen, together\\nwith Lieut. Joseph Hall, Timothy Walker, jr., and Ezekiel\\nDimond, were appointed a committee to settle with all persons\\nwho have done service in the army. It was voted, that the\\nexpense of the Continental soldiers raised by the Parish of\\nConcord shall be paid by the Parish and that the sum of four\\nhundred and sixty pounds, lawful money, be raised upon the\\nratable polls and estate of the inhabitants for that purpose.\\n1778.\\nCONVENTION TO FORM A PLAN OF GOVERNMENT.\\nAt a meeting, January 26, 1778, Col. Thomas Stickney, Rep-\\nresentative in the General Assembly, was instructed to use\\nhis influence in order that a full and free representation of the\\npeople be called as soon as conveniently may be, for the sole\\npurpose of laying a permanent plan or system for the future\\nStark s Life, p. 195, note, f Stark s Life.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "DEPRECIATION OF THE CONTINENTAL MONEY. 277\\ngovernment of the State. A convention was agreed upon, to\\nbe held at Concord the following June.\\nPreparatory to the convention, Messrs. James Walker, John\\nBradley and Amos Abbot, were appointed a committee to\\nrepair the meeting-house so far as is necessary. On the 10th\\nof June following, a convention of seventy-three delegates assem-\\nbled in it to form a new constitution. Timothy Walker, jr., was\\nthe delegate from Concord. Among other distinguished members\\nwere John Langdon, of Portsmouth, Matthew Thornton and John\\nBell, from Londonderry Josiah Bartlett, of Kingston, Joseph\\nBadger, of Gilmanton, Timothy Farrar, of New-Ipswich, and\\nSamuel Emerson, of Chester. This convention did not complete\\nits labors till the 5th of Juno, 1779. The constitution was then\\nsent out to the people and was totally rejected In Concord the\\nvote was twenty-six for, and twenty-five against it.\\nTHE CURRENCY.\\nAt this time great difficulty was experienced from the depre-\\nciation of the continental money, which was a paper currency, in\\nthe form of bills of credit. As these bills sunk in value, the\\nnominal sum necessary to be raised for current expenses in-\\ncreased. As a remedy for the evil, in September, 1779, a\\nconvention was held in Concord, pursuant to a request from the\\ntown of Portsmouth, recommending such a convention, for the\\npurpose of apjjreciating the currency, by regulating the prices,\\nc. Major Jonathan Hale and Timothy Walker, Esq., were\\nchosen delegates to attend this convention. The convention was\\nprobably held in the room fitted up in the store of John Stevens,\\nEsq. On the 18th of October the town chose for a committee\\nto regulate prices, c., Messrs. Jonathan Hale, Thomas\\nWilson, Aaron Kinsman, Jonathan West, David Hall, Reuben\\nKimball, Joseph Hall, jr., and James Walker but whether this\\ncommittee did any thing in addition to what was done by the\\ncommittee appointed in 1777, does not appear from any thing\\non record.*\\nIn 1780, ,\u00c2\u00a39.000 were voted to be raised to pay Mr. Walker s\\nSee Prices, c., in Document No. 1, Cliap. IX.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "In Dec,\\n7300\\nIn Jan y, 1781,\\n7500\\nIn June,\\n7800\\n278 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nsalary for the current year, and what was due for the last two\\nyears. Laborhig men, that worked on the highways, were al-\\nlowed six pounds per day. Not finding X 9.000 sufficient to pay\\ntheir minister, the parish voted to raise 30.000 in addition; and\\nnext year, 1781, they voted to raise .\u00c2\u00a350.000\\nContinental paper money was at this time estimated, by the\\nNew-Hampshire Legislature, as follows\\nIn Jan y, 1780, \u00c2\u00a32934 continental money, equal to \u00c2\u00a3100 silver.\\nIn July, 6000 100\\n100\\nu u u 100\\na u u 100\\nFrom this period till the close of the Revolution all the\\nmeasures recommended by the Continental Congress, or by the\\nCouncil of Safety of New-Hampshire, to carry on the war, were\\npromptly responded to. In 1778, Lieut. Joseph Hall, Capt.\\nJoshua Abbot, John Kimball, James Walker and Lieut. John\\nChandler were the Committee of Safety. It was voted, that\\nan average be made in hiring the continental soldiers and a\\ncommittee was appointed to examine into what every man has\\ndone in the war. In 1779 Lieut, John Chandler, Col. Thomas\\nStickney, and Capt. Aaron Kinsman, were chosen a committee\\nof Safety and a committee appointed to procure eight soldiers,\\nas the proportion which Concord was required to raise, to fill up\\nthe continental army. On the 4th of July, 1780, it was voted\\nto give the soldiers that have lately engaged to serve six\\nmonths in the continental army, ten bushels of Indian corn per\\nmonth, or money equal thereto. A committee was also chosen,\\nto procure fifteen soldiers for the army.\\nIn January, 1781, sixteen more soldiers were called for, and\\na committee ;i pointed, to whom discretionary power was given in\\nprocuring said soldiers. In exercising their discretion, com-\\nmittees appointed by towns sometimes hired men belonging to\\nother places and hence among the men returned for Concord\\nwe find the names of some who never had a residence among\\nus.* On the 6th of February it was voted to raise one\\nSee the names of soldiers from Concord, in Document No. 2., Cliap. IX.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. 279\\nthousand Spanish milled dollars, in order to enable the parish to\\nprocure the soldiers that are now called for to fill up the conti-\\nnental army.\\n1781-3.\\nIn 1781 another convention was called, to be held in Concord,\\nfor the purpose of forming a plan of government.* Col. Timo-\\nthy Walker was chosen delegate. Concord seems to have been\\nchosen for the place of meeting, as mid-way between the towns\\non the coast and those along the Connecticut river, which were\\nthen rising into importance, and respecting which a controversy\\nwas then pending between Vermont and New-Hampshire. Tra-\\ndition says that the sessions of the convention were mostly held\\nin the hall over the store of John Stevens, Esq., and that the\\nmembers found the tavern of Mother Osgood in very conve-\\nnient proximity. However that may be, they made slow progress\\nin their labor, and met with poor success when they submitted\\nthe draft of their new Constitution to the people. The con-\\nvention first met on the 5th of June, and after a session of a few\\ndays, they appointed a committee of seven to draft the form of a\\nconstitution, and then adjourned to September 14th, next. At\\nthe adjourned meeting the committee made their report, and a\\nform of Constitution was agreed upon seven hundred copies\\nordered to be printed, and distributed to each town and place\\nthroughout the State, with the request that when acted upon by\\nthe people, if rejected in whole or in part, reasons might be\\nassigned therefor, and the same returned with the state of the\\nvotes. The convention then adjourned to the fourth Wednesday\\nin January, 1782. When the convention met in January it was\\nfound that the constitution was rejected.\\nThe meeting to act on the proposed constitution was held in\\nConcord January 21st, 1782 then it was put to vote to see if\\nthe parish would accept the plan of government, as it now stands,\\nand there appeared forty-eight against said plan, and none for it\\nVoted, To have a town representation.\\nVoted, To have a Governor at the head of the Legislative\\nbody.\\nSee N. H. Register for 1852, and vol. IV. N. H. Hist. Coll., p. 154 -ICl, c.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "280 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nVoted, That the Governor shall not have a Privy Council.\\nVoted, That the people at large shall appoint their militia\\nofficers.\\nThe convention next adjourned to the third Wednesday in Au-\\ngust following, when they again met and agreed upon another\\nform of constitution, which, upon being submitted to the people,\\nwas also rejected\\nThis constitution was acted upon by the people of Concord,\\nDecember 16, 1782. Col. Thomas Stickney was chosen mod-\\nerator. Then the question was put to receive the plan of gov-\\nernment as it now stands, (there being fifty-two voters present.)\\nand it was rejected hy the ivliole!^^\\nThen some amendments were proposed, which are as fol-\\nloweth, viz.\\nThat the Governor and Privy Council be left out, and that\\nthere be a President, a Legislative Council and a House of Rep-\\nresentatives and that the powers which are vested in a Gov-\\nernor and Council be vested in the Council and House of Repre-\\nsentatives.\\nThen the question was put to receive the plan of government\\nwith the above amendments, and it was received by thirty.\\nThe convention met again, according to adjournment, on the\\nlast Tuesday in December, and finding their second constitution\\nrejected, still not disheartened, adjourned to meet again\\nin June, 1783, when, after due deliberation, they agreed upon a\\nthird form of a constitution, had it printed and sent out to the\\npeople for their approval or rejection. Then the convention\\nadjourned to October 31, 1783. On assembhng and counting\\nthe votes as returned, they found the constitution was accepted\\nby the people and on the same day, the form was declared to\\nbe the civil constitution of the State of New-Hampshire.\\nAt the meeting in Concord, September 29, 1783, to act on\\nthe proposed constitution.\\nVoted, To receive the constitution of government as altered\\nby the convention in June last. Twenty in favor of it and ten\\nagainst it.\\nThus the convention, which commenced its labors June 5th,\\n1781, held, as appears by the records, at least seven different", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "THE RETURN OF PEACE. 281\\nsessions, and succeeded at the third trial, after a period of two\\nyears, four months and twenty-six days, in forming a constitution\\nwhich the people approved and adopted, and which was estab-\\nlished October 31, 1783.*\\nIn the warrant for the town-meeting, September 29, 1783,\\nwas an article, To see if the parish will vote to alter the\\neighth article of the confederation of the United States, agreea-\\nble to the recommendation of Congress.\\nUpon which, Voted^ Not to alter the eighth article of the\\nconfederation of the United States, agreeable to the recommend-\\nation of Congress.\\nThe article referred to was as follows\\nArt. VIII. All charges of war, and all other expenses that\\nshall be incurred for the common defence or general warfare, and\\nallowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed\\nout of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several\\nStates, in proportion to the value of all land within each State,\\ngranted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings\\nand improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode\\nas the United States in Congress assembled, shall from time to time\\ndirect and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be\\nlaid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of\\nthe several States within the time agreed upon by the United States\\nin Congress assembled.\\nIn 1783 the Revolutionary War was brought to a close and\\nour National Independence established. Peace was proclaimed\\nin the army on the 19th of April. The soldiers who survived\\nthe conflicts in which they had valiantly fought for the rights of\\ntheir country, returned home to enjoy the blessings which had\\nbeen pui-chased at so dear a price. f Some of our men, as we\\nhave seen, marched at the first sound of war, to Lexington they\\nfaced the enemy on the heights of Bunker Hill experienced\\ngreat privations and suflerings in the Northern Army, at Ticon-\\nderoga, and under Arnold at Quebec met and conquered the\\nenemy, under the gallant Stark, at Bennington were at the\\ncapture of Burgoyne at Saratoga some had the honor of\\n*See N. H. Hist. Coll., vol. 4, pp. 1G2-173. N. H. Register, 1852, pp. Q2-27, where also\\nis a list of Delegates.\\nt For the names of all the soldiers from Concord, who are known to have been in the war\\nof the Revolution, the places where they served, c., see Document No. 2, Chap. IX.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "282 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nsuffering with Washington at Valley Forge, and of sharing in his\\nvictories at Princeton and Trenton some were at the scene\\nof blood in Wyoming, and in short had participated in all the\\ndangers, sufferings and glory incident to the war.\\nMISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND INTERESTING INCIDENTS\\nDURING THE PERIOD OF THE REVOLUTION.\\nSMALL-POX.\\nIn July, 1775, Dr. Philip Carrigain visited a patient in a\\nneighboring town, who, as it proved, had the small-pox. The\\ndoctor took it in the natural way. The nature of the disease\\nwas not discovered until John, son of Mr. Nathaniel West, who\\nlived on the opposite side of the street from Dr. C, also took the\\ndisease. The doctor inoculated his own family, consisting of five\\nmembers, who all recovered. Mr. West s family consisted of\\nnine six of whom had the disease in the natural way, the others\\nescaped. Mr. West died, aged fifty-eight. It was first known\\non Saturday that the small-pox was in town. So great was the\\nalarm, that the next morning, Sunday^ the inhabitants assembled\\nen masse, and commenced the erection of a pest-house, in a\\ngrove west of the late residence of Capt. Benjamin Emery\\nnow of Ebenezer S. Towle and such was the zeal with which\\nthey applied themselves to the work, that by night the timber for\\na convenient house, to consist of four rooms, had been felled,\\nhewed, framed and raised the boards for covering, and brick\\nfor the chimney, were drawn to the ground. Dr. Carrigain and\\nMs family remained at their own house. Fences were run across\\nthe street to cut off all communication, and a road was opened\\nthrough the fields. Mr. West s family was conveyed to the pest\\nhouse. The expense of building the house was paid by the town,\\namounting to forty pounds, lawful money.\\nANDREW STONE.\\nIn the warrant for the annual meeting, March 7, 1780, was\\nan article to see if the parish will choose an agent to prosecute", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 283\\nthose persons who pulled clo^Yn the house of Andrew Stone, and\\nsee what provision thej will make for the support of his wife.\\nAndrew Stone was a soldier from Concord, in the Continental\\nArmy his house was in the southwest part of the town, on the\\nroad southeast of Mr. Ira Abbot s. Tradition says that during\\nhis absence in the army, one of Mr. Stone s daughters did not\\nbehave so well as the neighbors thouo;ht a fair and cliaste maiden\\nshould do, and they undertook to correct her manners at least\\nto testify their virtuous disapproval by pulling the house down.\\nWhether the girl behaved any better afterwards, tradition saith\\nnot. But the law and order people of Concord chose Capt.\\nBenjamin Emery an agent to prosecute those persons that\\npulled down Andrew Stone s house.\\nLOTTERY CURRENCY.\\nIn 1781 Col. Timothy Walker was chosen agent to petition\\nthe General Court for liberty to make a lottery for building a\\nbridge over Merrimack river. This petition w^as not granted but\\nabout three years afterwards, on petition of Henry Gerrish and\\nothers, a lottery was granted for raising the sum of sixteen\\nhundred dollars, to be laid out on the falls in Merrimack river, for\\nthe more easy conveyance of timber down the same. Timothy\\nWalker, Esq., Gen. John Stark, Robert McGregore, Esq., Capt.\\nReuben Kimball, and Peter Green, Esq., were appointed managers,\\nand laid under oath for the faithful discharge of their trust.*\\nIn 1782 the currency became better regulated. Four hundred\\npounds lawful silver money were raised to defray parish expenses.\\nOwing to delinquency in paying the minister s salary in former\\nyears. Col. Timothy Walker, Capt. Benj. Emery and Peter\\nGreen, Esq., were appointed a committee to request the Rev.\\nMr. Walker to sue those persons who have been delinquent in\\npaying his salary from the year 1749 to the year 1765. It\\ndoes not appear that the parson ever comphed with the request.\\nRICHARD POTTER DR. CARRIGAIN.\\nMr. Richard Potter was this year exempted from paying taxes.\\nThe reason of this is understood to have been the loss of one of\\n*Act, Feb. Session, 1785.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "284 PARISH OF CONCORD.\\nhis legs. Mr. P. was logging in Loudon, three or four miles\\nfrom home. A large log which his team was drawing on a side-\\nhill, suddenly slid and caught his leg between it and a small tree.\\nThe bruise was so severe as to endanger his life. A council of\\nphysicians was called, a majority of whom concluded that Mr.\\nPotter must die, and it was of no use to cut his leg off. But,\\nafter the other doctors had left, Dr. Carrigain said, Potter\\nmight be saved, and the leg should be cut off. Accordingly,\\ncutting round the flesh, just below the knee, the doctor took a\\nsaw, which he brought with him, and commenced operating but\\nfinding the saw very dull, he stopped and requested Benjamin\\nThompson, a neighbor, to run home, about a quarter of a mile,\\nand get a sJiarper saw. With this the operation was finished.\\nMr. Potter was insensible at the time, but the next night after\\nthe operation he knew the watchers. His leg was cut off close\\nto the knee. The bone was left bare and smooth. In order to\\nmake the skin heal over. Dr. C. ordered New-England rum to\\nbe heated and poured slowly on, while the bone was picked and\\nroughened with an awl\\nMr. Potter, after a long confinement, was able to get about\\nand, being somewhat of a mechanical genius, he constructed for\\nhimself a wooden leg, with which he could not only zvalk com-\\nfortably, but could even run and wrestle. Mr. Potter lived\\nmany years afterwards in good health. He died July 6, 1828,\\naged eighty-four years.*\\nDEATH OF REV. MR. WALKER.\\nThe venerable pastor, who, more than fifty years before had\\ncome, with his flock, into the wilderness, was now released from\\nhis charge. He died suddenly on the first of September,\\n1782, in the seventy-eighth year of his age and fifty-second of\\nhis ministry.! His funeral, conducted by a committee of the\\nparish, was attended by the great body of the people, who\\nmourned as for a father Neighboring ministers attended as\\npall-bearers, and a funeral discourse was preached by Rev. Mr.\\nWoodman, of Sanbornton.\\nSee Potter Family. f See Biographical Notice of Rev. Mr. Walker.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 285\\nThe funeral charges were defrayed by the parish, and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2were as follows\\ns. d.\\nTo eight rings, 4 IG\\ntwo gallons wine, 1 40\\na coffin, 90\\nbeers, IG\\na horse to Sanbornton, 30\\ndo. to Gilmanton, 30\\ndo. to Warner, 23\\ndigging the grave, 20\\nprovisions, 1 23\\ngrave-stones, 4 40\\n12 7\\nThe first business of the parish, October 21, after the funeral\\nof Mr. Walker, was to choose a committee to supply the\\npulpit, viz. Col. Timothy Walker, John Kimball and Capt.\\nReuben Kimball.\\nTHE MEETING-HOUSE.\\nMeasures had been some time in progress for the repair and\\nfinishing of the meeting-house. In 1779 the parish oifered to\\ngive up the pew ground to any number of persons who will finish\\nthe meeting-house, and add a porch, and the value of another\\nporch and also agreed to be at the expense of building a\\nsteeple. In 1782 a committee was appointed to treat with\\nthe proprietors of the meeting-house, and see upon what terms\\nthey will rehncjuish the same to the parish. In July, of this\\nyear, the purchase was made, and the meeting-house conveyed\\nto the parish.*\\nKnow all Men by These Presents, That we, Timothy Bradley, Gentleman, Moses East-\\nman, Gentleman, Nathaniel Eastman, Yeoman, Lot Colby, Husbandman, and Jonathan\\nEastman, Gentleman, and Joseph Eastman, Gentleman, all of Concord, in the County of\\nRockingham, and State of New-Hampshire For and in consideration of Ten pounds,\\nLawful money, paid us by Peter Green, Esq., David Hall, Cordwainer, Benjamin Emery,\\nGentleman, John Kimball, Joiner, and Benjamin Hanniford, Joiner, a Committee Legally\\nChosen by the Parish of Concord to purchase of said Bradley, Moses Eastman, and Nathaniel\\nEastman, Lot Colby, and Jonathan Eastman, and Joseph Eastman, all their Right and\\nproperty in a certain Meeting-House in said Concord, and a Lot of Land, containing Ono\\nAcre and half, upon which the greatest part of said .Meeting-House Standeth, Laid out to\\nthe Original Right of Zachariah Chandler, Alias Nathan Fisk, for the Sole use and benefit of\\nsaid Parish forever; have given, granted, sold and released, and by these presents do give.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "286\\nPARISH OF CONCORD.\\nThe next year (1783) the meeting-house was finished. The\\nsteeple, built by Mr. Ejihraim Potter, was framed and finished\\ninside of the lyorcli, and then raised by means of tackling of\\nMr. Potter s contrivance. One object in putting the meeting-\\nhouse in order at this time was to accommodate the General\\nCourt, which had begun to hold its sessions in Concord. The\\nfirst session was held here March 13, 1782. At first they con-\\nvened in the meeting-house, but, on account of the inclemency\\nof the weather, adjourned to a building which had been prepared\\nfor their reception. This is understood to have been in the\\nnorth room of the store built by Judge Walker, two or three\\nrods south of his dwelling-house.\\nThe following table, carefully drawn from the original records\\nof the House of Representatives, will show at what times the\\nGeneral Court met in Concord previous to 1816, when it became\\nthe permanent seat of government and capital of the State\\nIMarch 13,\\n1782\\nJune 2,\\n1790\\nNovember 23,\\n1803\\nJune 11,\\n1782\\nJanuary 5\\nJ\\n1791\\nJune 6,\\n1804\\nSeptember 10,\\n1782\\nJune 1,\\n1791\\nNovember 21,\\n1804\\nJune 10,\\n1783\\nJune 5,\\n1793\\nJune 5,\\n1805\\nOctober 28,\\n1783\\nDecember\\n16,\\n1794\\nJune 1,\\n1808\\nDecember 17,\\n1783\\nDecember\\n9\\n1795\\nNovember 23,\\n1808\\nJune 2,\\n1784\\nNovember\\n23,\\n1796\\nJune 7,\\n1809\\nFebruary 9,\\n1785\\nJune 7,\\n1797\\nJune 6,\\n1810\\nOctober 19,\\n1785\\nNovember\\n21,\\n1798\\nJune 5,\\n1811\\nJune 7,\\n1786\\nJune 5,\\n1799\\nJune 3,\\n1812\\nJune 6,\\n1787\\nJune 4,\\n1800\\nNovember 18,\\n1812\\nJune 4,\\n1788\\nNovember\\n19,\\n1800\\nJune 2,\\n1813\\nNovember 5,\\n1788\\nJune 2,\\n1802\\nJune 1,\\n1814\\nJune 3,\\n17S9\\n_ 1\\nJune 1,\\n1- _ J\\n1803\\nJune 7,\\n1815\\nThe meeting-house was finished in what was considered a\\nsuperior style. The entrances were at a door in the middle, on\\nGrant, bargain, sell, release, convey and Confirm to the said Green, Hall, Emery, Kimball\\nand Hanniford, for the use aforesaid, their Heirs and Assigns forever, all our Right, title,\\nproperty and Demand of, in, and unto the aforesaid Meeting-House and Land, for the use\\nand Benefit of said Parish forever hereby engaging to Warrant and Defend the same to said\\nGrantees against us, and all persons claiming from, by, or under us. Witness our hands and\\nseals, the first day of July, Anno Domini 1782.\\nSigned, sealed and delivered Thomas Wilson, Timotht Bradlev. [seal.]\\nin presence of us Daniel Carter. Lot Colbv, [seal.]\\nBIosES Eastman, [seal.]\\nNathaniel Eastman, [seal.]\\nJoseph Eastman, [seal.]\\nJonathan Eastman, [seal.]", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 287\\nthe south side, and at two porches, one at the east v/ith a\\nsteeple, and the other at the west. The pulpit was about twelve\\nfeet high, with a window back of it, and over head a large sound-\\ning-board. On the lower floor, aisles extended from the south\\ndoor to the pulpit from one porch to the other and side-\\naisles separated the wall pews from those in the body of the\\nhouse. At the base of the pulpit, on a platform about two feet\\nhigh, was a seat for aged men and in front of that, less ele-\\nvated, was the deacons seat. Suspended from the front of the\\ndeacons seat by hinges, was a circular board, which served for a\\ntable on sacramental occasions. The pulpit stairs were on the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2west side, and underneath the pulpit on the east was a closet.\\nThe wall and body pews were square, with seats hung on hinges,\\nto be raised when the congregation stood in prayer. Near the\\nmiddle of the house were five slips or seats on each side,\\nreserved for persons who did not own pews the men sitting\\non the west side, and women on the east. The gallery was also\\nfitted up with pews, considerably elevated, around the wall. A\\nlarge square pew opposite the pulpit was built for the singers,\\nwith a circular table, on which to lay their books. Two large\\npews were finished, contiguous to the singers seat one on the\\neast and the other on the west side. The other space in the\\ngallery was laid off into shps for common use reserving ac-\\ncording to the custom of the times one slip for negroes^ near\\nthe east door of the gallery\\nThe pews were sold at pubHc vendue, and numbered and\\nrecorded, by order of the parish.*\\nOn the loth of September, 1783, the parish voted to lease\\nto Timothy Walker, Esq., for the term of nine hundred and\\nninety-nine years, three acres of bog-meadow, in said Concord,\\nwhich was laid out to the parsonage right for emendation he\\nthe said Walker, giving said parish a full discharge for all ar-\\nrearages due on account of his late father s salary. Peter\\nGreen, Esq., Lieut. John Chandler and Mr. William Coffin were\\nappointed a committee for the purpose.\\nAn act was passed January 2, 1784, to annex a part of\\nCanterbury and Loudon to the parish of Concord. This was\\n*See Town Records; also, Doc. No. 3, Ch. IX.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "288 TOWN OF CONCORD.\\ndone upon tlie petition of John Hoit and others, setting forth\\nthat they hve upon a gore of land formerly claimed by the\\nproprietors of Rumford and Canterbury that when said Rum-\\nford was incorporated, in the year 1765, by the name of Concord,\\nthey were left to said Canterbury, since which time said pro-\\nprietors of Rumford and Canterbury have amicably settled said\\ndispute that by the late division of Canterbury they were all,\\nexcept one, set off to the parish of Loudon, c. praying that\\nsaid gore of land, containing about one thousand and fifty acres,\\nlying at the north-easterly corner of said Rumford, with the\\ninhabitants thereon, may be dissevered from said Canterbury\\nand Loudon and annexed to the parish of Concord. The petition\\nwas granted, and the gore of land, with the inhabitants thereon,\\nannexed to Concord.\\nAt the same time, by the same act, it was enacted that the\\nparish of Concord be henceforth called the town of Concord, any\\nlaw, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.^\\nTHE NEW CONSTITUTION.\\nOn the second of June, 1784, the new Constitution, established\\nOctober 31, 1783, was carried into effect. The occasion was\\none of great interest and importance, and attended with imposing\\nceremonies. The venerable Meshech Weare was first President\\nof the State under the new Constitution. A procession was\\nformed, composed of members of the Legislature and civil au-\\nthorities of the State, together with other persons of office and\\ndignity also, of ministers of the gospel of various denomina-\\ntions, and a large body of citizens, who marched at the sound of\\nmusic to the meeting-house. The Rev. Samuel McCHntock, D. D.,\\nof Greenland, preached on the occasion, and a public dinner was\\ngiven at the expense of the State.\\n*See Document No. 4, for Chap. IX. f Acts 1784, vol. 1780-84, p. 501.\\nJ This was the first Election Sermon. For a notice of election days, see Miscella-\\nneous Chapter.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "LIST OF TOWN OFFICERS,\\nREPRESENTATIVES, DELEGATES AND JURORS,\\nFROM 1775 TO 1785.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0March 7, 1775.\\nModerator, Col. Thomas Stickney,\\nClerk, Timothy Walker. Jr.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.,\\nReuben Kimball,\\nBenjamin Emery\\nAmos Abbot.\\nNatlianiel West,\\nLt. Phinehas Virgin\\nThomas Wilson,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nEzekiel Dimond,\\nDavid Hall\\nSelectmen^\\nConstable,\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas., Capt. Joshua Abbot\\nf Col. Thomas Stickney,\\nj James Walker,\\nI Jos. Eastman, Jr.,\\nI Richard Hazeltine, Jr.,\\nI Lt. Eben. Virgin,\\nSurveyors of Highways, Ezekiel Dimond,\\nI Asa Kimball,\\nI Lt. Jona. Stickney,\\nI Jabez Abbot,\\nj Reuben Abbot,\\nNath l Abbot.\\nFence-viewers,\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keeper,\\nIi\u00c2\u00a3presentative,\\nTreasurer,\\nJohn Bradley,\\nRobert Eastman,\\nThomas Wilson.\\nMoses Eastman, Jr.,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nJohn Chase.\\nSimeon Danforth,\\nRobert Eastman,\\nPhilip Harriman,\\nBenjamin Eastman,\\nTheodore Farnum,\\nLt. Jona. Stickney.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nBenjamin Sweat.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr., May\\nI Timothy Walker, Jr., Dec,\\nMarch 5, 1776.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball,\\nAmos Alibot,\\nJohn Kimball.\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nJoseph Eastman, Jr.,\\nDaniel Gale,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nEbenezcr Hall,\\nRichard Hazeltine.\\nDavid Hall.\\nDavid Hall.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nJames Walker,\\nJoseph Eastman, Jr.,\\nRichard Hazeltine, Jr.,\\nLt. Ebenezer Virgin,\\nEzekiel Dimond,\\nAsa Kimball,\\nLt. Jona. Stickney,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nReuben Abbot,\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nTimothy Bradley, Jr.,\\nI Lt. Robert Davis,\\nI Lt. Joseph Hazeltine,\\nHenry Martin.\\nPeter Green, Esq.,\\nNathan Chandler,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.,\\nTheodore Farnum,\\nDan Stickney,\\nGilman West,\\nJeremiah Wheeler.\\nRobert Ambrose,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nBenjamin Sweat.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nLt. Joseph Hall.\\n19", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "290\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nTi/thingmen,\\nMarch 4, 1777.\\nCol. Thomas Stickncy\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nReul)en Kimball,\\nAmos Ahliot,\\nJohn Kimball.\\nReuben Abbot.\\nC Richard Hazeltine,\\nI Daniel Gale,\\nPhinehas Virgin,\\nRobert Davis.\\nSealer of Leather, Benjamin Emery.\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas., David Hall.\\nf Edward Abbot,\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nJesse Abbot,\\ne r ZT- 1 I James Walker,\\nSurveyors of Highivays, j _\\nBenjamin Eifield,\\nFence-viewers,\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keeper,\\nEzekiel Dimond,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nCornelius Johnson,\\nj Timothy Bradley, Jr.,\\nJoseph Abliot.\\nLt. Richard Herbert,\\nMoses Eastman, Jr.\\nMoses Eastman, Jr.,\\nSamuel Hinkson,\\nGeorge Graham,\\nI Timothy Kimball,\\nPhinehas Stevens.\\nf John Kirabali,\\nJ Benjamin Hanuiford,\\n1 Henry ^Martin,\\n[James Stevens.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nRepresentative,\\nTreasurer,\\nRepresentative,\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wts. and\\nFence-viewers,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney, Dec.\\nLt. Joseph Hall.\\nMarch 3, 1779.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.,\\nEzekiel Diamond,\\nJohn Kimball.\\nLt. Robert Davis,\\nf William Coffin,\\nDavid Hall,\\nRobert Ambrose,\\nJoseph Hazeltine,\\nJosiah Farnum. Jr\\nBenjamin Emery.\\nMeas., David Hall.\\nDaniel Gale,\\nI Lt. Richard Herbert\\nMarch 3, 1778^\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nJohn Kinil)all.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nCapt. Joshna Abbot,\\nLt. Joseph Hall.\\nEzekiel Diamond.\\nf William Coffin,\\nI Daniel Gale,\\nLt. Timothy Bradley,\\nI Richard Hazeltine,\\nAmos Abbot.\\nDavid Hall.\\nCapt. Joshua Abbot.\\nLt. Ebenezer Virgin,\\nEns. Jona. Eastman,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nJosiah Farnum, Jr.,\\nJames Mitchell,\\nBenj. Fifield,\\nJames Walker,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nEns. John Shute.\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nWilliam Coffin.\\nMoses Eastman, Jr.,\\nRich dHazzen Osgood.\\nAbiel Blanchard,\\nRobert Eastman,\\nPhinehas Stevens,\\nLt. Joseph Hazeltine,\\nSamuel Hinkson,\\nAbner Flanders.\\nJames Stevens,\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nCol. Timothy Walker,\\nDelegate to Convention\\nin June.\\nNath l Rolfe, in Dec.\\nMarch 7, 1780.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nLt. John Chandler,\\nJames Walker,\\nThomas Wilson.\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball.\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nDaniel Gale,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nPhinehas Stevens,\\nDavid Hall.\\nDavid Hall.\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nCapt. Joshua Abbot.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n291\\nSurveyors of Highways,\\nJames Walker,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nEns. John Shute,\\nEzra Carter,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nLt. Moses Eastman,\\nRobert Ambrose,\\nTimothy Kimball,\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keeper,\\nRepresentative,\\nParish Treasurer,\\nPetit Juror,\\nGrand Juror,\\nLot Colby,\\nGeorge Grayham,\\nGilman West,\\nWilliam Currier,\\nPhinehas Stevens.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nRobert Ambrose.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nCol. Tho s Stickney, Nov. 29.\\nEzekiel Diamond, (May.)\\nEzekiel Diamond, (October.)\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nTythingmen,\\nMarch 6, 1781.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nJames Walker.\\nChandler Lovejoy.*\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nPhinehas Virgin,\\nDaniel Abbot.\\nSealer of Leather, David Hall.\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas., David Hall.\\nf William Coffin,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nPhinehas Virgin,\\nBenjamin Fifield,\\nNathaniel Rolfe, Jr.,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nTimothy Kimball,\\nJoseph Hall, Jr.,\\nNathan Kinsman,\\nWilliam Currier.\\nMoses Eastman, Jr.\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nAbner Flanders,\\nGilman West,\\nNathan Kinsman.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nEphraim Potter.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nMaj. Jonathan Hale,\\nDec. 8th.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nReuben Abbot,\\nRobert Ambrose.\\nAaron Kinsman.\\nMarch 5, 1782.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nCol. Timothy Walker,\\nCapt. Benja. Emery,\\nThomas Wilson.\\nJames Walker.\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nJohn Cliandler,\\nBenjamin Fifield,\\nI William Coffin,\\n[Joseph Abbot.\\nDavid Hall.\\nr Capt. Aaron Kinsman,\\nSurveyors of Highway s,\\\\ Phinehas Virgin\\nFence-viewers,\\nLt. Ezekiel Carter,\\nEns. James Mitchel.\\nj Lt. Ebenezer Virgin,\\nWilliam Coffin.\\n{Richard Ayer,\\nSamuel Bradley,\\nj Chandler Lovejoy,\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keeper,\\nRepresentative,\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nCol. Timothy Walker, Oct.\\n1st.\\nAaron Kinsman,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nJames Mitchel,\\nIsaac Abbot,\\nTimothy Kimball.\\nRichard Ayer,\\nMoses Eastman, Jr.,\\nGilman West,\\nWilliam Fifield.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nS Col. Timothy Walker,\\nOctober 21st.\\nOct. 1st, chosen Constable, James Walker.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "292\\nfflSTORY OF CONCORD.\\nTreasurer,\\nGrand Juror,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nModerator,\\nClerk.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nfJosiah Farnum, Aug.\\n26 th\\nCapt. Aaron Kinsman,\\nFebruary 18th.\\nf Nathaniel Abbot,\\nJ Jabez Abbot,\\n1 Ebenezer Virgin, Aug.\\n26th.\\nSdectmen,\\nConstable,\\nTythingmen,\\nMarch 4, 1783.\\nCol. Timothy Walker.\\nJohn Kimball.\\ni Col. Timothy Walker,\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nLt. Richard Herbert.\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nJoseph Hall, Jr.,\\nRobert Ambrose.\\nSealer ofLeaiJier, David Hall.\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas.,\\nEns. Jonathan Eastman,\\nCapt. Aaron Kinsman,\\nEns. John Shute,\\nSurveyors of Highways, Asa Herrick,\\nI Jesse Abbot,\\nHenry Martin,\\nLt. Moses Eastman\\nFence-viewers,\\nField-driver,\\nHogreeves, I\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keeper,\\nTreasurer,\\nRepresentative,\\nGrand Jurors,\\nDaniel Gale,\\nAaron Eastman.\\nJohn Kimball,\\nJohn Blanchard.\\nCaleb Buswell\\nJohn Kimball\\nCol. Timothy Walker, Dec.\\nWilliam Coffin, Nov. 3.\\nMarch 1784.\\nCol. Timothy Walker.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nCol. Timothy Walker,\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball,\\nCol. Thos. Stickney.\\nRichard Hazeltine.\\nNath l Green,\\nNath l Abbot,\\nPhinehas Virgin,\\nJesse Abbot,\\nJohn Kimball.\\nCaleb Buswell.\\nDavid Hall.\\nPeter Green, Esq.,\\nLt. Phinehas Virgin,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nLt. Moses Eastman,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nTimothy Dow,\\nLt. Joseph Hazeltine,\\nWilliam Coffin.\\nSamuel Butters,\\nAsa Herrick,\\nGeorge Graham,\\nCapt. Benj. Emery,\\nLt. Joseph Hall.\\nEns. Jona. Eastman.\\nJohn Souther,\\nBenja. Fifield,\\nJacob Carter,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nTheodore Farnum.\\nEphraim Potter,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nCol. Timothy Walker.\\nRobert Davis, Oct. 28.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nHISTORY FROM 1785 TO 1795.\\nIn the period from 1785 to 1795 the affairs of the town were\\nconducted with great regularity. Having with their fellow-\\ncitizens gained independence, and established an excellent Con-\\nstitution for the State, the inhabitants of the town now devoted\\nthemselves to the quiet pursuits of industry cultivating their\\nfarms, improving their dwelling-houses, laying out new roads,\\nestablishing ferries, clearing the river of obstructions, and pro-\\nviding accommodations for the General Court, which they already\\nanticipated would hold its annual sessions here.\\ntucker s ferry.\\nIn February, 1785, an act was passed by the Legislature,\\nvesting the exclusive privilege of keeping a Ferry over a certain\\npart of Merrimack river, in Lemuel Tucker, of Concord. This\\nferry was at or near the present location of Federal Bridge, and\\nhad been kept many years before, under the name of East-\\nman s Ferry. The act secured to Tucker the right of ferrying\\nover the Merrimack in any place within one mile of his\\ndwelHng-house, which stood near the landing on the eastern\\nbank of the river.*\\nA committee, consisting of Capt. Reuben Kimball, Capt. Aaron\\nKinsman, and Col. Thomas Stickney, appointed to supply the\\nA part of the old house still remains, and was the toll-house after tlie erection of the\\nbridge.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "294 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\npulpit,* employed Mr. Daniel Storey a number of Sabbaths\\nbut were directed by the town to procure a candidate on\\nprobation, the first opportunity. Mr. Jonathan Wilkins,\\naccordingly, was engaged to preach as a candidate and, on the\\n18th of December, 1786, received a call to settle, with the offer\\nof ,\u00c2\u00a3100 salary, the use of the parsonage, (excepting the\\nmeadow lot,) and \u00c2\u00a3200 towards a settlement. This call of\\nthe town was preceded by a unanimous call from the church,\\nDecember 17th, but the call was declined for reasons set forth\\nin Mr. Wilkins s answer, as follows\\nThe unexpected harmony of the Church and general concurrence\\nof the Town, are weighty circumstances in your favor, and almost\\nsuppress every declining thought though we must confess it would\\nhave been more pleasing had there been no dissensions. Yet, taking\\ninto view your local situation with its attendant circumstances, it\\nrather appears the encouragements you offered are, in part, and as\\nthey are now stated, will prove deficient to the proposed end;\\nif so, you with me in the event would be disappointed. But some\\nmay think this the result of false reasoning. I grant it may be so,\\nas I have had but an unequal opportunity to examine matters relative\\nthereto, since my return. However, in submissive complyance with\\nthe time prefixed, its consistent that I result consonant to present\\npersuasion. Hence, in conformity to what appears duty and interest,\\nwhich are inseparably connected, I think it preferable to decline an\\nacceptance of your invitation, received last December, to take my\\nsettled residence with you in the important office. Beloved, though\\nby this reply you meet a present disappointment, in christian firmness\\nabide it be not discomposed, nor greatly dispirited. We may in\\npresent tryals even find occasion to acknowledge the superintendence\\nof His wise providence, who is able to cause unwished for events to\\noperate for the good of his obedient subjects.\\nI trust in the government of wisdom your social order and\\nharmony will not only be cherished, but increased in your following\\nattempts to get r. man to enter upon the stated ministry of the divine\\nword and ordinances among you. To this end admit the word of life\\nas your approved guide, which discountenances every degree of\\nenvying and strife, while it encourages the genuine exercise of the\\nopposite graces, charity, candor, c. Closed with a passage in Heb.\\nJonathan Wilkins.\\nMr. Wilkins was a native of Marlborough, Mass. graduated\\nat Dartmouth College, 1779. Declining the call to settle in the\\nThe town voted that one half of the money raised to defray the expenses of the town,\\nbe appropriated for supplying the pulpit.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "LOCATION OF MAIN STREET. 295\\nministry, he became a resident in the place, and relinquished\\npreaching. In 1787 he married Miss Sarah Hall, daughter of\\nJeremiah Hall, and grand-daughter of Dea. Joseph Hall, senior.\\nHe owned a farm at the Eleven Lots, and lived in the house\\nstill standing at the crotch of the roads, -west side, near the\\nhouse of the late Countess of Rumford.* In 1797 he Avas clerk\\nof the church in 1802, appointed a Justice of the Peace was\\none of the selectmen in 1801, 1803, 1804, and 1805 at several\\ntimes was moderator of the town meetings. On the 6th of\\nSeptember, 1811, he was chosen deacon of the church, which\\noffice he held till his death, March 9, 1830, aged seventy-five\\n3^ears.\\nLAYING OUT MAIN STREET.\\nJune 28, 1785, Capt. Benjamin Emery, Lieut. Joseph Hall,\\nLieut. John Bradley, Capt. Keuben Kimball, and Mr. Joseph\\nFarnum, were appointed a committee to lay out Main street.\\nIn the original survey of house lots, (on Main street,) space Avas\\nleft for a street ten rods wide but the tradition is, that liberty\\nwas given to the settlers to advance two rods on each side,\\nleaving six rods width for the street but in using the liberty\\ngiven, some advanced a few feet, or a few inches over the line,\\nand erected buildings. Hence it became necessary to fix the\\nbounds of Main street, which the above committee did do, by a\\ncareful survey, and establishing bounds that remain to this day.\\nThe committee, however, did not complete their work and make a\\nfinal report till 1798. They then presented a plan of Main\\nstreet, which is found in the second volume of the Town Records,\\npage 238, and of which, on a reduced scale, the annexed\\nengraving is a copy the explanations being given on the\\nopposite page.\\nSee Family Register of VVilkins and Hall.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "296 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nMAIN STREET,\\nAS LAID DOWN ON ENGRAVED MAP, AND DESCRIBED ON THE ORIGINAL PLAN\\nIN TOWN RECORDS.\\nEast side beginning at the north end\\nJudge Walker s barn the north side of it 184 rods from the Great Elm.\\nMr. Herbert s store* 77 rods from the Great Elm; two feet six inches on\\nthe road about thirty-two feet front.\\nMaj. Daniel Liverniore s housel 57 rods from the Great Elm; about nine\\ninches on the road forty feet front.\\nThe Great Elm opposite Capt. Ayer s tan-yard.\\nMr. Aaron Abbot s 99)4 rods from the corner seven feet on the road\\ntwenty-four feet front.\\nBarber s shop 87}. rods from the corner eight feet on the road fourteen\\nfeet front.\\nMr. Wilkins s house SSjo rods from the comer eight feet on the road\\ntwenty feet front.\\nMr. Hough s printing office 68)^ rods from the corner three feet four\\ninches on the road twenty -four feet front.\\nEsq. Green s house 67 rods from the corner six feet three inches on the\\nroad twenty feet front.\\nMr. Green s office eighteen inches on the road fourteen feet front.\\nMr. Hutchins s shop 62 rods from the corner two feet three inches on the\\nroad twenty-two feet front.\\nMr. Thorndike s store 10 rods from the corner fourteen and a half feet on\\nthe road twenty-eight feet front.\\nMr. Dustin s bark-iiouse three rods from the corner to the south side\\nseven and a half feet on the road twenty feet front.\\nBrick drove into the ground one rod and one link westerly of the north-west\\ncorner of Mr. Dustin s shop.\\nMr. Butters s corner stone four and a half feet west of willow tree.\\nWest side north end\\nStone twenty -six feet from the north-east corner of Jacob Abbot, Esq. s,\\nhouse, and 12.3 rods from the Great Elm.\\nMr. Gale s house 50 rods from the comer; 70 1^ feet front; north side 10)^\\nfeet on the road south-east end, five feet seven inches on the road.\\nMr. Wait s store 44 rods from corner seven feet six inches on the road\\ntwenty feet front.\\nMr. Manley store 30 rods from the comer six feet four inches on road\\nthirty-six feet froir.\\nCorner, north of Capt. Chandler s.\\nBirch pole 2 rods and six feet from an oak stump in Mr. Jos. Abbot s land.\\nSchool-house 85 rods from stone at Shute s corner.\\nMr. Ladd s shop 41 rods from stone at Shute s comer.\\nSouth-east corner of Mr. Shute s house, six and a half feet on the road.\\nMr. Shute s shop on the road twenty-two feet.\\n*Mr. Jonathan Herbert s store still standing, occupied as a dwelling-house.\\nt The late residence of Dr. Bouton.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "frH JUDCEWALKEB S BARM\\nJUDGE WALKERS HOUSE\\nMAIN STREET, 1798.\\nHERBERTS STORF\\nMAJOR UVERMORES HOUSE\\nWILKINS HOUSE\\nhough s printing OFflCE\\nBENJ. GALES HOUSE\\nWAITS\\nMANLY\\nthorndikeT s store\\ndustin s bark house\\nSTONE\\nCHANDLER S\\nSCHOOL HOl)SE\\\\\\nLADD S SHOP\\nJOHN SHUTE S\\n.STONr", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "298 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n1T86/\\nPAPER MONEY.\\nAbout this time a great excitement existed in various places\\nthrough the State on account of the scarcity of money. Some\\nwere in favor of paper money but, at a meeting called agreea-\\nble to a recommendation of the General Court, to consider the\\nsubject, the town voted not to make p)aper money on any plan\\nwhatever.^\\nDuring the June session of the Legislature which met in Con-\\ncord this year, an attempt was made to call a convention to petition\\nthat body in favor of a plan for a paper currency, but the attempt\\nwas defeated in the following singular and ludicrous manner\\nAt the first sitting of the Assembly, in June, when only five\\nmembers of the proposed convention were in town, some wags,\\namong whom were several young lawyers, pretended to have\\nbeen chosen by the towns in which they lived, for the same pur-\\npose. In conference with the five, they penetrated their views,\\nand persuaded them to post an advertisement, requesting all the\\nmembers who were in town to assemble immediately, it being of\\nthe utmost importance to present their petition as early in the\\nsession as possible. By this means, sixteen pretended members,\\nwith five real ones, formed themselves into a convention, choos-\\ning one of the five their president, and one of the sixteen their\\nclerk. They carried on their debates, and passed votes with\\nmuch apparent solemnity. Having framed a petition, complain-\\ning in the most extravagant terms of their grievances praying\\nfor a loan of three millions of dollars, funded on real estate for\\nthe abolition of inferior courts, and a reduction of the number of\\nlawyers to only tivo in each county and for a free trade with all\\nthe world they went in procession to the Assembly, (some of\\nwhom had been previously let into the secret,) and with great\\nformality presented their petition, which was suffered to lie on\\nthe table. The convention then dissolved the petition was\\nwithdrawn and when others, who had been really chosen by\\nKofcd, Jtfarc/t 7, That Richard Flanders be released from paying for the u.se of the\\nSchool Lot in future and to abate Andrew Stone his rates that are due, and exempt him\\nfrom paying taxes for the future. Andrew Stone at last came upon the town of Bow for\\nsupport.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "MONEY DIFFICULTIES. 299\\nthe towns, arrived, they were exceedingly mortified on finding\\ntheir views for that time so completely frustrated. The pro-\\nceedings of this mock convention were for a long time subjects\\nof sport and i-idicule.*\\nThe pubhc excitement, however, did not stop here. County\\nconventions were called petitions presented to the Legislature,\\nand the ferment at last subsided in the arrest and punishment of\\nthe rioters at Exeter, f\\nThe following extract of a letter from Hon. Robert Bradley, of\\nFryeburg, Maine, gives a vivid idea of the extreme scarcity of\\nmoney at this time\\nThe same year that the Legislature was surrounded and held\\nas prisoners at Exeter, [1786,] by a mob demanding paper\\nmoney, my father was elected a representative and the next\\nday gave me a letter to carry to Timothy Bradley, living on the\\nmountain, (so called.) On my way in the w^oods I met Mr.\\nBradley, gave him the letter, and was instructed to say to my\\nfather that the dollar the only one on the east side of the\\nriver which he had the promise of, had gone. A case of life\\nand death had made it necessary to send to Andover for Dr.\\nKittredge but there was a rich maiden lady in Canterbury who\\nhad a crown, and he would go the next day and see my father\\nabout it. He did so, and afterwards obtained the crown piece\\nand an old pistareen of Miss Clough, which was all the money\\nthat was to be found. My father then went to Judge Walker,\\nwho took care of the honor and interest of Concord, who fur-\\nnished him with the means to pay his board at Exeter and he\\nwas the only one of fourteen boarders who paid their landlord,\\n(a man by the name of Clifford,) their expenses in full.\\nCol. David Page, who represented Conway the same year,\\ntold me he left home with two shillings and sixpence in money to\\npay expense to Exeter by way of Alfred, Maine. He informed\\nme that he had a small sum due him from John Pierce, Esq., of\\nPortsmouth, for which he received a guinea, and paid all of it\\ntowards his board, save two shillings and sixpence, to pay for\\nbread and milk on his way home. The representatives offered\\nMoore s Annals.\\nt See Belknap s account of the insurrection, in Hist, of N. H., 1786; also, vol. III., pp.\\n117-122, of N.H. Hist. Coll.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "300 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nthe whole of their State scrip for their services, to the landlord,\\nwho preferred their private securities. About ten or twelve of\\nthem returning home, took lodgings at the Gambrel Roof, [Esq.\\nBradley s house,] about one half of the number on couches on\\nthe floor. My impression is, they had not a dollar amongst the\\nwhole of them.\\n1787-8.\\nOn the 19th of March the town voted to fence the burying-\\nground with a post and board fence. In October, Col. Peter\\nGreen, Col. Timothy Walker and Lieut. Joseph Hall, were chosen\\nto forward to the Secretary s office a particular account of all\\nbounties, for raising men for the Continental Army, or the mili-\\ntia called into service during the late war. In January, 1788,\\nCol. Walker was appointed to petition the General Court for a\\nnew County, that should include the town of Concord, and any\\nother towns that may petition for the same.\\nADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.\\nCapt. Benjamin Emery was chosen to the convention which\\nwas called to meet in Exeter on the second Wednesday of Febru-\\nary, 1788, to take into consideration the proceedings of the\\nlate Federal Convention in other words, to discuss and act\\nupon the adoption of the Federal Constitutmi, which had been\\nproposed by a convention of delegates in Philadelphia, from all\\nthe States except Rhode-Island, and which had already been\\nadopted by eight States. To give the Constitution eflfect, or to\\nset the political machinery in motion, it was necessary that nine\\nStates should adopt it. On the decision of New-Hampshire, there-\\nfore, great consequences were depending. The convention for\\nthis important purpose first met at the court house in Exeter, Feb-\\nruary 13. His Excellency, John Sullivan, was chosen President,\\nand John Calfe, Esq., Secretary. The convention continued in\\nsession at Exeter ten days, then adjourned to meet in Concord\\non the 18th of June following. The convention met at the meet-\\ning-house, (now the BibUcal Institute,) and was composed of a\\nlarge number of the most respected and honored men in the\\nState men who, having fought for liberty and independence,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "RATIFICATION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. 301\\nwere jealous of their rights, yet desirous of securing for\\nthemselves and for posterity all the blessings of a National\\nUnion.*\\nWhen the final vote was taken on the Constitution, with cer-\\ntain amendments which had been proposed, there were fifty-seven\\nyeas and forty-seven nays. Our delegate, Capt. Emery, voted\\nin the negative The Constitution, as amended, was adopted in\\nthe name of the people of New-Hampshire, in the following\\nwords\\nSTATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.\\nIn Convention of the Delegates of the Peoj^le of the State of New-\\nHampshire, June 21s 1788\\nThe Convention having impartially discussed and fully considered\\nthe Constitution for the United States of America, reported to Con-\\ngress by the Convention of Delegates from the United States of\\nAmerica, and submitted to us by a Resolution of the Ceneral Court\\nof said State, passed the fourteenth day of December, last past; and\\nacknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Supreme\\nRuler of the Universe, in affording the People of the United States,\\nin the course of His providence, an opportunity deliberately and\\npeaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and\\nsolemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying a new\\nConstitution, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,\\nensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote\\nthe general welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty to themselves\\nand their posterity do, in the name and in behalf of the people of\\nthe State of New-Hampshire, assent to and ratify the said Constitu-\\ntion for the United States of America.\\nResolved, That the assent and ratification aforesaid be engrossed on\\nparchment, together with the recommendation and injunction afore-\\nsaid, and with this Resolution and that John Sullivan, Esq., Presi-\\ndent of the Convention, and John Langdon, Esq., President of the\\nState, transmit the same, countersigned by the Secretary of Con-\\nvention and the Secretary of the State, under their hands and seals,\\nto the United States in Congress assembled.\\nJohn Calfe, Secretary.\\nThe adoption and ratification of the Constitution was the oc-\\ncasion of great joy to all the friends of union throughout the\\nFor the particulars of the interesting proceedings of the convention, reference must be\\nhad to the original record in the Secretary s office. The names of the members from the\\nseveral towns in the State may be found in the New-Hampshire Annual Register, 1853,\\npp. 20 25.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "302 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ncountry. It was announced to Gov. John Hancock, of Massa-\\nchusetts, in a letter, by President Sullivan, as follows\\nConcord, June 21, 1788.\\nSir I have the honor to inform your Excellency, by favour of\\nMr. Keed, who is obliging enough to forward this letter, that the\\nConvention of this State have this moment adopted the New Consti-\\ntution yeas, 57; nays, 46, [47.] The amendments recommended,\\nnearly the same as in your State.\\nWith every sentiment of respectful attachment,\\nI have the honor to be\\nYour Excellency s\\nMost obedient servant,\\nJohn Sullivan.\\nIn the Salem Mercury of the 24th of June the event was\\nthus announced\\nTHE NINTH PILLAR UP!\\nLaiis Deo\\nOn the arrival of the news at Salem a procession was imme-\\ndiately formed of the military, the clergy, physicians, merchants,\\nseamen, mechanics, and school -masters with their schools. Sa-\\nlutes were fired in the evening; the front of the court-house was\\nilluminated, and an emblematical painting exhibited, representing\\nJustice, Peace and Liberty, (Fame over the whole sounding her\\ntrumpet,) on an arch supported hj nine columns four others\\nlying in the back ground, ready to be introduced into the va-\\ncancies left for them. Under the whole were the words,\\nFEDERAL CONSTITUTION.\\nIn Portsmouth the celebration of the glorious event was grand\\nand imposing. After the people of that and the neighboring\\ntowns had assembled on the parade, about eleven o clock, of the\\n27th, an armed ship was espied from the State House, bearing\\ndown under full sail. Being hailed on her approach, she proved\\nto be the ship Union, Thomas Manning, Esq., commander, from\\nConcord, out five days, bound to the Federal City, all well and\\nin good spirits. About a quarter past eleven she dropped an-\\nchor, and, having received a pilot on board, got under way and\\njoined the procession.\\nSalem Mercury, June 24, 1788. fSee Salem Mercury, July 1, HSS.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "SETTLEMENT OF A MINISTER. 303\\nThe procession was composed of all classes of citizens, with\\nappropriate banners. Among them were the scholars of the\\nschools, with the insignia of their studies a terrestrial globe,\\nrectified for New-Hampshire, and decorated bj young ladies,\\nwas carried by two lads in uniform. In the decorations each\\nState was distinguished New-Hampshire in the zenith, and\\nRhode-Island in the western horizon, in mourninix\\nMOTTO.\\nWhere the bright beams of Fed ral freedom glow,\\nThe buds of science in full beauty blow.\\nThere is a current tradition that Col. Timothy Walker, who\\nwas zealous for the adoption of the Constitution, apprehendino-\\nthat the vote would be a close one, invited certain members of\\nthe convention who were opposed to its adoption to dine with\\nhim on the day that the question was to be taken and that he\\ntreated them with such liberal entertainment and good cheer,\\nthat the vote was taken and decided in the affirmative before\\nthey made their appearance in the house.\\n1789.\\nThe Rev. Israel Evans, who had been a chaplain in the army\\nunder General Washington, had been employed to preach in Con-\\ncord as a candidate for settlement and on the 1st of Septem-\\nber, 1788, received a call to settle, with the offer of ninety\\npounds as a salary annually, during his performing the work of\\nthe ministry in this town, together with the use of the parson-\\nage, and two hundred pounds, (in materials for building a house,)\\nas a settlement. Capt. Reuben Kimball and Capt. Benj. Emery,\\nMr. Robert Harris, Mr. Henry Martyn and Mr. John Kimball,\\nwere appointed a committee to estimate the pieces of materials\\nthat shall be provided for building a house.\\nAt a subsequent meeting it was voted to give Mr. Evans\\nfifteen pounds annually, in addition to the ninety pounds in lieu\\nof the settlement, to which Lt. John Chandler and Lt. Robert\\nAmbrose entered their dissent.\\nThe terms of the call were in some respects unsatisfactory to\\nMr. Evans but, March 17, 1789, he made answer in the affirm-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "304 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\native.* A committee was appointed to superintend the ordina-\\ntion of Mr. Evans, and to provide entertainment for the minis-\\nters and delegates who shall attend; and it was also voted,\\nThat the town concur with the church in appointing the first\\nWednesday in July, 1789, as the time for the ordination services.\\nIn 1789 an act was passed to authorize and empower the\\nproprietors of Rumford, alias Concord, to collect a certain tax.\\nThis was in answer to a petition by Thomas Stickney, setting\\nforth, that in settling the controversy between the proprietors of\\nRumford and of Bow, in 1771, they came to an agreement,\\nwhich was that the proprietors of Rumford should have the whole\\nof said township, except one hundred and sixty-two acres of\\nland, which was to be laid out by them in some part of the\\ntown and the proprietors of Rumford were to pay ten pounds\\nto said proprietors of Bow, for each hundred acre lot which was\\nlaid out by said Bow in said Rumford that thereupon Thomas\\nStickney, Andrew McMillan, Esq., and Abiel Chandler (since\\ndeceased) were appointed a committee by the proprietors of\\nRumford, to receive a quitclaim deed from the proprietors of\\nBow, and give them a bond, upon interest, for the ten pounds for\\neach hundred acre lot. Moreover, that the proprietors of\\nRumford, in 1773, voted to raise the sum of X600 by assess-\\nment on the several divisions and the common rights in said\\ntownship of Rumford, which was supposed to be suflScient to\\npay the proprietors of Bow, and to give \u00c2\u00a3Q0 to the Masonian\\nproprietors for their pretejided right to part of said land.\\nThe above assessment not being all collected, Timothy Walker\\nwas appointed and empowered to collect the remainder of said\\nassessment, in order to discharge fully the said bond.\\n1790.\\nSCHOOL LOT TOWN HOUSE.\\nIn 1790 the building erected in 1775 on the hill back of Capt.\\nEmery s, for a pest-house, was removed into the town street,\\nfor a school-house, and located near the present hay-scales, at\\nthe head of the street. The lot,t belonging to the school right,\\nSee Doc. No. 1, for Chap. X. t See engraved Plan of House and Home Lots.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THE GENERAL COURT.\\n305\\noriginally laid out on the south side of the road that runs west-\\nerly by Richard Bradley s, was exchanged by the town for a lot\\nadjoining the burying-ground, owned by Lieut. Robert Davis,\\ncontaining one acre and one hundred and twenty-eight rods.*\\nThere was no legal conveyance of the lot thus exchanged at the\\ntime but in 1842 the burying-ground was extended so as to\\nembrace the aforesaid premises at which time Gen, Robert\\nDavis, having inherited the land, by will of his grandfather,\\ngave a deed of it to the town. Lt. Robert Davis, who deceased\\nin August, 1823, was buried in this field, and his grave was\\nenclosed with a chain fence, which stood alone till 1842.\\nOn the 30th of August this year the town voted to raise one\\nhundred pounds for building a house for the accommodation of\\nthe General Court and that the house be set on the land of Mr.\\nWilliam Stickney, near Dea. David Hall s. Capt. Reuben\\nKimball was appointed agent to build the house. The dimen-\\nsions were eighty feet long, forty feet wide, and fifteen feet post.\\nThis action of the town was preceded by a subscription of\\n$555,00 for the same object. The following is the copy of the\\noriginal\\nConcord, June 21, 1790.\\nWe, the subscribers, being desirous of accommodating the General\\nCourt with a convenient house, and in order to encourage the same,\\ndo hereby engage to pay the several sums annexed to our names in\\nlabour or materials for building, provided said house is set near Mr.\\nWilliam Stickney s dwelling-house, in Concord.\\nThomas Stickney, 40\\nBenja n Hannaford, 40\\nJohn Bradley, 30\\nNAMES.\\nTime. Walker,\\nDOLLARS.\\n100\\nPeter Green,\\n100\\nBenj. Emery,\\n40\\nIn the warrant for the annual town meeting, 1786, was an article to see if the town will\\nexchange the house-lot belonging to the Bchool right, with Lt. Robert Davis.\\nOn this article the selectmen were appointed a committee, who, in 1790, reported as\\nfollows\\nIn exchange of the school-lot with Lt. Robert Davis, we have the following piece, adjoin-\\ning the burying-yard, bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at a stake and stones, at the\\nsouthwest corner of the burying-yard, running west seventeen degrees south, by Capt. Ben-\\njamin Emery s land, twelve rods, to a stake and stones thence north, twenty degrees west,\\ntwenty-four rods, to a stake and stones thence east, nineteen degrees north, twelve rods, to\\na stake and stones it being a bound of James Walker s land thence by said Walker s land\\nand burying-yard, twenty-four rods, to the bound first mentioned, containing one acre and\\none hundred and twenty-eight rods.\\n20", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "306\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nEobert Davis,\\nJoshua Abbot,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\n30\\n30\\n30\\n20\\nGeorge Hough, 20\\nJoseph Hall, 30\\nJames Walker, 20\\nJohn West, 25\\nTHE TOWN HOUSE.\\nThe bouse was built as soon\\ns as practicable, and called the\\nr\u00c2\u00bbtTown House. Originally it\\nj^ was one story stood length-\\nwise to Main street, and had\\na door in the middle, with a\\nspacious entry. The interior\\n^^P^ contained two rooms one for\\nt^6 House of Representatives,\\nTOWN HOUSE. on the north side, and the other\\nfor the Senate, on the south with several small committee rooms\\non the back side. A stair-way led to a small gallery for spectators.\\nIn the centre of the building outside was a cupola, or dome, sur-\\nmounted by a vane, which was invented by the mechanical genius\\nof Mr. Ephraim Potter, and hence received the name of old\\nPotter^ The land on which the building was erected was given\\nfor the purpose by Mr. William Stickney, on condition that if the\\ntown shall neglect or refuse to keep a public building on the\\npremises for the space of three years, it should revert to him or\\nhis heirs.*\\nWhen this building was raised, Benjamin Rolfe, brother of\\nNathaniel, and father of Mr. Benjamin Rolfe, now living on\\nState Street, had a finger caught in a mortice, in putting on the\\nsouth plate, and so badly jammed that it was necessary to ampu-\\ntate it. Dr. Carrigain celebrated for surgical operations\\nwas immediately called, and directed Mr. Rolfe to lay his finger\\non a block. With a chisel and mallet the doctor cut the finger\\nsquare oif at a single blow but the stump was a sore trouble to\\nMr. Rolfe as long as he lived, for the end of the bone was always\\nvisible, and in cold weather the flesh about it would recede from\\nthe bone and crack.\\n*See original Deed. A quitclaim Deed of the same land was given to the city in 1854, by\\nNathan Stickney, Esq., for the erection of a City Hall and County Court House.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION. 307\\nThe town meetings, which heretofore had been held at the\\nmeeting-house, were henceforth held at the town-house. The\\nplace was honored by the sittings of the General Court, when-\\never its sessions were held in Concord, until the completion of\\nthe State House in 1819. The building has since undergone\\nmany mutations, modifications and enlargements answering all\\npossible purposes civil, political, rehgious, military, judicial,\\nand fanatical a sort of \u00e2\u0096\u00a0^Noah^s ark, in which have been col-\\nlected all things, clean and unclean, and the history of which\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0would be well worthy of the pen of Punch, or Mrs. Part-\\nington, or Jack Loivning\\n1791-3.\\nIn March, 1791, the town voted that the intermission for the\\nfuture on the Sabbath which had been one hour the year\\nround should be one hour and an half, from the first Sabbath\\nin May till the first Sabbath in November following.\\nWARNING OUT OF TOWN.\\nAccording to a law of the State, persons who came into town\\nwithout property, and who, on that account, were liable to\\nbecome a town charge, might be warned to depart. This being\\ndone lawfully, such persons could not obtain a residence,\\nand hence not come upon the town for support.*\\nCONVENTION TO REVISE THE STATE CONSTITUTION.\\nOn the 7th of September, this year, (1791,) a convention was\\nheld in Concord to revise the Constitution of the State, adopted\\nin October, 1783. The convention was held at the meeting-house.\\nSTATE OP NEW-HAMPSHIRE,\\nRockingham ss. j Concord, Oct. 29, 1791.\\nBy virtue of this Warrant I have warned the said McGlaufling, and Betty, his wife,\\nArchabald McGlautiing, and Mary Abot, immediately to depart out of this Town, who all\\ncame into this town, last from Loudon, in May, A. D. )791, liaving no estate. Also the said\\nJames Delap, and Lydia, his wife, and Richard Delap and Mical Delap, sons of said Delap\\nalso, MavtJia Elms, who all came into tliis Town, last from Boscavven, Dec r, 1790, having\\nno estate. Also, the said Polley Car, who came into this Town, last from Bow, July,\\n1791, having no estate. Also, Hannah Sleeper, a Minor, who came into this Town, last\\nfrom Loudon, March, 1791, having no estate. Also, Joseph Hutchins and Jerusha, his wife;\\nalso Hannah Hutchins, their daughter, who all came into this town, last from Loudon,\\nMarch, 1791, having no estate. I have warned all the above mentioned persons immediately\\nto depart out of, and leave this Town. j^j,^ Bradlev, Constable of Concord.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "308 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nHon. Timothy Walker was delegate for Concord. The whole num-\\nber of delegates in attendance was one hundred and eight, of whom\\neighty were present the first day of the session. The last survivor\\nof this convention was Ex-Governor William Plumer, of Epping,\\nwho deceased while the convention of 1850, of which his son Wil-\\nliam Avas a member, was in session in Concord, to revise the very\\nConstitution which the convention of 1792 amended and so far per-\\nfected that it continued unaltered through a period of sixty years.\\nHon. Timothy Walker was chosen chairman of the conven-\\ntion, and sworn John Calfe, Esq., was elected Secretary, by\\nballot, and sworn then the Hon. Samuel Livermore, of Holder-\\nness, was chosen President.\\nRev. Israel Evans was requested to attend and officiate as\\nchaplain to the convention, during their present session. For\\nthe important proceedings of this convention, reference must be had\\nto their Joui nal.* Before their work was completed four sessions\\nwere held, all in Concord, occupying thirty-six days. The first\\nsession was from September 7, to September 16, 1791. The sec-\\nond, from February 8, 1792, to February 24. The third* from\\nMay 30, to June 5. The fourth, from September 5, to Septem-\\nber 6. This constitution, as amended and approved by the people,\\nwas established, and went into full operation in June, 1793. By\\nthis constitution the title of President for the chief execu-\\ntive magistrate was changed to Grovernor.\\n1794.\\nAt a meeting August 4, this year, a committee of five, viz\\nMessrs. Thomas Wilson, Henry Martin, Capt. Joshua Abbot, Capt.\\nJonathan Eastman, and Lieut. Joseph Hazeltine, was appointed,\\nto wait on the Rev. Israel Evans, and inquire of him what the\\nreasons are for his (of late) discovering an uneasiness with the\\ntown about the payment of his salary, or any other matter, and\\nreceive his answer in writing and for the town to act thereon in\\nsuch manner as they may think proper. Mr. Evans had made\\na written communication and submitted to the town certain prop-\\nositions, which were acted on September 22. Voted, That the\\nThe original manuscript copy is in the Secretary s office. The names of the members\\nmay be seen in the N. H. Register, 1852, pp. 28-32.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 309\\nSelectmen pay the whole that is due to the Rev. Israel Evans\\nimmediately, or give said Evans a note upon interest till paid.\\nVoted, To accept of the second proposition of the Rev. Mr.\\nEvans, viz the money appropriated to the use of the pulpit shall\\nnot in future be applied directly or indirectly to any other use.\\nVoted, To accept of the third proposition of the Rev. Mr. Evans,\\nviz the collectors themselves shall pay to him, as often as can\\nbe done conveniently, all the money they collect for the use of\\nthe pulpit, and if possible within the year for which the money\\naforesaid was assessed.\\nIn the warrant for a town meeting 8th December, this year,\\nwas an article To see what encouragement the town will give\\nfor the raising of their quota of minute men and it was Voted,\\nTo give, in addition to the continental pay for this town s quota\\nof minute men, so much as shall make each one s pay eight dol-\\nlars per month and one month s pay be advanced to each man\\nwhen they shall be called to march.\\nThe occasion for raising these minute men is not stated but at\\nthis time the Pennsylvania RebeUion, as it was called, was in\\nprogress, and the Indians in the western country were in a state\\nof open hostility. It does not appear that the minute men from\\nConcord were ever called for. The rebellion was suppressed\\nby Gen. Lee, who by order of Gen. Washington marched into\\nPennsylvania at the head of fifteen thousand men and the Indi-\\nans were conquered by Gen. Wayne, in a well fought battle,\\nAugust 20, 1794.\\nINTERESTING MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES\\nRELATIVE TO THE PERIOD FROM 1785 TO 1795.\\nIn 1785, when news of the birth of the Dauphin of France,\\nLouis XVII.,t reached this country, the people of Concord, at a\\npubhc gathering, imdertook to celebrate the event France\\nAugust 25 it was Voted, To vandue the collector s berth and the same was struck off\\nto Mr. Paul Rolfe for eight dollars, and he was then chosen a collector to collect the same.\\nt This was the unfortunate child with whom the Rev. Mr. Williams name has recently\\nbeen associated in the public prints.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "310 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nhaving been the ally of America in the struggle for independence.\\nThe powder, which was purchased with the XlOO that Oliver\\nHoit paid for the school lot on Horse Hill, had not all been used,\\nand for safe keeping had been stored away aloft in the new stee-\\nple of the meeting-house. On this occasion, therefore, the pow-\\nder was called forth, and a grand salute fired in honor of France\\nand the new born dauphin. Hence, afterwards, whenever any-\\nthing was said in town meetings about selling the public lands,\\nCapt. Benjamin Emery would be sure to oppose it, saying, Soon\\nit will all go like powder, as the money for Oliver HoiVs school\\nlot wenty\\nThe first number of the Concord Herald was issued January\\n6, 1790, on a sheet fourteen by nine inches, bearing the follow-\\ning title and motto The Concord Herald and New-Hamp-\\nshire Intelligencer. The Press is the Cradle of Science, the\\nNurse of Genius, and the Shield of Liberty. Printed at Concord,\\n(New-Hampshire,) by George Hough.\\nOn the 7th of December the Herald announced, No Boston\\npost is arrived all news we beheve is frozen up by the cold\\nweather we have not even a report with which we can serve up\\na paragraph for our news-hungry customers.\\nAt this period newspapers and letters were carried through the\\ncountry by persons who rode on horse-back, called post-riders.\\nIn 1790 Samuel Bean was post-rider from Boston to Concord.\\nHis route was through Andover, Haverhill, Atkinson, Kingston,\\nExeter, Epping, Nottingham, Deerfield, and Pembroke to Con-\\ncord returning he passed through Londonderry and Haverhill.\\nHe performed the route once a week. John Lathrop was post-\\nrider from Concord through Boscawen and intermediate towns to\\nHanover thence up the Connecticut river road as far as Haver-\\nhill returning by way of Plymouth and New-Chester (now\\nHill.) In the fall of 1791 Lathrop called on subscribers to his\\npapers to pay up by the beginning of the next year, saying\\nhe will ever be willing to gratify his customers with a reasonable\\npay-day, but when the earth yields her increase in abundance,\\nhe views it as a happy presage of punctuality among those\\nwho have kindly become his debtors. Cash, wheat, rye, or flax\\nSee History ol Printing in Concord, in Miscellaneous Chapter.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 311\\nwill be received and for the convenience of every one lie\\nhas appointed the following places at which the pay may be\\ndeHvered.\\nBut as the pay was not forth coming at the places of de-\\nposit, Lathrop notified his customers that delays are danger-\\nous f^ MONEY, we all know, is always scarce. But, when a\\ngrain debt is not paid in the season of it, the creditor says money.\\nThat will be disagreeable to the debtor, and the post, while pro-\\nduce is plenty, puts off the harsh expression.\\nIn 1791 four routes were established, by resolve of the Leg-\\nislature, in New- Hampshire, and one person appointed in each of\\nthe following towns, viz Portsmouth, Exeter, Concord, Amherst,\\nDover, Keene, Charlestown, Hanover, Haverhill and Plymouth,\\nto take charge of all matters which are conveyed by the posts\\nto receive as a compensation, tivo j^ence, to be advanced on the\\npostage of every private letter which shall pass through the\\nrespective offices. Postage on all private single letters six pence\\nfor every forty miles, and four p nce for every number of miles\\nless than forty. Two of these routes proceeded from Concord,\\nand took in the principal towns west from Concord to Keene, and\\nnorth from Concord to Haverhill. Mr. George Hough was\\nappointed first post-master in Concord.\\nMarch 30, 1791. As an instance of the extraordinary indus-\\ntry of the women of our country, the Herald of March 30 men-\\ntioned that an old lady of this town, who is upwards of seventy\\nyears of age, has, in the course of ten months past, spun two hun-\\ndred and ten runs and three quarters of yarn of different kinds.\\nCLOTHES MAKE MEN.\\nDavid G-eorge, tailor, advertises (March 31, 1791,) that\\nhis price for making a genteel suit of superfine broadcloth is\\nthree dollars for making an ordinary suit of coarse cloth, tivo\\ndollars.\\nThe first number of The Mirror was pubhshed in Concord\\nOctober 29, 1792,* by Elijah Russell, at his office near Mr.\\n*Thi3 year, (1792,) the 11th regiment, for the first time, paraded on Eastman s plain, on the\\neast side of the river, and continued two days. At night several companies slept in barns in\\nthe vicinity. An immense number of spectators women and children were on the field.\\nA six pounder fired on the occasion produced the greatest wonder", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "312 HISTORY OF COXCORD.\\nHannaford s tavern, in Concord, N. H. It was printed on a\\nsheet fourteen inches long, eight wide, coarse paper, price five\\nshillings per annum. One shilling only to be paid yearly in\\nmoney, on receiving the first paper of every year, and the re-\\nmainder in country produce, at the market cash price, any time\\nin the course of the year. Of those who cannot pay one shilling\\nin cash, produce will be received for the whole at the end of the\\nyear.\\nWe are informed, says the Mirror of November 19, 1792,\\nthat a number of wealthy gentlemen of respectability have it\\nin contemplation to erect a bridge over Merrimack river, near\\nMr. Butters ferry. Our informant says they are to meet this\\nday at Mr. Butters inn, to consult on the expediency of the\\nmeasure. We wish them success.\\nOn Saturday last, (December 8, 1792,) says the Mirror,\\nthat contagious and fatal disease, the small-pox, was discovered\\nin the family of INIr. Daniel Hall. Mr. Hall broke out with it\\nhimself, and on Sunday was removed to a proper house and pro-\\nvided with good nurses. His physician reports that he is at\\npresent in a very favorable way.\\nLast Saturday, sen night, a child in the house of Lieut.\\nStickney, dec, died of the small-pox,* and Lieut. Jonathan\\nStickney died of the small-pox, on Sunday evening, November\\n18th. Through fear of spreading the infection, Mr. Stickney\\nwas buried in a secluded spot, on his own farm, on the north-east\\nside of Stickney s Hill, so called.\\nIn the Mirror of January 21, 1793, appeared the follow-\\ning notice\\nto the LOVERS OF HARMONY.\\nWhereas, a great number of inhabitants, desirous to promote\\nthe art and practice of sacred music in this town, have sub-\\nscribed to pay an able teacher of psalmody, (Mr. McFarland,)\\nTherefore, all persons willing to improve the advantage of a\\nfree singing school are requested to leave their names, before\\nthe first of February next, with either person of the following\\nMirror, December 10, 1792.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 313\\ncommittee, viz Capt. Jonathan Eastman, Capt. Timothy Chan-\\ndler, Lieut. David Davis, Lieut. Amos Abbot, jr., and Mr. Levi\\nAbbot.\\nthe school.\\nOn Thursday last Master Eastman* closed his school, in the\\nMain street, in this town, with an exhibition of various scenes of\\nentertainment, in which each of his pupils, about eighty in num-\\nber, participated. They performed their various exercises to the\\ngeneral satisfaction of their parents, and the honor of their inge-\\nnious preceptor and themselves\u00e2\u0080\u0094 by which they gained the ap-\\nplause of a very crowded and respectable audience, which was\\nexpressed by frequent clapping of hands and smiles of approba-\\ntion. ilfwror, April 1, 1793.\\nLast week we experienced a severe frost, which destroyed\\nmost of the young apples, c., and killed the flax, so that people\\nhave generally sowed their ground a second time. A severe\\ndrought prevails. It is now three weeks since we have had rain\\nenough to lay the dust in the streets. Mirror, May 27, 1793.\\nConcord, July 22, 1793. On Tuesday last a tempest arose\\nin this town, accompanied with very heavy thunder and consid-\\nerable rain. About three miles north of the meeting-house it\\nhailed the hail-stones were some of them nearly as large as\\nounce balls. It leveled most of the corn, rye, oats, e., for a\\nconsiderable width and distance, its course being from north-west\\nto south-east. One half of the roof of a house, belonging to\\nLieut. Phinehas Kimball, was taken off by the wind, carried a\\nconsiderable distance, and dashed to pieces. The chimney was\\nleveled with the chamber floor. There were two women in the\\nhouse, who happily escaped with only being severely frightened.\\nMirror.\\nnew line of stages.\\nA number of gentlemen in Haverhill, (Mass.,) Chester, and\\nthis town, have agreed to run a stage from Haverhill to this town\\ntwice a week, to communicate with the Boston stage which will\\nrender communication to that metropolis much more certain and\\nAn order in favor of Edmund Eastman, for keeping school in Concord, 1793, \u00c2\u00a31S.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "314 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nexpeditious than heretofore. We understand that this stage \u00e2\u0096\u00a0will\\ncommence running early in September next. Mirror, August\\n12, 1793.\\nIn July, 1792, there was not a book-hinder in the State of\\nNew-Hampshire.\\nIn 1788 Timothy Walker, Esq., was a candidate for Repre-\\nsentative in Congress, and received in this town thirty-nine votes.\\nIn 1791 he was a candidate for President of New-Hampshire,\\nand received sixty votes in 1792, he received seventy-seven\\nvotes for President, and his Excellency Josiah Bartlett received\\nninety. The same year Mr. Walker had one hundred and eight\\nvotes in Concord for Representative to Congress, and twenty-nine\\nvotes for Elector of President and Vice President of the United\\nStates. In 1793 (after the adoption of the revised constitution,)\\nMr. Walker had ninety-three votes for Governor, and in 1791\\nhe had one hundred and five votes. He was the democratic can-\\ndidate, in opposition to John T. Gilman, Esq., who was elected.\\nLIST OF TOWN OFFICERS,\\nREPRESENTATIVES, DELEGATES AND JURORS,\\nFROM 1785 TO 1795.\\n,r March 7, 178^,\\nMarch 1, 1 /8o. arijoumed to March 21.\\nModerator, Timotliy Walker.\\nClerk, John Kimliall.\\nCol. Timotliy Walker,\\nSelectmen, J Capt. RcuLen Kimball,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nLt. Moses Eastman,*\\nConstables, ^phraim Carter.\\nCol. Timothy Walker.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nCol. Timothy Walker,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nReuben Kimball.\\nCapt. Joshua Abbot,*\\nLt. John Chandler.\\nLt. Phinehas Virijin,\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nTijtiunrpnen, Richard Hazeltine. Ebenezcr Hail,\\nLt. Jona. Stickney,\\nDaniel Abbot.\\nSealer of Leather, David Hall David Hall.\\nSealer of Wts.andMeas.,T a\\\\id ilal\\\\ David Hall.\\nExcused.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n315\\nSia ve)/ors of Ilighways, A\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nEichard Ayer,\\nLt. John Chandler,\\nJohn Hoyt,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nAsa Herrick,\\nBenjamin Farnum,\\nLt. Joseph Hazcltinc,\\nRichard Ilazeltine,\\nLt. Asa Kimball,\\nEbenezer H. Goss.\\nRobert Duncan,\\nMicah Flanders,\\nDavid George,\\nAnthony Potter,\\nEbenezer H. Goss,\\nDaniel Page.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nJacob Carter,\\nJohn Kimball.\\nTreasurer, John Kimball.\\nBeniamin Hanniford,\\nPound-keepers,. Robert Ambrose.\\nRepresentatives,\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstable,\\nPeter Green.\\nMarch 6, 1787,\\nadjourned to 19.\\nCol. Timothy Walker.\\nCaleb Chase.\\nLt. Joseph Hall,\\nHenry Martin,*\\nThomas Wilson.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nTythingmen,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nRobert Eastman,\\nLt. Jonathan Sticknej\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas.^D viAJliiW.\\nSamuel Thompson,\\nRichard Herltert,\\nAmos Abbot, Jr.,\\nJohn Stevens,\\nEzra Abbot,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nJames Walker,\\nIsaac Abbot,\\nWilliam Fificld,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nPhinehas Kimball,\\nJoshua Graham,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nMoses Abbot,\\nTimothy Dow.\\nSurveyors of Highways,\\nStephen Crosman,\\nSamuel Thompson,\\nRichard Potter,\\nRichard Hazeltine,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nJ Timothy Bradley,\\nNathan Abbot,\\nJosiah Farnum, Jr.,\\nLt. Asa Herrick,\\nWm. Fitield,\\nJonathan Eliot, Jr.,\\nJoseph Colby, Jr.,\\nMoses Abbott.\\nRobert Eastman.\\nDudley Ladd,\\nDaniel Rogers,\\nSamuel Goodwin,\\nWilliam Fitield,\\nLt. Joshua Thompson.\\n(Chandler Lovcjoy,\\nBenja. Hanniford,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nLt. Asa Herrick.\\nJohn Kimball.\\nRobert Ambrose,\\nBenja. Hanniford.\\nC Col. Peter Green,\\nLieut. John Bradley,\\nI June 24.\\nMarch 4, 1788.\\nCol. Timothy Walker\\nCaleb Chase.\\nCol. Timothy Walker.\\nCapt. Benja. Emery,\\nChandler Lovejoy.\\nDavid Hall.\\nRobert Eastman,\\nDaniel Gale.\\nDavid Hall.\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nPhilbrick Bradley,\\nAnthony Potter,\\nEzekiel Carter,\\nMoses Abbot,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nJohn Elliot,\\nTimothy Dow,\\nThomas Wilson,\\nJames Walker,\\nStephen Hall,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nSamuel Butters.\\n.March 19, Amos Abbot, Jr., for H. Martin.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "316\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nUogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nTreasurer,\\nRepresentatives,\\nSurveyors of Wood,\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstables,\\nfDiuiiel Stickney,\\nI Daniel Hills,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0l Moses Fifield,\\nCapt. Kichard Ayer,\\nDaniel Hall.\\nC Chandler Lovejoj,\\nI Benjamin Hanniford,\\nDaniel Livermore,\\nI John Blanchard,\\n[Jacob Carter.\\nCaleb Chase.\\nj Peter Green, Esq.,\\nLt. John Bradley, June 22\\nj Thomas Wilson,\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nMarch 3, 1789.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nCaleb Chase\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball,\\nTimothy Walker. Esq.,\\nLt. Asa Herrick.\\nRobert Ambrose.\\n(William Currier,\\nJohn Stevens,\\nStephen Crosman,\\nDaniel Rogers,\\nPhilbrick Bradley.\\nSealer of Leather, David Hall.\\na/ero/Trte.aHC^il/eas., David Hall.\\nLt. Ebenezer Virgin,\\nJohn Eastman,\\nCapt. Asa Kimball,\\nStephen Faruum,\\nLt. Benjamin Farnum,\\nPhinehas How,\\nMoses Abbot,\\nJoseph Runnels,\\nLt. Asa Herrick,\\nLt. Joshua Hazeltine,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nRichard Hazeltine.\\nSurveyors of Highways\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of T^umber,\\nPound-lecper,\\nRepresentatives,\\nSurveyor of Wood,\\nHay-ward,\\nRichard H. Osgood,\\nBenjamin Powel,\\nRobert Eastman.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nLt. Asa Herrick,\\nMaj. Daniel Livermore\\nLt. Joshua Thompson.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nRol)ert Ambrose,\\nPeter Green,\\nThomas Wilson.\\nMillen Kimball,\\nHenry Rolfe,\\nSamuel Thompson,\\nCapt. John Roach,\\nMaj. Wm. Duncan,\\nBenjamin Powel.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nDaniel Livermore,\\nJoshua Thompson,\\nAsa Herrick.\\nPeter Green, Esq.\\nWilliam Duncan.\\nMarch 2, 1790.\\nCol. Timothy Walker.\\nCaleb Chase.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.,\\nCapt. R euben Kimball,\\nLt. Asa Herrick,\\nLt. Phinehas Virgin,\\nJabcz Abbot,\\nThomas Wilson.\\nDaniel Rogers.\\nDavid Hall.\\nDavid Hall.\\nLt. John Chandler,\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nLt. Moses Eastman,\\nLt. John Bradley,\\nJonatlian Virgin,\\nIsaac Abbot,\\nRobert Harris,\\nDaniel Farnum,\\nLt. Joseph Hazeltine,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nEbenezer Dow,\\nJoseph Runnels,\\nBarnard Elliott,\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nDavid Stickney.\\nEljenezer Duston,\\nJoshua Currier,\\nWilliam Filield,\\nMoses Eastman.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nMaj. Daniel Livermore,\\nLt. Joshua Thompson,\\nLt. Asa Herrick.\\nBenjamin Hanniford.\\nPeter Green, Esq.,\\nLt. John Bradley, 21st\\nof June.\\nThomas Wilson.\\nThomas Wilson.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n3ir\\nModeratoi;\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstables,\\nTijthingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wis. and Meas.,\\nSurveijors of Highways,\\nMarch 1, 1791.\\nCol. Timothy Walker.\\nCaleb Chase.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.,\\nCiipt. Reuben Kimball,\\nCapt. Benjamin Emery\\nLt. John Bradley,\\nRobert Eastman,\\nEphraim Farnum.\\nDaniel Rojiers,\\nCaleb Biiswell.\\nDea. Hall, excused Asa\\nker\\nDavid Hall\\nMaj. Daniel Livermore,\\nJames Johnson,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nSamuel Goodwin,\\nMaj. Asa Kimball,\\nRichard Hazcltine,\\nWilliam Fitield,\\nJolm Hoit,\\nJoseph Colby,\\nBarnard Elliott,\\nNathan Abbot,\\nLt. Asa Ilerrick,\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney.\\nMaj. Daniel Livermore,\\nLt. John Chandler,\\nLt. Joseph Hall,\\nJacob Diraond.\\nJohn Colby, Jr.,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nDaniel Farnum,\\nAbner Farnum.\\nWilliam A. Kent,\\nILazzen Kimball,\\nEbenczer Eastman,\\nMoses Farnum,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nJohn Sliute, Jr.\\nf Benjamin Hanniford,\\nI Lt. Joshua Thompson,\\nSurveyors of Lumber, Maj. Daniel Livermore,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nIsaac Dimond.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nMaj. William Duncan.\\nPar-\\nFence-.\\nField-drivers.\\nHogreeves,\\nMarch 6, 1792.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.\\nCalel) Chase.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.,\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball,\\nCapt. Benjamin Emery.\\nBenjamin Hanniford,\\nEzra Carter,\\nLt. Ebenezcr Virgin.\\nDaniel Gale,\\nRobert Eastman,\\nJames Johnson.\\nAsa Parker.\\nDea. David Hall.\\nHazzen Kimball,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nLt. Joseph Hall,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nLt. Samuel Davis,\\nJesse Abbot,\\nBruce Walker,\\nWilliam Fificld,\\nJohn Elliott, Jr.,\\nLt. Phinehas Kimball,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nJonathan Virgin,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nJoseph Carter,\\nLt. Asa Herrick.\\nTimothy, Walker, Esq.,\\nMaj. William Duncan.\\nPound-keeper,\\nRepresentative,\\nDelegate to Constitutional\\nConvention, J\\nGrand Juror,\\nPetit Juror,\\nSurveyor of Wood,\\nHay- ward,\\nJeremiah Virgin\\nWilliam Manly.\\nSamuel Bradley,\\nJeremiah Chandler,\\nDaniel Gale, Jr.,\\nChristopher Osgood.\\nMaj. Daniel Livennore,\\nAbel Baker,\\nLt. Joshua Thompson,\\nIsaac Dimond.\\nJohn Bradley, Esq.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq., Aug. 8.\\nMaj. William Duncan,\\nI May 7th.\\nStephen Farnum.\\nThomas Wilson John Thorndike.\\nRobert Hams Thomas Wilson.\\nMarch 5. 1793.\\nMarch 4, 1794.\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nJudge Walker Timothy Walker, Esq.\\nCaleb Chase Caleb Chase.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "318\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nSelectmen,\\nConstables,\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealers of Wis. and Ms.,\\nSurveyors of Uighwaijs,\\nFence-viewers,\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves^\\nSurveyors Lwnher,\\nPound-keepers,\\nRepresentative,\\nSurveyors of Wood,\\nHay-wwrd,\\nHon. Timothy Walker,\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball,\\nCapt. Benjamin Emery.\\nLt. Joseph Hazeltine,\\nJosiah Farnum, excused\\nTimothy Carter, in lieu,\\nGeorge Grayham.\\nDaniel Rogers,\\nEzra Abbot.\\nAsa Parker.\\nDea. D. Hall,\\nHenry Moulton.\\nHazzen Kimball,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney\\nCln-istopher Osgood,\\nDaniel Farnum,\\nLt. Ezckiel Carter,\\nLt. Samuel Davis,\\nBenjamin Powell,\\nSamuel Bradley,\\nCapt. Jona. Eastman,\\nPhilbrick Bradley,\\nLt. Joshua Thompson,\\nEns. Jona. Virgin,\\nJoseph Carter, Jr.,\\nEns. Joseph Runnels,\\nEnoch Brown.\\nWm. Partridge,\\nEl)enezer Eastman,\\nEbenezer Dustin,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nIsaac Dimond.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nJoseph Eastman, Jr.,\\nJohn Colby, Jr.,\\nJoseph Hoyt,\\nBenjamin Powell,\\nMoody Dow.\\nEnoch Brown,\\nMaj. Daniel Livermore,\\nJoseph Carter. Jr.,\\nLt. Asa Herrick,\\nJohn Eastman,\\nBenjamin Abbot, Jr.\\nJ Benjamin Hanniford,\\nI Jacob Eastman.\\nINIaj. Wm. Duncan,\\nj Thomas Wilson,\\nJacob Eastman.\\nRobert Harris,\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.,\\nCapt. Reuben Kimliall,\\nJohn Bradley, Esq.\\nWilliam Currier,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nMaj. Asa Kimball.\\nDaniel Rogers,\\nCaleb Buswell.\\nDea. David Hall.\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nEplu aim Carter,\\nLt. Benj.amin Farnum,\\nDavid Carter,\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nOliver Hoit,\\nJohn Elliott,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nLt. Phinehas Virgin,\\nLt. Phinehas Kimball,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nMoses Carter.\\nWm. Partridge.\\nWm. Manlcy,\\nIsaac Emery.\\nStephen Tuttle,\\nPeter Swan,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nBenjamin Powel.\\nJohn Currier, Jr.,\\nEbenezer Virgin, Jr.,\\nLt. Asa Herrick.\\nDavid George, Esq.\\nM.ij Daniel Livermore.\\nThomas Wilson.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XL\\nHISTOKY OF CONCORD FROM 1795 TO 1805.\\nIn March, 1795, three collectors were appointed, one for each\\nsection of the town, viz. south, west and east. Hanes Farnum\\nagreed to collect for S^c?., John Batchelder, jr., 4A(i, and\\nEbenezer Eastman, for 4:^d. In 1796 forty dollars were appro-\\npriated to fence the burying ground, and to purchase a pall\\nand Capt. Reuben Kimball was appointed agent to finish the\\nTown House. The Singing Society, formed about this time,\\nwas allowed the use of the Town House to sing in provided\\nthey leave the house in as good repair as it is when they go\\ninto the house. In 1797, \u00c2\u00a3150 were raised to supply the\\nschool-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the largest sum ever raised for that purpose.\\nRESIGNATION OF REV. MR. EVANS.\\nApril 21, 1797, Rev. Mr. Evans in a written communication\\nsignified his intention of resigning to the town their pulpit,\\nand of finishing his work of the ministry in this place, on the\\nfirst of July next. The resignation of Mr. Evans was accepted,\\nand he was regularly dismissed, July 5th, by an Ecclesiastical\\nCouncil, composed of the Elders and Delegates of the neigh-\\nboring churches, viz., Gilmanton, Sanbornton, Atkinson, Am-\\nherst, Canterbury, Loudon and Pembroke. In their result, after\\nrecapitulating the facts in the case, the council voted, unani-\\nmously, that in the opinion of the council it is expedient that the\\npastoral relations between Mr. Evans and the church and people", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "320 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nin this place, should be dissolved, and accordingly it is dissolved.\\nAs no charges have been exhibited against the ministerial or Chris-\\ntian character of Mr. Evans, we recommend him to the churches,\\nand to the work of the ministry, wherever God in his providence\\nmay open a door, and wish him divine assistance and success.\\nAfter his dismission Rev. Mr. Evans continued to reside in\\ntown living in the house which he owned, where the Hon.\\nSamuel Morril now lives until his death, March 9, 1807, in\\nthe sixtieth year of his age.*\\nSoon after the dismission of Rev. Mr. Evans, Mr. AsA\\nMcFarland, who had become favorably known to the people of\\nConcord as a teacher of music, and who had been two years a\\ntutor in Dartmouth College, was employed to preach as a candi-\\ndate. On the 28th of December the town voted to give Mr.\\nAsa McFarland a call to settle in the ministry in this town\\nto give him three hundred and fifty dollars salary yearly, and\\nthe use of all the improved land belonging to the parsonage\\nright, and liberty to cut wood and timber on the out lands, as\\nmuch as he may want for his own use during his carrying on the\\nwork of the ministry in this town. Jacob Abbot, Esq., Capt.\\nJoshua Abbot, Timothy Walker, Esq., Capt. Jonathan Eastman,\\nand John Bradley, Esq., were appointed a committee to wait on\\nMr. McFarland with the votes.\\nThe call from the church, which preceded that from the town,\\nwas unanimous but to the latter the following persons entered\\ntheir dissent to Mr. McFarland s salary, January 4, 1798, viz.\\nJeremiah Wheeler, Asa Graham, Robert Ambrose, Jonathan\\nAmbrose, Oliver Flanders, Philbrick Bradley, John Hoit, John\\nHoit, jr., Jacob Hoit, Chandler Lovejoy, John Lovejoy, Ebenezer\\nLovejoy, Samuel Goodwin, Edward Philbrick, John Dimond,\\nReuben Dimond, Jonathan Virgin, Moses Gale, Timothy Bradley,\\nStilson Eastman, Eliphalet Tucker, Joseph Eastman.\\nMost of the above named individuals afterwards became not\\nonly the supporters of Rev. Mr. McFarland, by paying their\\nannual tax for his salary, but also were personal friends, and\\nsome of them members of his church.\\nSee Result of Council, Town Records, 1797, p. 299, and Biographical Notice of Rev. Mr.\\nEvans.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "ORDINATION OF DR. McFARLAND. 321\\nMr. McFarland gave an affirmative answer to the call, and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was ordained March 7, 1798.* A committee of five was\\nappointed to superintend the services, viz. Capt. Richard Ayer,\\nJames Walker, Jonathan Eastman, Jacob Carter and John\\nBatchelder with power to make provision for the Council\\nand Delegates that may attend at the expense of the town.\\nThe ordination of Mr. McFarland was an occasion of great\\ninterest. Tradition assures us that people came together from\\nneighboring towns, at the distance of twenty miles and more\\nthat near and around the meeting-house were stands, for the sale\\nof refreshments, and among other necessary articles, spirituous\\nliquors. The procession of the ordaining council, from the town-\\nhouse to the meeting-house, was attended by a band of music\\nand, to crown the soleiimity of the occasion, there was a splendid\\nball in the evening, at Stickney s celebrated tavern !f\\nJust before the settlement of Mr. McFarland the town voted,\\nthat those persons who drive sleighs on Sunday be desired to\\nkeep on the east side of the street. At this period there were\\nno side-walks, and travelling on foot was especially inconvenient\\nin the winter.\\nIt was Dr. McFarland s custom, during the greater part of his\\nTo the Church and People of Concord.\\nBrethren As I have received your invitation to settle among you as your minister, it is\\nexpedient that I should make known to you the result of my deliberations on that important\\nsubject. You are sensible that this is a subject of magnitude, both as it respects yon, and as it\\nrespects myself. It is a subject which involves tlie interest of religion, so far as the influence\\nof this transaction shall extend. It is, tlien, a subject which requires a sober and prayerful\\ndeliberation. It would be unnecessary for me to relate to you the anxiety with which my mind\\nhas labored, in view of my own inability, and the weiglit of that object which your invitation\\ninvolves and it has been my prayer to God, tliat he would direct me to those things which will\\nbe for the interest of religion. After deliberating respecting the importance of the object and\\nmy own duty, I have thought fit to comply with your invitation, and do therefore comply\\nwith it Praying that God would crown these, our determinations, with his blessing that\\nhe would make me an instrument to promote your spiritual happiness that he would build\\nus up in faith and love, and finally present us faultless before his throne with exceeding joy\\nto whom be glory forever, Amen. n\\nAsa McFarland.\\nConcord, January 27, 1798.\\nThe Churches invited to form the ordaining Council were that at Dartmouth College,\\nSanbornton, Gilmanton, Loudon, Canterbury, Chichester, Pembroke, Atkinson, Chester and\\nHopkinton. The clergymen who officiated were Rev. Stephen Peabody, of Atkinson Rev.\\nJohn Smith, of Dartmouth College, who preached the sermon Rev. Joseph Woodman of San-\\nbornton Rev. Zaccheus Colby, of Pembroke Rev. Frederick Parker, of Canterbury Rev.\\nJedediah Tucker, of Loudon, and Rev. Josiah Carpenter, of Chichester.\\nt The sign at Stickney s tavern was an Indian, said to represent King Philip. It\\nwas presented to the N. H. Historical Society, by the late Mr. John Stickney, and may be\\nseen at the society s room in Concord\\n21", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "322 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nministry, the first sleighing each year, to give notice of the rule\\nhere introduced, from the pulpit, in these words Persons who\\ndrive sleighs uill jjlease keep to the right, and let those who are\\nafoot have the middle of the road. It is related of Capt. Rich-\\nard Ayer, ^Yho was a powerful and fearless man, six feet or more,\\nthat being annoyed by loaded sleighs, from other towns, which\\nwould not turn out for people going to meeting, he armed himself\\nwith a heavy staff, or club, and followed in the steps of a number\\nof women walking in the middle of the road to meeting. They\\nwere met by a loaded sleigh with two horses, and compelled to\\nturn out into the snow. When the horses came up to Capt. Ayer\\nhe lifted his club and told the driver to turn out. Not heeding\\nthe warning, Capt. Ayer struck one of the horses on his forelegs\\nand brought him down on his knees. There, said he, turn\\nout when you meet people on their way to meeting, or I will\\nknock you down. The custom thus became established of giv-\\ning foot-travelers the middle of the road, and for many years\\nthey enjoyed the privilege unmolested.\\nTHE OXFORD WAR.\\nIn the threatened war with France, during the administration\\nof President John Adams, the people of Concord had another\\nopportunity to evince their patriotism. In the warrant for a town\\nmeeting, December 28, 1797, was an article to see what measures\\nthe town will take to raise their quota of the eighty thousand men\\nrequired by Congress. On this article, Voted, That the men\\nthat enlist shall have ten dollars, with what the Congress give\\nand if called into service to have one month s pay in advance.\\nAlso it was Voted, That the selectmen give those persons that\\nenlist a handsome treat at the expense of the town!\\nAccording to tradition, a few only from Concord entered the\\nservice. A company, however, was formed, composed of men\\nfrom this and neighboring towns, of which Nathaniel Green, of\\nBoscawen, was Captain Moses Sweat, of Concord, 1st Lieuten-\\nant Israel W. Kelly,* of Sahsbury, 2d Lieutenant and Ben-\\njamin Gale, of Concord, Commissary.\\nThis company had their rendezvous a short time at Mother\\nHon. Israel W. Kelly is now a resident in East Concord.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "THE OXFORD WAR. 323\\nOsgood s tavern. They were to march for Oxford, in Massa-\\nchusetts, and there await orders for further service. Hence, it\\nwas called the Oxford War. Previous to marching, it was\\nfound that a pair of saddle-bags, containing valuable jewelry,\\nbelonging to a traveler, had been stolen from Mr. Gale s tavern\\nand that Dr. Thorndike s apothecary shop had been broken open,\\nand ten dollars stolen from that. When the soldiers were\\nparaded, ready to march, Mr. commissary Gale said to Captain\\nGreen I have reason to believe that some of the soldiers have\\nstolen goods, and request that they may be searched. All laid\\ndown their sacks, and the stolen property was found in possession\\nof a soldier from Salisbury. Thus detected, the fellow fell on his\\nknees, with hat in hand, made a humble confession to the Captain,\\nto Dr. Thorndike, Mr. Gale, and to all the soldiers and humbly\\nbegged for mercy On this, he was permitted to go without\\npunishment.*\\nBesides this company, however, a company of minute-men was\\norganized, composed of some of the most respectable men of the\\nplace. A paper in the hand writing of Judge Walker, super-\\nscribed, A List of Continental Soldiers, contains the following\\nnames John Bradley, Reuben Kimball, William Duncan, Timo-\\nthy Bradley, Nathaniel Eastman, Joshua Thompson, Philbrook\\nBradley, Hazen Kimball, Moses Sweat, Jonathan Eastman, Tim-\\nothy Chandler, Samuel Davis, Thomas Stickney, jr., Daniel\\nLivermore, Chandler Lovejoy, John Weeks, Timothy Carter,\\nRobert Bradley, Abiel Walker, Elijah Russell, John West, John\\nSouther, Richard Ayer, Jacob Carter, Ephraim Carter, Amos\\nAbbott, jr., Richard H. Osgood, Stilson Eastman, Dudley Ladd,\\nTimothy Walker, Thomas Stickney, Joseph Hall, Joshua Abbot,\\nAsa Parker, Timothy Abbott, Samuel Bradley, John Roach,\\nPhinehas Kimball, Ephraim Colby, Asa Herrick.\\nSCHOOL DISTRICTS IN 1800.\\nIn the warrant for a town-meeting, March 4th, this year, were\\narticles to see if the town will choose a committee to district the\\ntown into school- districts if the town will raise money to\\nRelated by Mr. Gale.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "324 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nbuild school-houses in said districts and will authorize the\\ncommittee to appraise school-houses already built -which may\\nanswer for district-houses, and allow each person, being a propri-\\netor, his dividend of the money, according to the shares he owns\\nin said house. Also, to see if the town will choose a number\\nof persons to pursue tJdeves that may hereafter steal any property\\nfrom any of the inhabitants of the town, and their expense to be\\nat the town cost. This article does not appear to have been\\nacted on, but the Selectmen were appointed a committee to dis-\\ntrict the town into school-districts, together with one man from\\neach district where there is a school-house. Jacob Carter, Isaac\\nDimond, Samuel Davis, Timothy Dow, Enoch Brown, and Joseph\\nPotter, were added.*\\nA BELL.\\nMarch 31st, Voted, To accept of a bell if one can be\\nobtained by subscription, and cause the same to be rung at such\\ntimes as the town may think proper. Also, That the selectmen\\nrepair the town-house, at the expense of the town, not to exceed\\nten dollars. This was done in order to make conveniences or\\naccommodations for the General Court in their next session,\\nwhich is to be held in this town. About this time a clock, con-\\nstructed by the late Maj. Timothy Chandler, was put up on the\\nsouth side of the Town Hall, the old face of which remaineth to\\nthis day.\\nENLARGING THE MEETING-HOUSE.\\nDecember 31, 1800, Capt. Richard Ayer and others of-\\nfered to make an addition to the meeting-house, according to a\\nplan exhibited before the town by a committee of which Jacob\\nAbbot, Esq., was chairman, being a semi-circle, projecting thirty\\nfeet in front of the house, and divided into seven angles, and\\nthat the owners of the pews in front of the house below have\\ntheir choice to remain where they are, or go back to the wall the\\nA vote was taken on revising the Constitution of the State. For a revision one hundred\\nand six; against it, one.\\nVoted, That the selectmen vendue the fencing of the burying-ground on the east side of\\nthe river, and charge the expense to the town that said fence may be bid off at.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "LOCATION OF A BURYING-PLACE. 325\\nsame distance from the front door and that the present wall\\npews be placed on a level with the other body pews that the own-\\ners of wall pews in the front of the gallery have as good wall\\npews in the front of the addition. Capt. Ayer and others gave\\nbonds for the faithful execution of the work, which was completed\\nthe following year. At the annual meeting, March 1, 1803, a\\ncommittee, appointed to inspect the building and finishing the\\naddition to the meeting-house, reported that it appears to us that\\nthe materials made use of for each and every part was suitable\\nand of good quality, and that the work is done in a handsome\\nand workmanlike manner. Whereupon, Voted, That the\\nmeeting-house be accepted, and the undertakers have their bond\\ngiven up to them by the committee. This addition made the\\nmeeting-house the most spacious and commodious in the State.\\nIt would seat eight hundred persons on the floor and about four\\nhundred in the gallery. For many years the congregation that\\nworshipped in it on the Sabbath averaged about seven hun-\\ndred. One hundred dollars were added to Mr. McFarland s\\nsalary,*\\nAbout this time a petition was presented to annex a part of\\nBow to Concord whereupon, March 22, 1803, Voted, That\\nthe town will oppose the prayer of the petition of the selectmen\\nof Bow, to set off a part of said Bow to this town, now in\\nthe General Court.\\nIn March, 1804, the town voted, to purchase one acre of land\\nof David Carter /or a hurying-ground, (near Horse-hill bridge.)\\nand fence the same for that purpose. Agreeably to a law of\\nthe State, the annual town-meeting was fixed 07i the second Tues-\\nday in March. The selectmen were directed to straiten the\\nroad from the meeting-house to Boscawcn line. The old road\\nto Boscawen was exceedingly crooked. The late Mr. Richard\\nHerbert said the old road passed up through the valley,\\nsouth of Mr. Francis N. Fisk s new house between the elm tree\\nand corner of Mr. Coffin s house run up by Esq. Bradley s,\\nthen north to Woods brook. At West-Parish village it run up\\nby Mr. Levi Hutchins s; thence north-east by where Mr. Alfred\\nJeremiah Story dissents to tliis addition", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "326\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAbbot lives turning again it run through the woods to the Bor-\\nough, so called, thence to what is now Fisherville crossing a\\nbridge which stood some distance below where the bridge now is.\\nSome parts of the old road are still visible.*\\nMISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE\\nTO THE PERIOD FROM 1795 TO 1805.\\nCONCORD BRIDGE.\\nIn January, 1795, in answer to a petition, the Legislature of\\nNew-Hampshire granted to Peter Green and others the exclu-\\nsive right to build and support a bridge over Merrimack river,\\nbetween Butters s ferry, so called, and Concord south line, and\\nprescribed the rates of toll they should take to reimburse them\\nfor the money expended in building and supporting said bridge. f\\nPursuant to the provisions of the charter, a meeting was called\\nand held at Mr. Samuel Butters s inn, on the 23d of February,\\n1795 at which meeting Samuel Green was chosen clerk, who,\\nat an adjourned meeting, held on the 9th day of March, next\\nfollowing, resigned, and Paul Rolfe was chosen. Capt. Reuben\\nKimball, Maj. Enoch Gerrish and Capt. David Kimball were\\nchosen directors or overseers. J\\n*See Town Rec. 1804-5, pp. 287-294.\\nfSee original records and papers of the Proprietors of Concord Bridge, in the hands of\\nSamuel Coffin, Esq.\\nX The stock was divided into one iiundred sliares, and was subscribed for by the following\\npersons\\nPeter Green,\\nWni. Partridge,\\nEbenezer Duston,\\nWm. A. Kent,\\nHazen Kimball, for Henry\\nWest, Haverhill, Mass.,\\nRichard Ayer,\\nSamuel Green,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nWilliam Stickney,\\nSamuel Fowler,\\nRichard Bartlett,\\nFrederick Foster,\\nDavid Kimball,\\nDaniel Knox,\\nAsa Robinson,\\nGeorge Hough,\\nJohn Chandler, Jr.\\nIsaac Chandler,\\nWm. Manly,\\nWilder Bowers^\\nLuther Fisk,\\nEbenezer Peaslee,\\nDaniel Livermore.\\nJohn Colby, Jr.,\\nReuben Kimball,\\nJona. Proctor,\\nSHARES.\\nI\\n1\\n1\\nBrown Sweetser, Chester, 1\\nDaniel Appleton, 2\\nMoses Gale, 2\\nEdmund Kimball, Jr., 2\\nAndrew Peabody, 2\\nIsrael Evans, .5\\nWilliam Duncan, 2\\nNath l Head, .1\\nEbenezer Eastuian, I", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "FEDERAL BRIDGE.\\n527\\nThe bridge was originallj built with a double track the piers\\nand abutments were of wood the estimated cost was $10,000,\\nbut the actual cost was over $13,000. It was completed and\\nopened for travel October 29, 1795. The occasion seems to\\nhave been one of great interest. A procession was formed,\\nwhich marched across the bridge in the following order\\n1. The building committee.\\n2. The treasurer and clerk.\\n3. The Rev. Israel Evans, with Mr. Wood and Mr. Parker,\\nministers of Boscawen and Canterbury.\\n4. The proprietors.\\n5. The workmen, with the master-workmen, [a Mr. Poor,]\\nat their head.\\n6. The spectators in regular order.\\nCapt. David Davis was invited by the directors to assist Maj.\\nWilliam Duncan with music, and a guard of four men, and to\\ndine with the proprietors. The dinner was at William Stickney s\\ntavern. After spending the day in conviviality and mirth, by\\npassing the bridge, c., the services closed. So saith the rec-\\nords.\\nFEDERAL BRIDGE.\\nOn the 28th of December, 1795, an act was passed by the\\nLegislature, incorporating Timothy Walker, Benjamin Emery,\\nWilliam Partridge, Jonathan Eastman, Joshua Thompson, and\\nothers, their associates, for the purpose of building a bridge over\\nthe river Merrimack, at or near a place called Tucker s Ferry,\\nin Concord. The corporation was known by the name of\\nProprietors of Federal Bridge. They were required by the\\ncharter to complete the bridge in three years, and to pay the\\nNAMES OF SHARE-HOLDERS IN CONCORD BRIDGE, CONTINUED.\\nJohn Odlin,\\n1\\nLeavitt Clough,\\n1\\nAsa Foster,\\no\\nPaul Rolfe,\\no\\nNath l Rolfe, Jr.,\\nThomas Stickney and son\\nJoseph Gerrish,\\nThomas,\\nNath l Green,\\nBenja. Gale,\\nJoseph Cloiigli,\\nJohn Patchelder,\\n2\\nTimothy Dix, Jr.,\\nAr. Liverinore, of Chester,\\nSamuel Gerrish,\\nJames Duncan, Jr.,\\nPeterson Stickney,\\nliailey Bartlett,\\nThomas Tliompson,\\nMoses Gale, Jr.,\\nLevi Abel Hutchins,\\nNath l Thurston,\\nHenry Gerrish,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nSomersby Person,\\nEnoch Gerrish,\\nTimothy Walker,\\nSimeon G. Hall,\\nMoses Swett,\\nJoseph Hall,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nCharles Walker,\\nSamuel White, Esq., Ha-\\nverhill, Mass., 3\\nBy Ebenezer Duston.\\nCotton B. Brooks, 2\\nSani l White, Esq., Haver-\\nhill, Mass., 1\\nJohn True, of Hampstead, 1", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "328\\nHISTORY OP CONCORD.\\nowner or proprietor of Tucker s Ferry the sum of four hundred\\nand fifty dollars for the right. These conditions were complied\\nwith.* The first meeting of the proprietors was held at the house\\nof Ebenezer Eastman, inn-holder, in Concord, January 18, 1796,\\nat which Capt. Benjamin Emery was chosen moderator, and\\nStephen Ambrose clerk. f\\nThe rates of toll established at first by law, for passing over\\nFederal Bridge were as follows For each foot passenger, one\\ncent for each horse and rider, three cents for each horse and\\nchaise, chair, sulky, or other riding carriage, drawn by one horse\\nonly, ten cents for each riding sleigh, drawn by one horse, four\\ncents for each riding sleigh, drawn by more than one horse, six\\ncents for each coach, chariot, phiieton, or other four-wheeled\\ncarriage for passengers, drawn by more than one horse, twenty\\ncents for each curricle, twelve cents for each cart or other\\ncarriage of burthen, drawn by two beasts, ten cents, and three\\ncents for every additional beast for each horse or neat creature,\\n*Elii)lialet Tucker conveyed his right and title to Tucker s Feriy,\\nFederal Bridge, July 18, 1798, in consideration of $450. See Proprietors\\nin Register s office, vol. 25, p. 397.\\njThe stock in the bridge was divided into one hundred shares, which\\nowned as follows\\nNO. NO. NO. NO.\\n1. Timothy Walker. 2R. Beiija. Kimball, jr. 51. Richard Ayer. 70.\\n2. Jolin West. 27. Charles Walker. 52. Do. 77.\\n3. Jacob Carter,\\n2R. Beiija. Kimball, jr. 51. Richard Ayer.\\n27. Charles Walker. 52. Do.\\n28. Ebenezer Sanborn\\nWilliam Partridge. 29. Jacob Eastman.\\nDo. 30. Nathaniel Marsh.\\nBenjamin Emery. 31. Reuben Kimball.\\nDo.\\nDo.\\nDo.\\nJona. Eastman.\\n11. Do.\\n12. Do.\\n32. Philbrick Bradley\\n33. Abiel Eastman.\\n34. Simeon Eastman.\\n35. Aaron Austin.\\n3G. Nath l Ambrose.\\n37. William Duncan.\\n13. Joshua Thompson. 38. Do\\n14. Do.\\n15. Philip Carrigain.\\n16. William Manley.\\n17. William A. Kent.\\n18. Obed Hall.\\n19. Robert Bradley.\\n20. Asa Kimball.\\n21. John Eastman.\\n22. Eben r Eastman.\\n23. Do. [lain.\\n24. Moses Chamber-\\n25. Robert Eastman.\\n53. Do. 78.\\n54. Do. 79.\\n55. Do. 80.\\n50. Do. 81.\\n57. Do. 82.\\n58. Do. 83.\\n69. Abiel Walker. 84.\\n60. Ebenezer Dustin. 85.\\n61. Henry West. 86.\\n02. Jacob Carter. 87.\\n63. Do. 88.\\n64. Benj. Kimball, jr. 89.\\n05. Pearl Kimball. 90.\\n06. Moses Farnum. 91.\\n67. Dudley Kimball. 92.\\n08. Charles Sargent. 93.\\n09. Enoch Coffin. 94.\\n45. Jeremiah Clough. 70. Do. 95.\\n40. Phinehas Kimball. 71. Isaac Chandler. 96.\\n47. Stephen Ambrose. 72. Do. 97.\\n48. Thomas Curry. 73. William Virgin, jr. 98.\\n74. Jona. Blanchard. 99.\\n39. Millen Kimball.\\n40. Samuel Adams.\\n41. John Bradley.\\n42. Do.\\n43. John Kimball.\\n44. Robert Davis.\\n49. Richard Ayer.\\n50. Do.\\n75. Philip Obadiah\\n[Carrigain.\\n100.\\nto the Proprietors of\\nRecords and Deed\\nwere numbered and\\nPhilip and Obadiah\\nDo. [Carrigain\\nJohn Odlin.\\nDo,\\nJacob Emmons.\\nDo.\\nNathaniel Eastman.\\nBenjamin Emery.\\nDavid Wait.\\nEzra Carter.\\nMoses Eastman.\\nTimothy Bradley.\\nJeremiah Chandler.\\nJacob Abbot.\\nDo.\\nTimothy Chandler.\\nTimothy Walker, jr.\\nDo.\\nBenja. Kimball, jr.\\nDo.\\nThomas Proctor\\nEnoch Wood.\\nJeremiah Pecker.\\nRichard Herbert, jr.\\nTliomas Moor.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES. 329\\nexclusive of those rode on or in carnages, two cents for sheep\\nand swine, one half cent each and to each team one person\\nshall be allowed as a driver to pass free of toll. But, bj a vote\\nof the proprietors, August 1, 1798, all persons going to or re-\\nturning from public worship, on Sundays, between the hours of\\nnine o clock in the morning, and five in the afternoon, were\\nallowed to pass the bridge free from paying toll.*\\nThis bridge was first built above its present location, crossing\\nthe river nearly opposite the house of jNIr. George W. Moulton,\\nwhere formerly was the toll-house.\\nOn the 9th of August, 1796, Noah Richardson and a negro\\nman named Pomp Chandler, were drowned near Concord Bridge,\\nas they were attempting to cross the river in a canoe, to their\\nlabor.\\nIn the first week of July, 1797, there were severe thunder\\nstorms, accompanied with hail, which did much damage to corn,\\ngrass, c., and broke some glass in windows in this town and\\nCanterbury. The wind whirled furiously many a tree, and\\nthe lightning set Mr. Partridge s barn on fire, which was imme-\\ndiately extinguished.\\nDecember 7, 1798, an act was passed by the Legislature, in-\\ncorporating Timothy Walker, John Bradley, Jonathan Eastman\\nand their associates, by the name of The Proprietors of Concord\\nLibrary, authorizing them to raise money by subscription, do-\\nnations, c., and to hold property for the benefit of the library,\\nto the amount of one thousand dollars. A library of valuable\\nbooks was collected, which was sustained and proved highly use-\\nful, for about twenty-five years.\\nOn Saturday evening, January 20, 1798, about ten o clock,\\nthe inhabitants of this town were alarmed with the cry of fire\\nfire which broke out in the hatter s shop of Mr. David George,\\nJr., contiguous to the store of Messrs. P. 0. Carrigain. The\\nanxiety of the citizens, when so much property was exposed, was\\namazing and by their assiduous exertions and regular proced-\\nure, together with the assistance of some ladies, they happily\\nAugust 27. The town voted, That tlie Selectmen purchape of Timothy Walker, Esq.,\\nforty and a half rods of land near Federal Bridge, at two shillings per rod and purchase\\nof William Virgin about twenty-five rods of land, on the east side of the river, near Federal\\nBridge.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "330\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nextinguislied the destructive element, witli little damage to any\\nthing except the building. Let this, fellow- citizens, excite every\\none to diligence\\nQuery Would it not be a good plan for every man to keep\\na good ladder, and one or two proper fire-buckets always ready\\nMirror.\\nThe Blazing Star Lodge, in this town, was consecrated in\\nample forrn^ by the Most Worshipful Nathaniel Adams, Grand\\nMaster, on Monday, May 6, 1799.\\nOn the 2d of October, 1802, the grist-mill of Ensign Jacob\\nCarter was entirely consumed by fire, together with the carding\\nmachine of Mr. Thomas Vesper. The loss is estimated at about\\n$2000. The fire is supposed to have been caused by over-heat-\\ning some of the gudgeons.\\nAt this period, (1801-3,) letters were sent to the post-office\\nin Concord for persons residing in Canterbury, Northfield, Hen-\\nniker, Warner, Hopkinton, Allenstown, New-London, Dunbarton,\\nRindge, Weare, Pembroke, Loudon, and Bow. Letters remain-\\ning in the post-office were advertised in 1801 for persons in\\nSanborn ton, Sutton, Croydon, Newport, and New-Bradford.\\nLIST OF TOWN OFFICERS,\\nREPRESENTATIVES, DELEGATES AND JURORS,\\nFROM 1795 TO 1805.\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstables,\\nTythingmnn,\\nSealer 0/ Leather,\\nEsq.\\nMarch 3, 1795.\\nTimothy Walke\\nCaleb Chase.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq\\nJohn Bradley, Esq.,\\nHenry Martin.\\nEben r Duston,\\nCapt. Sam l Davis,\\nEben r Eastman.\\nDaniel Rogers.\\nDea. David Hall.\\nMarch 1, 179G.\\nJudge Walker.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.,\\nJohn Bradley, Esq.,\\nHenry Martin.\\nNath l Ambrose,\\nI John Batchelder,\\nCapt. Samuel Davis.\\nCol. Peter Green.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\nSealer of Wis. andMeas.^ Dea. David Hall.\\nJacob Eastman,\\nChandler Lovcjoy,\\nLt. Moses Eastman,\\nEns. Jona. Virj^in,\\nLt. Benja. Farnum,\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nAbel Baker,\\nEns. Joseph Runnels,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nJohn Colby, Jr.,\\nLt. Asa Herrick,\\nWilliam Fifield.\\nSurveyors of Uighwaijs,\\nFence-viewers,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nWilliam Partridge,\\nI Capt. Sam l Davis,\\nLt. Moses Eastman.\\nIJohn Roach,\\nLt. Nath l Eastman,\\nJames Johnson,\\nDaniel Povvel,\\nCapt. David Davis.\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nJacob Carter,\\nAbel Baker,\\nDea. John Kimball,\\nJohn Hoit,\\nJohn Colby, Jr.\\n331\\nDea. David Hall.\\nMoses Farnum,\\nCapt. Joseph Farnum,\\nOliver Hoit,\\nEzra Abbot,\\nJonathan Elliot, Jr.,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nEphraim Carter,\\nLevi Abbot,\\nEbenezer Duston,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nMaj. Daniel Livermore,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nEns. Jonathan Virgin,\\nJohn Hoit,\\nEbenezer Eastman,\\nLt. Joshua Thompson,\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball,\\nAbiel Walker, Nov. 7.\\nStephen Tuttle,\\nWilliam Partridge.\\nDudley Ladd,\\nAbiel Walker,\\nJames Hosmore.\\nPound-keeper,\\nRepresentative,\\nGrand Juror,\\nCorder of Wood,\\nCollectors,\\nCullers of Staves,\\nModerator,\\nCleric,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstables,\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas\\nFence-viewers,\\nMaj. Daniel Livermore.\\nCharles Eastman.\\nHanes Farnum,\\nJohn Batchelder,\\nEben r Eastman.\\nj Henry Moulton,\\nJonathan Runnels.\\nMarch 7, IT 97.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq\\nJohn Odlin.\\nJolm Odlin,\\nRichard Ayer,\\nJohn Eastman.,\\nf Jeremiah Virgin,\\nJohn Batchelder,\\nRobert Bradley.\\ni Ebenezer Virgin, Jr\\nJohn Roach,\\nI Daniel Rogers.\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nJohn Colby, Jr.,\\nJno. Blanchard,\\nStephen Tuttle.\\nDavid George, Esq.,\\nI Ebenezer Eastman.\\nJohn Bradley, Esq.\\nJohn Batchelder,\\nI June 25.\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nNath l Ambrose,\\nJohn Shute, Jr.\\nJames Moulton.\\nDea. David Hall.\\nWilliam Partridge,\\n1 William Duncan.\\nMarch 6, 1798.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq\\nJohn Odlin.\\nJolin Odlin,\\nRichard Ayer,\\nJohn Eastman.\\nCapt. Samuel Davis,\\nHanes Farnum,\\nJeremiah Virgin.\\nDaniel Rogers,\\nCaleb Buswell,\\nWm. Fitield, Aug. 27.\\nDavid Hall.\\nDavid Hall.\\nBenja. Powel,\\nDaniel Gale,\\nRobert Eastman.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "OOi\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nSurveyors of Ilighiccujs,\\nField-drivers,\\nIlogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-heepers,\\nRepresentative,\\nGrand Jurors,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nCarders of Wood,\\nCollectors,\\nCuller of Staves,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nEns. Nath l Eastman,\\nLt. Joshua Thompson,\\nEns. Jonathan Virgin,\\nSanincl Butters,\\nEns. Thomas Stickney,\\nAhiel Walker,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nEzra Abbot,\\nHenry Martin,\\nTimothy Dow,\\nAbel Baker,\\nAbner Dimond,\\nEphraim Carter,\\nEbenezer Sanborn,\\nMoses Carter.\\nJohn Roach,\\nRobert Eastman.\\nJames Mouhon,\\nIVIaj. Wm. Duncan,\\nDaniel Virgin,\\nCapt. David Davis,\\nSteplien Hall,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nDaniel Page.\\nMnj. Daniel Livermore\\nJolm Colby, Jr.,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nStephen Tuttle,\\nEnoch Brown.\\nDavid George,\\nChs. Eastman.\\nWilliam A. Kent.\\nCapt. Sam l Davis,\\nMaj. Sam l Livermore.\\nDea. Joseph Hall,\\nCai)t. Jona. Eastman.\\nThomas Wilson,\\nRobert Bradley,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nJohn Batelielder.\\nJames Moulton.\\nJolin Colby,\\nTimothv Chandler,\\nJohn West,\\nAmos Abl)Ot, Jr.,\\nJosiah Farnnm,\\nJonatiian Elliot, Jr.,\\nAsa Herrick,\\nReuben Abbot, Jr.,\\nJonathan Johnson,\\nDaniel Stickney,\\nStilson Eastman,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nJeremiaii Wlieeler,\\nJoshua Tiiompson.\\nDaniel Virgin.\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nConstables,\\nTythingmen,\\nMarch 5, 1799.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq\\nJohn Odlin.\\nTimothv W^alkcr,\\nJohn Odlin,\\nHenry Martin.\\nJohn Shutc, Jr.,\\nTimothy Carter,\\nJeremiah Virgin.\\n(Henry Martin,\\nDaniel Rogers,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\ny Jeremiah Wheeler.\\nEbenezer Dustin,\\nDavid Davis,\\nAbiel Eastman,\\nWm. Partridge,\\nMoody Dow,\\nRobert Knowlton,\\nWm. Fiheld,\\nAsa Graham.\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nJacob Carter,\\nJohn Currier, Jr.,\\nEnoch Brown,\\nChandler Lovejoy.\\nDavid George,\\nCharles Eastman.\\nJacob Abbot, Esq.\\nChandler Lovejoy.\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nJona. Runnels.\\nThomas Wilson,\\nI Jacob Abbot.\\nCapt. Sam l Davis,\\nHanes Farnum,\\nJeremiaii Virgin.\\nJames Stevens.\\nMarch 4, 1800.\\nJacob Abbot, Esq.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nJohn Odlin,\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nHenry Martin,\\nf Ephraim Carter,*\\nJ Jolin Shute, Jr.,\\nI Joseph Clcasby, Jr.,\\nJeremiah Virgin.\\nEbenezer Sanborn,\\nJacob Abbot, Esq.,\\nMaj. Timo. Chandler.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "TOAVN OFFICERS.\\nSealer of Leather, David Ilall.\\nSealer oJ ]Vts. and Meas., David Hall.\\nSurveyors of Highways,\\nFence-viewers,\\nField-drivers,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keepers,\\nRepresentative,\\nGrand Juror,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nWood-co7-ders,\\nHay-ward,\\nCollectors,\\nCullers of Staves,\\nAuditors of Accounts,\\nInspector of Bread,\\nModerator,\\nClerk,\\nSelectmen,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nDavid Davis,\\nNatliaii Abl:)ot,\\nEzra Aljhot, Jr.,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nEnoch Parker,\\nDaniel Stickney,\\nAsa Herriek,\\nEnoch Brown,\\nJeremiah Pecker,\\nJonathan Ambrose.\\nAnthony Potter,\\nAsa Graiiam,\\nBallard Ilazeltine.\\nEichard Ayer.\\nBenjamin Powel,\\nCharles Eastman.\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nElijah Virgin,\\nMoses Gale,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nDavid Davis,\\nJohn Shute, Jr.\\nf John Lovejoy,\\nEbenezer Sanborn,\\nJolm Currier, Jr.,\\nI John Kimball,\\n1^ Jacob Carter.\\nDavid George,\\nI Charles Eastman.\\nJacob Abbot, Esq.\\nCapt. Samuel Davis\\nNathaniel Altbot, Jr\\nEphraim Carter.\\nj Jacob Abbot, Jr.,\\nI Stephen x\\\\.nil rose.\\nJohn Shute, Jr.,\\nTimothy Carter,\\nJeremiah Virgin.\\nJames Moulton,\\nI Stephen Tattle.\\nJacob Abbot,\\nEns. Jonathan Wilk\\nCharles Walker.\\nMarch 3, 1801.\\nJonathan Wilkins.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nJohn West,\\nStephen Ambrose.\\nJan. 31st.\\nDavid Hall.\\nDavid Hall,\\nf Jonathan Wilkins,\\nCapt. Kichard Ayer,\\nllichard Herbert, Jr.,\\nLevi Abbot,\\nStephen Hall,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nNathan Abbot, .3d,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nWilliam Eastman,\\nBarnard Elliot,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nJonathan Ambrose,\\nMellen Kimball,\\nMoses Gale.\\nRichard Herbert, Jr.,\\nJolm Batchelder,\\nAbiel Eastman.\\nPaul Kolfe,\\nJolm Eastman.\\nllichard Ha^eltine,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nAbel Baker,\\nMoses Gile,\\nWilliam Fifield,\\nJames Moulton.\\nJohn Currier, Jr.,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nJacol) Carter,\\nAbel Baker,\\nChandler Lovejoy.\\nDavid George,\\nCharles Eastman.\\nJacob Abbot, Esq.\\nDavid George,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nJohn Tliorndike.\\nJohn West.\\nEphraim Carter,*\\nJoseph Cleasby, Jr.,\\nJeremiah Virgin.\\nStephen Tuttle,\\nHenry Moulton.\\nCapt. Benja. Emery,\\nCinirles Walker, Esq.,\\nCapt. Richard Ayer.\\nBenjamin Emery.\\nMarch 2, 1802.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nTimothy Walker,\\nJohn West,\\nStephen Ambrose.\\nExcused.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "334\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nConstables,\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nC Eliphalet Emery,\\nRichard Haze\\nJ ^\u00c2\u00bb,^wi..v. ^lazen Ayer,\\nAaron Austin.\\nf Jacob Abbot,*\\nCapt. Enoch Coffin,\\nrd Hazcltine,\\nrick Bradley.\\nDea. David Hall.\\nI Capt. E\\nI Kiciiard\\nPhilbric\\nSealer of Wts.and Meas., Dea. David Hall.\\nf Jeremiah Story,\\nCapt. Richard Ayer,\\nRichard Herbert, Jr.,\\nBenjamin Farnum,\\nMoody Dow,\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nJonathan Elliot, Jr.,\\nJoseph Cleasby, Jr.,\\nJoseph Runnels,\\nIsrael Dimond,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nAbiel Eastman,\\nPhilbrick Bradley,\\nJohn Hoit, Jr.\\nSurvei/ors of Highways,\\nFence-vieivers,\\nField-drivers,\\nAbiel Eastman,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nZenas Wheeler.\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keepers,\\nRepresentative,\\nGrand Jurors,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nCarders of Wood,\\nHay-ward,\\nCollectors,\\nBenjamin Gale,\\nDavid Davis,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nDyer Abbot,\\nMurray Bradley,\\nJoseph Swan,\\nSimon Virgin,\\nJames Moulton,\\nAbel Baker,\\nJacob Hoit, Moses Gile\\nJohn Currier, Jr.,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nMoody Dow,\\nJohn Shute, Jr.,\\nAbel Baker,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nJacob Hoit.\\nj Benjamin Hanniford,\\nI Charles Eastman.\\nWilliam Austin Kent.\\nRichard H. Ayer,\\nCapt. Samuel Davis,\\nPaul Rolfe.\\nj John Shute, Jr.,\\nI Samuel Davis.\\ni John George, Jr.,\\nEdmund Leavitt,\\nJohn Thorndike.\\nJohn West.\\nEliphalet Emery,\\nRichard H. Ayer,\\nf Aaron Austin.\\nJoseph Dow,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nEbenczcr Dustin.\\nJohn Bradley,\\nKathan Ballard, Jr.\\nDavid Hall.\\nDavid Hall.\\nEliphalet Emery,\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nSamuel Butters, Jr.,\\nEdmund Leavitt,\\nNathaniel Ambrose,\\nAsa Graham,\\nEbenezer Tenney,\\nMoses Earnum,\\nAbel Baker,\\nJames Jolinson,\\nAsa Herrick,\\nEzra Abbot, Jr.,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nAquilla Ferrin,\\nSamuel Bradley.\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nRichard Ayer.\\nReuben Goodwin,\\nJoseph Giles.\\nJeremiah Pecker,\\nWilliam Tay,\\nEliphalet Emery,\\nJohn Roach,\\nW^illiam A. Kent,\\nCalvin How,\\nDavid Hutchins,\\nRichard Elliot,\\nIsrael Dimond.\\nSamuel Gains,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nAbel Baker,\\nAbiel Virgin.\\nCharles Eastman,\\nDavid George, Jr.\\nJohn Bradley, Esq.\\nSherburne Wiggin.\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nIsaac Emery.\\nDavid George, Jr.,\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nEdmund Leavitt.\\nJohn West.\\nJoseph Dow,\\nJesse R. Tuttle.t\\nJeremiah Virgin.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Excused, t Excused, and in his place, Ebenezer Duston.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n335\\nCullers of Staves,\\nAuditors,\\nInspector of Bread,\\nModerator,\\nClerk, John Odlin.\\nJona. Wilkins,\\nSelectmen,\\nJames Moulton,\\nNathan BaUard,\\nJolin Silver.\\nCapt. Richard Ayer,\\nCol. Timothy Walker,\\nMaj. Timothy Chandler\\nTimothy Chandler.\\nMarch 1803.\\nJonathan Wilkins, Esq\\nConstables and Collect rs.\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas., David Hall.\\nC Eliphalct Emery,\\nJohn West,\\nStephen Ambrose\\nRichard Herbert, Jr.\\nSherburne Wi,i::gin,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nJohn West.\\nDavid Hall.\\nSurveyors of Highways,\\nFence-viewers,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors ofLumher,\\nPound-keepers,\\nRepresentative,\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nJames Corlis,\\nZenas Wheeler,\\nIsrael Dimond,\\nRichard Flanders,\\nEnoch Farnum,\\nIsaac Farnum,\\nSamuel Runnels,\\nJedediah Hoit,\\nAmos Abbot, Jr.,\\nPhinchas Virgin, Jr\\nJona. Ambrose,\\nJacob Hoit,\\nAsa Kimball, Jr.\\nSamuel Butters,\\nRichard Ayer,\\nf Nath l /Vmbrose,\\nf Jacob Emmons,\\nEbcn r Duston,\\nCharles Emery,\\nDaniel Virgin,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nJames Moulton,\\nJere h Wheeler,\\nMoody Dow,\\nDaniel Kendall.\\nf Samuel Gains,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nAbel Baker,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nBenja. Powell,\\nJohn Hoit, Jr.,\\nJacob Eastman.\\nDavid George, Jr.,\\nCharles Eastman.\\nWilliam A. Kent.\\nHenry Moulton.\\nJohn Roach,\\nRichard Ayer,\\nCol. Timo Chandler.\\nMarch G, 1804.\\nJonathan Wilkins.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nJona. Wilkins,\\nJohn West,\\nAmos Abbot, Jr.\\nTimothy Bradley,*\\nTimothy Carter,\\nJohn Hoit.\\nBenja. Kimball,\\nLevi Abbot.\\nDavid Hall.\\nDavid Hall.\\nIsaac Shute,\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nJohn West,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nDavid Elliot,\\nTimothy Dow,\\nEphraim Carter,\\nReuben Dimond,\\nChristopher Rowell,Jr.,\\nIsrael Dimond,\\nLevi Alibot,\\nPearl Kimball,\\nReuben Goodwin,\\nJonathan Virgin,\\nJoseph Potter,\\nDaniel Kendall.\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nPeter Farnum,\\nJona. Eastman.\\nJere h Pecker,\\nMoody Dow,\\nNathan Abbot, 4th,\\nSherburne Wiggin,\\nJohn Batchelder,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nReuben Goodwin.\\nSamuel Gains,\\nAbel Virgin,\\nGeorge Rogers,\\nAbel Baker,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nAsa Graham,\\nMoody Dow,\\nSamuel Bradley.\\nDavid George, .Jr.,\\nCharles Eastman.\\nWm. A. Kent.\\nExcused. Richard H. Ayer in place of.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "336\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nGrand Jurors,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nCorders of Wood,\\nHay-ward,\\nCullers of Staves,\\nAuditors of Accounts,\\nInspector of Hoops,\\nEbcn r Diiston, Jan. 8\\nNath l Eastman,\\nIsaac Dimond.\\nJohn Stevens,\\nJames Willey,\\nDavid George, Jr.,\\nEdmund Leavitt.\\nNath l Abott, Jr.\\nJames Moulton,\\nNathan Ballard,\\nSamuel Butters.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq\\nEbcn r Duston,\\nJohn Batchelder.\\nJames Moulton.\\nEben. Duston, Jan. 20.\\nJohn Coll)y,\\nJohn Eastman.\\nCharles Emery,\\nJames Willey,\\nEdmund Leavitt,\\nJohn Stevens.\\nSherburne Wiggin.\\nJames Moulton,\\nRichard Wood,\\nJoseph Runnels.\\nRichard Ayer,\\nTimothy Walker,\\nBenja. Emery.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nFROM 1805 TO 1815.\\nBy authority of the Legislature, Philip Cakrigain, Esq., of\\nConcord, was at this time engaged in preparing a new map of\\nthe State. To aid in the work, surveys were ordered by towns.\\nThe survey of this town was sold at public vendue, and bid\\noff by Capt. Edmund Leavitt, for one hundred dollars. Capt.\\nLeavitt lived on the east side of the river, possessed a good\\nknowledge of surveying, and executed a handsome map of the\\ntown, copies of which are in the hands of Jonathan Eastman,\\nEsq., and William Prescott, M. d.\\nJohn Bradley, Jonathan Wilkins and Ebenezer Dustin were\\nappointed a committee, March 27th, to meet the committee of\\nBoscawen in building and supporting a bridge across Contoocook\\nriver. The bridge was formerly considerably lower down the\\nriver than where it is now located. The committee reported in\\nfavor of supporting one half of the bridge across Contoocook\\nriver at the old place which report the town accepted, and\\nvoted to raise two hundred and fifty dollars to carry the same\\ninto effect. Subsequently the bridge became a source of htiga-\\ntion between the towns.*\\nCONCORD BANK.\\nBy an act of the Legislature, June 18, 1806, Timothy Walker,\\nCaleb Stark, John Bradley, John Mills, Robert Harris, Ebenezer\\nPeasley, Richard Ayer, William Whittle, WilUam A. Kent,\\nSee Document No. 2, for Chap. VIII.\\n22", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "338 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nJoshua Darling, Thomas W. Thompson, Aquila Davis, John\\nChandler, Baruch Chase, Joseph Towne and Joseph Clough, and\\ntheir associates, were incorporated by the name of the Presi-\\ndent, Directors and Company of the Concord Bank for a period\\nof twenty years, with a capital of not less than $50,000 nor\\nmore than $200,000, in specie.\\nIn proceeding to organize for the transaction of business under\\ntheir charter, special difficulties were encountered, growing\\nchiefly, it is said, out of questions of location and management.\\nAlready there was a north end and a south end interest.\\nIn the former was Hon. Timothy Walker, and in the latter Col.\\nWilham A. Kent, with whom, respectively, others took sides,\\naccording to their own ideas of interest. The result, however,\\nwas, two banks went into operation under the same charter, one\\ncalled The Upper Bank, and the other The Lower Bank,\\neach claiming exclusively to be the Concord Bank. Of the\\nUpper Bank, Timothy AValker was first president and Samuel\\nSparhawk, from Portsmouth, cashier. Of the Lower Bank,\\nJoseph Towne, of Hopkinton, was president, and William A.\\nKent cashier. For several years a disagreeable competition\\nexisted between them. On the part of the upper bank a run\\nwas made upon the lower, for the payment in specie of their bills.\\nBy the lower bank, or by persons interested therein, suits were\\ncommenced against the other for issuing bills contrary to law\\nand hence a litigation as to which was the lawful Concord Bank,\\nwas continued for a considerable time. In 1808 one Nehemiah\\nJones commenced a suit against Timothy Walker, containing\\nmore than a hundred counts, which embraced all the questions at\\nissue.* In these suits the late Jeremiah Mason was employed as\\nJones s counsel. Tradition says that, after a while. Mason, per-\\nceiving the difficulties of the subject, and disposed to adjust the\\nmatter between the parties, signified to his client that as he had\\ngot into gentlemen s company he must expect to pay a gentle-\\nman s price. Soon after, the rival banks came to an agreement,\\nat least so far as to cease from vexing one another both obtained\\ncredit with the pubhc, and continued to do business under one\\ncharter till the expiration of twenty years then the upper bank\\nSee printed volume, entitled Pleadings, Jones v. Walker, in N. H, Hist. Soc. Library.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 339\\nobtained a new charter, and took the name of Merrimack County\\nBank, A new brick buikiing was erected for its use, in 182G,\\non the house-lot owned by the corporation, where the bank has\\ncontinued to flourish until the present time.\\nThe lower bank obtained a modification and extension of\\nits charter, in 1826 and continued to do business till 18-10,\\nwhen it failed, to the great loss of the stockholders and the det-\\nriment of the public.\\n1807.\\nAgreeably to a law of the State, passed in 1805, the town\\nappointed a committee, i\\\\.pril 8, 1807, consisting of one from\\neach school district where orders have been drawn for school\\nmoney annually, together with the selectmen, to district the\\ntown into school districts. The committee consisted of Elipha-\\nlet Emery, Richard Ayer, Paul llolfe, John Garvin, Levi Abbot,\\nAsa Herrick, Nathan Ballard, jr., Moses Abbot, Samuel Davis,\\nWilliam Eastman, Abel Baker, Nathaniel llolfe, Stephen Farnum,\\nJohn Eastman, Nathaniel Ambrose, Jonathan Virgin and Asa\\nKimball. The selectmen were Ebenezer Dustin, Enoch Coffin\\nand Edmund Leavitt. The residence and number of members of\\nthis committee show that schools were at this time kept in at\\nleast sixteen places in town and that the law of the State\\nauthorizing towns to lay out districts, only legalized what had\\nalready substantially been done. The local school districts,\\nthough not exactly defined and bounded, preceded the passage of\\nthe law. The committee above appointed chose Ebenezer Dus-\\ntin, chairman, and John Odlin, clerk, and in May following\\nlaid out the town into sixteen school districts, as follows,* viz\\nDistrict No. 1. At Horse Hill, so called;\\n2. The Borough, so called\\n3. West Village of Concord;\\nic ic 4 W^est Parish, where Capt. Samuel Knowlton lives\\n5. West of Long Pond\\n6. At Little Pond, where Nathan Ballard lives\\n7. On Hopkinton road, three miles from Main street\\n8. At Millville, so called;\\n9. South end of Main street;\\nFor the bounds of these districts, see Town Records, 1807, pp. 310-316.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "340 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nDistrict No. 10. Middle of Main street\\n11. North end of Main street\\n12. In the East Village, south part\\n13. On the Mountain, so called\\n14. At Snaptown, so called, north-east part of the town\\n15. On Loudon road, where Hon. Jacob A. Potter lives\\n16. At Garvin s Falls, so called.\\nThe districts formed at subsequent periods are\\nNo. 17. By dividing district No. 8, on the line between Concord and\\nHopkinton.\\n18. By dividing district No. 9.\\n19. By dividing district No. 12.\\n20. By dividing district No. 2, now in Fisherville.\\n21. By dividing district No. 13.\\n22. On the Dark Plain, so called, towards Chichester.\\n23. Near the line between Concord and Bow, beyond Mr. James\\nHall s.\\nIn thus districting the town, the selectmen determined that the\\nlands owned by persons residing without the limits of Concord shall\\nbe taxed in the several school districts, for school purposes.\\nIn March, 1808, thirty dollars were ordered to be raised to\\nbuild, of wood, a pound to be located near the meeting-house.\\nThis pound was at first located a few rods north of the meeting-\\nhouse afterwards it was removed to Pond Hill, where it\\nremained till about 1826.\\nThe selectmen were authorised to purchase powder and ball,\\nand other articles that the law requires, for a town stock.\\nTo procure a bell for the meeting-house, it was determined to\\nsell the ground of two of the front seats on the floor of the meeting-\\nhouse, which should be made into pews, and the money arising\\nfrom said sale to be appropriated towards purchasing a bell, when\\na sufficient sum in addition shall be subscribed for the purpose.\\nThe ground for the pews was sold at public vendue, at the\\nhouse of William Stickney, March 27th, and bid off as follows\\n1. To Peter Robertson, $86.00\\n2. Daniel Greenleaf, 86.25\\n3. Bowen Crehore, 68.00\\n4. George Hough, 67.25\\n1307.50-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "THE OLD NORTH CHURCH.\\n341\\nOctober 19th, the selectmen, by request, laid out for a road\\nthat part of State street, extending from Pleasant to School\\nstreet, three rods in width the land being given for the pur-\\npose by Benjamin Gale, George Hough, Thomas G. Stevens,\\nJosiah Rogers and William A. Kent.\\n1810.\\nTHE MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThe meeting-\\nhouse, Avhich, as\\nmentioned in the\\npreceding chap-\\nter, was enlarged\\nin 1802, received\\nthis year the ad-\\ndition of a hell\\nAvith the sound of\\nwhich the people\\nappeared to be so\\nmuch pleased that\\nthey provided for\\nringing it three\\nT^^ times a day. At\\nthe meeting in\\nMarch it was vot-\\ned, that the bell\\nbe rung at seven\\no clock in the\\nmorning, twelve\\nat noon, and nine\\nat night, except\\nSundays, and\\nthe selectmen di-\\nrect the time on Sundays that the ringing of the bell and the\\ncare of the meeting-house be set up to the lowest bidder, and that\\nthe person bidding off the same give bonds to the selectmen for the\\nfaithful performance of the same that twenty-five dollars be", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "342 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nraised for ringing the bell, and paid to Sherburn Wiggin it\\nbeing bid oiBf by him agreeable to the above vote.\\nSWINE.\\nHeretofore swine had had a laivless range in Concord: but\\nthis year they were not only to be yoked and rung, but con-\\nfined. Hence, Voted, That for every swine found running at\\nlarge at any season, in the Main street, between John Bradley s,\\nEsq., and John Colby s, the owner be liable to the same penalty,\\nand to be recovered in the same way, as for swine going at large\\nunyoked and unrung in the season that the law requires them to\\nbe yoked and rung.\\nBy request of WiUiam A. Kent, Samuel Green, Simeon G.\\nHall, Benjamin Gale, George Hough, Joshua Abbot, jr., and\\nWiUiam Stickney, the selectmen, in September of this year, laid\\nout that part of State street, from the corner Avhere the house of\\nthe late James Buswell stands, to what is now called School\\nstreet, to meet the portion of the street laid out the year previ-\\nous. As a compensation for the land taken for this road, they\\nawarded to the owners of the land as follows to James Bus-\\nwell, six dollars to Joshua Abbot, jr., fifty cents to William Stick-\\nney, twenty-five cents to Simeon G. Hall, twenty-five cents to\\nTimothy Abbot, thirty dollars to William A. Kent, twenty-five\\ncents to Ebenezer Dustin, twxnty-five cents to Richard Ayer,\\ntwenty-five cents to Abel Hutchins, twenty-five cents to George\\nConnell, ten dollars and to Peter Robertson, twenty-five cents.\\nAt the same time the selectmen laid out that part of what is now\\nWashington street two rods wide from State to Main street.\\nBenjamin Emery, jr., bid ofi the ringing of the bell, taking\\ncare of and sweeping the meeting house, at thirty-nine dollars.\\n1812.\\nThe liberty of the swine was still further abridged. March\\n9th, Voted., That no swine be allowed to run at large on the\\nroad from Concord bridge to Boscawen bridge, under a penalty\\nto the owner of twenty-five cents for each offence.\\nSTATE PRISON.\\nBefore State street was made, the building of the State", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "ESTABLISHMENT OF A FIRE DEPARTMENT. 343\\nPrison was commenced. The land, consisting of about two acres,\\nwas given by the late Mr. Joshua Abbot. The location was thought\\nto be quite out of the way of business and of population. The\\nsuperintendant in the building was Stuart J. Park, Esq., who\\nafterwards built the State House. The prison was built entirely\\nof granite, quarried from Rattlesnake Hill. The part which now\\nforms the south wing, originally constructed, was seventy feet in\\nlength, thirty-six wide, and walls three feet in thickness in this\\nthe prisoners were confined. There were in all thirty-six cells,\\nthe dimensions of which were eight feet by nine, with the excep-\\ntion of six in the upper story, for the accommodation of the sick,\\nc., which were ten feet by seventeen. The yard was enclosed\\nby a faced wall of granite, fourteen feet high, surrounded by a\\nrange of pickets ten feet in length. The first cost of the build-\\ning to the State, with the appurtenances, was about thirty-seven\\nthousand dollars. It was completed in 1812. The first person\\ncommitted to the prison was Jolin Drew, of Meredith, Strafford\\ncounty. He was committed for horse-stealing, November 24,\\n1812, for five years The prison has since been greatly en-\\nlarged and improved.\\nEXTINGUISHMENT OF FIRES.\\nA committee, consisting of Thomas W. Thompson, Charles\\nWalker and Samuel Green, Esqrs., was appointed, March 9th, to\\nreport at the next meeting a by-law for the extinguishment of\\nfires and one hundred dollars were voted to purchase \u00e2\u0096\u00a0^fire-liooks,\\nand make the necessary repairs to the engine. This appears to\\nhave been the first step which the town took towards organizing\\nan effective fire department. The committee, composed of able\\nlawyers, drafted a by-law, which was approved and adopted by\\nthe town. It provided, (1,) for the appointment of a suitable\\nnumber of fire-wards, who should have, for a distinguishing\\nbadge of their office, a staff five feet long, painted red, and\\nheaded with a bright spire, six inches long to be purchased\\nat the expense of the town. (2.) They should have authority\\nto require and demand assistance of any inhabitants of the town\\nto extinguish fires direct their labors, suppress disorders, c.\\n(3.) To search and inspect houses, and places where danger", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "344 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nwas apprehended of fires; and to order the removal of com-\\nbustibles, c.*\\nTHE WAR OF 1812.\\nSoon after the declaration of war, by Congress, against Eng-\\nland, in 1812, Concord was selected as the place of rendezvous,\\nboth for soldiers destined for the defence of the northern frontiers\\nand of the sea-coast. The large house built by PhiHp Carrigain,\\nnear the north end of Main street, about 1799, was occupied for\\nbarracks.f Gen. Aquila Davis, of Warner, had command of a\\nregiment of volunteers for the northern army, of Avhich John\\nCarter, of Concord, was lieutenant-colonel. About this time,\\nor early in 1813, Joseph Low, of Amherst, came to Concord,\\nholding a heutenant s commission in Capt. Benjamin Bradford s\\ncompany, which marched to the frontiers. At the close of the\\ncampaign in 1813 Mr. Low had charge of the recruiting service\\nhere. He was also pay-master and quarter-master in the regi-\\nment to which he belonged. Lieut. Col. Darrington, a recruiting\\nofficer for the United States service, had barracks for his soldiers\\nat the lower end of Main street, opposite the house of the late\\nDea. Willey. The whole number of soldiers who had their ren-\\ndezvous in Concord in 1812 and 1813 was reckoned at about\\nfive hundred.\\nAt the annual town meeting in March, 1813, some of the vol-\\nunteer soldiers attempted to vote contrary to the decision of the\\nmoderator. Col. Wilham A. Kent. The affair, which was at-\\ntended with great excitement at the time, is thus referred to in\\nthe town records\\nVoted, That the conduct of one McCoy, a volunteer in the\\nservice of the United States, and not belonging to this town, in\\nattempting, yesterday, in defiance of the moderator of the meet-\\ning, to vote for State and County officers, deserves severe cen-\\nsure but his act of collarmg the moderator while in the exercise\\nof his official duty, we consider an outrage of the most destruc-\\ntive character.\\nVoted, That the thanks of this meeting be given to William\\nSee Town Records, 1813, p. 376 also, list of officers for 1812.\\ntThe house is now owned by Robert E. Pecker and Jonathan E. Lang.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "SOLDIERS INTERFERING IN AN ELECTION. 345\\nA. Kent, Esq., the moderator, for his temperate, resolute and\\njudicious conduct upon that occasion.\\nTo which vote the moderator made the following reply\\nFellow Citizens, This expression of your approbation of my\\nconduct, as presiding officer at the election of your State officei S yes-\\nterday, demands my grateful acknowledgment.\\nAware of the responsibility attached to the office of moderator,\\nand having intimation of the claiming that was intended by the sol-\\ndiers stationed in this town, calling themselves United States Volun-\\nteers, to interfere in our election, I endeavored so to decide respect-\\ning their voting, as would, I hoped, satisfy every man who regarded\\nthe rights of the citizen. With this view I was led to extend the\\nright of suffrage to what was, in my opinion, and that of many oth-\\ners, a doubtful case I mean, that of admitting the votes of those\\nin the service of the United States who were inhabitants of this town\\nat the time of their enlistment, and not yet departed from it. The\\narguments in favor of their admission were, that in consequence of\\nthe rendezvous being in Concord, they had not yet left their liahita-\\ntions that some of them had families here and that they had paid\\ntaxes to the town for the year which had not yet expired.\\nHaving no disposition to abridge the right of suffrage, I was wil-\\nling to give all possible weight to these considerations; and if I erred,\\nthat it should be in favor of that privilege. I therefore received\\ntheir votes. Here I thought it my duty to stop. The soldiers from\\nthe barracks, who never were recognized as inhahitants, could not,\\nin my view of the subject, be so considered, for the purpose of elect-\\ning or being elected into office. I was yesterday proceeding to state\\nthe grounds of my opinion on this subject; but meeting with inter-\\nruption, evidently intended to protract the meeting to a late hour, I\\ndetermined to proceed no farther in that attempt, but to come at\\nonce to that ground which I determined to maintain at the hazard of\\nmy life.\\nI considieredi faithfulness no less a duty in a moderator than im-\\npartiality. I viewed it as an important crisis, as it respected this\\ntown, and perhaps the State. This may be the place in which a\\nstandimj army shall first attempt to lay prostrate the rights and lib-\\nerties of the citizen. I decided that these ballots should not be re-\\nceived in any way or manner. The insult offered to the town by the\\nassault on its representative, I doubt not is duly felt by my fellow\\ncitizens; and I rejoice that notwithstanding the difference of opinion\\nrespecting our national politics, so many of those who differ from\\nme on that part united in reprobating and resenting that indignit3\\\\\\nThe scarlet fever broke out among the soldiers early in March,\\n1813, which was very malignant and fatal. It spread also\\namong the inhabitants. The whole number of cases was two hun-\\ndred and forty-seven of which, of inhabitants, ninety-three, and", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "346 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ndeaths six of regular soldiers, fortj-nine, and deaths seven of\\nvolunteers, one hundred, and deaths twenty-four.*\\nFor accommodation of sick soldiers, a building was erected, as\\na hospital, upon land owned by Mr. Nathaniel Abbot, west of the\\nState Prison which was afterwards sold, and the proceeds ap-\\nplied to liquidate the cost of building.f A Dr. Bartley, (proba-\\nbly of Londonderry,) was engaged to aid in taking care of the\\nsick inhabitants for whose compensation the town voted, that\\nthe selectmen should collect what they could from the persons\\nwhom the doctor visited, and the remainder of his bill be paid\\nout of any money belonging to the town.\\nOf soldiers belono;ing to Concord who marched to the northern\\nfrontiers, the following were in Capt. Flanders company, 45th\\nregiment, of which Marshall Baker, of Concord was first lieu-\\ntenant: Ebenezer Frye, James Emerson, John Uran, Daniel\\nArlin, Jonathan Uran, Jonathan B. Worth, Nathaniel Parker,\\nJames Elliot, Samuel Emerson.\\nIn the 4th regiment were John Elliot, Jonathan Uran, J John\\nDunlap, John Virgin, and James Dunlap, who died.\\nJames Elliot reenlisted in the fourth regiment Asa Hardy\\nserved in both the forty-fifth and fourth Jonathan Elliot was on\\n*Tlio names of tlie soldiers who died of scarlet fever in this town, 1813, as recorded by\\ntlie late Jolin Farmer, Esq., were\\nMarch 6. Joshua Belknap;\\n16. Kendrick Houghton.\\n17. John C. Bo}d.\\nApril 4. James Tangart, of Hillsborough.\\n7. Samuel Davis, Chester.\\n7. Bradbury M. Carr, Chester.\\n9. Nathan gtearns, GotTstown.\\n1.3. John Abbott, Warner.\\n13. Elias Davis, Bow.\\n14. One Jones.\\n15. Alexander Witherspoon, Bridgewater.\\n16. Isaac Smith, Goshen.\\n17. William Gage, Wendell.\\n18. Ebenezer Woodburj Dunbarton.\\n18. Kobert Crawford, Bridgewater.\\n18.\\n19. W^hitney, Henniker.\\n19. David Patch, New-Boston.\\n19. David Hart, Goftstown.\\njMr. Abbot bought the building, moved it onto Main street and fitted it up for a dwelling-\\nhouse. It now forms a part of the house owned by Dea. James Moulton, on Washington\\nstreet.\\nX He served part of the time in the 4yth and part in the 4th regiment.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "PATRIOTIC MANIFESTATIONS. 347\\nthe peace establishment, and died at Rock Island, in the Missis-\\nsippi river, Illinois. Timothy Abbot, of Andover, was a Concord\\nrecruit.*\\nIn 1814, August 29th, the selectmen were authorized to\\nhire all soldiers which may be called for, in lieu of drafting.\\nIn March, 1815, they were directed to pay four dollars per\\nmonth to each soldier detached for the defence of Portsmouth,\\nin the service of the United States. As Portsmouth, the only\\nsea-port in New-Hampshire, was in peculiar danger from armed\\nvessels of the enemy, public attention was particularly directed\\nto that quarter. For the names of the men from Concord, sta-\\ntioned there in 1812, 13, 14, and 15, with their respective\\ncommanders, reference must be had to the documentary chapter.f\\nCapt. Peter Robertson s volunteer company of artillery, that was\\nin service twenty days, from September 10th to 29th, marched\\nfrom Concord on the Sabbath, passing the old North Church,\\nover Federal bridge, thence on the turnpike to Portsmouth. In\\nthis company were several highly respected citizens still living.\\nBut the spirit of patriotism was not confined to the men who\\nactually marched to the field of danger. Venerable, aged men,\\nsome of whom had served in the War of the Revolution, who were\\nexempted from active service, offered themselves for the defence\\nof their country.\\nSometime in September, 1814, at the instance of John T.\\nOilman, the then Governor of New-Hampshire, a public call was\\nmade for volunteers of that class of citizens who were by law\\nexempt from military duty, in the ranks of the militia, to form\\nthemselves into companies, for the purpose of home defence in\\ncase of necessity from invasion. Some of the most respectable\\ncitizens of Concord immediately responded to the call held a pub-\\nlic meeting, and organized a company for that purpose, numbered\\nthe sixth company of volunteers. The officers chosen by the\\ncompany were Stephen Ambrose, Esq., captain Samuel Spar-\\nhawk, Esq., 1st lieutenant, then Secretary of State; Nathan\\nBallard, Esq., 2d lieutenant Ezra Hutching, ensign MoseS\\nLong, 1st sergeant, orderly and clerk G. W. Rogers, ex-cap-\\nReminiscences of Lieut. Marshall Baker. See Baker family, in Genealogical Chapter.\\nt Document No. 1, for Chapter XII.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "348 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ntain, 2d do. Samuel Davis, West Parish, ex-captain, 3d do.\\nSamuel Runnels, 4tli do. Corporals not recollected. There were\\nsome over an hundred privates enrolled in the company, many of\\nwhom had held offices, both civil and military, as the secretary of\\nthe State and treasurer, seven justices of the peace, one colonel,\\none lieutenant-colonel, one major, and nineteen captains. Quite\\na majority of the company were made up of some of the most\\nrespectable citizens and yeomanry of the town among whom\\nmay be recollected the elder Esq. Bradley, Esq. Charles Wa-lker,\\nWm. Stickney, inn-keeper, Capt. Richard Ayer, Major Timothy\\nChandler, Capt. Edmund Leavitt, Capt. Charles Eastman, Capt.\\nJacob Eastman, Jeremiah Pecker, Millen Kimball, Asa Kimball,\\nAsa Graham,* c., c.\\nThe meeting preliminary to forming the above company was\\nheld September 10, at Stickney s hall Col. Wm. A. Kent,\\nchairman Seth Tucker, clerk. A committee, consisting of Col.\\nWm. A. Kent, Stephen Ambrose, Jonathan Eastman, Isaac\\nDow, and John George, reported the following preamble and res-\\nolution, which were adopted\\nWhereas, in defence of our altars and fire-sides, our property\\nand our country, Americans can have but one opinion\\nResolved, That it is expedient to form a military association in\\nthe town of Concord, of such persons as are not enrolled in the\\nmilitia, to be in readiness, at a moment s warning, to act under\\nthe direction of the Commander-in-Chief, for the defence of the\\nState.\\nCapt. Richard Ayer, Capt. John Eastman, Hon. Wm. A.\\nKent, Mr. Isaac Dow, Mr. Philbrick Bradley, Mr. Daniel Clark,\\nBallard Hazeltine, Esq., Mr. John Garvin, Capt. Samuel Run-\\nnels, Nathan Ballard, jr., Timothy Carter, Esq., and Capt.\\nPearl Kimball, were appointed a committee to give information,\\nand form a plan, c., for the association, which was duly organ-\\nized.\\nThis company of venerable men, fully armed and equipped,\\nparaded in town, October 1, and marched through Main street.\\nTheir appearance was accompanied with the proud conviction\\nReminiscence, by Dr. Moses Long, of Kochester, N. Y., who was clerk of the company.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 349\\nthat this nation can never be conquered when such defenders\\nshoulder the musket.\\nA squad, or small company of volunteers, was also formed in\\nEast Concord, in consequence of a rumor that the British in-\\ntended to destroy the United States seventy-four gun ship Wash-\\nington, then on the stocks at Kittery, Maine. This company\\nwas also under drill by Dr. Moses Long, and consisted of about\\ntwenty men, of whom Gen. Isaac Eastman, Gen. Simeon Ste-\\nvens and Col. Robert Ambrose, are recollected.f\\nMISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS.\\nOn Thursday evening, August 17th, 1809, at about half an\\nhour before midnight, the inhabitants of the town were roused\\nfrom sleep by the dismal cry of \u00e2\u0096\u00a0fire! fire! supposed to have\\noriginated from the heat of an air furnace or forge in the clock\\nmanufactory of Major Timothy Chandler. The manufactory,\\nwith all its contents, house, barn, (full of hay,) c., sheds, and\\nother buildings belonging to Maj. Chandler, with two large barns\\nof hay, belonging to Robert Harris, Esq., were consumed. Maj.\\nChandler s loss was estimated at $5.000 for his relief $1,200\\nwere generously subscribed by inhabitants of the town and of the\\nvicinity. Mr. Harris s loss was about $1000.\\nMAD DOG.\\nA dog, belonging to Mr. Charles Emery, supposed to be mad,\\nbit a number of other dogs, and snapped at several persons. He\\nwas immediately killed. J\\nDied in this town, January 16, 1810, Henry, the only son of\\nMr. Henry Chandler, aged about nine years. At his funeral the\\nscholars of the fifth school district, of which the deceased was a\\nmember, being clad in mourning, formed a procession, walked to\\nthe house, preceded by Peter C. Farnum, Esq., preceptor of the\\nJV. H. Patriot, October 4, 1814. t Dr- Long. J Patriot, August 29, 1809.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "350 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nschool, and attended the funeral. The regularity and decorum\\nof these youths reflected credit on themselves and their in-\\nstructor.\\nMr. Abraham Osgood, who lived in school district number four-\\nteen, came to his death by a wound received from a mill -saw.*\\nHe was sitting on the log, in meditation, and was imperceptibly\\ndrawn so near to the saw that it caught him, and before he could\\nextricate himself was mortally wounded deep incisions being\\nmade in his side through the ribs, into his abdomen. With great\\nstrength and firm nerve he turned the saw some inches from its\\ncourse shut down the gate, and walked a few rods to a near\\nhouse, from which he was borne on a litter to his home, and in\\nabout three weeks died, aged forty-four.\\nSeveral creatures which were bitten by a mad dog in the\\nmonth of April died about three weeks afterwards, exhibiting all\\nthe symptoms of canine madness.\\nEXTRAORDINARY CALF.\\nA cow belonging to Mr. Abner Farnum, jr, of this town, last\\nweek brought two calves, one of which had two perfect heads,\\nwith two back bones running parallel to each other two perfect\\nintestines two hearts, c., with only four legs. Its body was\\nabout the size of a common calf at a month old. The other\\ncalf was of perfect shape and the common size both hved for\\na short time.f\\nThe tannery of Mr. Abner Farnum, jr., of Concord, was\\ndestroyed by fire on Tuesday, 27th February, 1811.\\nMarried in this town, Mr. Ubenezer Ball to Miss Nancy Cu-\\nmore.\\nWhen Cupid M ith his fiery dart\\nHad pierc d this maiden to the heart,\\nThe most extra rdinary thing of all,\\nShe s not afraid to face a Ball. J. W.J\\nMarried in this town, Mr. Robert Ambrose to Mrs. Cleasby, the\\nages of both (79 and 67) make 146 years. One great-grand-\\ndaughter, 18 years of age, attended the wedding.\u00c2\u00a7\\nThe date is not certainly known, but sometime in 1810. Tlie occurrence took place aJ\\nLovejoy s Mills, so called. Mr. O. was born in Salisbury, Mass.\\nt Palriot, January 22, 1811. lb., March 2G, 1811. April 12, 1811.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 351\\nCapt. John Roche, or Iioach, died in this town May 11, 1811,\\naged 74. He was a native of Cork, Ireland, and came to Con-\\ncord during the Revolutionary \\\\Yar, about 1778. The tradition is\\nthat Capt. Roach was the master of a vessel engaged in the fur\\ntrade .Having loaded at Quebec for London, he most unaccount-\\nably got out of his latitude and made Portsmouth harbor, where\\nhe disposed of his furs on his own account He afterwards mar-\\nried Major Robert Rogers wife, [who was divorced from her\\nhusband,] whose maiden name was Elizabeth Furness, of Ports-\\nmouth.! Moving to Concord, he settled on the farm lately owned\\nby Gov. Isaac Hill. The house where he lived is still standing\\nknown as the Rogers House. Many anecdotes are related\\nof Capt. Roach, which, as they illustrate vices rather than virtues\\nof character, may be passed over. He was, however, a regular\\ncustomer at Mother Osgood s tavern and at the store kept by\\nJohn Stevens. The story is told that he often bought New-Eng-\\nland rum in a wooden bottle or small keg but sometimes a trick\\nwould be played upon him, by taking out the stopple, or boring\\nthe bottle with a gimblet, in which cases the Captain would dis-\\ncharge a volley of oaths\\nBenjamin Hanniford died on the 6th of May, and was interred\\non the 9th in the Friends Burying Ground.\\nCELEBRATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE JULY 4, 1811.\\nThe anniversary of American Independence was celebrated\\nin Concord by the republican citizens of this and the adjoining\\ntowns, those of Amherst and Wilton, and by other gentlemen\\nfrom various parts, with greater splendor, dignity and hilarity,\\nthan had been witnessed on any former occasion in this State.\\nAt the dawn of the morning a salute of eighteen guns was fired\\nfrom the Artillery, stationed near Capt. Solomon Mann s, which\\nwas answered by an equal number from the ship President, lying\\nat anchor near Concord Bridge. At ten o clock an immense\\ncollection of republicans met in convention at Capt. Mann s, and\\nThe spy-glass used by Maj. Rogers in the French War, is now in possession of Mr.\\nCharles Hutchins, of Concord.\\nt Related by Hon. C. E. Potter.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "352 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nchose Hon. Timothy Walker president of the day, with other\\nofficers.\\nA procession was formed, the centre of which was opposite\\nMajor Timothy Chandler s, which, at a signal gun from the ship\\nPresident, moved to the meeting-house, where prayer was offered\\nby the Rev. Mr. Ruter, of Northfield. The Declaration of In-\\ndependence was read, and an oration delivered by Charles G.\\nHaines, Esq., of Canterbury.\\nAt the close of the exercises at the meeting-house the proces-\\nsion marched to the bower appointed for the entertainment but\\non the way a naval battle was fought between the ship President\\nand His Majesty s sloop of war, the Little Belt, of which we\\nhave the following notice\\nSHIPPING MEMORANDA.\\nInteresting interior Ship News. The United States frig-\\nate President, sailing with four wheels on dry land, emblematic pi\\nour dry dock policy, and mounting one iron and twelve wooden swiv-\\nels, while passing Horse Shoe Pond, near Concord, N. H., the 4th\\ninst., fired upon the British sloop-of-war Little Belt, (an old canoe, or\\nrather, a hollow log, each end being well secured with mud to keep\\nit from sinking,) and, shocking to tell, made such havoc and confu-\\nsion among the musquetos, that she struck her colors and surrendered\\nat discretion.\\nAfter this glorious victory the President hauled her wind,\\ntacked to the southward and came in under an easy sail to the\\nbank of the bower east of Mr. Mann s tavern for the enter-\\ntainment prepared where, after a grand salute of eighteen guns,\\nwhich was answered by an equal number from the artillery, and\\nthree cheers from her crew, which were responded to by the\\nspectators, she dropped her anchors.\\nAfter dinner toasts were drank, with appropriate music, amid\\nthe thunder of artillery.\\nThe following volunteer toast was offered by Timothy Dix,\\nEsq., father of Hon. John A. DLx, of New- York\\nGod guard our President from harm,\\nLong may he weather out the storm\\nLong may he live to queU his foes,\\nAnd hold the Essex Junto by the nose.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. OOd\\nAbout four hundred dollars in money and produce were sub-\\nscribed by the citizens of Concord, for the relief of sufferers by\\nfire in Newburyport, Mass.\\nPOST rider s NOTICE.\\nLoohYe!\\nFrom Concord to Wal pole through Charlestown, I say,\\nI Iiavc rode through the mud and the dust of the day\\nI have met with the showers and the shines in their turn,\\nAnd sometimes a storm whieh would cause me to mourn\\nTo bring you the news\\nAnd now, my good patrons, let us square our newspaper accounts\\nyou with me, and I with the printers, on the first week of Octo-\\nl er next. Joseph Smith.\\nSeptember 10, 1811.\\nCapt. Charles Emery, who died October 10, 1811, aged thirty-\\none years, was interred with mihtary honors, attended by a\\nvery numerous and respectable concourse nearly four hundred\\nof whom followed his remains to the house appointed for all\\nliving.\\nDied suddenly in this town, December 28, 1811, (at Mrs.\\nDuncan s,) Hannah Shapley, aged eleven years. Her death\\nwas occasioned by a fall her head striking the door-step before\\nher body reached the ground. The neck was so injured that she\\nexpired immediately.\\nOn Saturday morning, February 15, 1812, a fire broke out in\\nthe building occupied by Messrs. Mann Robertson, traders, and\\nCapt. George W. Rogers, cabinet-maker, which stood on the spot\\nwhere Mr. Richard Herbert now lives. The shavings and other\\ncombustible materials soon enveloped the upper part of the build-\\ning inflames, and it was consumed. The fire greatly endangered\\nthe Upper Bank, which, however, was preserved by the sjDir-\\nited exertions of the citizens, with the help of Concord engine\\nNo. 1 the only fire engine then in town. The bank vault was\\nthen in a small building adjoining the house now owned by Rev.\\nDr. Bouton, and the north room of said house was the office of\\nthe Cashier and Directors. The house was entirely cleared\\nthe windows and doors taken out, in the expectation that its\\n23", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "354 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ndestruction was inevitable. The contents of the vault were also\\nremoved to a place of safety.\\nCOLD WINTER.\\nWe believe there has not been within the recollection of the\\noldest inhabitants a winter in which the cold has been so severe\\nand of such long continuance. Even now the sleighing is good\\nin the interior of the State, and the Merrimack is in most places\\npassable on the ice.*\\nAbout one hundred feet of Concord bridge was carried away\\nby the ice, Sunday morning, April 12th.\\nMr. Stephen Swett, of the U. S. army, was drowned in the\\nMerrimack river, July supposed to have entered in, in a\\nderanged state. He leaves a wife and several children in\\nAndover.\\nIn March, 1813, a mail commenced running between Concord\\nand Amherst, through Dunbarton, Bedford and Goffstown.\\nCONCORD PRICE-CURRENT IN TIME OF THE WAR 1813.\\nCorn, $1,121 to $1,33; rye, $1,33; wheat, $2,00; oats,\\n50 cents per bushel. Veal, 4 to 6 cents per pound butter\\nvery scarce 20 cents per pound.\\nA child of Mr. Ephraim Farnum was killed by the falling of\\nstones from a wall.f\\nOn the 3d of September, 1813, Joseph, son of Mr. Joseph\\nWheat, of Concord, was drowned in Merrimack river.\\nA society was formed in Concord this year, /or discounte-\\nnancing vice and immorality, of which Rev. Asa McFarland\\nwas president, and George Hough secretary. In December a\\npetition was forwarded to Congress, praying that restrictions\\nmight be laid upon the distillation of bread-stuflfs into ardent\\nspirits, as a means of remedy for the exhorbitant price of pro-\\nvisions, and to check the growing evil of intemperance.\\nIn January, 1814, the members of the Concord Female\\nCharitable Society, with other ladies of Concord, raised and\\ntransmitted the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars and\\nPatriot, March 31, 1812, f lb; J Cth.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS. 355\\nseventy-seven cents to Portsmouth, to be distributed among the\\nwomen and children who are sufferers by the late calamitous fire\\nin that place.\\nIn 1814 a bounty of one hundred and twenty-four dollars was\\noffered to soldiers who should enlist in the United States service,\\none hundred and sixty acres of land, and eight dollars per month,\\nwith rations and clothing.\\nMaster Francis Thompson, son of Hon. Thomas W. Thompson,\\naged ten years, was drowned in Merrimack river, on Wednesday\\nevening, June 22, 1814, while bathing. He was accompanied\\nby Hamilton Hutchins, John B. Chandler, and Artemas David-\\nson. The place where the occurrence took place was then known\\nas Sandy Point, the bend in the river about a mile south-east\\nof the State House. The companions of Thompson were terri-\\nfied, ran home so soon as they saw what had happened, and gave\\nno alarm. In the night, Hutchins being aroused from sleep, and\\nenquired of what had become of Thompson, said, he is in the\\nriver.\\nA resolve passed the Legislature of New-Hampshire in June,\\n1814, authorizing the Directors of the State Prison to request\\nthe Rev. Dr. McFarland to attend prayer with the convicts on\\nthe Lord s day, and furnish each occupied cell of the prison with\\na Bible and Hymn book.\\nLIST OF TOWN OFFICERS,\\nREPRESENTATIVES, DELEGATES AND JURORS,\\nFROM 1805 TO 1815.\\nMarch 12, 1805, March 11, 1806.\\nModerator, Jonathan Wilkins, Esq. Timothy Walker, Esq.\\nClerk, John Odlin.\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nSelectmen, John West,\\nAmos Abbot, Jr.\\ni Jeremiah Virgin,\\nConstables and Collect rs, Richard Herbert, Jr.j\\nI Eliphalet Emery,\\nm .1 I Abel Hutchins,\\nTythngmen, peter Swan.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nEbenezer Dustin,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nEdmund Leavitt.\\nTimothy Carter,\\nPeter Robertson,\\nIsaac Emery.\\nEdmund Leavitt,\\nSamuel Davis.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "366\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nSurteijors of Highways,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keepers,\\nRepresentative,\\nGrand Juror,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nCorders of Wood,\\nCidlers of Staves,\\nSealer of Leather, David Hall.\\nSealer of Wts.and3Ieas.,Da\\\\id Hall.\\nAsa Graham,\\nReuben Goodwin,\\nAnthony Potter,\\nCharles Eastman,\\nJoseph Knowles,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nAsa Abbot,\\nJoseph Dow,\\nJohn Garvin,\\nBallard Hazeltine,\\nJoseph Elliot, Jr.,\\nMoses Abbot,\\nMoses Swett,\\nIsaac Dimond,\\nBenjamin Kimball,\\nRichard Herbert, Jr.,\\nFence-viewers, Capt. Richard Ayer,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nDaniel Kendall.\\nJames Willey,\\nField-drivers, Jeremiah Pecker, Paul Rolfe,\\nJosiah Whidden.\\nTimothy Butters,\\nJohn Stevens,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.,\\nJoseph Cutchins,\\nJames Moultou,\\nDaniel Virgin,\\nDavid Goodwin,\\nJames Buswell,\\nDaniel Kendall,\\nBenjamin Simpson,\\nWilliam Garvin,\\nEben Tenney,\\nAbner Dimond.\\nSamuel Gains,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nAbel Baker,\\nAsa Herrick,\\nJohn Kimliall,\\nJohn Thompson,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nAbiel Virgin.\\nDavid George,\\nCharles Eastman.\\nWilliam A. Kent.\\nRichard H. Ayer.\\nCapt. Richard Ayer,\\nStephen Ambrose, Esq\\n(Charles Emery,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nJames Willey,\\nJohn Thorndike.\\n{James Moulton,\\nSargent Rogers,\\nSamuel Gains,\\nDaniel Newell, Richard Wood.\\nDavid Hall.\\nDavid Hall.\\nJoseph Walker,\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nNathaniel Ambrose,\\nMoses Gale,\\nMellcn Kimball,\\nMoses I arnum,\\nJonathan Johnson,\\nJoseph Elliot, Jr.,\\nIsrael Dimond,\\nMoses Hall,\\nJesse Baker,\\nReuben Abbot, Jr.,\\nBenjamin Wheeler,\\nJohn Garvin,\\nPeter C. Farnum.\\nJohn West,\\nEdmund Lcavitt,\\nWilliam Wheeler.\\nDavid George.\\nSamuel Willey,\\nBenjamin Paine,\\nDaniel Virgin,\\nJohn Elliot, Jr.,\\nSamuel Dow,\\nJohn Batchelder,\\nBenjamin Abbot, Jr.,\\nWilliam Garvin,\\nGeorge Arlin,\\nStephen Chase,\\nMoses Carter, Jr.\\nDaniel Kendall,\\nSargent Rogers,\\nSamuel Gains,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nDaniel Newell,\\nAbel Bakei\\nJacob Hoit,\\nMoody Dow.\\nDavid George, Jr.,\\nCharles Eastman.\\nSamuel Green, Esq.\\nCapt. Sherb neWiggin.\\nEns. Jonathan Virgin,\\nDaniel Kendall.\\nJames Willey,\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nStephen Ambrose.\\nJohn Thompson,\\nHenry Moulton.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n357\\nI\\nJohn Eoach,\\nCapt. Ayer,\\nAuditors,\\nBenjamin Emery,\\nCa]it. Emery,\\n1\\nPaul Kolfe\\nMaj. Chandler.\\nMardi 10, 1807.\\nMarch 8, 1808.\\nModerator,\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.\\nClerk,\\nJohn Odlin\\nJohn Odlin.\\nEbenezcr Dustin,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nSelectmen,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nEdmund Leavitt\\nTimothy Carter.\\n1\\nTimothy Carter,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nConstables and Collect rs,\\nJoshua Abbot, Jr.,\\nMoses Ayer,\\n1\\nEliphalet Emery\\nTimothy Bradley.\\n1\\nEbenezer Dustin,\\nNathan Ballard, Jr.,\\nTythingmen,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nEphraim Carter,\\ni\\nEdmund Leavitt\\nLevi Abbot.\\nSealer of Leather,\\nDavid Hall.\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas.,\\nDavid Hall\\nTimothy Chandler.\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nTimothy Butters,\\nTimotliy Butters,\\nLevi Abbot,\\nDaniel Kendall,\\nZonas Wheeler,\\nIsrael Dimond,\\nStephen Webster, Jr.,\\nEphraim Farnum, Jr.,\\nAbiel Walker,\\nMoody Dow,\\nIsaac Dow,*\\nThomas Abbot,\\nEphraim Colby,\\nEnoch Hoit,\\nSurveyors of HigJiways,\\nEnoch Farnum,\\nEnoch Bi-own,\\nHeniy IMartin, Jr.,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nJoseiih Elliot, Jr.,\\nNathaniel Ambrose,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nEbenezer Tenney,\\nJohn Lovcjoy,\\nJolm Thompson,\\nAljiel Eastman,\\nJoseph Morse,\\nt\\nWilliam Hoit,\\nPeter Farnum,\\nJohn Garvin,\\nMoses Carter,\\nZel ediah Farnum\\nJoshua Abbot, Jr.\\nJoseph Walker\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nFence-viewers,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nJohn Thompson,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nTimothy Bradley.\\nBallard Hazeltine.\\nAbiel Walker\\nJonathan Perkins,\\nIsaac Shute,\\nIsaac Eastman,\\nDavid Gai-vin,\\nAbel Baker,\\nJoseph Colby, Jr.,\\nJohn Odlin,\\nBowen Crehore,\\nAbner Farnum, Jr.,\\nEofjreeves,\\nTimothy Butters,\\nChandler Eastman,\\nSimeon Virgin,\\nJames Moutton,\\nPeter Flanders,\\nBenjamin Emery, Jr.,\\nAbel Clough\\nTimothy Dow,\\nDavid Kimball.\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nSargent Rogers,\\nSargent Rogers,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nSamuel Gains,\\nJames Willey,\\nSm-veyors of Lumber,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nJoseph Dow,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nAbel Baker,\\nJohn Lovejoy,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nAbel Baker,\\nDaniel Newell.\\nJacob Eastman, Daniel Newel\\nPound-keepers,\\nDavid George, Jr.,\\nDavid George,\\nCharles Eastman\\nJames Moulton.\\nRepresentative,\\nSamuel Green, Esq.,\\nSamuel Green, Esq.\\nGrand Juror,\\nCapt. Sherburne Wiggin.\\nCapt. Richard Ayer.\\nExcused. Moses Farnum substitute.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "358\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nPetit Jurors,\\nCarders of Wood,\\nHay-ward,\\nCullers of Staves,\\nAuditors,\\nFire-wards,\\nCapt. Jacob Eastman,\\nI Richard H. Ayer.\\nCharles Emery,\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nJames Willey,\\nObadiah Kimball,\\nSargent Rogers.\\nJames Moulton,\\nWilliam Garvin.\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nBenjamin Emery,\\nJonathan Wilkins.\\nBenjamin Kimball,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nSargent Rogers,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nPaul Rolfe.\\nMarch 14, 1809.\\nModerator, William A. Kent.\\nClerk, John Odlin.\\nJohn Odlin,\\nSelectmen, Amos Abbot, Jr.,\\nNathaniel Abbot.\\nLevi Bartlett,\\nJames Buswell,\\nJohn Bradley, Jr.\\nAbiel Walker.\\nJr.,\\nConstables and Collect rs,\\nSealer of Leather,\\nSealer of Wis. and Meas., Timothy Chandler.\\nMoses Carter,\\nDaniel Hall,\\nStephen Webster,\\nTimothy Butters,\\nPeter Robertson,\\nNathan Stickney,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nTimothy Dow,\\nEzra Elliot,\\nMoody Dow,\\nChristopher Rowell\\nJohn Garvin,\\nJeremiah Pecker,\\nNathaniel Ambrose,\\nJonathan Virgin,\\nAsa Kimball.\\nSurveyors of Highways,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nField-drivers,\\nJohn Ladd,\\nJames Willey,\\nAbel Baker,\\nMoody Dow,\\nPeter C. Farnum,\\nEzra Hutchins,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nJohn Lovejoy,\\nGeorge W. Rogers\\nJohn Thompson,\\nJosiah Rogers.\\nJr\\nCollector.\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nPeter Robertson.\\nSargent Rogers,\\nCharles Emery,\\nJames Willey,\\nJonathan Eastman, Jr.\\nIsaac Eastman.\\nSherburne Wiggin.\\nJames Moulton,\\nJoseph Runnels,\\nNathan Ballard.\\nBenjamin Emery,\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nStephen Ambrose.\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nJoseph Walker,\\nPaul Rolfe.\\nMarch 13, 1810.\\nWilliam A. Kent.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nEdmund Leavitt,\\nSherburne Wiggin.\\nCharles Emery,*\\nReuben Goodwin,\\nJames Buswell.\\nDavid Hall.\\nTimothy Chandler.\\nJohn Corliss,\\nNathaniel Bradley,\\nEzra Hutchins,\\nTimothy Hazeltine,\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nEliphalet Emery,\\nTimothy Walker, Jr.\\nJoseph Elliot, Jr.,\\nDavid Carter,\\nBenjamin Simpson,\\nMoses Abbot,\\nLaban Page,\\nIsaac Farnum,\\nJohn Garvin,\\nJeremiah Pecker,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nMoses Kimball,\\nJonathan Virgin,\\nDaniel Virgin.\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nPorter Blanchard,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nJohn Thompson,\\nJohn Lovejoy,\\nAbel Baker,\\nPeter Farnum,\\nBenjamin Swain,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nJames Willey.\\nReuben Goodwin.\\nCharles Emery,\\nJohn Colby.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n359\\nFence-viewers,\\nHogreeves,\\nPound-keepers,\\nRepresentative,\\nGrand Juror,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nCarders of Wood,\\nCuller of Staves,\\nAuditors of Accounts,\\nFire-wards,\\n(John Colby,\\nPeter C. Farnum,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nRichard Herbert, Jr\\nf Seth Tucker,\\nSamuel Green,\\nNathaniel Bradley,\\nSamuel Currier,\\nJoshua Abbot, Jr.,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nMoses Elliot,\\nIsaac Emerson,\\nJames Elliot,\\nJohn Bradley, Jr.,\\nChandler Eastman,\\nJonathan Goodwin,\\nWilliam Hoit,\\nMoses Kimball.\\n(Joseph Walker,\\nI James Moulton.\\nStephen Ambrose.\\nCapt. Richard Ayer.\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nI Capt. Peter Robertson.\\nJames Willey,\\nDavid George,\\nGeorge Hough,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nIsaac Eastman,\\n^^Josiah Rogers.\\nr James Moulton,\\nJames Willey,\\nJoseph Runnels.\\nCapt. Edmund Leavitt,\\nJoseph Walker,\\nRichard Ayer.\\nCapt. Richard Ayer,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nAbicl Walker,\\nTimothy Butters,\\nJeremiah Chandler.\\nWilliam Shute,\\nBenjamin Powell,\\nAsaph Evans,\\nDaniel Greenleaf,\\nSamuel Kimball,\\nDavid Davis,\\nJohn Hoit,\\nJames Moulton,\\nWilliam Garvin,\\nPhilbrick Bradley,\\nJohn H. Durgin.\\nJoseph Walker,\\nJames Moulton.\\nStephen Ambrose.\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nAbiel Walker.\\nMarch 19-13, 1811.\\nModerator, Richard Ayer.\\nClerk, John Odlin.\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nSelectmen, Edmund Leavitt,\\nAbiel Walker.\\nNathan Stickney,\\nConstables, Josiah Rogers,\\nNathaniel Ambrose.\\nCollector, Nathan Stickney.\\nConstables and Collect rs,\\nJames Willey,\\nGeorge Hough,\\nJohn West, Jr.,\\nJohn George,\\nFrancis N. Fisk,\\nEdmund Leavitt.\\nJames Moulton,\\nJoseph Runnels,\\nRichard Wood.\\nCapt. Richard Ayer,\\nCapt. Benja. Emery,\\nJeremiah Pecker.\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nAliiel Walker,\\nPaul Rolfe,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nGeorge W. Rogers.\\nMarch 9, 1812.\\nWilliam A. Kent.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nAmos Abbot, Jr.,\\nAbiel Walker.\\nrr, ^1 Thomas W. Thompson,\\nTythngmen, Arthur Rogers.\\nSealer of Wts. and Meas., Timothy Chandler.\\nNathaniel G. Bradley,\\nField-drivers, Timothy Bradley, Jr.,\\nBenjamin Kimball.\\nf Moses Flanders,\\nMoses Ferrin,\\nRichard Bradley,\\nEdmund Leavitt.\\nThomas Abbot,\\nMoses Abbot, Jr.\\nTimothy Chandler.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "360\\nSurveijors of Highways,\\nFence-viewers,\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nPound-keepers,\\nRepresentatives,\\nGrand Juror,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nCorders of Wood,\\nCullers of Staves,\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nJames Ayer,\\nSamuel Herbert,\\nJames Corliss,\\nWilliam Shute,\\nEzra Hutchins,\\nAbner Farnum, Jr.,\\nJoseph Dow,\\nTimothy Carter,\\nJoseph Hoit,\\nAbel Baker,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nIsaae Farnum,\\nCharles Eastman,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nJoseph Potter,\\nJonathan Virgin,\\nJohn Garvin,\\nBenjamin Kimball,\\nPeter C. Farnum,\\nJeremiah Pecker,\\nWilliam Sticlaiey.\\nAsaph Evans,\\nBenjamin Damon,\\nDavid Davis,\\nMoses Ferrin,\\nJames Moulton,\\nWilliam Tay,\\nKeyes Powell,\\nJohn Ballard,\\nJeremiah Chandler,\\nSamuel E. Scales,\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nOliver Hoit.\\nJames Willey,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nJosiaii Rogers,\\nEdmund Leavitt,\\nIsaac Dow.\\nI Joseph Walker,\\nJames Moulton.\\ni Stephen Ambrose,\\nThomas W. Thompson.\\nBenjamin Kimball, Jr.\\nRichard Ayer,*\\nWilliam Austin,\\nStephen Ambrose.\\nCharles Emery,\\nJames Willey,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nEdmund Leavitt.\\nJames Moulton,\\nJoseph Runnells,\\nJames Willey.\\nExcused.\\nMoses Carter,\\nMoses Hall,\\nEzra Hutchins,\\nTimothy Butters,\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nWilliam Garvin,\\nOrlando Brown.\\nTimothy Carter,\\nDaniel Fisk,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nEphraim Colby,\\nSamuel Runnels,\\nMarshall Baker,\\nCharles Eastman,\\nMellen Kimball,\\nNathaniel Ambrose,\\nHazen Virgin,\\nBenjamin Kimball,\\nSamuel Trumble,\\nHenry Rolfe,\\nRichard Bradley.\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nJacob Eastman,\\nJohn Ballard.\\nSamuel Willey,\\nThomas Wilson, Jr.,\\nBenjamin Kimball, Jr.\\nBela Carter,\\nKeyes Powell,\\nOrlando Brown,\\nJames Moulton,\\nJonathan Abbot, Jr.,\\nEzra Hoit,\\nTimothy Bradley.\\nSamuel Butters, Jr.,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nNathaniel Bradley,\\nMoses Ferrin,\\nJoseph Runnels,\\nAbel Baker, Jr.,\\nHazen Virgin,\\nStephen Webster,\\nJohn Thompson.\\nJames Moulton,\\nJoseph Walker.\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nTho s W. Thompson.\\nEdmund Leavitt.\\nJoshua Abbot, Jr.,\\nJohn Eastman.\\nJohn George,\\nAsaph E vans,\\nGeorge Hough,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nAbel Houghton.\\nSamuel Butters,\\nJoseph Runnells,\\nJames Moulton,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nStephen Chase.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "TOWN OFFICERS.\\n361\\nAuditors,\\nWilliam A. Kent,\\nSherburne Wiggin,\\nCharles Emery.\\nFire-wards\\nJosiah Kogers,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nGeorge W. Eogers,\\nBenjamin Kimball, Jr.,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nEzra Hutchins.\\nMarch 9-10, 1813.\\nModerator, William Austin Kent.\\nClerk, John Odlin.\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nSelectmen, John Odlin,\\nAmos Abbot.\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nConstables,\\nRichard Bradley,\\nIsaac Eastman,\\nOrlando Brown,\\nBenjamin Abbot, 3d\\n0. Brown,\\nJ. Eastman,\\nB. Abbot, 3d.\\nJames Corliss,\\nThomas Abbot.\\nCollectors,\\nTythingmen,\\nSealer of Wis. and Meas.^^ Timothy Chandler,\\nWilliam Abbot,\\nJames Hall,\\nEzra Hutchins,\\nNathan Abbot, 3d,\\nHenry Rolfe,\\nEnoch Brown,\\nAbel Hutchins,\\nOi-lando Brown,\\nEnoch Hoit,\\nBenjamin Kimball,\\nSurveyors of Highways, j IZf-^o\\nChristopher Rowell\\nEbenezer Fisk,\\nIsaac Emerson,\\nJohn Garvin,\\nCharles Eastman,\\nAnthony Potter,\\nNathaniel Ambrose\\nJacob Hoit,\\nSamuel Kimball,\\nBenjamin Kimball.\\nFence-viewers,\\nPound-keepers,\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nBenjamin Emery, Jr\\nMoses Ferrin.\\nJoseph Walker,\\nJames Moulton,\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nCharles Walker,\\nTho s W. Thompson.\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nSeth Tucker,\\nAbicl Walker,\\nPeter Robertson,\\nAsaph Evans,\\nBenjamin Kiml)all, Jr.,\\nChandler Eastman.\\nJeremiali Pecker,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nOrlando Brown,\\nEzra Hutchins,\\nDaniel Clark.\\nMarch 8, 1814.\\nThos. W. Thompson.\\nJohn Odlin.\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nNathaniel Ambrose,\\nNathan Stickney.\\nTimothy Bradley,\\nBenjamin Emery,\\nBel a Carter,\\nJoshua Abbot, Jr.,\\nOrlando Brown.\\nT. Bradley,\\nB. Emery,\\nB. Carter.\\nNathan Ballard, Jr.,\\nGeorge W. Rogers.\\nTimothy Chandler.\\nIsaac Shute,\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nBenjamin Wheeler,\\nRichard Trow,\\nEzra Hutchins,\\nJere h Pecker,\\nReuben Goodwin,\\nHosea Virgin,\\nAbiel Eastman,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nMoses Harriman,\\nNathan Abbot,\\nJonathan Elliot,\\nJoseph Knowles,\\nSamuel Abbot,\\nBenjamin lumbal!.\\nJohn Thompson,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nJoseph Runnells,\\nJames Hoit,\\nIsaac Farnum.\\nEphraim Carter,\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nChandler Eastman,\\nSamuel Bradlev,\\nAbiel Walker.\\nAbiel Walker,\\nCharles Eastman", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "362\\nfflSTORY OF CONCORD.\\nHogreeves,\\nSurveyors of Lumber,\\nRepresentatives,\\nGrand Jurors,\\nPetit Jurors,\\nCorders of Wood,\\nCullers of Staves,\\nAuditors,\\nFire-wards,\\nTimothy Butters,\\nMoses Hall,\\nLevi Abbot, Moses Shute,\\nDaniel Coolido;e,\\nBenjamin Emery,\\nFrancis N. Fisk,\\nJohn Flanders,\\nAbel Baker,\\nReuben Johnson,\\nJonathan Runnells,\\nBenjamin Elliot,\\nBenjamin Kimball, 3d,\\nJames Moulton,\\nRobert Adams, Isaac Virgin,\\nHazen Virgin, Eben r Lovejoy\\nDudley Ladd.\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nChandler Eastman,\\nMoses Ferrin,\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nStephen Webster,\\nSamuel Davis,\\nAbel Baker, Jr.,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nBenjamin Swain,\\nJohn Lovejoy.\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nI Thomas W. Thompson.\\nJames Willey,\\nJohn George,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nI 0. Brown,\\nI Samuel Bradley,\\nAbel Houghton.\\nJames Moulton,\\nStephen Chase,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nJoshua Abbot, Jr\\nJoseph Runnells.\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nJohn Thorndike,\\nSeth Tucker.\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nJames Willey,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nSeth Tucker,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nBenjamin Kimball, Jr\\nAbicl Walker,\\nOrlando Brown,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nJeremiah Pecker,\\nEzra Hutchins.\\nJames Willey,\\nIsaac Hill,\\nJames Buswell,\\nCharles Eastman,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nAsa Graham,\\nThomas Potter,\\nTimothy Abbot, Jr.,\\nJoseph Runnells,\\nJedediah Hoit,\\nRobert Knowlton,\\nRichard Trow,\\nIsaac Colby,\\nBowen Crehore.\\nAbiel Virgin,\\nNathaniel G. Bradley,\\nJoseph Dow,\\nMoses Bullen,\\nStephen Webster,\\nRobert Davis, Jr.,\\nNathan Abbot, 3d,\\nJohn Lovejoy,\\nBenjamin Swain,\\nMoses Ferrin,\\nAbel Baker,\\nBowen Crehore.\\nThos. W. Thompson,\\nRichard Ayer.\\nEnoch Coffin,\\nAbiel Walker,\\nf William Low.\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nB. Hazeltine,\\nF. N. Fisk,\\nAsaph Evans.\\nDaniel Cooledge,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nJohn George,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nEdmund Leavitt,\\n_ Asaph Evans.\\nJoseph Runnells,\\nStephen Chase,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nSamuel Bradley,\\nMoses Ferrin.\\nWilliam A. Kent.\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nTimothy Chandler.\\nAbiel Walker,\\nGeorge W. Rogers,\\nJosiah Rogers,\\nJames Hall,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nNathan Stickney,\\nJeremiah Pecker,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nIsaac Shute,\\nOrlando Brown,\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nPearl Kimball.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD FROM 1815 TO 1825.\\nAt the annual meeting in March, 1815, the town voted That\\nthe intermission be one hour through the year, except Commun-\\nion day, and on those days one hour and a half.\\nOn the 23d of September a violent gale swept over this town,\\nand indeed over the greater part of New-England, which did\\nimmense damage to buildings, fences, and especially to wood-lands.\\nHence at a meeting January 1, 181 G, Richard Bradley, one of\\nthe selectmen, was appointed agent in behalf of the town, to\\ndispose of the wood and timber blown down on the eighty acre\\nlot belonging to the parsonage, and that the net proceeds of the\\nsale be given to the Rev. Asa McFarland. Mr. Bradley was\\nalso appointed agent to sell the wood and timber at the Rocky\\nPond, so called, that is now blown down on the land belonging to\\nthe town, and all the wood and timber blown down on any other\\nlands owned by the town. Abiel Walker was appointed assist-\\nant agent for the same purpose.\\n1816.\\nThis year the building of the State House was begun. A\\nspirited competition arose between the North and South End,\\nas to where the house should be located. The North End inhabit-\\nants were in favor of the location where the old town-house\\nstands, or further west, on land owned by the late William Stick-\\nney. At the annual meeting, March 12th, it was voted, That", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "364 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nthe town-house may be removed, if the Legislature should want\\nto make use of the land for a State House, on which said house\\nstands.\\nThe conditions on which the State House might be located in\\nConcord, as proposed by the Legislature, were, That said town\\nof Concord, or inhabitants of said town, shall convey to the State\\nof New-Hampshire a suitable piece of ground on which to erect\\nsaid State House, to the acceptance of his Excellency the Gov-\\nernor and Honorable Council aforesaid shall level and well\\nprepare said piece of ground, to the acceptance of the committee\\nto superintend the building aforesaid shall also give all the\\nstone necessary to be used in the erection of said building, and\\nshall convey or have conveyed said stone, under the direction of\\nsaid committee, to the place or plot of ground upon which said\\nState House shall be erected which condition shall be perform-\\ned free of any charge or expense to the State,\\nThe inhabitants of the South End were in favor of the loca-\\ntion at or near where the State House now stands. Especially\\ninterested and active in securing their object were the late Col.\\nWilliam A. Kent, Gov. Isaac Hill, and William Low. Li exam-\\nining the two locations it appears that a committee of the Legis-\\nlature had reported favorably of that on Stickney s land, but the\\ndecision of the question was left with the Governor and Council.\\nIn order to fulfil the conditions, subscriptions were started at\\nboth the North and South End the latter soon amounted to about\\nfour thousand dollars and tradition says, that in the mean time\\nthe most urgent and favorable considerations were presented to\\nGovernor William Plumer by those in the South End interest.\\nThe Governor had formerly boarded at the North End, with Fran-\\ncis N. risk, Esq., but this year he boarded with Mr. Hill, and\\nboth personal and political considerations were brought to bear\\non the question. The arguments for and against the respective\\nlocations in dispute were That Stickney s land was dry, elevated\\nand airy a building erected thereon could be seen far and wide\\nit was near the Town House, where the Legislature had been\\naccustomed to meet, and had been recommended by a committee\\nof that body. The other location was said to be more central,\\nand less difficult of access to which it was objected that it was", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "ERECTION OF THE STATE HOUSE. 365\\nlow and wet, and contemptuously it was called a frog-pond,\\nout of which a member facetiously remarked, that the frogs\\nwould peep up, and with their croakings interrupt the debates of\\nthe House That the expense of laying a foundation in such\\na spot would swell the cost far beyond the estimate and, in fact,\\nthat the people at the South End had no just claim whatever\\nto put in, in opposition to the location on Stickney s land. Tra-\\ndition further says, that the Governor and Council were as much\\ndivided in their opinions on the subject as the people of the\\nrespective sections. Two of the Council, Gen. Benjamin Pierce\\nand Samuel Quarles, boarded with the late John George, and\\nwere decidedly in favor of the Stickney location indeed, a\\nmajority of the Council were in favor of the latter spot. A day\\nwas fixed on to decide the question but, it happened, that just\\nat that juncture one member of the Council, who was in favor\\nof the north end location, was called away on special business,\\nand before his return the Governor called the Council together,\\nand decided the question in favor of the South End. Thus saith\\ntradition.\\nThe lot on which the State House is erected, containing about\\ntwo acres, formerly belonged to the estate of Peter Green, Esq.\\nOn the north-east part of it stood the house of Capt. Peter Rob-\\nertson, which house was sold to Mr. William Kent, and moved\\nto Pleasant street, where it still stands. The entire lot was pur-\\nchased and presented to the State, agreeably to the conditions\\nspecified.\\nMr. Stuart J. Park* was chief architect, assisted by Mr. Levi\\nBrigham.f Messrs. Albe Cady, WilUam Low and Jeremiah\\nPecker, of Concord, were the superintending building committee.\\nStuart J. Pahk. The parents of Mr. Park were natives of Scotland, and came to this\\ncountry in 1767. His father was a stone mason, and the first here who practiced splitting\\nstone with a wedge. Mr. Park possessed unusual mechanical genius. He was the overseer or\\ncontractor of the following structures: overseer in the work of building a jail in Portland,\\n1798; overseer of jail at Northampton, Mass., 1801 contractor State Prison at Charlestown,\\n1803; overseer upon prison at Windsor, 1808; contractor State Prison in Concord, 1810;\\nMiddlesex Locks and Canal, 181.3; overseer State House in Concord, 1816, overseer jail at\\nDover, 1818; overseer Boston Mill Dam, 1850; overseer Dry Dock, Charlestown, 1825; over-\\nseer Lowell Railroad, 1835. Since that time he has resided upon his farm in Groton, Mass.,\\none of the best in Massachusetts, and is eighty-two years of age. He visited Concord in\\nMarch, 1854, and was then enjoying fine health and a green old age. He is still living.\\nt Mr. Brigham was from Boston. He married Ann, daughter of Capt. Richard Ayer.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "366 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nConvicts of the State prison were employed to hammer the stone.\\nOn Tuesday, September 24, 1816, the corner stone was laid.\\nThe building was completed and the Legislature first convened in\\nit, in June, 1819.\\nThe expense of building the house, including the fences and\\nthe furniture of the house, amounted to nearly eighty-two thou-\\nsand dollars.*\\nAt a meeting November 4, 1816, it was voted, that in future\\nthe ballot for Representatives be brought in on the same ticket\\nfor State and County oflEicers.\\n1818.\\nAt the annual meeting in March the selectmen were author-\\nized to purchase two hearses one hundred dollars were raised\\nfor purchasing a fire engine and other necessary apparatus there-\\nfor, and a quantity of hose to the amount of forty dollars. The\\nselectmen were also authorized to sell any part of Timothy\\nAbbot s land, or the whole, as they may think best, and pay his\\ndebts.\\nSCHOOL COMMITTEE.\\nHeretofore Dr. McFarland, ex officio, had performed the ser-\\nvice of visiting and inspecting the schools of the town, examin-\\ning teachers, c. but this year, March 11th, for the first time,\\na committee was appointed to visit the schools, viz. Thomas W.\\nThompson, Dr. McFarland, Capt. Richard Ayer, WilUam A.\\nKent, George Hough, Abiel Rolfe, Stephen Ambrose, Thomas\\nChadbourne, Moses Long, Richard Bradley, Samuel A. Kimball,\\nand Samuel Fletcher.\\nIt was also voted, That the committee in each school district\\nmake out a fist of all the children in their respective districts,\\nFor description of the State House see Miscellaneous Chapter.\\nt Timothy Abbot was a son of Edward Abbot, 2d. His land lay north of Centre street\\nand extended back to Sand Hill. On account of irregular habits he was placed under guardi-\\nanship. His property was conveyed to the town, which became obliged to support him.\\nHe died in 1820, leaving a [second] wife, Lydia. By virtue of her interest in her husband s\\nestate, she received support from the town in her old age. She boarded for several years at\\nMr. Jacob Hoyt s j then at Simon Virgin s. In her latter years she fell and broke her thigh,\\nand hence became very intirm and helpless. Finally she was boarded at Mr. Ebenezer East-\\nman s, in the East Village, where she died, May 25, 1853, aged eighty-five.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "RESTRICTIONS ON INTEMPERANCE. 367\\nfrom the age of four years to twentj-one, and return the same\\nto the selectmen in the month of April in each year, under oath\\nif required.\\nTEMPERANCE.\\nVoted, That it shall be the duty of the selectmen to prose-\\ncute all persons in the town of Concord who shall, within knowl-\\nedge or from satisfactory information, retail spirit contrary to\\nlaw, except on public days.\\nThe selectmen were also directed to prosecute any person or\\npersons who had trespassed or who shall hereafter trespass on any\\nof the lands belonging to the town and to confer with the\\ndirectors of Federal and of Concord bridges with respect to the\\ncompensation they will require, to permit the inhabitants on the\\neast side of the river to pass and repass to attend public worship\\nand likewise to attend town-meetings by the year. The imme-\\ndiate occasion of this vote was a vote passed by the directors of\\nFederal bridge, September 2, 1817, requiring all persons cross-\\ning Federal bridge, going to or returning from public worship on\\nSabbath days, (excepting foot-passengers,) to pay toll, which\\nvote was reconsidered September 24, 1817.\\nGreat difficulty was experienced in obtaining a road from\\nWest Parish village to Horse Hill bridge, on account of conflict-\\ning opinions as to the best route hence, at a meeting of the town\\nDecember 21st, it was voted, That a committee of three from\\nsome adjoining town or towns be requested by the selectmen to\\nassist them in laying out a road from Horse Hill bridge to Orlando\\nBrown s in such way as shall best accommodate the public.\\nAndrew Bowers, Capt. Stone and Dea. Pettengill [of Salisbury]\\nwere chosen for the purpose.\\n1819.\\nOn the 10th of March, voted, That in future it shall be the\\nduty of the selectmen and auditors of accounts to report at each\\nannual meeting such sum or sums of money as will, in their\\nopinion, be necessary to defray the expenses of the town the\\nensuing year; and that they specify each object of expense,\\ntogether with the sum they judge necessary to meet it. This rule", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "368 HISTORY OF CQNCOED.\\nhcas been found highly useful, and been generally acted on since\\nits first adoption.\\nThomas W. Thompson, Samuel Sparhawk, Stephen Ambrose,\\nIsaac Hill, Samuel A. Kimball, Timothy Carter and Nathan Bal-\\nlard, jr., were appointed a committee to report at the next town\\nmeeting the most eligible mode they can devise for supporting\\nthe poor in future.\\nLANCASTERIAN SCHOOL.\\nVoted, to admit the south end of the Town House, called the\\nSenate Chamber, to be prepared and occupied by a Lancasterian\\nschool, provided the town be at no expense. This kind of school\\nderived its name from a philanthropic gentleman in England, by\\nthe name of Lancaster the school was designed for a large\\nnumber of scholars of every age, to be conducted on the plan of\\nmonitorial instruction that is, at the head of each class was a\\nmonitor, who was the teacher of the class, under the supervision\\nand direction of the Principal. Cards were generally used in-\\nstead of school-books, and the exercises consisted much in repeat-\\ning lessons, after the monitor. The schools had a short-lived\\npopularity in different parts of the country.\\nCOWS AND SHEEP.\\nVoted, That whereas the inhabitants of Concord and trav-\\nelers with teams and loaded sleighs are frequently annoyed by\\ncows and sheep running at large therefore, that hereafter no\\ncow or sheep shall be permitted to run at large in the Main street\\nbetween Carr s inn and Richard Bradley s dwelling-house, or\\nwithin half a mile to the west of Main street, after the first day\\nof November, 1819, till the first day of April, 1820.\\nIsaac Eastman and James Hoit were appointed by the town,\\nto take legal measures to ascertain the names of those persons\\nwho have injured or damnified the seats, candlesticks,- c.,\\nbelonging to the Town House, and report their names and that\\nthey, the said Eastman and Hoit, prosecute the same.\\nSeptember 2d, Richard Bradley was appointed an agent to\\nsettle or defend the suit commenced against the town of Concord\\nby Ephraim Farnum, jr. This suit was to recover from the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "TOWN REGULATIONS. 369\\ntown the value of a horse belonging to Mr. Farnum, hired to\\nCol. William Kent to go to Boston, and which horse, with a\\nchaise, run oflf a bridge just north of the house of the late Dea.\\nWilkins, in the time of a high freshet, and was drowned. Mr.\\nFarnum failed to recover.\\n182 0.\\nAt the annual meeting this year the town voted to pay five\\ndollars as a premium to the engine which may arrive at a fire\\nfirst, and that the same be awarded by direction of the fire-\\nwards. On the sixth of April the selectmen were directed to\\nlease to the 11th school district, for such a length of time and on\\nsuch terms as they may think proper, so much of the Parsonage\\nlot near the house of David George as will be needed by said\\ndistrict for the purpose of building a school-house provided\\nthe Rev. Dr. McFarland, or those who may claim a right to said\\nlot under him, shall give his or their consent. The selectmen\\nwere also authorized to purchase or build a house or houses suflB-\\ncient for the safe-keeping of the hearse or hearses which belong\\nto the town. On the 4th of January, 1821, the selectmen were\\nauthorized to agree with the selectmen of Boscawen to repair or\\nrebuild the bridge across Contoocook river, near John Chandler s,\\nin the same place it now is, and that the town of Concord pay\\nhalf the expense.\\n1821.\\nAt the annual meeting in March, 1821, upon recommendation\\nof a committee previously appointed, consisting of Samuel Spar-\\nhawk, Charles Walker and William A. Kent, the town voted to\\nprovide a book for the purpose of entering therein all returns\\nof roads, and whatever else relative to that particular subject\\nalso a book in which an account should be opened with every\\npauper maintained wholly or in part by the town and an invoice\\nand tax-book, so ruled and arranged that any one who wishes\\nmay see at one view both the amount of his taxes and the prop-\\nSee Doc. for Chap. XIII., No. 1, Return of Roads.\\n24", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "370 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nerty on whicli his taxes are assessed. It is to be regretted that\\nthe second recommendation above was never carried out.\\n1822-3.\\nA NEW COUNTY.\\nThe question of forming a new county to be called Merri-\\nmack County was acted on by the town at the annual meet-\\ning in March. Yeas, 522 nays, 6. The selectmen were\\ndirected to petition the General Court so to alter and establish\\nthe line between Concord and Boscawen, that said hne may strike\\nthe centre of Contoocook river at the place fixed upon to build a\\nnew bridge across said river.\\nThe committee for visiting schools recommended in their annu-\\nal report, that a sum not less than three per cent, of the mon-\\nies raised for the support of schools, be appropriated by the town\\nand placed at the disposal of the committee to be expended in\\npremiums, in part, to school-masters who shall have distin-\\nguished themselves for their ability and success in instruction\\nand government and the residue in useful books, to be given\\nas rewards of merit to those scholars who shall have made the\\ngreatest improvement in their studies. The recommendation\\nwas adopted.\\nA new county being constituted. Concord became the shire\\ntown, and hence, for the accommodation of the courts, it became\\nnecessary to make alterations and improvements in the old town\\nhouse. September 16th it was voted, That the town so far\\ncomply with the act of the Legislature of June session, 1822, as\\nto remove the town house back, turn it end to the road, raise it\\none story, and complete it to the acceptance of the Justices of\\nthe Superior Court, provided Mr. Stickney will give the land\\nwhich may be necessary for this purpose and provided, also,\\nthat one third of the expense of removal and repairing said house\\nbe defrayed by individual subscription. Jeremiah Pecker,\\nRobert Davis, 3d, and Joseph Low, were appointed superintend-\\nents, and eight hundred dollars appropriated towards defraying\\nthe expense of removing and repairing the building, agreeably\\nto the foregoing vote.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 371\\nThe school committee reported that about one thousand chil-\\ndren and youth, or one third of the whole population of the\\ntown, attended school during the winter; and that one half\\nof them studied English Grammar, Arithmetic and Geography.\\nAdd the little children who attend only in summer, and nearly\\none half of the population are actually receiving their education\\nat these domestic institutions.\\nJacob B. Moore made proposals to the town to publish a\\nhistory of the town, which he had prepared, to contain, with\\nan appendix, about one hundred and fifty pages; whereupon\\nthe town voted, to take a sufficient number of copies of said\\nhistory to furnish each family in the town with one copy. The\\nwork was published in 1824, entitled Annals of the Town of\\nConcord. pp. 112.\\n1824.\\nThis year the selectmen were authorized to straighten Centre\\nstreet, and to lease or otherwise dispose of the land given to\\nthe town by Deacon Joseph Hall, deceased. It was voted to\\ngive the proprietors of Federal Bridge twenty-five dollars per\\nannum as a compensation for the privilege, to the inhabitants of\\nthe town, of passing toll free on Sabbath days, when going to\\nand from public worship. At a meeting November 1st the select-\\nmen were authorized to purchase that part of the New-Hampshire\\nTurnpike (including the Branch) which lies in Concord to pay\\na sum not exceedino; five hundred dollars for the same.*\\nMISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE\\nTO THIS PERIOD.\\nThe first boat, with regular freight, from Boston to Concord,\\nthrough the Middlesex canal, arrived at Concord June 23,\\n1815.t\\nThe New-Hampshire Turnpike was the road from Federal Bridge through to Chichester,\\nEpsom, Northwood, on to Portsmouth and the Branch run from Concord bridge north-\\neast till it met the Turnpike near the late Philip Stevens s.\\nt See Boating Company, in Miscellaneous Chapter.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "372 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nThe summer of 1816 was remarkable in Concord and tlirougli-\\nout New-England for the severity of the cold. It is said that\\nthere were frosts every month in the season, from April to No-\\nvember. Corn, rye and other crops were almost entirely de-\\nstroyed. Apples and other fruits were likewise cut off. In con-\\nsequence, the price of provisions was unusually high, and the\\npoor suffered from scarcity.\\nThe lot where the brick school-house now stands, in district\\nnumber eleven, was the Parsonage house lot, which Dr. McFar-\\nland had liberty to improve during his ministry. Some years\\nafter his settlement he leased it to Benjamin Kimball, jr., hatter,\\nat the north end of Main street. Mr. Kimball moved his shop\\non the lot agreeing to pay Dr. McFarland one bushel and a\\nhalf of wlilte beans annually. In the cold summer of 1816\\nwhite beans were a scarce article, and the quantity due could not\\nbe had. Mr. Kimball gathered from various sources two bushels\\nor more of beans, ring-streaked and speckled, and of all col-\\nors, and carried them to Dr. McF. for payment. The Doctor\\nobserved, You have brought me more than a bushel and a\\nhalf, iVbi5 of wJdte ones, said Mr. Kimball, and the rest\\nI ll throw in,\\n[1817.] Mr. Benjamin Thompson was drowned in Turkey\\nPond, June 20th, by the upsetting of a boat, in a squall of\\nwind. He was in company with Lieut, B, Kimball. The former\\nattempted to swim to the shore, and was drowned the latter,\\nwho could not swim, clung to the boat, and was saved.\\nOn the 18th of July President Monroe, on his tour through\\nNew-Endand, visited Concord. He was met on the borders of\\nthe town (on his way from Dover,) about three o clock, P, M,,\\nby a committee of the citizens, consisting of the selectmen and\\nThomas W. Thompson, Samuel Sparhawk, William A. Kent,\\nCharles Walker, Jonathan Eastman, Stephen Ambrose and Abiel\\nWalker, Esqs., and under escort of Capt. Abbot s company of\\ncavalry and citizens of Concord, proceeded by the Branch tui-n-\\npike to Concord bridge. His approach was announced by Capt.\\nSamuel Herbert s company of artillery, which saluted him from\\nButters s Hill, as he passed the bridge and through the Main", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. O/O\\nstreet. Arrived near Barker s tavern, he was received by Capt.\\nLong s excellent company of light infantry, and saluted by that\\nand a company of citizens consisting of several hundreds. After\\na few moments rest, he ascended a stage erected for the occa-\\nsion, three sides of which were covered by the three escort com-\\npanies, with presented arms where he was met by the cheers\\nand huzzas of the surrounding multitude.\\nHere the Hon. Thomas W. Thompson made an address to the\\nPresident, welcoming him, in the name of his fellow citizens, to\\nthe town. To which the President responded.\\nA sumptuous dinner was partaken of at Mr. Barker s, after\\nwhich the President gave as a toast The town of Concord\\nMay its inhabitants continue to flourish and prosper. In the\\nevening he attended a musical concert at the meeting-house,\\nwhich was tastefully decorated for the occasion. On Saturday\\nhe received calls from individuals, among whom was the vener-\\nable Judge Walker, eighty years of age. After dining with\\nMr. Thompson he took an excursion down the river as far as\\nGarvin s Falls in the newly launched pleasure boat the Presi-\\ndent, with a select company of ladies and gentlemen returning\\nby land in carriages. He passed the evening with an invited\\nparty at Col. William A. Kent s attended public worship in the\\nmorning of the Sabbath at the Old North Church, and left\\ntown on Monday morning, highly gratified with his visit to the\\nCapital of the Granite State.\\nDied in this town, at the residence of her grandson, Richard\\nBradley, August 10, 1817, the widow Mary Calfe, aged nine-\\nty-eight, being the oldest person in town. She first married\\nSamuel Bradley, who was killed by the Indians August 11, 1746,\\nand was the mother of the late Hon. John Bradley. She after-\\nwards married Richard Calfe, Esq., of Chester. About six\\nyears before her death she was disabled by a fall, and was con-\\nfined ever after to her bed. She retained her faculties in a re-\\nmarkable degree to the last. In her youthful days she had stud-\\nied the Scriptures, and when strength and sight failed her, not\\nonly its doctrines but its very language were familiar to her\\nwhich she would repeat, to the comfort and satisfaction of her\\nfriends. She placed a firm reliance on the merits of her Saviour,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "374 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nand died in sweet peace and hope of rest in the kingdom of\\nGod.\\nMiss Abigail Kimball, aged sixty, who had been an attendant\\nand nurse of Mrs. Calfe for about thirty years, died on the 4th\\nof August and Mrs. Hayinah Bradley, widow of the Hon.\\nJohn Bradley, aged sixty-six, died in the same house on the 15th\\nof August. Their vmitcd ages made two hundred and fourteen\\nyears. Mrs. Bradley -was a woman of uncommon excellence and\\nusefulness in all the relations of life. The disease of which she\\ndied was dysentery.\\nDrowned in this town, Sabbath morning, August 17, 1817,\\nEbenezer Chickering, in the nineteenth year of his age a\\nyouth of much promise. In his anxiety to become a swimmer,\\nand unbeknown to the family where he hved, early on Sunday\\nmorning, with two other youths, he went to the river, and ven-\\nturing in deep water, where he was unable to manage himself, he\\nwas carried down the stream.\\nThe body of young Chickering was found several days after,\\nfloating on the surface of the river, about two miles below the\\nplace where he was drowned.\\nA smart shock of an earthquake was felt in this town on Sun-\\nday, October 5, 1817, about twenty minutes before twelve o clock.\\nIt was of one or two minutes duration, apparently in a direction\\nfrom south-west to north-east.\\nOn Tuesday, November 25th, a large three story dwelling-\\nhouse, chiefly owned by Mr. Abel Hutchins, and occupied by\\nhim and Mr. Albe Cady, was consumed by fire. The fire burst\\nout of the roof about one o clock, P. M. probably communi-\\ncated from a stove in the third story. A considerable portion of\\nthe furniture was saved. Loss estimated at about three thousand\\ndollars. The house stood on the spot where the Phoenix Hotel\\nnow stands. The fire was prevented from extending to adjacent\\nbuildings, by the energetic eSbrts not only of men but of the fair\\nsex, who were busy in furnishing carpets, coverlets and blankets\\nto cover the exposed buildings, assisting also to bring water,\\nforming lines for the engine, and in clearing adjacent buildings.\\nBurning flakes fell among combustibles under a large barn full\\nof hay, but were accidentally discovered and extinguished by", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 375\\nGen. Isaac Eastman and Capt. Philip Watson, who were carry-\\ning a tub of water, by a circuitous route, for the engine. To\\nthis circumstance the preservation of the adjacent buildings is\\nmainly ascribed.\\nMAD DOG.\\nA large dog, from every appearance mad, was killed in this\\ntown on Friday, November 28th. The day before from twenty\\nto thirty dogs were bitten by him on Concord street.\\n[1818.] Portsmouth and Concord Wagon Company was\\nformed at the beginning of the year 1818, for the transporta-\\ntion of merchandize between the two places. Wagons to leave\\nPortsmouth every Monday for Concord, and pass over the Turn-\\npike through the towns of Durham and Northwood returning,\\nleave Concord every Thursday, and arrive in Portsmouth on\\nSaturday.\\nFrom the 2d to the 10th of April continued rain and snow\\nfell, without the appearance of the sun. Stages from the north\\nand south arrived on runners, on the 6th and 10th of April.\\nFIRE ENGINE.\\nAn additional fire engine was purchased by the inhabitants of\\nthis town in April, 1818. It was a new invention, by Mr. S, F.\\nB. Morse, the celebrated painter (and inventor of the electric\\ntelegraph) and was procured for about half the usual expense of\\nother engines say one hundred and fifty to two hundred dol-\\nlars.*\\nOn Tuesday, May 5th, was an unusual freshet. The intervale\\nwas covered with water, and the river extended from its usual\\nchannel to from one to two miles. Bridges in town were impass-\\nable for a number of days. No spring freshet is recollected to\\nhave been so high. The bridge between Boscawen and Canter-\\nbury was carried away.\\nThe raising of the Eagle which crowns the spire of the State\\nHouse took place on Saturday, July 18, 1818, with appropriate\\nceremonies. At two o clock, P. M., a procession was formed\\nPatriot, April 14, 1818.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "376 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nin front of the State House, under the direction of Major Rob-\\nertson proceeded down State street and back, entered the State\\nHouse, -whci e a handsome extemporaneous address ^yas deUvered\\nby Philip Carrigain, Esq. Refreshments were plentifully dis-\\ntributed toasts were drank amid loud cheers and the firing of\\nartillery, the Concord Band, at intervals, playing appropriate\\nairs. The thirteenth toast was The American Eagle,\\nMay the shadow of Jds ivings protect every acre of our united\\nContinent^ and the lightniiig of his eye flash terror and defeat\\nthrough the ranks of our enemies^\\nA Sunday School was established in the West Parish village\\nin Concord, on the first Sunday in June consisting of about\\nfifty scholars. During the months of June and July they com-\\nmitted thirteen thousand six hundred and forty-six verses of\\nScripture and answers in the Catechism. In the month of\\nAugust forty-five scholars attended, and committed twelve thou-\\nsand six hundred and six verses and answers.\\nOn Thursday, November 12th, a newly discharged convict\\nfrom the State Prison, by the name of Royal Allen a mulatto\\nentered the new State House and stole the keys of most of\\nthe doors, (fifteen in number.) He was soon arrested, and be-\\nsides the keys he was found to have stolen twenty-six dollars in\\nmoney the same day.\\nThe Phoenix Hotel was opened as a house of entertain-\\nment, by Mr. Abel Hutchins, the first of January, 1819.\\nMr. David Carter, of Concord, aged about fifty-five, dropped\\ndead while driving his team.*\\nINlr. Henry Moulton, aged eighty-five, fell dead from his arm-\\nchair.f\\nThe citizens of Concord have for two weeks past been much\\ngratified with the appearance for the first time of a steamboat in\\nour river. A good portion of the ladies and gentlemen in town\\navailed themselves of the very polite invitation of the proprietors to\\ntake pleasure rides up and down the river, for two or three miles.\\nThis boat was owned by John L. Sulhvan, Esq., superintend-\\nent of the Concord Boating Company, and was intended to tow\\nloaded boats up and down the Merrimack river.\\nPatriot, January 12, 1819. j H ^^^V 25, 1S19. t H., June 22, 1819.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 377\\nTuesdays, November 2d and 9th, 1819, were remarkably dark\\ndays. Candles were found necessary near the middle of each\\nday. On the 9th, domestic fowls retired as if it was sundown,\\nsoon after two, P. M. It seemed almost as dark as at the time\\nof the great eclipse in 1806.\\n[1820.] January 4.* On Wednesday evening last a splen-\\ndid ball was given in this town, in honor of the gallant Col. Mc-\\nNeil, of the United States army. The party was very numer-\\nous and respectable. On entering the hall Col. McNeil was\\nannounced and introduced by the managers, and was received by\\nthe ladies as well as gentlemen by a manifestation of the glow of\\nbeauty and the fervor and animation of patriotism. Among the\\nstrangers who attended were Gen. Benjamin Pierce and lady,\\nand their daughter, Mrs. McNeil.\\nChristmas was celebrated in this town by the Episcopal soci-\\nety. The Town Hall (their place of meeting,) was fancifully\\ndecorated with evergreen. An excellent discourse was given by\\nthe Rev. Addison Searle, who at present officiates alternately in\\nthis town, in Hopkinton and Bradford.\\nOn Thursday morning, the last day but one of the year 1819,\\nprevious to a serious storm of wind and snow, the thermometer\\nstood in this town at eight degrees below zero, and during the\\nstorm it did not exceed ten degrees above.\\nApril 25. Notwithstanding the high grounds in this vicinity\\nare covered, and the snow remains two or three feet deep in our\\nforests, the thermometer stood in the shade, on Tuesday and\\nThursday last, at eighty-four, in this town.\\nMay 16. Nearly seventy tons of goods were sent to the\\nlanding, in Boston, of the Union Boating Company, the first\\nweek of business on the river.\\nMay 30. Last Friday the fields in our vicinity exhibited\\nthe novel spectacle at this season of a mantle of snow, extending\\nas far as the eye could reach. The storm was from the north-\\neast, and cold.\\n*]\\\\Iost of the articles which follow with the prefixed dates, were taken from the news-\\npapers of the day.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "378 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nDied in this town, June loth, a child of Mr. Runnells, aged\\ntwo years, in consequence of eating dirt the day before.\\nFrom the 1st of July, 1819, and the 7th of June, 1820, six\\nthousand eight hundred and seventy-two persons visited the State\\nHouse, and were shown its apartments.\\nThe General Assembly of the Grand Lodge of New-Hampshire\\nconvened on Wednesday, the 1-lth of June. Officers for the en-\\nsuing year were appointed, and on the second day of the session\\na grand procession was formed, and religious services performed\\nin the meeting-house. Sermon by Rev. Thomas Beede, G. Sec,\\nfrom Numbers xv. 38, 39.\\nJuly 4. The fare from this place to Boston, by stage, a dis-\\ntance of sixty miles, is reduced to one dollar. This was the effect\\nof competition between two lines of stages.\\nAugust 15. A meteor was seen on the evening of Friday,\\nAugust 4th, in this town, at about twenty minutes before eleven\\no clock. A bright flash was observed, followed by a luminous\\nmeteor, rising from the western horizon thirty degrees or more\\ntowards the zenith, lasting about two minutes.\\nThe celebrated traveling preacher, Lorenzo Dow, preached in\\ntown on Sunday and Monday, the last of July.\\nAugust 22. That part of vegetation which the drought and\\ngrasshoppers had left, was revivified by a gentle rain on Thursday\\nlast not indeed until the crops of corn and potatoes on the higher\\ngrounds had been almost entirely cut off.\\nSeptember 5. Died in this town Mr. Abel Merrill, in his\\nseventy-third year. He went to bed apparently well, and before\\nmidnight was a corpse.\\nSeptember 12. The Merrimack river was never known to\\nbe lower than at present. The boats can ascend no farther\\nthan Hooksett.\\nCARD OF THANKS.\\nThe Youth s Christian Knowledge Society in Bradford, New-\\nHampshire, acknowledge the reception of seventy volumes of\\nbooks, from Concord and other places, all by the hand of the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS.\\n379\\nRev. Ezeldel Rich, to constitute for tliem a library, for which\\nthey render most cordial thanks to the benevolent donors.\\nBy order of the Society,\\nT. ir J o i. I. -I -I QOA Sarah Bliss, Librarian.\\nBradford, September 1, 1820.\\nOctober 24. On Tuesday last the water of the Merrimack\\ncovered the intervale to a higher extent than has been known for\\ntwenty years. The river had been unusually low, but rain com-\\nmenced on the evening of the fourteenth, and continued to the\\nevening of the sixteenth. The water rose perhaps fifteen feet in\\ntwenty-four hours.\\nNovember 21. Intense cold succeeded the late snow storm,\\nand several boats, fully laden, were frozen up in the river.\\n[1821.] January 15. The Episcopahans of this town have\\nfinished a building, centrally located, as a chapel. It is fifty-five\\nfeet by thirty, affording a commodious place of worship. This\\nbuilding was located on the spot where the American House\\nstands.\\nApril 16. The Concord Female Academy and Boarding\\nSchool commenced April first, with fifty scholars.\\nJune 11. A panorama of victories on Lake Champlain and\\nat Plattsburgh, comprising three distinct views, was exhibited at\\nthe Town Hall the second week in June.\\nJuly 9. The forty-fifth anniversary of our National Indepen-\\ndence was celebrated by companies on each side of the Merri-\\nmack, in a most agreeable and appropriate manner.\\n[1822.] January 14. Thermometer on Friday morning\\nlast, at sunrise, stood twenty-four degrees below zero.\\nFebruary 18. Died, EveUne, daughter of Mr. Caleb Camp-\\nbell, aged three years scalded by falling into a tub of hot\\nwater.\\nMarch 9. On Saturday evening, about ten o clock, a\\nmost brilUant meteor, in size nearly as large as the moon, fol-\\nlowed by a long and dazzling train, was observed passing from\\nnorth-east to the west with incredible swiftness. Though the\\nmoon was in high meridian, the illumination of the meteor ap-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "380 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\npeared to persons sitting in their houses like continuous flashes of\\nlightning.\\nJune 24. The visit of Capt. Partridge and his cadets has\\nafforded great satisfaction, both to our citizens and strangers.\\nCapt. Partridge lectured on the battle of Waterloo, on Monday\\nevening. Tuesday the young ladies of Mr. Blake s school pre-\\nsented a standard to the cadets, with appropriate addresses, and\\niq the evening Capt. P. again lectured, by request, on the im-\\nprovement of the militia.\\nJuly 15. During the thunder storm on Thursday, hail fell\\nin the back part of this town of a sufficient size to break glass\\nand cut down the corn.\\nSeptember 16. The Rev. Mr. Truair, pastor of the Marin-\\ner s Church, New- York, delivered a sermon in behalf of sea-\\nmen, in Rev. Dr. McFarland s meeting-house on Friday evening.\\nAt the close, a collection, amounting to fifteen dollars, was made\\nfor the benefit of the church for seamen, lately erected in New-\\nYork.\\nIn the garden of John George, Esq., of this town, a radish\\nwas raised weigliing tliree pounds and one half an ounce, and\\nmeasuring thirteen inches and three-quarters in circumference.\\nThis radish was the growth of a second crop the seed being\\nplanted in the latter part of June, and the tops weighed nineteen\\npounds.\\n[1823.] January 13. On Friday the Londonderry Expe-\\ndition Line came into town from Boston at half past three, P. M.,\\nhaving passed sixty-three miles, including stops to dine, exchange\\nthe mail and horses, in eight hours.\\nJanuary 20. Died, Mrs. Rebecca, wife of Dr. Moses Long,\\naged thirty- six years. The death of Mrs. Long resulted from\\npoison of white lead, accidentally mixed in the sugar vised by the\\nfamily.\\nJuly 4. A company of citizens repaired to the grove\\nopposite Kimball s Island, listened to the reading of the De-\\nclaration of Independence and to a short but pertinent address\\nfrom Col. Richard Bartlett. After an excellent dinner, toasts\\nwere drank and several oridnal and selected soncrs sunsi:.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 381\\nA child of Robert Davis, 2d, of tliis town, was killed in 1823,\\nbj being thrown, with its mother, from a chaise, in Epsom.\\nSeptember 29. A swarm of bees, taken up bj Richard\\nBradley, Esq., in this town, last week, yielded, in weight of\\nhoney and comb, one hmidred and sixty-five pounds.\\nNovember 10. On Saturday, first instant, a transient person,\\nnamed Joseph Lusty, a native of England, sixty-eight years of\\nage, called at Mr. Gale s tavern early in the evening, bespoke\\nand paid for lodgings. Being intoxicated he was refused spirit,\\nand in a rage received back bis money and left the house.\\nThe evening being very dark, after the Boston stage passed an\\noutcry was heard, and he was found with the bones and flesh of\\nhis left leg crushed almost to a jelly, from both wheels having\\npassed over it. Surgical aid was called, and Mr. Gale kindly\\nreceived him at his house, where every attention has been be-\\nstowed and there is a prospect of his recovery without amputa-\\ntion of the limb.\\nDecember 15. Priscilla Hunt, an esteemed minister of the\\nsociety of Friends, attended a meeting at the Union school-\\nhouse in Concord, on the evening of the third of December.\\n[1821.] May 28. On Tuesday morning, the 18th instant, at\\nnine o clock, the corner stone was laid for the new brick meeting-\\nhouse now building in this town by the First Calvinistic Baptist\\nSociety of Concord. The ceremony was introduced by singing\\nthe one hundred and twenty-seventh psalm, read by Dr. McFar-\\nland, after which a short and appropriate address was delivered\\nby the Rev. William Taylor who then, assisted by Rev. Dr.\\nMcFarland, cordially invited to join in the ceremony, deposited\\nthe corner stone in the place assigned for it. Mr. Taylor then,\\nstanding on the stone, addressed a pathetic prayer to the Most\\nHigh God, for a blessing on the great undertaking. The whole\\nwas concluded by singing the eighty-fourth psalm. The house is\\nlocated on the east side of State street, on land presented to the\\nsociety by the Hon. William A. Kent, about forty rods south of\\nthe State House.\\nJune 5. The Election Sermon, by Rev. Dr. Tyler, Presi-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "382 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ndent of Dartmouth College, was eminently worthy of the sta-\\ntion which he occupies a fine display of sound practical mo-\\nrality, as applicable to the citizens of a State, both in their indi-\\nvidual and collective capacity embelhshed by the graces of a\\nchaste and finished composition, and enforced by a manly and\\nenergetic delivery.\\nIn this town. May 25th, Mrs. Abigail Hoit died, aged eighty-\\nseven, widow of Mr. John Hoit. Her descendants were thirteen\\nchildren, eighty-two grand-children, one hundred and five great-\\ngrand- children, and five of the fifth generation.\\nA public dinner was given at the Columbian Hotel, to Gov.\\nMiller, of the Arkansas Territory, on the fourth of June Gen.\\nBenjamin Pierce presiding.\\nThe forty-eighth anniversary of American Independence was\\ncelebrated on Monday, the fifth of July. The procession march-\\ned to the meeting-house and listened to religious services and an\\noration by Philip Carrigain, Esq., which did equal credit to the\\nhead and heart of its author then proceeded to the area of\\nthe State House, where some three hundred partook of a sump-\\ntuous entertainment, prepared by Mr. A. Hutchins. An original\\nsong by George Kent, Esq., and an ode by Jacob B. Moore,\\nEsq., were sung, and many prepared and volunteer toasts drank,\\naccompanied by the discharge of cannon, and music from the\\nband.\\nJuly 24. About six o clock, on Monday afternoon last, this\\ntown was visited by an unusually severe thunder storm. While\\nthe cloud from the northward was passing over our village, the\\nlightning struck the brick meeting-house, and did considerable\\ninjury to the frame of the tower, raised a few days since, and\\nnot enclosed. The timbers of the tower were spht and doors\\nand window-frames injured, but no damage was done to the\\nbrick or stone work. Two young men on the ground floor were\\nknocked down but not materially injured.\\nRev. Joshua Abbot died at Norfolk, Virginia, September\\n22, 1824. He was interred in the grave-yard of the Baptist\\nsociety in Portsmouth, a small town separated from Norfolk by\\nElizabeth river. Two neatly executed white marble slabs mark", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 383\\nthe spot where rest the remains of this devoted servant of Christ.\\nThe inscription is as follows\\nSacred to the memory\\nof the\\nRev. Joshua Abbot,\\nwho departed this life September 28, 1824,\\naged 45* years.\\nHe died in Jesus and is blest,\\nHow sweet his slumbers are\\nFrom sufferings, from sins released,\\nAnd freed from every snare.\\nMr. Abbot was a native of Concord, son of Capt. Joshua Ab-\\nbot. He married Miss EUza Kimball, by whom he had six chil-\\ndren, four sons and two daughters. He became a member of\\nthe First Congregational Church in 1814, and turned his atten-\\ntion to the study of theology, although he had not the advantage\\nof a pubUc education. Licensed to preach by the Deerfield Asso-\\nciation of ministers, he went to the South, in 1820, for the ben-\\nefit of his health resided at Norfolk, Virginia, where he con-\\nducted a school on the Lancasterian system, and preached the\\nGospel in the vicinity, as opportunities occurred. He made his\\nfamily one visit after his first departure, and hoped either to\\nrejoin them permanently in Concord, or have them go to him.\\nHe died of fever after a short sickness. At his funeral a dis-\\ncourse was preached, from 2d Cor. V. 1 For ive knozv that if\\nour eartJihj house, c. Mr. Abbot was a man of amiable spirit,\\ngentle and conciliatory manners modest, upright and devout.\\nNathan Carter, son of Fphraim, of this town, was killed in a\\nsaw-mill in Hopkinton, March 2, 1825, aged twenty-nine.\\nNovember 6. The Rev. Mr. Gallaudet, Principal of the\\nInstitution for the Deaf and Dumb at Hartford, Connecticut,\\nvisited this town last week, with two of his pupils, and gave, on\\nFriday afternoon at the Town Hall, a very interesting exhibition\\nof their talents and attainments.\\nHe was only 42 years of age.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "384 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nNovember 20. The Rev. Chester Wright, of Montpelier,\\ndehvered an address last evening, to a very full assembly in\\nthe Representatives Hall, in behalf of the American Coloniza-\\ntion Society.\\nDecember 24. j\\\\Ir. Benjamin Gale had tvro hogs killed,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2which weighed one thousand and eight pounds. The weight of\\nthe largest was five hundred and sixty-three pounds. They\\nwere thirteen months old.\\nNumber of deaths in town in 1824, eighteen only.\\nNote 1. Heretofore, at the close of decennial periods, we have published\\nthe names of all who have been chosen annually to any town office but on\\naccount of the yearly increase in the number of minor offices, we are obliged to\\nrestrict the names hereafter to those only who were chosen to the principal\\noffices.\\nNote 2. By a law passed January 1, 1796, any person who was chosen to\\nany town office in a town for one year, for which he was liable to be fined for\\nnot accepting it, thereby gained a settlement in said town. This law was\\nso far repealed, by an act passed December 25, 1816, that a person could gain a\\nsettlement only by being chosen and actually serving for one year in the office\\nof clerk, treasurer, selectman, or overseer of the poor.\\nNote 3. For more convenient reference we have placed the list of principal\\ntown officers and representatives chosen since 1815, at the close of the civil\\nhistory of the town, in 1853.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD FROM 1825 TO 1835.\\nOn the 9th of March the town voted to accept the following\\nproposition, made bj the Rev. Asa McFarland relative to dis-\\nannulling his ministerial contract with the town, viz.\\nSince the time of my sickness, last winter, I have endeavor-\\ned to make full trial, to determine whether I could perform the\\nduties of the Christian ministry in this place. The result has\\nbeen a conviction on my mind that I shall not be able to do all\\nthat the condition of the congregation requires.\\nThus far there is, so far as I know, a good degree of har-\\nmony in the Society and if I should attempt to continue\\nalone to perform the duties of the ministry, I apprehend that\\nI may fail dissatisfaction may in consequence arise, and the\\nSociety not be in so good condition as it now is to call and settle\\na minister.\\nAfter much deliberation I have come to the settled conclu-\\nsion, that the civil contract which is with the town, shall close at\\nthe end of the present ministerial year that is to say, next\\nMarch.\\nIn regard to the pastoral relation, I shall be willing to have\\nthat dissolved, also, if it should be thought best but if it\\nshould seem that it will promote harmony to have me continue in\\nthis relation, I may be willing that it should be so. This, how-\\never, I leave to future consideration.\\nI have nothing more to communicate, only that it will be\\nimportant to the Society, and pleasant to me, that a separation, in\\nwhole or in part, may take place with peace.\\n25", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "386 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nI shall probably live among you, and I hope in peace, and do\\nwhat I can to promote harmony, and support the institutions of\\nreligion and the welfare of society.\\nAsa McFarland.\\nConcord, July 11, 1824.\\nHaving voted to accept the foregoing proposition, Dr. McFar-\\nland s ministerial relation to the town ceased, after a laborious\\nand faithful service of twenty-seven years.* Soon after the fore-\\ngoing communication was made, measures were taken to organ-\\nize a new religious society, agreeably to a law passed July 1,\\n1819, which authorized any sect or any denomination of Chris-\\ntians in this State to associate and form societies, admit members,\\nestablish rules and by-laws for their regulation and government,\\nand to possess and exercise all corporate powers necessary to as-\\nsess and raise money by taxes upon the polls and ratable estates\\nof the members of such association, for building and repairing\\nhouses of public worship, and for the support of the ministry.\\nThe new Society, organized July 29, 1824, was composed the\\nfirst year of two hundred and twenty-three taxable members.\\nIn the fall of 1824, the Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, a licentiate\\nfrom the Andover Theological Seminary, was invited to preach\\nas a candidate. He preached his first sermon the last Sabbath\\nin October, from the text, Luke x 42, and continued his services\\nas a candidate seven weeks. On the 24th of December the\\nChurch gave him a unanimous call to settle in the ministry, and\\non the 30th of the same month the Society concurred with the\\nChurch by a unanimous vote.f The call was accepted, and the\\nCouncil called on the 23d of March, 1825, to ordain Rev. Mr.\\nBouton, dissolved also the pastoral relation of Rev. Dr. McFar-\\nland to the Church.\\nThus, after a period of ninety-five years that is, from the\\nsettlement of Rev. Timothy Walker, in 1730 the town in its\\ncorporate capacity ceased to provide for the support of the Min-\\nistry. Yet, at the annual meeting in March, it was voted,\\nThat the Rev. Dr. McFarland have leave to cut fire-wood, suf-\\nSee Biographical Notice.\\n^Jolin Odlin, Esq., objected to the salary, which was $750. See correspondence with\\nRev. Mr. Bouton in his twenty-fifth Anniversary Discourse, Appendix, pp. 38-41.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "RESIGNATION OF DR. McFARLAND. 387\\nficicnt for his own use, on the Parsonage land the current year\\nalso, that he have the use of the improved lands the current year,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which belong to the town.\\n1826.\\nThe obligation of the town for the support of the ministry\\nhaving ceased with the resignation of the Rev. Dr. McFarland,\\nand the law of July, 1819, going into effect, relative changes\\nwere commenced in the disposition of the parsonage lands, and\\nthe interest of the town in the old North Church. At the an-\\nnual meeting in ]\\\\Iarch, Joseph Walker, Robert Davis and Jere-\\nmiah Pecker were chosen a committee to sell all the parsonage\\nlands and the school lands belonging to the town, and were\\nauthorized to make and execute, in the name and in behalf of\\nthe town, all necessary conveyances, ;c. and were dii-ected to\\nvest or secure the proceeds of the sales of said lands to be a\\npermanent fund the interest of which shall be applied for the\\npurposes for which said lands were reserved.\\nWilliam A. Kent, Joseph Walker, and Abel Hutchins were\\nalso chosen a committee to take into consideration the subject\\nof selling the interest or right the town may have in the meet-\\ning-house, to the First Congregational Society in Concord.\\nThis committee, in a subsequent report, estimated the interest\\nwhich the town had in the meeting-house at two hundred dollars\\nin the land on which the meeting-house stands, measuring six\\nrods east, south, north, and west, to the original reserve for a\\nroad, at three hundred dollars and in the bell at three hundred\\ndollars and they recommended that the whole be offered to the\\nFirst Congregational Society for eight hundred dollars, which\\nwas accordingly done, and the town s interest therein sold to said\\nsociety.! November 14, 1828, the town voted to relinquish the\\nclaim of three hundred dollars on the Society, for the bell.\\nAmong the items of expense the past year were the following\\nPaid for Portsmouth Turnpike, $500,00\\nother roads and bridges, 1.286,04\\nthe new Town House, 6\u00c2\u00a34,93\\nPaupers belonging to the town, 634,17\\nPaupers not belonging to the town, 97,91\\nMilitia, 83,73\\n$3,256,78\\nt See original Report in the Town Records, 1828 also the special report of a committee,\\non the Heirs of Joseph Hall, 1850.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "388 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nThe income of the improved lands belonging to the town was\\ngranted to Rev. Dr. McFarland another year he also, with Rev.\\nNathaniel Bouton, and Rev. Nathaniel W. Williams, of the Bap-\\ntist Church, had leave to cut from the parsonage land fire-wood\\nsufficient for their own use the current year.\\nThe selectmen were authorized to appoint an orator and a\\ncommittee of arrangements for celebrating the fiftieth anniver-\\nsary of American Independence on the fourth of July. They\\nmade choice of Richard Bartlett, Esq. The day was cele-\\nbrated with unusual demonstrations of joy. At sunrise, a na-\\ntional salute was fired by the Columbian Artillery, and a merry\\npeal rung from the bells of the churches. The Legislature, then\\nin session, with His Excellency the Governor, and Council, joined\\nthe citizens of the town in the glorious commemoration. At\\neleven o clock, A. M., a procession, with a band of music, under\\ndirection of Col. Robert Davis, chief marshal, assisted by Capt.\\nJoseph Cofran, Capt. Samuel Coffin and Maj. John D. Abbott,\\nmoved to the Old North Church. Prayer was offered by Rev.\\nMr. Bouton the Declaration of Independence was read by Dr.\\nJosiah Crosby, and an oration delivered by Richard Bartlett, Esq.\\nA sumptuous dinner was afterwards partaken of in the area of\\nthe State House, which was splendidly decorated by ladies for\\nthe occasion. Hon. Samuel Green presided at the table, assist-\\ned by Hon. Samuel Morril and Major Timothy Chandler.\\nToasts were drank, accompanied with music, songs, and the dis-\\ncharge of cannon. Among the volunteer toasts was the follow-\\ning, offered by Jonathan Eastman, Jr., Esq. Our Great Grand\\nFathers, who here, a hundred years ago, planted the tree of Lib-\\nerty in the wilds of Penacook.\\nOn the 22d of April the committee aforenamed to sell the\\nparsonage and school lands, held a public auction at the Wash-\\nington Hotel, and made sale as follows to John Eastman, Jr.,\\neighty acre lot, for $3,277,70 to Abiel Walker six acre inter-\\nval lot, for $494,47 to Richard Bradley, twenty acre grant,\\non Little Pond road, for $542,06 five acre interval lot on east\\nside of the river, to William Hurd, for $357,64 three acre\\nEmendation lot, on Contoocook plain, to Abiel Rolfe and Henry\\nThis was the last celebration of the glorious Fourth by authority of the town.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "PROVISION FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE POOR. 389\\nRolfe, for $147.34 twenty acre Emendation, on Little Pond\\nHill, to Henry Chandler and Henry Martin, for $129,07 Par-\\nsonage house lot, near school house, north end of State street, to\\nRobert Davis, for $176 Last Division lot, on Beaver Meadow,\\nto Abner Farnum, for $210,50; the whole amounting to\\n$5,335,51, which constituted the Parsonage fund.\\nThe School Lands were also sold, as follows\\nTo. Isaac Hill, twenty acres on Little Pond road, $392,76\\nTo Henry Chandler and Henry Martin, twenty acres on\\nLittle Pond Hill, 142,82\\nTo Enoch Coffin, a part of sis acre lot at Old Fort, for 215,16\\nTo Abiel Walker, a part of same lot, for 70,12\\nTo Abiel Ilolfe and Henry Rolfe, four acres, Emendation on\\nContoocook Plain, 220,00\\nTo Josiah Fernald, five acre intervale lot on the east side\\nof the river, for 271,57\\nTo Richard H. Ayer, last division lot on Beaver meadow, 378,58\\nAmounting to the sum of $L691,01\\n1827.\\nAs security against fires this year the following regulations\\nwere adopted, viz. That all ashes when taken up shall be kept\\nin vessels of iron or tin or in some place made of materials not\\ncombustible, so long as they shall remain in any building and\\nwhen carried out, if put into wooden vessels shall be placed at\\nleast fifteen feet from any building or combustible matter. Shav-\\nings shall be seasonably removed from all buildings, and depos-\\nited in suitable places, or burned under the direction of a fire-\\nward. No person shall carry a lighted cigar or pipe into any\\nbarn, shed or stable, by day or by night and no person shall\\ncarry any lighted torch or fire, by night or by day, within forty\\nfeet of any building, lumber, or any combustible material which\\nwould endanger the property of any individual, on penalty of a\\nfine of not less than one nor more than five dollars.\\nEffective measures were this year taken to provide a house\\nand farm for the support of the poor of the town, who had here-\\ntofore been bid off to the person who would board and provide", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "390 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nfor them at the lowest rate. At the annual town meeting,\\nVoted, as the sense of this meeting, That the poor of the town\\nbe siqjported on a farm. Voted., as the sense of this meet-\\ning, that the town will purchase a farm, on which the poor of\\nthe town shall be supported.\\nTo carry this decisive vote into eifoct, Timothy Chandler, Ste-\\nphen Ambrose, Abiel Walker, Abel Hutchins and Isaac Dow,\\nwere authorized and directed to purchase stock and put in re-\\npair a suitable farm, on which all paupers which this town may\\nbe compelled to reUeve or maintain may be placed for support.\\nThe selectmen were also instructed to employ a suitable person\\nto have charge of the paupers and farm aforesaid.\\nIn pursuance of the authority given to them, the aforenamed\\ncommittee reported to the town, next year, that they had exam-\\nined six farms, shown them by diiferent persons, all of which\\nembraced many advantages for the purpose required but they\\nconsidered the farm of Mr. Timothy Walker, near the West\\nParish village, under all circumstances the most profitable, and\\nthey purchased it for four thousand dollars. The farm, say\\nthe committee, contains over two hundred acres of land, about\\nforty acres of which are good intervale also, a number of acres\\nof brook land, which will make good mowing. The land on the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0west side of the road amounts to about one hundred acres, on\\nwhich is a large quantity of valuable timber and a great quantity\\nof wood, which, being only two miles from market, must render\\nit very valuable.\\nIn addition to four thousand dollars paid for the farm, the\\ncommittee expended four hundred and eighty-four dollars and\\nfifty-seven cents in the purchase of stock, repairing buildings, c.,\\nmaking a total of four thousand four hundred and eighty-four\\ndollars and fifty-seven cents.\\nSince the purchase of this farm the poor of the town have\\nbeen supported there, in a manner greatly conducive to theii-\\ncomfort, at an expense much less than by the former mode.\\nAt a special meeting, September 29, 1827, Robert Davis,\\nSamuel Coffin and Samuel Herbert were authorized to sell the\\nRocky Pond lot, so called, devised by the late Dea. Joseph", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "PARSONAGE AND LITERARY FUNDS. 391\\nHall for the benefit of the Congregational minister who should\\nexercise the duties of his office where the meeting-house then\\nstood.\\n1828.\\nTo dispose of the interest which should annually accrue from\\nthe Parsonage fund, the town voted, That the selectmen re-\\nquest each man in town to designate, annually, the incorporated\\nreligious society in Concord, which supports the preaching of the\\ngospel, to which his proportion of the interest of the ministerial\\nfund shall be paid ;f and that the selectmen divide the interest\\naccordingly. This became a permanent rule for the division of\\nthe interest of the Parsonage fund, with the addition, that in\\ncase any persons did not choose to designate to what society their\\nproportion should go, the same should be divided equally among\\nall the societies.\\n1829.\\nFUNDS.\\nWilliam A. Kent, Robert Davis and Joseph Low were appoint-\\ned a committee to invest the principal of the Parsonage fund in\\nbank stocks, or such pubUc stocks as, in their judgment, would\\nbe for the interest of the town. The same committee were\\nauthorized to make a similar investment of the School and Lite-\\nrary Funds belonging to the town.J Five hundred dollars, which\\nremained due from the First Congregational Society for the\\ntown s interest in the old meeting-house, was ordered to be\\ndivided among the incorporated religious societies in the town on\\nthe same principle that the interest of the Parsonage fund was\\ndivided. To aid the smaller and less wealthy school districts,\\nthe sum of four hundred dollars, of the money raised by the\\ntown for the support of schools, was divided equally among the\\ndistricts of the town,\\nSee Special Report of a Committee on Heirs of Joseph Hall 1850.\\nf This proportion was determined by the amount of each man s tax on poll and estate.\\nX The Literary Fund arises from a ta.x on banks, which is divided among the several\\ntowns in the State. In 1828, a large sum, accumulated from this source, for the purpose of\\nestablishing a College, was, by a law of the Legislature, divided among the several towns.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "392 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAs a security in case of fire, every house within a quarter of\\na mile of Main street, of two or more stories in height, having\\nfour or more fire-places, was required to be furnished with two\\nor more fire-buckets.\\nThe Chandler farm, so called, which was in the hands of\\nthe town, lying on the hill north-west of Henry Martin s, was\\nsold to Christopher Rowell for $625.50 and several parcels or\\ntracts were also sold from the Poor Farm, viz. to John Jarvis,\\nIsaac Dow, Zebediah Gleason, Abner Farnum, Abel Baker\\nthe whole quantity sold amounting to three acres and twenty\\nsquare rods for $156.24.\\nFifty dollars were placed at the disposal of the Superintending\\nSchool Committee, for the purchase of books, to be distributed as\\nrewards in the several schools, at the discretion of the committee\\nand ten dollars were appropriated for the benefit of the children\\nat the Poor farm, to be instructed in school in District No. 3.\\nEqual or larger appropriations for this latter purpose have gen-\\nerally been made every year since.\\n1830-31.\\nTen dollars were appropriated in 1830 for the benefit of\\npoor families in District No. 12, who live too far from school to\\nsend their children with convenience and for the benefit of\\nEphraim Davis s children, in District No. 9, all to be expended\\nfor schooling. Those families lived on or beyond what is called\\nthe Dark Plain, about two and a half miles east of Main\\nstreet.\\nMeasures were taken to paint, repair and furnish steps for the\\nTown House, and to restrict the use of the building to town\\nbusiness, and to meetings for religious and charitable purposes,\\nunless on rent. The toll of ministers of the several incorporated\\nreligious societies in town, passing over Federal bridge, was, by\\nvote of the town, paid by the selectmen.\\nVoted, That a bridewell be built at the expense of the town\\nand that Richard Bradley, James Moulton, Jr., and Cyrus Rob-\\ninson, selectmen, be authorized to contract for the same. The", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "TOAVN ORDINANCES. 393\\nselectmen were also authorized to contract to build a pound on\\nthe Poor Farm.*\\nThe plan before acted on, of dividing a portion of the school\\nmoney about $300 and also the whole of the literary fund, as\\nannually received, equally among the school districts of the town,\\nwas adopted in 1831, and has been continued from year to year\\nas a settled policy. It operates as an encouragement to educa-\\ntion in the minor districts, and gives general satisfaction. Fif-\\nteen dollars were appropriated for the schooling of children on\\nthe Dark Plain.\\nPermission was given to the inhabitants of Concord to build\\nhorse sheds in front of the burying-ground on the town land, un-\\nder the direction of the selectmen. During 1831 a long line\\nof sheds was built for members of the First Congregational Soci-\\nety, by contract with Mr. Moses Morse, at a cost of about twelve\\ndollars each. These sheds stood close to the fence of the bury-\\ning ground, west of the old meeting-house, and there remained\\ntill the new meeting-house was built, in 1842, when a part of\\nthem were sold to Richard Bradley, Esq., and part moved to the\\nlocation of the new house, and fitted up in the rear of it.\\nThe following resolution, presented by Col. Dudley S. Palmer,\\nwas unanimously adopted\\nResolvedj That the selectmen of this town be respectfully request-\\ned not to grant a license permitting any theatrical corps, circus, car-\\nAmong the items of expense in the auditors report for tlie year past, were\\nPaid for steps for Court House, $44,GG\\npainting Town House, 200,05\\nbuilding Bridewell, 30,78\\nSuperintending School Committee, 75,00\\nZ. W. Gleason, for building stone pound, 62,50\\nSeptember 25th, the selectmen, by direction of the town, sold of the property which be-\\nlonged to the estate of the late Timothy Abbot, three acres of land on Sand Hill, to Jacob\\nB. Moore, for $288. For land of said estate previously sold, the town had received, from\\nPhilip Watson, $350,00\\nAlary Russell, 450,00\\nJames Sanborn, 355,00\\nJoseph Low, 93,00\\nInterest and rents, 148,30\\n$1,683,30\\nThe town had also paid on demands against said estate, for the support of his\\nwidow, 1.045,85\\nLeaving a balance of $637,45", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "394 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\navan, or any sliowmen, to exliibit or be exhibited witliiu the limits of\\nthe town during the year for which said selectmen have this day been\\nelected.\\n1832.\\nThe Poor Farm was taxed like other property, for the benefit of\\nschool District No. 3, and a vote passed to establish a house\\nof correction, iJi connection ivitli the poor housed\\nIn June, this year, intelligence came that the Asiatic cholera,\\nwhose deadly march through Europe the year previous had been\\nreported, had crossed the ocean and commenced its ravages in\\nCanada. As Concord lay in the direct line of travel from Can-\\nada to Boston, great apprehensions were entertained that the fatal\\nmalady might visit us also. Hence, upon the petition of a re-\\nspectable number of citizens, a special town meeting was called\\non the 9th of July, to see if the town will choose a board of\\nhealth, and make provision for the accommodation and support\\nof strangers and foreigners who may become sick and need assist-\\nance. At this meeting a board of health was appointed, con-\\nsisting of Richard Bradley, Joseph P. Stickney, and Laban\\nPage, selectmen and doctors Thomas Chadbourne, Ezra Carter,\\nPeter Ronton, Elijah Colby, Samuel Morril, Thomas Brown, and\\nJ. T. Oilman Leach, who were authorized to make all necessary\\nprovision and accommodations for sick strangers, c., and for\\nthe comfort and safety of our own citizens. Five hundred dol-\\nlars were appropriated to meet expenses. Through the care and\\nkindness of Divine Providence, no case of cholera ever occurred\\namong us\\n1834.\\nAt the annual town meeting the following important measure\\nwas adopted\\nVoted, That whereas, from the great increase of inhabitants\\nin the compact part of the town, new streets or highways may be\\nIn the Auditors Report of 1833 are tlie following items\\nPaid for rations for Militia, $111,99 for bounty on crows and foxes, $10,95; for guide\\nboards, $12. The expense of supporting paupers on the fann is $420,94. Average number\\nof paupers in 1832 is 17. The auditors cannot refrain from expressing their approbation of\\nMr. Joseph Parker, the overseer. Tliey believe he merits the commendation of the citizens\\nof Concord for his industry and fidelity in the discliarge of the duties of his office.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "LAYING OUT OF STREETS. 395\\nrequired, Therefore streets maybe authorized by the select-\\nmen, and become highways, to be thereafter maintained by the\\ntown as such, in the usual manner provided, that where streets\\nare required for the especial benefit of the owner or owners of\\nthe land through which the said street may pass, the necessary\\nland for the same be given for the purpose by the owners, and\\nthat the road and suitable water-courses be first made to the ac-\\nceptance of the selectmen, at the expense of those for whose\\nbenefit the street may be laid out.\\nAnd whereas, for the more easily describing lots and resi-\\ndences, the names of the several streets now made or hereafter\\nto be made, should be known and recorded Therefore, that\\nsuitable names may be given to such streets within the limits of\\nthe 9th, 10th and 11th school districts, a committee be appointed,\\n(residents in said districts) who shall be authorized, with the con-\\ncurrence of the owners of the land, where it has been given for\\nthe purpose, to report proper names to the selectmen and when\\napproved by them that the same be entered on the records of\\nthe town, and that the street be thereafter known b}^ that name.\\nIn accordance with the foregoing vote, William A. Kent, Abiel\\nWalker and Timothy Chandler, were appointed a committee to\\nname streets, who subsequently made report, which was adopted,\\nas follows\\nNAMES OF STREETS.\\n1. The street known by the name of Main Street shall retain its\\nname, and shall extend from the head of the Londonderry Turnpike\\nroad northerly to Horse Shoe Pond, by the dwelling-house of the\\nlate .Judge Walker.\\n2. The street west of Main Street, known by the name of State\\nStreet, shall retain its name, and shall extend from Pleasant Street\\nnortherly by the Burying Ground to Wood s brook, on the Bosca-\\nwen road.\\n3. The street west of State Street, known by the name of High\\nStreet, shall hereafter be called Green Street, and shall extend from\\nPleasant Street northerly to Centre Street.\\n4. The street west of Green Street, recently laid out through land\\nof George Kent, shall be called Spring Street, and shall extend\\nfrom Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street.\\n5. The plat of ground appropriated by George Kent, Esq., for a\\npublic square, containing about five acres, lying between Merrimack\\nand Rumford Streets, shall be called Rumford Square.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "396 HISTORY OF CONCORD,\\n6. The street west of Spring Street, and making the east line of\\nRumford S(juare, shall be called Runrjmd Street, and shall extend\\nfrom Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street.\\n7. The street west of Rumford Street, and making the west line of\\nRumford Square, shall be called Merrimack Street, and shall extend\\nfrom Pleasant Street northerly to Centre Street.\\n8. The street running northerly from Centre Street through land\\npartly of Mr. Odliu, shall be called Union Street, and shall extend\\nfrom Centre Street northerly to Washington Street.\\n9. The street running southerly from Pleasant Street, by the\\ndwelling-house of Samuel Fletcher, Esq., shall be called South Street,\\nand shall extend from Pleasant Street southerly to Mr. Benjamin\\nWheeler s dwelling-house.\\n10. The street running south-easterly from Main Street, at the\\nhead of Londonderry Turnpike Road, to Concord Bridge, shall be\\ncalled ^yater Street.\\n11. The street running southerly from Water Street, by the late\\nDea. Wilkins s dwelling-house, through the Eleven Lots, shall be\\ncalled Hetll Street, and shall extend from Water Street to the town\\nline by Col. Carter s dwelling-house.\\n1 2. The street running westerly from Main Street, at the head of\\nLondonderry Turnpike Road, shall be called West Street, and shall\\nextend from Main Street westerly to South Street.\\n13. The street running westerly from Main Street through land of\\nthe late Mr. Richard Hazeltine, shall be called Cross Street, and shall\\nextend from Main Street to South Street.\\n14. The street running westerly from Main Street, near Mr. Chas.\\nHoag s dwelling-house, through land of the late Mr. Thompson,\\nshall be called Thompson Street, and shall extend from Main Street\\nto South Street.\\n15. The street north of Thompson Street, through the same lot,\\nshall be called Fai/ette Street, and shall extend from Main Street to\\nSouth Street.\\n16. The street running westerly from Main Street by Mr. Asaph\\nEvans s store, shall be called Pleasant Street, and shall extend from\\nMain Street westerly to the junction of the roads by Mr. Stephen\\nLang s dwelling-house.\\n17. The street running westerly from Main Street, through the\\nlot lately owned by Mr. Benjamin Gale, shall be called Warren Street,\\nand shall extend from Main Street to State Street.\\n18. The street known by the name of School Street shall retain\\nits name, and shall extend from Main Street westerly by the north\\nside of Rumford Square to Merrimack Street.\\n19. The street running westerly from Main Street by the nortb\\nside of the State House lot, shall be called Park Street, and shall\\nextend from Main Street to State Street.\\n20. The street known by the name of Centre Street shall retain\\nits name, and shall extend from Main Street westerly over Sand Hill\\nuntil it intersects Washintrtou Street.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "DIRECTORY OF THE CENTRE VILLAGE. 397\\n21. The street running westerly from Main Street by Dr. Cbad-\\nbourne s dwelling-house, shall be called Montgomenj Street, and shall\\nextend from Main Street to State Street.\\n22. The street running westerly from Main Street by the north\\nside of the Court House, through laud of Mr. John Stiekney, shall\\nbe called Cou7 t St -cet, and shall extend from Main Street to State\\nStreet.\\n23. The street running westerly from Main Street, by Dr. Carter s\\ndwelling-house, shall be called Wash! ay ton Street, and shall extend\\nfrom Main Street, crossing State Street and over the hill, until it in-\\ntersects Centre Street.\\n24. The street running westerly from Main Street, south of Mr.\\nNathaniel Abbot .s dwelling-house, shall be called Fearl Street, and\\nshall extend from Main Street to State Street.\\n25. The street running westerly from Main Street, by the dwell-\\ning-house of Charles Walker, Esq., shall be called FranJdin Street,\\nand shall extend from Main Street to the angle of the old road on\\nthe hill where the Hospital once was.\\n26. The street running westerly from Main Street, on the south\\nside of the North Meeting-House lot to State Street, shall be known\\nand called by the name of Church Street.\\n27. The street running westerly from Main Street at Horse Shoe\\nPond, shall be called Penacook Street, and shall extend from Main\\nStreet westerly by the dwelling-house of Richard Bradley, Esq., to\\nthe foot of the hill on the Little Pond road.\\nWilliam A. Kent,\\nConcord, June, 1834.\\nTimothy Chandler, V Committee.\\nAbiel Walker,\\nIn June, 1834, a Directory was published, containing\\nthe names of all heads of families, males of twenty-one years of\\nage, and all others doing business in Concord centre village, with\\ntheir occupations, places of business, and residence. The follow-\\ning summary, taken from this directory, is valuable for the infor-\\nmation it contains, and for future reference.\\nNUMBER OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TRADING AND MANUFACTURING\\nESTABLISHMENTS, ETC.\\nState House, Court House, State Prison, 5 Meeting-Houses, 3\\nSchool Houses, 10 Hotels and Taverns, 2 Banks, 1 Savings Bank,\\n11 Printing Offices, 10 Newspapers, 26 English and West-India\\nGoods Stores, 1 Hard Ware Store, 1 Crockery Ware Store, 3 Apoth-\\necary Stores, 3 Hat Stores, 4 Clothes and Drapery Stores, 6 Book\\nStores, 5 Book Binderies, 1 Circulating Library, 9 Shoe Stores and\\nManufactories, 1 Mu.sical Instrument and Umbrella Store, 2 Tanne-\\nries, 4 Saddle and Harness Makers, 1 Coach and Chaise Manufoctory,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "398 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n1 Distillery, 3 Tin Ware Manufactories, 7 Blacksmiths, 3 Wheel-\\nwrights, 4 Furniture Warehouses and Cabinet Shops, 2 Bake Houses,\\n9 Tailor and Tailorcss Shops, 3 Slaughter Houses, 1 Last Manufiictory,\\n1 Whip Manufactory, 1 Silver Plating Establishment, 1 Looking-\\nGlass Manufactory, 1 Carver and Gilder, 4 Millinery Shops, 1 Mar-\\nket House, 3 Victualling Cellars, 2 Chair Manufactories, 1 Comb\\nManufactory, 1 Boat Manufactory, 1 Confectionery Store, 3 Watch\\nMakers and Jewellers, 1 Clock Manuf;ictory, 1 Grave Stone Maker,\\n1 Chemical Apparatus and Soda Manufactory, 8 Joiner Shops, 5\\nPaint Shops, 1 Cooper Shop, 2 Livery Stables, 2 Barber Shops.\\nThe extent of communication and mode of public conveyance\\nbetween Concord and other places, at this time, appears from the\\nfollowing\\nLIST OF STAGES.\\nConcord to Boston. 1. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,\\nthrough Pembroke, Candia, Chester, Hampstead, Atkinson, Haver-\\nhill, Ms., Bradford, Andover, Reading, to Boston.\\n2. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, through Hooksett,\\nDerry, Methuen, Ms., Andover, Reading.\\n3. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, through Hooksett,\\nDerry, Pelham, Lowell, Ms., Billerica, Woburn,\\n4. Six times a week, through Hooksett, Manchester, Londonderry,\\nPelham, Lowell, to meet the stages to Boston.\\n5. Every day, through Hooksett, Amoskeag, Bedford, Merrimack,\\nNashua, Tyngsborough, Lowell, Billerica, Woburn.\\nConcord to Amlicrst. Every Tuesday and Saturday, through Dun-\\nbarton, Goffstown, New-Boston, to Amherst.\\nConcord to Petcrhorouyli. Every Monday, Wednesday and Fri-\\nday, through Hopkinton, Henniker, Hillsborough, Antrim, Hancock,\\nto Peterborough.\\nConcord to Charlestoion. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-\\nday, through Hopkinton, Warner, Bradford, Fishersfield, Newport,\\nClaremont, to Charlestown.\\nConcord to Hanover. 1. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,\\nthrough Hopkinton, Warner, Sutton, New-London, Springfield, En-\\nfield, Lebanon, to Hanover.\\n2. Daily, through Boscawen, Salisbury, Andover, Wilmot, Spring-\\nfield, Enfield, Lebanon, to Hanover.\\nConcord to Bradford, Vt. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-\\nday, through Boscawen, Franklin, New-Chester, Bristol, Hebron,\\nRumney, Wentworth, Orford, to Bradford.\\nConcord to HavcrhiU. Sis times a week, through Canterbury,\\nNorthfield, Sanbornton, New-Hampton, Plymouth, Rumney, Went-\\nworth, Warren, to Haverhill.\\nConcord to Conicay. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,\\nthrough Canterbury, Upper Gilmanton, Gilford, Meredith, Cen-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 399\\ntre- Harbor, Moultonbo rough, Sandwich, Tamworth, Eaton, to Con-\\nway.\\nConcord to WolfboroiKjli. Every Tuesday and Saturday, through\\nLoudon, Gilmanton, Alton, to Wolfborough.\\nConcord to Dover. Every Tuesday and Saturday, through Chiches-\\nter, Pittsfield, Barnstead, Stratford, Barrington, Madbury, to Dover.\\nConcord to Portsmouth. 1. Every Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-\\nday, through Chichester, Epsom, Northwood, Nottingham, Durham,\\nDover, to Portsmouth.\\n2. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, through Pembroke, Al-\\nlenstown, Deerfield, Eaymond, Epping, Exeter, to Portsmouth.\\nMISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES EELATIVE\\nTO THIS PERIOD.\\nJuly 4, 1825, was celebrated by a religious service appro-\\npriate to the occasion. Rev. Mr. Bouton delivered an address,\\nand at the close a collection was taken up in aid of the American\\nColonization Society, amounting to $44,58.\\nDrowned in Horse-shoe pond, at the north end of the village,\\non Saturday, the 9th instant, John Bradley, aged five years and\\nseven months, eldest child of Richard Bradley, Esq.\\nDrowned in Merrimack river, on the 16th instant, Mr. Leonard\\nFales, aged forty. He fell from a small boat while intoxicated.\\nJune 22d Concord was honored by the presence of the im-\\nmortal LaFayette. Great preparations were made for his\\nreception. Met on the town-line, between Concord and Pem-\\nbroke, he was addressed by Hon. William A. Kent, chairman of\\nthe committee of arrangements, as follows\\nGeneral LaFayette In behalf of the citizens of Concord, we\\noffer you a cordial welcome to our village and to our hospitalities.\\nIn the various climates of our country through wdiich you have\\nrecently passed, you have experienced a uniform temperature in the\\npublic feeling toward you. It has been ivai-m it has been (jratcful;\\nand in this northern region, sir, where we are no strangers to cold and\\nio frost, you will find no chill in our affections.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "400 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nIn expressing our admiration of your cliaracter, and our gratitude\\nfor your noble and disinterested services to our countr} we but\\nrespond to the distinct voice of that country and we again echo\\nthat voice when we say, as we now do from the heart, may God\\nAlmighty bless you.\\nTo this address Gen. LaFayette responded. Arrived at the\\ngate of the State House yard, an immense number of people,\\ngathered from the town and from every part of the State, wel-\\ncomed him w^ith enthusiastic and prolonged cheering. In the\\nhall of the House of Representatives he was welcomed and ad-\\ndressed by His Excellency the Governor, David L. Morril, and\\nintroduced to each of the members. Next, the General was\\nintroduced to the Revolutionary soldiers to the number of two\\nhundred and ten, who had come to pay him their respects. He\\nwas addressed in their behalf by Gen. Benjamin Pierce.\\nAt three o clock in the afternoon he was conducted by the\\nGovernor, amid the cheerings of the assembled multitude, to the\\ndinner-table, in front of the capitol, where, with about six hun-\\ndred others including more than two hundred Revolutionary\\nofficers and soldiers he partook of a sumptuous entertainment,\\nprovided by Mr. John P. Gass, of the Columbian Hotel.\\nAfter dinner toasts were drank, accompanied with the dis-\\ncharge of cannon, and interspersed with songs. One song was\\nwritten by Col. PhiUp Carrigain to the tune\\nScots who ha wi Wallace bled.\\nThe first stanza of which was\\nNorth, and South, and East, and West,\\nGrateful homage have expressed\\nGreeting loud the nation s guest\\nSon of Liberty\\nWhom tyrants cursed whom Heav n approved\\nAnd millions long have mourned and loved\\nHe comes, by fond entreaties moved,\\nThe Granite State to see.\\nDuring his sojourn in town the General was the guest of Hon.\\nWilham A. Kent, at whose house a great number of ladies and\\ngentlemen had the pleasure of a private introduction to him.\\nConcord Register, June 25, 1825.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 401\\nHe left at seven o clock, on Thursday morning, for Dover and\\nother places eastward. He again returned to Concord on the\\n27th of June, and took his final leave, for Windsor, Vermont, by\\nway of Hopkinton, Warner, Newport and Claremont. On passing\\nthe house of the late Daniel Clark, of Concord, Miss Mary Clark\\nstepped out of the door and presented to Gen. LaFayette a\\nbeautiful bouquet of flowers, for which he politely thanked her.\\nThe mercury stood at ninety, or above ninety degrees, on\\nthirteen days during the month of July.\\n[1825.] December 17. We have fourteen regular stages\\nrunning to and from this place three times a week six of them\\nto Boston and, also, several one and two horse carriages carry-\\ning the mails across the country once a week.\\nDEDICATION OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.\\nThe Baptist meeting-house was dedicated on Wednesday, De-\\ncember 28th. The order of exercises was\\n1. Anthem.\\n2. Prayer, by Rev. Mr. Robinson, of Sahsbury.\\n3. Select portions of Scripture, by Rev. Mr. Barnabee, of\\nDeerfield.\\n4. Singing, Psalm 132, L. M.\\n5. Dedicatory prayer, by Rev. Mr. WiUiams, late of Windsor,\\nVermont, now of this town.\\n6. Singing, 132, C. M.\\n7. Sermon, by Rev. Mr. Elhs, of Exeter, from Haggai ii: 9.\\n8. Prayer, by Rev. Mr. Carlton, of Hopkinton.\\n9. Singing, Hymn 136.\\n10. Anthem.\\nThe house, costing between six and seven thousand dollars, is\\na handsome edifice, and creditable to the skUl of the architect,\\nMr. John Leach.*\\n[1826.] January 28. A bell, weighing about thirteen hun-\\ndred pounds, from the foundry of Col. Revere, of Boston, for the\\nnew brick Baptist church, to which is to be attached a clock,\\nwas purchased by the donations of a number of citizens of this\\nvicinity, and raised to the belfry the latter part of January.\\n*This edifice has since been considerably enlarged and beautified. See engraving of it aa\\nit now is, in history of the Baptist church.\\n26", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "402 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nFebruary 4. On Wednesday morning the thermometer was\\ntwenty-six degrees below zero, which is the lowest that has been\\nnoticed for the last eight years.\\nFebruary 18. The joiners shop, owned by Capt. John\\nPutney, at the East Village, was destroyed by fire. Loss esti-\\nmated at three hundred dollars.\\nAn unusual influenza at this season pervaded this town, and\\nextended over the whole of New-England.\\n[1827.] On Thursday morning, May 3d, the hills in Canter-\\nbury, and the tops of Kearsarge and Cardigan, in sight of\\nConcord village, were covered with snow, which had fallen two\\ndays before.\\nDied in this town, April 27th, at the residence of Capt. Joseph\\nWalker, Mr. David Sawyer, of Salisbury, aged twenty-one. His\\nbody was removed to Salisbury. The cause of his sickness was\\nthe lodgment of a stick from an apple tree, exceeding one half\\nof an inch in length and one eighth in diameter, entirely within\\nthe eye. It entered the pupil and was invisible to any observer\\nfor some length of time. The stick was extracted from the eye\\nbut lock-jaw ensued, which was the immediate cause of his death.\\nThe following is a fair specimen of advertisements for the sale\\nof spirituous hquors, in this town, for many years before the\\ntemperance reform commenced\\nGENUINE LIQUORS AND GROCERIES.\\nWILLIAM GAULT,\\n(Opposite the State House, Concord, N. H.,)\\nHas just received the following supplies, viz.\\n10 casks Wines\\n5 hhds. St. Croix RuM\\n4 pipes old Cognac Brandy\\n4 do. pure Holland Gin\\n2 casks old Whisky\\n1 do. Jamaica Spirit.\\nW. G. endeavors at all times to keep a supply of Old Liquors,\\nas good as can be found in the capital of New-England.\\nMay 10. tf\\nA reading room was opened in Concord, under favorable\\nauspices, on Thursday, May 24th, having, as contributors for its\\nsupport, about seventy subscribers. The room was the centre", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 403\\nroom, second story, of tlie large brick building now Sanborn s\\nblock near the State House, and was fitted up with much\\nneatness and taste.\\nThe watch and jewel shop of Mr. Timothy Chandler, of this\\ntown, was forcibly broken open and entered on Friday night,\\nJune 1st, and articles to the amount of from fifty to one hundred\\ndollars taken therefrom.\\nOn Friday morning, June 22d, in attempting to swim across\\nMerrimack river, below Garvin s Falls, Mr. John Thompson, Jr.,\\nwas drowned, aged thirty son of Capt. John Thompson, of\\nConcord.\\nA little son, four years old, of Mr. Atkinson Webster, was\\nkilled, July 7th, by the kick of a horse.\\nA hog, slaughtered by Mr. John Elliot, of this town, eighteen\\nmonths and one week old, weighed, when dressed, five hundred\\nand eighteen pounds.\\nTheatre. At the hall of the Eagle Coifee House, in Con-\\ncord, on Monday evening, July 28th, will be presented Shak-\\nspeare s celebrated tragedy of Othello, c. Doors open at\\nseven and a half o clock.\\nThis was the first experiment of theatrical performances ever\\ntried in this town. The performances were continued every\\nevening through the week, except Saturday receiving, how-\\never, but httle patronage. They then closed.\\nDied in this town, on the 5th of August, of paralysis, Mr.\\nWilliam Stickney, aged sixty-nine. He was attacked in the\\nmorning, while about his ordinary business was insensible\\nthrough the day, and expired the same evening.\\nDied in this town, in September, Mr. Oliver Hoit, aged eighty.\\nHe was a worthy member of the Baptist church, whose last hours\\nwere distinguished by a calm reliance upon that Saviour whose\\nreligion he had honored by a uniform life of piety for a number\\nof years.\\n[1828.] The victory of Gen. Jackson over the British at New-\\nOrleans, January 8, 1814, was celebrated at Concord by an im-\\nmense concourse of citizens from this town and other parts of the\\nState. A procession was formed at eleven o clock, in the forenoon,\\nin front of the State House, and moved to the old North Church,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "404 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nwhere the Hon. Isaac Hill delivered a discourse, -which was the\\nfirst ever delivered by him on a public occasion. Prayers were\\noffered by Rev. Nathaniel Bouton and Rev. N. W. Williams.\\nA sumptuous dinner was served in the area of the State House.\\nA ball at the hall of the Eagle Coffee House, in the evening,\\nwas said to be more splendid than any other exhibition of the\\nkind that ever took place in the interior of New-England.*\\nThe Eagle Coffee House, in Concord, kept by Wilham Rich-\\nardson, was opened for public entertainment in February, 1828.\\nDied in this town, on Wednesday morning, May 21st, aged\\ntwenty-one years, Mrs. Harriet Sherman Bouton, consort of\\nRev. Nathaniel Bouton: Never has it been our lot to record\\nthe death of one in our immediate neighborhood whose departure\\nhas excited a more intense or more general interest. The im-\\nmense crowd of people that attended her funeral obsequies on\\nFriday the tears that glistened in many eyes the deep so-\\nlemnity that pervaded the audience the long procession that\\nfollowed to the house appointed for all the living all evinced\\nhow strong was the attachment of those who two years ago were\\nto her utter strangers. So young so beautiful so innocent,\\nand meek, and unassuming, and yet so interesting so pious,\\nwithout affectation so familiar, without obtrusiveness so pru-\\ndent, and yet so artless hers seemed a spirit too pure and too\\nangelic to be long of the nether world. Until within a few hours\\nof her death, unconscious as was her partner of the alarming\\nnature of her disease, the shock was as sudden as it was over-\\nwhelming to him, who was united by early attachment and by the\\ntenderest sympathies.!\\nMrs. B. was a daughter of Rev. John Sherman, grandson of\\nHon. Roger Sherman, of Connecticut. She was born at Tren-\\nton, New- York, April 3, 1807, adopted daughter of Rev.\\nErastus Ripley, of Meriden, Connecticut married in Lebanon,\\nGoshen Parish church, September 11, 1825, and died suddenly,\\nof puerperal fever, leaving two children, the youngest a son of\\none week old.\\nPrinters elastic, composition rollers were first used in Concord,\\n*See JV. H. Patriot, January 7 and 14, 1828. f-^ Patriot.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 405\\nin the Patriot and Statesman offices, instead of the old fashioned\\nhalls, in August, 1828,\\nThe eleventh regiment of the New-Hampshire militia, under\\nthe command of Col. Simeon Stevens, paraded for inspection and\\nreview, in this town, October 9th, on the same ground west of\\nthe State Prison upon which were encamped for some time,\\nduring the late war, a portion of United States troops. The\\ntroops were reviewed by Adjutant General Low.\\n[1829.] The blacksmith and machine shop, occupied by Gen.\\nIsaac Eastman, on the east side of the river, in Concord, was\\ndestroyed by fire early on the morning of the 20th of March.\\nThe alarm was given by the ringing of bells, about one o clock\\nat night. By the aid of engines from the main street, the\\nbuildings near the shop were saved. No insurance. Loss esti-\\nmated at about $500.\\nDied in this town, December 2d, Phebe Hutchins, wife of\\nLevi Hutchins, aged sixty-three. She was for many years a\\nworthy member of the Society of Friends, and manifested much\\nof that spirit of universal love which she beheved ought to be\\nfelt and cherished by all.\\nDEATH OF EZEKIEL WEBSTER.\\nOn Friday afternoon, April 10, 1829, at about half past three\\no clock, the Hon. Ezekiel Webster, of Boscawen, while addressing\\nthe jury in the Court of Common Pleas, in this town apparently\\nin perfect health, and with his usual strength and abihty sud-\\ndenly fell, deprived of sensation and life. He had spoken for\\nnearly half an hour in a full and unfaltering voice, and had\\nfinished a sentence, when the hand of death arrested his earthly\\ncourse. The physicians of this town were immediately present,\\nbut his soul had left its earthly tenement ere any human aid\\ncould be administered.\\nNo language can paint the consternation of the court, the bar,\\nand jurors, together with a crowded audience, whose eyes were\\nriveted upon the speaker at the moment of his sudden exit. The\\ncourt immediately adjourned, and the body of the deceased was\\nconveyed in a carriage to his boarding-house Mrs. Mary Ann", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "406 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nSticknej s and thence to his family mansion, in Boscawen, on\\nFriday evening.\\nOn the opening of the court, on Saturday morning, the Hon.\\nCharles H. Atherton announced to the court the deep feehng\\nwhich pervaded the bar in this melancholy bereavement, and\\nsuitable resolutions were adopted. In the afternoon the court,\\nmembers of the bar, and a great number of citizens, walked in\\nprocession to the North Church, where prayers were offered by\\nRev. Mr. Bouton.\\nMr. Webster was one of the ablest lawyers of the State a\\ndistinguished legislator and left a rich inheritance in fame for\\nhis orphan children. He stood at the head of the Merrimack\\nbar, by every member of which he was honored and esteemed\\nfor his courtesy, talents and integrity. The void created by his\\npremature death will not soon be filled.*\\nIn the summer of 1829 an infant school was kept by Mrs.\\nRuby B. Preston, in Stickney s hall. About thirty children,\\nbetween the ages of two and a half and six years, attended.\\nThe expense of the first quarter was two dollars and a half a\\nscholar.\\nThe ordination of Rev. Moses G. Thomas over the Second\\nCongregational Church and Society in Concord, took place on\\nthe 25th of March, 1829. The services, agreeably to request,\\nwere performed in the old North Church. Introductory prayer\\nand reading of Scripture, by Rev. Mr. Gage, of Dunstable,\\nN. H. sermon by Rev. Mr. Barrett, of Boston, from Ro-\\nmans V 4 ordaining prayer by Rev. Mr. Gannett, of Boston\\ncharge to the pastor by Rev. Mr. Capen, of South Boston right\\nhand of fellowship by Rev. Mr. Lathrop, of Dover address to\\nthe Society by Rev. Mr. Gannett, and concluding prayer by Rev.\\nMr. Gannett.\\nThe corner stone of a new church for the use of the Unitarian\\nSociety in this town was laid, with appropriate religious services,\\nby the Rev. Moses G. Thomas, pastor of the Society, on Satur-\\nday, May 2, 1829.\\nIn a leaden box, under the corner stone, were deposited,\\nJV. H. Journal.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS.\\n407\\namong other things, an historical account of Concord, from the\\ntime it was first visited bj inhabitants from the eastern continent,\\nin 1639, prepared by John Farmer, Esq. also, a copy of the\\nNew-Hampshire Register for 1829, and a copy of each of the\\nnewspapers printed in the town.\\nDied in this town, Sunday evening, October 25th, Mr. Joseph\\nWiggin, aged eighty -four. Mr. W. attended meeting in the fore\\npart of that day, but died suddenly in the evening, in a fit of\\napoplexy.\\nDEDICATION OF THE UNITARIAN CHURCH.\\nOn Wednes-\\nday, Nov. 11th,\\nthe new meet-\\ning-house erect-\\ned by the Second\\nCongregational\\n(or Unitarian)\\nSociety in this\\ntown, was dedi-\\ncated to the wor-\\nship of the one\\nonly living and\\ntine God. The\\n01 dcr of exercis-\\nes were 1. An\\nanthem. 2. A\\n^piajer, by Rev.\\nRalph W.Emer-\\nson, of Boston.\\nj^3. Reading of\\nthe Scriptures.\\n4. Dedication\\nhymn. 5. Ded-\\nicatory prayer,\\nby Rev. Mr. Parkman, of Boston. 6. Consecration hymn.\\nT. Sermon, by Rev. Mr. Thomas, pastor of the church. 8. Con-\\ncluding prayer and benediction.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "408 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n[1830.] The Concord Mechanics Association held its annual\\nmeeting January 6th, and an address was delivered by Richard\\nBartlett, Esq. The society consists of about fifty master mechan-\\nics, and has a library of nearly one hundred volumes for the use of\\nthe members and their apprentices. George Hough, Esq., presi-\\ndent; Maj. Timothy Chandler and Gen. Isaac Eastman, vice\\npresidents Jacob B. Moore, Esq., treasurer and hbrarian Dea.\\nJames Moulton, secretary Lewis Downing, Benjamin Parker,\\nWilliam Restieaux, David Allison, directors.\\nThe first public measures for a temperance society in Concord\\nwere taken on Fast Day, April 1, 1830, by a meeting at the old\\nNorth Church. On Thursday, the 8th, at the Town Hall, a con-\\nstitution was adopted, a society organized, and officers chosen,\\nviz. Timothy Chandler, president Samuel Morril, vice presi-\\ndent Albe Cady, secretary Joseph Low, Ira Rowell, Elijah\\nColby, William Kent and Henry Fisk, executive committee.\\nAt the inspection and exercise of the independent company of\\nlight infantry of this town, in May, 1830, under the command of\\nCapt. George D. Abbot, the company abstained entirely from the\\nuse of ardent spirit.\\nOn Tuesday evening, April 6th, a meeting was held at the\\nTown Hall, in Concord, to consider the project of a railroad\\nthrouo-h this State and Vermont, to connect the business of the\\ngreat western lakes with the tide waters of the Atlantic Maj.\\nTimothy Chandler called the meeting to order, and Hon. William\\nA. Kent was chosen chairman, and Albe Cady, Esq., secretary.\\nThe project was approved, and a committee appointed to cor-\\nrespond on the subject, viz. William A. Kent, Timothy Chandler,\\nDudley S. Palmer, Stephen Ambrose, Jeremiah Pecker, Joseph\\nLow, George Kent, Samuel Coffin, Samuel Fletcher and Asa\\nMcFarland.\\nMay 19. Mr. Joshua Sawyer, taverner, at the lower end of\\nMain street, committed suicide by hanging.\\nJuly 26. The stage now runs three times a week from Bur-\\nlington, through Montpeher, Hanover and Concord, to Boston, in\\ntwo days.\\nAugust 9. A deer has been seen several times of late upon", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 409\\nthe interval east of the Merrimack river, a mile from the State\\nHouse.\\nSeptember 22. James Stevens, son of Mr. Phihp Stevens,\\nof this town, was killed at Quincy, Mass., while working in the\\ngranite quarry, by the falling of a huge stone on him. He was\\nburied in Concord.\\nMr. William Gault exhibited last week two long white Turkey\\ncucumbers, which grew in his garden this season, one of w^hich\\nis nineteen and a quarter inches long, fifteen and three quarters\\nin circumference, and weighs eight pounds and four ounces. The\\nother is sixteen and a half inches long, twenty and a quarter\\ninches in circumference, and weighs nine pounds and six ounces.*\\nNovember 15. On Wednesday last the Concord Light In-\\nfantry company, Capt. Joseph E. Estabrook, celebrated its\\nfourteenth anniversary in handsome style. Much interest was\\nimparted to the occasion by the ceremonies attending the pre-\\nsentation of an elegant standard to the company by a number of\\nyoung ladies of this village. jNIiss Hannah Hutchins, in behalf\\nof her fair companions, delivered the address.\\n[1831.] January 81. On Thursday evening last about\\neighty mechanics of this place partook of a splendid supper at\\nthe Columbian Hotel.\\nApril 4. Drowned in Merrimack river, in this town, on\\nFriday last, while employed with other persons in rafting, near\\nWest Parish village, Mr. Newell Currier, of Canterbury. The\\nbank of the river on which he stepped caved in, and he imme-\\ndiately sank and was not again seen. Mr. Currier had a wife\\nand two children.\\nIn April, of this year, James Elliot was drowned in the\\noutlet, so calledj at the Borough, aged about sixteen.\\nApril 11. The first annual meeting of the Concord Tem-\\nperance Society was held at the North Meeting-house, on Thurs-\\nday (Fast day,) in the afternoon, and was addressed by Rev.\\nMr. Kelley, of the M. E. Church. The other exercises of the\\npulpit were conducted by Rev. Mr. Bouton, Rev. Mr. Williams\\nand Rev. Mr. Thomas.\\nApril 25. On Tuesday evening last, about nine o clock, the\\nPatriot, October 4th.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "410\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nauroFca borealis presented an unusual and magnificent appearance.\\nThere was a brilliant bow in the heavens, the more effulgent\\nhorn apparently resting on a dark cloud in the eastern horizon.\\nLight flashed upward from the bow, whilst the stars shone dimly\\nin the sky beneath. In the south, also, waves of light flashed to\\nthe zenith.\\nPARK STREET.*\\nThis beautiful street, which is situated immediately north of\\nthe State House yard, and overlooks the same, was opened to the\\npublic about this time, by private individuals, principally through\\nthe instrumentality of the Hon. Nathaniel G. Upham. The\\nrT^ 0,\\ndwelling-house of Judge Upham, of which a view is here pre-\\nsented, is a fine specimen of the best architecture of this period.\\nThe house was built in 1831. At first a court was opened to it\\nfrom State street, but was extended to Main street in 1831, at\\nwhich time the American house was erected by Mr. John P.\\n*So called in honor of Stuart J. Park, Esq., architect and builder of the State House.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0426.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 411\\nGass and his son. This house was built in less time than any\\nother house of its size ever before built in Concord. The site\\nwhere it stands was occupied by a store called the green store,\\nand by the house owned by the late Mr. Jacob Emmons. These\\nbuildings were moved in March the first a few rods west, and\\nthe other a few rods north, where they still remain. The under-\\npinning of the American house was laid in April, and in six weeks\\nand two days the spacious edifice was completed, and opened the\\nfirst of June for the accommodation of guests. A large number\\nof members of the Legislature obtained board there. The piazza\\non the front and south side of the house was built subsequently.\\nOn Sunday, May 22, during the afternoon service, a boy by\\nthe name of Benjamin Tibbetts, 13 years of age, entered the store\\nof Dea. William Gault, and took from the money drawer the sum\\nof $19.37 but before he had retreated was seized by a young\\nman of the name of Wiggin, who was left in the store in the\\nmorning to watch. Tibbetts was examined next morning before\\nAlbe Cady, Esq., and the proof being positive against him, he\\nwas, for want of bonds to the amount of $100, committed to the\\njail in Hopkinton, to await his trial in September.\\nElection Sermon. The sermon before the Executive and,\\nboth branches of the Legislature, was delivered on Thursday af-\\nternoon, June 2, at the old North Church, by Rev. Nathan Lord,\\nD. D., President of Dartmouth College. The text was I. Cor.\\nxiii 5 Charity seeketh not her own.^ This was the Zas^ Elec-\\ntion sermon in New-Hampshire. The first was delivered by\\nRev. Dr. Samuel McChntock, of Greenland, in June, 1784, and\\nthe practice of having such a service annually was continued till\\nthis time. A motion, made by Hon. Charles F. Gove, indefinitely\\nto postpone a resolution introduced by Benj. M. Farley, Esq., to\\nappoint a committee on the part of the House to select some per-\\nson to preach the Election sermon next year, was carried by\\n107 yeas, to 81 nays, and the good old custom henceforth ceased,\\nto the great regret of a large portion of the citizens.*\\nOn Sunday, June 12, the hghtning struck an elm tree near\\nMr. Charles Hutchins s, in the south part of the village and on\\nSeo Miscellaneous Chapter, Election and Election Sermons.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0427.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "412 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nthe 19th it struck another elm, near Mr. Moses G. i^.twood s.\\nThe last tree was very much shattered.\\nAbout this time rehgious meetings, of three or four days con-\\ntinuance, were held in many places, and attended with remark-\\nable effects in awakening attention to religious concerns. They\\nwere called three or four days meetings.\\nIn the summer of 1831 there were connected with the First\\nCongregational Society in Concord fourteen Sunday schools,\\ntaught in different parts of the parish, containing four hundred\\nand fifty-five scholars and eighty-two teachers. In the winter\\none school, taught during intermission, at the meeting-house,\\ncontained three hundred scholars.\\nThe New-Hampshire Savings Bank in Concord was instituted\\nin June, 1830. The first year the amount of deposits, by two\\nhundred and twenty-one persons, was ^19.443,25.\\nThe General Association of Congregational and Presbyterian\\nMinisters was held at the North Meeting-house, in Concord, Sep-\\ntember 6th, 7th and 8th, 1831, and was followed by an extensive\\nrevival of religion in every part of the town.\\nCol. Robert Ambrose, of Concord, son of Stephen Ambrose,\\nEsq., on a visit at Boston, rode out of the city on the 20th of\\nSeptember in company with another gentleman, over the Mill-\\ndam, where they met a loose horse pursued by a dog, and run-\\nning with great rapidity, at which their horse became restive and\\nungovernable. The other gentleman leaped from the wagon\\nwithout serious injury, but Col. Ambrose was thrown out with\\nsuch violence as to fracture his skull and occasion almost imme-\\ndiate death.\\nThe sad intelligence of his death was communicated to his\\nwife and father by Rev. Mr. Bouton, early on Thursday morn-\\ning only a few hours before the arrival of the corpse from\\nBoston. It was an occasion of inexpressible sorrow and anguish.\\nThe funeral took place in the afternoon of Thursday, attended\\nby a large concourse of sympathizing friends and citizens. Col.\\nAmbrose was thirty-four years of age a gentleman of great\\nactivity and enterprise. For t\\\\yo years in succession, 1829 and", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0428.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "INTERESTmG INCIDENTS.\\n41^\\n1830, he represented the town in the State Legislature,\\nleft a wife and four children three sons and a daughter.\\nDEDICATION OF THE METHODIST MEETING-HOUSE.\\nHe\\nThe new Metho-\\ndist Meeting-house\\n=,in this town was\\ndedicated to the\\nservice of Almighty\\n*jod, on Thursday,\\n^December 1, 1831.\\nThe order of exer-\\ncises was as fol-\\nlows: Introductory\\nanthem I was\\nglad, c.; intro-\\nductory prayer, by\\nRev. 0. Hinds, of\\nChichester read-\\ning of the Scrip-\\ntures, by Rev. Sam-\\nuel Kelley, pastor\\n^M hymn, read by Rev.\\nE. Stickney, Hop-\\nkinton Before\\nJehovah s awful throne, c, dedicatory prayer, by Rev. J.\\nPerkins, of Epping a selected hymn for the occasion, read by\\nRev. G. Storrs sermon, by Rev. G. Storrs, of Portsmouth\\nhymn, read by Rev. J. Perkins, selected for the occasion con-\\ncluding prayer, by Rev. E. Stickney dismission anthem bene-\\ndiction.\\nThe church is forty by sixty feet, including the vestibule, and\\nhas about eighty-four pews.\\n[1832.] On Sunday night, July 15th, six convicts in the New-\\nHampshire State Prison, who were confined in one cell, effected\\ntheir escape by splitting out a stone in the roofing of their cell,\\ncutting; a hole in the roof of the building, and letting; themselves\\ndown to the wall by their blankets. All this was accomplished", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0429.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "414 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with so little noise as not to alarm tlie sentinel on duty in the\\nguard-room and the discovery was not made until Monday\\nmorning. On Tuesday four of the six were captured near Hill s\\nbridge, in Hopkinton, and returned to the prison. Another was\\ntaken in Grantham, and one finally escaped.\\nOn the 8th of August a public dinner was given, by his po-\\nlitical friends, to Hon. Isaac Hill, at the Eagle coflfee-house.\\nBetween two and three hundred joined in the festivities of the\\noccasion.\\nThe frame of the meeting-house for the West Congregational\\nSociety in Concord was raised August 17th. Prayer was offered\\nby Rev. Mr. Bouton. Maj. William Abbot was architect. No\\nardent spirits were used on the occasion.\\n[1833.] A large wolf was killed in this town on Saturday,\\nFebruary 16th, within a mile of the State House. His track was\\ndiscovered in the north-western part of the town, and followed\\nby a party of hunters from the West Parish for nearly a week,\\nuntil the wolf was driven into a swamp south of the village,\\nwhich was surrounded, and he was shot by Capt. Enoch Dow,\\none of the party who first started in pursuit.\\nLECTURES ON READING.\\nA couple of young gentlemen from Andover, Mass.,* are giv-\\ning a course of lectures in this place upon reading. It is said\\nthat they read so well as to draw tears from the audience, even\\nwhen reading the fable of the old man and rude boy and that\\nat the introductory lecture, so pathetic was the enunciation, and\\nso affecting, withal, that the audience came near being drowned\\nout by the flood of tears !f\\nDied in this town, June 14th, Mr. Moses Hall, aged about\\n50 an industrious and worthy citizen. Mr. Hall rose in the\\nmorning, apparently in usual health, and expired in a few min-\\nutes afterwards from disease of the heart.\\nOn the 28th of June Concord was honored by the visit of Gen.\\nAndrew Jackson, President of the United States. Agreeably\\nto arrangements, he was met in the afternoon on the line between\\nBow and Concord by a large cavalcade of citizens and strangers,\\nMr. T. D. P. Stone and Mr. Fackler. t- V. Patriot, April 20, 1633.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0430.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 415\\nand welcomed to the town by Col. Robert Davis, chairman of\\nthe town committee. A procession was formed, which moved\\nto the Plain in Concord, an(.I was met by eight brilUant indepen-\\ndent companies, mider command of Col. Stephen Peabody, of\\nMilford, for the purpose of escorting the President to his lodg-\\nings. The President then left his barouche, and mounted an\\nelegant horse, and the procession moved to the north end of\\nMain street, down State street, through School street, to his\\nquarters, at the Eagle coffee house. The interesting occasion\\ncalled out an immense concourse of people to see the chief\\nmagistrate of the nation. It was estimated that more than ten\\nthousand persons were in Concord on Friday. The President\\nwas exceedingly exhausted at evening, and retired to his room at\\nan early hour. At eight o clock on Saturday morning the\\ntroops were paraded west of the Capitol, under command of Col.\\nPeabody, and at nine, the President, accompanied by the Gov-\\nernor and their suites, and Adjutant General Low reviewed\\nthem after which, he repaired to his quarters, front of the cap-\\nitol, when the troops formed a line from the coffee house to the\\neast door of the capitol, and opened to the right and left, through\\nwhich the President, the Vice President, his suite. Gen. Miller,\\nCol. McNeil, several ex-governors, and other gentlemen of dis-\\ntinction, passed to pay their respects to the several branches of\\nthe civil government. On entering the Representatives hall\\nthe President was announced by Chief Marshal Cushman. The\\nassembly rose, and the Marshal introduced the Governor, who\\naddressed the President, and received a pertinent and pathetic\\nreply; after which the Governor introduced the Council and\\nand the President of the Senate. The latter introduced the\\nSenate and Speaker of the House. The Speaker of the House\\nintroduced the members individually. He was then greeted by\\nseveral other gentlemen, and returned to his quarters amid the\\ncheers of thousands. After a little respite the President appeared\\nin the piazza, attended by Vice President Van Buren, Gov. Cass,\\nSecretary of War, and Judge Woodbury, Secretary of the Navy,\\nwho were severally introduced to the multitude, with cheers of\\napprobation.\\nIn the afternoon, at three o clock, the President received the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0431.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "416 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nrespects of all those citizens who wished to call on him, and\\nvisited the State Prison and at seven in the evening, in the\\narea of the capitol, received the hands of nearly five hundred\\nladies, who thus expressed their pleasure on seeing the chief\\nmagistrate of the United States.\\nOn the Lord s day, in the forenoon, the President and the gen-\\ntlemen who accompanied him, attended religious service at the\\nFirst Congregational meeting-house, and heard Rev. Mr. Bouton\\nfrom the text Luke x 20.\\nIn the afternoon they attended the Unitarian meeting, Rev.\\nMr. Thomas at four, met the Baptist and Methodist Societies\\nat the Baptist church. Rev. Mr. Cummings offered the prayer,\\nand Rev. Mr. Dow preached.\\nWhile the President was attending worship in the old North\\nChurch, a Mr. Hewins, portrait painter, took a pencil sketch, from\\nwhich he painted one of the best likenesses ever taken of the\\nGeneral.\\nAmong those introduced to the President in this town were\\ntwo lads of from twelve to fifteen years of age, one of whom\\nwas named Isaac Andreiv, the youngest son of Hon. Isaac Hill,\\nand the name of the other Andreto Jackson. The President\\ntook them kindly by the hand, and said, My sons, I am glad to\\nsee you you are fine boys, and I make you the same legacy I\\nmake to all my children the eagle of your country. So\\nsaying, he drew from his purse, for each, a United States coin,\\nand presenting it, added, Here, my sons, is the eagle of your\\ncountry, which during my life I have endeavored to honor and\\ndefend. Keep it in remembrance of me and if ever it should\\nbe assailed by a foreign or domestic foe, rally under its pinions\\nand defend it to the last.\\nOn Monday morning, at seven o clock, the President left this\\nplace on his return to Washington. He was escorted by the\\nConcord committee, on horseback, to the town fine, and on the\\nspot where they first had the honor to receive him, opened to the\\nright and left, dismounted and uncovered. The President, with\\nbeaver in hand, passed through, gracefully saluting the commit-\\ntee when their chairman. Col. Robert Davis, briefly repeated\\nthe assurances of the pleasure his visit had given, and in the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0432.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 417\\nname of the committee and his fellow citizens generally, bade\\nhim God speed. The President took him kindly by the hand,\\nand in a few touching and eloquent words directed him to return\\nhis thanks to the committee and citizens, and assure them that\\ntheir kind wishes were most heartily reciprocated.\\nRipe Indian corn was gathered on the premises of Hon. Isaac\\nHill, in this town, August 7th. The corn was the small eight\\nrowed, planted in May, seed from Montpelier, Vt.\\nj\\\\Ir. John Estabrook, of this town, was instantly killed by the\\nexplosion of the boilers of the steamboat New-England, on the\\n9th of October, 1833, at Essex, near the mouth of Connecticut\\nriver. Mr. Estabrook had taken passage from New- York, ex-\\npecting to go to Weathersfield, Connecticut, to meet his wife and\\nchild, then on a visit to the family of Amos Pillsbury, Esq.,\\nwarden of the Connecticut State Prison. By the explosion of the\\nboilers thirteen persons were killed and many more severely\\ninjured. Mr. Estabrook was probably blown off the deck into\\nthe water, whence his body was recovered in full dress. The\\nwatch in his pocket stopped at the precise moment when the\\nexplosion took place. Mr. E. was interred at Essex, but subse-\\nquently his remains were removed to the family burying ground\\nin Hopkinton, N. H., which was his native place. He was in\\nhis 29th year.\\nMr. Estabrook was the eldest son of an orphan familj^, form-\\nerly of Hopkinton, to whom he had been, to the best of his\\nability, a protector and guardian. He married Miss Emehne\\nAbbot, youngest daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Abbot, of this town,\\nJuly 6, 1829, by whom he had one child, Frederick, who died\\nJanuary 3, 1844, aged 12 years. Mr. E. was a trader, a\\nyoung man of active and enterprising habits.\\nIsaac F. Williams, of Concord, raised the present year in his\\ngarden, one hundred and twenty-four bushels of the first quality\\npotatoes, on a httle less than one fourth of an acre of land.\\nOn Sunday evening, January 12, 1834, Mr. Ephraim Pettengill\\nwas found dead, on the road north-east of Mr. Meshech Lang s,\\nand about one fourth of a mile from his own house. An axe lay\\nby his side, stained with blood, and the main artery of his leg,\\nnear the groin, was cut. A bottle of rum was found in his\\n27", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0433.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "418 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\npocket. He started from Mr. Ambrose s store about nine o clock,\\non Saturday evening, and it is supposed fell on the edge of the\\naxe and bled to death. An elm tree now marks the spot -where\\nhe was found.\\nDied in this town, February 25, 1834, Mrs. Elizabeth Ila-\\nzeltine, aged one hundred years and six months. Mrs. H. was\\nthe oldest person that ever deceased in Concord. She was the\\nfourth child of Mr. Nathaniel Abbot, one of the original propri-\\netors of the town born July 1, 1733, old style. She married\\nJoseph Hazeltine, and lived in the south-west part of the town,\\non what is now known as the silk farm. Mrs. H. was remark-\\nable for kindness of temper, suavity of manners, vivacity of\\nspirit, energy, and for her tenacious memory. This she retained\\ntill the last of life. She remembered and related not only early\\nincidents in her life, with great exactness, but things that oc-\\ncurred when she was seventy, eighty, and even ninety years old.\\nOn the day she was ninety-nine years old, a sermon was preached\\nat her house by Rev. Mr. Bouton, from Psalms 71 9 (7as\u00c2\u00ab\\nme not off in the time of old age; forsake jne not when my\\nstrength faileth. Her hearing was then perfect, her mental\\nfaculties bright, and after meeting she held sprightly conversa-\\ntion with many neighbors who visited her. When one hundred\\nyears old another discourse was preached at her house, which\\nwas numerously attended by persons from the main village, who\\nhad the curiosity to see a centenarian. With the exception of\\nher eye-sight, her faculties were still good. She was able to sit\\nup in her armed chair during the whole service, and enjoyed it\\ngreatly. After the lecture she said to her pastor When\\nyou preached here last year from the text in Psalms, 71 9, I\\ndid not expect that I should Uve to hear another sermon but I\\nam thankful that the Lord has spared me to hear the word once\\nmore. To-day I am a monument of his mercy, and a witness\\nfor his goodness and forbearance. On being introduced to\\nchildren and grand-children of those whom she formerly knew,\\nshe addressed them severally with great propriety often re-\\nlating some little anecdote suited to the occasion. Mrs. H. was\\ngreatly esteemed and beloved by her neighbors for whom, in\\nsickness and trouble, she would cheerfully sacrifice her own com-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0434.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 419\\nfort. In middle life she was once called on, in a cold winter\\nnight, when the snow was deep, to attend on a neighbor s wife,\\nhalf a mile distant and, fastening on snow-shoes, she walked\\nover the top of fences to the place.\\nThe following beautiful sketch of her character was written\\nbj the late Miss Mary Clark, and addressed to a friend\\nWe proceeded together to visit the venerable matron of ninety-\\nseven, now probably near the close of a long and exemplary life.\\nWe found her sitting upright in her easy chair, somewhat more com-\\nfortable than she was the day previous. The dimness of her eye-\\nsight prevented her from recognizing us, but as we were successively\\nintroduced by her grand-daughter, her withered hand was extended\\nto us with the same cordial expression of kindly feelings she was\\nwont to manifest. The same entire trust and confidence in her\\nheavenly Father, the same perfect resignation to his will, the same\\nhappy serenity of mind, the same desire to arrive at the end of her\\npilgrimage, yet the same willingness to wait God s time, ai-e still ap-\\nparent iu her; and I might add, the same benevolent regard for her\\nfriends and neighbors, and the whole human family, which has char-\\nacterized her life and conversation. She converses with much pro-\\npriety, and seems to retain her mental faculties wonderfully, consid-\\nering her advanced age and the sorrows of her life. There was\\nalways something peculiarly pleasant in visiting her. Her humility\\nof mind her calm, unobtrusive piety the sweetness of her disposi-\\ntion the aifability and dignity of her manners, and her intelligent\\nconversation, rendered her society highly interesting. Her s is the\\nevening of a well spent life an evening without clouds, over which\\nthe bright assemblage of her Christian virtues sheds a delightful\\nradiance. And how has she attained this excellence of character\\nHas it not been by continued perseverance in the way of well doing\\nDoubtless she has had her conflicts with temptation, her sorrows for\\nsin she has felt her own weakness, she has lamented her own\\nfrailty but she has been ltd to the Rock that was higher than she,\\nshe has trusted in the arm that was stronger than hers, she has\\nbelieved in Him who is the way, the truth and the life, she has\\nfollowed him, and he has owned and blessed her, and will undoubtedly\\nsave her with an everlasting salvation. And why may not we do\\nlikewise What hinders us from u-alking hy the same rule, from\\nminding the same thing The same aids are profl ered to us, the\\nsame Almighty Power remains to hold us up, that we may be safe\\nfrom sin and temptation we also may die the death of this right-\\neous woman, and have our last end be like hers, if we will be careful\\nto live as she has lived, by faith in the Son of God. What though\\nwe are weak He is mighty. What though we are tempted He\\ncan deliver. He can be touched with a feeling of our infirmities,\\nfor he was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let\\nus therefore come boldly to the Throne of Grace, that we may obtain", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0435.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "420 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nmercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Let ns lay aside\\nevery weight and the sin which doth easily beset us, and let us run\\nwith patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the\\nauthor and finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before\\nhim, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the\\nright hand of the throne of God.\\nTrue, tis a strait and thorny road,\\nAnd mortal spirits tire and faint,\\nBut they forget the mighty God\\nWho feeds the strength of eveiy saint.\\nAn Irish emigrant, in a dying state, was found in the bam of\\nSamuel Simpson, of this town, on the 9th of July, and shortly\\nafterwards expired. He was apparently about thirty-five years\\nof age. It was supposed that the cause of bis death was the\\nfatigue of travelling on a day of such extreme heat, and his having\\ndrank too freely of cold water. He was respectably interred in\\nthe common burying-ground, by the town authorities of Concord.\\nDied in this town. May 26, of pulmonary consumption. Miss\\nLydia C. Farnum, daughter of Mr. Ephraim Farnum, aged\\ntwenty-seven. She was distinguished for a bright and active\\nmind, a highly finished education, uncommon aptness to teach,\\npersonal beauty, and, above all, for christian excellence. Her\\ndeath was peaceful and happy.\\nAn unsuccessful attempt was made on the night of July 4 to\\nrob the Concord Bank. The outer door was entered, but the\\nrobbers were unsuccessful in forcing the vault.\\nCONCORD PRICES CURRENT OF FURS, BY I. C. BRADLEY.\\nRed Fox, prime, S0,75to$l,12\\nXFox, 2,00\\nSilver, 6,00\\nSable, 25\\nMink, 10\\nFisher, 75\\nOtter, 5,00\\nHouse Cat, 6\\nBear, 3,00\\nCubs, 75\\nRaccoon, 6\\n2,50\\n10,00\\n1,06\\n45\\n1,50\\n7,00\\n17\\n4,00\\n1,00\\n25\\nAt Concord, the 4th of July was celebrated by two political\\nparties both branches of the Legislature joining in the fes-\\ntivities, according to political predilections. Processions were", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0436.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 421\\nformed of the friends of the Administration at the State House,\\nand of the Whigs at the Court House. The first proceeded to\\nthe Brick meeting-house, where Mr. Theophilus Fisk, a minister\\nof the denomination of Universahsts, deUvered an oration. The\\nlatter proceeded to the North Meeting-house, where Leonard\\nWilcox, Esq., of Orford, delivered an address. Each party had\\nits dinner, toasts and speeches.\\nmechanics BANK.\\nThe first meeting of the grantees of the Mechanics Bank was\\nheld at the Eagle coffee-house, on Tuesday, August 12, 1834,\\nJoseph M. Harper in the chair, and the following board of di-\\nrectors was chosen\\nNathaniel G. Upham, Peter Renton, Horatio Hill, Joseph M.\\nHarper, Nathaniel Curtis, Abner B. Kelly, Arlond Carroll.\\nAt a subsequent meeting of the directors, Hon. Nathaniel G.\\nUpham was chosen president, and George Minot cashier.\\nA public dinner was given in Concord, by the Whigs of New-\\nHampshire, on the 30th of September, to the Hon. Samuel\\nBell, of Chester, Senator in Congress. A splendid pavihon\\nwas erected for the occasion, on the common in School street,\\nand about six hundred persons sat down to the dinner. The\\nspeakers were Hon. Daniel Webster, John Holmes, of Maine,\\nIchabod Bartlett, and Senator Bell. Col. Amos A. Brewster, of\\nHanover, presided at the table grace was invoked by Rev.\\nMoses G. Thomas, of Concord, and the toasts were read by\\nGeorge Kent, Esq.\\nSeptember 8, 1834, Abraham Prescott, a young man charged\\nwith the murder of Mrs. Sally Cochran, both of Pembroke, was\\ntried before the Court of Common Pleas, held (on account of the\\nlarge concourse of people) in the old North Meeting-House in\\nConcord. He was found guilty, but allowed a new trial. The\\nsecond trial took place at the same place, September 8, 1835,\\nand on Saturday, the 12th, at nine, A. M., the jury came into\\ncourt with a verdict of guilty. Sentence of death was pronounced\\nby Judge Upham on Monday, September 14, and the time\\nof his execution fixed on the 23d of December, between the\\nhours of ten and twelve o clock. A reprieve was granted by", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0437.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "422 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nGov. William Badger till the 6tli of January, 1836, when Pres-\\ncott was executed, by hanging, at Hopkinton, in the presence of\\na large concourse of people.\\nDied in this town, October 30th, Mrs. Anna Willey, at the\\nadvanced age of one hundred years, wanting a few days.\\nThrough life she enjoyed uniform health, and, until within a\\nfew years of her decease, contributed of her own handiwork\\nin the family of her son, Dea. James Willey, with whom she\\nresided. Her age was ninety-nine years, eleven months and\\nsix days.\\nThe new prison, or north wing of the State Prison, was com-\\npleted this year. It is composed of granite, one hundred and\\ntwenty-seven feet long and thirty-seven feet wide. The walls\\nare from twenty to twenty-four inches thick and twenty-five feet\\nhigh. The whole cost was $17,533,75.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0438.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD FROM 1835 TO 1845.\\nThe first part of the period of our history from 1835 to 1845, is\\ndistinguished for nothing so much as the remarkable spirit of\\nspecidatmi, amounting almost to a mania, -which extensively pre-\\nvailed. It was awakened about the beginning of the year 1835,\\nin relation to lands in the State of Maine, and soon extended to\\nreal estate in all the principal cities and villages of New-England.\\nVisionary schemes were projected, airy hopes raised, and extrav-\\nagant sums paid for land, with the expectation of amassing\\nthereby a large fortune. Lots in Concord, valued at from forty\\nto sixty dollars per acre, suddenly rose to twice and five times\\nthat sum purchases were made generally on credit and\\nmany lots changed owners. Associations were formed of gentle-\\nmen who had by their industry laid up a few hundred or thousand\\ndollars, and the whole placed at stake in a sjyeculatmg race for\\nwealth. In 1837 the crisis was reached, the bubble burst, and\\na large part of all who had enlisted in the enterprise found their\\nmoney gone, without an equivalent. The loss to persons in Con-\\ncord, principally by speculation in eastern lands, was estimated\\nat from seventy-five to one hundred thousand dollars. The con-\\nsequence was, a pecuniary embarrassment which lasted long\\nafterwards, and from which some never recovered.\\nIn the mean time the common aifairs of the town proceeded in\\ntheir usual order. As a means of security in case of fires, the\\nselectmen were authorized, in 1835, to purchase two fire engines\\nof a large size, for the use of Main street, and to locate those\\nthen on Main street, one at the East and one at the West village.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0439.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "424 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nOn recommendation of the selectmen, school district No. 12\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was divided and a new district formed on the Dark Plain, (No.\\n22,) consisting of the inhabitants living on the turnpike from\\nPhilip Stevens s to Pembroke line, from the turnpike to Loudon\\nline, and from the turnpike to Pembroke line, on the Sheep road,\\nso called. A school-house was subsequently built at the angle\\nof the turnpike and Loudon road.\\nThe superintending school committee reported this year the\\nwhole number of scholars 1049, in the winter schools, kept by\\nmale teachers. Of that number, besides reading and spelling,\\nthere were writers, 425 mental arithmetic, 239 written arith-\\nmetic, 223 grammar, 175 geography, 228 history, 40\\nphilosophy, 25 chemistry, 7 astronomy, 7 Watts on the\\nmind, 5 algebra and geometry, 9.\\nSMALL POX.\\nDuring the months of August and September, 1835, four\\ncases of small pox occurred in town. The patients were removed\\nto a retired situation, about two miles from the main village (to\\na house on the Bog road.) One case only proved fatal, viz.,\\nAbiel E. Thompson, aged 38, died September 20th. But in\\nconsequence of the general alarm produced by this disease in\\nthe community, the town, in 1836, adopted a law of the State,\\npassed June 27, 1835, for the prevention of the small pox, and\\nappointed Dr. Ezra Carter agent for vaccinating all the inhabit-\\nants of the town.\\nThe selectmen were authorized to demand the highest sum of\\nshowmen in all cases, and to withhold licenses for the sale of\\nardent spirits.\\nBy order of the town, land was purchased of Gen. Robert\\nDavis for a burying ground in the West Parish, north of the\\nmeeting-house, at a cost of $190.83. The first person buried\\ntherein was Mr. Orlando Brown, taveruer in the West village,\\nAvho deceased December 12th, aged 54.\\nRAILROAD STOCK.\\nAt a special town meeting, October 10, 1836, William A.\\nKent, Robert Davis and Joseph Low, having charge of the par-\\nsonage and school funds, were authorized to invest the same in", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0440.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "THE SURPLUS REVENUE. 425\\ntwo hundred shares* of the Concord Railroad. The same com-\\nmittee were empowered and directed, for and in behalf of the\\ntown, to subscribe for five hundred shares of Concord Railroad\\nstock, and to borrow a sum not exceeding $30,000 at not more\\nthan six per cent, interest, redeemable after the year 1845.\\nThe same committee were appointed to make application to the\\nLegislature, at its ensuing session in November, to empower\\nthe town of Concord to procure a loan of $30,000, or any less\\nsum, to be invested by the town in the stock of the Concord\\nRailroad.\\nAt a towm meeting, held November 7th, on the question, Is\\nit expedient for the State to grant an appropriation to build an\\nInsane Hospital there were five hundred and fifty-three yeas,\\nand sixteen nays.\\n1837.\\nSURPLUS REVENUE.\\nAt a special meeting, January 30, 1837, Voted, That the\\ntown will receive from the Treasurer of the State the portion\\nallotted to it of the public money of the United States, deposited\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2with this State, agreeably to the act providing for the disposition\\nof the public money, passed January 13, 1837. Isaac Hill was\\nat the same time appointed agent in behalf of the town, to\\nreceive from time to time the town s portion of the aforesaid\\nmoney, as it should become due to receipt for the same, and\\nto pledge the faith of the town for the safe keeping and their\\npayment of the same when demanded by the State treasurer.\\nVoted, That the act of the Legislature of New-Hampshire,\\npassed January 14, 1837, authorizing the town of Concord to\\nhire money to be vested in the Concord Railroad stock, be\\naccepted by the town.\\nAt the same meeting the vote of the town, authorizing Wilham\\nA. Kent, Robert Davis and Joseph Low, to subscribe for shares\\nin the aforesaid stock, and to borrow $30,000 on the credit of\\nthe town, was renewed and they were directed to borrow from\\nthe agent of the surplus revenue the portion allotted to the\\nOne hundred and ten shares were purchased with the parsonage fund, and ninety for\\nthe school fund.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0441.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "426 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ntown as it became due, for the payment of assessments on\\nsaid railroad shares. The agent was authorized to loan the\\nmoney to the committee, and to take a certificate from them that\\nthey had received the same for investment in the aforesaid stock.\\nAt the annual meeting in March the above committee reported\\nthat they had received from the agent of the town the first instal-\\nment of the surplus revenue, amounting to $4,287. From this\\nhad been paid, in part of an assessment on six hundred shares in\\nConcord Railroad stock, $900, and the remainder, $3,927, loaned\\nfor the benefit of the town at legal interest, on a note signed by\\nJoseph Low, George Hutchins, George Kent, Amos Wood,\\nAsaph Evans, Samuel Fetcher, N. G. Upham and Samuel Evans.\\nThe next year the committee reported three instalments paid to\\nthe town, amounting to $14,481.\\nStringent regulations were adopted for security against fires\\nno horses, cattle, sheep or swine were permitted to go at large\\nwithin the limits of the town. The selectmen were instructed\\nto cause the hay scales, standing in the highway at the corner\\nof Main and Pleasant streets, to be forthwith removed to pub-\\nlish the warrant for the next annual town meeting in two public\\nnewspapers of the town and to purchase a hearse and pall for\\nthe new burying ground at the West Village, and build a house\\nfor the same.\\n1838-9.\\nOn the question, Is it expedient to revise the Constitution\\nthere were seven yeas, and two hundred and seventy nays.\\nAbiel Walker, Richard Bradley and Isaac Dow, a committee\\nto sell lands on the town farm, reported that they had sold and\\nconveyed to Daniel Farnum the water power, with about two and\\na half acres of land and a right of way to the same, for $550.\\nA part of the literary fund was this year appropriated to em-\\nploy a teacher to instruct in penmanship in the several school\\ndistricts in town.\\nAt a special meeting, June 15, 1839, it was voted, That the\\nincome, after it shall have been accepted by the trustees of the\\nAsylum for the Insane, accruing from the surplus revenue of\\nthe United States, now received by the town of Concord, be ap-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0442.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "INSANE HOSPITAL CONCORD RAILROAD. 427\\nproprlated to the use of the Insane Hosptial for the term of twenty\\nyears, provided said hospital shall be located within the limits of\\nthis toum. Robert Davis, WiUiam A. Kent and Joseph Low,\\nwere appointed a committee to secure said sum to the trustees of\\nthe hospitaL\\nA great interest was felt by the citizens generally, and espe-\\ncially of the main village, in the location of the Hospital for the\\nInsane. At a meeting, June 15, a committee of the town was\\nappointed to show the State Committee of Location the several\\nsites in town proposed for the location and erection of the insti-\\ntution. This committee consisted of William A, Kent, Richard\\nBradley, Jonathan Eastman, Theodore T. Abbot, Cyrus Barton,\\nEzra Carter, Lewis Dowming, Joseph Eastman, jr., Timothy\\nChandler and Abraham Bean. The sites which were examined\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were, Mr. Jacob Hoyt s place, on the Mountain, so called\\nJohn Glover s, on the Pembroke road, south-east of Concord\\nbridge Josiah Stevens s, near the Bradley monument the Em-\\nery lot, owned by E. S. Towle, including upland and interval, at\\nthe place called Paradise also, a lot owned by Francis N\\nrisk, on the west side of the road, opposite the Emery lot and\\nthe lot owned by Benjamin Gale and Elisha Morrill, which was\\nfinally selected as the location. The chief competition of those\\ninterested in locating the hospital was between the Emery place\\nand the Gale lot.\\nThe sum actually appropriated next year from the surplus\\nrevenue for the Asylum for the Insane was $9.500 leaving\\navailable for other purposes, $6,293,18.*\\nThe interest in the Concord Railroad had by this time risen to\\nsuch a pitch that William A. Kent, Robert Davis and Joseph\\nLow, as committee, were empowered and directed, in behalf of\\nthe town, to subscribe for two thousand shares of the Concord\\nRailroad stock, and to borrow a sum not exceeding $100,000,\\nredeemable after the year 1850, the interest on said loan to be\\npaid from the income of the road, or otherwise, as found expe-\\ndient\\nThis amount of stock was not taken, and as the enthusiasm for\\nthe railroad cooled down, the town, having paid an assessment of\\nSee Auditors Report, 1841.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0443.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "428 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\non six hundred shares already subscribed for, finally, in 1841,\\ntransferred all their right and title to said six hundred shares\\nto the Trustees of the Concord Literary Institution, to relieve\\nthem of their debts and liabilities at the same time deciding\\nto carry on two hundred shares of said stock but subsequent-\\nly the committee having in charge the town funds were instructed\\nto sell one hundred shares of this stock, leaving one hundred\\nshares only, which also were finally disposed of by the commit-\\ntee.*\\n1840.\\nIn 1840 the town voted, That so much of the Interest of the\\nsurplus revenue fund as shall be necessary for the purpose,\\nshall be appropriated to pay the poll tax of the town\\nFive hundred dollars were appropriated to be laid out on\\nDimond s hill, for repair and improvement of the road one hun-\\ndred and fifty dollars to build an engine house, and a sum not to\\nexceed five thousand dollars, from the surplus revenue, to pay\\nthe debts of the town. The whole amount of the surplus rev-\\nenue in March, 1840, including principal and interest which had\\naccrued, was $16,886,84.\\nCONCORD BANK FAILURE.\\nAbout this time (June, 1840,) the failure of the Concord\\nbank occurred, in conscf^uence of which a portion of the Par-\\nsonage fund, that is, thirteen shares of the bank stock, amounting\\nto $1,326,25, and a portion of the School fund, (ten shares,)\\nequal to $1,020,25, was rendered worthless.\\n1842.\\nAt the annual town meeting, 1842, Josiah Stevens, Jr., Joseph\\nLow, Robert Davis, Luther Roby and William Restieaux, were\\nappointed a committee to purchase so much land as may be\\nnecessary for a cemetery or burying ground, in connection with\\nthe one near the old North Church, to fence and ornament the\\nsame, and five hundred dollars were appropriated for that purpose.\\nRobert Davis and Joseph Low, the committee who had for\\n*See Town Records, 1841-2.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0444.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "APPROPRIATIONS FOR A CEMETERY. 429\\nseveral years had in charge the town funds, resigned and\\nSamuel Coffin, Francis N. Fisk and Seth Eastman were appointed\\nin their place.\\nThe average number of paupers at the town farm the past\\nyear was only sixteen, and the expense for each pauper eighteen\\ndollars and seventy-nine cents.\\nIn consequence of disturbances which had occurred for several\\nyears on the fourth of July, (especially in the evening,) by the\\nassembling of numerous unknown individuals, endangering the\\nproperty and in some cases the lives of the citizens, the several\\nconstables and fire-wards of the town were appointed to keep\\nthe peace, and to assist in quelling any and all disturbances in\\nand about Concord main village, on said fourth of July and at\\nother times.\\n1843.\\nAt the annual meeting in March, 1843, the committee on the\\nburying-ground made the following report:\\nThe committee appointed at your last annual meeting to pur-\\nchase land for a cemetery near the North Meeting-house, and fence\\nthe same, have attended to the duty assigned them, and have ex-\\npended the following sums, viz.\\nPaid for land, 8127,50\\nlumber, 108,23\\nstone posts, iron bolts, building fence,\\nmaking road, and other labor and ser-\\nvices, 321,10\\nMaking in the whole, S556,83\\nYour committee would state, that they deem the quantity of land\\nwhich they have purchased and enclosed with the old grave yard,\\nequal to the public wants for half a century that the whole, with\\nthe exception of the front, is enclosed with a fence as durable as they\\ncould construct of stone, iron and wood that the front, until re-\\ncently, has been occupied with sheds, which have prevented your\\ncommittee from fencing the same that a part of the sheds have\\nrecently been removed, and consequently the grave-yard is at this\\ntime entirely unprotected on the front and your committee sincerely\\nhope that immediate measures will be taken to complete this work.\\nLuther Roby,\\nWilliam Restieaux, Committee.\\nJoseph Low,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0445.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "430 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAn additional sum, not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars,\\nwas appropriated to finish the fence around the grave-yard, and\\nthe horse-sheds were ordered to be removed.\\nThe next year the cemetery was laid out in lots or plats, for\\nthe use of families, according to a plan drawn by Capt. Benjamin\\nParker, under direction of the committee of the town. The\\ncommittee were authorized to convey a right or title to such lots\\nto any individual, at their discretion, at such price as they\\ndeemed proper, not to exceed the sum of ten dollars to enter\\nthe name of the individual upon the number of the plan corres-\\nponding with his lot, and to give him a certificate, which, when\\nentered and recorded by the town-clerk, in a record kept for the\\npurpose, his title to such lot shall be absolute and exclusive.*\\nThe town also voted to accept the donation of a lot of land\\nfrom Mr. Charles Smart, for a burying-ground, and the select-\\nmen be authorized to fence the same. This lot lies easterly,\\nat the foot of Stickney s hill, so called, and near the road that\\nruns across from the Stickney Hill road to the old Dunbarton\\nroad. Jonathan Stickney, who formerly owned the land, died of\\nthe small pox, November 19, 1792, and through a fear of spread-\\ning the infection he was buried by his friends in that retired spot\\nas were, also, subsequently other members of the Stickney family.\\nMr. Smart bought the land of the heirs of Mr. Stickney, and\\nmade a donation of it to the town for the purpose specified.\\nThe selectmen were directed to take a conveyance to the town\\nfrom Abraham Bean of the property which was conveyed to him\\nby Benjamin Green, and to settle with Mr. Bean agreeably to\\nthe conditions of his bond to the town, relating to that prop-\\nerty.!\\nBy a vote of the town the selectmen were authorized to send\\nto the New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, at their discretion,\\nany or all insane persons who are now or may become chargeable\\nto the town,\\nStrict police regulations were this year adopted, respecting the\\nSee Records, 1844.\\nt This Benjamin Green is an Englishman by birth, a native of Yorkshire, aged at this time\\n61 years. He spent several years with the Shakers at Canterbury, left them, married and\\nsettled in Concord. He is subject to seasons of mental derangement, fancying himself a mon-\\narch, and authorized to put down all usurpation. He is now an inmate of the Insane Hos-\\npital.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0446.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "TOWN ORDINANCES. 431\\nextinguishment of fires and safe keeping of gunpowder no per-\\nson being allowed to keep more than twenty-five pounds. Among\\nthe offences against the police laws of towns, which were prohib-\\nited with suitable penalties, were the following No person shall\\nmake any brawls or tumults in any street or public place or be\\nguilty of any rude, indecent or disorderly conduct or insult or\\nwantonly impede any person passing in the streets. No person\\nshall sing or repeat any lewd, obscene or profane song, or write\\nor mark in any manner any obscene or profane word or obscene\\nor lascivious figure or representation on any building, fence, wall,\\nor any thing whatever. No person shall wantonly injure or\\ndeface any building, or cut or injure any tree standing in the\\nhighway, or rob any garden or field of fruit or vegetables. No\\nperson shall use any juggling or unlawful games or plays, or play\\nat any game for money or other property. No one within the\\ncompact part of the town shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun\\nor pistol, or beat any drum (without authority from a military\\nofiicer) or fire any rockets, squibs or crackers, except by permis-\\nsion of the police. Nor shall any person bathe or swim, undress-\\ning for that purpose, in the day time, within view of any dwelling-\\nhouse. If any person shall be found drunk in any street, or\\nother public place or shall be a common street-walker or prosti-\\ntute, such person shall be punished therefor and no person shall\\nsell, give or furnish to any pauper, or person committed to any\\nhouse of correction, or to any spendthrift or idle person, under\\nguardianship, any spirituous liquor.\\nAt a town meeting. May 27, 1843, the following resolution,\\nofiered by Asa Fowler, Esq., was adopted Hesolved, That the\\nselectmen be requested to grant the use of the Town-hall for the\\npurpose of meetings, to any citizen or citizens who may apply\\nfor the same, without regard to the particular religious, political,\\nor other sentiments, if such citizen or citizens will be responsible\\nthat the pubHc property shall not be injured by such use.\\n1844.\\nFailing to elect representatives this year, the town voted\\nThat Franklin Pierce, Richard Bradley and Wilham Low,\\nEsqs., be a committee, with instructions to apply for leave to be", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0447.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "432 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nheard in behalf of the town before the Legislature, on the sub-\\nject of a new proportion of public taxes.\\nOne hundred dollars were appropriated for building one or\\nmore reservoirs on Main street, between Francis N. Fisk s and\\nPorter Blanchard s.\\nOn the question taken at a town meeting, November 4th, Is\\nit expedient to abolish capital punishment? yeas four hmidred\\nand three, nays one hundred and fifty-four.\\nOn the question, Is it expedient to alter the Constitution?\\nyeas four hundred and eighty-seven, nays one hundred and sev-\\nenty-three.\\nA lot of Parsonage land near Little pond, containing nine and\\na half acres, was sold to Daniel Farnum for $237,50.\\nMISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE\\nTO THIS PERIOD.\\n[1835.] A company, called the Sewall s Falls Locks and\\nCanal Corporation, took active measures, at the beginning of\\nthe year, to construct a canal from Sewall s falls to the East\\nvillage in Concord, for the purpose of carrying on manufacturing\\noperations. A dam was constructed at the falls above Sewall s\\nisland, and a canal commenced at the same place, to terminate\\nnear Federal bridge. Both were left in an unfinished state, and\\nthe whole enterprise failed, with a heavy loss to the corporation.\\nAs John Shepard, of this town, stage proprietor, was riding in\\nan open wagon to Hooksett, on Wednesday, January 21st, the\\nharness broke while descending a hill. The horse ran, over-\\nturned the wagon, and threw Mr. Shepard out, whose leg was\\nbroken by the fall. Another person in the wagon escaped with-\\nout much injury.\\nMay Day. The return of this anniversary was celebrated in\\nfine style by the members of the Concord Literary Institution.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0448.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 433\\nThe scholars assembled at the Court House earlj in the morning\\nthen made an excursion into the neighboring fields and woods, in\\nsearch of flowers. Upon their return the court-room was taste-\\nfully decorated with evergreens and artificial fruit trees, and\\ntables spread loaded with bountiful provisions. At half past\\nsix in the evening the pupils again assembled. A beautiful\\nhjmn, composed for the occasion, was sung, and an address on\\nsocial habits was dehvered by the principal, Mr. T. D. P. Stone.\\nThe festivities of the evening then commenced, accompanied\\nwith music, and continued until about nine o clock, under the\\nform of a festive social party.\\nDied in this town, June 7th, Mrs. Nancy Hazen Brigham,\\naged forty-two, relict of Mr. Levi Brigham, of Boston, and\\ndaughter of the late Capt. Richard Ayer. For the last twenty-\\nfive days of her life she endured the most intense sufferings from\\na total obstruction of the intestinal passage. The disorder had\\nbeen gradually increasing for the last ten months. She bore her\\nsufferings with remarkable patience and equanimity, sustained by\\nthe hope of a blessed immortality through Jesus Christ.\\nOn Wednesday, June 17th, agreeably to appointment by the\\nNew-Hampshire Legislature, Hon. Nathaniel G. Upham deliv-\\nered an eulogy, in the old North Meeting-house, commemorative\\nof the life and services of Gen. LaFayette. The address occu-\\npied one hour and forty minutes in the delivery. It was well\\nand ably written. Two hymns, composed for the occasion by\\nHon. Philip Carrigain, were sung one by the choir and the\\nother by Mr. George W. Dixon. The discourse was published\\nby order of the Legislature.\\nIn June a company was incorporated in this town, with a\\ncapital of $75,000, for the manufacture of silk. Albe Cady,\\nEsq., was chosen president, Moses G. Atwood corresponding\\nsecretary, and G. Parker Lyon, treasurer. Albe Cady, Isaac\\nHill, Abner B. Kelly, Stephen Brown, Samuel Evans, Charles\\nSmart and John Whipple, were chosen directors. The farm for-\\nmerly owned by Ballard Hazeltine, Esq., in the south-west part\\nof the town, near Turkey pond, was purchased for the pur-\\npose. The house was handsomely repaired and several hundred\\n28", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0449.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "434 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nmulberry trees set out. Silk was manufactured in small quanti-\\nties for a few years, and the business was then relinquished.\\nTHE MORMONS.\\nOn Tuesday and Friday evenings, June 25th and 28th, one\\nof this sect a Mr. Green held forth in the Town Hall and\\nhe proposed to continue his lectures until he had given a full\\nexposition of the doctrines and practices of what he termed the\\nChurch of the Latter Day Saints. He made no converts in\\nthis town to his new doctrine.\\nIn the summer of 1835 INIr. George Thompson, a celebrated\\nanti-slavery lecturer from England, came to this country. In\\nthe month of August he visited Concord, and caused great ex-\\ncitement by his denunciations of slavery, and of all those who\\ndid not embrace his views on the subject. On Thursday eve-\\nning, September 3d, a pubhc meeting was held at the Court\\nHouse, agreeably to a call signed by seventy-four citizens of\\nConcord, at which Ralph Metcalf, Esq., presided, and George\\nAV. Ela and Joseph Robinson were secretaries. The meeting\\nwas numerously attended, composed of persons of both pohtical\\nparties Democrats and Whigs. Addresses were made by\\nHon. Isaac Hill and Samuel Fletcher, Esq., of Concord, and\\nHon. Ichabod Bartlett, of Portsmouth. Resolutions were adopted,\\nof which the third was as follows\\nResolved, That we heboid with indignation and disgust the intru-\\nsion upon us of foreign emissaries, paid by the money of open enemies\\nto our form of government, who are traversing the country, assaiUng\\nits institutions and distracting the quiet of the people.\\nThe next day the friends of Mr. Thompson posted up hand-\\nbills, giving notice that a meeting would be holden on Friday\\nevening, at seven o clock, at the Court House, to be attended by\\nGeorge Thompson and John G. Whittier, when the principles,\\nviews and operations of the abohtionists would be explained.\\nThis notice produced a general and intense excitement, which it\\nwas evident would end in disturbance and tumult, should the\\nmeeting be held. Seeing this state of things Gen. Robert Davis,\\nchairman of the board of selectmen, called on George Kent,\\nEsq., a friend of Mr. Thompson, and advised that the meeting", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0450.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 435\\nshould not be held. He also directed Mr. Constable Bean to\\nclose the door of the Town Hall the door of the Court Room\\n(in the same building) being also closed bj the sheriflf. At the\\nhour appointed, however, persons of both parties began to as-\\nsemble around the Town Hall. Soon three men were seen\\napproaching, of whom one was supposed to be Thompson the\\nother two being Whittier, and Joseph H. Kimball, editor of the\\nHerald of Freedom. These three were immediately assailed by\\nthe multitude with tumultuous shouts. Dirt and gravel were\\nthrown at them, and they were followed up Washington street,\\ndown State street, to the house of Col. WiUiam A. Kent, when\\nthe people were assured that Thompson was not one of the\\nnumber. Next the multitude about two hundred went to\\nthe house of George Kent, Esq. where Thompson was hospitably\\nentertained. Aware of their approach, Thompson left the house,\\nand Mr. Kent also withdrew, leaving the house in charge of\\nMrs. Kent. Just at this time Gen. Davis arrived, and ascer-\\ntaining that Thompson was not in the house, and that Mrs. Kent\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was sick, notified the people accordingly assured them that\\nThompson would not attempt to lecture on anti-slavery in town\\nthat their assembling under such circumstances might be deemed\\nriotous, and requested them at once to desist and withdraw.\\nCol. Phihp Carrigain seconded the motion, and, lifting his hands\\nand voice, cried, Come, let us go All moved off together\\nbut, constructing an effigy, they paraded it through the principal\\nstreets, and afterward burnt it in the State House yard, concluding\\nthe whole with a display of fire-works and discharge of cannon.*\\nOn Wednesday evening, December 23d, a fire was discovered\\nin the garret of Hill s brick building, which originated from a\\ndefect in the chimney. The night was intensely cold the wind\\nblowing fresh from the north-west, and the thermometer twenty\\ndegrees below zero. As soon as the fire was discovered Mr. C.\\nR. Winter, clerk in the Patriot counting-room, and J. R. Whit-\\ntemore, clerk in Brown s book-store, rushed into the garret,\\nwhich was filled with smoke and flame, and by well directed\\nefforts extinguished the fire, which otherwise must have rapidly\\nspread and caused immense loss of property.\\nSee JV. H. Patriot, September 7, 1835, and Herald of Freedom.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0451.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "436 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n[1836.] A meeting was held at the Court House, on Thurs-\\nday, March 31st, on the subject of a hospital for the insane\\nRichard Bradley, Esq., in the chair, and Dr. Ezra Carter secre-\\ntary. After the passage of resolutions approving of the object,\\nthe following delegates were chosen to attend the meeting at\\nPortsmouth, on Wednesday, April 3d Nathaniel Bouton, Hall\\nBurgin, Joseph Low, Charles H. Peaslee, Thomas Chadbourne,\\nRichard Bradley, Theodore French, Ezra Carter, William Kent,\\nBenjamin Gale, Timothy Chandler, Cyrus Barton, George W.\\nEla, Jacob B. Moore, E. E. Cummings, Samuel Herbert and\\nWilliam Gault.\\nAt this meeting Charles H. Peaslee, Esq., who from the first\\nhad manifested a deep interest in the establishment of an asylum\\nfor the insane, made an able and effective speech in behalf of\\nthe object. Gov. Isaac Hill also recommended the subject\\nstrongly in his message to the legislature in June, 1836.\\nRev. George B. Cheever, of Salem, Mass., author of the\\nfamous Dream about Dea. Giles s Distillery, by invitation\\ndelivered a temperance address in the old North Meeting-house,\\non the annual Fast-day, in April. Opposition was shown by\\nsundry persons in the rum interest, and in the evening a party\\nof them about seven in number passed through Main street\\nin a noisy manner, and, stopping before Rev. Mr. Bouton s house,\\nwhere Mr. Cheever was, assailed the front door shaking it vio-\\nlently and calhng for the man who dreamed a dream The\\npolice soon coming, the party withdrew to the State House yard,\\nwhere they burnt a man of straw in honor of Mr. Cheever\\nThe next day the rioters were arrested, tried before Albe Cady,\\nEsq., and fined three dollars each.\\nOn Friday evening, June 10th, Samuel E. Coues, Esq., of\\nPortsmouth, delivered a very interesting address in the Repre-\\nsentatives hall, upon the nature and extent of insanity, and the\\nbest method of treating it enforcing the utility, importance and\\nnecessity of a hospital for the insane in this State.\\nThe thermometer on Friday, July 8th, was snug up to one\\nhundred degrees in the shade.*\\nThe joiners shop belonging to Capt. John Miller, on State\\nJV. H. Patriot.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0452.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS.\\n437\\nstreet, in this town, was entirely consumed on Friday, August\\n26th. The loss was about $300, and no insurance. The fire\\nwas discovered about eleven o clock in the forenoon, and in\\nthirty minutes the building was demolished and the fire extin-\\nguished. The house, which was connected with the shop, had a\\nnarrow escape.\\nA printer by the name of Charles Watrous, boarding at the\\nMerrimack hotel, committed suicide by taking laudanum, on\\nThursday, September 22d. He lately published a paper at\\nChelsea, Vt., and his valedictory article bears evidence that he\\nhad for some time labored under insanity. He was a man of\\nintemperate habits, aged about 36.\\nDEDICATION OF THE SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE.\\n[1837.] On the\\n1st of February\\nthe house erected\\nfor the use of the\\nSouth Congrega-\\ntional Church and\\nSociety was ded-\\nicated to the wor-\\nship of God. The\\nbuilding is of\\nwood, with a base-\\nment of stone\\n77 feet in length\\nand 64 in width,\\nand has one hun-\\ndred and eight\\npews on the low-\\ner floor. In the\\nbasement is a con-\\nvenient vestry, 64\\nfeet in length and\\n06 in breadth. In\\nfront of the vestry\\nare two rooms de-\\nsigned for stores. The house was built under the direction of", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0453.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "438 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nCapt. Philip Watson. The whole expense of the house was\\nabout $10,000.\\nThe body of a man was found in the Merrimack river, July\\n13th, in the south part of the town, too much decayed to be\\nrecognized but from some articles found with it, it is supposed\\nto be that of John Givens, a native of Ireland, who was missing\\nsome time in November last, and supposed at the time to have\\nbeen drowned in the river.\\n[1838.] Died in this town, in February, Mrs. Lucia Anne,\\nwife of George Kent, Esq., and daughter of the late Hon. Daniel\\n*rarrand, of Burlington, Vt., aged thirty-nine. Mrs. Kent was\\na woman of uncommon decision and energy of character, com-\\nbined with cultivated taste and religious sentiment. As a wife,\\nmother, sister and friend, she was greatly esteemed and beloved.\\nA friend and helper of the poor and afflicted, and ardent in\\nall benevolent enterprizes, her charity always reached to the full\\nextent of her means. For several years she was president of\\nthe Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society, in which cause she\\nevinced great zeal and resolution. In a period of unusual ex-\\ncitement, in 1835, she showed her decision, in opposition to pre-\\nvailing prejudices against the blacks, by taking a colored woman\\nwith her into church, and sitting by her side in the same pew.\\nWhen Mr. Kent s house was assailed in search of George\\nThompson, Mrs. Kent, in feeble health, boldly went to the door,\\nasked what they wanted, and assured them Mr. Thompson was\\nnot there. At the time of her decease she was a member of the\\nSouth Congregational Church. Her funeral was attended by a\\nlarge concourse of people.\\nA lad by the name of J. Q. Symonds, aged ten years, was\\ndrowned July 10th, a little above Concord bridge, while bathing.\\nHe was in the water but about fifteen minutes, yet all attempts\\nto resuscitate him were fruitless.\\nA direct hne of stages leaves the Phenix Hotel, Concord, for\\nHampton Beach, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, at seven\\no clock in the forenoon. Fare, two dollars and fifty cents.\\nNathaniel Ewer, Jr., living in the north part of this town, was\\ndrowned in Lovejoy s mill-pond while bathing, on Sunday after-\\nnoon, July 29th, aged sixteen.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0454.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 439\\nDied, August 9th, Mr. Joseph Bickford, aged sixty-nine. His\\ndeath was occasioned by falling backwards from a wagon and\\nbreaking the spine of his neck. The accident occurred in East\\nConcord, on the road to Canterbury, near the foot of the long\\nhill south of Jacob Hoit s.\\nNEW-HAMPSHIRE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE.\\nThe first meeting of this corporation was held, agreeably to\\npublic notice, at the Grecian hall, (in the Eagle coffee-house,)\\nAugust 14th. Richard H. Ayer was chairman, and Samuel E.\\nCoues, of Portsmouth, secretary pro tern. The act of incor-\\nporation was adopted, and a committee of five appointed to draft\\nby-laws, regulations, c., viz.: Daniel M. Durell, of Dover;\\nJohn H. Steele, of Peterborough Charles J. Fox, of Nashua\\nJoel Parker, of Keene Charles H. Peaslee, of Concord.\\nBALLOON ASCENSION.\\nMr. L. A, Lauriat, a foreigner, proposed a grand balloon\\nascension in Concord, with his little son in company, September\\n11th. He was not, however, wholly successful in filling the\\nballoon with gas but just as it began to rise from the ground\\nMr. Amasa Powell, of Concord, jumped into the car and went\\nup some two hundred feet, and made a safe descent two miles\\ndistant, south of the village. On the 21st of September Mr.\\nLauriat made a successful and grand ascension. His balloon,\\ncompletely filled with gas, rose from the ground near the State\\nHouse, about five o clock in the afternoon, in the midst of an\\nimmense throng of spectators, and slowly and majestically as-\\ncended with the daring aeronaut about five thousand feet, moving\\nin a north-westerly direction then it changed to the north-east\\nand went directly over the Shaker village in Canterbury, when\\na rope was thrown out, by which the balloon was pulled down.\\nAfter partaking of the Shakers hospitality, Mr. Lauriat again\\nascended, and was borne away toward Northfield, where he de-\\nscended at six and a half o clock, sixteen miles from Concord.\\nThe greatest altitude he reached was eleven thousand feet. A\\npart of the time he was far above the clouds at other times in\\nthe midst of them, and was wet to the skin by vapor.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0455.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "440 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nDied at the hospital, in Boston, of typhus fever, November\\n6th, Isaac Shute, Jr., son of Mr. Isaac Shute, of this town,\\naged twenty-four. Young Shute was a youth of much prom-\\nise, enterprise and inteUigence, and his death was deeply de-\\nplored.\\nDied in this town, on Friday evening, November 9, 1838,\\nMrs. Elizabeth McFarland, aged 68 years, widow of the late\\nRev. Asa McFarland, D. D. Mrs. McFarland was born in Bos-\\nton, March 19, 1780 the only daughter of Mr. Bartholomew\\nand Mrs. Susanna Sewall Kneeland. Her grand-father, Samuel\\nSewall, of York, Me,, was a kinsman of the distinguished chief\\njustice Samuel Sewall, of Massachusetts. She was married to\\nMr. McFarland in September, 1803. Possessed naturally of\\nsuperior endowments of mind and heart with a good education,\\nrefined manners, and of singular conscientiousness, humility and\\ndevotion of spirit, Mrs. McFarland rendered herself eminently\\nuseful in the station which she occupied. In her domestic rela-\\ntions she was a pattern of industry, order, frugality and diligence.\\nRising early at all seasons of the year, she spent a season in\\nprivate devotion, before other members of the family were up\\nthus, as she said, she was prepared and strengthened for the\\nduties of the day. In the instruction of her children, she\\nusually Avent over with them the studies they were pursuing at\\nschool but most assiduously taught them lessons from the holy\\nScriptures, and aimed to form within them right moral and relig-\\nious principles, and to mould them to habits of virtue and piety.\\nBy her charity, her self-denial, simplicity in dress and manners,\\nher eminent social qualities, and, above all, by that orna-\\nment of a meek and quiet spirit, which she always wore, she\\ngreatly endeared herself to all who knew her, without ever\\nexciting the envy of any. Mrs. McFarland was one of those\\nwho not only devised, but executed liberal things. She\\nfirst suggested the plan of the New -Hampshire Cent Institu-\\ntion, in 1804, and of the Concord Female Charitable Society,\\nin January, 1812. With her commenced the first offerings\\nmade in Concord for foreign missions. She originated the\\nfirst female prayer meeting held in town and by her agency,\\nespecially, was the monthly female prayer meeting established", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0456.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 441\\nin the First Church, in 1816, which is sustained till this\\ntime.\\nAfter the death of her husband, less occupied with domestic\\ncares, Mrs, McFarland spent a greater portion of her time, each\\nday, in rehgious devotions and active christian duties for the wel-\\nfare of others. The north chamber of her house was her closet,\\nwhich seemed to all who entered it to be hallowed by her devout\\nspirit. In her last sickness, of lingering consumption, she\\nenjoyed in a remarkable degree the presence of her Redeemer\\nand the consolations of his religion. She died in the complete\\ntriumph of faith, and in joyful expectation of a glorious immor-\\ntality.\\nOf the many excellent women that have adorned society in\\nConcord, at different periods, and whose memory is precious, it\\nmay be said in respect of her without envy, Many daughters\\nhave done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.\\nOn the white monument erected by her children to her mem-\\nory in the ancient burying ground, are inscribed the fit words of\\nthe Saviour She hath done ivhat she coidd.^^*\\nMr. Henry Farley died in this town, November 23d, in con-\\nsequence of a fall of a few feet from a ladder in the wood-shed\\nof his house, striking the back part of his head upon a box, which\\nfractured his skull. He was taken up insensible and died in a\\nfew minutes.\\nIn the latter part of December teams crossed the Merrimack\\nriver on the ice at the place where the Free Bridge now is\\na road being opened across the middle interval for their accom-\\nmodation.\\n[1839.] An interesting daughter of Capt. Ebenezer Ridge-\\nway, U. S. N., of this town, five years of age, was so badly\\nburnt on January 1st, by her clothes taking fire, as to cause her\\ndeath the next day. The child was playing with her brother,\\ntwo years older, and approaching too near the fire her clothes\\ncaught, and before assistance could be rendered were nearly\\nFor further and full particulars of the life and character of Mrs. McFarland, the reader is\\nreferred to a IMemoir of her, written by Rev. ]\\\\Ir. Bouton, and published in 1839. See also\\nMcFarland family, in Geneological Chapter of this History.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0457.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "442 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nconsumed. No other person was in the room with the children\\nat the time of the occurrence.\\nDied in Concord, February 15th, Mrs. Mary Ann P., wife of\\nRev. Nathaniel Bouton, aged 34. Mrs. B. was the eldest\\ndaughter of the late Hon. John Bell, of Chester. The funeral\\nservices at the North Meeting-house, on Monday, 18th, were\\nattended by a large assembly of citizens and christian friends,\\nwho testified their deep sympathy on the mournful occasion. An\\nappropriate sermon was preached by Rev. John M. Putnam, of\\nDunbarton, from Coll. i 27, Christ in you^ the hope of glory.\\nDuring her residence of about ten years in Concord, Mrs. B.\\nhad endeared herself greatly to the people of the parish, and\\nindeed to all who knew her, by her gentle and affectionate dispo-\\nsition and manners. She was especially distinguished by her\\nnative modesty and guileless simplicity of character. She pos-\\nsessed in an uncommon degree the charity which thinketh no\\nevil. On her tongue was the law of kindness, and never\\nwas it heard to speak evil of any one. She bore her lingering\\nsickness with christian patience and submission, deriving great\\ncomfort from the promises of the Bible trusting in the mercy of\\nGod through Jesus Christ.* A short time before her death the\\naccount of the martyr Stephen was read to her. Acts vii 66 60.\\nShe said, I desire that the last prayer which shall be offered\\nfor me may be the same as his Lord Jesus, receive my\\nspirit.\\nOn Sunday, May 19th, a very extensive conflagration took\\nplace on the pine plain, directly east of the main village, which,\\nas was estimated, run over more than a thousand acres, destroy-\\ning the growth and consuming a large quantity of wood that\\nwas cut and in piles. It was believed to be the work of incen-\\ndiaries.\\nThe large dwelling-house owned and occupied by Mr. Leavitt\\nC. Virgin and Capt. Samuel Blake, of this town, was consumed\\nby fire early on the morning of Tuesday, May 14th. This is\\nSee Christian Panoply, February 22, 1839.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0458.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS.\\nUl\\nthe first dwelllng-liouse that has been entirely consumed in this\\nextended village for the last twenty years.\\nST. Paul s church laying of the corner stone.\\nThe corner-stone of\\nSt. Paul s Church, in\\nConcord, was laid with\\nappropriate ceremo-\\nnies, on Thursday, the\\n3 13th of June. Ser-\\np vice by Rev. Mr. Ten\\nBroeck, assisted by\\nRev. Mr. Chase, of St.\\nMatthew s Church,\\nHopkinton. An inter-\\nesting address on the\\ncondition and prospects\\nof the Society was de-\\nlivered by the Rector,\\nm Mr. Ten Broeck. A\\ndeposite of various articles was made beneath the corner-stone.\\nOn Friday, July 5th, the dwelling-house of Mr. John Dear-\\nborn, of Concord, was struck by lightning. The fluid burst the\\ntop of the chimney, sending the bricks in every direction passed\\ndown, bursting the chimney again between the chamber and\\nlower part of the house, throwing off the breast- work, and pre-\\ncipitating the tongs through the cellar door. There were\\neight persons sitting in the room, yet no one was in the least\\ninjured.\\nThe house, barn and shop, belonging to Mr. Jacob Clough, on\\nthe hill three miles from this village, on the Canterbury road,\\nwere entirely consumed by fire on Saturday, November 9th,\\nabout eleven o clock, A. M. Loss about one thousand dollars.\\nNo insurance. It seems the boys had built a fire in the shop\\nwhere they were husking corn, from which it was communicated\\nto the husks. The buildings w ere in distinct view of this village,\\nand the engines promptly repaired to the scene of conflagration,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0459.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "444\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nbut too late to render assistance. The house was formerly owned\\nbj JNIr. Simeon Virgin.\\n[18-10.] The stagemcn s ball, held at the Eagle coffee-house\\non Friday evening, January 10th, was attended by one hundred\\nand fifty couples, and everything was done up in the neat and ele-\\ngant style peculiar to the gentlemen of the whip on such occasions.\\nCol. Stevens, Secretary of State, delivered a lecture upon the\\nsubject of common schools, at the North meeting-house, on Fast\\nday, April 9th, before a numerous audience. The subject was\\nably and eloquently treated.\\nDied in this town, April 1st, Philbrick Bradley, Esq., aged\\n84. He was in the battle of Bennington, in Col. Stickney s\\nregiment, and also at the capture of Burgoyne. Mr. Bradley\\nwas very social and facetious in conversation, and delighted to\\nentertain the young with stories of olden time. He lived on\\nthe Mountain, so called, in East Concord, about three miles and\\na half from the main village, and was a pensioner of government.\\nOn Saturday morning, September 3d, a small building in the\\nrear of Stickney s block was consumed by fire. The air was\\nstill, otherwise there must have been an extensive conflagration,\\nas the building destroyed was in the midst of the most combus-\\ntible as well as valuable part of the town.\\n[1841.] The freshet of the second of January was one of\\nthe most remarkable ever known on the Merrimack in the winter.\\nOn Tuesday week the cold was excessively severe, the mercury\\ndown to sixteen, eighteen, and nineteen degrees below zero in\\nthe morning. Wednesday moderate, eight degrees below zero,\\nand commenced snowing. Thursday, rain and strong south wind.\\nFriday, as warm as April. At noon the river had risen four or\\nfive feet by night-fall its banks were nearly full. About seven\\nin the evening the ice started, and immediately a crashing sound,\\nnearly as loud as the report of a small cannon, announced the\\ndestruction of the east part of the Free bridge, and pier after\\npier and section after section followed, till, at a little past eight,\\nall but one pier on the west was carried away. One pier of the\\nFederal bridge and two lengths of stringers were carried away.\\nThe ice blocked up the channel of the stream above the Lower\\nbridge, and turned the water over the interval, thus saving the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0460.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 445\\nbridge. Fears were entertained that the river had cut a ncw\\nchannel for itself, but it soon resumed the old channel. The ice\\nbetween Wattanummons and Federal bridge was piled up in such\\nquantities that some of it remained till the following Maj.\\nOn Thursday, January 21st, the Bridewell, situate in the\\nbasement story of the wooden building opposite the American\\nHouse, was discovered to be on fire. In it was confined a fellow\\nnamed Rufus Orcutt, charged with attempting the life of his wife\\nin a brutal assault which he made upon her. The door of the\\nBridewell was immediately forced and Orcutt found half buried\\nin the burning straw. When he was taken out it was supposed\\nhe was dead. His face, neck and breast were very much burned.\\nMedical aid was soon procured, and he was restored in some\\ndegree, but he survived only till Sunday, 24th. He had once\\nbeen in the State prison for life, but was pardoned, and had\\nthreatened, if committed to the Bridewell, to burn it. The fire\\nwas extinguished without much damage to the building.\\nDied in this town. May 9th, Miss Mary Clark, aged 49,\\ndaughter of the late Mr. Daniel Clark. Miss Clark was a lady\\nof uncommon gifts and acquirements, of a social disposition, sim-\\nple in her manners, kind to the poor, ever sympathizing with the\\nafflicted and suffering of all classes. In the latter years of life\\nher health was very delicate, but she was interested in the events\\nof the day, and especially in the cause of peace and the anti-\\nslavery society. She was fond of historic and antiquarian\\nresearch, and a particular friend of the late John Farmer, Esq.\\nIn religious views she was remarkably catholic admiring and\\nloving all, of all classes and denominations, who possessed a\\nhumane and devout spirit, but she was not united with any in a\\nreligious profession. A short time before her death she prepared\\na paper, giving her dying testimony, being on the brink of\\nJordan, against all those ministers and churches ivho have\\nrefused to pray for the slaved* She directed that her funeral\\nshould be without parade, and without the ceremony of an offici-\\nating clergyman. Accordingly, the services at the funeral were\\nperformed by her friends, Mr. Amos Wood and John B. Chandler.\\nOn Sunday, September 12th, Stephen S. Foster, an anti-slavery\\nSee Herald of Freedom, May 14, 1841.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0461.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "446 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nlecturer, from Canterbury, entered the Nortli meeting-house,\\n(the pastor. Rev. Mr. Bouton, being absent on an exchange with\\nRev. Jonathan Curtice of Pittsfield,) and interrupted the usual\\norder of services. He first prayed, kneeling in front of the\\npulpit then he ascended two or three of the pulpit stairs, and\\nsaid he had a message from God to deliver. Refusing to desist, as\\nrequested by deacons of the church and others, three young men,\\nLyman A. Walker, James M. Tarlton, and Charles W. Walker,\\nrose and took him, without violence, led him down the broad\\naisle, out of the front door, and he departed. He then pro-\\nceeded to the South church, where he conducted in a similar dis-\\norderly manner, and whence, with less ceremony, he was ejected.\\nJosiah Hardy, of this town, raised from one pumpkin seed\\nseventy-five pumpkins seventeen of them suitable for family\\nuse. Beat this, if you can Who can furnish from one seed\\nsuch a bountiful supply of pumpkins for thanksgiving\\nMr. Theodore T. Abbott, of this town, who carried on the\\ncutlery business at Millville, contracted to supply the members\\nof Congress, in 1841, with all the cutlery wanted for their use.\\n[1842.] Mr. Asaph Evans, formerly a trader in the old store\\ncorner of Pleasant and Main streets, died in New- York city,\\nJanuary 8th, aged 57 years. Mr. Evans was the first trader in\\nConcord who voluntarily relinquished the sale of ardent spirits,\\nafter the temperance reform commenced.\\nThe new Congregational meeting-house in East Concord was\\ndedicated to the worship of God, January 13th. Sermon by\\nRev. Mr. Bouton.\\nMr. Asa McFarland delivered the first lecture before the\\nConcord Lyceum this year, February 4th, on The Campaign of\\nNapoleon in Russia. The lecture was ably written, and subse-\\nquently printed.\\nOpening of the Railroad to Concord. On Tuesday eve-\\nning, September 6, 1842, at one fourth before seven o clock,\\nthe locomotive Amoskeag, with a train of three passenger\\ncars and some baggage, came through from Boston to Concord.\\nThe grounds about the depot were thronged with men, women\\nand children, to behold the new and wondrous sight As the\\nJ\\\\r. H. Patriot, November 4, 1841.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0462.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS.\\n447\\ncars came in the multitude raised a cheering shout, and the\\ncannon pealed forth its thunders to celebrate the event.\\nA few minutes after the arrival, it was announced that the\\nconductor would give the people a ride. Immediately every car\\nwas crammed, and scores could not find a place to stand or sit\\ndown. The train went a few miles as far as Bow-crossing\\nand returned, with the party delighted at the thought that theirs\\nwas the first ride in the first hour after opening.\\nThe locomotive, cars and every thing appeared in the finest\\norder. The passenger train commenced running regularly twice a\\nday, and the week following three passenger trains a day were run.\\nThe Universalist meeting-house in Concord was dedicated on\\nThursday, October 6, two o clock, P. M. Sermon by Rev. Otis\\nA.\\nSkinner, of Boston.\\nUNIVERSALIST CHURCH.\\nThe house here\\nrepresented was oc-\\ncupied by the Uni-\\nversalist Society\\nuntil June, 1855\\nwhen the Society,\\nhaving decided to\\nerect a new, more\\nspacious and costly\\nedifice, it was sold\\nto the South Free\\n^jWill Baptist Soci-\\nety, Rev. Hiram\\n|_|p|Whitcher, pastor,\\nand moved to a lot\\n^.fnear the south end\\nv;^of State street.\\nU^.* The MilIerites,\\nUitis5= so called, believers\\n^Hin the visible advent\\nof Christ and the\\nend of the world in 1843, held a great meeting in Concord", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0463.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "448 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nthe fourth week in July. Having erected and consecrated a\\nspacious tent, capable of holding four thousand persons, on the\\nhill, near where the house of Mr. Abel B. Holt now stands, a\\nviolent gust of wind soon after prostrated it to the ground.\\nThej next raised the tent in the valley west of the hill assign-\\ning as a reason, that in raising the tent on the hill they had\\nexalted themselves, and must move down into the valley of humil-\\niation. On Saturday afternoon the wind blew violently, attended\\nwith rain, which fell in torrents and flooded the ground where\\nthe large tent stood, so that they were obliged to desert it. The\\nsmaller tents, beds, c., were completely drenched, and the\\noccupants, amid darkness, thunder, lightning and rain, at mid-\\nnight, were compelled to seek refuge in neighboring houses and\\nin the public hotels of the village. On Sunday morning a fire\\nengine with hose was used to draw off the water from the place\\nof the encampment. The meeting was largely attended, and pro-\\nduced great noise and excitement among believers in the doctrine.\\nThe workmen on the railroad at the lower end of Main street,\\nnear the river, have dug out the bones of two bodies, supposed\\nto be those of Indians.*\\nOn Friday, September 2, a large company of gentlemen and\\nladies from Concord main village, visited Long pond. The gen-\\ntlemen caught fish and the ladies cooked them, and with other\\neatables furnished by the ladies, a fine dinner was prepared.\\nAfter dinner it was resolved that, henceforth and forever, what\\nhad been called Long pond should be known as Lake Pen-\\nacook.^ But, notwithstanding the resolution. Long pond is still\\nLong pond.\\nOn the morning of July 4, at eight o clock, the corner stone\\nof the new meeting-house, for the use of the First Congrega-\\ntional Society, at the corner of Main and Washington streets,\\nwas laid with appropriate religious services, to wit\\n1. Singing, 87th Psalm, L. M.\\n2. Reading of select scripture by the pastor.\\n3. Depositing a box under the north-east corner stone, con-\\ntaining sundry documents.\\n4. Prayer, by the pastor.\\nH. Patriot, August 11, 1842,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0464.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 449\\n5. Singing, hymn 64, 2d book.\\nBj the ingenious use of tackling, the whole main body of the\\nhouse was raised before four o clock, P. M.\\nMessrs. Mack and Lambert delivered a course of lectures in\\nConcord during the winter season of 1842, on physiology and\\nanatomy. Their lectures were illustrated by a manikin, or\\nmodel of a man, so ingeniously wrought and put together in\\npieces as to require a near inspection to satisfy a spectator that\\nit was not a real living subject. Every portion of the human\\nbody, suitable for exhibition before a promiscuous assembly, was\\nexactly represented.\\nOn Wednesday morning, May 11, James M. Abbot, oldest\\nson of Mr. David Abbot, was drowned in Horse-shoe pond. It\\nis supposed that he fell out of a boat his cap and a boat being\\ndiscovered floating near each other in the middle of the pond at\\nthe time he was first missed. He was eleven years old. His\\nbody was soon after recovered.\\nMaj. WiUiam Walker, jr., and Nathaniel White, of Concord,\\nand B. P. Cheney, of Boston, have established a daily express\\nbetween Concord and Boston, (Sundays excepted.)\\nWilliam Ainsworth, Esq., member of the House of Repre-\\nsentatives from the town of New-Ipswich, died at his lodgings\\nin this town June 14th.\\nFOURTH OF JULY.\\nScenes of rowdyism and violation of law and order were at-\\ntempted in this town on the evening of the glorious fourth. A\\nbarrel of tar was hghted in the middle of the State House yard,\\nand the tossing of fire-balls begun, when the poUce of the town\\ninterfered, with the design to stop such proceedings. Several\\npersons were arrested, tried and fined. One of the beautiful\\nmaples in the State House yard was nearly destroyed by the\\nburning of tar under it.*\\nOn Friday, July 8th, Nathaniel P. Abbot, aged twenty-one,\\nfell from the belfry of the newly-raised meeting-house, and was\\n.V. H. Patriot,\\n29", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0465.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "450\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nprecipitated from the upper flooring to the ground, a distance of\\nabout thirty feet. Before any one reached him he was up and\\nattempting to get upon the sill. A large gash was cut in his\\nhead, and he was much bruised, but no bone was broken, or dan-\\ngerous wound inflicted.\\nGeorge M. Thomas, aged eleven years and six months, only\\nson of Kev. Moses G. Thomas, of this town, was drowned in\\nMerrimack river on the 13th of July, near the Free bridge. He\\nwas bathing with other boys on the easterly side, and was missed\\nabout sunset by his companions. Between eight and nine\\no clock in the evening search was commenced, and his body was\\nfound about half past eleven, P. M., near one of the piers, in\\nabout four feet of water.\\nOPENING OF THE ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE.\\nThe New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane was publicly\\nopened for the reception of patients the first of November.\\nPrice of board for patients belonging to the State, two dollars\\nand twenty-five cents. A patient from Tuftonborough was ad-\\nmitted the week previous, who was rendered insane by the excite-\\nment on the subject of the second advent. He prayed, preached,\\nexhorted and harangued upon the subject about four hours every\\nmorning, and remained quiet the rest of the day.\\nDied in this town, October 28, Mrs. Nancy B. Fletcher, wife\\nof Samuel Fletcher, Esq., aged 54. Mrs. Fletcher was a\\nwoman of great excellence of character, intelligent, affectionate,\\ncharitable to the poor, of exemplary piety, and greatly beloved\\nby a large circle of relatives and friends. Her maiden name\\nwas Nancy Bordman, a native of South-Reading, Mass. She\\nwas for several years treasuress of the New-Hampshire Cent\\nInstitution, and president of the Concord Female Charitable\\nSociety.\\nOn Tuesday morning, November 15, about half past three\\no clock, a fire broke out in a stable belonging to WiUiam Walker,\\njr., Co., situated in rear of the houses and stores on the\\ncorner of Warren and IMain streets. By the energy and prompt-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0466.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS.\\n451\\nitude of the firemen, with their engines, the fire was subdued\\nwith a damage only of about two hundred dollars.\\nDEDICATION OF THE NORTH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING-HOUSE.\\nThe new meeting-house erected for the use of the First Con-\\ngregational Society was dedicated to the worship of Almighty\\nGod, November 23d. Introductory prayer was ofiered by Rev.\\nAbraham Burnham, of Pembroke reading of Scripture by Rev.\\nMoses Kimball, of Hopkinton dedicatory prayer by Rev. John\\nM. Putnam, of Dunbarton sermon by the pastor, from 2 Chron.\\nvii 16 concluding prayer by Rev. Asa P. Tenney, of West\\nConcord.\\nPublic worship was first attended in the house on the following\\nSabbath, November 27th. The pastor preached in the morning\\nfrom John ix 27 Will ye also he his disciples In the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0467.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "452 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nafternoon from Acts ii 47 The Lord added to the church\\ndaily such as should be saved^*\\nA man died in this town, November 24th, who confessed on\\nhis death bed that he set fire to the barn of WiUiam Walker\\nCo., which was partially destroyed by the flames on the morning\\nof November 15.\\nOn Friday, December 6th, Mr. Horace Call, a young man of\\nConcord, while at work in repairing the Free bridge, across the\\nMerrimack river, fell from the bridge upon the ice, about fifteen\\nfeet. His fall was not discovered till some time afterwards,\\nwhen he was taken up insensible, and supposed to be dead. His\\nright eye and side of his face were much bruised. Dr. Renton\\nwas immediately called, and the young man was restored to con-\\nsciousness and suffered but little permanent injury.\\nThomas W. Dorr, who claimed to be governor of Rhode Island,\\nand was leader of the insurrection in that State in 1842, visited\\nthis town while under indictment for high treason. He attended\\npublic Avorship, incog., at the North church, December 11th, but\\non the evening of the 14th a public meeting was held in the\\nCourt House, at which he delivered a speech occupying three\\nhours. He was introduced to the meeting by Gov. Henry Hub-\\nbard, and his speech was followed by a complimentary address\\nand resolutions by Hon. Franklin Pierce.\\n[1843.] The evening passenger train of cars, which usually\\narrives here at about half past eight o clock, run off the track\\nabout half a mile below the depot, on Tuesday evening, January\\n24th, in consequence of the switch being out of place. But lit-\\ntle damage was done.\\nOn Sunday afternoon, night, and Monday morning, February\\n6th and 7th, we had a very severe snow storm, with heavy\\ndrifts. The cuts on the railroad were so filled that neither\\nPrevious to leaving the old North meeting-house as a place of public worship, a union\\nmeeting of the four Congregational churches in town was held in it. The meeting was\\nattended two successive days, viz. Thursday, 27th, and Friday, 28th of September, in which\\nthe several pastors took part, viz. Rev. Asa P. Tenney, of the West church Rev. Daniel\\nJ. Noyes, of the South church Rev. Timothy Morgan, preacher at Ea^it church, and the pas-\\ntor of tlie First church. In the forenoon of Friday the pastor preached a discourse on remi-\\nniscences of the old meeting-house. In the afternoon about five hundred and fifty commu-\\nnicants, belonging to the four sister cliurches, sat down to the Lord s Supper. It was a season\\nof tender and affecting interest. Many wept at the thought of a separation from the place\\nwhere they and their fathers liad so long worshipped.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0468.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 453\\ntrain of cars due here on Tuesday arrived, and it was impossible\\nto force a passage through from Nashua to Concord until Wednes-\\nday afternoon, when the united energies of four powerful engines\\nmade a way through the drifts of snow.\\nApril 27. The freshet in the Merrimack river has been\\nhigher at Concord than has been known for a great number of\\nyears. The water, which a week ago last Monday was the high-\\nest, fell some four feet by the last of the week. Since that time,\\nin consequence of rains and rapid melting of snow, it has been\\nrising again. A great portion of the interval is submerged,\\nand the entrances into Concord from the east over Federal and\\nthe Free bridges are impassable.\\nIn anticipation that the second advent of Christ and the end\\nof the world would take place on or about the 23d of April,\\n1843, according to the Miller doctrine, a considerable number\\nof people in this and other places, believing it, neglected all\\nworldly business, gave themselves up to religious services ex-\\npended their property, and in consequence several became insane,\\nand others were reduced to absolute want. At the time ap-\\npointed they stood in hourly expectation of seeing the sign of\\nthe Son of Man in the heavens, and of being caught up in the\\nair to meet him, while the world should be burnt up. A com-\\npany went to the old burying-ground, to ascend with the rising\\ndead. The day passed without any thing unusual\\nTEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN CONCORD.\\nAt a meeting held in the Court Room the latter part of April,\\na committee, consisting of the following gentlemen Franklin\\nPierce, Lewis Downing, Abraham Prescott, Hosea Fessenden,\\nNathaniel B. Baker, Moses T. Willard, Joel C. Danforth, Josiah\\nStevens, Jr., Zenas Clement, Joseph Low, Francis N. Fisk,\\nSamuel Coffin, Richard Bradley, Chandler E. Potter, Abraham\\nBean, Joseph F. Dow, Harry Houston, Theodore T. Abbot,\\nMoses Shute and Atkinson Webster, were appointed to report at\\nan adjourned meeting such resolutions and plan, as, in their\\njudgment, would most certainly and speedily cause the use and\\ntraffic in intoxicating drinks to cease in this town, except for\\nmechanical and medicinal purposes.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0469.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "464 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAt an adjourned meeting, held at the old North meeting-house,\\nmay 7th, the above committee reported the following resolution\\nand pledge, with a preamble and appeal\\nResolved, That the signature of every individual present be\\nsolicited to the following pledge and appeal and that the same be\\nprinted and presented to the citizens of each school district in town\\nfor the sanction of their names.\\nPLEDGE.\\nWe, the undersigned, citizens of the town of Concord, believing\\nthat intoxicating drinks of every description, used as a beverage, are\\nnot only useless, but injurious to men in health under all circumstan-\\nces and being fully persuaded that it would conduce to the best\\ninterests of said town, and tend greatly to promote the morality,\\nhappiness and prosperity of its citizens, of all classes and conditions,\\nwholly to abolish the using and vending of such liquors within its\\nlimits, except for medicinal and mechanical purposes, hereby pledge\\nto the accomplishment of so desirable an object our best exertions.\\nThis pledge and the appeal which accompanied it was signed\\nby one thousand seven hundred and sixteen inhabitants of the\\ntown, male and female.*\\nJoseph Gerrish, a young man from Boscawen, aged about 25,\\nsupposed to be insane, drowned himself in the Merrimack river,\\nnear the Free bridge, early on Monday morning, June 19th.\\nHis body was found a week after, floating in the river about half\\na mile below the bridge, soon after the firing of a cannon on the\\nbank near the river, for the purpose of raising it.\\nCol. Franklin Pierce delivered a most eloquent and powerful\\naddress upon the subject of temperance, Thursday evening, June\\n22d, at the old North church. He held his audience in breath-\\nless attention for one hour and a half.\\nOn July 20th the Meredith stage, with sixteen passengers,\\nreturning from the White Mountains, was upset on the east side\\nof the jNIerrimack river, descending from the plain to the interval\\nwhich leads to the Free bridge. No bones were broken or lives\\nlost, but some of the passengers were bruised and injured.\\nThe price of butter in Concord (August 3d,) is only nine\\ncents a pound.\\nMr. Ebenezer Eastman, of this town, while at work on the\\nSee JV. Patriot, May 18, 1843.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0470.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 455\\nbridge over the Merrimack river at Hooksett, making repairs, on\\nSaturday, August 5th, fell from the bridge and was precipitated\\nupon the rocks below, about thirty feet. He received a cut on\\nthe head, and one wrist and one ancle were broken.\\nMr. Eastman relates that in 1839 he went out west, and while\\nin Brown county. 111., in the month of May, he went with a party\\nof two others to hunt deer. They came in sight of a pack of\\nwolves, four in number, which had infested that section for some\\ntime. One of the wolves was shot and killed the others\\nretreated to their den in the hollow of a large oak wind-fall.\\nAt first the party attempted to shut the wolves in, but one not\\nliking the idea of durance vile, rushed to the mouth of the\\nhole. The party seized him, tied his legs, and laid him down by\\nhis dead companion. Then the question was how they should\\ndispose of the remaining two. One of the party proposed to get\\nan axe and cut them out but Eastman said a better way was to\\ncrawl in and shoot them, as old Putnam did. Well, they said,\\nyou may do it, we won t. Whereupon, loading his gun heavy\\nwith buck shot, he crawled into the hollow log till he saw the\\nglare of the wolves eyes. Discharging his gun it kicked him\\nback, and the confined report nearly stunned him. Recovering,\\nhowever, he reloaded, crawled in, and gave the wolves another\\nshot. Both were killed, and dragged out of the hole by means\\nof a hook fastened to a long pole. After this exploit, they called\\nEastman the little smart yankee.\\nJeremiah Pecker, Esq., died in this town August 12th, aged 71.\\nMr. Pecker was a thrifty farmer, and frequently held responsible\\noffices in town. He was a man of quick wit, of much mechanical\\ningenuity, facetious in conversation, and a respected and useful\\ncitizen.\\nA severe gale was experienced in this town on the afternoon\\nof Tuesday, August 16th, accompanied with torrents of rain.\\nOne of the fine elms in the State House yard was completely\\ndestroyed. The main branches were spht off and the body of\\nthe tree, which was about twenty inches in diameter at the butt,\\nwas broken off about twenty feet from the ground.\\nIn the year 1843 thirty-seven new dwelling-houses, making\\nfifty-one tenements, were built in the main village of Concord,\\nbesides one large church and various stores, shops and offices.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0471.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "456 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nE, B. Little, Esq., of New- York city, made a donation of\\nfive hundred dollars to the Episcopal society in this town, for the\\npurchase of an organ for the church.\\nDied at the Eagle coffee-house, in this town, Saturday evening,\\nSeptember 30th, of consumption, Charles Walker, Esq., aged\\n45. Mr. W. was the eldest son of the late Charles Walker,\\nEsq., of Concord. He graduated at Cambridge in 1819, was a\\ntutor in Transylvania University, in Kentucky, with President\\nHolley, two years studied law with Thomas Addis Emmett, of\\nNew- York city, where he went into successful practice and con-\\ntinued until 1835. On account of ill health he visited the\\nWest Indies, but afterwards resided at Key West, in Florida,\\nwhere he received the appointment of District Attorney of the\\nUnited States. Subsequently he went to Porto Rico, and pur-\\nchased a plantation, which he cultivated till the spring of 1843,\\nwhen he returned to the place of his birth to die! Mr.\\nWalker possessed many admirable qualities, and was greatly\\nesteemed and beloved by all who knew him. He brought a pony\\nfrom the West Indies, for his use in riding, which, a short time\\nbefore his death he gave to Mr. James Prescott, in remembrance\\nof boyhood attachments, when Prescott lived in the family of Mr.\\nW. s father. The gift was made on condition that Prescott\\nshould use the pony well, and when too old for service should\\nUndly kill him. This beautiful and tractable animal is yet alive,\\n(1855,) and has had the honor of bearing on his back hundreds\\nof ladies and gentlemen of Concord.\\nMr. Walker s monument stands in the range of others of the\\nWalker family, in the north-east section of the old burying-ground.\\nOn the 18th of September, Charles Fcrrin, son of Mr. Philip\\nFerrin, in drawing a charge from a loaded gun, struck the butt of\\nthe gun against a beam, with his hand over the muzzle, when the\\ncontents of the musket were discharged, badly shattering his\\nhand.\\nOctober 23d there was a considerable fall of snow in Concord\\nand vicinity.\\nOn the 3d and 4th of November the printers, binders and\\nbooksellers of Concord, formed into two companies, and went out\\non a shooting match. On the evening of the 4th the game was", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0472.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 457\\nbrought in and counted, and a supper had at Moore s tavern,\\nnorth end of Main street. Members of the companies were as\\nfollows\\n(1.) L.B.Morrill, Captaiii Perkins Kimball, Frank Eastman,\\nN. B. Baker, F. Allison, H. H. Carroll, E. Mansur, S. S. Dow,\\nNoah Little, E. Shattuck, George 0. Odlin, William P. Foster,\\nJosiah H. Nelson, Charles W. Walker, George F. Kent, John\\nM. West, Joseph A. Pearson, John C. Stowell, Benjamin C.\\nLowell. (2.) John C. Wilson, Captain; True Osgood, John M.\\nHill, George G. Estabrook, John D. Carswell, Oscar Knox,\\nGeorge H. H. Silsby, Harriman Couch, Ezra F. Pike, Charles\\nWilliams, L-a R. Philbrick, B. F. Watson, N. J. McClure, Samuel\\nC. Hunt, Jr., Frank S. West, Samuel Dobie, Henry Anderson, E.\\nD. Carpenter, Jacob H. Ela.\\nAfter supper the companies chose N. B. Baker president;\\nTrue Osgood, Frank S. West, vice-presidents John M. Hill\\nsecretary, and N. J. McClure toast-master.\\nThe whole amount of game brought in was 7.772. Captain\\nMorrill s side, 3.939. Capt. Wilson s side, 3.833. Difference\\nin favor of Capt. M., 106.\\nOn Capt. Morrill s side, Frank Eastman and Perkins Kimball\\nbrought in a count of five hundred each. On Capt. Wilson s\\nside, Ira R. Philbrick brought in a count of six hundred and\\nninety-two, and True Osgood a count of five hundred.\\nOn the 23d of November a frightened horse, running with the\\nfore-wheels of a wagon, took the side walk below the Phenix hotel,\\nand ran over a little daughter of Ira Perley, Esq., about two\\nyears old. By some means the child was thrown from the walk\\nabout ten feet, into the street, but received no material injury.\\nAt a meeting of the citizens of Concord, at the town hall,\\nAugust 9th, without distinction of party, Jonathan Eastman, Esq.,\\nwas chosen chairman, and A. C. Blodgett and John Whipple sec-\\nretaries. The proposition was made and unanimously adopted to\\ninvite the celebrated Col. Richard M. Johnson, of Kentucky,\\nthen about to take a tour in New-England, to visit Concord.\\nThis invitation was accepted, and Col. Johnson made his visit to\\nthis place on Friday, October 25th. Leaving Boston in the\\nmorning by cars, he reached the crossing, near the south line of", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0473.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "458 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nConcord, about half past ten o clock in the forenoon, where he\\nwas met by Col. Franklin Pierce and Judge Upham, of the com-\\nmittee of invitation. Mounting a beautiful white steed, he rode,\\nescorted by a cavalcade of citizens, as far as the Rumford place,\\nwhere he was received by the committee of arrangements, and\\nwelcomed to the hospitalities of the capital by Ira Perley, Esq.\\nThence a procession of citizens and soldiers, led by Gen. Charles\\nH. Peaslee, chief marshal, Col. Johnson still mounted on his\\nwhite horse, marched, amid the firing of cannon and ringing of\\nbells, through Main street, down State street to Pleasant street,\\nand thence to the American house, where lodgings were provided\\nfor the distinguished guest. The streets through w^iich the pro-\\ncession moved were lined with people, who saluted him with\\nshouts. The Avindows and balconies of the houses were thronged\\nby ladies, who testified their interest in the scene by the waving\\nof handkerchiefs and by smiUng faces.\\nSoon after. Col. Johnson was conducted to the hall of the\\nHouse of Representatives, where he was introduced to the people\\nassembled by Ira Perley, Esq., in a highly appropriate address,\\nto which the Colonel responded. Col. Johnson wore a red vest,\\nthe same he had on in the battle of the Thames, at the time he\\nkilled the Indian chief, Tecumseh, and which was pierced by\\neleven bullet shots.\\nAt three o clock in the afternoon Col. Johnson, with a large\\ncompany, sat down to dinner in the hall of the Eagle hotel. At\\nthe dinner Franklin Pierce presided, assisted by Ira Perley,\\nJoseph Robinson, Thomas P. Treadwell, Joseph Low, Abel\\nBaker and Moses Shute. Speeches were made by the president\\nand others. A beautiful song, written by Mrs. Susan A. Barnes,\\nof Hooksett, was sung by Mr. George Wood with admirable\\neffect. Mr. WiUiam Low proposed the question to Col. John-\\nson Did you or did you not, in your opinion, kill Tecumseh?\\nCol. Johnson then minutely related the circumstances of the\\nbattle, and closed by saying, In my own opinion I did kill\\nTecumseh\\nIn the evening was a public levee at the Eagle hotel, where\\ngreat numbers had the pleasure of a personal introduction. On\\nSaturday morning Col. Johnson rode about the town, and at noon\\nleft by stage for Newport.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0474.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 459\\nOn Thursday, November 30th, Anthony Potter, son of Samuel\\nG. Potter, living in the eastern part of Concord, was drowned in\\nTurtle pond while skating. A companion by the name of Par-\\nker, rushing to his aid, also fell in, when a third, seeing them,\\nwent to their rescue, who also fell in. A dog with them raised\\na pitiful howling, which attracted the attention of some men near\\nby. By their exertions the two last were saved, but Potter\\nsunk. His body was recovered the next day in about sixteen\\nfeet of water. One boot was pulled off. He was about 20 years\\nof age.\\nAt a temperance meeting, December 30th, a committee was\\nappointed to prosecute all persons who continue to sell intox-\\nicating liquors in town.\\n[1844.] The new road from Concord, east village, to the\\nShaker village, running west of Oak hill, was opened for public\\ntravel early in 1844.\\nOn Friday morning, January 26th, between twelve and one\\no clock, one of the watchmen of the State prison, in going his\\nrounds, discovered a fire breaking out in the blacksmiths shop\\nin the prison yard. A fire alarm was given, and by the active\\nexertions of the citizens the fire was extinguished, but with a loss\\nto the State estimated at about $1000, and to Messrs. Greeley\\nEayres, contractors of the blacksmiths shop, at a larger sum.\\nThe night was intensely cold, and it Avas with great difficulty\\nthat the engines could be worked.\\nEarly on Saturday morning, February 5th, a fire broke out in\\nthe third story of the stone factory, at Fisherville. There being\\nno fire-engine at Fisherville, Mr. Leonard Morrison, on horseback,\\nriding at full speed, gave the alarm to No. 6 engine company, at\\nWest Concord, and to the fire companies in Concord main village.\\nGreat progress was made by the fire before the arrival of the\\nengines, but it was checked and extinguished with a heavy loss,\\nhowever, in machinery and materials. The upper part of the\\nfactory was nearly destroyed. There were in operation in the\\nfactory one hundred and eighteen looms, and four thousand three\\nhundred and eight spindles employing about one hundred ope-\\nratives.\\nA coroner s inquest was held on Tuesday, April 2d, on the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0475.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "460 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nbody of Mr. Ephraim Upham, who was found dead near tlie rail-\\nroad track, about half a mile below the bridge over the railroad,\\nat the south end of the town. He had been missing since the\\nnight of the 29th of March. He was 67 years of age. It ap-\\npeared in evidence that Mr. Upham was at the house of Joseph\\nWhitcher, in the evening of the 29th, in a state of intoxication,\\nand, attempting to walk home on the rail track, it is probable he\\nfell and perished in the cold.\\nApril 18. The weather for the past ten days has been as\\nwarm and balmy as in June. Last Sunday was almost a hot\\nday. Vegetation is very forward.\\nJuly 4. Mr. Carter, who lives near the stream that connects\\nGreat Turkey pond with Little Turkey, has fitted up five boats\\nfor the accommodation of those who visit the ponds for a boat-\\nride or for fishing.\\nThere was a temperance celebration in Concord on the 4th,\\nwhich was numerously attended. A collation was prepared in\\nthe State House yard, which was partaken of, as is estimated, by\\nover two thousand persons.\\nThe members of the Universahst society in Concord had a\\nfishing party at Turkey pond July 23d. On their return they\\ndrove through the streets of the village, forming a large pro-\\ncession of carriages. First was a four horse carriage, with the\\nConcord band, playing some most excellent and enhvening music\\nthen a carry- all, containing their pastor and family, and others\\nthen three stage-coaches, crowded full and covered on the top\\nwith ladies and gentlemen then several two horse carriages,\\nfollowed by twenty-six buggies, chaise and wagons.\\nDied in this town, very suddenly, of disease of the heart,\\nAugust 23, Mrs. Anna, wife of Mr. Joseph Potter, aged 70. Mr.\\nPotter rose early in the morning, went to his barn, and was absent\\nabout fifteen minutes. On his return his wife was a corpse.\\nDied in this town, September 7th, Capt. David Neal, aged 36.\\nHis funeral took place on Sunday, from the Universahst meeting-\\nhouse. Capt. Neal was buried with military honors, being a\\nmember of the Concord hght infantry at the time of his death,\\nand formerly commander of the company. A very large proces-\\nsion followed him to the grave.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0476.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 461\\nOn the 24tli of September a daughter of John Arhn, aged\\n15, was burned to death.\\nThe drought in this region is extreme. Almost every thing is\\nturned to dust. For three weeks, from September 1st to Sep-\\ntember 22d, we did not have one drop of rain.\\nA house belonging to James C. Whittemore, at the north end of\\nMain street, was burned on Thursday, September 26th. One of\\nthe chimneys was burned out early in the morning, and it being\\nobserved that there were defects in it, by smoke issuing, it Avas\\nwatched till about eleven o clock in the forenoon, when all danger\\nseemed to be at an end but in a little more than an hour after-\\nward the house was discovered to be on fire the fire having\\nbeen communicated from a defect in the chimney to the flooring\\nof the garret. The engines were upon the ground in good sea-\\nson, and had there been a sufficient supply of water the fire might\\nhave been extinguished in fifteen minutes but in a long drought\\nthat had prevailed the wells near by gave out in a few mo-\\nments. A line of people was then formed to Horse-shoe pond,\\nfor the passage of water. The fire w^as then too far advanced\\nto be checked by the inadequate quantity of water thus supplied,\\nand the house was completely consumed. It was occupied by\\nfour tenants Rev. Sylvester Dana, Justin L. Robinson, Joshua\\nIngalls and Mrs. Anna True. Mr. Dana lost four or five hundred\\nvolumes of theological works, and many articles of bedding and\\nclothing. Mr. Robinson s family suffered severely. The loss of\\nthe others was not so great. The house was insured in the\\nMerrimack County Insurance Company for $1000.\\nDied in this town, October 2d, Hon. Hall Burgin, aged 74.\\nHe formerly resided in Allenstown, owning the extensive farm\\nnow owned by George W. Ela, Esq. He was a man of great\\ninfluence in Allenstown, had held the office of Judge of the Court\\nof Common Pleas, and was once a member of the State Senate.\\nRemoving with his family to this town, about 1835, he built the\\nelegant brick dwelUng-house now owned by Joseph A. Gilmore.\\nToward the latter part of his life his property became embar-\\nrassed. He was highly respected as a citizen.\\nA shocking casualty occurred in Concord on Friday evening,\\nNovember 8th, while the democratic party were celebrating the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0477.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "462 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ntriumpli of the New- York election of Polk and Dallas, candi-\\ndates for president and vice-president of the United States. Mr.\\nJohn L. Haynes, one of the officers of the Columbian Artillery,\\nhad his left arm almost entirely blown off, his right arm dread-\\nfully shattered, and his face shockingly burnt, in the act of\\nramming down a cartridge. The discharge took place in conse-\\nquence of the vent not being stopped, in the excitement and\\nhurry of the firing. His left arm was amputated by Dr. Haynes,\\nof Concord.\\nThe number of deaths in town in 184-1 was one hundred and\\nthirteen, which is a larger number than ever occurred in a year\\nbefore. Of these, fifty were children under ten years of age,\\nwho died mostly of the bowel, or summer complaint, as it is\\ncalled, which extensively prevailed this season. Among the\\nnumber deceased was Mr. Samuel Jackman, formerly of Bos-\\ncawen, a revolutionary soldier and pensioner. He lived in the\\neasterly part of the town, near Lovejoy s mills, and at the time\\nof his death, August 20th, was the oldest person in town, being\\n96 years of age. He was a man of uncommon physical vigor,\\nwith the exception of his eye-sight. He retained his physical\\nand mental powers, in a good degree, to the last.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0478.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVI\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD FROM 1845 TO 1853 OR, TO THE OR-\\nGANIZATION OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT.\\nAt a special meeting of the town, September 23, 1845, new\\nrules and regulations were adopted for the organization of the\\nfire department. Four hundred and twenty dollars were appro-\\npriated for the purchase of three hundred and fifty feet of hose\\nfor engine No. 2 three hundred feet of hose for engine No. 4,\\nand twenty-five feet for engine No. 5. Reservoirs were ordered\\nto be constructed one between the South Church and Hoyt s\\ntavern, at the south end of Main street one opposite the State\\nHouse and west of Green street, and one or more at such other\\nplace as the board of engineers of the fire department shall\\ndetermine.\\nAt the organization of the fire department, according to the\\nnew regulations, September 24, Luther Roby was chosen chief\\nengineer, and Arthur Fletcher, George H. H. Silsby, Caleb Par-\\nker, Daniel A. Hill, John Haines, John Abbot, Lowell Eastman,\\nHarvey Rice, Benjamin Grover, James Moore, Shadrach Seavey,\\nWilliam Pecker, H. H. Brown, Moses Shute, Benjamin F.\\nDuncklee, Lewis Downing, Benjamin F. Dow, and Stephen\\nBrown, were chosen assistant engineers.\\nThe town also adopted a law of the State, passed at the June\\nsession, declaring that any bowling-alley, situate within twenty-\\nfive rods of any dwelling-house, store, shop, school-house, or place\\nof public worship, shall be deemed to be a public nuisance", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0479.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "464 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nand the selectmen were instructed to adopt the proper legal\\nmeasures necessary to abate such nuisances as then existed in the\\ntown. At this time there were four or five bowling-saloons in\\nthe compact part of the village, in which some young men spent\\na portion of their time every day, to the grief of parents and\\nfriends, the injury of their morals, and waste of money.\\n1846.\\nAsa Fowler, Esq., was appointed one of a committee to take\\ncharge of the town funds, in place of Samuel Coffin, resigned.\\nTwo hundred dollars were appropriated to purchase of Lewis\\nDowning engine No. 3, together with the house, hose, and other\\nfixtures belonging to the same. This engine was purchased by\\nMr. Downing in 1833, for two hundred and twenty-five dollars,\\nfor the protection of his large carriage manufactory estabhsh-\\nment, then situated at the south end of Main street, on the spot\\nnow owned and occupied by Mr. J. Stephens Abbot Son.\\nA law of the State was adopted by the town, authorizing\\nany two or more contiguous school districts in any town to\\nform a union, for the purpose of maintaining a high school, for\\nthe instruction of the older and more advanced scholars. An\\nattempt made to unite the three adjacent school districts in the\\nmain village proved unsuccessful.\\nThe superintending school committee reported that some of\\nthe higher branches, History, Philosophy, Astronomy, Physiol-\\nogy and Algebra, had received the attention of the more ad-\\nvanced scholars in district schools.\\n1847.\\nThe auditors reported that the whole expenditure for the\\nsupport of the poor the past year, including the interest on farm\\nand overseer s salary, over and above what has been received\\nfor that purpose, amounts to $374,49. The average number\\nof paupers, twenty-two and two thirds, and the income has\\nbeen sufficient to support them.\\nThe committee having in charge the various funds of the town\\nwere authorized to sell and convey, in the name of the town, the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0480.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "APPROPRIATIONS FOR VARIOUS OBJECTS. 465\\nreal estate formerly owned by Hall Burgin, Esq. This property\\nwas mortgaged to the town for money borrowed of the surplus\\nrevenue fund. In pursuance of the above authority the Burgin\\nhouse and land including the widow s dower, which the town\\nhad purchased was sold to Mr. Caleb Pratt, late of Hartford,\\nConn., for $4500. Mr. Pratt died suddenly at his house, Sep-\\ntember 26th, aged fifty-seven, of disease of the heart.\\nA sum not exceeding four hundred dollars was appropriated\\nfor a new burying-ground in the East village, and for fencing the\\nsame. Land for this purpose was bought of the estate of the\\nlate Jeremiah Pecker, Jr., and a new burying-ground laid out on\\nthe south side of the cross road running east of the meeting-\\nhouse, to the Loudon road.\\nThe selectmen were directed forthwith to remove all nui-\\nsances called bowling-saloons and to cause the blacksmith\\nshop, stone shop, and all other incumbrances now on the highway\\nand common near the old North Church, to be removed. The\\nblacksmith shop stood near the corner of the lot where the new\\nhouse of Francis N. Fisk now stands.\\n1848.\\nAt the annual meeting this year, a sum not exceeding three\\nhundred dollars was appropriated, for enlarging and fencing the\\nburying-ground at Millville, on the Hopkinton road. Permission\\nwas given to fence the common about the Biblical Institute, or\\nold North Church, and incipient measures taken towards erect-\\ning a new Town-house. These measures were fully carried out\\nafter the town became a city. One hundred dollars were appro-\\npriated for the support of a Teachers Institute in and for the\\nCounty of Merrimack a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars\\nto purchase land and fence the same, for a burying-ground at\\nFisherville. The selectmen were instructed to grant no Hcenses\\nduring the year, permitting the exhibition of circuses and upon\\nthe question, Is it expedient that a law be enacted by the\\nGeneral Court, prohibiting the sale of wines, or other spirituous\\nliquors, except for chemical, medicinal or mechanical purposes\\naflBrmative, one hundred and eighty-six negative, none.\\n30", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0481.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "466 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nThe superintending school committee reported one thousand\\nfive hundred and thirty scholars in winter schools, and one thou-\\nsand four hundred and thirty-two in summer schools, of whom\\none thousand three hundred and twenty-four were under fourteen\\nyears of age.\\nAt a special meeting. May 6th, resolutions introduced by Col.\\nDudley S. Palmer were adopted, requiring the selectmen to ap-\\npoint a committee of five, whose duty it should be to enforce\\nthe provisions of the license law against the unlawful sale of\\nintoxicating drinks and also a committee to prosecute every\\ninstance of a bowling-alley being used unlawfully; the ex-\\npenses of such committees to be defrayed by the town, not\\nexceeding five hundred dollars.\\n1849.\\nOur representatives to the Legislature were instructed to\\noppose the annexation of any part of Bow to this town\\nH. H. Brown, Nathaniel Rolfe, Eldad Tenney, Theodore F.\\nElliot and E. F. Brockway, were appointed a committee to lay\\nout into lots the burying-ground at Fisherville. The selectmen\\nwere instructed to pay each member of any engine or hook and\\nladder company in the town, twenty-five cents per hour for all\\nlabor actually performed by him at fires. Luther Roby, chief\\nengineer of the fire department, reported that the expense of\\nconstructing reservoirs of desirable materials, and which will\\ncontain one thousand cubic feet of water, will vary, according to\\nthe kind of earth and depth of excavation, from one hundred\\ndollars to one hundred and sixty dollars and that the fire\\nhooks which belong to the town, whenever their use has been\\nattempted, have either broken or straightened out, and conse-.\\nquently thrown down and made a pile of the men attached to\\nthem, instead of pulling down the building to which they were\\nattached.\\nThe summer of 1849 was an unusually sickly season, from the\\nprevalence of cholera morbus. In two or three cases the disease\\nstrongly resembled what was called the Asiatic cholera. Hence,\\non petition of Joseph Low, Nathaniel B. Baker and others, the\\nselectmen, June 7, appointed doctors Ezra Carter, Thomas", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0482.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 467\\nChadbourne and Charles P. Gage, Joseph Low and Asa Fowler,\\nEsqs., a board of health, which board immediately adopted\\nsanitary regulations examined out-buildings and places where\\nstagnant water, decayed vegetables, or other offensive matter\\nwas accumulated, and ordered the removal of the same also\\nrecommended to the inhabitants the observance of strict tem-\\nperance in regard to food and drink limiting the diet to the\\nmost plain, simple and easily digested articles avoiding all\\ncrude vegetables and unripe fruit, much fresh animal food, large\\ndraughts of cold water, and, above all, ardent spirits in every\\nform. This year the deaths in town were one hundred and fifty-\\neight a larger number than ever occurred in one year before.\\nAt the June session of the Legislature this year, an act was\\npassed to incorporate the City of Concord. September 22\\nthe vote of the town was taken on the adoption of the charter.\\nYeas, 183 nays, 637.\\n1850.\\nTo render the crossings of the highways by the several rail-\\nroads more safe and practicable, the town voted that the Concord\\nand Claremont railroad, the Northern, and the Boston, Concord\\nand Montreal railroads, should be required to secure the crossing\\nof their respective roads with the Free bridge road, by the con-\\nstruction of bridges and that at the intersection of the Boston,\\nConcord and Montreal road with the highway near the easterly\\nend of Federal bridge of the Northern railroad with the high-\\nway near Horse-shoe pond of the Concord and Claremont road\\nwith the highway near Horse-shoe pond, near Benjamin Far-\\nnum s, and near the Mast Yard, gates should be erected and\\nmaintained and that at the crossing near the West Concord\\ndepot a bridge should be built.\\nA sum not exceeding one thousand dollars was appropriated\\nfor the purchase of a fire engine, hose, c., for the use of engine\\ncompany No. 3, to be located near Mr. J. S. Abbot s carriage\\nmanufactory and a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars was\\nappropriated to purchase a new hearse and burying-cloth, to be\\nused at the West Parish. The town paid the Temperance\\nCommittee, for services and expenses, seventy-three dollars.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0483.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "468 HISTORY OP CONCORD.\\nAt a meeting, October 8, called to choose delegates to rep-\\nresent this town in a convention to revise the Constitution of this\\nState, to be held at the Capitol, in Concord, on the first Wednes-\\nday of November next, the following ballots were cast\\nWhole number, 662\\nNecessary for a choice, 333\\nFranklin Pierce, 441\\nNathaniel G. Upham, 365\\nCyrus Barton, 369\\nGeorge Minot, 395\\nNathaniel Rolfe, 382\\nJonathan Eastman, 376\\nMoses Shute, 381\\nRichard Bradley, 222\\nAsa Fowler, 263\\nNathan Stickney, 260\\nSimeon Abbot, 261\\nJeremiah S. Noyes, 272\\nFrancis N. Fisk, 127\\nJohn Eastman, 202\\nIraPerley, 150\\nand others, scattering. This Convention assembled in Novem-\\nber. Hon. Franklin Pierce was chosen President of the Con-\\nvention, which, with adjournments, continued its session till Jan-\\nuary 3, 1851. Proposed amendments to the Constitution were\\nagreed upon by the Convention, and ordered to be laid before\\nthe people, to adopt or reject at the annual town meetings in\\nMarch, 1851. The amendments were fifteen in number, every\\none of which was rejected in this town by majorities of from\\nfour to six hundred,* and also rejected by a large majority\\nthroughout the State.\\nThe Convention again assembled, April 16, and agreed upon\\nthree amendments to be sent out to the people, viz. 1. To abol-\\nish the property qualification for oflBce. 2. To abolish the religious\\ntest. 3. To empower the Legislature to originate future amend-\\nments of the Constitution. These were acted on at the March\\nmeeting, 1852, and the vote stood as follows (1st.) Yeas, 304\\nSee original Records, March, 1851.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0484.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 469\\nnays, 341 (2d.) yeas, 286 nays, 360 (3d.) yeas, 294\\nnays, 348.\\nAt a meeting November 18, the town appropriated $1500 to\\npay the award of the road commissioners to the proprietors of\\nFederal bridge, for a highway across the same, and other expen-\\nses connected with necessary repairs. The selectmen were au-\\nthorized to advertise for proposals and to contract for rebuilding\\nsaid bridge. The Federal bridge thus became free. In 1851 it\\nwas rebuilt in the most substantial manner, at a cost to the town\\nof $14,830.14.*\\n1851.\\nAt the town meeting in March, Asa McFarland, Esq., intro-\\nduced the following, which was unanimously adopted\\nWhereas the tolling of bells on funeral occasions is productive\\nof no good, and may, in case of the illness of the living, result in\\nevil Therefore,\\nResolved, That the practice be discontinued here, as it has gene-\\nrally been in other populous places.\\nThus ended a custom which had been invariably observed since\\na bell was first used on a meeting-house in Concord. At the\\nfuneral of Mrs. Sarah, wife of Mr. Richard Herbert, May 5, the\\nbell was tolled by his particular direction.\\nA committee, consisting of Joseph P. Stickney, Seth Eastman,\\nand Ira Rowell, reported that in consequence of turning the cur-\\nrent of Merrimack river to the east side of Sewall s island, by\\nthe Northern Railroad corporation, from two to three acres of\\nthe most valuable interval land had been washed away from the\\ntown farm.\\nMeasures were taken to suppress billiard tables.\\nThe selectmen were authorized to employ two or more suitable\\npersons as a night watch for the main village, and one or more\\nfor the village of Fisherville. The persons employed in the main\\nvillage were Horace H. Holt and Loring R. Cook, who were\\npaid for their services $387,87.\\nThe selectmen were instructed to license but one person to sell\\n*See Miscellaneous Chapter, Free Bridges.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0485.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "470 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nspirituous liquors and wines for medicinal, mechanical and chem-\\nical purposes. Mr. Joel C. Danforth \u00e2\u0096\u00a0v\\\\as appointed.\\n1852.\\nMoney was this year appropriated for the construction of new\\nreservoirs $100 for one near the brick school-house in district\\nNo. 10 $100 for one near the house of A. B. Currier $100\\nfor one near the house of Francis N. Fisk $50 for one at the\\nbrook near Isaac Emery s $50 for one at the brook near Philip\\nWatson s $200 for the enlargement of the reservoir in front of\\nthe State House, and $50 for one near the school-house in district\\nNo. 9.*\\nNew Towisr House. A committee, consisting of Josiah Mi-\\nnot, Richard Bradley, Joseph B. Walker, John Abbot and Na-\\nthaniel B. Baker, was appointed, and authorized in behalf of\\nthe town to make such arrangements as they think proper with\\nthe county, for the erection of a new building, on or adjoining\\nthe site of the present Town House, with a town hall, court room,\\nand other offices in the same. The committee was also author-\\nized to dispose of the old town house as they may think advis-\\nable, and appropriate the proceeds thereof to the new building.\\nA committee, viz. Sylvester Dana, Asa Fowler, Jacob A. Pot-\\nFrom a report of a committee on the Fire Department, it appears that at this time the\\ntown is provided with six good and reliable Engines, which are located as follows No. 2\\nnear the State Prison, at the corner of Tremont and State streets No. 4 on the north side of\\nWarren street, a few rods west of State street No. 3 at the south end of Main street, nearly\\nopposite Abbot Go s carriage manufactory No. 8 at Fisherville No. 6 at the West Village,\\nand No. 7 at the East Village.\\nIn regard to a supply of water, your committee find that there are now in the town four-\\nteen public reservoirs, located as follows At the south end of Main street, opposite Abbot\\nCo s carriage manufactory, is a reservoir whose capacity is about 1000 cubic feet opposite\\nthe Thompsonian building is another, whose capacity is about 1000 cubic feet; near the\\nSouth Church is another, whose capacity is about 400 cubic feet in front of the State House\\nare three others, whose aggregate capacity is about 2300 cubic feet; at the intersection of\\nCentre and Main streets is another, whose capacity is about 600 cubic feet; opposite the\\nMerrimack County Hank is another, whose capacity is about 600 cubic feet, but which is\\nalways fully sup|ilied with water; opposite the house of John H. George is another, whose\\ncapacity is about 800 cubic feet; on State street, near the house of Sewel Hoit, is another,\\nwhich is supplied by a brook, and is unfailing; on South street, near the house of N. B.\\nBaker, is anotlier, wliose capacity is about 1000 cubic feet. Besides these there are others of\\nvarious capacities, not strictly public reservoirs, located in different parts of the Centre Vil-\\nlage there being three near Warren street, between Main and Green streets one in the\\nrear of Call s block one at the intersection of State and Washington streets one at the in-\\ntersection of Main and Franklin streets, and various others, of small capacity, which it\\nmay be unnecessary here to enumerate.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0486.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 471\\nter, Moses Shutc and Abel Baker, appointed last year, on the\\nestablishment and perpetual naaintenance of a public library for\\nthe use of all the inhabitants of the town, made a report, and\\nproposed a plan, which was accepted, and resolutions in favor of\\nit adopted. The plan, however, failed of being carried into exe-\\ncution.*\\nAt a town meeting, August 14, Joseph B. Walker, John H.\\nGeorge and Stephen C. Badger, were appointed a committee,\\nwith full power to build a bridewell for the use of the town.\\nThe selectmen were authorized and instructed to take imme-\\ndiate measures for building a bridge across Merrimack river at\\nSewall s falls. The bridge was completed the next year as a\\nfree bridge.\\n1853.\\nThe annual meeting in March, of this year, was the last ever\\nheld in the capacity of a town. On the question of the accept-\\nance of a city charter, which had three times before been reject-\\ned, the vote stood yeas, 828 nays, 559. The usual town\\nofficers were elected, who continued in office until the organization\\nof the city government.\\nFrom the report of the committee having the town funds in\\ncharge, it appeared that at this time the\\nParsonage fund amounted to $4,296,76\\nSchool fund 8.188,58\\nSurplus Revenue fund (in 1852,) 7.985,30\\nThis latter fund had been borrowed by the town but as the\\nfund itself was considered the property of the town, and entirely\\nat its disposal, the committee having it in charge, March 13,\\n1852, were directed to cancel the certificates of this fund\\nthe effect of which was to extinguish not only the debt due from\\nthe town, but the fund itself.\\nThe last important business transacted by the town, at this\\nmeeting, was passing the following votes\\nVoted, That the committee appointed at the last annual town\\nmeeting, viz. Josiah Minot, Nathaniel B. Baker, Richard Bradley,\\nJoseph B. Walker and John Abbot, be authorized, in addition to the\\npowers and authority given by the vote passed at said meeting, which\\nSee Town Records, 1852.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0487.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "472 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nare hereby renewed and confirmed, to purchase for the use of the\\ntown all the premises in said town lying between Main street, on the\\neast Court street, on the north Summer street, on the west and\\nthe south line of the Dearborn lot, so called, as it now runs, extended\\nin a straight line westerly to Summer street, on the south or such\\nparts thereof as they think proper and that the selectmen be au-\\nthorized from time to time, in behalf and on the credit of the town,\\nto borrow such sums of money as may be necessary for that purpose,\\nor for any of the purposes mentioned in the vote aforesaid and that\\nthe same be placed at the disposal of said committee.\\nVoted, That a committee of three be appointed, with full powers\\nto procure the publication of such portions of the original propri-\\netors and town records as they may deem expedient, either in con-\\nnection with the proposed history of the town by the Rev. Dr.\\nBouton, or otherwise, at their discretion and that a sum not ex-\\nceeding three hundred dollars be appropriated therefor.\\nCommittee Nathaniel B, Baker, Jonathan Eastman and Joseph\\nB. Walker.\\nVoted, That the selectmen be instructed forthwith to organize\\nthe city government.\\nVoted, That this meeting be dissolved.\\nJohn P. Johnson, Toion Clerk.\\nMISCELLANEOUS ITEMS AND ANECDOTES RELATIVE\\nTO THIS PERIOD.\\n[1845.] A fire broke out in the store of Mr. Albert Herbert,\\non the corner north of the Merrimack house, Main street, on\\nSaturday evening, May lOtb, at half past nine o clock. By the\\nprompt exertions of the firemen the fire was kept from spreading.\\nThe house of Capt. Samuel Herbert, on one side the Merri-\\nmack tavern and the house of Mr. Richard Herbert, on the\\nother, being in imminent peril, were cleared of furniture, c.,\\nas was also, in part, the house of Rev. Mr. Bouton. The store\\nof Mr. Herbert was totally consumed, together with a consider-\\nable quantity of goods. Loss estimated at about ^2.500 insur-\\nance, $1,800.\\nA highly interesting, able and exciting political debate took\\nplace at a public meeting held in the old North church, on", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0488.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 473\\nThursday, June 5th, between Hon. John P. Hale and the Hon.\\nFrankUn Pierce. Mr. Hale represented the cause of the Anti-\\nSlavery party and Mr. Pierce that of the Democracy. As usual,\\nthe friends of each claimed the victory. A sketch of the debate\\nmay be found in the newspapers of that week.\\nThe New-Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society met in the old Town\\nHall on Wednesday, June 4th. The whole day was spent in dis-\\ncussing the question whether a secretary should be appointed and\\nthe meeting regularly organized by the choice of officers. N. P.\\nRogers, of this town, and others, spoke against organization, and\\nin favor of allowing every member perfect liberty. Stephen S.\\nFoster, of Canterbury, was in favor of organization. The meet-\\ning was split on this rock\\nMr. John G. Gould, of Concord, was drowned on Sunday,\\nJune 15th, in the Merrimack river, aged 28. He was bathing\\nat the foot of Turkey falls, near the railroad crossing, in com-\\npany with two others. He swam a few rods to a small island in\\nthe river, and on returning was drowned.\\nMr. Benjamin Hoit, living near Horse Hill bridge, killed a\\nrattle-snake, in the month of June, which was five feet long\\nand nine inches in circumference. Forty-nine eggs were taken\\nfrom it. It had twelve rattles, and consequently was supposed\\nto be fifteen years old.\\nOne day last week an eagle, which measured six feet from the\\ntip of one wing to the tip of the other, was shot by a boy only\\nthirteen years old, by the name of Goodrich, in the west part of\\nthe town.*\\nGeorge W. Currier, aged 29, and Alva C. Currier, aged 22,\\nbrothers, were drowned in Little Turkey pond on Wednesday\\nevening, July 2d, about six o clock. Their bodies were found on\\nThursday morning, about six rods from the shore, in about nine\\nfeet of water. They fell from a boat in which they were at-\\ntempting to cross the pond.\\nDied in this town, September 5th, at the house of his son-in-\\nlaw, Lewis Downing, Esq., Mr. Jonathan Wheelock, a Revolu-\\ntionary soldier and pensioner, aged 85 years. He was born at\\nLancaster, or Dempster, Mass., and entered the army of the\\nJV. H. Patriot, July 10, 1845.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0489.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "474 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nRevolution when lie was IG years old, as a musician. He was\\nat the battle of Bunker Plill, at the capture of Burgoyne, and\\nserved through the whole war occupying the station of drum-\\nmajor at its close. Not ten minutes before his death he had\\nsigned the papers necessary for the receipt of his pension, sitting\\nup in a chair.\\nTwelve thousand eight hundred letters were mailed from the\\npost-office in Concord during the quarter ending October 1st.\\nThe receipts for the quarter ending June 30th were $827,1 6i,\\nand for the quarter ending September 30th, $742,43.\\nThe Rogers family, consisting of three girls and one boy,* of\\nages varying from 11 to 17 years, gave a concert at the Uni-\\ntarian church on Wednesday evening of last week. The house\\nwas full, and all were highly satisfied with the performances of\\nthis interesting family. f\\nAbout the 1st of November Mr. Thomas D. Potter, of Con-\\ncord, fell from a chestnut tree a distance of thirty-four feet,\\nbruising him, but not fracturing a hmb. Twenty-four years ago\\nthe same individual fell from the same tree, and the same dis-\\ntance, breaking an arm, thumb, c.\\nOn the 26th of November a drove of five hundred and twenty-\\nfive turkeys passed through our streets a pleasing sight for the\\nday before Thanksgiving.\\nSamuel Carr, of this town, took a dose of laudanum on Fri-\\nday, October 31st, designedly, it is supposed. The apphcation\\nof the stomach-pump relieved him of this, but he died on the\\nnext day in a fever, superinduced by the poison.\\nMr. George Battes, recently resident in this town, while eating\\nhis breakfast on Monday morning, November 17th, dropped from\\nhis chair and died instantly. It is supposed he was strangled\\nwith meat. He was formerly of Lebanon, about 35 years old,\\nand was a man of intemperate habits.\\nA blacksmith s shop, at the north end of Main street, caught\\nfire on Saturday forenoon, December 13th, and the roof was\\nnearly destroyed before the fire could be extinguished. It was\\noccupied by Mr. Justin L. Robinson.\\nCapt. Benjamin Parker, of this town, slaughtered a hog last\\nChildren of Nathaniel P. Rogers, editor of the Herald of Freedom, t V. H. Patriot, Oct. 23.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0490.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 475\\nweek, which weighed six hundred and thirty-nine and a half\\npounds.*\\nIn the month of December a party of four men went from this\\ntown to the neighborhood of the White mountains, to hunt for\\ndeer. They made their head quarters at Littleton, and were\\nsuccessful in getting ten fine deer in a few days.\\n[1846.] On Saturday morning, January 3d, about half past\\nsix o clock, the two story wooden building on Main street, owned\\nand occupied by Messrs. Morrill, Silsby Co., printers, stereo-\\ntypers, binders and booksellers, was discovered to be on fire in\\nthe press-room of the second story. By the promptness of a\\nfew individuals, and the exertions of our firemen, it was extin-\\nguished in the course of an hour, with but comparatively little\\ndamage. The fire was communicated from a stove in which a\\nboy had a few moments previously kindled a fire, and then left\\nthe room to a quantity of printed sheets which had been hung\\nup to dry on the preceding evening.\\nAt a little past twelve o clock at night, January 7th, a fire\\nbroke out in the spacious frame buildings at the depot of the\\nConcord Railroad Company, occupied by Messrs. Gilmore\\nClapp for an extensive wholesale grocery establishment, and by\\nthe railroad company as a car house.\\nThe building contained an immense amount of West India\\ngoods and groceries, comprising a large quantity of flour, lime,\\noil, plaster, pork, fish, iron, c., besides four valuable passenger\\ncars and three baggage cars, belonging to the railroad, nearly all\\nof which were destroyed, or so much injured as to be almost a\\ntotal loss. By the well directed efforts of our firemen on that\\npart of the building in which Messrs. Gilmore Clapp s safe\\ncontaining all their books was situated, the latter was drawn\\nout but slightly heated, and with the contents uninjured. The\\nbuilding was entirely consumed.\\nNATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.\\nAt a meeting held at the office of Gen. Charles H. Peaslee,\\non Saturday, February 14th, for the purpose of considering the\\nexpediency of forming a natural history society in Concord, Dr.\\nJV. H. Patriot.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0491.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "476\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nWilliam Prescott was chosen chairman and Nathaniel B. Baker\\nsecretary. After some remarks from the chairman, from Rev.\\nMr. Bouton, Hon. Franklin Pierce, Hon. Nathaniel G. Upham,\\nPaul Wentworth, Esq., H. H. Carroll, Esq., and others, on\\nmotion of Stephen C. Badger, Esq., it was unanimously voted\\nthat it was expedient to form a natural history society in Concord.\\nFebruary 28th the following persons were chosen officers of\\nsaid Society William Prescott, president N. G. Upham, Paul\\nWentworth, vice presidents N. B. Baker, recording secretary\\nAsa Fowler, corresponding secretary I. F. Williams, treasurer\\nJohn H. George, librarian and cabinet keeper; Joseph Low,\\nCharles P. Gage, Richard Bradley, Abiel Chandler, managers.\\nMessrs. E. G. G. Hook, of Boston, have recently erected,\\nin the First Baptist meeting-house in this town, a splendid organ\\nfrom their manufactory, a subscription of $1,500 being raised\\nfor the purpose.\\nAbout two months since a new organ was erected in the new\\nNorth Congregational church, which cost $1,150.*\\nA child of Mr. John Shields, an Irishman, was run over by a\\nteam heavily loaded with timber, on Monday afternoon, April\\n20th, and was instantly killed. The wheels passed directly over\\nits head, crushing it in a most shocking manner.\\nThe damages paid by the Northern railroad for land taken\\nfor the track of the road, c., on the east side of Main street,\\nas appraised by the State Railroad Commissioners, were as\\nfollows\\nDamages.\\nRods length.\\nArea.\\nPer sq. rod.\\nAbel Hutchinsjf\\n$1000\\n12\\n64\\n$15,46\\nIsaac Hill,\\n400\\n6\\n32^\\n.12,31\\nJoseph LoWjf\\n480\\n6\\n331\\n14.40\\nBenjamin Grover,\\n601\\n13.\\n.64\\n9,89\\nMechanics Bank,\\n189\\n3\\nH\\n14,26\\nW. B. Saflford,\\n400\\n3\\n7f\\n51,61\\nMary Ann Stickney,\\n1000\\n27\\n183|\\n5,43\\nLuther Farley,\\n350\\n6.\\n26*\\n13,23\\nSamuel Butterfield,\\n551\\n12\\n60^\\n9.14\\nSarah Hall,t\\n261\\n6.\\n.34i.\\n7,32\\n*J\\\\r. H. Patriot. jThe names above marked, cultivated their ground for gardens.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0492.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 477\\nDamages, Rods length. Area. Per sq. rod.\\nWoodbridge Odlin, 301 8 38 7,92\\nJohn Whipple, 148 4 20J 6,83\\nGeorge W. Ela, 400 17 83^ 4,72\\nNancy West, 250 26 100 2,50\\nSamuel Morril,* 50 13 2U 2,33\\nD. L. Morril,* 10 2 2^ 3,61\\nE. S. Chadwick,* 11 3 3 3,66\\nNathaniel Bouton,* 25 8 7^ 3,42\\nRichard Herbert,* 400 11 57 7,00\\nSamuel Herbert,* 200 4 18 11,11\\nJames Woolson and wife, 250 5 25 10,00\\nAsa Fowler, 252 5 22J 10,90\\nWilliam Prescott, 233 4 2l 11,10\\nLucy A. Jordan, 2d, 175 2 10^ 16,66\\nCharles H. Stearns, 165 2 loi 16,56\\nPecker Lang, 354 10 54 6,51\\nP. Lang and Smart, 500 18 93 5,45\\nJoseph B. Walker,t 508 18 68J\\nOn Tuesday morning, May 5th, about half past one o clock,\\na fire broke out in one of two barns, owned by Messrs. Joseph\\nand William Low, situated a few rods south of the lower d^p8t\\nof the Concord railroad, just west of the track. Both barns\\nwere totally destroyed, together with about twelve tons of cotton\\nwaste and paper-rags, belonging to Peabody Daniell, of Frank-\\nlin. A buggy-chaise, belonging to Gen. Low, and a small quan-\\ntity of hay, were also consumed. The fire arose from spontaneous\\ncombustion of the cotton waste.\\nThe ancient dwelling-house, long owned by Dr. Peter Green,\\nopposite the Court House, on the east side of Main street, and\\noccupied by Irish families, with a small barn and shed in the\\nrear, was nearly consumed by fire on Thursday afternoon, June\\n18th.\\nDied in this town, in the evening of Tuesday, August 4th,\\nHenry Harrison Carroll, Esq., aged 33 years editor and pro-\\nprietor of the N. H. Patriot and State Gazette. His disorder\\nThe names above marked cultivated their ground for gardens.\\nt Mr. Walker s land includes Horse-shoe pond. Other lands of his were purchased at\\nprivate sale.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0493.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "478 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nwas congestion of the brain, of which the partial loss of sight for\\nthe last three months had been but too sure a precursor, end-\\ning in twcntj^-three distinct fits of convulsion. Mr. Carroll\\ngraduated at Dartmouth College in 1836. As a pohtical writer,\\nfor his age, he was capable of wielding as strong a pen as any\\nother editor in the State.\\nA considerable shock of an earthquake was felt in this town\\nand vicinity, for twenty or thirty miles around, on Tuesday\\nmorning, August 25th, about five o clock.\\nThe foundation for a new brick school-house, in district No.\\n10, for which $3,200 had been appropriated, was laid early in\\nSeptember.\\nA man named Scales, a tailor, at the west parish of Concord,\\nlast week presented a note for eight hundred dollars, signed by\\nhimself as principal, and two sureties, to the cashier of the Mer-\\nrimack County Bank, and received the money therefor. It was\\nafterwards found that the names of the sureties had been forged.\\nScales was arrested, five hundred dollars recovered, and then he\\nescaped.\\nMr. Abel Hutchins raised a musk-melon in his garden, this\\nseason, four feet and two inches long At the age of 83, Mr.\\nH. is industrious, and as active as most men of 60.\\nA fire occurred Saturday, September 26th, in the house of\\nMr. Samuel Palmer, on Green street, corner of Warren street,\\nwhich took from the pipe of a boarder, setting fire to a bed on\\nwhich he lay down to take a nap after dinner.\\nDied in this town, October 5th, at the house of his daughter,\\nMrs. Susan Webster, in the East village, very suddenly, Stephen\\nAmbrose, Esq., aged 75. His disease was dropsy in the chest.\\nMr. A. rose at the usual hour in the morning, nearly completed\\ndressing himself, and had been called to breakfast by his daugh-\\nter, to which he answered. In about fifteen minutes afterward\\nshe opened the door of his room, and found him sitting in an\\nupright posture in his arm chair dead For more than forty\\nyears he was extensively known as a trader at the East village.\\nHe represented the town in the Legislature several years, and\\nfilled various important offices of trust and responsibility, with\\nability and credit. He was an ardent politician, embracing the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0494.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 479\\nWhig cause, and was higbly esteemed as a kind neighbor and an\\nenterprising and useful citizen. At the failure of the Concord\\nBank he was its president.*\\nLieut. Joseph H. Potter, a son of Thomas D. Potter, Esq., of\\nthis town, who graduated at the West Point military academy\\nin 1843, was wounded in the battle of Monterey, September 21,\\n1846. In a letter to his friends here, dated September 27th,\\nhe says I was shot through the leg about two inches below\\nthe knee the ball passing between the two bones of the leg and\\nout on the opposite side. I was wounded while storming a bat-\\ntery on one of the hills back of the town. We had three days\\nhard fighting.\\nAn aged Man. Capt. John Palmer, who died in Canterbury\\nin October, 1846, at the age of 102 years and 5 months, was for\\nmany years a resident in this town. He was born in Marble-\\nhead, Mass., in May, 1744 followed the sea, in the East India\\ntrade, about thirty years, and in the Revolutionary war he was a\\nlieutenant and captain of a privateer. About 1790 he moved to\\nHopkinton, N. H., where he went into trade thence he moved\\nto Concord, in March, 1794 from Concord to Canterbury, in\\n1800, and remained in the latter place till 1816, when he again\\nreturned to Concord and Uved with his son, Capt. John Palmer,\\nJr., in the house built by the latter on the Mountain, so called.\\nIn 1844 he returned to Canterbury, where he remained till his\\ndeath. Capt. Palmer was small in stature about five feet and\\nfour inches but very spry and quick in his motions. Unfor-\\ntunate in business, he was reduced in his circumstances, and\\ndisheartened. For a few years he was somewhat irregular in\\nhis habits but afterwards he became strictly temperate in drink\\nand rather abstemious in food. In his old age he was industrious\\nand active working at the cooper business, which was his trade,\\nin a little shop near his son s residence, on the Mountain, on the\\nwest side of the road. He continued to work till near one hun-\\ndred years of age. He retained his faculties of sight and\\nhearing, and also his memory, till within a week of his death.\\n[1847.] A meeting of teachers, and others interested in the\\nimprovement of schools and education generally, assembled at\\nSee lists of officers, c.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0495.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "480 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nthe Court-room, Friday afternoon, January 1st. Josiah Stevens,\\nEsq., presided; Asa McFarland and Arthur Fletcher, Esqs.,\\nofficiated as secretaries. In the evening Prof. Haddock, of\\nDartmouth College, the State School Commissioner, delivered an\\naddress. After he had concluded. Rev. Mr. Bouton introduced\\na series of resolutions, which, after a full discussion, were unan-\\nimously adopted.\\nOne hundred and ten couples attended the stagemen s ball in\\nthis town, on Friday evening, January 15th, and had a jovial\\ntime of it. The music and entertainment are said to have been\\nexcellent.*\\nA meeting of the citizens of this town was held on Tuesday\\nevening, February 23d, to take into consideration such measures\\nas it might be deemed expedient to adopt for the relief of suffer-\\ning caused by famine in Ireland. At this meeting a committee\\nwas appointed, who issued the following notice\\nThe undersigned individuals, having been appointed a committee\\nto receive and transmit to Ireland such contributions of money, pro-\\nvisions and clothing as may be made for those suffering from famine\\nin that country, hereby give notice that they will receive and trans-\\nmit contributions for this purpose, made by the citizens of Concord\\nand other towns, to Boston, free of expense, whence they will be\\ntransmitted free of expense by the committees in Boston to Ireland.\\nPersons making donations in provisions or clothing are requested to\\nforward them to the care of Gilmore Clapp, in Concord, and dona-\\ntions in money to the care of E. S. Towle or George Minot, cashiers.\\nJoseph B. Walker,\\nNathan Stickney,\\nGeorge Minot,\\nJoseph A. Gilmore,\\nStephen Brown,\\nEbenezer S. Towle,\\nMitchell Gilmore, Jr.,\\nConcord, February 25, 1847 S\\nThe following donations were sent in\\nFrom citizens of Concord, $1,293,02\\nu u u Pembroke, 5,25\\nGilmanton, 5,62\\n6th school district in Canterbury, 14,00\\ncitizens of Concord, 100 bushels of grain.\\nPembroke, 168\\nJV. H. Patriot, January 3L", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0496.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 481\\nDied at Loudon, February 13th, Thomas Haines, a Revolu-\\ntionary soldier, aged 87, well known in this vicinity as old\\nsoldier Haines. He entered the army at the age of nineteen;\\nwas at Ticonderoga in 1777, and in the retreat from that place\\nwas shot at and his woolen frock pierced in several places with\\nbullets he being only slightly wounded. He escaped the pur-\\nsuit of Indians by hiding in a deep ravine. He was in the battle\\nat Bemis s Heights, near Saratoga, and was shot down and lay\\namong the dead more than forty-eight hours. When found, it\\nseemed doubtful whether the breath of life was in him. He Avas\\nwounded by a ball passing through his cheeks, from side to side,\\nnearly cutting off his tongue and knocking out most of his teeth.\\nHis face bore the marks of mutilation till his death. In the\\nlatter years of his life he received a pension from government.\\nSoldier Haines lived many years in a small house about four\\nmiles from Concord Main street, towards Chichester, and near\\nthe corner of the road leading to the mills on Soucook river,\\nknown as Dickerman s mills. He often came into the main\\nvillage, and was highly respected. He removed to Loudon only\\na few months before his death.\\nIn answer to a call* signed by one hundred and fourteen\\ncitizens of Concord, a large meeting of those in favor of a vig-\\norous and determined prosecution of the war with Mexico, was\\nheld at the Town Hall, on Monday evening, February 8th. The\\nmeeting was called to order by Col. Josiah Stevens, and was\\norganized by the choice of Jonathan Eastman, president Isaac\\nDow, Moses Shute, Francis N. Fisk, WiUiam Low, Nathan Call,\\nvice-presidents Joseph B. Walker and John M. Hill, secre-\\ntaries.\\nThe meeting was addressed by Gen. Charles H. Peaslee,\\nFranklin Pierce, Joseph Low, Charles F. Low, and a letter was\\nread from Lieut. Joseph H. Potter, who was wounded at Monte-\\nrey, but was then in town.\\nAt this meeting Franklin Pierce, Joseph Low and WilHam\\nButterfield were appointed to procure subscriptions in aid of\\nthe citizens of New-Hampshire who are attached to the reo-iment\\nSee names in Hill a N. H. Patriot, February 11, 1847.\\n31", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0497.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "482\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nof volunteers under the command of Col. Caleb Cushing. A\\nsubscription from seventy- three individuals amounted to $310.*\\nHon. Franklin Pierce having received the appointment of\\nbrigadier-general in the United States army for the Mexican war,\\non Monday evening, May 10th, an elegant sword was presented\\nto him by ladies of Concord. In behalf of the fair ones, Mrs.\\nN. B. Baker, in presenting the sword, addressed Gen. Pierce in\\na very happy and appropriate manner, to which the General\\nresponded.!\\nA beautiful horse, lately purchased of Col. Fox, of Nashua,\\nby gentlemen in this town, and intended as a present to Gen.\\nPierce, died last week from the effects of a sudden and severe\\ncold. Since that event several gentlemen, distinguished for their\\nliberality, have purchased and presented to Gen. Pierce the fine\\nblack horse which has been owned by William Walker, Esq., the\\nproprietor of the Eagle coffee-house. f\\nMessrs. Fisk Norcross, of Lowell, have employed the last\\nwinter about one hundred men, in cutting and drawing timber in\\nthe vicinity of the White mountains. In the month of May they\\nhad upwards of thirty thousand timber logs scattered along the\\nMerrimack river, between Thornton and Concord. These logs\\nare to be carried to Lowell and sawed into lumber for building\\npurposes, in the steam saw-mill of Fisk Norcross.\\nThe following are the names of the subscribers and the amount subscribed for the Vol-\\nunteer Fund\\nGen. Joseph Low,\\nFranklin Pierce,\\nAI)el Baker,\\n$20,00\\n20,00\\n5,00\\nM. Hill, 5,00\\nNathan Call, 5,00\\nL. S. Noyes, 2,00\\nBenjamin Grovor, 10,00\\nH. Langlev, 2,50\\nM. S. Judkins, ,50\\nL. M. Kimball, (Hillsbo-\\nrougli,) 1,00\\nD. G. Fuller, 2,00\\nJohn McUaniel, 3,00\\nCyrus Carton, 5,00\\nJonathan Currier, 1,00\\nSamuel G Berry, 2,50\\nC. A. W. Folsom,\\nJoseph Greeley,\\nN. B. Baker,\\nEzra Carter,\\nJ. A. Potter,\\nH. Houston, 2,00\\nCharles H. Peaslee, 10,00\\nParker West, (Manches-\\nter,) 5,00\\nG. W. Morrison, do. 5,00\\nJacob Carter,\\nJohn Lull,\\nJ. Bl()df;ett,\\nJoseph Robinson,\\nSamuel B. Larkin,\\nCyrus Hill,\\nJohn H. George,\\nIsaac Dow,\\nR. T. Leavitt,\\nS. C. Badger,\\nGeorge Minot,\\nL. Runlet, (Manchester.\\nDaniel Poor,\\nJonathan Eastman,\\nH. N. Harvey,\\nVV. Johnson,\\n00 T. P. Treadwell,\\n5J00| Josiah Minot,\\n5,50 John Pettengill,\\n5,00 John L. Tallant,\\n5,00 1 Josiah Stevens,\\nPhilip Sargent,\\nVV. H. Wynian,\\nGeorge Jones, (Bradford\\nJ. C. Duncklee,\\nJ. S. Hatchman,\\n3,00\\n1,00\\n1,00\\n10,00\\n3,00\\n10,00\\n5,00\\n1,00\\n2,00\\n1,00\\n5.00\\n)5,00\\n5,00\\n3,00\\n1,00\\n1,00\\n5,00\\n5,00\\n2,00\\n2,00\\n5,00\\n2,00\\n1,00\\n,)2,00\\n1,00\\n1,00\\nTrue Osgood,\\nAtkinson Webster,\\nR. G. Wyman,\\nWilliam Butterfield,\\nW. P. Hill,\\nE. A. Bodwell, (Man\\nChester,)\\nS. G. Sylvester,\\nEmery Burgess,\\nWilliam Low,\\nNathaniel Rolfe,\\nJ. A. Gilmore,\\nWilliam Hopkins,\\nEbenezer Symmes,\\nJohn Gass,\\nJ. E. Lang,\\nJ. B. Walker,\\nF. N. Fisk,\\nWilliam Prescott,\\nAbiel Walker,\\nCash,\\nFranklin Low,\\nPerkins Gale,\\nJ. F. Brown,\\nTotal,\\n5,00\\n3,00\\n1,00\\n5,00\\n5,00\\n3.00\\n2,00\\n5,00\\n3,00\\n3,00\\n20,00\\n1,00\\n3,00\\n5,00\\n3,00\\n5,00\\n5,00\\n3,00\\n5,00\\n,50\\n5,00\\n3,00\\n2,00\\n$310,00\\nt JV. JI. Patriot, May 13, 1847.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0498.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 483\\nOn the first of July, 1847, James K. Polk, president of the\\nUnited States, visited the capital of New-Hampshire, and was\\nreceived and entertained in a manner worthy of the high station\\nhe occupied.\\nPatrick Hart, of this town, a young man in the employ of the\\nConcord Railroad, as brakeman, was so severely injured near\\nLowell, on Monday evening, August 30th, that he survived the\\naccident but a few hours.\\nThe Ancient and Honorable Artillery, of Boston, under com-\\nmand of Gen. J. S. Tyler, celebrated their two hundred and\\neleventh anniversary on Thursday, September 9, by a visit to\\nthe capital of the Granite State. This corps, accompanied by\\nFlagg s brass band, arrived by the noon train. Disembarking a\\nshort distance below the village, they formed in column and\\nmarched to the foot of Main street, at which point they were\\nreceived by the Concord Light Infantry, Capt. Charles A. Davis,\\nattended by the Fisherville band. After the usual ceremonies of\\nreception by the military. Gen. C. H. Peaslee, in behalf of the\\ncitizens, welcomed this time-honored corps to the hospitalities of\\nConcord.\\nLieut. Charles F. Low, son of Gen. Joseph Low, of this town,\\nsailed for Vera Cruz from New- York, on the 17th of September,\\nwith eighty-five recruits of the ninth regiment.\\nDied in this town, October 6, Mr. Andrew Willey, aged 96\\nyears the oldest man in town.\\nSergeant John C. Stowell and Henry F. Carswell, both of the\\nninth regiment, and both lately printers in the N. H. Patriot\\noffice, died at the camp near the city of Mexico about the first\\nof September. The former was very severely wounded in the\\nbattle of the 20th of August. Carswell died of fever.\\nDied in this town, November 7, Col. John Carter, a revolu-\\ntionary pensioner and colonel in a regiment in the war of 1812,\\naged 88 years and 5 months. Col. C. was a native of Concord,\\nand at the time of his decease was the second oldest resident of\\nthe place. He was always a firm and consistent democrat, and\\nlover of his country.*\\nOn Thursday night, December 2, about eleven o clock, the\\nJV. H. Patriot, November 11,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0499.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "484 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ncabinet shop of Mr. Charles E. West, adjoining the foundry, on\\nWarren street, was discovei-ed to be on fire. It had made such\\nprogress before it was discovered that the building was nearly\\nconsumed before it was extinguished. Loss about $1,500. Four\\nyoung men, Messrs. Pettengill, Bickford, Ricker and Marden,\\nmechanics employed in the shop, lost their tools, valued at about\\n[1848.] On Wednesday, January 19, the large and nearly\\nnew dwelling-house and barn of M. N. Brown, situated in the\\nnorth-eastern part of Concord, were entirely destroyed by fire,\\ntogether with most of his household furniture, thirty or forty tons\\nof hay, a large quantity of grain, farming tools, and a young\\nhorse, c., amounting in value to about $2,500. Insured for\\n$775.\\nGen. Pierce arrived in this town, on return from Mexico, Jan-\\nuary 27, and was received with distinguished honor. It was\\nestimated that between three and four thousand persons were at\\nthe railroad d^pot to greet him. At the Depot Hall he made a\\npublic address. In the evening, a public levee was held at the\\nState House, where he received the congratulations of his friends.\\nThe body of a child, enveloped in a napkin and handkerchief,\\nwas found May 1, by some young people who were out May-\\ning, in the woods west of the village, near what is known as the\\nNew Colony. From appearances when discovered it had proba-\\nbly laid there nearly a week.\\nDied in this town. May 19, Capt. Samuel Davis, in the 90th\\nyear of his age. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and for several\\nyears the oldest native of the town. His life was characterized\\nby industry, integrity, and a faithful discharge of life s duties.\\nHe spent much of his time in old age in reading the Holy Scrip-\\ntures.\\nA beautiful monument has lately been cut from Concord gran-\\nite, at Mr. Luther Roby s stone-yard, at the north end of Main\\nstreet, to be erected in West Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the\\nspot where Jason Russell and eleven other American citizens\\nwere killed by the British army on the 19th of April, 1775.\\nOn Tuesday, September 12, Charles West, son of Hazen K.\\nWest, of this village, was struck, at the north end of Main street.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0500.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 485\\nbj a boy named Quinn. There had been some controversy be-\\ntween them in the former part of the day and upon meeting,\\ntowards night, the latter boy struck West several blows with a\\nstake over the head. He died the next morning. The boys were\\nabout 15 years of age. Quinn ran away.\\nMr. Theodore A. Hall died in this town on Thursday, Octo-\\nber 12, under the following circumstances Being employed in\\nthe wood-shop of the Northern railroad company, on the Saturday\\nprevious, he received a severe blow from another workman, which\\ntook effect in the region of the chest, or stomach. No bad con-\\nsequences were apprehended at first but he soon became very\\nill, and died in five days after receiving the injury. No malicious\\nintention was imputed to the person who struck him.\\nOn Friday morning, November 24, about two o clock, as Gen.\\nJoseph Low was returning from a visit to a sick friend, in passing\\nthe block opposite Gass s hotel he heard something resembling\\nthe cry of an infant in an entry-way next door to S. E. Brown s\\nstore. Proceeding to the spot he found a little male infant,\\napparently about two weeks old, lying on the floor, upon its face,\\nnearly stifled. Gen. Low took the foundling home, and gave it\\nproper care until provided for by the town.\\nDied in this town, on the 28th of January, of paralysis of the\\nleft side, after an illness of about ten days, Hon. David Law-\\nrence Morril, aged 77 years.*\\nThe building owned by Capt. Ebenezer Symmes, and occupied\\nas a bakery and confectionery estabhshment, was discovered to\\nbe on fire on Tuesday morning, February 13. The night was\\nintensely cold, and the fire had made considerable headway at the\\ntime of the discovery yet, by judicious management, it was\\nextinguished. The fire took from ashes which had been thrown\\nout near the building, communicating to a flight of outer stairs,\\nand thence running to the building itself.\\nOn Tuesday evening, February 13, at half past ten o clock,\\nthe quiet of our usually peaceful village was broken by the cries\\nof fire and the ringing of bells. The extensive coach manufac-\\ntory of J. Stevens Abbot, Esq., (formerly Downing Abbot,)\\nwas found to be on fire, which had made such progress before its\\ndiscovery as to bafile the exertions of the fire department. The\\nSee Biography.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0501.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "486 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nentire establishment, with the exception of a large blacksmith s\\nshop, (a fire proof building,) was in a few hours laid in ashes.\\nAn Irishman, named Michael Storan, committed suicide in\\nthis town on Tuesday morning, April 8, by drowning himself in\\nthe Merrimack river.\\nDied in this town, March 30, Isaac Emery, Esq., aged 80\\nyears. Mr. Emery was a native of this town, and was for many\\nyears the well known landlord of a public house on the east side\\nof the river. He had been twice elected a member of the Leg-\\nislature, and had held a number of important stations in the gift\\nof his fellow-citizens.\\nIn the evening of March 17, Mr. Henry Larkin, an Irishman\\nof this village, drank by mistake supposing it to be brandy\\na quantity of poison, (tincture of aconite,) enough to kill fifty\\nmen and was immediately thrown into the most dreadful convul-\\nsions, and died in about twenty minutes.\\nThe presentation of the sword voted by the Legislature of the\\nState of New-Hampshire to Gen. Pierce, took place June 27, at\\nhalf past four o clock, P. M., in front of the State House. The\\nsword was presented by Gov. Samuel Dinsmoor, in presence of\\na lar^e number of the members of the Ledslature and of citizens.\\nA serious accident, resulting in the death of one individual\\nand the serious injury of two others, occurred on the Concord\\nand Claremont railroad upon the occasion of its opening to War-\\nner, on Friday, September 21. Mr. Matthew G. Gould, of Sutton,\\naged about 20 years, was accidentally thrown from the platform\\nof a car near Fa mum s crossing, and his legs were shockingly\\ncrushed, so that death ensued.\\nGeorge E. Farnum, aged 15 years, eldest son of Dea. Benja-\\nmin Farnum, of this town, was fatally injured on Tuesday eve-\\nning, September 18, by falling from a scaffolding to the lower\\nfloor in his father s barn, thereby fracturing his skull and breaking\\nhis right thigh, causing his death in two or three days.\\nThe clothing store of F. C. Edmunds, in this place, was broken\\nopen on the night before Thanksgiving, and about one hundred\\ndollars worth of clothing stolen therefrom. A small trunk, con-\\ntaining papers of little value, was taken, but was found the next\\nmorning near the Free bridge.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0502.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 487\\nOn Friday, December 14, about half past twelve o clock, the\\nlarge three story Avooden block on Mam street, next south of the\\nEagle coffee-house, called Butterfield s block, was discovered to\\nbe on fire, and before men enough to resist it had assembled, the\\nfire had made such progress as to render it impossible to save\\nthe building, and it w^as entirely consumed, together with the two\\nstory building next south, owned and occupied by Abraham\\nPrescott Sons, for the manufacture and sale of musical instru-\\nments. Next to that were two ten footers, and then a two\\nstory dwelling-house, all owned by Col. Benjamin Grover the\\nfirst of which was nearly burned up and the others considerably\\ninjured.\\nDied in this town, December 22, Mrs. Mary Abbot, aged 85\\njust three weeks after the death of her husband, Mr. Samuel\\nAbbot. They had hved together in wedded life sixty-three\\nyears, and in their death were not long divided.\\n[1850.] Mr. Peter Jenness, of Chichester, was instantly\\nkilled, on Saturday, February 9, at the crossings of the railroads\\nand Free bridge road. He was coming into the village with a\\nhorse and sleigh, just as the eleven o clock train on the Concord\\nand Claremont railroad was starting out, and either supposing\\nthe train had not started, and wishing to cross before it, or for\\nsome other reason, he whipped his horse into a very fast gait,\\nand just as the horse had cleared the track, and the sleigh had\\ngot square upon it, the engine struck him and killed him in-\\nstantly cutting, tearing and mangling his body in a horrible\\nmanner. Mr. Jenness was a respectable farmer, about 53 years\\nof age, and has left a wife and children.\\nDaniel Prince, residing on Pleasant street, committed suicide\\nby cutting his throat with a knife, on Saturday evening, March\\n23. He survived until Tuesday morning. He was 67 years of\\nage, and leaves a wife. The only cause assigned for this act\\nwas the fear of pecuniary troubles, which had no real foundation.\\nDied in this town, in May, Mr. Nathaniel Ewer, aged 77. He\\nate his dinner as usual, and, going out of his house, suddenly fell\\nand died.\\nThe grocery and provision store of W. Odlin Co., in this\\nvillage, was broken into one night last week, and about twenty-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0503.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "488 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nfive dollars in money stolen therefrom. It was probably entered\\nby means of a false key.*\\nOn Friday, November 15, upon tlie Poor Farm in this town,\\ntwo men were engaged in blasting rocks, and while one of them\\nwas charging a seam from a keg of powder which he held under\\nhis arm, the charge exploded, igniting the powder in the keg,\\nand very seriously injuring and burning both of the men. Nei-\\nther of them were fatally injured, but it is a wonder that both\\nwere not killed. Their names were SulUvan Davis and\\nCorhss.\\nAnother horrible accident occurred on the Concord and Clare-\\nmont railroad on Tuesday morning, attended with the loss of two\\nlives. As the morning train was coming through the cut at\\nFarnum s ledge, about two miles above this village, where the\\nhighway crosses the track diagonally, it came in contact with a\\ntwo horse wagon, containing a gentleman and lady coming into\\ntown. The horses had barely crossed the track, and the wagon\\nwas upon it, when the engine struck the wagon, staving it in\\npieces, and passing over the bodies of its occupants, horribly\\nmangling and instantly killing the lady, and so injuring the man\\nthat he soon died. The persons were William Coult and wife,\\nof Manchester, aged about 55 years. They had been on a\\njourney to Vermont and Western New-York, and were just re-\\nturning home, when thus suddenly called to another world.\\n[1851.] On Monday night, November 3, between eleven\\nand twelve o clock, the dwelling of Mr. David Tandy, near the\\nSand hill, so called, was assailed by several young men, and\\nviolence committed. The assailants on reaching the house com-\\nmenced calling for the sons of Mr. Tandy, threatening violence\\nif they came out, and that the house would be demolished if\\nthey remained within it, accompanying their threats with a volley\\nof oaths. The sons, David and Calvin L., went out to resist the\\nassault, when they were saluted by stones, one of which struck\\nCalvin L. Tandy in the forehead, just above the right eye, and\\nfractured his skull.\\nMissionary Convention. A convention was held at the\\nNorth church, in this town, on the 4th and 5th of November,\\nJ\\\\ Patriot, September 19, 1850.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0504.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 489\\nthe object of which was to obtain more full information respecting\\nthe state of nations unenlightened by Christianitj, and to awaken\\nand diffuse more of a missionary spirit in churches. The con-\\nvention was well attended by ministers and others from different\\nparts of the country and great interest was given to the meeting\\nby the presence and addresses of Rev. Mr. Goodell, a returned\\nmissionary of the American Board, who has spent about tliirty\\nyears in the service, and of Dr. Pomroj^, one of the secretaries\\nof the Board.\\nGen. Robert Davis, of this town, sustained serious injury on\\nMonday, October 6, by falling from the roof of his dwelling-\\nhouse, whither he went to remove leaves and other obstructions\\nin the gutter. He had a hook attached to a pole being accus-\\ntomed to ascend the roof for a similar purpose which he ap-\\nplied to the ridge-pole, and descended towards the gutter. The\\nhook became detached from the pole, and Gen. Davis was pre-\\ncipitated to the ground, breaking one thigh and being otherwise\\ninjured.\\nMr. Stephen Chase, formerly a resident of the East Village,\\ndied in Conway a few days since, at the age of 67. Mr. Chase\\nwill be remembered by those who were boys inl812 15, as\\nbeing the man who had the honor of carrying and beating the\\nfirst base drum ever seen in the world-renowned Eleventh\\nRegiment of New-Hampshire militia, at a muster which took\\nplace on the lower interval, as it is called, east of Federal\\nbridge.*\\nThe most destructive conflagration ever known in Concord\\ntook place on Monday night, August 25, about eleven o clock.\\nThe flames were first discovered issuing from a long, three story\\nwooden building, known as Mechanics Row, immediately in\\nrear of the apothecary store of Mr. E. H. Rollins, and which\\nwas surrounded by structures as combustible as itself. The fire\\nrapidly spread to the stable of the Eagle cofiee-house thence to\\na new and elegant brick building, called the Merchants Ex-\\nchange near the same time enveloping wooden buildings on\\nthe south, owned by Mr. Abraham Prescott and Col. Grover,\\nand on the north the Eagle coffee-house and the brick block\\n*JV. H. Statesman, October 25.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0505.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "490 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\noccupied for stores, together with all the wooden buildings in the\\nrear. The fire was finally arrested on the north at the building\\nwith brick ends, still standing, owned by Mrs. M. A. Sticknej,\\nand on the south by the brick building known as Low s block.\\nAll the intermediate buildings forming the business centre on\\nthe east side of Main street were destroyed, with much of\\ntheir contents. The buildings were mostly insured. The light\\nof this great fire was seen over nearly every part of New-\\nHampshire as far as Franconia also in Thetford, Vermont,\\neighty-four miles and in Portland, Maine, one hundred miles\\nfrom Concord. At Portsmouth, it is said, it appeared as if only\\ntwelve or fifteen miles distant, and at Francestown it shone into\\nsleeping chambers like the light of the waning moon. The owners\\nor occupants of the buildings burnt and principal sufferers were\\nas follows Benjamin Grovcr, Abraham Prescott, Prescott\\nBrothers, Jane Dustin, Allison Gault, Porter, Rolfe Brown,\\nWilliam Walker, Jr., E. H. Rollins, Mrs. M. A. Stickney\\nowners John Gibson, of the Eagle hotel Jacob Carter Son,\\nC. W. Gardner, J. C. Munroe, C. W. Harvey, Nathaniel\\nEvans, Jr., Page Fay, Johnson Dewey, Moore Cilley,\\nC. E, Savory Co., Brown Young, G. P. Lyon, Sylvester\\nDana, Ephraim Eaton, B. W. Sanborn, McFarland Jenks,\\nJ. Prescott Co., G. D. Abbot, Fogg Wiggin, Dr. T. Haynes,\\nDavid Winkley, R. C. Osgood, H. A. A. H. Bellows, Peaslee\\nGeorge, C. Ainsworth, James Peverly, Tripp Osgood, G.\\nBullock, B. Gage, S. G. Sylvester, Miss A. Hamlin, Reed\\nStanley, Norton Crawford occupants.\\nDiscourses of a kind naturally suggested by the fire were de-\\nlivered to most, if not all of the congregations here, on the fol-\\nlowing Sabbath.\\nMr. John F. Brown, of this town, the well known book-seller\\nand publisher, presented us on Wednesday with an apple raised\\nby himself, which weighs seventeen ounces, and the greatest cir-\\ncumference of which is thirteen and a half inches.*\\nThe mansion house of the late Gov. Hill was purchased on\\nMonday, September 22, by Isaac Danforth, Esq., of Boston.\\nThe price at which it was bid off was $4,450.\\nStatesman, September 27.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0506.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS.\\n491\\nThe freight train down over the Northern raih^oad, last week,\\nconsisted of one hundred and ninety-four, and on Tuesday, Oc-\\ntober 7, of two hundred and forty-two loaded cars.\\n[1852.] On new year s day two of our young men were\\nremoved from us by death. Mr. Marshall B. Colby, station\\nagent on the Claremont road at the Mast Yard depot, was\\ncrushed to death between two cars, and Mr. Lyman Aldricli\\ndied on the same day of inflammation of the lungs, following a\\ncourse of typhus fever. The funeral services of both were at-\\ntended on the following Sabbath, at the West Parish church.\\nSermon by Rev. A. P. Tenney.\\nOn Friday morning, January 23, between three and four\\no clock, a fire was discovered in a small wooden building on the\\nFree bridge road, within a few feet of a range of wooden build-\\nings on Main street, owned by Mrs. Mary Ann Stickney, to\\nwhich the fire was soon communicated, and the whole were de-\\nstroyed. The occupants of the consumed buildings were Daniel\\nA. Hill, furniture ware-house David Symonds, harness maker\\nDay Emerson, marble workers William Oilman, shoe maker\\nEben Hall, tin-ware manufacturer Joel C. Danforth, whip man-\\nufacturer, and Moore Jenkins, market house.\\nOn Friday morning, April 23, the interval on both sides of\\nthe Merrimack river was completely covered with water, extend-\\ning from immediately east of Main street to the Dark plain.\\nThere was an unbroken sheet of water from the foot of the hill,\\nnear the Walker barn, to the East Village. In the distance\\nKearsarge mountain was seen white with snow.\\nJohn McAlpin, assistant road-master on the Concord Railroad,\\nwas instantly killed on Wednesday, April 21, by being thrown from\\na gravel train, which passed over him. He leaves a wife and\\nfour children.\\nOn Wednesday, May 19, Rev. Augustus Woodbury, pastor of\\nthe Unitarian church in this town, while examining a jam of logs,\\nowned by Fisk Norcross, at the Concord lower bridge, having\\nstepped upon the timber, fell into the water and such was the\\nrapidity of the stream, he was instantly carried beneath the\\nthickly imbedded logs, to a point some sixty feet from the upper\\nend of the jam. Fortunately he was rescued from his perilous", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0507.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "492 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nsituation when death seemed inevitable by two of the men\\nin Fisk Norcross s employ. Their names were John Crawford\\nand Abbot Haynes, both of the State of Maine.\\nA fire occurred on Saturday, May 20, about five, P. M., in\\nthe large house formerly Washington hotel owned by Mr.\\nCharles Smart, north end of Main street. It was extinguished\\nwithout much damage.\\nThe new jail, located about three-fourths of a mile from the\\nMain street, at the intersection of Warren and Pleasant streets,\\nwas finished the last of May. The site, including about ten\\nacres of land, was purchased of Mrs. M. A. Stickney for $1,100.\\nThe building was erected at an expense of $11,000. The labor\\nwas performed mostly by contract. The stone work by John C.\\nand Francis Farnum the wood work by Cross and Warren the\\nbrick work and slating by James C. Whittemore the copper\\nwork and plumbing by J. D. Cooper, and the iron work at the\\nState Prison. The plan was designed by Messrs. George A.\\nPillsbury, Luther McCutcheon and John Tennant, committee, in\\nconnection with John Miller, architect.\\nThe body of an Irishman, named John Montgomery, was dis-\\ncovered floating in the Merrimack river, near the Free bridge,\\non Wednesday, A. M., June 30. Montgomery, who was lately in\\nthe employ of Robinson k Morrill, tanners, of the East Village,\\nwas intemperate and late on Saturday night was in company\\nwith one John Quinn and other Irishmen the whole company\\nhaving indulged, in the course of the evening, in frequent pota-\\ntions. An inquest on the body was held by Seth Eastman, Esq.,\\nand the following verdict returned That said Montgomery\\ncame to his death on Sunday morning, 27th June, by the hands\\nof some person or persons unknown and that John Quinn was\\nthe person last known to have been in company with him before\\nhis death.\\nThe fourth of July was celebrated in Concord pretty much\\nas usual. The bells were rung and salutes fired at sunrise, noon\\nand sunset chowder parties came off at Long pond and other\\nfavorite resorts, and the boys wound up the whole with a little\\nfun in the evening.\\nMr. P. C. Holmes, aged 20, son of Charles Holmes, Esq., of", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0508.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 493\\nDunbarton, clerk in the store of INIr. B, Plummer Whipple, of\\nConcord, was drowned in the Merrimack river, under the Free\\nbridge, on Sunday morning, between five and six o clock, where\\nhe went to bathe with another young man. His body was found\\nnext day about four, P. M., being raised by the firing of cannon\\non the bank of the river.\\nWednesday, August 25, is the anniversary of the great fire in\\nConcord last year. New and elegant buildings have already\\nbeen erected upon the ruins, and nearly all are tenanted, or\\nready for occupancy. The hotel, on the site of the old Eagle\\ncoffee-house, is to be opened on the first of November, by Maj.\\nJohn Gibson, and will be the most spacious and elegant in the\\nState.*\\nAn elegant and lofty flag-staff, or liberty pole, near the State\\nHouse yard, on Main street, was erected in August, by the\\nGranite Club, at a cost, with the flag, of three hundred dollars.\\nThe main pole is ninety- three feet in length. The flag pole\\nabout sixty. The pole and staff were cut in Dunbarton.\\nThe flag-staff erected this season in West Concord is one\\nhundred and ten feet high.\\nDied in this town, September 8, very suddenly, Mr. John\\nPark Gass, aged 58, extensively known as the popular keeper of\\nvarious public hotels. Mr. Gass was named for his uncle, Stuart\\nJ. Park, Esq.f His mother was S. J. Park. In 1816 he came\\nto Concord with his uncle, and was the overseer of the State\\nPrison convicts, to learn them to hammer stone for the State\\nHouse. After the State House was finished, Mr. Gass and\\nDearborn Johnson hired the prisoners to work for them, up to\\n1820. He then went to Columbia, South Carolina, and built\\nlocks and canals on Saluda river, and made a handsome sum of\\nmoney. Returning to Concord, he bought the Columbian hotel\\nof Maj. Peter Robertson, kept the hotel until 1826, went to\\nBoston, kept the Back-street house, now called Salem-street,\\nstayed there a few months, then went to New-York, and kept\\nthe Broadway house until the fall of 1829. At the request of\\nIsaac Hill he then returned to Concord and took the Eagle\\ncoffee-house, and kept it until 1831: having for about two years\\nJV. H. Statesman, f See notice of Mr. Park, p. 365, note.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0509.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "494 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nof the same time the charge also of the Columbian hotel. In\\n1834, in connection with his son John, he built the American\\nhouse, where he continued till 18-47, when he went into the gro-\\ncery business in a store fitted up in the basement of the old\\nEmmons house, immediately north of the hotel. Mr. Gass\\nwas one of the most agreeable and popular taverners in New-\\nHampshire. His accommodations were always on a liberal scale,\\nin which he himself participated attentive to his guests, socia-\\nble and witty in his remarks, he rarely failed to give satisfaction.\\nMr. Gass died suddenly of apoplexy and congestion of the lungs.\\nHe left an only son, Mr. John Gass, proprietor of the American\\nhouse, and three daughters. Susan, the eldest, married George\\nWood Jane Park, married Sullivan H. Sanborn Mary Ann,\\nmarried Ohver Greeley.\\nThree hundred and eighty-two cars, loaded with live stock,\\npassed down over the Concord Railroad on Tuesday, September\\n14, besides the regular freight trains, amounting in all to five\\nhundred and thirty-four cars.*\\nOmnibus. Mr. George Dame, of the Pavilion hotel, has\\nstarted an omnibus, which runs twice, hourly, between the north\\nend of Main street and the depot. Upon the panels are views\\nof the State House, Depot, and Main street, and a likeness of\\nGen. Franklin Pierce, painted by Mr. Wolcott, in the employ of\\nJ. S. Abbot Co. This was the first omnibus started in Concord.\\nNews of the death of Hon. Daniel Webster, at Marshfield,\\nMassachusetts, on Sunday morning, October 24, twenty-two\\nminutes before three o clock, was received in Concord by tele-\\ngraph at nine o clock the same morning. The bells of the town\\nwere immediately tolled, flags that were on public buildings were\\nlowered half-mast, and the several clergymen in their church\\nservices made appropriate allusions to the national bereavement.\\nOn Monday morning, at ten o clock, most of the stores and\\nofl ces on Main street were closed, and the citizens, as if moved\\nby a spontaneous impulse, assembled in the Representatives\\nHall in the State House, to express in an appropriate manner their\\nfeelings on the mournful occasion. A large number of ladies were\\nalso present. The meeting was called to order by Edward H.\\nJV. H. Patriot", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0510.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 495\\nParker, M. D., when prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Bouton.\\nHon. Ira Perley was chosen chairman, and Dr. Parker secretary.\\nOn taking the chair Judge Perley made an appropriate and\\nimpressive address. A committee, consisting of W. H. Bartlett,\\nRichard Bradley, N. B. Baker, Ezra Carter, and H. A. Bellows,\\nwas then chosen, to report resolutions appropriate to the mourn-\\nful occasion. On the resolutions being offered. Gen. Franklin\\nPierce, then in nomination as a candidate for the presidency of the\\nUnited States, made an address, in which he used the impressive\\nwords, How do mere earthly honors and distinctions fade amid\\na gloom like this How political asperities are chastened what\\na lesson to the living What an admonition to personal malevo-\\nlence, now awed and subdued, as the great heart of the\\nNATION THROBS HEAVILY AT THE PORTALS OF HIS GRAVE.\\nOn Monday evening, January 3, as Hon, Henry Hubbard, of\\nCharlestown, was going from the Eagle hotel, in stepping from\\nthe sidewalk at the north end of the block his feet slipped, he fell\\nheavily upon the ice, and struck his left arm upon the curb stone,\\nbreaking the bone above the elbow. For this accident the gov-\\nernor sued the town for damages, and obtained a verdict in his\\nfavor for about $800.\\nBenjamin, the only son of Gen. Franklin Pierce, was instantly\\nkilled on Thursday, January 6, by a terrible accident to the cars\\non the Boston and Maine railroad, about one mile from Andover,\\nMass. In company with his parents he had just left the house\\nof his uncle, John Aiken, Esq., of Andover, for Concord. The\\ncars, running at a rapid rate, were suddenly thrown from the\\ntrack, and precipitated down a rocky embankment of twenty feet\\nor more. At the time of the occurrence the beautiful boy was\\nstanding near his parents, and when the cars went over it was\\nsupposed he was thrown forward in such a manner as to fracture\\nhis skull and produce instant death. It is remarkable that he\\nwas the only one killed, although some were severely and many\\nslightly injured.\\nHis remains were conveyed back to the house of Mr. Aiken,\\nwhere funeral services were performed on the Monday following,\\nin the presence of a numerous and sorrowing assembly. Rev.\\nSee report of proceedings, c., JV. H. Patriot, October 27, 1852.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0511.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "496 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nHenry E. Parker, of Concord, officiated. About sixty persons\\nfrom Concord attended as sympathising friends. Twelve lads,\\nassociates and school-mates of little Benny, attended as pall-\\nbearers. After the services at Andover the remains of the dear\\nboy were brought to Concord and followed by an immense pro-\\ncession from the Depot to the ancient burjing-ground, at the\\nnorth end of the village, where they were deposited in the family\\nenclosure, beside those of his deceased brother, Robert, who\\ndied November 14, 1843, aged 4 years and 2 months. The silver\\nplate on the coffin of the deceased bears the following inscrip-\\ntion Benjamin Pierce, died January 6, 1853, aged 11 years\\nand 9 months.\\nThe dwelling-house of Mr. Isaac F. WilUams, opposite the\\nSouth church, took fire on Sunday, January 16, a little past\\nnoon originating probably from a defect in the chimney. It\\nwas soon extinguished. The damage from fire and water is esti-\\nmated at between two and three hundred dollars.\\nOn the 24th of February, John Virgin,* commonly called Un-\\ncle John, or Old John, was found dead in a small hut near\\nSugar Ball, where he had lived alone about three years. He\\nwas discovered by Mr. Moses Cass and Mr. True George, upon\\nwhose information a coroner s inquest was held by Seth East-\\nman, Esq. When found he was lying on the floor, with only a\\nshirt on, one hand in the stove, (in which was no fire,) and his\\nlower limbs frozen. Virgin was a soldier from Concord in the\\nwar of 1812, and was with General Harrison at the battle of\\nTippecanoe which was a theme for his boasting as long as he\\nlived. He was an invalid, having an ulcerous sore on one of his\\nlegs, which was very oifensive. Virgin received a pension of\\n$96 a year from the government, and upon this he determined\\nto live independently of every body. Refusing the offer of as-\\nsistance from the town, he lived alone the latter part of his fife,\\nin his little hut, in a most wretched and filthy condition, exposed\\nto the severities of winter, and sometimes without sufficient food,\\nor wood to warm him. He would occasionally visit the main\\nvillage, where his haggard appearance and his loud, patriotic ha-\\nrangues, always excited attention !f Virgin was a man of vio-\\nSee page 47.\\nt See sketch of Virgin in the Concord Directory, published by Charles H. Wheler, 1853.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0512.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "INTERESTING INCIDENTS. 497\\nlent passions. He had no friends, because he would not have\\nthem. He lived alone, died alone, and was buried alone. At\\nthe order of the selectmen, on the evening of the day that he\\nwas found his body -was taken by the sexton, Joseph Brown, and\\ncarried to the hearse-house, in the burying-ground by the old\\nNorth Church. Next morning at 11 o clock he was buried with-\\nout the attendance of a single person, except the sexton.\\nIt is but just to remark, that notwithstanding Virgin spent\\nhis last days in so wretched a condition, the selectmen repeatedly\\noffered him assistance, and would gladly have made him comfort-\\nable. Individuals, also, from the main village sent him many\\nlittle comforts and the families near him, at Sugar Ball, partic-\\nlarly Mr. Samuel Chfford s and Joseph Lougee s, looked after\\nhim, and from their own table often sent him warm food, and in\\nwinter provided him with wood. When he came into Main\\nstreet peojole treated him kindly, and even with a degree of re-\\nspect. Some were always ready to listen to his eloquent ha-\\nrangues, and to applaud him. He had remarkable fluency and\\ncommand of large words. The following is a specimen, taken\\nfrom Wheler s Directory, of 1853\\nWhen the Old Hero/ as Uncle John called General Harrison,\\nwas up for the Presidency, he had no more ardent or sincere sup-\\nporter than John Virgin. We remember him then and, in imagi-\\nnation, we seem to see him coming down the street with his peculiar\\ngait, staif in hand. Some one accosts him. He halts with military\\nprecision and promptness. Good morning, Uncle John Ah\\ngood morning, my friend How is the election going, Uncle\\nJohn V And then he brings up the cane from the ground j he un-\\nconsciously assumes an oratorical attitude, and then breaks out in the\\nfollowing style\\nAh (rising inflection) the gallant General Harrison whose\\nname has always been allied with victory illuminating the great\\nAmerican heart like the brilliant meteor, as it madly dashes through\\nthe Universe The heroic General Harrison whose name, that\\nonce struck terror to the hearts of his country s enemies, shall cause\\nstill greater consternation among his political foes, when, like the\\ndeep rumbling earthquake, or the irresistible tornado, he shall ascend\\nto the throne of the people s grateful heart\\nGlory to the noble General William Henry Harrison whose\\nfame has already burst upon the distant nations with the swiftness of\\nthe comet and the brightness of the lightning s glare Ever shall his\\nname glow like the sun at mid-day, and the stars by night [Orator-\\nical pause.] Ah what mighty voice is that I hear It is the\\n32", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0513.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "498 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nhowl of the angry ocean waves, as they madly dash against the earth-\\nbound rocks Ah t is the uprising of the glorious American peo-\\nple in their majesty, speaking in thunder-tones reverberating from\\nNorth to South, from East to West, The gallant Harrison is our\\nPresident\\nAt times some wight is hardy enough to disparage the hero of\\nUncle John s laudation but wo to him By all the mighty cat-\\naracts begins the enraged orator and before he is through with\\nhim he drives him into the knot-hole of his insignificance, and then\\nkicks his diminished shadow in after him But Uncle John is gene-\\nrally very kindly treated, whatever may be the political complexion\\nof his audience.\\nOn the 5th of March, Benjamin Hazcn, child of Mr. Robert\\nP. Kimball, aged 2 years and 9 months, accidentally fell into a\\npail of hot water, and was scalded to death.\\nCITY OF CONCORD.\\nThe City Charter, which, as already stated, was granted by\\nthe New-Hampshire Legislature July 6, 1849, has been pub-\\nlished in a permanent form, and distributed generally among the\\ncitizens. It is, therefore, deemed unnecessary here to insert it.\\nStrongly attached as many of the people were to the usages of\\nthe town organization, and not having experienced personally\\nmuch inconvenience on account of the increase of population and\\ncorrespondent changes in the business aflfairs of the town, they\\nwere reluctant to hazard a change from a town to a city govern-\\nment, especially as it was apprehended that the expenses would\\nthereby be greatly enhanced. One strong argument in favor of\\na city government was found in the inconvenience of the annual\\ntown meeting in one place. The number of voters having in-\\ncreased to upwards of two thousand, the annual meeting, in\\ncontested elections, was necessarily protracted and tedious\\nrequiring, in repeated instances, four, five and six days to choose\\noflBcers and transact the ordinary business of the town.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0514.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATED A CITY.\\n499\\nOn the question of the adoption of the city charter, four trials\\nwere had, which resulted as follows\\nVOTES UPON THE ADOPTION OF THE CITY CHARTER.\\nMarch\\nSept. 22, 1849.\\nWhole number of votes cast, 820\\nNays, 637\\nYeas, 183\\nMajority against adoption, 454\\nMajority in favor,\\nMay 17, 1851.\\nMarch 13, 1852.\\n10, 1853.\\n721\\n1072\\n1387\\n582\\n614\\n559\\n139\\n458\\n828\\n443\\n156\\n269\\nThe first election under the charter adopted by the town on\\nthe 10th of March, took place on Saturday, the 26th of the same\\nmonth. There were three candidates for mayor,* viz. Richard\\nBradley, Joseph Low and Asa Fowler. The result of the vote\\nwas as follows\\nBradley. Low.\\nWard 1.\\n87\\n42\\n2.\\n59\\n86\\n3.\\n73\\n25\\n4.\\n135\\n170\\n5.\\n102\\n189\\n6.\\n113\\n157\\n7.\\n75\\n80\\nFowler.\\n3\\n7\\n5\\n25\\n46\\n33\\n7\\n644 749 126\\nMajority against Low, 21\\nAt the first election the following gentlemen were chosen to\\noffice in the several wards, viz.\\nALDERMEN.\\nWard 1. John Batchelder.\\n2. John L. Tallant.\\n3. Joseph Eastman.\\n4. Robert Davis.\\nWard 5. Edson Hill.\\n6. Matthew Harvey.\\n7. Josiah Stevens.\\nCOMMON COUNCIL.\\nWard 1. Jeremiah S. Durgin, Eben F. Elliot.\\n2. Samuel B. Larkin, Heman Sanborn.\\n3. George W. Brown, Moses Humphrey.\\n4. Ezra Carter, George Minot.\\n*See ./v. H. Statesman, April 2, 1853.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0515.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "500 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nWard 5. William H. H. Bailey, Cyrus Barton.\\n6. Ebenezer G. Moore, Thomas Bailey.\\n7. Moses Shute, Giles W. Ordway.\\nASSESSORS AND MODERATORS.\\nAssessors. Moderators.\\nWard 1 Nathan Chandler Jeremiah S. Durgin.\\n2 William Pecker Timothy W. Emery.\\n3 John Abbot Daniel Holden.\\n4 Jonathan E. Lang John H. George.\\n5 Nathan Call John L. Hadley.\\n6 William M. Carter N. B. Baker.\\n7 Jeremiah S. Noyes Josiah Stevens.\\nWard 1. James D, Page.\\n2. John M. Dearborn.\\n3. Elbridge Dimond.\\n4. J. B. Smart.\\nCLERKS.\\nWard 5. Mitchell Gilmore.\\n6. John F. Brown.\\n7. James M. Otis.\\nSELECTMEN.\\nWard 1. Albert H. Drown, Samuel F. Brown, Rufus D. Scales.\\n2. Thos. D. Potter, Isaac Virgin, Zebulon Smith.\\n3. Simeon Abbot, Hiram Farnum, Jeremiah S. Abbot.\\n4. Lyman A. Walker, Thos. A. Ambrose, Jas. H. Buswell.\\n5. Jona. Sargent, Benj. Coffin, Jr., George A. Pillsbury.\\n6. James F. Lund, Joseph H. Mace, Caleb Parker.\\n7. Atkinson Webster, Isaac Abbott, James Thompson.\\nSCHOOL BOARD.\\nWard 1. Edmund Worth.\\n2. Henry A. Kendall.\\n3. Asa P. Tenney.\\n4. Eleazer Smith.\\nWard 5. Chas. P. Gage.\\n6. Jas. W. Sargent.\\n7. Josiah Stevens.\\nOn Tuesday, the 5th of April, a second and successful effort\\nwas made to elect a mayor, the vote in the several wards being\\nas follows\\nBradley. Low. Scat.\\nWardl 74 60 1\\n2 69 84\\n3 73 31 3", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0516.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATED A CITY. 601\\nWard 4 138 175\\n5 106 197\\n6 107 153\\n7 G8 127\\n635 827\\n635\\nLow s majority, 192\\nWhole vote on the first trial, 1.519\\nsecoad trial, 1.466\\nORGANIZATION OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT.\\nAgreeably to public notice, a large number of the people of\\nConcord assembled in the Representatives Hall, on Wednesday\\nafternoon, April 6, at 2 o clock, to witness the induction to office\\nof the Mayor elect and the two branches of the City Council.\\nAt twenty minutes past 2, Gen. Joseph Low, mayor elect,\\narose from the chair of the speaker, addressed the chairman of\\nthe board of selectmen, and stated, that having been apprized of\\nhis election to the office of mayor, he appeared before his fellow-\\ncitizens to take the oath required, before entering upon the duties\\nof his office.\\nThe chairman of the selectmen, John C. Pillsbury, Esq., then\\ninvited Hon. Josiah Minot to administer the oath of office, which\\nwas done, after which the mayor administered the oath to the\\naldermen, the common council, the school committee, and the\\nboard of assessors.\\nThe aldermen, councilmen, school committee and assessors\\nwere seated on the right and left of the speaker s desk, and the\\nboard of selectmen, chosen by the town on the 9th of March\\nMessrs. Pillsbury, Webster and Abbot were at the clerk s\\ndesk, immediately in front of the mayor.\\nAfter the administration of the several oaths, Rev. Mr. Flan-\\nders, pastor of the Baptist church, read portions of scripture,\\nwhen the Throne of Grace was addressed by the Rev. Dr. Bouton,\\nsenior ordained clergyman of the city.\\nThese several ceremonies and services being concluded, the", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0517.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "502 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nmayor arose and addressed the members of the city government\\nas follows\\nGentlemen of the City Council and Gentlemen of the several Boards\\n0/ the City Government here assembled\\nUnacquainted as I am with the rules of legislation or vyith the\\nmunicipal affairs of the town, it is with the sincerest distrust that I\\nventure to enter upon the trust assigned to me by the suffrages of\\nmy fellow-citizens.\\nIt is, indeed, a distinction that I may most highly appreciate, but\\na position that my habits of life and course of business but illy fit\\nme to hold. I can, therefore, only promise that whatever of strength\\nor ability I possess shall be devoted to a prompt, impartial and faith-\\nful performance of all the duties pertaining to the executive office of\\nthis corporation.\\nThe change of government upon which we are about to enter\\ninvolves duties and responsibilities that can be successfully met and\\nperformed only by the united and patient efforts of those to whom\\nthe administration of the affairs of the city have been confided. I\\nmay consider myself singularly fortunate that I am associated with\\nso many gentlemen of tried worth and long experience in the muni-\\ncipal affairs of the town and I doubt not that it will be the anxious\\ncare of every member of the government of the corporation, to have\\nthe change bear as lightly upon every section and every individual,\\nas may be consistent with the highest good and truest interests of\\nthe city, and realized only by its convenient, economical and efficient\\naction.\\nI might here, perhaps, with great propriety take a retrospective\\nview of the rise and progress of this highly favored town, from its\\nearliest organization, in 1725, through its seasons of weakness, priva-\\ntions and hardships, as well as its days of prosperity and distinction,\\ndown to the present period of mature strength and enviable position\\nbut as the labor of writing our history is now being performed by a\\ngentleman in every way competent to the task, and the results of\\nwhich, it is understood, will soon be accessible to all, I may not prop-\\nerly detain you longer upon this subject.\\nBy one of the provisions of the charter it becomes the duty of\\nthe mayor from time to time to communicate to the city council\\nsuch information and to recommend such measures as in his judg-\\nment the interest of the city may seem to require and, gentlemen, I\\ntrust that I need not assure you that it will be my anxious desire\\nand earnest purpose, as circumstances and experience shall suggest, to\\ndischarge this duty with promptness and fidelity.\\nI am not aware that any considerable change or unusual outlay\\nwill be required to accomplish all the objects for which the city\\ncharter was obtained nor do I apprehend, gentlemen, under your\\nadministration, any augmentation of burthens, or material increase of\\ntaxation, consequent upon its adoption.\\nOur fire department, composed as it is of our most active and", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0518.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "INCORPORATED A CITY. 503\\nefficient fellow-citizens, lias at all times answered the most sanguine\\nhopes of its friends, and received the commendation and liberal sup-\\nport of the town and I am happy to say on this occasion that no\\nfurther considerable appropriation will at present be required on ac-\\ncount of this department.\\nThe management and improvement of our schools is an object ot\\nparamount interest, and in my estimation immensely transcends in\\nits beneficial consequences to the children and youth of our city, and\\nthe welfare and prosperity of any community, all considerations^ of\\nmere dollars and cents; and as I have so often spoken in the hearing\\nof the town of the importance of an improved and more elevated\\nstandard of education in our primary schools, I may not on this occa-\\nsion, with propriety, further allude to this most important subject,\\notherwise than to express my fullest confidence that a liberal and\\nenlightened policy will always characterize your acts in connection\\nwith this great interest.\\nIn regard to the expenditures upon our highways, respecting the\\nconstruc^tiou of common sewers, the draining and grading of our\\nstreets, the substantial construction of our roads and the improve-\\nment of our side walks, I will only say, they are subjects that\\nespecially belong to you, gentlemen, to consider, and which you are\\nso fully competent to decide that I will not venture upon your judg-\\nment any suirgestion of my own.\\nThe town form, so valuable in itself, and which has so largely con-\\ntributed in by-gone years to the comfort and support of the unfortu-\\nnate and destitute, will, I doubt not, receive at your hands that\\nprovision and consideration its importance and reasonable expectation\\ndemand.\\nI avail myself of this opportunity to call your early attention to\\nthe iuiportance of providing a house of correction for the security of\\nvagrants, truants and disorderly persons, where they may be made, in\\nsome good degree, to contribute by their labor to their own support.\\nIt is already seen that a slight amendment must be made in the\\ncity charter, in order to the convenient arrangement and limits of one\\nof the wards. I would therefore suggest the propriety of an early\\nexamination of all its provisions and defects, with a view to an appli-\\ncation to the approaching session of the Legislature for such altera-\\ntions and improvements as its practical working has thus far shown\\nto be desirable.\\nIt becomes us at all times to realize and acknowledge our depend-\\nence upon the great Maker and Governor of the universe, for life and\\nfor all its blessings especially does it become us now, as we are\\nabout to enter upon new and untried duties and responsibilities,\\ninvolving the dearest earthly interests of our citizens, to remember\\nour accountability to Him in whose hands our breath is, and whose\\nare all our ways, and at all times to look to Him for guidance and\\ndirection.\\nIt may not, gentlemen, be inappropriate for me, in closing, to\\nremark, that in my inexperience I must rely largely upon your kind-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0519.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "504\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nness and support for a successful discharge of the duties that devolve\\nupon me, and that I shall at all times take pleasure in the fullest\\ncooperation with you in every measure calculated to advance the\\ninterest or promote the convenience of every section of our city and\\nof every class of our citizens.\\nAt the close of the address the common councilmen retired to\\nanother room, and the boards organized separately. In the board\\nof aldermen, Messrs. Harvey and Stevens were appointed, with\\nsuch as the council should join, to report rules for the city coun-\\ncil and Messrs. Davis and Tallant, with such as the council\\nshould join, to procure rooms for the various branches of the city\\ngovernment.\\nIn the common council, Thomas Bailey, Esq., the oldest mem-\\nber, took the chair, and they proceeded to elect a president. On\\nthe first ballot there was no choice George W. Brown had one,\\nEzra Carter six, and Cyrus Barton seven. On the second ballot\\nCyrus Barton was chosen, having twelve votes to two for Ezra\\nCarter, and on taking the chair returned thanks for the honor\\nconferred upon him.\\nW. H. H. Bailey was chosen clerk pro tern, of the common\\ncouncil. Messrs. Minot, Moore and Barton were joined to the\\ncommittee to report rules.\\nMessrs. W. H. H. Bailey, Shute and Thomas Bailey, were\\njoined to the committee to procure rooms.\\nThe two boards met in city council, and aldennan Stevens was\\nelected city clerk, pro tern.\\nBoth boards then adjourned to meet at the Court House on\\nSaturday, April 9, at 2 o clock, P. M.\\nAt this adjourned meeting John F. Brown was elected city\\nclerk, and William H. Bartlett city solicitor. Amos Hadley was\\nelected clerk of the common council.\\nThe city government being thus in due form fully organized,\\nproceeded to the transaction of business, according to the provis-\\nions of the charter for which reference must be had to the\\noriginal records in the oflSce of the city clerk.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0520.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "LIST OF OFFICERS.\\n505\\nI\\nw\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\\nC/J\\nrr\\np\\np^\\nl-l\\nw\\nt?^\\no\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\no\\no\\nPh\\n(\u00e2\u0080\u00941\\no\\nPM\\nW\\nO\\no\\nt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I\\n00\\nO\\na .a\\nsT\\noj\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0d\\ns\\na\\no a\\n^3\\no o\\no o\\n6 D\\ns\\n1\\n-S 3\\nP5\\n-a,\\ns\\no a\\no S\\nSi\\nIS\\na\\n^1\\nr1.2\\nCO 12;\\nn\\ncolz;\\np\\n3\\no a\\n2 i\\ncoco\\no\\nt\\no\\nIs\\n-a\\n3\\nMil\\np\\na\\na .-d\\ntn O\\na 2\\nIt\\n1\\n=3\\naj E\\na^\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0tf O\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u00944\\ni-~\\no\\nOS rt\\n_^\\nCJ o\\no o\\n5 o\\no o o\\n5 O o\\no\\no\\na-S\\n1-2 Ph\\na\\nP-(CC\\n1^1\\nrt a\\n1\\n021-5\\n2 a a g a a\\ni\\n1-5\\no\\na\\nc\\no\\noT\\n1-5 O\\no S\\n+j O\\n_3 cT\\noT\\n^1\\nII\\nIII\\na i\\no\\nci\\no\\nt^\\n53 1\\na 1\\n:3 s ^s\\nS x^ c\\ni|l\\n3 o\\no\\nt\u00c2\u00ab c\\nr^--\\nC r/1\\nl-l a\\na S\\na m\\nS tB a\\nCO\\na\\ns a\\no v\\nUi\\nO CD\\n2\\nQJ o IS\\n?j o :J\\nZS a o\\no\\nci\\n2 ci\\nci\\n-a\\npqccOcoEn\\ng S -S J S\\n^OcoHOco\\na.\\no\\n6\\nS\\nJ3 g-3\\n61^\\ns\\np\\n3\\no\\nc3\\no .Si s\\nS rt 3\\no H\\nc3 S\\nc3\\n13 5 a\\n-1-\\na\\no ci S\\nPh P^\\no\\no\\no\\np-l\\n[5\\nCD\\na la\\n-S\\nS\\ns\\ncS 3 g\\n3\\no\\na 3 o\\nago\\na\\nID\\no\\no 3 o o\\nCO\\no\\n\u00c2\u00bb-3\\nllfl\\nCO\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2So 2\\n5\\nS\\nci\\nci\\nci o ci ei\\nhH 1-S h- 1 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\\n-i^\\n-ii\\ns\\nS\\ns\\ns\\ns\\nS\\nca\\na\\nd\\na\\ns\\ni\\nO\\nO\\nO\\nO\\nS\\no\\n3\\no\\n*o\\n^o\\n;3\\nrt\\nc\\n3\\na\\na\\na\\n3\\na\\n1-3\\nci\\n;5\\nf^\\n;5\\nc5\\na\\n6\\nc5\\na\\nG\\nQ\\no\\nC\\no\\np\\no\\nOJ\\no\\no\\nt-\\nVi\\nn\\nw\\nw\\n-3\\na\\na\\no\\nH\\n3\\na\\no\\na\\na\\na\\ni\\ni\\ni\\nC5\\n1\\na\\no\\na\\na\\nCO\\na\\nCD\\na\\no\\na\\no\\no\\nCO\\nlO\\nt-^\\nCO\\nci\\n6\\nci\\nCO\\n(M\\n(M\\nCI\\n(M\\nH\\n00\\ns\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0521.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "506\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nQ\\nl-H\\nH\\nO\\no\\no\\no\\nO\\nH\\n02\\n_;\\nIs\\nM\\nf^\\no\\n-lis\\na\\n-3\\n-S M a\\nbe fcJD a HH i^^pLi\\n1\\nii\\nPh-S\\n.2 fl\\n3 2\\n3 t3\\nP\u00c2\u00ab^ 3 S-3^^ H S-HJ\\n^^J 2 3 33 S 2^ 2^\\nS 2:5 S:^ S-\u00c2\u00a7 -5:3^:0 2\\nHi P5 cc P3 CO P5 P5 p^ H P5 H\\nOi\\n:50 s\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03:3:2\\na tJ\\ns\\nd\\nj;\\nJ\\nc\\na\\na\\na\\n5\\nd\\nH\\ni^ B\\nci\\nv\\n.ti\\n.^pq\\nS .S\\nrt\\npq\\nrt .2\\n^.2 .pq^\\npq\\npq\\npq\\no\\nfflS\\nwi\\no\\no\\ns\\n^p\\n1 i: a r\\na\\n3\\na\\n6\\n5\u00c2\u00ab\\nco^\\nP3 t\u00c2\u00ab\\n2\\n\u00c2\u00ab^|J\\nci\\nci\\nci\\np 2\\n4 1\\na o\\nSi\\nS? c3 fl\\n3\\n3\\n1\\n_\\n(U\\niT cT\\n4\\no a\\ncT\\nJ i 1\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1 *j 53\\n1\\no 3\\n!j 1 p; 5 M\\n3\\nS\\n3\\nCO\\nto\\np\\nm 3\\no t- i-\\n^J\\nT^\\nU\\na D\\nH g ^^g-S\\na\\n.2^5^^\\nS\\n2\\n25\\n3\\nJ^ J^\\n3 c -a\\ns a =H\\nrt ^ii^ ci\\n7- !^r3 a.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\na-. a\\ni 3 2\\n6^\\nS^ -H^-.-\\ns\\n5 5 ?i 2\\nP^ Ph CC cC i/D cc\\nu\\nScoOi^SP\\nt| 3 2 S o-g g\\nc\u00c2\u00ab P CO cc i-s K 1-3 hH 1-3\\nu\\nt^ t^\\naT\\nij- a ,*-3\\n1-3\\n*i\\n1\\n1\\npill\\no g o\\ns\\nM\\nID\\nP-l\\nc\\n3\\n1-3\\n3 o 3^1 a\\nrv a O K fl 1\\n-e 3 3 3 3 H\\nliliti\\nPh CO ob \u00c2\u00ab2 pq ^fq\\n3 2 -a-a 5\\nfSs229-S3|^\\nai\u00e2\u0080\u0094 io -cn /,t\u00c2\u00abt\u00c2\u00ab~\\nrt^art a\u00e2\u0084\u00a2g^^o\\na^^ S-g 3 5,3 g,^\\npq hS 02 p!? ^4 h?\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009eP-i\\nPj H ij m\\nci\\na 1; a a\\nci D ci 5\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00ba-qp^h^H\\n=0\\nM\\n-i4\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0H\\nfii\\ns\\nS\\ns\\nS\\nfi\\nd\\n53\\ns\\n-1-^\\n-4-:\\n-4J\\nS\\n12^\\n0)\\n0)\\n3\\ny\\n.2\\nh\\no\\no\\no\\na\\na\\nC\\nO\\na\\na\\na d\\na\\na\\ni\\na\\nC3\\n?i\\nci\\nrt\\nJ3\\nja\\n-a\\ni-t\\n03\\nr^\\nP^\\nPm\\nf^\\nh^\\nH^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-S\\nH3\\nm\\n6\\no5\\ni\\n3\\np\\no\\nO)\\nr3\\n!3\\na\\na\\nfc^\\nfe\\n2\\nCS\\nin\\ns\\no\\no\\nPQ\\npq\\no\\nr-t\\n(-1\\n1-^\\nHi\\ni-q k-5\\nTi\\nPh\\nS\\nS\\nJ /a\\nt-\\n1^\\np^\\na.\\nP\\nr\\n0, CL,\\nc3\\nCi\\n2\\nL\\no\\nt\\nd\\no\\na\\nCJ\\n_o\\nM\\nSo\\nO\\no\\n1-3\\n1-3\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-3 1-3\\ns\\ns\\nj;\\n-t\\no\\no\\nt-^\\nCO\\ncn\\nci\\nCO\\n5\\n(M\\n(M\\nc\\nC)\\nN\\n(M CO\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\nr^\\nCO\\nO)\\nCO\\n00\\n00\\n00 CO\\n00\\nCO\\n00", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0522.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "LIST OF OFFICERS.\\nU OJ _w\\n507\\n^S\\nn\\n1\\n11^\\n.2\\nSh\\n(U.^\\nIsaac F. Williams,\\nJona. Eastman, Jr.,\\nMoses Shute.\\nHenry Sweetser,\\nJacob A. Potter,\\nDavid Davis, Jr.\\nSamuel Coffin,\\nJohn Putney,\\n0\\nc3\\nP\\nSE oTa\\nu u\\nS --H s\\n;l^ a\\nl-s !2; l-s 1^ l-i\\na\\np qT a\\no:a!^\\na a a\\na,a,a\\nCCh-jl-S\\n=\u00e2\u0096\u00a05 S\\ntils\\nRobert Davis,\\nLaban Page,\\nThomas D. Potter.\\nS 3-- rt 2-3\\nS H f- S pEj\\n2 i s i\\na\\nS\\nIII\\np 2\\nf^\\nill\\ns s 2\\ni-1 1; rt\\n/a\\n2\\na\\ni-s\\na u\\n02 3 f^\\na 1 rt\\n5f\u00c2\u00a7a\\nc3 cs.a\\nS s s\\n\u00c2\u00abi2\\nS\\n111\\nSi N\\n(B ci\\nfcO\\nto\\nSh\\n;_,\\na\\n5E\\nS 1-1\\ni\\n(5\\nL)\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a05 s\\n3 OS\\n3\\nQ\\nfl\\n2\\nCI\\n,0\\npi\\n3 tl\\n03\\ng^i\\nCO\\nCC l-s\\n\u00c2\u00bb-s\\nM\\nf^\\n1-5\\n|2S\\nK\\n-s\\nfl\\nr3~S\\n5^5\\nW\\n(-1\\n2 5\\nci\\n,a\\ns\\ni is\\nCO 2\\n2\\nI\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\\nS\\n^2|\\n-f\\nITS \u00c2\u00bb0\\nt-^\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\n5:\\n5^2", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0523.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "508\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ni\\n^-ja\\na\\no\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0S\\ntP o\\nc*\\na\\no\\nS\\nu\\no\\n6\\nIII\\no\\no\\nH\\n^2 o o\\na a\\n1|\\no\\n.a\\no\\nP5\\nkwob a\\no\\no\\n^11\\nrt\\n.2^ a\\n5 to M\\nO\\n3\\no\\n1-3\\nooaOto2oS ^\u00c2\u00ab^.2\\na a Jo S k-t: e: =^3\\n.a .a o i s 3 t k^\\na2a2toH^ 500i-JP-(00^\\nc\\nu\\nfc^\\ni-s\\ni-s\\ni-s\\n!3\\no\\nrt\\ncT\\no\\no\\ns\\na\\n_a5\\no\\n0) c s s5\\nO s o\\n3.?E a\\nCS\\na\\na 3\\nt. a rt\\nal\u00c2\u00ab\\n^G\\nO O. TO O\\nS _ _, 3\\no\\no\\ng,o a\\nSa^a\\n5|\\na-5\\nlaooco\\nS a^l\\nOOco\\nall\\ngf2M\\no 3 p\\nCO H, h, CO O Irs CO 02 f^\\nc: 0) o i3\\nCOCOh^OJS\\nO\\ncj -a\\nCO tc\\n4\\nC\\no\\no c: o S\\n1?\\na\\np- o\\no\\n:ao\\na-a\\nfe^ r\\nc\\na\\nCO\\na\\nb c\\no.i\\no c; fl\\na 2\\np .-t O\\n5 .2 c .S .5\\ns s 2 a a\\n3 S ^5 S 3\\n-a 1-5 2i 1-5 h.\\nilHIl\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S o \u00e2\u0080\u00a2x: o a\\nt-S S^; l-S !\u00c2\u00ab5 1-3 ^-3\\na\\na\\na -s\\no a -w\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0so a\\n;lp^;i\\nt^\\n,o\\nrP\\nr^\\no\\nd\\no\\n3\\no\\nCO\\nCO\\nCO\\n6\\n9\\n3\\na\\no\\nW\\nw\\nw\\na\\ni-s\\nt-s\\n-i\\n-5\\na\\na\\nw\\n1\\n1\\n\u00c2\u00bb-3\\np^\\ng\\nO\\no\\no\\no\\nO\\no\\nID\\n3\\nn\\ns\\nn\\npq\\n1\\nO\\nHi\\nC3\\nt-4\\n[3\\no\\nPQ\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S\\no\\no\\n3\\no\\nO\\n1^\\nO\\nl-S\\nto\\nto\\n1\\nCO\\nlO\\no\\n1^\\n00\\nOS\\ns\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\n00\\nOO\\n00", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0524.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "LIST OF OFFICERS.\\n509\\nu 3\\nt^ S J c t^ i3\\n13 ^O\\nfe\\no _ r^ r;\\no to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2o\\no\\n2ft\\nS, r\\n5 cl,-? 2\\nW\u00c2\u00ab3\\nb S S c^\\n;^S;\u00c2\u00a7;|^c3^i;|^^4^M\u00c2\u00ab\\nc SO-.\\n3 o a a\\noi ii g (U cj\\nQ\\n-k u\\nP3hh.3^ a\\nPM\\n1 g\u00c2\u00ab\\nc i-l I n\\ns s^ a a oj\\no o\\nCO 1-3 O CO K i-s\\nQJ 3\\n5 S\\n!=o- d a\\nc3 2 to\\n632\\nco^W\\n3 M (S", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0525.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XVII.\\nANCIENT MATTERS.\\nRelative to the entire period of our history which has been\\ngone over, are various matters which could not be conveniently\\nclassed under any general head, nor placed in chronological\\norder, but which are of sufficient importance to require a sepa-\\nrate chapter.\\nANCIENT GRAVE-STONES IN THE OLD BURYINQ-GROUND.\\nThe late David George, who died in 1838, aged 71, lived\\nnearly all his life close by the ancient grave-yard often visited\\nit, and inspected the grave-stones. He said he could remember\\nwhen there were only six grave-stones in the yard with inscrip-\\ntions on them, and these were probably put up prior to 1790.\\nThey are thick, clumsy stones, not prepared either with taste or\\nskill the letters are ill shaped and not deep enough,\\n1. At the grave of James Osgood, who died April 6, 1757,\\naged 50.\\n2. At the grave of Jeremiah, son of Thomas and Anna Stick-\\nney, who died December, 1763, in the 3d year of his age.\\n3. At that of Mary, daughter of Thomas and Anna Stickney,\\nwho died December 5, 1763, aged 8 years.\\n4. At that of Jeremiah Stickney, who died April 11, 1763, in\\nthe 61st year of his age. By the side of these a large granite\\nmonument has recently been erected.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0526.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 511\\n5. At that of Ezra Carter, Esq., [Doctor,] who died Septem-\\nber 17, 1757, in the 48th year of his age.\\n6. At that of Jeremiah Hall, who died October 8, 1770, in\\nthe 24th year of his age.\\nThere are also several misshapen stones tvithout inscriptions,\\nand a few on which there were probably inscriptions, now illegible.\\nMr. George also was accustomed to point out other stones,\\nerected since 1790, to the memory of persons who died many\\nyears before, viz.\\n1. At the grave of Dolly Hutchins, wife of Col. Gordon\\nHutchins. She died December 17, 1777, aged 41 years.\\n2. At that of Sarah Walker, wife of Rev. Timothy Walker,\\nwho died in 1778, in the 77th year of her age.\\n3. At that of Rev. Timothy Walker, who died in 1782, aged\\n78 years. These were not erected till many years after.\\n4. At that of Mary Wilson, wife of Mr. Thomas Wilson.\\nShe died 1773, aged 31 years.\\n5. At that of Mary, the second wife of Mr. Thomas Wilson.\\nShe died in 1796, aged 44.\\n6. At that of Dea. Joseph Hall, (senior,) who died April 8,\\n1784, in the 77th year of his age.\\n7. At that of Deborah Hall, wife of Dea. Joseph Hall. She\\ndied October 5, 1801, aged 96.\\n8. At that of Dea. Joseph Hall, (junior,) who died June 10,\\n1807, in the 70th year of his age.\\n9. At that of Lot Colby, who died April 2, 1790, in the 73d\\nyear of his age.\\nAll the nine foregoing stones are slate slabs, and they form\\nwhat may be called the second era of grave-stones the first\\nbeing of granite, or other coarse stone. Ornamental cuts on\\nsome, represent human or angeUc heads, with wings on others,\\nan urn overhung with cypress.\\nANCIENT BUKIALS.\\nThe ancient mode of carrying coffins to the burying-ground\\nwas to select twelve men as bearers, who carried them on a bier\\nfrom every part of the town sometimes the distance of six, seven\\nand eight miles. In this way it is remembered that the body of", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0527.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "512 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nMrs. Rachel, first wife of Daniel Abbot, was carried from the\\nwest side of Long pond to the old burying-ground by the meet-\\ning-house.\\nThere is a tradition* that on the death of a man on the east\\nside of the Merrimack river, opposite the Rolfes, his neigh-\\nbors were afraid his body w^ould be attached for debt as the\\nlaw then allowed. To avoid this, the body was concealed in the\\ncellar for a few days then, on the advice of Dea. George Abbot,\\na litter-bier was constructed, to be carried by men on horseback\\na grave was dug at sundown on Sabbath evening, and soon after\\nthe company started with the body from a Mr. Blanchard s house,\\nferried it across the river, and taking it on the litter proceeded\\nas fast as they could to the old burying-ground. By some delay,\\nhowever, they did not reach the spot till near sunrise, when they\\nfound the grave was too short. Just then, discovering an officer\\nriding on horseback up Main street, they pitched the coffin end\\nforemost into the grave, which they immediately began to fill up.\\nThe officer, supposing the body to be buried, turned about and\\nwent away. Afterwards they dug the grave longer, placed the\\ncoffin in, and buried it in a proper manner.\\nLieut. John Webster, who was a famous mast-master, in his\\nlatter years was involved in debt. He died in a small house sit-\\nuated in the lot back of Mr. Ezra Ballard s, at Little pond. His\\nbody was at first concealed in a potato hole, which was covered\\nover with straw, and logs laid on it. At the time of the funeral\\nthe bearers rode on horseback, with drawn swords, which, the\\nsheriff perceiving, he dare not molest them.f\\nMARBLE MONUMENTS.\\nThe first marble monument erected in the old burying-ground,\\nprobably, stands at the grave of Rev. Israel Evans, who died in\\n1807, aged 60.\\nAnother, supposed to be the second, stands at the grave of\\nCol. Gordon Hutchins, who died in 1815, aged 85.\\nBURYING-GROUND AT MILLVILLE.\\nThe land for the burying-ground at Millville was given by Mr.\\nWarren Bradley. The first person buried there is said to have\\n*The tradition is uncertain whether a Mr. Blanchard or Webster.\\nt Tradition by Mr. Timothy Walker.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0528.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 513\\nbeen Mrs. Sally, first wife of Mr. John Dimond, about 1797.\\nMr. Ezekiel Dimond was the second. He selected the spot for\\nhis own grave, and was buried in February, 1800.\\nIn the burying-ground at Horse-hill, the first person buried\\nwas Miss Rebecca, daughter of Mr. Oliver Hoit, in 1819, aged 28.\\nANCIENT VEHICLES FOR RIDING.\\nThe following notices of ancient vehicles are derived from con-\\nversations at dijQferent times with aged inhabitants of the town,\\nas within their memory, or known by tradition.*\\nThe Rev. Timothy Walker rode in a chair, as it was called.\\nIt seems to have had no top or covering, and was wide enough to\\ncarry two persons.\\nThe first chaise owned in Concord belonged to Col. Benjamin\\nRolfe was purchased probably between 1767 and 1770. It had\\na standing canvass top, and probably cost about fifty dollars.\\nDea. Joseph Hall, the elder, about the same time purchased a\\nchaise Uke Col. Rolfe s.\\nCol. Peter Green, at the death of his father-in-law. Col. Bulk-\\nley, of Groton, Massachusetts, had a chaise, belonging to his\\nestate, which he brought to Concord and used. This was be-\\ntween 1770 and 1775.\\nBenjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) who married the widow\\nof Col. Rolfe, 1772, bought a curricle, which was much the most\\nexpensive carriage at that time known in these parts. Thompson\\nsometimes rode in this with two horses, and sometimes with one.\\nRobert Harris had a chaise when he came to Concord, and\\nalways afterwards. He had also a coachee, or Philadelphia\\nwagon, in 1793 or 1794, which probably cost about $300.\\nWilliam Duncan and Edward St. Loe Livermore married\\ndaughters of Mr. Duncan. Each of them had a chaise.\\nDea. David Hall owned a chaise, probably previous to the\\nyear 1790, but he did not keep it many years.\\nRev. Israel Evans, who settled in Concord, 1789, then owned\\na chaise, in which he rode with one horse. Afterwards he owned\\na carriage with four wheels, in which he rode, sometimes with\\none horse and sometimes with two.\\nFor these.traditions I am greatly indebted to Moody Kent, Esq.\\n33", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0529.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "514 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nIn 1701 or 1792 the late Judge Walker purchased a chaise at\\nCambridge, Mass., made for him by Mr. Prentice, of that place.\\nPrevious to 1800 there were very few carriages or wagons in\\ntown. The people generally rode on horseback or went on foot.\\nThere were very few sleighs. In heavy snows, horse or ox-sleds\\nwere commonly used to convey people from one place to another.\\nOLD CLOCKS.\\nRev. Mr. Walker brought the first clock into Concord from Eng-\\nland. Dea. Joseph Hall, senior, owned the second clock. When\\npeople who had no time-piece saw the deacon coming from the\\nEleven Lots, on the Sabbath, they knew it was time for them\\nto go. Ephraim Potter made wooden clocks, which were set up\\nin some houses about 1775, and later, and which kept good time.\\nLevi and Abel Hutchins set up the clock-making business about\\n1785, which they carried on till about 1819. Their clocks were\\nnoted as good time-keepers, and are still found in many of the old\\nfamiUes. Major Timothy Chandler also manufactured excellent\\nclocks, which are seen now and then among the ancient things.\\nANCIENT DWELLING-HOUSES STILL STANDING.\\nMr. Richard Herbert, when in his 94th year and in possession\\nof all his faculties, said, that all the houses in Concord main vil-\\nlage, except sixteen, were built within his recollection, viz.\\n1. The house of Joseph B. Walker, Esq., which remains as it\\nwas when he (Mr. Herbert) was a boy, except alterations made\\na few years ago.\\n2. Capt. Coffin s house was built one story, with two rooms.\\nThe back part and one story have been added since.\\n3. The house owned by Mr. Charles H. Stearns was built by\\nCapt. Benj. Emery, who sold it to Dr. Carrigain. Capt. Emery\\nafterwards built the house w^here Capt. E. S. Towle hves. His\\nwife was reluctant to move, and said she had rather watch the\\nhogs three hours a day, than go up into the woods to live\\n4. The house of Mr. Shadrach Seavey was built by Capt.\\nNathaniel Abbot, one story, and stood where the new North\\nchurch stands. It was the residence of Capt. Joshua Abbot.\\nMr. Herbert remembered when the back part was added.\\n5. The Dearborn house, recently moved from the hill where\\nThe hogs then run at large, and wore an annoyance about the liouses on Main street.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0530.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 515\\nthe new City Hall is located was built by Lieut. Richard Her-\\nbert, about 1756. He paid ten dollars for one acre of land there.\\nIn this house Mr. Herbert was born. In the summer of 1851\\nthe house was purchased by Mr. Reuben F. Foster, and moved\\nto what is now called Fosterville, north of Richard Bradley s,\\nwhere it has been refitted, and stands conspicuous among other\\nhouses by its cupola, or observatory.\\n6. The Stickney house, now the residence of Joseph P. Stickney,\\nwas a garrison. It has since been enlarged and much altered.\\n7. The Edward Abbot house, which stood where Dr. Chad-\\nbourne s house now is, south corner of Montgomery street was\\nalso a garrison. It now stands in the rear of Dr. Chadbourne s,\\nin the humble position of a wood-shed and stable.\\n8. A part of Capt. Richard Ayer s house now the Union\\nHotel, opposite the Free bridge road was built before Mr.\\nHerbert can remember also,\\n9. The old Osgood house, which was burnt down in Au-\\ngust, 1854.\\n10. The Farrington house, now owned by Mr. David G. Ful-\\nler, on Pleasant street.\\n11. A part of the old store on the corner of Main and Pleas-\\nant streets, occupied by ]Mr. William P. Hardy.\\n12. A part of Mr. Benjamin Gale s old tavern, which stood\\nopposite the new Phenix Hall now forms a tenement on Warren\\nstreet.\\n13. Dea. George Abbot s house, where Mr. John B. Chandler\\nlives, on Fayette street. This house presents a good specimen of\\nthe ancient style of building two stories in front, with a low,\\nslanting roof on the back side. In this house Hon. Thomas W.\\nThompson formerly resided.\\n14. The Capt. Roach, or Arthur Rogers house, east of the house\\nof the late Gov. Hill, built in the same style as the preceding.\\n15. Dea. Joseph Hall s, or Dea. Wilkins house, at the Eleven lots.\\n16. The Rolfe house, or Countess of Rumford mansion also\\nat the Eleven lots.\\nDWELLING-HOUSES DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL HABITS AND CUSTOMS.\\nThe first order, or, as it may be called, generation of dwelling\\nhouses in Concord, was built of hewn logs. They were all situ-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0531.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "51 G HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nated on lots laid out in the first and second range of house\\nlots, as surveyed in 1726. But as soon as saw-mills could be\\nerected and materials provided, these gradually gave place to\\nframed houses, one story in height, about sixteen to twenty-four\\nfeet on the ground, with from one to three rooms. The second\\norder of houses was more scattered over the territory, and now\\nand then appeared a house of larger dimensions, two stories in\\nheight, with gambrel roof; or two stories in front, with low,\\nslanting roof back. The third order of houses appeared after the\\nRevolutionary war, from 1785 to about 1800. They were built\\ntwo stories, with what is called a hip-roof, with two front rooms, a\\ndoor in the middle, and entry and hall running through, and an L,\\none story, on the back side, for a kitchen. Of this kind was the\\nhouse built by Maj. Daniel Livermore, the late residence of Dr.\\nBouton also, the houses owned by Rev. Israel Evans, Rev. Dr.\\nMcFarland and Charles Walker, Esq. The Evans and McFarland\\nhouses have recently been altered, by changing and raising the roof.\\nTradition represents that in the first, and many of the second order\\nof houses, the windows were either of paper, or mica, or diamond-\\ncut glass. Chimneys were built of stone, with huge fire-places,\\nand an oven on one side running back. In the chimney, across the\\nflue, was a lug-2)ole^ as it was called, made of oak, from two to four\\ninches in diameter, and on which were hung hooks and trammels,\\nof wrought iron, so constructed as to be raised or lowered to suit the\\nconvenience of pots and kettles, suspended thereon for culinary\\npurposes. These lug-poles were liable to be burnt by the fire which\\nblazed beneath, or broken by the weights suspended on them, and\\nhence in due time gave place to the crane, which was constructed\\nof iron, and fastened on one side into the chimney -jamb, while the\\nend swung over the fire, with the hooks and trammels on it. The\\nfirst crane was introduced in 1757 by Stephen Farrington.*\\nThe fire was made by placing a large log, called a back-log,\\nthree feet long, or more, on the backside of the fire-place two\\nrocks iu front of it served for andirons, with a large fore-stick,\\nresting on the rocks, and a hack-stick upon the back-log. Then\\nsmaller wood, from three to four feet in length, was piled on.\\nThe whole was lighted with a pitch-knot, or other combustibles.\\nThis made a glorious fire. At each end or corner of the fire-\\nSee story of it, as before related, pj). 231-2.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0532.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS.\\n517\\nplace were small benches, on which children sat, and roasted first\\none side and then the other while the old folks enjoyed the full\\nblaze in front and hauled off and on, as they were able to bear\\nit Instead of modern gas light, or oil, or even dipped candles,\\nthey used in the evening pitch-pine knots, which gave a clear\\nand brilliant light, hj which the women could see to sew or knit,\\nand others, (if they had books,) to read. Splinters of pitch-\\npine were lighted, to carry about the house and into the cellar,\\ninstead of lamps and candles.\\nIn early times every family kept close at hand a flint and steel,\\nwith which to strike fire. The fire fell on a piece of old punk, or\\nupon tinder kept in a tin box. From the punk or tinder thus\\nignited a candle or pitch-pine splinter was lighted, and thence\\ncommunicated to wood on the fire-place. Careful house-keepers,\\nhowever, took pains to rake np the coals on the hearth at night,\\ncovering them with ashes, and thus keep fire till morning. But\\nin warm weather this method would often fail, so that the flint,\\nsteel and tinder, were indispensable.\\n^\\\\v6M\u00c2\u00bb.\u00c2\u00ab.,v^\\nThe preceding cut presents a fair view of the house built by\\nMajor Daniel Livermore, in 1785, with the addition of the back", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0533.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "518 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\npart, which was built by Dr. Bouton in 1840. The beautiful\\ntrees in front were set out about the time the house was finished,\\nin 1786 or 1787. The south end of the house is nine inches\\nover the line of the street, while the north end is exactly on the\\nline. The reason assigned for this position by the late Richard\\nHerbert, was, that when Maj. Livermore was building his house\\nhe was courting one of Judge Walker s daughters, at the North\\nend, and he wanted it skewed a httle, so that he could look up\\nthat way. After the establishment of the upper Concord Bank,\\nin 1806, the house and land was bought by the bank proprietors\\nof Maj. Livermore, and occupied by Samuel Sparhawk, Esq.,\\ncashier of the bank. The north room, with a projection built\\nout for the vault, was used for the counting-room, or bank-office.\\nThe south room was the family parlor, in which was also Mr. Spar-\\nhawk s library. At a party given by Mr. Sparhawk, about 1818,\\namong the invited guests was Mr. S. F. B. Morse, now distin-\\nguished as the inventor of the electric telegraph, who was that\\nevening introduced to Miss Lucretia P. Walker, daughter of\\nCharles Walker, Esq., who was accounted the most beautiful and\\naccomplished young lady of the town, and whom Mr. Morse sub-\\nsequently married. In 1829 Rev. jNIr. Bouton bought the house\\nand land belonging thereto, of the president, directors and com-\\npany of the Concord Bank, where he resided twenty-six years.\\nANCIENT WELLS.\\nAncient wells were dug at a distance of from ten to forty feet\\nfrom the house, and water was drawn with a bucket suspended\\non one end of a small pole, the other end being fastened to a\\nlong well-sweep, as it was called, which was supported at a\\nproper height by a strong, erect post, and swung on an iron or\\nwooden pin, so balanced that when the bucket was filled with\\nwater it could be easily drawn up. Specimens of the old fash-\\nioned well-sweep, and\\nOf the old oaken bucket, that hung in the well,\\nmay still be seen in various sections of the town one at Mr.\\nJacob Hoyt s, on the Mountain another at jMr. Jerry Abbot s,\\nwest of Long pond. Another mode of drawing water from wells\\nwas by means of a windlass, erected over the well, the bucket", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0534.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS.\\n519\\nbeing fastened on the end of a rope, or chain, of suitable length,\\nand then lowered and raised bj turning a crank. But the well-\\nsweep and windlass have generally given place to the jjwmp in\\nouter sections of the town, while in the main village many fami-\\nlies are supplied with spring water, by means of wooden or lead\\npipes from fountains in the adjacent upland.\\nThe cut here subjoined presents a fair view of the residence of\\nJacob Hoyt, Esq., on the Mountain, in which the old well-\\nsweep is apparent.\\nSe^fe^SiW^\\nThe frame of this house, of large, heavy oak, is behoved to be\\nthe oldest on the east side of the river. It was first erected at\\nthe Fort, by Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, a short time before his\\ndeath, in 1748. The house being left in an unfinished state, it\\nwas sold to Ebenezer Virgin, taken down, and moved to its pres-\\nent location on the Mountain. Tradition relates that at the\\nraising of the house by Capt. Eastman there was a great gath-\\nering of people, with young men and maidens, who were to\\ncelebrate the raising by a dance in the evening. Abigail Carter,\\nmother of Jacob Hoit, asked her parents if she might go. They\\nsaid, Yes, if parson Walker s girls go. The parson consented\\nthat his daughters should go, and proposed also to go with them.\\nAfter the raising was over, Mr. Walker s girls asked him if they", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0535.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "520 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nmight stay in the evening. He said, Yes, yes, only come home\\nin good season. ISo the girls all stayed till the dance was over,\\nand were then waited on by young gentlemen to go home. But on\\ncoming to the ferry to their great disappointment they found the\\nparson there waiting to take the girls under his own protection\\nMr. Ebenezer Virgin sold the house and adjacent farm, con-\\ntaining about two hundred acres, to Jeremiah Haskell, of New-\\nbury, who came to Concord about 1812. Haskell married a\\ndaughter of Ebenezer Moulton, of Newburyport, into whose\\nhands the house and farm fell by mortgage. In 1818 Haskell\\nleft Concord and went to parts unknown, and nothing certain was\\never heard of him. In April, 1819, the property was sold at\\npublic auction, and bid off by Mr. Jacob Hoyt, for $2,375. On\\nthis elevated spot Mr. Hoyt has resided till the present time,\\nhaving made great improvements on his farm, and keeping the\\nold mansion in good repair. The site is one of the most desira-\\nble, and furnishes one of the most extensive and beautiful pros-\\npects on the east side of the river.\\nFOOD.\\nThe ordinary food of early settlers, and of their descendants\\nof the first and second generation, for breakfast and supper, was\\nbean or pea-porridge with bread and butter. On Sabbath morn-\\ning they had, in addition, coffee or chocolate. The bread was\\nwhat is called brown-bread, made of rye and Indian meal. Occa-\\nsionally wheat bread was used. For dinner they usually had\\nbaked or boiled meat, and peas or beans, with baked or boiled\\npuddings.\\nFor the information of our wives and daughters, I give the\\nfollowing ancient recipe for bean-porridge Take one quart of\\nbeans or peas, four gallons of water, and two or three pounds of\\nbeef or pork or, if you please, both put them into an iron\\npot or kettle, and boil them together until the meat is thoroughly\\ncooked. Take out the meat, and thicken the liquid with Indian\\nmeal, and you have the porridge.\\nThe most approved and genteel way of eating the porridge\\nwas on this wise The porridge was dipped out into wooden\\nbowls, each member of the family having one, and was eaten", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0536.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 521\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with a wooden spoon. On the authority of my friend, George\\nAbbot, Esq., I can add, that this was a dehcious meal. Every\\nfather at his own table was, to appearance, as happy as a Ichui\\nwith his nobles at a banquet of wine Often, to close the re-\\npast, the following lines were sung or chanted by the children\\nBean porridge hot, bean porridge cold\\nBean porridge best when nine days old\\nThere was another dish, said to be a still greater luxury, viz.\\nbaked pumpkins and milk. It was prepared in the autumn in\\nthe following manner Take pumpkins that had hard shells cut\\na hole with a gouge in the stem end, large enough to admit a\\nlarge sized hand scrape out the seeds completely then fill the\\ncavity almost full of new milk heat the oven hotter than neces-\\nsary for ordinary baking place the pumpkins in carefully, and\\nfasten up the lid so that no fresh air can penetrate keep them in\\ntwelve hours or more then, withdrawing the pumpkins, pour\\ninto the cavity more new milk, and with a spoon begin to eat,\\ndigging out the inside as you proceed, and leaving nothing but\\nthe shell In this truly primitive mode Gov. Langdon used to\\nfeast on pumpkin and milk, when a boarder at Dea. John Kim-\\nball s. The governor preferred this mode, as decidedly more\\ngenteel than to scrape out the contents first and eat from a bowl\\nDRINKS.\\nMalt beer was a very common drink in early times. Malt was\\nmanufactured from barley, which was raised more or less by\\nevery farmer. The first manufacturer of malt in Concord was\\nLieut. Richard Herbert, about 1765 who had a malt-house\\nin the rear of the dwelling which he built, where his son, Capt.\\nSamuel Herbert, now lives. Some twenty years afterward the\\nsame business was taken up by Jeremiah Abbot, son of Capt.\\nNathaniel Abbot, who married a daughter of Col. Stickney. His\\nmalt-house was on or near the spot where Nathan Stickney, Esq.,\\nnow lives. Abbot sold out to William Stickney, the taverner,\\nwho continued the business till about 1816. After Mr. Stickney\\nceased to manufacture malt, the old malt-house was used for\\nsmoking bacon. At times, in the fall and winter, from two hun-\\ndred and fifty to three hundred fine legs of bacon, belonging to", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0537.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "522 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ndifferent families, would be hung up to smoke at once. The\\nbeautiful elm tree, now growing in the yard of Nathan Stickney,\\ngerminated in the cellar of the old malt-house, and may be called\\nthe malt-elm.\\nIn making beer a quantity of malt was mixed with hops and\\nboiled in water, of greater or smaller measure, as was wanted.\\nThis was transferred to a cask, or large jug, and left to ferment\\na day or two, when it was fit for table use.\\nCider succeeded, and soon supplanted beer. This was a uni-\\nversal drink at every meal morning, noon and night. In the\\nfall farmers gathered their apples and made cider. They usually\\nlaid in from fifteen to thirty barrels for a year s stock. Mr.\\nReuben Abbot now living on the old homestead, west of Long\\npond says that he and his father used to put up sixty barrels\\nevery good year. Hon. Jacob A. Potter says that his father,\\nRichard, and uncle Ephraim often laid in one hundred and twenty\\nbarrels. So free was the use of cider that the whole quantity\\nwould be drank up before the ensuing fall scarcely enough\\nleft for vinegar In old times and those times coming down\\nto 1828, and still later there were in every neighborhood noted\\ncider topers, who would guzzle down a quart without stopping to\\nbreathe, and, smacking their lips, hold out the mug for one drink\\nmore Such fellows would go from house to house, and call in\\njust to get a drink of cider carrying, wherever they went, a\\nbloated, red face, and pot-belly. Of one such I have heard it\\nsaid he would get drunk on cider-emptyings\\nA favorite and very common drink in old times was flip, which\\nwas made on this wise A mug was nearly filled with malt beer,\\nsweetened with sugar then a heated iron, called a logger-\\nhead, was thrust into it, which produced a rapid foam. In-\\nstantly a quantity of the ardent, (a half pint of rum was\\nallowed for a quart mug,) was dashed in, a little nutmeg grated\\non the top, and the whole was quaffed off by two men or more,\\nas they could bear it, which had the effect often to set them at\\nlogger-heads. Mr. Nathan Stickney says, that when a young\\nman, in his fathers tavern, he has drawn out, on public occasions,\\ntwo barrels of beer a day, and made it into flip. The price of a\\nquart mug of flip was twenty or twenty-five cents.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0538.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 523\\nAnother drink was toddy, wbicli was made of rum and water,\\nwell sweetened. A stick, about six or eight inches long, flattened\\nat the end, for crushing the sugar and stirring it up, was called\\nthe toddy-stick. It was celebrated for the ringing music it\\nmade against the sides of a glass tumbler in olden times.\\nAnother favorite drink was eg ]-nog, which was composed of an\\negg beaten and stirred together with sugar, milk and spirit, or\\nwith cider and sugar. The stick used for this purpose was split at\\nthe end and a transverse piece of wood inserted, which was rap-\\nidly whirled round, back and forward, between the palms of the\\nhands. Skilful men made graceful flourishes with toddy and\\negg-nog sticks, in those days. Still another mode of drink-\\ning intoxicating liquor, was, to mix it with the juice of certain\\nstrong herbs, as tansy, spearmint and garden wormwood, with a\\nlittle water and sugar. This was drank before breakfast, to cre-\\nate an appetite\\nFrom the year 17G0 to 1830, rum, brandy, gin and wines\\nof different kinds, were used as a common beverage, more or\\nless in every family. Every taverner and store-keeper in town\\nwas licensed to sell. The bar-room of taverns was furnished\\nwith spacious shelves, or open cup-boards, where li(iuors of every\\nvariety were displayed in decanters. Every store had one end\\nof a counter appropriated to drinking customers. On this stood\\ndecanters, glass tumblers, with water, sugar, spoon, and toddy\\nstick, all ready for use. In the families of the more wealthy and\\nfashionable, spirits of various kinds were arranged and displayed\\non an elegant side-board, and every visiter was invited to drink.\\nFarmers carried well filled bottles of rum into the field, both\\nsummer and winter, and for harvesting usually laid in from ten\\ngallons to a barrel, under the idea that the use of it was indis-\\npensable. In 1827, when the temperance reform commenced in\\nConcord, the writer ascertained, by careful investigation, that the\\nwhole quantity of ardent spirits sold in town in one year (not\\nincluding wine) was about four hundred hogsheads, or forty-six\\nthousand gallons and, as estimated by the traders themselves,\\nthe amount sold to the inhabitants of the town was not less than\\nfifteen thousand gallons or, on an average, about four and a\\nhalf gallons a year to every man, woman and child in the town", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0539.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "624 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nThe cost of this liquor to the consumers was not less than nine\\nthousand dollars, which was more than twice the amount of taxes\\nthe year previous, for town, county and State expenses, and for\\nthe support of schools. One fact alone shows the extent of the\\ntemperance reformation in Concord since that time, viz. The\\nuse of intoxicating hquors as a beverage is now as universally\\nproscribed and relinquished as formerly it was allowed and prac-\\ntised. There is but one place in the whole town ichere ardent\\nspirits of any kind can he laicfidly sold, or where they can be\\nsafely bought, and that is by special hcense only for medicinal\\nand mechanical purposes.\\nThe oldest form of drinking vessel was a noggin, made of\\nwood, largest at the top, with a wooden handle on one side.\\nThis varied in size, from one to four quarts. Afterwards pew-\\nter, or earthern mugs, were used. On the table were wooden\\nplates and platters, or, at a later period, pewter basins, porrin-\\ngers and spoons, plates and platters. When not on the table\\nthese were displayed on an open cup-board, or shelves in the\\nroom. Specimens of these are still preserved in some of the\\nancient families. Sarah and Lois Abbot, sisters of Nathan K.,\\nat the family mansion, west of Long pond, have a large peivter\\np)latter bright almost as silver, bearing on the back of it the\\nstamp of a crown which has come down to them from their great\\ngrand-mother, Mercy Wheeler, of Rowley, and must be at least\\ntwo hundred years old. They have also a wooden platter, in a\\ngood state of preservation, which their grand-mother inherited\\nfrom her ancestor, Thomas Abbot, of Andover. Formerly this\\nwas used as a dinner-dish for vegetables, but in later times\\nthat is, for eighty years it was used for brown bread.\\nGeorge Abbot, Esq., has a large armed chair, which belonged\\nto Thomas Abbot, of Andover, 1728, and an ancient wine bottle,\\nowned by his grand-mother, who died 1769.\\nAs a specimen of those good old times I can state, on the\\nauthority of Mr. Nathan K. Abbot, that the house which his\\nfather (Daniel Abbot) first built, just south of the present one,\\nwas one story, with only one room and a chamber, which was\\nSee History of Temperance Reform in Concord, in a discourse by Rev. Mr. Pouton, De-\\ncember 10, 1843.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0540.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 525\\nreached bj a ladder. The room was about sixteen feet square,\\nwith a fire-place, which would take in wood eight feet long. In\\nthis one room eleven children of Mr. Abbot s were born and\\nlived in close union. During a part of the time, also, he accom-\\nmodated his neighbor, Jonathan Emerson and wife, as boarders,\\nwhose first child was born in the same room Mr. Abbot built,\\nbut only partly finished, the two story house where Nathan K.\\nand his sisters reside but with the first occupancy of it is asso-\\nciated the death of his wife, on the birth of her twelfth child\\nboth dying and were buried together the babe lying in its\\nmother s bosom. Jonathan Emerson s house, west of Mr. Abbot s,\\nwrhere Isaac Emerson now lives, remained several years after he\\nbuilt it, without any windows.\\nThe common ancient dress of the men was a woolen coat,\\nstriped woolen frock, tow frock, and woolen, velvet, tow, or\\nleather breeches. The breeches, with long stockings, were fast-\\nened at the knee with a buckle in winter, they wore woolen\\nor leather buskins, and thick cow-hide shoes, fastened with\\nbuckles on the instep. The best hats, as worn on the Sabbath,\\nwere what are now called cocked-up hats, with three corners,\\nand the more noted men woi-e wigs. Cocked-up hats continued\\nto be worn by aged, venerable men, till within the memory of\\nsome of the present generation. Those distinctly remembered\\nas wearing them were Rev. Mr. Walker, Rev. Mr. Evans, Capt.\\nReuben Abbot, Capt. Joshua Abbot, Capt. Joseph Farnum,\\nand Col. Thomas Stickney. Col. Stickney had a hired man,\\nnamed Levi Ross, who would also put on his dignity, and march\\nwith his cocked-up hat to meeting every Sabbath.\\nThe late Gen. Benjamin Pierce, when governor of the State, in\\n1827 and 1829, wore his tri-cornered hat, short breeches, buckled\\nat the knee, and high boots. The hat was the same that he wore\\nwhen general of the Hillsborough militia, and was the last ever\\nworn in Concord on a public occasion. This hat, and also the\\nmilitary coat which Gen. Pierce wore as brigade inspector of the\\nmihtia of Hillsborough county, at their first organization, about\\n1785, were deposited in the rooms of the New-Hampshire His-\\ntorical Society, by Gen. Franklin Pierce, in 1810.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0541.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "526 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nThe ordinary outer dress of the women in summer was tow\\nand linen gowns, checked tyers^ or aprons and in winter woolen\\ngowns and aprons, thick woolen stockings, and cow-hide shoes.\\nThe clothing was of their own manufacture. Every house might\\ntruly be termed a home factory. The females carded and\\nspun their wool and flax, and wove their cloth in a hand loom.\\nThey also manufactured cloth and made garments for their\\nhusbands, sons and brothers. They could all understand without\\na commentary or dictionary Solomon s description of a virtuous\\nwoman She seeketh wool and flax and Avorketh diligently with\\nher hands she riseth while it is yet night and giveth meat to her\\nhousehold she girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth\\nher arms she layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands\\nhold the distaff. She looketh well to the ways of her house-\\nhold and eateth not the bread of idleness. We credit fully the\\ntradition of those days in which the mothers and daughters of the\\nfirst, second, and even third generation, bloomed with health,\\nstrength and beauty when their own fair hands disdained no\\nsort of domestic labor, and they needed no help when their\\nmost beautiful garments of fine linen arid wool were of their\\nown manufacture, by means of the hand-card and hatchel, the\\nfoot- wheel and the hand- wheel, the hand-loom and the inkle-loom.\\nThese terms now require definition and description as matters\\nof ancient history But our grandmothers understood them.\\nIn those days boys and girls and they remained hoys and girls\\ntill they were married generally went bare-foot in the summer.\\nSnotv-shocs, as they were called, were then in common use by\\nmen, in traversing the woods, hunting, c. They were also\\noccasionally worn by females, as is authentically related of the\\ngrandmother of Dr. Ezra Carter, who Hved on the hill west of\\nLong pond, and of the wife of the elder Henry Martin, who\\ntraveled about three miles on the snow to Horse hill, to attend a\\nsick woman and also of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hazeltine, whose\\nconstitution remained vigorous one hundred years.\\nSnow-shoes consisted of a light piece of wood, commonly ash,\\nabout an inch thick, bent into an elongated curve, like an egg,\\nabout two feet long and one foot wide, till the ends met, which\\nwere fastened together so as to make a handle. About three", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0542.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 527\\ninches from each end of the curved-bow\\n-zTiWas a thin, flat piece of hard wood, to\\nwhich, with the sides of the bow, a net- work\\nof strong, elastic leather strings was firmly\\nfastened. On this leather netting the feet were placed for walk-\\ning, and the shoes fastened on to them by strings. The material\\nof which the snow-shoe was made was very light the elastic\\nleather net-work both gave a spring to the step in walking, and\\nprevented its sinking more than an inch or two into the snow.\\nThe opinion is common that a person could walk faster and\\nfarther in a day on snow-shoes, than he could on bare ground\\nwithout them.\\nThe labor of females was almost entirely in doors. The only\\nexception was that sometimes they assisted in pulling and spread-\\ning the flax which was afterwards to be spun and woven by their\\nhands. As this article was formerly of great use in domestic\\nmanufacture, the method of raising and preparing it may here be\\nstated. Nearly every farmer had a plat of ground for flax.\\nThe quantity of seed sown varied from one and a half to three\\nbushels per acre. The stalk, or stem, when growing was of a pea\\ngreen color and from two to three feet in height, bearing a blue\\nblossom, which ripened into a ball that contained the flax-seed.\\nWhen the flax was ripe it was pulled up carefully by the roots,\\ntied up in small handfuls, left to dry on the ground a day or two,\\nthen set up in small stooks, and after being well dried was stacked\\nin the field a fortnight or more. Then the seed was thrashed\\nout. Next, it was sometimes immersed in water for a week or\\nmore, and then thinly and evenly spread upon the grass, to be\\nrotted. This being sufficiently done, it was stowed away for the\\nwinter but as soon as fair days appeared in spring, there was\\na ireneral turn out of the men for dressing flax. The dressin T\\nwas to separate the fibrous thread from the stalk. This was done\\nby the use of several implements, called the brake, the hatchel,\\nthe swingling board and knife. It was a laborious and dirty\\nprocess, but a smart man would dress on an average forty pounds\\na day. Being thus dressed and twisted together in bunches, it\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was handed over to the good house-wife and daughters, to spin,\\nweave, whiten, and convert into thread, cloth, and neat beautiful", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0543.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "528 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ngarments. IIoiv they did it, I shall allow my friend George\\nAbbot, Esq., to describe First, the hatehel was brought and\\nfastened into a chair with a string or stick and the mother, with\\nher checked apron and a handkerchief pinned about the neck,\\nand another handkerchief tied about her head to keep off the\\ndirt, sat in another chair winding one end of the flax tight\\naround the fingers of the right hand, and holding it, she drew the\\nflax through the hatchel until it was thoroughly combed. Then\\nchanging, she combed in a similar manner the other end. Next\\nit was snarled or wound upon the distaff, and spun into thread,\\nor yarn, upon i\\\\ie foot, or linen ivheel. What was drawn out by\\nhatcheling was called toiv, and it was carded by hand with liand\\ncards and spun upon the large wheel. This was called toiv yarn.\\nFrom the wheel it went to the reel from the reel to the loom,\\nwith which about every family was provided, and every woman\\nknew how to use. Some families, however, hired their spinning\\nand weaving done. Old Mrs. Elliot now glories in it, that she\\nspent many a day in spinning and weaving for Judge Walker s\\nand Esquire Bradley s folks. Many other Avomen either took\\nin work of this kind, or went out to do it.\\nThe custom of rising and retiring early was universal. The\\nformer was at the dawn of morning, and the latter by eight or\\nnine in the evening. The oft repeated adage was,\\nEarly to bed and early to rise,\\nWill make you healthy, wealthy and wise.\\nGoing to meeting, as it was called, on the Sabbath, was for\\nseventy-five years and more the universal custom. Elderly peo-\\nple, who owned horses, rode douUe that is, the wife with her\\nhusband, seated on a pillion behind him, with her right arm\\nencircling his breast. The young people, of both sexes, went on\\nfoot from every part of the parish. In the summer, young men\\nusually walked bare-foot, or with shoes in hand and the young\\nwomen walked with coarse shoes, carrying a better pair in hand,\\nwith stockings, to change before entering the meeting-house. The\\nusual custom of those west of Long pond was to stop at a large\\npine tree at the bottom of the hill west of Richard Bradley s,\\nwhere the boys and young men put on their shoes, and the young", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0544.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS.\\n529\\nwomen exchanged their coarse shoes for a better pair, drawing\\non at the same time their clean white stockings. They left the\\narticles thus exchanged under the tree till their return, having no\\nfear that any one would be guilty of such a sacrilege as to steal\\nthem on the Sabbath In a similar manner the young people\\nfrom the east side of the river came on foot, crossing Tucker s\\nferry, and exchanged and deposited their walking shoes under a\\nwillow tree near Horse Shoe pond.\\nGoing on foot to meeting was not, however, confined to the\\nyoung people. Old Mrs. Elhot says, that she always went a\\nfoot from her house, at the Borough, about six miles yes, and\\noften carried a baby, too The first wife of Daniel Abbot,\\ndaughter of Capt. Nathaniel Abbot, used to go a foot, following\\na path across the woods, carrying a babe, attended by one or two\\nchildren on foot. She would go early, leave her child at her\\nfather Abbot s, attend meeting then, with babe in her arms,\\nwalk home. Married women from Horse Hill, a distance of seven\\nmiles, usually walked. This practice was indeed continued as late\\nas 1825. The wife of the late Mr. Isaac Runnels says she has\\noften walked from her house, seven miles, to the old North church,\\nleaving a nursing babe at home. She would start in the morning\\nabout eight and going out of meeting immediately after sermon\\nin the afternoon, walked homeward till overtaken by persons who\\nrode on horseback or in a wagon, and occasionally would get a ride\\npart of the way, and reach home at four in the afternoon.\\nIt is remembered with pleasure that in the old meeting-house\\nthe venerable old men sat on a seat prepared for them at the base\\nof the pulpit, wearing on their bald heads a white, linen cap in\\nsummer, and a red woolen or flannel cap in winter. This prac-\\ntice continued as late as 1825 and 1830.\\nAmong the ancient men who thus sat in the old men s seat,\\nthe following are distinctly remembered Reuben Abbot, senior,\\nChristopher Rowell, senior, John Shute, Capt. Joseph Farnum,\\nSamuel Goodwin, Moses Abbot, Reuben Abbot, 2d, Nathan iVb-\\nbot, and Chandler Lovejoy.\\nThe intermission was short an hour in winter and an hour\\nand a half in summer. The people all stayed except those in the\\nimmediate vicinity and hence, as every hody attended the same\\n34", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0545.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "530 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nmeeting, a fine opportunity was afforded for every hody to be ac-\\nquainted. Old people now say that they used to know every\\nperson in town. Thus public worship greatly promoted social\\nunion and good feeling throughout the whole community. What-\\never new or interesting event occurred in one neighborhood,\\nsuch as a death, birth, marriage, or any accident, became a sub-\\nject of conversation, and thus communication was kept up between\\nthe people of remote sections, who saw each other on no other\\nday than the Sabbath. Previous to about 1822 there was no\\nstove to warm the meeting-house. The practice then was, for\\neach family who thought it necessary for their comfort, to carry\\na small hand-stove, made usually of perforated tin, or sheet-iron,\\nfastened in a wooden frame, about eight or nine inches square,\\nin which was placed a little pan of coals. Those who traveled a\\nconsiderable distance would step into some house near by, before\\nmeeting such as Dea. Kimball s, Judge Walker s, Esq. John\\nBradley s, Mr. Hannaford s, Mr. Coffin s, or Robert Davis s, and\\nfill up their little pan with live coals. This would keep their feet\\nwarm, and two or three dozen such stoves would, by afternoon,\\ngive a softened temperature to the whole house. At the inter-\\nmission the elderly people usually stepped into Dea. Kimball s,\\nor some other hospitable neighbor s, where they found a good fire\\nblazing out from the great chimney, and, forming a circle around\\nthe room, sat and conversed of the sermon and any thing else\\nthat was fit for the Sabbath, making sure to hear and tell all the\\nnews of the week. There they would eat the lunch which they\\nhad brought, and one of the boys, at the motion of his father,\\nwould bring in and pass round a mug of cider all reUshing\\nequally well\\nOn the west side of the old meeting-house was, and is, a\\nhorse-block, famous for its accommodations to the women in\\nmounting and dismounting the horses. It consists in a large,\\nround, flat stone, seven and a half feet in diameter, or about twen\\nty-two feet in circumference, raised about four feet high, with\\nsteps. Tradition says it was erected at the instance of the good\\nwives who rode on pillions, and that they agreed to pay a pound\\nof butter apiece to defray the expense. This horse-block de-\\nserves to be celebrated, not only for the aid and comfort it", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0546.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 531\\nafforded to the elderly folks, but for the many glorious jumps off\\nof it and sports around it, which the children have had for three\\ngenerations. I believe it was an understood condition in the sale\\nof the meeting-house that the horse-block and iveather-cock should\\nremain forever\\nANCIENT SINGING.\\nIn the early period of the settlement, from 1730 till about\\nthe time of the Revolution, the singing on the Sabbath was led\\nby some one appointed for the purpose he, giving out the tune\\nand reading two hues at a time of the psalm or hymn which was\\nto be sung and the singers, with as many of the congregation\\nas were able, joining in the service. What was called Tate\\nBrady s Collection was then used. After Mr. John Kimball,\\nsubsequently deacon, came into town, some innovations were\\nintroduced. Being one of the singers, Mr. Kimball proposed to\\nRev. Mr. Walker to dispense with the lining of the hymns, as it\\nwas called, on the Sabbath but as Mr. Walker thought it not\\nprudent to attempt it first on the Sabbath, it was arranged be-\\ntween them to make the change on Thanksgiving day. Accord-\\ningly, after a hymn had been given out, the leader, as usual,\\nread two lines the singers struck in, but, instead of stopping at\\nthe end of the two lines, kept on, drowning the voice of the leader,\\nwho persisted in his vocation of lining the hymn This was the\\nfirst change.\\nWhen the meeting-house was finished, in 1784, it was fitted\\nup with a singers pew in the gallery opposite the pulpit. This\\nwas a large, square pew, with a box, or table, in the middle, for\\nthe singers to lay their books on. In singing they rose and faced\\neach other, forming a hollow square. At this time the chor-\\nister used, for pitching the tune, what was called a pitch-pipe,\\nmade of wood an inch or more wide, somewhat in the form of\\na boy s whistle, but so constructed as to admit of different keys.\\nUnder the ministry of Rev. Mr. Evans, who was himself very\\nfond of music,. some instruments were introduced, which was the\\nsecond great innovation, and attended with so much excitement\\nand opposition, that, according to tradition, some persons left the\\nmeeting-house rather than hear the profane sounds of the fiddle\\nand flute. During this period Dea. John Kimball and Capt.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0547.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "532 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nDavid Davis are remembered as being leading singers. Master\\nFlagg and Simeon G. Hall the latter a son of Dea. David Hall\\ndressed in small clothes with knee-buckles, played the flute.\\nAbout this time Watts s Psalms and Hymns were used in singing,\\nand an old singing book called the Worcester Collection.\\nMr. Asa McFarland was first introduced to Concord as a\\nteacher of music, about 1793, and after his settlement a musical\\nsociety was formed, which obtained an act of incorporation. The\\nsociety was duly organized September 10, 1799, at a meeting\\nin the old town-hall, and the following oflicers chosen: Timothy\\nWalker, Esq., president; John Odlin, clerk; Jacob Abbot, Jr.,\\ntreasurer Timothy Chandler, Richard Ayer and Jonathan East-\\nman, trustees Jacob Abbot, Jr., chorister Thomas Stickney,\\nJr., assistant chorister.\\nAt an adjourned meeting, October 7, 1799, Nathan Ballard,\\nJr., was elected 2d assistant chorister Thomas Stickney, Jr.,\\ncollector, and Jacob Abbot, Jr., librarian and a tax of twenty-\\nfive cents laid on each member.\\nTo this society Dea. Joseph Hall made a donation of five\\nhundred dollars, as a permanent fund,* from a desire to encour-\\nage and promote the practice of sacred music in the town of\\nConcord, which fund, safely invested, has proved highly con-\\nducive to the proposed end the interest annually accruing there-\\nfrom being devoted to the object. The following persons have\\nWhereas I, Joseph Hall, of Concord, in the County of Rockingham and State of New-\\nHampshire, gentleman, from a desire to encourage and promote the practice of sacred mu-\\nsic in said town of Concord, have thought proper to make a donation to the Concord Musi-\\ncal Society of the sum of five hundred dollars in the funded debt of the United States,\\nbearing at this time an interest of six per cent, per annum. Now, to the intent that a full\\nunderstanding of my will in respect to the said donation may be known to the members of\\nthe said society and all others, whom it may concern, I do hereby voluntarily enter the same\\non the record of the said society.\\n1st. Tlie sum of five hundred dollars shall always be kept on interest, entire and undimin-\\nished Therefore the payments which government may from time to time make of the prin-\\ncipal of the aforesaid stock, shall, by the trustees of said society for the time being, imme\\ndiately upon receipt thereof, be again put to interest upon good security, so tliat lawful\\ninterest upon the said sum of five hundred dollars may annually and forever accrue to the\\nsaid society.\\nQd. The interest which shall arise upon the aforesaid donation shall always be subject to\\nthe disposal of the society in that way which they shall judge will best promote and encour-\\nage the use and practice of sacred music in said town.\\nIn witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this thirtieth day of April, Anno\\nDomini one thousand eight hundred and one. Joseph Hall. [l. s.]\\nSigned and sealed in presence of Obadiah Carrigain, Philip Carrigain, Jr.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0548.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 533\\nbeen appointed choristers bj the Society, who were also leaders\\nof the choir in the old North meeting-house, viz\\n1799 Jacob Abbot, Jr. 1806 9 James Ayer.\\n1800 Timothy Chandler. 1810\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George Hough.\\n1801 George Hough. 1811 15 James Ayer.\\n1802\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Stickney, Jr. 1816-19 Samuel Fletcher.\\n1803 1820 -1 \u00e2\u0080\u0094George Stickney.\\n1804 Timothy Chandler. 1822-41 Samuel Fletcher.\\n1805 Dyer Abbot. 1842 45 James Ayer.\\nWhen the addition was made to the meeting-house, in 1802,\\nthe old singers pew was taken away, but seats assigned them in\\nthe same relative position opposite to the pulpit. They stood in\\nsinging, but did not turn round. The musical instruments which\\nwei-e used for many years, more or less, were the violin and bass-\\nviol, the flute and clarinet.\\nThe first organ used in town was in the Unitarian meeting-\\nhouse, and which was burnt with the house in 1854 the second\\nin the Episcopal church the third in the South Congregational\\nthe fourth in the New North and the fifth in the First Baptist\\nmeeting-house.\\nMusic has for a number of years past been cultivated as a sci-\\nence. In this, as in every considerable place, there are gentlemen\\nwholly devoted to it, as a profession.\\nIn the families of the original settlers, and also in those of their\\ndescendants of the second and third generation, religious order\\nwas maintained. The late aged Mrs. Hazeltine gave the writer\\nthe names of all the families that lived on Concord Main street\\nwhen she was a little girl about 1746 and says they all had\\nfamily orders that is, attended family prayer. Having very\\nfew books, the Bible was daily read, and the Assembly s Shorter\\nCatechism committed to memory and recited by the children, who\\nwere also trained to habits of strict submission, and obedience to\\nparental authority. Most of the heads of families also were\\nmembers of the church, either on the half way covenant, or in\\nfull communion, and their children were baptized. Commonly\\neach family had a nice white blanket, called the baptism\\nblanket, in which their children, in succession, were carried out", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0549.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "534 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nto meeting for baptism. George Abbot, Esq., and his sister\\nBetsey, wife of Amos Hoyt, have the white Hnen blanket, about\\na yard square, which was used as the baptism blanket for all of\\nDea. George Abbot s family, nine so7is, and of his son Ezra s\\nfamily, eleven in number. It has been used for the baptism of\\nchildren to the sixth generation, besides being borrowed for the\\nsame purpose by neighbors. It is now more than one hundred\\nyears old, and not a brack in it\\nThe social manners and customs of the people in early times\\nwere simple, friendly and unceremonious. Visiting was common\\nand frequent among neighbors, and often without formal invita-\\ntation. When a company of neighbors was invited, the women\\nwent early and spent the afternoon, taking their knitting or\\nother handy work, and their babies with them. Their husbands\\neither accompanied them, or went in season to take supper and\\nreturn early in the evening. Tradition relates that on one occa-\\nsion the women who lived near the meeting-house made a visit to\\ntheir friend, ]\\\\Irs. Elizabeth Hazeltine, living about three miles\\ndistant, on what is now called the Silk Farm, to assist her in\\nquilting. Being young mothers, they took their babies and\\nreached the house early, expecting to finish the quilt so as to\\nbe home by sundown. But night came on and the quilt was not\\nout. Candles were then wanting, for the lack of which Mr.\\nHazeltine went to his wood-pile, and, picking out a large pitch-\\npine stump, placed it whole on the fire. The light was wonder-\\nful all but equalling the orb of day enabling the women to\\nfinish the flowers in the quilt in the handsomest style. The\\nhusbands being now present, all partook of a well cooked supper,\\nand at such an hour as a modern party begins, this closed. The\\nbabies were wrapped in their warm blankets, and each one placed\\nin its mother s arms after she was seated on the nice blue piUion\\nbehind her husband; and all started for home sweet home\\nThe suppers on these occasions consisted of plain, wholesome\\nfood new bread, pies, dough-nuts, sometimes roasted meat, or\\nturkey, with good cider for the men, and a cup of tea for the\\nladies. The ancient customs of the early settlers are still pre-\\nserved in a considerable degree in the West Parish, and in\\nthe eastern section of the town. But in the main village the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0550.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 535\\nchange is entire. This, however, was gradually brought about.\\nThe customs of old families the Ayers, Bradleys, Walkers,\\nKimballs, Stickneys, c., were modified and new ones introduced\\nby new families that moved into the village. Among these may\\nbe mentioned the Harris and Duncan families, previous to 1800,\\nwho were reckoned genteel and fashionable. Col. William A.\\nKent, a gentleman of highly social quahties, and his wife, a lady\\nof accomplished manners; Peter Green, Esq., and at a later\\nday Hon. Thomas W. Thompson and family, took a lead in the\\nfashions of society. The hours for parties were changed from\\nearly after dinner, to late in the afternoon then from six o clock\\nto seven, eight and nine and the hour for retiring till ten, eleven,\\nand still later. Of course the knitting and other handy work\\nwhich formed a part of the social entertainment of olden times,\\nis not considered genteel at this day\\nIn the social gatherings of young people, of both sexes, danc-\\ning was a favorite amusement. Old Mr. Herbert says, The\\nyoung folks always danced, sometimes with a fiddle, and sometimes\\nwithout, but when there was no fiddler they sung and danced to\\nthe tune but he adds, we always went home by nine o clock.\\nOn particular occasions, such as ordinations, new year, and other\\ntimes, there were evening dancing parties, in which not only the\\nyoung, but elderly and married people participated. Although\\nthe parson, deacons, and other members of the church, did not\\njoin in the dance, yet they would look on, and admit that\\nthere was no harm simply in dancing^ though the time might\\nbe more profitably spent.\\nThe amusements and recreations of young men were mostly\\nof the athletic kind. Playing ball was always practiced, as it\\nstill is, in the spring and fall. Wrestling was very common but\\nthis took place at social and public gatherings, especially at raisings,\\nwhen, after the labor of raising the building was over, stimulated\\nby the good treat which all hands had received, they were dis-\\nposed to show their strength in raising ov prostrating one another.\\nFirst, the sport would begin with youngsters trying their strength\\nin the centre of a circle formed by spectators. Then older and\\nstronger ones would come into the ring. Wagers would be laid,\\nand a little more stimulant taken in would give wonderful elas-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0551.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "536 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nticity and strength to the parties. By and by defiant and angry\\n-words would be heard, and it was well if a fight did not end the\\nsport. The most famous wrestler and fighter of old times was\\nEphraim Colby.* The last wrestling match that is remembered\\nto have taken place in the Main street was at the raising of Capt.\\nJoseph Walker s large barn, about 1831.\\nIt should be added that it was customary at all large raisings,\\nafter the ridge pole was fairly in its place, for the master- work-\\nman to celebrate or dedicate the whole, hy dashing upon it a hot-\\ntie of rum, with three hearty cheers from the company. Atkinson\\nWebster, Esq., says the last rum-ceremony of this kind that he re-\\nmembers, was at the raising of the first Eagle coffee-house, in 1827.\\nANCIENT TRAVEL.\\nFor more than eighty years Concord was the great thorough-\\nfare for travel from the northwestern and northern parts of New-\\nHampshire and adjoining portions of Vermont, to Portsmouth,\\nSalem, Newburyport and Boston, which were the principal mar-\\nket places. Wagons in summer and sleds in winter, loaded with\\nproduce of various kinds, were drawn to market by oxen or\\nhorses. The former were the more common as late as 1780.\\nFrom Plymouth to Portsmouth the road run through Sanbornton,\\nCanterbury and the northeast part of Concord. In that section\\nof the town, Mr. John Hoyt, father of Jacob, built a log house\\n(in which Jacob was born) and kept a tavern that was very cel-\\nebrated in that day. The oven in it was so spacious that a boy\\ntwelve years old could go in and turn round. Mr. Hoyt charged\\nhalf a pistareen, or about nine cents, for keeping a yoke of oxen\\nover night. One night thirty-three teams, or sixty-six oxen, put\\nup there. The barn was large and well filled with hay, which\\nwas chiefly cut from a meadow of natural mowing belonging to\\nthe farm. Mr. Hoyt also raised his own stock cattle, sheep,\\nc., and his table was well supplied with fresh meat but travel-\\ners usually carried their own bread and cheese. This tavern was\\nkept there from 1780 till Mr. Hoyt s death, in 1805. Wolves\\nand bears were common in that section, within the memory of\\nhis son Jacob, now eighty-three years of age.\\nMuch of the travel to Portsmouth through Concord main\\nSee notices of him in Biographical Chapter.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0552.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS. 537\\nvillage passed over Kimball s ferry or over Merrill s ferry,\\nto Newburyport, Salem and Boston. Since 1800 the travel in\\nthe winter with loaded sleighs, drawn by two horses, was so great\\nthat it was not uncommon to see fifteen, twenty, thirty and more\\npassing through Main street in a line, at a time. As Concord\\nwas a convenient stopping place, consequently good taverns were\\nestablished in sufficient number to accommodate the travel. At\\nthe north end were Mann s, Hannaford s, afterwards Barker s,\\ntavern George s, Herbert s and Stickney s. In the middle of\\nthe street Kinsman s, Osgood s, Gale s, Hutchins s, and at a later\\nperiod others at the lower end of the street was Butters s.\\nThese were well kept and well supported. The stables were\\nvery capacious, tables were amply furnished with provisions and\\ncider, while the bar was always well stocked with every sort of\\nspirituous liquor.\\nAfter the boating business was established at Concord, immense\\nquantities of produce of every kind were conveyed to Boston\\nmarket by boats and goods in return, taken from the landing\\nplace and conveyed into the interior in heavy loaded wagons,\\ndrawn by four, six and eight horses. Thus business continued\\ntill the opening of the Concord railroad in 1842.\\nANCIENT MASTING.\\nConcord was formerly famous for the noble mast trees which it\\nfurnished, not only for his Majesty s royal navy, but at a later\\nperiod for ships and vessels of various kinds built along the sea-\\nboard. The best masts were drawn from the northwesterly sec-\\ntion of Horse-hill, conveyed to the Contoocook river, at what is\\nnow called the Mast-yard, thence floated down to the Merrimack\\nriver direct, or they were drawn by teams from the Borough to\\nthe sand-banks, or below Sewall s falls, and there thrown into the\\nriver. The first mast-master we have particular knowledge of\\nwas Lieut. John Webster. He once lived in a small house on\\nthe spot where Samuel A. Kimball, Esq., lives, and carried on\\nmasting operations in Concord and neighboring towns. Mr.\\nTimothy Walker remembers that Lieut. Webster cut a mast in\\nNorthfield which measured thirty-eight inches diameter at sixty\\nIn early times the large white pines suitable for masts were marked as they stood in the\\nforests, G. R.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0553.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "538 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nfeet from the butt, and took one hundred and four oxen, or fiftj-\\ntwo teams, to draw it.\\nThe next famous mast-master was Capt. Reuben Kimball.\\nThe manner in which he carried on the business was as follows\\nTaking a strong team in the winter, of twenty yoke of oxen or\\nmore, with sleds and an adequate number of men, he went into\\nthe woods and camped. His men were divided into sections for\\nparticular parts of the work, called swampers, teamsters, choppers,\\npeelers and tailsmen. The swampers cleared the way choppers\\ncut down the trees peelers peeled off the bark teamsters drove\\nthe oxen and two tailsmen walked by the side of the hind team,\\nand in case at any time the tongue of the sled, in passing a\\nhollow place, run so high as to lift the hind oxen up by the neck,\\nthen the tailsmen seized the tails of the oxen and drew them\\noutward, so that in coming down the tongue of the sled would\\nnot strike them.\\nIn going on to the ground the mast-master usually rode\\non horseback and gave his orders. In drawing the logs on a\\nsled the mast-master, or other principal man, road on the sled\\nand thence gave out his orders.\\nAmong other mast-masters of olden time the following are\\nwell remembered Ezekiel Carter, of the West Parish, John Brad-\\nley, Esq., and Jonathan Eastman. The late Jeremiah Pecker\\n^Yas extensively engaged in rafting logs down the river.\\nANCIENT PORK BARRELS.\\nMr. Joseph P. Stickney has now in use in his cellar, two pork\\nbarrels that were brought into Penacook by his ancestor, Lieut.\\nJeremiah Stickney, about the year 1731 which have been in\\nuse every year since, and still appear to be sound. They were\\nmade of what is called heart-piiie require to be hooped once in\\nabout twenty years. Their remarkable preservation so long is\\nattributed to the salt and brine which are constantly in them.\\nAN ANCIENT PEAR TREE.\\nStanding on the farm of Nathan K. Abbot, and a few rods\\nsouth of his house, is a pear tree that is known to have stood\\nover ninety-five years. It grew up a seedling, but the fruit,\\nwhich ripens in September, is large and of excellent quality,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0554.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "ANCIENT MATTERS.\\n539\\nnearly equal to the modern Bartlett pear. It bears more or\\nless everj year, but abundantly every other year. Besides sup-\\nplying the family with pears, it is estimated that at least four\\nhundred dollars worth have been sold for cash. When the tree\\nwas owned by the late Thomas Abbot, his practice was in the\\nseason of the fruit to invite his friends to visit him and eat\\npears, which they did do with good relish\\nTHE OLD HAY SCALES.\\nThe old hay scales,\\nas they were called by\\nway of eminence, were\\nlocated in the valley\\nsoutheast of the Town\\nHall, and of which the\\nannexed cut presents\\nas good a view as could\\nbe obtained by a des-\\ncription from memory.\\nThese scales were the wonderment of boys throughout the vil-\\nlage thirty-five and forty years ago, and the process of weighing\\nloads of hay always attracted moi-e or less of them, who watched\\nthe movements of Mr. Ayer* with the utmost interest. Great\\nskill was requisite in the driver, in order to check up his cattle\\nwhen the cart-wheels reached their assigned position but they\\nvery often shot over, and then he was compelled to drive around\\nmaking a wide radius, and entering the estabhshment with\\ngreater caution than before. When the load reached its exact\\nposition, the cattle were detached, the cart tongue suspended by\\na chain, one end of which was made fast beneath the roof, and\\nthe crank turned by which to raise the load from the ground.\\nThen the crank was made fast, when Mr. Ayer went into the little\\nprojection at the east end, and, looking first at a printed table\\nupon the wall, and then working upon his slate, summed up the\\nweight, to the amazement of the boys and the satisfaction of the\\nowner of the hay. The whole affair was a perfect puzzle to vil-\\nlage urchins, and will not soon be forgotten.f\\nJames Aj-er. f JV. H, Statesman.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0555.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTIVE AND PERSONAL\\nla the preceding chapters we have given, in chronological order,\\nwhatever pertains to the civil affairs of the town, with numerous\\nmiscellaneous incidents and anecdotes relative to ancient and modern\\ntimes. The limits assigned to our work require that the remaining\\nportions, embracing, each, a distinct subject, should be more con-\\ndensed, in matter and form.\\nNo. 1.\\nPHYSICAL HISTORY.\\nThe most striking ph/siral features of Concord are its Rivers,\\nPonds and Streams its Diluvium Plains and Granite Hills.\\nThe Mcrrimarh river, which, properly, is formed by the confluence\\nat Franklin of the Pemigewasset and Winnepiseogee branches, re-\\nceives on the northern line of the town the Contoocook river from\\nthe west, and thence flows, gently and gracefully meandering through\\nthe whole length of the township, dividing it near the centre into\\neastern and western sections. Above Sewall s Island is a considera-\\nble fall, but no available water power is afforded until it reaches\\nTurkey and Garvin s Falls. Subject to freshes, or overflowings of its\\nbanks from heavy rains and sudden melting of snows, the whole\\nadjacent interval is sometimes covered with water, as far as the eye\\ncan reach. These freshes more commonly occur in the spring and\\nautumn. After a great rain the river attains its greatest height in\\nabout twenty-one hours. Sometimes extensive damage is done to\\nbridges, mills, lumber, c., but the freshes, by their alluvial deposit,\\nenrich the intervals for a future crop.\\nWithin the past fifty years great changes have taken place in the\\nbed and course of the river. In 1853, at the request of the New-\\nHampshire Historical Society, Dr. William Prescott made an exam-\\nination and survey of these changes, assisted by Richard Bradley and\\nJonathan Eastman, Esqs. In his report to the Society Dr. Prescott", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0556.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTIVE. 541\\nspecifies these changes, which he attributes to three causes: 1. To\\nahrasions, or the wearing away of the bank on one side of the\\nriver, and a corresponding filling in of the other. 2. To freshes.\\n3. To artificial operations along the river. By the first process the\\nchannel becomes more and more crooked long curves and short\\nbends are formed, until only a narrow neck of land remains at some\\npoint, which is cut through at the next great overflow, thereby\\nforming a new channel, while the old one is left, either dry or studded\\nwith stagnant pools. In this way, no doubt, in ancient times, Horse-\\nshoe pond and the Frog ponds were formed. Previous to 1825 the\\nriver, passing the blufis at Sugar Ball, had flowed in a remarkably\\ncircuitous channel along the banks by Fort Eddy, sweeping easterly,\\nsoutherly and westerly, so as to form a respectable ox-how. A great\\nfreshet, in 1826, swept away a large mass of bank on the east side,\\nand in 1828 it cut a channel directly through from Sugar Ball, form-\\ning, on the west, an island, now owned by Bichard Bradley. The\\nfirst week in January, 1831, the river swept straight across Ilale s\\nPoint, cutting oif the old ferry road. Other changes are visible\\nabove and below Farnum s eddy in the vicinity of Squaw lot above\\nand south of the Free bridge, where the whole width of the channel\\nhas been changed from east to west,* and at the curve in the vicinity\\nof the Frog ponds, where much new and valuable land has been\\nformed on the west side, by washings and deposits from the eastern\\nbluffs.\\nIn the construction of the Northern Railroad, in 1846 and 1847,\\nFarnum s eddy was filled up and rubbled, thus throwing the current\\nof the river to the east side. At Sewall s Island, where the river\\nflowed around it, the whole course was turned east. At Goodwin s\\nPoint, around the west end of which, close under the great sand bank,\\nthe river formerly flowed, about forty acres were cut off by exca-\\nvating a new channel on the east side, and forming an island. In\\nexcavating this channel the workmen, at the depth of about twelve\\nfeet, struck upon a bed of vegetable matter, consisting of leaves,\\ntwigs, branches and trunks of small trees, the form of which was\\nperfect, and the limbs and bark distinct. This vegetable deposit was\\nimbedded in a stratum of fine, blue sand, from one to three inches\\nin thickness. Hence it is inferred that this place was, at some re-\\nmote period, the bed of the river; and that, in f\\\\ict, the whole of\\nwhat now constitutes our rich and beautiful interval, has been pro-\\nduced, or manu/aetnred out of the adjacent uplands, by the ceaseless\\naction and deposits of the river.\\nThe Contoocook river rises in or near Eindge, N. H. fiows north-\\nerly, nearly parallel with Merrimack river, through Peterborough,\\nAntrim, Hillsborough, Henniker and Hopkinton, about fifty miles,\\nand as it approaches its junction with the Merrimack from the\\nMoses Shute, Esq., says he used to drive cows along the west bank of the Merrimack,\\nwlien a boy, and since then the river has washed away its entire vvidtli, adding valuable land\\nto the farms opposite.\\nt See the whole of Dr. Prescott s valuable Report, in the arcliives of the N. H. Historical\\nSociety, with a Map. To him I am indebted for the substance of the above.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0557.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "542 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nMast Yard to its mouth it runs through, and, indeed, consti-\\ntutes a fertile section of Concord, and affords tine mill privileges for\\nmore than a mile in its course, at the Borough and at Fisherville.\\nThe Soucook river rises in Gilmanton, and, entering Concord near\\nthe line between Loudon and Chichester, furnishes the water power\\nat Dickerman s Mills, so called thence constituting the boundary\\nbetween Concord and Pembroke, it flows east of the Dark Plain,\\naffording mill privileges along its course, till it empties into the\\nMerrimack below Garvin s Falls. This river, after it enters Con-\\ncord, is very crooked and rapid, requiring seven bridges to be main-\\ntained for convenience of crossing it.\\nThe Fomh in Concord are 1. TiirTicy Pond, in the south-west\\npart of the town, containing about one hundred and seventy^ acres,\\nby survey of C^apt. Benjamin Parker so called from a fancied re-\\nsemblance in its form to a turkey, with its ample body and bended\\nneck. Surrounded with bogs, the waters of this pond_ are of a dark\\ncolor, imparting their hue somewhat to the fish with which it abounds.\\nNortherly of this principal pond, and united with it by a small\\nstream, is iv\u00c2\u00abV^/t Turkey pond, which, in the summer season, is a place\\nof delightful resort by people from the main village. The outlet of\\nboth is Turlcei/ river, a considerable stream, affording valuable mill-\\nsites. Here was the fir.\u00c2\u00abt grist and saw-mill ever erected on the west\\nside of Merrimack river.\\n2. Horsc-slLOc Pond, at the head of Main street in form resem-\\nbling the shoe of a horse was, no doubt, anciently the bed of Mer-\\nrimack river. It encloses a fertile tract of land, owned by Joseph\\nB. Walker, Esq. The house lots west of this tract were, in the orig-\\ninal survey, called the Island range. This pond is crossed by the\\ntrack of the Northern Railroad. The oudet and inlet of it is called\\nWattanummon s brook. Connected by the brook with Merrimack\\nriver at the east end, the water in the pond rises and fulls according\\nto the flow of water in the river. This pond abounds with perch\\nand pickerel, larger than are found in any other place in town.\\n3. Lonff Pond is a beautiful sheet of water, in the west part of\\nthe town, one mile and three fourths in length, half a mile in the\\nwidest part, and its mean or average width 75.^ rods. As lately\\nsurveyed by George Abbot, Esq., it contains an area of two hundred\\nand sixty-five acres. Its greatest depth, as measured by Keuben K.\\nAbbot, in the summer of 1852, was eighty-four feet. Fed by streams\\nthat gush from neighboring hills, the water in the pond is cool, pure,\\nclear as crystal, and abounds with perch and pickerel, whose color is\\nbright and sparkling. Only one trout was ever caught in this pond\\nit weighed about five pounds. From the north end issues a never-\\nfailing stream, that affords valuable mill privileges. It is said that\\nno person was ever drowned in this pond. Should the city of _ Con-\\ncord, in its main village, ever require Croton, or Cochituate\\nwater, like the smaller cities of New- York and Boston, we cannot\\ndoubt it will be supplied from Long Pond.\\n4. Little Pond, on the hill easterly of Long Pond, lies quietly in", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0558.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTIVE. 543\\na basiu, concealed from view by a thick grove on the west and south,\\nand by an overshadowing hill on the north.\\n5. On the east side of the river, towards the Loudon line, is Turtle\\nPond, supposed to derive its name from the unusual quantity and\\nsize of turtles found there. It is nearly surrounded by bog and\\nswamp land. When the pond is frozen over there is occasionally\\nheard issuing froni it a deep, low, groaning sort of sound, which\\nelderly people in the neighborhood describe, by saying The pond\\nhas the belly-ache there will soon be a change of weather. Its\\nwaters are discharged by Mill-brook, through the valley, southerly,\\ninto the Merrimack, furnishing excellent water privileges in the East\\nvillage for mills and factories. On this stream the Jird grist and\\nsaw-mill in Concord was built, in 1729.\\n6. Snnw Pond, north-west of Turtle Pond, on the westerly side\\nof Oak Hill, derives its name from an early settlor by the name of\\nZerobbabel Snow. According to a recent survey, by Capt. Benjamin\\nParker, it contains about twenty-five acres. Jacob Hoyt, Esq., says\\nthat near this pond Mr. Snow, on a hunting excursion, was trerd by\\na pack of wolves just at night. He fired away at them all the balls\\nhe had, and then cut off buttons from his coat and discharged them\\nbut the wolves kept round the tree till broad day light next morning,\\nwhen they went ofi and he escaped. On the north-west issues a\\nsmall stream, sufilcient to carry a shingle-mill. Uniting with Hack-\\nett s brook, this stream flows into the Merrimack river above Sewall s\\nfalls bridge.\\nNorth-east of Snow s pond, in a deep valley at the base of Oak\\nHill, on the Concord and Loudon line, is a pond measuring thirty-\\none rods across it, called Hot-hole Pond, the bottom of which, it\\nit is said, has never been reached.\\nThe Interval land that borders Merrimack river, from a quarter of\\na mile to a mile in width, is distinguished for its extent, beauty and\\nfertility. Though of unequal quality in different places, yet, taken\\ntogether, it yields bountiful crops of grass, corn, oats, potatoes, and\\nsometimes wheat. The soil throughout is a rich alluvial, believed to\\nbe equal to any on the Connecticut river, within the limits of New-\\nHampshire, except that at the Ox-bow, so called, in Haverhill.\\nLarge solitary trees of elm and walnut, scattered over the interval,\\nadd greatly to the beauty of the prospect, as surveyed from adjacent\\nuplands.\\nOn the east side of the Merrimack the Barh Plain, extending\\nfrom Turkey Falls to Mill-brook, about five miles in length, and from\\nthe eastern bluffs of the Merrimack to the Soucook, three miles, was\\nformerly covered with a heavy growth of pitch-pine. Though the\\ngrowth on this plain has been repeatedly cut off and burnt over, it\\nstill remains a dark pine plain thin, sandy soil, incapable of\\nmuch improvement by cultivation. When the pine growth is cut\\nand subdued, shrub oaks spring up or, what is much better, a rich\\ngrowth of blvieberry and whortleberry bushes. Opposite to this\\nplain, on the west side of the river, is another, extending from Tur-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0559.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "544 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nkey falls to Slain street, and from the banks of the Merrimack south-\\nwesterly, to the Iron Works. In the West parish is a plain, which\\nextends from the burying-ground, near the meeting-house, to Fisher-\\nville northerly, and from the banks of the Merrimack to the Contoo-\\ncook river west. One portion of this is dry, sandy soil, and another\\nportion wet, heavy bog.\\nOf the up-lands in Concord there is considerable diversity of\\nquality, generally uneven, rough and hilly of hard, granite soil, a\\nlarge part covered originally with a heavy growth of hard-wood but,\\nwhen cleared and cultivated, forming excellent farms and good pas-\\ntures. On the east side, northerly of the Dark Plain, is a tract of\\nhard-wood and pine, of gravelly soil and not very productive. The\\ntract bordering Turtle pond is valuable for pasture and tillage. West-\\nerly to Oak hill is a growth of hard maple, from which sugar is\\nmanufactured and a chestnut orchard, belonging to the Potter\\nfamily, annually yields from sixty to eighty bushels of chestnuts,\\nwhich sell from $2,50 to $3,00 a bushel. Westerly and northerly of\\nOak hill which is famous for its heavy growth of hard wood in\\nwhat is called tSnaptown, and the Mountain districts, are some\\nof the best upland and most productive farms in the town.\\nOn the west side of Merrimack river the Horse-hill district is\\nespecially noted for its rich pastures, and for the excellent dairies\\nwhich furnish the market with butter and cheese. The whole of the\\nWest parish district is an uneven tract, composed of wood, pasture\\nand arable land which latter, cultivated by the patient and persever-\\ning industry of hardy yeomanry, richly rewards their labors. More\\nattention is paid to raising fruit in this section than in any other part\\nof the town. Not only excellent apples, but peaches, pears and\\nplums, of various kinds, are raised here. Owned by the Flanders\\nfamily is a valuable chestnut grove. The Abbots, Carters and Far-\\nnums, now living in the West parish, retain and cultivate the old\\nhomestead farms which have descended to them from their ancestors.\\nMr. Stephen Carlton supplies the market with the best of early veg-\\netables and fruit, and Dea. Ira Rowell with the purest of milk\\nsending in on Saturday evening a generous supply for the Sabbath.\\nWhat is true of the section westerly of Long Pond is applicable\\nequally to the Little Pond district, where beautiful and productive\\nfarms are seen. The scenery in the vicinity of Long Pond, especially\\nin summer and autumn, is highly picturesque, beautiful and attractive.\\nThe remaining sections in the westerly part of the town, including\\nBeech, Dimond and Stickney Hill, present a fine growth of\\nwood and timber are rich in pasture, and, under cultivation, fertile.\\nThe section known as the Bog Road, formerly the Great Swamp,\\nnow cleared and cultivated, yields an abundant reward for the labor\\nbestowed upon it. The Iron Works section is well cultivated and\\nproductive.\\nGranite is found in every part of the town in ledges, or cobble-\\nstones on the surface, in inexhaustible quantities, but varying in quality\\nand texture in different locations. West of the Main village is a hill", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0560.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTIVE. 545\\nrange, of the primary formation, running from north to south, about\\nthree miles in length. This is covered with a thin soil, overgrown\\nwith^ wood of every variety, but beneath the surfiice composed of\\ngranite ledges. The range rises to its highest point in the geograph-\\nical centre of the town, about two miles from the main village, where\\nit is computed to be five hundred and eighty feet above the high water\\nmark of the river. The more northerly section of this range belongs\\nto the town farm the central portion to John and Simeon Abbot,\\nand to Moses II. and Benjamin Farnum; the southern and Sum-\\nmit ledge, as it called, belonged to the estate of the late Charles\\nWalke^r, Esq. It was purchased in 1834, by Luther Roby and Wil-\\nliam Green,* by whom, under the superintendence of Mr. Roby, it\\nhas been extensively wrought.\\nNear the Summit, on the eastern declivity of this range, are local-\\nities known as the old Rattlesnake Dens. Particular rocks have also\\nreceived names from circumstances connected with them such as\\nSheep rock, Old Phebe, Sow rock, Raccoon and La Fay-\\nette. _ Mr. Simeon Abbot and Mr. Luther Roby have furnished\\nsome interesting and amusing facts and anecdotes, derived from tra-\\ndition and personal observation. Mr. Abbot says My father\\nbought thirty-six acres of the hill, which I and my brother John now\\nown, for fifty cents an acre, or ^18. He sold a single rock, called\\nthe Phebe Rock, to Gass and Johnson, for SllO. They sold it on\\na contract, at the State Prison, for $1540. It was wrought there for\\nthe New-Orleans market, and sold for $6000. This a^hebe rock\\nlay_ upon _the_ surface, and derived its name from the Phebe bird,\\nwhich built its nest annually under its lofty sides. On this the\\nfirst experiment of seam shot blasting was tried. Joseph Parker and\\nJacob Radger were the managers. Having made a seam by means\\nof wedges through the depth of the rock, they began at the outer\\nedges and poured in sand, which, running obliquely, filled the crevice\\nsutficiently for the purpose. They then deposited a keg, or twenty-five\\npounds of powder, in the middle, overspreading the same with sand\\nand pressing it down as hard as could safely be done. For a. fuse they\\ninserted a thistle-stalk, and then set a slow match of tow, extendino-\\na considerable distance. The explosion produced a shock like a little\\nearthquake the huge mass was thrown over, to the amazement and\\njoy of the beholders When split and worked up it was found to\\ncontain 11,000 feet of dimension stone, beside a large quantity of\\ncellar and refuse stone. The Sow rock contained six thousand\\nfeet, and was so called from the fact that a sow found a secure retreat\\nunder its sides for a litter of pigs in rattlesnake times. The La\\nFayette rock was so named about the time Gen. La Fayette visited\\nthis place, in 1825. Its splitting qualities were so remarkable that\\nthe workmen frequently exclaimed, as the pieces were split off as\\ntrue as the leaves of the Bible meaning exact and regular. From\\nthis portion of the hill the stones were obtained for the first grist-\\nmill built in Concord, in 1729, by Nathan Symonds.\\nLately sold to the New-York and Concord Granite Company.\\n35", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0561.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "546 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nIn 1819 Messrs. John P. Gass and Dearborn Jolmson made a\\ncontract with the State, and hired the convicts at the prison, for the\\npurpose of supplying a foreign market; and the products of their\\nlabor, by means of the Concord and Boston Boating Company, which\\nhad just commenced operations, reached Boston, New-York, Phila-\\ndelphia and Baltimore.\\nIn 1820, and for quite a number of years afterwards, the business\\nwas successfully carried on by the warden of the prison, Capt. Moses\\nPillsbury, the successor of Capt. Dearborn, by whose efibrts and per-\\nseverance stone splitting and cutting was reduced to a system.\\nStones were furnished to the prison in the rough at twelve and one\\nhalf cents per surface foot, or fourteen cents per cubic foot. From\\n1819 to 1834 the foreign trade was pursued with vigor and profit,\\ngiving employment to many of the inhabitants of Concord.\\nMr. Roby, who has carried on the business of cutting, splitting\\nand hammering stone for the last fourteen years, relates that in 1842\\nhe got out of his ledge stones for the Concord depot that weighed\\nfrom twelve to fourteen tons. One of the largest of these stones,\\nabout seventeen feet long, he drew from the top of the ledge the\\nback way that is, by Little Pond road having the power of forty\\nyoke of oxen to draw it. The stone was placed on two strong, new\\nsleds, in the month of March. The chain which he used, weighing\\nabout five hundred pounds, with studded links, was broken soon after\\nthe first start, and the sleds run back to the brow of the ledge against\\na large oak tree. One sled was entirely demolished, and the hind\\nbeam of the other broken. A second attempt, with new chains and\\nsleds, was successful.\\nFrom this ledge, at the expense of the State, was furnished the\\nblock for the Washington Monument, four feet and two inches wide,\\nand eighteen inches thick. It is polished and lettered, New-\\nHampshire.\\nFrom the summit of Granite hill, above Roby s ledge, is a magnifi-\\ncent view of the main village, the interval of the Merrimack, and a\\nlarge portion of the eastern section of the State. Westerly and\\nnortherly the prospect is bounded only by the distant horizon taking\\nin the Monadnock, Kearsarge, Moosehillock, and, in fine weather,\\nmountains extending to the White hills.\\nThere is a valuable granite ledge on the hill south-west of Richard\\nBradley s, owned by Joseph B. Walker.\\nOn Horse-hill, near the Mast Yard d^pot, is a locality of porphy-\\nritic granite. Boulders, also, of porphyritic granite and of other\\nkinds, some of mica slate, are found, supposed to have drifted from\\nlocalities at the north.\\nA short distance from the West Concord meeting-house, on the\\nline of the railroad, is a locality of quartz and feldspar.\\nIron ore in small quantities was found at an early period, in the\\nsouth-westerly part of the town, and at the bend in the river, south-\\neast of the main village, above Concord bridge. The surface of the\\nsoil still indicates the existence of ore.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0562.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTIVE.\\n547\\nExcellent clay, for making bricks, is found on the Hopkinton\\nroad, three miles from the State House also, westerly of Turkey\\nfalls; on the Loudon road, near Turtle pond, and various other places.\\nOf the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles and Fishes of Concord,\\nlittle more can be said than that they are such as are common to tlie\\nnorthern parts of New-England.* Bears, wolves, deer and beaver,\\nformerly here, like the original natives, have become extinct, or\\nwithdrawn from the face of civilized men. The partridge is common,\\nbut the quail is a rare bird in Concord. After a residence of thirty\\nyears, the writer has yet to see the first one. Rattlesnakes are no\\nmore the war against the varminf, and especially the premium\\noffered for their tails, has resulted in their extermination. For-\\nmerly, the good people caught their own shad and salmon, which\\nannually, in the spring season, passed up the Merrimack to their\\nsummer resorts in the Winnepiseogee and Pemigewasset waters;\\nbut factories, and dams across the river, have impeded their course,\\nand left us to lust in vain for their flesh. It is a curious fact, well\\nattested, that formerly, as the shad and salmon reached the confluence\\nof waters that form the Merrimack river, at Franklin, the former\\nalways went up the Winnepiseogee branch to the lake of that name\\nand the latter, the Pemigewasset branch to the Squam and Newfound\\nlakes there respectively to lay their young. A few salmon,\\nin old times, went np the Contoocook river, and in ascending the falls\\nwhere Fisherville now is, were caught in pots and nets. When Presi-\\ndent Monroe visited the town, in 1817, he took an excursion, in a\\nsmall steamer, down the river as far as the locks and canal at Garvin s\\nfalls, and in passing through the canal a large salmon was caught,\\nwhich was taken on board and introduced to the President, who\\nexpressed his great gratification, and said it was the first live salmon\\nhe had ever seen.\\nConcord has never been distinguished for its fruits. The apple\\nflourishes well, and was formerly raised in considerable quantities for\\nthe purpose of making cider. Within the last twenty-five years\\nmany of the old apple orchards have been cut down others have been\\nrenovated by being grafted with scions of a superior quality. Young\\norchards are found in every section of the town.\\nThe pear and peach do not flourish so well in the main village as\\non the uplands east and west of the river. Vegetables common to\\nNew-England are abundant here. Native grapes are found but the\\nmore delicate exotic grapes are not sure of coming to maturity before\\nthey are nipped by frost. Various kinds of wild berries the straw-\\nberry, blackberry, blueberry, whortleberry, raspberry also, the hazel\\nnut, oilnut, chestnut, walnut, (in less quantities,) are found in every\\nsection of the town.\\nTrees. Concord is distinguished for the elms and other beautiful\\ntrees which ornament the principal streets of the main village. The\\nRev. Timothy Walker, and his son Timothy, with the help of\\nPrince, about the year 1756, set out foiir elms standing in front\\nSee a list of these, severaUy, in tlie Documentary Chapter, furnished by William Pres-\\ncott, M. D.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0563.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "548\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nof tlie house of Joseph B. Walker, and the one standing now iu the\\nyard in front of the house where Mr. Walker was born and, also,\\none elm standing at the easterly corner of the house of the venera-\\nble Timothy Walker. One elm, a little north of the four first named,\\nwas probably set out about thirty years afterwards. These elms, taken\\ntogether, are the most stately in town.*\\nEzekiel Walker, brother of James, set out three elm trees in\\n1760, in front of the Hannaford house, so called, now belonging to\\nProfessor Stephen M. Vail, of the Biblical Institute.\\n^*:if\\n\u00c2\u00abj*\\nV- w- ^SV, TCVj\\nCapt. Enoch Coffin, and his brother, Col. John Coffin, about the\\nyear 1782, set out the elm now standing in front of the house of\\nSamuel Coffin, Esq., a tree admirable for its fair and magnificent\\nproportions, as represented in the above cut, though not equal to the\\noriginal. The elegant elm tree close to the house of the late Abiel\\nWalker was set out about the same time.\\nCircumference of first, at three feet from the ground, sixteen feet at six feet from the\\nground, fourteen feet. Trunk divides into branches at twelve feet from the ground, and the\\ndiameter of the top, measured up and down Main street, is one lumdred feet and measured\\nat right angles with Main street, is one hundred feet.\\nCircumference of second, at three feet from the ground, twelve feet and nine inches; at\\nsix feet from the ground, twelve feet and three inches.\\nCircumference of third, at three feet from the ground, nine feet at six feet from the ground,\\nnine feet and tliree inches.\\nCircumference of fourth, at three feet from the ground, thirteen feet; at six feet from the\\nground, twelve feet.\\nCircumference of the fifth, at three feet from the ground, eight feet and two inches at six\\nfeet from the ground, seven feet and nine inches. This tree was planted at a later date.\\nTree in front of Timothy Walker s house. Circumference, at tliree feet from the ground,\\ntwelve feet and nine inches at six feet from the ground, twelve feet and two inches.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0564.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0565.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0566.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "DESCRIPTIVE. 549\\nEphraim Colby set out an elm tree at the corner of the burying-\\nground, near a house owned by David George, now burnt down. lie\\nalso set out the four elm trees in front of the house owned by the\\nlate Dr. Peter Green since burnt down now partly shading the\\nhouse of Henry A. Newhall, opposite the Court house.* It is sup-\\nposed that these trees were set out by Colby about the year 1787.\\nThe sis elms now standing in front of the old house of Ilev. Dr.\\nBouton, were set out about 1787, by Major Daniel Livermore, who\\nbuilt the house in 1785. The wide-spread elms in front of the\\nmansion of the late Col. Thomas Stickney [see view] are said to have\\nbeen set out by Ephraim Colby, about the year 1787. The late Mr.\\nJeremiah Stickney, who died in 1850, aged 85, used to say that when\\nthe trees were set out he was big enough to help hold them up.\\nThis house, it will be recollected, was formerly a garrison house.\\nFrom time to time it has been enlarged and modified, but still retains\\nits venerable appearance. It has been occupied from the beginning\\nby successive generations of the Stickney family. [See genealogy.]\\nMrs. Mary, widow of John Odiin, Esq., and daughter of Col. Thomas\\nStickney, now the oldest native woman in town, was born in this\\nhouse, October 30, 17G6. The house is now owned by Mrs. Mary\\nAnn, widow of Thomas Stickney, jr., and is occupied by herself and\\nher son, Joseph P, Stickney. The beautiful engraved view of the\\nhouse and trees was executed by Mr. Herrick, now of New- York,\\nson of Mr. Israel E. Herrick, formerly of Concord.\\nThe noble trees at the Thorndike place, so called, on Main street,\\nby the residences of Charles and George Hutching and Stephen S.\\nSweet, are said to have been set out by Timothy Walker, brother\\nof Isaac, grandfather of Abiel Walker, who formerly resided near\\nthat spot in a garrison house.\\nA majestic elm, with brawny limbs, thin foliage and defiant\\naspect, stands nearly opposite the residence of the late Col. Wm. A.\\nKent, that looks as if it had been in battle with the elements a hun-\\ndred winters, but whose age is not certainly known. Other specimens\\nof this superb tree, out of the main village, are equally worthy of note.\\nOn Stickney hill stands one, near the road, and close to the resi-\\ndence of Capt. John Sherburne, that spreads its cooling shade in\\nsummer over a diameter of one hundred and seventeen feet. Its\\ntrunk measures seventeen feet at four feet from the ground. An-\\nother elm, distinguished for its height and circumference of over-\\nhanging branches, stands close to the road, near the house of Moses\\nH. Farnum, about one mile and a half from the main village, on the\\nBoscawen road. Of elms and other beautiful shade-trees of a more\\nrecent period, in the main village, those in front of the house of\\nSamuel A. Kimball, Esq., were set out by Hazen Kimball, brother\\nof Samuel A. About the year 1818, Samuel A. Kimball, Esq.,\\ntook charge of setting out the rows of elms which adorn the side-\\nwalk opposite his house. In 1831, being highway surveyor, he\\nset out a row of willows on the south margin of Horse-shoe pond.\\nThis house since purchased and occupied by Dr. Bouton.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0567.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "550 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nCharles Walker set out six elms in front of his ofl ce and garden,\\nnow the residence of Joseph H. Pearson, about the year 18U2, and\\nfive more a little later, on a line with them, in front of his house,\\nnow owned by Cyrus W. Paige. There is a lofty elm in the house-\\nyard of the late James Buswell.\\nThe elm trees before the new North Church were set out in 1818,\\nby old soldier John Elliot, who brought them from the West parish\\nby hand, tWQ at a time, on successive days. The premises were\\nthen owned by the late Mr. Robert Davis, 2d, and David Davis, then\\na clerk in his brother s store, paid Elliot twenty-five cents apiece for\\nthe trees, and assisted in setting them out.\\nThe elms about the old North church, or Biblical Institute, were\\nprocured and set out under direction of the late Mr. John D. Abbot,\\nof Brooklyn, N. Y., son of Nathaniel Abbot, in the spring of 1832.\\nMr. Abbot raised a subscription for the purpose, and the trees cost\\nupon an average two dollars apiece.\\nCentre street is ornamented with a beautiful row of maples on each\\nside, now of about twenty years growth. The maples and elms\\nwhich shade and beautify the State house yard are the growth of\\nabout thirty years. Nearly all of the younger ornamental trees in\\nConcord main village were transplanted, when of small growth, from\\nthe adjacent forests, at the order of individuals who wished for them,\\nand were dug up and set out by laborers, at an average price of from\\nhalf a dollar to two dollars apiece, according to their size. In the\\nsummer a portion of the elms at the north end of Main street extend\\ntheir waving branches till they meet and form an arch over the\\nmiddle of the highway, far more beautiful and splendid than ever\\ngraced the triumph of a Roman conqueror.\\nOf the forest trees it need only be added that they are of every\\nvariety such as is common to the northern parts of New-England.*\\nThe abundant growth which formerly covered the plains and hills, and\\nwhich still forms a marked feature of the town, led the fathers to\\ndiscuss the question, whether the township was to be valued more for\\nits rich intervals, or for its well wooded uplands.\\nThe climate and temperature of Concord are favorable to healtli\\nand longevity, as the statistical tables will show. In the extreme\\nheat of summer the thermometer occasionally rises to ninety-six\\nand even one hundred degrees, while the mean temperature in June,\\nJuly and August together, is about sixty-three degrees. In the\\nextremest cold of winter that is, in December, January and Feb-\\nruary the thermometer occasionally sinks to twenty-five and thirty\\ndegrees below zero, but the average for those months is about twenty\\ndegrees above. The mean temperature of the year is about forty-two\\nand a half degrees.f Good sleighing commonly lasts from about the\\nSee a list, in the Docuinentarv am! Statistical Chapter.\\nfThe fdllowiiig table, kept by the late John Farmer, Esq., shows the mean temperature in\\nConcord of each month in 18.36\\nJanuary, 22.5\\nFebruary, 14.7\\nMarch, 2G.0\\nApril, 38.1\\nMav, 5.5..5\\nJune, 59.7\\nJuly, 67.G\\nSeptember, 50.5\\nOctober, 48.5\\nNovember^ 37.0\\nAujiust, C2.5 I December, 22.7\\nMean temperature for the year, 42.4.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0568.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 551\\nmiddle of December to the last of February. Sometimes it com-\\nmences in November and lasts till the middle of March. It has been\\nknown to continue till the first of April. The usual time of planting\\nis from the 1st to the 20th of May, but good crops have been raised\\nafter the 1st of June. Cattle are turned out to pasture about the\\n20th of May.\\nNo. 2.\\nBIOGRAPHY.\\nThe following brief biographical sketches relate to individuals of\\nevery class and condition in life, whose names are either particularly\\nprominent in the annals of the town, or who are remembered as dis-\\ntinguished for peculiar characteristics or positions in society. Some\\nthings are related of individuals which, perhaps, family friends might\\nprefer should be left out but, in such cases, the facts are stated for\\ngeneral instruction and entertainment, and never designed to dis-\\nparage the individual. In this difiicult part of my work I have been\\nstudious to avoid all partiality. The sketches which have been fur-\\nnished me are inserted as written, subject only to such correction and\\nabridgement as was judged necessary. The sketches, it will be seen,\\nrelate only to persons deceased. Their names are arranged in the\\nchronological order of their death. More might have been added,\\nbut it must not be inferred from the omission of a particular name\\nthat his merits are less appreciated.\\nIt should further be noted by the reader, that, for special reasons,\\nit was judged best, in many instances, to give a biographical sketch\\nin other portions of the History; for example, under the head of\\nministers, lawyers, physicians and gradiiates and, also, in the body\\nof the work, at the time of an individual s death to all which\\nreference may be had by the index of names.\\nCAPT. EBENEZER EASTMAN.\\nIn addition to the many interesting facts respecting Capt. Ebeuozer\\nEastman, which the preceding history furnishes the part he took\\nin the first settlement of the town the services he rendered, and\\nthe offices of trust and honor which he held it may be stated that,\\nhaving considerable property, and coming as he did at the earliest\\nperiod of the settlement, with six sons, the oldest of whom was 15\\nyears of age, and able to work, Capt. Eastman became in a few years\\nthe strong man of the town. In 1731 his house and home lot were\\nin better order, and more land under cultivation than any other in\\nthe settlement. From his youth he had been inured to hardship and\\nto bold and daring enterprises. When 9 years of age (1698) his father s\\nhouse and buildings, in Haverhill, were destroyed by Indians. At the\\nage of 19 he joined the regiment of Col. Wainwright in the expe-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0569.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "552 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ndition against Port Eoyal. In 1711, when the British fleet, under\\nAdmiral Sir Hovenden Walker, destined against Canada, arrived in\\nBoston, the land forces that were to accompany the expedition were\\norganized with great dispatch, and Eastman, then about 21 years of\\nage, had command of a company of infantry, which embarked with\\nothers in one of the transports. In going up the river St. Lawrence\\nthey encountered a violent north-east storm, in which eight or nine\\nof the transports were wrecked and about one thousand men lost.*\\nJonathan Eastman, Esq., great-grandson of Ebenezer, relates as a\\ntradition derived from his ancestor, That, as night came on, the\\norders were that all the transports should follow the admiral s ship,\\nwhich had a large light hoisted at mast-head for a signal. Capt.\\nEastman had been somewhat acquainted with the navigation of the\\nriver, having sailed up and down before. In the night the light of\\nthe admiral s ship was not to be seen, and that was at the time when\\nthe fleet was doubling a very dangerous and rocky point or cape.\\nWhen the admiral s ship had fairly doubled the point and got into\\nline, the light appeared in such a position as to draw the line of ship-\\nping directly on to that dangerous point. Aware of the danger, Capt.\\nEastman went to the commander, informed him of the peril, and\\nbegged him to alter the course of the vessel but, being then under\\nthe influence of liquor, this the captain positively refused to do, say-\\ning that he would follow his admiral if he went to h 1. Well,\\nsaid Capt. Eastman, I have no notion of going there, and if you\\nwon t alter the course of the vessel I will. If you do, replied the\\ncaptain, your head shall be a button for a halter next morning.\\nInforming his company of their danger, and relying on their support,\\nCapt. Eastman ordered the captain below, and the helmsman to\\nchange his course. Thus they escaped the wreck which befel other\\nvessels of the fleet, and by which so many lives were lost. The next\\nmorning the humbled captain on his knees acknowledged his de-\\nliverer and begged his friendship. On the following day Admiral\\nWalker came on board, and, on seeing Capt. Eastman, abruptly said\\nCapt. Eastman, where were you when the fleet was cast away\\nFollowing my admiral, replied he. Following your admiral he\\nexclaimed; you Yankees are a pack of praying devils you saved\\nyourselves, but sent my men to h 1.\\nCapt. Eastman, March 4, 1710, married Sarah Peaslee, of Haver-\\nhill, daughter of Col. Nathaniel Peaslee, the ancestor of Gen. Charles\\nH. Peaslee. On settling in Penacook his house-lot was nupiber\\nnine, second range, on Main street, which was about where the house\\nof Mr. J. 11. Pearson now stands. But in the second survey, in\\n1727, Mr. Eastman had lot number sixteen, containing four and a\\nhalf acres, on Mill Brook range, east side of the river, where he\\nfinally settled, and had a garrison around his house.\\nAmong many traditionary anecdotes it is related, that soon after\\nsettling in Penacook, he made a journey to Haverhill on horse-back,\\nand purchased a barrel of molasses, which he intended by some\\n*See Holmes s Am. Annals, 1711, vol. i.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0570.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 553\\nmeans to convey home with him. He contrived what was called a\\ncar, that was formed with two shafts, one end of which was fastened\\nto the horse and the other to the drag on the ground. Lashing the\\nbarrel of molasses on his car with ropes, he proceeded on his journey\\nhomeward along the path through the wilderness. He got along very\\nwell until he came to Soucook river. After crossing, the hill was very\\nsteep, and, in ascending, the horse with his drag would stop to rest\\na few moments. Having nearly reached the top of the hill, on\\nstarting, the rigging gave way and down went the barrel full speed,\\nand was dashed in pieces against a tree the molasses overspreading\\nand siccetcning the ground in all directions. The captain, summon-\\ning all the patience he had at command, exclaimed, Oh dear my\\nwife will comb my head yes, and harrow it too It was truly a\\nhard case.\\nAs an illustration of the force and energy of his character in car-\\nrying on his farming operations ^In 1729 Capt. Eastman took a\\nlease of the farm laid off to Judge Sewall, containing five hundred\\nacres, with the island, for a period of thirty years. He was to pay,\\nas rent, ten shillings in good bills of credit, or silver money, the first\\nyear; twenty shillings the second year, and so to advance ten shillings\\nevery year till it should reach fifteen pounds, which sum afterward\\nshould be annually paid. As conditions of the lease Capt. Eastman\\nwas required and agreed to improve the land, by good cultivation, to\\nthe value of \u00c2\u00a3100 to build a timber house and barn, which should\\nbe worth another \u00c2\u00a3100 to leave on the farm \u00c2\u00a3100 worth of good\\nfences, of stone or timber; to plant five hundred apple trees in a\\nregular manner for an orchard, and, also, to set out one hundred\\nmore of fruit trees, as cherry, pear, quince, apple and plum trees.\\nCapt. Eastman went to Cape Breton twice the first time, March\\n1, 1745, in command of a company, and was present at the reduction\\nand surrender of Louisburg, June 16. He returned November 10,\\n1745. Early the next year he went again, and returned home\\nJuly 9, 1746. t\\nAt the time of the massacre in Penaeook, August 11, 1746, Capt.\\nEastman and femily were in a garrison, on the east side of the river.\\nSubsequently he erected, on or near the spot, a large two story house;\\nbut before the house was finished Mr. Eastman died, (July 28, 1748,)\\naged 59.\\nDR. EZRA CARTER.\\nDr. Carter, of whom we have already related many things in our\\nHistory, was a native of South Hampton, in this State. He studied\\nBoston, May 14, 1730.\\nReceived of Mr. Obadiali Ayre, ten shillings in behalf of Mr. Ebenezer Eastman, for rent\\nof Peiinycook lands. I say received per g gj-yy^LL\\nSee original lease, now in the archives of the X. H. Historical Society, dated May 9, 1729,\\nand signed Ebenezer Eastman, (seal); Abijali Browne, (seal), Jos. Masion, (seal), wit-\\nnesses. The farm was soon after sold to Joseph Gerrish and Henry Rolfe, of Xewburj to\\nwhom the annual rent was afterwards paid.\\nfRev. Mr. Walker s Journal.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0571.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "554 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nmedicine witli Dr. Oi dway, of Salisbury, and came to tliis town about\\n1740. In 1742 he married Ruth, only daughter of Capt. Ebenezer\\nEastman, who, at the time of her marriage, was but 13 years of age.\\nAccording to family tradition their first child was born before she\\nwas 14 years old. After marriage Ruth retained her love for childish\\nsports; and, on one occasion, the doctor, on returning home, found\\nhis wife playing with other children on the hay-mow. Connected\\nwith Capt. Eastman s family, being respectably educated and a good\\npenman. Dr. Carter soon became prominent in town affairs, as well\\nas distinguislied as a physician. In March, 1747, he was first chosen\\ntown clerk, in place of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq. The same year he\\nwas authorized to present a petition to the General Assembly of New-\\nHampshire for means of defence against the Indians; and as long as\\nhe lived he continued to hold important offices in the town, as mod-\\nerator, town clerk and selectman. He held a commission as justice\\nof the peace, and hence sometimes, in the records, he has the title of\\nesquire. When mattei s of complaint were brought before him by\\nhis fellow citizens his first endeavor was to induce an amicable set-\\ntlement, offering, if they did so, to give in his fees thus he ac-\\nC{uired the name of peax i-maher. Dr. Carter was of a kind and\\nbenevolent temper, of quick wit and pleasantry in conversation, and\\na general favorite among all classes of people. His practice as a\\npliysician extended into neighboring towns.\\nAmong the anecdotes related of him are the following: Having\\noccasion to go in haste from Concord to old Salisbury, on Saturday,\\nand to spend the Sabbath, he found it convenient to borrow a pair of\\nboots of his neighbor, Dea. George Abbot. Attending public wor-\\nship next day, he was unexpectedly called on by the clergyman, who\\nknew him, (in the absence of the deacon, whose duty it was,) to give\\nout the lines of the hymn to be sung. At first he said he was con-\\nsiderably y/\u00c2\u00abs( e;-e(Z, and couldn t tell A from B; but, recovering\\nhimself, he read the hymns and led the singing to general satisfac-\\ntion. On returning the boots he said, Dea. Abbot, here are your\\nboots; but I never will borrow them again, /or a minister will smell\\na deacon s hoofs ail over the meeting-house.\\nOn a certain occasion Dr. Carter was called to vist a sick family\\nin Bow. The fiimily were a long time sick. The doctor was their\\nconstant attendant; and, on their recovery, the poor man felt new\\ntroubles coming upon him. How, doctor, said the unhappy man,\\nam I to pay you for all your kindness, your attention and medicine\\nYou see here a large family, destitute of every thing save the bare\\nnecessaries of life. I have been faithful to you, replied the\\ndoctor, and am I not entitled to a reward? You are, doctor, oh,\\nyou arc! said the trembling wife, but do wait a little; we can t\\npay you now. I can inform you, my good friends, said the inex-\\norable physician, that I am hnoioing to your having property enough\\nto satisfy my demands; and, moreover, that I shall have it before\\nleaving the house. The poor family were thunder-struck they\\nknew that no friendly feelings subsisted between the proprietors of", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0572.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "BIOGKAPHICAL. 555\\nKumford and Bow, but had always heard the doctor applauded as a\\nman of benevolence and mercy. They knew not what to do. At\\nthis moment, away scampered a flock of kittens across tlie room,\\nwhich the doctor seeing-, caught one of them and put it in his pocket.\\nI told you I should have my pay, said the doctor; I have got it.\\nGood bye, and God bless you Many anecdotes of this kind are\\nrelated of him, and one of the last acts of his life was equally noble.\\nJust before his decease he looked over his accounts, filled out receipts\\nagainst all poor persons who were indebted to him, with directions\\nthat his executors should deliver them to those concerned immediately\\nafter his death. This was accordingly done.*\\nFond of social entertainments himself, and, according to the cus-\\ntom of those times, receiving from the families which he visited all\\nthe civilities due to a respected physician, it is more a subject of\\nregret than of wonder that his convivial habits were unfavorable to\\nlong life. He died in the meridian of manhood, September 17, 17G7,\\naged 48. On a plain, old-fiishioned grave-stone, erected on the brow\\nof the ascent, after you enter the burying-ground, on the south side,\\nhis name is engraved Ezra Carter, Esq.\\nBENJAMIN ROLFE, ESQ.\\nBenjamin Rolfe, whose name appears in the early records of the\\ntown more frequently than that of any other person, was a son of\\nHenry Rolfe, Esq., of Newbury, who was one of the original pro-\\nprietors of Penaeook. Benjamin was born in 1710 was graduated\\nat Harvard College, in 1727 was chosen clerk of the proprietors\\nand grantees of Penny Cook, in 1731, and continued in the office\\ntill 1770. He was also town clerk of Ruraford. In 1737 he was\\nchosen clerk of the commissioners appointed to determine the boun-\\ndary line between Massachusetts and New-Hampshire, which met at\\nHampton. In 1745 he held the commission of colonel in the Prov-\\nince. He was the first one chosen to represent the District of Ilum-\\nford in the General Assembly of New-Hampshire and, during his\\nlife-time, he held every important and responsible office in town in\\nthe gift of his fellow citizens to bestow. Though he was not, strictly\\nspeaking, a lawyer, yet he acted as an adviser, and discharged the\\nvarious duties of a magistrate in civil affairs. Intimately associated\\nwith the Rev. Timothy Walker in all that concerned the interests of\\nthe town during the long controversy with the proprietors of Bow,\\nhe enjoyed the full confidence of that reverend gentleman j and to\\nhim, more than to any other man, except Mr. Walker, is the suc-\\ncessful issue of that conflict to be ascribed. Of sound judgment\\nprudent, upright, capable minutely acquainted with all the affairs\\nof the town he ever sought, in the use of all honorable means, to\\nadvance its interests. By inheritance, and by his own industry and\\nprudent management. Col. Rolfe acquired a large property in lands.\\nHe lived a bachelor until he was about 60 years of age, when he\\nmarried Sarah, the eldest daughter of Rev. Mr. Walker, whose age\\nMoore s Annals.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0573.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "556 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was 30.* Before liis marriage lie lived in a one story house, but af-\\nterwards built and lived in tlie bouse still standing at the Eleven\\nlots, and known as the Ttolfe place, or the residence of the late\\nCountess of Uumford. There was born, August 4, 1770, their only\\nson and child, Paul Rolfe, who inherited the whole of his father s\\nestates. Col. Kolfe died December 21, 1771, in the 62d year of his\\nage. Sometime in the year 1773 his widow married Benjamin\\nThompson, afterwards distinguished as Count Rumford.f Mrs.\\nThompson died January 19, 1792, aged 52 years. No grave-stones\\nmark the spot where either Col. Rolfe or Mrs. Thompson lie buried.\\nCol. Holfe was accounted the richest man in Concord at the time\\nof his decease. He left no will, but an inventory of his estate was\\ntaken in due form April 1, 1772, by Capt. John Chandler and Joseph\\nHall, Jr. Timothy Walker, Jr., Esq., administered on the estate.\\nFrom the inventory of his estate, in the ofiice of probate at Exeter,\\nthe following minutes were taken\\nReal estate, ^2352 10\\nLive stock, 40 5\\nOne ney^ro 55\\nCash at interest, 153.3\\n[Etcwtem, 101 15 4]\\nTotal amount, lawful money, \u00c2\u00a34082 10 4\\nIn the latter part of Col. Eolfe s life warm discussions would some-\\ntimes rise in the meetings of the proprietors, between the Colonel and\\nPhilip Eastman. A meeting was held in the afternoon of the day on\\nwhich the Colonel died. On returning home, Mr. Eastman said to\\nhis wife, Well, Abiah, I have been to a meeting of the proprietors\\nto-day and have not had one word of dispute with Col. Rolfe 1 Ou\\nexpressing her gratification, he said, There was a good reason for\\nit, for he died this morning.\\nREV. TIMOTHY WALKER.\\nMore than any other single person, Rev. Mr. Walker is entitled to\\nthe appellation of father of the town. After his settlement, in 1730,\\nhe first lived in a log-house which stood on the brow of Horse-shoe\\npond hill, but, in 1733 and 1734, built the two-story gambrel-roof\\nhouse,! in which he afterwards resided till his death. This house,\\n*No record of the time of this marriage is to be found.\\nfSee Biograpliical Notice of Count Uumlord, and of Sarah, his daughter.\\nI THE WALKER HOUSE.\\nThis house is the oldest two-story dwelling-house between Haverhill, Mass.,\\nand Canada. It was erected by Rev. Mr.Walker on tlie house lot drawn to the first\\nminister, in tlic year 1733-4, the town having generously voted [see p. 142] him\\nfifty pounds for building a dwelling-house in Pennycook. Its dimensions were\\nforty by twenty feet, two stories in height, with an ell adjoining on tlie east, of\\none story, both parts being covered bya gambrel-roof. The chimneys were very\\nlarge, and of stone. One of them, which remained, as originally built, until\\n1847, was found upon its removal to be about five feet square, and constructed\\nof flat, ledge stones, laid in clay mortar and plastered on the inside with a com-\\nposition of clay and chopped straw. Only the ell part was entirely finished at\\nfirst, and contained but three rooms on the first floor. The front part remained in", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0574.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL.\\n657\\nwitli some modern improvements, overshadowed by the stately ehn\\ntrees which Mr. Walker set out in 1756, is well represented by the\\nfine engraving which is here subjoined.\\nv-^\\nifMlfiillMifc^^\\nA few aged people who still remember Mr. Walker, say that he was\\nfull middling stature and size; not corpulent, but portly in form,\\nand of dignified manners. His eyes were blue and complexion light.\\nNaturally, his temper was quick, but well restrained and governed.\\nIf at any time he was betrayed into hasty expressions or acts, he was\\nprompt to acknowledge the fliult, and ask the forgiveness of any\\none injured. He was exact and precise in all his domestic arrange-\\nments and business transactions, keeping a memoranda for every day\\nan unfinished state until 1757, when, with the assistance of Lieut. Webster, of\\nBradford, a joiner of high repute in those days, it was also completed. The\\nwood-work beino; near to completion, it appears, from a letter dated the 9th of\\nSeptember, 1757, addressed by Rev. Mr. Walker to his son Timothy, then\\nteaching school at Bradford, Mass., that a frrave question arose as to the pro-\\npriety of painting ye outside. The decision arrived at is not now known, but,\\ncither at that time, or a few 3 ears subsequent, it was painted a light yellow,\\nwhich continued to be its uniform color for at least seventy years. The interior\\nwas finished in a style similar to that found in the better class of houses of that\\nperiod. Most of the partitions were of wooden panel work the front hall was\\ndadoed with paneling, and the front stairs were in three short flights, conduct-\\ning to broad landings, and guarded by a moulded rail, supported upon curious\\nwrought balusters. The rooms were painted various colors the north parlor", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0575.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "558\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nin a year, in a little book done up in the form of an almanack.\\nThough not talkative, he was agreeable in social intercourse, and\\noccasionally facetious. According to the custom of the times he\\nwore a large, powdered M ig, and a three cornered cocked-hat, short\\nJl clothes, and shoes with large buckles. He was held in high respect\\nW by all his parishioners. After service on the Sabbath, both morning\\n1^ j and afternoon, the whole congregation stood until j\\\\Ir. Walker went\\nJ out he respectfully bowing to those on each side as he passed down\\nthe broad-aisle.\\nMr. Walker served the town, as a wise counsellor, in relation to\\nevery matter of public interest and, in connection with Benjamin\\nllolfe, Esq., who married his eldest daughter, drew up the first peti-\\ntions for help against the Indians, addressed to the government both\\nof Massachusetts and New-Hampshire, and also many of the papers\\nused in the long controversy with the proprietors of Bow. As fully\\nrelated in the History, he thrice visited England, as agent for the town\\nin that vexatious litigation, and through his judicious and persevering\\nefforts, and his personal influence with his counsel, Mr. Murray after-\\nwards lord chief justice Mansfield secured forever the rights of the\\nproprietors of Rumford.\\nAs a preacher, Mr. Walker was instructive and practical, dwelling\\nmore on the duties than on the doctrines of religion. He was calm\\nand moderate in his delivery his sermons of which a considera-\\nble number still exist were mostly written out in full, on sheets of\\npaper folded in the 18mo. form, and would occupy about thirty\\nminutes. Sometimes we find extracts of considerable length from\\nfavorite authors, such as Tillotson, Foster, Poole and Brackett. His\\nstyle was good for that period, perspicuous and didactic, with but\\nfew illustrations, but well supported with quotations from Scripture.\\nIn his theological views Mr. Walker was Orthodox, according\\nto existing standards. He received the Westminster Assembly s\\nCatechism, which was then also used in the families and schools of\\nthe town. In distinction, however, from those preachers who in his\\nday were called New Lights, he was accused of being an Armi-\\nand south parlor chamber being green, the south parlor blue, the north parlor\\nchamber and tbe old people s bed-room white, and the kitchen red. Thus con-\\nstructed and finished, it remained witliout alteration, with the exception of an\\nenlargement of the ell, until 1848, when it was modified in some particulars, and\\nthoroughly repaired by its present proprietor. In 1739 it was appointed a gar-\\nrison house, and fortified, at the town s cost, by the erection about it of\\na wall of timbers lying in contact one upon another, and held in position by\\ntenon-ends let into grooved posts set into the ground. [See pp. 153-4.] Eight\\nfamilies besides Mr. Walker s were assigned to it, and occupied it more or less of\\nthe time until the close of the second French war. When, in 1782, the Legislature\\nmet in Concord for the first time, and held its sessions in the hall over Judge\\nWalker s store, which was near by, the President of the State, with his Council,\\noccupied the north parlor of this house, while the south parlor served as a\\ngeneral committee room, and the room above it as the office of the Treasurer of\\nState. It was the residence of Rev. Mr. Walker until his death and his son,\\nthe late Judge Walker, lived in it during almost the entire period of his life.\\nIt is now owned and occupied by Joseph B. Walker, Esq., a great grandson of\\nRev. Mr. Walker.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0576.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 559\\nman, hut called himself a moderate Ccdvi nisf. lie was bighly\\nconservative, as it regarded innovations and new measures. Hence, in\\nthe period of the great Reformation, under the preaching of Rev.\\nGeorge Whitefield and others, Mr. Walker was among those ministers\\nwho did not favor the excitement which was generally awakened.\\nIn January, 1743, he preached and published a sermon to his people,\\nentitled, The ivay to tri/ all pretended Apostles, from the text\\nRev. 2:2. In this sermon he dwelt at length on the evils produced\\nby itinerant preachers especially the divisions which they caused in\\nestablished churches and societies. Hence he warned his people not\\nto go after them, or hear them preach. Nothing, he says, I am\\nwell satisfied, has so much contributed to the evils that do so cloud\\nthe present day, and look with such a direful aspect upon us, as the\\nindulging an unmortijied iteli after novelties, and having the j^crsons\\nof strangers, whom we know nothing of, in admiration, and setting\\nthem up above the ^j^ace of instruments. If, therefore, you would\\nnot become accessory to the guilt of those who arc endeavoring the\\nsubversion of our religious Constitution, keep out of the way of\\ntemptation as much as may be; ponder well the first step that leads\\nto a compliance with these errors.\\nAt this time all of Mr. Walker s hearers were of one way of\\nthinking in religious matters and his object was to keep them\\ntogether, and make them steadfiist in the religion and church order\\nwhich was very dear to our forefathers. Conscious of the power he\\nhad over his people, he not only charged them not to go after or to\\nhear these pretended Apostles preach, but, said he, if any of\\nyou think yourselves unable to manage a controversy with them,\\ninvite them to accompany you to my house, and I will gladly under-\\ntake this, or any other service I am capable of, for the benefit of your\\nsouls.\\nIn 1771 Mr. Walker felt himself called on to give his people\\nanother warning against innovations, and what he counted disturbers\\nof the peace and order of the churches. A Baptist elder, Ilezekiah\\nSmith, of Haverhill, had preached in the vicinity, and awakened\\nmuch interest in his peculiar views. To counteract this influence,\\nMr. Walker preached a discourse. May 12, 1771, entitled, Those\\nwho have the form of Godliness, hut deny the potcer therecf, described\\nand cautioned against. The text was 2 Tim. 3 5. The sermon\\nwas published at the desire of many of the hearers. It is dedi-\\ncated to the church and congregation under the author s pastoral\\ncare, having been composed and delivered solely for your benefit,\\nwithout the most distant view of its forther publication, is now respect-\\nfully inscribed by him who esteems it his highest honor and greatest\\nhappiness to serve your best interest. Timothy Walker.\\nDuring his ministry of fifty-two years there is no regular record of\\nchurch proceedings after 1736; but in his memoranda there are\\nentries made of those who owned the covenant, were admitted to\\nSee Rev. Mr. Bouton s Centennial Discourses, pp. 29 and 78.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0577.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "560 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ncommunion, baptized, married and died, together with notices of\\nprivate aflfuirs, the weather, journeys, c.*\\nFrom the memoranda kept by Mr. Walker it appears that he did\\nnot confine his hibors to his own people, but performed what may be\\ncalled missionary labors in destitute places. In 1766 he visited the\\nPigwacket country, which included Conway and Fryeburg, which\\ntowns were originally settled in part from Concord, about the years\\n1764 and 1765 there he preached and baptized their children.\\nDuring his long ministry Mr. Walker enjoyed remarkable health.\\nTradition says that he was able to preach every Sabbath, except the\\none previous to his death, rrobably this is not quite correct; for in\\nthe warrant for a town-meeting, March 3, 1778, four years before\\nhis death, we find the following article To see if the parish will\\nvote to hire preaching, if the Rev. Mr. Walker remains unable.\\nThe article was not acted on, and Mr. Walker resumed and continued\\nto perform the duties of his office till near his death. A short time\\n(two or three weeks) before this occurred, he set out to attend a\\nfuneral of a Mrs. Simonds, in the south part of the town, at what\\nwas called the Iron Works, but on his way, as was supposed, he\\nbecame bewildered, or had a slight paralytic shock. It seems that,\\n*The following are a few specimens:\\n1749. Mayl. Abigail, second wife of Jacob Sliute, ad. full com. She was Widow Evans,\\nmother of Jno.\\nJuly 2. Sampson Colby and wife ad. full com.\\nMusu-it 29. Bot chair.\\nOctober 10. Preached to Convention at Dover.\\nJanuary 7, 1749. Ben. Eastman and family moved up here.\\nMarch, 1749. I d. .Sam. Little for making clock-case.\\n1748. October 27. Mr. W. attended ye funeral of his aged mother-in-law.\\n1750. Aprils. Ben. Eastman and wife admitted into ye church.\\nJune 24. Sarah Abbot ad. to full com.\\nOctober 7. Received Jonathan Straw and wife into our church.\\n1757. January 27. Richard Herbert married to Hannah Hall.\\nOctober 16. Both owned ye covenant.\\nJVovemberW. Jona. bap.\\n1766. Sunday, 28fA September. Preached at Mr. Swan s, in Pigwacket. Arr d 25 lodg d\\nat Capt. W. s. J\\nMonday, 29. Visited and Icilced at Mr. Moses Day s. Bap. Judith, his daughter.\\nOctober a. Preach d at Pigwacket. Bap. Susanna, daught. of Holt; Barnard, son of\\nTimothy Walker, jun., [nufJudire Timoiliy Walker;] Su.\u00c2\u00abanna, daught. of Sam. Osgood;\\nAnn, daughter of Leonard Harriman Robert, son of David Page William, son of Jno.\\nEvans Sarah, daught. of David Evans; Win., son of AVin. Eaton Moses, son of Jas. Osgood;\\nM^m., .son of Ben. Osgood. II bap. at Pigwacket.\\nIn his memorandum of 1780 the last one entire which can be found are the following\\ninteresting notices:\\nJanuary 7. Philip [Abbot, his hired man,] went with a team to Portsmouth.\\nJanuary 15. Teams that had been detained below a fortnight by the deep or drifted snow,\\narrived.\\nJanuary i. Preached all day very cold the coldest Sunday yt has been for years.\\nMarch 12. Preached. Read ye letter from Pembroke chh. to assist in ordaining Mr. Colby.\\nThe church chose Col. Thomas Stickney and Tini y Walker, jun., Esq., delegates.\\nApril 17. Nathaniel Eastman s house was burnt.\\nApril 2P. A Continental Fast. Preached.\\nMay 19. A remarkable dark day, althougli the clouds appeared thin.\\nJune 30. Heard that ye French fleet had got possession of Halilax. N. B. Agreed with\\nye post-rider for half a year s newspaper, beginning ye 28th of June and to end ye 21st of\\nDecember.\\nAuirustS. Finished winter-rj e harvest had about 47 shocks.\\nOctober 20. J he town was assembled to raise men to resist the enemy at Cowas [Coos.\\nOctober 21. Finished making cyder having made thirteen barrels of cyder, and upwards\\nof five barrels water-cyder.\\nOctober 27. A remarkable eclipse of the sun.\\nJVorember 23. The post arrived brought the good news of the arrival of ye French fleet\\noff Georgia.\\nDecember 9. A Continental annual Thanksgiving.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0578.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 561\\nin fording- a stream, lie dismounted from his horse, and, taking the\\nbridle in his hand, attempted to lead him, while he walked on loo-s\\nlaid across it but the horse refused to go, and got away. Failing\\nto attend the funeral, his absence created alarm, and word was sent\\nto his fomily. Immediately his son Timothy, with others, went iu\\nsearch, and found Mr. Walker lying on the ground, his clothes wet, and\\nhe much exhausted. They helped him mount his horse, but he rode\\nhome with difficulty. The next Sabbath he was prevailed on by his\\nfamily not to preach. About two weeks after this, on Saturday after-\\nnoon, he visited his aged relative, Mr. Isaac Walker, who had long\\nbeen sick, and who lived iu a house near where Abiel, his grandson,\\nnow lives, and conversed and prayed with him. On leaving, Mr.\\nWalker bade his aged friend farewell, saying, I do not expect to\\nsee you again.\\nFor convenience, in his old age, Rev. Mr. Walker slept in the\\nnorth front room of his house, and his hired man, Philip Abbot, was\\nnear by, to assist him whenever necessary. On Sabbath morning,\\nSeptember 1, he woke early and said, Come, Mr. Abbot, build a\\nfire, for I am tired of lying. A fire being made, Mr. W. rose,\\npartly dressed himself, and with his loose gown of green baize on,\\nsat down in his armed chair, as usual, before the fire to tie his shoes\\nand complete his dress. Abbot perceived that he slipped forward in\\nhis chair, and quickly going to him, he found him nearly helpless.\\nHe was laid back on his bed, the family called, and a physician sent\\nfor, but in a very short time Mr. Walker expired.\\nThe people from the West Parish were on their way to meeting\\nbefore they heard of his death. It was so sudden and unexpected\\nthat they could hardly credit the report but supposed it must be\\nMr. Isaac Walker, who had long been sick, and who also died the\\nsame day. Gathering, however, at the meeting-house, the report of\\ntheir aged minister s death was confirmed, and the day was to them\\nall a day of sadness.*\\nOn the plain slate slab which stands at the head of his grave\\nin the old burying-ground, is the following inscription\\nTHIS STONE,\\nErected by the Town of Concord,\\nIN MEMORY OF\\nTHE REV. TIMOTHY WALKER,\\nLate Pastor of the Church in said Town,\\nWHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE\\nSept. 1, A. D. 1782,\\nIn the 78 jear of his age,\\nAnd 52 of his ministry.\\nANECDOTES OF REV. MR. WALKER.\\nTradition has handed down a number of anecdotes of Rev. Mr.\\nWalker, of which the following may be worthy of a place in our\\nhistory.\\nSee funeral services, ;c., p. 284.\\n36", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0579.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "562 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nIn time of peace Indians frequently called at his house, where they\\nwere hospitably entertained. On one occasion a number of the\\nwarriors, with their guns, encamped near his house. Mr. Walker\\nbeing absent, his wife was under great apprehensions of injury. The\\nIndians, perceiving this, said, minisfrr s vifc afraid. Upon this\\none of them delivered her all the guns, and said they would call for\\nthem the next day. This they did, and treated her with great civil-\\nity.*\\nOne Sabbath afternoon Mr. W. preached from the text Ecclesi-\\nastes 5 4, 5, When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay\\nit, c. In the discourse he showed that all the vows which we\\nmake should be paid. An Indian was present, and listened very\\nattentively. After meeting, the Indian came to him and said, I vow\\nI will go home with you. Very well, said Mr. W., you may\\ngo home with me. I vow, says the Indian, I will have some\\nsupper. Yes, was the reply, you may have some supper. I\\nvow, says the Indian, again, I will stay all night. By this time\\nMr. W. saw the joke, and instantly replied, I vow you shall go\\naway in the morning.\\nMr. W. s dignified deportment and manners were such as to com-\\nmand universal respect. The noted Ephraim Colby, who worked\\nmuch for him, used to say, that Parson Walker was the only man\\nthe Almighty ever made that he was afraid of.\\nGoins out to work one day with his hired man, John Evans, with\\na team and cart, they had to pass a very wet and muddy place. In\\npassing it, John sat on the cart tongue, or neap, while Mr. W. was in\\nthe cart. When about mid-way of the muddy place, John slyly\\npulled out the pin which held the cart down, and dropped it, to make\\nMr. W. think it worked out accidentally up went the cart, and out\\nwent Mr. Walker into the mud and water. He got up, and said,\\nJohn, this is a bad accident, but drive on, and I ll go back. A\\nfew days after, Mr. Walker having been absent from home, he went\\nlate in the afternoon into the field where John was at work. When\\nit was time to go home, Mr. W. told John that he would drive the\\nteam, and accordingly took his seat on the cart tongue, while John\\nwas in the cart. At about the middle and deepest part of the muddy\\nplace, Mr. Walker pulled out the pin, and down went John into the\\nmud and water, and was thoroughly soused. When be got up, Mr.\\nW., holding up the pin, says to him, John John here is the\\npin I did nt throiv it aicaij 1 A hearty laugh ended the joke.f\\nMr. Walker was a patriot. Having encouraged his parishioners\\nto join Gen. Stark s regiment, to oppose Burgoyne, he waited the\\nissue with great solicitude. When the late Capt. Jonathan Eastman\\nreturned from Bennington, bringing intelligence of the victory, Mr.\\nWalker came running out to meet him, eagerly inquiring, What\\nnews, friend Eastman, what news The captain related the joyful\\nMoore s Annals.\\nfA confused tradition relates this story of Mr, Walker s negro, Prince, but it belongs to\\nJohn Evans, as Mr. Timothy Walker affirms.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0580.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 563\\ntidings, and the old patriot exclaimed, Blessed be God the coun-\\ntry is saved I can now die in peace I\\nHaving one day hired a niimber of men to mow for him, they\\ncame, but seemed to hesitate on account of appearances of unfavora-\\nble weathei-. However, Mr. Walker directed them to go on to the\\nisland and begin their work. Perceiving from the hill that they\\nstill hesitated and were looking about, he went over to them and in-\\nquired, What is the matter They said they were observing the\\nclouds. Clouds, clouds, said Mr. Walker, what have you to do\\nwith the clouds I hired you to cut my grass He who made the\\nclouds will take care of them\\nAs a specimen of his prudence and good sense, it is i-elated that\\nthe Rev. Elijah Fletcher, of Hopkinton, once requested an exchange\\nwith him on the Sabbath, and that he would preach upon the subject\\nof witchcraft, which at that time was making trouble among some of\\nMr. F. s parishioners. Mr. W. accordingly prepared a sermon for\\nthe occasion, and preached. He told the people that the most they\\nhad to fear from witches was from talking about them that if they\\nwould cease to talk about them, and let them alone, they would sooq\\ndisappear The hint had its desired eifect.\\nA ludicrous story used to be told by the late Col. John Carter.\\nBefore the meeting-house was finished there was, opposite to the pul-\\npit, an elevated seat for the singers, where boys also sometimes took a\\nseat. Dogs in those days attended meeting, but to keep them in\\ndue order was the business of the dog-whipper. A huge dog had\\nplanted his fore paws on the top of the singers seat, near where\\nyoung John Carter was sitting, and thus stood looking over on the\\ncongregation. In the absence of the dog-whipper, John undertook\\nto administer discipline. Looking carefully about, and supposing\\nthat no one saw him, he quickly seized the dog by the hind legs and\\nthrew him over, much to the astonishment and disturbance of the\\ncongregation. Nothing was said at the time, but soon after Parson\\nW. called at the house of old Mr. Carter, and after conversing freely\\nfor some time with the father John being present turned to the\\nlatter and said in a low tone of voice, John, I dixViit hlame you at\\nall for pitching that dog over the seat, a few tSedhaths ago\\nMr. Walker left a wi ll, dated August 10, 1782, by which he made\\nthe following distribution of his property to his children\\nTo Mrs. Sarah Thompson, [wife of Count Paimford,] \u00c2\u00a310\\nTo Sarah Thompson, his granddaughter, to be paid at her marriage,\\nor at the age of eighteen, 140\\n\u00c2\u00a3150\\nTo Mrs. Mary Goss, [wife of Dr. Eben r FKanders Goss,] 150\\nTo Mrs. Judith Rolfe, [wife of Nathaniel Eolfe,] 150\\n(Both to be paid in one year after his decease.)\\nAll the real and personal estate remaining, to his son, Timothy Walker, who\\nwas appointed executor of the will.\\nJOHN STEVENS.\\nJohn Stevens, or, as he was usually called. Merchant Stevens,\\ncame to Concord from Charlestown, Mass., and first went into trade", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0581.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "564 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nwith Col. Andrew McMillan. When he brought his wife into\\ntown he rode about the village with her, and said, Select the\\nhouse or spot which you like best and I will buy it. She pointed\\nout the house built by Stephen Farriugton David Gr. Fuller s as\\nthe handsomest in Concord. Stevens bought it, with the adjacent\\nfield. He traded in the store on the corner of Pleasant street, build-\\ning an addition to it, and fitting up the upper story as a hall for the\\nHouse of Representatives, which met there several times in after\\nyears.\\nBeing suspected of toryism he was arrested, as related, in 1777,*\\nand cast into Exeter jail. There he refused to take the oath of\\nallegiance to his country, because, he said, he was as good a friend\\nto his country as any, and felt that he had been insulted and abused.\\nHe accused Capt. Benjamin Emery of setting a trap for him, by\\ncalling on him in the night and persuading him to sell tea and peicter\\nplate which were interdicted articles on pretence that he wanted\\nthem for one of his daughters who was about to be married. The\\nLegislature ordered his discharge from jail, but required him to keep\\nwithin the limits of Concord for one year. He did so. The next\\nLegislature gave him a full discharge, and, as a sort of compensation\\nfor what he had suffered, conferred on him a commission of justice\\nof the peace. Stevens bore a bitter revenge towards Capt. Emery,\\nand challenged him to fight. Stevens was small and slender, but\\nquick and full of nerve. Emery was heavy and clumsy. They\\nagreed to meet at Mother Osgood s tavern. Stevens, dressed in light\\nclothes and coat off, was on the spot aforehand. As soon as Capt.\\nEmery entered the front yard Stevens sprung upon him with such\\nviolence as to knock him over, and then leaped on him but, being\\nmuch stronger, Emery soon got him under. The bystanders then\\ninterposed and ended the fight.\\nStevens never forgave the town for accusing and confining him as\\na tory. Some time before he died he said to his wife Wife, I\\nam a justice of the peace, and I wish you to make oath, before me,\\nthat when I am dead you will see that I am buried between those\\ntwo apple-trees in the garden pointing them out that no citizen\\nof Concord shall follow me to the grave no minister be present\\nthat you will pay one crown apiece to the four men who bear out my\\nbody and bury it. His wife demurred from taking the oath, but\\npromised to do as he wished. He was buried accordingly. His\\nbearers were Zenas Wheeler, Job Page, Daniel Page, and\\nMr. William Manley, who was an Englishman by birth, and who was\\na trader in town, and one other foreigner, it is said, followed his corpse\\nto the grave. f Several years afterwards, when the house owned by\\nCol. Wm. Kent, (since by Col. Paul Wentworth,) was moved on to\\nthe spot where it stands, in digging a vault for a privy the bones of\\nStevens were dug up, put in a box and reinterred in the back part of\\nthe same lot, where they remain unknown to this day.\\n*See pagea 270-3. f Tradition by Benj. Gale.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0582.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 565\\nThe following notice of bis death appeared in the Mirror, De-\\ncember 25, 1792\\nFROM A CORRESPONDENT.\\nDied, on Tuesday morning, the 25th instant, after a short sickness, John Ste-\\nvens, Esq., of this town, in the 45th year of his age He was a gentleman of good\\neducation, and possessed a general knowledge of manners and mankind the\\nfirst lie obtained by a liberal education at the University of Cambridge the\\nlast, by leisure observations wliich, as he lived in attluent circumstances, he had\\nuncommon opportunities to make, both in Europe and America.\\nWe tender the tear of sympathy to a distressed wife and family, the one,\\nby this unfortunate stroke of Providence, bereaved of an endearing consort the\\nother, of an afi ectionate father. He was a firm and faithful friend.\\nBy his particular desire he was interred on his own land, by four men, whom\\nhe appointed himself wiiile living, and ordered them a generous reward for their\\nservice. These four men were the only persons present at the interment.\\nJACOB SHUTE.\\nJacob Shute was the ancestor of the Shute family in Concord. There\\nis a tradition in the family that \\\\\\\\i% fatlicr was a French Protestant, or\\nHuguenot, who formerly resided in Paris; but, on revocation of the\\nedict of Nantz, fled to Ireland to escape persecution. Jacob was born\\nabout 1702, and was apprenticed by his father to a stocking-weaver\\nin Dublin. Disliking the trade, at about the age of seventeen he\\nleft, in company with one Dawen, and took secret passage in the hold\\nof a ship for this country. They remained concealed until driven out\\nby hunger. Arriving at Newburyport the captain demanded pay for\\ntheir passage, but as they had nothing it was necessary to sell them-\\nselves that is, their service for a time, in order to meet the de-\\nmand. They were both bought by Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, of Ha-\\nverhill, and served him till twenty-one years of age. Before he\\nbought them, Eastman asked Dawen if he would be a good boy and\\nwork well, provided he would pay his passage Dawen said, Yes;\\nthe Lord bless him He then asked Shute he said, No he\\nwouldn t do any thing. On trial, however, Shute proved an indus-\\ntrious, faithful hand, while Dawen was indolent and deceitful.*\\nShute, as more fully related in another place, drove Eastman s team\\nfrom Haverhill to Penacock, in the fall of 1727 the first that ever\\ncame into town. Here Mr. Shute settled. He married Sarah, George,\\nof Haverhill, who had a daughter Sarah, born there, and John and\\nElizabeth, born in Penacook. His wife Sarah died in January, 1745,\\nand, as appears from Rev. Mr. Walker s journal, was buried January\\n16. May 7, 1749, Mr. Walker says: Abigail, second wife of\\nJacob Shute, admitted to full communion. She was widow Evans,\\nmother of John. By his second wife he had two daughters, both\\nof whom died young. Mr. Shute died February 16, 1794, aged 94\\nyears.\\nCOL. ANDREW MCMILLAN.\\nCol. Andrew McMillan, whose name often occurs in the town\\nrecords previous to 1775, was an intelligent, enterprising business\\nDawen settled in Pembroke, and lived and died tliere.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0583.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "566\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nman, and a worthy citizen. He came to this country from Ireland,\\nabout the year 1754 received a lieutenant s commission, dated Lake\\nGeorge, June 20, 1758, from Gen. James Abcrcromby, in the inde-\\npendent company of rangers, of which Jonathan Burbank was\\ncaptain, and is said to have been with Rogers in the expedition\\nagainst St. Francois, in 1759. He married Hannah Osgood, of I\\\\um-\\nford, daughter of the widow James Osgood, November 12, 1761.\\nThe same year he commenced trade in the store that now stands\\non the north-east corner of Main and Pleasant streets, which was\\nthen a small one-story shop, standing as it now does, partly on the\\nstreet. Here he continued to trade for several years one year in\\npartnership with Timothy Walker, Jun., and afterwards with John\\nStevens, who added a second story to it. In 1767 or 1768 he and\\nGen. Stark received each a grant of land from the Provincial Gov-\\nernment, in consideration of their services in the old French war,\\nlocated in the town of Conway and vicinity. In August, 1774, he\\nremoved to Conway, to take possession of his extensive landed prop-\\nerty, where two of his wife s brothersf a few years before had pre-\\nceded him. Here, in the cultivation of one of the most valuable\\nfarms on Saco river, (where his only remaining son, Gilbert McMillan,\\nEsq., now resides,) he passed the remainder of his life, repeatedly\\nrepresenting the town in the State Legislature, and faithfully dis-\\ncharging his duty as a citizen and a magistrate. He died November 6,\\n180U, aged 70 years. His wife died in 1827, aged 84.*\\nmother OSGOOD.\\nIn this connection we must pay a compliment to our worthy host-\\ness, the widow Hannah Osgood, relict of Mr. James Osgood, as one\\nof the distinguished personages of the times. Mr. Osgood s house,\\nFLORENCE McCAULLY.\\nFlorence was a colored free man, a soldier in Capt. Joshua Abbot s company; and as he\\nhad a strong attarliment to Col. McMillan, it is but just in this connection to give him the\\nmeed of praise wliich is his due. When he came to Concord, or frcjui whence, is unknown.\\nHe probably lived witli Col. McMillan some time before he joined the army. He could not\\nwrite; but just before he left Concord for the Continental service, he made a will in due\\nform, and, in case of his decease, gave a suit of clothes to the Colonel, as a token of grat-\\nitude for past favors.\\nFlorence survived his Continental campaign, and for many years was a faithful servant in\\nCol. McMillan s family, where his devotion to its interests was in striking contrast with the less\\npraiseworthy habits of the boy Catsar before mentioned as Col. ftloMillan s slave, (pp.\\n249-51,) producing a state of feeling between them not always the most friendly. The fol-\\nlowing anecdote is characteristic both of the cunning trickery of the one, and honest sim-\\nplicity of the other. Old Florence, as he was called, was very proud of his skill as a\\nmarksman that he pretended to have acquired from Gen. Stark himself. The Colonel had\\na valuable bay colt that he was rearing with great care. Ciesar, in passing the stable at\\ntwilight, saw through the open window this colt, in a position in whicii his tail only was\\ndistinctly visible. He told Florence to run for his gun, as there was something in the stable\\nthat looked like a fox. The report of Florence s gun that soon followed, convinced Cn sar\\nthat he had carried the joke too far\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that his master s favorite horse was probably killed.\\nThe Colonel was absent, and would not return for several days. The result of the confer-\\nence between the parlies in the stable was, that as the colt appeared to be mortally wounded,\\nthe only safety for Florence was In tliglit, and that Cffisar, the innocent party, should remain\\nand make the necessary explanation to the family and tlie Colonel tui his return, which ho\\ndid so succsssfully as to throw, of course, all the blame on Florence. But sucli was Flor-\\nence s attachment to the family that he could not stay away, and in a few weeks returned,\\nwhen Caisar, fearing the effect of Florence s account of the affair, thought it most prudent\\nfor him now to decamp, and he never after was known as heretofore, a constant inmate of\\nthe family, but wandered wherever he could get employ.\\nf James and Benjamin Osgood, of Concord.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0584.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 567\\nwhen he kept tavern, in 174G, stood on the spot where Dea. Hosea\\nFessenden s house now stands,* (the remains of the old ceUar being\\nstill visible.) Here the widow kept tavern a while after her hus-\\nband s death. She afterwards built the house immediately north of\\nDea. Fessenden s, known as the old Wiggiu house, and but\\nrecently standing as a relic of olden times. There she kept tavern\\nfor several years. At a later period she occupied as a tavern, a house\\nthat stood where the Merchants Exchange is erected, and which\\nwas the scene of mucli good cheer in those days of punch and\\nflip. The widow was highly respected in her vocation. She kept\\na good table, and maintained order in her house. Hearty in the\\nAmerican cause, she rejoiced in the victory of our arms. When the\\nnews of the capture of Gen. Burgoyne reached town, she partook so\\nlargely of the general joy, as to join in the shouts of her fellow-\\ncitizens, Hurrah! Hurrah! When very earnest in giving\\norders to persons in her employ, she would emphatically repeat,\\nLord, help you Lord, IlcJj) you f\\nREV. ISRAEL EVANS.\\nMr. Evans was a native of Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Prince-\\nton College, New- Jersey, in 1772. His father and grandfather were\\nsettled ministers in this country, and his great-grandfather was a\\nminister in Wales. He was ordained at Philadelphia, in 177G, as a\\nchaplain in the United States army. From 1777 till the close of the\\nwar he was chaplain to the New-Hampshire brigade, at first under\\nthe command of Gen. Enoch Poor. His connection with this brigade\\nwas the means of his introduction to this place. The Rev. Joseph\\nEckley, of Boston, who preached the sermon at the installation of\\nMr. Evans, and who was his classmate in college, thus spoke of him\\nto the people: In consequence of the long acquaintance I have had\\nwith your pastor elect, I have the pleasure to congratulate you that\\nwe this day settle a gentleman with you who, added to the natural\\ngifts and improvements of his mind, has afforded every reasonable\\nevidence of his being a sincere friend of our common Lord. As Mr.\\nEvans was stationed at different posts with the army during the war,\\nhe became acc[uainted with the principal officei s, and was known to\\nmost of the soldiers. Several sermons which he preached and pub-\\nlished while in the army, were distinguished for their patriotic spirit,\\nand acquired for him an honorable reputation through the country.\\nOf these, one was addressed To the officers and soldiers of the\\nWestern army, after their return from an expedition against the five\\nnations of hostile Indians. Another was delivered near York, in\\nVirginia, on the memorable occasion of the surrender of the British\\narmy to the allied forces of America and France, and was dedicated\\nTo the honorable Major General, the Marquis de la Fayette, whose\\ndisinterested services in the cause of America prove him to be the\\nfriend of mankind, and whose well known amiable virtues render all\\n*This house was burnt in August, 1854. f Tradition, by Mr. Benjamin Gale.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0585.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "568\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\npanegyric needless. Another was delivered in New- York, Decem-\\nber 11, 1783, on the day set apart by Congress as a day of public\\nthanksgiving for the blessings of independence, liberty and peace.\\nHe also delivered an oration on the occasion of the death of Gen.\\nPoor, in September, 17S0. In 1791 he preached the Election ser-\\nmon, which was printed. These performances were at the time emi-\\nnently popular. They were written in a flowing, redundant, martial\\nstyle, full of patriotic ardor, and suited to the state of public opinion.*\\nWith the feelings and habits acquired in a seven years service in\\nthe United States army, Mr. Evans entered upon the duties of a\\npastor among this quiet, industrious and unostentatious people. His\\nmanners were a perfect contrast to those of his predecessor. His sen-\\ntiments and style of preaching were also diiferent. After continuing\\nhis labors about eight years, Mr. Evans announced his intention of\\nresigning to the town their pulpit, and of finishing the work of the\\nministry in this place on the 1st of July, 1797. The proposal was\\naccepted. An ecclesiastical council was called by Mr. Evans and the\\nchurch, to dissolve the pastoral connection, if it should be thought\\nexpedient. The council, after solemn prayer for direction and\\nassistance, dissolved the pastoral connection between Mr. Evans and\\nthe church and, as no charges had been exhibited against his min-\\nisterial or Christian character, they recommended him to the churches\\nand to the work of the ministry, wherever God in his providence\\nmight open a door.\\nMr. Evans bought of Stephen Kimball the house where Hon.\\nSamuel Morril now lives, in which he resided till his death, March\\n9, 1807, in the GOth year of his age. Mr. Evans was a gentleman\\nof fine personal appearance, of dignified and martial manners. On\\nall public occasions he wore his tri-cornered hat. Was fond of a\\ngood horse, good music, and good living. Out of the pulpit he\\nwas less serious and devout than is usually expected of ministers,\\nbut a ready, fluent and earnest preacher. j An excellent portrait of\\nhim is still preserved. When Gen. LaFayette visited Concord, in\\n1825, he was shown this portrait, and, on seeing it, immediately ex-\\nclaimed It is our worthy chaplain.\\nMr. Evans married Miss Huldah Kent, sister of the late Col.\\nWm. A. Kent, of Charlestown, Mass., who survived him many years.\\nAfter his death she purchased the Farrington house, still standing\\nnearly opposite her brother s, where she lived with her venerable\\nmother, Mrs. Mary Kent, who died December 5, 1827, aged 90\\nyears.\\nShe afterwards built the house on the corner of State and Pleasant\\nstreets, now occupied by Col. Wm. Kent. In the latter years of her\\nlife she drew a pension from the government, by virtue of her hus-\\nThese discourses, bound together, were carefully preserved by Mrs. Evans during her\\nlifetime. See specimens of them in the author s Centennial Discourses, 1830, pp. b 2-83.\\nt Tradition affirms that his preaching was sometimes attended with violent action, so as to\\nmake the dust fly from the old pulpit cushion and there was, moreover, a suspicion that\\nhe was more spirited than spiritual. Old Lieut. Richard Herbert, in his characteristic way,\\nwould sometimes say, after meeting I wonder what Parson Evans eat for his dinner I", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0586.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 569\\nband s office as chaplain, and lived retired and cheerful, in elegant\\nsimplicity, highly esteemed by all who knew her. She died October\\n19, 1846, aged 84.\\nMadam Evans used to relate that, after their marriage, she rode in\\na chaise, with her husband, to visit her friends in Charlestown, Mass.,\\nit requiring then two days to make the journey. On returning they\\nwere belated, so that in approaching Concord, on the Bow road, by\\nwhat is now called Rogers s Mills, it was so dark that Mr. Evans\\ncould not see his horse. She got out of the chaise, threw a white\\nhandkerchief over her bonnet, and thus walked in the road before\\nthe horse, to enable him to see where to drive. They had no chil-\\ndren.\\nBy his will, after giving legacies, amounting to about two hundred\\ndollars, to a sister in Philadelphia, her daughter and grandchildren,\\nand making suitable provision for his widow, he gave the balance of\\nhis property to the trustees of Dartmouth College, for the support of\\na Professor at said College, to be called and known in his office as\\nthe Evans Professor of Oratory and the Belles Letters.\\nIt is related of IMr. Evans that on one occasion, just before the\\narmy was going into battle, he prayed O, Lord of hosts, lead\\nforth thy servants of the American army to battle, and give them\\nthe victory or, if this be not according to thy sovereign will, then\\nwe pray thee stand neutral, and let Jlesh and blood decide the\\nissue\\nHe retained his military spirit even in death. In his last sickness\\nhis successor, Rev. Mr. McFarland, visited, and in praying with him,\\nasked, that when he should be called from this to the eternal world\\nhe might sit down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the king-\\ndom of heaven. Mr. Evans, who was a great friend and ardent\\nadmirer of Washington, said, and with Washinfjfoit, too! He\\ncould not bear the thought of being separated from Washington in\\nthe eternal world.\\nEPHKAIM COLBY.\\nThe name of Ephraim, or, as commonly called, BjJi Colbt/, is\\nnoted in traditionary history as a lorestler and fighter. His parentage\\nis not exactly known. He appears to have been an ensign in Capt.\\nAbbot s company, 1774, in the war of the Revolution, and spent\\nmost of his days in Concord. He was rather short, but a stout,\\nbroad-shouldered fellow, and was the bully of all the region, far\\nand near. He served some time in town as a constable. He was\\nsure to be present at all public gatherings, and gloried in such occa-\\nsions as raisings and military musters. When a large building was\\nto be raised it was customary to send an invitation to the strong and\\nstout men of neighboring towns such as the Heads and Knoxes of\\nPembroke, the Chamberlains of Loudon, Lyfords and Cloughs of\\nCanterbury, and Jackmans and Flanders of Boscawen. When the\\nraising was completed they had a wrestling match and after all\\nSee copy of Will, on file in librarj of N. H. Historical Society.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0587.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "570 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nothers who chose had entered the lists, and tried their strength, then\\nColb}- would step forward and defy them all. Being all well stimu-\\nlated and warmed up with rum, that was free as water at such times,\\nit was not uncommon to end the wrestling sport with a serious fight.\\nColby at such times was insolent and provoking. No one liked to\\nengage him alone, and yet they could not well brook his insults. At\\nthe raising of Major Livermore s house, 1785, Colby got into a quar-\\nrel with the Elliots, frum the Borough Joseph and his two sons,\\nBarnard and John. The two latter attacked him together. John\\nsprung upon him like a cat, clasping him round the waist, while\\nBarnard seized him behind. In the wrestle they all fell together,\\nwhen John Elliot bit Colby s nose half off. Pained and infuriated\\nby the bite on his nose, Colby rose, shook John oif and dashed him\\non the ground then, seizing Barnard by his neck and bottom of his\\npants, tossed him head first into West s brook and turning, kicked\\nthe old man off the ground. This fight is well remembered by Ben-\\njamin Gale and Richard Herbert, and was related as above by the\\nlate Isaac Shute.\\nAt another time Colby had a fight in Pembroke with one of the\\nHeads a powerful ni-an, yet not equal to the former in muscular\\nstrength. Enduring Colby s insolence for some time. Head s friends\\nat last persuaded him to show resentment. Picking up a good sized\\nstone, that he could cover with his hand. Head watched his chance,\\nand struck Colby such a tremendous blow on the face as to fracture\\nhis jaw-bone. This laid him up for about sis weeks, and pretty\\nnearly cured Colby of his fighting propensities.\\nColby worked a number of years for the Walker family. He said\\nthat Parson Walker was the only man the Almighty ever made\\nthat he was afraid of. He was employed to set out many of the\\nolder growth of elm trees that are now the ornament of our Main\\nvillage. Marrying late in life, he moved to Rumford, Me., where,\\nliving unhappily with his family, he became poor, and received assist-\\nance in his last days from the late Capt. Joseph Walker. The time\\nof his death is unknown.\\nSIR BENJAMIN THOMPSON, OR COUNT RUMFORD.\\nMr. Thompson s connection with Concord, and the circumstances\\nin which he left it, have already been related.* His subsequent\\nfortunes are the most remarkable that ever attended any person whose\\nname is recorded in our history. Driven by unreasonable suspicions\\nfrom his home, his wife and infant child forsaking his native\\ncountry for a foreign service, he became the associate of princes, the\\nhonored favorite of kings, and the commander of armies. As the\\npromoter and founder of public institutions of learning and benefi-\\ncence, his genius shone resplendent among the literati and philoso-\\nphers of Europe. His name, invested with the honors which royalty\\nSee pp. 2C3-4. For the beautiful view of the place where he was born, in Wohurn, Mass.,\\nand the portrait of his (laughter, Sarah, the Countess of RuniforJ, I ani indebted to the gen-\\nerosity of James F. Baldwin, Esq., of Boston.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0588.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0591.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0592.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 571\\nalone can confer, is transmitted to posterity as that of tlie Friend\\nof mankind.\\nThe events in the life of Count Rumfonl, after he left Concord,\\nare so numerous as not to admit of recital, in deiail, in the brief\\nspace allotted to this notice.* Suffice it to say, that in January,\\n1770, he was entrusted by Gen. Gage with dispatches to Lord Ger-\\nmaine, in England, then Secretary of State fur the department of\\nthe colonies. In 1780 he was appointed under secretary in tluit de-\\npartment. Towards the close of the Revolutionary War he obtained\\nthe commission of lieutenant-colonel, and was sent to New- York in\\ncommand of a regiment. In 1784 the King conferred on him the\\nhonor of knighthood. Subsequently he went to Germany, and at\\nStrasbourg was introduced to Prince Maximilian, and then to His\\nSerene Highness the Elector Palatine, reigning duke of Bavaria.\\nFrom the Elector he received all the honors that could be conferred,\\nand, among others, that of Count \u00e2\u0096\u00a0of the hoJi/ Roman Empire, to\\nwhich jMr. Thompson added the title, Rmnford, in remembrance of\\nhis former residence. Under the patronage of the Elector, Charles\\nTheodore, he introduced great improvements in the condition and\\ndiscipline of the army. At Munich, in 1700, he suppressed the\\nsystem of mendicity which widely prevailed, and provided houses of\\npublic industry, in which beggars were supported and required to\\nlabor. Two thousand and six hundred of this class were put in in a\\nsingle week, and the industrial establishment for them, which at first\\nwas supported by voluntary contributions, came to yield to the State\\na net income of one hundred thousand florins. In grateful remem-\\nbrance of his services and benefactions, a monument is erected in\\nMunich to his honor. Inscribed beneath his bust is the following\\nTo him\\nVVlio rooted out the greatest of public evils,\\nIdleness and Mendicity\\nEelieved and instructed the Poor,\\nAnd founded many institutions for the education of our Youth.\\nGo, wanderer,\\nAnd strive to equal him\\nlu Genius and Activity and us,\\nIn Gratitude.\\nOn the other front is inscribed\\nStay, Wanderer\\nAt the creative tiat of Charles Theodore,\\nRuMFORD, the Friend of Mankind,\\nBy Genius, Taste and Love inspired,\\nChanged this once desert place\\nInto what thou now beholdest.\\nSee memoir by Jareti Sparks Jloore s Annals of Concord, and an eulogy by Ciivier, 1814,\\nin the Boston Weekly Messenger, vol. v.\\nt Cuvier s Eulogy.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0593.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "572 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nHe became almost the object of idolatrous regard by the poor. At\\none time, when dangerously ill, they formed processions, and went to\\nthe church to pray for his recovery. When sick at Naples they de-\\nvoted an hour each evening to join in supplications for his restoration\\nId health. About 1794* he sent to this country for his daughter, who\\nmet him in England, accompanied him to Munich, and for several\\nyears afterwards shared his fortunes. For his services in Bavaria the\\nElector settled on him a pension for life of nearly two thousand\\ndollars, one half of which descended to his daughter, as Countess of\\nEumford, during her life. Returning to England, he assisted in\\nputting in operation the society known as the Royal Institution, in\\nLondon, about 1709. He afterwards located himself at Paris, mar-\\nried the widow of the celebrated chemist, Lavoisier, and with her\\nresided at Autcuil, on the estate of her former husband, where he\\ndied of fever, August 21, 1814, in the 62d year of his age.\\nHe bequeathed the annual sum of one thousand dollars to Harvard\\nCollege, with other reversions, now aggregating about 830.000, to\\nfound the Rumford Professorship. To the American Academy he\\npreviously presented funds which now amount, it is said, to S24.500.\\nThe personal appearance of Count Rumford, in early manhood, is\\ndescribed as a model of manly beauty his stature nearly six feet\\nfigure erect, limbs finely formed, eyes bright blue, features chiseled\\nin the Roman mould, and hair dark auburn. There is a tradition\\nthat after he became affianced to Mrs. Rolfe, (who was by some years\\nhis senior,) seated in his carriage and dressed in the brilliant scarlet\\nattire of those times, he drove out from Boston to present his in-\\ntended bride to his mother but was completely non-plused by her\\nexclamation on first meeting him, Why, Ben., my child! how could\\nyou spend your whole winter s wages in this way? His distin-\\nguished military promotions, it is said, were primarily owing to his\\nsplendid appearance when mounted on horseback. Among the qual-\\nities that most characterized him were or(]n- and mrthod, which he\\ntermed the only possible instrument of true happiness, and almost\\na subordinate divinity in this lower world. In the eulogy pro-\\nnounced before the Institute of France, January 9, 1815, Cuvier\\nsays, In his own person he was in every respect the model of per-\\nfect order. His wants, his pleasures and his labors were calculated\\nas rigidly as his experiments. He drank nothing but water, ate\\nmeat roasted only, and allowed nothing superfluous, not even a step\\nnor a word. His veneration for the Deity was never diminished.\\nIn all his works he has constantly taken occasion to express his re-\\nligious feelings, and to point out to the admiration of others the\\ninnumerable precautions which Providence has taken for the preser-\\nvation of his creatures.\\nSARAH, COUNTESS OF RUMFORD.\\nIn connection with the foregoing notice of her honored flither we\\nplace the portrait of the daughter, engraved on steel, with a brief\\nPerhaps as early as IVM.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0594.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0595.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "W/\\n-i* J/y/-\\nS.mAH Cor^TE^is or ElBIFOl", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0596.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 573\\nsketch of her eventful life. She was born in the family mansion\\nthe Rolfe house October 18, 1774.* A portion of her early life\\nwas spent with her paternal grandmother, at Woburn. After the\\ndeath of her mother, in 1792, she went to Europe, at her father s\\ninvitation, and was introduced into the polite and fashionable circles\\nof Bavaria, of Paris and of London. Between the death of her\\nfather and her own decease she visited this country two or three\\ntimes; but her principal residence was at Brompton, near London, in\\na house which she inherited from her father. A portion of her time\\nshe spent in Paris, where she had funds invested. In 1845 she\\nreturned to the spot where she was born, to live and to die. Here\\nshe remained in great retirement, having, as her only companion and\\nthe solace of her df^clining years, a young ladyf whom she adopted\\nwhen a child, at Brompton. Occasionally the countess attended\\npublic worship at the North Church, and visited her family relatives\\nand friends, but spent most of her time in adorning the grounds\\nabout her house and fitting things to her taste. By her habits of\\nstrict economy the property she inherited, together with her pension\\nof about SI. 000, had accumulated to a very considerable sum at the\\ntime of her decease all which she disposed of by will, partly to\\nfamily connections, but mostly for charitable objects.\\n1. To the Rolfe and Eumford Asylum, in Concord, $.5,000\\nwhich she founded witli all lierreal estate, appraised at 5.000\\n2. To the New-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, 15.000\\n3. To the Concord Female Charitable Society, 2.000\\n4. To the Boston Children s Friend Society, 2.000\\n5. For the Fatherless and Widows Society, Boston, 2.000\\nShe left a legacy of ^10.000 to Joseph Amedee LeFebre, a son of\\nher natural brother, Capt. LeFebre, of the French army, on condition\\nthat he would assume the name of Joseph Amedee Rumfurd. The\\nexecutor of her will was James F. Baldwin, Esq., of Boston, who\\nwas a neighbor and personal friend of the countess in youth, and her\\nfinancial agent in later years. The paintings which she inherited\\nfrom her father, consisting of a portrait of the Elector of Bavaria,\\nand Prince Maximilian, afterwards King of Bavaria; also, of several j-\\nladies of the court, and several of Count Rumford, representing him i\\nat dilferent periods of life were given to Joseph B. Walker, Esq.,\\nto descend at his decease to his son, Charles Rumford Walker.\\nA beautiful marble monument is erected to her memory in the old\\nburying-ground, near the Walker family.\\nJOHN BRADLEY.\\nHon. John Bradley was justly esteemed one of the most upright,\\nuseful and honored citizens of the town. His name is conspicuous\\nin town affiiirs, on almost every page of the preceding history, from\\nthe age of twenty-one till his death, in 1815; and it may hereafter\\nbe the pride of his descendants to collect into a summary all the re-\\nOn the monument it says October 10.\\nt Miss Emma Gannell, now the wife of Mr. John Burgum, of Concord, who was a native\\nof Birmingham, England.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0599.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "574\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ncorded acts of his public life while the virtues which shone in his\\nprivate character, and in domestic relations, will ever be worthy of\\ntheir imitation.\\nAt the period of the tragic event of his father s death, August\\n11, 1740, he was under three years of age, but he remembered, in\\nafter life, that his mother, overwhelmed with grief, took him down\\nto the place where the dead body of his father lay in blood, with\\nthe others slain the sight of which produced an impression of\\nhorror which he never entirely lost. He was baptized by Rev. Mr.\\nWalker, six days after his birth. Under the care of his mother, a\\nwoman of superior gifts and excellent qualities, he was often re-\\nminded of his father, and the scenes through which others of the\\nfamily had passed iu conflict with the Indians at the same time the\\nprinciples of patriotism, of morals and religion, were instilled into\\nhis youthful heart. Living with his widowed mother, in the house\\nof his grandfather, Abraham, he inherited, by his grandfather s will,*\\nthe house and homestead, together with the negro slave, Pompey,\\nwith whom John, in childhood, had been a particular favorite. In\\nthe war of the Revolution Mr. Bradley took a noble stand on the\\nside of his country. In 1775 he received from the Committee of\\nSafety of the Colony of New-Hampshire, signed by Matthew Thorn-\\nThe following is a copy of the Will, which possesses unusual interest.\\nIn the name of God, Amen. Tliis Eighth Day of July, Anno Domini 1754, and in the\\n28th Year of liis Majesties Reign, I, Ahraliam Bradley, of a Place called Kuniford, in the\\nProvince of New-IIampshire, in New-England, Yecmian, being ^ick and Weak in Body, tho\\nof Perfect Memory and Sound understanding, (Thanks lie given to Almighty God,) therefore\\ncalling to mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once\\nto die, do therefore make and Ordain this, my last AVill and Testament T|iat is to say, prin-\\ncipally and first of all, I recommend my S oul into the Hands of Almighty God, who gave it\\nme, and my Body to the Earth, to be decently interred, at the Discretion of my Executor\\nhereafter named, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same\\nagain, together with Remission of all my Sins, by tho Power of Almighty God, thro the\\nMerits of Christ my Redeemer and as touching such Wordly Estate, wherewith it hath\\npleased God in this Life to Bless me, I give, devise and dispose thereof in manner and form\\nfollowing, viz.\\nImprimU. 1 will and Ordain that all those debts which in Duty, Right or Conscience,\\nwhich 1 owe to anv Person or Persons whatsoever, togetlier with my Funeral Expenses and\\nCharges, and also the Charges of settling my Estate, be well and truly paid by my Executor\\nhereafter named, out of my Stock of Cattle, Horses, Sheep and Swine.\\nItem. I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth, my dear and well beloved Wife, the free Use\\nand Improvement of my dwelling-House and Barn, and all the Lands which I liave in said\\nRumford already laid out and not otherwise disposed of by me, to be by her freely possessed and\\nenjoyed during her natural Life, and at her decease it is my Will and Pleasure that the said\\nHo\\\\i seing and Lands (excepting lialf an Acre, which I reserve for the Use of my Negro)\\nshall descend to my Two Grand-cliildren hereafter mentioned, in manner and form follow-\\ning, viz. The Six Acre Lot of Interval, belonging to the Original Right of Nathan Blodgett,\\nshall descend to my Grand-daughter, Susanna Bradley, her Heirs and Assigns, provided the\\nsaid Susanna, when she arrives at the Age of Twenty-One Years, shall give to her Sisters,\\nMargaret and Anna, in equal shares, two Tliirds of the value of said Six Acre Lot. in her\\nShare of her Father s Estate at Exeter, in said Province, and that my dwelling-House and\\nBarn, and the rest of the Lands which I have given the Improvement of to my Wife (except-\\ning the half Acre reserved for my Negro) shall descend to my Grandson, John Bradley, his\\nHeirs and Assigns, He paying to his Sister Meliitable ihe Sum of Five Pounds in Bills of\\nCredit of the New Teimr on said Province, when he come to the Age of Twenty-One Years.\\nI also give my said Wife the Use of my Negro, Pompey, during her natural Life, together\\nwith my Stock of Cattle, Horses, Sheep and Swine not otherwise disposed of, and Utensils\\nfor Husbandry, and Household Goods and Provisions, and it is my Will and Pleasure tliat at\\nher decease the said Stock of Cattle, of all Sorts, and Household Goods shall be equally di-\\nvided betwixt my Daughters and the Utensils of Husbandry, of all Sorts, shall be for my\\nGrandson, John Bradley.\\nItem. I give and bequeath unto my dear and well beloved Son, Jeremiah, (besides the\\nFarm I have already given him) One Third part of all my undivided Lands, which is his full\\nPortion of my Estate.\\nItem. I give and bequeath tinto my dear and well beloved Daughter four Acres of Land in", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0600.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 575\\nton, chairman, a commission of first lieutenant in the company for\\nthe continental service, of which Benjamin Emery was captain.*\\nBesides representing the town in the State Legislature several\\nyears, he was elected to the State Senate five years in succession,\\nviz., from 1804 to 1808 inclusive. He early become an extensive\\nland owner in the Province of Maine, and in adjacent parts of New-\\nHampshire, and encouraged the settlement of towns in the Pigwacket\\ncountry. Three of his own sons, Robert, John and Samuel A., set-\\ntled at Pryeburg. Under his patronage the late Abiel Chandler\\nthe magnificent donor of Dartmouth College commenced his ca-\\nreer,-}- Mr. Bradley giving bonds to Harvard College for the payment\\nof his bills. His house was the abode of hospitality. Enterprising\\nand successful in his aff airs, he was able to give his children a re-\\nspectable education and two of them, Samuel A. and Moses Hazen,\\nwere graduates of Dartmouth College.\\nIn the war of 1812 and 1815, a volunteer company of exempts\\nfrom military duty was formed, of which Mr. Bradley, then at the\\nage of seventy-one years, was one. This company voted to provide\\nthemselves with forty-eight rounds of ball cartridges, suited to the\\nbore of the guns which they carried. Lead being very scarce, Mr.\\nBradley applied from house to house in the village, to procure a suf-\\nficient quantity of lead for his bullets not succeeding, he said,\\nOne thing I can do in my pantry are the old pewter-platters that\\nbelonged to my grandmother I will melt them up for balls;\\nand he did so.\\nAbout this time a Mr. Gerrish, of Boscawcn, who had the reputa-\\nsaid Rumford, lying on an Island in Horse Shoe Pon;l, laid out to the Original Right of John\\nAj er. Also One Cow.\\nItem. I give and bequeath unto my dear and well beloved Daughters, Abigail Rirliards,\\nApphia Farrington, Abiah Eastman, Martha Bradley, Mehitable Eastman and Elizabetli Fol-\\nsum. One Third Part of all my undivided Lands in said Rumford, (excepting tvielve Acres\\nof said Third Part, which I reserve for paying my Son, Farrington,) be equally divided be-\\ntwixt them. I also give them my Stock of Cattle, of all kinds, not otherwise disposed of,\\nand Household Goods, to be equally divided betwixt them at tiieir Mother s decease, which,\\nwith wliat I have already given them, is their full Share and Portion of my Estate.\\nItem. 1 give and bequeath my said Negro, Pompev, after my Wife s decease, to my said\\nGrandson, John Bradley also all my Utensils of Husbandry.\\nItem. I give unto my Negro, Pompey, the Use and Improvement of One half Acre of\\nLand by my dwelling-House, taking in my Nursery for part of it, during his natural Life at\\nhis decease to revert to my said Grandson, John Bradley, his Heirs and Assigns, and I will\\nand Order my Son, Timothy, to take Especial Care that my said Negro be not wronged by\\nmy aforesaid Grandson in any Ways and if he should wrong him 1 give him Povier to do\\nhim Justice.\\nLastly. I give and bequeath unto my dear and well beloved Son, Timothy, all the Re-\\nmainder of my Estate not herein otherwise disposed of. whether in Possession, Reversion or\\nRemainder, which, with what I have already given him, is in full of his Portion of my Es-\\ntate. I also hereby Constitute, Ordain and Appoint him, my said Son, Sole Executor of this,\\nmy last Will and Testament, hereby revoking, disannulling and disallowing all former Wills,\\nTestaments and Executors by me heretofore named or made, hereby Ratifying this, and no\\nother, to be my last Will and Testament.\\nIn Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year first written.\\nSigned, Sealed, Published and Declared by the said Abraham Bradley to be his last Will.\\nHis\\nBefore us Abraham X Bradley, [l. s.J\\nAmos Abbot, Mark.\\nSamuel Davis,\\nBenja. Rolfe.\\nThe commission is preserved in the family of his son, Richard Bradley, Esq. Mr. Brad-\\nley went to Winter Hill the ensuing season.\\nt See biography of Abiel Chandler.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0601.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "576\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ntion of affording aid and comfort to the enemy by furnishing beef\\ncattle for the Canada market, called on Mr. Bradley and inquired\\nEsq. Bradley, have you any beef cattle to sell I have cattle\\nin good order, was the reply. I should like, then, to look at\\nthem, for I want to buy some for market. What market? in-\\nquired 3Ir. Bradley. Well, said Mr. G., I don t knowas that\\nconcerns you but the money is in my pocket, and if you will sell I\\nam willing to pay a good price. Looking searchingly at him, Esq. B,\\nsaid, If you wish for my cattle to drive to Canada to feed the enemy\\nin time of war, you have not money enougb to buy them Upon\\nwhich Mr. Gr. went his way, and purchased of those less scrupulous.\\nMr. Bradley was tall and slender, but of great muscular power.\\nAt one time he and the late Jonathan Eastman owned Sewall s Isl-\\nand, where they had a barn. Going to the barn early one spring, he\\ndiscovered a iinld cat in it. The animal secreted itself behind a pile\\nof boards. Not having a gun, Mr. Bradley, with a pair of leather\\nmittens on his hands, seized the creature by the nape of the neck and\\nsmall of its back, and choked it to death.\\nThough not a member of the church, Mr. B. was a firm and liberal\\nsupporter of religious institutions, a constant attendant on public\\nworship, and of exemplary life. He passed the evening of his days\\nin retirement and honor, in the old family mansion, greatly respected\\nby his fellow-citizens, and died July 6, 1815, in the 72d year of his\\nage, leaving his house and homestead to his youngest son, Richard.\\nThe Gambrel Roof, as the Bradley mansion is sometimes\\ncalled, is well represented by the above cut. It was built by Hon.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0602.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 577\\nJolin Bradley, according to family tradition, about 1769. The upper\\npart, or attic, was used many years for spreading and drying corn in\\nthe ear. The front part of the house retains its ancient form, but\\ntlie back part has been considerably changed and enlarged by its\\npresent owner.\\nJOSEPH WHEAT, THE STAGE-DRIVER.\\nBY G. K.\\nOf Joseph Wheat, who will bo recollected as almost or quite the\\nfirst stage-driver into Concord, and whose nose, especially, will be re-\\nmembered long, I have two or three anecdotes some of them not\\nquite fit for publication. On their complaining, at Amherst through\\nwhich town his stage then passed that he did not give notice of his\\napproach by the usual mode of blowing a tin horn, he replied through\\nthe Amherst Cabinet, that he was aware of his deficiency in the\\nusual notice that he really was too poor to supply himself with a\\nhorn but that in future, whenever they should see tlie nose, they\\nmight expect the stage in about ten minutes. On another occasion,\\nstopping for breakfast, one frosty morning, and coming in from the\\ncold, taking his seat at the table on the opposite side of rather a\\ndainty passenger, a drop was observed as pendant from the driver s\\nproboscis, which the passenger noticed, and requested him very\\nrebukingly and sternly to wipe ofi Wheat, with the utmost sang\\nfroid, instantly replied, Wipe it off yourself, if you please, sir,\\nyou are the nearest to it. As illustrative of the great and com-\\nmendable change in the public taste since the old pod-auger and\\ndram-drinking times, I have in mind, as impressing itself upon my\\nyouthful recollection, a conclusion of one of Wheat s public adver-\\ntisements, on establishing what he called a new line of stages.\\nCome, my old friends, and take a seat\\nIn this new line, with Joseph Wheat\\nAnd when to your journey s end you ve come,\\nYour friend will treat with good old Rum.\\nHow would this call this toper-grapliical, not Macedonian\\ncry sound now-a-days, as echoed through the public prints Wheat\\nwas noted for his ready versification, of which a specimen has already\\nbeen given on page o50, on the marriage of one BnJt, an ardent-\\nspirit soldier of the war of 1812, to Nancy Cumore, or Cumoe, a dingy\\nlass of some five and forty, living at service in Capt. Ayer s fimiilyr\\nRespecting the adventures of Wheat s nose, Samuel A. Kimball\\nrelates that on one occasion, driving the stage from Concord to Hano-\\nver, Wheat met the President of the College, John Wheelock, riding\\nin a carriage and as he passed, took hold of his own nose, and pulling\\nit one side, said, Mr. President, I think you will be able to pass now.\\nMr. Wheat removed hence to Charlestown, Mass., where he resided\\nmany years. The date of his decease is not known by the writer.\\nREUBEN ABBOT.\\nReuben Abbot, son of James Abbot, was born in Andover, and\\ncame to Penacook when a lad, with his father, about 1735. He was\\n37", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0603.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "578 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\none of the most extraordinary men of his generation. Tradition\\naifirms that when he was born he weighed but four pounds, and, as\\nau object of curiosity, was put into a quart tauliard and the lid shut\\ndown. His head and ears could be covered with a common sized\\ntea-cup.\\nWhen a young man he was distinguished for activity, strength,\\nenterprise and energy. As particularly related in another place,\\nhe drove the ox-team that conveyed the dead bodies of the Brad-\\nleys and others, Avho were massacred in 174G. He and his brother\\nJames cleared and settled on land west of Long pond, which was\\ngiven them by their fither, about 1754. Reuben built the house\\nwhere his grandson Eeubcn, and great-grandson Reuben Kilburn,\\nnow live. During his long life he was one of the most energetic and\\nenterprising men in that section of the town. He was six feet in\\nheight, robust and strong, with bright blue eyes, and in old age very\\nvenerable in appearance. When eighty years of age he could swing\\na scythe and mow his swath with any man. At ninety years he\\nshaved himself with a razor which he had owned seventy years. In\\nshaving he never used a glass, but sat in his chair, and after lather-\\ning, placed the back of his razor carefully on his face, and turn-\\ning it, shaved off the beard. He would often relate the dangers and\\nhardships he endured in the early period of the settlement.* He\\nsaid he used to kill deer enough to give him fresh meat through the\\nwinter, and also to salt down for summer. The deer-skins he dressed\\nfor mittens and for leather breeches, which, with a cocked hat, he\\ncontinued to wear as long as he lived. Among the stories of his\\nexploits, which used to puzzle the children and grandchildren, were\\nthese That he once shot a deer with a single ball, and made ux\\nholes through its skin and at another time he shot and killed a\\ndeer without making any hole in its skin, or even drawing blood.\\nAfter guessing in vain how it could be, the old man gratified the\\ncuriosity of his listeners by saying that in the first instance the ball\\npassed through the/o?e lc(j and brisket of the deer, thus making six\\nholes in the skin and in the second, the ball entered one eye of the\\ndeer and lodged in its head. Once, while in a boat on Long pond,\\nfishing, Mr. Abbot discovered a bear swimming towards him. Hav-\\ning his gun, he shot and wounded the bear, which thereupon, terribly\\nenraged, still made for the boat. With the oars he dct ended him-\\nself, beat the bear off, and escaped without injury.\\nMr. Abbot was a Puritan, of strict religious principles, a member\\nof the church under Rev. Mr. Walker, constant at public worship,\\nand careful to command his children and household after him\\nto keep the way of the Lord. He retained his mental faculties in\\na good degree till the close of life. In his ninety-fifth year he related\\nthe incidents of the massacre in 1746, with surprising accuracy; and\\nliving long enough to see descendants of the fourth generation bear-\\ning his own name, Reuben, in the house which he built, he died May\\n.See pages 160, 254.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0604.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 579\\n13, 1822, aged 99 years and 10 months being the oldest man that\\never lived in Concord.\\nHON. TIMOTHY WALKER.\\nHon. Timothy Walker was the only son of Rev. Timothy Walker,\\nand was born upon the paternal farm, in Euniford, June 27, 1737.\\nHe is said, when a boy, to have been a great favorite with the Indians\\nliving in the vicinity. Entertaining a deep reverence and aifection\\nfor his father, they naturally inclined to him, and, as tradition says,\\nwere wont to take him with them on visits to their wigwams assur-\\ning his mother, who did not altogether relish such civilities, that\\nIndians no hurt minister s pappoose. This promise was never\\nbroken, and he was always returned in safety, although oftentimes\\nmodified somewhat in appearance, from the Indians having painted his\\nface in glowing colors, and garlauded his head with gaudy feathers.\\nIlis fothcr gave early attention to his education, and sent him,\\nwhen fifteen years of age, to Harvard College. He remained there\\nduring the regular course, and graduated in 175G. The two years\\nensuing he spent in teaching school at Bradford, Massachusetts.\\nUpon leaving Bradford, having in the mean time chosen theology as\\nhis profession, he commenced a course of study, and pursued it, most\\nprobably with his father. Having completed his theological studies,\\nhe was examined at an Association Meeting* in Haverhill, Massachu-\\nsetts, and licensed to preach, September 11, 1759. He was never\\nsettled as a pastor, but preached occasionally for about six years. Dur-\\ning the last absence of his father in England, in 1762-3, he supplied\\nhis pulpit at Rumford, and also preached as occasion required in vari-\\nous other places. In the summer of 17G5 he preached six Sabbaths at\\nPigwacket, now Fryeburg, Maine. This seems to have been about\\nthe last of his preaching, and he soon after relinquished the profes-\\nsion of the ministry.\\nFrom his diary it appears that on the 25th of November, 1765, he\\nconcluded a partnership agreement with Col. Andrew McMillan, and\\ncommenced trade with him in Rumford, in the southerly part of the\\nvillage. They continued in business together but for a single year.\\nSoon after their separation Mr. Walker opened a store near the resi-\\ndence of his father, and there continued his mercantile pursuits until\\nthe beginning of the Revolution.\\nlie was married sometime previous to 1765, to Susannah Burbeen,\\ndaughter of Rev. Joseph Burbeen, of Woburn, Massachusetts, who\\ndied in Concord, September 28, 182S, at the aged of 82. They had\\nfourteen children, ten of whom lived to grow up.\\nUpon the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain, Mr.\\nWalker warmly espoused the patriot cause, and seconded with zeal\\nthe measures adopted for the security of American liberty. His\\nwhole time seems now to have been devoted to the service of his\\ncountry. The town of Concord chose him a member of the First\\nProvincial Congress, which assembled at Exeter on the 17 th of May,\\nSee page 232.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0605.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "580 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n1775, and he took an active interest in the very important measures\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2which came before that body. On the 20th of May he was appointed\\na member of the Committee of Supplies, constituted to act in con-\\njunction vrith the Committee of Safety, and procure supplies for the\\nNew-Hampshire troops at this time in the vicinity of Boston. On\\nthe 30th of August he was sent to the army, with Ichabod Rawlinas,\\nEsq., to ascertain the losses sustained at the battle of Bunker Hill\\nby each of the officers and soldiers of the New-Hampshire forces,\\nand in behalf of the colony to make them compensation also, to\\nsecm-e to them supplies, and advance a month s pay to such as had\\nenlisted in the continental service. The action of the Provincial\\nCongress upon the report subsequently made of their doings, affords\\nevidence that those duties were done to their acceptance. About the\\n1st of September of this year the New-Hampshire Congress passed\\nan act creating four regiments of minute-men, equal in number to\\nabout one fourth part of the then existing militia of the colony.\\nThey were to meet to drill once in every two weeks, and to be ready\\nfor service at a moment s warning. Mr. Walker was commissioned\\ncolonel of the third regiment, September 5, 1775, and exerted him-\\nself to train and fit for duty the forces under his command. From\\nthe 4th to the IGth of October we find him acting as paymaster of\\nthe troops at Winter Hill, commanded by Colonels Stark, Poor and\\nKeid, and again, on the 27th of December, he was appointed by the\\nsecond Provincial Congress paymaster of the same forces. The sec-\\nond Provincial Congress was succeeded, January 6, 1776, by the first\\nHouse of Representatives, organized under the temporary constitution\\nand composed of the same members. Its journal shows Col. Walker\\nto have been one of the committee appointed to make a draft of\\nthe declaration of this General Assembly for independence of the\\nUnited Colonies. A draft was soon reported, which was adopted\\nand a copy of it sent to the Continental Congress, in session at Phi-\\nladelphia. At a date not long subsequent Col. Walker was appointed\\nupon the committee to devise a systematic plan of finance, by means\\nof which the payment of the debts of the State might be provided\\nfor, and funds raised for present and future purposes. AVhen, on the\\n14th of March, 1776, the Continental Congress sent out the Associ-\\nated Test, to be signed by those friendly to the patriot cause, Col.\\nWalker most cheerfully signed the copy sent to Concord, and it was\\nthrough his influence, in part at least, that of the one hundred and\\nfifty-six to Avhom it was presented for signature in that town, not one\\ndeclined subscribing to it his name. Col. Walker was this year one\\nof the Committee of Safety, and served in that capacity until the 20th\\nof June, 1776. During the next three years, viz. from December\\n18, 1776, to December 15, 1779, he was a member of the Council\\nassociated with Meshech Weare, Josiah Bartlctt, Nicholas Gilman,\\nand others of a like character men of the purest patriotism, whose\\nnames New-Hampshire will ever cherish. On the 26th of March,\\n1777, he was chosen by the Legislature of New-Hampshire a delegate\\n*See page3 2G7-8.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0606.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 581\\nto the Continental Congress, and again, at three subsequent times, in\\n1778, 1782 and 1784 but it is not certain that he ever attended.\\nHe was sent from Concord a delegate to each of the New-llampshire\\nConstitutional Conventions of 1778 and 1781, and also to that of\\n1701, to revise the Constitution.\\nIn 1777 he retired from the more stirring scenes connected with\\nthe war, and accepted the office of a justice of the Court of Common\\nPleas, which he continued to hold until 1809 being for the last\\nfive years a chief justice. The courts were held alternately at Exeter\\nand Portsmouth, and Judge Walker made his journeys to and from\\nthose places on horseback.\\nUpon the organization of the Republican party in New-Hampshire\\nin 1798, Judge Walker was selected for its first candidate for gov-\\nernor, and was run against John Taylor Gilman, who had already\\nbeen an incumbent of the office in previous years, and was one of the\\nstrongest men of the Federal party, at that time greatly in the ma-\\njority throughout the State. Gov. Gilman was the successful candi-\\ndate, receiving 9.397 votes out of the whole number of 12.153\\nthrown, and Judge Walker 734. Twice afterwards, viz. in 1800\\nand 1801, he was the Republican candidate for governor, receiving\\nthe former year G.039, and the latter, 5.249 votes the whole num-\\nber of votes cast being between 16.000 and 17.000.\\nAlthough mingling largely in State aifairs. he did not withhold\\nhimself from a participation in the management of the more limited\\nbusiness of his native town. In this sphere he was also prominent.\\nlie was chosen moderator of the town meeting in 17G9, and every\\nyear afterwards, with the exception of seven, until 1809 serving\\nin that capacity no less than twenty-one years. He was also town\\nclerk from 1769 up to and including 1777, and one of the selectmen\\nof the town for twenty-five years, between 1769 and 1802 being\\nchairman of the board every year except four. He ever took a lively\\ninterest in every thing tending to advance the prosperity of Concord.\\nBeing a representative to the Legislature which was holden at Exeter\\nin 1781, and finding some dissatisfactiou among the members relative\\nto accommodations furnished them there, proposed, if they would\\nadjourn to meet at Concord, they should be as well served, and at\\none half of the expense. The proposal was accepted, and upon his\\nreturn home he informed his townsmen of the manner in which he\\nhad committed them, and they pledged themselves to make good his\\nengagement to the best of their abilities. The next year the Legis-\\nlature assembled in Concord for the first time. In 1798 we find him\\ngreatly interested in the improvement of the sacred music of the\\ntown and the records of the Concord Musical Association, estab-\\nlished about that time, show him to have been its first president.\\nIn person Judge Walker was of medium size, being about five feet\\nand ten inches in height, and having rounded and well developed\\nlimbs. In later life he was a little inclined to fulness. He had a\\nplacid, open countenance, a nose somewhat prominent, and a mild\\nblue eye. His walk was ever erect, and his bearing dignified. He", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0607.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "582 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\npossessed an active, vigorous mind, and a well balanced judgment.\\nHe had keen perceptive faculties, which, aided by the experience\\ngained in long intercourse with men, enabled him to form quickly\\ncorrect opinions of the characters and motives of those with whom\\nhe came in contact. While cautious, he was yet of a sanguine tem-\\nperament hopeful, also, when others despaired, and rarely given to\\ndespondency. Careful in the choice of his plans and patient in their\\nexecution, he was generally successful. Democratic and genial in\\nhis feelings, he was on familiar terms with all about him. llejoicing\\nin the welfare of his townsmen, he was ever ready to do them kind\\nsex vices. He manifested a particular interest in the young men of\\nthe town, and not a few just starting in life received from him\\ncounsel or encouragement, or pecuniary aid, which assisted them\\ngreatly in overcoming first obstacles, and nerved them to exertions\\nwhich secured for them the foundations of future prosperity.\\nAVhen at length old age came upon him he met it cheerfully and\\nmanfully. For several years previous to 1822 he became a good deal\\ninfirm, but still enjoyed life in a good degree. His children were\\nprosperously and respectably settled in life, and a part of them near\\nabout him. He had frequent evidence of the respect entertained for\\nhim by his fellow citizens he had an inward consciousness of having\\ndone what he could to be useful in his day and generation; he had\\nentire confidence in the revelations of the sacred Scriptures, and an\\nhumble hope that the infinite atonement of the Son of God might\\nattach to him. On the 5th of May, 1822, in the bosom of his\\nfamily, he died a virtuous and a happy old man in the 85th\\nyear of his age. Truly, The hoary head is a crown of glorj-, if it\\nbe found in the way of righteousness.\\nREV. ASA McFARLAND, D. D.\\nThe Rev. Dr. McParland was a native of Worcester, Mass. born\\nApril 19, 1769. He was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1793\\nwas employed the two following years as Preceptor of Moore s Char-\\nity School at Hanover, and the two next as Tutor in College. His\\nlimited pecuniary resources rendered special exertions necessary to\\ndefray the expenses of his education, and his vacations were gener-\\nally employed in teaching music. By that means he was first intro-\\nduced into this town. In 1809 he was appointed a Trustee of\\nDartmouth College; in 1811, President of the New-Hampshire Mis-\\nsionary Society in 1812, he received the degree of Doctor of Divin-\\nity, from Yale College and for twenty-seven years he was Clerk of\\nthe Ecclesiastical Convention of the State. Dr. McFarland possessed a\\nvigorous and active mind was discriminating in reasoning and sound\\nin his judgment. His sermons were formed with logical precision\\ncontained more of doctrinal than of practical instruction, and were\\ndelivered in a plain, direct manner, with a full, heavy, yet agreeable\\nvoice. His labors as a minister were very arduous, and the fruits of\\nhis industry are abundant. He left 2054 manuscript sermons,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0608.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "HHFo J.iiV M\u00c2\u00ae lEAIEliiiri) lolJ", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0611.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0612.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL.\\n583\\nwhich make an average of 76 each year. The following is a list of\\nhis publications\\n1. Sermon before the Franklin Lodge, at Hanover, June 24, 1797. 8vo-\\npp. 16. T\\n2. Sermon at Concord, March 11, 1798, the Sabbath after his ordination.\\n8vo. pp. 32.\\n3. Thanksgiving Sermon, Nov. 1.5, 1798. 8vo. pp. 24.\\n4. Oration before the Society of the Phi Beta Kappa, at their anniversary\\nat Hanover, August 25, 1802. 4to. pp.32. ^t n\\n5. Sermon at the Ordination of Ilev. William Eolfe, at Groton, Nov. 9,\\n1803\\n6. Sermon at Concord, June 22, 1806, the next Lord s Day after the total\\nEclipse of the Sun. Svo. pp. 16. -r. -r.\\n7. An Historical View of Heresies and Vindication of the Primitive Faith,\\n12mo. pp. 276. Published in 1806.\\n8. Signs of the Last Times a discourse delivered at Concord, July 24,\\n1808. 8vo. pp. 32. .^r.T T\\n9. Sermon before the Executive and Legislature of New-Hampshire, June 1,\\n1808. Svo. pp.32. -n T.\\n10. Sermon at Concord, December 2, 1810, on the importance of iamiiy Re-\\nligion and Government. 8vo. pp. 28.\\n11. Sermon before the New-Hampshire Missionary Society, Sept. 1/, 1812.\\n8vo. pp. 16.\\n12. Sermon on the Sabbath, April 15, 1813. Svo. pp.15.\\n13. Sermon before the Moral Society, September 14, 1814.\\n14. Sermon at the ordination of Rev. Jonathan Curtis, at Epsom, February\\n22, 1815.\\n15. Sermon at the ordination of Rev. Isaac Jones, at Candia, February 7,\\n1816. 8vo. pp. 19.\\n16. Sermon at the ordination of Rev. Nathan Lord, at Amherst, May 22,\\n1816. Svo.\\n17. Sermon at Concord, December, 1822, from Canticles 6: 10 entitled\\nThe Moral Beauty and Glory of the Churcli.\\n18. Sermon at the ordination of Rev. Mr. Woodward.\\nBesides preaching two written discourses on the Sabbath, he usu-\\nally attended a third service at the town hall, or at a school-house,\\nwhen he preached extemporaneously. In seasons of revival he\\npreached frequently in outer districts of the town, sometimes spend-\\ning a day or two in visiting from house to house, and attending meet-\\nings in the evening without returning home. Three years and a\\nhalf he officiated as chaplain in the State Prison preaching to the\\nconvicts once on the Sabbath. _\\nDr. McFarland was a leader in vocal music. Besides doing much\\nto promote good singing in the church, he was a member of the Mer-\\nrimack County Musical Association, and for some time President of\\nit. His voice was admirably fitted for ba.ss, which he sung with great\\npower as tradition says, making the house tremble.\\nDr. McFarland was married three times. His first two wives were\\nNancy and Clarissa Dwight, of Belchertown, Mass. The third was\\nElizabeth Kneeland, only daughter of Mr. Bartholomew Kueeland,\\nof Boston, who survived her husband eleven years. Her children\\nwere as follows: Asa; Susan K., married to Gilbert McMillan, Esq.,\\nof Conway; Elizabeth,* married to Rev. Edward Buxton, of West\\nDeceased.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0613.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "584 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nBoseawen; William; Sarali A., married to Mr. George N. Guthrie,\\nof Putnam, Ohio; Andrew; Miriam P.;* and Clarissa, married to\\nJohn W. Noyes, Esq., of Chester.\\nDuring the greater part of liis ministry Dr. McFarland enjoyed\\nthe confidence of the town and the affections of the church. His\\nregard for the interests of both were sincere, and lasting as his life.\\nWhen, in 1824, in consequence of bodily infirmities, he concluded to\\nresign his ministerial charge, he acted from a full conviction that the\\nreligious interests of the people required it.f He did it not only\\nunsolicited, but in opposition to the advice of some of his substan-\\ntial friends. Closing his contract with the town he cordially united\\nwith the Church in seeking a candidate to be his successor, towards\\nwhom he always acted the part of a faithful counsellor and friend.\\nDr. McFarland was subject to depression of spirits, which increas-\\ned with the ftiilure of health and the infirmities of age. The imme-\\ndiate cause of his death was paral3 sis, to which he seemed constitu-\\ntionally subject, as some of his near kindred before him died with\\nit. From December, 1823, to February, 1827, he experienced seven\\nstrokes of paralysis, all except one on the Sabbath. He expired\\non the morning of the Sabbath, February 18, 1827, in the 58th year\\nof his age and 27th of his ministry. The neighboring ministers\\nattended his funeral as bearers, and a sermon was preached by Rev.\\nWalter Harris, D. D., of Dunbarton, from Heb. 9 27.\\nAfter his dismission from the pastoral office, in March, 1825, the\\nfollowing testimonial, drawn by Samiiel Fletcher, Esq., was unani-\\nmously adopted by the Church, April 25, 1825, and entered upon\\nthe records\\nWhereas, the pastoral relation subsisting between the Rev. Dr. McFarland and\\ntliis Church, has, at his rcciucst, and on account of ill health, lieen recently\\ndissolved and his faithful and arduous labors, during the term of twenty-\\nseven years, have been remarkably blessed to the enlargement and prosperity\\nof the ehurch and the harmony of the town, under his ministry Tliereforc\\nResolved, That this Church do cherish a grateful remembrance of his faithful\\nservices and extensive usefulness Tliat they looli back with delight to tlie in-\\nteresting scenes tln-ough wliich they have passed to the seasons of refreshing\\nfrom the presence of the Lord, which under his ministry they have been permit-\\nted repeatedly to experience to tlie many instances in which they have taken\\nsweet counsel together, and in which they have listened to his kind and foithful\\ninstructions And while they deplore the necessity of the separation that has\\ntaken place, they fervently implore tlie l)lessings of Providence and the approv-\\ning smiles of his and their INIaster to descend and remain upon him.\\nThe likeness which accompanies this brief sketch was copied from\\na painting executed in 1818 by the celebrated Prof. S. F. 13. 3Iorse.\\nNATHANIEL HAZELTINE CARTEK.\\nNathaniel H. Carter was a son of Mr. Joseph Carter, and born in\\nthe south-west part of the town, at what is called the Iron Works.\\nHis father at one time lived on the spot where Mr. William Abbot\\nnow lives, where, it is understood, Nathaniel H. was born, 1787.\\nDeceased, t See liis Letter of Resignation, p. 3S5.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0614.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 585\\nSubsequently Mr. Carter lived witli the late Mr. Levi Alibot, -who\\nmarried his daughter, in a house still standing, built by Nathaniel\\nAbbot, 2d the back part of which, now occupied as a shed or store-\\nroom, is built of logs, in the ancient manner.* The baptism of Na-\\nthaniel Hazcltine, son of Joseph Carter, by Rev. Israel Evans, is re-\\ncorded October 11, 1789.\\nEvincing at an early age a desire for a superior education, he at\\nfirst attended a private school in Concord, kept by the late Eev.\\nAbraham Burnham, D. D., of Pembroke; then he went to Philips\\nAcademy, Exeter; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1811; taught\\nschool in his native town then in Salisbury, and in Portland, Me.\\nHe was professor of languages in Dartmouth University afterwards\\nwent to Albany read law a while, and, under the auspices of DeWitt\\nClinton and others, commenced a paper, which was subsequently\\nmoved to New- York, and called the New- York Statesman, of which\\nhe remained one of the editors till 1829. This paper was conducted\\nwith great ability, and in particular was distinguished for candor and\\nits literary merits. In 1825 he made a tour in Europe, and was\\nabsent till 1827, when he returned, and published in two octavo vol-\\numes his well known Letters from Europe.\\nIn his tour he visited England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy\\nand Switzerland. His health becoming impaired he went to Cuba,\\nwhere he spent the winters of 1827 -8. His last visit to his native\\ntown was in the fall of 1828 at which time he met a cordial wel-\\ncome from many associates of his youth, and was regarded with high\\nrespect and esteem by all who knew hiin. He attended church for\\nthe last time in the old North meeting-house, where his pale face,\\nemaciated form and brilliant eye, attracted the notice and awakened\\nthe sympathy of the preacher, to him then a stranger. He also\\nvisited the old Court-room, while the court was in session, where he\\nreceived a most respectful notice from the members of the bar, of\\nwhom then present were the late Ezekicl Webster, George Sullivan,\\nJeremiah Mason and Levi Woodbury. But during this last visit to\\nhis native town he went to the spot where he was born, and roamed\\nonce more along the banks of the Turkey river, to which the fol-\\nlowing beautiful lines, composed by him at that time, may give a\\nclassic immortality\\nTO MY NATIVE STREAM.f\\nHail hail again, my native stream,\\nScene of my boyhood s earliest dream\\nWith solitary step once more\\nI tread thy wild and sylvan shore.\\nAnd pause at every turn, to gaze\\nUjion thy dark meand ring maze.\\nWhat though obscure thy woody source,\\nWhat though unsung thy humble course;\\nWhat if no lofty classic name\\nGive to thy peaceful waters fame,\\nStill can thy rural haunts impart\\nA solace to this saddened heart.\\n*The house is now owned by Mr. Ira Abbot. f From the JVcw-York Stateanan.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0615.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": "586 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nSince last with thee I parted, time\\nHath borne me on throu ^h many a clime,\\nFar from my native roof that stood,\\nSecluded by thy murm ring flood\\nAnd I in distant lands have roamed,\\nWhere rolled new streams, new oceans foamed\\nAlong the Shannon, Doon and Tay,\\nI ve sauntered many a happy day,\\nAnd sought beside the Cam and Thames\\nMemorials of immortal names\\nOr mingled in the polished train\\nOf fashion, on the banks of Seine.\\nAnd I have seen the azure Rhone\\nRush headlong from his Alpine throne\\nGreen JNIincius and silver Po\\nThrough vine-clad vales meand ring flow;\\nSweet Arno, wreathed in summer flowers,\\nLinger amidst Etrurian bowers\\nAnd the old Tiber s yellow tide\\nRoll to the sea in sullen pride.\\nIn climes beneath the burning zone,\\nMid tangled forests, deep and lone,\\nWhere fervid skies forever glow.\\nAnd the soft trade-winds whispering blow,\\n]\\\\Iy roving footsteps too have pressed\\nThe loveliest island of the West.\\nThere Yumuri winds, deep and calm,\\nThrough groves of citron and of palm\\nThere, on the sluggish waves of Juan,\\nMy little boat hath borne me on\\nOr up Canimars silent floods,\\nStrown with the blossoms of its woods.\\nY et not the less, ray native stream,\\nArt thou to me a grateful theme,\\nThan when, in heedless boyhood s prime,\\nI wove for thee the rustic rhyme,\\nEre other realms, beyond the sea,\\nHad spread their fairest charms for me.\\nE en now, alone I sit me down.\\nAmidst thy woods, with autumn brown,\\nAnd on the rustling leaves recline.\\nBeneath a copse of whisp ring pine,\\nTo watch thy amlier current run.\\nBright with November s parting sun.\\nAround with eager eye I trace\\nThe charms of each remembered place\\nSome fountain gushing from the bank.\\nAt which, in youth, I knelt and drank\\nY on oak, its hoar}- arms that rears.\\nScene of my sports in boyish years.\\nFarewell farewell though I no more\\n]\\\\Iay ramble on thy rural shore,\\nStill shall thj- quiet wave glide on,\\nWhen he who watched its flow is gone,\\nAnd his sole epitaph shall be\\nInscribed upon some aged tree.\\nConcord, N. H., November, 1828.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0616.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 587\\nWith the hope of benefit to his declining health, in the fall of\\n1829, Mr. Carter, by advice of his physicians, sailed for France. He\\narrived at Marseilles, and died January 2, 1830, aged 43. After\\nhis death, in his vest-pocket was found a scrap of poetry, and on the\\nback of the scrap a note, intimating that those lines were but part\\nof an article, the beginning of which was to be found in his sec-\\nretary telling at once of his feebleness at the time of his last\\nwriting unable to go to his secretary to put the scraps together\\nand that he was expecting that the ocean would be his grave. This\\nlast specimen of his poetic genius is here inserted. The two parts,\\nas found, are separated by a dash\\nTO\\nTHE CLOSIKG SCENE BURIAL AT SEA.\\nFrom liis room to the deck they brought him, drest\\nIn liis funeral rol)es I)}^ his own request\\nWith his boots and stock and garments on,\\nAnd naught but the l)reathing spirit gone\\nFor he wished that a child might come and lay\\nAn unstartled hand upon his claj-.\\nThen they wrapped his corse in a tarry sheet,\\nTo the de.ad, as Araby s spices sweet.\\nAnd prepared him to seek the depths below,\\nWhere waves never beat, nor tempests blow.\\nNo steeds with their nodding plumes were here,\\nNo sable hearse, and no coffined bier.\\nTo bear with pomp and parade away\\nThe dead to sleep with his kindred clay.\\nBut the little group a silent few,\\nHis companions, mixed with the hardy crew,\\nStood thoughtful around, till a prayer was said\\nO er tiie corse of the deaf, unconscious dead.\\nThen they bore his remains to the vessel s side,\\nAnd committed them safe to the dark blue tide.\\nOne sullen plunge, and the scene is o er\\nThe sea rolled on as it rolled before.\\nIn that classical sea,* whose azure vies\\nWith the green of its shores, and the blue of its skies.\\nIn some pearly cave, in some coral cell\\nOh the dead shall sleep as sweetly, as well\\nAs if shrined in the ponip of Parian tombs.\\nWhere the East and the South breathe their rich perfumes;\\nNor forgotten shall be the humblest one,\\nThough he sleep in the watery waste alone,\\nWhen the trump of the angel sounds with dread,\\nAnd the sea, like the land, gives up the dead\\nThe opinion will not, I trust, be deemed invidious, that Nathaniel\\nH. Carter stands preeminent among the sons of Concord in literary\\nmerit.\\nGEORGE HOUGH.\\nMr. Hough was extensively and well known as the first printer in\\nConcord. He died February 8, 1830, aged 73. He was descended,\\n*The Jlediterranean, on wliich sea lie was then voyaging.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0617.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": "588 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nsaid tlie late John Farmer, from an ancient and respectable flimily,\\nwho emigrated at a very early period from Lincolnshire, in England,\\nand settled in Massachusetts from whence the branch from which\\nhe descended removed to Connecticut, where, in the town of Bozrah,\\nformerly Norwich, he was born on the 15th of June, 1757. His\\nfather was Mr. Jabez Hough, who lived to the advanced age of\\nninety-three. The art of printing he acquired in an office belonging\\nto two Scotchmen, of the name of Robertson, who had established\\nthemselves at Norwich, and were well known for their skill in typog-\\nraphy. From this office was issued the Norwich Packet, a paper\\nwhich, as published by them, and subsequently by a Mr, Trumbull,\\nadvocated the principles of the Revolution, and did much towards\\nextending those principles in the region where it was circulated. In\\n1783 Mr. Hough went to Windsor, in Vermont, and there, in con-\\njunction with the late Alden Spooner, Esq., established the Vermont\\nJournal, in which they were jointly concerned until 1789, when Mr.\\nHough removed to Concord, and set up the first printing press in\\nthis town, in the month of September. While in Vermont he was\\nelected one or two years treasurer of the county of Windsor. The\\nfirst work which he printed in Concord, and the first printing done in\\nthe county of Merrimack, or in any part of the old county of Rock-\\ningham, out of the towns of Portsmouth and Exeter, was the Chris-\\ntian Economy. This fact may be deserving of remembi ance in the\\ntypographical annals of the State. In January, 1790, he commenced\\nthe Concord Herald and New-Hampshire Intelligencer, which,\\nwith several alterations of the title, he continued until October 30,\\n1805. This paper was circulated in the interior central parts of the\\nState, and was the means of diffusing a knowledge of our political\\nand civil relations at a time when, compared with the present, but few\\nnewspapers were distributed. In 1792, a post-office having been es-\\ntablished in Concord, he was appointed the first post-master, and his\\ncommission, signed by the Hon. Timothy Pickering, the Post-Master\\nGeneral, is dated in June of that year. On Mr. Jefi erson s accession\\nto the presidency, in 1801, and the appointment of Mr. Granger\\nto be Post-Master General, Mr. Hough, in common with many others,\\nwas superseded in office. In the years 1815 and 1816 he was chosen\\none of the two representatives of the town of Concord in the Gen-\\neral Court. In January, 1819, he commenced the Concord Ob-\\nserver, a religious newspaper, and the first of the kind printed in\\nNew-Hampshire. In 1828 a number of the enterprising mechanics\\nof Concord formed an association for the purpose of mutual aid and\\nimprovement in their respective vocations, and Mr. Hough, from his\\nage and long devotion to the typographic art, was selected as the first\\npresident. To this office he was reelected about a month prior to his\\ndecease.\\nIn the various relations of life the subject of this notice was dis-\\ntinguished for the urbanity of his deportment, the fidelity of his\\nfriendship, and the uprightness of his dealings. To his uniform\\ncharacter for honesty and integrity, Mr. Hough added, within the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0618.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 589\\nlast fifteen years of Lis life, the liiglier and liolier sanction of the\\nChristian profession.\\nMr. Houg h s first wife was the widow of Dr. Fay, of Windsor,\\nVt., by whom he had one child, George H., afterwards a Baptist\\nmissionary in India. His second wife was Miss Lucinda Jones, who\\ndied before her husband, September 2G, 1826, aged 04, leaving no\\nchildren. An adopted niece, Miss Mary Silsby, married Moses G.\\nAtwood, formerly of Concord, but now of Alton, 111.\\nMr. Hough is remembered as remarkably moderate, exact and pre-\\ncise in every thing. He had become so accustomed to correct proof,\\nthat in his ordinary reading of a newspaper or book, ho would stop\\nto punctuate according to his own notions. He made excessive use\\nof the comma, always placing one before the conjunction and. In\\ncounting over bank bills he invariably smoothed out all the wrinkles\\nas he proceeded. At a time when the lower Concord Bank was\\nrun upon for specie payment of its bills. Col. Kent employed Mr.\\nHov^gh to count small coin, while an express man was sent to Bos-\\nton to obtain the sum requisite to meet the demand His usual pre-\\ncision to ascertain the exact value of the small pieces gave ample time\\nfor the messenger to return and save the bank from dishonoring its\\npaper. It was a common saying respecting Mr. Hough, that he\\nseemed to put a comma after every step he took. An intimate friend\\nof liis says Although very deliberate and apparently considerate in\\nspeech, he used to be caught tripping on the tongue, by frecjucnt\\nIrishisms. Riding with him across the Pine plain one summer eve-\\nning, when and where will be noticed, as crossing your path, an\\noccasional vein of air, warmer than the surrounding atmosphere, he\\nremarked upon the singularity of the xoarm and cold heafs. With\\nreference to the health of his wife, he replied, one day, to the inquiry\\nof a friend concerning her, Mrs. Hough got up down sick, and she\\nhas been abed ever since she got up. Upon Col. K. s reminding\\nhim of his addictedness to Irishisms, (of which he seemed to be fully\\nconscious,) and asking him the cause, he replied very seriously I\\ndon t know how in the world it happened, unless it be because I\\nserved my time with a /Scotchman.\\nCAPT, RICHARD AYER.\\nDied, in this town, on Saturday, December 17, 1831, Capt. Rich-\\nard Ayer, in the 75th year of his age. He was born May 12, 1757,\\nat Haverhill, Mass., where his ancestors, from the early settlement of\\nthat town, had resided, and where they possessed a good share of\\nwealth and influence. He came to this town in 1777, having the\\nsame year married Miss Susan Sargent, grand-daughter of Rev.\\nChristopher Sargent, of Methuen, and settled in the village, where\\nhe resided until his death. He was in early life employed in the\\naffairs of the town; served in the office of selectman, and in 181-1\\nand 1815 represented his fellow-townsmen in the State Legislature.\\nHe possessed a vigorous and powerful frame, a sound judgment, and\\nin the various offices he held, and several relations of life, exercised", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0619.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "590 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\na good share of discrimination. He bad thirteen children, nine of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2n hom survived him.*\\nJESSE CARR TUTTLE.\\nMr. Tuttle is well remembered as a printer and a Biiller. He\\nmarried Zerviab, a daughter of the second Eeubea Abbot. Mr.\\nTuttle was an indentured apprentice to the printing business, with\\nMr. George Hough. He was always fond of an out-door life, to the\\nneglect of his proficiency in the printing art. On being remonstrated\\nwith for his inattention, and told that, without more diligence in the\\noffice, he would never make a printer, he is said to have remarked\\nvery gravely, that Mr. Hough was bound by his indentures to learn\\nhim the trade and he did n t care. After he became, in a certain\\nsense, a printer, and a publisher of one of the only two newspapers\\nthen printed in Concord, he found fault with one of his apprentices\\nfor following copy, and setting up that Bonaparte was in great\\njeopardy during his campaign in the north of Europe, insisting\\nupon it that, instead of lower case, he should have set up great\\njeopardy with capital initial letters, as it was a place somewhere in\\nliussia. Relinquishing the printing business, Tuttle became a miller,\\nand lived a while at Dickerman s mills, and brought his meal for\\ncustomers into Concord Main street. He was an honest, hard-work-\\ning and driving luan, but somehow, in his business, failed to u-orJc\\nit right. He brought up his family very creditably, and died De-\\ncember 10, 1834, aged 55, leaving a widow and children, living much\\nrespected for several years afterwards in Concord.\\nJONATHAN EASTMAN, ESQ.\\nJonathan Eastman, senior, Esq., was a son of Philip Eastman,\\nwho married Abiah Bradley. He was a man of robust frame, and\\ndistinguished during his life for health, activity and enterprise. He\\nwas an ardent patriot; was in Capt. Joshua Abbot s company of\\nvolunteers that marched to reinforce the northern army, September,\\n1777, and was ready any time afterwards to fight for his country\\nEsq. Eastman, as he was usually called, lived on the east side of the\\nriver, on the spot near the old garrison-house of his grandfather,\\nCapt. Ebenczer Eastman, where he brought up a large family. He\\nhad but little early education, but learned to write on birch bark, and\\nin late years was well posted up in all political and public matters,\\nby reading newspapers. As illustrations of his enterprise and force\\nof character, it is related that when a boy, fifteen years of age, he\\nwas sent by his father, on foot, to Conway, driving two cows and two\\n!^ee Aj er family.\\nt 5Ir. Enoch Dickornian, who has lived in Concord since 1828, was a hired hand with Tuttle,\\nand drove his team ahimt a year. His father once owned Dickerman s Mills. Mr. Dick-\\nerinan is now a sort of fixture in Concord, known by his long cotten striped frock, his\\nspectacles, and his bending posture, as if he was looking for pins or money. He was one of\\nthe last tenants of the old garrison house, owned by Dr. Chadbourne, before it was moved\\nback for a stable, [^eo picture of him in Wheeler s Directory, 1853.]\\nX ee Eastman family.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0620.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "A\\n^iSimi-kTJKJL-M lElkmmM.M ]li[Q),", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0623.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0624.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 591\\nshotes the whole distance, and going by way of Saco, Me. Near a\\nsolitary cabin in the woods, about half way to where he was to stop, he\\nmet a bear in the path, which \\\\\\\\q faced, till old bruin, put out of coun-\\ntenance, filed off. He lodged in the cabin alone at night, and reached\\nConway in safety the nest day. When a young man he was engaged\\nin a party with Andrew McMillan, Esq., of Conway, in ruunnig\\nout land in Rumford, Me. On one occasion, a severe storm coming\\non, they started for Fryeburg, but before they reached it, it was so\\ncold that they were in danger of freezing. The flint of their only\\ngun was lost, and they could not strike fire. In this predicament\\nthe fact occurred to them that there were quartz pebbles on the bot-\\ntom of Keascr Pond, near by, in not very deep water. Hastenino- to\\nthe pond, they broke the ice, and cast lots to decide who should go\\nin to get the pebbles. The lot fell on Eastman and, stripping off\\nhis clothes, with a rope fastened to one leg, he dove in and fetched\\nup a pebble. With this they struck fire and made themselves com-\\nfortable.\\nEsq. Eastman was a great friend of Parson Walker, and also of\\nthe ministers who succeeded him. He was regular in his attendance\\nat meeting, but if any thing occurred to prevent his going, his old\\nhorse, named Pomp, had formed such a good habit, that he would\\nleave his pasture, go to the meeting-house, stand at his post all day,\\nand after meeting return home with his neighbors. The many useful\\noffices which Mr. Eastman filled in town, and the services which he\\nperformed as a citizen, may be seen by reference to the history. He\\ndied October 19, 1834, aged 87. The accompanying likeness of\\nEsq. Eastman, which is very perfect, was taken from an original\\npainting by Hon. Jacob A. Potter, about 1831.\\nSTILSON EASTMAN.\\nMr. Eastman s service in the French War, 1757, has already been\\nrelated, on page 195 of our History. He was also in the Revolu-\\ntionary service, and on the surrender of Rurgoyne, after the soldiers\\nhad stacked their guns, he contrived to exchange his gun for a Hes-\\nsian rifle. This was preserved in the family many years, and is now\\nin possession of Mr. Meshech Lang, who obtained it of Amos East-\\nman, son of Stilson. This gun, which I have seen, is a beautiful\\nrifle\u00e2\u0080\u0094 having only a new stock since Mr. Lang owned it. After the\\nwar, Eastman owned and lived on the farm subsequently owned by\\nthe late Isaac Emery, Esq., in East Concord. Not being of strictly\\nsober life, and becoming embarrassed in pecuniary matters Eastman s\\nfarm fell into the hands of Simeon Brackett, who married his daugh-\\nter Betsey. In old age he and his wife went to live in Rumford,\\nMe., with their son Caleb. There, at 80 years of age, he was awak-\\nened to religious concerns under the preaching of a missionary. Rev.\\nJothaui Sewall. When 90 years old he would ride on horseback,\\nwith his wife behind him, several miles to meeting. Beino- once\\nasked how old he was, he replied, I am now four years old J for I\\nconsider all my past life, before I found a Saviour, as nothing. It is", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0625.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "592 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nnow four years siaee I began to live! He died in Rumford about\\n1837, in tlie lOOth year of his age.\\nJOHN FARMER, ESQ.\\nJolm Farmer, Esq., came to Concord from Amberst in 1821 form-\\ned a business connection with Dr. Samuel Morril, and opened an\\napotbecary store wbence be received tbe title of Doctor, tbougb be\\nnever entered tbe medical profession. He remained in Concord till\\ntbe time of bis deatb, August lo, 1838. Soon after bis decease tbe\\nfollowing brief, accurate and just tribute to bis memory appeared in\\ntbe Portsmoutb Journal.*\\nJobn Farmer, Esq. was born at Cbelmsford, Mass., on tbe 12tb\\nof June, 1789, and was tbe eldest son of Jobn Farmer, of Chelms-\\nford, and a lineal descendant of Edward Farmer, son of John Far-\\nmer, of Ausley, in Warwickshire, who came to this country and set-\\ntled in Billcrica as early as 1672.\\nMr. Farmer was distinguished as an antiquarian and genealogist,\\nand bis researches, some of which are embodied in his publications,\\nare sufficient to enrol bis name among the most distinguished histori-\\nans of tbe age in which he lived. His Notes and Illustrations of\\nBelknap s History of New- Hampshire are scarcely less valuable than\\nthe text itself; and his Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of\\nNew-England is a monument of great labor and much patient re-\\nsearch. In connection with Mr. Moore, of Concord, he published in\\n1823 the Gazetteer of New-Hampshire, spoken of at tbat time as a\\nmodel by the critics, and since followed by similar works in several\\nother States and in conjunction with the same gentleman he pub-\\nlished several years since three volumes of Historical Collections,\\nembodying a large amount of rare and valuable matters. Mr. Far-\\nmer also contributed largely to the published Collections of tbe N. H.\\nHistorical Society, of wlaich he was one of the founders, and a most\\nuseful member having been one of tbe publishing committee, and\\ncorresponding secretary from 1825 until tbe day of bis deatb. He\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was also a contributor to tbe volumes published by tbe Massachusetts\\nHistorical Society, and latterly to tbe Quarterly Register a valuable\\nstatistical work, pubUsbed in Boston. For the last year or two he\\nhas been engaged in collating and arranging the records, manuscripts,\\nand files in the office of tbe Secretary of State, and most richly did\\nbe merit the compliment bestov/ed upon his labors by tbe Governor\\nin bis last annual message. It is gratifying to learn that tbe most\\ndifficult portion of tbe task confided to Mr. Farmer has been accom-\\nplished, and that it will be in the power of tbe Executive, under the\\nwise and liberal resolve of the Legislature, to secure to this State\\nprobably the most perfect set of public records in the Union.\\nMr. Farmer was an honorary member of various learned and lite-\\nrary societies abroad a correspondent of the most eminent living his-\\ntorians, scholars and antiquaries of the age and enjoyed, what is a\\nA more full notice of him is found in Vol. VI., of N. II. Historical Collections.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0626.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0627.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "Ws", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0628.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 693\\nrare blessing, the entire confidence and esteem of men of all parties\\nin religion or politics. He bad no enemies, and many friends. He\\nwas a conscientious and ardent friend of the slave, and, as corres-\\nponding secretary of the New-Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society, he\\nwas greatly beloved by its members. His death was peaceful and\\ntranquil. His funeral was attended on Wednesday morning by a\\nlarge concourse, at the North church, where a most affecting tribute\\nto his memory and worth was paid by E,ev. Dr. Bouton, and his body\\nconsigned to its place in that mighty congregation of the dead, over\\nwhose history it was his delight to ponder while living.\\nTo the above it may be added that Mr. Farmer was a man of\\nfeeble constitution, slender and tall bright blue eyes, sandy com-\\nplexion and hair, with a prominent forehead, and a mild, but very\\nintelligent expression. He had a faculty of attaching to him the\\nyoung, and exerted over them a pleasing and salutary influence\\ngenerally inspiring them with a love of reading and research. Among\\nthe young men who were thus under his influence, were the late Prof.\\nHenry L. Low and Cyrus P. Bradley, of Concord, and others still\\nliving. Mr. Farmer never married. He died of a lingering con-\\nsumption, at the house of Mr. Daniel Clark. Among his particular\\nfriends were Gen. Joseph Low, of Concord, and Isaac Spalding, Esq.,\\nof Nashua, of whom the latter was administrator of his estate and\\nthe former has inscribed, on his family monument, in the old burying-\\nground, the name of Mr. Farmer, with the following inscription\\nJohn Farmer,\\nDied August 13, 1838,\\nJEt. 49.\\nBorn at Chelmsford, Mass.,\\nHonored as a man,\\nDistinguished as an antiquarian and a scholar,\\nBeloved as a friend,\\nAnd revered as a christian philanthropist,\\nAnd a lover of impartial liberty.\\nHis death has occasioned a void in society which time\\nWill fail to supply\\nAnd the reason and fitness of which,\\nAs to time, and manner, and attending circumstances,\\nEternity alone can fully unfold.\\nCOL. WILLIAM A. KENT.\\nCol. Kent came to this place in 1789, and established himself as\\none of the two or three traders, doing business here in a small way,\\nand, connecting with his store of West India goods the business to\\nwhich he had been regularly apprenticed and brought up that of a\\ntin-plate worker. Col. Kent was born in Charlestown, Mass., on\\nthe 27th of April, 1765, and was the youngest child of Ebenezer\\nand Mary Kent the father being the son also of Ebenezer, and\\nthe mother being Mary Austin, daughter of Ebenezer Austin, all\\n38", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0631.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "594 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nof Charlestowa. Botli his father and paternal grandfather were\\nsea-captains, and both died abroad the father, when the subject of\\nthis notice was but an infant, about fifteen months old. Left at\\nthis early age to the care of a mother in moderate circumstances,\\nwith a fiimily of four children dependent upon her, the struggle\\nwith adversity would seem to have been sufficiently arduous, with-\\nout the calamity which befel the fimily, in common with other\\nresidents of Charlestown, by the burning of that place by the British,\\nin 1775. By this fire the dwelling-house and small store of the\\nmother were consumed, and the family driven, as homeless wander-\\ners, for months back into one of the interior towns. On the return\\nof the fnnily to Charlestown, a situation as apprentice was secured\\nfor William, when fourteen years of age, in the shop and store of\\nDeacon Newell, of Boston. It was then the custom to allow few or\\nno perquisites to the apprentice, and so close had the subject of this\\nnotice been kept in the matter of money, that he has been heard to\\nremark that, glad as he, in common with most apprentices, might be\\nto terminate his seven years service, the day he became one and twenty\\nwas to him, perhaps, the gloomiest day of his life, as, on returning\\nto his poor and widowed mother, he had barely money enough to\\ncarry him over the bridge to Charlestown. Having no capital with\\nwhich to commence business for himself, and remaining unemployed\\nfor a few weeks, he gladly embraced an early offer to go back as a\\njourneyman to his old master. Here he continued long enough to\\nearn sufficient money, and establish sufficient credit, to purchase for\\nhimself a set of tools, and a few boxes of tin, together with a barrel\\nof sugar, a barrel of molasses, a keg of tobacco, a bag of coffee and a\\nchest of tea, and took passage, with his goods, on board one of the\\nslow farmer teams of that day, bound to this, the place of his after\\nresidence for more than fifty years. His attention was directed to\\nthis place by the fact of his only sister having previously mar-\\nried the Rev. Israel Evans, who settled in this town.\\nIn 1792 Col. Kent formed a happy marriage connection with Miss\\nCharlotte Mellen, a daughter of the Rev. John Mellen, of Sterling,\\nMass., and younger sister of the Hon. Prentiss Mellen, some years\\nsince a Senator in Congress, and Chief Justice of the State of Maine.\\nCemented by this happy union, their imited home was,_for nearly\\nthirty years, the abode of refined and generous hospitality. With\\nreference to this, it may not be inappropriate to quote the following\\ntribute, from no less an authority than the Hon. Daniel Webster, in\\na letter written by him, sis months previous to his decease, to George\\nKent, Esq., one of the sons:\\nI avail myself of this opportunity, my dear sir, to renew the ex-\\npression of that regard which I have entertained for yourself and\\nyour family for so many years. Your excellent father was one of\\nthe first to bring me into notice before the people of New-Hampshire,\\nand a kind and attached friend to the hour of his death. His house\\nwas one of the first in all the neighborhood in which I met intelli-\\ngent and cultivated society, and that house was always adorned, en-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0632.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 595\\nlivened, and made most agreeable to all its guests, by your admirable\\nmother. I assure you, my dear sir, that these recollections give me\\ngreat pleasure.\\nIn 1796 Col. Kent was commissioned as a justice of the peace,\\nwhich office he continued to hold, through various reappointments,\\nand in its different grades, of justice of the quorum, and justice\\nthroughout the State, until his temporary removal from New-IIamp-\\nshire, in 1821. He was elected the representative of the town in\\n1797, and reelected to the same office four or five times during the\\nsucceeding twenty years his last service in this capacity being in\\n1817. In the mean time he was three times elected to the Senate\\nof New-Hampshire first, in 1809, and again in 1813 and 181-1 in\\nwhich latter year he was chosen by the Legislature as treasurer of\\nthe State, the duties of which office he discharged for the succeeding\\ntwo years. In early life he was commissioned and served several\\nyears as aid to the governor, (Gov. Gilman,) with the rank of colonel,\\nand in this capacity accompanied His Excellency on several excur-\\nsions and reviews throughout the State. Having retired from mer-\\ncantile business, he was, in 1806, appointed cashier of the Concord\\nBank, and continued in that office until his resignation, in 1821.\\nCol. Kent will be long and favorably remembered as an energetic\\nand public-spirited citizen ready to aid in all works of public im-\\nprovement, and to bear his share in all public enterprises. He was\\na friend of good order, of the cause of education, and of religious\\nworship and ordinances. Although not himself greatly indebted, in\\nearly life, to public school instruction, nor at all to any of the higher\\nseminaries of learning, he was a just appreciator of their value, and\\nby his native force of mind and quickness of apprehension, well sup-\\nplied, to an extent quite uncommon, any defect in his early training,\\nso that he became a ready and correct writer, a clear and comprehen-\\nsive speaker, and an accurate and sound judge in all matters where he\\nwas called upon to act. In affairs of the town his opinion was looked\\nup to with much confidence, was readily given, and generally appre-\\nciated. He was repeatedly called upon to preside as moderator of\\nthe annual town meetings, and evinced, in this often difficult office,\\ngreat readiness in the discharge of duty, united with dignity and\\nself-possession, and great firmness and decision of character, blended\\nwith courtesy and respect to the feelings and rights of others. His\\ncourage, moral and physical, was put severely to the test in the\\nMarch election of 1813, when, as moderator, he felt bound to deny\\nto certain United States soldiers, stationed at Concord, the right of\\nvoting, which they claimed on that occasion.*\\nBut it was in the more private relations of life that the subject of\\nthis imperfect notice was the best appreciated. Of gentlemanly\\nmanners and pleasing address, he had a quickness of perception and\\nreadiness of reply, which could not fail to distinguish him in the ex-\\ntensive circle of private friendship. Naturally rather taciturn, and\\nonly speaking when he had something to say, his peculiar qualities\\nSee History, pp. 344-5.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0633.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "596 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nwere less known to the world at large. In the family and social\\ncircle he was often the observed of all observers, by the point\\nand terseness of his ready replies. He seemed to know the exact\\nplace, in colloquial discourse, when quietly to let fly the arrows of\\nhis wit, and, keen as they might often be being aimed not at partic-\\nular persons, but at men and things in general there was seldom or\\nnever any festering wound left behind.\\nCol. Kent, though slender in form, and always after a severe fever\\nwhich he had in early life, considerable of an invalid, was remarkably\\nquick and active in his motions, retaining his erect attitude and the\\nsuppleness and elasticity of his limbs, to the time of his last sickness\\nand death. He was accustomed to take frequent walks, to work a\\ngood deal in his garden, (of which he was very fond,) to take occa-\\nsional exercise in early life in the way of gunning and fishing and\\nin later years in journeying, especially in visiting, at least once a\\nyear, and staying for days, and sometimes weeks, at Hampton Beach,\\nor some other of our various New-England watering-places, where he\\nwas often the life of the social circle. He retained his usual health\\nto within less than a week of his decease, and his mental powers ap-\\nparently unimpaired to the very last; and died of an inflammatory\\ndisease of the bowels, on the 7th of April, 1840, at the age of sev-\\nenty-five years. For several of the last years of his life he was a\\nmember of the Unitarian church in this town, and always a diligent\\nreader of the Holy Scriptures constant in his attendance upon public\\nworship, and exemplary in his daily habits and manner of life, from\\nhis youth up. Old as he was, he had not outlived, and had, indeed,\\nhardly impaired his usefulness, up to the time of his decease. His\\nfuneral was numerously attended, and his departure mourned, both\\nas a private and public loss, by his townsmen generally, and by a\\nlarge circle of relatives and friends.*\\nThe admirable lithograph likeness accompanying this notice was\\ntaken from a painting by a Mr. Edwards.\\nPHILIP CARRIGAIN, ESQ.\\nPhilip Carrigain, son of Dr. Philip Carrigain, was born in Concord,\\nFebruary 20, 177-,f and graduated at Dartmouth College in 1794\\nstudied law with Arthur Livermore, Esq., and settled in practice in\\nhis native town. He was chosen Secretary of State by the New-\\nHampshire Legislature in June, 1805, and sustained that office four\\nyears. He was employed by the State government to prepare a Map\\nof New-Hampshire, which he published in 1816 a work which\\nreflects great credit on the author, and is highly honorable to the\\nState under whose patronage it was executed. Mr. Carrigain was\\nseveral years clerk of the Senate, and was often employed in public\\nbusiness. He was for some years in the practice of law at Epsom\\nand Chichester but subsequently came to Concord, where he died,\\nSee Kent family.\\ntTlie original record appears to have been altered. He was probably born in 1772.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0634.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 597\\nin very reduced circumstances, March 15, 1842, aged 70 years. A\\nwriter in one of the public journals thus speaks of him. The late\\nPhilip Carrigain, Esq., of Concord a quick witted, genial person-\\nage when he held the office of Secretary of State was frequently\\nbeset for his name, to be placed upon petitions for office. Carrigain,\\nit is said, signed all the papers offered. He wrote a beautiful hand,\\nand wielded a pen with the skill and dexterity of a writing-master.\\nThe flourish beneath his name is well remembered by multitudes of\\npeople in all parts of New-Hampshire flourishes representing a plain\\noblong circle, with accompanying scrolls; or the head, beak, and\\nneck of an eagle or the head of a lion, or the figure of the quill\\nwith which he wrote. He signed, as remarked above, all the papers\\npresented but had this understanding with Heads of Departments,\\nthat unless there iras the head of an eayle hencath his name, no atten-\\ntion teas to he paid to the slynature.\\nA friend who knew him well says Philip Carrigain, Esq., will\\nbe remembered for his social and convivial habits, the general kind-\\nliness of his disposition, the versatility of his talents, his apprecia-\\ntion of wit and humor, and his readiness at repartee. He was a\\ngentleman in his manners and although he suffered himself to be-\\ncome and to remain a bachelor, even to three score years and ten,\\nwas always a great admirer and flatterer of the fair sex. His com-\\npliments were often rather fulsome but sometimes blended, whether\\nintentionally or not, with a spice of raillery. He paid this rather\\nambiguous compliment to a bevy of young ladies, coming out one\\nsummer evening from a convivial entertainment, and manifesting in\\ntheir homeward walk a good deal of sportive glee, as well as great\\nconfusion of tongues\\nThe dog-star rages and, tis past a doubt,\\nAll Bedlam or Parnassus is let out.\\nWhen Secretary of State under Gov. Langdon, whose Council as\\nwell as himself, (tlon. Elijah Hall, Col. Quarles, Gen. Pierce, c.)\\nwere all ignorant, to say the least, of any tongue but our own, a\\nletter came to the Executive from the celebrated John Eandolph,\\nsealed with his armorial seal, and bearing the Latin motto, Fari\\nquce sentlat three words from Horace, signifying to speak one s\\nmind, or what one may think. The Secretary, being a college-\\nlearnt man, was appealed to, to translate the motto. It would not do\\nto seem to be at fault, or at any loss about it although, from the ob-\\nsoleteness of the word fari, a better scholar than Col. Carrigain\\nmight have been pardoned some little hesitation. The Secretary\\ntook the letter, wholly at a loss about the true rendering of the motto\\nbut, in his rapid way, at once replied, Pari quse senliat Fari qua3\\nsentiat yes, your Excellency, a tine motto a very fine motto very\\ncharacteristic of Mr. Randolph. Well, what is the English of it,\\nMr. Secretary? says Gov. Langdon. 0, yes, your Excellency\\nPari qu;\\\\3 sentiat yes, the English yes, very fine motto, very pat-\\nriotic, very characteristic of Mr. Piandolph. It is, your Excellency,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0635.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": "598 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nMy God and my Country The sentiment was thereupon pass-\\ned round the Council Board as a very fine one and the Secretary\\nstood alone, as he will always stand, in his translation of it.\\nMr. Carrigain, about 1799, built the large house at the North end,\\nnow owned by Robert E. Pecker and Jonathan E. Lang. Tradition\\nsays that about that time he was disposed to pay his addresses to the\\ndaughter of Pres. John Wheelock, of Dartmouth College, and that\\nhis large anticipations had some influence in determining the size of\\nthe house. He was never able to finish it, and for many years eld-\\nerly people spake of it as Carrigain s Folly. His remains were\\ninterred in the old burying-ground, and remained several years with-\\nout a monument; when, by means of a subscription by friends, a\\nhandsome white marble one was erected, bearing the simple in-\\nscription\\nHon. Philip Carrigaik,\\nFormerly Secretary of State,\\nAND\\nAuthor of the INIap of New-Hampshire,\\nDied March 15, 1842,\\n^t. 70.\\nGOV. DAVID LAWRENCE MORRIL.\\nGov. Morril came to this town from GofFstown, in 1831, and re-\\nmained a highly respected and useful citizen until his death, Jan-\\nuary 27, 1849, aged 76 years. He was born in Epping, N. H.,\\nJune 10, 1772 son of Samuel Morril, a native of Wilmington,\\nMass., and son of Rev. Isaac Morril, of that place. Gov. Morril s\\nfather married Anna Lawrence, only daughter of David Lawrence,\\nEsq., of Epping, who had two children, David L. and Samuel.\\nFew men in the State ever sustained more numerous, various and\\nimportant offices than Gov. Morril. Having pursued preparatory\\nstudies with his grandfather, in Wilmington, and at Exeter Academy,\\nhe commenced the study of medicine, and entered into practice at\\nEpsom, in 1793. In 1799 he experienced a great change in his\\nreligious feelings, and in 1800 studied divinity with Rev. Jesse\\nRemington, of Candia. In 1802 he was ordained pastor of the church\\nin Gofifstown, but resigned his charge in 1811, and resumed the\\npractice of medicine. In 1808 he was elected representative for\\nGoff stown to the General Court, and reelected each year till 1817.\\nIn June, 1816, he was speaker of the House; and the same session\\nwas chosen to the Senate of the United States for six years, and was\\na member during the excitement attending what is called the Mis-\\nsouri Compromise. In 1823 he was elected a member of the New-\\nHampshire Senate, and was president of that body. He was elected\\ngovernor of New-Hampshire in 1824, by the Legislature, and the\\nthree following years chosen governor by the people. In 1825 he\\nhad 30.167 votes, out of 30.770 which were cast. Gov. Morril re-\\nceived the honorary degree of M. D. and A. M. from Dartmouth\\nCollege, and of LL. D. from the University of Vermont. He was", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0636.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 699\\npresident of the Hillsborough County Agricultural Society, of the\\nNew-Hampshire Missionary Society, of the Xew-PIampshire Coloniza-\\ntion Society, of the American Doctrinal Tract and Book Society, and\\nof the New-Hampshire Branch of the American Education Society,\\nand vice-president of the American Bible Society, of the American\\nSunday School Union, and of the American Home Missionary Society.\\nThe following are publications of Gov. Morril A concise letter, on\\nthe subject of baptism, addressed to Rev. D. Merrill, 1806; two\\nfuneral sermons, 1811, 1819; oration, July 4, 1815; a discourse\\nbefore the Grand Lodge of New-Hampshire, 1819 a sermon on\\ndivine decrees, the divine glory, and moral agency, Luke 22 22\\nobservations on Genesis 3 4, 13 thoughts on Rev. 20 10, printed\\nin the Hopkinsian Magazine, published at Providence, R. I., 1828.\\nSeptember 25, 1794, Gov. Morril married for his first wife Jane\\nWallace, of Epsom, who died December 14, 1823, aged 53 years,\\nleaving no child. August 3, 1824, he married for his second wife\\nLydia Poor, of Goffstown, by whom he had four sons, viz., David L.,\\nwho died in infancy; David L., a graduate of Dartmouth College in\\n1847, now in the practice of law in West Brookfield, Mass. Samuel,\\na physician, and ^Villiam H.\\nDuring his residence in Concord, after 1831, Gov. Morril did not\\nengage in public life, but retained his active and industrious habits\\nto the last. At one time he was connected with a company in pub-\\nlishing the Scriptures, and was two years editor of the New-Hamp-\\nshire Observer. He carefully superintended the education of his\\nsons was strongly attached to the Calvinistic doctrines of religion,\\nand at the time of his death was a member of the South Congrega-\\ntional Church in Concord. He died of paralysis, after a sickness of\\nabout eight days, expressing hope in the mercy of God, through\\nJesus Christ, of a blessed immortality.\\nABIEL CHANDLER.\\nAbiel Chandler is known as the distinguished benefactor of Dart-\\nmouth College, by a legacy of fifty thousand dollars, for the estab-\\nlishment and support of a permanent department, or school of in-\\nstruction in said College, in the practical and useful arts of life.\\nHe was, also, the patron of the New-Hampshire Asylum for the\\nInsane, in his lifetime, by the gift of a convenient carriage for the\\nbenefit of the inmates and in his will, by a legacy amounting to\\nabout twenty-five thousand dollars.\\nMr. Chandler was a son of Daniel, and grandson of Capt. -John\\nChandler, one of the original proprietors. His mother was Sarah\\nMerrill, daughter of Dea. John Merrill. His parents were poor.\\nAbiel was born February 26, 1777, in a house which stood just west\\nof Richard Bradley s, on or near the spot where Hamilton Perkins,\\nEsq., has recently built a beautiful residence. An apple tree, within\\na rod of the new house which may justly be called the Chandler\\ntree grew up in the cellar of the old house, after it was removed.\\nRobert Bradley, Esq., of Fryeburg, says he was well acquainted with", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0637.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "600 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAbiel Chandler when a boy that Abiel was remarkable in childhood\\nfor a steady, persevering purpose; that his father, John Bradley,\\nused to say that Abiel was the best Chandler boy he ever knew; he\\nwould hoe in a field all day, without stopping, or looking up; when\\na boy he acted like a man. Having observed these traits in young\\nChandler, John Bradley, Esq., who, with Jonathan Eastman, owned\\nextensive tracts of land in Maine, offered to give Abiel forty acres, in\\nthe township of Stowe, near to Chatham, provided he would go there\\nand settle. This he accepted, at about the age of twenty-one.\\nWorking on his farm in summer, Abiel went in the fall and winter\\nto the academy in Fryeburg, then under the instruction of Paul\\nLangdon, of Portsmouth. Here he became acquainted with two\\ngentlemen, graduates of Dartmouth College and hearing them con-\\nverse and discuss subjects in a style superior to what he was capable\\nof, the thought occurred, Why may not I obtain an education and\\nbe able to converse as well as they Advising with his teacher, he\\nsold his farm and commenced preparation for college, which he com-\\npleted, partly at Fryeburg and partly at Exeter. On entering Har-\\nvard College John Bradley, Esq., became bondsman for the payment\\nof his bills. Graduating in 1806; he taught the grammar school in\\nSalem, Mass., about eleven years; spent a year afterwards in Balti-\\nmore, then became a commission merchant in Boston, in the firm of\\nChandler Howard, and afterwards of Chandler, Howard k Co.,\\nwhere, by his industry, integrity and perseverance, he acquired wealth\\nand distinction.\\nIn May, 1827, he married Dorcas Sargent, a daughter of Eppes\\nSargent, Esq., of Boston, who died, without issue, in 1837. Retiring\\nfrom active business in 184.5, he located himself in Walpole, N. H.,\\nwhere he died, March 21, 1851, aged 74 years.\\nHaving in his last will given numerous legacies to nephews and\\nnieces, residing mostly in Concord and in Fryeburg, Me., and vicin-\\nity, many of whom were poor or in moderate circumstances and\\nmaking, also, generous legacies to the relations of his wife, and to\\nparticular friends, he left the residue of his estate to Dartmouth Col-\\nlege and to the Asylum for the Insane in New-Hampshire, amount-\\ning, as stated above, in all, to seventy-five thousand dollars.\\nThe Scientific School which he established at Dartmouth College\\nis now in successful operation. The gentlemen who were appointed\\nby Mr. Chandler executors of his will, and visitors of the school,\\nare John James Maxwell and Francis Brown Hayes, Esqs., of Bos-\\nton, who were also Mr. Chandler s personal friends.\\nGOV. ISAAC HILL.\\nAmong the men who were not natives, but for a long time citizens\\nof Concord, few have rendered their names more conspicuous in the\\naffairs of the town and of the State, than Isaac Hill. The following\\ntribute to his memory appeared in the New-Hampshire Patriot\\nthe week following his death: which occurred at Washington, on the", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0638.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "y^^^^", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0641.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0642.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 601\\n22d of March, 1851,* of catarrhal consumption, at the age of G3\\nyears.\\nIsaac Hill was born in a part of Cambridge, Mass., which is now\\nincluded in the town of Somerville, on the 6th of April, 1788. His\\nparents were poor, and his advantages for obtaining an education were\\nexceedingly limited. In 1798, when he was ten years of age, his\\nparents removed to Ashburnham, where they had purchased a small\\nfarm. And here he had little schooling and much hard work for\\nfour years, when, at the age of fourteen, in 1802, he was apprenticed\\nto Joseph Gushing, Esq., now of Baltimore, who had just commenced\\nthe publication of the Amherst Cabinet. At that office he laid the\\nfoundation of his future fortune; for there he acquired those habits\\nof industry, frugality and perseverance, to which all his success in\\nlife is attributable. He there, also, while working at the case and in\\nthe evenings after hard days labor, acquired what little knowledge of\\nbooks he possessed when he commenced business for himself. He\\nserved a seven years apprenticeship in that office, and left it at 21\\nyears of age, in April, 1800, with a reputation for honesty, sobriety,\\nindustry and fidelity which is better than gold to a young man. He\\ncame immediately to Concord. Six months before this, in October,\\n1808, Mr. William Hoit had established here a newspaper called the\\nAmerican Patriot. f Prominent members of the Ilepublican party\\nhere advised Mr. Hill to purchase that establishment and become the\\neditor and publisher of the paper. This he did immediately, and two\\nweeks after the expiration of his apprenticeship at Amherst, on the\\n18th of April, 1809, he issued the first number of the New-Hamp-\\nshire Patriot.\\nThis paper was the acknowledged organ of the Republican party,\\nand the ablest men of that party aided and encouraged its young\\neditor, and constantly contributed to its columns. Its circulation\\nincreased, its influence grew, and in a few short years its circulation\\nand patronage exceeded those of any paper in the State, and the in-\\nfluence of the paper and its editor became immense.\\nMr. Hill edited the Patriot twenty years, and during that time he\\nwas twice chosen clerk of the State Senate; was once elected a Rep-\\nresentative from the town of Concord, and was elected to the State\\nSenate in 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1827. In 1828 Mr. Hill was the\\nDemocratic Republican candidate for U. S. Senator, and received the\\nvotes of the members of his party but the opposition had a major-\\nity in the Legislature, and Gov. Samuel Bell was elected. In 1829,\\nsoon after Gen. Jackson entered upon the duties of the Presidency,\\nhe appointed Mr. Hill to the office of Second Comptroller of the\\nTreasury Department, and he entered upon the duties of that office\\non the 21st of March, in that year. The Patriot soon after passed\\ninto the hands of Horatio Hill Co., Gov. Hill still retaining an\\ninterest in it, until July, of that year, when Col. Barton took the\u00c2\u00b0edi-\\ntorial charge of it.\\nThe article I have somewhat abridged, but retained all the facts.\\nt Mr. Hoit, called V eteran Unit, died December 28, 1854. The printers of Concord have\\nerected a monument to his memory.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0643.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "602 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nMr. Hill held the office of Comptroller until April, 1830, and dis-\\ncharged its duties faithfully, ably, and to the entire satisfaction of the\\neminent patriot and statesman then at the head of the Government,\\nwhose confidence and friendship he enjoyed until the day of his death.\\nHis nomination was rejected by the Senate, and he then of course\\nretired from the office. This act, though humiliating to the pride of\\nMr. Hill, was in fact a fortunate circumstance to him. He returned\\nto Xew-Hampshire, where his popularity was unbounded; and at the\\nnext session of the Legislature was triumphantly elected to the U. S.\\nSenate for six years; and on the 4th of March, 1881, he took his\\nseat in that body among the men who had just sought to disgrace him\\nby rejecting his nomination to the office of Comptroller.\\nMr. Hill was an able and devoted supporter there of the adminis-\\ntration of Gen. Jackson, and a faithful representative of his State.\\nHe remained in that body about five years when, in 1836, having\\nbeen elected to the office of Governor of New-Hampshire by the un-\\nprecedented majority of nearly 9000 votes, he resigned the post of\\nSenator to enter upon the office of Chief Magistrate of his State.\\nHe was reelected Governor in 1837, and again in 1838 and in June,\\n1839, he retired to private life, having discharged the duties of the\\noffice of Governor, as he had those of the other offices which he had\\nheld, to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents.\\nIn 1840, upon the passage of the Independent Treasury law, Mr.\\nHill was appointed by President Van Buren to the office of Sub-\\nTreasurer at Boston, which he held until March, 1841, when he was\\nremoved by the administration of Harrison and Tyler.\\nFrom that time Mr. Hill has been in private life. In 1840, in\\nconnection with his two oldest sons, he established Hill s N. H.\\nPatriot, which they published and edited until 1847, when that pa-\\nper was united with the Patriot. He also published and edited the\\nFarmer s Monthly Visiter, an agricultural paper, for some ten years,\\nwhich was esteemed a very useful and interesting journal by those to\\nwhose interests it was devoted. During the last fifteen years he had\\ndevoted much attention to agriculture, and had been engaged in that\\nbusiness on a very extensive scale.\\nWe have thus hastily and imperfectly noticed the prominent events\\nof Gov. Hill s life. Few men in this country have exerted so great\\nan influence over the people of their State as he has over those of\\nNew-Hampshire. He possessed great native talent, indomitable\\nenergy, industry and perseverance. As a political editor he had few\\nequals, and his reputation in that field extended throughout the coun-\\ntry. In all the private and social relations of life, it is truly said\\nby the Boston Traveller, he was kind and amiable. As a friend\\nand neighbor, he was higlily esteemed and always ready to do a favor.\\nAs a son, a husband, a brother and a fLither, he has left a reputation\\nhonorable to himself, and which will cause his memory to be cher-\\nished in the grateful recollections of the numerous relatives to whom\\nhe has ever been the best of friends and protectors. Although afflicted\\nfor many years with a painful disease, exerting at times an unfa-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0644.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0645.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": ",-^\\\\%l^,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0646.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "BIOGRAPHICAL. 603\\nYorable influence upon his erjuanimitj, yet wo believe the sober\\nsecond thought of those who reflect upon his past history and ser-\\nvices and trials, will accord with what we have said of his estimable\\nprivate character and his naturally kind and amiable disposition.\\nAnd now that his spirit has gone to another, and, we trust, a better\\nworld, the unkindncss engendered by political and personal difterences\\nwill be forgotten, the faults and errors of the dead will be forgiven,\\nand our thoughts will rest only upon his many private virtues and\\neminent public services.\\nThe last sickness of Mr. Hill was of about five weeks duration.\\nDuring the last two weeks his eldest son was with him. His remains\\nwere brought to Concord, and his funeral took i^lace on the 27th of\\nMarch, at the residence of his family.\\nMr. Hill has left a wife and three sons, all of age, besides numer-\\nous collateral relatives.\\nMR. ABEL HUTCHINS.\\nMr. Abel Hutchins, whose likeness adorns the preceding page, was\\nextensively and favorably known as the proprietor, for many years, of\\nthe Phenix hotel. Mr. Hutchins was a son of Col. Gordon Hutch-\\nins,* born in Harvard, Mass., March 16, 1763 served an appren-\\nticeship with Mr. Willard, brass-founder and clock-maker, in Roxbu-\\nry, Mass., and married Miss Elizabeth Partridge, of that town, Jan-\\nuary 22, 1786. He then removed to Concord, where he remained till\\nhis decease, April 4, 1853. In connection with his elder brother,\\nLevi, he carried on the business of his trade till about 1819 furnish-\\ning the public with large clocks, of the best manufacture, and noted\\nas good time-keepers, of which specimens arc still seen in some of\\nthe ancient families. On the 25th of November, 1818, his dwelling-\\nhouse was burnt down.f On the 1st of January, 1819, he opened\\nthe Phenix hotel, which establishment he ever conducted to the\\nentire satisfaction of its guests, scattered all along the line from Bos-\\nton to Canada. In the year 1832, by reason of increasing years,\\nhe surrendered his tavern to his son, Ephraim, and retired to a private\\ndwelling on State street, where he spent the remainder of his life in\\ntranquility cultivating his garden, and taking a walk, with stafi in\\nhand, and spectacles on, to the old tavern stand, for the purpose of\\nmeeting old friends and obtaining the news of the day. On the 29th\\nof March, 1853, his wife, who had long been an invalid, died, aged\\n85. This bereavement had a perceptible eifect on Mr. Hutchins.\\nHe attended the funeral of his wife, but on the following Monday,\\nawaking from his usual sleep after dinner, complained of a difficulty\\nin his throat. Temporary relief was obtained, but in the evening he\\nbecame worse, and, between nine and ten, almost before any alarm\\nwas created in the minds of his children, who were at his bedside,\\nhe expired without a struggle. The burial services took place on\\nThursday afternoon, the day of the annual fast, and were attended in\\nthe Unitarian church by a numerous assembly. The Rev. Augustus\\nSee pp. 265-272-274, and Hutchins family. f See History, p. 374.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0649.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "604 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nWoodbury, pastor of the society of wliich Mr. Hutchins was a mem-\\nber, preached an appropriate discourse from Job 5 26 Thou\\nshalt come lo thy grave in full age, like as a shock of corn cometh\\nin his season.\\nThe masonic fraternity, of which Mr. Hutchins was a member,\\nwere also in attendance, dressed in their regalia, and the front of\\nthe Phenix Hotel was draped in mourning. Mr. Hutchins was a\\nlarge, portly man, about six feet in height, of fair complexion\\na little florid blue eyes, and, on account of being near sighted,\\nalways wore spectacles. Attached himself to the Whig party, his\\nhotel became the common boarding place of the Whig members of\\nthe Legislature but in it all men, of all parties and sects, received\\nimpartial attention and good entertainment.*\\nNo. 3.\\nECCLESIASTICAL.\\nA SUCCINCT ACCOUNT, IN TFIE ORDER OF THEIR RISE, OF THE SEVERAL\\nCHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS IN COiVCORD, WITH BRIEF\\nSKETCHES OF MINISTERS.\\nFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nThis church was formed November 18, 1730, of eight members,\\nincluding Rev. Timothy Walker, who was the same day ordained\\npastor. The history of this church, until 1825, is incorporated with\\nthat of the town, and has been given already at sufficient length in\\npreceding pages. From its first organization till the present time it\\nhas been distinguished for harmony and steadfastness.\\nDuring the ministry of Rev. Dr. Bouton, up to the present time,\\nthere have been added to the church G62 members, of whom 197\\nwere received on recommendation, and 465 on profession. f\\nIn April, 1833, at the request of members residing in the West\\nParish, twenty-seven males and sixty-one females were dismissed\\nand recommended, to be organized into a new Congregational church,\\nthere located. In November, 1836, sixty-seven members, viz., twen-\\nty-two males and forty-five females, were, at their request, dismissed\\nand recommended, for the purpose of constituting a new Congrega-\\ntional church at the south part of Concord main village and in\\nMarch, 1842, forty-four members, living on the east side of the\\nriver fourteen males and thirty females requested to be dis-\\nmissed and recommended, to be organized into a new Congregational\\nSee Hutchins fiimily.\\nt See, for further particulars, Church Records, and printed Discourse on the twenty-fifth\\nanniversary of Iiis ordination, 1850.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0650.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL.\\n605\\ncliurch in that section, which request was also granted. These suc-\\ncessive changes all which took place harmoniously, and with the\\nhearty consent of the First church reduced its members from about\\n540 to 252. In 1842 a new meeting-house was built for the use of\\nthe First Congregational church and society, which was dedicated\\nNovember 23, 1842, and public worship on the Sabbath commenced\\nNovember 27. The house has since been enlarged. Previous to\\nwhich time October 27 and 28 a farewell service was held by\\nthe four Congregational churches in the old North mceting-housc, at\\nwhich the pastors of the several churches were present and took a\\npart. About 550 communicants of the four sister churches then\\npartook together of the Lord s Supper. It is believed that public\\nworship on the Sabbath has never failed to be observed by this church\\nsince its first organization in 1730. No difficulty has ever existed in\\nit which required the advice and action of an ecclesiastical council.\\nIts pastors who have deceased are all interred in the old burying-\\nground, and the average ministry of the pastors, till the present\\ntime, is about twenty-nine years.*\\nIn the First Church the following persons have ofiiciated as dea-\\ncons, viz.\\nElected. Died.\\nJohn Merrill, December 17, 17.30.\\nEphraim Farnum, August, 1731 1775\\nJoseph Hall.\\nGeorge Abbot, 1746 1784\\nAge.\\n80\\nJohn Kimball, September, 1789. 1817\\nDavid Hall, September, 1789. 1821\\n1807\\n1830\\n1840\\n78\\n82\\n70\\n75\\n59\\n56\\n85\\nJoseph Hall, September, 1789.\\nJonathan Wilkins, September, 1811.\\nAbiel Rolfe, September, 1811,\\nThomas W. Thompson, July, 1818 1821\\nNathaniel Ambrose, July, 1818 1849\\nNathan Ballard, Jr., 1818, resigned.\\nSamuel Fletcher, 1825, dismissed to South church.\\nIra Rowell, 1829, dismissed to West church.\\nJames Moulton, Jr., 1829.\\nJohn B. Chandler, 1833, dismissed to South church.\\nSamuel Morril, 1837.\\nEzra Ballard, 1 837, resigned.\\nAbner B. Kelly, 1842, dismissed to church in Warner.\\nBenjamin Farnum, 1 844.\\nNineteen members of the First church have become ministers of\\nthe Gospel, viz. James Scales,f Timothy Walker, Jr.,f Ephraim\\nAbbot, George H. Hough, David Kimball, .James Walker, Joshua\\nT. I\\\\ussell,f Jeremiah Glines, Samuel G. Tenney, William Clark,\\n*The present pastor is a native of Nnrwalk, Conn. son of William and Sarah Bouton,\\nand the youngest of fourteen children born June 20, 1799. At the age of 16 he united with\\nthe Congregational church in Bridgeport, Conn., under the care of Rev. Elijah V\\\\ aterman\\nfitted for college chiefly with Hawley Olmstead, Esq., of Wilton, Conn,, now of New-Haven.\\nA graduate of Vale, in 1821, and of Andover Tlieological Seminary in 1834. He married for\\nhis first wife. Miss Harriet Sherman, [see page 404,] who died leaving two children for his\\nsecond wife, Miss Mary Ann P. Bell, who deceased, [see page 440^] leaving five children\\nfor his third wife. Miss Elizabeth Ann Cilley, eldest daughter of the late Horatio G. Cilley,\\nof Deerfield, who lias had six children, of whom the three youngest have deceased.\\nt Deceased.\\nH^", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0651.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "606 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nHenry Wood, Moses Kimball, Henry S. G. French, (deceased,) Horace\\nHerrick, John LeBosquet, Luther Farnum, Ezra E. Adams, William\\nA. Patten, Ezekiel Dow.\\nfriends meeting.*\\nA few individuals in Concord, having become convinced of the\\ntruth as professed by Friends, a meeting for religious worship was\\nset up by Weare Monthly Meeting the 24th of lUth month, 1805,\\nwhich was to be under the care of, and subordinate to that meeting.\\nThe meeting was held for a time in the dwelling-house of Ruth\\nTui ner and kSarah Sweatt. In 1814 a lot of land was purchased\\nwhere the State House now stands, and Friends at Concord, with the\\nassistance of AYeare Monthly Meeting, and a donation from William\\nRotch, of New-Bedford, erected a meeting-house on the same. This\\nlot, being considered a desirable location for the State House, it was\\nsold, and their house removed to a lot given to the Friends for that\\npurpose by Benjamin Hannaford, at the North end. In 1840 the\\nmembers of that meeting, having many of them removed to other\\nparts, and several of them deceased, it was concluded to discontinue\\nthe meeting, and the house was sold to the inhabitants of the school\\ndistrict in which it stood, for a school-house. f\\nFollowing are the names of persons who composed the meeting\\nat different times Ruth Turner and her daughter Lucy; Sarah\\nSweatt and her children, Mary E. and Benjamin Lydia Dunlap,\\nSarah Arlin Levi Hutchins, and Phebe, his wife, and children,\\nRuth, Anna, Harriet, Mary, Lucy, William, Ednah and Samuel\\nElizabeth Yates, one of the family; Bethiah Ladd and her son, Wil-\\nliam M. Abel Houghton and wife, Sarah, and children, Seba, Abel,\\nNestor, Mary, Sarah, Lydia and George Daniel Cooledge and wife,\\nRuth, and children, Phebe, George F. and William P. James San-\\nborn and wife, Mary, and children, Nestor H., Sarah E. H., Mari-\\nanna M., Caroline A. and Charles XL; Josiah Rogers and wife,\\nSarah, and children, Sarah and Dana Israel Hoag and wife, Abigail,\\nand children, Martha and Mary; Ruth Ilazeltine and her children,\\nWilliam, Lucy F., John C. and Timothy Thomas AY. Thorndike\\nand wife, Ruth G., and children, Henry, John, Wilson, Mary, Charles\\nH., Lucy P. and Anna D.\\nSeveral others have attended the meeting at different times who\\nhad not a permanent settlement here.\\nEPISCOPAL CHURCH.\\nWorship according to the Liturgy of the Episcopal church was\\ncommenced in this town in 1817, at which time a few individuals\\nagreed, and did associate and form themselves into an Episcopal\\nchurch and congregation, under the name and style of St. Thomas\\nchapel. The agreement was signed by eighteen individuals, of\\nFurnished by Thomas W. Thorndike, now of V\\\\ eare.\\nt The building is occupied for the primary department in School District No. 11, in the rear\\nof the brick school-house.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0652.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL. 607\\nwhom eleven weye heads of families. la 1818 the Rev. Charles\\nBurroughs was appointed rector, and occasionally officiated occasional\\nservices were also conducted by Rev. Messrs. Andrews and Searle,\\n1817, 18, 19; and in 1819 to 1823 by Rev. John L. Blake,\\nwho was appointed rector. During a part of the first year of the\\nformation of the society, public worship was attended in the hall over\\nthe Concord Bank subsequently, about two years in the town hall,\\nand afterwards a chapel was fitted up over a store, called the Green\\nstore, standing where the American House now stands.\\nRev. Mr. Blake leaving here in 1823 the meetings of the society were\\ndiscontinued, except occasionally, until July, 1835, when a new organ-\\nization was formed and subscribed by twelve individuals, under the\\nname and style of the ^yardens and Vestry of St. Paul s church, and\\nthe Rev. Moses B. Chase, of Ilopkinton, chosen rector, who officiated\\nhere a part of the time for one year.\\nIn 1836 the committee for Domestic Missions constituted this place\\na missionary station, and the Rev. P. S. Ten Brocck was invited to\\naccept the appointment of missionary, (which he did for two years,)\\nand to become the rector. Mr. Ten Broeck officiated here until\\nOctober, 1844. In 183G a subscription was started, to procure funds\\nfor building a church edifice, in which the late John West, Esq., took\\nan active part. He suddenly deceased, on the 17th of October of\\nthat year, aged 48. In 1838 the effort was successfully renewed by\\na committee, consisting of Albe Cady, Leavitt C. Virgin and Isaac\\nHill, and on the 1st of January, 1840, the present church edifice\\nwas dedicated by the venerable Bishop Griswold, who, on the follow-\\ning day, instituted the Rev. Mr. Ten Broeck the rector of the parish.\\nOn the 6th of July, 1843, Albe Cady, Esq., for many years senior\\nwarden of the church, deceased, aged 73. Mr. Cady was one of the\\nfirst movers (1817) in the effort to establish the services of the\\nProtestant Episcopal Church in this town. In the absence of a rector\\nhe usually read the service on the Sabbath. He was highly esteemed\\nfor his integrity as a man and his usefulness as a citizen. His death\\nwas deeply deplored by the church, to which he was ardently attached.\\nMr. Ten Broeck having resigned his charge in October, 1844, the\\nRev. Dairus R. Brown succeeded him the 24th of November, of the\\nsame year. The number of communicants in the church in June,\\n1845, was forty-five the number of the families in the parish, thirty,\\nand the number of persons attending public worship, from one hun-\\ndred to one hundred and fifty. Mr. Brown resigned in 1846, having\\naccepted an invitation to Newport, R. I. He was succeeded imme-\\ndiately by the Rev. Thomas Leaver, who deceased, after a short ill-\\nness, on the 23d of December, 1847, aged 33 years. Mr. Leaver\\nwas born in Slough, in the county of Buckingham, Eng., January\\n23, 1815. His parents were members of the Church of England.\\nIn early youth he became connected with the Baptist denomination,\\nand at the age of about 20 he entered Stepney (jollege with the view\\nof preparing himself to labor in the missionary field. In 1837 he\\nwent to the Bahamas, to join the Baptist mission in those islands.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0653.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "608 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAfter laboring there about two years he came to this country, and\\nwas settled over a Baptist church in Newport, R. I., where, enjoying\\nthe confidence and affection of the people, he remained till 1846,\\nwhen he felt constrained by convictions of duty to resign his charge,\\nand, after a suitable time of study, to ofier himself as a candidate for\\nthe ministry of the Episcopal church. He was ordained deacon by\\nBishop lienshaw, in Zion church, Newport, in August, 1846, and\\nabout three months afterward came to Concord, where he preached just\\none year. During the brief period of Mr. Leaver s ministry he\\nproved himself a faithful shepherd, and his death was a deep affliction\\nto the parish. His funeral sermon was preached by the bishop of\\nthe diocese. Rev. Carlton Chase, D. D. The ministers of the town\\nattended as bearers. His remains were interred in the old burying-\\nground in Concord, and a suitable monument has been erected over\\nthem by the Baptist church in Newport, of which he was formerly\\npastor, and who claimed this privilege as an opportunity of testifying\\ntheir unabated love of his memory. Mr. Leaver left a wife and five\\nchildren, who, having the sympathies of the entire community, still\\ncontinue their residence in the place.\\nOn the 27th of February, 1848, the present rector, Rev. Newton\\nE. Marble, D. D.,* was elected at which time the number of com-\\nmunicants was forty-four, and the number of families thirty-three.\\nAt this present time the condition of the parish is very encourag-\\ning free from debt, with a church edifice in excellent repair, and\\nan increasing congregation. It may be regarded as permanently es-\\ntablished.\\nRelative to Rev. Mr. Ten Broeck, whose services in the ministry\\nof the church here closed in 1844, it will be interesting to his nu-\\nmerous friends to add, that Mr. Ten Broeck was born in Albany, N. Y.,\\nJanuary 26, 1792, and was baptized in the old Dutch Reformed\\nchurch by the Rev. Mr. Westilow. He was a lineal descendant, on\\nhis mother s side, of the last Dutch governor of New- York, Peter\\nStuyvesant, 1647. His parents removing to New- York city, he there\\npursued preparatory studies. He graduated at Columbia College\\nstudied theology with the Rev. Nathaniel Bowen, D. D., and was ad-\\nmitted to deacon s orders June 30, 1816, in St. Anne s church,\\nBrooklyn, N. Y. In 1817 he was rector of Trinity church, in Fish-\\nkill, and had charge also of St. Philip s church, at Philipstown, and\\nof St. Peter s church, in Peekskill, N. Y. In 1818 he was chosen\\nto the rectorship of St. Paul s church, in Portland, Me., in which\\nplace he married Miss Lucretia M., daughter of the Hon. Levi Cut-\\nter, of that city. Resigning his charge in 1831 he subsequently\\nofiiciated at Cape Elizabeth, in Falmouth, and at Saccarappa, in the\\ntown of \\\\Vestbrook, Me. His next field of ministerial labor was\\nConcord, where he continued from 1836 to 1844. Resigning his\\ncharge on account of impaired health, he purchased a beautiful resi-\\ndence in Danvers, Mass., whither he removed with his family, and\\nremained without parochial charge, but preaching occasionally, as he\\n*See Parker Family. Mr. Marble was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1834.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0654.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL. 009\\nwas able, until his death, which occurred January 21, 1849. In the\\nfuneral discourse preached by the Bishop of Massachusetts, the char-\\nacter of Mr. Ten Broeck was set forth in the following words He\\nfailed not, in dispensing the Gospel, to declare to his hearers those\\ncardinal doctrines, of man s fallen condition by nature his need of\\nthe new birth by the Spirit, and the great doctrine of justification by\\nfaith in Christ. By his life, moreover, he commended what he\\ntaught.\\nMETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUECH.\\nThere had been occasional preaching by the Methodist preachers\\nappointed in the Pembroke circuit, from 1816 to 1822. Mr. Phil-\\nbrick Bradley, on the Mountain, was the first man who opened his\\ndoor for these meetings. In 1822 a class was formed in the vicinity\\nof Stickney hill, by Rev. Jotham Horton and E/^ekiel W. Stickney.\\nMeetings were mostly held in school-houses and private dwellings.\\nFor quarterly meetings the town hall was occupied.\\nThe first legal society was organized in 1825, and Ptcv. John\\nBrodhead, a member of the Legislature from Newmarket, frequently\\npreached here. In July, 1830, Concord became a station, and liev.\\nSamuel Kelley was the first stationed preacher at which time there\\nwere two small classes one at Stickney Hill, and the other on the\\neast side of the river both numbering less than twenty -five mem-\\nbers, scattered ten miles apart. Mr. Kelley also ofiiciated as chaplain\\nat the State Prison, and was allowed one dollar a Sabbath for his\\nservices there, his whole compensation in town for the year being\\nabout one hundred and sixty dollars. During the year 1830 the\\npresent Methodist church, or chapel, was built. At the close of the\\nyear there were thirty-four members in church. Mr. Kelley was\\nreappointed in 1831, but his health fiiling, his place was supplied by\\nRev. D. J. Robinson and others.\\nThe other preachers stationed in Concord since 1831, are Rev.\\nJohn G. Dow, 1832 George Storrs, 1833-4 Samuel Hoyt, 1835\\nJames W. Mowry, 1836; James M. Fuller, 1837-8; William H.\\nHatch, 1839-40; John Jones, 1841-2; Converse L. McCurdy,\\n1843 Eleazer Smith,t 1844; C C Burr, 1845 Ebenezer Peaslee,\\n1846 7 Charles Adams, 1848. Mr. Adams was a Professor in the\\nBiblical Institute. Frederic A. Hewes, 1850 -1 Warren F. Evans,\\n1852-3; Samuel Kelley, 1854-5. Stationed here again, after an\\n*Totlionote on the preceding page slinuld be added that Rev. Dr. Marble was born at\\nBradford, Mass., Sept. 1, 1808. After graduating, in 1834, he was precejuor of Hampton\\nAcademy, and of Franklin Academv, in Dover; in 1838, was instructor in Mathematics and\\nNatural Philosophy in the Classical institute at Peterborough, Va., and subsequently Princi-\\npal of the same studied Theidogy in the Protestant Ei)iscopaI Seminary in New-York, and\\nafterwards in Philadelphia; admitted to Deacon s Orders Sept. 7, 1843; to Priest s Orders in\\n1844 was minister of Trinity Church, in Bridgewater, Mass., till May, 1845, when elected\\nRector of Christ s Church, Salmon Falls was Principal of a Classical School in Tannton,\\nMass., in 1846; married Sarah H., daughter of Asa Freeman, Esq., of Dover, 1847; and\\nelected Rector of St. Paul s Church, in Concord, in 1848.\\nt Rev. Mr. Smith s health failed towards the close of the first year; and after partially\\nrecovering, he received tha appointment of chaplain to the State Prison, and was annually\\nreappointed until June, 1855.\\n39", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0655.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "610 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nabsence of twenty-two years at the close of theyear 1854, he re-\\nturned two hundred and seven members and twenty-six probationers.*\\nFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.\\nOn the 20th of May, 1818, a number of persons residing in\\nConcord, and belonging to different Baptist churches, met at the\\nbouse of Mr. Richard Swain, in said town, for the purpose of ascer-\\ntaining what degree of fellowship existed among them in the faith\\nand order of the gospel and also to consider what were the prospects\\nof forming a church agreeable to the principles and practice of the\\napostles of our Lord. After a free and full consideration of the first\\nobject before them, the following persons gave to each other an ex-\\npression of their christian fellowship, viz., James Willey, John Hoit,\\nSarah ]5radley, Deborah Elliot, Sally Swain and Nancy Whitney.\\nOn the 28th of the same month, the record says, an adjourned\\nsession of the same meeting was held at the house of Mr. Nathaniel\\nParker, at which meeting three sisters related their Christian experi-\\nence, and made a brief statement of their views of Christian doctrine,\\nafter which those present expressed to them their Christian fellow-\\nship.\\nThe next act of that meeting was to listen to the Christian expe-\\nrience of Mr. Oliver Hoit, and to agree to receive him to the fellow-\\nship of the church, when he shall have been baptized. At this\\nmeeting brethren from the church in Bow were present by invitation,\\nto advise in reference to the constitution of a church. The brethren,\\nhaving examined the subject, unanimously advised this small band of\\ndisciples to embody and organize. On the 23d of September, 1818,\\na council of neighboring churches was held at the house of Rev.\\nWilliam Taylor, and a church was constituted, of fourteen members.\\nThe public services on the occasion were attended at the Green\\nhouse. Elder Gibson preached; Elder Robinson gave the hand of\\nfellowship, and Elder Veasey offered prayer.\\nThe church edifice was erected in 1825, and was opened for relig-\\nious worship January, 1826. f The house stands on land given by\\nthe late Col. William A. Kent, on State street, and was originally\\nseventy feet long and fifty wide, containing seventy-two pews on the\\nfloor, and thirty in the galleries. In 1835 it was remodeled, and eight\\nmore pews added. In 1845 the house was enlarged by the addition\\nof twenty feet to the north end the galleries removed modern\\nwindows inserted, and the whole inside newly finished. The house\\nMr. Kelley was a native of Salem, N. H., born February 1, 1802. His father, Richard\\nKelley, was out one campaign in the Revolutionary war; his mother was a adughter of Rev\\nSamuel Fletcher, of the Baptist denomination. Samuel was the youngest of ten children.\\nAt the age of eighteen he professed religion. After studying a while at Atkinson and New-\\nmarket academies, in lS-2-2, he entered the travelling ministry, and has since spent the most\\nof his time in New-Hampshire and Vermont; having been stationed in Landaff, Sutton,\\nDeering, Sandwich, Gilmanton, Newmarket, Concord, Nashua, Portsmouth, Great Falls,\\nDover, Manchester and Bristol, in this State, and at Athens, Newbury, Montpelier and Dan-\\nville, Vt.\\nt An excellent representation of the house and chapel is given on the opposite page.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0656.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0657.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "612 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nis furnished with an excellent organ, a clock, and a cliandlier lighted\\nwith gas.\\nRev. William Taylor was settled as pastor of the church at its con-\\nstitution, and continued in that relation until January, 1826, when\\nhe was succeeded by Rev. Nathaniel W. Williams. In April, 1831,\\nMr. Williams requested a dismission and, after being destitute of a\\nsettled minister for sis months, the church invited Rev. Ebenezer E.\\nCummings, then of Salisbury, to become their pastor, and he was\\nsettled March, 1832.\\nDuring the ministry of Rev. Mr. Taylor, a period of seven years,\\nthe church admitted to its fellowship thirty members. During the\\nministry of Rev. Mr. Williams, a period of five years and a half,\\nfifty-four were added. Ou the settlement of Rev. Mr. Cummings\\nthe church numbered one hundred. During his ministry, a period of\\nnearly eighteen years, the number of members added was about six\\nhundred. The whole number of members, December 1, 1849, was\\ntwo hundred and eighty-four. Rev. INIr. Cummings having received\\na call to enter another field of labor, resigned his charge in May,\\n1850, and was succeeded by Rev. Charles W. Flanders, from Bev-\\nerly, Mass., who was installed January 13, 1851.\\nIn the year 1853 a beautiful and commodious chapel was built,\\nand dedicated with appropriate services on the evening of December 1.\\nIn 1854 the meeting-house, for the third time, was improved more\\nextensively and at a greater expense than at any former time. A\\nnew bell has since been added, and the house, which is well repre-\\nsented by the accompanying cut, may be regarded as one of the best\\nin the State. Under the ministry of the present pastor the church\\nis in a flourishing condition, and numbers two hundred and eighty-\\neight.*\\nThe first pastor, Rev. William Taylor, to whose labors and wise\\ncounsels the church must ever be greatly indebted, died in School-\\ncraft, Mich., June 7, 1852, aged (38. Rev. Nathaniel West Wil-\\nliams was a man of singular prudence and knowledge of hviman\\nnature. In younger life he had followed the sea, and was captain of\\na vessel. He was sound in doctrine an instructive and impressive\\npreacher a faithful pastor, and an exemplary Christian. He died\\nin Boston May 27, 1853, aged 69.\\nThe following persons have served as deacons in this church, vir.\\nJames Willey,t William Gault,-j- Charles P. Crockett,t Benjamin\\nDamon, John A. Gault,f and Abraham Prcscott.\\nTHE SECOND CONGREGATIONAL, OR UNITARIAN SOCIETY.^\\nThe Second Congregation\\nformed on the 8th of August\\nal Unitarian Society in Concord, was\\nist, 1827. The Society worshipped in\\nCharles Wortlien Flanders, son of Joseph and Anna Flanders, was born in Salisbury,\\nMass., February 9, 1807; was married to Mary H. L. O Brien, of Boston, May 14, 1(:?46;\\ngraduated at Brown University in 1839; passed his theological course under the instruction\\nof Rev. John Wayland, then pastor of the First Baptist church in Salem, Mass. His first\\nsettlement was vcr the First Ba|)tist church in Beverly, Mass., where he was pastor ten\\nyears. His second settlement was over tlie First Baptist church in this city.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f Deceased. J Furnished by Col. William Kent.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0658.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL. 613\\nthe court room of the town hall until the completion of their meet-\\ning-house, which was dedicated on the 13th of Novemher, 1829.\\nRev. Moses Gr. Thomas, who had for a few Sabbaths preached as a\\ncandidate, was invited to settle with the Society as their pastor. He\\naccepted the invitation, and was ordained on the 25th of February,\\n1829. The services of ordination took place in the North meeting-\\nhouse, which was kindly offered to the Society. A church was\\ngathered the same day, consisting of 8 members, since which time\\nto the present there have been added 169.\\nRev. Mr. Thomas continued as pastor until the first of April,\\n1844, a period of fifteen years, when he was dismissed at his own\\nrequest.\\nRev. Mr. Tilden, now of Walpole, was engaged to supply the pul-\\npit as pastor, whose labors extended to July, 1847 a period of three\\nyears. The Society were without a stated pastor until the 1st of\\nAugust, 1849, when Rev. Augustus Woodbury was ordained, who\\ncontinued as pastor for a period of three years, and was dismissed at\\nhis own re(|uest.\\nRev. Artemas B. Muzzey, of Cambridge, Mass., was installed as\\npastor on the 29th of March, 1854, and is the present pastor of the\\nSociety.* The church edifice of the Society was destroyed by fire\\non the 2d of November, 1854, caused by a defect in the gas pipes\\nwhich had been previously introduced. The loss to the Society by\\nthe destruction of their church and organ was not less than \u00c2\u00a710.000.\\nNotwithstanding this severe loss, the Society, with a commendable\\nspirit, have subscribed the sum of \u00c2\u00a711.000, and a contract has\\nbeen made for the erection of a new church on the same site,\\nthe land being a gift to the Society from the late Hon. William A.\\nKent.\\nWEST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nPrevious to 1832 all the people in the West Parish, of the Con-\\ngregational order, attended public worship at the old North meeting-\\nhouse. In November, 1831, it was decided to form a new religious\\nsociety, and build a meeting-house in that section of the town. The\\nhouse was completed and dedicated to Almighty God Father,\\nSon and Holy Grhost January 15, 1833. Sermon by Rev. Mr.\\n*Bouton, from Gen. 13 8. On the first Sabbath in March, the same\\nyear, the Rev. Asa P. Tenney began his labors there as a candidate.\\nWhile he was preaching in that capacity a request was presented to\\nthe First church, signed by twenty-seven males and sixty-one females\\nresiding in the west part of the town, for letters of dismission and\\nrecommendation, for the purpose of being organized into a new\\nchurch, which request was granted unanimously. On the 23d of\\nRev. Mr. Muzzey was born at Lexington, Mass., Sept. 21, 1802 son of Amos .Muzzey\\nand Lydia, formerly Boutelle, of Leominster, Mass. graduated at Harvard College, 1824\\nand studied at the Cambridge Theological School. Was licensed to preach July 1826 He\\nwas ordained at Framingham, Mass., June 10, 1630 resigned in May, 1833. VVas installed\\nat Cambridgeport, Jan. 1, 1834, and resigned in May, 1846. Entered on pastoral office of\\nLee .Street Church, Cambridge, in July, 1846; resigned in March, 1854, and installed at\\nConcord, March 27, 1854.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0659.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "614 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nApril, in the forenoon, tlie churcli was organized, composed of tlie\\naforesaid members. Rev. John M. Putnam preached, from Isaiah\\n40 31. In the afternoon Rev. Mr. Tenney was installed pastor.\\nRev- George Punchard, of Plymouth, preached from 1 Thes. 5 12,\\n13. Rev. Mr. Tenney still remains pastor of the church. His\\nlabors have been highly acceptable and useful. The church has\\nsteadily increased; but in some years there have been seasons of\\nrevival, in which large accessions have been made. From June to\\nDecember, in 1833, the additions were twenty-nine; in 1834, twenty-\\nnine; in 1838, thirty-six; in 1843, fifty-three were added. The\\nwhole number added after the organization of the church to the close\\nof 1853, was two hundred and thirty-two making in all, including\\neighty-nine at its organization, three hundred and twenty-one mem-\\nbers.*\\nSOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nIn 1836, the First Congregational church and society having be-\\ncome too numerous to be well accommodated in their house of worship,\\na number of individuals, residing in the southerly part of the village,\\nprocured a lot of land and erected a new house of worship at the\\ncorner of Main and Pleasant streets, about one mile south of the old\\nhouse.\\nAt the dedication of the house, which was noticed in due order,\\n(p. 437,) the exercises were Invocation, by Rev. M. Kimball, Hop-\\nkinton the Reading of Scripture, by Rev. 0. G. Thatcher, Brad-\\nford Prayer, by Rev. J. Scales Sermon, by Rev. N. Bouton\\nDedicatory Prayer, by Rev. A. Burnham Concluding Prayer, by\\nRev. A. P. Tenney Benediction, by Rev. N. Bouton.\\nThe following original hymn, written by N. Gr. Upham, was sung\\non the occasion, to the tune of Old Hundred\\nDEDICATION HYMN.\\nTo thee, God, with joy wo raise,\\nIn these thy courts, our songs of praise,\\nAnd dedicate this shrine to thee,\\nSacred, incarnate Mysteiy.\\nII.\\nSo when thy chosen temple rose\\nO er Judea s land of fearful woes,\\nThy children met in gladness there.\\nTo consecrate thine house with prayer.\\nIII.\\nAnd now, in Western lands aftir,\\nLed hither by thy Bethlehem star,\\nGod of our fathers while we here\\nErect thine altars, be thou near\\nRev. Mr. Tenney was born in Cornish, Vt., February 4, 1801 a son of Jonathan Tenney\\nand Anna Bailey; studied at Haverliill Academy, and read divinity with Rev. Grant Powers,\\nin Haverhill i was settled in Hebron and Groton, April, 1828, where he remained five years.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0660.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL. 615\\nHere be thy power and glory known\\nBy clouds of incense from thy throne\\nAnd here, the broken-hearted soul,\\nAt touch of thine, be rendered whole.\\nThese sacred symbols often prove\\nTo grateful hearts thy dying lore\\nAnd life s young hours with joy begin\\nWith sprinklings from thy crystal spring.\\nHere may thy banner wave abroad,\\nInscribed with Holiness to the Lord\\nAnd peace and love long years to come,\\nMake this our favored Gospel Home.\\nIn the autumn of that year sixty-seven members of the First church\\ntwenty-two males and forty-five females asked and received a\\ndismission, for the purpose of being formed into a new church, in\\nconnection with the new house.\\nA council of neighboring churches was convened, by their pastors\\nand delegates, February 1, 1837, and in the evening the church was\\norganized in due form. Rev. Rufus A. Putnam read the Scriptures\\nand invoked the divine blessing Rev. Abraham Burnham prayed\\nbefore sermon Rev. John M. Putnam preached Rev. N. Bouton\\npropounded the Articles of Faith and Covenant; Rev. Jacob Scales\\noflfered consecrating prayer; Rev. Asa P. Tenney gave the right-\\nhand of fellowship, and Rev. Moses Kimball offered the concluding\\nprayer.\\nOn the 20th of February, 1837, the church gave a call to Rev.\\nDaniel J. Noyes, then tutor in Dartmouth College, to settle with them\\nin the ministry. The call was accepted and Rev. Mr. Noyes ordained\\nMay 3, 1837. On this occasion Rev. Mr. Bouton preached the ser-\\nmon; Rev. William Patrick offered the ordaining prayer Rev. A.\\nBurnham gave the charge; Rev. Asa P. Tenney gave the right-\\nhand of fellowship, and Rev. Mr. Clement, of Chester, addressed the\\npeople.\\nRev. Mr. Noyes, having received the appointment of Philips Pro-\\nfessor of Divinity in Dartmouth College, resigned his charge, and his\\npastoral relation was dissolved October 10, 1849.* Under his min-\\nistry the church was highly prosperous the number of members\\nhaving increased to about two hundred and twenty.\\nAs successor to Mr. Noyes, Rev. Henry E. Parker, a native of\\nKeene ^a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1841, and of the Theo-\\nlogical Seminary in New- York received and accepted a call to settle.\\n*Rev. Daniel J. Noyes was a native of Springfield, N. H. was bom September 17, 1812;\\nfitted for college at Pembroke Academy, and graduated at Dartmouth in 1832 taiigbt a part\\nof the next year in tlie preparatory school of Caledonia College, Washington, D. C. com-\\nmenced the study of tlieology at Andover in 18:^3 was appointed tutor in Dartmouth College\\nin 1835. Aftr resigning his charge at Concord he entered on the duties of professor in col-\\nlege November 1, 1849.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0661.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "616 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nHe was installed May 14, 1851, and remains still in office. The\\nchurch now numbers two hundred and sixty-seven members sustains\\na highly flourishing Sabbath school, and abounds in works of benev-\\nolence to spread the Gospel.*\\nEAST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.\\nIn the year 1841 a new house for public worship was erected on\\nthe east side of the Merrimack river, principally by members of the\\nFirst Congregational church and society there residing. In March,\\n1842, a request was presented to the First church, signed by forty-\\nfour members residing in that part of the town, viz., fourteen males\\nand thirty females requesting letters of dismission and recom-\\nmendation, for the purpose of being organized into a new church,\\nwhich request was granted. The East Congregational church was\\norganized by a council of neighboring churches, on the 30th of\\nMarch, 1842, and Rev. Timothy Morgan, from the Theological Sem-\\ninary at Gilmanton, was engaged to supply the pulpit. Mr. Morgan\\ncontinued his labors more than a year, and the church was consider-\\nably enlarged. After closing his labors, Rev. Hiram Freeman was\\ninvited to settle, and he was ordained September 27, 1843. Rev. Mr.\\nFreeman was highly acceptable and useful, but being deeply im-\\npressed with the wants of our Western country, and of the impor-\\ntance of spreading the influences of the Gospel there, tendered his\\nresignation, and was dismissed from his charge in June, 1845. On\\nthe 24th of March, 1847, Rev. Winthrop Fifield, former pastor of\\nthe Congregational church in Epsom, having accepted a call from the\\nchurch and society, was installed as pastor. Mr. Fifield continued\\nhis sei vices with good success, but under embarrassing circumstances,\\nabout three years, when the pastoral relation was dissolved, agreeably\\nto the advice of an ecclesiastical council. In 1850 the church con-\\nsisted of one hundred and six members thirty-four males and sev-\\nenty-two females. June 25, 1851, the Rev. Henry A. Ken-\\ndall, who had been pastor of the church in Dublin, N. II., was\\ninstalled pastor of the East church, and has continued his labors with\\nencouraging success till the present timcf\\nTHE UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY. J\\nThe Universalist society in this city was organized January 5,\\n1842. Its church edifice, on the corner of State and School streets,\\nwas erected the same year, at a cost of about S4000. The ministers\\nof the society have been Rev s Ezekiel Dow, J. F. Witherell, W. H.\\nRyder, Thompson Barron and John Moore.\\n*For further particulars see Records of the First and South churches, and Rev. Mr. Bou-\\nton s twenty-fifth Anniversary Discourse.\\nfThe Rev. Henry A. Kendall was born Aug. 6, 1810, at Leominster, Mass.; studied the-\\noloffv at Gilmanton Theological Seminary; ordained over the Congregational Church in\\nDublin in 1840.\\nJ Furnished by Rev. John Moore.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0662.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "ECCLESIASTICAL. 617\\nA church was organized in connection with said society, Docemher\\n28, 1843, numbering now about thirty members. The society and\\ncongregation now number about one hundred paying male members,\\nwhich would be much increased if the house of worship was larger.\\nMeasures are about being taken by the friends of this Society to fur-\\nnish themselves with the much needed room in their place of worship,\\nand to place in it a suitable organ.*\\nFREE-WILL BAPTIST CHURCH. f\\nThe Free-will Baptist church of Concord was gathered under the\\nlabors of Rev. John Kimball, in 1844. Some time in 1845 or 1846\\nthe society built their present house of worship, on the corner of\\nCentre and Green streets. In 1847 Rev. S. T. Catlin became pastor\\nof this church. He was succeeded, in 1849, by Rev. E. J. Helme,\\nwho soon was suddenly removed by death. Soon after his death\\nRev. A. D. Smith became the pastor of this church. He resigned in\\n1852, and was immediately succeeded by Rev. A. Caverno. In 1853\\nRev. Iliram Whitcher, its present pastor, took the charge of this\\nchurch. Since that it has been remodelled, and now it numbers\\neighty members, with a congregation of between two and three hun-\\ndred, and a Sabbath school of one hundred scholars.\\nThe distinctive doctrines of this church are as follows\\n1. Ba2ytists Holding that true faith in Jesus Christ, and its\\nprofession before the world, are pre-requisites to baptism, and that\\n])lun jing is the Apostolic action of baptism.\\n2. Arminians Believing in a general atonement; in a full and\\nfree salvation, and in man s power of volition and choice.\\n3. Ojjcn communion Permitting all true Christians and no\\nothers to come to the Lord s table with us.\\n4. Trinitarians Believing Christ to be both human and divine\\nthe God-man; one with the Father; of the same nature, and\\nworthy of the same honor.\\n5. Congregational In government.\\nPrevious to the annual election in March, 1855, Rev. Mr. Moore was nominated by the\\nKnow-Nothing party as candidate for Governor of the State but it was ascertained tliat he\\nhad not resided in the State long enough to be eligible to that office. On the 5th of March,\\nabout eleven o clock in the forenoon, while walking in School street, from the railroad d6p6t\\nto his house on Green street, he suddenly fell, of disease of the heart, and immediately ex-\\npired. He was 58 years of age on the day of Iiis death. A new house is now being erected\\nby th\u00c2\u00bb society. [Furnished by Rev. Hiram Whitcher.\\nfRev. Mr. Whitcher, who is now pastor of the South Free Will Baptist Church, was born\\nin Danville, Vt., March 18, 1809. His parents removing to Sweden, Mimroe County, JJ. Y.,\\nhe tliere, at the age of sixteen, united with a Christian Baptist Church, and at the age of\\ntwenty commenced holding meetings, and exhorting the people to repent. Subsequently he\\nattended Academies, but at the age of twenty-two was ordained to the work of the ministry.\\nPrevious to coming to Concord, in 1853, he spent eight years as a preacher in Roches-\\nter, N.Y.\\nX Since the foregoing communication was made a second Free Baptist church has been\\norganized, and worship in the house lately owned by the Universalist society, which was\\npurchased and moved to a more southerly location, on State street, where Rev. Mr. Whitche^\\nnow preaches.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0663.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "618\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n6. Total abstinence, in temperance and anti-slavery in feeling and\\naction.\\nPLEASANT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.*\\nThe Pleasant street Baptist church edifice was erected in 1853 by\\na few enterprising gentlemen of the First Baptist society of this city.\\nIt occupies a very commanding position on Pleasant street, at\\nits junction with Green and South\\nstreets, on the west, and Elm street,\\non the east. The edifice is built of\\nbrick seventy-five by fifty-one feet,\\nwith a spire one hundred and forty-\\nseven feet in height and cost ten\\nthousand dollars. The interior is\\nfinished in a neat, plain manner,\\nwith nothing to dazzle the eye or\\ndraw the attention from the message\\nof heaven. The pews are built on\\na circular line, so that the whole\\ncongregation face the speaker. The\\nhouse was dedicated Jan. 11, 1854.\\nOn the same day the Pleasant street\\nBaptist church was constituted, and\\n_ Ptev. E. E. Cummings,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^ho, for eighteen ye^rs,\\nhad been\\npastor of\\nthe First Baptist church, was publicly recognized as its pastor.\\nThe church was originally formed with thirty members. It has since\\nreceived to its fellowship thirty-four, and two having died, leaves its\\npresent number sixty-two. There has been gathered during the brief\\nyear of its existence a good congregation, and a flourishing Sab-\\nFurnished by Rev. E. E. CummingSj d. d.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0664.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 619\\nbath school, and every thing foretokens a useful and prosperous\\nsociety.*\\nCHRISTIAN BAPTISTS.\\nBesides the foregoing churches there was, in 1833, and perhaps\\nearlier, a Christian Baptist church and society, the members of which\\nresided principally at the Borough and Horse hill.\\nSECOND ADVENT SOCIETY.\\nSince 1843 a meeting has been held in town by those who are\\ncalled Adventists, or believers in the personal and visible reign of\\nChrist upon earth, within a definite time. This meeting originated\\nin the excitement about that time, created by what is called the\\nMiller doctrine.\\nNo. 4.\\nGENEALOGICAL.\\nHISTORY OF FAMILIES THAT SETTLED IN CONCORD PREVIOUS TO 1800.\\nIn the execution of this most difficult part of his work, the author\\nhas sought, and in some measure, obtained assistance from individual\\nmembers, or relatives of several of the ancient families of Concord\\nparticularly the Abbots, Ayers, Brad leys, Carters, Chandlers, East-\\nmans, Elliots, Farnums, Herberts, Kimballs, Merrills, Potters and\\nWalkers. Of these the genealogies may be regarded as complete for\\nthe period which they embrace. Facts concerning other families\\nhave been arranged in proper order, and a large number of the lists\\nare copied from the town records. The latter are authentic and reli-\\nable, as far as they go but the reader should understand that in\\nmany cases only part of a family has been put upon record, and it\\nwas not possible for the author to supply the deficiency. Should any\\nmembers or connections of such families be disposed to complain\\nthey will please bear in mind that they have been urgently requested,\\nby public notices, to furnish the author with complete lists but he\\nhas obtained nothing from them. In short, I give them all I possess,\\nfreely and impartially.\\nEbenezer Eelson Cummings, son of Dea. Joseph and Hannah Cummings, a native of\\nClaremont, was born November 9, 1800 graduated at Waterville College, 18:28, and ordained\\nover the First Baptist church in Salisbury, Seplember 17, 1831. In 1832 he was settled over\\nthe First Baptist church in Concord. Moved to Newark, N. J., June, 1850 moved to Spring-\\nfield, Mass., November, 1850; moved to Pittsfield in April, 1852; installed as pastor of the\\nPleasant street Baptist church. Concord, January II, 1854. Was married to Chloe Brown\\nHumphrey, of Orwell, Vt., in 1831.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0665.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "G20 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nIt has been expedient to adopt abbreviations, sucli as the follow-\\ning b. for born, cl. for died, m. for married, dau. for daughter, y. for\\nyoung, ch. for children, wid. for widow, c.\\nIt will be seen that the more extended genealogies are prepared by\\ntheir respective compilers on a different plan, each following his own\\ntaste and judgment j but the plan pursued by each can easily be un-\\nderstood.\\nIn the register of the Abbot Family, which stands first in order,\\nthe several generations are numbered from George Ahhot, of Andover,\\nthe common ancestor. When the seventh generation is reached the\\nnames only are given, without date of birth. The figures denote the\\ngeneration as reckoned from l-Gleorge, thus 3-Edward, 4-]}an-\\niel, 5-Ileuben, c., means third, fourth and Ji/th generation from\\nGeorge.\\nFIRST CLASS,\\nFURNISHED WHOLLY OR L\\\\ PART BY INDIVIDUALS.\\nTHE ABBOT FAMILY.\\nBY GEORGE ABBOT, ESQ.\\nTTie coat of arms was the figure of a pear.\\nThe following are the names of children of 2. Thomas Ahhot, of Ando-\\nver, Mass., Mho -were born there, but came to Pcnacook. They were grand-\\nchildren of 1. George Abbot, of Andover, the common ancestor of the\\nAbbot famih both of Andover and Concord.\\n3.-Hanna h, b. Sept. 10, 1700; d. Julv 22, 1746, unmarried.\\n3.-Edward, b. June 9, 1702 d. April 14, 17-59.\\n3.-Deborah, b. Dec. 1, 1704 d. Oct. 2-5, 1801, sp. 97.\\n3.-George, b. Nov. 7, 1706 d. Oct. 6, 1785, a?. 79.\\n3.-Benjamin, b. March 31, 1711 d. March 8, 1794, vo. 83.\\n3.-Isaac, b. Feb. 13, 1717 d. Nov. 3, 1745, at Louisburg.\\nDescendants of\\n3.-EDWARD Abbot, who was one of the proprietors. See notice, p.\\n133. Married Dorcas Chandler, daughter of Thomas and Mary Peters\\nChandler. She died May 16, 1748. Their children were, 4.-I)orcas, b.\\nFeb. 15, 1728 m. June 17, 1746, Ebenezer Hall. She d. Sept. 28, 1797.\\n4.-Edward, b. Dec. 27, 1730 d. Sept. 15, 1801. 4.-Phebe, b. Feb. 13,\\n1732 d. Jan. 6, 1776 m. 4. Jahez Mhot. 4.-Lvdia, b. Mav 7, 1735 d.\\nJune 18, 1736. 4.-Lvdia, 2d, b. June 15, 1737 d. Dec. 15, 1811; m.\\n4:.-./laron Mhot. 4.-Timothv, b. Julv 21, 1739; d. 1814. 4.-Rachel, b.\\nMarch 31, 1742; d. young. 4.-Betsey, b. Aug. 28, 1743; d. 1837; m.\\n1759,* Thomas SaUmarsh. 4.-Jemima, b. June 23, 1746 d. y. 4.-Jc-\\nmima, 2d, b. April 29, 1748 d. July 31, same year.\\n4.-EDWARD Abbot, m. Deborah Stevens their children M cre, 5.-]\\\\Iary,\\nb. 1761 d. 1843; m. Thomas Capen. 5.-Mehetablc, b. April 23, 1763;\\nd. 1838; m. Benjamin Lufkin. 5.-Susannah, b. Fel). 25, 1765; d. Feb.\\n25, 1841 m. John Weeks. o.-Edward, b. about 1767, d. aged 17. 5.-Tim-\\nothv, b. March 12, 1769; d. Jan. 22, 1819. 5.-Samuel, b. 1771, d.\\n5.-beborah, b. about 1773 d. y. 5.-Deborah, 2d, b. May 29, 1774 m.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0666.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 621\\nDec, 21, 1799, Phincas Howe. o.-Esther, b. about 1777 d. about 1824\\nm. Trueworthii Kilgore.\\n5.-TlM0TnY Abbot, 1 m. Sarah Bradley. Their children, 6.-Esthcr,\\nG.-Philbrick, 6.-George. He 2 m. Ajiril 17, 1810, o.-Lydia Abbot. No\\nchildren. She d. May 25, 1853, aged 85. See p. 3GG, note.\\no.-Deborah Abbot, m. Dea. Joseph Hall. See notice, pp. 13G, 137,\\nand Register of Hall Family.\\nDescendants of\\n3.-GE0KGE Abbot, who settled in Concord about 1732. He purchased\\nthe original right of Samuel Grainger, and became a proprietor in the town.\\nHis house was the old mansion still standing on Fayette street, (see p. 515,)\\nand was occupied as a garrison.* He was a deacon in the first church\\nabout forty-one years. Enterprising, industrious, charitable a man of\\nsound good sense, Avhose remarks were treasured up as maxims. A strict\\nobserver of the Sabbath and of religious order, he M as constant Avith Ills\\nfamily at public worship, and faithful in the instruction of his children. His\\nlife was cheerful, his end peace. He m. Feb. 1, 1737, 4.-Sarah Abbot,\\ndaughter of 3. Stephen, and great-grand-daughter of l.-George. She was\\nb. Oct. 8, 1711 d. June 14, 1769. She also was of a kind and charitable\\ndisposition. She not only relieved the immediate wants of the poor, but\\ngave them advice and instruction relative both to temporal and spiritual\\nthings. She died in the hope of eternal happiness, through Jesus Christ.\\nTheir chikben Avere 4.-Daniel, b. Aug. 7, 1738; d. June 11, 1804. 4.-\\nGeorge, b. April 9, 1740 d. Sept. 17, 1791 never married. 4.-Joseph,-\\nb. Oct. 23, 1741; d. Jan. 19, 1832. 4.-Samuel, b. ]March 30, 1743; d.\\nNov. 5, 1761, at Crown Point, in the French war. 4.-Stephen, b. Dec. 10,\\n1744 d. Oct. 10, 1746. 4.-Stephen, 2d, b. Oct. 28, 1746 d. May 12,\\n1811. 4.-Nathan, b. Nov. 16, 1748; d. March 7, 1749. 4-Nathan, 2d,\\nb. July 3, 1752; d. Nov. 15, 1758. 4.-Ezra, b. Aug. 24, 1756; d. Feb.\\n21, 1837, aged 80.\\n4.-Daa Iel Abbot, (see notice, pp. 202-204,) m. 1761, 4.-Rachel, dau.\\nof 3.-Nathaniel Abbot, and grand-daughter of l.-George, of Andover.\\nTheir children were: 5.-Sarah, b. Nov! 19, 1761; d. Jan. 21, 1774. 5.\\nSamuel, b. Mar. 26, 1764 d. Dec. 1, 1849. 5.-Jeremiah, b. Feb. 21, 1766\\nd. Fel). 10, 1811. 5.-Daniel, b. Feb. 21, 1768; d. Sept. 19, 1769. 5.-\\nDaniel, 2d, b. March 7, 1770 d. about 1806. 5.-George, b. May 12, 1772\\nd. April 18, 1813. 5.-Thomas, b. July 5, 1776 d. Sept. 22, 1845. 5.-\\nAbiel, b. March 19, 1778; d. Aug. 1836. 5.-Peter H., b. Feb. 28, 1780.\\n5.-Eenjamin, b. March 29, 1782. 5-Judith, b. April 4, 1784 d. April 18,\\n1831; m.. John Carpenter.\\n4.-Daniel Abbot, 2 m. Jan. 1, 1789, ^Nlercy Killnirn. Their children\\nwere: 5.-Sarah, b. April 4, 1790. 5.-Hannah, b. Oct. 28, 1791 m. 6.-\\nReuhen Mbot. 5.-Lois, b. Oct. 31, 1793. 5.-Susanna, b. May 23, 1797\\nd. June 22, 1847 never married. 5.-Nathan K., b. Aug. 30, 1799.\\n5.-Beriah Abbot, b. 1754; d. March 13, 1832; served six and a half\\nyears in the Revolutionary war was taken prisoner, and escaped by running\\naway.\\nS.-Samuel Abbot, m. Nov. 17, 1787, Mary Story, who d. Dec. 22, 1849,\\naged 85. They lived together 62 years, and died within three weeks of\\nThere is a tradition tliat at an early period of the settlement, Dea. Abbot raided /re bush-\\nels of [)otatoe3 one year, to the great wonderment of his neighbors as to what he would do\\nwith so many.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0667.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "622 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\neach other. Their children were: 6.-Rachel, b. Aug, 28, 1788; m. 1812,\\nJohn Flanders. 6.-Jere, b. Oct. 29, 1790. 6.-Pollv B., b. April 30, 1793\\nm. Jan. 1819, G.-Calvin Ahhot 6.-Huldah, b. March 28, 1796 m. April\\n13, 1818, Jacob Flanders. 6.-Joseph S., b. May 28, 1800. 6-George D.,\\nh. Aug 14, 1804. 6-Abigail S,, b. May 10, 1807 d. May 16, 1828 never\\nmarried.\\n6.-Jere Abbot, m. June 14, 1821, Rebecca Chandler. Their children\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0vverc Jeremiah S., Leonora A., John K., Abigail S., Adeline Knowlton.\\nTheir child, Daniel K., b. March 19, 1850, d. Ajml 12, 1853, m conse-\\nquence of falling into a pail of hot water.\\n6.-Joseph S. Abbot, m, Dec, 24, 1827, Esther Farnum, Two children\\nAlmira F. and Isaac N,\\n6,-George D., m. Nov., 1832, Phebe Ballard. Two children William\\nB., m. Ann E. Bennett; and Clara Ann.\\no.-TlioMAS Abbot, m. April 14, 1801, Anna Eaton. Their children\\nwere 6.-Eunice B., b. Nov. 22, 1801, m. Mira Fisk. 6-Judith, b. Dec.\\n17, 1803 m, JVilliam Moore. 6.-Peter H., b. April 8, 180G d. Dec. 17,\\n1813. 6-Harrict, b. May 9, 1808. 6.-Rufus, b. Feb. 7, 1810; m. Susan\\nK. Ladd. 6.-Lucretia, b. March 6, 1812 m. Doliver Johnson. 6.-lAicy E.,\\nb, A])ril 30,-1815 m, Samuel JVoyes. 6.-Dorcas M., b. April 16, 1817\\nm. John Stickney. 6.-Clarissa Ann, b, Nov, 6, 1819 m, Joseph D. Pills-\\nbury. 6.-Franci s B,, b, Aug. 11, 1821 m, Nancy Goldwaite, 6.-Sarah E.,\\nb. July 15, 1823.\\nS.-Peter H. Abbot, m. 6.-Sarah, daughter of 5.-Moses Abbot their\\nchildren were 6.-Asaph, b. Sept., 1815; m. Hephsibah Dow 1 ch., Geor-\\ngianna. 6.-Jeremiah, b. July 1, 1817, 6,-John C, b, July 31, 1820.\\n5,-Benjamin Abbot, m. Esther Currier their children were 6.-Jede-\\ndiah C, b. Sept. 4, 1806; m. March 11, 1833, Sally M. Bartlett. 6.-Na-\\nthanicl C, b. Sept. 14, 1808 m. Julia M. Fellows\u00e2\u0080\u0094 three children. 6.\\n-Benjamin K., b. June 1, 1811 m. Marv A. Hook. 6.-Horace S., b. Oct.\\n12, 1812; m, Levina P. Bartlett. 6.-Thomas W., b. July 4, 1815; m.\\nAdeline Vent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 tAvo children. 6.-James B., b. Julv 24, 1818. 6.-WiUis\\nS., b. Oct, 9, 1820; m, Betsey B, Hadley\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one child.\\n4.-J0SEPII Abbot, m. April 25, 1765, Phebe Lovejov; their children\\nwere: 5.-Phebe, b. Febru. 22, 1766; d. Mav 3, 1837 m. Joseph Blanch-\\nard. 5.-Molly, b, July 20, 1767 d, Aug. 13, 1795 m. May 22, 1785,\\nIsaac Houston. 5.-Hannah and Sarah, (twins,) b. Jan. 3, 1769. Hannah,\\nd. Oct. 31, 1810; m. David Kimball. 5.-Sarah, m, Nov., 1787, 5-Tim-\\noihy Chandler. 5,-Lois, b. March 29, 1771; d. March 14, 1790; never\\nmarried. 5.-Rachel, b, March 2, 1773 d. jNIarch 2, 1837 m. Nov. 29,\\n1798, Jonathan Ward. 5.-Dorcas, b. Dec. 20, 1774; d. Oct. 6, 1788. 5.\\n-Isaac, b. April 10, 1777 d. Jan. 7, 1800. 5.-Nathan, b. Aug. 27, 1779\\nd. Oct. 26, 1839. 5.-Ruth, b. May 9, 1782.\\n5.-NATHAN Abbot, m. Elizabeth Colby. Their children were 6.-Isaac,\\nb, Julv 9, 1804 m. Mary O. Evans, 6,-Hiram, b, Oct, 1, 1807 d, Aug.\\n6, 1844 never married, 6,-John C, b. Feb. 19, 1810 m. Lydia Ann\\nBreed one child. 6.-John, 2 m. Ellen Fuller, d,\\n4.-STEPHEN Abbot, m. Mary Gile, Their children were 5.-Ephraim,\\nb. Feb, 5, 1779 d, Jan., 1822 never married. 5.-Sarah, b. June 26,\\n1780; m, 5.-Aaron Abbot. o.-Pollv, b. April 26, 1782; m, 1804, Joseph\\nTwitchell. 5.-Theodore, b. Feb. 23, 1784 m. 1809, Mary Bur])ce. S.-\\nStephen, b. May 19, 1786 m. Abigail Webb. 5.-Lucy, b. Jan. 24, 1789;\\nm. Benjamin Haseltine. 5.-Samuel, b. May 14, 1791 m. March 5, 1813,\\nJane Dav,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0668.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. G23\\n4.-EZRA Abbot, served several camjiaigns in the Revolutionary war was\\ntaken prisoner at Fort Cedars, May 19, 1779, and lost all his arms, equip-\\nments, and most of his clothing. He was with Stark in the battle at Ben-\\nnington, Aug. 17, 1777, and used to relate many anecdotes of the battle.\\nM. Nov. 21, l782, Bettv Andrews. Their children were 5.-Lucy, b. April\\n11, 1784; m. Feb. 17, 1835, Diah Hutchinson. 5.-Harriet, b. April 12,\\n1786; m, June 20, 1816, John Champion. 5.-llobert B., b. April 22,\\n1791 d. Aug. 22, 1830 m. Dec. 25, 1817, Rachel Burnham 2 m. Ma-y\\n11, 1824, Elizabeth Fox, d. 5.-Rose, b. Oct. 26, 1793 m. Dec. 12, 1816,\\nJacob Dimond.\\n4.-Ezra Abbot, 2 m. May 10, 1795, Anner Choate. Their child was 5-\\nAnner, b. March 2, 1798 d. v. 4.-Ezra Abbot, 3 m. Jane Jackman, Nov.\\n15, 1798. Their children were: 5.-Betsev, b. Aug. 9, 1799; m. April 9,\\n1822, Amos Hoif. 5.-Anner, b. Feb. 8, 1801 m. June 13, 1827, Samuel\\nRunnels. 5.-George, ])orn January 27, 1803; married August 25, 1836,\\nEhza D. Spaulding; two children, George and Betsey Jane. 5.-Jane\\nW., b. Sept. 15, 1805 m. Oct. 9, 1850, Stephen Sanborn. 5.-Benjamin\\nJ., b. Feb. 4, 1808 m. Aug., 1832, Dorothy Tewksbury\u00e2\u0080\u0094 eight children,\\nviz. Zelpha B., Miriam, Sarah Jane, George, Martin Van Buren, Rosina,\\nEzra, Sylvester. 5.-Sarah, b. Jan. 22, 1815 m. Oct. 18, 1837, Daniel\\nTewksbury.\\nDescendants of\\nBexjamin Abbot, who became a jn-oprietor by purchasing an original\\nright. He was a man of great muscular power, which he retained so well,\\nthat after he was eighty years of age, he, A\\\\ ith two other men, hoed four\\nacres of corn in one day he hoeing more than either of them before break-\\nfast. He built and lived in the house on the south side of the Bog road,\\nleading to Dunbarton, near South street. The house was framed, and the\\nspaces between the studs filled with brick and mortar. The eaves pro-\\njected over the sides, that, if attacked by the Indians, he might fire doAvn\\nupon them, or pour water, if they attempted to burn it. The house is now\\nowned by his great-grandson, Jeremiah S. Noyes, Esq. Mr. Abbot was\\nhospitable, industrious and rehgious, maintaining through life the charac-\\nter of a Puritan. He m. 1742, 4.-Hannah Abbot, daughter of 3.-Stephen.\\nShe was b. July 30, 1716; died of a cancer, July 27, 1786 a sensible,\\nprudent and devout woman. Their children were\\n4.-Hannah, b. Jan. 22, 1743 d. Oct. 22, 1820 m. Sept., 1783, Jere-\\nmiah Story.\\n4.-Isaac, b. Feb. 7, 1745 d. Nov. 24, 1746.\\n4.-Isaac, 2d, b. Aug. 30, 1747; d. March 4, 1799; m. Feb. 28, 1771,\\nLucy Burnham. He succeeded his father on the homestead. He was a\\nman of great athletic powers, and respected for his moral worth. He was\\none of the greatest men to mow that Concord ever reared. He fought as\\na volunteer in the ])attle of Bennington.\\n4.-Benjamin, b. Feb. 10, 1749; d. Dec. 11, 1815, m.\\n4.-Ephraim, b. June 15, 1752; d. Oct. 30, 1778; never m. He was a\\nvolunteer in the battle of Bennington, and a cannon ball, which passed by\\nhim, so M renched his body, though it did not cut his flesh, that he was lame\\ntill the close of his hfe.\\n4.-Thomas, b. Oct. 7, 1754; d. Sept. 2, 1773.\\n4.-Theodore, b. March 7, 1759 d. Sept. 22, 1778. He was a volunteer\\nin the battle of Bennington.\\n4.-Sarah, b. Feb. 20^, 1761 d. July 4, 1761.\\n4. -Benjamin Abbot, was in the battle of Bunker Hill a ball cut a hole", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0669.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "624 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nthrough his Avhiskcv, but did not draw blood. He m. Jan. 29, 1778, Sarah\\nBrown. Their children were\\n5.-Ephraim, b. Sept. 28, 1779. [See graduates.] M. Jan. 5, 1814, Mary\\nH. Pearson, who d. July 15, 1829; 2 m. Jan. 21, 1830, Abigail W. Ban-\\ncroft.\\no.-Hannah, b. March 9, 1782; m. Nov. 15, 1803, Ebenezer Hall.\\n5.-lluth M., b. June 27, 1784 m. Nov. 26, 1805, James Hall.\\n5.-Benjamin, b. Sept. 23, 1786 m. Sept. 17, 1807, Dorcas Noyes.\\n5.-Sarah, b. Oct. 3, 1788; m. Oct., 1805, Stephen J\\\\oyes.\\n5.-Abigail L., b. May 20, 1791 m. Feb. 8, 1803, Set h Baker.\\n5.-Isaac, b. Aug. 3, 1793; d. Nov. 12, 1840; m. May 7, 1817, Susan\\nEla.\\n5.-Parmelia, b. Feb. 1, 1796 m. Nov. 7, 1816, JVathaniel Goss.\\n5.-Theodore T., b. March 22, 1799; m. Aug. 7, 1826, Mehitable F. Green-\\nough. Now mayor of Manchester.\\nThe following are names of children of 1. Thomas Abbot, of Andover,\\nMass., and were born there, but came to Concord. They Avere grandchil-\\ndren of 2. Thomas Abbot, and great-grandchildren of 1. George Abbot, of\\nAndover, Mass.\\n4.-Jabcz, b. April 18, 1731 d. Jan. 7, 1804 age, 73.\\n4.-Aaron, b. Feb. 17, 1732; d. Dec. 31, 1812; age, 81.\\n4.-Nathan, b. Feb. 7, 1736 d. Jan. 18, 1805 age, 69.\\n4.-Jesse, 2d, b. Oct. 4, 1741 d. May 12, 1808; age, 60.\\nJabez, Nathan and Jesse Abbot had good farms in the bend of the Mer-\\nrimack river at Sewall s falls.\\n4.-JABEZ Abbot, m. Pheljc Abbot. Their children were, 5.-Joseph, b.\\nAp. 22, 1757 d. young. 5.-Joseph, 2d, b. Aug. 5, 1759 d. Oct. 7,_ 1837.\\nHe served in the llevolution, in Col. Peabody s regiment, and received a\\npension. About 1791 he purchased wild lands in Boscawan, of which he\\nmade his farm. M. Ap. 3, 1794, Molly Mcloon, of Sahsbury. Her father,\\nNathaniel INIeloon, mother, and their children, were captured by the In-\\ndians, May 16, 1753, carried to Montreal, and sold to the French. After\\nfour and a half years, being in a vessel, they were recaptured and returned\\nto Sahsbury. 5 .-Phebe, b. Oct. 29, 1762 d. Sept. 15, 1819 m. Paul\\nClark. 5.-Nathan, b. June 23, 1765; d. March 19, 1844; m. Feb. 24,\\n1801, Rhoda Brickett. Their children were, 6.-Nancy B., b. Dec. 2, 1801\\nm. Joseph Morse. 6.-Alfred C, b. Mar. 29, 1804 m. Sarah B. Knowles\\nthree children, Ehzabeth T., Alfred L., and a daughter. 2 m. Judith\\nFarnum five children, viz. Sarah B., Alfred W., Ilhoda Edward, Sarah\\nB. 6.-Phebe, b. Mar. 16, 1806; m. Simon K. Lock. 6.-l)avid, b. July\\n12, 1809 m. Sarah H. Abbot\u00e2\u0080\u0094 nine children, viz., Judith M., John C,\\nSarah C, George M., Ehza E., Ilhoda B., Catherine A., Sarah E., Ellen C.\\n4.-Jabez Abbot, 2 m. Hepzibah Stevens. Their children were 5.-Ly-\\ndia, b. July 10, 1768 died young. 5.-Lydia, 2d, b. Jan. 10, 1773 d.\\nMar. 22, 1841; m. Christopher Roivell. 5.-Dyer, b. June 18, 1778; d.\\nMar. 1832 m. Sarah Atkinson. 5.-Hepzibah, b. Feb. 1, 1780 d. Jan.\\n23, 1817; never married. 5.-Asenath, b. Oct. 3, 1781 m. Feb. 24, 1801,\\nThomas Brickett.\\n4.-AAR0N Abbot, m., 4.-Lydia Abbot. Their children were, 5.-Betsey,\\nd. y. o.-Betsev, 2d, d. y. S -Samuel, d. y. 5.-Samuel, 2d, d. v. o.-Ly-\\ndia,b. April 4, 1771; d. May 25, 1853; m. April 17, 1812, ^.-Timothy\\nAhhot. 5. Joscjjh, d. y. 5.-^Thomas, d. y. 5.-Aaron, b. April 11, 1778,\\nd. m. 5. -Sarah Abbot.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0670.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 625\\n4.-NATnAX Abbot, m. 1766, Betsey Farnum. Their children Avere o-\\nBetsey, b. 1767 d. 1774. o.-Jacob, b. Jan. 16, 1769; d. Jan. 13, 18.38;\\nm. Betsey Knapp. 5.-Asa, b. Nov. 11, 1770; d. Feb. 11, 1843; never\\nmarried. 5.-])avid, b. Sept., 1772. Went away in 1794, and not heard\\nfrom. 0. -Henry, b. Julv 24, 1774 m. 1798, Susan Hall. 5. -Anna, b. 1776\\nd. y. 5.-Betscy, b. Ap. 19, 1778; d. May 24, 1831 m. 1816, Jeremiah\\nEastman. o.-Anna, 2d, b. Jan. 8, 1781 m. 1806, Edmund Blancfutrd.\\no.-Chloe, b. June 10, 1783; m. Dec. 1809, Zebediah Farnum. o,-Esther,\\nb. May 19, 1789.\\nDescendants of\\n3.-NATII.VXIEL Abbot, son of 2-Nathaniel, and grandson of 1. -George\\nAbbot [see notice, p. 132.] He was an original ])ro])rietor. There is\\na tradition that he came near losing his life by falling through the ice\\non Long Pond, in chase of a deer but saved himself by sticking his hatchet\\nso far into the ice as to get a hold, and thus raised himself out. He m.,\\nDec. 4, 1726, Penelope Ballard, of Andover. Their children Avere\\n4.-Nathamel, b. March 10, 1727 d. Feb. 19, 1806.\\n4.-Dorcas, b. Nov. 11, 1728; d. m. Moses Merrill.\\n4.-Ilebecca, b. [Nlav 27, 1731 d. Thetford, Vt. m. John Merrill.\\n4.-EUzabeth, b. July 1, 1733 d. Jan. 25, 1834, a? 100 m. Joseph Ha-\\nseltine. [See p. 418.]\\n4.-Mary, b. March 7, 173,5; d. March, 1795; m. Joseph Walker.\\n4.-Hannah, b. ]March 7, 1736 d. m. Ephraim Moor.\\n4.-Ruth, b. Jan. 28. 1738 d. Feb. 27, 1817, aged 79 m. James Walker.\\n4.-Joshua, b. Feb. 24, 1740; d. March, 1815, aged 75; m.\\n4.-Rachel, b. April 7, 1743 d. June 13, 1788 m. 1761, 4.-Daniel Abbot.\\n4.-Jeremiah, b. March 17, 1744; d. Nov. 8, 1823, aged 79; m.\\n4.-Dorothy, b. Dec. 28, 1746 d. Sept. 27, 1776 m. May 29, 1766,\\nDavid George.\\n4.-Sarah, b. Dec! 3, 1748 d. June, 1842, aged 94 m. Samuel Farnum.\\n4.-NATIIANIEL Abbot, (lived at the Iron Works, in the house now owned\\nby Ira Abbot.) m. 1749, Miriam Chandler; she d. Jan. 24, 1811, aged 82.\\nTheir children were\\n5.-Nathaniel C, b. Julv 28, 1750; d.\\no.-Moses, b. June 19, 1752; d. July 11, 1837, aged 85; m.\\n5.-Joseph, b. May 24, 1754; d. Jan. 24, 1774; never married.\\no.-PhiHp, b. Feb. 4, 1757; d. March 20, 1841, aged 84; m. Feb. 10,\\n1791, Experience Howe.\\n5.-Joshua, b. June 15, 1759; d. March 4, 1831, aged 77; ni. Polly\\nBrown, and next Ann Manning.\\n5.-Susanna, b. Jan 21, 1761; d. June 24, 1832, aged 70; m. John Gar-\\nvin.\\n5.-Phebe, b. Aug. 8, 1764; m. o.-JVathan Abbot.\\no.-Levi, b. Sept. 23, 1767 d. Dec. 15, 1825; m.\\n5.-David, b. Aug. 8, 1770 d. June 30, 1836, aged 66 m. Betsey Colson.\\nS.-Nathaniel C. Abbot, m. Hannah Farrington. Their children were\\n6.-Joseph, b. Dec. 14, 1778.\\n6.-Susy, b. Sept. 25, 1782.\\n6.-Katv, b. Jan. 21, 1785.\\n6.-Abigail, b. Jan. 4, 1787.\\n6.-David, b. Mav 6, 1789.\\n6.-Sally, b. Sept 5, 1791.\\n5.-M0SES Abbot, m. Mary Batchelder; she d. July 2, 1833, aged 77.\\nTheir children were\\n40", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0671.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "62G HISTORY OF CONCORD,\\n6.-John, b. Sept. 6, 1779; m.\\n6.-Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1781; d. Aug. 16, 1846; m. o.-Peter H. Ahhoi.\\n6.-Moses, b. Aup:. 3, 1783; m. Eunice Call.\\n6.-Liza, b. June 22, 178o; d. 1803; never married.\\n6.-Nathaniel, b. June 23, 1787 m. Sabrina Morse.\\n6.-Levi, b. April 21, 1789; m.\\n6.-Calvin, b. July 14, 1791 m. 6.-Pollv B. Abbot.\\n6.-Luther.\\n6.-Elsy m. Moses Colhy.\\n6.-Mary, d. April, 1822 m. Ephraim C. BuswelL\\n6.-J0HN Abbot, m. Hannah Flanders. Their children were seven,\\nviz. Ilazen, Nancy, Iliram, Polly, John G., Emily, Andrew B.\\n6.-LEVI Abbot, ni. Eliza Dimond. Their children were thirteen, viz.,\\nMaliala, Albert, Eucinda, Eliza Jane, Benjamin D., Franklin, Abigail D.,\\nAngelinc, Oilman W., Susan I)., Cyrus, Laura Ann, Cyrus, 2d.\\no.-Levi Abbot, m. July 10, 1791, Elsie Moore. Their child\\n6.-Ann, d. 1817; m. Samuel Moore.\\no.-Levi, 2 m. Oct. 6, 1795, Mary Carter. Their children were\\n6.-Joseph C, b. April 6, 1796: d. July 23, 182j; m. Susan Furber.\\n6.-Charles, b. Nov. 30, 1797; m.\\n6.-Aaron, b. Sept. 28, 1799; m.\\n6.-Alice, I1. June 28, 1801; married Sept. 26, 1820, Mindall Satnpson.\\n6.-Marv C, born Jime 1, 1803; d. Oct. 27, 1825; never married.\\n6.-Ira, b. Feb. 14, 1805; m.\\n6.-Eliza, b. April 3, 1807 m. Dec. 12, 1827, Simeon Carter.\\n6.-Hannah J., b. July 1, 1809; m. April, 1844. Leonard W. Page.\\n6.-Susan G., b. Nov. 17, 1811; m. Nov. 17, 1839, John C. Wilson.\\n6.-Clara C, b. May 4, 1813; m. Jan. 13, 1841, l.-Abkl Rolfe.\\n6.-Ruth AY., b. Dec. 23, 1816; d. Feb, 10, 1845; m. Dec. 10, 1843,\\nJohn M. O. Ladd.\\n6.-CHARLES Abbot, m. Dec. 13, 1827, Sarah Carter. Their children\\nwere six, viz., Levi W., Mary J., d., Clara Ann, Sally W., Betsey C, Frances\\nMaria, d.\\n6.-AAR0N Abbot, m. Oct. 5, 1824, Nancy Badger. Their children were\\nnine, viz., Joseph C, Ann Marv, EHzabeth H., Sarah J. H., George D.,\\nEdward M., Susan F., Ellen S., AUce A.\\n6.-IRA Abbot, m. Feb. 20, 1831, Hannah A. Capen. Their children\\nwere six, viz., Laura F., Lvdia P., Valeria Ann, d., Albert G.,d., Albert G.,\\n2d., d., Hannah J.\\n4.-JosiirA Abbot. Captain commanded a company in the battle of\\nBunker Hill, and also in the Continental service. Lie was a courageous\\nman, resjjected for his good sense and integrity. He and his wife Avere\\nworthy members of the Cong. Church. INIarried Elizabeth Chandler. She\\nd. !Mav 27, 1812, aged 73. Their children were\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n5.-Nathaniel, b. Aug. 25, 1767 d. Mav 31, 1709.\\n5.-Nathaniel, 2d, b. Oct. 28, 1769; d. Nov. 25, 1848, aged 79.\\n5.-Betsev, b. August 6, 1773; d. July 30, 1846, aged 73; m, April 8,\\n1798, 6. -Jacob Ahhoi.\\n5.-Sarah, b. Dec. 16, 1775 m. Gorham Duminer.\\n5.-John S., b. Aug. 20, 1778; d. Aug. 10, 1810; m.\\n5.-Joshua, b. Dec. 8, 1782 d. Sept. 28, 1824 m.\\n5,-Nathaniel Abbot, 2d, selectman, representative in the N. H. Legis-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0672.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 627\\nlature, and many years treasurer of the X. II. Bible Society m. Elizabeth\\nDearborn. Their children were\\n6.-Fanny, b. Oct. 27, 1794; m. Nov. IG, 181j, Gen. Joseph Low, first\\nMa^or of the citv of Concord.\\n6. -John R, b. Feb. 22, 175)6; m. Sept. 1S26, Mary E. Bartlctt.\\n6.-Marv, b. March 8, 1797 m. Joseph C. West.\\n6.-Emeiine, b. Feb. 21, 1811; m. July 6, 1S29, Johi Estahrook. He\\nd. Oct. 9, 1833 death caused by the exjjloding of the boiler of a\\nsteamboat. 6-Emeline, 2 m. Robert E. Pecker.\\n5.- John S. Abbot, m. 1802, 6.-MarvFalkner. Their children were\\ne.-EHzabeth C, b. Feb. 18, 1803; m. June 17, 1824, John C. Pillsbury.\\n6.-Mary F., b. April 22, 1805 m. Sept. 22, 182.3, Henry Lawrence.\\n6.-Thomas F., b. Nov. 20, 1808.\\n6.-John S., b. Dec. 1, 1810; d. Aug. 10, 1811.\\n5.-J0SHUA Abbot, Col. of Militia afterAvards licensed to preach the\\ngospel. In the exercise of this profession, and in the instruction of youth,\\nhe died at Norfolk, Va., respected and much lamented. On page 382 his\\ndeath is put down Sept. 22 on his monument, page 383, it is Sept. 28.\\nThe_ latter is believed to be correct. M. Nov. 6, 1808, Eliza Kimball.\\nTheir children were\\n6.-Joshua K., b. Dec. 23, 1810.\\n6.-John S., b. Feb. 21, 1812 d. at Bloomington, Iowa, Aug. 30, 1840.\\n6.-Ann M., b. Oct. 21, 1813 m. Jan. 25, 1842, Stephen H. Parker.\\n6.-Sarah D., b. Mav 29, 1815; m. Sept. 21, 1841, William Kelsea.\\n6.-Charles H., b. Feb. 7, 1817 d. Sept. 28, 1818.\\n6.-Charles H., 2d, b. Feb. 25, 1819.\\n6.-Nathaniel P., b. March 2, 1821.\\n4.-JEREMIAH Abbot, was in the battle of Bunker Hill, a sergeant in\\nthe company of his brother Joshua, and lieutenant in the service at Ticon-\\nderoga, and in the expedition against Canada. After the close of the war\\nhe married Ehzabeth Stickney. She d. Sept. 10, 1836, age, 84. He moved\\nto Conway, N. H., about 1787, and there endured many hardships and pri-\\nvation by frost and Hood. He kept a house of entertainment, where the\\nfew travellers who visited that part of the country found a home. They\\nwere industrious and energetic, beloved and respected by all Avho knew them,\\nand kind and hospitable to all who had claims on theii- benevolence. They\\nAvere early supporters of religious Avorship and order.\\nDescendants of\\n3.- James Abbot, Avho was a proprietor, having purchased the rights\\nof Rev. Bezaleel Toppan and Stephen Emerson. He Avas son of 2.-Wil-\\nHam, grandson of l.-George, born at Andover, :\\\\Iass., Feb. 12, 1695 died\\nDec. 27, 1787, aged 93. He came to Concord about 1735, and at one time\\nlived in a house Avhich stood nearly opposite the residence of John and\\nSimeon Abbot, Avho inherited the old farm. His house at some time Avas\\na garrison. The same kind of corn has been planted on this farm about\\nninety years in succession. He m. Jan., 1714, Abigail Farnum, b. 1692.\\nTheir children were\\n4-Abigail, b. Jan. 1, 1715; m. Kidder.\\n4-James, b. Jan. 12, 1717 d. 1803 age, 86 m. 1742, Sarah Bancroft.\\n4-EHzabeth, b. Feb., 1718.\\n4-William, b. Sept. 8, 1719; d. Oct. 29, 1741.\\n4-Ilachel, b. 1720; m. Manning; 2 m. Russell.\\n4-Ezra, b. March 19, 1722; d. Dec. 5, 1741.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0673.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "628 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n4-Reuben, b. April 4, 1723 d. May 13, 1S22, in his 100th year.\\n4-Simeon, b. Sept. 8, 1724; d. Nov. 15, 1741.\\n4-Amos, b. Feb. 22, 1726 d. Dec. 3, 1821 age, 96.\\n4-Phebe, b. Nov. 22, 1727 d. 17r;5 m. Thomas Merrill.\\n4-A son, b. and d. 1729,\\n4-Sarah and Rebecca, b. Aug. 13, 1730 4-Sarah m. Job Abbot 2 m.\\nDca. Eastman 4-Rebecca m. Enoch Eastman.\\n4-Mary, b. Oct. 12, 1732; d. 1780; m. Monijah Tyler.\\n4-Hannah, b. Jan., 1735 d. Sept. 10, 1736.\\n4-Reuben Abbot, [see pp. 160, 254, and biography, pp. 577-579,]\\nwas the oldest man that ever deceased in Concord. He lived west of Long\\nPond, and saw his son, grandson and great-grandson bearing his own name,\\nresiding at the same time in the same house. He married Rhoda AVhitte-\\nmore. Their children were\\n5-Reuben, b. May 18, 1752 d. y.\\n5-Reuben, 2d, b. Feb. 5, 1754 d. Dec. 12, 1834 age, 80 married.\\n5-Rhoda, b. Dec. 31, 1755; d. Aug. 31, 1839; age, 84; m. Jonathan\\nJoh7ison.\\n5-EHas, b. Oct. 24, 1757 d. March 19, 1847 age, 89; m.\\n5-Phclie, b. A]ml 14, 1759; drowned July 4, 1760.\\n5-Phcbc, 2d, Dec. 6, 1760; d. Nov. 2, 1777; never married.\\n5-IIannah, b. March 29, 1762; d. Feb. 15, 1832; m. 5-Ezra Abbot.\\n5-Ruth, b. Feb. 14, 1764 d. v.\\n5-Ezra and Nathan, b. Aug. 8, 1765; 5-Ezra, d. April 24,1839; age,\\n74, m. 5-Nathan, d. Mav 13, 1849; age, 84, m.\\n4-Reuben, 2 m. wid. Dinah Blanchard she d. March 11, 1826 age, 94.\\n5-Reuben Abbot, m. Sept. 24, 1776, Zerviah Farnum. Their chil-\\ndren were\\n6-Ruth, b. April 2, 1777 d. Feb. 20, 1849 m. March 11, 1798, Hennj\\nChandler.\\n6-Phebe, b. Mav 17, 1779; m. March 27, 1804, Peter C. Farnum.\\n6-Rcbecca, b. May 13, 1781 m. 1803, Thomas R. Brock.\\n6-Susanna, h. June 20, 1784; never married.\\n6-Zerviah, b. Dec. 20, 1785 d. July 1, 1841 m. Jesse C. Tiittle.\\n6-Pollv, b. March 2, 1789 m. Henry Martin.\\n6-Rcuben, b. Oct. 23, 1790 m. 5-Hannah Abbot.\\n6-PiErBE\\\\ Abbot, m. 5-Hannah Abbot. Their children were eight\\nReuben K., m. Mary M. Emerson two children.\\nCatherine W., m. Daniel Farnum seven children.\\nHannah G., m. John Ballard two children.\\nElizabeth B., m. Franklin B. Carter two children.\\nEsther M., m. Albert G. Dow one child.\\nEzra C. Peter G. Henry C, m. Adeline Currier.\\n5-Elias Abbot, m. Sept. 5, 1782, Elizabeth Buswell. Then- children\\nwere\\n6-Abigail, b. Aug. 5, 1783 m. Feb. 8, 1827, Jeremiah Hall.\\n6-Elias, b. March 22, 1786; m. Lydia Sawyer; 2 m. Sarah Winslow,\\n6-Elizabeth, b. June 3, 1788; d. March 29, 1847 never married.\\n6-Charlottc, b. Dec. 9, 1790; m. Sept. 29, 1808, William Straw.\\n6-James B., b. June 24, 1799 m. Nancy B. Rogers 2 m. Ehzabeth B.\\nRogers.\\n5-EzKA Abbot, m. Mary Walker she d. Sept. 22, 1852, aet. 89.\\nTheir children were\\n6-John, b. March 20, 1787 d. Dec. 3, 1839; m.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0674.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 629\\n6-Timothy, b. Dec. 21, 1788; d. Jan. G, 1847 m.\\n6-Job, b. Nov. 14, 1790 m. ^Liv 9, 1816, I.vdia :Morrison.\\n6-Xancv, b. Nov. 21, 1792; m. March 30, 1818, James Hoit.\\n6-Hannah, b. Oct. 4, 1795 d. Dec. 28, 1828 m. Sarah Eastman.\\n6-David, b. Jan. 13, 1798; m.\\n6-Esthcr, b. :March 30, 1800 m. William Kimhall.\\n6-liuth, 1). May 9, 1802 m. March 24, 1829, Samuel Ellsworth.\\nG-Mary W,, b. Nov. 8, 180G d. :May 12, 1836 m. Alexander H. Putney.\\n6-JoiiN Abbot, m. Sarah Straw. Their children are seven, viz.\\nLaura S., d. Joseph W. Charlotte, m. Farnum Morse Laura, 2d Wil-\\nliam, d Mary Ann Esther M.\\nG-TiMOTHY Abbot, m. Aug. 8, 1818, Rhoda Gleason one child\\nCharles, m. Martha Haseltine.\\n6-Dayid Abbot, m. May 18, 1828, Mary Holbrook. Their children\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were four, viz. Mary P. James M., drowned in Horse-shoe pond, Mav\\n11, 1842 Joseph M., Elizabeth M.\\n5-Nathan Abbot, m. o.-Phebe Abbot. Their children were\\n6-Rhoda, b. May 17, 1790 d. Aug. 29, 1847 m. 1810, Richard Webster.\\nG-Amos, b. Nov. 16, 1791 d. Dec. 4, 184^3 m. Oct. 18, 1820, Sally G.\\nFoster.\\ne-WiUiam, b. Aug. 23, 1793 d. Feb. 3, 1837 m. March 7, 1820, Dor-\\ncas Carter.\\n6-Sophia, b. July 7, 1795 d. Jan, 17, 1843 m. Aug. 28, 1817, John\\nJohnson.\\n6-Hazen, b. Nov. 6, 1797 m. 1828, Ruth M. Ela.\\nG-Susanna, b. March 13, 1800 never married.\\nG-Jacob, b. March 13, 1802; d. Sept. 13, 1803.\\nG-Jacob, 2d, b. May H, 1804; m. April 11, 1833, Harriet Garvin.\\nG-Phebe, b. Oct. 17, 1806 m. Jan. 17, 1831, Seth Judkins.\\nG-Amos Abbot, m. Oct. 18, 1820, Sally G. Foster. Their children were\\neight, viz., Carohne C, Henry M., Hazen F., Martha Ann, Samuel K.,\\nSarah Jane, d., Benjamin C, d., Amos J., d.\\nG-WlLLlAM Abbot, m. March 7, 1820, Dorcas Carter. Their children\\nwere six, viz., Julia Ann, WilHam P., m. Emily Uran Emily E., George\\nW., Charles C, Rogers A.\\n6-H.\\\\ZEN Abbot, m. 1828, Ruth M. Ela. Their children were nine,\\nviz., Mary Jane, Nathaniel C, Amanda ^L, Clara Ann, d., FrankHn A.,\\nHazen E., Nathan G., Daniel E., Susan A.\\nG-Jacob Abbot, m. April 11, 1833, Harriet Garvin. Their children\\nwere five, viz., Harriet E., William H., Ann M., Eugene, Lydia.\\n4-Amos Abbot, m. wid. 3-Rebecca A. Chandler d. Feb. 13, 1803, aged\\n86. Their children were\\no-Amos, b. July 15, 1754; d. Oct. 11, 1834, aged 80; m.\\n5-John, b. June 23, 1756 d. Aug. 31, 1779. John Abbot, brother of\\nAmos and uncle of John and Simeon, was six feet seven inches Mithout\\nshoes, and said to be the stoutest young man ever raised in Concord, though\\nnot quite so tall as Samuel Baker, uncle of the Governor, Nathaniel B.\\nHe received a ball at the battle of Bennington, on his breast-bone, which\\nfell harmless at his feet. He d. aged 22, weighing 230 pounds.\\n5-Rebecca, b. Dec. 26, 1760; d. Dec. 24, 1846, aged 86; m. Oct. 9,\\n1781, Moses Chamberlain.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0675.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "630 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n5-Amos Ai5B0T, served several campaigns in tlie Revolution. Farmer,\\nlived with his fother lie Avas distinguished for his skill and success in\\nmanaging bees m. Judith Morse. Their children were\\n6-John, b. Nov. lo, 180.5.\\n6-Simeon, b. Aug. 3, ISO m.\\n6-Sarah H., b. June 27, 1809 m. Dec. 18, 1838, 6-David Abbot.\\n6-SiMEOx Abbot, m. Feb. 8, 1837, 6-Mary Farnum. Their children\\nare nine, viz., Amos S., Rebecca C, Mary S., Abiel C, Calvin F., Stej^hen\\nF., Loisa G., Clara, Martha.\\no-WiLLiAM Abbot, son of 4-Isaac, son of 3-Isaac, son of 2-George,\\nson of 1-George, was born Oct. 30, 1772 ni. ISOl, Rebecca Baily. Their\\nchildren were\\n6-^yiniam, b. Sept. 7, 1801; m.\\n6-Isaac, b. Nov. 12, 1803.\\n6-Rebecca, b. Oct. 6, 1806.\\n6-Moses B., b. April 19, 1815.\\n6-Rhebe C, b. Oct. 2, 1817, m. Joseph S. Lund.\\n4-Jacob Abbot, b. March 22, 1746 d. March o, 1820, son of 3-Joseph,\\nson of 2-Nathaniel, son of first George Abbot. Resided in Concord from\\n1797 to 1802. when he removed to Brunswick, Me. For notice of him,\\nsee Abbot Genealogical Register, page 131. His son, o-Jacol), b. Oct.\\n20, 1776, d. Jan. 21,^1847 he m. April 8, 1798, 5-Betsey Abbot, daughter\\nof 4-Joshua Abbot, of Concord. He is the father of Jacob, John S. C,\\nGorham D., c., who are distinguished as authors.\\nTHE AYER FAMILY.\\nThe branch of this family that settled in Concord is reckoned from 1-Rob-\\nert, of Haverhill 2-Samuel, (son of Robert) who was killed by the In-\\ndians, Aug. 29, 1708, was the father of 3-Obadiah, and 3-John, who were\\noriginally projirietors 3-James, (son of 2-Samuel,) was father of 4-Sam-\\nuel, another proprietor.* These proprietors had comphed with the condi-\\ntions of the settlement in 1731, p. 128; but it docs not appear that they\\nfinally settled here. They were not in any garrison in 1746. V^ e have\\nno account that Obadiah ever married. He was a graduate of Harvard\\nCollege studied for the ministry a man of talents and influence, but sub-\\nject occasionally to aberrations of mind, at which times he had lodgings in\\nBoston provided for him by his particular friend, John Hancock.\\n3-Jonx, who was doubtless here in the earliest period of the settlement,\\nmarried Mary Johnson, of Haverhill. Their children, born in Haverhill,\\nwere Abigail, Avho d. unmarried Timothy, who m. Ehzabeth White, and\\nlived in Bradford, Vt., and John, who Hved in Bradford, Ms.\\n4-SAMrp:L Ayer, son of 3-James, m. Ann Ilazen, and lived at Haver-\\nhill, Ms. Their children (5th generation from liobert,) all born in Haver-\\nhill, were, Mary, b. Dec. 23 (O. S.) 1738 m. Samuel Morrison, of San-\\nSee notice of these pioprietnrs, p 133, where they are said to be defcendants of John\\nAyer, who was of Salisbury, 1640, of Ii)svvicli, 164\u00c2\u00a7, and of Haverhill, lli57. t^ee l- ariiier s\\nGenealogical Reg.; name, AYER.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0676.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 631\\nbovnton; d. Ap. 1782. Anna, b. Sept. 22, (O. S. m. Dea. John Kimball,\\nof Concord; d. March o, 1819; (Sec Kmiball Family.) Samuel, b. Nov.\\n29, 1742; m. Sarah Chase, of Haverhill; d. April G. 1811. Ehzabeth (1)\\nand Elizalieth (2) d. v. Elizabeth (3) b. Jmie 22, 1748 m. Jacob p:ia, of\\nHaverhill; d. May 18, 1794. Hannah, b. Aujj. 2,5, 17,51 m. John Bradley,\\nof Concord; d. Aug. 15, 1817. (See Bradley Family.) lluth, b. Dec. 4,\\n1753 m. Dr. Peter Green, of Concord d. April, 1823. (See Green Fam-\\nily, and Town Kecords.) Lydia, b. Dec. 1755, d. y. 5-RlcnARD, b. ^lay 12,\\n1757; m. Susanna Sargent. James, b. Jan. 1, 1761; m. Mary, dau. of\\nDr. James Brickett.\\n5-RlCHAilD Ayer, (see biography, p. 589,) Mho appears to have been\\nthe first permanent settler and resident in Concord of the name, m. Susan-\\nna Sargent, of Methuen. Their children, born in Concord, were eleven, viz\\n1. Richard Hazen, b. Jan. 12, 1778, d. in Manchester, Feb. 5, 1853, aged\\n75. He was a man of great strength of will and force of character rej)-\\nresentative of Dunbarton and Ilooksctt a memljcr of the State Council\\nfive years one of the Presidential Electors in 1816 and in 1848 first she-\\nriff of the county of ]\\\\Ierrimack appointed naval store-keeper at Ports-\\nmouth in 1829; an enterprising citizen of Manchester from 1837 till his\\ndeath, having accumulated a large pro])erty. He was President of the\\nAmoskeag Bank. He left a legacy of $7000 to the Unitarian Society in\\nManchester, of which he was a member. His wife, who svu-vived him, Avas\\nthe daughter of Col. Peter Green, of Concord. His children were only\\ntwo, both daughters, one of whom, Susan R., d., was the wife of Dr. Enoch\\nB. Barnes; and the other, Mary G., m. Dr. Amos G. Gale, of Manchester.\\n2. Samuel, b. Feb. 22, 1780; d. Jan. 3, 1785.\\n3. Moses, b. Apr. 28, 1782; d. Dec. 1813.\\n4. James, b. June 15, 1784.\\n5. Samuel, b. Aug. 31, 1786, (see Graduates,) d. at Eastport, Me., leav-\\ning three children Sarah C, Samuel H., d., and Harriet O., d.\\n6. Susanna, b. Feb. 24, 1789; m. Isaac Hill. [See Biography.] Their\\nchildren were four AVilham P., John M., Isaac Andrew, and a dau. Geor-\\ngianna T., who d. Sept. 16, 1825, ag. 11 mos.\\n7. John J., b. May 27 l79l m. Harriet Fox, of Jafi rcy; d. in Con-\\ncord, Aug. 14, 1837. Their children tAvo, Richard Hazen and Harriet Y.\\n8. Anna, or Nancy H., b. Sept. 24, 1793; m. Levi Brigham, of Boston;\\nd. June 7, 1835, (see p. 433,) leaving two children, Levi and Ann S.\\n9. Ehzabeth, b. March 14, 1796; m. Richard Bradley. [See Bradley\\nFamily.]\\n10. ]\\\\Iary, m. Isaac F. Williams. Their children, Mary Ehzabeth, Susan\\nAyer, Georgianna Hill, and Annette.\\n11. Charlotte, m. Washington WiUiams. Their children, three Char-\\nlotte, Marianna, d., and Josephine.\\nAMBROSE FAMILY.\\nThe first of the Ambrose name mentioned in our records was Robert\\nAmbrose, who signed the Association Test, 1776. He is understood to\\nhave come from Chester. Lived on the mountain, where his son, Capt.\\nJonathan, afterwards hved. By his first wife he had six sons and three\\ndaughters, viz.\\n1. John.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0677.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "632 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n2. Benjamin, ni. a Miss EusavcH, of Sanbornton, and d. at Peacham, Vt.\\nNo children. His M id., 2 m. Ste])hen Chase, of Sanbornton.\\n3. Jonathan, ca])tain, m. Mehctabel I.anc, of liaymond. lie d. Oct. 7,\\n1840, aged 79. Slie d. Marcli (i, 1S53, aged SG. No children.\\n4. Nathaniel, deacon, 1 m. Sally Stevens, of Concord, who d. Dec. 23,\\n1830, aged (32. He 2 m. Martha Eastman, danghter of Capt. John East-\\nman, and d. April 20, 1849, aged 85, leaving no children.\\n0. Josiah, m. Mary Morse, and lived in Northfield. He d., lea\\\\ ing no\\nchildren.\\n6. Stephen, Esq., see Stejjhen Ambrose.\\nThe daughters of Robert Amiirose were\\n1. Martha, m. Dea. John Church, of Dunbarton. Had six daughters,\\nbut no son.\\n2. Susan, 1 m. Nathan Chandler, of Boscawen 2 m. Enoch Browni.\\n3. Abigail, m. John Lovejoy. Their children were five, viz. Chandler,\\nPolly, Judith, Harriet and Miriam. Mrs. Abigail d. March 26, 1832, aged\\n62. He d. Sept. 6, 1837, aged 71.\\nMr. Ambrose, 2 m. wid. Molly Thistle, a sister of Aaron Stevens.\\nIn April, 1811, Bobert Ambrose, at the age of 79, 3 m. wid. Sarah Cleas-\\nby, aged 67. Mary Church, a great-granddaughter, aged 18, was present\\nat the wedding. The second wife lived to the age of 98 years, retaining\\nher faculties in a remarkable degree. She d. July 11, 1841, being, at her\\ndecease, the oldest person in town.\\nStephen Ambrose, Esq., youngest son of Robert, [see town officers,\\nand p. 478,] m. Hannah Eastman, who d. July 31, 1832. Their children\\nwere\\n1. Robert, b. Jan. 24, 1797; d. at Boston, Sept. 20, 1831; m. Dec. 25,\\n1823, Jane Johnson Hutchins. Their children, George H., Charles W.,\\nNancv Jane, d., Robert S.\\n2. Lucretia, b. Jan. 15, 1799 m. Sept. 22, 1823, Rev. Charles Walker,\\nD. D., now of Pittsford, Vt.\\n3. Mary, m. July 23, 1827, Pliihp Eastman, Esq., of North Yarmouth,\\nMe.\\n4. Hannah, m. Jime 23, 1834, Hon. Amasa Walker, of Boston.\\n5. Nancy, b. May 4, 1805; d.\\n6. Benjamin, b. Aug. 5, 1807.\\n7. Susanna, b. Aug. 22, 1809; m. June 8, 1829, William G.Webster,\\nEsq.\\nBAKER FAMILY.\\nDESCENDANTS OF 1-ABEL BAKER.\\nAbel Baker, son of Hon. Samuel Baker, born 1756, died 1817, came from\\nBerhn, Mass., to Concord. Settled at the Borough, 1789, and built the\\nfirst grist-mill in that part of the town, which he continued to run until\\n1816. He also built a saw-mill near the grist-mill, both of them further up\\nthe stream than the old Elliot saw-mill. Mr. Baker married Polly, daugh-\\nter of Phineas Howe. Mr. Homc Avas a stout, muscular man, measuring six\\nfeet and nine inches in height whose children were Phineas, Silas, Abram,\\nLucretia, Polly, Betsey, Achsah, Abigail. Most of the Howe family Avere\\nremarkable for size. Phineas was six feet five inches. Polly, wife of Abel\\nBaker, was six feet, and weighed two hundred pounds. She used to take", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0678.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 633\\ncharge of the grist-mill with her husband, and taking the grists from the\\nhorses backs to the mill, and retm-ning them to the horse with as much\\nease as the strongest man. She has been known to lift three bushels of\\ncorn at once.\\nThe children of 1-Abel Baker and Polly Howe were\\n1. Polly, b. in Berlin, Mass. m. Samuel Rogers, and had nine children.\\n2. Betsey,!), in Berlin, Mass. m. Joseph Tallant, and had ten children.\\n3. Marshall, b. in Berhn, Mass., March 21, 1788; m. Naomi Hoit, of\\nBoscawen.\\n4. Abel, b. in Concord, Jan. 16, 1791 m. Xancy Bradley.\\n5. Parncy, b. in Concord, May, 1794; 1 m. Bradbury Gill 2 m. Isaac\\nDow.\\n6. Achsah, b. in Concord, Aug. 31, 1796; m. Rev. John Woods.\\n7. Susan, b. in Concord, May 10, 1799; neyer married. Six feet, two\\nand one half inches high.\\n8. Samuel, b. in Concord m. Nirah Barrett.\\n9. Saphira, b. in Concord d. y.\\n10. Clarissa, b. in Concord m. Jesse Durgin three children.\\n2-Makshall Baker, m. Xaomi Hoit, in Boscawen, April lo, 1789.\\nHe served as a lieutenant in the war of 1812. Their children were\\n1. Mary Ann, b. ^larch 18, 1809; m. Hazen Kimball, Hopkinton eight\\nchildren; 2. Charles E., b. Feb. 3, 1811; m. Mary S. Colliy, Hopkinton\\nsix children; Sophia, b. April 1-5, 1813; Albert M., b. July 10, 1816;\\nCatherine, b. April 9, 1820; Adeline, b. April 21, 1822.\\n2-Abel Baker.\\nAbel Baker, m. Nancy Bradley, daughter of 3-Samuel Bradley. Their\\nchildren Avere\\n1. Nathaniel Bradley,!), in Henniker, Sept. 29, 1819, [see graduates,] m.\\nMay 10, 1843, Lucretia M. Ten Broeck four children.\\n2. Ann. 3. CaroHne.\\n2- Samuel Baker.\\nSamuel Baker is said to haye been the tallest man ever raised in Con-\\ncord, measuring six feet and nine inches and one half, !)arefoot. At twenty\\nyears of age he M-eighed two hundred and thirt}- poimds, and sul)sequently\\ntwo hundred and sixty. He left Concord about 1826, and went to the\\nWest. After he reached Buffalo an article appeared in the newspapers,\\nsaying that a New-Hampshire !)oy liad recently been there, who was so tall\\nthat he could wade across the Niagara river\\nBALLARD FAMILY.\\nI-Nathax Ballard, one of the first settlers at Little Pond, was a native\\nof Andover, jNIs. m. Hannah Holt, and moved to Wilton, this State, where\\nwere l)orn their children, viz., Hannah, Sally, Mary, Betsey, Phebe, Na-\\nthan, John, Ezra, Timothy. From AVilton, 1-Nathan moved to Concord\\nal)out 1792, and settled on the farm where his son, Nathan Ballard, Esq.,\\nnow lives. Mr. Ballard, sen., Avas in the battle of Bennington, and lieute-\\nnant in Capt. Goss s Company, but on the day of the battle Lt. Ballard\\ncommanded the company. He d. Jan. 14, 1835, aged 90 ys. and 2 mos.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0679.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "634 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nDuring his long life he enjoyed remarkable health having never been ill\\nenough to requii-e medical aid but once and then, in the army, he had\\nthe camp fever.\\n2-Nathax, son of Lieut. Ballard, came with his father to Concord, about\\n17 years of age. Worked on the farm in simimer, and taught school in\\nthe winter about ten years. In May, ISOO, he married Hannah Bubs, of\\nAVnton. Their children, born in Concord, are\\n1. William, b. March 3, 1801 fitted for coUege; d. Nov. 1819.\\n2. Ezra, b. May 12, 1802; m. June, 1825, Mary Flanders. Their chil-\\ndren, 1. William, m. CaroUne E. D. Virgin 2. Sarah M., d. 3. Geo. H., d.\\n4. John H. .5. Geo. A., d. 6. Charles E,\\n3. An infant, d.\\n4. Hannah, b. April 7, 1805.\\n5. I hebe, b. April 4, 1807 m. Geoi-ge D. Abbot.\\n6. Marv-Ann, b. March 8, 1809.\\n7. Charles, b. Dec. 23, 1810 1 m. Jane Frost, of Andover, Ms. d. 1852\\n2 m. Lvdia Dane, Andover, ^Is. d. 1854.\\n8. Ciara, b. June 3, 1813; m. 1843, S. B. Goddard, of Washington,\\nD. C, who d. 1851. She d. Sept. 7, 1850, leaving one child.\\n,9. Nathan, b. March 31, 181G; m. Emily J. L. Goddard, of Xewbury-\\nport, Ms., Sept. 1851. [See Graduates.]\\n10. John, b. Jan. 1818; m 7-Hannah G. Abbot; two children.\\n11, Eunice B., b. Jan. 21, 1820; m. G. W. Weaver, of Virg., 1853.\\nBRADLEY FAMILY.\\nThe ancestor of the Bradleys of Concord was ABRAHAM, son of Joseph\\nBradley, of Haverhill, Mass., who, with his family connections, exprienced\\ngreat sufferings from the Indians. [See Historj-, pp. 162-164.] The\\nother sons of Joseph, were, Joseph, the ancestor of Dea. Amos Bradley, of\\nDracut, and of Enoch Bradley, of Haverhill, West Parish Isaac, taken\\nprisoner by the Indians, 1G95, [see Mirick s History,] and Daniel, who was\\ndro^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ned, Jan. 22, 1695.\\n1-Abraiiam Bradley, m. Abigail Philbrick came to Concord about\\n1729, probably after the birth of all his children. His will is dated July 8,\\n1754, soon after which he jjrobably died. [See notice, p. 140, and biogra-\\nphy of Hon. John Bradley, pp. 573-577.] His wife survived him some\\nyears, Ijut there is no record of the death of either of them. Pomjiey,\\ntheir black slave, survived his master and mistress, and was willed to John\\nBradlev, and died in the winter of 1772. The children of 1-Abraham\\nand Abigail Bradley were 2-Generation.\\n1. Jeremiah, b. 1 m. Fitzgerald; 2 m. Betty Keyes. Their chil-\\ndren, Keyes, Iurray and Warren, and one dau., who m. Abraham Bradley,\\nof Fryelmrg, Me, and another dau., who m. Benjamin Powell, of Concord.\\n2. Abigail, m. Benjamin Pichards, of Atkinson.\\n3. Timothy, m. AlJiah Stevens. Had by her twelve children.\\n4. Ai)i)hiai m. Stcjihcn Farrington, of Concord. [See notice, p. 140, and\\nFarrington Family.]\\n5. Jonathan, b. 1717 m. Susannah Folsom, of Exeter. He was killed\\nby the Indians, 1740. [See notice, 160-162.]\\n6. Abiah, m. Philip Eastman. [See Eastman Family.]", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0680.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 635\\n7. Samuel, b. 1721 m. Marv Folsom killed bv the Indians, 1 746. [See\\npp. 160-1 Go.]\\n8. Martha, unmarried.\\n9. Mehitable. m. Amos Eastman. 1 743, and settled in Hollis.\\n10. Betty, m. Josiah Folsom, of Exeter.\\n2-TiMOTHT Bradley, m. Abiah Stevens was called Lieutenant. Their\\nchildren, 1. Benjamin, b. A])ril 4, 1739, one of Rogers* rang-crs perished\\nafter the St. Frai^cis fight. [See notice, p. 193.] 2. Abigail, b. Sept. 2,\\n1740; m. Isaac Chase, of Warner. 3? 4. Timothy, b. Oct. 30, 1743; d.\\nJidy 31, 1811. aged 68. 5. Abraham, hved in Frveburg, and was drowned\\nwhen over 80 years old. 6. Betty, m. Abner Chase, of Warner, brother\\nof Isaac. 7. Abiah, b. Feb. 10, 1748; m. Virgin. 8. Samuel, b.\\n1752: m. Catherine Green, dau. of Nathaniel Green d. Jan. 1826, aged\\n74 the grandfather of Gov. X. B. B;\\\\ker. 9. Jonathan, b. l754; m.\\nSusannah Emery, who d. July 27, 1793; 2 m. wid. Lucretia Cook. 10.\\nPhilbrick, 1 m. Sarah Emery 2 m. Mary 1 1 Kuth, m. Nathaniel\\nEastman, of Concord. 12. Benjamin, 2d, had two wives.\\n2-Ji)XATllAX Br.\\\\dlet, who m. Susanna Folsom, and was killed, 1746,\\nleft children: 1. Mary, b. Sejit. 2, 1739. 2. Susanna, b. Aug. 10, 1741\\n1 m. Emerson, of Chester and 2 m. Virgin, of Concord. 3. Ann. b. Feb. 11,\\n1743. 4. Josiali, b. 174.5, who d. in Chester, leaving sons Jonathan and\\nJosiah, now of Vienna, Me.\\n2-SAMrEL Bkadlet, who m. Mary Folsom, killed, 1 746. lefr 3-John\\nb. Feb. 13. 1743. and Mehetabel, b. Jiin. 16, 174 J. See notice of liis wid.,\\nMrs. Mary Calfe, p. 373.\\nS-JoHN Bradley, m, Hannah Aver. Their children\\n1. Robert, b. June 17, 1772; m. Abigail Bailev .settled in Frvebursr,\\nMe. Their children (1.) Samuel, m. Jane Lane. of IloUis. Mo. he was\\none of the most talented and most distinguished lawvers hi Maine d. in\\nSaco, June 26, 1849, aged 47 years. (2.) Israel Bailev. m. Sarah John-\\nson, of Fryeburg. (3.) Alexander Ramsav. m. ^[arv O. Barrows, of Frve-\\nburg. (4.) Mary Ann, d. July 2o, 1841, aged 27, iiniversallv beloved and\\nesteemed.\\n2. Samuel A., born Nov. 22, 1774. [See Graduates.]\\n3. Mary, b. Feb. 27, 1777 d. Jan. 3, 1796.\\n4. John. b. Aug. 29, 1779; 1 m. Grace Stevens: had two sons, John\\nJay and Thomas Stevens 2 m. wid. Catherine J. Kittredge.\\n5. Moses Hazzeu, b. March Ij, 1782; m. Marv Green; no children\\nd. .Tune 22. 1834. [See Graduates.]\\n6. George, b. Oct. 6, 1784 d. Feb. 19. 1812 never m.\\n7. Anna. b. June 17, 1787 d. Sept. 30. 1789.\\n8. 4-RlciiARD, b. Feb. 28. 1790 m. EUzabcth Aver.\\n9. Anna Ayer. b. Jan. 6, 1793; m. John S. Barrows, Esq.. of Frveburg,\\nwho d. Julv o. l84o, leaving two sons, Geora:e B. and John S. The latter\\nd. Feb. 2, 1849.\\n4-RicnARD Bradley, Esq.. who married Ehzabeth Aver, settled on the\\nold homestead in Concord. Their children are 1. John. b. Nov. 27. 1819:\\ndrowned in Ilorse-shoe pond, Julv 9, 182. 2. George, b. March 23, 1824.\\n3. Susan A., b. March 20. 1826; m. llarvev Jewell, Esq., Boston. 4.\\nMoses Hazzen, b. Sept. 17, 1833.\\n3-PHn.BRicK Bradley.\\nPhilbrick Bradley, son of Lieut. Timothy and Abiah, married Sarah Em-\\nerv. Their childieu were", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0681.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "Go6 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n1. John, born, Dec. 2o, 17S3; 2. Lucy, born May 27, 1785; 3. Abigail,\\nborn Feb. 13, 1787; 4. Sophia, born N ov. 4, l7S8 5. Sarah, b. Dec. 11,\\n1791 G. Sabra, born April 27, 1772; 7. Robert A., born June 1, 1794;\\n8. Enoch, born April 24, 1796; 9. Philbrick, born Aug. 13, 1798 10. Su-\\nsanna, born July 29, 1800.\\nSarah, his wife, died Nov. 8, 1801, in her 3 5th year. She was born Feb.\\n5, 1706, daughter of Capt. Benjamin Emery. Mary, his second wile, died\\nJan. 29, 1833, aged Gj.\\n3-TiMOTHY Bradley, Jr.\\nTimothy Bradley, Jr., son of Timothy and Abiah, born Oct. 13, 1743;\\nm. Sarah Foster. Their children were\\n1. Ehzabeth, born Jan. 9, 1775 2. Asa, born Dec. 13, 1776 3. Sarah,\\nborn April 26, 1779; 4. Abiah, born Aug. 7, 1781 5. Hannah Peters,\\nborn January 1, 1784; G. Timothy, b. January 24, 1786; 7. Foster, born\\nMay 3, 1788; 8. Abiel, born May 6, 1790.\\n3-Benjamin Bradley.\\nBenjamin Bradley was the second Benjamin in the family of Lt. Timothy,\\nand was born after the melancholy death of his oldest brother, in 1759.\\nBenjamin Bradley was twice married. His children by his first wife, Betty\\nQuimby, were\\n1. Susy, born 178G 2. Mehetabel, born 1788.\\n4-TiMOTiiY Bradley.\\nTimothy Bradley, son of 3-Timothy, jr., m. Anna Their chil-\\ndren, as recorded, Mere\\n1. Asa Foster, b. Feb. 28, 1811 2. Louisa, b. April 14, 1813; 3. Peter\\nM.,b. March 13, 1815; 4. David M., b. Sept. 7, 1817 Cyrus, b. Xov. 14,\\n1819.\\nCARTER FAMILY.\\nThe first settler of the Carter family in Concord, was I-Ephraim, about\\n1740, the father of Dr. Ezra, Daniel, Ezekiel, Joseph, Avho never married,\\nand Abigail, who married John Hoyt, p. 157. The tradition is, that Abi-\\ngail Carter came from South-Hampton, with her father, when she was\\nabout eleven years old she being the youngest of the family. She rode\\non horseback on a pillion, and forded all the streams. When the family\\nleft South-Hampton the neighbors expressed great sympathy for them\\ngathered aroimd and wept, when they bid them farewell, to go so far into\\nthe wilderness! Reaching Sugar Ball hill, they chained the wheels of the\\ncart containing their goods, to get them down the hill safely transported\\ntheir goods over the Merrimac in a canoe swimming the oxen then fas-\\ntening l)ed-cords to the tongue of the cart, dragged that across the river.\\nRc-loading their goods, they carted them all up to a house which stood\\nwhere Dr. Samuel Morril now lives.\\nTradition further says, that on one occasion Mr. Carter went to Newbury\\nwith a load of produce, and on his way losing his goad-stick, he cut a small\\nlimb from an apple tree, which he brought home Avith him, and stuck it in", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0682.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. G\\nO/\\nthe ground near the brook which runs along ^v]lere the steam-mill now\\nstands. There it took root, and grew to a large tree, which was standing\\nwhen Dr. Morril sold the lot.* Ephraim Carter and Ezra Carter were in\\nthe garrison round the house of Lt. Jeremiah Sticknev, in 174G. [See\\npage 155.]\\nDocT. 2-EzRA Carter and his Descendants.\\nDr. Ezra Carter married Ruth Eastman, 1 742. Their children were\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOci: 2rili6 26, 1745; 3. Ephraim, b.\\nS-Epiiraim Carter.\\nEphraim Carter, son of Dr. Ezra, born Oct. 21, 1746 m. Dorcas Kali.\\nTheir children were 1. Ezra, b. Oct. 24, 1769 d. Nov. 4, 1769 Han-\\nnah, b Oct. 31, 1770 3. Ezra,b. Feb. 15, 1773; died; 4. Ebcnezer, b.\\nApril 2 Ino-, died m Charleston, S. C, 1795 5. Dorcas, h. Oct. 2 777\\n?7\u00c2\u00ab? o 1? a f^^ Judith, tH-ins, b. Sept. 21, 1780; 8. Polly, b. July 1,\\n1783; 9 Ihomas Gross, b May 21, 1786; 10. Bela, b. July 12, 1789\\n11. Hubbard, b.Aprd 21, 1791; 12. Sally, b. June 6, 1794.\\n4-Bela Carter.\\nBela Carter, son of Ephraim and Dorcas, b. July 12, 1789; m. Judith\\nCarter. Their dnldren were: 1. Clarissa, b. Aug. 18, 1815; 2. Dorcas\\nHall, b. June 1, 1817; 3. Phebe Whittemore, b. Feb. 21, 1819- 4 Iluth\\nlownsend Knight, b. May 22. 1821; 5. Judith Ann, b. Oct. 28 IS ^4\\ndied Sept. 5, 1826; 6. John Whittemore, b. Aug. 18, 1826.\\n2-Daniel Carter, and his Descend.ants.\\nDaniel Carter, brother of Dr. Ezra, came to Concord about 1750. and\\nMn r h, t fi :T^ -^l ^J^ Ho was born in Salisbury,\\nMass., but first set led in South-Hampton, whence he came, after the birth bf\\nhis three eldest chiklren, to this town. His wife was Hannah Fowler.\\nShe Avas also born m Sahsbury, Mass. Their children were Ezra, :yiolly\\nAyhom.\\\\\\\\ilham Currier and Daniel, born in South-Hampton; Hannah!\\nAvho m Ezra Badger, and lived in Bow; John, Moses, and Anna, who m.\\nJohn Colby, born in Concord. Wm. Currier, who m. Molly, moved to\\nConcord between 1750 and 1760, and to Plymouth in 1793.\\n3-D.\\\\NiEL Carter, Jr.\\nDaniel Carter, Jr., son of Daniel and Hannah Fowler, born Sept 8 1 794\\nmarried Molly Chase. They removed to Winslow, Me., 1790, and sulise-\\nquently, when he was seventy years old, to Ohio. Their ch. were 1 Mar-\\ntha, b. March 30, 1771; 2. Jonathan, b. Sept. 17, 1772; m. Polly Flan-\\n,fVA 5 fh J^- O^ 2, 1 m- James Thompson; 4. Polly, b. Oct.\\n12, 17,8; 0. Sarah Houghton, b. April 14, 1777; 6 and 7, Nahum and\\nSophia, twins, b. April 10, 1783.\\n3-EzRA Carter.\\nEzra Carter, son of Daniel and Hannah Fowler, born in South-Hampton,\\nmarried PhebeJYhittemore, of Pembroke, and settled in the West Parish\\nm Concord. Their children were: 1. Ruth, b. July 6, 1765; m David\\nEastman; 2. Timothy, b. March 6, 1767; d. Feb. 7, 1843; 3. Hannah\\ni^.^Y u i V E^^ I \u00c2\u00abf Limerick, Me 4\\nS ,o F 1^ 1771; m. Moses Farnum; d. Oct. 1808; 5. Ezra b\\nMarch 1,8^1773; m Sally Fabyan 6. Phebe, b. Dec. 25, 177^; m Dr\\nRichard Hazelton 7. Esther, b. Feb. 21, 1778 m. Moses Farnui;i, 2 m.\\nTradition by Jacob lloyt, Esq. See Biography of Dr. Carter, p. 553.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0683.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "638 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n8. Daniel, b. June 1.5, 1780; m. Breed, LjTin, Mass. 9. Judith, b.\\nMay 2, 1783; m. Bcla Carter; 10. Deborah, b. April 17, 178G; m. Capt.\\nHenry liolfe.\\n4-TiMOTHY Carter.\\nTimothy Carter, son of Ezra and Phebe Whittemore, m., June 12, 1794,\\nJudith Chandler, daughter of Capt. Abiel and Judith Walker. [.Vote.\\nThis branch of the Carter family is connected Avith the Walker family. See\\nDescendants of llev. Timothy Walker.\\n3-Jacob Carter.\\nJacob Carter, son of Daniel, and Hannah Fowler, m. Sarah Eastman,\\ndaughter of Moses. Their children were\\n1. Susanna, b. January 21, 1777; d. Sept. 3, 1778 2. Susanna, May 21,\\n1780 m. Abraham Duncklee 3. Moses, M. D., b. Aug. 8, 1782 m. Clar-\\nissa Poor, Newburyport, Mass. 4. Sally, b. Aug. 2, l78o m. John Ilo-\\nbie and Jonathan Worthen 5. Ruth, b. March 20, 1788 m. Jonathan\\nProctor 6. Abiel, llev., b. March 2, 1791 m. ^laria Beach, dau. Rev.\\nAbraham, New-Brunswick, N. J. died in Savannah, 1827 7. Anna, b.\\nDec. 12, 1793 m. Jeremiah Tilton, Sanbornton 8. Jacob, m. Carohne\\nStoclung 9. Ebenezer, m. Mary Goodhue.\\n3-MosES Carter.\\nMoses Carter, son of Daniel, and Hannah Fowler, married Molly Robin-\\nson. Their children were\\n1. Wilham, b. July 13, 1788 2. Daniel, b. :Mav 12, 1790 d. Oct. 3,\\n1813 3. Pollv, b. May 3, 1793 4. Alice, b. June 7, 1795 d. March 22,\\n1812; 5. Simeon, b. Feb. lo, 1797 6. Moses, b. April 20, 1799 7. Anna,\\nb. Mar. 19, 1801 8. Hannah, b. June 10, 1803 d. July 31, 1812 9. Sa-\\nrah, b. June 13, 1805; 10. Jacob C-, b. Dec. 28, 1807; 11. Israel Evans,\\nb. April 8, 1810. Moses Carter, sen., died March 8, 1833, aged 71.\\n3-JosEPH Carter.\\nJoseph Carter, son of Daniel and Hannah, married Hannah Carr. Their\\nchildren were 1. Polly, m. Levi Abbot. 2. Abigail, m. Eben Capen. 3.\\nLydia, m. Andrew Robmson. 4. Nathaniel IL, [see biography.] 5. Thomas\\n1 m., \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Mary Colby 2 m., Laura Strong. 6. Betsey, m. Ebenezer Hutchinson.\\nCol. 3-JoKN Carter.\\nJohn Carter, son of Daniel and Hannah Fowler 1 m., Betsey Brown,\\nand had one daughter, Anna 2 m. M id. Lucy Wells, formerly Cavis. Their\\nchildren, Betsey, Wells, John, Nathaniel, Aaron, William SI. and Hiram.\\n3-EpnRAiM Carter.\\nEphraim Carter, son of 2-Ezekiel, m. Dorcas Presby. Their children\\nwere: 1. Rebecca, b. July 14, 1789. 2. Phebe, b. April 6, 1791. 3. Katy,\\nb. May 21, 1793. 4. Nathan, b. Oct. 11, 1795, 5. Dorcas, b. Dec. 3,\\n1797. 6. David, b. Jan. 5, 1800. 7. John, b. Feb. 4, 1802. 8. Ezekiel,\\nb. May 26, 1804.\\nEphraim Carter.\\nEphraim Carter married Lydia. Amos, their son, born Oct. 7, 1793.\\nCHANDLER FAMILY.\\nCapt. John ChxIxdler and his Descendants.\\nCapt. John Chandler, one of the original proprietors of Concord, was a\\nson of Capt. John, of Andover, who was a man of great muscular power.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0684.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 639\\nand famous as a wrestler. It is related, that being informed that Rev.\\nMr. Wise, of Ipswich, excelled in the art of wrestling, and had not been\\nthrown, he made a journey on purpose to try his strength and skill.\\nMr. Wise, on being requested to wrestle, declined having reUn-\\nquished the practice, as unsuitable to his profession. But being earnestly\\nsolicited by Mr. Chandler, they went into a door-yard, which yas fenced\\nby a wall set in the bank, took hold, and began to play when Mr. Wise,\\nsuddenly, with a ti-ip and twitch, threw him over the wall upon his back.\\nChandler rose and requested another trial, but Mr. AVise refused. So the\\nCaptain returned home sadly disappointed. [JVote. On p. 134, in notice\\nof Capt. Chandler, it is said his father died in 1721, and that he was\\ngrandson of Capt. Thomas Chandler. It should read 1740, and that he was\\ngreat-g) andson, c.\\nCapt. Jolm Chandler, who settled in Concord, is reckoned in the Chand-\\nler genealogy the fourth in descent from Capt. Thos. Chandler, one of the\\nfirst settlers of Andover, whose sister, Hannah Chandler, married 1-George\\nAbbot. In this Genealogy we call Capt. 1-John Chandler, of Concord, the\\nfirst generation.\\n1-Capt. John Chaxdler, b. 1702, m. 3-Tabitha Abbot, and d. July 26,\\n1775, aged 72. [He Uved in a house west of Richard Bradley s, where\\nHamilton Perkins, Esq. recently Iniilt. [See Hist., p. 244, and biography\\nof Alnel Chandler, p. Their children were\\n1. John, b. 1731; m., 1751, Marv Carter; d. Mar. 1, 1807. 2. Timo-\\nthy, b. Aug. 15, 1733 m. Elizabeth Copp d. March 24, 1770. 3. Dan-\\niel, b. Feb. 15, 1735 m. Sarah Eastman, dau. of Capt. Ebenezer, jr. d. Oct.\\n25, 1795. 4. Joshua, b. June 9, 1740; m. Irene Copp; d. Dec. 3, 1816.\\n5. Hannah, b. Sept. 3, 1744.\\n2-LiEUT. John Ch.\\\\ndlek.\\nLt. John Chandler, son of Capt. John, b. 1731 m., 1751, Mary Carter,\\nwho d. June 9, 1793, aged 64. Their children were\\n1. Capt. John, b. Dec. 11, 1752; m. Naomi Farnum b. April, 1760; d.\\nMar. 1832. 2. Nathan, April 28, 1754; m. Susan Ambrose d. April 13,\\n1781. 3. Isaac, b. April 18, 1758; m. Mary Kimball; d. Mar. 1826.\\n4. Joseph, b. Nov. 18, 1760; m. Hannah Farrington d. April 23, 1826.\\n5. Jeremiah, b. March 31, 1763; m. Judith Farnum; d. Feb. 1829. 6.\\nMoses, b. Nov. 23, 1765 m. Sally Goodwin.\\n2-TiMOTHY Chandler.\\nTimothy Chandler, son of Capt. John Chandler, b. August 15, 1733; m.\\nElizabeth Copp; b. April 16, 1740. Their children were\\n1. Tabitha, b. June 17, 1760 m. Mclntire. 2. Timothv, b. April 25,\\n1762; m. Sarah Abbot; d. Aug. 9, 1848, a. 86. 3. Abiel, b. Oct. 20,\\n1765; m. Miss Thomas. 4. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 28, 1768; never married;\\nd. Jan. 25, 1799.\\n2-Daniel Ch.axdler.\\nDaniel Chandler, son of Capt. John Chandler, b. Feb. 15, 1735 1 m. Sa-\\nrah Eastman, daughter of Ebenezer Eastman, jr. Their children were\\n1. Sarah, b. Dec. 15, 1756; m. Abner Flanders; d. 1842, ee 86. He", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0685.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "640 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n2 m. Sarah Merrill, daii. of Dca. John Merrill. 2. Molly, b. Jan. 27,\\n1760; 1 m. Ebcnczcr West 2 m. Richard Flanders d. May 1, 1831, ae\\n71. 3. Hannah, b. June 19, 1773; m., June 7, 1787, Joshua Graham\\nd, March 31, 1828, aged Go. 4. Lydia, b. June 22, 1765; m. Jonas Wy-\\nman; d. June 24, 1842. 5. Abigail, b. Julv 4, 1767; m. Jan. 12, 1784,\\nOliver Flanders d. Jan. 2, 1841. 6. Paul b. May 5, 1770; m. Susan\\nHardv d. April 5, 181o. 7. Ann, b. 1771 m. llichard Walker; d. Feb.\\n7, 1790. 8. Abiel, b. Fel). 26, 1777; m., May, 1827 or 28, Dorcas Sar-\\ngent, dau. of E])pes Sargent, of Boston. H. Coll., 1806. [See Biographv-]\\n9. John, b. March 19, 1781 m., Nov. 28, 1805, Mary Harriman.\\n2-JosHUA Chandler.\\nJoshua Chander, son of Capt. John; b. June 9, 1740; m. Irena Copp.\\nShe. d. Dec. 7, 1810. Their children were\\n1. Daniel, b. Sept. 1, 1768; m. Mehitabcl Arlin d. June 1817. 2.\\nRuth, b. Feb. 20, 1770; m. George Arlin; d. May, 1792. 3. Ruhamah,\\nb. May 4, 1772; m. 4. Sarah, b. Feb. 12, 1774 m. Geo. Arlin, 1792.\\n5. Joshua, b. Feb. 1776; d. 6. Hannah, b. April, 1779; never married.\\n7. Joshua, b. Sept. 4, 1782 m. Nancy Arlin.\\nS-TlMOTIIY ClIAXDLER, jr.\\nTimothy Chandler, jr., son of Timothy Chandler, b. April 25, 1762; m.\\n5-Sarah Abbot, 1787. Their children were\\n1. Peregrine White, b. Julv 10, 1788; d. Aug. 28, 1792 2. Sally, b.\\nFeb. 11, 1791. 3. Peregrine Hale White, b. March, 6, 1793\u00e2\u0080\u0094 /e/o de se.\\n4. Judith, b. Feb. 16, 1796; never m. 5. Timothy Fav,b. May 21, 1798. 6.\\nDorcas, b. July 22, 1800. 7. Isaac Abbot, b. October 2, 1801. 8. John\\nBradley, b. Feb. 13, 1805. 9. Abiel, b. April 2, 1807 m. Mary L. Felt.\\n10. Seneca, b. Sept. 10, 1809; d. 11. Elizabeth, Feb. 4, 1812.\\nBesides the foregoing, who were descendants of Capt. John Chandler,\\nthe original settler, there are other ancient families of the Chandler name,\\nto wit\\nCapt. Abiel Chandler.\\nAbiel Chandler, son of Abiel Chandler, of Andover, born May 11, 1744,\\nwas Cajitain in the Mihtia, Adjutant in the Army, and Justice of the Peace.\\nHe died of the small pox at Crown Point, 1776. He m. Judith Walker,\\ndaughter of Rev. Timothy Walker, first minister of Concord. Their chil-\\ndren were\\n1. Sarah, b. Jan. 15, 1768 m. Peter Blanchard. 2. Judith, b. Oct. 9,\\n1779; m. Timothy Carter, Esq. [See Descendants of Rev. Timothy\\nWalker. 3. Rebecca, b. Dec. 17, 1773.\\nHenry Cii.vndler.\\nHenry Chandler, still living at the age of 89, son of Henry, of Andover,\\nMs., b. Julv 16, 1766, Avas an early settler at Little Pond; m. March 11,\\n1798, 6-Ruth Abbot, dau. of 5-Rcuben Abbot. She d. Feb. 20, 1849, a.\\n72. Their children Avere\\n1. Phebe, b. Jan. 23, 1799; m. July 4, 1836, Daniel Dunlap. 2. Henry,\\nb. May 13, 1800; d. Jan. 16, 1810. [See p. 349.] 3. Rebecca A., b. Feb.\\n14, 1803; m. March 6, 1828, Dea. James Moulton d. April 23, 1844. 4.\\nJudith, b. Jan. 8, 1807 m. Aug. 2, 1842, Abiel R. Crosby, d. 5. Susan\\nD., b. Dec. 31, 1810; m. October 9, 1834, WilHam Pecker. 6. Maria, b.\\nNov. 28, 1813 m., May 30, 1853, Joseph C. Tilton. Lucia, b. April 23,\\n1816.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0686.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 641\\nNathan Chandler was also an early settler at Little Pond, from An-\\ndover; d. Jan. 27, 1837, ag. 80. His wife Lucy, d. June 8, 1827, ag. 67.\\nTheir cliildren were Nathan, Ezra, Hammon, Lucy, Rebecca, and Dorcas.\\nDAVIS FAMILY.\\nEphraim Davis was an original proprietor and settler in Concord. See\\np. 135. There is no record to be found of his family; but he had three\\nsons, Samuel, Benjamin and Robert and two daughters, whose names are\\nbeheved to have been Deborah and Judith. Samuel and Benjamin were\\nsoldiers in the Frencli War. One of them was drowned, and the other\\ndied soon after his return, of sickness contracted m the camp. Of the\\ndaughters, the elder married Col. Moses Baker, of Campton, and the\\nyoimger a Mr. Morrison, who lived at or near Sanbornton Bridge.\\nRobert, son of Ephraim, m. Sarah Walker. Their children were\\n1. Deborah, b. Julv 14, 1757; m. Daniel Hall. 2. Samuel, b. April 17,\\n1759. 3. David, b. June 20, 1761. 4. Benjamin, b. May 17, 1763; d.\\nJune 10, 1792; never m. 5. Sarah, b. October 10, 1767; m. Lt. Joshua\\nThompson. 6. James, b. Feb. 27, 1770; drowned in Horse Shoe pond.\\n7. Polly, b. Feb. 25, 1773; m. Elijah Russell. 8. Judith, b. Feb. 24,\\n1775; m. Abiel Walker. 9. Moses, b. Feb. 23, 1777 m. Nancy Fuller;\\nd. at Hanover, July, 1806. Robert Davis died August, 1823, aged 89.\\nSarah Davis, his wife, died April, 1824, aged 87.\\nDavid Davis, son of Robert and Sarah Walker, m. Sally Cavis, of\\nBow. Their children were\\n1. Lucy, d. y. Lucy, b. Nov. 17, 1785. Robert, b. March 9, 1790.\\nRobert Davis, son of Robert, and Sally Cavis, 1 m. Eliza Tapley llall,\\nof Boston. Their children Avere\\n1. Sarah Elizabeth, b. April 17, 1819; m. Franklin Evans. 2. Edward\\nH., b. Feb. 25, 1821. 3. Robert Lewis, b. Dec. 3, 1822. 4. Henry C,\\nb. May 2, 1825. 2 m. wid. Rebecca A. Whitney, of Boston.\\nSamuel Davis, son of Robert and Sarah Walker, settled in the West\\nParish m. LycUa iSIerrill. Their children were\\n1. Dorcas, m. Enoch Farnum, d. 2. Sarah, m. James Buswell, first\\nwife, d. 3. Nancy, m. Laban Page, d. 4. Ruth, m. Ephraim Colby, d.\\n5. Robert, m. Almira Dearborn d. leaving one son, Charles A. Davis,\\nM. D., now living. 6. Samuel, d. unmarried. 7. Judith, m. James Bus-\\nwell, 2d w. 8. Moses, m. Esther Martin. 9. David, m. Eliza Phelps.\\nTHE DIMOND FAMILY.\\n[Facts furnished by Mrs. Sarah, wife of Capt. Samuel Knowlton.]\\nEZEKIEL DiMOND, the common ancestor of the families of that name now\\nresident in Concord, came hither with his wife about 1750. Both were na-\\ntives of South Hampton, in this State. They had ten children seven\\nsons and three daughters two of whom died in infancy. AU the sons ex-\\ncept one lived to be over 70 years of age, and two were between 80 and 90.\\n41", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0687.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "642 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nTheir second child, a daughter, lived to be 75. During the period of In-\\ndian troubles they lived in the garrison around the house of Rev. ]\\\\Ir. Walk-\\ner. When their first daughter was eighteen months old the garrison gate\\nfell on her, and hurt her head so badly that life was despaired of for some\\ntime but she providentially recovered, with no other injury that the loss\\nof the sight of her left eye. Mr. Dimond s ancestors emigrated from De-\\nvonshire, England, to this country.* He was the first settler on the farm\\nnow owned by Mr. Joseph S. Abbot, on Avhat is called Dimond s Hill, and\\nlived in a log house on the brow of the hill. He became an extensive land-\\nowner, and had a proprietor s right. In their log-house the family was\\noften alarmed by the Indians, and moved back and forth fi-om their farm to\\nthe Fort. Once, when alarmed by the Indians, Mrs. Dimond had a web\\nin her loom, and she took out the yarn beam and wound the reed and har-\\nness about it, carried it to the Fort and wove it out there.\\nSchools then were very uncommon. Their sons had a taste for learning\\nthe parents were very good readers for the times Mr. Dimond himself a\\ngood writer, and they taught their children so much that they were all good\\nreaders, and could write and cipher. Some of the oldest children never\\nwent to school over six weeks. Their manner of learning to write was a\\nnovel one. Winter evenings, supplying themselves with pitch-pine knots\\ninstead of lamps and candles, and with birch-bark instead of paper, they\\nwould lie down before the fire and \u00e2\u0096\u00a0vvi ite\\nJacob Dimond, the third son, was a self taught man. He kept school\\nfor many years. It is probable he kept the first school ever taught in what\\nis now Dist. No. 7, in an old, uninhabited house, before a school house was\\nbuilt there. About the year 1792 or 1793 he went to Kennebec, in Maine\\nthere kept school, and \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\\\\\Tote for business men. He had something of a\\npoetic gift, and the last time he visited his friends in Concord he composed\\nand left an Acrostic for his mother s consolation.t She was a pious woman,\\nbut he was not a professor of rehgion, and their parting was always a sor-\\nrowful one.\\nTHE ACROSTIC.\\nJesus, thou might} King on high,\\nAnd sovereign Lord of all below,\\nCommand thy great salvation nigh\\nO Lord, to me thy mercy show\\nBehold, I stand in need\\nDeal gently with thy servant, Lord\\nIn mercy. Lord, incline\\nMay I receive the Gospel sound\\nObey its precepts, and be found\\nNear to thy throne of grace.\\nThere was a John Diamond in Lynn, 1647.\\nf My grand parents, Ezekiel and Miriam Dimond, were bntli professor? of religion, and\\nbelonged to i)arson Walker s church. They lived to see the third minister. Rev. Or. McFar-\\nland, settled in Concord. Grandfather died Feb. 22, 1800, aged 75; grandmother died April,\\n1809, aged 82 Sarah Knowlton.\\nTo. Dr. BouTON.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0688.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 643\\nFoiu of the sons were in the Revolutionary war one of them was out\\nthree years the others were out a few months at a time.\\nIn addition to the foregoing, the following names are found in the town\\nrecords\\nEzekiel, son of Ezekiel and Miriam Dimond, b. Sept. 11, 1749. Isaac,\\nb, Aug. 24, 1759.\\nReuben Dimond m. Molly Currier. Their children were\\nSallv, b. July 23, 1781. Esther, b. Nov. 19, 1782. AViUiam, b. Aug. 9,\\n1784. Daniel, b. March 22, 1786. Hannah, b. Oct. 19, 1787. Jacob, b.\\nSept. 5, 1789. Molly, b. July 29, 1791.\\nIsaac Dimond, m. Hannah Sleeper. Their child, Origen, was b. Aug.,\\n1799.\\nJohn Dimond, who d. Jan. 14, 1830, aged 66, had a large family.\\nDOW FA]\\\\IILY.\\n1-Ebenezer Dow, the ancestor of the Dow family in Concord, Avas born\\nabout 1737, supposed at Newbury, Mass. According to family tradition he\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was a ranger in the time of the French and Indian wars, from 1757 to\\nabout 1762 was in the fight at Ticonderoga, Cvowa Point and Fort Wil-\\nliam Henry, and at the capture of Louisbm-g, in 1758. He was also at the\\ncapture of Quebec, in 1759. In his old age he used to relate the incidents\\nof his Hfe, to the great entertainment of his children and grand-children.\\nHe said that at the massacre at Fort WilUam Henry he heard the groans\\nof the dying praying and cursing and the yells of savages, all mixed\\ntogether. While a ranger, he was once sent with a company, in the winter,\\nto surprise an encampment of Indians. Being short of provisions, they\\nsupposed they should find a supply when they arrived at the encamp-\\nment but the Indians had fled, and left nothing but a hide, which was\\nhanging up. This the company divided into equal parts. Dow and three\\nothers had for their share a piece as big as two hands, of which they made\\na soup, drank the broth, and then started to return. They were three days\\non the way. Attempting to cross a lake on the ice, Dow took off his snow-\\nshoes in doing which, a gust of wind blew away his mittens, and then his\\nhands were badly frozen. Ahnost starved, he reached a log house, where\\nthey were making bean-porridge, and, in his haste to satiate his hunger, he\\nthrust his frozen hands into the pot, and they were injured and disfig-\\nured for life. Of the party, only four lived to return.\\nIn the Revolutionary war, Mr. Dow was in constant service. He stood\\nas a minute-man at Concord, Mass., when the red coats came to destroy\\nthe stores there. He saw the bodies of those who were killed at Lexing-\\nton, April 19, when they were laid out. He was also in the battle of Bun-\\nker Hill, and joined the expedition under Col. Arnold, when he attempted\\nto reach Canada by what is called the Kennebec route in which he en-\\ndured almost incredible sufferings from fatigue, cold and hunger. At Quebec", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0689.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "644 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nhe Avas taken prisoner bnt, on being exchanged, he again entered the\\narmy, and was in the battles of Bennington and Stillwater.\\nMr. Dow Uved in the West Parish of Concord, with his son, Moody Dow,\\nand died November, 1817, aged 80 years.\\nThe descendants of Ebenezer Dow, as entered on the to\\\\ra records, are\\n2-JosEPll Dow. m. Hannah Walker. Their children were 1. Joseph\\nFarnum, b. Dec. 9, 1794. 2. Ruth Walker, b. Sept. 6, 1797. 3. Wasliing-\\nton, b. Dec. 31, 1799. 4. Jacob, b. Sept. 24, 1801.\\n2-TiMOTnY Dow, m. Margaret Gott, of Pembroke. 1. Polly, b. March\\n24, 1780. 2. Samuel, b. Feb. 24, 1782. 3. Timothy, b. July 27, 1784.\\n4. Hannah, b. April 6, 1786. 5. Isaac, b. Dec. 31, 1789. 6. WiUiam, b.\\nJan. 14, 1793.\\n2-Is.\\\\AC Dow, Esq., married Hephsibah Farnum. Their children were\\n1. Isaac W., b. Dec. 26, 1797; d. 2. Susan, July 14, 1799; d. May 14,\\n1852, aged 52. 3. Judith, b. June 7, 1801; d. Dec. 29, 1835, aged 34.\\n4. Ebenezer, d. Dec 2, 1825, aged 22. 5. Lucinda, d. Jan. 5, 1828, aged\\n22. 6. Maria, d. July 22, 1831, aged 23. 7. Albert G., m. INIary Hamil-\\nton six ch., and hvcs in Ohio. 8. ^lary Ann, married Ilalph Wells. 9.\\nJohn R. 10. Benjamin F., m. Martha Hall six ch. 11. James M., d.\\nFeb. 2, 1840, aged 22. 12. EHzabeth AY., d. Oct. 6, 1851, aged 32.\\nIsaac Dow, Esq., whose Hkeness accompanies this notice, hyed in the West\\nvillage, and Avas a tanner and currier by trade. He was a man of native\\ngood sense and sound judgment often employed in town affairs select-\\nman in 1822 and 1823, and was on the committee to purchase the tovra\\nfarm, m 1827. Esq. Dow was a man of integrity and firm purpose strong\\nm his poUtical preferences, and attached to the democratic party. His influ-\\nence was always on the side of morals, good order, education and rehgion.\\nAt the age of about fifty he made a public profession of rehgion in the\\nFirst Congregational Church, but subsequently became a member of the\\nWest Congregational Church. He was greatly afflicted by the death of\\nmany of his children but, resigned to the will of God, he cheerfully bore\\nthe trials of hfe and infirmities of age, and died, much respected, in the\\nfaith and hope of the gospel, Feb. 17, 1851, aged 77. His widow d. Feb.\\n13, 1855, aged 78. The youngest son, Benjamin F., lives on the home-\\nstead.\\n2-MooDY Dow, another son of Ebenezer, 1 m. Margaret White, of\\nBow. Their chilcbren\\n1. Betsey, b. Dec. 7, 1795; 2. Clarissa, b. March 26, 1796; 3. Isaac\\nWhite, b. Aug. 4, 1801 4. Ira, son of Moody and 2 w. Joanna, b. Feb.\\n16, 1803 5. Peggy, b. March 24, 1804 6. iNIoody, b. June 11, 1808 7.\\nEnoch H., b. Feb. 19, 1806 m. Judith W. Chandler, selectman 1837 and\\n1840 d. Feb. 22, 1853, aged 47 8. Rebecca, b. May 10, 1810; 9. Rhoda,\\nb. Nov. 12, 1811.\\n3-Saml el Dow, [T. Rec] son of 2-Timoth} 1 m. Mary Ann\\nTheir children\\n1. Margaret, b. May 29, 1810; 2. Hannah, b. Oct. 1, 1814 3. Joseph,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0690.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "SliiiijS jIiSW^", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0693.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0694.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. G45\\nb. Sept. 10, 1817 4. Samuel H., b. }\u00c2\u00bbIarch 30, 1S2J 5. Mary Ann, b.\\nFeb. 28, 1827. 2 m. Sally\\n2-Ebenezer Dow, [T. Rec] m. Susannah Their children\\nMoUv, b. Oct. 5, 1806. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 23, 1810.\\nEASTMAN FAMILY.\\nDescexd.^-ts of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman,\\n1-Capt. Ebenezer Eastm.\\\\n. [See pp. 13a, and 551-3.]\\nCapt. Ebenezer Eastman, son of Philip Eastman, of Haverhill, Mass.,\\nand grandson of Roge^ Eastman the first of the name who settled in\\nSalisbury, Mass., in 1640 was born Jan. 10, 1689 married Sarah Peas-\\nlee, of Haverhill, ^Slarch 4, 1710; became an early settler in Concord, where\\nhe died July 28, 1748, aged 59. Six of his sons also settled in Concord\\nbefore 1731. His children were\\n1. Ebenezer, b. Sept. 5, 1711 m. Eleanor d. 1778. 2. Philip,\\nb. Nov. 13, 1713; m. Abiah Bradley; d. Sept. 1, 1804. 3. Joseph, b.\\nJune 10, 1715; m. Abigail Mellen d. 1803. 4. Nathaniel, b. March 16,\\n1717: m. Phoelje 1754. 5. Jeremiah, b. Aug. 25, 1719; m. Dor-\\nothy Carter. 6. Obadiah, b. Dec. 11, 1721. 7. Ruth, b. Jan. 17, 1729;\\nm. Dr. Ezra Carter, 1742; 2 m. Fowler, of Eoscawen. 8. Moses, b. Feb.\\n28, 1732 m. EHzabeth Kimball; d. April 4, 1812.\\n2-Ebenezer Eastman, Jr.,\\nSon of Capt. Ebenezer, was born in Haverhill, Mass., Sept. 5, 1711 m.\\nEleanor settled in Concord d. 1778, aged 67. His children were\\n1. Sarah, b. July 14, 1737; m. Daniel Chandler, 1755. 2. Stilson, b.\\nJan. 7, 1738; [see pp. 195, 591.] 3. Ebenezer, b. April 17, 1740. 4.\\nPeaslee, b. Aug. 20, 1742. 5. Elizabeth, July 31, 1744. 6. Eleanor, b.\\nSept. 6, 1746. 7. Allen, b. July 23, 1748.\\n2-Philip Eastman,\\nSon of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, born Nov. 13, 1713; m. Abiah Brad-\\nley, March 29, 1739, and died Sept. 1, 1804, aged 80. Philip Eastman\\nwas one of the most useful citizens of liis generation. He was a man of\\ngreat resolution and force of sound judgment, and took a leading part m\\nthe business of the Proprietors and in town afiairs. His children were\\n1. Robert, b. Oct. 5, 1742; m. Mary Bradley; d. Mav 22, 1812. 2.\\nJonathan, b. June 10, 1746; m. Mary Chandler; d. Oct. 19, 1834.\\n3. Ruth, m. Page.\\n2-Capt. Joseph Eastm-^n,\\nSon of Capt. Ebenezer, was born June 10, 1715; m. Abigail Mellen,\\ndau. of Dea. Henry Mellen, of Hopkinton, Mass. He died 1803. She\\ndied March 13, 1801, aged 81. Their children Avere:\\n1. Mary, b. Feb. 16, 1740; m. Major Asa Kimball; d. 1805, aged 65.\\n2. Abigail, b. May 27, 1741; m. Joseph Eastman; d. 1832, aged 90. 3.\\nMoses, b. March 3, 1743 m. Lucretia Tyler d. 1796, aged 53. 4. Sarah,\\nb. Nov. 5, 1755 m. David Young d. 1836, aged 81. 5. John, b. March\\n4, 1758; m. Syl)el Chamberlain. 6. Jenny, b. Sept. 12, 1762; m. Hon.\\nWm. Chamberlain, Peacham, Vt. d. 1830.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0695.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "646 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n2-NATnANiEi. Eastman,\\nSon of Capt. Ehenezer, was born March 16, 1717; m. Phoebe\\n1754. Their children were\\n1. Xathaniel, b. Oct. 9, 17 oo m. Ruth Bradley. 2. Mary, b. April 6,\\n17o8 m. Aljel Blanchard, Pcacham, Vt. 3. Ehzabeth, b. June 5, 1761;\\nm. Aliiel IManchard. 4. Jacob, h. July 9, 1763 m. Abif^ail Kimball, June\\n27, 1784. .5. Ilhoda, b. April 7, 1766; m. James llosmer. 6. Levi, b.\\nJuly 24, 1771.\\n2-MosEs Eastman,\\nSon of Capt. Ehenezer, was born Feb. 28, 1732 m. Ehzabeth Kimball,\\n1756, and died April 4, 1812, aged 80. Their children were\\n1. Sarah, b. Au t. 8, 1757 m. Jacob Carter. 2. Susanna, b. Oct. 30,\\n1759 m. John West. 3. David, b. Jan. 15, 1763 m. lluth Carter. 4.\\nEhenezer, b. Oct. 19, 1765 m. Esther Farnum. 5. Abiel, b. Oct. 3, 1767\\nm. Sally Thompson. 6. Judith, Sept. 7, 1769; m. Aaron Austin. 7.\\nPhinehas, b. Jan. 20, 1772; m. Susan Coji^swell. 8. Simeon, b. May 11,\\n1774; m. Abij^ail Virgin. 9. Jemima, b. Oct. 13, 1776; ni. 10. Betsey,\\nb. April 2, 1779; m. I^athrop, of Cleaveland, O. 11. Persis, b. May\\n31, 1781 m. Jacob Trussell, of Canaan.\\n3-Stilson Eastman.\\nStilson Eastman, son of Ehenezer Eastman, jr., was born Jan. 7, 1738,\\nand married a daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Hutchins. Their children were\\n1. Nathaniel, m. Elizabeth Watts, July 9, 1774. 2. Peaslee, m. Molly\\nGraham, Aug. 13, 1786. 3. Caleb, m. Comfort Haines, March 9, 1790.\\n4. Theodore, m. Damaris Darling. She died Aug. 25, 1799. 5. Amos,\\nm. 6. Betsey, m. Simeon Brackett. 7. Ruth, m. Weeks.\\n3-JoNATiiAN Eastman, [see p. 590,]\\nSon of Philip, was born June 10, 1746, and married Molly Chandler,\\nJan. 5, 1769, by whom he had two children. His second wife, Esther\\nJohnson, of Woburn, Mass., was born May 4, 1753: married July 12, 1776.\\npjsther Johnson M as a daughter of Francis, son of Uriah, son of Maj.\\nWilham, son of Ca])t. Edward Johnson, who came from Heme Hill, in the\\ncounty of Kent, England, in 1630, and settled at Wol)urn, which he repre-\\nsented in the General Court twenty-eight years, and was sjieaker of the\\nHouse. He published a History of New-England in 1652, and died at an\\nadvanced age, April 23, 1672. Jona. Eastman d. Oct. 19, 1834, aged 87.\\nHis wife d. Sept. 17, 1834, aged 81. Their children were:\\n1. Asa, b. Dec. 5, 1770 m. Mary Kimball. 2. PhiHp, b. Jan. 15, 1773\\nm. Susan Osgood. 3. Mollv, b. Aug. 30, 1777 d. Sept. 10, 1778. 4.\\nSeth, b. June 12, 1779; d. March 22, 1801. 5. Jonathan, b. Nov. 14,\\n1781; m. Mary Chandler. 6. Robert, b. Dec. 30, 1783; m. Sarah Lee.\\n7. John Langdon, b. Dec. 30, 1785 m. Mary Osgood. 8. Molly, Sept. 3,\\n1791.\\n3-MosES Eastman, Jr.,\\nSon of 2-Capt. Joseph Eastman, was born March 3, 1743 m. Lucretia\\nTyler, 1768, and d. ,1796, aged 53. Their children Avere\\n1. Hannah, b. Jan. 5, 1770. 2. Salome, b. Aug. 3, 1771. 3. Charles,\\nb. Dec. 11, 1774; 1 m. Sallv Bradley, 1798. 4. Nancy, b. Dec. 11, 1778.\\n5. Warren, b. Oct. 2, 1781. 6. Lycurgus, b. Jan. 3, 1784. 7. Lucretia,\\nb. Sept. 6, 1789.\\n3-Capt. John Eastman,\\nSon of 2-Capt. Joseph, was born March 4, 1759; m. Sybel Chamber-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0696.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0697.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "fSiVIF? ^\u00c2\u00ae]IIir. IJLil lE^I", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0698.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 647\\nlam, daughter of Samuel, Oct. 10, 1781. He died Oct. 18, 1838, aged 80.\\nTheir children were\\n1. Samuel, b. July 15, 1782; m. Eleanor Campbell; moved to Charles-\\ntoATO, Me. 2. Patty, b. Oct. 29, 17S4; m. Dea. Nathaniel Amln-osc, 2\\nwife. 3. Cyrus, b. May 7, 1787 m. Eliza Cushing, Amherst. 4. Thomas,\\nb. May 21, 1789; m. Lucy Cushing; moved to Peacham, Vt. 5. John,\\nb. Sejit. 3, 1791 1 m. Dorothy DeForest, who d. July 8, 1836; 2 m. Lu-\\ncinda Buswell. 6. Moses, b. June 17, 1794; m. Elizabeth ]\\\\I. Tuthill. 7.\\nBetsev, b. June 1, 1797 d. March 20, 1838, aged 41. 8. Mellen, b. Nov.\\n3, 18()0, d. Troy, N. Y., Sept., 1822. 9. Joseph, b. June 13, 1803; m.\\nAlmira Farnum, Nov., 1835.\\nCapt. John Eastmax, whose likeness accompanies this notice of his\\nfamily, was a highly respected and useful citizen, residing on the east side\\nof the river, in the ancient house, still standing, a few rods northwest of\\nthe railroad station. lie was a man of much decision prudent, industri-\\nous and religious. He united with the church, under Dr. ^NIcFarland s\\nministry, Nov. 6, 1808, and maintained a consistent Christian walk and\\nconversation as long as he Hved leavmg, in property, character and exam-\\nple, a valuable legacy to his children. The lilceness, which is very perfect,\\nwas taken from an original painting by Hon. Jacob A. Potter, about 1831.\\n3-Natha:niel Eastman.\\nSon of 2-Nathaniel, was born Oct. 9, 1755; d. May 7, 1839, aged 84;\\nmarried Ruth Bradley; d. Nov. 4, 1841, aged 84. Mrs. Eastman was a\\nvery capable woman, gifted in conversation, and was one of the first Bap-\\ntists in Concord. Their chikben were\\n1. Isaac, b. June 16, 1780; m. Abigail Tay. 2. Phcebe, b. April 8,\\n1782; m. Samuel Brown. 3. Bradlev, b. June 18, 1784; m. Sally Noyes\\nd. Nov. 27, 1840. 4. Timothy, b. Sept. 15, 1786 m. Abigail Wilkins,\\n5. Ruth, b. Jan 7, 1789 m. Benjamin Bailey. 6. Ebenozer, b. Feb. 20,\\n1791 m. Mary D. Underwood. 7. Abraham, b. March 23, 1793 d. Oct.\\n2, 1818. 8. Seth, b. Aug. 11, 1801 m. Sarah Coffin.\\n3-Jacob Eastm.an,\\nSon of 2-Nathaniel Eastman, was born July 9, 1763; married Abigail\\nNoyes, June 27, 1784; Jacob, d. June 1, 1850; Abigail, Sept. 8, 1849.\\nTheir children were\\n1. Chandler, b. Dec. 31, 1784; m. Abigail Bradley, March 10, 1806; d.\\nJuly, 1851. 2. Esther, b. Oct. 27, 1786; m. Stephen Chase, April 15,\\n1807. 3. Abel, b. Jan. 12, 1788; m. Sally Chandler, 1808; d. Nov. 13,\\n1822. 4. Herman, b. Dec. 20, 1790 m. Sally Hosmer. 5. Polly, b. Nov.\\n16, 1792; m. Zephaniah Batchelder, Dec 25, 1801. 6. Hazeni b. Nov.\\n14, 1794; m. Ehzabeth G. Currier. 7. Sophia, b. Dec. 7, 1795; d. Oct.\\n2, 1798. 8. Sophia, b. July 7, 1799; m. Josiah Furnald, July 9, 1816.\\n9. Jacob, b. Oct. 23, 1801 d. May 5, 1829. 10. Ph(jebe, b. Dec. 14,\\n1803 m. Jonathan Sargent, Canterbury. 11. Nathaniel, b. June 20, 1806\\nd. Nov. 18, 1830. 12. Luther, b. April 11, 1809; d. Dec. 30, 1826.\\n3-Abiel Eastm.ax,\\nSon of 2-:Moses, born Oct. 3, 1767; d. March 18, 1841 married Sarah\\nThomjison. Their children were\\n1. Hiram, b. Aug. 6, 1799 d. Nov. 28, 1829. 2. Adaline, b. Aug. 25,\\n1800. 3. Susanna, b. May 21, 1802; 4. Kimball, b. March 16, 1805. 5.\\nAbiel, b. Nov. 24, 1806. 6. Hamilton. 7. Sally. 8. Nancy.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0701.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "648 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n4-Theodoiie Eastmax, Ko^ ^0^\\nSon of Stilson, married Damaris Darling. Their children werej\\n1. Ebenozer, d. 2. Damaris, m. Bonjawiin Q AJamsi IR^vTE. E. Ad-\\nams, Nashua, and J. O. Adams, Esq. editor of the Granite Farmer, IManches-\\nter, are their sons. Mrs. Adams d. June 19, 1854, aged 59. 3. Ezra,\\nli\\\\ing in Gilford. 4. Caleb, Hving in Monroe Co., N. Y.\\n4-JoxATHAN Eastman, Jk., Esq.,\\nSon of 3-Jonathan Eastman, b. Nov. 14, 1781; m. Mary Chandler.\\nTheir children were\\n1. Caroline, b. Sept. 29, 1806; d. Sept. 30, 1830. 2. Annette, b. Oct.\\n30, 1809; m. Jeremiah F. Danicll, Franklin. 3. Sarah Chandler, b. Dec.\\n16, 1812; m. James Frye. 4. Mary Lang, b. Dec. 22, 1815; m. Jere-\\nmiah Pecker, jr. 5. Harriet Stark, b. July 26, 1828.\\n4-ROBEE.T EaSTMAK,\\nSon of 3-Jonathan, b. Dec. 31, 1783; m. Sarah Lee. Their children\\nwere\\n1. Seth, b. Jan. 24, 1808, [See Graduates;] m. Mary Henderson. Has\\nsix chidren. 2. Charles, b. March 4, 1809 grad. Union College lives in\\nAusterhtz, N. Y. 3. Mary Jane, m. Rev. Samuel Utley has four chil-\\ndren. 4. JuHa Ann, m. Jonathan Palmer lives in Boston. 5. Sarah E.,\\nm. Stephen Sage, merchant. 6. Maria Lee, a teacher. Village Green, near\\nPhiladelphia. 7. Hannah E., 1). July 7, 18l7 d. May 7, 1818. 8. Han-\\nnah E., m. Martin B. Chittenden, musician, at Granville, 111. 9. Robert,\\nmercliant, Lowell, Mass., m. Martha Richardson. 10. Harriet Lee. 11.\\nCaroline O. 12. Rachel O., m. Benjamin E. Badger. 13. John F., a\\nmachinist, attended the World s Fair, London.\\n4-JoiiN Langdon Eastman,\\nSon of 3-Jonathan, b. Nov. 31, 1786 m. INIary Osgood, b. June 8, 1788.\\nTheir children were\\n1. Philip, b. Nov. 23, 1805; m. Martha Lovejoy, Nov. 20, 1838. 2.\\nSeth, b. Nov. 10, 1807; d. Feb. 27, 1815. 3. Susan O., b. Sept. 4, 1809;\\nm. Henry B. Brewster, Julv 26, 1835 d. Oct. 10, 1838. 4. Marianna, b.\\nDec. 19, 181I; m. Joel S. Morrill, Dec. 11, 1834. 5. Sarah IL, b. Dec.\\n24, 1814; m. Joshua Osgood, Nov. 23, 1837. 6. Lucretia A., b. Ang. 17,\\n1816. 7. John L., b. Dec. 29, 1824; d. Nov. 10, 1826. 8. Ann E., b.\\nFeb. 19, 1828. 9. John L., b. Oct. 27, 1829. 10. Seth W., b. Feb. 13,\\n1831. 11. Maria L., b. Aug. 22, 1833 m. Otis Warren, Oct. 25, 1851.\\n4-CiiARLES Eastman,\\nSon of 3-:Moses Eastman, jr., b. Dec. 11, 1774; d. Sept. 26, 1847, aged\\n72. 1 m. Sally Bradley. Their children were\\n1. Lucy, b. Oct. 24, 1799. 2. Eliza, b. April 21, 1801. 3. Maria, b.\\nJulv 16, i803. 4. Sally, b. Aug. 6, 1805. 5. Lycurgus, b. Julv 16, 1807.\\n6. Lucretia, b. Oct. 15, l809; d. at Cambridge, Feb. 18, 1832, aged 22.\\nHe 2 m. Persis Chamberlain. Their children were 7. Moses L. 8.\\nCharles. 9. Betsey C. 10. Alfred, d.\\n4-CyRus Eastman,\\nSon of 3-Capt. John Eastman, b. May 7, 1787; m. Eliza Gushing.\\nTheir children were\\n1. Lomsa Gushing, b. April 16, 1813; m. Dr. Hezekiah Eldridge, Mil-\\nford. 2. Harriet R., m. W. B. Woodman, Danvers, Mass. 3. EUzabeth", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0702.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 649\\nB., b. Sept. 9, 1821 m. Ervin B. Tripp. 4. Abigail, m. Geo. B. :\\\\releiulv,\\nNew-York City. 5. Mary. G.Sarah. 7. Helen.\\n4-Jonx Eastman-, Esq.,\\nSon of 3-Capt. John Eastman, b. Sept. 3, 1791 1 m. Dorothy DeForest,\\nwho died July 8, 1836. Their children were\\n1. Mellen. 2. Jane. 3. Laura. 4. Dorothy. He 2 m. Lucinda Bus-\\nwell.\\n4-Gen. Is.\\\\.\\\\C EASTM.VA\\nSon of 3-Xathaniel, b. June 16, 1780; m. Abigail Tav. Their childi-en\\nwere\\n1. Samuel, b. Aug. 30, 1807; m. :\\\\rarv Brown. 2. Ruth Bradley, b.\\nMarch 22, 1812; m. Edward L. Staniels. 3. Abraham Bradle\\\\-, b. April\\n29, 1817; m. Sarah Sturtevant. 4. Charles Smith, b. Dec. 27! 1818; m.\\nCharlotte Bedlow. 5. Isaac C, b. Oct. 1, 1826.\\n4-Timotiiy Eastmax,\\n^^^?^\\\\(^f^ ^^-^^thaniel, h. Sept. 15, 1786; m. Abigail Wilkins, 1810.\\nIheir cluldren were\\n1. Abigail, b. June 30, 1811. 2. Elbridge G., b. Feb. 27, 1813 editor of\\nthe rsashville Daily American, Nashville, Tenn. 3. Charles B., h. Jan. 29,\\n1815 now in Caliibrnia. 4. Hazen B., b. Nov. 1, 1821 now in Cahfornia.\\n4-Ebexezer Eastman,\\nSon of 3-Nathanicl, b. Feb. 20, 1791; m. Mary D. Underwood, of\\nPortsmouth. Their children\\n1. John U., b. June 24, 1826 now in Tennessee. 2. Sarah D., b. Jan.\\n5, 1828 m. H. S. Thatcher. 3. John M., b. July 1, 1838.\\n4-Capt. Setii Eastmax,\\nSon of 3-Nathaniel, b. Aug. 11, 1801 m. July 14, 1830, Sarah Coffin,\\nwho was born Jan. 29, 1805. Their children were\\n1. Enoch C.,b. April 20, 1831 d. June 20, 1837. 2. Edson C.b. Nov.\\n9, 1832. Samuel C, b. July 11, 1837. 4. John W., b. Ain-il 13, 1840;\\ndied Jan. 1841.\\nNote. Besides the foregomg descendants of Capt Ebenezer Eastman\\nthere have been and still are others of the name of Eastman in Concord,\\nFor example, on the Town Records are the foUoMing\\nJoseph Eastmax, [who m. Abigail, dau. of 2-Joseph, son of Capt.\\nEbenezer, and who, as related, p. 196, was a companion of John Shute,\\nhad children\\n1. Henry, b. July 12, 1765. 2. James, b. Aug. 5, 1767. 3. Dorothy,\\nb. Aug. 7, 1769. 4. Nathan, b. July 30, 1772. 5. Naomi, b. Feb. 11,\\n1775. 6. Polly, b. Oct. 15, 1780. 7. Sarah, b. July 30, 1783.\\nJoseph Eastman, d. 1815, aged 95. His wife, Abigail, to distinguish her\\nfrom others, was called by the neighbors Widow Deacon Jose])h East-\\nman. She d. Dec. 3, 1831, aged 90. Their son, James, d. 1843, aged 75.\\nSarah d. Sept. 11, 1855, aged 72; she never married.\\nAbigail, dau. of James and Polly Eastman, was b. July 27, 1796.\\nJoseph Eastmax, [T. Rec] 1 m. Abigail. Their children Hannah, b.\\nDec. 16, 1730. John, b. May 11, 1739. Ann, b. Feb. 6, 1742. 2 m\\nTamasin Woodwell. Had Benjamin, b. Aug. 15, 1747; and David, b.\\nAug. 17, 1749.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0703.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "G50 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nSamuel Eastman, [T. Ilec] m. Elizabeth. Their children Elizabeth,\\nb. Jan. 11, 1740. Abigail, b. March o, 1742. Mary, b. May 21, 1745.\\nRichard Eastman, [T. Rec] m. Hannah Merrill. Their children,\\nBetsey, b. July 14, 1770. Hannah, Ap. 1, 1772. Molly, Nov. 9, 1774.\\nHannah, June 10, 1777.\\nEdmund Eastman, a graduate, 1793, was son of Benjamin, who came\\nto Concord, 1749, son of Joseph, who m. Tamasin Woodwell.\\nThe descendants of Roger Eastman, who came to this country from\\nWales, and settled in Salisbury, Mass., 1640, are widely scattered over the\\ncountrv.\\nThomas Eaton, [T. Rec] m. Mollv- Their children, Mollv, b. Aug.\\n10, 17C9. Thomas, b. July 21, 1771. Moses, b. Jan. 19, 1775. Joseph,\\nb. Dec. 18, 1776. Sarah, b. Jan. 23, 1779.\\nThomas Eaton d. Ap. 17, 1799. Molly, dau. of Thomas, Jr., and Sallv\\nEaton, b. Ap. 14, 1791.\\nIVIosES Eaton, [T. Rcc] m. Lucy Their children, Nicholas,\\nb. Jan. 4, 1797. Roxanna, b. Dec. 2, 1799. Mahala, b. Ap. 28, 1801.\\nTHE ELLIOT FAMILY.\\nThe history of this family involves the history of the settlement of the\\nBorough, so called, in the north-western part of the town.\\nMr. Joseph AValkcr, brother of James Walker, the tailor, was the first\\nperson who lived at the Borough, on what was called the Snow Farm,\\nbecause laid out to Mr. Zerobbabel Snow. Mr. Walker lived in a log hut,\\nwithin a few feet of the house where now reside Aaron and EH ElHot. He\\nremained there but a short time, and, for fear of the Indians, moved away.\\nThis was a few years after the massacre.\\n]\\\\Ir. Richard Elliot went to the Borough immediately after the French\\nand Indian wars; built the first saw-mill, on what is called the out-let,\\nand boarded, while building the mill, with Mr. James Abbot, at Rattlesnake\\nPlain, a distance of about fom- miles. Mr. Elliot was one of Maj. Rogers\\nrangers, and Avhile upon one of his scouting expeditions m the vicinity of\\nPenacook, accidentally discovered the out-let, a smalh stream branching off\\nfrom the Contoocook river at the head of the falls, and uniting again about\\na mile below, which attracted his notice as affording valuable mill privileges.\\nTwo or three years afterwards he sold out to his brothers, Jonathan and\\nBenjamin. This was about 1770. Mr. Jonathan ElHot lived in the mill-\\nyard, near M here now resides Jeremiah Fowler, Esq. and Benjamin, where\\nnow lives Lieut. M. Baker. Richard EUiot was never married. He was\\nhere as early as 1760.\\nOn the 19th of February, 1778, Mr. Joseph Elliot, husband of old Mrs.\\nLydia Elliot, now living, at the great age of 102 years, moved with his\\nfamily into a log house, opposite to where Mr. David Elliot now lives.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0704.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Q\\\\\\nL^-\\nMed. 10 2 Yrs.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0707.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0708.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. G51\\nMr. John Elliot moved the same year mto a log house above ^Ir. Ba-\\nker s. He was not related to those before mentioned, but they all came\\nfrom NeAvtoAvn. Here they Uved, in badly constructed houses, without chim-\\nneys and without windows, enduring all the hardships, toils and poverty\\nincident to new settlements often eating the last morsel of bread, and not\\nknowing where to procure the next.\\nThree of old Mrs. Lydia Elliot s children were born in this log house.\\nIn several respects Mrs. Lydia Elhot, or, as now commonly called, Aunt\\nLydia, whose life-hke likeness is here exhibited, is the most remarkable\\nperson that ever Hved in Concord. She entered on her 103d year in January,\\n1855. She is at this time in good health, in the enjoyment of her mental\\nfaculties and bodily senses in a remarkable degree, her hearing only bemg\\nsomewhat impaired. She relates of herself, that she never had a physi-\\ncian in her life, except at times of confinement with her children never\\ntook physic, or an emetic, or had a tooth draAra, or Avas bled. She has\\nalways been industrious, and even laborious spinning and weaving at home,\\nor in families where she was wanted. In her Aounger hfe she used to go to\\nMr. Nathaniel Rolfe s, about a mile and a half from her home, to assist in\\npulHng flax. Sometimes she carried an infant, and then she would lay the\\nbabe, wraj)ped in a blanket, under the shade of a tree, and work all day\\nnursing her child as it needed. ]Many a time has she walked from the Bo-\\nrough to the old North ]Meeting-house, on the Sabbath, to worship, carrying\\na babe in her arms. In the last fifty years of her life she has dressed herself\\nevery day. During the last seven or ten years she has spent a considerable\\nportion of her time in knitting, at which she is very expert. She has a good\\nappetite, is most of the time cheerful and uncomplaining Avalks erect, and\\nconverses Avith ease and good sense. On the hundredth anniversary of her\\nbirth, January 30, 1853, a religious service Avas held at the house of her son,\\nMr. David ElHot, Avith Avhom the old lady resides, of Avhich the folloAving\\naccount subsequently appeared in the NcAv-Hampshire Statesman.\\nINTERESTING OCCURRENCE.\\nWe gladly availed our self of the opportunity to be present, on Monday\\nlast, at rehgious services held in the dAvelling of Mr. DaA id Elliot, in the\\nnorth-Avest part of Concord. The circumstance Avhich suggested them Avas,\\nthat on the preceding day his mother, Mrs. Lydia Elliot, attained the\\nage of one hundred years. The occasion attracted to the dAveUing a num-\\nber of people so lai-ge as nearly to fill the loAver rooms and, as may easily\\nbe imagined, it Avas one of very deep interest, not only to the descendants\\nof Mrs. Elhot, but all others Avho had the privilege of being present. Peo-\\nple of all ages Avere there quite a number of Avhom had reached the al-\\nlotted period of human life, and several Avho numbered more than eighty\\nyears.\\nPrior to the commencement of religious serA ices, several people Avho\\nwent up from this part of the toAvn, Avere introduced to Mrs. Elhot by her\\ngrandson, Avith each of Avhom she held brief conversation. These Avere Mr.\\nRichard Herl)ert, Mr. Al)icl Walker, Francis N. Fisk, Esq., Mr. James C.\\nDame, (the venerable father of ]\\\\Ir. George Dame, of the Pavilion,) Mr.\\nand Mrs. I5outon, Mrs. Dr. Carter, and the editor of this paper. Others,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0709.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "652 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nalso, before and at the close of the exercises, availed themselves of the op-\\nportunity to say a few words to the venerable lady, upon whom all eyes were\\nturned. On tlie mornin of that day she rose in season to breakfast with\\nthe family, dressed herself M ithout assistance, and made the bed in which\\nshe slept. She is a person of medium female height; her eye yet gives\\nevidence that in youth she was one whose countenance was lighted by the\\nvivacity of that organ; and, although quite deaf, she yet possesses her\\nbodily and mental faculties in a remarkable degree. She was dressed in a\\nverv neat and becoming manner, and during the religious exercises sat im-\\nmediately near the table by which stood her pastor, liev. yir. Tenney. She\\nwas seated in a rocking-chair, which she kept in constant motion, and intently\\neyed the clergyman during the exercises. Immediately back of her chau-\\nw ere several aged people, and in tiers in the rear of them, those of various\\nages doAvn to children and youth. From this room, the doors opened into\\nother apartments, so that all might hear.\\nKev. ]Mr. Tenney commenced l)y reading the first four verses of the 7 1st\\nPsalm, by Watts, 3d Part, as follows\\nGod of my childhood and my youth,\\nThe piiide of all my days,\\nI have declared thy heavenly truth,\\nAnd told thy wondrous ways.\\nWilt thou forsake my hoary hairs.\\nAnd leave my fainting heart?\\nWho shall sustain my sinking years,\\nIf God, my strength, depart?\\nLet me thy power and truth proclaim\\nTo tlio surviving age,\\nAnd leave the savor of thy name\\nWhen 1 shall quit the stage.\\nThe land of silence and of death\\nAttend tny next remove\\nO, may these poor remains of hreatli\\nTeach the wide world thy love.\\nSucceeding the reading of the above stanzas was a discourse by Rev.\\nMr. Tenney, founded on the 71st Psalm, 18th verse JVow also, when 1\\nam old and grey-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy\\nsfreni^th unto this generation, and thy power to everyone that is to come.\\nFrom this a])propriate discourse, the train of remark in which may be\\nreadilv conjectured, and which was Hstencd to Avith the utmost attention by\\nall, and by none more than the venerable person for whom it was particularly\\nwritten, we gather the following facts\\nLvdia Goodwin now Mrs. Joseph Elliot was born in territory once\\ncalled Salisbury Newtown, (now Newton, in this State,) January 30, 1753.\\nShe married ]\\\\Ir. Elliot in 1773, and they removed to Concord in February,\\n1778. She was of a family of nine children; two sons and seven daugh-\\nters. One of her brothers was a soldier in the French War, and died at\\ntwenty-two years of age, and a sister died when only four years old. Of\\nthe others, Samuel died in Xorthfield, when more than i \u00c2\u00bb7 years of age\\nMolly died in Concord, aged 97 Sally in Candia, aged 99 years and eight\\nmonths Elizabeth Hved to be 77 Hannah died at 50, and Judith is now\\nliving in Loudon, aged 96. Of the six daughters who were married, all\\nsurvived their husbands, and no one married a second time. The husbaiul\\nof Mrs. Fydia Elliot, the sul)ject of this notice, died about forty years ago.\\nShe had eleven children, all of whom reached mature years, and ten\\nAvere married. Four only are now living. Her grand-children number\\nseventy her great-grand-children one hundred, and of the fifth generation", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0710.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 653\\nthere are kno^Ti to be at least cij^lit. Her son, Mr. David Elliot, at M hose\\ndwelling these services took place, is seventy-five years of age, although his\\nappearance indicates a person of but little over sixty. It is a long-Hved\\nfamily, as preceding facts make very certain.\\nRev. Mr. Tenney, at the conclusion of his discourse, invited Rev. Dr. Bouton\\nto make such remarks as would be suggested by the occasion who pro-\\nceeded accordingly to address the congregation for a few minutes, in the\\ncourse of which he stated, that of the aged people who died in Concord\\nsince his settlement, it was usually the case that such as lived longest pos-\\nsessed to the last their mental, and usually their bodily faculties, in remark-\\nable perfection. Of such, he named Capt. Joseph Farnum, aged 97 Mrs.\\nHazeltine, aged 100 years and six months; Mr. John Shute, aged 98;\\nMrs. Robert Ambrose, aged 98 ]\\\\Ir. Jeremiah Bridge, aged 93 and Polly\\nOdlin, aged 95.\\nThe services occupied about one hour and a quarter, at the close of\\nwhich many took leave of Mrs. EUiot by a formal farewell, and the com-\\npany soon dispersed, highly gratified with the opportunity of being present\\nand looking upon the second person in Concord who reached one hundred\\nyears of age.\\nTo the above notice it may be added, that after the meeting a pair of\\nneatly wrought stockings were shown to the company, which were knit by\\nMrs. Elliot the past summer, and which were ornamented with figives\\ncalled clocks. When she was ninety-one years of age she knit a pigeon\\nnet of fifty-two yards, and lashed the net completing the whole in\\nseven days.\\nIn the following genealogy the generations are reckoned from the early\\nsettlers, as numbered\\nl-Richard, never married. 1- Jonathan Elliot and his brother, 1-Ben-\\njamin, came in 1768. 2-Joseph Elliot, came in 1778. 2-John Elliot,\\ncame, probably, the same year. 2-Jonathan Elliot, Jr., or 2d, soon after.\\n1-J0NATH.\\\\N Elliot, m. Naomi Swett, 1762 settled at the Borough.\\nTheir children, probably the first three born in Newto-wn, were\\n1. Naomi, m. David Jackman. 2. Moses, m. Sally Stevens. 3. Lois,\\nm. Enoch Gerald. 4. Sarah, 1). June 1, 1769. 5. Richard, b. Feb. 14,\\n1771. 6. Jonathan, b. May 28, 1773.\\nI-Benjamin Elliot, m. Abigail Webster. Their ch. were: 1. Sally.\\n2. Betsey. 3. Cotton. 4. Dolly. 5. Abigail. G. Benjamin. 7. David. 8.\\nRuth, and moved to Rumford, Me.\\n2-JoSEPH Elliot, m. Lydia Goodwin came from Newtown to the Bo-\\nrough, in Concord, Feb. 19, 1778; went into a log house opposite where\\nMr. David ElHot now lives. Their children were\\n1. Sail) m. Hezekiah Hutchins, Rumford, ^Me. 2. Polly, m. Leonard\\nWhitney. 3. David, m. Mehitable Farnum. 4. Joseph, ni. Dorcas Far-\\nnum. 5. Frederic, m. Nancy Colby children, Jacob, George B. 6. Ja-\\ncob, m. 7. Samuel, m. Emma Sargent, Rumford. 8. Benjamin, m. Judith\\nColby, Boscawen. 9. Judith, m. l)avid Colby, Rumford. 10. Eleanor,\\nm. Jacob Lufkin, Rumford. 11. Lydia, m. Nathaniel Simpson, Con-\\ncord.\\n2-JoHX Elliot, (father of soldier John, m. Hannah Jones moved\\nfrom Newto^TO to the Borough, in Concord, about 1778 hved in a log house\\njust above Avhere Lieut. Marshall Baker now resides. Their children were", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0711.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "654 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n1. Barnard. 2. Jonathan. 3. John. 4. Sally. 5. Polly. 6. Miriam.\\n7. Hannah. 8. Mehitable.\\n3-Barn ARD Elliot, son of 2-John, m. Elizabeth Carter, and d. Jan.\\n15, 1828, aged 76. Their children were\\n1. Abigail, b. Sept. 5, 1778; m. 2. Ezra, b. May 20, 1781; m. Grata\\nWelch. 3. Barnard C, b. April 1, 1784; ni. Deborah Welch. 4. James,\\nm. Eleanor Colby. 5. Betsey, m. Jonathan Sleeper.\\n2-JoxATHAX Elliot, Jr.,* m. Molly Colhns. Their children were\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1. Charles, b. Sept. 22, 1780; m. Phebe Farnum. 2. Hannah, b. July\\n27, 1782. 3. Aaron, b. Nov. 24, 1784. 4. Jonathan, b. Jan. 27, 1787.\\no. John, b. March 24, 1789. 6. Rebecca, b. Aug. 31, 1791. 7. Polly, 1\u00c2\u00bb.\\nApril 30, 1794. 8. Jacob, b. May 31, 1799. 9. Marv, b. April 28, 1803;\\nm. Ezekiel ElUot. 10. Henry L6vejov,b. Oct. 27, 1805. 11. Eli, b. July,\\n16, 1808.\\n3-Joiix Elliot, Jr., m. Mary Huntoon. He served several years in the\\nRevolutionary army -was in the battle of Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton,\\nand also served in the war of 1812. He Hved and died Dec. 2, 1842, in a\\nsmall house near Mr. Joseph Eastman s, in the West village. Their chil-\\ndren were\\n1. Aaron, b. Aug. 21, 1779. 2. William, b. Aug. 5, 1781. 3. John\\nFriend, b. Aug. 31, 1787. 4. Jeremiah, b. July 26, 1789. 5. Polly, b.\\nJan. 20, 1791 m. Dr. Andros. 6. Hazzen, b. Jan. 14, 1793. 7.\\nSally, b. Aug. 1, 1796. 8. Dorcas, b. Sept. 20, 1798 m. Peter Glines.\\n9. Jones, b. Aug. 21, 1800.\\n3-MosES Elliot, Jr., a Congregational preacher, son of Moses, ra.\\nJudith Carter. Their children were\\n1. Sally Chellis, b. Jan. 26, 1798. 2. Ezra Carter, b. Feb. 19, 1800. 3.\\nJames Carter, b. March 5, 1802. 4. Judith Carter, b. April 12, 1804. 5.\\nEphraim Carter, b. Aug. 19, 1806.\\n3-JosEPH Elliot, Jr., son of Joseph Elliot and Lydia Good^-in, m. Dor-\\ncas Farnum, dau. of Josiah. Their children were\\n1. Phebe C, b. April 16, 1801. 2. Theodore Farnum, b. Sept. 22, 1803.\\n4-James Elliot, son of Barnard ElUot and EHzabeth Carter, m. Eleanor\\nColby. Their children were\\n1. Joseph Carter, born Nov. 17, or Dec. 31, 1800 two dates. 2. Emily,\\nb. July 27, 1809. 3. Roxillary, b. Dec. 21, 1812.\\n3-DAvro Elliot, son of 2-Joseph EUiot and Lyrlia Goodwin, m. Me-\\nhitabel Farnum, dau. of Josiah Farnum. Their children were\\n1. Ezekiel Farnum, b. July 27, 1807. 2. Eben. Farnum, b. July 4,\\n1809. 3. Lucy Gerrish, b. July 23, 1812. 4. Enoch Brown, b. Dec. 15,\\n1814. 5. Sally Austin, b. March 23, 1816. 6. Luther Bolton, b. Dec.\\n28, 1820.\\n2-RiCHARD Elliot, son of 1-Jonathan, m. Hannah. Their ch., Gil-\\nman, b. Dec. 1, 1802; Joel, b. Nov. 19, 1805; CaroUne, b. Sept. 20, 1808;\\nLouisa, b. Aug. 16, 1810.\\n*This Jonathan, Jr., could not have been the son of 1-Jonathan because, as stated above,\\nJonathan, son of 1-Jonathan, was born 1773, and was not of age to marry at this time.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0712.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 655\\nTHE FARNUiAI FAMILY.\\nDESCEND.INTS OF EPIIRAIM, JOSEPH, ZEBEDIAH AST) JOSIAII, WHO WERE\\nORIGIXAL SETTLERS.\\nBY MR. SIMEON ABBOT.\\nEXPLAJ^-ATIOJV OF THE PLAJV OF OE^TEJILOGY.\\nThe first column of figures on the left in parentheses, refers to notices of\\nparticular heads of families, and also like figures on the right of names on\\nthe right hand, refer to the same. The next column, connected by a hy-\\nphen, shows the number from the head descendant, and also the number of\\nchildren in a family. The next, in Roman, shows the number of the\\ngeneration from Ralph, the common ancestor. Thus (3) 8 1. HI,\\nEphraiai Farnum, (3,) means that Ephraim Farnum of the III gene-\\nration from Ralph, is the 8th descendant from Ralph the 1st child of 11.\\nEphraim, and the (3d) head of a family in order the (3) on the right\\nhand refers to the (3) where Ephraim as a head of a family is found, and\\nin HI. Josiah, (51,) the latter figures show where in the genealogy the\\nfamily of Josiah is noticed.\\n(1) 1 1 I. Ralph Farnum is called the I. generation in this geneal-\\nogy. He came from Wales, England settled in Andover, Mass. m.\\nEHzabeth Holt, 1658. Their children were\\n2\u00e2\u0080\u00941 II. Ralph, I 4\u00e2\u0080\u00943 II. Henry, I 6\u00e2\u0080\u00945 II. Ephraim, (2.)\\n3\u00e2\u0080\u00942 II. John, 1 5\u00e2\u0080\u00944 H. Thomas, 7\u00e2\u0080\u00946 H. Sarah.\\n(2) II. Ephraim Farnum, (6\u00e2\u0080\u00945,) d. in Andover, Mass. Five of his\\nsons were among the first settlers of Concord, originally called Pennycook,\\nviz.\\n8\u00e2\u0080\u00941 HI. Ephraim, (3.)\\n9\u00e2\u0080\u00942 HI. Joseph, (25.)\\n10\u00e2\u0080\u00943 HI. Zebediah, (42.)\\n11\u00e2\u0080\u00944 IIL Josiah, (51.)\\n12 5 III. James, who soon moved\\naway.\\n(3) IH. Ephraim Farnum, (8\u00e2\u0080\u00941.) m. Molly Ingalls lived at Rattle-\\nsnake Plain, (so called,) about two miles from the old North meeting-house,\\non the road to Boscawen. His cliildren were\\n13\u00e2\u0080\u00941 IV. Ephraim, b. Sept. 21, 1733, (4.)\\n14\u00e2\u0080\u00942 IV. Benjamin, b. March 21, 1739, (11.)\\n_ (4) rV. Ephraim Farnum, (13\u00e2\u0080\u00941,) m. Judith Hall, of Bradford, :Mass.\\nlived on the homestead, dividing it with his brother Benjamin, who lived a\\nquarter of a mile south of the paternal home d. His children were\\n15\u00e2\u0080\u00941 V. Naomi, b. Ap. 28, 1760, (5) 19\u00e2\u0080\u00945 V. Moses, b. Oct. 20, 1769, (8)\\n16\u00e2\u0080\u00942 V. John, d. young. j 20\u00e2\u0080\u00946 V. Esther, b. Oct. 25, 1772, (9)\\n17\u00e2\u0080\u00943 V. Judith, b. June 13, 1764,(6) 21\u00e2\u0080\u00947 V, Susannah, b. June 3, 1781,\\n18\u00e2\u0080\u00944 V. Sarah, b. Aug. 9, 1767, (7) (10)\\n(5) V. Naomi Farnum, (15\u00e2\u0080\u00941,) m. Capt. John Chandler, of BoscaAven,\\ninnholder. Their children Avere\\nJohn, Nathan, Ephraim, Mary, Susannah, Judith, Rhoda.\\n(6) V. Judith Farnum, (17 3,) m. Jeremiah Chandler, of Lovell,\\nMe. an early settler, and farmer. Their children were\\nJohn Carter, m. Mehitable Hazelton, n. ch. Mary, m. Philip C. Johnson,\\n9 children.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0713.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "656 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n(7) V. Sakaii Farnum, (18 4,) m. Nathan Carter, of Boscawen.\\nTheir children are John, Jeremiah, Nathan, Judith.\\n(8) V. Moses Farnum, (19 5,) 1 m. Rhoda Carter, by whom he had\\n3 eh. 2 m. Esther Carter, daughter of l^zra Carter, of West-Concord.\\nHis cliildren were Hannah C, m. John Kogers 5 ch. Emily, m. Dea.\\nBenj. Farnum 7 ch. Samuel. Moses H., m. Judith A. Killburn 3 ch.\\nLavina, m. Asa P. Eastman 4 ch. Jennett, m. James Lougee 4 ch.\\n(9) V. Esther Farnum, (20 6,) m. Ebenezer Eastman, of FrankHn,\\nmerchant. Their cliildren are Judith, m. Caleb Merrill no ch. Char-\\nlotte, m. l^udley Ladd 1 ch. Mary A., m. Dr. John L. Perley. Franklin,\\nm. Mary ^lorrison 2 ch.\\n(10) V. SrsAXXAll Farnum, (21 7,) m. Moses Coffin, of Boscawen.\\nTheir cliildren are Rebecca, m. John Sanborn 12 ch. Lucy J., m. Sam l\\nR. Allen 3 ch. Peter, m. Eunice T. Couch 3 ch. Judith, d. Farnum,\\nm. Judith Gerrish 4 ch. Nehemiah C, m. Susan Rust 4 ch. Susan-\\nnah, m. Enoch L. Morrill, 4 ch. Esther E., m, Henry Peach 1 ch.\\n(11) IV. Benjamin Farnum, (14 2,) in. Anna ^Merrill; Hved on the\\nsouth half of the paternal homestead. His children were\\n30\u00e2\u0080\u00949 V. Lydia.b. Sept. 26, 1776. (18)\\n;31_10 V. Jonadi n.b.J ly 26, 1778.(19)\\n32\u00e2\u0080\u009411 V. Nancy, b. Jan. 30, 1782. (20)\\n22\u00e2\u0080\u00941 V. Marv, b. Aug. 26, 1764. (12)\\n23\u00e2\u0080\u00942 V. John, b. .Jan. 2, 1766. (13)\\n24\u00e2\u0080\u00943 V. Anna, b. March 18, 1767.\\n25\u00e2\u0080\u00944 V. Benj n,b. S pt. 10, 1768. (14)\\n.33\u00e2\u0080\u009412 V. Abiel, b. Apr. 24, 1780. (21)\\n:iO i V -iJciiJ 11, u. o JJi. JW, 1 uo. I ii; J J i-i .tiuK^i, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2J. j.^^i --r, V-.\\n26\u00e2\u0080\u00945 V. Ephraira,b.Apr. 5, 1770. (15) 34\u00e2\u0080\u009413 V. Abisail,b. Oct. .30, 1783.(22)\\n27\u00e2\u0080\u00946 V. Hains, b. Oct. 31,1771. (16) 35\u00e2\u0080\u0094 14 V. Jerem h, b. J ly 29, 1785 (23)\\n28\u00e2\u0080\u00947 V. Jonathan, b. Aug. 2, 1773. 36\u00e2\u0080\u009415 V. Sarah, b. Mar. 29, 1787. (24)\\n29 8 V. Nathaniel, b. Apr. 1775, (17)\\n(12) V. Mary Farnum, (22\u00e2\u0080\u00941,) m. Dr. Abiel Hall, of Alfred, Me.\\nb. May 13, 1761; d. Oct. 1829. Their children were: Abiel, m. Elizabeth\\nFrost 3 ch. Ivory, m. Charlotte Kent 2 ch. John, m. Lucretia Little-\\nfield, 2 ch. David, m. Nancy Conant 4 ch. Mary, m. Rufus Sayward 4\\nch. Julia, ni. Nathan D. Appleton 3 ch. Porter, m. Mary Dane 7 ch.\\n(13) V. John Farnum, (23\u00e2\u0080\u00942,) m. Sarah Thompson. His children\\nwere: Roswell, m. Nancy Bigsby. John, Betsey, m. Sam l Flanders.\\nRufus. Camilla. jSIary H. Thompson. Abigail. George.\\n(14) V. Benjamln Farnum, (25 4,) m. Azubah Graham. His chil-\\ndren were ^Merrill. Polly. Azubah. Sarah, m. Mr. Virgin 2 ch.\\n(15) V. ErHRAiM Farnum, (26 5,) succeeded his father on the home-\\nstead m. Sarah Bro^\\\\^l, of Plymouth. His children were Nancy. Jo-\\nseph B., m. Betsy Merrill 3 ch. Susannah, m. Henry E. Moore 5 ch.\\nBenjamin, m. Emily Farnum 7 ch. Lydia, d. Luther, killed. George\\nand Harriet, twins, d. Luther, m. Eugene Fay; 1 ch., d. y.\\n(16) V. Haines Farnum, (27 6,) went to Plymouth; farmer; m.\\nMary Whitchouse, of Pembroke. Their children Avere Charles. Mary.\\nSolomon, d. Hiram, m. Emily Straw. Ehza, m. Walter Blaii George.\\nMoses and Aaron, twins.\\n(17) V. N.atil\\\\niel Farnum, (29\u00e2\u0080\u00948,) m. Mary Saj-ward. Their chil-\\ndren were Roswell, m. Betsy Cusliman. John. Abiel. Mary. Nathan-\\niel, m. Martha Kimball. Rufus. EHzabeth. Henry.\\n(18) V. Lydia Farnum, (30\u00e2\u0080\u00949,) m. John Conant, of Alfred, Me.\\nTheir children were Nancy, m. Daniel Hall. Alvah. Cyrus, m. Abigail\\nGile. Carohne. Lucy. George. Lydia, m. Dr. Drew.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0714.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 657\\n(19) V. JoNATllA\\\\ Farnum, (31 10,) m. Miss Perkins, of Kcnnebunk,\\nMe. Their children are the following Benjamin F., Dorance, Frances,\\nLucretia, William, Thomas.\\n(20) V. Nancy Farnum, (32\u00e2\u0080\u009411,) m. Dr. Job Wilson, of Franklin.\\nSuccessful as a physician. His children were Benjamin, d. y. Benjamin.\\nThomas, Dr., m. Amanda Sawyer 5 ch. Lucinda, m. Thomas Eastman.\\nJob, m. Laura Stevens 3 ch. Abigail. Lydia, m. Grover Stevens 7 ch.\\nJeremiah, Dr., m. Betsey Gerrish. Ephraim F., Dr., 1 m. llhoda Barnard;\\n1 ch. 2 m. Eleanor Eastman.\\n(21) V. Abiel Farnum, (33\u00e2\u0080\u009412,) m. Miss Conant, of Alfred, Me.\\nChildren George, Charles, Harriet, Abelia, WilHam.\\n(22) V. Abigail Farnum, (34\u00e2\u0080\u009413,) m. Maj. Ivimball, of Alfred, Me.\\nChildren Martha, Alden, Abigail, Mary.\\n(23) V. Jeremiah Farnum, (35\u00e2\u0080\u009414,) m. Sally Hall, of Paimford, Me.\\nHis children were Milton, m. Emily Ward Ivory, Emily, Alfred, m. Car-\\noHne Sweetser Calvin, John, Walter, Sarah, Rebecca E., Deborah D.\\n(24) V. Sarah Farnum, (36\u00e2\u0080\u009415,) m. Charles Griffin, of Alfred, Me.\\nTheir children Avere Henry, William, Mary A., Sarah J.\\nEnd of th^ genealogy of Ephraim Farnum, HI. (8 1.)\\n(25) in. Joseph Farnum, (9 2,) m. Zerviah Hoit lived about a half\\nmile from the east end of Long Pond d. Nov. 1, 1792. His children\\nwere\\n37\u00e2\u0080\u00941 IV. Joseph, b.Nov. 27, 1740.(26)\\n38\u00e2\u0080\u00942 IV. Stephen, b.Aug.24,1742. (31)\\n39\u00e2\u0080\u00943 IV. Betsey. (38)\\n40\u00e2\u0080\u00944 IV. Daniel, m.\\n41\u00e2\u0080\u00945 IV. Abner. (39)\\n42\u00e2\u0080\u0094 6 IV. Affia.\\n43\u00e2\u0080\u0094 7 IV. Zerviah. (40)\\n44\u00e2\u0080\u0094 8 IV. Marv.\\n45\u00e2\u0080\u0094 9 IV. Susan. (41)\\n46\u00e2\u0080\u009410 IV. Jacob.\\n(26) IV. Joseph F.\\\\rnum, (37\u00e2\u0080\u00941,) Capt. Farnum m. Ruth Walker.\\nHis children were\\n47\u00e2\u0080\u00941 V. Betsey, b. Jan. 27, 1770. (27)149\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3 V. Hephzibah,b.Ap. 6,1777.(29)\\n48\u00e2\u0080\u00942 V. Hannah, b. Apr. 2, 1 773. (28) 50\u00e2\u0080\u00944 V. Susan, b. June 2, 1779. (.30)\\n(27) V. Betsey Farnum, (47 1,) m. Joseph Cleasby, of Concord, who\\nserved several years in the Revolution. Their children were James, Sally,\\nm. Phih]) Ferrin 8 ch. Ruth, m. Samuel Carter 4 ch. Ezekiel, Betsy,\\nEnoch, Joseph, m. Sally Hill 4 ch. John, James, Amasa, Hannah, m.\\nJoseph Brown 4 ch. Nancy, m. Thomas B. Moore, 4 ch.\\n(28) V. Hannah Farnum, (48 2.) m. Lieut. Joseph Dow, of Concord.\\nTheir children were Joseph, m. Eliza Parsons 2 ch. Ruth, George W.,\\nm. ]Mary E. Judkins 2 ch. Jacob, m. Sarah T. Judkins 1 ch. Thomas\\nJ., m. Rhoda Eastman 2 ch. Hannah, m. Wesley Tyler Hephzibah, m.\\nAsaph Abbot 1 ch. Phebe AV., Emeline A.\\n(29) V. Hephzibah Farnum, (49 3,) m. Isaac Dow, Esq. lived at\\nWest-Concord tanner and currier. Their children were Isaac W., Susan,\\nJudith, Ebenezer, Lucinda, Maria, Albert G., m. Mary Hamilton 6 ch.\\nMary Ann, m. Ralph Wells John R., Benjamin F., m. Martha Hall 6 ch.\\nJames M., Elizabeth W.\\n(30) V. Susan Farnum, (50 4,) m. Reuben Goodwin hved near\\nSewall s Falls, East-Concord. Their children were Joseph F., Reuben,\\nm. Judith Biu-pco 4 ch. Judith, m. Jonathan A. Virgin j 6 ch. Catha-\\nrine, Asa A., m. Mary A. Perkins 1 ch.\\n42", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0715.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "658 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n(31) IV. SxErnEX F.VRNrM, (38 2.) lived on the homestead with his\\nfather m. Martha Hall, by whom he had\\n51_l V. David, b. Dec. 24. 1767. (32) 54\u00e2\u0080\u00944 V. Isaac, b. Dec. 1, 1781. (.\u00e2\u0080\u00a23.5)\\n52\u00e2\u0080\u00942 V. Stephen, b.S pt. 20,1771.(33) 5.5\u00e2\u0080\u00945 V. Simeon, b. Jan. 14,1782. (36)\\n53_3 V. Phebe, b. Oct. 14, 1774. (34) 56\u00e2\u0080\u00946 V. Judith, b. Apr. 29, 1784. (37)\\n(32) V. David Farnum, (51 1,) one ofthefir.st settlers of Rumford,\\nMe., m. Dorcas Wheeler, of Concord. His children were Phebe, m.\\nNathan Knapp Betsy, m. Dr. Joseph Adams Judith, m. Ehas Eartlett\\nDavid, m. Martha Bartlett Dorcas, m. Moses Adams 3 ch. IMelinda, m.\\nJames Farrington Asenath, m. Samuel Poor ^A hecler, m. Rebecca Web-\\nster James H., m. Clarissa Hoit.\\n(33) V. Stephen Farnum, {52 2,) one of the first settlers of Rum-\\nford, Me., m. Susan Jackman, of Boscawen, by whom he had Reul)en\\nSimeon, m. Amelia Robertson George, 1 m. Mary Bodwell 2 m. Hannah\\nJackson 4 ch. Stephen, m. Sally Virgin Anson, Lucinda, m. Asa Gra-\\nham 7 ch. Susan, m. John Clement Patty, m. Capt. Abiel Carter o ch.\\n(34) V. Phebe Farnum, (53 3,) m. Joshua Morse, of Hopkinton,\\ncarpenter and painter. Their children were Joshua, m. Laura Long 1\\nch. Aaron, m. EHza Hayes 2 ch. Judith, Stephen F., m. Charlotte\\nAbbot 4 ch.\\n(35) V. Isaac Farnum, (54 4,) succes.sful former m. Hannah Mar-\\ntin, ])y whom he had Esther, m. Joseph S. Abbot 2 ch. Hannah, m. Capt.\\nBradbury Gill; 2 ch.; Almira, m. Joseph Eastman; 1 ch., d. David, m.\\nRhoda iiolfe 5 ch. Henry, 1 m. Hannah Smith 2 ch. 2 m. Almira\\nHall 2 ch. Lucretia, m. George W. Brown 2 ch. Phebe M., m. Wm.\\nC. Webster 1 ch. Lucy D., m. Andrew Jackson 1 ch. Isaac, d.\\n(36) V. Simeon Farnum, (55 5,) 1 m. Mary Smith, of Hopkinton\\n2 m. Clarissa, sister of Mary. Children of Simeon and Mary were Josiah\\nS., d. Moody, d. Mary, m. Simeon Abbot 9 ch. Children by Clarissa,\\nwere Simeon and Clarissa, twins, Moody S., Aaron Q., Martha H.\\n(37) V. Judith Farnum, (56 6,) m. Jeremiah Story, of Hopkinton.\\nHis ch. were Stephen F. Lyman, d. Isaac F., m. Lydia Kimball Martha,\\nd. Jeremiah S., m. Sophronia Smart 2 ch. Horatio, d.\\n(38) TV. Betsey Farnum, (39 3,) m. Nathan Abbot, seaman, aferwards\\na farmer lived near ScAvall s Falls. Their children were Betsey, m. Jere-\\nmiah Eastman Jacob, m. Betsy Ivnapj), 7 ch. Asa, David, Henry, m.\\nSusan Hall 11 ch. Anna, ni. Edmund Blanchard; 9 ch. Chloe, m. Zeb-\\nadiah Farnum 6 ch. Esther.\\n(39) IV. Abner Farnum, (41\u00e2\u0080\u00945,) 1 m. Rebecca Merrill 2 m. Sally\\nElliot. Children by Rebecca were: V. Thomas. V. John, d. y. V.\\nMoses, m. Rebecca Dean 6 ch. Children by Sally wei-e V. John, m.\\nMiriam Dimond, (and had VI. John C. VI. David. VI. Francis, m.\\nAmanda Al)bot. VI. ^Miriam, m. Wm. Thompson 3 ch. VI. Joseph.\\nVI. Asa. VL Martha. VI. Edward P.) V. Abner, the son of IV. Ab-\\nner, m. Mary Martin, and had (VI. Judith, m. Alfred C. Al)bot 6 ch.\\nVI. Hiram, m. Lucretia RamsdcU 6 ch. VI. Caroline, m. Jeremiah S.\\nDurgin 4 ch. VI. Daniel, m. Catharine Abbot 9 ch. VI. Sarah J., m.\\nJohn Hazelton. VI. Hazen K., m. Narcissus Favor; 5 ch. VI. Mary M.\\nVI. Esther K., m. Moses F. Clough 4 ch. VI. Abner D., m. INIargaret\\nCrosby 1 ch.) V. Jacob. V. Joseph. V. Jedediah. V. Rebecca.\\nV. Nathan. V. Thomas. V. Betsy. V. Isaac.\\n(40) rV. Zerviah Farnum, (43 7,) ra. Reuben Abbot. Their ch.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0716.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 659\\nwere Ruth, m. Henry Chandler 7 ch. Phebe, m. Peter C. Farnum 5\\nch. Rebecca, m. Thomas Brock 10 ch. Susannah. Zerviah, m. Jesse\\nC. Tuttle 9 ch, Polly, 1 m. Moses Ferrin 2 m. Henry Martm 2 ch.\\nReuben, m. Hannah Abbot 8 ch.\\n(41) IV. Susan Faknum, (45\u00e2\u0080\u00949,) m. WiUiam Wheeler, of Loudon,\\nwho served several years in the Revolution. Their ch. were Russell, m.\\nNancy Perkins o ch. Susan, Catharine.\\nEnd of the genealogy of Joseph Farnum HI. (9 2.)\\n(42) HI. Zebediaii Farnum, (10\u00e2\u0080\u00943,) hved on a beautiful swell of land\\nat_ the east end of Long Pond; m. Mary Walker, March 22, 1738, O. S.\\nHis children were\\n57\u00e2\u0080\u00941 IV. Timothy* 61\u00e2\u0080\u00945 IV. Margaret, m. Nathan I Hart,\\n58\u00e2\u0080\u00942 IV. Samuel.* 1 ch.\\n59\u00e2\u0080\u00943 IV. John, b. Jan. 1, 1750. (43) 62\u00e2\u0080\u00946 IV. Lydia. (49)\\n60\u00e2\u0080\u00944 IV. Mary. (48) 63\u00e2\u0080\u00947 IV. Nancy. (50)\\n64\u00e2\u0080\u00948 IV. Debediah.\\n(43) rV. John Farnum, (59\u00e2\u0080\u00943,) lived on the homestead with his\\nfather until his death, and then moved to Rumford, Me. m. Sally West.\\nChildren of John and Sarah were\\n65\u00e2\u0080\u00941 V. Sally, b. March 29, 1774.\\n66\u00e2\u0080\u00942 V. Mary, b. Oct. 22, 1776.\\n67\u00e2\u0080\u00943 V. John, b. June 25, 1779. (44)\\n68 1 V.Zebediah,b. Mar. 4, 1781.(45)\\n69\u00e2\u0080\u00945 V. Nath l, b. Mar. 15, 1783. (46)\\n70\u00e2\u0080\u00946 V. Samuel, b. June 10, 1788. (47)\\n(44) V. John Farnum, (67\u00e2\u0080\u00943,) moved to Rumford, Me. m. Sarah\\nKnowles, of Concord. Children of John and Sarah were Joseph, Clarissa,\\nJohn, Simon.\\n(45) V. Zebediah Farnum, (68\u00e2\u0080\u00944,) moved to Rumford, Me. m. Chloe\\nAbbot. Children of Zebediah and Chloe were Anna, Chloe, Zebediah,\\nAsa, Betsey, m. Jefferson Moulton.\\n(46) V. Nathaniel Farnum, (69\u00e2\u0080\u00945,) m. Deborah Shepard. Chil-\\ndren Mary, m. Mr. Daniels 1 ch. Lydia, m. Wm. Speed 4 ch. Dor-\\ncas, d. Isaiah, m. Clarissa Mooney 3 ch. Aaron L., Per.sis L., Lucy D.,\\nNoah, Sarah, Nathaniel, Nancy.\\n(47) V. S.AMUEL Farnum, (70\u00e2\u0080\u00946,) Rumford, Me. m. Betsey Goodwm.\\nChildren of Samuel and Betsey Oilman, David, Jackson, Laura.\\n(48) IV. Mary Farnum, (60\u00e2\u0080\u00944,) m. Nathan Abbot, of Loudon. Cliil-\\ndren Samuel, m. 3 ch., viz., David, William, Oram.\\n(49) IV. Lydla Farnum, (62\u00e2\u0080\u00946,) m. Asa Hardy settled at Horse hill.\\nTheir ch. Asa, Abigail, Polly, Zebediah, Samuel.\\n(50) IV. Nancy Farnum, (63\u00e2\u0080\u00947,) m. Jonathan Clough, of Bow.\\nTheir ch. were Jonathan, William, Manly, Isaac W., Noah, Patty, Abi-\\ngail.\\nEnd of the genealogy of Zebediah Farnum, IH. (10 3.)\\n(51) IH. JosUH Farnum, (11 4,) lived in Henry Lovejoy s garrison-\\nhouse at West-Concord, m. Mary Frye. Children\\n71 1 IV. Josiah, 1 m. Mehitable Kim-\\nball 2 m. Sarah Sawver no ch.\\n72\u00e2\u0080\u00942 IV. Theodore, (52)\\n73\u00e2\u0080\u00943 IV. Ephraim. (53)\\n74\u00e2\u0080\u00944 IV. Eben. (54)\\n75 5 IV. Betty, never ra.\\n76 6 IV. Molly, never m.\\n77\u00e2\u0080\u00947 IV. Joanna, b. Sept. 25, 1761.\\n(55)\\nLeft in the time of Ann Lee.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0717.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "660 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n(52) IV. Theoboke Farnum, (72\u00e2\u0080\u00942,) m. Sarah Lovejoy. Children\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0were\\nV. Enoch, m. Dorcas Davis, and had Theodore, Josiah, Samuel, Robert.\\nV. Dorcas, m. Joseph Elliot, and had Phebe, m. John Sa%^7er 1 ch.\\nTheodore, m. Sally Sanborn 4 ch.\\nV. Rebecca, m. Sam l Scales, and had Sarah, Rufus, m. Susan Fowler\\nEnoch, Joseph.\\nV. Phebe, m. Charles Elliot 1 ch. Henry, 1 m. Betsey Fowler 2 m.\\nEunice FoAvler.\\n(53) IV. Ephraim Farnum, (73 3,) m. Abigail Stevens. Ch. were\\nV. Peter C, m. Phebe Abbot, and had Mary F., Phebe A., Bridget,\\nSophia, Timothy W.\\nV. Naojii, m. :Moses Swett, and had Ephraim, Clarissa.\\nV. Sally, m. Moses Shute, and had Clarissa A., Cj-ntha, Lucretia.\\n(54) rV. Eben Farnum, (74\u00e2\u0080\u00944,) m. Dolly Carter; Hved on Rattle-\\nsnake Hill. Ch. were\\nV. Mehitable, m. David EUiot, and had Ezekiel F., Eben F., Lucy G.,\\nEnoch B., Sally A., Luther.\\nV. Ezekiel and Jane, never married.\\n(55) IV. Jo.inna Farnum, (77\u00e2\u0080\u00947,) liorn in Andover, Mass. When\\nthirteen years old she rode horse-back behind her father, Josiah Farnum,\\nIII. (11 4,) from Andover, Mass., to Concord; m. Joseph Runnels, of\\nBoxford, Mass. settled at Horse-hill about 1779, being the second to\\ncommence a clearing there. Their children were\\nV. Joseph, V. Isaac, m. Anna Runnels, and had Sabina, Francis,\\nLuther.\\nV. Theodore, m. Mehitable Phihps children Cynthia, Leonard, Dan-\\niel, Lorenzo, Horatio, Luther, George M., Everett.\\nV. Sarah, not m. V. Jonatil\\\\n, m. Lydia Pressy, and had Betsey,\\nEsther, Gardner K., Stephen C, Rhoda H., Abigail, Mary, Josiah,\\nFrancis, Joanna. V. Josiah, not m.\\nV. Farxum, m. Jerusha Webber. Their ch. were: Jeremiah, Mary\\nAmi, J. Augusta, Orman, Helen C, Edward G.\\nV. Hazen, 1 m. Sarah Fisk 2 m. Sarah Corhss, and had Sarah L.,\\nJoseph W., Lyman B., Everett H., John C.\\nEnd of the genealogy of Josiah Farnum, HI. (11 4.)\\nheads of families.\\n(1) L Ralph Farnum, (1\u00e2\u0080\u00941) (15) V. Ephraim Farnum, (26\u00e2\u0080\u00945)\\n(16) V. Haines Farnum, (27\u00e2\u0080\u00946)\\n(17) V. Nathaniel Farnum, (29\u00e2\u0080\u00948)\\n(18) V, Lydia Farnum, (30\u00e2\u0080\u00949)\\n(19) V. Jonath nFarmmi, (31\u00e2\u0080\u009410)\\n(20) V. Nancv Farnum, (32 11)\\n(21) V. Abief Farnum, (33\u00e2\u0080\u009412)\\n(22) V. Abigail Farnum, (34\u00e2\u0080\u009413)\\n(23) V. Jerem h Farnum, (35\u00e2\u0080\u0094 14)\\n(2) II. Ephraim Farnum, (6 5)\\n(3) HI. Ephraim Farnum, (8\u00e2\u0080\u00941)\\n(4) IV. Ephraim Farnum, (13\u00e2\u0080\u00941)\\n(5) V. Naomi Farnum, (15 1)\\n(6) V. Judith Farnum, (17\u00e2\u0080\u00943)\\n(7) V. Sarah Farnum, (18\u00e2\u0080\u00944)\\n(8) V. Moses Farnum, (19\u00e2\u0080\u00945)\\n(9) V. Esther Farnum, (20\u00e2\u0080\u00946)\\n(10) V. Susannah Farnum, (21\u00e2\u0080\u00947) (24) V. Sarah Farnum, (36\u00e2\u0080\u009415)\\n(11) W. BenjaminFarnum,(14\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2) 1(25) IH. Joseph Farnum, (9\u00e2\u0080\u00942)\\n(12) V. Mary Farnum, (22\u00e2\u0080\u00941) (26) IV. Joseph Farnum, (37\u00e2\u0080\u00941)\\n(13) V. John Farnum, (23\u00e2\u0080\u00942)\\n(14) V. Benjamin Farnum, (25 4)\\n(27) V. Betsey Farnum, (47\u00e2\u0080\u00941)\\n(28) V. Hannah Farnum, (48\u00e2\u0080\u00942)", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0718.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL.\\nG61\\n(29) V.\\n(30) V.\\n(31) IV.\\n(32) V.\\n(33)\\n(34)\\n(35)\\n(36)\\n(37)\\n(38) W.\\n(39) IV.\\n(40) IV.\\n(41) rv.\\n(42) m.\\nIlephzib h Farnuin\\nSusan Fanium,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nDavid Farnum,\\nStephen Farnum,\\nPhebe Farnum,\\nIsaac Farnum,\\nSimeon Farnum,\\nJudith Farnum,\\nBetsey Farnum,\\nAbner Farnum,\\nZerviah Farnum,\\nSusan Farnum,\\nZebediah Farnum,\\n(49-3)\\n(50-4)\\n(38-2)\\n(51-1)\\n(52-2)\\n(53\u00e2\u0080\u00943)\\n(54-4)\\n(55\u00e2\u0080\u00945)\\n(56\u00e2\u0080\u00946)\\n(39\u00e2\u0080\u00943)\\n(41-5)\\n(43-7)\\n(45-9)\\n(10-3)\\n(43) IV.\\n(44) V,\\n(45) V.\\n(46) V,\\n(47) V,\\n(48) IV.\\n(49) IV,\\n(50) IV.\\n(51) IIL\\n(52) IV\\n(53) IV.\\n(54) IV,\\n(55) rv.\\nJohn Farnum,\\nJohn Farnum,\\nZebediah Farnum,\\nNathaniel Farnum,\\nSamuel Farnum,\\nMary Farnum,\\nLydia Farnum,\\nNancy Farnum,\\nJosiah Farnum,\\nTheodore Farnum,\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nEben Farnum,\\nJoanna Farnum,\\n(59-3)\\n(67-3)\\n(68-4)\\n(69\u00e2\u0080\u00945)\\n(70-6)\\n(60\u00e2\u0080\u00944)\\n(62\u00e2\u0080\u00946)\\n(63-7)\\n(11-4)\\n(72-2)\\n(73-3)\\n(74-4)\\n(77-7)\\nEphkaim Fisk.\\nEphraim Fisk came from Tewksbury, Mass., A. D. 1772 or 1773, and\\nsettled in the northwesterly part of Concord, near the Ilopkinton line. He\\nmarried Mehitable Frost. When her son Ephraim Mas born she Avas thir-\\nteen and a half years old. She used to ask her mother to tend her baby\\nwhile she went out with the children to ])lay. A person asked her how old\\nshe was when her first child was born She replied Thirteen and a half\\nyears, and what is that to you They had twelve children\\n1. Ephraim. 2. Solomon, d. y. 3. Mehitable. 4. Ebenezer. 5. Sarah.\\n6. Lydia. 7. Daniel. 8. Solomon, 2d. 9. Jonathan. 10. Betsey. 11.\\nRebecca. 12. Joseph.\\nMr. Fisk and his son Ephraim Avere soldiers in the Revolutionary war.\\nBoth were in the battle of Bennington, Ephraim, the son, when he en-\\nlisted was only sixteen years old, and rather small of his age but he suc-\\nceeded in passing muster by tieing his hat-band tight around his hat, and\\nputting his hat as high on his head as he could without having it fall off,\\nand standing as erect as he could. When he came to the inspector, the lat-\\nter said, march on, while some of the others were rejected. In the battle\\nof Bennington, he, with three others, were ordered by a Heutenant to carry\\nCapt. Taylor from the field, who was wounded, (his thigh being broken.)\\nThis was a very dangerous and critical position. It was rising ground, and\\nCapt. T. faulting every few minutes. The cannon-balls would plow furrows\\nas large as those made by a breaking-up plow, yet a kind Providence pro-\\ntected them.\\nEbenezer Fisk, son of Ephraim, born at Tewksbury, Mass., Jan. 26,\\n1766, and still Hving at the advanced age of 89, was one of the first settlers\\nat Little Pond, about 1787. He purchased one of the eighty-acre lots,\\nthat belonged to the Rolfe estate, and commenced at the west end of the\\nlot made an opening near the road, and put up a shanty, in which he\\nlived about three years. He then biult a house married Sarah Blanchard,\\nb. Sept. 28, 1769 d. Nov. 11, 1848, aged 79. Their children\\n1. Betsey, b. Aug. 3, 1798; m. Andrew Seavey. 2. Abira, b. March 9,\\n1800 m. Eunice B. Abbot, and settled on a part of the old homestead.\\n3. Eleanor S., b. July 12, 1801 unmarried. 4, Henry, b. Oct. 30, 1803\\nd. May 26, 1831 a school teacher member of the Fir.st Congregational", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0719.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "662 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nChurch, and highly esteemed. 5. Sarah B., b. June 8, 1805 m. Dea.\\nHazcn Ihinncls, and d. Oct. 30, 1840. 6. Mehitabel F., b. May 4, 1809;\\nd. Aug. 1832 school teacher.\\nMr. Fisk possesses a large, muscular frame, which during his long life\\nhas been subjected to severe labors, toils and hardships. When a young\\nman, about twenty-one, he worked a while for Joseph Colby, of New-Jjon-\\ndon father of Ex-Gov. Anthony Colby. Going out together in a boat on\\na pond, they were upset, and Fisk saved Colby s Hfe by catching him by\\nthe hair of his head when sinking. Soon after this, in raising the New-Lon-\\ndon meeting-house, both Colby and Fisk were on the frame, when a\\nboard being suddenly moved Fisk fell, and Colby caught him by the hair\\nof his head, and saved his hfe At another time young Fisk was thresh-\\ning grain with Thomas Morse, of Hopkinton, when Morse in sport struck\\nthe end or swingel of INIr. Fisk s flail, and drove it into his left eye. He\\nfell, and was thought to be dead but recovering. Dr. PhiUp Carrigain was\\nsent for, who told him that his eye was spoiled and, said he, if the\\neye should run out, you Avould give all Hopkinton to get rid of the pain.\\nHappily the eye did not run out, but the sight of it was completely de-\\nstroyed for life. Dr. Carrigain charged but tivo shillings for his services.\\nAt the raising of a barn, at what is now Millville, about twenty-eight\\nyears of age, Mr. Fisk says, I fell from the top or plate to the bottom of\\nthe cellar and a stick of timber I was Hfting, fell across my breast. My\\nshoulder was broken, and breast so much bruised that it was thought I\\ncould not recover but by skilful means of the doctor, and a good consti-\\ntution, I recovered but felt the effects for three or four years after.\\nAbout three years since Mr. Fisk was upset in a wagon, on the road, at\\nthe top of the hill west of Richard Bradley s, and received a severe cut in\\nthe head, which for a considerable time benumbed his faculties. With no\\neducation in early Hfe, he has ever been a good calculator and manager of\\nhis affairs, and a reliable, substantial citizen.\\nTHE GALE FAMILY.\\nDaniel Gale came to Concord from Haverhill, Mass., about 1760. He\\nmarried Ruth Carter, daughter of Dr. Ezra Carter. Their children were\\n1. Hannah, b. April 20, 1762. 2. Ezra, b. Dec. 20, 1763. 3. Moses,\\nb. Nov. 15, 1765. 4. Benjamin, b. June 5, 1769. 5. Daniel, b. Oct. 10,\\n1767. 6. Ruth, b. Oct. 6, 1771. 7. MoUv, b. July 19, 1773. 8. Wil-\\nliam, 1). Aug. 2, 1775 d. Aug. 24, 1776. 9. William, b. March 17, 1777.\\n10. Judith, b. Jan. 17, 1779. 11. Hubbard Carter, b. Dec. 11, 1780. 12.\\nSarah, b. May 3, 1783. 13. Betsey, b, Jan. 13, 1786. 14. Susey, b. Mar.\\n27, 1788.\\nDaniel Gale died Aug. 16, 1800, aged 60 years. Ruth, his wife, d.\\nApril 1, 1833, aged 89 years.\\nBenjamin Gale.\\nBenjamin, son of Daniel Gale, married, Nov. 28, 1801, Prudence Var-\\nnum, daughter of Col. James Varnum, of Dracut, Mass. Their children", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0720.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0721.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "i- .\\\\jr.\\n/o\\n^l", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0722.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. G63\\nwere: 1. James Varmmi, b. Aup^. 18, 1S04. 2. James V., 2d, b. Nov. 2,\\n1806. 3. Ruth, b. Sept. 23, 1808 d. Oct. 3, 1809. 4. Ruth C, b. Aug.\\n23, 1810. 5. Eleanor V., b. Sept. 16, 1812. 6. John V., b. AprQ 5, 1814.\\n7. Benj. F.,b. Ajml 13, 1819. 8. Levi B., b. May 17, 1821; d.\\nThrough the solicitations of personal friends, Mr. Gale, who is still liv-\\ning, at the advanced age of 86 years, has consented that his portrait should\\nhave a place in our History. With the exception of the venerable Timothy\\nWalker, son of the late Judge, he is understood to be the oldest native born\\nman in town. Living in retirement, in the family of his son Benjamin F., he\\nenjoys a healthful, happy and respected old age his eye bright his step\\nquick, firm and elastic his form erect his countenance cheerful and benig-\\nnant, and his laugh as hearty as ever. He retains the manners and habits\\nof a former generation his bald head, his snowy locks, with a cue, neatly\\nbraided and tied with a ribbon his staff and snuff-box, render his presence\\nvenerable and agreeable. Mr. Gale learned the trade of a blacksmith, and\\nworked with his father in a shop that formerly stood near where the lower\\nBank building is, till he was about 26 years of age. He then opened a\\npublic house, which stood opposite the new Phenix block, on Main street, and\\nwhich he kept about forty successive years. Thus Mr. Gale, Uke his neigh-\\nbor and friend, the late Abel Hutchins, became widely known, and universally\\nrespected as a good landlord. As related on pages 322 and 323, Mr. Gale\\nwas Commissary in the Oxford war, and several times went to Oxford,\\nMass., with companies of soldiers. Always fulfilling the duties of a good\\ncitizen, sustaining schools and the institutions of reUgion, and sharing in\\nevery eff ort to advance the growth of the town he has been distinguished\\nfor good temper, and for promptness and perseverance in accomplishing\\nwhat he undertook. In the fatal sickness of Dr. McFarland s second wife,\\nin 1801, while the Doctor was absent on a mission, m the Pigwacket coun-\\ntry, Mr. Gale volunteered to go, express, to inform him. Starting at day-\\nlight, on horse-back, in the month of August, he rode to Meredith Bridge,\\nand breakfasted thence, having exchanged his horse, he rode to Fryeburg\\neighty miles from Concord which he reached at nine o clock in the even-\\ning. There he found Dr. McFarland. Starting at early dawn next morn-\\ning, they returned the same day as far as Sanbornton, and reached Concord\\nthe following morning at ten o clock. jSIr. Gale had a principal agency in\\nthe laying out of a new road from Horse-hill to Warner and to his liberal\\nexertions the people of the village, and the members of the Baptist society\\nin particular, are indebted for the first bell, and the clock on the brick\\nchurch. To purchase these Mr. Gale raised a subscription of about nme\\nhundred dollars.\\nMr. Gale relates that at the time of his marriage the parish clergyman\\nwas absent, and the marriage service was performed by Parker Varnum,\\nEsq., uncle of his Avife a prayer being offered by Rev. Humphrey Moore,\\nthen a licentiate, who was an invited guest. His wife, who was a pattern\\nof neatness, industry and good manners, and a true help-meet in the\\ncares and labors of a public house, died April 3d, 1 850, aged 74.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0723.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "G64 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nOn occasion of the funeral discourse, preached by Rev. Dr. Bouton,\\nApril 8, ISoo, on the death of llichard Herbert and Abiel Walker, Mr.\\nGale and the late Levi Hutchins were present, as representatives of the\\nmost aged peojjle of the town.\\nDr. Peter Green.\\nDr. Peter Green, son of Peter Green, Esq., of Lancaster, Ms-, was bom\\nOct. 1, 17-4.5, graduated at Harvard College in 176G, commenced practice in\\nLancaster, where he buried his first wife, Martha Clark, who died June 8,\\n1770, one year after their marriage, of puerperal fever, both mother and child\\nbeing buried in the same grave. He removed to Concord in 1772, where\\nhe was in extensive and successful practice more than half a century. After\\nsettling in Concord he married Ruth Ayer, of Haverhill,:\\\\Iass., by whom\\nhe had thirteen children, five sons and eight daughters. Although on the\\nstage of life when the habitual use of ardent spirit was the besetting sin, not\\nonly of the profession but of all classes of persons, he was strictly temperate.\\nHe exhibited through a long Ufe a consistent Christian profession. He\\nwas indefatigable in his attention to his patients, the poor as well as the\\nrich always preferring, when possible, to administer with his o-wii hand,\\nhis medicines, although it might cost him nights of wakefulness and toil\\nnever declining the most menial offices for the sick, when necessary. His\\npractice was distinguished for the great simplicity of his medicines. To\\nthis may attributed in part his great reputation as a good doctor for chil-\\ndren. He was always kind to the poor in regard to his charges, never\\nexacting a fee when he had reason to think its payment would occasion the\\nleast embarrassment. He was one of the original members, if not one of\\nthe founders of the New-Hampshire Medical Society, and was elected an\\nhonorary member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. At the com-\\nmencement of the Revolutionary Mar he was appointed surgeon of one of\\nthe regiments raised by the government of this State but we do not learn\\nhoAv long he continued in serAice.\\nDr. Green lived and died in a house, since burnt down, which stood\\ndirectly opposite the new City Hall. He retained his active habits in old\\nage. Like most physicians of his period, he rc^e on horse-back; and,\\nwhen eighty years of age, would place one foot in the stirrup and mount\\nfrom the gi-ound into the saddle with the aglhty of a young man. The\\nevening of his life Avas serene and peaceful. He spent much time in reading\\nthe Scriptures, with Scott s Commentary. He died March 31, 1828, In\\nthe 83d year of his age. The children of Dr. Green and Ruth Ayer Avere\\n1. Martha, b. Sept. 26, 1774; d. immarried. 2. Peter, b. June 24,\\n1776 d. of vellow fever, In New York, 1800. 3. Samuel, b. Dec. 29,\\n1778 m. Fanny Harwood, of Shrewsl)ury, Mass. 4. Abigail, b. :May 3,\\n1781; d. v. 5. Abigail, b. Aug. 9, 1782; d. unmarried, aged 37. 6.\\nPolly, or Mary, b. Dec. 26, 1784; 1 m. Moses H. Bradley; 2 m., Nathan\\nStickney, no ch. 7. Thomas, b. Jan. 12, 1787; lost at sea in 1812. 8.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0724.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL.\\n665\\nWilham b Dec 19, 788; 1 m. Clarissa Harris, dau. of Rev Walter\\nfnZhI ^o f f^l r 2 Harriet Kimball, of Con ord- four\\ndaughters. 9 Anna b. May 26, 1791 m. Thomas I). Merril lEsn of\\nEpsom. Mr. Merrill M-as b. in Salem, N. H. went into tradT n Ep?om\\nwas selectman, town clerk one year, representative, and for abou fifty years\\na man of extensive and beneficial iniiuence in that town! n lU he\\nI^^Jy^^^T ^T l^OO to the South Cono-re^\\nI on T^I \\\\C\u00c2\u00b0 1^ \u00c2\u00ab0 to the American Colonization Society and\\n$1000 to the Academy m Pittsfield, X. H., leaving his widow in ver Com-\\nfortable circumstances. Dr. Green s tenth child was Eliza, TApri 5?179?.\\nm. Asaph Evans; d. 11. Charles liufus, b. Feb. 11, 1795 m and ive^\\nTHE HERBERT FAMILY.\\nTHE HERBERT HOUSE.*\\nLieut. Richard Herbert.\\nLieut. Richard Herbert came to Concord about 1752, and at first worked\\nat his trade of shoe making. Tradition says he bought the first lot of", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0725.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "66G HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nland sold by the proprietors on Main street, situated where the new City\\nHall is located. For this land, which was apparently a sand heap, he paid\\nten dollars, and in 17.3G built the two-sfory house, called the Dearborn\\nhouse, which Avas recently removed to what is called Fosterville see page\\n514-515.\\nHe was frequently raUied by his neighbor land-holders for his singular pur-\\nchase, at such a price but in 1854 the city paid six thousand dollars for the\\nsame land and, as Gov. Baker remarked at the laying of the corner stone\\nof the new City Hall, this latter price was about equal to the compound\\ninterest of ten dollars, at six per cent., for one hundred years. About 1765\\nLieut. Herbert sold his house to Dea. David Hall, and built the house where\\nhis son, Capt. Samuel Herbert, now lives, and which is well represented\\nby the annexed cut and for a number of years carried on the manufacture\\nof malt page 521. In the Revolutionary war he was a Lieutenant in Capt.\\nEbenezer Webster s company, and was in the battle of Bennington, in Col.\\nStickney s regiment. After the battle he was one of a court-martial, held\\nSeptember 2, 1777, for the trial of two soldiers, on a charge of stealing\\ntwo horses and a quantity of other plunder. He was one of the town\\nCommittee of Safety, in 1776 and 1777, and sustained other important\\noffices of trust and responsibihty. See List of Officers. Lieut. Herbert is\\nremembered for his original and pithy sayings, exhibiting shrewdness and\\na knowledge of human nature. One of his neighbors, owing him a sum of\\nmoney, which he found it difficult to collect or to get a note for it renewed,\\nMr. Herbert had an interview with him before the late Charles Walker,\\nEsq., and after urging a variety of motives in vain to induce his neighbor\\nto pay or renew the note, suddenly taking him by the arm, he said Come,\\ngo with me doAVTi to the bank, and let Esq. Sparhawk weigh you in his\\nmoney scales, to see if you are an honest man This appeal decided the\\nmatter, and the note was renewed. After the passage of a new law by\\nCongress, 1817, making provision for poor Revolutionary soldiers, Lieut.\\nHerbert, then about ninety years of age, and in comfortable circumstances,\\nhaving been introduced to President Monroe, on his visit to Concord, the\\nsame year, wrote and published in the N. H. Patriot the following com-\\nmunication\\nConcord, May, 1818.\\nLieut. Herbert gives his humble and hearty thanks to the President of\\nthe United States, that in his wisdom he recommended, and with the appro-\\nbation of Congress, has made ample provision for the jioor who jeoparded\\ntheir lives in the high places of the field in defence of the sacred rights of\\nAmerica. Thanks be to God that their labors were l)lessed, and tliat we\\nwere not carried into captivity before our enemies. Now to the President\\nGive him long hfe and prosperity give him tlie wisdom of Solomon and the\\npatience of Job make him victorous, happy and glorious, long to rule oyer\\nus. Save the President Let his enemies bow and tremble before him.\\nMay his name be written in a bound book, and be read by twenty genera-\\ntions. God save the President", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0726.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 667\\nDescendants of Richard and H.annaii Hall Herbert.\\n[For the names and dates of this genealogy, I am indebted to Miss Alma J. Herbert.]\\nRichard Herbert, born Dec. 31, 1729 died July 17, 1823. He was the\\nfirst of the name in Concord, and the youngest child of James Herbert, who\\ncame to America from London, Eng., and settled in SaHsbury, Mass. He\\nmarried Susanna Woodbury, of Rowley, Mass.\\nRichard Herbert m., Jan. 27, 1757, Hannah Hall b. Xov. 31, 173u; d.\\nAug. 11, 1825, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hall, of Bradford, Mass.\\nTheir children were\\n2-Jonathan, b. Nov. 20, 1757. 2-Jamcs, b. Mar. 11, 1759. 2-Richard,\\nb. Oct. 14, 1761. 2-Sarah, b. May 21, 1766. 2-Marv, b. Feb. 11, 1769.\\n2-Persis, b. Dec. 22, 1772. 2-Hannah, b. Aug. 21, 1775. 2-Saniuel. 2-\\nCharles, b. March 2, 1779,\\n2-JoNATnAN, never married, but remained in Concord through life, and\\nfor many years kept a store in the building on Main street, next north to\\nthat now occupied by Mr. J. D. A. West. When Jonathan was five years\\nold he received a present of a little manuscript book from his cousin John,\\nof Newbury, Mass., written in a neat and ornamental hand, with the alpha-\\nbet, and drawings of various kinds of birds and quadrupeds, a ship, meet-\\ning-house, mariner s compass, all which seemed to be original. On the first\\nleaf was written\\nJONATHAW HaRBUT,\\nof Penacook,\\nhis Book,\\nAnno Dominy\\n1762.\\nOn the second leaf:\\nJohn Harbut is my name.\\nAnd English is my nation\\nNewbury my dwelling-place,\\nAnd Christ is my salvation.\\nWhen I am dead, and in my grave,\\nAnd all my bones are rotten,\\nYou see, remember me\\nI may not be forgotten.\\nJanuary 10, 17G2.\\nJonathan kept this httle gift till his death, Feb. 26, 1836, aged 79; then\\nit was preserved as a sacred relic by his brother Richard, and is now\\ncarefully treasured by the daughters of the family.\\n2 -James Herbert, settled in Rumney, N. H. m. Nov. 12, X784, Olive\\nGage, of Merrimack, his cousin. She was born July 14, 1767 d. Oct. 26,\\n1835; he d. Jan. 1, 1843. Their children were\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1. John, b. Jan. 25, 1786; d. May 13, 1841; 1 m., March 17, 1812,\\nSarah Allen, bv whom he had two children, Samuel, b. Dec. 17, 1813, and\\nEmeline, b. May 28, 1815; 2 m. Lydia Darling, March 17, 1818. His\\nson Samuel, attorney at law, m. Lydia M. Darling, Sept. 4, 1831. Their\\nch., seven, Ellen Maria, d. at Thetford, Vt., Nov. 4, 1854 Carohne Adelia,\\nd. Nov. 22, 1845 Charles Wayland, Henry, d., Henry William, Mary Car-\\noline, d., and John. Emeline m. Robert Colby, Sept. 3, 1834. Their ch.,\\nthree, Marv Adaline, Charles H., d., and Charles H. Emehne H. Colby d.\\nApril 4, 1844.\\n2. Charles, M. D., b. May 15, 1789; d. at Concord, Oct. 28, 1816.\\n3. Hannah, d. at the age of two years.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0727.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "668 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n4. Sarah, b. Dec. 17, 1792 m. Samuel C. Allen, Jan. 23, 1813. _ Their\\nch., four, A-iz. Mary H., Valeria, Thaddeus S., d., Charles J. Valeria 1 m.\\nHiram Keay, Xov. 7, 1S36. Their cli., Orestes H., Francis Luella. 2 m.\\nAaron Page, Oct. 3, 18o0 one child, Herbert Allen.\\n5. Mary, b. Nov. 10, 1796; d. at Ilumnev, Jan. 11, 1834, unmarried.\\n6. Richard, b. Mav 7, 1798 M. D. Dart. Coll. 1822; settled in Rowley,\\nMass. 1 m. Nancy Kendall, July 10, 1822, who d. Aug. 29, 1826. Their\\nchild, Helen Augusta, d. y. 2 m. Ann L. Lancaster, March 29, 1827.\\nTheir ch., William Orestes, b. Dec. 27, 1827 d. Dec. 26, 1849, in San\\nFrancisco, Cal.; Lydia Lancaster m. Gorham Thurber, Providence, R. I.\\nHelen, Charles Hale, d. y., and Charles.\\n2-PtiC HARD Herbert, whose perfect likeness is here presented, was born\\nin the first house built by his father, and attained to within one month of\\nthe same age. He died March 31, 1855, aged 93 years, 5 months and 17\\ndays, being at the time the oldest native born person in town. Mr.\\nHerbert is well remembered by a large portion of the mhabitants of the toA^-n.\\nHe always lived in the neighborhood where he was born industrious, tem-\\nperate, and regular in his habits an obliging and kind neighbor of a\\nretentive memory, and shrewd, and often witty in his observations. For\\nseveral years, from about 1808 to 1818, carried on the butchering business,\\nand hence was commonly called butcher Herbert. He built the Merri-\\nmack house, and kept tavern in it at different times, about fourteen years.\\nIn 1842, at the age of eighty, Mr. Herbert, who had always been a sup-\\nporter of pubUc M orship and religious institutions, made a public profession\\nof religion in the First church, and his subsequent years were spent in com-\\nparative ease and retirement. He generally rose at an early hour, in the\\nsummer and winter overlooked his affairs, and devoted a portion of each\\nday to reading the scriptures. His health was uniformly good. In the last\\ntwo or three years of his life he was in the habit of walking once a week\\nfrom his house, about half a mile, to a barber s to be shaved. In winter he\\nused a staff, which was a present to him, about five feet long, pointed at the\\nend, and which he held in both hands placing it on the left side of him, it\\nserved the double purpose of holding him up and of shoving him along.\\nHis step was slow, measured and long. His venerable and singular appear-\\nance when wallving in the street with his staff, always attracted attention.\\nHis last sickness was sliort, seeming at first to be a slight influenza which,\\nhowever, as it increased, alarmed his children, all of whom, living near,\\ngathered around him. When he expired he lay on his bed, gently ele-\\nvated by pillows, with both hands extended, Uke an old patriarch pronouncing\\na benediction. He retained his faculties to the last, and expired so easily\\nthat the moment of the change M as hardly perceptible.\\n2-RicnARD Herbert, m. Sarah AViggin, April 29, 1800, who d. May 5,\\n18.31, aged 74. Their children were\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1. Charlotte, b. Jan. 27, ISOl m.\\nJames Woolson, Julv 5, 1836 one child, Charlotte Augusta, b. Sept. 24,\\n1840; he d. March 23, 1853, aged 51 years. 2. Sarah Odlin, b. May 24,\\n1S03. 3. Gilbert, 1). Dec. 24, 1805; d. Feb. 22, 1830. 4. Belinda, b.\\nDec. 4, 1808 m. Shadrach Seavev, Jan. 22, 1834. Their ch., Gilbert H.,\\nb. May 5, 1835; Ellen Augusta, b. INIay 31, 1837; Marshall, b. July 10,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0728.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "(yC/: c A i^ y^^^^e^r^-^e^-v-^\\nAged, 9 3 Yrs,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0729.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0730.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 669\\n1841; d. Aug. 22, 1850. 5. Albert, b. May 22, 1812. 6. Marv Clnrk b\\nDec. 10, 1817.\\nin^;?nr i. 1791\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one child, Charlotte, d. Feb.\\n10, 1793 she d. April 9, 1794.\\n2-Mary, m. Maj. William Preston, Rumncv, N. H., Jan. 21, 1807 he\\n?Q 5 u- ^\u00c2\u00a5^;j Tlicir ch., Jonathan H., b. July, 1809; d. March 15,\\n1804; Hannah H., b. June 4, 1811; m. Hazcn Webster, Oct. 3, 1833\\nIheir ch. seven, viz. Kendrick Brown, Amanda Jane, Mary P., Wilham\\nP., Alma H., Esther Gould, d., and Mary F. ini\\n2--PERSIS, m^^ Benjamin Little, Esq., Boscawen, N. H., March 5, 1816\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nno children. Esq. Little d. Aug. 30, 1846.\\nlooT^^^^ benjamin Marshall, Jan. 14, 1799; he d. July 9.\\n1824; she d. Aug. 22, 1835. Their ch. seven, viz.\\n1. Charlotte, b. July 26, 1801 m. Sylvanus B. Stillwell, Brooklvn, X Y\\nJulv 2o, 1822. Their ch., Benjamin M., attorney at law, m. Ehza Jo-\\nsephine Wood Avho d. feept, 26, 1846, aged 19 years; Charles H., M. D\\nm. Sarah 1). Wardsworth\u00e2\u0080\u0094 three ch. Mary, m. Samuel F. Whitino--!\\nthree ch.; Sarah Ann, m. Charles Davis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 three ch. Hannah M d%\\nIhomas Hunt, Wilham lioss, Hannah Maria and Samuel D\\n2. Persis, b. Oct. 1, 1804 d. Sejit. 24, 1805.\\n3 Benjamin b. June 11, 1806, M. D., New York, d. Oct., 1853 m Ann\\nSkic more Aiml 1 1827-five ch., viz., Edward S., Benjamin, d. v., Benjamin\\ngraduate N. Y. Medical College, Charlotte Stillwell, and Ann Skidmore.\\niQOQ ^^u E Sillick, New York, Mav 11,\\n1828. Iheirch. fom-, viz., Sarah Ann, m. William Ludlum, one child;\\nIvucretia, Maria Louisa, and Thomas Abraham, d.\\n5. Charles H., b. Sept. 4, 1810; d. July 29, 1812.\\n6. Lucretia, b. Dec. 14, 1813; m. Edward B. Coleman, Oct. 29, 1835\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\none child, Marshall she died at the Astor house, N. Y., Nov 3 185\\nnl f7c?-r^- !^V Henry Coleman, liocheJteis N- Y.,\\nOct 4, 1837. Their ch seven, viz Elizabeth M., Edward H., Marietta\\nd., Marietta, Henry B., Charlotte L., Earnest.\\n2-Samuel, m Feb. 11, 1823, Nancy Bridges, dau. of James and Mary\\nMontgomery Bridges, of Andover, Mass. Their ch. five, viz.\\n1. Alma Jane, b. Dec. 15, 1823. 2. Charles Horace, b. Feb 6 18 ^5-\\nm Dec. 9, 1848, Louisa W. Sampson. Their ch. two, Charles A. and\\nMary. 3 Marcia Hannah, b. Aug. 28, 1826 m. Leonard Holt. 4. Sam-\\nuel Sparhawk, b. March 2, 1828; d. of yellow fever at New Orleans, La.,\\nUct. 9, lbj4. o. Juhette Bridges, b. June 9, 1832; d. April 6, 1845.\\n2-Charles, twin brotlier of Samuel, learned the trade of a hatter, and\\ncarried on the business in Concord for many years. Li 1811 he made a\\npubhc profession of rehgion in the First church, and was cUstinguished m\\nsubsequent life for devotion and zeal in his Master s service. With Joshua\\nT. Russell, Joshua Abbot, Wilham Clark, Henry Wood, and two or three\\nothers, about 1816, he commenced, in his father s house, the first prayer\\nmeeting ever held in Concord by male members of the church. The meet-\\ning has been continued, on Saturday evenings, till the present time, and has\\nproved to be a rich means of spiritual blessings to those who have attended.\\nMr. Herbert was able and fervent in prayer a dihgent reader of the scrip-\\ntures; very exemplary in life; free to converse on rehgious subjects, to dis-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0731.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "670 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ntribute tracts, and to contribute for missionary and benevolent objects. He\\nnever married, but lived Avith his brother Samuel, esteemed and loved by\\nall who knew him. He died of dyspepsia, Aug. 25, 1829, aged 50.\\nTHE HUTCHIXS FAMHLY.\\nThe ancestor of the Ilutchins family in Concord was Col. GoRDOX\\nHuTClllNS, son of Ephraim Hutchins, born ui Exeter, this State, in 1733.\\nAt about the age of 13, Gordon accompanied his father, who commanded\\na company in the expedition against Louisburg, in the capacity of a waiter,\\nbut subsequently held a lieutenancy in the army. Returning from the war,\\nhe married and settled at Harvard, Mass., from which place he removed to\\nConcord, about 1773. The part he took in the Avar of the Revolution, and\\nin the aflairs of the to^m, is recorded in the preceding history, (pp. 265\\n274. See Officers.) He rose to the office of Colonel. After the war Col.\\nHutchins returned to domestic Hfe, and died in Concord, highly respected,\\nDec. 8, 1815, aged 82. Col. Hutchins married twice, and had a family\\nof twenty children, of whom Levi and Abel settled in Concord. Ezra\\nHutchins lived in Concord some years, but then moved to Exeter returned\\nto Concord moved to Andover, N, H., and thence to Bangor, Me.\\nLevi Hutchins, son of Col. Gordon, married Phebe Hannaford. Their\\nchildren were\\n1. Ruth, b. Dec. 29, 1789. 2. Anne, b. Aug. 25, 1791. 3. Harriet, b.\\nMay 13, 1793. 4. Mary, b. July 13, 1795. 5. Lucy, b. April 18, 1797.\\n6. John, b. April 12, 1799. 7. Ednah, b. June 21, 1803. 8. Samuel.\\nLeA-i Hutchins, d. June 13, 1855, aged 93 years and 10 months. Phebe,\\nwife of Levi Hutchins, died April 2, 1829, aged 68.\\nAbel Hutchins, son of Col. Gordon, married Betsey Partridge. Their\\nchildren were\\n1. Charles, b. Nov. 6, 1786; m. :Mary Thorndike. 2. Sally Gridley, b.\\nJuly 3, 1788 m. Warren Lovejoy, Boston. 3. Dolly, b. July 18, 1790\\nm. Isaac Danforth, Boston, now of Concord. 4. Catherine, 1). July 21,\\n1792; m. William Kent d. 5. Eliza, b. Nov. 16, 1794; m. Samuel N.\\nBaker, of Ipswich, ]Mass. 6. George, b. Oct. 21, 1797 m. Sarah R.\\nTucker. 7. Jane Johnson, b. July 15, 1799; m. Col. Robert Ambrose.\\n8. Lewis,]). Sept. 30, 1801; d. at Wetompke, Ala. 9. Ephraim, b. Oct.\\n4, 1803 m. Elizabeth Blodgett, of Randolph, Vt. 10. Hamilton, b. July\\n10, 1805; m. Miss Chandler; d. 11. Mary Ann, b. June 1, 1807. 12.\\nHannah Tavlor, b. Dec. 22, 1810; m. A. C. Pierce; d. 13. Martha Cur-\\nrier, b. March 1, 1813 m. A, C. Pierce.\\nEzra Hutchins married widow Sally Currier, whose maiden name was\\nLamson, who had one daughter that married Nathan Stickney first wife\\nthe mother of Martha Stickney, wife of Mr. Edward Pcndexter, of Mad-\\nbury, N. H. The children of Ezra Hutchins and Sally C. were Clarissa\\nLamson, b. Dec. 10, 1797, in Concord; Mary Parker, b. July 10, 1799, in\\nExeter Dolly, b. June 10, 1802, in Exeter m. Richard Potter, Esq.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0732.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 671\\nDescend.ots ok 1-Abner Hoit.\\nAbnor Iloit, who was the first of the name in Concord, came from Ames-\\n])ury, Mass., probably betMeen 1728 and 1731 was the son of William\\nHoit; married Mary BlaisdeU, Xov. 14, 1717. Their children, of whom\\nthe youngest only was born in Concord, were\\n1. Jacob, b. Jmie 16, 1718. 2. Zuriah. 3. Betsey. 4, Stephen. 5.\\nApphia. 6. Philip. 7. John, who is said to be the second male child born\\nin Concord, Sept. 10, 1732. [See Moore s Annals of Concord, p. 11.]\\nOf the foregoing children of Abner Hoit, Jacob, after residing several\\nyears m Concord, went to llochester, Vt. He married Margaret Coleman,\\nand d. about 1800. Zuriah m. Joseijh Farnum. Betsey, 1 m. Lamson\\nColby, of Ilopkinton 2 m. Ezelviel Straw. Apphia, m. Xatlian Lovejoy,\\nof Andover. PhiHp, died young. Stephen, m. Abigail P:astman their\\nch., Stephen, b. Sept. 23, 1746; Enoch, b. Oct. 11, 1748; and one other\\nson. [See p. 194.]\\n2-Jonx Hoit, son of Abner and Mar\\\\-, married Abigail Carter. Their\\nchildren were\\n1. Mary, b. Dec. 12, 1775 unmarried. 2. Abigail, b. March 12, 17,37-\\nm. Joseph Durgm. 3. Abner, b. April 15, 17o9; 1 m. Betsey Blanchard,\\nhad 12 ch. 2 m. widow Phillips, and had 1 ch. 4. Martha, b. Feb. 10\\n1761; m. Jeremiah Clough. 5. Sarah, b. April 16, 1763; m. Ebenezer\\nloss. 6. John, b. Dec. 4, 1765. 7. Susanna, b. Dec. 17, 1767 1 m\\nEbenezer Sanborn; 2 m. Meshech Lang. 8. Ezra, b. Jan 23 1770 9\\nJacob, b. March 28, 1772. 10. William, b. May 2, 1774; d. y. 11. liuth]\\nb. May 21, 1777; m. Jonathan Fowle. 10. Betty, b. Nov. 8, 1779- m\\nWdham Knowles. 13. William, b. Nov. 24, 1782.\\n_3-JoHX Hoit, son of 2-John and Abigail, 1 m. Sally Crosman. Their\\nchildren were 1. Clarissa. 2. Sarah. 3. lluth. 4. Abigail. 5. Susan\\nSally, his first wife, d. 1801 2 m. llebecca Currier, Oct. 5, 1802. Their\\nchddren were 6. Philip C, d. y. 7. Mahala. 8. John Currier. 9. :\\\\Iary.\\n3-Jacob Hoyt, son of 2- John and Abigail, 1 m. Ruth Virgin, Oct 27\\n1800. By her one ch., Prudence V., b. Aug. 24, 1802; m. Francis w\\nTucker, liuth, his wife, d. July 28, 1803. He 2 m. Fanny Tucker, Feb!\\n7, 1805. Their children were\\n1. Sophia, b. Feb. 12, 1800; m. Asa Fifield. 2. John, b. Nov 10\\n1807; m. Margaret M. Jewett; Hves in Cleaveland, (O.) 3. Daniel v\\nb. Aug. 23, 1809 m. Ehzabeth Brown was killed in Andover, Mass.\\nOct. o, 1844, on a freight train, of which he Avas conductor. 4 Rachel T\\nb. March 2 1813 d. 1835 m. Asa F. Bradley, 5. Fanny Jane, b. April\\n25, 181o; d. 1843; m. Cyrus Tucker, of Loudon. 6. Jedediah T., b. Auo-\\n21, 1817 m. Mary Jane Crunkleton now hves on the homestead in East-\\nConcord. 7. Wilham, b. April 6, 1820; d. June 16, 1842. 8 Ruth E\\nb. April 19, 1824; m. John M. Dearborn. 9. Jacob N., b. Dec. 15, 1831.\\nat^Ti ^VvL^^ J,L /^1 S ^^tsey Thompson,\\nMarch 14, 1808. Iheir children were J i\\n1. Charles T-, b. Jan. 9, 1809; m. Hannah Wyatt; died in Haverhill,\\nMass. 2. Ruth T., b. Oct. 18, 1811 m. Ebenezer Eastman lives m San-\\nbornton. 3 Xahum P., b. Aug. 30, 1813; d. in New-York State, 1842.\\n4. Hannah G., b. Dec. 22, 1821 d. 1849. 5. WiUiam F., b. July 9, 18 6\\n6. George Henry, b. June 21, 1828 d. at sea.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0733.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "672 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n4-AVli,LlAM HoiT, son of 3-Abner, and grandson of 2-John, ni. Betsey\\nHazeltine, June 7, 1809. Their children Avere\\n1. WiUiam Barnes, b. Jan. 20, 1810. 2. Hephsibah Hall, b. Feb. 20,\\n1812. 3. George Hough, b. Sept. 1, 1814. 4. A daughter, d. in infancy.\\n5. Thomas Chadbourne, b. May 16, 1818, 6. Grace, (a twin,) b. May\\n14, 1821. 7. Charles Henry, b. Aug. 5, 1823. 8. Edward, b. Aug. 19,\\n1826. 9. Franklin, b. Aug. 23, 1829.\\nWiUiam Hoit, prmter, called the Old Veteran, died at Pembroke, Dec.\\n28, 1854.\\nOli\\\\t:r Hoit and Brothers.\\nOlhtir Hott, son of Joseph, of Boscawen, was the first settler at\\nHorse-hill, in 1772. He first married Rebecca Gerald. Their children\\nwere\\n1. Susanna, b. May 21, 1766; m. Nathan Davis. 2. Moses, b. March\\n11, 1768 m. Nera Gerald. 3. Anna, b. Oct. 3, 1770 m. Moody Dow. 4.\\nPolly, b. Dec. 7, 1772; m. WiUiam Cleasby. 5. Phebe, b. March 19,\\n1775 m. John Powell. 6. Hannah, b. April 2, 1777 m. Zechariah H.\\nSargent. 7. James, b. June 30, 1779 m. Mary Pil)bles. 8. Joseph, b.\\nApril 26, 1781 m. Jane Davis. 9. Enoch, b. Aug. 16, 1783 m. widow\\nMary Hoit. 10. Sally, b. July 2, 1785; m. Isaac Esty. 11. Mehetabel,\\nb. June 2, 1787 m. Joshua Esty. 12. Ezra, b. July 15, 1789 1 m. Abi-\\ngail Ferrin 2 m. Fanny Call. l3. Rebecca, b. March 11, 1791 d. 1819.\\nRebecca, A\\\\ife of Oliver, d. 1808. He then m. widow Whittier, of New-\\ntown maiden name Rhoda Hoit. Oliver Hoit d. Sept., 1828, aged 80.\\nJedediah Hoyt, son of Joseph, of Boscawen, and brother of Oliver, 1\\nm. Hannah Elliot, of Concord. Their children were\\n1. Jonathan. 2. James. 3. John. 4. Miriam. 5. Naomi. 6. Han-\\nnah. 7. Jedediah, b. Feb. 15, 1795. Hannah, first wife of Jedediah Hoyt,\\nd. Feb. 26, 1795. He then married widow Sarah Farnum, Feb. 28, 1796,\\nand he died 1840, aged 82.\\nJoseph Hoit, son of Joseph, of Boscawen, and brother of Oliver and\\nJedediah, settled at Horse-hill married ^loUy Elliot, of Concord, 1786.\\nTheir children were\\n1. Hannah, h. Oct. 17, 1786 m. Joseph Colby, jr. 2. James, b. Sept.\\n17, 1788; m. Nancy Abbot. 3. Molly, b. June 22, 1791; m. d. 1816.\\n4. Benjamin, b. July 25, 1793 m. Hannah Eastman. 5. ^lartha, b. Sept.\\n25, 1796 d. April 26, 1797. 6. Joseph, b. Oct. 30, 1797 m. Mary East-\\nman. 7. Amos, b. Feb. 20, 1800; m. Betsey Abbot, and lives on the\\nhomestead. 8. Ruth, b. May 24, 1803 m. William Eastman.\\nJoseph Hovt died April 17, 1839, aged 78. His widow, Molly, d. Dec.\\n17, 1839, aged 68.\\nTHE KENT FAMILY.\\n[See Biography.]\\nWilliam Austin Kent, 1 m. Charlotte Mellen, dau. of Rev. John\\nMellen, of SterHng, Mass. She d. May 6, 1820, aged 52. Mr. Kent 2\\nm. wid. Margaret ^Tucker. She d. Feb. 28, 1833, aged 57. Mr. Kent\\nhad children only by his first wife, viz.\\n1. Wilham, b. April 2, 1793; 1 m. Catharine Hutchins, Nov. 27, 1817.\\nTheir childi-en were 1. Charlotte Augusta, b. Sept. 3, 1818. WiUiam", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0734.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 673\\nAustin, b. Mav o, 1820. 3. Lucv Jane, b. Sept. 25, LS21. 4 Henry Mel-\\nlen, b. Nov. 8, LS23. 5. Henry KirkAvood, h. Au^- 27, 1827. 6. John, b.\\nSept. 8, 1829. 7. Ellen Emerson, b. July 31, 1S31. 8. Charles Edward,\\nb. Nov. 26, 1833. 9. Prentiss Mellen, h. Au-, 17, 1837. Mrs. Catherine\\nKent d. March 12, 1839; 2 m. Letitia C. Stinson, of Dunbarton one\\nchild. 10. Frederick Augustus, b. Oct. 2, 1840,\\n2. Charlotte Mellen, b. Oct. 25, 1794 m. Hon. James H. Bingham, of\\nAlstead.\\n3. Cicorge, b. May 4, 1796 m. Lucia Ann Farrand, dan. of Hon. Dan-\\niel Farrand, of Burlington, Vt. Their children were Alexander Hamil-\\nton, b. Oct. 22, 1822, d. Mary Farrand, b. Jan. 23, 1823 George Fred-\\nerick, b. Feb. 4, 1824.\\n4. Caroline, b. January 21, 1798; m. Prof. Samuel P. Newman, of Bow-\\ndoin College.\\n5. John, b. May 10, 1800. Was a young man of great promise and moral\\nworth. Went into trade in Boston died of jjulmonary consumption, Jan.\\n6, 1826, aged 25. He was a mcml)er of the Old South church, Boston. HLs\\nfuneral was attended in Concord by a large concourse of people. On the\\nensuing Sabbath evening the Key. Mr. Bouton preached a discourse, com-\\nmemorative of his character, addressed to young people, from the words,\\nJosh. 24 15 Choose you this day whom ye will serve. Mtcv the death\\nof Mr. Kent a paper was found in his hand writing, with his signature to\\nit, as follows\\nConvinced that God has a claim upon me, as my Creator, Preserver\\nand Benefactor that my happiness in time and eternity depends on him\\nthat his requirements are just and reasonable, and that the present is an\\naccepted time to secure my salvation I do now, humbly relying on his\\ngrace to assist me, and pleading the merits of Jesus Christ the Saviour,\\nResolve to devote myself to the service of God. I choose him for my\\nportion I choose the Lord Jesus as my Saviour I choose the Holy Spirit\\nas my Sanctifier and Comforter.\\nI resolve to break off my sins by righteousness to renounce every pur-\\nsuit and interest that is inconsistent Mith supreme love to God to make it\\nmy chief ol)ject, as long as I hve, to honor my Maker, by devoting to his\\nservice my time, talents, property and influence and by endeavoring to do\\nall the good in my power to my fellow men.\\nJoH.\\\\ Kext.\\n6. Edward, b. Jan. 8, 1802, [see graduates; m. Sarah M. Johnston,\\nof Hillsborough, dau. of Nathaniel Johnston, Esq.\\n7. ^lary Jane, b. June 23, 1806 m. Eev. Moses G. Thomas.\\n8. Rebecca Prentiss, b. Feb. 17, 1808; m. Rev. Charles Packard,\\nKIMBALL FAMILY.\\n1-David Kimball.\\nDavid Kimball was an original proprietor, see page 137. His wife Mary\\nfUed Nov. 12, 1745, Their children were\\n1, Reuben, b, Jan, 3, 1730; d. June 13, 1814. 2. Mary, b. Auo-. 14,\\n1733. 3. Asa, b. March 26, 1736; d. y. 4. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 23, 1838\\n5. Asa, b. Nov. 25, 1741 d. May 18, 1804. 6. Hannah, b. July 11, 1745.\\n2-Capt. Reuben Kimball,\\nCapt. Reuben ICimball, son of David and Mary, born Jan. 3, 1730; m.\\nMiriam Collins, Dec. 25, 1754, Miiiam d. Feb. 17, 1792. He Hved at\\n43", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0735.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "674 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nSugar Ball, and was a very enterprising and useful citizen. [See list of\\nofficers, p. 538.] Their children were\\n1. Mary, b. Sept. 14, 1755 d. Jan. 14, 1756. 2. David, b. Oct. 15,\\n1757. 3. Benjamin, h. April 24, 1759. 4. Mary, b. June 29, 17(52. 5.\\nAnne, b. Nov. IS, 1703.* 6. Miriam, b. Julv 14, 1765. 7. Mehetabel, b.\\nSept. 1, 176G. 6. Phinehas, b. April 7, 1768; d. Aug. 14, 1768. 9. Sa-\\nrah, b. May 24, 1769. 10. Susanna, 1). Sept. 5, 1770; d. Oct. 13, 1770.\\n11. Susanna, b. Oct. 18, 1771. 12. Simeon, b. Dec. 1, 1772. 13. Kuth,\\nb. March 12, 1779. 14. EHzabeth, b. Oct. 14, 1782.\\n2-AsA Kimball.\\nAsa Kimball, son of David and Mary, born Nov. 25, 1741 m. Mary\\nTheir children were\\n1. Mellen, b. Oct. 16, 1761. 2. Betsev, b. Nov. 2, 1765. 3. Asa, b.\\nApril 6, 1767. 4. John, b. June 25, 1769. 5. Reuben, b. Dec. 27, 1771.\\n6. Pollv, b. April 19, 1775. 7. Wilham, b. Aug. 14, 1777. 8. Jeimy, b.\\nMay 19, 1780. 9. Moses, b. July 12, 1782.\\n3-Benjamin Kimball.\\nBenjamin Kiml)all, son of Reuben and Miriam, was born April 24, 1759;\\nm. Abigail Eastman, Nov. 25, 1789. Their children Avere\\n1. Gardner, b. Oct. 17, 1790 d. Aug. 20, 1799. 2. Mahala, b. Jan. 16,\\n1795. 3. Hazen, b. July 2, 1796 d. 1832, aged 36. 4. Marv, b. March\\n18, 1801. 5. Betsev, b. Julv 12, 1802. 6. Clarissa, b. Aug. 27, 1804; d.\\n7. Charlotte, b. Feb! 2, 1808.\\n3-SiMEON Kimball.\\nSimeon Kimball, son of Reuben and Mii-iam, m. Polly Kimball. Their\\nchildren were\\n1. Pamclia, b. Jan. 3, 1800. 2. Mary, b. Dec. 18, 1804. 3. Hiram, b.\\nJan. 2, 1806. 4. Harriet, b. May 2, 1814.\\nPhilip Kimball.\\nPhilip Kimball, proliably a relative of David, came to this town from\\nBradford, jNIass. His wife s name was Dorcas. The names of their chil-\\ndren on record are\\n1. William, b. June 19, 1738. 2. Mary, b. Dec. 11, 1741. 3. Susanna,\\nb. April 12, 1747.\\nPhilip Kimball lived on the Stevens place, where Mr. Samuel Curtis\\nnow lives. He was a famous hunter, well acquainted with the manners\\nand habits of Indians. In the time of Indian hostilities, men appointed to\\nbrhig cows from the field Avent armed, but sometimes were not suthciently\\ncautious in other respects. At one time, observing a man following the\\ncows, with his gun su])]5orted in his arms, Kimball hid himself behind a\\nlarge ])ine tree near the path, and as soon as the man had passed, sud-\\ndenly stepped out and clasped him round the waist. Sui)posing it to be an\\nIndian, the man struggled and screamed. At length Kimball let him go,\\nsaying, When you go after the cows, start them on the way, but never\\nfollow take a circuit, and thus you 11 avoid the Indians, who are on the\\nlook out when the cows come from pasture.\\nKimball was famous as a marksman, at shooting-matches. He would\\nThe marriage portion of Anne Kimball, eldest daughter of Capt. Reuben Kimball, who\\nwas married to Siiiieun Eastman and moved to Landaff, this State, was one barrel of pork,\\na barrel of beef, one cow, a yoke of oxen. A tlock of sheep would have been given, but, on\\naccount of tlie ravages of the wolves, they were withheld. E. Walker.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0736.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0737.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "-V\\niiiL ^\u00c2\u00aeiis lEisraiisa", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0738.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 675\\nfire, at arms length, across the river at Tucker s ferry, and hit a mark the\\nsize of a dollar twice out of tliree times, and thus Avin a pistareen each shot.*\\nOn the hill Avesterly of Thomas J). Potter s is a rock called the deer\\nrock, on which Kimball shot a noble buck. Mr. Kimball died early in\\n1800, aged 88 years.\\nLieut. Phineas Kimball.\\nLieut. Phineas Kimball was a cousin of Philii) came to Concord from\\nBradford, Mass., and settled at A2)pletown, east end of Turtle pond. He m.\\nLucy Pearl, of Boxford, INLiss. He died Nov. 6, 1826, aged 80 years.\\nTheir children were\\n1. Pearl, b. March 20, 1772. 2. He])hzibah, b. Se])t. o, 1773. 3. Molly,\\nb. May 15, 1775. 4. Sarah, b. March 3, 1777. 5. Obadiah, b. Aug. 20,\\n1778. 6. Benjamin, b. March 11, 1781. 7. Robert, b. Nov. 15, 1783.\\n8. Betsey, b. July 12, 1787.\\nDea. Johx Kimball.\\nDea. John Kimb,\\\\ll, son of Benjamin and Priscilla Hazen, was born at\\nBradford, Mass., Feb. 16, 1739. Anna Ayer, his wife, was daughter of\\nSamuel Ayer and Ann Hazen, and was born at Haverhill, jNIass., Oct. 3,\\n1740. They were married at Haverhill, Nov. 23, 1765. He died Dec. 31,\\n1817,jiged 78. His wife survived him until ]\\\\Iarch, 1819, when she died,\\naged 78. Their children, all born at Concord, were eight in number\\n1. Hazen, b. Sept. 8, 1767; merchant, in Savannah, Ga. d. July 16,\\n1819. 2. John, b. Oct. 3, 1769; m. Eunice White had 11 children Hved\\nin Barton, Vt., and died May 9, 1844. His Mife died Mav, 1840. 3. Ben-\\njamin, b. June 4, 1771; 1 m Mehetabel Foster; 2 m. Rhoda Beman, and\\ndied at Concord, Oct. 4, 1818. 4. Anna, b. June 1, 1773; m. Robert Par-\\nker, Esq., of Litchfield, 1793; and 2 m. Dea. John True, of Hampstead,\\n1820; and d. Aug. 18, 1850. 5. EHzabeth, b. April 17, 1775; m. Dr.\\nSamuel Morril, Sept. 1802 d. Feb. 4, 1848. 6. Hannah, b. June 24,\\n1777 m. Rev. Sylvester Dana,t March, 1802 d. Nov. 16, 1846. 7. Sarah,\\nb. Sept. 22, 1779; lives unmarried. 8. Samuel Ayer, b. March 3, 1782;\\nm. Eliza Hazen, and lives on the homestead.\\nBexjamix Kimball.\\nBenjamin Kimliall, son of Dea. John Kimball, b. June 4, 1771; m. Me-\\nhetal)cl Foster, of Canterbury. She died Sept. 23, 1803. His second wife\\nwas Rhoda Beman, whom he married in 1805. The children by his first\\nwife were\\n1. Harriet, b. March 16, 1799. 2. Asa, b. Jan. 1, 1801. Mehetabel,\\nhis wife, d. Sept. 23, 1803. His second wife s children 3. Robert Parker,\\nb. March 18, 1806. 4. Mary Ann, b. Dec. 13, 1807.\\nBenjamin Ivimball died Oct. 4, 1818, aged 47. His wife, Rhoda, d. May\\n14, 1852.\\nSamuel Ayer Kimball. [See Graduates.]\\nSamuel Ayer Kimball, Esq., m. Ehza Hazen, daughter of John Hazen,\\nEsq., of Bm-ton, Province of New-Brunswick. Their children were\\n1. John Hazen, b. July 14, 1823. 2. Samuel Sparhawk, b. March 1,\\n1825. 3. Priscilla Hazen, b. March 2, 1827. 4. George Leonard, b. Nov\\n2, 1828. 5. Ann Ayer, b. April 17, 1830.\\nDea. Johx Kimball, whose excellent likeness is herewith ])resented,\\nimited with the church in his native town, at the age of eighteen, and\\nTradition by C. E. PoUer. f See notice at the close of Kimball Family.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0739.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "676 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nthrough a long Hfe honored that profession. Tlie Sabbath was his dehght.\\nDiu-ing thh ty years of his early life he was absent but once from pubHc\\nworship, and that caused by a death. Given to hospitahty, preachers of\\nthe gospel were his frequent guests. lie highly valued their society, and\\namong them were his most beloved and intimate friends. Long an oihcer\\nin the church, its welfare, the welfare of souls, lay near his heart.\\nA few months before his death he attended a meeting of the General\\nAssociation, at Exeter, and while enjoying the rehgious services, and the\\ndeH -htful intercourse of Christian friends, his youth seemed renewed Uke\\nthe eao-lc s but in a few days after his return, sudden illness seized him,\\nand although partially recovering from the first attack, he walked thought-\\nfuUv as one treading the shores of eternity. Precious and full of instruc-\\ntion Avere those last days to the favored few who shared them. He de-\\nparted in peace, with full trust in his Saviour, on the evening of December\\n31, 1817 the first death in the family, after keeping house fifty-two years.\\nDr. McFarland, on the next Sabbath, preached from Revelations, 14 13\\nBlessed are the dead who die in the Lord. In the conclusion of his dis-\\ncourse. Dr. McFarland said, in reference to Dea. Kimball\\nA few hours before the year closed, the elder deacon in this church\\nfinished his labors and sufferings here below. He was a member of the\\nvisible church of Christ nearly sixty years, and for almost thirty had sus-\\ntained an office in this particular church. He discharged every official\\nduty with promptness and conscientious fidelity. The Sabbath was a day\\nof sacred rest to him, and he was careful to have it sanctified in his house.\\nIn the various relations of life he was distinguished by an uniform tenor of\\nkindness, hospitality and piety. In society he Avas a peace-maker, and in\\nall his transactions he aimed to keep a conscience void of ofl ence both\\ntoAvards God and man.\\nMrs. Kimball Avas a true help-meet to him during the fifty years of their\\nmarried life. To her mother she Avas indebted for all her education, except-\\nino- five Aveeks at school to learn the art of Avriting. In that school she Avon\\nthe distinction of being one of the two hest spellers. In her youth she\\ntau -ht school in Haverhill toAvn, and through Hfe Avas very fond of read-\\nin In 1769 she united Avith the church in Concord, under Rev. Mr.\\nWalker, for Avhom she ever entertained great affection. After her hus-\\nband s death her health declined, but her mind retained its strength, and\\nseemed fast ripening for Heaven. Her last Avords, addressed to her minister\\nthe evening before, Avere Pray for the spread of the gospel. To that\\nobject she gave her last dollar.\\nThe Rev. Sylvester Dana Avas born at Ashford, Conn., July 4, 1769,\\nson of Anderson Dana, and a descendant of the fifth generation from Rich-\\nard Dana, a French Protestant, Avho came to this country about 1040, and\\nsettled in Cambridge, noAV Brighton, Mass. In 1772 he removed with his\\nparents to the Wyoming Valley, in Pennsylvania, Avhere his father, in 1778,\\nwas massacred bv the Indians. Returning Avith his mother to Connecticut,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0740.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 677\\nhe worked at farming until sixteen years of age. In 1793 he entered Yale\\nCollege, and united with the college church in his Soj^homore year. After\\ngraduating, 1797, he studied divinity with Dr. Backus, of Somers, Ct. In\\n1799 was employed as a missionary by the Connecticut Missionary Society,\\nin Western Xew-York. In May, 1801, was ordained pastor of the Congre-\\ngational church in Orford, this State, where he remained twenty-one years.\\nPreached four years in Thornton, and with his family moved to Concord in\\n1837. While resident in Concord he jn-eached, as he had opportunity, in\\nvarious places. Sir. Dana was an able and faithful minister, a devoted\\nChristian, and exemplary in life. After the death of his wife he lived in\\nmore retirement, occupying a i)art of the house owned by Mr. Shadrach\\nSeavey, near the new North meeting-house, where, assiduously attend-\\ned by his daughter Hannah, he died in the faith and hope of the\\ngospel, June 9, 1849, aged 80. The ministers of the town attended his\\nfuneral as bearers. The Rev. Dr. Bouton preached a discourse from the\\nwords, The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of\\nrighteousness. The children left by Rev. Sylvester and Hannah Dana\\nwere. Rev. Charles B., rector of an Episcopal Chiu-ch, Alexandria, Va.\\nSylvester, attorney at law. Concord Anne K., who m. Dr. Reuel Barrows,\\nof Fryeburg; and Hannah, who m. Rev. S. S. Tappan, and d. April 19,\\n1855, at Providence, R. I., but v,as buried in Concord, by the side of her\\nparents. A neat monument is erected to the memory of the venerable\\nfather, in the old burymg-ground in Concord.\\nStephen Kimball.\\nSxEniEN Kimball, a cousin of Dea. John Kimball, came from Bradford,\\nMass., to Concord, about 1780. He was a shoe-maker. His shop stood\\nnear where Mr. Charles Moody now lives, at the north end of Main street.\\nAt first Mr. K. lived in a one-story house on the south side of West s brook,\\nwhere Mr. John Titcomb s wheelwright shop now is. Afterwards, about\\n1786 or 1787, he built and lived in the house where Hon. Samuel Morril\\nnow Hves the old one-story house being used for a school-house, subse-\\nquent to the conflagration of the school-house by the burying-ground at\\nthe North end. Soon after this, Mr. Kimball m oved with his family to\\nEast-Hanover, where he bought and carried on a large farm. His house\\nin Concord was sold to Rev. Israel Evans.\\nStephen Kimball, m. Betty Wilson, of Exeter. Then- children were\\n1. Betsey, b. Oct. 20, 1774. 2. Stephen, b. March 9, 1776; died. 3.\\nIncrease, b. Oct. 20, 1777. 4. Moses, b. Nov. 11, 1779. 5. Mehetabel,\\nb. Jan. 25, 1782. 6. John Wilson, b. Oct. 25, 1783; d. Oct. 3, 1784. 7.\\nJohn Wilson, b. Jan. 18, 1787. 8. William, b. Jan. 4, 1789.\\nWilliam Low and the Amherst Colony.\\nAbout fifty years ago, and within a short period of each other, several\\nactive and enterprising young men came from Amherst to this town. They\\nwere William Fisk, Peter Robertson, William Low, (whose portrait is here\\npresented,) Benjamin Damon, Francis N. Fisk, Isaac Hill, and a few years", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0741.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "678 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nlater, Joseph Low. These gentlemen, associating together as they often\\ndid, were called the Amherst Colony; and, with a single exception, they\\nhave })roved to be a permanent and valuable acquisition to the town. Wil-\\nliam Fisk, who married Margaret Dodge, settled in the West Parish village,\\nin the house, then one story, where the Rev. Asa P. Tenney now hves, and\\nthere had a family of five children Mary C, WilHam P., David D., Sarah\\nand Clarissa. He worked at his trade of shoe-making about tAventy-five\\nyears, when he moved to ]\\\\Iain street. His son, David D. Fisk, is at this\\ntime (1855,) mayor of the city of Portsmouth, Va. Mr. Fisk died Octo-\\nber 9, 1854, aged 76.\\nMr. William Low and Benjamin Damon came to Concord together, in\\nJanuary, 1806, and went into partnership in the chair-making and painting\\nbusiness. They commenced in the Wilkins house, which stood where\\nthe Merchants Exchange now is, where they remained one year and\\nnine months, paying a rent of about thirty-five dollars. Next they moved\\nto the house built b}- Mr. Low, on the corner of Main and School streets,\\nand which Avas afterwards the residence of Mr. Low s family. Soon after\\ncommencing business they bought a load of unpaintcd chairs, (about one\\nhundred,) from Peterborough, at Avhich the neighbors expressed great sur-\\nprise, saying, You ll never sell so many chairs in your lifetime! Next,\\nthey bought a building which had been occupied for a cabinet-shop by Levi\\nBartlctt, now of Boston, and moved it from the Fessenden place to the\\nrear of Mr. Low s house, where, with some additions, it now constitutes the\\npost-office for the city. In this building Messrs. Low and Damon carried\\non their business eighteen years, when they dissolved partnership.\\nBefore he came to Concord Mr. Loav married Grace G. Nichols, of Am-\\nherst, June 9, 1803, Avho survives him, having no children. In January,\\n1811, ]Mr. Damon married Sophia N., a sister of ]Mrs. Low, and built him\\na house on the corner opposite Mr. Low s house. For his house-lot, con-\\ntaining one hundred square rods of land, he paid four hundred dollars.\\nMr. Damon relates, that when Mr. Loav moved his goods from Amherst to\\nConcord he had a team of three horses, on the forAvard one of Avhich Joseph\\nLoAV rode postilHon, for Avhich service he received twenty cents, one third of\\nAvhich, I have the best authority for saying, Avas spent the same day for\\ncandy. Thus, in his boyhood, the future mayor made his first triumphal\\nentrance into the city\\nEntrusting business affairs chiefly to the untiring industry and honesty\\nof his partner, Mr. Loav in a feAV years became deeply interested in national\\nand State politics, Avarmly espousing the Democratic cause, in conjunction\\nAA ith his neighbor and friend, Isaac Hill, Avhom lie had j)ursuaded to come\\nto Concord as a printer and editor. Under Gen. Jackson s administration,\\n(1829,) Mr. Low Avas appointed ])ostmaster in place of his brother. Gen.\\nJosejjh Low, which ofiice he held about ten years. In town meetings he\\nAvas a ready, pithy and smart debater ahvays brief and to the i)oint\\nsometimes Avith a spice of wit, and sometimes of gtit. In his latter years", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0742.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": ";ti^\\nGone orrf.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0743.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0744.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 679\\nhe was afflicted with nervous complaints that impaired his health and hap-\\npiness but he never lost his interest either in the prosperitj- of the town\\nor in political affairs. A friend remarked of him He was always an\\nardent man, but never was there a more honest man in the cause of his\\ncountry.\\nMr. Low died on Sabbath evening, May 9, LS47. On the same day the\\nparticulars of the victory of Gen. Scott at Cerro Gordo, April 17, reached\\ntown, and Mr. Low was rejoicing in the success and glory of the American\\narms. lion. Isaac Hill, Avho visited him in the afternoon of that day, said,\\nThe countenance of joy lightened up the last day of the patriot. We\\nleft him almost in a hallucination on this theme. Retiring to his room\\nafter nine o clock, he complained that he could not rest, and returned to\\nhis chair, in which, in less than one hour, he breathed his last. A numer-\\nous attendance at his funeral evinced the high respect in which he was gen-\\nerally held by his fellow citizens.\\nRespecting the other Amherst gentlemen whose names stand in this\\nconnection, it may be proper to add that Mr. Damon still Uves on the spot\\nwhere he first built an efficient member of the First Bap. church and society\\nhas had three children, viz. 1. Mary Ann, who married William W.\\nEstabrook, and lives in San Francisco, Cal. 2. George N., who m. Caroline\\nNichols, and died Nov. 8, 1849; 3. Charles B.,m. Harriet W. Jennison, of\\nWorcester, Ms., and Hves in Boston. Hon. Francis N. Fisk, for many\\nyears a successful trader at the North end, married into the Walker\\nfamily, which see. Gen. Joseph Low married into the Abbot family,\\nwhich see. Isaac Hill s biography is written. Capt. Peter Robertson and\\nhis wife, Sally Hazeltine, when first married were accounted the hand-\\nsomest couple in Concord. Capt. Robertson is a failure.\\nDescend.vnts of Dea. Joiix Merrill.\\n[Furnished by Rev. Samuel H. Merrill, of Oldtown, Me.]\\nDea. John Merrill [see p. 137] came from Haverhill, West Parish, Mass.\\nhe married Lydia Haynes. His three oldest children were probably born\\nin Haverhill, as their baptism is recorded there, though not their birth.\\nThe following were his children\\n1. Moses, m. Dorcas Abbot, of Concord, 1748, and settled in Pembroke.\\nHis children were Penelope, Moses, Dorcas, Lydia, Betsey and Nchemiah.\\n2. Thomas, baptized 1729; 1 m. Phebe Abbot, and settled in Conwav,\\nN. H. His children were Thomas, who m. Hannah Ambrose William,\\nnever married Enoch, m. Mary Ambrose Amos, m. Lydia Willey Phebe,\\nm. Col. Eastman. For his second wife, Thomas m. Avidow Johnson, by\\nwhom he had two children, viz. Stephen, m. a Bailey Mehital)le, m. R.\\nCrocker. For his third wife, Thomas m. widow Amijrose, and had one\\nchild, viz. Jonathan, m. Lydia Merrill. For his fourth wife, Thomas m.\\na widow Cummings, and had two children, viz. John, M. D., m. Mary S.\\nBoyd. Benjamin, Esq., never married; died in Salem.\\n3. John, m. Rebecca Abbot, and settled in Pembroke was in the Con-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0745.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "G80 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ntinental service in 1776. His children were Rebecca, b. Aug. IG, 1751;\\nm. Abner Farnum, 1769. Lydia, b. Feb. 19, 1753. Penelope, b. Oct._ 15,\\n1754. John, b. Jinie 14, 1756. These three sons, whose families are given\\nabove, were with their father in the garrison in 1746 p. 155.\\n4. Hannah, d. in infancv.\\n5. Jonathan, b. Feb. 10, 1733 m. Mary Farnum, and settled in Hill,\\nK H. Their children were\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John, V). Oct. 6, 1760. Jonathan, b. Dec.\\n23, 1761; d. in infancv. Mary, b. Dec. 31, 1763. Sarah, b. April 26,\\n1766. Lvdia, b. Nov. l3, 1767. John, b. March 9, 1769. Lucy, b. Feb.\\n7, 1771. Jonathan, b. Sept. 6, 1772. Moses, b. Dec. 28, 1774.\\n6. Hannah, b. Feb. 10, 1735; 1 m. R. Eastman; 2 m. I. Odell, Conway.\\n7. Nathaniel, b. Nov. 4, 1738 m. Ann Wallvcr, and settled in Brovni-\\nfield, Me. Their ch., Nathaniel, m. Phebe :SIerrill. John, b. July 9, 1769\\nm. jNIartha Walker. Sarah, b. May 2, 1771 m. Enoch Merrill. Lydia,\\nm. Jonathan ]\\\\Ierrill. Isaac, m. itannah Eastman. Moses, b. Mar. 17,\\n1777 m. Sally Merrill. James W., b. March 4, 1779; m. Dolly Ulmer.\\nSamuel, b. Dec. 19, 1780; 1 m. Phebe Goodenow 2 m. Dorcas Eastman.\\nPollv Ruth, m. Joseph Colby. Nancy, never married. Betsey, m. Amos\\nEastman. Judith, m. Walter Edgecomb. Thomas II., M. D., b. April 29,\\n1789 m. Eliza Ward.\\n8. Sarah, b. April 24, 1741 m. Daniel Chandler. 9. Ann, b. Dec. 20,\\n1743; m. Benjamin Farnum, of Concord. 10. Abigail, b. Dec. 9, 1746;\\nm. Tappan Evans, of Warren. 11. Lydia, m. Amos Foster, of Pembroke.\\nThus the number of Dea. John ;Merriirs children was eleven. The num-\\nber of his sons children (for I have not traced daughters children) was\\nforty-three. The whole number of his descendants from the male branches\\nis not far from five hundred. Among these are seven ministers, two law-\\nyers and two physicians. S. H. Merrill.\\nRufus jNIerrill, son of Enoch and Sarah Merrill, b. hi Conway, June 19,\\n1803; in. Sophia Barker West, b. Feb. 7, 1812, of Concord, and settled\\nin Concord and keeps a bookstore.\\nTHE MOULTON FAMILY.\\nHenry Moulton.\\nHenry Moulton, born at Hampton, 1732; married Betsey Slace, who\\nwas born at the Isles of Shoals, and removed to Concord in 1772. He\\ndied in 1817, aged 85. His wife died in 1818, aged 85. Their children\\nAvere\\n1. Jonathan, m. Hannah Virgin; 2. Betsey, m. Peter Pressey, of San-\\ndown; 3. Judith, m. James Ayer, of Canada East; 4. James, b. at San-\\ndown, jNIarch 5, 17(57 5. Mary, m. James Eastman; 6. Henry, m. Susan\\nStevens 7. Sally, m. Samuel Brown 8. Hannah, m. Wheatley, of\\nLebanon.\\nJames Moulton, Sen.\\nJames Moulton, son of Henry Moulton and Betsey Mace, b. at San-\\ndown March 5, 1767, 1 m. Sally Virgm, who d. soon after their marriage\\n2 m. Anna Johnson, of Woburn, Ms. Their children Mere\\nI.James Moulton, Jr., b. Nov. 11, 1798; 1 m. Rebecca A. Chandler,\\nwho d. April 23, 1844. Their children were\\nJames Henry, Susan Rebecca, WilUam Richmond, Edward Augustine,\\nAnn Maria, Helen Chandler.\\nSecond m. Betsey Souther, March 31, 1846.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0746.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 681\\n2. Georj^e W., b. Dec. 14, 1799; m. Mid. Mary Eastman, dau. of Sim-\\neon Kimball.\\n3. Daniel Jolmson, b. March o, ISOl; d. Jmic 2o, 1831, aged 30.\\n4. Anna, b. May, 1803.\\n5. V^ illiam, died in infancy.\\nMrs. Anna Moulton d. Feb., 1848, aged 76.\\nJonathan Moultox.\\nJonathan Moulton, son of Henry IMoulton and Betsey Mace, m. Hannah\\nVirgin. Their children were\\n1. Jonathan, b. Jan. 30, 1792. 2. Hannah, b. Ang. 29, 1794 m. Dr.\\nBenjamin Parker. 3. Phebe, d. y. 4. David Virgin, m. Marcia Conner,\\nand d. at the West. 5. Paulina, m. Charles Lane, and d.\\nHenry ]Moulton, Jr.\\nHenry ]Moulton, son of Henry and Betsey ^lacc, m. Susan Stevens.\\nTheir children\\n1. Mace Moulton, sheriff of Hillsliorough County, and member of Con-\\ngress, 184G and 1847 m. Dolly Stearns. Their children were Eliza Jane,\\nHenry De Witt and Charles. 2. Henry. 3. Simeon Stevens.\\nHenry Moulton for several years kept tavern at llooksett, and afterwards\\nat Andover, N. H., where he and his wife both died.\\nJames Osgood.\\nJames Osgood, from Andover, ^Lass., was son of John, an original pro-\\nprietor, who was born at Andover, 1682, and died in Concord in 176j, aged i^yXJt,\\n83; who was son of John, d. 172o; son of John, d. 1693; son of John,\\nwho came from Andover, England, and settled at Andover, Mass., jn cvious i, Ivv/\\nto 164j, and died in 16.31, aged o6. James, son of 4-John, the proj)rietor,\\nm. Hannah Hazen, dau. of Richard Hazcn, of Boxford, Mass. Their chil-\\ndren were: 1. Anna, b. July 18, 1732; m. Col. Thomas Stickncv, see\\nStickney family,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and d. Jam 20, 1802. 2. Samuel, 1). July 13, 1734; m.\\nJane Webster. 3. Ehzabeth, b. May 12, 1736; m. 4. James, b. Aug.\\n27, 1738; m. Anna Webster. 5. Benjamin, b. Sept. 29, 1740; m. ^liriam\\nStickney. 6. Hannah, b. Aug. 1, 1743 m. Col. Andrew Mc^^Iillan, Nov.\\n12, 1761, and had twelve children, viz.: Sarah, Martha, Hannah, Lewis,\\nJames, Catherine, John, Jane, Nancy, Elizabeth, Sophia, Gilbert. ^lartha\\nm. Dr. William Chadbourne, father of Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, of Concord.\\n7. William, b. Feb. 19, 1747 d. y. 8. John, m. Sarah Danford. 9. Rich-\\nard Hazen, m. Susanna Swan. Their son, liobert Parker, b. Max 8, 1789.\\nRichard Hazen Osgood d. at Conway, 1796.\\nCiiRiSToniER Osgood m. Anne Their ch., Anne, b. Oct. 2, 179j.\\nBenjamin Parker. [See p. 138.]\\nThe descendants of Benjamin Parker, one of the original proprietors,\\nwho settled in Concord, were Enoch Parker and Asa Parker, sons of the\\nlate Dea. Asa Parker, of Andover, Mass., who was an only child of Benja-\\nmin, the proprietor. Enoch settled on the eighty acre lot, Xo. 99, on Horse\\nhill, so called, which was drawn to the right of Benjamin. He removed to\\nAndover, Mass., about the year 1808, with his whole family.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0747.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "682 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAsa, son of Asa, and grandson of Benjamin, after liaving served out his\\ntime in the Revokitionary army at West Point, as a drafted man from An-\\ndover, settled in Concord, and married the widow Sarah Thompson WiUard,\\nin 178G. Their cliildrcn\\n1. Isaac Marble, b. Jan. 19, 1787; m. and lives at Mei cdith Bridge. 2.\\nMary, b. Sept. L .j, 1788. 3. Benjamin, b. Sept. 27, 1790; lives on the\\nhomestead with his sisters, Marv and Sally B., No. 12 Center street. 4.\\nJohn, 1). Aug. (5, 1793; d. Aug. 12, 1795. 5. Sally l?artlett, b. Aug.\\nl.j, 1796. 6. John Adams, b. Oct. 26, 1798; m. and lives in the city of\\nXew-York a merchant and distinguished mathematician. Asa Parker d.\\nSept. 1, 1803, aged 42. Sarah,his wife, d. Jan. 10, 1815, aged 54.\\nEnoch Pakker, brother of Asa, who moved back to Andover, m. EHz-\\nabeth Their children Avere\\n1. Sally, b. April 23, 1787. 2. Apphia, b. Sept. 11, 1789. 3. John, b.\\nMarch 17, 1793. 4. Moses, b. May 4, 1797: whose names are on the\\nTown Records. They had, also, Eliza, Olive, Mehitable, and son Enoch,\\nwhose names are not recorded. Eliza, dau. of Enoch Parker, m. John\\nMarljle, of Bradford, Mass., and Avas the mother of Rev. Newton E. Mar-\\nble, 1). 1)., noAv of Concord.\\nJoseph Parker.\\nJoseph Parker came to Concord about 1821, not related to the preced-\\ning. He Avas born in Pembroke, Noa\\\\ 3, 1781 m. Esther Chapman. He\\nAvorked on the granite ledge a number of years Avas the first overseer\\nof the alms house and toAvn farm, and a respected and useful citizen. He\\nleft Concord in 1834, and now resides in Lancaster, Mass. His Avife, Esther\\nC, d. Their children, as recorded in the toAvn records\\n1. I.ucretia, b. :May 4, 1807. 2. Martha, b. Nov, 30, 1808. 3. Caleb,\\n[Dea. in South Ch.,] b. Sept. 8, 1810. 4. Lvman, b. Jan. 2, 1812. 5.\\nHorace, b. April 5, 1814. 6. Joseph, b. A])ril 30, 1817. 7. Horace, 2d,\\nb. Aug. 15, 1819. 8. George A., b. May 8, 1821. 9. Mary Esther, b,\\nJulv 10, 1823. 10. Lucy Ann, b. March 9, 1826. 11. Lucretia, 2d, b.\\nAug. 19, 1829.\\nDavid Parker.\\nDavid Parker m. Jane Their children 1. Charles Thomas, b.\\nSept. 5, 1812 2. David, b. Nov. 12, 1814 3. Jane Maria, b. Aug. 13,\\n1817; 4. Nancy Herbert, b. Sept. 25, 1821.\\nJeremiah Pecker,\\nSupposed to be a descendant of John Pecker, an original ])roprietor from\\nHaverhill see p. 138; 1 m. liuth, dau. of Capt. Reuben Ivimball. Their\\nchildren were\\n1. Mary Eastman, b. Julv 21, 1804; d. y. 2. Robert Eastman, b. Ap.\\n29, 1807 1 m. Esther J. Lang; d. Ap. 2, 1847, aged 37. Their children,\\nFrancis H. Ellen M., d. Mary E., d. Rol)crt J and Harriet. 2 m. Avid.\\nEmclinc A. Estabrook. 3. WiUiam, b. Jan. 23, 1809; m. Oct. 9, 1834,\\nSusan D. Chandler; tAvo children, Susan E. and Ruth K. 4. Jeremiah, b.\\nJune 4, 1813; m. Mary L. Eastman, Aug. 11, 1835; he d. Ap. 2, 1847,\\nleaA ing three children. Ruth, Avife of Jeremiah Pecker, d. Feb. 26, 1815,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0748.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 683\\naged 3fi. He 2 ni. wid. ]Marv Lan r, dau. of Jonathan Eastman, Esq., and\\nhad children; 5. Samuel L., b. Sept. 18, 1S23; d. 6. lluth Maria, b.\\nDee. 23, 182o m. Joseph A. Merriam. 7. Seth Eastman, b. Feb. 15,\\n1828; m. in Boston. 8. George Bradley, b. Mar. 4, 1732; d. Dec. 8,\\n1841. 9. Mary, b. Sept. 5, 1834.\\nTHE POTTER FAMILY.\\n[Chiefly by Hon. C. E. Potter.]\\nEphraim and Richard, brothers, with their sister Elizabeth, came to Con-\\ncorxl from Ipswich about 1771. Ephraim and Richard bought land together\\non the northerly side of Turtle pond, and afterwards divided it equally,\\nas to quality and quantity. The ancestors of Ephraim and Richard were\\namong the early settlers of New England. Their father, Daniel, born Jan-\\nuary, 1698, married Elizabeth Kimball, of Wenham, Mass., November 29,\\n1728. He was son of Anthony, Avho was son of Anthony, who settled in\\nIpswich, 1648 son of Robert, of Lynn, 1630, who came to this country\\nfrom the city of Coventry, in England. Ephraim and Richard had brothers\\nDaniel and Anthony, and sisters Martha and Elizabeth, and others who died\\nyoung,\\nRichard Potter and Descendants.\\nRichard Potter, b. March 17, 1744, m. Aug. 10, 1766, Lydia Averill,\\nof Topsfield, Mass., who was b. July 22, 1733. When he took possession\\nof his farm, in 1771, it had upon it a log house and a hovel, which had\\nbeen built by Mr. John Hoyt, who first pitched upon the lot, but after-\\nwards moved to the north side of Oak Hill. Mr. Potter moved his family\\nthe ensuing spring. His property at this time consisted of one hundred\\nand thirty dollars in cash, which he paid towards his farm a horse, a three\\nyears old heifer, a bed, and some few cooking utensils. With these, his\\nwife and child upon horse-back, his goods upon a barrow, attached to\\nthe horse himself driving the heifer, he started for Concord then the\\nland of promise. They performed the journey in two days, stopping over\\nnight in Chester Woods, near Massabesic pond, at old Mother Under-\\nhill s, who kept a well-known tavern upon the Penacook path. Arrived\\nupon their tarm, they went to work with a will. Of robust make, strong\\nconstitution, and industrious habits, their new home soon exhibited evidences\\nof thrift. In the Revolution, Mr. P. served six weeks on Winter hill,\\nunder Gen. Sullivan. His name and his brother Ephraim s are on the\\nAssociation Test, 1776. In the Avinter of 1782 his leg was smashed, as\\nrelated pp. 283-4, recovering from which he enjoyed uninterrupted health\\nthrough a period of about fifty years. He died July 5, 1828, aged 84\\nyears. His wife, Lydia, d. Aug. 8, 1824. Their children were two Lydia\\nand Joseph.\\nLydia, b. in Topsfield, March 2, 1 768 1 m. Thomas Stevens, and settled\\nin Loudon, upon a farm given her by her father 2 m. David Rollins, and\\nd. of lock-jaw, in September, 1839.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0749.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "G84 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nJoseph Potter, son of Richard and Lydia, b. Sept. 20, 1772, in Con-\\ncord; m. April 2.5, 1793, Nancy Drake, dau. of Thomas Drake, formerly\\nof Hampton, X. H. She was b Oct. 25, 1774, and died very suddenly of\\ndropsy of the heart see p. 460 a woman of kind and affectionate spirit,\\nand much force of character. He died Fcl). 1, 1853, aged 80 years.\\nTheir children were\\n1. Richard, b. Oct. 3, 1793; 1 m. Sarah Drake, of Xcw-IIampton, b.\\nJune 29, 1793 d. Nov. IS, 183 Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ann, 1). Nov. 3, 1812\\nGeorj^e Wasliington, b. Aug. 23, 1816 Abigail Julina, b. March 25, 1818.\\nHe 2 m. June, 1840, Dolly Hutchins, dau. of the late Ezra Hutchins, for-\\nmerly of Concord, and son of Col. Gordon Hutchins. ]Mr. Potter now\\nresides in Bangor, Me.\\n2. Thomas Drake, b. Jan. 13. 1796; m. July 11, 1820, Eunice Marden,\\nb. Sept. 30, 1801\u00e2\u0080\u0094 dau. of John :\\\\rarden, Esq., of Chichester. Their chil-\\ndren\u00e2\u0080\u0094Joseph Havdn, b. Oct. 12, 1821 Tliomas, b. Dec. 8, 1823 John,\\nb. June 22, 1826; xVnn Eliza, b. March 30, 1828; Emma Kcllev, b. July\\n26, 1830 Clara Stevens, b. Dec. 5, 1832 Martha Jane, b. March 20,\\n1835; Lvdia Kimball, b. Julv 14, 1837; Ahiah Kimball, b. March 31,\\n1840; Frank Pierce, b. Nov. 2, 1842; Mary Adams, b. April 17, 1845.\\nTheir oldest son, Joseph H., was educated at the jNIilitary Academy, at\\nWest Point was wounded in the battle of Monterey, and is now lieutenant\\nin the United States Army. See p. 479. Thomas D. Potter, Esq., Kves\\non the old homestead of his grandfother Richard.\\n3. Jacob Averill, b. July 22, 1798; m. Dec. 25, 1820, Sophronia Moore,\\nb. Julv 17, 1801, dau. of Thomas Moore, of Loudon. Their cliildren are,\\nIsaac Frve, b. Nov. 8, 1827 Charles H., b. Mav 1, 1831; ]Marv Ellen, b.\\nJuly 15, 1832; Ann Maria, b. March 17, 1835 d. April 5, 1830; Laura\\nAnn, b. June 28, 1837. Hon. Jacob A. Potter owns and resides upon the\\nfarm first settled on by Mr. Ephraim Potter, brother of his grandfather\\nRichard. Li 1844 he was apjjointcd Associate Justice of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas for ]Merrimack County, which olHce he resigned in 1853.\\n4. Chandler Eastman, [see graduates,] b. !March 7, 1807; m. November,\\n1832, Clara A., b. :\\\\Iay 28, 1803, dau. of John Underwood, Esq., of Ports-\\nmouth. Their children, Joseph, b. June 22, 1833, and Ann, b. June 22,\\n1833; d.; Treat Wentworth, b. Jan. 1, 1836; Drown, b. Feb. 8, 1838.\\nMrs. Potter d. of erysipelas, March 19, 1854, aged 51.\\nEi iiRAiM Potter A^ D Descendants.\\nEphraim Potter, an elder brother of Richard, was a sailor, but when not\\nat sea worked at varioiis kinds of mechanical business. He made excellent\\nwooden clocks, and some of the first clocks used in Concord were of his\\nmake. He built and raised the foiu- square steeple and the spire of the\\nold North Meeting-house, and the cupola and vane of the old Town House,\\n(see pp. 286 and 306.) Ephraim was a man of good property for that day,\\nbut he brought into the country that besetting sin of the sailor love of\\nstrong drink and, although a man of superior intelligence, yet in a few\\nyears he became involved, and at his death left his family in hidigent cir-\\ncumstances. His farm, which adjoined his brother Richard s on the north,\\nwas bought by the latter at public auction. Ephraim m. Sarah Cory, in\\n1777. Their children\\n1. Ephraim, b. April 5, 1778; d. in Warren. 2. Patty, b. Dec. 17,\\n1779; m. John Potter, of Ipswich, Mass. 3. Daniel, b. July 13, 1782; d.\\nat Concord. 4. John, b. Feb. 7, 1785; d. at sea. 5. Sally, b. March 5,", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0750.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. G85\\n1787. 6. Richard,!). April 11, 1789; d. at Concord. 7. Benoni, h. Ap.\\n17, 1791 a soldier in tlie war, 1812 never returned. 8. Lemuel, b. June\\n22, 1793; lives in Conway. 9. Nancy, b. ]May 12, 1797; m. a Perkins, in\\nBartlett. Ephraim d. in 1806. Elizabeth Potter, sister of Ephraim and\\nRichard, d. unmarried.\\nAnthony Potter, son of Anthony, of IpsMich, and nephew of Ephraim\\nand Richard, came to Concord a minor, probably about 1772, and when of\\nage settled south of Richard.\\nHe 1 m. Mary Shute, dau. of John Shute, Oct. 21, 1790; she d. June\\n18, 1792. Their only child, Thomas, b. Jan. 7, 1792; m. and settled on\\nthe homestead was selectman d. Ap. 9, 1847, aged 55. Children not\\nrecorded. Anthony 2 m. Dollv Goodwin, Oct. 13, 1793. Their children\\nwere: Marv Shute, b. Julv 18, 1794; Jenny, b. Oct. 8, 1795; d. Aug.\\n12, 1800; William,!). Feb. 7, 1798; d. Aug. 5, 1800; Samuel Goodwin,\\nb. March 31, 1800 Anthony, 1). July, 1802 lives in the State of New-\\nYork; Sarah Fuller, b. Sept. 21, 1808; m. in Loudon. Anthony\\nPotter, sen., d. March 13, 182G, aged 70.\\nJOSLA.H ROBINSON S FAMILY.\\nJosiAH Robinson was born in Stratham, N. II., June 15, 1774; m.\\nLucy Sanborn, dau. of Abraham Sanl)orn, of Poplin, ?klarch, 1792 moved\\nto Concord, May, 1798, and resided here till his death, July 21, 1851, in\\nthe seventy-eighth year of his age. Lucy, his wife, was b. Feb. 14, 1774;\\nshe still sun-ives. Their children, in all twelve, viz. 1. Mercy G. Roljin-\\nson, b. Jan. 25, 1793. 2. Betsey, b. Julv 12, l795; m. David Osgood,\\nJune, 1839. 3. Isaiah S., b. March 31, 1797, These three b. in Poplin.\\n4. Joseph, b. in Concord, Nov. 26, 1798; see graduates. 5. Deborah,\\nb. Dec, 1800 d. y. 6. Seth, b. Jan. 28, 1803. 7. An infant, died on the\\ndav of its birth. 8. Charles, b. Jan. 7, 1806; completed the study of med-\\nicine, and d. July 7, 1830. 9. John, b. June 12, 1808; d. June l5, 1810.\\n10. Rufus, b. Ap., 1811 lived l)ut eleven days. 11. Abraham Hazcn, b.\\nJan. 8, 1811; see graduates. 12. John West, b. Feb. 20, 1815; d.\\nMarch 2, 1837, of consumption, at Matanzas, island of Cuba, Avhither he\\nwent for his health. He was a jeweller by trade had resided several years\\nat Savannah, Ga., and by diligent a[)plication had made himself quite\\nintelhgent for his years was eminently pious of very gentlemanly man-\\nners, esteemed and respected by all who knew him.\\nDescendants of Henry Rolfe, Esq.\\nHenry Rolfe, Esq., an original jjroprictor of Concord, was son of Ben-\\njamin, who was the son of lienjainin, mIio was the son of John, who was\\nthe son of Henry, who came to Newbury about 1630 a son of Honour\\nRolfe, of England see Hist, of Newbury.\\n1-Henry Rolfe, proprietor in Penacook, m. Judith Dole. Their chil-\\ndren, 1. Benjamin, b. 1710; graduated at Harvard College in 1727; set-\\ntled in Concord m. Sarah Walker, and had one son, Paul see Biography,\\npp. 555-6. 2. Nathaniel, settled in Concord, and d. Dec, 1808, aged 96.\\n3. Henry, lived and died at Newbury, leaving children, Henry and Benja-\\nmin. 4. Betsey. 5. Mary. One of these daughters m. the father of the\\nlate Capt. Benjamin Emery, of Concord.\\n2-Nath.\\\\niel Rolfe, son of 1-Henry, m. Hannah Rolfe. Their chil-\\ndren were Nathaniel. William. Elizabeth. Judith. Jane. Hannah,\\nb. April 19, 1743. Benjamin, Polly and Henry.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0751.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "686 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n3-Xatiianiel Rolfe, son of 2-Nathaniel, m. widow Judith Chandler,\\nyoungest daughter of Rev. .Timothy AValker. Their children were: 1.\\nAbiel. 2. Jane. 3. Henry.\\n[A bfe. This branch of the Rolfe family being connected with the\\nWalker family, see a particular account of them in the Descendants of\\nRey. Timothy Walker.\\n3-Nathaniel Rolfe, d. Noy. 15, 1829, aged 86.\\n3-Bexjamin Rolfe, son of 2-Xathaniel, m. Molly Sweat, a sister of old\\nMrs. Lydia Elliot. Their children Avere 1. John, b. March 7, 178o m.\\nBetsey Abbot. 2. Judith, b. March 17, 1787; m. Jeremiah Hall. 3. Na-\\nthaniel, b. March 27, 1789 m. Polly Glines. 4. Isaac, b. Aug. 30, 1791\\nm. Mary Chase. 5. Samuel Jones, b. Sept. 1, 1793; m. EHza Ilatherway.\\n6. Benjamin, b. Feb. 10, 1796 m. Mary Newhall Flanders.\\nBenjamin Sweat, the father of Mrs. Molly Rolfe, came to this town from\\nKingston a weaver by trade and settled in the Borough, about 1780.\\nWhen he was a boy the method of cooking potatoes was to set them before\\nthe fire, as we sometimes do apples, to roast.\\nMany anecdotes are told of 3-Beujamin Rolfe, some of Avhich have\\nalready been related, pp. 236, 306. He owned land in common with his\\nbrother Nathaniel, and they lived together as bachelors for a number of\\nyears. Occasionally, when Benjamin came to Main street, he would be\\nrallied by his friends about his bachelor state, and asked how he and his\\nbrother got along .P Very well, he replied; only we have but one\\npair of trowsers between us. Well, how do you manage with one pair\\nWhy, we agree that the one who gets up first shall wear them through\\nthe day. Mr. Rolfe Avas one of the early settlers of Rumford, in Maine,\\nwhere, in common with others, he endured great privations and hardships.\\nAttempting to cross the Androscoggin river one night with his horse hi a\\nferry-boat his head being somewhat fhghty he was carried down stream\\nabout a mile, where were rapids, and a first fall of fifteen feet, and a second\\nfall of ninety-four feet. Just at the head of the first fall was a large rock,\\nstanding out of the water, against which the boat struck, and he stepped\\nout on the rock. The horse \u00e2\u0096\u00a0was throA\\\\ n out, and went over the first\\nfalls. Early next morning Rolfe was discovered in his 2)erilous position by\\nJacob Abbot. The neighbors were rallied, and came to his rescue. Fast-\\nening two ropes to a small skiff, they set it out into the middle of the river,\\nand let it go over the rajiids so as to strike the rock Avhere Rolfe was\\ndesigning then to draw him ashore in the boat but as the boat struck the\\nrock it rebounded, so that Rolfe had barely time to seize one of the ropes\\nand cut it off with his knife, while the boat was whirled along and dashed\\ninto pieces. But the rope which he had in his hand, being held at the\\nother end by his neighbors, he fastened tight round his body, and by this\\nmeans they drew him over the foaming rapids up the stream, about five\\nrods, and he landed in safety The horse was soon after discovered stand-\\ning in the water near a ledgy bank, too steep to ascend. A single briuse\\nonly Avas found on him. He Avas safely rescued.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0752.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 687\\n4-Benjamix Rolfe, now of Concord, son of 3-Benjamin, m. !Marv N,\\nFlanders. Their children were 1. Harriet, b. July 8, 1822 ni. John W.\\nBrown, of Pittsfield. 2. Hiram, b. ])ec. 24, 182.3; m. Georpianna Coombs,\\nof Boston. 3. Marv Ann. b. Nov. 30, 1828 m. Albert C. Osborne. She\\nd. Fel). 3, 1854. 4. Charlotte, b. Sept. 2(5, 1833; m. Jonathan C. Harvey.\\no. David J., b. April 29, 1838. G. Ehza N., b. Feb. 4, 1842.\\nJohn Siiute.\\nJohn Shute, son of Jacob, see p. 5(5.), m. Anna Colin-. Their children\\nwere 1. John, b. March 4, 1763. 2. ]\\\\Iary, b. ^Nlay 13, 1765. 3. Jacob,\\nb. Aug. 10, 1767; m. Sally Houston, of Bedford. 4. Moses, b. Fel). 9,\\n1771. 5. Anna, b. June 15, 1773. 6. Isaac, b. Aug. 20, 1775. 7. Samuel\\nColby, b. July 20, 1778. 8. Aaron, b. March 20, 1781. 9. Jeremiah, b.\\nDec. 27, 1783.\\nAnna, wife of John Shute, d. June 12, 1812, aged 70. Mr. Shute,\\nwhose early adventures and perils were mentioned pp. 196 199, settled\\non the homestead of his father, and became a steady, industrious and use-\\nfid citizen. At the age of about seventy he united with the church under\\nDr. McFarland, and maintained a consistent Christian life. Constant at\\nmeeting on the Sabbath, he usually sat in the old men s seat and when\\nupwards of ninety years of age he Mould be seen tripping along, with the\\nagihty of a young man commonly ])assing others on foot, on their return\\nfrom meeting. He spent the last years of his life in the famih* of his son\\nIsaac, at the lower end of Main street. He retained his tiiculties and physi-\\ncal powers till the close of Hfe, and died in Feliruary, 1829, at the age of\\n96, or perhaps, as stated on his grave-stone, at 98.\\nJoiix SnuTE, jun., son of John and Anna Colby, b. March 4, 1763; d.\\nDec. 1, 1822 m. Abigail Kelley, b. March 22, 1763, and d. July 17, 1840.\\nTheir children were: 1. WilUam, b. March 22, 1785. 2. Ruth, b. Nov.\\n19, 1787; d. Feb. 26, 1824. 3. Moses, b. Nov. 26, 1789. 4. Isaac, b.\\nNov. 16, 1792; d. April, 1824. 5. Mary, b. Feb. 27. 1795. 6. Sukey, b.\\nDec. 11, 1797; d. Aug. 15, 1803. 7. Walter, b. Jan. 1802; d. y. 8.\\nWalter, b. March, 1805 d. Jan., 1806.\\nMoses Shute, son of John, jr., and Abigail Kcllv. 1 m. Sallv Farnum,\\nDec. 17, 1812. She was b. July 12, 1783, and d. Oct. 15, 1844. Their chil-\\ndren were: 1. Cynthia, b. Dec. 16, 1813; m. Jose])h L. Jackson; two\\nchildren. 2. Clara A., b. March 23, 1816; m. John Brown; two children.\\n3. Lucretia, b. Jan. 12, 1821. Moses Shute 2 m., June 11, 1846, Sophia\\nAY. Duncklee.\\nl_JVote. Other branches of the Shute family not furnished or recorded.]\\nTHE STICKNEY FAMILY.\\nWe regret that no one has furnished a complete genealogy of the Stick-\\nney Family in Concord. What follows has been collected from the town\\nrecords and other sources, as the author has had opportunity.\\nLieut. Jeremiah Stickney, who was the first of the family name in Con-\\ncord, ca-ne from Bradford, Ms., a young man, about 1731. See pp. 140, 549.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0753.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": "688 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nCol. Thomas Stickney, his son, who succeeded in the family mansion,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was a useful and distinguished citizen a patriot of the Revolution, and\\nwas with Gen. Stark in the battle of Bennington, see pp. 274 276, and\\nthrough life sustained many important offices in town. See List of Officers.\\nThomas Stickney, jr., succeeded Col. Thomas on the old homestead, and\\nhis widoM-, Mrs. ^lary Ann, now in her eighty-fourth year, still survives\\noccupying the house with her son, Joseph P. Stickney. The land on which\\nthe range of stores stands, on Main street, south of the family mansion, as\\nfar as the Eagle Hotel, and back to the river, formerly belonged to the\\nStickney farm. The interval land, easterly of the house and north of the\\nFree Bridge road, still belong to it.\\n1-Jeremiaii SticiCsEY, married Elizabeth Their children\\n1. Thomas, b. in Bradford, not recorded in our record. 2. Jonathan, b.\\nApril 24, 1731; d. June 2 j, 1736. 3. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 10, 1733. 4.\\nSarah, b. Jan. 6, 1735; d. Julv 6, 1736. 5. Sarah, b. Oct. 14, 1737. 6.\\nJonathan, b. Aug. 3, 1739. 7. Ann, b. Sept. 3, 1741. 8. Bethiah, b. April\\n14, 1743; d. July 4, 1746. 9. }.IehetabcI, b. April 14, 1743. 10. Miriam,\\nb. April 7, 1740. 11. Bethiah, b. Sept. 22, 1747.\\nJeremiah Stickney d. April 11, 1763, aged 60.\\n2-Thomas SxiciiixEY, Colonel,\\nSon of Jeremiah Stickney, was born a short time before his father re-\\nmoved to Concord. He married Anna Osgood. Their children were\\n1. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 7, 17o3. 2. Marv, b. June 28, 1756; d. Dec.\\n1763. 3. William, b. Dec. 8, 17j8. 4. Jeremiah, b. Aug. 13, 1761; d. v.\\n5. Jeremiah, b. 1764; d. Jan. 6, 1850, aged 85. 6. Mary, b. Oct. 30,\\n1766. 7. Thomas, b. July 18, 1769. 8. James Osgood, b. june 9, 1775;\\nd. Oct. 11, 1778.\\nAnna Sticknev died Jan. 20, 1802. Col. Thomas Stickney died Jan. 20,\\n1809, in his 80th year.\\n3-TnoMAS Stickney, Jr.\\nMarried Mary Ann Odlin, daughter of Rev. Woodbridge Odlin, of Exe-\\nter, b. Sept. 24, 1772. Their children were\\n1. Charlotte, b. Sept. 4, 1793; d. Aug. 19, 1794. 2. Woodbridge Odlin,\\nb. Feb. 22, 1795 d. 1820, in Augusta, Ga. 3. Joseph Pearson, b. Oct. 9,\\n1796. 4. George; d. Oct., 1820, at Castinc. 5. Anna; m. Benjamin\\nBordman.\\nThomas Stickney died Jan. 1, 1811, aged 41.\\n3- iLLL\\\\M Stickney.\\n3-WilIiam Stickney taverner, son of Col. Thomas, married Susanna\\nEmerson, of Haverhill. Their children\\n1. Susanna, b. Feb. 24, 1783; d. Xov. 6, 1846. 2. William, b. Feb. 10,\\n1785; was drowned in Merrimack river. 3. Nathan, b. Sept. 26, 1787.\\n4. Jeremiah, b. Jan. 4, 1790; d. in Haverhill, Mass., 1855. 5. Hai-riet, b.\\nJune 5, 1792; m. William Gault; d. 6. John, b. March 12, 1796; d.\\nMarch 18, 1797. 7. John, b. Feb. 16, 1798; d. Feb. 16, 1854, yiged 56.\\n8. Charles, b. March 26, 1802. 9. Mary Emerson, b. July 16, 1897. Su-\\nsanna E. Stickney d. June, 1823, aged 61. William Stickney, d. Aug. 5,\\n1828, In his 70th year.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0754.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 689\\n2-JoNATHAN Stickxey, son of Lieut. Jeremiah, settled at Stickney s\\nhill, m. Sarah Their children ^\\\\ere\\n1. John, b. Feb. 1, 17G0. 2. Jane, b. Ap. 29, 1761; d. May 2, 1766.\\n3. Daniel, b. Jan. 26, 1762. 4. David, b. Dec. 10, 1764. 5. James, b. Dec.\\n5, 1766. 6. Jane, b. Oct. 4, 1768; d. Jan. 1, 1770. 7. Jeremiah, b. Aug.\\n31, 1770. 8. Samuel, b. Nov. 10, 1772; d. Ap. 8, 1790. 9. Judith, b.\\nJune 17, 177o. 10. Sarah, b. June 14, 1777. 11. Abiel, b. June 10, 1779;\\nd. Feb. 10, 1793. 12. WilHam, b. Ap. 16, 1781. 13. Polly, b. July 16,\\n1784. Sarah Stickney d. Dec. o, 1786, in the 47tli year of her age. He\\nmarried Anna Clark, of Ilopkinton, and had: 14. Jonathan, b. June 4,\\n1788. 15. Samuel, b. March 23, 1790. 16. Hannah, b. Sept. 24, 1791.\\nJonathan Stickney, sen., d. Nov. 19, 1792.\\n3-Daniel Stickney.\\n3-Daniel Stickney, son of 2-Jonathan, m. Abigail Webster. Their chil-\\ndren\\n1. Betsey, b. Aug. 15, 1787. 2. Daniel, b. Sept. 15, 1789, at Plainfield.\\n3. Sile, b. March 5, 1794. 4. Jane, b. March 25, 1796. 5. Abicl, b.\\nJuly 16, 1798. 6. Webster, b. Oct. 18, 1800. 7. Daniel, b. Oct. 17, 1802.\\n8. George Washington, b. Sept. 10, 1804.\\nDan Sticiiney.\\nDan Stickney m. Susanna Head. Their children\\nMehetabel, b. May 4, 1768 d. May 7, 1788. Hannah, b. Aug. 1, 1771\\nd. Dec. 25, 1789. Jane, b. June 4, 1773. Amos, b. July 23, 1775 d.\\nSept. 9, 1795. WiUiam, b. Feb. 15, 1780. Susanna H. Stickney died\\nJan. 13, 1796. Dan Stickney d. 1803, in his 65th year.\\nISAAC WALKER S FAMLLY. [See p. 140.]\\n[Furnished in part by Mr. Milton C. Walker, of Boston.]\\n1-ISAAC Walker, sen., an original proprietor, b. in Woburn, Mass., No-\\nvember 1, 1677, was the son of Samuel, who was the son of Samuel, who\\nwas born in England, and early settled in Woburn. Isaac, m. Margery\\nBruce, Feb. 20, 1704, dau. of Geo. Bruce. Their children were:\\n1. Abigail, b. July 23, 1705. 2. Isaac, b. Jidy 12, 1707. 3. Ezekiel, b.\\nMay 29, 1709. 4. timothy, b. March 17, 1711. 5. Anne, b. March 16,\\n1713. 6. William, b. May 31, 1715. 7. EHzabeth, b. Jan. 1, 1717. 8.\\nMary, b. May 29, 1720. 9. Samuel, b. Aug. 10, 1723.\\n2- William Walker.\\n2- William Walker, son of 1-Isaac, m. Elizabeth Their children\\n1. Samuel, b. Nov. 25, 1738. 2. Isaac, b. Oct. 3, 1740. 3. WiUiam,\\nb. Oct. 15, 1742; d. y. 4. Margery, b. Jan. 1, 1744. 5. William, b. Feb.\\n20, 1746; d. y. 6. WilHam, b. Apr. 16, 1749. 7. Margery, b. Jan. 4,\\n1752. 8. Elizabeth, b. Apr. 2, 1754. 9. Jonathan, b. Aug. 16, 1756.\\n2-TiMOTHY Walker, Jr.\\n2-Timothy Walker, Jr., son of 1-Isaac, m. IMartha Their chil-\\ndren\\n1. Timothy, b. Feb. 4, 1742. 2. Ezekiel, b. Feb. 22, 1745. 3. Bar-\\nnard, b. June 24, 1749.\\n44", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0755.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "690 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n2-IsAAC WalivER, Jr.\\n2-Isaac Wallvcr, Jr., sou of Isaac, m. Sarah Breed. Their children\\n1. Joseph, b. in Wohurn, A2:)ril 4, 1732. 2. Ezekiel, b. in Concord,\\nAug. 14, 1734; d. Dec. 8, 1734. 3. Ezekiel, b. Sept. 22, 1735. 4. Sa-\\nrah, b. Sept. 2, 1737. 5. James, b. Sept. 2, 1739. 6. Isaac, b. Oct. 26,\\n1741. 7. Samuel, b. May 24, 1745. 8. Ann, b, July 16, 1747. 9. Ruth,\\nb. Oct. 14, 1749.\\n3-IsAAC Walker, Jr., son of 2-Isaac, m. Sarah Their children\\n1. Hannah, b. Aug. 17, 1765. 2. Philip, b. Feb. 8, 1768.\\n3-Jaimes Walker, son of 2-Isaac, commonly called Tailor Walker,\\non account of his trade, married Ruth Abbot. Their childi-en were\\n1. Bruce, b. May 17, 1760. 2. John, b. May 8, 1763. 3. Abiel, b.\\nJuly 5, 1766. 4. Hannah, b. Feb. 26, 1770. 5. Ruth, b. March 12, 1776;\\nd. May 17, 1797. 6. James, b. July 26, 1778. 7. Peter, b. July 6, 1781.\\nRuth A. Walker died. James Walker died.\\n4-Bruce Walker, son of 3-James, married Mehetabel Ciu-rier. Their\\nchildren Avere\\n1. Daniel Carter, b. Jan. 8, 1781. 2. Mary, b. Dec. 4, 1782. 3. Na-\\nthaniel, b. Jan. 4, 1785. 4. Isaac, b. Feb. 1, 1787. 5. John, b. May 4,\\n1789.\\n4-JoHN Walker, son of 3-James, married Betsey Calef, of Sahsbury,\\nN. H., and settled in Bethel, Me. Their children were James, Joseph C,\\nHannah, Abiel, Ruth, Betsey C, and Charles.\\n4- Abiel Walker, son of 3-James, the tailor, succeeded his father on\\nthe old homestead at the North end of Main street. He learned the trade\\nof a shoemaker, and worked at it for many years, in a small shop near his\\nhouse. He first married Judith Dayis, by whom he had one child, Judith,\\nborn March 23, 1808, and died Oct. 15, 1825. He married, second wife,\\nthe widow Mary Thornchke no children. Mrs. Walker died January 18,\\n1849, aged 76. ISIr. Walker, whose portrait accompanies this notice, died\\nApril 4, 1855, aged 88 years and 9 months. He was distinguished\\namong his fellow-citizens for his industry, frugahty, integrity and good\\njudgment in ordinary business affairs. He was selectman in 1819 and 1825,\\nand often on committees for town business. After he came in possession of\\nthe old homestead and land belonging thereto, he would often work all day\\nin the field, and make one shoe in his shop in the evening. He thus ac-\\ncumulated a handsome property. The amoimt of his estate, according to\\nappraisal fm-nished by Francis N. Fisk, executor, was: Real estate,\\n$7,280,00; personal estate, $38,669,61; total, $45,949,61. One thou-\\nsand dollars were bequeathed to the city of Concord in trust, to be added\\nto the school fund of the city, and five hundred dollars to the American\\nHome Missionary Society. The remainder of his estate was bequeathed to\\nnephews and nieces. Mr. Walker united with the Fu-st Congregational\\nchurch in January, 1832, and died in the faith and hope of the gospel.\\n4-Peter Walker, son of 3-James, m. Abigail Swan, Jan. 3, 1808.\\nShe was b. Dec. 15, 1787. Their children were 1. WiUiam Swan, b. Dec.\\n12, 1810; d. at Theological Seminar) Bangor, Me., April 1, 1836. 2.\\nGalen Carter, b. Dec. 4, 1814. 3. Lyman Abbot, b. Oct. 28, 1817. The", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0756.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "^^/e^ 0^:2^\\niilBElIL WliHIEISm.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0759.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0760.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 691\\nforegoing born in Bethel, Me. 4. Clement Adams, M. D., b. July 3,\\n1820. 5. Charles Webster, b. Nov. 2r 1822. 6. Judith, b. April 26,\\n1826. 7. Henry Durgin, b. Sept. 1, 1829. The fovir latter born in Frye-\\nburg, Me.\\n4-James Walker, son of 3-James. He 1 m. Abigail Chapman, of\\nBethel, Me. Mr. Wallver was a preacher of the gospel. His education\\nwas Hmited, but ho was a pious, devoted and useful missionary in the desti-\\ntute places of jSTew-Hampshire and i\\\\Iaine. By his first Avife he had two\\nchildren viz., Milton C. and Abigail C, d. His second wife was Patty H. In-\\ngalls, of Shelburne. Their children were: Abigail C, Robert I., James A.,\\nand Betsey I. Mr. Walker died at West-Milton, N. H., Sept. 4, 1826,\\naged 48.\\nDescend.vxts of RiLX. TiMOTiiy AYalicer.\\nBY JOSEPH B. WALKER, ESQ.\\n[Note. The following genealogy, divided into generations, commences with that of Dea-\\ncon Samuel Walker. Tlie Roman numbers mark the generations, and the Arabic, in paren-\\ntheses, attached to the Roman, tlie paragraphs devoted to different families. The figures in\\nthe first left hand roliimn of Arabic numbers mark the number of descendants, including\\nDea. S. W., and those of tlie second column, separated from the first by a hyphen, the num-\\nber of the children of the family, in the order of the ages, to which they are attached.]\\nThe first Anglo-American ancestor of the family has not and perhaps can-\\nnot be determined with certainty, but from a note addressed by Dr. Farmer\\nto Charles Wallter, Esq., it would seem that he Avas either John Walker,\\nthe first of the name among the freemen of Massachusetts, who was ad-\\nmitted a freeman April 4, 1634 or Augustine Walker, who was admitted\\nin 1641, both of whom settled in Charlestown, Mass. Between these and\\nDeacon Samuel Walker, the father of Rev. Timothy Walker, a chasm of\\nseveral generations intervenes, which cannot be supplied with much assur-\\nance of accuracy. In conflict with this supposition, however, a manuscript\\nrecord of the family, in the hand writing of Charles Walker, now in the\\npossession of the compiler of this genealogy, states that Deacon Samuel\\nWalker was liimself the first Anglo-American ancestor, and that he, with a\\nbrother, came to this country from the west of England, and settled in Wo-\\nburn, Mass. With his name the following record commences.\\nFirst Generation.\\n(1) I. Deacon Samuel Walker lived in Woburn, Mass., in a part of\\nthe town afterwards called Wilmington. His first wife, Judith, died Nov.\\n14, 1724, and he married for his second wife ^Irs. Fowlc, widow of Major\\nFowlc, who died Oct., 1748. Dea. Walker subsequently removed to Bur-\\nlington, and died in September or October, 1744.\\nDea. Samuel Walker left the following children\\n2-1. Timothy, born July 27, 1705. (2) H.\\n3-2. Samuel, Avho Hved in Wilmington, Mass, near the meeting-house,\\nwhere his father first settled.\\n4-3. Phebe, who was married Dec. 4, 1726, to Noah Richardson, a\\nhatter, who Hved at the sign of the ark, in Woburn, Mass. She was buried\\nin the old burjing-ground.\\n5-4. married W\\\\-man, and Hved in Dracut, Mass.\\n6-5. married Johnson, and hved in BurHngton, Mass.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0761.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "692 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n7-6. married Buck, and lived in Wobiirn or Burlington,\\nMass., and was buried in the old burying-ground in Woburn.\\n8-7. married Kendall, and lived in Wilmington, Mass.\\n9-8. married Eames, and lived in Wilmington, Mass.\\nSecond Generation.\\n(2) n. Rev. Timothy Walki .h (2-1) was born in a part of Woburn,\\nnow Wilmington, Mass., July 27, 1705 graduated at Harvard College,\\n1725. Was married on the evening of Xov. 12, 1730, to Sarah Burbeen,\\nwho was born June 17, 1701, and was daughter of James Burbeen, of\\nWoburn. He died Sept. 1, 1782, aged 77. His wife Sarah died Feb. 19,\\n1778, aged 77, and they were buried side by side in the old Concord\\nburying-ground. Their children were\\n10-1. Sarah, born June 18, 1732 died Dec. 21, 1736.\\n11-2. Timothv, born June 26, 1737. (3) HI.\\n12-3. Sarah, Ijorn Aug. 6, 1739. (4) HI.\\n13-4. Marv, born Dec. 7, 1742. (5) HI.\\n14-5. Judith, born Dec. 24, 1 744. (6) HI.\\nThird Generation.\\n(3) III. Judge Timothy Walker* (11-2) was born Jime 26, 1737, and\\nmarried Esther, daughter of Rev. Joseph Burbeen, of Woburn, who was\\nborn April 11, 1746. Mrs. Walker died at Concord, Sept. 28, 1828, in the\\n83d year of her age. They had the following children\\n15-1. Sarah, born Jan. 21, 1764. In December, 1785, or January, 1786,\\nshe was married to Maj. Daniel Livermore, and lived in Concord. After\\nhis death, which occurred June 22, 1793, she resided for a portion of the\\ntime in Concord, and during the remainder in Boston and vicinity. She\\ndied at Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 17, 1843, aged 79.\\n16-2. Charles, born Sept. 25, 1765. (7) IV.\\n17-3. Paul, born April 14, 1767. He accidentally fell beneath a sled\\nloaded with wood, and in consequence of the injuries received he died, Jan.\\n10, 1775.\\n18-4. Timothy, born Feb. 2, 1767. With the exception of a year or\\ntwo passed at Rumford, Me., in early life, he has always lived in Concord,\\nand until 1827 was engaged in farming. About this time he sold his farm,\\nand has since lived very much in retirement. He was first married to\\nLydia, daughter of Samuel Thompson, Esq., of Woburn, Mass. She died\\nOct. 20, 1838, aged 68 years. He was married a second time, June 10,\\n1840, to Mrs. Ahce Poor, daughter of Daniel Parker, of Bow. She died\\nMarch 14, 1846, aged 43 years. He was married a thii-d time, Sept. 7,\\n1846, to Al)igail B. Griffin.\\n19-5. Joseph, born June 21, 1771 Avas drowned in Horse Shoe pond,\\nJune 7, 1774.\\n20-6. Susan, born March 17, 1773 died Jan. 11, 1777.\\n21-7. Esther, b. April 17, 1775 died Dec. 29, 1776.\\n22-8. Susannah, born Jan. 4, 1777; died Jan. 11, 1791.\\n23-9. Esther, born Oct. 13, 1778; died July 15, 1804. She is said to\\nhave been a person of interesting character, and to have been afflicted with\\nimjierfect vision.\\n24-10. Betsey, born April 15, 1780. (8) TV.\\n25-11. Joseph, born Jan. 12, 1782. (9) W.\\n26-12. Bridget, born Jan. 1, 1784. (10) IV.\\n27-13. Pollv, born March 22, 1786. (11) IV.\\n28-14. Clarissa, born July 27, 1788. (12) IV.\\nSee Biography, page 579.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0762.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 693\\n(4) ni. Sarah AValker, (12-3,) was born Aug. 6, 1739 was married to\\nJienjamin Rolfe, Esq.* They had one son, the late Col. Paul Rolfe, who\\nwas l)orn Aug. 4, 1770, gradiiatcd at Harvard College, 1792; was married\\nto Elizabeth Kirkwood, of Medford or Charlestowii, Mass., and Hved on\\nhis paternal estate, where he died July IS, 18 19, in the 49th year of his\\nage. His Avidow died Jan. 15, 1837, aged 78.\\nShe was married a second time, aliout Nov. 1772, to Benjamin Thomp-\\nson,! afterwards Count Ilumford. They had one child, Sarah,t afterwards\\nCountess Sarah Ilumfcrd.\\n(o) III. Mary A^^alker, (13-4,) was born Dec. 7, 1742. She Avas mar-\\nried May or June, 1768, to Dr. Ebenczer Harnden Goss, of Concord, and\\nafterwards of Brunswick, Me. Their children were\\n29-1. Gustavus Adolphus, born July 8, 1770. He was an officer in the\\nwar of 1812. Resided during a portion of his hfe at Paris, Me. Is now\\ndead.\\n30-2. Sarah, born Aug. 9, 1772 married ^tlarshall, and resides at\\nParis, Me.\\n31-3. Abigail, born May 16, 1775 was never married, and is now dead.\\n(6) m. Juchth Walker, (14-5,) was born Dec. 4, 1744. _ She was first\\nmarried to Capt. Abiel Chandler, then of Concord, but previously of Ando-\\nver, Mass. Their children were\\n32-1. Sarah, born Jan. 15, 1768. (13) IV.\\n33-2. Judith, born Oct. 9, 1770.\\n34\u00e2\u0080\u00943. Rebecca, born Dec. 17, 1773 never married.\\nCapt. Chandler died 1777, and she was married a second time to Nathan-\\niel Rolfe, jr., of Concord, Avho died Nov. 15, 1829, aged 86. Their chil-\\ndi-en were\\n35-4. Abiel, deacon, born April 6, 1781. He hved in Concord; was\\nnever married, and died Feb. 19, 1840.\\n36-5. Jane, born Jan. 21, 1782. (15) TV.\\n37-6. Henry, born Aug. 31, 1785. (16) IV.\\nMrs. Rolfe died 1806, aged 63.\\nFourth Generation.\\n(7) TV. Charles Walker,\u00c2\u00a7 (16-2,) was born at Concord, Sept. 25, 1765.\\nHe was married in Oct. or Nov., 1796, to Miss Hannah Pickering, (daugh-\\nter of Hon. John Pickering, of Portsmouth,) who died Nov. 12, 1821, aged\\n52. Their children were\\n38-1. Charles,|| born March 31, 1798.\\n39-2. Lucrctia Pickering. (17) V.\\n40-3. Susan Burbccn, born Oct. 24, 1801. (18) V.\\n41-4. Augustus Willard, born Julv 10, 1803. (19) V.\\n42-5. Timothy, born July 10, 1813. (20) V.\\n(8) IV. Betsey AValker, (24-10,) Mas born A])ril 15, 1780 was mar-\\nried, April 4, 1804, to Eliphalet Emery, son of Benjamin Emery, Esq., of\\nConcord, who was born Aug. 14, 1775, and died Sept. 16, 1825. She died\\nAug. 23, 1834, aged 54. Their children were\\n43-1. Esther Walker, born Oct. 1, 1806. (21) V.\\n44-2. John Langdon, born Sept. 25, 1809.\\n(9) IV. Joseph Walker, (25-11,) Avas born Jan. 12, 1782; was married\\n*See Biography, p. 555. fSee Biography, p. 570. J See Biography, p. 572.\\n$See Graduates. See History, p. 456.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0763.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "694 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n:Mavch 22, LS20, to Ann Sa^\\\\Ter, daughter of Dea. Moses Sa^Ter, of Salis-\\nbury, born June 21, 1786, and died Dec. 25, 1824, aged 38. He cUed\\nMarch 3, 1833, aged 51. Their children -were\\n45-1. Joseph Burbeen. born June 12, 1822. (22) V.\\n46-2. Ann Burbeen, born Dec. 24, 1824; died Jan. 5, 1825.\\n(10) IV. Bridget Walker, (26-12,) was born Jan. 1, 1784 was married\\nin June, 1804, to Jothani Stone, a merchant of Brunswick, Me., where she\\nresided and died Sept. 10, 1805, in the 21st year of her age. They had\\none child\\n47-1. Timothy Walker, born June 17, 1805; graduated at Bowdoin\\nCollege, 1826, and cHed July 4, 1826.\\n(11) IV. Polly Walker, (27-13,) was born March 22, 1786. She was\\nmarried, Oct. 25, 1805, to Charles Emery, a trader of Concord, who died\\nOct. 9, 1811, aged 31. Their children were\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n48-1. Mary Walker, born May 2, 1807, and died in infancy.\\n49-2. Charles Livermore, born Aug. 8, 1808. He was never married,\\nand died in Texas in\\n50-3. Clarissa Walker, born Oct. 31, 1810 was married April 25, 1830,\\nto Horatio Hill, of Concord. They removed to New-York city, where she\\ndied Sept. 19, 1839, in the 29th year of her age, leaving one child, Sarah\\nEHzabeth; married Jan., 1855, to Enoch G. Hook, Esq., attorney and\\ncounsellor at law, at Chicago, 111.\\nShe (Mrs. Emery) was married a second time, March 1, 1813, to Hon.\\nFrancis N. Fisk, of Concord. Their children were\\n51-4. Sarah Walker, born Sept. 20, 1814; was married Aug. 20, 1834,\\nto James M. Tarlton, for many years a merchant of Alabama, and now\\n(1855) U. S. consul at Melbourne,. Australia.\\n52-5. Mary Walker, born Dec., 1815 died in infancy.\\n53-6. Joseph AYalker, born June 12, 1817 died in infancy.\\n54-7. Francis Allen, born April 26, 1819. (23) V.\\n55-8. Timothy Walker, born April 7, 1820; Avas a midshipman of the\\nU. S. Navy, and dicd at Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1845.\\n56-9. Joseph Walker, born June 10, 1822; died Aug. 25, 1825.\\n57-10. Susan Eunice, born Nov. 17, 1825; died July, 1828.\\n58-11. Lucretia Morse, born Nov. 26, 1826; was married Aug. 20, 1849,\\nto Dr. WilUam G. Perry, who graduated at Dartmouth College in 1842,\\nand is at present engaged in the practice of medicine at Exeter, N. H.\\n(12) IV. Clarissa Walker, (28-14,) born July 27, 1788; was married,\\nDec. 19, 1814, to Levi Bartlett, Esq., who was born at SaHsbury, N. H.,\\nJune 3, 1784, and has been for many years a merchant in Boston, Ms.\\nShe died Oct. 28, 1845, aged 57 years. Their children were\\n59-1. Hannah Clarissa, born Sept. 13, 1815, and died Feb. 29, 1852.\\n60-2. Joseph Walker, born Sept. 5, 1817 died April 3, 1818.\\n61-3. Susan Walker, born Aug. 4, 1822. (24) V.\\n62-4. Charles Levi, born Aug. 16, 1825; died April 14, 1831.\\n63-5. ISIartha Jane, born June 22, 1833.\\n(13) rV^ Sarah Chandler, (32-1,) born Jan. 15, 1768; was married in\\n1786, to Capt. Peter Blanchard, born x\\\\ug. 12, 1755, then of Concord, Init\\npreviously of HolHs. Thev removed to Peacham, Vt., and subsequently to\\nDanville, Vt. Capt. B. died :May 25, 1810, and Mrs. B. Nov. 21, 1836.\\nTheir children were\\n64-1. Rebecca, born Jan. 4, 1787. (25) V.\\n65-2. Sophia, born Sept. 7, 1790. (26) V.\\n66-3. Sarah, born Nov. 6, 1792. (27) V.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0764.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL.\\n695\\n(14) IV. Judith Chandler, (33-2,) born Oct. 9, 1770 was married,\\nJune 12, 1794, to Timothy Carter, of Concord, and resided at the West\\nParish. Mr. Carter died Feb. 7, 1843, aged 76, and Mrs. C. died Dec. 28,\\n1852, aged 82. Their children M ere\\n67-1. Abiel Chandler, born Jan. 8, 1796. (28) V.\\n68-2. Ezra, born Dec. 27, 1798. (29) V.\\n69-3. Sarah Rumford, born Feb. 16, 1801 was married to A. C. Pierce,\\nnow of Concord, May 15, 1826, and died July 23, 1829. She had one\\nchild, Edward Rumford, who was born Nov. 2, 1828, and died Aug. 1,\\n1832.\\n70-4. Judith AValker. (30) V.\\n(15) IV. Jane Rolfe, (36-5,) born Jan. 21, 1783; was married, in 1805,\\nto Nathan Chandler, of Boscawen, who died April 1, 1835. Their children\\nwere\\n71-1. Abiel Rolfe, born Aug. 25, 1805. (31) V.\\n72-2. Judith Walker, born Aug. 5, 1807. (32) V.\\n73-3. Naomi Farnum, born Dec. 5, 1809. (33) V.\\n74-4. Nathan, born June 12, 1812. (34) V.\\n75-5. Harriet, born Julv 10, 1815.\\n76-6. Sarah Blanchard, born Aug. 10, 1817; died Feb. 16, 1841.\\n77-7. William Palmer, born Oct. 27, 1820; was married Oct., 1845, to\\nSarah E. Ivimball, of Orange, N. H., and resides at Decatur, 111.\\n(16) IV. Henry Rolfe, (37-6,) born Aug. 31, 1785; was married, in\\n1808, to Deborah Carter, who was born April 18, 1786, and died Jan. 11,\\n1849. Their children were\\n78-1. Judith WaUver, born Jan. 30, 1809. (35) V.\\n79-2. Jane Chandler, born i\\\\Iav 4, 1810.\\n80-3. Rhoda Carter, born Mav 26, 1812. (36) V.\\n81-4. Nathaniel, born Jan. I, l814. (37) V.\\n82-5. Phebe Whittemore, born Jime 17, 1815. (38) V.\\n83-6. Timothy Carter, born :\\\\Iav 9, 1817. (39) V.\\n84-7. Henry, born Jan. 26, 1819. (40) V.\\n85-8. Deborah, born Feb. 8, 1821 Avas married April 30, 1844, to John\\nA. Holmes, of Londonderry.\\n86-9. Abial, born March 29, 1823 was married, April, 1847, to Sarah\\nE. Call. Thev have one child, Lvdia, born May 18, 1849.\\n87-10. Lvdia, born April 1, 1825 died July 28, 1849.\\n88-11. Martha Farnum, born Jan. 28, 1828. She was married Aug. 15,\\n1854, to Rev. Anson A. Baker, American Home missionary at Petalurna,\\nCalifornia. They have one child.\\nFifth Generation.\\n(17) V. Lucretia Pickering Walker, (39-2,) born July 15, 1799; was\\nmarried, Sept. 29, 1818, to Prof. S. F. B. Morse, LL. D., and resided at\\nNew-Haven, Ct., where she died Feb. 7, 1825. Their children were:\\n89-1. Susan Walker, married, 1841, to Edward Lind, Esq., a merchant\\nand planter, of Guayama, Porto Rico, W. I. They have one son, Charles\\nWalker.\\n90-2. Charles Walker, who is married, and resides at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.\\n91-3. Finley resides at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.\\n(18) V. Susan Burbeen Walker, (40-3,) born Oct. 24, 1801; was mar-\\nried Feb. 14, 1826, to Hon. Wilham Pickering, of Concord, for many years\\nTreasurer of the State of New-Hampshire. Upon his retii cment from", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0765.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "696 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\npublic life they removed to Greenland, where he died, July 1, 1850, aged 73.\\nTheir children were\\n92-1. William, born April 14, 1831; died May 5, 1831.\\n93-2. Lucretia Morse, born Oct. 10, 1832.\\n94-3. Hannah Walker, born May 21, 1834; died May 21, 1839.\\n95-4. Charles Walker, born Sept. 14, 1838.\\n(19) V. Augustus Willard Walker, (41-4,) born July 10, 1803; was\\nmarried, Jan. 15, 1836, to Abigail A. Hanson; resides at Atkinson, Me.,\\nand is a merchant. Their children are\\n96-1. Susan Pickering, born Dec. 10, 1836.\\n97-2. Charles, born Sept. 18, 1838.\\n98-3. Sarah Livermore, born Dec. 18, 1840.\\n99-4. Joseph Eurbcen, born Nov. 12, 1843.\\n100-5. Augustus AVillard, born Nov. 10, 1847.\\n101-6. Lucretia Pickering, born Sept. 24, 1851.\\n(20) V. Timothy Walker, (42-5,) born July 10, 1813; was married\\nApril 16, 1835, to Luna Abbot, of Ilumford, Me., born July 7, 1811, and\\nresides at Kumford. He is engaged mostly in agricultural pursuits. He\\nrepresented the Ilumford district in the State Legislature, in 1851, 52, 53\\nand ^00. AVas one of the State senators. Their children are\\n102-1. Sarah, born March 4, 1836.\\n103-2. Charles, born Sept. 16, 1837.\\n104-3. Hannah, born Feb. 14, 1840.\\n105-4. Cvnthia, born April 15, 1845.\\n106-5. Susan, born April 21, 1849.\\n(21) V. Esther Walker Emery, (43-1,) born Oct. 1, 1806; was married\\nApril 11, 1827, to Capt. Ebenezer S. Towle, cashier of the Merrimack\\nComity Bank. They reside at Concord, and their children are\\n107-1. George Sanborn, Ijorn April 25, 1828. He is a merchant in Boston.\\n108-2. Esther, born May 25, 1831; was married, Oct. 1, 1853, to Ed-\\nward T. Nichols, and resides in Boston. They have one child, George L.,\\nborn July 19, 1854.\\n109-3. Susan, born Dee. 12, 1832; was married, June 28, 1855, to John\\nH. Stewart, of Concord.\\n110-4. Charles, born Dec. 5, 1834; died Aug. 22, 1835.\\n111-5. Sarah, born Dec. 13, 1837.\\n112-6. Elizabeth, born Julv 10, 1844; died Aug. 8, 1844.\\n113-7. Mary, born May 25, 1848; died Aug. 1, 1848.\\n(22) V. Joseph Burbeen Walker, (45-1,) born June 12, 1822 graduated\\nat Yale College, 1844; was admitted to the Merrimack County bar March,\\n1847, and was married. May 5, 1847, to Sarah Adams Fitz, daughter of\\nRev. Daniel Fitz, of Ipswich, Ms. She died Nov. 21, 1848, aged 21. He\\nwas married a second time to Ehzabeth Lord U])ham, daughter of Hon.\\nN. G. Upham, of Concord, May 1, 1850, and resides on the old homestead,\\nin Concord. Their children are\\n114-1. Charles Rumford, born Feb. 13, 1852.\\n115-2. Susan Burbeen, l)orn June 27, 1853.\\n116-3. Nathaniel Upham, born Jan. 14, 1855.\\n(23) V. Francis Allen Fisk, (54-7,) born April 26, 1819; was married\\nFeb. 22, 1849, to Abby Oilman Perry, daughter of Dr. WiUiam Perry, of\\nExeter, and resides at Concord. Their children are:\\n117-1. Mary Wallcer, born Jan. 30, 1850.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0766.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 697\\n118-2. Francis Walker, born Sept. 19, 1851.\\n119-3. William Perry, born Dec. 6, 1853.\\n(24) V. Susan Walker Bartlett, (61-3,) born Aug. 4, 1822; Mas married\\nDec. 12, 1844, to Abel G. Farwell, a merchant, of Boston. Their children\\nwere\\n120-1. Clara Walker, born Feb. 16, 1846; died Aug. 27, 1848.\\n121-2. Charles Hallet, born Oct. 27, 1849; (bed March 31, 1850.\\n(25) V. Rebecca Blanchard, (64-1,) born Jan. 4, 1787; was married\\nNov. 2, 1807, to Aaron Porter, who was born in Boxford, Ms., June 27,\\n1773. ]\\\\Irs. Blanchard died at Danville, Vt., Oct. 11, 1847. Their chil-\\ndren are\\n122-1. Sarah Chandler, born Aug. 29, 1808 was married Dec. 13, 1826,\\nto John Kelsey, and resides at Lacon, 111.\\n123-2. Catherine Bucl, born June 4, 1810; was married ^larch 23,\\n1836, to Joseph C. Fuller.\\n124-3. llebecca Blanchard, born April 28, 1812; was married Feb. 3,\\n1839, to Dr. Samuel Livingston, and resides at AVest WhceHng, Ohio.\\n125-4. Mary Adams, born Jan. 1, 1815 was married Jan. 29, 1837, to\\nDaniel Putnam Dana. \\\\A as married a second time to Giles C. Dana, April\\n28, 1838, and resides at Wyoming, 111.\\n126-5. Martha Osgood, born Aug. 27, 1817; was married, Sept. 18,\\n1839, to Henry Mattocks. She was married a second time, Aug. 7, 1850,\\nto Isaac Dyer, of Baldwin, Me.\\n127-6. Charles AVilliam, born Jan. 14, 1821; married Ada McAIichael,\\nand resides at Plattsl)nrg, Missouri.\\n128-7. Luther Clark, born Feb. 18, 1824.\\n(26) V. Sophia Blanchard, (65-2,) born Sept. 7, 1790; was married in\\n1808, to Augustine Clark, Esq., attorney at law, Danville, Vt., who died\\nOct., 1832. She had the following children\\n129-1. ^Mary. She was married to Rev. G. B. Manser, of Benning-\\nton, Vt.\\n130-2. Harriet NcAvell, who died young.\\n131-3. Sophia Blanchard. She was married to Samuel L. French, Esq.,\\nand resides at Boston, AIs.\\n132-4. William Augustine, who died at about 18 years of age.\\n(27) V. Sarah Blanchard, (66-3,) born Nov. 6, 1792 was married, Oct.\\n18, 1813, to AVilliam A. Palmer, attorney at law, Danville, Vt. He was\\nborn at Hebron, Conn., Sept. 12, 1781 moved to Danville was a U. S.\\nSenator from A^ermont, and for three years Governor of that State. He is\\nstill Hving. His wife died Jan. 12, 1853. Their chikb-en were\\n133-1. AA ^iUiam Blanchard, born Julv 1, 1814; was married July 16,\\n1840, to Orpha L. Benton, of Barton, A^t., Avho died Alay 25, 1841. He\\nM as married a second time to Harriet A. Baxter, of Stanstead, C. E., July\\n20, 1843 who died April 16, 1845, leaving one child, Harriet Angelia\\nBaxter, who Mas born April 5, 1845, and died Dec. 30, 1851. Air. B. re-\\nsides at Danville, A^t.\\n134-2. Abiel Chandler, born Oct. 22, 1816; was married, Oct. 1, 1846,\\nto Sophia J. Pope, and resides at Danville. Their children are Calista\\nJane, born July 17, 1849, and died Nov. 30, 1851. Carrie Ameha, born\\nJulv 14, 1853.\\n135-3. Sarah Jane, born May 6, 1819 died Alay 7, 1819.\\n136-4. Henrv AVirt, born Julv 25, 1820; resides at Lowell, Mass.\\n137-5. EdM-ard Carter, born Feb. 18, 1825 resides at St. Paul, Min.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0767.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "698 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n138-0. Sarah Jane, born Dec. 12, 1827 died May 16, 1828.\\n139-7. FrankHn Rolfe, born Oct. 19, 1832.\\n(28) V. Abiel Chandler Carter, (67-1,) born Jan. 8, 1796 was married,\\n1819, to Martha Farnum. Their children were\\n140-1. Timothy, born April 17, 1820 was married, April 15, 1842, to\\nHannah A. Colbv. Their children are Lucy Colljy, born April 4, 1843.\\nMary Knowlton, born Au^. 22, 1846 died Jidy 7, 1848. Judith AValker,\\nborn June 3, 1850; died Oct. 1, 1853. Martha Hall, born Sept. 22, 1835.\\n141-2. Franklin 13., born Dec. 1, 1822 married EUzabeth B. Abbot,\\nMarch 2, 1847. Their children are Lucinda Farnum, born May 11, 1848.\\nEmma Frances, born April 8, 1853.\\n142-3. Sarah Pierce, born Feb. 23, 1827.\\n143-4. Augustine Clark, born Aug. 28, 1831.\\n144-5. Martha Hall, born Sept. 22, 1835.\\n(29) V. Ezra Carter, (68-2,) born Dec. 27, 1798; was married. May\\n8, 1830, to Abby T. Clark, of Portsmouth. Is a physician, and resides at\\nConcord. Their children are\\n145-1. Edward Pierce, born May 12, 1834.\\n146-2. WilUam Gardner, born Aug. 8, 1838.\\n(30) V. Judith Walker Carter, (70-4,) born Dec. 4, 1807; was married,\\nNov. 3, 1824, to Ezra Carter, jr., who resides at Portland, Me. He is a\\npubHsher, and also at this time collector of the port of Portland. Their\\nchildren are\\n147-1. Ann Elizabeth, born Nov. 16, 1837.\\n148-2. Sarah Ilumford Pierce, born July 16, 1844.\\n149-3. Judith Augusta, born Oct. 18, 1848 died Aug. 23, 1849.\\n(31) V. Abiel Rolfe Chandler, (71-1,) born Aug. 25, 1805; was mar-\\nried, Oct. 9, 1829, to Ehza J. Morrison, of Boscawen, and resides at Law-\\nrence, Mass. Their children are\\n150-1. Henry Walker, born Aug. 2, 1830 died Aug. 15, 1850.\\n151-2. Catherine Frances, born Dec. 4, 1831.\\n152-3. Ann Rebecca, born April 11, 1837.\\n(32) V. Judith Walker Chandler, (72-2,) born Aug. 5, 1807; was mar-\\nried, March 30, 1837, to Enoch H. Dow, of Concord, who died Feb. 22,\\n1853. Their children are\\n153-1. Nathan Moody, born Nov. 27, 1838.\\n154-2. Abiel Rolfe, born April 14, 1842.\\n155-3. Ellen Maria, born A])ril 22, 1844.\\n156-4. Luther, born July 23, 1846.\\n157-5. Ezra AVilson, born July 29, 1849.\\n(33) V. Naomi Farnum Chandler, (73-3,) born Dec. 5, 1809 was mar-\\nried, April 16, 1842, to Asa H. Morrill. They have one child\\n158-1. George Sullivan, born March 28, 1843.\\n(34) V. Nathan Chandler, (74-4,) born June 12, 1812 was married,\\nDec. 8, 1840, to Louisa W. Ferrin. Their children are\\n159-1. Edward Webster, born Dec. 19, 1841.\\n160-2. Sarah Blanchard, born June 15, 1843.\\n161-3. Frederick Grey, born Dec. 31, 1845.\\n162-4. WiUiam Palmer, born Nov. 20, 1849.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0768.jp2"}, "747": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 699\\n(35) V, Judith Walker Rolfe, (78-1,) born Jan. 30, 1809; was married,\\nMay 3, 1838, to Jacob Whidden. Their children are\\n163-1. John Sanborn, born Aug. 6, 1843.\\n164-2. Henry Rolfe, born :\\\\Iarch 10, 1855.\\n(36) V. Rhoda Carter Rolfe, (80-3,) born May 20, 1812; was married\\nto David Farnum, in 1834, and resides in Concord. Their children are\\n165-1. Alma Jane, born Jan. 5, 1S36.\\n166-2. Isaac Henry, born Jan. 9, 1838.\\n167-3. Esther Abbot, born March 29, 1840.\\n168-4. Lydia Rolfe, born Aug. 26, 1842.\\n169-5. Ann Ehza, born Dec 26, 1844,\\n(37) V. Nathaniel Rolfe, (81-4,) born Jan. 1, 1814 was married, Jan.\\n1, 1839, to Mary Jane Moody, and resides in Concord. Their children are\\n170-1. Charles Moody, born Aug. 18, 1841.\\n171-2. Joseph Henry, born ]March 1, 1843.\\n172-3. Abicl Walker, born Jan. 21, 1844.\\n173-4. John Holmes, born Oct. 1, 1847.\\n174-5. Mary Lancaster, born Oct. 3, 1852.\\n(38) V. Phebe Whittemore Rolfe, (82-5,) was born June 17, 1815 was\\nmarried, July 3, 1840, to Horatio N. Harvey. TheLr children are\\n175-1. Luther Rockwood, born Feb. 3, 1840,\\n176-2. Henry Rolfe, born Feb. 25, 1842.\\n177-3. Cvrus Augustine, born Julv 4, 1844.\\n17S-4. Mary H., born Feb. 22, 1847; died Aug., 1848.\\n179-5, Mary Rebecca, born Dec. 24, 1849; died Aug., 1851,\\n180-6, Martha Baker, born Aug. 18, 1855,\\n(39) V. Tunothy Carter Rolfe, (83-6,) born May 9, 1817 was married,\\nJune, 1844, to Eliza Ann Emery. Their children are\\n181-1. Timothy Emery, born July 17, 1844.\\n182-2. Eliza Jane, born July 17, 1844.\\n183-3. Enoch Emerv, born April 3, 1848.\\n184-4. Henry, born Jan. 29, 1850.\\n185-5. George Edwin, born Dec. 2, 1852.\\n186-6, Mary Lydia, born Feb. 18, 1854,\\n(40) V. Henry Rolfe, (84-7,) born Jan. 26, 1819 was married, Xov.,\\n1843, to Abiah P. Atkinson, and resides at Lowell, Mass. Then* children\\nare\\n187-1. Frances Atkinson, born Dec. 30, 1844.\\n188-2. Lydia, born June, 1850.\\nWEBSTER FAMILY.\\nStephen Webster was born in Haverhill, Mass., March 11, 1758. His\\nwife, Chloe Wheeler, b. in Salem, N. H., Nov. 28, 1760. They were\\nmarried April 15, 1779. He served three campaigns in the Revolutionary\\nwar was m the battles at Saratoga, Stony Point and Diamond s Island.\\nHe moved with his family from Atkinson to Concord, April, 1803, where he\\nlived until his death, ]March 24, 1845, aged 87. Chloe, his Avife, d. Jan.\\n10, 1838, aged 78. Their children were\\n1. Jonathan, b. April 11, 1780 m. Elsey Haskell, Deer Isle six children.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0769.jp2"}, "748": {"fulltext": "700 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n2. Stejjheii, b. Oct. 14, 1781 m. Anne Woodman, Salem, X. H. nine\\nchildren. 3. Richard, b. July 22, 1783 ni. Khoda Abbot\u00e2\u0080\u0094 eight children;\\nd. March 3, 184G, aged 62. *4. Esther, b. June 14, 1786; m. Moses Bel-\\nknap, Atkinson six children; d. Aug. 17, 1818. 5. David, b. Jan. 4,\\n1790 m. Mary Willson, Castine, Me. nine children. 6. Daniel, b. Jan.\\n28, 1793 m. Abigail AVoodnian, Salem five children d. Sept., 1838,\\naged 45. 7. Susan, h. Jan. 28, 1796; m. Nathan Call four children. 8.\\nAtkinson, b. Dec. 27, 1797 m. Rebecca Smart, dau. of Col. Benning S.\\n9. James, b. April 25, 1800 m. Mary E. Moody, Belfast, Me.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 five chil-\\ndren.\\nAtkinsox Webster.\\nAtkinson Webster, son of Stephen Webster and Chloe Wheeler, born\\nDec. 27, 1797 m. Rebecca Smart, dau. of Col. Benning Smart. Their chil-\\ndren were\\n1. Louisa Belknap, b. Oct. 6, 1821. 2. Lorin Atkinson, b. Aug. 12,\\n1828. 3. Ann Rebecca, b. Oct. 10, 1830. 4. James Walker, b. Oct. 20,\\n1832. 5. Marv EHzabeth, b. Dec. 13, 1842.\\nAVEST FAMILY.\\nNatha IEL West, married Sarah Burbank. Their children were\\n1. John, b. Xov. 18, 1742. 2. Sarah, b. July 1, 1744 d. Aug. 26, 1745.\\n3. Sarah, b. Nov. 8, 1745 d. Dec. 17, 1800. 4. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 19,\\n1747. 5. Jonathan, b. Oct. 9, 1749. 6. Oilman, b. Aug. 29, 1751. 7.\\nMarv, b. April 9, 1753. 8. Ebenczer, b. Dec. 25, 1754. 9. Noah, b. Oct.\\n1,1756. 10. Lvdia, b. Mav 13, 1758 m. 11. John, b. April 25, 1760. 12.\\nEdward, b. Dec. 30, 1762. 13. Deborah, b. May 18, 1765. Nathaniel\\nWest, sen., died of small pox, in July, 1775 see p. 282.\\n[Note. !Most of Mr. West s children moved from Concord.]\\nJonathan West, son of Nathaniel, married Hannah Their\\nson Samuel was born Sept. 17, 1768.\\nJmix West, son of Nathaniel, m. Susanna Eastman. Their children\\nwere\\n1. Susanna, b. March 22, 1786; m. Henry Sweetser. Their children\\nClarissa W., Nancy B., Henrv Philips, John, Isaac, Susan A., John W.,\\nAugusta. 2. Jolin, b. Sept. 7, 1788; d. Oct. 17, 1836; m. Nancy :\\\\Iont-\\ngomery. Their children George M., Clarissa A., Francis S., John M. and\\nEllen E., twins Charles 11., Alontgomerv. 3. Hazen Kimball, b. March\\n25, 1791 d. April 13, 1798. 4. James, b. jNIay 4, 1793 ni. Isabel Blanch-\\nard. 5. Clarissa, b. Dec. 1, 1795; d. July 19, 1810. 6. Hazen K., b. May\\n4, 1798 m. Maria Farnsworth. Their children Henry C, Charles, Sarah\\nA., Mary, Augusta, James, John. 7. Persis Maria, b. June 9, 1802 d. y.\\n8. Charles, b. Sept. 9, 1805; 1 m. Hannah Adams;. 2 m. Amanda Fair-\\nbanks. Their children Ellen A., Henry, Lucy, James. John West, sen.,\\nd. Sept. 1, 1825, aged 65. Susanna, his ^^ife, d. Nov. 7, 1831, aged 64.\\nEdward West, son of Nathaniel, born in Salisbury, married Miriam\\nBadger. Their children Noah, William, Moses, Joseph Carter, Edward,\\nNancy, Fanny, Sophia.\\nWilliam West, son of Edward, settled in Concord m. Mary Barker,\\ndau. of Lemuel Barker, formerly a taverner at the north end of ]Main", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0770.jp2"}, "749": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 701\\nstreet. Their children AVilliam, jNIoocIv K., Edward B., Mary E., Lewis,\\nSarah A., Lemuel, Henry.\\nJoseph C. West, son of Edward, settled in Concord m. Mary Al)l)ot,\\ndau. of Nathaniel Altbot. Their only child, John D. A. West, m. iSIary E,\\nHoyt, dau. of Daniel Hoyt.\\nSECOND CLASS.\\nThe following names of families were copied from the Town Records, as\\narranged by the late John Farmer, Esq., without alteration, except in some\\ninstances to add known changes Avhich have recently taken i)lace. For ex-\\nample, the names of persons married, or the date of births or deaths.\\n[Ao/e. The reader is admonished that this record is exceedingly defect-\\nive not incorrect, probably, as far as it goes, but in numerous instances\\nonly part of a family is recorded.]\\nEzra Badgek.\\nEzra Badger m. Hannah Carter. Their children were\\n1. Miriam, b. iNLirch 10, 1768. 2. Lois, b. Aug. 18, 1770, 3. John, b.\\nAug. 3, 1772. 4. Jacob, b. Nov. 5, 1778. 5. Jonathan, b. Jan. 6, 1784.\\nG. Moses, b. June 3, 1786. 7. Fanny, b. July 18, 1793.\\nWilliam Baricer.\\nWilliam Barker m. ]\\\\Iartha Their children were\\n1. WilHam, b. Jan. 28, 1731 d. Jan. 1741. 2. John, b. Nov. 28, 1733.\\n3, Marv, b. Nov. 23, 1735. 4. Martha, b. Oct. 22, 1737. 5. Deborah, b.\\nSept. 20, 1739. 6. Stephen, b. Jan. 21, 1741.\\nSamuel Butters.\\nSamuel Butters married Tabitha Nichols. Their children were\\nPollv, b. Sept. 16, 1773; d. July 17, 1781. Samuel, b. Aug. 20, 1775.\\nFannv b. Nov. 5, 1777; d. Feb. 22, 1788. Timothv, b. Nov. 27, 1781\\nd. April 8, 1813. Pollv, b. Aug. 10, 1784; d. April 17, 1813. William,\\nb. Nov. 1, 1786. Thomas, b. Aug. 3, 1789.\\nTabitha, wife of Samuel Butters, died March 24, 1808, aged 53. Samuel\\nButters died June 14, 1812.\\nSamuel Butters, jun., m. ^liriam Virgin. Their children were: 1.\\nCharlotte, b. Dec. 2, 1803. 2. Charles, d. April 9, 1804. 3. Marv, b.\\nJulv 5, 1806. 4. Charles, b. Jan. 15, 1808. 5. Thomas, b. May 12, 1810.\\n6. James, b. Dec. 30, 1812. 7. Sarah, b. Jan. 17, 1815.\\nTimothy Butters m. Ismenia Robertson. Their children were 1.\\nJohn Stevens, b. Jan. 23, 1810. 2. Wilham Thomas, b. May 31, 1812.\\nSamuel Burbank.\\nJonathan, son of Samuel and Lydia Burbank, was b. Jime 21, 1732.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0771.jp2"}, "750": {"fulltext": "702 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nCaleb Buswell.\\nCaleb Buswell married Mary Badger. Their children were\\n1. Ezra, b. March 8, 1767. 2. Caleb, b. Dec. 16, 176S. 3. Jonathan,\\nb. Feb. 28, 1773. 4. Moses, b. April 16, 1775. 5. Paul, b. June 23,\\n1779. 6. James, b. Aug. 7, 1782. 7. Joseph, b. March 24, 1786.\\nCaleb Buswell died Aug. 31, 1803, aged 63.\\nDr. Philip Carrigain.\\nPhilip Carrigain married Elizabeth Clough. They were published Sept.\\n24, 1768. Their children were\\n1. Martha, b. Fell. 20, 1773? 2. Philip, b. Feb. 20, 1776? 3. Obadiah,\\nb. March 2o, 1778\\nThe last figure of each year appears to have been altered in the original.\\nDr. Philip Carrigain died Aug. 7, 1806, aged 60. EHzabeth, his wife, died\\nDec, 1805, aged 59.\\nWilliam Chamberlain.\\nWilham Chamberlain married Jenny Eastman. Their children were\\n1. Joseph, b. Oct. 24, 1781, 2. Betty, b. Sept. 25, 1784.\\nSally, daughter of Abel and Ruth Chamberlain, was born June 6, 1792.\\nCaleb Chase,\\nCaleb Chase m. Joanna Their children were\\n1, Mary, b. at Gorham, Me., Jan. 31, 1771. 2. Joseph, b. Aug. 9, 1772.\\n3. Abigail, b. Aug. 12, 1774. 4. Wilham Hills, b. April 11, 1776; d. in\\nConcord, Oct. 10, 1791. 5. Jacob, b. Feb. 11, 1778. 6. Amos, b. Aug.\\n4. 1780. 7. Susanna, b. May 28, 1782. 8. Joanna, b. April 8, 1784. 9.\\nEHzabeth, b. Dec. 24, 1785. 10. Moses, b. Feb. 14, 1788. 11. Charlotte,\\nb. Dec. 23, 1789. 12. WiUiam, b. March 2, 1792.\\nCaleb Chase was a graduate of New-Jersey College in 1766, and for some\\nyears to^\\\\^l clerk of Concord.\\nJonathan, son of Daniel and Molly Chase, died June 7, 1771.\\nDaniel Chase, married Susanna Their children were\\n1. Paith, b, at Haverhill, Mass., Feb. 20, 1772. 2. Polly, b. at Ames-\\nburv, Mass., June 12, 1774. 3. Ezekiel, b. Aug. 15, 1783. 4. Martha,\\nb. Nov. 29, 1785, 5. John, b. June 9, 1791.\\nDaniel Clark married Mary Whitmarsh, of Braintree, Mass. Their\\nchildren were 1. Mary, born at Lyndeborough. 2. Daniel, b. March 26,\\n1793. 3. Peter, b. Aug. 11, 1794.\\nDaniel Clark died Aug. 11, 1828, aged 60.\\nBenjamin Clark.\\nBenjamin Clark married Susanna Bass, of Braintree. 1, Hannah, their\\ndau., b. Dec. 3, 1793. 2. Susanna, b. Jan. 29, 1795 tlied,\\nSamuel F. Clark.\\nSamuel F. Clark married Abigail Theii* children were\\n1. Mary, born at Dimbarton, March 31, 1794. 2. Anna, b. April 4,\\n1796. 3. David S., b. April 21, 1798. 4. Samuel G., b. Aug. 12, 1800.\\n5. Jonathan, b. May 8, 1802, at Waterville. 6. Daniel D., b. Jan. 3, 1805,\\nat Sidney. 7. Lucinda, b. June 9, 1807, at Waterville. 8, Abigail, b.\\nDec. 10, 1808. 9. Lorra, [daughter,] b. Sept. 2, 1811. 10. Charles E.,\\nson of S. F. and Betsey Clark, b. April 5, 1815.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0772.jp2"}, "751": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 703\\nJoseph Cleasby, married Betsey Farnum. Their children were\\n1. Isaac, b. July 20, 1787. 2. Sally, b. Aug. 5, 1788. 3. Ruth, b.\\nMarch 8, 1794. 4. Ezckiel, b. June 4, 1795. 5. Enoch. 6. Joseph. 7.\\nDaniel. 8. Amzi. 9. James. 10. Nancy.\\nJohn Cleasby.\\nJoseph, son of John and Betsey Cleasby, born Feb. 18, 1793.\\n\\\\_JVote. The first Joseph Cleasby died in Xorthfield, aged about 95.]\\nWilliam Coffix.\\nWilHam Coffin married Sarah Haseltine, March 28, 1754, Then- ch.\\n1. Enoch, b. June 4, 1755. 2. Sarah, b. Aug. 1, 1757. 3. Richard, b.\\nOct. 16, 1759; d. Nov. 24, 1759. 4. Samuel, b. Dec. 18, 1760; d. Oct.\\n20, 1762. 5. Marv, b. July 27, 1763; d. June, 1815. 6. John, b. Oct.\\n16, 1765.\\nWilliam Coffin died Oct., 1815, in the 90th year of his age. Sarah Cof-\\nfin died May 26, 1829, in the 92d year of her age.\\nEnoch Coffin.\\nEnoch Coffin 1 m. Lois Cavis, of Bow, Jan. 21, 1790. Their children\\n1. Peter, b. Feb. 14, 1791; d. in Missouri, 1815. 2. Samuel, b. Oct.\\n27, 1793. 3. Clarissa, b. Jan. 13, 1796; d. 4. Judith, b. Oct. 18, 1798;\\nm. Zara Cutler, Esq., and d. in Conway, March 26, 1835. 5. John, b.\\nMay 5, 1801 d. Sept., 1803. 6. Sarah, b, Jan. 29, 1805 m. Seth East-\\nman, Esq. 7. William, b. Jan. 12, 1807 d. 8. John, b. ]May 4, 1809\\nd. in New-York. 9. Wilham Tristram, b. Nov. 8, 1813 d. Aug. 5, 1838.\\nCapt. E. Coffin 2 m. widow Achsah Plummer d. He died June 7, 1836,\\naged 81. Lois, first wife, d. Dec. 21, 1820, aged 52.\\nSamuel Coffin, son of Enoch, 1 m. Elvira Sargent d. April 19, 1836.\\n2 m. mdow Harriet F. Ayer. Their children, Elvira S., b. Jan 22, 1842.\\nSarah E., b. March 27, 1844. Charlotte E., b. Dec. 24, 1846 d.\\nSamuel fives on the homestead, north of the Old North Chm-ch.\\nLot Colbee.\\nChildren of Lot and Ann Colbee\\n1. Samuel, b. May 22, 1740. 2. Ann, b. Sept. 9, 1742. 3. Ruth, b.\\nDec. 5, 1744 d. Feb. 1, 1810 wife of David Hall. 4. Zorobabel, b.\\nAug. 15, 1747. 5. Isaac, b. Nov. 3, 1750. 6. John, son of Lot and EHz-\\nabeth, b. March 27, 1765 d. Aug. 19, 1811. 7. Moses, b. Sept. 10, 1767.\\nLot Colbee died April 2, 1790, in the 73d year of his age.\\nAbraham Colbee.\\nChildren of Abraham and Phebe Colbee\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary, b. July 22, 1741. Me-\\nribah, b. July 20, 1743. Abraham, b. Jan. 22, 1745. Sarah, d. July 27, 1746.\\nZorobabel, son of Abraham and Sarah, died Dec. 18, 1741.\\nSamson Colbee.\\nEbenezer, son of Samson and Betty Colbee, born Feb. 1, 1745.\\nSamuel Colby.\\nChildi-en of Samuel and Sarah Colby\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1. Sarah, b. April 25, 1764. 2.\\nAsa, b. March 26, 1766. 3. Daniel, b. July 10, 1768.\\nJoseph Colby.\\nChildren of Joseph and Molly Colby\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1. Eleanor, b. June 8, 1776. 2.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0773.jp2"}, "752": {"fulltext": "704 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nJudith, b. Jan. 23, 1779. 3. Ephraim, b. Jan. 12, 1781. 4. Hannah, b.\\nNov. 1, 1783. 5. Joseph, b. Oct. 22, 1785. 6. lluth, b. April 25, 1787.\\n7. David, b. Jan. 7, 1789.\\nJohn Colby.\\nJohn Colby married Anna Carter. Their children 1. Betsey, b. Xov.\\n22, 1785. 2. Nancy, b. July 31, 1788. 3. Sally Thompson, b. May 30,\\n1791. 4. Moses, b April 7, 1793. 5. ]Mary, b. May 7, 1795. 6. John\\nCalvin, b. Dec. 30, 1797. 7. Clarissa, b. April 29, 1800. 8. Charles, b.\\nMay 16, 1803. 9. Cynthia, b. Jan. 4, 180G. John Colby d. Aug. 19, 1811,\\nin the 47th year of his age. Anna Colby d. Dec. 15, 1811, aged 48.\\nJoshua Currier.\\nChildren of Joshua and Susanna Currier 1. Rebecca, b. Aug. 27, 1782.\\n2. Benjamin Kimball, b. July 16, 1785. 3. Meribah, b. June 22, 1788.\\n4. Joshua, b. Feb. 21, 1791. 5. Obadiah C, b. April 10, 1794. 6. Jerah-\\nmul, b. July 15, 1797.\\nJohn Currier.\\nChildren of John and Bridget\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1. Fanny, b. July 7, 1793. 2. ]\\\\Iary, b.\\nMay 9, 1795. 3. William, b. Jan. 20, 1797; d. y. Bridget, wife of John\\nCurrier, d. May 10, 1797. John Currier m. Betsey their child Mary, b.\\nOct. 5, 1800.\\nWilliam Dunc^vn.\\nWilliam Duncan m. Dolly Haines. Their children 1. Polly, b. Dec. 2,\\n1784 d. Feb. 22, 1785. 2. Nancy, b. Oct. 30, 1785 d. Feb. 12, 1786.\\n3. Polly, b. Oct. 30, 1785. 4. Nancv, b. Aug. 20, 1787. 5. James, b.\\nMay 2, 1789. 6. Mehetabel H., b. May 14, 1791. 7. William, b. May\\n5, 1793. Major WilHam Duncan d. ]Mrs. Dolly Duncan d. in the State\\nof Ohio.\\nSamuel Dunc.\\\\n.\\nSamuel Duncan m. Hannah Their children EHzabeth, b. Oct.\\n1, 1784; Susanna, b. Aug. IG, 1781 d. Oct. 20, 1787.\\nEbenezer Duston.\\nMarried Molly Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sally, b. Jime 16, 1785 d. y.\\nEbenezer.b. Jan. 18, 1787. Natt, b. Jan. 13, 1789. Sally, b. Feb. 9, 1792.\\nJohn Bryant, b. Oct. 13, 1795.\\nBenjamin Emery.\\nBenjamin Emery married Sarah Their children 1. Susanna, b.\\nApril 15, 1762 d. July 26, 1793. 2. Benjamin, b. Jan. 3, 1764 d. June\\n24, 1785. 3. Sarah, b. Feb. 25, 1766 d.Nov. 8, 1801. 4. Isaac, b. Nov\\n28, 1768. 5. Elizabeth, b. April 30, 1771 d. Aug. 6, 1827. 6. Euth, b\\nAug. 30, 1773; d. Dec. 3, 1801. 7. Eliphalet, b. Aug. 14, 1775. 8\\nEnoch, b. May 23, 1778 d. April 3, 1802. 9. Charles, b. July 22, 1780\\nd. Oct. 9, 1811. 10. John, b. Jan. 24, 1783; d. March 20, 1783. 11\\nBenjamin, b. April 9, 1786.\\nCapt. Benjamin Emery died Nov. 2, 1819, aged 81. Sarah Emery, his\\nwife, died.\\nIs.vac Emery,\\nMarried Hadassah Tay. Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harriet, b. Aug. 11, 1796 d.\\nAug. 16, 1797, [and others not recorded,] among whom are Isaac and\\nTimothy W.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0774.jp2"}, "753": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 705\\nEliphalet Emery,\\nMarried Betsey Walker. Tlieir children 1. Esther, b. Oct. 1, 1806\\nm. Capt. E. S. Tmvle. 2. John Langdon, b. Sept. 25, 1809.\\nCharles Emery,\\nMarried Mary Walker. Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1. Charles Livermore, b. Aug.\\n8, 1808; d. 2. Clarissa Walker, b. Oct. 31, 1810; m. Horatio Hill; d.,\\nleaving one daughter.\\nJonathan Emerson.\\nJonathan Emerson 1 m. Lydia Their children 1, Nathaniel,\\nb. Aug. 21, 1767. 2. Mehetiibel, b. April 29, 1769. 3. Lydia, b. July 21,\\n1770. 4. Jonathan, b. June 17, 1773. 0. Sarah, b. April 18, 1775. Jona-\\nthan Emerson 2 m. ]Mary Their children 6. Isaac, b. Jan. 19,\\n1782. 7. Samuel, b. May 2, 1783. 8. Polly, b. AprU 8, 1786. 9. Ruth,\\nb. Feb. 25, 1788. 10. Mehetabel, b. May 13, 1790. 11. Nancy, b. Feb.\\n19, 1793; d. Sept. 16, 1794. 12. John, b. Feb. 19, 1793.\\nDavid Evans.\\nJohn, son of David and Abigail Evans, b. Sept. 13, 1731. Abigail, dau.,\\nb. Sept. 13, 1731.\\nStephen Farrington. See p. 140.\\nStephen Farrington m. Apphia Bradley. Their children 1. Elizabeth,\\nb. July 16, 1734. 2. Jonathan, b. April 12, 1737. 3. Stephen, b. May\\n13, 1739. 4. Apphia, b. June 16, 1741. 5. John, b. Dec. 17, 1743. 6\\nJeremiah, b. April 19, 1746. 7. Samuel, b. Aug. 10, 1748.\\nSamuel Farrington.\\nSamuel Farrington m. Miriam Their daughter Apphia, b. Feb.\\nBenjamin Fifield.\\nBenjamin Fifield m. Hannah Peters. Their children 1. Mary, b. April\\n1, 1748. 2. Obadiah Peters, b. Aug. 31, 1749. 3. WilUam, b. May 6,\\n1751. 4. Hannah, b. Dec. 21, 1752. 5. Benjamin, b. Oct. 4, 1754. 6.\\nJonathan, b. Aug. 9, 1756. 7. Sarah, b. July 13, 1758. 8. Paul, b. Auo-,\\n5, 1760. 9. John, b. May 20, 1762. 10. Moses, b. Aug. 11, 1764. 11.\\nDavid, b. Jan. 16, 1767. 12. Shuah, b. Jan. 27, 1769.\\nBenjamin Fifield d. March 8, 1794. Hannah Fifield d.\\nWiLLi.\\\\M Fifield.\\nWiUiam Fifield m. Dorothy Eastman Nov. 21, 1776, Their cliildren\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1. Mollv, b. Sept. 30, 1777. 2. Jeremiah, b. March 20, 1779. 3. Rebec-\\nca, b. Nov. 22, 1782. 4. William, b. Oct. 24, 1784. 6. Moses, b. Oct. 20,\\n1786. 7. Philip, b. Dec. 18, 1788. 8. Molly, b. Aug. 9, 1791.\\nRichard Fl.\\\\nders.\\nRichard Flanders m. Mary Their children 1. Oliver, b. April\\n21, 1765. 2. Phihp, b. Jan. 22, 1767.\\nZebulon Flanders.\\nZebulon Flanders m. Miriam Their children 1. Jacob, b. Nov.\\n19, 1759. 2. Josiah, b. April 3, 1761. 3. Olive, b. June 16, 1763. 4.\\nTheodate, b. March 28, 1765. 5. Anne, b. April 10, 1767. 6. Jesse, b.\\nNov. 29, 1768. 7. Miriam, b. Sept. 2, 1771. 8. Israel, b. Aug. 21, 1773.\\n9. Molly, b. Nov. 29, 1775. 10. Joseph, b. Jan. 18, 1778. 11. Apphia,\\nb. March 27, 1780.\\n45", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0775.jp2"}, "754": {"fulltext": "706 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAbner Flanders.\\nAbner Flanders m. Sarah Chandler. Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1. Molly, b. Feb.\\n26, 1774. 2. Charles, b. Aug. 5, 1776. 3. Sarah, b. Nov. 7, 1779. 4.\\nNathan, b. March 13, 1782. 5. Samuel Wood, b. June 20, 1785. 6. Chris-\\ntopher Paige, b. May. 11, 1788. 7. Abner, b. May 21, 1790.\\nEiCHARD Flanders.\\nRichard Flanders m. Molly West, March 20, 1777. Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1. Daniel, b. Dec. 17, 1778 d. Dec. 9, 1854, aged 76. 2. Hannah, b.\\nJuly 29, 1781. 3. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 23, 1784; d. Dec. 24, 1788. 4.\\nJohn, b. Jan. 19, 1787 m. ]lachel Abbot. Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 nine, viz., Lou-\\nisa A., John W., AVilliam, Mary S., Daniel, Rachel A., Sarah A., George,\\nGeorge W. 5. Jacob, b. March 22, 1791; d. y. 6. Lydia, b. Aug. 11,\\n1793. 7. Jacob, b. 1795; m. Huldah Abbot; six children, viz., Richard\\nM., Lucia Ann, Jacob N., George H., d. y., Lydia Louisa, Samuel A. and\\nWilliam H.\\nOlIA ER Fl.AN DERS.\\nOHver Flanders m. Abigail Chandler. Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1. Peter, b. June\\n19, 1784. 2. Moses, b. Ajiril 21, 1786. 3. Richard, b. April 23, 1788.\\n4. Ebenezer, b. April 30, 1790.\\nDavid Fl.axders.\\nDavid Flanders m. Martha Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Bus-oell,\\nb. June 16, 1815. Samuel Blanchard, b. Sept. 17, 1816.\\nNatil\\\\a-iel Furber.\\nNathaniel Furber m. Abigail Their children Philip, b. June\\n24, 1786. Sally, b. Nov. 23, 1788.\\nDavid George.\\nDavid George m. Dorothv Abbot. Their children 1. David, b. Jan. 4,\\n1767. 2. Hannah, b. June 23, 1768. 3. Jane, b. April 22, 1772. 4. Dolly,\\nb. Feb. 8, 1774. 5. Betsey, b. Jan. 22, 1776. Dorothy, wife of David\\nGeorge, d., and he m. Hannah Colby. Their children 6. Anne, b. Feb.\\n23, 1779. 7. Ruth, b. Jan. 16, 1781. 8. Thomas C, b. June 5, 1785.\\n9. Jacob R., b. July 20, 1787. 10. Christopher C, b. July 4, 1789. 11.\\nHector T., b. July i7, 1791. 12. Laura C, b. March 4, 1794. 13. Wash-\\nmgton, b, Aug. 18, 1799.\\nDavid George, Jr.\\nDavid George, jr., m. Elizabeth Emery Aug. 30, 1789. Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1. David Bailey, b. April 12, 1790 d. Dec. 12, 1824. 2. Charles Henry,\\nb. Aug. 11, 1792. 3. Dollv, b. May 23, 1794. 4. Ehzabeth, b. May 10,\\n1797. 5. Hannah, b. July 29, 1800. 6. Ruth Emery, b. Aug. 14, 1802.\\n7. Sarah, b. Feb. 27, 1806. 8. :MattheAV Oliver, b. Jime 30, 1809. 9.\\nGrace Low, b. Aug. 14, 1812; d.\\nElizabeth George, wife of David George, died Aug. 6, 1827, aged 56.\\nDavid George died April 21, 1838, aged 70.\\nJohn George.\\nJohn George m. Ruth Bradlev. Their children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1. Paul Rolfe, b. April\\n25, 1807. 2. Susan, b. Feb. 25, 1809; d. 3. Clarissa B., b. Sept. 3,\\n1811 m. Hamilton E. Perkins, Esq. Ruth, wife of John George, d. in May,\\n1821, and he married Mary Hatch, of Greenland. Their son, 4. John\\nHatch, b. Nov. 20, 1824. John George, Esq., d. Jan. 9, 1843, aged 62.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0776.jp2"}, "755": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 707\\nZebulox Gitchel.\\nZebulon Gitchel m. Hannah Their child 1, Milliscnt. [daugh-\\nter,] b. Sept. 14, 17S1.\\nJacob Goodwin.\\nJacob Goodwin m. Sarah Their child 1. Philip, b. INIay 26, 1771.\\nSamuel Goodwix.\\nSamuel Goodwin m. Elizabeth Their children 1. Bettv, b.\\nSept. 12, 1774. 2. Mollv, b. July 22, 17 76. 3. Reul^en, b. May 27, 1778.\\n4. Asa, b. May 11, 1780i o. David, b. May 27, 1782. 6. Jonathan, b.\\nMay 27, 1784. 7. Patty, b. Aug. 24, 1786. 8. Susanna, b. Sept. 4, 1788.\\n9. Samuel, b. Feb. 28, 1791. 10. Sally, b. Sept. 3, 1793.\\nGeorge Graham.\\nGeorge Graham m. Azubah Their children were 1. Joshua, b.\\nJune 7, 1763. 2. Mary, b. Jan. 13, 1767. 3. Sarah, b. Feb. 18, 1770.\\n4. Asa, b. Xoy. 3, 1771.\\nJoshua Graham.\\nJoshua Graham, son of George, m. Hannah Their children were\\n1. Aaron, b. March 6, 1788. 2. Sally, b. May 31, 1790. 3. Nancy, b.\\nMay 30, 1792.\\nAsa Graham.\\nAsa Graham, son of George, 1 m. Sally West, by Avhom he had one\\nchild, Azuba. He 2 m. Eachel Morse, of Chester. Their children were\\nSally, George, Joseph, Charles, Hannah. He 3 m. Sarah St. Clair, of Can-\\nterbury, by whom he had four children John S., Aaron, Elizabeth M. and\\nBenjamin F.\\nSamuel Gray.\\nSamuel Gray m. Sarah Their children were 1. Sarah, b. Jan.\\n25, 1739; d. May 10, 1740. 2. Sarah, b. March 16, 1741; d. Sept. 4,\\n1746. 3. Mary, b. Dec. 29, 1743.\\nPeter Greex, Esq. (See Lawyers.)\\nPeter Green m. Elizabeth Bulkley. Their children were 1. Polly,\\nb. May 22, 1772; d. Sept. 13, 1783. 2. John Bulkley, b. Feb. 8, 1774;\\nd. I\\\\Iay26, 1779. 3. Sophia McUen, b. March 7, 1776; d. June 11, 1777.\\n4. Samuel Liyermore, b. July 10, 1778. 5. John Bulkley, b. Oct. 11,\\n1780. 5. Thomas Mellen, b. Feb. 21, 1783. 7. Polly, b. Jan. 17, 1785.\\n8. Charlotte, b. Sept. 13, 1787.\\nPeter Green died March 27, 1798. Rebecca Green, his wife, died May\\na, 1800.\\nSamuel Greex, Esq. (See Lawyers.)\\nSamuel, son of Nathaniel and Lucy Green, was born March 7, 1770;\\nmarried Mary CofHn, of Chester. Slie d. 1806. Their- children were\\nMary, Herman, Lucretia. He then m. widow Wardrobe, of Portsmouth.\\nTheir child, Hunking Wentworth. Nathaniel Green d. Aug., 1810, ag. 92.\\nDea. Joseph Hall. (See notice, pp. 136-7.)\\nDea. Joseph Hall m. July 5, 1736, Deborah Abbot. Their children were\\n1, Joseph, b. July 17, 1737; d. June 10, 1807. 2. Sarah, b. Sept. 2oi\\n1738; d. Oct. 21, 1746. 3. Hannah, b. Noy. 24, 1740; d. Oct. 21, 1746.\\n4. Mary, b. March 17, 1742-3; d. Dec. 12, 1773. 5. Sarah, d. Noy. 4,\\n1746. 6. Jeremiah, b. Jan. 6, 1746; d. Oct. 8, 1770.\\nDea. Joseph Hall died April 8, 1784, aged 77. Deborah Hall died Oct.\\n25, 1801, aged 97.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0777.jp2"}, "756": {"fulltext": "708 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nJeremiah PIall.\\nJeremiah Hall ra. Esther Whittemore, 1769. Their child, Sarah, b. Aug.\\n29, 1770.\\nEbenezer Hall.\\nEbenezer Hall m. Hephzibah Their children were Ebenezer,\\nb. Aug. 8, 1744. Hephzibah, wife of Ebenezer Hall, died Aug. 23, 1744.\\nHe then married Dorcas Abbot, June 17, 1746, in Bradford, Mass. Their\\nchildren were Hephzibah, b. March 29, 1757. Obadiah, b. Oct. 2, 1748.\\nDorcas, b. Jan. 13, 1751; d. Sept. 5, 1823. Sarah, b. Feb, 4, 1753.\\nDaniel, b. Jan. 13, 1755. Timothy, b. Jime 5, 1757, Stephen, b. Mav 13,\\n1759. Abiel, b. May 31, 1761. Lydia, b. Oct. 10, 1767. Deborah, _b.\\nSept. 18, 1769; d. Oct. 25, 1791, at Grantham or Lebanon, being the wife\\nof Daniel Barker.\\nEbenezer Hall, sen., died April 24, 1801. Dorcas, his wife, died Sept.\\n28, 1797, aged 69.\\nDea. David Hall.\\nDea. David Hall, son of David and Naomi Gage, m. Sept. 22, 1737,\\nRuth Colby. Their children were: 1. Anna, b. March 29, 1767. 2. Sim-\\neon Gage, b. Oct. 11, 1768 m. Sarah Hardy, Sept. 22, 1801. Their chil-\\ndren were: 1. Edward, b. April 20, 1802. 2. Samuel Colby, b, April 21,\\n1803. 3. Lewis, b. March 23, 1805. 4. Louisa, b. Aug. 9, 1806. 5.\\nMargaret Wiggin, b. Feb. 7, 1808.\\nStephen Hall.\\nStephen Hall m. Patience Flanders, of Boscawen. Their children were\\n1. Moses, b. May 12, 1780. 2. Susanna, b. Nov. 13, 1781. 3. Anne, b.\\nFeb. 17, 1784. 4, John Coffin, b. Jan. 21, 1786. 5. Lydia, b. March 2,\\n1788. 6. Abiel, b. Jan. 21, 1790. 7. Debbee, b. March 16, 1792. 8.\\nSally, b. April 28, 1794. 9. Harriet. 10. Stephen. 11. Ebenezer.\\nStephen Hall, sen., died Nov. 23, 1808, aged 49. Patience Hall died\\nFeb. 17, 1834, aged 75.\\nDaniel Hall.\\nDaniel Hall m. Deborah Davis. Their chidren were 1. Dorcas, b. Aug.\\n14, 1776. 2. Ebenezer, b. May 9, 1778. 3. Robert, b. June 16, 1780;\\nd. Aug. 18, 1805, in West Indies. 4. Joseph, b. May 4, 1782. 5. Jere-\\nmiah, b. May 4, 1782. 6. James, b. June 19, 1784. 7. Simeon, b. March\\n16, 1786. 8. Sally, b. Sept. 11, 1788. 9. Polly, b. Mav 9, 1790 d. Sept.\\n28, 1798. 10. Daniel, b. June 17, 1792. 11. Hannah, b. March 12, 1794\\nd March 16, 1794. 12. Ivory, b. Aug. 25, 1795. 13. John Calvin, b.\\nSept. 12, 1798. 14. Polly, b. July 27, 1801; d. July 19, 1803.\\nDaniel Hall, sen., died Feb. 18, 1835, aged 80. Deborah Hall, his first\\nwife d. Nov., 1822, aged 65. Ehzabeth, his second wife, d. Dec, 1831, aged\\n74.\\nBenjamin Hannafokd.\\nBenjamin Hannaford m. Ruth Their children were: 1. John,\\nb. May 5, l763; d. Oct. 3, 1777. 2. James, b. Jan. 4, 1765. 3. Phebe,\\nb. April 15, 1766. 4. Greeley, b. Nov. 19, 1767. 5. Ruth, b. June 21,\\n1770. 6. Sarah, b. AprU 16, 1772.\\nRuth, wife of Benjamin Hannaford, died Oct. 23, 1777. Benjamin Han-\\nnaford died 1811, aged 76.\\nPhilip Harriman.\\nPhilip Harriman m. Hannah Their children were 1. John, b.\\nNov. 30, 1767. 2. Moses, b. Feb. 5, 1770. 3. Lois, b. March 10,. 1772.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0778.jp2"}, "757": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 709\\n4, Ruth, b. March 12, 1774. 5. Leonard, b. :March 8, 1776. 6. Hub-\\nbard, b. Feb. 28, 1779.\\nRichard H.\\\\zeltine.\\nRichard Hazeltlne m. Sarah Hall. Then- children were 1. Joseph, b.\\nDec. 27, 1731 d. Mav 30, 1798. 2. Sarah, b. Feb. 3, 1734; d. June 22,\\n1735. 3. James, b. May 1, 1736; d. Mav 17, 1736. 4. Sarah, b. Jan. 2,\\n1738? d. Mav, 1829. a. James, b. March 25, 1740? 6. Richard, b.\\nApril 5, 1742 d. Aug. 21, 1817. 7. William, b. June 16, 1744. 8. Abi-\\ngail, b. Aug. 20. 1749, 9. Hannah, b. March 16, 1752. 10. Barnes, b.\\nAug. 23, 1754.\\nRichard Haseltine, Jr.\\nRichard Haseltinc, jr., m. Hephzibah Their cliildren were 1.\\nMary, b. May 25, 1766 d. Sept. 29, 1793. 2. Abigail, b. April 24, 1768.\\n3. Joseph, b. Nov. 17, 1770. 4. Richard, b. Nov. 28, 1773. 5. Timothy,\\nb. Aug. 28, 1776; m. Lydia six ch. d. Julv 24, 1811. 6. Barnes,\\nb. Nov. 3, 1778; d. Nov. 6, 1799. 7. Sallv, b. Jan. 23, 1781. 8. Hannah,\\nb. April 29, 1783. 9. Betsey, b. May 23, 1785.\\nJoseph Haseltine.\\nJoseph Haseltine m. Elizabeth Abbot. Their children were 1. Sarah,\\nb. Dec. 24, 1755. 2. Abigail, b. Sept. 3, 1758 d. April 17, 1785 Avife of\\nJohn Page, of Haverhill. 3. Anna, b. Mav 19, 1760. 4. Peter, b. Sept.\\n23, 1762; d. Nov. 20, 1779. 5. Susanna, b. Sejjt. 12, 1765. 6. Hannah,\\nb. Aug. 31, 1767. 7. Ballard, b. Sept. 4, 1769. 8. Betty, b. Oct. 3, 1771.\\n9. Nathaniel, b. Aug. 24, 1774; d. Feb. 23, 1796.\\nJoseph Hazeltine died May 30, 1798, in his 67th year. Elizabeth Haz-\\neltlne died Jan. 25, 1834, aged 100 years, 6 months and 13 days.\\nBallard H^izeltine.\\nBallard Hazeltine m. Sallv Noyes. Their children were: 1. Peter, b.\\nJan. 7, 1793. 2. John, b. Oct. 12, 1794. 3. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 2, 1797.\\n4. Joseph, b. Nov. 29, 1799; m. Al)igail Whitmarsh 6 ch. 5. Eliza, b.\\nDec. 5, 1802. 6. Mary, b. May 21, 1805. 7. Emily, b. Aug. 3, 1807. 8.\\nSally, b. July 16, 1809. 9. Nancy Jane, b. Sept. 24, 1812.\\nBallard Hazeltme died at Platts burg, N. Y., 1836, aged 66.\\nJames H.^zeltine.\\nJames Hazeltine m. Susanna Their children Avere 1. John, b.\\nJune 3, 1763. 2. Amos, b. Feb. 6, 1765; d. Jan. 3, 1780. 3. David, b.\\nMarch 7, 1770. 4. Ruth, b. July 28, 1772. 5. James, b. March 21, 1786.\\nJohn Hazeltine.\\nJohn Hazeltine m. Hannah Their children Mere 1. Amos, b.\\nJan. 16, 1787. 2. Susanna, b. Mav 5, 1788. 3. Sarah, b. Feb. 28, 1790.\\n4. Nancy, b. May 1, 1792. 5. Dolly, b. Jan. 31, 1794.\\nJoseph Hazeltine.\\nJoseph Hazeltine, son of Richard, m. Ruth Chase. Their children were\\nI. William, b. Feb. 8, 1792. 2. Mary, b. March 7, 1794. 3. Susanna H.,\\nb. April 15, 1796. 4. Daniel H., b. May 7, 1798. 5. Ebenezer, b. Sept.\\n4, 1801. 6. Peter, b. Feb. 3, 1803. 7. Phebe, b. March 7, 1805. 8.\\nSarah, b. June 13, 1807. 9. Lucy T., b. July 6, 1809. 10. Timothy.\\nII. John C.\\nAsa Herrick.\\nAsa Herrick m. Annas Their children 1. John, b. July 18, 1780\\nd. May 1, 1797. 2. Polly, b. May 28, 1782. 3. Asa, b. May 23, 1784.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0779.jp2"}, "758": {"fulltext": "710 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\n4. Anna, b. July 4, 1786. 5. Israel, b. June 1, 1789. 6. Moses, b. Oct.\\n2, 1792.\\nAnnas Herrick died Sept., 1797, and he married Abigail Hilton. Their\\nson, 7. Asa, b. Aug. 28, 180o. Lt. Asa Herrick d. April 23, 1822, aged 68.\\nD.\\\\MEL Hills.\\nDaniel Hills m. Hannali Their children were 1. Hannah, b.\\nFeb. 9, 1786. 2. John, b. Jan 16, 1789 d. April 22, 1790.\\nIsaac Houston.\\nIsaac Houston m. Molly Their children were 1. Sarah, b.\\nSept. 20, 1786. 2. Phebe, b. Feb. 24, 1789 d. y. Molly Houston d.\\nAug. 13, 1791.\\nSamuel Ixgals.\\nSamuel Ingals m. EHzabeth Their child, 1. Anna, T^-as b. Nov.\\n15, 1767.\\nJonathan Johnson.\\nJonathan Johnson m. Rhoda Abbot, Jan. 8, 1778. Their children were:\\n1. Phebe, born Sept. 10, 177S. 2. Timothy, b. Jan. 10, 1780. 3. Elea-\\nnor, b. Oct. 16, 1781. 4. llhoda, b. Noy. 1, 1783. 5. Hannah, b. May\\n13, 1785. 6. John, b. Feb. 17, 1787 d. Dec. 2, 1790. 7. Reuben, b.\\nJan. 12, 1789. 8. Sarah Carter, b. May 15, 1791. 9. John, b. Jan. 15,\\n1793. 10. Phihp, b. March 11, 1795. 11. Ruth, b. Aug. 24, 1797.\\nNathan Kinsman.\\nNathan Kinsman m. Mercy Their ch. were 1. Nathan, b. April 22,\\n1767 d. April 15, 1776. 2. Mercy, b. April 10, 1769. 3. Mercy, Avife of\\nNathan Kinsman, d., and he married 2d Elizabeth Shattuck. Their chil-\\ndren 4. Stephen, b. Aug. 14, 1773. 5. Peter, b. Aug. 3, 1775; d. Mar.\\n21, 1776. 6. Nathan, b. Noy. 14, 1777; d. at Portland, March, 1829. 7.\\nPeter, b. Nov. 22, 1779. 8. Mercy, b. Oct. 4, 1781. 9. Timothy, b. Aug.\\n17, 1783 d. at Lincoln, aUas Morristown.\\nEphraim Knowlton.\\nEphraim Knowlton m. Mary Their children were 1. Hannah, b.\\nAug. 30, 1738. 2. Timothy, b. Feb. 24, 1740.\\nDudley Ladd.\\nDudley Ladd m. Bethiah Hutchins. Their children were 1. Samuel\\nGreenleaf, b. April 14, 1784. 2. John, b. Feb. 15, 1786. 3. Dudley, b.\\nAug. 19, 1789. 4. Nathaniel, b. Sept. 25, 1791. 5. Wilham Manley, b.\\nFeb. 9, 1794.\\nEdward St. Loe Livermore,\\nMarried Mehetabel Harris. Their children Avere 1. Carohne, b. June\\n22, 1785. 2. Samuel, b. Aug. 26, 1786. 3. Harriet, b. April 14, 1788.\\n4. Robert Harris, b. Oct. 1, 1790.\\nHenry Loyejoy,\\nMarried Phebe Their children were: 1. Henry, b.\\nd. Oct. 22, 1745. 2. Henry, b. Sept. 27, 1746; d. Aug. 18, 1747. 3.\\nHannah, b. June 26, 1748. Capt. Henry Lovejoy d. March 15, 1793.\\nChandler Loyejoy,\\nFirst married ^Ilriam Tlieir children were 1. John, b. Jan. 23,\\n1766. 2. Miriam, b. July 25, 1767. 3. Phinehas, b. July 16, 1770; d.\\nJan. 19, 1786. 4. Ebenezer, b. Oct. 17, 1772. 5. Peter Chandler, b.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0780.jp2"}, "759": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. Vll\\nDec. 17, 1776; d. Aug. 17, 1778. 6. Sarah, b. June 27, 1783. 7. Phin-\\nehas, b. Feb. 29, 1788.\\nChandler Lovcjov d. Nov. 30, 1827, aged 86. His second wife, Azubah\\nGraham, d. July 29, 1829, aged 91.\\nJohn Lovejoy,\\nMarried Abigail Ambrose. Their children were 1. Polly, b. May 19,\\n1792. 2. Judith, b. ?\u00c2\u00bbIav 24, 1794. 3. Harriet, b. April 4, 1796.\\nAbigail, wife of John Lovejoy, d. :March 26, 1832, aged 64. John Love-\\njoy d.Sept. 6, 1837, aged 71.\\nEbenezer Lovejoy,\\nMarried Susanna Their children were 1. Charlotte, 1). Sept.\\n14, 1798. 2. Henry, b. July 13, 1800. 3. John, b. May 20, 1802. 4.\\nPeter, b. April 12, 1806. 5. Joel, b. Feb. 21, 1808. 6. WilUam, b. Mar.\\n12, 1810. 7. Abigail, b. Sept. 25, 1813.\\nHenry Martin,\\nmarried Esther Their children were\\n1. John, b. July 30, 1768. 2. Esther, b. May 26, 1770. 3. Daniel,\\nb. July 16, 1772. *4. Kimball, b. Dec. 7, 1774. 5. Solomon, b. Feb. 11,\\n1777. 6. Henry, b. Aug. 7, 1779; married wid. Polly Fcrrin two chil-\\ndren. 7. Hannah, b. Sept. 6, 1781. 8. Mary, b. Oct. 30, 1785.\\nHenry Martin d. Dec. 12, 1821, aged 82 years.\\nBenjamin Morse,\\nmarried Rachel Their children were\\n1. Benjamin, b. at Amesbury, June 24, 1771. 2. Jonathan, b. at New-\\ntown, Jan. 29, 1774. 3. Sally, b. Aug. 8, 1777. 4. Nabbee, b. April 7,\\n1780. 5. Ptachel, b. Sept. 1, 1782. 6. Harmah, b. Nov. 17, 1785. 7.\\nLuke, b. Oct. 18, 1789 d. Dec. 10, 1793. 8. Ruthee, b. July 10, 1792.\\nBenjamin ^SIorse, Jr.,\\nmarried Dolly Their children were\\n1. Sabra, b. Nov. 14, 1793. 2. Dorothy, b. Aug, 1, 1795.\\nJohn Odlin,\\nmarried Sally Herbert, Nov. 20, 1791. Their child, 1. Charlotte, d. Fel).\\n10, 1793. Sarah H. Odhn died April 7, 1794, and he 2 m. ^lary Souther,\\nwidow of John Souther. Their son, 2. Woodbridge, was b. March 19,\\n1810.\\nJoseph Ord\\\\vay,\\nmarried Mehetabel Their children were\\n1. Lydia, b. June 9, 1731 d. March 2, 1732. 2. Joseph, b. March 11,\\n1732. 3. John, b. Jan. 27, 1734. 4. Mary, b. Sept. 25, 1736. 5. Eben-\\nezer, b. Sept. 20, 1738. 6. Lydia, b. Aug. 4, 1740. 7. Edward, b. Jan.\\n30, 1741 d. Nov. 22, 1743. 8. b. Jan. 25, 1743. 9. Edward, b.\\nMarch 14, 1745 d. Sept. 24, 1746. 10. Samuel, b. Oct. 22, 1747.\\nJames Orkings,\\nmarried Hannah Their son, 1. James, b. at Kingston, Dec. 30, 1777.\\nDavid Page,\\nmarried Ruth Their ch. Susanna, b. June 7, 1763.\\nDaniel Page,\\nmarried Lydia Their children were\\n1. Betsey, b. at Haverhill, Nov. 23, 1777. 2. Lydia, b. at ILaverhill,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0781.jp2"}, "760": {"fulltext": "712 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nFeb. 1, 1781. 3. Hannah, b. April 26, 1783. 4. Daniel, b. Feb. 23, 1785.\\n5. Francis, b. June 26, 1787. 6. Peter, b. June 28, 1790. 7. Nancy, b.\\nAug. 11, 1792. 8. Ebenezer, b. Nov. 15, 1794.\\nJob Page,\\nMarried Lydia Their children were\\n1. Sally, h. Oct. 15, 1783. 2. Jerry, b. Aug. 15, 1785. 3. Nancy, b.\\nDec. 22, 1787 d. March 21, 1788. 4. Rhoda, b. April 13, 1790 d. Sept.\\n5, 1791. 5. Charlotte, b. March 3, 1792. 6. llhoda, b. Oct. 11, 1794.\\n7. James Kimball, b. June 20, 1798.\\nBexjamin Paine,\\nMarried Hannah Dearborn, of Chester. Their children were\\n1. WilHam Babcock, b. Oct. 4, 1797. 2. Nathaniel Dearborn, b. Feb.\\n25, 1799. 3. John Ballard, b. Sept. 4, 1803.\\nWilliam Partridge,\\nMarried Elizabeth Their children were\\n1. WiUiam Woodbram, Feb. 25, 1790, at Boston. 2. John Stevens, b.\\nJune 24, 1791. 3. Sarah, b. July 20, 1793.\\nZephaniah Pattee,\\nMarried Their child, 1. Elizabeth, b. April 9, 1767.\\nJames Peters,\\nMarried Elizabeth Their children were 1. James, b. Jan. 19,\\n1738. 2. William, b. Dec. 7, 1740. 3. Obadiah, b. Oct. 8, 1747.\\nJohn Putney,\\nMarried Anna Their child, Anna, was b. Oct. 11, 1747.\\nSamuel Putney,\\nMarried Elizabeth Their child, Rebecca, was b. Nov. 2, 1728.\\nWilliam Putney,\\nMarried Hannah Their child, Hannah, was b. July 17, 1747.\\nJonathan Runnels,\\nSon of Abraham and Hannah Runnels, was born Aug. 16, 1758, at Lee\\nmarried Dorothy Dimond, daughter of Ezekiel and Miriam Dimond, born\\nJuly 27, 1758. Their children were\\n1. Samuel, b. July 30, 1781. 2. ISIiriam, b. July 3, 1783. 3. Ezekiel\\nDimond, b. Jan. 21, 1786. 4. Abner, b. March 2, 1789. 5. Israel, b.\\nJuly 14, 1793. 6. Jonathan, b. Sept. 29, 1795.\\nJoseph Runnels,\\nMarried Joanna Farnum. Their children were\\n1. Joseph, b. March 27, 1782. 2. Isaac, b. Nov. 27, 1784. 3. Theo-\\ndore, b. April 2, 1786. 4. Sarah, b. May 2, 1788. 5. Jonathan, b. Mar.\\n28, 1790. 6. Josiah, b. April 10, 1792. 7. Farnum, b. March 1, 1794;\\nd. March 3, 1794. 8. Farnum, b. Jan. 25, 1795. 9. Dorcas, b. July 9,\\n1797. 10. Hazen, b. Sept. 21, 1801.\\nJohn Russ.\\nMarried Priscilla Their children were\\n1. Priscilla, b. June 3, 1733. 2. Anna, b. June 19, 1734 d. May 4,\\n1738. 3. John, b. Nov. 2, 1736. 4. Anna, b. Dec 13, 1740.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0782.jp2"}, "761": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 713\\nElij. IH Russell, Printer,\\nMarried Polly Davis, March 25, 1 794. Their children were\\n1. Joshua Thompson, b. Oct. 20, 1794. 2. Sally Thompson, b. Feb. 20,\\n1797. 3. Daniel Livermore, b. Nov. 27, ISOO. 4. Mary Walker.\\nElijah Russell died. Polly Russell died Dec. 3, 1819, aged 46.\\nNathaniel Rix,\\n^Married Mary Their children were\\n1. James, b. Dec. 13, 1743. 2. Peter, b. March 8, 174o-6.\\nChristopher Rowell, Jr.,\\nMarried Lydia Abbot, Oct. 27, 1796. Their children were\\n1. Ira, b. May 29, 1797 1 m. Elizabeth Thompson, who d. leaving one\\nchild, Thompson. He 2 m. Rebecca Kimball. Their children were AVil-\\nliam K., Elizabeth T., Thomas E., James H., iSIary C, Rebecca K. and\\nChristopher. 2. Thomas, m. Bridget W. Farnum. Their children were\\nPeter C. Farnum, Lydia. He died April 20, 1832, aged 32.\\nThomas Saltmarsh,\\nMarried Betty Abbot. Their children were\\n1. Mehetabel, b. April 12, 1762. 2. John, b. May 21, 1764. 3. Mary,\\nb. Aug. 28, 1766.\\nBarnard Sargent,\\nMarried Anna Their son, Thomas Barnard, b. Feb. 20, 1793.\\nJames Scales,\\nMarried Susanna Their children were\\n1. John, b. Aug. 4, 1737. 2. Joseph, b. April 15, 1740; d. y. 3. Ste-\\nphen, b. Oct. 16, 1741 grad. at Harvard Coll. 1763, and d. at Chelmsford,\\nMass., Nov. 5, 1772.\\nJames Scales removed to Canterbury, and was afterwards ordained the\\nfirst minister of Hopkinton, where he died July 26, 1776.\\nJoseph Sherburne,\\nMarried Dorcas Hall, Nov. 13, 1800. Their children were\\n1. Robert, b. Sept. 20, 1801 m. Ruth Eaton four children. 2. Wash-\\nington, b. Nov. 19, 1804. 3. Almira, b. Aug. 13, 1806. 4. Mary J., b.\\nFeb. 24, 1808, posthumous; m. Oliver L. Sanborn.\\nJoseph Sherburne d. July 29, 1807, aged 37.\\nSamuel Silver,\\nMarried Abigail Their children were Obed, b. Julv 4, 1789, at\\nBow. Buswell, b. Aug. 3, 1791, at Bow. Arad, b. Aug. 5, 1793.\\nBenjamin Simpson,\\nMarried Mary Their children were: Nathaniel, b. May 9, 1790.\\nPaul, b. Dec. 1, 1791.\\nJohn Souther,\\nMarried Mary Stickney, dau. of Col. Thomas S. Their children were\\n1. Thomas Stickney, b. Jan. 3, 1786; d. March, 1814, at Conwav. 2.\\nSamuel, b. Sept. 17, 1787. 3. Anna, b. Feb. 19, 1791. 4. Elizabeth, b.\\nOct. 4, 1795; d. April 30, 1797. 5. John, b. June 20, 1793; d. March,\\n1835, at Charlestown, Mass. 6. Ehzabeth, b. Sept. 30, 1797. 7. Joseph,\\nb. Oct. 28, 1803; d. Oct. 27, 1804.\\nJohn Souther d. Nov. 23, 1804, aged 44.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0783.jp2"}, "762": {"fulltext": "714 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nMatthew Standley,\\n]MavriocI !Mary Their children were 1. Samuel, b. Aug. 11, 1743.\\n2. Joseph, 3. John, b. April 30, 1745. 4. Uenjamin, b. April 24, 1747.\\n5. Molly, b. Aug. 21, 1749.\\nAaron Stevens, Coroner.\\nMarried Deborah Their children Avere\\n1. Deborah, b. Oct. 30, 1734; d. June 8, 1737. 2. Sarah, b. Nov. 6,\\n1736; d. June 16, 1737. 3. Deborah, b. March 30, 1737? 4. Susanna,\\nb. Feb. 13, 1738.\\nAaron Stevens d. Feb. 2, 1796, in his 86th year. Deborah Stevens d.\\nMarch 18, 1796, in her 86th year.\\nJames Stevens,\\n^Married Susanna Their children were\\n1. Judith, b. Oct. 16, 1767. 2. WilUam, b. Sept. 5, 1769. 3. PhiHp,\\nb. Sept. 7, 1773. 4. Susanna, b. Aug. 7, 1776. 5. Daniel, b. Dec. 20,\\n1778. 6. Mary, b. Jan. 12, 1780. 7. James, b. Aug. 8, 1783. 8. Sim-\\neon, b, Dec. 27, 1787.\\nJohn Stevens,\\n^Married Sarah Their children were\\n1. Mabel Jcnners, b. April 14, 1776; d. May, 1836, in Maine. 2. Grace,\\nb. July 25, 1778. 3. John, b. Jan. 15, 1780. 4. Stephen Grcenleaf, b.\\nFeb. 24, 1782. 5. Thomas Jenners, b. Oct. 2, 1787. 6. Benjamin Wood,\\nb. Nov. 27, 1789.\\nJohn Stevens, Esq., d. Dec. 25, 1792; see Biography. Sarah Stevens,\\nhis wife, d. May 11, 1804, aged 53.\\nThomas Stevens,\\nMarried Lydia Their child, Betsey, was b. March 23, 1795.\\nMoses Swete,\\nMarried Sallv Their children were 1. Sally, b. Feb. 17, 1793.\\n2. Frederick WiUiam, b. Dec. 14, 1794.\\nMoses Sweat,\\n^Married Naomi Farnum. Their children were Ephraim, b. Sept. 25,\\n1805; Clarissa S., b. Oct. 10, 1811.\\nBenjamin Thompson,\\nMarried Susanna Stevens, 1776. Their children were:\\n1. Sarah, b. Nov. 1, 1776. 2. Benjamin, b. Feb. 2, 1779. 3. Joshua,\\nb. July 8, 1781. 4. Nathan, b. Sept. 6, 1783. 5. Charles, b. Aug. 24,\\n1785. 6. Betsey, b. Feb. 4, 1788. 7. James, b. July 12, 1791. 8. Sam-\\nuel, b. July 24, 1*793. 9. Abiel, b. Aug. 12, 1795. 10. Hannah, b. Aug.\\n12, 1795. 11. Persis, b. Nov. 8, 1797.\\nSusan Thompson d. Dec. 10, 1798, aged 44.\\nSamuel Thompson,\\nMarried Sally Their children were\\nNancy, b. Nov. 27, 1780. Sally, daughter of Samuel and Miriam\\nThompson, b. Dec. 18, 1785. Reuben, b. Dec. 24, 1787. John,b. Jan. 5,\\n1790; resides in llichmond, Va., a gentleman of property and distinction.\\nHe gave one hundred dollars towards the erection of the Episcopal church\\nin Concord. His son, John R. Thompson, is editor of the Southern Lite-\\nrary Messenger.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0784.jp2"}, "763": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 715\\nJohn Thorndike, M. D.,\\nISIarriecI Mary Wilson, March 25, 1792. Their children were\\nMary, b. Oct. 12, 1793; m. Charles Hutchins. John Larkin, b. April\\n23, 1796 lives in Pittsfield. Thomas Wilson, b. Nov. 20, 1797 lives in\\nWeare.\\nJUDAII TrUMBLE,\\nOr Trumbull, married Grace Their children were\\n1. Marv, b. June 1, 1737. 2. Simon, b. Dec. 14, 1739; d. Feb., 1800.\\n3. Samuel, b. June 7, 1743. 4. Nathaniel, b. March 30, 1746. 5. John,\\nb. ]May 30, 1749. 6. Ruth, b. July 4, 1752.\\nJohn Trumbull,\\nMarried Lucy Their child, EHzabeth, b. Dec. 11, 1792.\\nEliphalet Tucker,\\nMarried Anna Their children were: Arthur, b. June S, 1791.\\nJohn Sawyer, b. Aug. 12, 1794.\\nSeth Tucker,\\nMarried EHza Kent. Their children were Lucy Maria, Charles, George\\nBrinley.\\nBela Turner,\\nMarried Ruth llannaford. Their children were Lucv, b. Dec. 7, 1792,\\nat Hanover. John Hannaford, b. Sept. 19, 1794; d. Oct. 19, 1796.\\nStephen Tuttle,\\nMarried Jane Their children were\\n1. Jesse Carr, b. Sept. 20, 1779, at Goffstown m. Zerviah Abbot. 2.\\nNathaniel, b. Oct. 21, 17S1, at Gotistown. 3. Willis, b. June 27, 1784, at\\nGoffstown. 4. Hall, b. Oct. 10, 1789. 5. Nancy, b. Feb. 18, 1792.\\nStephen Tuttle died Oct. 11, 1801, aged 48 years.\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nmarried Hannah Their children were\\n1. Phinehas, b. Nov. 21, 1733. 2. Ebenezer, b. May 25, 1735. 3.\\nWiUiam, b. July 4, 1737; d. Aug. 21, 1803. 4. Jonathan, b. Oct. 29,\\n1740; d. Feb. 8, 1755. 5. Miriam, b. Mav 23, 1744. 6. Ehjah, b. June\\n17, 1747. 7. John, b. Aug. 8, 1749; d. May 19, 1786.\\nEbenezer Virgin died 1766. See p. 245.\\nPhinehas Virgin,\\nmarried Abiah Their children were\\n1. Ruth, b. Dec. 7, 1775; died July 29, 1803, wife of Jacob Hovt. 2.\\nAbigail, b. Feb. 20, 1777. 3. Phinehas, b. Aug. 12, 1779.\\nEbenezer Virgin,\\nson of first Ebenezer, married Dorcas Their children were\\n1. Jonathan, b. Nov. 23, 1758 d. Max 9, 1813. 2. Mollv, b. Jan. 3,\\n1761. 3. Ehjah, b. March 7, 1763. 4. Hannah, b. June 5, 1765. 5. Dan-\\niel, b. Mav 5, 1767. 6. Phebe, b. Aug. 5, 1769. 7. Henry, b. Nov. 19,\\n1771. 8. Simon, b. Sept. 21, 1779. 9. Peter Chandler, b. July 23, 1783.\\nJonathan Virgin,\\nson of second Ebenezer, married Sarah Their children were\\n1. Pattv, b. March 21, 1783. 2. Hazzen, b. March 20, 1785. 3. Aaron,\\nb. April 28, 1787. 4. Isaac, b. July 14, 1789.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0785.jp2"}, "764": {"fulltext": "716 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nJohn Virgin,\\nson of first Ebenezer, married Betty Their children were\\n1. James, b. Feb. 18, 177o d. March 8, 1775. 2. Susanna, b. Sept. 4,\\n1777. 3. Sallv, b. May 30,1780. 4. John, b. Jan. 14,1783. [See no-\\ntice of, p. 496.] 5, Joel, b. Nov. 30, 1785.\\nWilliam Virgin,\\nson of first Ebenezer, married Mehetabel Their children were\\n1. Sarah, b. Dec. 10, 1762; d. June 4, 1797. 2. Jeremiah, b. Sept. 7,\\n1765. 3. Ebenezer, b. March 15, 1767. 4. William, b. April 22, 1769.\\n5. Abial, b. Feb. 21, 1771. 6. Bettv, b. Jan. 15, 1773. 7. Bethiah, b.\\nFeb. 23, 1775. 8. Miriam, b. April 6, 1777. 9. Molly, b. May 23, 1779\\nd. July, 1810. 10. Simeon, b. Nov. 11, 1781. 11. Hannah, b. Jan. 18, 1784.\\nWilliam Virgin d. Aug. 26, 1803, aged 66 years.\\nAriel Virgin,\\nson of WiUiam, married Mehitabel Their children were\\n1. WilUam Manlv, b. Dec. 13, 1795. 2. Charlotte, b. jNIay 23, 1798.\\n3. Ira, b. April 7, 1800. 4. Charles, b. Dec. 10, 1802; d. Oct. 14, 1804.\\n5. Janette, b. Sept. 29, 1804. 6. Charles, b. Oct. 11, 1806. 7. Jonathan\\nAmbrose. 8. Samuel.\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nSon of William, married Jenny Their children were\\n1. Jonathan Sticknev, b. Oct. 29, 1793. 2. John, b. July 16, 1795. 3.\\nHarriet, b. May 1, 1805.\\nIsaac Waldrox,\\nMarried Susanna Chandler. Their children were\\n1. Jacob, b. March 2, 1743. 2. Isaac, b. June 18, 1746. 3. Susanna,\\nb. June 9, 1751.\\nJacob Waldron,\\nMarried Sarah Their children Avere\\n1. Ezra, b. May 2, 1765. 2. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 29, 1767.\\nStephen Ward,\\nMarried Elizabeth Their son, Jonathan, b. Aug. 17, 17\\nJohn Weeks,\\nMarried Susanna Abbot. Their children were\\n1. Abigail, b. June 29, 1786. 2. Mary, b. July 13, 1788. 3. Nancy, b.\\nApril 7, 1791. 4. Joseph, b. July 21, 1793. 5. James, b. Nov. 22, 1795.\\n6. Timothy Abbot, b. Sept. 17, 1797. 7. Samuel, b. May 25, 1799. 8.\\nGeorge, b. Oct. 26, 1801 d. y. 9. Eliza, b. Nov. 17, 1802. 10. Harriet\\nStickney, b. April 11, 1806.\\nJohn Webster.\\nJohn Webster m. Jane Their children were\\n1. Sarah, b. May 20, 1734. 2. Jane, b. May 18, 1735. 3. Stephen, b,\\nJune 26, 1736. 4. Sarah, b. July 11, 1740.\\nJeremiah Wheeler,\\nMarried Kezia Their children were\\n1. Dorcas, b. Feb. 4, 1771. 2. Pollv, b. Sept. 10, 1772. 3. Abel, b.\\nSept. 2, 1774. 4. Betty, b. May 25, 1776. 5. Hannah, b. Feb. 21, 1778.\\n6. Sally, b. May 27, 1780. 7. WilHam, b. July 5, 1782. Mr. Wheeler 2", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0786.jp2"}, "765": {"fulltext": "GENEALOGICAL. 717\\nm. Sarah Abbot, and had children 8. Lydia, b. Jan. 8, 1791. 9. John,\\nb. Feb. 25, 1793. 10. Jeremiah, b. Feb. 14, 1795. 11. Ruth ^Y., h. Jan.\\n4, 1799. 12. Judith, b. Aug. 10, 1802. 13. :Miriam, b. June 21, 1805.\\nKeziah Wheeler died Aug. 12, 1789. Jeremiah Wheeler, sen., d. Oct.\\n17, 1827, aged 80. Mrs. Sarah, his Avife, d. Aug. 20, 1847, aged 88.\\nZenas Wiieelek,\\nMarried Shuah Fifield. Their children were\\n1. Zenas, b. March 8, 1792. 2. William, b. Oct. 22, 1793. 3. Uriah,\\nb. Aug. 15, 1795. 4. Elizabeth, b. March 16, 1797. 5. Asa Herrick,\\nSherburne Wiggin,\\nMarried Margaret Then- children were\\n1. Harriet, b. Nov. 3, 1798. 2. Charles Sherburne, b. Jan. 28, 1801\\nd. March 15, 1809. 3. Mary Gordon, b. July 12, 1802. 4. Grace Stevens,\\nb. Oct. 6, 1806. 5. George, b. May 24, 1808. 6. Washington, b. May\\n24, 1808. 7. Nancy Green, b. July l0, 1810.\\nSherburne Wiggin died March, 1814.\\nSamuel Willard,\\nMarried Sarah Thompson. Their son, Moses Thompson, b. Jan. 21, 1783.\\nJonathan Wilkins,\\nMarried Sarah Hall, 1787. Their children were:\\n1. Sophia, b. May 21, 1788. 2. Janette, b. Oct. 13, 1789. 3. Jere-\\nmiah Hall, b. Dec. 25, 1791. 4. Joseph Hall, b. Jan. 22, 1794 d. July\\n24, 1819, at Matanzas, Cuba. 5. Sally, b. July 24, 1796. 6. Esther, b.\\nJulv 5, 1798. 7. Fanny, b. Jan. 21, 1800. 8. C^iithia, b. Sept. 13, 1802.\\n9. Caroline, b. Feb. 21, 1805. 10. Rufus, b. March 27, 1807. 11. Mary.\\n12. Erastus, b. Dec. 16, 1811. 13. Charlotte, b. May, 1818.\\nSarah Wilkins d. Feb. 16, 1826, aged 55. Jonathan Wilkins, Esq.,\\nmany years deacon of the First Church, d. March 9, 1830, aged 75.\\nThomas Wilson,\\nMarried Mary Hall. Their children were\\n1. Molly, b. July 23, 1772; d. Jan., 1849. 2. Elizabeth, b. July 24,\\n1779. 3. Rebecca, b. April 4, 1782. 4. Ruth, b. Nov. 20, 1783 d. Nov.\\n27, 1789. 5. Thomas, b. Nov. 1, 1786. 6. Ruth, b. Nov. 27, 1791; d.\\nMarch, 1844.\\nMary Wilson died Jan. 7, 1796. Thomas Wilson d. May 23, 1818, in\\nthe 73d year of his age.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0787.jp2"}, "766": {"fulltext": "718 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nNo. 5.\\nPROFESSIONAL HISTORY.\\nLAWYERS.\\nNames of Laavters who have practised in Concord, arranged in the order of\\ntheir graduation or of entering tlie profession, with brief notices, more par-\\nticularly of those who have deceased.\\n.?Vote._Tlie author regrets that the limits of this History do not admit of his giving\u00e2\u0080\u0094 as he\\nhas the means of doing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 more full notices of professional men but the names of most of\\nthose who have been any considerable time residents in Concord are found already In the\\nbody of this work. Their actual connection with the history of Concord may be seen by\\nreference to their names in the Index, in the List of Officers, and in many cases in the record\\nof families.\\nI. Peter Green, son of Nathaniel Green, born in Worcester, Mass.,\\n1746; opened an office hi Concord, 1767. He was chosen State Councillor\\nin 1788 and 1789. See pp. 272-3, and Officers. He died March 27,\\n1798, aged 52.\\nH. Edward St. Loe Litermore, son of Hon. Samuel Livermore, born\\nin Londonderry, 1761, entered upon his profession in Concord, 1783 So-\\nlicitor for Rockingham County, 1791-3; Judge in the Superior Court of\\nJudicature, 1797-1799 then resided at Portsmouth. He was also Mem-\\nber of Congress from Massachusetts. His first wife was Mehetabel, daugh-\\nter of Robert Harris, of Concord his second Avife a Miss Stackpole, of\\nBoston, by whom he had children. He was the father of the celebrated\\nHarriet Livermore, born in Concord, April 14, 1788. He died at Tewks-\\nbury, Ms., Sept. 15, 1832, aged 71.\\nHL Thomas W. Thompson, son of Dea. Thomas Thompson, of Boston,\\nborn March 10, 1766; graduated at H. U. 1786; was tutor in College,\\n1789 Aid to Gen. Lincoln at the time of Shays Rebellion commenced\\nthe practice of law at SaUslniry, 1791; Representative from that town in\\nthe State Legislature; chosen Representative to Congress 1805-1807. In\\n1810, Treasurer of the State, when he moved to Concord. Speaker of the\\nHouse in the State Legislature, 1813 and 1814 Senator in Congress, 1814-\\n1817 elected Trustee of Dartmouth College in 1801, Avhich office he held\\ntill his death. Mr. Thompson was an accomplished gentleman, distinguish-\\ned for the dignitv and urbanity of his manners, for integrity and piety. He\\nheld the office of Deacon in the First Church in Concord, from 1818 till\\nhis death. He died of pulmonary consumption, Oct. 10, 1821, aged 55 years.\\nIV. Arthur Livermore, Judge, brother of Edward St. Loe Livermore,\\nopened an office in Concord in 1792 soon moved to Chester thence to\\nHolderness, to which place his history properly belongs. He died July,\\n1853, aged 87 years.\\nV. Charles Walker, [See List of Graduates.]\\nVI. Samuer Green, Judge, son of Nathaniel Green, born March 7,\\n1770, read law in the office of his brother, Peter Green, Esq. commenced\\npractice in Concord, 1793 Associate Justice of the Superior Court from\\n1819 to 1840, when he retired on account of the constitutional limit of age.\\nHe was then appomted to a clerkslup at Washuigton, where he continued", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0788.jp2"}, "767": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 719\\ntill his death, March, 1851, aged 81 years. Judge Green was a lame man\\nwas distinguished for industry and sound judgment. Pie built what was\\nafterwards known as the Kent Place, and owned about sixty acres of\\nland on the hill west of Spring street.\\nVII. Arthur Rogers, son of Maj. Robert Rogers, opened an office in\\nConcord, 1793, but remained here in practice only a short time. Residing\\nin different places till the death of Capt. Roach, in 1811, he returned to\\nConcord, and was under guardianship at first of Lewis Downing, and\\nthen of Isaac Hill. He died not long after leaving Concord, at Portsmouth,\\nin 1841. [.Yote. On ])age 351 it is said that the maiden name of liobert\\nRogers wife was Elizabeth Furness. This is a mistake, ^firthur Rogers\\nmarried Ehzabeth Furness, and his mother M as a Brown, and daughter of\\nRev. Arthur Brown, of Portsmouth.]\\nVIII. Philip Carrigaix. [See Biography, p. 596.]\\nIX. Moses Eastman, a graduate of D. C, 1794; came from Sahsbury\\nto Concord about 1826 was Clerk of the Courts in Merrimack County till\\n1834. He then retm-ned to Sahsbury, where he died, 1848.\\nX. William Pickering, a native of Greenland grad. of H. C, 1797\\neducated for the law Deputy Secretary, and Avas State Treasurer about\\n12 years previous to 1828, during which time he resided in Concord mar-\\nried Susan B., daughter of Charles Walker, Esq. Returning to Green-\\nland he was Representative to the General Court, and Collector of Customs\\nat Portsmouth. He died in 1850.\\nXL Moody Kent, son of Joseph Kent, was born in Xewburv, Mass.,\\nMay 22, 1779; graduated at H. C, 1801; admitted to the bar in 1804;\\npractised in Deerfield nearly five years came to Concord in September,\\n1809, where he remained in practice till 1832, when he withdrew from bu-\\nsiness.\\nXII. Isaac Gates, graduated at H. C, 1802 was in Concord a short\\ntime in 1814; died in Harvard, Mass., in November, 1852.\\nXni. Samuel A. Kimball. [See Graduates.]\\nXIV. ^Matthew Har \\\\t-Y, son of Matthew Harvey, of Sutton, graduate\\nof D. C, 1806; commenced practice in Hopkinton Governor of the State\\nin 1830; District Judge of the United States. Although Concord has had\\nthe honor of his residence since 1850, his history belongs to Hopkinton.\\nXV. Lyman B. Walker, from Gilford, while Attorney-General of the\\nState, from 1843 to resided in Concord.\\nXVI. Moses H. Bradley. [See Graduates.]\\nXVII. Samuel Fletcher, born in Plymouth, July 31, 1785; graduated\\nat D. C, 1810; opened an office in Concord, 1815; Trustee of Dartmouth\\nCollege Trustee and Treasurer of Philijjs Academy and Theological Sem-\\ninary, at Andover, from 1841 to 1850, when he resided there. His health\\ndeclining, he returned to Concord, where he still resides.\\nXVIII. John Whipple, born in Hamilton, Mass. graduate of D. C. in\\n1812; commenced practice in the eastern part of Dunbarton, (now Hook-\\nsett,) 1817 came to Concord in 1833, since which time he held the office\\nof Register of Deeds for Merrimack County, 1833 to 1836 Sohcitor of\\nthe County from 1836 to 1843; Deputy Secretary, and for several years\\npast Treasurer of the N, E. Mutual Fire Lisurance Company.\\nXIX. Amos A. Paricer, born in FitzAvilliam, graduated at Burhngton", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0789.jp2"}, "768": {"fulltext": "720 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nCollege, 1813 came to Concord in 1823, and commenced and conducted\\nthe Ne\\\\v-IIami)shire Statesman. He now resides in his native town.\\nXX. Geokge Kent. [See Graduates.]\\nXXI. RiciiAKD Bartlett. [See Graduates.]\\nXXII. Samuel D. Bell, Judge, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, of Chester,\\nhad an office in Concord, 1838 and 1839, whence he removed to Manches-\\nter, where he still resides, and to which place his history belongs.\\nXXIIL Natilaniel P. Rogers, born in Plymouth, June 3, 1794; grad-\\nuated at D. C, 1816 though educated a lawyer he is known to Concord\\nonly as the editor of Herald of Freedom. He came to this town 1838,\\nwhere he remained till his death, Oct. 16, 1846. In 1840 he visited Eu-\\nrope, to attend the World s Anti-Slavery Convention. He was an earnest\\nand poAvcrful writer in support of abolition j)rinciplcs, as his articles in the\\nHerald of Freedom evince. Unfortunately, he became alienated from the\\nchurch of which he was a member, and avowed opinions adverse to _ the\\nreceived doctrines of Christianity. According to his directions, no minis-\\nter of the gospel attended his funeral. He was buried in the old burying-\\no-round in Concord. His grave is without a monument.\\nXXIV. WiLLLVM T. Heydock, practised in Concord a short time in\\n1829. Died at Hanover, 1835.\\nXXV. Nathaniel G. Upham, son of Hon. Nathaniel Upham, of Ro-\\nchester, and grandson of Rev. Timothy Upham, of Deerfield, graduated at\\nD. C. 1820 admitted to the bar in Straflbrd County opened an office in\\nBristol, whence he came to this town, 1829 from 1833 to 1843 one of the\\nJustices of the Superior Court; a member of the Constitutional Conven-\\ntion, 1850 Commissioner to London, 1853, for adjustment of claims be-\\ntween citizens of the United States and Great Britain, against the govern-\\nment of either country. Since his resignation of the office of Justice of\\nthe Superior Court, he has been General Agent of the Concord Railroad.\\nXXVI. WiLLL\\\\M C. Thompson. See Graduates.\\nXXVII. Stephen C. Badger, a native of Warner, born April 12, 1797;\\ngraduated at 1). C, 1823; admitted to the Bar, 1826; came to Concord\\nfrom New-London, 1833 Clerk of the Courts of Merrimack County from\\n1834 to 1846; PoHce Magistrate several years previous to the adoption of\\nthe City charter, and a practical and scientific Engineer.\\nXXVHI. Henry A. Bellows, born at Walpole, Oct. 25, 1803; admit-\\nted to the Bar, 1826. After practising at Walpole two years and at Little-\\nton from 1828 to 1850, he came to Concord, and is in practice.\\nXXIX. William W. Stickney, a native of Enfield graduated at D.\\nC. 1823 opened an office in Concord, 1826; next year removed to New-\\nMarket.\\nXXX. James Whittle, from Weare, studied law with Samuel Fletcher,\\nEsq., and opened an office in 1827, but soon left.\\nXXXI. Ralph Metcalf, Governor of the State, 1855 born in Charles-\\ntown, Nov. 21, 1798, graduated at D. C, 1823 came to Concord, as_ Secre-\\ntary of State, in 1831, where he remained seven years. He resides in\\nNewport, to which place his history properly belongs.\\nXXXH. iRA Perley, appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of\\nNew-Hampshire, 1855; born in Boxford, Mass., Nov. 9, 1799; graduated,\\nD. C, 1822 tutor from 1823 to 1825 admitted to the bar, 1827, and", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0790.jp2"}, "769": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 721\\nopened an office in Hanover treasurer of the College, 1830 to 1835.\\nCame to Concord, 1834 was a Justice in the Superior Court of New-\\nHampshire from July, ISoO, to October, lSo2, when he resigned. Mr.\\nPcrley delivered an Eulogy on Daniel Webster, before the Executive and\\nLegislative Depai tments of New-Hampshire, Dec. 22, 1852, which was\\npubUshcd.\\nXXXIII. William G. Webster, born at Plymouth, Aug. 20, 1800;\\ngraduated at I). C, 1822 read law with Samuel Fletcher, Esq. practiced\\nat New-Hampton, llochester and Concord. He died at Plymouth, June\\n14, 1839, aged 39.\\nXXXIV. Charles H. Peaslee, son of AVilliam Peaslee, born at Gil-\\nmanton, Feb. G, 1804 graduated at D. C, 1824 opened an office in Con-\\ncord, 1828. He has held numerous and important offices Adjutant and\\nInspector-General of the Militia of New-Hampshire from 1839 to 1847\\nRepresentative in Congress six years, from 1847 to 1853; Trustee of the\\nNew-Hampshire Asylum for the Insane an institution he was particularly\\ninstrumental in establishing Director of the Concord Railroad, the charter\\nof which he took an efficient part in procuring and Collector of the Port of\\nBoston and Charlestown, Mass., April 1, 1853, which office he still holds.\\nXXXV. Fuaxklin Pierce, President of the United States; son of\\nGov. Benjamin Pierce, of Hillsborough born Nov. 23, 1804 graduated\\nat Bowdoin College, 1824; admitted to the bar, and practiced law in his\\nnative town from 1827 to 1838, when he came to Concord; was Repre-\\nsentative in Congress from 1833 to 1837 Senator from 1837 to 1842 Avas\\nBrigadier General in the ^lexican war, 1847; elected President of the\\nUnited States in November, 1852.\\nXXXVI. David Pillsbury, born in Raymond, whence his father soon\\nremoved to Candia; a graduate of D. C, 1827 practiced law in Chester\\nfrom 1830 to 1854, when he opened an office in Concord. Several years\\nwas a Major-General in the New-Hampshire Militia.\\nXXXVII. Ira A. Eastmax, Judge, son of Stephen Eastman, of Gilman-\\nton, born Jan. 1, 1809 graduated at D. C, 1829 came to Concord in\\n1853. His history belongs to Gilmanton.\\nXXXVIII. Hamilton Hutchixs. [Sec Graduates.]\\nXXXIX. George Mixot, l)orn in Bristol; graduated at D. C, 1828;\\nadmitted to the bar, 1831 practiced in his profession at Gilmanton, Bris-\\ntol and Concord. He is cashier of the Mechanics Bank, and United States\\nPension Agent for New-Hampshire.\\nXL. Calvix Aixswortii, a native of Littleton, born Aug. 22, 1807\\nadmitted to the bar, 1835 came to Concord from Littleton, 1843 Rco-is-\\nter of Probate for Merrimack County five years, and first Pohce Justice of\\nthe city of Concord, 1853.\\nXLI. Ephraim Eatox, a native of Candia; graduated at D. C, 1833;\\nstudied law with Samuel Fletcher, Esq., and opened an office in Concord!\\n1837, where he continued in business until 1853, when he relinquished the\\npractice of law and moved to Troy, N. Y.\\nXLII. Asa Fowler, appointed one of the Justices of the Supreme\\nCourt of New-Hampshire, 1855; born in Pembroke, Feb. 23, 1811 o-rad-\\nuated at D. C, 1833 admitted to the bar and opened an office in Concord\\n1837. Clerk of the New-Ham]ishire Senate from 1835 to 1840. From\\n1838 to 1845 in company with President Pierce, under the firm of Pierce\\nFowler. [See To\\\\n\\\\ Officers.\\n46", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0791.jp2"}, "770": {"fulltext": "lIZ HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nXLIII. Arthur Fletcher, a native of Bridgewator graduate of Yale\\nCollege, l.S;3G; admitted to practice in Concord, 1840; Avas^ principally\\noccupied for two years afterwards in winding up the aftaii S of the Concord\\nBank, and has ever since practiced law in Concord.\\nXLIV. William Butterfield, a native of Goffstown born Sept. 18,\\nISlo graduated at D. C, 1836 educated for the law, which he practiced\\nawhile in Lucas Co., Ohio, and in Gilmanton, X. H., but since 1846 editor\\nof the Xew Hampshire Patriot.\\nXLV. JosLUl MixOT, son of James Minot, of Bristol gi-aduated at\\nD. C, 1837 admitted to the bar, 1840; practiced at Bristol and Concord;\\nwas appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, September, 1852, but\\nresigned March, ISoo, on receiving the aj)pointment of Commissioner of\\nPensions, at Washington.\\nXLVI. George G. Fogg, son of David Fogg, born in Meredith, May\\n26, 1815 graduated at I). C, 1839 studied laM and admitted to practice\\nin Gilmanton, 1842; came to Concord as Secretary of State in 1846, and\\nsince editor and proprietor of the Independent Democrat.\\nXL VII. Stla-ester Dana, a native of Orford son of Rev. Sylvester\\nDana; graduated at D. C, 1839; studied law with Pierce Fowler,\\nConcord, and at the Dane School of Harvard College; admitted to the\\nbar, 1842, and soon after opened an office in Concord, where he still resides.\\nXLVIII. Nathaniel B. Baicer. [See Graduates.]\\nXLIX. X^eiiemiah Butler, born at Pclham, Feb. 22, 1824; studied law\\nwith Asa Fowler, Esq., of Concord, and at the Law School in Harvard\\nUniversitv commenced practice at Fishcrville, 1843 was appointed clerk\\nof the Superior Court and Court of Common Pleas for the county of Mer-\\nrimack, and removed to Concord, 1852.\\nL. Abel Herbert Bellows, son of Abel Bellows, born ^lay 28, 1821,\\nin the citv of London, England, during a foreign tour of his parents grad-\\nuated at Harvard College in 1842 admitted to the bar and practiced in\\nKeene fi-om 1845 to 1849 then made a tour in Europe, Asia and Africa;\\ncame to Concord in 1850, and is associated in business with H. A. Bel-\\nlows, Esq.\\nLI. William Lawrence Foster, son of John Foster, born in West-\\nminster, Vt., June 1, 1824; fitted for College; read law with Le^i Cham-\\nberlain, Esq., of Keene ])racticed law in Keene from 1845 to 1851 Clerk\\nof the Senate 1851 and 1852; came to Concord, and continued the prac-\\ntice of law in connection with John H. George, Esq. In March, 1853, he\\nwas appointed Pteporter of Decisions of the Superior Court.\\nLII. John Hatch George, son of John George, born in Concord, X ov.\\n20, 1822; entered Dartmouth College in 1840; left at the end of three\\nvears studied law with Pierce Fowler and Charles H. Peaslee admit-\\nted to the bar, 1846; Clerk of the Senate, 1847, 1848 and 1850; County\\nSolicitor, 1849 and 1854; United States Attorney for the District of New-\\nHampshire, 1853.\\nLHI. Lyman D. Stevens, bom in Piermont, Sept. 20, 1821 graduated\\nat I). C, 1843 studied law with Ira Perley, Esq., and opened an office in\\nConcord in 1847.\\nLIV, Lyman T. Flint, born at Williamsto^^ii, Vt., Sept. 29, 1817;\\ngraduated at D. C, 1842 admitted to the bar, 1847, at Lancaster; prac-\\nticed at Colebrook until 1854, when he came to this city.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0792.jp2"}, "771": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 723\\nLV. Amos Hadlfa born m Dunharton, ]May 14, 1825 graduated at\\nD. C, 1844. Studied law and admitted to practice in 1848, but has de-\\nvoted his time chiefly to teaching, and to the editorship, since 1853, of the\\nState Capital Reporter, of which he was joint publisher with lion. Cyrus\\nBarton.*\\nLVI. Jesse Augustus Gove, born in Weare, Dec. 5, 1824; entered\\nNorwich University, 1844; lieutenant in the ninth regiment of U. S. Li-\\nfantry, in tlie war with Mexico, 1847 and 1848 came to Concord in Sept.,\\n1848; studied law, and admitted to the bar, 1851 was Deputy Secretary\\nof State in 1850 to 1855 and under act of Congress, March 3, 1855, for\\nincreasing the army, was appointed Captain in the tenth regiment of In-\\nfantry Riflemen.\\nLVII. Francis B. Peabody, born in Milford, Oct. 27, 1827 gradu-\\nated at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1848; studied law and admitted\\nto practice in Hillsborough, 1851; came to Concord in 1852, and opened\\nan office in connection with Hon. N. B. Baker.\\nLVIII. Sidney Webster, son of Caleb Webster, born at Gilmanton,\\nMay 28, 1827 graduated at Yale College, 1848; admitted to the bar, 1851,\\nand went into business in Concord with John H. George, Esq. On the\\nelection of Gen. FrankHn Pierce to the Presidency, Mr, Webster became\\nhis private secretary.\\nLIX. William H. Bartlett, son of Samuel C. Bartlett, born in Salis-\\nbury, Aug. 20, 1827; graduated at D. C, 1847; studied law with Hon. Ira\\nPerley and H. A. Bellows; opened an office in Concord, 1851; City Solic-\\nitor in 1853 and 1854.\\nLX. Anson S. Marsh.axl, born in Lyme, Dec. 3, 1824; graduated at\\nD. C, 1848; studied law with Pierce Minot; opened an oflSce in Con-\\ncord, 1852, and formed a connection in business with Henry P. Rolfe, Esq.\\nLXI. Henry P. Rolfe, son of Benjamin Rolfe, born in Boscawen,\\nFeb. 12, 1823; graduated at D. C. in 1848; commenced the practice of\\nlaw in Concord in 1851, and in March, 1853, became associated with\\nAnson S. Marshall, Esq., under the firm of Rolfe Marshall.\\nLXII. Amos S. Alexander, born at Lowell, Mass., May 24, 1829;\\nopened an oflice at Fisherville, in Concord, 1853.\\nLXIII. John Y. Mugridge, born at Meredith Bridge, April 18, 1832;\\nfitted for College at Gilford Academy studied Law with Col. Thomas J.\\nWhipple, of Meredith, and with Asa Fowler, Esq., of Concord opened\\nan oflice in this city, 1854, in connection with Asa Fowler, which continued\\ntill the latter was appointed Judge.\\nLXIV. William F. Goodwin, born in Limington, Me., Sept. 22, 1827\\ngraduated at B. C, 1848, and at the Law School in H. U., 1854, and open-\\ned an office in Concord, 1855.\\n*Col. Barton died very suddenly while engaged in a public debate in the town house at\\nLoudon, Feb. 18, 1855, aged 59.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0793.jp2"}, "772": {"fulltext": "24 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nPHYSICIANS.\\nBrief Biograi-hical Notices of Physicians in Concord, in the order in\\nwhich they severally commenced practice in town.\\nFor many particulars in this article I am indebted to Biographical Notices of Physicians,\\nprepared by Urs. William Piescott and Thomas Chadbourne, of Concord, published in N. H.\\nRepository 1840, vol. 11., Nos. 1 and 2.\\nI. Dr. Ezra Carter was the first regular physician in Penacook of whom\\nwe have any account. See Biography, pp. 553-ij.\\nII. A Dr. Emery resided here a short time, and moved to Fryeburg, Me.\\nIII. Dr. Erexezer H.\\\\js DER Goss, of Bolton, !Mass., settled in Concord\\nabout 1770, and married a daughter of llev. Timothy Walker. He lived\\nat the north end of Mam street, where Mr. Charles Smart resides set out\\nthe elm trees before the house held important olfices in town [see List\\nof Officers] was surgeon in the army under Gen. Stark a man of eccen-\\ntric habits tall, and of strongly marked features. He moved to Bruns-\\nwick, ]Mc., where he died at an advanced age.\\nIV. Dr. PlllLir MacCarrigain, of Scotch descent, born in the city of\\nNew-York, 174:6 studied medicine in Haverliill, Mass. came to Concord,\\n1768 died Aug., 1806. He married a daughter of the late Thomas\\nClough, Esq., of Canterbury. Dr. Carrigain had an extensive practice, and\\nwas famous for surgical skill, of which we have given two specimens one,\\nin chopping off a finger of Benjamin Rolfc with a chisel and mallet; and\\nthe other, saving off a leg of liichard Potter. See pp. 283, 306. He\\nlived in the house now owned by ]\\\\Ir. Charles H. Stearns, and kept an\\napothecary store, Avith other things. Being suspicious that his sons who\\ntended the store did not always make a full return of money received, but\\nwithout sufficient proof to charge either of them with dishonesty, he called\\nthem before him one morning and said, Boys, in passing Horse-shoe pond\\nlast night, I heard voices saying, Who is the rogue who is the rogue\\nOne said, Philip Philip Another said, 0-ba-di-ah 0-ba-di-ah\\nIn his practice Dr. Carrigain rode horseback. He was very polite, and\\nwhen he met any one, even a child, would jjull off his hat, and waving it in\\nhis hand, make a low bow.\\nV. Dr. Peter Green came to Concord in 1772. See notice in Dr.\\nGreen s Family.\\nVI. Dr. Samuel Adams, from Lincoln, Mass., was a resident in Concord\\nabout 1796; moved to Wiscasset thence to Boston; and to Cincinnati,\\nwhere he died at an advanced age.\\nVII. Dr. G. Gridley was in Concord about 1798; married a daughter\\nof the late David George, Esq. He moved to Newburyport, and thence to\\nCondor, Tioga Co., N. Y. He Avas celebrated for his successful treatment of\\nthe indolent ulcer, or sore legs, for which he used what is called\\nGridley s Plaster.\\nVIII. Dr. Zadok Howe, from FrankHn, Mass., was in practice in Con-\\ncord about twelve years prior to 1814, Avhen he rehnquished his business to\\nhis partner. Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, and moved to 13oston, and thence to\\nBillerica. He was distinguished for scientific skill.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0794.jp2"}, "773": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 725\\nIX. Dr. Thomas Ciiadbourne, son of the late Dr. William Chadboiirnc,\\nof Conway, came to Concord, 1814; married a daughter of Dr. Peter\\nGreen, and is now the oldest practicing jjhysician in Concord received his\\nmedical degree at Dartmouth College, 1813 is an honorary member of\\nvarious medical societies attended the World s Fair in London, and was\\none of the Jurors. lie resides on the spot where was the garrison house\\nof Edward Abbot.\\nX. Dr. Benjamin Pakker, from Bradford, Mass., was m Concord a\\nshort time not far from 1818. He Hved in a house on Pleasant street,\\nafterwards owned by Samuel Fletcher, Esq., where the new Baptist church\\nstands.\\nXI. Dr. Alexander Ramsey, a native of Scotland, delivered lectures\\non Anatomy and Ph^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2siolog}\u00e2\u0096\u00a0 in Concord, and other places in New Hamp-\\nshire, from 1808 to 1823, He died at Parsonsfield, Me., 1824.\\nXII. Dr. Moses Long, a native of Ilopkinton, N. H., commenced prac-\\ntice in Concord, East ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0illage, in 1813. He moved from Concord, 1824\\npracticed three or four years in Ilopkinton and Goffstown went to Warner,\\nand thence to Rochester, X. Y., where he still resides. He has been ex-\\ntensively engaged in the construction of a superior kind of bridges, the in-\\nvention of his brother. Col. Long.\\nXIII. Dr. Henry Bond, was a native of Livermorc, Me. graduated at\\nDartmouth College, 1813 was tutor, 1815 received his medical degree in\\n1817. He practiced in Concord from 1S16 until 1820, highly respected\\nand useful, when he removed to Philadelphia.\\nXrV. Dr. Moses Chandler, a native of Fryeburg, Me., commenced\\npractice in Concord, 181G; was a surgeon on board of a ])rivateer that\\nsailed out of Portsmouth in 1813. He Avas a tall, stout, athletic man, and\\ndevoted to his profession. He died of dysentery, Sept. 2, 182.3, after a\\nshort and most distressing sickness was ])uried with masonic honors, and a\\nhandsome marble stone marks the place of his interment in the old bury-\\ning-ground.\\nXV. Dr. Peter Renton, came from Scotland and settled in Concord,\\n1822. His practice soon became very extensive, both in Concord and\\nneighboring toA\\\\iis. He Hved in the house where Dr. William Prescott\\nnow lives. In connection with Mr. John Jarvis, he built the brick factory\\nmill in the West village of Concord, at a cost of about .f 12,000, designing\\nit for a flour mill, which considerably embarrassed him. Dr. Renton mar-\\nried in Scotland had two sons, John and George, and a daughter, Christi-\\nana, born in Concord, and still hving. A brother and sister, also from\\nScotland, were with him while here. He removed to Boston in 1843 or\\n1844, where he has an extensive and lucrative practice.\\nXVI. Dr. Samuel Morril, a brother of Hon. David L. Morril, came\\nto Concord, 1819, from Epsom, where he had practiced nineteen years, and\\nheld important offices. In 1826 he received the honorary degree of M. D.\\nfrom Dartmouth College was appointed Justice of the Court of Sessions\\nfor the County of Rockingham, 1821 Register of Deeds for the Coimty of\\nMerrimack, 1823, which he held till 1828, when he was elected State Treas-\\nurer. In 1829 he was chosen Treasurer of the X. H. Branch Education\\nSociety in 1830, Treasvu-er of the New Hampshire Savings Bank, which\\noffice he still holds and in 1837 was chosen deacon of the First Congre-\\ngational church in Concord.\\nXVII. Dr. Richard Russell, resided in Concord about three years pre-", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0795.jp2"}, "774": {"fulltext": "726 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nvious to 1824, but spent most of his life in practice in Wakefield and Som-\\nersworth, at which latter place he died, May 22, 1855, aged about 70.\\nXVIII. Dr. Elijah Colby, son of Isaac Colby, of Hopkinton, N. H.,\\nborn June 18, 1798 graduated at the Medical College in Hanover, 1823,\\nand the same year commenced practice in the East village of Concord. He\\nmarried Susaii Eastman, grand-daughter of Jonathan Eastman, Esq., Oc-\\ntober 27, 1828. In April, 1838, he moved to New Bedford, Mass., where\\nhe still resides.\\nXIX. Dr. Ezra Carter, was son of Timothy Carter, Esq., of Concord,\\nWest Parish. [See Descendants of Rev. Timothy Walker, and Toivn\\nOfficers. He received the medical degree of M. D. at Bowdoin College,\\nin 1824; commenced practice in 1825, in his native town; next year he\\nremoved to Loudon returned to Concord in 1828, where he has remained\\nin large practice till the present time. Representative in 1836 and 1837.\\nHe was commissioned justice of the peace in 1837 in 1844 and 1845 was\\nPresident of the Centre District ]\\\\Iedical Society, and in 1852 President of\\nthe Xew-llampshire Medical Society.\\nXX. Dr. Josiah Crosby, now of Manchester, came to Concord in 1825,\\nfrom Epsom, and remained here in good practice till 1828. He was a son\\nof Dr. Asa Crosby, formerly of Gilmanton. His history properly belongs\\nto Manchester, where he is distinguished by an extensive and successful\\npractice.\\nXXI. Dr. Edward B. Moore, of Lancaster, practiced in Concord about\\nsix months, in 1828 thence removed to Epping.\\nXXII. Dr. Joseph Reynolds, son of Rev. Freegrace Reynolds, of Wil-\\nmington, Mass., came to Concord in 1828; removed to Chester in 1831,\\nthence to Gloucester, Mass. While in Concord he was two years Secretary\\nof the N. H. Colonization Society.\\nXXIII. Dr. Nathaniel Wheat, came from Candia to Concord in 1834,\\nand remained till 1837.\\nXXrV. Dr. Josiah Kittredge, a native of Mont-Vernon, N. H., com-\\nmenced practice in Pembroke, 1819 moved to Boston, 1833 came to\\nConcord, 1837, where, remaining a year or two, he moved to Nashua, where\\nhe still resides.\\nXXV. Dr. Robert Lane, of Sutton, came to Concord about 1837, but\\nremained only a short time. His daughter married Geo. W. Ela, Esq.\\nXXVI. Dr. Thomas Brow^n, a native of Andover, N. IL, practiced in\\nDeerfield was in practice in Concord from 1831 till 1837, when he went\\nto Cambridge, ]\\\\Iass. He afterwards settled in Manchester, where he be-\\ncame widely known for his exertions in the cause of temperance. He died\\nsuddenly of cholera, in 1849.\\nXXVII. Dr. Moses Thompson Willard, son of Moses F. Willard,\\nhalf-brother of Ca])t. Benjamin Parker, was born in Bow, 1806 graduated\\nat the ^Icdical College in Hanover, 1835, and commenced the practice of\\ndentistry in Concord, where he continues to reside.\\nXXVIII. Dr. Timothy Haynes, a native of Alexandria, N. H., born\\nSept. 5, 1810 took his medical degree at the Jefferson Medical College in\\nPhiladelphia, 1836, and immediately after commenced the jjractice of med-\\nicine and surgery in Concord, where he still resides. A large number of\\nindividuals have pursued their professional studies tmder his instruction.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0796.jp2"}, "775": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 727\\nXXIX. Dr. Charles Pinckney Gagt-% horn in Hopkinton, April 5.\\n1811; took his degree at the Medical Collefyc in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1837,\\nand remained in that city a year, when he came to Concord, where he still\\nresides in extensive practice. In 184(5 he was a delegate to form the\\nAmerican Medical Association, in New-York, of which he is a member.\\nXXX. Dr. Heniiy O. Stone, from Salem, Mass., had an office in Con-\\ncord in 1845, and remained four or five years.\\nXXXI. Dr. Daniel J. Hoyt, son of Daniel N. Hoyt, who formerly\\nkept the Washington House, at the north end in Concord, studied medi-\\ncine with Dr. Peter Kenton, and commenced practice in Concord in 1840\\nnext year he removed to Manchester, where he died, July 13, 1847, but\\nwas buried in the old burying-ground in Concord, where a handsome mon-\\nument is erected to his memory.\\nXXXII. Dr. Isaac Colby, son of Isaac Colby, and cousin of Dr. Elijah\\nC, born in Hopkinton, Aug. 6, 1793, came to Concord in the fall of 1839,\\nand remained about one year and a half. He then moved to Keene, and\\nin 1844 to Salem, Mass. In 1854 he returned to Concord.\\nXXXIII. Dr. MIOSES Carter, son of Jacob Carter, of Concord, [see\\nCarter Family, entered on the practice of medicine in Newbury, Mass.,\\n1811. During the last Avar with Great Britain he was a surgeon on board\\nthree different vessels, and was twice captured and carried into British\\nports. After the war he practiced in Salisbury and Amesbury, ]SIass.\\ncame to Concord, in poor health, 1842. He had a large experience in\\nsmall-pox, and was usually employed as town physician for persons in that\\ndisease. He resided in Concord till 1854, when he moved to Sanbornton-\\nBridge.\\nXXXrV. Dr. JoNATiLVN C. pRESCOTT, bom at Sanbornton, June 11,\\n1795, came to Concord from Pittsiicld, in 1843 he died, after a most dis-\\ntressing sickness of disease of the kidneys, Feb. 13, 1844, in the 49th year\\nof his age. He was buried at Pittsfield. At his funeral the Pev. Jonathan\\nCurtice, his former pastor, preached a sermon from Col. 4 14, The be-\\nloved physician.\\nXXXV. Dr. Ebenezer G. Moore, a native of Dorchester, N. H., 1797,\\nhaving practiced in Tamworth and in Wells, Me., came to Concord in 1844,\\nwhere he still continues in good practice.\\nXXXVI. Dr. George Chandler, came to Concord from Worcester,\\nMass., in October, 1842, as the first Su])crintendent of the New-Hampshire\\nAsylum for the Insane, and continued in chargij of that institution until\\n1845, Avhen he was appointed Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital\\nof Massachusetts.\\nXXXVII. Dr. WlLLL\\\\M D. Buck, a native of Williamstown, Vt., a grad-\\nuate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New-York city, opened\\nan office in Concord in company with Dr. Thomas Chadbourne, in 1842.\\nIn 1845-G spent a year in Europe, and in the fall of 1846 went into prac-\\ntice in Manchester thence, in 1850, to San Francisco, Cal. He returned\\nthe next year to Manchester, where he still abides in practice.\\nXXXVIII. Dr. Benjamin H. Tripp, born in Oxford county, ]Me., Nov.\\n25, 1815 commenced practice in Londonderry at the age of 23. Came\\nto Concord in 1843. He paid particular attention in his practice to cuta-\\nneous diseases. He left Concord in 1849.\\nXXXIX. Dr. William Prescott, born in Sanbornton, Dec. 29, 1788;", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0797.jp2"}, "776": {"fulltext": "728 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nreceived his medical degi ee at Hanover, in 1815. He practiced in Gil-\\nmanton about eighteen years then in Lynn, Mass., about thirteen years.\\nHaving sustained numerous useful and important offices in those places, he\\ncame to Concord in 184o, where he still resides. For many years Dr.\\nPrescott has turned his attention to literary and scientific pursuits partic-\\nidarly to Natural History. lie has one of the most valuable and extensive\\nprivate cabinets in natural history, geology, antiquities, and other curiosi-\\nties, in NeAv-England containing more than ten thousand s];ecimens. He\\nwas the principal founder of the Concord Society of Natural History, and\\nfor many years its President.\\nXL. Dr. Moore Russell Fletcher, a native of Campton, born Jan.\\n17, 1811, and nephew of Samuel Fletcher, Esq., of Concord, with whom\\nhe resided in his youth. Pursuing his preparatory and ])rofessional studies\\nunder great pecuniary embarrassments, he took his medical diploma at\\nBowdoin College, 1836, and opened an office in Boston. In 1838 he\\ninvented the Fletcher Truss. In 1840 he married Anne Catherine,\\ndaughter of Hon. James AUanshaw, of the Province of New Brunswick,\\nwhere he resided about five years, and in the fall of 1845 opened an office in\\nConcord. Here he remained two years, and now resides in Camljridge, Ms.\\nXLI. Dr. Andrew ]\\\\IcFarland, son of Asa ]McFarland, I). I)., of Con-\\ncord, born July 17, 1817, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Dixi\\nCrosby, then of Gilmanton begun practice in Sandwich, 1838; received a\\nmedical di])loma from Dartmouth College, 1840 and from Jetierson Medi-\\ncal College, Philadelphia, 1843 practiced about two years at Meredith\\nBridge, and was appointed superintendant and physician of the New Hamp-\\nshire Asylum for the Insane in August, 1845. In 1850 he made a tour in\\nEusope, and after his return pubhshed an entertaining volume, called The\\nEscape. Dr. McF. resigned his office at the asylum in 1852, and in 1854\\nwas appohited Superintendent of the State Lunatic Hospital of Illinois, at\\nJacksonville.\\nXLII. Dr. James F. Sargext, born in Warner, July 4, 1810; received\\nhis medical degree at Dartmouth practiced in Warner, Lowell, ]\\\\Iass.,\\nand Hopkinton, and came to Concord, 1847.\\nXIJII. Dr. ErnRAlM F. Wilson, son of Dr. Job Wilson, Iiorn in SaKs-\\nbury, Oct. 30, 1817 took his medical degree at Castleton, Vt. commenced\\npractice at Sanbornton, and came to Concord, East village, 1849; Avhence,\\nin 1854, he moved to Rockville, Conn.\\nXLr\\\\\\\\ Dr. Willl\\\\m H. Smart, son of the late Col. Benning Smart,\\nwas born in Hopkinton, April 8, 1810 commenced practice at Centre Har-\\nbor, 1839, and came to Concord, 1849, Mhere he remauis in practice.\\nXLV. Dr. Edward H. Parker, son of Isaac Parker, Esq., of Boston,\\nopened an office in Concord, 1850 removed to New York, wliere he prac-\\ntices, and is a professor in a medical college.\\nXLVI. Dr. ALniErs Morrill, a native of Canterbury, practiced some\\nyears in Ohio; came to Concord, 1849, and adopts the liomreopathic prac-\\ntice. Dr. Baker, from Loudon, is associated Avith him in his practice.\\nXLVIL Dr. Benjamin S. Warren, a native of Peacham, Vt. gradu-\\nated at the Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio came to Concord in 1849.\\nXLVIII. Dr. John Eugene Tyler, Superintendent of the New Hamp-\\nshire Asylum for the Insane, at Concord was born in Boston, Dec. 9,\\n1819; received a medical degree at Dartmouth College, in 1845, and at\\nPhiladelphia, in 1846, when he commenced the practice of medicine at", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0798.jp2"}, "777": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 729\\nSalmon Falls, He continued in that place till he Mas a^jpointed, in lSo2,\\nto the ofKce which he now fills.\\nXLIX. Dr. William VV. Fletcher, Dentist, born at Plymouth, 1S16;\\nstudied dentistry in Boston, 1839-40 came here in 1846, and remains in\\npractice.\\nL. Dr. Charles Bell, son of Hon. Samuel Bell, of Chester, opened an\\noffice in Concord, 1855, and is in practice.\\nBesides the foregoing physicians, the following were in Concord, in prac-\\ntice, or residents, a short time, but whose particular history is not known.\\nDr. Charles Herbert, died at Concord, 1816.\\nDr. Jonathan Badger, about 1812.\\nDr. John Brodhead, about 1821).\\nDr. Stephen Emery, 1843.\\nDr. Philip BR0^YN, Jr., 1843.\\nDr. John T. G. Leach, about 1832.\\nDr. John Henton, about 1843.\\nDr. Augustus Frank, Homoeo., 1843.\\nDr. D. S. Lyman, 1845.\\nDr. Jeremiah Gates, 1845.\\nDr. D. P. Wilson, Dentist, 1846.\\nDr. Luther Farley, 1847.\\nDr. mioses x\\\\tw ood, Homieo., 1849.\\nDr. Charles A. Davis, 1850, son of Robert Davis, 2d now at Hospi-\\ntal, Chelsea, Mass. See Graduates.\\nDr. S. LaFayette Simpson, a native of Concord, 1849 now at Con-\\ntoocookville.\\nDr. W. H. Hosmer, Fisherville, 1850.\\nDr. John AY. Little, Dentist, 1850.\\nDr. J. M. Graves, 1854-5.\\ngraduates at college from concord,\\nWITH BKIEF NOTICES.\\n[Arranged in the order of their graduation.]\\nI. Timothy Walker, A. SI., H. C, 1756. See Biography.\\nII. Stephen Scales, A. M., son of Rev. James Scales, born in Concord\\nOct. 16, 1741 H. C, 1763 settled in the practice of law at Chelmsford,\\n!Ms., and there died, Nov. 5, 1772. There, a tombstone erected to his me-\\nmory contains a Latin inscription, concluding with the following lines from\\nHorace\\nmi amice,\\nVitae summa brevis spcm nos,\\nVetat inchoare langam\\nJam et premit nox.\\nIH. John Coffin, A. M., Colonel, son of William Coffin, born Oct. 16,\\n1764; grad. D. C, 1791 for many years an instructor of youth; resided", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0799.jp2"}, "778": {"fulltext": "730 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nin the city of XeAV-York, a useful and respected citizen; died Dec. 27,\\n18o2, aged 87, and was buried in the old Inirying-ground in Concord.\\nrV. Charles Walker, A. M., son of Hon. Timothy Walker, born Sept,\\n25, 17G5 grad. H. C. 1789 was the first preceptor of the Aurean Acad-\\nemy at Amherst studied law with John Pickering, of Portsmouth set-\\ntled in the practice of lav; in his native town was appointed second Post-\\nmaster in this jilace, in 1801 Solicitor of Ptockingham County, lSOG-1808;\\nJustice throughout the State, 1830; was several years President of the\\nupper Concord Bank. He was averse to public oihce, and hved in much\\nretirement the latter years of his life. He died July 29, 1834, aged 68.\\nV. Paul Rolfe, A. M., grad. H. C, 1792. Settled as a farmer in Con-\\ncord. [See Biog. of Benj. Kolfe, pp. 555-6.\\nVI. Edmund Eastman, A. ^M., son of Benjamin, grad. at I). C. 1793\\n.some time a teacher in Concord settled in the ministry at Limerick, Me.,\\n1795, and died in 1812. During his ministry forty were added to the\\nchurch.\\nVII. Philip Carrigaix, grad. D. C, 1794. [See Biog., p. 596.\\nVIII. Samuel A. Bradley, A. M., son of Hon. John Bradley, born Xov.\\n22, 1774; grad. D. C. 1799; settled in the practice of law at Fryeburg,\\nMe. several years represented that toAvn hi the General Court of ]Massa-\\nchusetts afterwards moved to Portland was candidate for Member of\\nCongress a gentleman of noble appearance and dignified manners. He\\nnever married; died Sept. 24, 1844, aged 70 years.\\nIX. Xathan Kinsman, son of Xathan and Elizabeth Kinsman, born in\\nConcord, Xov. 14, 1777 graduated at D. C, 1799 settled in the practice\\nof law in Portland, about 1803, where he continued in extensive practice\\ntill his death, March, 1829. He was the lawyer of whom the anecdote is\\ntold relative to Dr. Payson s asking a blessing at tea, and who became,\\nafterwards, a member of Dr. P. s church.\\nX. Epheaim Abbot, A. ]M., son of Benjamin, born Sept. 2S, 1779\\ngraduated at H. C.,in 1806; ordained pastor of the Congregational church\\nin Greenland, Oct. 27, 1813 previous to which time he performed mission-\\nary service in Maine, Xew-Ham])shire and Hhode Island, designing his\\ncharge on account of ill health, he was dismissed, Oct. 28, 1828, and after-\\nwards was Preceptor of Brackett Academy in Greenland, and of AVestford\\nAcademy, Mass., in which latter place he now resides a justice of the\\npeace, and has been representative of the town. Mr. Abbot first married\\nMary IL, daughter of Rev. Eliphalet Pearson, LL. D., of Andover, Mass.\\nShe died, 1829, aged 48. He second married Abigail W. Bancroft, of\\nGroton, Mass.\\nXL Abiel Chandler graduated at H. C, 1806. [See Biography.]\\nXII. Samuel A. Kimball, A. M., son of Dea. John Kimball, born\\nMarch 3, 1782, graduated at D. C, 1806; practiced law a short time in\\nDover, but settled in his native town has been clerk of the senate, dep-\\nuty secretary, and representative of the to^ra.\\nXIII. Moses Hazen Bradley, A. M., son of Hon. John Bradley, born\\nMarch 15, 1782, graduated at D. C, 1807 settled in practice at Bristol,\\n1816 representative in 1823, and next year senator for the eleventh Sen-\\natorial District. He died of consumption, at his brother Richard s, in Con-\\ncord, in 1834, aged 52.\\nXIV. Samuel Ayer, A. M., INI. D., son of Capt. Richard Ayer, born Aug.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0800.jp2"}, "779": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 731\\n31, 1786 graduated at D. C, 1807 Avas tutor two years pursued medi-\\ncal studies at Philadelphia, and settled in practice at Portland, Me., vhere\\nhe Avas representative thence removed to Easti5ort, as surveyor of the\\nport of Passamaquoddy. He died, much respected and lamented, Nov. 12,\\n1832. His widow, Sarah Connell, and three children, afterwards came to\\nConcord, where she died, INIay 7, 1835.\\nXV. Natiiajstiel H, Carter, A. jNI., graduated at D. C, 1811. [See\\nBiography.]\\nXVI. Abiel Carter, A. ^I., son of Jacob Carter, born ]\\\\Iarch 2, 1791,\\ngraduated at D. C, 1813 ordained as an Episcopal minister preached at\\nvarious places, and died at Savannah, Ga., Nov. 1, 1837, aged 3G.\\nXVII. George Kent, A. ]NI., son of Hon. Wm. A. Kent, [see Kent\\nFamily, graduated at I). C, 1814; studied laM-, and admitted to practice,\\n1817, and settled in his native town. In 1821, was appointed cashier of\\nthe Concord bank represented the town, 1828 Avas one of the editors\\nand proprietors of the Ncw-llam])shire Statesman and Concord Register,\\nseveral years dehvered the oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of\\nDartmouth College, in 1832, which was published; was a trustee of the\\nCollege, which he resigned in 1840. Mr. Kent now resides in Bangor, Me.\\nMany articles from his pen of prose and poetry, have been published,\\nand it is understood that he has in compilation, ready for the press, a man-\\nuscri])t volume, containing about one hundred and fifty articles, which may\\nhereafter be published.\\nXVIII. Richard Bartlett, A. M., son of Caleb Bartlett, grandson\\nof the Rev. Samuel McClintock, I). I)., formerly of Greenland. He was\\nborn at Pembroke, Jan. 8, 1794, but resided in this town before and dur-\\ning his collegiate course; graduated at 1). C, 1815; studied law, and\\nadmitted to practice in Concord, 1818; was several vears Dejnitv Secre-\\ntary of State; Clerk of the Senate; Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829,_\\nand Representative in 1830 and 1831. He was editor and proprietor of\\nthe New-Hampshire Journal. In March, 1834, Mr. Bartlett left Concord\\nfor a residence in the city of New-York. In June, 183G, his health began\\nto fail, and he gradually declined, until his death, Oct. 23, 1837. Mi*.\\nBartlett was one of the founders of the N. H. Historical Society, and Avrote\\nan al)le article on the Preservation of Manuscripts, which was juiblishcd in\\nvolume fifth of the Historical Collections. He was a gentleman of many\\nexcellent qualities, and held in high esteem by numerous ft-iends.\\nXIX. Charles Walker, Jr., A. M., son of Charles Walker, Esq., grad-\\nated at H. C, 1818. [See notice, p. 456.]\\nXX. David Kimball, Rev., born in Hopkinton, lived in Concord;\\nlearned the printers art in George Hough s ofiice graduated at Y. C,\\n1818, and at Andover Theological Seminary, 1821 some years settled in\\nthe ministrv at Martinsburg, N. Y^., and at other places editor of the\\nNew-Hampshire Observer, which he relinquished in 1841; now resident at\\nHanover, and printer for the College.\\nXXI. William S. Rogers, son of Josiah Rogers, foi-merly of Concord,\\nborn Sept. 11, 1797; graduated at D. C, 1820; teacher in Washington\\ncity, 1821 afterwards in Lynn, Mass. He died of consumption, at his\\nfather s, in Concord, March 8, 1823, and Avas buried in the Friends bury-\\ning ground. No monument is erected at his grave.\\nXXII. Edward Kent, A. M., son of Hon. Wm. A. Kent, born Jan. 8,\\n1802, graduated at H. C, 1821 settled in the practice of law at Bangor,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0801.jp2"}, "780": {"fulltext": "lOZ HISTORY OF COXCORD.\\nMe. He was ap])ointed Chief Justice of the Court of Sessions for Penob-\\nscot County in lS2t) representative in 1S29-32 mayor of the city of\\nBauiror. 1836 and 1837: Governor of the State of .Maine. 1838; one of\\nthe Commissioners chosen in 1842 to represent the State in the negotia-\\ntion of the Ashburton Treaty, at Washington. In 1849 appointed by\\nPresident Taylor, Minister Plenipotentiaiy to Kio Jimeiro, in Brazil, which\\noffice he held four years. Now in Bangor.\\nXXIII. William C. Thompson. A. M., son of the late lion. Thomas\\nW. Thompson, was born in Salisbury, but while a resident of Concord\\ngraduated at D. C, 1820. He studied law practiced a short time in Con-\\ncord removeil to Plymouth, and thence to Worcester, Mass., where he\\nnow resides.\\nXXrS Hexrt AVoop, a native of Loudon, learned the printing business\\nin the otHce of George Hough, Esq. united with the First Church, under\\nDr. McFarland. 181(5; graduated at 1). C, 1822; tutor in Hampden Syd-\\nney College, Va. ordained pastor of the church in Gotfstown, 182G: in-\\nstalled over church in Haverhill imd at Hanover editor of the Congrega-\\ntional Journal trom 1840 to 1854 and now U. S. Consid at Beyrout, in\\nTurkey.\\nXXV. NA iLLLVM CL.VRK, a native of was an appentice in George\\nHough s othce in Concord united with the church in Concord, T v. ^Ic-\\nFai-land s. 1816 graduated at D. C, 1822 settled pastor of the Congre-\\ngational church in A\\\\ ells. Me., and for many years agent of the American\\nBoard for Foreign Missions.\\nXXVI. Seth R4STM.\\\\ son of Robert and Sarah Eastman, born in\\nBrunsTA-ick, Me.. Jan. 24, 1808, graduated at the Military Academy, West\\nPoint, 1821: Lieut, in the U. S. ser^^ce at Fort Snelling; Professor of\\nDrawing at West Point eight years was in the Florida war now holds a\\nCaptain s commission, and is stationed at Washington city, illustrating a\\nmagniticent work gi\\\\ ing an account of the Intlians of the United States.\\nCapt. Eastman married, in 1835, Mary Henderson, daughter of Dr. Thomas\\nHenderson, of Virginia, and grand-daughter of the late Commodore Trux-\\nton, of the U. S. Xavy.\\nXXMI. John McClintock Baktlett, A. B., brother of Richard Bart-\\nlett, Esq., resided in Concord before and during his collegiate course grad-\\nuated at Bowdoin College, 1823 studied law, and resides m the State of\\nXew-York.\\nXXATH. Sami-el Gilmax Texxet, A. B., graduated at D. C, 1823,\\nwliile a resident in Concord studied theology settled at Lyndon, Vt.,\\n1825; was dismissed, 1831: preached in HiUsborough from 1838 to 1843,\\nand has been at Alstead since 1851.\\nXXIX. Joshua Thompson Russell, son of Elijah Russell, printer,\\nbom in Concord, Oct. 20, 1794, and named for his uncle, the late Lieut.\\nJoshua Thompson, a Revolutionary soldier graduated at the Xew-Jersey\\nCollege, 1825 settled as pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Newark, N. J.\\nafterwards an agent of the Presbyterian Board. Subsequently he joined\\nthe Baptist denomination, and was pastor of a church in Jackson, Miss.\\nHe died suddenly, !March 6, 1854. under the following unusual circumstan-\\nces He was present at the meeting of the Jackson Bible Society, on\\nSimday evening, in the Presbyterian church, and had just spoken to the\\nfollowing resolution Resolved. That the Bible is a tried book, and that\\nits circulation thi-ough the agency of the American Bible Society cathoHc\\nin its spirit and aim merits the highest confidence and the warmest sup-", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0802.jp2"}, "781": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 733\\nport of the Christian public. He dwelt on the fact that the Bible was a\\ntried book he said millions now around the throne of God, singing the\\nsong of Moses and the Lamb, had been saved by the blessed influences of\\nthis book. While he uttered this sentence, he looked up, as if he had a\\nvision of what he described he then paused a moment, and said, I have\\ndone. ITaese were his last words. He sat down, but sunk immediately\\ninto apoplexy, from which the skill of experienced physicians could not\\narouse him. He breathed his last at two o clock, P. M., next day, at the\\nresidence of his son, E. P. P\u00c2\u00bb.ussell.\\nXXX. Daxiel Livermoee Russell, brother of Joshua T., bom Nov.\\n27, 1800, is also a preacher of the Baptist denomination, at the South. He\\nstudied and Is understood to have graduated at Hampden Sydney College,\\nVa., about 1S26.\\nXXXI. Joseph Koeinsox, A. M., son of Josiah Ptobinson, bom Xov.\\n26, 1798: graduated U. C, 182.j; followed teaching in Concord till the\\nfall of 1829; Deputy Secretary of State six years; Ilegister of JJeeAs,\\n18.36; Representative, 1841; Register of Probate, 1844; postmaster four\\nyears; chairman of the board of selectmen, 1850; for tv -o years director\\nand treasurer of the People s ^Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and has\\npursued mainly the basiness of farming for twentv-five years.\\nXXXn. Moses Ki3IB.u.l, A. B., bom m Hopkinton, July 24, 1799;\\nlearned the printing business with Geo. Hough, Esq. grad. at D. C, 1826,\\nwhUe a resident in Concord studied theology. at .\\\\ndover was ordained\\nat Randolph, Vt., January, 1832 dismissed la 1833 settled at Hopkin-\\nton, May 7, 1834, where he remained twelve years. He now preaches in\\nWeathersfield, Vt.\\nXXXHI. Tho l^s B. Waterman, A. B., son of Rev. Thomas Water-\\nman, bom in Bow, but resided in Concord; grad. at 1). C. in 1826; an\\nhonorar}- member and patron of the Xew-Hampshire Historical Societv\\nresided in Boston deceased.\\nXXXR^. Hamilton Hltchins, A. M., son of the late Abel Hutchins,\\nbom July 10, 1805 grad. at I). C, 1827 admitted to the bar in Concord,\\n1830 was highly esteemed for his amiable temper and gentlemanly man-\\nners. He married, Oct. 30, 1845, Man, Chandler, of Lexington, Mass.,\\nwho died Xov. 30, the same year. After suffering much from protracted\\nill health, he died April 6, 1851. A beautiful portrait of him is in posses-\\nsion of his sisters, at the family mansion on State street.\\nXXXV. TH03IAS Sp.vrh.\\\\ wk, M. D., son of Samuel Sparhawk, Esq.,\\nformer Secretan,- of State, was bom in Portsmouth, but grad. at I). C.\\nwhile a resident in Concord; studied medicine took his degree, M. D., at\\nHarvard College, and settled in Conway now in practice at Amesbury, Ms.\\nXXXVL Charles Edward Thompson, A. B., son of Hon. Thomas\\nW. Thompson, bom in Salisbury; grad. at J). C in 1828; studied law;\\npracticed some years in Haverhill, X. H. now resides in Chicago, lU.\\nXXXVH. Cha T)LER E. Potter, A, B., son of Joseph Potter, bom ^lar.\\n7, 1807 grad. at D. C. 1831 instructor at Concord, Portsmouth and Man-\\nchester studied law with Ichabod Bartlett, of Portsmouth, and whUe there\\nwas representative one year. In 1844 moved to Manchester, and became\\neditor and proprietor of the Manchester Democrat four years ia 1848 was\\nappointed Jastice of the Police Court of Manchester editor of the Far-\\nmers Monthlv Visitor two years, and since connected with J. O. Adams,\\nEsq., editor of the Granite Farmer and Visitor. Mr. Potter has been some", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0803.jp2"}, "782": {"fulltext": "734 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ntime en,2:agcd in preparing a History of Manchester, and is President of\\nthe N. H. Historical Society.\\nXXXVHI. SiiEUDURNE B. Piper, A. B., a native of Northwood, grad.\\nat D. C. 1832, while his mother, a M idow, was resident in Concord.\\nXXXIX. Alfred K. Gould, A. B., a native of Hopkinton member\\nof the First Congregational church in Concord grad. at Y. C. 1838; died\\nin Concord, July 29, 1835, Avhilo a member of the Theological Seminary\\nat Andovcr.\\nXL. Horace Herrick, A. B., resident in Concord, and member of the\\nFirst Cong, church; grad. at T). C, 1834; settled in the ministry at Fitz-\\nwiUiam, Sept. 4, 1844, where he remained about four years, and has since\\nbeen engaged in teaching.\\nXLI. Henry Sew all Gerrish French, son of Joel French, of Bos-\\ncawen, was born April 17, 1807 served an apprenticeship at the printing\\nbusiness with George Hough, Esq., in Concord, where he was the first who\\nprofessed conversion under the llev. Mr. Bouton s ministry, 1826; gradu-\\nated at Y. C. 1834, and at .\\\\ndover Theological Seminary, 1837 was or-\\ndained for the foreign missionary service, at Concord, Sept. 19, 1838 mar-\\nried, April 9, 1839, Miss Sarah C. AlHson, of Concord, and emlmrked at\\nBoston for tlie Siam Mission, under the patronage of the American Board,\\nJuly 6, 1839. Mr. French died at Bangkok, in Siam, Feb. 14, 1842. His\\nwidow, with her only son and child, returned to Concord.\\nXLH. Abraham H.\\\\7EX Bobinson, son of Josiah Robinson, graduated\\nat Y. C. 1835; studied medicine, and practiced about one year at Hillsbo-\\nrough Bridge, when, in 1840, he removed to Salisbury; Avas a member of\\nthe Constitutional Convention, 1850; postmaster some twelve years, and\\nstill is in practice in that town.\\nXLHI. Henry L. Low, A. M., oldest son of Gen. Joseph Low, born\\nSept. 10, 1817; grad. at I). C. 1836; tutor, and professor of the Greek\\nand Latin languages in Genesee College, N. Y. travelled in Europe\\nspent some time in Berlin, pursuing classical and other studies. He^ took\\norders in the Episcopal church, and preached some time in Hopkinton,\\nN. H. Mr. Low was a fine scholar, and highly esteemed for his intelH-\\ngence, gentlemanly manners and piety. His health failed, and he died at\\nthe McLean Asylum, Charlestown, Mass., April 26, 1852.\\nXLIV. Ezra E. Adams, A. M., son of Robert M. and Amaris Adanis,^\\nwas born in Concord, Aug. 29, 1813; commenced study in the family of\\nBr. Bouton, in the fall of 1829 grad. at D. C. 1836 kept an academy at\\nLyndon, Vt., three years, the last of which he was licensed to preach was\\nappointed clia])lain for seamen bv the American Seaman s Friend Society,\\nand ordained in the Old North church at Concord, Oct. 9, 1839. Having\\nspent about two years in the seaman s service at Cronstadt, in Itussia, and\\nin England, and ten years at Havre, In France, he returned to this country,\\n1853, and was installed pastor of the Pearl street church, in Nashua, Aug.\\n31, 1853.\\nXLV. Luther Farnum, A. M., son of Ephraim, of Concord grad. at\\nD. C. 1837 studied theologv at Andover was ordained pastor of the\\nCongregational church in Northfield, Mass., Nov. 20, 1844. He is noAV res-\\nident in Boston preacher, and writes for rehgious papers.\\nXLVL Nathan Ballard, A. M., son of Nathan, of Concord, born\\nMarch 31, ISIO grad. at D. C. 1837 has followed the profession of teach-\\ning, and is now at Brooklyn, N. Y.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0804.jp2"}, "783": {"fulltext": "PROFESSIONAL HISTORY. 735\\nXLVII. Cyrus P. Bradley, A. B., son of Mr. Isaac C. Bradley, born at\\nCanterbury, Oct. 20, 1818; grad. at D. C. 1837. He died of ])uhnonary\\nconsumption, July 6, 1838, aged nineteen years. At the age of fourteen,\\nyoung Bradley, upon recommendation of some of the princi])al citizens of\\nConcord, was received as a charity scholar into I liillips Academy, Exeter\\nhe possessed a high order of intellect devoted much time in college, and\\nafterwards, to the natural sciences, and to historical research collected a\\nlarge number of autographs of rare and curious ]mniphlets, and specimens\\nof minerak all of Avhich he bequeathed to the New Hampshire Historical\\nSociet}\\nXLVIII, Nath l Bradley Baker, son of Abel, [sec Baker family,\\ngrad. at H. C. 1839; studied law, and was admitted to practice in Concord\\nin 1842. From 1841 to 184,5 was joint proprietor and editor of the N. H.\\nPatriot, M ith II. H. Carroll, Esq. in 184G appointed Clerk of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas and of the Superior Court, for Merrimack County licpre-\\nsentative and Speaker of the House in 18.jO and 18ol; in 18o2, one of the\\nelectors of president and vice-president; and in 18j4 chosen Governor of\\nthe State. He is in law partnership with Col. F. B. Peabody.\\nXLIX. WiLLL^M Pickering Hill, A. M., son of Hon. Isaac Hill, born\\nOct. 18, 1819; was two years at H. C, hut graduated at D. C. 1839; co-\\n])artner in Hill s New-Hampshire Patriot from 1840 to 1847 three years\\nconducted the New Hampshire Gazette, at Portsmouth; in 1853 received\\nan appointment in the naval office department at the Custom House in Bos-\\nton, where he now officiates. Mr. Hill married Miss Clara Anne, daughter\\nof John West, of Concord, Oct. 26, 1843.\\nL. Samuel Hazex Ayer, son of Dr. Samuel Ayer, born Dec. 19, 1819;\\ngrad. at I owdoin College, 1839, M-hile a Mard of Hon. Isaac Hill admitted\\nto the bar and practiced in Hillsborough, 1842 was representative from\\nthat town five successive years Speaker of the House in 1848 and 1849\\nsoHcitor for the county of Hillsborough in 18,50. He removed to ^Nlanches-\\nter, whore, amidst growing prospects of usefulness and fame, he suddenly\\ndied, Oct. 4, 18o3. His remains were interred in the old burying-ground\\nin Concord, where is a beautiful family monument,\\nLI. Alexander Hamilton Kent, A. B., son of George Kent, was born\\nin Concord, Oct. 22, 1822; grad. at D. C. 1841; studied law in Troy,\\nN. Y., where he died of disease of the brain, Oct. 10, 1844, much beloved\\nand greatly lamented.\\nLII. Charles French Low, A. B., son of Gen. Joseph Low, born Jan.\\n14, 1819; grad. at 1). C. 1842; studied theology and law; awhile editor of\\nthe N. H. Courier entered the United States army in Mexico as a private\\nin Capt. Edward Webster s company was promoted to a lieutenancy in the\\nninth regiment of infantry has travelled extensively in the \\\\Yestern\\nStates opened a law office in Concord in 1853.\\nLIIL David Dimond, A. M., son of David, son of John, son of Ezekiel\\nDimond, was born in Grotcn, N. H., April 26, 1819 hved in Concord in\\nhis boyhood graduated at 1). C, 1842, and at Andovcr, 1845 went to\\nthe West, and has been a i)reacher at Troy, in Missouri, and at Collinsville,\\n111., and is now Professor of the Greek and Latin languages in AVebster\\nCollege, St. Louis Co., Missouri.\\nLW. Levi Brigham, A. B., son of the late Levi Brigham, of Boston,\\nborn in Concord, ]May 2, 1822. After the death of his father, was the\\nward of his uncle, Richard Bradley, Esq. graduated at D. C, 1843 went", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0805.jp2"}, "784": {"fulltext": "736 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nto Port Tobacco, Md., as a teacher, Avhere he died after an iUness of ten\\ndays, of congestive fever, Oct. 1, 1843.\\nLV. Jonathan Texney, A. M., a native of Corinth, Vt., born Sept. 1-i,\\n1817 was an aj)])rentice in the office of the N. H. Observer, in Concord\\ngraduated at D. C., 1843 pursued teaching as a profession several years\\neditor of the Stars and Stripes, and resident in Manchester.\\nLVI. William A. Patten, A. ]\\\\I., a native of Kingston, N. H., born\\nJune, 1816 learned the in-inting business in the office of the N. H. Ob-\\nserver graduated at D. C., 1843, and at Andover in 1846 ordained to\\nthe ministry preached in various places, and was settled as pastor of the\\nCongregational Church in Deerfield, 1850 dismissed in 1853.\\nLVII. James O. Adams, A. B., son of Kobert M. and Amaris Adams, born\\nJune 5, 1818 graduated at D. C, 1843 teacher in various places settled\\nin Manchester, 1846; editor and proprietor some time of the Manchester\\nAmerican publisher of the Granite Farmer representative, and mem-\\nber of the Common Council of that city.\\nLVIII. Edward Barker West, A. B., son of William West, born April\\n1, 1822 graduated at T). C, 1844 private tutor one year in the family of\\nGen. Jackson, at the Hermitage, East Tenn. studied law, and was admit-\\nted to practice in 1848. He opened an office at Warner, but now resides\\nin Nashua.\\nLVIX. ^SIellex Chamberlaix, son of Moses, born in Pembroke, June\\n4, 1821, but while a resident in Concord graduated at D. C, 1844 studied\\nlaw, and took the degree of LL. B. at H. C, 1848 was elected a member\\nof the Roval Society of Northern Antiquarians, in Copenhagen, 1840, and\\nof the N. 11. Historical Society, in 1842 has a law office in Boston, but\\nresides in Chelsea, Mass.\\nLX. Joseph B. Walker, son of Capt. Joseph, born June 12, 1822;\\ngrad. at Y. C. 1844 studied law and admitted to the bar, March, 1847,\\nand settled on the paternal estate, in the house built by Bcv. Timothy\\nWalker is engaged chiefly in agricultural pursuits is a director of the Mer-\\nrimack County^Bank trustee and secretary of the New-Hampshire Asy-\\nlum for the Insane, and sustams various other important trusts.\\nLXI. Charles A. Davis, A. B., son of Robert Davis, 2d, born in Con-\\ncord about 1821; grad. at D. C. 1845; took his degree in medicine at\\nHarvard University in 1848; went into practice in Lowell, with Dr. Hunt-\\nington, 1851; and in July, 1853, was appointed surgeon to the United\\nStates Marine Hospital, at Chelsea.\\nLXII. David Lawrexce Iorril, A. B., son of Gov. David L. ^lorril,\\nwas born in GofFstown, Init resided in this town, and grad. at D. C. in 1847\\nstudied law ])racticed in Winchendon, Mass., and is now in practice in\\nWest Brookfield, Mass.\\nLXIII. Joiix EuRXESS Jarvis, son of John Jarvis, born in Concord,\\n1826 graduated at D. C. 1848 took his mecHcal degree at Harvard Col-\\nlege, 1853, and practiced in Boston.\\nLXIV. Andrew Jacksox Burxham, son of Noah Burnham, born in\\nChester, July 2, 1829, but resident in Concord; grad. at Y. C. studied\\nmedicine teacher in several places now in j^ractice at Bellows Falls, Vt.\\nLXV. George Sullivan Barton, son of Hon. Cyrus Barton, born\\nMarch 9, 1831, graduated at D. C, 1851; studied law; admitted to the\\nbar in Iowa, 1853, where he practiced one year. Returned to New-Hamp-\\nshire, and is now in partnership with Hon. Edmund Burke, of Newport.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0806.jp2"}, "785": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 737\\nLXVI. Theodore French, son of Capt. Theodore French, graduated\\nat D. C, 1852; studied law; now in practice at St. Pauls, ]\\\\Iin.\\nLXVII. Nathaniel, L. Upham, son of Hon. N. G. Upham, graduated\\nat D. C, 1853 accompanied his father, Avho was Commissioner of Claims,\\nc., to England, the same year, and is now a student in theology.\\nLXVIII. William W. Bailey, a native of llopkinton, graduated at\\nD. C, 1854 a student of law.\\nLXIX. Bela Nettleton Stevens, son of Hon. Josiah Stevens, gradu-\\nated at D. C, 1854 a student of law.\\nLXX. Benjamin E. Badger, son of Stephen C. Badger, Esq., gradu-\\nated at D. C, 1854 a student of law.\\nLXXI. Charles Carroll Ll nd, son of Joseph S. Lund, graduated at\\nD. C, 1855; now teacher in High School, Concord.\\nLXXn. William Kimball Howell, son of Dca. Ira Rowell, horn\\nNov. 9, 1829, graduated at D. C, 1855; now teacher of Academy in Hop-\\nkinton.\\nNo. 7.\\nMISCELLANEOUS MATTERS\\nSOME OF WHICH ARE REFERRED TO IN NOTES IN THE PRECEDING HISTORY.\\nPRINTING. (Seep. 310.)\\nIn 1835 the late Jonatlian Farmer, Esq., wrote an article, giving the history\\nof printino; in this town, particularly of newspapers, which M as read at a\\nPrinters Festival in commemoration of Franklin s birth-day, Jan. 17, 1835, and\\nafterwards published in the N. H. Patriot, Jan. 26, 1835 to wliich those who\\nwish to investigate the subject are referred. In continuation of that history, the\\nfollowing statements are here added.\\nThe Neiv Hampshire Patriot. Nov. 21, 1840, Cyrus Barton, associated\\nwith Henry H. Carroll, as editor and publisher, under the firm of Barton\\nCarroll. Dec. 1, 1841, Cyrus Barton retired, and Nathaniel B. Baker asso-\\nciated with H. H. Carroll, under the firm of Carroll Baker. Oct. 30, 1845,\\nN. B. Baker retired, and H. H. Carroll became sole proprietor. Mr. C. died\\nAug. 4, 1846, and the business was carried on by George Minot, Esq., adminis-\\ntrator\u00e2\u0080\u0094Thomas P. Treadwcll, editor. Dec. 3, 1846, William Butterfield\\nbecame sole proprietor. May 27, 1847, the N. H. Patriot, represented by Wm.\\nButterfield, and Hill s N. H. Patriot, by John M. Hill, were united under the\\nproprietorship of Butterfield Hill. May 10, 1853. John M. Hill retired,\\nand William Butterfield became sole proprietor.\\nNew-Hampshire Statesman and State Journal. George W. Ela, editor and\\npublisher, disposed of his interest in this paper to Jacob H. P21a and A. C.\\nBlodgett, in 1842 in July, 1844, it went into possession of George 0. Odlin,\\nJohn C. Wilson and John P. Osgood, in whose hands it continued with some\\nchanges of an unimportant nature, up to July, 1851, when the establishment was\\npurchased by Asa McFarland and Geo. E. Jenks, who are now the proprietors.\\nNew-Hampshire Observer. Since 1835 this paper has passed through many\\nshanges, as to editors and owners. Rev. David Kimball was a while connected\\n47", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0807.jp2"}, "786": {"fulltext": "738 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nwith Edmund S. Chadwick, in publishing^ it, ixnder the title of Christian Pan-\\noply ilr. Kimhall next became sole proprietor, and a connection was formed\\nin 1840, with the Rev. Henry Wood as editor, and the name was changed to\\nCongregational Journal. The connection between Mr. Kimball and Mr.\\nWood closed in 1842, and the paper was wholly conducted by Rev. Henry\\nWood. In 1846 Mr. Wood s interest in the paper was transferred to B. W.\\nSanborn, as publisher the former retaining a connection as editor, and contin-\\nued thus till Jan. 1, 1854, when the Rev. Benjamin P. Stone* became editor.\\nA paper advocating the principles of temperance has been published for a\\nconsideralile time, but under so many names and so many editors that to trace\\nits history is impracticalile. Other papers have had their day, and passed\\naway.\\nThe Balm of Gilead and Practical Universalist was published at Concord,\\nNashua and Manchester, in 1842, and continued a few years.\\nIn April, 1842, Messrs. Tracy and Colby, of Concord, commenced the publi-\\ncation of the Iris and Literary Repository, a monthly periodical discontinued.\\nA semi-weekly paper, edited by George Kent, Esq., was started in Concord,\\nin May, 1842.\\nThe Baptist Register was published in Concord for several years, com-\\nmencing about 1833.\\nThe Independent Demorraf was first published at Manchester, May 1, 1845, by\\nRobert C. Wetmore moved to Concord in about nine weeks, and shortly after,\\nG. G. Fogg, Esq., then of Gilmanton, commenced contributing to its editorial\\ncolumns, and soon became sole editor. In July, 1847, the proprietorship of the\\nDemocrat was disposed of by Mr. Wetmore to j. E. Hood and G. G. Fogg, and\\nunited with the Granite Freeman, a liberty party paper, previously published\\nby Mr. Hood, and under the title of Independent Democrat and Freeman,\\npublished bv them until Feb. 1, 1849 then Mr. Hood disposed of his interest\\nin it to G. G. Fogg and A. H. Wiggin. In 1854 the former became sole pro-\\nprietor.\\nThe Semi-weekly State Copital Reporter was commenced by Col. Cyrus Barton,\\nJan. 1, 1852. In May, 1853, Amos Hadley, Esq., was associated with him\\nunder the firm of Barton Hadley. They commenced the weekly State\\nCapital Reporter, July 1, 1853. In August, the same year, the Reporter iiecarae\\nunited with the Old Guard, a journal commenced by Hon. Edmund Burke.\\nIn Nov., 1853, the name of the Reporter was changed to the Reporter and\\nOld Guard, conducted by the same editors, with Mr. Burke a contributor, and\\nso conducted until Feb. i T, 1855 when, Col. Barton having died, his interest\\nwas vested in his widow, and the name of the firm was changed to Hadley\\nBarton. The semi-weekly Reporter was discontinued in August, 1854.\\nAt the present time, printing, not only of newspapers, but books of every\\ndescription, is one of the most extensive branches of mechanical business in\\nConcord.\\nELECTION DAY.\\nThe great day in Concord, of all the year, was Election day. This occurred\\non Thursday, of the first week in June, when the new Governor was usually\\ninducted into office. Preparations for the occasion commenced in May, when\\nthe women put every thing in order in-doors, and the men, out-doors. Rooms\\nwere swept, white-washed and garnished wood piled, and chips raked up\\ndoor-yards cleaned fences repaired barns put in order provisions laid in, and\\nRev. Benjamin P. Stone, D. D., has resided in Concord since 1837. He was born in\\nReading, Vt., Feb. II, 1801, son of David Stone, a native of Groton, Mass., whose mother\\nwas Martha Lawrence, a descendant of John Lawrence, of Watertown, Mass., 163.5. Mr.\\nS. sraduated at Middlebiiry Colleae, 1828 studied theology at Andover ordained the first\\npastor of the church in Franklin, N. H., May, 1831, where he remained one year; installed\\npastor at Campton, 1832; appointed Secretary of the N. H. Missionary Society, 1837, and\\nmoved to Concord.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0808.jp2"}, "787": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.\\ni6\\\\\\nall things else put in readiness for lection. From Monday to Wednesday,\\nmembers of the Legislature, ministers of the gospel all sorts of public men\\nwould be seen coming into town, some on horseback, some in wagons and\\ncarriages some in stages but all would be on hand by Wednesday. Almost\\nevery family on Main street in old times took boarders. The ministt.rs of the\\nstanding order, as they were then called, who were always provided for, met\\nin Convention on that day, and had a sermon preached at the Old North Meet-\\ning-house in the afternoon or evening. On Tlmrsday, the people came from\\nall adjacent and remote sections of the State men, boj s and negroes equally\\neager to participate in the festivities of tlie occasion. JJooths, tents, or stands\\nwell furnished with all kinds of eatables, and especially driiifcaldes, were erected\\nalong on both sides of Main street, from the vicinity of the meeting-house to the\\nmiddle of Main street. On tlie forenoon of Thursday was the great procession,\\ncomposed of a cavalcade and of mihtary companies, by which the Governor\\nwas escorted into town, amid a cloud of dust and the thunder of a s/.r-pounder\\nNext followed in procession all the iionorable State authorities, ministers of the\\ngospel, public men of all ranks, titles and pretensions, with a more numerous\\nside procession of the people, including women and boys. Previous to 1819\\nthis procession marched with martial music from the old town hall, and after-\\nwards from the State House to the old meeting-house to hear the Election Ser-\\nmon. The sermon was preached by a person previously appointed either by\\nthe Governor and Council or by the Legislature. On this august occasion\\nthe old meeting-house was crowded to its utmost capacity tlie honorables\\nhaving seats in the pews lielow, and the people in the gallery. To prevent any\\naccident from over-crowding the old oak edifice, the galleries were shored up with\\nsubstantial timbers The appointment to preach the Election Sermon was con-\\nsidered complimentary to the talents and standing or to the politics of the min-\\nister, and of course it was not uncommon for him on such occasions to do his\\nbest si)eaking to the tiipes and often echoing the voice of the people, as\\nwell as the voice of God Some of the election sermons were fine specimens\\nof pulpit oratory, and are remembered by aged people to this day.\\nAt the earliest period the sermon was followed by a public dinner, which, how-\\never, was discontinued in later times. Gov. John Langdon, John T. Oilman\\nand Samuel Bell, are remembered as among ilie most dignified Governors of\\nformer years. Gov. Oilman is remembered by many as wearing a cocked up\\nhat, with a large cockade. For his body guard he had a negro servant by the\\nname of London. This London, having been a soldier in the Revolution,\\nalways appeared on election days, dressed in his regimentals, with a cocked hat,\\nand bore the name of Gineral. All the negroes in the vicinitv, especially\\nsuch as had served in the war, would rally, and march under command of\\nGineral London, to pay their salutes to tlie Governor and, what was better,\\nto receive from him a treat\\nPrevious to 1816, and even later, the head or center of the great gatherings\\non election day was at the north end. There was the meeting-house, and the\\npost-office, and the great Washington tavern But after the State House was\\nbuilt, the attraction was stronger that way so that, gradually, as the people\\ndrew down into that vicinity, the distance to the old meeting-house seemed\\nmuch longer and finally the old customs of processions, sermons, booths and\\nexhibitions on election day ceased. Though the name is kept up, the thing\\nitself has passed awa/. Sic transit gloria miindi!\\nLIST OF MINISTERS WHO HAVE PREACHED THE ELECTION SERMON, SO FAB\\nA9 COULD BE ASCERTAINED.\\nNAME. BESIDENCE. YEAR.\\nRev. Samuel McClintock, Greenland, 1784.\\nRev. Jeremy Belknap, Dover, 1785.\\nRev. Samuel Haven, Portsmouth, ]78r).\\nRev. Samuel Langdon, Portsmouth, 1788.\\nRev. Oliver iNoble, New-Castle, 1789.\\nNAME.\\nRev. John C. Ogden,\\nRev. Israel Evans,\\nRev. William Morrison,\\nRev. Amos Wood,\\nRev. Wm. F. Rowland.\\nRESIDENCE. YEAR.\\nPortsmouth, 1790.\\nConcord, 1791.\\nLondonderrv, 1792.\\nWeare, 1794.\\nExeter, 1796.\\n*An amusing reminiscence of Election Day was published in 1842, in a paper called\\n8 Locomotive, edited by Geo. Kent, Esq. It was attributed to Hon. Edward Kent of\\naine. The article was republished in Hill s N. H. Patriot, June 9, 1842.\\ntbe\\nMaine.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0809.jp2"}, "788": {"fulltext": "74\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nRev.\\nStephen Peabody,\\nAtkinson,\\n1797.\\nRev.\\nDavid Sutherland,\\nBath,\\n1815.\\nRev.\\nRobert Gay,\\nDover,\\n1798.\\nRev.\\nPliny Dickinson,\\nWalpole,\\n1810.\\nRev.\\nSeth Paysoii,\\nRindge,\\n1799.\\nRev.\\nDaniel Merrill,\\nNotti gh ni W\\nM817\\nRev.\\nJacob Biirnap,\\nMerrimack,\\n18(11.\\nRev.\\nWilliam Allen,\\nHanover,\\n1818.\\nRev\\nJoseiih VVooiliiiaii,\\nSanbornton,\\n180-3.\\nRev.\\nJames B. Howe,\\nliarcmont.\\n1820.\\nRev.\\nAamn Hall,\\nKeene,\\nl^o.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^.\\nRev.\\nEph m P. Bradford,\\nNew-Boston,\\n1821.\\nRev.\\nNatli l Porter,\\nt onway.\\n1804.\\nRev\\nJonathan French,\\nN. Hampton,\\n1822.\\nRev.\\nReed Paijie,\\nHancoch,\\n1805.\\nRev\\nBennet Tyler,\\nHanover,\\n1824.\\nRev.\\nJames Miltiinore,\\nStrathani,\\n1806.\\nRev\\nPhinelias Uooke,\\nAcworth,\\n1825\\nRev\\nNatbau Bradsitreet,\\nChester,\\n1807.\\nRev\\nFerdinand Ellis,\\nExeter,\\n182C.\\nRev\\nNathan Parker,\\nPortsmouth,\\n1808.\\nRev\\nNath l W.Williams\\nConcord,\\n1827.\\nRev\\nWm. F. Rowland,\\nExeter,\\n1809.\\nRev\\nNathaniel Boiiton,\\nConcord,\\n1828.\\nRev\\nRoswell fihiirtleir,\\nHanover,\\n1810.\\nRev\\nHumphrey Moore,\\nMilford,\\n1829.\\nRev\\nThomas Beede,\\nWilton,\\n1811.\\nRev\\nJazeniali Crosby,\\nCliarlestown\\n1830.\\nRev.\\nMoses Bradford,\\nFrancestown\\n,1812.\\nRev\\nNathan Lord,\\nHanover,\\n1831\\nRev.\\nPeter Holt,\\nEpping,\\n1814.\\nCONCORD LITERARY INSTITUTION AND TEACHERS SEMI-\\nNARY.\\nTHE FIRST, AND THUS FAR THE LAST OF THE KIND EVER BUILT IN CONCORD.\\nIn 18-35 a building was erected on the hill directly west of Union street, on\\nland given by Samuel A. Kimball, Esq., for the purpose of a High School or\\nAcademy. The building was 58 feet long, 54 wide, two stories in height, with\\na cupola entrance, two doors in front, one for males and the other for females.\\nThe apartments were separated on the lower floor by a partition with sliding\\ndoors. In the upper story were rooms for a library, apparatus and recitations,\\nwith a spacious hall for exhibitions. The cost of the building, which was paid\\nfor by subscriptions, was about $3500, exclusive of apparatus and library, which\\nwere estimated at $200. A Board of Trustees was chosen, of which Rev. N.\\nBouton was President, Rev. E. E. Cummings, Secretary, and Dea. AVilliam\\nGault, Treasurer. An act of incorporation was obtained, and a public school\\nopened in the building in the fall of 1835, under the instruction of Mr. T. D. P.\\nStone, as principal; Miss Elizabeth Fuller, preceptress, and Miss Rowena\\nCofiin and Miss Mary K. Coffin, assistants. Mr. Stone resigned in August,\\n1837, but the school was continued under successive teachers until 1844, when,\\non account of pecuniary embarrassments the building was sold at public auc-\\ntion for $540. It was afterwards bought by Hon. Isaac Hill, moved away, and\\nconstructed into three dwelling-houses, at the lower end of Main street. [For\\nfurther particulars, see Records of the Institution, in N. H. Historical Society s\\nLibrary, and document on file, marked Concord Literary Institution, c.]\\nBOATING COMPANY. (Seep. 371.)\\nThe navigation of the Merrimack by boats to tliis place was consummated\\nmainly by the enterprise and energy of John L. Sullivan, Esq., a gentleman\\nhighly esteemed in this section, who was many years superintendent of the\\nMiddlesex Canal, in Massachusetts, and also of the locks and canals on the\\nMerrimack. Most of them were built under his supervision. He early con-\\nceived the idea of navigating the Merrimack by steamboats, and with this view,\\nhaving obtained a charter from the Legislature giving him the exclusive right,\\nhe commenced about 1814, building boats at Charlestown, Mass., and, after\\ntrying various models and numerous experiments on machinery, he so ftir suc-\\nceeded as to get a boat propelled by steam to reach here in 1819. It \\\\yas his\\npurpose to tow the loaded boats by this steamboat, but it was found on trial that\\nshe had barely sufficient power to pass herself up the rapids, without any incum-\\nbrance, and tiie project was finally abandoned.\\nA charter was granted by the Legislature of New-Hampshire in 1812, incorpo-\\nrating John L. Sullivan anil his associates, by the name and style of the Mer-\\nrimack Boating Company.\\nThe first boat up the river arrived at Concord in the autumn of 1814. Ine\\nlocks on the river not being completed, she brought but a small cargo, consist-\\ning of general merchandise.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0810.jp2"}, "789": {"fulltext": "MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS. 741\\nIn June, 1815, tlie locks on the river, and the wareliouse near Concord bridge\\nbeinji in order, the boats commenced running regularly.\\nThe rates of freight between Boston and Concord were as follows viz.,\\n1815 to 1819. Upward, $12 downward, $8 per ton of 2240 pounds.\\n1819 to 1822. 10 7\\n1822 to 1824. 8 6\\n1824 to 1830. 7 5\\n1830 to 1836. 5 4 2000\\n1836 to 1837. 6 4\\n1837 to 1841. 5 4\\n1841 to 1842\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1st class. 5 4\\n1841 to 1842\u00e2\u0080\u0094 2d class. 4 4\\nThe mode of propelling the boats up the river was by means of setting-poles.\\nIn going downward they used oars, but when the wind was fair, sails were used,\\nboth in ascending and descending.\\nThe company suffered severe losses occasionally by the upsetting or swamp-\\ning of boats. In one instance a boat, by imprudently attempting to run over\\nGoflFe s falls, was capsized, and one of tiie men drowned. This was the only\\ninstance of any one being drowned from the boats. It was customary in high\\nwater to use oxen to tow the boats over some of the rapids. At the head of\\nAmoskeag falls was one of these rapids. A boat, with a full cargo of miscel-\\nlaneous goods, having ascended the locks, the team was made fest to her to tow\\nher over the rapid by some misunderstanding the team was started before the\\nmen on board had got the boat in the proper position. This gave her such a\\nshear out into the current that the whole force of it came against her broad-\\nside, and it was impossible for the men to round her to in season to save her,\\nand it was found that she must go over the falls in spite of fate, and for a\\ntime it seemed that the men and team must all go with her, but fortunately the\\nmen, by leaping overboard, made shift to reach the shore in safety, and by dex-\\nterously cutting the rope just as they were being drawn into the river, the oxen\\nwere saved. The boat weut over the falls, and was, of course, dashed in many\\npieces. A portion of the cargo was picked up below, very much damaged,\\ni his happened in 1840, and caused a loss to the company of about S2500.\\nThe company was under the general management and control of John L.\\nSullivan, Esq., from its commencement up to 1822, when his interest in it ceased.\\nThe business of the Boston Landing was under the care of the late David\\nDodge, Esq., from its commencement to 1823; from that time to its close Mr.\\nReuben B. Sherburne had charge of it at Concord, the late Samuel Butters\\nhad charge up to 1819 from then to its close Theodore French was in charge.\\nThe number of boats employed during spring and autumn was about twenty\\nin summer, a less number; capacity of boats, twenty tons manned by three\\nmen. The greatest amount of freight charged in any one season was in 1839\\n$38,169. The average from the commencement to the close of the business was\\nabout S25,000 per season.\\nIn addition to their freighting for others, the company brought up and sold\\nlarge quantities of salt, lime and plaster on their own account.\\nIn 1823 the corporate name of the company was, by act of the Legislature,\\nchanged to the Boston and Concord Boating Company. They continued to\\ndo a prosperous business until superseded by the Concord Railroad, in the fall\\nof 1842.\\nFREE BRIDGES. (See p. 469.)\\nThe first free bridge ever built over any part of Merrimack river, it is believed\\nwas built in Concord, in 1839. In this undertaking persons residing in the\\nMain village, and near tlie center of Main street, took an especial interest. The\\nfirst meeting for consultation on the subject was called by Mr. John Gass, and\\nwas held at the American house, in the fall of 1838 Hon. Isaac Hill was chair-\\nman a committee was then appointed to obtain subscriptions for the purpose, in\\nConcord, and in towns eastward, and $4380 were subscribed. At a subsequent\\nmeeting, Nathan Call and John Gass, of Concord Bailey Parker, of Pembroke,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0811.jp2"}, "790": {"fulltext": "742\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nand Cyrus Tucker, of Loudon, were appointed a building committee. It was\\nbuilt of wooden piers, where tiie free bridge now stands a road opened across\\nthe interval on both sides of the river, and tlirough the gulley, eastward\\nand road commissioners tiien laid out the road, assessing one half the cost upon\\nthe town. In January, 1841, the bridge was carried off by a great freshet, but\\nrebuilt as soon as practicable, at a cost of about $3000. Still, it was materi-\\nally injured again and again by freshets; when, in 1842, a powerful opposition\\nwas raised against it by inhabitants in other sections of the town. At a meet-\\ning, April 11, 1842, it was voted, that, in the opinion of the legal voters of\\nthe town of Concord, the free bridge over ^Merrimack river is, in its concep-\\ntion, location and construction, imjiolitic, unequal and oppressive, and ought\\nnot to be continued at the expense of the town. The question of sustaining it\\nwas also carried into court, at a considerable cost to the parties.* In 1850 a\\nboard of selectmen was chosen, who were in favor of a free bridge, and who\\nwere instructed to proceed to rebuild it in a substantial manner. This was\\naccordingly done in the course of the year.\\nAt tiie present time, 18f)5, the Concord Bridge, which was built in 1795, is\\nthe only toll bridge iu the bounds of the city.\\nCOST AND ESTI.MATED VALUE OF BRIDGES.\\nWHEN BUILT. ORIGINAL COST. hRESENT VALUE.\\nFree Bridge, 1849-50 $1G,753 $12,000\\nFederal Bridge, 1850-51 15,950 12,000\\nTwo Bridges at Fisherville, .1849-50 5,150 4,000\\nHorse-hillBridge, 1852 2,676 2,000\\nSewall s Falls Bridge, town paid, 1852 1,735\\nSewall s Falls Bridge, city paid, 1853 6,.335 8,000\\n$38,000\\nCOL. BENJAMIN GROVER S HOUSE. t\\nCol. Grover s house, an elegant view of which he has furnished, by particular\\nrequest, for this History, is the latest and best specimen of architecture to be\\nseen in the city. It stands on Pleasant street, near the new Baptist church, on\\na lot SO by 17.5 feet, w hich cost, in 1850, S900. The house was built in 1854\\nG. M. Hiirding, then of Concord, architect Colby and Dow, of Concord, build-\\ners. The sketch was drawn by Mr. Nathan Brown, of this city, and engraved\\nby Kilburn Mallory, of Boston. The cost of tiic house without the land was\\nabout $7,500. A view of this elegant structure, with other beautiful houses in\\nits vicinity also, others on Kent s, or Holt s Hill, some towards the south\\nend of Jlain street, and the northerly part of State street, together with the sub-\\nstantial dwelling of Hon. Francis N. Fisk, at the north end, may give us a\\njust idea of the progress made since the log-house period, not only in architect-\\nure, but in the comforts of domestic and social life J\\nCARRIAGE MANUFACTURE.\\nMr. Lewis Downing, in answer to a request from the author, says I com-\\nmenced business in Concord, May, 1813, nearly ojiposite the Merrimack County\\nBank. When I began, my whole capital consisted of my tools and about $60\\nin cash, iu all, $150. The first year I Morked entirely alone. At that time\\never} part of the work was done by hand labor no poiuer machinery. In the\\nftiU of 1816 I moved my shop to the south end of the street. After the first\\nyear I employed from three to six hands, for ten or twelve years after that, I\\nenlarged my shop, and started all the different branches connected with carriage\\nbusiness, such as blacksmith, painting and trimming, c., and commenced\\nbuilding chaise and coaches, c., and employed from thirty to forty hands up to\\n1847. At that time I built new shops in tile center of the street, and took my\\nSee Town Records, f fof view of it, see next page. Compare p. 511, r.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0812.jp2"}, "791": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0813.jp2"}, "792": {"fulltext": "744 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\ntwo sons into the liusincss witli me. Since 1847 liave employed from forty to\\nseventy hands now seventy hands, and could sell the work of twice that number,\\nbut my practice has ever been to do no more business than I could see to, per-\\nsonally.\\nIn reply to inquiries of Messrs. J. S. E. A. Abbot, who are also engaged in\\nthe manufacture of carriages of various kinds, they say: In 1854 we sent car-\\nriages into every State, Territory and Province in North America, (except Del-\\naware also, Mexico and South America. We employed averaging one hun-\\ndred and ninety men delivered six hundred and twenty-live carriages, and used\\nthree hundred thousand feet of lumber, two hundred aiid fifty tons Cumberland\\ncoal, six thousand five hundred bushels charcoal. Wc cannot now name the\\nexact amount of iron, but about two hundred and fifty tons.\\nCONTEST BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH-END-\\nERS ABOUT AN OLD GUN!\\n[COMMMUNICATED BY MR. CHARLES K. WEST, OF CONCORD.]\\nAt the close of the war of 1812-15 there were two small cannon in Concord\\none belonging to the south and the other to the north end\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and to manage them,\\ntwo companies were formed that at the north end commanded by a son of\\nDavid George, and that at the south by Col. William Kent. About 1817 a\\nsham fight occurred between them, on the Court House hill, in which both com-\\npanies became greatly excited, and began to load with gravel, when the town\\nauthorities interfered. From that time an enmity continued between the boys of\\nthe north and south ends, until botli guns were out of the way. The fate of\\nthe south gun, says Mr. West, I never knew. About the year 1818,\\non the 4th of July, the south-eiiders took the north-enders gun from them, after\\na hard conflict. Before winter tlie gun was recaptured, dismounted and kept\\ntill the spring of 1819, wlien tlie south-cnders again took the gun, wliile it was\\nfiring one evening on the hill back of the Court House, and hid it in Major\\nChandler s jewelry shop. Tiie nortli-enders keeping themselves well drilled\\nand armed with suitable cudgels, with spikes in the end, appointed a committee\\nto prepare tools and break into Major Chandler s shop in the night and get the\\ngun, while a sufficient number should stand by to carry off the prize. After\\ncommencing operations, however, they desisted tin-ough fear that they might be\\ntaken up for stealing but the Major soon after ejected the gun from his shop.\\nIt was then placed by the south-enders in the loft of the Phenix stable, chained\\nto a beam, fastened with a padlock, and guarded by a faitliful dog. Before a\\nmonth passed away tlie dog was bribed, the gun taken, and let down through the\\nattic window on to the dung heap, where it struck hard, but noiseless thence it\\nwas triumphantly borne off upon a wheel-barrow, and fired once that night at\\nthe north end It was never fired but a few times after that, and but once at a\\ntime. I kept the gun in m} possession till 1826, occasionally changing its hid-\\ning-place. When al out to leave town, as I could get no one to take charge of\\nit, and the excitement was still kept up, finally, ratlicr than the gun should go\\ninto the hands of the south-enders, (with the help of only one of the faithful to\\nassist me,) I took the gun to Horse Shoe pond and sunk it, where I have every\\nreason to believe it still remains a north-ender\\nINDIAN REMAINS REMARKABLE DISCOVERY.\\nJust as this chapter of our History was going to press, an interesting discov-\\nery was made of Indian remains. The third week in November inst., (1855,)\\nMr, Cyrus W. Paige, in digging a cellar for a new dwelling-house west of Rich-\\nard Bradley s, and on land recently sold by him, came to human bones, which,\\nfrom tiieir position and (juantity, greatly excited his attention. Before remov-\\ning them he called on l)r. William Prescott, who, after carefully examining\\nthem, expresses the opinion that without doubt they are the remains of Indians\\nlong since interred there. Dr. Prescott says, in a communication which I have", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0814.jp2"}, "793": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 745\\ntlie honor to acknowledge The wliole number fonnd thus far is iiiur, and all\\nwere comprised within a space of about ten by fifteen feet. Three of them\\nwere adults one male, of a very large size, and two females the others were\\nchildren and youth. Considering the time that must have elapsed since they\\nwere interred, the liones were in a tolerable state of preservation. Two of the\\ncraniums were nearly perfect that of the adult male and one of tiie adult\\nfemales. They were each enshrouded in a thick envelope, consisting of several\\nthicknesses of pitch pine bark the only exception being what appeared to be a\\nfemale between two infants, all being enclosed in one general envelope. The\\nskeletons all lay upon ti)e right side, in a direction north and south, the face\\nlooking east; the lower limbs somewhat flexed upon the trunk, the knees flexed\\nat about right angles, and the elbows completely flexed, the head resting upon\\nthe right hand. I have the honor to be,\\nVery respectfully,\\nYour friend,\\nWm. Peescott.\\nNo. 8.\\nDOCUMENT AEY AND STATISTICAL CHAPTER.\\nThe author had designed to publish in this chapter all the documents referred\\nto in the body of his History, but is compelled by the limits of the work to\\nabridge in this particular. Those of more general interest, and essential to\\nillustrate and confirm the statements in the History, are, however, herein con-\\ntained M hile the others have been carefully labeled and marked, so as to cor-\\nrespond with the pages referred to, and may be found filed in the archives of the\\nN. H. Historical Society, where they will be accessible, upon application to the\\nlibrarian, by persons who desire more particular information.\\nDOCUMEiNT FOR CHAPTER II., p. 5C.\\nPennecook, March 22, 1722.\\nMarch 19, Capt. Frie and Lieut. Barker with thirty men moved fiom Ando-\\nver, to go to Pennecook. Ye 1st day was Stormy, but we went to Nutficld, and\\nlodged there that Night. The 2d Day we came to Amiskege, and lodged there.\\nThe 3d day we Came to Suncook, in Pennecook, and built four Casys, and\\nlodged there. The 4th day we came to Pennecook Plains, att ye Intervale\\nLands, about 11 of the Clock. There we found five of those men which came\\nfrom Ireland. Mr. Houston was one of them. They came to us, and we chose\\nCapt. Frie to discourse them with 4 men. They saj they have a Grant of this\\nPennecook on both sides of the River. They call us Rel)bels, and commands\\nus to discharge the Place, both in the King s name and in the Province s and\\nif we don t, in a fortniglit they will git us off We therefore desire you. Justice\\nStevens, with the Committe, to send us word whether we have any Encourage-\\nment to Stay, or else to draw off. Butt Capt. Erie s Courage is So that he will\\nSta} allone rather then Let them userpers drive us off.\\nA true copy of ye Journall Sent from Pennecook, and of Their Treatment\\nwhen they got there.*\\nFurnished by Hon, C. E. Potter.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0815.jp2"}, "794": {"fulltext": "746 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nDOCL^MENTS REFERRED TO IN CHAPTER 111.\\nNo. 1, pp. 63, 64. The Endicot or Scwall fiirin.\\nNo. 2, p. 81. Expenses of committee sent to Penacook to notify Massachu-\\nsetts gentlemen to withdraw tliemselves.\\nNo. 3, p. 91. Eorfeiiure of rights.\\nDOCUMENTS IN CHAPTER IV.\\nNo. 1. An Act for subjecting all persons and estates within this Province,\\nlying to the eastward or northward of the northern and eastern boundary of the\\nProvince of the Massachusetts Bay, (not being within any township,) to pay a\\ntax, (according to the rules herein prescribed,) towards the support of this Gov-\\nernment.\\nDOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER V.\\nNo. 1, p. 152. Petition of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., April 30, 1745, for aid\\nagainst the French and Indians.\\nNo. 2, p. 152. Petition of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, March 12, 1746, for the\\nsame.\\nNo. 3, p. 152. Petition of the Inliabitants of Rumford. July 13, 1747, to the\\nGovernor, Council and Assembly, for the same. This petition signed by sixty-\\ntwo persons.\\nNo. 4, p. 152. Petition of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, Sept. 23, 1747, for the\\nsame.\\nNo. 5, 153. Col. Benjamin Rolfe s muster roll of two companies, June 8,\\n1745, viz. of Capt. John Chandler, leader of a scout, of ten men and of\\nCapt. Jeremiah Clough, leader of a scout, of five men.\\nNo. 6, p. 156. Capt. Daniel Ladd s muster roll, of sixty-five men, Aug. 11,\\n1746.\\nNo. 7, p. 156. Contains a petition from Capt. Daniel Ladd, March 31, 1747,\\nasking remuneration for losses sustained while in command of his volunteer\\ncompany, in 1746. He says: Your petitioner was obliged to carry two\\nhorses for the said service, and lost one of them. I had one gun also taken\\nfrom me by the Indians, when they killed Jonathan Bradlec, and some others of\\nmy company said Bradlee having m}^ gun with him at that time.\\nNo. 8, p. 174. A muster roll of the company in His Majesty s service, under\\ncommand of Cajit. Ebenezer Eastman, 1747. In this company, consisting of\\nsixteen men, were Rev. Mr. Phinehas Stevens, of Boseawen, and James Scales,\\nEsq., of Canterbury.\\nNo. 9, p. 174. A muster roll of a company under command of Capt. Eben-\\nezer Eastman, in Nov., 1747, in which were thirty-five men.\\nNo. 10, p. 174. A muster roll of a company under command of Capt. Moses\\nFoster, 1748. In this company were twenty-seven men. among whom was Rev.\\nMr. Whittemore, of Pembroke.\\nDOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER VI.\\nNo. 1, pp. 190, 191. From this document, which is placed on file at length, it\\nappears that Capt. Eastman s company marched from Ste])henstown, which\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was also called Bakerstown now called Franklin about the last of July,\\n1755. On the I6th of August they were at Deerfield, Mass. Then our com-\\npany took allowance of bread, meat and rhuni part of our bread we took at\\nNorthfield. 2 days before, but we took no pease. On the 24th of August they\\nwere at All)any. This day we took allowance of bread, meat, and Aug. 25th\\nwe took allowance of pease all which allowance we took for 8 days, and our\\nrum we took every day. On the 6th of Sept. they were at Fort Lyman and\\non the 8th of Sept. at Lake Sacrament. We fought with the enemy, and\\nTimothy Eastman was wounded. Sept. 13, we took Ja P ^t of molasses\\neach. Sept. 19. From the 30th of Aug. until now, we took no rum, except", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0816.jp2"}, "795": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 747\\na gill each at a time, when 16 of us came from ye Lake, from fighting, to\\nFort Lyman, and ^o a gill each at ye Lake, twice and a gill each, since and\\n18 of us received a pint each, in order to go to scouting; and Sept. 18, ten of\\nour men went to scouting, and received a pint each and 20 ounces of ginger at\\nonce and no flour since Sept. 6, nor molasses, nor no sugar since we came\\nfrom Albany. Sept. 18 and 19, we rec d a gill and a half of rum, in all, each,\\nand a quart of molasses for ye sick in our company. [These extracts may\\ngive us some idea of the privations and sufferings of the ranger life.\\nNo. 2, p. 192. Depositions of Amos Eastman, John Stark and William Stark,\\nas to their capture by the Indians at Baker s river, c. Dated Peuaeook, May\\n23, 1754. [Copied from Secretary s olKee.J\\nDOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER VII.\\nNo. 1, p. 206. Charter of Bow, copied from records in Secretary s office.\\nNo 2, A, p. 208. Petition of Benjamin Rolfe, Esq to the Governor and\\nCouncil of New-Hampshire, for the incorporation of Rumford by its original\\nbounds.\\nNo. 2, B, p. 208. A counter petition by the Selectmen of Bow.\\nNo. .3, p. 208. Writ of ejectment against Dea. John Merrill.\\nNo. 4, p. 213, A and B. Power, by the inhabitants of Rumford, to Rev. Tim-\\nothy Walker and Benjamin Rolfe, Esq., Feb. 12, 1753, to represent to the\\nKing s most excellent Majesty, the manifold grievances they labor under, c.\\nand also by the proprietors, to the same, to represent their manifold griev-\\nances to the General Court of Massachusetts.\\nNo. 5, p. 216. Petition of Clement March, Daniel Peirce and Zeb. Giddings,\\nJuly, 1754, to Penning Wentworth, c., for a grant of \u00c2\u00a3100, to aid in carrying\\non the suit against the proprietors of Rumford.\\nNo. 6, p. 219. Petition of Daniel Peirce, c., for accommodation and agree-\\nment, February, 1757.\\nNo. 7, p. 214. Jeremiah Stickney s letter.\\nDOCUiMENTS FOR CHAPTER VIII.\\nNo. 1, p. 239. Petition of Joseph Baker and Philip Eastman, representing\\nthe difficulty of collecting taxes, May 1, 1764; and petition and complaint of\\nEdward Kussell, Solomon Heath and Thomas Chandler, setting forth their\\nburden of taxes, c. June 12, 1764.\\nNo. 2, p. 239. Petition of Rev. Timothy Walker, for an incorporation by\\ntheir former known bounds, April 11, 1764.\\nNo. 3, p. 240. Act of incorporation of a Parish in Bow, by the name of Con-\\ncord. May 25, 1765.\\nAnno Regni Regis Georgii Magnte Brittankti, Franchc, IHberniie, Quinto.*\\nAn Act setting off a part of the town of Bow, together with some\\nlands adjoining thereto, with the inhabitants thereon, and making them\\n9EJ\\na Parish investing them with such privileges and immunities as towns in this\\nProvince have and do enjoy.\\nWhereas, there are sundry arrearages of taxes now due, which the inhabitants\\naforesaid apprehend they cannot levy for want of sufficient authority, and\\nseveral of them praying they might be erected into a town or parish, and\\nenjoy the common privileges of other towns in tliis Province\\nBe it enacti d, Therefore, by the Governor, Council and Assembly, that the\\ninhabitants who are settled on the lands hereafter described, viz. Beginning at\\nthe mouth of Contoocook river, (so called,) which is the southeast corner of\\nBoscawen, from thence running south, seventy-three degrees west, by said Bos-\\ncawen, four miles from thence running south, seventeen degrees east, seven-\\nmiles and one hundred rods from thence running north, seventy-three degrees\\n*In the year of the reign of George, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, the Fifth.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0817.jp2"}, "796": {"fulltext": "748\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\neast, about four miles, to Merrimack river then crossing the said river, and\\nstill continuing the same course to Soucook river then beginning again at the\\nmouth of Contoocook river aforesaid from thence running north, seventy-\\nthree degrees east, six hundred and six rods from the easterly bank of Merri-\\nmack river, or till it shall come to the south-east line of Canterbury from\\nthence south-east, on said line, two miles and eighty rods from thence down\\nthe said river, till it comes to where the line from Merrimack river strikes Sou-\\ncook river.\\nAnd that the polls and estates within the aforesaid boundary be, and hereby\\nare, set off and made a parish by the name of Concord, and invested and en-\\nfranchised with all the powers, privileges and authorities which ar.y town in this\\nProvince doth by law enjoy, excepting that when any of the inhabitants of the\\naforesaid parish shall have occasion to lay out any road through any of the\\nlands that are already laid out and divided by the said town of Bow, that appli-\\ncation shall be for the same to Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace\\nfor the said Province, as in other cases.\\nAnd that the said inhabitants of said parish are hereby subjected to the same\\nduties, pains and penalties the law subjects the inhabitants of other towns in\\nthis Province.\\nAnd that their first meeting for the choice of town officers be held on the third\\nTuesday of August next, which officers shall stand and continue till the next\\nMarch following; which meeting shall be notified by Samuel Emerson, Esq.,\\nwho is hereby directed to post the same, together with the time, place and occa-\\nsion thereof, in some public place in said parish, fifteen days beforehand, who\\nshall also govern said meeting until a moderator shall be chosen by the major\\npart of such inliabitants as the law directs in such cases and that their annual\\nmeeting for the future for the choice of town officers be held on the first Tues-\\ndays [of March,] annually.\\nAnd that the officers that shall be chosen in virtue of this act are hereby in-\\nvested with the same powers which other like officers have in other towns in\\nthis Province, and under the same duties and penalties of other like officers.\\nAnd wlsereas the Province tax for the year 176.3, which arose and should have\\nbeen paid liy the said town of Bow, as their proportion thereof, amounting to\\neighty pounds ten shillings sterling, and ninety-six pounds twelve shillings new\\ntenor; and for the year 1764, the sum of ninety-six pounds two shillings new\\ntenor\\nBe it therefore enacted, That the selectmen that shall be chosen in conseriuence\\nof this act the day the first meeting shall be held for the choice of town officers,\\nas aforesaid, together with John Noyes and Edward Russell, Esqrs., or the\\nmajor part of them, shall assess the polls and estates of the inhaliitants living\\nwithin the aforesaid limits, as also the other inhabitants within the remaining\\npart of Bow, (exclusive of such as are already set oft to Pembroke and New-\\nHopkinton,) with the said tax that arose and became due in said year 176. to-\\ngetlicr witli the current charges that shall arise on said Bow for the year 1765,\\nand order the same to be paid into the treasury of said Province by tlie 2. )th day\\nof December, 1765 and the selectmen that shall be I hosen in said parish for the\\nyear 1766, together with the said John Noyes and Edward Russell, or the major\\npart of them, as aforesaid, shall assess all the inhabitants that shall be within\\nthe said boundaries and the aforesaid town of Bow, excepting as aforesaid, with\\nthe sum of ninety pounds twelve shillings, new tenor, together with the current\\ncharges of the year 1766, and order the same to be paid by the 25th day of De-\\ncember, 1766; and that the selectmen that shall be chosen annually for this\\nparish, together with the aforesaid John Noyes and Edward Russell, as afore-\\nsaid, shall annually assess the inliabitants aforesaid with the current charges of\\nthe government that shall be due from the said town of Bow, as their part of\\nthe Province tax, until a new proportion of the same shall be made.\\nAnd be it further enacted, that the constable or collectors who shall have any\\nof the said taxes to collect, shall have full power and authority to levy and collect\\nthe same, as though all the persons mentioned in the respective lists were within\\nthe aforesaid parish.\\nAnd be it further enacted, that no person or persons who shall move into the\\nsaid town of Bow, on any new lauds that are not improved, nor the polls that", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0818.jp2"}, "797": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 749\\nshall come into said Bow after the date of this act, shall be liable to pay any\\npart of tlic arrearages that arose in the year 1763 and 17G4, but are hereby de-\\nclared to be exempt therefrom.\\nAnd be it further enacted, that in case of death or removal of either of the\\naforesaid John Noyes or the said Edward Russell, that their place shall be sup-\\nplied by the proprietors of the town of Bow, upon having notice thereof; but if\\nin case the proprietors of said Bow shall not supply such vacancy within one\\nmonth after notice is given to one of the agents of the proprietors of said Bow,\\nthat then tiie selectmen of said parish shall make the necessary taxes for the\\nProvince themselves Provided, that private property be no ways affected by\\nthis act.\\nPROVINCE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.\\nIn the House of Representatives, May 25, ITG. j. This bill having been read\\nthree times, Voted, that it pass to be enacted.\\nH. Sherburne, Speaker.\\nPROVINCE OF NE-VV-HAMPSHIRE.\\nIn Council, June 7, 1766. This bill read a third time and passed to be enacted.\\nJ. Atkinson, Jun., Secretary.\\nConsented to. B. Wentworth.\\nCopy examined per J. Atkinson, Jun., Secretary.\\nCopy examined per Timo. Walker, Jun., Farisk Clerk of Concord.\\nNo. 4, p. 241. It was said by some at the time, that one object the selectmen\\nof Concord had in view in consenting to this change, was, to get rid of support-\\ning a certain bridge, that crossed the Merrimack considerably below where the\\npresent bridge is. But some few years after, the Court, on petition for that jjur-\\npose, straightened the road, and located the bridge furtiier up the river, in Con-\\ncord, on condition that each of the two towns should build and forever support\\none half of it. Boscawen consented to the condition, and called a sjtecial town\\nmeeting, at which they chose an agent, and authorized him to bind the town to\\nbuild and support one half of the bridge. This they did for several years, but\\nfinding that they could not be legally compelled to support a bridge out of town,\\nrefused to do it. Concord prosecuted Boscawen, but failed of their object, and\\nnow the support of the iclwJc bridge devolves on Concord.\\nNo. 5, p. 244. Constable s warrant for collecting taxes.\\nNo. 6, p. 248. Petition of Andrew McMillan, for annexation to the county of\\nHillsborough.\\nNo. 7, p. 249. Petition of Timothy Walker, Jun. Grant of township, c.\\nThis document is placed on file, but the names of the original grantees, c., are\\nhere inserted.\\nNAMES OF THE ORIGINAL GRANTEES OF THE TOWNSHIP OF RUMFORD, ME.\\nThe Committee appointed by the Great and General Court, at their session\\nin Boston, February, 1774, (upon the petition of Timothy Walker, Jun., and\\nassociates,) to inquire into the sufferings, and make out and return a list of said\\nsufferers, having notified, met and fully heard said sufferers, as directed by said\\nCourts report the following list of names to whom rights are to be assigned.\\nRIGH\\nTimothy Walker, Jun., of Concord,\\nGeorge Abbot,\\nThomas Stickney,\\nJohn Chandler,\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nEbenezer Hall,\\nJonathan Merrill,\\nAmos Abbot,\\nEdward Abbot,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Communicated by Capt. Henry Rolfe.\\nRIGHTS.\\nRIGHTS.\\n3rd, 3\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nConcord, 1\\n2\\nBenj. Farnum,\\n2\\n3\\nJoseph Farnum,\\n1\\n3\\nTimothy Bradley,\\n1\\n1\\nRev. Timothy Walker,\\n2\\n1\\nJoseph Eastman,\\n1\\n1\\nAaron Stephens,\\n2\\n2\\nMoses Hall,\\n1\\n2\\nPhilip Kimball,\\n1", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0819.jp2"}, "798": {"fulltext": "750\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nEl)enezer Eastman, Concord, 1\\nDavid Hall, 1\\nPhilip Eastman, 2\\nJames Walker,\\nCharles Walker,\\nRichard HaseUine,\\nPaul Walker,\\nJeremiah Bradley,\\nHannah Osfjood,\\nAsa Kimball,\\nMoses Eastman,\\nJohn Bradley,\\nJonathan Stickney,\\nReuben Kimball,\\nBenjamin Abbot,\\nJoshua Abbot,\\nAbiel Chandler,\\nTimothy Walker, tcrtius,\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nHeirs of Eben Virgin,\\nPeter Green,\\nEphraim Carter,\\nHeirs of Jeremiah Dresser,\\nNath l Rolfe,\\nEbenezer Ilarnden Goss,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nGustavus Adolphus Goss, Concord,\\nAmos Eastman, Hollis,\\nAliraham Kiml)all. Bradford,\\nTimothy Walker, Conway,\\nEbenezer Hall, Sanford,\\nJeremiah Eastman, Sanford,\\nDr. Charles Chauncey, Boston,\\nHeirs of Rev. Samuel Phillips, An-\\ndovcr,\\nStephen Farrington, Fryeburg,\\nHeirs of Abner Fowler, Coos,\\nElijah Durgin, Hopkinton, N. H.,\\nCalel) Smart,\\nJonathan Strawy\\nBenj. Gale, Haverhill,\\nNathaniel Marsh, Haverhill,\\nCutting Marsh,\\nJames McHard,\\nRobert Davis,\\nAnna Stevens,\\nHenry Lovejoy,\\nPhinehas Kimball,\\nSamuel Rennals, Boxford,\\nSamuel and William Dana, Groton,\\nDudley Colman, Newbury,\\n/2\\nDOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER IX., No. 1, PAGE 273.\\nPRICES OF ARTICLES OF PROVISION.\\nBy virtue of an act of the Honorable General Court of this State, called a\\nreo-ulaiing act for the preventing monopoly and oppression, we, the subscribers,\\nhave aftixed the prices of the several articles hereinafter mentioned, being a\\ncommittee lawfully appointed by the parish of Concord for the same.\\nThe Committee were\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Reuben Kimball, James Abbot, John Kimball, Robert\\nDavis, David Hall.\\nThe language in which the prices of the several articles is expressed in the\\nreport is thus Wheat good merchantable shall not exceed the price of seven\\nshillings per bushel, which 1 have abridged, as follows\\nd.\\n4 per lb.\\n4\\n6\\nper pair.\\n3\\nWheat,\\n7\\nper bush.\\nIndian Corn,\\n4\\nRye,\\n5\\nOats,\\n2\\n6\\nPeas,\\n7\\nBeans,\\n7\\nPotatoes, in the fall,\\n1\\nAt no other season, over 2\\nCheese,\\n6 per lb.\\nButter,\\n9\\nWood, oak,\\n8\\nper cord.\\nPork, salt,\\n9 per lb.\\nPork, fresh,\\n0i\\nVeal, fresh,\\n3\\nBeef, grass fed,\\n3\\nBeef, stall fed,\\n4\\nTallow, good tried,\\n9\\nMutton, grass fed,\\nHides, raw,\\nLeather, sole,\\nShoes, men s best,\\nShoes, women s best,\\nFlip and Toddy, made\\nof N. E. rum, 1\\nVictuals, at tavern, 1\\nHorse keeping, in win-\\nter, 1\\nHorse keeping, in sum-\\nmer,\\nOx keeping, one yoke,\\nin winter, 1\\nOx keeping, in summer, 1\\nCider, at the press.\\nCider, other times, in proportion.\\nper mug.\\nper meal.\\n3 per night.\\n9 per night.\\n6 per night.\\nper night.\\nper bbl.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0820.jp2"}, "799": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL.\\nh K\\n751\\nCider, per mug,\\nOats, per quart,\\nFlax 1\\nWool, 2\\nStockinojs, good yarn,\\nper pair, 7\\nHay, best English, S6\\nper load in field.\\nFarming lalior, men,\\nFarming labor, ox work\\nin proportion.\\nCharcoal, at the Iron\\nWorks,. _.\\nShoeing oxen, single,\\nShoeing horse, steel\\ncork,\\nPlough Irons,\\nIron, good bloome-\\nry \u00c2\u00a3-2\\nHoes, apiece,\\nper lb.\\n6 per lb.\\n.3 6 per day.\\n3 per bush.\\nper lb.\\nper hund.\\nChains and yoke irons, 1 3 per lb.\\nCarpenter s labor, 4 per day.\\nJoiner s labor, .36\\nTailor s labor, ..30\\nMaking a full suit,\\nwoolen, .\u00c2\u00a314\\nWoman s common la-\\nbor, 26 per week.\\nFerry, man and horse, 2\\nBoards, .\u00c2\u00a31 2 per M.\\nPlank, ..\u00c2\u00a3200\\nHats, good wool, 9\\nSaddles, ..\u00c2\u00a3360\\nBridles, 7\\nMason s labor, ..46 per day.\\nBoots, half boots, best, 13 6 per i)air.\\nTow Clotli, yard wide, 2 6 per yard.\\nBest dressed wool cloth,\\nyard wide, ..90 per yard.\\nDOCUMENT No. 2, pp. 278, 281.\\nNAMES OF MEN BELONGING TO CONCORD,\\nWHO SERVED IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, WITH THE TIME AND PLACE\\nOF SERVICE, SO FAR AS CAN NOW BE ASCERTAINED.\\nIn Capt. Joshua Abbot s company at Bunker Hill, 1775: Joshua Abbot,\\nCapt. Abiel Chandler, 2d Lieut. Jeremiah Abbot, Sergt. Samuel Davis,\\nSergt. Nath l C. Abbot, Stephen Abbot, Reuben Abbot, Amos Abliot, Jona-\\nthan Bradley, Ephraim Colby, Ezekiel Dimond, Moses Hall, Stephen Hall,\\nWilliam Mitchell, Richard Flood, William Straw, Peter Chandler.\\nIn Capt. Gordon Hutchins company at Bunker Hill Gordon Hutchins,\\nCapt.; D:iniel Livermore, Ens.; Benjamin Abbot, Serg. Simeon Danforth,\\nCorp. William Walker, Corp. Robert Livingston, Isaiic Johnson, Abraham\\nKimball, Thomas Chandler, Joseph Grace, Peter Johnston, Samuel Straw, Levi\\nHutchins, fifer; Michael Flanders, drummer Ezra Badger.\\nIn Capt. Aaron Kinsman s company at Bunker Hill Aaron Kinsman,\\nCapt.; Ebenezer Eastman, Lieut. Samuel Thompson, Corp. Note. Most of\\nCapt. K. s company were from other towns.\\nConcord, Feb. 26, 1776. A return of those men who were in the Continen-\\ntal army last year and have engaged to tarry the present year, c. Signed by\\nTimothy Walker, jun., and Benj. P^mcry, selectmen, viz. Jeremiah Abbot,\\nNath l C. Abbot, John Kinkson, William Straw, Andrew Stone, William Walk-\\ner, Nath l Eastman, jun., Moses Hall.\\nIn Capt. Benjamin Sias company, (of London,) 1776, of Col. David Gil-\\nman s Regt., destined for New- York, and mustered by Col. Thomas Stickney,\\nmuster-master and pay-master of said company, were Pliilbrick Bradley, Peter\\nBlanchard, Amos Abbot, jun., Daniel Carter, Richard Flood and Stephen Sut-\\nton. The latter perhaps of Canterbury.\\nIn the Continental service, under Capt. Joshua Abbot, 1776 Abiel Chand-\\nler, Lieut. Ephraim Colby, Ens. Timothy Hall, Jonathan Haseltine, Philip\\nPage, Amos Barnes, Florence McCollcy, Bcriah Abbot, Stephen Hall, Peter\\nChandler, John Merrill, Seth Spring, John Blanchard, Benjamin Powell, Hezc-\\nkiah Colby, William Walker, Phineas Stevens, .lonathan Johnson, Samuel\\nWorthen, Moses Abbot, Moses Hall, Peter Carey, Jonathan Bradley, Ephraim\\nFisk.\\nIn Capt. Benjamin Emery s company, (Col. Nahum Baldwin s regiment,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0821.jp2"}, "800": {"fulltext": "752 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nof which Gordon Hutchins was Lt. Colonel,) to reinforce the Continental army\\nin Now- York, 1776 Benjamin Emery, Capt. Aaron Kinsman, Ens.; Israel\\nGlines, Ezra Backer, John Carter, Jonathan Currier, Simeon Colby, Ephraim\\nKinsman. William Stickney, Ezekiel Stickney, Jacob Carter, Solomon Gage,\\nBenjamin Elliot, Bruce Walker.\\nThe following men served in Col. Timothy Bedel s regiment, and Capt. James\\nOsgood s* company, and were at Eort Cedars, Canada East, May 19, 1776\\nsome of whom were taken prisoners, stripped of most of their clothing, and all\\ntheir ccjuipments and utensils for the camp or field\\nJohn Webster, Lieut. Richard H. Osgood, Serg. Hubbard Carter, Serg.\\nJoshua Danforth, Corp. Nathaniel C. Abbot, Nathaniel Walker, Joseph Lund,\\nJoseph Giles, Ezra Abbot, Elias Al)bot, Philip Abbot, Benjamin Fifield, Ezekiel\\nEastman, Nathan Kinsman, Benjamin Kenniston, Daniel Chandler, Samuel\\nDanford, William Simonds.\\nIn Capt. Ebenezer Green s company Israel Glines, Ebenezer Hall,\\nJoseph Chandler.\\nAmong those who were taken prisoners at Fort Cedars, were Elias Abbot,\\nEzra Abbot, Philip Abbot and Benjamin Fifield.\\nIn Capt. Daniel Livermore s company, 1777, 3d N. H. Regiment, who\\nenlisted for three years, or during the war Robert Livingston, Serg. Amos\\nFlood, Corp. Abner Hogg, Phineas Stevens, Daniel Chandler, Philip Rowell,\\nSamuel Worthen, Abiel Stevens, Solomon Fisk, Obadiah Kimball, Abner Far-\\nnum, Beriah Abbot, William Eastman, Jacob Eastman, John Straw, Ebenezer\\nFarnum, Samuel Colby, who enlisted for one year.\\nIn Lt. Col Gerrish s regiment, raised in the town of Concord and towns adja-\\ncent, which marched July 5, 1777, for the relief of the garrison at Ticonderoga,\\non the alarm, and marched seventy miles when the news of the evacuation of\\nthe fort arrived were from Concord\\nRichard Herbert, Lieut. William Simonds, Timothy Bradley, John Chase,\\nRichard Eastman, Simeon Danforth, Isaac Abbot, Joseph Eastman, Daniel\\nFarnum, Elias Abbot, John Peters, Nathaniel Eastman Ebenezer I arnum, Eph-_\\nraim Fisk, Jr., Abiel Hall, Isaac Chandler, Israel Glines, John Eastman,\\nPhineas Stevens, Stilson Eastman, Ezekiel Dimond, Benjamin Rolfc, Jacob\\nHeath, Stephen Haines, John Cross, Peter Blanchard.\\nThis company marched July 5th were discharged the 12th.t\\nIn Gen. Stark s brigade, at Bennington, Col. Thomas Stickney, 1777.\\nRichard Herbert, Lieut. Jesse Abl)ot, John Abbot, Timothy Johnson, Ephraim\\nAbbot, Ezra Abbot, Steplien Abbot, Benjamin Ambrose, Philbrick Bradley, (was\\nwounded Simeon Danforth, Reuben Dimond, Benjamin Elliot, Theodore I ar-\\nnum, Richard Flood, Elias Abbot, Abner Flanders, Samuel Kinsman, John\\nPeters, Ephraim Fisk, Ephraim Fisk, Jr., David George, Solomon Gage, Israel\\nGlines, Abial Hall, Anthony Potter, Phineas Stevens, W^illiam Symonds,* Si-\\nmon Trumbull, Oilman West.\\nA Return of the man s Names belonging to my Company, in Coll. Stickney s\\nRegemcnt, wich have Enliested as Soders to sarve three mounth, agreable to a\\nLate Act of the General Corte\\nElias Abbot, Oilman Wast, Edward Wast, Ruben Blanchard, Epheram Fisk,\\nJohn Dow, Joseph Blanchard, Keycs Bradley, Josier Flanders, Ebenezer Gray,\\nBenjamin Bradley, Elisha Virgin, William Eastman.\\nAaron Kinsman, Capt.\\nConcord, July 11, 1780. [Copied from the original.]\\nConcord, July 17, 1781.\\nWe, the subscribers, do voluntarily Inlist ourselves as Soldiers in the service\\nof New Hampshire for the Parish of Concord, for the term of three months\\nCapt. Osgood was, it is supposed, of Conway, f Army Rolls, vol. I., C. p. 78, 79.\\nX Was wounded in the battle of the 16th of August, and drew a pension.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0822.jp2"}, "801": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 70d\\nafter our arrival at the place of rendezvous, unless sooner discharged and we\\npromise obedience to our officers, and to be subject to the Rules of tlie Anny\\nduring said terra. As Witness, our hand.\\nJeremiah Virgin,\\nJeremiah Chandler,\\nMoses Read,\\nPlIINEAS AtER,\\nJoseph Blanchard,\\nDavid Eastman,\\n[Copied from the original.] Millen Kimball.\\nAt Ticondcroga, 1777, Col. Thomas Stickney s regiment, Capt. Ekenzer\\nWebster s company. [Capt. Webster was the father of Daniel Wel)stcr.]\\nRichard Herbert, Lieut. William Symonds, Timothy Bradley, Simeon Dan-\\nforth, Isaac Abbot, Elias Abbot, John Abbot, Ezra Alibot, rhineas Stevens,\\nEzekiel Dimond, John Peters, Natlianiel Eastman, Ebenezcr Farnum, Eph-\\nraira Eisk, Jr., Abial Hall, Isaac Chandler, Israel Glines, John Eastman;\\nStilson Eastman, Benjamin Rolfe.\\nIn Capt. Joshua Abbot s company of volunteers that marched to reinforce\\nthe northern army, in September, 1777, were\\nReuben Kimball, Lieut.; James Mitchell, serg. Moses Abbot, serg. Amos\\nAbbot, corp. Jacob Carter, drummer John Earnum, Moses Eastman, Stil-\\nson Eastman, Jonathan Eastman, Ezekiel Dimond, Phineas Virgin, Joseph\\nEastman, Daniel Farnum, Chandler Lovejoy, Enoch Coffin, James Johnson,\\nReuben Abbot, Ezekiel Stickney, Philip Abbot, Timothy Hall, John Peters,\\nMichael Flanders, Isaac Dimond, John Sillaway, Benjamin Rolfe.\\nIn Col. Stickney s regiment, raised for the defence of Rhode Island, 1779;\\nPeaslee Eastman, Jacob Flanders, Josiah Flanders, Josiah Chandler.\\nNew levies raised in 1780, and in service about six months. Joshua Graham,\\nage, 17; Thomas Carr, age, 2.3; Daniel Stickney, age, 18; Aaron Eastman,\\nage, 20 John Peters, age, 22 Jonas Wyman, age, 20 Benjamin Thompson,\\nage, 18 Jonathan Moulton, age, Peaslee Eastman, age,\\nIn Capt. Webster s company of rangers, for the defence of the frontiers,\\n1782: Abner Flanders, serg., engaged July 9; dismissed Nov. 11. Henry\\nEastman, priv., engaged July 9 dismissed Nov. 8.\\nThe following persons were also in the service David Davis, fifer Moses\\nChase, Ebenezer Foss, Samuel Walker, Thomas or Benja. Powell, Salem\\nColby, negro, Eliphalet Caswell, Nathan Shead, Thomas Pitts, Jos. Hale, Eph-\\nraim Hoyt, Nathan Stevens, Timothy Abbot, David Blanchard. Jonathan Chase,\\nPeter Manual, Joshua Abbot, [of Hooksett,] Benjamin Chase, Enoch Badger,\\nMoses Reed.*\\nbounties paid to soldiers from concord.\\nMen. Amount.\\nLexington, Capt. Abiel Chandler s company, 1775, 36 \u00c2\u00a332 3 6\\nWingate and Wyman s regiments, in 1776, 18 108\\nContinental, 1777, 29 442 14 6\\nStark s Brigade, 1777, 28 252 14 6\\nRangers, Cods, 1782, 2 33 14 6\\nSaratoga, 1777, 27 243 14 6\\nNew Levies, 1780, 9 159 11\\nNichols regiment, 1780, 12 264 10\\nFrontiers, Coos, 1780, 2 45 12\\nReynold s regiment, 1781, 7 73 10\\nNew Levies, 1781, 4 82 10\\nContinental, 1781, 5 191 18\\nContinental, 1782, 5 296 11 3\\n2244 1 9\\nA part only of the above were citizens. Others were hired for Concord.\\n48", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0823.jp2"}, "802": {"fulltext": "754 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nDeduct for depreciation Florence McCauley, paid Jan. 6, 1778, \u00c2\u00a34 17 6\\nJohn Merrill, paid Dec. 7, 1778, U 4\\nBoth engaged in 1776.\\n19 1\\n\u00c2\u00a32225\\nNAMES OF SOLDIERS FROM CONCORD,\\nTTVio were killed in battle, or died in service, during the Revolutionarij war.\\nWilliam Mitchell, killed at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775.\\nLieut. Abiel Chandler, died of small-pox at Crown Point, July 12, 1776*\\nPeter Chandler, died June 25, 1776.*\\nAbicl Stevens, died of wounds, Oct. 20, 1777.\\nPhineas Stevens, died April 21, 1778.\\nObadiah Kimball, killed in battle, Oct. 7, 1777.\\nSolomon Fisk, died of yellow fever at Horseneck, Aug. 10, 1778.\\nSamuel Worthen, died Nov. 10, 1778.\\nTimothy Hall, died of fever and dysentery.\\nNAMES OF SOLDIERS WHO LIVED AND DIED IN CONCORD,\\nWho served in the Revolutionary/ War, but belonged to other iownsA\\nWHERE FROM. DEATH.\\n{age{\\nREMARKS.\\nEbcnezer Dow,\\nAsa French,\\nNath n Chandler,\\nJoseph Iloit,\\nJedediah Hoit,\\nJonathan Uran,\\nJere h Stickney,\\nAndrew Willey,\\nJohn Elliot,\\nJonathan Elliot,\\nJosepli Runnels,\\nAsa Hardy,\\nRobt. Knowlton,\\nStephen Webster,\\nTimothy Wales,\\nBarn d Sargeant,\\nNathan Ballard,\\nDavid Hoit,\\nSam l Jackman,\\nJohn Weeks,\\nLt.R. B.Wilkins,\\nCaleb Whitney.t\\nJona. Wheelock,\\nRev.Israel Evans\\nAndover, Ms.,\\nAndover, Ms.,\\nAndover, Ms.,\\nBoscaweu,\\nBoscawen,\\nBoscawen,\\nHaverhill, Ms.\\nNottingham,\\nNewtown,\\nNewtown,\\nBoxford, Ms.,\\nBoxford, Ms.,\\nCape Ann, Ms.\\nAtkinson,\\nI\\nDeerfield,\\nWilton,\\nBoscawen,\\nBoscawen,\\nPortsmouth\\nHenniker\\nStow, Ms.,\\nLancaster, Ms.\\nNov.,\\nJuly 30,\\nJan. 27,\\nAp. 17,\\nApril,\\nFeb. 21,\\nOct. 6,\\nDec. 2,\\nJan v,\\nDec. 18.\\nOct.,\\nJulv 2,\\nMar. 2 5\\nDec r,\\n1817,\\n1841,\\n18.37,\\n1839,\\n1840,\\n1840,\\n1837,\\n1847,\\n1842,\\n1813,\\n1843,\\n1818,\\n1836,\\n,1845,\\n1835,\\nJan. 14, 1835,\\nJan y, 1818,\\nAug.20,1844,\\nApr. 6, 1837,\\nAug st, 1832,\\nOct r, 1822,\\nSept. 5, 1845,\\nMarch, 1807,\\n80.\\n81.\\n1 94.\\n87.\\nI\\n84.\\n77.\\n87.\\n75.\\nI\\nj90.\\n1 96\\nSec biographical notice.\\nLived near Horse-hill bridge.\\nLived at Little Pond.\\nLived at Horse-hill.\\nLived at Horse-hill.\\nLived near Horse-hill bridge.\\nNot of Col. Stickney s family.\\nLived at West Village.\\nLived at Horse-hill.\\nLived at Horse-hill.\\nLived at Dimond s hill.\\nFather of Atkinson W., Esq.\\nSee Ballard flimily.\\nLived in District No. 13.\\nDied in Boston.\\nFather of Mrs. L. Downing.\\nSee biographical notice.\\n*Tlie names marked with a star, as dead, were found on an old paper belonging to Capt.\\nJoshua Abbot, together with the following, who were in his company, viz. Moses Moul-\\nton d July 13, 1776; Waldron, d. Sept. 5, 1776; Moses Redman, d- Aug. 19, 17.6;\\nIsrael Shepard, d. Aug. 19, 1776 James Moor, d. Aug. 14, 1776 Jonathan Kier, d. Aug. 17,\\n1776 Samuel Bard, d. July 27, 1776.\\nI There may have been others whose names are not ascertained.\\n1 He was a gun-smith in the army; married Sarah Tra.sk, of Bradford Mass where he\\neettled for a while, and h^dfive children. Afterwards he moved to Haverhill, where he had\\nfour children. He then moved to Pembroke, where he lived ten years thence he moved to\\nConcord, where he followed the trade of a blacksmith. He was the father of John, and of\\nMiss Betsey and Hannah Whitney.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0824.jp2"}, "803": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 755\\nDOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER IX., OX FILE.\\nNo. 3, p. 287. Pews, as numbered and recorded.\\nNo. 4, p. 288. Settlement between Kiimford and Canterbury.\\nDOCUMENT FOR CHAPTER X.\\nNo. 1, p. 304. Rev. Mr. Evans answer to his call. This may also be found\\nin town records, 1789.\\nDOCUiAIENT No. 1, CHAPTER XII., PAGE 347.\\nNAMES OE MEN FROM CONCOHD, AVHO SERVED IN THE WAR OF 1812-1815,\\nMOSTLY STATIONED AT PORTSMOUTH.\\nIn Capt. Leonard s company of artillery, 1812, who served from Aufxust\\n17 to November 30, were Keyes B. Powell, serg. Samuel Powell, corp. Sol-\\nomon Mann, Ebenczer Flanders, musicians Jonathan Stevens, corp. James\\nFoster, Abiel Bradley, Jona. E. Elliot, Jonathan Elliot, Jr., Benj. C. Waldron,\\nEbenezer Frye, Francis R. Powell.\\nIn Capt. Wm. Marshall s company, 1814, who were stationed at Portsmouth,\\nand served from Au^. 6 to Nov. 11 Nathan Carter, Frederick P^lliot, Ebenezer\\nFlanders, serg. Jedediah Frye, Samuel Kimball, Josiah Robertson, Thomas\\nB. Sargent, John Stevens, Benj. C. Waldron, John Whitney, William Shute,\\nLieut., from July 30 to Nov. 10.\\nIn Capt. Nath l G. Bradley s companj-, 1814, who served from Sept. 1.5\\nto Nov. 12 Nath l G. Bradley, Capt. Amos Abbot, Benjamin Bradley, Enoch\\nE. Bradley, llazen B. Elliot, Robert Hayncs, Joseph Hutchinson, Elijah Mun-\\nsey, Keyes B. Powell, serg. Loammi Reed, Willey Taskcr.\\nIn Capt. Edward Fuller s company, 1814, who served from Sept. 29 to\\nNov. 18 Ephraim Abbot, John Blanchard, Joseph F. IJow, Barnard C. Elliot,\\nJoseph Glincs, William Hoit, Jr., Jeremiah N. Howe, David Knowles, Hazen\\nKimball, Reuben Osgood, corp. Ephraim Pettingill, Peter Powell, Isaac Run-\\nnels, Joseph Tasker, Jerry Abbot, John Farnham.\\nIn Capt. Peter Robertson s company, artillery, volunteers, 1814, from\\nSept. in to Sept. 29, or twenty days. This company marched from Concord\\non the Sabbath. Peter Rol)ertson, Capt. Samuel Herbert, 1st Lieut. Chand-\\nler Eastman, 2d Lieut. Walter R. Hill, serg. Jacob Hosman, serg. John\\nRobertson, serg. William Bell, serg. Jeremiah Birch, corp. Nathaniel Par-\\nker,* corp. Jerera h C. Elliot, corp. Wm. Moody, corp. Jerch. Glines, mus n\\nSamuel Hosmer, musician; Harmon Eastman musician; Moses Bumford\\nprivate; Moses Eastman, Jonathan Elliot, Josiah Fernald, Cooper Frost]\\nThomas Greenleaf, Samuel Blanchard, Jacob Carter, Moses I^ickerman John\\nGould, Josiah Knowles, Robert Rogers, John Stanyan, John Wheeler, Charles\\nWait, Charles Whipple, Charles Herbert.\\nDOCUMENTS FOR CHAPTER XIII.\\nNo. 1, p. 369. Index to the return of roads. This index shows where, in\\nthe town records, the laying out of a particular road is recorded.\\nThe documents referred to, page .547, containing a catalogue of quadrupeds,\\nbirds, reptiles and fishes, scientifically arranged by Dr. William Prescott, of\\nConcord and page 550, a catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, by the same\\ngentleman, I am compelled to place on file, except that containing a catalogue\\nof fishes. They are a valuable contribution to the department of Natural His-\\ntory, and with regret they are omitted.\\n*In June, 1813, Nath l Parker sailed from Salem, in the privateer sloop Polly and was\\ntaken prisoner and carried into Halila.x. He was released by e.xchange.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0825.jp2"}, "804": {"fulltext": "756\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nThe following is Dr. Prescott s catalogue and statement respecting fishes\\nEev. N. BocTON, Dear Sir\\nThe following catalogue comprises all the fishes that inhabit the waters in this\\nvicinity, so far as they have come to my knowledge. Two of these, the Lake, or\\nWinni pissaukre Trout, and the White Fish, are confined to the Winnipissaukee\\nall the others traverse our streams and smaller ponds.\\nThere exist in these waters four nnv species of fislies, which I described and\\nread before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and\\nwhich was published in Silliman s Journal for May, 1S51.\\nThese new species I described under the names of Salmo Symmetrica, the\\nWinnipissaukee Trout, the Corn/onus Xov-Anglia-, the Shad Waiter, the Coregonus\\nNeo-IIautoniensis, the White Fisli, and the Lota Brosiniana, a fish that has been\\ngenerally, but erroneously, called the Cush. The Cnsk is a marine fish is much\\nshorter in proportion to the weight, and has but one fin on its back, while the\\nLola has two dorsal fins.\\nCATALOGUE OF FISHES.\\n1. The Common Perch.\\n2. The Common Pond Fish Flat\\nSide.\\n.3. The Horned Pout.\\n4. The Common Sucker.\\n5. The Black Sucker.\\n6. Tlie Horned Sucker.\\n7. The New-York Shiner, or Grass\\nFish.\\n8. The Black-nosed Dace.\\n9. The Red-fin Dace.\\n10. The Silvery Dace.\\n11. The Shining Dace.\\n12. The Common Pickerel.\\n13. The Common Brook Trout.\\n14. The Winnipissaukee Trout.\\n1.5. The Red-bellied Trout.\\n16. The Shad- Waiter.\\n17. The White Fish.\\n18. The Common Shad.\\n19. The Lota, erroneously called Cusk.\\n20. The Salmon.\\n21. The Silver Eel.\\n22. The Common Eel.\\n23. The Lamprey.\\nSTATISTICS.\\nTable showing the amount of money voted to be raised by the town to defray\\nall current expenses at specified periods of ten years, with the estimated pop-\\nulation.\\nYEAR.\\nMINISTRY.\\nSCHOOLS. 1\\nROADS, 4C.\\nOTHER EXp n s.\\nPOPULATION.\\n1733~\\n\u00c2\u00a3105=$136,50\\n\u00c2\u00a3200\\n100 proprietors.\\n1743.\\n\u00c2\u00a3300*\\n350 inhabitants.\\n1766.t\\n\u00c2\u00a3100\\n750\\n1775.\\n47 S1 56,66\\n\u00c2\u00a360\\n\u00c2\u00a353\\n1.052\\n1785.\\n90=$300,00\\n40\\n\u00c2\u00a340\\n1.400\\n1795.\\n\u00c2\u00a3105=8350,00\\n\u00c2\u00a3105\\n\u00c2\u00a320\\n1.900\\n1805.\\n$450,00\\n$500\\n400,00\\n2.225\\n1815.\\n$450,00\\nSI. 000\\n2.000,00\\n2.600\\n1825.t\\n$1,250\\n2.200,00\\n3.270\\n1835.\\n$1..500\\n$4,000\\n2.000,00\\n4.300\\n1845.\\n$2,200\\n$4,000\\n3.988,99\\n6.700\\n1853.\\n$5,000\\n$4,000\\n$10,000,00\\n10.000\\nNote. It appears by the Auditors Report, March, 18 3, before the organization of the\\ncity government, tliat the town owed for borrowed money, $17,239,16.\\nOld tenor, for ministry, school and other necessary cliarges.\\ntFir-st legal meeting for raising money, c., after the incorporation of Concord, 1705.\\n\u00c2\u00a3100 lawful money was for Rev. Mr. Walker s salary, with other necessary charges of\\nthe parish =$333,33.\\nJ At this time money for support of the ministry was raised by incorporated societies.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0826.jp2"}, "805": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. tOi\\nA PART OF A RATE FOR PAYING REV. JIR. WALKER S SALARY, FROM MAY\\n2ti, 1755 TO MAY 26, 1756.\\nJames and Amos Ahliot,\\nEnsign Edward Abbot,\\nJames Abbot, jun.,\\nLt. Natlianiel Abbot,\\n,Natbaniel Abbot, jun.,\\nReuben Abbot,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nWidow Elizabeth Bradley,\\nWidow Mary Bradley,\\nCapt. John Chandler,\\nJohn Chandler, jun.,\\nTimothy Chandler,\\nEphraim Carter,\\nEzra Carter, Esq.,\\nJoseph Carter,\\nEzekiel Carter,\\nPeter and William Coffin, 1 1\\nEzekiel Dimond,\\nSamuel and Robert Davis\\nBenjamin Eastman,\\nDea. Ephraim Farnum,\\nZebadiah Earnum,\\nThe foregoing is interesting as showing the amount of rates assessed on the\\nproperty of individuals named, for the salary of Rev. Mr. Walker, in the year\\nending May, 1756. It is also important as exhibiting the value of the oWieno?-\\ncurrency compared with the hpiv tmor or hvi.]ful monpy. The rate is made in\\nthe old tenor currency. The old tenor was the cui-rency which consisted\\nin bills of credit issued by the Legislature of the Provinces, having the nom-\\ninal value of silver money at a given rate per ounce. These bills of credit\\nwere liable to depreciation but Mr. Walker s salary was to be paid in the\\nmedium of trade for the time being in the Province, at silver, 17s. per ounce.\\nThe real value, however, of an ounce of silver was one English crown, or 6.s.\\nand %d. The late John Farmer, Esq., therefore, reckoned \u00c2\u00a3100 as equivalent in\\n1730 to $130,.37. The old tenor currency had been in use for many years\\nbut the bills of credit had so depreciated that it became important to estab-\\nlish a new currency, or to reckon silver at a different rate per ounce. This\\nchange was made in Connecticut, in 1740,* and about the same time in Massa-\\nchusetts and New- Hampshire. The new tenor was called lawful money, be-\\ncause it was by law made a lawful tender for paying debts. In 1750 a cor-\\nrect table was published in Boston, to brlnrj old tenor into laicful money at the\\nrate of dollars, at six shillings per piece, from one penny to twenty shillings, old\\ntenor. According to this table,\\n2s. 6c?. old tenor, was equal to Os. Ad. Or/, new tenor.\\ns.\\n.s.\\nd.\\n13\\n10\\nJoseph Farnum,\\n8\\n18\\n4\\n13\\n6\\n8\\nAbner Fowler,\\n5\\n3\\n4\\n5\\n3\\n4\\nllczekiah Foster,\\n8\\n8\\n4\\n6\\nRichard Herbert,\\n3\\n3\\n4\\n4\\n18\\n4\\nIleiny Lovejoy,\\n10\\n16\\n8\\n5\\n1\\nS\\nObadiah Maxfield,\\n3\\n3\\n1\\n8\\nJames Osgood,\\n14\\n3\\n4\\n7\\n16\\n8\\nSamuel Osgood,\\n3\\n2\\n1\\n8\\nJacob Potter,\\n3\\n12\\n15\\nNathaniel Rolfe,\\n16\\n8\\n5\\n13\\n4\\nNathaniel Rix,\\n3\\n8\\n4\\n3\\nEzekiel Steel,\\n3\\n7\\n10\\nAaron Stevens,\\n9\\n13\\n4\\n6\\n15\\nLieut. Stickney,\\n13\\n1\\n8\\n4\\nThomas Sticknej%\\n7\\n1\\n8\\n4\\nLt. John Webster and\\n11\\n13\\n4\\n11\\n13\\n4\\nEnoch Webster f\\n6\\n1\\n8\\nIsaac Walker,\\n7\\n15\\n10\\n13\\n4\\nWilliam Walker,\\n6\\n13\\n4\\n4\\n16\\n8\\nLieut. I^dward West,\\n3\\n10\\n15\\n10\\nNathaniel West,\\n4\\n5\\n8\\n18\\n4\\nBenjamin Woodwell,\\n3\\n3\\n7\\n6\\n9\\n12\\n15\\n20\\n4\\n3,\\n1\\n1\\n2\\n1\\n1\\n7\\n2\\n2\\n8\\nWhoever, then, is curious to make the cast, will find that the rate for Rev.\\nMr. Walker s salary reckoned as it was in old tenor, which was long kept up,\\neven after the currency was changed, was not very heavy on the inhabitants of\\nRumford. For example, James and Amos Abbot s rate was .\u00c2\u00a313 10s. old\\ntenor, which, reduced to new tenor, was 36s., or $6,00. Lieut. Nathaniel\\nAbbot s rate was \u00c2\u00a36 old tenor, equal to 16s., or .?2,67. Dea. Ephraim Farnum s\\nrate was \u00c2\u00a315 10s., equal to \u00c2\u00a32 Is. id. new tenor, or $6,87 ^o. which was the high-\\nest rate on the list.\\nTrumbull s History, vol. II., chap. 3. f N. H. Hist. Coll., vol. I., p. 273.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0827.jp2"}, "806": {"fulltext": "758\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nTOWN RATES FOR THE YEAR 1T78.\\nDea. Geo. Abbot Sons,\\nBenjamin Abbot Sons,\\nEdward Abbot,\\nNathaniel Ciiandler Abbot\\nMoses Abbot,\\nStephen Abbot,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nCapt. Joshua Abbot,\\nJames and Amos Abbot,\\nNathan Abbot,\\nLt. Jeremiah Abbot,\\nJabez Abbot,\\nJesse Abbot,\\nReuben Abbot Son,\\nDaniel Abbot,\\nPhilip Abbot,\\nRichard Ayer,\\nJohn Austin,\\nRobert Ambrose,\\nHenry Beck,\\nLt. Timo. Bradlee,\\nAbial Blanchard,\\nTimo. Bradley, 2d,\\nJonathan Bradley,\\nPhilbrook Bradley,\\nJohn Blanchard,\\nCaleb Buswell,\\nLt. John Bradley,\\nBenj. Blanchard Son,\\nSamuel Butters,\\nJere h Bradley,\\nEzra Badger,\\nSamuel Bradley,\\nJonathan Badger,\\nDaniel Chase,\\nJohn Chase,\\nJoseph Carter,\\nDaniel Carter,\\nWilliam Curier,\\nJoseph Clough,\\nLot Colby,\\nDaniel Carter, 2d,\\nJoseph Carter, 2d,\\nNathaniel Curier,\\nRobert Carr,\\nEns. Ezekiel Carter,\\nEzra Carter,\\nAVilliam Coffin Son,\\nJoseph Colby,\\nEns. Ephraim Colbv,\\nDr. Philip McCarrigain,\\nHezekiah Colby,\\nDaniel Chandler,\\nCapt. Peter Coffin,\\nLt. John Chandler, 7\\nJohn Colby, 3\\nNath i Clement Son, 5\\nJacob Carter, 1\\nLt. Robert Davis, 8\\n1.3\\n14\\n4\\n6\\n1\\n5\\n3\\n5\\n7\\n12\\n19\\n1.3\\n19\\n9\\n1\\n12\\n13\\n15\\n3\\n4\\n14\\n11\\n12\\n10\\n5\\n10\\n10\\n6\\n6\\n18\\n16\\n10\\n3\\n6\\n9\\n14\\n6\\n9\\n17\\n9\\n4\\n12\\n10\\n10\\n2\\n1.5\\n11\\n1\\n7\\n19\\nEbenezer Dow,\\nS I Ezekiel Dimond,\\n7 I Ezekiel Dimond, 2d,\\n00 j Ruben Dimond,\\nj Simeon Danforth,\\nCapt. Joseph Eastman,\\nEben r Eastman,\\nj Joseph Eastman, 2d,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nLt. Moses Eastman,\\nEns. Stilson Eastman,\\nRobert Eastman,\\nMoses Eastman, 2d,\\nEns. Jonathan Eastman,\\nRichard Eastman,\\nJoiin Elliot Sons,\\nCapt. Benj. Emery,\\nBenj. Eliot,\\nThomas Eaton,\\nBenj. Eastman,\\nJonathan Emerson,\\nJoseph Eliot,\\nJoseph Farnum,\\nJoseph Farnum, jun.,\\nStcplien Farnum,\\nAbner Farnum,\\nDaniel Farnum,\\nEpiiraim F aruum,\\nBenj. l\\\\arnum,\\nZebadiah Farnum Son\\nJosiah F arnum Son,\\nJosiah F\\\\irnum, jun.,\\nTheodore l^irnum,\\nEphraim Farnum, 2d,\\nEphraim Fisk,\\nRichard Flood,\\nZebuion Flanders,\\nAsa Foster,\\nRichard Flanders Son,\\nRichard Flanders, 2d,\\nAbner F landers,\\nJames Farnum,\\nJames Farnum, 2d,\\nJohn Farnum,\\nBenj. F ificld,\\nWilliam Filield,\\nBenj. Fitield, 2d,\\nJonathan Fitield,\\nGeorge Graham,\\nSolomon Gage,\\nSamuel Goodwin,\\nIsrael Glines,\\nDavid Gage,\\nDavid George,\\nDaniel Gale,\\nNathaniel Green,\\nPeter Green, Esq.,\\nJacob Goodwin,\\n10\\n10\\n10\\n6\\n1\\n6\\n10\\n7\\n6\\n4\\n7\\n7\\n6\\n9\\n6\\n9\\n2\\n9\\n11\\n6\\n4\\n2 6\\n2\\n10 12\\n5\\n2 18\\n3\\nI 19\\n7\\n3\\n5\\n9 9\\n4\\n4 3\\n11\\n5 5\\n11\\n10 16\\n8 9\\n8 2\\n4 6\\n2\\n3 10\\n5\\n3 4\\n2\\n3 9\\n3\\n3 10\\n5\\n5 9\\n7\\n12 10\\n5\\n2 14\\n2\\n3 18\\n6\\n4 1\\n5\\n3 17\\n5\\n1 10\\n9\\n8 14\\n10\\n4 18\\n7\\n3 18\\n1\\n3 16\\n2\\n4 9\\n10\\n7\\n7 1\\n1\\n7 13\\n7\\n7 2\\n2\\n6 2\\n1\\n2 16\\ni\\n2 8\\n5\\n3 6\\n1 16\\n3\\n2\\n8\\nI 2\\n8 18\\n6\\n2 19\\n4\\n2 7\\n7\\n19\\n9\\n3 8\\n2\\n6\\n7\\n3 14\\n9\\n2 5\\n1\\n1 6\\n5\\n1 6\\n5\\n3 6\\n3 11\\n10\\n3 14\\n9\\n1 6\\n5\\n4 8\\n2 16\\n1\\n7 1\\n2\\n1 17\\n5\\n8 18\\n2\\n2 8\\n5", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0828.jp2"}, "807": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL.\\n759\\nDr. Peter Green,\\nDr. Eben r Harnden Goss,\\nBenj. Hanford,\\nLt. Richard Harbert,\\nDavid Hall,\\nSamuel Hinkson,\\nCol. Gordon Hutchins,\\nOliver Hoyt,\\nLt. Joseph Haseltine,\\nRichard Haseltine,\\nJames Haseltine,\\nDea. Joseph Hall Son,\\nEbenezer Hall,\\nObadiah Hall,\\nDaniel Hall,\\nRobert Harris, merchant,\\nAmos Heath,\\nCornelius Johnson Son,\\nJonathan Johnston,\\nJohn Kimball,\\nStephen Kimball,\\nTimo. Kimball,\\nNathan Kindsman,\\nCapt. Aaron Kindsman,\\nPhilip Kimball,\\nCajit. Ruben Kimball,\\nAsa Kimball,\\nPhineas Kimball,\\nCapt. Henry Lovejoy,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nJames Mitchel,\\nHenry Martin,\\nHenry Moulton,\\nWid. Hannah Osgood,\\nRichard Hazen Osyood,\\nLt. Asa Petty,\\nJohn Peters,\\nEphraim Potter,\\nRichard Potter,\\nLt. William Phillips,\\nAnthony Potter,\\nNathaniel Rolfe Son,\\nNathaniel Rolfe, 2d,\\nDavid Reed,\\nLevi Ross,\\nWid. Anna Stephens,\\nJames Stephens,\\nThomas Chellis Shepherd,\\n5\\nI\\n4\\n11\\n6\\n2\\n1\\n2\\n6\\n8\\n5\\n23\\n10\\n4\\n2\\n11\\n2\\n4\\n1\\n8\\n4\\n4\\n3\\n8\\n18\\n5\\n4\\n3\\n6\\n6\\n5\\n1\\n1\\n6\\n6\\n1\\n2\\n2\\n1\\n1\\n6\\n11\\n1\\n1\\n3\\n1\\n17\\n15\\n00\\n13\\n17\\n16\\n19\\n8\\n17\\n8\\n15\\n13\\n11\\n18\\n11\\n6\\n19\\n4\\n9\\n7\\n18\\n19\\n17\\n19\\n00\\n12\\n14\\n10\\n10\\n19\\n2\\n16\\n6\\n10\\n17\\n16\\n6\\n12\\n14\\n7\\n6\\n15\\ns.\\nd.\\nBenj. Sweat,\\n1\\n16\\n3\\nJohn Stevens, merchant,\\n14\\n14\\n9\\nAaron Stevens, Ii^sq., Son\\nG\\n2\\n10\\nEzekiel Stickney,\\n1\\n9\\n8\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\n14\\nU\\n6\\nDan Stickney,\\n3\\n10\\n5\\nLt. Jonathan Stickney,\\n11\\n12\\n10\\nTimo. Simonds,\\n4\\n3\\nTimothy Simonds, 2d,\\n2\\n12\\n5\\nWilliam Simonds,\\n1\\n10\\n9\\nEbenezer Simonds,\\n3\\n4\\nJacob Shute,\\n2\\n7\\n3\\nEns. John Shute,\\n6\\n16\\n5\\nAndrew Stone,\\n9\\n10\\nSimon Trumblc,\\n1\\n9\\n8\\nWid. Mary Thompson,\\n6\\n7\\nLemuel Tucker,\\n1\\n10\\n9\\nMrs. Sarah Thompson,\\n10\\n11\\nLt. Phineas Virgin,\\nc\\n00\\n2\\nLt. Ebenezer Virgin,\\n8\\n18\\n2\\nJohn Virgin,\\n3\\n13\\n8\\nWilliam Virgin,\\n5\\n12\\n2\\nJerc h Whealler,\\n3\\n10\\n5\\nIsaac and James Walker,\\n8\\n5\\nTimothy Walker, Esq.,\\n32\\n8\\n7\\nGilman West,\\n3\\n1\\n6\\nNoah West,\\n1\\n19\\n7\\nWid. Sarah West,\\n4\\n5\\nThomas Wilson,\\n10\\n3\\n7\\nAsa Parker,\\n11\\nHeirs of Rev. Sam l Philip\\ns, 1\\n14\\n2\\nSamuel Runnels,\\n1\\n15\\n2\\nJames McHard,\\n1\\n3\\nOriginal right of Benj. Gage,\\n11\\n7\\nJohn Hoyt and Grossman,\\n11\\nStephen Farrington,\\n1\\n3\\nCapt. Benj. Gale,\\n1\\n7\\nOliver Peabody,\\n11\\nThomas Merrill, Esq.,\\n1\\n3\\nLieut. Eben r Hall\\n8\\nJacob Hall,\\n11\\nJohn Farnum,\\n8\\nAbraham Kimball,\\n1\\nHeirs of Jno. Webster,\\n1\\n3\\nCapt. Timo. Walker,\\n8\\nLieut. Darling,\\n11\\nCapt. Nalh l Marsh,\\n11", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0829.jp2"}, "808": {"fulltext": "760\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\npR\\nla\\no\\nH\\npR\\nO\\nH\\ncc\\nP5\\nW\\nH\\n12;\\nt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\\nH\\nP^\\nO\\n!2;\\no\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nH\\nO\\nO\\nW\\n02\\npa\\nen\\nP\\nPi\\nO\\no\\no\\nH\\nf=3\\nH\\n!2;\\nO\\nQ\\nw\\nP3\\nH\\nCO\\nJ\\nco\\nin\\n00\\nO\\nH\\no\\nCO\\n00\\nO\\nPi\\nPm\\niJ\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2?SipOll}9I\\\\[ JS9AV\\nm o\\noo__ to^ oo__ -f\\ncf r 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jsiicsaoAiuxi 5S3^\\neo 00 to\\nCO t^_^C!\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Sao3 9iiiAJ9qsi^\\nto in 05 t^ t^\\nto in in Qo\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^0 PS 8Il!Aa9qsij\\nto CTS\\nOT to__\\nco\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0gniA^qsij ^sijdt^a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2*in-l ina)co 7it^\\ncoinininCTii-^inco\\nto oo en o\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jBa^SgaSuoQ jsug\\nocoooooin-tm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 cto-t\\noo__ in__ oo_^ 05_ ^__ t^_ to__ co_^ r\u00c2\u00bb__\\noT cT -H* in oo oo oo m m r\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jspd^a Il! ^^93- J\\nCO to\\nco of co\\nO O ootMtomocto oo\\nt^__ O O^ -t _ 00__ 0_ CT t-.__ 00_^ tO_^ 0_\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094i r-T i-T (n co in to in m m o i^ r-T\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2pdoostdg\\n0,53\\n12,74\\n2,61\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-t^.t^^^ootoin --r*t^^-a;\\n1 -._ oo__ r- co_^ \u00e2\u0080\u0094__ o_ c _ o__ o\\\\^ o_ co_ i-_\\no o s f (n oo oo oo oT t- in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2[tj,39a3uo3 njnog\\n35,87\\n47,02\\n60,25\\no\u00c2\u00abC2C5ooeoa .aioiooO M\\n^l t, ^_ I -V\\nCO o r-* co t- co r-T to to to cf o\\ni incococo-*cocoeoco t-^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^sjicsaaAiuQ\\nto\\n12,69\\n9,71\\n14,11\\ntococo\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1 t^cooooocomco\\nin__ co__ O^ OJ oo__ r~ to i^ to CO r-.__\\ncT to in in oT m to m ^i -j ci -f m\\n(N C (N O) C^ (?l N (M CM\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2IsijdBg; UBijsuqQ\\n05\\nto\\nt\\nin\\noj in\\nin CO c\\nO C000a tO(M-*O\u00c2\u00bb-* MC0\\na5r-i^t^coto-*o)(Moot-ina5\\nCO\\nOS Cl CT\\nO tt^cootoi^into.-Ht^t^to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2IBu^SgjSuoQ %S9^\\nCO\\ncrT\\nCO\\nctT\\nCO\\n32,16\\n33,65\\n45,14\\nooa5i ji^totocooooin-*ino\\nCO 00__ CO CTi, 00__ -t -t tD_^ t^ O Tt __ CO\\nco in co c-r to go oo to co to o\\nCO M CO (N IM M CM r- (M CI IM\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2}s;poq}3j\\\\[\\nto\\nCO\\no\\nCO CO\\nOl C5\\nto 00 1 IM !M (M Tl M to t^\\nr- t-tcot^tooo-^oitocoQCoc\\nto\\no\\nin\\nCO\\n05 to\\nCO IM CO\\n-t t^ to CO in in to rf t^ CO in in\\no\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jspdug\\nto\\n-t\\noc\\nCO\\nCO\\nin\\nof\\nCO\\n35,72\\n27,32\\n3l ,50\\ncocninootO(?)CTicooiniMO(?)\\nt, v ~i ^_ -i, ^_\\nco in r~ co oo -t to -t oo cjT oo i cf\\n(M (M CM e) (M\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2UtJUBJIUQ\\nto\\nin\\nm\\nin\\nco\\nto\\nCO\\nin\\n51,47\\n54,74\\n70,17\\n0-. Or^OCM05- tOCi00OCT5l--\\nto_^ o, ^i ^H, i 1 v\\nOi o o to to oo co co oo co\\nt (M -t CO C l (M CO CM CO\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2[TJU^SoaSuoQ isjij\\nto\\nCO\\nTj O\\nin\\ncOTfCMii C )intococ)Oto t^\\nc^itocOTtto ?iinootoooo\\nCO\\nto -M -t\\nto 00\\ncoinoo-tco-i tOTj ootoc\u00c2\u00bblto\\nt^ininTf- TtinTf-.i co^-t\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2aT59^^\\nd\\nCO\\n00\\nCO\\nCO\\n00\\nm\\nCO\\nt^ 00 C5\\nCO CO CO\\nCO 00 CO\\nO COrj-intOt-OOClO OCO\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0*-f-J ti i -l i ininmin\\noooooooooooooooocooooooooo", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0830.jp2"}, "809": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL.\\n761\\nSCHOOL STATISTICS.\\nA Table exhibiting the condition of District Scliools in Concord for the year\\nending March, 1855, presented by the Superintending School Committee.\\nBOOKS USED.\\nRmdimi Town s Series. SpeUing Webster s, Town s Speller and Definer,\\nand North American Spelling Book. Arithmetic Emerson s, Colburn s, Hol-\\nbrook s and Adams Revised. Geography Smith s and Mitchel s. Grammar\\nWeld s and Smith s. Also, Cutter s Physiology, Davies Algebra, Goodrich s\\nHistory and Johnston s Philosophy.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Jlliiq sasiioi(-[ooqas -o;^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2suazijia Aq sjisia.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mo3 pnjj Xq sjist^\\n-H\\n=n 1^ C^iM r\u00e2\u0080\u0094C-l O COCO\u00e2\u0080\u0094 (M COM\\nin CO\\nCO\\nIs\\nNO)0ClC0 M -i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C-liCOl-(N 00 S l N M t\u00c2\u00ab0\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-1\\n\\\\9.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2uioo -jdtig Xq sjtsrA\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2JBioqas qa^a oi junoiuy\\nCO 00 C5 Tt tD O l^ C-. 00 05 to C3 T l^ 00_ _ C0__\\nr rt Tt co (n r-T n OI* I\u00e2\u0080\u0094 !m oi oi ox ot\\nCO M i^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2pun^.1\\n.tiBiajii mojj auioaiii\\nQtToo cO\\nITJ SM (M i: Ot OlOl (M M C) (M_^\\no(roo oooooo ~ooocrotroo ~o!roo oo 00 00 00 CO oc\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a^y pjBoq joj pajnqujuoo\\nO T).\\no\\n(N o\\no\\\\\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2XI 00\\nIft\\no o\\nm\\nTji 00\\n00\\nr^ CO\\nCO\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2XBj Xq pasiBj junouiy\\nQooo oo-i OOtJ3iO(M-t-t ai05 c. i/^cor^\\nO CO O U3 X t- 00 CO \u00e2\u0080\u0094__ f? f~__ O^ -t \u00e2\u0080\u00a2M_, _^ -t^ -t_ -f__ CO^ \u00e2\u0080\u00a2*_\\n-t o -t oo oT cT trT lo ci (m o o ci cc c~. ci o\\nTi mTj \u00c2\u00ab;t^i^O(M 02 *co(N--\u00e2\u0096\u00a0oooooT^(^^\\n00 O \u00c2\u00abD tM\\nU8JUIAV sjaqaes) a[\u00c2\u00abuiaj\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2aajuiM sjaqaeaj aiBm\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i,tuunis sjaqaeai 9|EUiaj\\n-H N-H r-ii-ii\u00e2\u0080\u0094 inosco-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jaiumns sjaqaeaj 9|bi^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2s [aaA\\\\ OA\\\\j UBqi ssa(\\nlou SuipuajjB 91; aaAO oisi\\nt^cooi-.oc^c5tooot^(Mom i-iTfoi-t\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2sjjaaAV OAVJ UBqi ss9[ jou\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2J)8 9X puB {7 UjAAjaq ox\\nINlM(?Jino05DO\u00c2\u00abCiCO-\\ncoi\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I ^^co O ti \u00c2\u00abn\\nin to N\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jajuiM aggjaAV\\nciootoi-iooioco n\\nrt rHlNt^OOS J\\n(N CO\\nTjH \u00c2\u00ab0 05 t~-. 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AND GEORGE ABBOT, ESQ.]\\nPrevious to 1800, and before the town was divided into School Districts, there\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was only one school-honse in the West Parish, which stood near the house of\\nDea. Ira Rowell. Another school-house was built about 1802, near Dam\\nbrook, between Mr. Jerry and Reuljen Abbot s.\\nNAMES OF SCHOOL-MASTERS, NATIVES OF CONCORD, EMPLOYED IN WHAT IS\\nNOW^ CALLED DISTRICT NO. 3, SINCE 1785.\\nJacob Farnum, son of the elder Joseph Farnum, Nathan Ballard, jun., (born\\nin Wilton Timothy Carter, Abel Wheeler, Moses H. Bradley, Peter C. Far-\\nnum, Isaac Farnum, Richard Potter, jun., James Moultou, jun., Ira Rowell,\\nSimeon Abbot, William K. Rowell.\\nNAMES OF NATIVE SCHOOL-MASTERS IN THE DISTRICTS FOLLOWING, TO WIT.\\nIn District No. 4: Capt. Timothy Carter, Nathaniel H. Carter, Dr. Thomas\\nCarter, Peter C. Farnum, Henry Rolfe, Abicl Rolfe, Robert Davis, Samuel\\nCoffin, Dr. Ezra Carter, Gcor xe Stickney, Ira Rowell, Nathan K. Abbot, George\\nAbbot, Simeon Abbot, Abial Rolfe, Albert Abbot, Charles E. Baker, Cyrus\\nRunnclls.\\nIn District No. 5 Timothy Carter, Peter C. Farnum, Nathaniel 11. Carter,\\nHenry Rolfe, Richard Bradley, George Kent, Thomas D. Potter, Jacob A. Pot-\\nter, Ira Rowell, James Moulton, jun., Ezra Ballard, Henry Fisk, Charles Rob-\\ninson, Charles S. Eastman, Nathan K. Abbot, Albert Abbot.\\nIn District No. 6 Peter C. Farnum, Abel Baker, Ira Rowell, Jacob A. Pot-\\nter, Thomas D. Potter, Ezra Ballard, Jacob Eastman, Henry E. Rogers, Nathan\\nK. Abbot, Edward B. West, George A. Blanchard, David L. Morril, jun.,\\nS. LaF. Simpson, Cyrus Runnells. Theodore French, jun.\\nIn District No. 7 Jacob Dimond, Timothy Johnson, John Bradley, Nathan-\\niel H. Carter, Thomas Carter, Samuel Whittemore, Richard Potter, Albert G.\\nWilkins, Ezra Ballard, Henry Fisk, Nathan K. Abbot, Calvin Thorn, George\\nBarton, George N. Mardcn.\\nIn District No. 8 Nathaniel H. Carter, Thomas Carter, Ezra Carter, Jona-\\nthan Eastman, Seth Eastman, Samuel Coffin, Joseph Haseltine. John C.Hall,\\nEzra Ballard, Jacob A. Potter, William B. Wilkins, Charles Ballard, Nathan\\nK. Abbot, Nathan Ballard, jun., James Moulton, jun.\\nIn District No. 18 Joseph Haseltine, Nathan K. Abbot, Henry E. Rogers,\\nIsrael E. Carter.\\nThe following, not natives, but residents of Concord, have taught in the afore-\\nnamed Districts, viz. John Jarvis, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6 Joseph C. West, Nos. 7\\nand 8; John C. Brown, No. 7 Josiah Stevens, jun., Nos. 8 and 18; Arthur\\nFletcher, Nos. .3, 7 and 8 William H. Smart, No. 3.\\nThe following are entitled to the honorable distinction of veteran school-\\nmasters in Concord\\nDea. Ira Rowell commenced teaching in the winter of 1816, and continued\\nto teach every year, with one exception, till 1832 keejjing, in that time, twenty-\\none schools.\\nMr. John Jarvis commenced teaching in the winter of 1819, and taught\\nevery winter, except two, up to 1854 keeping, during that time, forty schools.\\nMr. .larvis excelled in penmanship, in which his pupils made good proficiency.\\nDea. James Modlton commenced in December, 1820, and with the excep-\\ntion of three years, continued until 1848 keeping, in that time, twenty-five\\nyears.\\nMr. Nathan K. Abbot commenced teaching in the fall of 1823, and closed\\nhis last school in February, 1848 a period of twenty-five years.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0832.jp2"}, "811": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL.\\n763\\nNAMES OF POSTMASTERS IN CONCORD,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0WITH THE TIME OF SERVICE AND PLACE WHERE THE OFFICE WAS KEPT.\\n1. George IIough, 1792 understood to have lieen kept in what was called\\nthe Kinsman House, about where the Eagle Hotel now stands.\\n2. Chales Walker, 1801 kept it only a short time.\\n3. David George, from until 1815 in his hatter s shop, still standing,\\nnext north of Mr. Charles Smart s house, north end.\\n4. Joseph Low, 1815 to 1829 at first in a store that forms part of the house\\nof IMrs. John West, opposite the Mcrrimark County Bank aflerwards in a\\nbuilding where Low s Block now is. When Gen. Low tirst had the office\\nthe income of it was $150 a year.\\n5. William Low, from 1829 to 1839; in the building before occupiied by\\nLow and Damon, for chair making, c., a room being fitted up for the pur-\\npose where the office is now kept.\\n6. Robert Davis, 1839 to 1845; in the small building still standing north\\nof the Union Hotel, opposite Free Bridge road.\\n7. Joseph Robinson, 1845 to 1849; in the same building as preceding.\\n8. Ephraim IIutchins, 1849 to 18.53; in the building where kept by Wil-\\nliam Low.\\n9. Jacob Carter, 1853 in the same as preceding.\\nLIST OF MILITARY AND FIELD OFFICERS BELONGING TO\\nCONCORD,\\nwith their titles and order of appointment, as published in the\\nn. h. annual register.\\nOFFICERS OF THE ELEVENTH REGIMEXT.\\nAaron Kinsman, Col., 1789\\nWilliam Duncan, 2d Regt. Liglit Horse,\\n-Maj., 1789\\nVA illiam Duncan, 1st battalion, 1 Itli Rept.\\nAlaj., I7!IC, 1 97, 1798\\nWilliam A. Kent, aid to Gov. Oilman,\\nCol., 1809\\nTimothy Chandler, 11th Regt., 1st Maj.,\\n1800, 1803\\nRobert Harris, aid to Gov. Langdun,\\nCol 1808\\nIsaac Eastman, Jlth Regt., Lieut. Col.,\\nJ817, 1818, 1819\\nJoseph Low, aid to Gov. Bell, Col., 1819\\nIsaac Eastman, 11th Regt., Col., 1820\\nRichard Bartlett. aid to Gov. Samuel\\nBell, Col., 1821\\nJoseph Low, Adj. and Ins. Crig. Gen.,\\nand auar. Mast. Gen., 1831\\nIsaac Eastman, 3d Brig., Brig. Gen., 1821\\nJohn D. Abbot, Aid de Camp, Maj., 1821\\nRobert Ambrose, Brig. Ins. Maj., 1821\\nMoses Long, nth Regt., Lieut. Col., 1821\\nWilliam Kent, 11th Rept., Maj., 18-. l\\nRichard Potter, Jr., ftiiar. Mast 1822\\nIsaac Eastman, 1st Div., Maj. Gen., 1823\\nJohn D. Abbot, Aid, Maj., 1H23\\nWilliam Kent, 11th Regt., Lieut. Col., 1823\\nSimeon Stevens, do., Maj., 1823\\nRichard Putter, Jr., do.. Adj., 1823\\nRobert Ambrose. Div. Ins., Col., 1823\\nJacob A. Pot-er,auar. Mast., 11 Ih Regt., 1824\\nAmos A. Parker, aid to Gov. .Morril, Col., 1824\\nWilliam Kent, 11th Regt., Cdl., 1825\\nSimeon Stevens, nth Regt., Lieut. Col, 182.5\\nRichard Potter, 11 ih Regt., Adj., 182.5\\nJohn Jarvis, Cluar. Mast., 1825\\nRobert Davis, Aid to Gov. Morril, Col.,\\nSimeon Stevens, 11th Regt., Col.,\\nDudley S. Palmer, lllh Regt., Adj.,\\nEi)hraim Hutchins, 3d Brig., aid to Gen.\\nJames Blake, .Maj.,\\nStephen Brown, Brig. Ins.,\\nDavid Davis, Jr., aid to Gov. Benjamin\\nPierce, Col.,\\nNath l G. Upham, aid to same. Col.,\\nCyrus Barton, aid to same. Col.,\\nJohn Putney, 11th Regt., Maj.,\\nEphraim Hutchins, aid to Maj. Gen.\\nBlake, Col\\nStephen Brown, Div. Ins., Col.,\\nSimeon Stevens, Brig. Gen.,\\nHoratio Hill, aid to Brig. Gen. Simeon\\nStevens,\\nD. S. Palmer, Brig. Ins.,\\nJohn Putnev, lltli Regt., Lieut. Col.,\\nD. S. Palmer, 11th Regt., Maj.,\\nSamuel t;iifrord. Aid, 3d Brig.,\\nBenj. Grover, Brig. Cluar. Mast.,\\nSimeon Stevens, Maj. Gen.,\\nJoseph E. Estabrook, Aid, Maj.,\\nlleber Chase, .\\\\id, Maj.,\\nBenj. Grover, Div. Ins., Col.,\\nHoratio Hill, Div. Ciuar. Mast., Col.,\\nBenj. Bordman, Brig. Ins., 3d Brig.,\\nRobert E. Pecker, lllh Regi., Maj.,\\nW. W. Estabrook, 11th Regt., A. j.,\\nRobert Davis, Quar. JIast., Brig. Gen.,\\nCharles H. Peaslee, aid to Gen. Stevens,\\nCol.,\\nJona. E. Lang, aid to Gen. Stevens, Col.\\nPerkins Gale, Brig. Ins.,\\nCharles H. Peaslee, Adj. s Quar. Mast.,\\nBrig. Gen.,\\n1826\\nl.-^26\\n1826\\n1828\\n1828\\n1829\\n1829\\n1829\\n1830\\n1831\\n1831\\n1831\\n1831\\n1831\\n18:n\\n1831\\n1832\\n1)?32\\n1833\\n1833\\n1833\\n1833\\n1833\\n1833\\n1833\\n1834\\n1834\\n1834\\n1834\\n1839", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0833.jp2"}, "812": {"fulltext": "764\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nJ. S. nurgin, 11th Regt., Maj., 1839\\nA^5a Fuwler, Judge Adv., 3d Brig., 1st\\nDiv., 1840\\nBenjamin Gale, Jr., 11th Regt., Maj., 1841\\nJohn M. Hill, 11th Regt., Adj., 1841\\nNaih l n. Baker, 11th Regt ,aiiar .Mast., 1841\\nNath l (5. Raker, lllh Regt., Adj., 1842\\nJohn Priest, lllh Regt Uuar. .Mast., 1842\\nNath l B. Baker, aid to Gov. John H.\\nSteele, Col., 1844\\nJohn H. George, Judge Adv., 3d Brig\\n1st Div 1841\\nJohn t-tickney, 11th Regt., Adj 1844\\nR. N. Corning, 11th Regt., Quar. Mast., 1844\\nMollis B. Crockett, aid to Gen. Tucker, 1844\\nHollis B. Crockett, Brig. Ins., 1845\\nHollis B. Crockett, Div. Ins., Col., 1846\\nWni. C. Prescott, Brig. Ins., 184t)\\nAmos Hadley, Brig, tiuar. Mast., 1840\\nJohn Stickney, 11th Regt., Lieut. Col., 1846\\nSeth E. Brown, Adj., 1846\\nPerkins Gale, aid to Gov. Jared W. Wil-\\nliams, Col., 1847\\nHenry M. Moore, 11th Regt., Quar. Mast., 1847\\nG. W. Ordway, Brig. Ins., 1848\\nJohn H. George, aid to Gov. Samuel\\nDinsmoor, Col., 1849\\nGiles W. Ordway, Div. Ins., 1849\\nAmos Hadley, Div. tiuar. Mast., 1849\\nJoseph B. Walker, Judg. Adv., 1849\\nJesse A. Gove, Drill .Mast., 4th Brig., 1849\\nAlbert Abbot, 11th Regt., Maj., 18.51\\nJoseph H. Mace, aid to Gov. Martin. Col., 1852\\nGeo. Clough, aid to .Maj. Gen. Parker,\\nCol 1852\\nJohn Stickney, Ilth Regt., Col., 1852\\nAlbert .\\\\hbot, 11th Regt., Lieut. Col., 1852\\nLoren Webster, 11th Regt., Maj., 1852\\nJoseph A. Pearson, 11th Regt., Adj., 1852\\nJoseph C. Perkins, Quar. Mast., 1852\\nLIST OF CAPTAINS IN MILITARY COMPANIES IN CONCORD\\nSINCE 1814.\\n[furnished from RECORDS, BY COL. DCDLEY S. PALMER.]\\nUntil about 1814 there is no record of military appointments in the office of\\nthe adjutant general of any reliance. It appears Pearl Kimball M as appointed\\na captain of cavalry in 1804, and Joseph Walker in 1809, but the regular re-\\ncord commences and ends as follows\\nCAPTAINS.\\nJoshua Abbot, Jr.,\\nJoshua Abbot,\\nLeonard Pratt,\\nSamuel Coffin,\\nDavid Flanders,\\nDATES OF COMMISSION.\\nJune 21, 1814.\\nJuly .3, 1817.\\nApril 20, 1820.\\nApril 2.5, 1820.\\nMay 2, 1822.\\nWilliam M. Carter, Sept. 28, 1827.\\nCAPTAINS.\\nDATES OF COMMISSION.\\nWilliam Pecker,\\nSamuel Blake, Jr.,\\nMichael Blake,\\nJeremiah S. Durgin,\\nWilliam H. Wyman,\\nHoratio N. Harvey,\\nApril 18, 1831.\\nApril 27, 1833.\\nApril 30, 18.35.\\nMay 22, 1837.\\nAug. 17, 18.39.\\nAprils, 1841.\\nStephen Ambrose,\\nPeter Robinson,\\nSamuel Herbert,\\nCliandler Eastman,\\nJoseph Cochran,\\nJoseph Manahan,\\nAsa McFarland,\\nRoliert E. Pecker,\\nDavid D. Fisk,\\nZebina Lincoln,\\nNathaniel Martin,\\nGeorge Stickney,\\nBenjamin Parker,\\nG. Washington Dow,\\nStephen Brown,\\nEnos Blake,\\nGeorge D. Abbot,\\nJoseph E. Estabrook,\\nJonathan E. Lang,\\nDec. 8,\\nSept. 17,\\nAng. 19,\\nMav 30,\\nDec. 6,\\nSept. 5,\\nAug. 28,\\nApril 14,\\nAug. 13,\\nApril 14,\\nARTILLERY.\\n1803.\\n1812.\\n1816.\\n1820.\\n1820.\\n1825.\\n1828.\\n1S29.\\n1833.\\n1835.\\nElbridge G. Eastman, Aug. 4,\\nWilliam P. Fisk,\\nFranklin Evans,\\nHosea B. Barton,\\nThomas P. Hill,\\nMoses T. Cass,\\nJohn C. Stowell,\\nSamuel M. Griffin,\\nMoses S. Judkins,\\nApril 20,\\nSept. 5,\\nApril 15,\\nApril 21,\\nMarch 10,\\nMav 13,\\nSept. 10,\\nAu\u00c2\u00a3r. 30,\\nLIGHT INFANTRY.\\n1806. I Moses Lang,\\nCONCORD LIGHT INFANTRY.\\n1835.\\n1 836.\\n1837.\\n1839.\\n1841.\\n1843.\\n1844.\\n1844.\\n1847.\\n1816.\\nJan. 4, 1821.\\nJuly 5, 1822.\\nSept. 1, 1825.\\nDec. 13, 1826.\\nAug. 28, 1828.\\nApril 21, 1830.\\nOct. 18, 1830.\\nAucr. 27, 1831.\\nOren Head,\\nJoel C. Danforth,\\nAaron A. Palmer,\\nReuben D. Moores,\\nDavid Ncal,\\nJohn Stickney,\\nCharles A. Davis,\\nJohn C. Hagar,\\nApril 7, 1832.\\nMarch 26, 1834.\\nMarch 27, 1837.\\nOct. 25, 1837.\\nApril 17, 1841.\\nApril 24, 1843.\\nMay 5, 1847.\\nSept. 13, 1847.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0834.jp2"}, "813": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL.\\n765\\nRIFLE COMPANY IN COXCORD.\\nCAPTilNS.\\nDATES OF COMMISSION.\\nSherburne W. Elliot,\\nJeremiali Fowler,\\nNatliixnicl Rolfe,\\nBenjamin S. Speed,\\nRufus 1). Scales,\\nJohn A. Moores,\\nTimothy Dow,\\nAlexander Ferson,\\nSept. 4, 1830.\\nApril 18, 1S:3.3.\\nMarch 24, 183.5.\\nMarch 11, 1837.\\nApril 8, 1837.\\nMarcli 16, 1840.\\nSept. 6, 1841.\\nCAPTAINS.\\nDATES OF COMMISSION,\\nSherman D. Colby,\\nAlbert G. Dow,\\nNathan W. Moores,\\nCharles B. Knights,\\nSamuel H. Dow,\\nJohn Sawyer, Jr.,\\nFISHERVILLE GUARDS.\\nAug. 7, 1847. I John C. Abbot,\\nMarch 1.5, 1844.\\nApril 23, 1845.\\nMarch 29, 1848.\\nMarch 16, 1849.\\nSept. 12, 1850.\\nApril 9, 1851,\\nFeb. 7, 1848.\\nADJUTANTS, WITH THE RANK OF\\nRobert Davis, July 25, 1817.\\nRobert Ambrose, Aug. 4, 1820.\\nRichard Potter, Jr., Mav 10, 1823.\\nDudley S. Palmer, April 15, 1826.\\nRufus Wilkins, July 4, 1 83 1\\nWilliam W. Estabrook, Aug. 23, 1833.\\nRichard Potter, July 19, 1834.\\nCAPTAIN ELEVENTH REGI.MENT.\\n.John Jarvis,\\nJohn M. Hill,\\nNath l B. Baker,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0John Stickney,\\nSeth E. Brown,\\nHenry M. Moore,\\nNov. 27, 1840,\\nAug. 30, 1841.\\nSept. 2, 1842.\\nAug. 13, 1844.\\nSept. 12, 1845.\\nAus:. 24, 1847,\\nJoseph A. Pearsons, April 14, 1852,\\nWhen Canterbury and Loudon constituted a part of the eleventh regiment,\\nthere were ten or twelve companies of infantry, but after the division of the\\nregiment there were but eight companies. Before the division the following\\nwere among the captains, but whether Lovejoy and Rowell were of Concord, I\\nknow not.\\nINFANTRY COMPANIES IN THE ELEVENTH REGIMENT.\\n1805\\n8th company, Jacob Eastman, captain in\\n6th John Carter, captain in 1806\\n1st Ballard Haseltine, captain in 1806\\n5th Timothy Carter, captain in 1803\\n10th Ebenezer Lovejoy, captain in 1809\\n10th Isaac Eastman, June 10 1814\\n9th Moses Rowell, captain in 1805\\n9th William Walker, captain in 1803\\n12th Moses Shute, June 27, 1816\\nFIRST COMPANY OF INFANTRY,\\nNathan Stickney,\\nWilliam Ivent,\\nJoseph Head,\\nPhilip Watson,\\nEbenezer S. Towle,\\nJames Thompson,\\nSeth Eastman,\\nJohn C. Ordway,\\nMoses G. Atwood,\\nDaniel M. Moore,\\nTimothy Dow,\\nKobert B. Abbot,\\nJacob Dimond,\\nAbial C. Carter,\\nSamuel Baker,\\nBradbury Gill,\\nJohn Sawyer,\\nEnoch H. Dow,\\nNov. 2, 1811.\\nDec. 27, 1816.\\nJune 20, 1821.\\nMarch 10, 1824.\\nAi)ril 25, 1825.\\nMarch 30, 1827.\\nMarch 20, 1829.\\nApril 18, 18.33.\\n1834.\\nAlbert G. Chad wick,\\nCharles S. French,\\nAsa Morrill,\\nSamuel S. Dow,\\nAbiel R. Crosby,\\nP. G. S. Ten Broeck,\\nFrancis S. West,\\nI vdward E. Sturtevant,\\nBenjamin F. Watson,\\nApril 13,\\nApril 18,\\nApril 24,\\nSept. 1,\\nMay 14,\\nApril 22,\\nAug. 9,\\nApril 20,\\nMay 13,\\n1837.\\n1838.\\n1840.\\n1843.\\n1844.\\n1845.\\n1847.\\n1849.\\n1850.\\nTHIRD INFANTRY COMPANY.\\nJune 3, 1811.\\nJuly 3, 1817.\\nApril 20, 1820.\\nJune 17, 1824.\\nJuly 11, 1825.\\nNov. 28, 1825.\\nAug. 11, 18.30.\\nApril 20, 1832.\\nApril 20, 1832.\\nSamuel Farnum,\\nHenry Farnum,\\nDaniel Farnum,\\nElbridge Dimond,\\nTimothy C. Rolfe,\\nJolni Ballard,\\nAlbert Abbot,\\nJeiemiah S. Abbot,\\nFrancis Farnum,\\nFeb. 19, 18.35,\\nApril 19, 1836.\\nApril 9. 1839.\\nApril 20, 1840.\\nApril 22, 1844,\\nNov, 18, 1844,\\nApril 6, 1848,\\nApril 16, 1851,\\nMays, 1853,", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0835.jp2"}, "814": {"fulltext": "766\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nCAPTAINS.\\nSamuel Knowlton,\\nTimothy Dow,\\nSimeon Stevens,\\nIsaac Virj,nn,\\nJosiali H. Locke,\\nJohn Putney,\\nNathaniel Eastman,\\nBenjamin Gale, Jr.,\\nGeorge Keyes,\\nJames Green,\\nMoses Shute,\\nJames Hall,\\nAaron Carter,\\nEzra Ballard,\\nBenjamin Wheeler,\\nFIFTH COMPANY OF 1NF.\\\\NTRY.\\nDATES OF COMMISSION. I CAPTAINS.\\nDATES OF COMMISSIOIT.\\nJuly 30, 1815.\\nJune 20, 1817.\\nJuly 3, 1817.\\nJune 28, 1823.\\nMareh 10, 1824.\\nJune 23, 182.\\nJr., Aup;. 20, 1830.\\nMarch 24, 1831.\\nSept. 6, 1836.\\nSIXTH COMP.\\\\N\\nSept. 21, 1815. j\\nJulv3, 1817.\\nMay 30, 1820.\\nApril 7, 1821.\\nApril 24, 1826.\\nJr., Aug. 31, 1832.!\\nBenjamin Gale, Jr.,\\nCharles Graham,\\nCharles H. Clough,\\nGeorge W. Moody,\\nJames Blake,\\nE. W. Upham,\\nFrederick E. Lufkin,\\nLeonadas Clough,\\nJames O. Merrill,\\nY OF INF.^NTRY.\\nGiles W. Ordway,\\nJohn Stickncy, Jr.,\\nAmos B. Currier,\\nAbel B. Holt,\\nLoren Webster,\\nJohn B. Fisk,\\nJuly 1.5, 1837.\\nAug. 24, 1841.\\nApril 5, 1842.\\nApril 20, 1844.\\nMarch 26, 1846.\\nMarch 30, 1848.\\nApril 21, 1849.\\nAug. 25, 1849.\\nApril 17, 1850.\\nApril 16, 1834.\\nMarch 15, 1839.\\nMay 6, 1843.\\nMay 10, 1845.\\nApril 20, 1848.\\nAug. 18, 1852.\\nTABLE OF MORTALITY IN CONCORD, FROM 1825 TO 1853.\\nFROM RECORDS KEPT BY\\nREV. N. BOUTON.\\nU\\nd\\nd\\nd\\nd\\nd\\n.S 1\\nO\\no)\\nC5\\na\\n3\\n1\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2rs\\nzi\\nTi\\nTS\\nTS\\nP-,\\na,\\na\\nc\\na\\nc\\nc\\no\\no\\no\\nUi\\nat\\noi\\nOS\\na\\ncj\\np.\\na\\nbt\\no\\no\\no\\no\\no\\nc;\\nf-H\\n(M\\nt^\\no\\no\\na\\na\\nc\\nc\\nc\\nQ\\n.9\\n3\\nli\\ne\\ntc\\no\\ncr\\no\\no\\nD\\nlU\\nii\\no\\na\\nrt\\nbD\\nci\\nt\u00c2\u00a3r-\\nCJ\\no\\n(U\\nV\\na\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S.2\\ncs C\\nfo\\n1\\no\\no\\nu\\no\\na\\no\\nr-*\\n1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1\\nPQ\\nm\\nca\\npa\\noa\\nO\\nO\\nH\\nW\\nH\\n1825\\n15\\n38\\n6\\n19\\n12\\n6\\n90\\n96\\n3.330\\n34.3\\n1.977\\n20\\n1826\\n9\\n17\\n5\\n8\\n13\\n7\\n1\\n94\\n60\\n3.400\\n56.4\\n1.769\\n29\\n1827\\n4\\n7\\n1\\n12\\n7\\n6\\n1\\n93\\n38\\n3.500\\n92.0\\n1.381\\n36\\n1828\\n11\\n4\\n4\\n8\\n9\\n7\\n87\\n43\\n3.550\\n82.0\\n1.386\\n32\\n1829\\n9\\n12\\n11\\n9\\n9\\n3\\n96\\n53\\n3.600\\n68.0\\n1.754\\n33\\n18.30\\n6\\n4\\n3\\n13\\n9\\n4\\n89\\n39\\n3.702*\\n95.0\\n1.279\\n32\\n1831\\n7\\n12\\n1\\n8\\n8\\n6\\n90\\n42\\n3.800\\n90.0\\n1.159\\n27\\n1832\\n3\\n16\\n3\\n13\\n4\\n8\\n90\\n47\\n3.920\\n83.0\\n1.365\\n29\\n1833\\n5\\n9\\n3\\n6\\n10\\n12\\n89\\n45\\n4.050\\n90.0\\n1.665\\n37\\n1834\\n20\\n7\\n5\\n13\\n16\\n10\\n3\\nlOOi\\n71\\n4.170\\n56.0\\n2,130\\n30\\n1835\\n17\\n10\\n7\\n14\\n7\\n6\\n90\\n61\\n4.300\\n71.5\\n1 .323\\n21\\n1836\\n11\\n13\\n5\\n18\\n16\\n13\\n2\\n96\\n76\\n4.450\\n58.5\\n2.432\\n32\\n1837\\n16\\n17\\n7\\n8\\n12\\n12\\n1\\n97\\n72\\n4.570\\n63.4\\n1.977\\n27\\n1838\\n12\\n17\\n8\\n18\\n16\\n9\\n90\\n80\\n4.690\\n58.6\\n2.196\\n27\\n1839\\n13\\n18\\n2\\n9\\n7\\n15\\n3\\n100\\n65\\n4.800\\n72.8\\n1.937\\n30\\n1840\\n11\\n11\\n3\\n16\\n19\\n13\\n87\\n73\\n4.903*\\n67.0\\n2.484\\n34\\n1841\\n12\\n18\\n3\\n13\\n14\\n12\\n1\\n98\\n72\\n5.050\\n70.0\\n2.160\\n30\\n1842\\n2\\n10\\n5\\n12\\n13\\n9\\n88\\n51\\n5.200\\n101.0\\n1.805\\n35\\n1843\\n15\\n22\\n6\\n13\\n21\\n13\\n89\\n90\\n5.400\\n60.0\\n2,403\\n27\\n1844\\n24\\n26\\n9\\n20\\n19\\n15\\n2\\n96\\n113\\n5.700\\n50.5\\n2.904\\n25\\n1845\\n20\\n15\\n3\\n29\\n15\\n14\\n2\\n94\\n98\\n6.000\\n61.0\\n2.940\\n30\\n1846\\n26\\n23\\n10\\n27\\n25\\n6\\n1\\n93\\n120\\n6.300\\n52.5\\n2.820\\n23\\n1847\\n20\\n22\\n10\\n20\\n30\\n6\\n3\\nlOOi\\n123\\n7.000\\n57.0\\n4.268\\n34\\n1848\\n27\\n19\\n11\\n24\\n17\\n14\\n1\\n100\\n113\\n7.500\\n66.3\\n2.938\\n26\\n1849\\n28\\n28\\n16\\n41\\n22\\n23\\n88\\n158\\n8.700\\n55.0\\n4.424\\n28\\n1850\\n21\\n17\\n6\\n22\\n23\\n20\\n1\\n90\\n98\\n8.584*\\n87.6\\n30\\n1851\\n18\\n24\\n7\\n26\\n18\\n15\\n1\\n94\\n109\\n9.000\\n82.5\\n29\\n1852\\n23\\n37\\n7\\n25\\n29\\n24\\n4\\n95\\n149\\n9.400\\n63.0\\n32\\n1853\\n21\\n426\\n26\\n499\\n11\\n20\\n486\\n25\\n11\\n2\\n91\\n116\\n9.800\\n8.44\\n27.8\\n29.4\\n29\\n445\\n327\\n32\\n2371\\n74.9\\nU. S. Census.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0836.jp2"}, "815": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL.\\n767\\nTABLES SHOWING THE NUMBER OF DEATHS IN CONCORD BY CONSUMPTION,\\nFROM 1830 TO 1839, INCLUSIVE, COMPARED WITH THE WHOLE NUMBER OF\\nDEATHS IN THE SAME PERIOD, THEIR AGES AND MONTHS OF DECEASE.\\nBV REV.\\nBOUTOW.\\nYear.\\nWh le No.|\\nConsp.\\nMai s.\\nFern. I\\nOF THE AGES OF THOSE WHO DIED BY\\nCON- 1\\n1830\\n1831\\n1832\\n39\\n42\\n47\\n5\\n5\\n8\\n3\\n4\\n2\\n2\\n1\\n6\\nSUMPTION.\\nMales. |Fcm.\\nUnder 1 were 4, viz.\\n3\\n1\\n1833\\n45\\n6\\n2\\n4\\nBetween 10 and 20 12.\\n5\\n7\\n1834\\n71\\n11\\n7\\n4\\n20 and .30 37,\\n15\\n00\\n183.5\\n61\\n10\\n3\\n7\\n30 and 40 18,\\n8\\n10\\n1836\\n76\\n11\\n4\\n7\\n40 .and 50 14,\\n6\\n8\\n1837\\n72\\n13\\n5\\n8\\n50 and GO 8,\\n2\\n6\\n1838\\n80\\n20\\n9\\n11\\n60 and 70 1,\\n1\\n1839\\n65\\n10\\n8\\n2\\nOver 70 5,\\n5\\nTotal,\\n598\\n99\\n47\\n52\\n1\\nOf these who thus died in ten years of consumption, tliere were in the month of\\nJanuary,\\n8, viz.\\n4 males\\n4 females.\\nJuly, 8, viz.\\n4 males, 4\\nFebruarj\\n11,\\n5\\n6\\nAuLCUSt, 14,\\n6 8\\nMarch,\\n11,\\n3\\n8\\nSeptem r, 5,\\n2 3\\nApril,\\n6,\\n4\\n2\\nOctober, 8,\\n2 6\\nMay,\\n7,\\n4\\n3\\nNovember, 3,\\n3\\nJune,\\n11,\\n8\\n3\\nDecember, 6,\\n4 2\\nNote. From the above tables it appears that about one sixth of the whole\\nwho died in ten years in Concord, died of consumption the greatest number\\nbetween the ages of twenty and thirty. The greatest numl)cr in any month is\\nin August and a less number in the fall than in the spring and summer months.\\nThese tables and estimates are results of the author s personal observation\\nand inquiry, not made with medical knowledge or skill.\\nNAMES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE DECEASED IN CONCORD\\nSINCE 1800, AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS AND UPWARDS.\\nCOPIED FROM THE RECORD OF DEATHS.\\nPhilip Kimball,\\nAnthony Manuel, (very aged,\\nAbigail, wife of Capt. Jos.\\nEastman,\\nDeborah, widow of Dea.\\nJos. Hall,\\nMrs. Waldron, widow of\\nIsaac Waldron,\\nHannah, widow of Daniel\\nCarter,\\nRebecca, wife of Amos Ab-\\nbot,\\nIsrael Cheever,\\nCapt. Joseph Eastman,\\nDavid Harris,\\nPhilip Eastman,\\nWidow of Philip Kimliall,\\nHannah, widow of Capt.\\nHenry Lovejoy,\\nNathaniel Abbot,\\nMary, wife of Zecliariah\\nHannaford,\\nAGE.\\nYEAK\\n88.\\n1800\\n1800\\n81.\\n1801\\n97.\\n1801.\\n83.\\n1802\\n82.\\n1802\\n86.\\n1803\\n80.\\n1803\\n86.\\n1803\\n80.\\n1803\\n89.\\n1804\\n88.\\n1804\\n90.\\n1805\\n80.\\n1806\\n92. 1806.\\nMrs. Haine, widow of Rob-\\nert Haine, (very Jiged)\\nNathaniel Rolfe,\\nCol. Thomas Stickney,\\nNatiianiel Green,\\nMiriam, widow of Nath l\\nAbbot,\\nTimothy Kimball,\\nJonathan Willey,\\nLieut. Moses Eastman,\\nChristopher llowell.\\nWife of Isaac Chandler,\\nGeorge Graham, (aged.)\\nJonatlian Elliot, (quite aged,\\nJonathan Parker,\\nCapt. Reuben Kimball\\nWilliam Coffin,\\nCol. Gordon Hutchins,\\nRobert Ambrose,\\nPhinehas Virgin,\\nMary, widow of Robert\\nCalfe,\\n96.\\n80.\\n92.\\n82.\\n89.\\n83.\\n80.\\n80.\\n80.\\n1\\n80.\\n84.\\n89.\\n82.\\n83.\\n84.\\n1807\\n1808.\\n1809.\\n1810.\\n1811.\\n1811.\\n1811.\\n1812.\\n1812.\\n1812.\\n1813.\\n1813.\\n1813.\\n1814.\\n1815.\\n1815.\\n1816.\\n1817.\\n99. 1817.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0837.jp2"}, "816": {"fulltext": "768\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nAGE. YEAR.\\nDel)ori\\\\!i, widow of Edw\\nAl)tiot,\\nEbenezer Dow,\\nJames Scales,\\nHenry iMoulton,\\nWidow HeanJ,\\nCapt. Benjumin Emery,\\nMolly Farnum,\\nJohn Elliot,\\nDaniel Prince,\\nJames Walker,\\nDea. David Hall,\\nAmos AI)lK)t,\\nHenry Martin,\\nHon. Timothy AYalker,\\nEeuhon Alihot,\\nSamuel Jackson,\\nRobert Harris,\\nJohn Blanchard,\\nElizabeth, widow of Gar-\\nven llem])hill,\\nCapt. Samuel Gaines,\\nSarah, widow of Corliss\\nGeorge,\\nRichard Herbert,\\nRobert Davis,\\nWidow of James Scales,\\nSarah, widow of Robert\\nDavis,\\nAbigail, widow of John\\nHoit,\\nLydia, wife of Richard\\nPotter,\\nBridget, wife of John Eowle,\\nWidow Sleeper,\\nAquilla Fenin,\\nHannah, Widow of Rich-\\nard Herbert,\\nMartha, wife of Stephen\\nFarnum.\\nDinah, widow of Reuben\\nAbbot,\\nWife of Joseph Abbot,\\nLucy, widow of Isaac Abbot,\\nLieut. Phinchas Kimball,\\nEphraim Farnum,\\nSarah, widow of Capt.\\nBenj. Emery,\\nJeremiah Wheeler,\\nChandler Lovejoy,\\nMary, widow of Capt. Eb-\\nenezer Kent,\\nFrancis Brown,\\nDr. Peter Green,\\nRichard Potter,\\nOliver Hoit,\\nSusannah, widow of Hon.\\nTimothy Walker,\\nJane, widow of Jas. Burch,\\nJohn Shute, son of Jacob S.,\\nSarah, widow of Wm. Coffin,\\n81.\\n80.\\n80.\\n85.\\n91.\\n82.\\n86.\\n97.\\n85.\\n81.\\n82.\\n93.\\n80.\\n85.\\n100.\\n84.\\n86.\\n85.\\n80.\\n80.\\n80.\\n94.\\n89.\\n85.\\n1817.\\n1817.\\n1819.\\n1819.\\n1819.\\n1819.\\n1819.\\n1819.\\n1820.\\n1821.\\n1821.\\n1821.\\n1821.\\n1822.\\n1822.\\n1822.\\n1822.\\n1823.\\n1823.\\n1 823.\\n1823.\\n1823.\\n1823.\\n1823.\\n1824.\\n1824.\\n1824.\\n1824.\\n1825.\\n1825.\\n90. 1825.\\n83. 1825.\\n94.\\n1826\\n82.\\n1826\\n88.\\n1826\\n80.\\n1826\\n93.\\n1827\\n80.\\n1827\\n80.\\n1827\\n86.\\n1827\\n90.\\n1827\\n87.\\n1828\\n82.\\n1828\\n83.\\n1828\\n80.\\n1828\\n82.\\n1828\\n83.\\n1828\\n98.\\n1829\\n91.\\n1829\\nNAME. AGE. YEAR.\\nEsther, widow of Daniel\\nHerrick, 86. 1829.\\nAzubah, widow of Chand-\\nler Lovejov. 91. 1829.\\nJoseph Wiggin, 82. 1829.\\nNathaniel Kolfe, 86. 1829.\\nElizalieth, widow of Mr.\\nWard, and mother of Maj.\\nChandler, 89, 1830.\\nLieut. Joshua Thompson, 81. 1831.\\nAbigail, widow of Joseph\\nEastman, 90. 1831.\\nWidow Southwick, 83. 1832.\\nEsther, widow of Henry\\nMartin, 89. 1832.\\nJoseph Abbot, son of Dea.\\nGeorge A., 90. 1832.\\nStephen Farnum, 89. 1832.\\nWidow James Stevens, 85. 1832.\\nMargaret, widow of Timo.\\nDow, 81. 1833.\\nSamuel Hutchins, 85. 1833.\\nHuth.widowof Dan lGale, 89. 1833.\\nMary, widow of Daniel Far-\\nnum, 81. 1833.\\nEnoch Brown, 87. 1833.\\nJoel Carter, 84. 1833.\\nElizabeth Hazeltine, widow\\nof Jos.H.azeltine,100y.6m. 13d. 1834.\\nWidow Elliot, 97. 1834.\\nEsther, wife of Jonathan\\nEastman, Esq., 81. 1834.\\nAmos Abbot, 80. 1834.\\nJonathan Eastman, Esq., 87. 1834.\\nAnna, widow of Jonathan\\nWilley, 99 y. 11 m. 6 d. 1834,\\nWidow Elliot, 81. 1834.\\nReuben Abl)ot, 80. 1834.\\nLieut. Nathan Ballard, 90. 1835.\\nDaniel Hall, 80. 1835.\\nWidow Colby, 90. 1835.\\nHannah, widow of John\\nBlanchard, 92. 1836.\\nElizabeth, wife of Samuel\\nGoodwin, 86. 1836.\\nWidow of Daniel Kimball, 96. 1836.\\nCapt. Enoch Coffin. 81. 1836.\\nNathan Chandler, sen., 80. 1837.\\nJeremiah Stickney, 81. 1837.\\nEzra Abbot, 81. 1837.\\nDaniel Page, 80. 1837.\\nMrs. Hannah Wales, 83. 1837.\\nMoses Abbot, 84. 1837.\\nJoseph Farnum, 97. 1837.\\nMolly Mahan, 90. 1838.\\nWidow Abigail Farnum, 86. 1838.\\nJohn Eastman, sen., 80. 1838.\\nCapt. Nathaniel Eastman, 84. 1839.\\nWidow Elizabeth Currier, 92. 1839,\\nMrs. Smith, 101? 1839.\\nNathaniel Meservc, 91. 1839.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0838.jp2"}, "817": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL.\\n^69\\nSamuel Goodwin,\\nMrs. Sanders,\\nBarnard Hoit,\\nMrs. Emerson,\\nMrs. Lvdia Knowles,\\nPhilbriek Bradley,\\nJohn Odlin, Esq.,\\nJcdcdiah Hoyt,\\nWidov,- Abigail Herrick,\\nRichard Elanders,\\nJonathan Urann,\\nWidow Sarah Ambrose,\\nAsa French,\\nMrs. lluth Eastman,\\nWidow Mary Abbot,\\nMrs. J\\\\lary Merrill,\\nJohn Elliot,\\nWidow Lydia Morse,\\nJoseph Runnels,\\nWidow Hannah Meserve,\\nWidow Esther Pinkham,\\nSamuel Jackson,\\nWidow Hannah Lang,\\nMrs. Amy Williams,\\nStephen Webster,\\nJonathan Wheelock,\\nLemuel Barker,\\nMrs. Molly Glover,\\nDavid Simpson,\\nBenjamin Norris,\\nAbraham Sanborn,\\nJeremiah Eastman,\\nMrs. Abigail Clough,\\nMrs. Sarah Dow,\\nMadam Huldah Evans,\\nMrs. Willey,\\nWidow of Asa French,\\nWidow of Jere h Wheeler,\\nWidow Sarah Merrick,\\nAndrew Willey,\\nCol. John Carter,\\nWidow Mary Dimond,\\nMrs. Mary Burbank,\\nCa])t. Samuel Davis,\\nMaj. Timothy Chandler,\\nBenjamin Wheeler,\\nMrs. Griffin, form, of Epsom\\nAbner Dimond,\\nMatthew Nichols,\\nIsaac Emery, Esq.,\\nDea. Nathaniel Ambrose,\\nNathan Abbot,\\nRev. Sylvester Dana,\\nPolly, wife of Jos. Johnson,\\nElizabeth Oilman,\\nAYilliam Heard,\\nMr. Quimby,\\nWidow JNLary Hoit,\\nWidow Rebekah White,\\nSamuel Abbot,\\nWidow Mehetable Urann,\\n49\\nAGE.\\nVEAn.\\n88.\\n1839.\\n93.\\n1839.\\n83.\\n1839.\\n84.\\n1840.\\n87.\\n1840.\\n84.\\n1840.\\n82.\\n1840.\\n82.\\n1840.\\n80.\\n1841.\\n89.\\n1841.\\n80.\\n1841.\\n98.\\n1841.\\n80.\\n1841.\\n84.\\n1841.\\n85.\\n1842.\\n88.\\n1842.\\n87.\\n1842.\\n89.\\n1843.\\n84.\\n1843.\\n84.\\n1844.\\n80.\\n-1844.\\n96.\\n1844.\\n90.\\n1844.\\n94.\\n1845.\\n87.\\n1845.\\n86.\\n1845.\\n80.\\n1845.\\n91.\\n184,5.\\n80.\\n1845.\\n80.\\n1845.\\n80.\\n1845.\\n84.\\n1846.\\n93.\\n1846.\\n81.\\n1846.\\n84.\\n1846.\\nlOOi\\n1847.\\n84.\\n1847.\\n88.\\n1847.\\n92.\\n1847.\\n96.\\n1847.\\n88.\\n1847.\\n89.\\n1847.\\n8.5.\\n1848.\\n89.\\n1848.\\n86.\\n1848.\\n80.\\n1848.\\n,100.\\n1848.\\n82.\\n1848.\\n88.\\n1849.\\n80.\\n1849.\\n85.\\n1849.\\n85.\\n1849.\\n80.\\n1849.\\n81.\\n1849.\\n81.\\n1849.\\n84.\\n1849.\\n87.\\n1849.\\n88.\\n1849.\\n87.\\n1849.\\n85.\\n1849\\n81.\\n1849\\nVBAH.\\n1849.\\n18.50.\\n1850.\\n1850.\\n1850.\\n1850.\\n1850.\\n1851.\\n1851.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\n1852.\\nMary Abbot, wife of Samuel, 85.\\nJeremiah Stickney, 85.\\nWidow Tamar Mills, 85.\\nMrs Gilman, 90.\\nMr. Stevens, 80.\\nAaron Lamprey, 84.\\nWidow Rogers, 88.\\nBenjamin Buswell 86.\\nWidow Elizabeth Stickney, 94.\\nJeremiah Bridge, 93.\\nWidow Mary Clark, 85.\\nWidow Abigail Smart, 81.\\nEstlicr, wife of Dea. Willey, 80.\\nWidow Rhoda Kimball, 81.\\nGeorge Arlin, 86.\\nWidow of Simeon Hall, 80.\\nPolly Odlin, 95.\\nWidow Sarah Drew, 80.\\nWidow Mary Gill, 80.\\nMrs. Hannaii, widow of\\nBcnj. Wheeler, 81.\\nCol. John Coffin, 87.\\nWife of Samuel Palmer, 80.\\nMrs. Webster, 80.\\nWidow Sarah Pierce, 90.\\nSamuel Hutchins, 84.\\nWidow Gilman, 94.\\nMrs. Judith, widow of Timo.\\nCarter, 82. 1852.\\nMrs. JNIehctabel, widow of\\nCapt. Jona. Ambrose, 86. 1853.\\nMrs. Elizabeth, wife of Abel\\nHutchins,\\nMr. Al)el Hutchins,\\nMrs. Lydia, relict of Timo.\\nAbbot,\\nDea. James Willey,\\nJohn Cheney,\\nMrs. Mary, widow of Moses\\nCarter,\\nJoseph Potter,\\nMary Green,\\nMrs. Sarah, widow of Capt.\\nDavid Davis, 89. 1854.\\nMrs. Fhebe, widow of Na-\\nthan Abbot, 90.\\nPhebe. wife of Jas. C. Dame, 82.\\nSally Farnum, 80.\\nWidow Sarah Haseltine, 86.\\nWidow Sarah Moody, 89.\\nMrs. Sarah, relict of Ste-\\nphen Hall, 83.\\nRichard Herbert, 93 y. 5 m. 17 d.\\nAbiel Walker, 88 y. 9 m. 29 d.\\nLevi Hutchins, 93 y, 10 m.\\nMrs. Betsey, wid. of Nath l\\nAbbot, 83. 1855.\\nMrs. Betsey, widow of John\\nEdwards, late of Bristol, 88. 1855.\\nMrs. Abigail, widow of\\nBenj. Kimball, 90. 1855.\\n85.\\n1853.\\n90.\\n18.53.\\n85.\\n1753.\\n82.\\n1853.\\n91.\\n1853.\\n86.\\n18.53.\\n80.\\n1853.\\n81.\\n1854.\\n1854.\\n1854.\\n1854.\\n1854.\\n1855.\\n1855.\\n1855.\\n1855.\\n1855.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0839.jp2"}, "818": {"fulltext": "770\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nCRIMINAL STATISTICS OF THE CITY OF CONCORD, FOR THE\\nY EAR ENDING FEBRUARY 1, 1854.\\nCITY marshal s report.\\nTo the Hon. Joseph Low, Mayor, and the Aldermen of the City of Concord\\nAgreeably to an ordinance, it becomes my duty to submit the following\\nreport of tlic doings of the jiolice fi om April 6, 1853, to date.\\nThere have been one hundred and twelve arrests made by the police and\\nnight watch, and for the following ol! ences, viz.\\nFor Assault and Battery, 16\\nLarceny, 18\\nBurglary, 1\\nShop Breaking, 2\\nIvccping Disorderly House, 1\\nMaking disturbance in Streets, 14\\nCommon Drunkards, 26\\nViolation of License Law, 23\\nViolation City Ordinance, .10\\nComplaint to keep the Peace, 1\\n112\\nOf the above, ninety-four have been put upon trial, seventeen were discharged\\nby order of court, and eighteen were discharged without trial.\\nRespectfully submitted,\\nJ. C. PiLLSBURY, City Marshal.\\nREPORT OF THE POLICE JUSTICE.\\nTo the Hon. Joseph Low, Mayor, and the Aldermen of the City of Concord\\nAo-reeably to the provisions of the city charter, I herewith submit a report of\\nthe business of the Police Court since the 8th day of April last, to the 1st day\\nof February, 1854.\\nY ou will also find annexed a statement of the fees and fines received by me\\nduring the same period of time.\\nThe whole number of entries on the civil docket is forty-seven, of which\\nnineteen have been contested cases. One Bastardy case transferred to the Court\\nof Common Pleas, one transferred by appeal, and one where question arises as\\nto title to real estate.\\nThe whole number of entries on the cr\\nAssault and Batteiy,\\nLarceny,\\nBurglary,\\nShop Breaking,\\nConcealing stolen property,\\nHighway robbery.\\nBringing pauper into the State,\\nObtaining goods by false pretences,\\nKeeping disordei-ly house,\\nMaking disturbance in street.\\nCommon drunkards.\\nViolation of license law.\\nViolation of city ordinances,\\nPerjury,\\nSubornation of perjury,\\nOn complaint to keep the peace,\\nOf the foregoing have been discharged,\\nTransferred by appeal.\\nSentenced to common jail.\\nminal docket\\nis ninety-four, viz.\\n14\\n14\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n9\\n16\\n21\\n10\\n1\\n1\\n1\\n94\\n17\\n6", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0840.jp2"}, "819": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 771\\nSentenced to house of correotion, 16\\nRecognized and committed for trial in Court of Common Pleas, 28\\nSentenced to pay fines, 24\\nBound to keep the peace, 1\\n94\\nThe whole amount of fees paid and charged is $270,46\\nThe whole amount of fines paid is 126,00\\n$396,46\\nCaltix Aixsworth, Police Justice.\\nConcord, Feb. I, 1854.\\nEXTRACTS FROM A DIARY KEPT BY BENJAMIN KIMBALL,\\nAT Kimball s ferry, so called, concord, n. ii.\\n1815. March 2a. Last passing the river on the \u00c2\u00abce.\\nMay IS. First planting.\\nMay 30. Apple trees in full blossom.\\nSept. 23. A high gale of wind, (Scptenibcr gale,) which destroyed buildings,\\nfences and trees to an immense amount.\\n1816. June 6-12. Six days very cold weather snow fell, ground froze, and\\ncorn killed.\\nSept. 23. A hard freeze ears of corn froze through.\\nJuly 7. A hard frost cold for six daj s.\\n1817. April 1. Good passing on the ice with horses.\\nSept. 30. The first frost.\\nDec. 23. First passing the river on the ice.\\n1818. February. A very cold month.\\nMarch 1 A heavy rain, and on the tldrd, river overflowed.\\nMarch 22. Good boating.\\n1818. December. Very cold.\\n1819. January and February. Very warm, with very little snow, the ground\\nbeing bare the whole time, and no sledding, but all business and journeys per-\\nfomied with wagons.\\nApril 5. A great freshet, which carried off Federal bridge.\\nMay 19. High water over all the interval.\\nAugust 12. The warmest day for twenty years.\\n1820. March 30. First boating.\\n3Iay 26. Apple trees in blossom also a storm of rain, hail and snow, the\\nsnow laying two inches deep after the storm.\\nOct. 17. The highest freshet for thirty-six years.\\nNov. 12. A severe snow-storm snow fell six inches deep, and good sledding\\nfor several days.\\n1821. Dec. 14. Last boating for the season.\\nDec. 17. Ice on the river passed with teams.\\n1822. March 6. Ice out of the river boating commenced.\\nDec. 16. River frozen over and boating ceased.\\n1823. April 2. Could pass the river on the ice.\\nApril 3. Commenced boating.\\nNov. 18. Passing on the ice very cold fall.\\nNov. 29. Teams passed the river on the ice.\\n1824. Feb. 4. Coldest day for the winter.\\nFeb. 10-11. A great thaw, and on the 12th the ice left the river and carried\\noff Federal bridge.\\nMarch 10. First boating with the small boat.\\nSept. 25. The first frost.\\nAhv. 3. Considered the coldest day ever known for the season, or time of the\\nyear.\\nDec. 6. Last boating.\\n1825. March Horses passing the river on the ice fell in.\\nMarch 18. Commenced boating.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0841.jp2"}, "820": {"fulltext": "772 HISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nJune 22. The great day of LaAiyette in Concord. Tlie warmest and drycst\\nsummer for many years until the 12th of August, when commenced a great\\nrain.\\nNov. 23. People on foot passed the river on the ice.\\nDec. 1.3. The coldest day ever known for the season of the year.\\nDec. 19. Ground all bare.\\n1826. Feh.2. The first snow to make sledding.\\nJan. 31. The coldest day for many years.\\nMarch 14. First boating.\\nApril 11. The coldest day ever known at thi.s season of the year.\\nJune. The season very warm and dry until the 24th of June, when a great\\nrain commenced, and there fell four or five inches of water, followed by frequent\\nand heavy showers, until the 30th of August, when the river rose twenty feet\\nabove low water mark, covering nearly all the interval, and on the 31st of Au-\\ngust the bank went off, and the house in danger.\\n1826. Sept. 2. Potatoes rotting in the ground, and forty-seven men digging\\npotatoes this day at Sugar Ball.\\nSept. 8. There has not l)een a good hay-day for four weeks. On the 15th of\\nSeptember the first north-west wind for five weeks.\\nNov. 21. First snow, when there fell six inches.\\nDec. 7. River frozen over and boating ceased.\\n1827. Jaw. 1,2, 3. Snowed for three days: there fell sixteen inches from\\nthe 1st of January to the 20th of February; very cold, with numerous severe\\nsnow-storms, and the snow three to four feet deep.\\nMarch 23. Commenced boating great rains, high winds, and very backward\\nspring first sowing, May 10; planted corn, 19th.\\nJuhj 26. Great rain six inches of water fell, but did not produce a great\\nfreshet.\\nSept. 30. First frost.\\nNov. 9, 10, 11. Three coldest days ever known at this time of the year; the\\nriver froze over extremely cold month; not a pleasant day from the 13th to\\nthe 28th day an uninterrupted succession of cold N. W. wind for fifteen days.\\nNov. 29, 30. Rainy.\\nNov. 28. Passed the river on the ice with horses.\\nDec. 1. Ice went out of the river.\\nDec. 2. Boating, and continued until the 16th.\\nDec. 18. First snow to make sleighing six inches.\\n1828. Moderate winter, with but little snow, but there were frequent thaws.\\nFeb. 19. A large rain carried oft all the snow the ice went out of the river.\\nSept. 6. Great freshet, the water covering the whole interval.\\n1829. Extremely cold for seven weeks from January 1 to February 21\\nand but little snow then there was a cold and severe storm, and sixteen inches\\nof snow fell.\\n1831. Jan.l. River fell to the top of the banks.\\nDec. 2. Water covered the whole interval, and came within ten feet of the\\nhouse.\\nJune 5. More rain cannot pass to the other house without a boat.\\nJune 6. A raft went down river, straight over the (julf.\\n1835. Nov. 20. First snow for the season.\\n1836. A cold winter the snow four feet deep on a level, and no bare ground\\nto be seen until the 1st of April.\\nMarch 31. The ice sufticiently strong to bear a horse team and two tons\\nload. Passing on the ice on foot as late as April 7.\\n1841. Jan. 8. A great freshet the water in the river rose fifteen feet, broke\\nup the ice and carried off Federal bridge and Free bridge within about half an\\nhour of each other the river rose four feet in thirty minutes, and kept up so\\nthat we could not pass to the other house for four days.\\n1839. Jan. 26. Rained for twenty-four hours the river rose fifteen feet in\\nfifteen hours, and came within three feet of the door-steps of the house, and to\\nthe top of the sills of the barn, which was occasioned by the river being dammed\\nup by the ice. It carried oft all the bridges on the river except Federal bridge,\\nand that so damaged as to be imjjassable.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0842.jp2"}, "821": {"fulltext": "DOCUMENTARY AND STATISTICAL. 773\\nEXTRACTS FROM THE METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER KEPT\\nBY WILLIAM PRESCOTT, M. D.\\n1850. Jamianj. A fine and pleasant month; the merciny in tlic thermome-\\nter above zero every day until tlie 31st, when it was two degrees below in the\\nmorning most of t-he month from fonrtecn to thirty-twoabove zero, in the morn-\\ning. Thirty-six inches of snow fell this month.\\ni e?;. 6. Thermometer sixteen degrees below zero, in morning. The rest\\nof the month comfortable weather.\\nMarch. Twenty inches of snow fell this month. Excellent and iminter-\\nrupted sleighing from the 3d of December to the 10th of March, and tolerable\\nthroughout this month.\\nAi ril. The water of the Merrimack overflowed the whole interval came\\ninto my garden west of the Concord and Clarcmont railroad, and was four\\nfeet deep immediately east of the railroad.\\nMail. Nine and a half inches of rain fell this month.\\nJune. Pour and a half inches of rain fell.\\nJtihj. Four and a half inches of rain fell.\\nAxKjust. Very dry until the 25th, when two and three fourths inches of water\\nfell.\\nSept. .30. First frost.\\nNov. 26. First snow for tlie season.\\nDec. 23. Eighteen inches of snow fell, and 40 inches during the month 31st,\\nthermometer thirteen degrees l)clow zero all the rest of the month above.\\n1851. Jannan/. Thermometer below zero on the 5th, 19th and 31st but ten\\ninches of snow fell this month mild.\\nTHE DARK Dx\\\\Y, FRIDAY^ MAY 19, 1780.\\nBY GEOKGE ABBOT, ESQ.\\nThe circumstances and appearances which marked this memor.ablc day, as\\nnear as can he recollected by using the language of the old people who witnessed\\nthem, were as follows\\nThe morning exhibited notliing remarkable, except a thick, smoky atmos-\\nphere, and a pale glimmering of the eastern sky. About eight or nine o clock\\nsmoke and clouds obscured the sun. The heavens assumed a brassy appearance,\\nsomething like that of the moon when she is totally eclipsed. About ten or\\neleven o clock a gloomy and melancholy darkness involved all terrestrial objects.\\nThe domestic fowls and the birds and beasts repaired to the retreats of night\\nconsternation and horror seized the minds of mortals they expecting that the\\nfinal dissolution of all things was near. About noon the darkness was so great\\nthat it was necessary to light candles in the houses. The darkness and brassy\\ncolor of the sky continued with little alteration during the remainder of the day,\\nand the night was as remarkably dark as the day.\\n1794, May 18. Great Frost. In some places the rye and flax -were killed.\\nThe apples were as large as ounce balls, and were all killed in the West Parish,\\nexcept two apples which Mr. Joseph Hoyt raised on his farm on Horse-hill!\\n1806, June 16. Solar Eclipse of the Sun. The shadow of the leaves\\nresembled the moon in the first and last quarters. The domestic fowls went to\\ntheir retreats of night.\\n1815, Sept. 23. A remarkable High Wind in the NE%y -England\\nStates. The wind was south-east, and v.as attended with rain. Buildings\\nwere unroofed and blown down, and also trees, and in some places acres of trees\\nin the woods were blown down. Vessels were driven upon the coast, and much\\ndamage done thereby.\\n49*", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0843.jp2"}, "822": {"fulltext": "774\\nHISTORY OF CONCORD.\\nSNOW THAT FELL IX CONCORD FROM SEPTEMBER, 1840, TO\\nJUNE, 1S53.\\nFt. In. I\\nSept., 1840, to June, 1841, 10 loi.; June, 1848, to June, 1849,\\nJune, 1841, to June, 1842, 4 4 ~i June, 1849, to June, IS.^O,\\nJune, 1842, to June, 1843, 11 1 June, 1850, to June, 1851,\\nJune, 1843, to June, 1844, 9 1 June, 1851, to June, 1852,\\nJune, 1844, to June, 1845, 6 lOi.v June, 1852, to June, 1853,\\nJune, 1845, to June, 1840, 6 9I4\\nJune, 1846, to June, 1847, 7 S j Total, 101 10^^\\nJune, 1847, to June, 1848, 6 10\\nFrom September, 1840, to June, 1853, there fell lol feet and lO^^^ inches of\\n.\u00c2\u00abnow in Concord, N. H., according to my record. George Abbot.\\nJanuary 23, 1854.\\nERRATA.\\nThe reader is respectfully reqiiested to turn to the errors noted below, and make the\\nnecessary corrections.\\nOn Map, for Soucook Falls read Penny Cook (see page 66.)\\nPage 3a, filth and sixth lines, instead of whom he names, read in tcliich lie names the\\nbride, Weetamoo.\\nPage 34, eleventh line, instead of Bridal read Bride.\\nPage 134, John Cliandler, instead of died in 17^1, read 1740; and next line, instead of\\ngrandson read great-grandson.\\nPage 253, fifteenth line, instead of five read twenty-five.\\nPage 303, eighth line from bottom, instead of pieces read prices.\\nPage 3]4, middle of page, after the word candidate add in 1799, 1800 and 1801.\\nPage 325, last line, after Alfred add C.\\nPage 337, note, for 2 read Document No. 4.\\nPage 351, ninth line, instead of Elizabeth Fuiness read Brown, daughter of Rev. Arthur\\nBrown.\\nPage 366, note, for miscellaneous read introdnctorij.\\nPage 382, third line from bottom, for 22 read 28.\\nPage 411, seventh line from bottom, for Benj. M. read George F.\\nPage 430, middle of page, for ]9 read 18.\\nPage 441, note, for iMcFarland family, c., read Biography of Rev. Dr. McFarland.\\nPage 494, fourteenth line from bottom, for J S. Abbot Co. read Downino- 4- Sons.\\nPage 546, eighth line, to Capt. Moses add C.\\nPage 569, eleventh line from bottom, for 1774 read 1776.\\nPage 617, note, Furnished by Rev. Hiram Whiuher belongs to the next paragraph.\\nPage 623, second line, for 177C read 1776. In middle of same page read 3-Benianiin\\nAbbot.\\nPago 624, for 1. Thomas Abbot read 3-Thomas Abbot.\\nPage 645, five lines from bottom, for d. 1832 read 1831.\\nPage 654, middle, after Moses Elliot, jr., erase Congregational preacher, son of Moses.\\njVutc. JIosos Elliot, the preacher, was son of 1-Jonathan.\\nPage 669, seveiuh line, for 1-04 read 1814.\\nPage 720, fourth line from bottom, for langam read longatn.\\nPROPRIETORS RECORDS.\\nRev. Nathaniel Bouton Dear Sir:\\nAt your request I have carefully examined the several extracts from the Pro-\\nprietors Records of the town of Concord, now in my possession, taken by you\\nto be entered in your History of said town. I have found a very few mistakes,\\nwhich you will please to have con-ected, and if so done, I can hereby certify to\\nbe correct.\\nJonathan Eastman, Proprietors Clerk.\\nConcord, December 4, 1855.", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0844.jp2"}, "823": {"fulltext": "ERRATA. 775\\nThe following arc the mistakes or errors pointed out by Jlr. Eastman, in\\nthe Proprietors Records\\nPage 70, eighth line of Records, omit the before making.\\nPage 71, fourth line from bottom, insert llieir, tieforo giving.\\nPage 70, first line, omit and before be laid.\\nPage 80, read JVatlian Parker, instead of N. Parker.\\nPage 87, seventh line, fur to, read till.^\\nPage 89, nintli line, for at, read in. On same page, tenth line from bottom, insert\\nFirst before That.\\nPairo li)o, seventli line from bottom, read for the calling, c.\\nPaue 107, fifth line from bottom, after Mr. .Jeremiah Sticknoy add Mr. .7 isej)Ii FMMman.\\nI age 109, near middle, after to choose a Committee, add to do the same, and alao tu chuuse\\na Committee,\\nPage 114, sixth line from bottom, insert Lieut. before John Chandler.\\nPage 117, near middle, after David Barker, read and instead of which.\\nPage ]-2-2, last line, for 47 read 44.\\nPage 1 3:!, nintli line Irom bottom, for G2 read 07.\\nPage lOii, eighth line from bottom, fur 6,00 read 0,00.\\nPage 104, tenth line from bottom, for 9,35 read 9,95.", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0845.jp2"}, "824": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO NAMES.\\nAbbot Family, pp. C20-S31\\nAlfred C. 325\\nAinus, 155,175,170,180,187,\\n237,243,270,277\\nAmos, jr. 270,313,323\\nBenjamin, 2d, jr. 15(1,174,\\n176,178,183,228,270\\nDaniel, 191,202,204,258,270,\\n512,524,529\\n(1) David, 213\\n(2) David, 449\\nDyer, .^33\\nEdward, 79,103,10(1,107,108.\\n109,111,113,110,117,122-\\n140,144,155,15(1,174,170,\\n182,210,247,.t15\\nEdward, jr. 190,270\\nElias, 275\\nEmeline, Miss 417\\nEphraim, Rev. 199,256,0(15\\nEpliraini, 271\\nEzra, Lt. 204,534\\nGeorge, Dea. 100,108,109,\\n1.50,177,1H2,228,243,270,\\n512,515,554,005\\nGeorge, jr. 271\\nGeorge, D. Capt. 408,490\\nGeorge, Esq. 238,521,.524,\\n52: ,534,542,020\\nIra, 283\\nIsaa 152,250,271,500\\nJabez, 247.270\\nJacob, 68,77,122-140\\nJacob, jr. Esq. 320.324.532,\\n533\\nJames, 120,143,155,175,180,\\n183\\nJames, jr., 180\\nJames M., 449\\nJeremiah, 521\\nJeremiah S., 500\\nJerry, 254,518\\nJesse, 270,275\\nJohn,275,4C3,470,471,500,545\\nJohn, r\\\\Varner,] 340\\nJohn D., 388,.550\\nJoseph, 91,1.52,101,210,244,\\n270\\nJoshua, Capt., 191,247,258,\\n205,271,275,279,300,308,\\n320,323,383,ol4,.525\\nJoshua, jr. 342,343\\nAbbot, Rev. Joshua 382\\nLevi, 313,339,585\\nMoses, (1) 54, 250,339,529\\nNathaniel, (1) 54,08,79,\\n102,103,100,107,108,113,\\nProp. Rec. to the end,\\n122-140,145,152,155,170,\\n182,190,228,243,418,514.\\n521,529\\nNathaniel, (2,) jr 155,270\\nNathaniel, (3,) 340,397,417,\\n550\\nNathaniel C, 259\\nNathaniel P., 449\\nNatlian, 270, ,529\\nNathan K., 204,521\\nLois and Sarah, 525\\nPhilip, 501\\nReuben,(l,) 1.55,1.57,100,1811,\\n254,270,525,529,577\\nReuben, (2,) or jr., 237,270,\\n529\\nReuben, (3,) 522\\nReuben K., 542\\nSamuel and Mrs. Mary, 487\\nSimeon, 180,408, .500,545\\nStephen, (1,) 54,(. )271\\nJ. Stephens Son, 4{i4,4C7,\\n485\\nTheodore T., 427,440,4,53\\nThomas, (1,) 54,524, (2) 539\\nTimothy. 323,342,300,393\\nTimothy, [Andover,] 347\\nWilliam, Maj., 414\\nWilliam M., 584\\nAdams, President John 322\\nRev. Ezra E., 606\\nNathaniel, 330\\nAiken, Janie. i 20()\\nJohn, 495\\nAinsworth, C. 490\\nAldrich, Lyman, 491\\nAllen, lienj. F. 101 Wash-\\nington St. 005\\nAllin, Andrew 54\\nRoyal, 370\\nAllison, F. 457\\nAllison Gault, 490\\nDavid, 408\\nAmhrose Family, 631-2\\nJonathan, 320\\nCol., 349,412\\nNathaniel, 339,005\\nRobert, 271,303,320,350\\nAmbrose, Stephen 328,347,348,\\n300,308,372,390,408,416,478\\nThomas A. 500\\nAmes, Samuel 255\\nAmherst, Gen. 195,196\\nAnderson, Henry 457\\nAnnis, Daniel 155,176\\nArlin, George 140\\nJohn, 401\\nSarah, 606\\nDaniel, 346\\nAsten, Daniel 54\\nAtherton, Charles H. 406\\nAtkinson, Theo. 79,81,206\\nAtwood, Moses G. 412,433,589\\nAsten, or Austen, John 68,78\\n122,130\\nAyer Family, 630-31\\nAyer, or Aires, Sam l 54,08,76\\nAyer, James 533,539\\nJohn, 67,08,75,79,83,99,95,\\n90,122\\nObadiah, 07,68,75,79,94,122-\\n130,.553\\nRich ard 321 ,322,333,324,337\\n339,342,348,3(50, 433,515,\\n532 589\\nRichard H. 389!4:-9\\nSamuel, 89,90,122-130\\nWilliam, 223\\nB\\nBachelder, John, 321,499\\nJohn, jr., 319\\nJosiah, 67,71\\nBacheller, Samuel, Rev., 232\\nBadger, Gov. William, 422\\nEzra, 271\\nJacob, 545\\nJoseph, 277\\nStephen C, 84,471,482\\nBaker Family, 632-33\\nAbel, (1) 339\\nAbel, (2) 392,458,471,482\\nBenjamin, 265\\nJlarshall, Lt., 346\\nNath I B., 453,457,466,470,\\n471,472,470, [Mrs. B.,482,i\\n482,495,500\\nCapt. Thomas, 41,42\\nBalch, Rev. William, 232\\nBaldwin, James F., 570,573\\nCol. Nahuni, 271", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0846.jp2"}, "825": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO NAMES.\\nIll\\nBall, Ebenezer, 3.50\\nBallard Family, 033-34\\nEzra, 51-3,600\\nNathan, jr., 339,347,34S,3ti8,\\n53a,()05\\nBank, [Mechanics,] 47f)\\nBanks, Magnus, 2158\\nBarker, Anuaniah, T)!\\nDavid, 99,103,117,182\\nEben, 34\\nJamo.s, 54\\nJolin, 54\\nNallian, 54\\nNatlianiel, 68.79,80,90\\nWilliam, 54,G8,75,77,83,!tl,\\n94,98,100,103,108,1 22-140,\\n145.182\\nSamuel, 54\\nStephen, 54\\nZel)ediali, 54,68,79,122-140\\nBaniahee, Rev. Mr., 401\\nBarnard, Edward, Kev., 232\\nJohn, Kev., 98,242\\nBarne.s, Mrs. Susan A., 458\\nBarron, Rev. Thompson, 616\\nBartlelt, Icliabod, 421,434\\nJosiah, 277,314\\nRichard, Esq., or Col., 380,\\n388,408\\nWilliam H., 495,504\\nBarlley, Dr., 346\\nBarrett, Rev. fllr., 406\\nBarton, Cyrus,427 ,436,468,482,\\n500,504,601\\nBattis, George, 474\\nBaum, Col. 274\\nBay ley, Abner, Rev. 232\\nJames, 54\\nJohn, 52;54,68,79,1 23,130\\nJoshua, 54, 67, 68, 78,93,123-\\n130\\nThomas, 500,504\\nWilliam H. H., 500,504\\nBean, Ahrah m 427,433,435,4.53\\nEbenezer, 266\\nJohn, 159,167\\nSamuel, 266,310\\nBeard, William 265\\nBerk, ilenry 270\\nBeode, Rev. Thomas, 378\\nBell, John (1) 297\\nJohn, (2) 442\\nSamuei, 421,601\\nBelcher, J. 105, 115, 121, 146,\\n147,149\\nBellinsham, Gov. 35\\nBelknap, Joshua 346\\nBellows, H. A. 495\\nII. A. A. H., 490\\nBerry, Samuel G. 480,482\\nBeverly, Serg. 196\\nBickl ord, Joseph 439\\nBishop, Enoch 204\\nBlack, James 54\\nBlake, Mr. [J. L.] 380, Rev.,\\n607\\nCapt. Samuel, 442\\nSamuel, 48\\nBlanchard, Thomas 54,68,79,\\n123-140\\nAbiel, -^71\\nBenjamin, 176\\nJames, 191\\nJohn, 258\\nJoseph, 156.175,189\\nPorter, 432\\nBlodgett, Nathan 68,79,123-140\\nA. C, 457\\nBlodgett, J., 482\\nBodvvell, E. A. 482\\nBond, John 52\\nBorbank, Samuel 54\\nBordman, Moses 6S, =0, 1231-40\\nLeBosquet, Rev. John 606\\nBouton, Nath l, Rev. 168,201,\\n353.386,388,399,404, [Mrs.\\nHarriet S., 404,] 406,4 i9,\\n412,414,416,418,436, [Mrs.\\nJMary Ann P., 442,] 442,\\n446, 472, 476, 577, 480, 495,\\n501,516,649,593,604,005,\\n613\\nBowers, Andrew 3(i7\\nHannah, 250\\nJosiah, 250\\nBowen, Kev. Nath l 608\\nBoyd, John 346\\nBrackett, Simeon 591\\nBradford, (^ol. Benjamin 344\\nBradley Family. 634-30\\nAbraham, 98, 103, 107, 108,\\n109,110, 111,112,113,116,\\n12 -140,154,1S3,252,.574\\nBenjamin, 191,193\\nCvnis P., 693\\nDaniel, 162\\nMrs. Hannah, 374\\nIsaac, 162\\nIsaac C, 420\\nJeremiah, 114, 155, 179, 180,\\n270\\nJonathan, Lt., 157,167,184\\nJohn, (1) 164, 254, 270, 273\\n277, 295, 305, 307, 320, 323,\\n329, 337, 342, 348, 373. 528,\\n530,538,573,600\\nJohn, (2) 399\\nJoseph, 162, Joseph s wife,\\n162,163\\nMehetaliel, 164\\nPliiU)ri k,320,,323,343,444,G09\\nRichard, 121. 157, 17:i, 305,\\n363, .366, 368, 373,381, 392\\n393, 394, 397, 399, 426, 427,\\n431, 436, 453, 4; 8, 470, 471,\\n476,495,499,500,515, 528,\\n540,541\\nRobert, 89,299,323,599\\nSamuel, 154, 157,153.167, c.\\n186,323,373\\nSamuel A., 1.57\\nTimothy, 119, 154, 183, 270,\\n235,299,320,333\\nTimothy jr., 270\\nBrewster, Amos A. 421\\nBrigham, Levi 365,433\\nMrs. N. H., 43i\\nBrockwav, E. F. 46\\nBrodhead, Rev. John 609\\nBrown, Rev. Dairus R. 607\\nEnoch, 324\\nGeorge W., 499,504\\n482,490,500,504\\n497\\nJ. F.,\\nJoseph,\\nJohn, (slave,) 251\\nH. H., 463,466\\nM. N., 483\\nOrlando, 367,424\\nSamuel F., 500\\nS. E., 485\\nStephen, 168,433,463,480\\nDr. Thomas, 394\\nBrown Young, 490\\nBrowne, Rev. Mr. 77,99\\nBryant, Walter 206\\nBuck, Wm. D. 168\\nBuckminstor, Col. .5\\nBuckley, Col. ^13\\nBullock, G. 490\\nBurliank, or Boibank,\\nSamuel 54\\nCaleb, 176\\nBuibank, John, 176\\nBurbanks, Timothy 155\\nBurbccn, Joseph 231,579\\nPaul, 235,2.50\\nBurgess, Emei-y 482\\nBurgum, John .573\\nBurgin,Hall 436,461,465\\nBurgoyne, Gen. 274\\nBurnett, W. C5\\nBurnhain, Rev. Abraham 451\\nBurroughs, Rev. Charles 607\\nBusweil, Caleb 270\\nJames, 121,342\\nJames H., 500\\nButters, Samuel 270,326\\nButterfield, Samuel 476\\nWilliam, 481,482\\nBuxtiui, Rev. Edward 583\\nByfield, N. C3\\nC\\nCady, Albe 365,374,408,41],\\n433,436,607\\n0 ar, (Farnum,) slave,\\n252,249,950\\nCalfe, John 300-1,308\\nWidow Mary, 373\\nRirliard, 373\\nRobert, 164\\nCall, Horace 452\\nNathan, 482,.500\\nStephen, 176\\nGallon or Carlton, Benja-\\nmin 54,68,79,87,133\\nChristopher, 54,68,77,102,\\n123-140\\nNeheiniah, 54,G?,80,94,123-\\n140\\nCampbell, David 379\\nCapen, Rev. Mr. 406\\nCarlton, Rev. Mr. 401\\nStephen, .544\\nCarpenter, E. D. 427\\nRev. Josiah, 321\\nCarr, Bradbury C. 346\\nSamuel, 474\\nCarrigain, Philip Esq. .50,337\\nDr. Philip, 259.271,272,282,\\n2-^4,306,376,3^^2,400,4.33,\\n435,514\\nCarroll, H. H. 457,476,477\\nAiiond, 421\\nCarswell, Henry F. 483\\nJohn D., 457\\nCarter Family, 636- 8\\nAbigail, 1.57,178.519\\nDaniel, 2-22.271,286\\nDavid, 3-25,376\\nEphraim, 155,174,323,383\\nEzra, 270\\n(1) Dr. Ezra,1.53,1.55, 1.57,176,\\n177,186,209,217,234,235,\\n243,510,.553\\n(2) Dr. Ezra,394,397,424,427,\\n430,466,482,495.499,504, .526\\nEzekiel, 271,538\\nJacob, (1) 270,321,323,3-24,\\n330\\nJacob, (2) 482,490\\nCol. John, 2-27,344,396,483,\\n563", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0847.jp2"}, "826": {"fulltext": "778\\nINDEX TO NAMES.\\nCarter, Joseph, 155,17I,. i84\\nNathan, 3S3\\nNatlianiel H., 584\\n^Villiam M., 500\\nTiinntl)}-, 323,348,3\u00c2\u00bbi.s\\nCass, Gen. 415\\nMoseii, 49(1\\nCathn, Rev. S. T. \u00e2\u0082\u00ac17\\nCaverno, Rev. A. (il7\\nCaul, Philip 176\\nChadbdiiine, Dr. Tlionias 13:),\\n15G,3tiC,393,3J(i,43li,4t;7,\\n51.T\\nCliadwick, Jona. 54\\nE. S., 477\\nChamberlain, Mr. Vice 223\\nChandler Family, 638-41\\nCapt. Ahiel, 155.160,175,185,\\n2aU,25S,259,2(i4,2G5,2t5l),304\\nAhiel, Mr. 244,.599\\nAhiel, 476\\nDaniel, 244,271\\nDavid, 18f)\\nLt. Isaac. 174,176,1^1\\nJohn, (I) 54,67,68\\nJohn, Ens., 75,77,80,f3,91,\\n92,94.98,100,101,102,103,\\n105,106,107,108,109,110\\nJohn, Lt., 111,113,114.116,\\n118,123.140,143,145\\nJohn, Capt., 152,1,53,154,174,\\n176,182,189,200,217,226,\\n928,234,244,246,556\\nJohn, [Boscauen,] 369\\nJohn, (2) Lt. or jr., 201,243,\\n278,2N7,303,338\\nJohn B., 355,445,515,1 05\\nHenry, 349,389\\nHenry, jr. 349\\ni\\\\athan, 500\\nPomp, 329\\nSamuel, 54\\nTimothv, Capt., Maj., 3i3,\\n323;32 4 ,3 lS,349,352,3f 8,\\n390,395,397,4n3,4r8.427,\\n436,514,532,533\\nZechariah. 79,123-140,285\\nChase, Bariich 338\\nDaniel, 120,156,176,183,228,\\n270\\nDaniel, jr. 156\\nEunice, 235\\nKev. riiarle?, D. D. 60-!\\nRev. .Mr., 443\\nJonathan, 191,243\\nJoliM, 258,271\\nRev. Moses B., 607\\nPratt, 265\\nStephen, 489\\nChickerinp, Ebenezer 37-1\\nCitisen, Isaac 155\\nCheever, Rev. Geo. B. 4.36 I\\nCheiney, John 52 j\\nCheney, B. P. 449\\nNathan, 270\\nClark, Daniel 348,401,445,-593\\nEdward, 54,68,77,123-130\\nJonathan, 54\\nMary, 170,401,419,445\\nSamuel, 54\\nRev. William, 605\\nClement, Zenas 453\\nClement or demons, Na-\\nthaniel, 54,t;8,78,123-140\\nWilliam, J76\\nTimothy, 104,107,108,109,\\n110,111,113,116,155,] Hi\\nClifford, Samuel 125,497\\nClough, Abner l. 7\\nJacob, 443\\nCapt. Jeremiah, 1.53,176,273\\nJohn,\\nJoseph,\\nMiss,\\nThomas,\\nCochran, .Mrs. Sally,\\nCoffin Family,\\nBenjamin, jr.\\nEnoch,\\n242\\n271,338\\n299\\n176,219\\n421\\n703\\n500\\n306,339,3^9,\\n514,548\\nRev. Enoch, 59,70.7o,84.92,\\n94,123-140\\nCol. John, 548\\nJohn, 213,492\\n(1) Peter, 35,36,39.52,135\\n(2) Peter, 209,227,243\\nSamuel, 252,326,388,390,408,\\n429,453,464,548\\nTristram, 134\\nWilliam, 135,250,270\\nCofran, Capt. Joseph 388\\nCoker, Rohard 52\\nCoggin, John 68,77,87,123-\\n140\\nCogswell, Nathaniel 68,79,\\n123-140\\nColbey or Colbee, Abra-\\nham 15H,182,222, jr. 184\\nColby, Dr. Elijah 394,408\\nEphraim, 323,536,549,569\\nJohn, 233.342\\nJoseph, 271\\nLot, 156,185,243,244.247,\\n250,270,285,511\\nMarshall B., 491\\nNathan, 244\\nSampson, 155,176,186\\nRev. Zaecheup, :i21\\nColman,Thomas 68,79,90,123-\\n140\\nCooke, E.sq. Elisha 58\\nand Prop. Rec.\\nCook, Lossing R. 4r9\\nCoolidge, Richard 68,78,122-\\n140\\nDaniel,\\nCooley, Abraham,\\nConnell, (ieorge\\nCop, Josiah\\nCopps, David\\nEbenezer,\\nCorser, John\\nCotton, William\\nCouch, Harrison\\nCoues, amuel E.\\nCowdry. Matthias\\nCoult, William\\nCrantield, Gov.\\nagg, David\\nCrawford, Robert\\nCrehore, Bowen\\nCrockett, Charles P,\\nCrocker, Elezar\\nCrosby, Dr. Josiah\\nCross Warren,\\nCriimpton, Francis\\nCuniore, Nancy\\nCummings, Rev. E. E.\\nCurtis, Nathaniel\\n421\\nCurtice, Rev. Jona.\\n446\\nCashing, Caleb\\n482\\nRev. James,\\n232\\nJoseph,\\n601\\nThomas,\\n141\\nCushman, [Chief M\\nirsh\\nan\\n415\\nCutis, Esq. Samuel\\n267\\nCuvier,\\n572\\n606\\n54\\n342\\n67\\n190\\n191\\n17 i\\n52\\n457\\n436,439\\n54\\n488\\n38\\n54\\n316\\n340\\n612\\n54\\n3e8\\n492\\n74\\n350\\n173,\\n416,430,612,618,619\\nCurey, William 1.55\\nCurrier, Alva C. 473\\nA. B., 470\\nGeorge W. 473\\nJonathan, 482\\nNewell, 409\\nWilliam, 070\\nD\\nDame, George 494\\nDamon, Benjamin 612\\nDana, Rev. Sylvester 461\\nEsq. t^ylvester, 470,490\\nDanforth, Isaac 490\\nJoel C, 453,470,491\\nMoses, 176\\nSimon, 270\\nThomas, 52,176\\nDanford, William 176\\nDarling, Joshua 338\\nDarrington, Col. M4\\nDavidson, Artemas 355\\nDavis Family, 641\\nAquila 338,344\\nCharles A., 483\\nDaniel, 68,79,82,123-130\\n(^apt. David, 244, 313, 327,\\n532\\nDavid, 550\\nElias, (Bow,) 346\\n(1) Ephraim, 54, 68, 78, 123-\\n140\\n(2) Ephraim, 393\\nJames, 206\\nJoseph, .54,08,77,12.3-140,182\\nWilliam, 54\\nRobert. (1) 243,244,240,247,\\n270,305,306,530\\nRobert, (2) Gen. 244, 305,\\n370,387,38i ,389.390^ 391,\\n415,416,424,425,428, 434,\\n435,480,499\\nRobert, 2d, 381,550\\nSamuel, 54, 68, 78, 123-140,\\n.323,.324,339,.348,484\\nSamuel, (of Chester.) 346\\nSullivan, 488\\nDawen, 565\\nDay Emer.son, 491\\nMoses, 54, 55, 67, 73, 68, 77,\\n123-140\\nDearborn, John 443\\nJohn M., 500\\nDelaware, Earl of 222\\nDenison, Daniel 50\\nDennet, Ens. Ephraim 206\\nDickinson, Thomas 34,48\\nDickerman, Enoch 590\\nDix, Timothy 3.52\\nJohn A., 352\\nDi.xon, Geo. W. 433\\nDieskau, Gen. 193\\nDiMo.ND Family, 641-43\\nEld ridge, lOO\\nEzekiel, 271,276,513\\nEzekieljjr., 270\\nIsaac, 324\\nJohn, 320,513\\nReuben, 320\\nDinsmore, Gov. Samuel 4?6\\nDinah, (slave,) 250,251\\nDobie, Samuel 457\\nDodge, David 68,78,123-140\\nDorr, Thomas W. 452", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0848.jp2"}, "827": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO NAMES.\\n779\\nDow Family, C43-4d\\nBenjamin F., 4G3\\nKev. Ezekiel, 606,616\\nCapt. Enoch, 414\\nIsaac, 34S, 390, 392, 420, 481,\\nJoseph F., 453\\nRev. Mr., 416\\nLorenzo, 378\\nS. S., 4o7\\nTimothy, 324\\nDowning, apt. Jolin 206\\nLewis, 408,427,453,463,464,\\n473\\nDresser, Jeremiah 154,183\\nDrew, John 343\\nDrown, Albert H. 500\\nDudley, Gov. 18,40\\nJohn, 267\\nStephen, 266\\nEsq. William, 58, 63, and\\nProp. Rec.\\nDumnier, Hon. VVm. 55, 63,\\nand Prop. Rec.\\nAgent, 81\\nDunliar, Esq. David 146\\nDuncan, \\\\\\\\m. 3J3,327 ,513,535\\nDunklee, Benjamin F. 463\\nJ. 482\\nDunlap, James 346\\nJolm, 346\\nLvdia, 606\\nDurain, Jeremiah S. 499,500\\nDurrell, Daniel M. 439\\nDustin, Ehenezer 337,339,342\\nMrs. Hannah, 42,46\\nJane, 490\\nThomas, 42,46\\nE\\nEames, Jacob 68,77,123-140\\nEastman Family, 645-50\\nAmos, 155,175,176,191,192\\nBenjamin, 270,. ii;0\\nCharles, 348\\nDaniel, 251\\n(1) Capt. Ebenezer, 54,55,59,\\n64, Prop. Rec, 68,78,86,\\n88,89, 90, 100, 101, 103,\\n10^,11)7,108,110,^23-140,\\n142,152,153,151,176,182,\\n5I9,.551,554,565\\n(2) Ebenezer, jnn., 154,176,\\n184, [see officers.]\\n(3) Ebenezer, 319,328\\n(4) Ebenezer, 454,455\\nEdmund, 313\\nEleanor, 201\\nFrank, 457\\nIsaac, 319,368,375,405,4; 8\\nJeremiah, 154,176,187\\nJacob, 348\\nCapt. John, (1) 339,348\\nDea. John, jr., 388,468\\nCapt. or Esq. Jonathan, 258,\\n270,275,285, 308,313,320,\\n321,323,327,329,348,372,\\n532,538,562,590,600\\nEsq. Jonathan, jr., 47, 154,\\n337,388,427,457, 468,472,\\n481,462,540\\n(1) Joseph, 103,108,109,110.\\n120,145,I55,176,18-M87,\\n190,270\\n(2) Joseph, jr., 154,258,271,\\n285\\n\u00c2\u00bbw (3) Joseph, 155,191,196,320\\nEastman, (4) Joseph jr. 427,499\\nLowell, 463\\nMiriam, 201\\nMoses, 189,190,270,285\\nMoses, jr., 2/0\\nNathaniel, 176,191,195,243,\\n285,323\\nObadiah, 186\\nPhilip, 154,176,184,226 247,\\n269,270,556\\nRichard, 213,270\\nSamuel, 155\\nSeth, 429,469,496\\nStilson, 47,195,320,323,591\\nWilliam, 339\\nEarl ol Egreniont, 222\\nEaton, Ephraim 490\\nThomas, 271\\nEcklev, Rev. Joseph 567\\nEdmunds, F C. 486\\nEla, GeoigeW. 434,436,461,477\\nJacob H., 457\\nSamuel, 54\\nEllis, Esq. Welhore 222\\nRev. Air, 401\\nEllison, Richard 273\\nElliot Family, 650-55\\nAlexander R. 268\\nBarnard, 570\\nBenjamin, 271\\nEben F., 499\\nJames, 346,409\\nJohn, 346,403,550,570\\nRev. John, 21,23,24,28\\nJoseph, 57(1\\nOld Mrs. Lvdia, 528,529\\nTheodore F., 466\\nEmery, Benjamin 22fi,243,24i;,\\n247,258,270,27 J 282,283,\\n285,295,300,303,304,305,\\n310,327,328,514,564,575\\nBenjamin, jr., 342\\nCharles, 349,353\\nEliphalet, 339\\nIsaac, 470,486,591\\nJo., 258\\nNoah, 268\\nTiniDihv W., 500\\nWilliam, 170\\nEmerson, Isaac 525\\nJames, 346\\nJonathan, 270,525\\nSamuel, 346\\nEsq. f^amuel, 242,277\\nStephen, .54,68,79,123,140\\nRev. Ralph W., 407\\nEmmons, Jacob 411\\nEndicot, Gov. John 50,64,71,\\n83,145,223\\nEstabrook, George G. 4,57\\nJohn, 417\\nJoseph E., 409\\nEstabrooks, .Mr. 177\\nEvans, Asaph 396,426,44\\nDavid, 1.56,191,194,560\\nRev. Israel, 303,304,308,309,\\n319,327,512,513.516,525.\\n531,567,594\\nJohn, 222,.560,562\\nNathaniel, jr., 490\\nSamuel, 426,433\\nEwer, Nathaniel 487\\nNathaniel, jr., 438\\nF\\nFales, James 54\\nFalmouth, Viscount 222\\nFarlev, Geo. H. 411\\nFarley, Henry 441\\nLuther, 476\\nFanner, Esq. John 316,407,\\n445,58\u00c2\u00ab,.592\\nFarnum Family, 655-61\\nFarnon or Farnum, Bara-\\nchias 111,119,120,151,183\\nBenjamin, 270,486,545,1)05\\nEphraim, Dea. 54,1)8,79,103,\\n106, lOS, 110-114, 119, 120,\\n12:i-140, 144,155,17.5,176,\\n183. Officers, 233, 251-\\n270,605\\nEphraim, jr. 255,270\\nGeorge E., 486\\nFrancis, 492\\nJames, 182,191,226\\nJohn C, 492\\nJoseph, 155,175,180,184,243,\\n246,270,^^,525,529\\nJosiah, jr. 270\\nMoses H., 252,545,549\\nMe|)heii and John, 256\\nTheod(jre, 270\\nZebediah, 155,183-191,255,\\n271\\nFarrington, Jacob 193\\nJerry, 235\\nSamuel, l.)0,l?0,232\\nStephen, 102,10.5,140,1.56,\\n174,176,180,154,231,516\\nFarrand, Daniel 438\\nFarrai, Cyrus 201\\nTimothy, 277\\nFellows, (apt. William 206\\nFerrin, Charles 456\\nIsaac, 255\\nPhilip, 456\\nFessenden, Hosea 156,453,567\\nFernald, Josiah 339\\nFilield, Benjamin 176,270\\nJonathan, 190,191\\nWilliam, 270\\nRev. Winthrop, 616\\nFisK Family, 661-62\\nEphraim, 271\\nFrancis N. 325,364 ,427,4J9,\\n432,453,465,468,470,481,482\\nHenry, 408\\nNathan, 79,123,140,285\\nTheophilus, 421\\nFisk Norcross, 482,491\\nFlagg, Rev. Ebenezer 232\\nMaster, 532\\nFlanders, Abner 270,275\\nCapt., 345\\nJacob, 176\\nJohn, 176\\nRev. Mr., 501,612\\nOliver, 320\\nPhilip, 176\\nRichard, 256,270,298\\nFletcher, Arthur 463,480\\nRev. Elijah, 563\\nSamuel, 306,396,408,426,\\n434,451, [Mrs. Nancy B.,\\n4.i0,] 533,5;4,605\\nFogg Wiggin, 490\\nFolsom,-Joha 266\\nC. A. W., 482\\nFovvie, John 259,270\\nFowler, Asa 464,467,468,470,\\n476,477,499\\nPaul, j;)i\\nEsq. Samuel, 201\\nFoster, Aaron 54\\nAbrah m,68,79,86,9I, 123-140", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0849.jp2"}, "828": {"fulltext": "80\\nINDEX TO NAMES.\\nFoster, Dnvid\\n155\\nIsauc,\\n182\\nJohn, 54,08,78,9\\n,123-140\\nMoses,\\n213,217\\nOhadiah,\\n154,174\\nReiilxn F.,\\n515\\nStephen S.,\\n445,4:3\\nWilliam P.,\\n457\\nForest, John\\n17G\\nWiliiaiii,\\n176\\nWilliam, jr.\\n176\\nFox, Charles J.\\n439\\nCol.,\\n482\\nEsq. Ilenrj\\n222\\nNathaniel,\\n265\\nPreem in, Rev. Hiram 61G\\nFrench, Kev. Henry S. G. f n!i\\nTheodore,\\n436\\nFrost, .lohn\\n20G\\nFrohavvk, Thomas\\n266\\nFrve, Ehenezer\\n346\\nFii ller, D. G.\\n482,515\\nFliirbiir, \\\\A ilIiatu\\n52\\nG\\nGage, Benjamin 54,G?,77,153-\\n140\\nC,\\n490\\nCharles P., 4G7,-17G,.500\\nGen.,\\n263\\nJonathan,\\n54\\nJohn,\\n270\\nRev. Mr.,\\n406\\nSolomon,\\n270\\nWilliam,\\n346\\nGale Family,\\n602-64\\nBeni n, 177,322,323,:M1,342,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a03i l,:!84,:;96,427\\n,4:jU,515\\n570\\nDaniel,\\n226,270\\nMoses,\\n320\\nPerkins,\\n482\\nGallaiidct, Rev. Mr.\\n383\\nGame, Esq. Samuel\\n141\\nGannett, Rev. Mr.\\n4or,\\nGannell, Kmma\\n573\\nGardner, C. W.\\n490\\nGarvin, John\\n339,348\\nPatrick,\\n1.55\\nGass, John\\n489,494\\nJohn P., 400,41 l,493,. i4G\\nGault, Jolm A.\\n612\\nWill.,\\n229\\nWilliam, 403,409,411,43G,\\n612\\nPatrick,\\n250\\nGenealogy names,\\nG20-717\\nGeorge, David (1)\\n270\\nDavid, (2) 311,329,369,. 3in,\\n549\\nJohn,\\n380\\nJohn H., 471,47G\\n,482,500\\nTrue,\\n496\\nGerrish, Enoch\\n326\\nCol.,\\n273\\nJoseph, (1)\\n90,.5.53\\nJoseph, (2)\\n4.54\\nMoses,\\n226\\nPaul,\\n206\\nStephen, 17n, 227\\n228,230\\nGibson, John 176,490,493\\nGiddinge, John\\n259\\nGill, F.benezer\\n54\\nGilman, Daniel\\n158\\nGov. J. T.,\\n314,347\\nJohn,\\n206\\nCapt. John,\\n206\\nGilman, William, 491\\nGilniore Clapp, 475\\nJoseph A., 430,482\\nMitchell, jr. 480,.500\\nGipson, James 176\\nGivcns, John 4,38\\nGleason, P.enjamin 254\\nZehediah, 392,393\\nGlines, Rev. Jeremiah 605\\nGlover, Jtdin 427\\nGraduates names, 729-737\\nGreen, Beiija. 430\\nJacob, 270,272\\nNathaniel, 271,272\\nCapt. Nathaniel, 322\\nDr. Peter, 477,549\\nPeter, 227,270\\nEsq. Peter, 270,272,273,283,\\n285,2b7,300,3C5,3ao,365,\\n513,535\\nSamuel, 326,342,343,388\\nWilliam, 545\\nGodard, Esq. Edward 141\\nGotre, Capt. John 191\\nGoodell, Rev. Mr. 489\\nGoodwin, Jacob 271\\nLuxf ord, 196\\nSamuel, 271,320,529\\nGookin, Daniel 25\\nGoss, Dr. E. II. 25^\\nGoterson, John 54\\nGould, John G. 473\\nMatthew G., 4HG\\nGove, Charles F. 411\\nGraham, Asa 320,348\\nGeorge, 171\\nGranscr,John 54,68,76,123-140\\nMr. Samuel, .54, 68, 79, 123-\\n140\\nGray, Samtiel 150,185\\nMr. DeGrcy, 220\\nGrcelev, Joseph 482\\nOliver, 494\\nGreenleaC, Daniel 340\\nStephen, 270\\nGreenville, Esq. George 222\\nGriflin, John 85,92,94\\nGrisw(dd, Bishop 607\\nGrover, Benjamin 463,476,4^^2,\\n487,489,490\\nGuttcrson, William .54,123-140\\nGuinhui, Patrick 258\\nGuthrie, George N. 584\\nII\\nHaddock, Prof. 480\\nHadlov, John L. 500\\nHavnes, Abbot 492\\nCharles G.. 3.52\\nJohn, 463\\nThomas, 481,490\\nHall Family, 707-708\\nCharles, 179\\nDaniel, 270,312\\nIMrs. Deborah, 511\\nDavid, 270,277,285,305\\nDea. David, 513,605\\nEbon r, 155, 180,228,247,270\\nEben, 491\\nJames, 340\\nJeremiah, 295,511\\nJohn, 54\\nDea. Joseph, (1) 08,80.80,\\n95.98, 118, 119, lC 3-140,\\n1.55,174,182,209,228,251,\\n270,51 1,513,514,515,5.56,\\n605\\nHall, Joseph, jr., (2) Dea. or\\nLt., 247,21.9,270,276,277,\\n278,295,300,306,308,323,\\n371,391,511,532,605\\nMoses, 414\\nMr., 142\\nOhadiah, 270\\nRichard, 54\\nSarah, 476\\nSime m G., 342,.532\\nTheodore A., 485\\nHalifax, Ear! of 222\\nHale, Jonathan 277\\nJohn P., 473\\nJoseph, 68,77,91,123-140\\nHamlin, Miss A. 490\\nHancock, Gov. John 302\\nHanniford, Benjamin 191,270,\\n2:3,285,305,354,.530\\nZah., 206\\nHardy, Asa 34G\\nJosiah, 446\\nWilliam P., 515\\nHarper, Joseph M. 421\\nHarrison, Gen. William\\nHenry, 497\\nHarris, Robert 3C3, 337, 349,\\n513,535\\nRev. VV^alter, D. D., 584\\nHavvev, C. W. 490\\nH. X., 482\\nMatthew, 499,504\\nHart, David 346\\nPatrick, 483\\nHaskell, Jeremiah 520\\nHaseltine, B.allard 348,433\\n.Mrs. Elizabeth, 418,520,-533\\n534\\nJames, 271\\nJoseph, 271,418\\nRichard, 113,150,182,^28,\\n243,25c ,270,39li\\nCOG\\n54\\n271\\n5. 482\\n462\\n600\\nRuth,\\nSamuel,\\nWilliam,\\nHatcliman, J. S.\\nHaynes, John L.\\nHayes, Francis B.\\nHazzen, Moses 67,68,77,80,87\\nRichard jr. 67,68,7 1 ,80,82,\\n83,85,87.123-140,149,210\\nHead, James\\nHeath, Nehemiah\\n176\\n.54,08,79,\\n123-140\\n617\\n208\\n608\\nC65-70\\n472\\n254\\n2.54\\nHelme, Rev. E. J.\\nHenwell, Joseph\\nHenshaw, Bishop\\nHerbert Family,\\nAlbert,\\nCharles,\\nJonathan,\\nLt. Richard, 253,209,271,\\n275,51 5,.52 1, 5ti0,.508\\nRichard, 244,i325,;(S3,409,\\n472,477,514,535,570\\nSamuel, 252,372,39;i,436,472,\\n477,.520\\nHerrick, Asa 256,323,339\\nRev. Horace, 60G\\nIsrael E 549\\nHastins, John .54\\nHevvins, Mr. 416\\nHildreth, Ephraim 08,78,123-\\n140\\nHill, Cyrus 482\\nCapt., 142\\nDaniel A., 403,491\\nEd.son, 499", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0850.jp2"}, "829": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO NAMES.\\n781\\nHill, Horatio 421\\nGov. Isaac, 351,3f,4,368,389,\\n404,414,416,417,424, 433,\\n434 ,436,476,49n ,493 ()U7\\nJohn M., 457,461,482\\nWni. P., 482\\nVail., 52\\nHinds, Rev. Mr. 413\\nHinkley, Job 54\\nHinksmaii, Thomas 35,-8\\nHird, John 52\\nHoag, Charles 39b\\nIsrael, 60fi\\nHobart, Samuel 267\\nHobson, Mr. 142\\nHogs, [Master,] 244\\nRobert, 2o8\\nTim., 54\\nHoYT Family, C71-72\\nMrs. Abigail, 382\\nAbner, 108,155,178\\nAmos, 534\\nBenjamin, 473\\nJacob, (1) 155,175,176\\nJacob, (2) 178,320,427,439,\\n518,519,536,543\\nJames, 368\\nJohn, 178,190,288,329,382,\\n536,610\\nJohn, jr. 320\\nOliver, 254,270,272,310,403.\\n513,610\\nRebecca, 513\\nStephen, 156,176,191,194\\nWilliam, 601\\nHolden, Daniel 500\\nHolmes, John 421\\nP. C, 492\\nHolt, Abel B. 448\\nHorace H., 469\\nHopo-Hood, 39,40,169\\nHopkins, William 4S2\\nRichard, 34\\nHood, Richard 176,271\\nHough, George 306,310,311,\\n340,341,342,354,36ti,408,\\n533,587\\nRev. George H. 505\\nJabez, 588\\nHoughton, Jonas 67,71\\nHondrick or Kendrick, 346\\nHouston. Harry 453,482\\nHubbard, Historian 21\\nCol., 275\\nGov. Henry, 452,495\\nJonathan, 68,79,82,123-140\\nHug, Jerathel 54\\nHull, George 155,176\\nHumphrey, Moses 499\\nHunking, Esq. Mark 78,206\\nHunt, Priscilla 381\\nSamuel C, jr. 4.57\\nHuntington, Earl of 222\\nHuTCHiNS Family, 670\\nAbel, 342. 374, 376, 382, 387,\\n390,476,478,514,603\\nCharles, 351,411,549\\nDolly, 511\\nEphraira, 603\\nEzra, 347\\nGeorge, 140,426,549\\nGordon, Capt. and Col. 265,\\n271,272.274,275,512,603\\nHamilton, 355\\nLevi, 155,175,325,405, [Mrs.\\nPhebe, 405,] 514,606\\nHutchinson, Esq. Thos. 150\\nHurd, William 388\\n50\\nInce, Jonathan\\nIngalls, John\\nJoshua,\\n49\\n54\\n461\\nJackman, George 176\\nRichard, 17^\\nSamuel, 462\\nJackson, Gen. 403,414,416,602\\nJaffrey, Esq. George 78,206\\nJanies, 206\\nJaques, Daniel 54\\nJohn, 68,79,123-140\\nRichard, 54\\nJarvis, John 245\\nJenness, Peter 487\\nRichard, 206\\nJohnson, Cornelius 270\\nDearborn, 493,546\\nCapt. Edward, 49,52\\nJohn, 96\\nJonathan, 163\\nJohn P., 472\\nJohnson Dewey, 490\\nCol. Richard M., 457\\nTimothy, 54,68,73,76,79,91,\\n94,98,100,122,123-140,\\n275\\nRev. William, 232\\nW., 482\\nJones, 346\\nGeorge, 482\\nJosiah, 80\\nNathaniel, 68,79,123-140\\nNehemiah, 338\\nSamuel, 78\\nJordon, Lucy A. (2d) 477\\nK\\nKancamagus, 37,39,169\\nKelly, Abner B. 421,433,605\\nIsrael W., 322\\nRev. Samuel, 409,413,609\\nKendall, Rev. Henry A. 500,\\n616\\nKendrick, Col. 275\\nKent Family, 672-73\\nGeorge, 169,382,395,408,421,\\n420, 434, [Mrs. K., 435,\\n438,] 694\\nGeorge F., 457\\nMoody, 513\\nWilliam A., 337,338,341,342,\\n344,348,364,366,369,372,\\n373,381,387 ,391,395,:!97,\\n399,400,408,424,425,427,\\n435,535,549,568,593,610,\\n613\\nRichard, 106,107,230\\nWilliam, 365, 369,408, 436,\\n56 1,56f\u00c2\u00ab\\nKimball Family, 673-77\\nKimbel or Kimball, Aaron 156\\nAbraham, 156, 176, 184,222,\\n266\\nAbigail, 374\\nAsa, 191,270,339,348\\nBenjamin, jr. 372\\nLieut. B., 372\\nDavid,54,55,67,68,77,95,113,\\n120,123-140,182,190\\nCapt. David, 326\\nRev. David, 605\\nEliza, 383\\nKimball, Jeremiah 211\\nJohn, Dea. 246,247,2.58,259,\\n270,271 ,278 285,303,306,\\n530,531,605\\nRev. John, 617\\nJoseph H., 435\\nHazen, 323,549\\nL. M., 482\\nMiUen, 348\\nRev. Moses, 451,606\\nPearl, 348\\nPerkins, 457\\nPhineas, 271,313,323\\nPhilip, 154,184,226,271\\nCapt. Reuben, 226,270,271,\\n277,283,285,203,295,302,\\n305,319,323,326,538\\nRobert, 54,68,78,123-140\\nRobert P., 498\\nSamuel, 54,68, 78, 102, 123-\\n140\\nSamuel A., 190,366,537,549,\\n577\\nStephen, 270,563\\nTimothy, 271\\nKingsbury, Thomas 54\\nKinsman, Capt. Aaron 265,\\n266,277,278,293\\nKinkson, Samuel 270,275\\nKittreilge, Dr. Thos. 253,299\\nKiieeland, Bartholomew 440\\nKnight, Francis 266\\nKnowlton, Capt. Samuel 204,\\n339\\nKnox, Oscar 457\\nLadd, Bethiah 606\\nCapt. Daniel, 156,158,162\\nDudley, 328\\nLafayette, Gen. 399,433,567\\nLang, Jonathan E. 344, 482,\\n500,598\\nMeshech, 417,591\\nStephen, 396\\nLangdon, Gov. John 274,277,\\n597\\nPaul, 600\\nLangley, H. 482\\nLannardson, Samuel 43\\nLarkin, Henry 486\\nSamuel B., 64,482,499\\nLamed, Thomas 68,80,123-\\n140\\nRev. Mr., 406\\nLathrop, John 310\\nLauriat, M. A. 439\\nLawrence, David 598\\nLawyers Names, 718-723\\nLeach, Dr. J. T. Gilman, 394\\nJohn, 401\\nLeavitt, Capt. Edmund 337,\\n339,348\\nLeaver, Rev. Thomas 607\\nR. T., 4 :2\\nLee, Gen. 309\\nLivermore, Arthur 596\\nLivermore, Lt. Capt. Maj.\\nDaniel, 265,323,516,518,\\n549,570\\nSt. Loe, 513\\nSamuel, 308\\nLittle, E. B. 456\\nGeorge, 52\\nCapt. Moses, 226\\nNoah, 4.57\\nLocke John 64", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0851.jp2"}, "830": {"fulltext": "srHi\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a282\\nINDEX TO NAMES.\\nLocke, Samuel B. 64\\nLow, Charles F. 4f 1,463\\nFranklin, 4\u00c2\u00bb2\\nRev. Henry L., 593\\nJoseph, 344,3711,391,393,405,\\n408,415, 424,4d5,4-26,427,\\n428,4-. 9,436,4.5:i,458,4GB,\\n4G7, )7(3,477,481,48-2,483,\\n485,499,500,501,593\\nWilliam, 3G4, 3G5, 434, 458,\\n477,481,482\\nLocke, John 54\\nLong, Dr. Mosos 347,349,366,\\n373,380\\nPierce, 206\\nMrs. Rebecca, 380\\nLord, Nathan, D. D. 411\\nLovejov, Chandler 270, 320,\\n323,529\\nEbenezer, (1) 54, 68,78,123-\\n140\\nEbenezer, (2) 320\\nHenry, 110,153,155,174,175,\\n176,181,271\\nJohn, 320\\nNath l, 54,68,78,95,123-140\\nLovewell, Jona. 216\\nCapt. John, 223\\nCol. Zachens, 156,175,189\\nLoverin, Daniel\\n206\\nJoseph,\\n206\\nLowell, Benj. C.\\n457\\nLois, of Conway, (col-\\nored,)\\n251\\nLois, (slave,)\\n251\\nLucy, (slave,)\\n252\\nLuce, (slave,)\\n253\\nLuf kin, John\\n158,167\\nLull, John\\n482\\nLund, James F.\\n500\\nJoseph S.,\\n244\\nLusty, Joseph\\n381\\nLusher, Eleazer\\n52\\nLyon, G. Parker\\n433,490\\nI\\\\I\\nMace, Joseph H.\\n500\\nMcAlpin, John\\n491\\nMcCauley, Florence\\n55\\nMcClure, N. J.,\\n4.= 7\\nMcC utcheoii,\\n492\\nMcCoy,\\n344\\nMcClintock, Samuel D. D.,\\n288,411\\nMcDaniel, John\\n482\\nMcFarland, AeaD. D\\n168,312,\\n320 :f2 1,325,354\\n355,3(i3,\\n36G,3r,9,372.3d0,381,385-\\n6,388,440,510,582, Mrs.\\nEliza\\nbelh, 440\\nCapt. Asa, 408,440,469,480\\nMcFarland Jenks,\\n490\\nMcGregor, Robert\\n283\\nMcMillan, Andrew\\n226, 232,\\n247,249,250,2.57,259,304,\\n5G4,565,579,.591\\nGilbert,\\n566,583\\nHannah,\\n250\\nMcNeil, Col.\\n377,415\\nMcPlieadres. Archibald 2ii(i\\nMalloon, Nath.\\n176\\nMan, Joseph\\n176\\nMaun, Subininn\\n351,3.52\\nManly, William\\n5G4\\nManning, Thomas\\n302\\nMansur, E.\\n457\\nM inuel, Aaron\\n266\\nManuel, John 266\\nJoel, 176\\nMarble, Rev. Newton E. 608,\\n609\\nMarch, John 185\\nMartin, Solomon 08,79,86,90,\\n122\\nWilliam, 54\\nMartyn or Martin, Henry (1)\\n270,3U3,308,5- 6\\nHenry, (2) 3r9,392\\nMascon(mio, 33\\nMason, Jeremiah 338\\n.Mattis, John 54,68,79,123-140\\nMaxfield, Obadiah 189,191\\nMaxwell, John J. 600\\nMellen, Rev. John 594\\nHon. Prentiss, 594\\nMelvin, Capt. 158\\nDavid, 223\\nMerrill Family, 679-80\\nAbel, 378\\nRov. D., =688\\nJohn, 54,68,79,98,99, 103,108,\\n109,111,113,116,119,120,\\n123-140,143,144, l. =5,182,\\n208,209,210,228,61i5\\nJohn, jr. 1.55\\nJonathan, 270\\nMoses, 156,228\\nThomas, 155,190,191\\nMeserve, Nath l, Col. 189\\nMetcalf, Ralph 434\\nMiles, Archelaus 194\\nJosiah, 176,226\\nWilliam, 176\\nMiller, Gov. 382\\nGen., 415\\nCapt. John, 436,492\\nJohn, 48\\nMills, John 337\\nMinot, George 421,468,480,482,\\n499 501\\nJosiah, 470,47^482\\nMinister s lot, 80,124.140\\nMitchell, Andrew 54,.55,68,76,\\n124-140,160\\nJames, 69,97,270\\nWilliam, 265\\nMonroe, President 372,547\\nMontgomery, John 492\\nMonoiiaquaham, 33\\nMontowampate, 33\\nMoody, Elisha 270\\nMoor, Archelaus 176\\nSamuel, 176\\nWilliam, 176,21)\\nMoore Cilley, 490\\nEbenezer G., 500,.504\\nRev. John, 616,617\\nJacob B., 371,382,393,408,\\n436\\nJames, 463\\nMoore Jenkins, 491\\nMoors, Ephraim 245\\nMardon, John 54\\nMorgan, Rev. Timo. 452,616\\nMorton, Thomas 21\\nMorrill, Gov. David L. 400,\\n477,485,598\\nElisha, 427\\nEzekiel, 219,227\\nL. P., 457\\nNathaniel, 54\\nMorrill Silsbv, 475\\nSanmel, 157,388,394,408,477,\\n568,592,605\\nStephen, 54\\nMorrison, G. W.\\n482\\nLeonard,\\n459\\nMorse, Nath l\\n190\\nS. F. B.,\\n375,518,.584\\nMoses,\\n393\\nMoiLTON Famih\\n680\\nEbenezer,\\n\u00c2\u00a320\\nGeo. W.,\\n46,329\\nHenry,\\n376\\nDea. J as., jr. 346,3^2,408,605\\nMuleekin, John\\n54\\n.Munroe, J. C.\\n490\\nMurray, Gen.\\n197\\nSir AVilliain, or\\nLord\\nManslield,\\n216,220\\nMuzzey, Rev. Arteraas B. 613\\nN\\nNancv, 253\\nNeal, David 460\\nNet}-, Mary 43\\nNelson, Josiah H. 457\\nNesmith, Geo. W. 146\\nNewhall, Henry A. 549\\nNewman, Henry 82\\nNicctills, Benj. 66,67,101,124-\\n140\\nCol 275\\nNorthumberland, Earl of 222\\nNorton Crawford, 490\\nNoyes, Cutting 101,112,117,\\n124-140\\nRev. Daniel J. 452,615\\nJeremiah S., 468,.500\\nJohn, 217,241\\nJohn W., 584\\nL. 482\\nSamuel, 250\\nNutter, Mr. 204\\nOfficers.see Lists, pp. 182-187.\\n259-262,2.^0-292,314-317,\\n330-336,356-3 r,2 ,505-509\\nOdiorne, Joth. Esq. 78,206\\nOdlin, Geo. O. 457\\nJohn, 339,5 2,549\\nWoodbridge, 476,487\\nOliver, A. 105\\nOlmstead, Esq. Hawley 605\\nOrdwav, Doct. 554\\nGiles W., 500\\nOsgood Familv, 681\\nAbraham, 350\\nBenjamin, 228,250,550\\nDea., 106\\nJames, 113,114,116, Prop.\\nRec, 155,1.56,1^0,161,160,\\n176,183,250,510,515,560\\nJohn, 54,55,01,68,78,87,88,\\n91,92,94-95,96,9^, ]00, HU,\\n124,140,l(i6\\nMrs., or Mother Osgood,\\n246,273,279,566\\nR. C, 490\\nRichard H., 323\\nSamuel, 228,560\\nStephen, 54,68,77,113,124-\\n140\\nTrue, 457,482\\nOtis, James M. 500\\nPage, Daniel\\nCol. David,\\n564\\n299", "height": "3354", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0852.jp2"}, "831": {"fulltext": "INDEX TO NAMES.\\n783\\nPa;e Fay, 490\\nJob, 5-.i4\\nJona., 54\\nJ() ^cph, 54, f^8,78,12 1-1411\\nLaban, :i J4\\nNath i, 54,(i8,T7,95,lQ4\\nOnesiphorus, l:!4\\nThomas, 54,08,77,124-140\\nPaige, C. W. 550\\nPalmer, Col. Dudley S. 39i,\\n408,4iifi\\nCapt. John, 479\\nSamuel, 478\\nPark, Stuart J. 313,365,493\\nParkkr Family, Gs1-8J\\nAsa, 323\\nBenjamin, (I) 08,77,104-140\\nBenjamin, 408,430,474,\\n542,543\\nCaleb, 463,5(10\\nDavid, 201\\nEdward 11., 495\\nRev. Frederick, 301,327\\nRev. Henry E., 4H(i,i;i5\\nJames, 54,08,73,124-140\\nJames D., 500\\nJoel, 439\\nJoseph, 54,68,79,91,124-140\\nCapt. Joseph, 394,545\\nNathan, CSj JOjrai-l-lO\\nNathaniel, 346\\nNoah, 259\\nCapt. Thomas, 210,272\\nParkman, Rev. Mr. 407\\nPartridge, Capt. 380\\nWilliam, 327,3i9\\nParris, Mr. 148\\nParsons. Uev. Joseph 232\\nParsonage, 124-140\\nPatch, David 34\\nPatten, Rev. William A. GOli\\nPatterson, Alexander 205\\nPayne, Thomas 35\\nPeabudy, John 08,76,86,124-\\n110\\nCol. Stephen, 415\\nRev. Stei)hen. 321\\nDaniell, 477\\nPearson, Joseph A. 457\\nJoseph 11., 550\\nPeaslee, or Pesloy, Charles H.\\n430,439,458,475,481, -iS-),\\n483,552\\nEbenozer, 337\\nGeorge, 4 M\\nNathaniel, 54,08,79,124-140,\\n552\\nEobard Pesley, 54,08.78,124-\\n140\\nPecker, Jeremiah 40,348,305,\\n370,387,403,455,538\\nJeremiah, jr. 405\\nJohn, 54 1.8,77,80,91,92,94,\\n95,90,98,99,100,101,124-140\\nRobert E 344,5!;8\\nWilliam, 403,500\\nLang, 477\\nPohaungun, 48\\nPeorrauiirrah, 47\\nPerkins, Rev. J. 413\\nHamilton, 244,.599\\nPerloy, Ira 457,4.58,408,495\\nTlKunas. 08,79,127.140\\nPettee, Zephaniah 271\\nPettengill, Dea. 309\\nEphraim, 417\\nJohn, 482\\nPeters, James 155\\nPeters, John 275\\nObadiah, 158,101,1.52,104\\nSeabnrii, 15.i,175, 70\\nWilliam, 170\\nPeverly, James 490\\nPhillips, J(din 01\\nSamuel, Rev. 54,59,01,08,\\n70,98,124-140,220\\nLt. William or Bill, 199,\\n201\\nPhilbrick, Edward 320\\nI IraR., 457\\nPhipps, Spencer Esq. 58\\nPhysicians names, 724-729\\nPierce, Gen. Benjamin, 305,\\n377,38J,400,.525\\nBenjamin, (2) 495,490\\nEs(i. Daniel, 911\\nFranklin, 431,4.-,2,453,454,\\n458,408,473,470,481,482,\\n484,480,494,495,525\\nJohn, 299\\nPierpont, Rev. John 108\\nPike, Ezra F. 457\\nJiilin, 52\\nPillsberry, Jacob 155,181\\nPillsbury, Amos 417\\nGeorge A., 492, .500\\nJohn C, 501\\nftioses C, 540\\nPlaistead, John 200\\nRoger, 52\\nPlumer, Gov. William 308,304\\nHon. Will., 308\\nPolk, James K. 463\\nl (uiipey, (slave,) 104,254\\nPomroy, Rev. Dr. 489\\nPotter Family, 083-85\\nPotter, Anthony (1) 201\\nAnthony, (2) 4.59\\nMrs. Aiina, 4ri0\\nChandler E., 18,21,200,453\\nEphraim, 270,280,306,514\\nJacob, 150,190\\nJacob A., 340,470,4t2,522,\\n591\\nLt. Joseph n., 479,481\\nJoseph, 201,324,460\\nRichard, 201,256-7,271,283,\\n522\\nSamuel G., 459\\nThomas D., 250,474,479.500\\nPoor, Col. 207\\nGen., 507\\nDaniel, 482\\nPoore, John .2\\nPowell, Ainasa 439\\nPratt, CaleU 405\\nPrince. Daniel 487\\nSlave, 252-;(\\nPrentice, Mr. 514\\nProscott, Abraham 421,453,\\n487,489,49 1,612\\nJames, 450,470\\nJ. Ik. Co 490\\nDr. William, 337,476,477,\\n482,540\\nPreston, Mrs. Ruby B., 400\\nPudney, Henrv 155\\nJohn, jr. \\\\5*) i87\\nJoseph, 154,155, \\\\70,179\\nSamuel, I,.i0,i82\\nWilliam, 155\\nPutney, John 402\\nPulsipher, Jonathan 68,80,113,\\n124-^40\\nPutnam, Rev. John M. 442,\\n451 j\\nQ\\nCluailos, Samuel\\n305\\nCluincv, Edmund\\n148\\nJ.,\\n121\\nCluinn,\\n485\\nJohn,\\n492\\nR\\nRandolph, John 597\\nKawscui, Edward 50\\nReid, Cid. 207\\nReed Stanley, 490\\nRenton, Dr. Peter 394.421,452\\nRestieau.x, William 408,429\\nRevere, Col. 401\\nRice, Harvey 403\\nRicli, Rev. Ezekiel 379\\nRichardson, Edward .52\\nNoah 329\\nWilliam 404\\nRidgeway, Ebenezer 441\\nRipley, Rev. Erastus 404\\nRi.v, Nathaniel 150, 180, 191\\nRoach, J(din 251,323,351,515\\nRiiberts, Ale.xander 1.58,107\\nRobertson, Peter 340,342,347,\\n365,376,493\\nRobmstiu, Cyrus 392\\nJosiah C85\\nJoseph 434,458,482\\nJustin L. 401,474\\niMorrill, 92,492\\nRev. Mr. 401\\nRoby, Luther 428,429,403,484\\n545,540\\nRodgers, Jan.es 15G\\nSamuel J5G\\nRogers, Arthur 515\\nG. W. 347,353\\nJosiah 341,000\\nN- P. 473,474\\nCapt. Richard J33\\nMaj. Robert 52,1.3.3,189\\n195,351\\nSamuel 245\\nRolande, Jonathan 54\\nRoLKE Family, 685-86\\nAbiel 306,388,389,605\\nBenjamin, Esq. 100,102,104,\\n107,113,143,144,145,146,\\n149,1.50,153,155,1.50,175,\\n1 82,2i 19,2 13,21 0,220,222,\\n22;:,227 ,243,240,247 ,252,\\n513,5I5,554,.555\\nJlr. Benjamin (1) 236,270,\\n306\\nMr. Benjamin (2) 300\\nDaniel 140\\nCapt. or Esq. Henrv, 08,76,\\n83,87,89,9 1,94,95,96 97,98,\\n99, 102,102-5,108,109.115,\\n124,140,141,144,553,505\\nHenry 389\\nPaul .309,326,339,.556\\nNathaniel (1) 154,184,270,\\n339,563\\nNathaniel (2) 466,408,482\\nRollins, E. H. 489,490\\nRowell, Christopher 392,529\\nIra 408,409,544,005\\nRoss, Levi 270,525\\nReynolds, or\\nRnnnells, Isaac 529\\naMr. 378\\nSamuel 54,08,78,124-140", "height": "3385", "width": "1893", "jp2-path": "historyofconcord00bout_0853.jp2"}, "832": {"fulltext": "784\\nINDEX TO NAMES.\\nRunnells, Capt. Samuel 348\\nivunlef, L. 4SO\\nRuss, John 182\\nElizabeth 258\\nRussell, Edward 241\\nElijah 311,323\\nJason 484\\nRev. Joshua T. CDS\\nMary 393\\nRutter, Rev. Mr. 3. ,2\\nRyder, Rev. W. H. C16\\nS\\nSafford, W. B.\\nSaleiri, slave,\\nSampson, slave,\\nSanborn, B. W.\\nHenian,\\nJames\\nJohn\\nSullivan H.\\n47G\\n250\\n252\\n490\\n499\\n393, R06\\n20G\\n494\\nSanders, Nathaniel 54,68,79,\\n90,124-140\\nSargeant, Dorcas\\nEppes\\nJames VV.\\nJonathan, Esq.\\nPhilip\\nSaunders, John\\n[See Prop. Rec]\\nJohn, jr.\\nGOO\\n600\\n510\\n500\\n482\\n54,58 C4\\n08,71,78\\no4,G7,f;8,77,88,\\n105,134-14)\\nSavory, C. E. Co. 490\\nSawyer, Joshua 408\\nDavid 402\\nScales, 478\\nRev. James ]44,176,G05\\nRufus D. 500\\nScihigar, Thos. 54\\nSchool lot, 80,112,122,124\\nSearle, Rev. Addison 377\\nSeavey, Shadrach 463,514\\nSewall, Rev. Jothani 591\\nEsq. Samuel, 63,83,440,553\\nSliannon, George 2C5\\nSliapley, Hannah 353\\nShattuck, E. 457\\nDoct. Geo. C. Ill\\nShepard, John 432\\nCol. 256\\nShepperd, Capt. John 191\\nSamuel 176\\nSherburne, Capt. John 4.32\\nSherman, apt. John 49\\nRev. John 404\\nRoger 404\\nShipley, Capt. John 55,\\n58,64, Prop. Rec.\\nJonathan 67,68,78,124-140\\nShields, John 476\\nShirley, Alex. 266\\nJohn a^lG\\nShurd, of Pemaquid, .33\\nShute Family, 687\\nAaron 151\\nIsaac 200^570\\nIsaac, jr. 440\\nJacob 88,99,1.56, 18?-lb7,\\n210,22- ,27 1, 560,565\\nJohn 191, 196,199,258,271,529\\nMoses 199,453,4. )8,463.4G8,\\n471,I81,500,.504,54I\\nGov. Samuel 53,206\\nSihiev, John L. 204\\nSilshy, Geo. H. H. 457,4 3\\nSimonds, Ebenezer 191,270 I\\nJames 68,79,113,124-140\\nSimonds, Nathan 68 78,80,99,\\n94,97,98,109,110,124-140,.545\\nReuben 191\\nTimothy 222,270,271\\nSimpson, Samuel 420\\nSkinner, Rev. Otis A. 447\\nSmart, Charles 430,432,492\\nJ- li. 500\\nSmetli, Benjamin 54\\nSmith, Rev. A. D. 617\\nAle.\\\\ander 2G6\\nEleazer 500,609\\nElder Hezebiah .5. )9\\nIsaac 346\\nJames .54\\nRev. John 321\\nJoseph 353\\nNathaniel 1.55\\nZehulon 500\\nSnow, Zerobbabel 68,78,124,\\n140, .543\\nSouther, John 3u 3\\nSpaldinir, Isaac .593\\nSparhawk, Samuel 338,347,\\n368,3C9,372,5I8\\nSpooner, Alden 588\\nStanley, Mathew 156\\nStark, Caleb .fS?\\nJohn 189,192,195,2.5,\\n\u00c2\u00a367,274,275,283\\n1.^9,192\\n477,514\\n346\\n100\\n191\\n439\\n54-7,67,G--\\\\\\n,85,91,124-140\\nWilliam\\nStearns, Chas. H\\nNathan\\nStedman, Mrs.\\nSteel, Ezekiel\\nSteele, John H.\\nStephens, Benj\\n[Prop. Rec] 7\\nOr, Stevens, Aaron J 13,1.55\\n176,182,I51,27t)\\nDavid 54\\nEbenezer 54,fi8,78,*^0,87 9i\\n92,96,98,100,I24-140,20(;\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2James .54,271,409\\nJohn 244,270,272,273,277,\\n279,563\\nJohn, [Steven] 270\\nJosiah, jr. or Col. 427,428,\\n444,453,480,481 ,482,499,\\n500,,504\\nNathan 154,176,187\\nPhineas 176,270\\nPhilip 409,424\\nCol. Simeon 405\\nGen. Simeon 349\\nTheodore 244\\nThomas G. 341\\nStickney Family, 6 7-i-8\\nDan 2.58,270\\nRev. E. 413,609\\nGeorge 533\\nJeremiah (1) 102,105, 1(6,\\n107,108, 114,116,140,\\n]55,174,i76,18\\\\209,219,\\n228,510,538\\nJeremiah (2) ,549\\nJohn 397\\nLt. Jonathan 2.58,270,\\n312,4,30\\n155,394,409\\n515,538,549\\n476,490,\\n491,492,-549\\nNathan 306,468,480,521 ,522\\nCol. Thomas 1.55,247,2.57,\\n269,270,271,275,276,278\\n280,293,304,305,r!23, 444\\n510,021, 52.5,549 j\\nJoseijih P.\\nMs. Mary Ann\\nStickney, 7 homas, jr. 323,\\n532,.533,549\\nWilliam (1) 1.56,158,165\\nVAilliam (2) 305,306,;i27,340,\\n342,348,303,370,403,521\\nStinson, David 192\\nStone, Andrew 282,298\\nCapt. 367\\nT. D. P. 170,414,433\\nStoran, Michael 486\\nStorey, Daniel 294\\nStovvell, John C. 4.57,483\\nStorrs, Rev. G. 4l:j\\nStraw, Jonathan .5t;o\\nJohn 191\\nSullivan, Gen. John 300,302\\nJohn L. Ksq. 376\\nSwain, Richard 610\\nSweat, Benjamin 271\\nJMoses 322,.323\\nSarah 606\\nSwett, Benia 52\\nStephen 354\\nStephen S. 549\\nSylvester, S. G. 4^2,490\\nSymmes, Ebenezer 4^2.484\\nRev. Wiiliam, 2 2\\nSymonds, David 491\\nJ.G., 438\\nT\\nTaggart, James 3 16\\nTahanto, 20,34,37,48\\nTailer, Hon. Wm. 58,64,6^,80\\nTallant, John L. 177,482,499,\\n504\\nTandy, Calvin L. 488\\nDavid 4s8\\nDavid, jr. 488\\nTaylor, Rev. William 381,610\\nTarlton, James M. 446\\nTen Broeck, Rev. Mr. 443,\\n607,608\\nTennant, John 492\\nTonney, Rev. Asa P. 451.452,\\n500,613\\nEldad, 466\\nRev. Samuel G. 605\\nThatcher. Henry S. 47\\nThomas, Rev, (VIoses G. 40(),\\n409,416,421, 450, [Son\\nGeorge M.. 450,] (13\\nThompson, Abiel E. 424\\nBenjamin, or Count\\nRumtiu-d, 227. 242, 248,\\n2.57,263,513,556,5\\nMrs. Thompson, 5()3\\nSarah, Countess, 563,572\\nBenjamin, Mr. 372\\nCharles, 270\\nFrancis, 355\\nfieorge, 434,438\\nJames, 500\\nJohn, jr. 403\\nJoshua, 323,327\\nSamuel, 270\\nThomas W., 338,343,355,\\n3C6,368,372,373,5]5,5o5,605\\nThorndike, Dr. 323\\nThomas W. 606\\nThornton. Eben 54\\nMatthew, 226,277, 57()\\nTibbetts, Benjamin 411\\nSatnuel, 206\\nTilden, Rev. 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Rec, i^O\\nTytus, Timothy J75\\nu\\nUpham, Ephraim 400\\nNathaniel G., 410,421,426,\\n4.0,^58,408,470,614\\nUrann, Jonathan 346\\nJohn, 346\\nRichard, 68,70,83,108,124-\\n140,182\\nV\\nVail, Prof. Stephen M. 548\\nVan Buren, Vice-Pres. 415,602\\nVesper, Thomas, 330\\nVirgin Family, 71.i-lG\\nEbenezer, 47,60,68,77.98,\\n103,109,110,11:1,1 17,124-\\n140,154,170,182,191,209,\\n245,519\\nEbenezer, jr., 184, 58,270\\nIsaac, 500\\nJonathan, 320,339\\nJohn, (1) 47,270\\nJohn, (2) or old John, 47,\\n396,490-7\\nLeavett C, 442,607\\nPhineas, 189,245,270,275\\n.Simeon, 444\\nWilliam, 270\\nViolet, slave, 253\\nw\\nWainwright, John Esq. .58,64,\\nProp Rec, 80-87,88, 102,\\n112,113,131,143\\nWaldron, Isaac 155,170,186 i\\nor Walderne, Maj. 25\\nRichard, 35,.52,67,79\\nRichard, jr. 81\\nWalker Families.\\nAbiel, 244,323,363,373,388.\\n389,390,395,397,426,482,548\\nAdmiral H., 5.52\\nCharles, (1) 249,343,348,369,\\n372,397,456,516,518,545,\\n550\\nWnlker, Charles. (2) 450\\nCharles Rumford, 573\\nCharles VV., 440,457\\nEzekiel, 103,.548\\nIsaac, 68,77,109,124-140,150,\\n184,191,271,501\\nIsaac, jr. 154\\nJames, 257,270,277,278,3 6,\\n321\\nRev. James, 005\\nJo.seph, 250\\nCapt. Joseph, 387,4i. 2,536,\\n570\\nJoseph!?., 121,153,470,471,\\n472,477,480, 481, 482,.-514,\\n542,540,548,573\\nLucretia P., 518\\nLyman 440,500\\nSamuel, 258\\nRev. Timothy, (1) 95,96.97,\\n98, 100,102,111,120,142,\\n143,144,151,1.52,154,174,\\n213,22; ,23i, 234,239,244,\\n246,258,270, 275,277,283,\\n284,380, (.Mrs. Sarah,\\n511,) 51 3, .5] 4, 5 1 9, 52.5,\\n531, 547,-555,550,604\\nTimothy, jr. 150,17.5,18.%\\n217,549\\nTimothy, (2) jr., E.sq., Col.,\\nJud ;e, c., 228,232,233,\\n246,247,249,258, 2.59,264,\\n267,269,270,272, 273,276,\\n277,279,283,285, 287,299,\\n300,392,304 305, 308,:il4,\\n320,323,327,329, 3:i7,338,\\n352,373,514,528, 530,532,\\n.547-9, 556, 563, 579, 605,\\nsee Officers.\\nTimothy, (3) 390,512,537.\\n548\\nTimothy, [of Maine,] 249\\nWilliam. 155\\nWilliam, jr. 449,450,452,\\nWest, Edward\\n155\\nFrank\\n4.57\\nGilman,\\n259\\nHazen R.,\\n484\\nJonathan,\\n277\\nJohn, (1)\\n306,323\\nJohn (2)\\n607\\nJohn .\\\\1.,\\n4.57\\nNancv,\\n477\\nNathaniel,\\n150,185,282\\nParker,\\n482\\nWestbrook, Col\\nShad\\n201;\\nWestilow, Rev.\\nMr.\\n608\\nWheat, Joseph\\n354,577\\n^Vlieeler, Renjamin\\n396\\nJeremiah,\\n271,320\\nMercy,\\n524\\nZenas,\\n564\\nWheelwright, A\\nr.\\n192\\nWheelock, Jona\\nthan\\n473\\nJohn, (Pres.)\\n577,59s\\nWliipple, B. Plumniei\\n493\\nWalton, Col.\\nThadd., Esq.\\n482,490\\n206\\n78\\nWanuchus, the Bridal\\nof Penacook, 30,34\\nWashington, Gen. George 309\\nWattanuminon, 40.42\\nWatrous, Charles 437\\nWatson, B. F. 457\\nPhilip, 23. ,375,393,438,47n\\nWayne, (Jen. 309\\nWeare, Nathaniel 52,67,79,81\\nMesheck 209,288\\nPeter, 206\\nWebster, Atkinson 403,4.=J3,\\n482,500,536\\nDaniel, 421,494,594\\nEnoch, 2it4\\nEzekiel, 41)5\\nLt. John, 154,18.3-191,228,\\n512,537.5.57\\nNathan, 91\\nMrs. Susan, 473\\nWeeks, B. H. itjs\\nJohn, 323\\nWelch, Samuel 245\\nWeld, Rev. Thomas 134\\nWenlworth, Gov. Penning,\\n1M,175,2I2\\nLt. Gov. John. 77,78,206,\\n225,245,248,257,263,265\\nPaul, 476,504\\nWest, Charles 484\\nCharles E.. 484 I\\nJi lin, 433,457,477\\nWhite, Capt. John 67\\nNathaniel, 449\\nNicholas, 68,80,94,95,124,\\n130,140\\nSamuel, 54,68,79\\nWilliam, 54,68,79,124-140\\nWhitcher, William 68,70,90,\\n122,1-J4,140\\nRev. Hiram, 447,017\\nWhiitier, John G. 434\\nWliitnoy, [of Henniker,] 346\\nWhittemore, J. R. 435\\nJames C. 461,492\\nWhittle, William 337\\nWibird, Richard 78,206\\nWickar, William 54\\nWicombe, Thomas 68, 78, 90,\\n124-130\\nWiggin, Andrew 200\\nJonathan, gg\\nJoseph, 200,407\\nSherburne. 342\\nWilco.x, Le(mard 422\\nWilder, Jos. 58,04, Prop. Rec\\nWillard, J. 55,03,85,121\\nMnses T 433\\nCapt. Simeon, 49\\nWilley, .Andrew 483\\nDea., 314,422,610.012, Mrs.\\nAnna, 422\\nWilliam, 266\\nWilliams, Charles 4.57\\nIsaac F., 417,470,490\\nRev, Nath l W., 388, 401,\\n404,612\\nOwen, 268\\nWillis, Richard 268\\nWilkins, Dea. Jonathan, 251,\\n294,337,396,605\\nWilks Partridge, ]4S\\nWilson, John C. 457\\nMrs. .Mary, 511\\nThomas, 271,277,280,308\\nWinn, Edward 08,78,124-140\\nWinkley, David 490\\nWinslow, Mr. 55\\nWinter, C. R. 435\\nWinthrop, (historian,) 23\\nWise, Ammi Ruhamah 68,79,\\n124-140\\nWitherell, Rev. J. 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